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JOURNAL.
JOHN H. HODGES, Proper.
DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE
$1.50 a Year In Advance
VOL. LI.
-PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 29,1021.
No. 39
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IN CHINESE TANGLE
question of representation
AT WORLD MEET SECOND ONLY
TO RUSSIAN INTEREST
REFUSES TO SUPPORT PACTS
Pekin And Chita Governments May De*
mand Separate Missions To The
Forthcoming Parley
Washington.—China's dual govern-
tnent—the recognized regime establish*
ed at Pekin and the unrecognized au-
ARBUCKLE UQUOI
SOURCE SOUGHi
FEDERAL GRAND JURY QUES-
TIONS WITNESSES IN EFFORT
TO CLEAR LIQUOR ANGLE
TO COMPLETEINVESTIGATION
It Is Believed That Some Of The Ab*
sent Witnessese Are Located And
They May Be Returned
San Francisco.—Seven witnesses
were questioned by the federal grand
jury In an attempt to learn the source
thorlty centered at Canton—affords the j of the liquor consumed at the affair
forthcoming Washington conference a
possible guardianship problem second
only to that in caring for the rights
of Russia.
The Russian question has been solv
ed by a decision among the powers an
nounced by the state department re
cently, to establish a moral trustee
ship in protection of legitimate Rus-
sian Interests. What will be the final
course of the confeence toward China,
1( the two governing bodies now estab
lished there cannot co-operate to their
common Interests, is a delicate and dif-
iflcuet question, a solution of which,
for the moment, cannot be accurately
forecast.
Conditions In China, economic and
political, are chaotic today, from the
standpoint of the Interested powers.
China, at the same time, is the key to
the whole far eastern problem. The
Pekin government, with a very dubious
hold on Chinese popular support, is
nevertheless the only government rec
ognized by those powers participating
in the forthcoming conference.
Through It such understandings as ex
ist among the powers, have been
jjnade
But the South China government,
established at Canton, led and support
ed by some of the ablest Chinese states
men, refuses to support pacts already
entered into by the Pekin regime and
warns that It will not bind itself, unrep
resented, to abido by the settlements
and decisions reached at the Washing
ton conference. Each government sus
pects the other. Each claims the sup
port of a majority of the Chinese peo
ple. Meantime absolute confusion rules
in China from the standpoint of politi
cal and economic discipline.
The situation, it is admitted by au
thorities here, must be cleared up be
fore or during the conference in
Washington. The state department
has convoyed the pointed hint to the
Pekin government that “all factions" in
China should be represented on the
Chinese negotiating commission. No
sooner is this suggestion made, how-
over, than the South China republic
lets it be known that it does not wi3h
joint representation with the Pekin
government, but representation of its
own, carrying recognition of its estab
lished government. -■ ,|
MO,000 SUIT
FOR FERTILIZERS
SELLERS OF NITRATE OF SODA
CLAIM THAT PURCHA3ER8 RE
FUSE TO PAY AFTER DROP
STATE NEWSJJF INTEREST
Brief Newt Items Gathered Here And
There From All 8eotlon Of
The State
iu Roscoe (“Fatty") Arbuckle’s hotel
suite here from which resulted the
death of Miss Virginia Rappe and At-
buckle’s arrest on a charge of mur
der.
“No indictments will be returned un
til all of the federal departments co
operating in the case have completed
their several ‘investigations," Assist
ant United States Attorney General R.
P. McCormack announces. The inves
tigation will be returned by the grand
jury at once.
The latest witnesses were Mrs. Bam-
binn Maude Delmont, Miss Alice Blalce,
Miss Zeh Provost and Mrs. Mae Taube,
who were present at the party. John
P. Pickett, a. bellboy at the hotel, and
Miss Josephine Kessler, a hotel maid.
Mrs, Delmont swore to the murder
complaint against the film comedian
and Miss Provost was the woman
whose statements to the police caused
Arbuckle to be booked on a murder
complaint. Joyce Clark, another mem
ber of the party, was subpoenaed, but
was not called into the grand jury
room.
“We simply wanted their testimony
perpetuated in the event any witness
should leave the city and to prevent
conflict of testimony in case any of
them should desire to leave before the
case might be brought to trial,” Mc
Cormack said.
