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ITEMIZED REPORT
OF PROHI OFFICER
PROHIBITION FORCE IN GEORGIA
CONFISCATES PROPERTY
WORTH $68,280
STATE NEWSJF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Sections Of
The State
Atlanta. —Property for tho manufac
ture or Halo of illicit liquor valued at
$6*1,280 way destroyed by federal pro
hibition agents in Georgia during the
ffiouth of February, according to the
monthly report of Director Fred D.
Dismuko, JiiHt made public.
A gain In actual resullH over the
Barno period of liikl year waa Bhown
on every count of the report, and In
Borne classes of enforcement work the
officers aliiumt doubled the record for
the name period last, year.
Following la an Itemized report for
the month for the name period of laat
year: Complete atlllH captured and
destroyed, ill; lust year, 66; Incom
plete stills captured and 2 destroyed,
170; last year, 112; worms, 81; last
year, 41; gallons whiskey destroyed,
2, .'11)5; laat year, 1) !) 8 ; gallons mash
destroyed, 256,785; last year, 175,000 ;
fermenters confiscated, 1,827; last
year, 1,509; automobiles seized, if;
last your, 8; value of ears confiscated,
$6,500; last year, $2,100; total value
of property seized and destroyed, $68,-
2SO; lasi year, $27,175; total value
of property seized, but not destroyed,
$5,700; last year, $2,100; number of
arrests, 74; lust year, 48; number of
procurations, 125; lost year, 1,100.
This record, Assistant Director
lialir states, was made despite di
minished number of violations and
manlier field force than last year, and
indicates increased efficiency on tho
part of field agents, most of whom
are the same nion who took part in
the work of last year.
HIGHER GASOLINE
TAX IS PROPOSED
TwprCflnj Levy A Gallon For The Im
provement ur Mvmjs, PPopWaso by
Chairman John N. Holder
Macon. John N. Holder, chairman
of tin) statn highway commission, when
speaking horo, recently, bofore the Kl
wania Club, advocated a state tax of
two emits a gallon on gasoline and
oil to raise sufficient funds to meet
the fndonil aid appropriation for good
mad building In Georgia.
Declaring that, the present tax of
one cj'nt a gallon on gasoline brought
In SBOO,OOO In 1922, Mr. Holder said
that the lax ho now proposed would
menu a revenue for tbo yonr of sl,-
800,000. He declared that such a
tax would moan that tourists, “who
do consldorublo damage to our
mads,” will help to pay for tliolr
maintenance. He also said that thsl
tax would throw the heaviest harden
Ui>oii the richest counties, with their
larger numbers of automobile own
ers, and that these eountios would
no! object, but would feel amply re
paid by the bolter mads all ayer the
state.
Mother Of Youth Receives $14,500
Atlanta.- A verdict of $14,500 dam
ages against tbo Central of Georgia
railway was awarded Mm. 1. J. Newby,
of East Point, for the death of her
sen, Lin wood Newby, who met his
death when struck by a train In Ful
ton superior court. Judge E. D. Thom
as tried the suit. According to Mrs.
Newby, her son was killed In May,
1921, at the Cleburne avenue crossing
in East Point when the automobile
truck he was driving was struck by
a Central of Georgia train. She was
represented by Attorneys Lowry and
Reuben Arnold.
Man Set* Fire To Clothes
Atlanta. -Displaying stoicism equal
to that of the American Indian at the
stake In frontier days. Charles K.
Coop** - , 31 yen ns old, who Is being held
at Fulton county tower under writ of
lunacy, set fire to his clothing and
watched tho flames envelope him with
out uttering a single cry for help. His
condition Is critical, according to phy
sicians at Grady hospital.
Arrest Savannah Man For Assault
Savannah. In police barracks yard
recently Arthur Taylor, sen of B M.
Taylor, whose place of business was
searched by city and federal dry of
ficers) and who was arersted by H
H. Deloach, a federal agent, attempted
to asaanlt Deloach. He was placed
under arrest and held under SI,OOO
Bond to answer a charge of assault
and bat cry. The elder Taylor will be
tried for violating tho prohibition law.
CAPITAL REMOVAL FIGHT
ABANDONMENT UHGED
Agreement And Unity Of All People
In Btate Vitally Necessary,
Declares Writer
Macon. —The controversy over the
removal of the state capital from At
lanta to Macon, which for the last ten
years baa been a thorn in the aide of
the political progress of Georgia and
which, In a sense, has served to divide
the state into factions, preventing the
passage of important legislation, ap
pears to be at an end.
In a sigiled article on the editorial
page of the Macon Daily Telegraph in
a recent issue of that paper, Nelson M.
