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PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 28,- 1923.
No. 26
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Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Sections Of
The State
;PossIblllty Of GlgantJo Revolutionary
Upheaval Held Aa Cause For
Agitation Of England
Moscow, Russia,—Aa atatek on Eng*
laod hints of a RUsso-Frcnch rappro-
chement and a plea for "more metal
:in out national character," marked an
[address by Leon Trotzky, Soviet war
t minister, beforo tho all-Russian con
gress of metal workers,
“If an ultimatum Is presented to
ns," he exclaimed; referring to the re
cent British notes, “lot us create a
detachment of airplanes. If a coup
d’etat occurs in Bulgaria, let us build
; another detachment of airplanes, and
' If there is a coup d’etat In Persia,
u,build more 'airplanes.
[ “The Iron in our will must be trans
ferred to the Iron wings of airplanes;
then we can say, looking high above
at our squadrons, 'this is the coup
f d’etat in Persia’—and so on. , If we
:transform the criminalities on the
bourgeoisie into airplanes, then per
haps we Bhall be able Borne time to
bring an end to their criminalities."
I M. Trotzky said England and Italy
had, according to Information at hand,
assisted In the coup d’etate in Bul
garia and the British had aided in the
national overthrow in Persia. De
claring that Russia’s losses in the
world war were overwhelmingly great
er than Britain’s Trotzky added:
“It was for this purpose, perhaps,
to deliver us his ten - day ultimatum,—
that Lord Curzon felt strong enough
it was necessary that the blood of the
Russian workers and peasants be
\ shed. This account some day we
ghall present to the English hour-
jgeoise,
“England remains true to her tra
ditional ^policy’. In the international
war her role was also dictated by
her international policy. In reality
hers was a provocative role. When
the English proletariat opens the
safes of the English diplomacy, the
record? ;WlR, it they are not already
destroyed, show the real role of Eng-
and in the world war.
“It la tho same In regard to the
Ruhr—If England had not wished
[France to do, them would have been
no Ruhr occupation. To bring two
peoples Into struggle while the rest
aside themselves, in order to be able
to appropriate the results, Is the tra
ditional policy of the English hour-
Atlanta.—James D. Price, member
of the Georgia Public Service Com
mission, is sponsor for a bill which
will be introduced in the legislature
this year to abolish all grade cross
ings at railroads in Georgia. The
object of the bill is to do away with
the danger to autoiBts at these cross
ings, a danger which Is tragically evi
denced almost every day by a steadily
increasing toll of fatalities at these
points.
Commissioner Price, after gather
ing statistics on the increasing num
ber of grade crossing accidents for a
long period of time, brought the prob
lem to the attention of the commis
sion in ..executive session, offering a
resolution to the effect that some
state action should 1/3 taken without
further unnecessary delay, looking to
reducing as far as possible the appall
ing number of these accidents.
The bill which he proposes has
not yet been worked out in detail but
it is intended to incorporate In it
the most equitable possible provision
for the allotment of the expense
which will be involved In the aboli
tion of alii grade crossings.
In this connection, It is probable
that another bill will be introduced
requiring all automobiles to come to
a full st'op before crossing any rail
road track. This bill 1b sponsored
by William D. Upshaw, congressman
from the fifth district, and was sug
gested by him as a preliminary to his
introduction of a similar measure in
the national congress. A special com
mittee of railroad- engineers, conduc
tors and others are backing Mr. Up
shaw in- his campaign on this plan,
having conceived the idea first and
asked him to present it to congress.
[Two More Cities Are Destroyed
Rome.—King Victor Emmanuel has
left for Naples, proceeding by war
ship to Gantanla to lead the battle
to save Sicilian cities from the ava
lanche of lava streams. Two more
[cities have been wiped out In the In
ferno of flame and destruction burst
ing from ML Etna. Six mouths are
pow vomiting out tncaldescent lava
ppon the doomed valleys. Pope Plus
Cl has directed Cardinal Franclsanava
Catania to keep him constantly In
armed of the situation, and to place
jtll. churches and religious buildings
[trough.,Sicily at disposal of the ref-
Sees. More than 50,000 refugees
ire now huddled In Catania alone.
)auQhter's Plea Saves Her Father
Chicago.—On the plea of his 16-year-
l>ld daughter that he be spared the
illows, Ignatz Fuchs, who shot and
tilled his wife, Anna, during a drunk-
fen quarrel, wa3 sentenced to life im
prisonment by Judge George Kersten
criminal court. The daughter, Ce
celia," who witnessed the shooting of
'■her mother,, pleaded with the court not
impose the death penalty.
foUn'ds Husband And Kills Children
Owensboro, Ky— After having at-
Lcked and seriously wounding her
usb.and, Mrs. Cleveland Daugherty
Hied her two daughters, 3 and 5
jars old, with a razor and drank
aison at her' home near Glendeane
C Breckinridge county, according to.
sports received here. She will re
aver. . . ..... . .. :
Ignores Marriage Of Twenty Years
Macon.—When asking for alimony
from her husband in a hearing be
fore Judge H. A. Mathews, in Bibb
superior court, Mrs. Eunice Ard failed
to take into consideration the fact
thgt she had been previously married
When ii years of dife, and bad failed
to secure a divorce. Mrs, Ard brought
action against her husband, William
F. Ard, a carpenter, for alimony,
pending a suit for divorce. After
hearing the confession of the woman
that she was married at the age of
1J. years to a man named Williams
In South Carolina, Judge Mathews
continued the case for a few days
to allow the attorneys to investigate.
