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BRIEF NEWS NOTES
WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURING
WEEK THROUGHOUT COUN
TRY AND ABROAD
EVENTS OFJMPORTANCE
Gathered From All Parte Of The
Globe And Told In Short
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Foreign—
Scarcely able to speak, and showing
no improvement, Premier Bonar Law
of Great Britain was forced to refuse
a luncheon invitation from Premier
Poincare. Bonar Law has been suf
fering from a throat intection.
American and British captives of the
Shantung bandits will be shot at an
early date if the Chinese troops are
not withdrawn, according to the “final
ultimatum” of the bandits, brought
from the mountain stronghold by Mar
cel Oliver Berube, a Frenchman, one
of the prisoners who was released for
the purpose.
Police officials assert that they have
intercepted correspondence from the
woman held as Clara Phillips, the
California "hammer murderess,” to
persons of unknown identity offering
large sums of money if they should
assist the prisoner in escaping from
jail at Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
The sentences imposed by the recent
court-martial upon Dr. Krupp von Boh
len and the other Krupp directors tried
for instigating opposition to the French
at the Krupp plant at the time of the
shooting on March 31, were confirmed
by the court of revision. The convict
ed men will he transferred to prisons
in France while their counsel prepare
for an appeal.
The dancing marathon craze which
has just swept over the United States
is a form of “mass hysteria” which,
ncording to the eminent professor, Al
bert Moeil, of Berlin, is likely to
spread all over the world.
Reports that Prime Minister Bonar
Law is returning to London from his
vacation in Switzerland, have given rise
to the suggestion that he has curtailed
his stay in consequence of the posi
tion in which the government finds it
self in regard to the Art O’Brien ha
beas corpus proceedings. The cabinet,
has already met to consider the quan
darv.
Three Chinese captives taken by the
Suchow train bandits in the raid on the
Shanghai-Pekin express, have been
hurled to their death over a precipice
near the brigands’ mountain stronghold
as a warning that negotiations for the
release of the foreign prisoners must
be brought to a speedy termination,
according to news emanating in Lin
cheng.
Banditry in six provinces, anti-Japan
ese riots in one province, Japanese boy
cotts in several, piracy on the southern
coast and up the southern rivers, war
in three provinces and warlike prepa
rations in a fourth are the outstanding
problems of the past few weeks which
are confronting the Chinese govern
ment.
Mussolini, premier of Italy, an
nounces that his government is plan
ning to give the women the ballot.
At first, he plans to confine the vote
to certain categories of women.
Soviet Russia’s note to Great Brit
ain’s ultimatum, the text of which has
been made public in Moscow, is couch
ed in conciliatory but firm terms. The
note reply expresses surprise at the
British ultimatum and proposes a con
ference at a time and place to be ar
ranged by England herself.
W asning ton—
Further gains for American busi
ness, now on a high level, are fore
cast by the recent increase of im
ports into the United States over ex
ports, shown in March for the first
time since 1914.
For courage displayed in attempting
to save the life of Miss Dorothy Me-
Clatchie after she had been attacked
by a giant barracuda while swimming
in the gulf waters off St. Petersburg,
Fla., last June, Miss Mary Buhner, of
that city, has been awarded the SSO
life-saving first prize by the American
Red Cross.
Sir Auckland Geddes, the British
ambassador, sent to the treasury his
government’s latest statement on the
changes it seeks in the Anglo-Ameri
can debt-funding agreement. The con
tents of the communication were not
revealed. It was taken up by the
American debt commission.
Secretary of Commerce Hoover ex
pects the cost of living to run along
on its present level for an indefinite
period, contrary to the general tend
ency to rise during periods of pros
perity. The 1 per cent advance in
food prices for April announced by the
department of labor, does not, in the
opinion of Hoover, forecast a general
fise in food and other living costs.
Declaring “no nation will survive
where factionalism is endured,” Presir
dent Harding threw down the gaunt
let to all blocs or groups “which seek
to promote this or that interest with
out regard for common weal.”
