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\ r % Abbeville Press and Banner j ' - . ? ' v! Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Wednesday, Aug. 24, 1921 Single Copies, Five Cents. 77th Yeat. _ ? - CHARGE BROUGHT BY WANNAMAKER J*- - -<.m1 j.i / ?? CRITICISM OF FEDERAL RE. - "SERVE. BOARD POLICIES. COTTON ASSOC 1ATON HEAD SAYS BANK HEAPS GOLD AT EXPENSE OF CIVILIZATION. Washington, Aug. 28.?Federal reserve board policies in connection with price and currency deflation are . ^cynical, cruel and inexcusaible" . and constitute 'financial tyranny and -i ?!_ ?1U..1 T C Won . commercial cnmuma^ o. ?? x maker, president of the American Cotton association charged today before a joint congressional agriculture commission. The board's methods, he added, are "heaping up gold in the United States at the expense of all civilization." Speaking, he said, for agricultural producers, the witness asserted the federal board and banks were responsible for Hhe general price decline. The 'board's pressure still was being exerted upon "bankers who are afraid of their shadow, who may find'all their loans called by the re* '? -!-.?*/? anil flnrrp serve DaIIK3 any iuuuuk, nuu a?t disobey its orders," according to Mr. Wannamaker, who asked the commission (to recommend legislation * for general revision of the ' reserve board personnel. He proposed that the personnel be composed of 12 meimlbers, nominated from the various districts as representatives of industry instead of banking, who should ibe appointed * by the president and confirmed by the senate. Further, he suggested x that the commission recommend the instant reduction in federal reserve rediscount ralt^s, to a basis of 3 1-2 per cent, on Liberty loan collateral. A "The federal reserve banking system, created to serve the people by its administration has made the people "servants of the system," he asserted. "Its policy will resuire the American people, to pay with deflated rloH'f llwmviwp/? in QUiittrS iX uabiviuti MVW -? \ inflated dollars." Price declines that haye been effected lately, he declared, would not help consumers, because "they have left nothing for agricultural, produccer& to do ibuit combine and reduce v production so low In the fuure that prices will give us some margin of profit and let us pay our debts." - "I heard as early as 1918 thpt plans were being rigged to put on * deflation," Mr. Wannamaker said. "This culminated in what was called , ' a buyers', strike in 1920. We never had a buyers' strike it was a buyers' panic, the result of unceasing propaganda sent out to make people afraid of prices, to spread the fear , that prices were to go lower." v "By whom was this propaganda spread?" queried Representative Funk (Republican) of Illinois. "I'll first take up the case of the reserve board," continued Mr. Wannamaker, "and IH ask the commission to ask that hoard the rfmount paid out for publicity during the.last 18 monhs for correspondence and * the distribution of newspaper material." Senator Harrison (Democrat) Mississippi asked if the reserve board hu?f publicity men and Mr. Wannamaker replied that his impression was "that they have and that they aTe well paid." I Mr. Wannamaker put into evidence, statements and bulletins which he said the reserve board issued during the last two years and which he said clearly showed its purpose tc ? bring about declining prices. MRS. JOHNSON ILL Mrs. Joe Johnson, wife of chief oi Police Johnson, is seriously ill at her hme on Church street. In order that she may not be disturbed unneces sarily by passing automobiles, town council has given permission that ^ the street be closed in front of Mr. 1 Johnson's house. \ * . " ? ? WANTS CALHOUN HIGHWAY JN THE STATE SYSTEM Secretary of Chamber of Commerce Emph&aixea Importance of Road To City of Abbeville. Mr. G. T. Barnes, secretary of the Albbeville County Chamber of Commerce, is sending out to persons wh<jm he thinks will be interested, circular letters, emphasizing- the- importance to Albbeville County .of the Calhoun Highway. He says that the coming of the highway will not ,(mean an increase of taxation, except in the enhanced value of property along the route it will follow. It has always resulted that the building of any good road increases the worth ~ ~ - " " f ? of Jand and nouses, maxes iana more desirable because of easier cotnimunication. and makes for the improvement of the entire community. Just at this time Anderson is making an effort to have the tourists traveling from the north to Florida diverted by that city. When the Calhoun high-way is completed the most direct and (favorable route will pass through Albbeville., Tourists are noted for the freedom with which they spend money, and it follows that Alb 'hovillp citizens would t>rofit in laree degree by having them came this way. Since Abbeville has everything to gain and little to lose by the coming of the highway, Mr. Barnes hopes the people will see the necessity of exerting every effort at this time for the completion ?f the road. The letter of Mr. Barnes follows: "This is to call your attention to one of the .most vital opportunities which has ever come to Abbeville County. It is the building of the Calhofon