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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-03-30
GERMANY PROTESTS AGAIN

Geneva, March 29-T:.s league of
nations has received a second protest
from Germany calling attention to
the continued occupancy by allied
troops of German territory. The note
expresses the hope that Article IL
and II of the peace pact will be ap-
piled, according to the preceding note
of March 10.
The new note is dated March %
and is signed by Foreign Secretary
Simons. It says:
after occupying Duisburg, Ruh-
rort and Dusseldorf, the allied
troops advanced and occupied the To-
calities of Walsum, Ratingen, VOL
beck and Narzloh and the railway
stations at Mulheim, Speldorf and
West Oberhausen. According to re-
ports received by the German govern
ment the aI;ed military Authorities
intend further to expand the occupa-
ton.
THE German government pr tests
strongly against the continuance of
this proceeding. which is against al!
right and justice. II demands the con-
citation measures provided for by
Arti".es IL and IT," -.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-03-30
BLAST IN CHICAGO
CLAIMS TEN LIVES
Several Score Injured in Warehouse
Explosion-Believe Blast Was
Due to Bomb or the Explo-
sion of Gas. -.

Chicago, March 29.-At least six
and perhaps twice that number of
persons were killed and scores of
others were hurt today when an un-
explained explosion blew to pieces p
warehouse about two miles southwest
of the down town district.
Police theories Of The cause rang
ed from bombing, faulty gas mains,
starch and flour dust to fire works.
The building a one-story brick struc-
ture, was filled with grocery stocks,
but the police also learned that a
quantity of fireworks had been stored
in the basement.
The conclusion was so great that
timbers and bricks were thrown hun
dreds of feet and windows in a de-
partment store several blocks away
were shattered. In the immediate
vicinity of the warehouse scarcely "a
pane of glass was left intact, porches
were torn from houses and apartment
buildings and cornices were ripped
loose.
Witnesses said there were two
reports, the first being succeeded at
once by deafening crash. =
The first six bodies recovered from
the ruins apparently were those OF
workmen. One of the survivors told
the police that about dozen men
were employed in the place, but that
some truck drivers also were in the
warehouse when it blew up. The
body of one of these, Mike Tapinskie,
was found and he was the only
identified victim three hours after
the accident.
Seven seriously injured were TAX
en- to the county hospital while two
score others were treated at an emer-
gercy dressing station in branch
public library.
In an endeavor to learn possible
.auses for the catastrophe, the police
detained Harry We'll, son Of Joseph
We'll, head of paper company.
Edward Schaeffer, son of N. Schaf-
fer, who conducts novelty shop, also
was taken in custody. He denied
knowledge of the ownership of the
fireworks. Police reported finding a
bill Of sale in the Scatter shop
which indicated that 155 cases OF
torpedoes had been sent to the
schaffers from a Pennsylvania fire.
works company on February 20.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-03-30
THE CITY PRIMARY

The second primary in the city
election was held Tuesday and re,
suited in the choice of MIR. T. N. Mil
Ter as the alderman from Ward four.
In the the city box Mr.. Miller receiv-
ed 38 votes and at the shops 9 votes
making a total of Al.
B. T. Cochran received in the city
box 81 votes and at the shops 2,
making a total Of 33. Six women vot-
ed in the city box.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-03-30
A COMING CONCERT.

The Erskine and Woman's College
Glee Club and Woman's College or
chestra will come to Abbeville on
Monday April 18th, and give con-
cert under the auspices of the ladies
society Of the Associate Reformed
church. The concert will be of high
order and will afford an evening of
pleasure to music lovers. There are
forty young people in the troupe.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-03-30
COURT D|SP0SES
OF FEW CASES
Court Still in Session--Only Three
D Cases Tried So Far-One Mis-.
triaNVerdict in Ropp VI.
Hill Case-court Ad-
journs Thursday

