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GENERALLY FAIR.
VOLUME XX—NO. Vfl 3\y
RIFLEMEN TO HAVE
BIG CELEBRATION
ON OCTOBER 22 NO.
•
It Will be Sixty-first Anniver
sary of Organization of
the Cornpany.
J. J. SPEARS, JOHN J. SMITH,
HENRY HOLMES, SURVIVORS
Capt. Harwell Laying Plans For
, Observance of Or-
Uftanization’s Natal Day, and
** Interesting Features Will be
on Program at Headquarters
That Night.—Three Gray
v haired Vets Honor Guests.
The evening of Saturday, October
22, will be an eventful one with the
Brunswick Riflemen because on this
occasion there will be a general cel
ebration of the sixty-first anniversary
of the organization of the company
and there will be three members as
special guests of the evening, who
shouldered their muskets and march
ed to the front in the memorable days
of the ’sixties —John J. Spears, John
# J. Smith and Henry Holmes —the sur
vivors of) an organization of more
than sixty men.
in Many Battles.
The old flag carried to the front by
the Brunswick Riflemen is now being
tenderly cared for and It will be
around this that the present members
will gather and with the three old
grizzled warriors will once more hon
or it. * Not oniy the flag, but numer
ous other relics will be there to touch
thtf hearts of the younger generation
and bring memories of the past to
the older ones. All three of the sur
vlVors of the Riflemen will be asked
for short talks and these will be in
teresting. It is a matter of history
that the Brunswick Riflemen was in
ther thickest of the fighting and wher
ever stilt it became known as one of
Southern Confederacy.
Returning a ragged remnant of the
proud /lower of Brunswick’s young
citizenry, ther organization was kept
Intact and through many occasions in
times of peace the company has been
called upon and rendered gallant and
valuable service—-the Jeaup riot be
Inc among the number.
Tajiks of Long Ago.
A (feature of the anniversary cele
bration will be addresses by the three
survivors. Each WHtjtell in his own
way of the many battles In which the
glqrious Riflemen participated and
they are well qualified to do this as
sfartC will show. Mr. Spear Bandßand
Mr. Holmes are well known and high
ly respected citizens of the city while
Mr. Smith is one of Glynn’s best
known and popular farmers.
Ladles Will be Invited,
f Many of the ladies of the ‘city will
add to the interesting occasion ly
theif presence. . Borne of these re |
member welf the day their sweetheart
or V ro ** ler marched off to the front
wttlj the Brunswick Riflemen, some
never to return. It is to be an inter
esting program and Capt. Harwell is
leaving nothing undone to make the
occasion one long to be remembered.
THREE CRIPPLES
HOLD UP AND ROB
• 4 f r ,*
Man Sitting in Automobile Near
Waiter Reed Hospital in
Washington it Made to Give
.Up by a Trio of “Afflicted”
Crooks. * .
Weeblngton. Sept, 2. —The police
today are looking for tliree highway
mao cripple*, two on crutches amt the
other hobbling cm a cans who test
nlfht held up Thomas Paynq of this
city, and robbed him of S2O. accord
tag to Payne - * complaint to ti<j { po-
Ucq.
Payne told the police he was clttlog
In ht* automobile. accompanied by e
young woman, on a road about 100
yards from the Walter Rebel Army
hospital, when at pl*tol point he was
commanded to leere the machine by
three men who hobbled acrce* the
road Uh him. taro on crutches and
another with cane, appropriated the
•SO and then, ordering him beck to
the ear. threatened to ehoot unless be
drove slowly. He described all
three a* bailee* and coaUee*.
THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
LIGHTNING HITS GASOLINE TANK;
ShS j
, M v j r — 1
Lightning struck a gasoline tank of the Standard Oil Cos., at Louis
ville, Ky„ during a recent thunderstorm. The photograph shows the steel
tank, seventy feet in. diameter and forty feet high, crumbling under the
intense heat of 832,764 gallons of bu rning “gas,” which stood twenty-nine
feet deep in the bank when it exploded.
