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* % Abbeville Press and Banner i^oHHcW 1844. S2.00 Year.. Tri-Weekly "Abbeville, S. C., Friday, November 4, 1921 Single Copies, Five Cents. 78th Year. lJOUilk/iiuiivv* ?- . METHODIST MEET FOR CONFERENCE SESSIONS BEING HELD IN TOWN OF LANCASTER^?WILLSON READS RESOLUTION URGING GENERAL CONFERENCE TO WORK FOR UNION. n \ Lancaster, Nov. 3.?The Upper South Carolina conference began its sessions at 9 o'clock this morning with sacrament and prayer by Bishop U. V. W. Darlington, presiding bishopL After roll call and election of the Rev. B. Turnipseed and the Rev. W. B. Garret, secretaries, the conference^ sessions began. Dr. John O. Willson read a resolu>. tion memoralizing the general conference to give diligence in and interest to the unification of the Methdist Episcopal church and the Methdist Episcopal. church, South; asking that joint spirit be cultivated between'these two bodies and _not stop until every effort for union with the Methodist Episcopal church be ex-i hausted. Under the questions of the call for the.supernumerary and superannuate preaches, M. G. Latham remained supernumerary and of the supernanuates'-two have died, the Revs. Marion Dargan and J. N. Isom. Others were the Revs. J. F. Anderson, M. M. Brabham, J. W. Bailey, J R. Copeland, L. S. Inabinet, J W. Neely and J. B. Traywick. The Reverends Anderson Tryawick and Brabham spoke feelingly of the work of the ministry. Mr. Anderson said he had rather be a well old man than a sick young man. Mr. Traywick was referred to in the confefence body as "a grandfather in Israel." He touched a life which in turn touched ot&er lives. He was active in preaching 54 years. After Mr. Traywick's remarks a stanza of a hymn was sung, "Even down to old age.? IJrivileges of the conference floor we* extended to members of the South Carolina conference of which tlje following were present, the Revs. J.. H. Noland, A. D. Betts, D. M. McLeod and T. E. Morris. Dr. E H . Raylings of the mission board was also in attendance today. UNVEIL TABLET TO CLEMSON MEN C?remonie? at College on Arnflvtice Day?Major* Tillman and Richard* on Program. \ in Clemson College, Nov. 3.?A bronze tablet wiii be unveuea nere on Armistice day, November 11, in honor of the 26 Clemson men who died during the World War. A half holiday will be declared in honor of the occasion and the exercises will be hel din Memorial grove at 3 p. m. An immense stone boulder has been pot in place and the bronze tablet prepared for setting in the stone. Alan Johnstone of Newberry, president of the board of trustees of Clemson college, will preside, and Maj. Henry C. Tillman of Greenwood, another member of the board of trustees, will deliver the address presenting the memorial in behalf of the board. The address in response to the presentation will be delivered by Maj John G. Richards of Liberty Hill, whose only son was one of the Clemson graduates who Hied in the service. A company of Clemson cadets will fire a 6alute and sound taps at the conclusion of the exercises, which will also commemorate the unveiling of a tablet to the Clemson men who were in the service. DR. ROBINSON TO PREACH The Rev. R. L. Robinson, D. D., of Due West, will preach at the Presbyterian church here Sunday morning and evening. \ * REACH AGREEMENT ON IRISH QUESTION SITUATION HAS BEEN GONE INTO AT PRIVATE MEETINGS OF BOTH PARTI! ES, UNDER WHICH NONE WAS BOUND. / , London, Nov. 3.?There was reason to believe today that a plan of settlement of the Irish question had been drafted and was being discussed in detail by the committee representincr the w/ernment and the Irish delegations which now is exercising the chief functions of the Irish conference. ~ . Aside from the recent formal meetings of the committee and of the conference as a whole, there have been , more intimate explorations of the situation at private meetings at which representatives of each side,* accompanied, by mutual friends, have talked freely in. conversation which are understood to have bound none of the participants to any definite line of action. .. 4 ~ London, Nov. 3.?Negotiations relative to peace in Ireland have progressed to a point which makes necessary the presence in London of Sir James Craig, the premier of Ulster, it was declared here this morning. Political correspondents of LoYidon newspapers today centered their attention upon the Ulster question. "It would appear that the day when Ulster must be associated with the Sinn Fein in the negotiations, is near at hand," declared the parliamentary correspondent of the London Times, "but the manner and time of - T ^ oro owAn Ct oir james o WIU1115 ?