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TEXT OF FINDINGS TO BE SUBMITTED TO LEGISLATURE ^Recommendations Will Not Be Die- 1 closed Until General Assembly Meets In Extra Session Atlanta.—With the convening of the Georgia legislature in extraordinary session but ten days off, it appeared 'unlikely that the report and recom mendations of the tax commission would be made public prior to its pre sentation to the general assembly. A tentative draft of this report is known to have been drawn up for sub mission to the members of the com mission for their approval. This will be done by mail, the commission hav ing been so closely in accord when Money to Loan Farm Lauda in Houston County a* Low Rate of Inheres If yon rw.money quick write orca'l Hatcher-Tucpin Co. Mulberry St. Maeon, Georgia IWRREIGNS IN MELBOMf PRESIDENT DECORATES GRAVE Theaters Are Closed And Trolleys And Trains Are Halted To Prevent Crime ’ Melbourne.—Three persons have been killed and 200 wounded in rloW following the police strike here. Looting, fights, robberies and hold ups are wide-spread, and assaults are being made on police who loyal. Theaters are closed, and trolleys and trains have been baited to pre vent criminal characters from enter ing the city. i A thousand special constables have been enrolled to preserve order, in BishCp McDowell Declares Patten^ : Toll And Effort In Peace Are J i Real Honor To Slain ?%* \ j ' * they held their final executive meet- eluding many ex-soldiers. Revolver battle occurred between police ami looters, and numerous arrests made. Many women were found looting. The government is. prepared to in tervene if necessary and will bring both naval and military forces to Melbourne to police the district If the dangerous situation continues. ing in Atlanta, that it is not believed it will be necessary for them to meet in person again. A sub committee, consisting of J. H. McPherson, of the University of Georgia; Judge U. V. Whipple, of Cor* dole, and Representative R. C. Ellis of Tift county, has been named to draw up the final report and recom mendations. This sub-committee' will meet soon tcir this purpose after the tentative draft has been approved by all members of the commission. Record Building Year Predicted Atlanta.—Atlanta building figures for the month of October, with thro* more days to go, have exceeded the one million dollar mark, placing the itotal for the year at approximately twenty-two million doUars, with as surance that the figures for Novem ber and December will run the grand total to 925,000,000, according to C. ! J. Bowen, city building inspector, re cently. While the present month's figures fall considerably behind the month of October, 1922, which xa» more than two and a half million dol lars, the city building inspector at tributes the slump this year to the high price of building materials and labor, which aggregate almost fifty per cent more this year than last. An- pther reason advanced by Mr. Bowen for the comparatively low figures is the fact that not a single large permit (or the erection of business or com mercial property has been let. Despite the let-up in the building activity dur ing October th, year, Mr. Bowen ex pressed confidence that the year's to tal figures would reach the 925,000,009 mark, which, with 922,000,000 to date this year, has already shattered all previous building records in Atlanta. ,Beate Rival And Sends Hubby Te Jail Chicago.-—Mrs. Gertrude Walsh de- ;dded to kill two birds with one stone recently. She waited outside an ex clusive club for Lillian Walsh, alleged "other woman," and when Lillian ap peared, beat her up. The cops came and Lillian was the one who went to the hooBegow. Then Mrs. Walsh hid in a doorway across the street and awaited developments. They cams hours later in the form of her hus band, who wanted to bail Lillian out. Whereat, Mrs. Walsh followed right in and talked so convincingly to the cops that not only one, but both the other angels of the Walsh triangle spent the night in separate cells. Probe Walton’s Use Of U. 3. Fund Oklahoma City, Okla.