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Foreign—
The British Royal Mail steamer
Almanzora, having on hoard 1,200 pas
sengers on route to England from
Brazil, is aground off Cape Espichel,
twenty miles south of Lisbon. Eight
launches and a cruiser have gone to
the assistance of the stranded vessel.
The Russian Soviet government has
declined to permit the international
Russian relief commission, recently
appointed by the allied supreme coun
cil, to investigate conditions in Rus
sia preparatory to aiding in famine re
lief.
The British cabinet has invited Mr.
de Valera to send delegates to a con
ference with the cabinet ministers at
Inverness September 20, according to
the Daily Mail’s Inverness correspond
ent, who said: “Only one condition is
imposed, namely, the understanding
that Ireland must remain within the
empire.”
On May 31, Germany had paid the
reparations commission 160,400,000
gold marks and had supplied drafts at
three months on the German treasury
for the remainder of the 1,000,000,000
gold marks. The reparations commis
sion has now received in approval for
eign currency from the German govern
ment 770,000,000 gold marks in redemp
tion of these drafts. Moreover, the
German government has shipped gold
to New York to make up the balance of
the 1,000,000,000, according to an offi
cial communication.
Prompt and energetic action by the
Nicaraguan government in sending
8,000 well-equipped troops to the Hon
duran frontier has completely quelled
a revolutionary uprising there.
Japan’s naval experts wish to insist
upon a positive limitation principle at
the Washington conference, says the
press, and they plan to announce
Japan’s willingness to reduce the pres
ent “eight and eight” capital ships pro
gram to one of eight battleships and
6tx battle cruisers. This is described
as the minimum limit of safety to the
empire.
The fall of Angora, the Turkish na
tionalist capital, to the Greeks, was
reported in a Reute dispatch from
Smyrna recently.
Washington—
There is a growing sentiment in the
senate finance committee to make re
peal of the excess profits tax retro
active to last January 1, instead of ef
fective next January 1, as provided for
in the house revenue bill, Chairman
Penrose said recently.
President Harding recently had a
four-hour conference with Elihu Root,
who has been mentioned prominently
as a possible member of the Ameri
can delegation at the armament con
ference. Mr. Root was reticent re
garding the subjects discussed with
the president.
Rail and water carriers were author
ized by the interstate commerce com
mission recently to reduce rates on
freight from the Atlantic coast to Tex
as points by w r ay of Galveston. The
commission thereby reversed its for
mer decision in the case in which it
held that the reductions proposed by
the Mallory and Morgan lines were
not justified except in certain particu
lars.
Execution of the six negroes, con
victed of murder in connection with
the Elaine, Ark., riots of two years ago,
which has been set for September 23,
cannot be prevented or deferred
through filing with the clerk of the
United States Supreme court of an
application for writ of certiorari, offi
cials of the court say.
Delegates from fifteen states of the
west and south met at Washington
recently for the opening of the fourth
annual convention of the National as
sociation of Securities Commissioners.
The position of the American gov
ernment on the question of mandates
has been set forth more completely
than heretofore, especially in refer
ence to those of class “A’’ and “B”
in a new note to Great Britain,
France, Italy and Japan, and throug i
some of them, it is understood, has
been submitted to the meeting of the
assembly of the league of nations at
Geneva, for consideration. This an
nouncement was made at the state de
partment recently.
Investigation of all outstanding li
quor permits is to be begun soon and
many cancellations may follow, prohib
ition enforcement officials said recent
ly. Some time will be required, offi
cials declared
Secretary Mellon’s suggestions tor
tax revision, which were abandoned
by the house ways and means commit
tee after the intervention of President
Harding, will come up again soon be
fore the senate finance committee. Mr.
Mellons will be on hand prepared to
discuss those suggestions, the esti
mates as revised, after the white house
conference on August 9, and the tax
bill as passed by the house.
