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JEWELER HELD NO
BRIBERY CHARGE
ARREST COMES AS RESULT OF
COMPLAINTS TO U. S.
DEPARTMENT
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Sections Of
The State
Atlanta.—HeTman Kimmer, a jew
eler, whose place of business In as
auction shop on Peachtree street, -was
arrested on a charge of bribing a dep
uty collector, department'of internal
revenue.
The cast* grew out of a report to
the collector of Internal revenue from
organized and legitimate jewelers of
the elty that, there existed in the city
certain establishments vending jewelry
without having paid the federal tax.
Owing to the late hour ol the ar
rest, a preliminary hearing couldn’t
he given before the commissioner, and
Kimmer was placed in the city jail.
Kimmer, according to the infornta
tion given out, is charged with having
given a bribe of jewelry valued at $65.
The official who was bribed was not
criminally involved, and acted under
instructions given for the purpose of
securing evidence.
it was learned that the legitimate
jewelers of the city put Ihe govern
ment agents on the trial of jewelers
thought to he evading a tax. The
case of Kimmer came in for consider
ation, the government official called,
received payment of a portion of the
tax, and refrained from going through
the records of the establishment at
that time, it was stated.
Other agents of the government
took both Kimmer and the deputy col
lector into custody, finding evidence of
the bribery on the person of the dep
uty, it was said.
This matter of jewelers evading fed
eral taxes was brought to the atten
tion of the government officials some
time ago, it was learned; and immedi
ately the representative bf*the'interna!
revenue department acted on the sug
gestion of the legitimate suggestion of
the legitimate jewelers, taking steps
to protect them and punish illegiti
mate concerns.
Hooper Alexander Hits Occupation Tax
Atlanta. A serious situation con
fronts Atlantans in the operation of
the occupation tax law passed by 'the
legislature in 1921 and- recently up
held by the supremo court, according
to Hooper Alexander, former United
Stales district attorney, who explain
ed the lax provisions to the members
of the Masonic club.id tjieir luncheon
at the Peacock cafe. Mr. Alexander
stated that Atlanta would have to bear
the brunt of-tlw iniolen M> payment of
this tiix, because she is the largest
city in the state, the 1 tax being based
on the size* of the city, and el ted its
an instance two cigar stands, one in
Decatur and the other a tew blocks
away, in Atlanta. While the stand in
Decatur pays only S2O tax to the state,
tlte one in Atlanta pays $75. although
the former does the great volume of
business.
Urge Shippers To Keep Cars Moving
Atlanta. Itailrouds in Georgia and
throughout .the south it was stated by
officials hero, face the task of trying
to move a greatly increased amount
of business with facilities which are
entirely Inadequate, it is, therefore,
of the utmost importance, they point
out. to make tlte existing equipment
more efficient through increased mile
age. This can only be done, they say,
through the fullest possible coopera
tion bet wen the railroads and the ship
pers. The shipper is alolwed 18 hours
in which to load cars, and the con
signee is allowed the same time to
unload. By expediting the loading and
unloading, railroad men assort, they
have it in their power substantially to
increase the number of cars available
for serving the public.
Mann Act Charge Faces Neighbors
Rome. —Thomas Neighbors, young
white man, is in jail here in default of
$750 bond on the double charge of
kidnaping and violating the Mann act,
11*' was accused of abducting Naomi
Quinton, of Dalton, and compelling
her to live with him as his wife in
Chattanooga and Huntsville. The girl
and her father testified against the
men in Commissioner John C. Print
ups court.
Infant In Macon Starves To Death
Macon.—ln connection with the
death of a three niouths'-old infant, in
vestigated by a coroner's jury. Adju
tant G. R. Austin, of the Salvation
Army, made a statement which clears
up any mystery that may have been
attached to the case The infant was
the child of Melvin M. Minor and wife,
of Richmond, lud
Atlanta To Give $3,400 By January 1
Atlanta. Directors of the Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce, at a meeting
recently, promised J. M. Powell, rep
resentative of the National Chamber,
to raise $3,400 before January 1, to
complete the amount promised by the
local chamber towards erecting a
United States chamber building in
Washington which will cost $2,500,000.
The local chamber was assessed $6,-
500 during 1921. Since that time $3,-
100 has been raised. It is the inten
tion of the chamber, officials stated,
to not only secure the quota assessed
by the national organization, but to
raise at least SIO,OOO. It was decided
also at this meeting to present the
Woman’s Club, of Fort Valley, Ga.,
with the .SSO cash prize won by the
chamber of commerc e float in the re
cent. Peach Festival. The money was
presented on the condition that it be
used to further developments on the
peach industry in Georgia.
