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and Istablished 1844. $2.00 Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Wednesday, March 8, 1922. Single Copies, Five Cents. 78th Year. ME DEBATING |1NE SECTIONS OF BILL PASSE1 LAST NIGHT?EFFORT MAD TO REDUCE AMOUNT FOR TH! UNIVERSITY?FINANCE COM MITTEE WINS OUT. Columbia, March 8.?The senat into action on the general apprc ition bill last night and passed th nine sections of the measur >ut a single cnange irom me ret jmendations of the finance con despite efforts to cut dow University of South Carolina ap >priation and efforts to rais larks' salaries. f The finance committee's recommer ions were put forward at ever so much so that Senator Mc fkee said he was tempted to mov it the entire appropriation bill b jpted as printed without furthe ite. The action of the senate wa smoothest so far encountered b finance committee. When the bill was taken up am sections and subsections read iter item no effort to make a change made for the legislative depart it, the judicial department, th pernor's office, the secretary o kte's office, the comptroller genex office and the attorney general' The first amendment of th was made by Senator Hart t icrease the salary of the bond clerl the state treasurer's office fron 1,700 to $2,200, but this was vote< Some explanations were nec on the-adjutant general's ap ition, but no- serious objectioi voiced. ,When Section 10, the university reached it occasioned consider discussion and effort to reduce itor Wightman moved to ameni amount to pay the professors? J,970, and make it $90,000, bu er debate the amendment w? led down anJ the item lef le. The provision for $2,000 fo and preparations for t wc ra buildings also brought on deal of debate. Senator Goo<i moved to strke out the amoun1 rat after the debate the senate r< to strike out the item by of 28 to 6. Senator Wightman' [proposed amendment was killed b | a vote of 35 to 2. Senator Bonham early in tfa I night moved to restore all salaric Ito th? same bas as of 1921, 'but following explam tions he did not press the motio with the understanding that it t taken up after the bill has bee rinished section by section. Senator McGhee - of Greenwoo made some "observations" on tJb university, the need of endowmei of the institution and said that r< ductions should be made*. Mr. Mi Ghee said he wanted the people c the state to consider the matter c an endowment for the unhrersit such as other schools have and I asked what the alumni of the scho< have done along this line. He ah asked what the city of Columbia ha "tfone and answered the question b saying that Columbia had dor nothing for the university except t admit that it was here. As passed last night the nine se< tions of the appropriation bill can the following totals: Legislative d partment, $108,167; the judicial d< partment, $157,698.66; the gOYe sor's office, $17,969.24; secr'etai of state's office, $10,000; comptro leer general's office, $723,906.3^ this including the $100,000 redu< tion made by the finance commits over the house bill for pensions; a tovney general's office $14,331.2! state treasurer's office, $257,834 62; adjutant general's office, $55 996.50; the university, $193,203.71 There are 67 sections of the bi and action will be resumed th morning when the ;?enate recoi venes at 10:30 o'dotfc. m\ D IN TORNADO AT WARRENVILLE TUESDAY MORNING.?MANY OF INJURED EXPECTED TO DIE?HOUSES CRUMPLED UP AS IF MADE OF PASTE BOARD Augusta, Ga., March 7.?Six per sons are known to have been killed 9i)d scores were injured in the wind and rain storm, which early today flooded streams, ana causea neavy property damage in this section of Georgia and South Carolina. Four mill villages?Langley, Stiefleton, Graniteville and Warren ville, in the Horse Creek valley, of South Carolina were struck by the tornado just before daybreak today and houses were swept away, trees uprooted and telegraph poles felled, leaving the section in darkness and without wire communication with the outside world. The victims were caught under their fallen homes. In some sections the storm swept away everything in its path, scattering parte of build ings and furniture over-the fields. The brunt of the storm appeared to have hit Warrenville and Stiefleton, where six persons are known to be dead. Every house in a row of twelve except one in Warrenville was raxed. Four houses were destroyed in Stie fleton. Four of the dead were children un der ten years of age. In Macon the rainfall was describ ed as the heaviest in.! twenty-three years. The dead are: Fred Hoover, age 12; Dolly Mitchell, age 5; Mrs. L. Mun day, age 40; Mrs. Boyd, age 35; Son - ? j r? * v., qtaaJ TT UOU, age iY, 1/ulVUIJf r? wu, age , 8. . j Many of the injured~are