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I Abbeville Press and Banner \ " '*% ' -s4 Established 1844. $2.00 Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Monday, July 17, 1922 Single Copies, Five Cents. 78th Year. i ~? ?? HURLING OF CHALLENGES, J ULTIMATUM AND DEFI JA1NCES APPARENTLY ENDS THROUGH EXHAUSTION OR HOPE OF SETTLEMENT. Chicago, July 16.?A veil of silence descended like a blanket 1 over the railway strike situation 1 today as both railroad heads and i strike leaders turned hopeful eyes 1 toward the momentous develop- s ments the new week was expected i to bring forth. * The bitterness which has mark ed the progress of the walkout at j times auring tne past two weeits, ? seemed to have been succeeded by < a pea-ce almost tapproching an un- \ derstanding. The hurling of verbal 1 challenges, claims and counter claims, ulimatums and defiances, ] apparently had ended through ex- t haustion or the hope of an early , .agreement. ? Railroad executives who declared l their willingness last night to at- ? tend any meeting called by the c United States railroad labor board J tuiifh a viow to a settle-1 < ment 'that would not nullify, but i would uphold and carry out the i board's decisions," spent the holi- c day away from their offices and in seclusion. j B. M. Jewell, leader of the strik- c ing shopmen, visited his almost de- g serted headquarters for a short v 'time only to run through his mail f and telegrams. iHe read the railroad t "executive's statement with a quiet r grin, (but refused td comment m K. j "There will 'be nothing over the 1 week-end," he said. t <4T eotr o TlfAr/^ CAT1 Tint". A t x van <j oaj u ??vi v*j wv??- ? ? word," Ben Hooper, chairman of t the labor board, sighed wearily, \ throwing his arm across the shoul- t der of the reporter who had found g him alone in the offices of the c board. . I Despite the silence of the lead ers, with accompanying rumors of c a tacit armistice or truce to allow c fuller consideration of points t Ant Hiirinc t.hp week at 4 conferences, hopes of an early set- f tlement were expressed freely in c . both railway and labor quarters, although no tangible basis for j. these expectations was given in any c case. i One of the factors most often t quoted to justify a belief that the drift was toward peace, despite the failure last week of Mr. Hooper's efforts to 'bring the labor leaders j and the executives together, was the statement of R. A. Henning, general chairman of the federated \ shop crafts of the Northwest, that j only the refusal of Eastern roads to r agree to reinstate striking shop \ crafts workers with their full ? seniority rights is preventing a j settlement of the strike so far as f MnrfcliiuMrf: rnQifs kro rftrw>?rjipH The railroads throughout, it was c declared have insisted that their j men return to work as one of the f first ?step3 toward peace, and the r belief was expressed that the t restoration of the rights sought e would not alone be a great stumb- ( ling 'block. In this connection it was { esserted that the roads had to a Jars? extei^ stopped recruiting men to replace strikers. On the other questions at issue? outside contracting for shop work, ; modification of certain rules and { working agreements, the establish- , ment of conciliation boards and wages?it was declared that most of the roads had already agreed to : abolishing outside contracting as or dered by the labor board and to es tablishing early the conciliation Hoards under the federal transpor tation act. Thus, but two questions, it was asserted, -were now at issue ?rules and wages both of which might again be brought before the labor board for decision on the de- ; mand of the men for a rehearing. 1 BREAK COMES OVER CONFIS CATED PROPERTY -DELE (GATES APPARENTLY UN ABLE TO GET TOGETHER AGAIN AT THE HAGUE The Haeue. July 15.?Both the Russian and non-Russian delega tions were sitting sadly on Scheve ningen beach tonight, each delega tion waiting for the other to make >ome move which may resuscitate 'he expiring conference on Russian ifFairs. The Russians say they will not ittend another sessions unless they ire invited and the non-Russians ay they are willing to meet with the Russians if M. liitvinoff will iring new proposals. The British, Belgian, French and [talian delegations all took a fling ?