Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-02

Albany. n. Y.-Alfred E. Smith
takes the oath as governor Of New
York.
Emmetshurg, Md.--Sterling Gait,
brother-in-law of Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson, dies.
Moscow. American-made cigar
cites are now on sale here for about
1,OO0,O 900 Soviet rubles each.
Malta.-Former Sultan Moham-
med VI of Turkey. it is understood.
will leave for Mecca aboard a British
warship.
Atlanta. Ga,-Mrs. H. H. Dobbs,
sister of Bishop Warren A, Asa G.
and Judge John S. Gambler, died
here Friday.
Meriden, Commentaries A. Burr,
rs, believed to be the last survivor
of the crew of the Monitor, which
fought the Merrimac, dies.
London. The Times announces
that Godfrey Dawson has been ap-
pointed editor of the publication in
succession to Henry Wickham Steed.
London. Sir Nevil Mac
Ready has been made a baronet on
the occasion of his retirement as
commander of the British forces in
Ireland.
Paris.-Sarah Bernhard says in
an interview that she has sufficient
ly recovered from her recent illness
that she hopes to return to the stage
Wednesday night. -..
Augusta, Ga.-Mrs. J. H., Breden-
berg and her fifteen-yearold daugh-
ter were lost with the ship Heinrich
Kayser, which went down off the
coast of Massachusetts, December 6.
SO, until recently a conductor on the
Georgia, Southern and Florida, was
killed Thursday night when an auto
mobile turned over two miles from
Danville, Ga.
ChicagO.-A gain of 119,007 mem
bers during 1922, bringing the total
membership to 1888, $40 for 1928,
not including 1868 nonresident
not including 269,6S9 nonresident
dist year book.
Canton, GA. 3. Coggins, one
of the best-knCwn citizens of Chero-
kee county, was laid to rest here
Friday afternoon. He was. eighty.
four years of age and a veteran OF
the Confederacy.
Washington.-Adm lead,
ers say congress soon will be asked
for an appropriation to provide for
mechanical changes to give naval
guns, greater elevations and conse-
quently larger ranges.
LOndOn.-The Indian office an
'nounces King George has promoted
the Rev. James Carruthers Ewing,
American missionary, to be an hon
orary knight commander of the
Order of the Indian Empire.
Washington.-R Representative Gal.
Ivan, Democrat, Massachusetts, says
Democratic candidates for speaker
before the party caucas will be
asked to explain where they stand ON
the Ku Klux Khan question. o..
Paris.-A committee of Socialist
party members on orders from Mos
COW, invited Anatole France, the
author, who parted with the extrem-
lists some time ago, to describe him
self no longer as a Communist.
Waycross, Ga.-The old, old story.
Automobile hit by train at crossing.
Three killed: Matthew and Isaiah
Tatum, of Ware county, and Willie
Breach, of Waycross. Miss Con-
stance Hemby, sixteen, may die.
Observation-Disclosures II. Meyer
becomes chairman of the interstate
commerce commission for a term of
one year, assuming the chairman
ship in accordance with a policy of
rotating the post among members.
Augusta. Ga. - Daisy Lowcn, s.
year old girl, was shot and instantly
killed at the home of relatives here
Friday afternoon when an old, rusty
pistol. supposedly unloaded, dis
charged in her hands while playing
with it.
Hollis, Okla.-Frank Day, SO, a
tenant farmer, living six miles
northwest of here, was taken from
his bed late Thursday night by nine
masked men, severely whipped and
ordered to leave the community "be,
fore another sunset" according to
the story he told authorities.
Columbus Is Quiet;