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Abbeville Press and Banner / ablished 1844. $2J30 Year. Tri-Weekiy Abbeville, S. C., Friday, April 21, 1922 Single Copies, Five Cents. 78th Year. - VY BILL PASSED 1Y SEVERAL VOLES I SE APPROVES ENLISTED RSONNEL OF 86,000, DE RT1NG REPUBLICAN LEAD SHIP AND SUPPORTING SITION BY PRESIDENT shington, April 20.?By the n n* 71 votes the house to broke away from its own I rship, stood behind the presi and passed the 1923 naval ap iation bill with an amendment the enlisted personnel of 86, ; vote on the Mc-Arthur-Vare iment, the big point in dispute increased the man farce from ) as provided in the bill, was o 148, with two members an ng present. Ninety Republicans against the 86,000 amend with 43 Democrats supporting >are hand clap or two greeted anouncement by the speaker. ;allerie?s, half deserted, madej empt at a demonstration. I h the fighting section out of ay the bill was put on its pas ind went through, 279 to 78. amended, the measure carried tl of $251,269,000, or about >0,000 more than the total by the approprations commit hich framed it. It goes now to enate, with the charge by nan Kelley of the naval ap ations subcommittee that millions will be added and the house will be asked to had not the big navy men ed front at the last." compared with the 90 RepuWi who voted against the* amend 173 Republicans voted for it, 18 others were paired for it against the 48 Democrats who for the amendment, 57 Demo voted against it while 14 oth ere paired against it. ept on two occasions today 11 sailed along through an ted seas. Once, however, nan Kelley broke loose in | members characterized as a| s attack on the "navy yard nation," charging that despite I ??- fK?ra VAra bHII ids from navy yard and naval :t districts for mora money eras carried in the bill. rting in the Massachusetts vil >f Squantum, where destroyers built during the war, Mr. Kel 1 a picture of "the plea for " jumped across West Vir with its armor plate factory > South Atlantic coast across w Orleans, and then to Cali and up the West coast. The was in a tumult as he de that everywhere the feeling to be that the purpose of the conference was to .build up rovide more work for the gov nt plants. f a dozen members were into the fight. Representative i (Democrat) of Louisiana de g Chairman Kelley had proved If "a naval wrecker." The bat fced for ten minutes. i other clash developed when !elley presented a letter re boday from Secretary Deolby dy to one for information, in if was stated that the added o the bill through increasing jJisted force by 19,000 men be around $40,000,OpO. Denby explained that increas es <iy pot into the bill provided iy and subsistence of the larg sonnel. that no addition for would be needed and that ?m for transportation and re ought to be increased by &,000. Carolina Syncopators went to rille Thursday and played fori |nce at the Greenville Country 'hey will go to Greenwood to to play for a dance at the J hotel tomorrow night. WILL BE NECESSARY SAYS SEC RETARY MELLON?CONGRESS MAKING A PPROPRIATIONS WITH LAVISH HAND?DEFIC I IT OF 1-2 BILLION DOLLARS Washington, April 20.?Levying of additional taxes probably will be nec- r essary to meet the deficit of more * than $350,000,000 forecast for the fiscal year of 1923 by Secreary Mel- e Ion, it was said today at the treasury, t High officials of the treasury de- d partment discussing the expected de- v ficit said that no consideration had c yet been given to means of meeting of the lack of funds but that it was b apparent that the deficit would prob- e ably have to be raised by taxation as t the government "did not have any d thing to sell." p Whether the deficit would run as high as half a billion dollars as es timated by some treasury officials, could not be accurately determined at this time, it was said, as the va j rious contingent items of revenue and expenditures taken into consid eration into figuring the finances for the coming fiscal year made an ac curate determination of the expected deficit impossible. Officials asserted however, a considerable deficit was certain. MEETING MONDAY NIGHT At Court Hoiue in the Interest of Club Market. Monday night at 8 o'clock at the Court House a meeting will be held m the interest of the Home Demon stration Club Market. This meeting is for the purpose of marketing of local farm and home products. The success of such an enterprise de pends on the cooperation of the peo ple who raise the products and the consumers. The following will be the program: Purpose of. the meeting?Mrs. Alma C. Gibbons, Co. Home Dem. Agt How the Town Women can Help the Club Market?Mrs. F. B. McLane, Pres. Civic Club. Greenwood's Successful Market? Miss Janie Robert, Greenwood County Dem. Agent