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BRITISH GAINADMITTED BY BERLIN
Allies Start New Offensive on Italian Front
U.S. PLANS TO CURTAIL 400 INDUSTRIES
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(By international News Service.)
WASHINGTON. Nov. 28.—Orders
for the curtailment of more than 400
nonessential industries to conserve the
coal supply will be issued by the Fuel
Administration before the end of the
week, it was learned this afternoon.
The industries affected will be askeg
to reduce their 'activities one-third‘
immediatel yand one-sixth within the:
next month, making a total curtail
ment of 50 per cent. ‘
The decision to cut down non
essential industry is believed to have
been one of the outcomes of Fuel
Administrator Garfield’s conference
with the President yesterday, when
he laid before him the plans for pool-‘
ing the nation’s eoal supply. ‘
The Fuel Administration is to take
over the coal at the mouth of the
mines and to distribute it to indus-‘
tries in the manner best calculated
to produce war necessities.
The Fuel Administration is hoping
to avoid the complete suspension of
nonessential industry and will en-‘
deavor to keep it working as long as
possible on aSO per cent basis. ‘
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Rail Pool Managers
. -y . ‘
Meeting in Pittsburg
(By International News Service.)
PITTSBURG, Nov. 28.—Six of the
seven members of the special operat
ing committee of Eastern railroads,
apponted in Washington to establish
and operate a pool of railroads East
of Chicago to relieve congestion of
transportation, met informally In
Pittsburg today to discuss the pre
liminaries to their regular sessions
which will center here for the dura
tion of the war. |
P. E. Crowley, of New York, vice
president of the New York Central
lines was the “only member of the
committee absent. He was expected
to arrive soon.
Delay in arrival of the officials.
caused by belated trains, prevented
the holding of the first regular meet
ing of the committee, as planned. It
was indicated. however, that a meet
ing will be held late today, though it
was not expected that other than pre
liminary matters will be taken up.
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Turkeys for Soldiers
Reach French Port
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—Th~ con
tingent of turkeys for Thanksg'ving
dinn-rs of American soldiers in
France has reacher a French port in
safety, the War Department announc
ed this aftérnoon.
Turkey also will be the centerpiece
of the navy spread. It will be sur
rounded by cranberry sauce, celery
spised pickles, spiced ham, candied
sweet potatoes, creamed caulifower
and green peas. Then will come
mince pie, mixed candies, nuts, as
sorted fruits, fruit cake with hard
sauce, ice cream and coffee,
RS A R R
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2,050 Lieutenants
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Given Assignments
{By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28—The War
Department today issued orders as
signing 2,050 provisional second lieu
tenants to the cavalry, infantry, coast
artillepy and field artillery. This Is
the laflgcst assignment of officers ever
hufiy the department. i
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Missing Woman and
Little Girl Believed
To Be Still in City
Although no further clew had
been found Wednesday as to the
whereabouts of Mrs. H. W. Finch,
of Kirkwood, and her 2-year-old
girl, who disappeared Saturday
and at first were thought to have
met death in the Chattahoochee
River, county police were of the
opinion that the missing mother
and child are in or near Atlanta
alive and well.
Efforts were being made Wed
nesday to trace Mrs. Finch and
the baby girl from the river, fol
lowing the information of Tues
day that a bareheaded woman,
answering the description of Mrs.
Finch, and carrying a little girl in
her arms, had approached a Cobb
County fruit tree agent near Bol
ton and inquired the “best way
back to Atlanta.” It weas believed
by the police that this woman
was Mrs. Finch, and that <she
boarded a river trolley car for the
city at the 5-cent fare limit at
Fisher avenue.
Officers also sought to Ilearn
whether a woman and child of the
description of the missing pair
had purchased a railroad ticket
out of the city. It was the pre
vailing belief, however, that they
are still here.
2 Rome-Etna Trains
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To Be Discontinued
The petition of the Southern Rail
way for permissioa to discontinue
trains Nos. 45 and 46. from Rome to
Ktna, was granted Tuesday afternoon
by the Georgia Railroad Commission
Petition of the Seaboard Air Line
Railway to change the schedule of
train No. 212, between Athens and
Lula, so that it will leave Athens at
8 a. m.. instead of 5 a. m.. and wait
at Lula at 8:30 to make connections
with the Southern “Belle,” was
granted.
