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BRIEF NEWS NOTES IV HAT MAS OCCURRED DURING WEEK THROUGHOUT COUN TRY AND ABROAD EVENTS OFJMPQRTANCE Gathered From All Parte Of Th Globe And Told In Short Paragraphs Foreign— Tirana, capital of Albania, has been captured by the nationalist revolution ary forces, according to a Brindisi dis patch to The Tribuna. The dispatch states that the city fell after an at tack in which 100 were killed and wounded. German co-operation in execution of the Dawes report was sustained, and the anti-Dawes Junkers of the nation alist party received a setback when Wilhelm Marx, who resigned as chan cellor a week ago, reformed his old cabinet without nationalist participa tion. President Millerand has not answer ed the radical bloc demand that he resign, but officials of the French sen ate and chamber of deputies have de cided to send gangs of workmen to clean and arrange the congress hail at the Palace of Versailles, where presidential elections are always held. Bombardment with requests that he continue in America his work for mod ification law, that the Japanese ex clusion clause may be removed, mark ed the farewell luncheon given by the Pan-Pacific club to retiring Ambassa dor Gyrus E. Woods. The body of an unidentified young man. who apparently had committed suicide because wealth had made him “too happy,” was found beside a lim ousine bearing a New York state li cense, near St. Come de Beauce, close to the Maine border. Lieutenant Lowell H. Smith, with his mechanician, Lieutenant Leslie P. Arnold, who was delayed at Kago shima, Japan, by engine trouble, ar rived at Shanghai on the flag plane Chicago, rejoining his companions on the American around-the-world flight. While western European capitals thrill to continuing reports of revolu tionary disorders in Rumania, a veil of strict censorship blocks all news from Bucharest. While western European capitals thrill to continuing reports of revolu tionary disorders in Roumania, a veil of strict censorship blocks all news from Bucharest. Thus far reports of a revolt in Roumania are deprecated by Roumanian officials abroad. Con firmation has been obtained of, the re l>ort that King Ferdinand forbade Gen eral Averescu, leader of the peasants’ party, from holding a demonstration, and that the latter said he would dis regard the king’s orders. Ruffians broke up the recent dance at the Imperial hotel, Tokio, which was attended by many members of the foreign community, with a dem onstration of opposition to the exclu sion clause of the new American im migration law. Chancellor Marx has won his fight !o keep Germany pledged to execu tion of the Dawes pl*u. The body voted 217 to 182 on a resolution ap proving the plan. Washington— When the senate left Washington In a hurry, failing to act ou several matters because of a blockade front rate members, it endangered the im mediate tax cut this year as far as a million taxpayers are concerned, as well as holding up the bonus and kill ing other desired legislation. The resignation of United States At torney Williams at San Francisco was requested by Attorney General Stone. Neglect of duty was charged. A bill to provide a permanent na tional reforestation policy was pass fd by the senate. With a plain wood pen presented by Charles Lathrop Pack, president of (he American Tree association. Pres ident Coolidge signed the McNary Vlarho forestry bill. Five Republican members of the oil committee submitted to the senate a minority reimrt dissenting from some of the views expressed in the major ity report drawn up by the committee prosecutor. Senator Walsh. Less than two hours after the Mc- Nary-Haugen farm relation bill had been sent Into the discard by a vote of 224 to 154, Republican leaders In the house had tentatively agreed on a substitute. Senator W. J. Harris requested the department of agriculture to allocate sufficient funds in their telegraph market news service to provide live stock reports for the Atlanta office from Ixjulsville, Montgomery, Nash ville and Jacksonville. The house bill proposing creation of the “Mississippi fish and game refuge" from swamp lands in valley states was passed by the senate. Brigadier General Malin Craig, now in Manila, was named chief of caval ry by President Coolidge. He suc ceeds Major General Holbrook, soon to retire. The Hoch resolution looking to a general downward revision of rail road freight rates, especially in re gard to farm products, was passed by the house. The postal salary increase bill was vetoed by President Coolidge with the declaration that “government ex travagance must stop.’ l Victor