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VOLUME XX—NO. 303
HARDWICK DENOUNCES
DYNAMITING ON A.6.&A.
IN STRONG LANGUAGE
“OUTRAGE” WHAT
HE THINKS OF WAY
ROAD IS TREATED
Wretik Near Atlanta Wednesday
Was Caused by Using the
Most Deadly Explosive.
MADE FAMOUS BY FREQUENT
USE IN GREAT WORLD’S WAR
Chief Executive Is Prepared to
Use Power and Authority of
State to Last Ounce in an Ef
fort to Bring to Justice Per
petuators of Deed Which
Sen* Engineer Morris to His
Death and Seriously Dam
aged Much Properly.
Atlanta, Sept. 9.—That acts of vio
lence growing out of strikes, such as
the wrecking of a train by dynamite
on the Atlanta, Birmingham end At
lantic railroad, six miles out of At
lanta Wednesday~night, will nqt be
overlooked or condoned by Governor
Warwick during }Ua administration,
was indicated plainly by his state
ment issued Thursday afternoon re
garding that “outrage,” as the Gov
ernor described it.
Since the beginning of the strike of
brotherhoood employes on this road
on March 5. there have been thirty-
IBWIPP
of the road, when fie called at the
hdvernor's office to ask the protection
of the state in the operation of trains.
The wreck near Atlanta Wednesday
night showed evidences of having
been caused by the use of T. N. T..
the famous explosive developed in the
World War, far mwre powerful and
destructive than dynamite. The ex
poslon blew a driving wheel of the
engine a distance of fifty foot. It lift
ed the engine off the rails, hurled it
against the aide of an embankment,
derailed thirteen freight cars, and re
duced to kindling 'Wood nn overhead
bridge. Houses a mile from the scene
of the .wreck were perceptibly Jarred
by the’explosion. The state highway
department has a quantity of T. N. T..
given It by the government for use
In highway construction, stored about
two milea from the scene of the
wreck. It is believed that this store
house might have been robbed to get
the explosive to place on the tracks.
The Job had all ear marks of expert
handling, In so far as the placing of
the explosHve was concerned.
Attempt to Ruin Road.
“These thirty-three wrecks and t
-tempted wrecks on the lines of our
road." *IU Col. Burr today, “are
plainly Intended to put ua out of bus!*
ness. They nre Intended to create
auth a hazard that wo will bo pro
vented from obtaining employee, pas
senger* or freight.
”A Missouri railroad which b'd a
trlke was put out of business hy
limtlar tactics. The freight and pas
senger traffic wa cut down so henvily
that the road could not meet payrolls.
"A great deal more than the protec
tion <f the Mhvgtn, Birmingham and
Atlantic railroad, and of the lives en
treated to Its keeping. is involved In
this campaign of frightfulness. It in
volves the protection of the life and
property of every inhabitant of the
ehMe. It attack* may be made upon
life and propertv ate&R this railroad
without the perpetrator* of such at
tacka being reught and punished, then
attacks may he made upon life and
property anywhere tn the stole.*
A reward of *SOO for the arrest and
conviction of the person or person*
who wrecked the tran was offered by
Governor Hardwick, thta being the
maximum allowed by law in any sin
fi# case, and the railroad offered a
reward of l&.QOO. making a total of
ft* *OO
Hardwick Dsttmiiui
Governor Hardwick tn hta state
meat issued ta connection with the of-
THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
►
► HURRICANE SWEEPS UP
► FROM CARRIBEAN SEA
► i
► (By Associated Press.)
► Washington, Sept. 9. — The
► weather bureau today advised
► caution fcr all vessels in and
► bound for eastern and central
► Carribean sea during the next 48
► hours, in announcing that a trop
► ical storm is moving west north
► westward over the Carribean.
► The storm at 10 o’clock tonight
► is in Jongtitude 68, latitude 14,
- moving west, northwest and in
► creasing in intensity. Warning
► that it is considered dangerous
► in central Carribean Sea for the
- next thirty-six hours.
►
COTTON MARKET
STILL NERVOUS
Wide Range of Fluctuations But
It Closes at an Advance of
From Sixty-one to One Hun
dred and Twenty-five Points.
(By the Associated Press.)
