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Abbeville Press and Banner Ftf?Kli'?he<TlS1'l. f?QA the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C., Friday, March 18, 1921 Single Copies, Five Cent*. 77th Year. BROTHER OF BAR MUST PASS SOON. j WHOLESALE LIQUOR ESTAB. ! LISHMENTS MUST GO IS OR- j DER FROM KRAMER?AFTER , MAY is DOORS WILL BE CLOS- , ED, ACCORDING TO PROHIBI- ' TION COMMISSIONER Washington, March 17?The whole sale liquor establishment, brother of the bar, will be put to death May 15 under sentence pronounced today by Prohibition Commissioner Kramer. Although an opinion rendered by At torney General Palmer last Decem ber said the wholesaler had no legal \ right to continue in business, internal revenue and prohibition officials de 7 cided to grant some time in which he could unload stocks without too heavy monetary loss. But Mr. Kramer's announcement today made it clear there would be no further extension of time and that execution of the sentence would be carried out. Mr. Kramer, however, opened the way for the retail druggist to ob tain supplies for prescriptions, re moving the ban on withdrawals from bonded warehouses. For several months such warehouse doors have been $losed. The order today makes it possible for the retail druggist to ( transact direct with the bonded ware houses. Wholesale druggists will be taken care of later Mr. Kramer in dicated by granting them similar privileges. ^ x-v Dealings between retailer druggists ( and bond warehouses later will be limited by regulation which officials declared would be drastic enough to Satisfy the most ardent dry advocate. They must be based, however, it was added in Mr. Palmer's decision. It is planned to put them in effect about the time the wholesale houses go out \ of existence. So far as the wholesaler is con { eerned, Mr. Kramer said his one task now is to get rid of the stocks on 5 hand. He will not be allowed to in i crease his present holdings but there are no strings tied to him in selling to druggists, either wholesale or re tail before March 15. Officials an nounced no figures concerning the amount of liquor held by the whole salers but said they believed the stocks largely would be disposed of \ before the doors iare closed finally. * Prohibition (fflcials declined to comment on the statement in Phila delphia today of Former Attorney General Palmer who said his recent ruling that physicians may pre scribe beer might mean that beer oonld be sold over soda fountain counters. Regulations carrying out Mr. Palmer's opinion, handed down the day he retired fr?m office, will be left to the next commissioner of internal revenue, said Commissioner Williams today. / The revenue and prohibition bu reaus have been besieged since the Palmer opinion was made public, both wets and drys * urging their sides for consideration of the offi cials in drafting th^^egulations. The treasury department was re quested today by Dr. Wilbur F. Kraft, superintendent of the intern al reform bureau, to ask the attor n?v tft Mvionr t.ho Palmar rtnininn hp fore any regulations were issued. MAY BE ARMISTICE London, March 16.?Leon Trot ' sky, tbfe Soviet minister of war, is " Imported in a London Times dis > patch from Stockholm to be making new overtures for the capitulation of the Kronstadt forts. Although it has been reported that he purposed sending an ultimatum to Kronstadt that if the fortress remained obdu-i rate, it would be stormed and raid ed, his new terms would not require capitulation but the signing pf an c 1 i t 1 i i i i i I l 1 \ 1 immediate armistice and the assem- i bling of a mixed commission to set- i tie terms on peace agreement. Ac- < cording to the dispatch those holding . the fortress are decidedly against i dealing with the Communists. I WAR FINANCE BODY APPROVES ACTION SHIPMENT ADVANCE Washington, March X 6.?An nouncement _ of its approval of an application of two American bank ing insttutons for an advance to as sist in financing the exportation of about 15,000 bales of cotton to Ger many and Czechoslovakia was * ' ' - C. made toaay Dy uie w?x unauvc vw ^oration. The amount of the ad vance has not yet been determined. Approval of an application for fi nancing exports to Germany is a jomplete reversal of the treasury's [X>licy under Former Secretary Hou ston. 'Mr. Houston took the position that while this country was techni cally at war with Germany the gov ernment could not even incidentally assist the enemy with loans. No com ment on the change of policy was made in the war finance corpora tion's announcement. Only a small part of the cotton would go to Germany, Managing Di rector McLean explained and the advance could in no sense be regard ed as a loan to Germany. The ad vance is made, he said, to American >ankers on absolutely adequate se MiT-ifir fft orvhl#? to finance the ixporters. The corporation, he added :onsiders all applications made to it, out creates no precedent by its ac aon. :ase against ball players IS DROPPED Chicago, March 17.?The state to Jay dropped the cases against all of ;he Chicago White Sox baseball play ;rs indicted for the alleged throwing >f the 1919 world's series, except Dhick Gandil. . The action was taken >after Judge JVm. E. Deever had refused to grant J i continuance of more than 60 days' n the case. The state demanded sixj nonths on the ground that it would j ake that length of time to gather evi- j lence which would give the prosecu ion a chance of conviction. 