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REGRETFUL SURPRISE IS EX PRESSED ON ULTIMATUM SEN I TO RUSSIA BY ENGLAND :TRONG ANTI - JAPANESE SEN 11. MENT PREVAILS — CHINESE troops Mutiny JOHN H. HODGES, Prop'r. ■ mm mi DEVOTED TO :*O.V5 INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE $1,50 a Y^r In Advance PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, MAY ,24 1923. CONFERENCE IS PROPOSED Note Offers To Settle By Arbitration The Questions Raised By Russian Seizures Of British Trawlers \ Moscow.—Soviet Russia’s note to Great Britain, the text of which was given out here, is couched in concila- tory terms. Expressing regretful sur prise at the ultimatum, it proposes a conference at a time and place to be arranged with England at which re sponsible representatives of both gov ernments. shall discuss not oply the disputed secondary questions raised in the British note, hut shall also regular ize fully the relations between Russia and Great Britain. . While admitting that Russia natural ly sent money to the Russian repre sentatives in Persia, it says the Brit- isii are over-suspicious in thinking that Prussia has no ,use for money in thcl east' other thfth for propaganda. 7' The note disavows responsibility for tke third (Moscow) Internationale. It offers to settle by arbitration the ques tions raised by the Russian seizure of British trawlers and compensate the families of Charles V. Davidson, an English civil engineer executed in Rus sia in .1920, and of another British sub ject, if the British will agree to give compensation for the long imprison* ment bf several Russians in England and India. With regard to the two notes sent to England signed by “Weinstein,” which Mr. Hodgson, the British agept in Moscow returned, complaining that they werje couched in offensive lan guage, the reply says the first note returned by Mr. Hodgson was never sent again to the British government, and, therefore, must be regarded as, unsent, while the second letter did not contain anything offensive. These were in reply to Mr. Hodgson’B protest against the execution of Monsignor Butchkavitch. : “Ultimatums and threats,” it de clares, “are not the way to settle pri- ; vate and relatively unimportant mis understandings between states and in any case the establishment of correct relations with the Soviet republic is not attainable by this means.” “Great Britain speaks of the numer ous challenges which Russia has thrown to Great Britain,” says the note, add ing: < “The Soviet government permits it self to assent the complete baseless- iness of such a statement.” , Spanish Nation In Need Of Teachers Madrid, Spain.—-The Spanish; nation finds extreme difficulty in obtaining ele- mentary school teachers,, of whom a fur ther 28,000 are required in order to pro vide the millions of illiterate children with education. The reason for the shortage is the small salaries offered to elementary educators,: who.begin, with only 2,000 pesetas yearly, and may, with great good luck, reach 2,500 after 25 ^ears’ service. There are naturally some posts'ih the profession which are 'better paid, but these; are . few and far between. Statistics Show Higher Costs Of Goods New York.—Advance in prices' of which we. are just now hearing so much, is by no means confined to the United States. The Trade Record of the Na tional City Bank of New York, which has made a careful analysis of prices abroad at (he end of 1922 compared with the same month one year earlier, finds- an ;eyidence that price advances in ail parts of the world are in nearly as. large proportion as in the United States. I >i >1, i \ BANDITRY IN_S!_X PKES Three Captlvos Are Hurlod Over Prec- iplce By Train Bandits Near Brigands’ Strongholds Pekin.