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ADDITIONAL
HAMPER I
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PUEBLO FIGHTING GAMELY TO
PROVIDE FOOD AND SHELTER
RESERVOIR BREAKS AND
CAUSES .WATER TO RISE
: RAPIDLY IN STREETS IN
SEVERAL HOURS. EIGHTY.
THREE BODIES REMOVED BY
. NOON.
Pueblo, Colo., June 5.?Three
times during the last 48 hours the
waters of the Arkansas river,
0 breaking from their course, have inundated
the greater part of this city
v with the resultant loss of probably
; not tmore than 250 lives and property
damage estimated at $10,000,000
This loss is attributed chiefly to the
< first flood of Friday night and Saturday
morning. The- second and
third floods of this morning and afternoon
found little value not already
ruined by the waters and
were looked upon with concern only
because they hindered rescue and reconstruction
work.
i- First estimates of the dead, based
Upon repvrvs nyui ?vt^u v#wn..
. T' peases who told of seeing hundreds
og bodies wept through the streets
- of the city, are considered greatly
exaggerated: While no official count
of the fatalities had been attempted
it is said the death list probably
.. will not exceed 250, if that high.
. One hundred bodies have been recovered,
but it is feared that when
the road and 4e^ris which fills, the
streets and buildings in the flooded
area, are cleared away more will be
found.
" Belief work is progressing under
the direction of Bed,.Cross officials
and. Governor Shoup. The greatest
danger at present is from pestilence.
Food is being rationed. Those
without funds with" tfhich t& pdr^
ch?se provisions ate being cared for
by the Red Cross and other agencies.
' To those who have funds, military
permits are being issued allowing
the holder to buy only a limited
amount of food from local stores.
-Five hundred persons are in tem>
porary hospitals as a direct result
of the flood, according to J. E.
Moorhead, secretary to the governor.
There are cases of chickeapox,
typhoid pneumonia, diphtheria and
one or two cases of insanity. ,
The entire city is under martial
law and-150 troops are patrolling
the city with orders that all persona
are to be kept out of the restricted
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area ana to snoot 11 necessary.
Troops have received orders to
prevent all visitors from entering
the city. No persons not members of
the national guard will be admitted.
The Bed Cross today cooked a car
load of meat to keep it from spoiling
. and this will be distributed to the
needy.
Governor Shoup returned this afternoon
by automobile to Colorado
Springs from which place he ex
pected to answer the message from
President Harding and Senator
Nicholson at Washington in regard
to the measures needed to help the
' situation.
Col. Ptat Hamrock, adjutant general,
commanding state troops here,
said tonight - it soon would be possible
to Ascertain something definite
on the disaster.
l? isjaopossible to obtain any accurate
information on the number
of dead or the numbed of-bocfipa recovered,
as military headquarters ia
without communication with the
w east ant? south sections of the city.
- When the first report of the new
food came this afternoon soldiers
conducted a hurried search oi
/buildings and in one found a woman
standing in water up to her armpits
and holding above her head a baby
five hours old. The mother and baby
were taken to a hospital, where it
was said they could not live.
On either ride the ruins of principal
structures, twisted aud torn by
the flood stood in mud and stagnant
water. High water marks showed
the flood haj! reached nearly to the
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FLOODS 1
BELIEF WORK,
3 General
Sessions
Convened Today
Summer Term Court of General Se?tiona
Convened Today With ^
Judge Frank B. Gary Pre- ' i
aiding?Charges Grand (
Jury With Regard to ^
Crime Ware j
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The Court of General Sessions ^
convened this morning at 10 o'clock ,
with Judge Frank B. Gary, of the e
eighth circuit presiding. v Solicitor
Blackwell was present as were Sten- ^
ographer Syfan and the county offi- 1
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A lo??a /irnwH onfVlPTvH in the
WCXO? rt V* ?w -?
:ourt house when court was called indicating
that the crops are not so
pressing but that the farmers may
turn out to attend court.
