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\ ' ( ' J < , . . ; - ' , - , . . . . x , , S . Abbeville Press and Banner - . * Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Friday, September 16, 1921 Single Copies, Five Cents. 77th Year. MOVE TO RELEASE KENNETH GOSSET COUNSEL TO ARGUE FOR BONI NEXT WEDNESDAY?ASSOC) ATE JUSTICE COTHRAN Dl RECTS PRESENTATION Ol PRISONER IN GRRENVILLE. ^ AX ' Lam, lireenvuie, c?epi. 10.?ai< a uwi ing in the Greenville county cour Jiouse before Associate Justic Thomas P. Cothran next Wednesda; it will he determined whether or no Kenneth Gossett, convicted of crimi nal assault in Abbeville and sen tenced to 40 years imprisonment shall he released-on bond from th< state penitentiary. Upon applicatioi this morning of Bonham & Price o: this city, and tien. Milledge Bon ham of Anderson, counsel for Gos sett, Justice Cothran signed an or der directing the superintendent o: the penitentiary to produce Gossetl at the county court room here Wed nesday morning at 10 o'clock for th( hearing. ' ? The original order was mailed thii afternoon by Gossett's attorneys tc Col. A. K. Sanders, superintended , of the penitentiary. A copy will be served on Homer S. Blackwell ol Laurens, solicitor of the Eighth circlit, who conducted the prosecution oi irosseii. Gossett was granted a new trial by the state supreme court several weeks ago. No time has been set for the second trial. Kenneth Gossett was arrested with his cousin, John Gossett, last year in.Honea Path on a charge of assaulting two young women at Abbeville. They were tried a year ago from last April. The Jury returned a verdict of guilty with recommendation to mercy against Kenneth Gossett and he was sentenced to serve 40 years in the state penitentiary v by Judge Sease. The court directed a verdict of not guilty for John Gossett. * " . LAND SUIT HEARING Effort Being Made to Make Bayers Fulfill Contract. At a hearing yesterday before T. P. Thomson, master of Abbeville County, the Dixie Land Company, sought to require John R. Winn, J. H. Caldwell and C. B. Leonard of Dae West to comply with a contract they are alleged to have made in the purchase of land. The plaintiff alleges that the defendants bought cer. tain land, agreeing to make payments in a certain manner, and that with the coming of the slump they did not make the payments. Mr.'Winn bought 113 acres, Mr. Caldwell 35 and Mr/Leonard 66 QAraa f}ia A ft IfonnaHv form I The decision by the Master in this case, it is said, may set a precedent for a settlement in other cases of similar purport. RAISES HOUSE \ Dr. G. E. Calvert has recently had his house on Notth Main street raised so that it woald "be level with the street. It was formerly so low that his front porch was several indies lower than the street level. He is bricking up, the opening under the house and will fill in his yard level With the sidewalk. USING CRUTCHES According to a telephone message to The Press and Banner, Miss Ad die Miller of the Rapley Shoals com munity is obliged to use crutches because of a spr&ined ankle suffered when she slipped on a stone Wednesday. The injury is not thought to be serious and she will be able to discard the crutches in a few days. MOVING .Mr. and Mrs. Sam Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Borders have mov* , ed into a house <m Richey street and 4 are keeping house. ' RECAPTURE STILL [. THAT GOT AWAY I) ABBEVILLE AND GREENWOOD [. OFFICERS GET OUTFIT STOLI EN FROM GREENWOOD COURT F HOUSE SOME WEEKS AGO. HAD BEEN IN OPERATION ( A party of officers from Abbeville t county met officers of Greev/ood e county yesterday morning nd joined y in the search for and capture of a t still near the Greenwood-Abbevflle road in Abbeville county. The still - captured re said to be thie one stolen , from the Greenwood county court a house some weeks ago. 1 - Making up Abbeville county's con? tingent of the raiding party were - Sheriff McLane, Federal Revenue - Officer T. V. Martin, Deputy Cann - and J. T.. Stevenson. ^ Sheriff McLane, speaking this ^ morning of the raid, said that sometime ago Sheriff White reported to 5 him that the still stolen from Greenwood had been located in Abbeville J County. A joint search was made at * that time but the still was not found. Following this raid the Sheriffs a| greed to notify each other in case a ' raid was planned. Wednesday morning Sheriff McLane telephoned Sheriff White's office that the still had been located and asked that he meet Abbeville of. ficers that morning. The local officers waited until 12 o"clock and the Greenwood men did not show up, so the Abbeville men made the raid aione. > The search continued for some time without result. The still was not located but the officers found Roy Barrett, a white man, asleep near the spot where the still was found C ' next day. Beside him were three or four quarts of liquor. He was brought to jail, but was released yesterday on bond. So far there is no evidence., to connect him with the operation of , the still. / Thursday morning another raid ; was made by officers from Greenwood j and Abbeville, the parties meeting on ] the Greenwood road. The still was . located and since Greenwood officers were able to identify it as the one ] stolen the Abbeville sheriff allowed , Sheriff White to replace it in the , Greenwood court house. Sheriff Mc- f Lane says that the still was located , by Abbeville officers. ] The Greenwood Index-Journal has j the following account of the raid: "The fifty gallon still stolen from the sheriff's office several weeks ago i a few hours after its capture on Sa- 4 luda river, was recaptured today about noon by Sheriff E. M. White ] and his deputies and Abbeville coun- 3 ty officers about a'mile west of a ne- ( gro church near the line On the Abbeville-Greenwood road. No arrests < were made, as the still wns not in operation, Sheriff White says. About . 2,000 gallons mash were destroyed, i "Sheriff White stated that he had I an9n<*rti?d +.hp whAwmVwui+a nf fVio 1 still and told the grand jury yesterday that he would get the still. The grand jury wante him to offer a re- S ward for its recapture, he said. The i copper still was brought to the sher- r iff's office and will be turned over to c J. W. Spearman before night to be ? cut up into copper sheets for use in i making useful copper articles. Sher- S iff White says he dpesn't mean to ( take any chances with it this time. 1 "The still was identified as the r same which was stolen from the c sheriffs office by certain marks on F the bottom. v "Officers in the raid besides Sheriff t E. M. White were: Rural Policeman R. L. Lyon, Deputy A. F. Spivey, De- o puty Stevenson of Abbeville County, a United States Revenue Officer Van I Martin, and J. A. Cobb. The still was C brought to the Greenwood court d house immediately after its capture, s "While the still was not in opera- C tion when captured, the sheriff said b that one run had been made and the s' mash destroyed would hav^ been n ready to run the last of the week." li >> PLENTY OF LIQUOR ATARBUCKLEPARTY WITNESS TELLS JURY SHE HAD TEN DRINKS AND CORONER INUQIRES HOW SHE CAN REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED. NO NEW EVIDENCE. Late Development! u:.i. ..AC*. A-_ buckle, is Mid to have been Sk, 1_ kidnaped on way to join her busband. Her whereabouts is not known. Arbuckle has been released on $5,000 cash bond. Prohibition agents are considering seizing Fatty's $26, 000 automobile, on the ground that it must hare been used to transport liquor used at the "party/' Attachments have been filed against Fatty's $100,000 mansion, to collect a furniture bill of $11,000 and an interior dec- 1 orator's bill of $6,500. San Francisco, Septi 14.?With the grand jury which has been hearing evidence against him adjourned! and the coroner's inquest extending into its second day without a verdict "iFatty" Arbuckle, motion picture comedian, charged with the murder of Miss Virginia Rappe, an actress, , 1 J..1L . wnuse ueawi uccuxrcu aner a party i j in Arbuckle's ropm In a hotel, spent his third night in a cell tonight. i The grand jury adjourned with- out returning an indictment, but } another session will be held as soon < * as District Attorney Bradey is ] ready to present further testimony, < the foreman announced. 