Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-11

John Mccormack, "America's singing SOL
der,' so descAibed for his work in war bene-
fits, has received a gold medal from the
American Legion of New York county at
benefit concert given at the Hippodrome.
General John J. Pershing attended as the
chief guest. The medal is replica of the
American legion button, engraved with
statement of appreciation.
Engraved certificates were presented to
Miss Mary Garden, prima donna; Coles Phil
lips, artist, and Mark A. Luescher, manager
of the Hipprodrome for Charles Dillingham;.
Mr.. Mccormack has raised $4,000 for
various war service organizations. The others
have been giving material aid in the Ameri-
can Legion membership wrive. General
Robert Alexander, formerly commander of
the Seventy-seventh division, now stationed at
Madison barracks, Scakett Harbor, N. Y,
made the presentations.
A dispatch from Paris says the war crimi.
mails commission has decided to send to Ger
many the names Of forty-six men for trial be-
fore the German courts. This, it is an
nounced, will be test of good faith upon
which the allies have agreed.
The list, with covering note Of consider
able length, has been drawn up and will be
SUBMITTED to the supreme council. 1t is ex-
pected it will be forwarded to Berlin within
the week
The British. selected the names of seven &C
cused, mostly for submarine atrocities;
FRANCE selected LW0lVe, belgium HILoeH anu
Italy, Poland and Rumania four each
The work of the police boat Patrol is fin
ished For twenty-seven years the little
steamer fought river pirates, extinguished
waterfront fires and preserved order along
New Yorks 597 miles of river, harbor and
ocean front, saved lives, rescued drifting
boats, guarded ammunition barges from
spies, welcomed troops home and performed
multitudinous other services that no one
would suspect were tasks of the police But
now bigger and, on paper at least, bet
ter boat is replacing her. 1t was the police
boat Patrol which, with engine Clanking and
Gathering and shaking thin walls of her cor
roded bullet-dented hull, stood by the
stranded Princess Anne off Rockaway Point
on February Z and took aboard the thirty
two passengers and twenty-eight members
of the crew of the Old Dominion liner
whom the brave men of the coast guard had
been powerless to save.
An attempt was made few mornings ago
| to assassinate Stephen Friedrich, former pre-
mier, and minister of war in the present
hungarian cabinet at Budapest.
Several shots were. fired at the war min
lsters motor car as he was crossing the
Elizabeth bridge shortly before noon Herr
Friedrich was not injured however.
The war minister's assistant escaped in
an automobile held in readiness
Raymond Poincare, formerly president of
France, evidently does not intend to be idle
In addition to his duties as senator his law
practice and his work as president of the
Preparations commissioning tasks in them
selves-he has accepted a magazine "jobr
He is to be foreign affairs chronicler of the
Revue des Deux Mondes and general political
writer. Foreign affairs enter largely into the
scope of this fortnightly publication.
In this work M. Poincare succeeds Charles
Benoist, one of the best known French writer's
on these topics, who has accepted the post of
Minister of France in the Netherlands.
A dispatch from Berne says adherence to
the League of Nations by Switzerland was
approved by the Swiss National Council the
vote standing ia to So
This decision does not bind this country
to enter the League but constitutes recon-
mendation for a plebiscite to be held during
April May, in which the people will voice
their desires
The National Council was asked to ap-
prove Switzerland's entrance to the League
by the government a few days ago, after it
had been decided to abandon what were