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IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
THE NEWSJirrHE SOUTH
What la Taking Place <n The South*
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FOREIGN~
The United States gunboat Sacra
mento, sent to Mexican waters as a
result of alarming reports reaching
Washington, has arrived at Tampico,
Mexico, and is anchored in the har
bor there.
The American consulate at Naples
is engaged in an investigation of the
mutiny on board the American steam
er Pocahontas, which left New York
May 23, and has not arrived there.
Caruso, great tenor, at Sorrento, It
aly, is confident of being able to re
sume his singing career, but is unable
to predict when his health will war
rant his appearing on the stage again.
The total expenses of the league of
nations for the current year have been
$5,312,500, and are apportioned among
48 member nations.
The French government has forward
ed to M. Jusserand, French ambassa
dor at Washington, for transmission
to the state department a protest of
the French chamber of commerce
against the provision of the new
American tariff iaw calling for inspec
tion by American agents of the books
of French exporters for the purpose
of determining the ad valorem duties
to be collected by the United States.
Impending war has once more cast
a grim shadow over thp Balkans. Not
since the armistice has the situation
in the near east been so threatening.
Ministerial dissensions manifested
themselves recently at the Spanish
cabinet meeting, and Manuel Arguel
les, minister of finance, tendered his
resignation, insisting that the new tar
iff and commercial treaties were prej
udicial to the interests of labor.
King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of
Belgium are visiting in England. They
were welcomed to London jn royal
splendor and afterwards were given a
luncheon in the great historic Guild
hall.
Ambushed at Mora, county Tipper
ary, and Tallow, county Waterford,
an unsuccessful attempt to blow up a
troop train at Ceil Bridge, county Kil
dare, Ireland, and other incidents on
the eve of the conference of the rep
resentatives of northern and southern
Ireland here indicate no arrangements
for a truce.
The British government will embark
shortly on a determined attempt to
dispose permanently of the indemnity
and reparations issues, two of the
most troublesome aftermaths of the
Versailles treaty.
WASHINGTON—
Strange, but true, a woman, the only
woman member of congress, is pro
testing against the volubility of sena
tors and representatives and the ex
pense entailed by the publication of
their remarks in the Congressional
Record. Miss Alice Robertson of Ok
lahoma is supplying the public with
a weekly expense account occasioned
by garrulous congressmen.
The cruiser Cleveland the gunboat
Sacramento have been ordered to
Tampico, Mexico, to protect American
interests. Tampico is in the throes
of labor trouble.
The comptroller of the currency, at
the close of business. June 30, issued
a call for the condition of all national
banks.
At present wholesale prices, “a dol
lar's worth of chuck steak will pro
cide meat for one meal for fifteen or
twenty men doing hard physical labor,
said a statement recently issued by
the Institute of American Packers.
Great Britain and Japan will have
to dispose of the Anglo-Japanese al
liance either renewing it or dissolv
ing it, without any formal suggestion
from this country.
The administration, it is learned,
is negotiating a settlement with rail
roads under which the roads would
receive advances from the federal
treasury of half a billion dollars dur
ing the next six months. The money,
the administration hopes, will benefit
all business by reviving the buying
powrer of the roads, and permitting
their rehabilitation.
The hoiise will not have a vacation
during the summer months, it is stated
by those in the know of the majority
Bide.
More than two billion dollars has
ben slashed from the total of the gross
national debt in the two years since
Aiimist 31. 1919
Information reaching Washington is
that the Bolshevik government of Rus
sia has effected the nationalization of
all hens. All domestic fowls are reg
istered by the commissary and cannot
be disposed of without official per
mission.
A decrease in employment of 2.9 per
cent during June as compared with
May is indicated by a survey made by
the department of labor.
The permanent tariff bill as drawn
by Republican members of the house
ways and means committee took place
| on the house calendar July 7, not to be
displaced by other legislation Vintil
voted on July 21.
President Harding dropped in to
lunch at the capitol one day recently
with some of his former colleagues
and dropped a bombshell on the pros
pects of early passage of the soldier
bonus bill.
It is stated that the senate will very
soon attempt to force a vacation upon
its members, whether they want it or
not.
