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BANKERINRUMRING CAU6KTINPROHINET LARGE FLOTILA USED TO IMPORT LIQUORS, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OFFICIALS SAY STATE NEWS OF INTEREST Brief News Items Gathered Here And There From All Sections Of The State Washington, D. C-—With 84 persona already under arrest at Savannah, Ga., under the conspiracy section of the prohibition enforcement act, de partment of justice officials said they believed they finally had rounded up one of, if not the largest bootleg forces In the United States. Other important arrests were fore cast, and it was stated that indict ments would be sought not only un der the Volstead act but also under customs laws against smuggling and statutes making it unlawful to trans port smuggled goods. Justice officers charged that Wil liam Jlaar, C. Graham Baughn, Sam Goldberg and Richard Bailey, who were among the 52 arrested in the first roundup, constituted the “big four’’ of the force which they alleged operated a large flotilla of craft in imi>orting liquors from the Bahamas, the Weßt Indies and Europe. The further charge was made that this force supplied the bulk of the liquors reaching the market along the Atlantic Seaboard as far east as New Jersey, Agents of the department, it was asserted, also had traced shipments as far west at St. Louis, Chicago and Cleveland. Haar, it was stated, formerly was a grocery clerk, but now is reputed to be worth millions. Officers said he had been indicted recently for fail ure to make returns on an income of $1,000,000. Indictments of those arrested will be sought from the federal grand jury now in session at Savannah, it was stated, and Federal Judge Wil liam J. Grubb, of Alabama, will be transferred to Savannah to sit at the trials. The arrests followed two years of investigation by special agents of the department of justice and the intelli gence unit of the internal revenue bureau. Plan Deportation Of Canadian Atlanta. —Andrew Levay, a native of Hungary, but naturalized citizen of Canada, was brought to Atlanta recently from Vida, Ala., and be ing held at Fulton tower pending re ceipt of deportation papers from Washington. At the office of the im migration (inspector, it was stated that Levay's deportation is to/ be the result of his entry into this coun try without inspection, and because lie is illiterate. Levay was one of several Canadians who established a colony at Vida several mouths ago. Immigration authorities state that his deportation had been ordered some time ago, but he had been placed on parole until December. It w T as tecently learned that he had disposed of his Alabama property, and was pre paring to violate his parole, it is charged, whereupon he was arrested. Little Danger Of Race Suicide Atlanta. —There is little danger of race suicide in Georgia. For every 10 women between 15 and 45 years of age in the state in 1922 there was one baby born or in other words one woman out of every ten gave birth to a child during that year. Accord ing to the 1920 census there were 685,335 women in this class and ac cording to the State Bureau of Vital Statistics records there were 69,615 children born. The white race shows a better record in this matter than the negro. There were 385,654 white women and 44.5255 white babies born or one baby to each 9 women. There were 25,042 negro babies born to the 209.681 negro women in the child bearing age showing a ratio of one baby for each 12 negro women. Barrett Receiver Wins In Contest Savannah.—Judge W. I. Grubb, of Birmingham, sitting in federal court here for Judge \V. H. Barrett, of Au gust, decided that 58 bales of cotton stored in the Athens warehouse of the company, are ’'indisputable prop erty of Barrett & Company." ordering that this cotton be placed in legal custody of Roy Ellison, receiver in United States court action, as assets of the bankrupt; that 72 bales on which advance had been made be also passed to the same custody, the title to be passed upon by bankruptcy court, and that the remaining 4,706 bales remain in the control of J J. Wilkins and B. F. Hardeman, appoint ed receivers by the Clarke county su perior court.” FIVE MEN ARE JAILED IN PROBE OF MURDER OF MILLARD TROUTON Father-in-Law, Brother-in-Law And Three Other Persons Are Un der Arrest In Newnan Newnan. —Mystery surrounding tht. murder of Milard Trouton, whose body was found in Line creek, pierced with five bullet holes, and with the skull crushed, was believed by officers to be nearing solution after five per sons, including the father-in-law and brother-in-law of the slain man .had been arrested, and a search launched for a sixth man, who is said by Sher iff S. P. Carpenter .to have left the city. Sheriff Carpenter expressed the belief that this man, whose name be sayß he does not know, was intimate ly conencted with the crime. Julian Glenn Crapenter, one of the five prisoners taken into custody, is said by the sheriff to have taken the suspect out of Newnan in an automo bile. Sheriff Carpenter has not re vealed Carpenter’s name, but it was learned from prominent Newman cit izens, who said Carpenter was a lo cal lumber man. The sheriff stated that he expected arrest of the sixth mau shortly. Warrants charging the prisoners with complicity in the abduction of Trouton. after which he had not been seen for several days, when negro women fishing in the creek discov ered