To Get 19 Millions
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, Nov.' 28. —As a
Thanksgiving greeting to their stock
holders, officials of the E. 1. DuPont-
DeNoumers Powder Company, of Del
aware, anounced today they had ar
ranged to distribute an extra dividend
amounting to $19,500,000 on Decem
ber 22,
The dividend will be pald in four
per cent Liberty bonds.
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(By International News Service.)
EL PASO, Texas, Nov. 28.—Villista
forces had captured suburbs of Chi
huahua and are working toward the
center of the city, according to an
nouncements made this afternoon by
the Cientificos. They give no details
and the report is denied by the Car
ranza officials here. United States
Government officers have received nc
confirmation.
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“Silence Pact” by
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Plot Trial Witnesses
(By International News Service.)
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 28.—Indi
cations that Hindu witnesses have en
tered Into a “pact of silence” unless
granted immunity featured the trial
of thirty-three charged with foment
ing a revolution in India today. Shiv
Dyal Kapur refused to testify, say
ing: “I will die with my countrymen
ra‘her than be turned over to my
enemies,” meaning the police of India,
demanding dismissal of an indictment
against him and guarantees that he
would be permitted to remain in
America. The court dismissed thu
ndictment on motion of United States
Attorney Preston, and the witness
finally gave his evidence without the
guarantee that he would not be de
ported.
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Clothes Stolen While
WomanHearsConcert
(By International News Service.)
~ CHICAGO, Nov. 28.—Thieves who
robbed Miss Marie Bergunder’s apart
ment might at least have left hor the
strand of beads.
Here is what Miss Bergunder told
‘the police today had been stolen from
her rooms while she was attend'ng a
smart musicale at a local hotel:
Four suits, seven drrsses, two sets
of furs, most of her lingerie, fifteen
pairs of shoes, a cameo pin, two
bracelets and—a strand of beads.
THORPE'S TEAM TO, PLAY.
(By International News Service.)
DETROIT, Nov. 28.—Much interest is
manifest in the coming of Jim Thorpe's
Canton (0.) football team ‘o Detroit
Saturday to play the Hera:ds of this
city on Navil Field. Thorpe has a bunch
of famous ex-college players in his
string and the Heralds are claimants of
the semi-pro championship of the State.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1917
(By International News Service.)
- LONDON, Nov. 28.—That the Bol
sheviki leaders in Petrograd have ac
tually opened peace pourparleurs with
the Geormans through Ensign Kry
lenko, the recently appointed com
mander-in-chief of the Russian ar
mies, was shown today by a fragment
of a wireless message that was
picked up.
. The message consiste dos congrat
‘ulations from the Bolsheviki leaders
in Petrograd to Krylenko for his et
forts in behalf of a “just, general and
democratic peace.”
‘ According to previous reports, Ger
‘man peace agents are at work behind
‘the Russian lines, and Russian emis
‘saries are behind the German front.
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U. 8. Is Expected to
~ Answer Bolsheviki
- {By International News Service.)
. WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—There
'was a growing feeling in diplomatic
cireles today that the proposal of the
Bolsheviki government of Russia for
a three months’ armistice should be
answered by the United States.
~ Refusal to answer the note for
'warded by Ambassador Francis to the
‘State Department would be inter
preted in Russia to mean that the
i[)nitod States does nct want peace,
and that the things the Bolsheviki
have said about this Government were
true. Thus the agitation for guitting
the war, would gain support and the
Bolsheviki be intrenched.
} Russians who have the best interest
of this country at heart believe Presi
‘dent Wilson should make the position
‘of the United States clear in a note
addressed directly to the Russian peo
nle. Such a note could reiterate the
need for continued war against the
' Kaiser if democracy is to continue in
existence and the Russians are to hold
}thcir nowly won freedom. In the opin
ion of many diplomats, this move
‘would undermine the power of the
Bolsheviki.
Reports that the entente Allles are
‘planning summary action with Russia
‘unless an end is put to the peace ac
tivities of the Bolsheviki were be
lieved by diplomats to have been in
spired by the Germans for the pur
pose of creatinz enmity in Russia to
the entente,
Russian Embassy officlals believed
today that Maklakof. Russian Ambas
sador to France, would be a party to
the inter-allied conference at Paris.
