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3 CENTS
EVERY WHERL
PAY NO MORE
WILNON TO KEEP ‘HANDS OFF IN PEACE OFFER
Riimasnian Army Takes Robise i R asia
French Captives at Verdun Now
Total More Than
11,000.
(By International News Service.)
PARIS, Dec. 18.—The Roumanian
army has ret.cai.d to the Russian
frontier, where it is being reinforced
by Russian and Roumanian officers,
says a dispatch to The Petit Par
isienne, Russian troovs are now hold
ng the lind in Roumania.
When the Russians took over the
fighting, the remnant of the origina.
Roumanian army retired behind tl:e’
Sereth River to the sector of J.ssy,
some of it going to Bessarabia (a
Russian province).
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French Captives at
' 7
Verdun Reach 11,38
(By International News Service.)
PARIS, Dec. 18.—Since thé morn
ing of December 15 French troops on
the Verdun front have captured 11,-
387 German prisoners, the War ()ffl(‘e[
announced today. It is admitted thal!
the Germans have been able to re-i
gain a footing on Chambrette Farm,
northeast of Verdun, which the]
French captured last Friday.
The report says: {
“South of the Somme a det:u-'nmmat’
of the enemy which was endeavoring |
10 occupy our lines to the suuthwmt;
of Berny was repulsed with hand
grenades,
“On the right (eastern) bank of the
Meuse, after a bombardment pre
viously reported by us, the (;nrmans{
delivered a powerful attack last night |
against our new positions. They
succeeded in securing a foothold on
Chambrettes Farm. We continue to
hold the territory adjoining this sec
tor. The night was calm on the rest
of the front,
“Since the morning of December I.','
we have captured 11,387 prisoners on
the Verdun front, including 284 offi
cers. In addition, we have taken or
destroyed 1,500 cannons, 44 bomb
throwers and 700 machine guns.”
All the newspapers are filled with
praise for General Nivelle, the suc
cessor to General Joffre, who cele
brated his promotion with a grand
offensive on the Verdun front that is
slowly rolling the Germans back to the
positions they occupied east of the|
Meuse before the Teutonic drive was
opened last February.
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Fleeing Army Is
.
Shelled by Airmen
(By International News Service.)
BERLIN (via Sayville wireless),
Dec. 18.—Russo-Roumanian columns |
retreating toward the Roumanian |
fortress of Braila, at the bend of vhvl
Danube, were attacked by German air
squadrons with successful results, the’
War office announced today in iluf
statement on Roumanian operations, |
The general situation in Roumania |
is unchanged. |
In the Uz Valley on the eastern|
frontier of Transylvania, there have
been local engagements with \'nflmitf
success, :
The repulse of Russian attacks |
northwest of lLutsk and south of!
Zhorov was reported by the War "f~i
fice, |
On the Macedonian front there has
temporarily been lively firing along the
bend of the Tcherna River. :
There have been no important
évents on the Somme and Verdun
fronts, the War Office announced.
“There has been oniy a little fighting |
activity,” it said, |
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2 More Cities Are |
!
Reported Evacuated
(By International News Service.) |
B';R’.l.\' Dec. 18. Field ,\l.lnlhuli
von Mackensen's armies have reac I»-l
ed the gates of Moldavia, the un"vl
Roumanian province remaining in the
Continued on Page 2, Column 4,
BUSINESS MAN CITED FOR CONTEMPT
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A Great and Glorious |
- .
Gathering for Charity
It is impossible in mere type for The Georgian to express to
the Shriners’ Band and Chanters, to the Nobles of Yaarab Tem
ple generally, and to the generous and kindly people of Atlanta
the very great measure of appreciation it feels for the help given
The Georgian's Empty Stocking Fund at the Auditorium Sunday
afternoon.
The Georgian is honored in being made the agency through
which the handsome sum received as a free will offering is to be
distributed.
