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WARM—Generally Fair.
VOLUME XX—NO. 297 MZ
"CLEANUP” SQUAD 1
WILL BEGIN iWORK
HERE TOMORROW
Federal Agents Coming to Pass
on Compensation Claims of
Ex-Service Men.
RED CROSS AND AMERICAN
LEGION WILL CO-OPERATE
All Preliminary Arrangements
For the Coming of the Squad
Have Been Completed, and a
Number of Claims Will be
Ready For Immediate Atten
tion.
The government Clean-up Squad,
consisting of five men, a medical ex
aminer, a compensation and insurance
contract officer, a vocational training
specialist, and representatives of the
Red Cross and the American Legion,
will arrive in Brunswick some time
today, to begin work tomorrow of
passing on the claims for compensa
tion and vocational training of ex-ser
vice men of Glynn and a number of
adjoining counties.
The U. S. Veterans’ Bureau, which
recently took over all government
agencies for the care of world-war
veterans, is sending out the Clean-up
Squad for the purpose of asembling
all claims possible, and it is hoped
that every man who was injured or
disabled in any manner while in the
service will get their claims attend
ed to.
The Squad began its work last week
jn Savannah, ifhving completed its
program there yesterday. Brunswick
is the second city on the Itinerary,
and the squao will come here from
Savannah, for a stay of four days to
adjust the claims of former service
men of Glynn, Mclntosh, Camden,
Wayne, Appling, Tattnall and Long
counties.
Widespread publicity has been giv
en th the work of the Squad, and it is
expected that g considerable number
of fitstte'wtttis* (Iffrtrln* ?ho!r
stay in Brunswick. Ex-Soldiers in
jured in the service are expected to
come from all of the above named
counties, to initiate their .claims for
compensation and vocational training,
and arrangements are being made to
take care of ail out of town appli
cants during their stay In Brunswick.
Strenuous efforts will be made to
out and get prompt action
on hill claims filed. The Clean-up
squad l expects to complete Its work
In Georgia by January Ist.
For the past two weeks the local
post American Legion and the liruns
wick Red Cross chapter have been
busily at work In assembling the
claims of the soldiers in Glynn coun
ty. and a number of .applications will
be ready for the squad when It begins
its work Monday morning. Similar
activities have been in progress In
othjor counties of the Brunswick dis
trict, with the result that practically
all> ex-service men who hn\!f legltl
mate claims will be here to present
them during the four days period
Sept. G to Bth, Inclusive.
NEGRO WANTED AT FITZ
GERALD IS ARRESTED
Aft the negro fireman of the Atlan
ta, Birmingham & Atlantic passenger
train, arriving in the city at 9 o'clock
last night, stepped from Ihe engine,
he was taken into custody by Chief
of Police Register and Officer Tank
•rsley. The negro was arrested at the
request of the sheriff of jEtep-fftl!
county, at Fitxgerald, who telegraph
ed that he be taken into-custody and
held pending the arrival of an officer
from Fitagerald. where the man is
Wanted by the authorities. The
on which the negro is wanted
la Aot * t
A(IED ARCO CITIZEN
PASSED AWAY LAST NIGHT
James Thomas Smith, elghty-two
years of, resided with hi*
•on, C. at 10 Aah atreet.
Arco. passed away shortly after eight
o’clock last night, following an ill
ness of -several weeks, Mr. Smith
was a native of Pearson. Ga.. §nd had
resided at Arco for the past two year*
with hi* aon. who ta an employee of
tha Atlantic Refining Company. The
remains were prepared for shipment
bv Undertaker Mo Miller, and will
ba taken at lO o’clock thi morning,
near the Atlantic Coast Une. to Pear
aon. where the funeral and Interment
wilt be held tht afternonn
THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
REPUBLICANS HAVE
A ROW IN GEORpIA
Phillips For Dismukes For Dry Offi
cer; Old Organization For Giilan.
Washington, D. C., SepL 3. —A-
pretty row has been started between
the old Republican crowd that form
erly controlled Georgia patronage
during Republican administrations
and the crowd that has been recog
nized by the Republican national com
mittee as the “blown in the bottle”
patronage dispensers. Echoes of the
fight are being heard in Washington.
Who’ll Get Job?
