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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-02-24

In the villages in the Nile district,
where the houses have fiat tops, the
natives makes use of the roofs ia
house their smaller live stock.
Due to weak eyes, Kepler, the as
tronomer, had to rely on the obser,
walton of Others to construct his
theories.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-02-24
X
= AMERICAN LEGION NEWS =
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Next Meeting
Next Meeting

The next meeting of the Ameri'
can Legion is scheduled for next
Thursday night at 8 o'clock in the
court house, according to Com,
mander Cheatham. The reorganiza.
ton and enrolling of members goes
steadily forward, with the indica.
lions that before many months the
Abbeville Post will be the, largest
in the State.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-02-24
Boiled Frosting.

If the boiled frosting is too thin
fill a pan with hot water. Put it on
the stove and while it boils put the
pan of frosting in, stirring constant
ly until it is of the desired thickness.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-02-24
MacNider to Greenwood

Hanford MacNider, national Am
erican Legion commander in a per-
sonal letter to Post Commander Err
nest Rosenberg, has accepted an
invitation to visit Greenwood when
he comes to South Carolina in
March, says the Index-Journal. The
exact date of his proposed visit has
not been set. The following letter
has been received from him:
81 shall only be too glad to come
to your post in Greenwood, al.
though to tell you the truth, ex-
cept in very large centers, no Ma
tional Officer is supposed to repeat
in any town: twice during the same
year. Just exactly when I can come
to South Carolina is uncertain at
the present time.
eff you will take this up with
your Department Commander he
can tell you what time is going to
he allocated to the state and prob.
ably can work the thing in.
GAS my schedule is made out by
National Headquarters, / am at a
loss to tell you what time that will
be.
"All success to you during the
coming year. I know you are all 60.
ing to stand behind US and see thai
the Legion becomes the real force
for good we all want it to be-"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-02-24

Deaths during fogs in London ex-
coed the number during pleasant
weather.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-02-24
GALVANIZED ROOFING.

20 guage Galvanized corrus.ted
Roofing at $3.50 per square.
J. ALLEN SMITH, ,JR.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-02-24

There will he a conference of
post commanders and adjutants in
Columbia March 10, according to
the plans of the department COM
mander. The department executive
committee will meet the same day
and it is expected the place for
holding the 1922 State convention
will be announced. National Com
mander Hanford MacNider is slated
to be the main attraction on the
occasion of the State conference
and it is expected that a large num-
Der of legionnaires will be present.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-02-24

Watch the label on your paper.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-02-24

There is certain to be some hot
competition between the posts in
the State this year to see which
will carry off the honor of being
the largest in point of member
ship. At present Spartanburg S lead.
ing with a big majority, according
to figures given out at headquar-
tiers in Columbia.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-02-24

The Department Of South Caro-
lima has reached the century mark,
according to State Adjutant Ben
M. Sawyer of Columbia who says
the latest addition to the list of
posts in the. State is No. 100. Ware
Shoals post is the baby of the de-
c~artrcn:, but according to reports
is some husky infant insofar as en-
thusiasm and pep is concerned.
American Legion posts in Ala
bama, Georgia, Florida and Ten
nessee have adopted resoiutinos en-
dorsing the Ford offer for Muscle
Shoals and declaring for its accep-
lance by Congess in preference to
any other.
Plans for a membership CAM
paign are being drafted by the
Charleston Post. Every member is
to be invited to take an active part
in the movement and do his utmost
to keep Charleston at the head of
the legion column in South Caro-
lima.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-12-07
Overton Depot
Badly Wrecked
by Rail Crash
Ten Freight Cars and Con.
tents Demolishcd-Loss Is
Estimated at $4,000
No One Injured.

OVcrton. Neb.. Dec. 6.-tSpecisu.t--
Ten freight ears and their contents
We're demolished and the Union Pa
cihc station here was badly wrecked,
when II car ON Il fast westbCund
freight train was deraied Just east of
the depot at $3.50 this afternoon.
The derailed car broke loose from
the train. said to have been travelling
about so miles an hour. turned side
ways across the track and crashed
into the cars of an eastbound freight
standing on siding. Ten of the ears
on the eastbound train. loaded with
autos. lubricatlng oil. oyster shell and
stone, We're overturned and demol-
ished
y car of stone was hurled into the
station, wrecking the waiting room
and Office. Three employees had just
stepped outside the building and the
waiting room was vacant. No one
was injured
Number IS, fast eastbound passen-
ger, had just passed the depot before
tho crash occurred.
Both east and westbound tracks are
blocked and wrecking crews have
been dispatched to the scene from
both directions
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-12-07
Three Wounded
by Boy With Gun
Genoa Lad Shoots Mother and
Two Sisters Accidentally
While Playing.