The big charity effort belongs to the Shriners, the glory of
the contribution to the thousands of people assembled. The sat
isfaction of having been the medium of publicity through which
the gathering was exploited and through which the charity will
be placed in the homes of the poor is honor and glory enough for
The Georgian.
We have 1,500 children on our list—poor, ragged, destitute
and in many instances sick. With what we have in hand now, we
can and will take care of a thousand.
IF WE HAD ANOTHER FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS, WE
COULD TAKE CARE OF THEM ALL!
The work of filling the baskets started today and will be
pushed to rapid conclusion. The distribution will be made early
Christmas morning.
THERE STILL IS AMPLE OPPORTUNITY TO SUB
SCRIBE AND HELP COMPLETE THE FUND-—IF ANY OF
YOU CARE TO.
We shouid like more than we can say to raise the additional
S6OO NEEDED.
Will not you, reader, if you have not already done so, send
a contribution?
Every cent of it will go to the poor. The Georgian pays ALL
of the expense of administration and distribution—every pen
ny. Your contribution, whatever it is, will be a 100-per-cent-to
the-poor affair.
W "l 1 t
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(By international News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Deec. 18.—If no aec
tive filibuster develops supporters of
the District of Columbia prohibition
bill hoped to bring the measure to a
vote in the Senate late today
The opposition is unlikely 10 at
tempt to delay a vote
Wet” Senators were as anxious as
the “drys” to have a owdown on the
bill and get it out of the way for the
session
Both sides were confident of victor
and, although it appeared the vote
would be close, indications seemed to
favor the drys
Before a vote is taken on the bill
proper, the Senate will have to act
on the UUnderwood referendum amend
ment to submit prohibition to a vote
of the people of the District and the
Smoot substitute to prohibit even the
importation of alecohol for beverage
purposes into the District
A Hint to the
Wise Home Hunter
Finding a home like room, house or apartment need not
be the work of many weary days. It can be satisfactorily
accomplished through the simple, easy expedient of seek
ing what vou want through The Georglan-American Want
Ad columns, ’
Here, under the classification “For Rent” are listed from
day to day the offerings of rooms, houses and apartments
in Atlanta. They include every desirable location and al
ways the best values for the rent which you want to pay.
Read daily until you find what answers your wants and
then make an appointment by phone to see the place,
The Georgian-American will also tell the detalls of your
wants to those in Atlanta who rent rooms, houses and
apartments through vour ad in its “Wanted to Rent” col
umns. This is another satisfactory way to secure results.
When the ad is written, leave it with or
Telephone 1t to The
Georgian - American
Main 100 or Atlanta Main 8000
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VOL. XV. NO. 118.
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| der wants “him” back.
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| Here's her letter which reached the
| Governor's office Monday
! Saturday night
| Governor Nat E. Harris
! Atlanta, Ga
Yooy I'nele Nat Won't vou
r influence to soon
our boys from the
want them back--
f them
GEORGIA GIRL
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$1,000,000 CATTLE DEAL.
| SAN FRANCISCO, De 18, - Bwift &
‘.-, g 4 cago, through the Western
| Meat Compar ¥, has purchased the in
terests of the Nevada Packing Company
of Reno, and many thousand head of
| cattle W M. Slater, head of the Ne
vada Company, announced today The
'price was not stated although It was re
ported to be approximately $1,000,000
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ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY. DECEMBER 18, 1916.
ST ABy EVURERTER £y DB ATRIEERELING iyt AO,
'Throng Gives Most Liberally and
500 Poor Youngsters Will Be
Happy as Result
If the floorbeams of the Audito
rium could talk, and who knows
whether they can or not, they would
be complaining Monday of severe
pains in their joints after that strain
of Sunday afternoon. When 6,500
persons are all in one bunch it is
SOME crowd, and fully that many at- |
tended the Shrine band concert. |
Most of them dropped a bill or a‘
coin into one of the collection bas
kets, too. When the Yaarab Green
coats dumped the money on a table in
a private room and began counting
they found quite a job ahead. But
there were several expert bank tellers
on the joo, to say nothing of Cashier
Joseph S. Kennedy, and finall® they
had the dollars and the dimes and
the nickels and pennies all stacked
up and ready for the count. And the
total was $729.65.
