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r Abbeville Press and Banner / I ? ~ EttnUUKfMT1 *** y? 00 tb" V-?r- Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C. Friday, Nov. 26, 1920. Single Copie?, Five Cento. 77th Year. ALLIED OCCUPATION ' IS DENOUNCE! FIERY DEBATE JN CERMAh REICHSTAG OVER PROVISION* OF PEACE TREATY?FRANCE 13 ASSAILED FOR SENDINC NEGRO TROOPS INTO CER MANY.?PREDICTED VERS AIL LBS PACT WILL BE REPLACEC Berlin, Nov. 25.?Bitterness mark ed a debate in the Reichstag today relative to the voting of appropriation: to carry out provisions of the Ver sallies treaty today. Members of the chamber denounced the action of the allies in keeping such a large forcc of men along the Rhine and, in par; ticular, assailed France for sending negro troops into Germany. Dr. Zapf, a member of the German peoples party, said Germany's financial situation seenjed homeless. He pointed out that interest charges on the budget alone amounts 12,500,000 marks, and declared the conduct oi Frentfh officers and their families in the Rhineland was provoking a growing irritation. "If Russian Soviet troops," he declared, "should appear on Germany's eastern frontier, they would Mrtf finH tho united, industrious na tion of former years, but a people broken down morally." Rudolph Dreitcheid, a leader of the moderate independent league said the nation's burdens were not a result , of the infamous conduct of her enemies, but the sequel of Germany's pre war policies." 'Germany's collapse,' he continued, "was not due to the pacifists, but the men who praised war as the fountain of youth and the bath -of steel. I predict the time will come when the present treaty will be replaced by an instrument dictated by true justice. This will be when the workers of France and Germany become sufficiently powerful to put the Versailles treaty out of commission. Rudolph Korell, a member of the Democrat party, charged the entente nations with "unloading troops indefinitely in the Rhineland," asserting these soldiers were not controlled either from Washington from London or Paris. "One should not refer to President Wilson's fourteen points^n scorn and mockery," he said. "Even in the face of disappointment, we still have faith in the ultimate victory of love." WOULD TIGHTEN UP IMMIGRATION LAW Steps to Be Taken Soon By House Committee?Watch Ship Crews Washington, Nov. 25.?Enactment of legislation designed to prevent the desertion of the crews of foreign ships at American ports and the entry into this country of persons coming as stowaways on vessels, will be asked on congress by the house immigration committee. In making this statement today, Representative Johnsor of Washington, chairman of the committee, said desertions had reachec serious proportions and that there had been a rapid increase in the number of stowaways arriving at At lantic and Pacific'ports. The members of the house immi gration committee?Representative Knutson, of Minnesota; Wilson o1 Louisiana and Swope of Kentucky? will go to Ellis Island tomorrow tc study the stowaway and desertior problem at the port of New York. Word reached the committee to day that 65 members of the crew o: the steamer Gul Djemal had recent ly deserted that vessel when she ar rived at New York from Constanti nople and Gibraltar. Reports are said to have been re ceived' that increasing numbers o: Chinese and Japanese were attempt ing to enter the United States a Pacific and Gulf ports in violation o the immigration ai(d the LaFolletti seamen's act. I , MEXICAN STATUS r TO BE ANNOUNCED I Secretary Colby Expected to Giro I Information Soon.?Few I Point* Remain Washington, Nov. 25;?Secretary ' Colby ia expected to make known be| fore hia departure for South America ' Sunday or Monday the nature of his * reply to the recent letter of R. V. H \ Pesquiera, confidehtial agent here of " the provisional government of Mexi co, setting forth the claims of the government to recognition by the United States. Kecent informal conferences be5 tween state department officials and Mr. Pesquiera are understood to have i cleared the way for such an an1 nouncement. It was believed the Mex- <1 i ican ^gent had full knowledge of the D .position the American government would take when he left today on a w hurried trip to Mexico City. i* ' Mr. Pesquiera's letter was made public by the state department with tl ! public by the state department with tl ' comments by Mr. Colby, which said F 1 that a few points remained to be C f cleared up before recognition could i be granted. While officials decline to hi discuss the substance of the reply c< now being drafted, it is believed to oi f contain specific references to the hi matters in dispute between the twoyw countries and a statement of what the P( United States will consider as a sat- bi isfaotory solution by'Mexico of some J?' of her problems. a* 11 ?