expected to die. Estimates of the number in [t jured in both Warrenville and Stie g fleton are conservatively placed at t 40. r Aid has been rushed from Aiken, K and the Aiken chapter of the Red a Cross in charge of Miss Agnes Camp l_ bell, R. G. Torence and Miss Anna ^ Phelps of Washington, D. C., is rushing relief measures. a Twenty-two houses were razed at Warrenville and six were razed and y blown away at Stiefleton. Warrenville is a mill village be tween Augusta and Aiken, just off the Southern railroad. Stiefleton is a small settlement a quarter of a mile from Warrenville. me storm sirucK warrenvine aoom 5 o'clock this morning and it was three hours later before any infor mation of the disaster reached the outside world. The town was com pletely isolated. E. W. GREGORY TO INSTALL RADIO MACHINE E. W. Gregory of the Abbeville Telephone Company has ordered a radio machine and expects to in stall the same in the Austin-Perrm Drug Store where free concerts will be given each evening in order to demonstrate the machine. A radio machine is nothing more than a wireless telephone and the people of Abbeville will be glad foi Mr. Gregory to explain the work ing of the wireless. At these eon certs he will put you in communica tion with friends in New York 01 elsewhere. 1*1 K. HUlYUJtK 1 J rAltlCK li-J H. B. Humbert, County Engineer of the Highway Commission was call ed to the bedside of his father, Capt. J. B. Humbert of Princeton, who suf fered a stroke of paralysis about a year ago and has been in feeble health since. Capt. Humbert was a member of the famous Wallace House of 1876 and is one of the very few members surviving. S. A. Speed of Lowndesville visiting relatives in town. HOUSE MS TO SUSPEND RUL * NO SEED GRAIN FOR FARMER OF NORTHWEST.?ONLY SI SHORT OF NECESSARY TW( THIRDS TO SPEND MILLIO DOLLARS. Washington, March 7.?By a clo! vote the house refused today to su pend its rules and pass . a bill ai thorizing an appropriation of $1,00< 000 for the purchase of seed grain 1 be used in the drought stricken arei of the Northwest. With five members voting "pre ent" the vote was 191 to 99 or s: votes short of the two-thirds neede for passage. Sharp debate preceded the vot Proponents of the bill declared tl situation in the Northwest was crit cal and contended the governmei should lend assistance. Opponents < the measure, most of whom wei Democrats, held, however, that it h? not been shown that the farmers a fected were destitute or had e: hausted their credit resources. Representative Mondell of Wyor ing, Republican leader, urging pas age of the bill, said that settlers i North Dakota, Montana, Idaho ar Washington, the four states chief affecj^d by the legislation, were ca rying on a great "experiment" to d termine whether crops could be gro-w on their lands or whether the soil wj good only for grazing purposes. "The question is, are they to abai jaon tneir nomes ana tneir strung or are they to be given the opporti nity to pursue the experiment whi< means more to the country as a who! than to them individually or collec ively?" Mr. Mondell stated. Speaking in opposition to tl measure Representative Garrett < Tennessee, Democratic leader, d clared it was time for the Republics majority congress that is "making pretense at economy to use more di cretion in advocating bills that cs for government expenditures." E said that no evidence had been pr sented to the agriculture committ< , that farmers in the Northwest wei in destitute circumstances. ; The agricultural appropriation bi last year carried $2,000,000 for tl purchase of seed grain to be loan* farmers in the Northwest. Represen ative Buchanan of Texas, a Dem cratic member of the appropriate committee, told the house that ; hearings before the subcommitt< preparing tlr's year's agricultural b: it was brought out that only $60C 000 of the $2,000,000 loaned farme last spring had been repaid. THE LATEST NOVELTY IN THE BUILDING UN , Combination Church and S?renl? Story Hot?! To Be Built In New York New York, March 7.?A corafc nation church and 17 story mode] hotel is to he New Yotfc's late novelty in buildings. The. structur providing Sunday school space the basement, a church on the fir three floors and a missionary echo on the roof, will be erected on tl site of the Metropolitan Taibenac Broadway and 14th street. A strict censorship will be eoce cised over hotel guests, and playii and dancing will be prohibited. Tl estimated cost is $1,600,000. CONFEDERATE VETERAN GOES TO HIS RE WAR W. H. Frith died Tuesday <mor IVl/V r? 4- +1* A V?