That means just this: that 500 At
'l:m(a children will have a visit from
Santa Claus who would otherwise
have had a ‘miserable Christmas, in
deed. It's tough enough to be poor
when one's neighbors are no better
off. But to a child it must be h-’nrt-‘
breaking to have nothing on (‘hrisat-J
mas morning when all the kids in the
block are out on the sidewalk ahnw-‘
ing off.
A Capacity Audience.
It was one of the biggest crowds
that ever has tested the Audito
rium’s ecapacity. There have b« 4-n{
a few occasions, not more than four
or five, when every seat was fll]mll
and many persons stood. There were
a hundred or two empty seats Snndayl
in the “behind the sight line” sections
of the baleonies, and there were about :
an equal number of “standees.” 'l‘hh{
Auditorium contains 6,500 seats, one
!uf the Music Festival directors says !
and go 6,500 seems an accurate esti- |
‘mam of the crowd which heard the
Yaarab band and chanters, ‘
l The announcements of the r‘nn-‘n-rl_\
glven for the Empty Stocking Fund,
were carried exclusively in The Geor |
glan and Sunday American, 4x'l-p!|
‘fur brief notices in the two other pa
pers on Sunday morning. For it was|
’fnr The Georgian's charity work, :lntll
|lt was the paper directly interested.
1 The concert was scheduled to begin
!;n 3 o'clock, but the crowd began ar- |
| riving shortly after 2 o'clock. Before |
'th hour for the first number the|
main floor and boxes and circles were !
all filled and the greencoated ushers, |
volunteers from the Shrine, were|
gulding later comers to the h:nlumit-h.l
It wag not long until these were filled |
to the very last seat, except Hm-'-,
from which the band could not lu"
seen !
l The crowd was typically Atlantan. |
Every section of the town from Druid
l”l Is to the back alleys was repre.- |
sented There were enough lmou- |
gines in the street to make one think
opera week had arrived agalin, and the |
procession of pedestrians reached
from Five Points to the doors. There
were old men and young men, their
wives, mothers, children., There were
debutante of this season end there
were giris from the factories And
everybody, high and low, appeared to|
enjoy every minute of the two ru.m-',
progra !
i Everyone Willing to Aid. l
Potentate Walter Andrews made a |
brief taik in the intermission, urging
liberality in giving, and then the
corps of Shriners, directed by Forrest |
Adair, started through the h’«!-n‘
There was no “strong arm WOrk, |
Nobody was ordered to dig too deep. |
But the baskets came out loaded i
with sliver, and every one had 'Y!‘
share of dollar notes
The fund was turned over Monday |
Continued on Page 3, Column 3,
M to Go
to 30 Tonight
0 onight,
It ain’t going to be very cold, and
it ain't going to snow much, if any,
and it ain't gogng to be cloudy later
than late this Monday afternoon, if
that long, and there isn’'t anything to
get really excited about in the weath
er situation, in spite of a sudden
darkness or (to put it simply) an
amazing obfuscation of almost un
paralleled density that obscured ev
erything for a few minutes about 9
o'clock Monday morning and sen'
some of the chickens to roost that do
not stroll along Peachtree, they being
mostly ‘in the hay at that time. |
Unraveling the foregoing, here is
the layout:
The thermometer opened at about
‘4O degrees Monday morning, and by
Tuesday morning it may be a little
below 30, with fair skies overhead,
where they usually are. There may
be a flutter of snow Monday after
noon, but it is not likely, in spite of
six inches of snow at Nashville and
other Tennessee points, Tuesday will
be bright and clear and fairly cold.
