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JOHN H. HODGES, Proper. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE
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VOL. LIII.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY JANUARY 18. 1923.
TURKS WANTTO SIGN
DECLARES CHIilD’S ATTITUDE
APPEARS COUNTER TO AMER
ICAN INTERESTS ^
KEMALISTS N6T DAUNTED
British, However, May Not Get Chance
To Split Oil Concessions With
U. -S., Says Ferld
Lausanne.—Perld Bey, the Turkish
nationalist representative at Paris,
who is at present In Lausane, said:
"Should the conference break down
We will return home and wait until
the allies agree to our present terms.
We will thereby possibly reduce the
national debt further and save hldfey
that would otherwise be spent In com
merce.”
Asked it It was true that France
was prepared to sign a separate trea
ty with Turkey In case of a rupture,
he replied:
“If so, I am not aware of it. But
it is to be remarked that we still have
an accord with France, signed In Oc
tober, 1921.
“We are quite willing to sign sep
arate treaties with any country; we
are most anxious to sign a c.ommer-
' cial agreement with jthe Unlte'd States,
although the attitude of Ambassador
Child at Lausanne so far has run
counter to what appears to us the
interests of the United /States. While
,we like Americans^ above all others in
certain respects, it would seem to us
by Ambassador Child’s declaration re
garding the open door that the Ameri
can oil interests have succeeded in
getting a promise of part of Mosul
lrom the British. The Americans are
satisfied with this, whereas it is not
at all certain that the British will get
Mosul.”
The Turks are not daunted by the
prospect of a rupture, according to
Ferid Bey. If it comes, it is expect
ed to be on the oil question. Ferld
pointed out that the Mosul fields, if
operated by the British, would neces
sarily be connected with the. Mediter
ranean sea by pipelines through Turk
ish territory. Ferid stated that there
were other oil fields well within'Tur
key which possibly were as riih as
those in Mosul.
Passengers Taken Prom Disabled Ship
Havana, Cuba.—Three hundred and
twenty-three passengers from the Ger
man transatlantic liner Holsafia,
which is stranded on a sand key in;
the Florida channel near Carysport,'
have been taken on board the French
liner De la Salle, according to wire
less messages picked up here this eve-
v ning. The American steamer Esper-
anza also has some of the passengers.
Both the rescue ships will arrive here.
Tugs from 'Key West stand by the
4 Holsatia, which apparently is undam
aged.
[Coal Miners’ Strike Declared Remote
! West Frankfort, UL—Assurance fhat
there would not be a" coal miners’
strike next spring, was expressed by
.Frank Farrington, president of the Il
linois Mine Workers ( in a telegram to
Lon Fox, president of the West Frank
fort sub-district of the union.
! Ror^t Banks Aid Cotton Planters
_; Rome.—At a largely attended meet
ing of Rome bankers and business men
held here, it was decided to create a
revolving fund of from $15,000 to $20,.
GOO to aid the cotton growers of Floyd
county In making a better cotton crop
•next season. The fund will be used
ito put the best seed and sufficient cal
cium arsenate to fight the boll weevil
; and half of the amount will be advan-
■ ced by local banks and. the other hall
by local merqhants and others inter
ested.
pity Of Athens Has Money In Bank
Athens.—Athens city administration
ended 1922 with over five thousand
dollars balance in the banks, the first
this has occurred in many years, it
is declared in the financial report tc
city council. The financial report shows
that the city enjoyed a splendid year,
despite depressing ' conditions. The
bond commission report shows that the
bonds issued by, this city find eagei
buyers in "the financial market.
EMBASSY UMBOS
WILL
MOVE IS INAUGURATED BY THE
FEDERAL AUTHORITIES ON
LIQUOR SHIPMENTS
6RGANIZEDTRAFF1C RUMORED
May A'Uk State Department To Call Sit
uatlon To Attention Of The
Country Involved
Washington.—A close check has been
inaugurated by federal prohibition au
thorities on liquor shipments consigned
to foreign embassies and legations here
with a view to determining whether dis
proportionate supplies are being
brought through the American customs
to these favored destinations.
If the investigation discloses that an
embassy or legation is receiving sup
plies out of proportion to the needs
of its staff for personal use and offi
cial entertaining, the state department
will be asked to call the situation to
the attention of the foreign government
involved. \
The watch on liquor supplies of for
eign negations was an outgrowth of
charges that some legations in Wash
ington are being used as the medium
of supplying the local bootleg trade,
it has been said officially.
Rumors of an organized traffic in
liquor brought in by some of the em
bassies and legations reached the po
lice some time ago, it was said, but
indications that these were more than
mere rumors are now declared to have
been found during successive raids-in
three apartmenj houses in th9 fashion
able northwest' section.
Lieut. O. T. Davis, chief of the vice
squad, under whose' direction the raids
were conducted, declared information
had reached the police that attaches of
some of these establishments have been
parties to this traffic.
