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BRIEF NEWS NOTES
WHAT HA 8 OCCURRED DURING
WEEK THROUGHOUT COUN
TRY AND ABROAD
EVENTS OFJMPORTANCE
Gathered From All Parts Of The
Globe And Told In Short
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Foreign—
Three members of the band of ban
dits responsible for the death of Gen.
Francisco Villa, his secretary, Miguel
Trillo, and two bodyguards, were cap
tured by a detachment of federal sol
diers under command of Gen. E. Mar
tinez, a short distance from Parral,
according to information received at
Juarez, Mexico, military headquarters.
Bitterly / and sarcastically flaying
Lloyd George for finding it "amusing'*
that France could simultaneously re
store the devastated regions and com
plain of Germany’s voluntary bank
ruptcy, Premier Poincare recently at
tached the ex-Uritish premier.
Belleau Wood, which Marshal Foch
calls the “cradle of victory" has been
consecrated to the memory of the
Americans who died there. The
French flag was hauled down and the
United Slates flag run up to the
strains of the "Star Spangled Ban
ner.”
The French forces seized 375,000.000
marks when they occupied the Lim
burg Keichshank, it is said, in semi
offical German quarters.
After a spirited debate in the house
of commons on the merits and de
merits of Singapore naval base, the
English government obtained a vic
torious vote carrying the naval esti
mates under closure by 217 to 130.
Premier Mussolini recently received
Prince Caetani, Italian ambassador to
the United States, with whom he hud
a long interesting conversation re
viewing the entire situation between
America and Italy, especially with
regard to the Immigration problem.
The loading of Atlantic liners at
Liverpol has been stopped in conse
quence of a series extension of the
dockers’ strike. Several thousand
men quit work after a demonstration
by strikers at Birkenhead, across the
Mersey. All coastal ai;d cross chan
nel service also lias been stopped.
Britain says that the Ruhr occupa
tion, besides being illegal. Is not a
success. France says she could make
It a success If Britain would join her
in forcing Germany to cease resist
ance, and that she will make it a suc
cess anyhow if given time.
The draft of the British note to
Germany was completed and It Is ex
pected that one sitting of the cabinet
council will suffice to obtain approval
of the ministries in which case the
note, with covering letter, will prob
ably be dispatched to the allied gov
ernments for their approval and to
Washington, not necessarily for com
ment. but ns a matter of courtesy.
Washington—
Control of typhoid fever has made
such progress that in 1922 the death
rate for this disease was the lowest
ever recorded. Based on statistics
from one-seventh of the total popula
tion of the United States and Canada,
the death rate in the year mentioned
was f>.6 per 100,000 of population. In
1911 the rate was 22.8 per 100,000.
Secretary of War Weeks announces
that with their consent fifty-one chap
lains who are members of the offi
cers’ reserve corps had been recalled
for active duty at summer training
camps, instructions to camp com
manders direct that a chaplain's of
fice be established in each camp an.l
that lectures and other work be under
taken by the chaplains in connection
with training programs ‘"for the pro
motion of his moral standards.”
Final action In Washington In con
nection with the incident in Manila,
which resulted in the resignation of
the Philippine cabinet and council of
state in protest against the policies of
Governor General Wood, will await
the return of President Harding from
his Alaskan trip
Generally favorable conditions for
crops prevailed during the first half
of July and live slock is in good con
dition, semimonthly reports to the
department of agriculture indicate.
The farm labor shortage continues
general although the situation has
been satisfactorily handled in most
localities thus far.
The Morse conspiracy trial took on
an added national significance when
it was announced that Attorney Gen
eral Harry M Daugherty would be
summoned by the defense to tell what
he knew of the war time transactions
of Charles W. Morse and the relations
of the Virginia Shipbuilding corpora
tion and the United States Shipping
Board.
Senator Brookhart, Republican, of
lowa, returned to his office at Wash
ington after a trip to Russia and an
nounced that unless President Har
ding calls an extra session of con
gress to help the farmers the “in
dependents will see that the reaction
aries are relieved of control of com
mittees at the regular session” be
ginning in December.