Fines Imposed For Food Violations
Atlanta. —Fines ranging from $25 tc
$250 have been imposed on shippers
alleged to have violated the food and
drug act by shipping adulterated or
misbranded foods and feeds, accord
ing to information received here from
the bureau of chemistry of the United
States department of agriculture. The
list includes olive oil, butter, salmon,
candy, eggs, oysters, catsup, flour and
cottonseed meal. Eight other ship
ments of food have been destroyed
and 19 shipments were released under
bond on condition that the products
be re-labeled to comply with the law.
Six seizures were made under the
Shirley amendment to the food and
drugs act which prohibits false or
fraudulent claims on medicinal prepa
rations.
Witnesses Tell Of Money Sent
Atlanta. —As the third day of tht
trial of Victor E. Innes, charged with
using the mails to defraud, wore on,
an Unusual feature of interest crept
into the hearing as the prosecution be
gan introducing evidence apparently
in un attempt to establish by inference
and to Innes’ disadvantage, why it is
necessary to rely on memory of the
principal documents alleged to have’
be*n sent.-through the- mails instead
of presenting the letters themselves in
attempting to prove that the defend
ant used the mails to defraud Mrs.
Eloise -Nelms Dennis, who with her
slater, Miss Beatrice Nelms? disappear
ed ■in Texas nearly 10 years ago and
of whom nothing definite lias yet been
learned.
Bix States Have Sessions Yearly
Atlanta rfix states in the union, in
eluding Georgia, hold annual sessions
of their legislatures, 40 hold biennial
sessions and one, Alabama, holds quad
rennial sessions, according to statis
tics compiled at the office of the at
torney-general. Sixteen states in the
union do not limit the sessions of
ilteir legislatures and the average
limit of the sessions in 31 states is
.51 1-2 days, it is stated. In three
states the term of the representatives
is four years, in 41 states their term
is two years and in three states, one
year. The term of the state senators
is four years in 30 states, in 10 states
two years and in one state, one year.
Large Watermelon Acreage Planned
Montezuma. -Watermelon growers
and local buyers state that the acre
age planted to watermelons in this sec
tion will be considerable, though prob
ably not as large as usual. Growers
feel that this season offers them one
decided advantage over previous
years. Usually the melons from mid
dle Georgia come on the market just
as it is glutted with the melons of
south Georgia which come in about
two weeks in advance of those of this
section. This year, however, the
early planting in south Georgia was
killed by the recent freeze and melons
from both sections will be ready for
market ut about the same time.
Prohibition Agent Is Suspended
Macon. —Ed F. Newberry, federal
prohibition agent, has been suspended
under orders received front Washing
ton, it became known recently. New
berry confirmed the report of the sus
pension. but insisted that he had done
nothing wrong. He said he had been
using his daughter’s automobile, in
stead of a taxicab, and has letters front
his chiefs in Washington authorizing
such use. Newberry is alleged to
bate charged for the use of the auto
mobile. as if he were hiring a taxicab.
To Bring Chapman Back To Atlanta
Atlanta.—Their dreams of freedom
shattered, as the result of a pistol
battle near Athens in which one con
t ict was wounded and his companion
captured. Gerald Chapman, said to
have been the brains of a recent uirl
lion-dollar mail robbery, is row being
treated in a private hospital in the
Classic City and Frank Grey is agaiu
behind the bars of the United States
prison here.
THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIE LSVILLE, G fcoßGlA ’
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place In The South
land Will Be Found In
Brief Paragraphs
Foreign—
The British foreign office has issued
the text of an identical noie from the
allies addresssed to Ismet Pasha, head
of the Turkish delegation which has
the Near Eastern peace proposals in
charge, inviting the Turks to a re
sumption of the peace conference at.
Lausanne.
Sixteen persons were killed and
many injured, large sums of money
seized by the French and many Ger
mans expelled during a day of wide
spread disorders in the Ruhr and
Rhineland. Five Germans were rid
dled with machine-gun bullets and kill
ed and at. least twenty injured when
a mob of Krupp employees at Essen
attempted to resist attempts of the
French to confiscate automobiles from
the plant.
The body of Sarah Bernhardt rests
in the famous Itorewood casket lined
with white satin which was made at
her order, 30 years ago and in which
she was frequently photographed
while on her foreign tours.
General Manuoury, former military
governor of Paris, was seized with a
fainting fit and died on a train shortly
after leaving Orleans, France, for
Bordeaux.
Fifty-seven persons were killed and
twenty wounded in fighting between
government forces and rebels in the
town of Villarica, Paraguay, when gov
ernment troops forced the rebels to
evacuate the town, according to a dis
patch to La Nacion from Asuncion.
The Prince of Wales was thrown at
a water jump in tlte army point-to
point races at Arborfield, but was un
hurt.
