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PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1923-
No. 12
!U. S. mu BATTLE 48 PERSONS KILLED
.WITH PLANES IN TERRIFIC STORES
I WILL SCATTER POISON OVEtH | N SOME p LACES WIND REACHES
WIDE AREAS IN VERY i VELOCITY OF EIGHTY MILLS
SHORT TIME j AN HOUR
WORK WILL START IN M TWO TENN. TOWNS WRECKED
Department Of Agriculture Calls or
j* . War Department For Plans To
I . Begin Work
Nine Reported Killed In Kentucky.
Three Killed At Richmond—Deaths
! Are Reported In Several States
£:•" Washington.—The boll weevil, which
S' has cost cotton planters of the South
5-,' billions of dollars and hag withstood
; numerous onslaughts aimed at theii
eradication, now will be attacked from
• ihs air by army planes in a new method
: • of .‘Warfare,
The department of agriculture called
V of the war department for a loan of
Rj several airplanes and three specially
equipped machines have been furnish
ed, it is announced. ‘
Active work against the boll weevil
will start In June at the experiment
station at Tallulah, La., where last year ,
effective results were accomplished by
the same method against the cotton leaf
worm. |
Special spraying apparatus will be
attached to the planes, which will scat-’
ter poison over the fields. Agents
■of the department believe this is the
most practical method yet advanced;
lor the control of the boll -yyeevil and
■early experiments indicate the system
could be adopted with beneficialKpe- j
suits over the entire cotton belt. j
. Secretary Wallace requested thir
teen planes, five for a period of 32
months and eight for four months.
Secretary Davis said he had conferred
with Major General Patrick, chief of
the army air service, and found such
a shortage of equipment and person-
I riel as to make full compliance with
the agricultural department's request
impossible. In assigning the three ma
chines and pilots, he said the war de-
payments had made a maximum effort
Sto co-operate.
Torm Credit Banks To Be Chartered
Washington.—The federal farm loan
board has completed all necessary steps
■tip . to the actual issuing o'f charters
So the new, government-financed inter
mediate credit banks to put into opera
tion the new credit system to aid the
farmer. "Maximum service but ele
mental safety," is the guiding policy
Under which the board has completed
.-regulations to begin operation of the
system. Until it has been determined
Just how far it would be called upon
•tp aid in agricultural financing, Com
missioner Lobdell of the board said,
3d discussing the plan of operation,
loans under the new system, tempora
rily at least, will be limited to a basis
of nine months' maturity.
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS DEM-
ON8TRATE RETURN TO NOR
MAL BUSINESS
Dlrl Sues “Babe'? Ruth Far *00,000
New York.—George Herman
3("BabQ”) Ruth has been made defend
ant in a suit for $50,000 brought by
attorneys for Miss Delores Dixon, 19,
who charges that the baseball player,
assaulted her at various' times la«t
summer, Ruth?* attorney disclosed re-
cently. The attorney, Hyman Bushel,
nays Ruth declares he is being black
mailed, fid, ia a telegram from New
York sis ad by himself and Mrs. Ruth,
nays he^would “not pay a cent,” butt
would “fight the charges to the limit’*
~l Boy In Killed Accidentally
1 OcIIla. — Tommy Reid, 14-year-old
<son of W. J. Reid, accidentally shot
himself to death recently at hlB home
eight miles east of Ocilla. He took
'his shot gun and went into the yard
to shoot a hawk and in crossing a low
fence around the yard slipped and fell
in such a way as to cause the gun to
discharge. The entire load entered
his chest. Other members of the fam
ily were in the house and rushed to
him immediately but life was extinct,
the lad having died instantly.
jicts Extension Of League Ruling
ew York.—Extension) throughout
country of the ruling of an Albany
■t classing the Anti-Saloon League
i political organization and requir-
lt to publish information on its cam-
;n expenditures, was predicted by
Ransom Gillette, counsel for the
(ciation, against the prohibition
ndment, in a statement isssed by
organization.
. Chicago.—Forty-six persons lost their
Jives in the recent great storm which
Wept the country from the Rocky
mountains to the Appalachian range.
Scores were injured and the properly
damage is expected to run into mil
lions of dollars.
Snow or rain—and, in some cases,
both, accompanied by a terrific wind—
which, in some localities, reached a
velooity of eighty miles an hour, took
lives, wrecked building and crippled
telephone) and communication systems.
The South suffered most, two towns
in Tennessee being completely wrecked
and sixteen lives lost at Pinson, Tennn
and Deanberg. Two relief trains, one
with eight physicians and a second
with relief workers, were dispatched
from Jackson for Pinson.
Nine deaths were caused by the
Btorm in central Kentucky. Three
persons were reported killed at Rich
mond, when the wind lifted a small
farm - house containing three adults
and ten children, from its foundation,
carried it fifty yards and hurled it to
the ground in splinters. Two were
killed at Bowling Green, three at
South Union and a nine-year-old boy
was killed and five other children
were Injured at South Portsmouth
when the roof was blown from a high
school building into a yard where
the children were playing, according to
reports reaching Louisville.
