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sSRIEf HEWS BOTES '? v ? i'.i-.'. WHAT HA? OCCURRED DURING W??K THROUGHOUT 0?UN TRY AND ABROAD events of Importance i ? 'ttathsred Prom All RarU Of TM ? Olobs And Told In Short Paragraphs iForeign ? \ Aa news of the resignation of Am bassador Woods a tin the country, the American relations oommitteea of both housea of the diet, together with *11 chambers of commerce, are plan ning a monster demonstration M a sign of friendship for thb diplomat. " Robinson Oruaoe'a old flintlock mua ket, believed to b? the authentic -weapon carried by Alexander Selkirk ; dftrlng hla four years' exile on Joan tFernandea Island which Inspired Do Foe's ocjlebrated story, w?a sold at auction recently for MO pounds ster ling, In London. Blinded by the glare of the head lights of a motor car proceeding along ' a highway li\ a forest on the outskirts of Berlin, a buck dee* ran head-on in to' the car and caused an accident In Which the chauffeur was killed and the car owner and hla wife were se riously Injured. The fifth congress of the Third (Moscow) Intcrhatton^l haa been post poned until Jane 16. With Qrindel Matthews, English in ventor of a death-dealing Invisible ray, now la France- ?nd discussing hla In vention there, It la understood, that the British war office haa approached him regarding the ray. Qrindel Matthews, English lnven . tor of the mystertoai "death ray" which la said to be ^oapahle of wiping out armies and destroying alrplanea In flight, haa Inspected the labora tories at Lyons, France, which a French company Ja willing to place ?t his disposal. Captain, Pelletler D'Oisy, who arriv ed at Shanghai from Canton on his flight from Paris to Japan, haa an nounced definite abandonment of his attempt, owing to the damage which hla. airplane sustained In landing. HfirUls'-v. . Washington ? - . ? Additional record* of the Ku KIux Klnn are to be brought to Washington under an agreement reached tor an in spection by the special' senate^ commit tee investigating the election contaat against . Senator Mayfleld ot. Texas. Addressing the convention of the National Electric Light association in Atlantic City by radio from Washing v*" ton, Secretary of Commtroe Hoover y warned against burdening the govern erament with too much paternalistic restxjnsiblllty. Witnesses favoring aieeepUaw ti the Hooker- White- Atterburg Muscle S^ala. UAvtSsttUed at the session of the senate agriculture committee. The aenata, has approved a house bill, proposing an average increase ot 20 per cent in the- salaries con gressional employees receiving less than $4,600 ? year', providing an esti mated annual increase of f 680,000 In the salary list. 1 Charger of Ku KIux Klan activities In thfc election of Senator Mayfleld, of Texas, particularly in reference to the nee of money, haa occupied some time ' of the senate committee Investigating ' , . ? the question. The use of klan money <tn the 1922 elections was denied by N. M. Pnrney, cashier at the imperial palace, and by J. B. McQulnn, auditor and assistant cashier, and was aasert ed by J. Q. Jett, of White Path. Oa., a former Wan employee. A tax reduction bill IndorW by the leaders of both parties and virtually every faction in congress has been moulded into final abafre. Early ap proval ot the unanimous agreement of the ' conferees on the differences be tween the senate and house, reached by both branches of congress. Is pre dicted, and the hope Is expressed by . Republican leaders that the bill will be signed by President Coolldge. Attorneys for Philip Grossman, the lad sentence of whom in a Chicago contempt case was recently commuted by President coolldKe and then rear rested upon ordeV of two federal ' judges, came to Washington recently in ah effort to obtain his release, pend ing final decision of the Supreme court An expression ot faith In the lnteg Hty of former Attorney General ?V.'; Daugherty, built up during three years of association with him as his chief assistant In directing criminal prosecutions, was made before the senate Daugherty Investigating com mittee by John W. H. Crlm. now spe lt,; dal government attorney in the pros ecution of alleged frauds In the vet erans' bureau. President Coolidge was gassed. He " took the chlorine gas treatment for ? colds Invented by the chemical war fare service of the army. The world court plan appears to > be dead^BO'far as this session of con gress Is concerned. President Cool idge, called in Republican members of the foreign relations committee, but After a dinner conference lasting three and a half hours, it was announced that no decision hsd been reached either as to a plan upon which all Re publicans could unite, or as to forcing through