1- - -Ti. i-1. - _ ~4.! L.J I immediately aiter uuuun imu i >een taken, Robert E. Crowe,' date's attorney, announced an at empt would be made to gather new svidence and that new indictments vould be sought against the men. The players whose cases were drop :ed were those who had surrendered ind given bail, namely Claude Wil iams, Joe Jackson, Oscar Flesh, Swede Risber, Eddie Cicotte, Buck iVeaver and Fred McMullin. The cases of Gandil, Hal Chase, Rachel Brown, Joseph J. Sullivan, V.be Attel and Bill Burns were stric ken off the court call by Judge Dee per. They were charged with be ng the men who arranged the alleg :d conspiracy. Taking the cases off ;he call provides calling them up a jain for six months. "Mr. Crowe, in his announcement hat the cases were dropped, said V?o+ Vio "nroe /rinvincoH fVint a ?ad been committed, but that cor ruption of the state's principal wit lesses made it impossible to go on vith the case." '1ND DEAD BABY IN McCORMICK WELL *io Clue Placed a* to Peraona Who Placed it There?Coronor Hold* Inquest. McCormick, March 16.?A well leveloped white baby was found langing in a well on a lot two blocks irom tiie depot here today and had apparently been placed there about ;wo or three weeks go. Its body was lound suspended in the well by neans of a wire fastened about its leek and let down about ten feet From the level of thfe ground. There s no indication or clue as to who Jie mother of the boy is. The well is lear the main road leading through ;own. The well is located on a lot jpon which a residence was recently uurned and some boys gomg to the well to repair the curbing found the nfant and gave the alarm. An in quest was held and the verdict of the fury was that it came to its death it the hands of parties to them un known and in a manner unknown. TREND TO STRIKE AMONG THE BUTCHERS Vote Will Be Almost Unanimous.? Dennis Lane of Amalgamated Union Te|ls of Advance Information Available 4 Chicago, March 17.?An almost un animous vote in favor of a national strike in the packing industry was cast throughout the country, accord ing to union officials who begun to count the ballots torighr. Definite returns are not expect*i before to morrow. "While no definite reports of the ? 1 - Kann rn. result 01 tne Mime *uic iistv >/w? ?*. ceived," said Dennis Lane of the Amalgamated Meat Cutter3 and Eutcher Workmen's union, "I nava information from practically all points that the sentiment seems un animous in favor of authorising the international officers to call a strike in the event that the government fails to have the packers return to a compliance with the war time arbi tration agreement." At the same time Mr. Lane sent a telegram to James J. Davi?, secre tary of labor at Washington, re .peatifTg previous charges that the packers were trying to precipitate a premature strike and that they had threatened to discharge employees who failed to support the "industrial democracy" plan recently put into effect by Armour & Co. Mr. Lane appealed to Secretary Davis to use his influence to prevent ikn AAVlfaFATIPP I an open urean. uciuic uic t between himself and representatives of the packers and employees in Washington on Monday. The pack ers denied both of Mr. Lane's charges. MRS. BETTIE WARJDLAW SICK Mrs. Bettie Wardlaw, one of the older generation of the county, is quite sick at her home in the Belle vue section. Mrs. Wardlaw is well konwn to the people of the county as a woman who has donef good all the days of her life, who is beloved by her neighbors and friends and one who is a representative of a generation and a time that is past and gone. Mrs. Wardlew has raised a large family of children, who have taken their places in the affairs of the world. She has many grandchildren and great grandchildren who sur round her with the love and gaiety which goes with youth. Mrs. Wardlaw is the mother of Mrs. C. J. Lyon, of Greenville, Mrs. John Kennedy, of Troy and Mrs. W. D. Morrah, of Bellevue and the many firends of all the family wish her a speedy recovery. LOSS BY FIRE. . Ben Metts, who lives on the old Charles Thornton place hacd the mis fortune to lose his dwelling house by fire Thursday. The fire occurred about 11 o'clock in the moaning and the house a one story frame build ing, along with the furniture and every thing in it was a total loss. THE METHODIST MEETING The- meeting which is going on in the Methodist church is growing in interest every day. Rev. B. Rhett Turnipseed is adding to his reputa ton as an excellent preacher and both the morning and night services are interesting and the attendance is increasing. Many people are com ing in from the surrounding connty for the services. : The meeting will last until Wed nesday as now planned. Should it continue after this announcement will be made in due time. I THE CLEMSON BOYS. The mid-season examinations are over at Clemson and the Abbeville boys are home for a much needed rest. Sam Williams came in and passed along on his way to his home _ ni T in onaron, wniit ?j tunes Maxcy