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3 CENTS
EVERYWHERE
PAY NO MORE
WILSON RESUMES STRIKE HEARING
PRICE CUTTER AGAIN IS REFUSED GASOLINE
Gewinner Makes New Appeal to
Federal Trade Commission
Agent for Relief,
The tanks of the Johnson-Gewin
ner Company, which dared to offend
the oil refining companies, were
empty again Tuesday and motorists
who called there for 24-cent gaso
line had to drive on to some retailer
who stuck to the 25-cent rate. The
gasoline companies had broken their
promise to the Federal Trade Com
mission.
The Texas Oil Company, which re
fused to sell gas to the price-busting
retailer, had its excuse. |
“We're running out of gasoline,”
the management said. “Won’'t have
any tomorrow, either.”
But inquiries at other retail gas
stations revealed no shortage of gas
oline. Everybody else seemed to be
getting on very well .
The Johnson-Gewinner Company
ran out of gas Monday afternoon.
John K. Gewinner made another ap
peal to William J. Harris, of the Fed
eral Trade Commission, who had held
a conference with the wholesalers
last Saturday and obtained a prom
§se that the blacklist would be éan
celled and tne Johnson-Gewinner
Company sold gasoline at the regu
lar market rate.
Mr. Harris had considered this
particular phase of the Atlanta gas
oline situation settled after that. But
the fresh refusal of the Texas Com
pany stirred it up again. |
“If the Johnson-Gewinner Com
pany makes complaint in writing,'
charging that the refineries have re
fused to sell it gasoline at the regu
lar rate, I will see that an imme
diate investigation is held. We will
also enforce our decisions in Atlanta|
and compel the refineries to sell this
firm.”
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$41,411 in Liquor
Revenue Collected
Despite the fact that the year ending
June 30 was supposed to have been
strictly prohibitive in Georgia, so far as
liquor was concerned, A. O. Blalock,
Collector of Internal Revenue, has re
ported to the commissioner $41,411 col
lected from persons manufacturing or
dealing in wines and fermented liquors.
This represented the licenses issued
to persons who were willing to “take a
chance’” on the State prohibition, as the
Federal Government takes no cognizance
of State laws in that direction. Since
the first of May, however, the applica
tions for revenue stamps have been
‘‘very few,” to quote Mr. Blalock as
far as he is permitted to divulge the
business of his office.
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Atlanta Agent Wins
.
Challenge Cup Again
E. F. Deacon, general agent for (;myr»l
&la for the Pacific Mutual Life Insur
ance Company of Los Angeles, has re
celved a telegram announcing that he
i the winner of the annual challenge
tup, offered each year to the State
agency showing the largest percentage
of increase of business during the
months of March, April and May, and
paid for not later than August 1.
Mr. Deacon’s agency also won the cup
last year. The record this year was
made on more than SBOO,OOO worth or
business, written in the three months
designated.
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5,600 Children in
Playground Dances
Flve thousand little boys and girls,
brightly costumed, will be seen Wednes
day afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in Pied
mont Park, in drills and folk dances that
will bring to an end the playground sea-
Bon of this year
Each of the ten playgrounds will be
represented and the one giving the best
ent will be awarded a silver cup,
fior Woodward making the presenta-
Turk-Bulgar
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- Agents Talk
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; (By International News Service.)
OME, Aug. 15.—~Bulgarian and
R Turkish diptomats have ar
rived in Berne and are in
gtouch with diplomatic agents of
! the Allies with a view to the nego
étiation of separate peace, says a
, Berne dispatch to The Idea Na
g zionale today. Austrian agents are
; said to be watching the Turks and
% Bulgarians very closely.
Way to Fight
MOBILE, Aug. 15.—Rather than
pay 23 1-2 cents a gallon retail for
gasoline, auto owners and other con
sumers in Mobile are importing their
gasoline by water routes from New
Orleans and they are saving 4 1-2
cents a gallon after paying the freight.
- Mobile refining companies are hold
ing up their wholesale price to 21 1-2
cents and the retailers, on a 2-cent
;ma,rgln, get 23 1-2 cents from owners
of cars and launches. But in New
Orleans the fluid may be bought in
100-gallon lots for 17 cents a gollon.
Thousands of gallons of gasoline in
metal drums are being brought from
New Orleans daily by schooners oper
ating between the two cities. The
freighters deliver the gas oa the Mo
bile wharf at 2 cents a gallon. Sev
eral ship masters anneunce their in
tention of entering the sales ficld, tak
ing as their profit the freight charges.
The refining companfes operating in
Mobile assert ‘that the high license
and high insurance rates are respon
sibie for the high price of gas at
‘ wholesale. |
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Kendrick Family to
rick Family to
Camp in Mountains
Deputy. Clerk W. C. Kendrick, of Su;
perior Court, accompanied by his mother
and other relatives, has gone on an ex
tensive camping trip in the mountains
on the line of Georgia and Tennessee.
