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BRUNSWICK
Has a landlocked harbor, the
best on the South Atlantic
cdast
VOLUME XXI. NO. 209
THREE SEPARATE
REPORTS MADE ON
MUSCLE. SHOALS
Minority Recommends Accept
ance of Ford’s Offer
Minus Gorgas.
COMMITTEE WORKED ON
MATTER FOR FOUR MONTHS
Acting Chairman McKenzie,
Who Drafted Minority Report,
Declares at Outset of Docu
ment That Ford Proposal Only
One Worthy of Consideration.
• (By Associated Press.)
Washington, June 9. —Three separ
ate reports setting forth recommenda
tions tor action by Congress with re
spect to private development ot the
government $106,000,000 power and ni
trate projects at Muscle Shoals, Ala
bama, were made to the House today
by members of the military commit
tee. The task of making a final de
cision is admittedly of import to the
duty of the full membership of the
House at an early date but recommen
dations to that end submitted after
four months for continuous considera
tion by the committee differ in impor
tant respects as they are presented
in the documents.
(Acting Chairman .McKenzie, who
drafted the majority report, declares
at the outset of that document that
the Ford proposal was the only one
found “w'orthy of serious considera
tion,’ and asks its acceptance by the
House, provided the Gorgas steam
plant is not included among the pro
jects to be disposed of at Muscle
Shoals.
Concurrence in the majority report,
except for the references made with
respect to the Gorgas plant, is voiced
in one of the minority opinions, pre
sented by Representative Wright,
Democrat, Georgia, and supported by
Representatives James, Republican,
Michigan, and the remaining Demo
cratic members. They ask full com
pliance by the House with all provi
sions of the Ford proposal including
the Gorgas property, and point, out the
belief that if Congress eliminates the
Gorgas unit it would defeat the Ford
offer.
In the third report, submitted by
Representative Parker, Republican,
New Jersey, and signed by Represen
tative Froghtingham, Republican, Mas
sachusetts, the opinion is adverse to
the acceptance of Mr. Ford's, offer, un
less it is modified in other sections
than in that dealing with Gorgas. In
the event Mr. Ford declined to agree
to the modifications, the signers would
have the Secretary of War lease the
dams and nitrate plants "on such
terms as will secure the completion
of the dam,’ and would authorize him
to sell at a fair value the Gorgas plant.
TO PROVIDE m
FOR THE VETERANS
Woman’s Club Names Today as
“Tag Day” to Help Heroes of
Sixties to Attend Confederate
Reunion at Richmond.
The Woman’s Club of Brunswick
has designated today as “Tag Day,”
And it carries with it a motive that
should appeal to the heart—and the
purse—of every loyal Brunswiclciau.
In this way the women of this organi
zation are striving to provide a way
for every member of Camp Jackson,
(U. C. V., to attend the annual reunion
of the Confederate veterans at Rich
mond the latter part of June. This is
a cause that should appeal to the
patriotism of every man, woman and
child in this city, for certainly the vet
erans who wore the grey in the sixties
are entitled to this much considera
toin from the present generation.
There are thirteen members of the
local camp who are anxious to meet
once more the comrades who fought
with them under Lee and Jackson,
and a host of others whose names are
held sacred in the hearts of the South
land. Their ranks are thinning with
each year and soon they, too, will an
swer the bugle call for the great re
union on the other side of the river.
(Continued on page )S
THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
-LIST OF STUDENTS
PROMOTED IN GLYNN
GRAMMAR SCHOOL
The fololwing is a list of the pupils
of the Glynn Grammar school who
were promoted, from the first to the
seventh grades, inclusive:
FROM FIRST TO SECOND
Grover Allen, Mildred Anderson,
Mary Ida Batson, Charles Bone, Rose
mary Brown, Edmond Bunkley, Annie
Maud Clark, Bruce Daniels, Margaret
(David, Iniz Davis, Hugh Dowling, Ben
Gilbert, Caul Hackel, John Harvey,
Aubrey Ilyers, Maggie Marie Jones,
Edwin Lambright, Louise McDonald,
Mary Blanche McCauley, Buckner
Posey, James Pridgen, Harry Schrieb
er, Morel Symmons, Elizabeth Webb,
G. L. Yancey, Robert Jones, Tommy
Andrews, Gerald Carruthers, Sue Cun
ningham, Margaret Dart, Catherine
Dryden, Richard Everett, Eldridge
Ferguson, Bailey Glover, Clell Goins,
Helen Gray, Myrtle Greer, Bert
Holmes, Robert Hopkins, Maxine
Johns, Nolan Johnson, Eugene Joines.
