Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-14
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| voy contained twenty-five officers
and 1872 enlisted men of the army.
| Fuel control regulations similar to
those enforced in Canada through
out the winter of 1918 have been is
| sued by the board of railway COM
! government in Ottawa, Canada. The
order regulates the amount of avail
able coal to be allotted to each
province and to individual consum-
| erS.
/ Seventeen men charged with muir
| der in the first degree, one charged
| with manslaughter in the first de-
| gree and seven charged with man
| slaughter in the second degree were
| arraigned during one ! day in New
York last week. All We're remand
ed to the Tombs.
Dispatches received here from
Madrid telling Of widespread strikes
evolutionary re- character, drew a
statement fro heFPortuguese Lee
cation in London that these re re
Exaggerated out of all proportion"
4 The legation made public a tele-
/ gram from Portugal, which only re-
fers to a. partial railway strike, ana
says public order is 'undlsturoed IN
any way"
The Prussian security police, or
ganized on military basis, has been
disbanded and replaced by a BODY
| damentally local in character, un-
der control of the local civil author
tiles. The substitution was made IN
accordance with the demand OF the
entente powers. -
capable of direct communication
with America, will be, constructed
about 270 miles from MOSCOW Rus
STA.
| A summary of the activities of
the bureau of war risk insurance as
of August 81, 1920, indicating the
progress made in bringing the work
of the bureau to a current basis; as
| announced by Director r: G. Chol-
| meiey-Jones, shows that during the
war and to date forty billion dollars
| worth o insurance was issued on be-
half of the American forces.
The gross premium rem1 n1s ace 20 %
Claims paid out on account of death
totaled $1,154,911,718, and for disa-
bilities $29,577,549.
| During the month of August the to-
tai disbursements on war-r1sk term
insurance claims amounted to $7'-
The number of the personnel in
| the bureau has been reduced to 1898,
| which is less than half the former
| figures.
Beginning last Wednesday, ten
| day celebration in honor OF Jenny
Lind was begun in New York. Sew
enty years ago Jenny Lind made her
s famGHI s9aa Maz then VEIL
| known in Sweden, England, and on
| the continent of Europe, but only
small knowledge of her capabilities
was possessed by the people of the
| United States. 1t remained for P.
T.. Baraum to acquaint this country
with the Importance of the singer
Uncle Sam wants his jackets to be
sailors. In orders issued by the navy
| department a revision of forces now
on shore duty was ordered to the end
that non-rated enlisted men have as
much actual sea service as possible:
| Under the new plan all firemen,
| third class and seamen, second class,
| must go to sea and district com
manders are directed also to replace
as rapidly as possible men of 9th r
enlisted grades who have not served
their sea legs. Petty officers also
must have salt water experience and
| those who have been ashore for two
years, or have never been to. sea,
will be assigned to duty with ships,
Among the trophies which the
Prince of Wales Is taking back to
| England with him is a specimen of
| the favorite Mexican weapon, the
machete. The blade was presented to
| stop there. =
The machete is the usual wire
steel blade with horn hilt, but the
horn has been carved in the form OF
uails. The steel is etched. One side
bears the legend God Save the
King" with Remember Mexican
| West Coasts" with lion and til
| ger rampant between them.
The other side is engraved with
the words, ALBERT, Prince of Wales"
! All the work was done by Mexican
| Indians in the village of Tecpan de
Galeana,
From the ruins of Louvain, to
which the Germans applied the torch
on August 25,- 1914, are springing
| lack the historic interest of the de-
! stroyed structures, but no city in
| Belgium will be able to boast of a
| more up-to-date appearance than
| struction is finished.
The city presents to the stranger
| an unusual appearance-masses of
| ruins here, new ive-story buildings
| there, with the old undestroyed
buildings in sharp contrast. Y
| build the famous library. The Bel
| gian government, however, is gradu-
| ally finding in Germany trace of
many of the priceless manuscripts
and other books looted from the IL
brary by the Germans.
The. Soviet is taking measures to
spread education in the southern
hitchevan ffty-seven schools have
been opened. Since September 1 $50
other schools have been started.
Little did the former Premier
Ce,lemsenceau, when he journeyed to
the tn frSnt during the troubled days
SLOUGH hat that he wore on these oc-
| casions would become the special
headgear to be worn with evening
clothes. The Clemenceau hat, how
future.
Ever since the war men have been
feeling the need of a special head
says, 1.-THE silk hat is too 90 formal 1iTasii
the opera hat is too theatrical; the
bowler looks PROVINCIAL and soft gray
hats and straw hats are out Of place
wear, easily transportable and capa-
BILE of being crushed into an over
coat pocket in case of need. will solve
long-felt want that well-dresseC
men feel especially since the war"
Circulars announcing rewards Of
$10,500 offreded by the city of New
York for information leading to the
! conviction Of persons responsible for
| the Wall street explosion of Sep
TENDER Is were posted throughout
Manhattan and sent in bulk - police
departments within a radius Of 200
miles,
J. A. Greenburg, who owns num-
Der of apartments in Chicago, has an
nounced a ten per cent reduction in
all rents effective October /, and
said that similar reduction would
be made next May. He said he was
following the example of others who
had started a decline in prices.
Berlin was without street car serv-