Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, December 12, 1916, Extra Edition, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text3 CENTS EVERY WHERL PAY NO MORE CERMANY WILL DISCUSS PEACE EADY TO NEGOTIATE, HOLLW & ANNOUNCES TEUTONS CONTINUE STEADY ADVANGE Miss Jeannette Dearybury, 17, No. 198-A Capitol avenue, Tuesday was unconscious at Grady Hospital, and surgeons believed she was, suffering from concussion of the brain. She was struck Monday night by an auto mabile not yet identified. Miss Dearybury, an employee at the i Norris Candy Factory, No. 225 Peach tree street, left the factory at 9 o'clock Monday night alone Misses Lucile and Bessie Moore, other employees, left a moment later They heard a scream and found Miss Dearybury lying in the street unconscious. W. H. Norwood, one of the employees, ran out and picked her up and an ambu lamee was called. The police Tuesday were looking for a man who assisted in caring for the injured girl and who said he saw the accident. He told the others the car which struck the girl was running south, on the wrong side of the street. He fainted after helping pick up Miss Dearybury. Duke Looking Over Georgia Water Power James B. Duke, president of the Brit ish- American Tobacco Company, left At lanta Tuesday with H. M. Atkinson for a visit to the Tailulah Falls power plant, Mr. Duke, who is interested in several water power plants in North Carolina, came to Atlanta to look into the possi bilities of conecting two electric rail ways to form a line from Charlotte to Atlanta. | Mr. Duke is owner of the Piedmont Northern line, from Charlotte to Ander son, 8. C. The Georgla Secretary of State Monday issued a charter to the . Atlanta and Anderson Railway Com pany, a contemplated electric rullway‘! Mr. Atkinson is chatrman of directors | of the Georgia Rallway and Power Com- | pany, which owns *the Tallulah Falls power plant. Mr. Atkinson, Mr. Duke | and Albert Howell, Jr., attorney for the Atlanta and Anderson road, held a con ferénce Monday afternoon. —— ( | . 16 Killed in French . . 1 Deportation Rloti (By International News Service.) | AMSTERDAM, Dec. I:.’.—-»Sixtnc-nl persons were Kkilled and scveral! wounded in a rtiot at Turcoing when“ the Germans began deporting a batch of 300 Frenéh civilians, according to ‘the newspaper Echo de Belget today. 1 \ e . | Dr. Porter Will Be Host to Friars’ Club ]‘ Dr. and Mrs. Henry Alford Porter will entertain the Friars’' Club at their home Tuesday evening. The Rev. E. Lyman Hood, presi dent of the Atlanta Theological Sem inary, will read a paper entitled “Thei Phitosopny of Goethe.” | PLANTATION FIRE. i ' WITZGERALD, Dec. 12—~John Fletcher suffered the loss of sm‘ﬂa!’ thousand dollars’ worth of buildings and farm machinery when a fire broke) out on his plantation west of the city last night. i | i ikt | SAVANNAH, Dec. 12-—Beginning January 1, the Seaboard Alir Lino 'Rallw:\y will operate between Savan | nah and Jacksonville, Fla., and Sa vannah and Columbia, 8. C., gasoline coaches carrying fifty passengers each, with trallers for additional pas sengers, offlials of the road an- Lnuvlnt'ml today. . The Seabaord has ordere d two of these coaches, costing $60,00 and they rare to be delivered for use the latier 'p:m of December. It is announced they will make an average speed of :45 miles an hour, with a speed of 60 'miles an hour when necessary. ’ The coaches ha®e powerful gasoline -motors of an advanced type at the ifnrwurd ends, doing away with the necessity of any other engine. Road officials state the same schedules now effective with steam trains will be 'maintained with these gasollne ‘(‘anchoa. | It is stated that the Seaboard is the “first large railread in the United States to adopt gasoline driven cars. The reason for the innovation is the very high price of coal. The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, it was announced today, is golng aft er the high price of coal in another way. The road has already, in Its shops at Waycross, Ga., converted ten coal-burning engines into wood-burn ers, some of which are in use on Flor ida shortlines where coal-burners formerly were operated. The Coast Line estimates these ten will save them 50 tons of coal