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Abbeville Press and Banner! Established 1844. $2.00 Year. Tri-Wejjkfr AbSlle, S. C., Wednesl^y, Novemb^^ 1922 Single Copies, Five M NORTH CAROLINA TO COLLECT- TAX JUDGE CONNOR DECIDES AGAINST RAILWAYS?CASE IS EXPECTED TO PROCEED NOW TO UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT. Baleigh, N. C. Nov 14.?Judge H G. Connor, in the United States dis triet court, today filed a decision holding that the four railroads operating in this state must pay the state of North Carolina $145,000 annually in contested income taxes and railroad attorneys immediately set about preparations to file a pepitkm for an appeal to the United States supreme court. The decision of Judge Connor not ing th9 difference between the assessment wf the state and the contention of the railroads shows the Southern assessed at $71,522.06; admitted $18,703.95 Atlantic Coast Line assessed $41,680,95, admitted $9y996.15; -Norfolk Southerti asssessed $19,616.40, admitted nothing The opinion of the court is contained in one paragraph* the remain der of th? decree being devoted to a presentation of tne contentions and the law bearing on the subject. By arrangement of counsel the necessity of a three judge court was eliminated in the income tax cases and the cases were heard by Judge Connor on the final hearing. The suits were brought by the railroads on the contention that the tax imposed by the state is discrim- ; inatory and applied upon the gross i receipts rather than upon the net \ income. Seven contentions were made by the railroads in support of their . contention that the general rule had been applied to the railroads but the practical question involved was whether or not the railroads should 1 . be entitled to deductions for sums paid in interest and rents. The state contended that the on* iy discrimination imposed upon the railroads is that made necessary by the character of their business and that for practical purposes all taxpayers had been divided into three clasps, .individuals .puiblic 3ervice3 corporations required to keep (records according to the accounting system adopted by the interstate commerce commission and all other nnmnration. ABBEVILLE DELEGATES Governor Wilson G. Harvey, Mon day appointed over a hundred delegrates to represent South Carolina at! the annual convention of the Southern Commercial Congress to be j ,? held in Chicago November 20ih. j From Abbeville county he named the following delegates: A. S. Kennedy, Due West, Dr. G. A. Neaffer Abbeville and A. R. Fowler, Due West. 1 DE LA HOWE KIDS. ! ] Saturday afternoon the De la Howe kids are coming to Abbeville to see "The Bachelor Daddy." ' TJhey will be the guests of Manager Verchot of the Opera House. There . will be 108 of them and anybody 1 desiring to help get them from the 1 De La Howe school to Abbeville town will please communicate with 1 Mr. J. M. Nickles or Mr. Verchot 1 what transportation they can offer. '< There are many ears in Abbeville and most any of the High School boys .1 would drive out and get the children ,1 for the show. i FREE TICKETS. 1 jl All of the girls and boys having ] exhibits at the Corn Show will be 1 presented 'with free tickets to the Matinee at the Opera House Satur- 1 day afternoon. The show will be i The Bachelor Daddy," and is a ( fire show. * 1 t ' REICHSBAI10 ' ASSIST GERMANY, PREPARED TO , ADVANCE 500,000,000 GOLD MARKS?REPARATIONS COMMISSION FAILS TO AGREE?DEADLOCK IS t THREATENED. t t Berljin^Nov. 14^?'German (Gov- o emment tonight forwarded a for- e <mal note to the reparations com- s mission in, Paris, informing- fthe a commission that the Reichsbank is prepared to advance the . German Government 600,000,000 gold mark J toward a loan to stabilize the mark, f said an equal amount is forthcom- e ing from abroad and subject to the E condition 'proposed !by the foreign t financial experts who recently vis- B ited Berlin a3 essential for the sue- d cess of the stabilization project. a Plaris, (Nov. !4j?The uepaati- s tions commission at 8 o'clock this ? evening, after three hours of dis- ^ cussion of Germany financially and economically, as vierwed under the commission's recent visit to Berlin ' found itself just as far from agree- ^ ment as when the session began. v The American unofficial repreeenta- ^ tives, Roland W. Boyden and Col. ^ James A. Logan, Jr., participated. ^ in .the session. It A deadlock in the commission again seems imminent although it 0 is reliably reported that M. Bar- a thou, the chairman, has been favorably impressed with the pro- g posed. solution contained in the re- b port of the foreiga experts who re- o cently went to Berlin to study the o situation. It is stated that pre- v mier' Poincare insists upon the im- r position upon Germany of rigid o guarantees ibefore everything else. 1) It is suggested in one quarter S' that