A number of bills were handed the
-frand jury after the charge by the
:ourt. Up to noon true bills had been
returned in the following:
State vs. Wm. Morrison, murder.
State vs. T. J. Douthart, carbreaking
and larceny.
State vs. Ed. McKinney car-break
ng ana larceny. q
State vs. Hal Morrow, car-breaking
and larceny. v ' \
The docket was sounded and#it ap- 1
peared that there were nineteen cases 1
carried over from previous terms, j
.Some of these it was found later (
were cases which had since been end. J
ed and in some two or more cases the
prisoners had not been arrested. j
Both sides announced ready for i
trial in the case of the State vs. i
Charles Manning. Manning is'charged <
with homicide, having shot and killed 1
his brother Jim Manning near Lown-,.
desville last year. The defendant <
olead. self-defense. The case went to 1
trial at 10 o'clock and at 4 o'clock i
this afternoon the case was being i
argued to the jury. The judge will 1
liKeiy deliver nis cnarge ana turn :
the case over to the jury by 5 o'clock. <
Just what-other case will be tried I
the following Manning case has not ?l
been determined. The case of the i
State vs. Simpson, charged with mur- 1
der in connection with the killing of i
Ernest Cheatham has been set for
Wednesday morning. The case of the ,
State vs. Lawrence Callaham charg- i
j withmurder is set for Wednesday <
xfternoon. K
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OUR BIGGEST ADVERTISER ]
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The Belk-Walkup Company of 1
Greenwood is the largest advertiser s
in this issue. The large advertisers j
do a large business. More and more t
Greenwood merchants are finding
space in the Press and Banner worth t
purchasing for advertising purposes, s
as is attested by the fact that more i
and more of the merchants over there <
\re advertising with us each week. >1
This means that more and more peo- 1
pie are going to Greenwood to do i
their trading. <
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ANOTHER TYPHOID CASE i
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James McComb, thirteen year old j
, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. McComb <
is ill at the residence of his parents 1
on - Cambridge Street, Fort Pickens. <
The young man haB been ill for some 1
two weeks and the doctors in charge n
believe that he is suffering from an 1
irWeoV t\f limVnU ffia litfclp
avMkvn- V*
i Miss Mildred only recently recovered
i from an attack of this malady.
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, second story. In the union station i
ij the high water mark was 14 feet. At 1
the Congress hotel hundreds of per- j
sons were fed, coffee being made ]
t with lithia water. The eggs ran out j
r early this morning and ham and j
steak was on the menu. Tonight ]
there was chicken, cold roast beef <
and ham sandwiches. ;
No one has had a bath or a 3have i
since the flood. It has been impos- (
aible even to wash one's face and
hand? or obtain a change of cloth- ]
ing. 1
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Farm Conditions
Get Attention
Sill to Abolish Office of Currency
iCompitrof l?r?Two Othev Measure*?
In Response to Deflation
Kicks, Federal Reserve Act Under
Fire.
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Washington, June 5.?In efforts
;o find ^a. remedy for present conditions
irrthe agricultural 'belts of the
:ountry, and possibly to impress
their constituencies with an idea of
beir constant vigilance, numerous
nembers of congress are preparing
a amend and thus make perfect the
tct which created the federal reserve'
fyttem.
Representative McFadden of
Pennsylvania, chairman of the bankng
and,-currency committee of the
ioum has a bill under the proviartoins
)f which the office of comptroller of
ibe eu&rency would be abolished,
md that of Tinder-secretary of the
treasury created?'die under-secre
? o.inn, ciohnn
/ kl J w A CVUi C a OMW1J VA y*?|WW?j
iischarge the duties nt>w discharged
>y the coroptroHer of tike currency
ind be a member of the federal reserve
board.
Senator Capper of Kansas has a
>ill under the provision of which the
jecretary of commence and the secretary
of agriculture would be made
nembers of the federal reserve
toard.
Representatives Steagall of Ala>ama
has a bill which would deny
3xe right of the federal reserve
joard to enforce He regulations rerardinir
the uar clearance of checks
>n the part of state or non-member
>anks.
