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Established 1844. $2.00 Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Wednesday, April 12, 1922. Single Copies, Five Cents. 78th Y TARIFF MEASURE IS PRESENTED TREASURY EXPERTS ESTIMATE BILL WILL RAISE $300,000,000, AW INCREASE OF 50 PER CENT OVER THE PRESENT TARIFF QIUL?WILL BE LONG FIGHT a 11 TVm nH XI n. yx n aa? ? miiristsrationvtariff hill as re-written by senate finance committee repub licans on the basis of foreign valua tion with provisions for flexible < rates and proclaimed American valu ation as recommended by President 1 Harding, was presented today to the senate. It was announced that it would be taken up on April 21. A long fight is in prospect with some estimates that it might continue for , three months. * Taken as a whole the bill, ac- , cording to estimates of committee ex pertff averages sligtly higher than , the Payne-Aldrich law, the last re- , publican protective tariff act. As : compared with the house measure, the specific rates generally are high- . er, but the ad valorem rates gener- t ally are lower as such rates in the .] house bill were ibased on American I valuation. 1 Treasury experts have estimated j roughly that the bill will raise from ( $399,960,000 to $350,000,000 oil reroHie annually, 'but they ihave not I < yet had tipe to complete accurate calculations. The house measure was estimated to raise $300,000,000, while the Underwood law yielded between $200,000,000 and $300, 000,000. ~ There is a division of opinion among the farmers as to the prob able effect the measure would have on the cost of living. In the official report accompanying the bill it is stated the committee majority had "endeavored N4o recommend rates that will afford protection to Ameri can indusry and permit them to pay wages sumciem; w enauie our men to maintain an American stan- < dard in living." 1 With regard to the agricultural schedule, one of the longest in the ' bill the report said the "committee 11 adopted the policy of giving to agri- J culture the measure of protection { that has been accorded to other ii^-iJ duatriee, with due consideration to 1 the meedB of all sections and of all industries." The rates in this sche- i dale generally average higher than thofle in the house bill and includes a large number of items which were on the free list in the Underwood { bill, but placed on the dutiable list ' in the emergency tariff act now in ! for?e. j As a general rule, the rates writ tea into the agriculture schedule are at afcout the level demanded by the senate republican farm tariff bloc. Committee experts stated, however, that with few exceptions the rates in the agricultural schedule would ' not exceed 25 per cent. This schedule J embraces meats, eggs, vegetables ^ generally, fruits and practically all other products of the farm. The duty On wheat was fixed at 85 cents a 1 by&el, the same as under the emer gency act, 'but five cents above the figure fixed in the house bill. Under the democratic tariff act wheat was free. MI3S MARY R. MOORE HONORED , Bliss Mary Reed Moore has been ! elected a delegate irom wintnropi, College to attend the Y. W. C. A. J convention to be at Blue Ridge, N. C., from May 81 to June the 12th. . About twenty delegates from Win- , throp will attend. All of the southern states will be represented at the , convention, about 2,000 young ladies being expected to attend. BOARD OF EQUALIZATION Tke County Board of Equalization will meet in the office of Mr. R. C. 1 $o?dley, auditor for Abbeville coun- i t'y, *ext Tuesday the 18th of April, i E! OVER NIL BILL MEMBERS INSIST THAT IT DOES AND DOES NOT CARRY OUT PROVISIONS?r RATIO OF TREATY BRINGS DISCUS SION ' Washington, April 11.?The fight on the naval appiopriation bill began in the house today with, members in sisting that it did and that it did not actually carry out th^ 5-5-3 ratio, as fixed by the treaty. All day the dis cussion centered around this one big question in dispute. Chairman Kelly of the sub committee on appropriations, which drafted the measure, and others, in eluding Representative Mondell of Wyoming Republican leader declared an enlisted force of 65,000 phis 2, 000 apprentice seamen was ade quate to maintain the navy in ac cordance with the arms conference rating. Others, however, including Representative Padgett of Tennes see, ranking Democrat on the naval committee, which in former times prepared the navy hills, asserted the figures were so low "as to destroy the efficiency of the American navy" and give it a standing the same as Dr lower than that of Japan. In all there were seven speeches during the day, three for and four against the measure. Representative Byrnes of South Carolina supported the committee proposals, joining Chairman Kelly and Mr. Mondell in its defense. On