Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29

for separation from Serbia and the forma~
ton of a republic Troops are leaving their
units officers and subalterns are tearing OH
their insignia and the army is in state OF
dissolution the advices say. The railroads
and telegraphs are tied up from SasktornyS
southwark The Serbians are trying to sup"
press the revolution by the use of troops
both Serbian and Croatian.
request has been sent by the Australian
commission i'll the United States to American
business houses which have adopted "Anzac
as a trade name asking them to refrain from
commercial use of the word which for Aus
tralians and New Zealanders bears the mem
DRY of many heroic deeds. Tht request points
out that Great Britain Canada, Australia and
New Zealand have forbidden the use of An
zac'' in trade, and that no article bearing that
name will be admitted for sale in those coun-
tries, The statement is issued by d. r.
Eduard, secretary of the commission.
Dispensation of titles is the tender spot IN
British political life today. They are award
ed by the King the Prime Minister'S rec
ommendation. RefOrmers complain tnat lor
long time titles have been awarded by
Prime Ministers for purely party services ana
practically bought by contributions 70 party
funds. The House OF Lords has peculaf
interest in this matter because the old noble
families are Jealous of having their caste
lowered by the adding OF newly rlch ana
purely rich to the orders OF nobility. me
question was threshed out last year anu
there was a general understanding that here'
after when honors were announced the rea-
son for their bestowal should be published.
This has been done in form, but, 1t is alleSeo'
not n substance, because several much crltl
'cized honors in the last list were described
as "for public service" which might mean
almost anything.
canvass of international banking houses
in New York has failed to elicit any lnforma-
ton concerning reports that German loan
is in process of negotiation. 1t is UNDERSTOOD
that German. bankers are endeavoring to
place a large credit, amounting perhaps 10
500 600, 900, in this country, but so Iar az
is known the negotiations nave not passeu
tho initial stage. There is reason to believe,
however that American bankers are inter-
ested in the possibilities of such loan
The strike of approximately quarter
million men in British coal mines that threat
ened to paralyze many industries, mas peeh
settled, says dispatch from London
Four dreadnaughts of the Pacific fleet, the
New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and New YORK,
were lifted successfully through the Gatuh
locks Friday in the Panama canal. rms was
the first attempt to negotiate the waterway
with dreadanughts. The dreadnaughts re-
sumed their trip toward the Pacific ocean
Saturday.
SNAS
Oil company of New Jersey will place It's
stock on the New York stock exchange, 1t was
announced last week in New York following
publication of a statement TO the eHect thdI
S1OO,OO0,000 of cumulative preferred STOCK
will be issued in refnancng project Eacn
holder of common stock will be allowed to
purchase one share Of the new stock Tor
each share of old stock he holds. 1t will be
offered at par to conform with the stock rec
ord as of August Is. Listing OF the new
kI4 a
sheets will have to be offered for the public
gaze according to rules Of the exchange.
This also is a new departure. The corpora
ton never has published a balance sheet.
Decision to continue the strike of telephone
operators in Atlanta was reached at an ex-
ecutive session at the Labor Temple Friday
night of telephone operators affiliated with
the International Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers and the Commercial Telegraphers'
Union of America. The strike called on
June 2, union leaders claiming that 500 girl
operators answered the call for walkout
Kenkichi YoshzaWa, IoPmer councillor OK
the Japanese legation at Picking, left Toxic
last week for the Shantung peninsula to con-
duct a special investigation of conditions there
preparatory to negotiations with China for
the return of it's sovereignty over the terri
tory controlled by Japan under the German
peace terms. The negotiations, officials in
of the peace treaty by the privy council, which
officials said they expected would take place
before September Is.
Senator William ]. Harris, one of the new
members of the senate, has put his first reso-
luton through that body. 1t directs the fed
eral trade commission, of which he was fovL
merly chairman, to conduct immediate in
vestigation of the prices paid by meat pack
ers for live cattle and swine with particular
reference to any discrimination against the
stock producers in the southern states.
An unofficial American altitude record was
made last week by Roland Rahlfs, test pilot
for the Curtiss Engineering corporation who
flew to a height of g. 100 feet at Mineola, l..
l., in one of the new Curtis "wasps." The
previous American record was credited to
Major r. w. Schroeder, U. S. A, who attained
an altitude of $3.50 feet in a British-buit
Bristol, Rehlfs' wasp is triplane, design !
ed for the United States army as a pursuit
plane and under government tests has flown
100 miles an hour
Near Deadwood, S. D., monument mas
been erected to the memory OF theodore
Roosevelt by the Society Of Black Hills
Pioneers 1t was built Of the native stones
that cover the mountain now bearing Roose-
yelt's name. In the south side of the monu-
ment is a bronze tablet, bearing the lnscrip-
ton On the top is Flagstaff from which the
Stars and Stripes will be flown every national
holiday every birthday anniversary OF Roose-
Welt and every anniversary of the date OF his
death.
Eight hundred natives were killed and
ls141 hon