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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 8, 1921)
W.& t. RENTAL BIDS SENT TO GOVERNOR IT IS PRACTICALLY CERTAIN THAT SECURITIES WILL BE SOLD WITHOUT TROUBLE STATE NEWS OF INTEREST Brief News Items Gathered Here And There From All Section Os The State Atlanta. Governor Thomas W. Hardwick announced recently that lie has received several bids for the pui chase of deferred warrants based on the rentals of the state-owned West era and Atlantic railroad and will be pin consideration of the proposals soon. The governor advertised for bid* on the securities several weeks ago. The time for submitting bids ex pires at noon Thursday. "In seeking these bids it was my de-dro to ascertain from Georgia bank ers and financiers what they believed the denominations should be and what the. terms of the securities should be relative to the date of ma turity. I also desired to give all bank ing institutions, both in and out of the state, a chance to bid on the se curities so that I would have freedom of action in disposing of them at the proper time,’’ the governor declared. It was learned at the Capitol re cently that it is practically certain that the securities will be sold with out undue trouble. Among the bidders are several banking houses which would be able to take the entire issud if they so desired. Provision for the sale of the de ferred warrants was made in a bill passed by the legislature at Its re cent session. The bill passed both bouses by substantial majorities. Secretary of State S. G. McLendon, who first suggested the plan for sell ing the deferred warrants to obtain pioney to meet pressing state obliga tions, has announced that the securi ties will not be subject to state ad valorem taxon or federal Income taxes. Four Years Added To Life Os Man Columbus. —The average life of man has lengthened four years in the last quarter century despite the crime wave, war, automobile and other haz ards. "Within another generation, the alloted three score years and ten will be a thing of the past,” Dr. George W. Hoaglin declared recently, basing bis claims on martially statis tics of tlie American Insurance union of which be Is secretary. A.. B. & A. Strikers Are Indicted Fitzgerald. —Judge O. T. Gower Opened superior court here recently with the grand Jury in session. Many cases arising from the strike on the A.. B. & A are being investigated and indictments are being returned against strikers for misdemeanors as a result of strike activities. The cases will be tried soon. Lawrenceville Resting Place Os Hero Lawrenceville. —J. P. Byrd has re ceived official notice that the body of his son. Lieutenant Harold Byrd, had arrived at Hoboken on August 20, in transit from France to his home here for interment. Lieutenant Byrd was u first lieutenant and adjutant of the S27th infantry, of the 82d division, and was killed in fighting in the Ar gonne forest just a few days before ’.he unnistice was signed. * Big Acreage Drained In Henry Juliette. —Work has Just been com pleted o n reclaiming thousands of acres of fertile bottom lands in Henry county. Hundreds of acres were drained In time to be cultivated this season. A great deal of reclamation work has also been done in Jasper county and in these two counties thousands of acres of land heretofore considered worthless will be cultivat ed another year. Still Operator Killed By Officers Cairo. Archie Scoggins, a young Grady county farmer, about 25 years of age ts dead, and l.eo Welch, an other farmer, is in jail here, as a result of a duel between the two and three deputy sheriffs, when the dep uties raided a moonshine still in operation ten miles north of Cairo, re cently. Policeman Is Shot Three Times Manchester. —While attempting to quiet a disturbance caused by a crowd of men under tiie influence of whiskev here recently Policeman W. J. Kellum of this city, was shot three times bv Kaytnond Parrott It is not thought that Helium's wounds will prove fatal. Kellum had responded to a call for assistance from the proprietor of the case near the depot in this city, and had arrested those participating in the disturbance, and was arranging bond lor their appearance before the mayor's court, when Parrett drew a pistol and shot at Kellum five times, three of the shots taking effect. Terrell Farmers Talk Diversification Dawson. —The farmers of the coun ty have begun to talk diversification again despite the high price of cotton, the ravages of the boll weevil have brought them to a realization that un less cotton maintains a high price average, other crops could be raised to a greater monetary advantage. Po tatoes will be raised in greater vol ume next year, the chamber of com merce having already started to pro moting interest in this crop. Several farmers have already pledged them- Mlves to plant large peach orchards. BANK DEPOSITS GAIN $4,000,000 Total Resources Os State Banks liv crease $34,000, In Two- Year Period Atlanta.