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GASOLINE PRICE JUMPS TWO CENTS PRICE OF GASOLINE IN ATLANTA JUMPS FROM 20 TO 22 CENTS AT ALL FILLING STATIONS STATE NEWSJJF INTEREST Brief News Items Gathered Here And There From All Sections Of The State Atlanta. —Effective recently the price of gasoline in Georgia jumped 2 cents per gallon, the. price in At lanta being raised from 20 to 22 cents going into effect throughout the state. The two cent raise, it was announc ed by Alanta dealers, was made to meet the special lqvy of two cents per gallon provided for in an act of the last general assembly which also became effective at midnight Sunday. The amount of the, tax has been add ed to the prevailing prices in the state to be paid by the consumer. The jump in .prices brings.to.a tem porary end. at least, a series of reduc tions over the past few months which have resulted in a drop of 6 cents per gallon in Atlanta. Two reduc tions of one cent per gallon each, coming recently and only a short time apart, were interpreted in many sec tions as indicating further reductions and Georgia motorists and users of gasoline generally had visions of pre war prices within a short while, only to have the vision knocked into the provarbial "cocked hat” by a sharp in cline. The bill which passed the last ses sion of the legislature provides for an "additional levy of two cents per gal lon” on gasoline and is in addition to the one cent per gallon tax levy ulready in effect. In addition to the three cents tax, there is a tax of one half cent for “police’’ or inspection fees. The one-half cent goes to the department of agriculture and what ever amount is not used for expenses of inspection is turned into the gen eral fund of the state treasury. The two cents additional levy, pro vided for under the bill introduced by Representative Mann, of Glynn coun ty, will add approximately two and one-half million dollars to the reve nue of the state and will go into the highway fund of the state. The state highway department will receive a large part of this sum, and the re mainder will be divided among the counties of the state based on road mileage of each county. Several amendments offered during debate preceding the passage of the Mann bill and providing for division of tho amount thus raised among other departments of the state were all defeated. Rev. William T. Dakin Passes Away Savannah. —The Rev. William Tay lor Dakin, rector of St. John’s Epis copal church in Savannah, Is dead in lloston, according to news received here by his parish members. He had been In 111 health for nearly two years. Funeral services will be held in his church here, at the same hour funeral services over the body are to be held in his birthplace, Boston. Later memorial services will be held, with Bishop Reese the chief speaker, speaker. > Six Lives Saved In Year By Scouts Thomasville.—The report of Secre tary L. Hommedieu of the Thomas vllle Y, who has had charge of the life-saving corps of the boy scouts, shows that forty life saving tests have been given to the boys and that six have been saved since the boys wore trained last year at St. Marks ou the gulf, while the boys wore in camp there. This report was given to Miss Mariou Crawford, field representative of the Red Cross, who has been in Thonntsville recently. Has Served On 75 Juries In 34 Years Waycross.—J. F. Harbin, of this city, has a record, so far as court duty is concerned, which is equalled probably by no one in the state. Dur ing his thirty four years' residence in Ware county he has served on fifty nine petit juries and four grand juries. Aside from this he has served on seven lunacy Juries and has acted as juror ou five inquests. Harbin, during this time, has served Ware county in various capacities for uine and a half years. Unloading Record Set By Freighter Savannah.— Record time was made by the Norwegian steamer Nordiva of the South Atlantic Maritime corpora tion consignment, in discharging the largest cargo of sugar, it is said, ever to come to this port in a single bot tom. Nearly 45,000 bags of sugar, each weighing several hundred pounds, were unloaded at the sugar refinery docks between 10 p. m. and 1 a Jit, YARBROUGH JURY DISMISSED AFTER 70-HOUR DEADLOCK Macon. —The jury that has been considering the case of Dr. C. A. Yarbrough, charged with riot, was discharged by Judge Will Gunn in city court. It had had the case for 70 hours. Attorneys and others connected with the court stated that this was the longest period a jury in a misde meanor case had been out in their recollection of Macon courts. Members of the jury, after being discharged said the final ballot stood 9 to 3 for conviction. The first ballot was 6 to 6 and the second 7 to 6. Gradually as three or four ballot a day were taken it dwindled to 9 to 3 for conviction and stood at that point for the last two days. The trial of this case, in which Dr. Yarbrough, who the state charged was the “whipping boss” in a series of floggings, was charged with riot in connection with the flogging of W. O. Barnett, harness manufacturer A half day was taken up with selec tion of the jury, and a day and a half with taking testimony. Arguments lasted a half day. The jury only once sent for Judge Gunn. At that time T. C. Drew, fore man, told the judge the jury was di vided 9 to 3. Judge Gunn ordered them back, and asked that they en deavor earnestly to find a verdict. Georgia Needs New U. S. Judge Washington.