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WILL INVESTIGATE
TAX ENFORCEMENT
TWO NEW LEVIES WILL BRING
LESS THAN $600,000, SAYS
COMMISSIONER
STATE NEWSJF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here
And There From All Sections
Of The State
Atlanta. —Following announcement
by John M. Vandiver, state revenue
commissioner, that total collections to
date, under the new state cigar and
cigarette tax act, which became ef
fective January 1, were only $145,-
5G7.7'J, J. Herman Millner, member of
the legislature from Dodge county and
author of the law, stated that he
would do all in his power when the
legislature meets this summer to in
stitute a thorough investigation of
the enforcement of this law, on the
idea that the collections were only a
fraction of the anticipated amount.
Commissioner Vandiver, at the same
time, gave out figures on collections
of delinquent special taxes through his
department, showing that a total of
$30,333.45 has been collected to (late.
This sum falls far short of the results
expected for this period when the bill
creating it was passed by the assem
bly.
Mr. Vandiver stated that he is now
making weekly reports to the state
treasurer on delinquent tax collec
tion-, in accordance With a provision
in the law creating his department,
lie admitted that he had only recent
ly begun submitting these statements,
adding that frequently they would
show no delinquent taxes collected. He
said that he had only recently noticed
that section of the law calling for
these weekly reports and had there
fore failed, until the last few weeks,
to live up to this proviso.
When the state tax on cigars and
cigarette was passed in the assembly,
ft was variously estimated that it
would bring in revenue amounting to
anywhere from two and a quarter mil
lions to six millions.
Life Term Given Negro Wife Slayer
Atlanta. —Rufus Brown, negro, who
lives in the rear of 116 Irwin street,
drew a sentence of life imprisonment
at the hands of Judge E. D. Thomas,
in Fulton superior court, following
conviction of the murder of his wife,
who was shot to death on the night
of March 3. The negro contended the
shooting was accidental. He was rep
resented by Attorney J. O. Ewing. At
torney J. H. Hudson represented the
state.
Names Brunswick Man Head
Brunswick. —The Eleventh district
High School association, which is
holding its annual session here, se
lected Ocilla as the next meeting place
and elected officers as follows: Pres
ident, R. D. Eadie, Brunswick; vice
president, M. M. Parks, Valdosta, and
secretary-treasurer, E. B. Wilchar,
Ocilla. The executive committee will
he composed of the officers and Ono
ra Enuosi, Quitman, and J. C. Moore,
Nashville.
Rome Cuts Debt Of City $71,111
Rome. —Rome's bonded indebted
ness has been reduced $71,111 during
the past year, according to announce
ment made by O. N. Richardson, mem
ber of the board of bond trustees of
the city commissioners. The an
nouncement was made during a dis
cussion of a method whereby the
Rome High school buildings are to
be renovated, especially that portion
partially destroyed by fire during the
latter part of January.
Augustan Injured At Gastonia, N. C.
Gastonia. X. C. —Paul Davis is dead
and time other porous are recover
ing from injuries received at King's
Mountain when a Inis operating be
tween Gastoonia and Spartanburg. S.
C., Wits struck hv the Southern rail
way fast train No. 38. The injured
were Charles Pearl, 1310 Milledge
ville road, Augusta, Ga.; J. L. Bald
win. Mount Gilead, and E. Monroe
Jones, Piedmont, S. C.
Pooler Postmaster Draws S4OO Fine
Savannah.—J. R. Adams, postmaster
at Pooler, near Savannah, was sen
tenced to pay a fine of SIOO or to
serve six months in jail for assault and
battery and to serve six months each
on three other charges. Jail sentences
ef tilt* three cases were probated. Ad
ams is an aged man and is thought to
bo suffering mentally.
Buford Voters Plan $43,000 Bond Issue
Buford.—Buford citizens will vote on
a $13,000 bond issue to be expended
to install a heating plant and water
works at the public school building,
erect anew school auditorium, • build
a city jail and purchase a fire truck.
Printers Plan To Unveil Shaft
Atlanta.—President P. L. Rikard of
the Typographical union has named
a committee to prepare a program to
he staged on printers’ memorial day,
the last Sunday in May. This com
mittee is composed of the following
well known members of the union:
Robert E. Gann, W. J. Stoy and R. S.
Dennington. The program for memo
rial day will include unveiling of a
handsome monument standing upon
the printers’ lot in Greenwood ceme
tery, which was erected at a cost of
about two thousand dollars by the
woman’s auxiliary. The monument is
a massive shaft of marble, standing in
the large lot which has a capacity of
about 250 gTaves. Another lot in
Oakland cemetery is also said to have
been provided through the efforts of
members of the printers’ union aux
iliary. In addition to the active mem
ers of the program committee, mem
bers of the auxiliary will co-operate
in making the exercises of memorial
day a splendid success.
