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BRUNSWICK
Has a landlocked harbor, the
best on the South Atlantic
Coast .
VOLUME XXI. N®. 205
IS. CORA VINSON
GIVEN EXTREME
PENALTY BV JURY
Atlanta Woman Found Guilty of
Murder and Sentenced to
Hang July 28.
ONLY ONE WHITE WOMAN
EVER HANGED IN GEORGIA
Convicted Woman Shot and Kill
ed Husband Because She
Thought He Was Trying to
Recover Property He Had
Deeded to Her.
(By Associated Press.')
Atlanta, June 3.—Mrs. Cora Lou
Vinson was convicted by a Jury in the
superior court here tonight of the
murder of her husband, Dr. W. D.
Vinson, and sentenced to hang on
July 28th.
Solicitor General Boykifi had only
asked life imprisonment, saying that
he had never asked that a woman be
hanged, but the jury promptly return
ed a first degree verdict without rec
/Mrs. Vinson shot and killed her hus
•" iand several months ago in a Mari
etta street drug store where Dr. Vin
son maintained a private office. She
drove up to the establishment in an
automobile and entering the store
asked if Dr. Vinson was in his office.
Being answered in the affirmative, the
woman calmly walked to the rear of
the building where the office was lo
cated. In a few seconds a pistol shot
rang out and Mrs. Vinson complacent
ly told the‘drug clerk that she had
killed her husband.
A policeman, hearing the shooting,,
rushed to the scene and detained Mrs.
Vinson as she was in the act of enter
ing the automobile. She asserted that
she had killed her husband on ac
count of his efforts to secure proper
ty which he had made over to her.
A plea of insanity was made by her
counsel, Judge Newt Morris, of Mari
etta, but alienists declared that the
woman was feigning. Her daughter
was the principal witness in her be
half.
This is the first time in many years
that a white woman has received the
death penalty in Georgia courts. A
motion for anew trial will be filed
imjnediately by Mrs. coun
sel. She received the verdict calmly
at first, then fell back into the arms
of her daughter.
“According to court records,” said
Secretary of State McLendon tonight,
"only one white woman was ever le
gally hanged in Georgia.”
■LOCAL’S FIRSHAME
WITH BUCKSKEAR
Semi-Professional Club of
Pierce Capital Said to be One
of Best in the State.—To As
semble Team Soon.
Pinal arrangements were completed
yesterday morning ,bv Manager Edoj
Miller, of the local semi-professi.
baseball club, for a series of thV
games with the fast semi-prof
Blackshear organization and the')
games will be played on the local dia
mond June 15, 16, and 17.
Work has been started on the Nor
wich street park and by the end of
the week it will be in first class con
dition. In the meantime Manager
Miller is forming his team and is in I
with thyee or 'four
who are said to be among the very
best in the semi-pro. class.
The bad weather of the past week
hampered the committee which has
jbeen soliciting funds but more than
1 SBOO has already been subscribed and !
it is thought that a two day canvass
will result in getting the other S2OO,
making the SI,OOO, which the commit
tee started out to get.
Pans generally, will look forward
with much pleasure to the opening of
the season here, June 15.
Larmed posse search
I FOR NEGRO ASSAILANT
ft Anniston, Ala., June 3 —Officers and
■rmed citizens are searching tonight
a negro who is alleged to have at
(Spmpted an attack on the wife of a
HUctiop hand near here while she and
I- children were picking blackber-
HUs in a field. Threats of lynching'
apTe frequently heard.
THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
STARTS FIRST LAP ON
ARCTIC EXPEDITION.
(By Associated Press.)
Seattle, June 3.—The auxiliary
- powered schooner, Maud, bear
• ing Dr. Amundsen’s Polar basin
• scientific expedition, sailed late
- today from Seattle for Nome, on
• the first leg of the five year voy
- age through the Arctic ice pack.