a day. Officials state they will not be used on any but short or branch lines in Florida and Georgia. Other engines besides these initial ten “will be converted Into wood-burners, it is stated. The Central of Georgia Railroad is going after the coal problem with ofl, instead of wood and gasoline. The Central has taken four oil-burning en gines formerly used between Tybee and Savanah in the summer, gnd has put them into operation between Sa vannah and Guyton, a point 30 miles away, using coal-burning engines on the Tybee tracks during the winter. . Where Real Estate Finds § ’ ¢ Fortunate Exchange of Ownership ;, { ! There are countless people who are looking for just the § .'jﬁhé‘opportunity to become real estate owners. ¢ Some want property in the city. Others want to go to the : country. And mutual profit usually attends your making ; the acquaintance of these two classes, 5 Where Atlanta is concerned, Real Estate dealers and buy- § ers meet most successfully through the Want Ad columns { of The Georgian-American—the directory of Atlanta’s { choicest real estate offerings. Here are listed scores of ! attractive propositions, and here ready takers are always on the alert. So, if you want to do profitable real estate gelling or buy ing, the way of success—The Georgian-American Want Ad way—is wide open to you. Simply put your proposition on paper and leave with or § / Telephone It to The Georgian-American : Main 100 or Atlanta Main 8000 { { ’ N THE—— P \NTA R GEORGIAN =X U pir Y LEADING HEWSPAPER G MUACRAN )OF THE 30UTHEAST SYB 5 w VOL. XV. NO. 11X ? . { S Edison Never . Tempted, He § Tells Pastor /’ CR—— ¢ ! (By International News Service.) | 3 EW YORK, Dec. 12—Thom- | 3 N as Edison went George { Washington, the truthful, ! one better today when he declared :he had never in his life been - tempted. { ! “Why?" he was asked, ‘ ! “Why,” he answered, “because | { haven't had time.” % The Rev. Frederick Winslow . Adams, pastor of St. Andrews’'. ?Mﬂhodis( Episcopal Church, has { conducted a symposium on the question, “What are the greatest in'eguardn against hmpntion?"; { The electrical genius in his Mtors 3 of reply said: ; { %] can not answer the guestion { contained in your favor of the sth ( ! instant, as | have never had any % { experience in such matters. | have { never had time—not even five min- S { utes—to be tempted to do any- | ; thing against the moral law, civil § ! law or any law whatever. If | § were to hazard a guess as to what | young people should do to avoidg temptation, it would be to get .i job and work so hard that tempta- | tion would not exist.” ; . @.N.I C.Sends Smith Postcard Shower MILLEDGEVILLE, Dec. 12.—Sen ator Hoke Smith is due to receive in his Washington mail today a post card shower from the 900 students of the Georgia Normal and Industrial College. It is said that the girls have unanimously decided each to mail him a 'post card congratulating and com mending him on his recent stand on prohibition. The cards will give the home postoffice address of the young lady and the county she is from, in addition to the congratulations. e ————— . Double Trackingon ~ . Lines of Central AMERICUS, Dec. 12.—The Central of Georgia Railway Is double-tracking its road from the junction, north of Americus on the Columbus branch, to the passenger station In this city, which will allow the trains on this road to enter the station which is be ing remodeled without walting on connections or switching. ATLANTA GA. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12 1916 —~— (By International News Service.) BERLIN, Dec 12.~The Russo- Roumanian army in Dobrudja is re i;-urted today in dispatches from the Roumanian front to be falling back. ! Heavy storms and cold weather have failed to retard the methodical advance of the German, Austro-Hun garian, Bulgarian and Turkish le gions. The Austro-German enter, in eastern Wallachia, has forced a cross ing of the Jalomitza River, and Is driving against the Russo- Roumanian flank on the Buzeu-Misilu line. Buzeu is 60 miles northeast of Bu charest, at the southern edge of Mol davia. Its possession would give the German allies control of one of the two railway lines running into Mol davia from the south. In the Carpathians the Russian of fensive is being hindered by a bliz zard. Negro Immigration egro Immigration LEBESBURG, Dec. 12.