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CuOD GOVERNMENT LEAGUE
ORGANIZED AT SAVANNAH
TO REFORM POLITICAL LIFE
Four Thousand Savannah People, Men
And Worpen, Enroll As Mem
bers’ Of Organization
Savannah.—The Good Government
League, recently organized at a mass
meeting of four thousand Savannah
people, men and women, members of
nil political “factions,’’ has expressed
its determination to extend its opera- |
tions for preserving good government |
in the county as well as the city.
The documsnts set forth the objects
of the loague as standing for aggres
sive "support of methods for better
registration lists, complete and con
taining mb names of all who are en
titled to vote and containing no other
mamas, names of dead men and people
who lmvo moved away, the revision of
the laws regulating local elections,
primary and regular; the suppression
of Tinging,’ vote buying and vote sell
ing nnd the *use of ’corruption’ funds,
especially of funds accumulated by any
ByBtcm of assessment of officials or
city or council employees, and the sup
port of economical administration of
government with efficient service for
the money expended.”
CLEARS ATTORNEY GENERAL Advocates Expulsion Of All Hebrews
* Vienna, Austria,—Expulsion of the
Jews was openly advocated at a demon
stration held' recently before the city
hall. Speakers asserted that eforts to
regenerate the German people would
not succeed until the Jews were ousted
from the dominant positions in econom
ic life, art, stage and the press. A
heavy police guard was present and
only a few minor collisions occurred.
Debate Lasted Three Hours Featured
By Attacks On And Defense Of
Representative Keller
Works Of Art Destroyed In Fire
Savannnh.—Greenwich, the country
homo of Dr. H. M. Torrey of Detroit,
Mich., Tiye milOH from Savannah, was
dostroyod by firo at an early hour the
other morning. Doctor Torrey and his
family wore at the homo for the win
ter. It is presumed the fire started
from a short circuit in the sewing
loom. The main building was com
pletely dostroyod with practically all
its furniture. Doctor Torrey escaped
In his pajamas nnd .his eyobrows and
hair scorched by the flamep. The
family were cut off by tlio flames in
nil upper Btory. ’The chauffeur went
to their rescue and helped them out.
Elnnor Ford Sorro and a nurse jump-
ied from a second story window to a
mattress that had been thrown to the
ground, nnd were unhurt. Mrs. M. T.
Lnrrlson of Detroit, aged 86 years,
, Doctor Tommy's grandmother, was
saved unhurt after much difficulty.
Washington.— 1 The house, by a vote
of 204 to 77, approved the action of its
judiciary committee in giving Attor
ney General Daugherty a clean bill of
health on the Impeachment charges
brought against him by Representative
Keller, Republican, Minnesota.
Without a roll-call and by practl-,
cally a unanimous vote it adopted also
a resolution discharging the commit
tee from further consideration of the
charges and laying the Keller impeach-
merft resolution on the table. The
two votes were regarded as closing
the incident.
The question of whether the house
has the constitutional power to com
pel a member to testify before its com
mittees was left undecided. This
Issue was raised during the judiciary
conimitteeo hearings when,Mr. Keller
refused to respon! to a \subpoena
served on him after his dramatic with
drawal from the proceedings.
The committee, in its report, took
the position that the house could pun
ish Mr. Keller by Imprisonment or
otherwise until he did testify, the
term of Imprisonment, however, not
to extend beyond the session of con
gress, but it made no recommenda
tion, nor did the house take direct ac
tion.
The house votes were preceded by
three hours of debate, featured b$
attacks on and a defense of Mr. Kel
ler arid by assaults on Samuel Unter-
rnyor, of New York; Jackson H. Ral
ston, of this city, who was Represen
tative Keller’s counsel, and his asso
ciate, John H. Valiley, of Boston and
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor.
To Pay Tuition After They Graduate
Philadelphia.—Graduates of universi
ties who* go through college on free
scholarships should be required to day
their tuition after they have becoihe
established in .business or a profession?,
Dr. Josiali H. Penniman, provost of
the University of Pensylvapia, declares
in his annual report. Out of a total en-*
rollment at Ponsylvania of 14,014, Doc
tor Penniman says that 799 held schol
arships the montary value of which
was at least one hundred and seventy-
five thousand dollars. The report was
favorably received.
Operators And Minors'Likely To Agree
New York.—An agreement between
the bituminous coa’ operators and the
United Mine Workers of America in
conference hore over a new wage scale,
is probable, It is indicated in confer
ence circles, reiterations being raauSjf
that in no event will there be a strike.
Phil II. Penna, spokesman for the oper
ators, says there is not‘going to be
a strike, and that :he delay in reach
ing an agreement does n©t portend a
strike. “There never wqs the remot
est possibility of a strike," k6 says,
“and there will be none.
Farmer Vlllod In Auto Wreck
LaGrange.—A. S. Nix, 66, a farmer,
Who lived near Crest, Ga., was Instantly
killed when the car In which he was
riding turned turtle on tlio Greenville
yoad about four miles from LaGrange.
Jn the car at the time of the accident
was A. S. Nix, Ills wife, small sen nnd
daughter, B. H. Calhoun and his two
sisters, Lexis May Calhoun and Mrs.
