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BRIEF NEWS NOTES
WHAT HAB OCCURRED DURING
WEEK THROUGHOUT COUN
TRY AND ABROAD
EVENTS OFJMPORTANCE
Gathered From All Part* Of The
Globe And Told In Short
Paragraphs
Foreign—
The facts In the dispute within the
Russian Communist party have be
come clearer with the publication of
a resolution adopted by the party
conference, paving the way for the
stringent punishment of discipline
breakers and with the publication also
of a speech by M. Stalin, which, in ef
fect, lays the blame for the entire
affair upon the shoulders of Trotzky.
Charles H. Crasty, widely known
American newspaper man, died in Par
is recently after a long illness.
A high speed dummy torpedo from
the French submrine Amphritite struck
the bow of the Colorado several days
ago, at Cherbourg, France. The sub
marine commander called personally
to offer his excuses, and was assured
no damage had been done or injury
sustained.
Fred Beauvais, Indian, who achiev
ed notoriety in the Stillman divorce
case, will, his attorneys announce, sue
Mrs. Stillman for $7,621 back pay.
The suit will probably be filed in Mon
treal, Canada.
The Russian trade delegation at
London announced that the report
circulated In Paris that Leon Trot
sky had been arrested in Moscow was
“pure nonsense.”
American Ambassador Richard
Washburn Child announced that he is
definitely retiring in accordance with
arrangements made with President
Coolidge. Mr. Child will sail for New
York from Cherbourg.
The French chamber of deputies ex
pressed confidence in the government
by a vote of 394 to 180, refusing imme
diate discussion of an interpellation on
the subject of pensions.
Rebel gunboats bombarded the city
and port of Tampico. The news of
the bombardment was received in a
telephone message from the observer
stationed at a Rarrau- The message
said: Jess M. Palma, chief of the
coast guard recently sighted rebel
gunboats, Tampico and Sarazoza,
which had prevented six ships from
uttering the port. The vessels were
five tankers and the Dutch steamship,
Maasdam.
The inhabitants of Berkofsky and
vicinity reported that a severe earth
quake occurred recently. The south
ern edge of Pavlof volcano blew’ off.
Relkofsky is on the Alaska penin
sula. St. Paul Island is one of the
pribilof islands.
The 12,000 workers in District No. 26
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
ica walked out the other day at Syd
ney, Nova Scotia. Nine thousand of
them quit because of the failure of
wage negotiations, followed by the
British Empire Steel corporation’s 20
per cent cut in the scale, and the
other 3,000 struck in sympathy.
There was only one railway acci
dent in England involving loss of life
during 1923. according to the London
Railway Gazette. This was at Diggle
in July, when two passengers were
killed. Since the beginning of the
present century there have been two
years—l9ol and 190 S—without a sin
gle fatality to passengers.
Washington—
Henry Ford recently notified Chair
man Kahn of the house military com
mittee that his offer for Muscle
Shoals “still stands."
The guiding genius of the Mellon
tax plan, working quietly behind the
scenes is a 20-year-old boy, who was
raised from an obscure nook in the
treasury to a high place in its coun
cils by Secretary Mellon, who has the
knack of picking “kid” financial won
ders. His name is Alexander W.
Gregg.
The proposal of a group of Southern
power companies to operate the Mus
cle Shoals plants for fifty years for a
rental of $100,000,900 is described "as
the best offer the government has
ever received" for the proejet in a
statement issued by Representative
Hull of lowa .
Four officials have left Chicago to
give personal study to the Western
banking situation where several fail
ures have resulted in a stringent
credit situation.
Rates to govern the federal income
tax of 14,000.000 persons will enter
the first process of formulation short
ly when the house ways and means
committee resumes consideration of
the revenue bill to be reported to the
bouse by February 11.
Having been drenched by wave af
ter wave of propaganda in recent
years, congress has grown extremely
irascible on the subject, and now the
merest suspicion that it is being treat
ed to another deluge is enough to send
up roars of indignation. Upon the
Editor Bok of Philadelphia will fall
a good deal of the indignation which
has boiled up over the drive in behalf
of the Mellon tax plan.
The United States government has
granted permission for the movement
over American soil of approximately
two thousand Mexican troops from
Naco, Ariz., to El Paso, Texas, accord
ing to a message sent Governor Hunt
of Arizona from Secretary Hughes.
Eight American ships under the
United States flag have been ordered
mobilized off Vera Cruz, Mexico, as
a grim reminder' to Mexican rebel
leaders that peaceful American com
merce must not be made the play
thing of Mexican politics. Orders have
been flashed southward detaching the
fast light cruiser Omaha and six de
stroyers from the battle fleets mo
bilized in Panama-Canal waters for win
ter maneuvers.
