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Foreign—
Uncertainty of the Irish situation
has caused the British government to
change its plans and instead of pro
roguing parliament as had been in
tended, it will be adjourned until to
some time soon.
The special meeting of the council
of the eague of Nations to take up the
question of upper Silesia, referred to
It by the allied supreme council, will
be held in Geneva soon.
The unanimous vote of the French
academy recently voted to ask the
premier and foreign minister to do
their utmost to secure the adoption of
the French language as the official
medium of speed! at the Washington
disarmament conference.
Chancellor Wirth, Foreign Minister
Rosen and Itr. Haniel von Haimhausen
under-secretary of the foreign office
conferred with representatives of the
coalition [tarty with regard to the
forthcoming peace treaty between the
United States and Germany.
Walter L. Brown, director of the
American relief administration, has
arranged for another conference on
the subject with Maxim Litvinoff, re
presentative of the Russian relief com
mittee.
Plans for the funeral of King Peter
of Serbia, who died recently after a
long period of ill health were discussed
but no definite .determination was
reached. The government has urged
upon the people to rally round Prince
Alexander who has been acting re
gent.
Reports from the United States that
she may suggest control of China
by an international commission are
understood to have been considered
at a recent meeting of the Japanese
cabinet in Tokio.
The Caruso Memorial funded by a
fund received from the Metropolitan
Opera company of New York, will take
the form of an annual scholarship at
the Conservatory San Pietro Majella
for singers.
Questions menacing the solidarity
of the alliance between France and
Great Britain have been satisfactorily
settled, Lloyd-George recently an
nounced in the British house of com
mons.
Serious earthquakes shocks are re
ported from the Italian colony Eritriea
on the African shore of the Red Sea.
Four people have been killed and a
score or more injured. Several houses
collapsed and others damaged, while
other casualties are reported from
places near Asmara.
It is reported in Belfast, Ireland, that
the military authorities in Ireland
have cancelled all leaves of absences
for both officers and men, and that
all officers and men who are away
have been recalled.
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Washington—
Senator Reed, during the course of
a discussion of the anti-beer bill in
the senate recently took occasion to
make some personal remarks about
Representative Volstead, house pro
hibition leader.
The senate financce committee re
cently completed hearings on the
chemical schedule of the permanent
tariff bill, amended the house bill pro
vision for an import duty on re im
ported war supplies sold by this gov
ernment to France.
An application fof an advance of
$5,000,000 to the Citizens and South
ern Bank of Savannah, Ga., for finan
cing exports was approved by the
War Finance corporation.
The $3,000,000,000 decrease in the
value of the country’s foreign trade
during the fiscal year just ending was
ascribed by the department of com
merce recently to the world-wide trade
depression coming as an aftermath of
the war.
Four idle shipping board steamers
were assigned to operators recently as
follows: The Newburgh to the Mun
son line; The Vinton County to the
Clyde Steamship company; The Alcona
to Trosdal, Plant and Lofonta; tha
Bartholomew to the New York and
Cuba Mail Steamship company.
Favorable report on the administra
tion’s railroad funding bill was ordered
by the senate interstate commerce !
committee by a vote of 7 to 2 recently.
There are now 5,785,000 persons un
amployed in the United States, ac
cording to the statement recently made
fey the secretary of labor.
Samuel Tilden Ansell, former acting
judge advocate general of the army
and of the prisoner’s legad counsel;
Colonel John E. Hunt and Colonel C.
C. Cresson were charged with con
spiracy in connection with the escape
of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, the
draft dodger, in a report signed by
three of the five members of a special
investigating committee.
The first six remodeled DH-4 type
military planes to be used on the
transcontinental mail route between
New York and San Froncisco were in
spected recently at Bolling Field by
Postmaster General Hays and other
officials of the postal service.
Tariff rates which would equalize
American and foreign production costs
and legislation to aid in the establish
ment of an American dye industry
were urged before the senate finance
committee recently by representatives
of the North Carolina division of the
Southern Tariff association.