—-Banditry in six provinces, anti-Japanese riots in one province, Jap anese boycotts in several, piracy 911 the southern, coast and up the southern riv ers, war in three provinces and warlike preparations in.a fourth are the out standing problems • of the past few weeks .which ai$...confronting the Cl}i-, nose government.... j j^t the head of the list owing to the international coniplications , involved, stands' the! Snohow outrage, ‘iiv which' a'strong force of bhndits froriT Shah- tung and Hoiian provinces raided the Pekin ' Shanghai express May 6 and kidnaped a number of . foreigners; in cluding some American's/1 ymer; stilli ate held prisoners, ; : t >,( ,/M-. s At Tangshan, in Chihli ipnoyip^e,. re cently, Cliinese froop^ mutinied (ind| at tempted’ to, .loot a^nati^e ba i nk| / ,,War- ilig damage to the railroad, which 1 it 1 Is. their duty to guard, American troops it Tientsin were ’ ordered' out. They re-' tired without taking action'when it WdS * found the- railway Was 1 hot' threatened, but.itlie United States 1 soldiers are be-i ing held ready to act> in an emergency, ; A dispatch from Shanghai says, that three Chinese captives takpn ; by the Sucho.yr train bandits in tjie raid, on the Shanghai-Pekin express, have been hurled to their death over a precipice near the brigands’ mountain stronghold as 1 a warning that, negotiations for the release of the foreign prisoners must be brought to a ! speedy termination, ac- cording, to an unconfirmed message re ceived from. Lincheng. Muasolini To Give Suffrage Right Rome, Italy.—Premier Mussolini, has promised that his government Will ac cord the vote to certain categories of women and this has met with the heartiest approval from the delegates to the ninth congress of the interna- ;ional suffrage alliance, which opened Its sessions here. The premier’s dec laration on;the subject afforded the del egates a thrill and the discussion that followed it overshadowed all other lueatlons. ,f . Radicals .Jailed, Ip! Los Angeles Los Angeles.—A determined drive :o rid Los Angeles, and the Sap Pedro ttarbor district of their I. W. W, ele ment has begun and the police have raided four trolley cars with asserted •adicals Whom they arrested on the itreets of San Pedro. One hundred ind forty cops, under the supervision if Gapt. Clyde L. iPlummer, of San Pe* iro, and Chief of ; Police Louis D. Daks, began, the taek of , "restoring peaoe, and . order” ip the, harbor. dis-, iartetr * ,, . ..... , Exploding,, (Boiler, trills., Two ,IV|en Lake, Misa.r-A 'terrific, boiler ex'plo- lion took place here recently, killing two legroes and slightly, jb juriag a fireman. The boiler was blown 600 feet, break ing down two large telegraph poles, scattering flues In all 'directions, final ly landing • between the depot and the ijoroer drug store. A large cottonwood ;roe in front of the postoffice was de molished. Another boiler that was Bet Aside about 100 feet from the mill was Struck by the exploded boiler in passing ;ind went throqgh (,he front.porch of Dr. •M. Moody’s residence. „ 6-3-3. 7-4-7, 8-3-10, 8-4-4, | Are grades that can be used with I good results, under varying con- | ditions. We Formula you P : ! may need. ■ We sell Raw ‘ Bone Meal, Dried Ground Fish Scray, Tankage, Cotton Seed Meal, Sulphate ot Amonia, Sulphate of Pqtash, Murate of Pot ash and various other fertilizer materials, WRITE US FOR PRICES ' •' ' 'in vr, ■•).'! I 61 il::- ir, Oti I ! 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W'i ; > ;• Get ^ and save mqney place. \Ve ha^e 4 full line of Groceries, Hardware Farm Supplies > Feed Stuffy Cotton Seed Meal and Hulls and everything that goes to make up< a first ; ■!■>■/ r ]() /A/. , 7 ! f / nil;: '!■■■:■■. ■■ ;ii ' class Hardware and Grocery Store. : ■’ i!-"':!!''!•’! •• 1 L'lcr.t;! ,<,j) A. jfi >v:ifl I'jViinn inuUtr.'j in' ' -,‘niia v.,-i ; .. ■■ n^iun^ imIT r\a\ !,!l 1 ' ! ° l 1 ’ f >-. i;|(!l' C! j ; J j . • : I . lit M'.iiu'U'H't . ; . [; j,:j{: «/ f & 1 .<■[ '...'. fnir. h r... ,(j •; ! (■) ■; d . t it’ n i 1 nr/" M/.vi ,.:h t . 7.110 J. W. BLOODWORTH ‘THE FARMERS FRIEND. PERRY, - GEORGIA. Arnrisd Bandits Hold Up Employees New York.—Holding twenty employ ees of the Ostermoor & Co. mattress manufacturers, at bay, three armed bandits-robbed the treasurer of $1,500) They, escaped, in . an automobile, passing .police headquarters in their flight. Most, of the. employees.;'who were lined up againstkhe wall were girls. The stolen money wasjwt of- th,e factory pay roll. ;■ The~bandits’ ,car r Was parked two blocks from..police headquarters. Society Leaders Fleeing bjew, York t] New York.