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Abbeville Press and Banner! Established 1844. $2.00 Year. Tri-Weekly .Abbeville, S. C., Friday, April 7, 1922 , Single Copies, Five Cents. 78th Year" I SUMMARY OF BUSINESS CONDI TIONS FOR MARCH?MORE THAN MILLION MORE BE JOB LESS UNLESS SETTLEMENT IS MADE WITH ENGINEERS. London, April 6.?A gloomy pic ture of the British situation is pre- ' sented in the American chamber of 1 commerce's summary of business and ^ economic conditions for March. 1 - " * ] After some montns 01 peace, se vere industrial strife is again being 1 experienced. The question whether ^ 600,000 skilled engineers will be ^ forced into idleness hangs on nego- ' tiations between the employers and 1 the unions, brought about by the in- ! tervention of Prime Minister Lloyd 1 George. * More than a million persons will { be without jobs unless a settlement is speedily reached, the report points i out. The engineering dispute is con- 4 eemed with the question of overtime 1 while the shipbuilding workers are ^ disaffected due to a bonus reduction M by installments, of 26 1-2 shillings * weekly. Ships docking for repairs al- 1 ready are being diverted to foreign ( norts. 5 The effect of unemployment re turns will be serious. Registered un employed persons on March 20, num bered 1,726,076, which figure, al though large, was a reduction of 172,000 from that of ten weeks be fore. Lancashire cotton manufacturers have given notice of a seventy-five per cent, reduction in the standard price list, roughly six shillings a pound, but it is not expected such a large reduction will be made. The February foreign trade re turns, published in March were not ehcouraging as compared with Jan uary, both imports and exports sub stantially declined. Exports dropped off nearly 5,000,000 pounds sterling and imports more than 7,000,000 pounds, some of the decrease being due to the short month. A feature of the returns was that, -apart from the so-called invisible ex on ootnol lavnrsKlo +rnde h?l jJVi M) Mil MVVMM* am* vawar.w ance of 224,000 pounds was shown for the first time in a century. In ; 1913 the adverse trade balance a mounted to 134,000,000 pounds and in 1920 to 374,000,000 pounds and in 1920 to 374,000,000 pounds. 1 The February balance was not due however, to increased exports, but to decreased imports. Shipments of British coal continue at a high level moving at a rate of 68,000,000 tons yearly as compared with 98,000,000 in 1913. The export price is seventeen shillings a ton. FARMER KILLS HIMSELF S. S. Farrar Fires Bullet Into Tem pie?Find Body in Barnyard Laurens, April 6.?Coroner R. R Owings was called to Mountville yes tPTHnv tn hold an inauest over S. S Farrar, a prominent citizen who was found dead in his barnyard at an early hour this morning. The surroundings indicated that ' Mr. Farrar had shot himself, a wound being found in his temple and he was : holding in his grasp a pistol with 1 which the fatal wound had been in- ' flicted. The verdict of the coroner's ' jury was in accordance with these ' facts. It is said that Mr. Farrar had been depressed for some weeks over financial matters. He was a mative of Union county and had resided near Mountville^and engaged in farming for several years He i3 survived by his widow and two children. He was about 65 years of I. age. A few years ago he was a can didate for county supervisor and lat er made the race for county commis sioner. He was a highly respected citizen. COTTON MARKET Cotton sold on the local market to day for 17 3-4 cents. TWO IN ATTACK FRE ORANGEBURG MAN USES KNIFE AND PISTOL?ONE GETS BAD LY CUT AND RECEIVES LEG WOUND?OFFICER IS ALSO WOUNDED Orangeburg, April 6.?Stewart F. Coy of Pittsburgh and John A. Rob inson of Blackstone, N. D., are in ihe Orangeburg jail, having been ar rested on a charge of attempted lighway robbery. These young white men came to the home of E. L. Bull, a prominent farmer in the Parlor section of Orangeburg county faat night, and told Mr. Bull that they were tourists, their car had broken down and to please drive them to Parler, that they might :atch the night train. Mr. Bull con sented and while driving his car to ward Parler and when Vance mill Jam was reached, the road being juite secluded at that spot the young nen assailed Mr. Bull with their ists. Mr. Bull was being choked by jne of the men, but he managed to jet his knife and he cut that man's ;hroat from ear to ear, cut the oth ;r man on the hand and about the nouth and shot one of the men in :he leg. Although Mr. Bull was D.ruised considerably, 'he was not sadly hurt. The robbers were pain Pi* iniiiKa/1 on/1 n/vf attoti o4-_ tempt escape. Mr Bull soon got help, *ot the cat straightened out and de livered the injured men to Magis trate J. R. Bardin,who in turn wrought.them to Orangeburg. Dr. W. R. Lowman, the county physician, attended the injured men it the Orangeburg