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NEW GAINS ADD TO ALLIES' GREAT VICTORY
Hal!backfi Guyon Offered to Gebrgia, Prof.SWd E’ays
GA. TROOPS ORDERED TO BORDER
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Athens Authorities Have Letter‘
From Charles Wahoo Tender- 1
ing Services of Brother. l
Formal request for a ruling as to{
the eligibility of Joe Guyon, the fa- |
mous Indian halfback, now working
out with the Tech football squad, has
been made by the athletic authorities
of the University of Georgia. ‘
The request, was mailed to Profes-‘
sor H. W. Cox, of the University of
Florida, vice president of the Second
District of the Southern_lntercolle
giate Athletic Assoclation, who has
Jurisdiction over the States of Geor
gle. Alabama and Florida. The letter
was mailed many days before Guyon
arrived in Atlanta, all athirst for col
legiate education and football fame at
the Yellow Jacket school. ‘
With the request for ruling, Pro
fessor S. V. Sanford, faculty director
of athletics at the university, sent a
copy of a letter from Charlie (Wahoo)
Guyon, which he maintains is prima
facie evidence which will prevent Joe
Guyon's participation in any S. 1. A,
A. games, and which will cause the
blacklisting: of Tech if the Indian is
used in any of the Jacket battles,
Brother Goes Wish Him.
The letter is an application for a
post as assistant coach at the Uni
versity of Georgia, and was written
several weeks before Charlie Guyon
was named assistant coach at Tech.
In this application Charlie makes the
statement that his brother Joe, for
two years an All-American halfback
with the Carlisle Indian School, is
willing to come to any Southern col
lege where the elder Guyon is em
ployved as a coach.
Wahoo's letter was entirely to the
point. He recited that it was need
less for him to eall Professor San
ford’'s attention to his own qualifi
cations, as Professor Sanford was fa
miliar with his own fine football rec
ord, and then he adds as a clinching
argument, “I have a brother, who was
the successor of Jim Thorpe at Car
lisle and who was twice picked on the
All-American team. He will play foot
ball wherever 1 coach.”
To make assurance that the induce
ment offered in the person of his
brother is not overlooked, Charlie
adds a pertinent postscript, which was
nothing less than a direct warning
that Tech was after Joe, carrying the
inference that Tech was after Joe's
brother, for Joe would play wherever
Charlie coached
Called Violation of Rules.
This fraternal fealty, while consid
ered altogether laudable per se by the
Georgia authorities, is also congidered
in direct contradiction to the spirit of
the constiution and amateur rules of
the S. 1. AL A
“When 1 received this letter,” said
Professor Sanford, “l sat down and
wrote to Professor Cox, asking him
if such an application wouldn't render
Guyon Ineligible. I could see nothing
4n it but an offer from both Wahoo
and Guyon. for the application of the
one wae largely based on the football
abilities of the other. To have signed
& contract with Wahoo would have
‘been signing a contract for Guyon's
Bervices as a plaver, as | saw it and
‘: I belleve the 8. 1. A. A, will rule,
& “I have not received any reply from
fessor Cox yet, but we have all
n informed that Wahoo has been
med assistant coach at Tech, and
| ht on the heels of his appointment
’ e the word that Guyon had reg
atered as a student and had come out
football practice at the Atlanta
itution,
] he inference ls obvious,
™lt seems peculiar to the Georgila
ple that Mr. Helsman should have
suddenly been converted to the
of Wahoo For several yvears
has refused to permit the Indian
act as an officlal in any of the Tech
8. If he considered him incom
nt as an official, it is strange that
tshould so suddenly find him com
nt to coach
T here are other grounds on which
W could attack Guyon's eligibility.
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COLUMBIA, S. C., Sept. 27.—The
possibility of a bolters’ ticket at the
fall elections looms large today. The|
Blease faction, defeated decisively at
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the second primary, is making an es- |
fort to carry the fight into the general
election, and to that end W. A. James,
of Bishopville, one of the leaders of
the disgruntled class, has Issued a call
for a convention of the “reform fac
tion,” so called, to be held in Colum
bia Tuesday, October 18. While the
Manning faction professes to be con
fident, there is manifest uneasiness as
to possible results if Cole L. Blease
should indorse the revolt, which he
has not as yet done, |
John L. McLaurin, State Warehouse
Commissioner, has turned a somer
sault. Last week he announced his
early resignation, after bitterly fight
ing Governor Manning in his race for.
re-election. Last night, however, Me- |
Laurin gave out the news that he had
decided to retain his office. , The an
nouncement was given out following a
meeting of the executive committee of
the State Warehouse Assnclatlnn,‘
which requested the incumbent to |
hold on. .
