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BRIEF NEWS NOTES
WHAT HAB OCCURRED DURINQ
WEEK THROUGHOUT COUN
TRY AND ABROAD
EVENTS OMMPORTANCE
Gathered From All Parte Of Tha
Globe And Told In Bhort
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Foreign—•
Union employees of tho Clonfeugo*
(Cuba) Electric company are now on
striko, and announcement iu mude by
tho union street car and railroad men
In Santiago, and dock workers In Ha
vana that they will also strike, sev
eral causes for dissatisfaction being
given as the reason.
British specialists are struggling
with what they believe Is a now dis
ease that ha turned its first known
victim u deep blue-black. A Danish
seaman presented himself at a hospital
for treatment. His sldn was blue.
Physicians began to treat him, and
his skin gradually darkened.
The report of the experts commits
tee, the most important document
since the treaty of Versailles, insofar
as its potention effect on the European
situation Is concerned, Is completed to
tho smallest detuil. There remains only
the dlficult task of adjusting the
French Lranslation, and correcting the
proofs. On the seventh anniversary of
the enrtance of the United States into
tho world war, the committee headed
by an American worked twenty-four
hours over the proofs of the document,
which may solve the reparations tan
gle.
The short circuiting of an electric
wire in a motion picture at Tacubaya
City, Mexico, caused a fire and sub
*equent panic in which 26 persons are
known to liavo been killed and ut
Beast 56 injured.
The French drafting committee,
which is putting the finishing touches
11 the report which the reparation
experts will present to the reparation
commission, are trying to bring their
labors to a speedy conclusion.
Tho strike of union workers on the
Santiago (Culm) division of the Cuba
(abroad has been settled and the men
have returned to work.
It is announced in Buenos Aires, Ar
gentina, that German air experts will
arrive there soon to open up aerial
passenger lines throughout the repub
lic.
The chamber of deputies recently
voted confidence in the government
of Premier Poincare, 408 to 161.
Impatience over the German gov
ernment's failure to obtain the release
of the 1,500 “passive resistants’’ sen
tenced by the Franco-Belgian military
courts during the occupation of the
Ruhr and the Rhineland was freely
voiced in a recent interview by Chan
cellor Marx.
On the eve of the presentation of
the report of the experts’ committee,
Premier Poincare has flatly announced
that France will not abandon the Ruhr,
irrespective of what may be the ad
vice of the experts. “We shall retain
the Ruhr and exercise control there,”
Poincare said, adding that the oc
cupying forces would be withdrawn
only when Germany paid.
The president and hoard of direc
tors of the Ilanco de Castilla, Spain,
have been ordered under arrest on
charges of fraud in connection with
the failure of the bank.
W ashington—
Successful testing during recent fleet
maneuvers of the new boat type navy
scout plane officially designated the
P. N.-7 has been announced by the
navy department. The ship was de
signed at the naval aircraft factory
at Philadelphia and is equipped with
two motors furnishing over one thou
sand horse power.
The independent offices appropria
tion bill carrying $349,000,000 for the
veterans’ bureau and $30,000,000 for
the shipping board has been passed
by the house and sent to the senate.
As passed the bid totals $98,000,000
loss than last year.
Dr. El wood Mead of California has
been made commissioner of reclama
tion of the interior department, suc
ceeding D. W. Davis of Idaho, who
will become head of the division of
finance in the reclamation service.
One way to ’’break into print’’ with
a "formal statement” once your name
has been mentioned in the press has
been pointed out in the senate.
In a notb to Secretary Hughes Alva
rez Castillo, Washington representa
tive of the de la Huerta revolutionary
movement, urged the state department
to change its policy toward Mexico.
An "adjusted pension bill" designed
to remove inequities between gratui
ties now paid veterans of the several
past wars has been passed by the
senate.
Anew grand jury has been ordered
to convene In Washington on April 16,
presumably to hear evidence In con
nection with contemplated criminal
prosecutions growing out of the oil
scandal.
Secretary Wilbur and Governor
Smith of New York were praised in
the house recently by Representative
Upshaw, Democrat, Georgia, for their
position in law enforcement.
The senate committee Investigating
alleged land frauds in the lower Rio
Grande valley of Texas encountered
another storm when Chairman Moses,
Republican, New Hampshire, and Sen
ator Heflin, Democrat, Alabama, com
mittee, prosecutor, again clashed over
procedure in the hearing.
Announcement by Chairman Smoot
of the senate finance committee that
some special appropriation hills pend
ing before congreis would have to
be considered in connection with tax
reduction dealt a severe blow to the
chances of retention of some of the
tax cuts by the house in the revenue
bill.
