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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (July 29, 1921)
IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN THE NEWS JIFJHE SOUTH What la Taking Place in Tha South* land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs Foreign— The Amatlan, Mexico, oil fields were recently reported on fire, with drilling towers falling like chaff and the work men fleeing. The cause of the confla gration is unknown. The financial loss cannot yet be estimated. Columns of fire hundreds of feet high are cover ing the entire field. Spain and Japan have given the Mexican government de jure recogni tion. Preliminaries for a German-Ajneri can treaty to follow the declaration of peace are being drafted in Berlin. Ger many is preparing a draft in which there are no reservations. Minister of the Interior Drashkovish of Jugo-Slavia was shot dead by a young Bosnian Communist recently. The assassin w r as promptly arrested. With the important railway junction point of Eski-Shehr in their hands, the Greeks are conducting a rapid pursuit of the Turkish Nationalists dislodged from that city and other points along the front in Asia Minor. Premier Lloyd-George has informed Eamonn de Valera that the British stand ready to amend the home rule act so as to grant dominion form of government to both the north And the south of Ireland. London Newspapers state that the first great attempt of Lloyd-George to end the Irish war and establish a per manent peace in the turbulent island has ended in a deadlock, following the presentation of what newspapers say is the most liberal terms ever offered by any British government to the peo ple of the south of Ireland. The Japanese cabinet has decided to accept the invitation of President Har ding to a conference on disarmament and for the discussion of far eastern problems. Four persons were killed and twen ty wounded in fighting which took place between Fascistl and Commun ists at Mansone and San Stefano, It aly, recently. The first million dollar American cotton export has just been negotiated between the American Products Ex port corporation, of Charleston S. C. and the Darmstader bank of Berlin. The situation in Upper Silesia is very critical again in consequence of a French note to Germany demanding that the German volunteer units be disarmed and threatening troops un less compliance is made. The Brit ish government is trying to get the supreme countil together for a meet ing. The German plebescite commission in upper Silesia has been dissolved, and German interests in that zone will t>e represented by a "people’s council” !rom now on. Washington— Charles C. Hinkle of Savannah, Tenn., has beenn oininated to be col lector of customs with headquarters at Memphis. Representative Harry B. Hawes, Democrat, from the eleventh Missouri district, will retain his seat, the house committee on elections has ruled. His Republican opponent contested. Herbert Hoover says farmers should be permitted to borrow money for longer periods than is now possible. The Sheppard "baby bill” providing government aid in maternity and infan cy cases, is a special order of business for the last week in July. Representatives of railroads in the Mississippi valley recently defended before the interstate commerce com mission their proposal to increase the freight raes at points on the Mississip pi, Ohio and Missouri ariver and on the gulf. Judge A. M. Noble, for the past four years chief judge and secretary of native state affairs of Pago Pago, American Samoa, has arrived at San Francisco en route to his home at Smithfield, N. C., having been suc ceeded by Captain Hall of Detroit. Existing credit machinery of the government will be used for the pres ent in the making of cotton loans, treasury officials say, with out the creation of supplementary cotton loan funds by private organizations. Shippers of the Southwest having Bought the reduction of lumber rates in order to meet competition from the Pacific coast, the railroads have ask ed the interstate commerce commis sion to grant a reduction of from 2 to 10 cents a hundred. Practices of railroads in permitting meat packers to load certain articles of groceries in their peddler and branch house cars was held not un duly preferential recently by the inter state commerce commission. Rediscount rates will be reduced from 6 to 5 1/2 per cent by the federal reserve hoard shortly. The rapid expansion of boll weevil over >i < e Southern states has made necessary the establishment of a num ber of new field stations by the depart ment of agriculture through that sec tion of the country. Senatpr McKellar of Tennessee, re cently speaking in the senate on the methods employed by private detec tives in procuring information, round ly scored them, and called them a “wart on American institution.” Especially did he score those who joined labor unions and twisted the sayings of the leaders into any old kind of thing they were paid to do. Renewed confidence that Japan will consent to a broad discussion of far eastern problems as part of the dis armament conference is evident in of ficial circles. lor the purpose of reviewing the situation and determining what credit will be needed to facilitate the market ing of this year’s cotton crop. The federal reserve board held a confer ence with the governors of the fed eral reserve banks of Atlanta, Rich mond, St. Louis, Kansas City and Dal las. As a result of the meeting the federal reserve board anounces that they