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What la Taking Place In The South*
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Foreign—
The Fascist national council (Italy)
has elected anew directory of twenty
one representatives from the various
districts in Italy. Eleven of the direc
tors are members of the chamber of
deputies.
British and Soviet representatives
signed the Anglo-Soviet treaty and
trade agreement in a small room at the
foreign office in London. There was
no ceremony, and only a few officials
present, visitors and newspapermen
not being admitted.
Bearing the authority of his cabinet
to make what Is generally declared the
most important decision of France
since the treaty of Versailles, Premier
Edouard Harriot: has returned to the
reparations conference, at London.
The Rritish authorities in India will
use evtry means in their possession to
defeat “the revolutionary menace” in
the Bengal,; the'Earl of Lytton, gov
ernor of Bengal, declared in a recent
address at Dacca, India.
Acting with moderation that has
aroused the admiration and fired tl}e
hopes of all concerned, the German del.
agates to the international reparations
conference have placed before the al
lies their criticism of the protocol
drawn by the allied conferees.-' The
German covering letter to the allied
chiefs carefully avoided making flat
demands.
Arthur Ponsonby, a member of the
British Labor government announced
recently in the house of commons that
m Anglo Russian settlement had been
reached and that a general treaty and
a special commercial treaty had been
agreed upon, and that, under the terms
of the commercial treaty, Great Britain
will-receive tlie most favored national
treatment from the Soviet.
The negotiations between represen
tatives of Great Britain and soviet
Russia have broken down and the
projected treaty will not be signed,
it was announced by the foreign office.
Brazilian federal troops had an en
gagement against a detachment of
rebels near Sao Manoel, about 120
miles west of Sao Paulo, according to
a message from Santos to La Nacion.
A bolshevik band, armed with ma
chine guns and bombs, has raided the
Polish town of Stolpce (Stolbtsy,
southwest of Minsk), say dispatches
just received. The raiders released
the prisoners from the jail and pillag
ed the ]>ostoffice and railroad station,
smashing the telegraph and telephone
instruments so that the news was not
transmitted to Warsaw pntil the affair
was over.
Divorce is steadily on the increase
in Germany, according to recent sta
tistics, which show' that the number
of legal separations being granted now'
is virtually double the number of ten
years ago. Infidelity was the cause of
63 per cent of the divorces in Ger
many last year, the men being to
blame in the greater number of cases,
“ccording to court records.
Washington—
Revolutionary forces in Honduras
were within twelve miles of the city
of Choluteca recently, Minister Mo
rales informed the state department in
a dispatch sent from Tegucigalpa.
Ihe shipping board has approved
the recommendation of the fleet cor
poration that the trade name, "The
(riilt-Mediterranean Line,” be given the
service to be operated out of east and
vest gulf ports to Portugal, Spain,
and North Africa, west of Bizerta, by
the Tampa Interocean Steamship
company.
President Coolidge accepted the for
mal resignation of Charles It. Warren
as ambassador to Mexico. In a state
ment accompanying his letter of res
ignation, made public at the white
house with the letter of President
t'oolidge's acceptance, Mr. Warren
criticised the Wilson administration's
policy in Mexico and declared Ameri
can property and rights would he pro
tected there under the now relations
between the two nations.
The Republican national committee
lias before it for decision. President
< oolidge let it bo known, the ques
tion of establishing a regional head
quarters at Minneapolis, as the base
for an intensive campaign in the north
western states.
The name of Senator VVheeler, of
Montana, will appear on the ballot
with Senator La Follette in every
state, managers of the La Follette
campaign at Washington declared, dis
missing as of no importance reports
that some of La Follette's supporters
in Montana were seeking to substitute
Charles W. Bryan, Democratic vice
presidential nominee, for Wheeler in
that state.
The proposal of British Prime Minis
ter MacDonald to s ! gn forthwith the
treaty between Great Britain and So
viet Russia, which was drawn up by
the Anglo-Russian conference recently,
Is the subject of a vigorous attack
from the opposition.
