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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 Globe And Told In Short Paragraphs 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.