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NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD OISPATCHES OF IMPORTANT HAP. PENINGS GATHERED FROM OVER THE WORLD. FOR THE JSUSY READER The Occurrence* Of Beven Day* Given In An Epitomized Form For Quick Reading .Foreign— As news of the resignation of Am bassador Woods stirs the country, the American relations committees of both houses of the diet, together with all chambers of commerce, are plan ning a monster demonstration as a sign of friendship for the diplomat. Room son Crusoe’s old flintlock mus ket, believed to be the authentic weapon carried by Alexander Selkirk during his four years’ exile on Juan Fernandez island which inspired De- Foe’s celebrated story, was sold at auction recently for 250 pounds ster ling, in London. Illinded by the glare of the head lights of a motor car proceeding along a highway in a forest on the outskirts of Berlin, a buck deer ran head-on in to the car and caused an accident in which the chauffeur was killed and the car owner and his wife were se riously injured. The fifth congress of the Third (Moscow) International has been post poned until June 15. With Grindel Matthews, English in ventor of a death dealing invisible ray, now in France and discussing bis in vention there, it is understood that the British war office has appnoached him regarding the ray. Grindel Matthews. English inven tor of the mysterious “death ray” which is said to be capable of wiping out armies and destroying airplanes in flight, has inspected the labora tories at Lyons, France, which a French company is willing to place at his disposal. Washington— Unstinted tribute to the Confeder ate dead was paid by Calvin Coolidgo, the first New Englander to become president siuce the Civil war. Speak ing at the Confederate Memorial day exercises at Arlington, Mr. Coolidge looked across the green slopes where the Confederate and Union dead sleep almost side by side and declared “a mightier force than ever followed Grant or Lee has leveled both their hosts, raised up a united nation and made us all partakers of anew glory.” Additional records of the Ku Klux Klan are to be brought to Washington under an agreement reached for an in spection by the special senate commit tee investigating the election contest r.gainst Senator Mayfield of Texas. Addressing the convention of the National Electric Light association in Atlantic City by radio from Washing ton, Secretary of Commerce Hoover warned against burdening the govern ernment with too much paternalistic responsibility. Congressional investigation of land grants to the Northern Pacific railway company has been authorized in a recent house resolution adopted by the senate. Charges of Ku Klux Klan activities in the e lection of Senator Mayfield, of Texas, particularly in reference to the use of money, has occupied some time of the senate committee investigating the question. The use of klan money in th(> 1922 elections was denied by N M. Furney, cashier at the imperial palace, and by J. E. McQuinn, auditor and assistant cashier, and was assert ed by J. Q. Jett, of White Path, Ga., a former klan employee. A tax reduction bill indorsed by the leaders of both parties and virtually every faction in congress has been moulded into final shape. Early ap proval of the unanimous agreement of the conferees on the differences be tween the senate and house, reached by both branches of congress, is pre dicted, and the hope is expressed by Republican leaders that the bill will be signed by President Coolidge. Attorneys for Philip Grossman, the: jail sentence of whom in a Chicago contempt case was recently commuted by President Coolidgo and then rear- j rested upon order of two federal: judges, came to Washington recently in an effort to obtain his release, pend ing final decision of the Supreme court. An expression of faith in the integ rity of former Attorney General Daugherty, built up during three years of association with him as his chief assistant in directing criminal prosecutions, was made before the senate Daugherty investigating com mittee by John W. H. Crim. now spe cial government attorney in the pros ecution of alleged frauds in the vet erans’ bureau. The new compromise tax wil! was I approved by the senate after brief de ; bate. The bill now goes tc the bouse. The vote approving the bill was 60 to 6, with 29 Republicans and 31 Dem ocrats voting for it. The Simmons income schedule, simi lar to the Longworth compromise sup ported by house Republicans in its adoption 1)7 that body, provides for a revision of the surtax rates with a maximum of 40 per cent applicable on incomes