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NEW RECORD MADE
FOR MOTOR SHOW
BUYERS ARE ENTHRALLED AT
BEAUTY AND EFFICIENCY OF
NEW MODEL CARS
STATE KEKS OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here
And There From All Sections
Of The State
Atlanta. —More than SIOO,OOO worth
of 1924 model automobiles and access
ories had been sold from the floor of
the Southern Automobile show at the
Atlanta city auditorium when the
doors closed the third night of the
1924 automobile exposition. This fig
ure, exhibitors stated, smashed rec
ords of previous years and exceeded
all expectations of the promoters of
the show. The sales included 69 new
automobiles.
Dealers attributed the brisk de*
mand to the unusual number of im
provements and refinements in design
and equipment which have been made
in the new cars and to the generally
lower price scales and increased op
erating efficiency and economy
achieved through them.
Despite the chilly and wet weather
the crowds which began with a record
breaking day, continued to flow to
the auditorium.
In view of the misty rain which
began before tho doors opened and
continued until they closed at night,
tho large crowd that attended the
third day of the show was a great
tribute to the interesting exhibits on
display.
The large attendance was swelled
by an ever increasing number of out
of town visitors to the show; dealers,
manufacturers, factory officials and
motorists whom the weather could
tot keep away.
Visitors to the show are unanimous
In their praise of the decorations
which were planned by Virgil Shepard.
The golden sunset color-scheme, the
hangings of golden hunting and smi
lax. the fleur-de-lis standards with in
terlocking garlands of roses and pop
pies, the indirect lightning system and
draped chandeliers, set off the gleam
ing array of new cars to advantage.
Another feature of the show this
year which has met public favor Is
that each exhibitor has a corps of
salesmen in attendance at all times
to explain each feature of the new
models to interested spectators.
Thomasville Body Elects Directors
Thomasville. —The report ef the
chamber of commerce on the work of
the year shows work accomplished by
that body that has proved beneficial
to Thomasville. A creamery, cooper
ative hop sales, retention of the state
highway engineer's offices, and the
bringing here of various industries
and division and district offices for
a number of important concerns are
listed among the attainments. The
new board of directors elected is:
Prank B. Harris, W. M. Parker, Mel
vin H. Goodwin, Louts Steyerman, H.
H. Merry, R. T. Satcher and A. D.
Little. This board will elect a presi
dent and other officers.
Mother f>f Four Ends Own Life
Ellijay.—Following funeral services
for Mrs. Carrie Reese, who commit
ted suicide at her home at East Elli
jay, the husband and four children be
gan the work of rebuilding the shat
tered home. Mental disorder on ac
count of a religious obsession is said
to have been responsible for the act.
The children said that the mother
came into the yard where they were
at play and told them goodbye and
that she then walked into the house
and shot herself. The children stat
ed that their mother acted strnagely,
and a note found in the Bible ad
dressed to the husband and the oldest
child indicated that the suicide was
premeditated.
Hot Soup Burnt Fatal To Child
Atlanta. —The death of 20-montha
oid J. T. Easterwood, Jr., brought to
an ond a fight which doctors waged
for 15 hours to save him from burns
he received when he tilted a pot of
hot soup from his mother's stove on
hts head. His mother had Just left
the kitchen for a few minutes when
he pulled downward on the pot han
dle, upsetting the boiling soup. The
child lingered for several days, but
finally succumbed to the intense suf
fering. His parents, a sister and two
brothers survive him.
McGuffin Elected Sheriff Of Taylor
Butler.—The special election held
to fill the unexpired term of sheriff
for Taylor county resulted in the
election of R. P. McGuffin. There
were six in the race for the office.
