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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.