“Finis” Written in Tragic
Life Story of Jake Martin
“Finis" was written to the tragic
life story of Jake Martin, native
Brunswickian, here yesterday morn
ing when the remains of the young
man who. on last Friday, gave his life
on the gallows nt*Crestvlew, Fla., as
of his father In Palmetto cemetery,
in the presence of heart-broken mem
bets of his family, and friends, whoso
all-forgiving loyalty extended beyond
the verdict of the law.
Impressive funeral services were
conducted at the Salvation Army halt,
on Gloucester street, Sunday night,
Capt. A. Walsh, of the local corps, of
ficiating. Among tho last requests
made by the deceased was that his
funeral service* be conducted by the
Salvation Army, and accordingly the
body was removed Sunday night from
the mortuary chapel of Undertaker;
Baldwin to the little hall, where hun
dreds of people had gathered to at
tend the services.
CapJ. Walsh made a fervid and
moving appeal to his hearers to heed
the solemn and impressive lesson ex
emplified by the body of young Mar
tin. lying cold in death, just at the
threshold of useful manhood, as a
result, of transgressions of statutory
and divine laws. That the 'lesson
made a profound impression was at
tested by the fact that more than a
score of persons, gathered about the
flower-laden casket*at the conclusion
of the services, and, on bended knees.
Implored Divine forgiveness.
The hal) was crowded to Its rapaci
ty, and hundreds were unable to gaiu
atmittfnce. The great throng passed
through the hall amt looked upon the
face of the deceased—the childhood
friend add comrade of scores of those
present. The widow and two little
children, a. boy and a girl, of the dead
man occupied seats at the foot of the
HARD WINTER IS CERTAIN
SAY WEATHER-WISE ONES
Heavy Moss on North Side of
Trees One Sure Sign.—An
other is Fact That Squirrels
Are Putting in Unusual Sup
ply Nuts.
Those Mho Have Matched
Mealhcr Conditions For
Many Years Say Coming
Minter Mill be a Record-
Breaker.
The old weather prophet I* abroad
in the land all the time, but there are
ocouvloas when be or she makes him
•etf *ur herself 'beard more than at
other* and right about now la a uwj
THE NEWS IS A MEMBER OF TME ASSOCIATED PRESS
casket, lending an additional touch of
pathos to the scene.
The crime for which Jake Martin
and Putnam Ponsell were jointly
hanged last Friday in the little West
ern Florida town Is familiar to Bruns
wick people, and need not be repeat
ty. and his remains were interred
Sunday at st. Pleasant cemetery.
Both young men embraced the reli
gion of Jesus Christ before the “zero”
hour, and invoked Divine forgiveness
for the legible crime For which they
were convicted, and which they admit
ted before (heir death on the gallows.
ST. SIMON SCOUTS
GET AMERICAN FLAG.
Interesting and Impressive flag
raising ceremonies were conducted
last evening at St John’s Haven,
boys’ training school on St. Simon
Island, when a large and beautifully
finished American flag unfurled to tlie
breeze. The flag, of durable woolen
material, was presented to the re
i cently organized Boy Scout troop on
the Island, the presentation address
having been made in a short but in
spiring address by Scout Executive
W. L. Sprouse, of the Okefenokee
! dlstrtct council.
A. L. Pullen Is scoutmaster of the
St. Simon troop, and during the few
months since the troop has been or
ganized has succeeded In building up
one of the most active scout organiza
tions In the county, with a large and
growing membership.
. Scout Executive, Sprouse warmly
commended the troop for Its line ap
pearanre end the very gratifying pro
gress the members have made In
scoutcraft. At the conclusion of the
flag raising exercises a large number
of “tenderfoot” seputs were given
, their badges.
when opinion is being freely express
ed mid they all say: “We are going to
hare the coldest winter (a twenty
years.” . , * *
When the/eja more rooas on the
north side-of .the r tree than on the
smith it's a sure sign of cold and
when the squirrels gathrir uausuaJ
larjte quantities of outs It is,certain
(hat these little nimble annals are
fexpootln* frost, snow and* sleet and
those who hare been watching say
the nuts are being piled up la large
quantities.
Another sore .sign. It ia stated by
prog nos t tea Upt U the fact that the
pelts of all animals are heavier than
usual as maay hare been trapped sad
found to be that way and prognosti
cator* are swearing by UNr sign.
