The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current, April 27, 1922, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextRUSSIA TO PAY IF RECOGNIZED READY TO RESTORE CONFISCAT ED LANDS AND WAIVE ALL CLAIMS REPLY GIVEN BY GERMANY Germany Tell Alllea She la Willing To Stay Out Os Russian Negotiations, But Retains Treaty Genoa, Italy.—ls the Russians are granted recognition de Jure and ade quate financial help, they state in their reply submitted to the entente, they are willing to admit Russia's war and pre-war debts, waive their coun ter-claims and restore the use of na tionalized property to ita former own ers or satisfy the claims of foreigners in cases where the property cannot be restored. The German reply accept sthe con dition Ihut the German delegates be barred from participating in the fur ther discussion of the Russian contro versy by the conference, the Rusho- German treaty signed at Rapallo be ing allowed to stand. The German reply accepts the con from the allies, and begins by ac knowledging "with painful surprise’’ the protest received, which is consid ered undeserved. The note then re peats whut Doctor Rathenau, German foreign minister, iius stated on several occasions—that negotiations for the conclusion of the Russo-German treaty had begun long ago, were known to have been in progress by all the Ktiro js-an powers, and had lately been sus pended out of deference to the confer ence. Hut the exclusion of Germany from the negotiations held by the allies with the Russians at the Villa de Al bert Ih gave the German delegation the impression that ttie allies were trying to conclude arrangements with the soviet government without German participation, perhaps to Germany's detriment. At a certain moment, perhaps through misunderstanding, the Ger man delegation received the Impres sion that the sillies were about to conclude an agreement with the Hus sions, therefore the Russo-German negotiations were resumed, and result ed in the signing of the treaty of Ra pallo on Raster Sunday. The German delegation believes that this treaty does not violate the spirit of the conference and indeed contrib* tites to Its supreme aim pacification of the world and the reconstruction of Europe. The note admits that after the con clusion of this treaty the German del egation has no reason to participate in the work of the first commission, dealing with Russian affairs, but says it will willingly participate In the other work of the same commission dealing with European and German interests. HOUSE PASSES BILL ON NAVAL APPROPRIATION Measure Carries With Amendment Fixing Enlisted Personnel At 86,000 Washington - By the margin of sev enty • one votes the house recently ! broke away fro mits own leadership, stood behind the president and pass ed the 1923 naval appropriation bill] with an amendment fixing the enlisted personnel at 86,000. The vote on the McArthur-Vare ' amendment, the big point in dispute. ; and which Increased the man force, from 67.000 as provided in the bill, was 221 to 148. with two members an swering present. Ninety Republicans; voted against the 86,000 amendment. i while forty-eight Democrats supported i If. Homage Paid By D. A. R. At Shrine Washington.—Delegates to the Con tinental Congress of the Daughters of | the American Revolution made their annual pilgrimage to Mount Vernon i recently to pay homage at the shrine of George Washington. Marshal Joffre, French hero of tlte World War. ai\d Jules Jusscrand, French ambassador, took part in the planting of a French three under the auspices of the It. A. R The marshall also placed a wreath upon the tomb of Washington. Danger Os Famine In Russia Is Over Now York. —All danger of famine in Russia has passed, asserted James P. Goodrich, former governor of Indiana, who arrived on the steamer Olympic after a six-month tour of the stricken regions of Europe in behalf of the American Relief commission. He plan ned to leave for Washington later in the day to lay his report before Presi dent Harding The $52,000,000 appro priated by eongress to feed starving Russians has been well spent, Mr. Goodrich said. Blast Wrecks City In Southern Siberia Athens, Greece. Practically the whole town of Monastir, in Southern Siberia, is in ruins as a result of the explosion there of an ammunition dump, in which was stored all the res idue of war materials of former armies ill the Near East. In habitants of the town, a medley of all nationalities, numbering about 45,000, are homeless. Many are seeking refuge in the sur rounding mountains. No details of the number of the dead are yet available, with the ruined town MARKED CHANGE FOR BETTER | Farmers Making Cheap Crop And Will Pay Debts At Harvest Time, It la Indicated | Washington.