1 Added interest was given the case today when the district attorney de- < cla'red he would start an investigation to ascertain whether witnesses who were present at the party last j week have been tampered with. The official's statement followed the appearance of Mis$ Vey Provost, also known as Miss Pwron. before the frand jury. According to Mr. Brady ] her testimony was entirely different ? from -what she previously gave him. r Reports that another witness, Alice * Blake, had disappeared proved er- 3 roneous when she appeared at the t jistrict attorney's office. Miss Blake t according to Miss Brady, said' that \ she had gone from her home in Berkeley to a friend's home in Oakland r in order to avoid publicity. a Among witnesses before the grand f jury some of whom later testified at j, the second day's proceedings of the t kroner's inquest, were Mrs. Bamt>ina Maud Delmont, A1 Semnacher, w V Mi& Rappe's manager; Vey ProvoBt and Alice Blaise, all of whom are said to have been present at the Arbuckle party, and Mrs. Jean Jame. 1 jon, a nurse, who attended Miss * (Continued on page eight.) y ' ; a CHANGE IN POWER y Electric Plant Get# Part of Juice S From Southern Power Co. ( On account of low water in the Savannah river, the Abbeville Water md Electric Company has fonud it lecessary recently to get part of the mrrent for local use from the Southsrn Power Company. Abbeville curent ordinarily is supplied from the Southern Public Utilities plant at Sregg Shoals. Due to lack of rainfall n the upper reaches of the Savannah iver the water is so low that the ompany is forced to curtail the sup>ly of a number of its lines, Abberille and Anderson being among hose affected. At present all power used from 6 'clock in the afternoon to 12 o'clock ,t ni^it comes from the Southern F 'ower Company's plant in North Carolina, by way of Greenwood. The ay current is from the regular tl ource. This change in power, says, tl !. P. Townsend, manager of the Ab- pj evUle plant, is the cause of the fc lightly inferior service supplied at W ight. This condition he says, is not lo kely to continue long. bi / J. BAM MOORE |i ELECTED JUDGE ' WILL SIT IN INTERNATIONAL i COURT OF JUSTICE OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS?HAS BEEN PROFESSOR OF,1 LAW ? FOR TWENTY YEARS i Geneva, Sejit. 15.?John Bassett Moore of the United States was elect- ] ed a judge of the international court < of justice by the assembly of the 1 league of nations on the second bal- 1 lot in the voting fOr members of the ] court which began here at 10 s o'clock this morning. Dr. Rafael Altamiry, Crevy of Spain, Dr. Rue Barbosa of Brazil and < Dr. Antonio S. de Bastamente of t Cuba were elected judges of the international court of justice by the as- < sembly of the league of nations here ] this morning. They received, respectively 23, 38 and 26 votes. John Bassett Moore of the United c States received 12 votes on the first i ballot by the assembly while Dr. Roscoe Pound received 6; Elihu Root 2 t and Professor Brown Scott 2. . i. Viscount Robert Finlay of Gt-eat t Britain; Dr. Alejandro Alvarez of nU-'l - - "TV? A 1 TTT . T* ! Liiiucj uk. Anurew weiss 01 a ranee; g Dr. Yorosu Oda of Japan; Dr. B. T. 0 C. Loder m Holland and conmmenda Dionisio Anzilotti of Italy were eleced by the assembly on the first ballot. ; . I The council of the league which . is met at the secretariat simultaneously . with the meeting of the assembly in reformaMon hall, confirmed the assembly's choice of Viscount Finlay, Dr. Weiss, Dr. Oda and Signor Anzil- ^ >tti, who consequently were definite- r< y elected to the court. ?. .? 