some plan at this session Oongrt??umai investigation of land (raDti to the Northern Pacific railway company ha* been authorised In a recent house resolution adopted by the senate. The Simmons Income schedule, simi lar to tbe Longworth compromise sup ported by house Republicans In Its adoption by that body, provides for a revision of the surtax rates with a maximum of 40 per cent applicable on incomes of <500,000 and over. Ilwpuld out the present normal ratMk.pt, '4 per cent on Incomes up to $4,00<) and 6 per cent above that amount to 2 per cent on Income* of |4,000 and under; 4 per cent on Incomes between $4,000 and 98,000 and 6 per cent on those above. Farm relief legislation at this ses sion of congress appears doomed, un less farm bloc leaders make good their threat to hold congVeps in ses sion until some form of agricultural relief Is voted. A composite plan fqr adherence to the permanent court of International Justice with reservations was laid be fore the senate recently in a revolu-' tion drafted by Senator Pepper, Re publican, Pennsylvania, after , two days of consultation with his col leagues on the foreign relations com mute*. Domestic ? Ben Solomon, 65 years old, was recently arrested lb Columbia, La., on the charge of having exploded three ?ticks of dynamite at .night under a room where Ora Cox, 14 years old, was sleeping, because the girl had re jected the snlt of the aged lover. Despite the fate of Celia Oooney, Brooklyn's ? celebrated queen, the fe male crime complex in New York City seems to have spread to the; genera tion below ' the teehs. Two girls, 10 ajtd 13, were haled Info the children's ^oourt recently on a charge of forgery ?one a check for 922 and the other a check for 980. Three more of Broadway's (New York City) I spots . were I clouded with something very much like the 'gloom of a coal mine at midnight when tem porary Injunctions were served by the goversncent on the Piccadilly, the Hen deivorfa and the Sliver SUpper, all of which had expected to welcome con vention visitors lit Jane. Pursuit of the bandits who robbed the First National bank of Prairie Grove, Ark., and who shot Charles Btrchfleld, adaputy sheriff at 8trlck ler, Ark., has crossed into Oklahoma, where the bandits are thought to be In hiding. The Presbyterian church In the United States, In general convention at San Antonlcr, Texas, went on record against the theory of evolution. An attempt to cripple the water sup ply of Los Angeles, Calif., by dynamit ing the acqueduot near Halway, Inyo county, 200 miles from Los Angeles, recently wm revealed to detectives, and a reward of 910.000 has been of fered tor the apprehension of the cul prit*. -*w . Edward E. Bartlett, Jr.. president of the New York cotton exchange, on fiis return from Europe, says that the United States Is hot fully alive to the efforts being made by~ Great Britain to gain the cotton supremacy of the world. Mrs. Evilyn 8ue Rlckner collapsed on the witness stand at Annlston, Ala., at the opening of her trial In the fed eral court on this charge of having slain her husband. Lieut. James C. Rlckner, . at Camp McClellan, last June. . The closing session of the A. M. E. general conference was featured by adoption of resolution giving women equal representations, with the men in district, annual and general con ferences, whlcfc hiss been advocated by the women of the _A. M. B. church for more than 25 years. The confer ence Sessions were held at I^mlsvUle, Kj. The Indiana Republican convention, ^Indianapolis, Ind., selected 40 dele gates to cast the state's S3 votes In the national convention. Instructed them to support President Coolldge and United States Senator James E. Watson, the latter tor the vice pres idency. Kidnaped and held for a 910,000 ransom, and murdered when the kid napers believed their plans were about to miscarry, the nude body of Robert Franks, 14-year-old son of Jacob Franks, millionaire Chicago manufacturer, was found in s swamp on the south side with the head crushed and the body stripped of all means of Identification. Judges are too lenient and criminal processes are too dilatory. Secretary of State Hughes,, declared In an address before the National Institute of Social -Sciences at New York. Charles Blrchfleld. deputy sheriff, Is believed to be at the point of death at his home near Strickler, Ark., fol lowing a fight with robbers who held up aud looted the First National bank, of Prairie Drove, escaping wlth-93,600. Henry L. Fuqua was Inaugurated governor of Louisiana at Baton Rouge. La., and for the first time In many years the Incoming executive rode alone In the Inaugural parade. Will Deaton, 18, who shot and killed Fred Berry, of Blalrsvllle, was exon erated of the crime by a coroner's Jury at Madison. Oa. For three days. Deaton said, Berry had possession of his wife and their home near Madi son. after telling him to "take the air." Deaton said that -when he tried to rescue his wife. Berry attacked him with an Ice pick. 1 ? Nathaniel Brown Dyer of Salem, Mass., honor man of the graduating class of the U. S. Coast Guard acad emy at N$w London. 