A telegram to Lowell Sherman, a
participant in the party, was sent to
Chicago by District Attorney Matthew
A. Brady, asking Sherman to coine
to San Francisco to give liis version to
the affair. District Attorney Swan of
New York also was notified by tele
graph to intercept Sherman if he ar
rived there and keep him under sur
veillance. Sherman subpoenaed as a
giand jury witness before he left Los
Augele3 for Chicago. Assistant Die
trict Attorney Milton U’Ren said he
hoped Sherman would return voluntar
ily and not cause legal steps to he
taken against him.
The authorities anounce that they
believe May Parsons, another woman
who was in the Arbuckle' party, had
been located at Fort Worth, Texas.
Chief of Police O’Brien asked the
Fort Worth police to detain her.
Atlanta.—Civil suits Involving ap
proximately $1,500,000 have been filed
against prominent Georgia planters
outside fertilizer companies, on the
grounds that the farmers signed con
tracts in 1920 for large shipments
of nitrate of soda to be delivered
this year at 084 per ton,, f. o. b. the
port, and then refused to accept the
product when the price dropped to
$60 per ton.
This announcement was made re
cently by Senator Alvin G. Goluko,
of Crawfordville, who is interested
In a test case which has been filed
in the state court of appeals. Dock-
oted as Smith vs.’Battle, the case has
been set for the October term of the
court. At this time the validity of
the form of contract used in making
the sales will receive consideration
and a decision reached.
In the spring of 1920, according
to information received by The Con
stitution, salesmen for large import
ers of Chilean nitrate of soda, and
numberless brokers, scoured the state,
making contracts for the sale of their
product with owners of the large plan
tations.
Fixing the price at $84 per ton,
f. o. b. the port, the corporations
signified their intention of making
deliveries early in the spring of 1921.
These contracts, it is assorted in
the case already filed, containel
clauses which relieved the importers
of any and all liability in the event
they decided they would not make de
liveries.
During the spring the market price
for nitrate of soda ‘dropped to !
per ton. Then it slumped to $70, and
finally to $60 per ton. Due to the
.period of financial depression, tho
farmers were unable to meet the al
leged exhorbitant prices or to use
the nitrate of soda.
iU. S. Ambassador Reaches Charge
Yohohama, Japan.—(Charles B.
(Warren, the new United States am
bassador to Japan, arrived here re
cently with his wife and three sons on
.board the steamer Golden State. “I
;come not only for the purpose of seek
ing to be useful to my own country
as an American, but also to become
Jfamiliar with the Japanese people in
the hope that I may be helpful in rep-
jrecenting their attitude to my own
;government and people," Ambassador
Warren told the newspaper corres
pondent on his arrivel.
No
Violence Occurs In Strike Zone
. Bakersfield, Cal.—Thus far the
oijast of Walter Yarrow, head of the
. 1 J^'kers’ union, that there would
e neither bloodshed nor violence 1 ’
l } Bie oil fields taken over by the
caiLer--., has been made good. The
Li-’trict is several hundred square
iu ei:tent - So completely has
control of .the district been taken over
:;J h * strikers—in. an entirely legal
‘•armor, they , point out—that clashes
prevented for the simple reason
Biere was no one to clash with.
v -Tin Announces Morocco Success
j-adrid,—An engagement between a
- -;i Spanish force and a party of
;*° ors at Tirisa, in the Spanish-Mo-
'~^ an z °he, in which the Spanish
T3.ecl a pronounced success, is an-
Spcnced * n an official telegram re-
- e -ved recently from Tetuan. Condi-
tions i n the Melilla and
ireas are reported quiet.
Law Enforcement Officers Are Jailed
Birmingham, Ala.—W. S. Knox an.l
A. F. Crow, state law enforcement of
ficers, and four special law enforce
ment officers or members of a citi
zen’s posse, are held in tho Elmore
county jail at Wetumpka on charges
of murder preferred by Sheriff J. H.
Strength, according to long distance
telephone reports from Sheriff
Strength recently. , The murder
charges resulted from the alleged kill
ing of Lee Paunton in a fight six
miles from Electric, Ala. according to
the sheriff, who stated that Oliver De
witt was seriously Voundod at the
same time. Both men are white.