-Federal in vestigation of the management of the federal truck fund by Gov. J. C. Wal ton, suspended executive, appears probable. It has become known that J. G. Findley, investigator tor tbs western district of Oklahoma, has ask ed the house investigating committee of the Oklahoma legislature for evi dence regarding the management of the fund. What is believed misuse of the federal truck fund has been un covered in the mass of evidence, one of the committeemen declares. Washington. — President Coolidge laid a wreath on the tomb of the un known soldier at Arlington as the Armistice day tribute of the American remain j people to the memory of "those who did not see the end but died that the, end might come." The act of tribute to the dead of , the world war was performed by the chief executive with little ceremony and in strict accord with the custom established a year ago by President 'Harding, Several thousand people attended services held at Arlington in the memorial**ampitlieater in the after noon and many luore gathered on nearby slopes heard the service of songs, prayer and. address through amplifiers mounted on the top of the 'structure. Bishop williaiA F. McDowell, of the 'Methodist Episcopal church, made the 'principal address, an appeal to the American people to keep the faith at ,the time, when the tendency is strong to lapse back Into ordinariness of as piration, into complacency of soul When the glory of conflict has passed, i "Idealism bo often failB in the long; 'pull, in the patient and creative en-< 'durance to the end, in the days that Show no heroism, but only toll andl effort," Bishop McDowell Bald. "That 'is the test that is upon us now," i ; Brief ceremonies were held at the! jtomb of the unknown soldier at thel conclusion of the amphitheater sery-j ices and numerous veterans' organiza tions added their wreaths to th6| {mound of tributes which grew stead ily higher from the time the president laid “the national wreath." Leaving the white house early inf jthe morning, Mr. Coolidge arrived at Arlington before many of the thou- 'sands who gathered there In obser vance of the fifth anniversary of the ending of the world conflict. He was accompanied by MrB. Coolidge, his military and naval aides, and Secre tary Weeks, of the war department^ and Acting Secretary Roosevelt, oij the navy department. :aunty Distributor Wanted 1 Killed, 6 Hurt, As Autos Collide Swainsboro.—Olney Brown, 27, of Summit, was instantly killed and four other occupants of the same car were seriously injured, two perhaps fatally, when the automobile which Brown was driving collided with another ma chine driven by Ottie Lewis of Swains boro, on the highway about two miles east of Swainsboro. Brown and com panions were returning from a party above Swainsboro to Wvmmit when the accident occurred. Brown was said to have been speeding at the time of the collision. The injured are Iz- zle Samples, son of Dr. R. L. Samples, Who had a fractured Bkull; May Poe- bles, who sustained a broken back; Ben Lovins, who suffered a badly sprained back and possibly internal in juries, and Lovins’ young sister, whe was badly bruised. Mary Lizzie Pee bles, sister of, May Peebles, escaped unhurt. Ottie Lewis and a man by the name of LawBon, riding with Lew- Is, were cut and bruised. ,> Highway To Be Boulevard Of South Fitzgerald.—The route along which the Jefferson Davis highway motor cade will pass, on the way to Savan nah to participate in the highway and motorcade and pageant, will shortly become the boulevard of the South, it was declared here by Isidor Gelders, editor of the Fitzgerald Leader and secretary of the highway association, on his return from the Georgia U. D. C; convention in Augusta last week, where he reported progress being made on the highway. Hopes Of Peace Depend On U. -3. Atlanta.-—"The United States is the only country that ean speak the word of peace to a wac-weary world,’’ said William Jennings Bryan in a lecture delivered at the «ity aduitorium. Dealing with rasieus suggestions of Utopia that have been advanced of late to lead the world out of the slough of chaos and. hatred, the speak er said, that Mither education not armament, but the spirit of Christ was the only hope of salvation Jdr tbs human raee. Man le Killed When Hit By Train Anniston, Ala.—Lee Ward, 22, white man, was instantly killed when struck at the Cooper crossing near the old Oxford depot, by a passenger train of the Southern railroad. Reports given Coroner Lee Smith indicated that Ward had been sitting on the end of the crosstlea near the crossing and that he got up to let an east-bound freight train pass. When the west bound passenger train from Atlanta arrived a few minutes later Ward con tinued sitting on the ties and was in stantly killed. .its the farm and lightens farm work. Pumps water, grinc j churns, .washes and does hundreds of other tiresome tasks, i&i&l price on replacement batteries. Address reply to: IATTERY COMPANY, S9 w. Peachtree St., Atlanta, Qm. Gain Is Shown In Building Permits Chicago.