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Mondafr, January 2, 1922 Abbeville, S. C iblished 1844. $2.00 Year. Tri-Weekly i SPLENDED YEAR I -g IUSINESS MEN OF COUNTRY THAT PEAK OF DEPRES !<N HAS BEEN PASSED AND BETTER DAYS ARE AT HAND. "York, Jan- 1.?Business pros or 1922 are, in general hope [cording to statements by prom I jankers, made public today by lierican Bankers' Association, future of business and fin-! ?. the United States is en tg," said Thomas B. McAd sident of the association, [emphasized the importance-' of wyitry interesting itself in the ~ of Europe in order that prosperity may be main He said that although some i^otyjticians and newspapers extending aid to Europe at "future prosperity de \ on the way financial America ithe call." I f . . V. t ' time for anxiety seems to be past and the middle of 1922 see recovery well establish clared John C. Lonsdale presi the National Bank of Com |of 3t. Louis. "All of the things to commercial betterment ^ve been set in motion so |922, should see. the beginning [ era, of our greatest and most prosperity." je'rity among our farmers, 101 ou pry jtc [o hav Jctnrers and merchants is di rected by the unsettled con of finance and polities in Eu jr or ding to J. A. House, pres ihe Trust Company division irdian Saving and Trust Com 'f Cleveland. Im ' I IQ must be remedied," he ad g is apt, also that strikes for vages are eertainly not in I Q with the present order of abor must:bear its fair share j deflation.'' ??^>use emplpsized the need of bilitafion of the railroads ~*bsA congress "should pass ./tax laws to encourage the capital through channels "Wld meaij investment* . 5. Puslichei, vice president of wjerican Bankers' AssociatiQn It trend was towards easier [..rates and there was nothing ^ate that this would not con strongest factor in the pres lation is th? growing strength I banks," he declared. js our belie!," declared R. S. president of the State Bank) of the Aterican Bankers'! Lion, "that Ve will not again [real prospeity in this coun-j ll some kin<jof economic res-j >m? hpen accomtilished in 1 and a stabi basis for inter trade worid out." GRIER PREACHES |ing Sermon at Presbyterian Church Y?ei*d*y., - lev. R. C. C$er, president of College, Du West preached bresting serins at the Pres church ye ;rday morning |ning. The iorning service le nature ofcew year appeal |e evening ; -vice, was di |specially t- childrefi and ?ople. Usin^anguage simple trations ap; the Kev. Mr. jessage to 'uth was enjoy the many Ider persons in egation. T* Erskine presi lys makes'-favorable Im | whenever ie visits Abbe 1 ii Population, 39,402,730 )ec. 31.?"fe official; r??olt en era 1 censi0f 1921. gives tion of Ehce, including raine as 49,402,731? of 2^0,440 are^reigners. in 1911 * 39,604 1,132,696 feigners. HOLIDAY DEATHS WIT TO SEVEI ATTEMPTED BANK ROBBER FEATURES DAY-MILLION DO| LAR THEFT OF ARMY SUf PLIES COMES TO LIGHT. T*< OFFICIALS SLAIN. ' I* >: New York, Dec. 31.?Fresh entrie were made on the crime sheet of th metropolitan district today when th casuality list for the Christmas.tid outbreak mounted to seven idlle and five wounded. With bandits busy Doth vfithi the city and out, the day's jbvex shadowing crime was an attespte hold up of the First National " bah in WViiAVi fhp twn iKanlf officials, wer _2l slain and a client' seriously ttounc ed. *f Another bit of 'daring was report ed from the heart of New York' great white way?'Broadway an 41st street?where the patrote of Testaurant were commanded .by roflb bers to throw up their hands. Th [ hold-up yielded $16 and the-rabber escaped in a taxi cab after a^funnin gun battle with the police. In addition there came to light i theft of $1,000,000 worth y>f arm supplies from the Brooklyn bast and the arrest of three civilian em ployees by army intelligent officer on a charge of smuggling the article out of the reservation -fa motor trucks. [Figuring also on the crime char was the arrest of nine men charge* with robberies involving $75,00i The gang was arresed after a figh within a block of a police-station. Accompanying' -tho WJrW** a plea by Police Comnussioner En right that the courts should deal ou the sternest penalties to offenders and an assertion by some ( police court magistrates that 'bonding com