Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-05

Itranscontinental mail service air
plane arrives in Hazelhurst. n. Y,
six minutes behind schedule, and first
westbound plane reaches San Fran
cisco 81 hours and 40 minutes after
leaving New York.
WASHINGTON. - Treasury sur
plus on June 80 is reported at $685.
$50, 1861, greatest in history, and
national debt is reduced by $1,09S,-
1874, 1857 to $21 1883.
NEW YORK.-Appelate division of
supreme court affirms conviction of
William Fl. Anderson, former state
superintendent of Anti-Saloon league,
on charges of forgery.
WASHINGTON. - Nathan l.. Mil
Ter, former governor of New York,
and Ernest 3. Perry, of Nebraska,
are named by state department as
American members of Mexican mixed
claims commission.
RIO JANEIRO. = President Ber-
nardes signs emergency bills to anne
liorate high cost Of living, cancelling
for sixty day period duties and clear
ance charges at Brazilian customs
houses on all staple goods.
YONKERS, N. Y. = Izzy Einstein
and Moe Smith, prohibition agents,
seize whisky valued at $4,000.
NEW YORK. = Federal Commits
|sioner Boyle holds illegal the arrest
by Prohibition Director Yellowley, of
patrons of cabaret, where it was al
legged liquor was being sold.
PEKIN.- Tsao Kun ac-
cepts resignation of premier, Sun
Pao-Chi, and DIR. " K. Wellington
Koo, foreign minister, carries on
duties of membership.
TOXIC. - Prince ,Masayoshi Mat
sukata, elder statesman, whose death
has been reported twice during re-
cent months, dies, aged SO.
TOXIC. - Rihei Okada, 81, Is ar
rested at Osaka, charged with cutting
down Unitetd States embassy flag.
WASHINGTON.-The state de-
partment was officially notified of
the arrest of a young Japanese
charged with tearing down the Amer
lean flag in the American embassy
compound.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. inter
ference at q meeting of protest
against the assassination of Giacomo
Matteotti, Italian socialist deputy,
resulted in the beating of two detec-
tives, and seven arrests.
SANDUSKY, Ohio.-Preliminary
reports of an appraisal commission
appointed to determine the tornado
damage estimated it at $1,000,0O0.
NEW YORK.-Gaston Means, for
mer department of justice agent,
sentenced for conspiracy to sell
whisky Illegally was released on bail
pending an appeal.
SAN FRANCISCO. = Extensive
areas in California national forests
were closed to all camping because
of the critical fire hazard.
EAGLE RIVER, MINI. = Eight
members of one family were killed
in an automobile train collision.
PATlIS.-American runners are
favorahly placed as result of draw
ings at Paris for Olympic track ana
field championship to be held next
week at Colonies stadium.
NEW YORK.-Plan OF William
Jennings Bryan to raise fund to aid
delegates in financial difficulties be-
cause of the protracted sessions of
the Democratic national convention
will be submitted to national COM
mittee.
NEW YORN.-James w. Wakely,
| sportsman and hacker and adviser to
John l.. Sullivan, dies at New York
hospital, aged rs.
MINEOLA, l.. Lit. Russell L.
Vaughan, who flew from New York
to San Francisco between dawn and
dusk, completes round trip.
CAMBRIDGE.-Af nearly TWEEN
ty-seven hours elaboration, jury at
Cambridge, Mass, acquits William
j. Corcoran, former district attorney
of Middlesex county, and Daniel j.
Coakley, disbarred Boston attorney,
following sensational trial for eX-