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BRIEF NEWS NOTES
WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURING
WEEK THROUGHOUT COUN
TRY AND ABROAD
EVENTS OFJMPORTANCE
Gathered From All Parte Of The
Globe And Told In Short
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Foreign—
Walter C. Magoon, language offi
cer of the American embassy at To
kio. Japan, committed suicide at that
place by shooting himself in the head
with a revolver. He had been suf
fering from nervousness and insom
nia for considerable time.
Two English girls. Miss Gladys
Gregory and Miss Dorothy Davis,
both of them young, are the first
women to become qualified actuaries
and members of the British Institute
of Actuaries. They passed success
fully a very stiff examination in arith
metic and the technique of insurance.
Bavaria will have one of the world's
greatest power plants when the can
alization of the Middle Isar river is
completed. Several thousand work
men are engaged in constructing a
new bed for the river which will make
It possible to develop an electric cur
rent aggregating 480,000,000 watt
hours yearly.
Unusual measures for preventing
automobile accidents, and an entirely
original idea for keeping the speedy
nuisance in check are features in the
new motor traffic laws which have
just been passed by the Swedish
congress.
Fritz Thyssen, the Ruhr industrial
magnate, visited Alamson B. Hough
ton, the American ambassador, recent
ly, and discussed with him the food
shortage in the Ruhr area.
Lieutenant Dietrichsen is quoted as
follows >y the Bergen Aftenposten:
“Once one lias risen above the moun
tains. in the Arctic roglon, the mists
Vanish and weather conditions he
roine extraordinarily even and free
Df wind pockets. The farther north
one proceeds? the better becomes the
possibilities of good and safe landing
places among the vast flat tracts of
Ice und snowfields.”
The American and Turkish experts
reached an agreement whereby the
United States receives the most fa
vored nation treatment concerning the
freedom of the straits for merchant
men and warships. The United States,
without signing the straits’ conven
;ion, will receive all privileges. Also
It will be restricted by all limitations
imposed by that convention, which
gives each signatory power the right
to maintain threew arships not ex
ceeding 10,000 tons each in the
■traits. There is a substituting priv
ilege that each power may have as
many Bhips there as are possessed by
any country bordering on the Black
Sea. This, of course, includes Russia,
which has decided to adhere to the
straits treaty.
lhe French cabinet has unanimous
ly approved Premier Poincares atti
tuae toward the British project for a
reply to Germany's reparation note
which the premier set forth to his col
leagues for the first time.
The house of lords passed without
amendment the third reading of Lady
Aster’s bill prohibiting the sale of in
toxlc&tug liquors to any persons un
der 1 years of age.
W ashington—
Gaspero Lucchesi, who keeps a lit
tle grocery store In Washington, re
fused to take a holdup man seriously
when ordered to throw up Ills hands.
Instead he let fly a fat. juicy pickle
Into the face of the amazed holdup
man. und then followed it up with a
barrage of pies and ripe fruit which
Boon left him in complete possession
of the field.
The tomato now ranks third in im
portance among truck crops accord
ing to the department of agriculture
and the demand for high quality or
slicing tomatoes is increasing. Be
cause there Is need for improvement
in the cultural methods and quality
of tomatoes grown for the early mar
ket the department has published a
summary of the methods aud results
of tomato growers who have beou es
pecially successful.
Increases in rates on class freight
to 22 cents per hundred pounds,
which railroads propose to make
effective to Kentucky stations ou the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad from
originating points in Maryland, New
York. Ohio. Pennsylvania and West
Virginia were suspended by the inter
state commerce commission until No
vember 22. During the Interim the
commission will investigate the sub
lets. j
! Charles M. Schwab, steel magnate
! disclosed one of his business tenets
when he testified in the trial of
1 Charles W. Morse, and others on
I charges of war-time shipping frauds
that he had told Mr. Morse “relatives
were no good in business.”
An order giving a more stable com
pensation status to disabled former
service men was announced by Direc
: tor Hines of the Veterans’ bureau.
Under the new plan which affecti
1 men whose condition indicates their
| disability had reached a stationary
j level and cannot be benefited by fur
ther hospital treatments, each of the
veterans at his next regular examin
ation will go before a special board
of three medical officers, who will at
tempt to determine the extent of dia
ability on a permanent basis.
Domestic —
Mrs. Nittie-Crudelle, the firs,. Chi
cago woman sentenced to hang, will go
before Judge Joseph Sabath in supe
rior couft in an effort to secure pos
session of her four-year-old baby dur
ing the last gloomy hours before her
execution.
The Cannon mills at Kannapolis,
N. C., said to be the largest towel
manufacturing plant was closed down
July 28 and will continue till Monday,
August 6. The idea is to give the
employees a long vacation during the
heated term.