panies, ready to 'bail out any offend er, were responsible for the numibe: of indicted criminals at large. Th< police expressed th^ belief that th< latest scheme adopted, by footpads was to turn off street lights befori waylaying their victims. SALES DAY A, ' "f Good Crowd G^tkeri On Firs Monday. ' Today was the first ' Monday o the month and the first Monday o the year, and a good crowd of peogl .were 011 hand to bid on several tract of real estate. Thos. P. Thomson, master, sol the following tracts of land. In the -.case of Fretwell agains Wilson Mr^ Fretwell ibought 126 3-1 acres of land for $2350.' v Mrs. Mattie May Allen bough 970 acres of land in the' case o Allen against Boggs for $2,000, W. A. Calvert paid $900 fo land involved in the case of Mar Hill et al against Barnett et al. In the case of the Farmers Ban! against J. J. Hill et al, the land wa bid in by the Farmers ' Bank fo $500. % The Planters Bank case agains Norris was settled ibefore the sale. J. M. Nickles,yas agent for th probate judge of Greenwood county sold two tracts of land. In the case of Anderson as execu tor against Anderson, the Farmer and Merchants Bank of Greenwoa bought 84 acres of land for (400. J. R. Clinkscales bought 84 acre of land formerly owned t>y And; Clinkscales for $2250. The land wa sold by J. R. and A. B. Clinkscale as executors. "% Judge Hollingsworth was th< auctioneer. I ELECTION CARRIES 8 Although only a snfall vote wai fast in the school election for Sex fas district held on Wednesday, De cember 28, not a' vote was caa against the proposal to apply i special tax of eight additional milli property. in the district and the Section carried. PRESIDENT REQUESTS THA CALL BE ISSUED?SECRETAR WALLACE SENDS OUT INV TATIONS FOR NATIONA MEETING. Washington, Dec. 31.?Presidei Harding in, a letter today to / Seer tary Wallace of the department < agriculture, asked that the latter ci a national conference at- \VasJiingtc to "suggest practical way3 of in provement" for "the severe agricu tural depression which exist? throug] out the land." Promnt action was t k ken at the- department of agricultu: e in response to the request^ telegr; ' phic invitations being, dispatched ir mediately to , a number of organic tions and individuals. 8 ' (Secretafrjr Wallace said tonight thi the date of the conference had ni a been fixed nor a complete invitatic h list made up.. It is expected, howeve e- that the conference will be. held wit] * in a month and that, in addition 1 ^ farmers and tkfeir organizations, ii dustries associated directly and ind B rectly with agriculture will be calli ^ in to aid in the efforts to improi conditions. "No one will pretend that the pre a ent conditions could have been avoii Jed," President Harding said in, h letter to the secretary, "but none < , us is willing to agree that thei j ought not to be some correct and coi 0 structive steps taken to remedy ti t severe hardships under which so in portant a portion of our producth ? .citizenship. jg..?truggling>I am v vinced that a conference may be mad a very helpful agency in suggestin practical ways of improvement, pa] ticularly. if brought into coordinatio with the '.helpful investigation whic had been begun by a congressionj commission committed to a relate work."/' ^ g The president further suggeste 5 that the conference might divide it 2 work into two sections, one "for coi sideration of our present day difl culties which, though temporary, ai serious and need effective attention, while the second could deal with 11 survey of the future in an effort 1 determine upon general policies." f / OF DUTY ON 01 Washington, Dec. 31.?Varyir duties on crude oil were proposf before the senate finance commits today by spokesmen for mid-conl nent producers and ail duties we: opposed by American producers o erating in Mexico and represent tives of various classes of oil coi sumers in this country. Renewing the fight for a tariff lev which was lost in the house by s overwhelming vote Senator Harre (Republican) of Oklahoma said 1 was satisfied with the original rati proposed by the ways and meai committee, 35 cents a barrel i. crude and 25 cents a barrel on fue /. i Seator Curtis, of Kansas, a Republ can member of finance cammitte had introduced an amendment to tt tariff