Courthouse officials were sure Mr. Ken
drick’s trip had been inspired by the
glittering stories of fishing and feats of
marksmanship related by Deputy Clerk
Clarke Lewis, who is just back from a
similar camping trip.
Mr. Lewis established a new record
‘with the “flip,” a weapon with which
'he was an expert in his boyhood days,
killing two large snakes by shooting
ithem through the head. 1
Brigade Officers
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. MACON, Aug. 15.—Officers of the
Georgia Brigade were guests of the
Rotary Club here last night at an
elaborate luncheon. A special com
‘mittee from the club estcorted the
‘men from Camp Harris. An unique
program was worked out, in \\'hi(‘h\
‘spppches held no part. The dinner
was largely attended. ‘
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VOL. XIV. NO. 322.
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Three Hundred Members of Crew‘
of the Leonardo di Vinci
Believed Lost.
(By International News Service.) |
PARIS, Aug. 15.—The Italian
dreadnought Leonardo da Vinci hasj
been blown up in ‘Taranto habor,
Italy, with the loss of 300 membersJ
of her crew, according to an unof
ficial dispatch received here today. |
The explosion followed the out
lbreak of fire on board. Flames were
discovered in the ship’s galley and
spread with great rapidity. \
The crew undertook ~tomflosdtire
magazine #iq' bdll.ch the dreadnought,
but the explosion occurred before |
shallow water could be reached.
A big hole was torn in the war
ship’s hull and she rolled over on
her beam ends, throwing many of the
sailors into the water, where large
numbers were drowned before they
could be rescued.
It is believed the ship can be re
floated after repairs are made.
The Leonardo da Viaci displaced
22,340 ‘tons, and her armament con
sisted of thirteen 12-inch guns, eigh
teen 4.7-inch guns in Dbatteries;
eighteen 3-inch guns and three 18-
torpedo tubes.
The . warship was launched in 1911
and placed .n commission in 1913.
The two sister ships of the Leonar
do da Vinci's class are the Conte di
Vour and Goule da Saur,
Germans Take, Then
Lose, French Trench
[ By CHARLES F. BERTELLI,
Staff Corresponednt of International
) News Service.
PARIS, Aug. 15.—German artillery,
!both north and south of the Somme
River, was very active all night, car
-Ir)'inz out a vigorous bombardment of
British and French positions.
- French positions south of the
Somme were unded a particularly
i heav( fire
~ Infantry attacks were made by the
f(;nrmanx southwest of Peronne, the
French War Office stated in its daily
communique, and the Teutons were
successfdl in penetrating a small sa
lient north of Estrees. French coun
ter attacks were delivered immedi
ately afterward and the Germans
were ejected from their freshly gained
ground,
At Belloy-en-Santerre, northeast of
Estrees, a German reconaissance was
dispersed.
In the Verdun sector the Frwnohl
made a grenade attack against the
German positions at La Chappelle Ste
Fine (on the right bank of the Meuse)
and scored some progress,
Bulgars Suffer
. .
Heavily at Doiran
(By International News Service.)
SALONIKI, Aug. 15.—“The opera
tions begun by the Allies at lLake
Doiran are following their normal
course,” says an official statement is
sued by the Anglo-French headquar
ters today.
Refugees from the Lake Doiran
area, where the Anglo-French and
Serbian forces are attacking the Bul
garians, reached Kilkitch today and
asserted that the Bulgars have suf
fered heavy losses.
The bombardment of the Bulgarian
position was terrific. The populace of
the nearby villages have sought ref
uge behind the allied lines, where they
are being succored by the British and
Franch,
ATLANTA GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1916.
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2 Copyright, 1916, International News Service, G J
Mr. Opper’s cartoons appear in film in anima.ted‘ form, issued by International Film Service, and are shown at all leading Theatres.
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SAVANNAH, Aug. 15.—One thou
sand negroes, waiting at the four
mile post on the Ogeechee road, yes
terday afternoon to be taken out of
Savannah into Northern cities, began
rioting and fighting among them
selves
Chief Harley and a squad of eounty
policemen went out on their mu'.»r-‘
cycles and put an end to the dis
turbance. The negroes went to this
spot outside of the city limits because
Savannah, alarmed by the number of
desirable negrol aborers who have
been taken out of here, recently passed
and ordinance against “emigration
agents,” who work with negroes.
Fully half of those at the four-mile
post were women, Many of them left
in trains last night, while others re
turned to the city, to leave today.
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‘Sure Thing' Costs
.
Indiana Man $15,000
(By International News Service.)
