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WILL REORGANIZE FRUIT EXCHANGE PRESIDENT HUNTER PROPOSES PLAN AT MEETING OF GEOR GIA PEACH GROWERS STATE NEWS OF INTEREST Brief News Items Gathered Here And There From All Sections Of The State Macon. —Reorganization of the Geor gia Fruit Exchange so as to care for contingencies which have arisen since the inception of the organization 15 years ago lias been proposed by Pres ident VV. R. Hunter of Cornelia. He was a prominent figure at a mass meet ing of the Georgia Peach Growers held here recently. At the session a unanimous opinion prevailed that the Georgia Exchange should be reorganized and a large com mit too, headed by President Hunter, was named to draft resolutions per taining to the reorganization. Suggestion of the organization of a Tri - State Cos - operative Markteing Association to dispose of the peach crops of Georgia, North and South Carolina was also made, hut until the Georgia association is perfected, no steps will lie taken to consolidate the three associations, it was stated. Standardization of the peach pack, the creation of a centralized market ing agency that has authority to re quite growers to prepare peach ship ments according to the standardized pack, were among the recommenda tions made. The need of creating a fund to aid needy growers who will not affiliate witb the state exchange was also sug gested by President Hunter in hm talk to the growers. There are more than two hundred representative growers attending. The committee named to prepare resolutions on the reorganization of the Georgia Exchange b 1 composed of \V. B. Hunter, Cornelia, chairman; M. F. Hatcher, Macon; David Stroth er, Fort Valley; J. D. Duke, Fort Val h>, John Murph and John Walker, Marshall villo; Ed McKenzie, Monte zuma; It. L. McMath, Americus; J. L. Benton, Mynticello; C. W. Mathews, Woodland; C. P. Prothro, Griffin; F. M Stewart, Gray; C. Cornwall, Alto; John Feasley, Canton; C. W. Finney, Haddock; J. F. Whatley, Reynolds; R. L. Dickey, Lizella; A. D. Williams, Yatesville; J. R. Cooper, Perry; A. C. Glover, Newnan; W. M. Rowland, Au gusta; S. P. McDaniel, Thomaston; A. M. McGill, Woodbury, W. W. Lowe, Byron; H. M. Fletcher, Jackson; E. M. Davis, Wayside. Ex-Mayor Woodward Passes Away Atlanta. —James O. Woodward, four times mayor of Atlanta, and for over thirty years the stormy petrel of At lanta politics, died at a local sanita rium, at the age of 79 years, follow ing an illness of several months. His wife. Mrs. Violet Woodward, who lias kept a coy-slant vigil at his bedside since Jie was taken td the ’sanitarium, and a few close friends were with him when death came. He had been in a state of coma for forty-eight hours. Mr Woodward received a slight stroke of paralysis on the Whitehall street viaduct about six weeks ago. Compli cations developed' and he was taken from his residence, on East Hunter street, to Piedmont sanitarium. Sev eral days ago he was the victim of an other paralytic stroke, the effects of wlrth hastened his death. Napier Elected To National Office Atlanta. —Attorney General George M Napier, of Georgia, was elected sec retary and treasurer of the National Association of Attorneys General in session at Minneapolis, Minn., accord ing to telegraphic advices received in Atlanta. Mr. Napier left Atlanta for the annual convention of the associa tion in Minneapolis recently. That he should have been chosen as one of the national officers of the association is regarded bly his close friends here as a signal honor since he is the first Georgian to have attained that honor. Attorney General T. N. England, of West Virginia, was elected president; Harvey N. Cluff, Utah, vice president; C. L. Hilton, Minnesota; 11. L. Ekeen, Wisconsin, and Jesse W. Harr, Mis souri, were elected as the executive committee. Asks Appointment As State Warden Atlanta. —Attorney Louis A. Burton of Atlanta will be a candidate for state game warden, it became known when several petitions were circulated urg ing the governor to appoint him. He has been active in Georgia politics for a number of years and was a support er of the governor in his two cam paigns. It is believed the governor will announce his decision in the mat ter within the next few days. | Georgia Railroad Helps Student* Atlanta.