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Abbeville Press and Banner J Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Friday, June 1Q, 1921 , Single Copies, Five Cents. 77th Year. M 1. HAYS ADVISES PUBLICITY TO HftP' MOULD SENTIMENT .. EXPENDITURE OF TW6 AND \ HALF MILLION IN PRINTERS INK URGED BY OFFICIAL OF AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR. FIVE CENTS MAY Bt. LEVJEO ON MEMBERS. Denver, June 9.?The American Federation $#<Labor was urged to C>nduct a publicity campaign irivolv* ing expenditure of nearly $2,500,000 by John W. Hay, president of tiie union (label trades department of the federation, in an address today before the department's convention. He said such a campaign WtLs necessary at this time to gain public support for the trades union movement. "Employers organizations opposed to trades unions," said Mr. Hays, "have been using publicity to destroy labor organizations. Large sums of money have been expended to take public sentiment away from us. I believe the only -way to direct it into right channels is to give the absolute facts to this huge portion of the public that is being alienated from us." ; Five cents a month from each /*f t.)iA federation, he said. would cover the cosrt of the- campaign. iMf. Hays, who is secretary-treasurer of the International Typograph ical union, declared the fight for the 44-hour week in the printing industry was being combatted by_a very small percentage of the employing print era of their own initiative. ,. "A strenuous and continued fight is being mada," he added, "for the reason that the interests that buy * printing have said if these printing office employers concede the 44-hour week, they -will be boycotted and their business ruined-." ?> r\ T a O/Duvcij uuiro ?i"?uro VI(<muiivu building craftsmen of the country must frde the building industry of intefr-union strife, craft jurisdic, taon&l disputes and other unnecessary and burdensome restrictions, - John F. Donlin, president of the building trades department of the Aimercan Federation of Labor tonight, told delegates to the department's annual convention in an address in which he also urged capita) and labor to cooperate to reduce the coat of living. > Every organization most be guaranteed to arbitrate aU questions arising out of the industry, the laboi leader asserted, and provisions must be made to prevent any cessation oi work pending the adjustment of any controversy. Thd speaker urged that the department reaffirm its support to the IMWlViiOi WtU.V& VI J U1 iOUU V, VlWltU awards in the building industry. Capital and labor should cooperate to reduce the cost of living he declared, adding: "Capital and management must start up all industries, labor agreeing to a maximum output per individual thus keeping % wages up and the' cost of living down. Capital and management should also bear the burtfen of readjustment. Give to the masses what they consume at the cost of pro ducton plus a fair profit." The aggregate wage paid building workers is not high nor responsible for the high cost of buildings, Mr, Donlin said. He blamed the higt cost of living on "high financing excessive overhead, excessive profits," and combinations organized through the years just past. Urging that a campaign of home building be inaugurated at once, he said: "It can be done more expedient ly and cheaper now than in the recent past or in the near future." f . \ Committee Hears | ' Of Election Fund Further Inquiry Into Election Of Newberry?Statements Made A? To Expenditure of Money? Ford's Theory Given. _ < Washington, June 9.?Details of * the 19^8 campaign expenditures 1 , made in behalf of Senator Newberry 4 continued today to engross the sen- ( ate committee^ engaged in hearing Henry Ford's contest against the \ seating of t the Mihiganc schmhs j the seating of- the Michigan J senator. Witnesses were call- i ed in quick succesion and for < comparatively brief periods to sup- i plement testimony that they had ? given at the trial of the criminal 1 case against the senator at Grand < Rapids, Mich. The committee also 1 heard at second hand wWat purport- < ed to be Mr. Eord's own theory of Senator Newberry's campaign from ^ Alton Templeton of Detroit. "Mr. Ford called me in after the ( ejection," Mr. Templeton said, "and * told me that he believed a gang'of { Jews had a general conspiracy to j control the senate and the govern- ( ment and that they had backed New- } berry. He said that a million dollars caad been sp^nt' in the state to , carry the election." , A Victory Barnes, a brother-dn- j law of the senator, said he , gave , $25,000 to the campaign without be- i ang solicited, whereupon Alfred i Lucking, counsel for Ford, read ( from trial record book accounts ( showing that Mr. Barnes is credited j with $45,000. Frank W. Blair, a De troit banker, who handled the , A -t- 1 It A -1 1. _ i iunas, sam a ciera. iu utjr v/wvc j made a mistake in running off the j figures." ( William, McKel, a Democrat of Michigan, Said he was given $368 1 from the Newberry campaign to ^ finance a Democratic candidate to ( run against For^d in the ptriiury : election. He said he gave Helm, $ | Democrat who consented to run $50 a week for four weeks out of the money. I SCHOLARSHIP RECORD AT CLEMSON BROKEN o i Anur-Koun DV * Anderson, S. C., June 9.?T. Jeff . Webb, of Anderson, has broken all , scholarship records at Clemson Col- ] lege, state agrcultural college of ] South Carolina, by attaining the 1 highest average for four years'ever ' made at the institution. Webb made ' ' 112 E's and out of a possible 116 such marks in <tihe four year course. 