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPT. 27, 1921.
AN UNEMPLOYMENT
CONFAB CALLED BY
HARDING NOW ON
Gathering Opened Its Session
With Fifty Leaders
on Hand.
ADMINISTRATION HOPES
GOOD RESULTS TO FOLLOW
Intends to Rid Country of War’s
Aftermath by Readjustments,
Re-esfablishment and Tak
ing General Acocunts and Ex
pects All Parts of World to
be Benefitted as Well as
America.
(By Associated Press.)
’ Washington. Sept. 26.—The nation
al unemployment conference, which
the administration hopes will evolve
means of putting the nation’s invol
untarily idle back to work, was for
malyl opened here today by President
Harding. \ '
Addressing) the half hundred indus
trial, economlp and labor leaders com
prising the conference, the President
described the) present industrial de
pression as •“a war inheritance
throughout the world” for which as
applied to the United States he ad
ded he “would have little enthusiasm
for any proposed relief which seeks
Either palliation or tonic from the
public treasury.”
' Effects World-Wtd*.
Belief was expressed by the Pres
ident that the results of the confer
ence would extend beyond the bor
ders of the Unitfd States and the
delegates in their deliberations would
be performing ”a to the
world.”
“Fundamentally sound, financially
strong, industrially unimpaired. c6m
merciallv consistent and politically
unafraid,” the JPresident asserted,
‘ re r o ,9fH MM. jßMfrtor . every-
Chooses to work. and otir condition iff
home and our jriace ?ln, the world de
pends on everybody gfelng to work
and pursuing It with tftpt patriotism
#nd devotion which make tor a fortu
nate and happy people.”
Not Solved Alt Problems.
The President declared that “the
open, sure, and onward way” to rid
the nation of the war’s aftermath of
depression involve.d “liquidation, re
organisfctlon, readjustment, re-estab
lishment. taking account of things
done, and sober contemplation of
things to be done.” Any other way,
he added, was only hugging a delu
sion.
, 4 The delegates were told by Mr.
Harding that they had*not been in
vited Into the conference, “to solve
the long controverted problems of
their social system” and that Secre
tary Hoover, whom he had designat
ed as chairman of the conference,
would lay before them the program of
discussions.
To Form Committees.
It was expected that the confer
ence would at once resolve itself into
rommittet@|poflftibly as many as ten
la numbeMlL consider the unemploy
ment questppFfrom its various angles
and probably conduct individual hear
ings in formulating recommendations
upon which the conference may con*
struct a general pplicy.
DEMOCRATIC SENATORS
TO CONSIDER tREATY
Washington. Sept. *.—All Demo
cratic senators were celled today to
meet In conference tomorrow to eon
slder minority action with respect so
the peace treaties' ‘ with Germany.
Austria sad Hungary.
— / .S’
CHARGED HE CONSPIRED
TO FURNISH IRISH ARMS
George Gordon ftourke. Graduate of
George In am University, la Ac
| * ‘ mated In New York.
(Continued on page J.)
New York. Sept. 2k.—Charged with
being engaged la “a conspiracy to
furnish subjects of the British Em
pire la Ireland with arms and muni
tions to he used against the British
Empire sad instruct them in the use
of weapons.** George Gordon Rotarke.
graduate of Georgetown University,
wn* arrested tonight.
Later Gordon wee released under
U.MO hail for bis appearance in the
Pederal dtfUisi court temorrew.
CRY OF “CRIME WAVE’* IS
RAISED AGAIN IN N. Y.
(By Associated Pres;.)
New York, Sept. 26. —The cry
of “crime wave” is again raised
in Greater New York tonight,
after a day of numerous hold-ups
in various parts of the city.
Armed hold-ups have been fre
quent in many sections. The
peoslt are becoming alarmed as
they did some months ago when
robberies were many.
PERRY BOOKER TO
GET OUT ON BOND
He is a School Boy and is One
of the Six Charged With Mur
der of Engineer Reed Who
Was Shot on His Engine July
Fifth.
