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| JOHN H. HODGES. Prop'r. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE $1.50 a Tear In Advance ’sna. ■. s——. — i_i. ' ' I. • *_ Vt)Ii. LIII. 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. , aoaanDoasanauoccncneanuooaaaagoonwnajwMDasrBomiQeoo PEACH TREE FERTILIZERS. 6-3-3. 7-4-7, 8-3-10, 8-4-4, b Are grades that can be used with | good results, under varying con-1 | ditions. We can furnish you | any Special Formula you i may need. | We sell Raw bone Meal, Dried Ground Fish Scray, Tankage, Cotton Seed Meal, Sulphate of Amonia, Sulphate of Potash, Murate of Pot ash and various other fertilizer materials. WRITE US FOR PRICES. HEARD BROTHERS | MACON, GEORGIA. 3 Manufacturers of Plant Food for All Lands. | iaoaa»aDa .aannaagaowi laMMMaaMasaaanaaaaaaairattai REPAIR WORK By Expert Mechanics On All Oars. - BATTERY ERVICE We Recharge and Rebuild All Sizes and Makes. New Willard Batteries in Stock. WELDING Acetylene Welding of All Kind. TIRES and TUBES Goodyear and Seibling Tires. McLendon Auto Co. CALVIN E. McLENDON, Prop’r. PERRY - GA. GOOD TIMES COMING We Are Prepared To Meet Them Get right and cava money by buying at the right place. We haya a full line of Groceries, Hardware Farm Supplies, Feed Stuff, Cotton Seed Meal and Hulls and everything that goes to make up a first class Hardware and Grocery Store. Give Ui a Trial J. W. BLOODWORTH, 'THE FARMERS FRIEND. PERRY, - GEORGIA. We are carrying a complete stopk of Arsenate of Lead and Atomic Sulphur as well as Bushel Bas kets and Picking Baskets. These goods are car ried in stock and we shall be glad to have your or ders for delivery later or for immediate acceptance. Perry Warehouse Co.