Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-03

The supreme court, in deciding appeals
brought by the British ship owners, upheld
the constitutonality of the provisions Of
| the La Toilette seamen's act relating to the
payment of wages to seamen upon demand.
Federal court DEGREES holding that the pro-
visions apply to foreign seamen on foreign
vessels while in American ports were sus-
tanned by the. court. The appeals resulted
from libel proceedings brought against the
British steamers Strathearn and Westmeath
by foreign seamen to obtain part of their
wages under the act upon arrival in Ameri-
can 2orts.
Nearly $4,000 employees of packing COM
panies in Chicago will be thrown out of work
if 900 workers of the Union Stock Yards
and Transit company, who went on strike
Saturday at midnight, remain out, packing
officials said recently.
eve have enough live stock on hand for
a day so,'' said an official of Armour &
Co. after that we must gradually close
down if the strike continues, and a week
will see all departments of the plant closed"
The members of the New York City fire
department., in response to an appeal for
help from the destitute firemen of the city
of Vienna, have raised a fund of $4,000,
which was transmitted by cable to the
American Relief Aid in Vienna for distribu-
ton among the firemen of the former Aus
tran capital and their families The money
according to Honorary Deputy Fire Chief
Robert H. Manner, who dispatched the fund
Care of sick and disabled soldiers and
sailors who served in the world war will cost
$18,316,000 for the year ending June 80.
Surgeon General Cumming of the public
health service, informed congress today in
asking for an additional appropriation of
$8,816,000.
According to a statement from Paris Henry
2. Dawson, chairman of the League of Red
Cross Societies, sketched to a gathering of
newspaper correspondents the terrible condi-
ton prevailing in central and eastern Europe
He stated as having received a telegram from
Poland, very recently, telling him there are
100000 cases of typhus in that country itself
Doctors and medical supplies are sadly lack
ing.
ga ship has just arrived at a Baltic port
from Russia with 700 refugees, among them
fifteen generals and many women. Numerous
typhus cases being aboard the ship, the refu-
gees were not allowed to land.
I'm Montenegro four doctors are trying to
look after more than 100000 persons.
''The work of relief is too great for the Red
Cross league alone and must be done by the
aid CT the allied governments"
Governor Smith, of New York, named
William P. Burr, corporation counsel of New
Philbin as supreme court justice. The nomi-
nation was sent to the senate finance COM
mittee Mr.. Burr was born in Ireland in
1856. He was educated in New York and
at st. James college, Baltimore, and Co.
lumbia Law school, Mr.. Burr is man of
recognized ability and no doubt will fill the
office of supreme justice to the satisfaction
of all.
According to a cable from London,
Rumanian oil company, the Rumanian Con-
solidated Oil Field, Ltd, won the first step
in its efforts to collect $6,250,0O0 from the
British government for destruction of the
companys wells during the retreat of 1916.
The judge held that the British envoy super
intending destruction of the wells promised
to reimburse the owners, but he declined
to assess the amount of damages.
Predictions that Japan eventually will join
the list of dry nations were made in Seattle,
Wash, by three Japanese delegates to the
International Convention of Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union in London, April Is
to rs.
The three-Mrs. Kali Itikama, president
of the Japanese w. C. T. u; Mrs. Edward
Gauntlet and Mrs T. Watase, officials of
the union-left recently for New York.