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M’ADOO DELEGATES WILL BE APPOINTED INTEREST IN SEVERAL RACES FOR STATE OFFICES WARM UP STATE NEWS J)F INTEREST Brief News Items Gathered Here And There From All Sections Of The State Atlanta. —The McAdoo state cam- Daign committee, winners in the race for the Georgia delegation’s support for the Democratic presidential nom ination. is now busily engaged in mak ing up the list of delegates and alter nates to the state convention to be held in Atlanta on Wednesday, April 23. Under the rules of the Democratic state executive committee the success ful candidate in presidential primaries names delegates to the state conven tion. both in the counties he carried and in those a .he did not carry. The rules further provide that the conven tion shall he held in Atlanta on April 23. What place will be used for the convention has not yet been decided, inasmuch .'is the auditorium will be occupied that week by the Metropoli tan Opera company. Miller S. Bell, manager of the McAdoo state headquarters made pub lic a telegram which he received from Mr. McAdoo. as follows: “You have served the cause of pro gressive democracy with such zeal and effectiveness during the long and arduous primary campaign in Georgia that I cannot express at all adequate ly my appreciation arid admiration for what you and our loyal friends throughout the state have accom plished. It is a victory for the great cause in which we fight, and inciden tally for me only as an humble in strumentality for the service of that cause. My pride in ray native state unbounded. Please accept iny heart felt thanks for all you have done.” With the presidential primary out of the way interest in races for the various state offices is increasing. During the week Herschel H. Elders, of Reidsville, annowtieoA -kte dacy for the governorship. Mr. Eld ers, who represents Tattnall county in tho state legislature, makes the Uiird announced candidate in the gub ernatorial race Ladies Plan Special Spring Edition Atlanta.—Woman’s Auxiliary to At lanta Typographical ITnion will begin a campaign for the publication of a spring edition of The Journal of The edition is to be publish ed in the interest of the printers’ me morial fund to be used in erecting a monument on the large lot owned by Atlanta Typographical Union in Greenwood cemetery. The lot con tains space for 250 graves and is now being terraced and otherwise beauti fied by the union at a cost of more than $2,000. The headquarters of the women's campaign will be in the union offices and all the work of soliciting will be done by members of the auxiliary, under the direction of Mrs W. E. Lomax, the president. Negro Prisoner Makes Getaway Atlanta. —Jake Napoleon, Ward, a negro prisoner at the federal peniten tiary honor farm, walked away from the farm and failed to return, federal prison officials announced to the po lice of surrounding cities. Ward is said to be five feet and a half inches tall, lie weighs about 150 pounds and is of dark brown complexion. He has a small scar above his right eyebrow, one near his lower lip, and another on the back of his head. Ward was con victed in Columbus. Ohio, for violation of the interstate commerce act, and was given a sentence of two years and two days which he began last October. Harvey Host To Royal Guest Brunswick.—Mr. and Mrs. William It. Leeds passed through Brunswick on their way to Jekvl Island, where they will he the guests of Colonel George Harvey, former ambassador tj the Court of St. James. Mrs. Leeds was formerly Princess Xenia, of Greece. Colonel George Harvey, who has been ill for some time, was re l>orted better. His physician w ill al low him to return to New York about April 1. Ben Hill To Demonstrate Control Fitzgerald. Twelve experimental tracks of five acres each will be financed by the chamber cf commerce in an effort to demostrate to Ben Hill county farmers the value of weevil control through calcium arsenate Each of the farmers will be furnished free calcium arsenate and a dusting j machine. Preparation of the plats, < ultivation and poisoning w ill be su pervised by County Agent Owen^. Red Lantern Out To Warn Sinners Atlanta. —The great tribulation pre ceding the millenial reign of Christ on earth is upon the world, according to Rev. Ira E. David, who preached at the Gospel Tabernacle. “It is very evident to the casuel observer,” he said, “that the earth since 1914 has had great tribulation. The greatest war, great famines and great earth -quakes have come with their suffer ing and horrors. If coming events cast their shadows before them the great tribulation is now upon the world. I can never read in God’s Word, God’s program of the things that He announces are coming to this earth that I do not feel like praying: ‘O, be ye reconciled to God.’ O, that sinners might be aroused to seek God’s race while there is opportunity. Suppose you are ready before God comes. Suppose you are ready five years before He comes what of it? It will bef ive years of glory. But suppose you are ten minutes late. If you hurry to catch a train and it has been gone ten minutes it is then too late to overtake it. God has hung out the red lantern of warning so that, it cannot escape the notice of any person. Watch ye therefore and pray, always that ye may escape the things that come to pass in the last days and stand in the heavenly judgment.” Two Macon Men Commit Suicide Macon. —Early T. Sanders, 29, me chanic, drank thee ontent of a four ounce bottle of liquid poison in the presence of his wife and baby here recently. He died in a Hospital a few minutes later. A few hours after} wards, A. F. Shelly, 31, city employe; held a shot gun to his head and pull ed the trigger with his toe, killing himself instantly. Sanders was out of work. He entered the room where his wife was bathing their baby and ex claimed, “It’s all over.” He fell across the bed, the empty bottle slipping on the floor. As Mrs. Sanders glanced toward him, her eyes became focused on a “poison’’ label on the bottle. She summoned aid, but it was too late. Shelley had been drinking, the police ascertained, and when his fam ily left him alone in the house, he obtained the gun and killed himself. No motive was assigned for this act. Postmasters Headed By E. A. Meeks Atlanta.—E. A. Meeks, postmaster at Nicholls, was elected president of tbs®-Coopgiß,: League of District Post masters, at the closing session of a two-day annual convention. Other of ficers elected were: H. C. Hayes, of Mansfield, first vice president; Mrs. C. P. Hankinson, McDondugh, second vice president; W. E. Fitts, of Rocky Ford, third vice president, and Mrs. M. H. Eubanks, of Elko, secretary treasurer. An executive board was also named, composed of 0. H. Brad bury, Bogart; B. N. Walters, of Mar tin, and F. M. Meadows, of Dahlonega. The league is composed of third and fourth-class postmasters of Georgia and annual sessions attract scores of postoffice officials from all sections of the state. To D'scp&s Plans For New Highway Louisville.—The Kiwanis club, of Louisville, will entertain the Cotton Belt Route association at luncheon here at the regular monthly meeting of that body. This association is com posed of members who are farmers, business, and professional men of the towns of Elberton, Washington, Thom son. Louisville, Swainsboro, Lyons, and other Georgia towns, interested in projecting a route for tourists and other travel from New York and the north into Florida Hubby Fined SSOO For Kidnaping Savannah. —Judge P. W. Meldrim sentenced Robert C. Gordon to pay a fine of SSOO or serve six months, after his conviction by a jury of kidnaping “ a child of twelve years of age.” The jury recommended that be be punish ed as for a misdemeanor and then recommended extreme clemency. Gor don and the girl were married January 10. The girl-wife, whose love letters, were read into the evidence, appeafed iu court. Self-Defense Claim In Tanner Slaying Douglas.—T. L. Edenfield, charged with killing Jesse Tanner, December 16. 1923, went to trial in Coffee su perior court recently. Practically all day was consumed in selecting jury and when the list was exhausted court was suspended in order to summon another panel. The twelve were fin ally agreed on. Macon Man Killed By Auto Hearse Macon.—Walter E. Wallace, 39. boil ermaker for the Southern railway, was knocked down and killed by an automobile hearse as he stepped from a street car recently. Police are hunt ing for the negro driver of the hearse. Wadley Farmers Buy Weevil Poison Louisville—The state department of agriculture will distribute calcium ar senate at cost to farmers in the Wad ley district. Many farmers in this section are expected to buy large o/.inntities of the poison. THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA. BRIEF NOWS 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— A reward of 10,000 pounds sterling jas been offered by the free state government for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the persons concerned in the shooting of British soldiers at Queenstown. General Augustin Justo, minister of war. and General Dellepaine, head of the military forces in Buenos Aires, fought a duel with swords recently. Both men were slightly wounded. The sub-committee of the league of nations’ temporary armaipent commit tee at a meeting at Paris soon will undertake to reach an agreement on the text of a convention for the con trol. With the visit to Paris of Count de St.