Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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pint*- ' m$m :m I' V' ' .'. , -r^ Abbev ille Press and Bannefl - , h1ished"i844, $2.00 Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. .C., Wednesday, October 12,1921 Single Copies, Five Cents. 78th Year. vv? ? ? NO TAX COLLECTED P 1KLU KLUX KLAN ^ MASSACHUSETTS MAN DE- < ; CLARES THIRTY MILLION > DOLLARS HAS BEEN COLJLECTED AND NO RETURNS 'MADE. $ . V- '' ' Washington, Oct. 11.?Officials of the Ku Klux Klan have collected an- < - jwoximately $30,000,000 from their "" " -- ?v:?v , * -500,000 fellow memoers, upon ymiwi the government has received no tax return, Representative Tague, Massachusetts, declared today to the 1 . house rules committee, which is to decide -whether congress shall invesv*:-. . tsgate the organization. Mr. Tague . said he arrived at the^figures from .'7 information furnished by the klan officials. / Opening the preliminary inquiry <* of the rules committee into the aft fairs of the mystic order, Mr. Tague asserted it was up to congress to show whether the constitution is ' "j?erely a scrap of paper." He denounced the members of the klan as ? 4^pack of cowards who go into the ^ night, behind masks and infringe on * the rights of citizens." * Mr. Tague charged the organization was boasting that it controlled 1 public officials, including police and ike judiciary. Chairman Campbell, Kansas, said ; that the committee must first-decide two things.1 1?Whether the Ku Klux used the ' mails to defraud. 2?Whether it has committed overt acts against, individuals and communities. y , MOTHER PUT ON TRIAL ' g FOR CHILDREN'S DEATH Mri. Huston Answers Same Charge On Which Her Husband Was Found Guilty. ,; ; Albany, Ga., Oct. 11.?iMrs. i*ennie Hudson -went on trial this morning in Dougherty superior court for * the murder of her two little children, Robert and Isiah Temple, sons by a former union, for the killing of : whom her husband, Gletf Moore - Hudson, was last week sentenced to feang on November 18 next. dlrs. Hudson was jointly indicted ' -writ her husband, but by consent of . both sides their cases were separated and Hudson was tried first. The selection of a jury for the j-g trial of Mtb. Hudson began at 11 ."..?'dock this morning, after both " tides had announced ready. Mrs. : Hudson is represented by two prominent local attorneys, W. H. Beckham, representative in the state legislature from Dougherty county, aad Jay Weiss Kieve, who were appointed by the court early last week, and who have promfeed startling developments during the trial. r PAVING STREET. The Abbeville Cotton Mills Company began this morning the paving Brook Street which traverses the .' mill's property from Main street across the railroad. Grading has been In progress for several days, but the - actual paving began this morning. BUILDING CHURCH. The contractor whQ has recently been engaged in the reconstruction of Grace Methodist church building on South Main Street has about completed his work. This church "building was destroyed by fire some months ago, but the walls did not fall, and were used as before in remodeling the church. The Rev. J. M. Mason is pastor of the church. Sf JEWISH HOLIDAY. In observance of Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, the Jewish business houses are closed today. This is an annual holiday and is always observ, cd with much ceremony. [RUCK WITH SACKS ONLY ROBBERY CLUE OFFICERS ARE PUT ON HOT TRAIL ONLY TO FIND THAT MAN THEY WAITED FOR WAS HILARIOUSLY DRUNK AND PERFCTLY HAPPY. * Detroit, Oct. 11.?While federal agents were questioning a man giving the name of "Bob" Cunningham, detained in Toledo on suspicion of connection with the mail robbery here last Friday, police today instituted a vigorous search of all foreign 'quarters of the city for the four bandits. The first clue to their identity was obtained yesterday when a truck containing the mutillated mail sacks and rifled envelopes was found, in alley. Finger prints taken from the envelopes and the truck are expected to aid the officers. Police were unable to Identify Cummings by that name and said the fact that a. coin bearing the name of the National Bank of Commerce here was found on his person, might not connect him with the mail robbery. They pointed out that none of the registered packages stolen contained money shipments to that bank. Carl Grebe, arrested Saturday on a technical charge of violating the United States code, was still in custody today, although William McCauley, the mail wagon driver, failed to identify him as one of the bandits. The truck in which the mail bags were found was turned over to federal authorities today after it had 'been carefully examined by police. There was no mark of identification on it, j but from the part of the city in I which it was foand, officers said j they were convinced the hold-up was the work of foreigners. All of the mail pouches had been ripped open and all the letters and packages carefully