What the Market Means to the Town ?Mrs. M. T. Coleman, Pres. Lea gue of Women Voters. Rug Cleaning Demonstration?Mrs. Alma C. Gibbons. S. C. Home Producers Association? Mrs. Frances Y. Kline, State Mar keting Agent from Winthrop. Everybody Pull Together?Mr. W. C. McGogan, County Farm Agent. All who are interested in the suc cess of the market are cordially in vited to attend this meeting. VISITING CHARLESTON Mrs. T. C. Carroll and Mrs. S. A. Fant left today for Charleston to visit Miss Fay Smith. Miss Smith has 'been teaching in the Mount Pleasant school near Charleston for three years. Mrs. Carroll and Mrs. Fant expect to visit all of the points of interest near Charleston, especially Magnolia Garden and the Isle of Palms. BASEBALL The Abbeviile Cotton Mill team will play the second game against Calhoun Falls at the mill park at 3:30 p. m. Saturday, April 22. The first game was a close contest result ing in victory for Abbeville by a score of 4 to 3. Another close game is expected Saturday afternoon. Big Seizure of Opium. San Francisco, April 20.?A con traband shipment of 14,000 tins of opium, and other drugs valued at $200,000 was seized today on the China Mail company liner Nanking. The Nanking arrived from the Far b< East April 16. The seizure was one ol ! of the biggest in the history of the f< port of San Francisco. ri a FAMINE I UNDER CONTROL TATEMENT BY GOODRICH OF INDIANA? FORMER COVER NOR TELLS PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY HOOVER OF IN VESTIGATION Washington April 20.?The Ame ican relief administration now has lussian famine under control in all he accessible districts, former Gov rnor Goodrich of Indiana declared oday after conferring1 with Prosi lent Harding and Secretary Hoo er upon his recent investigation of onditions in Russia. Mortality among children has een reduced to normal, he report d, and deaths from acute starva. ion among adults are- rapidly iminishing, while the morale of the ponlp in the famine districts has hown an extraordinary change for h? better. Control of the Russian famine intil the next harvest, Governor roodrich asserted, was purely a uestion of railway transportation, he "degenerated administration nd equipment of the railways" iving no certainty as to the con inued movement of supplies. He de lared there were enough supplies n the way to Russia or stored in orts to control the situation until arvest if they could be delivered d the famine regions, but added hat congestion at junction points, rhere as many as 50 trains have afjtllMi for weeks, threatened ie continued movements from the orts. The former governor said there r&a every indication that the seed rovided by the American relief ad* linistration would be sufficient to rovido for the next harvest. He poke in glowing terms of the work f the American staff in the famine istricts and declared the members ad organized thousands of commit ses in the various communities to a igh point of efficiency. "The gratitude of the Russian eople towards America is unbound d," Mr. Goodrich said. "The word' Ara,' -initials, of the American r& ief administration, which is the rotective sign on the whole distri butive machinery from cars to ware ou ses and kitchens, nas (been em raced as a word in the Russian anguage expressing the generous ction of America. "No doubt, poverty will continue n Russia, more particularly in the ities and larger towns, for a long ime to come, but this great disas er of famine from drought will ave been overcome after the new arvest in August. Except for the melioration of inherent poverty rom economic demoralization the /ork of the Americans will have een accomplished." URAL CARRIERS TO GATHER CROP DATA lUthorized By the Postmaster Gen eral?Take But Little Time and Will be of Great Value Washington, April 20.?Utilization f the services of rural letter car ters for gathering crop data and oth r agricultural statistics was author ed today by Postmaster General fork. "The postofflce department redliz 3," the postmaster general said, that the services of rural carriers Duld render would be of tremendous alue to agricultural interests of the auntry and we would be heartily lad to have them co-operate with the gricultural department by serving s crop reporters. "It is understood that the filling ut of the blanks requires but a few loments each month so that work of reat importance and interest could e performed with the expenditure f but little time, and without inter ;rence with postal duties of the car ers." ANOTHER ANGLE IN PROHIBITION SPOKESMAN FOR GOVERN MENT SAYS TRANSIT IN BOND WILL BE STOPPED BY AUTHORITIES? TO PREVENT PASSAGE Washington, April 20.?The fed eral government in enforcing prohi bition would close its port to th? ex tent of prohibiting