the reparations problem., might 'be left in suspense until the inter- c Allied conference at Brussels on 11 the question of reparations and 0 inter-Allied debts is held but those v members of the commission who P can see no good in delaying the e decision 'by the commission. The t fear of the collapse of the present government in Berlin is also con- ^ sidered a factor which it is argued ^ should, hasten some conclusion on t * \ V the reparations question. r EXHIBITS POURING ! IN FOR CORN SHOW, . n Which Comes Off This Week?Ex- a hibits May Be Entered Until L 2 O'clock Tomorrow. y \ _ g Entries for the Corn Show which h takes place Thursday, Friday and a Saturday of this week, wijl not close uhtii 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon ^ the 16th. Exhibits are pouring in this ^ morning in unusual numbers and it is far from the closing time. If exhibits continue to come in this way j until 2 o'clock tomorrow, Abbeville ^ will have the best Corn Show that ^ lias been held in the State. e The judging will be done Friday e morning by Prof. C. P. Blackwell, tl HU J A f?%( n I r.4- PI /\W> r?or* P rtl 1 Ar?A uiiiei uiiuiJiiou, v^icuiauu vjunu^Cj svho is considered the best judge of :orn in the state. Henry S. Johnson, 5f Aiken, District Agent, will also ict as judge. Dr. W. W. Long, Director of Ex- n :eneion Work for South Carolina will 11 ye here Saturday to see what Abbe- a riile County can produce. 1; The Corn Show is being held in p :he Planters Bank Building under ;he direction of County Agent C. Lee Gowan, and under the wing of a :he Planter^ Bank. o The show will be open Friday, o Friday night, Saturday and Saturday tl light to visitors. A large crowd is j ? jxpected from the neighboring towns J sc Saturday is a special day for the'g: ' r ' 1 ; ' ' ** . :-r "4. ;; PLANS FOR C AGAINSTJ BULLETINS SENT OUT BY STAT DETAIL METHOD WORKED 01 CALLS FOR ACTION EAR] Gainesville, Fla., Nov. 14.?Bulleins were being sent out today 1 by he state plant board of Florida deailing at length the "improved method of controlling the boll weevil" as volved by Dr. George D. Smith, asistant entomologist of the board, nrl nnnminpprt Saturdav nierht by Dr Vilmon Newell, directofr. While expressing confidence that Florida growers of upland cotton by ollowing the new method are assurd of at least 90 per cent, of a noraal crop, Dr. Newell points out at he outset that Dr. Smith's expedients were made under Florida conlitions, and the method evolved is dapted to this state, but there eems tq be no reason "on theoretial grounds at least" why the methd can not successfully be adapted 0 all sections of the potton belt. The substance of Dr." Smith's plan 5 to clear the fields of weevil infesation early in June and then give he staple free growth until August rhen the annual immigration of the reevil sets in. The staple has grown, owever, to such an extent by this ime, that harm from the weevil then 1 inconsequential. In this state, the bulletin points ut, the crop is usually "made" by Oigufct 15. ' Dr. Smith recognized in the beinning of his experiments that the oil weevil could be effectively poisned before it reached the "squares" r flower bracts of the plant. His inestigation therefore had to do with idding the plant of the last of the ver-wintering weevils which appear iter and deposit their eggs on the quares. His plan evolved meets this obstale by the simple process of removng the early squares, and then thorughly disinfecting the boll itself" ;ith poison. His experiments disroved the belief that removal of the arly squares would lower the coton yield. In this state, the bulletin continues iy removing the squares early in une and cleansing the boll, the plant hen has almost as long a period in irhich to set fruit as it enjoyed in a lormal season prior to the coming f the weevil. "At first thought," the bulletin ontinues, "it may appear that a NIGHT SCHOOL GROWING. The night school being held at he cotton mill school house two ightS each week by Supt. J. D. Fulp nd assistants, is rapidly growing, -ast evening nearly 20 new pupil's rere enrolled and the work was beun in earnes' Rev. M. R. Plaxco as heen senured to assist in the work nd was on hand last night. ' Arithmetic, spelling, writing end usiness English are the most popuir studies among , the pupils. A textile arithmetic) is being used i the school. This text prepared uner the supervision of officials of the rictor-Monaghan mills, Greenville, eals with problems met with in the very day life and work of the mill mployees, and is a valuable text in lie night school. cwnriNr. I A ROD Sheriff F. B. McLane has three egroes in iail charged with entictig labor o-t of the state. Th? men re Henry Mcintosh, Albert Wardiw and Fred Tate of the Calhoun 'alls section. On? had a ticket for imself and five, one for himself ? J o "n rl nno UU tWUj CIZ1U UUC J.Ui