Committee Report To Favor Daugherty
Washington.—The house in impeach
ment proceedings possesses the power
held by courts to compel the attend
ance and testimony of witnesses, Rep
resentative Sumners, Democrat, of Tex
as, declared in a report filed with ,the
judiciary committee in the Keller-
Daugherty controversy. The question
has never been settled in this country,
said 1%. Sumners, who added that
decision In this case probably would
establish a precedent. It will come be
fore the committee at its next meeting
to formulate a report on th<5 impeach
ment charges made against Attorney
General Daugherty by Representative
Keller, Republican, of /Minnesota, and
it is thought the report will be favor
able to Daugherty.
Fontaine Loses Against C. V. Whitney
Amsterdam, N. Y.—Supreme Court
Justice Borst dismissed the action of
Evan 'Burrows Fontaine, dancer,
against Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney,
son of Harry Payne Whitney, of New
York, to recover $1,000,000 for breach
of promise. He held that the testi
mony of the plaintiff was without cre-
dsnce and that he did not believe there
wa9 ever any promise of marriage or
that young Whitney was the father of
her child, as alleged in the complaint
New Treasury Note ~Now, Offering
Washington.—The treasury announces
a new offering of 4 1-2 per cent treas
ury notes, dated January 15. and matur.
ing December 15, 1937. The issue is
for about $300,000,000 with the right
reserved to allot additional securities
of the issue to the extent that Victory
notes of- war savings certificates are
tendered, in, payment or exchange. About
$200,000,000 of the Victory notes called
for redemption December 16 still are
outstanding, according to treasury fig
ures, and something like $400,000,000 ol
the 1918 issue of war savings stamps
GEORGIA MAKES FINE RECRUIT-
’ ING RECORD DURING THE
PAST YEAR
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Hero And
There From All Sections Of
The State
Atlanta.—A total of 531 young men
from the state of Georgia enlisted in
the army of Fort McPherson during
the year 1922, according to figures com
piled by Lieutenant James F. Morri
son, the post recruiting officer and
made public the other day'. . The Fort,
McPherson office enlisted a total of
961 men; the additional man being from
the eastern section of Alabama and a
part of South Carolina.
The city of Atlanta and Fulton coun
ty led in the number of recruits with
97, slightly less than one-fifth of the
entire number of Georgians. A total
of 434 recruits was obtained from the
66 counties comprising the northern
half of the state. Lieutenant Morri
son’s figures carry only those counties
in'Georgia within a radius of one hun
dr-ed miles from Atlanta. The counties
in the southern section of the state
Are recruited from Fort Benning and
a few counties near the southern bor
der are recruited from Fort Oglethorpe.
Hall county was second in the num
ber of recruits with 30, with Cobb third
with 25 and DeKalb fourth with 18.
Other counties enlisting more than ten
men for the army during the past
year follow:
Floyd, 15; Spalding, 15; Gwinnett,
14; Clarke, 13; Cherokee, 11; Jackson,
11, and Madison, 11.
\ From five to ten recruits were ob
tained in thirteen counties, while 28
counties had from one to five men.
Putnam, Jasper, Heard, Milton, Daw
son, Lumpkin, Fannin, ’’Towns and Ra
bun counties were the only ones in
the Fort McPherson sector that did not
offer a recruit during 1922.
In addition to the hundreds enlist
ed there were nearly as many reject
ed for mental and physical disquali
fications.
The large number of rejections Is
due to the lack of education and weight
in m*ny of applications for enlist-
'ment,” Lieutenant Morrison said.
“Though regretable many / of t£e
young men who leave the farm to j$jp
the army have to be turned down
becausq they cannot pass the literacy
alone true/for this
test. This Is
section, but for" all other places where
the army is recruiting men.”
Irish Factions Make Peace Overtures
Dublin, Ireland.—A definite move to
ward peace between the rish republi
cans and the Free Staters, is undez
way, it is learned with the announce
ment that a peace convention will meet
here with 150 delegates, two from each
branch of the Sinn Fein organization
in the city and county of Dublin in
attendance.
Van Swearingens Get the C. & O. R. R
Cleveland, Ohio.—Control of the
Chesapeake and Ohio railway by the
Van Swearingen interests of Cleveland
has been formally announced in a
statement by O. P. Van Swearingen,
following an announcement from Wash
ington that the Van Swearingen inter
ests had made formal application to the
interstate comerce commission for per.
mission to hold places on the board
of directors of that company.
Women Planning Equal Rights Fighl
Washington.—A nation-wide cam
paign for equal rights for women, su
pervised by leaders of the National
Woman’s Party, lias been inaugurated
by that organization, it is anntpncee
here, and soon will swing into action
in 41 states. Equal rights bills hayc
been drafted, it ia said, for introduc
tion at sessions' o^f the state legislative
bodies this year.' States in which the
Woman’s Party leaders will center theij
efforts include Alabama, Arkansas, Ok
lahoma, North Carolina, South Carolina,
^Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia.
Army Deserters Are Slain In Ireland
Dublin. Ireland.—Five deserters from
/ the national army were executed in
Dublin by*.the Free State government.
; The men were found fighting on the
side of the irregulars, the government
announces.
TWo Convicts Escape In Coffee County
Douglas.—Search for two men who,
late at night, overpowered a guard at
the county convict camp, here, and es
caped, was being carried on throughout
Georgia early in the week'. The two
convicts, John Theas and Nina Brox-
ton, were both serving sentences for
murder.
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