The vacancy was caused by the death
of J. R. Beeland
DELAY IN PILING INCOME
RKTURNB TO COBT SIOO,OOO
Congress Cannot Pass Bill Cutting
Assessment Before Maroh 18,
Dletrlot Colleotor Predlots
Atlanta.—Unlesß Georgia taxpayers
wake up to the seriousness of a situa
tion now facing them, they will In all
probability have to pay out SIOO,OOO
or more In penalties to Uncle Sam,
according to Josiah T. Rose, district
collector of Internal revenue.
This situation arises out of the un
precedented slowness In making In
come tax returns, both by Individuals
and corporations this year, compared
to previous years. With March, 16,
final day on which returns for the
year 1923 may be made, the continued
delay on the part of an exceptionally
large percentage of taxpayers Indi
cates beyond doubt that many are not
going to he able to get in their re
turns on time, in the last minute rußh.
This delay is attributed largely to
a widespread belief congress will
pass the 1924 tax bill carrying a re
duction of income tax rate, before
March 16. Undoubtedly, both from
Mr. Rose’s experience and from nu
merous inquiries which have been re
ceived by The Constitution, there are
many tax payers who have gained the
impression that by holding off the
making of their return to the last
minute, they may secure an advant
age of lower rates passed by congress.
Georgia Commission To Investigate
Atlanta. —A number of alleged
frauds in the sale of lands lying out
side of the state have been reported
to the securities commission and that
body decided to publish advertise
ments in dally papers of Georgia warn
ing people against investing in these
lands. Chief Examiner T. B. Conner
recently made a trip to the Muscle
Shoals district in Alabama to inves
tigate land speculators in that dis
trict. Ho found there were 65 sub
divisions in the district and city lots
were being offered at high prices ten
or fifteen miles away from the three
cities in the territory and far from
the government reservation. Intense
interest is reported throughout the
district iu leasing of government prop
erty nnd speculation is predicated on
development which is expected to fol
low action of congress. That some of
these offers are honest and give the
investor an opportunity to make
money, Mr. Conner declared, was be
yond dispute. All of them, however,
were highly speculative and a large
number without any merit.
23 Enter Primary In Campell Count)
Fairburn. —With the entries closed
for the Campbell county primary set
for March ft, there are 23 candidates
in the field. The line-up is as fol
lows: Judge W. S. McLarin, ordinary;
O. W. Greene and Robert J. Wood
all, a salesman, clerk of court; G. E.
Jenkins, Thomas W. Camp and Thom
as N. Slaton, sheriff; M. D. Collins,
superintendent of schools; J. Wilson
Parker, Judge of city court; Ernest
C. Hogan, solicitor of city court; E.
L. Cochran, T. G. Roberts, and J.
F. Bullard, tax collector; Clyde E.
Duncan and George G. Boyd, tax re
ceiver; J. A. Henderson, coroner and
P. L. Kiser, M. C. Campbell, A. F.
Campbell, H. H. Cook, John A. Cook,
Janies A. Dodson, James M. Me-
Milllan, couuty commissioner.
Bishop Gunn Dies In Louisiana
Atlanta. —Bishop John .Edward
Gunn, founder of Marist college and
former pastor of the Sacred Heart
church died at a hospital in New Or
leans, according to dispatches from
the Louisiana city At the time of
his death he was bishop of the Natch
ez diocese, which includes the entire
state of Mississippi. His death was
attributed to heart disease. Bishop
Gunn was one-of the most prominent
figures in the Catholic church in
America. During his career in At
lanta he was popular among all the
creeds. He was active in all civic
and charitable movements and was
known for his strong spiritual influ
ence In the community. His loca’
ministtry lasted thirteen years.
Valdosta Thanked By Wilson's Widow
Washington, D. C. —Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson has sent, through Senator
George of Georgia, a letter to A. J.
Strickland, of Valdosta, thanking him
for them ovement to erect a college
for men In honor of the late president.
Mrs. Wilson extended her wishes for
the success of the institution, for
which $600,000 had already been sub
scribed when she was first notified
that the college was planned.
