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DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE
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PERRY. HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY FEBRUARY 1, 1923-
No. 5
GOVERNMENT AID
COAL PffiaUCTION .DWELL DENIES .
M WEEVIL FI
IT SETS NEW RECORD CONSFIMCV PLOT
(FORMER CABINET MEMBER Me-
i ADOO GIVES GEORGIA PRAI3E
FOR MARKETING PLANS
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REPORT OUTPUT IS GREATER
THAN EVER AT PRESENT ‘
SEASON
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Sections Of
' The State
SUPPLY EXCEEDS DEMAND
Increase Is Due To Betterment 01
Transportation Conditions — Big
Demand East Of Mississippi
Atlanta.—Adequate federal appropri
ations for the purpose of launching a
impaign for the eradication of the
11 weevil is the solution to the agri
cultural problems confrQnting the farm
ers of the South, William G. McAdoo,
member of the Wilson cabinet, stated
In an Interview at the Georgian Ter
race during his recent three-hour visit
to Atlanta;
“It is most imperative that the fed
eral government recognize the need of
eliminating the weevil from the cotton
fidlds of the South. The Southern farm
ers and the states in the cotton belt are
laboring under a great handicap. Funds
are needed to apply knowledge that
has been gained by exhaustive expert-^
ments both on the part of the state and'
the government,’’ he said.
Mr.' McAdoo paid a tribute to the
Georgia farmers for establishing the co
operative marketing system In handling
ItCe cotton crop.
; “It is most' assuredly a step forward.
Organization and the elimination of lost
(motion is necessary for the agricultural
(success of any section. ’ With the co
operative system of marketing and free-
!dom from the ravages of the weevil
(Georgia would rebound to her former
:position of prominence among the agri
cultural states of the South.’’
Mr. McAdoo and his wife, who is
ithe second daughter of Woodrow* Wil
lson, alighted from the Augusta\train
’at the union station. They were greet
ed by a score of friends and admir
al’s. •
“It’s great to be a Georgian," the
(former secretary of the treasury and
(director general of raillroads, said as
Ihe stepped from the coach to the sta
tion platform, "and such weather—1
(don’t expect to find it any more de
lightful in California.’’
r.OWELL CAYS HE MADE
MONEY AT THE EXPENSE
OF UNITED STATE,-
NO
STIMSON SCORES CHARGES
Taft’s Secretary of WarJ3randa State-
moat As Being “Preposterous"
Io The Extreme
Washington. — Production of both
bituminous coal ahd anthracite is now
greater than it. ha3 ever been at this
season of the year, according to esti
mates made public by the geological
survey. For the week ending the
output of bituminous coal was placed
in the neighborhood of 11,000,000 tons,
with an anthracite production of ap
proximately 2,000,000 tons.
Increa'Bes in the daily average out
put from the bituminous mines, which
have been noted since the Christmas,,
holiday, the survey said, can be at
tributed to betterment of transporta
tion conditions. East of the Missis
sippi river, it was added, consumers
have been taking every ton of soft
coal it has been possible to mine and
transport, but west of the Mississippi
the supply has exceeded the demand
in many places and some mine opera
tions have been closed dovtfh because
of lack of market.
Summing up the results of 1922 pro
duction efforts in the anthracite fields
the survey pointed out that during
December a total of 9,430,000 tons was
turned out, a greater amount than was
ever previously mined during the same
period. Due to the five months’ min
ers’ strike, the output of anthracite for
the year, however, was only 52,485,000
tons, as compared with $0,473,000 dur
ing 1921.
PEACH TREE FERTILIZERS.
-j 91,900,000 Paid For Lyneh Interests
f New York.—Management of the mo-
lion picture theaters and film exchanges
[operated throughout the South by the
Southern Enterprises, incorporated, of
which S. A. Lynch of Atlanta is the
(head, has been taken over by the Fam-
E s-Lasky corporation, it is announced
Famous Players. The Picture cor-
ration, the;. Announcement fifty's, paid
(to the S. A. Lynch finance enterprise
(corporation approximately $1,900,000,
(Which appeared on the company's con
solidated balance sheets as a liability.
(Of this sum, $1,500,000 was paid in
accordance with an agreement by Fam-
ious Players-Lasky to issue to S. A.
(Lynch and his associates 15,000 shares
£ the common took of the Famou Play-
s-Lasky corporation, it 1b reported.
Collects Mora Than Half Of Salary
Los Angeles, Calif.—Of the $500,000
which Jackie Coogan, child film actor,
is said to havd received as a bonus
lor signing a contract with Metro Pic
tures corporation, $260,720 will go to
the government in the form of income
tax, according to figures made "public
by Rex B. Goodselt, bollector Internal
revenue.' The col; ctor explained his
estimate did n'ot include the tax oi
Jackie's reported salary of $1,250 a
week, that of his father at $1,000 .a
week, or Jackie's 60 per cent share
of the net profits of films in which he
is to be starred. J- .
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v Moultrie Market In Mules Aetlve
1 Moultrie.—Moultrie mule dealers re-
(port that not since 1919 have as many
mules been sold as have been on the
Jocal market during the past six weeks.
jOns of the suprprising features, it is
(stated, is the. large number of cash
(sales that have been made. The mule
dealers assert that conditions on the
(farms in this territory are more en
couraging than they-have been in a
Jong time. The outlook for this year
ils that crops will be fine, if seasons
are propitious. Less automobiles are
being sold.
