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BRIEF NEWS NOTES
WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURING
WEEK THROUGHOUT COUN
TRY AND ABROAD
EVENTS OF IMPORTANCE
Gathered From All Parts Of Th#
Globe And Told In Bhort
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Foreign—
Tho French chamber of deputies has
begun what will probably be a week’s
continuous debate on Premier Poin
care’s economy and increased taxa
tion program to raise 6,250,000 francs
with which to balance the budget.
The aggregate value of all field
crops in Canada in 1023 was estimat
ed at $801,755,200, a decrease of $70,-
838,000 from 1022, in a report Issued
by the bureau of statistics recently.
Ixjwer prices were the main cause of
the drop.
The Jugo-Slav ministry of the in
terior lias jr.st settled a dispute which
has been in liitgation for more than
COO years- the right of certain lands
to be used for grazing purposes.
A treaty between France and Cze
cho-Slovakia lias been signed at the
French foreign office.
The crippled body of Nicolai Lenine
lie's in a grave twenty-five feet deep.
Ills crypt was blasted out of Ihe froz
en soil below the Red square of Mos
cow. Above the grave rises a wood
en mausoleum which is to lie replaced
by n concrete tomb when spring suns
again unlock the frozen Russian
wastes. A million people, bareheaded,
stood silent in the biting cold around
(he Red square during the obsequies.
Out of respect to the great Lenine
the Soviet government of Russia has
changed the name of Petrograd to
Leningrad.
In the great banqueting hall of what
was once the Nobles’ club, rendezvous
of Russia's blue blood, the body of
Nikolai Lenine reposed in a simple
coffin, at Moscow, upon an bumble
couch while his comrades of the rev
olution paid him last honors as they
passed slowly in single file.
Foderal forces engaged in driving
rebel hands out of the oil district
have taken the twon of Ozuluama, in
the Huasteca, Mexico, region. Rebels
recently took possession of Linares,
between Monterey and Ciudad Victo
ria, but the federal column sent from
Monterey regained the town. More
than fifty revolutionists were killed
In the engagement.
The proposed conference between
the railway managers and the engine
men for discussion of the issues in
volved In ihe present strike has fallen
through, and J. Bromley, secretary
of the Associated Society of Locomo
tive Engineers and Firemen of Great
Britain, announces thut "he regrets"
tint the strike must continue.
W. L. McCracken, 65, of Louisville,
Ky., a veteran of the Klondye rush,
and a prominent wholesale tea and
coffe merchant of that city, died in
Havana, Cuba, recently after having
been there two or three weeks. Phy
sicians say the cause of death was
heart failure.
Senator Francisco Field Jurado was
shot dead in the City of Mexico by a
group of unknown assailants while
near his home in the heart of the city.
This is believed to be the first sign
of "direct action’’ threatened by the
labor elements against those in sym
pathy with the rebel movement. Two
senators and two deputies were ab
ducted shortly after the shooting by
unknown persons, supposed to have
been the same ones who shot Jurado.
Washington—
A dispatch from Manila to ihe war
department says that one constabulary
soldier and two fanatics were killed
in a clash on Bucas island, off the
coast of Mindanao, where members of
the religious society of Colorum have
been causing trouble, according to ad
vices received at Manila, P. I, from
Surigao.
Administration officials are working
one a plan for the formation of a syndi
cate of metropolitan hankers in Mid
dle Western cities who it is hoped,
may underwrite sufficient loans to
relieve the Northwestern bunkers in
the present credit stringency.
A joint congressional session is
planned for Wednesday, February 7,
as a memorial service for President
Harding. A resolution adopted by the
house provides that Secretary Hughes
be required to deliver the principal ad
dress and that former Presidents Taft
and Wilson, the Supreme court jus
tices, members of the cabinet and gov
ernors of the various states be invit
ed to attend.
Tho house has eliminated from the
interior department appropriation bill
a section providing for abolishment of
twenty-one laud offices on July 1.
Mrs. Ida Hughes, Atlanta, On., won
an, convicted of having murdered her
mother-in-law, has been sentenced to
hang by the neck until dead, dead,
dead.
The nineety-third annual conference
of the Protestant Episcopal church of
the Diocese of Alabama decided to re
duce the number of convocations from
five to three The council also decid
ed to build a $35,000 home for the co
adjutor bishop of Alabama and a $40,-
000 church and parish house at Au
burn for students of the Alabama Po
lytechnic institute.
The Mellon tax plan, for the first
time, was debated on the floor of
both the senate and house one day re
cently. Representative Garner, Dem
ocrat, of Texas, who is endeavoring
to substitute a measure for the treas
ury bill, engaged in an exchange in
the house with Representative Mills,
a Republican member of the house
ways and means committee, who made
a 40-minute prepared speech for the
Mellon plan
President Coolidge will call Chi
cago and Minneapolis bankers to
Washington for a conference on the
banking situation in the Northwest
uuless they co-operate fully wtih the
federal government in relieving credit
conditions in that section.