Approval of Henry Ford’s offer for
the Muscle Shoals, Ala., nitrate plant
and lease of the dams was urged re
cently by James E. Smith, of St. Louis,
vice president of the Mississippi Val
ley Waterway association.
A Birmingham (Ala.) resident
named Benton was said to have tele
graphed Secretary Weeks recently of
fering to operate the Muscle Shoals
plant on a 50 per cent basis with the
government and to submit details of
his proposal by mail.
Democratic members of the house
at a caucus recently pledged them
selves to vote against the republican
tax revision bill, and adopted a reso
lution declaring that the measure was
“subversive of the principle that
should govern taxation for the sup
port of this government.”
Julius P. Knabe was nominated re
cently by President Harding to be
register of the land office at Montgorn
ery, Alabama. Edwin E. Winters also
of Montgomery was named to be re
ceiver of public moneys. Albert Ot
tinger, of New York, was nominated
to be assistant attorney-general.
In spite of arrests, seizures, prosecu
tions and few convictions, whiskey,
gin, rum, brandy and even 9 per cent
beer are flowing into “dry” United
States from Canada in great volume
than ever before in the Volstead era,
and Washingion prohibition enforce
ment leaders admit that unless they
have more money, more agents and
navy and army backing, the job of
keeping or making the United States
dry looks hopeless.
The present war-time levies on the
married man’s income, his wife’s candy
and furs and his wearing apparel were
lowered in the proposed revenue bill.
The committee decided to increase
the exemption of married persons pay
ing the normal income tax from $2,000
to $2,500. This, in addition to the
recent approval given to an increase of
from S2OO to S4OO in the exemption al
lowed heads of families for each child
or dependent.
Domestic—
J. S. Crowell, former owner of the
Crowell Publishing company, Spring
field, Ohio, publisher of the Woman’s
Home Companion and Farm and Fire
side, died recently in a. hospital in
Cincinnati.
Iwo million railroad employees
were still on the anxious seat when
announcement of the United States
Railroad labor’s decision on the new
overtime and working rules was delay
ed on account of printing difficulties.
More than two thousand Chicagoans
were inducted into the order of the
Ku Klux Klan recently in an initiation
ceremony conducted six miles south
of Lake Zurick.
Kit Mitchell, negro fireman, was se
riously wounded and George Allen, en
gineer, received part of a load of buck
shot in his face when a northbound
Illinois Central passenger train was
tired on by unidentified persons near
Longview, Mississippi.
Sidney A. Kinciad Burke county
commissioner, on the witness stand
recently for the murder of his wife at
Morgantown, N. C., claims that he had
been /drinking at the time of the
tragic occurrnce. and that he had no
memory of his actions.
The British custom of taking out
weather insurance has acquired a
strong boot hold in the United States, j
T*i\e major baseball clubs this season !
have thus safeguarded themselves on j
all playing dates while many minor !
league magnates are similarly pro- >
tecting their exchequers.
A safe containing liberty bonds val- i
ued at about $30,000 and almost an
e-qual amount of mortgages and other
securities were stolen from the home
of S. W. Young, a farmer about eight
miles from Lake City S. C. while he
was away.
Asleep on the track, an unidentified
> oung man, apparently 20 years old,
was decapitated near Ferguson sta
tion. Tennessee, by a fast southbound
Louisville and Nashville passenger
train. A youth accompanying him, who
refused to give his name, stated they
were returning from a show at Drakes
boro and had stopped to rest. The
dead boy had used the rail as a rest
for his head.
HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOUGH, GEORGIA.
TURN FOR BETTER
IN BUSINESS SEEN
UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES, AC
CORDING TO TABULATED RE
PORTS, HAVE DECREASED
100 CITIES MAKE REPORTS
One Hundred North Atlantic Cities R&
port That The Situation Calls
For Optimism
Philadelphia.—The turn in general
| business and employment has come,
1 and the situation now is one to be
I faced with optimism, according to the
belief expressed by officials of cham
bers of commerce along the eastern
seaboard, in at least one hundred cit
ies ranging from Maine to Virginia,
who replied to a questionnaire sub
mitted to them by the Philadelphia
chamber of commerce.