—Five additional fed eral judges are needed to expeditious ly handle the business of the federal courts throughout the country in the opinion of the conference of senior circuit court judges presided over by Chief Justice Taft which adjourned after five sessions. Through the re ports of tho circuit judges, supple mented by those from the district judges and the attorney general, the conference gained a comprehensive view of the conditions prevailing in the federal courts. It also arranged for the transfer of judges from one circuit to another for the coming year, where judges are needed foi crowded dockets. Injured While Fighting Fire I^ouisville.—Captain W. A. Strip ling, conductor of the Louisville and Wadley train, was severely injured recently when he fell from the train, which was standing on the Ogeechee river trestle. His leg was broken and it is feared that he sustained im ternal injuries. He was rushed to a hospital in Savannah. Captain Strip ling was endeavoring to crawl up the side of the engine near the cab when his hold slipped and he fell. Fire on the long trestle over the Ogeechee river near here caused the train crew to be called to help extinguish the blaze, which had burned about sixty feet of the trestle. Captain Stripling was aiding in the fight on the fire. Utilize Mill Shavings As Fuel Sparta.—Local plants around Sparta contiuue to utilize the shavings, saw dust and other waste, which cuts the expense greatly in the run of a month’s time. At this time shavings are being hauled several miles from the planing mills in Sparta to the granite quarries. Some of the indus tries have bought very little coal in the last two years. This is especially true of the city light and waterworks. They have been running night and day on this fuel alone for BeveraJ years. . . Baptists Observe Centenary Hampton.—The Flint River associa tion of Baptist churches has Just closed its most successful annual meeting. The meeting was held for two days', September 26 and 27, and was an entire success from every standpoint. This meeting marked the 100th anniversary of this associa tion, and for this reason the attend ance was unusually large, probably the largest which ever attended one of these meetings. Father Held On Cruelty Charge Quitman.—An anonymous telephone call from a woman brought the infor mation here that a little boy was be ing cruelly beaten by his father. The boy was located in a river swamp 18 miles from Quitman. The father was arrested for cruelty. The boy is nine years old. He is being temporarily cared for in Quitman. Man's Body Found In Thicket LaGrange.—The body of S. T. All man, 68, missing from home several days, was discovered in a pine thick et in this city. The condition of the body indicated that he had met his death shortly after his disappearance had been reported. Suspect Escaped Convict, Police Say Atlanta.—Duke Wellborn, indicted in connection with the robbery of the Lyric theater, is an escaped convict from the Richmond county chaingang, according to the police. He was serv ing a term of ten years for burglary when he escaped. THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR. QANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA. NEWS BRIEFIY TOLD DIBPATCHEB OF IMPORTANT HAP PENINGS GATHERED FROM OVER THE WORLD. FOR THE JjUSY READER The Occurrences Of Seven Day* Given In An Epitomized Form For Qulek Reading Foreign— ’ In addition to the numerous other disedmforts which have followed in the wake of the great earthquake, Yokohama has been invaded by hosts of flies which are making life in that Japanese city next to unbearable. Because the Venezuelan authorities refused to permit a Mexican theatri cal company to. land there, the Mete* lean government suspended the exe quatur of the Venezuelan minister, and ordered the Mexican minister in Ven ezuela to close all Mexican consular offices in that country and return home, severing all diplomatic relations between the two countries. It has been officially announced in Munich that the German laws for the protection of the German republic are no longer in force in Bavaria. Fifteen persons were killed and many hundreds wounded when fusil lades of rifle and revolver shots broke up a big separatist meeting assembled in Hindenburgstrasse, Germany. An urgent imperial ordinance an nounced recently provides for the immediate appropriation of 