Columbus. Neb., Dec. 6.-(Speciai)-
As a result of the accidental discharge
Of a shotgun with which her S.year-oId
son, Edwin. was playing, Mrs. Louis
Kush, residing near Genoa, and her
two little daughters. Ursula and Min
ME, 3 and 2. lie seriously wounded il
st. Mary hospital here. For Mrs. kush
and Ursula the attending doctors hold
hopes for recovery but little Minnie's
condition is extremely serious. The
baby has been unconscious for as
hours.
The accident happened at the fam
lily home. A neighbor made a call
and placed his shotgun. loaded with
buckshot. in one corner OF the room
Edwin picked 1t up and pulled the
trigger. Both shells We're discharged
the scattering shot striking the boys
mother and two little sisters who were
standing near him. Minnie was struck
in the head, neck and body. Ursula's
right arm was badly injured. the
mother was shot in the hip, abdomen
and left lung.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-12-07
Farmer Near Duncan Has
Gun Battle With Bandits

Columbus. Neb.. Dec. 6.--(Special)
Carl Boss. farmer residing near
Duncan. narrowly escaped death in
a gun battle with three bandits at
his farm. A bullet from one of their
revolvers tore a hole through the
shoulder of his leather coat. missing
the flesh. Returning home Boss saw
three men prowling about the barns
and graneries. He opened fire on
them, which they returned, and half
dozen shots were exchanged as they.
ran. Boss at once summoned the
sheriff, who with a large posse Of
neighbors secured the country. The
trail was lost in the sand hills, and
the chase had to be abandoned Mr..
Boss thinks that the trio were cattle
rustlers. because they had cut the
fence OF the pasture in which the cat
tie We're kept.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-12-07
Two Planes
Meet in Air;
Six Killed
Major, Captain and 4 Enlisted
listed Men Meet Death in
Accident at Langley
Machines Fall in Flames

Newport News. Va, Dee. 6.-Maj.
Guy l.. Gearhart of Leavenworth,
Kan: Capt. Benton \. Doyle of ST
Louis. Mo: and four enlisted men
were killed at Langley field today
when "A Martin bombing plane carry.
ing five of them. and a Fokkcr scout
ing machine pioted by Maj. Gearhart
colllded about $50 feet in the air
Both machines crashed in flames.
The enlisted men killed were Staff
Seret Marsick Cleveland, O.
Priv i. j. Blunka. Chicago.
Priv. Thomas Jordan. Deepstep.
Ga.
Priv. Leon Rolas, Philadelphia.
Folxi.er Hits Bomber.
The bomber. piloted by Capt. Doyle,
was leading a formation and was
making banking when the Fokker
arose in the air from a long takeoff.
The smaller machine struck the
bomber almost amidship, cutting Off
the tail. Both planes lowered mo-
ment. then both broke into flames and
crashed.
Private Rolas eaped from the
bomber as it neared tho earth. but
WAS fatally injured. lie died while
being placed in an ambulance.
The Others were pinned beneath
the two machines and before aid could
reach them. their bodies were burned
almost beyond recognition.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-12-07
Funds to Enforce
ProhibitionCut
in Supply Measure
House Committee Slices Quar-
ter of Million From An
nual Budget Of Dry
Officials.