| fil It Was bell U tlltll, 1JU TTWU4U , be made to dictate to Mexico what sc jshe must do to attain the status 01 . necessary for recognition, but it will oJ , be made clear that the United States tl will be unable to accord recognition until certain tangible guarantees oi J are given by Mexico of her willing- h< ness and ability to protect American rt lives and legitimate interests in Mex- m ico. cl ?^ le NEGRO PORTER FINED $100 IN MAYOR'S COURT . B. Stewart, a Pullmaif porter on a ^ troon train, was arrested in Abbe-|__ ^ Vf ville last night at 8 o'clock upon information furnished by railroad offi- , D( cials that he was selling liquor to ^ soldiers. Chief Johnson responded to ^ | the call and placed Stewart in the city lock-up. _ Stewart was tried before Mayor ta Mars this morning and sentenced to C< ; pay a fine of one hundred dollars or L serve thirty days on the public works q ! of the city. Being unable to pay the ( fine, he will serve the days. ^ - cl RATE HEARING TO BE HELD MONDAY a| ei Columbia. Nov. 25.?The question w of increasing intrastate passenger ! rates in South Carolina will be heard ' by the Interstate Commerce Commi3- ^ sion Monday of next week, and Chair. man Shealy, of the South Carolina Railroad Commission, and Morris C. Lumpkin, as special attorney for the ^ ( State, will appear before the Inter- ^ state Commerce Commission. The f. I South Carolina Commission recently ^ refused to allow the increase of in- j trastate passenger fares and switch- QJ i ing charges because of the fact that C) there is a State law prohibiting the w I charging 'of more than three-cent jr fares in the State and also limiting j switching charges, these limits now being in effect. < Mr. Lumpkin, former^assistant attorney general, appeared September 27 before an agent of the Interstate jr ommerce Commission in Charleston [ and presented evidence in the South Carolina case. This will be consid' red in Washington Monday. 1 It is taken as likely that the Interstate Commerce Commission will " order the intrastate fares in South ^ ^ Carolina increased despite the fact g( " that there is a State law limiting c "i mileage to three cents the present j? " charge. A case similar to the South , Carolina situation existed in New . ,s - Vork and a few days ago the Interf state Commerce Commission ordered - fares and rates in .that State increas- d t ed beyond the limit fixed by State law E f It is presumed unofficially that this s; s precedent will be followed in the C .South Carolina case, j \ ( .3 iRITISH FLAG CAUSES RIOT - IN .NEW YORK [UNDREDS OF IRI& STORM UN. . ION CLUB?200 POLICE FIGHT DESPERATELY TO QUELL WAR ON FIFTH AVENUE?EMBLEMS OF VUNITED STATES AND FRANCE BATTERED BY CHURCH CROWD. New York, Nov. 25.?The usual uiet observance of Thanksgiving ay here was violently interrupted lortly after noon today when crowds ho had attended a high requiem mass < i memory of Terence MacSwiney, jrmer lord mayor of Cork, rioted at le sight of a British flag decorating le facade of the Union Club across Ifth avenue from St. Patrick's athedral. After a fight participated in by iindreds of Irish sympathizers in the jurse of which plate glass- windows I the club were shattered by missiles 1 arled by members of the mob, order as restored when a cordon of 200 1 3lice established itself around the j jleaguered building. , The Union j ick, which was the cause of the J ssault, though taken down at the 1 rst demand of the crowds and subsquently replaced, still was draped /er the sidewalk with the emblems [ ranee and the United States when ; le fracas ended. When the clamor of the first rushiJ a the offending banner was at its j jight the