Shipp, one of the editorial writers
of the Telegraph, makes the flat dec
laration that ‘‘the tight and effort of
Macon to secure the state capital
should not bo carried further,” and
points out that "the hour has stfcick
when H larger measure of agreement
and unity Is vitally necessary to the
life, the health, the safety of our
commonwealth.”
The writer calls attention to the
recent election to the United States
senate of a south Georgia man, W idgo
Walter F. George, as a factor in
dicates that section qj/'lhe u cAte is
beginning to
sore neglect and Starving condition
of state Institutions; the neecfcd re
vision and reorganization of thfc state
prison system; tax problems th.Jt must
he settler! and solved and other "things
that show that the time has come
when there must he a greater degree
of harmony in Georgia before the
meeting of the next legislature in or
der that the crying needs of the state
may be met.
Savannah Store Called Nuisance
Savannah. —What is believed to be
the first of probably a series of suen
proceedings, maybe a dozen or more,
began recently when Uic bouse ami
store of Joseph Greenberg and others
was closed by order of the federal
court on petition that the place be
closed for a year on grounds of be
ing a nuisance. Tho closing followed
four successful raids by prohibition
enforcement officers. It Is said. Judge
Barrett w ill hold a hearing in the mat
ter on March 10 In Macon. Three oc
cupants of the building have cases
against them pending In the federal
'Mr it t
” *
LjPyer Of Lulu Officers Ja'led
Gainesville. —Following tho killing
of Policeman Jack Bryant and Vio
Los Martin at Lulu, Bob Hope, a mail
carrier between Lulu and Homer, Is in
Hull county jail charged with mur
der. It is alleged that Hope had paid
a fino In Lulu mayor’s court recently
with a check upon which he later stop
ped payment. Ho was rearrested and
taken to tho towu “lockup” by the
two officers. Just Inside the door the
shooting began, one officor being kill
ed instantly und the other wounded.
As the latter ran out of the Jail he was
shot through a window and instantly
killed.
Sugar Suit Ruling To Affect 100 Cases
Macon. —In directing a verdict of
$17,792.53, principal and Interest for
Ixuubom & Company, sugar refiners,
against the A. li. Small company, local
wholesale grocer, Judge William H.
Barrett in the United States district
court, laid down a ruling that will
affect nearly 100 cases between whole
side grocers and refiners and jobbers
in the southeast. The suit, which has
been hanging fire since 15*20, grew out
of the repudiation of contracts to pur
chase sugar for future delivery by a
number of wholesale grocers.
Sto r k Leaves Recruit For Infantry
Savannah. Oakley Jackson Rag
land, Jr., is the latest recruit to the
Eighth infantry, stationed at Fort
Screven. He is the only recruit since
tho troops returned from Germany.
Ragland, Jr., Is the young son of Cor
poral and Mrs. Oakley Jackson Hag
land. He was born March 1. This
was the first visit of the stork since
tho return of the troops from their
watch in the Rhineland. The mother
before her marriage about a year ago,
was Mario Steiof, of Coblenz. The
father’s home is In Morgantown, Kv.
School Election In Savannah April 25
Savannah. —The election to deter
mine whether an additional tax of 2 1-2
mills for school purposes shall be
levied will be held Aprjl 25. Judge
Henry McAlpin, the ordinary, passed
an order setting the date for the elec
tion. The county will be divided into
precincts by the county commission
ers os provided by law.
Columbus Park Ready For Toronti
Columbus.—With the arrival of Man
ager Dan Howley. Business Manager
Knotty Leo and Train Tom Daley, the
vanguard of the Toronto International
League team, which trains here an
nually, the Canadians will find the park
ready for their use.
THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA.
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS
, AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
THE NEWS _OF THE SOUTH
What la Taking Place In The South
land Will Be Found In
Brief Paragraphs
Foreign—
Salvador Seigur, leader of the syn
dicalist party and known as “Nov Del
Sucre,” was shot and killed in the
street at Bare ;,a, Spain, by a hand
of unidentified o 'sins.
British police| t matically seized
more than 1< * f i Republicans, and
sent them it, r '°hd for Free State
punishment.
Raymond Poincare, president of
France, in a statement to Associated
Press, declared that Germany’s recent
complaint of the French and Belgian
occupation of the Ruhr, of the illegal
and in violation of the rights of man,
seemed strangely ill-founded when the
world recalled what Germany was
ready to do in 1871 had France not
paid her indemnity to Germany.
Subsidies aggregating more than
100,000,000 lire have been granted by
the Italian government to various
steamship linos operating in the Medi
terranean and the Black sea, and to
Indian, Chinese and Japanese ports
from Italy.
The French cruisers Victor Hugo
and Jules Michalet arrived at Sydney,
N. S. W., recently bringing a French
mission to strengthen trade relations
between France and Australia.
