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Abbeville Press and ;:A ' " A Established 1844. $2.00 Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Wednesday, August 9,1922 Single Copies, Five Cents. 78th Year. ( ( 1*0 LEAVE ISSUE TO RAILROAD BOARD RESIDENT ASKS THAT SHOP MEN BE TAKEN BACK PEND ING DECISION?HEADS OF BROTHERHOODS CALLED TO MEET NEXT FRIDAY. Washington, Aug. 8.?As a "final all" from the government for im lediate settlement of the rail strike, 'resident Harding today communi ated to railroad executives and teads o fthe striking shop craft un ons proposals that the men be sent iack to work, that the managements akdk them back and that adjustment ? the crucial seniority issue be left o decision of the railroad labor oard. Though the president was said to :onsider this the only practical ourse the government could take, mion spokesmen, indicating its re ection, summoned their associates o meet here Wednesday to pass up >n the proposal and further called to Washington for general conference today the heads of all railroad la tor organizations to consider meth ods of cooperation that might make he strike more effective. The rail executives had made no esponse to the White House tonight hough press dispatches indicated hat they also would meet to frame i collective answer. B. M. Jewell, president of the rail way department of the American federation of Labor, with W. H. Tohnston, head of the machinists' issociation, and J. H. Noonan, com prising" a committee representing the striking unions, took the president's communication into conference late :oday, calling in H. E. Wills of the engineers, Paul Stephens of the train men, and Arthur J. Lovell of the fire men and enginemen, all three being Washington representatives of "brotherhood" organizations in the train service which have actually acted apart from the labor unions in other branches of service. The union chiefs, following the meeting, gave out a statement which was taken as foreshadowing their course and copies of a telegram to W. G. Stone, chief of the engineers, and to E. J. Manion, president of the telegraphers, asking their coop eration in the formulation of a pro gram which would provide for its purpose "protection of the public, preservation of the railroad indus try and an honorable basis of settle ment." "Messrs. Noonan, Johnston and Jewell have been in conference sev eral hours considering the proposal made by the president today," the statement said. "We have requested the chief executives of all the strik ing shop crafts unions and the sta tionary firemen and oilers to meet us here Wednesday of this week. "We have also urgently requested by telegraph and telephone that a conference of all executives of rail Toad labor organizations be held in Washington Friday, August 11. "We have requested this confer ence because we recognize that rail roaa employees not now on striKe will in defense of the traveling pub lic and themselves, necessarily have to decline to operate the defective locomotives and cars now in service. "It is clear to any unbiased person that railroad equipment is growing more unsafe each day and relief must be had through an honorable settlement. Employees now on strike are firm in their position and will continue so as long as the Associa tion of Railway Executives declines ^oQcnntjhlp form? nf aotpp. IU IbMWVMMVIV ?V4 ?1V W* raent." HERE FROM TAMPA. Rev. and Mrs. Henry Pressly and their little daughter are in Abbeville visaing Mrs. Pressly's mother, Mrs. T. J. Raycroft on Vienna street. Abbeville people are always glad to see Mr. and Mrs. Pressly. & 'SOUTHERN SHOPMEN WE TO SETTLE CAN'T END STRIKE AS INDIVID UAL?SHOP CRAFTS COMMIT TEE WON'T MAKE ANY AD ) JUSTMENT AS STRIKE IS NATIONAL. Washington, Aug. 8.?Declaring that the Southern railroad had "more than fulfilled" its duty to striking shop employes in endeavoring to get them to return to work under terms of President Harding's strike settle ment offers, Fairfax Harrison, presi ident of the Southern, sent tele graphic appeals today throughout the service for assistance in the en deavor to maintain "unimpaired transportation service," notwith standing the strike. Washington, Aug. 8.?The shop crafts' committee of the Southern Railway system and the Mobile and Ohio railroad met with railroad exe cutives and advised those employers that they would not make any adjust ment of the strike with the Southern or the Mobile and Ohio as the strike is national and must be settled na tionally. Failure to reach an agreement was announced after a conference of shopcraft leaders and railroad officials today. The conference was asked by Vice President Miller,-of the Southern, a week ago. The railroad announced its willingness to settle with its men on the basis of the president's first proposal, which was rejected, by the railroad executives meeting in New York. The conference originally was called for Saturday, but was post poned on request of union