—-Enrollment for the firs' engineering classes under the co-oper ative plan between the Georgia School of Technology and the Central ol Georgia railway has been completed. Forty-nine boys from all parts of the state are at work and eight arc on the waiting list. The plan, which has just been put into effect, gives boys an opportunity to earn their way through college by working half their time at the shops of the Central of Georgia in Macon, Columbus and .Sa vannah, and spending the remaining half of the time at Tech. They re- ceive regular apprentice wages and will earn a sufficient amount to pay all their college expenses. The course leads to the regular degrees, but takes five years Instead of four for com pletion. The Central of Georgia Is the first railway in the South to adopt this plan and the experiment Is being watched with much interest in in dustrial circles. The first section of students has been at work for four weeks and the master mechanics in the several shops report that the students have done splendid work. All of them are graduates from ac credited high schools or have quali fied with the entrance requirements of Tech. Policeman’s Wife Held For Killing Atlanta. Sensational testimony against the character of Mrs. W. W. Evans, held in connection with the fatal shoting of her husband, Police man W. W. Evans, featured the cor oner’s Inquest which resulted in a verdict instructing that the widow be detained for further investigation. The coroner’s jury agreed that Evans met his death from gunshot wounds. The next action will be the preliminary hearing of Mrs. Evans In the city court of Decatur on a warrant charg ing her with the murder of Evans. According to her atorney, Ben Tye, tho hearing will be held at Decatur. Testimony that Evans accused his wife of undue friendliness with other men Just a few minutes prior to his death was given by C. J. Christian, whose wife is a niece of Mrs. Evans, and who is a tenant of th’e same house with the Evans family. Expert Approval Of Railroad Lease Savannah—That the Georgia Pub lie Service commission will re port favorably upon the proposed lease of the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio railroad by the Atlantic Coast Line, was the confident opinion ex pressed here by John L. Tye, Atlanta lawyer, who represented the Louis ville & Nashville railroad at the re cent hearing in the matter. The pro posed lease is for 99 years and the Atlantic Coast Line declares that in desiring to take over this road it wishes to establish a straight line from the Kentucky coal fields through to Savannah, and on to other points. Mr. Tye said, when interrogated, that the Georgia railroad doesn’t want the Savannah & Atlanta road, which rumor has had it might be taken over by the Georgia railroad which it joins at Cainak." Mule Dealers Ask $30,000 Damages Atlanta.—Twenty-five mule dealori of Atlanta have filed suit against the Louisville and Nashville Railroad company, the Louisville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railway and James C. Davis, agent, for $30,000 damages which the dealers allege represents overcharges in freight rates collect ed by the defendants on hundreds of shipments of horses and mules from points in' Kentucky, Tennessee, Illi nois, Indiana and Missouri to Atlan ta. The mule dealers allege that the rates collected by the defendants were in violation of the fourth section of the act to regulate commerce and section 10 of the federal control act. Floyd Farmers To Inspect Berry Rome.—Farmers from all over Floyd county will make a tour of in spection of the Berry schools farm, the tour to be conducted by County Farm Demonstrator Agent W. H. C. Collins. In urging farmers to be on hand for the trip, Mr. Collins express es the opinion that the Berry farms show what improved farming methods can do in this section of the state. He feels, too, he points out. that the demonstration is all the more impres sive because the Berry farms are all on what is known as "flat woods land" popularly supposed to be very poor land. Increase Shown In Car Passengers Atlanta.—lncrease of more than 260,000 passengers on Atlanta street cars for the month of July, 1923, over July 1922, was reported in a state ment filed by. the Georgia Railway & Power company with the public service commission. Excluding the Stone Mountain and Marietta lines, the company carried 6.165.P&5 pay pas sengers, and 1,702,305 who rode on transfers during last July, while the figures for this July show 6.466.118 pay passenger and 1,711,747 on trans fers. Gross receipts fut Als July I showed an increase of $18,136 sfi. THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA, THE WEEK'S EVENTS IMPORTANT NEWS OF STATE, NA TION AND THE WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD ROUND ABOOTJHE WORLD A C*nd*n*ed Record Of Happening* Of Interest From All Points Of The World Foreign— The Greek government has replied to the Italian ultimatum embodying demands for reparations for the mas sacre of the members of the Italian boundary mission at the Albanian frontier. Greece accepts four of Italy’s demands with modifications, and rejects three of them. The election situation at Dublin with unofficial returns and estimates continually coming in is such that it is almost impossible to form any accu rate idea of how the returns stand. No count is complete for any constit.u tuency and those of the candidates whose names have been mentioned as among the elected have not yet been officially declared so. It is reported at Tokio that Baron Shimpei Goto, former mayor of