The death sentence of Archbishop
Ceipak, head of the Roman Catholic
church in Russia, has been commuted
to ten years imprisonment by the all-
Russian executive committee.
A considerable portion of the Brit
ish industrial world is seething with
wages and hours disputes. Confer
ences were held in London of farm
laborers, coal miners, seamen and rail
way men, all discussing these ques
tions.
The French authorites began taking
over the Prussian state-owned vine
yards along the Moselle river, accord
ing to the Deutsche Rheinsehe Volks
Zietung. The paper says the seizure
includes vineyards, buildings, wine cel
lars and bottled wines. There are
thousands of acres of vineyards own
ed by the government along the Mo
selle where it runs into the Rhine.
Washington—
The United States Ship Operators’
association, second of the organiza
toins representing interests identified
with the American merchant marine to
respond to the shipping board request
for co-operation in formulating a pol
icy. recommended that the board scrap
all unserviceable tonnage, sell its good
tonnage to American operators, and
strictly withhold any tonnage from
aliens.
Efforts of the federal reserve board
and the governor of the twelve re
serve banks in conference at Wash
ington, to discover the sources of ru
mors concerning possible increases in
rediscount rates by the reserve banks
brought nothing tangible. There was
not a single reply to the board’s tele
gram, sent to more than one hundred
inquirers, asking where they learned
of the contemplated action by the
board of the governors’ conference.
Fake oil stock promoters and other
get-rich-quick operators who have tak
en one-half billion dollars in easy
money in the last year, are about to
be rounded up by the department of
justice. Mail swindlers have been un
usually active because of prevailing
prosperity and high wages. Assistant
Attorney General John W\ Crim has
been sent to Fort Worth, Texas, to
investigate oil promoters who operate
through the mails from offices there.
While the tariff commission was
preparing for a broadened inquiry to
determine, in accordance with Presi
dent Harding’s instructions, whether
present import duties were “even par
tially responsible” for high sugar
prices. Cordell Hull, chairman of the
Democratic national committee, declar
ed in a published statement, that it had
become the duty of the commission to
report "immediately” to the president
that it “was partially responsible.”
Prosecutions of alleged sugar gamb
lers believed to be responsible for the
recent jump in sugar prices will be
started shortly by the federal govern
ment, according to authoritative infor
mation at Washington.
America apparently is growing m ™ e
religious. Figures made public >} 1 •
E. O. Watson, statistician of the fed
eral council of churches, show that
the religious bodies in the Umtec
States made their greatest growth dur
ing last year. The increase is 1,220.-
428 members over the previous year.
Indianapolis. Ind., has been awarded
the national elimination balloon race
it is announced at the headquarters o
the National Aeronautic association.
The contest will be held between June
9 and July 4. The first, second and
third winners will win the right to Par
ticipate in the international balloon
race at Brussels, Belgium, in Septem
ber for the James Gordon Bennett tro
phy.
Domestic —
The annual grand opera season, At
lanta, Ga., opens this year on April
23rd, and there is every indication
that it will be the most successful
held- since before the war. Ihe iail
roads have granted excursion rates for
that week which will materially ie
duce the expense of out-of-town peo
ple who want to attend one or more
performances^
One of the most sensational trials
held in Indiana since the Volstead act
became effective was brought, to a
close in United States district court
at Indianapolis with the conviction of
55 persons on a charge of conspiracy
to violate the liquor law.
Five thousand soft coal miners in
40 mines in western Kentucky, district
No. 3, were ready to strike at the close
of business because their leaders and
the mine operators could not agree
upon the time anew wage contract
was to expire.
Fire workmen were kileld and sev
eral others seriously injured when the
central tower on the new Windsor
avenue factory of the Fuller Brush
company collapsed at Hartford, Conn.
Six unmasked men, believed by the
police to be members of a St. Louis
band, entered the Chicago & Alton
baggage room at Springfield, 111., and
escaped with four bags of mail.
Charging through large crowds, a
bull ran wild in the shopping district,
spreading terror among hundreds of
women shoppers and pedestrains at
Baltimore, Md.
Five persons were killed at Ash
land, Kv., when the automobile in
which they were riding crashed into
a Chesapeake and Ohio passenger
train at a crossing on ihe outskirts
of the city. ' • ’
Mrs. Marina Vega, daughter of a
prominent family of Mexico City, ’be
coming enamoured with Charles Chap
lin, the famous screen comedian, se
cretly entered Chaplain’s Hollywood
home, clashed with Pola Negri, Char
lie’s fiancee, and then attempted sui
cide by poison, according to her story
told to the police and hospital attaches,
who revived her..
