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DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PR( CULTURE $1.50 a Yc®r In Advance r. y:>. PHBET. HOUSTON COUNTV, GA., THURSDAY,NOVEMBER 1, 1923, the Job from January to | ■PLANS UNDER WAY FOR A TEN- i STORY STRbCTURE ON | PEACHTREE STREET January, twelve months each year. You can buy One Sack or A Hundre . V' - « v" JOHN H. HODGES, Proper. • .') v VOL. LIII. No. 44 • * ACTION TAKEN BY THE SENATE BIG EXPANSION OF FEDERAL BY VOTES THIRTY-SIX PROHIBITION BEING TO ONE PLANNED LIEUT. G8VE8NQR IN CHARGE GUARD PLACED AT BREWERIES Step Follows Submission By Lower House Of Bill of impeachment Against Executive Will Cork Leaks At Breweries—Work Will Necessitate A $20,000,000 Appropriation Oklahoma City, Okla.—Governor J. C. Walton was suspended from office recently, when the state senate, by a vote 36 to 1, adopted a resolution Washington.—Expansion ofl!ke fed eral government’s prohibition enforce ment machinery in an effort to stop liquor smuggling and to check what temporarily relieving him of his of ft described by officials as rapidly in- cial duties, following the submission creasing supplies of "high power" by the lower house of a bill of itn- beer, 1b under consideration at the peachment against hjm. treasury. The program contemplates’ : The impeachment bill charged tho practically doubling the strength of iexecutive with entering into “a cor- the coast guard and the placing of a rupt agreement” with Ur. A. E. Dav- prohibition agent in every brewery, enport, state health commissioner, to ^Vhile the changes under constdera- Iffl T : ffiagl «“ H| U.n (or tho coast guard have act yet personal chauffeur, on the payroll of .... „ . the health department at $200 a becm placed before Secretary Mollou ' month; ancf that hereby "certain ln charge of the service havo moneys were diverted from the statu- cAl-nlated approximately $20,000,000 tory ohject and purpose for which they would have to be appropriated by cn :• iwere appropriated by law." ^gross to carry them out. ( The suspension resolution w$ts in- Tentative plans call for the addi- itrpuuced oy Senator W. M. Gallager ti.m of more than a score of cuttsrs jof Muscogee. A committee was named and about 60 speedy power boats to (to inform the governor and lieutenant b e Ufc ed in tracking down rum lun- jgovernor of the action. | Lieutenant Uoveruor Trapp is in jSapiupu, uiiia,, and was notified by itelepuone. : Tnu coihmiitce delivered its mes sage mj >ue governor in his office. Immediately afterward the house traismuiiLLeii Article 3, charging the govBupr with preventing the meet- STATE /KEWSJF INTEREST 'Brief News Items Gathered- Here And There From All Sections Of The State lien'll eff the coasts. Additional per sonnel also is proposed. Secretary Mellon is said to recog nize that “high power” beer is be coming all too common in many sec tions of the country and, it is report? ed, is inclined to favor a return to Atlanta.—Another large and mag- inificent building, at least ten stories ■high, to cost between $1,000,000 and .’$1,600,000 to replace, it£ present quar ters at 40 East Ellis street will be ierected within the next two years by Atlanta lodge No. 78, 3rP. O. Elks, laccording to tentative plans sponsor ed by J. Turner Fitten, prominent At lanta business man, which have met with general approval of the lodge membership. Mr. Fitten has had under consld 1 eration for several months past thd advisability of a new structure to house the membership of almost 6,000^ which includes hundreds of citizens) of Atlanta who are prominent in all walks of life throughout the entire) southeast. Associated with Mr. Fit* ton, who has been appointed chair man of the new building committee by Judge L. F. McClelland, exalted ruler) of Atlanta lodge of Elks, will he Ar thur I. May and Ed Bond, with Judge McClelland and B. C. Broyles, secre-; tary of the lodge, as ex-offlcio mem bers of the committee. A site upon which will eventually, he erected the most magnificent Eiks* structure in the entire United States,! with the possible exception of the one } recently completed by Philadelphia ing. or a grand jury mat was to iu-'S agedt of the treasury on guard in all the old arrangement of putting an | j 0( j ge No 2) i s the only obstacle which quire iiuu nis oiticial acts, and the senu.u accepted it also. Tiie bcuate stated to receive the charge uuu senator W. M. Gallager, of iviuBiiugee, introduced the resolu tion wmcii would suspend the gover nor ami m a Re Lieutenant Governor M. E. 'iripp acting executive until the former s trial. The senate notified tho house that it would convene at any time to re ceive additional impeachment articles that mignt be adopted later by the lower uuuy and then adjourned. The house ended its session almost at the same time. Daughter Of Condemned Man Suicides Los Angeles, Calif.—Despondent over the arrest and conviction of her: father, charged with a Georgia mur-l der, pretty Elizabeth Satterfield, 24,| is near death in a Santa Monica (Cal.); hospital from acid poisoning taken in attempt at Buicide. Speechless from the caustic effects of the poison, the girl is said to nave approached Mike Demaris, in Santa Monica, writing her 5 request to be tatcen to police head- quartdfs. After her power of speech had failed to make known her desire at police headquarters the girl hastily) wrote the reasons for her attempted; death before losing consciousness. breweries so that daily tests may be made of products. Treasury officials denied that the new program waS due to rfecent criti cism that has come from several quar ters regarding prohibition enforce ment. On the other hand, It was de clared, the .changes have been under consideration for some months, and the internal revenue bureau has been engaged constantly in an effort to iron out dificultieB in the enforce ment situation. Participation In World Court Sought Washington.