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CONSPIRACY CLAIMED IN
• U. S. PRISON DRUG PLOT
Assistant Prison Doctor Arrested As
Drug. Vendor — Other Arrests
May Follow
IRISH AGAJNJOSE TOWN
Great Forces Of British Troops Ar*
rive In Ulster And More Report-
ed On The Way.
Atlanta.—Solution of the federal pen
itentiary drug - smuggling mystery
mystery which has stirred govern
ment officials in Atlanta and Wash
ington for months was believed solved Pett j goe( whlch straddled
London.—Infantry, cavalry, artillery
and whippet tanks took part In the
first offensive action of the British
troops on the Ulster borderland, when
the line,
following the arrest of Dr. H. C. Car-
rick, assistant physician at the prison., - an( i
Dr. Carrick made a full confession Free State territory, was stormed and
though a large part of the town is in
to his part in the narcotic plot, accord
ing to District Attorney C. W. Hager,
and was incarcerated in Fulton tower
on a charge of violating th» Harrison
narcotic act. Alex Abonaf, proprietor
retaken from troops of the Irish re
publican army, who entered on May
the thirtieth.
Reports from Belfast describe the
- border countryside as Bwarming with
of a Whitehall street cigar stand, was kh kJ the Britiah general di-
placed under arrest in connection with
the alleged conspiracy, but was after
wards released when sufficient evi
dence to warrant his imprisonment
failed to develop.
An alleged affinity of Dr. Carrick
is said to have furnished the govern
ment valuable information which had
much to do with his arreBt. No hint
was given as to her identity, but it
jygB learned that she is the wife of a
prison inmate.
Local narcotic inspectors, under the
direction of T. B. Middlebrooks, and
several special agents of the depart
ment of justice assigned to the inves
tigation by the attorney-general at
■Washington have worked on the case
for about six weeks.
Names Probers For Prison Farm
Atlanta.—Governor ThomaB W.
Hardwick recently appointed five su
perior court judges of Georgia to
serve as a committee to investigate
conditions at the state prison farm
and to submit a report of their find
ings. He took this action afti^r Jie
received a letter from the state pr-lson
comm las ion asking that such a probe
be made. The Judges will meet soon
rects the operations from headquar
ters, on a hill outside the town.
When it became evident that the
British were moving in force against
, Potiigoe. the republicans began to
withdraw, consequently there was little
resistance to parties of soldiers in mo
tors and on foot wbo dashed through
| the "town It is semi - officially an-
' nounced that the republicans Buffered
I heavy losses, but the sole casualty on
| the northern side was the driver of
a motor car.
! Besides the republican commandant
and staff, who were taken prisoner
when the troops entered the town, it
1b reported that a large number of
Sinn Feiners were captured in a later
clean-up of Petttgoe, Of three columns
of troopB which began advancing into
the section of Fermanagh county oc
cupied by the southerners, two col
umns operated toward Pettigoe, the
other in the direction of Belleek, which
the republicans had also occupied.
The troops approached to within a
mile of Pettigoe without drawing the
fire of the southerners, who were then
evacuating the place and the hills
which dominated the main road along
the line of march. While on the Free
to discuss details of the investigation.
The Judges named wore W. B. H. State side there was complete silence,
Searcy, Griffin; Mose Wright, Rome; the greatest activity was displayed by
H. A. Mathews, Fort Valley; R. C.
Bell, Cairo, and Henry C. Hammond,
Augusta. Governor Hardwick declar
ed that he is anxious to have a full
nnd complete investigation of condi
tions nt the ?tate prison farm in view
of recent charges made by several peo
ple that prisoners have been brutally
whipped and that other conditions ex
ist at the farm which should be rem
edied.
Joint Land Bonk To Be Organized
Atlanta.—A. B. SimniB, connected as
caBhler and later as vice president
with the Fulton National and one of
the best known bankers in the state,
has announced plans for Immediate or
ganization of an Atlanta joint land
bank, under provisions of the federal
farm act. The new institution will
begin with a capital and surplus of
$300,000 and the capital will be in-
the approaching columns, with man
euvering cavalry, special In motors
and whippet tanks flying the Union
Juck. The tanks always were In read
iness to move to the support of the
advancing columns.
The Pettigoe columns made an unin
terrupted advance, but the smaller par
ty of troops were held on Boa Island,
ready to land if necessary and join
the advance on the town. Howitzers
were placed In position near Belleek,
where troops were massed awaiting
orders to go forward.
The auxiliary pandora and numer
ous little armed motorcraft partici
pated in the movement. Pandora con
veyed across the lake a regular fleet
of small boats to be used as trans
ports.
Additional British troops will soon
reach Belfast.