oipened, the band overlooking nothing of its value. * Suspect Was Drunk Toledo, 0., Oct. 11.?After receiving a tip that a member of the Detroit postal robber gang was passing through Toledo, city detectives and postal inspectors rushed to the Union station to capture the supposed bandit. When they arrived j they found the suspect, luggage, and all, perched peacefully on the bag-1 gage platform, the proud possessor of a capacity jag. Giving his name as "Bab" Cunningham, Detroit, he began turning his pockets wrongside out to prove his innocence to the postal inspectors and the floor became flooded with a rain of small coins and crumpled one dollar bills. At the police station where he was taken he told the turnkey he was a "moonshiner (by trade" and opened his suitcase and produced evidence to prove it in form of two quarts of raisin jack and a half dozen bottles of one per cent beer. The charge against him was changed. NEGRO MESSENGER ROBBED Lose* $17,680 of Bank's Money and Fifty Thousand in Paper. St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 11.?Robert Hardaman, negro, messenger for the Grand Avenue Bank was held up today by two men, who escaped with a satchel containing $17,650 in cash and $51?650 in non-negotiable paper.. The robbery was committed on a crowded street car, near the down town quarter. Hardaman was taking the money to a down-town bank. After obtain ing the satchel, the bandits compelled the conductor to stop the \xtr, and open the door. They escaped in an automobile. Forty-Fir? Injured. Decatur, 111., Oct. 11.?Forty-five persons were injured, five seriously when ten sections of the graadstand seats erected for the American Legion parade collapsed today, just before the parade passed. There were no fatalities. DENIES COMPLICITY IN KABER MUKDEF GIRL CLAIMS SHE DiO NOPLOT DEATH OF STEPFATH ER?WITNSSS ADMITS HEAR ING MOTHER AND GRAND MOTHER DISCUSSED PLAN. Cleveland, Oct. 11.?Marian Mc Ardle, testifying in her own behal today, denied that she helped plo the murder of Daniel Kaber, he step-father, for which she is on tria but declared she had often hear her mother, Mrs. Eva Catherin Kaber, and her grandmother, Mr Mary Brickels, discuss the plan. "I did not plot this murder," th 20 year old girl declared as sh stamped her foot angrily and stare through a film of tears at the pros( cuting attorney. Miss McArdle bared the story c her life in an effort to save hersel /wnwt Wi nnf AVI +V 11UI11 UJLC ilU'piliOVlllllCUl') nilAVil vu state asks, on a first degree murde charge for alleged complicity wit her mother in the death of the Lak< wood publisher. Miss McArdle testified her moth? and Mr. Kaber had frequently quai reled and threatened to kill eac other, but she had never taken th threats seriously, and said she ha never had any trouble with Kaber. A severe cross examination by As sistant County Prosecutor Cassid failed to confuse her. She held firrc ly to the main points of her storj that she had no part in the murde plot. Like Salvatore Gala, one of th two hired assassins, who stabbe Kaber to death, and who is servin a life imprisonment term followin his confession and conviction, an who preceded her on the witnes stand, Miss McArdle sought to shii fUo klervia fko t-Jllin nnAn "fVl uiuiiic XUA btrt, uyvu vu shoulders of her 69 year old granc mother. The defense practicall concluded its case late today wit testimony by Miss McArdle's schoc teachers, called as character wi1 nesses. FROST HELPS Opposeum Hunters Welcome Days o Ripe Persimmon The light fronts that have bee noticed recently denote better daj for 'possum hunters. The lowly pei simmons, along with foliage in gei eral, has taken on a coat of brow and soon may ibe eaten withoi danger of lockjaw. The 'possum's propensity for pe: simmons is well known and thoug other food be plentiful they will vei ture far for the old beer fruit, an in making such excursions the usually leeve a trail that is esaily fo lowed by Bruno, the dog. One tall 'possum chaser came ne? having grounds for suit against th county when he stepped off into miniature grand canyon near towi Although he is more than two yarc tall he could no* see out of the gull by albout 10 feet. The same ma took the night off from setback Tue: day and went on another hunt, no withstanding his previous experienc His wife begged him not to temj fortune too far, but he* could not r< strain himself. His dogs "treed" tw< he said but their eyes were n< shiny enough to be located. GIANTS WIN SEVENTH. The New York Giants won tk. -- tl. _? iL. _1J?. sctciuu game ui IUC wwuu series this afternoon. The teams now stand four and three with the Nationals leading. The Giants only need to win one more game, while the Yankees need two more. The Giants got six hits today while the American leaguers got eight and made one error. COTTON MARKET. Spot: 20 cents. The cotton exchanges were clos . r n i ed today on account or v,oinmbua Day. " DECISION AGAINST ! 1MB CORBET riCAN BE TRIED ON EACH OF I- THREE CHARGES OF MURDER. U REVERSAL OF TRIAL JUDGE IN ONE OF MOST IMPORTANT CASES ON RECORD. !