The heavy darkness Monday morn
ing was ecaused by dense-clouds, a
good deal of fog and a shift in the
‘wind. which changed its mind after
pushing a lot of smoke away from the
Irily and brought it back again.
B
Bureau Warns of
Storms in South
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Dec, 18.—~The
Weather Bureau issued the following
storm warning this morning:
“Hoist northeast storm warning 11
a. m. Baltimore to Boston. Disturb
ance over northern Alabama, moving
northeast and increasing, will cause
north and northeast winds, reaching
gale force tonight, with snow. South
cast warnings, also Chincoteague to
Wilmington, and southweast warn
ings Southport to Jacksonville,” |
3 Inches of Snow
| :
At Greenville 8. C,
GREENVILLE, 8. C., Dec. 18.—A
blizzard with snow hit here today,
commencing at 4 a. m. Three inches
,of snow has fallen. |
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Liquor-Laden Auto
l Ditched in Storm
’ DAHLONEGA, Dec, 18 Dahlonega
is experiencing the only known elee ‘
tric storm mixed with snow and sleet,
During the most severe part of it the
| city marshal was chasing a Ford
| laden with 40 gallons of blockade
| whisky |
| While dodging the marshal it landed
}IH a ditch |
i T |
Heavy Snow Falls 1
' At Chattanooga
CHATTANOOGA, Dec 18.—~The
ihr;nu-l snow of the season was tn‘
progress here today, It began uhmliy‘
after midnight and still was fulllm{l
| #teadily at noon. Trafic was but
‘-«h';h'ly affected because of the rapid.-
:n_-, ywith which the flawes melted,
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City Salary Pruning
|
- Report To Be Tabled
| Councilman Oscar H, \\'H!mmnun'
sald Monday that at the meeting of
;Hu City Council Monday afternoon
!hr would offer a motion to table the
lra port of the Councll Balary Commit
Lo recommending the abolishment of
L certain city Jobs and th ecutting of
‘flilhrwu of a number of employees
. The indications are that his motion
will bhe adopted
“1 think the handling of such mat
ters Is up to the lncoming adminis.
tration and not to the present Coun
cll,” sald 4'uuncum’n Willlamson,
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copyrignt. 1906
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3 CENTS ON TRAING 5 CENTS
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Heads of Traynham Lumber Com- |
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pany Called by Judge Pendleton |
to Answer Unique Charge.
An - interesting question, based on
the importance of jury summons, was
raised in Superior Court Monday,
when Judge John T. Pendleton signed
a contempt order directed to W, l.‘
Traynham, general manager of the
Traynhamn Lumber Company, and W,
R. Hanson, foreman of the company,
who were made defendants in a
unigque petition by George M. Wal
\!m'i‘. until recently an employee, in
which he accused the two company
lnmrialsnf discharging him because he
obeyed a court summons and served
l(m a jury in Judge Pendleton’s court,
The order of Judge Pendleton cited
Traynham and Hanson to show cause
| before him Saturday, morning why
gt)m)' should not be adjudged in con
;tvm;n of court
} The petition of Wallace, which was
| presented to Judge Pendleton by At
torney Will T. Gordon, set out that he
ln-m ived a jury mminor for Decem
llu-r 11, and that he informed the
foreman he would have to appear in
| court. He sald he left the lumber |
company plant about § o'clock in 'hq-“
‘morning and served as a member of |
the Jury in Judge Pendleton’s court
luntil the hour of adjournment-—-2
o'clock. When he returned to the
;plfln( to resume work, he said, he was |
informed that his services were no |
"Innat-r needed |
| Wallace then took up the matter
| with Attorney Gordon, and t con
tempt proceedings resulted W ,-I:,lu:
asserted that he was discharged for |
‘nn other reason than that he obeyed |
!Nw order of court and served on the|
;‘i“’k"x ‘
| He set out further that he had a
contract with the Traynham "'munr!
ny, having gone with this company |
from another lumber concern be- |
cause of an increase In pay i
The cage in whi he served as a|
Juror involved a civil controversy
- The contempt proceedings ex .|l-4l’
considerable comment about the
courthouse hecause of Its remarkable
nature This is the first time in ”w;
history of the local courts that an
emplayer has been cited for con
tempt for the alleged discharging ‘,':'
an employee because of jur goervice, |
The outcome will be watched with |
great interest, because of the large
number of employees who are ealled
for jury duty in the various courts |
every week, '
One Juror Shows Up;
.