*v . the obscurities of the situation. ^ MORE MONEY AVAILABLE FOR HIGHWAYS OF STATE Columbia, Nov. 3.?The state highway department, at its office here, has just received information from Congressman Fulmer, in Washington to the effect that both branches of congress have passed the bill providing $75,000,000 additional for federal aid highways throughout the nation, and that of this amount $1,050,000 is South Carolina's share: Of the $7,050,000, this state will get immediately $350,000, the remainder to be available after January 1. The state highway commission meets in Columbia Tuesday and at that time the first projects to be covered Dy me new appropriations will be passed on. The highway authorities are delighted at the fact of the additional appropriation, for it will make possible the construction of many road projects which have heretofore been held up by the lack of sufficient funds. BANK OF ENGLAND REDUCES DISCOUNT* RATE London, Nov. 3.?The Bank of England reduced its rate of discount to five per cent from five and half percent thip morning. The last reduction in jthe discount ra\e was made on July 21 last when it was cut from six per cent to five and a one half per cent. Today's reduction was due chiefly to yesterday's reduction in the federal reserve bank rate in New York, j it was understood in financial quarters. HOME AGAIN < Mrs. W. A. Clark has returned to Abbeville after an extended visit to friends and relatives in Rock Hill, Monroe, and Hickory, N. C. Mrs. Clark has been away since August. MR. ELLIS GETTING BETTER Mr. Robert Ellis who suffered a stroke of paralysis some days ago is getting better and ip sitting up for a while each day. Everybody will be glad to see him out again. AMERICAN LEGION WANTS DEBS HEL COMMEND PUBLICATION OF TF SLACKER LIST?WOULD U5 ALIEN PROPERTY TO SETTI CLAIMS AGAINST GERMAN ASK RETURN OF BERGDOLL. Kansas City, Nov. 3.?The nation oftnvantion nf fhp American Leerii this afternoon adopted the report its resolutions committee after del* ing a secetion severely arraigning C George Harvey, American ambass dor to Great Britain, for a rece Speech on the reasons why Ameri went into the war and substituted resolution couched in less drastic la guage. Kansas City, Nov. 3.?The natio al convention of the American L gion here today rejected a report its committee on resolutions casitgi ing George Harvey, American ai bassador to, Great Britain, antf d claring him unfit to hold office in ? Ajnetican government. The vote table was 576 to 444, with fifty n voting. Opposition to the aodption of tl report on Colonel Harvey was void from the floor by Don A. Smith, a jutant of th^ London Legion Post the American Legion, who said 1 heard the address of the ambassad and-that officers of the London po |1ieard it. None of them, he said, n ticed anything improper in the stat ments. "I heard him make that speech said Mr. Smith. "We took Mr. Ha vey's sense to be that had not Ame ica come into the war when she di she would have had to fight Germai alone." Mr. Smith declared Colonel Harv< had been inaccurately quoted press accounts of the address pu lished in this country and that tl resolution of censure was not foun ed on fact and therefore should 1 tabled. Chairman Miller then announc< that the handling of the resojuti< would be placed in the hands of Pa Grabiel of Little Rock, Ark., spol in favor of adopting the resolution M. C. Lumpkin, state command from South Carolina, spoke in fav of the resolution. MISS NICKLES COMES ? . Will Talk to Women at Pre?byterij Church Monday. At home on furlough from h work in China as a teacher, Mi Florence Nickles, daughter of Ca] G. N. Nickles of Due West, will 1 the speaker Monday afternoon at t! Presbyterian church at a genet meeting of the Women's Auxiliar At this meeting it is hoped that < the women of the city will be tl guests of the auxiliary. Miss Nickles has been located Nanking, China, for the last sev< I years, teaching in a girls' scho maintained and founded by the Pre byterian and Methodist church* During this time, in her daily co tact with the natives, she has massed a fund of useful and inte esting knowledge of that ancie country. She will, therefore, ha' something worth while to say. The business meeting of the bo< will be held at 3:45 and Miss Nickl will speak at 4:15 o'clock. HOSPITAL NEWS. Miss Willie Harrison and Ma< Cochran are the latest ones to suff the loss of their tonsils. The oper I tion was performed yesterday aft noon. Mrs. James Ferguson, who h been very ill, is much better today The physicians last week found necessary to amputate the arm Henry Devere, who was serious burned some weeks ago when he ro ed into his camp fire. H? is able be about the hospital now. MINERS WALKOUT " D . HALT OPERATIONS IE TIE-UP IS COMPLETE?PREDICT>E ED THAT WALKOUT WILL .E SPREAD UNLESS TEMPORARY Y. ORDER OF COURT IS CHANGED?ACUTE INTEREST. al Indianapolis, Nov. 3.?Work