Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-13
CURRENT EVENTS

MOSCOW at London, says Japan has
agreed to recognize the Far Eas-
tern Russian Republic on condition
that it shall have complete political
and economic independence of the
Russian Soviet government and that
it guarantees to be a democratic
form of government.
The dispatch adds that the foreign
minister of the republic has declared
that these conditions are acceptable.
A Reuter- dispatch from Stockholm
today quotes Mrs. Phillip Snowden
and DR.. Guest, members Of the Brit
ish labor dedication which went to
investigate conditions in Russia, as
declaring that in their view Soviet
Russia could teach Western Europe
nothing. Socialism, they predicted,
would prevail in Great Britain long
before it would in Russia, the mes
sage adds.
His execution fees are mounting up
so fast that John Hubert, Sing
Sings switchman will. for the first
time, be obliged to pay an income
tax this year.
Hubert, it was learned recently,
has earned 5000 for services at six
executions so far this year. In ad-
dition, he earns fair salary at his
regular employment of engineer in
another state prison.
Last year was a dull one for the
executioner. He had only two eXecu-
lions and he got less per case than
capita. Several more executions are
scheduled for this year, so his fees
alone may exceed $4,000.
A dispatch from verdun relates
the first stone was laid recently,
the fourth anniversary of the Ger
mans deepest advance, for the mon
ument to be erected at Verdun in
victorious battle for the defense of
Verdun. The ceremony occurred in
the presence of detachments bearing
the colors of all the French army
corps. Former President Poincare.
Marshal Petain and Andre Lefevre,
the minister Of war, were present.
June %, 1915. marked the turning
point in the great, struggle for pos
session of this notable strategic
point in the battle line, wnere the
heroic poilus hurled their historic
defiance at the Germans, "They shall
not pass"
Information received from San
Francisco states that leaders among
progressive Chinese from all por-
tions of North America gathered in
San Francisco in the first great ma
tional convention of the Chinese in
this country devoted to the purpose
of establishing a better understand
ing between Chinese and Americans
and cementing the friendship be-
tween the two peoples.
The convention is under the auspi-
ces of the Chinese National Welfare
Society of America.
President and Mrs. Wilson enter
tained informally at luncheon recent
T1IC nd
who sailed for France to spend the
summer. 1t was the first time since
the president was taken ill last Sep
TENDER that a member of the diplo-
matte corps had been entertained at
the White House.
the Democratic national convention
had adjourned until D. M, San
Francisco time, the president, with
Mrs. Wilson, went for an automobile
ride.
In the Bay of South Alesund a
Viking ship has been discovered, and
is, now being examined by experts,
the famous iceberg shij.'
The iceberg ship" mentioned in
the Copenhagen dispatch probably
refers to the remains of a Viking
ship which was discovered some
years ago imbedded in the ice by
some Iceland fishermen off the coast
of Greenland.
A more perfect specimen was dis
covered in 1880 in tomb mound at
Gokstadt, near Christiania, of which
the dimensions are given as: Length,
seventy eight feet; beam, sixteen
feet seven inches; depth, five feet
nine inches. with high stern and stem
and sixteen oars on each side.
Both ships are said to date from
the ninth century, and it was in yes
sells of this class that the Vikings
crossed the Atlantic 500 years before
Columbus discovered America.
Traffic accidents in New York
state during June reached the highest
number on record for a similar Pc
Rod, according to the figures com
piled by the National Highway Pro-
tective society, which show that 1877
persons were killed by automobiles,
wagons, trains and trolley cars. This
of fatalities exceeds by six
ty-eight the deaths reported from
similar causes in June, 1918.
AUTOMOBILES were the greatest men
caused the deaths of sixty-two per-
sons, while no fatalities were caused
by trolleys or wagons. In the cor
month of last year fifty
seven persons were killed by motor
cars, seven by trolleys and four by
wagons,
Five persons were killed at grade
crossings last month, an increase Of
two over June of 1918.
Fines aggregating approximately
$4,000 were collected in the traffic
court during June, which proved to
be a record month In the same pc
riod the court handled 4,741 violations
of automobile ordinances. Seventy
five motorists were convicted and
sent to Jail for from three to twenty
days. During the month 1,159 speed
ers were convicted as first offenders
as second and seventeen
as third offenders.
During an electrical storm recent
ly bolt of lightning struck Samuel
Frothingham's house, the Poplars
of the Stuckbridge road, Lenox,
Mass, occupied by Spencer P. Shot.
ter and Miss Isabel D. Shotter, OF
New York.
The bolt passed through the dining
room and into the den where Mr..
Shotter was sitting. It made a hole
a tank of goldfish, killing eight of
them. 1t vanished via the telephone
wire.
The bid of 100000 for the former
German liner De Kalb, made by the
American Ship and Commerce corpo-
ration, was accepted recently by the
shipping board at Washington.
The offer of 100000 for the
great liner Leviathan, made by the
United States Mail Steamship COM
pany, still is under consideration.
More than 1000 croupiers and
other employees are on the pay roll
of the company which operates the
famous gambling casino at Monte
Carlo.
The barn owl, when she has
h,,ir, to her nest