Four lives wore lost in the final
wrecking of the cruiser Tacoma at
Vera Cruz —Capt. Herbert G. Spar
row; Edward Thaxter Herrick, radio
man, second class; Homer Harry Lus
sier, radioman, firsi class, and Solo
mon Sivin, radioman, third class.
Domestic—
Speaking to the students of Dickin
son college, Carlisle, Pa., Chief Justice
Robert von Moschzisker of the Su
preme court of Pennsylvania outlined
a plan by which the league of nations
could be reorganized or formed into a
new body for the regulation of inter
national affairs —retain the court of
arbitration; reorganize the league into
an association, and eliminating all co
ercive- features and those subversive
of national sovereignty.
A mother stood in the Chicago crim
inal court the other day and begged
the judge to sacrifice one of her two
sons —survivors of ten babies —to save
another mother from giving up her
only son, who had been sentenced to
the penitentiary.
Judge Arthur P. Stone, at Cam
bridge, Mass., tried two Harvard stu
dents on charges of violating the pro
hibition law, and, after hearing the
evidence, fined them and told them,
they were common bootleggers.
The Durham Paper and Pulp com
pany, which operates seven plants in
four Eastern states, went into the
hands of a receiver on an involuntary
petition in banruptcy recently; liabil
ites $60,000; assets, more Ilian a mil
lion dollars.
Robert J. Lancaster was found guil
ty of second degree murder at Hamil
ton, Aia., rnd sentenced to serve 18
years in the penitentiary. He was
charged with lynching a miner.
The captain and five members of
the crew of “The Bang,” an oil-carry
ing boa', are reported missing from
their craft that had caught fire in
the East river at New' York.
Gov. Austin Peay of Tennessee has
been requested by the congregation of
Deaderick Avenue Baptist church at
Knoxville to remove from the circuit
court Judge Charles T. Catese, Jr,
who is alleged to have assaulted a cit
izen in the Knoxville postoffice with
a bottle of liquor inflicting severe
wounds about the face.
Six persons were injured and prop
erty damage estimated at $200,000 wrns
caused hy a fire which destroyed the
Glendale apartments in the downtown
district cf St. Paul, Minn., recently.
Thirty families were rescued from the
building.
Thirty tw'o men are dead, six seri
ously injured and badly burned, while
eight others suffered burns about the
head and body in a mine disaster oc
curring at Johnson City, 111. After
hours of faithful work on the part of
the volunteer rescue teams aiding the
organized teams of Williamson county
the last of the injured in the explo
sion at the East Side mine of the
Crerar Coal company mine had been
brought to the surface ami are being
given medical aid in hospitals here
aud in Perrin.
Hope of the lives of some forty
miners, entombed by an explosion in
the Lancashire mines of the Barnes
and Tucker Coal Company at Shank
town. Pa., was practically given tip
when rescue workers reported that tho
wrecked mine was dense with "black
damp" and that water was rising rap
idly in the underground passage
ways.
Sale of the Lois cotton mills at
Douglasville. Ga.. to the Beaver Mills
company of North Adams, Mass., and
Waterfird, N. Y'., was announced in
Charlotte. N. C.. recently by Frank
B Green, manager of the bond depart
ment of the American Trust company
of that city. The mill has 21,760 spin
dles
THE OANIELSVILLE MONITOR, OANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA.
ECONOMIC RELIEF
ORGED FOR FARMS
NOTED LAWYER MAKES TALK ON
EXTENSIONS OF CO-OPER
ATIVE MARKETING
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here
And There From All Section*
Of The State
Athens.—Extension of co-operative
marketing systems into all branches
of farm agriculture, erection of suffi
cient warehouses to handle farm prod
ucts, and investment of surplus in
come in bonds were urged as meas
ures to bring about the economic re
lief of the Georgia farmer by Eugene
R. Black, of Atlanta, president of the
Atlanta Trust company, in an address
before the seventeenth annual farm
ers’ conference now in session at the
State College of Agriculture here re
cently. Mr- Black was followed by J.
J. Brown, commissioner of agricul
ture.
“The greatest stride the University
of Georgia has ever taken, I believe,
was the erection of the Agricultural
building,” Mr. Black said. “Through
out the recent history of the state it
has probably done more for the bene
fit of our citizens, especially the farm
ers, than any other one factor.”
Reviewing the recent situation in
the farming industry, Mr. Black de
clared that all business men had been
forced to take a vital interest in the
farmer and lliat in this aroused in
terest lay hope for the future.
“I am very much impressed with
the interest now displayed,” he con
tinued, “and I believe that, starting
purely as a selfish interest forced
upon business men, it has become an
altruistic, patriotic interest in the
welfare of the farmer and of the state.