-' Columbia, Oct. 11.?Among the f twenty-two opinions handed down >t by the State Supreme Court today, r chief among them was the reversal of l> a lower court decision in the case of d the State against Carlos A. Corbett, e of Orangeburg County, in which the J. court holds that Corbett can be tried on three different counts for the mure der of three menv alleged by the dee fense to have been one and the same d act. The court, sitting en banc, says i- that the killings were three distinct acts and Corbett can be tried fir :li2 f killing of the other two Hi if been tried for the murder cf 1 e acquitted. ir Corbett, it is urged, kilieJ Drii:. h Sailed, Hugh Fann'ng and Julian ' ^/uupcx uu me iiignw oi marcn ny 1920, in front of his home. He was * tried and acquitted on the charge of killing Bryan Salley, and when plach ed on trial for the murder of Cooper, e defense counsel pleaded former jeopd ardy and acquittal, claiming the three murders to be one act and offense. 3- The trial judge sustained this plea y and dismissed the charges in the last i- two cases. Subsequently the State 7, appealed and the decision today sends the case back to Orangeburg County for tr'al. Justice Cothran wrote the e opinion. d g FALL TERM OF COURT g CONVENED YESTERDAY d ;s Few Cases of Importance?First 't Daj Spent on Automobile , 0 Damage Suit. I- ? y Court of general sessions convenh ed yesterday morning with Judge >1 Edward Mclver of Cheraw presid ing. All of the court officers were on hand at the opening. There were about 35 cases on the calendar for the session, none of them being of particular importance. ,f Judge Mclver directed a verdict in the case of John R. Mars against n Bessie Pressly, which involved the rs possession of a lot. The case had p_ been tried before and the defendant won a verdict, and it was held that n the same ground was being covered it in the present suit. Yesterday afternoon the court was r- engaged in trial of a damage suit h brought by J. L. McCoy against, i. Austin Hall. Mr. McCoy claims to d have been injured when the buggy in whi/rh he ridimr was frtruek hv 1_ Mr. Hall's automobile. Sixteen witnesses had been examined at noon ir today. Mr. McCoy is asking $100,ie 000 damages. a a. DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS Is TRUE TO CALIFORNIA y n Paris, Oct. 11.?Not even the 9- beauty of Paris can woo Douglas t- Fairbanks away from his loyalty to :e the climate of the scenic charm of >t California. j. Following reports that he had sold 5, his Los Angeles house, rumors be)t 'ame current that the famous film .tar would make his home elsewhere ?possibly in Europe. Said "Doug" when he was questioned today: "I^m selling my Los Angeles home mly because I want to build another. I w'll always have a home ir California though. I intend to spend six months of every year in Europe." Escape With Cash Spring City, Pa., Oct. 11.?Five motor bandits today held up the National bank, here and escaped with a satchel containing approxk mately $50,000 in cash. Only three persons, an official, a. clerk and s depositor were in the insitution at the time. Pedestrians were held ai bay at the point of pistols while the bandits made their escape. IRISH CONFERENCE WILL OPEN TODAY BRITISH LEADERS PLAN PROCEDURE FOR MEETING?MwREADY AND TUDOR TO BE SUMMONED TO AID GOVERN. MENT. London, Oct. 11.?The prime minister and other representatives of the British government and the delegates to the Dail Eireann will face'each other across the conference table in the cabinet room at No. 10 Downing street, the premier's official residence at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning. Mr. Lloyd George, members of the catoinet and several officials of the Irish office discussed for an hour and a half this afternoon tomorrow's conference. It is understood that the procedure favored is a speech of welcome by the premiei after which he will outline the methods the government proposes foi dealing with the various phasesxof the question. Arthur Griffith, the Sinn Fein leader, is expected to reply. The program for the first day takes the form of opening conversation with a view of arriving at some definite basis upon which negotiations looking to an Irish settlement can proceed. Either side may, however, raise some controversial subject There is the question of the release of the interned men which many people in Ireland are urging on their delegates. One of the delegates said today that it was not the intention to mention this subject for the present. Nevertheless the government is preparing a reply to such a request wiat nas summonea uen. sir x\evui MacReady and General Tudor of the forces in Ireland, and the head oi the police from Dublin to advise the government should the proposal b? made. The services of these generals also would be useful when arrangements are suggested for stricter observance of the truce which botl the government and the Sinn Feinen desire. Both General MacReady