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Foreign—
Three policemen and 12 “reds” were
Injured in day-long clashes at Feursten
waide, 25 miles from Berlin, when 6,-
000 Communisist, armed with pistols,
bra-ss knuckles and clubs, descended
on that German town to break up a
Fascist demonstration staged there
by an Uhlan regiment.
Marie Beitner, daughter of a Rus
sian nobleman, was sentenced to death
by a Moscow district court for "ac
tive operations against the labor
class.” She stood her trial stoically,
was easy-mannered and answered
smilingly the questions which the
judges put to her.
A violent earthquake is reported in
the region of Erzerum, says a Con
stantinople dispatch. Several villages
have been destroyed and about 50
lives lost.
Dr. Sun Yat Sen, president of the
southern government of China, is se
riously ill with brain fever but there
is no confirmation of his death, which
has been reported.
Former Emperor William, of Ger
many, has not left Doom, Holland, it
was ascertained. Reports of his de
parture are believed to refer to Prin
cess Hermine, who left for Silesia to
see her children, who had changed
schools. She will remain at Oels with
the former crown prince for a rew
days.
The Empress of Asia on her last
trip to Vancouver, B. C., brought 8,- j
500 bales of silk of estimated value of ;
$5,000,000. There were also large con- i
signments of furs from northern Man- j
churia and southern Siberia, as well
as from China and Japan. The furs
were consigned to London and New
York.
The German government, in a note
to the soviet government, expressed
regret that the Berlin police had ex
ceeded their prerogatives in making
the recent raid on the Russian soviet
trade mission at Berlin. The note,
however, is not expected to end the
controversy, as the Russian govern
ment is reported to he making de
mands for satisfaction which are re
garded as incompatible with Ger
many's national honor.
Premier Poincare, who has led
France through crisis after crisis and
fought bitterly for his policies, . both
at home and abroad, will have a
breathing space from now until June !
1. He will then resign from office
ns the result of the victory of the ldft I
wing.
Washington—
Cyrus W. Woods, ambassador to Ja- -
pan, has asked to be relieved of his!
duty there, it has been learned, but j
not as to whether his resignation had j
been acted upon or whether ,he would
return to this country.
The bonus bill was passed by the
house over President Coolidge’s veto, 1
%513 to 7S. This was 52 more votes;
than the required two thirds. Party l
lines vanished as supporters of the
measure piled up a comfortable mar
gin over the two-thirds majority re
quired on such a vote. Enactment in
to law or final defeat of the bill now
is up to the senate.
By a vote of 4 to 1, the senate in
vestigating committee held that the
charges in the indictment returned
against Senator Wheeler, Democrat,
Montana, bv a federal grand jury in
his own state, were unsupported by
the facts.
Posthumous promotion of soldiers
would be granted under a resolution
introduced by Senator Harris, Demo
crat. Georgia. He explained that high
er commissions had been issued for
many soldiers but that they had been
killed before they were actually com
missioned. He contended the rolls
should show the names of the soldiers
with the ranks which they would have
received had they lived.
Restoration of the Robert E. Lee
mansion in Arlington cemetery as
practicable to its condition prior to
the civil war was proposed in a res- j
olution by Representative Oramton,]
Republican, Michigan.
President Coolidge won by a nose
when the senate attempted to pass the
Bursum pension bill over his veto and
fell short of the necessary two-thirds
majority of Just one vote.
The senate oil committee tentative
ly closed its hearings on the naval oil
leases, which have contributed many
colorful chapter to American legisla
, tive history since they began last Oc
| tober.
Contending flatly that the country
owes no bonus to the veterans of the
world war, President Coolidge vetoed
the soldier bonus bill and sent it back
to congress. The big surprise in the
message was the vigorous attack on
the principle of a soldier bonus, re
gardless of any immediate financial
disadvantages.
Extension of the intra-coastal canal
system from New Orleans to the Ap
palachicola river, Florida, with a chan
nel to Columbus, Ga., would be provid
ed under a bill introduced by Senator
Harris, Democrat, Georgia.
President and Mrs. Coolidge attend
ed the wedding of Miss Mary Wal
lace, daughter of Secretary and Mrs.