The bullfight season in Mexico City
has come to an Inglorious end sev
eral weeks before scheduled time, with
tho management in disfavor, the to
readors dissatisfied, and the public in
general disgruntled.
The king and queen for the first
time in their livos broke bread with
the labor members of parliament in
the home of oim of their subjects. The
occasion was 9 .dinner given by Vis
fuuut aijd
The British labor party emphatically
and unreservedly condemns the
French invasion of the Ruhr. They op
pose the action of the French militar
ists because they believe that their ac
tion is the negotiation of everything
for which the war was professedly
fought by the allies.
The German coal miners in the Ruhr
are gradually being dismissed trom
work, according to the French authori
ties, who declare 2,000 were discharg
ed from the mines in the Reckling
hausen district alone. It is assumed
by the French that these dismissals
are part of the German plan to reduce
the coal output gradually to a mini
mum as part of the resistance pro
gram.
Lord Arthur Balfour has taken em
phatic issue with Ambassador George
Harvey’s charges that certain state
ments in the famous Balfour debt note
were inaccurate. Emerging from tne
philosophical atmosphere in which he
has shrouded himself since his eleva
tion to the peerage, Lord Balfour en
tered politics long enough to answer
Harvey.
Many conservatives in the house of
commons appear to think that the
housing question was the sole cause
of the defeat of three members of the
government and that matters will go
more smoothly once a clear-cut hous
ing policy is announced.
Prince Henry and an officer com
panion were hurled from their motor
car in a collision with a lorry as they
were returning to Weedon from the
Cheltenham races. Both were shaken
but neither was seriously hurt, and
the prince was able to continue his
journey in another car.
Washington—
Texas led the country in farm pro
duction, combining crops and animal
products, and lowa was second state
last year, statistics just completed by
the department of agriculture show.
In spite of the long strike of coal
miners during 1922, and transportation
difficulties which were encountered
following its conclusion and during
the winter, the national situation as
to coal supply is now good, according
to a summary of reports from mining
districts issued by the National Coal
association.
A special publicity committee, the
duty of which would be to combat
what was descrihed as active anti
military propaganda threatening the
foundations of military school and
colleges throughout the country, was
provided in a resolution adopted at
the tenth annual meeting at Washing
ton of the association of military col
leges and schools of the United States.
Serious deficiencies of the
States nevy under 5-5-3 ratio adoptee
by the Washington arms conference
will be called to the attention of the
68th congress as soon as it convenes
it was learned officially at the na\ >
department.
LaFollette will be busy this sum
mer. While other senators seek sur
cease from toil in Europe or in vaca
tion haunts nearer home, the stock
little bushy-haired Wisconsin fighter
will be mapping out a Napoleonic cam
paign for the next congress.
Production of fuel briquets estab
lished a net record last year with an
output of 619,425 tons, exceeding the
previous record year of 1920 by 27,000
tons, the geological survey announces.
Southeast storm warning were order
ed displayed from Bay St. Louis to
Cedar Keys, Fla., by the weather bu
reau. A storm of marked intensity
over Texas, the bureau said, is moving
northeastward attended by increasing
southeast or south winds, probably
reaching gale force and shifting to
westerly.
Domestic —
Probably the most startling indica
tion of the great interest being mani
fested in radio was given at St. Louis
this week when a large advertisement
appeared in the local papers of a 54-
apartment building just being complet
ed in which every apartment is sup
plied with complete radio equipment.
The whipping post as a restraining
influence on wife-beaters is favored by
the probation officers of Buffalo, N. Y.
Their opinion was expressed during
the hearing recently of an exceptional
ly brutal case.
The Cary homestead has been sold.
The home at Cincinnati, famous as
the birthplace of the Cary sisters —
Alice and Phoebe —who attained recog
nition for their verse and prose, will
bo renovated and opened as a tea
shop.
A campaign for contributions to a
SIOO,OOO “Freedom Fund’ with which
the Anti-Saloon league of this state
proposes to make itself independent
of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., and Jr.,
was launched by William H. Ander
son, superintendent of the league.
Damage estimated at more than sl,-
000,000 was caused by fire and water
to the Shepherd stores in the heart of
the business district of Providence, R.
I.
A trip of 8,500 miles to the other
side of the earth, by rail and water is
before Louie Shook Hong, 6, son of
Louie Yuet Mon, Chinese laundryman,
of Augusta, Ga., who formerly con
ducted a laundry at Dayton, Ohi.o
One unidentified man was killed, a
score were injured and several still
were missing following a fire which
destroyed a four-story brick building
at Pittsburg, Pa.