the other side the jpeakers with Mr. Padgett were Representatives Pinkham of Massa :hu setts, Husted of New York and (Tare of Pennsylvania, all Republi can members of the appropriations jommittee who signed a minority re port uiiging a force of 80.000 olus >,000 and who declared the commit tee figures disrupted and ignored the treaty. There will be two full days of gen eral debate with more later when the personnel section is reached. The name of the president was brought into the debate and there were many verbal clashes as a result. Mr. Mondell questioned the propriety 3f the incluson in minority views of a statement that the president had urged 86,000 men or 10,000 less than the number requested <by Secretary Deniby. Asserting that 65,000 men would not accomplish the aims of the treaty, Mr. Padgett suggested to the committee that if it was unwilling to accept the solemn judgment of the secretary of the navy somebody i ought to be put in his place whose | advice would be accepted. CAROLINA SYNCOPATORS The Carolina Syncopators will go to Laurens tomorVow to play for a iance at the country club there to morrow night. Friday they will go to Clinton and will furnish music for the Junior-Senior banquet at the Presbyterian College. They will also play for a dance in Clinton Saturday light. BACK TO TENNESSEE iMr. and Mrs. Robert O. Hunter left this (morning for Greenville, Tenn., to spend the summer months. They went through the country and Franldin Nickles will act as chauf feur on the trip. Franklin was en thused over the prospects of the trip and told the boys in town that he was to get the trip out, his railroad fare paid back home and Mr. Hunter was to pay him ten dollars in addi tion to this. Franklin left some en vious boys in Albbevilie. DISTRICT AGENT HERE MiBs Blanche Tarrant, District Agent of the Home Demonstration Work with headquarters in Green wood, is in Aibbeville today to con sult with Mrs. Alma C. Gibbons about the work in this county. UPlREME COURT DECIDES < STANDARD FASHION CASE. NOT OF AGENCY OR JOINT VENTURE, SAYS JUSTICE DAY IN OPINION Washington, April 11.?Contracts f sale made 'by (manufacturers, re- t uirinig retail dealers exclusively to i andle their products, which may ] ave the effect to lessen competition t rbstantiauy were today neia xo oe ivalid by the supreme court, v The opinion delivered by Jus ce Day in a case ibrougfet by the tandard Fashion company, a New ork corporation, against the Ma rane Houston company of Boston, nd sought to compel the retail >mpany to observe the terms of a >ntract that the supreme court de ared was one of sale and not of jency or joint venture. Being a contract of sale, Justice ay stated, the only question which nnained for the court to determine as whether the facts established tat it would substantially lessen >mpetition. Adopting the findings of the clr lit court of appeals for the first rcuit of the results obtained rough the contract, the supreme wirt reached the conclusion "that e contract, properly interpreted, ith its restrictive covenant, brings fairly within the section of the layton act under consideration." It lereiore anxnnoa uie uevituvu c ' the circuit court which held the t intract invalid. j Under its contract the Standard' c ishion Company agreed to sell its 1 andard patterns at^ discount of 50 P ? cent from retail prices and to s law certain return privileges when 1 itween certain dates semi-annually would receive in exchange at nine- E nths cost discarded patterns. In t ily, 1917, the Magrane Houston c mpany decided to discontinue the * ,le of the Standard Fashion com- e my patterns and placed on sale in 1 5 store patterns of a rival pattern t tmpany. It was to enforce its con- c act that the fashion company ought suit. MODEL FARM. E. F. Arnold, who sells cars in Ab jville for Mr. Henry Ford, has set ) a miniature model farm in his iow window. A shallow box about < feet long and three .feet wide has sen filled with rich earth and grass anted. A good stand of grass makes e surface green and on this has sen placed a model farm house with incy fences made of toothpicks, trns, chickens and even a pig pen. In the fields will be SMn the trac rs and machinery that make a mod farm practicable in real life. It an attractive window exhibit. IN CONSULTATION Dr. J. E Edwards of Sp&rtarfburg as called in consultation by Dr. <*. c . Neuffor, the attending physician, i rth regard to the condition of Dr. v . C. Gambrell, who has been quite p ck 'for several days. Dr. Edwards t freed with the diagnosis of Dr. suffer and was pleased with the 'ogress of the case. Dr. Oambrell's mdition is satisfactory but he will ive to remain in bed for some days. . { ATHOUN FAIJjS ABBEVILLE 1 Calhoun Falls' tenon will play the bbeville Cotton Mill team on the bbeville mill field Saturday after )on at 3:30 p. m. All of the base ill fans are expected to be pxes it. VIEDICAL SOCIETY TO MEET The Abbeville County Medical So ety will meet Friday night at 8 . m. in the office of Dr. C. C. Gam ell. STEAMSHIP TRAFFIC I TO CHANGE ROUTE :hange adds forty miles to c the distance between america and europe. move 60 miles south of present steamship lane Washington, April 11.?Steamship " iraffic in the North Atlantic will ibe a TinVAfl civ+v rmlofl armi+Ji n-f fVio tl >resent double steamship lane ;hrough the ice danger zone of the 3rand Banks under advisory in ductions sent out by the hydro praphic office. The east-bound traffic ;o Europe made the change, effe cl ave last Saturday. The westbound ane will move April 15. Action of'the hydrographic office vas based upon the desire of the steamship companies associated in hgi trans-Atlantic track agreement, organized in London, which decided ast Saturday that the shift would >e desiralble at this time, although toere has been as yet no menace of cebergs in the steamship lanes. The leason when the 'bergs break loose ind sometimes force their way into he ordinary lanes of steamship ravel is near at hand, however, and he hydrographic office welcomes the lecision of the London Association if Steamship companies and prompt y communicated with all the re nainder of the 50 line? operating in he North Atlantic routes. The coast guard cutter Tampa is >n international ice patrol duty off lie Grand Banks at present and has tot reported the presence of more han one berg1 in the vicinity of the fceamship lanes within the last ten lays. That berg apparently broke ip and disappeared, although ship ring was routed around the ob truction for several days by radio nessages from the cutter. The berg which sank the Titanic aade its appearance *in the ship's racks on April 12, the disaster oc curring on the night of that date. Javy officials generally were pleas d at the attitude of the steamship ines this year in deciding to switch o the safe routes sixty miles south if the ordinary spring track without waiting for the ice to compel such iCtion. REAMES' NICE CATCH Another Abbeville boy came into he limelight when Truman Reames lade a sensational catch in the game t Athens, Ga. last Friday between leorgia Tech and Clemson. Abbeville 3 proud of her baseball celebrities. The following press notice is by W. ?. Munday, Jr., and is taken from ^he Atlanta Journal: "From a sensational standpoint he game was featured by a neat unning catch of a fly ball by Reames n right for the South Carolinians. In he fifth Pearce caught one by the rademark and drove it on a line ver the first baseman's head, it ooKea gooa ior tnree muses, uul teams came tearing in on it, run iing sideways and seeing that he ouldn't flag it by mere running, ook a long jump, spearing the ball rhile in apace. It was one of the irettiest catches seen here so far his year." MRS. WRIGHT ARRIVES Mrs. Parker O. Wrtgfit of Pasa lena, Cal., arrived In the city today o visit her father, Dr. James L. iartin, on Wardlaw street. Mrs. Vright will be remembered here as diss Nora Martin. She is the only Mid of Dr. Martin and will be wel omed by her girlhood friends. ILIZA WARD LAW AUSTIN SICK Little Eliza Wardlaw Austin is ery sick at the home of her parents, >r. and Mrs. James Austin on North Iain street. She was taken ill last ight, but is considered better to ay. GOVERNMENT FORCES IN VERA CRUZ DEFEATED BY REBELS SALES OF ARMS AND MUNI TIONS SUSPENDED?IN OPEN REBELLION Washington, April 11.?Official dvices received here today indicate ncsreased revolutionary and Ibandit ctivity in the states of Vera Cruz, alisco and Nayarit in Mexico. The ^bela in Nayarit were reported to lumber from 200 to 300 men under he leadership of Pablo Gonzales. In nlinen, six setiarate bands were re crted in the field In open rebellion gainst the central government, al though their strength thus far is re arded as insignificant. The activity in Vera Cruz was re orted to have assumed considerable mportance in view of the defeat j rhich the rebel leader, General Mi uel Aleman, with a band estimated t 800 men, recently administered to he federal forces. The federal edm-i lander in Vera Gruz, it was said, as reported that the-rebels are <bet-| sr armed and equipped than his wn forces and requested authority o suspend the sales of arms and munitions of all kinds. Noticeablfe decline in bandit movements in the northern states of lexjco as reported in the dispatches, espite sporadic uprisings in the tate of Coahuila and in southern Ihihuahua and Duirango. The spread of radicalism, it was eported, continues unabated, with npetus being given to the mov*. lent by emissaries from various oun tries, including the United tates. Those emissaries, it was said, re organized and assisted through be agency, of