—The nation is now ' moving rapidly toward an era of pros- j { perous business and agricultural con- j , ditions, officials in close touch with | the business and financial life of the | country declare. A marked change for the better has i occurred within the last few weeks, i these officials observe. Never since j the post-war industrial depression be gan have general business and agri cultural prospects held the possibili ties that they now do as the result of recent developments. Officials point to these develop ments as evidence of returning pros perity. 1. Five issues of Liberty bonds have reached par and all these issues are now worth what the American people paid for them during the war, having climbed up from an average flow of 85 two years ago. 2. Money and interest rates have been lowered materially, as evidenc ed by the over-subscription over treas ury debt certificates issued at three and one-liuif per cent interest rate — the lowest government borrowing rate since the early days of the war. 3. Interstate commerce commis sion officials report increased rail road earnings and rate reductions are probable in the near future. 4. Business conditions throughout the country, particularly in the agri cultural sections, are 100 per cent better than six months ago, Eugene Meyer, Jr., director of the war finance corporations, says. 5. Repayment of loans to the war finance corporation now virtually equul disbursement for the first time since the depression was most acute. 5. Exports for March showed an increase over February farmers who are fattening hogs and cattle are some what ahead in the normalcy procession, Mr. Meyer said. The buying power of the fanners has been somewhat restricted, by the widespread attitude of economy which Is manifest everywhere, he adds. The farmers are working to create cheap crops and pay off their debts. There is a dlstlnce movement of homeseekers toward the Southwest, (hough passenger travel on railroads has materially decreased, owing to a desire for economy. Tills economy movement lias led Hie farmers to buy only what is necessary and the re sult will lie, Mr. Meyer says, the very cheapest crop in many years. There appears to be a satisfactory j farm labor supply. TWO MARINE OFFICERS AND A MARINE PRIVATE KILLED AT QUANTICO Marine Planes, In Battle Practice, Lock i Wings In Air And Crash To The Ground Washington.—Two marine officers and a marine private were instantly killed at Quantico, Va., when two air planes in battle practice locked wings in the air and plunged to the ground. The dead are: First Lieutenant Earl M. Randall of Winchester, Mass.; Sec ond Lieutenant Duncan W. Lewis of 727 North Fourth street, Memphis, ! Tenn.; Private Joseph J. Dhooge of Chicago, 111 Lillian Russell The Topic Os Debate Washington.—Senatorial etiquette, | as it relates to a noted stage beauty, 1 plunged the senate into heated debate j recently in which counter charges, wore hurled tHut both sides had! slighted Mrs. Lillian Russell Moore, 1 former actress, and now wife of Alex ; i’. Moore, wealthy Pittsburg publish-; er The debate preceded the passage j j of the Colt bill extending tlte 3 per ! cent immigration law for two years I For some reason no record was made ; of those voting. Drank Gallon Os Beer; Shot Himself Dothan. Ala. —Word was received i hero that Julo Nowells, living on a farm near here, dropped dead after drinking a gallon of beer recently. Soon after drinking tlte beer, wit nesses said that NoweUs seemed to j become demented. He attacked mem bers of his family and bit his daughter ! on the arm. Then he ran into the j garden and shot himself. Cyclones And Floods Cause Deaths Chicago.—Thirty-two persons are known to have been killed, 209 are i injured, many seriously, and property i and crop loss will reach far into the millions, in less than 48 hours of too nadoes and floods in three middle-wes tern states. Southern Illinois, southern Indiana and eastern Missouri is an area of mad waters, wreckage and chaos. Levees north and south of Cairo, 111., j are straining and threatening and taun j dreds are in mad exodus to escape the apparent peril. The weather is on the wildest tear of half a century. Russo-German Treaty Dazes Allies Genoa. —That the Rnsso-Germanic I treaty, concluded at Rapallo, confuses the situation here is admitted on all sides. France, aroused to indignation | by the sudden announcement of the al liance. is demanding that Germany be kicked out of the conference. She re -1 gards the treuty as amounting almost to a defiance of the allies, coming as it does in the midst of the Genoa con ference called solely to reach a general ■ European settlement as regards Russia and Germany. The announcement has caused a big sensation. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR. MT. VERNON. CxEORGTA. GOMPERSEXPECTS SETTLEMENT SOON FORECASTB BREAK IN DEADLOCK AND PEACEFUL AGREEMENT “WITHIN FEW WEEKS" FUEL SHORTAGE NOT LIKELY Sees Ray Os Sunshine In Industrial Situation As Ratios Os Un employment Diminish New York. —A break in the deadlock between bituminous cdfel operators and miners and a peaceful settlement of the strike "within a few weeks” was forecast here recently by Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor..” Government intervention to prevent a shortage of fuel for the nation will not become necessary, Mr. Gompers declared. "When it is demonstrated that the miners are standing firm, and are prepared to hold out,” he asserted, “the operators will gree to confer with them and a new wage agree ment will he the result.” The veteran labor leader had just completed a series of conferences with union chiefs in the textile strikes of New England. He came to New York at the invitation of Samuel Untermyer. counsel for the Lockwood legislative committee, to testify before that body in regard to labor organization prac tices. Asserting that “the drive of ‘big , business’ to smash the labor unions j lias lost its force,” Mr. Gompers de clared that with a recent diminution of from 1 1-2 to 2 per cent in nation wide employment, a reported by gov ernment investigators, “there is a lit tle bit of sunbeam in the industrial situation.’’ The revival of trade and of manu facturing, he said, has already set in, and will be one of the deciding factors in the coal strike. No shortage of fuel threatens the larger industries, for they are well supplied for the emergency, he said. But he foresaw in the demand of the smaller manu facturer, loenl enterprises, public utilities and domestic consumers, a strengthening market for coal which would compel producers to make over tures to the miners, in order that the collieries might be reopened. The federation chief characterized the coal and textile strikes as the turning point in the wave of wage re duction which has swept the country in the last year. “These united protests have check ed any further attempts to reduce wages, not only in the basic industries, but in all industries throughout the j nation,” he said. "It marks the turn- ! ' ing point of the industrial tide.’’ HUNDREDS KILLED IN BIG EXPLOSION Monastir Is Laid Waste When Large Munitions Depot Explodes—Fires Are Still Burning London.—Relief workers aje digging in the ruins of the terrific munitions explosion at Monastir which laid waste a large district of the town, killed hun dreds and injured many more, and started fires still burning, according to Reuter dispatches received here. Monastir looked as if it had been bombarded. Buildings, even outside of the immediate scene of the explosion were pierced with shell fragments. One shell plunged into a church, tear ing up the altar and wrecking the in terior. , Hundreds of children were buried : in the ruins where the explosion did i its worst work. Many soldfers who \ were eating their noonday lunch were killed as the munitions which explod ed were stored in and near the bar racks. How the explosion occurred is still a mystery. Man Held After Gun Duel With Police Birmingham.—Following a gun bht- j tie in which a score or more shots ; were fired, a posse of policemen who are believed by the authorities to have shot Policeman S. S. Crabtree. The i third man escaped. Claude Wilson, one of the men that was captured, was shot once through the breast. He was taken to a hospital in a serious j condition. Engstrum Modifies Shoals Proposition Washington. The proposition of Frederick K. Engstrum. of Wilming ton, N. C., for completion, lease and operation of the government's nitrate and power projects at Muscle Shoals. Ain., has been amended to exclude I the Warrior steam plant at Gorgas, Ala., from the properties, it was pro posed to lease. A copy of the modified j offer was made public by Chairman Kahn, of the house military commit tee, when that body resumed execu tive consideration of