Rt. Rev. Michael J: Lavelle I >ctor of St. Patrick's, clad in his j; linisterial robes, rushed out of the,! lurch and pleaded in vain with the'! aders to quell the disturbance. Windows are Smashed. ^' After mounted and motorcycle po- j1 ce had dispersed the assaulting for- j' is a survey of tlie field of battle re- 1 jaled casualties including a dozen! r more slightly injured who had een struck by flying brick bats. All indows on the lower floor of the ub had been smashed. Before the beginning of the Macwiney mass, the attendance at which .xed the utmost capacity of the great ithedral, a delegation of Irish reuested that the British flag be re- j. loved. The club superintendent com- j lied, but later, on instructions from! ub officials, the flag was replaced. When the service wad over the flag jain caught the attention of belligrent members of the congregat.on ho were angered at the reappear nee of the emblem. Stones and j ricks were procured from a nearby I uilding under construction and the ttack began. Police Fight Desperately. A riot call at first brought only , fty police, all on foot. These fought esperately, us.ng their night sticks reely, but were powerless against the eavy odds. Only after the arrival , f reinforcements of three t.mes the riginal number did the officers sucjed in driving back the attackers, ho had been prevented from enterig the building itself by determined !ub members and employes who tanned the doors. Several women ffected an entrance at one time, but ere driven out before any damage as done to the interior of the buildig Four arrests on charges of malici us mischief were made. LUMBER PRICES FALLING. Greenville, Nov. 25.?Retail lumer prices in Greenville and the upper action of South Carolina have delined 40 to 50 per cent within the ist four months and retailers today depressed the opinion that the 'bot jm" in prices nas oeen reacnea. Mrs. John T. Cheatham, Jr., and aughter, Frances and Miss Annie Selle Little went to Ware Shoals to pend Thanksgiving with Mrs. !heatham's parents , Mr. and Mrs. 7m. Cobb. NOTE FROM AM- " ERICA IS POLITE ' BUTJSTRONG COLBY SPEAKS FRANKLY TO di BRITISH .FOREIGN OFFICE? th SECRETARY OF STATE DE- i? CLARES HIS GOVERNMENT C DOES NOT PROPOSE TO BE Su EXCLUDED FROM PART1CIPA- M TION IN RIGHTS SECURED 3t UNDER TREATIES uj ??? ai Washington, Nov. 25.?The Am- m erican government has informed jn Great Britain politely, but firmly, that it does not propose to be excluded from participation in the ^ rights and privileges secured under jj, mandates provided in the treaties of pi peace. Furthermore, it pxpects to be cc heard regarding the terms of those mandates before they are put int# force. gt The position of the United States is set forth in a note by Secretary ^ Colby to Earl Curzon, the British t secretary of state for foreign af- gt fairs, and thet specific question dis- . trussed is that of the Mesopotamiam petroleum fields. Mr. Colby's note is dated November 20 and was made public today following its delivery to the - British foreign office early this week. It is in reply to British note of last August 9, which deals with the application of the princi- r pies of equality of treatment to the territories of the Near East to be J ar placed under British mandate. | aU JLIIC American nuie wiiv.e2> isslie with what is described .as the British J positon that mandate agreements gI and treaties are to be considered on- w ly by states that are members of the i -*1 league of nations. It states that the j e> United States, as ft 'participant in he j ^ world war "and a contributor to itsl^ successful issue," can not consider ?< any of the associated powers, the su smallest not less than itself, debar- at red from discussion of any of its C( oisequences, or from privileges ai secured under the mandates pro- as vided in the treaties of peace. Pledge la Welcomed Mr. Colby says in his note that the American government accepts the statement of the British govern- th ment that it has refrained from ex- M ploiting the petroleum resources of tl; the mandated' territories in question F "welcomes your pledges" that it b: is far from the intention of Great cl Britain "to establish any kind of pi monopoly or preferred position in its di own interest." % "I need hardly refer