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JOHN H. HODGES, Prop’r. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE
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VOL. LIII.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1923.
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exporters reach agreement
WITH THE SECRETARY OF
AGRICULTURE
BECOMES EFFECTIVE AUG. 1
Secretary Agreed To Practice Of Tran
sition For A Period To Facilitate
Compliance With Law
Washington.—Agreement was reach
ed recently between a group of lead
ing cotton exporters and the secre
tary of agriculture on au arrangement
for conducting the cotton exporl
trade under the new cotton standards
act which becomes effective August 1,
requiring use of the official cotton
Standards of the United States in all
transactions based on standards in
Interstate and foreign and commerce.
The exporters, representing the larg
er cotton exchanges of the country,
unanimously approved the desirabil
ity of world-wide agreement upon uni
form cotton standards and endorsed
the present official standards satis
factory to the American cotton trade.
The cotton exporters had left some
■uneasiness over the requirement ol
the' new act and Secretary Wallace
Invited them to Washington. Because
a large part of the American export
business has been based on Liver-
• pool and other foreign standards of
classification, somewhat different In
meaning and terminology from the
official cotton standards of the United
States, many foreign buyers are not
thoroughly familiar with the Ameri
can standards, and it was pointed out
by the American exporters that these
buyers must be informed as to their
meaning and application.
Secretary Wallace agreed to the
practice for a reasonable period of
transition, not beyond the coming crop
year, in order to facilitate compliance
-with the new law, assuming that the
Liverpool and other foreign associa
tions would promptly agree upon uni
versal standards.
A group of cotton men from Liver
pool and Manchester are expected
here within a week to present their
views of the new law, having request
ed a hearing by cable. It is expected
that soon after English representa
tives have been heard regulations for
enforcement of the new law will be
approved by Secretary Wallace.
Among exchanges represented at
the recent conference were those at
Memphis, Houston, New York, At
lanta, New Orleans, Savannah, and
Dallas. ;--!w
FINANCIAL GROUP OFFERS TO
BUY NATIONS MER-
CHANT FLEET
FINANCIERS AREOFHIGH RANK
Envoys Of Bidders Offer To Post Mil
lion Dollar Guarantee—Twenty
Bids Received
Washington.—A definite but informal
offer to purchase the entire active por
tion of the government merchant fleet
has been received by the shipping
board in the form of a single bid. The
proposal was delivered to members of
the board by a representative of a
group of financial interests whose iden
tity was not disclosed. The envoy of
the bidders offered to post a bond of
a million dollars as a guarantee of sin
cerity. The aggregate amount sug
gested in the proposal was said to be
in the neighborhood of one billion dol
lars.
Persons close to the board declared
that the financial standing of those com
prising the group was of the highest
type.
Submission of the proposal became
known after announcement had been
made that the board had received
twenty bids in response to an invita
tion for bids for sale of its fleet. Chair
man Lasker said only four or five of
the offers presented possibilities, al
though four others were in the “twi
light” zone.
It has not been disclosed whether
the offer for the entire active fleet was
among those referred to by Mr. Lasker
as worthy of consideration.
Grade Fertilizers
POLICE BENT IN THEIR DETERM-
INAYiON TO LAND BURGLARS.
TEN NEGROES ARE JAILED
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here Anc’.
There From All Sections Of
The State
Oklahoma City, Okla., Is Engulfed
Oklahoma City, Okla. — Oklahoma
City is in the grip of one of the worat
floods in its history. Water covers
miles of lowlands along the torturous
course of the stream through the
southern section of the city. Packing-
town, source of the city’s meat supply,
is completely isolated. More than one
thousand persons are homeless. These
are being cared for by city officials
and relief organizations. The city aud-
torium is converted into a barracks
for the flood refugees. Seven hun
dred cots and blankets are being placed
in the auditorium by order of Adjt.
Gen. S. T. Markham, who ordered out
a small detachment of National Guards
men. Property damage, it is believed,
will run into hundreds of thousands
of dollars.
Two Die When Train Strikes Auto
Reidsvillo, N. C.—James Pillow,
aged 14 years, and his sister, Birdie
Pillow, of this section, were killed;
John Pillowy the father, so critically
injured that he may die, and his fath
er, I. C. Pillow, probably fatally in
jured, while Mrs. Thomas Mitchell,
aged 23, was seriously hurt when the
automobile in which they were riding
was struck by Southern railway pas
senger train No.' 35 just outside of
Keidsville.
Strike Movement Spreads In Ruhr
Essen, Germany.—The strike move
ment is spreading throughout the Ruhr
and fresh walkouts among the metal
workers and miners are reported in
nearby unoccupied territory. A general
Btrike called at Hamborn is affecting
the iron works there belonging to the
Stinnes interests. Communist - mani-
Ifestants at Wanne became so threat
ening that the Frenpls intervened for.
the 'first time as a result of which
the demonstrations collapsed. The sit
uation in many sections is considered
critical.
Prohibition Decreed In Indian Province
Delhi, East India.—Pier highness, the
begum of Phophel,' has decreed com
plete prohibition in her Indian state.
Local option has accepted prohibition
In some quarters, while the Bombay
supply of liquor to retail shops has
been reduced to 10 per cent prelimi
nary to eventurT prohibition. European
residents will be hardest hit by the
Indian dry wave, which follows Pussy
foot Johnson’s visit. Natives are ab-
ilainers under their Moslem vows.