the mutilated body. Warrants were issued after Will Meeks had told of the circumstances surround ing the disappearance of his stepson. Meeks, who lives on the outskirts of Newnan, said that Freeman and Felt man came to his house about 7:30 o’clock on the night of the ItOh in stant and asked Trouton to walk to a nearby store with them. Trouton, who had retired, drew on his clothes and accompanied them. Since then Trouton had not been seen alive. The following day Meeks is said to have gone to Feltman, who works in Newnan and inquired about his stepson. He was informed that he had been forced into a sedan auto mobile and taken away. They denied further knowledge other than, that they had been accosted by a stranger after they walked a short dis tance, who demanded to know the identity of the third man. Brown Will Aid Probe Committee Atlanta.—J. J. Brown, commission er of the state department of agricul ture, which is soon to undergo a sweeping investigation by a joint commission from the senate and house of representatives, declared that he is ready to extend every pos sible courtesy and information con cerning his department to members of the commission. Mr. Brown stated that he would issue a statement in reply to charges of personal and offi cial nature made in the house of rep resentatives by Stewart, of Atkinson, who reiterated that Commissioner Brown and his department have been guilty of extravagance and wasteful ness in the expenditure of state’s funds. Building Contracts Show Small Drop Atlanta.—July building contracts in Georgia amounted to $4,237,300, ac cording to F. W. Dodge corporation. This was a drop of 14 per cent from the June figure. Last month’s total included: One million sev6n hun dred and sixty-nine thousand two hun dred, or 42 per cent for residential buildings; $998,600, or 24 per cent for public works and utilities; and $682,- 500, or 16 per cent, for business build ings. Construction started during the first seven months of this year has amounted to $51,301,500r Atlanta’s total for July (included above) was $2,153,300, an increase of 16 per cent over the June figure. Atlanta’s total for the first seven months of this year was $30,890,700. Walker Assured Of Co-Operation Atlanta.--Governor Walker an nounces that he has conferred with tho sheriffs of Bibb and Baldwin counties over long distance telephone relative to recent mob violations of the law and had been {assured of their co-operation in checking fur ther similar occurrences. The gover nor said he had informed the Bibb sheriff of the he had of fered for the apprehension with evi dence to convict of persons guilty of flogging several citizens in and near Macon. Raises School And County Tax Columbus.—During the recent set sion of the county commissioners the county tax rate was raised from 8 to 9 mills and the school tax rate was raised from 3 1-2 to 5 mills. That means that taxpayers in Muscogee county outside of the city will pay this year 14 mills in addition to the regular state rate of 5 mills, making the total 19 mills. In the city the ! rate will be 9 mills county and 18 mills city, which with the 5 mills state tax will make 32 mills. THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSViLLE, GEORGIA^ BRIEF NEWS NOTES WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURING WEEK THROUGHOUT COUN TRY AND ABROAD EVENTS OFJMPORTANCE Gathered From All Part* Of Tha Globe And Told In Short P^rafl^aphß Foreign— German professors of hygiene have criticized the increase of alcoholism in Germany in a memorial addressed to (the various governments urging that further steps be taken to con serve the national foodstuffs now used in making liquor, and to protect pub lis health against the increasing con sumption of alcohol Eamon de Valera, the Republican leader, was arrested by free state troops at Ennis County Clare, Ire land. on his appearance to address a Republican meeting in the election campaign. Premier Poincare’s reply to the lat est British note will stoutly reaffirm the French position on the reparation issue, it was forecast. It will reject the British proposals for submission of the legality of the occupation of the Ruhr to the permanent court of International justice and for an in ternational commission of experts to re-estimate the paying capacity of Germany. A Reuter dispatch from Berlin says the report current abroad that Chan cellor Btresemann has been assassi nated is untrue. The rumor gained currency in newspaper circles in Lon don. The source of it has not yet been ascertained. Communists stormed the city hall at Patteln, Germany, 19 miles northeast of Essen, disarmed the police and took possession of the town, says the Berlin Central News. Militia, which was summoned from a neighboring town, also, was disarmed. Many cas ualties occurred on both sides. The Deauville Casino’s baccarat bank had been broken by the loss of ten million francs in recent night’s play, says the Paris Herald. The syn dicate running the bank, comprising two wealthy Greeks an dan American, have decided to go out of business, and no one has been found who is willing to take over the game] Eamon de Valera, arrested under msot dramatic circumstances at En nis, Ireland, when appeared to deliver a speech in the election cam paign, will probably be taken to Lim erick, where he is imprisoned at pres ent, to Mount Joy jail within the next few days. The inter-allied