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{By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14—
After a conference at a hotel
with railway managers represent
ing the railroads in the threat
ened strike proceedings, Media
tion Commissioner Chambers late
today returned to the White
House and went into conference
with President Wilson. Attorney
Geenral Gregory was then sum
moned to the White House. His
arrival gave rise to reparts that |
some plan for agreement was to
be put into writing.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—A defi
pite proposition to prevent a strike
of the union men of the railroads of
the country is now under considera
tion by the representatives of the
managers. ‘lt was presented to them
by President Wilson this afternoon,
and after an hour's talk with the
Chief Executive, they returned to
their hotel “to talk it over.”
No details regarding the proposi
tion were made public. It was an
nounced, however, that the confer
ence befween the managers and the
President will be resumed at 9 o’clock
tomorrow morning. Meanwhile the
brotherhood representatives will re
main here at the disposal of the
President.
The managers were with the Pres
¥ent a little more than an.hour. On
leaving the White House, Elisha Lee,
their spokesman, said:
“Everything is progressing well. We
are going back to our hotel to get to
gether and talk things over. I don't
care to say that a complete agree
ment is yet in sight, but I will say
that the situation is very much less
ecute than it was this morning.”
Optimism Is Felt.
The President sent for Mediation
Commissioner Chambers immediately
after the representatives of the rail
roads left the White House. It was
expected that Chambers would con
fer later in the afternoon with the
heads of the raiiroad brotherhoods
_and their assistants, who were wait-
Ing in their hotel for word from the
White House.
Although there was in evidence
tverywhere a feeling of distinct op
timism that a way out was in sight,
00 official statement was forthcom
ing from the White House or the
spokesmen of either side of the con-
Eroversy. It was emphasized that all
were feeling their way,” and that
any premature announcement at this
time might interfere with the much
desired complete settlement.
Later the President authorized the
!o{lowing statement:
‘I have met both sides and have
gone over the case with the utmost
frankness. I will not be able to judge
until tomorrow whether we have
found a feasible basis for settle
ment.”
Can Not Be Arbitrator.
President Wilson, it was reported,
Made it plain to the brotherhood rep
!f-sematives that he could not be the
single arbitrator, or the “odd” man in
& board of arbitration. However, he
Buggested certain names of men that
could be brought into the plan, and
the brotherhood representatives, ac
fording to the Cabinet members,
listened kindly” to this suggestion.
It is understood that at the confer-
E'Wr with the brotherhood represen
%i ves the President was told that
S;fv Rad been compelled to refuse ar
‘iration under the terms suggested
g" the Federal board of conciliation
b‘c«iuae they did not believe that the
oard realized the importance of their
ismangs,
. The President, it was definitely
farned, insisted that under no cir
tumstances will the public sanction a
Btrike. He is understood to have
m"”;“ it plain that, in his opinion, if 2
Slrike wag precipitated through the
Pefusal of the labor leaders to treat
;’,"“ the roads, the unions would be
‘amed and the labor cause would
Buffer,
On leaving the conference, Presi
dent Garretson, of ‘the conductors,
sald:
“We can not talk now. Anything
"‘j might say, of whatever nature,
'Bt seriously embarrass the Presi-
N‘at this time.”
@ 4tked pointblank whether they had
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Intend to Get
8-Hr. Day, Say
Rail Workers
(By International News Service.)
1 ASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—in
(s W formal conferences be
tween the representatives
%oi the railway brotherhoods and
}the railroads took place at their
hotels while they waited for the
word to come to the White House.
After he had talked with his as
sistants, President Garretson, act
ing as spokesman for the men,
said:
“Nothing has happened to change
our attitude toward any arbitra
tion proposition. This situation,
{ after all, means simply that the
men have demanded the eight-hour
¢ day and intend to have it. Nat
urally, that is not a question for
arbitration while the railroad
managers maintain their present
position,”
The railroad managers insisted
that they had nothing to add to
their statement, made last night in
New York, that they wanted to
avert a strike. Elisha Lee, chair
man of the committee, said:
“It all is now up to the Presi
dent. We can do no more. We of
fered concessions, but they were
not accepted. The railroads sim
ply can not grant the demands of
the men without facing bank
ruptey.”