The Court of Common Pleas is still
in session and will likely be today and
tomorrow. Only three cases have been
tried 50 far. The first case of Hamlin
vs.. Hamlin reported in Mondays pa
per was finished Monday afternoon
and the jury retired to consider the
case. Later in the afternoon the jury
reported to the court that there
would be no agreement. The court re-
charged the jury as to the law, and
sent it back for further considera-
tion. The jury remained out all night
and until 10 o'clock Tuesday when
it reported again that there was no
chance of an agreement, whereupon
a mistrial was ordered and the jury
discharged. -.
The next case for trial was that Of
Ropp & Workman against Joe II
Hill. The action was upon note CIV
en- in part payment for a gasoline en-
CINE. The defendant denied liability
FOR the reason, as he alleged, the ep
CINE did not do the work it was guar
anteed to do. He alleged that he was
the owner of a grain separator and
of a ginnery and that, the sellers
guaranteed that the engine would de-
velop sufficient power to operate this
machinery, and that it did not do so.
The ury found for the defendant in
this case. ~.
Tuesday afternoon the court COM
menced the trial of the case Of Carey
Fuller against Christian Union Bu-
rial Aid Society. In this case the
plaintiff asks for a verdict for about
five hundred dollars claiming that his
daughter. since deceased, was a MEM
Der of the society at the time Of. her
death and the defendant became liza
BILE to him for memorial of ten
cents per member. The membership
was proved to be over three thous-
and. The defendant claimed that the
daughter was not a member entitled
to benfets, for the reason that the
constitution of the defendant pro-
vides that no one becomes a member
and entitled to reap benefits until he
or she las appeared personally iK
the lodge. The defendant also claimed
that the daughter was i'll with tuber-
culosis and was unable to attend any
of the meetings, and that the plain
tiff was therefore not entitled to re-
cover.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-03-30
CONSULTING ECONOMIST PRE-.
sENTS ARCUMENT.-LAUck
APPEARS AT CHICAGO TO
SUPPORT NATIONAL AGREE
MENTs ON RAILRoADs-PRE-
SENT FACTS AND FIGURES

Chicago, March 29.-Applying the
conditions in other industries which
led to national agreements to the
railroad industry, W. Jett Lauck, con-
sulting economist for the railway
unions, today presented volumnious
argument in favor of national agree
ments on railroads. Mr.. Lauck pre-
sented his testimony before the rail-
road labor board as part Of the evi-
dence in support of the unions con-
tention that the national agreement
should be continued.
Reorganization of employers as well
as organization of unions has been
nationwide because the industries
themselves have become nation
wide," Mr. Lauck said in presenting
an exhibit on the movement toward
national agreements.
Mr.. Lauck declared that when both
employers and employees were organ
lied into bodies of national scope, the
way to industrial peace was through
national agreements. ,,.....,...
SIN no industry is it more import
ant than in transportation that sound
basis for national unity be laid" Mr..
Lauck declared. "That the individual
railroads should be consolidated into
coordinated systems is clearly rec
ognized in the transportation act by
its provisions for combinations, the
permission to pool purchases and the
establishment of a national labor
board '-,... ...> .
Statistics and data covering the
origin and operation of nationa.
agreement in the stove industry, glass
bottle industry, pottery, clothing
manufacturing and coal mining in
dustries, and in typographical and
electrical workers unions. were pre-
sented by Mr.. Lauck.. He traced the
development of labor organizations
from a local to a national scale and
quoted labor historians as stating
that no change in Industrial tech
nique had ever had so simultaneous
an effect upon all industries as had
the sudden extensions of markets due
to the railroad consultations Of the
fifties. r-,.-
National agreements in other in
dustries, he said,, tended to show that
industrial peace was attained by ma
tional agreement; that establishment
of uniformity was socially important; ;
that unions do observe their con-
tracts that national agreement must
cover working conditions; that trade
agreement are not. inconsistent with
the open shop and that such trade
agreements tended to humanize the
industrial situation.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-03-30
FROM THE FALLS.