leaders. Vice-President Miller issued the following statement: "After delaying negotiations for a week, the shopcrafts' committee of the Southern railway system and Mo bile and Ohio railroad, today advis ed the officers of those companies that they will not make any adjust ment of the strike with the Southern or the Mobile and Ohio, as the strike is national and must be settled na tionally. In saying this they recog nized that the Southern and the Mo bile and Ohio railroads have kept the door open in the matter of sen iority and have agreed to the other i terms which were proposed by the president on July 31 and were sub sequently accepted by the national representatives of the shopcrafts, so that there is no oDstacie to s^t [ tlement, created or maintained by . the managements of the Southern [ or the Mobile and Ohio." ! In his invitation to Southern em [ ployes to enter a separate agreement Mr. Miller said the southern had made no attempt to break the strike ri - J? J a. j: ? t. J , ne uia nui muiuiiie luuaj wnat uiwc the road would make in view of the failure of the negotiations. MR. H1LLHOUSE LEAVES Pastor of Lebanon Presbyterian Church Goes to Waxhaw, N. C Rev. J. B. Hillhouse who has been the pastor of the Presbyterian church at Lebanon for several years has resigned his charge and will go to Waxhaw, N. C., where we will honnma noclnr nf fVio Prpahvtpn'sin i church. ' Mr. Hillhouse has been a faithful worker among his flock. He has many 1 friends in Abbeville and over the - county as well as in his own congre gation. These will regret to lose him and his estimable wife from the 1 community. DISTINGUISHED VISITOR. Hon. Albert E. Hill, of Spartan burg, formerly solicitor of this cir ' cuit, and now one of tho prominent 1 lawyers of the Spartanburg Bar, has been among tj)e delegate-3 to the meeting of the Junior Order, i 1 Mr. Hill stands high in the councilsl of his order. . ? xiri ? .... -ui SENAIt HIES RATES ON SUGAR ??? SMOOT DENIES OFFERING . TO TRADE ON TARIFF?ALL EF FORTS TO OBTAIN IMMEDI ATE ACTION ON HARRISON PROPOSAL BLOCKED. Washington, Aug. 8.?The block ing of efforts to obtain immediate action on the Harrison sugar inves tigation resolution and an impassion ed denial by Senator Smoot (Repub lican) of Utah that he had proposed in a letter to Major General Crowder American representative to Cuba, a reduction in the duty on sugar in re turn for the limitation of this year's Cuban sugar crop to 2,^500,000 tons marked senate consideration today of the sugar schedule on the tariff bill. Senator Harrison' twice sought to call up his resolution but the first time objection was made by Senator Smoot, who then was waiting to ad dress the senate, and later by Sena tor Curtis of Kansas, the Republi can "whip." When Senator Smoot objected, Senator Nicholson (Repub lican) of Colorado moved tc defer action on the sugar schedule until there had been an investigation of what he declared were "serious char ges contained in newspaper clippings read to the senate" Saturday by Senator Harrison. His motion, how ever, was ruled out of order. Senator Smoot then proceeded with a detailed review of efforts which had been made, he said, to save the domestic sugar industry from destruction by American sugar refiners and New York bankers, who he added, were faced with losses with the dropping of sugar prices. He asserted that the proposal to limit the Cuban crop had come from Cuba and read a published statement by the president of Cuba, denying that American government officials had proposed a reduction of the crop in return for lower tariff duties. The Harrison resolution proposes, among other things, an inquiry into charges that such proposals had been made. The Utah senator said his letter to General Crowder had been writ ten after Senor Portuondo of Cuba and General Crowder had called on him at his office here on January 24, last, and Senor Portuondo had pro posed limitation of the Cuban crop and an increase of 10 per cent, in the tariff differential in favor of Cuba. 28TH ANNUAL CONV ORDER MECHA The South Carolina State Coun cil of the Junior Order United Am ^1.4 nnmrnviorl encan lutMJiiuiutJj wmtn kuuvcucu here yesterday in its 28th annual convention, adjourned today about noon. The council transacted much business during the convention. It went on record as opposing the leg islature of South Carolina extend ing its legislative day into the Sab bath. Interest in the convention center ed in the election of officers. Dr. S. F. Killingsworth, now of Columbia, but formerly of Abbeville, who was State Councilor, automatically be came Junior Past State Councilor and a member of the State Board of Officers. Rev. L. W. Blackwelder of Union was elected state councilor, and A .E. Hill of Spartanburg, State vice-councilor. A. H. Gasque, of Florence, state council secretary, was not present being in the race for congress from his district, was re-elected state secretary over two opponents. J. W. Wells, of