Sheriff Is Blamed
WAYCROSS, Dec. 18.—Contempt of
court proceedings by wholesale w 1
start In City Court this afternoon be
fore Judge Jhon « leDonald Thir
ty-five out of t hirty-six furors in the
panel for the December term of court
falled to appenr when cou ’
vened today It Is alleged that
notice was given the rors |
Sheriff Dave Fittma tiate
eour the and | deputie had ser
the jurors 'he lone fur INEWOrty
sald he was not Mlmone it fust
happened to bhe pre nt
Judge McDonald sald if
sSnown no summon had bee erved
he would hold the Sheriff in contempt
of court and fine him |
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KIX little shaopping days
Better look alive
Ntores are getting crowded now,
You can’t do much in FIVE
‘Have a Heart!
Shop Early in
the Mornin
| g
§ b
} \fOU have what's left of Mon
s day and five more days to
é buy those Christmas gifts.
) And the crowds in the stores will
{ grow bigger and bigger every day.
2 You really ought not to need a
) reminder to get up early in the
morning and be at the doors when
Sthe shops open. The merchants
say you'll get better service in the
) forenoons, and the sooner the bet
{ ter. Stocks, torn into confusion by
% the crowd of the day before, have
{ been restored overnight. Salespeo
! ple, refreshed by a night's rest, are
more good-humored. There's every
| advantage in a morning shopping
! tour,
1§ P. B.~lf you'll take a bag along
~ and carry home the little odds ang
I‘end. that weigh practically noth
', ing, you'll not only save the mer
chants a whole lot of delivery trou
bles, but you'll be sure to have your
own purchases when you want
them,
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Bank Bandit Force
Employees to Floor
(By International News Service.)
BRUSH, COL., Dec. 18.—Two men
held up the Stockman’'s National
Bank, of Brush, today and got away
| with $7,000. When the hold-up men
‘rnlo‘rod the bank, they found three
men at work and, at the point of pis
!ml:« forced them to lle down on the
| floor. Then one of the took the
money from the vault,
I Cashier A. P. Ferrichs, came to the
door as the bandits were about to
leave. He, too, was forced to lle on
the floor. Then all four victims were
marched into the vault and the door
i slammed. This act set off the burglar
alarm and the men fled. They made
ithmr escape in a big tourlng car. A
posse In fifteen automobiles is pur
suing the robbers, whe are headed for
the Kansas line.
Ellsworth Hall
| .
- Declines Bench Job
It was learned in Atlanta Monday
that J. Ellsworth Hall, of Macon, had
declined the appointment to the State
Court of Appeals, to succeed the late
Judge Robert Hodges.
This means Governor Harris will
not confine the appointment to Ma
con, but will consider all applicants
Governor Harris is at Daytona Beach,
Fla. The appointment probably will
not be made until he réturns, after
the holidays.
Mr. Hall telegraphed the Governor
that he could not accept the appoint
ment. It was forecast in The Geor
glan Saturday that Mr. Hall would
decline,
‘ .
3 Sue Georgia Road
For Total of $55,000
The Georgia Railroad Monday was
preparing to defend three dumage
#uills set for Tuesday In the DeKalh
Superior Court in Deeatur,
Mre, Johin W, Walker asked $30,000
damages for the death of her hus
bavd, kilied on a crossing
Mrs, Hettle MceCurdy sued for
$lO 000 as “balm for wounded fee.-
ing="
Mrs, Isabelle Farmer aslkod 815,000
ter peraovial injuries,
Alonzo eld is aftorney for a'l the
plamtiffs, while MeDanlel & B.ack
and Aionzo Branda represent the rall.
road.
