J ' '' ti ? % V r~ # 9 - . *4 Abbeville Press and Banner / . Established 1844. $2.00 Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C? Friday, November 11, 1921 Single Copies, Five Cents; 78th Yean ' SAYS AUTOPSY SHOWS NO POISON OFFICIAL INVESTIGATES ALLENDALE COUNTY DEATHS. AKIN TELLS OF VISIT TO THE HOME OF LEES?WELL LOCAT ED NEAR STOCK YARD. Columbia, Nov. 10.?Arsenical poisoning did not bring about the deaths of four members of the family of Joe Lee of Baldoc, Allendale county, judging from the condition of the stomach and intestines of the mother of the family, according to . the report submitted yesterday to Governor Cooper by Dr. C. V. Akin, representative of the state board of health, who, in company with Dr. A. H. Hayden, epidemiologist of the state health body, went to Baldoc Tuesday to investigate the deaths from a health standpoint. Four members of this family have dipd and the father is now very ill Jv. a Vir>c-r\ifol in Aiiam&tfl Three chil Ill C4 mi <11 ? dren of the family died last week - and the mother passed away last Monday. Tile state health department was requested by physicians and citizens of the community to send representatives to make an investigation, and Tuesday Dr. Hayden and Dr. Akin made a report on the case to the govembr. Dr. Akin said yesterday that the internal organs of on$ of the children had been sent to Clemson college for examination, and that the internal organs of the mother had been sent to Charleston. If arsenic in sufficient quantities to cause death was ingested with fopd or water, the examinat'ons now being made should readily detect the presence of the poison, Dr. Akin said. A well, located near a stable lot furnished the water for the family! nUveinaore rvf tVlO Or\YYl- I v..~ , munity said they had examined the water and found present in it "wiggle tails" in large numbers and.very much alive. The presence of these animals in a living state was opposed to the theory of the well being poisoned, Dr. Akin says. Symptoms described by attending physicians also tend to rule out the poison theory. MT. CARMEL MAN ACQUITTED. # ' Greenwood, Nov. 10.?A verdict of not guilty was returned late yesterday afternoon in federal court in the i case of David L. Bryson of Mt. Carmel, charged with violation of the Harrison anti-narcotic law. Federal court adjourned today at noon. Dr. Bryson was indicted on three counts with selling narcotic, failure to keep records required under the Harrson law, and purchase of narcotics for use other than in his practice. Trial of the case began Mon day afternoon and lasted through yesterday afternoon. The jury was not charged until court reconvened after the lunch hour. Dr. Bryson was represented by General M. L. Bonham of Anderson. i * SPECIAL MEETING SATURDAY Parent-Teacher Association Meets Saturday at 4 O'clock. A called meeting of the Parent-1 Teacher association will be held in the . graded school Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock to consider the question of whether non-members shall have a right to vote in the contests to determine which grade is entitled to the cash prizes offered by the association for the largest attendance. It is important that each member interested in this question attend this special meeting and speak out her opinion. The officers of the asso ciation feel that it is right that these awards be made as the majority of the members feel they should be made. A vote will be taken at the meeting Saturday to determine what is the will of the majority present. No other business w;ll be taken i up, so the meeting will ">e short. k IBM SPEAKS OF CONFERENCE EXPECTS PRINCIPLES TO BE FIXED?PREMIER OF FRANCE I GIVES HIS VIEWS AS TO PRO [ GRAM TO BE FOLLOWED ANE WORK TO BE DONE Washington, Nov. It)'.?Genera principles upon which questions a issue are to be settled will be lait down in the first days of the confer ence on limitation of armament am Pacific and Far Eastern* questions according to the opinion expressec today by- Premie^ Briand of Franc* at a conference with American news paper correspondents. He discussec freely the work of the conferenc* and the spirit in which he and hii .associates in the French delegatior will approach it. "My conception of the first days o: the conference," the premier said "is that it will lay down the princi pies upon which naval armaments land armaments, and Pacific ques tions are to be settled. It will be foi the conference itself to decide th< range of discussions but my feeling i: that it will not go beyond the lines ] have indicated and as stipulated ir the agenda, already approved by th< participating governments." "Will the question of Europear