Gray Court, was re-elected state council secretary R. J. W. Moss, of Blacks burg, State Council warden; W. H. Sawyer, of Marion, state council in FATAL SHOOTING AFFRAY IN GREENVILLE?MAN AND BOY IN HOSPITAL AT SPARTAN BURG.?OFFICERS} CONDUCT INVESTIGATION. Spartanburg, Aug. 8.?Two men are dead, the third will die, accord ing to pnysicians, ana a iau Leu e years of age, the son of one of the \ dead men, is wounded as the result f of a desperate gun battle at the s base of Glasisy Rock mountain, the <j region of Greenville county known as the "dark corner" this afternoon, j The dead are: William Howard, 30 t years of age, near whose home the c shooting occurred; Thomas Scruggs, c 40 years of age, and a resident of g Spartanburg county, residing be- s tween Fingerville and Chesnee. i The wounded are Alexander Sud duth, 30 years of age, whose home is on Glassy Rock .mountain; Dallas Scruggs, 40 years of age, a son of Thomas Scruggs, who was killed. The scene of the battle is near the home of William Howard, six miles west of Gowansville and about nine miles from Campobello, in the region the United States government took over in the war days as an artillery range ,and while it was early in the afternoon, it was towards evening before even the local authorities were aware of the tragedy, and an inquest was held by Magistrate A. B. Plumley of Gowansville. Sudduth is desperately wounded while the boy, it is said, will recov er, his wound being in the shoulder. Shortly before midnight Sheriff Kector and uoroner vaugnn came to Spartanburg and obtained from Al exander Sudduth a statement re garded as his death bed account of the affair in which the sheriff quotes Sudduth as saying: "Sudduth and Scruggs were sitting by the side of the road. Scruggs had a sack contain ig several hot water bottles and several glass bottles full of liquor, all in the sack. Will Howard and Early Harrison came up. Early Har rison demanded them to halt and Wil Howard fired a rifle, shooting Sud ^fl?a KawqIc q r> A >lim 1 UUUU 111 U1C uu f* Hliu I/MW f.MM several times. Sudduth while falling returned the fire and killed Will J Howard. Other shots were fired af- 1 ter Will Howard was shot down and 1 he thought that Early Harrison fired" J This statement was given Sheriff [ Rector while Sudduth was undergo- 1 ing a blood transfusion. ENTION JUNIOR : side sentinel, ard R. E. Webb of j Orangeburg, state council outside sentinel. Dr. S. F. Killingsworth of Colum- i bia and FJ. F. Limehouse, of Orange- 1 burg, both past state councilors, ' were elected national representa ties of the order. j The State Council goes to Char- ?, leston next year. Before adjourning ] a rising vote of thanks was extend- f ed Abbeville for the hospitality ex- j tended the delegates on their visit j to the city. ] Delegates from 120 councils in the state were present, representing i a membership of 10,000. The order c is a patriotic fraternal order Te quiring American birth to become I a member. It fosters the public i schools, and strives to get the Bible in them as a text book. It believes in the flag waving over the schools, and opposes unrestricted immigra tion. OFF VISITING Miss Edna White left today for Fountain Inn where she will spend several days visiting friends. m lose : uvesintyphoon DISASTER AT SWATOW?TOLL < TRIPLES FORMER ESTIMATE IN CHINESE CITP?BURIAL DEAD PROVES A SERIOUS PROPOSITION. Hong Kong, Aug. 8.?Typhoon tricken Swatow, a mangled and mis rable caricature of the port of a veek ago, doggedly goes about the irirt ghastly task that falls to the urvivors of the storm?burial of tne lead. Bodies of twenty-eight thousand tave been recovered, a death toll hat triples former estimates and uts in half the former population >f the native city. These figures were riven in a circular issued by the >watow chamber of commerce from ts branch in Hong Kong. iRude coffins have been hammered ogether with lumber salvaged from he wreck of the city. But these can lot be made fast enough to dispose >f bodies which are a sanitary men ice. Gunny sacks and mattress bags lave been made into crude shrouds. Graves are hurriedly dug in the allu rial flats on which the port was >uilt, that bodies may be interred is they lire recovered from the wreckage. Shortage of food may prove an >ther menace. British in Hong Kong ilready have sent $10,000 for re ief to the British consul at Swatow, Hice is being shipped from the Brit sh colony. The Swatow Municipality Charitable association has organized i relief fund to which'subscriptions ire being sought. Benevolent socie ;ies in Hong Kong are uniting in elief measures for the sufferers. ^Bandits, making grim capital of ;he city's disaster, are reported to lave raided homes and robbed ped ;strians in the native section. "it i t_j. x. _ 1-.i. i-t-J J U.,4. jnouis SOUgnt to iuou me ueau, uui vere promptly stopped by native jolice. - , Swatow is a heap of ruins. The :idal wave which swept the road ilong the harbor while