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JOHN H. HODGES, Prop'r.
DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE
$1.50 a Yc&r In Advance
VOL. LII.
PERRY, HOuItON COUNTY, GA„ THURSDAY JUNE 15, 1922.
No. 24.
MRS. CORA
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TO SHERI
JULY 28 IS DATE FIXED—JURY SUPREME COURT RENDERS VER-
IN CASE WAS OUT ONLY DICT IN FAMOUS CORONADO
j ' TWO HOURS
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STATE HEWS OF INTEREST
. Atlanta.—Mrs. Cora Lou Vinson was
found guilty of murder of her husband,
Dr. W. D. Vinson and was sentenced
to die on the gallows on July 28 by
Judge J. D. Humphries, the jury
having returned a straight verdict ol
guilty without recommending the de
fendant to the mercy of the court,
which would have meant a life im
prisonment sentence. The jury reach
ed a verdict in two hours’ time.
Mrs. Vinson showed no signs ol
emotion when the verdict was ren
dered or when sentence df death was
passed upon her. Mrs. Pauline Brown
daughter of the doomed woman gasp
ed when the verdict was read and
when her mother was sentenced tc
hang she fainted, but was prevented
from falling from the chair by her
sister, Mrs. Robertson.
"I demand a poll of the jury,” Judge
New Morris, leading counsel for the
defense, said, addressing Judge Hum
phries.
Judge Humphries propounded the
forral questions: “Is this your ver
dict? Did you agree to the verdict?”
E}ach Juror was asked the questions
and all replied in the affirmative.
Judge Morris immediately gave no
tice that an appeal for a new trial
will be filed, which was followed by
notice from solicitor-general’s office
that the new trial motion would be
contested.
Most of the crowd that had attend
ed the trial had gone home when word
was sent to Judge Humphries that a
verdict had been reached, and there
were less than fifty persons in the
courtroom when the verdict was read
by Acting Solicitor-General E. A.
Stephens, > Solicitor-General John A
Boykin having gone home.
Solicitor Boykin, in making the con
eluding argument, did not ask for the
death penalty, but said, "If this de
fendant was veiled and you did not
know that you were trying a woman,
you would not deliberate for ten min
utes before a straight verdict of guilty
would be returned.” In concluding, he
asked for a verdict with a recommen
dation to mercy, which would have
meant a life imprisonment sentence. -
Second Sentence In State’s History.
This Is the second sentence of the
kind In the history- o( the State.
The only other case Where a white
woman has been sentenced to hang
occurred in Macon county more than
half a century ago. This defendant
was found guilty of killing her hus
band and the jury found her guilty
of first degree murder. The case was
appealed to the supreme court where
the decision of the lower court was
upheK:
The case then went before the late
Governor James M. Smith. Appeals
were made to him by the governors
of more than half of the states in
the country, asking for a commuta
tion of the death sentence. Although
he was swamped with appeals from
every section of the United States,
Governor Smith refused to interfere
and the woman was executed.
S. G. McLendon, secretary of state,
who is one of the best informed resi
dents of Georgia, recalled the Macon
county case when the woman was
hanged and stated that these two sen
tences were the only instances in
Georgia’s history, so far as he could
recall.
CASE, ANENT STRIKES
Decision Reverses Damage Verdict
Against United Mine Workers As
Not Responsible
$60,000,000 BEING SLASHED FROM
PAY, UNION HEADS ORDER
BALLOTS MAILED
A3 f r enciln , g Decisions For Other
Groups Are Announced, They
Will Also Vote On Strike
Washington.—Deciding the celebrat-
3d Coronado coal case, the Supreme
:ourt held that labor organizations,
although unincorporated, are amena
ble to the Sherman anti-trust act, and
hat under it such organizations may
be prosecuted for restraint of inter
state commerce. The court also hold
that labor unions are suable. Chief
Tustice Taft, in announcing the deci
sion, did not indicate any dissent.
The case which presented |ne'ques
tions passed on by the court was an
Appeal by the United Mine Workers
}f America, district No. 21, of that
jrgauization and its officers, 27 local
inions and their officers and 65 indi
viduals, some of the latter not mem
bers of any union, from a decision by
;he United States district court of Ar
kansas, approved by the circuit court
if appeals, holding them .guilty of. vio;
ating the Sherman anti-trust act dur
ing the coal mine strikes in Arkansas
in 1914, and imposing damages of
p200,000 which were trebled under the
inti-trust law.
The effect of the decision will be to
set aside the damages, because of the
finding that the acts which caused the
iestruction of property were not in-
lited for the purpose of restraining in-
;erstate commerce.
During the strike, lawlessness pre
vailed and property damage was done
:he Coronado and other mines con-
:rolled by the Bache-Denman Coal
company. The United Mine Workers
if America contested the jurisdiction
if the federal courts on the ground
:hat being an unincorporated associa
tion of mine workers,- it was not sub
ject to prosecution under the Sherman
inti-trust law.
Five questions were presented by
the controversary, Chief Justice Taft
laid:
1. Whether there had been a cor
rect selection of the parties to be
lued.
2. Whether the parties not being
incorporated were subject to suit.
3. Whether the United Mine Work-
?rs of America had been engaged in a
jonspiracy or in the destruction of
property for which that organization
and its officers could be held liable.
4. Whether there was evidence to
ihow that the conspiracy alleged did
restrain or monopolize interstate com-
nerce.
6. Whether thetri al court, in charg
ing the jury, had coerced them into
returning the verdict.
