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" V . . V .. V ' ( Abbeville Press and Banner ^?????????^1????????I??? fciahlithed 1844. $2.00 tfn? Y^r Tri.Weekly. Abbeville, S. C., Wednesday, April 6, 1921 Single Copies, Five Cents* 77th Year. HASTE. WILUnu IV WIWW ER?WHATEVER MAY BE EX PECTATIONS OF REPUBLI CAN SENATORS PRESIDENT HAS JDEA ? ' Washington, April 5.?Whatever may be the expectations of Repu&i can senators who want an early deer laration of peace with Germahy, it was made known authoritatively to day that President Harding had not thrown the influence, of his ad ' ministration behind the movement but was inclined to look with disap proval on any prospect of precipi tate action. It was revealed that the president . had not, in fact, committeed himself to ^ty definite program for th6 re storation of peace though he Was safeT to be leaning more and more to a belief that the Versailles cove nant can not in any practical way boused now as a basis for his asso ciation of nations. He . is canvassing the situation carefully in the light of information and advice which has \ -V" -! come to him since inauguration, and although a part of his program may be decided on soon It prbbebly will be many days before it is revealed in entirety. . . I f *i ' \ ^ \ In. his consideration of the peace resolution which some of the senate leaders want to press to an early passage, in the special session of congress convening Monday. Mr. .Harding is understood to have taken the position that in the settlement of so important a question the na tion most proceed with care and jirndence. It is said;that he has not withdrawn the approval he gave it to the resolution when he support ed it httihe last congress, but i? con vinced that the present' situation does no require haste so mu^h as it requires painstaking 4ei|bera$oxt The administration has not re vealed what elements are involved & the determination of Its attitude, but there have been indications that it would consider itself in a better position to make advances for an as sociation of nations if the peace de cision wfere delayed.? Jntimations have come t6 officials here that some of!the leading allied states men would consider passage of the measure a great handicap in the ne gotiations .for a ' peace concert, weakening the position of the Amer ican government with its former as sociates in the* war and making them less susceptible to American sugges tions. : * * j It has been hinted to the. presi dent by some of his advisers that like the outstanding war debt, a .pending resolution of peace be used as e lever to bring the allied gov ernments into accord with the pro posals of this government. How much of a disagreement there may be between this viewpoint and that of the senate advocates of the reso 1 ?"? davalnn tVlP iliuvu ivmamg w uv?? special session meets. At dinner last night some of the senators most prominent in foreign affairs are said to have informed K. Viriani, former French premier, . who ttvtsifcinghere tint his goyern . meat need not hope ti*?t .. a peace declaration weald b* long. delayed. Tfeey plin 'to bring the measure quickly into' the program of the special session and they express un doubted confidence that it will be * % adopted quickly. There has been nO Indication that the president would make an open fight to delay action but what he says on the subject in his message will be studied carefully for delicate shades of meaning anr the impression he conveys is expect ed to have much weight with many senators of the party. A.t\hE PRESBYTERIAN. CHUCH. Rev.*R. C Reid, of Columbia, wir ptreach at the Presbyterian church next Sunday morning and Evening. / * A i SELLS BUSINESS Mr. T. T. Hollingsworth, son of Judge and Mrs M. E Hollingsworth, has sold the lease which he holds 6n the Proctor Hotel at Greenville, N. C., and will retire from the hotel business. The Greenville, (N. C.) News says of Mr Collingsworth: "Mr. 'Hollingsworth, the retiring manager, with Mrs. Hollingsworth, will lnake their home in the future at the Princeton Hotel. Mr. Hollings worth came to Greenville iour>y?an> ago from Florence, S. C, where he was connected with the Hotel Flor ence. Managing the Princeton for abont a year and finding that his business was gxWing to such an ex tent, he leased the Proctor three years ago and .ainlce that time has been running the Princeton as an annex. He has been connected with - hotels for over twenty years in the states of Florida, Georgia, South Car olina and North Carolina. In the fu ture, he says,, he will devote his time to his private interest here.'" TO PLAN EXPANSION v OF AMERICAN TRADE ' ????