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Abbeville Press arhi Banner ] Established 1844. $2.00 Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Monday, January 30,1922. Single Copies. Five 7^ v~' | THEATER CRASH KILLS OVER 101 \ A BODIES OF ONE HUNDREJ AND SEVEN THUS FAR Rf MOVED?NUMBER OF OTH ERS SERIOUSLY INJURED MANY SENT TO HOSPITALS Washington, Jan 29?The* to of dead in the Knickcrbocke reached 107 tonight when a fina canvass was mode of the city ho? - 1- J -11 - n mmay pitais aim an vi wie scvciai cwc* gency medical stations which ha been estftolished to care for th victims. This was said to includ everybody thus far recovered fror the ruins. The list of injured total led 134' tonight and -of these 1 were recorded as having sustain? serious hurts. Of those in hospitals some sui tained injuries in many cases o such character that the - victims, i they recover, will be maimed fo life. Ninety-two of the victims ha been identified when the force o volunteer workers, 24 hours afte the disaster, approached the end o their long search" of thfc" debris. Nine additional bodies of thos who had succumbed to injuries ai ter rescue lay in city hospitals. The large majority of the vie trms, both killed and injured, wer residents of the city, althougl many came recently from othe places. Exploration of the ruin went on unchecked after dark bu those in charge ibelieve few addi tional bodies would be found Without regard to their own ris] soldiers, marines, sailors, police firemen and citizen volunteers hai fought their way beneath th wreckage over practically th< whole floor space of the auditori urn. The exact number on the theate when the steel and concrete spai of tiie noof buckled and fell unde its three foot load of snow prolb ably will never be known. Th stftries of perhaps a hundred wh< gotf out uninjured have been re ported. The more than 300 in th< audience was roaring in laughte at a filmed comedy when the roo: fell on tiiem like a blanket, carry ing aown me iront 01 trie wiu< balcony in its path. Normally the theater has ever seat filled at that hour and nearl; 2,000 persons was its capacity. Thi same unprecedented snowfal -which brought death to the ven turesome few kept the many a home. Street car traffic had beei abandoned and streets and side walks were all but impassable w'tl drift. There nas been no time us. ye for official inquiry as to the caus' of the disaster. The ruins them selves disclose, however, that th entire mass of steel held concret that formed the roof had com down. The crash swept the sup ports out from under the balcon; apparently, and this hinged dowi at an agle of 45 degrees, addinj to the tangled mass of wreckage o; the floor below. The building stands in an acut t angled comer of Eighteenth stree i and Columbia road, northwest, th heart of the most favored resident s section of the city. The narrow niche of the stage on which th screen was hung was backed int the corner angle, while to the lef from the stage the line of the au ditorium wall runs in a straigh line for some 200 feet down Eigh teentfo street. To the right, th Avail follows the slow curve of Cc lumbia road for about the sam distance and at the far end, para! leling the stage front, the baa - ??-.1 4-V* /-* wail CUUU|>iei/Ci) ure auu.w..u^ proper, also aibout 200 feet i: length. Moscow, Jan. 28.?Nicoli Lenine bolshevik premier has been appoint ed head of the soviet delegation t the Genoa economic conference. HOUSE REFUSES TO HALT LE VIATHAN PROGRAM?AN AT. TEMPT TO ATTACH AMEND* MENT OFFICES' APPROPRIA TION BILL DEFEATED. Washington, Jan. 28.?The house refused today to Attach to the inde pendent offices appropriation bill an amendment which would have prohib ited the shipping board from pro ceeding with the reconditioning of the Leviathan without obtaining an appropriation from congress for the purpose. Representative Graham (Republi can) of Illinois offered the amend ment which would have placed a $1, 000,000 limit on the amount the shipping board could expend for ren pairs on anx one ship without con gressional authority. Refitting of thte Leviathan, it was said, probably would cost at least $8,000,000. The Graham proposal was rejected by a vive voce vote after the house had adopted an amendment offered by Representative Dallinger (Re publican) of Massachusetts which would give navy.yards the right to submit estimates fo* the repair of shipping board vessels. On a point of order by Representa tive Byrnes (Democrat) of South Car olina a provision continuing for an other fiscal year the authority of the board to retain for its own use $55, 000,000 derived from the sale of its .property was eliminated from the bill. During hearings before the appro priations subcommittee which framed the measure Chairman Lasker esti mated that during the current fiscal year the shipping board would derive about $25,000,000 frfcm this source and asked that the extension be grant ed so the remaining $30,000,000 could be obtained as the liquidation process