-Aullaire. French ambassador to London, France will assume the in itiative in diplomatic negotiations with the British government concern ing the problem of security for France. Hope for the rescue of 18 men trap ped in the after-compartment of the submarine 43, on the ocean bot tom off Sasebo, was abandoned. An inquiry will be held at Tokio. Omnibus and tramway service ceas ed as a result of a strike of tramway employees for higher wages, and a sympathetic walkout by omnibus men at London. General Robert George Nivelle, who commanded the French troops at Ver dun during the European war, is dead. Richard Mulcahy, minister of de fense, resigned from the Irish cabinet recently. Canada and the Irish free states have not yet approved the treaty between the United States and Britain to reg ulate search and seizure of rum run oate off t£e African qoast and ex tend the three-mile limit, but the treaty will be ratified as soon as their approval is received. The supreme court at Leipzig has sentenced a Swiss motion picture manager named Bienz to eleven years’ penal servitude for espionage on be half of France. Two German soldier accomplices and a woman were given thirteen, two and a half and two years, respectively. Archbishop Hayes of New York and Archbishop Mundelein of Chicago, who are to become members of the Sacred .college at the approaching consistory, made their first of numerous official visits in the round of such calls that must be made before their formal ele vation. Premier Poincare breathed a sigh of relief and settled down with con sciousness of victory well won when the French senate adopted the govern ment's fiscal projects by a vote of 151 to 23. The fact that most of the Radicals abstained from voting did not worry the premier, for his measures had passed, despite the bitterest op oosition he has yet faced. Washington— The landing of an American naval force in Honduras led to an extended debate in the senate on the govern ment’s Latin-American policies. \ The senate oil committee decided to recommend that the senate certify Harry F. Sinclair to the district at torney of the District of Columbia for grand jury proceedings because he re fused to answer further questions put by the committee investigators. Attorney General Daugherty an nounced that the circuit court of ap peals at Los Angeles has affirmed the decision of the lower court in the case relating to violation of the Sherman anti trust law growing out of interfer ence with United States mails during the railway shopmen's strike. After a preliminary hearing of more than five hours in a crowded little Vir ginia court room, Representative Har old Knutson, of Minnesota, and Le- Roy M. Hull, a 29-year-old government employee, were held for the grand jury on grave charges preferred against them by two Arlington county police officers. The railroad labor board was de clared to be a failure and unsatisfac tory alike to the “public, the railroad and the employees,” in abatement by D. B. Robertson, president of the Brotherhod of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, before a subcommit tee of the senate interstate commerce committee at the opening o f . hearings on the Howell-Barkley bill proposing abolition of the board The nomination or i-iugn o. v.iluii to be minister of Switzerland was con firmed by the senate. The arbitration treaty negotiated between the United States and 16 other American nations at the fifth Pan-American conference at Santiago last May was favorably reported by the senate foreign relations commit tee. President Coolidge and his cabinet decided to ask the agricultural credit corporation, recently formed with a capital of $10,000,000 to- assist wheat growers in the northwest, to diversify their crops. The senate has confirmed the nom ination of Judge Curtis Dovight Wil bur, of California, to be secretary of the navy. The house passed the hill of Sen ator Harris, of Georgia, amending the law so as to call for cotton figures by the census bureau showing the quantity ginned for each crop every year prior to August 1, August 16, September 1, September 16, October 1, October 18, November 1, November 14, December 1, December 13, January 16 and March 1. The senate already had passed the bill and it now goes to the president for approval. Domestic — W. H. Covington, of Ingleside. Ga.. is being held by the peace officers of Lexington conty, S. C., for inves tigation in connection with the mur der of F. R. Mason, of St. Albans, Vt., traveling salesman, whose body with head battered and throat cut, was found six miles from Columbia, S. C. Federal officers and police searched the Hamburg-American liner Albert Ball in for Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, draft evader, when the steamship ar rived from Germany. Adolfo de la Huerta, leader of the Mexican revolution against President Obregon, is at Frontera, Tabasco, pre paring with other rebel leaders for a more “ruthless form of warfare,” ac cording to Adolfo Jiminez, revel con sul at Galveston, Texas. The Merchants’ National Bank of Crookston, one of the oldest and lar gest financial institution in northwest Minnesota, closed