agajn," Mr. N Colby continues, "to the fact that the government of the United States has consistently urged that it; is of the utmost importance to th^ ! w future peace of the world that alien J Hj territory transferred as a result of J W the war with the Central powers j di akA?.U 1 - J -'-- -A 1 uvmu uc uciu anu itunuiusterea m it such a way as to assure equal treat- m ment to the commerce and to the citizens of all nations. Indeed, it tr was in reliance upon , an understand- th '.rig to this effect, and expressly in "V* contemplation there of, that the gi United States was persuaded that B the acquisition, under mandate of fc certain enemy territory by the victorious powers would be consistent li< with thp hest intorpcto nf tKo TJ1 wold. Hi "It is assumed, accordingly, that hi your statements with reference to m mandate a faiot described) together si with the statement that the draft ei mandates for Mesopotamia and lo Palestine have been prepared with a te v ew to secure quality of treatment h< for the commerce and citizens of all I states which are members of the N league of nations, do not indicate a ^ supposition on your part that the ^ United Statst can be excluded from V the benefits of the principle of V equality of treatment." V RETURNS TO ABBEVILLE ^ Mr. J. L. Anderson went to Gib- v son, N. C., Thursday to accompany v Mrs. Anderson home, who has been ^ ill at the home of her parents for ^ sometime, back to Abbeville. They returned home this morning. v O POSTPONEMENT n OF INCOME TAXES \ our Million Dollars To Be Collected Through Columbia Office December 15th. That there will be no postponeents of payment in South Carolina ' the December 15th installment of le income and excess profits taxes le in the United States government trough the office of the collector of iternil revenue, D. C. Heyward, in olumfeia, indicated in a statement isled at Mr. Heyword'9 office today iys the Columbia Record. It was ated that the matter had been taken f j with Washington from Columbia, id thd department of internal reve- ^ le at Washington says "nothing do- ^ g" in the matter of postponing the ^ lyment of federal taxes. ^ Four million dollars is the amount re le December 15 from South Caro- sj, lians who pay income nad excess ^ ofit taxes. This amount will be ej Elected by Mr. H^yward's office and ^ lis will be sent to the persons who ade returns and paid the earlier in- as ailments, within the next few days. 0I The collector's office in Columbia jy is received a number of letters from or x payers in various parts of the w ate, asking about possible exteri- kf ons, and also asking if they could n< >t give notes for their taxes. This g( atter was handle^ with Washing- th n, with the result that the collector w is advised that any sort of postponeent would 'be possible. It is stated H< om Washington that the adminis- wi ation of government would be crip- be ed if tax paying were postponed, id there is no possible chance of any th ich action. kr It is expected that some effort will th i made before the December Con- h? ess to have the legislation enacted p? hich will postpone the payment of ca e Dec. 15 payment of income and di xess profit taxes, but the revenue nJ jpartment at Washington advises id at this will be impossible, as the 50 jvemment needs the money for its i? iccessful operation. It is stated di the office of Collector Heyward in olumbia, that requests for extension ^ e useless and South Carolinians are es iked not to make such requests. ^ ' cl NEGRO CUTS ANOTHER W Lewis Belcher, a negro living on r te Gillespie place and employed by pi r. R. E. Cox, was severely cut in le back at a shooting match at, ^ orcfs Bridge yesterday , afternoon ^ / 'Bum' Watts, another negro- Bel- * ler is in the County Hospital. No ** wticulars as to what led to the fficulty could be learned. as EGRO SHOOTS ANOTHER NEAR WATTS STATION W sc Will Collier received gun shot ounds at the hands of Bush Wilams at a hot supper near Watts 'ednesday night from which he * ied while on the operating table at te County Hospital yesterday 01 orning. The inquest was held by Magis- ^ ate Hollingsworth yesterday and ^ le verdict of the jury was, "That w rill Collier came to his death from . of an shot wounds in the hands of ush