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JOHN H. HODGES, Prop’r. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE
$1.50 a Year In Advance
VOL. LII.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY AUGUST 3, 1922.
N«. S3.,
BOVERNMEKTMES
CONTROL OF COAL
HAS TURNED ALL EFFORTS TO
SECURING ESSENTIAL COAL,
DESPITE TWO STRIKES
Hoover Will Control Distribution And
Price By Car Allocation—Daugh
erty Okays Tlje Plan
Agreement upon plans for distribu
tion of coal and for restriction of un
fair prices is announced in Washing
ton.
Possibilities of a separate agree
ment in Illinois to be taken up at a
meeting of the miners’ union in St.
Louis soon.
Operators from four ?tateB in South
western Interstate Coal Operators’ as
sociation appoint committees to seek
the protection of state authorities as
a step forward reopening their mines.
Detroit considers plan for appoint
ment of a fuel commissioner and the
pooling of all surplus coal stocks.
Washington.—-Immediate steps for
acquiring a maximum production of
coal from non-union and strip mines,
adequate distribution of the supply
through government control of coal
cars and preventatives against profi
teering, have been effected by the ad
ministration, according to a United
News staff correspondent. Secretary
Hoover will be virtual fuel director.
In taking this course, it will be
observed that officials are concentrat
ing on measures to supply soal to con
sumers rather than on ( ways and
means of settling the two strikes them
selves. On the latter problem, it was
revealed by a high cabinet authority,
President Harding has worked out a
definite method for taking care of the
coal situation, but absolutely no plan
has been completed. for terminating
the. rail strike.
The big thing.now, officials say, is
obtaining and distributing coal.
Through maximum operation of non
union mines—possible only by having
adequate cars for transporting the fuel
—and by working of strip or surface
mines, is necessary, officials say the
inimediate need of the railroads and
big Industries can be met.
To this end, therefore, Secretary
Hoover, through co-operation with the
department of justice, interstate com
merce commission, railway executives
and mine operators, is ready, as emer
gency fuel administrator, to take
charge of coal production and distribu
tion. Attorney-General Daugherty has
handed down a special ruling declar
ing Hoover’s program for handling the
situation is legal and he has all neces-
pary powers to go ahead with it.
Mine Opening Move Now Awaited
Pittsburg, Pa.—Curious eyes were
turned recently toward Cokesburg, in
Washington county, and Heiiwood, in
Indiana county, as the two places
where in all probability, the first at
tempts would be made to reopen the
bituminous mines of the Western
Pennsylvania region. No outward
move to start the mines was made bu1
strong forces of troops had been con
centrated and there were underground
reports that more will be sent to those
points.
Fires On Bandits Getting Jewel Haul
St. Louis, Mo.—Five, automobile ban
dits robbed the jewelry s^ore and
pawnshop of Morris Blumefield ol
jewels estimated at between $15,000,-
000 and $20,000,000 and escaped. Sev
eral shots were exchanged between
Blumefield and one of the bandits a*
their automobile sped away.
Two Aviators Hurt In ’Plane Crash
New York.-—Two aviators were in
jured when the machine they wer«
piloting crashed to the street in Bird
sail avenue near the Long Island Rail
road, Far Rock away. They were tak
en to St. Johesph’s Hospital.
Central Orders “Dead” Freight' Bar
Chattanooga, Tenn.—The Central or
Georgia Railway placed an embarge
on dead freight to be delivered tc
the Southern Railway system at Chat
tanooga. No . other class was affect
ed. ' It was pointed out that the Ceh
tral was ready to handle ever deat
freight whose origin and destination
were on its own lines.
RAILROADS WILL BE
CONTROLLEDBYI.C.C.
COMMISSION ISSUES DRASTIC
ORDERS, DUE TO NATIONAL
“EMERGENCY” .