the transit in bond through the country or even the transfer from one ship to anoth ther in any of its harbors of liquor intended for consumption as a bev erage in a foreign country, Judge Goff, assistant to the attorney gen eral, declared today in arguing cases in the supreme court. The cases involve a shipment from Canada to Mexico by Hiram Walker & Son of intoxicating liquor to be transshipped in bond from De x. :x a- xt n_i _'_j - -1--? truii. iu .ntew v/ritsans, auu u ainy ment of liquor by the Anchor line from Scotland to Bermuda iby trans fer from one British vessel to an other in New York harbor. Judge Goff explained that in the former case the United States dis trict court at Detroit had held that both the treaty with Great Britain and the revised statutes, notwith standing the 18th amendment and the Volstead act, bad authorized such shipments, but the United States district court at New York in the matter of the transfer had held that 'both the revised statutes and the treaty with Great Britain which authorized the transit of intoxicat I in# liquor had been repealed and j abrogated, respectively. It is the purpose of the govern ment In pressing the cases to pre vent both the transshipments and transfer of liquor. Judge Goff stated because of the large amount which while in transit is either pilfered or diverted. "The United States exerted its' sovereign power and withdrew its protection and its recognition of liquor as a commodity of com merce," Judge Goff said, adding that the government insisted the language of the 18th amendment in cluded the transit of liquor bond in the United States. All transportation within the jurisdiction of the United States of liquor for beverage purposes is pro hibited, he continued, emphasizing that the exportation of liquor had been prohibited. Congress had re fused the protection of the govern ment to liquor intended for bever age purposes, he added, no matter whether destined to citizens of this country or to persons in other coun tries. A commodity must be capable of being imported (before it can be admitted, Judge Goff argued; even to the extent of being transferred from one ship to another. TYPHUS HAS BROKEN OUT IN ENGLAND Thirteen Case* and Three Deaths Reported at Birkenhead Near Liverpool. London, April 20.?Typhus has broken out in Birkenhead near Liv erpool, thirteen cases being reported there and three deaths having occur red, according to information receiv ed at the American consul today. If [the disease shows indications of j spreading, stringent inspection of British emigrants to America will be undertaken by the American health authorities in London. The American eonsul in Liverpool! has been ordered thoroughly to in vestigate the epidemic. TO GIVE PLAY Miss Ixladys wnson is training, the girls of the Sunshine Club at the: Community House in a pTay to be given in the auditorium of the new; Community building during the i opening week in May. . 1 CALL IN DUBLIN FOR BRIEF STRIKE DEMONSTRATION OF ONE DAY MAY BE MADE?LABOR PARTY AND TRADES UNION CON GRESS WANT DAIL EIREANN TO MOVE Dublin, April 20.?A manifesto issued this evening by the Labor par ty and the trades' union congress calls for a one day strike and de mands that the Dail Eireann assert its authority, reunite the army under a single command and accept the re sponsibility of government or con fess its impotence and make way for the people to decide the issues. The manifesto says the lord mayox and the archbishop of Dublin have been requested to invite the repre sentatives of the executive council of the dissident section of the army (that Headed oy nouencK noy u Con ner) to the adjourned session of the peace conference between represen tatives of the Free State and the Republicans next Wednesday. It as serts that the Labor party and the trades union congress have consulted the leaders of the contend ing parties and forces and have been assured on all sides that many deeds of aggression and violence were com mitted by groups or individuals whc are without authority. Every efforl was being made to reduce to a mini mum military intervention in civil af fairs. It is declared by the manifesto that it is for the Dan tire an n wnen it meets next Tuesday to reunite the army and bring: it under a single command so that it may defend the nation and its liberties against for eign intervention. "The country demands .that the Dail should assert its authority and accept the responsibilities of govern ment or confess its impotence and make way for the people," it de clares. The manifesto eays the de mand is made on behalf of 300,000 organized trade unionists And tens ,of thousands of other persons outside their ranks. STILL POUND NEAR PROMISE LAND YESTERDAY T. D. Ferguson and C. B. Prince