New York, Sept. 9. —Continued ner
vousness, with a wide runge of fluct
uations, reigned today in the cotton
market, although the intense excite
ment of the past few days had some
what subsided.
Southern selling was held in check
and the advance was born of renewed
stjeprth ef Liverpool and liquidation
with a much less'active market, was
firmer In the afternoon and closed
steady at an advance! of from 61 to
12f* polifts.
KILLED BY LICiHTNIN(i,
NO MARK ON HIS BODY
(By Associated Proas.)
Tampa. Sept. 9. —Though lnstantljj
killed by a bolt of lightning yesterday,
L. L. MeQunrrie. 14. living near St.
Petersburg, not a mark of any kind
was found on his body. The Occident
hnppened while the boy and two com
panions were in a boat on Long
Bayou. The others were stunned but
not hurt.
■-r - *
fer of the reward hnd the following to
say:
“I am prepared to use the power
and authority of the state to Us last
ounce to prevent out rages of this kind
and tc punsh to the limit of the law
the perpetrators of auch outrages
when apprehended.
"1 am fully satiscfled that the peo
ple of Georgia are not prepared to sub
mit to dynamiting outrages of this
character, and that they will support
me nnd the state authorities In suing
every effort that Is possible under
our constitution and laws to prveent
such occurrences and to punish the
perpetrators. The law must be main
tained and 1 hope the responsible
leaders of labor in this state will do
all in their power to second this ef
fort.
"I hope the county and municipal
authorities of every section of Geor
gia where troubles of this sort occur
will evert every power in their re
spective Jurisdictions to preserve law
and order and to protect life and prop
erty. It will be my purpose to snp
j port them to the fullest extent with
[the mllit ry forces of the state when*
j ever necessary.'*
GOVERNOR WOULD MAKE
I COMMISSION ON WRECK !
(By the Associated Press )
Atlanta.. Sept. .—Governor Hard
wick told a delegation of internation-!
al association machinists that if form !
; ally requested he would appoint a;
non partisan commission to determine
! the cause of the wreck on the Atlanta,
iUrmingbom and Atlantic near Allan
'ta Wednesday night, which resulted In
i the death of Engineer Morris.
The machinists denied Receiver
Puggs charges that dynamite caused
the wreck and blamed It on a defec
te engine Formal petition wU h>
. presented tomorrow
THE NEWS IS A MEMBER OF Tgi ASSOCIATED PRESS
► MAYOR J. L. PITTMAN AND
► 19 OTHERS AGAIN INDICTED
V
l (By Associated Press.)
1 Fitzgerald, Sept. 9. —The Ben
► Hill county grand jury today ■
1 returned twent;psix indictfnents
► charging “interference with em
► ployes of the Atlanta, Birming- ■
1 ham and Atlantic railway” in
1 connection with the labor trou
-1 bles on that road.
1 Mayor J. L. 'Pittsman is again
y among the list, which includes
y nineteen previously indicted but
y these were dismissed on a tech
► nically.
y
FURIOUS FIGHTING
ON GREEK VESSEL
New York Prohibition Officers
and Narcotic Agents Raided
Steamship King Alexander
and Serious Results followed
—One Offifficer Suicide.
(By the Associated Press.)
New r York, Sept. 9. —After a raid by
.federal prohibition and narcotic
agents on the Greek steamship King
Alexander today, .in which seven
members of the crew were wounded
by pistol shots, Fra’i't J. Fitzpatrick,
chief narcotic officer here, who had
taken part in the raid, committed
suicide at a near*)/ pier, according to
a police report.
The Fight.
The raid was under the direction of
Ernest L. Langley, chief federal en
forcement agent In New York. The
agents searched the vessel thoroughly
the crew fleeing before them below
decks. There were intimlttont pistol
shots from both crew and agents as
the search progressed and when tin
battle subsided three of the wounded
men were found lying in their bunks.
Mr. Langley said that S3OO had just
been paid by one A of the advance
part of the contraband
. V- ~ chew's
Husplefmn wefearimsed
Valuable Haul.