—Despite unfavorable finan cial conditions and in the face of low prices received for farm products, principally cotton, deposits in state banks of Georgia increased $4,319,500 for the year ending June 30, 1921, over the year ending June 30, 1919 according to an announcement made recently by T. 11. Bennett, superin tendent of the state banking depart ment. These figures are compared as the year 1919 was the last year of the department's operation in connec tion with the state treasury while the figures received up to June 30, 1921, are for the last year the banking department operated as an independ ent department. The figures were compiled from the statements of the state banks sent in under the call issued by the de partment for June 30, 1921. They were compiled by J. C. Cagle, state bank examiner, and show that Geor gia banks are in much sounder condi tion than many people supposed and also show that the depression Is not nearly as bad as it looks on the face of things, according to the official of the department. One significant thing, shown by the figures is that the total resources of the state banks are greater by ap proximately $34,000,000 than they were June 30, 1919, when Mr. Ben nett assumed charge of the depart ment. The resources in 1919 were $252,350,000 as compared to resources or $286,594,000 for June 30, 1921. Another indication of sound busi ness methods being used in the banks is the report of overdrafts. On Decem ber 2, 1919, when Mr. Bennett took charge the overdrafts of the banks aggregated $7,458,000. Doomed Negro Gets Respite Tifton. ltomeo Henry, colored, alias Romeo Kemp, convicted at the recent term of Tift superior court of murder, for the killing of another negro, Henry Johnson, at Eldorado, and sentenced to hang August 26, is still alive. . Colonel IL E. Dinsmore, attorney for the condemned man, filed motion for a new trial soon after the first Saturday in August and after wards postponed until the first Satur day in September. The motion auto matically acted as a stay of execution, and Henry will live at least until the matter is threshed out in the courts. Forger Picks Judge Wright As Victim Rome. —Some criminal, whose Iden tity has not been learned, has been forging the name of Judge Moses Wright, of Floyd superior court to small checks on the First National bank, of Rome, and passing them in Chickamauga and other towns near the Tennessee line, it developed re cently. when one of the checks was shown to Judge Wright to learn if he had signed it. The same thing has been done with Attorney Rosser, of Lafayette, and In both cases the man who cashed the checks told the same story. He said that he and the judge, or the attorney, as the case might he, had been riding together and the supposed signers of the checks had asked for a little money and given checks in exchange. Family Squabble Leads To Killing Camillia. —News has just reached here that a man named McNutt, a World was veteran, shot and killed a man named Gilchrist, both of Pelham. Both men married sisters and it was reported that the killing came as a result of a family misunderstanding reports of the particulars being var ious and conflicting. McNutt is in jail having given himself up to Sheriff Crow. Both men have prominent con nections in and around Pelham. Chautauqua Is Being Threatened Amertcus. —It appears now that Americus will forego its annual sea son of Chautauqua this year as a re sult of a disagreement between local guarantors an the Redpath Chautau qua bureau, which is under contract to furnish the attraction. Convicted Slayer Denied New Trial Savannah. —A new trial has been refused by Judge H. B. Strange, of the Ogeechee circuit, in the cases of Frank McKenzie ahd his father. J. W. McKenzie, convicted at Springfield, in Effingham county, of the killing of Robert L. Crossby. The younger man was convicted of shooting Crossby on the railroad station's crowded plat form at Guyton recently. The father was convicted of being an accessory. An appeal will he taken, it is said. Nine Cars Are Derailed Near Guyon Savannah.—Passenger train arriv als on perfect schedule time as to every train all through this month were interrupted recently, next to the last day of the month, by the derail ment of nine cars of a special freight l on the main line near Guyon, the cars were laden with coal and naval stores. F. F. Gaines Commits Suicide Savannah. —Savannah was shocked recently at the news from Washington that F. F. Gaines, for years an offi ' eial of the Central of Georgia rail road, but for the past several years a resident of Washington city, had j committeed suicide in the garage at his Washington home by shooting. He had infantile paralysis when a child and one arm and hand never recov ered from the maladay. He had been in failing health for some time re ; cently. His body was found by bis wife an hour after the shooting THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR. MT, VERNON. GEORGIA. LANDIS RIPPED BY BAR ASSOCIATION PASS RESOLUTION UPBRAIDING JUDGE FOR ACCEPTING “OUTSIDE WORK” DEFENDED BY EX-SEN. LEWIS Action Os Federal Judge In Accepting Baseball Salary Termed “Drag ging Ermine Into Mire.” Cincinnati.