Cars For Coal Distribution Are C
fled In Order Of Urgency
Of Their Need
Washington.—A “national emergen
cy”—growing out of an industrial cbn-
filet—has been declared by the gov
ernment for the first time in peace
time history of the United States, says
a United News staff correspondent. As
a result of the coal and rail strikes,
the interstate commerce commission,
empowered for the first time by the
Esch-Cummins law, has assumed con
trol of the distribution of fuel, food
and other necessities.
In two orders, Issued after a long
ronference between President Harding
and his cabinet,- the commission, de
clared the emergency, provided prior
ity regulations for shipment of fuel,
food, etc., in the eastern half of the
country and orders to expedite general
freight shipments throughput the
country.
In issuing the crisis order, effective
July 26, the commission said: "An
emergency which requires immediate
action exists upon the lines of each
and all the common carriers by rail
road subject to the interstate com
merce act, east of the Mississippi, in
cluding the west bank crossings there
of, on account of thd inability of said
common carriers properly and com
pletely to serve the public in the trans
portation of essential commodities.”
Faced with this situation the com
mission then ordered:
1. That railroads shall give prior
ity to the movement of food, feed for
live stock, periBhable products, coal,
coke and fuel oil.
2. That priority be given inter
change and return of empty cars in
tended for transportation of these nec
essary commodities.
3. That preferential movement of
coal cars to the mines be practiced
and that cars suitable for transporting
coal shall not be used for taking other
commodities.
4. That an embargo be placed
against the receipt of coal or other
freight transported in open top cars
suitable for coal loading which can
not be unloaded within 24 hours after
placement.
5. That all ruleB, regulations and
practices of the railroads with respect
to the car service be suspended so
far as they conflict with the new regu
lations.
The commission, in designating the
manner in which coal cars are to be
supplied to the mines, divided them
into five classes. In the first class
will be cars “for such special pur
poses as may from time to time be
specially designated”—which gives the
commission virtually complete control
otar the movement of all cars. In
the second class are car3 for fuel for
railroads and other carriers including
ships; for public utilities which di
rectly serve the general public—street
and interurban railways, electric
power and light, gas, water, sewer
works, ice plants and hospitals.
DEPORT GIVEN OUT
303 GEORGIANS RECEIVED TREAT
MENT AT TUBERCULOSIS SAN
ATORIUM AT ALTO
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Sections Of
The State
Atlanta.—Three hundred and eight
Georgians reecivetl treatment at the
state tuberculosis sanatorium at Alto
last year, according to the annual re
port of the institution just submitted
to the legislature. Of this number IS
were from Fulton, with several more
from adjacent counties. The sanato
rium records show, also, that during
the first six months of the current year
twenty-two from Fulton have been re
ceived as patients.
The report shows that of the 30S
patients last year, the great majority
of whom, upon entrance, were advanc
ed cases, 54 per cent being far advanc
ed, only sixteen died and but twenty-
nine were classified as unimproved
when they left the sanatorium. Tho av
erage. length of stay was 131 days, ap
proximately four and one-tliird months,
There was an Increase of twenty over
the preceding year In the total num
ber of patients, and an increase oi
seven in the average daily number oi
patients treated, eighty-eight being the
average for 1921, as compared with
eighty-one for 1920.
The need of a new and larger plant,
of hospital rather than sanatorium con
struction, a home for nursese, and an
adequate maintenance fund is stressed
in the report which cites that the wait
ing list is always full, and that the
Institution is not properly equipped tc
care for far advanced cases. The ap
propriation from the state has been re
duced from $56,000 in 1921 to $50,000
for 1922 and the same amount foi
1923.
The sanatorium, located near Alto,
seventy-two miles northeast of Atlan
ta, is the biggest single factor in
Georgia in the fight on tuberculosis,
which, last year, claimed 3,000 victims
in the state and of which there are now
in Georgia thirty thousand active cases.
The institution is under the control of
the state board of health and under
the superintendent of Dr. Edson W
Glidden, formerly of Savannah.