Mrs. 8. A. Wakefield and Mrs. W.
J Taylor were in the city from CAL
houn Falls Wednesday shopping.
They say the city is quiet but the
women folks are getting ready for
Conference. !:
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-03-30
SOUTHERN BANKERS F..
CALLED TO CONFER
QUESTION OF METHODS BY
WHICH SOUTHERN AGRICUL-
TURAL PRODUCTS MAY BEST
BE FINANCED WILL BE CON-
SIDERED AT MEETING IN
WASHINGTON

Washington, March 29.-The war
finance corporation tonight issued a
call for conference here April 4 Of
Southern bankers to discuss
methods by which the expectation
of Southern agricultural products
may best be financed. Announce
ment of the conference followed
discussion of the farmers problems
by the cabinet today after which it
is said definite plans for farmer re-
lief probably soon would be put for
ward. ...,
Announcement of the conference
was confined to the bare statement
of the call and the date. In the light
of the days developments, however,
it was regarded as the first step by
the new administration looking to
solution of the farmers difficulties.
Several other such meetings are
planned, it was stated. Secretary
Hoover expects soon to meet with
representatives of the agricultural
industry to talk over with them the
problems which beset their industry.
Leaders of several farmers organi-
cations also are preparing to carry
their kit of problems to the White
House in the near future, probably
before congress gets far into the
work Of the extra session.
+ Position Made Clear. ,.....
Officials Of the financial corpora
ton desire, it was said, to extend to
the Southern bankers on whose
shoulders fall the burden of pro-.
viding funds for the export of Cot
ton and other products of the soil
just how far the federal agency can
60 in supplying the money they
seek. In this connection it was
deemed likely that the treasury posi-
tion with respect to exports to Ger
many also would be made clear.
The corporation already has ap-
proved loan Of s6,ooo,ooo for the
financing of shipments to states in
central Europe, and Secretary Mel
lon has said there was no objection
to loans on exports to Germany
provided the finance corporation
was given good security by the ex-
porting houses. ....
There have been indications on
several occasions that the corpora
tion was given good security by the
exporting houses.
There have been indications on
several occasions that the corpora
ton was ready to extend aid in
shipping to -, Czecho4Slovakia and
Poland, although public statement
to that effect never has been made.
In these, two countries, exporters
have reported great opportunities
for the marketing of cotton and
other exclusively Southern products.
No Official Expression
While there was no official ex-
preston tonight it apparently was
the program Of those officials having
to do directly with the farming in
dustry to spread conferences over
several months in which time repre-
sentatives from the various sections
of the country may be called here to
see what can be done for them.' FL
nance corporation officials have said
several times that the Western and
Middle Western farmers must be
given consideration soon. It appar-
emily was the consensus of opinion
in the cabinet discussions, however,
that the cotton interests should be
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-03-30

Douglas Mahon, one of the hand
soonest drug drummers on the road,
was in Abbeville Wednesday seeing
the trade and hearing the news.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-03-30
DR.. MARTIN TO PREACH

Rev. Jas. L. Martin, D. D., will
preach at Cokesbury next Sunday
morning at the usual hour
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-02-10
THE WORLD

Toronto-Joseph Mantel, age Ill
is dead. He was born in England
and came to Canada 80 years ago.
Washington - General Pershing,
who appeared before the house naval
committee, warned his hearers
against pacifism and >unpreparedness.
Aberdeen-An attempt to dyna-
mite the American legion building
here was frustrated by Henry Ian
caster, a ~legionaire, who discovered a
smoking fuse, and stamped it out.
The fuse was attached to a load of
dynamite.
Los Angeles - Arthur w. and
Floyd e. Carr, kidnappers of Mrs.
Grace Witherell, were sentenced to
from 10 years to life in San Quen-
tin penitentiary, the maximum pen
atty.
Washington - A bill to appro-
pirate S100,000,000 to furnish seed
to farmers where the 1920scrop was
a failure, has been introduced in the
senate by McCumber of North OAK
Ota.
Washington-Money now used in
constructing big battleships should
go toward winning control of the air,
heads of the air service told the ap-
preparations subcommittee of the
house on the army bill. They esti-
mated 1t would cost approximately
$500, 900, 90 during the next three
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-02-10
THE STATE.