in the on Indiana coal field was practically at of a standstill today as a result of walkit outs of twenty thousand men employed ed at approximately 300 mines in the a- state, according to early reports rent ceived at union headquarters at Terre ca Haute. a Widespread walkouts in the soft n- coal fields of the country were expected at international headquarters n- of the United Mine Workers of Amer ,e- ica. No reports, however, were avail0f able there as to conditions in the sixit teen states into which messages were xi. sent last night by the union chiefs, le- advising that discontinuance by he operators of the "check-off" as pre?o scribed by Federal Judge A. B. ot Anderson's injunction,, was to be treated as breaking the existing wage agreement. e(j At the Terre Haute headquarters j of the Indiana miners, it was said that the only mines working today werfe a few of the smaller plants. No or formal order for a strike had been st issued at the headquarters, but offi0_ cials said such was under considera-J e- tion* Protest against the temporary in? junction issued by Judge Anderson ' was voiced at numerous meetings held last night throughout the Indi, ana fields and officers of the union d, said there was little prospect of a ^ resumption of work until the writ was set aside or modified. Operators of the Indiana field will meet Thursin day night at Terre Haute to discuss k" the situation. 16 ^ x P. H. Penna, secretary of the In, v diana Bituminous Coal Operators' association, in a statement today took issue with President John L. a J Lewis and other union officials wheth>n er obedience of the injunction would result in violation of a contract beIce tween miners and operators assert?nor fhnf flip rnntract Drovided that er both parties were bound by and deor cis'on of a federal court. AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT Two Men and Two Women in Car lB ' That Turnt Orer. There were two men and two woer men in a car that turned over Wed88 nesday night on the Anderson road not far from Abbeville. One of the be women suffered a cut on the face, the other members of the party being uninjured. The party registered at "y- the Eureka for supper, signing their names as Miss Mary Clinkscales, lie CnortnnVmro? Miss Row Harvev. An-1 derson, W. J. Jackson and Jack Rogat ers of Anderson. The car in which ?n they were riding was damaged so >ol badly that they had to get another :s- machine to take them to Anderson. ?s. n- PICKENS MAN RETURNS a- TO HISTORIC DWELLING X- ? nt Pickens, Nov. 3.?Rev. C. L. Craig ve a well known minister and teacher who for a long period of time has iy lived near Pickens, has decided to rees turn to the home of his foreparents on the Keowee river, near the Oco-j nee line. Mr. Craig has purchased the farm which was owned and occupied by his great-great-grandfather ck after his return from the Revolutioner ary war. a r- AT HOME. I as Mrs. George White and Mrs. Frank . Evans are expected to arrive this it evening from Spartanburg where of Mrs. White has been making an exly tended visit. Miss Trout, of*Virginia 11- will come to Abbeville with Mrs. to White and will make her home here . in the future. PARTY CHAIRMAN ANNOUNCES PLANS CHAIRMAN HULL PROMISES A MOST MILITANT AND EFFICIENT ORGANIZATION WITH ITS FIGHTING CLOTHES ON. St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 3.?Development of the democratic national committee into the "most militant and efficient organization" within hie capacity and ^dissemination of facts con cerning the "short-comings" of the present national administration among the "average citizens" is in brief to be the policy of Cordell kull the new democratic chairman, as outlined today to The Associated Press. Mr. Hull expects to leave late today for Washington, arriving there tomorrow morning. The new chairman's policies are briefly outlined in the following statement: "The first step in administering tfye affairs of the committee will be to pay off the present indebtedness and create a good atmosphere in which to work. We shall try to pay all debts at an early date. "We shall also, proceed at onec with establishment of a thorough organization in the various states and counties. In this same connection we shall strive to maintain an efficient [publicity bureau to get unbiased and (accurate facts relating to the short comings of tnefrepuDiican convention i before the average citizens. "People have been fed upon a vast j amount of misrepresentation, misinformation and falsehoods concerning the tru^ record of the democratic administration, covering the period s;nce 1918. Subsequent events and daily happenings have exploded a vast number of these falsehoods, which at times were very dangerous. "We shall make every possible effort to develop the democratic