miiiovix U11U V??v ther. Another nogr& with a gang f twenty 'escaped ana got off with he goods. ;hool children as well as the club iris and boys. A MPAIGN | 5OLL WEEVIL E PLANT BOARD OF FLORIDA UT BY ENTOMOLOGIST. LY IN CROP YEAR. considerable amount of cotton would be destroyed or lost by removing of the first few square,, say an average of about twd large squares to/ the plant throughout the field. It has been demonstrated that the cotton plant normally sheds about 60 per cent of its fruit during the growing season. Therefore a loss of two squares to the plant, on the average, should not affect the yield." Noting that the planter has attached great importance to these first squares, considering them the substance of his early cotton crop, the bulletin says: "Removal of the early squares in our experiments was followed by a remarkable reaction on Ihe part of the plant itself. In all cases, removal of the squares was followed by a rapid increase in the height of the plants and this was closely followed by a profuse development of new squares. So pronounced has been this acceleration of stimulation of fruit ing, that it seems highly probable that even with no weevils, present removal of all squares early in June would actually result in increasing the yield of cotton." Washington, Nov. 14.?Officials of the department of agriculture, which has been actively fighting the boll weevil for more than 20 years, are greatly interested in the announcement of the method evolved by Dr. George D. Smith, associate entomologist of the Florida state plant board, for controlling the boll weevil, which has caused a loss averaging, it is estimated, $300,000,00 annually during the last four years. Dr. Smith formerly was in the employ of the federal bureau of entomology and spent sometime in the study of the boll weevil while in the federal, service. Effective work, department officials declare, is being done especially at the federal experiment station in Louisiana. The use of calcium arsenate in dry-dust form in controlling the boll weevil, the department adds, has been gradually developed during the last seven years and has proved fairly successr ful. During the present season, according to officials' use of the dusting method on one 14,000 acre plantation in Mississippi was very effective at a cost of about $3 an acre. DEATH OF MR WM. McNEILL Mr. William M.-McNeill, a prosperous farmer of the Sharon section, died at 4 o'clock a. m. November 15, 1922, after an extended illness. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock at Sharon church, conducted by Rev. J. B. Kil gore assisted by Rev. C. E. Peele. Mr. McNeill was born in Ireland and was in his 74th year. He had been married twice, his first wife being Miss Knox. To this union was born five children, all of whom are living, they are: Dr. Robert McNeill of Danburg, Ga., Mrs. Ben Cade Washington, Ga., Mrs. Janie Dickerson, Columbia, Tom McNeill, Macon, Ga.,, and Miss Nora McNeill of Jacksonville, Fla. His second wife was Miss Fannie Palmer, who with five children survive: W. W. McNeill, Sharon, Mrs. Rosa Boles, North, Frank McNeill. Abbeville, Mrs. J. E. Cochran, Watts and Donald McNeill,! of Clemson College. Mr. McNeill was a member of the Methodist church and has lived a long and useful life in this commu[nity. He leaves behind him the heritage of a life well spent. The following will act as honorary and active pall bearers: Honorary. W. F. Nickles', P. A. Roche, W. T. Magill, Dr. G. A. Neuffer, R, W. Knox, and J. A. Gilliam. Active: W. 0. Graves, John E. Ri- i ley, A.' B. Bosler, G. S. Wilson, C. i T. Schram and Frank W. Wilson. < COTTON CONSUMED SHOWS AN INCREASE OCTOBER COTTON CONSUMPTION IS MORE THAN SEPTEM, BER, ALSO LARGER THAN FOR SAME MONTH LAST YEAR I CENSUS RF.POBT PCVPAIQ r Washington, Nov. 14?Cotton consumed during October amounted to 533,950 running bales of lint, and 62,406 bales of " linters, compared with 494,317 of lint and 65,560 of linters in October last year and 495,344 of lint and 59,833 of linters - in I September this year, the census bureau announced today. Cotton on hand October 3, was held as follows: In consuming establishments 1,379,770 bales of lint and 82,169 of linters, compared with 1,398,138 of lint and 157,870 of linters a year ago. . In public storage and at compresses, 4,329,902 bales of lint and 16,812 of linters compared with 4,984,831 of lint and 212,887 of linters a year ago. Active spindles numbered 33,859,076, compared with 34,206,179 in October last year. Statistics for cotton growing states: Consumed daring October 346,435 bales, compared witn zv f,iui p uctober last year. Cotton on hand October 31, in consuming establishments, was 855,981 compared with 774,848 and in public storage and at compresses 4,J.25,598 bales, compared with 4,677,202. Cotton spindles active during October 15,831,959 compared with 