reparations commis sion has formally notified Germany that reparations constitute a prior claim on the resources which Ger many has expected to utilize to guar antee her gold loan. Washington— Belief that President Coolidge will support the contention of the disabled American veterans that the next ses sion of congress should give priority to soldier legislation to those meas ures extending relief to the war’s dis abled, was expressed by James A. Mc- Farland. national commander of the organization following an interview at the white house. History omits the description of many of the interesting things about Methusaleh, among them his liquid capacity. But, says the department of agriculture, if he had been given the task of disposing of all the ‘‘pop" consumed in the country last year, he would have had to start at birth and downed eight bottles every minute of his 969 years. A telegram of inquiry was sent to of ficers of the disabled American Vet eran at Cincinnati, Ohio, by Secretary Hughes, asking an explanation of its announcement regarding receipt of a state department telegram regarding the case of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll and the release of Hooven Griffis from a German prison. The five-power naval treaty nego tiated at the Washington armament conference and the four-power Pacific treaty concluded here in December, 1921, has become effective with the formal exchange of ratifications at the state department. The veterans’ bureau in proceeding with the original plan of installing a complete negro personnel in the vet erans’ hospital at Tuskegee, Ala., an nounces that six negro physicians have been selected for duty at the hos pital and will /leave for their posts within the next week or ten days, Di rector Hines of the bureau says. He says there has been no change in the original policy which has been the subject of protest by white residents of Tuskegee in pevreal conferences with the director American agriculture, wnich has been turning (out a capacity product with its physical equipment in a run down condition, must within the next ten years save up and invest in the farm plant from eight to ten billion dollars of new capital, according to economists of the department of agri culture ,who say this is a conservative estimate. Public lands totaling 23,022,630 acres have been transfered to home steaders during the past two years. A department of interior summary shows that the number of patents is sued for 'this area was 110,330. The practicability of the rural cred its cat ha sheen demonstrated in the opinion of federal farm loan board members by the fact that in the two months the intemrediate credit banks have been in operation approximately five million dollars has been loaned to the farmers. Domestic— Funeral services for Marie Waib wright were held at Scranton, Pa. A requiem high mass was sung at St. Peter’s cathedral. Miss Wainwright, a resident of New York, died at the home of her cousin, Dr. J. M. Wain wright, in Scranton! Ex-United States Senator ,W. R. Webb, well known Tennessee educa tor, while speaking in Nashville at the Georgia Peabody School for Teachers, quoted Caesar: “Restore the prestige of Roman womanhood and don’t bob your hair." A disease hitherto unknown in the United States has been discovered in Greenville, S. C., and has proved de structive to beans. W. D. Moore, plant pathologist, made a ( report on speci mens of plants obtained from the field of I. L. Mayer, near Greenwood, and declared that the disease had nev er \ before occurred in the United States. Whether the disease will af fect pease and other legumes is not known Seizure of a complete plant for the manufacture of counterfeit SIOO fed eral reserve notes in Floral Park, I* 1., was announced by Joseph A. Palma, chief of secret service agents in New York. With all the voting precincts in Russell county, Alabama, heard from except Glenville, the proposed bond issue of $185,000 to pay off the in debtedness of the county was shown to have been defeated in the election held by a majority of 46 votes. The United States government not only will do everything it can to ob tain the release of Lieutenant Hooven Griffis, Hamilton, Ohio, from prison in Germany, but will exert all its power to bring Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, draft evader, back to Amer ica. This was the gist of a telegram from Secretary of State Hughes, to Raymond A. Lasance, nationat adju tant of the Disabled American Veter ans of the World War at national headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio. Declaring that the seriousness of the situation in Europe could not be exaggerated, John W. Davis, former American ambassador to Great Brit ain, urged upon his return on the steamship Olympic the creation of an international commission, with an American membership to determine the amount of reparations that Ger many is able to pay. W. Cameron Forbes, former gover nor general of the Philippines, defend ed the administration of Governor General Wood in an address at the Institute of Politics, Williamston, Mass., and said tha tthe time had not coiue for Philippine independence. After a street fight which follow ed a public meeting at Elmira, N. Y., at which Ku Klux Klan principles were explained, the Rev. Nicholas Cocaboon, of Buffalo, and several other persons who had been speakers were escorted to their train by