bill proposing these duties. A duty of $1 a barrel was urg? by Harry H. Smith, of Tulsa, Okla secretary of the Mid-Continental 0 and Gas association, who said th would equalize the difference in 11 costs of production in Mexico an in the mid-continent fields. W. I Gray fof Tulsa, representing the N; tional Association of Independei Oil Producers, suggested no specif rates, but urged that the preside: be; empowered to assess a duf equivalent to the combined impo: and export levies imposed by Mex co, Colombia and Venezuela, fro? which the chief America* import come. CHINESE THREATEN APPEAL 70 CONFERENCE?S HAN TUNG QUESTION AND OTHER FAR EASTERN PROBLEMS YET TO BE SETTLED. Washington, Dec. 31.-~In the face of 'the repeated Japane& asser tion that-the Shantung question was not upon the agenda of the Wash ington conference and- could not come within the scope of the mean ing q?. President iftarding's formal invitation to participate in the -con ference, Chinese spokesmen declared tonight that this question would be injected into the conference by the .Chinese delegation to break the deadlock ia the conversations be tween, the Chinese and Japanese delegations on the subject unless some other means to a solution were fpund during the no*t meeting of th^ 5fox 'Eastern committee. "G&na can, Sot make any more concessions; in fist site has made too many already," a Chinese dele gate said tonight "If the questiokis not V settled satisfactorily through mediation or otherwise the only thing for the Chinese delegation to.do is to bring it before the conference and let the conference settle it." The Chinese position was set forth at about the sam* ttaie that Foreign a"* meeting with newspaper corres pondents that if China did not re consider her position on the Shan tung problem, its solution .WOOld.^e very. ,d^c;c$t. ,Sflf*ret$ry Hughes, and *e! Mr. Balfour might possibly tender 'other good officers with the aim of settling the question, he added, but he preferred a direct settlement be tween the representatives of Japan and. China.'} Unless three questions are, settled toy the arms conference^satisfactorily ,to the Chinese?Shantung, the 21 ^ demands, and the tariff?it was said, bs / ' : tremendous reaction of possible far 1_ reaching effects would occur in nhina. Tli(*rp .rnicrhf it?<? mnriv innrii n festations in various directions and \ not the least importance would be ^ the probability of the present 'boy cott spreading in* an alarming degree, it was said. I OF BURNING WIFE i Branchville, Dec. 31.?Rachel Cup^1^ >e ningham was fatally bumed^iere Monday night and died yesterday. ] She claimed that her husband, Kivey Cunningham, threw h/fr in the ffre. Cunningham clairas>that she had a fit and fell in thaHfire while he was out in the. yawp cutting wood, and when he hear^f her scream he ran in to the housHS and about the same time twtoilegro men got there and helped jfit her out of the fire. Magistrate Dukes, acting as cor djffr, held an inquest over the {lead ijlody. The jury rendered the follow ing verdict: ) "That Rachel Cunningham came to 'her death at the hands of her hus le] band, Kivey Cunningham, by throw ing her into the fire." W. C. Martin of Branchville nnnoorn/) anfl rvrn<u>f>llted for the uuw (solicitor and W. M. Warren, who is ^n Augusta lawyer, represented the defendant. ^Curfpingham was arrested and placed in the jail in Orangeburg, whc\re he is being held without bail. He " Will likely be brought to trial at the t anuary term of court. Cunningham is about 35 years old and has several children. R. G. Hemphill left today for his hom? in San Antonio, Texas, after spending the holidays with er, Mrs. R. R. Hemphill. < his v' ' : J ' '? * .7 ' TWO OF TRIO KILLED IN PEARll RIVER BATTLE?ROBB $ft S FAIL TO GET PLANTS PAYr ROLL AS PLANNED?SEARCH NOW GOES ON. Pearl River, N. Y., Dec. . 