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Foreign—
The industrial outlook in Great Brit
ain at present is regarded as extreme
ly disquieting. It is estimated that
nearly 700,000 workers are involved
in disputes with their employers, and
that some 56,000 are already on strike.
England’s “(lassie Chadwick” is in
the toils again. The career of a beau
tiful adventuress whose achievements
included the fleecing of titled members
of the British aristocracy and lilting
SB,OOO from the American Red Cross
was abruptly hailed when Mrs. Mar
garet Robertson was sentenced to 15
months in prison for obtaining goods
under false pretenses.
England’s “Anti-Saloon league”—
the United Kingdom alliance—has pro
tested vigorously against rum running
from the Bahamas to the United
States.
Five French airplanes now at. the
Riviera, have completed the first leg
of an attempt to circle the globe by
air in 16 days.
The manless airplane, piloted auto
matically over an enemy land, raining
destruction in the form of bombs or
gas, is graphically pictured by Com
mander Charles I). Burney, inventor
and member of parliament, In a re
markable contribution to the defense
controversy which is now engaging the
attention of all England.
That France Is a country of small
Investors, and that big fortunes aro
extremely rare, is strikingly proved
by the statistics just furnished by
two of the biggest railroads, the Or
leans and Est companies.
It Is persistently reported at Riga,
Ksthonia that Lithuania is making con
siderable military preparations in the
region of Vllna from which early de
velopments are expected.
The death of the Earl of Carnarvon
comes Boon after the culmination of
the exploit that brought him chiefly
Into public notice —the discovery of
the rich tomb of the Pnraoh Tutankh
amen in the Valley of the Kings In
Egypt by the archaeological expedition
which he headed.
Tlie bottles of the five young Japa
nese, members of a party of hikers
lost on the slopes of Haleakala vol
cano, at Wallukii, Island of Maui, T.
11., were found below the rim of (he
crater. All of them apparently had
died from exposure.
Art has triumphed over the ordinary
requirements of domestic life in Hun
gary. if man and wife wish to main
tain separate apartments, living their
own lives, the stale cannot interfere.
The American destroyed Cox collid
ed with the British llght*cruiser Ceres
at tin* entrance of tlie Bosphorus, ac
cording to advices received from Con
stantinople by Lloyd’s agency at I,on
don.
With one high churchman executed
after he had been convicted of treason
against the Communist government of
Russia, great interest is now displayed
in the forthcoming trial of Patriarch
Tikhon, head of the Grek Orthodox
Catholic church in Russia, says a staff
correspondent.
Washington—
Once dry, always dry. Is a valid rule
for ships sold bv the United States to
nationals of other governments in the
opinion of the department of justice.
Postal receipts in fifty industrial
cities for March showed an increase
of 12 91 per cent over March. 1922, the
postoffice department announced.
OH stock promoters operating in
the state of Texas during the last five
years have filched more than SIOO.-
000,000 from the public. Postmaster
General New was advised by John H.
Edwards, solicitor of the postoffice de
partment, and Chief Postal Inspector
Simmons, who are in Fort Worth co
operating with tlie department of jus
tice in the prosecution of mail fraud
cases on the part of oil promoters.
Appealing to the Republican mem
bers of congress for unity of action
and to the administration for co-oper
ation. Senator Wesley L. .Tones, of
Washington, who led the adntinistra
tion light for the shipping hill, issued
a statement declaring that unless the
majority functions in the congress it
will be discredited.
Franklin I>. Roosevelt, Democratic
candidate for vice president in the
last campaign, talked politics for an
hour with former President Wilson
and later gave it as his opinion that
a definite foreign policy for the United
States will be the outstanding issue of
the approaching campaign.
j The tariff commission’s, preliminary
| statement in reply to President Har
| ding’s request lor information on tin
i sugar price situation will indicate by
! figures, it was declared, that sugar
prices have fluctuated over many
years without regard to import duties
imposed by various tariff laws.
Possible efforts by the treasury to
! hace congress further cut the sur
j lax rates on incomes were forecast
in a formal statement by Secretary
Mellon.
Secretary Mellon views present busi
ness conditions as nearly normal
throughout the east, he said, on his
return from the first vacation he has
had since taking the treasury port
folio. This trip included visits to sev
eral important eastern industrial and
commercial centers.
Prediction that customs receipts for
the fiscal year ending next June would
exceed $550,000,000 and possibly ap
proach $600,000,000 was made by Sen
ator Smoot, of Utah, the senior Re
publican member of the benate finance
committee and one of the leaders in
drafting the present tariff law.
Use will be made of airplanes in
estimating the cotton acreage, the de
partment of agriculture auoucing that
photographs will be taken June 25 of
selected areas from three army planes
which experts will use in dusting cot
ton plants with calcium arsenate in
the fight against the boll weevil.