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Only First Battalion Included in
Dispatches, but Infantry Is
Expecting Call, Too.
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.—The
War Department today ordered 10,-
000 additional coast artillerymen, in
fantrymen, cavalrymen and engineers
of the National Guard from all parts
of the United States to the Mexican
border immediately. A similar num
ber of militia infantrymen now on the
border will be released from service
upon the arrival of the new troops.
The militia ordered to the border
follow:
Eastern Department—Field artil
lery: Battery A, New Hampshire,
Third Pennsylvania; Battery C, New
Jersey. Battery A, District of Colum
bia: First Battalion and Battery C,
Virginia; Third New York; Battery A
and Battery C, Alabama; First Bat
talion, Georgia,; Batteries E and F,
Connecticut,
Infantry—Second Florida, Third
District of Columbia.
Cavalry—Troop A, District of Co
lumbia.
Central Department—Field artil
lery: Batteries A and B, Michigan;
First Regimnet, less the Second Bat
talion, Minnesota; Batteries B and C,
Colorado.
Western Department—Engineers
Company A, California.
The First Battalion of Field Artil
lery is composed of the Chatham Ar
tillery, Batteries A. and C, of Savap
nah, and the Atlanta Artillery, Bat
tery B, of Atlanta.
Troops to Go Through
Atlanta on Southern
MACON, Sept. 27.—Officers of the
Georgia Brigade have not yet re
ceived any orders from the War De
partmentgrelative to the movement of
the Georgia troops, as outlined in
press dispatches today.
General Walter A. Harris, com
manding, announces that the soldlers
are ready to move and will be able to
do so, once trangportation faeilities
are furnished. General Harris as
sumes, in absence of orders, that a
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ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1916.
More Than 1,500 Attend Exercises,
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Cone Johnson Delivers the |
Principal Address. |
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More than 1,500 Atlantans and vis-j
itors from all over the South spent
several hours Wednesday at BEmory
University, in Druid Hills, where the
opening of the Lamar School of Law
was marked by formal ceremonies.
The principal address was delivered
by Cone Johnson, counse) of the De
parunent of Justice, in Washington,
who was introduced as an “old Em
ory man.”
Fishcp Warren A. Candler, head
of the univeysity, opened the cere
monies in a b‘g tent near the new law
school building.
“We are not here to open a uni
versity,” he said. “A university, like
a century plant, is the growth of
vears.”
Bishop Candler gave a brief his
tory of the institution tc show that It
was not really so new. The school
of Liberal Arts, at Oxford, has ex
isted since 1870, and is now incor
porated In the greater university.
The school of medicine was founded
In 1854, and the theological depart
ment was begun two years ago. |
Dr. Robert Shelby, of Mississippi,
led in prayer. Then Bishop Candler
introduced Cone Johneon, ‘
Need of Religion. 3
Mr. Johnson's address was princi
pally devoted to the prineciples of re
ligious education, under the guidance
of a denomination. He streszed the
reed of a strong religious {ozmdatloni
for any education. |
“It s one of the fundamental prin- |
ciples,” he said. “I am willing the
State should keep her hands off edu
cational Institutions, partly for the
sake of the State, but more for thei
sake of education ‘
“My prayer for Emory will be that
her teachers and her students shall
never be led to depart from the faith
of our fathers.”
Referring to the battle field upon
which the university stands, Mr.
Johnson spoke of the battie the insti- |
tution must fight. 1
“Georgia, Atlanta and Southern
Methodism are digging the trenches
for a campalgn whose end will be the
greater civilization,” he sald. “This
is the kind of preparedness which
America should give her attention to
now.”
