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- B ' ■ W3:-n I JOHN H. HODGES, Proper. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE ‘ • '* . : ' , ■ . '-J $1.50 a Y©str In Advance VOL. LlII, > ' PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1923. . . — ' . ^ * THE TWO HOUSES GENERAL BILLS WHICH WENT i TUDnilftu ] — uiulo vv niwn vvci • THROUGH both houses for final passage BROOKLYN DANCE HALL TURNED INTO DEATH TRAP—MANY CIVILIANS ARE KILLED STATE NEWS OF INTEREST FIREMEN BURIED IN DEBRIS Brief News Items Gathered Here And There From All Sections Of The State Walls Collapse Without Warning. Cries Ar.d Groans Stir Rescue 1 Workers Atlanta. For those who measure jlthe achievements of a legislative ses sion solely by the bills passed, the ''.following record of the session just ,-closed has been complied. It lists all . general bills whiah went through both bouses to final passage, ready for the! signature of the governor to add them • to the legally enacted laws of Geor gia. Bills of purely local interests only are not Included in this list, f Among the local bills of general in terest passed by both houses were | those amending the charters of Col- j liege Park, East Point and Hapeville, 1 giving authority to vote on a plan to become a part of the city of Atlanta, I aln amendment to the charter of East 'Lake; the bill creating an additional judgeship in Fulton county; a bill in- reasing the pay of attaches of (the j Atlanta municipal court; bills moving .the county site of Brantley x county em Hoboken to Nahunta, and re- loving the. county site of Camden f county from St. Marys to Woodbine; and a bill providing for the election of the solicitor of the Baldwin coun ty court by a vote of the people. House bills of ^general application passed by both bodies and sent to the governor for his approval, in addition to more-than a hundred measures of purely local application, were as fol lows; The Mann-Wingate bill providing a | ithree-cent tax on gasoline for- high way purposes. The bill of Representative Napier ! of Bibb .county and Kempton of Ful- | ton county requiring the reading of be Constitution in the public schools. The ]bill of Representative Bussey of jCrlsp giving hotels the right to sell baggage to pay bills. The bill of Representative Burt of Dougherty to authorize counties and municipalities to build consolidated I schools-. The bill of Representative Head to purchase and retire their own bonds. The bill of Representative Meeks of Coffee to authorize cities to conduct playgrounds. The bill of Representative Pope of Walker to prevent the trapping , of •quail. \ A bill of the Bibb delegation affect- ig bonds of county treasurers. The bill of the Fulton delegation affecting the pay of stenographers in superior courts. A bill of the Bartow delegation re quiring notice to lodge members when applications are made for charters. The Milner bill placing a tax of 10 !per cent upon all cigars and cigarettes I'eold in Georgia. A bill by the Fulton delegation to permit trust pompanies to capitalize up to $2,000,000. A. bill by the Jackson delegation to require manufacturers of (insecti cides to print formulas on labels. A bill by the Bib delegation to epr- L mit counties to maintain law libra ries, A bill by the Fulton delegation to Itliorize counties to" contract for .lights on public highways. A bill by Representative Holton of filcox county to permit tax collectors to accept county warrants in paymont (of taxes. A bill by the Clarke delegation af- Ifectiug the incorporation of street rail- New Turk.—An unknown number of firemen were believed to have been killed when the roof of one of the walls of a ihroe-story building housing the New Vork Plaza dance hall in Brooklyn coitr. i uring the course of a fire. Between 26 and 50 fire fighters and a number of civilians were crushed beneath the tons , of brick and mc-onry. Ambulnncen were rushed to the scene from Brooklyn and Manhattan bringing doctors and a corps of nurses who assisted in the rescue work. Four alarms of .fire brought additional fire men who also assisted in the work of rescue. The firemen had carried lines of hose into the structure and were fight ing the fire under the glare of a half dozen powerful searchlights. With- alarm brbugth additional apparatus, of the walls crashed, burying all those in the building. A number of spec tators close to the wall were believed also to have been victims. Seven firemen were on the roof when the crash came. They were plunged into the flaming building. Be tween 26 and 60 firemen, fire offi cials estimated, were included in the group lighting the flames in the build ing at the lime of the collapse. The collapse of the roof carried three huge steel girders into the tum bled ruins and these are believed to be pinning down many of the victims. Cries and groans of the injured spur red the rescue workers on to greater efforts. The work of rescue was bad ly hampered by the heat and the dan ger offered by the possibility of a collapse of the remaining walls. The flames broke out afresh as the wall and roof collapsed and a fifth alarm brought additional apparatus. After ten minutes of desperate work rescuers brought out a body, that of a firemam,and ifve badly injured fire fighters, •'who were sent to hospitals. The smoulder .