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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-03-23
SITUATION BETTER
SAYS JAS. H. CRAIG

State Bank Examiner Says the
Worst is Over; Only Three
| Failures in the Year.
/; Columbia, March 22.-"There nev-
! er was a time in the history of South
Carolina when there was a greater
need for the solid business men of
! the State to keep their heads, look a
head with optimism and help each
other than at present." said State
Bank Examiner James H. Craig. If
folks will only keep their heads level
and work together the financial stu
alton will readjust itself, is his firm
conviction. Other and neighboring
States have within the past few
months had scores of bank failures,
and perhaps no State has had fewer
failures than South Carolina. Condi-
tions in this State have been largely
the same as in other cotton growing
States.
Mr.. Craig thinks the worst is now
over, as the banks and people have
an appreciation of real conditions
and that prospective borrowers ap
preciate that when some banks ad-
wise that they are not making new
loans that does not mean trouble. Mr.
Craig thinks the readjustment is in
sight and has great hopes of the un-
dertaking that Governor Cooper and
former Governor Manning have in
mind with Mr.. Baruch to bring new
money into the State on a strictly
business basis.
Mr.. Craig has been in the bank ex-
aminer's depsrtemnt for seven years,
first in actual charge. Deflation, as it
is called came all of a sudden and
folks got panicky, and his chief un-
dertaking has been to keep things in
good shape. The record of only three
failures in a years time, in these
times, is the highest test of results.
The most effective work of Mr.. Craig
has been in nursing back to real life
! and usefulness sick chickens. Some
times this sickness has been imagin-
ary-stage fright, so to speak-but
after it has been by persuasion or
even coercion that he has made some
officials realize their obligations and
rehab:litate the banks. In some few
instances consultations or communi-
ty bank help has been used, but al.
ways the central idea has been to
keep the banks going, serve the COM
munit:es and work things out. I'M
only one bank in the State durng the
past year does Mr.. Craig think the
depositors will actually lose deposits
and with three hundred active and
going State banks, in these days of
"defation,' that means much. What
means more than anything else,
perhaps, is careful nursing and the
extension of optimism, because un-
less there be crookedness the banks
of South Carolina, national as we'll
as State, are in good shape. The
State banks now have actual resourc-
as of about two hundred million dol
lars. This does not include the large
national banking institutions.
Mr.. Craig visits every part of the
State and he is satisfied there is a
better understanding of real condi-
tions and that things will move along
more normally because of this reali-
zation that there has got to be a spir-
it of liberation and cooperation. With
fresh money coming into this State
with which to finance cotton and
close sailing Mr.. Craig sees no rea-
son why conditions should not actu-
a1lv improve.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-03-23

Reserved seat sale for High School
Play goes on at Opera House Thurs
day morning. Get your tickets See
big ad in this issue.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-03-23
Preaching For Presbyterians.

Rev. Jas. L. Martin, D. D., will
preach in the Presbyterian church
next Sunday at the usual hour
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-03-23

Reserved seat sale for High School
Play goes on at Opera House Thur
day. morning. Get your tickets See
big ad in this issue.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-03-23
THE
VICTROLA
AND VICTOR
RECORDS
AN EGG HUNT.
#f47HHHHHHHH@

Circle No. 8 of the Baptist church
will give the children an egg hunt on
Saturday at three o'clock. This will be
free affair to the Baptist children
and Mrs. A. B. Galloway will have
charge of the entertainment.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-09-29
REORCANIZE SCHOOL
TO END PART TIME
Dr.. Ettinger Succeeds in Plan
to Aid Pupils.

