Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-08
CURRENT EVENTS


sued an executive order to the effect
ing the United States no longer shall
be required to obtain a permit from
this government prior to departure
unless the secretary Of state SO or
ders. The text of the order was made
public at the state department today
as follows:
"By virtue of the authority vested
in me by an act to prevent in time
of war departure from and entry
into the. United States contrary to
1918, /, woodrow Wilson, president
of the United States of America,
hereby amend executive order of
August 8, 1918. governing the issu--
permits to depart from and enter tha
United States by the following pro-
visions:
81. Hereafter persons who by any
statute or proclamation may be de-
fined as hostile or enemy aliens, and
| who desire to department any port
| of the United States for any desti-
! tination, shall not, unless the secre-
tary of state SO orders, be required
to obtain permit of this government
| prior to such departure. Such per-
| sons will be permitted to depart upon
presentation of passports issued, re-
| newed or vised by representatives OF
| their respective governments within
| one year prior to the proposed date
| of departure. accompanied by certif-
! icates of compliance with the income
tax law.
''2. No passports or permits to de-
part from or enter the United States
shall be required of persons travelling
United States and points in New
foundland, and ST. Pierre and
| Miquelon islands; provided that the
above exception has no application to
persons travelling en- route through
the countries named to or from the
WOODROW WILSON.
'"The White House. June ~. 1920"
Jeddah, selected for the meeting
between Lord Allenby and the king
of the Hedjaz, is a spot that should
appeal to every member of the hui
man race who possesses spark of
filial affection, for just outside the
city walls of Jeddah is the tradi-
tiona1 tomb of Eve.
A Turkish turban of the largest
size contains from ten to twenty
yards of the finest and softest mus
Three noted English women
Queen Ann, Elizabeth Inchbald and
Harriet Lee-died on the first day
of August.
The smallest circular saw in prac-
teal use is a tiny disk less than the
size of a silver quarter which is en-
ployed for cutting the Sits in gold
pens. These saws are scarcely thick
er than ordinary paper and revolve
about 1000 times a minute. The high
velocity keep them rigid notwith-
standing their thinness.
The greatest Zeppelin ever con-
structed, the LII, built in 1918 by
the Germans for the purpose of
ed to the Pulham airdrome at Lon
don recently.
Recent dispatches from abroad
have described the supr-Zeppelin
LII as being 800 feet longer than
the Zeppelins which carried out
bombing raids on London during the
war. The airship was said to have
cruising radius of $4,000 miles with
a speed of 100 miles an hour. The
Germans delivered the LII to the
British in compliance with the terms
of the peace treaty!
WASHINGTON, July 1.-The Chi
nese foreign office has expressed to
profound regret for the killing of
DR.. w. A. Reimert, an American mis-
snonary, by General Chang-Ching-
Yao's troops at Yochow, in the prov
ince of Human. several weeks ago.
In reporting this to the state de-
partment today, the legation said the
Chinese government had ordered a
thorough investigation.
Because of the loss of the prov
ince of Human to the southern forces
was deprived of the offices of mill
tary and civil governor of Human
by presidential mandates dated June
ID and 20, as well as of his military
command.
America has succeeded Germany
as the seat of educational accom-
plishment, according to>the Very Rev.
James A. Burns, president of Notre
Dame university, who addressed the
closing session of the Catholic Edu-
catlonaI association recently, in the
Hotel Commodore. He said that stu
dents, because of the war, were com
| ing here from all over the world A
resolution in opposition to the Smith
townsend bill, which would place all
denominational institutions under
other resolution praised the knights
OF Columbus and other organizations
for their war work.
Improvement of the trade balance
of the United States with every i'm
portant geographical division of the
world was shown by the report of
the department of commerce for the
. Exports to Europe in May totaled
| $3.50, 100000 and imports $4,000 900,
| leaving favorable balance of more
than $2oo,00o,0oo, an increase of
South Americas favorable balance c.;
was reduced to $5,000,O00, against
$2s,oo0,O0O in April, exports last
month month aSggreeggaating $5S,Oo0,ooo and
imports $6S, 100000. Exports to In
$106,0o0,000 and this country bought
$l38.000,0O in goods from North
American countries, selling in return
goods worth $152,ooo,O0O
Less than twenty-four hours after
his release from Blackwelrs Island,
Thomas Tobin, fifty-two years old
known ENC to the police, as the Wonder
Kid" veteran pickpocket, was ar
crosstown car. Detective Coy, of the
plckpocket squad, told Magistrate
Zen Eyck in the Yorkvi11e court later
he had seen Tobin put his hands into
the pockets of two fellow passengers.
according to the police, Tobin has
| Deen convicted sixteen times in four
Teen dlfferent states as pickpocket
MAE istrate Zen Eyck sentenced him
70 SIX months in the penitentiary.
A dispatch from Washington re-
lates the Congressional Medal of
Honor was conferred upon Lieutenant
Herman H. Hanneken and CORPORAL
William r. Button, both of the ma
rlne.. corps, for extraordinary hero
ism displayed in leading the force
which killed the Haitian bandit chief.
Charlemange Peralte, near Grande
Riviere, Haiti, last October. Presen-
tation of the medals was made at
the. navy department by Major GEN
eral John A. Lejeune, the new COM
mandant of marines.
| AS recounted in the official cita-
ton, Lieutenant Hanneken and Cor
poral Button, disguised as natives,
on the night of october 81 led a
small detachment of gendarmerie
through a series of outposts flung
out to protect the bandit and finally
| reached his headquarters. They were
discovered by the chiefs bodyguard,
|