Maude Jackson. The car was being
Sanford Nominated For U. S. Judge
Washington.—Edward T. Sanford,
United States district judge for the
eastern and middle districts of Ten
nessee since J908, was nominated by
President Harding to he associate jus
tice of the supreme court to fill the
vacancy caused by the retirement of
Justice Pitney. Judge Sanford Is a
recognized authority in the legal pro-
Vesslon, which he entered In 1888, after
receiving degrees at the University of
Tennessee Rnd Harvard. He Is a
former vice president of the American
Bar association,, and served as an'
assistant attorney-general of the
Unitbd States under President Roose
velt. „He Is a Republican and 1b 67
vears old.
driven by B. ,H. Calhoun and Nix was
rser
on the front 7 seat with him, and when
the car turned over Nix was gaught
under the wreckage nnd crushed to
death. All the other occupants, except
Nix’s children, received injuries, none
of which, it is though,t will prove fatal.
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i Machlno f To iBrand Automobiles
Atlanta.—A machine has been Invent
ed for parking automobiles, motors,
chassis, bodies and parts, something
after the manner in which ranch ani
mals are branded In the West. The
device is a drilling machine, which au
tomatically drills any given number,
letter or symbol, or any manufacturer
• or license number Into the body, mo
tor or any other part of the car. The
numbering machine Is operated by elec-
jtrlolty, and any number can be drilled
In a few minutes.
Commercial rr.tin ro mcs: At Konra
Rome.—H. H. Shackolton, .president
of tlio Rome chamber of commerce, has
necqpted an invitation from the Atlanta
chamber of commerce to attend a joint
meeting in Atlanta on Februal-y 7.
when presidents and secretaries of all
commercial organizations in the state
will unite on a plan for Georgias’ ad
vancement.
Oppose Moves To \bolish Rail Bodies
Washington. — *n correspondence
mado public by the Interstate com
merce commission, that body, through
its chairman,* B. H, Meyer, has just
gone on record as opposing any move?
in any Btate, to abolish the state rail-
rond commission. The opinion is
drawn forth by a letter addressed to
Mr. Meyer from John E. Benton, gen
eral solicitor for the national- associa
tion of railway and utilities commis
sioners. Mr. Benton points out the
vital bearing of the recent decision
by the supreme court in the famous
Wisconsin rate case, and cites the
strong trend towards the elimination
of all possible expense on the part of
state governments.
Say Building Code Will Save Million's
Washington.—A “very appreciable
money saving to millions of American
families" is expected by Secretary
Hoover to result from the first report
of the building code committee of the
department of commerce, just made
public. The report recommends min
imum requirements for city buildin
codes, dealing with one and two family
houses and goes into detail on con
structlon of small dwellings with c
view Coward showing where to have
and how to spend to obtain safe, sub
stantial houses.
To Guarantee Whiskey Sold Druggists
Now York.—To protect the public
from poisonous whisky bought at drug
stores on prescriptions, the government
has decided to bottle all bulk liquors
now held in bond and to guarantee
them as to proof and quality. The an
uounegment was l lade by Frank K.
Bowers, internal revenue collector for
‘he second district of New York, upon
receipt of orders frojn David H. Dlair,
Internal revenue commissioner at
Washington. Hereafter the public will
be assured that any liquor released by
the government will be safe to drink.
Bituminous Coal Prices Decreased
Washington. — Bituminous coal
prices, which lia ,r e shown strong
advancing tendencies in recent weeks
are now turning downward, according
to complication given out by F. R.
Wadleigh, federal fuel distributor. Dur
ing the week ending January 22 avail
able price of the product at the mines
was $4.33 per ton, as compared with
$4.42 th6 previous week and $4.64 the
average price reported for the week
ending January 8.
Booze Toll Fifty-One In One Month
Chicago.*—With a week-end addition
of three, Chicago's poison booze for
tlio first month of 1923 rose to 51.
Thomas Gilroy, a victim, aged 37, saw
dea'h looming, turned on the gas and
died, leaving the following note ad
dressed to "The Coroner:’’ Moonshine
and a blood disease did it. They’re a
pretty bad combination. The first hun
dred years is the hardest.” “Moon-
rhino," nccording^to police, also caused
the deaths of John Ratigan, 65, and
Joseph O'Donnell, 56, as wall as several
other old* men.
Fred Lundin Indicted In School Probe
Chicago.—Fred Lundin, former 6 con
gressman and known as the silent pow
er behind the political machine of
Mayor William Hale Thompson, and 23
o 'hers were named In a blanket indict-
ment returned in court by the special
grand jury which Is investigating school
board affairs. Virtue Rohm," Lundin’s
nephew, also was among the Indicted
men, which included a number who
were indicted previously by the same
grand jury in connection with the ad
ministration of school funds and prop
erty. '
Line Extension Announced By M. & O.
Mobile, Ala.—Vice President G. B.
Hayes, of the Mobile and Ohio rail
road, announced that a third division
of the road would be created on Febru
ary J. The division will extend <rom
Cairo, 111., to Birmingham, Ala., Via
Okolona, Miss. D. F. Rice has been
named superintendent of the new di
vision.
Refugee Ships C-awl Into Manila
Manila.—Wireless advices received
here recently from. Taiwan Formosa
said that three of the missing Rus
sian refugee ships, en route to Manila
from Shanghai, had put in there short
of fuel. The message added that two
others were following closely and that
the remaining two were returning to
Shanghai.
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Mary Miles Mintcr.Will Quit; Pictures
Los Angeles, Calif.—Mary ” Miles
Minter, whose contract with the Fa
mous Players-Lasky''Corporation re
cently expired, announced that she
was “through” with motion pictures,
according to The Los Angeles Times.
Miss Minter said she planned to go
east and buy a country home at West
chester, N. Y., study music, return to
the stage and perhaps to marry, the
paper said. Her interviewer said she
“intimated” she wopld marry Louis
Sherwin, playwright and scenarist,
when he obtained a. divorce _
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" ’ ’znly profitable after
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