Domestic—
Three men were wounded, one prob
ably fatally, when half a dozen Hot
Springs, Ark., young men, organized
in two rival groups, engaged in a bat
tle with pistols, knive3 and stones on
a highway six miles south of Hot
Springs.
Three persons were sevriously injur
ed, one perhaps fatally, and several
others sustained minor injuries in an
automobile collision on the Winston-
Salem-High Point (N. C.) highway.
Two workmen were instantly killed
and one seriously injured in an ex
plosion at the Lnbrite Refining com
pany when a tank used in a distilla
tion process at Cahokla, 111., exploded
from an undetermined cause.
Steering his ruderless craft, near
Norfolk, Va., through perilous weather
for six days by manipulation of the
sails is the feat accomplished by Capt.
Charles Williams, 70-year-old skipper.
Ashton C. Clarkson, wealthy oil
dealer and senior member of the old
established firm of Clarkson & Ford,
New York City,- committed suicide at
his residence by shooting, after hav
ing been indisposed for a long time.
He was 64 year3 old.
Foreign white farmers in the United
States are more successful than the
native-born whites according to an an
alysis of the .census records made by
a Chicago house.
Five liquor boats and some four
teen hundred cases of assorted liquors
were seized and sixteen alleged rum
smugglers captured by the new cus
toms prohibition navy operating off
Long Island, is the total of one day’s
work recently.
Prohibition agents operating in the
New York district on laud and sea ar
rested eighteen men, captured a steam
yacht, a schooner, a motorboat and
four trucks and seized, 636 cases of
liquor.
Arrival of National Guardsmen at
the mining camp of the Liberty Coal
and Coke company, on Straight Creek,
Kentucky, resulted in an easing of
the tension apparent since hidden ri
flemen fired on non-union miners, near
Pinevllle, Ky., killing one man and
wounding another.
The lower taxesless league has re
cently been launched as a nation-wide
organization at Cleveland, Ohio. The
membership is composed labor, farm
er and business elements, as well as
women, and intends to besiege con
gress for lower taxation.
A suit for $50,000 damages for slan
der was filed in the Chicago superior
court against Gov. Len Small by State
Senator James J. Barbour, on the
ground that Small had slandered him
in a recent address delivered in Chi
cago.
Four persons were killed and thir
teen others injured, several probably
fatally at Lilly, Pa., by shots said to
have been fired by a group of Ku
Klux Klansmen who were passing
through that city on a special train
on the Pennsylvania railroad. The
dead and injured are residents of Lilly.
Charges that he was doped and not
drunk when arrested were made in a
formal statement by Delegate Bragg
of Brunswick county, a member of the
Virginia legislative committee investi
gating ihe department of game and in
land fisheries, sitting at Richmond.
Lieut. Ervine R. Brown, missing
navy paymaster, whose accounts were
found to be short, seems to have been
in San Diego one day and in Los An
geles. His wife has returned $75,000
of the missing funds.
Tulane University (New Orleans)
i has purchased for $75,000 the interna
| tionally known collection of Mayan
; and other ancient American survivals
; owned by Dr. William Gates of Char
i lottesville. Va.
After being re-elected year after
year for nearly twenty times as asses
| sor in the village of Agenda. Ashland
| county, Wisconsin. Charles Bleudors.
I 70. has been defeated by a margin of
i one vote. He then committed sui
lide.
THE DANtELSVILLE MONITOR. DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA.
COTTON GROWERS
TO GET $1,900,000
I
PRESIDENT CONWELL TELLS OF
FINANCIAL CONDITION OF
ASSOCR ATION
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here
And There From All Section*
Of The State
Atlanta. —Representing an advance
of 5 cents per pound on cotton turned
over to the Georgia Cotton Growers
Co-operative Association, farmer mem
bers of that body will receive checks,
it is stated, by President J. E. Con
well, of the association, aggregating
one million nine hundred thousand dol
.ars, in the near future.
Advances made previously this sea
son, said Mr. Conwell, total $6,500,-
000, and represent payment at the
rate of 20 cents per pound. Final
payments covering the difference be
tween the amount already advanced
and the amount realized on the cotton,
will be made at the end of the cotton
year.
President Conwell, in a statement,
given out simultaneously with the an
nouncement, said that the financial
condition and credit of the association
were excellent and that the present
distribution had been made after a
carfeul discussion of marketing con
ditions by the board of directors. He
reminded of the activities of specula
tors which had pulled down the price
of cotton, compelling the board to be
conservative in making advances, but
that the present payment is made,
knowing that the farmer members
need the money, many of them, to
meet obligations and to buy fertilizer
and other supplies for the 1924 crop.