Separation of the International Har
vester company into at least three
distinct corporations, with wholly sep
arate owners, stockholders and offi
cials, is demanded by Attorney Gene
ral Daugherty in a petition filed in
the federal district court at St. Paul,
Minn. Such a step is necessary, the
attorney general’s petition declares,
because the dissolution decree origi
nally entered against the company in
1918 has proved "inadequate” to break
up restraint of trade and restore com
petition in the production of harvest
ing machines and other farm imple
ments.
Domestic—
The severest earthquake in the his
tory of San Bernardino, Calif., was
recorded at 11:28 o’clock, (p. m.), July
22. Damage not yet ascertained. No
one is reported killed, but several were
injured.
A sobbing woman fratnically pound
ing on the door of the Hecker-Jones-
Jewell Milling company’s New York
City plant, in search for her husband,
who had not returned home in 24
hours, attracted the attention of the
police and revealed the death of at
least three men from fumigating gases
which had been flooding the huge
structure for several hours.
“The Tent,’’ one of Chicago’s fash
ionable north side’s most exclusive
cabarets, was raided early in the morn
ing recently, and more than one hun
dred fashionably dressed men and
women were driven to (police head
quarters in the “blue taxi.”
One inmate of the Ililnois Hospital
for Criminal Insane was slain by the
guards when thirty-one inmates tat
tered their way through the bars of
the institution and made a break for
freedom. The delivery was effected
after the inmates had stabbed two
guards. Four of the inmates were
recaptured, twenty-six being at large.
Physicians say the wounded guards
have little chance of recovery.
Jackie Saunders, film actress, was
granted a divorce from her husband,
Ed Horkheimer, in the superior court
at Los Angeles, Calif. Miss Saunders,
who charged non-support, was given
custody of her small daughter.
Mrs. Clara Van Kirk Mitchell, 95,
aunt of President Harding, died at
the home of the president’s brother,
Dr. George T. Harding, Jr., at Worth
ington, near Columbus, Ohio.
Count Ilya Tolstoy, son of the fam
ous Russian author, speaking before a
large audience at Greeley, Colo., said
Bolshevism in Russia is bound to fail,
but failed to say what form the next
government would take. He was sure,
however, that Russia would soon be
in the family of nations.
Wage increases of from one to three
cents an hour for shopcraft employees
of the Southern railway have been au
thorized as the result of the recent
conferences held in Washington.
The little city of Logan, nestling
near .the foot of the great Wasatch
range in Cache valley, points with par
donable pride to the achievements of
her native son, a former newsboy,
Russell K. Maughan. His recent flight
is the general topic of conversation
there.
The next convention of the Ameri
can Institute of JBanking, which has
been in convention at Cleveland, will
be held in Baltimore. Clarence R.
Chaney of Minneapolis and Edw r in V.
Crick of San Francisco are. respective
ly, the new president and vice pres
ident.
Mrs. Ophir Dugger, aged 3t>, and her
two children, a boy of four and a girl
of two, are dead, and Ophir Dugger,
the husband and father, is dying in
King's Daughters' hospital at Colum
bia, Tenn., as the result of a sudden
fit of melancholia on the part of
Dugger, who used a razor to cut the
throats of his wife and two children
and then turned the weapon upon
himself, inflicting wounds from which
he cannot possibly recover.
First Lieutenant Harold R. McNab
of Decatur, 111., and First Lieut. Ed
ward H. Kinney of Chicago were kill
ed at Chanute Field. Rantoul, 111., when
i their airplane suddenly fell to the
| ground as they were making a land
ing.
Ten business buildings were among
j the structures destroyed by fire which
swept through Kimball, near Blue-
I field. W. Va.
A 13-year-old girl confessed to the
killing of little James ."Sonny") Mac-
Donald, four, who was drawned at
Baston under a wharf behind the
plant of the Texas Oil company.
Flans to introduce a bill Jointly in
both houses of the Alabama legisla
ture providing for the abolition of the
convict lease system were announced
| at Montgomery.
THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLS, GEORGIA.
CLUBHOUSE FOR
GEORGIA EDITORS
OWNERS OF 200 - ACRE TRACT
WOULD MAKE GIFT TO GEOR
GIA PRESS ASSOCIATION.
STATE NEWSjOF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Sections Of
The State
Tugalo.—The thirty-seventh annual
convention of the Georgia Press As
sociation will probably result in the
establishment of a summer clubhouse
for the Georgia editors and others
of the fraternity with the opportunity
for members of the association to
have land in the mountain
on which to erect summer cottages
or camps or shacks if plans talked
over mature. They are likely to be
consummated.
R. L. Moss, owner of much moun
tain land and the Tallulah Falls ho
tel, the Cliff House, owns one-third
interest in a 200-acre tract, the other
two-thirds of which is owned by the
Georgia Railway and Power company.
Both have expressed a willingness and
desire to give that tract for the pur
pose named, and definite plans may
be soon under way for such an insti
tution.
The tract overlooks the old site of
the once ‘“Terrible Tallulah Falls tem
pesta.”
The press gang spent a day at Tal
lulah, visiting the Mountain Industrial
school operated by the Women’s Fed
eration of the state, the immense Y.
M. C. A. camps near the falls, the
power houses and the dams at the
falls and at Tugalo. The latter gi
gantic dam is in the midst of con
struction.
In all the company will have seven
of these immense dams, the smaller
giving 118,000 horsepower, when the
present projects totaling $50,000,000
are completed. The other extensions
are planned.
In an address President Arkwright
said that the company will develop
first the boundary rivers and will
later begin developing more of the in
terior streams, that they may turn
all their millions of power into Geor
gia alone.
The work of construction for the
most part is being done by Georgians,
the engineers and superintendents
coming from Georgia Tech and other
Georgia schools. President Atkinson,
of the board of director*, declared
that his object is eventually to place
lighting and power current on every
farm of Georgia.
The delegation of editors, more than
200 strong, made trips on the wind
ing roads about the falls in autos.
Then specially constructed flat cars
with seats and steps built for the oc
casion took them to Shepherd camp
for a great feast, then nine miles on
the company’s railroad to Tugalo
Junction where six Pullman coaches
awaited them for the trip to Atlanta
and then over the state home.
The convention has been, in many
ways, the best ever held; in attend
ance, the largest; in every way as
fine and satisfactory as any. The
new president, G. U Rountree, of
Wrightsville, will soon announce his
committees for the year and the dis
trict vice presidents for the sub-asso
?iatlons.
Meigs Herald Destroyed By Fire
Meigs.—The plant of the Meigs Her
ald, formerly the "Brick Bat,” was
destroyed by fire in the early morning
hours. As the “Brick Bat,” the paper
figured sensationally during the last
six months as a reputed organ of the
Ku Klux Klan, under the editorship
jf Rev. Roy E. Davis, who figured in
recent episodes in Valdosta and who
was deposed as president of the Geor
gia Farmers Union. The last number
af the paper was published under Its
former name, Meigs Herald, and it
was generally accepted that this was
was the end of "The Brick Bat.” The
origin of the fire, which destroyed
the old city hall, in which the plant
was located, is unknown. Dan Wal
ton was publisher of both papers.
| Habeas Corpus Case Continued
Atlanta.—Habeas corpus hearing of
Dtmitiu Deacouescue. Roumanian, who
seeks his release from Fulton tower,
where he Is held by immigration au
iborlties, has been continued until Fri
day, August 3, in order to allow the
local immigration office to ascertain
why his deportation, ordered several
*eeks sgo. has been delayed. Through
Attorneys Bell and Ellis Deasonescu
alleges that he has been confined in
Fulton tower since May 15, awaiting
deportation. He recently finished a
federal sentence for violation of the
Harrison act, and he was subsequent
ly ordered deported as an undesirable
alien.
