Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-04
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth
Convict Returns

/ the Earth
Convict Returns
John Amishofsky, of Brooklyn, who was
released from Sing Sing a few weeks ago,
after serving the minimum term for grand
larceny, came back and asked to be read
mitted.
He is convalescing from the effects of an
operation performed at Bellevue Hospital,
New York, for the removal of tumor from
his brain and said he knew he would get
we'll much more quickly if he was un&sr tAs
eye of DR.. Amos o. Squire, prison physician,
whom he came to regard highly while pris-
oner here.
His request was granted. He was per-
mitted to commit himself to prison for an
indefinite term. Warden Lewis E. Lawes
instructed the keepers, however. to omit him
when taking the count of prisoners, as he
is free to depart at any time.
Fatal Rail
Four Kingston (Mass) school children
were killed when a trolley pole came off
car which carrying them to their homes,
broke the feed wire and caused their cleo
trocution when they jumped out of the car.
The car was set on fire, but other children
inside escaped serious injury. They were on
| their way home from school,
Nine other children were held in the car,
which was one-man trolley of the Ply
mouth and Boston Street Railway company,
by the motorman. He caught fifth young
ster as he tried to leap to the ground.
| The accident occurred as the car approach.
ed a bridge. When the trolley pole broke
| the feed line, carrying thousands of volts, one
end of the wire fell on the roof of the car,
setting it afire. The other end fell to the
bridge, charging the rails.
| cd ,od Rnr
| door. The motorman tried to hold them
! back, but four jumped out. They came in
contact with the rails and were killed in
stantly The clothes were burned from their
| bodies. The motorman kept the rest Of his
little passengers in the car until the current
was turned off.
| Turks Get Boats
| report from Constantinople says that
| three Turkish naval officers with 100 sailors,
| commanded by Ostan Bey, director of the
| Turkish naval school at Inebois, on the
Black Sea, have gone to Odessa to take
charge of two Russian submarines and three
destroyers promised by the Bolsheviki. The
| Kemalsts also reported to have set mines
adrift in the Sea of Marmora, one of which
recently sank an Italian steamship.
Time NIix-up
The time situation was further complicat-
| ed in Chicago when New York City went
back to Eastern Standard time Sunday Chi
| cago will not resume Central Standard time
until the last Sunday in October. So Chica-
go and New York will be going to work at
the same hour for month. The Chicago
Stock Exchange, in order to conform with
the resumption of Standard time in the east,
will open one hour later, at 10 o'clock, and
close at 3, until Standard time is resumed
here. Local banks will make no change in
their hours.
Philadelphia clocks slipped back one hour
and the official Philadelphia time changed
| from daylight saving to Standard without
perceptible effect on the citizens. Resi-
dents gratefully seized upon the extra hour
Of sleep.
When half of Boston's church-going popu-
lation arrived at their respective churches
| Sunday it found the doors still closed and
for an hour wondered what had happened.
Then the other half of the congregations ar
| rived and the sermons were preached on
Standard time, regardless of the fact that
half the congregation had forgotten to dis
card daylight saving.
| Officially one hour was Topped off at 3
o'clock. At that hour Massachusetts went
back to Goods time" setting back all watch
es and clocks one hour.
! The loWly and despised corn cob, for dec
| AIDES tie useless refuse of American agricul-
ture, has finally come into it's own. The corn
cob, it Develops is the source Of high
ly important chemical derivative, developed
through the researches of the Department Of
Agriculture laboratory, in cooperation with
chemists of the new American chemical in
dustry.
| The corn cob, which heretofore has been
a burden to the farmer, will now take it's
place among the many vital raw products
| which through the miracles of the laboratory
| supply the world with daily needs. 1t will
| rank with the prolific coal-tar bases in it's
| usefulness, according to the department
chemists In fact, it will be largely used in
connection with the vast coal-tar dyestuff and
| chemical industry, which is growing by leaps
and bounds in this country, and which threat
ems to enter the lists against the powerful
| German chemical monopoly for world SUI
premacy.
Department of Agriculture chemists, In
their efforts to find "a use for the lowly corn
| cob, succeeded in the first instance in devel-
Oping from it a paste that will find wide use
as binder in the manufacture of fiber board
and wall board. OneN of the analysts UNDER
took some experiments with the residue left
after the paste had been developed and dis
covered that it contained approximately 10
per cent of h1gh-grade furfural.
Furfural is of the basic needs Of the
Immense chemical industry in the manufac-
| ture of the whole vast range of coal-tar prod
laboratory materials Prior to the time the
ditions which throttled chemical develop
ment in this country was the German control
of furfural.
Through the discovery of the corn cob as
source for this chemical the American