the storm i?as at its height completed the de vastation which the storm started. Water front buildings crumpled be fore the assault of the water, lie in tangled nondescript piles. The steamers caught in the storm were piled on the beach. Smaller craft, lemolished when they sought shelter in Swatow harbor, add to the tangle jn the water front that swirls with the tide. Bodies of many victims have drift ed out to sea. They have been sight 2d by steamers as far as 15 miles from the devastated port. Many will lever be recovered. GOOD NEWSPAPER MAN Mr. Parrot of Spartanburg Attends Junior Order Here. Mr. S. F. Parrott, of Spartanburg, is in the city attending the meetings Df the Junior Order. Mr. Parrott is Dne of the best newspaper men in the state. He was formerly owner md editor of the Gaffney News, but for the past three years he has been with the Spartanburg Journal, where le is doing excellent work. As news jatherer for that paper he writes nost of the city news as well as do ng other valuable work on that publication. We are indebted to Mr. Parrott :or the account of the meeting of his jrder contained in this issue. CAMP BREAKS UP. The young people who have been mjoying a two weeks camping party it Martin's Mill will return to Ab >eville Thursday. Swimming and ^cViintr have been the chief forms >f recreation on this pleasuure trip, t is reported that among numerous ninnows and catfish which were anded Claude Gambrell, Jr., is able o report a catch of "big game" vhich consists of two big turtles. QUESTION OF GRANTING MORA. TORIUM TO GERMANY IS BROUGHT UP?PRESENTS AR- T GUMENTS AGAINST PROPO. * '.:ii SAL BY LLOYD GEORGE. London, Aug. 8.?The allied states men who are meeting here in aa en deaor to solve the European riddle, today devoted live hours to an an alysis of the conditions existing be tween Great Britain, France, Italy, and Belgium. The conference termi nated in the appointment of a com mittee, composed of the finance min isters of these countries, which is ta examine into specific proposals made by Raymond Poincare, the French premier. These proposals have not been made public. The committee, in .collaboration with the financial experts, is to meet under the chairmanship of Sir Rob . ? r% rr t* 'lAf.1 it -M ere a. norne, oriusn cnanc^iior 01 the exchequer, at 10.30 o'clock to morrow morning. It will make a re- v\ port to the full conference some-' *. time Tuesday or Wednesday. The appointment of the committee followed a proposal by David Lloyd < George, the British prime minister, to grant a moratorium to Germany which would terimnate at the end of. the present year, and the outline by M. Poincare of measures which France considers should precede any further effort to alleviate German oongations. "France has no objections to a moratorium in principle," said M. Poincare. He then outlined the plan which he indicated would be satis* - factory to France's requirements. , "Every sanction," Mr. Lloyd George replied, "should be considered as to" ' whether it will result merely in ^ trouble or in hard cash." Mr. Lloyd George discussed M. Poincare's proposition in detail and expert advice should be invited be fore the ministers said yes or no to it The question of referring the mat tor fr? a ( fiTmniffpp waa unanimous. The French, British, Belgian and Italian spokesmen during the session * 1 re painted gloomy pictures of their war ravaged countries and consequent * chaotic trade conditions. Baron Hay ashi, the Japanese representative, threw a ray of sunshine into the con ference and brought the first laugh ter among the delegates when he made the declaration: "I think the single object of the allies should be to get all the money possible." Mr. Lloyd George in a brief ad dress opened the conference. He said the British government favored a waiting the report of the reparations committee before completing an al ! lied meeting but that others had thought the circumstances necessitat ed an immediate gathering. He then invited M. Poincare to elaborate his view. , M. Poincare said he thought the meeting was necessary because two factors of great importance had de veloped since the last conversations in London; namely, the German de mand for a moratorium and the note of the Earl of Balfour concerning interallied debts. The French pre mier added that the Versailles trea ty required Germany to pay her dues "She actually is paying nothing," he exclaimed. LOANS FOR ANDERSON Federal Land Bank to Advance Fundi to Farmers. Anderson. Au'g. 8?The iFederal Loan bank will soon make loans in A ?* /tAiinfv +A QTYlAlinf n.iiuci 3uu cuuuejr i?u -viiv. i*u*vu?*v v* $175,000 to farmers of this county J. R. C. Griffin, who ha3 charge of the loans of this county and is coun -ty treasurer says that all farmers desiring to take advantage of this aid must apply to him before Aug. 20. Total loans to this country with' this amount will be $1,085,000. losses Annie and Mary Bell of Antreville were in the city Tuesday.