jail and dressed :he wounds. The men are not danger* jusly wounded, but are suffering from a severe cut throat, another with his cut face and hands and one ba$ a pistol shot wound in the leg, Sir. Bull was confined to his room today. Yesterday afternoon, near Elloree, H. Van Ohsen, Jr., and W. Clem Griffith made an attempt to stop and arrest these young men taking them for automobile thieves. They asked for the warrant and when none could be produced, refused to be arrested and one of them shot-Mr. Von Ohsen in the shoe, the ball going (between his toee, inflicting very slight injury. One of the men was armed when the attack was made upon Ivlr. Bull. HAIL STORM IS VIOLENT Trees Are Stripped of Limbs in Middle Georgia Macon, Apr. 6.?A violent storm that struck several sections of mid dle Georgia this afternoon caused heavy loss to growing crops and peches. Flat hail stones 3 to 4 inches in diameter stripped trees of limbs at Holton. At Gray, Ga., a peach section was severely damaged, and sixjtenths of an inch of rain and hail feJl in a few minutes. Milledgeville, Ga., Apr. 6.?The south end of'the negro boys' dormi tory, a three-story brick building at the Georgia Training School for Boys, collapsed during a hail and rain storm this afternoon. Other buildings were flooded wHen the hail broke the windows. Shade trees in the city, and crops at (the State fara were badly damaged. The storm was violent for ten minutes. CHECKS LOCAL OFFICE Mr. H. A. Bacon of Atanta, trav eling auditor for the Western Union Telegraph Company, <was in Abbeville yesterday checking the lo cal office. He found Miss Gann's of fice in good condition. GOES TO BUSINESS COLLEGE Carlisle Bates, who has made his liome in AWbaville for several years, left this week, for Eastman, New Fork, where ^he expects to take a business course at Poughkeepsie. lEPORTATION BILL PASSED BY HOUSE ROHIBITIONIST5 WARNED BY SOME MEMBERS THEY ARE GOING TOO FAR?AFFECTS ALIENS CONVICTED OF VIO LATING LIQUOR LAWS Washington, April 6.?By a vote f more than three on one, the [ous? late today passed and sent ) the Senate a bill authorizing the eportation of aliens convicted in tate or federal courts on cnarges f having violated the narcotic and olstead acts. Described by prohibition advocates s a step toward better law enforce lent, and characterized by Repres entative Graham, Pennsylvania, anking Republican on the judiciary Dmmittee* as "a monstrous piece of ;gislation," the bill (as presented by ie immigration committee stood up gainst all attacks. A motion to recommit so that i? provision relating to conviction 1 State courts might be eliminated ras defeated and the measure was at through, as framed, 222 to 73. Representative Walsh, Republican [assachusetts, a member of the idiciary committee which wrote the riginal Volstead act and who offer d the motion to recommit, declared e ibeilieved now as then that the en ircement law was made too drastic L .1-- -i . ' ?1 u Talc suuw. Warning was sounded to prohibi onists by many members, including ,epresenative Mann, Republican, II nois, a veteran of the House, that ley were going too far, that there -as danger of disrupting the whole pstem of law enforcement and that irors would be unwilling to convict lose who ought to go to jail if it lso meant deportation. There were many references to ae Anti-Saloon League and Wayne t. Wheeler, its general counsel. Rep esentative Hill, Republican, Mary md, charged that "the American lottleggers Union" and the league rere standing hand in hand and ghting under one banner to get the lien bootlegger out oi business. Mr. Valsh said that Mr. Wheeler could ot be classed by the bootleggers as n enemy since "he Is the man who as made it possible for them to ply heir trade*." 4 lEATH OF MRS. L. E. EDWARDS Mrs. Laure E. Edwards died in laleigh, N. C., on Wednesday the 4th f April at the home of her son, Paul .'dwards, and was brought to Abbe ille and buried at Sharon Thursday fternoon. Rev. H. L. Weeks of the laptist church of Abbeville conduct d the funeral services. Mrs. Edwards was about 71 years f age, and had made her home with er son in Raleigh for several years, he was born in Newberry county nd was a Miss Laura Summers he ore her marriage. Mrs. Edwar.ds is survived by one on, Paul, and one daughter, Mrs. H. McClesky of Atlanta. Her hus and and oldest son, James, preced d her in death. The following attended the funer 1 from a distance: Mrs. H. A. Mc lesky, and Misses Myrtle and Doro ly and Theron, Jack and Reuben [cClesky of Atlanta; Mrs. Russell fade of Atlanta; Hollis Edwar&d ad son Eugene Edwards cf# Winder, ra. and Paul Edwards and Messrs. 