Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-10

telegram from Governor Hobby, of Texas,
asking that two brigades of national guard
cavalry be modified in twenty days at Camp
Mabry, Texas for border service. Governor
Hobby declared the Mexican situation is so
critical that an emergency might arise at
any moment requiring large force OF
troops at the border. The telegram was re-
ferred to Major General Cabell, commander
of the Southern department.
Federal Judge M Killets, of Toledo, has
issued temporary restraining order, eff
fective for ten days, ordering the reopening
of the Willys-Overland Automobile company
plant, closed since the fatal rioting Of last
Tuesday. The order restraints interference
with workers.
One million dollars is to be paid by the
government for the 1000 acres upon which
Camp Zachary Taylor is erected, according
to announcement by Captain A. B. Ashby,
war department acquisition officer, who ar
ranged the purchase.
The Portuguese government has issued de-
cree establishing prize of thirty contos Cat
normal exchange approximately $32,400) for
the Portuguese or Brazilian aviator who flies
from Portugal to Brazil. The minister of
marine said that Portugal had been stimulat-
ed by the example of the United States and
intends to establish commercial aviation
route between Portugal and Brazil. The
route would be from Lisbon, Madeira, the
Canary islands, Fernando, Noronha and Per-
nambuco, distance of $500 miles.
An alleged conspiracy to defraud the gov
eminent of $30,000,000 worth of munitions
supplies has been uncovered by department
of justice agents in Detroit. Indictments
charging conspiracy have been returned by
the United States grand jury against Captain
Sartorios Nicholson, of Washington, connect
"a xNYff fhn 0r1Y no%,1 A.AA.
Hugh Browne, millionaire sportsman; Fred
G. Collins, vice consul of Greece, and presi-
dent of local realty company, and United
States army officer now in France according
to Arthur L. Barkey, chief Of Detroit bureau
of Investigation Of the department Of justice.
The name Of the officer abroad was withheld
Belgium is now in a position to feed any
number of tourists who may come to visit the
country, owing to great Improvement in the
situation during the last few months. Prices
are far above the pre-war standard, but sup
plies generally are plentiful with the excep-
ton of certain kinds Of meat and milk. Incl
dentally, alcohol is now a drug on the Bel
gian market, owing to the semi-prohibition
measure which is in force In many places it
is being dumped into rivers.
The body of Rosa Luxembourg, the radical
socialist who was killed by mob in Berlin
in the present war at the same time DR.. Karl
Liebknecht was assassinated, has been found
in the Landwehr Canal. The body has been
held fast in the dixie, preventing its recovery
by divers.
Jess Willard, champion heavyweight boxer,
has gone to Toledo, Ohio, where the Willard
Dempsey match will be fought on Juny 4, and
will settle down to training in preparation
for the fight.
When the project of the Rhenish republic
was first preached, Marshal Foch, command
er in chief of the allied armien, was approach
ed through occupation officers and asked
whether the Rhinelanders could work for
republic without the risk of being disciplined
by Germany, according to the Neue Baden
Landeszeitung. The newspaper states that
Marshal Foch and Premier Clemenceau of
France, conferred on the subject and sent re
ply to the Rhine1anders that "the German
government would never again have anything
to do with the left bank of the Rhine and
hence the propagandists cbuld not be punish
ed
Columbia, Michigan, Brown, Lansing Agricul-
tural college and Harvard, have decided to
accord public recognition to Major General
Enoch H. Crowder, the man who conceived
and executed the selective service plans by
means Of which 1t was possible for the United
States to put victorious army into France in
eighteen months.
Coblenz will be the capital of the new
Rhine republic which has been proclaimed
in several Rhine cities. The new government
and national assembly will meet there, but
the provisional governm ent' will sit at Weis-
baden.
Mines in Tldf and Andrestchinsk, which
were the personal property of the car, have
been taken over by the Omsk government
They hold rich deposits of iron, copper, zinc,
gold, jasper and other valuables
Switzerland has a war debt. though she
wasn't belligerent. Her army was modified
and the burden Of thousands of refugees has
been heavy. The war tax bill which has been
approved on referendum will raise about
$3.50, 100000. 1t taxes incomes over $500 on
a sliding scale up to 20 per cent over $4,000,
up to 25 per cent. Only the cantons Of Gene
va and Neuchatel returned majorities against
the bill.
A direct cable service has been arranged
between the United States and Brazil and
thence along the entire eastern coast Of South
America
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