Latimer Is Named Hancock Register
Sparta.—E. G. Latimer of this city
has been appointed Hancock county
registrar to fill the unexpired term
of J. W. Walker, who died at his
home here recenUy. Mr. Latimer has
assumed his duties and will get the
records of the voters of the county
tabulated in time for the county pri
man ou March 12
THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA.
THE WEEK’S EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS OF STATE, NA
TION AND THE WORLD
BRIEFLY TOLD
ROUND ABOuTtHE WORLD
A Condensed Record Of Happening*
Of Interest From All Points
Of The World
Foreign—
“ The task of the red army is not yet
completed, Its struggles are not yet
accomplished,’’ says a statement of
the Russian executive committee of
the third internationale on . the occa
sion of the organization’s anniversary.
The report of the committees of ex
perts on German reparations, it is au
thoritatively stated in Paris, will con
tain an urgent recommendation of the
necessity of accepting or rejecting the
report as a whole without utilizing cer
tain suggestions and rejecting others.
“The story of German guilt is a lie,”
Foreign Minister Stresemann of Ger
many declared in a speech in the reich
sta.g recently, and he added that the
world owed Germany restitution for
the charges that have been made
against her.
Clever thieves succeeded in robbing
a jewelry store in Berlin, Germany,
of about twenty thousand -dollars’
worth of loot while thousands of pe
destrians were walking by.
Austria has given soviet Russia
recognition de Jure, according to ad
vices received by the foreign office at
Moscow.
How an obscure lover’s jealously
precipitated a national political crisis
was repealed by a police statement
regarding an attempt to wreck a train
near Nagoya January 31, which led to,
or at least hastened, dissolution of the
Imperial diet.
Because of the disturbed situation
in Honduras, where three factions are
claiming the presidency, the Nicara
guan government has decreed the
mobilization of the army to guard its
frontier. The American cruiser Mil
waukee has arrived at Amapala, on
the Honduran Pacific coast, and the
American military attache to the Cen
tral American legations la reported to
have left for Honduras.
Nicolas Buonservizio, friend of Pre
mier Mussolini of Italy and corres
pondent for Mussolini’s newspaper,
Popolo d’ltalia, was shot by Ernesto
Bonomini, a young waiter, while din
ing in a fashionable- Italian restau
rant His condition is grave.
The Evening News, London, prints
a vague story that a “scheme is be
ing prepared” for an all-British flight
to the North Pole. It says the moving
spirit is Commander Boothby, a Brit
ish air expert and that the dirigible
R-36 will be used. The cost of the
project is estimated at five thousand
pounds, sterling. It is suggested that
the start may be from Pujham and it
is estimated that round trip can be
achieved in four days.
The French military command op
poses the abandonment of the Ruhr
railroads to Germany as is provided
for in the plan of the expert commit
tees.
Honduras now has three proclaim
ed "presidents,” according to dis
patches received at San Salvador. The
first is Dr. Juan Angel Arias, the Lib
eral candidate, to whom former Pres
ident Gutierrez is said to have handed
the reins of office. The second is
Gen. Tibureio Curias, and the third
is Policarpo Bonilla.
W ashington—
Gradual improvement in the condi
tion of Senator Frank L. Greene of
Vermont gives ground for hope of
his ultimate recovery from the wound
caused by a stray shot in a skirmish
between prohibition officers and al
leged bootleggers.
Recent suggestions in some quarters
for an overhauling or reorganization
of the internal revenue bureau were
met by a declaration from Secretary
Mellon that such a move could only
result in harm to the machinery now
set up.
Democrats jammed on the brakes In
the revision of the revenue bill, after
joining insurgents in gain
ing some amendment offered by this
group opposing a tax of undistributed
profits of corporations.
The unseating of Sol Bloom, Demo
ci at, as a member of the house from
the 19th New York district, was rec
ommended by an elections committee
which investigated charges of fiaud
in connection with his election.