A warning to the Republican party
against any sponsoring by it in the
next campaign of anti organized labor
issues was issued by Samuel Gomp
ers, president of the American Federa
tion of Labor. Mr. Gompers said he
wanted to make the union position
clear, in view of reports, published
recently, that President Harding, while
in Florida, had been advised by cer
tain friends to indorse “open shop”
policies in seeking reelection in 1924.
Domestic—
Nine sailors were drowned when a
small steamer believed to be the John
Dwight of New York, foundered near
the western entrance of vineyard
sound, Vineyard Haven, Mass., it was
learned when the bodies were recover
ed by fishermen.
Mayor H. M. Schriver, former chief
of police, Thomas Cox, and Lawrence
Pedigo, of Rock Island, 111., were found
guilty of conspiracy to sell and pro
tect lawless privileges and sentenced
to the penitentiary for indeterminate
terms.
Cases growing out of the armed
march in the southern West Virginia
coal fields will be called for trial at
Charlestown, Jefferson county, April
18, under an agreement reached by
counsel.
After a quarrel with his wife, Billie
Watkins, former Baptist minister,
threw his one-year-old baby out of
the house in the yard, breaking its
neck and killing it instantly, at Morris
Chapel, Harden county, according to
reports at Nashville, Tenn.
Mrs. Alice Bonno and her sister,
Mary Colburn, were killed at Scran
ton, Pa., when an Ontario and West
ern train struck an automobile in
which they were riding.
Wallace Dupuis. 7. and Francis Mar
tin, 10, were instantly killed and Ru
dolph Martin, 13, probably fatally in
jured near LaFayette, La., when a
tree cut down by workmen fell across
a buggy in which five school children
were riding.
Five were arrested at Georgetown,
T exas, after an investigation by a court
of inquiry in connection with the flog
ging by unmasked men of R. W. Bur
leson, traveling salesman, were out on
liond at SI,OOO each on charges of as
sault with deadly weapons and $250
for each for unlawfully carrying pis
tols.
The police announced that they had
verified records showing that Dorothy
Keenan, slain model, had been arrest
ed with an aviator and an alleged con
fidence man on a charge of disorderly
conduct after dispute in her room at
an Atlantic City hotel on April 15,
1920. All three were fined. Detectives
evinced interest in the mention of a
confidence man.
Alvin Owsley, national commander
of the American Legion, marooned at
Baton Rouge, l-a., while en route from
New Orleans to Jackson, Miss., to par
ticipate in a legion celebration and de
liver an address at the dedication of
Jackson's new city auditorium and
armory, declared that he positively
would not make the remainder of the
journey by airplane.
There may be a moral in this story
—somewhere. Three years ago Louise
Vinciquero was living on charity. She
retired recently with $50,000, as the
result of a police raid of her home at
Omaha, Neb. She was fined SIOO.
Net income of the 1/Juisville & Nash
ville railroad company for 1922 was
110.595.019. equal to sl4 S3 a share
compared with a net loss of $336,961
in 1921, according to annual reports
made at a meeting of stockholders at
Louisville. Ky.
The Democratic candidates for city
offices at Dallas, Texas, were elected,
practically complete, unofficial returns
showed.
THE DANiELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA.
COTTON EMBARGO
BY SNIPPING LINES
MOVE IS FORCED BY CONGESTION
CAUSED BY RAILROAD
EMBARGO
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Sections Of
The State
Savannah. —Due to congestion of
rail and coastwise water facilities an
embargo is now in effect over the
Oceau Steamship company on lumber
and cotton. The rail lines placed an
embargo on cotton recently which di
verted large quantities of the staple
through Savannah to eastern mills.
The Ocean Steamship company, it
is understood, received more of this
business than could be handled and
on March 17, H. M. limerick, port
agent at Savannah, notified all gener
al freight agents at this port that he
had been wired by T. N. Cook, gen
eral freight agent of Ocean Steam
ship company, to discontinue the ac
ceptance of cotton and linters origi
nating at points west of the Alabama-
Mississippi state line or on or w r est
of the Mississippi river.
At the present time this cotton is
tied up, as neither rails noij coast
wise lines are able to handle it. The
embargo on cotton was placed some
time after the present embargo on
lumber. On March 7, H. M. Emerick
notified all general freight agents that
his company had discontinued the ac
ceptance of all number moving on
through billing.
It Is understood several lumber men
have conferred with steamship offic
ials in an effort to secure space for
their lumber to eastern ports.
Indicts Alleged “Whisky Ring”
Dalton. Thirty-eight indictments
were returned by the grand jury now
in session here on the evidence of S.
