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Abbeville Press and Established 1844. $2.00 Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Monday, May 1, 1922. Single Copies, Five Cents. 78th Year. LEADING FAILURES FOR FIFTY YEARS RESULT OF ARMS CONFERENCE AT WASHINGTON IS "REGION AL ALLIANCE" LEADING TO OTHERS?SAYS COX OF HARD ING ADMINISTRATION Harrisburg, Pa. April 29.?Speak ing before a statewide gathering of Democrats here tonight, former Gov. Jjfcies M. Cox of Ohdo, who was the Democratic candidate for president * 4 ArtA -1?4.J ? o-Ai?knl /\ncloiwy}it. Ill Sl<&Tb U <\ Y ci wai on the Harding administration with the statement that "it may go down in history as the outstanding failure of the last 50 years." Mr Cox. devoted the major part of his address to an attack on the na tional administration and delivered a few shafts at the present interna tional policy of the country. "The very thing that has threat ened to disrupt the conference at Geioa is. outgrowth of our interna tioal processes of circumlocution," the former presidential candidate declared. The result of the arms confer, at Washington, he said, is a "regional alliance." This, h& continu ed, "has led to other alliances, and grave crisis have come in conse quence." "Not only have we ceased to be helpful, but in view of recent devel opments it is apparent that we ^re a distinctly disturbing factor in inter national affairs. Our leadership in banking and economic thought are doing the best they can as individu als. Recognizing the futility of ap pealing to our government, the statesmen of thp world are endeav-' oring to arouse the cooperation of | individual agencies. It is so opposed to every moral and practical consid eration that public disapproval is in_ evitsble." The Republican campaign pledge of "reorgaization, economy and added efficiency in government," Mr. Cox declared, "has developed into the actuality of spoils in govern ment." He charged that the "chief opera tor of the old Mark Hanna machine is in charge of this work, and the ruling objective is to strengthen the control of the old guard." He con_ . tinued: "With an almost unprecedented] opportunity to render service to hu manity, -with every facility of politi cal control, with a widespread spirit of public cooperation the Republican party has not successfully met the test of responsibility. "We are at peace with a world, and yet the burdens of taxation re main and a yearly deficit of approxi mately $500,000,000 :s not denied. "Unparalleled conditions call for modern measures of relief and yet day by day the country is drawn ba?k to the reactionary policies of an almost forgotten past. The old guard has tied the Republican party to the post of provincialism. "A tariff law with schedules high er than the puiblicly repudiated Payne-Aldrich measure is about to be enacted. The belief that we can live sufficiently unto ourselves again is present. The economic truth that we can not sell our surplus without exchanging commodities with the rest of the world is ignored. The proof of experience that if the American people are to be busy we must sell one-third of what we grow and make is not a part of the equa tion. The old guard does not seem *to sense the conditions of the hour. It is living in a world it does not understand. It is surrounded with problems that are international and the political craftsmen who were trained in the narrow provincial ?chool are incapable of the task." ' "If the Republican party," he as serted, "is to survive as an organi zation is must turn to a new leader, ship. It was constructed upon the moral philosophy of Lincoln. It can not feed on the hate of Lodge and live." POWERS PREPARE PREAMBLE OF THEIR MAGNA CHART A. PROMISE FROM JAPAN TO LEND ASSISTANCE ?CDNFI DENCE IS NEEDED Genoa, April 30.?The powers have prepared the preamble of their magna charta for Russia; it out lines how Europe will give practical financial and economic help to per lint tuau uvuui/Ajr o icoiviowvii and reconstruction. Across the Asiatic littoral Japan promises to contribute her portion of money to assist In the reorgani zation of Rusia, and although the United Statee is not mentioned in the preamble, it is wide enough in scope to take in the whole world, for its framers voice the conviction that once confidence is felt the foreigners can normally engage in enterprises in Russia, the banks of all countries will willingly advance funds to their citizens to invest in Russia. Great Britain and Belgium as well as Japan to a lesser degree are placing credits az the disposal of enterprises in Russia; France will provide railroad materials; Italy will he-lp by' inland water transports and all will participate in an international consortium. The sub .commission on Russian I affairs has already adopted Article 1 of the document which is direct ed against propaganda by th? Bol_ sheviki or attempts to change the existing frontiers. This has chief reference to