Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-11
NEWS OF THE WORLD
TOLD IN BRIEF

tWenty-four, telephone llneman was
! electrocuted while working on wires
here.
Notwithstanding officer Nor
rison announces that sal Georgians
and $50 Alabamians enlisted in the
army last year.
AtIanta--At a dinner TuesdaE
night attended by 400 citizens, ASA
G. Gambler, Sr., was hailed as At
lanta's first citizen.
Lagrange, Ga. The funeral of
Mr.. James G. Truitt, prominent and
wealthy Troup county citizen. was
held Tuesday Afternoon.
Scotland Neck, n. represent.
tive Claude Kitchin, minority leader
of the house: is seriously i'll with
pneumonia at his home here
Sparta, Ga.-H. r. Garrett, alder.
man and county commissioner, was
painfully burned when some one
struck a match near by while he
was cleaning a gasoline tank.
Atlanta.-Postmaster Large an
nounces Atlanta has fine chance
of becoming landing point on the
proposed government airp1ane mail
line from New York to New Or
leans.
Kansas City, Mo.--Covernor E.
Mont Rely, Of Porto Rico, who suf-
fered two broken ribs when a motor
car in which he was riding coIlided
with another car Saturday night, is
seriously i'll.
| WashingtOn.-New laws must
must be enacted to permit the ar
rangement of terms by which the
debts of foreign countries to the
United States can be paid, President
Harding believes.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Sted
man, of North Carolina: was cheer
ed for several minutes in the house
when he made dramatic plea for
the erection of a monument in
| Washington to the southern negro
nanny.
| Atlanta, Ga.-Maintenance work
| on all state highways, Interrupted
| during November and December be-
cause of lack Of funds, is again in
| full swing, Chairman Holder, of the
state highway commission AN.
nouncesf
/ Westinghouse Bur-
son has dropped plans for pushing
his measure to increase pensions for
veterans of the Mexican and Civil.
wars from $50 to SIS a month,
which was recently vetoed by Presi
dent Harding.
Columbia, S. C.-Edward N. Nit.
tie, convicted in Orangeburg county
/ two years ago of killing J, III. Par
terson and sentenced to nine years
in the peaitentiary,, surrendered tG
Governor Harvey Monday TO pegiE
serving his sentence.
Anderson, s.. C.-Mrs. Lila War
rem, twenty wounded on De
cember 20 by A. B. Hamlin, who also
fatally wounded his wife, died Mon
day. The shooting grew out CT do
mestic difficulties. Mrs Hamlin, who
was Mrs. Warren's aunt, died the
day after the shooting.
Atlanta Major c. E. McGregor.
| pension commissioner-elect an
/ nounced Tuesday that he will not APP
peal the decision of Judge Ellis in
superior court, holding that Colonel
John w. Clarke, incumbent, is en-
titled to serve as commissioner un.
til the fourth Wednesday in June.
Atlanta.-Heroic action on the
part of her grandson, Henry NAL
colin Wood, failed to save the life of
Mrs. Hortense c. Peixotto, seventy
one years OF age, who died of burns
despite the fact that her grandson,
at the risk of being burned himself.
extinguished the flames when her
clothing caught fire Saturday
Atlanta, Ga.-The Atlanta Evan
gelical Ministers association has
passed a resolution pledging every
member not to perform any mar
riage ceremony, Sin which either
party to the contract has former
husband or wife living" except
| where a divorce has been granted on
the Biblical grounds of infidelity.
Observation-Disclosures of the
| Volstead act to permit the manu-
/ facture of real beer is announced as
the goal of a nationwide drive to be
launched following a conference be-
| tween members of the general ex.
ecutive board of the international
| Brewery Workers union, and Presi-
dent Samuel Gompers, of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor.