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I sa '33 Established 1844. $2.00 Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Friday, February 3,1922 Single Copies, Five Cents. L78th Year. MAN WHO HAD CHARGE OF i ALL SYSTEMS IN 1918 DE CLARES ROADS WERE PRE PARED TO MEET HEAVIEST TRAFFIC DEMAND HISTORY Washington, Feb 1?The rail roads of the country were i& bet- 1 /?/ir>ri?ftinn at the end 1 l/CI ^ujroivm of the period of federal control than they had been when taken over during the war, William G McAdoo, former secretary of the treasury and war time director general of the railroads, today told the senate interstate commerce committee in giving an accounting of his guardianship of the proper ties during 1918. Mr McAdoo will continue his statement tomorrow. Mr McAdoo contended railroad labor had been loyal; remaining at its post when more lucrative em ployment was offered in other in dustries, and that wage increases made while he was director gener al were not excessive but subse quently we<re further Increased. The railroads when turned back to their owners, he declared, with 4,005 more locomotives, ?6,816 more freight cars and 1,051 more passenger cars than they had pos sessed at the beginning 01 ieaerai i e control, "were in condition to I h meet the heaviest traffic demands & in their history." o "The credit of the railroads was e destroyed before the war," Mr Mc- o Adoo told thie committee, quoting statements by railroad executives e on the subject. The railroad execu- I trves, he added, did not produce u under federal control the results s as to revenue and operation they had brought about prior to that time. The railroads were permitted to ( continue for four months after federal control was established with little interference in the way | j. of management, said Mr McAdoo, hut the region reorganization, he g contended, was necessary in May, c 1918, when he "became convinced j that the managements of the roads by the railroad corporation could not produce desired results." Unification of th'e railroad^, the former director continued, saved t $118,000,000 in operating ex- t penses in 1918. Throughout feder " al control experienced railroad executives were in charge of the properties under his direction, he ^ said denying "the deliberate at tempts made to create the impres- j sion that I made immediate dras tic changes in the' management of the railroads and disregarding the experience and ability of the able railroad men of the country at- ^ tempted to run x the railroads upon ?j j : - J Al : new ana uiiurieu wwnt? ux my own." Replying to a question by Sena- c tor Fernald (Republican) ofj11 Maine, Mr McAdoo declared he ^ did not advocate pooling of busi- v ness by the railroads under private 1 control but favored assisting the * roads in competing for traffic. F If the railroads wore in "deplor- 0 able condition," when returned to s the corporations March 1, 1920, v and if^ their equipment was in the "worst condition ever known," Mr v McAdoo asked how was it possible * that as stated in the testimony of * their executives they handled "the ^ largest volume of traffic" in their - history? s Performance of this "greatest v task" he added, was possible be- h cause "during the period of feder- g al control $l,2il9,840,291 was ex-|g pended in improvements, addi- m ditions, betterments and equip ment which made the railroad properties an infinitely "better transportation machine than on January 1, 1918, when the govern ment took possession." Considerable time was given by Mr McAdoo during the afternoon LEXINGTON MAN SHOT TO DEATH OLIN M. PRiCE STAGGERS FROM DRUG STORE AND EX PIRES IN FEW MINUTES DRUGGIST HELD PENDING INVESTIGATION Lexington, Feb 2?OJin M Price white man 25 or 26 years old, waj dlled practically instantly about 3 j'clock thil afternoon, two loads ol arge sized shots having1 been fired nto his body while he was in the Irug store of Dr Rice B Harmon. There were no eyewitnesses, but ifter an inquest had been partial y conducted, Dr Harman was loc* >d in jail, pending further invest jation. Mr Price staggered out of the Irug store, into the funeral par ors of Charles E. Taylor, in an ad oining building. He was bleeding >rofusely from an ugly wound in he chest, (but managed to request hat a physician be called. His ef orts to give explanation of the ragedy resulted in only agonized asps. He expired within ten or 15 ninutes, although three physicians lastened to his side to give any >ossifele medical relief. The trail of blood led to the ear of the drug store. There two >mpty shells were found, and holes lad been pierced in a screen door n the rear of the store by the loads f shot. The inquest will be resum d tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 'clock. Following