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NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD OISPATCHES OF IMPORTANT HAP. PENING9 GATHERED FROM OVER THE WORLD. FOR THE _BUSY READER Th* Occurrence* Of Seven Day* Given In An Epitomized Form For Quick Reading Foreign— Advances in the price of native rice are forcing Japan to buy Canadi an wheat in heavy quantities, accord ing to T. Shimusaki, representative of a Tokio milling firm, who is investi gating the wheat situation at Van couver. China has recognised soviet Russia and the recognition is unconditional, the soviet foreign office announced, without giving any details as to the manner in which the recognition was accorded. Premier Poincare of France has re signed office and as the result of a determined left-wing attack on Pres ident Millerand, it is expected that Millerand will quit shortly. A telegram received in Constantino ple from Angora, Turkey, says the Italians are landing troops on the island of Rhodes, in the Mediterra nean, on the southwest coast of Asia Minor. With an army of G,OOO Nationalists armed with field pieces and machine guns marching on Tirana, the capital of Albania, the Albanian capital, led by Shefkret Verlazi, has resigned, ac cording to dispatches from Valona. Vrinoi Hey has been charged with the formation of anew cabinet. The monster collective damage suit brought against the German govern ment by 80,000 Belgians who were de ported for forced labor into Germany during the war, which has been on trial in Geneva, Switzerland, has been •ost by the Germans. Deep regret that the United States lias enacted the immigration bill in cluding a clause barring Japanese Is ' voiced in an official statement issued by (he foreign office at Tokio. Tho Inter-Allied Ambassador’s Council decided unanimously to send a note to Germany asserting the right af the Allied Military commission to continue functioning in Germany. The arsenal and ammunition dumps on the outskirts of Bucharest were de stroyed by a series of terrific explo sions and fire. Colonel House, former confidante of President Wilson, arrived in London and predicted a Democratic victory in the United States next November. The American consulate at Canton is investigating a report that two American missionaries have been kill ed near Kweilin, Kwangsi province. Washington— Hlame for any faulty conditions in the Veterans’ bureau was placed on former Director Forbes, by Senator Keen, Republican, Pennsylvania, in a defense of the present bureau admin istration from recent attacks by Sen ator Oddie, Republican, Navad and others. Agreement was reached by the sen ate reclamation committee to report favorably the bill recommended by the interior department fact-finding committee for relief of settlers and irrigation projects. The senate passed a bill, introduced by Senator Smith, Democrat, South Carolina, authorizing construction of a bridge over the Peedee river, near Savage Landing. S. C. Uneasiness of Republican and Dem ocratic party managers has been ma terially aggravated bv the announce ment of Senator LnFollette. of Wis consin, that an Independent, progres sive movement will bo launched un less the two old parties clean up. Senator Wadsworth’s constitutional amendment providing that further (amendments ahull be ratified by the people, either by a direct vote or through state conventions, was unani mously reported by the senate judici ary committee. Income tax returns may be receiv ed in evidence in a criminal case when shown to have been properly obtained, Justice Jennings Bailey, presiding nt the trial of John I A Phil lips. Georgia, and others on charges of conspiracy in surplus government lumber sales, ruled recently, following arguments of counsel as to admis sibility of copies of income tax re turns of Charles Phillips. Jr„ of At lanta, one of the defendants. The first stop to bring the IT. S. navy up to the full treaty ratio has been taken with passage by the house of the bill appropriating 1150,000.000 to build eight new cruisers and six river gunboats and to recondition six first line battleships. Senator Heflin, Democrat, Alabama announced he would renew his fight before a senate subcommittee to have the investigation of his charges of frauds in the lower Rio Grande valley of Texas proceed in Washington. Chairman Moses previously has over ruled the Alabama senator’s protest against going to the valley before hearing testimony bearing on condi tions there. Accepting the recommendation of a committee which investigated charges of irregularities in connection with his election, the house adopted wth out debate a resolution declaring Royal H. Weller, Democrat, entitled to retain his seat as a representative from the 21st New York district. Officers of the fleet corporation told the house