Fitzgerald. Ga., Sept. 26. —Accord-
ing to information received from So
licitor General J. B. Wall of Cordele
circuit, Perry Booker, Jr., one of the
six men in jail here charged with the
murder of W. T. Reed, the engineer
who died from wounds received when
his engine was fired upon July sth by
A., B. & A. strikers, will be released
today under SSOO bond. A hearing
for bonds for the remaining accused
is set for October 1, before Judge
Gowet at Cordele.
No new evidence is said have
been discovered. Booker is a pupil
in the local schools and has a father
and brother out on strike. Harvey
Booker, his brother, is also in jail
charged with the murder. A. J. and
Carlisle McDonald and Hal Lawson
are attorneys for the accused.
mijmL
rI]I fi I 11 Ww vC 8f 5 IK BP*
Comedian's Leading Counsel
Has Several Summoned Be
fore Grand Jury.—Was Fat
ty’s “Wad” Witnesses Were
After.
San Francissco, Sept. iAsser*
lion In court today by Fatty Arbuck
le’s chief counsel, Frank Dominguez,
that he believed blackmail had been
contemplated agajust the comedian
and this motive figured in the de
fendant’s arrest on the murder
charge, was ordered put before the
grand jury today by District Attorney
Brady.
Brady Issued subpoenas for Domin
guez and his associate counsel.
Charles H. Brennan and Milton M.
Cohen to appear before the grand Jury
and repeat their charges.
The district attorney as Id the ac
tion was taken on the request of Al
fred Semnacher, who was accused by
Dominguez today of having conspir
ed with Mrs. Batoibina and Maud pel
mont, complaining witnesses against
Arbuekle to take toru pieces of the
clothing of Virginia Rappe to Ix>s
Angeles for the purpose. Dominguez
said, of extorting money from Ar*
buckle, who is charged with the mur
der of the girl.
Questioning Semnacher by the de
fense occupied*, most of the time dur
ing which that he bad been
the dead girl's manager.
HARMLESS IMBECILES NOW IN
ASYLUM MAY BE SENT HOME
Some Undesirable Relatives
May Soon “Drop h” After
Years of Languishing Behind
Asylum's Walls.
Five or Six Whites and About
Fifteen Colored Have Been
Sent Up From This County
During Past Several Years.
If Governor Hardwick’* plan* to
rid the asylum of harmless tin bee lie*
and those really able to be cared tor
without constant watching, there will
be at loftat. a- dozen or more who will
retura to Brtntwick and Glynn coon
Nation-1 ide Strike
of Ral?-bad Unions
Expe f 2d by Leaders
OLD SHIP ALABAMA WAS
SENT DOWN YESTERDAY
(By Associated Press.)
Norfolk, Va., Sept. 26.—A 2,000-
pound bomb ended the career of the
old battleship Alabama at 12:15 to
day. A Martin bomber flying over
the old warship jjnchored off Tangier
Island in Chesapeake Bay tore her
mast off, destroyed superstructure
and turned her over on her side in
shallow water. Six other planes al
most simultaneously rained 1,000 and
2,000 pound bombs on the hulk aa
she went down. Four hit the vessel
as she trundled over the remainder
landed in the water w'ithin twenty to
thirty feet.
COLUMBUS BARROW
IS LAID JO REST
Funeral Held Sunday After
noon, Brunswick Riflemen
Acting as Escort and Inter
ment Was in Palmetto Ceme
tery.
The remains of Columbus E. Bar
row were laid to rest in Palmetto
cemetery Sunday afternoon, leaving
the undertaking establishment of Edo
Miller shortly after 3 o’clock.
The Brunswick Riflemen, of which
company deceased was a member,
acted as escort while scores of friend*
Rev. Thomas ff. ’ Thomsbn. of the
First Methodist church, conducted
the services.
At the grave In Palmetto cemetery
impressive services were held and
the Riflemen fired the usual volley
and sounding of tapsended the tri
bute to the noble dead.
Numbers of floral offerings were
sent by admiring friends and many
who had never known the young man
attended the funeral and thus paid
homag'e to one who had lost his life
In the service of his country.
