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Abbeville Press Fcf^hli^hpd 1844 $2.00 Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Wednesday, December 7, 1921 Single Copies, Five Cents. 78th Year. ":1 I m MARSHA LEGION COM A RR AN Gil TELEGRAM FROM D'OLIER, IN -v CHARGE OF FOCH'S TRAIN, GIVES ASSURANCE THAT MAR SHAL WILL GREET ABBE VILLIANS. A i.l ?? liA?n received rt ICIC5I ?U* UV>? from Morris Lumpkin of Col umbia, state commander of the American Legion, in which he informs J. D. Fulp, chairman of the local arrangement commit tee, that Marshal Ferdinand Foch, generalissimo of the French armies, now on tour of the United States as a guest of the American Legion, will ap pear on the observation plat form of his special train which passes through Abbeville Friday afternoon, for five minutes, which add?d to the time requir ed , to* change engines, will caus?f the marshal and his party to spend about ten minutes in Abbeville. Mr. Lumpkin has re ceived that assurance from Pact Commander D'Olier of the Am ericas Legion, who is in charge of the train. 4 At a meeting yesterday afternoon the committee, composed of repre sentatives of the Chamber of Com merce and the American Legion, made a tentative plan to welcome the marshal to the city. In the Green wood Index of Tuesday it is said that a reception committee composed of Moms Lumpkin, Governor Cooper, Col. J. Monroe Johnson, Ernest Ros enberg of the Greenwood Legion post' and others will meet the special train bearing the Marshal at Abbeville, where introductions an dother for malities will be gone through with so 4-Uq vopontirm wViif?h has heen lllCiO blic I VVC^/Wivn ft ...... arranged may get under way without the loss of valuable time after the arrival of the train. Due to the short time which the , Abbeville reception committee has been granted, no pretentious pro gram will be attempted here. Only a few simple courtes:es will be ex tended. The mayor, J. Moore Mars, will welcome the marshal in a short speech, which will be addressed more to the Foch party than to the citi zens which it is expected will be as sembled. J. D. Fulp, formerly cap tain in the World War, will welcomc the generalissimo in behalf of the American Leg on and Mrs. Fanny J Marshall will pi'esent the greal Frenchman with a bouquet 6f lovelj Abbeville flowers. Marsha! Foch will be presented with a histori cal sketch of Abbeville, written ir French, prepared by the Rev. A. J Derbyshire. The Foch special will arrive ir Abbeville at 3:25, approximately anti the train will leave for Greenwood at 3:35, -arriving at the latter place al 4:1/0 o'clock. The streets about the Seaboard station will be roped off, no automobiles being allowed withir the vicinity. The train will draw uf at the station, remaining there all the time allotted, not stopping at the shops. Every precaution will be tak en by the police to pi-event conges tion about the station that will ob struct the view of the party. A meeting of all ex-service men has been called for tomorrow after noon at 6 o'clock in the court house to arrange the part they will take in the program. It is planned to have all who have uniforms form in a body and march to the station, acting as guard of honor during the cere monies. The arrangement committee discussed the advisability of asking stores to close so that everybody could turn out at the station, but it was de cided that this*step would not be nec essary, since the Marshal is a suf ficiently strong drawing card to cause this anyway. Only once in a lifetime does such an opportunity opme to see and welcome possibly the L FOGH 1 MITTEE YG PROGRAM 0 ~ 1 EX-SERVICE MEN MEET Meeting Called For Tomorrow Af temoon in Court Houae. To work out a plan, for participa tion in the welcome to be extende< to Marsal Foch. Friday afternoon, < J meeting has been called for all ex service men in Abbeville county t< be held in the court room tomorrow Thursday, afternoon at 6 o'clock Tentative plans already arranged ^ar< that the ex-soldiers shall march t< | the station in a body, wearing uni forms. W. D. Wilkinson, commander o: .the American Legion in issuing th< call for the meeting requests that al service men in the county make ai effort to attend the meeting and. t< inform any other who may not hea: of the proposed plans. "This is i chance of a life time to see one o: the greatest men in the world to day," said Mr. Wilkinson. "The visi of Marshal Foch will be rememberec for years as the visit of Lafayett< was the greatest event the Soutl witnessed, immediately after th< close of Revolutionary war. Abbe ville County must do something t< make the marshal remember Abbe ville. This is the Frenchman's firs cnViorlnlnH cr+nrk in lQaii+1* f!avnlinji I and his first impression of this stat< | will be gained' here." ; RIDGEVILLE FIRE LOSS IS LARGE J Ridgeville Dec. 6.?The bricl I buiding owned by J. E. Thrower anc ! W. J. Dukes consisting of four stores | on North Main street valued at $16, | 000 insurance $8,000 and a larg( ' two-stor^ "frame structure owned b] ! Knight Bros, with small insurant was burned last night about 12 o' j clock. * The brick building was occupie( iby the People's Store Corporatioi j with a $10,000 stock and $5,000 in surance; St. George Grocery Com | pany, no insurance and W. M | Vaughan no insurance. Cause of th( | fire is unkonwn. greatest soldier of the late war? 