—Eighty New York society [ leaders have appeared before the grand jury investigating ^poison pen” letters l received by prominent New Yorkers within the' last’ few years.' The' probe • Into the “poison letter” 'case, which' re-r suited iri, the indictment of George Max*, well, the music publisher, on charges )f pending an objectionable missive to Allan A. Ryan, the financier, has caus- 3d many wealthy women to flee the city Id j escape! lappearing; before a .grand-. jury, which' is at present making a ther- j auAh lRVflgPeat!gp>i- ; ii/j f//i« .U0% i: '■>! a ,'il Clift We arW Hrryjing a pp^Hplete stock; c| Arsenate of Lead ^n4< 1 ' Bushel^ 1 ; ;B^s- kfets ; and Piclfiri^Jp^^'sketdl 1 7. These 1 'gpod^;]^ ur T' ried in stock arid we shrill be glad to have ybinj or ders for delivery later or for i fo i i ■ ' ' ■ J ... i ■> I. ' .mii/'illi f ~ j immediate acceptance. , : • If!/) inui ed)'iuv. •6in beau oof) r M ,1 A 'A O n iffh 'C/A od) ot ctrf6l ovhi t! r OU. LIIL |0EFICIT OF $110,000 IS SHOWN- report is ready for GOVERNOR Milledgeville.—Sixty-five and one- urth cents a day is the total amount quired to maintain each patient in ,e Georgia State senatarium, accord ing to the report of the board of trus ses of the state hospital for the in ane that was completed recently for nibmission to Governor Thomas W. ardwick. This amount of money not only sup plies each patient with the necessaries of life, according to the report, but Jmys for medical attention and hos- iltal treatment, During 1922,the cost if each of the patients in the hospital throughout, the'year Was $238:04, as cornparied with, a cost of $240.72 int, 921. This exceedingly low cost to the state of maintaining its needy , wards. ,is attributed to the great efficiency of management of the state hospital, and he careful economy of the men in barge.; t ■ But despite the low cost of main-' gaining the sanitarium, the legislative ’appropriations for 1922 were insuffi cient to meet the expenses of open- ,tion. The summary in the yeport to be governor shows that th,e cash lia- iiities of the sanitarium at the close f the year exceeded its resources by 76,137.15, Included- in . the resources ; .owever are $5,282.81 in “receivable's" hich are of doubtful value. Supplies how a shrinkage of $26,924.17. The 1921 report of the board to the ’governor estimated ' the deficit at 260,650.00, for which an appropria- ion Was asked, but the legislature anted only $150,000.00, and conse- uently an approximate deficit of f 110,- 00.00 remains which sanitarium of- icials hope will be made up by legis- atiye appropriations for; 1923. The report shows that 3,972 patients esided in the sanitarium at the, close f 1922, which is an-: increase of 74 er the previous year. The increase patients during the past ten years as been 688, an annual increase of bout' 68. 1 each year) Illiteracy Drops In Butts County Jackson.—A striking decrease in illlt* .•acy in Butts county in the five year leriod since 1918 is shown in the Ilg- ires compiled in the recent school cen- ivjs, The figures reveal there are only i white children in the county unable Jo read and write. The total number pi white school children is 6,641 and hie per cent of illiteracy is 1 3-10 ot «ie per! cent There are 85 school cjill* Iren unable to read and write, out of total of 2,095, making the per cent) of illiteracy for colored 4 per cent. < ■ ■ ■— f . New Cotton Concern Is Organized Summerville.—The Jolly Cotton com- J - has been organized here, and the fners, J. L. Jolly, of Rome, and E. A, cmard, of Summerville, have applied a, charter for the new enterprise, vhich will have a capital stock of $50,- 00, The principal office will be at Stimmerville. The trade to be carried Dni by the corporation will be that of a general cotton and warehouse business, the dealing in spot cotton and cotton for future delivery, cotton products, fer tilizers, seeds, etc. . Bank Clerk Is Assistant Comptroller Washington.—Willis J. Fowler, who sneered the government service from ?oyt Wayne, Ind,, in 18S6 as a $900 i year clerk, has been appointed first leputv comptroller of the currency, and rosjeph W. McIntosh, formerly, of Chica go land now director of finance of the Emergency Fleet corporation, has been aaihed deputy comptroller, of agricul- —a credit corporations. ‘ - Ivp Tramps Killed In Train Wreck Independence, -Nans.—Five tramps, ding on a freight train, near hexe, were Ihd when 'sixteen “cars went into a Itch. Two other men stealing., a ride . {he train were injured, one serious- The dead and injured were taken Mound Valley. . J ■■ r .-, T *) V f j) X, X ,L XJ \. > f 5- STATE NEWS OF INTEREST ||Brlef News Items Gathered Here And There From All Sections Of The State INDISTINCT PRINT