The silence of the state department
on the negotiations in progress in
London for the renewal of the Anglo-
Japanese alliance may be broken, it
was indicated the other day following
publication of the Japanese ambassa
dor’s statement that the alliance was
not designed to affect the United
States in any way.
On death by drowning, a young war
and the record temperature of the
summer marked the July Fourth cele
bration in Washington.
Under the title of “what next’’ the
leading editorial of the Washington
Herald, of which Herbert Hoover is
one of the principal owners, recently
demanded ratification of the econom
ic clauses of the treaty of Versailles.
A five million-dollar advance to the
Staple Cotton Co-operative associa
tion of Memphis to finance 100,000
bales of long staple cotton to be held
in warehouses by that association for
export is announced by the war fin
ance corporation.
A reduction of 25,000 clerks and
other government empployes and a
saving of $500,000,000 in salaries and
other governmental overhead expen
ses before next July 1 is the objective
of President Harding in his drive to
cut down federal expenses and reduce
federal taxation.
Investigations preliminary to the
formation of a (honey pool for the
fainanclng of the 1921 cotton crop are
progressing. Secretary of Commerce
Hoover said recently, and queries
have been sent to representative pro
ducers and cotton factors in all of the
principal districts in the United States
to determine the money requirements
which can be anticipated. There will
be assembled within a short time, he
added, and will allow definite steps
to be taken.
President Harding has assured
southern senators and the cotton
cotton growers of the South that he
will investigate immediately what aid
has been rendered and can be render
ed by the war finance corporation
and its co-operating bankers to the
agrucultural industry, and particular
ly the cotton industry.
DOMESTIC—
Unusual features marked the court
martial of Capt. Robert R. Maxwell
of the Sixth cavalry at Fort Ogle
thorpe, Ga., the charges alleging that
he had permitted a corporal and ser
geant to engage in a fist fight.
The government derrick Maxine
sank suddenly in 60 feet of water just
off the Podras street, New Orleans,
wharf, recently The cause has not yet
been determined.
Wiley Davis, a 22-year-old negro,
died at Anniston, Ala., as tb eresuit
of a violent blow on the head with a
piece of iron by Movie Holloway, a
white boy a few years youngers.
Search for the alleged slayer is with
out results.
George Deal, a thirty-year-old negro,
grabbed a pistol from the Desk of a
deputy sheriff in the Warren county,
Mississippi, circuit court, and before
he could use it, was shot dead by the
| sheriff.
An attack on the validity of the Kan
sas industrial court law has been
made, coming in the motion filed for
a new trial in the case of Alexander
Howat and August Dorchy, Kansas
miners’ union officials convicted by a
jury in district court at Columbus,
i Kans., of violating the industrial court
law by calling a strike.
Plans have been started in iPttsburg
ot hold a great public and military
funeral for Thomas F. Enright, one
!of the first three American soldiers
killed in France during the war.
Tony Grandiacen, convicted of rob
| bery and murder and sentenced to a
life term in the Moundsville, W. Va.,
5 penitentiary, died as the result of a
hunger strike.
The membership of sixteen railroad
labor organizations, including the Big
Four Brotherhoods, will decide through
a referendum vote by September 1
whether to accept or reject the 12
per cent wage reduction that went into
: effect on railroads throughout the
country July 1, it was decided in Chi
j cago by the chief executives and fif
teen hundred general chairmen of the
i organizations
HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOUGH, GEORGIA.
WORLD DISCUSSION
ON DISARMAMENT
INFORMAL INQUIRIES MADE Oi
ENGLAND, FRANCE, ITALY
AND JAPAN
INCLUDE FAR EAST PROBLEM
If Plan For Conference In Washington
Is Acceptable, Formal Invitations
To Nations Will Follow
Washington.—President Harding has
laid the foundation for an internation
al conference to discuss armament re
duction and, at the same time, to con
sider a solution of questions growing
out of the far eastern problem, the
Union News staff correspondent wires
his papers.
In a recent official statement issued
by Secretary of State Hughes, it is an
nounced that “informal, but definite”
inquiries have been made of England,
France, Italy and Japan to ascertain
whether it would be agreeable to them
to take part in an armament reduction
conference to be held in Washington.
