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Abbeville Press and Bahner Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Abbeville, S. Tuesday, Feb. 25, 1919.

Single Copies, Five Cents. 75th Year. GERMANS OFFER TO SEND TROOPS HOMI Proposal is Submitted to the Amer can Fleet of Big Several Hundred Thousand be Sent Home ia German Ports. Berlin, Feb. proposal transpefo several hundred thousan men of tfte American expeuiuuuoj forces to the United States by way Germany, placing them on boar ships at Bremen and Hamburg, hz been submitted to the American ai thorities.

According to the preset American arrangements, the first of the units to be repatria in German steamers will embar from the Netherlands, but it is sai here that American army headqua: ters is inclined to consider favorabl the route through Germany for som of the later embarkations, owing the transportation facilities and th adequate dockage and other ments of the North German ports. Fleet of Liners. The proposal submitted by the rectors of the North German Lloy line, with the approval of the Gei man Government, provided that fleet of big liners with a normt carrying capacity of fifty thousan passengers should be assigned to thi service and the troops transporte from their present stations over th direct frank lines to Bremen an Hamburg. Over these lines, accorc ing to Gen. Broener, now in charg of the German railways, a speed movement would be practical.

Th steamers would be capable of re turning 400,000 men in a year this route. As American expert r. commented, however, if the ship were loaded in accordance with th present American military instead of under the. German pre-wa regulations; they would carry on hundred thousand the trip. Would Relieve France.

The steamship company director: in a memorandum to Gen. Pershin nointed out the nlan would reliev the overtaxed French railways an ports and provide a distinctly quiet er route. They urged, also, as a gainst embarkation in Holland tha theDutch railways were not well abl to cope with heavy troop traffic, an that no buildings were available house the menN during the inevitabl delays before boarding the steamerj while, on the other hand, Hambur and Bremen had ample barracks. Th company proposed the transportatio on the return -trips of the supplie promised Germany. The company was informed tha the American Government was ready committed to the scheme fo embarkation by way of Holland an corollary arrangements had bee made for moving the first food ship stents into Germany by way of Ho! land and the Rhine, but the Germa proposals would be submitted President Wilson and it was prot able advantaee would be taken them in subsequent troop movement; DR.

GAMBRELL "FORDS" IT. Dr. C. C. Gambrell, who has rt cently been mustered out of the sei vice and has returned to the prac tice of his profession in lias invested in a new car and i "Fording" it to see his patients.

Ou son Bill tells us that it is Ford in town, it is a closed car an kas a green body." A VISITOR FROM AUGUSTA. Mrs. Herbert Hester, of is in the city for a weeks visit to th family of Mrs. A. W.

Clark. Mr; Hester has found the fountain youth and by her charming manne Makes herself an attractive visitc wherever she goes. Mrs. Hester i the mother of Mrs. George Clarl whom our people all admire.

i CRIMINAL COURT NOW IN SESSION i- Now Engaged Upon Case of the Negro, Mark Smith, Charged With Shooting freputy Sheriff Lestpr Cann About Three Weeks Ago. I The Court of General Sessions cond vened on Monday morning with yi Judge Frank B. Gary, of the eighth 1 if circuit, presiding instead of Judge Geo. E. Prince, who was expected to ts preside.

Judge Prince is sick in the i-1 hospital at Anderson and was unable it to hold the court. i Solicitor Blackwell, Stenographer 1 t- Perrin, and the Clerk of Court and Sheriff, with the deputies were all 1 on hand. When the grand jury was called, 37 three of the members could not be j' had, and it necessary to drawj1 an extra venire. The petit jury was: also short six men and it was filled; in the same way. Judge Gary charged the Grand Jury as to their duties along the j.

usual lines, calling their attention 4 to the several matters under their chargo and explaining to them what a they were expected to do. His charge was clear and lucid, and to the point. The solicitor handed out a num- is ber of bills for the confederation of the Grand Jury, among them the State against Joe M. H. charged with murder.

The grand i 1-! jury returned a true bill in this case ej and it was tried during the morning, v1 hour. Greene Earle of represented the defendant, and he was promptly acquitted. The homi-i y' cide according to the evidence curred in Abbeville county while Mr. i is Ashley was on official duty looking e. for witnesses in a case pending in County.

