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The Atlanta Georgian
The Paper That Goes Home and Stays There
VOL. XI IT. NO. 127.
ATLANTA. GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER HO, 1914.
Copyright. 1900.
By the Georgian Co.
2 CENTS ^ R S°
RUSS FIGHT DESPERATELY TO FLANK GERMANS
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A disconcertRig record of another
night’s carnival of burglaries con
fronted the police Wednesday. The
robbers in one case visited a store for
the second time* within a few nights.
The first time they calmly backed a
■wagon up to the rear of the store and
hauled away th^ir loot.
Burglars some time in the night
broke into the Pullman car “Siloam”
and stole the silver service and car
ried away the epuiment box.
Police are trying to locate 23 chick
ens and two turkey gobblers and nine
chickens which are gone from the
home of Mrs. J. Todd. No. 91 Summit
avenue. A. J. Shropshire, Jr., reports
a shortage of fourteen chickens from
his crofi, and he does not believe they
flew away unassisted.
Burglars also entered the lumber
office of the Frank G. Lake lumber
yard on West Hunter and Elliott
street, where they lifted a side win
dow. They got two pistols, two suits
of clothes and 50 cents’ worth of
stamps.
The robbery of the Pullman car
“Siloani” is unique for the reason
that no such robbery has been re
corded in the city. The car was
locked and parked in the Georgia
Hailway yards The thieves removed
all of the silverware used in the buf
fet, as well as what groceries were to
he found. The supply box. made of
galvanized iron, also was carried
away. This box contained mostly
tools and equipment.
Bloodhounds Wednesday were rush
ed in an automobile from the county
convict camp to Barrett & Ross’
store, Xo. 698 West Peachtree street,
to be placed on the trail of burglars
who Tuesday night robbed the store
for the second time within less than a
week.
Footprints of the burgiars were
found in the soft earth in the rear of
the store. These prints showed that
two men had taken part in the rob
bery.
The burglars first visited the store
Christmas Eve nighCand hauled away
a wagon load of groceries and meats.
When the store was opened for busi
ness Wednesday morning the discov#
ery was made that burglars had paid
another visit. This time they had
bored a hole through the rear door
sufficiently large to admit an arm and
had then opened the door. Only a
small amount of loot was taken. The
goods stolen Christinas Eve night
were valued at about $75.
T. S. Clein, proprietor of the Ciein
Installment House at No. 140 Auburn
avenue, Wednesday reported to the
police that burglars threw a brick
through his front window and stole
about $100 worth of clothing and
Other goods. They failed to enter the
store. City detectives trailed the
robbers down the street by things
they dropped.
Two weeks ago Mr. Clein reported
the loss of two coats.
REWARDS FOR SLAYERS.
Rewards of $100 each have been
offered by Governor Slaton for the
capture of “Dude” Evans, wanted for
the murder of another negro in
Marion County, and John Davis, the
murderer of another negro in Monroe
County.
BANK ASKS CHARTER.
Application for a charter from Sec
retary of State Phil Cook has been
made by the Bank of West End, with
a capital of $25,000. W. M. Pool. J. S.
Sewell and H. T. Kirkpatrick are the
incorporators.
Soldiers Frozen to
Death in Trenches
Special Cable to The Georgian.
PARiS, Dec. 30.—A storm de
scribed as the '‘wildest gale of the
winter” is sweeping the trenches
along the Belgian coast, causing
indescribable suffering to the sol
diers on both sides. Many soldiers
were drowned; others were frozen \
to death in the trenches.
The Germans have comman
deered nearly all the stoves in
Western Belgium for the use of the
soldiers in the trenches.
Decatnr Board of
Trade Election On
Two hundred members of the De
catur Board of Trade are voting by
mail on the name of W. J. Dabney,
twice president of that organization,
for re-election, Mr. Dabney having
been renominated Tuesday by tne
nominating committee. H. G. Hast
ings was nominated for first vice
president, E. H. Wilson second vice
president, W. Bayne Gibson third vice
president, A. R. Almon treasurer.
Directors, W. J. Dabney, H. G. Hast
ings, E. H. Wilson, W. Bayne Gibson,
G. Scott Candler, J. O. Bell and Wiley
S. Ansley.
A feature of the board’s work dur
ing the new year will be corn, canning
and pig - club activities in DeKalb
County.
