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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.
Old Colored
Mammy Knew
What to Do
“I was distracted with fear when
my little 9-month-old baby had dys
entery, but an old colored mammy
told me to give her Teethina and she
has given me no more trouble since,"
said Mrs. Nettle Barnes, South Bay,
Palm Beach Co., Fla. “With my last
baby I got Teethina before he began
teething and be was never sick a
day.”
ft is not always safe to follow the
advice of old colored mammies, but
when they are as well informed ns
tills one who recommended Teethina
no advice could be better. All moth
ers can inform themselves as to the'
proper care of their babies by con
sulting Moffett’s Baby Book, which
can be had free by sending 30c to
the Moffett Laboratories, Columbus,
Ga., for a full size package of Teeth
ina.—(Advertisement.)
Wondered About Flags.
Extract from u conversation over
heard Memorial day on a street car.
“Who do you think will win the
race today?”
“I think Tommy Milton will win it.”
Interrogator, looking out of the
window: “Well, I hope it don’t rain
today. Say, I wonder why that fel
low has all those flags out on 111?
front porch.”—lndianapolis News.
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Scientists can magnify the human
voice 12.000 times, but they seem un
able to do a darn thing for the voice
o:' conscience.—Brockville Recorder.
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