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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (July 6, 1923)
BRIEF NEWS NOTES WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURING WEEK THROUGHOUT COUN TRY AND ABROAD EVENTS OFJMPORTANCE Gathered From All Parts Of Th« Globe And Told In Short Pa ragrapns Foreign— A Russian soviet commission lias arrived in Poland, charged with the task of purchasing 10,000 cats with which to fight the rats which are be coming a scourge in Russia. The trial of Ernest Judet, newspa per editor, charged with communicat ing with the enemy during the war has begun at Paris. Three German civilians were killed recently in the Belgian occupied area of the Ruhr, according to information received in German quarters at Dues seldorf. The attempts of Britain and France to come to an understanding about Vhat to say to Germany in answer to her note, now already three weeks old, have been Interrupted by the pro longed ministerial crisis in Belgium. Following Red disturbances recent ly, at Parma, Premier Mussolini has ordered militia to occupy the working class district of the city, searching all houses for weapons. Information that “Pussy foot” John son has sailed to “dry up” the Near East causes little alarm at Constan- Premier Nikola Pachitch, of Jugo slavia, was attacked and slightly wounded shortly after leaving the house of parliament, Belgrade. Six shots were fired at him, ono of which struck his left hand, as he was en tering his motor car. He dropped to the bottom of the car and this action is thought to have saved him from further injury or possible death. Approval of the North Pacific Hali but fisheries treaty between the Ca nadian and United States govern ments was voted by the house of com mons after a heated debate in which the authority of Ernest LaPoiute, minister of marine, to sign the treaty without the British ambassador, Sir Auckland Geddes, also signing the document, was questioned. A rider attached to the treaty by the United States senate making it applicable to the nationals and bessels “of any oth er part of Great Britain” also was assailed. Thirty-nine Mohammedan orphan boys were killed in the collapse of a section of the orphangae building in the heart of Calcutta, India. Thirty three were injured. Leon Meana, president of the Social ist Society of Gijon, was assasinated at Gijon, Spain, but the identity of the assassin has not become known. British labor repudiated Commun ism when in a smashing vote of the annual labor party conference it de feated the Communist party’s applica tion for membership in the party. Leaders predicted a labor government in England by 1926. Nearly one thou sand labor delegates were present. Voting union by union, each delegate representing the whole membership of his union, (he application was turn ed down by a vote of 2,085.000 to 366,000. Operation of the government rail road of Alaska, including all branch lines and telegraph and telephone lines connected with it, has been placed under the jurisdiction of the interior department through an execu tive order issued by President Har ding. Publication of the order fol lowed the formal notification that the last length of the standard gauge track had been laid into Fairbanks thus completing all the engineering work on the main line. Flat opposition to any project for using the army to aid in prohibition enforcement w r ork w r as voiced at ■Washington by Secretary Weeks, speaking at the graduation exercises at the army war college. A turtle left in the Tonga Islands by Captain James Cook, the English mariner in 1773, was found there by Captain E. T. Pollock, governor of American Samoa, according to a re port to the navy department. • Director Hines, of the veterans’ bu reau, announced that he will arrive in Tuskegee, Ala., July 6, to “see if I can reach an understanding with the citizens there with regard to the de cision to man the veterans’ bureau hospital there completely with negro personnel." Every doughboy may be practically a machine gunner in future wars due to progress made by ordnance ex perts in developing a semi-automatic shoulder rifle to replace the regular service magazine guns. Edgar N. Read, now divisional pro hibition chief for Maryland, Dela ware, West Virginia and the District of Columbia, was transfered to be come acting director for Alabama. He will serve until a permanent director is chosen to succeed Charles M. Sar tain, the director who recently re signed. Flying may be a young man’s game, but Major General Mason M. Patrick, chief of the army air service, won his pilot’s wings. General Patrick, now in his 60th year, the age when most men are retiring to quiet old age, climbed into the cockpit of an army training plane at Bolling field, looped, spiraled and dived before the examining board. The United States does not contem plate a great increase in its air fleet such as has been announced by Great Britain, which purposes to double its forces, it was said at the war depart ment. Domestic— So many friendless and unknown Southern negroes have died, been taken to the morgue, and failing iden tification have been buried in the potters field, Detroit, Mich., that civic authorities, together with negro min isters are taking Bteps to provide ev ery immigrant Southern negro with an Identification card, giving the ad dress of his nearest Southern rela tives, or “white folks.” Three more foreign liners, the Chi cago of the French line, the Olym pic of the White Star, and the Cun arder Saxonia, arrived at New York with their return supplies of liquor under government seals. William J. Adams, of Dallas, Texas, sentenced in 1921 to serve from eight to fourteen years in the Louisiana penitentiary for burglary, was parol ed because of meritorious service while in prison, only to be arrested on a federal warrant charging thefts of funds from the postoffice at Paris, Texas. He was cited for his work during the two years stay in the Baton Rouge (La.) prison. Seventy-five Piute Indians in na tive garb and with their faces cov ered with bright-colored paints, greet ed President Harding and his Alaska bound party when the presidential party reached Cedar City, Utah. One man was killed and another in jured in a spectacular fight between alleged bootleggers and western pro hibition agents in Buffalo Bill’s old stamping grounds near Cody, Wyo., according to a dispatch received at Cheyenne, Wyo. Improved economic conditions in the United States during 1922 brought the suicide rate down slightly, the Spectator, an insurance publication, reported, in announcing that the rate for the year was 15.1 per hundred thousand of .