Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-08

According to a private cable dis
patch received in New York, from
Paris, David Balasco, the famous
playwright, and producer, arrived
there from London, where he had
passed several days seeing the Eng
lish productions and comforting with
English managers. English pro-
ducers gave dinner for him in
London, in a/united effort to induce
him to take a theater of his own in
London. Mr.. Belasco withheld his
decision, but the spirit of cordially
him The dinner was the climax of
a series of welcomes extended to
him every night he was in London,
which was about ten days. He was
feted by many notables, and express
ed himself as having a Royal Good
Time.
Evidence offered by the customs
gled across the borders in great
quantities gives no great shock to
the members of the house approp-
riations committee. They have re-
| fused to allow a penny to the serV-
| Ice to check the flow.
Two million dollars was the sum
requested, the custom service stat
ing that 1000 men additional were
wanted to guard the borders. The
WSoh f fest St baS bd for
point where the congress- leaders
think it is time to cali halt
The Sundry Civil Bill was report
propriated for prohibition enforce
ment. This goes to the department
of justice for prosecuting the cases.
Word received here from London
states a revolution has occurred in
the republic of Azerbaidjan, and the
old Mussavat party government has
been overthrow.
The dispatch adds that power is
now in the hands of the Azerbaidjan
provisional military revolutionary
committee and that Baku appears to
be in it's hands.
The dispatch says the committee
| has appealed to Moscow for assist
ance against the allies.
Azerbaidjan, lying in the eastern
Caucasus region and including parts
of Armenia and Persia has an area
Of about 10000 square miles.
1t cost the United States more
than 100000 to operate the Chica-
go, Rock Island and Pacific railway
last year, according to the annual
Chicago recently.
The government guaranteed re-
turn of $15,S0O,254.57 based on earn
ings prior to federal control, but
earned a profit of only S10,789, 357.86
the balance being made UP by the
treasury.
shipyard workers of the northwest
who got $24 a day during the war
prefer to loaf rather than work now
for $40 a day. This is one of the
reasons for a pine lumber famine
that is imminent in the opinion of j.
Fl. Carlyle, Everett, Wash, who owns
several thousand acres of pine tracts
in the northwest.
I'VE are facing shortage of pine
lumber because of three facts" he
said. 1.-THE principal supply of the
south is exhausted, much OF the
by fire and the New England states
are running short"
Word reaches us from London that
"direct action" has had signal VIC
tory in Bristol, where eX-servlce men
of the entire tramway system walked
out as a protest against the con-
tinued employment of women con-
ductors.
Violent rioting took place; All the
cars running were smashed and the
passengers driven out, the ex-serY1ce
men overpowering the police. The
tramway company finally capitulated.
The men are now not only demand,
ing the substitution of men IN all
pre-war jobs where women took their
places, but where they had pre-
war employment they are insisting
on their pay being. raised to equal
that of men in similar work.
AS a result of an agreement made
several years ago, the body of DR..
Joseph Simms, a famous anatomist,
who died recently at the Hotel EN-
pire, New York City, has been turn
ed over to the College of Physicians
and Surgeons in the interest of
science. His brain and heart will
be weighed and the brain analized.
Legal authority for such disposal of
the body was granted DR.. Simm's
widow.
DR.. Simms, who was almost eighty
seven at the time of his death, was
one of the several men who are I'M
der agreement to leave their bodies
and brains to the College of Physi-
clans and Surgeons, where DR.. Ed
ward Anthony Spitzka is a demon
strator. DR.. Simms agreed that his
brain should be used for scientific
purposes, but; provided that D.
Spitzka. must do the dissecting him
self, which proviso DR.. Spitzka car
ried out.