Practically every member of congress
has bills limiting the rate of
Interest legally, demanded by banks
yt the reserve system, limiting reiiscoimt
rates and extending.- the
ame of credit. r
Dnxring the entire administration
}f Woodrow Wilson, the people of
he country .as a rule, regarded the,
reserve system as the protection of
ivage earners and producer against
:he millionaire gamblers of Wall
street. Practically the sole bitter
ypponents of the system were the
jankers of Wall street; and the state
uanks. which, by the oar clearance
rules, -were forced to suffer a loss
throughout the union of approximately
$50,000,000 per annum.
But since the beginning of the depression
following rapidly on the
leels of the armistice, and the period
>f reconstruction, up to the present
time, those with opinion adverse to
the reserve system have "been legion.
Kicks from everywhere have jarred
Washington. In response to such
ticks various members of congress,
is indicated above, have sought to
imend the act which created the
system.
It is the concensus of opinion that
;he great bulk of bills aimed at the
system will die aJborning. It is the
idea of the conservative element of
:ongress ithat the federal reserve
t>oard should be permitted to regulate
its interest rates, discount rates
and length of credit by prevailing
jonditions?that the policy should
>e elastic, in other words, and not
invariable fin the face of changing
season and changing' conditions. The
aar clearance struggle will be fought
sut in the courts of Georgia and in
the supreme court. Pending the conjliwfion
of the fight, the SteagaH bill
will probably remain in the hands of
the banking and . currency committee.
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WINS SCHOLARSHIP
Miss Helen iMilford takes hSgh
rank among the young ladies of Ab
aevuie who are ciiscinguisrung tnemjelves
in their college courses. She
has finished successfully a year at
Radolph-Macon Institute and was
awarded a certificate, of merit in all
lier studies and at the closing exerrises
of the Institute her name was
innounced as one who has been
awarded a scholarship in the Raniolph-Macon
Woman's College.
The scholarship was a surprise to
Miss Milford and is a source of
pleasure to her friends.
Nineteen Senators
To Assist Farmers
Bill by Senator Capper to Add Secretaries
of Agriculture and Commerce
to Federal Reserve Board
Also Indorsed by Southern and Western
Combination.
Washington, June 4.?Reduction
of federal reserve rediscount rates
and time extension of loans on agricultural
paper were favored at a
meeting today of 19 senators of the
new agricultural "bloc." A bill by
Senator Capper, Republican, Kansas,
to add the ^secretaries of agriculture
and commerce to the federal reserve
board also? was indorsed.
Senator Smith, Democrat, South
Carolina, was delejfated by the bloc
to discuss such legislation with Secretary
Mellon and other government
officials. The senator has drafted a
tentative bill amending the federal
reserve act to make the time limit
on agricultural loans one year, in
lieu of the present six-month's limit,
when secured by warehouse receipts.
- Senator Smith has discussed with
President Harding tie question of
reducing the rediscou nt rate on agricultural
interests. He (received a letter
today from the president in reply
to resolutions adopted by the
cotton consultation conference in
NeW York last month. The conference
recommended reduction of the
rediscount rate to 5 per cent and also
increased credits through the
federal reserve system.
President Harding, in response to
the resolutions, wrote Senator Smith
an expression of "apjireciation of
the expression made by the confer
ence. rne president aaaeu mat
"many of the suggestions are receiving
the attention of the administration
in the most effective way
possible."
Senator Smith gave out a statement
declaring that he had found
the president "enthusiastic in his desire
to relieve as far ar> possible the
present unfortunate and disastrous
condition in which the agricultural
interests of the coutniry are."
"The administrator. seems desirous/
said Senator Smith, "to extend
credit to the cotton producers and
to open up the farm markets as
rapidly and as extensively as possible."
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Every department of the government
having to do with finance and
commerce that he has Visited he added,
are earnestly at work to meet
this desperate situation and to relieve
it.
