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

An attempt to transfer the atmosphere of
New Yorx's Greenwich Village to Boston for
one night ended in disappointment for pro-
motors and merrymakers. Police blotters
and court records told some of the story, in
Guiding the mention of five arrests of Har-
ward undergraduates a call for police re-
serves to quelI a disturbance, and complaint
from Madame Sonia" promoter of the
event, that her room had been robbed of
$1,100, the proceeds of the sale of tickets
and collections.
The occasion was a ball held in fashion
able hotel attended by theatrical folk, COL
lege undergraduates, members of the art COL
ony and others who wished to have their
fling after the reputed Bohemian fashion of
Greenwich Villagers. The dancers whirled
until after midnight when the orchestra
quit. Some one took up the work of turning
out jazz tunes at the piano and the dance was
on again, only to be stopped at a. M, when
the police interviewed.
The first outbreak of the night rider trou-
bles in western Kentucky, in thirteen years,
occurred recently, when between 200 and 800
tobacco growers from the northern section of
Graves county visited the Mayfield tobacco
chute and applied the torch.
The renewal of night riding is said to be
the result of the fight of tobacco growers of
this section of the state against the dropping
and hundreds agreed not to sell their crops
on any warehouse floor. Recently, it is said,
twenty McCracken county growers, at the
point of shotguns, forced several growers,
coming to Paducah with their tobacco, to turn
back.
A girl in her early twenties, DR.. J. L. Cross
ley, battalion officer of the Order of the Brit
ish Empire, bachelor of arts and doctor of
science, is Investigating Canadian trade posi-
bilities on a special mission for the British
government, it was announced in Calgary,
Alberta, recently.
She spent six months in Australia recent
ly, travelling alone, inspecting manufacturing
Iplants and consulting with managers, to whom
she gave information obtained during her in
vestigations. After reporting to the British
government the trade requirements of Can
ada and Australia, she will go to China to
| study trade conditions there.
recommendation has been sent to the
| secretary of agriculture by the American AS
ISOLATION of State Highway Officials that the
United States should accept the invitation Of
foreign countries to join the Permanent In
ternational Association of Road Congresses.
The invitation was received through the
State Department from the American Consul
General at Paris.
Thomas H. Macdonald, chief Of the bu-
reau of public roads, said that the United
States is the only civilized nation not a
member of the International association. The
roads congress, he added, constituted an in
ternational tribunal for bringing together the
best experience and results in highway con-
struction and administration. Although
meetings have been held each year, mono
has been called since the European war be-
gan
1t was also recommended that the Inter
national association be invited to the United
States for it's next meeting.
According to a dispatch from Geneva, Ad-
miral Horthy, the regent of Hungary has
secretly but officially offered the Hungarian
throne to former Emperor Charles, with the
assurance that everything has been arranged
for the return of the Hapsburg monarchy,
with the consent of the majority of the pop
ulation, according to information from Pran-
gins, where the ex-emperor lives.
Admiral Horthy, it is declared, has in
vited the former ruler to come to Budapest
as soon as possible, adding that the question
with the Allies in connection with the move
could be best arranged from the Hungarian
capital.
The ex-emperor, however, is said to be ap-
parently hesitating as to his course and has
not left Prangins.
News from London states the Dutch pre-
mier has informed the presidents of the
upper and lower houses of parliament by
letter that former Emperor William has as
sured the Dutch government that he will re-
frain from all political activity and do moth
ing which would involve Holland in any in
ternational difficulty.