Mr. Johnson pald a high tribute to
the life and character of Justice La
mar, of the United States Supreme
Court, who alded in founding the law
department and for whom it Is named,
The visitors were~shown through
the several buildings of Emory, in
cluding the handsome dormitories
nearly completed. A number of dis
tinguished guests were taken to
luncheon at the Druid Hills Golf Club
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Seats on Chicago
Board Now $25,000
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CHICAGO, Sept. 27.—Directors of
the Chicago Board of Trade yesterday
voted to raise the par value o board
memberships to $25000, The new
ruling goes into effect today. ‘
It will still be possible, however, |
to buy memberships from members at
the market value, which ranges any
where from $5.000 up |
Memberships since excited specula- ‘
tion in graln began some months ago
have been difficuit to obtaln
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Sheer Waste%
g OTWITHSTANDING the fact |
N that Governor Harris hao‘é
been appealed to, editorially §
g and otherwise, to call an extra ses- $
; sion of the Legislature to submit |
:) to the people a bond issue by way '
; of a constitutional amendment, for |
the purpose of extending the West- |
g ern and Atlantic to the sea, no such
constiutional amendment could bog
§ submitted by the present Legisla- {
¢ ture, even if it were called to- |
gether. %
It has been represented to the |
Governor that the bond issue might ¢
be submitted “in the general elec- :
) tion for justices of the peace,” (
{ which will be held in December— |
{ and under the old order of things, ¢
¢ this might have been done. That (’
election isa not NOW a “gonornl;
election,” however, because of the !
fact that in some counties—nota- |
bly in Fulton and Chnhum-—jurg
tice of the peace elections are no !
} longer held on that day, Municipal ¢
Courts having been substituted for |
?!he old justice courts. Thus, teo |
) call the Legislature in session now
{ for the purpose of submitting a |
3 bond proposal would be a sheer |
) waste of the State's money. %
j The Legislature last summer )
) specifically refused to pass such a |
3 bond issue—and it is now too late. s
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Columbia Retains
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Commission Form
COLUMBIA, S. C. Sept. 27.—City
voters showed their overwhelming
confidence in the commission form of
govérnment by voting yesterday,
13,099 to 258, for its retention. The
election came after a persistent cam
paign of more than six months, and
the opponents undoubtedly polled
their full strength. Under the com
mission form the city has prospered
greatly and made many improvements
impossible under the old aldermanic
form, having been in force since April,
1910. |
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State Road Original
Deeds Are Missing
In compiling a report on the State
road, the Western and Atlantic Re
leasing Commission has discovered
there i{s no record of the acknowl
edgments of encroachments obtained
twenty years ago. |
Original deds to rights of way can‘
not be found, in many instances. |
The commission s having new
acknowledgments obtained and hopes
1o uncover the original deeds. The
information will be included in the re
port to th» next Legislature ‘
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Paving Ordinances
Vetoed by Mayor
Mayor Woodward Wednesday ve
toed two street improvement proj
ects fathered by Councilman W. H.
Johnson, of the Fifth Ward. They!
were a resolution to resurface Ashby
street, at a cost of 83,710, and bulld a
drain in Warren avenue, at 830, He
gave as his reason a lack of funds. |
The Mayor signed resolutions for‘
the resurfacing of Stewart avenue, at
a cosy of 33,000,
Traffic Policeman’s
Foot New Speedway
Patrolman C. F. Preston was doing
faithful trafMec duty at Pryor and
Mitchell streets when some nervy
motorist drove by and ran\ over his
right foot
‘He made so much smoke with his
exhaust that I couldn’'t get his num
ber,” sald the officer
amAEm 22—
Convright 1888, ‘INI's PAY NO MORE.
By The Georgtan Ne A CENTS G R s
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Hebrew Workers, Out for Holiday,
Compose 121,000 of 176,000
Who Quit.
By FRANK CHARLTON,
Staff Correspondent of International
News Service.
NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—With more
than 176,000 men and women trade
unionists idle, the general walk-out
in sympathy with striking traction
workers was launched today amid
considerable inconvenience. Labor
leaders this afternoon predicted that
more than a quarter of a milllon
workers would be involved in lhe‘
| strike by tomorrow night. The orig
! inal plan called for the strike of 800,~
| 000 workers. {
Of those who quit work today about
121,000 are members of the United
| Hebrew Trades, who would have been
idle In any event on account of the |
Jewish holiday. It could not be defi
nitely told how many of these had ac
tually struck
Many surface and elevated cars
were‘attacked, and there were numer
, ous arrests. A Lexington avenue and{
'a Broadway car, both manned by
lstrlkehreakers, collided and a dozen
| persons were hurt.
o attempt to derall a Sixth avenue
| car was frustrated.
f There was a bomb scare early in
the day, but the supposed infernal ma- |
'chine, which was picked up on the |
tracks on 110th street, proved to be|
a glant firecracker, !
