Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-05-23

States that a safe conduct be given by the
British government for Edward de Valera ana
other Irish Sim Fein representatives to come
to Paris and present Irelands case before
the peace conference, will BE transmitted to
the British authorities. The request was
made through Secretary of State Lansing
who referred it to President Wilson.
A refusal on the part Of the british gov
eminent is anticipated thus terminating the
incident.
The senate and the house could not agree
Monday on how congress should send its
message to President Wilson in Paris notify
ing him that the extraordinary session had
convened, so the senate sent cablogram anT
the house decided to inform him by letter.
Governor Smith, of New York, has signed
the recently-passed bill increasing salaries of !
teachers in New York City and throughout
the state. The bill carries state appropria-
ton of SO, 100000.
Washington police officers have made pub
lie the names of the three women who were
in the automobile that struck and killed
seyen-year-old Vinson Walsh Mclean the
500, 100000 baby. They arc Miss Elizabeth
Moore who driving; Miss Kilda Moore
and Miss Emma Riley, who live at Bethesda,
ten miles from WASHINGTON. The coroners
jury has returned verdict Of death by acct
dent and states that the three women will
be released.
The Dutch delog ton invited to the peace
conference to aid il the revision Of tie
treaty of 1889 is in conference with other y
foreign ministers and with Belgian repre-
sentattves over the treaty clauses. Belgium
demands annulment of the clause binding
the country to perpetual neutra ity, re Jision
of the clause cutting Antwerp off from the
sea- and removal of the constant menace to
the Belgian border created by the "penin-
sula" OF Dutch Limberg which uns down
into Belgium crossing the Mouse near
Maastricht.
Victor Berger, who has been convicted for
violation of the espionage act was not per-
mitted to take the oath of office in the house
Monday. Representative Dallinger, Of Massa-
chusctts, led the fight against him. and his
resolution Was referred to election committee
one.
The war has cost Belgium 100, 900 chill
dren, Dr.. Rene Sand, one OF Belgium's lead
ing medical authorities and professor Of So
cial and industrial medicine in the University
of Brussels, declared Monday at the opening
session of the international child welfare
conference in Chicago The speaker said,
however, that an increase in the number of
baby clinics and other child welfare provisions
was offsetting this loss and making for
diminished death rate.
Winston Spencer Churchill, British socre-
H., president
the British government council, in Paris.
Their visit, according to Paris dispatches is
in connection with the uprisngs on the
Afghanstan border.
Count Won Brockdorff- Rantzau, head of the
German peace mission, has returned to YER
sailes after quick visit to Berlin. He
brought back with him General Won Scent,
military expert and about forty other per-
sons, including additional naval and military
experts.
Atlanta has raised only $4,000 OF her
quota in the Salvation Army drive, and special
workers on Thursday Logan an intensive cam
paign to secure the remaining $4,000. 3
Three Atlanta Cinnamon, Lum joe Loo
King and Loo Joe, have been arr ested for y
selling opium in\ the city. The house Whcvo
Loo King and Loo Joe were caught, 81
Peters street, was designed like regulation
Oriental dive with hunks ana pipes in plenty;
the value of the opium and pipes being ap-
proximately $1,000.
The first parallel convention OF the women
of the Southern Presb. terrain church in con-
nection with the Laymen's Missionary con-
ference will be held iii Atlanta June 10-11-
IL. At that time humber of noted men
will be in Atlanta to address both conven-
tions, and several thousand visitors are ex-
pected
The United States transport gorge Wash
ihgton, on which President Wilson has made
his journeys between the United States and
France, entered the inner port of Brest Tues ,
day morning, and is awaiting the presidents
orders.
The proposed visit to England OF General
Pershing has been Indefinitely postponed Be-
cause of the uncertainty of the German atti-
tude regarding the peace terms and the mill
tary situation thus created, it has become i'm
possible for General Pershing to leave France
at this moment
Although Of German origin, the name "kin
dergarten" will stand, it was decided at the
meeting Of the International Kindergarten
Union in Baltimore.
The ambition of a lifetime was realized
Monday when Lieutenant Governor James D.
Black, of Barbourville, became the forty-frst
governor Of Kentucky, succeeding Augustus
OWsley Stanley, who, a few minutes before,
in Washington, was sworn in as United States
senator from Kentucky in succession to the
late Senator Ollie james Judge Rollin y.
Hart, of the court Of appeals, administered
the oath Of Office to overnor Black in the
state reception room in the capitol at Frank
fort, in the presence Of many state officials
and employees.
Registration Of the women of Atlanta, who
are eligible to vote in the next city primary
will begin Monday at the Fulton county court
house. The registration fee is 81.
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