deputies for Sheriff tMcLane, fount a still in a vacant house on the ole Lites Place near the Promise Lane yesterday. The place is rented ib] Jim Tullds. Sixty gallons of masl was ready to make into whiskey Jim Tullis was arrested and he im plicated Will Self, of Georgia, wti< lives with the Tullis', in the running of the still. The still was an interesting affair 'being a plain old-fashioned blacl iron wash-pot with a wooden home made cover. In the center of th? cover was an ordinary inch pip* such as is found in kitchen plumb ing. A red mud mortar was placec over the wooden cover to make il air tight. The pipe extending out oi the middle ran straight up for alboul twelve inches when an elbow turn W3 made, a straight eight foot pipe line running out through a trough of cold water. A fire 1>uilt under the pot would start the white lightning trickling through the pipe line. TulHs has been released on bond but Self is stall confined in jail. MISS LAURA BAILEY Miss Laura Bailey, of Winthrop College, State Agent in charge of the Sewing Clubs for South Carolina, was in Abbeville yesterday and today helping Mrs. Gibbons with her sewing club. work. Miss Bailey is charmed with girls in general and with South Carolina girls in particular, ttUU that one of her clubs last year was entirely broken up by matrimony. So it seems Miss Bailey's opinion is booked up by the masculine gender. Cotton on the local market today brought 17 1-2. GENOA CONFERENCE BLOCKED FOR IE' ~ ,i r" NO BUSINESS OF IMPORTANCE CAN BE DISPOSED OF UNTIL DECISION IS REACHED AS TO STATUS OF GERMANY FOLLOW ING TREATY WITH RUSSIA Genoa, April 20.?The German delegates and experts have not yet been able to find a formula whereby to compromise with the entente powers iwthout sacrificing the Russo German treaty although they were in session to a very late hour to night. Efforts are being made to have the conference fornjulate a Russian policy in which the. Russo ' German treaty can 'be absorbed, ! thus giving it the stamp of confer ence approval and removing the I pqiida rt-f harH foolinflp The plain language of Premier Lloyd George to the German states men today over the treaty incident, which at one time threatened to dis rupt the economic conference, was believed to have cleared the political atmosphere, but as neither the Ger man reply to the allies nor the Rus sian reply regarding acceptance of the conditions for the restoration of Russia was forhcomlng, the situa tion is still considered critical. Some of the neutrals described the Germans as embarrassed as to how to find a way out of the difficul ty. Meantime the work of the con ference is blocked. The neotral ' states have officially insisted that 1 die agenda of the conference be ' 1 discussed in the commissions and not j m prCUUf CiOa UVIIVS 9UJVU? vwv chief delegates. To this the leaders rejoin that preliminary meetings are advisable in order to expedite - ! the labors of the conference. 1 It is expected that once th? Bos- ' | so-German controversy is disponed of the machinery of the conference will resume operations. The an* nouncement that J. P. Morgan will , join the group of bankers to dis ' cuss the possibility of floating an internatinal loan for Germany has created an optimistic feeling for the future finances of Europe. M. Barthou of the French delega tion tonight declared that Premier Lloyd George had adopted a strong , attitude at today's meeting with the I German foreign minister, Dr. I Rathenau. M. Barthou, who is kept I closely informed as to what Mr. j Lloyd George is doing, said there i was no room for equivocation on . the part of Germany, there was no - middle course. If the Germans in , I sisted on maintaining the treaty, t J the French could not deal with them on any of the commissions concern t ing Russia. * i '"The most complete accord exists between France and England on the s question involved," he added. i The opinion was expressed in - French circles tonight that the Ger l mans are anxious to find a way of I settlement which will keep them ac UIVC IHCUJAA/^iO Vi MiC BASEBALL FANS iFurman and Alabama played ball ( in Greenwood yesterday, the game ' resulting in a score of 1-0 in favor of Alabama. Mr. A. B. Galloway, ' Bayard Swetenlburg, Leslie McMil lan and Walter Winn attended the game from here. In the game at Dae West between Wofford and Erskine the score was 5 to 1 in favor of Wofford. The fol? j lowing fans went to Due West from Abbeville to see the game: Dr. J. E. Pressly, Arthur M. Klugh, Bill Jones, Carroll Swetenburg, W. D. Wilkinson and Sanford Howie. MAYOR'S COURT The following cases were before the Mayor's Court this morning: Hattie Siebert, disorderly kouse. fined $12;50. George Henderson visiting disorderly house, fined $12.50.