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STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here
And There From All Sections
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Atlanta.—With the general tax act
scheduled for passage In the senate,
and with a vote on the various in
come tax measures, planned in the
house soon, members of the general
assembly of Georgia returned to their
homes for the week-end receßs feeling
that the beginning of the end of the
extraordinary session was at last-in
sight.
The house, of course, has already
passed the general tax act. However,
with several amendments placed upon
it by the senate finance committee, it
is not expected that it will pass the
senate in exactly the same form as
received. The probable result is that
it will finally be enacted into law
after passing through the hands of a
conference committee for adjust
ments.
The parliamentary situation on the
tax reform measures, most of which
propose an income tax as a basic
source of state revenue, is at this
point the most interesting feature of
house deliberations. For three days
speeches have been dlivered on the
general subject of tax reform. Tech
nically, the house is debating the
Lankford income tax measure, al
ready passed by the senate, but so
many amendments have been propos
ed, as well as a number of substi
tutes for the entire measure, that the
debate has broadened to cover the
sntire scope of taxation reform.
$16,000 Voted For Education Work
Atlanta. —The first debate of the
current session of the North Georgia
conference arose when the report of
the conference budget commission
was recently under consideration. The
point provoking debate was the rec
ommendation of tho commission that
the appropriation for education should
be $16,000, which is a reduction from
jthe amount appropriated last year.
Members of the hoard of education
protested against the cut in the ap
propriation and contended that simi
lar cuts should be made in the ap
propriation for conference mission
aries. Kev. J. ft. Ellis, Rev. L. M.
Twiggs and Dr. Elam P. Dempsey
urged that the same amount be given
as that of last year, while Rev. G.
M. ftakes, Dr J. W. Quillian and Dr.
J. H. ftakes thought the budget rec
ommendation should stand. The final
decision was to adopt the commis
sion's recommendation for an appro
priation of $16,000.
Methodist Minister Claimed By Death
Atlanta.—The members of the
north Georgia Methodist conference
were saddened recently on learning
of the sudden death in Cartersville
of Rev. Joseph M. Fowler, which oc
curred in that city recently. The
conference of a year ago assigned Mr.
Fowler the pastoral charge of the
Stilesboro circuit, in the Dalton dis
trict, Karly in the year his health
gave way, and he was compelled to
give up the charge. His hopes to re
gain his health and be able to again
take up the work of the ministry were
not realized, and he was referred to
the committee on conference relations
for superannuation.
Safe Is Blown By Yeggs
Atlanta. —Expert cracksmen, adept
Jn the use of nitroglycerin, blew the
safe in the office of the Gulf Refining
Station, at 516 Whitehall street and
escaped with the receipts of the day's
sale, $224. This was the second safe
robbery that has occurred at this sta
tion since filling station robberies be
came a city-wide menace some
months ago. This safe cracking, with
four other robberies, one a $1,600 gem
robbery, furnished the police with
ample work for the week-end and
started five pairs of special plain
clothes men on the trails of the rob
bers.
Rome Classes Hear Judge Sibley
Rome. —Unity of Christian men of
America in spreading: the gospel of
Christianity throughout the world for
the coming of Christ was the theme
of Judge Samuel H. Sibley, of the fed
eral court of north Georgia, in ad
dressing a combined session of IS
men's Hible classes of Home churches.
He si>oke at the First Presbyterian
church, the entire seating capacity of
the auditorium and balcony being fill
ed. Judge Sibley is presiding at the
November term of federal court here
and was invited to vddress the union
nieetir*
Brown Indicted On Shortage onarge
Atlanta.—Charged with embezzle
ment of $7,504.50 from the Rawson-
Upshaw company, automobile acces
sory dealers, of 172 Spring street, S.