A. Slaton, who was convicted on the
charge of possessing whisky and plead
ed guilty to manufacturing whisky,
this opportunity being given him by
Judge M. C. Tarver before complet
ing the record against Slaton. The
defendants against whom Slaton is
marked as a witness are persons im
plicated by him in either having assist
ed him in making whisky or who
bought from his in quantities ranging
from one quart to hundreds of gallons.
Tiiose indicted included a number of
prominent citizens residing here and
in Chattanooga.
Officers Probe Mysterious Find
Savannah. —Working from one of the
most grewsome bits of silent evidence
and with absolutely no other clew
than the mysterious find reported to
them, county police here are seeking
to discover if a most atrocious killing
may be solved. Where it occurred
they do not know'. Police were noti
fied that in a freight car which left
Milledgeville, March 30. and arrived
here March 31. and was in the yards
of the Savannah and Atlanta railroad
had been found a mattress, covered
witli human blood, with parts of hu
man vital organs upon it, and the mat
tress was almost shot to pieces, evi
dently by numerous loads of buckshot
Tied a( close range.
Snelling Cited On Contempt Charge
Athens. —Charles H. Snelling, dean
of the University of Georgia, has been
served with a writ by Judge Blanton
Fortson of the superior court, direct
ing the dean to appear in court April
7 and show cause why he is not in
contempt of court in the action taken
in expelling J. R. Roberts, a law stu
dent, on the recommendation of the
student council of the university. The
hearing on an injunction obtained by
Roberts is scheduled for April 7. Rob
erts also appealed to Governor Hard
wick who in turn addressed a letter
to the university authorities asking
’hem to reconsider the expulsion.
DMigent Search Made For Rumph
Savannah. - Savannah friends of
Rumph, formerly of Savannah, now of
Jacksonville, a traveling salesman for
a Baltimore Drug house left to make
diligent search over south Georgia for
him. Mr. Rumph checked out of a
Valdosta hotel recently and no clew
as to where lie went or where he Is
now has been found. He had a wife
and child in Jacksonville. His father
inlaw, J. P. Rivers, of Savannah, a
brother-in-law and other friends left
o search for him.
Enraged Steer Chases Sheriff
Waycross.—Driven up a tent pole
by a wild west show steer at the car
nival now showing at Hebardville,
was the experience of Sheriff Sweat
and County Officers Heirs. The offic
ers were seated in the grandstand at
the show when the steer broke loose.
Rushing madly around the ring several
times the steer headed straight for the
local county officers.
CHANGE IN FARM CREDIT
SYSTEM DECLARED NEEDED
Betts Says That Georgia Is In Danger
Of Be'ng Owned By People
Out Of State
Atlanta.—As long as the present
farm credit system prevails in Geor
gia there is no hope for approximately
200,000 farmers jn the state, George
Betts, president of the Georgia associa
tion, declared in an address before the
April meeting of the Presidents’ club
on farm conditions.
Mr. Betts, known throughout the
state for his “Turner county” doc
trine, outlined to the gathering the
“dairy cow, hog and hen” program of
farming which he offers as a solu
tion to the present predicament in
which Georgia farmers find them
selves as they battle the boll weevil.
“Present farm conditions in Georgia
are nothing short of terrible,” he said.
"Unless there Is a hight-about face in
Georgia’s agricultural progress it won’t
be long before Georgia farm lands will
be owned by persons in distant states.
And unless methods are improved it
may be best for them to take them
over and pay the interest on them.”
291 Distilleries In Georgia Raided
Atlanta. —With a record of 291 dis
tilleries captured during the month of
March, together with $56,216.80 worth
of property seized and destroyed, as
shown by the monthly report, Fred
D. Dismuke, prohibition director for
Georgia, declared that the work of his
men indicated that the Georgia squad
would again top the list for efficiency
over all other states in the union
when the end of the fiscal year comes,
June 30. Following is the report, show
ing a comparison with the report for
the same period last year: Distiller
ies, 1922, 212; 1923, 291. Worms, 1922,
50; 1923, 70. Gallons of Whisky, 1922,
1,430; 1923, 1,819. Gallons of beer,
1922, 153,045; 1923, 217,951. Automo
biles seized, 1922, 4; 1923, 11. Value
of property destroyed, 1922, $38,050.25;
1923, $56,216.80. Number prosecutions,
1922, 116; 1923, 147. Number arrests,
1922, 51; 1923, 73.
Clemency Asked For Sam Duckworth
Atlanta.—A petition seeking pardon
or parole for Sam Duckworth, Ameri
cus convict, now serving a life sen
tence on the Sumter county chaingang
for murder w T as presented to the state
prison commission. Duckworth, ac
cording to the .petition, was convict
ed df the murder of his wife, Mrs.
