Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-03-04
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KEEL, Germany.-Shipyard own
ers lock out $4,000 men because lat
ter refused to work nine instead Of
eight hours.
NORFOLK, Va. Four-masteC
schooner Margaret Thomas is aban
doned by crew off Florida coast, ad
vices to coast guard authorities say
WASHINGTON denominations Of
Charles B. Warren to be ambassador
to Mexico and William Phillips tt
be ambassador to Belgium are con
firmed by senate.
MOSCOW Decree will be issued
soon by soviet government establish
ing autonomous Jewish state in Cri
mean republic, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency dispatch says.
SAN JUAN, Nic.-American ma
rines are on ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
frontier to prevent gun running by
Hondurans in Nicaragua to aid rev.
olutionists in their country.
WASHINGTON.-The federal re
serve boards February survey says
increased industrial and trade activ'
ity, with which 1924 started, contin.
ues to be we'll maintained.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-Francis B.
Sayre, son-in-law Of former Presi-
dent Wilson, has been promoted
from an assistant to a full profess
sorship of the Harvard law school.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark.-Babe Ruth's
doctor denies widely circulated re-
ports that famous baseball player is
dangerously i'll and declares his lungs
are clear and condition not serious.
SAN ANTONIO. - Mrs. Bertha
Horchem, member of air circus, is
killed when her plane crumbles and
she falls 1900 feet, her husband and
$500 spectators witnessing the trag-
edy.
SAN FRANCISCO.-Captain T. J.
J. See, navy astronomer at Mare Is,
land, announces tests of prominent
investigators show the complete col
lapse of the Einstein theory of rela-
tivity.
MANILA. - Philippine indepen-
dence commission decides that each
senator and representative shall do
nate months salary to finance indie
pendence commission and it's press
bureau.
NEW YORK.-Frank A. Wander
lip tells a synagogue congregation
that President Coolidge has asked
Attorney General Daugherty's resig-
nation, but it has not been forth
coming. -s-,-s-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Off.
GERS made 64,523 arrests in 1928,
compared with 6O,O19 in 1922. Prop
erty seized and destroyed in 1923
was valued at $3,243,795 as against
$1,000, 1886 in 1922.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. action in
oil lease cases this Weke is promised
by special counsel, the first step to
be civil action to stop eXtration of
oil in California and Wyoming
naval reserves.
Observation-Disclosures Cool
ldge soon will appoint special gov
eminent counsel to investigate val
ldity of title held by Standard Oil
Company of California to sections OF
naval oil reserves in that state.
PITTSBURG.-Wa S. Stone.
president of Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive engineers. tells Methodist Epis-
copal council that labor does not
think much Of the church because
the church does not think much of
labor.
(H1T r n
president of International Printing
Freshmen and Assistants Union of
North America, files application with
secretary of state as candidate for
office of vice president on Democrat.
ic ticket.
NEW BRUNSWICK, n. j
State and federal officials announce
immediate investigation of explosion
of Nixon nitration plant, near here
where is persons lost their lives, 80
were injured, and two persons are
missing.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Hiram
johnson, of California, charge Presi-
dent Coolidge's supporters are re-
sponslble for placing d Hiram John
ston on the Michigan primary bah
lot; simply a trick which would
als%race the meanest kind of petty
politics.
CHlCAGO.-Charles r. Forbes and
John w. Thompson, contractor. are
named in four indictments returned
by federal grand jury which has in
VestlSated charges Of waste. graft
ana debauchery in connection with
FORBES administration of United
States veterans bureau.
ST. LOUIS.-W. G. McAdoo, in a
letter to his Missouri campaign man
aSer, denounCeS Senator James A.
heed as man who resorts TO the
most glarlng disregard for the truth
In his personal attack on me-" and
asserted Reed is a stalking horse"
Tor some other candidate for the
presidential nomination.
WASHINGTON-The Pcsta, serv-
Ice ommittee of the United States
chamber of commerce issues a re.
port stating that the wide disparity
between post office department sal
aires and wages in private industry
Is one of the principal causes of
delay and irregularity in handling
of the mails.
LONDON.-In a letter to Premier
Poncare. Prime Minister MacDon-
aid seeks to pave the way for a
more complete undersano,ng be
tween England and France and
criticizes French policies. which
nave aroused English suspicion.
Premier Poincare in his reply re-
echoes the English minister's asp.ra-
tons for cooperation and defends
Frances policy toward Germany
and here relations with the smaller
nations of the entente.