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* BRUNSWICK
Has a landlocked harbor, the
best on the South Atlantic
Coast
VOLUME XXI. NO. 212
B. R. LIBOR BOARD
MAKES ANOTHER
SLASH J WAGES
Prunes Nearly Twenty=seven
Million From Clerks, Signal*
men and Firemen.
ONE HUNDRED PER CENT
VOTE EXPECTED ON STRIKE
Rail Union Chiefs to Serve For
mal Notice on Railroad Labor
Board that Overwhelming
Majority of Shop Craft and
Others Voting Favor Strike.
(By Associated Press.)
Chicago, June 16.—Pruning nearly
twenty-seven million dollars from the
annual income ot 325,000 railway em
ployees by cutting clerks, signalmen
and stationary firemen from two to
six cents an hour, the Railroad Labor
Board today announced another w r age
bringing t ehtotal reduction un
‘£’J the board’s order to July 1 up to
4135,000,000.
Clerks were cut three and four
cents an hour, according to classifica
tion. Signalmen were cut five cents
and firemen two cents.
IN FAVOR OF STRIKE.
(By Associated Press.)
Chicago, June 16. —On the eve of
another railway slash expected to lop
off nearly $30,000,000 from the rail
roads’ annual labor bill, covering 325,-
000 employes, gossip in rail circles
centered today on the question of the
strike ballot.
Reports from headquarters of the
railroad employes’ department of the
Federation of Labor were that a 100
per cent vote was expected and that
indications thus far were that it would
be overwhelmingly in favor of a
strike.
MAY NOTIFY LABOR BOARD.
Cincinnati, 0., June 16. —Rail union
chiefs were considering today serving
formal notice on the Railroad Labor
Board that an overwhelming majority
of the 1,225,000 shopcraft and mainte
nance of way employes were voting in
favor of a strike on./July 1, and that
officers of the union would abide by
the decision of the workers.
The notice, in effect, would formally
communicate to the board the public
statement issued here last night by
the union heads, which asserted that
the board, in ordering wage reduc
tions, had so reduced living standards
that the strike becomes an act of “self
preservation.” The statement also
the attitude of the railroad
Fnanagers as provocative of a strike.
Decision as- to the despatch of a for
mal notice to the hoard was held up
by the union leaders, pending receipt
of the board’s action on further reduc
tions affecting 350,000 station employ
ees, clerks, express, signal men, sta
tionary firemen, oilers and train dis
patchers.
WILL NOT SEND OUT BALLOTS
(By Associated Press.)
Cincinnati. June 16. —No general
strike ballot will be sent out by the.
Brotherhood of Railway and Steam- 1
ship Clerks, Express and Station Em
ployees, its president, E. H. Fitzger
ald, announced tonight, adding that no
strike would develop among these
workers on the several railroad sys
tems, Timothy Haley, president of the
Firemen and Oilers’ Union, said.
O’QUINN’S ANNIVERSARY
SALE WILL B£;GIN TODAY
W. A. O’Quinn & Company’s fourth]
anniversary sale will begin bright and
early this morning and it promises to
be one of the most successful ever |
held in Brunswick. The people have
long since realized that when the
O’Quinn store advertises a cut it
means a cut, even to the very quick,
and the sale which begins today will
be no exception.
Just a few of the hundreds of bar
gains are told of on page two of this
morning’s News and it will pay any
one to take a' little time off, read every
word in the advertisement, make a
.Ist of what is desired and get to the
store as early as possible in order to
get first selection. All of yesterday
the windows of the establishment at
tracted the attention of every passer
by and many favorable comments
were heard. is- ■ i
THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
► LIQUOR MAY BE SOLD
► OUTSIDE 3 MILE LIMIT.
• (By Associated Press.)
■ Washingon, June 16.—The sale
► of liquor on shipping board ves
► sels, outside of the three mile
" limit, is permissible under the
■ new treasury regulations issued
► today, according to P. V. Vise,
• general counsel for the prohibi
• tion unit.
