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PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA„ THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1923.
MILLIONS SAVED U. S. REORGANIZES
BY SECURITY LAW, H. Y. DRY SQUADS
Report of securities commis-
; SION SHOWS VERY STEADY
IMPROVEMENT
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Sections Of
The State
: Atlanta.--In its third annual report,
‘which was made public recently, the
Georgia Securities commission de
clares that during the three years oi
its operation millions of dollars have
been saved to Georgia investors
through prevention of fraudulent stock
sellihg while there has been a marked
improvement in the character of enter
prises licensed by it to sell stock in
the state of Georgia.
The report points out that, of the
67 issuing companies licensed in 1922,
47 are known to the commission to be
still in business, while of the 66 com
panies licensed in 1921, 29 are report
ed to be still active.
The Securities commission ,is com
posed of S. G. McLendon, secretary
of state, chairman; Geo. M. Napier,
attorney general; H. M. Stanley, com
missioner of commerce; T. B. Conner,
chief examiner and administrative of
ficer of the commission.
The report declares that the amend
ments to the law passed last yeai
have greatly facilitated its administra
tion and enabled the commission to
apply that act equally to all dealers
in securities. The commission has di
vided dealers into three classes, name
ly, general dealers, dealers in bonds
or other paper secured by real estate
mortgages and dealers authorized to
sell all qualified securities, but not
permitted to qualify class “C” securi
ties with notice of intention forms.
The report says that the conviction
of Jas. Carlton Lee and his attorney
Ernest C. Buchanan, together with the
imposition of a four year penitentiary
sentence on Lee and the disbarment
and fining of Buchanan has done more
than anything since the law was pass
ed In causing it to be obeyed.
Nearly all of the' fraud in the sale
of securities in Georgia now is being
perpetrated by the use of the mails,
the commission finds, and a federal
law is urged which will prevent Uncle
Sam from lending his mails to swind
lers. Of the ninety-two oil promoters
reported to have been indicted in Port
Worth, Texas, for misuse of the mails,
not one hqye ever sold anything in
Georgia with authority from the Geor
gia Securities commission/the report
says. 9
Cotton Growers Receive Mllljon
Atlanta.—More than a million dol
lars has been received by members
of the Georgia Cotton Growers associ
ation as fourth payments on cotton
isold this season through the offices
of that body, which brings the total
paid to membere up to $5,787,712.69,
Made on the basis of 2 cents a pound
for white middling, the advance al
ready made to members has reached
22 cents a pound, which is considerably
more than non-member farmers of the
state averaged for their 1922 crop. A
fifth and final payment will be made
before July 31, the end of the cotton
year. The Georgia . association has
handled, only about one-tenth of the
Georgia crop. Indications are that a
great deal morel will' be sold through
the co-operative plan next year. The
association received 10,000 new mem
bers between February 1 and May 1
and contracts are being received at the
rate of 250 per day.
yo Rooms Needed To House Camera
^Washington.—The largest camera in
a© world is in the department of the
Jfnterior. It weighs 7,000 pounds, lakes
a picture one yard square, and is op
erated either by electricity or hand as
easily as the tourists’s smallest cam
el a; The lens, bellows and copy hold
er are in oneToom and the plate hold
er and dark room in the other. Maps
of oil fields, charts showing mineral
resources, or even a map of the .Unit
ed States from which some American
child will learn his first lesson in ge
ography, are all being reproduced daily.
OFFICIALS KEEP SECRET PLANS
MADE TO COPE WITH NEW
SITUATION
LESS THAN 50 DRY AGENTS
Disposition Of Liquor Seized Valued
, At $18,000,000 Being
' Held Up
New York.—Reorganization of fed
eral agencies for prosecution of viola
tion of the Volstead act us a re3itl1
of the repeal of the Mullan-Gage state
enforcement act, was begun *by district
attorneys in the southern and east
ern judicial districts and the state pro
hibition agent.
Officials refused to disclose in de
tail the plans made to cope with the
situation.
Disposition of liquor valued at $18,-
000,000 seized by the police was being
held up pending final court directions.
It was declared that no liquor would
be restored to its former owners un
less there was proof that it had been
illegally seized.
Police Commissioner Enright an
nounced that police orders regarding
enforcement of liquor laws in force
before the Mullan-Gage law was repeal
ed have not been rescinded, but have
been merely suspended.
MaM‘Flier In Solo Dash Across Country
Washington.—Request for official
recognition by the contest committee of
the National Aeronautic Association of
an air mail pilot's attempt to make a
continuous flight alone from San Fran
cisco to New York was received at na
tional headquarters of the association.
The request was filed by A. C. Nelson,
of Salt Lake City, superintendent of
Western davision, u! S. Air Mail Serv
ice, The pilot, Clare K. Vance, of
Logansport, Ind., is preparing to start
within ten days upon his initial attempt
in his own airplane to negotiate a non
stop transcontinental dash which he
hopes to make in 20 hourB.