A net deficit of $161,464,774 in the
current expenses of the government
for the first two months of the pres
ent fiscal year was announced recent
ly by Secretary Mellon in a letter to
banking institutions offering for sub
scription combined issues of treasury
obligations of about $600,000,000 dated
September 15. Mr. Mellon said, “With
the payment of income and profits
taxes in September however, there
should be, according to the best infor
mation now available, a small net
current surplus for the quarter.’’
President Harding left September 10
on an extended cruise, probably reach
ing to the New England coast.
Unprecedented exports of wheat dur
ing August should react favorably on
agricultural and business conditions
throughout the country, Secretary
Hoover recently declared. According
to his reports, wheat exports during
the month of August amounted to 33,-
595,000 bushels of wheat, or about four
times the volume of any pre-war fig
ures for August.
An agreement to advance $1,200,000
to a cotton growers’ association in Ari
zona for the purpose of financing the
domestic sale of cotton, was recently
anounced by the war finance corpora
tion.
Hon. L. C. Upshaw, brother and sec
rotary of Congressman W. D. Upshaw,
died in Washington after a protracted
illness. Before coming to Washington
he represented Douglas county two
terms in the Georgia legislature, and
was mayor of Douglasville, where the
funeral was held. He was the teacher
of the Pinkham Bible class in Roger
Williams’ Memorial Baptist church,
and his death is mourned by hundreds
of friends.
Eugene Meyer, Jr., managing direc
tor of the war finance corporation,
is planning to leave soon for a per
sonal survey of the agricultural and
live stock sections of the west and the
south.
The American government has taken
steps to advise the allied powers fully
although informally, as to the negotia
tions in Berlin which culminated in the
drafting of the peace treaty between
the United States and Germany.
Domestic— 9
The famous Paso Robles ranch of
Padereswki, pianist and former pre
mier of Poland, went on the block at
that place, and sold for S7O an acre.
He will devote the funds to the cause
of Poland.
As the result of a terrific rainstorm
at Elizabethtown, 111., the tension was
lessened, as all roads to the hillside,
where 800 armed miners are reported
to have encamped, were rendered im
passable and it is regarded as almost
impossible for the miners to make any
movement. Reports are that the min
ers are quietly returning to their va
rious homes.
Charlie Willis of Pelham, Ga„ has
fled the country following the verdict
of a coroner’s jury which held that his
wife came to her death fro mill treat
ment at. the hands of her husband.
Willis is 45 years, and this was his
third wife.
Judge W. R. Allen, associate justice
of the North Carolina supreme court,
died suddenly at his home at Golds
boro, recently, from a stroke of apo
plexy.
C. O. Fox and Jesse Gappins, alleged
slyers of William Brazell. chauffeur,
at Columbia, S. C., taken to Augusta,
Ga., thence to Savannah, Ga., and then
to Charleston, S. C„ for safety, have
been returned to Columbia.
Jenny H. Snow, supervisor of house
i hold arts of the schools of Chicago,
says bobbed hair, knickers and bare
knees are all right. She approves of
rolled stockings.
Miss Maie Gade recently completed
a swim from Albany, N. Y„ to New
York City, a distance of 145 miles.
She was in the water 63 hours and 35
minutes.
Mrs. Albert Biggs, of Memphis,
Tenn., visiting in Greenwich, Conn.,
in the hope of rehabilitating her worn
out body, committed suicide recently.
Mrs. W. D. Egly of Knoxville, Tenn.,
is convinced that her husband, who has
been missing from home for several
weeks, is still alive, because she re
cently received a telegram worded in
their “sweetheart code.’’ The tele
gram further states that Egly was held
up. blackjacked, robbed and had been
suffering in Erie Pr„ from lost iden
tity.
Having a surplus of silver coin and
insufficient facilities for caring for it,
the Nashville (Tenn.) branch of the
Federal Reserve Bank recently shipped
to the mint at Philadelphia and New
Orleans 100.000 silver dollars, $65,000
in halt dollars, $60,000 in quarters and
$15,000 in dimes, a total of $240,000
in silver.
HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOUGH, GEORGIA.
