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<*>> i-?- .' i.v , . . / Established 1844. $2.00 Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Friday, January, 6,1922 Single Copies, Five Cents. 78th Year. """" Mfi'Sa BATE ON BILL E ARGUMENTS HEARD ON ANTI LYNCHING MEASURE.?SUM MERS REPLIES TO AUTHOR WHEN FILIBUSTER PROVES INEFFECTIVE. TVikofo Washington, jaq. u.?^ the Dyer anti-lynching bill got under way today in the house despite a de termined filibuster on the part of Democratic opponents7 of the meas ure. Three hours were spent in roll calls demanded by Representative Garrett of Tennessee, Democratic leader, in a futile attempt to head off discussion. Half of that time later was given over to debate by Representative Dyer (Republican) of Missouri, au thor of the, bill, and Representative Sumtoers (Democrat) of Texas, one fk* loaders in the fight against it, both of whom reiterated arguments advanced by them in the majority and minority views of judiciary commit tee members when the bill was fav orably reported. The measure is to be set aside to morrow for consideration of the treasury appropriation bill, which will have the right of way until ' it : is sent to the senate. Representative Mondell, Republican leader, in a state ment today predicted a vote in the near future on the Dyer bill, but stated that debate on it would be interspersed between various appro hills which will come from the house appropriations in rapid succession. Mj^Dyer in opening the debate de clared it was imperative that the fed eral government afford protection to persons liable to suffer violence at the hands of mobs. He told of number of lynchings that had occurr ed where the man killed had not been guilty of attacks on women. During his remarks Mr. Dyer paid tribute to the service rendered by negro soldiers overseas and contend ed that members of that race were entitled to protection by the federal Mr. Summers, attacking the au thority for a number of Mr. Dyer's statements of statistics on lynchings, declared passage of the bill would increase rather than decrease mob violence and would have a tendency to engender race hatred. He assail ed the measure on constitutional grounds, contended it would be an invasion of state rights, and devoted much of his time to discussion of the constitutional phase of the question. FEWER MARRIAGES Cupid Lest Active in County This Year Than Last. There were fifty less marriages in t Abbeville County this year than last, according to records kept in.the of fice of J. F. Miller, probate judge. The number of knots tied to Janu ary 1 was 255, which was fifty less than in the more prosperous year of 1929. Judge Miller does not attempt to explain this fact, since he believes people are tired of hearing and read ing about the boll weevil and hard tunes. Of the total it is remarkable that the majority of the marriages woro umnnff fVio neornps wlin OTP Clin. posed to have been most affected by the unfavorable business conditions. The total of 255 does not include those who were married in adjoining counties, the number of whom is not known. Sousa Coming to Spartanburg Spartanburg, Jan. 5.?John Philip Sousa Jand his band will give a con cert in Spartanburg February 22, matinee and evening, at Converse college auditorium, under the aus pices of Converse college and the Spartanburg Rotary club. This band is an organization of neariy 100 pieces. In the concerts to be given in Spartanburg Sousa will play some of his latest compositions. HANGING CH NOW UNDER lie 1 r. 1 FORMER SOL DIER ACCUSI MAJOR OFIE OF HAVJN SHOT ONE OF HIS MEN 0 BATTLEFIELD?PEEPED FRO ' SHELL HOLE. Washington, Jan. 5.-^Accuser ai accused, in dramatic ^fashion fac< each other today before a sena committee, investigating1 charg .tint American soldiers had be< hanged without trial in France. No the close of an evening session Mi Hierome <L. Opde of Staunton, Vj commander of the Third divisio One Hundred and Sixteenth infant oversees, went on the stand to ent emphatic denial of charges Iby form service men that he had shot do? some of his* own soldiers in co blood on the ibattle field. He w asked, however, to step aside un other witnesses then tin the roo eould testify against him, mea /while being given the tight throui counsel to cross-examine them. 