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SHOWERS PROBABLE.
VOLUME XX—NO. StS SIS
AFTER SHOOTING
RIVAL WOMAN POT
END TO OWN LIFE
Miss Mildred Hanan, Daughter
of Shoe Manufacturer,
is Shot. *
JEALOUS RIVAL FIRED
THREE BULLETS IN BODY
Dead Woman Had Sent Several
Threatening Letters to Wo
man She Killed.—Mother of
Suicide in San Francisco Re
fuses to Discuss Affair.—
Closes Door in Face of Re
porters.
(By Associated Press.)
New York, Sept. 23—Miss Mildred
Hanan was shot three times early
this morning as she was emerging
from an apartment house in Brook
lyn with John S. Boland, an im
porter.
Miss Hanan is said by the pojice
to be the daughter # of the late Alfred
P. Hanan, the wealthy head of Hanan
& Son, shoe manufacturers.
The three shots which struck Miss
Hanan were fired by Mrs. Grace
Lawes, who then immediately ended
her own life by firing another shot in
to her own head.
According to a statement made by
the police Boland attributed the
shooting to Jealousy on the part of
Mrs. Lawes, admitting that he re
cently quarreled with Mrs. Lawes ov
er Miss Hanan.
Miss Hanan’s condition is Reported
to be critical, but not necessarily fa
tal.
Boland Raid he had gone to Brook
lyn yesterday afternoon wtih Miss
Hanan to help her seek anew apart
ment and the trip ended with a visit
to 141*8 Dorothy Oottnchalk. a friend
of her family. He was unable to ex*,
their whereahotffsl ’iFßly'
left the apartment about 1:90 this
rooming and encountered Mrs. Lawes
aa they stepped into the street.
Mrs. Lawes, who is a daughter of
Mrs. M. K. Dlttinan. of San Francis
co, was a distant relative of Mlsh
Hanan, and had lived with Mias Ha
nan and the latter’s mother four
years tn an apartment in an exclusive
Park* avenue district of Manhattan.
The police say that she sent several
threatening letters to Miss Hanan.,
Two letters were found in Mrs. Lawes
pocketbook, one addressed *to her
mother, which asked for forgiveness
for what she had done, and the other
to a nurse asking her to take the body
tp Han Francisco.
Miss Hanan is 24 years of age, and
Mrs. Lawes was 32. Boland admit*
td that he was very fond of Miss
Hanan, but denied that they were en
gaged.
ALLEGED MOTHER
WON’T INTERVIEW.
8n Francisco, Kept. 23. —Mrs. M.
H. Dtttmar, said to be the mother of
Mrs. Grace Lawes, who ended N>r life
this morning after shooting Miss Mil
dred Hanan In ftfew York, denied such
relationship when questioned % a
newspaper representative this morn
Ing. She cut short the interview by
cloatng the door in his face.
TWO NEGROES TO DIE
PROTESTING INNOCENCE
Savannah Os., Sept. 23.—Although
sentenced to bo hung on September
BG, Friday of next week, James Har
vey and Joe Jordon, , b >th colored,
Wednesday night stated they knew
nothing of the sentence or the crime,
hut ao fir as. they were .concerned
nothing was or, would be don# to stay
their execution.
The negro#* were convicted of As
saulting a woman near Jesup. They
were given a jff*v*<ty trial at Joaup
and were brought to Savannah for
safekeeping. Their attorney agreed
to allow them to be sentenced without
taking them back to Jesup. They
were Wednesday told of the sentence.
JOHNNY BUFF, JERSEY CITY.
BANTAMWEIGHT CHAMPION.
(Continued on page 3.)
New York. Sept, 21—Johnny Puff,
of Jersey City. American "flyweight**
champun. worn the world's bantam
weight championship here tonight
when be received the judge's and wMon
over Fete Herman, on New Crleana.
at the end of fifteen rounds
THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
THE NEWS IS A MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HONOR UNKNOWN DEAD '
TWIG-MINUTE PERIOD.
Washington, '23.—The
nation is asked today by Pres
ident Harding to sjtand at a
pause for a period bf two min
utes at noon Armistice Day to
pay honor to tfie unknown dead
of the world’s war when the
unknown American soldier will
be buried in Arlington.