'at least he was the most talked o: 'soldier in the war, ranking wit! : Pershing in general admiration. r.Vll'.ttfinff tVvci clinrf wr?l r?nm iru .'exercises of Abbeville, the Green i.wood advance committee will boav< rtthe train, and shortly afterward th< 1 train will leave for Greenwood. Th< | Greenwood Index's last issue car 1! ried the following opening paragrapl .las a lead to its Foch story: i Marshal Foch will be met in Abbe 1 jville by a i-eception committee fron ^ Greenwood who will board his trail ' j and accompany him to Greenwood ! | The reception committee will b< i| composed of Governor Cooper, Stati >jAmerican Legion Commander Morrii 1 j C. Lumpkin, Greenwood Post Com I jmander Ernest Rosenberg, Col. J Monroe Johnson, American Legioi II national executive committeemer "jfrom this state and Mayor A. S " jHartzog. J ' j A meeting of the program com imittee was held yesterday afternoor iand a tentative program was agreec '; upon. ' i As Marshal Foch's train near; , Greenwood, it will begin blowing it! i tjwhistle, which will be the signal foi ; all mill whistles of the city to blov ' until the train stops. Bands will plaj ' j as the Marshal detrains. As Marsha |(Foch steps from his train, and anc I I . j his party will be escorted to waiting jautomobbiles by Major W. M. Welch ?> /J MAntmUnl ^ AW 4-Vl A /I n IT , L liU^UIl ^lUlIU IliaiOJiai XVI nic uajr ,'The party will pass through a pla toon of Bailey Military Institute ca iaets, drawn up at attention, on the 'way to their automobiles. ro stop i in INDEPENDENCE; AGREEMENT REACHED AFTER ( NEGOTIATIONS ARE THOUGHT "HOPELESS?BOTH SIDES ARE i BOUND?CONSENT OF ULSTER i NOT REQUIRED. j * Iriah Free State. , i Ireland hereafter will be L known officially as "The Irish * 8 Free State" under the agreement , > 1 _i reached at last night's London f conference it was announced by c P Lord Chancellor Birkenhead in c a an address here today. e 1 ? London, Dec. 6.?England and Ire- v j land awoke today from a troubled v i sleep of despondency over the Irish 1 ^ j situation to learn the joyous-news s PI of a sensational and wholly unexpect _ j ed agreement reached between the f j. | English and Irish conferees in today's ] j Ismail hours. t j The negotiations for a settlement s j were considered yesterday to have c 3i definitely collapsed, and the compro- i mise achieved in Premier Lloyd t j George's sombre little home in Down- t ing Street after a night-long strug- ? (.'gle, seems likely to be chronicled as v J the most momentous event in the his- t Jtoryof Anglo-Irish'relations. c While the agreement must still be ! submitted to the Dail Eireann and r i f ItVio Rritich narliament for ratification d . j there was a disposition in all quarters r *jin London today to regard the out- l look as of the brightest. . a j The agreement reached by the Brit- I ish and Sinn Fein delegates today a I binds both sides to-recommend it to 1 J their parliaments. It is a formal de- c 'jtailed and conclusive document and t Jits terms prevent the necessity for 'jfurther negotiations. c Should the Dail Eireann agree to t the document?and a disagreement t * i is not looked for'as it meets satisfac 1 j tor ly the points raised by the Sinn c "iFein?it will be embodied in a hill \ ' j and submitted to the British parlia- \ * ment which is expected to be called in * special session to consider it? 1 | The consent of Ulster is not re- t " j quired to make the new Irish agree- r "jment effective. She is given the op- 1 jtion of withdrawal in a month re- i ' j verting then to her present status c within fprritnw to hp decided bv a r r boundary commission. I -J i, TEACHERS ASSOCIATION B i B, Meets March 16, 17 and 18 In Co- i lumbia With Plans Making. 1J Rock Hill Dec. 6.?Preparations I are going forward for the annual .. - meeting of the State Teachers' As- j i sociation of South Carolina to be < t hold in Columbia March 16, 17 and a .; 18. Each department president is 1 i j working on his or her program and < ?J expects to have a tentative program ( s arranged by December 17th at which c -[time all the department presidents . i are asked to be present at a meeting < i ! to be held at Flinn Hall at 9:30 a. ^ i j m. The department programs have ' . i come to be one of the most helpful t | and inspiring parts of the meeting of j .' the Association. J It will be of interest to know that t j! a new department to be known as the I | Department of Teachers of Music t ? | will hold a meeting this year and will ( i apply for admission. Dr. H. D. Gue- t 