Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-27
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST

| "rhe Great Tree" on Boston common, and
"The Green Tree Hotel" at lie Claire, Iowa,
the most famous tree on the Mississippi river,
were nominated recently for place in the
'tiall of Fame for Trees being compiled
by the American Forestry Association
The great tree on Boston common is nom-
mated BY j. Collins Warren of Boston, who
sends complete history of the tree which
was blown down in a storm February IS, 1913.
The coloniStS gathered around this tree, he
said before starting for Lexington to give
battle to the British.
THE Green Tree Hotel" at lie Claire, Iowa,
is nominated by j. B. Barnes, who as boy
played leap frog beneath its branches with one
Buffalo Bill The historic elm is we'll known
on the Mississippi river, because to the river
men, reports Mr.. Barnes. 1t is the waiting
place of men out of job and looking for
trip. Therefore they give it the name OF the
"Green Hotel"
I Other nominations for the Hall of Fame in
clude the De Soto Oak at Tampa, Fla, from
which De Soto started for the Mississippi and
the West; the Octupus Tree in Charles City
County, Virginia, nominated as the largest and
oldest tree in The state; the two oaks at
Marlintown, W. Va, marked in 1854 by Cen
era Andrew Lewis.
Four D. H-4 army airplanes have been or
dered converted into airplane hospital ambu-
lances and A. V. McCookfield, Dayton, Ohio,
has completed design Tor the Tnodel Inc
war department has announced. -,
Each machine will be equipped with two
basket Filters for patients, and accomnoda-
tions for pilot Need of this type of plane,
the department said, has been demonstrated
by the Mexican border patrol work.
BY decree of the Venezuelan government,
the pearl fisheries off the islands of Mar
garita, Coche, Cubague and the other neigh
boring islands, together with the Penlnsula
of Araya and the Gulf Of Cariaco, have been
opened for exploitation.
High cost of liquor for medicinal pur-
poses took tumble in Rhode Island when
the federal fair price commissioner, Addison
p Munroe, notified all retail druggists they
must not sell whisky, brandy, gin or rum
for more than $2.75 pint, $3.50 half pint
or 80 cents for four ounces, and that they
must not charge more than $1.50 pint Ior
alcohol. The druggists cannot charge extra
for the bottle.
Dozens of complaints had been filed with
the commissioner that druggists had charged
SIS a pint and in some instances as much as
S2.25 for four ounces.
British manufacturers are not losing any
time in renewing trade with the Germans,
Trade Commissioner Dresel at Berlin has re-
ported to the department of commerce at
Establishments at Berlin are showing varied
lines of Britsh-made goods, particularly
woolens and leather, the report said. The
British have made shoe contracts for the
next two years and will obtain handsome prof
it's because of the exchange situation. There
is no reason why American dealers can't ar
range for the supply Of materials on large
scale for their own profit and for the assist
ance of German industry during the period
necessary for construction, it was stated.
Important negotiations are going on at
present, and have been in progress for some
time, between Allied representatives and the
neutral governments Of Switzerland, Holland
and the Scandinavian countries with the view
of participation by these states in a scheme
of credits under discussion, the object Of
which is to procure the financial and eco
nomic rehabilitation of Austria and other GEN.
trail European states, it was learned re-
Gently.
The serious financial, economic and social
conditions in these countries have been rec
ognized and the neutral governments are de-
clared to be keenly alive to the fact that the
collapse of these countries would necessarily
have effects which could not possibly be con-
fined to their own frontiers finances.
1t is understood that a representative Of
the United States government will participate
in these conferences.