of $500,000 and over. It would cut the present normal rates of 4 per cent on incomes up to $4,000 and 8 jer cent above that amount to 2 per cent on income? of $4,000 and under; 4 per cent on incomes between $4,000 and SB,OOO and 6 per cent on those above. A composite plan for adherence to the permanent court of international justice with reservations was laid be fore the senate recently in a revolu tion drafted by Senator Pepper, Re publican, Pennsylvania, after two days of consultation wdth his col leagues on the foreign relations com mittee. Domestic — Jack Skelcher, an alleged gangster, was killed, and the other occupant of a heavily curtained touring car was wounded in the leg and captured in a revolver fight with constabulary at Herrin, 111. The two men are suspect ed by the officers of having partici pated in the attempted assassination of S. Glenn Young, Ku Klux Klan licpior' raider. Mrs. Evelyn Sue Rickner, who was acquitted in federal court at Anniston, Ala., of a charge of murder in con nection with the killing of her hus band, Lieutenant James C. Rickner, declared she would find employment in either Birmingham or Atlanta, where she expects to reside nently. Their escape cut off by the fast spreading flames, seven persons, a woman and six children were burned to death at Canton, Mass., when fire broke out In their home, and within an hour reduced it to a pile of charred embers. Alvis N. Webb, 55, Louisville insur ance man, his wife, daughter-in-law, Josephine, 26, and the latter’s husband, Brent G. Webb, 26, were killed when a Baltimore and Ohio railroad engine struck their automobile at a grade crossing near Holton, Ind. Engine trouble caused a Douglas naval torpedo plane, from the U. S. S. Langley, stationed In Pensacola bay, to fall at Birmingham, Ala., while taking part in a United States air plane circus. The occupants were in jured. The Rev. Walt Holcombe, of Car tersville, Ga., noted southern evange list and son-in-law of the late Rev. Sam P. Jones, is confined to a hos pital in Los Angeles from the effects of injuries received in an automobile, according to reports received at Chat tanooga, Tenn. Bayliss W. Harrison, 26, Greenville, S. C„ cotton broker, was sentenced to serve four years and six months at hard labor on the public works of Greenville county, or In the state pen itentiary, and to pay a fine of sl, fol lowing his conviction of forging cot ton warehouse receipts. Acclaimed wildly as heroic survivors of a daring adventure, Major Fred crick L. Martin, commander of the American ’round the world airplane flight, and Sergeant Alva Harvey, his mechanician, came back to the United States after their perilous landing in the dismal wastelands of Alaska. They landed at Bellingham, Wash. Frank Owens, negro, was arrested at Birmingham, Ala., with a blood stained ax in his possession after Richard Warner and L. M. Watkins, both white, had been found a few blocks from each other mortally wounded. The supreme court after 27 hours of deliberation, condemned to death 17 former judges, court officials, law yers and persons connected with the operation of the new economic policy, who had been tried on charges of cor ruption and bribery. Forty-eight per sons had been on trial for 12 days at Leningrad. Reports from all sections of north Alabama show that farmers of this region are making rapid progress in replanting of cotton, a large propor tion of which was killed by the cold weather that followed the first plants ing, according to reports from Hunts ville, Ala. John C. Calhoun, planter, was found drowned in a well on his plantation near Tupelo, Miss., with a cannon ball —a relic of the civil war in which he fought—tied to his neck. The American army around-the world fliers, after a busy round of en tertainment in Tokio during w hich they received much praise for their achievement in crossing the Pacific, left for Kasumigaura with the an nouncement that they would be glad "to get back to work’’ in preparation for the resumption of their flight. THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA. INCREASE IN HOME BUILDING SHOWN STATISTICAL REPORT PREPARED BY FEDERAL BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS STATE NEWSJSF INTEREST Brief News Items Gathered Hero And There From All Section* Of The State Atlanta. —Increase in home build ing in Atlanta is shown in housing in formation prepared by the federal bu reau of labor statistics. Building in 1922 more than doubled that of 1921, while in 1923 there was a substantial gain over the preceding year. The figures for Atlanta and other cities in this section follows: Number of Families Accommodated