30V. COOPER DECLINES TO CONSIDER ORAL PLEA c< si Mrs. Kirby's Appeal for Clemency For Hu.Und4 Will Not Be Considered. > Columbia, Sept. 19.?Mrs. S. J. iirby's oral plea for executive clemfncy for her husband yesterday, nade to Governor Cooper, will not SI lave offiical consideration. It was fc foforl Q-f fVifl (yAtrainiAv'a Affion _l IVMVVU U V Witv ^VT VfcilVl o VUiWV bVUAjr pi hat unless a petition is filed with fi he executive no consideration could gi ?e given to the plea for clemency. pj iMrs. Kirby and her 11-year-old It laughter called on the governor and w isked that he change the sentence ol rom death to life imprisonment, as of ler husband' had often been subject si o temporary periods of insanity. le Relatives of Jesse Gappins also Pi rill make a similar plea to ^the gov- ki (rnor, it was said. C. 0. Fox is resigned to his fate, lis *ged father who is here states cr ha't'his only concern is the eternal ^ welfare of his son's soul. He has ar dvised the boy to try to get right ki rith God. fT The three men are under death ei entence for the murder of William ze J. Brazell, Columbia taxicab driver. eri uJ <* COTTON MARKET la Spq^, cotton wu selling at 19.50 cents at 3 o'clock this afternoon. This is a drop of a El half a cent from the price paid this morning. The futures market also showed a decline, all months V< closing from 10 to 70 points inj net lower. October closed yes- 3 terday at 19.30 and today at 'br 18.60. " ' pu : el< BUYS INDEPENDENTLY atl he . B. Swetenburg Will Represent J. 25 H. Cutter Cotton Company mt F. B. Swetenburg has announced in lat in the future he will represent le cotton firm of J. H. Cutter Cominy of Charlotte. Mr. Swetenburg >rmerly was associated with C. E. rilliamson and bought cotton off the Sti cal market in bale lots. He will now cul ay in lots for delivery on contracts, tei DAIL APPROVES REPLY 10 BRITISH IRISH ANSWER TELLS ENGLAND IF DEMANDS FOR ABSOLUTE SEPARATION ARE NOT ABANDONED NEGOTIATIONS WILL COME TO END. Dublin, Sept. 15.?Appointment of plenipotentiaries to the proposed inference at Inverness frith British representatives to discuss the settle- ' nent of the Irish question was approved by the Dail Eireann at its ses- i >ion here todav. ' \ 1 The appointments approved follow: Arthur Griffith, founder of the 1 Sinn Fein and foreign minister in ( ;he Dffil Cabinet, chairman. Michael Griffith, founder of the 3inn Fein and foreign minister in the ] Dail Cabinet, chaiVman. < Michael Collins, finance minister, i t Robert C. Barton, who has been ' >ne of the leading figures in the pre- 1 iminary negotiations. 1 Eamon J. Duggan, Sinn Fein mem- 1 ?er of parliament and a leading figure 1 n the arrangement of the Irish ruce. f George Gavan Duffy, who has act- * d as representative of the Sinn Fein I broad. , ^ The Dail Ejreann at its session here \ oday unanimously approved the rely to the recent proposals of Mr. s iloyd Georgp, the British prime milliter, regarding Irish peace negetia- c ions. . v * The appointment of the plenipo;ntiaries is considered in political f uarters as a move toward throwing 11 , * t . p ;sponsibility for any breach in the egotia,tions on the prime minister. 11 Reports circulated in\well posted ^ rcles today are that Mr. Lloyd ' i a j i 11 pi! ? I y eorge indicated 10 ine ainn rem ~ C1 >uriers conditions which, it was condered, might involve such a hreach s< ' . s< staliAker pleads guilty t< ~ > vv oitmaiter Fined $3,000 and Get^ Fifteen Months. S Rock HiU, Sept. 15.?In United tates Court today Jos. W. Stalnaker >rmer postmaster at Ninety-Six, h eaded guilty" to embezzlement of inds while postmaster and was ven fifteen months in the federal ison in Atlanta, and a fine of $3,000 is understood that he made way s ith government funds to the amount s< : about $4,500.. Flossie Thompson, dv : Lancaster, pleaded guilty and got 0: x months for sending an obscene T tter through the mails. Several & ohHpH oniiltv +r? violation of nroVii- ? "" o*""v r-"? u tion laws. The grand jury complet- a] I its work in half a day. District 'At- tl rney Cochran expects to clear the p; iminal calendar tomorrow or Thurs- ^ ly. No cases of special