Germans Reoccupy
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Pozieres Trenches
By SYDNEY B. CAVE,
Staff Correspondent of International
; ‘ Mews Service.
| LONDON, Aug. 14—Violent coun
’ter attack northwest of Pozieres last
night enabled the Germans to occup#
temporarily some of the 'trenches
which the British had captured on
Sunday.
The German success was admitted
in the official statement issued by the
War QOffice this afternoon.
On the remainder of the front, the
report says, there have been no im
portant developments
.
House Passes Bill
For 3 More Judges
- The House Monday afternoon passed
by vote of 97 to 44 the Senate gm to
increase the justices of the Court of
Appeals from 3 to 6.
The bill is a measure to relieve the
congestion of the court, which is far
behind on its cases.
Lone Robber Makes
S3OO Bank Haull
(By International News Service.)
DENVER, COLO, Aug. 14—An un
masked robber this afternoon robbed the
First National Bank, of Englewood, a
Denver -suburb of S3OO and escaped in
a hired touring car
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(By International News Service.) ‘
PETROGRAD, Aug. 14.—The south- |
ern flank of Genera' von Bothmer‘s|
army, which was withdrawn a dis
tance of about ten miles to the Strypa
River line, is being vigorously at
tacked in the sector of Halicz.
Heavy forces of Cossacks, which
captured Mariampol, are reported to
have pushed northward along the
Dniester Valley, taking Halicz.
(Halicz is an important railway
Junction, lying on the Dniester just
north of the point where the Bys
trzyca flows into it. 'The railvray
running north from Stanislau divides
at Halicz, one line continuing on to
Lemberg and the other branching to
ward the east and running to Tarno
pol.)
The Austro-German forces holdlngl
the Upper Sereth River line have re
treated westward to previously {orti-1
fled positions, the Russian War Of
fice announced today.
In Volhynia the Germans, under
General von Linsengen, have made
attacks on the western bank of the
Stokhod, but won no ground.
Russian forces that crossed the
Zlota Lipa near Zavalov and Korcov,
have penetrated to the Dniester.
Austro-Hungarian attacks in the!
Carpathians were repulsed.
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800 More Austrians
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Taken by Italians
By CAMILLO CIANFARRA,
Staff Correspondent of International
News Service.
ROME. Aug. 14.—Further progress
for the Italians east of Gorizia and
the capture of Austro-Hungarian in
trenchments were reported by the
War Office today.
Eight hundred more Austro-Hun
garian prisoners have been captured
The official statement says that
eastward of Nadlogem (hill No. 212)
Austro-Hungarian intrenchments
were pierced,
On the remainder of the front the
Austro-Hungarians made attacks, but
all were repulsed.
Italian forces engaged <with the
Austrians at the northern end of the
Isonzo front have won a victory, pene
trating the suburbs of Tommino, A
dispatch to The Idea Nazionale from|
the front reports that the outer sub-|
lurbs of Tolmino are now firmly in the
hands o fthe Italians,.
I In the region east of Gorizia tho‘
Italians continue their advance and
lha\'e captured several more important
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ATLANTA GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1916.
‘Austria Cails/|
fi Home Guard of ;
g (By International News Service.)
é B ERNE, SWITZERLAND, Aug.
14.—That the Austro-Hun
garian armies have been se
riously crippled by their losses on
the Russian and ltalian frontiers is
gevidenced by Vienna dispatches,
> which announce that Hungarian
{ landsturm forces of all years from
1885 to 1897, inclusive, have been
ordered to report for active serv
ice on August 28.
{ Swiss experts estimate that this
{ call will furnish the Austrian com
s. manders with reinforcements num
bering 275,000 men. These land
g sturmers had been serving as home
{ guards,
‘The Bremen' Sighted
e bremen’ Sighte
Again at New London
(By International News Service.)