debts to the urnteu states come up; he was asked. "I do not think so," he replied ''France has no disposition to bring forward the question and I do not set that any subject not upon the program could be considered without the consent of all the governments represented." CLEMSON COLLEGE GETS LARGE SUM OF MONEY Columbia, Nov. 10?Clemson college authorities yesterday borrowed $92,842.11 from the state government, the checks for this amount being made out to the college at the comptroller general's office. The loan was made under the terms of a joint resolution passed by the legislature last year authorizing the state tc advance up to $150,000 if necessarj />a11oopo tu 1 Ult bliw Wiivgv* The resolution provided that thf loan should be made by the sinking fund commission if possible, but thf commission could not meet the a mount, it was said yesterday. On No vember 4 the college borrowed $20, 000 and yesterday's amount bring! the total to $112,842.11. TEACHERS MEETING D. L. Lewis To Be Speaker Nov ember 19 th. , The first meeting of teachers o: the county' will be held in the cour [house next Saturday, November 19 ^ T T fimnvHicAr nf ni U. Xj. Lewis, suite oupi.1 T IOU1 ? v. ral schools will be the speaker. There is always much profit am pleasure in the teachers' meeting: and Superintendent of Educatioi Mann hopes that a large attendant will mark the first meeting of th( year. OFF TO DUE WEST Many Local Fans Witness Erskine Newberry Game. Several automobile parties wen up to Due West today to witness the Erskine-Newberry fame., This i Phillips' last game as an undergrad uate and hundreds of his admirer will see him play today. Erskine ha called the old grads from everv sec k lion, making this a kind of home coming day. AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH The Rev. R. C. Grier, D. D., presi dent of Erskine College, will preacl at the Presbyterian church Sunday morning and evening. POLICEMAN ( KILLED I Three Men Engage in Pi Building.?Policem; Deputy Sheri * Receive As the result of a pistol duel last ^ night in the city hall, Policeman H. ^ B. Gannort is dead, shot through his * body, Policeman C. W. Crawford is wounded through the neck and Dep* uty Sheriff T. L. Cann is seriously in' jured, there being four woynds in ^ J his body, one of them piercing the 1 lung cavity. His condition is serious this morning, though physicians ex* pect that he will'live. & [ An inquest has not yet been held, but from information current on the street it is said that Mr. Cann had I been drinkipg heavily. He was in the |P | hall of the second floor of the city ' ball. Policemen Crawford, Cannon and Stevenson went upstairs to in' duce the deputy sheriff to go home. Mr. Stevenson said he heard Cann r say, "Crawford, keep away from me," 1 and almost immediately the shooting 5 began. Mr. Crawford stumbled or ^ fell back into Mr. Stevenson's arms, 1 a bullet having entered the right side ' of his mouth and coming out at the back of his neck, slightly to the right 1 side. As Mr. Cannon came to the top of the stairs several other shots were I fired, Mr. Cannon being shot in the . j right arm and right hand. ' j' Mr. Stevenson says he assisted Mr : j Crawford out of the building, the i [shooting for the time .having stop!|ped. As he backed his car from the 'jcurb to take Mr. Crawford to the i hospital, Mr. Stevenson says he heard j several more shots in the hall downi cfm'rc nnH saw Mr. Cannon on the . I floor. He also said he saw Cann walk , from the building, with his pistol in his hand, and turn down the walk ' I towards the Eureka hotel. 1 '* I Following the shooting Cann i walked to his home on Magazine , Street. Dr. C. C. Gambrell made an i i examination fend dressed the wounds. ; According to him there are four ex- , , ternal wounds on Mr. Cann's body, ( two in the right side and two in the r right arm. He was not able to say wow in sr : at washington 5 LLOYD GEORGE SPEAKS OF CON y FERENCE?PREMIER ALSO REFERS TO IRISH SITUATION WITH SOME DEGREE OF HOPE IN OUTCOME. f London, Nov. 10.?The lord mayt or's banquet this evening assumed more than national importance when -,the prime minister, replying to the mayor's toast to the cabinet minis1 ters, followed the custom of such s gatherings at the historic Guild hall 1 of speaking his mind regarding for; eign affairs. 