'Responding to his name when t> Opie charges were taken up, Gra son H. Withrow of Baltimore, st in his early 20s, stepped to the fro: and testified that he saw the offlc seize a gun from a private and fi: at a man in his command. She were falling overhead, he said, ai theto was tremendous excitemer bujt Withrow swore that from his i treat in a shell hole he peeped o and saw the man fall as the majoi gun barked. But he could not si whether Oprie bad killed him, dec la ing.the latter, standing out in tl open, was within arm's reach of ha a dozen officers when the shot w fired. , As Withrow left the*6tand Willia F. St. John, a young man fro Lynchburg, Va., suffering from ne vous troubles, resulting from servi overseas, accused the Virginian < shooting down a "runner" at tl front 'because he failed to heed a ter thrice ' 'being ordered to ha! Four other men saw the killing, 1 declared, but he refused of his ov accord to give their names on tl ground that he had not been able confer with them and that it wou not be just to him if they should a1 pear and "not back up" his charge One of .them, he said, had "develo ed cold feet" and was unwilling come. SHERIFF AND DEPUTIES GET IN MUCH WOR 42 StilU Captured During Yea 20,000 Gallons of Mash De stroyed and 52 Arretti Sheriff F. B. McLane today mai a checking of the activities of h office discovering among oth things that he and his deputi have captured 42 stills in Abbevil county; that they destroyed 20,0( gallons of beer malt; that they d away with 25 bushels of ma] that they poured out 121*gallons < drinkable liquor and that they a rested 52 men in connection wi the whiskey industry. All this w aside from itbo other duties < catching regular criminals, huntii stolen automobiles and collector bad accounts. At the jail the sheriff has ente tained during the past year 1; county prisoners, besides 30 < more federal prisoners, of who only nine are now boarding at th place. The charges on wnich th< were held ranged from hog stei ing to liquor making and wi beating. The copper in the 42 stills d stroyed would be enough to keep mint employed for some enaugh to line a good-sized clou now that the silver lining for tl tippler is no longer risible. Twenty thousand gallons of ma; would be enough to fill 9 locomotii engine boiler with enough over 1 run a still a day or two. FRANCE NOT WILLING I E BLOCK AGREEMENT :s ACCEPTS AMERICAN PROPOSAL J G BUT NOT "IN PRINCIPLE."?IT IS HOPED FOR SPEEDY AND AND SUCCESSFUL TERMINA TION OF PROPOSAL. Washington, |Jan. 5.?Practical completion of the report to be sub mitted by the committee of naval ex perts to the naval committee of the armament conference, and agree ment of the sub-committee on Chin ese tariff on a 5 per cent effective basis, were two important develop ments today in the conference situ ation. The naval committee may be call ed to meet this afternoon or tomor row, it was said, to receive the report of the experts which will embody pre cise definition of the replacement schedules, as well as the exact meth od of scrapping ships which are to be eliminated from the naviefi of the signatory powers. While the rate agreed upon by the sub-committee on Chinese tariff is the same as that provided- in existing treaties, the fixing of .5 per cent as the "effective" rate is expected to | result in a clear increase of approxi mately 1 1-2 per cent to the Chinese government, adverse exchange hav ing reduced the existing tariff about 3 1-2 per cent. v An important feature of the naval experts report will be a statement of uniform rule for calculation of nav al tonnage. The absence of such a rule has led to difficulty in the con sideration of many features of the limitation plan. The most important accomplish ment of the experts in the opinion of some delegates, was the completion of the "teplacement chart," precisely defining when each ship or class of ships may be regarded as, obsolete and subject to replacement, the dates upon which the new keels may be laid, the dates of commission and other such details. ( While not positively stated, it was understood in British circles that the French experts had decided to accept the limitation of ten jthousand tons as the maximum size of auxiliary naval ships, excepting aircraft carriers. BIRTHS AND DEATHS 143 Children Born in C^ty and 78 Persons Died. One hundred and forty three chil dren were born in the city of Abbe ville last year, according to records of the county register. Seventy I eight persons died in the same period making the increase sixty-five. In Abbeville township outside the city limits there were 97 births and 37 deaths, an increase of 60. Figures for the county are not yet available, but from estimates made it is believed the. death rate for the vear was much lower than the average. QUARTERLY CONFERENCE First Sescion of Methodist Body Saturday. . The first quarterly conference of the Abbeville Circuit will convene Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock at Grace Methodist church on South Main street. The Rev. E. S. Jones, presiding elder, will be present at the afternoon session and will preach in the same church Sunday evening. He w}ll. preach at Bethel Sunday morning. The Rev. J. B. Kilgore, pas tor of Grace and Bethel churches, invites the public to hear the Rev. Mr. Jones. VIRGINIA VISITOR. