Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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GH.I.F.TT HEADS NEXT CONGRESS Renominated By Caucus of G. O. P. Members?Mondell of Wyoming Named to Succeed Himself As Floor Leader Washington, March 1.?Speaker Frederick H. Gillett of the house of representatives was renominated without opposition tonight by Re publicans of the house to serve as presiding officer during the 67th con H %ress, which will meet in extraordi<* aary session early in April. Representative Frank W. Mondell, of Wyoming, Republican leader, also was named to succeed him. The new house will elect a speaker bat as the choice of Republicans will n mainritv of over three to one, . I Speaker Gillett's nomination wasi equivalent to election. Other renominations included W. Tyler Page of Maryland clerk of the house; Joseph Rogers, Pennsylvania, sergeant-at-arms; Bert M. Kennedy, Michigan, doorkeeper and Frank Col lier, Wisconsin, postmaster. There was a spirited contest for j chaplain, five candidates being placed j in nomination. Dr. James S. Mont-j gomery, a native of Mt. Carmel, Ind.! and pastor of Calvary Methodist j church, Washington, won on the first' ballot. The one big fight of the conference j was over the proposal to increase the i size of the steering committee which j outlines the party policy and decides j what legislation shall and shall not be given privileged status. j; ^ A motion by, Representative Mann j Illinois, to increase the membership) from five to seven finally was adopted. The steering committee will be: named by the committee on commit tees which also will elect a whip. After some debate a motion by Eeprepentative Begg, Ohio, for ap pointment of a committee to investi gate and report on the advisability j of abandoning the recently adopted appropriation system by which all appropriation legislation was con centrated in the appropriations com mittee was voted down decisively. The committee on committees, com- ' prising one member from every state with Republican representation was appointed. AMERICAN FOREIGN TRADE SHOWS A SHARP FALLING OFF ] Washington, March 1.?There was j a sharp falling off in American trade - with Europe in January as compar- , ed with December and a reduction in the volume of trade with South America. ( A trade review issued today by , the Department of Commerce show- } ed that exports to Germany decreas ed nearly $10,000,000 as compared , with December and imports from , that country nearly $1,000,000. The , export figures were $48,262,000 j and the total imports $4,630,000. Exports of $110,502,000 to Great j Britain compared with $138,850,000 ^ the month before and imports were . $17,437,000 compared with $19,- l 234,000. * I4JJ f Exports to France were $35,825,- j 900 against $38,011,000 in Decern- ( and imports $10,012,000 a? against $11,895,000. *f*.' Wfi fa Panola orwvtinfn/J f a I aiujruiibcu $54^389*000 as compared to $61, 999,000 and imports $34,247,000 as against $54,506,000. America Made King'i Counsel I^V^any, Mar. 1.?Robert Newton Crane, an' ternat!onal lawyer of 1 long residen ? London and a ' member of the" JEhgflish bar since - 1894, is the first .American to be- . eome a King's counsel. Mr. Crane ' was born in New Jersey in 1848. Hej was educated at Wesleyan Univer- j . sity. Sportsmen of Panama stage fights, between bulls and jaguars. I wanted?A good farm mule, un-i der ten years old. FRED CASON. j 3, 2-ltpd. . thirty years magistrate? Am now prepared for all civil work. Contracts, wills, mortgages, collections a specialty. Prices rea- ; sonable. Advice and marriage free. Office under Hotel. MANS-; FIELD E. HOLlINGSWORTH. I WANTS AM GERMANS STANDI FAR APART London, March 1,?When the German delegates faced the allies around the table in Lancaster house today with the object , of coming to | a final settlement of the German [ indemnity a gulf was revealed .even j wider iha,n any predictions had fore cast. Germany's counter proposals fell so short "of the allied program drawn at Paris that the British prime minister declared: "The Ger man government appears to hfeve a complete misunderstanding of the realities of the position," and terse ly adjourned the conference after Dr. bimons, lierman ioreign secre tary, had presented the document and tried to advocate its reasonable ness. The belief prevails in allied camps tonight that the negotiations have ended and that the allies are on the eve of action. Their reply is ex pected to be an ultimatum, clear imperative. The following bulletin was issued after a brief meeting of the heads of the allied delegalons this after noon: "It was decided to consult the judicial and military advisers tomor row with a view to informing the German delegates~on Thursday as to the measures the allies proposed to take." The word "measures" and men of only the