-. x Gdideo and Rhett to Meet With Hoover?Serie* of Conference* , Washington, April 4.?Announce ment was made tonight that Secre tary Hoover will begin tomorrow a series of conferences with a commit tee of five from the United States Chamber of Commerce to consider methods for expanding American tra^e, both foreign and domestic. j 'The members of the chamber's AAwwittflB. which annotated at Mr. Ho over*8 requ est to cooperate in working out a plan for closer re lationship between business' and the Department of Commerce, were an nounced tonight as follow*: A. C. Bedford, New York, chair-1 man of the board of director* of the Standard Oil t Company of New Jer sey; George $d Smith, New York* president of the RoyaJ Typewriter Company; John H.' Fahey," Boston; Homer Jj. Ferguson, Newport News, Va? president of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Com pany and Philip H. Gadsden, Phila delhpia, president .of the American Electric Railway Association. Alter nates include R. Goodwyn Rhett, Charleston, S. C., president Peoples! National Bank and Henry M. Vic-! tor, Charlotte, N. C., cotton" manu facurer and president Union Na-! tional Bank. ' Committees from the great in dustries of .the nation, Mr. ifoover has announced, are to be named to aid in the revival of business by as sisting the commerce department with plans for the development of their respective trade fields. A com mittee from the American Dye In dustry will be named, Mr. Hoover said today, to develop the results ol .preliminary conference already held With representatives of the industry on the necessity for protection against German competition. ,' Other preliminaries are to be held this week, Mr. Hoover said with rep i resentatives of other indusries, in cluding the automobile manufactur ers. SEEING THE GAME Misses Mary, Margaret and Sarah Ferrin and R. E. Co* and W D. Wil kinson were interested spectators at. the ball game In, Greenville Tuesday. .. BOLL WEEVILS IN BELLVUE Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Morrah were in the city today shopping and see ing their friends. Mr. Morrah thinks the boll weevil will cut the cotton crop about all that is neces sary. Mr. Morrah is planting cotton enough for the livejy boll weevils opi his place. He has plenty for one war found in his pocketbook this morn ing. MOVING ) Di\ Lisenbee is moving his office this week from the Echo shop tr over McMurray's Drug Store. J i FRANCE PLEASED OVER ATTITUDE ON REPARATIONS Reply of America To Germany Gives Greatest Satisfaction to . French C^flkialdon. t >? , Paris, April 5.?The reply of the . United State3 to Germany on the re-1 taxations question has given the arronfA?f tr? TTtwpn<4? nffi cial circles, where it is regarded as finally closing the door to all escape by Germany from meeting her lia bilities under the treaty 'of Ver sailles. Premier Briand Is expected to make an allusion in a speech in the Senate this afternoon to this and other matters of interest to the Uni ted States. * ' 'v . ; / Newspapers devoted much space today to the correspondence be tween Charles E. Hughes, American Secretary of State and Dr. Walter Simons. German foreign minister, relative to responsibility for the war and reparations. Most of them ex pressed great satisfaction with . the reply of the American secretary, the only \jriter not taking this view be-' ing "Pertinax," politcal editor of the Echo de Paris, who foiftid Secretary (Hughes' remark regarding new Ger man proposals to the AlHes not to be "very opportune." uDr. Simons' memorandum," he continued, "simply repeats the old German tactics,, which consist ' in avoiding the general problem and dwelling upon methods of payment.' ''Germany has 'been given a les son,' declared the Figaro,, "which she must perforce understand." "L'Homme Lftre* said: ' . ? "America's reply was prempetory and decisive. America's word brings us great cqnsolation in the most dif ficult hour of our history.'* The British Viewpoint London, April 5.?Although the British government has not received in full' from the British representa tives in Berlin the note sent by Sec retary of State Hughes to Berlin on the German reparations question, the official British opinibn is, it was learned today, that Germany failed dismally in her attempt at a new method of solving the reparations problem?that of approaching Am erica for assistance. '* British /officials gather from press reports that Secretary Hughe's' note indicates a refusal by the United States to be a party to any German attempt to escape responsibility for the war and reparations payments. It is believed here that Germany's next move will be a direct approach to the allies. As to this, it is stated, in official quarters that no I German proposal will be dismissed without serious consideration by Great Bri tain, France and Italy. E. O. BIGHAM TO COLUMBIA Man Un^er Sentence* of Death Tak en to Penitentiary. Columbia, April 5.?'Edmund Big ham, of Pamplico, Florence County, who was recently tried and convicted >f murder in the first degree in thp Court of General Sessions of- Flc? ence Gpunty was today' lodged in the State penitentiary pending the hear ing by the Supreme Court of his case. Bigham was charged with the mur der of five members of his family, ncluding his mother, brother, sister nd two of the tatter's adopted chil 'ren. Bigham was tried directly on he count alleging murder of his irother, Smiley Bigham. He was con victed "Snd sentenced to die in the >lectric chair on April 8. but this sen ence is stayed pending the hearing >y the higher court. It was stated that so many visitors ished to see Bigham in the Florence