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J ' ' . " Y v. i. vjf Abbeville Press and Banner! FutffhlUhM lSII- the Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Friday, July 29, 1921 Single Copies Five Cento. 77th Year. .. DEMANDS RELEASE |J OF ALL AMERICANS SECRETARY HUGHES ASKS 1 ' THAT PRISONERS HELD BY SOVIET RUSSIA BE GIVEN RELEASE AS MEANS TO BETTER ' ! I . . The diBpatch of the comnunica- a "tion was timed so' it woflW reach <i< ^ the Itusisans approximately simultaneously with the message sent by is Secretary Hoover in response to the 'appeal made by Maxim Gorky^ The state department's message is regarded officially as Wholly independ- * ent of the Hoover-Crotky^orrespondence, althugh it is admitted fhat it will serve to sti^ngthen the attitude t^ken by Secretary Hoover, who made it clear in bis message that $ any relief by the United States for r the suffering Russians would depend c largely upon the manner in which a Americans in Russia are treated. t There are now held as prisoners in Russia eight or ten Americans. A j larger number are believed to be de- c minpH within the borders of Russia. + 'seme of whom are restricted to lim- j ited areas. Within those areas they are permitted to come and go, but ?] always under surveillance and with t the understanding that the efforts to \ extend their movements will result t ^ in closer confinement. I The demand of Secretary Hughes t was intended for Maxim Litvinoff, < the chief of Soviet legations abroad c but in his absence it Was handed to Minister Stark. The text of the j. American secretary otf state's com- ^ munication reads: "The American government is ad- ^ - wioaii 4-Vof /J ncmifa ?!ia ViOVU wuau VMV 4 v 2?vwyrvu % ' forts of Dr. Nan sen on its behalf to secure the release of the American prisoners in Russia they are still held in a most serious plight. "In the name of humanity the American government demands of " ~th?*' Soviet authorities thai these . r;- prisoners be at once released. It is manifestly impossible for the Amencan authorities to countenance measures for the relief of the distress in Russia while our citizeis are detained." % DUE WEST AHEAD A youth in Greenville broke hisM arm attempting to pitch i curve ball last Wednesday. But that hap- ? pened to Walker Edwards, of Due 1 West, thirty years ago when he was t pitching for his home team against t the Lowndesville nine at a game s played at Level Land. Due West is I still thirty years ahead of Green- j i f ' Yille. ? J RELATIONS. Washington, Jiuly 28.?Formal devmand for the release of American & prisoners in Russia has been made c upon the Soviet authorities Iby Sec- * ^ retary Hughes. The state department 8 -was advised today that the communi- ? cation has been handed to the Soviet * j representative at Reval yesterday t ) fcy Consul Albrecht. . I V ? The text of the communication * lias not been made, public, however, c It is understood to be a brief insist- * ence that the Americans T>e released 'before there can be any thought of i better relations between the United c f Statesa nd Russia. The action was t taken in the name of humanity and because all efforts to secure the re* i lease of the Americans made through a Dr. Nansen of the Red Cross, have j failed. What course will be taken by the $ United States if the Soviet author!- ^ ties ignore or refuse to accede to the s demand was not indicated. E , Tha communication was sent to t Consul Aibrecht July 25. The de- s mand made upon the Russian author- ? ities for the release of American i prisoners is the first official representation made On the subject, \al- v though Lenine and Trotzky and i tfceir associates have been previously t advised informally of the determi- 0 nation of the United States not to < consider closer relations with Russia c , Until this was done. s IAPAN GOMES ON FOR' DISARAMENT TELLS STATE DEPARTMENT SHE WILL TAKE PART IN CONFERENCES, BUT SUGGESTS THAT QUESTIONS NOW SETTLED BE LEFT OUT. -Washington, July 27.?Japan's definite acceptance of a place in the lisannament conference which eached the State Department today fives consent to a discussion of Far Sastem questions ra connecwuu rith the conference but suggests hat problems which concern only ?rticular powers or which can be egarded as closed incidents be mitted from the scope of the meetng. There was every evidence of satsfaction over the reply in official ircles here and it was indicated hat the way now was regarded ad intirely clecyr for the preliminary legotiations which will fix the time >nd place of meeting and details of rocedure. > A comprehensive consideration of he conference program before the lelegates actually assemble also was uggested in the' Japanese note and low is regarded as assured. The atitide of officials here has been that uch a discussion would be entirely a place once all the invited powers - j~c?j ,? uau uouuiociy owcpucu iuyiw?uiuu?. A portion of the Japanese reply rhich attracted particular attention Lere was a photograph declaring it he sense of the Japanese governaent that during the conference problems such as are of sole conem to certain particular powers or uch matters that may 'be regarded ccamplished facts should be scrupu>usly avoided." 