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$9,000,000 ISSUE
OF BONDS SOUGHT
SIMS WILL SUPPORT THREE MIL
LION WATERWORKS
PARKS ISSUE
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Sections Of
The State
Atlanta. —The first gun for a munici
pal bond issue that would involve ap
proximately nine million dollars for ad
ditional school expansion, Central park
development and waterworks extension,
was recently fired when Mayor Walter
A. Sims und officials of the city school
department announced that such a plan
would be proposed to voters of Atlanta
at the city primary next September.
Talk of such a bond issue has been
heard in the city hall lor several
months, members of the school depart
ment taking the lead. That the move
ment has gained considerable momen
tum is evidenced by the fact that a
number of council members and other
school authorities would seek to have
signified their willingness to co-operate
will) (lie major ami school officials in
placing the matter before the electo
rate.
Superintendent Willis A. Sutton of
tlte schools department, heartily in
dorsed Mayor Sims’ plan stating that
school uutohi illes would seek to have
adopted an additional $6,000,000 bonds
Issue for completion of the school im
provement program.
Mayor Sim: refused to comment on
the school bond issue, hut stated that
he would advocate a bond Issue of $3,-
000,000 to he expended in completing
the waterworks expansion program and
to develop the Central park project. Of
this amount the mayor stated $1,000,000
would ho turned over to the waterworks
department and the remaining $2,000,-
000 lo the Central park projects.
“Atlanta’s future progress depends
on our raising these funds as soon its
possible,” declared Mayor Sims. It is
my intention to begin work iinmedi-
Btely in tills direction. There is not a
park in the center of Atlanta at the)
present and the development of this
project, in my estimation, will mean
more for Atlanta than anything that has
happened heie in years.”
Superintendent Sutton declared
(here was pressing need for additional
school facilities, und that another
school bond i: sue of between $5,000,-
000 and $6,000,000 would he neces
sary if sucli needs were supplied.
Well Known Printer And Writer Dies
Atlanta.—John W. Sower, GO, promi
nent Atlanta printer, died at the home
ot his daughter, in Ocala, Kin., having
been taken ill while traveling to his or
ange grove in Florida, where he had
planned to spend his declining years.
He had just completed arrangements
for his retirement. Mr. Sower had been
a printer for the Atlanta Constitution
for 2ii years, and. at the time of hia
retirement, was head make-up man. He
was beloved and respected by all who
knew him He came to Atlanta In 1882
from Parisians, Va. He was a charter
member of the Typographical Union,
No. IS. and of the Greater Atlanta Tent
of Maccabeus. He had published sev
eral volumes, the latest being “The
Farmers' Hook of Information." He was
actively inton sled In a process for col
oring photogiaphs which he aided to
perfec t' He had been seriously ill sev
eral times, causing him to hasten his
retirement. He seemed to be in good
health when he left Atlanta.
Kontz Sentenced To Pay $250 Pine
Atlanta. —J. Thornton ("Jack”)
Kontz was found guilty of "involun
tary manslaughter in the commission
of a lawful act,” a misdemeanor, lu
Fulton superior court by the jury
which for two days has heard testi
mony regarding the crash between
tin 1 Kontz automobile and a street rail
way grinding machine, resulting In the
death of two electric railway work
ers. The jury was out about three
hours. Judge W. E. H. Searcy, Jr.,
of Griffin, presiding for Judge Hum
phries. sentenced Kontz to pay a fine
of $250 or serve six months' imprison
ment Judge E. C. Kontz. father Af
the defendant, and Attorney Reuben
R. Arnold, his counsel, will hold a
conference to decide whether or not
the case will bo taken to a higher
court.
Lamar Holds Second Hog Sale
Bartlesville.- county had its
second co-operative hog sale of this
year, weighing 42,000 pounds, bringing
a total of $3,300. A. J Evans, of Fort
Valley, bought the lot at $7.91 per hun
dred. M. C. Gay of the state college of
agriculture gtaued the hogs, and the
sale was under the direction of C. G.
Neal, county agent. Farmers art* pleas
ed with the result and the hog Industry
In Lamar is growing rapidlv
SHIPPERS’ BUREAU
RENEWS ACTIVITY
Fine Report Is Made At Meeting With
Carrier Representative—Say
Congestion Is Eas^r
Atlanta.—Work of the shippers
committee of the Atlanta Freight bu
reau and the railroad committee, ap
pointed in February to function until
May 1, representing all railroads in
Atlanta, will be continued indefinitely,
it was announced by Harry Moore,
chairman of the bureau, because of
the splendid co-operation the commit
tees have brought about between the
shippers and carriers in Atlanta.