stand ready to extend further credit for the purpose of harvesting the cotton crop. former Secretary Daniels and form er assistant Secretary Roosevelt of the navy are scored for the methods used in investigating war-time scandal among enlisted men at the Newport training station. Governor Harding of the federal re serve board announces that he has call ed a conference to be held in Wash ington of the governors of the five re sei ve banks in the great cotton pro ducing sections of the county to adopt a uniform policy on cotton loans dur ing the coming marketing season. Plans for relieving the estimated shortage of a million and a half homes throughout the country through the di version of a greater proportion of the nation’s twenty-two billion dollars in savings deposits into home building are under consideration by Secretary Hoo ver. Idle freight cars on the railroads of the United States number 4,268 less July 8 than the previous week, due to a brisk deihand for box cars to meet grain shortages. Domestic— Official investigation of the deporta tion of Japanese laborers from Turlock (Calif.) has been started. A resolution requesting that a bill to prescribe penalties for persons dis guising themselves and violating the laws of the state by inflicting punish ment upon persons against whom no legal complaint had been filed, be sub mitted to the Texas legislature, was recently presented to the Texas gover nor by a member of the lower house. Morgan Smith, member of the Arkan sas National (Juard, encamped at Camp Pike, was fatally wounded; Robert Martin fatally wounded and James Greer seriously injured when a ma chine gun which they were transport ing in a truck was accidentally dis charged. The once proud German dreadnaught Ostfriesland is resting on the bottom of the ocean, sunk by the bombs of American army airmen. The bombs which caused’ the sinking landed in a few feet of the side of the vessel and caved it in. Police of north Alabama cities are on the lookout for Paul Murray, white, who escaped during the night from the pail at Anniston Ala., bv salving his way out. Pearl White, actress of the “wild woman ' variety, daring, intrepid and divorce on the ground of non-support, brave, is suing her second husband for Dr. W. E. Armstrong of Gokomo, Ind., of “why worry fame.” recently committed suicide. Ho was 54 years old and is survived by a wife and two children. Thomas Bell, a lineman of Nash ville, Tenn., was killod recently when he touched a "live wire.” The business section of Marshall, N. C., was entirely submerged by high waters resulting from the torrential rains. With the head of one completely sev ered and that of the other almost cut off. the bodies of an unidentified woman and a little girl were found by hunters on the banks of a bayou about eight miles east of Jonesboro Ark. Two white men and a negro, charg ed with robbing freight cars at Rock Hill, S. C„ and running a store for the disposal of stolen goods, have been arrested and jailed Mrs. Melissa J. Woddlington of Salisbury, N. C., has sued a grocery man for ton thousand dollars for sell ing flavoring extracts to her husbßnd that caused him to beat and mistreat her. HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOUGH, GEORGIA. STATE CAPITAL LETTER Resume Of A Week’s Activities Relative To Georgia’s Law makers Told In Brief Governor Hardwick Urges Economy Governor Hardwick, in a special message to the general assembly rec ommended a constitutional amend ment providing for biennial sessions of the general assembly instead of an nual sessions, as at present. The governor gave two reasons for recommending the change: First, The saving of thousands of dollars and the elimination of much useless legislation. the disruption of business through anticipation of drastic leg islation. He also pointed out that frequent changes of the state laws should be avoided. The message was referred to the constitutional amendments committee of the senate, but no action was taken in the house. The text of the message follows: “To the General Assembly: “The constitution of 1877 requires that the legislature of Georgia shall meet annually. I urge you to con sider an amendment of the constitu tion to provide for biennial instead of annual sessions of the general as sembly. “The reason which prompts me to make this suggestion are as follows: “First: I do so in the interest of economy. If we should have bien nial instead of annual assemblies, the expense would be cut in two, and a saving to the state of approximately $56,000 per annum would be made. In times like these it behooves us to affect every possible economy in the expenditure of the money of the peo ple. “Second: Biennial sessions of the general assembly would be an im provement over our present system. For another, and, if possible, even stronger reason, we have too many unnecessary changes in the law and amendments to the laws. In other w'ords, too much legislation. If we had biennial sessions instead of an nual sessions of the general assem bly, the result would be that We would have fewer changes in our law and would avoid the disturbances to busi ness incident to anticipated legisla tion and new legislation every year. “For the above reasons, which I have attempted to state to you with brevity, I strongly recommend the submission of an amendment propos ing biennial sessions of our general assembly hereafter. “Respectfully submitted. “THOMAS W. HARDWICK, Gover nor.’