Washington, Dec. 6.--NotWithstand-
ing the administration concern over
the widespread disregard of the pro
hibition law, the house appropriations
committee not only refused to in
crease the annual allowance for dry"
enforcement but actually reduced il
from SO $50, 900 to $9,o00,00o
''Whilc this reduction will of neces.
sity cause a small decrease in the
personnel of the organization, said
Representative Madden. republican,
Illinois, chairman Of the committee,
in his report to the house. "the pro.
hibition authorities do not believe the
reduction will handicap their work
to any appreciable extent"
Publication of the hearings on the
treasury appropriation bill revealed
many interesting things concerning
prohibition. 1t showed. for instance,
that Prohibition Com m S S o n r
Haynes, in the course of a severe
grilling before the committee, admit
ted that approximately s150,OOO had
been spent during the past year by
his bureau TO purchase bootleg liquor
as evidence for prosecutions.
Another interesting disclosure was
that Mr.. Haynes denied that he ever
said that 20,0O0.000 Americans had
ever gone on the water wagon. Under
cross s-examination by Representative
Gallivan. democrat. Massachusetts,, he
would not even claim 100000 water
wagon converts; he refused TO make
any estimate.
about the activities of the dry" press
agents In his employ, particularly
Sherman Cuneo, author OF a recent
literary work entitled; From Printer
to President" a biography Of Presi-
dent Harding.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-12-07
Bandit Situation in
Tsmg Tao Critical

Pekin. Dec. 6.-lBy a. P.)-The
situation of Using Tao caused by the
operations of the bandits with whom
Shantung province in infested is de-
scribed in an official dispatch as ex-
ceedingly critical.
The Chinese officials there confer
red with the bandit leaders In an
effort to conciliate them. The bandits
rejected the advances, however, and
kidnapped the chairman of the Cham
ber of Commerce, demanding $1,000
ransom for him.
Later the bandit leaders delivered
an ultimatum that unless Using Tao
was handed over TO them on Decem-
Der 10, the date set for the Japanese
evacuation, they would kidnap all
republican Chinese officials and burn
or piilage the shops.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-12-07
Combination Truck,
Tank and Boat ShOltn
Government Officers

New York. Dec. "a heavily
armored gun mount. equipped to
travel as ain ordinary motor truck.
caterpillar crawling tank and a boat
yesterday was demonstrated before
army and navy officers and mechan-
ical engineers.
Carrying a 75-millimeter gun and
driven by its inventor, Walter Chris
tie. the gun mount moved on its
ordinary solid rubber-tired wheels at
the rate of 80 miles an hour. On its
caterpillar belts II climbed the sides
of a steep hill on the New Jersey
shore. then took a two-mile cruise
on the Hudson.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-12-07
= ascisfi viii Club
Prisoners and Use
Hospitals for Jdiis

Rome. Dec. 6.--tBy A. P.l-Crimi.
nails will be dubbed and sent to hos
pitals instead of being imprisoned, in
the administration of justice under the
fascist regime in the province of AL
lessandria. DIR. Raminbo Sala, the sec
retary, said in an address to male
factors summoned before him.
Hereafter the fascist undertake
the administration of justice adopting
different laws from those of the judi
eial authorities" DIR. Sala said. Who
ever is guilty will not be sent to pri-
son but to the hospital-after being
dubbed.
If after such lessons veteran Of
tenders still exist. the next time the
clubbing will be such as TO send them
not to the hospital but to the eeme-
terry
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-12-07
Plan Nonstop Flight
From Tucson to San Diego

Tucson, Ariz, Dec. 6.--Making a
direct flight from Tel Paso to this city
in three hours and twenty minutes,
arriving at the Fishburn aviation field
here at 1885. three army planes en-,
gagged in route mapping from Fort
night. Mai. Ralph Royce, pilot of one
Of the planes. and commander OF the
planes engaged In the flight, an
nounced that an attempt will be made
to make the flight direct to San
Diego from here. The smallest Of the
three planes viii be forced TO stop at
ii Centre to refuel The aviators
will hop off eariy Thursday morning
to continue their flight.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-12-07
Days Activities
in Washington