31.? Four armed bandits who today swooped down ob Pearl River failed, in an attempt to rob the First Na trional bank and fled in their auto mobile after slaying two men and proibrfbly mortally wooding another; One robber, wounded 'by one' of his victims lpft a qjight trail -: of blood in the snow, but this -was lost when he entered : the machine. To night the two fire departments in their tracks, citizens in their private machines, and the police wer^ scour ing the country. Just what occurred was told the district d&bfrh&y4- bf Gtt6 Miller, a railroad flagman, who was confer ring in wn*r office with James P. Moore, assistant cashier, -when the robbers appeared and who' tonight lay critically' wounded in a hospital. Only one other person was in" tie bank at the time) ' Siegfried Butz, who with Moore was slain. Attracted to the bank by the' prospect of obtaining a $7^000 pay roll for the Dexter Folder "Company plant across the street ' the robbers without any preliminaries began shooting. ? Butz was the first to fall. When Moore and Miller appeared from th? nner office the. rain of 'bullets con r^rairig' th^ ftre md wounding one of the bandits. The shooting was heard <by girls in offices over the bank and it was be ieved that the scuffling of their feet :aused the-bandits* to flee through ;he windows. Investigation snowed, the roftbers lad obtained nothing. 'The payroll lad been taken to the factory ibefore ;heir. arrival and the inner doors to ' . * t ihe vaults were locked. MOVING DAY riqdl Investment Company Occupies . 10 Cent Store. Vmip!?odc q nrl rAciftanlial OCVCiai. UUOUItoo Ultvt AVW?V?V?4?*M? :hanges were in effect in town today; Sobb's 10-cent store which has for nerly occup-ed two rooms on thp square, will occupy only one of the ooms in the future. Hall Investment Company moved into th^ empty build ng today/ W. T. Edwards has moved his gro jerv sj^rffTfrom the building near the pf^stomce to a stand lower down on! Main street. Mr. and' Mrs. Sam Wilson ^have moved from Wardlaw street to the country. Mrs. V. M. Waters moved in to the Wilson house. i J. fl. Walker has rented the house oh Haigler street formerly, occupied by Mr. and Mrs. V. M, Waters. Misses Jennie and Lula Cason have returned to their hoime ' on North Main street, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson moving into Mrs. J. E. Cheatham's house near xne miie rock. treasurer BUSY Many People Pay Taxes To Avoid Penalty County treasurer R. B. Cheatham was kept unusdally busy today col lecting taxes and selling dog licenses. The 1 per cent penalty was paid -today with an additional charge for delinquents who do not pay be fore February 1. Today was the first Monday of the .month as well as the first Monday of the year, and sales day attracted a number of visitors who paid taxes. at Methodist church / At the prayer meeting neaday evening, 7:30 tQUNTY AUDIT^ Q| MAKE REPOR"f5?MO! $2,000,000 IN REAL DURING YEAR. i j > Columbia, Dec^ 31. from all. the county apdita State, received'and comp today, by the (MpteoB?r office, show an hvn^M^'c 8U i? ! property in South CaroHw strata aW tie total tax, eirty for 1&21 -mid $4{ while that lor 1920 w*6 788-.A lUgM; ?# pmt* ik-H ty and school taxei 267,?91v&3. Taa support <it the $274,885. The. value otijM " towns and villages ! 668, as connoted j last year, and f 782, qs again] 1920. Tho twousrnout oo an increase on shown in ; * 1 ing the vali mm* ^atoe> the total $46,220,027, . for 1921. Persoa uedat$190j^ ^sst, - tamed' for -taxation in shown. In 1920 a toW-V' 983 for this yearwere dayVreport, . This year the valu gvien at ?109,959,139 crease over the figa 90.6 for 1921. Taxes ^ pose$ were higher er purpose, with a 965.55, while thej for county purposes ] with $6,358{438.83 taxes was third, with^ Special county taxe 095,861.85 and those purposes of 'counties $3,675',696.84. For public roaS amount was" $1,354,780.70 an tax levies in portions of conntW the amount w$209,299.42. Th three-mill school tax, which is con stitutional, amounted to $1,357,41 80 an'd the local and special ? taxes to $5,134,223.75. , HELD FOR Negro Lodged in Jail Charge. Truey Belcher, pegro years old, was lodged in by Sheriff McLane on rape, his alleged victim gro girl 14 years old, Lowndesville. The assault is have Saturday from her charges. NEW SCHOOL Keowee District ma) ward By Through the, line and Keowee plete butf blidtilion. solidation of Zat River schools,' ict has recently c construction of a nc *g which will be a great u eraent over old conditions. ?w building is built on state ] md has four class-rooms do1* uid an auditorium opstaira. A foil teacher school will he ifon. Greenwood Builders Supply J pany was the contractor. 'M