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FTP* / ^ 1 / 21 A ;3 \ t9 V . ' \ Abbeville Press and Banner Established 1844. $2.00 the Year, Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C., Friday, Feb. 25, 1921 \ Single Copies, Five Cents. 77thYear wjll be harding's secre tary of commerce?for mer food Administrator will continue to direct policies of european re lief. other work goes on New York, Feb. 24.?Herbert Hoover telephoned Senator Hard ing tonight that he had accepted the offer of the cabinet post of sec retary or commerce, George Barr Baker, his assistant announced to night. " .Mr. Hoover, in a statement made public by Mr. Baker, announced ? * * j:?~t. tnat ne wouia conunue to uucti mc policies of European relief. Mr. Hoo \.v ver's statement follows: "President-elect Harding this y evening asked me to-*state that he has included me in his nominations for the cabinet as secretary of com merce. Senator Harding enters * whole heartedly into the plans for upbuilding the department and wishes that I continue to direct the policies of the European relief." x Eartier in tkfe- day Mr. Hoover stated he had submitted to the pres ident-elect a proposal -for the gener al reconstruction of the department and an enlargement of its field. He also made it clear that as he had as sumed heavy responsibilities in con nection with relief work, he could not abandon them by resigning and felt that he should continue to take the responsibility for its general "di rection. k "If I take the post,'/ he said, "it will be only because I believe that President-elect Harding will stand behind me in making a real depart ment of commerce. There is an enormous field for a prot>er govern ment bureau. It can be made a de partment of the first import with t^e support of the administration and of congress. Unless this is done . ' I am-not warranted in shifting my responsibilities from relief work. "No special legislation is necfrs * sary for the moment," - the earlier statement added, "there must, how ./ ever, be a real location of govern ment bureaus, and we must bring into the department of commerce ? bureaus which belong, there. The department of commerce can materially assist in economic settle ment of our foreign relations and must do more than engage in the mere exploitation of our goods." ."I have no right," he continued, "to ask the public to give money and then shed all responsibility of administering at once. Another dif ficulty is that I have undertaken the trusteeship of eight or ten pub lic institutions of importance. Sever al have enlarged' their activities at my inspiration and I can not aban don them entirely." THE COMMISSION MEETS Mr. L. W. Keller, the recently elected Supervisor of Abbeville coun tv cavQ thnt a mpptirnr t.Vip T-Tich way Commission will be held Monday at which bids for the good roads bonds will be opened./ If a suitable bid is secured Mr. Keller says work on the roads will begin as soon as possible. He says also that labor can be secured for half for what it was this time last year and that one of the big items in the expense will be that corn is now a dollar a bushel while last year it was two fifty, which means that it will take a mule a lit tle longer to "eat its head off." AN OLD LANDMARK The massive pillows which form a part of the fence around the Robert son place are being taken down this week, this being made necessary by the very stylish street paving in front of the house. This fence was a part of the place as built of Col. Fos '.ev r.V.rshall and many feel that with !;s ''.'inppearance another old land mark is giving place to the new. \ ? Eight Bags Carried From San Fran* cisco to New.York in Thirty three Hours and Twenty Min utes in Relay Flight, Four Planes Being Used Hazelhurst, N. 'Y., Feb. 24.?Eight bags of mail, dispatched from San Francisco by ariplane at 4:30 yes erday morning, arrived at Hazel hurst field here today at 4:50 p. m., > establishing a cross country mail record of 33 hours and 20 minutes, with allowance for time zone changes in the coast to coast flight. The mail was tranferred from plane to plane in a relay flight or dered by the postoffice department to establish a new cross continental mail plane record. The plane which arrived at Hazelhurst was piloted by E. M. Allison, a member of the four teams which took part in the trans continental race, two planes leaving Hazelhurst field and two starting ' from San Francisco^ at the same time yesterday morning. One of the westward v bound planes came to grief when Pilot Leonhard was forced to descend yes terday at Dubois, Pa., on account of bad weathv. The second westb9und plane reached Chicago yesterday and was unable to get away today. J The otlier eastbound plane crash- i ed'to earth at Elko, Nev., yesterday ' killing the pilot, Capt. W. F. Lewis. Captain Allison piloted one west ward 'bound plane as far as Cleve- j land, where it was 1^ken over by an-1 other pilot on the second lap