NEW LONDON, CONN., Aag. 14.—
A lookout watching for the German
submarine Bremen today reported
‘what appeared to be a submarine
lslightly awash approaching Fishers
Island, twelve miles from New Lon
don.
At 1 o’clock this afternoon the wire
less operator at Fishers Island report
ed that he had seen a foreign subma
‘rine east of Montauk Point, and that
she was apparently testing. He was
positive that it was an undersea boat
and that she was unfamiliar to the
waters of that vicinity. He tried to
get into communication with the ves
sel, but said that, although her wire
}less was working, his apparatus was
pitched too high to get any of the
messages. :
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Seamen's Law Raises
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—The La-
Follette seamen's law is working suc
‘cessfully, and is having the effect of
Sralslng the standard of seamen's
‘wages throughout the maritime world,
| This is the opinion of Andrew Fu
ruseth, president of the International
Seamen’s Union, and principal agi
tator in favor of the LaFollette meas
ure, expressed today, following an in
vestigation of the operation of the
new law during its first year on the
statute books.
Mr. Furuseth says that the higher
scale of wages given sailors shipping
in American ports has attracted sail
ors from half the ports of the world.
In order to hold their men, foreign
ships have been compelled, he claims,
to increase their wages.
Shipping has not been injured be
cause of the wage increases, Mr. Fu
ruseth declared.
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Suspects, but Freed
WAYCROSS, Aug. 14.—Three Way
cross men, Volney Williams, repre
sentative-elect of Ware and editor of
The Journal-Herald; Jack Williams,
[business manager, and Dan Hudes
peth, traveling salesman for the Hay
Company, were detained by Jackson
ville police today on their return trip
from a week-end visit to Atlantic
Beach.
The police were searching for a
hotel] clerk wanted for leaving an East
Coast hotel with a large sum of mon
ey. As reports said the clerk was
using a Dodge automobile, the Way
cross men, traveling in a Dodge, were
arrested as they crossed the St
Johns River. At Policn headquarters
it was immediately ascertained that
none of the men answered the de
scription of the clerk and apologies
were offered. |
English Driven Froml
Trenches by Teutons
AV i
BERLIN, Aug. 14.—English troops
that penetrated German trenches
northwest of Pozieres have been
driven out, the German War Office
announced today. Attacks against
the German position at Guillemont
were repulsed
On the eastern front the troops of
Fleld Marshal von Hindenburg re
pulsed Russian attacks at Skrobow:‘
and Zarecce.
By LORD NORTHCLIFFE.
(Exclusive War Dispatches to The
Atlanta Georgion and The Lon
don Times.)
ON THE ISONZO FRONT,
\ Aug. 14.—The whole line of bat
~ tle is visibly moving forward.
The Italian profectiles hourly
burst just a little further east
ward. The Austrians are not
running, but they are clearly re
treating with some speed. The
Ttalian advance is steady; steady
also is the inflow of prisoners.
Two thousand were brought in
yesterday.
Opinions differ as to where the
retreat will end, but the master
emphatically is not one for pub
lic discussion.
The Austrians’ bitterness of
soul may be judged by their be
havior. At Doberdo Russian pris
oners of war, who had been
brought in to make roads for the
Austrians, were found hanged,
possibly as ‘a revenge for the es
cape of other Russian prisoners
who swam the Isonzo the other
day and reached the Italian lines,
after hiding four nights among
the rocks.
Italian wounded were found
mutilated. I have seen terrible
spiked maces that are habitually
used by the Austrians to break
the skulls of the wounded; also
thongs with leaden balls at
tached tq sticks, which the Aus
trians use to coerce laggards.
