Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I ONE SCANDA, CHARGEDR - ' . % I Washington, Oct. 8.?The Harding administration has produced a scan-j dal per month, according to official publication of the Democratic na-1 tional ctfmmittee, today. The "scandals" are enumerated . aa follows: The Harvey, the Newberry, the Lasker shipping board, j the Thoreson, the Overall and the "Each and everyone of these enu-! merated acts," says the publication, "amounts to a public scandal, for which there is no parallel in any previous Republican administration, scandalous as some of them have been." The publication continues in H:' Part: _?? ? -? I "TSie_Harwy scandal: Permitting "George Harvey, ambassador to Great Britain, to retain his post following " ... his public speech at the Pilgrim's society dinner, London, May 19, in which he insulted the living and the dead of America in the world war. "The New&erry scandal: The jhV Whitewashing of Senator Truman H. Newberry of Michigan by the unanimous votes of the Republican mem bere of the senate committee on elections and privileges. It is admitted that a slush fund of nearly 1200,000 was raised and spent in Newberry's behalf. The Republican membership of the committee foli - ' lows: Dillingham, Spencer, Wadsworth, Watson (Ind.), Edge, Ernest, Shortridge and Bursym. They are all members of the "Old Guard." Senator Kenyon, a Progressive, was re'/ moved from this committee when the senate was reorganized. "The Lasker shipping board scandal: The projected sale of 205 wooden ships, costing from $300,000 to $800,000 each, for $2,100 each, with but a single <bidaer. (This bid, ;* following wide adverse publicity, has been rejected). Also the employment - of members of the legal staff of the ,V" board at salaries as high as $25,000 ' each, some of them recommended J by firms holding claims against the snipping board. The most scandalous phase of this matter is in the reve-lations that prominent law firms of New York, which had been asked by ; j1- .? Chairman Lasker to recommend legal assist^its, held claims against the board as-high as $15,000,000 and fe-Vl:^17'000'000"The Thoreson scandal: The re* moval from office , by presidential order of Surveyor General I. C.Thore son of Utah whose term had not ex' pired and against whom no charge had been brought. President Harding's first letter suggesting resignation said: "I need not tell you of th? current demand for recognition ~'f by aspirants in our own . party for consideration in the matter of patmi?' tronage. v.* "The Overall scandal: The alleged ] receipt of money from applicants I ': for office by John W. Overall, Re- i *3. publican national committeeman i - \ from Tenessee, who was quoted in 1 jjyjy' ** ' .< # all the press as having said that his j collections were turned over to the i Republican national committee to apply on its campaign deficit. v Senator . McKeller of Tennessee, referring to , the Overall matter on the senate floor, said, "I wrfht to call the sen. ate's attention to one of the most 1 A remarkable, disgraceful trafficking ] in federal patronage that has ever < . come under my notice since I have i f- . been in public life." Senator McKel- < , ler introduced a resolution provid- s ing for an investigation. "The appropriations scandal: 1 Concealing from the public the cost < of government to the public by cov- j ering up appropriations through re- ] appropriations, revolving funds, and ( "authorizations," and ueliberately 1 seeking to deceive the people by a < "juggling joker" in a deficiency bill ] whereby military appropriations < made during this session are charged ] back to the preceding session. ] "The method of concealing appro- i priations was exposed iast May to ] Representative Byrnes of South i Carolina, who showed that unex- ] pended balances reaippropriated au- 1 thorized in the guarantee section of i the Esch-Cummins act, had reached a total of $541,734,873.27, and will i reach a total of that amount increased by $200,000,000. "Secretary Mellon of the treasury ha6 been 'authorized to increase the issue of indebtedness from $7,000,000,000 to $7,500,000,000, and September 15, he offered for sale a second issue of treasury certificates LA MONTH :EPUBLICANS 1 ACCUSE HER FATHER OF KILLING GIRL IN 1911 Neighbor'* Testimony May Free M?n Who Hat Served Ten Year* For Crime. Madison, Wis., Oct. 8.?Martin j Lemberger, father of Annie Lemberger, 7, who was killed here in 1911, was arrested today on a warrant charging second degree murder, marking the climax of a hearing on an application of John A. Johnson for pardon after serving ten years in Stat^ Prison for the murder of the fcirl. Testimony implicating the father was given at he hearing by Mrs. May Sorenson, neighbor of the Lembergers, who declared that for ten years she kept silent, fearing that Lemberger would carry out an alleged threat to "choke her to death if she ever told anybody." According to the woman's story, the father struck his daughter on the head with a poker after she had tipnerf over a -nail of liauor she had ob tained for him. The girl was dead before she was placed on the