Leonel'Lambright, David Mills, Mar
garet Newman, Phylles Perdue, Fan
nie Nickles Philips, Pauline Smith,
Willie Stebbins, Oliver Taylor, Mattie
Thomas, Merlin Thompson, Louiso
Tillotson, Marie Walker, William
Way, Louise Platt, Leborn Platt, Gra
ham Smith, Sline Gale, Vernie Bagley,
Kathleen Smith, Carlton Dunman,
Fred Sparre, Reggie Abbott, Billie
Paulk, Ruth Schrieber, Eva Youngner,
Helen Dixon, James Reddick, Lola
Belle Davis, John Strayer.
FROM SECOND to THIRD.
Marion Aiken, Robert Baldwin,
Ruby Bradley, Ruth Brady, Hazel
Brockington, Edmund Burnsed, Coy
t'rew|;, Mary Jo Cummings, Willie
Cunningham, Luther David, Frank
! Gordon, Sara. Hammons, Oscar Har
j ris, Alva Lindsey, Marie Lunceford,
Aline Meeks, Grady McCosker, Marvin
McGregor, Jane McKinnon, Coster
Michos, Montine O’Quinn, Eugene
Owens, Betty Parker, Helen Phillips,
Ruby Powell, Elizabeth Roof, Helen
Silberstein, Alda Silva, Mary Silva,
Carolyn Sneed, Rasoline Sutton. Lois
Symons, Haywood Tabbott, Ha*d
Hankersley, Clayton Tanner Rosalie
Tarlowski, George Tharin, Dorothy
Walsh, Jane Whittle, Edgar Wilson,
Jr., Wesley Wilson, Mary Anderson,
Julius Asher, Bevely Arnold, Raphael
Borehardt, Lora Counts; William Cope
land, Lewis Cheatham, Mattie Dart,
Thad Dankle, Bruce Decker, Lile iMsl
eriing, Lucile 'Garris, Martjip Grifjih,
Bernice Huxford, Dalton Haynes, Jan
nett Harvey, John Hotch, Amoret
Holmes, Herman Hess, Baskin Knight,
Louise Kelly, Joseph Lambright, Ma ;
rie Jones, Mary McGriff,. Frank Lqni
bright, Grace Morris, James Morris.
Jack -Nix. Robert Peters, Rosalie
Rowe, Sarah Steal, Margaret Staley,
Willa Strayer, Albert Stebbins, Tiler;
man Thomas, Harvey West, George
Wilson, Mildred Walker, Jim Thom
son, Joseph Hackel, Ludwig Anderson,
Helen Campbell, Ruth Whittle, Bloise
Counts,, Jewell Mills, Adell Bernstein,
; Nannie Sparre, Albert Grubbs, Annie
6’Quinn, Juanita Smith, William Mc-
Donald, Spencer Wiggins, Chgrles
Giay, Ulmer Pickner, Ralph Fahm,
Walter Davis.
FROM THIRD TO FOURTH
Tallulah Allen, Millie Anderson, Ag
(Contlnued on page B,i
ei coimimiy.
SCHOOL SESSION,
Interesting Exercises Held Yes-1
terday in Which Practically]
All the One Hundred and Thir-I
ty Pupils Participated. 1
Yesterday at two o’clock the cloA
ing exercises of Community school bfl
gan. A good many patrons and freindfl
of the school went out to see the chlß
! dren in their various plays.
This year over one hundred arfl
thirty different pupils have attend<9
I community school. By means of sefl
I eral plays and a few donations tfl
I school has paid over three
dollars due on the school piano.
Agriculture, though only a
tlle children’s instructions, has
productive of good results.
".clh.ol garden and at home
111.- boys have made from one
to eight iuindred per cent
agricultural projects. Some.
girls have sold salina plauts at
tit, too. Bush lima beams have
found well adapted to Glynn
conditions. ,
THE NEWS IS A MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1922,
ANOTHER MEET IN
INTEREST STATE
OIAINERSHIPA.B.EEA.
Gathering at Cordele Proved
to be Satisfactory in
Every Way.
PROMINENT GEORGIANS
MAKE GOOD ADDRESSES
Fact That Association Formed
for Saving Line is Working
Only in Interest of People
Along Line and Not for Union
or Non-Union is Stressed.
At the Cordele A., B. & A. meeting
on Thursday, at which nearly all of
the members of the executive commit
tee were present, it was decided to
mail out at once questiouaires to all
members of the general assembly, stat
ing the object of the Association for
State Ownership of the Atlanta, Bir-'
mingham and Atlantic railroad with
request for endorsement of the Asso
ciation’s plan to save the road to the
250,000 people living along the road’s
right-of-way.