Owing to the fact that so many
Ttalian and Austrian soldiers
have worked in the United States
and Canada, it often happens that
English is the only language in
which they can converse mu
tually. Yesterday I saw a small
band of prisoners being brought
in by the Bersaglieri, who an
swered my remarks upon the
stout physical appearance of the
prisoners by saying, in good New
York dialect, that “They can hol
ler all right, mister.” at which
the prisoners grinned with evi
dent understanding.
Electric Lights Put
~ Qutb é}_.ight '
' The heavy lightning storm of Mon
lday afternoon put a number of elec
tric light wires out of commission.
West End homes were in darkness for
some time after the storm.
Officials of the power company
said the wires would be repaired as
rapidly as possible.
- Consumers expected more delay
\than usual as more than 190 linemen
'were reported on strike.
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One Dead, Two Hurt
In an Auto Accident
' NICHOLS, GA., Aug. 14.—An automo
’bne accident occrured today at Nichols
in which one man was killed and two
others injured. The car was driven by
L. C. Edenfield, of this place. The man
kiled was Ira C. Alley, a brick mason
from Nashville, Tenn., who was employ
ed here on the construction of the new
Masonic building, and those injured
were Mrs. Luther Davis and the driver.
The Senate Monday afternoon passed
the constitutional amendment looking
to placing Solicitors General upon a
salary basis. It already had passed the
House.
The amendment must be ratified by
the people at the next general election.
White Man and Negro
Rob a Bank of SI,OOO
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CROWDER, OKLA., Au% 14.—A
white man and a negro robbed the
Bank of Crowder this afternoon, lock
ing the cashier and assistant State
SBX.&‘; Examiner in the vault. They got
A telephone in the vault enabled the
imprisoned men to spread the alarm,
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Copyright, 19086, s s PAY NO MORE.
By a’l"‘he Georgian OCo. 3 CENTb ON TRAINS, 5 CENTS.
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Atlanta Is Being
Robbed for Gasoline
M
Atlanta, the greatest railroad center in the Southeast, a city
of two hundred thousand people, using approximately 20,000
gallons of gasoline daily, is being brazenly robbed and pan
handled for that commodity.
GASOLINE IS SELLING HERE AT A PRICE ARBITRA.-
RILY FIXED BY WHOLESALERS AT 23 CENTS, WHILE
CHATTANOOGA IS PAYING ONLY 19 CENTS, WHOLE.
SALE.
Atlanta is paying 24 and 25 cents retail, while Chattanooga
is paying only 20 and 21 cents.
Nashville and Knoxville are being sold cheaper than Atlanta
—and even Savannah, which also is being squeezed on this com
modity, is one cent under Atlanta. Jacksonville, where freight
rates are notoriously high, is paying no more than Atlanta.
Two of the same compantes holding up Atlanta for 23 cents
are selling in Chattanooga at 19 cents. ;
ONLY BY THE USE OF A CLUB, UNSPARINGLY
WIELDED, HAS IT BEEN POSSIBLE TO HOLD THE
ATLANTA WHOLESALE PRICE DOWN EVEN TO 23
CENTS.
Had not that method been employed to stop one of the most
outrageous attempts to stifle competition ever known in this city,
ATLANTA LIKELY WOULD TODAY BE PAYING 26 AND
27 CENTS FOR GASOLINE—AND MAYBE MORE.
What HONEST excuse is there for wholesaling gasoline in
Chattanooga at 19 cents, while it is wholesaled in Atlanta at 23
cents—and by the SAME wholesalers?
A reading of the news columns of The Georgian today will
disclose the fact that the wholesalers in Atlanta are only supply
ing the Johnson-Gewinner Co. (which has made strenuous es.
forts to give the public gasoline at, AT LEAST, as low a price as
possible under the outrageous circumstances now obtaining) in
the most sullen way.
Sunday, excuses for not furnishing that company were ad
vanced, of a character never before set up.
Whether it be illegal to supply the Johnson-Gewinner Com.
pany gasoline on Sunday is a question that may be debatable—
BUT NEVER BEFORE HAD THERE BEEN ANY TROUBLE
ABOUT IT.