judicial and military advisers are considered significant. Dr. Simons offered what experts estimate would amount to 2,500, 006,000 pounds sterling, of which Germany claims 1,000,000,(^00 pounds sterling has already been paid in money and supplies. This is coupled with the conditions that up uper Silesia remains German and that free commercial privileges shall be restored to Germany throughout the world. Compared with this proffer, the allies terms required the payment of 11,300,000,000 pounds sterling, and the lowest Germanv was AYnpnt.pH tn put forward was something over 7, 000,000,000 pounds sterling cf which Germany wants 400,000,000 pounds sterling in a foreign loan, in which she professes to Believe Am erica would cooperate. An advance into Germany by the allied armies is in no way assured even if the allies feel obliged to give in ultimatum. ^Economic pressure may be attempted instead. No support for the further use of * soldiers has developed in England, ind if an advance movement is un iertaken it will be a French and Belgium measure, in which Great D? Ml ' * Dntain win cooperate oniy irom loyalty to the allies. The English generally feel that they have only i secondary interest in the indem nity question because , they have gradually become reconciled to the aelief that they will get little out of Germany at the best. TRANSIENTS Lives of all our cooks remind us That we need not be sublime ro departing leave behind us Dishes in th? sink of Time. One of the wonders of Australia s Lake Eyre, which is below sea evel. Wrong "Glasses Are Often Worse Than No Grasses Many eyes have been seriously ins- j paired by wearing gf strong glasses' i We are not guessing Optometrists!, We take a personal pride in furnish ing glasses that are correct in every particular. L. V. LISENBEE OPTOMETRIST (Becoming Glasses Cost No More) Will be out of town 3 or 4 days .. X FAMOUS LEVER ACT HELD TO BE FAULTY (Continued from Page One) of war could not suspend or change the operation of the guarantee and limitations of the fifth and sixth amendments, such as we are here passing upon.' These sections of the constitution declare that in all criminal prosecu tions the accused "shall have the right to be informed of the nature I and cause of the accusation," and | ; f * i that the charge must be specifically set forth in the indictment returned against him. Section 4 of the Lever act made it r-unlawful "to limit facilities for trans porting, producing, harvesting, man ufacturing, storing or dealing in any necessities; to restrict distribution of any necessities; to prevent, limit or lessen the production of any necessi ties in order to enhance the price thereof, or to exact excessive prices for any necessities." The court took as the test case that of the L. Cohen Grocery com pany of St. Louis, which had been in dicted for violation of the act because of the sale of 50 pounds of sugar for $10.07 or at the rate of more than 20 cents a pound. Decision of the lower courts sustaining a demurrer to the indictment on the ground that the section violated the fifth amendment, was affirmed by the supreme court. One of the test cases was that of the Ogelby Grocery company, appeal ing from conviction in Georgia of taking unfair profits on sales of food stuffs. Conviction was reversed. METHODISTS CLOSE GREENWOOD MEETING Address by Bishop Darlington Ends Interesting Session At Lander College. Greenwood, Mar. 1.?One of the most important meetings of Method ists in the state came to a close at Lander college tnis alternoon witn an address by Bishop U. V. C. Dar lington. The meeting was designated as the setting up meeting of the up per South Carolina conference, pre-l paratory to the campaign for Metho dist schools and colleges, the goal of which is $33,000,000 from the South ern Methodist church. The upper South Carolina conference will bs asked to raise 1,000,000. The meeting today was addressed by prominent educators and church officials, among whom were, Bishop U. V. W. Darlington, A. E. Clement, field representative of the Southern Methodist church and Dr. H. N. Sny der, president of Wofford college and associate director in the Christian education movement, in addition to these, presiding elders from each dis trict of the upper conference, prom inent laymen and ministers, district directors and officers of important .1 I J_ ...... _ l Jiiurcn uuarud weic picacnu, uuugc C. C. Featherstone, financial director of the upper conference presided. Dr Snyder -in his address this morning pointed out the objectives of the cam laign and declared that any educa tion without Christian influence was dangerous. If the present program lis carried through he said the influence would be felt for more years to coHle in every branch of education. Bishop Darlington declared that he had no fear of the outcome of the campaign and