Other reported deaths included two
at Chicago,, one at Steubenville,
Ohio; one at Massillon, Ohio; one at
Greenwood, Miss.; one at El Dorado,
Ark., and one at Milwaukee.
Heavy property damage accom
panied the etorm in all these places.
In some sections the damage was esti
mated at $500,000 to $1,000,000.
Some towns are completely cut off
frbm communication with outside
points, while in some instances a
single wire furnished the only moans
ef communication. Damage to wire
service was general throughout the
entire eentral section of the country.
Some industries were forced to aban
don work owing to lack of electric
power.
Heavy damage was reported from
many points in Indiana.
Train service was delayed, fast
trains being reported as much as ten
hours late. In some instances where
trains were reported lost and wire
communication was not to be obtained,
radio was used to report the where
abouts of trains.
. Nashville, Term.—The total number
of rfead from the storm in Pinson,
Teas., was estimated at sixteen, with
stventy-five persons injured, accord
ing to reports received here from Pin-
cob and Jackson, Tenn. The injured
have been removed to a hospital at
Jackson. Some of them are reported,
in critical conditions, and may not re
cover.
Relief workers from Jackson, accord
ing to special dispatches received from
that city by the Nashville Tennessee
an, are pushing on into the rural dis
tricts beyond Pinson and they fear fur
ther fatalities will be disclosed. Many
farm communities, which are. believed
to have been in the direct path of the
storm, have been reported destroyed.
The relief workers conservatively es
timated the number of dead at six
teen, but added in the mesage received
here from Jackson that "dead and in
jured are being brought in on every
train, and we have heard nothing
from those who have explored beyond
Pinson.’’
In several instances, practically all
of the bones in the bodies of the
victims were broken. Frame dwell
ings crumpled like paper houses be
fore the terrific wind. Victims were
found crushed in the ruins.
Early reports placed the dead at thir
ty, but a final checking has cut the
figure almost in half.
STATE KEIVS OF INIS
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Sections Of
The State
Atlanta.—That Georgia rapidly Is re
turning to normal prosperity is con
clusively demonstrated by a compila
tion of the resources of) banks under
the jurisdiction of the state depart
ment of banks as compiled by the su
perintendent of that department, and
recently announced.
The highest peak of resources of state,
banks of Georgia was reached in De
cember, 1919, when the total was $880,-
000,000, in round figures.
The lowest ebb of resources of state
banks of Georgia was reached in De
cember,1921, when the total was $236,-
000,000, in ■round figures.
In December, 1922, the resources of
state banks had climbed back to $280,-
521,575, or an increase in a year of
more than $44,000,000.
But the figures for December, 1922,
do not show the actual present re
sources of banks under the depart
ment’s - jurisdiction, Superintendent
Bennett said, for the reason that two
large national banka surrendered their
federal charters and became State
banks on January 1, and these and
some smaller additions to state bank
ing resources bring the present total
to more than $300,000,000.
The consolidated statement of state
banks and trust companies under the
department’s jurisdiction waB complied
from a statement of conditions render
ed to the department at the close of
business December 29. The consoli
dation contains a number of facta and
figures clearly demonstrating the rapid
jreturn of the Btate to normal prosperity.
For instance, the bills payable and
rediscounts of banks In December,
1931, were $40,532,405, while in D*
comber, 1932, they had been reduced
to $33,049,091. These ltema represent
the debts of the banks.
Another very interesting Item, or
comparison of items, is the deposit*
In December, 1931, the deposits of
Georgia state banks outside of the state
were $9,402,831, while the debts owing
by Georgia state banks outside of the
state were $9,334,997.
In other words, in December, 1931,
the state banks of Georgia owed near
ly $4,000,000 more outside of the state
than they had on deposit outside ot
the state; while in December, 1921,
they had on deposit outside of the state
a larger amount than they owed out
side of the state.
In December, 1921, the total deposits
la state banks were $152,*40,835, while
in December, 1932, they were $1TA-
*50,444.
Another interesting comparison is
between the reserves end the reserves
required by law. In’ December, 1922,
the banks had total reserves of $47?
188,93$. The total reserves required
by law were $31,101,011. 8o that the
oxeHi of actual reserves over required
reserves wee $28,387,911. la other
words, the banks had an actual re
serve more twloe as great as tbs
legal requirement.
In Deoamber, 1922, there were in
atate banka a total of 355,829 deposits
subject to eheck, 182,773 savings de
posit* and 43,521 time deposits, mak
ing a total ot 562,123 bank depositors
of the three claeeees.
The superintendent of the state bank
ing department gave out these figures
/ concerning bank failures during the
j period from October, 1919, when della-
| tion started, to December, 1922:
j “Thirty-seven banks with 19,622 de-
I positors having total deposits of $3,-
I 366,377 have been reinstated, merged
or liquidated, without loss to any de
positor or other creditor.
“One bank having 1,187 depositors,
with total deposits of $463,095, was
merged with a loss of 50 per cent to
the depositors and no loss to other
.creditors. ,
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New Willard Batteries in Stock.
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TIRES and TUBES
Goodyear and Seibling Tires.
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PERRY - GA.
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