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NEW BRITISH ARMY TAKES FIELD: IN WEST
Bride, Who Stole Jewelry in Spite, Is Sentenced
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E. Lee Pearce, 37, a bookkeeper,
left his home, No. 545 South Pryor
sireet, Friday evening after supper,
teiling his wife he was going back to
work. He took his pistol to protect
himself against hold-up men, he ex
plained.
Mrs. Pearce called the police sta
tion at 3 o'clock in the morning to say
her husband had not returned, and
Call Officers Wood and Long went to
investigate.
They found Pearce dead, a bullet
hole through kis right temple, in the
office of the Georgia Car and Locomo
tive Company, where he was em
ployed. The pistol lay near by. On
the desk were three notes. One of
them, writen In red ink, explained
the tragedy:
“Cause of it all, whisky and wo
men, L L Y
Another read: -
“The Georgia Car and Locomotive
Company is due me SSO on September
salary. Hope you will have enough
after cremating my body to carry you
to your loved one. Forget me. Good
bye, “LEE.”
Another note, sealed, was not shown
by Mrs. Pearce, to whom it was ad
dressed,
She said that besides a farewell, all
it contained was a confession that he
had failed to oveicome his drink
habit. Yet Mrs. Pearce explained that
her husband had not drank to excess.
She sald he had been with the com
pany for nine years and that drink
ing had not interfered with his work.
Four children survive him, the eld
est being 12 years of age, and the
youngest 6. They are Antoinette, Ed
win, Paul and Myrtle Pearce.
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Two Fords Stolenin
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Two automobiles were stolen by
thieves Friday night—both Fords—
one from KEdgewood avenue, near
Five Points, and another from in
front of the Atlanta Theater.
While Dr. J. ¥. Pittman, of Deca
tur, was attending the performance
of Al G. Field’s minstrels Friday
night someone took his Ford road
ster, parked near by. An auto thief
also stole the five-passenger car of
David T. Bussey, of No. 238 Peach
tree street, from Edgewood avenue,
$226,000 Damage
Suit To Be Tried
ALBANY, GA., Sept. 30.—Judge
Cox yesterday overruled demurrers
by the defendants in the case of J. L.
Hand vs. Albany Phosphate Com
bany, Tennessee Fertilizer Company
et al,, suit for $226,000 damages. This
Case will come up for trial at the
next term of court.
Albany Sportsmen
Plan Deer Hunts
ALBANY, GA., Sept. 30.—Local
huntsmen are anxlously awaiting the
opening of the deer and cat squirrel
Seasons next week. There are a num
ber of deer in the swamps and woods
of this section and cat squirrels are
numerous. Several deer hunts are
already being planned.
Goebel Elected Head
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0f American Bankers
(By International News Service.)
KANSAS CITY, Sept. 30.—Peter
W. Goebel, of Kansas City, was elect
“d president of the American Bank
¢re’ Association, and C. A. Obuca
Hinsch, of Cincinnati, vice president.
The secretary was instructed to cast
4 unanimous vote for both men,
BANK CLEARINGS SET MORE RECORDS
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B. G. Brumby, of Marietta, ap
peared at police headquarters Satur
day morning and deposited a cash
bond of SSOO to assure the appearance
in Police Court of George Steingru
ber, his guest, as the result of an au
tomobile accident which caused the
death of Ira Pickett, 3, on DeKalb
avenue Friday afternoon. The boy
was skating and was run down by
Steingruber.
Witnesses say the accident was un
avoidable. Steingruber is an inventor.
The date of the hearing has not been
set.
The funeral of the boy, who died
Friday night in Grady Hospital, was
held Saturday afternoon, services be
ing conducted at the home, No. 1390
DeKalb avenue. The boy was the son
of Alexander 8. Pickett, manager of
the Metropolitan Hotel,
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Strikebreakers Lost
With Car in Gotham
NEW YORK, Sept. 30.—A trolley
car manned by sirikebreakers roamed
through the Bronx for five hours in
gearch of its barn. It finally found
the barn.
Looking for Live Salesmen
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American are hundreds upon hundreds of hustling, bustling
men and women, eager to sell your merchandise if you have
a good proposition,
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circulate all through the Atlanta territory.