Williams." R. S. McCombs was reman of the jury. ^ ^ Collier was under the influence of 61 3uor and approached the wife of rilliams and kissed her. Later WilPJ ims approached Collier and \old g( m that he wanted to see him, imediately firing at him. Collier was lot four times, three shots taking rg 'feet in his lungs and one in the . wer part of the stomach, the lat-l CO r shot causing his death from p( ttnorrhage. i ro V V VVVWVVN \ V V V th V fr THE COTTON MARKET V , v ? The cotton market dropped V about 150 points today. The V n? price paid this morning was, V r ii i ?. - - a ^ ^ ? ' lur me Desi conon, ID cents X| but later in the day cotton V nj _5'as selling from 13 to 15 V r, cents. Very little was offered V j? on the market today. V 4iz VVVVVVV\V\\\VV\ di iOUTH CAROLINIAN FOR PARTY CHIEF . C. ROPER FOR DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CHAIRMAN? OTH? / ER PALMETTO MEN?MURPHY LEAVES AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT?TWO - GOOD REPORTERS?C. I. DAWSON STANDS HIGH WITH GOV. ERNMENT. y" V Washington, Nov. 23.?So-called / : (habitation of the democratic party ill begin in all probability soon afr congress meets, at which time overnor Cox and a large number leaders are expected to come to { ie national capital for a big family bunion and a talk over the general \ tuation. It is entirely too soon afr the disastrous . results of the N A ecion to even forecast with, any igree of accuracy what steps will ; taken, if any, when the leaders isemble here, to get the party back 1 its feet, but it is more than like- # that attention will be centered up1 a plan of Unifying all elements ith the general view of iiaaking it lown that the democratic party is >t the part of any one section or iographical collection of states, but a noi4tr r\ ? Ik a rl am r\a c |NUiij ux uic uuiuuLiauo livui herev^r they may come. Early discussion leads to the be>f that Daniel C. Roper, who is ell identified with the party, will ? made national chairman. Mr. Roper's activities in behalf of e . Democratic party are well lown and it is said that because of e veay large acquaintance which has among the rank and $le of :ople generally and especially beluse of his splendidly developed plomatic talents he may be chosen >' itional chairman with the main \ ea in view of harmonizing all perms in the party, and of straighteng out past misunderstandings and t faculties. It would be distinctly pleasing to le democracy generally and most ipecially the southern element for r. Roper to be made national lairman; It is not known so far whether rilliam J.% Bryan and others, who icently have remained outside the irty wigwam will take part in the ?rthcoming conference, but if they ) it will be with the understanding lat there shall be no more hard selings and criticism but a united irty for the party's eood. Vfcr. Roper's friends in South Corona would rejoice to see him placed i the standard bearer of his party. ' "Doctor" Murpk Go?a Home Daniel S. Murph, who came to rashington several years ago and >on took a high space with the Uni>d States department of agriculture i a'specialist in marketing, has reirned to his home at St. Matthews, ? begin the practice of law. Not satisifed with prizes and hon- ' .*s galore at Wofford College and rinity in North Carolina, he began ie study of law at Georgetown in Washington and hammered along hile doing his doctors work down ? ; the department of agriculture. In me he was ripe for graduation and is said that when the distribution : prizes was ready there were not lough on hand and that a special essenger was necessary to be disttched to procure moire for this juth Caolina boy. "Deacon" Simpson in Haiti South Carolinians will hereafter^ ad of revolutions and other things Haiti with renewed interest. 'Dea>n' Dick Simpson, formerly of the ilmetto state, is there and is repsenting the Associated Press on e island of strife. Mr. Simpson came to Washington om Boston a year or two ago and is since that- time held some very lportant a*nd interesting assignents from this association recently iving been at the White House. Mrs. Oscar Jackson, Misses Nane Seal, Belle McKenizie, Pauline evere, Mrs. Frank McNeil and Rob ickson went ot Greenwood yester ly and went to the wreck yesterly afternoon. #