the various of fers pending for report to the house Harding Call For Delay On Bonus Felt Washington. President Harding was understood to have succeeded In persuading certain Republican sena tors to abandon their plain to stam pede soldiers' bonus legislation thru the Senate. These senators, most of whom are up for re-election this year, had served notice that unless the Sen ate Finance Committee reported a sol diers' bonus bill within three weeks they would join the Democrats in vot ing to discharge the committee from j further consideration of the bonus. FACTIONS AGREE TO CEASE HOSTILITIES POLITICAL ISSUES BETWEEN TWO PARTIES ARE NOT AFFECTED BY MILITARY DECISION ONE-DAY STRIKE IS CALLED Even Train# And Steamers Will Re main Idle As Protest Against Continued Fighting London.—An agreement has been reached between the military leaders of the republican and Free State forces in Ireland, says a dispatch to The Westminster Gazette from Dublin, which will constitute the basis for peaceful arrangements in connection with the future policy of both sides and profoundly influence events in southern Ireland for the better. The correspondent claim authority for this announcement and says that he understands in consequence of the agreement arrived at hostilities be tween the rival forces are to cease, although the political issue between the two parties is not affected. The decision, it is added, followed negotiations between the respective leaders, who have been deeply influ enced by the fratricidal character of the struggle as well as by considera tion of the effects upon the national situation. Dublin. —Advices received from the country regions indicate that there will be universal observance through out southern Ireland of the one-day general strike called for an early date. 1 Trains from the north are not expect ed to pass over the boundary, and the sailing of cross channel vessels will be suspended. The postmaster general desired to maintain a limited telephone and tele graphic service for officials and hos | pital purposes, but the postal union | has objected to this. 1921 CROPS ARE VALUED AT $12,366,000,000 Washington.—The department of ag | riculture estimated that the gross ! wealth produced by farmers in 1921 | had a value of $12,366,000,000 or about two-thirds of the aggregate value of the farm products of 1920, and little more than one-half the aggregate for 1919. During the same period, 1919-21, production of ten crops which repre sent about 95 per cent of the total crop acreage, fell 8 per cent. The total value of crops, the de partment said, declined from $15,421,- i 000,000 in 1919, to $10,909,000,000 in 1920. and to $7,028,000,000 in 1921. The decline of the .total value of animal products on the farm was from $8,361,- 000,000 in 1919 to $7,354,000,000 in 1920, and to $5,339,000,000 in 1921. Four crops of 1921, together had a I value greater than one-half of the total value of all crops for tlfat year. Corn was valued at $1,303,000,000, or 18.5 per cent of the total; hay and forage $1,165,000,000, or 16.6 per cent; cotton lint and seed $755,000,000, or 10..7 per cent; wheat $737,000,000 or 10.5 per cent; and the four crops $3,- 960,000,000 or 66.3 per cent. Several groups of crops are promi nent, the department added, the ce reals $2,563,000,000, or 36.5 per cent ! jf the crop total; the vegetables, in cluding potatoes and sweet potatoes 1 $1,104,000,000, or 15. 7 per cent; fruits md fruit products $525,000,000, or 7.5 1 per cent, and fruits and vegetables to gether $1,629,000,000, or 23.2 per cent. Os the total value of animal prod ucts in 1921, the dairy products were | nearly one-half, $2,410,000,000, or 45.1 per cent; the animals raised $1,937,- ; 000.444, or 36.3 per cent; and the poul -1 try raised and eggs produced $943,000,- 1 000, or 17.7 per cent. U. S. Ships To Get Brazil Coffee Cargo Washington.—Coffee shipments from Brazil to the United States are hence forth to be made in United States flag I vessels, it is announced at the ship j ping board. In return for the business ! the board has assured the shippers ad equate monthly service. Four ships, two fast passengers and two fast freights, will sail from North Atlantic ports every month, and two fast freighters from Gulf ports. Thus there will be on berth at Santos, Rio and Victoria at least one American ves sel at all times. Break In Mississippi Levee Is Near Memphis. Tenn. —Hundreds of fami lies were fleeing to the hills at last reports as a break in the Mississippi levee at Tunica, Miss., appeared im minent. Slim hope was held that the break would be averted as the swollen river was tearing huge chunks away from the earthwork as the swift cur rent battered at the embankmeD'. wall. : The men engaged in work on the levee had worked forty-eight straight hours and were completely exhausted when this report was sent to Memphis by press agents. Cotton Exports Increase In March Washington.