Other federal agents were convers
ing with Fitzpatrick in a room qf a
ferry house near the King Alexander’s
dock In Brooklyn when he shot him
self in the heart, the police said. The
wounded members of the crew had
Just been sent to a hospital and the
prohibition and narcotic agents wore
returning to Manhattan with con-;
Vacated drugs valued at $76,000 and
liquor valued at $16,000. Fitzpatrick
Nvas 28 years old and before joining
the federal forces here lived in
Bridgeport, Conn.
Valuable Haul.
Liquor valued at $15,000 ard drugs
valued at $75,000 were confiscated.
The King Alexander participated in a
midnight race to port from beyond
the three-mile limit on September 1.
in an effort to make sure that the
immigrants on board would be ad
mitted to the country under the
monthly quota regulations.
More than a score of shots were ex
changed by the crew and fifteen pro
hibition agents. tNone of the prohi
bition agents was hurt.
To Buy Staff.
In order to obtain evidence, the
prohibition agents said, two of them
arranged on Wednesday with mem
bers of the crew to pay $14,000 on the
vessel today for the liquor and drugs.
These two went on the vessel alone.
Meanwhile a member of the crew no
ticed a launch with the other agents
approaching. He warned bis com
rades and the battle began.
The shooting attracted customs
guards and police reserves, who sur
rounded the pier to prevent the crew
from fleeing. The prohibition agents
said, however, that an officer of the
vessel to whom they were to pay the
money, had vanished. The wounded
members of the crew were taken to a
hospital undej arrest.
ADMINISTRATION WILL
BACK PHILLIPS IN GEORGIA
(By* the Associated Press.)
Columbus. 0.. Sept. t. —Mayor Her
bert A. Atherton of Newark. 0.. waa
removed from office today by Gover
nor Harry L. Bevl* on charges of
grass neglect filed by the Newark l*aw
and Order League.
Evidence showed the Governor an
nounced, that gambling has been run
ning wide open in Newark and that
Mayor Atherton was derelict in prose
cuting the gamblers
BRUNSWICK. GEOWIA SATURDAY. SEPT. 10, 1921.
“OFFIGIALfDARIEN
INVITED VINE BV
YOUNG IN'S CLOG
Mayor and His Entire Alder
manic Board May Accept
and Be Over Friday.
WEEKLY LUNCHEON WAS
UNUSUALLY INTERESTING
1
s
Committee to Get to Work on
Matter of Street Car Line, a
Committee Being Appointed
to Get Out and Solicit Stock
Subscription for Same
Gathering Was Full of In
terest to the City Generally.
The regular weekly luncheon of the
Young Men’s Club yesterday was well
attended and matters of great im
portance to Brunswick were discuss
ed, foremost among these being the
street railway. George C. Smith,
chairman of the committee suggested
that a comniittef composed of the
entire membership of the club be
named for the purpose of soliciting
funds, making a great drive next
Tuesday to finance the line and this
committee will meet at the Oglethorpe
next Tuesday morning and make a
whirlwind campaign. The report nwde
by Mr. Smith was an interesting one,
among other things he impressed his
hearers with the proposition that
Brunswick cannot afford, to be with
out its street car service.
The club decided to invite the May
or and Council of Darien, as well as
other citizens of tint thriving litfle
town, to the regular luncheon next
Friday and it is likely that the invita
tion will be accepted. It is the pur
pose of the ,club to keep right close
to our now near neighbors as the in
terest of the two peoples is almost
idjjmtical and what will benefit one
wiilf benefit the other. Co-operation
w® be urged when the Darien folk
QCmk, oarer, and, it,, im* toped that,, they
will the invitation with th£
same spirit in which ft was extended.
The Cljae Line steamer matter was
taken up and the BoartJ of Trade, Ro
tary Club and people of the city gen
erally, were urged to to do oil within
their power toward securing the nec
essary business to make the line a
paying proposition.
The speech of Governor Hardwick,
delivered In Savannah on Day
in which he said that port was the
logicl one for great terminals! and dis
cussed at length and a committee was
named to see that Brunswick shall
have a square deal In the state term
inal matter.
METHODISTS ASK
PEACE 111 IRELAND
Resolution Passed Expresses
the Hope Success Will Crown
Negotiations Between Great
Britain and Sinn Fein and
That All Will End Well.
(By Associated Press.)