ADMITS HURLING
ACID ON HUSBAND
Charge of Murder is Made
Against Widow of Prominent
Akron, Ohio, Business Man,
Following a Long Confession
Yesterday.
(By Associated Press.)
Akron, 0., Sept. 23.—Mrs. Minnie
L. Derr, 42, was in the Peoples Hospi
tal Friday, suffering from a nervous
collapse following her sensational
confession to the throwing of acid
into the face of her husband, Galvin
R. Derr, Akron hastiness man, who
died from inhaling the poisonous
fumes.
A charge of murder was entered
against her on the police court dock
et and Prosecutor A. D. Doyle today
was preparing for her arraignment
as soon as doctors permitted her to
be taken from the hospital.
Mrs. Derr, arrested in her room at
her home following funeral services
over her husband’s body yesterday af
ternoon, broke down under question
ing Inst night and shrrleked: “Yes,
I threw it."
"Oh, God—l didn’t mean tb kill him,
I didn’t want to kil ihlm." *
She moaned and then fell in a faint
on the floor.
In an Hdjpinlng room her four chib
M'ffi WonßsSlmi "K’ of th<*m YouT
refused to believe their mother was
guilty. The fourth. Harry, uge 20
years, smiled grimly.
"Don’t blame 'my mother far cutting
the telephone wires and locking the
door of my room.” she told officers
following the confession. *‘l did that.
But 1 never would have told, no mat
ter hod much I might have been tor
tured.”
A home made unhappy through the
huaband’s attentions to other women
was the cause for her act, according
ot the confession.
TIFT COUNTY VETERANS
HOLD ANNUAL REUNION
(Continued on page 3.)
Tlfton, Gft.. Sept. 23. —The annual
reunion of the Confederate Veterans
of Tift county was held at Murrow
Springs Wednesday, the Daughters
of the Confederacy in charge of the
program, the Veterans. Sons and
Daughters, with their families, tak
ing in the rettnlon. Colonel R. E.
Dlnsmore, npd Col. R. C. Ellis, of Tif
ton, and Major B. F. Brimherry. of Al
bany, were the speakers for the oc
casion. W. E. Alges Introduced the
A fine dinner, including barbecue
and many other gogod things to eat.
was served. The Tlfton Concert
Band furnished music, and Dr. L. A
Baker treated the vets to some old
fashioned songs, the Veterans rf
spending with the rebel yell.
SERIES WILL DETERMINE
PENNANT WINNER OF 1021
New York. Sept. 23.—'Tris Speak
er’s Cleveland Indians are here to
day for the (Inal four games of the
season with the Yankees In which It
Is believed that the 12l pennant race
will be decided.
The reserved peat section* at the
Polo, grounds have all sold out
for the series. Experts estimate that
close to oe hundred and fUty thou
sand fans Will see the four games.
NO NIDICTMENTS IN LOST
ATLANTA POLICE RECORDS
Atlanta. Sept. 23. —After a number
of witnesses had appeared before the
Fulton county grand Jury today. So
licitor General Boykin announced
that evidence was Insufficient to war
rant true bills against the alleged dis
appearance of. municipal court reef
out* of the disorderly conduct ease
charged against K Y Clark, of the
Ku Klus Klan
MAKYTHOUSANDSEE
MARTIIN-PONSELL
PAY DEATH PENALTY
Gathered at Crestview, Fla.,
From Radius of More Than
a Hundred Miles.
YOUNGER MURDERER DID
NOT KEEP HIS IRON NERVE
Ponsell Broke Down When on
Gallows and Had to be Held
Up, But Martin Kept His
Nerve and Went to Death
Asking Forgiveness From
Mrs. Tuggle, Mother of Mur
dered Boy.
Jake Martin, about 35 years of age,
for many years a resident of Bruns
wick, and Putnam Ponsell, 25 years of
age, who was born and spent* his ear
ly life at Everett City, this county,
were hnged at Crestview, Fla., at 12
o’clock yesterday in the present of
twelve thousand people, who reach
ed the scene of the double hanging
by every known mrde'of locomotion
—the automobile, the carriage, the
mule team, the or cart, the bicycle
and—on foot. But over twelve thou
sand Florida people wanted to see the
\nnjesty of the law upheld. Not was
this all true about the majesty of the
law because Information reached The
News last night that men, old and
decrepid, propped up on their pfllows
in open wagons, wanted to behoid the
placing of the noose about the hecks
of the condemned men.