+ 'Rnlchovilc at the TJrolonSfed session of the credit sub-commis rion today in the course of which tf. Litvinoff endeavored to place entire responsibility for the failure >f the conference upon the non Jussians and charged that "the :apitalistic press of the world join with the capitalistic (governments n defeating Russia's efforts to get xedits for reconstruction." From the beginning of the meet ngs between the Bolshevik and tne >n-Russians on June 26, the Rus ;ians have refused to say what they voujd do about the restoration of oreigners' property in Russia until he non- Russians told them how nuch credit they were willing to'J fwtrtstes for Russian restoration.) Phe non-Russians have insisted that hey could not recommend the ex ension of credits to Russia until hey knew what the Russians vould do about foreigners' proper y and what guarantees would be ;iven for the safety of foreigners lesiring to reenter the Russian usiness field. From beginning to the end the lifferences have all centered about :onfiscated property in Russia; all he formulas of the experts have ailed 'because the iBolsheviki stood 'ast on nationalization of property >f foreigners and Russians alike. M. Litvinoff said tonight that he lad no late instructions from Mos :ow and there is no disposition on he part of the Russians apparently o make any further proposals. ARREST BANK CASHIER 'ohn W. Guy Charged With Embez zlement at Statesville. Statesville, N. July 15.?John V. Guy, former cashier of the First National bank of Statesville, was ar ested here tonight charged with em >ezzlement. He waived examination ind gave bond of $25,000 for ap >earance at the October term of the ederal court. Guy's arrest was said to have been >rdered on the demand of the com )any which had bonded him as an of icial of the bank. Announcement was nade Wednesday, followine examina ;i?n of the books by a national bank sxaminer, that an apparent shortage >f about $85,000 had been discover ed. DISTINGUISHED VISITORS Mrs. R. F. Fleming of Ninety Six and Miss Sarah Griffin cf Houston, Texas, are in the city spending several days with Mrs. H. R. McAllister. Miss Griffin is the daughter of the late Richard Grif fin who lived in Greenwood and manv vears aco surveved thp line of the Greenville and Columbia road. Miss Griffrn lived for many years in Houston and is back now for a visit to relatives and to re new the friendships of years ago. Mr. and Mr3. A. B. Cochran were here Sunday to see Miss Griffin and Monday was spent In Due West with Mrs. Walker Edwards. ABBEVILLE COUNTY GETS $1, 515.16 IN GAS TAX DISTRIBU TION PAST THREE MONTHS. OVER $108,000 GOES FOR ROAD WORK ALL OVER STATE. Columbia, July 16.?Charleston county leads the entire state in the amount to be received from the gaso line tax for the first payment of the year, this being for March, April and May, sent out by Samuel T. Carter, state treasurer. Charleston's share was $9,306.91. McCormick tailed the ticket with $756.36. Treasurer Carter has sent checks to all the counties for their share of the first three months, this being 50 per cent, of the total collected, $216 901.57. The counties received $108, 448.56. Under the law the tax of two cents a gallon on gasoline is divided 50-50 between the counties and the state, the amount to the counties to be used exclusively for road purposes. Each county gets a proportionate share in the fund according to the ratio of the collection in the county to total in the state and the ratio of the assessed value of the proper ty in the county to the total assessed value of the property of the state. The tax so far has averaged about $72,300 a month and at that rate should bring in a total of a little over $700,000 for this year. The law went into effect March 1. The amounts sent to the counties of the upper part of the State are as follows: Abbeville ? $ 1,515.16 Anderson 5,382.31 Chester 2,230.34 Edgefield 1,125.24 Greenville . 6,924.15 Greenwood 2,639.40 Laurens 2,539.75 McCormick 756.36 Newberry 2,424.49 Spartanburg 7,906.28 REV. MR. McMURRAY PREACHES In the Presbyterian Church Here To Large Congregations. Rev. John A. 'McMurray, pastor of the Fayetteville (N. C.) Presby terian church, who was recently caneu iu mv pasuH'ttte uj uic iutai Presbyterian church, was her? yes terday and preached in the morn ing and evening for the Presbyteri ans. A large congregation listened to him at each service. Rev. Mr. McMurray is one of the more prominent of the young min isters of his church. He'was educa ted at Davidson College, graduated from the Columbia Theological Seminary, and has done work at the Princeton Seminary. Altogeth er he is well fitted for his life work. His sermon yesterday morning was delivered in an easy and at tractive manner. Its preparation suggested thought and care. He spoke earnestly and had the atten ton of his congregation throughout. Those who were fortunate enough to hear him were more than pleased with his discourse. His hearers and the members of the church here and the people of the city generally are hoping that he may find it consistent with his duties to tdke up the work in Ab beville. MISS BLANCHE TARRANT Miss Blanche Tarrant of Green wood, District Agent of the Home flnrnnnofritmr Wfirlf