The state department telegraphed
the American consul at Mexico City to
rush all details of the bomb explosion
which partially wrecked the consulate
there. The state department’s first in
formation of the bombing came from
International News Service dispatches.
In the absence of official advices, offi
cials declined to comment on what
possible effect the bombing may have
on the Mexican-American negotiations.
Domestic—
Mrs. Mary Lanigan, mother of 13
children, was charged with first de
gree murder at New York. She is ac
cussed of having shot and killed her
husband, John, on the 30th anniversary
of their wedding. Their son, Wililam,
13 years old, was held as a witness.
Dr. Charles F. Wisliart, president of
Wooster college, Wooster, Ohio, was
elected moderator of the Presbyterian
church of the United States recently
at the end of three ballots. He won
over William Jennings Bryan by 22
votes, the third ballot giving 461 for
Wishart and 429 for Bryan.
A resolution condemning the teach
ing of evolution, read to the South
ern Baptist convention, Kansas City,
Mo., created much excitement among
the delegates. It was referred to a
committee on resolutions, after a mo
tion to table had failed.
Kershaw county counted the cost of
the fire that recently destroyed the
Cleveland school, eight miles from
Camden, S. C. Seventy-three known
dead, men, women and children, and
one missing, together with dozens
more or less seriously injured was the
terrible toll, as the corrected list stood
at the latest reports. The fire was
caused by the overturning of an oil
lamp on the stage during the com
mencement exercises which were be
ing witnessed by a crowd that Jammed
the room.
Plans are rapidly being perfected for
the eighth annual meeting of the Dixie
Highway association, which will be
held in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Eight persons were found guilty of
use and conspiracy to use the mails
to defraud, four were convicted on
charges of conspiracy and one was ac
quitted by a federal court jury, Omaha,
Neb., which tried 13 defendants indict
ed in connection with promotion of
the Colonial Timber and Coal corpora
tion of Charleston, W. Va.
Clarance Saunders, president of Pig
gly Wiggly Stores, Inc., announced
that he had closed a deal for the
sale of 97 Piggly Wiggly units in Chi
cago to Chicago financiers, the consid
eration being morq “than a million dol
lars,” he said.
With his legs bound to a chair by
chains so strong the police could not
break them, 12-year-old Dominick Gia
nettino was found in the kitchen of
his home at New York. A heavy pad
lock held the chains. The key to it
had been taken by the boy’s father
when he started to work.
Mrs. Robert G. Bachmann recently
confronted Charles (“Chuch”) Palmer,
captain of Northewestern university’s
1922 football team and star athlete of
his school, and reiterated her story
that Palmer told her in November,
1921, that Leighton Mountss body was
under the Evanston pier where his
skeleton was found two •weeks ago.
Officials of the Lehigh Valley rail
road and representatives of shopmen
who are still on strike presented con
tradictory views of reasons for opera
ting difficulties m the interstate com
merce commission investigation into
efficient railroad management.
For the first time since the civil
war, the issue of state rights as
against the supremacy of the federal
constitution has become acute. Presi
dent Harding has, in a letter to Wes
ley Wait, of Newburgh, N. Y., chal
lenged the action of the New York
legislature in repealing its prohibition
enforcement act.
England’s greatest asset is her char
acter. And this is the aspect that
stands out like a rock of hope In the
midst of otherwise pretty unhappy
conditions. It is the character that
led her to fix the terms of payment
of her debt to the United States, and
actually to begin to pay the money at
a time when her hard-pressed leaders
find It far from easy to see where
the money is to come from.
Two eastern railroad president, A.
H. Smith, of the New York Central,
and Samuel Rea, of the Pennsylvania
system, gave the interstate commerce
commission their qualified approval of
its proposals for railroad consolida
tion in eastern trunk-line territory.
A terrific boiler explosion took place
recently at Lake Miss., killing two ne
groes and slightly injuring a fireman.
The boiler -was blown 600 feet, break
ing down two large telegraph poles,
scattering flues in all directions, final
lv landing between the depot and a
corner drug store.
Henry county weekly, McDonough, Georgia.