continues. Mr. Byrnes held that the continuing provision wtfs a legislative section which had no place in an appropriation bill. When the house adjourned late to day it had before it an amendment by Mr. Byrnes limiting to $400,000 the amount the shipping board could spend on publicity and advertising during the coming fiscal year. Budget estimates call for an expenditure of about $900,000. During debate on various amend ments, the shipping board was com mended by Chairman Madden of the appropriations committee who declar ed it was functioning- satisfactorily 1 -- ? and would in the very near future be 1 able to make a creditable showing in its operations. c The bill, which in addition to funds for the shipping board, car Jries approximately $377,000,000 for 1 e the veterans bureau, probably will ' e come to a vote in the house today. < e ' T ' . IN POLICE ?OURT < n Four Defendant* Hear Charges and ! ^ Sentence. l n O. Harrison, A. Prather and P. Richie, negroes were before the may- s e or tms morning on ox gam- 1 t bllng. They were fined $5 or 10 e days each. i e George Crawford, negro man, was i tf the leader in a disturbance Saturday 1 e afternoon when the police fired sev- i o eral shots in the air to make him 1 t stop, after he had been arrested on 1 i- a charge of carrying a "concealed" J t weapon. George was noticed stand- i t- ing by a telephone post near the i e Catholic church with a 38 calibie pis- i i- tol swinging to a belt buckled on < e the outside of his coat. He was ar- 1 I- rested ana tne pistol connscateu, 11 k whereupon he ran. The officers fired t d several times but Crawford did not 1 n hear the command to halt and he 1 was not captured until this morning. < He was fined $50 or 30 days. Ten British monarchs have used 1 9 the king's state barge, now 230 s years old. ( RAILROADS Mil GIVE BACK HALF GOVERNMENT CLAIMS ALL A BOVE 6 PER CENT MADE UPON VALUE OF PROPERTY USED IN TRANSPORTATION FROM SEPT. 1, 1920 TO JAN. 1, 1921. Washington, Jan. 29.?Railroads which earned more than six per cent upon the value of their property used in transportation during the period from September 1, 1920 to January 1 1921, are required under an order is sued today by the Interstate Com merce Commission to turn half of the excess so earned over the govern ment. . The order as issued by the com mission makes effective sections of the transportation act of 1920 and prescribes rules jfor the application of those sections. Railroads during the four months period specified in the order are un derstood to have earned a consider able amount in excess of the six per cent limitation prescribed by con gress but the valuation not having given out for the individual lines the amounts cannot yet be calculated. The transportation act in addition to providing that until March 1, 1922, rates should be made by the inter state' commerce commission sufficient to give the railroads at leafet 5 1-2 per cent on their properties provided for the recovery by the government Df half of all the amount earned by i ahy road over 6 per cent. The commission in. fixing the rates Found a' tentative value for railroad property by groups' throughout the United States but did not segregate ;his to individual roads. General increases were granted in rates in 1920 and during the last four i months of the year while tarffic vol umes were large railroad earnings were reported in excess of the- six per cent clause but for all of the months of 1921 and so far in 1922 :he returns have not indicated that my sums could be collected by the government under the law. The statute also provided that in :ase excess eafnings were received sy the government the money should je paid into! a special fund for the purpose of lending to railroads and epaying advances made by the gov ernment to railroads. SCHOOLS TO GLOSE ACTED 8 MflMTUCi nl ILI\ U ITIUI111IU Due to a shortage of funds it is | sractically certain that the Abbeville | schools will not be able to run long ?r than eight months this session, ac cording to the trustees. Although jvery effort will be made to continue ;he session, it seems unlikely that: :he term can be run its regular pe riod. Indeed, members of the board say, it will not be possible for the school to continue eight months un ess some money is borrowed. The collection of taxes for last fear does not enter into the problem it all, it is said, since the schools wi\l face a deficit at the end of eight nonths, even should all the taxes due 3e paid in promptly. Besides the de ceit that is likely to be incurred this session, the board owes a consider able amount under the head of past orwl 4-Ko ov nlftrlo1 ng of future taxes is not considered | idvisable at this time. While the ;rustees will find it difficult to meet he payment of current expenses for ,he full eight months, they are plan ling to continue the schools for that ength of time so a considerable item )f state aid money will not be lost. A suggestion has been heard that ;he patrons of the high school might je willing