in New Buildings. City— 1921 1922 1923 Atlanta 1,614 3,590 3,792 Augusta 342 362 227 Columbus 88 205 223 Macon 162 254 212 Savannah 347 295 239 Charleston 204 287 77 Columbia 241 318 254 Ratio of families provided for to each 10,000 of popula tion based on 1920 census in City— 1921 1922 1923 Atlanta 80.5 178.9 189.0 Augusta 65.1 68.9 43.2 Columbus 28.3 C 5.9 71.6 Macon 30.6 4..9 40.0 Savannah 41.7 35.4 27.7 (Charleston 30.0 42.2 11.3 Columbia 64.2 84.7 67.7 Ratio of families provided for to each 10,000 of popula tion based on esti mate for specified year. City— 1921 1922 1923 Atlanta 77.8 164.5 170.1 Augusta 64.2 67.3 41.8 Columbus 27.5 63.0 67.4 Macon 29.8 45.9 37.6 Savannah 40.4 33.6 28.7 Charleston 29.4 40.8 10.8 Columbia 62.7 81.4 64.0 The bureau collects data from cit fes of 25,000 and over population in the United States. Complete reports Jiave now been received for 1923, and a tabulation of the figures has been jnade for the years 1921, 1922 and 1923, which has not as yet been pub lished. This tabulation shows the number of families provided for in jiew buildings during these years, the ratio of families provided for to each 10,000 of population based upon the census of 1920. and also the- ratio of families provided for to each 10,000 3f population based upon the census bureau estimate of population for the specified years. Reports were received from 269 cit ies in 1923 having a combined popu lation of 37,158,648 as shewn by the census of 1920, showing that 459,471 families were provided for in new dwellings during that year. These had a ratio of 123.7 to each 10,000 of population according to the 1920 cen sus. According to the census bureau estimated population for 1923 of 39,- 835,875, the ratio was 115.5 for each 10,000 of estimated population. Bloodhounds Fail To Track Robber Savannah.—Bloodhounds were used to track down the masked bandit who attempted to hold up William G. Barthelmess, engineer at the water works, but the trail was lost after it had been followed for some distance. Engineer Barthelmess told Lieutenant Clancey and Call Officer Weber, when they arrived in response to his tele phone message, that someone had knocked at his door. Upon opening it a revolver was thrust in his face, and he was ordered to “stick ’em up.” The bandit wore a handkerchief to conceal the lower part of his face, but only a vague description of his gen eral appearance was obtained. Night Watchman Killed In Fight Toccoa. —Officers are hunting for Reuben Whitfield, who recently is al leged to have shot and killed Hugh JCellar, night watchman at Mount Airy, Ga. The watchman was shot twice after a 'vhort discussion over the fil ing of charges against some woman. One bullet pierced his heart. This is the second officer to be killed at Mount Airy in eight months. 3 Negroes Break Tift County Jail Tifton. —Three negroes, one serving a sentence for slaying, escaped from the Tift county ehaingang here re '\ntly. Sam Westbrooks was the rirst to escape, and while the warden was getting dogs to (rail him, Elvu Bevard and Robert Jones escaped also. Rewards of SSO each have been Offered for the capture of the three fugitives. ROPE ENDS LIFE OF J. B. SATTERFIELD Condemned Man Prays That Every Gallows In Georgia Be Destroyed Atlanta.. —James B. Satterfield, mur derer of his brother-in-law, R. H. Hart, paid for his crime with his own life on the gallows in the Fulton coun ty tow’er. He met death unflinching ly and without the slightest tremor. Just before the steel trap was sprung and before the black hood was placed over his head, tears streamed down his face when he spoke of his 17- year-old daughter, Elizabeth. That ■was the only sign of emotion the man has shown since he learned that the date for his execution had been fixed. Not until a few hours before his death did Satterfield give up hope that some miraculous intervention would save his life. Not until that time when word was brought to him that the governor had refused a stay of execution for a lunacy examination did he accept his fate and begin prep arations for death that was to come three hours later. At the moment when the proces sion of jail officials with Satterfield in their midst left the cell on the way to the death room, Satterfield handed Bert Donaldson, prison re form worker, a sealed letter, marked with instructions to be opened after his death. He had completed writing the let ter only a few moments before. Bert Donaldson is attached to Solicitor Boykin’s office. He was the opera tive sent to bring Satterfield back to Georgia to face the charge of having murdered his brother-in-law, two years before. The letter when