MASONS’ ANNUITY
FUND TO BE DIVIDED
LONG LEGAL BATTLE SETTLED
BY COURT DECISION—S,SOO
POLICYHOLDERS
STATE NEWSJF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Sections Of
The State
Atlanta. —Approximately $950,000 in
assets of the defunct Masons’ Annuity
will be divided proportionately among
its 5,500 or more policyholders, it was
decreed in Fulton superior court by
Judge George L. Bell, in signing an
order in the receivership proceedings
brought against the annuity over one
year ago by a number of policy
holders.
The amount of payments to each
policyholder will be determined by the
auditor, George L. Bell, Jr., who was
appointed several months ago by Judge
Shepard Bryan.
Alter the cash value of each claim
has been computed, it was ordered,
the assets •will be divided among the
claimants in proportion to their claims.
According to Hewitt Chambers who,
together with Attorney John Dickey,
is receiver, the assets consist of mu
nicipal bonds valued at approximate-'
ly $730,000; an office building at
Edgewood and Ivy street valued at
$150,000, and approximately $70,000 in
cash.
It will be at least 60 days before
any payments on claims can be made,
Mr. Chambers stated. He said he would
not be in position to estimate what
percentage of the face value of the
policies can be paid until the auditor
has submitted his findings.
The order of Judge Bell means that
the assets, amounting to nearly $1,000,-
000, will be turned into cash at once
and distributed among more than 5,-
000 persons, consisting principally of
widow’s and orphans of Masons.
The case entered the court in Jan
uary, 1922, when receivership proceed
ings were instituted against the Ma
sons’ annuity, at which time receiv
ers were appointed to take charge of
its affair.
380 Auto-Train Crashes In Year
Atlanta.—-Automobiles figured in 81
per cent of the accidents which occur
red at crossings of public highways
with tracks of the Southern railway sys
tem during 1922. Out of 474 crossing
accidents, 384 were in connection with
automobiles. Sixty-seven occupants of
automobiles were killed and 1994 in
jured out of a total of 86 persons killed
and 274 injured in such accidents.
There were 64 accidents involving oth
er vehicles and street cars in which
four persons were killed and 68 in
jured, and 25 accidents to pedestrians,
of whom 15 were killed and 12 injured.
These figures are contained in a state
ment issued by the safety department
of the Southern, calling attention to
the alarming increase of crossing acci
dents since the automobile has come
into general use.
Building Permits Pass $3,000,000
Atlanta. —The building permit figures
for the month of May will surpass the
$3,000,000 marks, but will fall short
considerably of total figures of April,—
(his is the prediction expressed by C.
J. Bowen, inspector of buildings. The
first fifteen days of May recorded a
total of $1,040,303 in permits which
were principally for apartment and res
idence property. Last month shattered
all previous permit records in Atlanta,
the total reaching $4,922,792. Several
large permits for erection of hotels and
other business structures ran the total
to this figure, including a single per
mit for $2,000,000 issued to the At
lanta Biltmore Hotel company for con
struction of a 500 room hotel on West
Peachtree at Fifth street.
Had 30 Gallons For His Own Use
Atlanta. —Pleading guilty to posses
sion of nearly 30 gallons of whisky
and three moonshine stills in his home,
Fred Bush, through his attorney, threw
himself on the mercy of the court
and appealed for leniency on the
ground that he has six small children
to support. Bush declared that he
had been making whisky only for his
personal use and that he did not know
it was against the law to do it. He
offered no other defense.
Unidentified Man Killed By Train
Athens. —The mangled body of an un
identified white man, apparently 65
years of age, was brought to (his city
b the train crew of the No. 5 south
bound seaboard passenger train. It is
stated that his train struck the man
while he was walking along the tracks,
a short distance from Elberton. He
was alive when taken aboard, but he
died before the train reached Athens.
An ambulance met the train, but it was
too late to do any good.
