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BRIEF NEWS NOTES
WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURING
WEEK THROUGHOUT COUN
TRY AND ABROAD
EVENTS OFJMPORTANCE
Gathered From All Part* Of The
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Foreign—
An atmosphere of optimism pre
rails on the eve of the expert inquiry
which recently opened with the meet
lag of the first experts committee.
This feeling persisted, despite the po
litical debate in the chamber of dep
uties, in the course of which Premier
Poincare reiterated his pronounce
ment against any reduction of the
claim of France upon Germany, while
the radical leader, Herriott, display
ed an inclination toward pessimism
concerning the whole situation. It is
not expected that the experts will at
tempt to make any estimate of Ger
many’s capacity for all time. It is
thought, however, that they may ar
rive at an estimate of what Germany
is able to produce.
A beautiful girl, regal in bearing
us befitted her descent from a fam
ous medieval prince of the Balkans,
aas just been sentenced to three years’
imprisonment on the charge of poi
soning more than a dozen persons,
■iho is Militza Brancovitch, last line
al descendant of Vouk, Prince Branco
vitch, whose name is legendary in
Serbia. The Balkan people believe the
girl is the victim of a strang medie
val curse.
The words of Jesus —“Suffer little
children to come unto Me,” etc. —
found echo recently in the dingy Ger
man port city of liremerhaven when
twelve hundred underfed German
children were given a
as they never had known by officials
of tho United States lines.
According to news from Tokio, Ja*
■,)an, it is probable that that govern
ment will enact a reciprocal land
ownership law —that is, a law that
will grant foreigners tho right to
awn land in Japan whose countries
grant Japanese the right to own land.
This would bar Californians from
owning land in Japan, but not New
Yorkers.
A group of young men at Speyer,
Havaria, assassinated the separatist
leader, Heinz, so-called president of
'.he Palatinate, as he sat in tho dining
•oom of the Wittels Bacherhof hotel,
according to the Speyer correspondent
if Tho London Times, who witnessed
the assnsslnation.
One steamer has sunk, three are on
he r.ocks and four ships are in dis
tress at sea as terrific storms lash the
north and west coasts of France.
Scores of fishing smacks disappeared,
ind at least seven fishermen are dead,
one having been drowned at Nantes
tnd six at Les Sables D'Olonne.
The claim of two residents of New
Orleans named Hulton to the 4.000,-
000 franc fortune inherited by the
late Rene Degas from his brother, tho
famous artist, Edgar Degas, was call
ed for trial. The claimants assert
they are the children of Rene Degas’
first wife whom he married in New
Orleans in 1869 and divorced later
but prior to 1884, when divorce was
legalized in France. Therefore they
allege that the divorce was illegal un
der the French law and that Rene
Degas’ second marriage was void.
Washington—
Swopping denial of all the allega
tions of George E. B. Peddy, Ills op
ponent, wero made In an answer filed
with the senate elections committee,
by Senator Mayfield. Democrat, Texas,
In the Texas senatorial primary and
election contest.
Acting for the senate public lands
committees in its investigations of the
Teapot Dome naval oil lease. Senator
Walsh, Democrat, Montana, will go to
Palm Peach, Ela., to personally ques
tion Edward P. McLean, the Washing
ton publisher, regarding his loan of
SIOO,OOO to former Secretary A. B.
Fall.
Attorney General Daugherty declar
ed in a formal statement that the de
partment of justice had "abundant evi
dence” to back up the state depart
ment's recent statements concerning
Communist propaganda in the United
States.
Senator James E. Watson, of Indi
na. definitely has decided not to be
candidate for the Republican presi
dential nomination This was learned
following a final conference between
Senator Watson and other Indiana Re
publicans. Senator Watson and the
other leaders agreed to unite behind
President Ooolidgo.
House Republicans in conference in
truded the ways and means commit
tee to report a tax bill before taking
inv action on the soldiers’ bonus.
I Itollin H. Naylor was nominated by
President Coolidge to be postmaster
at Lakeland, Fla.
Favorable report of the Dyer anti
lynching bill, killed in the last con
gress by a Democratic filibuster, was
ordered by the house judiciary com
mittee.
