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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. andf 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 e | \gg|§> \ “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.