There had been no misjoinder of the
parties under the laws of Arkansas,
ivhere the case was tried, the Supreme
jourt held.
Suwanee Man Commits Suicide
Suwanee.—Joe E. Allen, 46, a prom
inent farmer, was found dead at the
home of his nephew, Herschel Greesod
about two miles from town. He was
found lying across a bed with a shot
gun hole through his heart the gun
being fired by using a stick to pull
the trigger. He had been in ill health
for the last six months. He left a
note under his head, reading “Look
in my trunk and you will find what
I want done:” Upon opening his
trunk directions telling how he want-
' ed his property managed, leaving ev
erything to his wife and child, were
found. -
Cincinnati.—Railroad wages undoi
the new railroad labor board orders
for seven of the larger groups of the
country’s rail workers soon will be
at a level which does not measure up
to the American standard of living
and which will make vigorous protest
necessary, according to B. M. Jewell,
head of the railway employees depart
ment of the American Federation of
Labor, in explaining the quick strike
vote action of the conference of rail
way union bends.
In loss than two hours’ time, heads
of oloven railwny unions arrived at
an understanding whereby each organ
ization will take a strike vote imme
diately on issuance of wage reduction
orders from the labor board for its
nlembership. The votes will be re
turnable in 30 days, and the strike
vote for the six shop crafts, sent out
by President Jewell’s orders, will be
in his office in Chicago by June 30.
The strike votes decided on will
affect about one million two hundred
thousand of the country’s railway em
ployees—all except the train service
men whose wages are not in dispute
before the board. Although wage cuts
have not been announced for any
classes but the shop crafts and main
tenance of way, pending decisions are
expected to add five other classes ol
labor to the general slash. Union exec
utives of these organizations decided
to print their ballots.and have them
ready to send out to the membership
immediately if the board, as anticipat
ed, orders further reductions in their
pay.
"The new wages do not permit a
minimum living wage,” declared Mr.
Jewell, "and they are wholly at vari
ance with the saving wage champion
ed by Secretary of Labor Davis and
President Harding. The labor board,
a federal body, has totally disregard
ed the secretary’s attitude as well as
the employees’ own evidence showing
the amount necessary to maintain a
railroad man’s family.”
No further action will# be taken by
the union head at this time, pending
return of the strike ballots. When
the result is known—and the union
heads freely predict an overwhelming
vote to walk out—a working agree
ment is expected to be made by which
any stoppage of work would take place
simultaneously by all organizations.
Meanwhile President Jewell intimat-
ad that a persistent fight would be
made to keep the necessity for gain
ing a “living wage” before the board
and other responsible authorities.
EMBARGO ON SOUTHERN
PRODUCE PROTESTED
Washington.—Before Commissioners
Potter and Atchesino and Director
Roth of the interstate commerce com-
nission’s service bureau, New York
3ity, and the port of New York author
ity, presented arguments and objec
tions against an embargo on shipments
into New York of Southern Produce
and potatoes ordered by Pennsylvania
railroad, effective at midnight, June 5.
The railroad proposed to hold all such
unsigned freight for New York at
Kearney, N. .T., instead of transporting
it across the river in the customary
lashion to piers 2S and 29.
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GASOLINE PRICES
WILL JUMP AGAIN,
IS PREDICTED NOW
As Congress And Justice Department
Open Probe, Rumor Of More In-
creases Is Heard
Lillian Russell Dies At Pittsburg, Pa.
Pittsburg.—Mrs. Lillian Russell-
Moore, wife of Alexander P. Moore,
publisher of the Pittsburg Leader, and
aoted stage beauty of a score and more
rears past, died of heart failure at her
iiome here after an illness of several
Jays; \
Washington.—Congress and the jus
tice department have opened “court”
in the interest of ten million Ameri-
3an auto owners faced with constant-
v increasing gasoline prices.
Despite the fact that there are rec-
prd reserves of both gasoline and crude
3il now in storage in this country, the
vord has gone forth that the summer
ipen season for motorists will be
narked by high “gas” prices. By July
l, it is stated, prices will increase from
l to 7 cents more per gallon, after
steady increases during recent weeks.
I In response to complaints pouring
( nto congress and the justice depart-
j nent from all sections of the country,
3o:.b. agencies of government have set
mt to find the “why” of the in-
jreases.
BATTERY SERVICE
When starter fails to crank your car on cold mornings
remember we have service batteries. We
recharge and rebuild all sizes and makes
of Batteries.
New Willard Batteries in stock.
Call us for Service.
McLendon Auto Co.
CALVIN E. McLENDON, Prop’r.
PERRY - GA.
DON’T BE DECEIVED
6 Buy your Goods for Cash and I will sell you, Grocer
ies, Hardware, Enamelware, Crockery, Stoves, Ranges,
Glassware, Chums, 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 than cost and make it up on something
else. All I ask is an opportunity to meet honest compe
tition on any line I sell.
Lets Forget|the Blues, GopTo Work and Make
The Best of It.
J. W. BLOODWORTH
i “THE FARMERS FRIEND.
PERRY, - GEORGIA
Five Men Killed In Powder Explosion
Oakland, Calif.—Five men are dead
:hro-e badly injured and a dryer wreck-
id as the result of an explosion at the
Troian Powder company plant at San
Lorenzo, eleven miles from this -city.
Member Of Taft Cabinet Is Dead
Seattle.—Judge Richard A. Ballin
ger, who was secretary of the interior
luring President Taft’s administration,
lied at his home here recently
aad been ill two days.
He
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other farm products.
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