Rum running alone is keeping alive
violations of the prohibition law, Sec
retary of the Treasury Mellon be
lieves, and for that reason he will
fight efforts of Budget Director Lord
to kill a requested appropriation of
$28,500,000 for fast ships to combat
rum runners.
The railroads and merchants of the
United States could save more than
$1,000,000 in the next five years
through removal of the freight term
inals from congested city areas to
cheaper outlying property, and the
use of motor trucking service for the
delivery of freight, Alfred H. Swayne,
of New York, told the National Trans
portation conference, called by the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States.
Domestic—
It is announced from Los Angeles
that Fatty Arbuckle has adopted the
stage name of “Will B. Good.’”
W. Bartlett Chew, well known Cali
fornia business man, married at Colo
rado Springs recently, to Miss Ruth
Gresham of Atlanta, Ga., was acciden
tally and instantly killed when an au
tomatic revolver he was carrying
while investigating a suspicious noise
in his house, was discharged.
Two hours before he was to have
been dropped to his death from a gal
lows in the state prison at Mounds
ville, W. Va., Jim Aiello, slayer of his
brother-in-law and two children, was
told that the governor had commuted
his sentence to life imprisonment. All
preparations for the hanging had been
made. Allen had spent the day in
prayer and had given up all hope.
Death from natural causes in the
China case at Sumter, S. C., staged
a grim finale to the domestic trag
edy ushered in there a few days since
with the death by violence of Doctor
China. Mrs. China, charged with hav
ing killed her husband, died from
pneumonia.
While the streets of Denver, Colo.,
were crowded with belated shoppers,
one evening recently, two men, un
der the direction of a woman leader,
held up a jewelry clerk, seized a bag
containing diamonds and jewelry val
ued at $25,000, jumped into a waiting
automobile and made their escape.
Sixty-three striking convict miners
at the Aldrich mine, near Montevallo,
Ala., who mutinied and entrenched
themselves in the pit of the seized
mine, came out and surrendered to
the guards. The extent of the dam
age has not been determined,
"You know, farmers have got to do
something in the slack season,” said
the attractive Mrs. Betty Mangrum,
ns she smiled wistfuly through the
bars of her cell in the federal build
ing at Nashville, Tenn., after officers
had found a moonshine still on her
farm in the nearby hamlet of Jingo.
Slight improvement is noted in the
condition' of Bishop William Belton
Murrah of the Methodist Episcopal
church, South, who is criticaly ill at
his homo in Memphis, Tenn., follow
ing a slight stroke of apoplexy.
The body of Mrs. Katherine Moh
ler, 70, who disappeared several weeks
since, at Bluffton, Ohio, has been
found in an abandoned cistern at her
home one mile south of Bluffton.
One of the first bills introduced in
the Mississippi legislature, Jackson,
Miss., after it started its 60-day grind
was aimed at tho pocketbook of the
motorist. The measure, introduced in
the senate, would increase the gaso
line tax from one cent a gallon, the
present figure, to five cents.
Dr. S. J. Elmer, Chicago, was re
cently aroused from his sleep and
forced, at the point of a revolver, to
dress the gunshot wounds of one
of five men men who stood at his
doorway. The men are believed to
have been the bandits who held up
and robbed the Brighton Park State
bank of S2OO and shot five persons.
Warren J. Lincoln, claiming rela
tionship with the immortal Abraham
Lincoln, confessed at Aurora. 111., to
the murdering of his wife with a stove
poker after, he says, she had shot
and killed her brother, Byron L.
Shoup, a year ago, and to burning
both of the bodies in his greenhouse
furnace.
Two women and three children, all
members of the same family, were
killed in a fire that swept through
throe Brooklyn apartment houses. The
dead are Mrs. Mary Esler, 48, her 5-
year-old son, Steve, her daughter-in
law. Mary, 2S. and two grandchildren,
Harold, 6. and Catherine. 12, children
of Mary and George Esler, Jr
The Texas Chemical company, of
Houston, has purchased a 60-acre tract
at Baton Rouge, La., and as soon as
material can be assembled will erect
a sulphuric acid plant to cost $750,000,
it was leovntt.t
THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELBVILLE. GEORG:*.