That the Lenine Government in
Russia will conclude a. separate peace
with Germany is believed now to be
2 matter of days only. But officials
here today are in receipt of informa
tion indicating that such a peace w'll
not be accented by the Rusisan people
and that the army as a whole will
stand out against desertion of Rus
sia’'s allies. .
Dispatches from Ambas#ador Fran
cis at Petrograd detaillng the situa-{
tion there have been received, but
havesnot been made public. It is un
derstood he has reported the result|
of the various conferences which
"ave been held betwen the Entente
fiplomats in Petrograd.
It has been learned that a definite
program has been arranged which
callg for Insistence that the existing
gover' ment recognize the treaty
pledges of Russia and for a general
withdrawal should these pledges be
violated and a separate peace con
summated.
The demand by the Bolsheviki
f-‘or%l'gn Minister, Leon Trotzky, that
the :(ussians. Chichirin and Petroff
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Fate of Armed
Guard on Vessel
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Is Still in Doubt
(By International News Service.'
ASHINGTON, Nov. 28.-—
\X/ The American steame:
Actaon, torpedoed Sundav
off the coast of Spain, carried ar
armed guard of thirteen naval men
Dispatcheg from London say 2
survivors have heen landed at Pr
Camarinas, but that three boats
are missing.
The Navy Department had no
news today whether the armed
guard of the Actaon were among
those saved.
An official statement of the
% Navy Department of the sinking
>f the Actaeon follows:
% “The Navy Decartment has re
ceived a report that the Ameri
can steamer Actaeon has Leen tor
pedoed in European waters. One
boat with 20 survivors landed at
Cape Finisterre yesterday. Three
boats containing 63 men are still
missing. No further details have
{ been received.”
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ITWo Ala. Soldiers
Are Dead In France
{ (By International News Service.)
l \VASHXNQTON, Nov. 28.—General
. Pershing reported the deaths of five
American soldiers from natural edus
es to the War Department late this
afternoon, The list follows:
Corporal Stanley S, Stevens, field
artillery, died November 21, of lobar
pneumonia. Brother Robert L. Ste
vens, 5709 Armsby Place, Madison
ville, Cincinnati.
Private Jos. J. Patten, headquarters
company infantry: died November 16,
pneumonia. Mother, Mrs. T. J. Pat
ten, Battleswhard. Ala.
Private Ira Patterson, infantry:
died November 20. lobar pneumonia.
Father, F. D. Patterson, Shelby, Ala.
Private Wallace H. Brown, machine
gun company infantry, died Novem
{bpr 21, acute tuberculosis of lungs;
home East Hartford, Conn.
l Private Leslie C. Kayser, field artil
lery; died November 23, chronic pneu
| monia. Mother, Mrs. Lucie Kayser,
1025 Riverside Ave., Fort Wayne, Ind.
L.W.W.Gets 10 Years
As Army Deserter
(By International News Service.)
CAMP DODGE DES MOINES, IA,,
Nov. 27.—Felix Thornton, 1. W, W.
|organizer. was sentenced to ten years
in the federal prison at Fort Leaven
worth, after a court martial had found
him guilty of desertion. He is one
of four draft evaders arrested sev
eral weeks ago near Devils Lake,
NiD.
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500 Army Nurses
~ Are Wanted Now
(By International News Service,)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 — Five
hundred graduate nurses for imme
diate service are wanted by the army,
the surgeon general announced today.
The nurses will receive SSO a month
and maintenance.
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Bandits Get $30,000
From Chicago Bank
(By International News Service.) |
CHICAGO. Nov. 28.—Six automobile
bandits held up the Windsor Park
State Bank this afternoon and es
caped with packages of money be.
lieved to contain approximately $30,-
000. |
JIM MANN’'S HEALTH GOOD. |
BALTIMORE, Nov. 28.-—The condition |
of Congressman James R. Mann, of
Illigoic who entered Johns Hopkins Hos
pital yesterday for examination, was‘
reported today as being good, no serious
trouble being as yet discovered.
