Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-23

Since November II of last year 2,11T Reg
ular Army officers-provisional and per-
manent--have resigned from the army. Be-
tween November II and December II the
number who resigned aggregated 1T. Lieut.
tenant Colonel Allan Pope OF the Field Ar
tillery corps is one of the most recent West
Pointers to resign He was assistants "a :h@
secretary of the general staff when he tender
ed his resignation. He will enter business in
Boston. The high cost of living is troubling
many army and navy officers. Legislation is
pending in congress providing for an increase
IN pay.
Liquor interests estimate their losses
as result of the enforcement of the War
time Prohibition law at 100000, 600 &C
cording to a statement made in Chicago by
Levy Mayer, chief counsel for the distillors
in the middle west
He has announced that a suit to recover
approximately this sum from the United
States government will soon be filed in the
Court Of Claims at Washington. Attorney
Mayer explained that this action is entirely
apart from the proceedings attacking consti-
tut1onal prohibition, to be submitted to the
United States supreme court.
The French senate as constituted by the
elections of January Il, will try Joseph Gail
lauX former premier of France, on CAarTe
of intriguing to bring about premature and
trial will begin January ia.
There are only seventy-three members OF
the old senate whose terms have not eX-
pired, and it has been decided that this num-
Der is not sufficient to sit as high court
decree will be promulgated convoking thu
senate on January IS. The senate then will
constitute itself as a high court of the COM
plete senate with 81 members qualified to
sit
Ballot boxes in approximately 1900 Ohio
precincts, or one-fifth Of the state, will be
reopened and last November's vote upon
ratification of the Federal prohibition
amendment will be recounted to determine
whether the wet" victory of some 400
votes was the true result of the election.
This decided at Columbus last week
by Judge Frank Clevenger, when he granted
the requests of the Ohio Dry Federation
for recounts. The ballot boxes will be taken
to Columbus, where the recount will be
made. Ballots cast in Cleveland and To-
ledo will be taken up first. Judge Clevengcr
intimated that if sufficient errors are de-
veloped to place the whole result Of the
referendum in doubt, he may exercise the
power to order a recount throughout the
entire state.
The State Of Rhode Island mas begun pro-
ceedings in the United States supreme court
in an attempt to test validity of the national
prohibition amendment The suit practical
ly is similar to the action begun last week
by the Retail Liquor Dealers Association
Of New Jersey. 1t seeks to prevent Al
torney General Palmer and Daniel G. Roper,
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, from en-
forcing national prohibition laws and also
from carrying out the Volstead enforcement
law within Rhode Island
Herbert c. Rice, Attorney General of
Rhode Island, filed a brief in which the
supreme court was asked to compel
the Attorney General and the Commissioner
OF Internal Revenue to appear and make
answer. The court was asked also to de-
clare the eighteenth amendment void and to
enJo1n government officers from putting into
effect the Volstead law.
Thirteen hundred British troops in Persia
have been wiped out by the hostile pOpula-
ton, according to a Moscow wireless message
received last week in London. The troops,
the dispatch says, comprised the garrison OF
the town OF Meshkod (possibly Meshed in
northeastern Persia, northwest of Herat, At
ghaniStan).