ORDERS RECEIVED
TO DROP CASES
OFFICIALS ARE NOTIFIED BY AT
TORNEY GENERAL AT WASH
INGTON TO “NOL PROS’’
STATE NEWsIf INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here
And There From All Sections
Of The State
Atlanta. —Approximately 450 cases
of alleged violations of the selective
draft laws during the world war
against young men residing within the
jurisdiction of the United States dis
trict court for the northern section of
Georgia were ordered nol prossed in
telegraphic advices to local officials
from Washington.
Many of the alleged violations
charge the defendants with failure
to register for the selective draft;
failure to fill in registration papers
and with failure to respond to the
call for military service.
Officials of the district attorney’s
office here, who have been actively
engaged on the cases for the last four
years, say that many of the alleged
violators enlisted in the service on
their own volition, without waiting
for the selective draft. These men
failed to notify local boards with the
result that they were unjustly classi
fied as deserters and violators of the
draft laws.
On the other hand, officials claim,
a large per centage of the cases in
clude men who left this section when
their names were drawn in the draft,
some of whom never returned.
The wire from the attorney gene
ral’s office did not give reasons for
ordering the cases nol prossed, but
attaches of the district attorney’s of
fice believe it is the result of orders
recently issued freeing war-time pris
oners.
Falls To Street And Breaks Neck
Atlanta.—Losing her balance and
falling to the street while skating
home from a shopping errand, Nina
May Finch, 12-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert W. Finch, died
almost instantly from a broken neck.
No eye-witnesses to the accident have
been located, but those who reached
the girl’s unconscious form within a
few moments after she was seen
Bkating, declared that she was alone
and that her condition could have
been caused only by a fall. Small
cuts found on her chin and jaw were
said to have been caused by frag
ments of glass from a mi\ bottle
which she carried in her ha|d. The
young girl was the daughter of Her
bert W. Finch, who is connected with
Walter S. Dillon’s law offices in At
lanta.
Men Must Serve For Attacking Jail
Savannah.—J. L. and C. B. Hum-'
bert, convicted of an attempt to storm
Chatham county jail when a mob of
3,000 tried to take out Walter Lee,
negro, accused of assault, must serve
their sentences of three months each,
according to Judge Meldrim’s decision’
Certiorari proceedings in their cases
taken from the city court to the su
perior court were overruled. J. T. Al
exander and Gordon Shuman, two oth
er defendants, have served four
months each. The Humbert cases are
the first criminal cases in five years
certioraried from the city court to the
superior court here.
Florida May Buy Georgia Produce
Rome. —Floyd county farmers were
recently offered a market for all to
matoes and watermelons of market
able quality they can grow this year
by J. S. Wood, of Tampa, Fla., a
commission man who hopes to estab
lish a packing house here. A mini-
I mum of $75 per car for watermelons
of 25 pounds each and over; and $1.25
per 100 pounds for tomatoes are the
prices guaranteed by Mr. Wood. If
the local production can be sold at
better prices, the farmers are to get
the benefit of the increase under the
terms of the contracts offered them.
Bank Of Hampton Elects New Officers
Hampton.—Stockholders of the Bank
of Hampton declared a dividend of
ten per cent and elected the follow
ing directors: W. P. Wilson, J M
Tarpley, J. C. Tarpley, H. T. Moore,
F. B. Crawley, D. J. Arnold and J. O.
Rutherford W. P. Wilson was named
president, D. J. Arnold vice presi
dent, J. O. Rutherford cashier and
Miss Amah Lee Rutherford assistant
cashier.
Councilmen Elected For Alpharetta
Alpharetta—Eli Broadwell, I. N.
Thompson. J. f. Weatherford, C. E.