■ Raould Amundsen, chief of the
- expedition, sails tomorrow on a
- steamer for Nome.
JOHN BRADHAM IS
ARBESTEBJN WAYNE
Young Man Who Snapped Pis
tol in Officer Free-’Man’s Face
and Escaped is in Jail With
Two Charges Against Him.
John Brabham was placed in the
county jail last night soon after the
arrival of the Southern train, on
which he was brought to Brunswick
in charge of Constable S. D. Lamb,
following his arrest about sixteen
miles from Jesup yesterday on two
indictments returned at the recent
term of the Glynn superior court
against him for havrng whiskey in his
possession and assault with intent to
murder.
Since the alleged offenses with
which he is charged, Brabham has
not been seen, it is claimed, in this
vicinity, and his arrest yesterday was
brought about by information that
Brabham was frequently seen in the
community in which he was located
yesterday by Constable Lamb. The
accused man made no effort to con
ceal bis identity or to avoid arrest,
which he complacently submitted to
when confronted by the. officer.
It will be recalled that Brabham fig
tired in a sensational escape from
Chief Norris and County Officer Free
man about ten days ago in a dense
wood several miles from Brunswick,
just before daybreak. Intercepted by
the officers as they were emerging
from a swamp with a jug of whiskey,
Brabham and a companion were re
quested to throw up their hands. In
stead, the former is alleged to have
placed a pistol, which he had in his
hand, against the breast of Officer
Freeman, ’pulling the trigger a num
ber of times. The weapon failed to
fire. The officer then fired his own
pistol, at close range, at his assailant,
who fell back into a clump of bushes
as though mortally wounded. Both
men escaped from the officers after an
exciting chase after the other man
followed.
The grand jury returned indict
ments against Brabham on two
counts, one with having whiskey in
his possession, the other with assault
with intent to murder
GRAND JURY WILL
HANDLE WARD GASE
4*
en or More Witnesses Have
y >.en Summoned.—dames J.
' Cunningham Was Examined
Again Yesterday.
(By Associated Press.)
White Plains, N. Y., Jqne 3. —The
grand jury will consider, the killing
of Clarence Peters, former navy man,
by Walter S. Ward-, wealthy baker’s
son, next Monday, it, was learned to
day. Fifteen or more witnesses have
been summoned, it is understood, in
cluding George S. Ward, father of tile
confessed slayer, Mrs. Walter S. Ward
and two maids in the Ward’s New Ro
chelle home -Lulu Barrows and Amy
Mild.
CUNNINGHAM EXAMINED.
(By Associated Press.)
White Plains, N. Y., June 3.—West
chester county officials today began
their second day’s investigation of
James J. Cunningham’s story of the
killing of Clarence Peters, which in
volves Walter S. Ward and his state
ment of an attack by blackmailers.
Despite their failure to substantiate
a single phase of Cunningham’s story,'
those in authority seemed convinced
that the former race track man’s
statement was based upon actual
facts. Sheriff Wedner declared that
he would put the .man, hel das a ma
terial witness, through a two-hour
i cross examination again later,
THE NEWS IS A MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA. SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 1922.
STANLEY MAKES
VIGOROUS ATTACK
ON THE PBESIBENT
Both Harding and Attorney Gen=
eral Daugherty are As
sailed in Senate.
CHARGED WITH TRYING
TO MUZZLE THE PRESS
Kentucky Senator’s Remarks
Predicated Attorney Gener
al’s Chicago Address as to
Policy He Followed in Filling
Twenty-four Jugdeships.
tßv Associated Press.)
Washington, June 3.—President
Harding and Attorney General Daugh
erty were assailed today in the sen
ate by Senator Stanley, Democrat, of
Kentucky, in connection with state
ments credited yesterday to the presi
dent with the senate attack on Secre
tary Hoover, and to assertions made
by the attorney general in his Chica
go address yesterday as to the policy
to be followed in filling twenty-four
judgeships, created under a bill re
cently passed by the senate and
house.