Two investigations—one of the
shipping board and the other of the
aircraft industry—will be undertaken
by special house committees if the
house accepts the recommendations
of Ur rules committee
The house Democratic-Republican
insurgent coalition wedged another
amendment into the revenue bill,
which would make tax returns sub
ject to inspection by certain congres
sional committees.
Announcement by Senator David
Elkins, Republican, West Virginia,
that he had transactions in Sinclair
oil stock, is the most recent sensa
tion in connection with the oil scan
dal. The oil committee took no cog
nizance of his public statement, but
members said unofficially that he
would not be invited to appear except
at a public session and then aftef the
completion of the audits cf a number
of brokerage firms.
Secretary Mellon, replying to
charges made in an address at Wash
ington by John R. Quinn, commander
of the American Region, said he knew
i.olhing about any activities of cor
porations known as the “Mellon in
terests” engaging in a campaign
against the soldiers’ bonus. Mr. Mel
lon-added that he had not contributed
a penny to any such activity.
Domestic—
Clarence Saunders, former president
of the Piggly Wiggly Corporation and
Piggly Wiggly Stores, Inc., filed a
voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the
United States district court at Mem
phis, Tenn., the other day. He
asserts that he will come back.
Governor Kendall of lowa has ex
pressed his willingness to join Gover
nors Bryan and McMaster3 of Ne
braska and South Dakota, respective
ly, in their fight to prevent unlawful
control and high prices for gasoline
and coal.
Two men are dead and two are in
a hospitla, probably fatally wounded,
one other man slightly wounded, and
two In jail as the result of a clash
at Nash, Ky., six miles east of Mid
dlesboro, in which federal prohibition
officers and civilians engaged.
Sam Gompers, in a lengthy state
ment, bitterly arraigns the British
government for its recognition of So
viet Russia.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., assistant
secretary of the navy, was named
a delegate to the Republican national
conventicli by hi3 constituents of
Mineola, N. Y.
Four men were burned to death
in a fire which destroyed a three
family dwelling at Etna, Pa., and two
other men escaped by jumping from
a second story window.
John Thomas, negro miner, Elrice,
Pa., was captured by a posse after an
all night chase through the snow-cov
ered hill of Westmoreland county. He
is alleged to have slain two men. He
is in jail.
An indictment of conditions in poor
farms and orphan asylums in all parts
of the country characterized as re
volting and a scandal to the nation,”
was delivered by Secretary of La
bor James J. Davis in Chicago re
cently.
Federal prohibition officials at San
Francisco have been asked by John
T. Worthing, district prohibition chief
at Denver to ascertain the legality of
an alleged permit said to cover a car
load of barreled and bottled wines re
cently seized by Denver, Colo, police.
S. J. Manning, 87, dropped dead
across the grave of his wife at Crest
view, Fla., as the body was being
lowered into the earth. The minister
was pronouncing the final words of
the burial service when Manning top
pled over.
Roy D. Moore and Louis H. Brush,
joint owners of the Marion (Ohio)
Star, filed suit in federal court against
Frank A. Vanderlip, retired banker,
for $600,000 damages, alleging slan
der and libel as the result of the
banker’s purported utterances in an
address at Ossining, N. Y., on Feb
ruary 12. Three separate causes of
action asking $200,000 damages each
were cited in the papers served on
Mr. Vanderlip.
After telling the San Francisco po
lice that he had conducted wholesale
robberies in Bay City homes, who
could not substantiate his claims and
dismissed him as a crank, Arthur
Lieppe (“Lone Wolf’) led Santa Bar
bara officers to a cache in the Santa
Clara river valley and uncovered Jew
els valued at $16,000. He gave Infor
mation about another cache, said to
contain $20,000 in loot.
Declaration of a stock dividend of
between 50 and 100 per cent on the
common stock of the Chesebrough
Manufacturing company, formerly
Standard Oil of New Jersey, subsid
iary, was under consideration recently
by the board of directors.