1 In so doing he wins the Norris At- J tainment Medal and a four year ' , scholarship at Princeton University. k Note?Mr. Webb is a grandson of , Mrs. Janie McCord Hill, formerly of 1 Abbeville and haa- many relatives in this county who will be glad to hear of his suscess. ' i VISITOR FROM NEW YORK 1 *, i Mrs. Alfred James Derbyshire, Sr. ' arrived this morning over the South ern Railroad, coming lyp from Savan1 nah where she went by boat from 1 ' New York City. She is visiting her ' daughter-in-law, Mrs. Alfred James * Derbyshire at the Episcopal Rectory. 1 This is the first time that Rev. Derby- 1 shire's mother has really lived in the ' South although she was present at l his wedding last summer in Waynes- : ; ville. She was met at the train in the 1 r good old Abbeviile way of showing 1 i hosnitalit'v. bv Mrs. W. Franklin Nickles who gave her a royal wel- ' t come. LEVEL LAND STARS 1 i ! W. W. Wilson and J. K. Temple, of 1 . Level Land, Major General and First ! i Assistant in their section in many 1 , lines, especially setback, were here < - Wednesday attending court and 1 I meeting ttyeir friends. They were sorry to miss their old friend Roche, 1 s they said, but they were not so much ; i surprised because there was no way, ] ; as they tell it, for him to escape a ] . "trimming" except by going into j hiding. < i GENERAL SES CONTI, / , " ' ' 1 The Court of General Sessions V :ontinues at work and many cases are r jeing tried. The court got down to e vork Monday in earnest and the f ;rial of cases progress in rapid or- r ier. * " a f The case of the State vs. Simpson vas on trial at our last issue. The .? iury in this case after deliberating 1 :or an hour returned a verdict find- t ng the defendant not guilty of the :harge of murder but guilty of car- 1 -ying concealed weapons. The court 1 sentenced the defendant to pay a ine of one hundred dollars or to 1 serve thirty days imprisonment. .The * S 1 _ 1 1.1 ? J? 1 ? J!_ J ine was paid ana ine aeienaant aisiharged. Immediately after this case the State announced ready in the case >f The State vs. Lawrence Callaham :harged with murder. The defendant renounced ready and the trial be?an. Callaham was charged with the lomicide of Jane Sturkey by running >ver her with his automobile; The iccident happened on Haskell's Hill n this city last August. Several aritn esses were examined in the case, j fhe State sought to show that Calla lam was anniung, out cue evmencuj was very strong that he was not. fie testified that the homicide wa3 due ;o unavoidable accident by reason )f something going wrong with his :ar. He offered many witnesses to lis, good reputation and to his good standing. The jury accepted his version of the accident and found him t ? lot guilty. He was defended by J. Moore Mars and Wm. P. Greene. Thursday afternoon the court took ip the. case of The State vs. William Morrison charged with murder. The iefendant was charged with having (Jncle Sam Gets Bulk Ur Keceipts Figure* Largely in Big Boxing BOut. I Incline,Tax to Be la Bxc#m S of Amount Received By Dempsey or Carpentier New York, June 9.?Uncle Sam never drew on a boxing glove in his < life, but he will make more moAev ] than Jack Dempsey, Georges Car- i pen tier or Tex Rickard July 2. { \Figures which will doubtless bring j sleepless nights to Dempsey's man- . ager, Jack Kearns, and cause Franlois Descamps, manager of Cairpentier, more^ worry than a newspaper 1 photographer, were quoted today by f intern^ revenue officials. _ 1 Dempse/s income tax for $300,- ] 000 approximately what he will re- ( ceive for the batt!e will amount to i $161,270. Ctopentier's toll, when ex- t emptions for his wife and child are 3uotracted, will total a modest $393,- 1 334. 1 , That makes the score on the di- ; vision of the purse read: United ] States govenment, $254,496, inter- , esting hews to Mar. Average Ameri- j can Citizen, who, according to the revenue officials, pays a tax on an annual income between $2,000 and $6,000. The marked difference between the taxes of the boxers Is due to the . surtax on the difference between $300,000-and $200,000. -- - ? $99;000 ESTATE MONEY v 1 USED TO AID NEWBERRY ] j Washington, June 9.?The state- . ment that $99,000 was paid out of ] the Newberry estate funds by Fred j P. Smith, the Newberry family , lawyer, to help finance the campaign , t>f Senator Truman H. Newberry, Republican of Michigan was made Wednesday by John H. Newberry, the senator's brother before the Senate committee investigating Henry i Ford's charges that large sums of j 1 money were employed corruptly to ^ * accomplish Senator Newberry's: J slection. 