Young Girl, Member Of Faculty
-Thomaston.—Perhaps the youngesl
member of a faculty of a big education
al institution of this state or any otheT
state is Miss Weaver Dallis of this
city. She is descended from Revolu
tionary and Civil war ancestry, and is
one of the brightest young women of
this section. She is a member of the
faculty of the summer school being
conducted at the Georgia Normal a<
Athens; This is her second year as a
member of the faculty. She is the
charming daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Walter H. Dallis of this city. It is
understood she has been tendered the
superjntendency of two or three of the
county systems of the state.
REQUESTS NEWSPAPERS
TO SEND REPORTERS
TO WITNESS SUICIDE
New York.—After writing several
notes to newspapers requesting that
some one be sent “to see a real sui
cide,” and another to a relative to have
his body cremated and the “ashe3 sent
to the head of the ’ brokerage firm
where he did hia trading to fertilise
his lawn,” a middle-aged, well-dressed
man jumped from a ferry boat in the
Hudson river and wa3 drowned.
Other messages which he left in his
hat — carefuly placed on the deck
before he climbed the rail to jump
overboard — stated that he had lost
all his savings speculating in stocks.
Butts Taxes Show Heavy Losses
Jackson.—Property value In Butts
county show a decrease of $192,000 over
1921, acording to the digest which has
just been completed by the tax receiv
er. Real estate showed a slight gain,
but there was a heavy falling off in
(personal property. The total amount
of property on the digest this year i:
$2,458,305, as compared with $2,650,305
in 1921. Real estate was returned at
an average of $9,165 per acre, showing
a gain of about one dollar per acre
over the assessed value in 1921. The
basis recommended by Tax Commis
sioner H. J. Fullbright was $10 pei
acre.
Tlllie Walker Hits 24th Home Run
Philadelphia, Pa.-Tillia Walker,
leading home run hitter of the Amer
ican League, smashed out "Numbai
24“ recently in the third inning of the
Washington-Philadelphia game. Erick
son was pitching for.Washington.
Six Colquitt Catle Owners Indicted
• Moultrie.—Six Colquitt county cattle
owners have been indicted by the grand
' jury > on charges of violating the tick
eradication law. The accused are C. W.
■ Beck, C. L. Autre, C. B. Beck, J. A.
| Bannister, Felix Carlton and C. L.
| King. The charges against the men
| grew out of their refusal to dip their
; herds on the first dipping day in July.
Previously they had taken part In a
mass meeting held here at which a
resolution was passed putting the au
thorities on notice “that all dipping of
cattle would stop in Colquitt after the
first of July.”
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FARM WAGONS I
AT PRE W\R PRICES I
“Hackney” “Onesboro” and “White |
Hickory.” f
You can take your choice they are all higfr 5
grade. We handle Vulcan Plows and Parts. §
You will probably not use much Fertilizers but &
will want what you do use to be strictly High &
Grade. , &
We make ours and know what’s in it and you do not J
have to pay and more than for the ordinary kind.
| IT WILL FAY)YOU TO FIGURE WITH US.
| HEARD BROTHERS
“ MACON, GEORGIA,
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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.
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McLendon Auto Co.
CALVIN E. McLENDON, Prop’r.
PERRY - GA.
DON’T BE DECEIVED
Buy your Goods for Cash and I will sell you, Grocer
ies, Hardware, Enamelware, Crockery, Stoves, Range*;,
Glassware, Churns, Etc., CHEAPER than any man ist
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 fiom me I will not sell jtm
one article for less than cost and make it up on somethmjg
else. All I ask is an opportunity to meet honest compe
tition on any line I [sell. *
Lets Forgetfthe Blues, Go To Work and Make
The Best of It.
J. W BLOODWORTH,
“THE FARMERS FRIEND.’^
PERRY, - GEORGIA.
We are in the market at all times for Seed Cot&xat
Cctton Seed, Peas, Velvet beans and all
other farm products
Bring us your products.
Perry Warehouse Co.