2 The custom has been that the prime minister must touch only fore'gn policies in his annual Guild hall speech, but in response to the lord mayor's suggestion that the guests anxiously awaited news of the Irish * conference, Mr. Lloyd George quickly expanded the statement made early t in this speech that "the Washington 2 conference is like a rainbow in the s sky,'-' and then passed to the ques tion of Ireland. s He declared that there was a betC fov nenonoct nf CJvpjlt Britain's 01*0 - josals to Ireland being heeded today - ir.d of Ireland accepting the invita;ion to enter the British common.vealth as an equal than for years, jut that the conference still was in 1 critical stage. Beyond this he care 'ully refrained from divulging the i -esults or the possibilities of the ; .-onference which are now being held .vith the Irish representatives. :annon . last night stol Duel'in City. Hall an Crawford and iff Cann Also Wounds. # this morning how many bullets had entered his body. One bullet pene- . trated the right lung cavity and the ^ other is slightly higher on the same side, penetrating the region of the lower ribs. The wounds in the right arm, from their position, might have been made by the same bullets that entered the side. Physicians would not allow Mr. Cann to make a statement this morne ing. He is under guard at his home for the present. The bullet that evidently killed Mr. r Cannon entered from the left side, . slightly in front of the arm pit, and ^ penetrated the body, coming outon 1 the opposite side. There was also one ' wound in Mr. Cannon's right arm. an done in his right hand, according to Dr. Neuffer who made an examination. All the chambers of Mr. Cannon's pistol were empty, but it is not known whether he fired that many shots last ' night. Policeman Crawfqrd is said not to have fired a single shot. His wound, while not considered of a se- t rious nature, is very painful. He is v vyrwzr in fVio Vir\cr\ifo1 urVlorP llP WAS ^ 1,V" 144 V44W ?VU|/.VU1 taken by 'Policeman Stevenson imme- fc diately after the shooting last night. The shooting took place about * 11:20 o'clock, immediately after the 1 audience which witnessed the show- e ing of the Lasses White minstrel had 1 left the theatre. xMany members of t the caste of the show were back * stage and heard the shooting, but none of them, so far as could be 6 learned, actually witnessed it. P Mr. Gannon, the dead policeman, a is about 50 years old. His wife sur- y vives him. He will be buried at Long Sl Cane tomorrow. He was a mild-mannered man, and was well liked by ^ everybody. Coroner J. C. Cox empaneled a jury this morning, but after viewing ^ the dead policeman's body, the inquiry was adjourned to 7 o'clock tonight. ? o SHERIFF OF UNION ; DANGEROUSLY HURT! I WOUND INFLICTED BY OFFIC- J ER'S WEAPON?PISTOL DIS- f CHARGES WHEN SHERIFF STRIKES NEGRO'S HAND WITH h GUN c a T T? XT -I A Ol T TJ?,, - union, i\ov. ?oncuu o. i?ay | v Fant was accidentally shot and seriously wounded at Minter's store to- 1 dav about 1 o"clock. The shot was . 1 from the sheriff's own pistol. He had n gone to Sedalia to arrest a negro, e Tom Browning, accompanied by Ru- v ral Policeman McDaniel. The negro e showed a disposition to resist. Sher- ^ I ff Fant struck him over the head ^ with his gun and the negro was then c forced into the car by McDaniel who s had already gotten in and by Sheriff i Fant who was still on the ground, t they had him in the car the negro fc still held with one hand upon the li door and the sheriff, holding his pis-jl tol by the barrel, struck the negro's 1; hand. The pistol was thus accidentally discharged and the ball entered \Ti- TToiife nViflnmnn TTa \vn<5 Vimhpd to Wallace Thomson hospital for surgical aid. The pistol carried a .41 cal- t iber cartridge. An operation was ii performed and the ball found lodged T against the vertebrae of the back- i bone. The bullet penetrated the ab- " domen, perforated the intestines and 'i ranged downward. The wound is most \ serious, but physicians say Mr. Fant ? has a fighting chance. j MRS 10 MEET EARLY NEXT WEEK VILLIAMSTON MAN, PRESIDENT OF STATEWIDE CONVENTION, COMPLETES ARRANGEMENTS. TO LAST FOUR DAYS, BEGINNING TUESDAY. James Wilson of Williamston, presdent of the South Carolina Traders Convention, was in Abbeville this veek completing arrangements for he annual convention which will be ield' in Abbeville next week, beginling Tuesday and lasting through Saturday. Mr. Wilsori has attended hese trade weeks in other towns and ays they are growing more popular very year. "In every household," the anlouncement reads, "are found numrous article^ of furnishings or farm quipment which ^re .no longer, used, .lthcugh they may not have competed their period of possible useulness they are no longer needed ind .are cast aside. In other homes ire other articles of similar chara^ er and different usage. The plan isj o collect these articles at some cenral point and by trading or otherwise ?t the things fall into hands that ave need for them. "In other words, this is an effort 1 o do by word of mouth what the rant ads in the daily paper do?re- i ew the evele of usefulness of'; i hings. If a thing-is laid aside before i t is worn out, there is a wastage < hat it is possible to avoid. At this I 'me it is especially desirable that 1 conomy should be practiced. Hence he traders convention?which in 1 ime will become a popular and use- . ul institution. . < "Bring your horses, mules, cows, j I oats, chickens, hogS) farming im- < lements, household .furnishings? 