If you're looking for salesmen or agents to introduce your
product, here they are, State your proposition in the “Sales
men Wanted” or “Agents Wanted” column of The Georgian-
American, where these cager, energetic men and women
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VOL XV. NO. 50.
The bank clearings for this Satur
day in Atlanta did not break a rec
ord, but they nearly did. And the
clearings for this week set a new
mark, and so did the clearings for
the month.
The Saturday clearings were $4, -
251,253.08, and for the same day last
year $2,700,601.47.
For the week the clearings were
$24,721,173.31, and for that week last
year $16,070,401:66. The top record
previously was last week, with $22 -
973,025.56.
For the month of September the
Mark was $91,998,202.57. For Sep
tember, 1915, the figure was $57,780,-
994.44. The higgest month previous
ly was November, 1915, with $87,063,-
' 359.15.
Man's Head Looks
Less Like Mystery
The “deep mystery” of the man's
head found near the Peters street
’vladuct in a batch of waste paper in
‘tended for a paper company has been
dispelled. The concern’s superintend
ent Saturday deduced the following:
“It is very probable that this head
was discarded by a medical college
and cast into a batch of trash and old
papers. You will note that the head
is sawed in half along the median line
and that the brain is missing. - Also
that the lips and eyes are sewed to
gether with catgut, which looks like
the work of an inquisitive medical
student.”
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Marines at Mayport
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For Rifle Matches
JACKSONVILLE, FLA., Sept. 30.—
‘One hundred and thirty United States
marines from New York lauded at
Mayport this afternoon from the
transport Culgoa and were taken to
the State camp grounds, where they
will participate in national rifle
matches.
Captain 8. W. Bodan commands the
marines. The transport {s en route to
San Domingo with marines.
Boy, 15, Hangs Self
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With Strap in Loft
NEW CARLISLE, IND., Sept. 30.—
Tying a strap around his neck and to
a rafter, 15-year-old Joseph Shelby
jumped from the hayloft, hanging
himself. No reason is assigned.
ATLANTA, GA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1916.
(By International News Service.)
BERLIN, Sept. 30.—German and
Austrian forces, led by General von
Falkenhayn, the recently retired chief
of the German general staff, have in
flicted a crushing defeat upon the
Roumanian army in the Transyiva
nia, the War Office announced this
afternoon
Upon the whole 70-mile front from
Parajd, far to the north of the Tran
sylvanian Alps, down to Rotenthurm
Pass, the Roumanlans have been
routed and are fleeing in disorder into
impassable mountains.
Both sides of the pass, which was
the first to be taken by the Rouma
nians immediately after that coun
try’'s declaration of war, is agaln in
Austro-German hands. A second
Roumanian army came too late to
save the main forces from encircle
-ment. The official statement Implies
'large forces are completely cut off.
Villa Led in Battl
a 1n Battle,
Agents Inform U. 8.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—The
State Department today received con
firmation from secret agents in Mex
ico of the battle between 250 Vil
listas, led by Villa in person, and the
Carranza garrison of 150 men at
Cusihuiriachic,a southwest of Chi
huahua City. The Villistas were re
ported defeated by the Carranzistas,
who “retired” after pursuing the
bandits.
The number of killed was not given
and the reported capture of Baudelio
Urbe, bandit leader. was not men
tioned.
Ry. Shopmen After
s¢c Wage Increase
(By International News Service.)
KANSAS CITY, Sept. 30.—Labor
representatives of men employed on
22 Western railrouds have met here
to formulate plans for pressing their
demands for a wage increase of 5
cents an hour for members of the six
railroad shop unions. They said
there was no Immediate ganger of a
strike. The unlons represented are
the machinists, bollermakers, carmen,
sheet metal workers, electricians and
blacksrilths.
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Paralysis Banin
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S. Carolina Is Off
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COLUMBIA, 8. C., SBept. 30.—The
regulation requiring health cenm-;
cates for children under 16 years rid
ing on trains in this tate was re
scinded today by the State Board of
Health,
Only 25 cases of infantile paralysis
were reported in September, against
08 in August.