—The action of Federal Judge Landis of Chicago, national com missioner of baseball, in accepting “private employment and private emol ument,” while active on the federal bench, was declared to meet with the •‘unqualifk/.l condemnation” of the American Bar association in a resolu tion adopted The resolution was adopted after stormy debate, in which former Sena tor James Hamilton Lewis counseled against hasty action and moved that the matter he referred to a committee for investigation. He declared that Judge Landis should be accorded a proper hearing before being con demned. The resolution was drawn by the executive committee of the association and was presented by Hampton L. Carson of Philadelphia, former presi dent of the organization. The resolution reads as follows: “Resolved, That the conduct of Ken esaw M. Landis in engaging in private employment and accepting private emolument while holding the position of federal judge and receiving a salary from the federal government meets with our unqualified condemnation as ocnduct unworthy of the office of judge, derogatory to the dignity of the bench and undermining public confidence in the independence of the judiciary.” “In upholding the honor of the pro fession of the law,” Mr. Carson said, in presenting the resolution, “of what use is it to prescribe canons on ethics if we know that the man upon whom the judicial ermine rests has soiled that ermine by yielding to the tempta tion of avarice and private gain. “Here is a federal judge who received $7,500 a year yielding to the' solicita tion of commercial interest, sapping his judicial strength by taking $42,500 a year from baseball players. "It Is simply dragging the ermine in the mire. It may be that impeach ment cannot reach him. hut one thing canot escape us, that Is, that from ev er.\ judicial circuit and every bar in the country rises the withing score of protest against the man who would ! stain their honor. “To ignore this thing would have been to leave this convention hanging our heads in shame at the execrable conduct of this judge.” Rising to defend Judge Landis as a man convicted by the resolution with out trial, former Senator Lewis declar ed it did not become the dignity of the American Bar association to take hasty action. “As a member of the bar in Chicago, having practiced before the judge in question, I cannot permit myself to con sent to a resolution proposed for such hasty action,” the former senator said. “I know Judge Landis, and I have differed with him both in public and private, but I canot permit an attack upon his character or his pro bity as a man who can be allured by money.” The administration of federal gov ernment in the United States was at tacked in an address before the con vention by former Senator Charles S. Thomas of Colorado, who declared this coutnry had turned from a “representa tive republic to a continental democ racy J’ To Have Beer Sale Regulations Issued Washington.—Pressure was brought on the Harding administration recent ly to force the issuance of regulations allowing the sale of medicinal beer. The fight is led by a powerful group of senators. Behind them is the com bined strength of all the liberal or ganizations in the country. ‘The regu lations are being illegally withheld.” declared Senator Broussard, of Louis iana, “and I propose to fin.l out why.” Secretary Mellon, in holding up the beer regulations, announced that the anti-medicinal beer hill, still hanging fire in the senate, clearly indicated the intent 'Of congress on the question. Senate To Get Tax Change Bill Early Washington.—Assurance has been given President Harding by Senator Watson, Republican of Indiana, that the tax revision bill will be ready for consideration by the senate on recon vening September 21. and put through Without delay. Senator Watson, who is a member of the finance committee, told the president also that the admin istration’s railroad funding bill will be taken up by the senate immediately after passage of the tax measure and after that would com ethe tariff, age long question. Slight Betterment Is Seen By Board Washington.