Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-22
CURRENT EVENTS

og1StS Will study the huge meteor
which fell and burned itself out
lighting the skies over several south
western states. Hundreds OF per-
sons in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas
and Oklahoma watched the meteor's
flight, reports received here said.
Scores Of motor cars clogged the
roads leading to where the burning
mass fell.
Considerable apprehension among
the people living near Fort Smith,
Ark, was caused. They thought the
meteor fell near Red Oak. Okla,
about twenty-five miles distant. A
number of persons in automobiles
went from Wilburton. Okla, and
nearby towns to Red Oak to give
aid.
Tulsa, Okla, reported that when
the meteor passed over that city 1t
appeared to be within a few hundred
yards of the earth and that the lower
and heavier portion, of a greenish
blue color, was followed by long
wedge-shaped tail. AS it approached
the earth, the report stated, the head
apparently split into four parts but
remained together as mass. During
the last few seconds of the fall the
southern sky was lighted with a
blue-green flash.
C. B Smith. an astronomic author
ity at Muskogee, said he believed the
meteor was thrown off from a de-
stroyed planet. between Jupiter and
Mars, as 1t appeared to travGI from
west to east.
According to- a dispatch from
Paris it is announced that France
and Belgium have agreed upon the
principles of a military alliance. Cen
eral Maglinez left Paris for Brus-
sells this afternoon, bearing with
h i'm iYoi T11 Ira a.
ment drawn up by Marshal Foch
and himself. French and Belgian ex-
perts will begin next week to work
out the details.
The general lines Of the alliance
are given as follows: aviation, en-
gineering, artillery, cavalry, infantry
and staffs will choose one delegate
each for each country. The alliance
will be strictly an alliance of de-
Tense. 1t cannot involve Belgium
in any colonial war. It's purpose is
the defense of the Belgian and
French frontiers.
The treaty will have a duration of
from five to fifteen years. Belgium
will conserve her absolute indepen-
dence and will have to respond to
no outside call for men, arms or
material. Belgium promises to main
tain under arms an army of size
somewhat superior to that she had
Oc1OEc Tie war.
The French and Belgian COVE D.
ments have been working out some
such alliance for the last nine
months. Its purpose is, of course,
the unity of the two countries
against a possible repetition of Ger
man aggression.
Carrie Chapman Gait was .unani-
mously reelected president of the In
lance at the mornings session of
it's congress here. She has agreed
to accept the office, it was announc-
ed, despite her declaration in a
speech that she felt compelled to re-
tire.
Mrs. Josephus Daniels and Mrs.
Stanley. Mccormick of the American
delegation, and Lady Astor and Maud
Royden. of the English delegation,
declared they were especially pleas
ed at Mrs. Cats decision to remain
her for her devotion to duty, despite
her age.
At the evenings session Mrs. Dan
1els spoke bringing a message of
z Eynl}dthyy w to the congress from
Americas ofheiai G Te atpoin sSa h re
ferred to an address by Wilson in
September, 1917, when he said WON
en- were greatly helping in the war
and that he depended on tkir partici-
patton in future councils.
War lifted women out of narrow
thoughts and selfishness," Mrs. Dan
iels added. Women must aim
straight and keep their nerves steady
on entering political life. They must
nght against drugs and drink and
help to rebuild the broken world"
Princeton ITniverst+, o,fous a.,
degree of doctor Of laws on Sir
Auckland Geddes, the British Am
Dasador, recently at the 173d annual
exercises. The throne
which filled Alexander Hall rose and
CneeTeo "hen Dean West placed the
baSSador. ~
In his speech of thanks Geddes re-
terred to President Hibben's state
ment that American universities
owed debt to England for culture,
1T would little become me- said the
amnasador, If had not told you to-
gay that the debt between the coun-
tries is not from this country to the
old country, but it is from the old
country to yours"
In a statement issued at washinp-
ton 1T is said the British Objections
70 the enforcement of the new Ameri-
can can merchant marine bill, which
Premler Lloyd George indicated in
parliament as likely to be the s,1h-
1ect of formal Representations to the
state department, are understood to
pc based principally upon two sec
tons of the measure.
one prohibits the carrying of NOR
chandise in other than American
snlps between American ports via a
carriage of freight between points
IN the United States and Alska over
the Canadian railroad lines or in "a
VI mag
The other section directs the pres,-
o o 10 terminate, as soon as that
can be done, all treaties which re-.
tr1ct the right of the United States
10 impose discriminatory duties upon
foreign shipping entering American
ports. io'ii
me He'll Gate channel is being fur
roWed deeper by government order.
In contract has been awarded to
me New Jersey Ship Building and
len e1 tba 5r company: Charles D.. Pull
Captain Byron L. Reed, coast guard ard
commander. yesterday supervised the
preliminary work of marking the
temporary ship lanes with guide
ouo;ys, and shipping companies were
The c Of tne new ,, chart:
forty--five feet for distance VII tp
.ncludeS the underwater route taken
eey the West Side, subway as it heads
L1r C!arfk street, Brooklyn, in the
At He'll Gate. off Hal1ett's Point
S Sfnerwis Sc know nov, mas Frying Pan
Feet: Between Riker's Island and
5aretto Point the new depth will be
Miss Emma Wilder Hast. Louis
vile, one of the American delegates
at the conference of the Internation-
al Women's Suffrage Alliance, at &C.
4eva. Switzerland, sent a cable to
louisville, announcing that Lady AS.
tor, Great Britain, will entertain
English and American delegates to
hotel, Geneva. '''feo
Lady .Astor was one of the Lang
norne sisters Of Virginia, who were
Famous on two continents for their
beauty and wit. Her activities in
England since her entry into parl:a-
n6nt have N