Eagan’s Death Loss To Nation
Atlanta. —Seldom lias more sincere
tribute and eulogy been paid an At
lanta citizen than was expressed at
the memorial service for John Jo
seph Eagan, philanthropist, business
man and Christian, who died last week
in Asheville. The service was held
in the First Baptist church and was
under chairmanship of Dr. Plato Dur
ham of Emory university, while the
exercises took place under auspices
of the Christian council of Atlanta.
Men from all walks of life, clergy
men, leaders of business and finance
in the community, labor representa
tives and a delegation from Birming
ham were present to pay a last re
spect to a man “who was universally
honored, whose name was mentioned
with national prominence as one of
the hopeful business men of the South”
and whose life “was proof to what
extent Christ may find expression in
an individual.” Special music was
provided by the choir of the First
Baptist church and the quartet oi
Morris Brown university.
Makes Plans For Big Tobacco Crop
Valdosta. —Transplanting of tobacco
plants in Lowndes county is progress
ing rapidly. A1 the growers prepar
ed large seed heeds so as to insure
ample supply of strong plants. Plants
this year are said to be unusually fine.
Several Florida points have secured
plants from this county. It is estimated
that 5,000,000 pounds of tobacco will
be produced and marketed in the coun
ty this season.
Offer Boy Cotton Growers Free Trip
Athens. —The Atlanta and West;
Point railroad and the Georgia rail
road have jointly offered a free trip
to the National Boys and Girls’ Club
Congress at Chicago, which is to be
held in connection with the Inter
national Live Stock show, to the boy
producing the most cotton on one
acre of land, it, was announced here
recently.
Acquit Dr. Starnes In Narcodic Case
Atlanta.—Dr. W. A. Starnes, Atlan
ta physician, was acquitted of a
charge of violating the Harrison nar
cotic act by a jury in the United
States district court. He was indicted
on two separate! counts, for alleged
sale of narcotics, and issuance of nar
cottic prescriptions. The defendant
was represented by Attorney Hooper
Alexander.
Found Guilty On Conspiracy Charge
Covington, Ky.—Ronald C. Oldham.
Louisville, Ky., attorney, was found to
bo guilty of the charge of conspiracy
to defraud the federal government by
a jury in federal court here. The
jury, at the same time, returned a
verdict of “not guilty'' in the case of
M. D. Elstun, another Louisville at
torney. This verdict had been in
structed by the court.
Deserted Babe Starves To Death
Rome. —Officers of Floyd and Gor
don counties are searching for Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Logan, both about twenty
four years old, who are alleged to
have abandoned their two-months-old
child on the front porch of a desert
ed house at Sugar Valley, where the
infant died of starvation and expo
sure.
Legionnaires Plan State Program
Savannah.—The publicity commit
tee of the approaching convention of
Georgia Legionnaires to be held in Sa
vannah in June announced a musical
program in which many bands will par
ticipate. The Eighth infantry band
from Port Screven will camp in the
city for several days during the oc
casion.
Atlantas Awarded Bridge Contract
Valdosta. —Brooks county commis-
Valdosta. —rßooks county commis
sioners have awarded a contract to the
Luten Bridge company, Atlanta, for
two concrete arch bridges over the
i Piscola creek for $25,000. The same
firm is now constructing a $70.00!
1 bridge on the Quitman and Adel read
! over Little rive*
THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA.
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURING
WEEK THROUGHOUT COUN
TRY AND ABROAD
EVENTS OF IMPORTANCE
Gathered From All Parts Of Th
Globe And Told In Short
Paragraphs
Foreign—.
The Greek people have voted for
the establishment of a republic. The
government has made it known that a
big majority in the plebiscite held
throughout the country favored a
republic.
Speaking at a conference in Tiflis,
Russia, prior to his return to Moscow,
Trotzky, Soviet minister of war, said
Soviet Russia at present was stronger
than ever.
The nightshirt Napoleon wore on his
death bed, the glass from which he
took his last drink, a piece of his cof
fin and other relics which were to
have been sold at auction, have been
purchased private and turned over to
the Malmaison museum near Paris.
On the eve of the assembling of
the Anglo-Russian conference, a num
ber of leading London bankers have
sent a memorandum to Premier Mac-
Donald, setting forth conditions under
which, in their opinion, Russia’s cred
it can be restored.
The Jugo-Slav cabinet has resigned,
after having occupied their portfolios
since March 28.
The death of Rafael Iglesias, for
mer president of Gosta Rica, is an
nounced at San Salvador, Republic of
Salvador.