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Greek Air Corps Now
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With Revolutionists
(By International News Sorvieo.)v
LLONDON, Sept. 30.—The entire alr
corps of the Greek army, with its
twenty officers, has deserted to the
revolutionists, according to a Central
News dispatch from Athens today.
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}Damel Cupid Father
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~ 0f Short-Lived Son
) WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—~Records
of Casualty Hospital here today show
the birth there of a son to Mr., and
Mrs. Danlel Cupid, of Washington.
Dan, Jr., lived only 24 hours.
Gov. Harris’
ov. arris
$13,116
Governor Haris’ campaign for re
election cost $13,116, according to a
statement filed with W. A. Wright,
Comptroller General, Saturday.
Of this sum, $12,000 was spent by
the Atlanta central committee, with
out furnishing the candidate with an
itemized statement. Of the $1,116 bal
ance, $l2O was contributions and the
remainder from the personal funds of
the Governor.
Thomas A. Bell, of the Ninth Dis
trict, was the first congressional nom
inee to flle a statement. His state
ment shows an expenditure of $3,-
029.05, all of which was from his pri
vate funds.
Other statements filed were: E. P.
Dobbs, unsuccessful candidate for
Comptroller General, $1,720, from his
individual funds; J. J. Brown, suc
ceesful oandidate for Commissioner
of Agriculture, $2,006.10, of which
$450 was from private funds, and W.
Frank Jenkins, candidate for the
Court of Appeals, $1,715.18.
‘Tanks’ Sent
Aid A
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, Sept. 30.—The Brit
ish Government has sent 100 “tanks,”
or armored caterpillar tractors, to the
Czar for use against the central pow
ers.
This information was disclosed
here by the Right Rev., Dr. Huyshe
Wolcott Yeatman-Biggs, Lord Bishop
of Worcester, who arrived from Eng
land today. The Lord Bishop sald
one of his sons, who is a lleutenant
in the British navy, went to Russia
with the consignment.
How long ago the tanks have been
sent the Lord Bishop did not say, but
news of their use on the eastern front
may be expected in the near future,
he indicated.
According to a British naval offi
cer who also arrived tof@lay, the
“tanks” on the western front are being
manned by officers, artificers and men
from the naval dockyards, where the
n.achines were fitted up.
The size has been much exagger
ated, the officer said He declared
they were not more than 25 feet long,
10 feet wide and 12 feet high.
Girl Hit by Truck
Sues for $30,000
Miss Dena Harrell, 18-year-old daugh
ter of Mrs. Mattie E. Harrell, Saturday
brought suit for $20,000 damages against
the Blue Valley Butter Company, as the
result of an accident on August 18, last,
when she was struck by a truck of the
company at North Boulevard and Boule
vard terrace,
Miss Harrell set out that she had
stepped Into the street to board a trol
ley car, and that the truck struck her
while racing along at a speed forty miles
an hour
The negro, who was driving the truck,
has never been captured, it was under
stood. Attorneys Westmoreland &
Westmoreland filed the suit.
Ware Is Building
s Building
Model Dixie 'Way
WAYCROSS, Sept. 30.—Rapid head.
way is being made by the county gang
recent.y moved to the central Dixie
highway, south of Waycross, The
highway is being given a hard sur
face and much objectionable sand
eliminated from the route. The up
per end of the route through Ware
was built first and I 8 one of the fin
ic-nt stretches of the entire route
through Georgia. “Ware County's
txmrt of the Dixie highway will be
above eritliclsm when we complete 1t
:uld Commissioner Youmans yester
ay.
YR : PAY NO MORE.
..'"R!"l‘k.‘.!‘..‘ e 3 LB‘NT'\JON TRAINS, & CENTS.
Mrs. Mary Williams, the rretty
young skating rink bride who a few
days ago fainted in the Criminal Court
room just after she had pleaded
guilty to the theft of SI,OOO worth of
jewels from Mrs. Margaret Mayer, in
East Third street, and made sensa
tional charges agajnst Mrs. Mayer,
Saturday was sentenced by Judge Ben
Hill to serve two years on the State
Prison Farm. Sentence had been de
ferred until county probation officers
could investigate Mrs. Williams.