Senator Stanley, interpreting the
president’s remarks on the basis of
some newspaper accounts to refer to
criticism of all cabinet officers, in
cluding Daugherty, said that Presi
dent Harding was attempting to
“stifle, if not muzzle the press.”
RAIL LABOR MAY
ASK INJUNCTION
This Will be One of Subjects
Discussed at Conference to
be Held in Cincinnati During
This Week.
(By Associated Press.)
Cincinnati, 0., June 3.—Possibility
of the use of the writ of injunction
in an effort to hold up the wage re
ductions decreed by the Railroad La-
Board, will be one of the subjects dis
cussed at the conference to be held
by executives of railroad brotherhoods
and organizations in Cincinnati next
week, it was reported in local railroad
labor circles. Should it be the opinion
of legal advisers of the brotherhoods
that there are grounds for asking such
a proceedings of the courts it would
be an alternative to a strike vote, it
was said.
Railroad men said that if the Penn
sylvania railroad could hold up even
the announcement of the decision by
the board by an appeal to the courts,
as happened in the case involving the
legality of a ballot for the election of
a workers committee to confer on
rules and working conditions, then it
was declared the same would hold in
any activity of the board.
However, it was said, there are cer
tain labor men who frown on the use
of the writ of injunction on behalf of
labor. They take the position that
since organized labor has so frequent
ly declaimed against the injunction,
it woudl weaken their position to now
seek to use it.
JEFF DAVIS IS
HONORED SOUTH
EXERCISES HELD IN MEMORY OF
114TH BIRTHDAY OF CONFED
ERATE PRESIDENT.
(By Associated Press.)
Atlanta, June 3.—The South turn
ed aside from Its busy world of 1922
to honor the memory of Jefferson Da
vis, who guided the destinies of the
Southern Confederacy in the lour
years of its existenc.
Exercises in honor or the one hun
dred and fourteenth annivesary of
the Confederate President’s birth
were conducted in all of the states of
the old South and in eight of them the
day was a legal holiday, while Tennes
see observed It as memorial day.
Veterans of the Confederate armies,
Daughters of the Copfederacy and the
Sons and Grandsons of Confederate
soldiers, who served in the Spanish
War or the World War, and students
in schools and colleges held exercises
In honor of Davis,
GOVERNOR S RACE LACKING
IN “PEP” AT PRESENT BUT IT
MAY WARM UP SOME LATER
Candidacy of Walker and Hard
wick Has Not as Yet Stirred
Populace, But Legislative
Session Will Likely Bring on
and Arouse Great Interest.
Atlanta, Ga., June 3. —Although the
gubernatorial campaign has been on
ostensibly for a full week, there are
no indications reaching here that the
people of the state are greatly inter
ested In the race between former At
torney General Clifford Walker an-5
Governor Thomas W. Hardwick-
Neither does it appear that there arc
likely to be soon.
The approaching session of the gen
eral assembly with its influx of local
statesmen .and politician- is expected
to inject some “per.” intT the race,
if there is to be any, which is quite
likely, because Georgia in recent
years has never seen . gubernatorial
campaign lacking in fireworks.
The campaign is co-he peculiar In
one respect, at least. Mr. Walker
has announced that he will not open
campaign headquarters in Atlanta,
but will direct his efforts from his
home town of Monroe. Atlanta
friends of the former attorney gener
al will probably maintain local offices
for their Fulton county drive, while
FIGHT ON TUBERCULOSIS
WILL START WEDNESDAY
Announcement was made late yes
terday by the Georgia Tuberculosis
Association of the launching of a more
intensive fight on the Great White
Plague, which ;s to begin Wednesday
the 7th, in Waycross. The
County Medical Association has in
vited every doctor in the Eleventh dis
trict to meet in Waycross on that
date and the day will be given over
to clinics, addresses on various phases
of the fight on tuberculosis, and mov
ing pictures illustrating diagnostic
methods and the more popular fea
tures of the campaign. The largest
picture theater in Waycross has been
secured for the afternoon program
when the films will be shown for the
benefit of the general public. The
day’s program wil be concluded with
a banquet in the evening given by the
Medical Association.
