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THE WEEK'S EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWB OF BTATE, NA
TION AND THE WORLD
BRIEFLY TOLD
ROUND ABOUT_T(fE WORLD
A Condensed Record Of Happening*
Of Interest From All Points
Of The World
Foreign—
More than two hundred persons are
reported to hav-a been killed in the
earthquake shocks which caused se
vere damage in Ihe Jpiales region on
the Colombian Ecuadorian frontier.
The hoodoo statuette of Premier
Poincalre of France has so far failed
to bring any harm to the premier, not
witlisinnoing the Hindoo superstition
that it would do injury to its pos
sessor
A plot, against the life of the new
ly elected Swiss president has been
discovered, but the details so far are
lacking.
The reparations commission in ses
sion, in Paris, announces that it will
extend an invitation to Gen. Charles
Dawes, former director of the Unit
ed States budget, and Owen D.
Young, New York lawyer, to be the
unofficial representatives of the
United States on the expert commit
tees which are to investigate Germa
ny’s financial position.
Because of! her speed the British
postofficc has shipped the English
Christmas mails on board the Ameri
can steamer Leviathan for the Unit
ed States. This is the second time
the Leviathan has been selected by
;he British mail authorities.
The long postponed Greek elections
ire taking place, and Reports are that
thejl are being conducted quietly and
orderly.
After efforts of more than thirty
years, French sufragists are near vic
tory in their struggle for the vote.
With newly elected members of par
liament are still practicing their maid
-3n speeches before home mirrors,
preparations fo? anew election have
been begun.
Paper currency in the occupied
areas of Germany is to be replaced
shortly, probably before the Christ
mas tide, by anew currency backed
by gold. The now bill will be of
four marks twenty pfennings, or the
value of the American dollar.
The postulate that ‘once a kaiser
always a kaiser,’ 1 which William Ho
henzollern’s friends never tire of
emphasizing, although he is a kaiser
without a country, has been finally
disposed of by a Prussian ministerial
nation of “Prince of Prussia,’’ on the
ground that he was that when he was
born. The title is the same for the
ex-crown prince.
Mars is inhabited by a small, frail
race of creatures similar to human
beings—and some day science will
reach the point where Mars and the
earth will get into communication,
say good morning and talk things
over. These are the conclusions of
Camille Flammarion, noted astronom
er, who is studying means of com
municating with the planet.
Few of the hundreds of radio en
thusiasts in London who combed the
wireless waves from across the At
lantic recently were rewarded by
hearing President Coolidge’s New
England accent as broadcast from the
American stations.
Washington—
A resolution placing the senate on
record as opposed to resumption of
diplomatic relations with Turkey un
til the rights of Armenia has been
adequately protected was offered by
Senator King, Democrat, Utah, in the
senate where it was referred to the
foreign relations committee.
Ambassador Hanihara of Japan, ad
dressing the annual meeting of the
general board of tho American Red
Cross, said the sympathy and help of
America at the time of the earth
quake disaster had deeply touched the
Japanese people. He declared hi 9
countrymen in their suffering were
strengthened by the knowledge that
America stood beside them with "her
might and warm heart.’’
The administration wing of the Re
publican party, dominating the meet
ing of the national committee at
Washington, has torn open the old
score which split the party in 1912.
By a sudden, eleventh hour coup, the
Coolidge faction, has not only wiped
out the reductions in the southern
delegations which had been previous
ly agreed upon, but has added 9 more
delegates than were allowed southern
states in 1920.
Frank B. Kellogg, former United
States senator from Minnesota, to be
ambassador to Great Britain, has been
confirmed by the senate.
Recommendations of the federal
j coal commission for legislation deal
ing with the anthracite and bitumin
ous coal Industries have been referred
to the senate mining committee. Here
tofore the interstate commerce com
mission and labor committees have
been dealing with this subject.
