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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 Paragraph* 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. • J • __________ 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.”