“MIRACLE” SERVICE
FOLLOWS REVIVAL
“Greatest Mircale In World,” Saya
Evangelist, “Is Saving Of The
Human Soul."
Atlanta. —“The greatest miracle in
the world,” said Rev. Raymond T.
Richey, the evangelist of the faith
healing revival meetings at the audi
torium, "is the saving of the human
soul.” And much of this quiet miracle
seems to be performed every evening.
The spectacular part of the service
came when dozens of halt, maimed,
blind, deaf, mute, filed across the plat
form, to be “anointed” by the evangel
ist, who disclaimed all power to heal
but pleaded with each to “praise God”
and ’"call on Jesus” to heal their
soul diseases first and then mend
their bodies. And there were re
markable results as the sick old men
and women, young women, young men,
small boys with withered arms and
spindled legs, showed varying signs
of cure. Among some of the miracles
were: Mrs. E. Miller of 316 Window
street, who complained of such a lame
back that mere walking was a torture,
was able, after the healing service,
to pick up her purse from the floor
without a twinge of pain, she said.
Deaf and dumb since he was two
years of age, Frank Bartlett of 434
East Fair street was able to say:
“Jesus,” “God” and “Frank” and to
hear the applause of the audience.
H. C. McKinnon of 344 Whitehall has
been paralyzed on the left side since
1913 when, as a locomotive engineer,
he was severely hurt in a train wreck.
After passing across the auditorium
stage and confessing that Jesus could
heal him, he discarded his cane and
walked up and down the six-step stairs
to the stage without any assistance.
Mrs. J. B. Young of 95 Spring street
claimed that for thirty-four years she
has been unable to hear a sound. She
went home from the revival praising
God that she had heard a whisper.
Trachoma Hospital In Mitchell Closei
Pelham. —More than one hundred
cases of trachoma were treated at
the United States Emergency Tracho
ma hospital during the two months it
was in operation here, according to a
statement made by Dr. J. E. Sory of
the United States public health serv
ice. who has been in charge. Doctor
Sory says he believes this eye dis
ease has been entirely eliminated from
Mitchell county, or if a few cases re
main they are so mild the local phy
sicians will be able to cope with the
situation now. The hospital was closed
and Doctor Sory and his corps of
nurses left for Missouri, where he
will open a large hospital for tracho
ma treatment.
School Heads Approve Improvemen.
Athens. —County school superintend
ents in session here at the Univer
sity of Georgia summer school endors
ed the plan for Improving the state
common school system put forth by
Superintendent of Schools N. H. Bal
lard and in resolutions adopted urge
the legislature to support the super
intendent in carrying out his plana.
Superintendent Ballard favors com
pelling all counties to levy a tax per
child for school purposes, the general
school fund to supply the balance nec
essary to bring each county school to
a nine months’ standard. A survey
of sehool conditions is the first step
in the plan.
Assaults Child; Beats Her Avenger
Atlanta. —Police have spread i
dragnet for an unidentified white man,
who Inflicted severe punishment on
J. S. Astin, when Astin attempted to
place the stranger under arrest fol
lowing an alleged insult to a ten-year
old girl. Astin’s daughter had gone
to a drug store to get a can of con
densed milk for her little sister, and
in her return when near her home she
was seized by the man whose name
has not been learned and kissed and
hugged. When she screamed, he let
loobe his hold and she ran home to tell
her father.
Negro Exodus Felt In Chattooga
Summerville.—Although reports hi
dicate that hundreds of negroes in all
sections of Georgia have left the state
to go North to seek work at higher
wages, it is thought Chattooga county
has lost the smallest number of any
county in the state, probably less than
twenty-five having gone from the en
tire county within the last twelve
months, and already some of those
who left earlier in the year have re
turned and settled down to work.