bed, She said Mrs. Lemberger afterward had told her. Johnson has steadily maintained his innocence, asserting that a confession he later repudiated was made through fear that he would be lynched. SUMMONS. FOR RELIEF. (Compla:nt Served.) The State of South Carolina, County of Abbeville, Court of Common Pleas. J. W. BROCK, Plaintiff, against j J. H. MORRISON, H. T. MORRISON, MRS. ANNIE MORRISON, CORA MORRISON and J. L. MORRISON Defendants, j To the Defendants Above Named: You Are Hereby Summoned and) eamiirod tn answer the Comnlaint in this action, of which a copy is here-1 with served upon yon, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said Complaint on the subscriber, at his office at Abbeville Court House, South Carolina, within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint -within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the court for the relief demanded in the Complaint. WM. P. GREENE, Plaintiff's Attorney. September 26, 1921. To The Non Resident Defendant*, Cora Morrison ar.d J. L. Morrison: TAKE NOTICE that the complaint in the above stated action was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Abbeville County, Abbeville, S. C., on September 29, 1921 svhere it is now on file along with the summons of which the foregoing is a copy. Dated 29th day of September 1921. WM. P. GREENE, Plaintiff's Attorney. ORDER Upon hearing read the petition in ;he above matter asking for the appointment of J. Moore Mars as guarlian ad litem for the infant defendant, Cora Morrison, for the purpose >f this action*, and the facts therein stated appearing to my satisfaction, ) It It Ordered that J. Moore Mars i se, and he hereby is, appointed guariian ad litem for the said infant defendant, Cora Morrison, for the purpose of this action, unless the said Dora Morrison, or someone on her aehalf, within twenty days from the service of a copy of this order, shall procufe the appointment of some ather person to act as guardian ad j [item for the said infant defendant. Let a copy of this Order be served j upon the said infant defendant by j publishing the same once a week for: three successive weeks in Abbeville; Press and Banner, a newspaper published at Abbeville, South Carolina, i along with the summons herein. Jf L. PERRIN (Seal) Clerk of Court for Abbeville County.' Sept. 30, 1921. of indebtedenss amounting to $600,-1 000,000?'thus borrowing to run the government while the administra-j tion was making a pretense of economy and boasting that it was saving money." TENNY ON MARKETING Bureau of Markets Specialist Urges Organization Clemson College, Oct. 8.?Speaking here today before Extension Service forces and members of the legislature from a score or more counties here by invitation at the opening session of the annual meeting of the Extension forces, Llyod S. Tenny, assistant chief of the U. S. Bureau r>f Mnrlref-ti t.hnf. t.Viprp ii nr> short course to solving the marketing problems of the farmer; organization leading toward standardized production and orderly distribution i? the only way out and that takes time. The individual farmer hasn't a Jock in when it comes to marketing and since growing cotton has been too easy in .the past for our farmers to know anything aboui co-operation, an intensive educational campaign is therefore needed to inform and interest farmers as to the need, nature, and purposes of organization. Speaking specifically regarding marketing of truck, Mr. Tenny said that truck in South Carolina will not become a successful and permanent farming Industry until the growers organize so as to standardize, merchandise, and advertise the irucK crops produced. With soil and j climate in certain ? sections of the state adapted to successful production of such crop3 as asparagus, cucumbers, melons, cantaloupes, Irish and sweet potatoes, etc., it is a question of getting together for production of uniform or standard products and for proper merchandizing of these products instead of dumping them on the market. Mr. Tenny expressed great hope for the successful outcome of the organization of cotton growers of the state and the South for co-operative marketing of cotton. Another number on the first day's program dealing with co-operative marketing was the talk of T. B. Young on the work of the South Carolina Sweet Potato Association in selling potatoes co-operatively for the storage houses and farmers composing the association. 1 KIRSCHBAi I 4 d! ti C( JS - f D LI 100,000,000 VOLTS F< IN LIGHTNING FLASH Dr. Steinmetz Says That The For* mer Varies Between That th Figure and 20,000,000 V? Iu Schenectady, Oct. 7.?Dr. Charles N P. Steinmetz declared this afternoon i at a dinner of the KiVanis Clulb, in speaking on the subject of "Light- m ning" that only in the last few M years with the advance of electrical pi engineering, has science become able H to understand and explain the elec- as trical phenomena of the thunder- h( c+nrm tn pfllrnlat'ft vnltjco nnrl Jt energy of the lightning flash, and m "finally we have been able to repro- se duce lihgtning experimenally in our laboratory." y< He said that corroborative evi- Q dence had shown that the voltage of in a lightning flash was usually be- ta tween 20,000,000 and 100,000,000 C volts, averaging probably about 'bi 50,000,000 volts. Dr. Steinmetz con- ai tinued: ? / "It is hard to conceive what 1,000,000 volt mean9. Five hundred volts will kill a man. T "Today we are sending electric power across the country at 820,000 volts. Thus in the forty years since Edison's first installation we have ini creased the voltage in our < electric aj J circuits a thousandfold. We have pro- yj duced and played with over 1,000,- l, 000 volts, and the voltage of the j ?