In two of the public schools, each OF
which was registered as having more
than one thousand part time pupils at
the end of last term, there are to-day no
part time classes. This announcement
was made by Aiming s. Prall. president
OF the Board of Education, at the regu-
lar board meeting yesterday. Mr.. Prall
stated that Superintendent of Schools
william l.. Ettinger had visited the two
schools in question and had found that
II was possible so TO reorganize the
schools that the part time programme
had been entirely eliminated.
IT want to call the attention of the
board to the part time situation In the
schools" Mr.. Prail said when the regu-
lar business had been disposed of. The
new buildings. including those recently
opened. those under contract and those
for which plans and specifications are
almost complete, provide sittings for
64,S31 children. We have available
now only the tabulation Of June, 1921,
which gives S2.259 pupils on part time
on that date. OF this number 64.539
were under the Abb grade, which means
that the greater number OF children on
part time are the youngest and do not
require q full Ave hour day
The newspapers are not fair. They
do not give the facts. One newspaper
published a photograph recently of chill
dren who We're said not to have even
standing room In a certain school I
have investigated that school and find
that not only are there no pupils made
to stand but there are no part timc
classes
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-09-29
ONE DYING, THREE HURT
IN AIR BOMB BLASTS
Inspectors and Police Had
Seized Conbustibles.

James Butler. an inspector Of COM
bustibles. of IS Lenox road Brooklyn.
was in Cohey Island Hospital reported
dying last night and three others we're
seriously injured as the result OF an
unsuccessful attempt early yesterday
afternoon to dispose OF aerial bombs
which had been confiscated at an
Italian celebration in Bath Beach Sun
day night.
The explosion occurred at the foot
OF Bay Eighth street. near Dykers
Beach Park, as Inspector Butler started
10 tear one of the bombs open. Police
man Arthur Mclaughlin. attached to
the Bath Beach police station, rushed
into a swirl OF sand and smoke to rescue
Butler just as second explosion fol-
lowed. Butler. his left arm blown off
and both eyes blinded. was taken TO
Coney Island Hospital
William Heaney. also an inspector OF
combustibies. OF b64 ST. Marks avenue.
Brooklyn: Salvatore Seril OF 500 Six
teenth avenue. Brooklyn. and Police
man Mclaughlin were treated for
burns.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-09-29

madam city. hasn't been near New York
tor a month.
Mr.. Brown didn't care to be disturbed
in his tete tete, but reluctantly accom-
panied them to the door. Words quickly
became action on Browns part when
they flashed their shields. Five hun
bred people enjoyed the stiff fight. AT
last they got him into a taxicab and to
the police station. The young women
also took a taxi, but headed in the op-
positc direction.
The detectives looked over correspon-
dence and checks for small amounts
signed Oliver w. Easton, w. Davenport
Brown. Rhoda b. Brown. II. L. Kent
and w r. Murphy. According to the
police. Brown explained that he was the
son-in-law OF C. H. MacFarlane of the
Montreal firm of MacFarlane. Son &
Hodgson, but that he was divorced. He
gave his address as the Motherhood.
but detectives say the Claridge and
Plaza would also like to have him pay
his bills. The young man. who Is ~.
said he had 100000 in New York banks
and would soon inherit $250.000 IN Eng
land.
The detectives took him to finger
print table near the door, but he writhcd
suddenly out of the door and down the
stairs. A detective halted him by
hurding the banisters and landing On
him, while two uniformed men assisted
in Handwriting him to the table
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-09-29
COURT ORDERS COP
TAKEN FROM CLUB
Oscar Waters Organization
Charges Persecution.

Since oscar r. Waters was defeated
in the recent primary as Democratic
leader OF the Nineteenth Assembly DIS
trict members OF his organization. the
Oscar r. Waters Democratic Club. Inc.
OF 1903 West 132d street. have been SUBJ
jectcd TO petty police persecution" II
was charged yesterday In the Supreme
Court before Justice McAvoy. The
charge ia similar to that raised by
Jimmie" Hines. Tammany foe, about
bis Democratic club.
Israel Brlnkman. attorney for the
Waters club, applied for Injunction re-
straining the Police Department from
maintaining uniformed officer IN the
club house. A man has been stationed
there since September IS. when a police
raid was made on the place. Justice
McAvoy postponed argument on the
motion. but told a representative OF
the Corporation Counscl's office pi es-
emit: Let your office direct the Com
missioner OF Police 10 take the man out
OF the club and keep him out until the
determination OF this matter"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-09-29
BOY KILLED BY COP,
CHASED AS BURGLAR
Three Seen Trying to Enter
Store Flee; One Shot, Other
Two Arrested.