Mr. Conwell’s formal statement fol
lows :
“As all familiar with co-operative
marketing know, the members of this,
a? well as of other co-operatives, have
Signed similar contracts, and this con
tract is the basis of all of our opera
tions. One of its fundamental provi
sions is that the directors of the asso
ciation shall market, gradually and or
derly, the cotton of all po.ols during the
entire season, thus insuring each mem
ber grower the average price for his
cotton.
“We have carried out the contract,
ami the recent experience of all cot
ion growers, as well as allied business
interests, demonstrates to my mind
more than ever the soundness and the
necessity of the cotton producers and
those dependent on cotton adopting
the co-operative plan for marketing all
our cotton.
“It gives us much hope, too, to know
that our cotton growers, as evidenced
by the new contracts we are daily re
ceiving and our bankers and busi
ness men, are coming to accept co
operative marketing as sound and es
tablished business in the South. I have
just received a letter from a middle
Georgia banker who has customers
who sold at various prices all during
the season and customers, as well
who have not sold to date. His expe
rience with co-operative marketing
| and with those of his customers who
have sold individually, convinces him
of the merit and soundness of selling
cotton co-operatively, for he says:
“We appreciate the fact that your or
ganization has done much for thi3 sec
tion and we take pleasure in recom
mending the association to our cus
tomers. It is our intention this year
to have all who give crop mortgages
be members of your organization.’
The association will handle possibly
twice as much of the 1923 crop as it
did of the 1922 crop, it is stated, not
withstanding that Georgia produced
only about 600,000 bales in 1923, as
against more than 700,000 in 1922.
The total delivery in 1922 was some
what greater than one-half of the de
livery in 1923, but this' is accounted
for in the fact that when the asso
ciation was chartered in 1922, many
of the members had on hand "old”
cotton produced as far back as 1918.
Under the terms of the contract, all
of this w-as delivered to the associa-,
tiou during the season 1922, and the
sum total of it amounted to several
thousand bales, as evidenced by the
records of the association.
Grand Jury Indicts Fred Harrison
Atlanta. —The Fulton county grand
jury recently returned an indictment
against Fred E. Harison, Atlanta law
yer. with larceny after trust, in the
alleged conversion to his own use of
SIOO alleged to have been turned over
to him by Mrs. Royal J. Clark, 309
Sells avenue, to put up as bond for
release of her son, Charles E. Clark,
under arreu for alleged larceny. At
torney Harrison was scheduled to face
trial recently on a similar charge, but
the case was checked for two weeks
because of the absence of a material
witness in Tampa
Uniform Charges on rreignt ASKed
Charles Barham, chairman of the
Southern Freight association, repre
senting all railroad3 in the South, has
filed with the Georgia public service
commission a tariff on freights carry
ing uniform re-consigning and diver
sion rules and charges. Mr. Barham
states in his petition that these rules
and charges are the result of a con
ference between a committee repre
senting carriers, and the National In
dustrial Traffic league, and where
carriers’ and shippers’ representatives
found themselves unable to agree, the
disputed point was arbitrated by R.
V. Pitt, assistant director of traffic
of the interstate commerce commis
sion. The Georgia public service com
mission has never adopted any recon
signing and diversion rules and charg
es for uniform application to all car
riers. Under rules of the commission,
carriers have been permitted to pub
lish their own rules and charges sub
ject to the commission’s approval. The
Barham petition seeks to make uni
form rules and charges all over Geor
gia and, he stated, he has also filed
similar petitions with all other South
ern state commissions. F. M. Price,
rate expert of the Georgia commission,
is analyzing the petition. He said it
will be submitted to the commission
at its next meeting.
Band Of Car Looters Behind Bars
Atlanta.—With five men behind pris
on bars railroad and city detectives
declare that one of the boldest gangs
of car robbers that ever operated here
has been broken up. The prisoners,
two of whoiA were railroad employees
and another a former assistant city
probation officer, specialized in the
theft of cigarettes, it is claimed, many
of the railroad companies suffering
heavy loses through their operations,
which, it is charged, extended over
a period of at least two years. Those
under arrest are Lon Allen, who is
now held in the Fulton county jail in
connection with the theft of an auto
mobile following his arrest recently
in North Carolina; W. M. Kimbrell,
former Southern railway employee;
George Campbell, switchman for the
A., B. & A .railroad; J. C. Roberts,
former assistant city probation offi
cer, who is now serving a sentence
at the Sandy Springs convict camp,
and Will Bagwell, a negro drayman.
