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PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY,MARCH 8, 1923.
No. m
CONVICT FLOGGING
PASSES LEAGUE EXPENSES IS PUT TO AN END
HQ MAJORITY IN SENATE VOTE
AUTHORIZING RETURN 0>
PROPERTY
DISTRICT ATTORNEY PECORA
SAYS HE WAS OBLIGED
TO TAKE STEP
GOVERNOR HARDWICK ISSUES
ORDER ENDING USE OF
LASH IN PRI80N
FFORT OF RAYBURN FAILS GRAND LARCENY CHARGED STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
(The Vote Was 300 to '11, And Came
After House Had Rejected Amend
ments Restoring All Property
Indictment Of William H. Anderson,
New York State Superintendent
Of League, May Be Ir&lcted
Washington. — The administration
ill directing the return of as much
as $10,000 of each estate of former
enexriy aliens held by the alien prop
erty custodian, was passed by the
house. It now goes to the senate.
• The vote was 300 to 11 and came
-fter the house had rejected amend-
ents proposing restoration of all of
the property; return of all of the prop-
rty of Austrian nationals and the dec-
.aration of policy by congress that
all of the property would be restored
ltimately.
Renewing before the final vote his
ffort to provide'for the restoration of
1 of the property held by the cus-
odlan, Representative Rayburn, Dem-
crat, Texas, moved to recommit the
ill with instructions to the interstate
ommerce committee was voted down,
81 to 124.
Opposing the amendment by Repre
sentative Hoch, Republican, Kansas,
hich would have written a deolara-
ion of policy into the measure, Repre-
entative Fees, Ohio, and Graham, Illi-
ois, Republican, declared there was
o intention to confiscate the proper
ty of former enemy aliens and that it
is unnecessary for the United States
to make any declaration on the sub-
ect.'
Representative Fess said the Hoch
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New York.—Acting DistriW Attorney
Pecora recently went before the grand
•Jury with the request that William
H. Anderson, state superintendent of
the Anti-Saloon League of New York,
be indicted on a charge of grand lar
ceny, and presented as his first wit
nesses, the Rev. Dr. George Caleb
Moor, secretary, and Bertram H. Fan-
cher, treasurer of the league.
After Dr. Moor's testimony had been
heard, Mr. Pecora presented as evidence
the books of the league. With the com
pletion of Mr. Faneher’s testimony, the
grand jury adjourned until Miss Maude
M. O’Dell, confidential secretary to Mr.
Anderson, and Miss Mary Hill, assist
ant treasurer of the league, can be
beard.
Mr. Pecora, before entering the Jury
room, declared it was imperative that
the Rev. pr. David James Burrell,
president of the league, appear before
the grand jury tp explain certain as
pects of the league’s financial rela
tions with Anderson.
He said Edgar T. Brackett, counsel
to Anderson, had notified him that the
aged clergyman was too ill to appear.
Mr. Brackett promised, he said, to con
fer with Doctor Burrell’s physician, and
to ascertain whether it would not be
possible for Doctor Burrell to coma
mendment would mean that the Unit- ! before the grand Jury for a short pe-
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d States would *be giving a "oertifi-
te” of its policy which would bis un*
recendented.
Representatives Rayburn, Hawes,
temocrats, Missouri, and Garrett,
ennessee, the Democratic leader, led
he fight for return at this time of all
t the property. It was argued that
"e passage of the hlH la the form pro
sed would be notice to the would,
at the American government had
rsaken its tradition* of international
Orality and was prepared to "confla
te” the property for the payment of
laimts of its eitisens against Germany
~ the German government failed to
y {hem.
Aside from to* rstsra «f #H bust*
$10,0*0 or less and a Bke amevet
trusts whose vatoe exetorifo thta
mount, the Wfl wtmfK pwvide that «d
‘ncome accmlwg from the treat*
fter the mensur* became efle*ttve,J
hould be repaid to toe original awn-'
of the property.
rlod.
Mr. Pecora said his request tor an
indictment charging the state super
intendent with grand larceny would be
based on disposition ef $2-1,700, which,
the dry leader said, had been used tor
publicity purpose*.
Mr. Pecora said he had net desired
to bring the ease before the grand Jnry,
but had been toreed to de se, because
ef Mr. Anderson’s refusal to make any
explanation of his expenditure.
Mr. Anderson, having refused to
waive immunity, wtfl not appear be
fore the grand iary, Mr. Pecora said.
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Section* Of
• The State
Atlanta.—Governor Hardwick re
cently issued his order abolishing the
use of the lash in the convict campB
and prisons of Georgia, and giving his
reasons therefor.
Squarely on the ground that the
constitution of Georgia prohibits whip
ping, the governor bases his order.
"If the constitution forbids the
courts to impose flogging as a pun
ishment for crime,” he declares, “sure
ly it likewise forbids the officers or
agents of any executive department
of the government from inflicting
flogging or whipping as a part, al
though incidental and direct, of the
punishment.
For years opposition has existed to
the use of the lash. Repeated though
unsuccessful efforts have been made
to get it abolished. Some months ago
a committee representing the Council
of Christian Churches of, Atlanta pre
sented the governor a legal brief un
dertaking to show that the constitution
has a provision which forbids whip
ping as a punishment for crime, is
applicable likewise to whipping as a
means of discipline in carrying out a
punishment for crime.
Governor Hardwick was Impressed
by the arguments and citation in the
brief.