Detectives OF the West 177th street
the store at eos Audubon avenue early
yesterday morning. and during the chase
that followed the discovery of the burg
lars Detective Edward Mullins shot and
killed Howard Finley of SIS West 179th
street. According to the police records
young Finley was Is years old, but the
boys father said he was only IA. al
though he was tall and large in every
way for his age.
Two boys who were said by the police
to have been with Finley in the attempt
to rob the store were arrested. They
gave their names as Wslfrid Dayes, a
negro, 10 years old. Of Gil West 177th
street, and Louis Fieldstein, IL. of $50
West 176th street. These boys were ar
raigned before Justice Samuel d. Levy
In the Children's Court an a short affida-
Wit charging suspicion of juvenile de-
linquency, and held without bail for fur
Their examination tomorrow. Both boys
told the District Attorney they would
like to go away for their crime, as by
the time they got out they would be old
enough to be taxicab drivers, and that
was their ambition.
Detective Mullins. with Detective
Will and reserves from the West 177th
street station went to the grocery store
in automobiles when some one tele-
phoned that the store was being robbed
They saw Finley and the two boys
running through Amsterdam avenue and
chased them. Finley was shot as he
was climbing fence in the rear of a
building at 1000 Amsterdam avenue.
Patrolmen O'Keefe and Musgrave OF
the Simpson street station. The Bronx,
arrested three men yesterday morning
charged with trying to rob the office OF
the Zagot Drug and Chemical COM
pany, $50 East 156th street. The Bronx.
The policemen said they surprised the
men when they were trying to Jimmy
the door Of the place and caught them
after chase in which several shots
were fred. The prisoners gave their
names as John Friedman. 9SI Union
avenue: Abraham Abramson, I'll East
1s5th street. and Samuel Sorblum. 61S
East 13sth street, all of The Bronx.
They pleaded guilty before Magistrate
Mancuso in Morrisania Court. and were
held in $500 ball each for the Grand
Jury.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-09-29
ACCUSED AS FORGER, YOUTH
BATTERS TWO DETECTIVES
Resents Charge Before Charming Dinner Companion
but He's Handcuffed Eventually and
Correspondence Looked Over

Two bruised and battered detectives
and two somewhat less injured police
men sat around in the detectives room
at the West Forty-seventh street police
station last night alternately nursing
their hurts and questioning a battered
but still belligerent and we'll dressed
young man who was handcuffed to the
table.
Spread out on a table near by was a
large collection OF hotel keys, checks,
letters and other papers bearing several
names. and little bottle almost full OF
what the police described as knockout
drops. After much questioning the po-
lice collectively put the young man In a
cell and wrote down charge Of forgery
on the blotter.
Detectives Fitzgerald and Dennison
en- the urgent request of r. l.. Mcguire,
salesman for the Studebaker Corpora
ton. made business call on William
y. Brown. as the young man Is booked.
while he was dining with an attractive
young woman at restaurant on Forty
ninth street not far from Broadway.
Mcguire wanted to find out why Brown,
so he says. paid for roadster several
days ago with a check signed by c. H.
McFarlane Of Montreal when McFar-
lane. according to wire from the Ca
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-09-29
FIND WOMAN'S BODY
IN LOCKED CLOSET
Murdered in Rooming House
Last Thursday-Husband
Is Missing.