The bride, who had declared she
stole the jewels for spite, made no
further statement to Judge Hill, but
broke down and wept when sentence
was pronounced.
Judge Hill said:
“I feel very sorry for this young
woman, and hardly know what to do
with her. She has pleaded guilty,
however, and there 1s nothing left for
me to do but enforce the penalty of
the law. I could give her as much as
ten years, but I'm going to be len
ient and let her off with two years.,"”
Jack Willlams, her husband, had
been jointly indicted with her, but was
freed when the bride took all the
blame on herself
Mrs. Williams will be sent to Mil
ledgeville within the next day or two
to begin serving her term
.
Prosecution Planned
For Okla. Lynchers
(By International News Service.)
MUWATA, OKLA., Sept. 30.—State
authorities today laid plans to prose
cute the leaders of the mob which
late last night lynched two negroes,
By soo doing they hope to put a stop
for all time to lynch law in Okla
homa.
The lynchings were carried out
with the utmost boldness. Many of
the men in the mob were personally
known to the Rev, Perry E. Plerce,
who beseeched them not to carry out
their purpose to kill the negroes on
church property. His first appeal was
successful, but later the mob formed
again and the negroes were killed
within 200 feet of where the preach
er was conducting a prayer meeting.
A .
Negro Attacks Girl;
Shot by Her Father
SHREVEPORT, LA. Sept. 30.-—
Jesse Willlams, a negro, is in a pre
carious condition today, with his jaw
torn off as the result of being shot
with a load of buckshot by a white
man, of Winnsboro, La., whose
daughter was attacked. After being
captured in a swamp by a citizens’
posse Willlams was taken to the
scene. He confessed, and the girl's
father opened fire before he could be
stopped.
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Menelik's Daughter
On Abyssinia Throne
ROME, Sept. 30.—Ouizero Zeodita,
daughter of the late King Menelik,
has been proclaimed Empress of
Abyssinla. She is 40 years old.
The Empress succeeds Emperor
Lid)l Jeassau, who has been deposed.
Sofia Is Bombed
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By French Airmen
l (By International News Service.)
PARIS, Bept. 30.—Sofla, capital of
Bulgaria, has been bombed by a
French aviator in retaliation for air
attacks on Bucharest, according to a
War Office communique today.
'FrenchAirman
§ Downs 3 Foes
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In 2 1-2 Mins.
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s (By International News Service.) Z
é PAms, Sept. 30.—A new wa"§
{ record has been achieved by $
3 Second Lieutenant Georges §
2 Guynemer, of the French air serv- %
{ ice, by shooting down three Ger- E
% man aeroplanes in 2 minutes and §
;30 seconds. Dispatches from thoé
{ front told of this exploit. 3
! Guynemer's machine fell 10,000 |
é feet, but the aviator miraculously ?
| escaped death. Guynemer, who is g
; known as “King of the Aces,” has 3
§ahot down eighteen German air§
{ machines. $
By G. LORD PRICE.
(Baclusive War Dispatches to The
Atlanta Georgian and The Lon
don Daily Telegraph.)
ON THE SERBIAN FRONT, Sept.
27 (via London, Sept. 30).—The gen
eral assault of the Serbians, French
and Russians against the Bulgar po
sitions north of Florina in intensity
and the number of troops taking part
Is certainly the most considerable ac
tion yet fought in the Balkans. So
far as can be judged, the Bulgars are
strong in Infantry, but the Allies are
superior in guns,
Picture a flat plain six miles wide
and fifteen long, the western side
hemmed In by forbidding mountains
and the other side by low, grassy
heights, the foothills of the higher
ranges, and along the plain belts of
trees, following the Sekulevor River,
beside which the rallway runs to
Monastir. At the southern end is
red-roofed Florina, at the foot of the
mountains, and fifteen miles up the
valley Monastir rises,
The offensive 1s threefold. On the
steep Kajamackalan, a push is being
made to clear the Bulgars off one
shoulder of the mountain; in the cen
ter the Serbs, starting from Kruso
gradare, attacking the Jlow grass hills
Jutting into the plains; on the left
the French and Russians are advanc
ing against the Bulgar line by way
of Petorak and Vredeni.