“If the proposal is found to be accep
table,” Mr. Hughes says, “formal invi
tations for such conference will be is
sued forthwith.”
Hughes further pointed out that the
question of armament limitation “has
a close relation” to Pacific and far
eastern problems. For this reason, he
adds, “the president has suggested that
the powers especially interested in
these problems should undertake in
connection with this conference the
consideration of all matters bearing
upon their solution with a view to
reaching a common understanding with
respect to principles and policies in the
east.” '
Hughes further discloses that China
has been invited to takep art in such
discussion as relate to the far eastern
questions.
It is assumed that, in view of recent
utterances by British and Japanese
statesmen, coupled with Italy’s known
reaction to the cause of disarmament,
that at least a majority of the “allied
and associated powers” questioned in
formally, will acquiesce in the presi
dent’s desires.
It Is noted, hower, that the Hughes
statement broadly refers to the “ques
tion of limitation of armament,” not
specifying merely naval armament, but
embracing, on its face at least, reduc
tion of both land and sea forces. France
—in her desire to ensure German ful
fillment of peace treaty terms —has
maintained hundreds of thousands of
troops in active service and this phase
of the disarmament problem has been
one to perplex those working in its
behalf here.
The time for calling the conference,
however, is left open, according to the
Hughes statement.
If the proposal for such a conclave
Is found acceptable, he says, it will be
held in Washington “at a time to be
mutually agreed upon.”
Father of Nineteen Out Of Names
Lynchburg, |Va. —Fred O. Shaner,
father of nineteen children, eighteen
of whom are liping, has, he says, run
out of names and he is asking his
friends here to suggest a name for
the last, a two-months-old boy. The
eighteenth child was named Thomas
Jefferson by former President Wilson
at Mr. Shaner’s request two years ago.
Japanese Press Discusses Alliance
Tokio.—Discussion of the renewal
of the Anglo-Japanese alliance is oc
cupying first place in the Japanese
newspapers. They commend the
statement on the subject of the alli
ance issued in Washington by Baron
Shidehara, the Japanese ambassador,
declaring the treaty should in no way
be construed as a menace to the
United States, the press taking the
view that this statement is calculated
to reassure American opinion.
Train Is Wrecked; Engineer Killer
El Paso, Texas. —Engineer William
Bohman of Sanderson. Texas, was mur
dered and thrown from his train near
Alpine, Texas, according to advices re
ceived at the local office of the Gal
veston, Harrisburg and San Antonio
railway. After four miles of uncon
trolled speeding the boTTer of the en
gine of the freight train blew up, se
riously injuring the fireman. Charles
Robertson, of Valentine, Texas.
$5,000,000 Is Value Of Peach Crop
Macon.—Five Million dollars will be
received by central Georgia from this
year’s peach crop, it was estimated
tn Macon recently. The season will
close soon. So far 7,712 cars have
been shipped and it is expected when
the season closes this number will be
increased to 8,250.
Killed By Train; Asleep On Track
Hoxis. Ark. —While asleep on a
railroad track, Haril Smith, aged IS.
was struck and killed by a Missouri
Pacific train recently.
STATE CAPITAL LETTER
Resume Of A Week’s Activities
Relative To Georgia’s Law
makers Told In Brief
Declaring that agents of the state
agricultural department had “traveled
over the state for the past four
months at the expense of taxpayers,
building up a propaganda against in
vestigation of its affairs,” Senator L.
C. Brown, of the Fiftieth district, is
sued a sensational statement recently
in which he revealed the nature of
charges made against this branch of
state affairs and asserted that he was
now leaving the matter in the hands
of the general assembly.
When Commissioner of Agriculture
J. J. Brown was informed of Senator
Brown’s statement, he issued a denial
to the allegations and defied his
critic to make an affidavit and pres
ent charges against him in the senate.
“I dare him to make an affidavit
to the statement he has published,”
said the commissioner, “and present
charges against me in the senate.
And unless he does this, in my esti
mation, he is a coward in every sense
of the word.”
The senator, who has sought to pass
a resolution calling for an investiga
tion of the agricultural department
stated that he had reached the con
clusion that such a measure could not
be passed in either the house or the
senate, owing to the political machine
of Commissioner J. J. Brown. The
charges against the department, he
said, had been placed in his posses
sion and he had been asked to present
them before the investigating commit
tee.