Berger, Socialist representa tive from Wisconsin, has coined a new word to describe American cap italists. Berger christened them pay trioteers, in a statement boosting his resolution introduced into the house to return to aliens the property seized by the government during the war. Opposing consolidation of the war and navy departments, the joint con gressional committee on reorganiza tion of executive departments in a report submitted recommended estab lishment of anew department of edu cation and relief. Domestic— Annie Slaughter, a negro woman who lived on the Russell plantation south of Huntsville, Ala., was shot and instantly killed by Wade Slaugh ter, a tenant farmer. Governor A1 Smith, following state ments by leaders of his campaign which have tended to make his public stand on the prohibition question somewhat ambiguous, has sought to erase all doubt on the subject in an open letter in which he definitely de clares for light wines and beers. The Louisiana legislature apparent ly is pointing toward something unique in American legislative his tory. When the solons were called to order at Baton Rouge, La., it was declared there were only 25 bills in the house for final passage and that the calendar of both branches was clear. Six persons, virtually the entire family of Adam Pittman, of Bradford, were killed when their automobile stalled on the track and was demol ished by an eastbound Big Four pas sanger train at Dawn, nine miles north of Greenville, Ohio. Mrs. Ethel Mott, wife of Charles S. Mott, vice president of the General Motors corporation, was almost in stantly killed when she fell from the window- of her bedroom on the second floor of their home at Flint, Mich. Mrs. Margaret Willis, “trunk mur deress,’’ was found guilty by a jury at Los Angeles, Calif., of the slaying of Dr. Benjamin Baldwin. The federal reserve bank at San Francisco announced a reduction in its rediscount rate from 4 1-2 tot 4 per cent, effective June 10. Fifteen men are known to be dead and a score more were injured as the result of an explosion in the Loomis colliery of the Glen Alden Coal com pany in Hanover township, according to word received at Wilkes, Barre, Columbia university at its one hun dred and seventieth commencement awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws to Andrew W. Mellon, secretary of the treasury; Victor F. Lawson, published of the Chicago Daily News; Melville E. Stone, counsellor of the Associated Press,, and Adolph S. Ochs, publisher of the New York Times. State Senator Michael Kinney, 49, was shot and dangerously wounded by one of two unidentified men in a motor car who attacked him at Oak land station, near Kirkwood. Mo., as he was awaiting a train to St. Louis. Rear Admiral Bradley M. Fiske, re tired, in a letter to Secretary Wilbur, which he made public, called atten tion to the present comparative strength of the American and Japa nese fleets for operations in Far East ern waters which he said, was grave ly misunderstood by the public. Mrs. Anna Buzzi, convicted of the murder of Frederick Schneider, wealthy New York contractor, was granted anew trial by the court of appeals at Albany. N. Y. The court reversed the judgment of conviction of the supreme court In Bronx coun ty. Mrs. Buzzi is now in the death house at Sing Sing prison. Re-election of ex-Governor Frank O. Lowden. of Illinois, president, and selection of Grand Rapids as the 1925 convention city marked the annual meeting of the 39th convention of the Holstein Friesian Association of Amer ica at Richmond, Va. Fairly active trading marks the curb market In New York Public utility issue are demonstrating strength. Oils are moving erratically and have de veloped weakness on reports of im pending price cutting. Los Angeles was selected as the 1925 convention city by the imperial council of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine In convention at Kansas City, Mo. THE DANIELBVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA. BLOCKS ELECTION OF POLICE CHIEF HOLDING OF ELECTION TEMPO RARILY RESTRAINED BY ORDER OF COURT STATE NEWSJF INTEREST Brief New* Items Gathered Hera And There From All Section* Of The State Atlanta. —That the police committee of city council, temporarily restrained recently from proceeding with the election of a permanent chief of police by Judge G. H. Howard on petition of anum ber of members of city coun cil, will not submit to an interference with its authority without a legal fight, was made clear by Chairman Edward H. Inman, who announced he had retained Attorney Arminius Wright to appear for the committee at the hearing on the injunction. The