Dispatches from Belfast say that the
military forces captured Pettigoe and
RUSS AMBASSADOR LOSES OUT
The Work Of Liquidating Property
Claims Growing out Of War,
Was His Chief Function
Washington.—Boris Baklimetelf, the
status of whom as Russian ambassador |
here has been a subject of controversy
since the Kerensky government which
appointed him collasped five years ago, |
has been notified by the state depart- ^
nient that his credentials no longer j
will be recognized by the United States
after June 30
The department acted after Mr.
Bakhmeteff himself, taking notice of
senate criticism of his continued pres
ence here, had offered to retire should
the Washington government desire it.
The work of liquidating property
claims growing out of the war, the
ambassador said, had been his chief
function in recent months and now
war. about completed.
In making public the correspond
ence, the department announced also
that termination of Mr. Bakhmetqff’s
duties as ambassador, “had no bearing !
WiinLsoc-ver upon the question of the I
recognition of the 'Soviet regime in
Russia, .which is an entirely separate
mo Iter,”. V •
At tho same time department offi
cials made public an exchange of let
ters ; between'Secretary Hughes and
Secretary Mellon of the treasury de
partment. In which cognizance is tak
en o fthe charges of misuse of Russian
embassy funds, produced in the senate
several weeks ago by Senator Borah,
Republican. Idaho. A detailed state
ment of the embassy’s expenditures is
given by Mr. Mellon, whose letter de
clared that the $187,000,000 advanced
by the United States was "used sole
ly for the purchase of. obligations of
the Russian government in accordance
with the liberty loan acts.”
Of tho $187,000,000 total, the treas
ury secretary said $125,000,000 was
transferred by the ambassador to the
account of the Russian finance min
istry, leaving $62,000,000 "for expendi
ture in this country."
“At the time of the fall of the Keer-
ensky government in November, 1917,”
letter added, “the embassy had
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THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW VONK CITY.
the
$56,000,000 deposited in this country,
if which $10,000,000 was said to be
the balance remaining from this gov
ernment’s loans to Russia,’ 'the remain
der representing moneys derived from
Britis hand other sources.
HUNDREDS OF RUSSIAN
REFUGEES REACH VARNA
creased as businoBB warrants. Mr,
SimmB has resigned as vice president to °k republican prisoners, as well as a
of the Fulton National after a con- >nr ea quantity of arms and ammuni-
section with that bank for more than
ten years, three years of which was as
cashier. In the organization of tho
proposed joint Btock land bank, he has
entered a new banking field in Geor
gia in that it will be the first of its
Hind established in this territory. |
Hardwick Would Conserve Forests
Atlanta, — Governor Thomas W.
Hardwick has thrown the weight of
his personal and official influence in
to the rapidly gonving campaign for
the preservation of the forests of the
tion.
One account says thqt after a heavy
bombardment the British troops storm
ed Pettigoe. A hot machine gun fire
was poured on the attacking forces,
but the only casualties was an auto-
mobile driver, who was shot dead.
U. 9, Medfj;. Given City Of Verdun
Vij|dun.-4f the United States
thinks France is militaristic, let hgrbre-
nvlmbsr that the spirit of revenge
doesv pot die with defeat, and that
aye serious dangers still men-
south. In a formal statement issued acing prance, Premier Poincaire de-
by Governor Hardwick unqualifiedly dared at the presentation of a medal
declared that conservation of the for
csts is one of the most vital economic
necessities of the present time. He
also insists that the time has arrived
for the people of Georgia to give se
rious consideration to the best meth
ods of assuring a perpetuation of the
forest resources of the state. ;
to the city of Verdun by the United
States government. France must sup
port an army to support her repara
tions claims, he added.
Boy Badly Hurt In Fall From Tree
Atlanta. — Seven-year-old Edward
Bankston, was seriously injured when
he fell from a tree in front of his
80 Feared Lost Ae Steamer Sinks
Buenos Aires, Argentina.—The
steamer Vila Franca sank "off Hohe-
nau, Paraguay, following an explosion,
and it is believed eighty persons per
ished, according to a dispatch La
Nacion. The steamer had on board
tourists for Iguazu Falls, It It said
home while playing with several the vessel sank so quickly after the
Chums, He was carried to a hospital explosion that the passengers had no
where doctors seemed to think he prqb- time to dress or seek lifeboats.
ably sustained a fracture of the skull ——
with the possibility of internal injur- Premier Lenin Shows Improvement
,es - | Riga.—M. Yureneff, Russian Soviet
Conditions Better, 8toek Sates Show
Atlanta.—That the year 1921 was
probably the worst year In the history
of the state for the promotion of new
enterprises and that conditions have
already taken a decided change for
the better, is shown by the second an
nual report to the governor of the
Georgia securities commission, which
was received from the press recently.