Wallace, to Dr. Charles Bruggman,
first secretary of the Swiss legation in
Paris. The wedding took place at the
New York Presbyterian church.
Domestic—
Calmly awaiting trial for slaying her
gentleman friend, Beulah Annan, the
prettiest prisoner who ever graced
murderess’ row in Cook county jail
(Chicago) has lost her fear of the gal
lows in the expectant yearning or ap
proaching motherhood.
Fifty-one Japanese brides were
among the 545 passengers that arriv
ed at San Francisco aboard the liner
Shvno Maru, and many more are re
ported on their way in order to arrive
before the exclusion act goes into ef
fect July 1.
Chief Justice Walter Clark of the
North Carolina supreme court, -was
recently stricken with paralysis at
Raleigh, N. C., and is not expected to
live.
The Eufaula (Ala.) chamber of com
merce has petitioned the city council
asking that bonds be issued to pro
vide $25,000 or $30,000 for rebuilding
of the present water filter system.
Black Gold, the favorite, captured
the fiftieth Churehhill Downs derby,
while 80,000 spectators cheered their
tribute; Chilowee, second; Beau But
ler, third. ,
Pollution of harbors and navigable
waters by bilge discharged from oil
burning vessels was discussed at the
annual meeting of the National Asso
ciation of Fishery Commissioners
which opened at Baltimore, Md.
Buoyant in spirits and “very much
improved” physically, the Rev. W. A.
("Billy”) Sunday arrived at Rochester,
Minn., for medical treatment at the
Mayo clinic.
Six bills aimed at the Ku Klux Klan
were introduced in the Louisiana sen
ate, at Baton Rouge, La., while a con
current resolution memorializing con-'
gress to deny the organization use of
the mails was offered in the house.
Storm-lashed waters around Attu
Island prevented tliq ' three United
States AYmy cruisers encircling the
globe from leaving Cordova, Alaska,
for Parahashiru Island, Japan, and
moderate weather enabled, the avia
tors to continue inspection of their
machines, according to a wireless mes
sage. . . .
Judges are too lenient and criminal
processes are too dilatory. Secretary of
State Hughes, declared in an address
before the National Institute 6f Social
Sciences at New York.
Six thousand delegates to the South
ern Baptist convention,, assembled at
an opening laymen’s meeting' in the
Auditorium at Atlanta, Ga., heard.na
tionally prominent speakers flay the
fundamentalist-modernist controversy
and urge entry of the United States
to the league of nations in order that
she may participate in an international
combine to control commercial, spir
itual and political world progress.
The United States circuit court of
appeals, Richmond, Va.. declared
illegal the sale of property involved
in the receivership of the Empire
Transportation and Oil Corporation.
The Beacon Manufacturing company
of New Bedford, Mass., has awarded
contract for construction of its new
cotton mill at Swannanoa, 10 miles
east of Asheville, N. C. to Morton C.
Tuttle Cos., Boston.
Members of the United States rail
road labor board unanimously voted
to issue an order, directing represen
tatives of the Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Engineers, the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
and of the railroad managers to at
tend a hearing on their wage dispute
in Chicago, June 3, unless a settlement
should be reached before that date.
A man said to be Perry N. Bell, son
of a Washington, Ga.. minister, was
held in jail at Ozark, Ala., In connec
tion with the shooting to death of Dep
uty Sheriff J. E. McGowan, of Dale
county.
Eight Broadway cabarets, including
the most prominent resorts in the
"white light" district, were closed for
a year under the padlock provisions cl
the prohibition law.
THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA.
ATLANTA MAKES
WAR ON CARELESS
129 CASES MADE IN ONE DAY ON
TRAFFIC VIOLATORS—ARE
AFTER SPEEDERS
STATE NEWSJF INTEREST
Brief News items Gathered Here
And There From All Sections
Of The State
Atlanta. —With a record of 120 ar
rests made in a single day in the
crusade against traffic law violators,
the Atlanta police continued their
campaign, encouraged by announce
ments that the DeKalb county police,
like the Fulton county police, would
assist in patrolling streets and roads
on the outskirts of the city.
