Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-05
CURRENT EVENTS

bankers. The largest previous Ship
ment from abroad of which there is
any known record was approximately
SS,00O.000.
The smallest known species of hog
are the pygmy swine of Australia.
They are exactly like other hogs In
every particular except size, being |
no larger than a good-sized house |
rat.
A blow was aimed at home dis
tillers in Chicago when federal of
ficials announced a sweeping inveS- !
tigation of the sale of copper stills |
by mail order houses, department
ficials of companies selling the ar
ticles in violation of the prohibition
laws are to be made. according to,
John w. Kelly. assistant United
1t is said that the stills are being
used for the manufacture of moon
shine" which in many cases is found
to be 100 proof, or 70 per cent al
cohol
49, football, game at night between
teams, in Kansas, will be feature of
the Neosho county fair, which opens
here soon. The teams will play
with ball painted white and
the field will be Illuminated by bat
terry of electric lights This will be
the first football game ever played
at night in the state.
The cabinet council Of Vienna. has
approved seven-hour day for SER
wants.
A unique record Of centenarian
brothers has just been broken. by the
death of John Mullan, 108 years old,
who lived with his brother Henry,
1913, at Doneydale, near Dungannon,
Ireland.
a copy in the prices of the Des
Moines Tribune and the Capital,
evening papers, on all street sales in
Des Moines and vicinity, were an
nounced last week.
With something like 1000 sets al
ready completed and shipments about
! to be made to the New York and AL
bany Automobile bureaus, the New
York state prison department is
busily engaged in turning out next
years automobile plates, a combi-
! nation of dark blue and white and
states motor history. About fifty
convicts. are employed on the work,
the product being of an exceptional
.ly high grade, the steel a trifle
| heavier than in this years plates,
the enamel SO perfect as to with
stand sledge hammer blows.
Former Premier Orlando will leave
| soon for Brazil on an extraordinary
mission as a special envoy of the
| italian government. 1t is said he
| will carry an autographed letter
from King Victor Emmanuel to
| President Pressoa.
A statewide organization of tobacco
| growers was formed at Danville, Va,
| last week at mass meeting attend
| ed by more than 5000 growers.
1t will be known as the Virginia
| Growers association, and its an
| nounced aim is to obtain some salts
factory explanation for the depres-
sion of the market to aid small
| planters financially when the crop is
marketed slowly and to get united
action in crop curtailment next year
All the larger political parties in
the new republic of Czecho-Slovakia'
give the women members places in
their councils. including the exc
! both central and local.
In an effort to bring tons of fruit.
which would otherwise rot on the
ground in Michigan, to the poor peo-
pie of Chicago, Chicago has arrang-
ed with the owners of seven small
steamboats, to haul the surplus fruit
| to the city. 1t will be distributed
at the municipal pier, eliminating
! the wholesaler the middleman and
| the retailer. Peaches and apples can
be bought in Benton Harbor, Mich,
! for rs cents bushel.
| The last Of the White House flock
of sheep has been rounded up prepa-
ratory to shipment back to the farm
where they were born. Some already
had been disposed of, but the bulk of
the flock, by President Wilson'S or
\ ders, was returned to William Wood
ward at Bel Air, Md, who sent the
| q tn fhn ,,y.i~
| days when the lawns needed trim
ming and wool was in demand.
Alaska gives a great promise of
| becoming a wheat-growing country.
| Quite a good start in this direction
has been made in the Tanana valley.
and the results were so successful
that the planting will be increased
Many of the farmers are enthusiastic
about wheat growing, and they re-
! ceive every possible encoura cement
from the government.
| The finest unworked iron fields in
the world have been discovered in
the Philippines, according to a re-
| port from government experts just
received by the United States bureau
| The quantities of ore adjacent to
| good harbors, they state, will be suf-
fcient to assure the future of iron
and steel production in the United
| 0tdIcS IOT BSHeTdLlOHS.
| Already land believed to contain
more than 500,000,000 tons has been
surveyed. Deposits on the Island of
M1ndanao are believed to be without
| a rival They contain 275.0O0,O00
| tons close to good harbors and $780,
| 900 tons within easy transporta-
| ton distance Of Dajkin bay, perhaps
the best natural harbor ON the
| islands.
Only crude iron work in primitive
| EfnnlfnPS o~rtn
present,
| Enormous damage has been done
throughout the Province of Alicante
| by torrential rain and hailstorms.
| according to a report from Jumilla.
| AT one place a torrent pouring down
| 1t carried away 100 yards of rail-
! road track and swept loaded cars
| into fields In the lowlands. Many
horses and cattle have been drowned.
Income tax refunds that total
100000 will be made to residents
| OF Texas and probably half dozen
| states under regulations now being
prepared by the internal revenue bu-
reau.
The refunds will be made under
the community property law by
which one-half of all property COM
er marriage belongs to the wife.
Texas, California, Louisiana, Wash
| tngton and several western states
| have such laws,
For hundred years there has been
an ordinance in Savannah prohibiting
the sleeping on board vessels Of
sailors and crews of vessels in port
except those necessary to guard the
boats. During August, September and
october the city law required them
all to sleep ashore-and quarters are
PROVIDED for them. The law original
ed in the old-time danger from ma
aria. At the council meeting Thurs
day night strenr oas effort was
made to repeal the ancient law D..
Whit, an alderman, and DR.. Drummer,
city health officer, vigorously oppos-
ed the repeal-and the radical action
has been postponed indefinitely.