opened by Donald son gave a request to cremate Sat terfield’s tody and reiterated the statement made on the gallows that it was Satterfield’s hope that he would be the last man to hang in Georgia. True Bill Found In Auto Killing Atlanta. —An indictment charging involuntary manslaughter in the death of little Foster Tinsley, 10-year-old, who was run down by an auto truck May 7, was returned by the Fulton county grand jury against Oscar H. Adams, alleged driver of the car. The Tinsley boy, who resides on Roswell road was returning home from the R. J. Guinn school, with a number of companions when run down. Adams contended that the boy darted in front of his truck and that it was impossible to keep from striking him. He claimed he was driving at a slow rate of speed. A companion of the Tinsley boy, it is said, tried to throw the child’s cap across the road and when it fell in the road he ran to get it, being struck before he could get out of the pathway of the car. Savannah Officer Freed Of Charge Savannah. —A. O. Mikell, Savannah .policeman, acquitted of the murder of Patrick Calhoun, an alleged liquor runner, appeared at police barracks and is preparing to resume his place on the police force. He will prob ably return to work soon. Mikell has been under suspension since the shooting of Calhoun and his arrest. It is expected his acquittal will re sult In the payment of his salary dur ing the time he has been in jail. He declined to discuss his case. Savannah Store Owner Wounded Savannah.—After a long search, po lice and detectives are still without a clue to the identity of the negro bandit who fired five shots at W. H. Gartelinann, proprietor of a store at Thirty-third and East Broad streets, when the storekeeper refused to obey his commands. Only one of the shots took effect, striking Mr. Gartelmann in the shoulder, severing an artery, and nearly causing his death from loss of blood before the flow could be stopped. Four Macon Men Under Arrest Atlanta. —Four Macon men are now under arrest, ,Lree in Atlanta and one in the Central City, pending investi gation by the local police of a series of daring holdups in the center of the city recently. Frank Pope, 20, was jailed in Macon, following arrests here of Leland L. Harvey, alias Done gay, M. C. Willis, and G. A. McMahon. Harvey was arrested by an officer after the prisoner had been recognized by an alleged holdup victim in a cafe on Peachtree street near Five Points. Bank Buys Bond Issue Of $30,000 Barnesville. —The Citizens’ National bank has bought the $30,000 bond issue recently voted by citizens of Barnesville, paying $30,088.50 for the issue. There were eight bidders, but the bank’s bid was highest, and it was awarded the entire issue. The funds will be used in exteiding and improv ing the water and sewerage system, and fer the purchase of fire equip ment. uu.Ja Bit J I EC/jJ FROM MOUSE TO “MOOSE A Scotchman who had been in this country about two months went to a movie show with a friend. In the news reel were views from the wilds of Maine, one of w*hich was a olose-up of a moose. Turning to his friend, the Scotchman said: “I dinna ken wha yon heastle is.” His friend explained that it was an American moose. “A moose?” queried the Scotchman, surprisedly. “Aweel, I dinna want to meet an American rat then!’’— Voo Doo. TOOK UP LAND . “Your grandfather took up land when he came to this country? Get out —he never owned any property!” “Who said he did!” “Didn’t you say he took up land?” “Sure he did —lots of it—witli a spade!” The Plan Somewhere between a rocky gorge And leaping mountain stream A silver spruce tree bares its heart To feel the sunlight's gleam. Matrimonial Amenities “Before we were married you called me an angel.” “I know it.” “And now you don’t call me any thing.” “Well, you ought to be glad that 1 possess such self-control.” The Secret of Success Her —I often wonder why Betty hat so many admirers? She can’t sing oc play a piano. Him —I guess that’s the reason. Peculiarities “When the day breaks it makes light of it.” “Yes, and when the night falls It keeps it dark.” —Boston Transcript. ALAS Bug—lf you’re going to end It all, at least pick out a well with cien water in it! The Gloaming XVhat about the gloaming. Favorite of yore? Writers are not roaming In it any more. A Safe Promise Visitor—How old are you Mag? l * Maggie—l’m five, mid mother *. f I’m good an’ eat lots of oatinea >e six next birtliday.-London An wers. MEOW! Mrs. Perch —She’s a 8 0? ~‘ very spiteful! Mrs. Bass—Yes, a regular c. - Garrulous She is angling fo , r f n. With a rare and damn ' But alas: she scares 100 mu<* For this maiden talk® 1