Highway. The County Road Commissioners have authorized the construction of this road through our County. ^ "We Sre now endeavoring to have the State Highway Commissioners to make this road a part of the State Highway system, and to have the government to make it one of the Federal Military Post Roads. If the State or government recognize this | road the County will not hltve to I maintain it. "The prospects are very bright now and we are keeping this highway before both the State and Federal government. The expense of this cotfrespdndepce, letter writing, station-: ery and postage is. being taken care of through county organizations, known as the Calhoun Highway Association of the county in which the organization is located. The membership dues are only two dollars a year and we know that everybody will want to do their part in putting this highway through Abbeville County. "We want you to do your share in this work by enrolling as a member of the Abbeville County Highway association. \ "Please do this at once, sending us two dollars in cash, check or money order to cover your membership for one year. "We must work to improve cbnditions in our County and every worthy citizen will put his shoulder to the wheel and help to do anything for the good of Abbeville County. "Let us all pull together?boost or move." FIRST COTTON SOLD Two bales of this season's cotton were sold in Abbeville yesterday. J. M. Graham who lives on W. F. Nickles' place, sold the first Ibale to (J. JE. Williamson for 13 ccnts a pound. C. D. ^Jackson bought the other bale from HenTy Taylor, col1 ored, for 13.60 cents the pound. MR. TUTT IMPROVED Mr. L. W. Tutt, who has been ill at his home, is now much improved. His friends hope that he will soon be completely recovered. ANTREVILLE PICNIC The annual picnic at Antreville will be held tomorrow. Prof. A. F. Con; radi of Clemson will speak. The ladies of the School Improvement Association will serve a hash dinner. SPECIAL FEATURES FOR STATE. FAIR ?? '/ SECRETARY EFJRD SIGNS CONTRACTS FOR FIREWORKS AND MIDWAY ATTRACTIONS. AUTO POLO TO BE INTRODUCED THIS YEAR. / x * I ______ Columbia, Aug. 23.?D. F. Efird, secretly of the South Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical society, yesterday signed contracts for the special features of entertainment in connection with the state fair which will be held October 24 to 28, inclusive. Auto polo will fee one of the novel features of entertainment, the games to be played each afternoon, and contests of this character will also be switched in between the heats of the horse races. The fireworks "display will fee presented by the Tearle-Duffield Fireworks Display company, which of fers its attractions only at the larger fairs and in the large> cities. The program will consist of historical, unique and comedy features, among those to be shown including a reproduction of the (burning of Chicago and variouis other features outlined 'in pyrotechnics. These will ibe shown eiach night during the gala week. < ' !Tr" . Tne automobile races will be prei seted through the American-Inter national agency and it is likely that Louis Didbrow, Fred Horey, Duray Rick, Allen and several other big celebrites of the "dirt track," who have acquired national fame and some of whom have set up. national and woTld's records, will be brought here. The company announces that it will not have inexperienced drivers and that everything wil be done to give fast and exciting race?, yet with the danger removed. The cash prizes will amount to $3,000. The C. A. Worthen shows of San Antonio, Texas, are making three stops in the South this fall, showing at Richmond, Atlanta and Coi lumfoia. There are 20 high class shows offered whi<?h, according to the advanced dope, are above the average. One of the attractions offered, not usually seen in a carnival company, is: "Smiles of 1921," a musical revue. There are other' attraction shows such as a Wild West show, the Hippodrome, water show, jmto racing stadium, Noah's Ark, which is a mechanical device, ' monkey circus and side show, higih divers and submaine. acrobats; palace of I illusions, in addition to several other i attractions, which do not include the various riding devices and. others. Mr. Efird is busy at this time mak| ing arrangements for the big week of fun and frolic for the fair. BOLL WEEVIL DAMAGE Mr. W. H. Scott, who lives in Greenwood County, says that las<t year he made 53 Ibales of cotton on 53 acres. As an example of the activities of the boll weevil, he says that if any man will make a contract with him to deliver five Ibales of cotton at his house he will turn over to him the entire 53 acres. He says ihe must have a contract duly drawn up to protect himself, as the mian that takes it is likely to make such a poor trade that he would want to back out. W. F. Anderson, of Antreville, a Clemson expert, who has visited all sections of the state, says that the boll weevils have done greater damage in the lower section of Greenwood County than in any other community he has visited. He does not understand why this should be true, and it is contrary to all predictions. The statement has "been made that tfie boll weevil had not yet reached the higher sections of the state and that it would (be another year or two before the greatest damages from the pest would result. SEARCH CONTINUES ' FOR DEAD BODIES' BELIEVED THAT DEATH LIST o IN THE MACON FIRE WILL BE a INCREASED BY DOZEN WHEN J SEARCH HAS BEEN COMPLEt- h ED?FOUR BODIES FOUND a e Macon, Ga.,?Aug. 23.?Work of * exploring the ruins of the Brown a House, which was completely des- a troyed by fire at an early hour yester- * day morning and where more than a . dozen bodies are - believed to be ^ buried, stopped at sundown tonight. 