The bone <of contention at present is
the office of prohibition state director.
J. L. Phillips, ’ the new Republican
state chairman, has endorsed F. D.
Dismuke of Thomasville for that ap
pointment and the old organization
has brought out Dr. C. D. GiH an as
its candidate and the fight te being
waged hot and heavy.
CHURCH MESSAGETO
LABOR SITUATION
An Effort Will be Made by the
Christian Churches Through
out the Country on Labor
Sunday to Help Solve a Big
and Vital Problem, j
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New York, Sept. 3.—ln requesting
that the heurches throughout the
country observe tomorrow as Labor
Sunday the Federal Council of the
Churches of Christ in America has
issued a call to the churches to aid
in bringing about a readjustment of
relations between capital and labor.
The message Was prepared by the
Commission on the Church and So
cial Service. In the introductory it
says:
“The message for this Labor Sun
day is set against a background of
suffering and confusion. The land is
filled with unemployment. Possibly
-cne-fourth of the pdpulatlon are
strained and anxious. Thousands of
employers are holding their Indus*-
tries together merely from day to
day. *
“Labor is fighting for its fundamen
tal right, of collective action and fight
ing at a serious disadvantage. The
freedom of the ministry to proclaim
a social gospel and to apply it accord
ing to their own honest convictions
Is sharply challenged. Even the com
mon right of citizens to freedom of
speech and assembly in many com
munities is at stake.
‘The economic and industrial fac
tors'that condition the lives of men
and women and help to make them
what, they become are as much a con
cern of the church as any other phase
of their moral environment. An in
dustrial practice that cramps and de
vitalizes human beings in body or
In spirit is as much a foe of religion
as Is the liquor traffic. The church
cannot ignore thejone any more tha'n
ft can ignore the other.’’
BRUNSWICK NOT 10
OBSERVE LABOR DAY
,r y
ebration of Great Holiday To
morrow, and the Indications
Are That But Few Places of
Business Will Close For the
Day.
v
Labor Day, one of the greatest of
all national holidays, will pass practi
cally unobserved in Brunswick tom*r.
row. according to the indication* last
night. No preparations for observ
nnce of the day have been made, and
in fact, the merchants and business
men fcavo no agreement for closing
their places of business, as Is usual
ly the case.
While It is quite likely that a num
ber of stores will remain closed Mon
day. there are no plans for anyth’ng
like & general holiday, and aside from
the fact that the banks, postoffice,
city hall and county court house offi
ces will observe the occasion, busi
ness will very probably go forward as
usual.
It i* reported that a number of toe
industrial plants will close down for
the day. allowing their employees a
day of rest and recreation. A base
ball game in the afternoon, between
the Brunswick All Stars and the Sa
vannah All Stars, will be an interest
ing attraction for those who will en
joy a holiday tomorrow. Others will
likely spend the day on hunting and
Ashing trip*.
THE NEWS IS A MEMBER OFTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEGROES RUSHED
TO SAVANNAH JAIL
FOR SAFE KEEPING
Two Assailants of White Woman
in Wayne County Brought
Through Brunswick.
PEOPLE OF WAYNE WERE
VERY MUCH INCENSED
Jordan and Harvey, It is Report
ed, Were Picked Out From a
Large Number by Their Vic
tim and Positivey Identified.
—Declare They are Innocent
of the Crime.
Dodging an expected mob in Jesup,
following an attack upon a relat’ves
of Sheriff Rogers, of Wayne county,
two negroes, oJe Jordan and James
Harvey, were placed in an automo
bile early Saturday morning and rush
ed to the Chatham county jail for
safe-keeping. The sheriff with two
deputies in charge -of the prisoners
passed through Brunswick about
three o’clock Saturday morning, en
route to Savannah, stopping here but
a few minutes for refreshments.
Friday night indications on the
streets of Jesup pointed to an inev
itable outbreak. Men gathered on the
streets and made known their inten
tions of getting the two negroes away
from the authorities. About midnight
the mob gathered about the jail, but
the sheriff had anticipated this move,
and the prisoners had already been
spirited away. The rttob was invited
inside to convince them that the pris
oners had been removed beyond their
reach.