3 lich of Wintrop college is arranging ] r: the program for this meeting, n Already the Association has the rj promise of United States Commis j J sioner of Education John J. Tigert to ! be present at the meeting. Educators I in South Carolina will give him a \ > royal welcome to South Carolina up- 1 ; r\v. Viia fircf vioif Vioro 11 Dr. Thomas Alexander head of the jfi department of Elementary Education t of Peabody College has accepted an h invitation to be on the program of a several of the department meetings.' r EN MINU ?3 LIVES LOST IN HEAD-ON COLLISION CONDUCTOR OF NORTHBOUND TRAIN MISREAD HIS ORDERS. STATION AGENT TRIED IN VAIN TO STOP TRAIN. WRECK CATCHES FIRE. Philadelphia, Dec. 6.?Twenty hree victims of the head-on collision resterday between Philadelphia and leading passenger trains near Bryn Uhyn, Penn., had been accounted or early today. With one or two ex eptions, however, definite identifi ation was impossible because of the harrcd condition of the bodies. Nearly all were taken from the wreckage of the two wooden coaches yhich caught fire almost immediate y after the accident and were de troyed. A canvass of the residents of tfewton and Southhampton, the two ittle towns where most of the vic ims lived, shovfe(f that several per ons known to have been passenger m the ill-fated trains were still miss ng early today and it was feared hat other bodies were buried under he mass of debris or were burned to ishes. Wrecking crews and rescue workers continued their search hroughout the night but found only >ne additional body. Three investigations to determine esponsibility for the wreck were un ler way today. Officials of the rail oad held a hearing to question mem lers of the train crews and station igents at the points near the wreck. it the same time John P. Dohoney :nd H. J. Rose, members of the pub ic service commission, met to dis uss the results of their investiga ions at the scene of the wreck. Coroner Nevills^ of Montgomery ounty, was also at the scene yes crday and continued his investiga ions today. William Evans of Norristown, Penn. conductor of ?he noi'thbound train, vas summoned by officials of the rail vay to appear at today's hearing. Russell Clayton, station agent at 3iyn Athyn, told railroad officials hat Evans either "misunderstood or nisread" orders given to him at 3ryn Athyn direct'ng him to hold his rain there until the southbound lo. al had passed. Clayton said ho gave he orders to Evans and he holds Evans' receipt for them. HURT IN WRECK Walter Clamp Injured When Ford Turns Over. Walter Clamp who is moving to \bbeville County from Georgia suf fered a concussion of the brain last jvening when a Ford in which he vas riding with B. Ferguson and Robert Ellis turned over near town >n the Due West road. The bursting )f a tire on the machine was the :ause of the accident. Mr. Clamp was moved to the home >f Mr. Ferguson last night, where he vas attended by Dr. J. E. Pressly. rhis afternoon he was removed to he Memorial hospital where it is )robable an operation will be made. Mr. Ferenson was driviner the car. aking Mr. Clamp to his home near Due West when the bursting of a ire caused the car to turn over, Mr. }lamp being pinioned beneath the lody. Neither Mr. Ferguson nor Mr. Cllis was injured. Former Emperor May Wed Berlin, Dec. 6.?According to the Zwoelfuhrblatt" former Emperor Villiam has decided to marry again, 'he lady of his choice, the newspa per says, is the w:dow of a high of icer rom Danzig, who was killed in he war. The newspaper professes to ave received the information from . most trustworthy source. The em-j >eror has denied the report. TES IN Af W. A. MclLWA SHOT BY C o DR. DAVIS HERE j Augusta Physician Performs Suc cessful Operations Here. Dr. Thos. L. Davis, of Augusta, was in the city yesterday having been called here to perform several oper ations at the County Hospital. J)r. Davis since completing his two year course last summer as specialist in eye, ear, nose and throat diseases, has performed nearly a hundred op erations for these diseases at the County Hospital, and he has been uniformly successful in all his cases. Dr. Davis has redently re-estab lished himself in Augusta where he will give his attention to these dis eases. He was a physician in general practice in that city before the World War. At the breaking ^ut of the war he entered the service as a physician and served until the end. It was at'the'conclusion of the war that he decided to specialize as stated. Dr. Davis has many friends in Ab beville who are interested in his; success and who predict for him con tinued success in Augusta. WORKMEN TO QUIT / PACKING PLANTS Forty-five Thousand Will Leave Jobs?Oppose Wage Cats. Chicago Dec. 5.?Forty-five thou sand union workers employed in packing plants throughout the coun try will strike tomorrow in protest against w5ge reductions averaging 10 per cent authorized by plant as semblies under the shop representa