rPTlrPSAtltillff the upper part of South Carolina, was In the city for a few hours today as sisting Mrs. Gibbons with plans for the Shoi:t Coursp to be held at Due West, July 26th through the 28th. GONE TO HENDERSONVILLE . Judge and Mrs. Frank B. Gary left Saturday for HendersonvilLe where they will spend sometime. TWO HUNDRED MEN TO GUARD MAIL! riLnrtJiu i kj Alun inv/wjmu OTHERS? FJRST REPORT J OF SABOTAGE IN STAT1 ' CAUSE ACTION BY FEDERAl AUTHORITIES. New York, July 16.?First re ports of sabotage of railroads in th New York district tdday caused fe< eral authorities to deputize 201 guards for the mails and prepare t arm 1,000 others. United States marshals dn Ne^ York and northern New Jerse; were authorized by Attorney Gen pro] TinnorVi<vr++n 4'<rn ftQ fAT A necessary" in keeping interstat traffic moving. Reports of attempt to damage locomotives on th Lackawfanna and instances wher whole freight trains were held u; by slashed airbrake connection spurred government officials to re cruit deputies for strategic point on all of the 11 mail carrying line entering the city. Fifty deputies were sent to Jet sey City, where Erie road execu tives demanded protection on th plea that Mayor Hague was "intei fering" with attempts to guar railroad ,propfei|ty with privlati police. Tonight the situation was re l . j 11 i j i..i I porxeu weu in n?nu, hjui, ?auuvc of the roads most senously threat ened by the strike urged Unite States marshals to have deputies 01 hand for any emergency. A steady stream of deputie passed through the examination room at the federal building here Each man accepted was put in uni form and armed. Instruction, be fore they entrained to go On duty | were: "Remember yott are not sup i posed to protect railroad propert; all along the lines. Your jab is t< see that United States mail and in terstate trains are not interfere* with." ARRANGE ITINERARY Third District Candidate* to Be Her August the 5th. Newberry, July 15.?A meeting o the county chairman of the differen counties of the Third congressiona district was held at Greenwood Mon day to arrange the itinerary for cam paign meetings in this district. Onl; two were present, County Chairma' J. D. Wheeler representing Newbei ry county and G. G. Dawling o Greenwood. However, they hel proxies from all the other countie in the district and the following itin erary was arranged: Newberry court house, July 22 10:30 a. m. Whitmire, July 22, 8:30 p. m. McCormick, July 29, 3 p. m^ Ware Shoals, July 29, 8:30 p. m. Greenwood court house, August J 10:30 a. m. Abbeville, August 5, 3:30 p. m. A_j A 19 9 .Qf? r> m -tt-liuiirsuu, n. ug uoi xu, u .w f Pickens, August 19, 3:30 p. m. Walhalla, August 26, 3:30 p. m. MECHANICS MEET HERE The J?nior Order of the U. Am< rioan Mechanics will meet in Abbe ville August 8th at the invitation <3 the Chamber of Commerce. Ther will be about 150 guests at th meeting. It will be Impossible Sp tfte addevine xiotei tu ?muiuu.v date th^ number and it will ft necessary to find homes for tfiei over the city. If you are in positio to take care of any number notif T. M. Miller at the store of Mille and Evarvs. SEEING COLUMBIA Mrs. W. A. Harris and daughte: Salome, Misses Ruih Beeks an Comer Phillips and Mr. Beckhai motored to Columbia Saturdaj Miss Beeks went on to Camden t visit friends. ) SOVIET TO ACCEPT EUROPE'S J INVITATION TO RESTATE THE i CASE.?DELEGATES HOPE THE CT A TPMPNT U/II I DC cno DC NEWED NEGOTIATIONS The Hague, July 16.?Soviet Rus. sia will accept Europe's invitation to restate its case. This information \^as conveyed tonight to the Associated Press by the Soviet spokesman. Whether that restatement will result in a revival of The Hague conference nobody, least of all the Russian del egates, dare predict. Maxim Litvinoff, head of the Soviets, has communicated with Mos cow and Russia's answer to the com munication sent to the Russian dele ffofinn voq+iprHflv. which was virtuallv a bid for new declarations from the Russians, may be delayed until Mos. cow has its say. In the meantime further down the storm-swept dunes of Scheveningen the non-Russian delegates continued their work of preparing reports of the three subcommissions which will show why they failed to reach an ac cord with the Russian delegates on the vital question of property, debts and credits. Whether these reports will be pre sented and adopted at a final plenary session Wednesday depends on the nature of the Soviet answer, un this Litvinoff, Krassin and Sokolnikoff labored throughout Sunday. "We hope," said the Soviet repre sentatives, "that our new statement will be deemed a basis for renewed negotiations but that is for the non Russian delegates to decide. We will try to make our position clear." Europe's attempt to resuscitate The Hague conference