—Arnie Web ster, an immigration agent, was ar rested yesterday and placed in jail here by J. B. Paul and Jim Costen, of this county. Webster is said to have been operating on Paul's place fur‘ about a week before being caught. When approached by the arresting party, the negro showed fight, and it was with difficulty that he was cap- | tured. He was carried before Judge J. M. Hines and given a committal hearing, and was bound over to thal Superior Cou.t, which will convene in | May, 1917. ‘ . ! Madison Lawyer in \ Race for Congress . | MADISON, Dec. 12.—Q. L. \\'illi-‘ ford, of this city, yesterday onterﬂd‘ the race for Congress to fill the plucoi left vacant by the death of 8. J.] ITrihl)l(-. | ; Mr. Williford is well known in this district. He is a successful and ac tive lawyer, a graduate of the Uni versity of Georgia, and was State 'Sonutur from the Twenty-eighth Dis trict. E . . Wants bxposition on ‘Savannah'Continued SAVANNAH, Dec, 12.—Mayor W. J. Pierpont is stirring up sentiment In favor of a centennial celebration in 1918 of the sailing of the steamship | Savannah from Savannah to Llw'r-’ pool in 1818, The Savannah was theg first steamer to cross the Atlantic, | and many Savannahans are working | for an exposition to attract the e-y»-s‘ of the nation upon this city in cele-s bration of the Savannah’s trip. o 4 ———————————————— $305,000 SAVINGS. " SAVANNAH, Dec. 12.—Eleven Sa vannah banks are distributing $325,- 000 in cash to depositors In their Christmas savings clubs | | | . | L | | i ' ! I r , . ! | i | | : e ! (By International News Service.) | PARIS, Dec. 12.—~The shake-up in| | the French army is expected to have : widespread results in two theaters of | war—the western and Balkan “ One of the big problems that the reconstructed Cabinet will tackle first 1s Greece. It is planned to adopt ! a policy toward Greece that will make King Constantine reveal his | hand and take a definite stand nnl the side of either the German d,ln:il or the Entente. As the situation -'\—‘ ists in Greece, the allied armies are menaced by the Greek forces and !n'-n" actions are hampered. According to press predictions, Premier Briand will announce the make-up of the new “concentrated” Government in the Chamber of Depu ties today, and also the personnel of the French War Council. The indications are that General | Joseph Joffre, long the idol of France, !mnst give way to fresh blood. Joffre's “nibbling policy” has aroused much ‘(\p'pnsititm, both in and out of official e¢ircles, and the declaration is now heard that the time has come to istrlkv strong and numerous blows. L Joffre may become head of the {\‘\‘:\r C'ouncil, while his place as the leader of the French armies probably lwm go to General Petain or General Castelnau. That the French and British War Counclils are going to prepare for a gigantic offensive in the spring is ac cepted as a foregone conclusion. It ‘may be a double offensive, conducted }us:uinst the German allies in the Bal ‘kans and upon the western front at ‘the same time. Or the chief pres \ sure may be launched in the Balkans ‘while a less violent offensive is car ried out in France. That is under stood here to be Lloyd-George's ldea. New Briti ' | » ew British Cabinet ~ To Wield Iron Hand ~ (By International News Service.) ! LLONDON, Dec. 12.—Members of the new War Government of England make their first appearance in Parlia ment today. It was expected, however, that t'r-, day's discussion of both houses would be brief and formal, and that the declarations of policy to be delivered in commons by Premier Lloyd-George or Chancelior A. Bonar Law and inl the upper house by ILord Curzon would be postponed until Thursday. Another vote of credit Is to be moved in Commons Thursday and under a recent ruling such a motion opens all the doors of debate under any topic. Anxiety that was felt when it be came known that Lloyd-George was ill was allayed today by a statement that he is better. It is beginning to be plain that, as strong as the new government is, it is not to receive the unanimous support of the public. The powerful Northeliffe papers that were chiefly responsible for the collapse of the Asquith ministry have begun to deliver vicious attacks upon Foreign Secretary A. J. Balfour and Minister of Blockade Lord Robert Ce- Continued on Page 2, Column 1. « 5 e e e o T e & S —. | CENTS 53’ 20" vvme ———————————————— R — = — 3,000,000 Tons of Food . - ~ Captured in Roumania; | : ’ - 750,000 Troops Free ? By WM. BAYARD HALE, % Staff Correspondent of the International News Service. . ERLIN (via Sayville wireless), Dee. 12.