The constitutionality of the flexible
tariff provision of the Fordney-Mc-
Cumber act has been called Into ques
tion in a petition for a writ of man
damus filed In supreme court by the
Norwegian Nitrogen Products com
pany. The petitioners also ask tho
court to decide upon the right of in
terested parties to appear before tho
tariff commission to inspect all data
presented to the commission and to
offer evidence in contravention there
of.
Domestic —
Three indictments charging first de
gree murder in connection with the
slaying of 7-year-old Howard Rothen
berg in Windham, one of them against
the boy’s mother, have been returned
by the-grand jury wihch has conduct
ed an extended investigation into the
Catskill, N. Y., tragedy.
Four escaped convicts who were
cornered, shot and wounded a patrol
man and two by-standers at Minneap
olis, Minn.
Mayor Adolph Unger of Tiffin, Ohio,
and twenty-four other residents of
Tiffin have been indicted by the fed
eral grand jury on the charge of con
spiracy to violate the national pro
hibition law.
Frank D. Smith, former clerk in the
infantry school detachment. at Fort
Bennning, Oa., has been arrested in
New Orleans, La., by secret service
men as a fugitive from justice.
A gift of $300,000,000 to Northwest
ern university from Mrs. Montgomery
Ward, widow of the mail order mer
chant, is announced by President Wal
ter Dill Scott at Chicago.
At least ten members of the lum
ber schooner C. A. Smith are believed
to have lost their lives when the ves
sel waR wrecked on the north jetty at
the entrance to Coosa bay (Oregon)
harbor.
Hope of finding alive any of the
sixteen missing members of the crew
of the Norwegian steamer Runa, lost
off Frying Pan shoals on the North
Carolina coast, has been abandoned
by coast guard officials at Norfolk,
Va., upon receipt of a message from
lhe cutter Modoc that the second of
two lifeboats launched from the Runa
had been found with all of its occu
pants.
An El Paso, Texas, dispatch says
that President Obre.gon of Mexico has
taken the field and is personally lead
ing the troops of General Amarillas
and General Amara against the reb
el stronghold at Guadalajara.
Lieut. Lari D. Willis and Private
de Ainand, enlisted mechanics, were
killed when their plane crashed to
the ground during a bombing practice
at San Antonio, Texas.
The dying body of Joe Pullen, negro,
was dragged from a drainage ditch
near Drew, Miss. The cause of his
death has not been established.
Charlotte, N. C., recently had an
SBOO,OOO fire in the heart of the busi
ness district.
Leo Koretz, the Panama oil magnate
and man of many loves, is still miss
ing. Chicago authorities have been
conducted, for some time, a systematic
search for the missing man, but to
no avail.
Mrs. Virginia Hayward Cornell, Ala
bama author and writer for leading
magazines of the country died at her
home at Birmingham, Ala.
Governor Brandon paroled Mrs. Vir
ginia T. Wasserleben, of Mobile, Ala.,
sentenced to life imprisonment for
the murder of her husband, March 21,
1913.
Los Angeles was awarded the 1924
convention of the American Associa
tion of Port Authorities, and John H.
Walsh, of the New Orleans dock
board, president for the ensuing year,
at the concluding session of the an
nual meeting at New Orleans.
Commander Aristides del Solar,
naval attache at the Chilean consu
| late at New York announced that he
| had invented a gyroscopic torpedo di
rector which would increase the pres
ent accuracy sixty per cent.
Twelve indictments, ten of which
were against oil men on charges of
using the mails to defraud in con
nection with promoting operation,
were returned by the federal grand
jury at Texarkana. Ark.
Ben Jacobs, 23, married only four
months, was shot and accidently kill
ed while hunting near Atmore. Ala.
A three-hour fight brought under
' control the fire which spread through
| the Boston store in the heart of the
| business section of Schenectady, N. Y.,
recently.
| A group of supporters of Henry
Ford at a meeting at Detroit, Mich.,
j formed a Ford-for-President club and
I elected Roy E. Harrop, of Omaha.