tion plan- in the packing industry ac cording to officials of the Amalga mated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America which authorized the strike. Spokesmen for the packers tonight expressed the belief that 95 per cent of the workers will'be on the job to morrow and asserted that the walk out will not seriously affect the oper ation of the plants. Representatives of the five packers said that only a small percentage of the workers were organized and that positions made vacant by strikers will be fill ed immediately. Two hundrsd policemen including mounted police- motorcycle squadron patrolmen and plain clothes men have been assigned to strike duty and were ordered to appear at the Chicago stock yards tomorrow morn ing at 5:40 o'ciock, zv minuses ue-i fore the official strike cill goes into effect and union pickets take up their posts. Four largely attended meetings of packing employees were held here today. At a principal gathering Cor nelius Hayes international president of the Butcher Workmen's union re iterated previous statements in which he condemned the plant representa tion plan asserting that the socalled employee's representatives were in realty designated by the packers and that if they advocated the interests of the workers in the plant confer ences they would lose their positions. "If the workers agree to accept the recent wage cut it will be only a matter of a short time before the packers announce another slash in j pay" he declared. AT PRESBTYERIAN CHURCH j The Rev. F. Ray Riddle, Superin- j! ' tendent of Home Missions for the, ! Synod of South Carolina, will,1 I preach in the Presbyterian church !' Sunday. Holiday on Exchange. '1 j New York, Dec. 6.?The cotton j ! exchange today voted to close on (j the Saturdays preceding Christmas J] and New Years. jj SEVILLE IN KILLED; :0N MALONE MALONE IN TURN ALMOST > , KILLED BY JOHN MelLWAINE. DIFFICULTY AROSE OVER CUTTING OF AUTO TIRE, AC CORDING TO REPORTS. According to reports reaching Ab beville thjp morning Will A. Mcll waine was shot to death at his home riear Verdery, Greenwood county, late yesterday afternoon by Con Malone, Malone being in >turn hit over the head with * a stick by John S. Mcllwarine a brother of the dead man. He is in a hospital in Greenwood in a serious condition. Deputy Sheriff 'McMillan of Green wood said over the telephone this af ternoon that it was reported there the shooting followed an eltercation over the cutting, or effort to cut, an automobile tire on a car belonging to the Mcllwains. The three mei), ac cording to the information given by the deputy sheriff, had planned to go fox hunting early this morning. About dusk yestefftay afternoon they were in front of the Mcllwaine home discussing details of the trip, and, it is reported, drinking. The proposal of Malone not meet ing with the approval of Will Mcll waifie, he threatened to cut'the tires off the automobile, which, it-is said, belonged to Mcllwairve. Thereupon Malone, ;it is said, shot Mcllwaine, y who as he fell, so the report goes,' ? struck Malone with his knife, inflict ing a small wound, vJohn Mcllwaine is said to have taken up a stick which was used to weigh cotton on im and beat Malone over the head and v, ^ ibody, almost killing him. / f : 5 Will Mcllwaine was a son of A. T. ^" Mcllwaine who lives at Darraughs Station, in this county. The two Mc- ^ Ilwaine men, Will A. and John t>./ are said to keep bachelor's quarters ' together, Jiving about half way be- q tween Salak and Verdery in Green-- / ' wood courity. Con Malone lived in the same neighborhood. ^ v BABE RUTH PUNISHED Fine and Suspension Sentence of Judge Landis. Chicago Dec. 5.?Babe Ruth will be punished for his infraction of the laws of baseball. Today Judge Landis high commissioner of baseball render ed the long expected decision. In it he sentenced the famous home run hitter to remain out of the Yankees' line-up till next May 20 and also de clared forfeited Ruth's share of the world's series money. Ruth's share amounted to almost $3,400. His suspension and forfe'ts of his world's series share was caused by his making a barn-storming trip af ter being warned that he snould not do so on account of it being a viola tion of the rules governing players of world's series teams. Pitcher Piercy and Outsider Jlob Meuseil also Yankees who made the trip with Ruth'^team vrera /riven ^ he sahit; s< ntence. Ruth is appearing in a vaudeville act and at Washington he is report ed as saying when told of his punish ment: "Well, just let it go at that for the present." HOSPITAL NEWS .Miss Ruby Edwards underwent a slight operation at the hospital yes terday when her tonsils were re moved. Rivers Mabry had the same ape ration. Cornell Mundy is in the hospital tvith a broken arm, suffered in the .'ranking of the Ford laundry truck. C. E. Hoyer, Chicago man here on i visit to his brother, M. C. Hoyer, manager of the 10 cent store, is ill it the hospital..