He went to the licuse of John Hogg, and ran into -a crap game. When he entered the i house, Peter Clinkscales arose from 2 the floor with a pistol in his hand, -c and attempted to shoot Mr. Ashley, but the sheriff was too quick for him. In the afternoon the case of the State vs. Mark Smith was taken up.

The defendant is charged with as- sault and battery with the intent to kill, the prosecutor being Mr. Lester Cann, the deputy Sheriff of County. The testimony of the, i state is in, and it was developed: 0 i on the stand from the witnesses for I the state that the prosecutor Mr. s'i Cann. and the men with him.

i Tom and John Beauford.js ejwere not armed with a warrant, andjj nj that they went to the home of the; defendant for the purpose of search-1 his house in the night time, with-j out any warrant. The defense will pitched on the ground that these were the aggressors, and that; 1 they were intruders in the home of the defendant, had no right there, I and that he had a right to use such "orce as was necessary for the pur- pose of ejecting them. I i i The testimony will be continued in 1 the morning when court convenes. lf; 1 1 A SAD FUNERAL. Mr.

Ralph Merck, of died at his home Saturday morning, Mr. Marck was the husband of Mrs. Lucy Syfan Merck, who with her fant child died Friday morning. Mr. 13 Merck, who was sick with Influenza, ir, was unconscious when Mrs.

Merck 't, died and never revived enough to know of her death. The young couple were buried! Sunday afternoon in the cemetery at Gainesville, this closing what promised to be a long and happy married i life. ei 5 Mr. Merck was a prominent young merchant and had only recently been discharged from the aviation branch I ir of the war service. is' Mr.

G. W. Syfan, Mr. George Syc, fan and Mr. Ben Cochran attended this sad funeral from Abbeville.

I row, dux; inis assertion was discredited by Capt. Peter Rubin of the seiret service, who directed the raids. According to police the two Philadelphia men who readily admitted they were anarchists stopped here on their way to Boston and intended to that city tonight. The grave nature of the alleged plot and the imminence of the at? tempt to carry it into execution, it eras declared, made it essential the men be imprisoned at once. i LIEUT.

SWETENBURG HOME. Lieut. Carrol Swetenburg, who ar-j rived from overseas last week, has been transferred to Camp Tackson, with regiment, is expected home today. Lieut. Swetenburg was one of the foung men from Abbeivlle who re-J to the country's first call for issistance.

He applied for entrance 1 ind was admitted to the first officer's raining camp at Fort Oglethorpe, md in due time he graduated as a 1 lecond lieutenant. He was transferred from Fort )glethorpe to Camp Jackson, and vas assigned to a company of color- 1 troops, which he and the other 1 of his company trained for fighting. When the call he took them across, and in France he was engaged with these in many bloody fights, escap- ng through it all without as much is a scratch, though many of his nen were killed. His company lni( me of the battles in which he was 1 was cited for bravery on. field of action.

His worth as soldier is proved by the fact that hei. vas promoted from second to first ieutenant after reaching France. I Lieutenant Swetenburg was in the )ig parade in Columbia last week, vhen the 371st. regiment received much attention. The work havng been finished he is anxious to eturn to private life.

He has varm friends in Abbeville who have jeen honored by his gallantry in Prance and who will be glad to see lim at home again. He is a son of whom his parents ire justly proud, and a young man vho is honored by his home i WHERE THEY In Tuesday's and Friday's issu risd 868 inches of display advert more than is carried each week, I vertisements carried in this paper that date, shows that the people believe that we print a journal people. The fact that the home eral use of our columns is evident the way to reach the buyer and 1 Family Paper." ACCUSED OF PLOT 10 KILL PRESIDENT Fourteen Spanish I. W. W.

Held in New York. All Sent to Prison. Men Held for Investigation Said to Have Planned to Assassinate Wilson in Boston. New York, Feb. Fourteen members of the Spanish branch of the I.

W. W. were arrested by secret service men and members of the police bomb squad in two raids here late today. While they are charged formally with having seditious literature in their possession, government agents claimed to have evidence they were hatching a terrorist plot. Frank Francisco and Edward J.