Harry F. Sinclair is back in New
York City, ready to face the inquis
itive senator in Washington, but is
evading reportorial inquisitors be
yond making the suggestion that the
oil inquiry is ‘largely a matter of
politics” and disclosing that he has
spent some $45,000,000 so far on de
veloping that famous bit of real es
tate. Teapot Dome
GEOLOGISTS REDUCE
ROAD-BUILDING COST?
How the cost of building
state trunk highways is being
Hally reduced by the field invests
tions made, by geologists, espeeiaht
through the hunting out and using
local materials, is pointed out by ?
F. Bean, assistant state geologist and
former professor In the University
Wisconsin, in an article on “Eeonomi
Geology and Highway Construction"
which has been published as a reprim
from Economic Geology.
The increased use of ‘local material,
which has been developed by the
geologists’ road-material invests
tions has not only reduced the co=ut
construction materially but has great
Iv decreased the use of railway cars
for hauling road materials, lie points
out.
Many university geology students
have devoted their summers to the
geological end of highway work and
this, he points out, greatly extended
the scope of this work. From the stu
dents’ point of view, summer field work
in connection with highway building
has furnished a wide range of field
experience.
The first step in the geologist’s in
vestigation Is to determine what types
of road material are available locally
for that particular project. He then
recommends such local material as
may be used to save freight charges
or truck haul. Detailed reports are
made on the results of the Investiga
tions, and estimates are also fur
nished on the quantity of material
available, conditions of quarrying rock
or getting out gravel and transporta
tion problems. The aim of such studies
is to furnish good road construction
at the lowest cost possible without
sacrificing service and efficiency.
“In addition to the financial saving,
the use of local material has a direct
bearing oh the problem of rail trans
portation,” Mr. Bean writes. “The use
of local road materials relieves the
railroad of this additional load and
liberates cars for the use of coal and
other commodities, and In addition
prevents expensive delays in highway
construction.”
Construction of Modern
Automobile Roads Gains
That the construction of modern au
tomobile roads and paved streets in
this country Is gaining In volume year
by year is shown by statistics just
announced by Highways Information
Service, New York. The figures show
also that highway contracts awarded
during the second half of the year av
erage in volume only about 25 per cent
less than those let during the first
half and that there Is not a month of
the year In which a large amount of
construction is not under contract.
In 1920 a total of $530,848,000 in
new road construction was awarded
In this country. In 1921 the amount
was $630,712,000. an increase of $99,-
864,000 over 1920. Last year con
tracts were awarded to the amount
of $669,428,000, an increase of $38,-
718,000 over 1921 and $138,280,000
over 1920. From January 1 to June
1, this year, a total of $384,774,000
was placed under contract. At this
rate new highways for which con
tracts will be let during 1923 will cost
approximately $794,000,000. a gain u
about $125,000,000 over 1922.
Highway System to Meet
Big Demands of Traffic
The federal highway system is in
dicative of the determination of tne
American people to have a
system consistent with the <!■' ! :n _
of the traffic. The system will
nearly 180,000 miles of the most im
portant roads of the United States,
located as to form a complete network
of main interstate and Intercount
roads. When completed it will tie to
gether practically every city and to
of 5,000 population or greater,
a ten-mile zone on each side o
roads will include the homes o
per cent of the population of the i
ed States. To encourage the ear ?
completion of this system, ai ’
appropriations will hereafter be .pen
only on roads which form a P a
the system.
Pan-American Study
Good Road Construction
Each of the Latin-American
lies is to be invited to send ■
sentative to study the roa. {he
and transportation system ■*
United Sates. This was dec
at a meeting in Washlngt* t ree
clals of the Departments of •
and Agriculture, the Ban
Union and Inter-American # {he
mission and representative- t ,
motor industry. The !nv-- r , )tor
preliminary to a Pan-Amer.
road conference.