Tokio, has accepted the office of foreign minister in the new Yamamoto cab inet. A syndicate composed of the largest .Egyptian growers, having already in duced the Egyptian government to in tervene in the cotton market in the hope of forcing up prices, is now planning, says a dispatch to the Ex change Telegraph from Cairo, to starve the market for the next few weeks. The Italian government has demand ed a formal apology from the Greek government, an indemnity of 50,000,- 000 lire, and that full honors be paid by the Greek fleet to the Italian fleet in Piraeus because of the assassina tion of the five Italian members of the Greeco-Albanian boundary mission at Janin, Albania. Organized Bolshevik bands are ter rorizing dwellers in the rural districts of Upper Silesia, according to dis patches received here. Standing and stacked crops are being burned and the lives of peasants and owners of big estates threatened. First returns from the Irish elec tions indicate even a more sweeping victory for the Free State candidates than their supporters had predicted. Nearly a score of government party nominees,’ including most all the cab inet members, have won seats by large majority, while the election of only three republicans was assured. Arrangements for the withdrawal of the French troops of occupation in Constantinople, in consequence of Tur key’s ratification of the treaty of Lau sanne, are now under way, it is offi cially announced. The French evacu ation will be completed in about six weeks. The Spanish dreadnaught, Epana, Which went aground in a fog on Cape Tres forcas, on the Moroccan coast, has been given up as lost. The vessel is lying at a sharp angle, with no chance of being refloated, and her guns and other equipment are being salvaged. ■> Plans for an air route between America and Japan were advanced be fore the Pan-Pacific science congress, now in session at Sydney, New South Wales. V. ' Washington— Assignment of A. B. Stroup as divi sional chief of general prohibition agents in New England was announced recently by Acting Commissioner Nash of the internal revenue bureau. Stroup has been chief of the district which includes North Carolina and part of Virginia. The story of the saving of millions of lives of starving and diseased in Russia by American aid will be “told lovingly In Russian households for generations," Col. William N. Haskell declared In a final report on the ac tivities of the American relief admin istration in that country of which he had charge. Discovery of placer gold reported to run as high as $4 gold to the pan on the Toklat river, sixty miles from the Alaska railroad, has been the sig nal for a general stampede from Ne vada, Healy and other interior points, according to advices received at An chorage, Alaska. Cablegrams passing through the Cuban offices of the Commercial Cable com pah y will not be subjected to censorship by the Cuban govern ment, according to a message receiv ed at the company’s New York offices recently. It was reported that all cablegrams passing through Cuba would be subjected to government scrutiny. The first of the special two-cent stamps struck off by the postoffice de partment as a memorial to President Harding will he placed on sale in Marion, Ohio, Mr. Harding’s home town. At the direction of Postmaster General New, Michael E. Eidsness, su perintendent of the stamp division of the department, started for Marion with 200,000 of the stamps for the Marion postoffice. Operation of the shipping board fleet through a number of subsidiary corporations owned by the board is proposed in the government’s alter native operation plan as outlined by Chairman Farley at a conference with ship owners. It would be be put into effect in case present efforts to place the ships under private ownership fail Department of justice agents will endeavor to determine whether gold coin reported to have been dug up recently near Hagerstown, Md., by a roadworker is tho property of Grover C. Bergdoll, Philadelphia draft-evader, r.ow in Germany. Domestic— A crowd of 5,000 persons broke up a meeting of the Ku Klux Klan in Odd Fellows’ hall, Perth Amboy, N. J., 75 policemen and 150 firemen be ing unable to drive back the throng that stormed the building. Firemen drove trucks into the mass of people, but to no avail. A hurry call was 1 sent for state police in Trenton. Arthur Reynolds, said by Nashville (Tenn.) government officers to he wanted on several charges and for whom a nation wide search is said to have been made for over two years, is in custody, arrested by de tectives, on charges of violating the Mann act and the motor vehicle act. John Fleming Wilson, author and playwright, who died at Venice, Calif., March 5, 1922, deeded most of his estate to Mary Ashe Miller, his friend of many years, it was revealed when the state inheritance tax ap praiser filed a report valuing the es tate at $90,022.34. Maywood, River Forest, Des Plaines, Forest Park