Orla Roberts has been awarded $2,-
500 damages against her husband in
Madison county court on the grounds
that his negligence in driving an au
tomobile caused her to suffer injuries,
according to word received at Ashe
ville, N. C.
■ In a spectacular aerial derby at Day
ton, Ohio, army aviators from McCook:
field set new world speed records for
50 to 1,000 kilometer distances, far
eclipsing those made by French avia
tors at the Villa Sausage airdome re
cently.
A Milwaukee (Wis.) Journal special
from Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., says the
jury in the Magnuson case returned
a verdict of guilty of murder in the
first degree.
Mrs. Tillie Klinck, convicted of poi
soning her third husband, Frank
Kupezyk was sentenced to life im
prisonment by Judge Marcus Kava
naugh at Chicago.
Statistics announced by the National
Automobile Dealers’ association, St.
Louis, Mo., show that 35,333 automo
biles were stolen in 28 principal cities
of the United States in 1922, as com
pared with 3<,554 in the previous vear.
The northern and southern divisions
of the Methodist Episcopal church fi
nally have reached a general agree
ment on unification after a separation
of seventy-eight years, it was stated
by members of the subcommittee of
the joint commission on unification of
the Methodist Episcopal church and
the Methodist Episcopal church. South.
The meeting was held at St. Louis, Mo.
Like a whiff from the Paris boule
vards. a “mysterious lady in black”
strolled down Shamokin’s (Pa.) streets
the other afternoon. No one has any
right to be mysterious in Shamokin, so
police took her to headquarters and had
her searched, the inventory' revealing:
A fictitious name; a small anti-Vol
steadian flask; a corn cob pipe; a
pouch of masculine strength tobacco;
a package of cigarettes. She was taken
to the city limits and told to “scoot.”
Asjust
Little 1
\\Stmle7y
In Diiiiiihi*
SEQUENCE
Woman (at Enfield court)—Som*
thing unpleasant was said by a neigh.
bor.
Magistrate—And what happened?
Woman—We had a few words.
“Yes?”
“Then there was a squaobie.”
“Yes?”
“Then there was a fight."
“Yes?”
“And now we’re here.”—London Tit
Bits.
Differences.
“Ihe difference between a woman
and a glass,” said the funny fellow,
“is that the glass reflects without
speaking, while a woman speaks with
out reflecting.”
“And the difference between you and
a glass,” said the sharp girl, “is that
ihe glass is polished.”—London Tit
Bits.
Analyzed.
“Say, .Tones, wliadda yuli think of a
fellah that’ll fall bead over heels Id
■ove with a woman lie’s never seen?’’*'
“Oh, I dunno, Snuffy. It’s an even
break either way, and if he never
aieets her lie’s away head of flit
game."
Too Sore.
“Why didn’t you study your French
lesson last night?” demanded Harry's
teacher when that hopeful gave no evi
dence of being prepared in this rela
tion.
“To .toll you the truth, sir,” said
Harry, “my throat was so sore that 1
could scarcely speak English."
The Producer's Problem.
“The problem is to market commodi
ties."
“That’s right. Look at all the ice
the Eskimos have and don’t know how
to market it.”
AN EXCEPTION TO THE RULE
Angelina —Too bad real estate Is
going up so high just as we are
planning to get married.
Edwin—Yes, all real estate is go
ing up except my castles In the air.
They’re coming down.
The Dollar Chaser.
There must be certain types of in en
Who think of others now and then.
But when we view the race for pelt
Each one seems centered .on himse
Choosing Associates.
The Registrar—Your daughter will,
of course, start in the freshman class.
Airs. Newgilt—Can’t you start iter,
higher up? She’s never been used to
mixing with the lower classes.
Started Early.
Wife —I’m going to clean up all tlte
silver today. ,
Hub—Yes; you cleaned up all I l' a<l
in my pocket before I awoke.
In Proportion.
Jamie was newly married, and 1
arrived home one day to find a pi e 1 '
Immense length on the table.
“What’s this, Maggie?” lie asked.
“That’s a rhubarb pie,” replied Ma„-
gie, proudly. .
“An’ whatever have you made su*
a big one for?” he asked, testily
“ Why,” replied Maggie, in an ag
grieved tone, “it's only as long as
rhubarb.”
The Changing Times
“You admit that the term RU'” ’ .
an now lias little to differentia
from the term Democrat?”
“Yes.”
“Times have changed?”
“Women are voting.” .^i
"Just so. What we want
cals and conservatives. The P‘ r ' ..
wear ’em above the knees ate ■ _. v i!ie
the rest are conservative.
Courier-Journal.
He Wants to Know
“This production is reputed
strip anything hitherto attemi
the screen.” ~,
“Hum. Is it a beach drama.'