police. George Stewart, brother and busi ness manager of Anita Stewart, mo tion picture actress, is in a serious condition at a New York hospital with injuries reported to have been re ceived in a fight on the Albany Post road. Southern cotton planters have suf fered this season a loss, approximate ly at present cotton prices of $760,- 000,000 through the ravages of the boll weevil and drought, President E. E. Bartlett, Jr., of the New York cot ton exchange, declares in a statement urging the use of more funds to fight the weevil. A tense situation prevails at Steu benville, Ohio, and the police are pre pared for quick action to prevent a repetition of the outbreak against the Ku Klux Klan, which culminated in a pistol fight between Darwin L. Gib son. said to be one of the local klan officers, and a group of men who fired upon him as he was driving in a dark ened street. Previously a group of about one hundred men said to be members of the Ku Klux Klan from nearby towns was attacked in one of downtown streets. A score were bad ly beaten and several automobiles wrecked. LEGISLATIVEJROCEEDIK Doings of Georgia Lawmakt* Gathered For The Benefit Of Our Readers Review Of Fifty Days’ Session Atlanta— By its action in tabiint bills calling for tax reform, the g eral assembly of 1923 answered at the efeventh hour the question which has been asked most insistently bj the entire state ever since it met The most pressing problem before this session, it was generally admit ted, was to pass some kind of con stitutional amendment bill to create anew system of taxation for the state in order to permit repeal of the tax equalization law. Early in the session the house passed a repeal law which was introduced by Stovall, of Elbert, and stood on the calendar as house bill number one, but when it reached the senate, it was held la committee and no action taken, Income Tax Bill The senate passed a bill, by Sena tor Lankford, providing for an in come tax and a reduction in the ad valorem, with the provision that the amount paid in ad valorem might be deducted by the tax payer from his income tax payments. Other important measures before the house this year included a bill calling for biennial sessions. This was passed by the house, but left in committee in the senate. The general tax bill, as passed by the house, contained additions from the 1921 act which would have in creased the Btate’s revenues by $2,- 000,000, its proponents claimed, but this bill was tabled in the senate, therefore placing the state back under the act of 1921 for its special, and occupation tax revenues. Two important new tax measures were passed and signed by the gover nor. Both of these were house hills Mann, of Glynn, was the author of one, which increases the tax on gaso line from one to three cents per gal lon, and provides that for the first five years it shall be divided in three parts, one-third to retire the rental warrants on the W. & A. railroad, one third to the state highway depart ment, and one-third to the different counties on a basis of post road mile age. The other revenue measure by Mill ner, of Dodge, provides a ten per cent tax on all cigars and cigarettes sold at retail. An important measure which failed to pass was a bill by Ennis, of Bald win, to provide a state revenue de partment, to enforce the payment of large amounts of special taxes which, it is stated, the state is not now get ting. It was claimed that this de partment could have increased the state’s revenue by $2,000,000 per year. Repeal of the tax equalization law and enactment of a new' system of taxation was called to the attention of the assembly in the inaugural ad dress of Governor Walker. In his first message to the assem bly and in another special paper, the governor again urged that his program be carried out. He submitted the tax systems in operation in other states for consideration. North Caro lina, South Carolina, Kentucky and Virginia were especially mentioned. The highway department investi gation was held and resulted m charges brought by Representative McMichael, of Marion, that the divi sion was guilty of mismanagemen . inefficiency and wasteful of P u funds not being sustained. Mr. Mc- Michael, the only member of the leg islative investigating committee not agreeing to the majority report, filed a minority statement in support o his allegations against the depart ment - . Prohibition appeared as one of tn principal subjects before the as.-' - bly for the first time in the past row years, but from the beginning and realized by Dr. Craif Arnold, o Lumpkin, that his measure to repe the state dry laws, thereby P !acll |- enforcement of the Volstead ac Georgia entirely upon the fe government, would not be pass v The bill was reported unfavorably f>y the house temperance committee, in speaking to a point of P ers&na . privilege Mr. Arnold, who said r never tasted whisky A his lire, sailed the present enforcement o prohibition laws. ' Committee Asks Confidence Vote With but one dissenting vote, t : ® special committee of the legis a which has been investigating tl. ? highway department, adopted 3 port which is a complete exonera.-j for the department. , Representative McMichael, rion county, author of the reso u authorizing the probe, who has in the capacity of examining at '°‘ for the committee, will file a m D0 report, disagreeing with the o * members in the majority of findings.