The company is not being furnished gasoline today because
the wholesalers have any desire to furnish it, BUT BECAUSE
THE WHOLESALERS DARE NOT GO TOO FAR IN THE
METHODS THEY EMPLOYED LAST WEEK.
The Georgian has been informed by the wholesalers that it
is ‘“‘none of The Georgian’s’’ business—nor ‘‘the public’s’'—
WHY gasoline is higher in Atlanta than in Chattanooga and
elsewhere,
The Georgian emphatically dissents from that smug and
self-satisfied attitude upon the part of the wholesalers.
The price of gasoline—especially when it is held to robber
levels—lß The Georgian’s and the public’s business.
THE OLD “THE PUBLIC BE DAMNED'’ IDEA HAS NO
STANDING IN THIS COMMUNITY.
: Thq Georgian is going to FIND OUT why Atlanta is being
discriminated against in this matter—if it be possible for news
paperdresourcefulness and energy to accomplish so wholesome
an end.
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—The re
volt of Democratic “small-navy” and
pacifist members of the House against
the administration will reach its cli
max when the Senate program for
the construction of eight capital ships
Is taken up in the House tomorrow.
The administration indorsement of
the enormous increases placed in the
naval bill by the Senate is looked
upon by the Democratic little-navy
representatives as violating promises
they claim were made to them early
in the session They say frankly that
they have been “double-crossed.” and
they propose to inform the House and
the country of the fact in no uncer
tain terms tomorrow
Majority Leader Kitchin will be
one of the spokesmen for the paci
fist group. He said today that he ex
pected to discuss the “inside politics”
of the naval bill. Representatives
Page, of North Carolina, and Hens
ley, of Missouri, who represented the
pacifist Democrats in negotiations
with .the administration leaders when
the naval bill was before the House
Naval Committee originally, also are
expectes to contribute to the expose
The little-navy men claim that the
administration agreed to accept and
fight for the naval bill framed in the
House as the “adminisiration bill” if
the pacifist group would forego oppo
sition to the measure. The pacifists
accepted the four-battle-cruiser plan
in the House bill to keep the Demo
cratic House vote solid, with the un
derstapding that the administration
would make no effort to further in
crease the bill. Representatives Page
and Hensley, it is stated, were as
sured by Secretary Daniels that the
four-ship plan was satisfactory to the
administration The House record
shows that Danielé told Chairman
Padgett, of the House committee, that
he was “tickled to death” with the
House bill. But when the bill reached
the Senate the agreement was forgot.
ten, the antis claim,
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WRIGHTSVILLE, Aug 14 —Joe
Pottle, candidate for Governor, was
given an ovation here today.
Between six and eight hundred
voters crowded into the Johnson
County court room to hear Mr. Pottle.
Every seat sas taken and the jury
box was filled, men crowded into the
alsles, windows and doorways, and
were packed ten or fifteen deep in the
corridors outside the entrance. Hun
dreds who came had to leave without
hearing him because they were unable
to get in hearing distance.
Mr. Pottle’'s speech was received
with unbounded enthusiasm:. Every
one was familiar with the great fight
which Mr. Pottle is making to save
the W. & A Railroad from being par
alleled and ruined by the 1.. & N, and
they were also in sympathy with his
position on executive clemency as
opposed to the unusual and harsh
doctrine advocated by Hugh Dorsey,
one of the other candidates for Gov
ernor g
It is generally conceded here that
the Governor's race is between Pottle
and Dorsey, and those conversant
with the situation in Johnson County
express the opinion that this county
will undoubtedly go for Pottle. They
say that Tom Watson has long had a
large following in Johnson, but he is
going to find himself unadble to turn
this county over to Dorsey. The peo
ple here are quite aroused over the
fact that the L. & N. Railroad has
Dorsey, one of its attorneys, in the
race for Governor, one of its allias in
the race for Comptroller General, and
another who is friendly to this corpo«
ration in the race for Railroad Com
missioner,
Mr. Pottle was introduced here to
day by Judge A. L. Hatcher, of the
Wrightsville City Court, who ad
journed his court for Mr. Pottle to
speak. Judge Hatcher was enthusi
astic in his tribute to Mr, Pottle. Mr.