bounty jail that it became an annoy ?e and he was therefore brought lere after the Florence sheriff had conferred with Governor Cooper. WILLENDTHEWAR WHEN CONGRESS MEETSNEXTWEEK Retolatic & Dtfiaiag Adniaiitratio? ' Policy Will Be Introduced Without Delay. Washington, April 5.?President Harding is not committed to any def inite program with regard to a con gressional declaration to declare the state of war with German at ah end. While the President voted for the Knox resolution when he was a mem ber of the Senate and spoke favorably with regard to it in his address of acceptance, he is understood to feel that there is no occasion for precipi-1 tate action at this time. The President's views with regard to the peace program a?e expected to be made known at the opening ses sion of the new congress, which the executive may address in person. Meantime, it is known that the Presi dent and his advisers are" growing more and more convinced that there is no practical way to consider the Versailles covenant. \ . ' Washington, Apr. 5.?Termination of the state of war between this country and Germ Any by congression al resolution to be introduced imme diately upon the convening of eon gress, was accepted today as the defi nitely settled policy of 'the Harding administration. , r. At the: conclusion of a day of im portant administration conferences, believed to have gone far toward cry stallizing the administration's policy in treating pending treaty j problems, Bene Viviani, French envoy, wais sai4 to have been frankly ' informed last night by Republican 1 members of the senate foreign relations com mittee that the administration par posed to effect a separate peace with Germany by congressional resolu tion. The -former French premier, who discussed the question with the sen ators at a dinner given in his honor at the home of Senator McCormick of Illinois, was said by senators pres ent also to have been informed that the administration's program did not contemplate entrance,by the United' States into the League of Nations and that it was useless to discuss the possibility of it. At the same time, M. Viviani was said to have been given renewed assurance that the United States wiuld take no action that, would bp "helpful" to Germany, especially Hn the matter of repara tipns' and the fulfilling of other treaty obligations. CROP REPORT COMES Washington, April 5.?The condi tion of winter,wheat throughout the country is" "generally favorable" says a department of agriculture re view of domestic conditions. Dam age to the crop from ttoe recent freeze was said to have been "neg ligible" and very little winter kill ing-reported. The HeBsiau fly was said to be prevalent in all parts of Indiana, but no damage reported. Some fly damage was reported from Michigan, however. 'Seeding of spring wheat was said to be practically complete in Iowa and processing well in Washington. Com planting was reported in full progress in the Southern states watn good stands obtained. Lend is be ing prepared for planting in the leading corn producing states in the central section. The fall sown crop of oats in thp Southern states was said to be gen erally in good condition and the bulk of the crop in the ground in the middleN, west. Some damage to the early sown crop was said to be feared as a result of the recent frosts in Kansas, Nebraska and .Tennessee. John Lomax went over to Green wood Tuesday to see if the town had grown any over night. ADMITTED BAIL / / , v\V\'* *i ' J. Will Morrison, who w$s commit ted to jail Sunday, charged with the slaying of his brother, B. R. Morri son, was admitted to bail lite Mon day afternoon by order of Circuit Judge Frank B. Gary in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars. The bond was promptly given by friends and neighbors of Morrison, and^he was released until the next term of the court J. Howard Moore was/his at torney in tie application for pail.. Mrs. Sarah Weinraub changed with arson was also admitted to'bail by Judge Gary. The bend wis filed at fifteen hundred dollars, or in lieu of ? . . 7 an ordinary bond, 'she was'allowed to deposit a cash bond lor her appear* arice at the next term Of the court. D. H. Hill is her attorney. HARDING ADVISED 1 ON RAILWAY CASE Get* Infonulioa in Efmpioym' Be half?Viaited By Carter . *\ . , Washington, April 5.?Additional information on the railroad situa~ tion from the standpoint of the em ployees was; obtained today Pres ident Harding in an hour#; confer* ante with W. S. Cartel, preaidAit'of ;he Brotherhood of Enginomen and iPirenren. While *taeticatty' all phases of the situation were dis cussed, Mr. Carter empna&sed wage iitandards and working conditions. He was the third railroad ' labor Header to call at the White House at Mr. Harding's request. B. M. Jewell, president of the railway department of the American Federation of La bor, and A. B. Garretaon, former jliead of the Order of Railway Con ! ductors havifag previously conferred with the president. Arrangements have been mad^ lior Warren , S.