DETROIT, Aug. 15.—Dr. Don M. Kel
ly, 55 years old, of Lafayette, Ind., was
easy picking for a trio of swindlers and
it cost him $15,000 to find out that it
does not pay to play ‘sure thing" races.
Kelly was in Detroit on a visit and
met the men who told him they had a
sure thing to win $64,000 and persuaded
him to put up $15,000. Then they told
him the horse lost, and he swore out‘
warants for the men. Edward F. Stan
ley, from Murfreesboro, Tenn., 40 years
old, was arrested. ‘
Macon Is Enforcing
Plague Quarantine
MACON, Aug. 15.-—~Under resolutions
adopted by the local health authorities,
all persons under 15 years of age who
come here from New York and Phila
delphia, or who have been exposed to
infantile paralysis in other places, must
undergo a quarantine of two weeks.
Certificates of inspection must be fur
nished the health board during the pe
riod of iselation. The persons quaran
tined will have to bear the expenses.
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Frantic pleas over the telephone
summoned Officers Wood and Long at
2 o'clock Tuesday morning to No. 32
Pickard street, there to destroy a mad
dog-—a very mad dog, according to
the feminine beseechings over the
wire.
A hour later the trursty cops re
turned to headquarters and flipped a
nickel to decide which should write
the report. Wood lost He wrote:
“The dog changed his mind.”
That is to say, the dog was merely
provoked Something had annoyed
him, but he had not lost his temper
irretrievably. On seeing the officers,
thundering to the scene, he had
changed his mind about the sorry
scheme of things entirely and had be
come quite amiable and smiling once
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To Fight Use of Flag
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On Campaign Posters
(By International News Service.)
CHICAGO, Aug. 15.—Captain F. R.
Lewis, past president of the American
Flag Day Association, thinks it a viola
tion of the law to wreathe a picture of
the American flag a- pictures of
presidential candidates. He has tele
graphed Cahrles E. Hughes to that ef
fect, and urged him to have suppressed
campaign pamphlets showing Hughes
and Fairbanks and the flag on campaigh
posters, and threatening action unless
it is stopped.
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A, B& A Soliciting
Agents Hold Meeting‘
A two-days’ session of the sollcltlnsl
agents and representatives of the At
lanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Rail
way Company is to end Tuesday night at |
the Pledmont Hotel. More than a bun-‘
dred delegates are in attendance.
] A dinner Monday night at the Pied
mont Driving Club was the principal so
clal event of the session.
(By International News Sarvice,)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—An
nouncement was made by the War
Department today that until the
threatened railroad strike is defi
nitely averted there will be ne
more movements of troops to the
border. It was stated that the or
der of last Saturday directing that
the remaining militia units me
bilized at State camps be started
for the border would be rescinded.
These troops will remain whers
they are for the present.
(By International News Service)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—~The
committee of the Railway Managers’
Association went into conference with
President Wilson in the green Troom
of the White House at 8:55 this
morning.
En route to the White House, BEli
sha Lee, spokesman for the delega
tion, said that they were prepared to
present their side of the situation in
detail to the President again.
“Until that has been done there is
nothing that we can say,” he said.
“Do you believe that a plan of com
promise satisfactory to all can be ar
rangéd 7’ he was asked.
“That depends on today’'s confer
ences,” he replied. ‘“Personally, I
hope so.”
New Documents Arrive.
Previously the managers had helda
short session behind closed doors in
their hotel. They carried into the
conference a large number of docu
ments which were brought to Wash
ington by a special messenger on the
early morning train. These docu
ments were understood to contain a
complete statement of the earnings of
the various railroads, with the coms
parative tables, which showed just
iwhat per cent is pald out in wages,
‘imd it was understood that a new
‘smtemf—'nt was being prepared to sub
'mit to the President.
Although by agreement none of the
managers would talk for publication,
they intimated that, in their opinion,
the President had demanded far
greater concessions from the railroads
than from the men.
| Wilson Sees Chambers.
| Before the conferences today Pres
im«»nt Wilson “talked things over”
again with Commissioner W. L.
;' hamb ry of the Federal Board of
"3airation and Me2siton. The lat
ter bay led in all «f the efforts to
brirg about a ra:woiliation of the
‘differencys between tie railccads and
“big four” unions, ard today he pro
[mescd suill to be supremely confident
that the threatened general strike yet
will be averted
Meanwhile, the representatives of
the brotherhoods quietly waited at
their hotel in the other end of the city
for word from the White House. Tike
majority of the union representatives
admitted that they expected a way out
would be found, but declined to dis
cuss what the President was doing.
The consensus of opinion is that
some general plan of arbitration will
be the mutual solution. This will
take the form, unless one side or the
other kicks over the traces at the last
moment, of either a board completely
appointed by the President, or on
which he will name the neutra! meme