>o natation, as compared with a rate of 15.7 in 1921. Continuing their persistent assault on the 12-liour day in the steel in dustry American churches published an exhaustive bulletin calling the two shift system a ‘moral trespass" against 150,000 workers, and urging that a change to the eight-hour day would add no more than three per cent to the cost of steel. The Book committe of the Southern Methodist church elected Dr. Alfred F. Smith, of St. Louis, lately editor of the St. Louis Christian Advocate, and at present chaplain of Barnes hos pital, St. Louis, editor of the Nash ville Christian Advocate, the organ of the Southern Methodist church, to succeed Dr. Thomas N. Ivey, who died recently. Prediction of falling prices in the cost of building and general real es tate activity w-ere made by speakers at the opening session of the six teenth annual convention of the Na tional association of Real Estate boards at Cleveland, Ohio. The con vention, said to be the largest gath ering of business men this year, at tracted approximately 7,500 delegates from the United States and Canada. Mrs. Anna Buzzi was found guilty of the murder of Frederick Schneider, wealthy Bronx contractor by a su preme court jury. She was found guilty of first degree murder. The Jury had been out for more than ten hours, but sent in a request to Jus tice O’Malley for transcripts of the testimony in the trial. The holding aloft of the obligation to be fair, as opposed to thef orcing of economic pressure for monetary gain, was voiced as the purpose of the Catholic conference on industrial problems, at Milwaukee, Wise., by Da vid A. McCabe, of Princeton univer sity, as president of the conference. Nearly a score of deaths and great property damage resulted from the recent storms in the northwest, re ports from St. Paul, Minn., revealed. The Bremen cf the North German Lloyd has arrived in Hoboken bone dry except for its supply of medicinal brandy. It is said that the possibility of a fine in the United States court will be a serious factor when trans lated into marks at 180,000 to the dollar. HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOUGH, GEORGIA. ATLANTA CHOSEN AS CUBAN AGENCY RESERVE BOARD GIVES GEORGIA CAPITAL EQUAL HONORS WITH THAT OF BOSTON STATE NEWrOF INTEREST Brief News Items Gathered Here And There From All Sections Of The State Atlanta. —The Atlanta and Boston federal reserve banks will each open an agency in Cuba as a result of a decision by the federal reserve board in approving the terms of a compro mise between tlj) two banks, accord ing to adviceS" from Washington re ceived here. The decision ends a long controversy between Atlanta and Boston which followed the application by the Boston bank for the privilege of opening an agency in Cuba. The terms of the compromise, ap proved by the federal reserve board in Washington, were first proposed by the Atlanta bank and were accept ed by the Boston bank. They provide that each Institution shall have its own agency in Cuba to co-operate with each other. The Boston bank will handle exchange and acceptances and allied business while the Atlan ta bank will furnish the money to handle it. Definte steps to carry out the terms of the compromise will be taken by the board of directors of the Atlanta bank at the. next regular meeting, July 19, It was announced by Gover nor M. B. Wellborn, of the Atlanta bank. Men from the Atlanta organ ization will probably be sent to Cuba to open the agency. Currency will continue to be handled, as at pres ent, through the Jacksonville branch of the Atlanta bank. The circulating media of Cuba now includes $40,000,000 of Atlanta fed eral reserve bank notes. American money is the Cuban standard. Washington.—The federal reserve board granted the application of the Boston Federal Reserve bank to es tablish an agency in Cuba. At the same time the board allowed the At lanta Reserve bank the same privi leges In order to compromise differ ences which had arisen as a result of protests from the Atlanta bank \gainßt the Boston application. Part In Swindle Denied By Bank Atlanta. —L. T. Carter, cashier of the Farmers and Traders bank, denied that his bank had conspired with the Floyd Woodward bunco gang in swindling Noah L Davis, of Clarks ville, Ind., who, in a suit filed in Ful ton superior court, seeks to recover $5,500 and interest at 7 per cent from November 23, 1920, which he claims, he lost to members of the Woodward gang, who were aided and abetted by the bank. Davis alleges in his peti tion, filed by the law firm of Doug las & Douglas and William C. Henson, that on November 23, 1920, he deposit ed in the Farmers and Traders’ bank $5,100 and a check drawn on a Clarks ville, Ind., bank for S4OO, and that when he attempted to withdraw the money later the bank refused to pay him the amount. $90,000 Asked For Accident Atlanta. —Damage suits totaling $90,000 against the Seaboard Air Line railroad were filed in the Barrow su perior court by Atlanta attorneys rep resenting Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Shaw, for injuries they are said to have re ceived at the Athens crossing, near Winder, when the motor car in which they were riding was struck Mar 24 by a passenger train of the defend ant company. Mr. Shaw brings suit for $50,000 for personal injuries; $15,- 000 for loss of the services of his wife, and Mrs. Shaw brings suit for $25,000 for personal injuries. Terrell Farmer Is Killed By Negro Dawson.