The body Of woman about % years
old. known only as Mrs. Fay to the
tenants Of the rooming house in Sal
West Twenty-second street was found
last night on the floor of large closet
In the rear OF room 10 on the fifth floor
of the house. She had been dead about
six or seven days. and after hurried
sistant Medical Examiner told the po-
lice of the West Twentieth street station
that she had been murdered. He was
not able to find any marks OF violence
would not be able to determine the cause
of her death until an autopsy had been
performed.
The body was found by detectives
sent from the police station at the re-
quest OF Charles Hughes, owner Of the
tenement OF ass West Twenty-second
street, who said that for several days
his tenants had been complaining Of
the odor that emanated from Room 1S.
Detectives found the door OF the closet
locked and the cracks and keyhole
stuffed with newspapers. They broke
the panels Of the door and found the
woman's body, clad in nightgown,
lying on the floor. Her body was COW
cred with q large number OF news
apers and a towel covered her face. A
rag had been stuffed into her mouth
and a handkerchief tied across her chin.
The police said that their information
is that the woman came to the house on
August 25 with a man, and that they
registered as Mr.. and Mrs. Fay and
were given room Is, in which they lived
since. On Thursday afternoon. Septem-
Der %. Fay went to the housekeeper.
Mrs. Catherine Canon, and told her that
ne had sent his wife to a hospital, and
that he was leaving for Philadelphia the
next morning. He left the house that
night, Mrs. Canon told the detectives
and he has not been seen since. The
body OF the woman was identified as
Mrs. Fay by another roomer, Daniel Nc
Kenny. who occupied a room across the
hallway.
The detectives have not yet been able
to find out how the body came 20 De in
a closet in room 10 when the Fays oc-
cup,ed room 16. Room 10 had been
occupied for some time by a man and
his wife who were known only as Mr..
and Mrs. Boulangcr. The other tenants
% the house said that the Fays end the
bouiduBeFb were iIieuuiy, particularly
the two men OF the families. Last Mon
day the Boulangers gave up their room
and went away, leaving word that they
were going to Montreal.
DR.. Schwartz said that from his ex-
animation OF the body the woman was
killed some time last Thursday, on tho
day that her husband told Mrs. Canon
that he had sent her to a hospital. Mrs.
Canon said that the statement OF Fay
at that time excited no curiosity or
apprehension In her mind, because she
had noticed that Mrs. Fay was not well.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-09-29
HUSBAND FIGHTS WILL
WHICH CUT HIM OFF
Holloway, Who Married
Ricketts, WIDOW, Plaintiff.

Lawrence 0. Holloway. bookkeeper OF
6 West Scventy-first street, whose first
wife. the granddaughter OF Col. Richard
French. committed suicide in May. 1911.
because of his infatuation for a widow
whom he afterward married. has started
n contest OF the second wifes will be-
cause she cut him Off without a cent
ia dlsposlng OF an estate estimated at
more than 10000 Surrogate Foley
yesterday set down the contest for trial
during the October term.
The second wifo was Mrs. Elizabeth
r. I,iciestts, widow OF Capt. Billy"
Eicketts, chief ~ the Supreme Court
and Apnel'etc Division Court attend
ants. She died December 10. 1920. at
her home. 40 Wet Fifty-scventh street.
Her VIII makes less than $4,000 in spe-
cific requests and divides tho residue
between the Association for Improving
the Condition OF the Poor and Charles
a. Tier OF 2ii Primrose avenue. Mount
Vernon, n. Y.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-09-29
First Silk Dress
sold in the Stewart
Rotunda---in 1868

II read your advertisement
a few days ago about the
A. r. Stewart Store and was
anxious to see the beautiful
Rotunda again." said Mr.. M.
Hearnes, of $50 West 153d
ST., New York City, yester-
day. II sold the first silk
dress in this same Rotunda
on October I4th. 1868. to
Mrs. Huntington. of CaIffor-
mia, 30 yards of black silk at
$ro yard"
Today this same Rotunda
is again showing the finest
silks the world produces
making now a notable e1-
hibit of the French silks
used this season by the
great Paris couturiers.
Main Floor. Old Building
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-09-29

strument and It's contents are connected
with the murder or not.
Policeman Reuschie wac hit by only
one bullet out of whatever number were
fred at him. II struck him in the right
side slightly toward the back and came
out In front at his waistllnc.
Reuschle was appoined to the police
force In 1907 and had an excellent rec
ord He was married and had three
children and lived at 134s Plimpton
avenue. The Bronx.
The police Of the West 171th street
station early this morning were told by
q citizen, whose name was not revealed.
that he had seen an automobile with a
broken headlight yesterday In garage
In Yonkers.
Having read OF a shattered automo-
bic headlight found near where PATROL
man Reuschle was shot. the citizen said
he thought there might be connection
between the car In Yonkers and the kill
ing. Detectives we're sent to Yonkers
to investigate.
According to the report, the chauffeur
OF the car in Yonkers told the garage
employees he wanted the headlight re-
paired without his employer knowing
anything about IL
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-09-29
FATHER WED WITH DAUGHTER