In the Chatham county jail at Sa
vannah yesterday the two negroes
were seen by a newspaper representa
tive, and declared their innocence of
the crime charged to them. “We have
committed no crime,” both negroes
are reported to have declared. “We
never saw the woman whp identified
us before,” they stated.
Jordan, the la/ger of the two ne
groes, said he had recently worked in
Allenhurst. He told of being identi
fied by the assaulted victim.
“We were working in the field at
Fairfield, near Jesup. There was a
bunch of us, when the sheriff arriv
ed. He took us all up to the ladle’s
house—theft; must have been, fifty. 1
Lined Up. \
“He then lined’ us up, and |she
picked out me and Harvey. I had
never seen her before in my life. He
took us to to the Jail at Jesup, then
brought us to Savannah In an auto
mobllq.”
Harvey, 26 years old, and ten years
younger than the other negro, sail
he was born In Lima, O.
“But I was raised in Raleigh, N. C.
I came to Fairfield a week ago today,
from Tampa. No. sir. I don’t know
anything about the crime they said I
did.”
Special Term Court.
It la understood that a special ses
sion of the Wayne county grand Jury
will be chlled next Tuesday, so as to
give the negroes a speedy trial. Sher
iff Rogers got in touch with Judge J.
P. Highsmitb of that circuit yesterday
and suggested the special session.
The two negroes worked for the
Fairfield Co-operation- Farms, near
McKinnon. When picked fro|n *,tUt
entire crew of negro employees. ? the
manager of that concern reported that
the two negroes had reported two
hours late to work yesterday morn
ing—-during the time In which the al
leged crime was supposed to have
been committed.
WORLD’S TENNIS CHAMPION
SHIP REMAINS IN U. S.
(By Associated Press.)
Forest Hills. N. Y-. Sept- 3—The
Davis Cup. emblematic-of the world’s
tennis championship, will remain In
the United States another yea* as a
result of Williams and Washburr de
feating the Japanese team in the dou
bles today, after the Japs had lost in
the singles yesterday.
THE WOMEN PRISONERS
Savannah. Sept. S.—The much dls
cussed problem of providing suitable
quarters for Chatham count*’s white
women prisoners will probably be
solved in a short while. The county
I commissioners have promised the
club women something will be doo*
soon to put the white women prison
er-* on a farm and take them out of
iJail
BRUNSWICK. GEORGIA SUNDAY, SEPT. 4, 1921.
On Way to Europe to Represent
America in Big Balloon Classic
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Left to right: Willard B. Sieberling, Pilot W. T. Van Norming, Pilot Bernard Von Hoffman, Pilot Ralph H. Upson, I
C. G. Andrews and J. S. McKibben.
, The men who will man the threp balloons which will represent America in the Gordon Bennett free balloon
race which will start from Brussels, Belgium, have sailed for Europe. Following the big international race, they
will make flights over Germany and Russia.
AHMY FLYERS FALL;
FATE IS JKNOWN,
Five Aviators Pkjnged to the
Ground in Big Bombing Plane
in Nicholas County, W. Va.,
Yesterday, While on Scout
ing Duty in Coal Fields.
(By Associated Press.)
Charleston. W. Va., Sept. 3.—Five
United States army aviators, travel
ing in a big bombing plane, crashed
to earth in Nicholas county, West Vir
ginia this afternoon, while engaged
ip scout duty.
The big bombing plane was seen by
observers to fall t>o the ground, but
the fate of the occupants of the ma
chine was Btill unknown at a late
hour tonight, as it had been impossi
ble to reach the spot where the plane
went down.
The air pin no patrol constated of
Lieutenants Speck, the pilot. Fitzpat
rick, an observer, and three enlisted
men.
A. B. 8 A. ENGINEER
DIES FROM WOUNDS
W. T. Reed, Wounded in En
counter Between Union Strik
ers and Non-Union Trainmen
at Fitzgerald on July 6, Suc
cumbs to Hie Injuries.
Nashville. Ga.. Sept, 3. —The body
of Engineer W. T. Reed arrived In
this city today in a special train over
the Octlla Southern railroad. He will
be buried tomorrow at the Long
Hrfdge grave' yard, this being the
cemetery where all his family are
laid tofre&t.