Bessarabia, now an nexed by Rumania. An arrange ment was also reached on the mo mentum question of the nationali zation of private property. Apparently some compromise on the project has (been devised by the jurists whereby the Soviets are able to adhere to their great doctrine of npionalization and simultaneously satisfy the foreign governments and peoples by granting the use of the property, instead of admitting actual ownership. The text of this article has been kept secret, but it will come up again Monday for con sideration. Difference developed between England and France on the ques i+irm "Rnccin'c war AoiHf.q "FVorifa insisting that Russia recognize them in their entirety, though ready to scale them down later. The question was left to a committee. On the question of war debts England proposed that tne percent age whereby the wai- <*et>ts were to be reduced could be decided by the supreme court of the United States. During this discussion M. Barthou said France was willing to grant facilities for payment such as a moratorium and was even ready to consent to reductions at a later /lata- m rnxrVii 1 o TiVnn(?<? dp mantled unqualified recognition by the Soviet of the war debts. TO MEET MAY 4TH To Receive Bid* For New High School Building The Abbeville iSchool Hoard will meet Thursday, May 4th, to receive , bids for the new high school build, ing. The board has received the in formation that there will be at least ten bids submitted. With ma terial and labor down reasonable bids should be received for con struction. DINNER FOR THE CONFEDERATE VETERANS The Daughters of the Confeder acy will serve dinner to the Veter ans on Memorial Day, May 10th. All Confederate Veterans of the County are especially invited to at tend the exercises of th? day. Short exercises will 'be held in the Opera houso, and dinner will be served af ter the exercises. MANY PRISONERS HEAR SENTENCES *' ! % ' I * .' 'V' NINETY-FOUR PERSONS APPEAR IN NEW YORK?UNUSUALLY SEVERE PUNISHMENT GIVEN, JUDGES HOLDING THAT SEV ERITY IS NEEDED. New York, April 29.?Ninety-four persons appeared for sentence today in the criminal court of Manhattan, the largest number that ever went up to the bar in a single day to take their medicine in the history of the city. Most of them received unusually severe punishment, the judges hold ing that severijy was needed to check the frequency of crime. Eugene Diaset and Moise Bagnoli, confessed participants in the recent $75,000 midday holdup and robbery of the Washington square home of Albert R. Shattuck, retired banker, were both sentenced by Judge Rosals ky to confinement of 40 to 60 years in Sing Sing. They were two of the gang of five which locked the Shat tucks and their servants in the wine vault, where they almost suffocated while the home was boldly plundered. Their counsel asked for light punish ment, as both had good war records in the service. "A substantial sentence must be imnnca/) " coir} inHcyp "aupVi a sentence as will strike terror to the hearts of bandits of this kind." Three of the four men who tried to hold up Charles M. Brady, construc tion company cashier, on March 31, near the Grand Central terminal, were given 18 year sentences by Judge Rosaisky as second offenders, and the fourth man got eight years as a first offender. All had pleaded guilty. Theirs was a daylight holdup, frustrated by detectives, tipped off in advance. Charles E. Tampa, 22, thrice con victed of carrying a pistol, got seven years. Harry Testa, 24, was given a 30 year sentence for holding up the own er of a delicatessen store and'forcing him to turn over the $59 in the cash register. A warning against undue optimism i-t- - A. J T 3 V mtp. mat crime ii.au ut:cxx ^hc^a-cva nao &* - en by Judge Rosalsky in dismissing the regular and additional grand ju ries. He reminded them that penal in stitutions were daily discharging large numbers, "who have been con victed of crime and who will return to crime." DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION The County Democratic Conven tion met this morning in the court house and was called to order by the Chairman, Hon. J. Howard Moore. Dr. G. A. Neuffer was elected tem porary chairman and Major R. B. Cheatham temporary secretary. AD of the clubs of the County were represented except Muntain View and Hampton 'by full delegations. A new clulb at Brownlee became a member of the convention. The following officers were elect ed permanently: Dr. G. A. Neuffer, President; Maj. R. B. Cheatham, Secretary; Mr. Henry J. Power, Treasurer; Hon. J. Howard Moore, County Chairman of the County JDACWU'blW wuMiUKwui w. m. .1 ? Esq., waB made State Executive Committeeman. The following were elected dele gates to the Stave Convention: Mrs. M. T. Coleman, Hon. J, Howard Moore, W. W. Harris, R, H. McAdams, M. J. Ashley and Dr, G. A. Neuffer. The State Conven tion meets in Columbia in May. MRS. H. L. MOORE SICK Mrs. Harry L. Moore is very sicli at her home on Uherokee