3 ERNTS o) laahe
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(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 28.—Italy is now
adding her blows to the sledge-ham
mer strokes which the British and
French armies are delivering against
the Germans,
Italian forces, supported by British
and French veterans, launched a pow
erful counter offensive between the
Piave and Brenta Valleys, in North
ern Italy, winning ground from the
invading Austro-German armies and
iinflictlng severe losses,
It was the most powerful thrust the
Italians have been able to make since
‘thelr lines on the Isonzo were broken.
§ Increasing violence of the cannon
‘ading in Belgium points to a renewal
sos the groat battle before Ypres soon.
- German forces at Cambrai have
been heavily reinforced, but there
were no infantry actions in that sec
tor last night. The Germans bom
barded the British positions at Bour
lon throughout the night,
~ Dead calm prevails on the eastern
front.
- The supreme inter-allied war coun
cil will hold its first preliminary ses
‘sion in Paris tomorrow to unify allied
‘war movements in the future. It is
believed that one of the first ques
tions that will be considered is the
‘alarming situation in Russia.
' The Bolsheviki in Russia continue
their efforts toward a separate peace
with Germany.
~ Reports are current that the mon
‘archs of the Scandinavian countries
far@ conferring with reference to fu
‘ture action which may have an im
portant bearirg on the general war
\snuation.
Ttalians Gain Ground
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‘ (By International News Service.)
‘ ROME, Nov. 28.—Important gains
‘have been made by the Italians be
!twe(\n the Brenta and Piave Valleys
In Northern Italy, said a dispatch
from Italian headquarters today.
East of the Brenta Valley the Ital
fans made a number of counter at
tacks, inflicting severe losses upon
the Germans
The Italian lines, in that mountaln
district have been extended.
Both Sides Prepare
LONDON, Nov. 28.—Germany's
great plan to crush Italy as Serbia
and Roumania were conquered has
ended in failure. according to belief
expressed in military and diplomatic
circles today.
However, the end of the struggle
in northern Italy is not yet in sight
and the Germans and Austro-Hunga
rians can be counted upon to make
even mightier e{forts than they have
up to date to break through the Ital
fan lines on the Piave River and on
the Asirgo plateau.
Both sides are preparing for a
greater struggle. Reinforcements of
men and guns are pouring across the
Austrian frontier into Italy to
gtrengthen the invading hordes, while
the Alpine roads leading down from
France into Italy are choked with
masses of French and British veter
ans, trains of supply wagons and long
lines of arti]lery.'
An oversight iy two directions has
Continued on ge 2, Column 5,
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A Paper for Atlanta. Georgia, |
and the South
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"» Austro-Hungarians
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. Facing Starvation,
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i-lnsnst Upon Peace
% ENEVA, Nov. 28-—Peace
G manifestations in Vienna
| and Budapest are becoming g
a'most of daily occurrence. A
traveler arriving here today from %
Austria said the Aultro~Hung--’
rian peopie are suffering the deep
est distress and that death from
starvation is common. Coal is very
scarce, and milk, butter, eqags,
sugar, coffee, tea and fresh beet
§are practically unobtainable.
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St. Louis Police Call
- Off Fritz Kreisler’s
; ritz Kreisler’s
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Concert, Fearing Riot
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(By International News Service.)
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 28.—Fearing
a possible riot, police today an
nounced they would not permit
Fritz Kreisler. Austrian violinist,
to give his concert here Tuesday.
The decision was the result of nu
merous protests sent to Chief
Young by patriotic organizations.
Kreisler is a former officer in the
Austrian army. _
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Patrol Boat Ramme
\ Going to Ship's Aid
‘ (By International News Service.)
'~ AN ATLANTIC PORT, Nov. 28—
The steamer Ontarfo, of the Mer
chants and Miners' Line, collided with
a United States patrol boat off the
Atlantic Coast, according to advices
received at the offices of the line
here today. At the time of the col
lision the patrol boat was on her way
to answer a “S. O. 8.” call sent out
by the two-masted schooner Kirk,
which was reported to be leaking bad
ly. No one was hurt, but the patrol
was so badly damaged that she had
to be beached.
The Ontario stood by until the pa
trol boat was safe and then proceeded
slowly to her berth, slightly damaged
and leaking. No further word was
heard of the Kirk.