national committee into the most militant and efficient organization within our power to do so." t DAVIS FOUND GUILTY Convicted in Richmond of Murdering Wife. Richmond, Va., Nov. 3.?Elijah Davis, on trial in hustings court for the murder of his wife, Eleanora Davis, on December 29, 1916, was tohight found guilty in the first degree, a sentence that carries with it the electric chair penalty. The case went to the jury shortly before 7 o'clock and the verdict was brought in about 9:40. Harry M. Smith, Jr., of counsel for the defense, at once' made a motion for a new trial, alleging that the verdict was contrary to the law and the e^dence, and Judge E. H. Wells, presiding, set next Monday as the ~ f nvwimAnf Tnn+iflTV L1 111 C 1V1 AigUUIVUb VII iraiv M.?<r.v... WOUNDS PROVE FATAL . I Manning, Nov. 3.?"Jim" Frierson shot and instantly killed Tom Cooper yesterday morning. Frierson and his wife are alleged to have had an altercation and Mrs. Frierson was ejected from, the house. She engaged Cooper to take her in his automobile to the home of her father, P. T. White, and on his return he was shot by Frierson. The coroner held an inquest yesterday afternoon and found that Cooper had been killed by gunshot wounds at the hands of Frierson. Frierson is about 50 years old an^ r OK Pnnnor WflQ 11T1 1115 WliC auuuc *-> W. wvj[/v? .? married. Frierson was immediately arrested and lodged in jail. Cooper lives near Gourdin's and was in Bloomville a few miles from Manning on a visit. COTTON MARKET Spot: 18.50 to 19 cents. Futures steady. The close was at approximately the same level as yesterday. December cotton closed at 18.40, three points off. I TWO MEN KILLED > AT CALHOUN FALLSJAMES "BO" MASSEY SHOOTS STRAIGHT FOLLOWING ROW OVER CRAP GAME WINNINGS IN ROAD NEAR LATIMER. NOW IN JAIL. j Following a "skin" game near Calhoun I^alls, in the vicinity of Latimer, Wednesday night, "Bo" Massey, a negro, shot and killed Reuben Hunter and Ike Hunter. Massey, according to his story, had won all. the money in the game and started home. On his way, he claims, he met the Hunter brothers in the road and Ruben Hunter demanded that Massey - -"V return the money he had lost in the game, at the same time drawing a pistol. Massey shot Ike Hunter through ' the right temple and Reuben Hunter through the center of the forehead. , Only three shots were fired. Testimony taken by Magistrate Joseph Hicks, acting as coroner, was to the effect that the two Hunters were driving in a buggy towards Cal- < houn Falls and that Massey met therir in the road. Reuben Hunter demanded the money he had lost in a "crap" game. A cocked pistol was found under Reuben Hunter's body. . ( The shooting took place in front of the home of R. 0. Bell hear Latimer. Mr. Bell testified that he heard three shots. The two negroes were dead when their bodies were discoved. The coroner's jury was composed of W. S. Buford, ^ C. Wilson, T. V. Farrow, J. L. Guinn and Tom Allen. Massey is in jail. MORE AUTOMOBILES IN OTHER STATES South Carolina Thirty-fist In Number. Motor vehicle registration figures for the United States received by the state highway department from the bureau of public roads show that South Carolina is 31st in the number of passenger cars licensed for the first half of 192.1 and also holds this same place in the total number of automobiles and trucks. This is a good record if figured according to population. Thirty states have more atuomobiles and more automobiles and trucks combined than South Carolina, according to the'figures from the bureau of public roads. Pennsylvania leads the entire country with 557<7U5 passenger cars and California is second with 557,231 while South Carolina has 77,323 for the first six months. In the number of passenger cars and trucks New York leads with 673,530 and Ohio is second with 628,283 while South Carolina has 83,895. Nevada has the smallest registration with 8,688* trucks and cars. FALL CEREMONIAL OMAR TEMPLE IS CALLED OFF Columbia, Nov. 3.?Announcement is made here today that because of the recent death of Delane G. McAlister, potentate of Omar Temple, Mystic Shrine, the Fall ceremonial and entertainment of th? Temple, which was to have been held in Columbia on November lfth, has been called off, out of respect to the mem ory of the late potentate. A1 Araf Shrine Club, of Columbia, had planned to.give a big entertainment to the Visiting Nobles, but instead the ceremonial and initiation of candidates will be held in Charleston on December 8th. , OBSERVE WEEK OF PRAYER Beginning Tuesday, the Missionary Society of the Methodist church will observe next week as a week of pray or. Services will begin each aiterno?n at 4 o'clock and continue through Friday afternoon. The publ:c is cordially invited to attend the services each day.