committee investigating the shipping board that Albert B. Fall, as secretary of the irterior in July, 1922, had refused to renew a contract with the board for purchase o f gov ernment royalty oil in Montana and Wyoming, thereby forcing it to ob tain its oil elsewhere, entailing a loss of millions of dollars. Federal reserve board statistics re cently made public disclose that the effect of the downward trend of busi ness has been strongly felt by the federal reserve banks, and on the basis of present calculations, they may end this year with the lowest nef earning in seven years. Domestic— Claud M. Morris, 27, formerly a Memphis, Tenn., plumber, was shot and instantly killed by Mrs. Kather ine Kearney, 34, who was found criti cally wounded in her St. Louis, Mo., apartment. Federal Judge A. M. J. Cochran granted the application of M. S. Daugherty, Washington Court House, Ohio, hanker, for a writ of habeas corpus releasing him from custody of an assistant sergeant at arms of the United States senate who had arrest ed him on a warrant charging con tempt. State's Attorney Robert E. Crow, after announcing that Nathan E. Leo pold, Jr., and Richard Loeb, sons of Chicago millionaires, had confessed the slaying of Robert Franks, 13-year old son of another millionaire, de dared they said they once had con sidered kidnaping a son of Julius Rosenwald, internationally - known philanthropist. Twenty-three bodies, including two adults, have been recovered from the ruins of the Hope Development school for sub normal girls at Playa Del Rey on the beach 18 miles from Los An geles, which was destroyed by fire recently. Three persons are known to have been killed and approximately fifty in jured, about ten of them seriously, when Wabash passenger train No. 92, en route from St. Louis to Detroit, side-swiped a freight train at a cross ing ter. miles west of Attica, Ind. Tommy Gibbons of St. Paul, Minn., defeated Georges Carpentier of France in a 10-round international contest at Michigan City, Ind., before a crowd that filled the sky-blue arena to ca pacity, the largest crowd in history that ever attended a boxing contest in which no championship was at stake. “Guilty” was the finding of the trial court of the Protestant Episcopal house of bishops in the case of William Montgomery Brown, retired bishop of Arkansas. The trial court sat in Cleve land, Ohio. The - verdict meant official denial that doctrines of religion set forth in Bishop Brown’s writings were in harmony with those held by the church. Thirteen persons are known to have been killed and many were injured by a tornado that struck Wetumpka, Ok lahoma, in Hughes county. The tor nado approached from the southwest and swept through the southern fringe of the town, whose population has been swelled recently by oil activities in the surrounding territory. A room so sealed that it could have been flooded with gas and transform ed into a lethal gas chamber was found in the Sieben brewery, Chicago, recently raided, which Chief of Police Collins declares he believes had been contrived as a result of a plot to frus trate and perhaps kill raiders. Thirty eight men were indicted in connection with the raid. The Presbyterian general assembly, in seession at Grand Rapids. Mich., has refused to accede to the demand of the Fundamentalists that Rev. Har ry Emerson Fosdick of New York be forbidden to preach in a Presbyterian pulpit. In effect the decision of the commission and the assembly put over for another year the “Fosdick her esy" case. Youth triumphed over old-fashioned conceptions of right and wrong at Springfield. Mass., when the Metho dist Episcopal general conference voted, by a substantial majority, to lift the church ban on amusements and make the issue one for decision of the individual s conscience THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA. REVENUE TO EXCEED FIXEG EXPENDITURE ESTIMATED REVENUE FOR STATE FOR 1924 FIXED AT $9,961,824.75 STATE NEWS OF INTEREST Brief News Items Gathered Here And There From All Sectione Of The State Atlanta. —The estimated revenue of the state of Georgia for 1924 is fixed at $9,961,824.75, or $668,990.75 in ex cess of the fixed appropriations made for this year, in the annual report to the Georgia general assembly now be ing prepared by General William A. Wright, comptroller general of Geor gia since 1879. However, the comp troller general points out that this sit uation does not authorize additional appropriations by the legislature, as it will jrequire $3,808,325 to clear the slate of the debts due Confederate pensioners. General Wright estimates that the state ad valorem tax will bring in $5,596,026.75, including both real es tate and the property of public utility corporations, while the revenue from other sources will be $-1,365,798. The largest