Federal agents arrested Homer Rule
near Shawnee, Okla., on charges of
rioting, bringing to 17 the total num
ber of men now in custody In connec
tion with acts of violence at Shawnee
attributed to striking railroad shop
men.
William Barnett, first of the nine
Republican defendants in the Clay
hole precinct election murder and con
spiracy cases to be tried, was found
guilty by a jury in the Boyd circuit
court at Catlettsburg, Ky„ and was
sentenced to two years in the peniten
tiary.
Mrs. Nora Mellon, divorced wife of
Secretary of tho Treasury Mellon, was
married to Harry Arthur Lee, a New
York art dealer.
Dr. B. Cheston Goldberg, who was
abducted by four unmasked men at
bis home, Oklahoma City, Okla., walk
ed into police headquarters and told
authorities that he regained conscious
ness while lying in a pool of mud
about thirteen miles from the city
after having been beaten and robbed.
His face was disfigured by a livid
slash from eye to throat.
Secret Agents Difores and Harris
merged from Tombs prison, New York,
as heroes of the “cleanup” by which
the government smashed an interna
tional counterfeiting plot running into
millions.
Three persons dead, one dying and
several injured i| part of "the toll
exacted at New A ork by a snowstorm
which lasted for several hours.
Mrs. Paulette Saludes, the second
woman to be convicted of murder in
New York within thre weeks, made
three unsuccessful attempts at suicide.
John Dale, a world war hero, a New
York City policeman, added new lau
rels to his fame the other day when
he rescued six children and two wom
en from burning to death. He made
three trips into tho building, the last
time throwing his coat over his head
and trawling along the floor of the third
story to reach a helpless woman. Dur
ing the world war, after having been
wounded eleven times, he captured, sin
gle-handed, a German machine gun at
Chauteau Thierry.
Miss Evely Lyons. 30, of Escanaba.
Mich., who. for sixteen days, has start
led the medical profession with a tem
perature reading of 114°, has a good
appetite, and seems to be resting welL
Just
a Littlefh
jjsnfiig
A MAGNET FOR SORROW
‘‘ls it your practice to go about look
ing for trouble?”
‘‘No,” replied Mr. Grumpson. “It
has been my experience that if a per
son will stand in one place long
enough, and look as if he had no
friends and no influence, trouble will
just naturally gravitate to him.”
Poor Chance for Him.
He —What would your father do if
I told him I wanted to marry you?
She —He’d refer the matter to me.
He (hopefully) —And what would
you do?
She —I’d refer the matter to Mr.
Smart, who proposed to me and was
accepted while you were trying to.
make up your mind.
After the Reception.
“Some lady left her hat.”
“Seems odd.”
“I’ll sny so. Don’t see how a lady
could walk away without her hat in
these dry days.”
“Hold on.”
“Hay?”
“The lampshade is missing.”
Hiram Explains.
Hank —I don’t understand them ther
mometers.
Hiram —It’s simple enough. You see,
when it gets durn cold the mercury
sorter huddles together down in the
bottom, so’s to keep warm. —Boston
Evening Transcript.
Father Makes 'Em.
Tutor —Of course, I admit your son
Is extravagant. But you must make
allowances. He’s young.
The Father —That’s all right! But the
more allowances I make the quicker
he spends ’em.
TK-—£>!*;•
“What is his ambition?”
“The same as every other man’s in
a big city. He says he some day
wants to have a place in the country
where he can keep a few chickens.”
FLATTERER
She (relating experience) —Really,
for a time i was quite beside myself.
He—You had a charming com
panion.
True Indeed.
Many a man backs out of wedlock
When he shouldn’t;
Many more are backed into it,
Else they wouldn’t.
Love.
Criss —So you and Jack don’t speak.
What’s the trouble?
Chris —We bad a dreadful quarrel
about which loved the other most.
That Genuine!
Jinklns —Is lie a genuine Irish ter
rier?
Fancier —Sure, an’ if that dog could
talk he’d speak with a brogue. —Judge.
Tactful Postponement.
“Elothersby lias inherited a [for
tune.”
“If that’s the case, his greatest gift
will no longer be o 1 any use tc him.”
“What Is it?”
“The ability to make a bill col
lector think his next visit is bound
to be Ills last." —Birmingham Age-
Herald.
An Optimise
“Well, he’s an optimist, anyhow.”
“What’s he doing now?”
“Already planning where he’ll go
fishing when the time for fishing
comes.”
Mis 6, in This Case.
Mr. Dogbone—Will you go golfing
with me?
Miss Catnip—What kind of a game
do you play—hit or miss? —Seattle
Post-Intelligencer.
Nerve.
“I call that nerve.*’
“What?”
“Mrs. Nextdoor sent over to bor
row some f my dishes to use for a
party she didn’t invite me to attend.”