These replies, a tabulation from
which was made public recently, re
cord the normal and present employ
ment conditions, and in virtually ev
ery instance it was said that employ
ment was taking a slight upward
trend.
The total number of men normally
engaged in industries in the various
centers mentioned in the compilation
is 1,592,923.
The employment figures show that
539,937 are out of work.
This heavy total, it is explained, rep
resents virtually the peak of unem
ployment, with the decrease taking
place since the figures were com
piled.
WASTAGE IN THE PRINTING
TRADES IS ROUNDLY SCORED
Hoover Committee Blames Over-
Equipment For Heavy Losses And
Urges Co-operation
New York. —Tremendous wastage in
the printing industry, which can be
overcome by co-operative effort, is de
scribed in a repoit recently issued by
the committee on the elimination of
waste in industry of the American En
gineering council Over - equipment
representing a capital outlay of hun
dreds of millions of dollars is men
tioned as an important factor in print
ing losses.
The committee, which was named by
Herbert Hoover and previously had in
vestigated various other industries, de
clared that individual efforts to elim
inate waste, have “proven impotent
except for the individual pocketbook.”
Individual industrialism is held a fail
ure as applied to the printing indus
try.
Printing, the report says, represents
a total investment of approximately a
billion and a half dollars. These fig
ures are based upon the inclusion of
such dependent industries as printing
machinery, ink, type founding and two
thirds of the paper industry.
The report referred to a survey con
duct by the United Typotehtae of
America, which estimated over equip
ment at from 50 to 150 per cent. Strong
competition everywhere and the ne
cessity for prompt production were giv
en as causes for this condition.
Six Person Killed In Auto-Train Crash
Little Rock, Ark.—Six persons are
dead here following an automobile and
train crash near Austin, Ark., August
20. An automobile loaded with a par
ty returning from a picnic was hit
by the Iron Mountain fast train No.
219 running from St. Louis to Hot
Springs. Among the dead was the
mayor of Austin, Dr. J. B. Curry. The
scene of the wreck was heart-rending.
The painful groans and moans went
to the depth of the hearts of those
who pulled the dead and injured out
of the debris.
Bolshevik Gold Pours Into Turk City
Constantinople.—Russian Bolshevik
gold valued at one million dollars ar
rived during the past fortnight as a
result of trade exchanges. Of this
amount six hundred thousand dollars’
worth was brought over by the Unit
ed States destroyed, Overton, from Ba
tum for the American Foreign Trade
corporation. This organization secur
ed the money as a revolving credit
from three republics, ana it will be
used for the purchase of manufactured
goods, for which raw imports will be
exchanged.
Cigarette And Tobacco Statistics
Washington.—Cigarettes numbering
61,859,900.000 were manufactured in
the United States last year the cen
sus bureau annual report shows. Of
the number 15.534.000.000 were ex
ported, leaving about forty-six billion
factory made cigarettes for consump
tion in the United Spates. Cigars man
ufactured'. 8.720,754.000, and tobacco
manufactured, including chewing and
smoking and snuff total 413,891,000
pounds. Revenues contained on tobac
co, cigars, cigarettes and snuff amount
ed to $291,000,000
[IfORGIA HAPPENINGS
OF TIMELY INTEREST
Valdosta. —The verdict of the cor
oner’s jury investigating the finding
of the body of an infant buried in a
patseboard box on the edge of a
swamp near Valdosta, was that the
child came to death by having its
head crushed by person or persons
unknown. Examination showed the
infant’s head had been crushed by
a blow, but no information of the child
or those responsible for its death.
