Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-29
CURRENT EVENTS


justified" Judge Charles J. Martin,
Saturday, found Arthur J. Sloane,
managing editor Of the paper, guilty
Of contempt of court and sentenced
him to ten days in jail Execution
Of the sentence was suspended, how
ever. The charges of contempt of
court grew out of articles published
in The Journal-Courier July IA, Is,
16 and II concerning liquor raids in
New Haven some ten days ago and
their subsequent disposition.
The timid housewife who has been
making raiSin wine and other home
breWs with one eye on the brewing
jar and the other on the front door
in fear that prohibition enforce
no further qualms. The internal
revenue bureau rendered a decision
Saturday which practically lifts the
ban on home brews for home con-
SUMPTION" which may contain more
than one-half of one per cent of al
cohol. Nevertheless, the home brews
must be Notwithstanding" The
internal revenue bureau holds that
Notwithstanding" as laid down in
the Volstead act means non-intoxi-
eating in fact and indicates thereby
that some drinks that contain more
than the prescribed one-half of one
per cent, while they may cheer, will
not inebriate.
New York is city of ups and
downs. There are 22,423 elevators
moving up and down in buildings in
this borough from morning until
night. After o'clock in the evening
such traffic on the Isle Of Man
haitian is greatly reduced because
the great system OF" lifts in CONNER
cial districts is closed down. The
great pressure of business has made
it necessary to keep more lifts in
operation now in buildings below
Chambers street than before the
war. For the purpose of lifting folks
from the street level or the subways'
level to the tiers and tiers of offices,
apartments and hotel rooms spread
over Manhattan there are 11,122 cars;
1855 cars carry freight exclusively;
$3.50 lifts come to the sidewalk level
and there are 949 homes in Manhat-
tan which are equipped with private
elevators.
Surrounded by children who
shrieked their applause at the doings
of what they thought were movie
actors, a gang of automobile ban
dts assaulted and robbed William
Fowler, cashier and paymaster Of
ing plant at No. 400 East Twenty
ninth street, New York, of tin box
containing more than $4,000. 1t was
not until John Lewis, eleven, was
dubbed on the head by one Of the
watching the robbery realized hold
up was taking place and gave the
alarm.
r. W. Williams, commissioner OF
Internal revenue, has discovered what
he thinks is the boldest case of de-
fiance of the law that every con.
fronted an enforcement officer. In
tains a clever negro moonshine dis
tiller prospered for years before the
nation went dry. He manufactured
a good brand of corn whisky and sold
it for So a gallon UP to the time the
Eighteenth amendment went into eff
feet, when he learned that his rivals
boosted the price of good corn" to
SIS quart. He did not know what
caused the rise but got the impress
sion some new law" had some
keep pace with the times, he posted
on the side of his little still house a
notice saying: ITO all of my custom
ers an friends: Because of de new
law my Ticker will be $18 gallon
from dis time on"
A baby was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
H. M. Willard, of Sunbury, Pa. The
OCu6r Ody du cISlll0 LlEC 1cll IIlC
fathers foot, injuri1g a toe. Then
a boy hit his son with a brick. par
TALLY crushing the boys toe. A four
year-old daughter was hit In the face
with half a brick and suffered bad
cash. The next day the son with the
with the other one, and it went
through the instep. Otherwise, the
course of family life at the Willards
has been without incident.
When vouchers for the continued
pay of Stewart McMullin, ex-high-
wayman and prohibition enforcement
agent, who is waiting trial in New
York, charged with the murder Of
Harry Carlton during liquor raid
last March, are presented to the
treasury department at. Washington
they will not be honored except to
cover thirty days pay This will COW
err a months leave, to which he is en-
titled with pay, although unable to
perform his duties. McMullin has
been in the Tombs since March r.,
and, according to authentic informa-
ton reaching the World, has re-
ceived his pay in full from the local
prohibition enforcement office.
What may prove to be serious
blow to American automobile manu-
facturers who are shipping large
numbers Of cars to Europe Is the re-
cent action of the Italian and french
governments with regard to automo-
bile restrictions. The Italian govern
ment has just issued a decree pro-
hibiting manufacturers of motor We
hicles in that country from selling
more than 10 per cent of their prod
ucts in the italian market, according
to the advices received by the de-
partment of commerce at Washington.
This order releases 80 per cent of the
Italian output for export trade.
Directly resulting from the decree
of the italian government, and to
prevent the flooding Of French mar
kets by Italian automobile products,
France has prohibited the tmporta-
ton of all foreign cars. Cable re-
ports have it that Switzerland is con-
templating taking similar action to
that of the Paris administration.
Making her first voyage since con-
version into an oil burner, the Cunard
Line steamship Aquitania arrived
in New York recently in command of
brought $50 first cabin, 7S1 second
class and 1906 steerage passengers.
The highest days run was SIC knots,
or an average of % knots an hour.
w. A. White, inventor of the oil sYs-
tenn installed on the Aquitania, was
aboard and pronounced the venture
success.
Ella "A. BOOZE, OF brOOhlyn' OIdLe
President Of the Womens Christian
Temperance Union, announced yes
terday she will run as the Prohibit
ton Parry's candidate for United
States senator. In a letter to Will
liam H. Burr, chairman of the party,
Mrs. Boole accepted the designation
made at the recent Syracuse conven-
ton and discussed only prohibition
and the League of Nations.
Premier Lloyd George, addressing
the house Of commons on the Polish
crisis today, said that Great Britain
and France would arm and equip the
100000 volunteers recently raised in
that country, and intimated that that
later.
The Tigers Eye, a diamond which
is on exhibition in London, is caus-
ing no little excitement among deal
ers in gems and connoisseurS. Lon
don papers refer to It as the largest
of diamonds eXcent the KOh-i-nOOr.