I Neb., as president.
THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA.
STATE ITEMS
CONDENSED
Camilla—Ed Norrla and Pete Hil-
Hard, two youths of Camilla, both
eighteen or nineteen years old, were
completely exonerated at Newton in
Baker county, of any guilt in the kill
ing of Charles Wright, a negro, by
Will G. Stewart, a Mitchell county
bailiff, who later committed suicide at
his home near Camilla.
Griffin—The ten day drive for
funds for the Griffin hospital, which
recently closed, was a great success,
it Is announced. The campaign was
to raise $12,000 to clear all indebted
ness and make necessary repairs on
the building. Careful checking of fig
ures shows that a grand total of $12,-
071 was raised by the hospital com
mittee.
Atlanta. —An Indictment charging
larceny of an automobile was return
ed by the Fulton county grand jury
against Miss Evelyn Valentine, ago
17, of this city. The young woman
has been held in default of bond sines
she was arrested several days-ago. She
firmly denies any knowledge of theft
in connection with. her possession ot
the automobile, claiming that the
machine was given to" her by a young
man who is ngw in Detroit.
Sparta. —The granite crushing indus
try in Hancock county, at the quar
ries located near Sparta, is doing a
thriving business. All the stone that
can be crushed is sold far ahead. Two
crushers are at work daily, one at
the W. T. Macken Granite company.
The other is at the plant of the Spar
ta Crushed Stone company. This
crushed stone, which is loaded direct
ly into the cars from the crusher, is
shipped to all parts of the country
for road building.
Sparta. —Several pecan buyers from
other sections of the state have been
attracted here by the excellent quali
ty of Hancock county’s crop, and
many thousands of pounds have been
sold. These pecans were shipped to
the various plants which operate hull
ing machines, where they are prepared
for sale to candy factories. The nuts
sold have averaged forty cents per
pound, while some are selling to in
dividual buyers at sixty and seventy
five cpnts. The nuts are the largest
in several years.
Atlanta. —Seventy-four gallons of li
quor and an automobile were captured
by Patrolmen Harrison and Baldwin
near the corner of Boulevard and
Houston street, after a chase of about
five blocks, the driver of the car
jumping out while the machine was
still running and making his escape.
The officers grew suspicious of the
car as it passed them on Houston
street and gave chase when the driv
er, of the liquor car leaped out. The
automobile ran across the sidewalk
and onto a lawn before it stopped. It
was badly damaged.
Washington, D. C.—President Coo
lidge received from Gov. Clifford Wal
ker of Georgia and from J. J. Brown,
commissioner of agriculture and ex
officio commissioner of immigration,
an invitation to the distressed farm
ers of the wheat-growing states, "who
might welcome an opportunity to sit
uate themselves better.’’
The president was reminded of his
own interest in the welfare of the
farmer, as expressed in his first mes
sage to congress, pointing out as it
did the unfavorable conditions in the
grain belt, and was urged to give
publicity to Georgia’s opportunities
and natural advantages for all year
round operations in standard crop
ping, or in live stock and dairy farm
ing.
It was pointed out to the presi
dent that Georgia has not only a
waiting opportunity for more white
farmers, but facilities, through the
Georgia association, for seeing that
they are properly located under ad
vantageous circumstances.
Decatur.—Decatur was busy build
ing during the month of November.
Building statistics show that Deca
tur leads such cities as Richmond,
Houston. New Orleans, Birmingham,
Lakeland. Fla., Louisville and Fort
Worth, having a total of $954,732, and
was the eighth city out of the fifteen
leading cities of the South in building.
St. Louis led the list with $4,571,525
to her credit. Baltimore with a total
of $3,429,540 came second. Nashville
and Atlanta were closely behind Bal
timore. Following is the total
amount of the leading Southern cit
ies of the month of November: St.