Cablegrams sent from Madrid, Spain,
announce the arrival in that city of
Mrs. William H. Taft, wife of Chief
Justice Taft, who will reside at the
American embassy for quite a stay.
Ronald Amundsen, on a visit to
Rome, Italy, to confer with technical
experts, before concluding his sojourn,
signed a convention with the director
general of the Italian aviation de
partment, which insures Italy notable
participation in the proposed trip to
the North Pole.
Categorical denial of the existence
of a Japanese-Roumanian defensive al
liance and of a Franco-Japanese agree
ment on Pacific and Chinese issues, as
reported by the European press, is
contained in a statement by the Jap
anese foreign office.
Warrants have been issued for the
arrest of twenty Greek naval and mil
itary officers, suspected of plotting a
royalist coup.
Revolutionary leaders in Merida,
Yucatan, have decided to proclaim a
republic composed of the states of
Yucatan, Campeche and Tabasco, ac
cording to advices received at Vera
Cruz.
Two of the bandits who murdered
Robert Lewis Coleman and George B.
De Long, American citizens, in Al
bania, have been killed in a fight
with a posse of gendarmes, says a
Stefani agency dispatch from Tirana,
Albania.
Lieutenant Colonel L. C. M. S.
Amery, former first lord of the ad
miralty, and the Glasgow laborite,
George Buchanan, went home with
battered faces after a lively bout on
the floor of the house of commons.
Just beore the house adjourned, evic
tion of unemployed tenants was being
discussed when Lieutenant Colonel
Amery referred contemptuously to the
laborites’ arguments as “sob stuff.”
Washington—
A dispatch from Sewardd, Alaska,
says that four United States army air
ships on a flight around the globe
completed without mishap a journey
of approximately 550 miles from Sit
ka, Alaska.
President Coolidge recently an
nounced the appointment of a national
out door life commission.
Prof. Thomas Adams, recent adviser
to the senate committee investigating
the bureau of internal revenue, has
resigned, the reason given being that
be was dissatisfied with the trend of
the inquiry.
A national conference of progres
sive women of all parties has been
’tailed by the committee for political
action for May 8 to 11.
The McN'ary-Haugen and the Nor
ri?-Sinclair bills, designed for the re
lief of agricultural districts, have been
reported favorably by the senate agri
cultural committee.
William J. O'Callaghan has been
nominated for postmaster at Nashville,
Tenn.
Representatives of more than a doz
en world war veterans and patriotic
organizations will meet in Washington
April 28 and 29 to consider the erec
tion of a war mother’s national me
morial hospital.
Osborn Cutler Wood, son of Gover
nor General Wood of the Philippines,
has resigned from the army, he having
recently made SBOO,OOO in Wall street.
Carrying a Japanese exclusion pro
vision againot which the Japanese
government has protested vigorously,
the Johnson immigration bill passed
in the house by a vote of 322 to 71.
No effort was made to eliminate the
Japanese section, which prvtvsked only
brief and perfunctory discussion.
The United States has laid down
no action by foreign debtor nations
the definite policy that it will permit
that would make the position of this
government "less favorable” with re
spect to obligations due it. Establish
ment of the policy was disclosed with
the publication of by the American
debt commission of communications
from the kingdom of the Serbs, Croats
and Slovenes, which had recently dis
cussed a funding arrangement on that
country’s debt of $61,587,000.
Domestic —
More than three hundred delegates
from various congregations of the
country are in session at Chicago to
adopt a plan for the permanent fi
nancing of the Union of American He
brew Congregations on a budget fixed
now at approximately $500,000.
Identification of the body of a young
woman found in a forest preserve as
that of Mr3. Anna Kohnke de Goy,
a bride of five months, caused Chica
go police"to begin search for her hus
band.
The funeral of a Clayton, La., citizen
held at Natchez, Miss., was slightly
delayed, when members of the Natch
ez police force, on the look-out for
rum-runners, through a mistake, seiz
ed the automobile of the officiating
minister, who was on his way to
conduct the services, and arrested the
car and its occupants. The mistake
was afterwards corrected.
David Ladd Rockwell, national man
ager of the McAdoo campaign, speak
ing of the recent Illinois primary, said
that in Chicago it was the most cor
rupt election in that city’s histoty.
The Elleton camp of the Colquitt
county (Georgia) chain gang, in which
only white men are kept prisoner, re
cently lost Roy Black, with only a
short time to serve, when he succeed
ed in making his getaway.
Charles Garland of Buzzard’s Bay,
Mass., who inherited $901,000 from his
father and then gave it away, has re
fused another legacy.
