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Newspaper
Fayetteville News
Location
Fayetteville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1923
Page
1
The article reports that telephone charges will be reduced starting May 1 in Atlanta Macon Augusta Savannah and Columbus. It notes the planned rate cuts apply to local and long distance calls, with customers set to see lower monthly bills. Public utility officials announce the nationwide adjustment.
Statewide brief notes report reductions in telephone rates estimated to save $328,995.28 per year for five Georgia elites after an order by the public service commission. The piece also notes rate changes in Atlanta and other cities, a cemetery bells dispute in Atlanta, and a discussion of the Fulmer cotton standards bill at the Atlanta Commercial Exchange. It also covers a negro taxi driver shooting near Campbellton road, a Dalton census dispute, and a school census showing 2,438 children in Dalton.
A violent wind and rain storm struck eastern Johnson County early, destroying tenant farmer homes. On J.T. Fulford’s plantation seven miles east, John Brantley’s home collapsed with him buried but unhurt. His daughters Adelle and Beatrice suffered serious injuries, while sons Charles Guy and Annie Brantley sustained lesser harm. a mule remained tied after the upheaval. Price schoolhouse and Berry Price plantation homes were ruined, no fatalities reported.
George Baker paid the supreme penalty for the murder of J. W. Morton sheriff of Walker county. His execution took place with calm, while his brother Ralph Baker began serving his sentence on the Floyd county chain gang. In Atlanta, tax revision and highway bond topics top the legislature agenda with Governor Hardwick’s tenure ending and Governor-elect Clifford Walker planned to outline recommendations in his inaugural address. In Moultrie, a continuing Negro exodus sees many leaving weekly, aided by requests for advance money and letters from Northbound workers citing high living costs.
Allan M. MacDonald son of Judge Aleck MacDonald of Savannah and active in Macon civic affairs was struck by a car on a country road near Macon. Taken to a private hospital, doctors could not yet determine the severity of his injuries. A reward of 50 dollars was offered by Wayne county Sheriff L W Rogers for the capture and delivery of D D Davis who escaped from jail while being transported to Jesup to serve time on the Wayne chain gang on burglary and wife heating charges.
Attorney General Daugherty pressed for a full evidence presentation in Chicago injunctive case against railroad shopmen leaders. He aims to show the strike’s chaos, property damage, and threats to interstate commerce and life, despite defense counsel withdrawals, to prevent future universal strikes.
Roanoke Virginia rails to Mullens West Virginia will be electrified to boost traffic capacity and operating economies. The project requires 15 million dollars for locomotives power equipment transformer stations and related apparatus. Wanhinger Hours Electric and Manufacturing Company awarded the contract as the largest railroad electrification project to date.
Washington notes the rapid rise in credit demand and industrial production with the Federal Reserve Board warning that sustained credit growth will pressure member banks for more reserves. It links payroll growth since 1922 to currency needs, and emphasizes labor and equipment limits over credit supply in boosting national production.
Police found eight year old Uttle Josephine Bruno in a cellar near her home by the Brooklyn waterfront after a long night search. She had been stabbed in the neck and mutilated as investigators linked the case to a waterfront district pattern of crimes against children. The cellar had previously been searched twice without results.
In Vienna the crown's devaluation leaves workers with near worthless pay. Arrests for drunkenness average 200 nightly, about 75 percent of all Vienna arrests. Of those detained, 88 percent are men and five percent are minors.
The Southern Bakers of the Baking Association of the South declare the convention slogan Eat More Wheat in Atlanta. Dr H B Barnard of the American Association of the Baking Industry relayed messages from Hoover Wallace and Davis on the Hot More Wheat plan. Harding sends $40 to the American Legion’s endowment fund for memorial graves in Europe. In Dublin a street uprising injures fifteen women and two soldiers as rebels plant explosives in Amiens Street station and exchange fire with Free State troops.
Washington officials weigh retaliation risk after Supreme Court decision. The Navy fleet will stay dry beyond territorial waters, while private American-flag ships may skirt the limit to carry liquor. Congress likely to act to ban liquor on ships inside and outside the zone. Prohibition advocates and wets prepare for a testing fight ahead of the presidential campaign. Emerson Hough, noted author, dies at 66 in Evanston after intestinal obstruction and heart complications.
Premier Benito Mussolini plans a drastic revision of the fascisti membership to expel spurious elements and halt enrollment, as reported by Giornale Roma amid concerns over the party’s moral standards. Meanwhile a tornado near Syracuse, Kansas kills teacher Miss Winifred Rogers and injures pupils Blanche Green Eva Tayer, with Eva critically injured. Bishop Alfred Harding of Washington dies after weeks of illness, born in Ireland in 1952 and educated at Trinity and Berkeley Divinity School.
Fifty two Gary and Lake county residents were convicted in U S district court of conspiracy to violate prohibition laws. Sentences ranged from one day to one year and six months. Several officials and attorneys received prison terms and fines. Some defendants planned to appeal within 120 days.
The census bureau notes war effects shape most population changes in the 1920 census. It warns the war's influence may keep the 14th census exceptional for years, while future tabulations could show a gradual return to higher growth or a further slowdown signaling a distinct national growth decline.
An exact replica of Columbus ship the Santa Maria has been presented by Spain to the British government and was shown publicly for the first time at a London science museum.
A 15 year old, Anna Daidone, shot and killed 40 year old Frank Taranto in Chicago in a case that ended with a no bill from the grand jury. She faced manslaughter charges but was cleared.
Gov Da vis of this state holds Alexander Howat ex president of the Kansas district UMWA violated no law justifying detention by Canadian immigration authorities at Ottawa. Widespread strike reaches Southern California farm fields as IWW actions spread from marine and forest work. In Seattle police court H M Peters and O A Brenner face charges of threatening dock workers.
Market highlights show prices for hogs cattle and sheep mixed with declines in Washington hogs and steady to higher beef and veal. Chicago meat prices strong for hams and cuts while dairy cheese and butter markets show weakness then strength. Grain and cotton futures fluctuated with weather expectations influencing demand and prices. Citrus and vegetables see declines in some Florida and New York markets and broad supply pressures noted across grain and feed markets.
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