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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 0 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. . ’ M ■ ...... 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. r oaaoaaoaoaaaaaoaaaaaaoaoQoaoaaaaaoaoaoaaeaQoaaaoaa VULCAN ORCHARD PLOWS. Vulcan Steel Beam Chilled Plows in One-horse 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 Plow Fixtures, HEARD BROTHERS, MACON, GEORGIA. Our Perry Agency can Supply you. aaaaanaaeaaaanaefaaaaaaoanaaoaaaaaaananaaanaaaaaaaaaoo 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,