1 - - .. - ~ -r , S Building inspector r. joe cisnop, in charge of the hunt for bodies, an- f nounced that the search will be re- n sumed at daylight tomorrow morn- ? ing with a force of 100 convicts from * the county and city chaingangs. "We will know before noon," he * said, "just how many bodies are in the debris. We expect to find at least 12, possibly more. I *can al- v most put my fingers on the spot ^ where I believe there are two bodies." - ' , ' iPrirnnor Wntrps nnnnnnppH this ^ afternoon that the coroner's jury ^ had concluded that an explosion of ^ escaping gas in the basement of the v Brunner Drug company caused the ^ fire. ^ The blast cut a hole through the ^ hotel from the basement to the-Toof, * tore out the stairways and wrecked s the elevator after driving it upward. ^ Fire escapes at the rear of the build- ? ing were enveloped in flames an in- ? stant later and fire also was burst- 0 ing from every window in the big n brick structure. \ It is understood that the state fire ^ marshal will arrive here in the morning to aid in the investigation that ^ ?J? m?i? 3 1 i_ I is unuer way. f nets uuutuivu uy jlucal city and county officials and the ^ state fire marshal will be laid be- a fore the Bibb county grand jury at its next session. Tonight, when work of exploring the ruins of the burned hotel stopped for the night, four bodies lay r in a local undertaking establishment, ^ only three of which had been iden- ^ tified. Eight persons were in the 0 # # \ Macon hospital suffering from serious burns and broken bones, received a from the fire and in jumping from 0 second and Aird floor windows. 0 Three other persons, whose names have- not been obtained and who are known to have jumped from. 'the 1 blazing structure, were attended by private physicians and left on the * train for Atlanta during the fore- s noon. > The list of known missing mounted tonight to seven, but there were ^ many inquiries from all parts of ? Georgia for persons whom it is ^ feared were in the hotel. J Horace Weems, clerk at the Brown House, son of the proprietor, said c that 88 of the 97 rooms in the hotel were filled, some with two beds in each room. He said that 'there were 5 < more than 100 guests, many of them f ; tourists who were passing through ^ the city. The tourists are the ones j that are causing the most concern lo- j , 'cally, for there is no way to obtain a c check on them, the hotel register be- ^ :? J?4. j 4.1. ~ ; :ng uestruyeu in me inc. Thousands of persons watched the j ; fire and visited the scene through- j i out the day. They refused to give ^ ; up their vigil even after a thunder storm broke over them and rain be: gan to descend in the late afternoon. | There was nothing left but a black- j ened brick wall at the front and j. | jagged columns in the center of the structure. The entire side wall on the Plum street side had been completely demolished, by the force of the explosion and by the collapse of 4.L. _ a LUC 11UV1D. DEATH OF A BABY g ; Little Tommie Virginia Loftis, c daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Evans c Loftis, of Lowndesville, died Friday c night, July 19th. They have the sym- a pathy of their numerous friends in v their bereavement. d ilRS. JOHN G. EDWARDS DIED MONDAY NIGHT Estimable Woman Passe* Away On Anniversary of Husband's Death. Mrs. Janie Bell Edwards, widow f the late John G. Edwards, died t the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. !!. Gambrell Monday nighty on the 7th anniversary of the death of her lusband. She was 74 years of age ,nd had been ill for two weeks. Funral services were conducted by the lev. C. E. Peele at 5 o'clock Tuesday iternoon at the Methodist church nd interment followed in Long Cane Jemetery. Mrs. Edwards was a daughter of . G. E. Bell and Elizabeth Bell, who ived at Lowndesville, this county. !he had lived in Abbeville county iractically all her life. Following her narriage to Mr. Edwards, she went rith her husband to Columbia, where he ,main offices of the GreenvilleColumbia railroad were located, Mr. Jdwards being at that, timer treasurer of that road. Fifty years of her ife she had lived in Abbeville. She iras a valued member of the Metholist church. Surviving Mrs. Edwards are the ollowing sons and daughters: An[rew B. Edwards of Charleston; /R. ). Edwards of Abbeville; Mrs. C. C. Jambrell of Abbeville; Dr. J. E. Edwards of Spartanburg; Miss Geo*gie Jdwa'rds of. Greenville, Mrs. R. B. tills of Greensboro, N. C., Dr. John }. Edwards of Edgefield and Miss lelen Edwards of Abbeville. Also urviving her are one sister, Mrs. J. [. Baskin of Iva, and two brothers, 1. 