Domestic—
After wandering for more than three
months in woods where behind every
tree lurked the fancies of ghosts of
the man whom he had slain Charlie
Farmer returned to the house of his
slayer at Greensboro, N. C., and gave
himself up, requesting that the sher
iff be notified.
An employe of the Piggly Wiggly
Stores in Memphis, Tenn., was held
up the other day and robbed of $3,000
in "change.” The robbers made good
their getaway.
The Ku Klux Klan of Williamson
county, Illinois, are bent on extin
guishing "blind tigers” in that com
munity. Not less than fifty warrants
were issued by the Klan in one day
recently.
Mrs. A. Montgomery Ward, Chicago,
has supplemented her recent $3,000,-
000 gift to Northwestern university
with another million.
After slashing his wife's throat with
a knife, W. R. Pilgrim, Cherokee coun
ty, Alabama, farmer, ended his life
by jumping into a 90-foot well.
Arthur Crowder, alleged bad check
artist, under arrest in Huntsville, Ala.,
has admitted that he is wanted in sev
eral Southern cities and expressed a
preference of facing charges that are
alleged to be held against him in
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Stockholders of the Federal Inter
national Banking company, New Or
leans, La., have voted to reduce the
authorized capital from $7,000,000 to
$3,500,000.
Because they said they were hun
gry and out of work, two girls held
up the proprietor of a Chicago dry
goods store and looted the cash reg
ister of SSO. Both were captured and
admitted their guilt.
Consolidation of the Louisville (Ky.)
Post and the Louisville Herald, the
former Democratic and the latter Re
publican, has been announced.
A carpet tack was removed from
the lung of 8-months-old Cletus Moore
of St. Louis at a Philadelphia hospi
tal recently, and every indication is
that the baby will recover.
A defense motion to direct a ver
dict of not guilty against Capt. Earl
R. Estes of Atlanta, Ga., and John C.
Skinner of Washington, on trial for
conspiracy in connection with the sale
of surplus harness equipment to the
United States Harness company, was
sustained in the federal court at Par
kersburg. W. Va.
While both the mother and father
were away, three children of Mr. and
Mrs. Earl Stone of Boomer. W. Va.,
near Charleston, were burned to death
one night recently in a fire that de
stroyed the home.
Jack Geller, motion picture director,
admitted in San Francisco recently
that he signed the name of “Belle Ben
nett Geller" to his navy allotment
checks, according to department of
justice agents. Belle takes this as a
vindication of herself, although she
admits living under the roof with
Geller for five years.
Mary Keister, a trained nurse, of
York, Pa., who said her nerves were
shatter'd by the blasting of stone
while workmen wore improving a
road near her home, claims $15,000
damages from the county.
The Birmingham (Ala.) Age-Herald
has moved into its 27-story building,
located in the center of the business
district of Birmingham, and announces
the acquisition of an entire new and
modern mechanical department.
Herman Brickman, New York, will
cast an affirmative vote in the long
standing discussion as to whether or
not there is honor among thieves. He
was held up by two gunmen as he
was carrying $15,000 in cash and in
checks to a bank He told the ban
dtts that the funds were for charity
work, and they not only refused to
take the money but added a ten dollar
bill to the amount
THE OANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA.
PRICE OF GASOLINE
ADVANCES 2 CENTS
ATLANTA DEALERS CONFIRM RE
PORT THAT PRICE GOES
TO 18 CENTS
STATE NEWS - OF INTEREST
Brief Nevys Items Gathered Here
And There From All Sections
Of The State
Atlanta.—Gasoline has took a two
cent jump in Atlanta after remaining
for several weeks at the lowest level
it has reached since the wai.
The new retail price is 18 cents,
plus 2 cents tax. Since last Novem
ber a retail price of 16 cents, pIU3
tax, has prevailed.
Local gasoline dealers have insisted
for several months that the Atlanta
market is somewhat lower than the
gasoline market in other southern
cities, the low price being attributed
to unusually keen competition. Ap
proximately 130 drive-in filling sta
tions are maintained here.
The first to announce the price in
crease was the Standard Oil Company
of Kentucky which controls the chain
of local stations, in a dispatch from
Louisville, which stated that the ad
vance was due to corresponding ad
vances in crude oil prices.
Charles E. Shepard, district sales
manager of the Gulf Refining com
pany, asserted that if the Standard
increases the price of gas, his com
pany will do likewise.
Local headquarters of the Texas
company have been expecting an in
crease for several days, it was stated,
and the price will be 20 cents at Texas
company stations, according to A. M.
Ingram, local agent for the Texas com
pany.
