Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-01

Five million dollars in bills found IN a
sack in the corridor Of the Simplon express
have been seized and confiscated at the
Temesvar station on the Rumanian-Hunga-
rian frontier.
The ownership of the money at present
is not known, but officials say it is believed
it will be revealed in few days. The owner,
it is asserted was expecting to make trip
to England and the United States.
AS result of the measures recently
adopted by the Rumanian government to pre-
vent any kind of money leaving the country
searches of the international trains are be-
ing made daily.
Lieutenant Commander James r. Webb
and three members of his were lost
when the United States submarine HI went
aground at the entrance to Magdalena bay,
Lower California, according to radio dis
patch received here. The submarine was
driven on the rocks during a storm, but
could not be relocated. Surviving members
of the crew were rescued by destroyer and
an Eagle boat. The collier Neptune and an
other destroyer are en- route to aid in re-
floating the vessel.
dispatch from London states more than
5000 anti-Bolshevist soldiers have been
found frozen to death on the Steppes, it is
announced in a soviet military communique
received from Moscow by wireless. (The
Steppes comprise the plains in southeastern
Russia and the western Asiatic provinces.)
The statement reports progress by the red
troops against General Denikin's forces along
the railway in the Ekaternodar region, on
the Caucasus front.
Enormous thefts of platinum, accounted by
the present standards of value as more
precious than gold, are being reported from
| the chemical laboratories and manufacturers
| of the United States.
| The stealing of $4,000 worth of the val
liable metal from the plant of a large New
Jersey chemical firm few days ago has been
| followed by many other losses. The situa-
| ton is 50 serious as to cause warnings and
notices to be distributed throughout the coun-
| try. Members of the American Chemical So
| ciety, through the various sections, have been
| informed of the wholesale thefts, and descrip-
J lions of the stolen articles made of platinum
are being forwarded to the secretaries of the
sections of the organization with requests to
keep a sharp lookout for all platinum ped
oilers.
1t is announced in the current number of
the Journal of Industrial and Engineerin g
Chemistry that the vault of the Department
Of Agricultural Chemistry at the University
of Missouri was entered and the entire stock
of platinum crucbles amounting to $500
grams in weight had been stolen. Other uni
versity laboratories have had the same bitter
experience.
Aside from it's growing use by jewelers. for
| rings and settings for diamonds and other
precious stones, platinum is essential to many
chemical tests and processes and is therefore
high in price.
According to dispatch from Berlin, news
received from Upper Silesia, the semi-officia1
Wolff Bureau says reports rising of Boil
Shevist character at Warsaw and other parts
Of Poland
A ctri1y Of ~,
the British government department known as
the Office of works, in London, broke out
recently and was settled by the department
concerned agreeing to the mems demand.
The trouble arose over the dismissal of
a workman by foreman. Engineers main
tanned that not only should the workman be
reinstated, but that the foreman should be
dismissed.
The speedy settlement of the strike is as
sumed to be due to the fact that Buckingham
palace, the houses Of parliament and nu-
merous public buildings would otherwise have
been left without electric light central
heating.
According to a dispatch from Chrstiania,
Norway, it is understood that American rep
goods and wearing apparel bought from the
United States from 1918 to 1920 for re-
export to the United States, as the prices
of these commodities is so per cent lower
than those now prevailing in the American
markets.