Elects Dr. W. R. Bourne To New Chair
Macon.—Dr. W. R. Boiirne, a gradu
ate of Peabody college and recently
state Inspector of high school for
Tennessee, has been elected by the
executive committee of Wesleyan col
lege as head of the newly created
department of philosophy and psychol
ogy. Dr. Bourne recently received his
doctor of philosophy degree from Pea-
college.
imb^ssador to Latvi, announces that
Premier Lenin was suffering from
acute gastritis, with a high tempera
ture following an attack on May 28
An official bulletin issued recently
3ald the Society premier’s condition
3howed some improvement.
Rail Strike Sure Vote, Says Jewell
Chicago.—Strike votes affecting one
million two hundred thousand of the
United States’ railroad workers,
turnable on the same dates, probably
about the third of August, will be de
cided upon at the railway labor board
conference in Cincinnati, in the opin
ion of B. M. Jewell, president of the
railway employees’ department of the
American Federation of Labor. It
admitted on all sides that there
Varna, Bulgaria.—The survivors of
hundreds of Russian families fleeing
from Odessa and the Crimean rorts
are arriving here m small boats ---d
an rafts equipped with sails.
Many succumbing in their efforts
to escape from Russia, some of the
frail craft being wrecked; others per
il by hunger and thirst, typhus and
te exposure to the elements,—this Is
the report.
Some of those arriving have no
clothing other than bathing suits,
haying escaped from the beaches. The
Soviet government is granting no per
mits for departure from the country.
WARNS HUNGARIANS WHO
DI8COUNT U. S. NOTES
Budapest.—American Minister Bre-
tano has warned the Hungarian pub
lic against tolerating the practice of
money changers who are refusing to |
accept or ar» discounting Anrrican
bank; notes of the buffalo and Indian
head Issues.
The brokers’ prejudice against these j
notes seems to be based on nothing
more substantial than the belief that I
since the Indians and bufafloeB are vir
tually extinct, the bank notes mu:t
be worthleess.
“Perfection” Tires.
C. O. D. PRICES AT PERRY.
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30x3
30 x 3 1-2
32 x 3 1-2
31 x 4
32x4
33x4
34x4
32„x 4 1-2
I x 4 1-2
34 x 4 1-2
B. H. ANDREW & SON
- PERRY, GA.
NON SKID
NON SKID
FABRICS
CORDS
$8.40
9.75
15.75
13.30
21.00
14.25
16.35
24.30
16.85
25.00
17.50
25.75
22.70
31.45 ~
23.10
32.20
24.75
32.90
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REDUCED ROUND TRIP FARES
FOR
SUMMER TRAVEL.
TO MpUNTAIN, LAKE and SEASHORE IN THE
NORTH, SOUTH, EAST OR WEST.
Pinehot Defends His Nomination Cost
Philadelphia.—Gifford Plnchot who
publicly state that he spent $120,-
000 to win the Pennsylvania repUb
Ucan nomination for governor in the
recent primaries, would do the same
thing again “if it were necessary to de
feat an organized machine,” in a fctdte* I Tybee, “Where Ocean Breezes Blow." also Brunswick, Ga., At*
I lactic Beach, Pablo Beach, May port, Jacksonville, Panama City, Fla,
ou the South Atlantic Coast.
Ing attacks by Senator Pat Harrison,
Mississippi, a democrat, who declared
the Newberry case “sinks into signifi
cance’* beside the Plnchot statement
of campaign expenditures.
Nineteen Injured^ in Train Wreck
Chicago.—Nineteen persons were in
jured — two seriously — when the
Chicago and Northwestern passenger
train, No. 6, from Omaha to Chicago,
was derailed rear Quarry, Iowa, ac
cording to official reports received at
the railroad’s office here.
Invitations To Pan-Pacific Conf'rence
Washington.—Invitations to partici
pate in a Pan-Pacific conference
commerce to be held at Honolulu in
October, have been transmitted to all
of the governments bordering on the
Pacific ocean. The meeting, which
will be under the auspices of the Pan-
Pacific Union, is to discuss a wide
range of problems. The list of ^tliose
on the program made public include
communication, transportation, devel
opment and conservation of natural
New York, Boston. Baltimore, Philadelphia and New England re-
sorts, also diverse route fares to New York and Boston, via Savannah
and steamship. These fares include meals and berth aboard ship.
Season and Week End Fares to seashore, lake and mountain re
sorts in the Southeast and to all parts of the United States and Cana
da. These substantial reductions in passenger fares will enable you
to travel cheaper than you have in the past six years. ,
Tor total fares, train schedules, routes, service, sleeping car, par
lor car and steamship accommodations, ask the nearest agent of the
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY
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much, dissatisfaction with the recent j resources, finance and investments and
•order reducing wages of (frtain class- International r-pirvHnruL.
of railway operatives.
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