“…If R = Z, we derive the existence of ℵ 1 -free abelian groups of cardinality ℵ 1 , a result which was unknown. If Γ is any abelian semigroup, then we use Corner's ring R Γ , implicitly discussed in Corner, Göbel [4], and constructed for particular Γ s in [3] with special idempotents (expressed below), with free additive group and |R Γ | = max{|Γ|, ℵ 0 }. If |Γ| < 2 ℵ0 , we may apply the main theorem and find a family of ℵ 1 -free abelian groups G α (α ∈ Γ) of cardinality ℵ 1 such that for α, β ∈ Γ,…”