Johnson, J. C. Cheatham, We ber Wilson, Andrew Hill and Hal Moore. FIRST DEMANDS MADE ON PANAMA Must Meet Terms of White Award? Text of Communication For warded by Secretary Hughes Made Public at Washington ' ) Washington, March 17.?Firm in- f sistance that Panama immediately * comply with the provisions of the ] White arbitral award in settling its s boundary disputes with Co9ta Rica ? was made by the United States in the note dispatched to Panama by i Secretary Hughes early this week, 1 the text of which was made public I here to day. < Provisions of the treaty under * which Panama and Costa .Rica ( agreed to submit to the arbitration 1 of Chief Justice White their dis- ' puted boundary on the Atlantic ' side of the Cordilleras were cited by this government in support of its ' contention that the jurisdiction of 1 the arbiter had not been exceeded 1 in the award as claimed by Panama in its recent note to the :*tate . de- i parment. 1 The Uniied States government ' further insisted - upon the obser- 1 vance by Panapia of the previous < award on the Pacific side jnade by 1 President Lc-ubet of the French re- ' public fin 1900 and which it declared wais "equivocally accepted" by both i Panama and Costa Rica in the Por- < ras-Andersor treaty of 1910, the i same convention in which i;he Atlan- i tic boundary was submitted to re arbitration by the American chief i justice. "Notwithstanding this fact," the note stated "the government of Panama apparently has taken no < steps to fulfill its obligations to re- i cognize tho territory on the Costa t Rican side of that line as subject to t the jurisdiction of the government- < of Costa Rica but has continued to t exercise jurisdiction over the terri- c tory teyond that line until tfie pres- c ent time." r In order that the boundary line 1 laid down by Chief Justice White * may be defined "physically and in 2 a permanent (manner in accordance 1 with the findings of the award," the 9 American government urged that Panama arrange with Costa Rica e 'without delay' for the appointment f of a commission of engineers to p carry out this work, as provided for d by the terms of Article VII of the \ Porras-Andersou treaty." p AN AFFLICTED CHILD. ' I Mr. C. D. Brown, the Grand Keep- t er of Records and Seal of the K. of i P. has beun interesting himself in " the fortunes of a daughter of one of v the Knights in the State. The little \ girl is three years old and for eigh- s teen months has been unable to I swallow, this condition being brought i about by having swallowed concen- i trated lye. The little girl's throat has s hof>nm? rwn nnlv7.Pfl. Th<? Kinichts over ? the State have been most liberal in their contributions to the family who! I have exhausted their savings in their efforts to save the life of the little g-irl and to ameliorate her sufferings. The child is in the hospital at Ches ter and efforts -are being made to bring her to Abbeville. Her case is most unusual and is of interest to all the doctors in the state. WILL GRANT $1,000,000 FOR . ORIENTAL COLLEGES IF $2,000,000 DONATED IN U. S New York, Mar. 16.?Trustees of v the Laura Spelman ^Rockefeller I Memorial Fund will grant $1,000,- < 000 for the purpose of aiding col- t leges for women in the Orient, on i conditon that $2,000,000 is raisod F by a special committee of the wo- i men's American Baptist Foreign e Missionary Society, Mrs. Henry W. ? Peabody, of Boston, vice president c announced today. a The money is to be used for build ings for the six colleges in Japan, China and India, which are sup ported by twelve co-operating mis sion boards. Mrs. Rockefeller was c greatly interested in educational t work among the women of the Ori- r i eat. WHOLESALE PRICES SHOWED DECREASE IN FEBRUARY Washington, March 17,,?Whole sale prices of commodities continued ;o decrease in February with a drop >f 5 3-4 per cent for the month or i total decrease of 38.5 per cent :rom the high peak prices of May, 1920, said the monthly bulletin is sued today by the bureau of labor statistics. N Food declined 7 per cent for the Tionth or 38 per cent jfrom the prices a year ago, the bulletin said, juilding material dropped 7 per :ent for the month, or 26 per cent jelow prices a year ago, farm pro iucts 5 1-4 per cent during the nonth, or 45 pef cent for the year, :loth and clothing prices 4 3-4 per :ent, and 44 per cent. Fuel and lighting prices dropped 1 1-4 per cent from January prices, but still showed an increase of 16.5 ?>er cent over prices a year ago. Miscellaneous articles, including trapping paper, mill feed middlings, bran, cotton seed meal and oil, lubricating oil, jute, rubber, news print, soap, tobacco and wood pulp, iecreased about 5 1-2 per cent each for the month and house rfurnishings 2 per cent. , Of the 327 commodities included n the comparison, 207 showed a de cease for the month, and 33 showed in increase. In eighty-seven cases change was recorded. WILLING TO TALK OF DKAKMAMF.NT London, March 16.?Baron Lee >f Fareham, first lord of the ad niralty, discussing naval matters at i meeting of naval architects here ;oday referred to the question of lisarmament. He said the onjy ques ion was who would initiate the dis iussion on the point the British gov >rmnent would not stand on cere nony. The government, he declared velcomed the hint thrown out by ^resident Harding in his inaugural iddress and the suggeston would neet with cordial and helpful re ponse here. "I can only say," Baron Lee add :d, "that if any invitation comes rom Washington I am prepared to >ut aside all other business in or ler to take a part in a business than vhich there can be nothing more ressing in the affairs of this vorld." Baron Lee said ne agreed with )enby, the American secretary of he navy, that Great Britain and America could control the seas. 