100,000,000 yen to relieve the pressing necessi ties of thousands of homeless earth quake sufferers. Out of this fund building materials also are to be pur chased for the construction of tempo rary shelters. The council of the league of na tions after a two hours’ debate cov ering the general aspect of the league competency in international compli cations agreed to submit two ques tions to the permanent court of in ternational justice at The Hague. One concerns the right of states to adopt coercive measures while the other en deavors to Secure the fixation of a country’s responsibility for crimes committed in its territory. Brussels. —Belgium appears to have won the international baloon race for the Gordon Bennett cup again this year, either with Demupter, the land ing of whose balloon*, about the center of distance of al. Wright with Veenstra, looting the RrWcb Leopold, whose fate is unknown. Another severe earthquake occur red in Japan recently in the Hiro shima district. The quake was espec ially violent around the city of Kure. Foreign Minister Tchitcherin in a note to Japan protests against the ex pulsion of the Russian relief ship, Lenine, from Yokohama harbor. Adolfo de la Huerta, whose resigna tion as secretary of the treasury has been accepted by President Obregon, has assured a delegation representing the co-operatista party in the cham ber of deputies that his retirement has altered the circumstances and made it possible for him to recon sider his determination not to become a candidate for the presidency, v, Premier Mussolini will insist on retaining the island of Corfu unless Greece pays the 50,000,000 lire indem nity demanded in his seven-point ulti niatum on the Janina murders was the understanding that became cur rent following-a meeting of the coun cil of ambassadors, which considered the report of the committee of in quiry into the murders. The Japanese government is mak ing inquiry in the United States look ing toward the purchase of 120,000 tons of building material. Washington— The council of ambassadors reach ed a decision on the question of the payment of the fifty million lire in- Demnity by Greece to Italy. The de cision will be kept secret until Greece can be notified. Former Representative Thomas U. Sisson, of Mississippi, died at Wash ington of apoplexy. His wife, who before their marriage last July 1, was Miss Cecil B. Norton, was with him when he was stricken, but before phy sicians could reach him the end came. Democratic senators returning from Europe are convinced that the League of Nations will live, but are ready to drop it as a campaign issue in 1924. The treasury and postoffice depart ments announce drastic new joint reg ulations governing importation of merchandise through the mails de signed to prevent such packages from escaping tariff duties. Foreign pack ages must in future contain an accu rate invoice of the contents President Coolidge, in a letter ti Bishop James E. Freeman, express, ing his regret at not being able {< attend the dedication of Washingtoi cathedral said: “The present eco nomic and social problems of thi: country is in a great application ol the truths of religion. Your work if to be commended, because it repre sents the foundation of all progress all government and all civilization That foundation is religion.” , A claim has just been receive! from an Indian veteran for replace ment of a cork leg destroyed recently in an emergency. The claimant says that while he was hauling coal up s hill it became' necessary to brake tht wheel. Lacking a brake,- he took ofl his leg and stuck it in the wheel The wagon stopped but the leg was destroyed. . . A readjustment in rates on cottoi seed moving from Texas points t< Louisville, Ky., which Southern rail roads proposed to put into effec* September 27, and which would ha vs occasioned slight rate increases,: wai suspended by the interstate commercs commission until January 25, to allov investigation. Domestic— The way has been cleared for ttu special state election called by Gov ernor Walton for October 2 when the Oklahoma supreme court reversed the action of the Oklahoma district ccrurl in granting an injunction restraining the state election board from pro ceeding with plans for the referen dum. At least forty persons were drown ed in the wreck of the Chicago, Bur ilngton and Quincy passenger trail No. 30 which plunged off a bridg< into Cold creek at Lockett, fifteei miles east of Casper, Wyoming. Of ficials of the Chicago, Burlington am Quincy estimate that between 115 am 120 passengers were on the trail when it left Casper. Three more persons have been add ed to the known death list in th< floods and tornadoes and cloudburst! which visited a part of lowa and Ne braska, making 22 in all. An unofficial opinion of George F Short, state attorney general of Ok lahoma, that there is no preceden authorizing the changing of an an nounced date for an election, will