items in the revenue from oth er sources are $1,000,000 as the gen eral fund portion of the fuel oil tax, $700,000 from insurance companies, $550,000 from the inspection of oils, $365,000 from poll taxes, $300,000 each from inheritance, special and occupa tional taxes, and $210,000 from ferti lizer inspection fees. The chief fixed appropriations are $4,250,000 to the common schools, $974,566 to higher educational insti tutions, $1,300,000 for pensions, $845,- 000 to eleemosynary institutions, $457,- 000 to the civil establishment, $322,- 000 on the public debt, $166,000 to the state board of health and its auxiliar ies, $190,500 to the state department of agriculture and its various branches and agencies, $132,144 to the legisla ture, $107,000 to the prison depart ment, $106,000 to combined education al and eleemosynary institutions, and items of less than $lOO,OOO to other branches of the state government. Asa reminder that fixed appropria tions are not all that the state must meet, General Wright points out that the 1923 legislature made additional appropriations of $456,209.28, includ ing $239,874.68 for the state sanitar ium at Milledgeville and $93 303.88 for the extraordinady session of the gen eral assembly. “While it would appear that the estimated revenue for 1924 is $668,- 990.75 in excess of appropriations, it must be borne in mind that the reve nue is estimated, while the appropria tions, amounting to $9,292,834, are definite amounts appropriated by law for definite purposes. Then, too, it must be borne in mind that the appro priations act passed in 1923 provides that should the total revenue of the state exceed $8,500,000 per year, then one-half of the excess for each of the years 1924 and 1925 shall be applied to the common, or public, school fund,’’ the report states. Cacualty Company To Move Macon.—The directors of the Geor gia Casualty company, one of the big gest casualty insurance companies doing business in the south, at a re cent meeting held here, voted to move a substantial part of what is now the home office staff to Atlanta. This will mean that the home office of the company goes to Atlanta, the- move to take place on October 1, of this year. Dr. J. C. McAfee, a vice presi dent of the company, assisted by C. B. Lewis, Jesse B. Hart and J. S. Schofield, directors of the company, will have charge of the company’s business in Macon. Waycross Georgian New Paper Waycross.—The Waycross Georgian, edited bv Walter Hay and Lloyd Her rin, latest addition to the press of Waycross, made its first appearance recently. The new Waycross paper contains 12 pages, six 20-inch columns to the page, and is attractively got up and printed. The paper is a week ly, published each Thursday. The paper is owned by Lee Herrin, who also owns and edits The Ware Coun ty News, of Millwood, and The Willa coochee Times, of Willacoochee, Ga. Fine Watermelon Crops For Thomas Thomasville. —Watermelon growers are bringing in young melons to show what their crops are looking like and they appear to be in fine condition. The weather this week has been of the kind to promote rapid growth and although the crop this year will be a trifle later there seems no reason why it should not be a fine one. The rains have come just often enough to keep the soil moist and so far as known, there have been no diseases or other drawbacks. Five Killed; One Hurt, In Wreck Atlanta. —Five persons were killed outright and a sixth, a small child, probably fatally hurt when a light tour ing car in which they were riding was struck by Southern passenger train No. 22 at Zebulon, recently. The dead are Sain Stuart, 33; Mrs. Sam Stuart, 35; Glenn Stuart, 14; Mrs. Clyde W. Hillard, 25, and her eight-months-old baby, Lucile, all of Hampton. Ronelle, two-and-one-half-year-old daughter of Mrs. Hillard, is at the Atlanta hospi tal so badly injured that little hope is held out for recovery. The fatal crash occurred in full view of Stu art’s brother and youngest son, occu pants of a machine which had dashed across the tracks only a few seconds before the ill-fated car was hit by the fast passenger train. Occupants of the first car, although dazed by their own narrow escape, frantically sought to warn the second car of the impend ing danger, but did not have suffi cient time before the lumbering train had crashed into the automobile. The passenger train, in charge of Conduc tor J. W. Strickland and Engineer H. W. Bradley, was northbound and hit the automobile at a grade crossing in the outskirts of Zebulon, 51 miles south of Atlanta. The car was torn into bits and the occupants were hurled high into the air. Engineer Bradley applied his emergency brakes and brought the train to a standstill and the bodies were placed aboard and rushed to Atlanta. The eider Stuart was conscious