During the campaign which has
been under way for a few days, the
local police have made 334 cases for
alleged violation of the traffic laws, in
101 of which speeding has been
( charged. Forty-eight cases docketed
during the drive were aired in record
er’s court with the result that 43 of
the defendants drew fines ranging
from $5 to $25 and only rive cases
were dismissed. Fines assessed at
that one session of the court for traf
fic violations netted the city $560.
New orders issued to the police in
structing them to enforce the city
ordinances against jay - walking
and bright headlights on automobiles,
were put into effect and accounted, in
part, for the record number of traffic
cases made during the day. While the
police records do not reveal the num
ber of cases made for jay walking
and bright headlights, many such are
said to be included under the blanket
“V. T. O.’’ charge, which means viola
tion of the traffic ordinance and which
was docketed against 86 persons.
Specific charges were made in 46
cases, speeding being charged against
34 automobilists, reckless driving
against 11, and operating an automo
bile while intoxicated against one.
Although the Fulton county police
announced they would jail all persons
arrested for speeding on the highways,
ho one had been lodged in the tower
on that charge.
Special details of motorcycle offi
cers, however, continued to patrol the
roads under orders from Chief George
Mathieson to capture and “take to the
tower” anyone caught speeding.
DeKalb county roads, particularly
those leading into the city, also were
being patrolled after the anounce
ment by Sheriff J. A. McCurdy that
he would do his part toward breaking
np speeding and reckless driving in
his county.
In making his announcement Sheriff
McCurdy warned that DeKalb county
courts are “hard" on speeders and
reckless drivers and cautioned motor
ists “to watch out.”
Wins Fight Qn 801 l Weevil
Washington,, D. C.—With the ap
proval by the senate appropriations
committee of the amendment of Sen
ator Harris, of Georgia, for $50,000
-additional ' to-'study- the processes'for
the manufacture of calcium arsenate
and other'poisons ta.be used for the
extermination and prevention of the
cotton boll weevil, thb total amount
of $90,000 has been secured by Sen
ator Harris for fighting the boll wee
vil in appropriations ' for the next
fiscal year on amendments added in
the senate to the house bills. He se
cured $15,000 for the arsenic deposit
investigation by the geological sur
vey, and $25,000 for the poison gas
experiments by the chemical warfare
service.
Senator Harris To Press Action-
Washington, D. C.—Senator Harris
will seek early action in the senate on
his bill to create the Benning national
forest on the military reservation near
Columbus, Ga. The bill was favorably
reported recently by the senate public
lands committee, and provides for the
administration of the forest lands in
the reservation by the secretary of
agriculture, with the permission of the
secretary of war. The Harris bill
has been approved by the various gov
ernment departments concerned in the
legislation as well as the southern
forestry congress.
Cashier Jailed For Embezzlement
Columbus. Under a warrant
charging embezzlement, sworn out by
Sheriff P. M. Daniel, of Russell coun
ty. J. R. Jackson, cashier of the
Phenix - Girard bank, was placed
under arrest just before night
and taken in a car to Seale, where
he was placed in jail.
Seeks Solicitorship In Cherokee
Carters ville. —Claude C. Pittman,
recently formally announced his can
didacy for the office of solicitor gen
eral of the Cherokee judicial circuit,
which is to be voted on at the Septem
ber primar*
Satterfield To Hang May 23
( Atlanta. —Branding the slaying of R,
jH. Hart in a Whitehall street soda
j dispensary during Christmas week,
1921, as a “murder as atrocious as
was ever recorded in the history oi
crime in Georgia," Governor Walker
declined to commute the death sen
tence of J. B. Satterfield, a brother
in-law of the victim, who thus loses
his last chance to escape hanging at
the Fulton county tower on Friday,
May 23. “Human life is too cheap in
Georgia,” Governor Walker declared,
in commenting on his decision. “The
fair name of our state has been black
ened by crime. There must be a
limit. The criminally-inclined must
be taught that punishment is certain
and that the taking of hiiman life in
Georgia will be severely punished.
Such an atrocious murder as this rec
ord disclosed should not and will not
be condoned by this administration. I,
therefore, approve the recommenda
tion of the prison commission and de
cline to interfere with the judgment
of the court."