-g ruins built a sep ulcher four ftv :gh and covering half i u, policemen and vol- attacked the pile from their efforts to get GENERAL PUBLIC PUBLIC TO HAVE NORMAL SUP PLY DESPITE BREAK, SAYS PRSEIDENT REQUIREMENTS TO BE MET Coal Commission Leader Cg0lf£rs With Coolidge—Will Attempt To Fix Responsibility a block. Fh unteer civilf every side to the vict ivavs. [•'A bill by Representative Dixon of Jenkins to authorize certain counties to pay for convict labor. A bill by Representative Steele of * DeKalb authorizing cash bonds in criminal cases. A hill by Representative Rutherford of Monroe amending the act creating agricultural and m'echa.nlcals schools. A bill bv Representative Elders of Tattnall and the Fulton delegation to large the board of trustees of Geor gia. Tech, J - To Re-1 Macon.- min Hav. agent w 1 Macon’s from ‘ it -on’ Hawkins’ Body dust of Gen. Benja- .he pioneer Indian ioned the cradle of .cy, will be exhumed .g place on the banks of the ant river near Roberta, and reinterred on Fort Hawkins Hill -in East Macon. A committee from Ma con Kiwan 5 :’ club, is in charge of/the plan and th exercises will probably take place next • October. General Hawkins, known throughout the Unit ed States as one" of the most powerful diplomatic Indian ^agents for thirty y'ears prior to. his death, served for sixteen years as the United States representative for the Creek Indians in Georgia and- established his trad ing station on thie bank of the Flint river, near the boundary line of Craw ford and Taylor counties, where now -stands Neisler’-s toll bridge. Washington.—Failure of the anthra cite operators and miners to reach an agremeent at their Atlantic City con ference will .not be permitted to in flict a coal shortage on the consumer, it was declared .at the white house, While no indication of the administra tion program was given, it was an nounced that President Coolidge wish ed to assure the public that, normal requirement for fuel would be met. Chairman Hammond of the coal commission who discussed the an thracite situation late in the day with the president, said, however, an at tempt would be made to fix responsi bility for the failure of \late negotia tions, and it was Indicated that the commission’s findings in this jpartic- lilar might be incorporated in an "emergency report’’ to Mr. Coolidge which is now in preparation. Mr. Hammond declared the com mission did not consider the situation yet warranted the submission of this report. I-Ie denied, however, that either ho or his associates proposed to take the initiative at this time in endeavoring a resumption of negoti ations betwen the operators and their employees. “The commission," he asserted, "is prepared for eventualities." Immedi ately upon receipt of information that the Atlantic City conference had broken up over the question of in creased wages. Mr. Hammond went to the white house for a conference with the president. Upon leaving the executive call offices, he called an ex- excutive meeting of the coal and after It had been in session'less than an hour, a ,recess was taken to enable Mr. Hammond and Commissioner Neill to confer further with President Cool idge. The only public statement resulting from this second interview “was the authorized announcement that, regard less of the outcome of the anthracite controversy, the fuel necessities of the public would be met. Americans Killed As Bus Takes Leap Nice.—Five American tourists and one Frechman were killed and fifteen persons injured, some perhaps fatally, when a sight-seeing motor bus crash ed through a parapet on the mountain road between Nice and JUvian, plung ing over a 100-foot precipice into the river Var. Eighteen of the 22 passen gers were Americans. The dead are: The Rev. Hiram Grant Person and Mrs. Person, of Newton, Mass.; Mrs Alexander Sondheimer, Mrs. D. H. White, Charles H. Gray, of Gardiner, Maine, and the French chauffeur, Louis Valerino. Air Mail Lines Are Ready To Open New York.—Another chapter in the romance of the postal service will be written when two airplanes leave New York and San Francisco in an aftemp^ to establish a 28-hour air mail serv ice. C. Eugene Johnson will hop off at Hazlehurst Field, Long Island, for Cleveland, his first stop. At the same time another airplane will take the air at San Francisco. Each machine will carry 500 pounds of mail; Five Quakes Hurt Many Persians Teheran, Persia.—Five severe earth quakes have been felt at Turbat-I-Hai- dari during the recent pastr and the inhabitants are panic_ stricken, say dispatches received here. Heavy floods have also caused damage and there are said to be many sasUhities Mayor Of Manila Is Former Convict Manila.—Political circles were jar red by a bombshell recently . when Manuel Quezo, who recently resigned as president of the Philippine senate because of his differences with the American executive administration, innounced he has cabled the secre- :ary of war that Mayor Rodriguez, of Manila, lately appointed to that post by Governor-General Leonard Wood, was an ex-convict from Bilibid prison. The Herald issued an extra edition, demanding editorially that the gover nor-general request Mayor Rodriguez’s resignation. 35 Meet Death When Submarine Sinks Tokio.—The* newest. Japanese sub marine, just returned from a short trial trip, sank at the Kawasaki docks at Kobe and 85 membrs of her crew, missing, are believed to have lost tlic-ir lives. The captain, chief officers, five dockyard engineers and four other naval officers were saved. The cause of th accident has not been determin ed. Submarine Enginer Yanagawa, who was aboard the vessel as a rep resentative of the builders, was among e ,savBa? J We are On the Job from January to January, twelve months each year. You can buy One Sack or A Hundred Tons, or More, any day in the year and get prompt delivery. Our Customers get this kind of Service without any Extra Cost. “IT’S WHAT’S IN THE SACK THAT COUNTS.” HEARD BROTHERS. I Manufacturers of High Grade Fertilizers. g MACON, | GEORGIA. 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