Wiley West, sales manager for the
Reed Oil company, proprietors of an
other chain of Atlanta stations, stated
that the two-cent advance will be put
into effect by the Reed company.
Cold Wave Made Clean Crop Kill
Macon. —Crop damage in middle
Georgia by the freeze of January 5,
6 and 7 was the worst in the history
of the state, declared W. G. Middle
brooks, Bibb county farm demonstra
tion agent. “It was a clean sweep;
the cleanest sweep I have ever seen,”
said Mr. Middlebrooks, after return
ing from an inspection of several
young alfalfa fields. “There isn’t even
an onion left. Collards, cabbages, car
rots —in fact all kinds of early truck,
were completely wiped out. “And
now I find that most of the young
alfalfa was killed. There will be no*
grain crop in middle Georgia, with the
possible exception of a little rye, and
even the rye crop has been badly dam
aged. Oats and wheat have been com
pletely destroyed. The old alfalfa
fields have been damaged, but that
crop is not killed. The young alfalfa
Is gone.” The same damage that has
been suffered by middle Georgia will
apply to other sections of the state,
according to Mr. Middlebrooks, even
ns lar as the Florida line. The loss
will run into millions of dollars.
Oat Crop Dead In Macon County
Montezuma. —Asa result of the hard
freeze it is believed that the oat crop
in Macon county is a total loss. This
will prove a great hardship to farm
ers, many of whom harvested a short
corn crop and had undertaken to sup
plement this shortage, with a large
acreage In oats. Indications are that
the planting of spring oats will be
large. Truck farmers were heavy
losers from the freeze, as turnips, let
tuce, cabbages, English peas, onions,
beeits and collards were, klled.
Watkins Elected To Head Realtors
Augusta.—Business sessions of the
third annual session of the Georgia
Association of Read Estate boards
weFe. brought to a close here with
the election of officers, while at the
Bon Air-Vauderbilt hotel in the win
ter section of the city the first social
feature of the realtors was held, dele
gates to the Georgia convention gath
ering with officers of the national
association about the banquet board.
Gulf Official Dies In Smash-Up
Macon.—W. E. Wade, 28, manager
of the Gulf Refining company’s branch
at Hawkinsville, Ga.. died in a local
hospital from injuries received when
his automobile was struck by a South
ern railway train. Wade was en
route from Cochran to Hawkinsville
at the time of the accident.
Ch id Dies From Scald Burn
Greensboro.—Horace Harwell. Jr.,
the 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Horace Harwell, died here following
burns received recently. The child
was fatally burned when he pulled a
vessel filled with boiling water over
on hhn. He is survived by his phr- j
ents and two small sisters. . ; '■ I
GASOLINE TAX FUNDS
TO BE DISTRIBUTED
Atlanta. —For the first three months
of its operation, which ended Decem
ber 31, the new state tax of three
cents per gallon on gasoline brought
in a total of $693,535.44, according to
figures in the office of W. B. Harri
son, chief clerk in the tax division
of the office of the comptroller gen
eral. In addition, there is approxi
mately $75,000 still uncollected. This
figure compares with $203,482.74 for
the same period last year when the
taxation rate on gasoline was only one
cent per gallon.
Under the law imposing, the three
cent tax, passed at the regular session
of the legislature last summer, the
money collected is to be divided be
tween the state highway department,
the state treasury (for retirement of
the discounted W. A. rental war
rants) and the various counties of the
state. The one-third which goes to
the counties is apportioned on a road
mileage basis and is to be used for
road construction purposes only.
It Is figured that Fulton county, on
his basis, will get only a little over
$1,500, on a basis of 41 miles of high
way only, although this county con
tributed the largest amount of the
tax. Bibb, with 40.3 miles, will get
$1,543.70, while Chatham is due about
$2,000.
Basing calculations on the experi
ence that the summer months are
those with the heaviest demand for
gasoline, and that the amount of tax
collected for the final quarter —that
just ended —is the lowest of the year,
It is estimated that the three cent tax
will bring in about $3,000,000 this
year.
Tobacco Tax Act Declared Legal
Atlanta. —Notice that the tobacco
tax fight will be taken to the Su
preme court having been given by
counsel for complaining tobacco deal
ers, a hearing on the question of a
supersedeas, which Judge George L.
Bell announced he will grant, will be
held in Fulton superior court. At this
time terms and conditions of the su
persedeas will be made the subject
of a further order of the court, it was
said. The first round in the litigation
bet\Yen retail cigar and cigarette deal
ers and the state, concerning the con
was won by the state under the Yuling
of Judge Bell. Upon the conclusion
of the argument by counsel for both
sides, Judge Bell held that while he
entertained doubt as to the constitu
tionality of the act involved in the
litigation, he did not feel authorized
to grant the injunction prayed for, un
less convinced of the clear and palpa
ble violation of the constitution. The
injunction was accordingly denied.