anc General Tudor have been charged bj the Sinn Fein with provoking th( people and their orders to come tc London confirms the impression thai the intention is to avoid all causes of friction. The cabinet is said to have dis cussed today the possibility of ex tending the scope of the conference and inviting Ulster to send dele gates. This is a matter for the prim< minister to decide as the Sinn Feir delegates are held only as th< spokesmen of those they represent. WOULD HELP UNEMPLOYED A?k CongreM to Appropriate $400,' 000 to Expand Service Washington, Oct. 11.?Foreshadowing what is expected to be one oJ the recommendations of the Nation al Unemployment Conference, formulation of a request for a $400,00C special congressional appropriation to permit expansion of the federal employment service was ordered today by Secretary of Lalbor Davis. The unemployment conierence lr drafting its emergency program rec>mmended establishment of local employment agencies and the " recommendations for permanent reliei trom unemployment in the light oi Secretary Davis' action, are expected to include an extension of the work of the employment service, now operating on a skeleton basis. "Stolen" Bag Found Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 11.?-A handbag belonging to W. N. Estes of Jackson, and containing certified :hecks to the amount of $6,000 ;hought to have been stolen from th< iepot platform here Sunday nighl following the arrival of the Memphis rain, was found this morning in th< :oach in which Mr. Estes had rid Jen. The contents were intact. ATLANIA LAWYER J TO SUEKLU KLUX FORMER COUNSEL FOR KLAN ASKS FOR LARGE SUM?ORGANIZATION MADE MILLIONS /; BECAUSE OF SERVICES, AT- ^30 TORNEY ALLEGES. Athmta^Oct. 11.?Suit for $100,- T , 000 was-filed against th? Kg Klux Klan here today by W. H. Terrell, attorney and member of the city board of education, to recover compcns&r tion for services rendered as general 'A i counsel to the klan. Mr. Terrell re* >| linquished the post on November 1, ^ , 1930, after serving from 1916 when ^ [ he requested that his name be drop- V| ped from the rolls of the organiza- i tion. Attached to the forrrfal petition f i was a notice that the klan would be > called upon to produce in court* its . v . constitution and amendments tb- *? gether with all records showing fin' ancial receipts and disbursements. ! "A man named Jonathan B. Frost . attempted to organize an order sixnilar to the Ku Klux Klan," Mr. Ter rell said in connection with the filing I . of his suit. "And I was named gen- $2 i eral couns^ to conduct the fighi ' . against it. I was successful in de- S?| ; feating th's organization and made it possible for the- klan to reap mili lions. I have filed suit in a small i amount compared to the huge sums ? the klan has beeen able to gather in V's t because of my services." Officials of the klan refused to , comment on Mr. Terrell's suit today. ' > Washington, Oct. 11.?Evidence i obtained by the department of justice ; bearing on the activities of the Ku . Klux Klan was presented today by i Attorney General Daugherty to Chair ; : man Campbell of the house rules > committee, which will begin hearings > tomorrow on resolution^ calling for an investigation of the organization. William J. Simmons of Atlanta, im. perial wizard of the Ku Klux, will . appear before . the committee to- ^ t morrow. Proponents of five separate j house resolutions, calling for an in[ quiry in one forai or another, also r will be heard. One of the resolutions > introduced today would authorize the > appointment of a committee to find t out whether any senators or repre3 sentatives are members of the klan. Representative Upshaw (Demo. crat) of Georgia issued a statement . today denying reports that he wduld ; "> ? appear before the house rules com. mittee tomorrow in defense of the ? Ku Klux. \ 1 ^ J ERSKINE PLAYS FRIDAY Secedera Meet Charleston College in -a; ' * ? n \i/ The Erskine team is preparing for its game Friday afternoon at Due West with the College of Charleston. The game will begin at 3:30 o'clock, ^ at which time it is predicted by Erskine supporters, the scoring will commence, with the mighty Phillips lead' ing the procession. s . v ' ? Erskine has made an excellent ' showing already this year, having jut a permanent scare in the University of South Carolina team. '| Charleston College has not paid jmuch attention to football in recent j years but it is said that the student [ body is now trying to put out a team ; that will redeem the previous lassitude. FOOTBALL FRIDAY. Anderson High School football team will furnish the opposition Friiay afternoon for the Abbeville . Hi's. It is expected that this game j will have an important bearing on the I state championship, as it may come , lear determining what team from the j Piedmont section will meet the team t "rom the coastal district. Abbeville's ? record is auspicious so far and those i vho know predict that it will remain - so after the Electric City lads hare come and gone.