Dr. J. W. Simmons, of this city, as
well as other local physicians, will at
tend the meeting.
GAS BARGE LINE
FROM ABGO TO JAX.
Pittsburgh Will Reach Here To
day or Tomorrow from Flor
ida Port and Will Take on
Cargo for Return Trip.
That gasoline furnished to a large
section of Florida from a Brunswick
plant is a distinction in the industrial
world that this city should be proud
of, and this will be the case in fu
ture as the Atlantic Refining Com
pany has established a gasoline barge
lien between the plant at Arco and
Jacksonville, using the big craft Pitts
burgh for this purpose. It will be
remembered that the steam tug Inca
towed the barge there several days
ago and a Jacksonville tug will reach
here today with it to be re-loaded.
The steamer will return but a local
tug will tow the Pittsburgh over as
soon as loaded with gasoline.
It is understood that this line will
be of a permanent nature and it may
be that other barges of the oil carry
ing kind will be put on the run. The
establishment of the line, not only
means additional revenue for local
steamtugs but many others as well.
WEATHER FORECAST FOR
WEEK, STARTING MONDAY
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, June 3. —Weather out
look for the week beginning Monday:
North and Middle Atlantic States:
Generally fair; temperature some
what above normal.
South Atlantic and East Gulf
States: Generaly fair normal temper
ature but with a probability of widely
scattered local thunderstorms.
Tennessee: Generaly fair temper
ature somewhat above normal.
Governor Hardwick's supporters will
probably establish offices in the Kim
ball house.
There appear to be no issue, at
this time, in view of Governor Hard
wick’s recent statements that he is
wedded to no particular plan for tax
reform, which he insists should be
worked out by the legislature. The
inevitable struggle there over the va
rious measures along this line may
lead to campaign issues, although
they do not appear on the surface
now.
Predictions are already plentiful as
to the outcome, although they are of
necessity purely speculative. Mr.
Walker’s friends claim that he will
have the active support of Senator
Thomas E. Watson and that he will
make a vigorous speaking campaign
calculated to rally to his standards
his many friends of his first two cam
paigns; if these materialize, a close
race is likely.
On the other hand, the friends of
the governor say that his record as
chief executive is invulnerable; that
he has saved the state millions of
dollars and that another term will
give him the opportunity of compiling
one of the greatest records of con
structive administration of the de
cade.
LIVELY SALE OF
LD. WILKFS' STOCK
Among Interesting Features
Was Purchase of Something
Over $4,000 in Accounts Due
Firm for Only $55.00.
Bidding yesterday at the selling of
the bankrupt estate of L. D. Wilkes
was more lively than on the previous
sale, which was not confirmed by Ref
eree Harry D. Reed, of Waycross. El
liot W. Butts was the auctioneer and
the wholesale headquarters was first
disposed of. Among the articles sold
there was a Buick touring car which
brought something over S2OO was pur
chased by William Cox. The large
iron safe was bought by W. J. Butts,
the adding machine and typewriter
by J. M, Couric and the accounts, to
talling something over $4,000 were
bought by J. Hunter Hopkins for $55.
Auctioneer Butts then proceeded to
the soft drink establishment, corner
Grant and Monk streets and this was
sold all in a bunch to George A. True,
of St. Simon and brought $175. The
next sale was the goods in the ware
house located in the headquarters of
M. B. McKinnon, on Oglethorpe street,
near F. This consisted of a stock of
near beer, bottles, cases, etc., and was
purchased by Philip Kulman for SBOO.
