Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-09

Lieutenant Edmund P. Graves, of Boston,
Mass a member of the KOsciusko Aerial
Squadron Of the Polish army, was killed at
Lemberg in Galica last week. when his air
plane crashed on the roof OF the palace OF
Count Potocli which is occupied by the per-
sonnet of the American Red Cross. Gasoline
escaping from the machine ignited and start
ed fire which nearly consumed the b|id-
ing. Lieutenant Graves, who was Har-
ward graduate of 1913, was the first mem
Der of the KOsciusko squadron, which is
made up of American volunteers, to lose his
life. The accident was witnessed by thou
sands of spectators who had crowded into
Lemberg for a celebration in honor of the
freeing of the city from the Ukrainians
year ago.
The Spanish government has replied to the
recent request of Bernardino Machado, for
mer president of Portugal, for the return
by Spain to Portugal Of the fortlhed town
of OlivenZa, fifteen miles southwest OF Bada-
ioz, near the Portuguese frontier The town
was taken by Spain in 1911. The spanish
reply declares that for historic reasons the
request of Senior Machado is impossible OF
fu1fillment The note expresses regret that
a former president of Portugal should re-
open a question which had been closed for
years. Senior MachadO, in the Portuguese
senate last week, asked what the present
government in Portugal was doing to regain
gals efforts in the Portugal had right
to ask that the town be restored to her.
Since the signing of the armistice the
United States and Great Britain nave re-
sumed trading with Germany as shown IN
renorfs made public by the Department of
Commerce. Exports from the United States
to Germany for the first ten months OF the
year totalled $52,420,095, and imports from
Germany $4,914,7S7
Great Britain, from the signing OF the
armistice to October I, exported to Germany
goods valued at more than 100000 and
received imports from Germany valued at
| 81 ,OS5, 600.
OF the total American exports to Ger
many $40, 663,521 were exported in October.
| Officials of the Department of Commerce
stated that although Great Britain apparent
| w had started off with rush in the Ger
man trade, the United States was overhaul
| ing her rapidly.
| With temperatures in Nebraska reaching
| as low as twelve degrees below zero and the
! fuel situation rapidly growing more acute,
| Governor Samuel McKelvie has called for
! volunteers to serve as miners in the state,
from which Nebraska receives it's fuel supply.
| His action, which took the form of an Off
| cial proclamation followed a mass meeting
| called by State university students to OBJ
tain recruits for the work. Several hundred
students pledged themselves to work in the
| mines if needed.
| All 1Oad-carrying airplane records were
| broken today, when a twin-mOtor De Hav1-
! land 4 plane, devised by and manufactured
| for the postoffice department, covered the
distance between the air mail field at Wash
| ington and shat at Belmont Park, New York,
a distance of 21S miles, in one hour and thir-
! ty-four minutes, the postoffice department
! announced. 1t carried a mail load of nearly
| 10000 letters, weighing $50 pounds. The
! speed was at the rate of 1873 miles an hour.
| The best previous record was on September
/ 10, when a single-mOtor De Haviland car
red 800 pounds Of mail from Washington to
! New York at a speed of 1928 miles an hour,
| and the third best record was on October 1,
! when a Curtiss plane carried 348 pounds
! from New York to Washington at a speed of
! 11S miles an hour.
The German government has extended
the time limit for subscriptions to the
premium loan to December 10. 1t was to
have closed last Wednesday.
The Vossische Zeitung says this tends to
confirm widespread reports that the loan has
been failure. The loan, which was in
tended to raise 5,O00,000,000 marks, provid-
ed for lottery system as an inducement to
subscribers.
Citizens of Carlisle, England, the girlhood
nome OIL the InOLu0T OIL HrSSlu0uL WOOufOW
| Wilson, have unveiled tablet near the en-
| trance Of the Lowther Street Congregations
| church to commemorate the visit to the
! town of President Wilson in December
1918.
On the occasion of the presidents visit he
went to the spot on which had stood the
chapel of his grandfather, the late Rev
| Thomas Woodrow. ToWnspeople of Carlisle
acclaimed the distinguished visitor, and his
stay in the town was made public holi-
| day.
William K. Johnson, the American anti
saloon organizer, for whom the London Eve
ming News opened testimonial because OF
| injuries received in a "ragging' by students
has written to the paper asking that the
money thus raised be sent to ST. Dunstan
| Hostel for the Blind
Mr.. Johnson, whose eye was removed few
days ago, is progressing satisfactorily.
II THE AMERICAN EMPIRE