Engineer Reed was shot on the
night of July 6th, last, and it was
thought for several weeks that D|§
wound would not prove fatfl' On
last Friday be was carried to an At
lanta sanitarium, where be was op
erated on in an effort to locate a bul
let In his leg. and he never did fully
surviveeffect of the operation.
pMgineer Reed was with the A.. B.
A A. railroad company, and it is al
leged that he was shot by employees
of this concern for reason **that
some of the men formerly with the
railroad company were out on a
strike, and It is said that Engineer
Reed at the time he was wounded
was filling a place made vacant by
the striking men.
Engineer Reed was well and pop
ularly known In this city, having been
an employee of the Georgia and Flor
ida Railway company with headquart
ers at this place several years ago.
He la survived by a wife, who was
Miss Hancock, a daughter of Mr. H.
J. Hancock, of this city, and six small
children
IRISH SITUATION SAID TO
BE EXTREMELY GRAVE
(By Associated Press.)
London, Sept. 3. —The Press Asso
ciation says that the Sinn Fein Teplv
is regarded in government circles as
being a definite rejection of tno gov
ernment’s proposals for a dominion
state in Ireland. The situation at the
present time, according to the Press
Association, is considered to be ex
tremely grave.
OIL AGRfEMENT IN
MEXICO IS SI6NEO
American Oil Men Leave For the
United States “Well Satisfied
and Happy,” According to
President Teagle of the Stan
dard Oil Cos., of New Jersey.
(By Associated Press.)
Mexico City, Sept. 3.—Secretary of
the Treasury De LaHqerta, of Mexi
co. and the representatives of the
American oil companies who came
here early in the week to discos the
oilf questions with the Mexican gov
ernment, have reached a satisfactory
agreement'.
Only the signature of President Ob
regon is necessary to complete the
agreement, it is statew. The oil men
will leave for the United States to*’
morrow, “well satisfied and hapoy.”
according to Waiter C. Teagle. presi
dent of the Standard Oil Company, of
New Jersey.
ILLICIT STILL FOUND ON
FASHIONABLE STREET
Savanyan. Sept. 3.—An alleged il
liptt distiller • Jws --been operating in
a big house in one of the most fash
ionable and exclusive residence sec*
tfcms of the city. The discovery of
what vrag apparently a moonshine
outfit waa found by a collector w|jo
was sent to find some mlnwing-furni
ture that bad been bought but had
never been paid for.
Corn., in soak, empty sugar sacks,
alcohol, chensdcglpt etc., were found.
The tenant has-gone, apparently in a
hurry. He left his lease showing he
had paid several hundred dollars for
the lease of the house, and several
auto drivers’ permits were found.
RETAIL FOOD PRICES IN
■ AUGUST WERE HIGHER
3.—Retail food
prices showed 'increases over July
prices in fourteen principal cities, ac
cording to statistics made public to
day by the department of labor.
In Birmingham the prices increas
ed three per cent; Philadelphia six
per cent; Chicago and Washington
five per cent and Little Rock one per
cent
CAUSE OE MACON
EXPLOSION POUND
Workmen Digging in Ruins of
the Brown House Where Six
Lives Were Lost in Recent
Fire, Discover Uncapped Gas
Pipe Just Outside the Build
ing.
* . (By Associated Presa.l
Macon, Ga.. Sept. 3.—Workmen ex
cavating in the ruins of the old Brown
House, where six lives were lost in a
disastrous explosion and fire recently,
discovered an uncapped inch and a
quarter gas pipe ten inches outside
the front of the building, today.
Albert Sharp, state fire marshal,
said tonight that he is satisfied that
gas escaping from this uncapped pipe
seeped under the front of the building,
and caused .the explosion and destruc
tive fire which followed.
Two or three persons whp were in
jured in escaping from the burning
building are still confined in hospi
tals here, and at t least one will be
permanently Mnjured.
HIGHWAY TOUR TO
BEGIN TOMORROW
■
Motorists From Practically Ev
ery City in the Sotlth Will
•Start Journey to Cincinnati
on Labor Day to Attend Dix
ie Highway Celebration.
*
Automobile parties ..from practical
ly every city in the South begin
a journey to Cincinnati, fthio, tomor
row, for the purpose of attending the
annual meeting of the Dixie Highway
to be held In that ctty
Sept. 9-12.