Pearl Duckworth, whose body was
found in a w r ell near their home on
the farm of Green A. Perry, in Pleas
ant Grove neighborhood, during the
winter of 1919. The following day
Duckworth was arrested at the home
of a relative near the Dooly-Sumter
county line. While in a drunken con
dition he is said to have confessed the
crime.
Nc Arrests Made In Bright Beating
Macon. —No arersts have been made
in connection with the kidnaping of
Mrs. Fredericka Pace, of New York,
and Lymvood L. Bright, which occurred
from the former’s automobile. Bright
collapsed after a conference with his
lawyers. He is now being attended
by a physician. An examination of
his body in the presence of friends,
according to the latter, disclosed 200
welts, or lash marks. It was stated
that there is not an inch on his back,
from his neck to his ankles, that is
not scarred and in some cases the
skin is broken.
Charge Check Raising
Savannah. —Joseph Crauman, weL
known young man, was placed under
bond of $4,000 on a charge of railing
four checks, SI,OOO bond for each check
alleged to have been “improved.”
Two checks for $3 each had been
raised to S3O and two for $4 had been
increased to S4O each. It is said Cran
man denied connection wdth the rais
ing of the checks. He is a collector
for the Bevo company and the checks
were passed, it is said, in connection
with his collections from soft drink
stands. Thoublew as experienced in
locating the person who had handled
the papers.
Sale Of Guernsey Cattle In Jackson
Jackson. —The sale of a car ot
Guernsey cattle in Jackson was de
clared a complete success, buyers be
ing present from all parts of Georgia.
Nine grade cows were sold at an aver
age price of S9O. Eight pure-bred bulls
were sold at an average price of sllO,
one bull being knocked off at $320.
An average price of SIBB was paid
for nine purebred cows and heifers.
The top price paid for a cow was S3OO.
Dr've Against Illegal Paregoric Sale*
Atlanta. —A campaign against the
nale of paregoric to narcotic addicts
was started in Atlanta recently wth
the arrest of two druggists said to have
been illegally purveying the product
which addicts are said to use when
they are unable to secure other forms
of narrotirs. T. E. Middlebrook, chief
narcotic inspector, instituted the cam
paign, and secured a number of war
rants. Both druggists arrested fur
nished bond and were released
DOESN’T KNOW HE'S WELL OFF
Father-in-Law—So you are begin,
ning to find that married life has°its
troubles?
Daughter-in-Law—Well, yes, j aC k
sometimes won’t listen to reason.
Father-in-Law—Young rascal. He
ought to be ashamed of himself, it
isn’t every married man lias the
chance.—Pearson’s Weekly (London),
KNEW HER
"The idea! The ‘Woman’s Page
In this paper Is nearly all about
menl"
"Well, that’s what we’re interest
ed In, isn’t It?”
Got Cold Shoulder.
He lost his heart to a sweet lacs—
Though shy at first, he grew bolder,
And then he asked her for her hand,
But she gave him the cold shoulder.
It’s So to Others, Anyway.
“Does your husband enjoy sound
sleep?”
“Really, I don’t know. Sometimes
from the sound he makes I think It
must be agonizing to the poor fellow.”
Inclined That Way.
He—Do you think your father would
be willing to help me In the future?
She —Well, I heard him say he felt
like kicking you into the middle of next
week. —Boston Evening Transcript.
The Desire for Change.
Mother —I don’t know what the mat
ter is with that child. He won’t stay
In the same place any length of time.
Father —He probably got it from his
nurses.
As Your Wife Does at Home.
“What is your idea of a clever wom
an—a woman who can see the point of
a joke?”
“No; a woman who can laugh at a
joke without seeing the point.”
A Waggish Woman.
“Marry me,” pleaded the poet. “Yon
are the well from which I draw all my
Inspiration.”
“No, Arthur,” the girl replied, “but
I don’t mind being a cistern to you.”
An Unbeatable Pair.
Nlpp—To what does Gotrox owe his
seat in the United States senate?
Tuck—YTo the Fluence twins, Af
and In.
A Sad Case.
Visitor—What brought this man
here? He looks all right.
Guard —I know he does, but be spent
his life trying to invent buttonlers
clothing for married men.
Going Them One Better.
North —People who try to commit
suicide and fail seldom try again.
West—lndeed ! Those who succeed
never try again!
V-; - ~
IN HER NAME NOW
"Ho used to be the richest man m
town.’*
“Isn't he now?”
"No. his wife’s the richest woman
In town.”
Dishwasher Preferred.
He married a highbrow,
And now he wishes
He'd wed a girl who knew
How to wash dishes.
Or an Umbrella.
“Pa. what is preparedness?”
“Preparedness, my son is the act r
wearing spectacles to breakfast "hen
you know that you are going to ba >e
grapefruit.”—The Lyra