Martin Rattled,
Early In the day It had been re
ported that Martin would be the one
who would have to be tied. This was
hut a natural conclusion to reach as
he had completely broken down the
day before and bftfimue. fryftterial, but
he announced that Tic was ready to
meet his Maker. He wrote Mrs. Tug
gle, the dead boy’s mother, asking
her forgiveness and made suggestions
ns to the taking up of a subscription
for the wife and little ones he would
Hoon leave. He seemed resigned to
his fate and was,ready when the sher
iff notified him that he had come to
escort him to the gallows.
Ponsell Broke Down.
But Putnam Ponsell. young and in
experienced In crime, with a mind
said to he at the time anything but
normal, caused the executions de
layed until he could be brought to
bis senses. It was announced yester
day that the young man intended be
ing stoic but his nerve failed him at
the last moment and the twelve thou
sand who went to the scene expecting
a sensational hanging, g t Just what
they went for. It was a scene hor
rible in the extreme.
RESERVATIONS 111
' PEACE TREATIES
Foreign Relations Committee of
Senate Had the Two Reser
vations Which All the Land*
Has Heard About.—-What
These Reservations Are.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington. Sept. 23. —Treaties of
peace negotiations by the administra
tion with Germany and Austria and
Hungary, were approved today by the
senate- foreign relations committee
but with two reservations. One of
the reservations is similar to the
Lodge reservation Injected In the
Versailles treaty requiring an act of
congress prior to representation or
participation by this government in
foreign agencies or affairs. Nomina
tions of these representative* would
have to be confirmed by the senate.
Other reservations were designed
to protect property rights of Ameri
can citizen* as well as the American
government in other enemy states.
President Harding announced that
while he had not seen the text of the
reservations, he did favor the princi
ple* Involved and would not object
to them All reservations to the trea
ties are scheduled to be called ia the
senate tomorrow.
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA SATURDAY, SEPT. 24, 1921.
PEACE SITUATION IS DISCUSSED AT
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Left to right: Gen. S(r Neville McCready, commander of crown forces in Ireland; Lord Fitzalan, viceroy of
Ireland; Sir Edmond Gregg (in rear); Mrs. David Lloyd George; Lord Seaforth, host; Premier Lloyd
George; Sir Hamar Greenwood, chief secretary for Ireland, and Lady Seaforth, hostess, photographed
at Brahan castle. *
Informal discussions of the. Irish peace negotiations mark the time between the .formal meetings of
the British and Irish leaders. Th j photo above was taken at one rf these informal gatherings. Premier Lloyd
George and the other BriDsl. leaders shov*i above were guests at a “cabinet house party’’ at Brahan castle,
Lord Seaforth’s home at Inverness, Scotland. *
COAL OPERATORS
ASK PROTECTION
TTielr Employees E’v
ery Right For Peaceful Pur
suit of Work in Mingo Coun
ty, West Virginia.
(By Associated Press.)
Indianapolis. Ind., Sept. 23.—Suits
asking for Injunction against the
United Mine Workers of America of
ficers and members, was filed In the
Federal district court here today by
the Borden Land end Coal corpora
tion. of West Vigrinia, to prevent the
union from interfering with its em
ployees in Thacker and Williamson
coal fields of Mingo county. West Vir
ginia. and Pike county, Kentucky.
Plaintiff averß that it brings it suit
In behalf of Itself and sixty-two min
ing companies in the Thacker and
Williamson district*. The court is
also asked to adjudge as llegtfi and
void contracts heretofore between op
erator in the general competitive
field and united mine workers, which
contracts, it is averred, provide closed
shop and payment of check-off.
SUSPECTS GERMANY HAVING
STOCK OF SECRET STORES.
Paris, Sept. 23. —French govern
ment chemists have commenced an
investigation at Oppati. Germany,
with a view of determining the cause
of the -explosion there this week
which caused hundreds of deaths.
