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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. *, * A djW Little/ffSk Bit J fj f 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.” m. -■■■ 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. „ * *• *