Boulder-Abram M. Morgan, a
pioneer of Alder Gulch in 1864, died
here a few days ago.
DiIIon-Beaverhead farmers will
plant a larger acreage to wheat this
spring than they did in the spring of
last year.
Dillon-With $4,000 subscribed
and a $4,000 site contributed, the
Barrett Hospital association has been
incorporated here to build a hospital
in Dillon.
Great Falls-The Rev. John Petit
of Chinook, has been appointed to
take charge of the Billings parish, &C
cOrding to an announcement made by
Bishop M. G. Lenihan of Great Falls.
ChinOOk-Instruction in music and
drawing will be resumed the second
semester In the local schools. Miss
Vivian Teich has been engaged as in
structOr.
He1ena-A bill has been introduc-
ed in the legislature which would per
nit of the pari-mutuel system of bet
ting at six-day race meetings, held in
connection with county fairs.
Deer LOdge-Petitions asking the
state fish and game commission to
declare the bull trout (char) a non
game fish will be circulated among
the spOrtsmen of the state by the To-
cal Anglers club.
Butte-Hum Wee, an aged China
man, was found dead in his room in
hotel here by police with a cash
his throat from ear to ear
which completely severed the jugu-
most of his fellow countrymen to
lave been the motive of the crime.
Great Falls-Increased thefts of
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-02-10

Montana people are now being Civ
en- an opportunity to buy merchan-
disc at prices such as have not been
offered for four years, and which in
all likelihood will not be seen again
for four years to come, in the opin-
ion of w. A. Selvidge, president of
the Montana Development associa-
ton and one of the leading merch-
ants of Billings. In commenting up
on the wave of cut-price sales which
has swept across Montana and which
has affected practically all lines of
merchandise, Mr.. Selyidge said:
''The dollar today is buying mer-
chandise which would have been
worth $1.25 on an average at the
peak price which obtained several
months ago, Not only have 80 of the
principal food products dropped
33 1-3 per cent, but the merchants
of the state are being forced to offer
their surplus stocks of goods to the
public at replacement prices or less,
regardless of what it cost them to
put these goods on their shelves.
Merchants are forced to make
a real sacrifice these days, and the
consumer who does not take advant-
age OF it is really doing himself and
injustice. The mistake of waiting for
pre-war prices should not be made,
for the country will never see pre-
war prices again.
while it is true that some COM
modities, chiefly agricultural pro-
ducts, have fallen to pre-war levels,
no product can long continue to be
sold at a price which is less than its
cost of production, plus a reasonable
Manufactured goods, in which
he element of labor is a large fac
or in the cost, must remain for a
ong time at a price much greater
han the pre-war basis, unless wages
lrop to the 1914 level, which is most
Unlikely. Many factories are now
;losed because they cannot operate
It a profit"
Each year, since 1870, has wit
Iessed an advance in prices, he
,oints out. In 1914, prices were
considerably higher than In 1904
nd those of 1904 showed a very
advance over 1894. This is
aused, he explains, by advancing
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-02-10

made inquiry concerning the trail
and in some way was misinformed
He followed a ~trapper's trail thai
led into an uninhabited section OF
timbered wilderness. 1t happened
that horses grazing in that section
used the Sullivan creek trail and
when Forrest came to where the
Dads forked, he took the beast-beaten
trail.
The boy told his father that he
went on until the trail ended and it
was then night and he sat down to
est. He fell asleep from exhaustion
and his feet became frozen. The
next day he was almost unable to
get around and remained that way all
week, lying under low-hanging trees
that covered the entire section and,
until he was frozen fast the last day,
moving around only when he dragged
himself to the creek for a drink of
water.
Had But Two Sandwiches
He had two sandwiches when he
left Rexford, and except for these was
without food for the entire time. He
had matches, but they became wet
and he was unable to start a fire.
Friends of the boy state that he
had been active in Boy Scout work
and some of them believe that the
training received in that way was
responsible for his survival.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-02-10

ton have been filed of the Mussel-
she'll Masonic Temple association for
the erection here of a building that
will be devoted to the Masonic frat
ernity. The i~ncorporators are G.. w.
Handel, j. w. Fisher and Bryon C.
Jacobs. 1t is expected construction
will be started in the spring.
Kalispell-Because of the discon-
tinuance of the Great Northern trains
between Kalispell and Somers, the
stage line between Kalispell and Pol
son has been restored to continue in
operation until navigation opens in
the spring. Instead of being drawn
by horses, as formerly, the stage is
a modern passenger, heated Sc
dan.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-02-10