It tvas clearly brought out at this
meeting that no one connected with
the movement had any other purpose
in view except that of serving the peo
ple. Many citizens of prominence
made talks in favor of state ownership
and denied that the Association was
in any way connected with either
union or non-union forces but that its
sole purpose was to have the general
assembly pass some measures enabl
ing the state to take over this great
railroad sytem in the event it be
comes necessary to save it from the
junk pile.
The next meeting of the Associa
tion will be held in Atlanta a day or
two before the legislature convenes
this month.
MRS. W. H. HALL, ESTIMABLE
LADY, AFTER LONG ILLNESS
PASSES AWAY YESTERDAY.
After an illness extending over a
long period, Mrs. Mary E. Hall, wife of
W. H. Hall, a brave Confederate vet
eran, passed away yesterday morning
shortly after 7 o’clock at her home,
1508 Co c hran avenue. For the past
several days the condition of this good
woman has been critical and her death
was not unexpected.
Deceased was born in South Caro
lina in 1834 and came to Brunswick
from Gainesville, Fla., in 1868, thus,
it will be seen that she has lived in
this city fifty-four years and all of
that time she has been known as a
good, Christian woman, devoting her
life to her loved ones and her scores
of friends. During the past several
years Mrs. Hall has kept within the
confines of her premises and especial
ly is this true since the death of her
husband.
Mrs. Hall leaves two sons, Dr.
Charles Crowder, of Tarrytown, Ga„
and J. G. Crowder, or Columbus, and
three grandsons, W. H. Flanders, of
Indianapolis, Ind., £■. M. Flanders, of
Jacksonville, and H. B. Flanders, of
this city, besides numerous other rel
atives.
The funeral will be held from the
residence, 1508 Cochran avenue, at 4
o’clock this afternoon and will be con
ducted by Rev. O. P. Gilbert, of the
First Baptist church, and interment
will be in Oak Grove cemetery. Fol
lowing will act as pallbearers: Rich
ard W. Peters, George Cowman, Chas.
H. Taylor, T. J. Mroczkowski, Alex
Hotch, and Camp Jackson, U. C. V.,
will attend in a body. Undertaker J.
D. Baldwin will have charge.
CROSBY AND SONS
NAVE CLOSE GALL
Big Cadillac Car in Which They
Were Returning from Savan
nah Plunges Down Ten Foot
Embankment.
l' N.'i ivK-ti ,uv.-r nier-
uni young snin,, Ira
an,! l " t-sc.ii>.- run. s
u: fatal lnjur> while
HniiM'-nl from Savali
plunged -ion u a leu tool
a they c approach
h' '' ,:VVl ‘ -"'ll'' ■'! Ihe
HBH^^BnJured.
I ■■- . driving me car a! a
it 1 of speed, attempted to
| releasing the steering
a moment, when the ttia-
quickly to the ride of
before it could he right
down the embankment
flflHMg itself in a soft clay bank.
of the occupants were
into the mud. The
turned completely over
plunge, Mr. Cro.stjy
having a tiamiw escape
pinned underneath the ear
<^l at tile foot of the embank
extricating himself and his
Crosby sought a telephone
muni rated his predicament to
£Aj^Biliac service station, at Savan
er a wrecking eat was promptly
to the scene. In a short
car was pulled back to the
where il was found that it
fißfH damaged in the .-lightest, only
■HH hinge had been snapped.
proceeded on his way to
pondering how it was that
■iis boys and hi- cai escaped
the most thrilling experi-
IHHB > i“ life>
Bfl PRAISFO
■ DEDICATION
Dedicates Monume.it
of Washing
and is Hailed as Man of
Courage."
Associated Press.)
-V ‘ B’t.m. .1 dune :* —Prc-uidit
de,prated a monument to the
- ot George Washington
lodat and heard liimself
Bflßßis a mail of "quiet courage’’
in (us own policies to-
B'H -
"'is ■
DUSEN6UBYHEADS
BOARD OF TRADE
CIVIC COMMITTEE
Plans for Bringing Wage Paying
Industries Here Now
Underway.
SEVERAL ENTERPRISES ARE
INTERESTED IN BRUNSWICK.
Directors of Board of Trade Held
Interesting Session Last Night
at Which Many Important
Plans Were Made in Way of
Plant Procuring.
At one of most important meetings
yet held by the directors of the Bruns
wick Board of Trade last night, plans,
sweeping in their scope, were started
iooking to bringing to this city and
section new enterprises and especial
ly those of the wage-paying kind. Now
the business depression is practically
over, Managing-Secretary Fred G.