various radical orga izations and have the support of ome Mexican officials. Control of the federal army, re arded as loyal to President Obre on, and development of the gov rament's finances, however, were eclared to be the chief factors in lie present Mexican situation. FOOD COSTS LOWER lecreaw Noted in Retail Prices Of March Washington, April 11.?A de rea&e in the retail eost of food to tie average family in March, as ompared with February, was re orted today 'by the bureau of labor tatistics of the department of labor, 'rices as of 43 food articles in 51 nportant cities were considered, eyenteen of these articles showed ecrease ranging from less than five enths of 1 per cent on (butter ana ea to 34 per cent on strictly fresh utter, 21 articles increased from jss than five-tenths of 1 per cent on heeee to 11 per cent on oranges and ix articles remained unchanged. During the year March 15, 1921 to larch 15, 1922 the bureau added he average decrease in the retail rices of these foods was 11 per ent, 35 articles decliming and eight icreasing. In the nine year period nding March 15, the average of in rease was placed at 43 per cent. LUNACY WRITS Jim McQuerns was taken in charge nder a writ of lunacy (by Sheriff [cL&ne yesterday and turned over 3 the county of Greenwood for com litment. Wilbur R. Stafford of Lowndes ille presented himself to Sheriff Mc >ane April 11th and asked to be &nt to the asylum. He was lodged in iil and will be held until his papers an be completed and returned to udge of Probate, J. F. Miller, when 0 will be taken to Columbia. The pplicant has been confined in the sylujn before. COTTON MARKET The best price for cotton on the'. >cal market today was 17 3-4 cents. INOFI MAYOR AND COUNCILMEN ELEC TED, SWORN IN-OFFICERS' F< NEW YEAR ELECT^D BER OF POLICEMEN CUT, J. NASH NEW MAN ON FORCE. Yesterday was general election daj for city officers. Mayor Mars was i elected as Mayor for two years; 1 srs. E. R. Thomson and M. B. were rt-elected as councilman, )t Messrs. J. S. Cochran and J.-\ Gambrell were elected as new cilmen. All these newly elected ers were sworn in at a meeting last ' night. The matter of-most importance be^ fore the council last night was the' matter of electing officers for the city; All elections were by secret ballot The results were as follows: J. L. Johnson, re-elected Chief of]1 Police. James Schroeder, Clarence Craw-^j ford and J. J. Naah as policemen. The;? two former being re-elected while Mr. Nash is a newly elected officer. Messrs.'Stevenson and Bonds were-? not re-elected. Council decided to re-., duce the force from five to'four men, including the chief. Geo. C. Douglass was re-elected City Treasurer, an office he has for the past year with great satis-, faction. ; C. P. Townsend, another of the City i officers making good, was re-elected' ? T I as manager ui me water anu uguir . plants. 't \$L >, J i- /' M. B. Reese was elected by the council as mayor pro tern, and in\ the absence of the Mayor will hand : out a stern brand of justice to un fortunate law-breakers. Mr. W. . Haddon was re-el street foreman and will continue build good streets. Col. E. F. Arnold was re-elected as Chief of the Fire Department at' ^ the same salary, which is glory only, and G. S. Wilson was re-elected as engineer, with W. T. Mundy as as- : sistant. J. Howard Moore was named as City attorney. ' ' The following constitute the City Board of Health: Dr. J. R. Power, chairman; Dre. J. C. Hill, J. E. Pressly, Joel S. Morse and C. A. Haigler. The committees of council for the year are as follows: Streets?Langley, chairman; Evans Reese, and Thomson. Finance?Evans, chairman; Syfan, Miller and Cochran. Police?Miller, chairman; Langley, and Gambrell. Fire Department?Syfan, man; Thomson. Cochran and brell. Light and Water?Reese, chair man; Evans, Langley and Miller. J3uildings and Grounds?Thomson, , v chairman; Syfan, Cochran and Gam brell. x " . I SPECIAL LENTEN SERVICES 'W In addition to the regular mid week Lenten service today there trill be a special service tomorrow even ing, being Maundy Thursday, at 8 o'clock is Trinity Episcopal church. This service wHl have especial stem ficance in the fact that the Holy Communion will be celebrated at night?th? only time this is possible in the Episcopal church at Bach an hour?and is in commemoration of the institution of the Lord's Supper by Our Lord Himself. A special ser mon relative to this fact will .be , preached at the service tomorrow night, and an invitation is extended to the memebrs of the other churches in town to be present. un master Sunday morning mere will b? a celebration of the Holy Communion at 8:30 a. m in Trinity church in order to leave time for Rev. Mr. Derbyshire to reach Wil lington where h? has another similar service and Baptism at 11:15 a. m. . V, . .. ai&SSSifc