—lndications of a broad general business recovery throughout the country are lacking still, accord ing to the review of financial and eco nomic conditions during August 1 is sued by the'federal reserve ooard. Harding Invited To Farm Convention Washington. President Harding was invited recently by a delegation representingfthe American Farm Bu reau federation to-attend the annual meeting of the organization at At lanta. November 22. DAUGHERTY RAPS VIOLATORS Discusses At Length Cases Os Debs And Others Imprisoned For "Political Offenses” Cincinnati, Ohio. —Theories of polit ical philosophy now "advanced by those )yho either violate law or sym pathize with the law violator” iis in dustrial conflicts, agitation to upset American form of government and against enforcement of prohibition stat utes are the greatest forces at work in the United States to undermine re spect for law, Attorney General Daugh erty declared recently in an address before the American Bar association. Arguing equally against sentiment that regards a convicted I. W. W. as a "hero of conscience” and “political prisoner;” that holds a bootlegger an exponent of “personal liberty” and sets up the slogan of “human rights against property rights,” in employment dis putes, Mr. Daugherty asserted fallacy and danger lay in all. The attorney general, in his address, which was his first since assuming of fice, suggested a method of informing public opinion by semi-governmental means to obviate industrial conflicts, but advocated complete disregard for the theories advanced in the other two fields. He declared the demand for “personal liberty” in prohibition en forcement had been “advanced in the past by every champion of lawless ness who has sought excuse for un lawful conduct.” "Supremacy of the law is not under mined by the ordinary criminal who commits murder, robbery, larceny,” Mr. Daugherty said. “To the contra ry, every occurrence of crimes of this sort tends to impress upon society the profound importance of law and its vig orous enforcement. The supremacy of the law is and has been challenged mainly in that class of legislation where there exists a difference of opin ion as to governmental policy in en acting legislation in question. At the present time among the forces under mining respect for law are the doc trine of so-called political offensees, er roneous conceptions of personal liber ty and false doctrines as to the rights of individuals and minorities.” Resentment of large corporations of “persons and capital” against “inter ference of laws Regulating them,” Mr. Daugherty said, involved a “mistaken attitude” for “law and order is the shield of business and its only secur ity.” Tone Os Optimism Evident In Review Washington.—A tone of optimism is evident in a general review of busi ness, financial conditions just com pleted by government agencies. De spite world-wide drouth, extensive un employment, industrial depression and low prices in agricultural com munities, a revival of domestic trade and a fair export demand is becoming evident, according to these official re ports. Threat Os Burning To Get Confession Jacksonville, Fla. —J. B. Lee, rail road mechanic, kidnaped from his home recently by unidentifed persons, was threatened with burning at the stake and was buried in a shallow grave to his chin in an attempt to ex tort from him a confession that he killed his wife here recently, the po lice announced. Strike Os Cotton Movers Is Feared New Orleans. —A strike which might paralyze the port of New Or leans, was feared recently as a result of a threatened walk-out of all labor, including teamsters, involved in the handling of cotton here. If the cotton strike were called, leaders say, it in evitably would spread to handlers of other classes of freight. Man Is Lured From Home And Beaten Anniston. Ala. —H. Amieson, local meat cutter, whose wife reported to Sheriff Parker recently that he had been lured from his home, carried to a lonely spot in the mountains below Oxford, and severely beaten with a strap, is suffering intensely from the injuries sustained at the hands of his unknown assailants. To Use Mobile Dry Forces On Coast Washington.—Mobile squads of ex pert prohibition enforcement officers are to be sent from Washington to various Atlantic coast cities to assist in combating the flow of liquors smug gled into the country, Internal Rev enue Commissioner Blair said recent ly. Combine In Film Industry Is Alleged Washington.—The Famous Players Lasky corporation and affiliated con cerns, which the federal trade com mission has formally charged with un ' fair competition and monopolistic poli i cies. “combined and conspired to sup press competition in interstate com hmerce in motion picture films," ac ! cording to summaries of the official complaints recently given out. Just what action will be taken anent the situation is not made public, but it is I the intention of the government to se cure fair competition. Brother Os Forsyth Girl Dies In Manila Manila, P .1. Private Marcellus T. Abernathy, Ninth coast artillery, was so severely bitten by a shark while | bathing in Manila bay that he died 1 a few days afterward. Abernathy was I rescued by a seaplane and taken to j the Cerrigidier hospital, where an op eration was performed without success. | His nearest kin is Miss Mildred Aber nathy. a sister, at Forsyth, Georgia, i The doctors say he made a brave fight for his life, but the loss of blood was | too great to be overcome by medical ! scienc CALI FOR TROOPS TO QUELL RIOT U. S. INVESTIGATOR BELIEVSO MINERS WILL NOT DISBAND REPORTS FROM RATTLE AREAS Three Regiments Os Infantry Ready For Immediate Service —Airplanes Already On The Spot Charleston, W. Va. —Gen. H. H. Band holtz announces that he has dispatch ed a telegram to the war department at Washington to send federal troops into West Virginia at once. In an nouncing his decision to recommend martial law, General Bandholtz made the following statement: “1 am satisfied the miners will not obey the president’s proclamation. A telegram has been sent to Washing ton requesting federal troops at once.” Washington.