the testimony by sev ral witnesses, Sheriff Roof went to )r Harman's home and placed him inder arrest. Dr Harman made no tatem&nt. "DODE" IN NEW ROLE Uee Club Entertains Crowd in York Wednesday Night York, Feib 2?An entertainment >y the Due West-Erskine Glee luib and orchestra attracted an udience of more than 400 to the ity hall ^uditorium last evening, in interesting program was rend red with the skill and smoothness f professional entertainers. A pleasing feature of the vening was the appearance among he performers of "Dode" Phillips, he famous football star, who play d baseball on the York team last ummer. "Dode" was given a ;enu'ine ovation and responded in a lappy little talk in which he ex tressed devotion to the White lose town and a pleasure at again ieing within its precincts. DEATH OF JOHN SMITH )ld Man of Village Died Thursday Afternoon John W. Smith, 72 years old, lied yesterday afternoon at the lome of his son, John W. Smith, r, at the mill village. Funeral ser ices were held at the home today, nterment being at Melrose ceme ery. Mr Smith suffered ~a stroke of >aralysis several months ago while n a visit to Texas. A second troke came Sunday and his death /as not unexpected. Mr Smith is survived by his iridow who was Miss Ellen Craw ord, and three children, Miss Es her Smith and John W and Joe Imith. ession to a discussion of railroad /age conditions. He Said that in lis opinion railroad labor was Tossly underpaid at the time the overnment took control and there -ere many grave abuses in the latter of working conditions. It ras necessary, he continued, to ix rates of pay for railroad em ployees that would enable the ailroad to command their share of he country's labor so that this asic necessity of the war could unction at the required point. h/ SCHOOL BONl AFTERL HILLS-MAN AND CO., OF ATLAN1 . INTEREST?ISSUE TO I THE LEGIJ The trustees of the Abbeville schools have sold the $100,000 is sue of bonds voted last June to Hillsman and Company, Atlanta ! brokers. The price was 100 and ac | crued interests, the bonds being | dated January 1, 1922. The 'final sale was made with the understand ing that the issue shall be made 1 legal by legislative enactment. The sale which wa9 completed yesterday brings to an end nego tiations that have ibeen going on since last fall. It will be rememJber ed that bids were advertised for and all offers rejected when the first sale was put on. A second sale brought an offer which the iboard accepted, Hillsman and Com ipany, the. firm which finally got the securities, offering 90, with a de posit proviso that would yield 2 per cent additional. The firm's at torneys shortly afterwards gave the opinion that the bonds weare illegal because of conflicting statutes as to the boundaries of the school district. Contracts had been let for the building and the; lot bought, but all these" transac-j FOUND HACK SAW HAD BEEN SMUGGLED INSIDE Jailer Rogers .Finds -Eight -Hack . Saws Hidden Inside Jail Cells Anderson, Feb 2?A possible jail delivery has been forestalled at; the Anderson county jail by the finding of eight steel hack saws! which have been smuggled into the1 jail to prisoners. The finding of six blades yesterday brought a more! thorough search this morning which search revealed two additional blades. Jailer Steve Rogers is at a loss to determine from where the blades came, and he has so far been I unable to find out which prisoner | or prisoners received them. But j little headway had been made upon I the jail bars when the saws were j found. The bars, however, had been slightly scarred in some places, but it is evidently pretty much of a j job for a man to saw through a steel bar with just a hack saw blade. * / Sheriff Maretit says that he would like to know very much who smuggled the saws into the jail, but with the great number of visi tors at the jail recently, it would 'be almost impossible for him to put his hands on the man who actually ! brought the saws. MEMORY IS RECOVERED Soldier Remembers After He Got Hit With Rifle j Ottawa, Feb. 2.?Quartermaster Jergt. William Ball, of the Canadian forestry corps, reported today at Do? minir*r> Vino rlnnsi l*fr.ATVQ n*f f*.VlP War Veterans' Association with a story of having had his membry beat- i sn out of him in 1919 and knocked back two years later. < Ball said he had been beaten and ' robbed in Bordeaux in April, and < that he had lost all recollection of his Canadian home. Fore^n Legion,1 and claimed recently to hive .recov ered his memory after an officer had hit him on the head with a rifle butt in a jail in Refa, Morocco. Ball was posted as a deserter af- 1 ter Irs disappearance and the Veter ans' Association has been conducting ' a search for him in behalf of his wife, who lives in Port Hope, Orit. < " A