1' S10NS NUES WORK ;illed his brother Basil Morrison lear Donalds in March of the preset year. The testimony was conlicting in the cas-s. The State's wittesses testified that there had been i. diupute about a line fence. The defendant claimed to a certain point ind erected a line of posts at the joint where he'claimed the line exended to. Basil Morrison contending hat the brother was over the line emoved the posts. Furman Hall, a tepliew of both parties testified that he defendant on the day of the killng Jate in the afternoon came to the ?>mii of Basil with a shotgun looking :or him and threatening to kill Basiil on sight. The wile of Basil testiied that she and her husband were :oming down the public road towards iom i, she having hiim by the right irm on/1 ati/1r1onlv flin ( step]>ed out in the road and with an >ath shot her hujiband down. The oad of shot was in the abdomen, juncturing the intestines. There was ;eatrnony that the wife of the defendant had tried to get someone to go lifter her husband to keep him iron shooting Basil. Tie defendant contended that he lad.the shot gun for protection and L.i. T* 51 _u. 1-r J t 1 Xl ,nut uasn attacKea mm waen iney net arid attempted to draw a pistol ina lie shot in self-defense. \ Tie jury found the defendant guilty of murder with recommendation to mercy and he wa3 sentenced >y Judge Gary this afternoon to life mprisonment at hard labor. An appeal will likely be taken. J. Howard Moore is attorney for the defendant. The court is now engaged in the trial of the case of The State vs. McBride, a negrb, charged with assault with intent to ravish. ?r-: 1 - VV.1I t?J k/lllIO 1 Angers Congress &oth Houses Take Action During D.iir. Jennie Nnnl Committee To Investigate Alleged Re - marks as to Irish. Washington, June 9.?Cognizance was taken in both the senate and house today of the recent speech in London of Rear Admiral William S. Sims, referrinc to Irish avmnathizefrs in this country. The senate ordered its naval committee to investigate the speech. In the'house, Representative Ryan, Re/pubilican, New York, submitted a resolution for an investigation charging that the remarks bad constituted an attack upon loyal ritizens of the United States of Irish blood and accused American citizens of bei ng traitors. Secretary Denby awaited a reply today to his formal inquiry cabled to Admiral Sims asking whether the remarks attributed to him had been correctly reported in press dispatches, but left his office without having received a reply. ? LEAVES FOR WAYNESVILLLE Mrs. xJohn Franklin De Lacy left this afternoon for Waynesville, N. C. Mrs. De Lacy is going to make ready for her summer boarders in Waynesrille where she is proprietress of the Georgia Home. She has been visiting her nifece Mrs. Alfred James Derbyshire at the Episcopal Rectory, and has been renevring the friendships she made when here last Fall. Her home is in Hamilton, Georgia, ind she finds the jatmosphere and cordiality of Abbeville, what all the out of town visitors always do. DR. CLINKSCAL1ES HERE Dr. John G. Clinkseales, of Wofford College, is a distinguished visitor in the city. He comes to visit his >ister, Mrs. John M. Gamberll, who ' N ler friends will be giaa to Know, is recovering from her recent illness. Will Investigate Army Air Service .. Weeks Refuses? to Comment on Trouble Between Chief and Assistant?Menoher Requests Relief for Mitchell. Washington, June 9.?A personal investigation of conditions in the army air- service and of differences said to exist between Major General Menoheir, chief of the service, and his assistant, Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, will be conducted by Sec* retary Weeks. Announcement to this effect was made today after the relief of Gener.il Mitchell from Lis present assignment had been request ed in writing by Geaeral Menoher. Secretary Weeks declined to make public the request, which, be explained, had not reached him officially, and he also refused to set forth the specific reasons which had (been given in support of the request. He said, however that he would not detach either officer pending his investigation. ' Refexet that "friction" between th6 two officers had been publicly ex posed was expressed by Secretary Weeks, and be voiced the hop? that the incident would be corrected in a quiet way without reflecting publicly upon the records'of the two, both of whom, he 9aid, he regarded as excellent men. The differences between the two generals were understood to be due largely to lack of <agree)nent on aviation activities and policies. Repeated public statments by Gen. Mitchell urging unified air service since President Harding addressed congress in opposition to such uniificaton and statements hv him before a "Wyn gresaional committee regarding the relative worth of capital naval ships and airplanes were said to be among the reasons leading to the request for his relief. TOLBERT TO GET PLACE; MeLAURIN 'PIE* DISPENSER , Columbia, June 9.?Lewis Wood, Washington correspondent for the Columbia'Record, wires the Columbia paper today that rumors in Washington are to the effect that Farmer State Senator J. A. Banks j /v/ PaIIiamm AAiinltr mn.11 V\a aat?a/if vi v/onuvum vviaaivj f nnii yt uv. wiv* of _internal revenue at 'Columbia, and it is also rumored that W. H. Andrews, of Georgetown, will be collector of the port at Charleston. Mr. Wood also advises that Toibert's organization has been out by. more than fifty per cent by the National Republican Committee. It is also stated in the Washington advices that Tolbert himself will likely be given an important job because of his standing by Harding on the last Republican convention.