* Adverse report on the proposal constitutional amendment to create the new county of Peach; an unfavor able report on a measure designed to abolish the office of special attorney to the raildoad commission; a recom mendation that a measure giving the Stone Mountain circuit two judges be passed; and consideration of taxes placed on items in the general tax bill, were the chief features of house com mittee meetings. The following new bills were intro duced in the house: —By M. Hatcher and Mr. Perkins, of Muscogee—To amend section 2825 of the code relative to reviver or cor porations to fix time limit at 25 years after expiration of charter. (General judiciary No. 2.) —By Mr. Blalock, of Ware—To make voluntary testimony of husband and wife, one against the other, com | petent in criminal cases. (General ju | diciary No. 1.) —By Floyd Delegation—To author ize comptroller general to withhold final settlement with tax collectors until digest has been corrected. (Ap propriations.) —By Mr. Bush of Lamar—To author ize state board of entomology to es tablish safety zones in advance of plant contagion; to increase powers of the board. (General agriculture No. 1.) —By Mr. Ennie, of Baldwin—To ap propriate $15,000 to convert the state prison farm at Milledgeville into a peach orchard. —By Mr. Dußose, of Clarke, and Mr. Culpepper, of Fayette—The gen eral tax act, revised. (Appropriations , and ways and means.) —By Mr. Clifton, of Lee—To appro priate $1,419 for deficiency at Third District Agricultural school. (Appro priations.) —By Senator Snow of the 7th—To amend penal code so as to permit through freight trains handling car load lots to be run in this state on Sunday. (Railroads.) —By Senator Ridley of the 28th—To amend act preventing adulteration, misbranding and imitation of food so as to require a registration fee to be paid on feeding stuffs. (Agriculture.) —By Senators Mills of the 26th and Weaver of the 11th—To promote co operative marketing and agricultural products. (Agriculture CARGO OF LIQUOR OFF NEW JERSEY ONE VESSEL IS SEIZED WHILE LANDING $50,000 LIQUOR CARGO IN NEW HAVEN HARBOR EIGHTEEN ARRESTED IN RAID Liquor May Be Missing Cargo Of Brit ish Schooner Pocomoke-'—“Priate” Ship Mystery Clears Atlantic City, N. J. —Every available agency was in motion along the New Jersey coast in an effort to trap the fleet of liquor smugglers that is be lieved by revenue agents to be creep ing up the Atlantic ocean from the West Indies, officials here announced recently. Prohibition enforcement agents, coast guards, revenue officials and police officials are known to be guard ing secluded covers and inlets, while it is reported navy seaplanes have augmented the force of patrol boats on duty at the three-mile limit, with in which suspicious vessels may be hailed. While these officials are tightening a blockade of the coast federal author ities and the county prosecutor’s office here have combined in a search for possible liquor caches. New Haven, Conn. —In the seizure of the auxiliary fishing sloop Jennie T., of Northport, N. Y., the confiscation of liquor valued at more than fifty thousand dollars and the arrest of 18 men in a specatcular raid, federal and city officials believe they have solved —partially at least —the mystery at tached to the elusive “pirate ship” which has been sighted at various times off the New Jersey coast, near Montaux Point and in Long Island Sound. The authorities have not determined whether there was any direct connec tion between the Jennie T. and the British schooner Pocomoke, they said. The Pocomoke, bound from Nassau, Bahama Islands, with a shipment of liquors, consigned to Canadian t ports, put into Atlantic City recently, with her cargo missing. It was explained at the time that the liquor had been jettisoned at sea. The Jennie T. dock ed at Lighthouse Point, an amusement resort at the eastern entrance of New Haven harbor, laden to capacity with a valuable cargo of liquor, that marks on the cases and bottles indicating that it came from Bermuda and the West Indies. In the opinion of the federal prohi bition enforcement officials, the Jen nie T. received her freight from a larger craft somewhere off the Long Island shore, probably just outside the three-mile limit. The Jennie T., they point out, is too small a vessel to make a voyage from either Bermuda or the Bahamas with as heavy a freight as the raiding party found on board. The eighteen men arrested includ ed Joseph Miller, a skipper of the Jennie T., J. Harmar Branson, a well known local sportsman, who formerly was engaged in the liquor business; Pearl P. Sperry, Jr., another ex liquor dealer and at present the pro prietor of a garage; William Beecher, Sperry’s brother-in-law, and David Gherlane, president of the French# Italian Importing company of this city. Bronson, Sperry, Beecher and Gher lone denied emphatically that they were connected in any way with the alleged smuggling operations. They said they were merely watching the proceedings. Fire In Oil Fields Is Under Control Mexico City.—Fire in the Amatlan oil fields, which broke out recently and caused property damage estimat ed at several million dollars, has been reduced to two w T ells, which still are burning fiercely. Reports from Tam pico say the conflagration is unlikely to spread further. Linesman Is Killed By A Live Wire Nashville, Tenn - Thomas Bell, thirty-five, lineman, was almost in stantly killed recently when he touch ed a live wire. Mr. ’Bell and other workmen were engaged in repairing an electric wire on the Murfreesboro pike. A wire had fallen across the road and Mr. Bell reached to move it, not knowing it was charged. Several hundred volts of electricity passed through his body. The dead man was married. Greek Army Continues To Drive Turks Constantinople.