The real purpose of the investiga
tion. tt is stated. Is to determine
whether secret waV stores and muni
tions had been clandestinely manu
factured and stored there. says a
Mavence* dispatch to the Paris Jour
nal.
The chemists* examination so far
have shown that / the, explosion was
caused by the decomposition of anew
explosive which was the product of
nltro sulphate of ammonia, from
which o-wpoder* were expected as a
fertilizing agent. t*
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MURDERER OF MOTHER
GETS LIFE TERM ON FARM
floonevifle. Ind.. Sept. ** —William
DeffendoU! seventeen year told hoy.
was found guilty today for the murder
of jiis seventy year old mother.
The jury fixed his punishment at
life imprison mention the state farm.
The boy told the sheriff and coroner
that he had accidentally wooded his
mother while squirrel hunting and
killed bUV to end her suffering. State
contended that he had quarreled with
her the day before the shooting.
DYNAMITE FOUND
UNDER A.B.SA.TRACK
TWENTV-SIX STICKS, WITH
DRV CELLS ATTACHED, LO
CATED UNDER TRACKS OF
ROAD NEAR THERE.
Fitzgerald, Sept. 23.—Twenty
six sticks of dynamite with dry
cells and attached to rails, were
found under the Atlanta, Bir
mingham ft Atlantic tracks near
here today. *
The find was made by secret
officers o fthe road, it was an-.,
nounced.
It is rumored that a number of
sleuths are here in the hope of
landing the reward offered for the
persons responsible for the
wrecking of the freight train near
Atlanta, coming to this point for
first-hand information.
HUNTED WHISKEY
AT CAMPMEETING
Senator Watson Tells a Few
Happenings in Georgia Dur
ing Recess Period When Sen
ate Was Figuring on the Anti-
Beer Bill.
Washington. Sept. 23.—The senate,
after an eight hoar continuous ses-j
slon. adjourned tonight with the pros
pect that further consideration of the
anti-beer bill will go cnrer for several
weeks.
Opponents of the measure were suc
cessful In obstructive tactics, despite
the fact that the dry* forced the
night session.
Senator Watson, Democrat, of
lGeorgia, took occasion to . say that
during the recess of congress recent
ly. murder and other outrages had
been committed in his state by prohi
bition enforcement agents. He recit
ed several alleged cases, among them
was one where a Methodist camp
meeting wss visited by officers and
every automobile searched for li
quor.
CONFESSED SLAYER SENTENCED
Cleveland. 0., Sept. 23. —Salvatore
Cala. the confessed slayer of Daniel
Kaber. the wealthy publisher, two
years ago. was found rnil'v o' first
degree, murder Friday and recom
mended for mercy. Judge Cull sent
enced him to life imprisonment.
COMPANY MEETS,
OFFICERS NAMED
Genfir
al Accessories Company Held
at Headquarters of New Or
ganization and Considerable
Business Transacted,
At the headquarters of the com
pany, corner Newcastle and F streets,
last night, stockholders of the Gen
eral Accessories company met and
formally organized, following officers
and directors being named: Sara E.
Brown, president; R. L. Philips, sec
retary and treasurer. Directors: L.
R. Akin, George C. Smith. J. B.
Abrams, S. K. Brown, W. T. Grimes.
It is noted thta only two officers were
named at the session last bight, this
being done in order that the com
pany may begin functioning at once
as the other officers will be named
at a meeting to be held later.
Those who are to guide the Genera!
Accessories company are business
men of know ability and in the board
of directors are some of the city’s
leaders. The company will begin op
eration between October first and fif
teenth, with every prospect of suc
cess.
In the meantime, material is being
aHKembled and when the company
starts It will have enough on hand
to operate many weeks. The main
output will be cosy curtains, a de
vice which will be bought by the av
erage automobile owner. Besides
this the company can manufacture
anything made of leather or fabric
and it may be that other lines may
be added. The cosy curtain, though,
promises jto meet with such a warm
welcome on the market It is doubtful
if the plant will handle any other line
but confine its efforts to this alone.