ATTEMPT MADE TO KILL
. PRESIDENT OF POLAND
Lemberg. Sept. 28. —General Jo
*epr Pllaudski, president of the Polish
republic narrowly escaped death by
assassination here last night. He was
entering an automobile in the city
hall square on bis way to a theater
after attending -a banquet In his hon
or when three shots were fired at
him. General Pllaudski was not in
jured, hut Count Gabowskt, who was
accompanying him. was wounded In
the leg.
The President directed his chauf
feur to drive to a hospital, and after
being assured that Count Gabowskt’s
wound was not serions. insisted on
going to the theater as he had intend
ed. He was enthusiastically cheer
ed by the audienec when he entered.
The r would-be assassin attempted
suicide, hut was arrested before he
could end his own life.
ty as soon as a "surrey” is made at
the state institution.
Not less than live whites .and fif
teen crlored who come under the
head of the governor’s harmless Imbe
cile proposition will be sent here as
it is known that there are about this
number who have been sent to Mil
ledgeville during the past ten or
twelee years.
In some of tb® cases from this roan
ty. those sent were perfectly harmless
and were put under the care of the
state by relatives who did not wish to
conllnne their "guardianship". A list
of all persona sent from each county
will be asked shortly and from these
lists the investigations will be mad*.
I JODJiniDnßw-
I FAIR
PRICE FIVE CENTS
TWO OF THE GRAFTS
VOTE MAJORITY IN
FAVOR OF WALKOUT
Conservative Counsel of
al Officers Apparently Only
Hope of Settlement.
RAILWAY TRAINMEN REFUSE
ACCEPT WAGE REDUCTION
The Two Hundred Thousand
Shop Crafts Employees Have
Also Voted by an Over
whelming Majority to Walk
Out on Strike Rather Than
Accept the Cut Authorized by
Railway Labor Board.
Chicago, Sept. 26.—A majority of
the one hundred and eigjuy-six thou
sand members of the of
Railway Trainmen have voted In fa
vor of a nation-wide railroad strike
rather than accept the recent wagq
cut ordered by the United States Rail
way Labor Board, the general chair
man of the brotherhood indicated to
day as they began their official can
vass of the balots.
The preliminary reports clearly in
dicate that the trainmen are over
whelmingly In favor of a strike aa a
means of maintaining the scale of
wages now in effect, and the indica
tions are that the majority of the
members of all the railway brother*
pressed the opinion that all of th>
brotherhoods and the Switchmens’
Union as well will cast a substantial
majority In favor of a nation-wide
strike. _ _ ‘
The affiliated shop crafts hive al
ready taken such action, it is an
nounced, which, together with similar
action of the trainmen, is regarded
as an Indication of the attitude of
the members of the brotherhoods,
whose position will be definitely
known in the next clay or so.
A strike vote by all the unions does
not, however, mean necessarily that a
general strike will be called, say lead
ens, who state that the conservative
counsel of the national officers-of the
various unions might eventually pre
vail against a general walkout.
STRIKE QUESTION WILL
BE DECIDED SOON.’ * f
Chicago, Sept. 26.—Whether a gen
eral strike shall be called by the six
most powerful railroad unions may be
decided within the next two weeks,. It
was indicated today as officials of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
gathered here to count the 160,000
strike ballots of their organization,
oatft.to decide whether the men shall
accept the wage cut instituted recent
ly by the United States railroad la
bor board. .t
Other Msetinga.
Next Monday officials of four nvore
unions—the Brotherhood of locomo
tive Engineers. Order of Railroad
Conductors, Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Firemen and Knginemen and the
Swltcmen's Union of North America
—will meet here to count strike bal 1
lots cast by their 259,000 members. t
Voted to Strike.
More rhgn 200,000 shopcrafts em
ployee* already hive voted by an ov
erwhelming majority to strike rather
than accept the wage cut, according
to figures announced a week ago. -but
on advice of their leaders are await
ing for the labor board to complete its
announcement of new working agree
ments, snd for the other unions to
decide whether they shall support the
strike.
DRV OFFICER ON TRIAL
FOR MURDER OF SHERIFF
Pickens, 8. C„ Sept. 26—-The sec
ond trial of Jaffe Oosnell. federal pro
hibition enforcement officer, on the
charge of murdering Sheriff Hendryx,
rector of Greenville, was called here
today. The court house was packed
with spectators when court epeaed.