Warde shower the directors various
communications with persons contem
plating the establishment of plants
and businesses here and while the
number liable to come here will ma
terialy swell payrolls, it is but good
judgment that the names or nature of
these be not made public until nego
tiations have finally reached the cer
tain stage.
Another important action taken by
the directors last Evening was the se
lection of C. P. Dusenbury as chair
man of the civic committee, a position
for which he Is well qualified and
while it calls for constant service the
new chairman will be equal to the de
mands.
BIG PICK-UPS AT GREAT
GROCERY SALE FOR TODAY
There will probably be scores of
county visitors in today to attend the
big sale now in progress at the store
of William Anderson’s Sons, 204 Monk
street, and everything will be ready
at the establishment for prompt and
efficient service.
The proprietors of the store have
both made/plans for the immediate fu
ture and it is their desire to close out
at the very earliest possible date. Be
sides an excellent line of groceries,
there are many articles needed in ev
ery household, light hardware, paints,
etc. The store will be open at 7:30
this morning and those who would con
sult their own interest should be there
as early after this hour as possible.
GENERAL REPAIRS
YACHT ONONDAGA
Trim Government Craft Used to
Col. Alstaetter at Plant of
Brunswick Marine Construc
tion Corporation.
That a local machinery repairing es
tablishment should be selected to
give a thorough overhauling to a gov
ernment owned craft, especially one
with headquarters in Savannah, is a
distinct victory, but this has been the
case and the handsome government
yacht, Onondaga, used by Col. Fred
W. Alstaetter,’‘United States district
engineer, wiifi headquarters at Sa
vannah. Is now at the plant of the
Brunswick Marine, Construction Cor
poration where it will be completely
overhauled, ‘new boilers will be In
stalled and there will be a general
overhauling of the engines.
In order to complete the big Job
with dispatch, Supt. Nathan will work
double shifts, keeping the men busy
both day and night and adding to the
list of mechanics now employed at the
big plant. The Onondaga is one of the
prettiest craft in southern waters and
when it is discharged at the local
plant it will be in the very best con
dition.
mention of the president’s stand
against the soldier bonus and bis
votes for anti-strike laws as a sena
tor, as he recited the reasons wtjy
Princeton gave the president the hon
orary degree of doctor of laws.
STORY OF THE NEWS
FIND SEDWIN HAFNER
Several days ago The News publish
ed a story of a woman, who made the
trip from Seattle, Washington, to
Brunswick, in an automobile, in quest
of her son, who was abducted by her
father, a man by the name of Proctor,
thirty yearse ago, from her home in
Plainesville, O.
The son has been found
And it was through the medium of
The News’ story that the anguish that
has burdened the mother’s heart all
these long years was dispelled. Read
ing the story was a Mrs. McDowell,
who resides at 1011 Oglethorpe street,
who recalled that her sister had mar
ried Proctor soon after his arrival in
Brunswick. The two women, the
mother of Edwin Hafner, the missing
boy, and the sister of her father’s
wife,soon got into communication' ffnd
tracing hack over the years, Mrs. Mc-
Dowell was then a child, the sister
was located at Blountstown, where
she was living after having remarried
a year after her first husband’s, Proc-i
tor’s death.
The step-grandmother of Edwin
Proctor Hafner, whom 3he had reared
never lost sight of him, however, even
after he had grown to manhood’s es
tate. He, too, married, and moved
back to Georgia. It was at Withers, a
small station on the Atlantic Coast
Line Railway, near Waycross, that he
has lived, being employed as section
foreman by that road.
It was through the information giv
en by Mrs. McDowell that the mother
of Hafner, who had not seen him since
he was abducted by her father, thir
ty years ago, w’as enabled to locate
her son, whom she had despaired of
ever seeing again. It was through the
story published in The News that Mrs.
McDowell learned for the first time
that Edwin Hafner, her school mate,
step-son of her sister, had been kid
napped by his grandfather and
brought to Brunswick, bringing many
years of suffering to his mother’s
heart.
The mother of Edwin Hafner will
soon be in the arms of her boy of long
ago.
RESOLUTION OF
CAMMXCKSON
Old Confederate Veterans Ask
That Lee’s Birthday and
Memorial Day be Observed by
City and County Schools.
Camp Jackson, U. C. V., held an in
teresting meeting at the county court
house yesterday afternoon at 2 o’clock
and among other matters handled
was the passing of the following reso
lution :
Whereas, contrary to law and to
the universal practice of all other
counties in Georgia, that we know of,
it has become customary by the Board
of Education to ignore the voice of
the people of Georgia, which made
Lee’s birthday and Memorial Day a
legal holiday and keep the schools
open on these days, thus denying the
children an opportunity to attend the
celebration of those days as was evi
dently intended by the people of Geor
gia.