The cost of food in fourteen out of
nineteen cities in which surveys have
just been completed by the labor de
partment increased from 1 to 3 per
cent
Domestic —
The New York City jury in the
case of William J. Fallon, criminal law
yer, who has been on trial there on
the charge of having bribed a juror,
returned a verdict of not guilty.
Footprints in a devastated tobacco
field near Glasgow', Ky., tell the story
of numerous men who walked between
rows of virtually matured tobacco on
the farm of John Smith in Metcalf
county, and pulled a $3,000 crop up
by the roots.
Powder, machinery and buildings
valued at tw-enty-eight million dollars,
war-time prices, and at more than two
million dollars at present valuation,
were destroyed in a fire that swept
clean a forty-acre tract in the heart
of the Old Hickory powder plant at
Jacksonville, Tenn., near Nashville.
There was no loss of life nor serious
injury
Four persons were killed and an
other probably fatally injured when
an eastbound Cincinnati, Indiana and
Western passenger train struck the au
tomobile in which they were riding,
eight miles from Hamilton, Ohio.
Senator Moses of New Hampshire,
chairman of the Republican senatorial
committee, has written George Henry
Payne, who was Eastern manager of
Senator Hiram Johnson’s pre-conven
tion campaign, making a suggestion
that the Republican party place no
candidate in the field to oppose Sen
ator Thomas Walsh of Montana, “who,
single-handed, exposed, Fall, Doheny
and Sinclair.’’
National Republican headquarters
announces that Richard J. Powers, of
Chicago, first president of the Federa
tion of Trades and Labor Unions, fore
runner of the American Federation of
Labor and friend and admirer of Sam
uel Gompers, has volunteered his aid
to the Republican party in the coming
presidential campaign.
The governor of Mississippi is re
ported to be leading a pack of blood
hounds to run down George Mackey,
farm hand, who ran amuck, killing
Mrs. William Bolian, his employer, the
widowed mother of eight children, and
wounding her 16-year-old daughter,
Fannie, and Henry Carver, a neighbor
youth.
Death, suffering and destruction have
attended a series of tornadoes and
electrical storms, accompanied by tor
rential rains, that recently swept the
sections of the Middle West and the
Northwest. At least twelve persons
are reported to have lost their lives.
Seven of them died in Minnesota and
Wisconsin. The states which appear
to be storm-ravaged are Illinois, Wis
consin, low'a. Minnesota, Indiana, Mis
souri and Kansas.
In the gale of wind and rain which
struck Chicago the other afternoon,
many trees were blown down, small
buildings unroofed and it was impos
sible for pedestrians to stand up in
some parts of the city and suburbs.
Forty-six buildings were struck by
lightuing.
The general hospital board of the
Methodist Episcopal Chursh, South,
approved the offer of Huntington. W.
Va., of $200,000 and a five-acre tract
if the board will erect a hospital there,
when the lioard met recently in Mont
gomery, Ala.
Santiago L. Hawley, said by his
agents at San Francisco to be one of
the biggest coffee plantation owners
in Guatemala, either jumped or fell
from the eighth story of a downtown
San Fraucisco hotel the other day and
was killed. He had been suffering
from a nervous illness.
Alonzo Myhand and his ctiusin. Por
ter Myhand, negroes, were hanged at
Scale. Ala., the other day, for the mur
der of Sophia Ingram, aged negro
woman.
State Senator Ralph O. Brewster,
Portland. Maine, who ran with Ku
Klux Klan support, was declared by
the governor and council to have lieen
nominated for governor by the Repub
licans at the June primary. The offi
cial returns, giving a majority of 320
to Frank G. Farrington, president of
the state senate, were by a
recount to a majority of "SSI for Brews
ter.
THE DANIELBVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA.