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Shelor will arrive in Abbeville Monday for a visit of several days to Mr. and Mrs J. Allen Smith, Jr. They have been visiti?g Mrs. Shelor's old home in Somter and will visit here before re turning to their home in Virginia. . .. . i. .. BOMBSHELL EXPLODES IN NEW YORK?JFORMEJl HEAD OF AN TI-LIQUOR FORCES IN STATE AMONG. SCORE OF DEFEN DANTS New York, Jan. 4.?A boiribshell svas exploded today in New York fed eral prohibition headquarters. Break ing of th^ seals on a secet indict ment returned some weeks ago ?bty the federal grand jury investigating enforcement of the Volstead act in this city, revealed tie fact that Har old L. Hart, a prominent Binghamp? ton attorney, who formerly served as federal prohibition director for the state of New York, headed the list of a score of defendants, charged with conspiracy to defraud the gov ernment through liquor withdrawals. Immediately puiblic attention, fo Bosed on poison liquor consumed during the holidays, which today claimed its IStth victim, switched to the flood of real alcoholics which were alleged to have been looted through putative fake drug con cerns. * Indicted with Hart were two other high enforcement officals, three poli ticians and a number of the "drug" concerns and their officers. The list or defendants included: Thomas Deedy, formerly allied crith the postoffico department and department of justice ana ,Who later served as Hart's assistant before the tatter's resignation last fall. McHale J. Lynch, a clerk in Hart's office^ with a -key to tb* cafe net containing the serially numbered withdrawal permits. William A. Orr, private secretary bo Charles S. Whitman, when the latter occupied the gubernatorial :hai^ and now engaged in the insur ance business. Owen B. Murphy, treasurer of the Bronx county Democratic committee. Thomas F. Duffy, Bronx politician. The indictment, returned after an investigation of several months, fol lowing complaints of lax enforce ment of the Volstead act, and fre quent shifts in federal prohibition headquarters. CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE Report Sent in Shows Small Num ber Sold. Reports sent in this week to the South Carolina Tuberculosis. Asso ciation show the results of the Christmas seal sale in Abbeville county. Due to the poor financial condition of the people of the coun ty, no organized effort was mada to sell the seals, though the chairman believed in the worthiness of the cause. The seals were on sale at a number of places throughout the county and those sold were 'bought voluntarily. Reports .have been re ceived from all excerpt one sub agent, and it is expected that her showing may augment the general report. The seals sold amounted to less than $50. i _j FOUND NOT GUILTY v toy Carter Tried on Charge of Mur der and Acquitted. JtsiacKsnear, vj-a., jan. o.?ivoy war ier, tried today on a charge of mur ler in connection with death of Sheriff John W. Robertson on August 53 of last year, was acquitted by a ury here tonight. Carter's brother, tfagte, is under a sentence to hang n connection with the same case, ioy Carter was held under bond of 5800 on a charge of violating the pro libition law, following his acquittal >n the murder charge. Fairmont, W. Va., Jan. 5.?Coal production in tfhe ' northern West Virginia field was 14,389,960 tons luring 1921, according to figures is sued yesterday Iby the northern West Virginia Coal Operators Assoc.ationi HALT CALLED BY GOVERNOR HARDING IN BUILDING. CON GRESS MAY FORBID ANY CON STRUCTION WITHOUT CON SENT OF LAWMAKERS. Washington, Jan. 5.?Chairmen of all federal reserve banks were ad vised today by Governor Harding of the federal reserve' board to stop all construction work for which con tracts have not yet been let, pending the outcome of legislation before congress to require congressional authorization for building operations by federal reserve banks.' This action, Governor Harding said will stop building operations planned in St. Louis, Minneapolis, Cincinna ti, Baltimore, Nashville, Jacksonville, Detroit, Louisville Denver, Oklaho ma City and Salt Lake City. Action of the board in stopping proposed building operations was conveyed to the 12 chairmen of the reserve banka by Governor Harding in a letter made public today which called attention to the amendment to the federal reserve act proposed by Senator Harris (Democrat) of Georgia, whieh would forbid the fed eral reserve board to erect any build ing without the express consent of congress. Governor Harding explained, how ever, that the action of the board would not affect building contracts already let for construction by re serve banks in various districts. Building operations planned but .for which no contracts have yet been [let and which will be affected by the J board's instructions were outlined byt XT awliiiM J UUTCiiivi vimg* Governor Harding also'made pub I lie a letter from Secretary Hoover to the board, calling attention to the recommendation of the national con ference on unemployment that all federal agencies and the federal re-; serve board