1ILL PEOPLE ENJOY PICTURE ON HEALTH hyden fend Filby Make Addresses Fall of Advice and Compliments to Village. In connection with the health picture provided (by the department of urai sanitation or tne sxaxe uoara >f Health, enjoyed by a forge tudience at the mill school auditorium Wednesday night, Dr. Hayden ipidemiologist of the State Board of lealth, and Engineer Filby, expert n water supply and sanitation, told he people of specific violations of >rinciples of sanitation and suggest>d remedies for their" correction. Dhey had previously made an inspecoin of the homes in the village, makng a house to house canvass. After he inspection, Dr. Hayden told The i^ess and Banner representative hat the Abbeville Mill village was 'far ahead of the best" in the matter it sanitation ana cieaiumess. It had been planned to show the lealth picture accompanied with a rood comedy, on a screen attached to he bandstand in the yard, Ibut the jenerator gave trouble and the picnre had to be shown inside. Dr. layden spoke from the bandstand ;o the people seated on the grass. His Lrst talk had to do with the observance of the law concerning vaccinaion of school children for smallpox, tfr. FiH>y"" spoke of the excellent wtfcer and Sewerage system provided n"fche villacft and advised thp npr?nfl<? o use the water from the system ather than any private supply from veils or pumps in the yard. He also emphasized the necessity of keeping lolids out of the sewers, so that they tfould not become clogged and conaminate the water supply by af 'ecting the pressure. After the picture, Dr. Hayden poke again, complimenting the mill >eople and the mill authorities on ;he excellence of the housing faciliies, the cleanliness of the premises, tnd the purity of the water supply, le said, that nowhere in the state Lad he found a more attractive mill immunity or a more healthful one. STORY OF FAMINE DENIED BY BYRNES THANKS PRESIDENT FOR OFFER OF ASSISTANCE BUT TELLS HIM REPORT IS UNTRUE AS APPLYING TO SOUTH CAROLINA Washington, July 28.?Representative Byrnes of South Carolina, in a letter today to President Harding declared telegrams from the South Carolina board of health and editors of daily newspapers in the State were emphatic in the assertion that no conditions approximating famine or conducive of pellagra, existed anywhere in South Carolina. Mr. Byrnes thanked the President for his prompt action and readiness to relieve distress but said that the reports of "semi-faming"' and widespread pellagra in the South were without the "least foundation, at least so far'as South Carolina was concerned." "If the people of South Carolina fiver suffer any disaster with -which the State could not cope we would j welcome aid," the letter said, "but it would be unfortunate if the Red Cross were called upon to relieve 'a plague and famine' of which our people are unaware. "It would be obtaining money under false "pretenses." f State health board figures showed, the letter added, that total deaths from pellagra in June were fortythree compared with twenty-nine in June, 1920. While the number of new cases last month were eight as against fourteen in the same month last year. The letter stated that while there had been some financial stringency among a few people holding their cotton there was no shortage of food anywhere and that even in the remote coast villages no epidemic was reported. False and Malicious. Asheville, N. C.f July 28.?Declaring that the credit and reputation of the South are being injured by "false and malicious statements emanating from Washington," the Asheville board of trade today addressed : a telegram to Surgeon General Cum^ming and members of the North Carolina delegation in Congress asking that the source of information regarding semi-starvation and pellagra conditions, be revealed. "Newspapers carrying press dispatches refer to epidemic of pellagra in South due to lack of sufficient nourishment and insufficient food, giving shortage of money as reason ! nvyA m^lrinfv flftnHlfinna VOlMr for. auu rnaiuug vuv wuu*viv?i4 * v* ^ w* rible and alarming," reads the message. "Please wire quickly if this interview and story authorized by your office and name of Representative furnishing this information." TRUSTEES REFUSE BIDS FOR SCHOOL BONDS No Satisfactory Offer Received and Securities Will Be Readrertised For August 10. The school trustees announced after the meeting yesterday to open bids for the sale of the $100,000 of school bonds, that no satisfactory offer was received for the securities and that all offers were refused. The bonds will be readvertised and bids received until August 10. The highest offer received was 90, nr $9fi OOfl for lot which at Dar ? ?