—A general increase in business activity is indicated by a re cent report compfied by the S. W. Straus company from building permit statistics from 262 principal cities of the country. The report says that a gain of thirty-two per cent is shown over building in October, 1922. East ern cities are shown to have a gain of twenty-six per cent over last Octo ber; central cities, forty-six per cent; tar western, thirty-five per cent, and Southern seven per cent. Tho num ber of small homes is noted . Atlanta.—Damage estimated at from two to three thousand dollars was caused when an overturned caul dron of greaBe in the Harris Potato Chip factory became ignited, the plant being completely destroyed. Employ, ees escaped, but all personal belong ings were destroyed. Firemen man aged to keep the flames confined to the building. Asks Judge Odom To Vacate Bench Bastrop, La.—Defense counsel in the Morehouse parish misdemeanor cases interrupted the trial for at least three or four weeks when they filed in district court a motion that Judge Fred M. Odom refuse, or disqualify himself on the ground that he is bi ased and prejudiced against the de fendants. The defendants are charg ed with infractions of the law in con. nection with the activities of bands of masked and unmasked men Iasi year which culminated in the kidnap ing of Watt Daniel and T. F. Richard. Silence Covers Progress For Accord Washington.—-Absolute official si lence as to the nature of continued conversations between Secretary ol State Hughes and Ambassador Jusser- and blocked every effort to obtain in- on West First street and destroyed’ 1 formation as to whether progress had the plant was stiU burning recently,) 1 been made toward an agreement on, confuted |o the cotton and, the scope of the proposed expert ln- jyroed stocks stored in the factory. H. 1 [ quiry into Germany’s economic sltua- W. Morton, an employee of the plant, 1 j tion as it affects the reparations prob- Who was burned when he returned tpj lem. It Is said officially, however, the building for some ofhis personal that the conversations are continuing, affects, is reported to paiaftilfr: This statement is regarded in som gotjterjMy fofrntf. JmSSSmSSSt ’-‘-l ’ tmterj a* signifies ! |8,000 is Fire l" Rome ; Rome.—Fire vhiah broke out in thft. plant of the Rome Mattress factory; Six Passengers Injured In Car Crash Atlanta, Ga.—Collision of two street cars on the EaBt Point line at Lee street and Gammago crossing resulted in serious injury to b!x persons, all passengers on tho cars. The injured are Miss Edna L. Roberts, dislocated shoulder and internal injuries; B. Her- sowitz, fractured leg and bruises about the body; P. T. Sterchl, fractured ribs and Internal injuries; G. M. Mathis, fractured ribs and possibly internal in juries. Two negroes, Whose names were not ascertained, suffered and bruises. Belgrade Is Urgent In Curt Demand! Belgrade. Jugo-Slavia, in a note presented at Sofia gave Bulgaria 48 hours in which to fulfill three de mands for reparation in-consequence of the attack on the Jugo-Slav military attache in Sofia. The conditions are: First, the Bulgarian government must present its excuses and regrets to the Jugo-Slav representative in Sofia; sec ond, the Bulgarian minister of war must express his personal regrets ta the Jugo-Slav military attache, and, third, a detachment "of 250 Bulgarian soldiers with a flag mpst apologize. ■aiiomasvillC.—AitnoUgh full fdpofth 'have not yet been received, there npW seems no doubt that the response to the Red Cross call -by Thomasville and Thomas county has been as lib eral as it has been heretofore. Com mittees from every club or organiza tion were appointed to canvass every Section of the town and committees also visited the other towns in the county. The Rotary club and the 'Lions’ club at their meetings both went 100% for the roll call. Cedartown Tracts Sold For City Lota Cedartown.—The Willingham-Ben- ton place, located just eaBt of Cedar town, was divided into city lots and sold here at auction, bringing $7,0Q0. The WiU&n 1 Bradford property was sold here recently in the same manner, bringing 88,000. These sales have been made by Tood-Worsham Auction company, who' vrill sell some property belonging to Lee Young and J. D. Holtzclaw, besides various other prop erties. /■ . Storms To Rags In New Congress Washington.—The capital, is becom ing alive again. The early harbingers of the approaching session of coqgreps are here, and everything is being placed in readiness tor one of tip's noisiest sessions in recent years. This,’ despite the fact that it is expected to pass without a great deal of legisla tion on the hooks. The corridors of the capltol are taking on their winter, air Of activity. Offices are being! opened as returning senators and rep-j resentatives prepare to enter the win ter session.