The staring of the factory* of the
Genera! Accessories company, means
another manufacturing enterprise for
Brunswick and while not as large as
sotpe, Jt may grow and develop to
Immense proportions. A factory
manager will reach here in a few days
from Gainesville and by the middle
of the coining month everything will
be humming at the plant.
ARBUCKLF. CASE AGAIN
HAD MUCH QUESTIONING
San Francisco, Sept. 23.—The spot
light of testimony again turned to
day toward the tragedy of Virginia
Rappe. the film actress, to determine
where Fatty Arbuckle, the film co
roerdian, would be tried for mordyr
or on the charge of manslaughter *n
connection with the girl’s death. To
day’s session was to begin at two
o’clock.
S HO WEFTS
PRICE FIVE CENTS
FIRST CASE HERE
i|NDER WORKMEN’S
Krauss & Strong Appear Before
Commissioner L. J. Kilburn
Yesterday.
REPRESENTING WIDOW J. H.
BACON, PRAWN FISHERMAN.
i .
Was Master of Boat Owned by
David Davis & Cos., Who Had
Followed Georgia Workmen’s
Compensation Act by Having
All Employees Insured in
Travelers.—Admiralty Point,
It Sems, is Involved.
A most interesting case was heard
yesterday before Hon. L. J. Kilburn,
one of the commissioners appointed
by the governor known as the Indus
trial -Commission, administrating the
Georgia . Workmen’s Compensation
Act, which Aras passed by the legisla
ture of Georgia in 1920. All persons
employing more than 10 laborers are
required by the law to take out in
dustrial and protective insurance to
pay the servants who may be in
jured or killed while the service of
the master, regardless of whether
the servant was the cause of his in
jury or death, or whether the master
was liable for the injury or death.
The case before Commissioner Kil
burn heard at the court house yester
day morning grew out of the death of
|H. Bacon, colored, who
badly burned and drowned, being the
captain in charge of one of the prawn
fishing boats of David Davis ft Cos.
The gasoline tank exploded and Ba
con lost his life while he was going
to make a catch of prawn.
Davis and company had a policy
of insurance with the Travelers In*
aurance Company, of Hartford, Conn.,
and irt-FYent That fftb defcdht&fl' Ba
con was protected under the policy,
Bacon’s widow would be entitled to
receive $3,000, or $lO per week for
300 weeks.
The insurance company contends
that inasmuch as Bacon was running
on a prawn boat and catching the
prawn from the waters of Oglethorpe
Bay and the Inlets of the sea and as
well on the sea itself and bringing
the catch to the plant for canning,
that the admiralty court and not the
courts of the state would have exclu
sive right to try the case and the
Workmen’s Compensation Act would
not affect the case and there would
be no liability under the policy of In
surance. Krauss and Strong appear
ed for the widow of deceased; while
Attorney J. W. Elmore appeared for
the Insurance company.
Commissioner Kilburn will render
bis decision upon the evidence sub
mitted and the law within the next
few days. Very likely the case will
be appeajgd to the full commission
and then probably on to the supreme
court of the United States.
If it is ruled as the law that the
state has no jurisdiction of employes
operating the prawn boats around
Brunswick, it will effect very many
people. And a number of employers
will not take out insurance if it is
held that the state court has no right
to award compensation to a prawn
fisherman, simply because he works
on the water part of the time. The
result <of ,the case will be watched
with much interest by the people of
the city.
NOTED FRENCH AVIATOR
KILLED IN PLANE WRECK
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(Continued on page 8.)
Ktajnpe*. ; Sept. 23.—Captain Ber
nard de Komunet. the noted French
aviator, and bolder of the world's
speed record for one kilometer, was
instantly killed here today while tak
ing part in the eliminat on races for
the Deutsche de la Meurtbe cup.
fThe fanvas on hfs 'biplane tore
while he was flying over one hundred
snd eighty miles an hour, causing bis
machine to crash to the ground.
LABOR WILL DEMONSTRATE.
Washington* Sept. 23. —Labor ari
ganizations of Great Britain, France,
Italy and Japan were asked to Join
in a “world wide demonstration for
disarmament" on Armistice Day,
when the armment conference as
semble*. in cablegrams sent out today
by Samuel Coropers