Louis $4,471,525; Baltimore $3,429,-
540, Nashville $2,897,842, Atlanta sl,-
889,264, Kansas City, Mo., $1,241,350,
Dallas $1.156,080, Oklahoma City sl,-
128,626, Decatur $954,732, Richmond
$946,009, Houston $940,313, New Or
leans $937,740, Birmingham $802,126.
Lakeland, Fla., $743,325. Louisville,
$654,357, Forth Worth $556,031.
Why 4te Sober
Man Did Smile
By MARTHA B. THOMAS
Boarding House **■*
Christmas e arty Mrs. Cum-
Had a Very raings’ board-
Happy Ending hou , se * h I “
Ky the Interval be
for Iwo tween two string
What He Asked f
and Her Answer the rest 0 f the din-
Should Be an ers that it was nice
Easv Guess to have £riends at
easy ouess thissea son. No one
denied It. Of the seven places at the
table one was vacant, that belonging
to Vesta Blaine.
"Miss Blaine,” continued Miss Cum
mings a little wistfully, “always has
such a delightful time at holidays. She
has so many pleasant acquaintances.
And of course.” she hesitated to give
emphasis to what was coming; "she is
getting a good deal of attention from
that young man.”
No one had any comments to make.
But a serious-faced man at the other
end of the table seemed to be very
grave Indeed; he bent a concentrated
regard upon his plate, as though the
contents might yield some secret which
he hunted.
‘‘A real Christmas Eve!” chanted
Vesta Blaine. Her eyes were like stars;
her cheeks bright with color; she
looked like a flower set down in a veg
etable garden. The other boarders
were a bit older, a bit more tired, a bit
•disillusioned; they drank their sun
shine from the exuberant girl, and won
dered how she . could . come home at
night still bubbling with high spirits
and fun.
“It’s snowing!” continued Vesta,
darting a smile at the sober man, who
apparently was not aware of his good
fortune, for he never looked up. “That
soft sift of feathers that comes down
like . . . like”—she' hunted for an
adequate simile—“like prayers erf the
angels! Only prayers nre supposed.to
go up, aren’t they!” she laughed at
her own conceit. “The.trees are like
dreams behind white veils, and the
street lamps are orange moons! I love
it. Do pass me the butter, somebody.
I’m hungry enough to eat shredded
hairpins!” “
Everybody did their best to make
Vesta comfortable, even the scrap of a
maid who waited on the table. Miss
Blaine offered her pepper and salt
twice, and the landlady asked if she
preferred her roast beef well or me
dium done.
'Tm going to a party tonight!” an
nounced Vesta after a few mouthfuls
to fortify her wants, “the very best
party ever perpetrated.”
Miss Billings smiled her interest and
asked where.
“Oh, not very far from here; and” —
she paused, looking around the table
with a curious glance—"you’re all in
vited ! That’s why it’s the best party —
because it’s got the nicest folks com
ing to It r*
What a hubbub there was t’en!
Everybody asked five questions at once
and none found out the answer. Miss
Billings quivered with excitement.
Mrs. Cummings waved the carving
knife and nearly took oft a slice from
the sober man’s nose. Finally, Vesta
stood up, commanded silence, tapped
importantly on the table with a silver
spoon, and began:
“Ladles and gentlemen, you are ear
nestly requested, cordially Invited and
definitely ordered to clothe yourself
in radiant raiment after dinner, and
then wait for me in the hall. No one
shall be allowed to say ‘no.’ Penalty
for disobedience is so horrible I can’t
even mention it!”
And ready they were as soon as they
could jump into their best and as
semble in the hall. The sober man
was the last to appear. He looked as
though he did not dare stay away.
That’s the best that could be said
about him. But the rest were laughing
and talking In happy expectation.
