Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-06

The second Pan-American Commercial
Congress will open Tuesday in Washington,
D. c.. The meeting is considered the most
important trade gathering ever held in that
city and one of the most important inter-
national gatherings for any purpose. TWen-
ty countries will send representatives to
the conference which will be presided over
by Frank L. Polk, acting secretary OF state.
No more notes from Germany on the
peace treaty will be accepted. Inc allleo
representatives feel that fifteen or sixteen,
long enough to be called documents IN
stead of notes. are enough.
About 200 distinguished Americans cele-
brated the centenary Of Walt whitman S
birth Saturday by pilgrimage to the COT
tage in West Hills, L. l., where the queer
poet was born.
The Bureau of Public Relations of the
American Meat Packers Association declares
that decrease in the price of beef is
Immediately at hand"
MA" Burdick, who not only went 10
war herself but took the entire family TO
France with her in one capacity or another,
has received the Croix de Guerre for her
services in the Salvation Army. Mrs. Bur
dick, 60 years old, the champion pie ana
doughnut maker of the A. E. F., is the
first Salvationist to be decorated for brav-
cry by the French government
Sixty of the leading men of the medical
profession in Europe are attending the
Victory session of the American Medical
Association now being held in New York
City.
Military authorities along the Mexican
border who know existing conditions there
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the border from the mouth of the Rio
Grande to the Pacific Ocean as barrier
against bandits.
One hundred and ffty-fve American avia-
ton officers were killed in action during the
war.
An army of more than 100000 men will
be required to harvest the giant wheat crop
in Kansas this year, according to A l.. Bark
man, director of harvest work, United States
employment service. Sixty thousand of this
number must come from outside the state.
Lieutenant Commander Read will, not at
tempt a nonstop transatlantic fight with the
NC-4 a return trip. Ma Will De SNIP
ped back to America.
Four hundred and Eighty-six steel cargo
steamships Of 1000 gross tons or more are
now under construction in the United States.
England has under construction 279.
During May 3171S6 troops were brought
back from France, this being the record
number of returns for one month.
The Federal Reserve Boards weekly state
ment shows further gains of about $9,OOC,-
600 in gold reserves as the result OF govern
ment deposits and increases of $5O,5OO,OOO
nN,1 9TH inf IN
Madame Clemenceau Jaquemalre, elder
daughter of Premier Georges Clemenceau
of France, won the French war cross and
other decorations for gallantry under fire.
Enrico Caruso, the worlds greatest tenor.
has sailed for Florence, Italy with his bride.
This will be her first visit to his summer
home there.
unemployment because of rehabilitation
of the army and the cessation of war activ1-
ties is decreasing in England, says Sir Robert
Stevenson Horne, British minister of labor.
Two persons we're killed and II injured
during the rioting Tuesday night in Toledo.
Ohio; in connection with the strike of $4,000
employees of the Willys-Overland Automobile
company.
American marines have been landed at
Punta Arenas and Port Limon Costa RIGA,
because of the revolution against the govern
ment headed by General Tinoco, according to
dispatches printed in newspapers in San Sal
vador.
There seems to be a widespread demand on
the part of Germans that efforts be made to
induce America to enter into sort of limit
ed alliance with Germany or take protector
ate over this country, giving Germany finan-
cial aid and protection and taking in return
the lions share of the profits of the countrys
industrial activities. This sentiment which
first made it's appearance last December, ap-
pears to have become stronger very recently
Paris walked to work Wednesday morn
ing, no subWays, tram cars or taxi buses
being in operation because of the strike
there The situation is reported unchanged.
The former German liner Imperator, which
sailed from New York Tuesday for Brest,
collided about 300 miles northeast of Sandy
Hook with the steamship Agwidale, from Rot
terdam for New York. A wireless message
from the Agwidale stated that she was pro-
ceeding for New York under her own power
but requested convoy. AS no word was
received from the Imperator, she is presum-
ed to have resumed her voyage
The birthday honor list of the King of
England, issued this week, confers the Order
of Merit on Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig
and Vice Admiral Sir David Beatty.
The Amir of Peshawar, whose tribes have
been at war in northern India with the Brit
given order to the Afghan commanders to
cease fighting.
Maria de Fels, of Paris, sister of Jacques