Couple Ejected From
Asheville Hotel Sue
ASHEVILLE, N. C., Dec. 30.—The
I>angren Hotel was made the defend
ant in a $30,000 damage suit brought
in the United States District Court
by Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Chafln, the
former a prominent Huntsville, Ala.,
educator.
It is charged that after Mrs. Chafln
registered and was in her room with
her husband, the house detective en
tered their apartments and ejected
them charging in the presence of oth
er guests that Mrs. Chafln was im
moral and that the man was in
toxicated.
Board Named to Plan
Southeastern Fair
The commitee on charter, organi
zation and plans of the Southeastern
Fair Association is composed of Pres
ton S. Arkwright, chairman; Ivan E.
Allen. Brooks Morgan, S. B. Turman,
V. H. Kriegshaber, C. H. Kelley and
Charles Whiteford Smith, according
to announcement made Wednesday.
Ex-officio members are Beaumont
Davison. Mayor Woodward, Mell R.
Wilkinson and Walter G. Cooper.
Mr. Arkwright will call the com
mittee together soon in order to go
ahead with the work at Lakewood.
Insane Hugger Held
For Scene on Train
WAYCROSS, Dec. 30.—Herman
Korte, of Germantown, Ill., was ar
rested here to-day because of his con
duct on an Atlantic Coast Line pas
senger train from Montgomery.
Apparently having lost his mind, he
created consternation when he sought
to hug women passengers. He hugged
one woman before the train crew
could get him out of the coach.
Vanderbilt Is Sure,
Business Will Boom
CHICAGO, Dec. 30.—Alfred G. Van
derbilt, passing through from Santa
Barbara to New York, said this after
noon:
“The 5 per cent freight rate in
crease will throw everything wide
open.”
First Woman to Use
Sewing Machine Dies
WINSTED, CONN., Dec. 30.—Miss
Elizabeth M. Kilbourne, 36, the first
woman to use a sewing machine, is
dead here.
Elias Howe, the inventor, invited
her to operate the machine.
OF PLAN 10
1STSUPT.
Wireless Torpedo Perfected
By Young American Inventor
John Hays Hammond, Jr., the inventor of the Natalia, the
wireless torpedo boat, which is directed from shore. Relow, the
Natalia, with her jvireles equipment.
Reports of a movement among
members of the Board of Education
to ous tSuperintendent Slaton at the
annual election in June have been
revived by the action of the board in
unanimously requesting the City
Council to give it power to increase
the salary of the office of superintend
ent from $3,600 to $5,000 a year.
The proposal was made at the
meeting of the board Tuesday after
Kaiser Near Death
On Christmas Day
From French Bomb
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 30.—Emper
or William had a narrow escape
\ from death at the hands of the
French aviator while he was at the
German headquarters in West
Flanders on Christmas Day, was
the information contained in a
dispatch, received here to-day.
While the Kaiser was dining
with his officers a French airman
flew over the German camp and
) dropped bombs, one of which land
ed less than 200 yards from the
’ Emperor.
\ The dinner party hastily broke
> up ; _ I
Miss Dempsey, of
Macon, Seriously Ill
MACON. Dec. 30.—Miss Monica
Dempsey, Macon heiress, whose en
gagement to Horace Wright, of^ this
city, wa.s recently announced, Is crit
ically 111 In Washington.
At her request, her fiance has been
called to her bedside.
noon by President R. J. Guinn in an
eloquent plea for more power for the
board and more confidence in it by
Council.
There was no reference in his
speech to a possible change of super
intendent, but gossip in political cir
cles interprets the action of the board
as a very definite move in that direc
tion.
Asks $40,000 for Salaries.
It has been generally talked among
members of the board and members
of Council for some months that no
move to elect a new superintendent
could be made unless the salary of
the office was increased.
President Guinn’s reference to the
matter was made in the following
terms:
"Gentlemen, we have in our burdget
an item of $38,500 for administrative
officers. I think we should ask
Council to maly? this amount a‘round
$40,000. and that we he given author
ity to make such adjustments of sal
aries as we see fit.
"Council should and will trust this
Board <>f.Education. I am sure that
the officials above us believe we have
the interest of the schools at heart.
Wants Restructions Removed.
"We are serving here at great per
sonal sacrifice and we should be al
lowed to do the best we can for the
education of the children of this
community.”