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500 New Soldiers
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Reach Chickamauga,
CHATTANOOGA. TENN., Nov. 28.
—Five hundred men from Camp Ben
jamin Harrison arrived at Chicka
‘mauga this afternon to be attached to
Camp Greenleaf. The new arrivals
will occupy the quarters just vacat
ed by the cadets at Camp Warden
McLean. This detachment consists of
fwo ambulance companies, two field
hospitals and two evacuation ambu
lance companies,
One hundred troopers from the bar
racks at Columbus, Ohio, that have
been transferred to regiments at
Chickamauga also arrived this after
noon. ‘
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3 Young White Men
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Held as Auto Thieves
Three young white men were be
ing held in the Police Station Wed
nesday on suspicion of being mem
bers of a gang of automobile thieves
that operates throughout Georgia and
Alabama, with headquarters in At
lanta.
They gave their names as Roy Bar
rett, of No. 710 Peachtree street, and
F. C. Harris and J. W. Francis, both
of Birmingham. They were taken by
Detectives Cowan, Hamby and Gil
lespie on McDaniel street. and a late
model Ford car was recovered. i
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Garfield Moves to
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Ease N. Y. Coal Crisis
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—Immedi
ate steps are to be taken by fuel Ad
ministrator Garfield to remedy an
alarming shortage of anthracite coal
in New Pork City.
Albert H. Wiggin, New York state
fuel administrator, told Dr. Garfield
that the shortage is particularly acute
in Brooklyn. He said the city was
short 200,000 tons as compared with
this time last winter, 1
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BERLIN, Nov. 28. — British forces
made “temporary gains” between
Bourlon and Fontaine Notre Dame, in
Cambral sector, but counter-assaults
by the Germars compelled the enemy
to retire, according to the War Office
statement issued today,
(By International News Service.)
LONDON Nov. 28.—The night on
the Cambral front, in northern
France, was given over to violent
cannonading,
British positions in the sector of
Bourlon wood, three miles wesf of
the German base of Cambrai, were
heavily bombarded by German guns,
the War Office announced at noon.
There were no Infantry actions.
East and northeast of Ypres the
German guns were active and British
trench lines around Passchendaele
were showered with shells of all cal
ibers,
In the Cambrai sector of the Arras
front the artillery activity reported
by the War Office followed a burst of
savage hand-to-hand fighting be
tween British and German troops fog
the ponssession of Bourlon and Fon
taine Notre Dame.
Kaiser Is Going to
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West Front, Report
(By International News Service.)
AMSTERDAM, Nov. 28.—1 t was
reported from the German frontier
today that the Kaiser is golng t.o the
western front.
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French Gains at
Verdun Increased
(By International News Service.)
PARIS, Nov. 28.—Further consolf
dation of ground won fiom the (Gep
mans last week In the Verdun sector
is anncunced by the War Office. All
the new positicns north of Hill 344
have been consolidated by French
troops, the staterment concluded. In
Champagne and Lorraine, raids were
reported.
Five In Famil
Ive In Family are
Found Murdered
(By International News Service.)
SPOKANE, WASH., No¥v. 28
Michael Kelley, his wife and three
children were murdered by cutting
their throats with a butcher knife and
a razor in their home near Roselake,
Idaho, according to word recelved
today. .
The bodies of the mother and child
ren were found in bed while Kelley's
was on the floor of the dining room.
The chiliren were a boy five years
old and two girls three and one year.
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Denies Pope Plans
New Peace Apreal
(By International News Service,)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—Osser
vatore Romano, of the Vatican, flatly
denies that the Pope has directed ors
is preparing a new peace appeal, ac
cording to an official cablegram from
Rome today. y
TO LEGALIZE RACE BETS.
(By International News Service.)
DETROIT, Nov. 28—The Michigan As.
sociation of Fairs will have a bill intro
duced in the next session of the Stata
Legislature -that if passed will legalize
betting on horse races at State and
county fairs The mutuel system of
betting is prcjosed and the bill will
limit betting tQ& meets held by fair as
-sociations andéhe betting will be placed
under a comm}sion to be appointed by
the Governor, ;g\