Ervin Hocker, president of the
Hocker State bank, was held up and
robbed of $5,500 by four bandits, on a
road one-half mile south of Hocker
ville, Okla.
Anthracite operators and miners'
leaders left for their homes from At
lantic City, while Thomas Rogers,
government observer, carried to Wash
ington a report that negotiations over
wages and union recognition had def
initely broken down.
The first official act of President
Charles D. Rountree of the Geoigia
Press association was the naming of
a special committee to go to Lake
mont to inspect and accept a parcel
of land donated to the association by
the Georgia Railway and Power com
pany, and Rufus L. Moss of Athens,
the gift being presented the body at
Tallulah Falls.
Thousands of wheat growers who
expect the farm loan act to save them
from bankruptcy are anxiously await
ing the action of Secretary of Agri
culture Wallace which will put the
adt iuto operation. It is expected that
the secretary will recognize various
granaries as government warehouses
and thus .enable the twelve member
banks of the farm loan board to lend
money on wheat which is stored in
them.
Suffering from an attack of pto
maino poisoning, President Harding
stayed in bed while his train travers
ed the state of Washington en route
to Yosemite National park from Se
attle.
United Senator James Cou
zens of Detroit, on the eve of his
departure for Europe on the Levi
athan, gave his views on various is
sues, and said that Senator Hiram
Johnson was unnecessarily alarmed
about the world court. Senator Cou
sens Is in favor of the world court.
Evelyn Nesbit has bobbed up in the
limelight again this time she is
charged with violating the prohibition
law at Atlantic City, N. J. is out
of Jail on bond of SI,OOO.
The Peanut Growers association,
plaintiff in the $3,625,000 damage suit
against the Dixie Peanut company
inc., aud others, in the so-called “pea
nut war," has been ordered by Judge
Groher, In federal court, at Norfolk,
Va., to produce all "documents, let
ters, telegrams, books, papers, etc.,
whatsoever in the possession or un
der the control of the plaintiff.
Walter "Pop” Wright, 68 years old,
of lx>uisville, Ky., has walked him
self into every state in the Union ex
cept Maine. Now the transcontinen
tal walker is on his way to complete
his record, according to information
6ont out from Cleveland, Ohio, his lat
est objective.
Father Walter A. Grace, pastor of
a Catholic church at Arvada, a sub
urb of Denver, Colo., on trial in the
United States district court on
charges of forging a permit for an
application to ship liquor into Colo
rado was found guilty.
Three persons were reported burn
ed to death in a fire which was rag
ing in Abbeville, seat of Vermillion
parish, Louisiana.
The indictments charging George
Maxwell, president of the American
Association of Authors, Composers
and Publishers. New York, with forg
ing and sending to Allan A. Ryan and
others poison pen letters attacking
the characters of Mrs. Ryan and a
dozen other women were dismissed.
George Wilson, whose brief reign
as president of the Oklahoma Agri
cultural and Mechanical college end
ed on orders of Governor J. C. Wal j
ton. was reported organizing the third
party farm-labor movement in the
state.
THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA.
FEDERAL BOARD
HELPS FIGHT FIRES
PLANS WILL BE CARRIED OUT IF
BILL PENDING BECOMES
A LAW
STATE NEWSJF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Sections Of
The State
Atlanta.—The federal government
will contribute at least SIO,OOO in the
present fiscal year to the upkeep of
a fire-fighting organization for the
protection of Georgia forests, with the
probability that this sum will be in
creased next year if the present bill
pending before the general assembly
creating a forest fire fighting organi
zation for the state becomes a law.
This commitment was made by J.
G. Peters, of the United States forest
service, w r ho directs the expenditure
of government forestry funds for state
co-operation, and who is in Atlanta
at the invitation of Representative
Ellis, who introduced the present
measure in the Georgia house of rep
resentatives.
Acccording to Mr. Peters, the pres
ent bill under consideration, which
has been reported favorably from the
forestry committee, is entirely in line
with the policy of the federal govern
ment, and its passage will fulfill all
the requirements of the federal gov
ernment in the expenditure of the
funds available for state aid.
Funds for forest protection and con
servation have been given already to
five southern states, according to Mr.
Peters. They are Virginia, North Caro
lina, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Texas.
The measure now under considera
tion provides for a forest fire righting
organization for Georgia, to be main
tained by a special tax upon the In
dustries directly concerned, and to
which the latter have agreed. No gen
eral appropriation will be necessary
to carry into effect the provisions of
the bill, acccording to Bonnell Stone,
member of the state forestry board
and president of the Georgia Forestry
association, which has endorsed the
bill.
Complete Abattoir Is Established
Valdosta. —Machinery and equip
ment is arriving for the completion of
a very modern and complete abbattoir
which is being established here by S.