0. Bell of Calhoun Falls and J. H. (ell of Lowndesville. Hollis Edwards f Winder, Ga., W. E. Bell oi Gaff ey and Lieut. Comndr. R. E. Bell of he Navy were nephews of Mrs. Edrards. Active pallbearers at the funeral rere: T. G. White, Dr. C. A. Milfprd^ >r. George Penney, R. L. Mabry, W. K Wilson, Will Perrin, M. B. Syfan nd H. R. McAllister. $10,000 Damage Suit. Atlanta, Aug. 24.?Mrs. Margueite Murray filed suit for $10,000 amages in the Fulton superior court 'uesday against Mrs. Ira McDavid, f 84 Metropolitan avenue. ? Mrs. lurray asserts in the petition that fter she and Mrs. McDavid came ut of the bathing pool at Grant park n July 25, Mi^. McDavid charged er with stealing her eye-glasses. j It is affirmed in the petition that Irs. McDavid called the matter to he attention of the attendant at he pool and had' Mrs. Murray earched, but the glasses were not ound. Mrs. Murray also declares hat she was followed to her home y city policemen, at the request of Irs. McDavid, and suffered intense lumiliation. The eye-glasses in [uestion were found later in the [ressing Toom at Grant Park, acording to the petition. Clara Hamon Weds. Los Angeles, Aug. 23.?Clara >mith Hamon, acquitted in Ardnore, Okla,, several months ago, vhen tried for the murder of Jake j. Hamon, was married here to fohn W. Gorman, a motion 'picture lirector. After obtaining a license o marry, the couple drove to the esidence of the Rev. M. Howard ragen, pastor of the Wilshire Joulevard Christian church, who | Mr. Gorman announced he and his vife would make their home here. (Trs. Gorman has been engaged since ast April in making a film under lis direction. She was formerly the wife of a lephew of Jake L. Hamon. Her 1 * m naiaen name was umra unn . POLICE COURT J. H. Sims and his wife, Bessie >ims, negroes, were before the reorder's court this morning under a ha'rge of disordely conduct. Bessie laims that her husband cut her with l knife. He was fined $25 or 30 days, vhile she was assessed $2.50 or five lays. \ PANAMA WARNED TOOHAWARD I WHITE DECISION WITH REGARD TO PANAMA AND COSTA RICA MUST BE OBSERV- , ED, UNITED STATES TELLS I* FOREIGN OFFiCE. Washington,, Aug. 23.? The American State Department in a ? 'I note forwarded to Panama yesterday stated emphatically that the United States would not permit any hostilities growing out of the occupation j \ of the Coto region by Oosta Rica. The American note, it developed today, was in response to' a com- ,ij munication from the Panama government indicating that if Costa Rica should attempt to re-occupy the disputed territory, force would be 3 used in resisting unless the United ' '| States made it clear that the American government would prevent it. The American reply was handed to the Panama foreign office yesterday iby the American minister. It reiterated that portion of the note of J May 2, in which the 'United States endeavored to make it clear to Panama that the Wihite award must be respected. ? "In view of the fact that /the Uni38 ted States as a friendly mediator," (the American note said, after having referred to the character of the note of May 2, '^regards as joist .the claims of Costa Rica to lawful possesssion 3 of the territory on the Pacific awarded to her iby President Loubet it cannot, because of its special treaty relations to Manama, permit a renewal of hostilities by Panama against iCosta Rica by reason of Co^ta Rica now taking peaceful poa^eMtaa-of-that territory.-- ? Panama, Aug. 23.?Panama's re- - 3 ply tp the latest note from Secretary of Sate Hughes, in which Panama was told' that disputed territory <* along the Costa Rican frontier of (this country would (be placed under the jurisdiction of Costa Rica, has 'been considered toy the Pamaman ' cabinet, and possibly will b^ delivered on Wednesday. American diplomatic officials here are Teticent re- j garding the situation, ibut it is known that the Panaman Teply has not as yet ?one forward to Washington. Although it is generally reported that armed forces have already been ordered to advance on Coto, in the disputed area, with a view to opposing possible Costa Rlcan occupation of that district, the most recent of- }. ficial declarations here indicate that troops have been dispatched only to David, a town some distance from the "boundary. It is said they have been instructed to hold themselves in readiness there tlo march toward / Coto whenever orders are received , The Pan am an government, it is understood, will await further advices from Washington before (taking any 1 decided steps. ?j Federal Agent Killed. Dulu^h, Minn., Aug. 23.?Jflrank Hicks, Duluth federal prohibition agent, and an unidentified man, were killed in a gunfight between a band of alleged liquor runners and government agents near Internatioal Falls on the Canadian border, according to a report received by local author ities today, uicks is saia w aav? been killed by a bootlegger who, an instant later was slain by George King, a federal agent. . LINDLER IMPLICATED Young White Man Arrested in Columbia. Columbia, Aug. 24.?Roy Lindler, the young white man, who testified that he witnessed the killing of Policeman Brown last week, was arrested here yesterday afternoon, and after a cross examination in which- he contradicted previous statements, he was lodged in jail. / .