Savannah. —Savannah is greatly in
terested in the announcement from
Washington recently that this city will
be on the airway from Augusta, Maine,
to Miami, Fla. The statement is given
out by Major H. B. Claggett, air offi
cer of the fourth district air corps.
Savannah is designated as one of the
“main stations.” \
Dublin. —The purchase of all ma
chinery and necessary equipment for
a modern creamery in Dublin was an
nounced recently by J. W. Geeslin,
who is to install the plant in con
nection with his ice cream plant and
soft drink business. It is thought
that the machinery will be installed
not later than November 1. Plans
for such a project have been under
advisement by chamber of commerce
officials and Mr. Geeslin for many
weeks and the announcement that they
have materialized will be interesting
news to producers of milk in this
immediate section.
Savannah. —The Chatham county
game warden, Otis Stubbs, has offered
a rew r ard for the apprehension of vio
lators of the game laws which pro
hibit the killing of deer at this sea
son. There are many deer in Bryan
county just across the line, and a
few in this county, on the Chatham
side of the Ogeechee. Two deer heads
were found a day or two ago on the
Ogeechee road in Chatham county.
The season is only from October 1
to December 1, and any one hunter
may not lawfully kill more than two
deer in any season. Deer are some
times blinded at night in the highway
in Bryan and Chatham counties by the
bright headlights of automobiles.
Atlanta. —Governor Hardwick re
cently administered the oath of office
to Judge G. H. Howard, whose ap
pointment as special attorney for the
state highway department was an
nounced recently by the governor.
Judge Howard was sworn in as suc
cessor to S. D. Dell, of Hazlehurst,
whose term will expire soon. This ac
tion was taken by the governor recent
ly inasmuch as he was preparing to
leave on his vacation and would not
be in Atlanta on the day the term
of office of Mr. Dell expires.
Atlanta. —A meeting of milk produc
ers of Georgia who are members of
the State Retail Milk Producers asso
ciation has been called for at a soon
date in the chamber of commerce, ac
cording to an announcement of Secre
tary Paul F. White. The meeting will
lay plans for a publicity campaign to
show the value of milk as a food.
Waycross.—Following close upon
the discovery of a well of wind from
which a current rises on the farm
of Dan Lott, near Hebardviile, recently
similar phenohenon has been reported
on the farm of V. C. Parker, in Sunny
side, two miles north of Waycross.
The course of the air has not been
determined by any of the people who
have visited the scenes, but numerous
guesses have been made as to the
cause. One theory is that a flow
of oil is working its way through
that immediate section, and is forcing
the wind before it. Air suddenly rush
ed from openings in the ground when
the wells were being bored for water.
Statesboro. —W T hen the case against
Ed Lane, Tom Johnson and Dora Wil
liams, charged with kidnaping a 13-
year-old girl, was called for trial re
cently an unusual situation arose. A
fund had been raised to prosecute the
defendants. Judge H. B. Strange ruled
that every one related to the contrib
utors to the fund vrs3 disqualified to
sit as a juror. The judge himself was
disqualified because a kinsman had
contributed. Judge W. W. Shepard,
of the Atlantic circuit, is to try the
case when a jury is secured.
Soperton.—A legal battle for the
disqualification of jurors marked the
opening recently of the new trial for
Ben Davis, charged with the murder
of William Hall, a tenant of Davis’ ;
farm. Davis, who was convicted re
cently, is alleged to have brought
about the death of Hall by poisoning,
for the sake of a $15,000 insurance
policy, with a double indemnity clause,
which Davis carried on Hall’s life.
Wiley Smith, Roy Durden and Elisha
E. Coleman were jointly indicted with
Davis in the case.
Washington.—Tariff rates which
would equalize American and foreign
production costs and legislation to aid
in the establishment of an American
dye industry were urged before the
senate finance committee recently by
representatives of the Norm Carolina
division of the Southern Tariff asso
ciation. They also asked that the em
bargo in the emergency tariff law j
igainst dye inportations be continued. ’
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