Rural credits legislation, understood
TO have the sanction of administra-
'tiop officials. was introduced in the
senate and house.
The shipping board, in its annual
report, predicted the transfer of it's
merchant fleet to private interests
would be slow process regardless of
the fate of the shipping bill.
The senate adopted .. resolution by
Senator La Toilette. republican, Wis
consin, calling on the secretary of
agriculture TO furnish full informa-
ton regarding the proposed Armour
Morris packer merger.
The treasury appropriation bill
carrying Sf15,12O,0 900 of which 50 ,O0o,- :
900 would be available during the
coming fiscal year for enforcement of
prohibition, was reported by the house
appropriations committee.
Reduction of the maximum income
surtaX rate from 80 to not more than
25 per cent and enactment of legisla-
tion to prevent tax lodging was rec
commended to congress by Secretary
Mellon in his annual report.
Clemenceau was kept on the move
as in quick succession he addressed
army officers at the war college, visit
cd Mount Vernon, called on Woodrow
Wilson and delivered speech to a
gathering of southerners.
President Harding. in a letter to
Chairman Jones of the senate com.
merce committee, urged elimination
from the shipping bill of the Madden
amendment which would make pay.
ment OF government aid contingent
or annual appropriations
Operation of the Muscle Shoals prof.
ect by government controlled cor
poration for production of cheap fer.
tilizer for farmers and nitrate for war
purposes was proposed in a bill in
troduced by Representative Dickinson,
republican, Iowa.
Secretary Mellon announced the
treasury's plans for government finan-
cling in December and declared the
treasury faced much improved pros
poets for the next fiscal year. The
program includes the issue Of $780,
100000 in treasury notes and a com.
bined Offering of certificates of in.
debtedness aggregating s400.000.0O0
Traffic representatives from the
middlewest appeared at hearings be.
fore the Interstate Commerce com.
mission and expressed opposition 10
continued merger of the Southern
Pacific and Central Pacific railways
systems.
Delegates 70 the 18th annual
convention of the rivers and har-
bors congress discussed the need for
increased facilities for inland trans
portation over waterways.
Central American conference. after
adopting rules Of procedure, adjourn.
ed until Saturday to give the delegates
an opportunity to consult their home
governments on questions involving
the proposal for union Of Central
America.
Governing board of pan-American
union adopted program for fifth Pan
American conference TO he held at
Santiago. Chile, next March,
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-12-07
Surprise Witness on Stand
in Colorado Murder Trial

Durango, Col. Dec. 6.--(By A P.}-
Charles Griffith. a surprise witness,
testifying for the state, declared he
saw Rod S. Day. editor of the Duran.
go Democrat. fire two revolver shots
at William l.. Wood. city editor of
the Durango Herald, and saw Wood
fall to the sidewalk. Day is on trial,
charged with the murder OF Wood
Griffith declared that Days hand
holding the revolver was extended
outward and upward. Tho defense
has maintained that Day. dazed by
blow from Wood. drew his revolver
and fired with his hand we'll dowr
toward his hip.
Griffith asserted that at the time
when the two editors met he was
across the street from the scene OF
the shooting.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-12-07
Girl Kidnapped
by Drug Bandit
Stcnographer Dragged Into
Auto After Arm Pierced
by Hypodcrmic.

A hypoderinic bandit kidnapped a
girl in tho heart of the business dis
trict of Omaha yesterday noon.
Miss Gurdrun Hedegaard, 25, stem
ographer. unempl Dyed, who came to
Omaha from Audubon, Ia, last Au-
gust. stood looking in a shop window
at Seventeenth and Douglas streets.
A little man, apparently a foreigner,
with a black moustache, approached
her, stood by her a moment, then
iabbed her arm with n needle, she said,
and walked off.
What are you trying TO do?' shc
no reply.
But almost Immediately her arm
began to hurt and she started north
on Seventeenth street.
When she was opposite the post
office building. just across Dodge
street. the same man approached her
and said:
You'd better walk this way and
led her into a small motor car stand
ing there. She was dizzy and resisted
little. she said.
uey Wctl loi Il lOlS nut, SHc Sditl
and the next thing she knew she was
sitting in the car with him on the
hill by the Central High school.
Il slapped him." she said. land
started to get out but he grabbed me
by the arm, and when l slapped him
again, he threw me out.
u staggered to my rooming house
at 1917 Davenport street but col
la psed on the stairs
The girl exhibited brown spot
about half the size of a dime on her
right arm half way between the el-
bow and the shoulder, as evidence
she had been stabbed by a hypo-
derrnic needle.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-12-07
Young Prisoner Escapes
from State ReformatOry

Lincoln. Dec. c. - Especially - Carl
Kuehn. alias Herbert Ironer, 90.
escaped from the state reformatory
here this morning.
With eight other inmates. he was
unloading coal from a car at the state
asylum, a mile and half from the
reformatory. At roll cali on the first
trip he was missing.
lie was sent up from Buffalo coun-
~ last May for one 10 two years for
breaking and entering.
Superintendent Gus Miller stated he
was subnormal; that test revealed
he had the mind of boy OF 10. The
top of his head comes almost to a
peak. Miller said. and he has been
wanderer all his life. At one time he
was an inmate of the Creston School
of Industry at Lone, Cal.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-12-07
Member of Charivari Party
Injured When Gun Explodes