1 nything. There will be something i ou can trade it for and better your- 1 elf." VINS VERDICT OF $2,000 IN LYI...HING CASE] Vidow of Joe Stewart Who Was| Lynched in Laurens Given Damage Against County. Laurens, Nov. 10.?The widow f Joe Stewart, negro who was lynch- ; d here in April 1920, has just won . verdict of $2,000 damages as a reu!t from the county of Laurens. Suit or the amount under the constituional requirements was brought by he widow, Henrietta Stewart, in the ommon pleas court and Judpe Mover, who was presiding, directed the ry to bring in a verdict for the ull sum. The negro Stewart was taken from he city jail in April, 1920, and langed from a river bridge. He had lifficulty earlier in the night with; i party of young white men, two of | vhom received knife wounds. No appeal has yet , been taken by Vio T.aiirone cnnntv attnrnevs from! IV ~ , he verdict of $2,000 given by , OF PURPOSES FROM ROME Washington, Nov. 10?While the ' } delegates of the powers were quietly at work today perfecting their plans ' for the armament conference, cheer:ng assurances of support for the purposes of the negotiations reached Washington from two important quarters of the old world. David Lloyd George, the British premier, in a message expressing regret that he could not attend the opening session on Saturday, declared the heart of Great Britain was "deeply set upon the success of the conference," and promised the diligent efforts of the United Kingdom toward a solution of the problem of armaments. At the same 'time it became known through unofficial channels that Pope Benedict had given his approval and might pronounce the . ; official sanction of. the holy see at ? the consistory of November 21. He has prepared to maiintain close contact with the negotiations as they develop. ' . '% The certainty of support by two ' such powerful forces struck a note of encouragement in all the delegations as they" conferred among themselves an the work ahead. For the most part these conferences produced no surface developments of importance, al- ( though they brought together for the first time the full membership of the American delegation and its advisory :ommittee and gave the representatives of other powers, occupied hitherto with a succession of ceremonial visits, a breathing space in which to review their plans in the light of the(r experience on American soil. The meeting of the American big ? J it-- - LOUT ana me auvibyry uuixuiu i/icc v/j. 21 was little more than a preliminary get-together. The policies to be fostered by this government in the conference were laid before tlie committee members only in the most general way, details of the naval redaction program worked out by the delegates being withheld until a permanent committee organization is effected. ;. Former Senator George Sutherland of Utah was formally chosen chairman of the advisory body but further organization details were left in the hands of a special committee of six which will report at another meeting tomorrow. Mr. Sutherland was placed at the head of the special committee whose other members are Samuel Gompers, Rear Admiral William L. Rodgers, Willard Saulsbury, Henry P. Fletcher and Mrs. Eleanor Franklin Egan. Organization oft a number of subcommittees to deal with particular problems is expected to ?e included in the recommendations subm'tted at tomorrow's meeting. RAILROAD TO SPEND 15 MILLION FOR EQUIPMENT Chicago, Nov. 10?Believing there is a decided improvement in general business conditions, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, and its subbsidiary, the Cdlorado and Southern lines, authorized Monday the im- / mediate expenditure of $1,000,000 for new equipment. I)ii|.>ctors of two lines met here this afternoon. The action was taken from consideration of business surrey made by the roads. GREENVILLE WINS Abbeville Loses Second of Seasom, 21 to 0. A good sized crowd saw the Green%'ille High team beat Abbeville this norning, by the onesided score of !l to 0. The Abbeville lads fought lard but they could not quite get the all over, while the Greenville backs rained easily through the locals' line. ;