petition asking the court to re strain the committee from electing a chief at its meeting was presented to Judge Howard by thirteen members of council through Attorneys Joe Wood, Ben H. Sullivan, Holmes Joy ner and J. V. Poole. The council members signing the petition were: Alderman J. L. Carpenter, Councilman W. M. Etheridge, Councilman Harry York, Councilman J. A. White, Coun cilman T. C. Aven, Alderman Foster L. Hunter, Councilman W. C. Jen kins, Councilman Frank Callaway, Councilman J. Allen Couch, Council man Leo Sudderth, Councilman S. A. Wardlaw and Councilman R. S. Pen nington. The petition sets forth, In sub stance, that council Indicated by Its vote that it desires to elect a chief of police itself and that inasmuch as the police committee is a creature of the general council and subordinate to the larger body it should not be allowed to proceed with the election until council has acted finally. Attorney Wright said he had not yet had time to fully complete his answer, but that it would be on the grounds that the committee is vested with the authority to elect a chief and cannot be stopped until council has taken that authority away from it. He said that since no ordinance has been enacted into a law taking this power away from the committee, it has full legal authority to proceed with an election of a permanent chief if it so desires. The attorney declared he would most strenuously fight any attempt to have the hearing of the temporary injunction delayed. He said it was his opinion that the injunction had no legal grounds on which to stand, and that its entire purpose was to at tempt to delay the committee from acting until council could finally pass upon the matter. “There will undoubtedly be a move to have the hearing postponed,” said Attorney Wright, “and in this man ner prevent the committee from pro ceeding. PROHI LAW VIOLATIONS ON DECREASE IN 1924 Atlanta.—Violations of the prohibi tion law in Georgia have decreased at least 590 per cent this year, as against violations in 1923, according to dis closures in the monthly report of the federal prohibition department for Georgia, released by Fred D. Dismuke, In charge of the department. “The whisky situation in Georgia,” Mr. Dismuke stated, “has improved so that our force of agents has been de creased from the number required last year. Fewer stills are found, and there is little flagrant violation of the law-.” The report shows that during the month of May there were 154 illicit stills seized and destroyed; 1,143 gal lons of whisky, 135.480 gallons of beer, 1,484 fermenters. $3,823.35 worth of property seized and destroyed, and 125 persons reported and recommend ed for prosecution. The number of persons arrested for violation of pro hibition laws totaled 89 and 70 con victions were secured in courts, ac cording to the report. Heavy fines imposed by the courts is having a tendency to stop the liquor traffic in Georgia, Mr. Dismuke stated. Atlanta Man Kills Wife And Self Atlanta.—Two lives were sacrificed and seven small children made or phans recently when W. M. Jackson, 87, of 271 South Whitefoord avenue, fatally shot his wife and then ended his own life as a culmination of a series of marital difficulties and quar rels, neighbors assert. Jackson was killed instantly when a bullet crash ed into his brain and Mrs. Jackson died two hours later in a hospital from a wound In her left chest. The shooting took place In a garage ROYBTON IN READINEBB TO ENTERTAIN EDITORB Press Association Of Eighth And Ninth Districts Convenes June 13 Monroe.—The Press Association of the Eighth and Ninth District will meet at Royston June 13. President E. A. Caldwell urges every paper in the districts to send a representa tive. Royston is preparing to entertain the delegates and will be disappointed if there is not a full attendance. President Caldwell announces the following program: Place—Methodist church. Time—lo:3o sharp, E. T. Called to order by President E. A. Caldwell. Enrollment of members and pay ment of dues. Roll call and reading of minutes. New and unfinished business. Appointment of committees. Chorus—Royston Music club. “Biblical Reference to Publicity’' —Mrs. John N. Holder, Jefferson. Invocation —Dr. T. M. Elliott, pas tor Royston Methodist church. 11 —Words of welcome, the Rev. C. W. Henderson, pastor Royston Bap tist church. 11:15 —Response, Ernest Camp, Wal ton Tribune. 11:25 —Remarks by Mayor C. C. Fain, Sam Bowers, president Board oi Trade, and Herbert Dyar, Royston Record. Musical Number —Royston talent. 11:50—Address, “The Press and Rural Education,’- Hon. Willis A. Sut ton, Atlanta. 