E. Brown, former secretary-treasurer
of the company, was indicted by the
Fulton county grand jury on two sepa
rate counts, both charging embezzle
ment. The first indictment charged
Brown with the embezzlement of $4,-
250.50 in cash. The second indict
ment covered the alleged embezzle
ment of four promissory notes all
signed by Brown and made payable
to the company. These notes were
for the sums of $2,500, S2OO and two
for S3OO each, a total in noted of $3,-
300. They were dated March 16, 1923.
Brown was arrested several days ago
on a warrant sworn out by the com
pany in whose employ her held .Jhe
executive position.-,. -He- : was..released
ugder bond of SI,OOO. The indict
ment will necessitate fixing anew
bond.
Paroled, Keeps Convict Job On. Salary
Summerville.—Jim Franklin, a con
vict in the Chattooga county chain
gang, paroled a few days ago by the
State Prison commission, has set an
unusual precedent. Franklin was sen
tenced to life imprisonment for the
murder of Knox Ramsey, a prominent
Murray county farmer living near
Spring Place, Gq. . He had served
nearly 18 years of the sentence when
paroled. The evidence at the trial of
the case, held at Spring Place, show
ed that Franklin was beating his otfen
when Ramsey stepped in to stop him,
and in the quarrel which followed,
Ramsey was killed. The case attract
ed much attention at that time and
was one of the most bitterly contest
ed criminal cases on record in Mur
ray county the Cherokee circuit.
Spring Place at that time was the
county seat of Murray county, but
later moved to Chatsworth.
Protest Cigar And Restaurant Taxes
Atlanta. —Petition for an injunction
to restrain W. S. Richardson, Fulton
county tax collector, and William A.
Wright, comptroller general for the
state of Georgia, from collecting spe
cial occupation taxes, was filed in
the United States district court for
North Georgia by J. I. Hall, T. C.
Morris and company, and Fred Tay
lor. The taxes which the petitioners
protest against paying are taxes on
cigar dealers and restaurant proprie
tors, imposed under the general tax
act of 1921. These taxes are gradu
ated upon a basis of the population
of the town or city where the busi
ness is to be conducted.
Woman Hangs Self While In Jail
Douglasville.—Mrs. J. P. Rice, of
Lanett, Ala., was found hanging from
a rope improvised from bed linen in
her cell at the county jail when the
guards carried breakfast to the in
mates. Apparently, she had been
dead for several hours. Mrs. Rice
came here to the home of her sister,
Mrs. L. A. White, several days ago,
following separation from her hus
band in Lanet. She went to the jail
and begged to be locked up. She
seemed to be laboring under the de
lusion that someone was plotting to
injure her. She was being held in
the jail pending her removal to Mill
edgeville.
Five In Peril As House Burned
Columbus. —Fire, believed to have
started on the front porch ot tho
George W. Bullard residence in Beall
wood, recently, practically destroyed
the dwelling and endangered the lives
of five persons who were asleep at
the hour the blaze was discovered.
Mrs. George W. Bullard, who is a
widow of two days, and whose hus
band’s funeral services were recently
held, was an occupant of the house.
Passersby saw the blaze and aroused
the sleepers just in time for them to
escape the caving in of the walls of
the house.
Negro Is Seized As Double Slayer
Savannah.—After sixteen hours ot
steady work by men and dogs, an
arrest has been made in the Mudie
murder case, and a warrant charging
murder was sworn out for Caesar
Huger, a negro, with a chalngang
record extending back over twenty
years. He is charged with the mur
der ot Mrs. Agnes Mudie and her two
year-old daughter, Dorris, on the
morning of November 21, at the
Mudie bungalow on Laroche avenue,
seven miles from this city.
Chief Beavers Loses Fight In Court
Atlanta. The Georgia supreme
court recently affirmed the ruling of
Judge George L. Bell in the Fulton
superior court that the police com
mittee of city council has the author
ity to try Chief of Police James L.
Beavers on the charge of inefficiency
or any other charge made against
him. However, the supreme court
holds that Chief Beavers has the
right to have the case reviewed in
the courts if the decision is against
him.
THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR. DAN'F ~ V/| LLE. EO “ riA
THE WEEK'S EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWB OF BTATE, NA
TION AND THE WORLD
BRIEFLY TOLD
ROUND ABOUUHE WORLD
A Condensed Record Of Happening*
Of Interest From All Points
Of The World
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Foreign-
Dr. Heinrich Albert, former minis
ter of the treasury and state secre
tary at the chancellery, has accepted
President' ’ Ebert’s appointment .as
chancellor to succeed; Gustav Strese.-
mann. . .
What from the Englishmana’s view
point was the most arresting feature
thus far of .the present election cam
paign occurred when a
reconciliation between Herbert As.-
quith and David., Llpyd. George, after
about seven years’ estrangement,"was
staged at Paisley,. where .the. . two
former premiers, to every, acconijiani
ment of liberal enthusiasm, appeared
to speak on the same platform in Mr.
Asquith’s constituency.
Dr. Rudolph F,. A. HaVemstein, of
Berlin, president of the reichsbank, is
dead.
Expulson from the country of Paul
Polonnine, the Russian who . was .re
cently acquitted of complicity in the
assassination of the soviet envoy Vo
rovsky, was decided upon by the Swiss
Federal council acting under the fed
eral law directed against foreigners
disturbing the order in Switzerland.
David Lloyd George, fighting for a
comeback in British politics, formally
became a candidate for reelection to
parliament when the liberal party of
the Carnarvon Boroughs, in Wales,
adopted him as their candidate. He
was the unanimous choice of the Car
narvon liberals.
Lady Astor has been enthusiastical
ly renominated by the conservatives
of the Sutton division of Plymouth as
their parliamentary candidate and has
accepted the nomination. In her
speech of acceptance, she announced
that she supported Prime Minister
Baldwin and his policy and expressed
belief that the socialist party if given
power would diminish British credit
and automatically cause an immediate
rise in the cost of living.
The Earl of Bidkenhead fulfilled his
promise to support the Baldwin gov
ernment in the election campaign
when he struck his first blow for
prohibition in a speech at the consti
tutional club luncheon at London.
Giacomo Puccini, the composer, has
won his suit against the Ricordi Music
Publishing company, in which he com
plained that his dignity and artistic
personality had been injured by the
publication of a fox trot containing an
excerpt from his opera, “Madame But
terfly.”
With regard to reports of the im
pending conclusion of an Anglo-Amer
ican loan to Germany, the Boursen
Courier says that negotiations are in
progress between a well-known Ber
lin bank and a group of Americans,
British and Dutch financiers for a
credit to Germany of 1,400,000,000 gold
marks.
Washington—
One more week and President Cool
idge's first message to congress—the
document upon which, perhaps, his
whole political future depends —will
be in the hands of the printers, ready
for delivery.
Investigation of the activities of the
Anti-Saloon league by a special house
committee will be sought by Repre
sentative Tinkham, Republican, Mas
sachusetts, who announced he had
drafted a resolution calling for an
inquiry.
Richard Washburn Child, American
ambassador to Italy announced after
a conference with President Coolidge
recently that he would sail from New
York. December 1, for Rome.
A statement urging acceptance of
Henry Ford’s offer for the Muscle
Shoals, Ala., power and fertilizer proj
ect was issued by Senator Ladd, Re
publican.
Promises that Grover Bergdoll will
return to this country from Germany
if the Washington government com
plies with certain stipulated condi
tions, said to amount to virtually im
munity for him, have been made to
government officials by attorneys and
others speaking for the Bergdoll fam
ily.
Orders for the release of Lothar
Wizke, the only German spy convict
ed in the United States during the
World war, caused considerable offi
cial commotion in Washington but the
orders will stand as issued two weeks
ago by Secretary Weeks and Wizke
will be liberated from Leavenworth
prison. The former spy, however, will
leave the country immediately.
The tariff commission's wheat tariff
inquiry will advance into the second
stage soon when its first public hear
ing will be held.
Asa step toward organizing a "cot
ton bloc" In congress, six members of
the house from southern states met
recently to discuss methods of aiding
the cotton growers, Representatives
Lowery and Collier, of Mississippi;
Black, Texas; Vinson, Georgia; Wil
son, Louisiana, and Parks, Arkansas,
all Democrats attended the confer
ence.