3 PLANES TO OUST
COITON AT ATHENS
FIRST DEMONSTRATION OF NEW
METHOD OF FIGHTING BOLL
WEEVIL GIVEN AUGUST 26
STATE NEWSJF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here
And There From All Section#
Of The State
Atlanta.—Georgians will be given
their first opportunity to view a dem
onstration of the latest method of
combating the boll weevil when a cot
ton field near Athens will be dusted
with calcium arsenate by three air
planes on August 26, acccording to
tentative plans announced after a
meeting here of representatives of sev
eral concerns interested in the devel
opment.
Dr. B. R. Coad, in charge of the
Delta laboratories, the government ex
perimental station at Tallulah, La.,
will be in charge of the demonstra
tion, which is expected to mark the
beginning of anew era in the fight
to exterminate the cotton pest in this
state.
) Dr. Coad, who is nationally known
through his valiant fight against the
boll weevil, will appear in Georgia for
the first time to direct demonstration
of his newest weapon against the wee
vil. Dr. Coad was responsible for
development of the calcium arsenate
method of dusting cotton now used
so extensively throughout the cotton
belt, and has spent the past two years
In successfully developing the air
plane method of dusting, which, it is
claimed by the United States depart
ment of agriculture, may revolution
ize the cotton industry .
The Athens demonstration is to be
feponsored by a number of prominent
Georgians. Included among those at
tending the meeting here were Brooks
Morgan, of Frank E. Block and com
pany; James . A., Hollomon, of The
Constitution; J, Lee Edwards, vice
president of the Atlanta, Birmingham
& Atlantic railway; A. D. Daniel, pas
senger traffic manager of the road;
W. H. Alsabrook and M. A. Tucker,
also officials of the A., B. & A.; George
McCarty, of the, Ashcraft-Wilkinson
Xjmpany; G. B. Post, of Huff-Daland
and Company, of Agdenburg, N. Y.,
and David D. Long, soil specialist,
connected with-the Southern Fertilizer
association.
Dr. Andrew M. Soule, president of
the state college of agriculture, will
be In active charge of the demonstra
tion, and will act in co-operation with
Dr. Coad and representatives of the
various interested companies to make
the proposition a success.
The new method of dusting, which
has been indorsed .by the United
States department of agriculture, is
said to be far more efficient and eco
nomical than that of machine dust
ing, now in-general use. The calcium
arsenate is shot from a flume on the
planes at a velocity of nearly 150
miles per hour, an 4 .it. is said, that
tests in Louisiana have proven that
600 acres can be dusted hourly, in
comparison with two acres per hour
under the old method. It Is expected
that specially designed planes, which
will be used at the demonstration this
month, will dust even a larger acre
age hourly than has been accomplish
ed in previous experiments.
Barnesville Man Ends Own Life
Barnesville. —A. P. Miller, 64, fore
man on one of the I. C. and J. C.
Collier farms at Piedmont, committed
'suicide recently by shooting himself
with a pistol. Death was almost in
stantaneous. Members of the fam
ily heard the shot and going into his
room found him lying across the bed
A note by r his side told of his pur
pose to commit the act and gave his
mother certain instructions regarding
his affairs. He had been In 111 health
for some months, which is said to be
the cause of the rash act.
Power Plant Worker is Killed
Thomasville. —W. A. Parramore, an
employee of the Thomasville Light and
Water plant, was accidently killed
while crawling out of the big boiler at
the plant in which he had been work
ing. His body was found hanging half
ut of the boiler and it was apparent
that he had caught hold of the 220-
volt switch controlling the ventilating
fan. Mr. Parramore was 2S years old,
and unmarried, but leaves a father and
mother, said to be dependent upon
him.
To Propagate 26-Ear “Sport’’ Corn
Sparta.—A. L. Perdue, Hancock
county farmer living near Sparta, has
a freak ear of corn, which shows 25
complete ears attached to the center
ear. The ears were small but well
formed and almost matured. He hopes
to propagate a variety of com from
this, he says, which will increase his
yield materially.