/~wTV\?i A kin CAM T r\ r , Frith, in the Mill Village and w; buried at 3 o'clock this afternoon ; , Sharon. Rev. Kilgore conducted tl funeral services. Mr. Frith was I years old and was a gallant Co: federate soldier during the wa being a member of Company < First South Carolina Cavalr Hampton's Brigade. F L COLLEAGUES ANXIOUS F< HIM TO REMAIN AT HEJ UNTIL AFTER GENOA CO FERENCEr- INFLUENCES J WORK London, March 7.?The , impr sion is general tonight that the jx tical situation has been relieved considerable strain in the past hours, authoritative reports indie ing that the prime minister has i cided to continue in office. Influenced by his Unionist c leagues, particularly with referei to the international position ti txjamM Kp a i?KotwM in 1 premiership at this time, < Mr. Ll< (George is said to be at least ret to hold his resignation in abeyan It is understood that assurances the support of these leaders w given last night at a dinner gii last night by Lord Biifcenhead which, in addition to the pri minister and the lord chancel there were present Mr. Chamb lain, Sir Arthur Balfour, Lord C zon, Sir Robert Stevenson Ho: and Sir Laming Worthington Eva Meanwhile Mr. Lloyd Geoige i confined to his room In his Doi ing street residence all day sufl ing from bronchial catarrh; he ceived no visitors and is expected leave Wednesday on his doctor's dera for a rest of a week or lonj at his old home at Cricoieth, Wa] The conservative members of pari ment are meeting privately in house of commons tonight to disc the entire position and it is repc ed that a meeting of the natio executives of the Unionist pal comprising representatives from parts of $iq country, is to be eal for March 14. While definite guarantees of ' support of the rank and file of Unionists were not given at Birkenhead dinner it is undercU that assurances have been receh in the past few days that this ba ing will be considerable. A una rnous agreement is said to have bi reached at last night's gather that instead of the coalition bre ing up, ,steps should be tak^n coalese into the talked of Natio party. Announcement of the pol decided upon is awaited in Sir . thur Balfour's address to his c stituents in London tomorrow. He credited with using his best deavors to persuade the premier continue at least until after Genoa conference. THE BODY OF CARUSO WAS BURLED I NT A L. P l-?1 11/ i.j t- n ioc Lmnnmcr hbaicq a o xwhf Vocal Orftni Bet The Fami ly Refuted Naples March 7.?Giovanni Ca so, brother of the late Enrico Ca so, who has just arrived from United States, asserts that the 1x of the tenor was burled Intact. I Salvia, who . embalmed the bo had wanted to remove the vocal gans, Giovanni said, but the fan of the singer refused its permissi The foregoing dispatch confix the statement of Mrs. Can widow oi tne tenor, wno aecia; there was no truth in the rep printed in a Rome newspaper 1 week that the vocal oTgans of singe* had heen kept for medi examinatoin. REV. G. M. TELFORD CONDUCTS SERVIC Rev. G. M. Telford is conduct services at the Presbyterian chu this week. The service every mo n- ing is only 45 minutes long and ,r, stores close at 10:30 o'clock and 3, main closed for that length of ti y, allowing the merchants to att< the meeting. PROPOSALS SUBMITTED TO AMBASSADORS IN WASHING I TON?SUGGESTED DISTRIBU TION NOT MADE PUBLIC BUT WILL BE PRESENTED Washington, March 7.?Plans for the distribution of all cables taken over from Germany under the pro visions of the treaty of Versailles were presented today to the ambas sador of Great Britain, (Prance, Italy and Japan by Acting Secre tary Fletcher of the state depart ment as chairman of the interna the >yd tdy ce. of ere ren at me lor <er ur rne R8. ras ro 'er re to or lee. lia the see irt cuuiereacv vu tions which is considering the final alloeaton of former German lines. Details of the proposed distribu tion were not made public, but will be transmitted (by members of the conference to their respective gov ernments for review. Settlement of the former German cable lines in the Pacific was effect ed by distribution of those linee among the United States, Japan and the Netherlands at the time of the conference on limitation of arma ments, but that allocation was made contingent upon division of the three former German cable lines in the Atlantic, Italy reserving the right to acknowledge distribution of the Pacific cables until-her claims in the Atlantic tines had been met. It was understood that the Italian f government insisted upon receiving one-fifth of all the former German cables either in kind or in monetary value cash settlement to be applied toward the construction of a cable li?" rUuiAa to tiiA AmrM. In the the the >od red ck mi jen ing ak to nal icy &T on > is en to the terest of the United States and Ja pan was largely met by the alloca tions to them in the Pacific, while Great Britain has been operating one of the former German cables between iPi usance, England, and