Senator Brookhart, Republican,
lowa, arrived for the session of con
gress with his kit full of legislative
plans, but he said, without overalls.
“But remember," he added, “I predict
ed that we would have more overalls
in- the senate and we have .Magnus
Johnson coming. He is a.fine fellow.”
Republicans of,.the next, Jhoyse of .
•reiifcesehf&tives. face .the. likelihood of
a' vigorous contest *6ver^
of a fioor leader to. suc'ce'eff'former
Representative Mondeil, ot-'WyoaaißS; l
despite the efforts •of-so<ttO>.’to fcvoJcF
s'ftcfr’a fight for fear he. might.-tthreat
en party unity; „•
The state courts of Alabama during
£he year ending September 30, last,
sentenced 370 persons to the peniten
tiary "" for illegally manufacturing
whisky, ' Prohibition Commissioner'
Haynes- has: been informed. ' During
October there were 167 arrests under
the state prohibition law, 32 for dis
tilling. There also were seized and
destroyed 96 stills, 58,902 gallons of
mash, 597 gallons of whisky' and 49
gallons of wine. Ten automobiles
were confiscated during the month.
Domestic—
Dr. Charles E. Wait, 74, head of the
department of chemistry, University
of Tennessee, and for years chairman
of the faculty committee on athletics
and president of the university athlet
ic association since its organization,
died at his home recently.
Governor Pinchot in response to a
request from Secretary of State
Hughes, sent the secretary the report
of Philadaelphia police upon the bomb
explosions which damaged the Span
ish and Italian consulates in Philadel
phia.
A $150,000 addition to the brother
hood home for disabled and aged rail
way employees, maintained at High
land Park, 111., by the four transporta
tion brotherhoods, was authorized by
trustees of the home, at the Brother
hood of Railroad Trainmen offices at
Cleveland, Ohio.
Delegates representing the gover
nors of approximately half of the an
thracite consuming states will be
present at the conference called by
Governor Pinchot to consider a pro
gram of state and federal legislation
designed to keep down coal prices.
The conference will convene at Har
risburg, Pa.
Governor General Leonard Wood,
before he left Manila for a visit to
Java, vetoed a bill providing for the
remission of penalties for the non
payment of the land tax during the
calendar year 1923, and it was under
stood that both houses of the legisla
ture would pass the measure over the
veto, thus placing the matter before
President Coolidge for consideration.
If Henry Ford is permitted to run
on an independent ticket without sub
scribing to a platform, he will run for
the presidency, Robert R. Pointer,
friends of the Detroit automobile
manufacturer, said recently.
An organized movement to frus
trate ratification of the Lausanne
treaty by the United States senate
was undertaken by a group of influ
ential American,-. heade J by James
W. Gerard, fornier ambassador to
Germany and now chairman of the
American committee for the inde
pendence of Armenia.
Philadelphia police are holding
three men suspected of being impli
cated in the bomb explosions at the
Spanish and Italian consulates.
Governor M. E. Trapp announced
that he will recommend to the state
legislature the passage of a law defi
nitely regulating secret organizations
in Oklahoma and providing for the
making public of membership rolls.
The British auxiliary schooner
Tomako, most adventurous of all the
rum carrying craft on the Atlantic,
fell into the hands of coast guards
recently after a sharp engagement six
miles off Seabright, N. J. In her hold
was found William “Rummy Bill” Mc-
Coy, characterized by the government
as the “rum smuggler king.”
Irene Castle wants to move her
supply of liquor, valued at several
thousand dollars, from her former
home in Ithaca, N. Y., to her resi
dence in New York. She made appli
cation for the transfer to Prohibition
Director Canfield, but refused to dis
cuss her cellar.
Mayor Walter M. Taussig was found
in the garage behind his home, Yon
kers. N Y., a revolver near him. and
was taken to a hospital where he died
from a bullet wound believed by the
police to have been self-inflicted.