VISITOR FROM ATLANTA Mrs. V. R. Thornton is here from Atlanta for an extended visit to her 1 sister, Mrs. Ella Latimer on Pinck- c ney Street. s DS SOLD ,ONG EFFORT rA PAY PAR AND ACCRUED 5E MADE LEGAL BY 5LATURE ti(jns were cancelled by the refus al of the company to accept the bonds. The final offer of the Atlanta firm to pay par for the bonds is not understood from the trustees, except on the theory that the Jbond market is so much better now than it was at that time as to justify the higher offer. The sale at the higher figure gives the board about $9,000 more in money than the previous offer aside from any possible saving due to the lower cost of labor and material. The board of trustees will again advertise and let a contract for the erection of the building. Whether the original plans will be used has not yet been decided. The board may begin soon negotiations for a lot on which to ibuild. It is consid ered likely that a suitable location can be found at a lower figure than $7,000 which was the sum mentioned in the previous bargain. Senator J. Howard Moore is look- ' ing after the necessary legisla- 1 tion. . ... ... I j. FRASER LYON APPOINTEP STATER TAX COMMISSION j | Fills Vacancy Caused by Expiration! of A. W. Jones' Term Who Dfd j Not Offffer Again 11 ooiumDia, reD. z.?j. jrraser; Lyon of Columbia has been'appointed j'' a member of the state tax commis-l1 sion.by Governor Cooper. He fills the j ^ vacancy caused by the expiration,' yesterday of the term of office of j' 4- W. Jones, Mr. Jones not offering for reappointment. Mr*. Lyon's ap po:ntment has\ot as yet been con-p firmed by the senate, but this will : likely take place this week. The com- ' m'ssion will then elect its new chair man and it is likely that W. G. Quer ry, of Spartanburg county, will be the new chairman. lac new commissioner was at one dine attorney general. He is an at torney and is well known throughout the ?:ate, having partic pated in many imnortant state cases. Mr. I I , Jones was appointed member of the!' .ax commission when that body was|! cieai-sd in 1915. He was prior to that t.me comptroller general. He has < be n a faithful servant of the state ( ..iiit his retirement will be a matter < of surprise to many. ] . ___ i LONG SENTENCE AHEAD ' Williams Convicted of Killing Negro 1 Farm Hands 1 Atlanta, Feb. 2.?John S. Williams . of Jasper county, convicted of the murder of-one of a dozen negro hands alleged to have been 1 ' : \1 to hide peonage, left here _ o/day for Milledgeville to start -v ner his life sentence on the ?-nte farm. In a written statement o Ihe public given out at the :o''*:ty jail here Williams reiterated claim of innocence and express ed hope that sooner , or later "the T^eat wrong done me will be right ed." BAPTIST MINISTER TAKES OWN LIFE jc ? I' Troy, Feb 2?The Rev G. H. 1 Burton, prominent Baptist minister 1 of Troy, committed suicide today by shooting himself through the temple with a revolver. No cause for the deed was giv en. MR. CLINKSCALES ILL. J. F. Clinkscales, one of the lead ng farmers of the county, is seri )usly ill at his home in the Monterey .ection. WILLIAM DESMOND TAYLOR MURDERED IN HOME?LOS ANGELES POLICE SEARCH IN VAIN FOR CLUE IN EARLY INVESTIGATION. Los Angeles, Feb. 2.?Mystery to night surrounded the murder of Wil liam Desmond Taylor, internationally know motion picture director, who was found dead at his desk in his iiume nere mis morning, ine Duuet which ended his life had been fired into his neck from behind and had ranged downward piercing his heart. On the desk beside his head lay a mass of cancelled checks which he apparently had been inspecting when the fatal shot was fired. Robbery, according to the police could not have been the motive for nothing was missing from the apart ment although a considerable sum of money and jewelry was found un disturbed near the body. One of the last persons to see Tay lor, who was director in chief at the Famous Players-Lasky studios, alive was Mabel Normandf film comedienne i She called upon him early yester- , day evening. She told detectives to- i day that she stopped at the apartment .j to return a book Taylor had loaned 1 her and talked with him for about J half an hour. She and Taylor ex- i pressed fear of a former servant s whom he alleged had robbed him. She also said Taylor had told her he , night call at her home several bloks , wav later in the eveniner and that I. le might telephone. She left the t apartment about 9 o'clock, she said, { :his statement being corroborated by ler chauffeur. Both said Taylor walk- c }d to the car with them. She said she c lad not seen or heard from him again. Taylor's only servant who left the < apartment at the same time as the j actress, last night, found the body t 3n returning