'But," he added, "the question is vhether we have right of direction vith regard to our navy when con-| ulting each other. In that respectj think this government has a clear j ecord. In the present estimates we| lave set an example of reduction) ind taken risks and are prepared to J [O far in a mutual agreement. "It is not enough to talk about! >lood being thicker than water. Vhat we want is the plain horizon mown to the people of the county ''rom my long knowledge of Ameri a I have profound belief1 in the tusiness of talking and appealing to he square deal. I hold strongly that ire are now engaged Nin a game of duff but that we ought to lay all mr cards on the table." SEEING OLD FRIENDS. Mr. Frank Beckham, of Columbia, v*as in the city Thursday night and Friday conferring with his friend, 3ol. R. M. Hill on the cotton situa ion. Mr Beckham lived in Abbeville r the days of his youth and was a iretty lively young man. Since he left is he has risen in the world to the ixtent of having plenty of money tnd a genuine boss, a fifteen year >ld daughter and a son who is now it the University. CATHOLIC SERVICE There will be service in the Cath >lic church hereafter every first and hird Sunday at ten o'clock in the norning. Father Murphy of Spartan )urg will conduct the services. TREASURY TURNS TO TAX REVISION FORMULATION OF POLICY HAS BEEN STARTED. READY FOR CONGRESS?EXPERTS HAVE BEEN ENQAGED IN MAKING THE SURVEY OF REVENUE SOURCES Washington, March 17.?Forma- >, lation of a treasury policy on tax revision has 'been started andt prol> ably will be ready for submission to congress when it convenes April 11, in extra session. Treasury experts have been engaged for some days in making a survey of revenue sources and the extent to which each may be tapped in bringing money into the government's vaults. It was indicated today that while Secretary Mellon had not taken pub lic stand with respect to the ques tion of whether revenue or tariff re yision phvuld have precedence in congress he is declared to have the necessarry data on the subject ready for use should congressional committee call. Mr. Mellon said no decision had been reached on a question pertinent to the forms of new tax laws but internal revenue wo n vi v u*iuvaowvvu wu vv y*v paring to make recommendations on some phases of the important prob lem. Former Secretary Houston's views were that taxation measures should be considered ahead of all | other legislation because of the ef fect on business of> changed tax laws. There has been no indication of a change in policy in that respect because few of the officials connect ed with the taxation side of the treasury have been relieved. Sales Tax Question Among the questions into which the experts have been delving is that of a sales tax which has threat ened several times to cause a rumpus among members of congress whose opinions differ very widely. The treasury expects to have- com plete statistics prepared soon show ing the amount that can be expected from such a tax together with data concerning its effect on prices. Changes in the rates on larger in comes and increases in exemptions also are under consideration with a view of determining the aggregate amount of revenue. There has been an insistent demand for raising the exemptoins of the lower salaried men and $1,000 for single persons. Repeal of the excess profits tax which has been particularly odious to business appears to be assured. Recommendations to that end were made by Secretaries Glass and Houston and Mr. Mellon's attitude is understood not to be different, although it had not been publicly stated. This tax revenue officials as sert, has been difficult of collection and has acted as a brake on com merical development. Higher Luxury Taxes In addition to the sales 'tax, the experts are investigating the reve nue producing qualities of higher luxury taxes. Most treasury offiicals who have studied the luxury taxes believe that many of those now in effect should be repealed, particu larly those similar to the soda foun tain drinks levies. The expense of collecting such taxes, it has been said, has run out of all proportions to tlje revenue received in the last two years, while the public was / /vmnalln/) of tVio cnmo tirtip +J1 ndT the amounts prescribed by law. One of the main points in the ef forts of the treasury experts now is to avoid involved and technical taxa tion methods. Higher officials in the department hold the enforcement and collection of taxes under intri cate laws is much more expensive to the government and not as produc tve as simple and practical means of assessing the taxes. Mr. and Mrs. John Wilson ot war renton were among: the shoppers in Vbbeville Thursday. %