OKe Kitchen
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It has been said of the Prophet
Daniel that he went with greater
willingness to the den of lions be
cause he knew that he would not
be called upon for an after-dinner
speech.—Burgess Johnson.
CHRISTMAS GOOD THINGS
If there has been put up Jams, j e p
lies, canned vegetables and relishes,
hoihe-prepared gifts.. -t . ..
'. ■ Those who live in .the country or on.
farms,, where everything good can be
grown, . are .able to. surprise the" city
friend'or rpl;ative with a'really worth
while holiday basket, a ' big '-'gotden
•pumpkin, hollowed 'out -tar thq.vform. of
a bowl or basket, .Jeaving .the' slice
taken from the- top, with the stem for
a handle, for a cover. Scoop out the
seeds and put Into tills pumpkin basket
a glass of jelly or two, a small jar of
cream, a roll of sausage, a plump,
dressed chicken, a pat of fresh farm
butter, a few fresh eggs, and fill In the
chinks with hickory nuts, hazel nuts,
or chestnuts, depending upon where
you live; cover with the lid and pre
sent your Christmas pumpkin. The
pumpkin will delight the family with a
few pumpkin pies.
A bit of handwork which cost little
for the material may be worked on at
odd moments, and one will never miss
the time so spent
A suggestion to the farm wife when
She makes sausage for the winter—
prepare a few for Christmas as fol
lows: Save nice clean corn husks, roll
the sausage Into the form of an ear of
com, then wrap with corn husks and
tie. Smoke with the hams, keep in a
cool place and they will be good all
winter. The corn husks give a good
flavor to the sausage.
English Plum Pudding. —Scald two
and one-half cupfuls of bread crumbs
with one cupful of milk. Add one-half
pound of finely-chopped suet, one-half
cupful each of sugar and maple sirup,
four eggs, well-beaten; one-half pound
each of currants, raisins and citron;
dredge with three tahlespoonfuls of
flour; add two teaspoonfuls of baking
powder and one-third of a cupful of
canned fruit Juice. Turn into a but
tered mold and steam twelve hours for
two days. Reheat when serving.
Foole 1 thou must be. though wis
est of the wise;
Then be the fool of virtue, not of
vice.
It Is well to be wise In a great
moment.
CANDIES WITH HONEY
If yon have a few hives of bees the
Christmas rnnrly problem will be quite
> 1 — ll easily solved. A
p(S card or two of
honey is a present
that few will not
cupful of the "best*
flavored extracted
iioney, one cupful of sugar, three table
spoonfuls of sweet cream, and boil to
the soft-ball stage. (When a drop is
put into cold water it may be gathered
in the fingers in a soft ball.) Add a
teaspoonful of vanilla just before tak
ing off the fire. Pour into a greased
pan, having the sirup a half-inch or
more deep. When cool enough, mark
off into squares and wrap in paraffin
paper. If chocolate is wanted add one
tablespoonful of melted chocolate to
the mixture with the vanilla, stirring
it in well.
Honey and Tar Cough Candy— Boll
two handfuls of green hoarhound in
two quarts of water down to one quart;
strain and add a pint of honey, a table
spoonful of Jard and tar. Boil until a
candy 19 formed. Pour out into a
greased dish and mark off into small
squares. Begin with a very small piece
and Increase the amount. This is an
excellent cough candy.
Walnut Cream*.—Take one cupM*
each of brown sugar and honey and
one-half cupful of sweet cream.
to the soft-ball stage, stir in two ta.de
spoonfuls of butter and. Just as It *
taken from the fire, add n teaspoon.ui
of vanilla and one cupful of chopped
walnut meats. Stir and pour out Into
a buttered tin to cool. Mark mto
squares when cool enough.
Crackerjack.—Take one cupful or
brown sugar, one cupful of honey; ’
until It hardens when dropped Into com
water. Remove from the fire; add one
half teaspoonful of soda. Stir n a '
the popcorn or puffed rice it will a ’ ’
spread in a greased pan and, v -
cool, mark into squares.