Maddox and T. H. Manning were elect
:ed councilmen here In the annual elec
tion. L nder the city charter a mayor
is elected by the members of council
from one of their number. This elec
tion will he held at the next regular
meeting
Gwinnett Kills 5,000 Hogs Recently
Lawreaceville. —There was much
hog killing throughout Gwinnett coun
ty during the recent cold spell, and,
according to Information, 5,000 pork
ers were slain. The cold wave, the
hog raisers say, has been the only
suitable time for killing this season
G. P. Craig of Lawrenceville killed
six, and the largest one tipped the
beam at 707 pounds and the next in
weight was 575, the others averaging
250 pounds each. The unexpected cold
wave did thousands of dollars damage
to water pipes and automobiles in this
section. Planters are under the im
pression that the extreme cold weath
er will not destroy the boll weevil,
as they are housed in the barns and
corncribs, and other places, where the
cold weather did not reach them, as
it would have done in the open.
Measles Cut Quitman School Number
Quitman. —Quitman graded schools
opened January 7 after the holiday
season with a decrease in attendance,
but under promising circumstances.
Miss Katharine Tanner of Union City,
Tenn., is anew addition to the faculty
this year, taking the place made va
cant by the resignation of Miss Mary
McLean. Miss Claudia Calhoun, who
has been ill, will return in a few days
to teach piano in the city schools.
The decreased attendance is attrib
uted to the fact that many of the chil
dren have been iu with measles.
To Move Coal Chute To Kingston Site
Kingston.—The N., C. and St. L.
railroad has begun the work of re
moving the coal chutes from Rogers
station to this place. Concessions
have been obtained and some land
nurchased for sidetracks. The new
track will begin at each end of the de
pot where a switch on the Rome road
will be placed. This track will ex
tend for half a mile to where the
chutes and water tank will be erected.
Surveyors and engineers have been
at work on this project some time,
working out the location, etc.
Banks Elect Two New Directors
Macon. —Only two new directors
were elected by Macon banks at their
annual meeting. James H. Porter,
of the Bibb Manufacturing company,
was added to the directorate of the
Continental Trust company, and W.
P. Stevens was made a director of the
Macon National bank. There were
few changes among the bank officers.
All of the banks reported a success
ful business year and each reported
a substantial sum added to surplus
and undivided profits.
Doctor Walker Mayor Of Waycross
Waycross.—Dr. J. L. Walker was
elected mayor of Waycross; C. V.
Stanton, mayor pro tem; Dr. C. A.
Witmer, city physician, and Walter
Lee was re-elected city clerk, at a
meeting of the city commissioners
recently. The election of a city man
ager was deferred until the regular
meeting of the commission on Janu
ary 22. It is estimated that between
25 and 30 applications for the position
are in the office of the city clerk.
Trainman Fails Under Moving Car
Griffin. —Clarence Stanley, son ol
Police Chief L. L. Stanley, slipped on
the ice recently and fell under the
wheels of a train mashing his right
foot badly. He was rushed to the
hospital where it was amputated.
Stanley was working on a Central of
Georgia train, being employed as flag
man. The accident occurred just be
yond the crossing at First street.
Cotton Ginning Hiked Last Year
Athens. —Fourteen counties in this
section had ginned 88,033 bales of cot
ton on December 13, according to re
port made public recently. At the
same time in 1922 the same counties
had ginned 75,864 bales or 13,168 less
than on that date in 1923. The date
of Georgia had ginned 800,216 on De
cember 13, 1923, against 724,146 on
that date in 1922.
Lawrenceville Names City Officials
Lawrenceville. —Officers for Law
renceville were elected at a meeting
of the city council for the ensuing
year. They are: City clerk, H. G.
Robinson; superintendent of water
works, Walter Webb; electrician,
Charles W. Houston; chief of police,
T. L. Jordan; night policeman, Lee
Smith.
Schoolboy Shot Dead By Student
Columbus. —William Culhane, 15, a
student of St. Joseph’s Catholic
school near Oswichee, Ala., was shot
and accidentally killed when Boni
face Doyle, 12, fired a .22 caliber rifle
at Culhane. The shooting occurred
on the schools grounds at Holy Trin
ity, Ala. Doyle still appears to be
dazed from the accident.
Murphy !s Elected Moreland Mayor
Moreland—l. B. Murphy was elect
ed mayor and L. S. Chambless, T. W.