- Stone, head , of the Brotherhood o^ Locomotive En ifineera to call on the president. W. G. Lee, president of the Brother 'bood of Railway Trainmen also has 't-1 1 1 A ptrcii lm cumc w Tra^jiu^wu but it was said today that he might -find it impossible to do so at this time. The transportation question was discussed at today's cabinet meeting and it was said that the president iiftends to obtain the views the rail roads before taking action. 33 A&E KILLED IN A I TRAIN WRECK TODAY Eagle Pass, Tex., April 5.?Thirty three persons were lulled in a colli ion between a freight and passen ger train on the Mexican National lines at Villa Garcia, between Parra don and, Monterey, according to re ports here today. The time of the accident was notU given. The only identified "persons killed was Victor Vallareal, candidate for Mayor of Piedras, Negras the' town opposite Eagle Pass, the Teports said. ; } A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR. Mrs J B Branch is the visitor of Mrs J. Allen Smith this week. Mrs Branch comes up from Lethe where her hus band has .charge of the De la Howe school. She was a> Miss Price of Kentucky and at one time taught in the public school of Columbia. Mrs Branch is a graduate of JWellsly and is one of the most highly educated women who has ever visited in our city. % HEARING THE BIG PREACHER * T T Dtnafrmf Mn on/J Mra Jill. JL< o. miown) iuii <anu uig. Wallace^ Miss Ruby Edmunds and Mrs. Galloway went over to Green wood Tuesday evening and heard Rev. Dr. Daniels, the distinguished JJaptist preacher. . TAKING DEGREEC Mr. Roy J. Gilleland and Mr. Percy Leach went over to Green | vood Tuesday night and took their ; preliminary degree for the Com mandery. Frank Harrison, who is al eday high up in Masonry, accom panied the Abbeville candidates. T. U. VAUGHAN IS TAKEN IN FLORIDA . BELIEVED MAN CALLING HIM SELF EARL IS CERTAIN TO PROVE TO BE T. U. VAUGHN? GOVERNOR WILL PROBABLY ISSUE PAPERS TODAY FOR FLORIDA SERVICE Vu iv , 1 . I Columbia, April , 6.?Extradition papers for the return to ^South Caro lina of T. U. Vaughn, who it is be i: J L.. .t rn^-. ncvcu, uao uctsii aiicatcu ab xauij*?, , Fla, under the name of T A Earl, wifi in all likelihood be issued by Govern* or Cooper today, this depending up on the arrival of court papers in time \ from Greenville. The attorney gen* eral's office is handling the matter of preparing the papers and wired yes terday to Greenville for the records' ^ in the case and for the order of Judge Peurifo^ directing that Vaughn be brought before him to -be resentenced this drder having been issued by thfe ^ Judge two days before the escape of Vaughn on September 15, 1919. It is believed'that the old order of Judge Pdurifoy will not be - ap- < plicaWe now, and a new order' will - ' likely be asked in order that Vaughn may go before the courts immediate ?y when he is brought back. The $ prisoner, if the man in Jlorida is ac- . j tually Vaughn, which seems certain now, will in all probability be car- 1 U'.j riid to Greenville immediately to appear before the, courts. He wbh- ' jV committed to the State hospital som$ years ago and the hospital author*- $' ties are desirous that he not be brought back to Columbia, but be . carried to Greenville as s.oon as he \ s extradited. - , ]*? . ; . . , ./ ; * A deputy from the hospital will go with the agent of Governor Cooper * after t^ie extradition papers have been issued today to assistf in, bring" irig the fugitive Back to this/state. It is not known who wiil be designat-, ed to go for Vaughn, but an of ficer in Columbia is likely to be 'j named by the chief executive. All precautions are to be taken, and for this reason the extradition papers are / being issued in advance of the at tempt to bring /the man back so in case he refuses to come back the of ficers will be clothfed with authority y to proceed without his consent Dr. C. Fred Williams, superintend ent of the State hospital, yesterday cast aside all -doubt as to the pos sibility of the man arrested not be ing Vaughn. "I am absolutely cer- ' ' tain we have Vaughn and we are , proceeding along this line," Dr. Wil liams Raid. Dr. Williams conferred .with the governor and' the attorney general's office and everything pos sible to expedite the case is being done. i \ Just what will be done with the , woman in the case, a former nurse at the hospital, has not been deter mined, but it was said yesterday that there is practically no evidence to hold the woman and she will probably not be brought back here. Dr. Wil liams is of the opinion that the wo man is the same nurse that attended Vaughn, but he has no evidence that she had anything whatever to do with his escape. The woman left the hos Vtal about six months after Vaughn. left. ' V _ . ^ > MR. HILL SICK. Mr. J. L Hill is quite sick at his home near the city, suffering with a carbuncle on his neck. Mr. Hill has always led an active life and he is not enjoying the "sitting around" which goes with such sickness. His friends hope to see him out again soon. j IN GREENWOOD Mrs. R. 1>. Murphy, Mrs. Ray Mc Kenzie, Miss Nellie Murphy and Mr. Callie Ellis spent Tuesday in 1 * inrl Ureenwooa seeing tuc mguw looking in on J. M. Anderson whose ^ale is* advertised in the Press and Banner.