2 ? Girls from Avery state posting In front of the capltol at Salt Lake City the huge proc lamation by Governor Mabey announcing the opening of Yellowstone I'urk. 3 ? "First kiss" of engaged couple In the new marriage mart of Paris. I . NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS ' ? ? 4 V-' . Congress Passes Bonus Bill Over Veto and Tax Bill Compromise Is Fixed. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Ij ONUS for the ex-soldlers ? alias ad " justed compensation? and a redac tion of taxes to the extent of about 1472,620,000 during the calendar year 1925. The country gets both of these blessings, according to the flat of con gress, though Just how Increased ex penditure la to be adjusted to de creased revenue ijo expert has yet dis covered. * On Monday the senate followed the example Of the house by overriding the President's veto of the soldiers' bonus bill and It thus became law. All the pressure brought by the administration and the numerous bodies <tnd Individ uals opposed to the bonus was unavail ing, The vote was 69 to 26, two more than the necessary two-thirds, the ma jority Including 30 Republicans, 27 Democrats and 2 Farmer-Laborltes. It Is estimated that 3,038.283 veter ans will be entitled to the Insurance policies prbvlded by the soldier bonus bill, while 389,583 will be paid cash of $50 or less. THe average certificate face value Is estimated at $962. The certlflcate Is payable In full after twenty years, or before In case of death. Loans may be obtained on the policies after two years. The lowest estimate of the coat of the bonus Is that annual appropriations aggregat ing $2,280,758,542 will be necessary over the. twenty-year period. There also will be necessary $6,500, 000 for administrative expenses the first year. The Department of War and other government agencies ? were ready and preparations for the Issu ance of Insurance policies and the pay ment of the cash sums are being rapidly completed. The first Issuance certificates will be dated January 1, 1925. ? HAVING rebuffed the President to this extent, congress was dis posed to show greater consideration for some of his views concerning the tax reduction bill, probably In order to avoid a veto of that measure. The -$enate and house conferees reached a couiplete and unanimous agreement on a compromise and consented to, abandon the two features to which Mr. Coolldge had especially objected ? the senate amendments on corporation tax and full publicity of tax returns. The amendment taxing undistributed earnings of corporations also was elim inated. The Simmons normal taxes and surtaxes and personal exemptions were approved. Thus the maximum surtax Is 40 per cent : and the normal Income tax rates are 2 per cent on In come up to $4,000, 4 per cent between .$?^,000 and $8,000, and 6 per cent atywe $8,000. 1 The 25 per cent reduction In taxes on 1923 Incomes wns not In dis pute and stands unchanged. The per sonal exemption of all heads of fam ilies, regardless of Income, Is $2,500. The treasury recommendation for r limitation of deductions for capital losses to 12V4 per cent was restored to the bill ; this Is estimated to mean additional revenue to the extent of $25,000,000. The conference report was satisfac tory to the regular Republicans and Democrats of both houses, so It was evident the objections of the dis gruntled radicals would be of no avail. Veto of this measure by the President was not expected by the leaders, de spite the prospect of a huge deficit due In part to the soldiers' bonus. Senator Smoot said he .thought the enactment of the tax bill would so stimulate business as possibly to bring In more than the amount of the deflclt In new revenues after It Is In opera tion for a year or two. Representative Oreen said ?thirt the paper deficit In the fiscal year 1W25 will be wiped out by the surplus carried from the fiscal year 11124. With respect to the fiscal year 1025 Mr. Green believes that revenues will be greater than esti mated by the treasury and that ther? will be a marked Increase In the fiscal V * r year 1026. He expressed the opinion that no actual deficit will develop dur ing the next two years and that con gress' then can provide new financing methods if necessary. POLITICALLY , both Bides' will * share In the benefits from the tax deduction, but It Is likely the