'eserne and Sullivan of Raleigh, N. LITTLE BOY SCALDED all* Into Pot of Boiling Lye Soap. Burns Fatal. Laurens, April 6.?Virgil, 3-year Id son of Dr. C. E. Dubose, of this ity, was fatally scalded this after oon when the little fellow, while laying in the yard, accidentally fell ackward into a pot of boiling: lye >ap which was being attended by an id colored woman at the Dubose Dme. He died tonight. MARCH SHOWS IMPROVEMEN OVER FEBRUARY.? FORT! THREE OF SIXTY-FIVE PLACE REPORTING ABLE TO Ar NOUNCE INCREASE. Washington, April 6.?Increase employment ranging up to 28 pi cent, over the preceding month wj reported today to the employmei service of the department of lab< from 43 to 65 representative citi< for the month ending March 31. TV automotive and allied industries, ire and steel and their products and lun ber headed the trades showing in proved activity. The net increase f< the country figured on reports fro 1,428 firms, was 2.5 per cent. Mar of the 22 cities reporting decreas* were in the New England state their reports showing the results < the textxile strikes now in progres Denver led the reporting citii with an increase in employment i March of 28.2 per cent., Memphis b ing second with 18.1. The South ii dicated generally imprbved emplo; ment tone during March, the repo: said, with indications that furthi progress would be recorded in tl next 30 days. Despite some slackness in textile Virginia industries were more acti\ as a whole and the outlook was coi sidered good. Lumber and fertilize: shared the increase in workers Georgia during the past month. A lanta reported a "little improvefflei in the industries," the demand f< labor being about 8 per cent. ov< that of January. Savannah indicat< textiles, lumber and r$$flir sho] more active, but not sufficiently i to assimilate all available labor. North Carolina textiles' increas< their forces in March and the leadir cities reported surplus labor beir rapidly absorbed. In South Carolin j textiles receded slightly but improv iment in lumber and chemical trad more than made good the recessio The housing situation in the state h; I been much relieved, reports to tl employment service said. Cotton mills in Mississippi we: worked full time with a full force March and the majority of the lur ber mills were on full time, repor to the service said. TO BUILD POTATO HOUSE R. E. Cox of the County Savin; Bank, is anxious to ascertain he many acree of sweet potatoes ea< farmer in Abbeville County will p out. He expects to build a pota house soon and the size of this buil ing will be governed toy th& potato he will 'likely have to store. He w be glad for you to notify him or ] A. Calvert whether you will pla ono or ten acrfes of sweet potato tnis year. WANTED TEN MILLION New York Mta Trie* To Borrc Too Mack New York, Apr. 6.?People wa into the big banks on lower Manhs tan every day and borrow stupe dous sums but when Aubrey I. Car er,a young upstate farmer, tried t day he landed in Tombs prison. Carver went to the Chemical N tional bank, approached Samu Shaw, cashier, and asKed for a Ioj of $10,000,000. After a little partey, Shaw to Carver he would call another bai about the loan and telephoned poli< headquarters. Magistrate Andrews continued tl hearing on a. disorderly condu charge until Friday, sending him ' 1.1.- ?n v_ ?? -i? 4-v?. I wile jl uiiiL/9 iui vwa vdiiun uuwx w*< time. CATHOLIC SERVICE Rev! James A. McElroy of Greei ville will conduct services in tfr Catholic church in Abbeville Sunda morning at 10:30 o'clock. R EVANS SAYS MOTOR MANUFAC TURER HAS CONFERRED CURSE ON WORKERS BY SPECIALIZATION ?NOW BE FORE LABOR BOARD Chicago, Apr. 6.?Henry Ford, Detroit automobile manufacturer, was declared responsible for advanc ing specialization in factories and accused of "conferring a curs? on his workers," before the railroad laoor Doara toaay in me wage Hear ing at which 204 railroad are seeking a 10 iper cent wage reduction. Edward J. Evans, vice president of the interntional Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, attacked the railroads, which, he said, were tend ing toward too great specialization in shop work. "Henry Ford may have conferred a blessing on many people, those who own autonafoiles, but he confer red a curse on his workers. They sit at heir benches, half dead, doing their bits of work mechanically over and over," the union leader declar ed. High specialization was asserted by Mr. Evans to be the "worst crime against humanity." The rail roads, in seeking a sliding scale of rates, according to the work done by different ^shopmen? were tending mAVA ar>/1 ata "f atwq?