. Labor leaders declared they had |
won a strategic point when 1.""'”»!
members of the Eccentric Firemen's|
Union, many of whom are employed |
|ln power houses, decided to join the|
| strike
r Twenty thousand members of rhe’
‘tanmstnrs‘ council voted to quit on|
| Thursday, and strike leaders claimed |
that 85,000 unionists among the brew- I
ery workers, sheet metal workers and
}v\'agon drivers had been won over. ’
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iStephens Planning
Supreme Court Race
' MACON, Sept. 27.—1 nno way dis
heartened by his defeat in the conven
| tion for a place on the appellate bench,
| Alex W. Stephens, of Atlanta, an
| nounced last night that his friends were
[mzinx him to make the race for Bu
iprnno Court against Judge Price Gilbert
and he was giving the matter consider 1
ation. This race will be run in the reg- |
ular State election in October "
Mr. Stephens ran second in the pri- |
mary, but was thrown overboard u'-,.\»i
the convention began bpalloting on hnn[
Judges.
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Harris, Dorsey and |
'~ Hoke Smith to Meet
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Announcement was made Wednes
}llav that CGovernor Harris, Senatop
Hoke Smith and Hugh Dorsey, nomi |
nee for Governor, all three had ace
cepted invitations to be present at the
’l'lhl'hl'nn of the Fulton County Wood -
lrow Wilson Club at the Chamber of
’l ommerce Th‘"rs-«i..\ at 1 o'clock, an')i
that each would make a speech., ‘
‘ Congressman William Schley How-‘
ard also will be present and make a
}tulk. ‘
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‘WM"W
w THE WEATHER l
Forecast — Fair tonight and
{ Thursday:
! Temperatures—6 a. m, 61; Ba.
{ m., 70; 10 a. m., 76; 12 noon, 79; }
{1 p. m, 80; 2 p. m., 82. ¢
‘;» Sunrise, 5:30. Sunset, 5:28, ;l
A P NP g
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Labyrinths
- at Combles §
~ Found Full
-~ of Wounded !
By FREDERICK PALMER,
Accredited Correspondent With the
British Army of tive Press of
the United States.
AT THE BRITISH FRONT IN
FRANCE, Sept. 27.—The totai
number of prisoners for what is
regarded in all quarters as the
best two days the British army
has had In France, approaches
5,000. Through the night there
was heavy fighting while the
British were pressing forward
with theix guns in the path of the
day’s gains. The sun rose with
the promise of another splendid
autumn day, only to become over
cast later, Interfering with all im
portant artillery observation,
Over 1,000 prisoners were taken
in Thiepval and the Hohenzollern
work. In a military sense this
work Iying between Thiepval and
Courcelete, was regarded as more
firportant than the crushed ruins
of the village.
The allied commanders made
the most of Tuesday's sum
mery weather by following up
Monday's successful attacks with
more attacks, and, after Monday
night's incessant fighting, the
front of the battle broadened to
include the whole of the British
left wing.
Air Full of Rumors.
At this writing the air is full
of rumors, and reports of success
are coming in from all direc
tions. The fierce day’'s program
began with the taking of Coms
bles, and it closed with the tak
ing of Guedecourt and Thiepval.
Combles was surrounded Mon
day. Sitting in a heap of hills, it
was isolated by possession of the
high ground on either side by the
French and the English. Its ac
tual fall was one of the most plc
turesque Incidents in the relations
of the British and the French ar
mies,
In the early hours of the morn
ing the British took an orchard
on the northern outskirts, and,
after shelling heavily, charged
the trenches on the edge of the
village, but found no Germans.
At the same time the French
were coming in from the other
side of the willage. The two
forces met in the gray dawn and
shook hands in the main street,
calling out, “Parlez vous!” and
“How d'yve do?”
