Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-21

Caught with an empty gasoline tobas
Lake, Daniel DAWSON, San Francisco
and Los Angeles, aviator; john
Woolley, Oakland, business man, and
James Mckay of Reno, were forced
to volp!ane nineteen miles to the
ground last week.
Landing was made without in
jury and, the machine was brought
to Reno. Dawson said the gasoline
became exhausted when fighting
wind storm.
More than 100000 firms and in
dividuals are paying income taxes
this year ACCORDING to figures made
Revenue. These figures also show
that practically 100000 tax payers
have already paid their income taxes
in full.
The bureaus statement shows
come taxes on incomes of $4,000 or
less, and that fewer than 100000 of
this number have not paid their
taxes in full, choosing the altern{a-
comes in excess of $4,000, including
those individuals and firms, num-
bered 100000. Approximately half
of this number have paid all income
taxes to the Government. The third
installment of tax payments for this
year is due Wednesday next.
The steamship Mismaha reached
New York few days ago with the
latest news from Pitcairn Island. a
tiny spike of land some two and a
quarter miles long which rises from
the depths of the mid-Pacific. Cap:
the Mismaha, which touched there
last month en- route from Australia.
said that the inhabitants of the is
land told him proudly that their
regulation .S had increased to 175
most century ago., showed but ITO.
The residents of the island, Brit
ish possession, are descendants OF
fifteen mutineers of the British ship
Bounty, who founded a colony there
in 1890 with wives from Polynesia.
Captain O'Brien said the colony is
thriving and that the inha bitants Z
show no signs of the mental deterio-i
ration predicted for them as a con.
sequence of long continued inter-
marriage.
The destroyers Wasmuth. the first
to be named after "a private in the
ane C1rP Mar anH ISLAND Nevv we're
last week. Private Henry Wasmuth
saved the life of Admiral Robley u
(Fighting Bob Evans in 1865 anj
died two days thereafter. Lieut-Con
manu6r G6OTS6 "A. lreVor lOSC MS
life in a successful attempt to pre-
vent an explosion on the submarine
O-5 in 1918.
A joint report by the Mint and
Geological Survey fixes the total Am
erican production of gold during the
calender year 1919 at .2,91s,62S
ounces, valued at $60,393, 400; silver.
56.6S2,44 fine ounces, valued at $63,-
9orS pre sek ef 5 hS per Msw
This represented a reduction of S.
$4,000 in gold and $11,127, 694 In
silver from the 1918 output of the
mines, the report said.
ing states with an output valued at
$17,39S,200, and Montana among sill
yer producers with $15,012,258 fine
ounces.
A group of fifteen business and
professional men of Boston has
agreed to boycott one of the most
popular restaurants in the business
district because the proprietors have
advanced prices to a point that the
fifteen consider to be exhorbitanr.
They not only will refrain from pau
ronizing the restaurant themselves,
but will pass the word about among
their friends.
Belgium is to continue it's sugar
rationing scheme. 1t was begun as
one of the numerous efforts to cur
tail foreign purchases, that ex-
change might be reduced, and to as
sure the population a certain amount
of sugar at a reasonable price. The
plan, according to the Ministry OF
Ravitaillement, is working success
fully.
Among the 725 passengers who de-
parted for Europe from New York
last week aboard the White Star
liner Adriatic was Nine. Marcella
Sembrich. famous prima donna of
the metropolitan Opera Company. q.
According to the figures of the
Employers Association, $4,000 less
men are employed in the factories OF s
Detroit than were employed April I.
Many other thousands, the number
of which is unestimated, are WORK.
ing on part time. Consequently for
the first time in long period, rooms
the housing tension has slackened to
the point where a canvass by the
Board of Commerce shows a con-
siderable number of vacancies. and
tend lower, with manufacturers lad
Justing" uiece work rates.
The Trans-Pacifc Magazine re-
ports that in a, further endeaVor to
arouse in the farmers of the Philip
pine Islands true appreciation or
the possibilities of agricultural ma
chinery, the Philippine department
of agriculture and natural resources
plan to utilize moving pictures to
demonstrate the most approved
methods of cultivation, preparation
of seed, use of farm machinery
harvesting and storing crops and
methods of packing and handling
where these processes are involved.
Neither airplane machine guns,
battery guns, automatic guns nor
any gun larger than a 1O-gauge may
be used in Alberta to kill migratory
wild fowl under the internatinoaf
agreement that has been entered
into with the United States as a par
ticipating factor. Motor boats ana
sail boats are also forbidden as
accessories to the sport of duck
shooting.