should expeditie far as possible public works in an effort to provide work. In reply to Mr. Hoover Governor Harding stated the re serve banks' building program would have to await the action of congress upon the proposed regulatory legis lation. COBB NOT A STRANGER Was Long Engaged in Business in Abbeville O. H. Cobb, who has succeeded Roy Gilleland as manager of the Cooperative Mercantile Company, is by no moans a stranger to Abbe ville, having been engaged in busi ness here for ten years at a pre vious time. Mr. Cobb, a native of Greenwood was educated at Wofford College. After leaving Wofford he entered the store of C. P. Hammond, as a clerk, selling shoes and men's wear. After *six years he and J. E. Mc David bought the Hammond store, Mr. Cobb buying Mr. McDavid's in j terest two years later. He conduct ed the business alone until ths building which stood about where L. C. Haskell's store now stands, was burned in the Glen-Ethel hotel fire about 12 years ago. Since that time Mr. Cobb was on the road for a time selling shoes and later engaged in the furniture business in Greenwood with his brother, F. B. Cobb. With his knowledge of Abbeville and his business experience as a guide, Mr. Cobb's friends predict 4-"L#?4? ^r\ mill tvA ann/iac*efii1 in flia IUUU wui ouvv>voabui au vuv 'Qo operative store's business. Spartanburg, Jan. 3.?The new Finch hotel nearly completed, was sold at auction today to satisfy creditors' claims and was bid in for $24*5,000 by Mrs. W. T. Finch, rep resenting a syndicate of local busi ness men. The hotel will be pushed to completion, it was announced to day. The sale price today was suffi cient to nay all outstandfcig claims. r I J? . V' - M * - * . 'v . TREATY TO EMBODY ARMS PAR. LEY AGREEMENTS?SOON TO BE SUBMITTED TO VARIOUS SIGNATORY POWERS FOR AP PROVAL. \ 1 Wm W o : V. " WffUiWJfcWUi VOU4 jrmc MID power naval limitation treaty* wbkh will explicitly define the agreements reached by the Washington eonfer encfe, is nearing completion and soon ;!t': will be ready for presentation to. each of the signatory powers lor ap- . v proval. When approved it yriSl be .V i\) submitted'to a special plenary ses sion of the conference for' public ? K adoption. In its present form the covenant ^ comprises a number of seotiens, each ' . treating with one aspect of the naval ' question as it has come before the V.J, . l'\ conference; It is understood they in- v}' K'M elude the following: '. '*} 1. (A) Agreement for strapping capital ships, detailing time feriods<>$$$ within which vessels must be render- / ' ed unfit for war service. (B) Agreement for eventual fimi- ^ ^ tation of capital ship fleets nnfler-v 5-5-3-1.66-1.66 ratio. !>? //<i\ a ? a i, '/* \i_;j Agreement ior j mi ration 01 - ^ | individual capital ships in irtae and^f , gtons. ' ? , (D) Agreement on standard inter- " national unit for measurement of / ' ' v"' tonnage. ^ Attached will be a replacement chart setting forth dates of replace- . ment and dates of comadssieaiag of - new shlpe. ^ ' . . : 2 (A)> Agreement for Harfftattaa of " .. 'T: individual aircraft carriers la tote ;4\ r . J and guns. (B) Agreement for timifttftiea of . individual auxiliary craft in siae and./> L ' ' 3 guns. 4 ? ' . ' v* % . ; ' 3. Rules for use by aircraft of tor- V ; ,' pedo tubes. *K" i-jSB 4. Regulations fixing the status of"1 ' >f merchant vessels in war tine and covering their possible conversion into armed cruisers. '] 6. Regulations covering building in ; v private yards of signatory powers, both on their own soil and by their nationals abroad, of warships destin ed for other powers, either of those signing the treaty or the nen-eigna-. tory powers. tidns for the use of sub 6. Regulations for the use of sub ) marines. 7. Regulation broadly defining con duct of signatory powers in ease of future wars, and especially in cases of wars with non-signatory powers. 8. Regulations defining the exact status of "refitting" a capital chip; whether installation of new nad later guns will be permitted, for instance, or whether old guns may only be re bored. f . 9. Agreement as to Pacific fortifi cations. MASONS WILL DINE Supper Will Follow Degree Work Thursday Night. Following the degree work sched uled for the early part of the eren- "/ ing the members of Clinton I^odge No. 3, A. F. M., will enjoy a supper to be served in the lodge room Thursday night. Visiting Maeons will be welcomed. The committee , consists of W. E. Hall, 6. C. Swet enburg and W. D. Wilkinson. FEDERAL JURORS Session Convenes in Greenwood Feb* ruary 22, Watkins Prwidiig The federal court for the Western district of South Carolina will con vene in Greenwood February 22 with Judge H. H. Watkins of Anderson presiding. No grand jurors were Irawn for the court from Abbeville County. R. H. Stevenson, D. S. Ed wards, Due West, and T. P. Thom son, and Russell Thomson were drawn to eer ve as petit jurors from the county.