Combles had a labyrinth of dug
outs and cellars well fortified, but
which made practically no de
fense,
Those of the Germans who had
not managed to escape when
Combles was hopelessly surround
ed were taken prisoners. One lot
of Germans who were endeavor
ing to find their way out through
the encircling ranks of the allied
infantry walked right into the
British skirmish line,
Wounded Fill Dug-outs.
The cellars and dug-outs of the
village were full of wounded who
had found security there from the
furfous fighting on the slopes and
ridges.
Having cleared the town of any
stray Germans, the British and
French moved on to further at
tacks, side. by side. Both Com
bles and Morval, the village
which the British took Monday,
were well fortified. While Com
bles was indefensible once the 1
ridges around it were taken, Mor
val was naturally a strong posi- }
tion, and the Germans yielded it ‘
after a surprisingly slight resist- |
ance,
Though the Germans made
their usual counter attacks
against the British in their new
positions, last night's reports
agree that they lacked spirit. Some
of the German trenches taken
Monday ‘vere only lightly occu
pled, or not at all. In other in
stances, Accordma‘ to other re
ports, despite orders from their
commanders to stand to the last
man, considerable bodles of Ger
mans threw down their rifles with
surprising prompiness as soon as
the British approached their
trenches. Prisoners in batches
have been coming In from all
parts of the front all day,
In their attacks Monday the
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BY SIDNEY B. CAVE,
Staff Correspondent of International
News Service,
LONDON, Sapt. 27.—Anglo-French
armies on the Somme front have fol
ilowed up their great victory with
smashing assaults upon German po~
sitions at the northern and southern
ends of the line, where fresh progress
has been made. Working under Ger
man gunfire, the Allles consolidated
the new positions at Combles and
Thiepval while attacks were pressed
home near Faucort-I'Abbayve and
Vermandovillers. The Teutons were
‘hurled back with heavy losses.
1 Infantry fighting agd artillery duel
}lng ocontinues at many points. The
British alone have taken between
ls.ooo and 4,000 prisoners in the last
48 hours.
A great two Jdays’ battle has heen
[foulht in Dobrudja (Roumaniayp
‘whem the German-Bulgarian army of
Field Marshal von Mackensen was
decisively defeated and compelled to
retire in disorder. Roumanian gun
boats on the Danube took part,
Desperate fighting continues in
Greek Macedonia. The Buigarians
claim to have defeated the Serbians
near Kalmakcalan, but this is denied
in official dispatches to the French
War Office, which state that the Bul
garian attacks were repulsed. Allled
headquar-ers in Saloniki report that
the engagement 1s still in progress.
Fourteen more German aeroplanes
and one captive balloon have been
shot down or damaged by allied air
men. British aviators accounted so:
nine German machines while French
airmen put flve more planes and one
balloon out of commission. In ad
dition to the aerial actions many
towns behind the German lines have
been bombed by allied flyers.
French Push Ahead,
Launching Own Drive
By CHARLES F. BERTELLI,
Staff Correspondent of International
News Service.
PARIS, Sept. 27.~Following the
terrific thrust of the Anglo-French
armlies on the Thiepval-Combles line.
the French have launched a separate
drive on the southern end of the
Somme front, capturing a wood east
of Vermandovillers
The French War Office, in an
nouncing this success today, stated
that the achievement was the result
of a “brilliant attack.”
North of the Somme the French
consolidated their new positions Jast
night, linking them up with the
trenches previously gained from the
Germans
An artillery duel of the utmost vio
lence developed in the Barleaux sec
tor, the communique says,
(Vermandovillers is on that section
of the front held exclusively by the
French It is between eleven and
twelve miles southwest of Combles
and eight miles from Peronne. Bar
leaux is northeast of Vermandovillers
and six miles from Peronne.)
Victory Increases.
Reports received today emphasized
the magnitude of the spectacular vie
:troy won by the Allies on the Somme
front on Tuesday The capture of
| Combles and Thiepval by Anglo
| French armies, announced by the
‘Brlunh War Office, has compelled the
| Germans to retire from two to four
imflel between the Ancre and the
Somme Rivers, while the captures of
'men and booty are growing hourly.
| Using batteries of their ponderous
'guns, the Germans began a powerful
bombardment of the new positions of
the Allles on the Thiepval-Guede
court-Fregicourt-Rancourt line, but
despite this fire French troops were
Lk.‘;.x all night at the task of consoli+
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