—Lester K. Powell, white farmer, aged about 30 years, was shot and instantly killed recently by Joe Green, a young negro farm hand, about 12 or 14 years of age, when Powell went to the home of the negro's mother to see about 6ome work the negroes were supposed to have done. Sarah Green, the mother of the boy, states that Powell came to the house and was beating her with a stick when she called to her chil dren not to let him kill her. Operator Blamed For Wreck Atlanta. —Responsibility for the col lision between a Louisville & Nash ville railroad freight train, and a Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis freight near Acworth. Ga., recently, was fixed against a telegraph opera tor. who is alleged to have failed to deliver the train orders. Four per sons were injured in the accident, but no one seriously. The name of ,hfl emnlovee was not given out GEORGIA COLLEGES TO ASK INCREASES FOR MAINTENANCE Representatives Of Educational Insti tutions To Press Their Cause Before Legislature Atlanta.—ln an attempt to avoid friction betwen different branches of the state’s system of higher educa tion, when they go before the legisla ture to ask appropriations for the coming year, representatives yot the various educational institutions ol the state met in Atlanta. As a result, It was decided that none of them will ask any appropri ations for new buildings this year, but will ask substantial increases in the amounts granted for maintenance . The total amount to be asked under the program adopted recently is sl,- 099,600, an increase of $275,000 over the maintenance appropriations of last year. Educators present at the meeting declared that this increase was essential in order to care for the steady growth in the demand for higher education among the youth of the state. As a result of the conference, the various institutions plan to ask the legislature for the following annual maintenance appropriations for the next two-year period: University of Georgia—sl6o,ooo, in cluding summer school, which is in increase of $75,000 over the present appropriation. Georgia School of Techonology— slso,ooo, an Increase of $38,500. Georgia State College for Women at Milledgeville—No request; the present maintenance appropriation is $90,000. North Georgia Agricultural college —535,000, an increase of $6,500. State Normal and Industrial college at Bowdon —$25,000, an increase of SIO,OOO. Georgia Medical college at Augusta —574,500, an Increase of $25,000. State Normal School at Athens— sloo,ooo, an increase of $37,000. Georgia State Woman’s college at Valdosta, $50,000, an increase of $lB,- 500. Also a deficiency appropriation of SIO,OOO. Seeks To Relieve Water Shortage Griffin. —A mass meeting has been called to meet at the city hall soon for the purpose of drawing up plans for meeting the serious water short age which now prevails in Griffin. The commissioners some time ago drew up a bill to increase the city limits to float more bonds for this purpose, but the plan met with much disapproval and now the commission ers have asked the people to meet and help draw up a plan. Hon. A. K. Maddox, local representative in the legislature now in session, an nounced that he would not indorse, or work for the passage of the city limits extension bill as it now stands but will introduce it by request. Increase In Water Filter Capacity Atlanta. —Each Atlanta may no\* use 164 gallons of filtered water a day without overtaxing the city water works* filtration plant, it was an nounced by W. Zode Smith, general manager of waterworks. The new filtration plant has been completed, increasing the water filter capacity from 21,000,000 gallons a day to 42,- 000,000 gallons a day. It will not be finally accepted by the city until after a 30-day testing period, which was begun recently. The plant cost $370,- iKH). The new underground reservoir with a capacity of 10,000,000 gallons, has recently been completed at a cost of $245,000. Plans To Continue Law Practice Atlanta. —That he will continue his residence in Atlanta and engage in the practice of law when his official duties with the United States depart ment of justice are not pressing, was the statement of Governor Thomas W. Hardwick, retiring chief execu tive, in contradiction of rumors that he would move to Washington. Gov ernor Hardwick declared he would divide his time in Washington and At lanta, and would open an office here with his former law pardner, James K. Jordan, under the firm name of Hardwick and Jordan. Lumber Company Sold In Sylvanla Sylvania.—A. S. Mills Lumber Com pany, was sold recently to Mose and Henry Perkins, for the approximate sum of $25,000. The business con sists of planing mill, grist mill, gin nery and timber interests, all - of which have been in operation here for some time. It is understood that the Messrs. Perkins contemplate exten sive improvements, and will endeavor to supply the needs of all the terri tory for a radius of fifty miles and further. Orders Are Issued For Militia Camp Brunswick. —General orders have Just been issued governing the sum mer camp of the 122nd Infantry, Geor gia National Guard, which is to be held on St. Simon’s island July 15 to 29, inclusive. 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