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JOHN H. HODGES, Prop*r.
DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA„ THURSDAY FEBRUARY 15, 1923.
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No. 7
CONGRESS FORMS SPECIAL COM
. MITTEE TO MEET RETURN OF
I SOLDIERS FROM RHINE
CONFERENCE BREAKS UP,. AS
i TURKS REFUSE TO ACCEPT,
I TREATY—PEACE FAILS
INCREASE CUSTOMS FORCE ALLIES PUT BLAME ON TURKS
- Bill Passed To Appoint Committee Was t Lord Cuzon Bolts Conference—Italians
j . ’ Presented By Senator Harris j And French Make Desperate But
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Of Georgia
Futile Efforts For- Agreement
! Washington.—Forming a special j Lausanne.—Tlie European statesmen
committee to greet the return of Amer- have failed to rertore peace in the
icpn- soldiers from the Rhine, a large !Near East, and the conference called
delegation of congressmen ana* sena* ;for this purpose definitely collapsed
FEDERAL AGENTS SAID TO HAVE
BEEN SHOT WHILE TRYING
TO ENFORCE LAW'S
STATE
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Brief Nowd Items Gathered Here And
Thcro From All Sections Of
The State
..tors-.left Washington for Savannah, after desperate efforts to saVe it—ef-
yrhere the first consignment of troops forts W hich were continued up to the
' m t0 E S H Veml “T Very moment Lord Curzon's train left,
hers of the Georgia delegation were in- J , ,. , „ , .
eluded in the party. . | Never in the history of political con-
Occupying a special train, the con- ferences were such amazing scenes
gressional party te scheduled to ar- witnessed as marked the recent tragic
I rive at the Georgia city, and will re- ending of the negotiations, which ex-
main throughout the celebration, which, tended over almost three months,
according to local reports, will be par- Practically the whole diplomatic world
,ticipated in by officials of the state ran after Ismet Pasha, head of the
• and the city of Savannah. Turkish delegation, trying to" induce
• Under a bill presented by Senator him to sign the treaty, but Muotapha
Harris of Georgia, and passed by both Kemal’s favorite geuerqj, with gentle
. houses, an official congressional com- smile, was immovable. He said ,f no”
mittee composed of five members of to, all—Americans, British, French and
the house and five of the senate, is pro- Italian,
Tided to represent congress.
The American representatives, Am-
i The Georgia senator also conferred hassador Child, Joseph Grew and Rear
with the war department and the cus- Admiral Bristol, called upon him after
|toms division .of the treasury about ex- the break, in an endeavor to save the
Ipediting the examination of baggage conference and Lord Curzon delayed
(of the troops, who are being trans- his departure for half an hour in the
ported on the S. S. St. Mihiel. Four hope that Ismet Pasha would change
Inspectors from Norfolk have been or- his mind, but all in vain,
dered by the customs officials to ajsipt 1 The con f erQnC e failed because the
Collector. George Denny, in charge^ of Turks refused to accept the clauses
tjie port at Savannah. | concerning the future economic re-
I Speaker Gillett appointed the follow- gi me in Turkey, and, to some extent,
because they would not accept the
allied formula dealing with judicial
0 ing five world war veterans as mem
bers of the house delegation:
Representatives Johnson, South Da
kota; Reese, Tennessee, and LIneber-
ger, California, Republicans, and Con-
1 nolly, Texas, and Bulwlnkle, North
Carolina, Democrats.
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guarantees for foreigners, which were
to replace the existing extra-territorial,
privileges.
Briefly the Turks wanted to strike
froin the treaty all clauses binding
1 1 them to recognize contracts and con-
Russ Refusal To Sign Upset. L * u »* nn ®cessions granted by the old Ottoman
Lausanne, Switzerland. —-Although empire. They maintained that they
such action had been expected, Bol- should be left free to study these
sheviki Russia's refusal to Bign the questions, and, If necessary, re-open
ppace. treaty setting forth conditions negotiations concerning them with the
for the opening of the straits of the interested countries and peoples.
Dardanelles and the Bosphorus and the j They could not, they said, accept
demilitarization of the straits zones, the economic burden imposed upon
caused depreesston in near east- confer- the new Angora government by the
ehce circles. M. Tchltcherlp, the lead- 0 i<j Turkish regime, which had hand
ing Russian delegate, urged that the eg out concessions right and left in
whole question with regard to the the form of capitulations; they insist-
Straits be reopened. By doing this, the eg that vast concessions had been
Bolshevik foreign minister declared the granted without fair return and they
allies would repair their fault qf seek-* Wanted the right to revise all of them,
ing to impose fipon Russia treaty which The Thrks agreed to a formula
Russia had pot had suitable oppor- j whereby foreign legal advisers would
tunity to discuss. His request was re- fog appointed to refrarae the iegal cpde
fused by the allies. [and be empowered to receive -com-
^ Turn- T. Poultry'in Weevjl Fight * h “ H
‘ Locust Grove, Ga.—Many fanners in '"■lastly administered, but Insist-
this section are planning to enter the
poultry business as their part In the v . ,. . ,
,ffght against the boll weevil. The bat by n ® ll * ral c . oun '
ed that the- advisers be selected not
by the Hague permanent court of in-
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latest to enter this work are 8. A.
Castellans and W. W- Cleveland, two,
prominent farmers near here, edefc of'
whqm recently has ordered one thou
sand white leghorn ehleksns.