Democrats will get the bigger portion. The bonus bill was not a party meas ure. What will be the effect of the futile veto on Mr. Coolldge's political fortunes Is debatable. His message of disapproval was such a well rea soned and commonsenBe document and so politically courageous that it probably will deprive him of few votes, and the bonus Issue Is removed from the campaign. The vote-hungry congressmen who Insisted on passing the bill presumably will receive their reward. PRESIDENT CQOLIDGE called the Republican members of the senate foreign relations committee to the White Hous6 and discussed with them the ways and means of giving effect to his recommendation for American ad herence to the permanent court of In ternational justice. He said his posi tion was unchanged. The result was that at the request of the committee Senator Pepper drafted and Introduced a resolution proposing that the United States join the existing World court on the condition that It be entirely divorced from the League of Nations, j It also proposes the calling of a third Hague conference ,to clarify and codify International law. WITHIN ten days after the signing of the Immigration bill? assum ing that It 1b signed? Japan will file formal protest against the Japanese exclusion clause, and probably will ash the Hague court or the League of Nations to t?Jte up the matter. This Is the decision of the Japanese privy council, which holds the measure fla grantly violates the commercial treaty. Ambassador Hanthara will be "per mitted to resign," as he undoubtedly wishes to do. Cyrus Woods, American ambassador to Tokyo, already has re signed and Is coming home. His rea son Is given as the- illness of hts moth er-in-law, who was Injured In the Sep tember earthquake, but It ? fs known both here and in Japan that he was greatly disheartened by the action of congress reiatlng to Japanese exclu sion. T APANESE resentment does not ? ex J tend to the army aviators who are ^flying around the world. Last week the three planes ? first to fly across the Pacific ? reached Japanese territory and then made two more bops almost to Tokyo. Everywhere the aviators were received with enthusiasm and they were given all possible aid by the government and the people. Capt. Pelletler Doisy, the French man, crashed at .Shanghai and his plane was ruined, but he decided to proceed with a machine furnished by the military gpvernor of Shanghai. Cnptaln MacLaren, the English flyer* was making good progress across Brit ish India. DETAILS of the alleged attempt by government agents to "frame" Senator Wheeler were given to the Brookhart committee by W. O. Duck steln and his wife, the former con fidential secretary for Edward B. Mc Lean and the latter a special agent of the Department of Justice. As a re sult the committee ordered that Special Assistant Attorney General Hiram Todd of New York appear and testify concerning two men who went to Washington as his agents and who are supposed. Incidentally, to have stolen the missing records of Gaston B. Means. | In the senate- Sterling of South Pa | kota stood firm as the only one op posing the exoneration of Wheeler from the charge on which he was In dicted In Montana. This exoneration will not relieve Wheeler from the ne cessity of going to trial, for the pro ceedings will not be dismissed. Testimony In the Pnugherty Inves ' ligation has resulted in the Indictment i of Tex Rlcknrd. Jsp Mama and sev I eral other men by a federal grand Jury I at Newark, N. J., on charges of trant | porting the Dempsey-Carpentler fight films Into other states. Scores of witnesses were heard by the Jury. ' ? *HE senate last week passed the ?I- Gooding bill which prohibits rail roads from charging less for the longer haul than for the shorter haul to meet competition of water carriers or mar ket competition. This Is legislation for which the Intermountaln states have been fighting for years. The ad vocates of the measure will try to get action on It by the house before ad journment. The Howell-Barkley bill, which would abolish the railway labor board, was bitterly fought In the house and Its friends admitted that final ac tion %on It was unlikely at this session. WHETHER Edouard Herrlot. radi cal leader, shall be the next premier of France probably depends on- the action of the Socialist party at Its meeting on June 2. The question Is whether the party shall collaborate with the government or participate. Herrlot favors the latter. Meanwhile he and other leaders of the left have been called Into* consultation with Pre mier Poincare and President Mlllerand especially concerning finances and the existing campaign against the franc. Herrlot says the latter Is "an under handed maneuver of domestic poll tics." His Ideas on foreign policies are somewhat vague, but It' appears evident that If he becomes premier he will move slowly and cautiously la the matter of recognizing Russia. In all International matters he pomlses to keep wl?hln e bounds of reason. 