to supplement regular >chool funds so that this department ran be continued for the maximum SNOW FALLS FOR MORE THAf TWENTY-FOUR HOURS, CAUS INC SUSPENSION OF PRACTIC ALLY ALL BUSINESS AND SO CIAL ACTIVITIES. Washington, Jan. 29.?More thai 24 hours of continuous snow had las night covered the middle A$lanti< section with. Washington as a cente: to a depth of a foot to nearly 31 inches; caused . the suspension o: practically all business and social ac tivity,- disrupted, transportation an< shut .most of the population in thei hnmpfl. - The storm, which weather bureau after looking up their rec ords.said, was, one of. the most sever* in history and extended in deptl of snowfall only by the long remem bered blizzard of February, 1899, wa moving slowly yesterday up the ?oas from, its position during the dny of Virgitjia. Reports to the weather burea; showed that the Carolinas, Virginia Maryland, Delaware aifd Distric of Columbia were bearing the brun of the storm and receiving the heav iest snow fall. Virginia cities accus tomed to only an inch or so of snov and then of rare occurrence, weri buried in maijy cases to the depth o: a foot while northern portions of th< Carolinas still were blanketed with i fall that began Thursday. . ;; Washington, however, appeared t< be the tcenter of the heavy fall, th< weather bureau measurements takei late in the day showing the depth t< be closely approaching two and a hall feet and the record fall of three fee established in 1899. All records foi 24 hours' fall had been broken at ( o'clock, the hour at which the storn struck Washington yesterday. The national capital with its heavj and constantly increasing blanket wa: virtually paralyzed as to activities oJ all kinds in much the same mannei as in 1909 when a lighter fall, but ac companied by rain and sleet forcec abandonment of elaborate plans foi the inauguration of President Taft. The snowfall in Washington prac tically halted governmental activi 'ities and had its eff<?ct in an inter national way of causing the cancella tion of two scheduled armament con ference meetings. r b. U IE Deputy Sheriffs Prince and Fer guson and Spec-:tl Agent Wrigih early this morning captured a 3i gallon copper still and arreste< three men who were said to be op rating it, the plant being locate< on the land of J. A. iGilliam, on Lit tie River, Turkey Hill. The officer.' arrived on the scene, a canebrak* on the very bank of the river about day-break, having left towi about 4 o'clock this morning. Thi t: ~?* j ^ a. : 11 , .4. ?U liquiu in uuu sum waa au uiy uv/mn* point when the officers arrived, am in a few minutes the "cap" woul( have been applied and the moon shine started trickling out in i sparkling stream. Three of the .four men, tw< whites and two negroes, were cap tured, one of the white men, whos< name is unknown, escaping. Dar Cade and Butler Gray are the ne groes and Harry Landis the whit? man held in jail by Sheriff Mc Lane. Landis also made a run, oi rather a swim, for liberty, jump period.. The trustees realize that tc curtail the work of the high school would affect credit rating as well as upset grade advancement. It is alsc believed that a private arrangement will be made to continue the mil] school. E SUCCESSOR 170 POPEBENEDKl I POSSIBILITY OF AN AMERICAN . BEING CHOSEN? ITALIAN MEMBERS SACRED " COLLEGE . EVENLY DIVIDED, CARDINAL MAFFI'S BOOM HAS DECLINED i Rome, Jan 28?With the body oi t the late Pope Benedict laid awaj c beneath the flagstones of St Peter; t* the interest of the Sacred Colleg< ) the Vatican househojcl turned todaj f to the election of his successor. A - conclave has been called for Fqb i ruary 2 to choose the new pontiff, r The question of a^ reapproche ment between the church and th< i Italian government enterg into th< . election. A thorough canvass oj ? opinion in the Vatican shows tha i the peace treaty, or those advocat ing closer relations with the gov 3 /erpment, are virtually. deadlocked t wjt^i the irreconcilable? or those aip f posing a reapprochement in th< number of votes each faction car i. muster. A two-thirds majority ii t necesary for election, t . Twenty-nine cardinals, haededb] t Cardinal. Gasparri, he camerleng< - or acting head of the chuzch, an - known to favor continuance oJ it Benedict's policy, which was un> e derstood to have been directed to E W^rd a resumption of relation witl ? the Quirinal; twenty mem!bers i the Sacred College are thought tc be just as strongly opposed, whil< > nine are classified as neutral. - ..The attitude of the Americas i cardinals? O'Connell, of Boston ^ [ and Dougherty of Philadelphia?is I! unknown at the Vatican, but the t J opinion is expressed that, unless a c I compromise is reached, never hat ' there been such an opportunity foi 1 ] a foreign cardinal to be elected pope. The majority enjoyed by the f Italian members of the Sadred col > lege is so evenly divided that vati ? I can officials admit all depends upon f the attitude of the foreign cardi nals. * The boom for Cardinal