Dowd of the secret service, as well as New York detectives who assisted them in the raids, declared they had obtained evidence which would be iiqoH in on offomnf fa flin AAA Uii UbWWUiyO VV JJi Vllv iO oners had planned to assassinate President Wilson in Boston tomor northern Russia, nor is if understood to disclose a decision as to the future American policy in Russia. Detremination of this awaits upon a further discussion by the peace conference at Paris. "From a consultation with compe-' tent transportation authorities, it pears that with normal ice conditions the earliest possible moment at which considerable bodies of troops can be moved away from Archangel will be in June." FUNERAL OF MRS. McILWAINE i The funeral services over the re-' mains of Mrs. Ella Mcllwaine were held at her home Sunday afternoon it three o'clock and were conducted by Rev.

H. W. Pratt. A large of sympathizing friends were present. All her children were present save the daughter missionary in China.

Mrs. Milford from this county, and Mrs. Morrow, of Spartanburg, sisters af the deceased, were also present for the last sad rites. Interment was at Long Cane Cemetery. ATTENDING CONFERENCE.

Rev. M. it. left Monday, for Blue Ridge, N. where he goes! to attend a War Work Conference, He will be away about ten days is looking forward to a pleasant and profitable experience.

Mrs. Plaxco will be the guest of; Mrs. McMurray during this time. ADVERTISE. es The Press and Banner car- isement.

This may be a little jut the number of inches of adsince January first, and before i who are doing the advertising rhich carries the message to the advertisers are making such to the foreign advertiser that susiness man is through "The 1 IN RUSSIA AMONG SOW People Not Glad to Hear of Leave for Considerable Number of Troops Can Be Sent Away Before June. Archangel, Feb. announcement from Washington that American troops in north Russia are to be withdrawn at the earliest possible moment in the spring received with joy by the troops themselves, but official circles and also the Russian population are anxious to know whether other troops will be sent to replace them or whether it means the complete abandonment of this front. Navigation is now closed except for ice breakers incapable of carrying a large number of troops and according to naval advices, June will be the earliest month tor the opening of the ice floes. The American troops affected by the announcement are the Three Hundred and Thirty-ninth Infantry and one battalion of the Three Hundred and Tenth Engineers, all draft forces entitled to demobilization after the conclusion of the war.

There is considerable speculation in Archangel whether they will be replaced by regulars or marines. De Witt C. Poole, Counsellor of the American embassy, has issued the following statement: "In connection with the Washington announcement to the American i embassy in Archangel the embassy states it understands this announce-j ment relates only to the disposition of the American troops now here. It I does not determine one or another the question of the continued presence of an American force in WORK ON TREATY ISM PUSHED Council of Great Powers Adopts Resolution Ordering Haste to Have Preliminary Document Ready for Submission to Conference by Time Wilson Returns. Paris, Saturday, Feb.

of far reaching character were obtained at the meeting of the council of the great powers today when resolutions were adopted requiring such a speeding up of all important branches of the work of the peace conference as to permit the formulation of a preliminary peace treaty by the time President Wilson returns to Paris in the middle of March. To accomplish this all commissions dealTtti4-Vi lllg VTlbU bUC 4UCOUUUO UX CpOI" ations, boundaries and economic and financial issues must report to the supreme council within the next two weeks, or by March 8, at the latest. The reports, in turn, will form a basis for the drafting of the treaty. An extensive -programs has been carefully matured within the past few days and it was brought to a culmination this afternoon when A. J.

Balfour, British foreign secretary, and Col. E. M. House, of the American delegation, called on Premier Clemenceau in his room shortly :1 Lite uuuiicu uuiivciicu. rjnui found the wounded statesman dressed and sitting up and keenly alert concerning the of the conference and fully agreed on the plan for a rapid acceleration of work on all subjects.

This brought together the British, American and French viewpoints for a rapid course of action assuring the earliest possible peace. Shortly afterward the supreme council met and ratified the program. The official statement issued after the meeting announced: "The meeting decided on proper steps to be taken in order to accel-' erate as much as possible the labors of the conference." J. F. LIVINGSTON DIED SUNDAY IN COLUMBIA1 John Fraser Livingston, one ofi Columbia's best and most respected; citizens, died at the Baptist at 9 o'clock yesterday morning the effects of two operations he had recently undergone.

Mr. Livingston was president of the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens' i Railroad, which office he had filled since 1912. The funeral will be held at the First Presbyterian Church this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, and will be conducted by the Rev. A. W.