Judge William r. Bayes In the county
court in Brooklyn performed a double
wedding ceremony yesterday when he
married William Johnson. 81. OF 1893
Ocean Parkway. Brooklyn. to Miss Mar
garet Loewer. 70. and Johnsons daugh-
ter, Miss Margaret. to Armand Joseph
Fanelli.
Johnson. a widower. who had en-
ployed Miss Loewer as companion
for his daughter. did not want TO be
left alone when his daughter married,
so he proposed marriage to her COM
panon and was accepted.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-09-29
New French
Scrap Baskets
AU QUATRIEME

AU QUATRIEME
Does any one but a
Ere n c h m a n - or a
French women - know
how to make scrap bas-
kets which are attractive
in themselves and yet
know their place, which
should always be one of
quiet humility beside the
important pieces Of a
rooms furnishings?
AU QUATRIEME has
never seen any but French
scrap baskets which fill these
two requirements, and so It
has this year equipped itself
with a group of delightful
ones straight from Paris.
They are oval in form and
made Of good stiff cardboard
which will wear well and
keep its shape, and are neat
ly lined with marbleized
paper.
Their chief charm, how
ever, is the way they COM
bine hand-painted decora-
tions with lovely colored
prints which are cut out and
pasted on in tastefully ar
ranged groups.
One type of basket is
18th Century in feeling,
having pale buff ground,
with varying colors in its
borders. The prints are
characteristic Louis XVI.
figures, in great bouffant
skirts, and fiaring coats
with long silk hose, their
bewigged heads heavily
powdered. SIS each.
Another type of scrap
basket has a background of
pale green or blue-typ-
ically bedroom colors--
with a beautiful frieze of
classic figures running
quite around it, bringing
it more into the spirit of
the Directoire period. These
have nicely set little ring
handles at the side. S12
each.
What with charming hand
painted festoons and archi-
tectural lines to supplement
the prints these scrap bas-
kets are essentially French
in their atmosphere, and
altogether charming for
those to whom that word
means the sum Of complete
ness and perfection in what
ever field of art or artistry.
Fourth Floor, Old Building
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-09-29
MANUFACTURERS TO MEET.

The twelfth annual convention Of the
American Manufacturers Export AS
ISOLATION will open next Wednesday at
the Waldorf. About 1000 delegates
from all sections OF the United States
will be present and thirty foreign ma :
lions will be represented. The election
Of new president to fill the place OF
William G. Redfield. whose term has
expired. will take place on the opening
day.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-09-29
Daytime Frocks

SIip-on Frocks-$3o.5o
Crepe-back satin, JAG
guard crepe, tricotine,
wool velours, low waist
line, new sleeves, uneven
hemline.
Coat Frocks-$47.5o
Poiret twill, tricotine-
smartly braided = ex-
quisitely tailored.
Featuring, in navy blue
and black-Paris fashions
-straightline silhouette.
Second Floor, Old Building
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-09-29
Group Two of
the Dress
making Course

meets today at 2:30 o'clock.
The course includes in
struction in every phase Of
dressmaking. 1t is helpful
to the experienced dress
maker as well as of utmost
interest to the home sewer.
The course consists of IL
lessons extending over a Pc
Rod of a weeks. Fee, SIS.
Enroll at the Dressmaking
Course Bureau, First Floor,
Old Building, or at the Lee
ture Rooms, Seventh Gallery,
New Building.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-09-29
Holland Bulbs
---just arrived

For Fall planting.
Tulips, &c each, Acc dozen.
Hyacinths, 10c each, 81 doz.
Daffodils, 7c each, Toe dozen.
Crocus, &c each, zoe dozen.
Narcissus, &c each, 40c doz.
Wanamaker plant food, 15c
package.
Glasses for growing hya-
cinths in water, 45c each.
Downstairs Store, New Bldg.