Leaders Protest “Standard Act”
Savannah. A letter protesting
against the “standards act” was trans
mitted by a committee named by the
Savannah cotton exchange, the letter
saying, in part: “The directors pro
test against the act as being calculat
ed to seriously hamper >jt.be cotton
trade of the United States with for
eign countries. They believe that the
worst effect of the enforcement of the
act will fall upon the cotton producer,
by limiting the competition for his
product in foreign countries. Already
foreign gowthe are displacing Ameri
can cotton, as is illustrated by the
fact that the production of cotton out
side the United States increased in
1922, 1,000,000 bales over 1921.
Major Wheeler Dies In Macon
Macon. —Major W. Polhill Wheeler,
for several years prominent in mili
tary circles in Georgia and a veteran
of the Mexican border trouble and the
world w r ar, died at the Oglethorpe in
firmary after a week’s illness. Major
Wheeler was a former captain of the
old Macon Hussars and saw active
service throughout the world war. He
went with the Macon troops to the
Mexican border as battalion commas
der after they had mobilized at Camp
Haris. Returning to Macon Major
Wheeler was with the Georgia outfit
at Camp Wheeler and later went to
France, where he served as a ma
chine gun officer. At the close of the
war he was stationed at Fort Sill,
Okla., for a year.
Figge Is Held Under Mann Charge
Atlanta.—After several spirited ver
bal clashes between District Attorney
Clint W. Hager and Attorney W. Paul
Carpenter, counsel for the defense, E.
O. Figge, charged with violation of
the Mann white slave act, was held
under S4OO bond. Figge was given a
preliminary trial before United States
Commissioner W. Colquitt Carter. His
arrest occurred here about a month
ago after the department of justice
received complaint that he was trans
porting his wife, Mrs. Doris Figge, a
former carnival worker, from point to
point throughout the South for im
moral purposes.
$1,000,000 Trust Company Planned
Atlanta. —One million dollars’ worth
of stock in a new trust company to
finance building operations and com
pleted properties in the southeast has
been placed on the market, it was an
nounced by Silas W. Davis, prime
mover in the new enterprise. Applica
tion for charter for the concern, which
will be called the Southeastern Trust
company, has been filed, Mr. Davis
said, and the company will begin oper
ations as soon as their charter is
granted. The principal activities of
the company will be to make loans
secured by first mortgages on im
proved properties, both residential and
commercial.
Big Cotton Crop Expected In Cobb
Marietta.—The farmers of Cobb
county are looking forward to the
largest cotton crop this year that has
been made in four years. The experi
ence which they have received during
the past few years in fighting the boll
weevil and also in selecting the best
seed available for planting, shows that
even with the boll weevil in the ter
ritory, they will be able to make good
crops. Besides cotton, Cobb county
planters are expecting good corn, bay
and peanut crops. Poultry raising is
also being taken up.
Use Andrenalin To Revive Life
Savannah. Adrenalin injections,
which came to prominent notice in.
the cases of bringing to life newly
bora babies, to all, appearances dead,
were successfully employed recently in
Savannah for the first time, with re
markable circumstances, chief among
which was the fact that the patient is
seventy-five years old and had been al
ready pronounced dead. So far as
known, this is the first time this meth
od has been used in any city in Geor
gia. This case will be watched with
interest.
Splendid Reports For Army Recruits
Atlanta. —Indications during the first
week of the recently inaugurated re
cruiting drive point to one of the most
successful army recruiting campaigns
in months, according to information
made public by Lieutenant James F.
Morrison Fort McPherson recruiting
officer, who stated that a large num
ber of capable recruits had been se
cured for the army during the last few
days. Many men are choosing Texas
posts for their assignments, conditions
along the Mexican border seeming to
offer more action to the soldier.
Women Banner By Pipe Smokers
Atlanta.—The National Order of
Pipe Smokers will remain a distinc
tive man’s organization, and no char
ter will be issued to or for lodges com
posed of women, nor will there be any
woman’b auxiliary. This was officially
determined at a regular meeting of the
grand lodge of the order, held in one
of the large assembly rooms of the
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce.
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pound to my friends as it nas certainly
given me great relief. ” —Mrs. C.B. Rob
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Housewives make a great mistake in
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