Damages Awarded Mother Of Victim
Atlanta.—For the death of Dillard
Jolley of Decatur, who was killed on
April 15 on the Montreal crosssing by
a Seaboard Air Line passenger train,
a jury in the city court of Decatur,
returned a verdict of $20,000 in favor
Mrs. Vina Jolley, the mother of the
boy. The trial lasted twenty-four
hours. The jury handed down its ver
dict three hours after receiving the
judge's charge. The law firm of Hew
lett & Dennis represented Mrs. Jolley,
LEGISLATIVE PRSCtEDINGS
Doings of Georgia Lawmaker*
Gathered For The Benefit
Of Our Readers
Against Changes In Appropriation
Atlanta. —Instructions were g i Ve u
the chairman by the house committee
on appropriations to draw up an ap
propriation bill for submission to the
general assembly, following exactly
the amounts allotted to the various
state institutions and departments by
the last assembly.
This action follows the recommen
dation of the budget commission
which pointed out in its report that
the state’s outlook for revenue next
year is about the same as last year
and; inasmuch as the income and out
go practically balanced in 1922, there
could be no increases in appropria
tions without adequate provision for
new sources of revenue.
This year’s appropriation bill, as it
is to be submitted to the house, will
therefore carry the same amount for
the confederate pensioners as last
year, $1,250,000, which will enable
payment of the old class of pension
ers, but will not provide funds for
the new classes. In this connection,
bills to W'ipe out all new pensioners
have been introduced by Representa
tives Harris of Jefferson and Kemp
ton of Fulton, but even if these bills
pass, the state will still owe the new
classes the pensions due them in
1925, but unpaid for lack of funds.
This amounts to more than two mil
lion dollars at the present time.
The appropriation bill will also pro
vide the same amount for the state
sanitarium at Milledgeville, 5500,000,
although it is admitted by every mem-
this institution for the care
of the insane cannot operate for less
than one million dollars annually. A
deficiency appropriation bill to take
care of the $239,000 deficit now ex
isting for that institution will un
doubtedly pass.
The common schools of the state
will get. $4,250,000, with one half of
all revenues above $8,500,000 deriv
ed by the state.
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To Put Atlanta On Eastern Time
Miss Bessie Kempton, representa
live from Fulton county in the house
of representatives, introduced a bill
to give Atlanta eastern standard time,
instead of Central time as at present.
The bill was referred to the Western
and Atlantic railroad committee, of
which Miss Kempton is chairman.
Camden County Seat Change Favoret.
The committee on counties and
county matters of the house voted
favorably on a bill by Representative
Atkinson, of Camden, to change the
county seat of that county from St.
Marys to Wodbine. Supporters of the
bill advanced as arguments before
the committee that Woodbine is in
the geographic center of the county,
that all travel from one side of the
Satilla river, which divides the coun
ty, passes through Woodbine and that
75 per cent of the voters favor the
change.
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Athens Seeking Three Trustees
Representatives Dußose, Clarke
county member of the house of rep
resentatives, has introduced a bill for
the University of Georgia calling for
the appointment of three trustees re
siding in that city, whereas only two
now live there. Three resident trus
tees, he says, would be able to act in
an advisory capacity to the school
heads at all times.
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Increase Asked In Tech Board
Increase in membership of the
board of trustees of the Georgia
School of Technology from nine to
fourteen is provided in a bill intro
duced in the house of representatives
recently. The bill provides that the
additional trustees are to be appoint"
ed by the governor, that they must
be alumni of Tech, but they may re
side either within or without the
state. The bill was introduced by
Kempton, of Fulton; Elders, of Tatt*
vail, and Hillhouse, of Worth.
• * *
Bills Introduced In House
The following new bills were intro
duced in the house:
By Logan of Banks: To require
purchasers of brass and other jun
to make a record, including name o
person purchased from. Manufac
tures.
By Swindle and others: To dei*ne
Immigration agents, labor agents, etc.,
and to prohibit certain operations-
Labor and labor statistics.
By Arnold of Lumpkin To ntne-nd
section 821 of penal code, restri
operation of automobiles by P ( rso °
under 18 or intoxicated. Fubl' : - ; - £
ways.
By Logan of Banks: To amend
codifying Georgia school laws -o
to require Bible reading in ail
tional institutions receiving any
from the state. Education