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JOHN H. HODGES, Prop*r. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1923.
HIGH RANH
RANKS SECOND ON BASIS OF THE
PURCHASING POWER OF
j. . v TRADE SECTIONS
{STATE NEWSJF INTEREST
[Brief- News Items Gathered ''Here
/ And There From All Section*
( Of The State
Atlanta.—The Atlanta tradeterri
tory has a greater purchasing power
than any trade district in the United
Stages with the exception- of- the St.
Louis district, According to figures
compiled- by ‘‘Business Digest,” and
published in its bulletin,', Novemb.er
In explanation of the method used
jfor determining the purchasing power
{the bulletin says: ,
f- “The percentage sljown are based
'upon debts to individual • accounts,
jthat is, charges which a bank makes
on its books when depositors' checks
jare presented for collection!
"Debits made during four weeks of
{October are compared with those
jpxade in a similar ;period in September,
Itohich is taken as representing 100.
“Similarly, October debits "are com
pared with those of October, 1022,
Which period aiso represents 100. If,
therefore, the percentage is 96 it
means that 6 per cent fewer charges
were made In October than In the
period with which comparison la
made."
The table showing the purchasing
power ratio of the principal trade sec
tions is as follows: .
Boston 108, 99; New York 106, 82 j
{Philadelphia 107, 97; Cleveland 103,
!106; Richmond 106, 101; Atlanta 116,
illO; Chicago 104, 101; St. Louis 118,
il07; Minneapolis 102, 101; Kansas
City 100, 96; Dallas 109, 103; San
Francisco 106, 1132 Canada 187, 162.
CRAIG IS RELEASED
BUT NOT PARDONED
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE REMITS
CONTEMPT TERM GIVEN TO
COMPTROLLER CRAIG
- Masons Honor Memory Of Bogman
' Atlanta.—Older members of Yaarab
! temple attended the funeral of one
of their veterans associates, George
.^WallRce, Bogman, whose death occur-
'red-in Atlanta on November 24, and
yho held Card No. 10 in the temple
membership. Following funeral serv
ices,! the body was taken to Provi-
idence, R. I„ for interment in the
family .cemetery. Captain J. H._B.
iBogman, signal corps,' U. S. Artfiy?l!r“
. rived recently from his station at the
-Panama Canal Zone, having left for
Atlanta immediately 'after receipt of
' a cablegram announcing that hlB
father was? seriously ill. He £i& not
know until; he arrived here that Mr.’
iBogman was dead. G. W. Bogman,
Jr., anothe^son, is oonnepted with the
Atlantic Ice & Coal Corp., in Atlanta.
,The deceased is survived by these
two sons; his widow, Mrs. Kate
Sprenger Bogman, and a daughter,
Miss Catherine Bogman. Mr. Bogman
was born in Boston, September 24,
1862, and was in his 72d year at the
time of his death, which followed an
illness of. one week. In his young
manhood he spent eight years, on a
ranch in Texas, moving from there to
.tlanta in 1886 to become manager
f the Atlanta Newspaper Union. He
Continued in that capacity for 25
yeajjs, and some six years ago form
ed fP connection with the Vittur Stor
age company of this city.
Savannah.—For the first time the
h'ehd of the Seventh-day Adventists' or
ganization, in America will visit Sa
vannah. Rey. W. A. Spicer of Wash
ington, D. C,,' president of the world's
general coiiference of Seventh-day
Adventists, ’is beginning a series of
addresses in the church of that faith
starting December 4. He will
o. stop at Atlanta where he will de
an address. £
COMPTRBLLER GETS SCORING
Sentence Imposed Fully Deserved By
Craig And Judge Was Right,
Daugherty Says
Washington.—Without condoning
the offense, President Coolidge re
mitted the 69-day jail sentence, im
posed on Charles L. Craig, comptrol
ler of New York . city, by Federal
Judge Mayer for contempt of court
. The chief executive acted in the
case—one of the most widely discuss
ed ' contempt cases in recent years—
upon receipt of a report from Attor
ney General Daugherty with refer
ence to application of pardon for
Craig made by Senator Copeland, of
{New York, and by members of the
hoard of estimate and apportionment
for the city of New York.
. Mr. Daugherty in effect recomy
mended against the issuance; of a' par
don and urged remission sentence
"irrespective of what Craig, by his
arrogance personally then and-now,,
justly deserves," but because execu
tion of the sentence might have an
'injurious effect upon the administra
tion of the financial affairs of New
York city; because the sentence
.might be considered as too severe for.
'one holding Craig’s official position,
{and because, although Craig’s . .own
fault, no court had an opportunity to
{review the case on its merits.
The attorney general fully support
ed Judge Mayer, whose views were
considered, in tbtit.whoever action
wa3 taken “it shouhf not 'have the ef
fect of approving; or seeming to ap
prove, the conduct of Craig toward
'the court and should not be, in any
sense, a vindication.’ 1
“Craig’s imprisonment," Mr.
Daugherty told the president, "is not
'the greatest or the most important
question involved in the controversy.
From his attitude he seems willing,
[it not desirous, to assume the attitude
of a martyr, and it is conceivable
that he would be more disappointed
and punished by 1 not being required
to go to jail than he would be by serv-
inghiis sentence.”
