Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-05-03
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/ the fifth annual assembly of the
| League of Nations is officially an
nounced for September 1 in Geneva.
| Observation-Disclosures Cover.
nor McCray, of Indiana, leaves for
Atlanta federal penitentiary to begin
| ten-year sentence for use of mails
| to defraud.
ATLANTA.-Deat toll OF We'd
nesday's storm in southeastern states
is estimated as 100; many of the 500
reported as injured are in serious
! condition.
WASHINGTON in many
| fields of American life urge Amerl-
can participation in world court be.
| fore subcommittee of senate foreign
relations committee.
! NEW YORK.-Dr Nicholas Muir
ray Butler, president OF Columbia
university says the eighteenth
amendment will 'be repealed within
| five years.
| PHILADELPHIA - Protestant
Episcopal priests in convention con-
slider the possibility of reunion of
Anglican and Roman Catholic
churches.
MEXICO CITY.-General Angel
Flores, former governor of Sinaloa,
announcing his presidential candida
cy, declares for legislation regulat-
ing petroleum rights.
WASHINGTON.-P Cool.
idge dominates General Harry Tay-
Tor to be chief of army engineers,
to succeed Major General Lansing
w. Beach, retired.
NEW YORK-Dr. Adolph Lo-
REM, noted Austrian orthopedic sur.
geon, sails for Vienna after perform
ing hundreds Of bloodless operations
after seven months.
Observation-Disclosures horse.
power is eight times present de-
velOpment, United States Geological
Survey said in reporting on nations
water power resources.
SAN SALVADOR.-The dictato-
rial. forces are holding the armory
in Tegucigalpa, refusing to surren.
der to the revolutionary forces
which captured the city.
SAN FRANCISCO. - Evarard
Thompson, New Haven, Conn, ia
thcr'' of the Yale Bowl and the
Sheepshead Bay Speedway, dies OF
asthma and heart disease.
NEW YORK-George Fl. Kendall,
former head of New York Bank
Note company. in his will bequeaths
business to Miss Ethel Graham AL.
len, his secretary for twenty years.
WASHINGTON.-The house post
office committee adopts amendments
to the postal salary bill granting in
creased pay to third and fourth-class
postmasters and rural mail carriers.
HANANA.-Five leaders of the
Veterans and Patriots association,
arrested in Havana after the revolt
OF soldiers at Santa Clara, are de-
MED freedom on habeas corpus peti.
tons.
NEW YORk-Grover Cleveland
Bergdoll, draft evader, is rumored
to be aboard North German Lloyd
steamship Columbus, en- route to
Ell PASO-Adolfo de la Huerta.
Bremen.
NEW YORk-Curtis D. Wilbur,
secretary of navy, in address be-
fore Y. w. c. A. convention, says
spectacle of battleships being
scrapped under disarmament pact is
inspiring and heroic.
ED PASO-Adolfo de la Huerta,
leader of revolution, has been traced
to Phoenix, Ariz., and is now be-
lieved headed for Lower California
to revive the rebellion, Mexican
Consul General Ruiz says.
CLEVELAND-Wa S. Stone,
president of Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers, answering rumors he
is being considered as running mate
of President Coolidge, says he is not
interested in partisan politics.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. post of
flee committee by one vote rejected
amendment to postal employees
salary bill to provide for flat S4OO
annual payment increase for clerks,
carriers, supervisors and inspectors.
BERLIN - Parties representing
Marx Stresemann cabinet and Unit
ed Socialists are making bids for
votes in coming election on ques-
ton of favoring solution of repara-
| ton problem on basis of Dawes re-
! port.
ATLANTA. Ga.-Seventy-nine per-
| sons are known to be dead, many
are missing, at least 500 injured and
property damage unotficially estl-
mated at ten million dollars as re-
| suits of storms which sweep south
| eastern states.
| WASHINGTON.-William NJ. But,
! Ter, of Massachusetts, will succeed
| John T. Adams, of Iowa, as chair
man of republican national commit
tee, if President Coolidge is nomi
mated for the presidency, White
| House announces.
| LONDON.-While conservatives in
! British house of commons condemn
| labor governments budget and
! abolition of MCkenna duties on for
eisn manufacturers, liberals in party
| meeting iudorse government free
! trading program.
WASHINGTON. = Representative
! Harold knutson, of Minnesota. is
found not guilty by jGry in Airing
! ton county, Va, court, of serious
charges filed against him by Nir-
! ginia officers last March.
WASHINGTON President Cool
/ idge urges Chairman Jones, Of SEN
ate commerce committee, to seek
prompt action on bill to curb mo-
uopolies in Alaskan fisheries and
| TO establish fishing reserves.
NEW YORK.-Frauklin d. Roosc-
Welt, Democratic candidate in 1920
! for vice president. formally accepts
/ appointment as chairman OF commit
tee which will work Cor presidential