—The conquest of B Roumania shortens the line which the Central Powers are defending by more than 1,000 kilometers (650 miles). It releases more than 750,000 experienced campaigners, Does the neatral world appreciate the propositions of sig nificance in the conquest of Roumania? More than 3,000,000 tons of foodstuffs have fallen into the hands of the Central Powers, in addition to vast numbers ‘of cat tle, sheep and pigs ; The Danube is filled with boats and rafts that wer eto con ' vey the grain and cattle out of reach of the conquerors All were captured. The richest grain lands of Europe, equal to an area four times that of Massachusetts and New Jersey, also an inexhausti ble supply of petroleum, worth many times what it cost the con querors, are in the hands of the Central Powers. Very little damage has been done to the oil wells by the flying Roumanians and oil tank trains already are traveling to Vienna and Berlin. \ The magnitude of this windfall in food and fuel places be yond all doubt the ability of the Central Powers to continue the war for years ) In recent vears Roumania has become extremely wealthy. All of this wealth is now in the hands of the conquerors. Turns Out to r \ - KillD ‘ l eer ‘ DALTON, Dec. 12.—Dalton Nim rods—scores in number—hastily or ganized a hunting party Monday morning when word was recelved here that a deer weighing several tons had been seen about two miles cast of here. Dogs u%very descrip tion were secured, and the party, armed with every kind of gun imag inable, left in automobiles, The main division of the “army” returned c-mpty-h‘anded at 190 o'clock in®he afternoon. At 3 o'clock J. G. McLellan’s automobile, with the deer's head mounted on the running board, arrived to tell how it was done. The deer, a young buck welgh ing about 100 pounds, was the first killed in Whitfield County in decades. It had been driven out of the Co hutta Mountains, about fifteen miles east. of here, in Murray County. Nine men shot at the deer and it fell. An examination showed only one bullet took effect, and each of the nine claims the distinction. . Promotions Made ) On Central’s Staff SAVANNAH, Dec. 12.—F. J. Robin son, newly appointed general passen ger agent of the Centrol of Georgia Railway, announces today the follow ing appointments and promotions es-i fective January 1: | John W. Blount, at present division | passenger agent at Macon, will be as- | sistant general passenger agent at Savannah; W. W. Hacket, dlstrl(‘ti passenger agent at Augusta, is pro moted to division passenger agent to succeed Mr. Blount at Macon; Hoyt Ware, solicitation clerk in the general offices at Savannah, is promoted to succeed Mr. Hackett at Augusta as district agent. ‘ BRIDGE CONTRACT LET. AMERICUS, Dec. 12.—The contract for building a bridge over the Flint River at Murray's ferry betwen N\m- ‘ ter and Dooly Counties, has been letl to the Southern Bridge Company at Birmingham, Ala., for $11,200. Con struction of the steel and concrete structure will begin at once, wmr;hl will connect a highway between Americns Vianna and Cordele. Mrs. Armor to Dry Bill Mrs. Mary Harris Armor, known wherever there has been a prohibi tion campalgn as “the Georgia Cy clone,” arrived in Atlanta Tuesday for an address at 8 o'clock in the evening at Trinity Methodist Church. She will be introduced by Dr. C. O, Jones, pastor of the church, and Mrs. Mary L. McLendon, president of the Fulton County W. C. T. U., will preside. Mrs. Armor is field secretary for the ’Gmrginn Woman's Temperance Un ‘lnn and national organizer for the ‘W. C. T. U. She has made speeches in a dozen Northern and Waestern States and recently in St. Louls 1,000 persons were turned away from a hall where she was to speak, while 3,000 ‘were jammed inside the bullding. Mrs. Armor is expected to discuss the Georgia situation in her address Tuesday night and especlally the Smith-Howard bills to prohibit ship ments of liquor into dry States, Movies Consider . Wade Case Film AMERICUS, Dec. 12.