importance f< e scheduled to come up. Judge Watns delivered a strong charge on law a] tforcement before the grand jury, y, nphasizing the need for every citi- c n to support the laws and aid in fc, tforcement. There are only two gj asses of citizens, law abiding and *p sv-breaking, he said. S] w VETERANS MEET in !ect Delegates to Attend Chatta- in nooga Reunion. m hi Camp 1827, United Confederate de iterans, will hold its annual. meet- s's j in the court house Saturday at j ar o'clock, according to J. M. Gam-|WJ ell, commander-of the camp. Thejm( rposes of the meeting will be the jno jction of officers and delegates to w* ;end the reunion which will be m< Id in Chattanooga, Tenn., October Mi , 26 and 27. A previous announce- "th< int said the meeting was to be held Knoxville. I GASOLINE CUT Effective this morning handlers of ad indard gasoline announced a price gr< t to 21 1-2 cents. The price yes- fri day was 23 1-2 cents a gallon. ly ' CREDIT READY FOR I FARMERS. i V WAR FINANCE CORPORATION READY TO DISPENSE BILLION v_ DOLLARS IN CREDIT TO BE, ; USED BY FARMERS AND LIVE STOCK MEN. % ?? ^ Washington, Sept. l/>.?Selection of 16 local agricultural loan committees to handle applications for loans under the congressional ailthorization making $1,000,000,000 available lor farm and live stock advances was announced toniorht bv the War Finance Corporation. Headquarters of the committee and their thairman include J. P. Matthews, Columbia, S. C. The committee members, the corporation said, are familiar with coniitions in their own localities and it is expected that a great deal of time will be saved in the distribution of s oans by having the preliminary vork done on the ground and the applications sent to the corporation _ it ?ere for action. ' It is expected officials stated, that ' ive more groups will be formed be'ore the agency organization is compete. . Cotton Unimproved. f J Washington, Sept. IS?Cotton , howed little improvemeht during ./ he week and continues in very poor ondition, according to the weekly eview tdday in the national crop ulletin. Bolls are opening fast genrally with picking and ginning gonjr on ranidlv in most nenfml anH astern sections but picking has been iterrupted by rain in middle Atlanta sections. ;"j While corn is reported mostly beortd danger of frost generally late - orn is in need *.of rain in many Dutheastern and middle Atlantic actions. " . : Some improvement was shown in ybacco in Kentucky yet the crop pas reported maturing slowly. t ; , i-k OUTR CAROLINIANS VICTIMS OF FLOOD ,| lewlett Chiles Sullivan and Bailey Turner Lose Lives in Rockdale, Texas. Anderson, Sept. 14.?George ~W. ullivan of Williamston received 'i-J jveral messages today from Rockale, Texas, concerning the drowning f his son, Hewlett Chiles Sullivan, he mayor of Rockdale sent one mating that there was no. hope of nding Mr. Sullivan alive, and that 11 efforts were being made to find ie body of Mr. Sullivan and his / la artner, Bailey Turner, and that 00 volunteers workers are looking >r the bodies of the young men. Mr. Sulliyan was 42 yars of age, [id has been in Texas for seven ?ars. He was with the Anderson ash grocery of this city as book- .-J jeper for several years after bis iduation from Wofford college. Mr. ' urner was a son of Dr. Turner of [/aiiuairuur^ aiiu wie twu yvuug intsn \ ere classmates. Mr. Turner went West after leavg school and made such a success ranching that he sent for his forer classmate to come and share in s good fortune. When young stusnts Mr. Sullivan is said to have as>ted Mr. Turner with his lessons, id was a friend to him in many lys. Mr. Turner having an impedi2nt in his speech. This kindness was it forgotten by Mr. Turner, and len fortune' smiled on him he re*m>bered this kindness and made r. Sullivan his partner. Neither of e men was married. x SEEING THE DOCTORS .1 Mr. L. W. Tutt is leaving for Atlta today where he goes for the vice of specialists. Mr. Tutt is eatly improved in health and ends hope he will soon be perfectwell.