—The request of Brig- Gen. H. H. Bandholtz for federal troops in the W’est Virginia strike area has been received at the war department, nad has been referred to Major Gen earl Harbord, assistant chief of staff. Announcement of the course to be taken toward the request, it Is indi cated, will probably be made. Logan, W. Va. —Conflicting reports of happenings along Spruce Fork ridge, on one side of which armed bands axe gathered, while the other, Logan coun ty deputy sheriffs, volunteers and state troopers did patrol duty, circu lated here. Capt. I. G. Hollingsworth came into town and declared that deputies pa trolling Crooked creek had been driven down the hillside by a band from across the ridge. Immediately an emergency force was sent out. When asked to verify the report shortly afterward, Col. W. Eubanks, hi charge of county forces, declined to confirm it, or another said to have been brought in from the Crooked creek district, that two deputies had been wounded. Others arriving from the border denied that the deputies had been forced back. Capt. L. E. Lawson of the Mingo mi litia, who has charge of Mingo and McDowell volunteer patrols in the Blair mountain region, brought three prisoners into town. He departed, say ing he had been directed to return to th'e mountain district. At the same time two airplanes passed eastward flying in the direction of the Logan- Boone border. Camp Dix. —Troops of the Twenty sixth and Sixteenth infantries are reported to be awaiting orders for pos sible duty in the West Virginia coal fields. Horses and mules have been loaded aboard box cars ready to go with the regiments, but have been un loaded, because no orders have beer received. Decides To Rewrite Tax Bill Os House Washington.—Decision was reached recently by the senate finance com mittee to rewrite the house tax bil'. so as to include in one document every internal revenue law on the statute books. Chairman Penrose de scribed the house measure as a series of amendments to existing revenue law and said it was the committee 3 program to make the bill which it will report to the senate “all inclu sive.” It was desired, he added, to perfect a measure to which any in dividual payer could turn and find any tax provisions affecting his pay ments to the 1 federal government. Strikers Dispersed By Machine Gun Uniontown. Pa.— Striking miners of the W. J. Rainey Coal and Coke com pany, marching into Allison, Pa., to bring out the miners of the Superior Coal and Coke company there, were recently dispersed by Sheriff I. I. Shaw, of Fayette county, and one dep uty by a display of machine guns. State police under Sergeant Freeman, later took over the situation. May Sell Estate Os General Pershing Amite, La. —Unless a tax bill amounting to S2O is paid, the sheriff of Tangipahoa parish will, on Septem ber 10, sell at auction the Louisiana estate of General John J. Pershing and his brother and sisters, according to a story published by The Pelica naire, a former service men’s weekly publication. Kentucky Feudist Given Life Sentence Mount Vernon, Ky.—John Bailey, a mountain feudist, who has been on trial here for more than a week, was found guilty of murder and sentenced to imprisonment for life. Bailey shot and killed Beverly D. White last April. The tragedy was the outgrowth of a feud of two years’ standing between i he aßiley and White families, whose f kin and clansmen gathered here in ! large numbers for the trial. Due to 1 the presence of state troops, the trial i was uneventaful. The troops were sent as a precautionary measure. London Workless Stage Protests London.—Sheriff’s officers in motor cars went to Poplar recently and visit ed the residences of the members of the Poplar borough council, who had refused to comply with an order of the high court requiring them to raise tax rates in accordance with a ruling of the London county council. Many of the councillors were not at home, 1 but several were arrested and eon ! veved to prison amid sympathetic j cheers from the crowds which gather ed as soon as it was known that the i sheriff’s officers were active. DODSON SDUNDS CALOMELS DOOM The “Liver Tone” Man Warns Folks Against the Sickening, Salivating Drug. Ugh! Calomel makes you sick. It’s horrible! Take a dose of the danger ous drug tonight and tomorrow you lose n day. Calomel is mercury! When it comes into contact with sour bile, it crashes into it, breaking it up. Then is when you feel thgt awful nausea and cramp ing. 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