H. C. Clayton of Macon, Ga., who
advertised in an Alabama paper that
he would give his three children away,
has been placed in the Birmingham
(Ala.) jail on the charge of burglary
and grand larceny.
The Seneca Copper company was re
cently placed in the hands of a re
ceiver by Judge Learned Hand, sitting
in New York.
Elias Ridge, negro, the youngest
person ever sentenced to death in Ok
lahoma, heard himself ordered for the
second time to pay the supreme pen
alty at Pryor, Okla., the other day.
Police from other cities aided the
local force in patrolling the business
section and keeping everyone on the
move as a result of a disturbance a.
Dover, N. H., which resulted in six ar
rests.
The citizens’ military training
camps are essentially schools of citi
zenship, President Coolidge said in a
statement to the Military Training
Camps association, made public at
Chicago by that organization.
Five men were injured, two prob
ably fatally, and three slightly when
Southern Railway train No. 38, New
Orleans to New York, struck a pub
lic bus at a grade crossing at King’s
Mountain, N. C.
Frank Cordell, Indianapolis private
detective, charged with complicity in
the kidnaping of William Gates, slayer
of Richard Heaton, broker in an al
leged “torture house” at Louisville
Ky., was convicted in criminal court
and sentenced to 60 days in jail.
Fred Janssen, who confessed that
he killed his wife, stuffed her body
in a trunk and shipped it to Ogden,
Utah, was convicted of first degree
murder at Denver, Colo. He was rec
ommended to the mercy of the court.
P. E. Crowley, senior vice president
of the New York Central, was elected
president of the road, succeeding the
late A. H. Smith.
Elias H. Mortimer, a broker, oi
New York city, who was a principal
witness in the investigation of the war
veterans’ bureau, testified at a pre
liminary hearing given Russell M
Sackett, a former prohibition inspec
tor. Pittsburg. Pa., who was recently
indicted by a federal grand jury at
Washington, that he was paid SIOO,-
000 to arrange for the removal of 4.-
000 cases of whisky from the Penwick
distillery at Cheswlck.
The Louisiana state federation of
labor, in annual session. Monroe, La
adopted by a two-to one vote a resolu
tion placing the organization on rec
ord as favoring the manufacture and
sale of light wine and beer.
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ALL IN ARRANGEMENT
A man was arrested, charged with
beating a horse and swearing, and one
of the witnesses was a pious old
negro.
“Did the defendant use improper
language?” asked the lawyer.
“Well, he did talk mightily loud
suh.”
“Did he Indulge in profanity?”
The old darky seemed puzzled, so
the lawyer put the question lu anoth
er way. "What I mean, Uncle Abe,
Is, did he use words that would be
proper for your minister to use In a
termon ?”
“Qh, yes, suh! yes, suh,” replied the
old fellow with a broad grin, “but o’
co’se dey’d have ter be ’ranged dif
frunt.”
EMPHASIZING THE PLATE
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“How lovingly she regards her table
Bilver.”
"Contem-plates it, I’d say.”
Sing a Song of Crowbaits
Jim Crow he Is a noble bird —
He heeds all nature’s laws;
He never says a single word
Unless he has just caws.
Unrepentant
Wife —Your Honor, he broke every
dish in the house over my head, and
treated me cruelly.
Judge—Did your husband apologize
or express regret for his actions?
Wife—No, Your Honor; the am
bulance driver took him away before
he could speak to me. —United Noise.
Wrong Color
“You look blue, old man.”
“Yes; I’ve just been done out of SSOO
In curb stock.”
“Then I must be color blind. Its
green you are.”
COULDN’T FOOL HIM
com-I 7rc /\
Dealer—This coal, sir, Is first class!
Customer Don’t believe it—you
can’t fuel me!
The Waste Basket
Of all baskets, great and small,
The old waste basket leads them
All the letters written by me
Go In the basket, don’t you see.
Helpful Spirit
The Father— Young man, y° n
couldn’t even buy my daughters
clothes.
The Suitor—l could help.
Danger
“May’s fiance is supposed to be a
dreadfully bad egg.”
“I wondered why she didnt
drop him.”—Sydney Bulletin.
His Last Turn
“Yesterday was the turning p n —■
speeder’s career."
“How so?”
“His auto turned turtle.”
Almost a Record
“Say, that’s a fast-looking car . vou
got there. What’s the most you
got out of it?
“Five times In a mile.” Medley.
His Own Experience
She —Does skating require any P ar
ticular application? ~„im(>rta—
rnica or horse liniment
one’s as good as the other.
Experienced Opinion
Young Arthur —I merely t.-
the idea, you understand. the ,
Old Author— Well, I think
best thing you could do with it.