this.morning. DEATH OF MRS. CARLISLE I Frs. Margaret Stevenson Carlisle, wife of S. R. Carlisle, died last night about mid-night at her home near Abbeville, after a short illness. Fun jral services this afternoon conduct- v 3d by the Rev. J. B. Hillhouse were followed by interment in Sharon :hurchyard. Mrs. Carlisle, who was 75 years jld, was the last of her family. A laughter of Ha?'mon Stevenson who . t Jied fifty or more years ago, she was preceded to the grave by all the . nembers of her parents' family. She is survived by her husband, S. R. Carlisle and two sons, Henry Car isle and S. R. Carlisle, Jr., and one laughter, Miss Dolly Carlisle. She ,vas a member of the Lebanon Pres- * Dyterian church. TO COLLECT PLEDGES Bishop Atkins N^uies Methodist j Committee Memphis, Feb 1?A committee of 11 members headed by Bishop . VV P McMurray of Louisville, Ky, ; ,vas named today by Bishop James Atkins, to map out an intensive campaign foT the collection of $4,- j 500,000 of centenary pledges be fore the meeting of the general j, inferences of the Methodist Epis :opal church, South, at Hot Springs nev+. Mav in order to hrinf* ;he work of tffe five year campaign jp to date. The appointmeint of the commit ;ee followed a number of address ;s by missionary leaders of the :hurch who spoke on the work vhich the Methodist church was loing in foreign lands and in ex ending its influene in this country tnd the direct relation which the mccessfui completion of the cente lary campaign bore to this pro -am for both home and foreign nisskms. I El :ngstrum presents propos al to weeks?ford's offer ready, will be delivered to congress BY secretary of war immediately ( Washington, Feb. 2.?On the eve of delivery by Secretary Weeks of Henry Ford's offer for the govern ment properties at Muscle Shoals, Ala., Frederick E. Engstrum of Wil mington, N. C., presented the war secretary with an amended proposal to complete, lease and operate the Muscle Shoals properties for the manufacture of nitrate for fertilizers ?!~j ? ' ? ?"v amciiucu ^rupvsai. was accom panied by a letter signed by Marion Butler, acting legal adviser for ,Mr. Engstrum, which recited the out standing features of the proposals as follows: ' A guaranteed cost to complete. Government retains ownership and preserves assets of $141,000,000. Heturns from investment on a baa .s of 400,000 kilowat gross develop ment; this lease will pay to the gov ernment, the letter says, $3,504,000 per year for 50 years, or a total at compound 4 per cent, interest of ap oroximately $537,000,000; this cash .vill be used to produce cheap nitrates for fertilizers or can be turned into ;he treasury at the option of the government.. Success of nitrate manufacture vhich can be economically "used fOT :ert lizer is dependent entirely on ;ale of power; without the support of ;he power development and sale of sxcess power to finance the nitrate jlants it would not be possible to :ontinue the manufacture and sale \f The power end of the industry is solely developed for the benefit of ;he factory. The separation of the factory from the power destroys the mity of the Industry. X This lease proposes to devote tne entire power development to the nanufacturt of nitrates, including -he development of improved meth ods for the reduction of cost of pto iucing nitrates. The quantity of ni .rates annually produced is limited jnly by the amount'of excess power sold and the selling price of nitrates bred by the government. The'method proposed to finance by .he sale of excess power in the man jfacture of nitrates is the only pos sible method by which nitrates can je produced under present known nethods and sold to the American farmers at a price less than the Chil ian products. "We will be glad," the letter con :luded, "to consider any changes or imendments which you may suggest ,vlth a view to accepting the same if ,ve can see our way clear so to do." vrur CADU UANATCD Rosenbergs Employ Doyle Hen dricks of^ Easley Doyle Hendricks of Easley has seen employed to manage the ar ge farming interests in this :ounty of the Rosenbergs, and has ilready entered upon his duties. VIr Hendricks, although a young nan, is a Clemson graduate and las much practical knowledge of he work he has unde-rtaken. The Easley Prgress says of him: Doyle Hendricks, son of Mr and tfvs George H. Hendricks, has ac ? ? 4- ? ,1 ? nnoi+inn urifVl a la rtrP TYIPT ;cpicu a ^A/otuivii ntwu v? *v?ov entile firnTin Abbeville, as super ntendent of their farming inter !sts. Doyle is a graduate of Clem on College and also, took his M. A. legree in the .University of Wis onsin. He specialized in entomo ogy, and is a "bug" expert. Doyle s a splendid fellow and while his riends here regret to see him leave hey wish him great success in old Abbeville.