Kills Wife And Man Friend
Meansville. —Charged with shooting
to death his wife and John H. Moore
recently, David T. Leach, well known
farmer, is held in the Pike county jail
at Zebulon. Leach told County Police
man C A. Sharp, who took charge ot
him at his home about two miles from
here, that he did not intend to kill
liis wife. He also stated that Moore
had broken up his home and he had
warned him to stay away. Leach, whe
is about 45 or 50 years old, had gone
away from his home to borrow a
mower, and when he returned, he says
that he found Moore in his home, and
upon asking him what he was doing
there, he drew his knife and was ad
vancing on bim when he shot. His
wife, standing near, was hit uninten
tionally, he says. There were no wit
nesses. Moore, who was 30 years old,
had recently completed a prison term
following conviction on a liquor
charge, and Pike county officers say
that he was under surveillance again
He was divorced, and -has two oi
three children. His home is in Grif
fin.
Girls Will Recover, Say Doctors
Atlanta. —Unless complications arise
Miss Alice Clroker, 16, and Miss
Frances Nash., 14, —two of four young
women injured in a motor truck acci
dent in West North avenue, near Wil
liam street, will recover, according to
surgeons at Davis-Fischer hospital.
However, the condition of Miss Lottie
Donaldson, 19, and Miss Blanche Nash,
16, a sister of Miss Frances, was not
so satisfactory, it was reported, and
it was feared their injuries might
prove fatal. The quartet of young
women were members of the Buckhead
Baptist Sunday school and were en
route for an all-day outing at Lithia
Springs at the time of the mishap.
The heavy motor truck, transporting
about 50 people, went down with a
crash into a hole in West North ave
nue, throwing those in the rear against
the back gate which gave way under
the pressure, precipitating the young
women to the pavemenL
v Fire Destroys Southern Bridge
Tugalo.—Fire which destroyed the
Southern railway bridge over Tugalo
river was discovered recently about
2:30 o’clock. It is believed the big
trestle was Ignited by sparks from
one of the engines. The fire depart
ment from Toccoa was called out, but
the firse had gained such headway it
could do nothing. Traffic will be de
layed twelve or fifteen hours, officials
said. Construction men of the road
are already on the grounds planning
for repairs. Through trains are being
detoured by the way of the Seaboard
railway, while local traffic is being
transferred across the river. Damage
could not be definitely determined. -
Gets Promise Of Government’s Help
Atlanta. Co-operation with the
Georgia Experiment station at Griffin,
by the chemical warfare service of
the war department in tests on poison
gas to kill the cotton boll weevil has
been offered under an appropriation
for $26,000 secured b? Senator W. J.
Harris, the senator announced recent
ly. Brigadier General Fries, chief o!
the poison gas service, has communi
cated with the director of tiie Griffin
station, asking for a conference be
tween representatives of the war de
partment and the experiment station
in order to work out plans.
Cotton Outlook Good In Southwest
Albany.—As cotton of the new crop
begins rolling in to the various mar
kets of this section, optimism over the
outlook for prosperity this fall in
southwest Georgia is in the ascenden
cy. Cotton is opening rapidly, and
prospects for a fairly good crop are
bright. Other crops are looking bet
ter than in years, including tobacco,
which has been planted on a larger
scale in several counties than ever
before. Towns reporting their first
bales of cotton for the season include
Pelham and Shellman. Albany has al
ready received hers.
Doctor Andrews Named On Board
Rome.—Dr. R. E. Andrews of Rome
has been appointed to the osteopathio
board of examiners of Georgia by Gov.
Clifford Walker. This board is com
posed of five osteopaths of the state
and holds regular examinations semi*
annually for the purpose of issuing
certificates authorizing osteopaths to
practice in Georgia. Other members
of the board are Drs. W. W. Phelps
of Atlanta, H. A. Tribble of Moultrie,
Walter Elliot of Cordele and W. J,
Lorenze of Columbus.
Veterans Urged To Make Applications
Atlanta. —Capt F. E. Lester of the
United States Veterans’ bureau, in
charge of bonus applications for this
district, has issued a statement urging
all ex-service men to make their ap
plications for adjusted compensation
as soon as possible, as the soldiers’
bonus biil provides for a twenty-year
paid-up endowment policy, and, in the
event the man should die before his
application is made, the Intended ben
eficiary would receive no benefit.
