Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-05-20


Scottish Rite Home for Crippled Children
near Atlanta, the John Leroy Duncan class
of the Scottish Rite Friday night in Atlanta,
subscribed nearly 100000 to the fund for
the maintenance of the hospital. The exact
amount was $95,300. The hospital is main
tanned as charitable institution and is open
to all children.
Mrs. Stella Abbott, who shot and killed
her husband, John H Abbott in Atlanta,
over another woman last January, and who
was sentenced to ten years, has been denied
a new trial by Judge John D. HUMPHREYS, of
the Fulton county criminal court. The mo-
tion will be carried to the court of appeals.
Italy has agreed to reIinquish it's claims
to the Dodocanez Islands, off the coast of
Asia Minor, in favor of Greece. The settle
ment of this controversy of long duration is
regarded as an important advance toward
the solution of the Italian problem as a
whole. No decision has yet been reached in
regard to Fiume.
Champ Clark, retiring speaker of the
house, has been unanimously chosen as mi
nority floor leader by the house Democrats
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniel ar
rived Saturday from France on the trans
port Mt. Vernon.
John Jacob Aston, Jr., son of the late John
Jacob Astor, who went down on the Titanic,
has new baby half brother, the second born
to his mother since her marriage to William
K. Dick.
Attorney General Palmer, in response to
Commissioner Roper's request for a decision
on questions involved in the controversy
over making "a per cent beer, has replied
that the manufacture of any sort of beer is
in violation of the law and should be so
treated.
Britishes are pointing to the Imperial
League of Active German Non-Commission-
ed Officers with it's $4,000 members as but
a means Of keeping alive the old military
CARNATIONS of German veterans should have
been prohibited This officers organization
has a membership nearly equal to the limit
set for the German peace army.
One of the several reasons why Germany
is baking at the signing of the peace treaty
is that she will lose thereby more than a
million square miles of land with 25,000,
900 inhabitants.
Finland's first minister to the United
States has reached New York. He is Armas
Saastamoinen, formerly Finnish minister to
Denmark. He is just thirty-two years old,
and will be one of the youngest diplomats
in Washington.
Germany's total national debt according
to a Berlin dispatch, is $46,250 100000.
Edwin P. Morrow, of Somerset, has been
! nominated for governor of Kentucky by the
state Republican convention and S. Thur
ston Ballard, of Louisville, has been nOmi-
mated for lieutenant governor.
A few days after he received one of the
bombs sent throughout the country from
New York City, Representative John l..
Burnett, of the Seventh Alabama district,
died unexpectedly at his home in Gadsden.
He uninjured by the bomb because of
the difficulty experienced by him and his
son in opening the package, but later be-
came i'll. He was chairman of the commit
tee on immigration in the last house, and
had been elected to congress ten times
The Florida house has passed the bill
abolishing the convict lease system in that
state, and the bill will now go to the gov
ernor,
General Pershing expects to return to
this county some, time during the latter part
of July or the early part of August, accord
ing to his statement made recently in Cob
| lenZ, Germany, where he went to inspect
American troops of the army of occupation.
ton made by General Pershing of the en-
tire American expeditionary forces of more
than 100000 men.
President Wilson has approved the con-
struction of possibly three million gross
| tons of shipping to be built for foreign coun-
| tries in American shipyards provided it can
| be done without interfering with the con-
| struction of the American merchant ma
rine
William Jennings Bryan will speak in At
| lanta on May 81, in the interest of wartime
and constitutional prohibition
The occupation of Smyrna is preliminary
to the establishment of manufactures through
out European and Asiatic Turkey, virtually
| terminating the existence of Turkey as an
empire. The sultan of Turkey is expected to
establish a small zone around Brusa, fifty
miles southeast of Constantinople, as his
capital.
| French newspapers report that the United
| States will become the mandatory for Con-
| stantinople, but the American authorities say
| this has not yet been decided finally. If it
| is decided the United States shall take the
mandate, the question will be referred to
| congress.
Ukrainian reports indicate that the Boil
sheviki are fleeing from their advanced west
ern positions at Rovno before the army led
| by Simon Petlura, and retiring in disOr-
| der, due to lack of transportation, toward
| Korosteny and Sarny Junction.
1t appears that there is general uprising
| of Ukrain1an peasants against the BOlSheVlki,
the town of Home in the government of
| 70 iotn hot