Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-12-18
WOrM NeZOS
Told In
Brief

WARSAW. - Cabinet headed by,
Premier Witos resigns.
CHICAGO.-J. w. Cloverdale is re-
irstated as secretary of American
farm bureau federation.
VERA CRUZ-Mexican insur-
gents claim to have captured Guau-
tia, in the state of Morelos.
NORFOLK. = Twenty-Five lives
are reported lost in the laundering
of the Norwegian steamer Runa.
Observation-Disclosures Borah,
of Idaho, states that he is mot a
candidate for the presidential nomi-
nation of any party"
Ell PASO.-President Obregon is
reported on firing line personally di-
recting troops marching on Guadela-
jara.
LONDON.-British admiralty de-
MES report that Singapore naval base
has been abandoned as result of Brit
ish elections.
PARIS. -Clemenceau's face is cut
by glass from broken windshield in
an automobile accident on the
Nantes Paris road.
= WASHINGTON.-Subscriptions to
issues of treasury certificates of in
debtedness for December aggregated
more than two and one-half times
amount asked, it is announced.
tenant William D. Fowler and Ser
geant Harvey Lightfoot, of the air
reserve, are killed in plane crash
during a practice flight
COLUMBUS, O.-Executive COM
mittee of Federal Council of Churches
urges that United States enter
League of Nations or propose SONS
more effective substitute.
CHICAGO. = Mrs. Montgomery
Ward gives $3,O0O,0OO to Northwest
err university for large medical cen
ter to be known as Montgomery
Ward Mem ORAL.
LOS ANGELES. - Mrs. Adelaide
Hughes, wife of Rupert Hughes, nov
elist, is found dead at remote place
in Ido-China and private message to
her husband here says she committed
suicide.
PHILADELPHIA. Charles w.
Nevin II, member Of socially prom
inent Philadelphia family, plunges to
death from hotel window and two
companions are held after drinking
party.
WASHINGTON. = Census bureau
figures show that the fight against
tuberculosis in the United States.
gradually is being won and that
number of deaths per 100000 popula-
ton declined from $50 in 1913 to 97.4
last year.
COMMUNICATIVE Museum
of Harvard university announces
that 6t3, B. c., is the earliest record
ed date IN New World history, the
first day in the record Of time kept
by the Mayas in the Yrcatan.
INGTON. - Secretary
Mellon reduces his tax reduction pro-
posals to definite form. Analysis of
h., edraft shows that the proposed
actual reduction for wage earners
receiving $4,000 or less is about A
PEI cent.
PARIS France. accepts with GER
tain limitations Germany's appeal
FOR Ruhr parley but Poincare re-
serves the right of concerning with
the allies before replying to any
question from the reich.
NEW YORK.-Announc is
made Of the formation of new or
ganization designed to crush the
principle of censorship, to be
known as the National Council to
Protect the Freedom of Art, Litera-
ture and the Press"
BERLIN. Marx, adj
dressing German press union, says
domestic conditions of Germany
make ones heart quake" and that
his government is trying to drag
country out of slough of despond.
NEW YORK.-The Russian soviet
government is ready "to do all in its
power as far as the dignity and in.
terests of the country permit to
bring about friendship with the
United States" George Tchitchein,
soviet commissioner for foreign af-
fairs, declares in an official note to
President Coolidge.
NEW YORK.-Rev. DIR. Leighton
Parks, rector of st. Batholomew's
church, upholds denial of the virgin
birth Of Christ and challenges Bishop
NJ ming to bring him to trial for
heresy for saying the same things
that Rev. Lee w. Heaton, of Fort
Worth, Tex, has said. Modem
churchman's union will defend Rev.