*A T*TAwfU c\(\ nnn n*>A a A In WV1 Oil <pxv/VyUW auu ?vvj. uvu a**terest. The bonds are to be issued in denominations to suit gurchaser and will bear interest at 6 per cent, payable semi-annually. The generous terms of these bonds made it impracticable to sell them at so low a figure and Mr. W. M. Barnwell, chairman of the board, said the trustees would not consider the offer. The offer of 90 was made by Colin S. Monteith of Columbia, representing a Cincinnati house. - PLAN TO CLEAR UP VMS' CLAIMS GOVERNMENT, RED CROSS AND LEGION COOPERATE IN MOVEMENT TO ADJUST ALL CASES NOW NEEDING ATTENTION IN THIS STATE. Atlanta, Ga., July 28.?A "cleanup campaign" by the government, the Red Cross and the American Legion will begin in South Carolina August 15. Its purpose is to get in touch with every war veteran in the State, in order to give him the full benefit of the war risk insurance act and the rehabilitation act. A clean-up squad composed of medical examiners and experts in service ciaixns wm gv IUUV ucan/ twenty South Carolina cities and towns in every part of the State, 'fheir itinerary will be given full pub: licity and on the dates they will visit a community. Veterans are asked to be there, to present tlieir claims to have'them properly filed; to have pending claims speeded up, ajid to find out just what grounds for claims thflv have. The plan in brief, is to flo for the war veterans by visiting him personally on his own ground what it might take months of correspondence to do otherwise. Red tape will be cut both by the clean-up squad'and on the other end at Washington, to get prompt action oh every case. Full plans for the South Carolina campaign were completed at a conference at Southern division headj quarters of the Red Cross today. Ati tending the conference were Fred W. 'fcraham, service officer of the Green| ville post of the American Legion; | .Major G. H. Mahon, Jr., State com mander of the Legion in JBouth Carolina; John Andrews, contact officer of the bureau of war risk in South Carolina; Harry L. Hopkins, i^ngger of the Southern division of &jfc&ed Cro3s, and other government, Red Cross and Legion officials. The itinerary of the South Carolina Clean-up squad was announced. It will begin in Greenville August 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20; Charleston, September 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17; Columbia, September 23, 24, 25, 26 and 27. Other cities it will visit between the 15th and October 31, are Anderson, Greenwood, Aiken, Barnwell, Ridgeland, Orangeburg, Sum ter, Georgetown, Darlington, Marion, Conway, Rock Hill,- Laurens and Spartanburg. MRS. COLEMAN APPOINTED TO RED CROSS POST Will Cooperate With Legion and War Rick Bureau in Clean-up Campaign . Mrs. M. T. Coleman of Abbeville has been appointed by the Red Cross to represent that organization in South Carolina, in cooperation with the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, the Federal Board for Vocational Training and the American Legion, in the joint campaign that is soon to start in the interest of compensation and vocational education for ex-service men. This work is to begin im j mediately in the Southern umsion, composed of nine states. Mrs. Coleman has accepted the appointment and is now in Atlanta conferring with divisional officers of the Red Cross in regard to details of the work. Due to congestion in the various offices and to a surplus of red tape in the federal departments there has been much complaint from ex-service men that they were not being treated with the dispatch and efficiency thati nroo ^110 "EYamnles have been! given of needy young men who were in hospitals due to wounds or sifl^ness while in the army, suffering because of delay in the payment of claims under the Bureau of War Risk Insurance Act. Also many young men have made application for vocational education under the vocational edu FARMER MEASURE CAUSE OF SPLI1 __ REPUBLICAN SENATOR HOP; ' ON ADMINISTRATION WITI MYSTERIOUS AND SECRE' CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUND ING SUBSTITUTE Washington, July 28.?A bi-parti san movement in the Senate toda got behind the administration pla for agricultural credits as a substi tute for the Norris bill, caused split in the unofficial agriculture "bloc" on Senators and roused t vigorous protest from Senator Norrii Republican, of Nebraska, in charg of the measure bearing his name. Charges of "political machine tactics against his bill were made b Senator Norris, who?e verbal bias included the administrtaion broadlj the White House, Vice Presides Coolidge, the cabinet and other go\ ernment officials and individual Sen ators. The attack of Senator Norris whic followed an agreement today betwee Republican and Democratic Senator to support the administration plan t have the War Finance Corporatio: placed in charge of agricultural cred its, was directed at the substitut bill of Senator Kellogg, Republicat of Minnesota. This measure wa drafted by Secretary Hoover and Di rector Meyer, of the <War Financ Corporation and was introduced yes terday just prior to the reading of message from President Harding sug gesting such a measure. Characterizing the Kellogg bill a "an illegitimate child," Secretar Hoover and Director Meyer as it "wet nurses" and Senator Kellogg a its "foster .father," Senator Norri said the effort to defeat the Norri bill was the topic of many Whit House conferences. It was no "se cret," he said, that the administra tion wa3 opposed to the Norris bill. Suggestions of collusion