While on the stand Mrs. Ard said
she did not know the whereabouts
of her husband of 20 years ago. She
is now SI years oi age and claims to
have informed Ard at the Lime of
tiioir marriage 14 years ago that she
was married to. Willi&jus.
Chink Bandits Attack British Mission
Pekin.—Men of the British mission
post at Tsao Shih were defending
their compound at last reports against
Honan bamdlts who threatened to car
ry off the missionaries unless the gov
ernment admits the bandits to the
army. Women and children had been
carried to safety. Bandit outrages
are simultaneously* sweeping the coun
try, the guerrilla bands being Inspired
by the success of the Shantung ban
dits who were re-enlisted by the Chi
nese army after their capture pf for
eign prisoners on May 6.
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Garvey Found Guilty Of Fraud
New York:—Marcus Garvey, who
gave himself the title of provisional
p-c-sident of Africa, was found guilty
o* 1 uefrauding investors in the Black
tfcar Steamship company. Three oth
er defendants were acquitted. The
jury was out for some time and was
recalled for further instructions. Gar
vey, who has had a picturesque career
in America after working as a dock
laborer in Jamaica, was charged with
having induced negroes throughofit
the United States to invest their sav
ings in the steamship company.
Determination To Pursue Program Of
Keeping Government Expenditures
Down, Reflected In Speech
Washington.—Confident that tho
government will finish the twelve
month period ending June 30 with a
surplus of $200,000,000, President Har
ding told government officials at a
"business" meeting that ho expected
greater economic^ to be effected dur
ing the next fiscal year. The policy
of “economy with efficiency," he as
serted, must be pressed further for
the benefit of the taxpayers.
The executive, talcing official notioe
of reported attempts by Borne offi
cials to influence congress to grant
larger appropriations than had been
recommended by the budget bureau,
warned against repetition of Buch ac
tivities. Departing from his prepared
address and shaking hlB finger em
phatically at his audience, he announc
ed he was ready to give consideration
to recommendations for the discharge
of officials who urged congressional
committees to go beyond the budget
figures in appropriations.
“I do not hesitate to say,” Mr.
Harding declared, "that a repetition
of the acts of any government officer
before congressional committees in
urging appropriations in excess of tho
budget’s recommendation will be re
garded as sufficient reason to cause
the giving of consideration to the sev
erance of such officials from the gov
ernment service.
The president’s determination to en
force the program of keeping gov
ernment expenditures within Income
was ref looted in a speech by Brigadier
■General Lord, director of the budget,
who, speaking also at the meeting,
said he had asked the president to
discharge one official who had in
structed his subordinates to spend all
money available to their bureau be
fore July 1, The official, General
Lord declared, sent telegrams to his
field service employees urging them
to let no appropriation lapse at the
end of the fiscal, year when unexpend
ed! fund? revert to the treasury gen
eral fund.;
General Lord made a plea for stop
ping wastage in government opera
tions,;^ small a? well as the large,
for both kinds, ho said, were equally
Important in any program of retrench
ment in expenditure?, The budget
chief declared “small leaks," a drain
on the treasury r efficient to offset
some of the greater economics enforc
ed during the last year, rapidly were
being checked and where drastic ac
tion is found necessary employes, are
being "fired."
The president characterized the ef
forts of the government “business”
organization towards retrenchment as
epochal. He said benefits accruing
were not all directly shown and point
ed to the adoption by many states of
federal standards and methods as
proof that the pol'cy of economy in
government was being carried further
by the example of the federal govern
ment. All of this, the executive as
serted, means government at less ex
pense to those who pay the bills.
Second only to the “signal achieve
ment" of keeping the government ex
penditures below the income and of
accumulating a surplus, the president
•mid, is the actual cut in federal ex
penses as compared with the twelve
months ended last June 30. The ac
tual reduction, the president repeated,
was $256,000,000.
Since the government began the
current fiscal year with an apparent
deficit of $823,000,000 and is expected
to finish with $200,000,000 and at the
same time has reduced the amount
spent as compared to last year, the
president declared he believed there
was just cause for pride.
With a continuation of the campaign
for economy, Mr. Harding told the of
ficials, there should be developed
greater efficiency and greater team
work in the government service. These,
he added, manifestly would produce
gaore slgniftQant result?. „■
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