Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-30

mel Samuel Parker, former prime minister OF
Queen LiliuOkalani, was received by cable
here from San Francisco. Colonel Parker
bon vivant and courtier of the old Hawaiian
monarchy, was widely known throughout
the United States, having spent much time
in Washington and having attended several
Republican national conventions as delegate
from Hawaii.
He was first married to a princess of the
royal family of Hawaii. He was often re-
ferred to as the king of Hawaii
He leaves large estate, the principal
heir of the Parker estate is Richard Smart,
a six-year-old great grandchild, now being
educated in San Francisco, for whom the
$6,000,O00 Parker ranch of the Hawaiian
Islands is being held in trust. The resi-
dence of the estate, valued at millions will
go to five children of Colonel Parker, now
living in Honolulu.
Word reached here from London that
Mrs. Humphrey Ward, the novelist, died in
that city very recently. Mrs Ward, who
won her fame and wealth by her writings,
existed in a literary atmosphere She was
granddaughter of DR.. Arnold, of Rugby,
a niece of Matthew Arnold, and the wife
of man who was tutor at Oxford, an art
critic, a leader writer for the London
Times and the editor of wards English
Poets" Born in 1851 she moved always in
a sphere of intellectual distinction. The
WORKS Wnlch IIOWed from ner ready. pen
were, "The Marriage of William Ashe,"
"The Mating of LYDIA" and others. The
world war inspired her to write Eng
lands Mission" Towards the Coal" and
"Missing.'
President Wilson, made his first trip out
of Washington recently, since he was taken
ill last fall. Accompanied by Mrs. wilson
and Rear Admiral Grayson, his physician,
he drove into Virginia as far as Alexandria.
No stops were made, and the president was
away from the White House less than two
hours.
A poll just taken to test sentiment of
twenty-six murderers in Sing Sing prison,
according to prison attaches found every con-
demned man in favor of abolition of capital
punishment, but all opposed to remedial leg
islation proposed to punish first degree muir
der.
The slayers are all bitterly opposed to life
punishment in solitary confinement, they
said. This was suggested as a substitute
for killing murderers, at the legislative hear
ing on the bill to abolish the electric chair.
"We'd rather walk to the chair and be
burned" said one than stay in solitary for
life"
Frank Kelley, who killed Katherine Dunn
in Brooklyn; John Flanagan, the Manhattan
bandit, and other prisoners approved the re-
mark and denounced solitary confinement.
Whate every slayer in the lighthouse IA
vors, instead of the chair, for a capital Of
Tense, lisa sentence of from twenty years to life
in prison without the obnoxious isolation.
This would free a slayer who behaved and
performed his work properly in fifteen years.
Report from London states the house Of
lords, by vote of SO to As, passed the sec
ond reading of a bill introduced by Baron
Buckmaster, proposing important divorce
reforms.
The bill, which is based on the majority
report Of a royal commission, extends the
grounds for divorce to cover, among others,
three years, desertion, habitual drunkenness
and cases in which sentence of death has
been committed to life Imprisonment
- After powerful and impassioned speech
by Baron Birkenhead, the lord chancellor,
who supported the measure in behalf of the
government, the second reading was carried
despite the opposition of the Episcopal bench,
the Catholic peers and the high Anglican
church peers.
The bill has not yet appeared in the house
OF commons, but is said to be almost GER
tain of being carried when it gets there