CJjOCK punching cost
RAILWAYS $6,445,658
Washington, June 4.?Provisions
of the national agreements placed in
effect during government control
which required ."the railroads to allow
employes one hour extra p?y
each week for punching the clock
regardless of the numtber of hours
actually worked," cost the railroads
$6,465,658 during the first six
months of last year. E. T. Whitner,
of Philadelphia, chairman of the con
ference committee of managers,
told a senate investigating committee
today;
An order issued by the director
general in July, 1918, guaranteeing
to men employed on piece work "the
same minimum hourly rate as those
of hourly workers, resulted in a decrease
.ranging from ten to forty
per cent in the output of piece woric
men," Mr. Whiter said.
A CAMPING TRIP
Mis9 Gladys Wilson left Monday
for Greensboro, where she mil join
a party of friends and enjoy a
camping trip in the mountains for a
month.
SPENDING SUNDAY
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Edmunds and
members of their family, went to
McCormick Sunday and attended
Sunday School, going on after to
visit friends in Plum Branch.
MORE WITHO
THAN D
Memorial Service
For South's Dead
Exercises Held in Arlington CemelerjrV?Missiatippian
Pays High *
Tribute t* President of
Confederate State*. Rep.
resentative Lowry is
Principal Speaker '
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Washington, June 5.?Memorial
exercises for the South's dead who
lie in the Confederate section of
Arlington cemetery were held today,
special ceremonies 'being held at the
tomb of the unknown dead and the
tomb of General Joe Wheeler. The
"exercises were under the auspices
of the Confederate Veterans associations,
Sons of- Veterans', Daughter
of the Confederacy and Southern .
Relief society. Representatives B. G.
Lowery of Mississippi was the principal
speaker.
Hundreds grouped around the
stand draped in the stars and stripes
and the stars and bars and around
the Confederate monument where
after the sounding of taps by a bugler,
a beautiful piece in the shape of
"The Southern Cross" was unveiled.
Children of the Confederacy dressed
in white passed among the graves
placing flowers upon each.
Representative Lowery told of the!
life of Jefferaon Davis, whom he described
as "the lone star of American
history."
"He has not a nrototvne." Mr.
Lowery said. "Pew men could have
ntye-t the conditions he had to face
and made the record he did. He occupied
a place in the United States
senate in the most tumultous times
that the body has even known; he
distinguished himself in the Mexican
war and was the greatest secretary
of war this country has ever known
and the greatest statesman who ever
sat in ^ preslident's cabinet."
Today was chosen Memorial day
because it was the nearest Sunday
to the l'13th anniversary of the birth
of the president of the Confederacy.
DIES TRYING TO KILL PET CAT
Philadelphia, June 4.?Frank Soudera,
a Pensylvania Railroad engineer,
lost his life today attempting;
to chloroform an aged pet cat at his j
home in Paoli while his family was;
away. x
The cat scratched and struggled
as he tried to hold "a chloroform rag
to its nose. Souders fell unconr
|Siou9 and died from the fumes. The
I cat ran away.
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"LUKE McLUKE" DEAD
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-Cincinnati, June 4.?James 3.
Hastings, ("Luke McLuke") widely
known as a newspaper man and
humorist, died at midnight at a
Cincinnati hospital. He was 53
years of age and is survived by a
widow and four children.
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VISITING FOR A WEEK
Prof Robert H. Coleman arrived
tin Abbeville Saturday and will sj>end
a-week here with Mrs. Coletman and
the children. Prof. Coleman is
traveling this summer in the interest
of the College of Charleston,
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CHEATHAM APPOIHTED
R. B. Cheatham has been appointed
County Treasurer succeeding the
late J. E. Jones, as forecast in our
last issue. A representative of the
Comptroller General's office will be
here tomorrow to check in the new
treasurer.
COMING TO PREACH
Rev. Mr. Shefferson who has re.
ceived a call from the Presbyterians
in Abbeville, will come here and
preach to the congregation Sunday,
Tt*nn 1 Qi-h Mr. Shefferson has the
acceptance of the call under consideration.