1 f"JERMAN Nationalists, feeling very V7 cocky over the strength they de veloped In the elections, demanded, as the price of their co-operation with the middle parties In fonnlng a gov ernment, that Admiral von Tlrpltz should be madei chancellor. The mid dle parties refused to promise this or discuss It, so the negotiations for such a coalition broke down. The Nationalists and the German PasclstI both are opposed to the Dawes plan and have been trying to enlist enough votes to reject It. Count von Revent low expressed the views, of the Fas cist! thus : "The conditions of the Dawes report deprive Germany of the last shreds of self determination promised by Wilson." Rejection of the Dawes tflan by Germany probably would bring prompt action by France despite the change of government, for the French Socialists hre in general patriotic and the radicals are only comparatively radical. They support the Dawes plan heartily but they In sist on reparations as strongly as does M. Poincare. ? In the Ruhr the strike of miners and other workers Is .Increasing and sabotage is becoming general. Many emergency workers hnve disappeared and the authorities fear they have been murdered. qpHE triumph of the laborer In A Great Britain was signalized in a spectacular way In Edinburgh when James Brown, once a pit boy and now a miner member of parliament, sat upon the throne In Holyrood palace as lord high commissioner and In the name of the king declared open the annual assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. The castle gave him the royal salute of twenty-one guns and the state trumpeters heralded him as, gorgeously clad, he passed along the royal gallery; a?d after the ceremony. In which he bore himself with all due dignity, the troops pre sented arms and the entire populace cheered the little miner. D9LAND, Rumania and Turkey, ac cording to dispatches from Buchar est, nre negotiating a mutual defense treaty by which these powers agree to give full support to each other In case any one of them Is attacked by Russia. It pro Mdes especially for the defense of Bessarabia. Poland and Rumania each guarantee to put 1.000.000 well trained, well equipped troops Into the field against Russia, j and Turkey premised to throw In 250, j 000 men In the Caticatisus to seize (he Batum oil fields. The British would be expected to blockade Bussla In the Baltic and Black seas and to supply airplanes, artillery and- tanks to these thr<?c armies. Great Britain Is alleged to be determined to prevent j the seizure by the Russians of the 1 mouth of the Danube. m MOTHER! Clean Child's Bowels "California Fig Syrup" I# Dependable Laxative for Sick Children Children Love lu Pleasant Taite If your little one Is out-of-sort* won't play, seems sick, languid, not ' V natural? suspect the bowels! A tea spoonful of delicious "California Fig Syrup" given anytime sweetens th? stomach and soon moves the sour fer- 03 mentations, gases, poisons and indl- ? gestible matter right out of the bowels ?; . m and you have <a well, playful child again. j ' Millions of mothers depend upon this gentle, harmless laxative. It never ' k'i cramps or overacts. Contains no nar cotics or soothing drugs. Say "Cali fornia" to your druggist and avoid counterfeits. - Insist upon genuine "California Fig Syrup," which has dl- ? w rectlons for babies and children of all ages plainly printed on bottle. i Tit for Tat Mrs. Crawford ? Did you succeed In getting an extra allowance? Mrs. Crabshaw ? Not exactly, but my husband says he's willing to give me a bonus providing I show him how he is to raise the money. ? Chicago Jour nal. . ? , Farmers Wanted. Particularly tobacco farmers, to > Wayne Couaty, Georgia. Healthful clt mate, fertile soil, splendid railroad fa cilities, fine schools, churches, and good , ? i neighbors; lowest-priced lands. For farm lands, or factory sites address Dr. W. A. Brooks, Sec., Jesnp Board of Trade, Jesup, Ga.? Advertisement. Longfellow Up to Date The instructor In. English requested Ml the girls to put Longfellow's "Village Blacksmith" Into brief verse of tfieir ' own. One of the flappers turned to the following; , / ' ? . ?'?, Something accomplished, something , Old. v ' Has earned the world's approval, kid. [ . Wright's Indian Vatetable Pill* ooaUi? anly vegetable -tngredltnta, which aot canfia . is a tonlo laxative, by attmnlatlon? not Irri tation. 171 Pearl St., N. Tr Adv. 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