London, Sept 9. —The world’s con
ference of Methodists at the outset of
today’s session adopted a resolution
declaring the conference hoped that
complete success would crown the
negotiations between the British gov
ernment and the Irish republicans for
a solution of the Irish question. Th*
resolution said:
"This conference, representing al
most forty million adherents, is watch
ing with prayerful and deeoly solici
tous Interestt he present attempt a* a
satisfcietory and permanent aljnst
ment cf Irish affairs and (errently
hopes that complete suece s may
crown the negotiations.”
The delegates naanimously ordered
that copies of the resolution be rent
to Prime Minister IJoyd Te'-go and
Eamonn de Valera, the Irtih republi
can leader.
REPORT RICH GOLD FIND.
Fairbanks. Alaska. Sept. 9. —Re-
ports reaching here describe the rich
est gold strike since the Clear Creek
days, along the WUbur creek, north
of here. A stampede of miners and
prospector* was underway immedi
ately. Advices reaching local papers
indicated s*n*atk>ua) discoveries
Trolley Train Wrecks Hotel,
Gives Sleepers View of Street
How the collision left the front of the Victoria Hotel. '
A train of trolley cars acted as a rude alarm clock for guests in the
Victoria Hotel in Springfield, Mass. It aroused the sleepers early in the
morning by crashing into the front of the livestory brick building, jarring
the front of the structure off. The corner rooms were exposed to view
from the main street. Motorman James M. Irwiin, in the front car, was
in the building when he climbed from his car.
ESCAPE DEATH BV
A NARROW MARGIN
Yacht Burns at Detroit With
Six Prominent Men on Board
Among Number Being Phelps
Newberry, Son of United
States Senator Newberry.
(By the Associated Press.)
Detroit. Sept. 9.—Six men. includ
ing Phelps Newberry, son of Senator
Truman H. Newberry, and several
prominent Detroit business men, nar
orwlv escaped death last night when
the fifty-foot gasoline launch Kismet,
owned by F. Walter Oulbert. burned
to thed water’s edge In Lake St. Clair,
three miles off Grosse Polnte, Detroit
suburb. After battling for more than
three hours against a heavy sea the
six men. In a small rowboat, early
teday reached the Grosse Pointe club
house. Guibert, badly burned about
the hands and with his lungs scorch
ed by the flames as he fought the fire
aboard his craft, is in a hospital. He
is expected to recover.
The fire was caused by hack-firing
of the Kismet’s engine.
ALL IS QUIET IN
MINING DISTRICT
Heavy Rains of Yesterday Stop
ped Threatened March of
Miners on Two Places, Eliza
bethtown and Rosielare
Deputy Sheriffs to Continue
Patrolling.
Elizabethtown. 111., Sept. 9. —Armed
quiet continues to prevail here and at
Rosielare today followingtienvy rains
yesterday, which stopped a threaten
ed march & striking Florfrspar miners
on these two towns.
Deputy sheriffs continued to patrcl
the roads and hold hflsl and other
points of vantage, but-word from the
miners’ camps last night was to the
effect that the men were returning in
groups to their homes. County offi
cials believed"'that the trouble might
be ended.
Frank 8. Dickson, adjutant general.
Is expected here today to begin an tn
vestliration, after which a decision
will probably be made as to whether
state troops are needed.
TOKIO WELCOMES
HER CROWN PRINCE
Hirohito Has Just Completed a
Successful Tour of the Occi
dent and Is Given an Enthus
iastic Reception When He
Reaches Home.
(By the Associated Press.)
Tokio, Sept. 9.—Tokio’s two and
one-half million people today gave a
characteristic expression of Japanese
loyalty to Crown Prince Hlrotito, the
heir apparent, whose recent success
ful tour of the Occident has appealed
to popular imagination and undoubt
edly aroused new and more demo
cratic Interest in the imperial family.
Cheer Prince.
Thousands roared cheers of greet
ing a# the prince addressed the multi
tude.
Tonight a mu mmoth procession,
bearing a hundred thousand Japanese
lanterns, serenaded Prince Hirohito’s
palace. He again addressed the mul
titude emphasizing the urgency of es
tablishing world peace, and alluding
to the necessity of dong everythng
posable to contrbute to the success
of the fortheomng Washington con
ference on limitations of armaments.