—Participation by the United States in the permanent court of international justice - is included among the measures for promoting world accord recommended' in a re port prepared for presentation to President Coolidge by a commission of the National League of Women Voters. The commission, beaded by Mrs. Maud Wood Park, president of the league, was appointed last sum mer, to study post-war conditions, .chiefly as they affect European wom en and the prospects of improved in ternational understanding. Save Europe, Says George To U. S, Cleveland, Ohio.—Declaring that Great Britain seeks nothing in Eu rope except a cessation of strife and that "there you can help us," David; Lloyd George, the war-time premier of Great Britain, at a chamber of, commerce luncheon here renewed his plea for "effective co-operation" be tween the two great English-speaking; commonwealths. Harvey Stands On European Broils ' * London.—Ambassador Harvey de livered a long farewell speech at the Pilgrims’ dinner, in which he reitera ted the willingness of the United States' to help assess German’s ca- pacity to pay reparations, reviewed the Monroe Doctrine and deedarod. that America must and would keep aloof from the broils of Europe. confronts the committee. It is de? sired, if possible, to obtain a site oni Peachtree street, conveniently and centrally located. With the exception of the street^ frontage, which will be rented out as; stores, the entire building will be de-! voted to the purposes of a first-class) hotol, with club facilities, and a lodge; room or auditorium to accommodate; at least 2,600 members. There will; be a rathskeller, public grill and din ing rooms, a magnificent ball room, banquet hall, bowling alleys, billiard: and other amusement rooms, swim-- ming p6ol and gymnasium. The base-' ment and sub-basement will contain storerooms, machinery, heating plant,' filtration plant, etc. The second floor will be largely taken up by lodge offices, committee rooms, lounge and reception rooms, and the remainder of the building, consisting of from 160'to 200 rooms, will be given over to guest rooms, with the exception of the tenth story, which will be devoted to a lodg room. All the guest rooms will be unusually spacious, with con venient alcoves for beds, and large windows allowing light and Ventila tion. Banker Put On Trial In Big Failure Joplin, Mo.—H. H. Hohenschild, president of the defunct Night and Day bank, of St. Louis, is on trial on charges of receiving deposits after the institution was insolvent. The bank failed in January, 1922, with losses of aprpoximately one million dollars to depositors. Atlantic Coast Hit Hard By Storm. New York.—A fifty-mile northeast er, reported to be raging along the’ coast from Newfoundland to Cape Hat-: teras, hit this section hard, endanger-; ing several craft and leading indirect-. Presbytery Going To West Point West Point.—Extensive prepara-, tions are being made for the meeting of Atlanta Presbytery in West Point,; October 30-November 2, when a hun dred and fifty delegates are expected to attend. The beautiful new church has just, been completed. It is mod ern and complete in every detail. Tons, or More, any day in the year and get prompt delivery. 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J.—Marshall Rue- land, an airplane mechanic, who re cently came from Paris, France, was j o£ the* Third District Press Associa-j instantly killed here when he was'tion at Vienna, Friday, October 26, in; Writers Invited To Press Meeting Savannah.—Savannah’s newspaper; men have been invited to attend the) third quarterly meeting for the year; struck by the propeller of an aero plane on which he was working. the home town of Miss Emily Wood-; ward, sedond vice president of the] state organization. A practical pro-') gram has been arranged and enter-j tafnmeDt features will be provided. 1 Killed; 9 Hurt; Auto Leaves Track Shreveport, La.—One person was killed and nine others injured, two ot them probably fatally, when a racing'wife Slugged On Refusal To Re-Wed) automobile, driven by Max Markmann, I Atlanta.—The police Jiere were! ol Chicago, at the Louisiana state fair, | searching for S. C. Stigall, who, ac-< crashed through the race track fence cording to police reports, struck his and plunged into a crowd of specta tors. divorced wife, Mrs. Jennie Stigall, onj the head with a blackjack when she- refused to remarry him. Mrs. Stigall; Brother Of Chief Of D.ail Succumbs reported to be in a critical con-’, Dublin, Ireland. Philip Cosgrave, dition a t her home. ..She was said toi brother of President William T. Cos have a fractured -skull. Policemen, grave, of the dail eireann, died re-) McDaniel and Hajos, who investigated' cently after a brief illness. He was , the case, reported that Mrs. Stigall x ., . ] - , . M .. . . elected to the dail from South Dublin told him her husband inflicted her) Jy to the injury of more than half a; j Q the recent Free State election, injuries and fled. 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