when picked up, but died a few moments after being placed on the train. Hold Man For Murder of Mill Hand Sparta. —Mike Mitchell, a negro sawmill hand working at William Smith’s mill near Linton, is dead as the result of gunshot wounds at the bands of Lonnie Simmons, another negro. At the time of the shooting, Mitcheii was in the woods sawing a log, and Simmons walked up and open ed fire on him with a shot gun. The whoie load took effect in Mitchell’s left leg, almost severing it from the body. He was immediately rushed to a Sandersville hospital, where the limb was amputated, but he died later. Canning Plant Added to Creamery Hawkinsville. The Hawkinsville creamery, a concern -which has been in operation here for four years, has been purchased by F. L. Fleming, local business man, who has announc ed he intends to establish a canning factory which will supply a ready market for the fruit and vegetables produced near Hawkinsville. Such a factory would afford a convenient market for perishables which farmers are not prepared to ship to distant markets. Murray County Limestone Valuable Dalton—Dr. S. W. Looper recently sent a sample of rock from bis farm in Murray county to the state geolo gist for analysis, aud the report re ceived shows he has some very valu able holdings there. The rock is located to Conasauga river and is easily accessible, making its quarry a simple undertaking. State Geologist McCallie declared the rock was quite pure limestone suitable for making both agricultural and quicklime. Growers Plan Community House Montezuma— Machinery is being in stalled in the new community pack ing house which will be operated by J. W. McKenzie and W. H. McKenzie, Jr. The plant will handle the fruit of 15 grow-ers and expects to put out approximately 90,000 crates of peach es. It is located at the intersection of the A.. B. & A. and Central rail roads. which makes it possible to load the peaches from the packing house to the cars. To Name E. H. McMichael’s Successor Buena Vista.—The ordinary of Mar ion county, under order from the gov ernor authorizing an election for rep resentative front Marion county to fill the un xpired term of E. H. Mc- Michael, deceased, has mailed an elec tion for June 19. To date, only two have announced as candidates —J. S. Burgin, prominent business man of Buena Vista, and Judge W. D. Craw ford, prominent attorney and former senator from this district. Slayer Of Boy To Plead Self-Defense Albany.—S. D. Rigsby, held at the county jail on a charge of murder in connection with the death of Joe Pate on the night of May 14. will be given a commitment hearing next Friday, June 6. Claude Payton, attorney for the aged man, states that an effort will be made to have the prisoner re leased outright, on the ground of self defense. 21 Given Diplomas At Blakely Blakely.—The 1923-1924 term of the Blakely public schools closed official ly recently, and the graduating exer cises are over. Diplomas were award ed to 25 boys and girls. A feature of the entertainment was the baccalau reate address by Dr. N. H. Ballard, state school superintendent. JR Funny j HOW SHE PROVED IT Traffic officer stopped a woman who was driving a car on wrong side of the street. “Say, you big stiff,” she said. “You gotta lotta gall stopping me . [f lt wasn’t for leavin’ the car I’d get out and soak you one in the jaw, you lg. norant polecat. I want you to under stand, you poor prune, that I am a lady.” ONLY FIT FOR A PIG Tramp—Hey, mister, kin I have some o’ them persimmons on that there tree? Guess they’re on’y fit t’ feed a pig with, anyhow. Farmer —That’s all —help yourself! Sure Do! When sizing up a baseball club Don’t overlook this thing— The busher looks a budding star Most usually in the spring. Both Suited Footpad (a bit old-fashioned)—Your money or your life. Pedestrian —Which would you pre fer? Footpad—Your money, of course. Pedestrian (handing over) Well, that suits me; I’d a lot rather have my life. STILL HAVE CRANKS “Automobiles are run without cranks now, I see.” “You can’t know many car owners to say that.” Polar Research The old North pole Is lost attain, Though in the same position. To get discovered now and then Would seem its only mission. Traffic Speed “Can’t yer go any faster?'’ roared the angry traffic cop to the fellow w io had delayed a string of autos several blocks long. “Yes,” calmly replied the driver or the antiquated flivver, “I can, bat don’t want to leave the car. ' n lace’s Farmer. JEALOVS? OH, NO! SW-I', *ll IMB ,uli. mill He —Well, I’d jußt shorten that plain sapl Final Result The grafter faces with a , th |t; The world, and seeks to P la> Then earns the gloomy epitapn, "He didn't get away with it' Always Liberal Porter—Dis am only a quarter s- Mr. Klose—That’s all right; "hen tip a man I never do it by “ ha •