(Long Terms For Vendors Of Bsoze
( Chicago.—Vendors of poison hootch,
•which is declared to have 'killed more
(than 50 persona in Chicago during
(January, will be sent to the peniten
tiary" for long terms if a bill soon to
ibe introduced in the Illinois legisla
ture becomes law. The campaign was
launched by the members of the Ty-
Ipothetae, an organization representing
•400 large printing concerns here. These
business men acted when too many
"blind-pigs" began to spring up around
their plants, and declare present stat
utes are inadequate.
tries which had not participated Jn
the -groat.war./...
Statenville.—Dr. Horn, of Atlanta,
federal dipping agent for the state of
G*0orgia, arrived here and swore out
affidavits upon which warrants were
issued for tho arrest of Mann Carter,
and his son, Will, on charges of mur
der.
Th warrants were placed in the
hands of Sheriff W. W. Pennington,
of Echols county, but he reported that
ho had beeu unable to locate either of
the men named in tho warrants.
The Carters are alleged to have shot
and killed Mack Loclcridge, federal
cattle dipping inspector,, and also to
have wounded ,R. S. Ritchley, hfs as
sistant, both of Dawson, Ga.
For* more than a year there have
been clashes between federal officers
and farmers of this section over the
enforcement of the cattle dipping law
for the eradication of ticks. Several
persons have been shot. The govern
ment established a camp near here,
with two machine guns and other
arms, In an attempt to stop the waw
fare.
Valdosta.—So far as can be learned
here no arrests have been made in
the Echols county murder near Staten
ville, although warrants have been
sworn out for Mann Carter and his
son, Will Carter, it is reported. R.
S. Ritchley, of the federal ‘force of
dipping inspectors, who was shot in
the back and seriously wounded, in re
ported to be improving.
■ Jn^ftfotamept. at the hospital Ritch
ley gave a full account of the tragedy.
•Contrary to reports given out, he
stated that the Carters were not plow
ing in a. field when they were ap
proached by agents, but were bird
hunting.
It is reported that several, federal
officers left this city for the scene of
the trouble.
'Bituminous Coal Crisis Is Now Passed
, Washington.—Stocks of bituminous
coal, in storage in the United States on
^January 1 amounted to thirty-six mil-
Ilion tons, as- compared with thirty-two
(million tons on November 1, accord-
ling to F. R. Wadleigh, federal fuel
(distributor, who declares that the con-
Idition indicates that th9 bituminous
(coal crisis created by last year’s strike
ifcas- definitely passed. The estimate of
!the amount of'coal in storage is based
iqn a survey made by the distributor
.! m ; co-operation with the geological
^survey and the ..census bureau.
Doctor Grant Escapes Trial For Haras*
/Now Tork.—Rav. Dr. Percy Stickney
Grant will ntft be tiled for heresy be
cause of vacant sermons before his
pastorate hi the Protestant Episcopal
Church of the Ascension, he wee In
formed in a letter from Bishop Wil
liam T. Manning. The bishop, who
had requested Rev. Dr. Grant , to “re
cant or resign,” because of his pro
fessed doubt of the deity of Jesus,
said he would let t*e matter rest for
the present, because the pastor, reply
ing to the request, had not made clear
whether he really doubted Christ's deity
or not. According to the law of the
church, however, anr two presbyters
or five laymen can bring charges. , *
Dreamed Whan Bicycle Dropa In Canal
Augusta.—The body of William
Claa Mills, 13-year-old white boy, who
has been missing from his home for
two weeks, waa found floating In the
canal opposite the power house here.
.The bey was reported missing by his
uncle, George Mills, on January 18,
and the town has been combed by
the police in their search for him, but
ef no avail. The body ‘jraa found by
two whits men just above the Butt
memorial bridge. The bicycle en
which the lad was riding at the time
he plunged into the canal was found
also above where his body was found.
The supposition is that the boy was
riding down the canal hank and the
handle ban of the bicycle became
loose, causing him to lose control of
his, wheel and he plunged into the
water.
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PERRY - GA.
GOOD TIMES COMING
We Are Prepared To Meet Them
Radio Measure Is Passed By House
Washington.—The federal control
bill was passed by the house. The
bill vests broad "powers in the depart
ment of commerce for regulation and
supervision of all phases of wireless
telegraph and telephone communica
tion, and js intended to bring order
out of the chaos in the air as the re
sult of thousands of stations compet
ing'on similar wave lengths. Licenses
Would be required from all transmit
ting operators, except government em
ployes, and the secretary of commerce
would assign wave lengths to various
(stations and supervise, where neces-
•,B3zy their sending periods. . ...
8k*rtff stow* Pimm Away
Toecoft.—foiLwrtag the death at his
father, W. A, Stowe, sheriff of Steph
ens county recently, after a long ill-
ness, VM4 A- Stowe will be appelated
; sheriff by Ordinary B. P. Brown. An
election for the successor of W. A.
! Stowe will be called, and It is believed
the appointee will have no opposition
for the a^expirod torm. W. A. Stowe
was the first sheriff elected after the
creation ef Stephens county in 1908,
and served continuously up to his
death, jbxcept for one term. Fred A.
j Stowe has • been active deputy in
I charge of the office of the sheriff for
' .some months past.
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PERRY, - GEORGiA.
Greeks Establish Two Branch Lodges
Atlanta.—After establishing lodges
of the American Hellenic Educational
Progressive association at Charleston,
8. C., and Savannah, Ga., George A.
i iPoulos, supreme deputy of the or-
| sanitation, returned to Atlanta. Na
tional headquarters are maintained in
; Atlanta. The order is purported to
(bring American Greeks in closer touch
with American ideals. It was organ
ized here six months ago with 100
(members. At present there are five
with a- total membership o1
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