is regarded here as additional proof of the seriousness of the general economic situation. The Hague has become a sort of ba rometer for Europe as a whole. The experts assembled here have been in structed by their home governments to exhaust every possible means to reach an accord, or the beginning of an accord, with the Russians be cause it is believed that any advance made in the solution of the Russian * * ?Mi a?St.?A- ? ~ t prODiem Will contnuute grtaujf tv a ,1 betterment of the economic situation _ as a whole. GONE TO FLORENCE Dr. C. II. McMurray leaves today for Florence where he will act on the examining (board of the Phar maceutical Association for a day and then attend the meeting of the Association which will be held there Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. SEABOARD TRAINS TO BE TAKEN OFF Raleigh, N. C., July 15?Twelve passenger trains on the Seaboard Air Line will be discontinued Sunday on account of shortage of coal and in order to conserve motive p?wer t-o protect United States mail and hand ling off food stuffs and perishables during the pnesent emergency," the division passenger agent announced ,f today. ,ei The trains to be discontinued teni e porari'.y are: Trains 19 and 20 ,r between Raleigh and Weldon; trains j_ 285 and 282 between Durham . and ,e Henderson; trains 486 and 487 be n tween Dickerson and Oxford; trains n 330 and 331 between Franklinton y and Louisburg; trains 41 and 44 be !r tween Raleigh and Hamlet; trains 31 and 34 between Wilmington and Hamlet. IS IN THE MAYOR'S COURT d Eight cases of gambling came up n before the Mayor this morning and j received fines of $10.00 each. Ose o lease of disorderly conduct was fined( $5.00. COMMITTEE REJECTS PROPOSAL BY FORD I I # * 3 ? *8 FAILURE TO ELIMINATE GORi ^ | GAS STEAM PLANT AND TO REDUCE TENURE OF PRO POSED LEASE FROM 100 TO 50 YEARS OBSTACLES. Washington, July 16.?The een- . ate committee on agriculture today rejected the Henry Ford offer for . Muscle Shoals by a voce of 9 to 7. It refused to report the offer with an amendment reducing the proposed lease period from 100 to 50 years by a vote of 8 to 8. ' It refused to take up the govern ment ownership till of Senator Norris by a vote of 9 to 5. As result each separate school of thought will render its report ta the senate and the battle will be fought out in the open in the next session of congress. The Ford offer received eight of 21 votes in the house committee on military affairs. It would hare re ceived 13 or a majority of the votes had the Gorgas steam plant been eliminated from the list of properties to be given Ford. The offer would have been reported on ? favorably by the senate committee today had the proposed lease period been reduced from 100 to 50 years. The Gorgas steam plant is far re move from Muscle Shoals, and in the opinion of congress is not es- , sential to Ford as it is to industrial rJ Alabama. It Would foe contrary to existing law were the government to enter into a lease for a period greater than 50 years. If , Ford would amend his offer so as to eliminate Gorgas and reduce the lease period, it could be put through congress. That in the end he will do so is confidently believed. This belief," which is becoming general, is based on the knowledge that Ford is sin cere in his desire to acquire the property, build a new metropolis in - Alalbama, give the South an aibun dance of cheap, life giving fertili zer and confer an actual boon on humanity. It is not regarded as possible that 'Ford, already enrich ed beyond the dreams of avarice, would permit such minor consider ations to checkmate him in schemes to uplift his more unfortunate neighbors. The fight in the committee today was red hot and spectacular. Points of order were made on every sug I eestion and there were numerous appeals from the decisions of the chair. The conclusion reached, however, represents the sense of the committee when all its members are present, and had, through a technicality, Southern senators won a victory it would have been an nulled on the return of absentees. As previously pointed out, the Muscle Shoals fight could not have been settled in committee. It Was J predestined to constitute the issue in a spectacular struggle to oe staged in the open. Senator Harrison of Mississippi led the pro-Ford fight in committee today ably seconded Ibjj Senator Smith of South Carolina. Other Democrats, Senators Heflin of Ala bama, Rc^nsdell of Louisiana and Caraway of Arkansas, supported the leaders. One Democrat, Senator Kendrick of Wyoning opposed Ford. COTTON MARKET. Cotton brought 23 cents on the local market today. Futures closed: July ? 21.94 Oct. 21.99 Dec. 21.86 Jan. 21.60 March ? 21.25 Futures closed Saturday: July t)ct. 22.47 Dec. 22.33 ^an. 22.00 March 21.90