—The Greeks now are advancing on the Brussa front. They dislodged the Turks from sev eral fortified positions and have reach ed Ineunu (Inegol) 28 miles east of Brussa. Thus far the Turks have re treated in the fact of the Greek ad vance. Owing to the successful de velopment of the Greek offensive cm the Ushak front, one hundred and ten miles south of Brussa. it is possible the Turks will be forced to abandon the Brussa and Ismid fronts. Other- I wise they may be cut off GEORGIA STATE NEWS Tifton.—John M. S. Green was con victed of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment here recently while an other jury returned a verdict of not guilty in the case of W. R. Cook, also on trial for murder. Green was charged with the murder of Daniel! Sutton. Both men wefe farmers. Sut ton left a large family and Green haa a wife and six children. Mecon. —An indictment against Ben F. Gatliff, motorcycle officer of the po lice department, charging blackmail, was thrwon out of court by Judge H. A. Matthews recently, in sustaining:, a demurrer filed by Judge C. L. Cart lett. Socilitor-General Charles H. Gar rett instructed witnesses for the state in this case to show up at the Septem ber term of court, indicating that he would seek a new' indictment. There were six grounds in the demurrer, the second being sustained, namely, that the indictment failed to show with, what crime Gatliff had accused J. F. Layton in his alleged demand for sllo* Savannah. —The case of Ed Bradley* negro, who, it is alleged, while run ning an automobile at the rate of 60< miles an hour, ran over and killed Young Spellman in September, last year, has been placed on the “dead; docket’’ in superior court, although he was indicted, tried and convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to a term of from two to five years. The dis position of the case in this way fol lowed a motion for a new trial and a demurrer based upon the recent su preme court decision that the law pro hibiting speeding on the public high ways in Georgia is unconstitutional. The case, however, may be revived at any time. Fitzgerald.—-The price of blockade whiskey has declined to 75 cents a pint in Fitzgerald, according to in formation secured from a negro by Chief of Police Charles F. Dixon, George Dixon, the negro, dropped a bottle of the liquor recently while standing near the chief of police, it is stated. When questioned, the negro refused to tell where he had purchas ed the whiskey, but stated that he had paid 75 cents for it. “Everything else is coming down, and I expect liquor’s got to come down too,” averted the darkey. Gainesville.—A true bill charging Mrs. Mary Townsend with the murder of Dr. John P. Arrington, a well-known Gainesville physician, was recently returned by the grand jury here. The case probably will come up for triaL in the superior cout. The principal witness for the state will be Dennie Arrington, the 12-year-old son of the dead man, w'ho saw his father shot down, according to his testimony. Savannah. —After years in which then general admission that there is not a bearing apple tree in at least one coun ty in the state, the county of Chatham,, it has been found that there is an. apple tree on the place of the county demonstrator, Granz Dent, on the Burk halter road. His exhibition of the. “wonder,” a Chatham - raised apple* forth four other evidences of trees,, four other trees and all bearing, in as many sections of the city and coun ty. The sandy soil in this county has. never been believed adaptable to the> raising of apples. Thomasville. Thomasville’s city council is kept busy at the meetings: of that body now listening to the knocks of the various taxpayers whose taxes have been increased this year. According to the plan adopted by coun cil for valuing property, a large num ber of citizens have had their valua tions raised and some are making vig orous complaints to council as a con sequence. All are given an opportun ity to appear before the council and show cause, if any, why the valuation should not stand. Those who fail to do so will be bound by the appraise ment of the boafrd. Americus.—Sumter county water melons, which are just beginning to move commercially, will bring the twenty or more farmers engaged in the melon industry here approximately <sloo,ooo, and the season ahead, it is 'anticipated, will be one of the most prosperous in the history of melim growing here. B. F. Easterlin hold a car of 66 melons recently. Atlanta. —An investigation into the method of operation, standard of edu cation complying with the federal regulations and other important do tails connected with the twelve dis trict agricultural schools* in Georgia is provided for in a resolution adopted recenly by the senate. The resolu tion calls for the concurrence of the house of representatives. Senator Go lucke, of the 19th, author of the res olution. declared that his purpose was to head off a bill, recently introduced in the house, for the abolition of all district agricultural schools. Senator Golucke indicated that the general as sembly should not take precipitate ac tion regarding these agricutural schools. He insisted that full informa tion should be gathered and placed at the disposal of the general assem bly in order that no injustice or in iurv might be done.