Pottle made a great impression by his
epeech and also won for himself a
number of new friends,
FIRST
EDITION
_ln further pursuit of its invess
tigations into the gasoline situa«
tion in this section of the coun
try, particularly with respsct to
the exorbitant price asked by
wholesalers in Atlanta, The
Georgian had a trustworthy rep
resentative investi_?_ate the situa
tion in Nashville, Tenn., en Mon
day, and his report follows:
NASHVILLE, Aug. 14—The
Indian Refining Company, the
Standard Oil Company, of Lou
isiana; the Gulf Refining Com
pany and the Cumberland Re
fining Company are the four
wholesale dealers of gasoline in
Nashville. The Cumberland is
a local concern, while the other
| three are supposed to be owned
by the parent Standard Oil Com
. pany.
| Prices have ranged for the past
~ three weeks from 24 cents retail
to 20 1-2 cents, at present.
Three weeks ago gasoline re
tailed for 24 cents, but has
dropped down to 20 1-2, at which
price it is selling todav.
RETAIL DEALERS SAY
THEY PAY 17 1-2 CENTS
WHOLESALE, AND SELL IT
RETAIL AT THE SAME PRICE
THAT THE VARIOUS COMPA
NIES DO.
The Atlanta gasoline situation, with
prices held well above those in other
\r‘mes and the three big oil compa
nies attempting to punisl thé Oone
[dealer who had the temerity to eut
{thp retail price, will be taken up in
Washington Thursday by the Federal
Trade Commission, which has had a
national gasoline probe under way for
several months.
Willlam J. Harris, a member of
that body, will cut short his vacation
and lay the situation before the Trade
Commission,
“It furnishes us more real, clear in
formation and evidence than anything
we have found in the United States,”
he said.
The Trade Commission has been
working to learn whether or not there
was collusion, a “gentlemen’s agree
ment” or other contract between the
refining companies. It is well under-'
stood all over the country that they
are all owned and controlled by the
old Standard Qil Company, which was
“dissolved” some years ago by Gov
ernment authority, and which has
made bigger profits ever since.
It has been patent that, whether or
not collusion existed, there certainly
was no competition. True, the three
companies in Atlanta did not raise or
lower prices simultaneously. One
would change the price a cent a gal
lon, and the others would follow with
in 24 hours. s
Selling at Cut Prices. '
The Johnson-Gewinner Company,
which started the fight by cutting
gasoline from 25 to 24 cents, had a
supply Monday, and was selling it at
its cut price. Rut it had been without
gas most of Sunday, its big day of
the week, despite the promise of the
Texas Company to William J. Harris
that the Johnson-Gewinner Company
would be supplied.
“We got one 500-gallon tank wagon
load Saturday afternoon,” said Mr.
Gewinner Monday. “But for years we
have been receiving gasoline on Sun
days, for the reason that the side
walk tanks hold only so much, and a
Sunday delivery is necessary.
“Yesterday we ran out early in the
day, and I telephoned for another
supply. W. H. George, the Texas
Company’s city sales manager, re
fused, saying it was Sunday, and he
couldr't make a delivery. When I
insiste 3 said the employees had a
day off, and there was nobody to de
liver it. But I understand other re
tailers got their gas, all right.
“l got hold of Mr. Harrls, who
talked to Mr. George. After that talk
George promised a delivery, but it
never came. We got a wagon load
this morning.
Harris s Incensed,
“Mr. Harris appeared rather ine
censed at the failure of the Texas
Company to keep its promise to him.
“‘q am satisfied that the Texas
Company doesn't intend to supply
Johnson-Gewinner with gasoline if it
can evade it he told George over the
phone.
“Mr. Vann, of the Texas Companwy
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