street. Mrs. Moore has been sick for sever al we>eks and her mother has beer over from Winder, Ga., staying with her. WHEN OUTSIDE ORGANIZA TIONS GIVE EVIDENCE?EXE CUTIVE HEADS OF EMPLOY EES WALK OUT BUT TESTI MONY CONTINUES Chicago April, 29.?Although exe cutive heads of the railroad employ ees bolted from th? wage hearing today, at which outside organizations were allowed to give evidence on be half of the public, it did not stop presentation of the Industrial side of the dispute in which the National Industrial Traffic league asked the railroad labor board .to throw out all controversy and revert the matter to the employees and the corpora tions. The railroad men refused to sit in the hearing when J. H. Libby started to introduce the shippers' views. Frank P. Walsh, attorney for the employees, in a protest said .that tne employees are not going to De placed in the position of being drawn into another hearing." "As far as the men are concerned the. hearing is closed and we desire to make no rebuttal to the evidence now introduced as suggested by the board," h? added. "We could bring the small shippers in to testify that the railroad men are not deserving of a wage decrease and for every or j ganization representing the dollars we could bring in 100 witnesses to testify that the board should not de crease wages." The employes also presented a brief in which they protested the bringing in of outside parties not in terested in the dispute. In ruling that the outsiders had a right to intervene, not as a party to the dispute, but as an outsider, Ben <r. Hooper, chairman, said: "The board holds that these par ties can not intervene here as par ties to the dispute because the sta tute does not authorize it but tho board has the .power to hear such evi dence if it so desires without obligat ing itself to do so at other hearings. The board has in this Instance not gone out of its way and asked these men to appear here." Outside organizations represented thp TnHn?trri.n.1 Tmffir League and the National Industrial Conference board. Charts were pre sented tending to show that before 1918 wages in outside idustries were less than those in railroad work, but that now the two were about equal. AFTER TWENTY YEARS ;| Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Cason and '| daughter, Cassandra, of Anderson, | accompanied by Mrs. Cason of Woodruff, Mrs. D. E. Etheridge and Mrs. R. L. Bowen of Spartanburg ' spent Sunday in Abbeville with Mr. J. M. Gambrell. Mrs. Etheridge made her home in Abbeville about .?/v? Wi aWA TTM-Vl | l/WCUl>y ckf^\Jy xijli. uviiviiugg 1 being in charge of some department at the Abbeville Cotton Mill. -She was interested in the great im_ > provement in the town and enjoyed , the day renewing old acquaintances. TAKING A TRIP ( (Friends around Abbeville have received many pleasant souvenirs of the trip taken by Miss Victoria Howie, who went to Hot Springs, ' Arkansas, as undergraduate repre ' sentative of Agnes Scott College at ' the Y. W. C. A. Convention. The ' Georgia delegation made the trip in a special car and saw all the sights on the way out, among them being the Mississippi river which is just now on its usual spring spree. Miss Howie returned to Agnes : Scott Friday. There will be songs and speeches i by unannounced song birds and ; speakers tomorrow night. Attend the "Get Young" party. CpM>MITTEE AND MANUFAC TURER FAR APART?GOR GAS PLANT AND FERTILIZER PRODUCTION TWO POINTS AT ISSUE. Washingon, April 30.?An im passe has been reached by the house committee on military affairs and the local representative of Henrj PafH rAwnopfinor dion/wifi/** nA * * V^W????g, V?*W>|/VUi btvil V/i Muscle Shoals. The committee insists that th? [ Gorgas steam plant, on which th? Alalbama Power company, has th( option, be eliminated from the lisi of properties Ford would acquiri for $5,000,000. The committee in. sists that Ford guarantee to pro. duce a finished fertilizer during th< 100 year life of the proposed lease Ford continues to demand Gor. gas and his only concession is to th< effect that he will defend its star, render in the courts in the event o: litigation. Respecting fertilizer pro duction he continues to he obscure He guarantees <to produce a com mercial article "at a profit not ex. ceeding 8 per cent of the fair, ac. tual, annual cost/' He refuses to bind himself t< continue the production for anj number of years, and is under, stood to be of the opinion'that th< govmment should not insist on hii continuing to produce if it shou>l< develop that production is at i loss. The attitude of the committee re specting Goigas is that the govern. mnnt ia in Vi/\nivr hivniu) fn <rrve till Alabama Power company an op. jportunity to acquire it from tb< j government direct and that as it i | not essential to the operation of ni. j trate plants 90 miles distant, it v [consistent with sound business prin ciples that it be permitted <to serv< where it is greatly needed. The committee