Campaign To Secure Regiment
Atlanta.—ln order to further efforts
being made to persuade the war de
partment at Washington to name At
lanta as headquarters for a national
guard regiment of infantry, a lunch
eon will be held at the chamber of
commerce when leaders in business,
civic and club life in the city will
perfect plans for an organized cam
paign to secure cooperation of all em
ployers of the city. Many organiza
tions have adopted resolutions ap
proving the movement, including the
chamber of commerce, Junior Cham
ber of Commerce, Presidents’ club,
Atlanta Real Estate board, American
Legion and others. Due to disband
ment in a northern state last year of
oneinfantry regiment there is now
one regiment, authorized under the
law, unassigned to any city or state.
It is this regiment which Atlanta is
seeking. It is pointed out that it
would need only 800 additional en
listments in the national guard to
bring such a regiment up to full
strength and with indorsement and
cooperation of the employers of labor
in the city, it is believed this could
easily be, done.
Large Truck Crops Planned In Brooks
Quitman. —Morven truck growers,
which has for its center that section
of the county just north of Quitman,
will plant 500 acres in tomatoes this
season, with cucumbers, onions, pep
pers and other truck in addition to
this acreage. This decision was reach
ed at a mags meeting of the truckers
who compose the Morven Truck Grow
ers’ association, at which County
Agent Stratford was the principal
speaker.
Auto Thief Gang Believed Caught
Macon.—With the sentencing of Au
brey Smith to serve one year at the
state farm for stealing an automo
bile, three members of an alleged
band of professional auto thieves are
under sentence. P. K. Jarvis was
tried and a sealed verdict of guilty
returned. He was sentenced to serve
from one to three years. Preston
Wolff, the third member, was given
a one year term. After the arrest of
these men, officers here recovered
twenty-seven stolen automobiles said
to have been stolen and sold by these
men. Several other suspects in jail
■Are yet to be tried. *,
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Humorous jt
POOR HENRYI
A Baltimore man, who was formerly
a resident of a town on the Eastern
shore, recently revisited his old home
town after an absence of many years.
‘•‘What became of the Hall family?”
he Inquired.
‘‘Oh,” wus the reply, "Tom did very
well. Got to be an actor out on the
Pacific coast. Bill, the other brother,
is something of an artist in New York;
and Lucy, the sister, is doing literary
work. But Henry never amounted to
much. It took all he could lay his
hands on to support the others.”—
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Both Closed.
“So your neighbor Meek and his
wife had a row over what kind of car
they should get, he wanting an open
car and she a sedan?”
“Oh, yes; but the incident Is closed."
“So is the car; I saw her out in it
this morning.”
Things Were Too Funny.
First Boy—Lost your job as a
caddy?
Second Boy—Yes; I could do the
work all right, but I couldn’t learn not
to laugh.—London Answers.
Cafe Episode.
“What became of that bruiser who
came in last night and started to make
trouble?”
"Oh, the window cook flipped him in
the eye with a hot flapjack.”
Another H. C. L.
“The trouble with house parties is
that one has to tip so many of Ike
help when one starts for home.”
“The high cost of leaving, so to
speak.”
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SOME BACK
Hippo—l’ve a pain in the small of
my back.
Dr. Monk—The “small” of your
back? Great Scott, where’s that?
Obscurity.
Give me heart-touch with all that live.
And strength to speak my word;
But If that is denied me, give
The strength to live unheard.
Best Boston Brand.
New Yorker—Our new President
seems to have a mighty good head.
Bostonian —He has. We feel that
we have given to the country one of
our best beans. —Life.
Natural Sequence.
“When I found myself in debt I went
to father to raise the wind.”
“Well, with what result?”
“I am now waiting for It to blow
over.”
Secondhand Wit.
“He’s a witty Jad, don’t you think V
“Heavens, no! W T e both subscribe
to the same humorous paper.”
AT THE MOVIES
“You must like your wife's ucting,
often'see you In the audience. (
“As the lady’s husband, it's a priv
ilege to watch her talk without b‘ ar
ing a word she says.”
Not Very Serious.
Little Tommy, when quite a mite.
Blew up hla nurse with dynanme-
Mother said. "Oh. what “ wse - x
But father said. "Boys will be tx>i
Uncomprehended.
"He says his wife doesn t under
stap,d him.” ~
“I don’t blame her,” commented ids*
Cayenne. “He isn’t sufficiently.
esting to be worth studying. a
ingtOD Star. „ *
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