no alter the plans to stop a special stat< election at which a question will b< submitted opening a way for the leg islature to hold an impeachment ses sion, Governor Walton declares. Oklahoma City newspapers an nounce that orders have been issue< to the entire force of arms of Okla homa to prevent the holding of i special state election. The governoi stated that mobilization orders for th< entire Oklahoma National Guard numbering approximately 5,000 men had been issued and that 75,000 volun teer militiamen would be called to dea ignated strategic centers for any emergency. Ten persons were seriously injured scores suffered minor wounds am many were bruised and shocked whei thq central section of the west stands at March fields, LaFayette college Easton, Pa., collapsed during the La Fayette-Muhlenberg football game. The police say that the pet cat o Mrs. Mary Brockaer caused her deatl at Los Angeles, Calif. They believ* the cat disconnected a piece of tubing attached to a gas heater, causing gas to escape and asphyxiate the womai and the cat. • Work of moving furnishings anc heirlooms belonging to’the late Presi dent Roosevelt has begun and by Oc tober 27, the anniversary of his birth the building will be dedicated by th< Woman’s Roosevelt Memorial associ ation as a memorial and museum oi Americanism. The house stands al 28 East Twentieth street, New York “I intend to restore the Wayside Inn, Sudbury, Mass., as nearly to its original conditions as possible ane then operate it both as a museun and a tavern,” Henry Ford said. The manufacturer recently purchased the tavern made famous by Longfellow. Deathbed charges of William Fet ter, who died in Fordham hospital New York, that he was flogged se verely several months ago in' the Florida state hospital at Chattahoo ehee will be investigated by his broth er, Frederick, a fire department em ployee, the latter announced. Oklahoma’s revel legislators wer< dispersed by the military when they attempted to convene a special ses sion of the lower house to seek the impeachment of Governor J. C. Wal ton. Rev. James Small, pastor of Hyde Park Christian church, Kansas City Mo., married a young couple from Kan sas recently. Now he finds that he had no authority to perform a mar riage ceremony with a certificate from another state, and is greatly worried, as the young couple left no address behind and doesn’t know how to com municate with them so that they may be properlv joined in wedlock /^Justa^ ■ Little Slfe/ —-u. PENALTY OF PROMINENCE Glady’s father is a colonel ou the staff of the governor, and on a re cent occasion she saw him, in brave array, on his way to attend a social function given by the governor. “How did you like your father in his uniform?” the colonel asktjd his small daughter that night. “Tou looked handsomer than any one-else,-” said Gladys, loyally, “and you .held your head’ up as high. But I think they were mean not to let you have a drum to play on!”—Philadel phia Public Ledger. GIRLS. For when they J J It’s always with W the other fel low. More in Evidence. At Mary’s lamb We do not longer laugh; Interest now Is all in Mary's calf. Drama’s Decline. An old actor was wont to claim that he had worked with Booth and Barrett. When questioned about his parts he would always answer: “1 did hoof-beats,” then add: “The drama has gone to pot.” “Why so?” some of the younger gen eration would indignantly inquire. “Anyone can do the honks nowa days.” was the sad reply. An Oversight. “My doctor put me on a rigid diet, but he said I could eat all the spin ach I wanted.” “Well?” “The darned fool evidently didn’t know that I like spinach.”— Wayside Tales, Grows Both Ways. Laborer-i-I’d like to get some time off to get- a haircut. Foreman —A haircut! On company time? Laborer —Well, don’t it grow on company time? My Word! First Club Member —I don’t think he’ll do for our organization. He’s ter ribly old-fashioned. Second Club Member —Yes, I under stand he still cranks his car. Nothing Serious, We Hope. The Missionary—l hope, Mrs. Bald owsky, that you and your husband are living together in harmony. Mrs. Baldowsky—Ach, nein. Veare liflng in de Gheddo. Dun. “Why do you avoid that firm?" “They dun me." “You mean they did you?’ “No, they dun me. Hound me wltn a bill collector every week." ~ . No Dieting. Mrs. Stouter —My land of living, no did you manage to reduce? Mrs. Nowsllm—We moved to smaller apartment HIS IDEA. She: They say W that the love of k money is the root J|p ° He: Yes I & know —of most u—-Xp-;,; and matrimony. t" -1 L / J Candidacy. There is one endless task we When one election’s o er The lucky man prepares to A candidate some more. His Specialty. “Does Wombat play £° lf “Oh, yes.’’ ... it “I never hear lum talk a “He merely plays it- Silly auction. Mr. Fusser —Aren t J Oll ready? ~ ctnn 6 gk- Mrs- Fusser—l wish you and P tefr Ing me that question. * r eady ing you the last hour that in a minute.