Coming to Arnericg.
It is understood that Takuma Dan.
with numerous other prominent Jap
anese of Tokio. Yokohoma and
will soon sail for America and later
will go to Kngland.
The newspaper Nichl Nicbi Shim
bun says the object of the visit is to
convince Americans that Japan does
not Intend aggression but only peace
ful and economic development.
NEWARK. 0., RUN WIDE OPEN
■MAYOR HAS BEEN REMOVED
Washington. Sept. 9,—The admin
istration at Washington and the Re
publican national committee are de
termined to hack State Chairman J.
L. Phillips to the limit In the distrib
ution of Georgiap atronage. This
means that the row that is being rats
ed by certain Georgia individuals will
amount to nothing.
So far Dismukes Is the only person
that has been Indorsed by State Cfezlr
man Phillips for a Georgia appoint
ment. He will certainly be appoint
ed state prohibition enforcement offi
cer if Chairman Phillips adheres to
hie inducement Inasmuch as Mr.
fair
FIVE CENTS
W-M NAMES
l\ Nation for
iIENUKT
Secretary Hughes Heads List of
Those Who Will Represent
• United States There.
PLENIPOTENTIARY POWERS
IS NOT GIVEN TO MEMBERS
t
Conference Proper Will Consist
,of Twenty Members, fach of
the Major Powers Having
Agreed to be Repiesented by
Four Possessions With as
Many Advisers—Will Sit in
General Conference Only
When Far Eastern Problems
Are Taken Up.
(Ry the Associated Preset)
Washington, Sept. 9. —President
Harding today announced the full
American delegation to the armament
conference, as follows: Secretary
Hughes of New York, Senator Lodge
of Massachusetts, and Senator Un
derwood of Alabama.
The conference proper will consist
of twenty.each of the five major pow
ers having agreed to be represented
by four possessions with as many ad
visers and experts'as they ‘may de
sire.
China’s delegation will sit In the
general conference only when the far
eastern problems are taken up and
Belgium, Holland and other nations
will be represented when their far
eastern interests 13 re affected.
Delegates will not have the pleni
potentiary powers, it was explained,
as the agreements of conferees will,
by agreement, require the express
sanction of their representative gov
ernments.
Inquiries at the White House on the
possibilities of another association of
nations, developing from the arma
ment conference,, not with the state
ment thfi f the arm ft men t council Itself
will be a “nations in assertion.” Also
said President Harding did not de
sire to “cluster up too much” arma
ment with extraneous question but to
crystalize public sentiment on the
limitation of armaments.
STEAMSHIP OWNERS AND
LONGESHOREMEN DISAGREE
(By the Associated Press.)
New York, Sept. 9. —Longshoremen
handling overseas freight and steam
ship owners hailed to agree today on
the wage question and reports of the
negotiations will be submitted to lo
cal unions for further action.
The longshoremen demanded 72
cents an hour with SI.OB for overtime,
while the steamship owners offered
65 cents an hour and $1 overtime.
MURDER AND SUICIDE IN
A-BOSTON STREET CAR
(By the Associated Press.)
Boston. Bept. 9. —Murder and sui
cide by shooting ocurred In a street
car In the West Roxbury district to
day.
Mrs. Ella Wells, who recently ob
tained a divorce was ahot by her
former husband, Charles A. Wells,
who then killed himself. It was re
ported to the police that other per
sons in the car were wounded by the
shooting.
PLUCKY WOMAN OUTWITS
BANDIT, SAVES BANK ROLL
(By the Associated Press.)
W’lndsor, Ont., Sept 9. —Joe AUen Is
$6,000 richer Friday because Mr*. Al
len had the nerve to perform a feat
of legerdemain with a bandit’s pistol
pressed against her head. 1 *
Kneeling before a safe fri her home
at the robber’s command with a pis
tol at her head. Mrs. Allen opened the
safe and swept SO,OOO Into her lap.
Then she handed the robber S9OO with
which he escaped in an automobile.
Phillips has undertaken to reorgan
ize the party In Georgia at the request
of the national committee the Wash
ington authorities ay it would be an
ingratitude to throw him down and
recognize some other element In
Georgia in the distribution of patron
age