Maffi, r archbishop- of Pisa, who was men tioned as favored by the govern ment, appears to be in the decline, * while Cardinal - Gasnarri and Car dinal Archpriest Merry del Val, re. spectively, leaders of the peact 'party and the irreconcilables, are ] ^acknowledged Iby. th&ir supporters to have little chance of being elected. .The candidate of the Gasparr party is Cardinal Ratti, of Milan while Merry del Val'a faction, af I ter voting for their leaders on the ' first ballot as a test of strengh, i1 is understood will switch to Cardi nal Laurenti, the newest createc member of the Sacred College sta tioned in Rome. Laurenti presidec . for many years over the Romar j Catholic world missions, and is well known to all the foreign car j dinals. (lardinal Van Rossum[ of Hol 5 land is most prominently mention b ed as a neutral candidate, should f a deadlock 'be reached in the con ! clave. He is 67 years of a^e/anc 3 was raised to the purple 'by Pius X r in 1910. i For the first time in history wo 1 men will be per: -itted to be pres - ent in the quarters occupied by the i conclave. They are Sisters oi Mercy, who will preside over the > destinies ,of the cardinals' kitchens . which heretofore have been super . vised by monks. I I I WELL AGAIN. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Thomson, Jr. will be glad to know their son, Goode 3rd, has entirely recovered from his recent illness. a ing into thecold water of the rive-, he sawm across but the range of the officers was too good on the other side and he swam back and was brought in with the outfit. SEEM TO B? IN CHARGE OF SES sion.?kansas , . delegate WOULD adjust PRICES farm PRODUCTS UPWARD AND NOT throw ANY BODY DOWN. Washington, Jan. 28.?Union lab or won a victory in the national ag ricultural conference today when that body by a vote of 83 to, 64 struek* out of a committee report a recom mendation for repeal of the Adam son eight hour law. v The conference also struck out the committee report recommendation for repeal, of the coznmonly-termed guaranty clause of the transportation act which fixes six per cent as a proper return for railroads. This action was taken after a bit ter debate in which Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federa tion of Labor denounced a resolution introduced by W. if." &a?fc6ose, president of the National implement and Vehicle association calling for reduction of miners and railway un r ion labor wages and also the com mittee report on repeal oi the Adam 5 son law. Mr. Gompers warned the ^ farmers that after they had become 1 thoroughly organized they might in " the future face a similar fight by in 1 terests which he said now were mak ^ ing a drive on union labor. ' The sentiment of the conference as ' voiced by several speakers seemed to be that the whole matter of tranepor i tation including wages paiidf to union i ?; . , vr- ?. }' ': ? labor and the railway question gen erally had better be left to copgress s and-not passed on by the conference, i Several of the delegates joined with ? Mr. Gompers in denouncing the pro ' posals as an attempt to' drive a i wedge between labor and tie farmers ! Tfie labor leader. asserted the J, ? si ;f; farmers were "good boys now" and were "allowing the bankers, im i plement manufacturers" and their like "to play monkey shines with you." t "But go on and. organise," he told * the farmers, "and you -will face the criticism as labor has done. The in terests will drive you as they have * driven labor." W. C. Lansdon, of the Kansas J Farmers' Union, opposing the resolu 1 tion, said the farmers of his state did not want to take advantage of labor ' in readjusting matters. "Let's adjust the prices of farm i products upward," he said, "and not ? throw anybody down. Millions of men are living in industrial slavery - in this country. Instead of asking I that credits be readjusted to lift these people, you are trying to pull 1 iown labor to their condition^." Gifford Pinchot, of Pennsylvania, I opposed the conference going on rec 1 ord of the transportation issue. 3 Recommendation for the appoint * ment of a federal commission to formulate a national land Dolicv in eluding all questions of reclamation - and irrigation were adopted today by I the national agricultural conference. The conference also went on rec l ord as opposed to the opening of any ! more land for farming purposes un til normal economic conditions are . restored. TELLEGEN COMING ; Former Assistant of Bernhardt I To Visit Abbeville Lou Tellegen, one of the best known and admired actore on stage aiiu aticcu iuud), win visit ruwwz ville Thursday night, February 9, according to Manager Verchot of the Opera House. Tellegen, who came to this country with Mme. Sarah Bernhardt, will appear in "Blind Youth," a comedy drama bhat is to furnish the actor an ex cellent opportunity for the display of his remarkable talent The same actor appeared in Columbia, the critic of The State making favor able comment on his work and on that part of the supporting cast.