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THE WEATHER
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Forecast—Fair and colder Mon
day night and Tuesday.
Temperatures—6 a. m,, 38; 8
a.m., 40; 10 a. m,, #4; 12 noon, 38;
1 p.m, 36; 2 p. m,, 35,
Sunrise, 6:38; sunset, 4:32,
Rty ’MW
HOME
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By JOHN EDWIN NEVIN,
Staff Correspondent of International
News Service.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—President
Wilson will await the reply of Ger
many from the Entente allies before
he undertakes any action looking teo
ward urging peace in Europe. He is
convinced that premature action on
the part of the United States and oth=
er neutrals would only irritate the
belligerents. The President believes
that the present situation is so deli=
cate that hasty action by this country
would act as an insurmountable obe
stacle to restoration of peace
This was learned today from mems
bers of the Cabinet who have been
‘v-mu:l‘lmi by the President, It is une
‘nh rstood that Secretary of State Lan
| Sing takes the position that at the
;;-r.-w nt time peace suggestions are in
| such a state that they will be vital
i:m!\ to the belligerents.
; He has been assured that the Ger-
Em.m suggestion will be carefully con
:squn'r-'tl by the Entente allies. Until
that is done the representatives of the
|l‘ln|'-l|l'- allles here have urged that
It!ns Government take no definite
stand on the peace suggestions one
!“;n or the other.
| Whether the President will be able
to take this step he so much desires—
| urging both sides to endeavor to end
the ar by d omatic negotiations—
' will be determined o ly after the ree
ply of the Entente Is made public.
| It is understood here that the ree.
| ports which have reached the admine
Istration from its di; lomatie represens
tatives in Paris, Petrograd and Lons
don unanimously assert that the rul.
Ing circles there are inclined to feel
resentful to any suggestion of outside
interference They insist that they
must be allowed to make up thely
minds as to what termany meansg
without any effort ‘being made by
neutrals to throw their Influence ¢on
the side of the German proposition,
and the President's advisers say he
has decided to respect this frame of
mind
Germany will consider any reply the
Entente alliecs make to the Central
Powers’ peace proposals, it was
learned at the German Embassy this
afternoon, A strong belief is held that
within a very short time the way will
be open for the Dutch Government'te
invite the belligerents to a conference
at The Hague, and that by that time
the other neutrals can and will enter
the situation,
So important is the situation existe
Ing alrea« that Ambassador von
Bernstorff today reconsidered his Ine<
tention of going to Boston for the fi
neral of Professor Munsterberg., Ins
stead he sent word to the German
Consul there to lay a wreath in his
name at the fame educator's blée
and to attend the funeral
The Ambassador has also abandone
ed his projected trip to Florida for the
holidays nd will remain in Wash«
ington until the situation clarifies, e
is awalting with the utmost interest
Lloyd-George’'s address in Parliament
tomorrow
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Lloyd-George Replies
On Peace Tomorrow
(By International News Service.)
LAONDON. De 18 England's ane
swer to Germany's peace proposals
will be delivered by Premie Lloyd«
George In Parllament tomorrow,
Announcement to t effect was
made In the House of mmons this
afternoon by Chancellor A Bonar
lLaw
It s probable t Premier will
B 0 into the hist f the war and
events leading nd espe -‘l.l"y
into the case of |
- The Germ: eace note now une
der considerat| i Foreign Of«
fice, having bee transmitied this
morning by W i Page, the
| America A vior
| Whet I ' cars he will
lh,. pre . ) ot ask King
Geors Parllament and
I..:l ton If organised
Continued on Page 2, Colnmf-