Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-03
CURRENT EVENTS

AlQ 1llSQ Ia LIlS Ol11Sc VI ZIG SACA N
Of Polk County, Ia, by Theodore
Mantz, Des Moines lawyer. Mr..
Mantz dictated his will into a talk
ing machine and had 1t recorded in
wax
At the end of the dictation c. H.
Miller, a lawyer, and H. w. Brandt,
a court reporter, testified into the
machine they were witnesses to the
their names out In full as the wit
nesses. The record then was put on
a machine and reproduced the
voices. Being pronounced correct by
Mr.. Mantz he took it to the clerks
office. had the box containing it
sealed In wax and filed.
Between grasshoppers and the
spring wheat crop is in danger of be-
ing seriously damaged, if not de-
sfroyed. It was the plague of
grasshoppers. in the last analysis,
that caused the defeat of AISLE J..
Gronna for denomination to the
The seriousness Of the business in
Bookkeeping whisky between Canada
and the United States is disturbing
the provincial and Federal authori-
ties.
The Royal Northwest Mounted
Police are taking a hand in the sup
preston Of the bootlegging, but so
bee and, New Brunswick, all along
the border, there Is a we'll organized
bootlegging business, and apparent
ly little effort is being made to cope
with it: That there is an enormous
profit in In rum running qi is evident
jumped 100 per cent within the last
six months. A bottle sells now for
SIS to IS in Canada, and fancy prices
are said to prevail in the states.
It was election day at Sing Sing
prison last Tuesday and the or
ganization" ticket won by 1900 to So.
net was returned to a man, with
jeremiah Sullivan reelected serge
ant-at-arms, the most powerful Of
flee. at the disposal Of the prisoners
In the selfgovernment plan. The
official reported that "the election
passed off in a quiet and orderly
manner"
Reviewing the political situation
In speech in the Reichstag DR..
Walter Simons. foreign secretary,
sai ID With America we are still in
come until March, 1921. Never
theless humanitarian efforts are be-
ing. made in America for German
children and young mothers. Large
numbers Of mich cows are to be
brought to Germany"
Philadelphia has talking clock.
instead of striking the hours and
lime ao get s up t aeeT to r get 9 out
shouts the clock at s a. M, and
Mrs. Vincent Pinto and her daughter.
Rose, hustle out of bed at their
home, No: 1924 South Eighth street.
aaE Rnas an and l. begin to get breakfast
clock an hour later, and MI. Vincent
Pinto and his son Joseph hurry
downstairs to the table, where
mother and daughter have break
last ready. Time to go to work."
me CLOCK soon warns Mr.. Pinto and
Pinto it's the hour to do her mar
keting. And SO through the day the
clock speaks, finishing it's work at
II p. M, when Mr.. Pinto's voice,
deep and stem, can be heard say
man; its i ocloe sP a Tims' to S0ug ge
man gets his hat.
Lese majestic is a much cheaner
commodity under a republic than it
was under imperial Germany, At
Llepnltz an ex-captain has just been
sentenced to pay a fine Of 100 marks
for charging Herr Ebert with drunk
enness. The district attorney in
prosecuting the case demanded a
two months jail sentence for the Of
fender.
Great Britain's expenditures on
naval and military operations in
Russia from the time of the signing
of the armistice with Germany No
vember II, 1918, to March 81, last,
amounted to 55,973,000 pounds ($279,-
S65,OO0), according to a parliament
airy paper issued recently.
It remained for the poor old Poto-
mac river to furnish the first IMAM
eating shark" of the 1920 season. A
Washington newspaper recently pub
ltshed first-page story of an 1-2-
foot wolf of the sea, caught at
Piney Point, Md, which is a consid-
cradle distance up the Potomac, but
where the water still Is salt. A doc
tor in the fishing party, according
teeth and presented them as souve-
Mrs to the other members Of the
party. S.
The soviet government is offering
a reward of 100000 rubles for the
head of man claiming to be Car
Nicholas II of Russia according to
information received by the Jewish
Correspondence Bureau today. The
advices say the claimant, who is in
following. In accounting for his
escape from the hands of the Boil
sheviki he asserts 1t was a servant
impersonating the Car who was kill
ed at Yekaterinburg, where the Car
and his family are understood to
have been executed.
Five hundred aliens of the 566 Or
dered deported during the first six
ment of labor still remain in this
country through inability of the de-
partment to- obtain transportation
for aliens destined for Russia. AS
sistant Secretary Post, in a formal
announcement recently, reported that
were acted upon by the department
Of labor between January 1 and June
80, 1920. Of these, 2,202 cases were
dismissed and u ordered for rehear-
ing. There were still 445 cases in
which no departmental action had
been taken at the close of the fiscal
lions have been effected since Jan
uary1. and the number of aliens to
each. follow: Germany, 8; Hungary,
8; Jugoslavia, IL; italy 8; Austria,
8. Ga4icia. q. Czechoslovakia. 1;
Lithuania, 1; Poland, 1; Rumania. 2;
LII q, oCOlIdhu lreldnQ, L,
and Canada, 1.
The largest steamship in the ex-
cursion fleet which steamed from the
Battery down the harbor to Sandy
Hook during the recent yacht races
for the Americas Cup was the 5000
ton Ward liner Orizaba. She car
ried $50 passengers at $25 a head.
The big steamship, which maintain
ed a speed of 20 knots across the
Atlantic when carrying troops dur
accommodation for gone thousand
and would have got them
easily had word of the surprise she
had in store been whispered through
the city. Shortly after the yachts
had started on the first leg Of the
race, white-jacketed stewards went
round the promenade deck Of the
Orizaba and called out the magic
words: 1.-THE bars are open now. Gfve