Blackwood, pastor. Mr. Livingston worked his way to the top by faithful and painstaking i attention to business. He was a na-J tive of Abbeville County, being son of J. F.

and Fannie McCarr Livingston. He was born March 22, 1869, and would have been 50 years old next March. He went to work for himself when he was between 17 and 18 years old, under P. D. Mazyck in North Carolina soon came to Columbia and'got a position under Donald McQueen in the freight office of the old South Carolina Rail- road, later merged with the South-' ern Railway.

November 12, 1895, Livings-; ton was married to Miss Mattie With-: ers, who with two children survives him. He is survived also by his aged mother, Mrs. J. F. Livingston, One sister, Mrs.

S. L. Mazyck, andi two brothers, H. B. Livingston of I Paris, Texas, and J.

B. Livingston of State, Feb. 24. vvvvvvvvvvvvvvv COTTON MARKET. 0 V1 Good cotton on the Abbe- V.

ville market brought 27 cts. yesterday. March futures closed in New York at 22.38. V1 i SOURS TO COME EARLY IN MARCH 1 Twenty Thousand Men Leave France. Seven Department Announcement Does Not Indicate Any for Camp Jackson Demobilization.

Washington, Feb. from France of 700 officers and 20,000 men of the army on seven vessels, including the battleship Michigan and cruiser Rochester, was announced today by the war departI ment. The ships are due at Atlantic ports between February 25 and I March 5. Included among the men are the first of the Twenty-seventh (New York National Guard) Division to start for home. They are coming on the French liner Rocham beau from Le Havre and are due at New York March 3.

On the transport are the field and staff headquarters, bond, Companies and and the ordnance and sanitary detachments of the Hundred and Second Engineers, bound for Camps Dix, Devens, Logan, Grant and Gordon. The One Hundred and Second Engineers was originally constituted from the Twenty-second New York engineers wun av men eacn irom First, Twelfth, Fourteenth, Seventyfirst and Seventy-fourth New York Infantry Regiments, and one officer and 83 men from the New York EnI gineer Train. The White Star liner Olympic should reach New York next Tuesday with 375 officers and 5,312 men, I most of whom compose units and detachments of the Ninety-second (negro) The largest unit is the complete Three Hundred and Sixty-fifth Infantry. The ship also carries the Three Hundred and enteenth Sanitary Train, the One Hundred and Eighty-third Infantry Brigade Headquarters and the Three Hundred and Seventeenth Mobile Ordnance Repair Shop, all of the Ninety-second Division; detachment? of the Three Hundred and Fiftieth Field Artillery, the Three Hundred 2nd Forty-ninth Machine Gun Bat talion and the Three Hundred and Sixty-seventh Division; casual company for Tennessee, and one each for Illinois and Texas; Base Hospital? Nos. 27, 29, and 38; fifty casual ollcers and a large number of othftr casuals.

Brig. Gen. Charles Gheradi, commanding the One Hundred and Eigthy-third Infantry Brigade, is aboard the Olympic. Thecruiser Rochester, also due at New York Tuesday, has aboard approximately 300 soldiers, including the Four Hundred and Sixty-seventh Aero Squadron; a Texas casual company and Mobile Hospital No. 100.

The transport Buford is due at Newport News, March 4, with a detachment of the Sixty-third Coaat Artillery for Fort Logan, a detachment of the Sixth Heavy Ordnance Repair Shop for Camp Grant, and one for Columbus Barracks; casual companies for Arkansas Illinois, Minnesota, Tennessee and Texas; part of Company Thre? Hundred and Forty-fifth Infantry, Eigthy-seventh Division, for Camp Grant, a negro casual company for VirUCAf hmm mk Virginia, and scattered casuals for Illinois and Ohio. The transport Santa Marta is du? March 5, port not given, with Bas? Hospitals Nos. 3 and 22, and casuals making up 45 officers and 51 mert. The transport Powhatan is due March 2, port notgiven, with 105 officers and 3,666 men, including the Sixjy-sixth Coast Artillery complete; detachments of the Forty-seventk Coast Artillery and parts of th? Three Hundred and Thirty-fifth and Three' Hundred and Thirty-sixth Field Artillery of the Eighty-serentk Division, and a number of sick and wounded and casuals. (Continued on Page 8).