S. Boone, who has for several years
operated a large stockyard in Val
dosta. The opening of this slaughter
house in Valdosta will open the way
for the distribution of fresh meats
through both the Georgia and Florida
territory from this local plant, the
meat to be under federal inspection
•which will permit interstate ship
ments. The operation of this plant
in Valdosta will open up an additional
market for beef cattle from both
north Florida and south Georgia.
Heretofore meat slaughtered here
could only be sold on the local mar
ket, but with the operation of the
slaughter plant and the meat passing
under federal inspection, a wider mar
ket is opened for the cattle producers
of this section.
Tax Valuations Show Big Net Loss
Atlanta.—Official tax returns from
94 out of 160 counties iu Georgia re
ceived by State Tax Commissioner
Henry J. Fullbright show a net loss
of $9,410,407 as /against valuations
shown by the same counties last year.
Notwithstanding this loss, Commis
sioner Fullbright believes that the net
loss in valuations for the state, as a
whole, will be relatively small, if, in
deed, there is any loss. The commis
sioner counts on increased valuations
in Fulton county to cover losses In
other sections. “If valuations in Ful
ton county do correspondingly as well
as did valuations in DeKalb county,
I anticipate there will be no loss at
all this year.” said Mr. Fullbright.
"DeKalb's valuations showed a ten
per cent increase. I anticipate that
Fulton will do equally as well, and
In this event losses In other counties
will be more than offset.”
Bondsmen Suing Chattooga Banks
Summerville.—As an aftermath of
the Chattooga county tax angle which
was recently when A. H.
Glenn, tax collector, and his official
bondsmen paid over to the county
the full amount of the alleged short
age of funds in the tax collector's
office, three separate civil suits have
been filed in Chattooga superior court
by part of the bondsmen against three
of the banks of thiß county, seeking
to recover a sum In the aggregate of
$11,016.45, alleged to have been paid
out by these banks on personal checks
of A. H. Glenn from county funds in
their possession.
SHIPPERS ALLOWED TO NAME
EXPRESS SHIPMENT KOUTES
Atlanta.—The long-drawn-out con
tention on the right of the shipping
public to select routes over which ex
press shipments are carried is ap
proaching an end.
By an official order of the inter
state commerce commission, dated
July 9, 1923, effective not later than
October 29, 1923, the shippers have
been granted the right to direct over
designated routes from Washington,
D. C., express shipments originating
at points in Maine, New Hampshire,
Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode isl
and and Connecticut as well as from
New Y r ork City and all points on the
direct line of the American Railway
Express company between New York
City and Washington, D. C., their
shipments handled from Washington
by the Southeastern Express compa
ny between points in the above-men
tioned states and all points on the
main line of the Southern railway
between Washington, D. C., including
Birmingham, Ala.
It is further provided in the order
that a reservation is made for consid
ering the establishment of additional
routes either upon the present record
or upon further hearing by the com
mission.
Pavo Section Makes Excellent Record
Valdosa. —That there are very
thrifty agricultural communities in
south Georgia is shown by reliable
records of one month’s business at
Pavo, about twenty miles from Val
dosta. That community ih the month
of June sold produce, chickens and
eggs, valued at $39,236.63. Included in
this month’s shipments were eighteen
thousand pounds of poultry, 1,560
crates of green corn, sixty cars of
melons, okra, tomatoes, string beaus,
butter beans, green peas, peppers,
squash, beets, cabbage and canta
loupes. With that much money re
ceived in cash for one month’s busi
ness the people of the Pavo commun
ity are not heard raising any cry
about hard times or the ravages of
the boll weevil. Their June sales
amounted to much more in money
than the entire community ever re
ceived for a cotton crop.
Youth Killed By Train At Austell
Austell.—Thaddeus H. Genoble, age
22, was struck by a north-bound
freight train and instantly killed here.
The young man that was traveling
with him claims that he was sitting
on the end of a crosstie at 136-trestle
asleep. They boy had been boarding
at 26 Marietta street, Atlanta, work
ing at Exposition cotton mills, had
lost his job and was on his way to
Aragon mills, Rome. Genoble is from
rural route 4, Greenville, S. C., and
is survived by an aunt.
Plan Chicken, Hog and Cattle Sale
Sparta.—A movement is on foot in
Hancock county to secure a wide
awake county agent to help put over
the land settlement movement which
has been launched by the Hancock
Land company and also to help out on
co-operative, cattle and chicken sales
in the county during the early fall.
A hog sale is now being planned for
early August and indications point to
an enthusiastic sale. This will be the
first sale that has ever been put on
in the county.
Reading Clerk Cleared In House
Atlanta. —Fred Bridges, reading
clerk of the house of representatives,
was vindicated of charges that he had
miscounted a vote on an appropria
tion for the state bureau of markets,
after a hearing that occupied practi
cally the entire session of the house.