Bodies Of Couple Found In Woods
Waco, Texas.-r-Bodies identified as
those of Ed Hold and Mrs. Ethel
Jacobs Denencamp were found lying
side by side abojat 100 yards from
the Springfield' road and half a mile
trim the Tehuacana creek bridge as
the result of a search which began
when a bloody and bullet-riddled auto
mobile was found in the heart of the
business section. The man had been
killed with a shotgun and the woman
by a pistol. A\ rope was found tied
around the man’s foot, and police be
lieve his- body had been dragged be
hind an automobile.
Want U. S. To Act On Reparations
Washington.—Desire for mediation
[Ofice Of Doctor Looted At Waycroaa
I Waycros3.—One of the most peculiar
robberies ever perpetrated here, and
which is puzzling the police occurred
f one night recently when a burglar ran
sacked the Bunn building, largest of
fice building in the city. As the bur
glar paid especial attention to the of
fices of the doctor, it led authorities
ito believe that the intruder was a
dope fiend In search of drugs. Six mor
phine tablets were stolen from the of-
, fices of Dr. W- D. Mixon on the sec
ond floor. So far the burglars go un-
wprehended.
that will bring a speedy- end to the j
state of near war existing between
France and Germany is growing here,
as the results of • re Ruhr occupation
are" beginning to be discerned. From
many sides comes the alarming predic
tion that central Euro^i is approach
ing a dissolution that will be as par
alyzing in its Effect on the world as
has -been the collapse of Russia. An
urgent cry that the United States, either
alone or. in co-operation with Great Brit
ain, “do something.”
Washington.—Benedict .Crow,ell, war
time asistant secretary of war, plead-
ed not guilty in the District of Colum
bia court to the indictment recently re
turned against him and six others here
charging consifiracy in connection with
the construction of army camps. .
Henry L. Stimson, who was secretary
of war in the cabinet of President
Taft, uppeared as counsel for Mr. Crow
ell, and also issued a statement, in
which.he declared the charges brought
againsf his client wore “preposterous.’’
It would be a sorry precedent, Mr.
Stimson added, if the war work of men
like Mr. Crowell w^re rewarded by sus
picion and dishonor.
Mr. Crowell, in presenting his plea,
reserved the right to withdraw it with
in thirty days, and substitue for it a
motion to quash the indictment. His
statement follows:
“I am charged In this indictment
with having joined a gigantic con
spiracy to conceal and\ parcel out for
corrupt personal profit the entire
building program of the war depart
ment during the late war. The charge
is that I waB engaged in such a plot
to make money- out of my position at
the expense of the nation and that
by so doing I obstructed the proper
conduct of (the war—even as the in
dictment says, to the producing of the
sickness and death of soldiers.
“The facts are that I never profited
one cent by the trust imposed in me
by the country. No such conspiracy
did or -could have existed. It is not
in human nature that a man, given
the opportunities for service that yrere
given to me in the time of ther coun
try’s need, could have devoted thoBe
two years in cqld blood to cheating
and wounding the nation for his own
miserable profit.
“The specification in the indictment
against me is that a contract , was
awarded the Cleveland Construction
company in May, 1918, and that at
that time the stock of the, Cleveland
Construction company was owned by
a company in the profits of which
was interested.
“ThiB charge Is absolutely false.
Furthermore, evidence of its falsity is
on record and bias been always avail
able to the department of justice.
Until I learned through the publio
press of the filing of this indictment,
I had received no intimation that any
such charge was even und'er consid
eration. It was not due to me per
sonally, but it was due to the office
which I had held and to the good
name of the nation to advise me of
this charge and listen to the facts.
“The personal wijong to me is com-
paratively unimportant, but the wrong
done to the Country in detracting from
the great national achievement of 1918
is not unimportant, and to publish
to the world the false charge that the
United States in that critical year
placed the direction of the supply of
its army in the hands of a traitor and
a cheat is a wrong done to every citi
zen.”
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Scab rook Becomes Mayor Of Savannah
Savannah.—Judge Paul E. Seabrook,
with 12 new aldermen, six of nvhom
were chosen as Stewart men in the
primary election In December and six
of whom were from the Rogers side of
the primary contest, will take office
soon. —
J. W. BLOODWORTH
“THE FARMERS,EMEND.”|
- GEORGIA.
We are in the market at all times for Seed Cotton,
Hughes Denies That He Will Resign
Washington.—Taking cognizance of
published reports that he might re
sign from the cabinet, Secretary
Hughes recently authorized the state
ment that he had no intention of do
ing so.
I Home Town Folks Fete Movie Star
| Cordele.—Walter Hiera, nationally
. known cinema star, left Cordele for
Amoricus, after having been royally
feted by his old home town during a
one day visit. A delegation of 500 peo
ple, most of them having known him
when he was a little fatb oy in short
trousers, met the train _on which the
comedian and his bride 'reached town
from a visiU to Savannah and Doug
las. A reception was. held for him
He left. Cordele
Males Lead Suicide List In New York
New York—Of the'839 persons who
killed themselves in New York last
year, 586 were males and 253 females,
acording to the annual report of Chief at the Suwanee hotel
Medical ‘Examiner Norris, Married about twenty years ago. He visited rel-
folks were in the majority, 315 mar- y.tives in Americus.
ried men and 141 married women tak- "
i&g their own lives. /
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