And whereas such conduct in our
county speaks badly as to the recol
lection of the past and virtually de
prives we old veterans of the pleasure
of seeing all the children participating
i ntbe celebration of those days.
And whereas, while the children are
denied the holiday given them by law,
at the same time the -Superintendent
of education and each and every
teacher in the common schools - are
forced to keep open said schools on
said days, which is virtually to compel
them to work on a public holiday.
And whereas, the keeping open of
the public schools on those days is a
degradation of our country and holds
her up to the ridicule and contempt of
other patriotic counties, therefore, in
defense of our children, our teachers
and the good and fair name of Glynn
county we here and now enter this,
our protest against keeping the public
schools open on Lee’s birthday anc-
Memorial Day.
Therefore, be It resolved that Camp
Jackson, U. C. V., 806, here and now
enter our protest against the keeping
open of our public schools on Lee’s
birthday and Memorial Day, one and
both, and request that hereafter the
schools Je kept closed on those days,
BRUNSWICK
Has the lowest death rate of
any city its size in the United
States. ,
PRICE FIVE CENTS
WILLINGHAM IS
FOUND GUILTY OF
LARCENY CHARGE
Young Macon Plunger is Sen
tenced by Jury Serve Twelve
Months at State Farm.
RESULT OF FINANCIAL
COLLAPSE IN 1920.
Accused Makes Lengthy Writ
ten Statement to Jury, Which
Was Sweeping Denial of All
Charges and a Plea for His
Acquittal,
(By Associated Press.)
Macon, Ga., June 9.—Richard F.
Willingham, charged with larceny af
ter trust in connection with his flnan
cal collapse here in 1920, wa3 con
victed by a jury in the Bibb Superior
court late today. Sentence was fixed
at twelve months at the state prison
farm.
Solicitor General Charles H. Gar
rett, for the state, opened his argu
ment in the case against Willigham.
charged with the larceny after trust
of 1163,475, in the Bibb County- Super
ior court Friday morning, when the
court opened ou the final day of the
celebrated trial that has been in pro
gress here since Monday.
Late Thursday afternoon, Frank
Hooper, associated with the State's
case, made his opening argument to
the jury and was followed by General
Walter A. Harris.
Following Mr. Garrett today, came
Attorney Ellsworth Hall, in the final
argument for the defendant. The
State had an hour and a half for its
argument and the defense was con
fined to an hour, following which the
Judge made his charge to the Jury.
The case reached the jury’s hands at
4 o’clock this afternoon.
Those who have followed the case
closely- were not looking for an early
verdict in tile case, iuasmueh as there
was a mass of evidence of a documen
tary nature which would have to be
considered by the jury.
The statement of Richard F. Wil
lingham, to the jury, yvhich closed the
case for the defense, was a sweeping
denial of all charges and a plea for
acsuittal.
Willingham was released last night
on a bond in the sum of $2,000 pend
ing a hearing, on July 29, on motion
for anew trial.
EXLEY AND GOULD
ARE EXAMINED
Officers of Riflemen Stand Ex
amination Conducted by Col.
James Kimbrough, U. S. A., at
I Armory Last Night.
A special examination was conduct
ed la- night at the Riflemen’s armury
of Lieutenants Exley and Gould, of tha
local command, by Col. James M. Kim
brough,. U, g. A.
Major L. C. Pope, of Dublin, of the
Third battalion, 122nd Infantry, of
which the Riflemen are a unit, was
also present and witnessed a. special
drill put on by the company. Major
Pope, one of the most popular and
efficient officers of the State National
Guard, came to Brunswick merely for
the purpose of “looking over” the
Riflemen; which company the major
designates as the "best in the state.”
He highly complimented the officers
and men at the conclusion of their
drill last night.
Col.- Kimbrough was designated by
the war department to examine Lieuts.
Exley and Gould, as to their efficiency,
they having been elected to their pres
ent positions recently by the Riflemdn,
that is, Lieut. Exley was re-elected.
The officers are said to have stood an
excellent examination.
Last night Col. Kimbrough and
Major Pope, as the guests of Capt.
Harwell, Judge E. C. Butts, Elliot
Butts and Paul Morton, left for a brief
fishing trip on the “Duck and Mullet
Club's” houseboat.
so far as teaching school . Is concern
ed.
Resolved further, that these resolu
tions be published In the official organ
of said county.
The foregoing resolution was laid
before the camp for actton ( the same
was unanimously carried.