Trustee J. H. Morgan will submit
the figures to Judge Harry D. Reed, of
Waycross, referee in bankruptcy for
this district and whether he will con
firm the various sales or not cannot
be said, but it is thought that he will.
BODY OF OLSEN
HAS BEEN FOUND
The body of John Olsen, 35 years of
age, member of the crew of the Unit
ed States dredge, Maryland, who
was drowned while endeavoring to re
pair pipes on pontoons early last Sun
day morning, just off Brandy Point,
was found yesterday morning in the
marsh near the mouth of Fancy Bluff
creek, by R. L. Ratcliff, who operates
a launch line between points over the
river and Brunswick. It was located
about four miles from where the un
fortunate young man met death and
the high tides caused by the recent
northeaster floated It way up in the
marsh.
Mt. Ratcliff noticed that a certain
spot in the marsh was attracting
scores of buzzards and upon investiga
tion it proved to be that of the terri
bly decomposed body of the unfortu
nate young man was the attraction.
He notified Coroner Baldwin who
went oyer at noon, removed the re
mains to a specially prepared coffin
and buried tfie body in Palmetto cem
and will hold same while endeavoring
to locate his brothers, who are said
to bein New York. It is said that Ol
sen had a wife in his native land.
► .OCEAN TUG SEIZED BY
PROHIBITION AGENTS.
• (By Associated Press.)
- New York, June 3.—Federal
- prohibition agents today seized
► the ocean going tug Ripple in the
- harbor off Brooklyn and arrest
- ed twelve members of the crew.
• The force also fired thirty pistol
► shots at nearly a score of launch
► es which had gathered to take
► off the cargo of liquor. All of
• the launches made their escape.
KIOKEE IS SCENE
OF BAPTIST MEET
One Hundredth Anniversary of
Founding of First Baptist
Church in Georgia Observed
in Fitting Manner.
(By Associated Press.)
Kiokee. G<.„ June 3. —Thousands
of Baptists from all over Georgia as
sembled here today to observe the
150th anniversary of the founding of
th® first Baptist church in Georgia by
Daniel Marshall.
The celebration today was the be
ginning of a four-day jubilee of Geor
gia Baptists, celebrating not only the
150th anniversary of the founding of
Kiokee church, but also the organiza
tion of the church at Powelton, twen
ty miles away. The delegations are
also to visit Penfield. the original
home of Mercer University, arid scat
ter flowers on the grave of Jesse Mer
cer, the founder. The jubilee will
terminate next Tuesday with the
Georgia Baptist convention centennial
celebration in Macon.
Among the speakers here today are
John D. Mell, president of the Geor
gia Baptist convention; Rev. J. H.
Hutchings, pastor of the Kiokee
church, and Dr. Walter iIT Lee, presi
dent of the Georgia Baptist Historical
Society.
SIX QUALIFY FOR
JR. CERTIFICATE
Brunswick Boys and Girls are
Awarded Red Cross Certifi
cates in Life Saving by Direc
tor D. J. Yates.
At Cate’s swimming pool Saturday
morning six applicants were awarded
Red Cross certificates in Life Saving
by Mr. David J. Yates, Red Cross in
structor, who has been in Brunswick
for the past two days and who gave
two public demonstrations Friday.
Those receiving certificates were: Joe
E. Hobby, Lawrence R. Wood, Clar
ence Downs, and Misses Helen Busk
and Rollina Price, and Jimmie Miller,
who took the test for a “junior” certi
ficate. These expert swimmers will
not only receive the certificate men
tioned. but will be given enamel
badges and an insignia to be worn on
the bathing suit.
These swimmers were required to
carry a person in the water sixty feet
in four different ways, to break four
"death grips,” to demonstrate resus
citation by the Shaeffer prone-pres
sure method, to dive from the surface
of the water and recover an object
weighing 10 pounds, to float, to tread
water, to disrobe in the water and
swim 100 yards, to “fire” care and
saddle back another person, and to
take a person out of pool unassisted.