that if every worker prayed and trusted for nert three months, the every member canvass from May 29, to June 5, would be a sweeping vic tory. YOUTH KILLS HIS BROTHER TO PUT HIM "OUT OF MISERY" Pontiac, Mich., March 1.?War ren Branfield, 11 years old, was! detained by the police here today, pending investigation into tne Kill ing in a woods near Farmington yes terday of his 9 year old 'brother, Clare. The older, boy shot and killed his brother, "to put him out of his misery," he said, after having acci dentally wounding him while demon strating his skill with a revolver. According to Warren's state ment to the sheriff, he fired the first shot in an effort to see how close he | could come ^to his brother without hitting him. The younger lad turned ! at the shot and was struck in -the i side. Warren then placed the muz | zle against the postrate child's head ' and' pulled the trigger, killing him ! instantly. "I wanted to put him out of his ' misery; I did not want to see him ! suffer," he said today. DIAL OFFERS BILL TO RESTRICT JUDGES i South Carolina Senator Would Make Holding Two Jobs by Ju rists Misdemeanor-' Washington, Mar. 1.?Senator Dial of South Carolina, today introduced a bill making it a high misdemeanor for a federal judge to accept other than his judicial employment . The bill is another blow at Judge Landis of Chicago, who in addition to serv ing the government on the bench, serves also as arbiter of organized baseball. Because .sometime ago Judge Lan dis refused to sentence a youthful embezzler because his salary was modest, Senator Dial argued before the senate that >he should be im peached. It is understood thai the attorney general rendered an opinion to Senator Dial that impeachment ( proceedings on such grounds could not be properly brought. Should the bill introduced today prevail, however, it would be pos sible for impeachment proceedings to be brought against Landis. Should it prevail, Landis will of course resign either the one or the other of his jobs. Rnsenherc ",,WWTOM,r ^ Four Stores Abbe EVj ? The best sprii squarer shou draped; simpi for men shovs Everyb v The fabrics a Schaffner & passed. The make these can Duy. Every l: If you don't ? clothes---mon Everybody wa The Rosei CAROLINA MAN RESIGNS James M. Baker Leaves Internal Revenue Bureau Washington, March 1.?James M. Baker, of South Carolina, former secretary of the Senate and for the past two years deputy commissioner of internal revenue in charge of the department of tax sales has tender ed his resignation to the com missioner of internal revenue who has accepted the resignation with| I expressions of regret after urging Mr. Baker not to relinquish the posi tion. Mr. Baker has been^ for twenty eight years in public -service, with a distinguished record of efficiency j and accomplishment. He has made an important business connection in New York and Washington and will devote his entire time to his private affairs. It was his desire to take up private business several months ago, hut at the special request of the commissioner of internal revenue he deferred his retirement from tlie deputy commissioner until February 28. The heads of the'division in the sales tax unit- presented Mr. Baker with a handsome gold watch and chain as a token of their esteem when he left the office. == THE = I Mercantile Department Stores ;ville, South Car ERYBO s stylish cl ng styles ior yom lclers; coats are le but distinctive . 4-U /-v rtn*v? a ' 111C danic uiaiav ody wants nd ^tailoring that . Marx clothes c ; wear and sen the lowest price >ody wants satis: jet it in Hart Sch< lev back / nts a store that serves? nberg Mercantile NOTICE OF DEMOCRATIC PRI MARY ELECTION STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE. Notice is hereby given that a Dem ocratic Primary Election, will be held in the City of Abbeville on Tuesday the 22nd day of March, 1921, for the purpose of choosing one Alderman from Ward one; one Alderman from Ward, two; one Alderman from Ward three and one Alderman from Ward four, as the Democratic Nominees to be voted for at the election to be held the second Tuesday in April, 1921. Pledges must be filed and fees be paid to the City Clerk on or be fore four o"clock P. M. March 17th, 1921. The following will act as managers of the election: At the Shops?J. L. Clark, L. W. Dansby, and W. F. Perrin. At' the Cotton Mill?W. S. Martin, G. W. Godfrey and J. E. Haralson. At the City Hall?T. C. Seal, C. A. Botts and J A Cheek In case a second primary is neces sary, same will be held Tuesday, March 29th. 1921. and the same man agers will serve Feb. 28, 1921. J. HOWARD MOORE, Chairman Demo. Executive Com. ltw-2wks. Company Many|Dep'ts olina i otnes ng men have more loosely lines. Styles :teristics quality go into Hart an't be sur rice you get clothes you faction * affner &^Marx We give service Company