Georgia Fish Acts Peculiarly
Albany.—Something different in thq
way of a fish story is told by an Al
bany disciple of Izaak Walton. The
story is of a pet warmouth perch,
which Brooks Bosworth, well-known
Albanian, keeps in a goldfish bowl at
his home. Mr. Bosworth caught the
fish, and as it appeared very lively
and too small for cooking purposes, it
was installed in the goldfish bowl,
where the little perch soon became
accustomed to his new surroundings.
According to Mr. Bosworth, the fish;
would accept, with every evidence of;
gratitude frequent offerings of house
flies and various bugs and soon be-|
gan to rise to the top of the water
and take flies and bugs from Mr,
Brook’s fingers.
Gainesville Street Car Crew Robbed
Gainesville.—Two unmasked men
held up and robbed the conductor and)
motorman of a street car on the chit
skirts of the city on the New Holland
line. Scorning the pennies, the rob-,
bers got away with but $12.50. The
watches of their victims also were;
not molested. A stranger boarded the
car at New Holland, according to the
carmen, being the only passenger un
til near the city limits, when another
passenger got on. The two acting
together took the conductor’s revolver,
unloaded it and threw it on a seat,
took the money and bade their vic
tims a polite “good night.’’ The men
wore overalls over good clothing, the
carmen said. Officers have found no
trace of the robbers.
Georgians Boost Dairying Program
Sylvester.—M. Hugh Westberry, of
Sylvester, was elected president of the
Georgia association at the annual
meeting of that organization here re
cently. Other officers chosen includ
ed: H. G. Hastings, Atlanta; Mrs. J.
E. Hayes, Montezuma; F. M. Oliver,,
Savannah, and P. R. Bomeisler. Way
cross, vice” presidents. Following the
election of officers,' J. D. Bell, presi
dent of the Federal Intermediate
Credit bank. Columbia, S. C., delivered
an address in*whicfi he advocated the
organization oi copnty-wide • credit
corporations through which Georgia
farmers may ~ borrow _ money and en-i
able themselves to stock their farms:
with cows, h°Ss and. poultry and also
practice daifyifariAißg. - '
Horsewhipping Leads To Shooting
Albany.—As.a;result of a fight grow
ing out of a horsp whipping adminis
tered by a Salvation Army lassie to
S. D. Rigsby, 65, the latter is in jail
charged with shooting Joe Pate, 20-
.year old son. of Mr. and Mrs. Z. T.
Pate, recently. Pate is in Phoebe Put
ney Memorial hospital, in a critical
condition with a bullet- through the
lung.
Dispute Over Eggs Lead To Killing
Louisville.—-Ed Jackson, negro, was
given a life sentence in superior court:
here for the murder of McKinley Wil
son, another negro, on J. J. Smith’s
farm near Wrens, a few weeks ago.
The trouble arose over a dozen eggs
for which Wilson owed Jackson. Jack'
son went into Wilson’s field demand
ing payment.
Macon Slayer Freed Under Bond
Macon. —John H. Ticknor, paint coni
tractor, who shot and killed Sam Pow
ell, negro, recently when he claims,
the negro attempted to hold him up.
is out under $2,500 bond. A coroner's
jury acquitted Ticknor of murdering
the negro by returning a verdict oS
justifiable homicide. The grand jury
is to investigate the shooting.
To Head Railway Development Body
Savannah. —Jess F. Jackson, of Sa
vannah. general agricultural agent of
the Central of Georgia railway, prob
ably will be elected president of the
American Railway Development asso
ciation. He is now a vice-president.
Carolinian Says Officers Shot Him
Macon. —Paul Wright, Whitney, S.
C.. is in a hospital here, shot in the
abdomen, he says, by Reynolds, Ga.,
officers.
600011
ROAOS^i
INCREASE IN MOTOR
VEHICLES LAST YEAR
iPrepared by
On December 31, 1923, there were
15,092,177 motor vehicles in use in Z
United States, according to statistics
collected by the bureau of public roads
of the United States Department oi
Agriculture. During the past year the
number registered increased by 2,853-
802 vehicles, a greater increase than
in any preceding year.