Orr, Sara Rollins and R. V. Webb, al
dermen at the annual election. J. H
Evans was re-elected chief of police
over his opponent, G. H. Haynes.
Begin to Repair Highway
When Opened for Traffic
A man who spent $25,000 for a house
and contents and refused to spend
hundred dollars to stop the leak in
the roof, which spoiled both, would be
considered a fool. But there are mans
counties and many states which spend
from ten to twenty-five thousand dol
lars a mile for a good road, and re
fuse the hundred dollars a year need
ed to keep it in perfect order.
The time to begin to repair a good
road is the day it is opened for traffic.
Homely philosophy says that a stitch
in time saves nine, and road experi
ence proves that a bucket of oil, a
little sand, a few rocks and a man with
a shovel now can save the expense of
a whole road gang and expensive ma
chinery later.
The modern road consists of a
foundation course of stone, a smaller,
lighter course on top, a wearing
course of still smaller stones, a binder
of oil and sand, and perhaps a top
dressing of the same. As long as the
structure is complete, the road will
wear. But let time, or a too heavy
load, or frost, or some other cause, dig
a hole through the wearing course
into the foundation, and the “bad
spot” will begin to “ravel.” Stones
will break away and roll in the ditch,
the surface will disintegrate and in a
comparatively short time a large and
rough hole appears.
A good road is no better than its
worst mile. A mile of holes and ruts
cuts down the usefulness of ten miles
of good road. To repair a large hole
costs much money. To inspect the
road often and stop up the little hole
when it starts is very inexpensive.
The greatest city fire in history could
have been put out by a child with a
cup of water if found in time. So can
the worst possible damage to roads be
inexpensively prevented, if the main
tenance is begun in time. —Good Roads.
World’s Speed Record in
Hard Road Construction
A mile of concrete highway was
laid down every hour of a six-day
week ending October 11 in Illinois to
establish what the engineers of the
state division of highways believe
to be the world’s speed record in hard
road construction.
The last of the reports of the divi
sion engineers covering the progress
of the work in all parts of the state
the week ending October 11 revealed
what Superintendent of Highways
Frank T. Sheets described as a “phe
nomenal achievement previously
deemed almost impossible.” A total
of 57.7 miles of standard 18-foot pave
ment was laid during the six-day pe
riod by 118 large mixers working on
the state system. Nine thousand six
hundred men and 2,200 teams were
employed In the work.
Chief Highway Engineer Clifford
Older declared that the record showed
the road building organization at its
best and was undoubtedly the great
est accomplishment in highway con
struction down to the present time.
“The figures indicate,” said Mr. Older,
"that the combined outfits working on
Illinois state roads laid one mile of
completed pavement an hour, about 88
feet per minute. \
"And this does not represent a
spasmodic effort,” Mr. Older contin
ued. “We have been constantly hit
ting between forty-nine and fifty nnies
per week during the season. Governor
Small personally inspected the fig
ures and commended the highway
division as the "greatest road build
ing organization in the world.
Build Automobile Roads
and Make Streets Better
Following similar action by munici
palities in India, Australia, and Japan,
cities in China are putting into prac
tice the latest methods adopted by
American highway engineers for i •
construction of automobile roads an
modern paved streets. According c 0
C. Harpur, commissioner of P ubllc
works at Shanghai, Chinese high ' 1 ?
bureaus are beginning to replace 1
waterbound macadam streets wit - >
phaltic concrete. In Shanghai • il - -
year five and one-fourth miles of as
phaltic concrete pavement were
structed. Nearly three miles oi
are on roads approved for new ■■■■
of railless tramcars. The mileage
streets traversed by Shanghai
way system is about twenty-six.
Last year the tramcars of Shanca 1
carried *126,684,226 persons, or i"
persons per route mile per day, a
senger traffic unequaled, it
even by the surface lines of New
- London, Chicago, Paris, or
lin. Handcarts licensed in Shane:la 1
last December numbered 2,164. ''' j
the wheelbarrows licensed tota e ' ! *
941. There are now SS4 motor tiu 1
using Shanghai streets.