' tEo “action of the president and at
torney general in refusing a pardon
.but in agreeing to a remission of sen
tence immediately raised the question
,ong friends here of the New York
mptroller as to whether, he would
accept th^e' remission. He has been
represented by those most active in
his behalf here as having declared he
would accept only a full and uncondi
tional pardon and, failing to receive
!it, would insist on serving the sixty
days in the Essex county, New Jer
sey jail, to which he was sentenced
by Judge Mayer. v
ARMISTICE ENDS
IN HOUSE FIGHT
ORGANIZATION OF THE SIXTY
EIGHTH CONGRESS HAS BEEN
BLOCKED FOR TWO DAYS
AGREE TO KE-ELECT GELLETI
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Representative Nelson And Colleagues
State That They Will Recom
mend Quitting Fight
Washington.—An armistico undei
which the sixty-eighth congress may
be organized was agreed upon by lead
ers of the Republican insurgent and
regular organizations, in the house.
Under the agreement, Gillett, ol
Massachusetts, whose re-electiou as
speaker has been blocked for two days
by the insurgents, is to be returned
to office. This would clear the way
for President Coolidge to deliver his
first annual message to congress.
Announcement of the agreement
-came after, a conference between Rep
resentative Longworth, of Ohio, the
organization leader, and Representa
tive Nelson, of Wisconsin; Woodruff,
of Michigan, and Laguardia, Of New
York. Mr. Nelson and his colleagues
said they could not speak for the pro
gressive bloc, but would recdmtndnd
to it abandonment of the fight on Gil-
letL
The way for the. conference was
paved by a statement issued by Mr.
Longworth after, the house had had
another four rounds of futile ballot
ing. Mr. Longworth announced that,
after due time and within a month
the house would be given full oppor
tunity to adopt such rules governing
its procedure “as the majority may
desire.” Insurgents from the first
of the fight had stated that all they
wanted was this, opportunity for the
house to, act. ' .
There still remained a difference
between .the two groups, however.
Mr. Longworth proposed a delay ' in
action until after the rules commit
tee could consider various suggestions
for changes from the mombers, where
as the insurgents insisted " upon
amendments by the house before the
adoption of any rules. This difference
was Ironed out in the more than an
hour of discussion, Mr. Longworth
agreeing that the Insurgent* would
have freedom of action in offering
amendment* to any *Qd all of the
rules as proposed by the rules com
mittee.
liver
Yarbrough On Trial Third Time
Macon.—Dr. C. A. Yarbrough, den
tist, will ..be placed on trial for the
third time in connection with a, series
of flogging cases in Bibb county, it
-is announced at the office of Solicitor
Roy W. Moore of city- court. The
charge under which he will be prose
cuted at this time, the solicitor states,
is that of rioting, the .same charge as
at the previous trials, but a different
{case. At the first trial of Doctor Yar
brough there was a verdict of acquit-
jtal. At the .second trial a mistrial was
declared. : v- \ \j
Aviators Are Slain As Planes Collide
; San Diego, Calif.—Three naval air
men were killed when two airplanes
collided at an altitude of about 1,000
feet at a point almost directly over
the bridge bjetween Coronado and
North IslancL The dead are: Lieu
tenant F. m!" Byers, 28, of Coronado.
Williard B. Jackson, 2.6, ..aviation chief
machinist mate, of San Diego.
Thomas B. Entwistlb,- "aviation chief
machinist mate, 29, whose widow re
sides at Pensacola, Pla. Jackson and
Entwistle, flying about 60 miles an
hour, were nosing down preparatory
to landing when Lieutenant Byers
swung along the same course. Both
airplanes crashed and plunged down
ward in a spin. ’?•; J:><
Chicago Girl Is Kidnaped By Moron
Chicago.—After more than 36 hours
of search the police have concluded
that 12-year-old Rose Borth, who dis
appeared-recently after -she had been'
sent for groceries, has* been kidnaped
by a moron. The police say^pey are
seeking a self-styled “celestial angel
and heavenly father’ 1 as the possible
kidnaper. They say he is described
In criminal records as a moron and
maniac. He is said to have escaped
recently from a state hospital for the
insane at Elgin, where he was sent
after conviction for attacking cliil-
,dren in his religious cult under guise
pf performing a religious ceremony.
80UTH DAKOTA INDOR8E8
, McADOO AND COOLIDGE
Ford Is Beaten In Convention* Of
Two Parties-—LaFollette Cholo*
Of Fai-mer-Laborit**
Pierre, S. D.—William G. McAdoo,
former secretary of the treasury, re
ceived the Democratic presidential in
dorsement in the Democratic proposal
convention with a total of 39,018
against 6,072 for Henry Ford. Ford
and McAdoo were the only candidates
placed in nomlnatiou.
McAdoo was nominated by State
Chairman W. W. Howes, of Wolsey,
who made a stirring appeal for the
indorsement of a “progressive and en
lightened Democrat with an unchal
lenged record, for constructive wel
fare."
Ford was nominated by James F.
Houlihan of Watertown, an officer of
the South Dakota Ford-for-President
club, f
Seventeen out of some 200 dele
gates cast their votes for Ford, who
received scattered. votes from eleven
out of sixty-five counties. Codington
county, from which Houlihan is a pro
posal man and Spink county, the only
two counties which voted solidly for
Ford, caBt a combined vote of 2 } 006.
Senator Robert M. La Follette! of
Wisconsin, was given the farmer-
labor presidential endorsement by a
vote of 31,999 against 7,247 for Henry
Ford. ;
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. Peach Grower
Marquis Is Sued By Wealthy Woman
Paris.—The Marquis de Poriteves,
64, an officer in the French army, has
begun a breach of promise suit for
600,000 francs against the Countess
de Beaurepaire, 50, said to be the
widow of a Cincinnati millionaire
named Thompson, who died in 1913
leaving her an income of 2,000,000
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