UTJOBS 1
URING APRIL J
EMPLOYMENT FIGURES AD- j
VANCE ONE-HALF OF ONE I
PER CENT. DEPARTMENT -OF ' J
LABOR MAKES SURVEY? J
NUMBER OF CONTRIBUTARY J
CAUSES MENTIONED IN 1
STATEMENT. SOME IMPROVE- . I
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Washington, June 5.?Uriempioy- J
ment increased approximately tae- ||
half of 1 per cent, during May, according
to a statement made public
today by the department of labor j
based upon reports from 1,428
firms employing each -501 or Door*
persons in 65 principal industrial ,-M
centers of the country. The same {
firm:, the statement said, employed . ||
1,573,528 workers in May against 1,580,749*
in April.
The number of employed in to- j if
bacco manufacture decreased 5.5
per cent, in May, while lumber and. ?
its manufacturers fell off 2.9 per j|
cent. The miiriber of workers in thp v.'Jl
iron and steel industry decreased 2.5 t|
per cent, food and kindred products
7 pet cent., metal and metal pro- , '-;fM
ducts .004 per cent., chemicals .1 '
per cent, and miscellaneous grouped
together 4.9 per cent. . S|
Increases in the number of em- \s||
ployees were showed in railroad and
repair shops amounting to 8.4 per
cent, in leather 4.3 per cent vehicles
for land transportation 3.8 per cent.,
textile 2.7 per cent., stone clay and
glass k per cent,, liquors ana ?ever- : j
ages 1.9 per cent., and paper print- ?
mg .4 per cent. , ; I
Cities reporting employment decreases
iij May were: Chicago, 2.9 !
per cent.; Boston 3.2 per cent.; ^ijaj
Portland, Ore., 26.4 per cent.; New -.
Haven, 15.9 per cent; Memphis, M
15.6 per cent.; Peoria, 111., 11.$ per ""
ceyt.; Perth Amboy, N. J., 10.9 per ^
cent.; Louisville,. 9.5 per cent.; Patterson,
N. J., 8.1 per cent.; Buffalo, . l '
t.9 pear cent.; Cincinnati, 7.2 per -h
cent.; Birmingham, 5.4 per cei&;
New ' Orleans, 5.0 per cent., -and -|
Richmond, Va., 2.9 per cent.
Increases in the number employed
were shown in New York, amounting
to 3 per cent.; Philadelphia, 1.5 > ^
per cent.; Detroit, 13:3 per cent.;
Bayonne, N. J.; 12.9 per cent.; ?
Seattle, 9.8 per cent; Flint, Mich.,
8.3 per certt,; Chattanooga, 7.4 per
cent.; Grand Rapids, 7.3 per cent.; . J
Atlanta, 6.1 per cent.; Indianapolis,
^1 per cent^
Unsatisfactory transportation con- ^
ditions, continued depression in steel
and iron, dulless of the foreign
trade markets, high cost of construction
and general apathy of the buy- m ,
ing public, the department said in its - >i
statement, contributed to the decrease
in employment. ,
A GOOD WORKER
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Miss Victoria Howie h^s been of.
L*ered and has accepted the position -vj
>f Community Worker at the Abbeville
Cotton Mills,for the summer
months while Mrs. Shelley is away. 17
The selection is a fine one. Miss Victoria
Howie is one of the really talented
young ladies, of the city. She
has already shown an interest in the
work in the mill village, and the peole
down that way will welcome her ' .
\ppointment. Miss Howie's popularty
is attested by the fact that she
,-as elected president of the Freshen
Class at Agnes Scott her first
ear there out of a class numbering
'63. Not only was she a popular
student, but she was a faithful and
successful one as well. All of this
loans that she will succeed in her
w work. The Abbeville Cotton Mill
imunity is fortunate to be able to
ecure her services during Mrs. Shelby's
vacation.
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CLEMSON BOYS. *
The young men who are attending
Clemson College are at home for the
'lolidays and are getting into every
:ny clothes for the summer.