“The Georgia farmer has been con
sistently robbed ever since he has
been a farmer and no other business
could have stood the strains that have
been put upon him. Excessive inter
est rates, lack of understanding of
the farmers’ needs, and political nos
trums of various kinds have been
some of the burdens which have
weighed down the business of farm
ing.
“To have prosperity in Georgia
there must be prosperity for the farm
er. There must be a re-establishment
of values in lands before the farmer
can be prosperous. Cooperative mar
keting is essential to that prosperity.”
Commissioner Brown, in the course
of his address, stressed the factor of
close co operation between the depart
ment of agriculture and the State
College of Agriculture which, he de
clared, had existed during the past
year
“ The spirit of understanding and of
harmony has been all that could have
been asked,” he declared. “As com
missioner of agriculture for the state
of Georgia, I pledge you that that
spirit will continue throughout 1924
and, if possible, will be made even
more strong. We have learned that
neither the state department of agri
culture nor the agricultural college
can work profitably one without the
other.”
Takes Own Life In Churchyard
Macon.—The body of W. B. Free
man, 62, with a bullet wound behind
his right ear, was found behind a
hedge on the grounds of the Lutheran
Church of the Redeemer, recently. A
coroner’s jury returned a verdict of
suicide. The body was found by Mrs.
T. W. English, 1314 Vineville avenue,
and Miss Mary Freeman, 40 Marion
place, nieces of the dead man. They
stated that Freeman retired to his
room at the home of Miss Freeman at
10 o'clock and was not missed for
several hours, when a brother, Buford
Freeman, discovered he was not in
the house. A search failed to reveal
any trace of him until the body was
found later. A pistol was lying at
his feet. Freeman had been in ill
health for two years. He was for
merly employed at the Shippers’ Com
press company. He was a bachelor.
Farmer Takes Own Life With Gun
Camilla.—S. W. Snead, 68-year-old
planter, living six miles south of this
place shot and killed himself by plac
ing the muzzle of a double-barrel shot
gun against his left side and by means
of a handkerchief fastened to the trig
ger, discharged the gun with his foot.
He leaves a wife and seven children.
11l health is assigned as the cause of
the act. ,
Woman Will Race For School Job
Americuß Mrs. Flossie Dunn Wal
ters. wife of G. W. Walters, a promi
nent Americus business man, announc
ed that she will be a candidate for
county school superintendent in the
March 19 primary here. Others in the
race are E. J. McMath and Rev. E. T.
Moore.
Pledge $25,000 To Oglethorpe Fund
Atlanta. —The additional sum ol
$25,000 w r as pledged the Oglethorpe
university campaign recently by facul
ty and alumni divisions. This amount
they agree to raise before February
I, the date named by Mr. and Mrs. J.
T. Lupton, of Chattanooga, Tenn.,
when their offer of $160,000 will ex
pire unless matched with an equal
sum. Announcement of this pledge
was made through President Thorn
well Jacobs, general of the faculty
unit, and W. V- Barlow, representing
Major Fonville McWhorter, as gen
eral of the alumni division, at the
luncheon meeting of forces working
on the drive. The decision of these
groups was made following the decla
ration by J. Henry Porter, acting gen
eral chairman, that the people of At
lanta would not stand by and see the
university lose a donation of $150,000
when only half of that amount still
was needed to match the offer. Fol
lowing announcement of the $25,000
pledge, it was pointed out by Mr. Por
ter that less than $50,000 would have
to be raised by groups other than
the faculty and alumni, and that an
intensive campaign during the re
mainder of January probably would
be waged in order to finish it.
Extension of Madison Avenue Assured
Atlanta. —Extension of Madison ave
nue to Whitehall street this year was
assured when the Fulton county board
of commissioners voted to pay the en
tire cost of construction and Mayor
Walter A. Sims announced that the
city would procure the right of way
for an 80-foot boulevard from Mit
chell street to Forsyth street near
its junction with Whitehall. This as
sures completion of the crosstown
boulevard, of which Spring street via
duct is the central link. The mayor
stated that enough property already
had been secured to enable an imme
diate start of work on the Forsyth
street and of the improvement and
that he would ask council to author
ize the city’s legal department to pro
ceed with friendly condemnation pro
ceedings to secure the right of way
straight through to Mitchell street.
McAdoo To Visit Georgia In March
Atlanta. —Asserting that 1924 will
witness a great Democratic victory,
William G. McAdoo, candidate for the
Democratic presidential nomination
and native Georgia, wired Georgia
supporters that he expects to visit the
state of his birth in the interest of
his campaign within the next 60 days.