Ford Is Assailed By Jewish Body
Atlantic City, N. J.~After an excit
ing scene in which the name of Henry
Ford was hissed and hooted, delegates
attending the annual session of the In
dependent Order B’Rith Abraham,
adopted a resolution criticising him
for his alleged attateks on Jews of
the nation, assailing his presidential
aspirations and accused him of being
the financial backer of the Ku Ivlux
Klan. The measure was passed with
out a dissenting vote after speakers
sponsoring it had been vociferously
sheered.
Friedlander • Tax Case Not Reviewed
Washington.—The constitutionalitj
of the property laws of Georgia, as in
terpreted by the city of Moultrie, will
hot be reviewed by the Supreme court
in a case brought by Frjendlander
Brothers. The law was attacked on
the ground that the property tax im
posed by Moultrie was excessive, and
amounted to confiscation, and that the
property owners were given no oppor
tunity to challenge the assessment be
fore it was made final. The case has
been a most interesting one and has
attracted much attention.
Atlanta.—Ten negroes are in jail in
connection with the murder of Evans
B. Morgan,. Atlanta police officer, the
neivs of whose killing was widely pub
lished.
Officers are still working on clues
which they have followed without
pause for sleep since the hour of the
killing and seemed to indicate that
Officer Morgan had been shot to death.
by the leader of a ring of thieves just J
as he had broken in upon the storage
place of their loot. I
Circumstances were said by polica
to point strangly to Caleb Lockhart
negro proprietor of the grocery stord
at Chapel and Holland streets, where
the murder occurred, and to Eld Hig
gins, negro burglary suspect, as being
directly implicated in the crime.
Shermaq Lewis, alias Sam Peterson,
was also under suspicion because ol
a bullet wound through his hand
which police say he could not explain
satisfactorily. The fugitive slayer was
followed in his flight from the scene
of the murder by a volley of bullets
fired by Patrolman Ernest Chapman,
Morgan’s partner. It was thought
probable .that one of the bullets had
taken effect.
Lockhart, the negro in whose store
the officer was killed, was one of the
first to be arrested. The officer*
found in the rear of Lockhart’s store,
they state, a quantity of lard, chew
ing tobacco and other articles that
had been stolen from a grocery store.
Ed Higgins, the second negro to be
jailed by the officers, la suspected of
being the one who entered the store
and home, and of taking his loot to
Lockhart's store to be disposed of.
The officers are puzzled as to whether
Lockhart himself was trying to move
the stolen goods from the yard Into
the rear of his store and shot Officer
Morgan as the latter interfered with
his plans, or whether it was Higgins
who was placing the goods in the
store.
Sherman Lewis, alias Sam Peterson,
another negro, was also arrested.
Six other negroes held by the police
are John Gunn, T. J. Jackson, Green
Murphy, Hamp Brooks, Hattie Mae
Lockhart, and Fannie Lockhart. Fan
nie Lockhart was released by the de
tectives, after being grilled.
The murder of Patrolman Morgan
brought to light one of the most dar
ing burglaries yet to be" committed by
a negro—that in which the store of
Harry Bernar was looted of groceries
and tobaccos, some of which was later
found, according to detectives, in the
rear of the store where Officer Mor
gan was shot.
We are On the Job from January
January, twelve months each year.
You can buy One Sack or A Hundred
Tons, or More, any day in the
and get prompt delivery.
Our Customers get this kind [of Service without
any Extra Cost.
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| THAT COUNTS.”
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Jusserand Lauds Ideals Or Lincoln
New York.—The United States af
ter -the Civil war was “ready for a
more brilliant destiny than it had eve-
known before,” because it was unit
ed and strengthened and undersfooo
br'-fer from the example of Abraham
Lincoln, “as the great war showed in
our day, the value of disinterested
courage and generosity,” Jules Jussej-
and, ambassador of France, declarer
in an address at the 1 unveiling of $
bust of the martyred president in the
New York University hall of fame, re
cently.
Fifteen. Million For Electrification
Roanoke, Va.—In order to increase
its traffic capacity and to secure im
portant operating economics, the Vir
ginian railway has decided to electrify
213 miles of its track lying' between
Roanoke, Va.. and Mullens, W. Va. This
undertaking will involve" the expendi
ture of $15,000,000. The order for the
electric locomotives, power house, the
transformer stations and other appara
tus has been awarded to the Westing-
house Electric and Mauufacturnig com
pany and forms the largest railroad
electrification contract ever placed.
12 Inches Longer Than Regular r ront
Spring and so Constructed that It Ab
sorbs the Shocks asfno Other Device can
Do. It’s Guaranteed Not to Break.
Price $9.00 Put on Your Ford.
PERRY, - va/!.
HEADQUARTERS
Immigration Laws Quoted At Meeting
Lausanne. — The members of the
}Near East conference are agitated over
the auestion whether Turkey will swing
open her doors to immigration or shut
/them tightly. This concern is caused
by Turkey’s interjection of the immi
gration question into the discussion of
the status of foreigners in Turkey. The
United states immigraion lav/s were
freely quoted in the debate with re
spect to the residence of foreigners in
Turkey and the conditions of their en
try. The allies wanted them to estab
lish themselves in Turkey.
Prompt Service.
E. F. BARFIELD & t o.
PERRY, GA.
We are carrying a complete stock of Arsenate of
Lead and Atomic Sulphur as well as Bushel Bas
kets ana 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 Ward^use C<?v
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