Halifax. The French government has control of the remaining two German cables in the Atlantic, one running from Brest to New York and the other from Brest to Per nambuco, Brazil. SEVEN GIRLS ARE KILLED Thirty Severely Injured in Powder Explosion Birmingham, England, March 7.? Seven girls were killed and thirty severely injured today in an explo sion of powder which they were re moving from the cartridges in a factory at Tipton, a short distance northwest of Birmingham. The faces of the injured girls were blackened by the powder beyond recognition. The disaster occurred at the Knowles factory, which recently pur chased 160 tons of cartridges irom i the government. The factory employs more than fifty girl3, who were en gaged in the task of removing the metal portions of the cartridges prior to the melting of the metal into in gots. The explosive contents were placed in separate receptacles. -The explosion blew off the roof of the building. MRS. W. A. CALVERT SICK Mrs. W. A. Calvert who has been in ill health for some time was taken worse on Monday night and has been pfactically unconscious ever since. Mrs. Calvert has a host of friends in town and throughout the county who will be grieved to hear of her illness. ENDS OWN LIFE Greenwood, March 6.?Bob Cof fee committed suicide at his home this afternoon in the Grendel mili village 'by cutting his throat. He was a mill operative and leaves a family. n? n.n ru?o ni 9Ai1 bhe re rae ;nd The high school base ball team has been organized and began prac tice on Tuesday afternoon. It is hoped the team will give the people SMie good ball this spring. BABE RUTH'S SALARY ' IS $75,000 YEAR NET BIG LEAGUE BASEBALL CLUB OWNERS SAY THE SALARY QUESTION IS SERIOUS?DE VELOPMENTS PAST FORTY YEARS. ^ New York, March 7.?George - Wright, star shortstop of the Cin cinnati Red Sox, played throughout the entire season of 1869 for a sal ary of $1,200. The Red Stockings played 57 games that year, of which they won 56 and tied one, a record which has never keen duplicated. Wright was the highest paid mem ber of the team. Babe Ruth, home run hitter ex traordinary, signed on Sunday a contract with the New York Ameri can league club whiclf will net him approximately $75,000 during the coming season. The contract is for three years with a renewal option for two seasons additional. If con tinued for the five years George Herman Ruth will receive a total of not less than $375,000. These figures give an idea of the development of professional base ball in this country during the past fifty years. They also are the cause of. frequent.-, conferences behind * closed doors in which baseball stag nates argue the question as to whether they are building a salary Frankenstein which will in time turn and destroy what has been in 1 ;~ the past a, reasonably profitable y business. Big league baseball, club '' owners will not discuss publicly this subject in the most abstract- ' ed manner. It is the eonseoMf o i opinion as expressed by the mag- -.\V nates, nowever, tnat ue smuuon 13 serious. It is estimated that the salary lists of the sixteen clubs of the two major leagues -will aggregate more than $2,000,000 this season. The maximum figures for any oae club are placed at about $<226,000 and the minimum at a trifle orer $100, 000. To this expense must be added ground rent, travel charges, local, state and federal taxes; interest on mortgages, officers and such as ad vertising ticket printing and sup plies. A study , of basabaH salaries over a period of the past thirty to forty years shows the steady increase which has developed from year to year. In the early seventies $1,500 was a top notch figure for a star player. At the beginning of 1900 players \>f similar calibre were re receiving from $5,00 to $10,000 a season. . > SUPPLY OF WINE RAN OUT Unusual Situation at Spartanburg Church** oh Sunday Spartanburg, March 7.<?Sunday was communion day at the Protes tant churches of the city, and - at several of the churches the supply of .wine, provided for the occasion proved inadequate, due to the large increase in attendance and the in creased number of communicants. In each case, however, the pastor and church officers were awe to see before the ceremony ended that the wine would not hold out and sent for additional supplies, and no church member had to go without communion. The largely increased attendance at the church services' in the city is attributed to the recent Billy Sun day campaign. MEET IN NEW ORLEANS Cottonseed Crushers .Fix Conven tion Dates New Orleans, March 7.?At a meeting here today of the execu tive committee of the Interstate Cottonseed Crushers' association it was decided to hold the annual con vention of the association in New Orleans May 10, 11 and 12.