The decision was made at a meet
ing of the two commitees at the cham
ber of commerce. It was brought out
that there is still a serious shortage
of cars, especially open top cars, and
that there has been within the I%at
month an enormous increase in the
freight business. It was pointed out
that the efficiency of the local service
had been increased approximately 75
per cent, based on the number of
complaints from the railroads to the
bureau concerning Atlanta shippers
and consignees who did not load or
unload cars promptly.
Rum Runners Must Pay Tax On Booze
Atlanta. —A collective su£ of be
tween $1,000,000 and $2,000,000* will
he assessed from approximately 650
of Georgia’s bootleggers and whisky
makers as a tax penalty on liquor
sales, to be paid into the coffers of
the government, according to announ
cement by Joslah T. Rose, collector
of internal revenue for Georgia. All
penalties have been assessed and as
soon as final word is received from
the revenue department the alleged
traffickers will be subpoenaed. After
the hearings, steps will be taken, Col
lector Hose stated, to collect the tax.
Some of the men assessed own valu
able property and if necessary an at
tachment will be placed upon It. The
act by which the tax is brough against
the liquor men is the old revenue law,
which was in effect before the Vol
stead act became effective. Assess
ments were determined some time ago
by agents of the department. All
bootleggers and moonshiners convict
ed In the state were probed and assess
ments fixed according to tlie amounts
which they were supposed to have
handled.
Building Record Already Broken
Atlanta. With a total of $4,441,00i
in building permits already issued dur
ing the month of April, all previous
records for building activity in Atlanta
in any one month or part of a month
have been passed, it was reported by
the city building inspector. The pre
vious record for a single month was
established in October, 1922, when a
total of $4,434,695 in permits was is
sued. This figure was passed recent
ly with more than a half month to
go the inspector stated that It was
likely that the entire month would re
sult in more than $5,000,000 in per
mits being issued. Exceptionally large
permits issued this month, which have
added to the record, include one for
$2,000,000 issued to the Hill more hotel,
which is now being constructed on a
site* located at West Peachtree and
Fifth streets, and permits to two
downtown office structures, eight and
ten-stories in helghth.
Will Ask Right To Reorganize Roac
Savannah. —A petition will be pub
lished asking for legal right to re
organize the old Savannah and South
ern railroad running thirty-odd miles
from Olennvllle to Lanier and to change
the name to the “Savannah, tileunville
and Western Railroad.’’ The road in
receivership was recently purchased
by (!. T. Tuten, who has reorganized
the company with prominent business
men of . Chatham, Bryan, Tattnall and
Liberty counties interested.
Gasoline Tax Report
Atlanta.- A total of $169,072.07 b
gasoline taxes has been reported for
the first quarter of this year by four
of the companies which have filed
tluir reports. These companies, which
are four of the biggest operating in
the state, report as follows: Gulf Oil
and Refining company, $57,783.92; the
Standard Oil company, $76,310.59; the
Texas company, $28,141.17; the Reed
Oil company, $6.736 09.
Wartime Rules Seen In Car Shortagi
Atlanta. —Intimation that it might be
necessary to return to wartime regula
tions on freight cars to remedy the
present car shortage In Atlanta terri
tory was given at a meeting of local
j shippers and receivers at the Atlanta
| freight bureau offices recently. These
■ regulations would include embargoes
on firms that do not load and unload
cars promptly, and high demurrage
charges.
Freight Severs Aged Man's Leg
Atlanta.—T. T. Thompson, 62, had his
right leg cut off and was otherwise
seriously injured when struck by a train
of freight cars at the crossing near
Spring street viaduct now under con
4 struct ion.
THE DANtELiWILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA.
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
DISPATCHES OF IMPORTANT HAP
FENINGS GATHERED FROM
OVER THE WORLD.
FOR THE jIJSY READER
The Occurrences Of Seven Days Given
In An Epitomized Form For
Quick Reading
Foreign—
The struggle in the Ruhr is a ‘‘war
for coke,” and France will yield first
because she needs fuel worse, Hugo
Stinnes, Ruhr industrial baron, de
clared.
F'rance and Belgium will entertain
no Ruhr settlement proposals from
outside nations unless those propos
als contain security and reparations
guarantees.
Threatened with a cabinet crisis that
may destroy his authority over Italy,
Premier Benito Mussolini called on all
fascisti to be ready for another and
greater revolution.
Timber resources in Canada total
more than a trillion feet board meas
urement, according to a dominion
wide survey just completed by the Ca
nadian National railways. The supply
will last 250 years, or until 2173, at the
present rate of consumption, estima
ted at four billion feet annually.
Enough tobacco to keep all the
smokers in the United Kingdom sup
plied several weeks was burned in a
fire at the port of London’s bonded
warehouse on the Victoria docks.