BUILDING PROIECT
TO AID JOBBERS
PROJECT CALLS FOR THOUSANDS
OF STANDARDIZED HOMES TO
BE BUILT BY THE PEOPLE
HOOVER IS STUDYING DETAILS
Believed Idea Will Not Only Relieve
House Shortage, But Also Solve
The Unemployment Crisis
Washington.—Thousands of stand
ardized homes, to be built by people of
moderate means—this is a project the
government is now working on, and
may be ready for announcement at
the forthcoming unemployment con-'
ference.
Both to afford employment for hun
dreds of thousands of workers in many
branches of industry and to offer an
effective panacea for industrial unrest
generally, the proposed own-your-own
home campaign is looked to here as
a timely and practicable instrument.
Secretary of Commerce Hoover,
through the voluntary co-operation of
committees representing all phases of
home building work, has been carrying
on a study of the project on the fol
lowing bases
1. To permit of people contemplat
ing the building of homes costing not
more than ten thousand dollars, and
from that figure down, to do so easily,
cheaply and quickly through the use
of standardized plans and equipment.
2. To effect such a result through
the patriotic co-operation of industry,
civic authorities, builders, banking in
sttutions and others interested in
home construction; and not as a gov
ernment project, involving the expen
diture of even loaning of funds by
the federal treasury.
Volunteer committees of prominent
Americans contractors, real estate
men, architects, manufacturers, brick
and lumber men, as well as other
groups have sought through weeks
of work to establish such a standard
ized equipment for homes as to make
the project nationally attractive.
Distinguished architects have pre
pared plans for a large number of
standard-type houses, drawn to accom
modate climatic and other sectional
conditions, all calling for standardized
material and fittings, available in the
respective sections of the country for
which the house plans are drawn. For
example, the California-type house has
been drafted in diferent styles for the
Pacific coast country, calling for cer
tain standardized building materials
available in that section, and stand
ardized heating facilities to accommo
date the climate there. Other types
have been drawn to accommodate spe
cial architectural fancies and equip
ment needs in other sections.
Manufacturers have co-operated in
the difficult work of creating a plan
for standardized and systematized
plumbing, heating and other equip
ment going into the proposed homes,
while the bureau of standards here
has been at work experimenting on
suggestions to the end sought.
Many Meet Death As Bridge Falls
Chester, Pa. —Between 25 and 30
persons were drowned or crushed to
death, and more than a score of
others were injured here recently
when the footpath of the Third street
bridge over Chester river collapsed.
The dead and injured were part of a
crowd of approximately seventy-five
persons that had gathered on the
structure to watch the efforts of po
lice in grappling for the body of a
5-year-old boy who had drowned a
half hour before. Many of the dead
are women and children. The bridge
was an old-fashioned structure 90 feet
long, and cleared the water about
twenty feet. It carried two trolley
tracks across the stream and had one
footpath. The stream is about fifteen
feet deep where the accident occur
red.
William Munsford Ellis Is Dead
Roanoke, Va. Maj. William Muns
ford Ellis, son-in-law of John Tyler,
tenth president of the United States,
died in a Richmond hospital recently,
according to news received here by
relatives. Major Ellis married Miss
Pearl Tyler, youngest daughter of
President Tyler. His widow and eight
children survive him.
Youth Is Charged With Twu Murders
Chicago.—Harvey W. Church, 22-
year-old youth arrested in Adams,
Wis., in connection with the murder of
Bernard J. Daugherty and Carl As
mus, was brought back to Chicago in
the automobile declared by the police
to hav ebeen the orntive for the crime.
After the finding of the terribly muti
lated body of Daugherty in the Des
plaines river, the police dug up the
body of Asmus, which had been hidden
in a garage in the rear of the apart
ment in which Church lived. The the
ory is that whiskey is the cause.
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Some men will do anything for a
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Try to head off a blush and feel It
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A sometimes elusive ambition is the
ability to look Important in a hotel
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Love letters are always saved. This
should not be forgotten when they are
written.
A Missourian has grown to be as
proud of bis “you’ve got to show’ me”
as a Virginian of his “first families"
ancestry.
When you are angriest at the hotel
In a strange town, stop to think that
In three months you will have forgot
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