The motorcades will travel over the
three main branches of the Dixie
Highway, converging at Knoxviiii,
Tenm. and will come also frojn the
many subsidiary roads. It esti
mated that there will be a total of
two hundred and*, fifty automobiles to
make the trip. • carrying from two to
five passengers each.
The Jacksonville and other East
ern Florida parties will mak** the trip
by way of Waycross and -Macon,
while representatives from Southeast
ern Georgia cities will come by way
of Brunswick and Savannah, thence
to Augusta. Columbia. Asheville and
Knoxville.
Three or four Brunswick represen
tatives had planned to* m%ke-the trip,
but it was not announced whether the
arrangements had been completed.
The Cincinnati meeting is In celebra
tion of the formal opening of the 440-
mile section of the Dixie Highway,
Eastern division, between Cbatta
norgs and Cincinnati.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
mm HUNDRED
MIN, \'SURRENDER
TO FEI/.I TROOPS
'
Names of Eighty Who Were
Armed Taken, and AH Were
Allowed to Return Home
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GRADUAL DISPERSION OF *
ARMED BANDS FORECAST
Federal Troops ip (the Disturb
ed Area of West Virginia Are
Encountering But Little Op
position, and More Progress
Towards Quieting tfie Trou
ble is Anticipated Today.
'(By Associated Prees.)
Charleston, W.. Va„ Sept. 3.—The
gradual clearing up and dispersion of
the armed bands of miners who have
been opposing state and county forces
along the Boone-Logan county line
was foreseen tonight, as the result of
the surrender of a body of four hun
dred men to federal troops, under
command of Brigadier General Band
holtz.
(After the capitulation the names
were taken of eighty of the men, who
were armed, and all were sent to St.
Albans, and were later allowed to re
turn to their homes.
The federal troops are encounter
ing but little opposition, and are
spreading -out and taking their posi
tions. No further serious opposition
is expected, and more progress to
wards quieting the trouble is antic
ipated tomorrow.
The question of declaring martial
law is still being held in abeyance,
but General Bandboltz said any per
sons arrested would be turned over to
the civil authorities, and that military
rule and civil law would be main
tained concurrently.
There is a general feeling that if
the armed bands will quietly disperse
and return to their homes id profela
iftffiffmi w9m nlf rlOul mi i wutlCra
night that no meetings of miners, or
other citizens, would be allowed in
the disturbed area at the present time.
When asked whether the state and
county forces would,, be required to
disperse, now that the federal troop#
have entered the field, he said these
forces are under his command, and
win do as they are told.
OFFICIALS OPTIMISTIC
OVER SITUATION. j
Washington, Sept. 3.—lndications
that Federal officials generally view
the (situation in West Virginia in an
optimistic Jight was seen'today in the
cancellation of orders holding tralnji
in readiness to take the Sixteenth in
fantry from Camp Dlx, and In Prps- 1
ident Harding leaving for a cru(se
Jown the Potomac river over Labor
Day in the yacht Mayflower.
OFFICERS KERT,BUSY
ESCORTING DRUNKS
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Officers of the Brunswick pcdice
department put int two or three strqn
uou hours during the early part of
night, escorting "drunks" to the
baufacjcs, where they were provided
with comfortable quarters in which to
“sober up" in time to tell It to Judge
Pope Monday morning.
Vp to midnight six arrests had'been
made on charges of drunlc 'and disor
derly conduct, with one or tw 0
drunk charges docketed. "Moon
shine’’ seemed to be flowing In copi
ous quantities, and two or three sail
ors were especially hilarious In their
celebration of having put one pver on
Mr. Volstead. j ' * ’ :
The drunks Included a specimen of
the gentler sex. who insisted that She
was unable to navigate the short dis
tant** to the police station. A cour
teous police officer overcame this ob
jection, however, by volunteering to
transport the tipsy damsel tar his
arms. *,_
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LEGION TO BE REPRESENT
ED AT CONFERENCES
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Sept. 3. —John Thomas
Taylor, vice cbairmam of the national
legislative committee of the Ameri
can Legion, has filed a personal rf
quewt with iPrevident Hardfng and
Secretary Hoover that the Legion be
permitted to have representatives at
the coming unemployment and dis
armament conferences, it was an
nounced from national Legion head
quarters tonight.