* thundercloud is only fifty times higher than what man has produced." j . ? f( SOLD VINEGAR FOR $7 fi) A QUART AS WHISKfcY ol Lumberton, N. C., Oct. 6.?Selling b< plain vinegar for "ibottled in bond" ti whiskey got a young man, who gave 1 his name as C. 0. Oats in the toils. I1 Oats was arrested after he had dis-jl posed of several quarts of the vini egar at $7 per and was bound over j a to the superior court toy Recorder C David H. Fuller on the charge of ^ V i false pretense. One witness testified > that he paid Oates $21 for three !ii quarts of the vinegar after Oates] had represented it to be "bottled in S bond" whiskey. ' rnj /T ATUCC \U ivi \j)T > rom Paris, from New -?#v world's fa 3me these new jrschbaum CL ou seen the late: $30 to amey 8t ? ABBEY 3RMER COLUMBIA PUBLISHER DEAD Columbia, Oct. 6.?The news of e death of Walter Bernard Sulliin, former publisher of The Cornbia Record, which occurred in ew York Wednesday night has ;en received with profound sorrow Columbia, where Mr. Sullivan had any friends. While in Columbia r. Sullivan was a leader in pushing rogressive measures for the city, j e was connected with The Record i publisher for some time, leaving ire to be associated with Curtis B. >hnson, of Knoxville, Tenn., in the anagement of The Charlotte Obrver. After remaining in Charlotte two jars Mr. Sullivan's health failed id he moved to Denver Colorado, i an attempt to recuperate, still retining a financial interest in The harlotte Observer. The funeral will i held in Charlotte, the time to be mounced later. Supply Ordinance r \ o Raise Supplies For the City Of Abbeville, S. C., For the Fiscal Year, 1922. BE IT ORDAINED by the Mayor id Aldermen of the City of Abbe lie, S. C., in Council assembled and f authority of the same, that a tax >r the sums and in a manner herein* fter named shall be raised and paid ito the treasury of the City Council >"r the uses and purposes for the seal year, 1922. NOTICE is hereby given that the flfice of the City Treasurer - of Abeville, S. C., will open for collecon of taxes for the said fiscal year 922, from Tuesday, November 1st, 921, until Saturday, December 31st, 921, without penalty. Rates per centum of taxation are s follows: ity taxes 5 mills. Waterworks tax (int. on bonds and sinking fund) 2 mills, llectric Light Tax, (int. on bond and sinking fund) 2 mills. ewerage tax (int. on Bond and sinking fund) ? 2 mills. FALL AND W] * from Londo: - f u ' i oik.: 1 iuj ishion cente r style ideas i othes. Ha\ st Fall design* H5 < Gilliai ILLE Paving Tax (int. on bonds and sinking fund) 10 mills. That when the taxes and assessments or any portion thereof charged against the property or party on the tax books of the City for the fiscal year 1922, shall not be paid on or before the first day of. January* 1922, the pity Treasurer fe&aljL proceed to add a penalty of one per jcent. on the tax books and shall Collect the same, and if the said taxes, 'assessments and penalties are not paid on or before the first day of Vohrnnrv novt. thPTPflfter an addi tional penalty of one per centum shall be added by the City Treasurer, and if said taxes, assessments and penalties are not paid on or before the first day of March next, thereafter, an additional penalty of five . per centum thereon shall be added by the City Treasurer, and be collected by him; and if the said taxes, assessments and penalties are not paid on or before the fifteenth day of March next thereafter, the said City Treasurer shall issue his Tax execution for said taxes, assessments and penalties against the property of the defaulting tax payers according to law. A Commutation Road Tax will be collected the same time as other 1 . taxes from^all male citizens between > the ages of 18 and 55 years, except ' those exempted by law. ? _ This Commutation Tax is as follows: The sum of Two ($2.00) Dollars, payable before March 31str 1922, the sum of Two and 50-106 (2.50) Dollars, if not paid until and during the month of April, 1922, the sum of Three ($3.00) Doljars if not paid until and during the month of May, 1922. In lieu o# this tax six days work upon the highways end streets of the City will be required under the street overseer. All persons failing or refusing to pay the Commutation Tax or to work v < the six full days shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than thirty dollars or imprisoned - more than th'rty days. * - , Done and ratified in the City Council, this 16th day of September, 1921. J. MOORE MARS, Mayor. . G. C. DOUGLASS, City Clerk. t INTER 1921 ll V A n, m rs in it >? u >