“I have come to the conclusion,”
said Senator Brown, “that a resolu
tion calling for an investigation of
the department could not pass in
either branch of the general assembly,
due to the fact that field men connect
ed with the department have cover
ed the state at the expense of the
taxpayers for the past four months.
So I am leaving these charges before
the assembly.
—By Senator Johns of the Twenty
seventh District —To declaare the law
in regard to negotiable instruments.
(General Judiciary committee No. 1.)
—By Senators Mansion of the Thir
ty-fifth and Foy of the First —To
amend article 11., section 3, paragraph
1 of the constitution so as to abolish
fees accruing to the ordinary, clerk
of superior court, sheriff, tax collector,
tax receiver and for other purposes.
(Committee on Constitutional Amend
ments.)
—By Senator Johns of the Twenty
seventh District —To declare growing
crops to he personality; to provide that
mortgages shall be attested and re
corded; that no levy shall be made
upon unmatured crops. (Agricultural
committee.)
—By Senatpr Cone of the Forty
ninth District—To amend an act
creating a new charter for Statesboro
Ga., (Committee on Corporations.)
—By Senator Haralson —To provide
for exchange of property in Atlanta
known as the governor’s mansion.
(Committee on Public Property.)
—By Senator Thomas of the Third
District —To prescribe the bill of cost
in cases carried to the supreme court
and court of appeals. (General Judi
ciary No. 2.)
—By Senator Palmour of the Thir
ty-third—To fix the amount of com
mutation tax or road work in Hall
county. (Committee on Counties and
County Affairs.)
—By Senator Williams of the For
ty-fifth District —To mand an act
codifying the school laws in Georgia.
(Committee on Education.)
—By Senator Manson of the Thtriy
fifth—To make it unlawful to use any
statement in advertising which is un
true relating to fake advertisements
for purposes of procuring payment of
false claims against any industrial
accident commission. (Committee on
Insurance.)
By Mr. Luke of Ben Hill—To
amend school code so as to require
teaching rudiments of vocal music,
(education.)
By Cham delegation—To author
ize judges of superior courts in cer
tain counties to appoint secretaries
in lieu of court bailiffs, (general ju
diciary.)
By Chatham delegation—To
amend act relatives to suits on bonds
given by pilots, (general judiciary.)
By Messrs. Holloway and Moore
of Fulton—To prohibit the making of
false or fraudlent statements to pro
cure the payment of claims by indus
trial, health and accident insurance
companies, (special judiciary.)
By Bill delegation—To establish
a lein in favor of jewelry, silversmiths
and watchmakers. (uniform state
laws.)
By Mr. Fowler of Bibb —To
amend insurance act by providing
that no insurance company shall re
quire insured to procure certificate
from magistrate or notary public to
prove circumstances surrounding fire
were above suspicion
COULD BEAT HANDS
SHUCKING HIS COI
At Least J. A. White Would Bet
So, After Being Relieved of
Dyspepsia by Tanlac.
“My wife and myself have had!
stomach trouble,” says Mr. J. A.
White, residing on the Leestown Pike,
K. F. D. No. G, near Lexington, Ky.„
"and have both been nervous and run
down.”
“We could not see anything with
out suffering afterwards and could not
sleep at night. We were regular nerv
ous dyspeptics. We tried many rem
edies without permanent benefit until
we heard of Tanlac. I got this medi
cine and began using it. We noticed
immediate results. We are both great
ly improved by Tanlrfc. We give all
credit for the change of health to Tan
lac. It is a remarkable medicine.
“I personally feel so good that I told
my hands a day or two ago that I
could heat any of them shucking corn,
! meant it and believe I could have
beat 'em all.”
Of all the maladies that afflict hu
manity chronic dyspepsia, such as Mr.
and Mrs. White suffered from, is prob
ably the most prevalent, and hours
might be consumed in describing the
suffering, mental and bodily, of the
victims of chronic dyspepsia.
A morbid, unreal, whimsical and
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body.
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“I wouldn’t go so far as to claim thal,
I play, however.”
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