its doors and a na tional bank examiner took charge. Governor Fields at Frankfort re fused to extradite to Lake-City, S. C„ William C. Gates, central figure in the killing of 'Richard Heato,n, young broker, at Louisville, Ky. Nine men, the entire crew of the four-masted schooner Dorothea L. Brinkman, were brought ashore by life savers in the breeches buoy, when the vessel piled up on the beach at Oregon Inlet, ninety miles south of Cape Henry. Proprietors of practically every saloon and cafe in Pittsburg, several hundred in number, were served with abatement notices, ordering them to stop selling liquor and to remove bars, fixtures, swinging doors and curtains, under penalty of being cited for con tempt of court. Seven confessed narcotics and rum smugglers, arrested recently in the raid which resulted in seizure of the British steamship Orduna, received light sentences before Federal Judge Edwin Garvin, New York. Even the stolid red men, who all day had assumed a perfected blase air toward the sale of rich oil lands, broke into cheers at Pawhuska, Okla., when a quarter section brought the record price of $1,955,000. The Cosden Oil company made the purchase. The badly mutilated body of Dr. Zoe Wilkins, 35, former wife of Thomas W. Cunningham, late million aire banker, of Joplin, Mo., was found in her home and office, Kansas City. Mo. America will unquestionably feel the impulse to work for permanent peace in Europe on which a large measure of her prosperity depends and will not “leave Europe to stew in her own juice,’’ Sir Esrne Howard, new ambas sador of Great Britain to the United States, declared at the Pilgrim so cietey’s annual dinner at the Waldorf- Astoria, New York. Russell Gibson, 16-year-old boy, try ing to protect his mother when his father, James L. Gibson, attacked her with a chair, shot and accidentally killed her in the home of her daugh ter, Mrs. Annie Strabel, near the Back river, district, Baltimore. Refusing to accept a wage cut of 33 1-3 per cent a3 posted by the Vin ton Colleries company, Vintondale, Pa„ more than 600 miners were still on strike and were facing eviction no tices that may put them out of the company homes they occupy in 24 hours. The domestic situation in Washing ton is “fast becoming one of interna tional importance,” Thomas W. Mil ler, of Delaware, alien property custo dian, declared in an address before the Republican state convention at Raleigh, N. C. Curtis D. Wilbur took the oath of office as secretary of the United States U3vv recent.lv at San Francisco Just Iff EXAGGERATED Two men were walking along the beach at Brighton when one of them accidentally stumbled against a child’s pail. “My dear friend,” exclaimed the other, “I cannot tell how much I la ment your sad death.” “Whatever do you mean—my death?” “You have just kicked the bucket,” replied the first, with a laqgh. “On the contraary,” said the other, “I just turned a little pail.” Imperative. “What’s the matter, old boy?” asked Jimmie’s friend. “I’ve never seen you looking so seedy.” “I’ve got to go abroad at once,” re marked Jimmie* gloomily.” “Nonsense! These doctors musn’t frighten you out of your life like that.” "It wasn’t a doctor. Tt was a law yer.”—Brisbane Mail. Lawyer Got an Earful, “And what time did the robbery take place?” asked the lawyer. “I think—” began the witness. “We don’t care what you think,” put in the attorney; “we want to know what you know.” “Then,” rejoined the witness, "I might as well get down off the stand. [ can’t talk without thinking. I’m no ’awyer.”—Success. NOTHING DOING Quoter— Drink to me only 'with thine eyes and I will pledge with mine. Soft Drinks Dispenser—lt won’t do you no good to gimme the eye. We don’t keep a drop of the hard stuff here. An Old Story. The old man is morose and mean; The young man keeps his daughtei up. We have that old familiar scene. An old dog growling at a pup. The Usual. “You and your wife have decided, then, to —” “No. You got it wrong, Bill. My wife has decided. I nave merely ac quiesced.” \ A Neat Distinction. The Visitor—ls Juggins, of yom town, a good lawyer? The Resident—He’s an able lawyer, but he’s not ranked high among the good. Reason Quite Sufficient. “You make life a burden to me,” mid the busy man to the persistent ife insurance agent. “In that case you can’t take out this policy any too soon.” A Crucial Test. Mrs. A.—Old Mr. Diohleigh is a great friend of yours, Isn't he? Mr. A.—l can’t say. I haven't tried to borrow from him yet. London An jwers. MV! MY ! Rooster—Why are those eggs stamt !ng on end? Do you want to raise a family of acrobats? Investigation. Investigation often finds A way to lend this life * 'harrn. It helps men to relieve their m And does nobody any harm He Realized It First. Wife —if the human body is renew svery seven years I can't he the same voman that you married. Hub—l’ve been suspecting that tome time.