President Guinn continued his
speech with proposals that the re
structions on the needed $580,000 for
teachers’ salaries be removed. Coun
cil’s appropriations now provide that
increases for teachers shall be made
according to an arbitrary rule based
on length of service. The Board of
Continued on Page 2, Column 5.
John Hays Hammond, Jr., Ex
plains Workings of Newest Ad
dition to Fighting Machine.
NEW YORK, Dec. 30.—“The war in
Europe has demonstrated that the
submarine as it now exists is not as
infallible as Admiral Sir Percy Scott
prophesies,” declares John Hays
Hammondr-Jr., the young man whose
experiments and discoveries in his
laboratories at Gloucester, Mass.,
have shown him to be one of the
coming leaders in research and In
vention. “We need a large—a sea
going—type of submarine. The sub
marine is quite indispensable.
“The wirelessly controlled torpedo
with which we have been working at
Gloucester can be controlled from the
shore and guided as far as the eye
can see the antennae which appears
above the surface. We erected a
bamboo pole. 1 1-2 inches in diameter
and 13 feet high, three and a half
miles from shore and hit it ten times
out of fifteen. At that rate it should
hit a battleship every try. The tor
pedo I am developing for this use 1s
60 feet long and will carry 4,000
pounds of trinitrotoluol. It would
destroy any battleship now afloat. Of
course, ft would travel submerged.
“The incendiary projectile would
ignite anything t inflammable. Five
seconds after It is fired from the gun
its contents would be converted from
a solid to a white hot liquid. When
it strikes a fuse explodes the projec
tile, hydrocyanic acid gas Is liberated,
and life In that vicinity for any per
son desirous of fighting the flames
would be quite impossible.”
Garibaldi's Grandson
Dies Leading Charge
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, Dec. 30.—It is announced
that Lieutenant Bruno Garibaldi,
grandson of the Italian hero, was
killed while leading a bayonet charge
in the Argonne region.
He was fighting with the French
army, and his men succeeded in tak
ing two German trenches after their
leader fell.
Lack of 9 Children
Anti-Alimony Excuse
JERSEY CITY, Dec. 30.—Samuel
Dippel, arraigned on a charge that he
owed his w ife $160 alimony, declared
that unless a man has a loving w-ife
and at least twenty children, he has
no ambition and no incentive for
work. Dippel is the father of eleven
children.
He was granted a week in which to
stir up ambition and money.
To Break Ground for
Presbyterian Church
Ground for the new First Presby
terian Church, at the northwest corner
of Peachtree and Sixteenth streets, will
be broken Thursday afternoon.
Captain William Bcnsel, oldest church
member and official, will turn the first
spadeful of earth, and the Rev. J. Sprole
Lyons, the pastor, and 8. W. Carson,
chairman of the building committee,
will m&ke short tarks.
Plan Clearing House
For Georgia Products
Ralph O. Cochran and associates
will organize the Georgia Products
Clearing House Company, with busi
ness quarters at Nos. 87-93 Peters
street in the Kelley Building. The
purpose of the promoters Is to handle
Georgia products only, excepting cot
ton, finding a market for the farmer
direct.
Mr. Cochran was formerly in the
I real estate business In Atlanta and
s»ved as President of the Atlanta
, Real Estate Board.
Battleship Sent to
New Orleans Fete
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—The bat
tleship Delaware now at Hampton
Roads was ordered to-day to proceed
to Vera Cruz to relieve the battleship
Rhode Island.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels an
nounced that the Rhode Island would
go to New Orleans for the centennial
of the battle of New’ Orleans on Jan
uary 8.
Hunter Shot by Lad
Dead at Augusta
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HARLEM, Dec. 30—John F. Whit
aker. who was accidentally shot by a
lad while hunting near Harlem on
Monday, died in the hospital in Au
gusta to-day.
He leaves a wife and five children.
He was 42 years old.
By FRANCIS LAVELLE MURRAY.
PETROGRAD, Dec. 30.—Field Marshal von Hindenburg’s
latest drive against Warsaw is on the point of collapse and the
Russians are fighting desperately to carry out a flanking move
ment against his German army. Official military dispatches from
Warsaw state that the German armies lying west of Warsaw have
been compelled to evacuate some of their first line positions under
the battering assaults of Grand Duke Nicholas’ forces.
The fighting in Poland and Galicia is being marked by the
most terrible slaughter in the history of warfare. It is impossible
to estimate the casualties now, but the figures, when they are an
nounced, will be staggering.