The vote for the vindication of Mr.
Bridges was 147 to 19. The charges
were made in the form of a resolution
introduced by twenty-two representa
tives, alleging that the miscount re
sulted from one of the clerks being
a former employe of the department
of agriculture, with which the bureau
of markets is connected. The resolu
tion further provided that no employe
of any state department within the
last six months should be retained in
the service of the house.
Man Is Sentenced To One Year
Gainesville. —The jury in the case
of Robert Hope, tried in Hall superior
court this week for killing two Lula
policemen, Vilas Martain and Buck
Bryant, on the Bth of last March, ren
dered a verdict finding the prisoner
guilty of involuntary manslaughter,
and fixing his punishment at one to
two years’ imprisonment.
Business Women Sponsor New Club
Macon.—The very latest thing in
clubs is to make its bow to be for
mally opened. This club, sponsored,
financed, and directed by women, it is
declared, will offer a recreational out
let for women and their children un
like any other club in the state.
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS
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Schools Voted $4,250,000 In Budget
Atlanta. —After discussion that lam
ed several hours, the house of
sentatives, sitting as a committee !
the whole, approved an appropriate
of $4,250,000 for the common SC £
of the state, with the provision that
one-half of any excess above the estt
mated income of $8,500,000, also
go to the schools.
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Favorable Report On Farm Probe Bill
After considerable argument, gen
eral agriculture committee No. l 0( 1
the house of representatives voted to
report favorably the resolution 0 1 '
Senator Lankford providing for an in
vestigation of the state department ol
agriculture. The vote was 6to 4.
Advocates of the Lankford resolu
tion pointed out that the senate al
ready had passed it and that it pro
vided for a thorough Investigation by
a joint committee of the department
and alt its branches.
Opponents of the resolution declar
ed it was not as specific and as thor
ough as the resolution Introduced in
the house by Representative Stew
art, of Atkinson, and 103 other mem- ’
bers. It also was claimed that the
Lankford resolution called for a re
port at the present session, while
the Stewart resolution gives the in
vestigatqrs all the time they may re
quire.
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House Tax Repeal Bill Is Shelved
The house bill repealing the taj
equalization law was laid on the shelf
by the finance committee of the sea
ate by request of its author, Repre
sentative Stovall, of Elbert.
Mr. Stovall explained that he and
his supporters were not quite ready
to argue their case before the senate
committee, and asked that it be laid
over until further notice.
The impression prevailed among
the committee members that the re
pealists in the house are not willing
to take any chances with their
measure, and that they want consid
eration of it held up In the senate
until the house acts on the pending
income tax bills.
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Bills Introduced In Senate
The following new bills were intro
duced, in the senate:
By Senator Grantham —To amend
the banking act by providing that all
banks and trust companies file bond
by January 1, 1924, to indemnify de
positors against loss.
By Senator Morgan—To repeal the
law preventing the shipment of tick
infested cattle from one county to an
other.
By Senator Moore —To place the
solicitor of the city court of Thomas
ville on a fee basis.
By Senator Hollander —To abolish
the board of commissioners of Ca
toosa county.
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Bills Introduced In House
The following bills were introduced
in the house:
By Stewart, of Atkinson, and 103
others—To provide for investigation
of Department of Agriculture.
By Jones, of Floyd —To provide a
limitation of action upon deeds, etc.
By Shedd, of Wayne— To amond act
to regulate inspection of fertilizers
relative to publishing ingredients
By Davis, of Floyd—To amend fer
tilizer inspection law relative to pub
lishing of ingredients on sack, to fix
liabilities of manufacturing, etc.
By Langley, of Floyd—To establish
an agricultural, industrial and norma
school on Hancock county.
By Hatcher and Perkins, of Musco
gee—To establish a lien for jewelers,
etc.
By Fletcher, of Irwin— To provide
for three terms superior court in
county.
By Golden, of Haralson—To repea
act increasing court terms in Hara
son.
By Pope, of Walker—To amend act
fixing salary of assistant attorney
general so as to Increase salary o
stenographer from $1,500 to $2.000.
By Dixon, of Jenkins —To amen
the constitution of the state so as to
provide for a state-owned port term
inal plant.
By Golden, of Haralson To re
create the county board In Haralson
county.
By Elders, of Tattnall— To author
ize the state highway department. ;l -
purchase or condemn any toll brb --
By Elders, of Tattnall— To amend
the charter of Glennville.
By Beck, of Carroll —To amend ---
Georgia “bone dry’’ act so as t
change the punishment to increase
fine to SI,OOO. .
By Peak, of Polk—To incorporate
the Rockmart school district.
By Evans, of Warren—To repea. an
abolishing office of county treasure
of Warren county.