12:35 —“The Ifs and Ands of th< Print Shop—Devil to Editor,” L. L Morris, Hartwell Sun. 12:50 —“For the Good of the Asso elation,” Editor J. W. McWhorter Winder News. 1:05 —“The Constructive Newspapei and What It Takes to Make It,” JohD Shannon, Commerce News. 1:15 —Reports of committees. Selection of next place of meeting. Adjournment for dinner (church lawn). The afternoon program (during din ner hour) will be given by Royston talent, with F,ditor Herbert Dyar, Royston Record, in charge. Im promptu speeches of two to three min utes will be made by editors and oth ers. 3 Candidates For Blue Ridge Post Blue Ridge.—The Blue Ridge cir cuit, long noted for its strenuous and diversified politics, promises its usual interesting campaign for the coming September primary. There are three candidates for the judgeship. Judge D. W. Blair, incumbent, is opposed by ex-Judge George F. Gober, of Marietta, and former Solicitor General J. P. Brooke, of Alpharetta. The race for Solicitor General is also a three-cor nertd affair, the present Solicitor General, John S. Wood, being oppos ed by ex-Solicitor John T. Dorsey, of Marietta, and Colonel B. L. Smith, of Blue Ridge. Columbus School Bonds Are Voted Columbus.—Plans for the validation of Columbus’ $900,000 city bond issue, recently authorized for the construc tion of anew high school, city pav ing andi other improvements, were set in motion by the city commission at its weekly session when returns of the special election were canvassed and the results declared. It was of ficially declared that the bond issue had carried by the safe mal£in of from 400 to 550 votes. Evangelistic Clubs Select Officers Macon.—The nominating commit tee of the Association of Evangelistic Clubs of Georgia, In annual session here, nominated the following new officers and they were elected with out opposition: Dr. Fred M. Jenkins, Columbus, president; Dr. Willis F. Jordan. ‘Columbus, secretary-treas urer; J. R. Whitman, Atlanta; T. A. Coleman, Macon; G. W. Urquhart, Savannah, vioe presidents. Augustan Freed In Negro’s Death Augusta—R. w. Brown, Georgia & Florida railway seal clerk, was recent ly exonerated by a coroner’s Jury of killing William Woody, negro brake man. The verdict of the coroner’s Jury was justifiable homicide. Brown is a son of M. L. Brown, city detec tive. According to witnesses, the negro appeared to have been drink ing, and young Brown shot in self defense, the negro having moved as if to get a pistol from his pocket. DeJarnette Head Of Peanut Co-ops Albany.—At the annual meeting of the directors of the Georgia Peanut Growers' Co-operative association held here, Henry R. Dejarnette, of Eaton ton, was elected president and general manager, to succeeed Colonel Robert E. L. Spence, of Albany, who retired voluntarily after one year’s service as head of the organization and as chair man of the campaign that made the orynization possible. Scraps^ of m HIS PECULIARITY ■■You must find that impediment i your speech rather inconvenient at times, Mr. Biggs?” 1 at “Oh n-no; everybody has his culiarity. Stammering ls m . m . m C What Is yours?” ‘Well, really, I am not aware that I have any.” “D-do you stir y-your tea with your right hand?” “Why, yes, of course." “W-well, that is your p-peeuliarity; most p-people u-use a teaspoon.” HONEYMOON STILL ON “Hasn’t their honeymoon ended yet?” “Not yet—she still believes every thing he has to say,” Overwhelming Information Investigating we must go With nerves unsteady, Although some of us thick we know Enough already. Father’s Joke I Mrs, Scrappins—Papa always was 8 great joker. Scrappins—That’s so. When I asked him for you he said: “Take her, young man, and be happy.” Unreasonable Request Doctor —Put out your tongue—more ; than that —all of It. ’ Child —But, doctor, I can’t. It's fas tened at the other end!— Onward. DAD OUGHT TO KNOW Dad (sternly)—Why were you kept In after school, Johnny? Johnny—You ouglita know, dad-you worked them darn sums! One of Millions She oft pictures herself As ft hit on the screen; That’s as near movie stardom As she’s ever been. Forgivable English Paper—Those who have climbed to the top are too often co - to remain where they are. Still, you can hardly blame them. Hard to Do Both “So Maud has begun to cultivate her Voice.” “Yes, she finally chose that rat than to cultivate her friends. SOME CALL IT THAT -t, w “Oh —Is that what they re cold feet now?” Driving Away DuII C °*\t^ Twould make a BU "®r{ n f nr e And laugh away dull care If he could see his den .s Another dentist's chair. Mannerly Conservation “Willie, have you no e [ = woD T “Well, if I wste tfcenJ have any when company -