This increase, which is 187,000 reg
istrations greater than the gain in anj
other year, means that the public de
mand for road improvement, already
strong, will be strengthened, and a
more general use of the road, panic
ularly in a business and commercial
way, will result. As indicative of the
commercial trend motor truck registra
tions now total over one and one-halt
million, the hundred-thousand mark
having been passed in New York, Ohio
and Illinois, and the iifty-thonsand
mark in Indiana, Massachusetts, Mich
igan, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Total registrations now exceed one
million in California, New York, Ohio
and Pennsylvania.
While the owners of motor vehicles
are insistent in their demand for more
and better roads, the statistics show
that they are bearing a very consider
able share of the cost of the roads,
especially of the cost of maintenance
of the state highways. Gross receipts
from registration fees, together with
the licenses of drivers, chauffeurs, etc.
amounted to $188,900,000, or 23 times
the amount derived from this source
in 1913. During the same period mo
tor vehicle registrations have increased
12 times.
In 35 states a gasoline tax, ranging
from one to four cents per gallon, is
imposed. Revenue from this source,
amounting to $36,300,000, is spent very
largely for highway purposes. This
revenue will be materially increased
in 1924, since in many states such
taxes have been in effect only a few
months.
Past experience seems to indicate
that registrations will continue to in
crease materially during the present
year. There is no doubt that road
construction will continue at about the
same rate which has been maintained
for the past two years. Much of this
construction will be on roads never
before improved.
Motor Vehicle Registrations and Reve
nue for the Year 1923.
Total Receipts From
Registration Registration
Cars and Fees, Licenses
States Motor Trucks a n rt
Alabama 126,642 $ 1,541,01, .A
Arizona 49,175 281,670.71
Arkansas .... 113,3 0 0 1,43 5,090.
California .... 1,100,28.3 4 J!
Colorado ' 188,956
Connecticut .. 181,748
Delaware .... 29,977 516.209.0 t
District of Co- - .--oioni
lumbia '74,811 . •
Florida 151,990 .
’Georgia 173,889 "’JiVoi4 it
Illinois 969,331 9,653 796.0
Indiana 583.342 8.693, ■
lowa 571,061 8.82 . .
-Kansas 375:594 ..“*•{{
Kentucky .... 198.3<7 2,6 •
Louisiana 136,622 ?’?fißl7
Maine .....1.. 108,609 1.6 • {{■”
Maryland .... 169,351 ssfilS 2!
Massachusetts. 481.150 ®. 1 J,
Michigan 730.658 10.600. ■;
Minnesota .... 448.187 4 ’nv-fil 621
Mississippi'... 104.286 4'oi fi! 3 83.6t
Mlssouri 729.621.5 t
Montana id.sis 3;
Nebraska .... 256.053 'ih 988 14
Nevada ■.. 15.699 153 ' 98U '
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New Jersey ... .*
New Mexico .. 32,03- -1 qc2 441-51
New York .... 1.204.213 l.
North Carolina 246,81- '-cri 02.4:
North Dakota. 109,266 370.25
Ohio 1.069 100
Oklahoma.... 30..000 4 069, 609.41
Oregon 15 544 .303.9f
Pennsylvania.. 1.043..70 288.659.41
Rhode Island.. ‘6.313 'one 608.65
South Carolina 127,46.
South Dakota. 131 700
Tennessee .... l‘-? 5,441.508.51
t- 7 tah 59..525 935 .560.3<
Vermont 52 .76 3 200 .i*1.M
Virginia 218,896 3 g9g ,597...
Washington.. 258.264 2 608 .508.3.
West Virginia. 157.92* , 955,933. 55
Wisconsin .... 457.271 4 14]096.3!
Wyoming ... r 39,831 ——
cc 970.992 24
Totals 15,092,17. _
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Good Road Notes
j,
Never pass a street ear '' * rO .
stopping, or. If the lnW .. P^ r tlie ’ legal
ceed very slowly past it
distance.
• * * t al i ?
Rural express r oute9 n ar * S ’JL milk
where the farm is small a ‘ npt
or garden products hau ag 0 f
heavy enough to justify the •
a truck to town.
The total estimated
for new highways by a.
from all sources during - Tbe
ed to more than 5.,0W L .
figures for 1922 were slightl.-