—Cotton exports increas ed slightly during March as compared with the same month last year, ac cording to foreign trade reports just issued by the commerce department. Cotton exports for the month aggre gated 461,000 bales valued at $43,000,- 000. compared with 375,000 bales worth $27,000,000 in March a year ago. and j for the nine months ended with March cotton exports totaled 5,000.000 bales valued at $442,000,000. as against 4.- 000.000 bales worth $515.000,000 during the corresponding months of 1921 I 4 WARNING! Say “Bayer” when you buy Aspirin. Unless you see the name “Bayer” on tablets, you are not getting genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians over 22 years and proved safe by millions for Headache Colds Rheumatism Toothache Neuralgia Neuritis Earache Lumbago Pain, Pain Accept only “Bayer” package which contains proper directions. Handy “Bayer” boxes of 12 tablets—Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists. Aiplfln !• the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetlcacldester of Sallcyllcacid Two Hundred Pounds of Sympathy. “I want to speak to ‘Aunt Agnes,’ who gives advice to the lovelorn.” “That fat man over there in the cor ner is ‘Aunt Agnes.’ ” “The idea! I thought the editor of that department was an elderly spinster with a broken heart.” “You can see for yourself that he’s of the masculine gender and takes nourishment regularly, but truly, madam, you don’t know the depth of that man’s soul. He’s so affected by some of the letters he receives from maidens in distress, that if he didn’t drink steadily he never could get through his work.” —Birmingham Age- Herald. Force of Habit. “Gentlemen of the jury,” said the lawyer who was defending a well known bootlegger, “could you look in the man’s eye and believe for one mo ment that he would violate the law of his country by selling contraband liquor?” “Hold on a minute,” whispered his client, tugging at his coat tails. "What’s the matter?” “Don’t tell them to look at me. Seven of those jurors are regular cus tomers of mine. One of them might forget where he is and tip me a wink.” —Birmingham Age-Herald. ■ w a f V i ml AH fi ni A Real Artist. She —“Jack, you make love like an amateur.” He —"That's where the art comes In.” —Boston Transcript. People who have plenty of straw berries and cream can’t understand why anybody should starve. — il ll iwn i« ■«■»■ ■ mrif - 1 tmr She Discovered It, Too 44 After 10 years of hit or miss baking with various other brands of powder 1 at last discovered that the bitter taste some times found in hot breads was caused from alum in cheaper grades of powder. So I am now an ardent booster for Royal Baking Powder.” Mrs. L. A. J. ROYAL BAKING POWDER Absolutely Pure 4 Contains No Alum Leaves No Bitter Taste Send for New Royal Cook 800k —It’» FREE Royal Baking Powder Co., 130 William SL, New York dUqaclt 'fxZtucXd KING PIN PLUG TOBACCO Known as “that good kind” Clryit—andijoii will know why Angus Cattle for Sale All ages, best blood lines. Our show herd won all the Grand Championships last state fairs of North Carolina. South Carolina and Georgia. Sanford & Rich. MocksvUle, N. C. AGENTS WANTED to sell direct to car owner “Sands Auto Hat Holder,” attached to top of any car, holds ladies’ or men’s hats; big seller and big commission. Agent sold 2,000 first week. Send 95c money order for sample. WALTER SANDS MFG., T2O S. 4th Street, MINNEAPOLIS. MINN. Agents, 100% profit selling Cosmo Indigestion Tablets; gives Relief or Money Refunded; price 50c; sent on approval. Franklin Products Co., 456 E. Elkhart St., Philadelphia. Pa. LADIES—If you can do plain sewing you can make money at home. (No canvassing.) Send stamped envelope for particulars. P. O. BOX 1072, COLUMBIA, S. C. AGENTS WANTED —Write for particulars. Best article ever offered to men. Costs sc, sells quick for a dollar. sls daily, sworn. Candeas, 345 East 24th St., New York City. Happy Days. “Insect life has Its joys.” “What now?” “The fly still gets hls tanglefoot.” Reporters are always Influenced by their knowledge that hardly ever is anything exactly as it’s told.