- John L. McLaurin will be referee. HORDES OF ANTS THREATEN pUIUMNG Wichita, Kans., June 9.?Hordes of ants, driving upward from the earth through mudtuibes are threat : J i. ?iaa AAA CIUIX^ UCSbfUV'tlVll W W1C fiUV)VW UA change building at the stockyards Oaken lumber stored under the building has practically been consumed and the ^nts have driven their way up along pipes lines to the wood work of the west end of the structure which they have tunneled as far as the second floor. Wasington entomologists have .identified the ravaging visitors as an Australian or South American ant which drives in armies, overwhelming in time any wood structure in its oath. The cattle at the stock yards seem to be free of atcacks. An attempt to stop activities of the rests by placing fly-paper in their path was frustrated when the ants built a dirt bridge across the | obstruction and continued their operations. By insultation and shutting off the ants return to the gTound, it is hoped that the army can be exterminated. i * 101 VERY MUCH 1 PROGRESS TOWARD IMPROVEMENT | TONE OF FINANCIAL SITUATION IN EUROPE BETTER IN MAY,* V ^ f BUT TRADE AND SHIPPING 1 DULL?TJHREAT OF STRIKE IN TEXTILE CENTERS DEMORALIZES COTTON BUSINESS. Washington, Juiie 9.?World economic conditions during May pointed to no immediate general business re- , S vival, according to the monthly summary from its foreign representatives , / issued tonight by the bureau of foe- V | eign and domestic commerce. Considerable improvement financially, was noted in Europe but trade and shipping were dull with the marked industrial difficulties appar em in some countries, xn xne rar East improvement in conditions wu reported slight and in South America the situation wa^ declared practically unchanged but with a less con fident tone to future prospects. Varying conditions in the cotton 4 markets abroad were reported. In A ^4.4.^. - i^uires rviavivc w auicuvou vwmiu were reported to be increased in ' . Belgium and a slight increase in imports was noted in Prance. Stocks of/ - \ American cotton at Havre May 19 totalled 117,000 bales, and 37,000 ^ | bales were reported afloat. The cotton market in Portugal was declared ^ to be understocked while a notable / decrease in the stocks of cotton in Great Britain was observed during ? the" month amounting to 95,000 bales as compared with 190,000 bales on hand at the same time last year. In "England during'", thffttOTrflP'a r ^ downward tendency in price was shown. A general strike in the cot. ton industry there is expected, the ? ?j report said, because of proposed - - ' ' _ 1 .v.3 wage reductions. , - . | Demand for cotton in China wadreported dull because of overstocltfdmarkets, though there was a notable increase in the imports of cotton mill machinery, cotton spindles and' cotton yarn, while Chinese and Japanese investment capital was going into cotton mills. . While money is easier in Great Britain the coal strike has caused a general stagnation of trade and industry, the London report declared The industrial situation probably never has been worse, the report con- > 'T\ tinued with more than 2,000,000 per- ' sons idle, and all industries not shut down operating on part time. The French government appears satisfied with the success of the - J $100,000,000 loan floated in the Unit v ed States and feels it will permit payment of debts previously contracted in this-country, jthe Paris report asserted. Evidences of a revival in Belgian industries affecte:! by the British coal strike were reported from Brussels, with an increase in the imports of America foodstuffs and cotton. . A decreased, foreign trade with an acute industrial crisis resaiting from decreased prices was regarded as the f outstanding development in Italy during the month. Splendid crop - prospects, Tiowever were reported. -,il The financial situation appears to be improving in Germany the Berlin report declared but the industrial situation is being seriously hampered by the Silesian troubles and conse- -j quent coal shortage. Marked activity in establishing the agencies in Austria by British, East Indian and Japanese interests was noted. There were no signs of improvement in economic conditions in the 1 Scandinavian countries, the advices t said. - Dr. B. H. Carlton, of Donalds, was was here yesterday betng a witness in the Morrison case. >;