Three Russians were killed in a
clash with Japanese on Sieghalien
Island, off the Siberian coast, accord
ing to word received at Moscow from
Tchita.
The British government is consider
ing whether action can be taken to
meet the representations of America
concerning smuggling of liquor in the
United States from the West Indies.
This announcement was made in the
house of commons by Ronald McNeill,
under secretary for foreign affairs.
France is preparing to protest to
the Near East conference, when its
sessions are resumed at Lausanne,
April 23, against the concessions re
cently ratified by the Turkish national
assembly in favor of the American in
terests headed by Read Admiral Colby
M. Chester.
Harold F. McCormick’s gift to his
pretty 18-year old daughter, Miss Ma
thilde McCormick, when she marries
Major Max Oser, her middle-aged
Swiss suitor, will be a costly chateau
in the Swiss mountains, it was learn
ed at Basile, Switzerland, from one
of Major Oser’s confidential friends.
The Daily News’ diplomatic corres
pondent states the British cabinet is
eonsedireing the action to be taken
as a protest against the execution of
Monsignor Budkiewicz by the soviet
government. He states that the gov
ernment was possibly recall the Brit
ish agent at Moscow'.
Howard Carter, the American who
assisted Lord Carnarvon in finding
the tomb of King Tut-Ankh-Amen and
who is said to be ill, is reported im
proved.
Washington—
Decision was reached by President
Harding and members of the shipping
board at a two-hour conference to pro
ceed at once to the consolidation of
the board’s foreign trade lines and
then offer these lines and ships for
sale under the authorization of the
merchant marine act of 1920, condi
tioned on suitable guaranty of main
tained service.
A net increase in navy yard wage
scales would result from the approval
by Assistant Secretary Roosevelt of a
report on the subject plced before him
by the wage board headed by Rear
Admiral Joseph Strauss.
America’s position at the forth
coming Lausanne Near East peace
conference will be exactly what it was
at the former conference —that of a
friendly observer) it was stated in
high official quarters.
The failure of officials in the track
department of th Nashvile. Chatta
nooga and St. Louis railway to pro
vide sufficient ballast at the point
on its lines w’here a passenger train
was derailed February 26. near Cal
houn, Ga., was chiefly responsible for
the accident concerned, sofety inspec
tors reported to the interstate com
merce commission after closing an
investigation. Two persons were killed
and 34 Injured in the accident.
Three general supply depots for the
storage and issuance of supplies and
equipment for hospitals, vocational
training schools and other institutions
operated by the Veterans' Bureau, will
be maintained under plans for reor
ganization of the supply division, it
was announced by Director Hies. The
present depot at Perryville, Md.. mid
way between Baltimore and Philadel
phia. will be enlarged to serve the
entire Atlantic Coast section.
A serious shortage of farm labor is
imminent, the employment service of
the labor department predicted. So
great is the demand already that in
some sections of the west a shortage
is apparent.
Earth tremors of moderate intensity
were recorded by the Georgetown uni
versity seismograph. F’ather Tondorf,
in charge of the observatory, estima
ted that it was centered 5,100 miles
from Washington, apparently south.
More than one-tenth of the value of
all farm lands and farm buildings of
the country is owned on mortgage
debt. In the first compilation of its
kind ever made, the census bureau
and the department of agriculture
jointly estimates the mortgage farm
debt of the United States at $7,857,-
700,000 on January 1, 1920.
The police released six of the seven
men detained in raids at Washington
in which radical literature was seized.
Edward J. Irvine, on whom the author
ities said they found a letter outlin
ing hopes for the spread of revolu
tionary documents among government
employees, was held on conspiracy
charges.
Domestic—
A grand jury investigation into con
ditions at the Israelite House of Da
vid colony at Benton, Harbor, Mich.,
is to he instituted by the state, it
was announced.
“Industrial democracies” in the “Big
Five” packing plants of the country
have restored directly to 80,000 work
ers and indirectly to 120,000 more—
the per cent of their wages which the
same plants’ legislators took away in
November, 1921. Announcement that
the plant assemblies had voted the
pay increase marks the second big step
by these organizations instituted by
the packers as an alternative for
official unionism.
The Alabama Power company plans
to build at once a large hydro-electric
plant at Lock 17 on the Warrior river
near Tuscaloosa, Ala., it was announ
ced by an official of the company.
Six men were indicted by the Jeffer
son county grand jury in connection
with the flogging of Dr. J. D. Dowling,
city and county health officer on May
17, last year, and capiases will be ask
ed at once in order that the men may
be apprehended, it was announced at
the- solocitor’s office at Birmingham,
Ala.
The Illinois soldier bonus law was
upheld in an opinion handed down by
the state supreme court, Springfield,
111.