Municipal Board' Is Organized
Savannah. — The new municipal
board, created as the Savannah port
commission, by recent act of the legis
lature, the members of which were
appointed by the governor has been
organized with J. F. Cooper Myers,
president; G. M. Gardsden, vice presi
dent, and E. H. Abrahams, secretary.
Georgia-Made Goods Grow In Value
Washington, D. C.—Georgi’a manu
facturers showed an increase of 173.5
per cent in the value of their prod
ucts in 1919 compared with 1914, the
census bureau announced recently
Their value was $693,556,000, com
pared with $253,271000 five years pro
viously. Wages and salaries paid
showed an increase of 155.4 per cent
in the five years, mounting from $258,
326,000 to $448,932,000. These prod
ucts were the output of 4,803 factor
ies, an increase of 164 engaging 141,-
080 persons, an increase of 22,215
persons, or 19 per cent in the five
years.
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Man And Wife Hurt In Clash
Atlanta.—Henry B. Scott, of 176
Myrtle street, President of the Atlan
ta Real Estate board, was severely in
jured and his wife painfully hurt when
an automobile in. which they were
riding was struck by a car, in which
throe negroes were riding, at Jack
eon and Tenth streets recently. Mr,
Scott was taken to the Davis-Fischer
sanitarium, and Mrs. Scott to the St
Joseph’s infirmary, as there was no
accommodations for her at the forme
hospital. Police are seeking .Robor
Durham, a negro who, they state wa
driving the car which smashed into
that in which Mr. Scott and his wife
were riding.
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and Two-horse sizes.
Vulcan Hillside Plows
Vulcan Middle Busters
i Vulcan Road Plows
Vulcan Power Lift Tractor Gangs
We Carry-a Complete Supply of Vulcan
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HEARD BROTHERS,
MACON, GEORGIA.
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These are Just a Few of The Many Ar«
tides that You Will Find at Any Time
You Come to See Us
Full Width Sheeting 50c yd.
Yard Wide Sheeting 12 l-2c yd.
Fancy Voiles 20c yd.
Childrens Fancy Sox 25c pr.
And Don’t Forgst We Also Handle
Plain and Fancy Groceries.
PERRY MERCANTILE CO.
DON’T BE DECEIVED
Buy your Goods for Cash and I will sell you, Grocer
ies,^ Hardware, Enameiware, Crockery, Stoves, Ranges,
Glassware, Churns, Etc., CHEAPER than any man in
Perry. I am in business to stay; I know that all Mer
chandise is cheaper than it was six months ago; I have
taken my loss and if you buy from me I will not sell you
one article for less thanfeost and make it up on something
else. All I ask is an opportunity, to L meet honest compe
tition on any line I sell.
Lets Forget the Blues, Go To Work and Make
The Best of It.
J. W. BLOODWORTH
“THE FARMERS FRIEND."
PERRY, - GEORGIA.
El-Arish
Sheriff Destroys Quantity Of Lir-.-o-’
Waycross.—Sheriff Sweat and Dep
uties Warren and Hires report 460
gallons of liquor destroyed during the
past week. Four raids were made and
throe stills were destroyed by the
officers. One negro is being- held
in the county jail charged with mak- j
ing liquor. A white man is held on
bond in connection with the illicit
distilling. No one was in evidence
at the three other stills, so no arrests
were made there, but the officers de
stroyed the stills and the mash on
hand. 'k
Killed When Heavy Rope Strikes Him
Savannah.—Joseph Mason, superin
tendent for the Taggart Coal com
pany, one of the best known men on
the waterfront, met his death here
in an unusual maimer recently. He
' was standing on the pier when the
government dredge Cumberland was
leaving -shore when a “dogger’' bit
through a ring, broke loose and swung
so as to strike Mason a terrific blow
in-the face, knocking him into the
river. When his body was taken from
the river the face was found crushed
by the metal. It is believed that he
was practically dead-before he struck
the water.
Perry Warehouse Co.,
Perry, Gr.,
Gentlemen
Having completed inspection of your warehouse
and records on Sept. 22,1921, I take this method of coni'
plementing you on the system of accounting and’ general
methods of business, which meets all the requirements of
the Federal Reserve Bank. I find very few warehouses
and records as well kept as yours.
Yours very truly,
John F. Threadaway,
Cotton Warehouse Inspector, Federal Reserve Bank,