Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-25

dam for the convention of the International
Trades Union Federation which opens there
on July %. Delegates from all countries are
in attendance and construction problems
will be discussed.
The constitutionality Of the Federal Farm
Loan Act has been attacked in a suit to be
filed in the federal court in Kansas City in
behalf OF stockholders in a Kansas City
trust company. 1t holds that the tax free
clause of the act is unconstitutional.
The Japanese delegation to the peace con-
sarence has issued denial of assertions that
the Shantung settlement in the German
peace treaty, was in exchange for the with
drawal of the Japanese contention regarding
the racial clause in the League of Nations.
Ten persons we're shot during disorders
which attended the breaking up of a major
ity Socialist meeting by communists and
Spartacans in Berlin this week. Those at
tending the meeting, which was held in the
Trades Union building, attempted to lynch
the man who fired the shots, but he was
saved by hospital helpers who were in the
building.
Decentralization of the navy is progressing
satisfactorily according to a navy depart
ment announcement. A total of ,554 en-
listed men have been discharged since the
yarmistice was signed, of which 94,3O6 were
enlisted in the regular service and 222,248
were members Of the reserve force who we're
released to inactive duty, subject to call.
More than 22,500 reserve officers have been
returned to civil life aid 1924 still are on
duty. There still are 10000 enlisted men of
the reserve force on duty, most of them
aboard transports. They will be released as
rapidly as recruits IAN be obtained to take
their places.
| twenty-five distinct bands of rebels with
strength of about $4,000 men now are
operating in Mexico City. Opposing them
Carranza has force of about so, 600 which
however, is able to control little more than
the railway lines with narrow strip along
the Pacific coast from Guaymas to San Bias
and the territory around Tampco. The re.
port asserts there is certain degree of CO.
operation between the various rebel forces
in the north as we'll as in the south. Villa
and Angeles are shown in the tabuIatjon to
nave 5,1O0 men; Felix Diaz 500 and Man
uel PelaeZ 5000
Secretary of State Lansing arrived in New
York Tuesday from Brest on the steamship
Rotterdam. The secretary, accompanied by
his wife and a small party of state depart
ment attaches was taken off the ship at
quarantine and brought to the city ON a
revenue cutter. He remained there overnight
and went to Washington Wednesday.
Deportation of 513 enemy aliens for VIC
lations of various war statutes is proposed in
a bill unanimously reported in Washington by
the house immigration committee. The
aliens now are interned at Fort Oglethorpe,
Ca, and Fort Douglas, Utah. They will be
permitted hearings by the department of JUS
tice before deportation.
Twenty-Five hundred military prisoners in
the disciplinary barracks at the Federal
prison at Leavenworth, Kans., went on strike
Wednesday and resisted attempts OF the
guards to force them to work. Colonel Fred
erick Rice, In command of the barracks, re-
ceiyed a committee of twelve prisoners, who
asked that the men be given shorter hours
and more to eat r 5e~ = = - . :
Having found that the price per acre now
demanded from the government for land
requisitioned in building the embarkation
terminal at Charleston, S. c., would repre-
sent about 10000 per cent increase over the
purchase price of six years ago, the war de-
partment board of appraisers has submitted
report recommending a fiat refusal. In
stead of the $798,500 asked for the principal
claimant, the report recommends payment of
$42,3 as fair and just compensation for
the property and all damages resulting from
the governments requisition. Lieutenant
Colonel Ralph W. Donges, chairman of the
appraisal board, fixed maximum value of
500 per acre as compared with $1,887 de-
The principle of open covenants of peace
openly arrived att is to be applied to the
senate foreign relations committees consd-
GRAFTON of the treaty, according to plans made
by administration senators in Washington.
Usually the committees sessions are secret.
Senator JONES' New Mexico, said he will call
up at once his resolution providing that all
sessions of the committee be open to the
public. Senator Lodge, Republican leader
and chairman of the committee, has practi-
cally assured him he will not fight the reso-
luton, Senator Jones said. Democratic SEN
ators declared Republicans dared not vote
against open sessions, because they have
assaled President Wilson for the secrecy of
the peace conference, and have constantly de-
manded that the public be kept informed
from day to day of all developments
The divorce suit of H. H. Hirsch versus
Mrs. NJ A. Hirsch, the woman who was con-
victed in the Fulton superior court on
charge of completely in an attempt to black
mail Asa G. Gambler, is in line to be tried
next week in the superior court. In the
suit, which was filed last January Is
through Attornys Byran, Jordan & Mid
dlebrooks, the husband charges cruel treat
ment in the mental suffering he endured be-
cause of the defendants action.
A Bolshevik delegation has arrived at
Kishineff with offer of peace to the COM
mander of the Rumanian Dniester troops on
behalf of Nikolai Lenine, the Bolshevik
premier, according to a Berlin government
wireless dispatch. Lenine offers to cede Bes-
sarabia to Rumania on condition that Ru-
mania shall prohibit Ukrainian citizens and
bands of Admiral Kolchak, head of the all
Russian government at Omsk. from crossing
the Rumanian frontier. An armistice to last