He submitted it to Attorney General
Napier, who held that whipping is a
violation at least of the spirit of the
constitution. The governor then laid
the matter before the prison commis
sion. They urged him to let a test
oaee be brought in toe courte to settle
the constitutional question.
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"Hammer Murderess" Makes W* HR
Los Angeles, Cal.—Clan Phillips,
the much pursued "hammer murder
ess,” is making a hit with habitues of
Chihuahua night life rworts, according
to reports to SherffY TrASge* frtfrn One
'informant, a young Mexican, declared
that be had smoked a pipe of opium
with her. "Clara bee bcedaaa quite
friendly with Influential young Ckihua-
huans,” he said, "and they have deohns
ed that they will prevent btir being
smuggled out of the oountoy toe way
(little Phil’ Algufn wap. Shi was. re-
neLtly In CJhlhuahene.*’
Charge* Against Berger Are BtwwtbePd
Chicago,—Charges ef eoasptmey to
abstract the recruiting at military
i ferece against Vfetoir BergOr, Mflw**-
i kee Socialist, and three defendants
eenvleted with him, three years age,
were dismissed by Judge James H.
Wllkcrson when the ease earns before
him. Berger, with Adolph flermer, sec
retary Socialists patty; WfgJaaa V.
Kras#, national secretary Of the
Young People’s Socialist party; Louie
Engdahl, and Irwin St John Took#?,
Episcopal rector, were sentenced to
twenty years tmprisenaont
| Planter And Wife Are Injured
‘ Stillmore. — Burntor Weatherford,
prominent planter, of near Grarmont,
and his wife, were painfully injured
When their, automobile was struck by
a freight train at Wade, GA, eight
miles north of here, on the Georgia
and Florida. The car was completely
demolished by the crash.
, Girl And Escort Injured By Car
Macon.—Miss Mary Hall, 17, 0 f 9
Lake City street, East Mason, suffer
ed a broken leg when she was nin
oyer by an automobile driven by w.
H. Perry, an employee of the Jeffiies-
McElreath Lumber company. Roger
L. Wood, her companion, who lives at
3.0 Lake City street, was bruised and
scratched and his clothing torn „in- the
same accident. Perry is being ’.held
in Bibb county jail charged with driv
ing an automobile while drunk, being
dntok on toe highway, and violating
tog state motor vehicle law . %
Probe Of Wealth Of U. H
Washington.—An inquiry to deter
mine the amount and ownership of the
"chief kinds Of wealth’) in the tfaited
States would be made by toe federal
trade commission, under a resolution
Introduced in the senate by Senator i
Norris, Republican, Nebraska, but, on
objection of Senator Smoot, Repbuli-
can, Utah, consideration of the resolu
tion was postponed; Asserting that the
output of tax-free securities had a total
seriously handicapping vital industries
in need of credit, the resolution declar
ed for an intelligent tax policy.
Judge Harley Dies At Sparta-
■ Sparta-.—Judge R. B. Harley, *3, one
;of toe oldest attorneys at toe local
bar and a man of wide information,
died suddenly at his country home
near here. He died before medical at
tention could be given him.
•herlfFa Delay Savea Negro's Life
Atlanta.—Fifteen minutes after he
was supposed to be dead* Boscoe Al
len, an Ig-year-oM negro, was saved
from Ike hangman’s noose in the Ful
ton county Jail when Governor Hard
wick oommutod his sentence to life
fan prison meat Allen was scheduled
to knag at U o'clock, but Sheriff J.
I. Lowry, knowing that a laat minute
Appeal wan being mads to the gover
ns*, delayed the execution a few mo
ment*. Fifteen minutes later came a
telephone message from the govsr-
Dot's sftlsc that Alton’s death len
ten## has boon commuted to life im
prisonment. But tor the. voluntary
delay by Sheriff Lowry, the young
negro’s sommatation would, have been
•15 miautes late.
Pfenning Development Offices
Savannah.—-Extensive office room
has been engaged in Savannah as
headquarters for toe development of
flees ef the Seaboard Air Line rail
way, it wse announced by dement C.
Ucker, director of development for
the Seaboard. Mr. Ucker has made
arrangements for the establishment of
two sections of the Seaboard develop
ment department, and Savannah will
be headquarters. Jesse M. Jones, of.
Norfolk, will come to Savannah to
he head of the agricultural section,
The other section will be the indus
trial, for which a head is now being
sought.
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South Carolinian Hits The Speculators
Washington.—Speculators are reap
ing a harvest of millions of dollars
each year at toe expense of toe South
ern cotton planters, Representative
Fulmer, Democrat, South Carolina,
said, recently, at hearings before the
house agricultural committee on his
bill which would make government cot
ton grades binding on all of the prod:
uct shipped in,interstate .commerce, j
Farmer Shoot# Wife And Kills Himself
Knoxville, Tenn.—Officers recently
attributed to insanity the dual tragedy
in Pigeon creek community when Dud
ley Russell, prosperous farmer, shot his
wife through toe back as she was pre
paring supper and then killed himself.
German Rewards A British Officer
Vancouver, B. C. — Major J. C
Thorne, of this city, has received word
that he has been left a manor in Ger
many by Herr Gartner, whose grand
son Major Thorne, while a prisoner of
war, saved from death under a train
in Leipsig. A codicil to Herr Gartner’s
will recites that the legatee, “although
an enemy of my country, did in the sta
tion, while under armed guard, jump in
front of an approaching train and saved
little Karl." Major Thorne, at the
time of the rescue, was being transfer
red to Cuestin for solitary confinement.
J. W. BLOODWORTH
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