LEGISLATIVE NEWS
What Our Lawmakers \re
Doing At The
Capital
Sixty-Day Session Every Two v„,
Atlanta. The
resentatives by a. vote of i so tn r
passed the bill of Senator Mundy an!i
others, providing for a sixty-day I
sicn of the Georgia legislature evS
two years instead of the present
day session each year. The bill had
already passed the senate, and there
fore will become a law when signed
by the governor and ratified by the
people at the next general election in
November.
The biennial sessions bill was pass
ed by the senate last year, thirty
eight members of the senate adjoining
in its authorship. However, it struck
rough sailing in the house and was
bitterly opposed by several of the lead
ing members of that body. Argument
on the_ measure lasted an entire day
Opponents of the bill tried to force
a vote on it recently when there were
less than 150 members present, but its
supporters succeeded in having the
Vote postponed.
House Approves Fee System Bill
The house passed a general bill with
local application, which allows all
counties with a population of 44,000
and less than 150,000 to substitute
salaries for the fee system of compen
sation for county officers. The meas
ure carries with it a referendum
clause, specifying that the bill shall
apply only to those counties where
voters approve of the change at the
polls.
The measure has yet to pass the
senate. Counties to which it will
apply, should it pass the upper house,
are Muscogee, Bibb, Richmond, Chat
ham and DeKalb.
Speaker W. Cecil Neill, who is a
member of the Muscogee delegation,
has supported the measure since its
Inception. It was drawn after rep
resentatives of counties affected had
held several meetings and thoroughly
discussed the proposal. As finally
passed, its main provisions were as
originally proposed, though some
minor amendments were made in
committee. These, amendments were
suggested by Representatives Com
ming, of Richmond, and Bowler, of
Bibb.
Tobacco Tax Law Changes Favored
After drastic amendments striking
several of. the principal clauses from
the bill the house committee on ways
and means voted favorably on a sub
stitute bill by Milner, of Dodge, design
ed-to make more effective the state
tax low on cigars and cigarettes.
The bill as presented by Represen
tative Milner provided that dealers in
tobacco should be licensed; defined
the difference between a wholesaler
and retailei*; provided for revocation
of license for violatin of the tobacco
tax law, and provided that - stamps
must be.affixed to the containers of
the cigars or qigarettes as soon as
put in stock, and affixed in such man
ner that they must be multilated in
opening the package.
Approves Charter Changes In Bill
Carrying with it several important
provisions for amending the charter
of Atlanta, chief among which is pro
vision for election of members of the
school board by city council insteai
of by the people, the Atlanta omnibus
bill unanimously passed the Georg a
senate. This clause of the bill, how
ever, has a provision for a referem uni
and must be submitted to the '° ( r-
The bill has already passed the o -
er house, and becomes effective upo
signature by the governor.
Among other provisions of the _
nlbus measure is a section P ror ’ OP .
to amend the charter to gl e .
mayor and city council full aUI -‘ •
over expenditures of the sc ■
partment and making the ma ' J ‘ f
chairman of the school comnntt
council ex-officio members of
school board.
New Senate Bills
The following new bills were intro
duced in the senate: .
By Pace, of the 13th (by request)
—To regulate and prescribe tne me
od of reviewing cases by the ap, ■“ i ‘_
tribunary of the state. K *
the special judiciary committee .
By Pace, of the 13th. and Mason,
of the 30th— Instructing tax fo ‘
ing authorities to discontinu
tion of tax imposed in
of the act approved August L-
Referred to the finance commit^
By Johnson, of the 24th
and provide for the paym- r tbe
adequate salary to the sol o
city court of Columbus. ’ ' ;;t \-
the committee on county am
matters. qme nd
By Pace, of the 13th— ; {ix
section 1207 of the code so &'
the amount of bond to be g"® n vate.
several tax collectors of tne
Referred to special judiciary.