REPRESENTATIVES OF 50,000.000
PROTESTANTS, CATHOLICS
AND JEWS SCORE GARY
WDULI SHATTER
Safeguarding Of Prpflts Claimed Held
In Higher Consideration than
Wages And Hours
New York.—Representatives of fifty
Three Overcome As Mercury Rise*
New Rochelle, N. Y.—The first
death from the heat recorded here
occurred when John Rapp, 61 years
old, a gardener, died while at work.
Chicago.—Summer heat held back by
cool temperatures of a belated spring,
came with a rush, three persons being
overcome when the thermometer reg
istered 89 degrees at 4 p. m., a new
high for the year. Seven children and
one man were bitten by dogs.
Kills Man He Was Trying To Save
Kansas City, Mo.—William Sheeran,
40, was killed here by an officer who
Was attempting to save him from being
robbed. Sheeran was being "strong-
armed” by a gang when Boris Haycock
fired once and then gave chase to the
negroes. When he returned Sheeran
was unconscloue from a bullet wound
in the body, and died shortly afterwards
in a hospital. The negroes escaped.
Maternity Act Test Cases Thrown Out
Washington.—The cases brought to
determine the constitutionality of the
Sheppard-Towner maternity act were
dismissed for want of jurisdiction by
the scupreme court, which refused to
pass upon the validity of The faw.
Justice Sutherland, announcing the
the court hitherto had assumed juris
diction differed from the maternity
cases, which presented only political
and not judiciai questions.
million Protestants, Roman Catholics
and Hebrews joined forces in a state
ment condemning as unworthy and un
tenable the arguments of the commit
tee of the American Iron and Steel In
stitute, which recently reported unfa
vorably on the proposed elimination of
the twelve-hour day in the steel in
dustry.
The report made by Elbert H. Gary,
chairman of the United States Steel
Corporation, at a meeting of the in
stitute in New York City, and there
adopted, is characterized in the state
ment as “shattering public confi
dence.”
"The forces of organized religion in
this country are now warranted," the
statement asserted, “in declaring that
this morally indefensible regime of the
twelve-hour day must come to an end.
A further report Is due from the Iron
and Steel Institute—a report of a very
different tenor.”
The statement put forth in the name
of the commission on the church and
social service of the Federal council of
Churches, the social action department
of the National Catholic Welfare Coun
cil and the social justice commission
of the Central Conference of American
Rabbis, follows:
“The report of the comrhittee on pro
posed total elimination of the twelve-
hour day appointed by the American
Iron and Steel Institute' shatters the
public confidence that was inspired by
the creation of the committee a year
ago, at the request of the president of
the United States.
“It is a definite rejection of the pro
posal for the abolition of the long day.
The public demand in response to which
the committee was appointed is set
aside as a ’sentiment’ which was ‘not
created or endorsed by the workmen
themselves.’ The testimony of compe
tent Investigators, including eminent
engineering societies, is ignored, and
the conclusion is put forth without sup
porting data that the twelve-hour day
‘has not of itself been an injury to
the employes, physically, mentally or
morally.’ This statement is made in
face of the fact that the committee of
stockholders of the United states Steel
Corporation, ■■ appointed in 1912 1 to * in
vestigate this matter expressed the
opinion ‘that a twelve - hour day of
labor followed continuously by any
group of men for any considerable
number of years means a decreasing
of the efficiency and lessening of the
vigor and virility of such men.’”
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Court Sustains Nickel Decatur Fare
Washington.—The Georgia Railway
and Power company as lessor of the
Georgia Railway and Electric company
cannot, the U. S. supreme court ruled
increase car fares from Atlanta to
those parte of Decatur and College
Park, Ga., which were covered in the
original contract. The court held, how
ever, that the contract did not cover
the additions to the two plices after
the contract had been entered into.
To Keep u. 8. Flag On Trade Routes
Washington.—The shipping board
decided to proceed with direct gov
ernment operation of sufficient vessels
to keep the American flag on all
world trade routes. A committee, com
posed of Chairman Lasker and Com
missioners O’Connor and Thompson,
was named to map v out administrative
plan's. Under a resolution adopted by
the board the committee will prepare
a plan to be submitted to the shipping
board with a view to the formation of
such companies or organizations, to
be owned and controlled by the ship
ping board, as it may ascertain to
be necessary for the purpose of oper
ating sufficient vessels to fully cover
world trade routes under the American
flag consonant with the greatest pos
sible economy and efficiency In direct
government operation.
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Republican Ateads In Iowa Election
Des Moines, Iowa.—Returns from 160
out of 233 precincts in the eighth Iowa
congressional district give Hiram K.
Evans, Republican, 10,200 votes and
J. P. Daughton, Democrat, 8,913. Evans
and Daughton were candidates to fill
the unexpired term of Horace Mann
Towner, 'who resigned to become gov
ernor of Porto Jtico.
President Harding Reviews Shriners
Washington.—President Harding had
a prominent part in the festivities In
cident to the opening in Washington
of the forty-ninth annual convention of
the Ancient Arabic order, Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine. He reviewed the pa
rade of twenty thousand nobles, the
feature of one day; delivered an ad
dress on fraternalism at the first ses
sion of the imperial council and at
tended a banquet given for Imperial
Potentate James S. McC-andless of Hon
olulu. ....
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