of the ' relay, which ended at Chicago. He' then took the plane in charge at | Cleveland and returned to Hazel-1 hurst field this afternoon, bettering! the time set for the flight by the J postoffice department by a margin; of two hours and 40 minutes. Washington, Feb. 24.?Postoffice | department officials, while gratified I at the achievements of thp air mail 1 servce in delivering at New York tonight mail which left San Francis- ] co yesterday morning, said the most I remarkable part of the 'entire per*- j formance was the all night flight j i from Cheyenne to Chicago, a dis-; tance of 839 miles. The all night flight' made by Pilots Frank Yager and Jack Knight demonstrated the feasibility of i night flying, officials said. With this i statement they coupled the an- ] nouncement that orders had been j issued to prepare for regular night flying on the New York and San | Francisco route, probably about 1 May 1. Otto Praeger, assistant postmas- , ter general, described last night's , flight between Cheyenne and crfi- . cago as "th^ost momentous step in . civil aviation." He added that it i would mean "the speedy revolu tionizing of the letter transporta tion methods and practices through- ! out the world." THE TELEPHONE COMPANY ( Mr. H. 0. Murdoch, of Charlotte, ! and Mr. E. P. Hamilton, of Green ville, prominent officials of the Bell Telephone Company, were in the city today, having come here at the request of the local company to look over the local plant and to make ' suggestions as to several improve- 1 emnts which are to be made in the : near future^ Mr. Gregory has pur chased materials anfl is planning to ] stretch several new cables in the near 1 future in order to give the people better service. SMALLPOX SCARE. There is a small pox scare in town and the doctors are working over time vaccinating the people. The lat est case was discovered in the third grade in the graded school. / FOR ASSOCU Special to The Press and Banner. Columbia, Feb. 25.?Efforts to. an associate justice of the supreme c extra ballots today and to postpone th lost. Under the terms of the resolut next Tuesday morning. Jesse F. Ci today, with Senator J. H. Marion, of Bonham, *of Anderson, third, and Judg oiinrm/ nnnnrn onui ui KUDDtn: He Refuses ,to Thow Up Hands and i Gets Bullets?Physicians Say W T. Saxon Will Die Greenwood, Feb. 24.?Refusing to I hold up his hands when confronted by two ?armed men last night about 9:30 o'clock while on his way home from his shoe repair shop, W. A. Sax on, about 50 years of age, was pos sibly fatally shot in the shadow\of,a church in the Greenwood mill village where he lives. According to Chief. sf Police M. D. Chandler, whom Saxon j asked to see after being carried to a local hospital, he identified one of his assailants its John Burnett, a mill em ployee. Hack Fuller,., another mill employee is also under arrest. When accosted by the holdup men, Saxon says he recognized tl?em and laughed, thinking they were playing a jokeyon him. Burnett, he claim?, told him if he did not hold up his hands he would shoot. Saxon replied that he did not have the grit to shoot, it is said, and receivedi one bullet At :lose ' range. The bullet apparently Aras an explosive bullet- It ranged 4-V*rAiiVV*o oK^AWon fnor_ i V " U Vt H1U LUiWU^il |ril V C* WWV*IIvIlj WV?1 ng jagged holes in th^ intestines. Physicians say Saxon has no chance >f recovery. The tragedy last night was the cli nax of a series of robberies and hold jps. Two Bailey Military institute :adets were robbed of a small amount jf jewelry a few weeks ago, and two; )ther cadets, by refusing to hold up ;heir hands, bluffed three bandits into j light last Friday night. BANQUET OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS j * Of the Chamber of Commerce Will Be Held at the Eureka Hotel March l?t. /" v; The banquet of the Board of Di-I rectors of the Abbeville County j Chamber of Commerce will be given j next Tuesday evening, 'March 1st, I 8:15 p. m. at the Eureka Hotel. The principal address will be made j by Mr. L. W. (Buck) Perrin of Spar tanburg. Mr. Perrin is an old Abbe ville boy who has gone out into the world and made good. There will be several other speakers and a delight ful and profitable evening is in store for those who attend. Let everyone who can possibly do 1 so arrange to attend this banquet and give a splendid home welcome to Mr. Perrin. This is a plate dinner and every one is invited. Tickets must be se cured from the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce not later than Monday night, February 28th. UNION SERVICE The Union service of the city churches will be held in the Baptist church Sunday, night, at half past seven o clock. The preacher will be the Rev. G. M. Telford. A special musical feature will be rendered by; the choir. BUILDING Hon. J. Moore Mars, who bought a lot on quality row some time ago, j. has begun the erection of a hand some bungalow. The foundation is finished and material