betwee Vice President Coolidge and Senato Curtis, of Kansas, Republican whi] in connection with Senator Kellogg introduction of the substitute wer made by Senator Norris. He saj Senator Curtis, presiding over th Senate while Mr. Coolidge was a tending tjie Tuesday cabinet meetinj had given the floor to Senator Ke logg without the latter requestin recognition. The plans all were ai ranged, Senator Norris said, and soo after their consummation, he contir ued, Mr. Cooiidge entered the Senati "No details of operation are ove: looked by tfte political macnine, sai Senator Norris. "If the Vice Pres dent has made other arrangement push him aside." SCHOOLS TO CONSOLIDATE A meeting of the patrons of Cen tral, Park's Oreek and Hillvill schools will be held at Centrj school house next Thursday aftei noon at 2:30 o'clock to discuss th 'proposed move to consolidate thes three schools. Mr. D. L. Lewis, rurj school supervisor of the state supei intendent of education's office, wi be present to explain the advantage of such action. Senator J. H. Moor and Superintendent of Educafcio P. H. Mann iwill also attend th meeting. cation provisions of the governmenl but this has not been granted wit! sufficient dispatch. To speed up th work necessary in handling sue eases tne agencies aoove iutv? au<?ii ed a clean-up campaign to reliev the situation as speedily as possible. Meetings will be held at variou points in the state beginning at ai jarly date. Mrs. Coleman will rep resent the Red Cross in the cam paign. She was representative of thi organization here during the war an< worked with much enthusiasm. BLEASE ADDRESS HEARD AT FILBERT i ? S EX-GOV-ERNOR REMINDS PEOi PLE Ctf PROPHECY OF FO?UR r YEARS AGO?NOT CANDIDATE i. FOR ANY OFFICE?LEAVES THAT TO OTHERS. v % i- York, July 28.?Approximately y 5,000 up-State people, most of them n of York County, heard Congressman i- W. F. Stevenson and ex-Governor a Cole L. Blease, who spoke at the Filil bert picnic this morning. The crowd o was not a3 large as that which heard i, the former Governor's famous speech _ _ i n?n L * * e at r uoerc lour years ago, wnen tie denounced the entry of the United " States into the World War. y "I am no prophet," he said this it morning, "but four years ago from r, this platform I said that God's hand it was against any nation that went to r- war^ that if we did go in there would t- be widows and orphans among you; that you would arrive on the verge h of bankruptcy, and that any party n that brought the country into war a would be put out by the great Ameri0 can public at the first opportunity. Q "I ask those of you who heard my |_ speech then to ask your hearts arii e consciences if what I said has not lf come, true?" '"'Mil'- ' M s "It* has!" came from the crowd. L- The former Governor read a long; , e list of figures from the Record, comi paring appropriations of the General a Assembly for 1921 as compared With. ?- 1914, when he left the Governor's chair, and he declared that if the :.J ' ,3 drones and useless clerks and stenogy raphers employed in the State House ;s in Columbia were gotten rid of the ^ tax burdens of the State would be i3 lightened 50 per cent. [s ne Ditteriy auacKea senator meis ? ;e Christensen of Beaufort, who ^he said j. was the real boss of the General As- t sembly. The former Governor attacked the n State Tax Commission and the activi,r t;es of textile manufacturers in spending thousands in welfare work s rather than paying that extra money ,e to texti'c workers in order that they j might have a living wage. e He said that he was not now/a cattle didate for any office and he did not . know that he ever would be. "Our i people need a young1 man of fire and g spirit for a leader," he declared. "I am too old. We need a young man n of courage, who will go into every section of the State and fearlessly ' tell the people the truth." He said that there had been more r~ iawlessness in South Carolina since ^ he left the Governor's office than in i- ten years before despite increased a j appropriations for law enforcement. He attacked Senators Dial and j Smith, whose names, he said, were j unknown outside of South Carolina, and who did nothing for the people they represented. l" He declared that he . had been |p "eating better and wearing better ^ clothes" since leaving the Governor's chair than he had ever known before. l? -'God knows better what you and I e need than we do," he said. "He knew that it was best for me that I should not go to the United States Senate. I II " 11 iave made a success in the practice s af law in Columbia and I have bye aiy private and public life disproved n I he charges of my enemies ' against e iy personal character and mode of living. I would not swap my achievements of the past six years for a seat in the United States Senate." h e RETURNS TO WINDER ' f h > Mr. R. D. Moore, who has been assisting his son-in-Jaw, Mr. /H. L. Moore, in opening up his bakery es_ tablishment returned to his homi sj at Winder, Ga., yesterday. a BUYS NEW CAR Mr. Walter McCord has recently xiug-ht from Mr. R. Glenn Kay, s manager of the Gregory Motor Car i Company, a new Overland Four ;ouring car.