and other suburbs to the west of Chicago are scratching and slapping and doing little else. Sev eral generations of pestiferous mo squitoes threaten to depopulate them. Already many stores and other busi ness houses have been forced to close, and practically nobody is get ting any sleep. Alabama’s soldier sons came to Mo bile recently for their fifth annual reunion and convention. Steamship service between Chicago and Europe by way of the lake and Welland canal, is expected to be In augurated September 10, according to information received at the Chicago Association of Commerce. Motion for dismissal of the cele brated- Coronado Coal company dam age suit against the United Mine Workers of America, based on the mandate of the United States su preme court, was filed in United States district court, Fort Smith, Ark., by counsel for the mine workers. Two thousand members of the mu sician’s mutual protective union have voted to call a strike in theaters of greater New York unless an agree m’ent over wage demands is reached. Two Memphis (Tenn.) detectives are wondering what it takes to make a wild animal wild. Dispatched on the trail of a reported ferocious tim ber wolf which has escaped as it was being brought to a zoo from Cotton Plant, Ark., the officers found it. It followed the officers back to head quarters as meekly as the little lamb followed Mary. Mrs. Rosa Simiz, who shot her 19- year-old son, Dezze, because, she said, she would rather kill him than have him lead a life of crime, prayed in her cell in a Chicago jail for his re covery. And at the hospital the youth was expected to recover. Reports that John Pavlisin had been committed to the insane asylum in Evanston, Wyoming, since the ex plosion in the Frontier mine of the Kemmerer Coal company, at Kemmer er, in which he was credited with saving the lives of several compan ions, are groundless, according to a letter received from Pavlisin at Den ver, Colo. Jitneys are virtually ruled off the streets of Birmingham, Ala., now, it was announced following the counting of votes taken in an election to de cide whether they should be allowed to operate. Police leaned toward the theory of suicide by poison as an explanation of the mysterious death of John H. Sutphen, private secretary, whose body was found on a couch in his luxurious $12,000 a year Central Park apartment, New York. The original of the entombment of Christ, painted early in the seven teenth century by Guido Reni, a rec ognized master of the Bolognese school, and considered by critics as almost priceless, was stolen from E. B. Crocker Art Gallery at Sacramento, Calif., it became known Just p a^Litpe/^ OUT OF JUICE ~~ “Here, boy,” said the wealthy torist, ‘‘l want some gasoline, and please get a move on! You’ll never get anywhere in the world unless von push. Push is essential. When I was young I pushed and that got me where I am.” “Well, guv-nor,” replied tne boy “i reckon you’ll have to push again, ’cause we ain’t got a drop of gas la the place.”—Black and ‘ Blue Jay (Johns Hopkins). PALPABLY DAMAGED “What's this?" J “The Venus de Milo. Milo must be the Italian for mill end. It Is evidently a remnant, as you see.” Conservation of Effort. If all we mortals needed here below On trees should grow, How many men too indolent would be To shake the tree! Among the Animals. “Were you a bear or a bull In the market?” “Neither,” replied Mr. Dustin Stax, “I was one of those wise old foxes who kept out of it.” —Washington Star. They Hear It Coming. Ted —That’s a dreadful second-hand car Tom bought. Ned —He says he’ll never have an ac cident, for it makes so much noise ev erybody gets out of the way in time. Overheard at a Musicale. “Maud sings with a great deal of expression.” “Yes, she does; but it’s the kind that you must close your eyes to appreci ate.” A Wise Father. “Was your son educated in New Haven?” “No; he went to college in New Haven, but he got jiis education in New York.” —Life. S Jones’ nose is ft storm when his wife sees it red. Look at Merry Side. When your heart is feeling hea'X. And your brain is rather sa, Don’t think about your troubles. But of the Tun you’ve had. Up the Spout. She—Jack Brokeleigh sent Edltn beautiful bouquet yesterday. I there's something up. He—Brokeleigh’s watch, probaDiy. The Relationship. “Hello, Smitli; suppose ’a man ka ries his first wife’s stepsisters what relation is he to her: __ “First—wife — umph— step-aunt let me see; I don’t know. “He’s her husband." Superior Sort. “What would you call nerve “To take shelter in an un shop during a storm and teate out buying an umbrella. (Stockholm.) Running Behind. ine “Is your business on a ru basis yet?” r n “I should say so. I ah ■ „ when I see a creditor eoinm*. ' With the Athletes. , Phyllis—l love a backwaju H 1 Thyrsis—Shall I dc* one for 7 Cornell Widow. * By Ma and Pa. voor Gerald—J’d like to call joa first name. r was Geraldine—The first nr^ 0 „ ever called was ‘sweethea