Toward noon the Serbidns carried
the first ridge the Bulgars held, but
had to wait there for the advance of
the left wing. The assault of the
French across the open plain was not
delivered until 2:30,
The French had more than a mile
of open to cross, flat and unbroken
as a billiard table, being pounded
with every kind of death. Across the
whole breadth six-inch shells were
pounding great holes. Through all
these agencies of destruction group
after group of Frenchmen went this
afternoon with unfaltering steadiness
singular to watch,
For soldiers laden with ammuni
tion and bombs the distance was too
far to run, even in a serles of sprints,
€0 they walked, while the surface of
the ground quivered with bullets, To
night the attack, now ten days old, is
being pressed.
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Poisoning of Three
Brothers Is Probed
(By International News Service.)
LANCASTER, OHIO, Sept. 20—
Police today are investigating the
mysterious polsoning of three sons of
Mrs. Mary Clelland, assistant post
mistress here, one of whom is be
lleved to be dying. The two others
are in a serious condition.
It is certain the boys drank milk
containing bichloride of mercury, An
arrest is expected soon,
FIRSE
EDITION
New Gains Made Despite Bad
Weather—Dßattle in Fourth
Month. :
By SYDNEY B. CAVE,
Staff Correspondent of International
News Service,
LONDON, Sept. 30.—The hard
fighting which developed on thg
Somme front last Monday continues
with good results for the Allies, de
spite stormy weather. In the opera
tions against Bapaume the French
have gained new ground near Comse
bles.
Powerful counter attacks were
launched by the Germans northeast
of Thiepval, but they were repulsed.
A division of the new British army—
-20,000 men—distinguished itself in
this fighting.
British Losses Heavy.
The severity of the fighting in
France is attested by casualty lists
published here today. In September
the British losses on all fronts were
5,439 officers and 114,110 men. The
bulk of these were on the Somme.
After long-sustained and bloody
fighting, the Bulgarians have obtained
an advantage in Western Greek Mace
donia in the sector of Kcfluma.kc&lu
Heights. Allied, warships are co-op
erating with the land forces in Mace
donia. A French aviator has bom
barded Sofia, capital of Bulgaria, and
British airmen have shelled the An
gista railway station.
The entire flying corps of the Greek
army has deserted to the revolution
ists, but up to this afternoon no po
litical developments of decisive im
portance has been received from Ath
ens,
German U-Boats Active.
" German submarines continue fairly
active, and the destruction of a num
ber of merchant ships, some of them
neutrals, was reported during the day.
On the eastern front there is fight
ing at a number of points, but there
have been no striking developments
in the situation during the past 24
hours.
Austrian-Hungarian
.
Premier Out, Report
(By International News Service.)
AMSTERDAM (via London), Sept.
30.—The Vossiche Zeitung publishes
a rumor that Baron Burian, the Aus
tro-Hungarian Premier, has re
signed. .
The retirement of Premier Burian
would mean that the strong political
party backing Count Andrassy has
won a stubborn fight for ascendancy
in the affairs of the dual monarchy.
Andrassy, the probable successor of
Burian, is an ardent admirer and
friend of the Kaiser and advocates
the complete subordination of Aus
trian policies to German direction,
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Great Fight Enters
On Fourth Month
LLONDON, Sept. 30.—With the sol
diers fighting in the cold, driving rain
of autumnal storms, the great battle
of the Somme, upon which the out
come of the world conflict may hinge,
entered its fourth month today.
Although the Anglo-French soldiers
are handicapped by the deep mud
which covers the ficld of batle, fight
ing continues severe, especlally
around Bapaume, where more gains
have been scored.
Local attacks by the British north
of the Albert-Baupaume highway and
by the Frnech south of Bapaume have
enabled the Allles to straighten their
lines and press back the Germans
from trenches that already have been
blasted by bombardments,
Duels with big guns continue all
aloag the Somme front, although the
fog has made observations difficult.
Soaked to the skin and plastered
with mud, the British and French sol.
diers continue at their task of driving
the Germans out of France, forgetful
of their hardships in the glow of win
ning.
The deep mud has interfered with
the operation of the “tanks,” but these
ponderous forts on wheels have
earned a rest for the important part