American membership in the perma
nent court of international justice, or
ganized by the league of nations, was
advocated by Secretary Herbert Hoov
er at Dest Moines, la., as “an essential
step” in the direction of world peace.
Announcement of the sale of the
controling interest of the Montgomery
(Ala.) Journal to Frederick I. Thomp
son, Former Governor B. B. Comer,
and Donald Comer, of Birmingham,
was made by F. Harvey Miller, stock
holder and publisher of the journal.
A modern Portia is needed at Port
land, Wash., to hand down another
Shylock judgment. The case started
over a blood transfusion administered
a year ago, and now, Arthur Castal
lani, waiter, puts a price of $5,000 on
the pint of blood that he lost during the
operation.
Checked suits and fawn-colored spats
are not so uncommon along Broadway
in the forties, but detectives with lit
tle other than these marks to guide
them captured Ward J. Conklin, sought
as a fugitive from justice in Emporia,
Kan., where it is alleged, he wrecked
two banks in 1919 and departed -with
$75,000 of their assets.
A resolution calling on the United
Stales to accept its full share of re
sponsibility for bringing about an effec
tive settlement of international prob
lems was adopted by the delegates
in session at the thirteenth annual ses
sion of the woman’s council of the
Methodist Episcopal church, South, at
Mobile, Ala.
One of the largest linseed coinpa
nie in the United States will shortly
acquire by purchase a large competi
tor, it became known in Wall street.
Petitions requesting that the name
of Henry Ford, Dearborn, Mich, auto
mobile manufacturer, be placed on
the primary ballot of the progressive
party in Nebraska in 1924 for presi
dent, were filed with the secretary of
state, Omaha, Neb.
A. H. Penfield, former cashier oi
the Springfield (Ohio) National bank,
was sentenced at Cincinnati, Ohio, by
federal judge to serve three years in
the Atlanta federal penitentiary on
each of seven counts in the indictment,
charging embezzlement, to which he
pleaded guilty.
Powder and paint have made Amer
ica what it is today. Dr. C. P.Wimmer,
professor of pharmacy at Columbia
University, declared at the cosmetic
show at New Cork.
One million and a quarter dollars'
worth of building permits, the greatest
amount for a similar period in the na
tion's history, were taken out through
out the country during January, Febru
ary and March, it is announced in New
York City.
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THE RIGHT VIEW
“So It was once your ambition to
have a business of your own.”
“Yes.’’
But your ship didn’t come in, eh?
That’s too bad!”
"Ob, I don’t know. I found that
there was plenty of stevedore work un
loading other people’s ships, so I’ve
got along pretty well.” ~
GOOD LUCK
“Look Maria, someone has left a
nice load of cord wood for us.
Moribund.
A bullfrog sat on a lily pad
A sobbing fit to choke;
"Kind friends,” says he, “I feel so queer,
I know I’m going to croak.”
Travel Rather Uncertain.
“I want to know how to get to
Springsville.”
“Yes, ma’am,” said the clerk at the
Information window. “You take a train
that leaves here In half an hour over
the Juniper Junction line.”
“And then?”
“And then you trust to luck.”
Educated.
Simple—l say that if a jane Is beau
tiful, the higher education is unneces
sary.
Simon —Yes; and If she isn’t, it’s
not enough.
Some System.
“My husband is strong for system.”
“System?”
“If I am sitting in that chair, lie
kisses me. If not, ho kisses whoever
is sitting there.”
A Cynic's Explanation.
“Wonder why women kiss when they
meet.”
“I guess it’s a sort of apology in ad
vance for what they intend to say
about each other after they part.”
Not a Mere Superstition.
The Apprentice Seaman —Do you be
lieve that a woman aboard ship brings
bad luck?
The Old Salt—Yep. Same as she
does ashore.
Not an Agreeable Prospect.
Closeman—lf anything should hap
pen to me, dearest, you will be all
right. I’Ve just Insured my life.
Mrs. Closeman —But suppose noth
ing does happen to you?
Well Timed.
Miss Catt—Their honeymoon endel
on Ash Wednesday.
Miss Nipp—What an appropriate
day to begin to repent 1
Better Than Most Voices.
Reginald —They say the violin Is the
nearest approach to the. ’uman voice.
Lillian—No, reely? I thought the
gramophone was. —London Punch.
BECOMES CONVINCING
“Do you believe everything y° u
hear?"
“Not until 1 have repeated it a few
times."
Too High Up.
He loved a girl.
Who surely was a peach;
But found, alas!
She was beyond his reach.
To Be Preserved.
“Before I consent to marry >
Jack, I must tell you that people saj
have a temper.”
“I don’t mind that. All you need j?
to take care of It —don’t lose it tha-’
all.”