Lawrence R. Wood and Joe Hobby
showed such ability as to be made
"‘examiners;’’ that is, they may train
others in the work required and when
one is found who can take the test to
the satisfaction of the examiner, with
the approval of the secretary of the
local Red Cross chapter, certificates
will be awarded.
R. R. WORKERS’ STRIKE
VOTE TO BE DECIDED AUG. 3
(By Associated Press.)
Chicago. June 3.—Strike votes af
fecting one million, two hundred thou
sand railroad workers, returnable on
the same date, August 3, will probably
be decided upon at a railway labor
conference in Cincinnati next week,
in the opinion of B. M. Jewell, presi
dent of the Railway Employes depart
inetn of the American Federation of
Labor.
BRUNSWICK
Has the lowest death rate of
any city its size In the United
States.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
COIIiITIFE FOR
FORD’S PROPOSAL
WITHOUT 80R6AS
I his is Likely to Cause Break
for the Time Being at
Least.
COMPLETION DAM NO. 3
NOT BE WARRANTED
But Gorgas Plant is Left Out,
and Manufacturer Has Said
Would Not Consider Taking
Only Part of Property as Pro
posed by Committee.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, D. (!., June 3.—The
house military committee voted today
to report the Ford proposal to the
house and recommend its adoption.
Recommendation, however, will be
made by the committee on reporting
the Ford proposal that tlie Gorgas
sleam power plant, which is sought
by the Detroit manufacturer, be elim
inated from the properties disposed
of by the government.
The action of the committee follow
ed discussions of differences in the
offer as made by Mr. Ford and the
model proposal evolved by tile com
mittee after inquiry iuto the offer of
the Detroit manufacturer and others.
Complete agreement was reached by
the committee members and represen
tatives of Mr. Ford on the fertilizer
proposition which had been in dis
pute.
Neither production of fertilizers nor
power development for commercial
sale warrants completion of dam No.
3 at the Muscle Shoals, Ala., power
project, Oscar C. Merrill, executive
secretary of the federal power com
mission, today told the senate agricul
ture committee. Wilson dam No. 2,
he said, would develop twice the pow
er necessary for the fertilizer plant
and with a'surplus sufficient for the
commercial needs o fthe adjacent ter
ritory in prospect for several years
to come.
The other proposals for Muscle
Shoals made by the Alabama Power
Company, Frederick Engstrum, and
Charles L. Parsons, were rejected in
effect by the committee in deciding to
report only the Ford proposal to the
house.
What references the committee
may see fit to make regarding the re
maining offers will be contained in
the report of the majority and minor
fly members when they are drafted
and given to the house for its infor
mation.
It will be remembered that Mr.
Ford stated some days ago that he
would not further negotiate if the Gor
gas plant was eliminated.
ONLY MISSING MAN
REPORTED FOUND
Lieutenant Reed, Navy Pilot,
Lands in Ozark Mountains,
and Makes Journey to Salem,
Mo., on Horseback.
(By Associated Press.)
Milwaukee, June 3. —Lieutenant W.
F. Reed, navy pilot, telegraphed the
Wisconsin Aero club late today that
he had landed in the Ozark mouy
tains, southern Missouri, Friday, and
made the journey on horseback and
automobile to Salem, Mo.
Reed was the last entrant in the
balloon race unaccounted for.
OUTLAWED PLAYER GOT
JOLT FROM THE COURT
(By Associated Press.)
Milwaukee, June 3.—Circuit Court
Judge Gregory today denied the mo
tion of attorneys for Oscar “Happy”
Felsch, outlawed baseball player, to
have Charles Comisky, owner of the
White Sox, appear In Milwaukee un
der the discovery statute for exami
ntaion.
This effort was in connection with
the suit in which Felsch seeks back
pay, bonus and damages resulting
from his expulsion from organized
baseball.
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