15,391,959 in October last year. The largest monthly consumption of cotton since June 1920, occurred during October a total of 533,950 bales of lint having been used by manufacturers. The census bureau announced that this was an increase of 38,600 bales over September consumption and about the same increase over last year. Consumption in cotton growing states was almost 50,000 bales more than in October, a year ago. II flP Tfi PAIQP u. u. u. iu nmuL 130,000 ADDITIONAL To Complete Jefferson Davis Monument?When Completed it Will Be 351 Feet High Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 14..?Efforts will be made at the convention of the Unfted Daughters of the Confederacy which opens here tonight to raise the remaining $30,000 necessary to complete the Jefferson Davis monument at Fairview, Ky., according to Mrs. Jacksie Daniel ThrashMorrison, chairman of the monument committee. Pledges will be taken from the floor in an effort to raise the remainder of the funds, it was reported. The obelisk is now 216 feet high, according to the plans. The work of raising the remaind-i er of the funds has been placed in the hands of the Daughters of the Confederacy and the Jefferson Davis Home association, of which General! William B. Haldeman, of Louisville, is president. Undaunted by the action of Governor Morrow in vetoing an appropriation of $15,000 granted in a bill passed by both houses of the Kentucky legislature, the' Daughters announced their determination to raise the remaining necessary funds at this convention. ?-? Has Sick Daughter. Mr. Walter Price has a young iaughter, the oldest of his three srirls, very sick at his home in the :-ountry with scarlet fever. i > A; i ' >; / .. .* i . f , \ i I * AN UGMUATION REQUIRES UTMOST SKILL TO PREVENT OUTBREAKS?AN-" I GORA GOVERNMENT FOLLOW, j ING POLICY OF DEFIANCE TO, WARD ALLIES ' London, Nov. 14.?iNow that the Lausanne conference has 'been postponed to November 20 tlj? question ' most urgently asked here is whether A. ! it will be -possible to maintain peace in Constantinople in the interim^ Re storation of communications has re- X'i$ij vealed such an ugly situation there that it is evident the utmost tact 'Ayj and skill will be necessary to prevemt outbursts. All reportg coming to London ; A concur in saying that the extreme ists are dominating the Augora g^y- 7;V>Js| eminent, which, through ita agents ^ "-,j in Constantinople is following the policy of defiance toward the allies -^yand terrorism among the 'local popu lation. ' . /'two Residents of Constantinople Let :: fM described as being in a state of ex-' 1 $jg trfeaie' alarm, while the .position of the allied troops \is respected as one which soon may become un- V|jH tenable. 'J An incident which sharolv sh?ws *;*c& che total change in the situation from conditions iwhich have pre- ^|| vailed during the past year is reported iby some correspondents ''vim whose dispatches say that an Eng- ( lish book merchant who became in- ' volved in a street Squabble was seized by the Turkish police, taken to the Galati police station and t whipped. The correspondents maintain that the establishment of martial law alone can make Constapti- ' nople safe. Complete agreement among the-/;< :;$|| allied and a display of unity in .the nature of granting full authority to their commanders in Constanti-. niople to co-operate in any emergen- . cy would remove anxiety. It is con- ... .y^jjjj tetuded, and guarantee stability dor ing the discussions with the Turks . . $ at Lausauhe. Without such . coin plete oo-operation, it is argued the M conference had better not be held. Commentations in London generally insist strongly upon the Pieces- ' sity for the allied representatives to meet together before Talking to the Turks at Lausanne in iorder to ' decide a common policy.Unless this is done some observers feel it will . be impossible for Great Britain to 'ij be represented at Lausanne at alL FOOTBALL FRIDAY. S 3 Uhe football game between Abbe ville and Saluda high schools will be called promptly at 3:30 on the NeW Field Friday afternoon. Reports fsom Saluda say that the boys from the swamps are fit and in fine mettle and declare that Abbeville shall not eveta score on their team, let alone win another game. It will be a different game from the Edgefield game and Saluda will know that they have piayea real football no matter what the outcome be- " " , : '[M MISS REEP REMAINS. . Miss Blanch Reep has reconsidered her resignation as Superintendent of the Abbeville Memorial Hospital and 3 will remain- at the head of that institution. This will be good news to the many friends of Miss Reep who could not even accept the idea of her leaving Abbeville. Iff A DVrT tu 1 I Ui> 1U/\I\I\U 1 r/n Cotton brought 26*/? cents on the local market today. Futures closed Dec. 26.18 Jan. 7 __26.07 March I 26.00 May ' 25.83 ? July 25.49 ^