for other work is on the ground. Mr. Hugh Prince is the contractor. VTE JUSTICE break the deadlock in the election of :ourt failed today. Motions to cast te election until the 1922 session wore ' ion no more voting will be held until irter, of Bamberg, continued to lead Chester, second, General M. L. ;e S. W. G. Shipp, of Florence, fourth. / Nearly Three Hundrefl in South Car olina With Some Twentv-five Thousand Members. Charleston, Feb. 24.?The 184th annual communication of the Grand Lodge of Ancient Free Masons of South Carolina opened in due form this morning in the Masonic temple, with grand officers at their stations and a large representation of the many lodges in the state present. The feature of 'che morning meeting was the address of Grand Master S. T. Lanham of Spartanburg. Re ports of Grand Secretary 0. F. Hart of Columbia and Grand Treasurer Jesse Sharpe of Charleston, who was appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death recently of Grand Treasurer W. H. Prioleau of this city were^presented and referred to prop er committees. It was expected that a matter of much interest for con sideration at the evening session would be the report of the building committee, there being under way plans for extensive remodeling of the Masonic temple, involving an ex penditure of between $50,000 and $75,000 to'provide accommodations o^ a more satisfactory natlire for the 11 blue lodges and various other Masonic bodies of Charleston, and to improve the grand lodge accommo dations. The proposed plans will de vote the second floor exclusively to the uies of the grand lodge, and the third floor to the meetings of blue lodges. There would be other im provements, with an extension -of the building on the two floors, and the installation of an elevator serv ice. Tomorrow annual elections will be h^ld, the same officers holding over another year. It is likely that Jes^e Sharpe will be elected grand treasurer. The grand master's ad dress showed the state of the craft to be flourishing with some 25,000 members and nearly 300 lodges in South Caorlina. GETTING WELL Francis Mabry is getting well and he is sorry for it. While sick, all his sweethearts have been devoted in theij: attention to him, all the wo men folks who think him "just dar ling" sent him so many good things to eat that &11 <the nurses and pa tients have fared well for the past ten days. His room has been a per fect bower of beautiful flowers, in fact he has be^ri having "the time of his life," but he is gett/fng well and he is sojrry for it. A FAMILY REUNION Mrs. L. T. Bryant and Mrs. V. D. Lee arrived in Abbeville from At lantic City Thursday night and are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Lee on North Main street. Mrs. Z. B. Rogers and her two fine sons, Lee and William are expected in the city today from Elberton and a pleasant family reunion will be held for several davs. The friends of Mrs. Bryant and Mrs. Rogers are always glad to have them coqie back to the home of their girlhood, and everyone is glad to know that Mrs. Lee is in excellent health and is enjoying life. REV. WILLIAMS TO PREACH Rev. C. B. Williams, of Due West, w!I; preach in the Presbyterian church Sunday morning. MONEY IS AVAILABLE AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES . Senate Passes Appropriation Bill Carrying Approximately Forty Million Dollars, Exceeding Amount for Current Year * I By Nine Million Dollars i Washington, Feb. 24.?Over a running fire, from senators who pre sented detailed Objections to its pro posals for increased ' expenditures the senate, tonight passed the agri cultural appropriation bill carry ing approximately $41,000,000 for the operation of that department for the year beginning next June. This amount is nearly $9,000,000 in excess of aDDroDriations for the cur rent year and almost $6,000,000 in excess of amounts allowed by the house to which it was sent for con ference after the senate's action. "I am going to ask the next sec retary of agriculture to go through this bill as soon as he takes office, ^nd take out of it all the approba tions that allow work to be dupli cated by two and sometimes more departments of the government," Senator Smoot, Republican, declar ed in an urtsuccessful attack on nu merous sums allowed in the bill. "They ought to be cut out before another estimate comes to congress. This must stop; congress has not got to show the departments of this gov ernment that two and three of them can not ask public money to be spent for doing the same kind of work over and over again, simulta j neously and year after year. "One trouble is that different bu 11'eaus are enabled to go before dif ferent congressional committees and duplicate the approprations in dif ferent bills." "I hope the senator from Utah won't stop the agricultural depart ment" Chariman Wadsworth of the IIIUibAl J ClXXClllO VlFlllJlli lUtCl rupted. "We find the war depart ment getting money in two or