^i c^nnio.lii?o4ia1^ uiui^ ciiivi uiuic bvnoAu oy he said. ' Replying to testimony by the rail roads that outside industries paid much lower wages than the roads to shop craft em/pfloyees, union officials ^ today told the board the carriers i1 had not presented a true summary of the situation in their wage hearing evidence. Harry Carr, vice president of a machinists' union, told the board that John G. Walber, representing Eastern roads has named 47 estab lishments in Cincinnati which paid lower rates than railroads paid "Everyone knows that a strike in Cincinnati two years ago lost every thing for these men and that they now are forced to take what they can get," Mr. Carr said. "That is not a fair example." "Mr. Walber cited wages In six firms in New York. I wonder if that was all he could find and why he did not mention the Hoe Printing Press company, which pays shop craftsmen 90 cents an hour; municipal shops which pay $1.12 1-2 or Black and White Taxicab company which pays 89 cents as compared with the 77 to J cents now paid railroad shopmen." d PREDICTS ARMY 150,000 Chairman Kahn Discuisea Matter With President Washington, April 6.?Confidence that congress in the end will retain the army at approximately the fig ure asked by the War Department was expressed in administration quarters today after Chairman Kahn of the House military committee had talked the situation over with Presi dent Harding. Mr. Kahn said he be lieved that eventually the army bill would carry an officer personnel of 13,000 and an enlisted strength of around 150,000. GLEMSON n UNIVERSITY OF GA. Dick Swetenlburg is going to pitch for Clemson College this afternoon in a game between Clemson and the University of Georgia to be played in Atheps, Ga. Carroll Swetenburg, Neil Swetenburg and Bill Jones went over on No. 5 to take in the game. ASHEVILLE GAME CALLED Mr. A. B. Galloway, Sanford Howie and Bruce and Ashby Gallo c way went to Asneviwe yesieraay through the country to see "Chick" Galloway play (ball. They had a pleasant trip, but the game was call ed off on account of rain. E \LL BUT THREE COUNTIES RE PRESENTED AT ENTHUSIAS TIC MEETING HERE YESTER DAY? COUNTY REPRESENTA TIVES CRY "WE WILL." Columbia, Apr. 7.?JRepresenta tives from every cotton growing :ounty in South Carolina except >hree pledged their word at an en rfiusiastic meeting held here yester day that the campaign for the for mation of the South Carolina Cot-, ion Groovers' Cooperative associa tion should nt fail. When, after a jpeech by J. D. Coghlan of Ennis, rexas, had stirred the workers pres snt to a high pitch, R. C. Earner, :hairman of the campaign committee asked those present if they would put the campaign across, the cry "we. will" came from almost every one present. The meeting yesterday was of the workers in the various counties and was called to prepare for "Victory Week" which will be observed next week in all of the counties, and in which it is planned to sign up 100, 000 ibales of cotton. The roll was jailed by counties and a specific quota was allotted to each county, and that county's representatives, asked if his county could be depend ..' a ed upon to sign that quota. In not 3ne instance was a negative ceply received. Many of the workers pledg ed that their county would go beyond :he quota allotted it. J. D. Coghlan, dirt farmer from Fexas, was the principal speaker at bhe meeting and after describing in ietail the operation of the Texas as sociation and telling of the 'benefits ih-eady derived by the farmers of :hat state, which benefits, he said, would be greatly increased when all }f the states had organized, he dramatically asked if the farmers of South Carolina were going to join with the farmers of their sister states or if they were going to continue to sell their cotton under the old sys tem which had bankrupted the South. Mr. Coghlan was specific in his citation of the benefits derived from cooperative marketing of cotton in - A Texas and outlined in detail the ad vantages of the new system over the old. He pleaded with the farmers of South Carolina to join In the move- Jf ment, saying that it appeared to him to be the cotton growers' only salva tion. "I admit that I am here through a selfish motive," said Mr. Coghlan, "'because the greater the number of farmers who join this movement the' greater will ibe the returns to those who are in it. Those of us who have seen the plan in operation and who have tasted of its benefits are so thoroughly sold to it that we have little patience with those who offer excuses for not joining in it." EMPLOYES ARE LAID OFF Albany, N. Y. Apr. 6.?A lay-off of about 1,000 employes due to a decrease in business because of the coal miners' strike was announced by General Manager J. T. Loree, of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad today. Already there has been a re ductio in the working force and the taking oc of a nura/ber of trains on the Pennsylvnia division, it was an nounced. SHERIFF McLANE BUSY Sheriff F. B. McLane was busy this veek^making the following arrests: Ben Steward from near Due West, 1 m a charge of vagrancy. Magistrate Irfprifimh crave Viim a finp nf StRft r\T hirty days. He is serving the time. Will DuBose was arrested on a harge of stealing meat from Mr. Tester at Calhoun Falls. Albert Stalnaker was arrested on i charge of larceny after trust and urnished a bond of $300 for his ap icarance at the June term of Court.