is obdurate re. garding fertilizer production. If i turns over to Ford property worti $100,000,000 it is determined tha it be able to tell the people that i secured the production of a finish, ed, high grade and Inexpensive fer. tilizer for 100 years. Southern members of congress and especially those who are mem. bers of the military committee, in eluding Representatives Wright o Georgia and Stoll of South Carolim are alarmed lest the impasse cai never be overcome. It is understood that the re?presentatives of Ford ar also in despair and that one of then J. W. Worthington, has remarkei to committeemen that Ford ha "just as well retire." CHAUTAUQUA AT DUE WEST Begins Wednesday May 10th am Continues for Five Days TVio PVinntnnniia in Due West be gins on May the 10th and will con tinue for five days. The numbers ar well selected and it is expected to at tract a large crowd from all over th< County. Those expecting to atten< will bear in mind that the date i May 10th, and make plans according iy. VISITS OLD HOME Mr. and Mrs. Kerr Belcher am daughter of New York, are in Abbe ville at the Eureka Hotel. Kerr Bel cher and brother,, Harry, lived ii Abbeville about 37 years ago wit] their grandmother. Kerr Belche went to New York to live where h Vias made e-ood. and is back now 01 business and to look up old friend and acquaintances. He will be re membered as a side-partner to Per rin Quarles, who is high up in in surance circle?, and the. two manag ed to keep their friends in ho water most of the time wonde-rinj what they would do next. VICTIMS OF FLOOD : FACING STARVATION '(a f * FIFTEEN HUNDRED IN LOUISI ANA MUST HAVE FOOD SOON. MANY ISOLATED COMMUN1- V TIES HAVE BEEN COMPLETE LY SURROUNDED BY WATER. New Orleans, April 30.?Reports ? ' * from Harrisonburg, La., late today 1 that the 1,000 residents of that town r in addition to 500 refugees from Cat ahoula, Concordia and other flooded parishes in that section fice starva > tion unless food supplies arrive > speedily have greatly intensified the ? gravity of the flood situation and eve t ry agency is tonight trying to over- ^ ? come the dfficulty of transporting . supplies to the stricken people. rne most serious phase of the flood ) situation i? in northern Louisiana this k time, aside from the danger of con . tinually rising waters, is that of J threatened food shortage. Many iso . lated communities have been com E pletely surrounded by water and resi - dents forced to depend upon the small . stocks of food on hand when flood wa - ters rushed through the break sear . Ferriday. Countless numbers are liv . ing on canned products that they are securing from community grocers but ) reports from some sections indicate 1 j there are other communities not so fortunately placed 'and that many ? people are very little ahead of starva a tion. In many isolated farm houses, j where residents have remained in i their marooned or flooded homes, there is very little, if anything, to eat With depleted stocks of food re- >. 5 ported from all the ^tefogiee camps in the Louisiana flooded area, 3 and a real crisis existing at Harrison 3 burg, refugee workers today express ed the belief that those who remained 3 in their flood swept homes may in the long run be better' off than those , Concentrated in the refugee camps unless some means of reaching the camp with provisions is found wrfch out delay. t . "If provisions are not rushed to 1 Harrisonbuwr at once there will be suffering there," N. E. Cotton, a member of the Texas basin levee board declared today. A steamboat loaded with provisions was reported to be en route from New Orleans but little is known of -the time of its jSro - bable arrival or when these supplies - will reach Harrisonburg, where at ^ least 500 more refugees are expect a tomorrow. The increased gravity of a the food shortage problem, the nec ^ essity of providing marooaed persons e with food and some cases medical at n tention, coupled with the growing un ^ easiness relative to tl}e number of ^ communities which have beem com pletely surrounded by water and be lieved in danger, the lack of commu nication with the outside wojld, the prevalence of rumors and distorted j reports of famine and pestilence, of floods and disasters in other aectiojis, all tend to aggravate the pitiful plight of the homeless refugees, many of whom have lost everything but 0 their lives, as they huddled up in small groups about refugee camps. MAYOR'S COURT The following were before tohe Mayor this morning: Dave Smith, carrying concealed weanon. fined $50. Dave Smith for disorderly conduct fined $25. Berry Jeter disorderly conduct Fined $25. Robert Allen visiting disorderly house $10.00. VISITING IN NORTH CAROLINA^ Mrs. Eugene B. Gary, Mrs. Briggs fljand little Eliza Gary Briggs leave s Wednesday for Wilson, N. C. where - they will spend sometime with Mr. - and Mrs. Frank Hassell. COTTON MARKET The best offered for cott?* on the Abbeville market today was 17 3-4^