—-~The Wade case in moving plctures may result following the visit to Americus of a representative of the Triangle Film Company looking into the story of the crime as the basis of a scenario for his picture-producing corporation. The movie man lef tAmericus for Co lumbus where he will investigate the great liquor raids of Glrard some time ago, with the idea In view ot; staging some of the scenes in a plot for a picture. 1 \ Patterson to Tell | . | Convict Labor Cost — 1 The estimate of the cost of convict, labor on road work, made by the Geor gia Highway Department, was to be gubmitted to the public roads officials of the Department of Agriculture in Washington Tuesday by Judge T. E.( Patterson, chairman of the commlssion.l The commission estimates convict la-i bor at 88 cents a day. The Department of Agriculture will be asked to :L“D‘V! thig sum for labor in the five-year high ';w't'i,yw‘r;rogram under the new Federal EXTRA | I | x l , ) z | | i } BERLIN (via Sayville wire. !lm). Dec. 12.—Germany is will -4 'lng to make peace. . Chancellor von Bethmann | . 2 ' Hollweg today notified the dip ‘lomatic envoys of the United | States, Spain and Switzerland | that the four nations making up 'the German Allies—Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey and i s Bulgaria—propose to enter forth o s . with into peace negotiations. r i h . LONDON, Dec. 12.—~The attitude of the new British Government toward peace probably is revealed by a speech by Arthur Henderson last night. He declared in the most emphatic terms that no peace proposals would be con sidered at this time. (By International News Service.) AMSTERDAM, Dec. 12.—Germany, through her Imperial Chancellor, is expected to tell the world today in definite, unmistakable terms on what conditions she will make peace. This season of the Reichstag is her alded in Berlin dispatches as the most important since the outbreak of the war In its fundamental outline the Chanecellor's statement will be a repe. tition of his declaration two weeks ago to William Bayard Hale, Berlin correspondent of the International News Service, that Germany ik ready to make peace upon guarantee of her future security. He is expected, how ever, to go further and define, if not in minute detall, at least in a clear outline, what are these guarantees she expects. Von Bethmann-Hollweg will add,it is said, that if Germany's enemies in sist on prolonging the war, the Centra' powers are ready to force peace with the sword. He will hint, it is said, at a gigantic Teuton offensive toward that end. The plans for that offensive, dis patches say, were finally passed on last week by the two Kaisers and their respective mlilitary chiefs at Austro- Hungarian army headguarters, Roumania Basis of Position. It is generally understood that whatever may be the nature and pur port of the Chancellor’s statement, its occasion and basis are the conquest of Roumania now rapidly appraoching its conclusion. The release of a huge Tenton army from that campaign inspires the of ficial German confidence that the C'en tral powers are now in a position to strike out for a decisive blow in the war. The recent passage of the auxillary service bill assures one and one-half million more soldiers for active work. The munitions and supplies needed for that offensive Germany is said to be confident of obtaining as a result of the mobilization of her civilian forces, which automatically releases another great army of trained soldiers for the proposed offensive. The importance attached to this session of the Relichstag is indicated by the fact that telegrams were sent two days ago to all members sum moning them to be present. The diplomatic representatives of all neutral countries are said to have been invited to meet Dr. Von Beth mann-Hollweg this morning. At the same time, the new Foreign Secre tary, Dr. Alfred Zimmerman, Wi confer with the leaders of the vario. € political xgrli?s ¥ % j