three different bills." Large items added by the senate to the agricultural bill included $150,000 extra foiS, wood utilization experiments at Madison, Wis., $100 000 for weather bureau forecasts for aviation; $114,000 for road ma terial investigations and $100,000 for' investigations of foreign mar kets for farm products. Senator Thomas, Democrat, Colorado, check ed several other minor additions on points of order but the senate add ed heavily to amounts recommended by its own agriculture committee. OLD TIMES | United States Marshal C. J. Lyon ! arrived in Abbeville Fridav morn ing and was around town seeing his friends during the day. When we j passed ' im on the street he was talking of old times with Col. Jack P~rrin and R. S. Link, all three of wnom can remember almost as far back as Col. Pat Roche. Mr. Perrin was telling of Mt. Willing school in what is now Saluda County but was then Edgefield County. Col.- Lyon was telling of his search for the old Glover grave yard, which is near Calhoun Falls on the land once owned by James L. Pettigrew. Col. Link could tell us about the Robertson place, he remembering when the Foster Marshall place was burned and the present house was built by the late Col. J. Townes Robertson. Col. Pat Roche doesn't mind be ing called an old man and says the I nnl\r voacrm "cnmo /vf thoco foil/wire t look younger is because they put powder on their faces." COTTON GOES DOWN The cotton futures market was down again today according1 to cot i ton men. Spot cotton sold on the local market for . 13 cents pe> pound. SEVRES TREATY TO BE REDRAF TED IN FAVOR OF FORMER EN EMY WITH OPPOSITION EX PESSED BY NATION FRIENDLY' DURING WAR TO CAUSE OF THE ALLIES London, Feb. 24.?The Near East is again the melting pot. The Sevres treaty, signed at Versailles, but not yet ratified by the powers, is to be redrafted in favor of the Turks, former enemies, against the wishes of the Greeks, former allies. To what extent the treaty will be chang ed, however, will not be known until the inter-alliedvcommission has visnea me spot ana aeciaea Detween the claims of the Greeks and the Tyrks regarding the ratio of popu lation in Thrace and Smyrna. ,The decision was reached this afternoon when the supreme council decided to invite the Greeks and Turks to separate conferences to morrow when they will be asked if they are prepared to accept such an investigation subject to acceptance of the remaining tehns of the treaty. The Turks have already announced approval regarding Smyrna and Thrace, but they are likely to fight against the rest of the treaty being snforced while the Greeks too are expected to oppose the whole scheme. After the Turks at the morning session had presented concrete pro posals for a revision of the treaty, the Greeks were given an opportunity n the afternoon to refute the-Turks' cla:ms and spent two hours "at the task. The^fJreek premier, M, Kalog eropolus made a strong plea for the enforcement of the treaty in its en tirety, quoting at length Eliptherios Venizelos the former premier who has already left for Paris greatly discouraged at the Greek prospects. The Greek premier said thaf ywhen he came to London he did not ex pect fundamental changes in the trea- ' ty and called on his experts to pro duce figures showing that, according i i to population, the Greeks were en t'tled to retain what the treaty gave them. He reminded the conference that the Greeks fought loyally and . - \ had done what they were called upon to do since the armistice at great ex pense and hardships. Greece was willing t<> adopt the advice of the allies, he added, provided the funda mentals/of the treaty were not chang ed, but further delay would exhaust Greece. When the decision of the supreme council was read'to them the Greeks expressed disappointment, but were not prepared to state whether they would accept. The Turks are jubi lant, as delay is what they wanted. MD Tunu A C A DDIUrC 1*1 A liviriilk/ 1\?\M T JL-i O Mr. A. R. Thomas, who comes to Abbeville to take charge of the wel fare work at the Abbeville Cotton Mills, has arrived in the city arid is making plans for the commencement of his work. Mr..Thomas comes fr^ra Wappinger Falls, N. Y., and is a young man familiar with welfare and mill work. Mr. Thomas is unmarried and for a while will make his home at the hotel. The community house at the mill is closed and efforts are being made to get a lady to take charge of the Woman's Clubs and vmilar organizations. LOCKING UP THE MONEY In this day of bank robbers and bad men, even in small towns, the Planters Bank is putting into prac tice the saftey first idea. They re 1 cently installed a burglar proof relocking device which is guaranteed to hold up a robber. This device is arranged on the vault in such man ner that the moment the combina tion is tampered with the extra bolts are shot into place and it is impos sible to unlock the vault until a man comes from the factory and works the combination.