Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-10
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Lose Key
The "key of st. Louis" has been carried
away by Marshal Foch's party.
While visiting Mayor Kiels office, the
mayor handed the brass key, twelve inches
long, to the generalssimo, saying: "You
have won the heart of st. Louis, you should
have the key to it,
The marshal expressed his appreciation
and handed it to aide. AS the special
train pulled out last night the aide had the
key in his belt.
The key has been used hundreds of times
in the figurative ceremony of presenting
the key of the city, to conventions and WISH
tors, and always had been recovered before.
Limiting Beer
Despite new treasury regulations permit
ting physicians to issue an unlimited num-
Der of prescriptions for beer, they will be
held to the old maximum of one hundred
prescriptions every three months, Commits
sioner Haynes announces.
Regulations covering physicians prescrip-
lions, Mr.. Haynes explained, limit them to
one hundred a quarter, and will apply
whether the doctors prescribe whisky, wine
or beer, some of each of these remedies.
| Mr.. Haynes added that he saw no reason for
changing the old rule
A decrease Of about $12,000,000 in taxes
| collected on non-beverage distilled spirits
during July, August and September, as COM
| pared with corresponding months of last
| J ear, was announced today by Mr.. Haynes
| During those months of this year revenues
| derived from this sources amounted to $751;
| 3S0,647, as compared with 7,106,911 DUR
| ing the same months last year.
| Drastic Measures
| Prohibition gents, in the opinion Of the
| Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Pub"
lie Morals of the Methodist Episcopal church,
| should be instructed to remember their
wives, children and the people of the United
States when their lives are placed in danger
I by oootleggers or moonshiners.
| "Some people seem to be surprised that
| the Board of Temperance of the Methodist
| Episcopal church should suggest that pro-
| hibition officers have right to defend them
selves quickly and effectively when threaten
ed by armed criminals the board said in a
| statement issued simplifying q previous
statement along the same lines.
| "The cries of bereft children of faithful
prohibition officers rise to heaven" the state
| ment continued ''It is nothing less than
murderous to expect prohibition officers to
| await the fire of boot1eggers when with guns
| in their hands.
| "Bootleggers are the worst kind OF crimi-
nails, frequently ex-convicts and cruel killers.
| They are dangerous in the extreme. When q
bootlegger draws gun he should be fred
| upon, and that quickly. They prohibition
officers) it to themselves, to their wives.
to their children and above all to the
/ jesty of the law to do So"
Dry Money
Congress will be asked for $10,000,000
for the enforcemnt of prohibition during the
next fiscal year, an increase of $2,500,000
over the appropriation for the current year.
| Prohibition Commissioner Haynes, in MAX
ing this announcement, said the increase
would be sought to enable more complete
and efficient enforcement OF the prohibition
laws through enlarged forces and facilities.
| Permits for the transportation of liquor
except into five states will be denied by
state and federal prohibition directors under
instructions sent out today by Commission
er Haynes. The states excepted are Califor-
mia, Louisiana, Massachusetts,, Maryland and
Rhode Island.
Calling attention to the fact that the Reed
bone dry amendment prohibits the transport
tation Of liquors into dry state the com"
missioner said that all except five states
have laws which bring them within that
category. III
Nicola Krakowski, a newly-impbrted RUS
sian, almost caused riot at the Sullivan
Square elevated terminal in Boston, when
ticket-taker refused to accept hand full,
more or less, of Russian paper rubles as the
equivalent of a 10-cent fare to take him
down town.
Ticket-taker Philip McEugh doesn't claim
to know much about foreign exchange, but
he has heard enough funny jokes about
Russian money to know that he didn't want
any, so he said Nothing doing" to his
would-be customer, kindly but firmly.
Nicola was persistent and words which
nobody nearby understood poured from his
lips. But he didn't make bit of Roadway
with Philip, who used his sturdy form to
keep Krakowski from dashing through the
stiles.
A big crowd gathered and not few
who wanted to pass through began to show
their anger. Nicola finally gave up, and
when last seen was headed toward town on
foot still the possessor of his rubles.
Clever Escape
L. r. Kimmel, Los Angeles, was sentenced
to one to fourteen years in the San Quentin
penitentary on charge of forgery this
week. He was taken to the county jail, but
an hour later he walked out, smil1ngly SAID
i "Good-by'' to the door-keeper and d1sap-
peared.
Several hours later it was discovered that
visitor had no pass. He had given 1t up TO
a man who demanded it, thinking he was
Jail official but it was Kimmel, who pre-"
sented it to the door-keeper and won his
liberty.
Russ Debt
The Russian Soviet council of commits
sioners has appointed special commission,
headed by Maxim Litvinoff chief of the
Soviet legations abroad, to consider the
questions relating to Russia's foreign debt.
(This action presumably is in pursuance or
the recent offer of the Soviet government
to recognize the debts of the imperial regime
contracted up to 1914, on the condition that
j. the creditor nations make peace with the
Soviet government.)
Preparations
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