Falls City. Neb.. Dec. 6.-tSpecial.l-
A charivari at Dawson was converted
into a tragedy when a double-barreled
shotgun exploded in the hands of EN-
NETT d. Stone, 30. one of the cele-
orators, tearing out his left eyeball.
The gay party had been serenading
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Riley, who were
married on Thanksgiving day and
shotguns played an important part in
the celebration. The accident brought
the fun to an abrupt close.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-12-07
Erin A!s,.'S"s
Dominion
of Britain
Oath of Office Administered
to Covernor.General and
Members of Dali
Eireann.
Hayes Chosen Speaker

Dublin, Dee. 6.-tBy A. P.)--Inaugu'
fation of the Irish free state as one of
tho dominions OF the British empire
took place today. The ceremony was
simple and unmarried by hostile DEM
onstrations from the republican mi
nority.
The oath was administered to Tim
othv Healey as govenor-general by
by lord chief justice at Mr.. Healey's g
residence. three miles west of Dub
lin, and afterward the new governor
general administered the oath TO
President Michael Hayes as speaker
OF the dali
There were no crowds outside the
parliament house when the dali met
tonight. The members assembled
punctually at ;. William T. Cos
grave, president of the dali cabinet,
and Kevm OHiggins. minister of
home affairs and nephew of the new
governor general. were among the
first arrivals. and occupied the same
seats as in the old days.
Deputies Sworn In.
At $40 Speaker Hayes announced
he was authorized by tho governor
general to administer the oath to the
deputies.
Mr. CoegraVe was the first one to
be sworn and to sign the roll. The
form of the oath of allegiance was
primarily to the constitution of the
Irish free state and then to King
George as the head of the peoples
forming the British commonwealth.
Mr. O'1Iiggins and the other minis
ters took the oath In turn, followed
by the members of the dali. The
oath was administered TO each man
individually.
When the ceremony was completed.
Prof. Hayes was reelected speaker
aud Cosgrave president of the cabi-
net.
Only two OF the five Irish sigma
tories of the treaty, Eamoa j. Dug
gan and George Ciavan Duffy, took
the oath. OF the others. Arthur Grif-
feth and Michael Collins are dead
and Robert G.. Barton is in Jail as u
rebel.
Labor Members Take Oath.
All the labor members were pres
ent and took the oath, with the ex-
ception of l.. Caffney, who was the
only member of the dail to vote
against the constitution He is ex-
pected to refuse the oath.
Cathal O'Shannon. editor of the
Voice of Labor, and noted for his ad.
vanced views, was one Of those
sworn in. Lord Mayor O'Neill was
absent because of illness. Another
absentee was Liam de Roisite (Will.
lam Roche), member for Cork city.
He has been a supporter of the treaty
and is counted upon as certain to take
the oath later on.
Gen. Mckeown, who has been con.
ditioning the free state military op-
erations in the provinces and has not
been in Dublin lately. appeared and
took the oath.
Tho labor party authorized its lead
er to make a statement explaining
its acceptance of the oath. The state
ment said the laborites were merely
following the tactics of the political
parties of the workers in all other
countries, whether monarchial or re-
publican. The oath they looked upon
as implying no obligation other than
the obligation resting upon any per-
son in accepting the principles Of
citizenship.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-12-07
u. S. Gives Colombia Check
for S5.OOO.OOO Damage,

Washington, Dec. 6.-rhe Unite,
States gave the republic of Colombia
a check for s5,O0O.O0o, its first pay.
ment under the s25,0o0.0o0 treaty rat.
ified in 1921 to cover certain damages
incurred In the construction Of the
Panama canal. The payment was due
September 80, but for some unex.
planned reason Colombia was not
ready to receive 1t until today. Under.
the treaty tho remaining payments
Will be made yearly in s5,o0os0oo sums.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-12-07
Rates From Missouri River
Points to Be Investigated

The Interstate Commerce commits.
sion has suspended reduction in class
freight rates from Kansas City,
Atchison. st. Joseph and Leavenworth
to Nebraska. pending an investigation
December 2S in Kansas City.
Since 1914 freight rates between
Missouri river cities and points in
Nebraska have been a source of com
plant and dissension. and the Ne.
braska commission hopes the in
vestigatiou will do away with alleged
Determinations.