Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-02

Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
Heavy Baggage
The biggest piece of baggage ever taken
out of New York by passenger was shipped
to Rio de Janeiro on the Lamport & Holt
liner Vauban, by G. Bruce Kittle, Of Lima,
Ohio, who is on his way to Brazil.
He had four large trunks, but the big arti-
Gle that attracted much attention was
twenty-seven-ton locomotive which he is TAX
ing to South America as sample. he IS
going to show it to the official of the Leo
poldina railway, which operates some sixty
miles north of Rio de Janeiro and II they
like the huge sample he will sell 1t to thems
He represents an independent locomotive
works at Lima, and is to make tour of
South America in the hope Of selling his mas
sve wares. s.
Another traveller on the Vauban was Pro-
fessor Harry c. Krowl, of the College of the
City of New York, who is to make a ninety
day trip through South America preparing
material for his lectures on English literature
at the college.
Among others on board were Major Henry
w. Boyce Mr.. and Mrs. H. Brossi Caceres,
Mr.. and Mrs. D. H. MICA. Pyle, Mrs, James
r. Stone and the Misses Hazel, Marjorie, Vio-
W. Turner.
Reindeer Meat
Another expedition to the Arctic slope un~
der the direction if Vilhjalmer Stefansson
was indicated when incorporation of the
Stefansson Arctic Exploration and Develop
ment company was announced under way.
The company will have capital of 100000
and it was understood suitable vessel for
the trip has been found and is now located in
the north.
Stefansson, who is president of the new
company, said one purpose of the expedition
would be to investigate and develop practical
features Of marketing reindeer meat and furs.
as we'll as thoroughly to explore the resources
of the country lying to the north of Canada.
Vancouver will be the official headquar-
ters of the expedition, which may be COM
tinued for the next two or three years.
Oil for Japan
The Japanes> navy, according to the Hochf
Shimbun, has contracted with the Asano Bus~
san company for $4,000 tons of fuel oil which
the company purchased from Mexican COM
pany in Tampico.
The newspaper adds that this is the first
time oil has been imported from Mexico and
says Japan is especially fortunate in obtain.
ing it because of the competition of the
United States and England in the Mexican
oil fields.
Chinese Visitors :.3
A Chinese commercial mission, headed by
Chu Chi Chen, formerly premier Of China
and who also has been minister of the int.
rior and minister of communications OF the
Far Eastern republic, is at the Waldorf-As~
toria. The mission is making study of eco"
nomic and industrial conditions in America,
and expects to carry back to China much
valuable information for the growing indus.
tries there.
The great need in China at the present
time, Mr.. Chu said, was economic and indus
trial organization that would permit the coun-
try's great natural resources to be developed.
There are coal and iron in abundance, which
can be made available for manufacturers
when modern mining methods are installed.
Mr.. Chu is president of two large Chinese
companies, the Kai Yuan Land Reclamation
company, of Tientsin, and the Chung Hsin
Coal and Mining company. He said that geol-
ogists have pronounced the coal lands Of
Shan-si extensive enough to keep the world
supplied with coal for century to come. In
Hankow province, the coal and iron mines
are near enough to make it an ideal location
for iron manufacture.
Reds Meet
The conference of the Third 1nternationale
Of Moscow Las opened in the Soviet capital
according to a radio message through the
official service from Moscow under date or
Wednesday. The message adds
Its aim is communism, its weapon revolu.
ton and its stronghold proletarian Russia"
Some observers in Riga interpret the radio
message to mean that the radical element
has won domination, that Russia will COM
tinue to be the Internationale's stronghold.
and that it's revolutionary propaganda will
continue with increased fervor.
The following six Americans, according to
the Pravia OF Moscow, have signed an appeal
to the British coal miners to continue their
strikes: Brooks Underwood, Williams, Flynn
Hardy and Crosby. Apparently they are at
tending the Internationale.
Another Hat
A cowboy hat with a silver band. gift or
the city of Cheyenne, Wyo., has been pre-
scented to President Harding by Senator'S War.
rem and Kendrick and Representative Nom
dell, Of Wyoming, who will invite the presi.
dent to the frontier celebration in that place
in July.
Headache Cure
Stone age surgeons had the right dope ON
how to treat headache. They simply bat"
tered hole in the skull of the sufferer In ORE
der to let out the evil spirit. If one hole
was not sufficient others were made 1t was
a most effective cure for headache, but the
patients usually died.
Professor Roy L. Noodle, of the anatomy
department of the University Of Illinois, says
these vents in the skull were ordinarily about
the size of silver half dollar. Skulls Of neo-
lithic men of Peru Mexico, France and the
South Sea Islands show that sometimes as