Workman Injured In Fall From Bridge
Moultrie. —Frank Johns, a young
white man of Barney, near here, was
seriously injured when he fell from a
temporary bridge across Little river
at the point where the stream is the
dividing line between Cooke and
Brooks counties. Johns w’as in the
employ of the contracting firm which
is building anew bridge across the
river. At the place where he fell
the bridge stands about 12 or 15 feet
from the ground, according to the re
port received here.
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Woodbury Officer Dies Of Wounds
Woodbury. —Chief of Police Albert
Wells died in an Atlanta hospital
from pistol wounds said to have been
inflicted by Beach Thrash, a 15-year
old negro boy of this place, who paid
with his life at the hands of a mob.
Officer Wells w r as said by witnesses
to have been in the act of arresting
the negro youth on a charge of theft.
When turning in answer to a telephone
ring, the body seized the pistol and
fired. hTe bullet entered the officer’s
head.
Convicted Of Slaying, He Escaped
Knoxville. —J. H. Sanders, convict
ed here of the charge of manslaughter
for the killing of Lewis Harrison, De
cember 29, last year, after being sen
tenced to serve 15 to 20 years, inform
ed the court that he is an escaped
convict from Alpharetta, where he
said he was serving a 20-year sen
tence under the name of Gans. He
did not state the nature of the crime,
but asked to be returned to that coun
ty in north Georgia to complete hit
service.
U. C. V. Commander Dies At Poular-
Poulan. —Major Peter Pelham, 86
years of age, at one time a citizen of
Atlanta and Decatur, died here the oth
er day. He was commander of Camp
1149 U. C. V. for more than twenty
years, and was superintendent of thi
Worth county Sunday school associa
tion for many years. He is survived
by his widow; one son, Joseph Pel
ham, of Louisville, Ky.; two daugh
ters, Mrs. J. H. Graves, Washintgon
D. C., and Mrs. J. D. Hank, Richmond
Virginia.
Man Shot By Cop Improving
Waycross. —The condition of J. C
Pittman, Waycross man, who was shot
down by Officer Long, of the Way
cross police force, is steadily improv
ing and attending physicians believe
that unless complications set in he
will be out of danger pretty soon. H i
; is held in Ware county jail charged
' wtib assault with attempt to murder
i He ciaims he shot because Pittman
! ruio?d his home
LIFE’S
LITTLE It
JESTS j||^
NO ALLIGATORS
The Florida beach and blue sea
looked inviting to the tourist, but be
fore going to swim he thought he
wou-d make sure.
“You’re certain there are no alliga
tors here?’’ lie inquired of the guide.
“Nossuh,” replied the latter,
nlng broadly. “Ain’t no ’gators nyah."
Reassured, the tourist started out.
As the water lapped about his chest
he called back. “What makes you so
sure there aren’t any alligators?"
“Dey’s got too much sense,” bel
lowed the guide. “De slinrks done
skeered dem all away.”—Houston
Post.
THE MAGIC TOUCH *
"In the old days whatever King
Midas touched turned into gold."
“Yes; but in these days whatever
King Gold touches turns into anything
you want.”
An Expert
As on and on the question flows,
’Tls plainly seen,
An expert is a man who knows
What lawyers mean.
Its Unnecessary
"Hoss swapping is a mighty uncer
tain business,” remarked Og Oaken of
Slippery Slap.
“Think so?” returned one of the
prominent and influential citizens as
sembled in the crossroads store.
“I know so! I tried to stick Zeke
Yawkey tuther day, and burhung if he
didn’t stick me!”
One of the Radio Fans
Miehelll —Come in and tell me what
you think of my loud speaker.
- Albertson—Should love to, old man,
but I promised faithfully to meet
mine at seven o’clock sharp.
WITH CHECKERED CAREERS
“The kings of Europe are mere
pawns now.”
“Yes —with checkered careers.’
Polar Research
The old North pole is lost again,
Though in the same position.
To get discovered now and then
Would seem its only mission.
That -Accounts for It
Visitor (at studio)—How did yon
get that actress to do such wonderful
grief in the new picture?
Director—l told her I was going to
cut down her salary.
What Does He Think It Is?
Autoist (after killing lady’s P oo '
—Pm sorry, madam, but 111 rfl P a
the animal.
Angry Lady—Sir, you flatter your
self.
Friendly Agreement
Comedian—Look ’ere! I objects to
going on just after the monkey act.
Manager —Well, perhaps you’re right.
They might think you were an enc
. Worth a Whistle
"Hear the north wind whistling.
“Why shouldn’t it? It’s on its " •
south, where the weather is
warm.”
Gosh!
"Yesterday Salerno sudden. y •
control of his car."
"How so?” onML
"He couldn't pay his installtn
The Shining Exception _
“Did any of your family e\er *
a brilliant marriage?”
“Only my wife.”