To spend seven nights and eight
DAYS without fire or food, keeping
from freezing to death by creeping
under trees, was the experience of
Forrest johnson, 15-year-old
of Tom Johnson, Yak rancher. A
search party found the boy near
the end of a trapper's trail ON Sui
Iivan creek, IL miles west of Rex
ford. Rescue came in the nick of
time, as his clothing had been
frozen to the snow, and in his
weakened condition he was held
fast, unable to 10
There is grave fear that the boy
may not recover. Both feet were fro
zen the first night he was out, and
remained so for the week following.
Amputation of the frozen members
may be necessary.
Boy Lost His Way
Forrest and an older brother had
been attending school at Eureka and
living with their father, who had
moved in from his Yak ranch. The
father was unable to ecure employ.
ment, however, and two weeks ago
decided to move back to Yak. He
directed Forrest to walk to Rexford,
across the county bridge and pro-
coed up the trail until he came to the
wagon road to the Yak from Eu-
reka.
When the father reached the place
where the trail joins the road, the
boy was not there, and Johnson came
to the conclusion that the boy had
arrived earlier and gone on ahead.
It was showing and tracks on the
road furnished no information. He
1rove all the way to the Yak home,
30 miles from the expected meeting
,Iace, before he learned that the boy
vas not ahead of him. |
Johnson Immediately started back
nd gave the alarm. Sheriff Baney
eft Libby to take up the search but
party of four men found the boy
he same day.
Followed Trapper's Trail
Upon reaching Rexford Forrest
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-02-10

automobiles in Great Falls is &C
counted for by the action of the au
tomobile dealers in declining any lon
ger to sell cars on conditional sail
contracts to possible whisky runners
Kalispell-A. w. Mortified, form,
er federal marshal of Montana, an6
business partner of the late Colone.
Roosevelt, is in the Mayo hospital al
Rochester, where he has submitted to
a major operation.
MISUNDERSTANDING of the states
of Colorado, Idaho, South Dakota,
Texas, Washington and Wyoming are
taking correspondence courses in the
state university here, according to
Miss Carrie Maclay, who is secretary
of this phase of the work.
Helena-There is a movement
among members of the legislature
looking to the establishment of a
state tuberculosis hospital on an
island in Flathead lake. The tuber-
culosis hospital at Galen is over-
crowded.
Dillon-Midnight vandals broke
into the Nelson school house six
miles north of town and left the neat
little building in such a condition
that 1t was impossible to hold school
there until after the building had
been thoroughly cleaned and the
damage repaired.
Great FaIls-Members of the Flat
head Purebred Livestock association
will hold the second annual sale of
purebred stock here on May Is. it
was decided at a meeting of the as
ISOLATION. A. j. Glynn, who manag-I
ed the sale last year, will be in charge
again. The stockgrowers will give a
banquet In connection with the sale.
Butte-Abatement of crime here
turing the month of January is in
Dictated in a report of the police
court. While the average revenue
through fines and bond forfeitures
turing the last half of 1920 was ap-
oroximately $4,000 per month with
! high mark of $5,400, the report
'or the first month of 1921 shows a
.otal revenue of only $1,728.
MISREPRESENTATION Miekusch. for-
nerly a Livingston saloonkeeper. re-
'ently bought a hotel in German Aus
ria for $1,000 in American money
hat before the war would have cost
$4,000, according to a letter re-
e1ved from him by John Egger, fore
nan OF the Yellowstone Land and r. |
company here.
Observation-Disclosures of ~incorpora- /