In response to an invitation wired him
by Judge N. A. Norris, president of
the Cobb County McAdoo club, the
former cabinet member expressed his
desire to visit Marietta some time in
March. In another message to Thomas
J. Hamilton, state chairman of the
McAdoo-for-President organization,
Mr. McAdoo states that very shortly
he will announce the date for a trip
he hopes to make to Georgia during
the next 60 days.
Accuse Bootleggers Of Dynamiting
Lyerly.—Although a reward of SIOO
is out for the arrest and conviction
of the party or parties who dyna
mited the town jail about two weeks
ago, no arrests have been made. Offi
cers attribute the attempt to destroy
the jail to bootleggers who were
handicapped by its presence. The
new mayor and counclk, who recently
took over the affairs of the town, ex
press the determination of breaking
up the whisky traffic in Lyerly.
Prohi Agents Find Check In Raid
Gainesville. —Anew still, which had
not made its maiden run, a check for
$75, and the arrest of one man was
the net gain in a haul made by Pro
hibition Officers Sears, Kimsey and
Gastley, about two miles from Cleve
land. Although two men escaped, in
the overcoat of one of them was found
a check for $75. Dan Palmer, one of
the alleged operators, was later cap
tured by the officers. He was later
released on bond.
Gwinnett To Set Primary Day
Lawrencevllle. —B. L. Patterson,
chairman of the Gwinnett county ex
ecutive committee, has called a meet
ing of the committee to meet at the
courthouse February 5 to name a date
for the primary. G. G. Robinson, or
dinary; W- G. Holt, clerk of superior
court; Conoward O. Wood, tax receiv
er. and S. J. Busha and W. B. Hob
son, county commissioners, have an
nounced to succeed themselves.
Two Passengers Hurt In Wreck
Savannah. —One section of train 85
Atlantic Coast Line railway from New
York to Florida, was derailed neai
Yemassee, S. C., recently. The tender
of the engine and eight passenger
cars were derailed- Two passengers
are reported Injured, neither seriously
Passengers were placed upon another
train and continued their journeys.
Sentenced On .“Voting" Charge
Savannah.—ln the city court recent
lv Judge John Rourlce. Jr., sentenced
Dennis Kllev, convicted of illegal
voting, to six months in jail, to be
discharged after two months upon the
payment of a fine of SSOO
Onthe'i
J| Funny
Jfcil
IDOLIZED
“It says here, ‘One of the idols mos
revered by any heathen is a figure of i
woman, seated, resting her chin in he
hands,’ ” said Mrs. Farr, reading frot
a book.
“Which proves they are about th
wisest people on earth,” suggested he
husband.
“How so, Orrin?"
“Well,” said Mr. Farr, with em
phaais, “because they make a deity o
a woman who has sense enough to giv
her chin a rest.” —Pathfinder.
The Old Problem.
"How do you like housekeeping
Jim”
“Well,” answered the recently mai
ried man, “it’s only a partial succesi
The people who come to visit are al
well enough pleased to stay a Ion;
time, but we can’t get the help to fee
that way.”
True Chivalry.
The genius of a certain Arkansa
editor showed itself recently when h
printed the following news item in th
local columns of his paper:
“Miss Beulah Blank, a Batesvlll
belle of twenty summers, is visitln
her twin brother, age thirty-two.”-
Arkansas Taxpayer.
One on Pete.
Tenderfoot —What are you laughln
about? What’s so funny about drink
lng poison moonshine?
Cyclone Zip—Wall, when we star
ed ter drink it out West ’ere, Pizei
Pete, the snake eater and the wors
old rumsoak ’ereabouts, was the onl]
one of us ter git sick.
HANDICAPPED
“That actor will never get ahead.”
“Why not?”
“Doesn’t know how to take his ow
part”
A Mistaken Connection.
The sun was hot upon the beach.
Her suit was little sister’s.
They thought she was having a wo
derful time, but
All Is not bliss that blisters.
On the Witness Stand.
“Were you there when the blow wa
struck ?”
"No, sir.”
“Did yon—”
“No. sir.”
“Wait until I ask the question be
tore yon deny it,” said the lawyer.
The Only Right Thing.
The speediest motorist iiad run ova
a pedestrian and was anxious to atom
as far as possible. ,
“I’ll do what’s right," he assured
him. ,
“Well, let’s taste it, then," replied
the man In the middle of the road.
FITTED FOR THE SPORT
Son—Dad, I've been pu: on the nine
Dad —You’re not strong, sou ; are j
fitted for such sport?
Son—Oh, I’m being fitted to a regn
lar baseball suit now I
Cigars and Statesmen.
Great men in days gone by wou.-i r
With smoke to register their
I hope that they were better ,
Cigars that bear their honored •
The Useful Spare.
Henry Carr-I see you’ve P’ :!
wheels on your car. Do you like
better? lhfl
Old Gaysport —Notice the 1
spare's fixed up? I’m goin '
up out at the country club au - S P
a little reuhette.