In Western Galicia stormy weather and the muddy condition
of the roads are interfering with operations ; in the Carpathians
th« Austrians are falEng back, leaving many stragglers and many
guns behind.
Along the Bzura and Rawka Rivers the Germans are fighting
desperately to hold their own, but they are facing superior num
bers, and Field Marshal von Hindenburg’s worn-out troops are
facing fresh masses of Russian soldiers.
Forced Back From Warsaw
mies until It has turned the highways
Into bogs.
The Russian forces south of the
Pillca River are driving hard toward
Tomaszow and have captured a line
of redoubts south of Inowlodz, which
Is only a few miles east of Tomaszow.
The Russians operating near the
Junction of the Ntda and Vistula Riv
ers have taken several thousand more
prisoners, together with a number of
machine guns. Austrian ctnnon were
found imbedded in the mud, General
Dankl’s men being unable to move
them when the army retired.
The Austrians on the Gorlice-Jaslo
line are trying to re-form their forces
as they fall back, but in this they are
doubly hindered by the impassable
There was a terrific artillery
duel along the Rawka, which
lasted all day Monday and all.of
Tuesday, but the Germans were
finally compelled to retire after
several of their batteries had
been silenced.
The German lines along the upper
reaches of the Rawka and north of
the Bzura are farther from Warsaw
than they were this time last week.
The German lines were extended In
the form of a semi-circle with the
Russian army in the Pilica Valley
struggling forward in a mighty effort
to envelop the southern wing of the
invading army.
The weather is very cold and the
fields are covered with deep snow.
The snow upon the roadways has
been trampled by the marching ar-
oondition of the country and the con
stant harassing of the Siberian
troops.
Of the 175,000 men in the Austrian
army falling back through the Car
pathians. fully 50,000 have been taken
prisoners by the Russians.
Austria Officially Admits Defeat
By STEVEN BURNETT.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
VIENNA, Dec. 30.—Official admis
sion of an Austrian defeat in the Car
pathian Mountains was contained in
an official announcemet from the War
Office at noon. It follows:
“The Russian army which a week
ago commenced an offensive cam
paign against our forces which had
crossed the Carpathians, has been re
inforced to such an extent that it was
made necessary for us to withdraw
our entire eastern front from the
plain of Gorlice.
“The situation in the north, how
ever, was not influenced by this
movement.
"In the Balkan theater of war the
Montenegrins attacked our outer in-
trenchments at Trebinje, but w'ere re
pulsed without difficulty. The ene
my’s artillery was silenced. The
Montenegrin bombardment of the
fortress at Krewozije has been with
out effect.”
Great Artillery Duel in West
By FRANKLIN P. MERRICK
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, Dec. 30—Over the greater
part of the 300-mile front in France,
Belgium and Alsace-Lorraine the ter
rific battle between the Allies and the
Germans has developed Into an artil
lery duel on a grand scale.
Despite the gale which is raging
over Western Belgium and Northeast
ern France, the thunder of guns Is in
cessant. A Sluis telegram received
via London says:
"Since Tuesday morning the thun
der of the Britsih naval guns has been
dominating the bombardment of the
Germans. A German officer, who has
Just returned from the Yser front,
says:
“ ‘Our men are falling by thousands
under the mighty cannonade of the
French and British. Never before has
an army been called upon to face
such a murderous artillery fire. I am
convinced that we shall never be able
to reach Dunkirk and Calais, but we
our troops would suffer too much if
we did so.’ **
At the eastern end of the line the
French lines have been drawn through
Cernay, Aspach, Thann and Sulz. In
the center of this circle lies Stein-
bach, w’hich is under continuous bom
bardment. Steinbach is nine miles
northwest of Muelhausen. It lies upon
*a. railway line running from Muel-
hausen into the lower reaches of the
Vosges Mountains, and is a point of
considerable strategic importance.
French airmen, operating from Bel
fort, have dropped bombs in Stein
bach and in Muelhausen.
FTom Altkirch to Pont-a-Mousson,
the battle line lies almost exactly up
on the Franco-German frontier. At
only one point, namely, in the region
of Mount Donon, is the fighting taking
place upon French soil. From Pont-
a-Mousson, the line bends westward
to St. Mihiel, upon the Meuse River.
Thence it swings north and eastward
around Verdun to the forest of Grurie.
The Germans have got in artillery