Vesta Blaine went to the front door,
opened it, made strange signs with her
hands, and in there tramped a big,
blustering giant of a fellow dressed
like Santa Claus. He had a nobby
pack on his back, and appeared to
have every intention of unloading it
at Mrs. Cummings’ boarding house
“This way,” said Vesta and led him
Into the parlor. The rest followed.
“For mercy’s sakes!” exclaimed Miss
Billings.
“Gracious me!” breathed Mrs. Cum
mings. She did not know her own
parlor—and no wonder. There was a
big Christmas tree standing In the
middle. It reached to the celling and
blazed with small electric bulbs. More
than that, there were seven single
stockings suspended in a row from
the mantle. Everybody squealed when
they discovered their own.
Santa heaved down his pack and
out tumbled a bushel of gifts, each
wrapped up in paper and marked with
a name.
“Each person pick up seven, parcels
and put them in the stockings. You’ll
And the names to correspond!” called
out Vesta Blaine. "No lagging, A
fine for being the last one'” S ' A
That parlor full of boarders
sembled a small army of iquirre t
scrambling about in a heap of nut
Everybody got in everybody’s war
everybody laughed-even the soW
man was guilty of a happy look arouu
his eyes. x u
At last the seven stockings were
bulging with gifts; they swayed gently
back aiyl forth in all the energy 0 f
their recent filling.
“Select your own stockings!” shout
ed Vesta Blaine like a general ordering
his troops into battle, “and open your
presents I”
It just happened by the merest
chanc£*that Vesta and the sober man
were seated on the sofa together. They
shook out their stockings into a mu
tual heap and began to untie the
strings and rip off-the seals.
“Look here,” said the sober man
sternly, “how did anyone know I
wanted that book?” and he held out
a thin, leather-bound volume toward
Vesta.
“You said you did, once last sum
mer,” answered Vesta a little shyly.
“Caesar’s ghost!” he whistled, “aud
you remembered?”
“Yes,” nodded Vesta.
This affirmation seemed to concern
the sober man very much.
“Why?” lie aslied after a moment's
consideration.
“Oh,” replied the girl, “I just wanted
you to have what . . . you wanted
to have!”
This afforded the sober man more
food for thought.
“I didn’t even know you were aware
of my existence. I used to bet with
myself that if It came to a pinch and
“How Did Anyone Know I Wanted
That Book?"
you had to introduce me, you .could not
tell my name. You're so popular, and
that sort of thing, that I thought—
he was unable to finish.
Vesta made a gesture as if she threw
caution to the winds. "Listen to me,
she said. "You’re the most interesting
person here; I hated not ever having
a word with you about books. That*
one reason I had this party. I hope
you’d talk to me a little. You always
iooked so bored when I came In, and
I was sorry. I’m not so frivolous as
I seem. My father—the man playing
Santa Claus—is owner of the London
Book Shop here; I’m working there
just to learn something of the busi
ness. It’s Dad who’s really back or
the party. I just did the suggesting-
He’s a perfect old dear. I wanted
try being a regular shop girl, so I came
here to board, and it’s been the great
est fun. I did not mean to deceive
people too much, but really”-here she
permitted herself a tiny gurgle
mirth —“Miss Billings got so rrlgni
fully interested in a man who was
paying me such attention, and or
course it was no one but Dad, "
came now and then to give me some
pleasure at the theater or a con
cert . • ”
She stopped from lack of breath.
The sober man beamed. You " °
never believe that an expression con
ohang. tha w hl did. It ••"
a dawning, anew light spread <P*
bis face.
What happened after this Is
too confusing for description
Santa unmasked and was introduced
to everybody. Such a thanking
explaining! Such a happy.
group! Miss Billings discovered,^
could play the piano end M. ■
swung out first with Mrs. first
who fluttered like a girl at * {
party. The rest whirled in ?
If anyone had been looking '
for the happiest couple. I th ’ nk been
and the sober man would
selected. What he said to net ■-
body's business, nor what . , „ have
swered —and yet they seenie •
settled something very bapp
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