Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-31
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Moscow Theaters
/ The Moscow Soviet has announced that
the Musical Drama Theater, the Lutetia
Misch and two other theaters, which the To-
cal city government has supported, will be
leased to private concessionaires, and has
asked Russian theatrical managers to submit
proposals for taking over the theaters and
operating them as private enterprises.
This is in accordance with the general pol
icy of the Moscow Soviet to follow the exam
pie OF the central government and unload
responsibilities which have been, too great a
tax on its bread supply, fuel supply and pow
er of organization.
Goodwill Ship
Announcement is made by the executive
committee TO- devastated France, of which
Miss Anne Morgan is chairman, that the
Good WHIP ship, carrying delegates from
all parts of the United States to the regions
in france where American soldiers fought
and died, will sail for Europe in the coming
summer. The vessel will carry 500 or more
delegates with substantial purse to France,
the money to be used in the rehabilitation Of
those districts where the American troops
were most active. #e
President Harding has written a letter to ;
Miss Morgan, in which he indorses the move
ment and wishes it every success The dele.
cation will start probably in August, and will
be officially received by representatives of
the French government. They will tour the
devastated regions before returning to Amer
lea. Myron T. Herrick, United States am
bassador to France, is strongly in favor OF
the delegation also visiting the French bat
tlefields
Dog Monument
Dog lovers will have a new shrine to visit
when the proposed memorial at the canine
cemetery is completed at Hartsdale, N. Y.
There will be erected the memorial in honor
of the dogs who served with the American
armies in France. The memorial is ST. Tue
of war dog in heroic figure, with canteen
and helmet, on a rustic bowlder fashioned
from Vermont granite. It will cost $4,000.
immigration Figures
Records of the Bureau of immigration
show that the quotas allowed for the year
have ben exhausted in the case of fourteen
nations, and that no further aliens will be adj
mitted from those countries. These are
Africa, Atlantic Islands, Greece, Hungary,
Jugo-Slavia, Other Asia, Other Europe, Pal
estine, Poland, Portugal, New Zealand, Spain,
Syria, Turkey and Smyrna.
Chicago Crime n
year up to December 23 have cleaned up ap-
proximately $4,OOO,O00. Allowing for 800
working days in the year the criminals aver
aged more than $4,000 day. This would
pay $500 men SIS day.
The largest single robbery of the year to
date was the hold-up of Leroy Presents,
jewelry salesman from Rochester, N. Y, in
the Kesner building in kpril The bandits
obtained $264,O0O in jewels in this haul
Next in size was the Dearborn Street mail
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and his gang, who stole 100000 in Liberty
bonds and other valuabes Murphy and the
others have been convicted and one member
of the gang is III Leavenworth serving his
sentence, but "Big Tim" labor car and
powerful in politics, is at liberty under bond.
The figures do not include the automobiles
stolen, the value of which has passed the
SIC, 900, 900 mark and the total of which is
piling up every day The police recovered
so per cent of the stolen machines, which
brings the loss for this item down to ST.
100000.
Unofficial estimates of the amount stolen
by embezzlement and forgefies places the
total at more than $2,O0O,OO0.
Bogus Stamps
swinde of large proportions has been
perpetrated on the Argentine postoffice de-gI
partment by the printing and sale of false
five-cent stamps. The sale of these stamps
apparently has been going on possibly for
years., UuI IL was ouly AOCOuIiy uioOoyOA Cus4
The department has ordered the withdrawal
Of the isue in question
Bull Fights
MEXICO CITY-The newspaper Gel Uni-
versaP' has started a campaign against bull
fighting, which appears to give promise of
possible success. In the belief that the res
ent generation of grownups enjoys the sport
so much that it's prohibition is impossible, the
newspaper is attempting to keep children
away from the fights and to that end has
placed the Mayor of Mexico City and the
Governor of the Federal district in which
Mexico City is located on record as opposed
to boys and girls witnessing the brutal
sport"
Quarter-page pictures of youngsters eager
ly watching the CORY sights of the arena have
been printed and the newspaper asks il this
is the sort of environment that makes for
culture and refinement. Felix F. Palavicini,
himself on record as unalterably opposed to
bullfights, although, in Difference to popu-
lar opinion, his newspaper carries exhaustive
ever, that If the youngsters are now kept
away from the fights the next generation
will not want Them.
Stranded Americans
The American Chamber Of Commerce OF
Manila, has appealed to United States Army !,
headquarters in behal' of nearly sixty desti-
tute Americans, many of them with fa1ni-
lies, who are stranded in Manila, without
work and lacking sufficient means to return
to the United States
The Chamber of Commerce suggests that
these men be given employment by the