Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-18
CURRENTEVENTS OF INTEREST

the marine brigade which won fame
with the Second division in the de-
cisiVe battle at the Marine and Bel
Icau wood in July, 1918, will be re-
vived also, including the Sixth Ma
chine gun battalion.
American athletes who participat-
ed in the Olympic contests at Ant
werp met Norwegian stars at Chris
tiana this week and won the honors'
of the meet easily, being far super
Tor to their competitors.
The Soviet government of Russia
has published figures claiming that
under the 1919 program the total
Red army strength actual and po-
tential, was 4,750,000 men and that
this program has been restored as
announcement was made. according
to advices to the state department.
in connection with the coming peace
negotiations at Riga.
Plans for resetting Plymouth
Rock and for improving the water,
this week by the Federal Pilgrim
Tercentenary Commission, which
voted to release 100000, the fed
eral government appropriation for
Plymouth Rock will be set again in
canopy Of stone to be erected by the
canopy of sine t be erected by the
Society of Colonial Danes. Improve
ments of the shore are being delay
ed by excessive demands by owners
of property involved according to the
report of the local committee.
Big changes in the election bet
ting in Wall street occurred as tn
result of the overwhelming victor
of the Republicans in the state c
ing, Republican candidate for the
presidency, shot up to to 1, anC
some wagers were said to have bee,
made at odds of 4 to l. These ar"
the highest odds which have prevail,
ed since the betting on the presen
campaign began.
At the twenty-second national en-
campment of the United Spanish
Louis, the Rev Francis Kelly,
Albany, N. Y, who recently resignc
as national chaplain of the Amer
can Legion, in an address declared
that soldiers of poor parentage diG
the more heroic work in the great
war.
Natural gas under good pressure
was struck at a depth of 100 feel
at Lovellton, Wyoming county, Pa,
last week. The well, which is only
county seat, was drilled by the East
ern Pennsylvania Oil and Gas com .
pany, which is composed entirely of
Wyoming county men,
Importation of peanuts from
China threatens to ruin the growers
of America, according to a state
ment which is being distributed to
farmers in the southern states by
the United Peanut association pf
America, urging them to cooperate
for their own protection. The asso-
citation proposes as a remedy re-
strictive tariff on peanuts and veg
etable oils.
The production Of peanuts in
China, it asserts, has increased on
tremendous scale in the past few
years, and the importations for the
year ending June 80, 1t adds, werr
in excess of 150,O00,OoO pounds.
Wireless secrecy such as will pre-
vent list fnaIags by anyone lyon n. who
sought by the Marconi company, dis
patches from London say 1t an
nounces that experiments with this
object are on the point of successful
completion.
wireless telephone communication
with aviators flying across the Eng
lish channel to France has been es-
tablished at distances up to 800
miles, enabling messages to be rue
ed to passengers on their way to tn:
continent.
Damage estimated at hundreds of
thousands of dollars was done by
brief hail and thunder storm &C
companied by a 45-rnile gale in .
narrow area extending through three
Rhode Island towns last week. Thou
sands of panes of glass were
broken, the interiors of homes and
business establishments were flood
ed and fruit trees were stripped.
Meat packers of the country made
an average profit of only four-fifths
of cent on each dollar of sales dur
ing 1918, according to figures ISSUED
at recent convention Of the indus