THREE MEN DIE IN
ELECTRIC CHAIR
Electrocuted at Columbia, S. C.,
for Murder of Young Taxi
Driver Near Leesville on Night
August 7.
(By Associated Press.)
Columbia, S. C., June 16.—S. J. Kir
by, Jesse Gappins and C. O. Fox were
electrocuted at the penitentiary this
morning shortly after 6 o’clock for the
murder of Wm. Brazelle, young taxi
cab driver, near on the
night of August 7. last.
The trio went to their deaths sing
ing and praying. Kirby went first,
and he feigned insanity and tried to
get his hands from the straps. Then
four guards took hold of him forcibly,
the straps were madt tighter.than us
ual, and the current was sent through
his body, the man being deprived, be
cause of contrary behavior, of the
privilege of making a last statement.
Warn Young Men,
Gappins went second and Fox last,
the entire procedure consuming forty
minutes. Fox and Gappins made last
statements, in which they warned
young men against bad company and
evil conduct.
The penitentiary officials took the
curious by surprise and staged the
execution at an early hour instead of
noon, as is usual. This is the first
time a white man has been executed
in this state since 1903, and it is the
first time three men were ever electro
cuted in the state on the same day.
W. B. MERRITT DIES
AT HOME IR AIM
—, . • .iZ 4J I>S ‘
Was Former State SupeHrftelru
dent of Schools and Was Wet I
Known Throughout Soutlv-ln
Educational Circles.
(By Associated Press.) ‘
Atlanta, June 16.—William : A. Mer
ritt, former state superintendent of
schools, and one of the most promi
nent Southern educators, died yester
day afternoon at the residencfe of his
brother-in-law, W. B. Baker, 75 Spring
dale road, after a prolonged illness of
several months. His death occurred
on his 57th birthday.
Coming from Valdosta, where he
was superintendent of city and coun
ty schools, Mr. Merritt assumed con
trol of the state system in 1903 and
served until 1907, when he resigned
and retired from -active educational
i work. He had previously been teach
ing in Columbus, Montezuma, and the
important part he played in the ad
vancement of those systems,' together
with his record as state superiiiten-'
dent, ranks him as one of the out
standing educators of the South.
After retiring from office he went to
St. Andrews, Fla., where lie engaged’
in the turpentine and lumber business
until March ’of this year, when the
cphdition qf his health necessitated a'
vcbmplete rest.
FISHERMEN ON COAST ’
OF WASHINGTON HOLD
GIRL CAPTIVE 5 MONTHS
. (By Associated Press,)
Bremetrton, Wash., June 16.—That
she was held captive five months on a
boat was the story told here by Grace
Romman, aged 15, who was taken by
her father and police agents from the
craft of Elmer Weber, aged 55, a fish
erman. She w r as at her home today.
Weber was arrested. '
The girl disappeared December 26.
Her story, police authorities say; was
that Weber seized her on the beach
near BremeTton, took her aboard'his
boat, forced’ her to don boy’s clothes',
and to cut her hair, and had detained
her ever since. Weber Is married and
lias eight children.
THE NEWS IS A MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA. SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1922.
IRISH VOTE UNDER
TERMS OF TREAT!
ALL OVER SOUTH
Members of Parliament for Irish
Free State Being Chosen
at the Polls.
ANGLOIRISH TREATY
SIGNED LAST DECEMBER
The Parliament Elected is to
Pass Upon the Constitution of
the Free State Under Which a
Permanent Parliament for
Southern Ireland be Chosen.
(By Associated Press.)
The Hague, June 16.—The Hague
conference, in the absence of the dom
inating political figures who guided
the courses of the International gath
erings at Genoa and Washington, is
destined to bring into the limelight
another and younger group of leaders
as representing the great powers.
They include Sir Phillip Lloyd-
Graerne, of England; M. Benoist,
France; Baron Avezzano, Italy; M.
Sato, Japan; M. Cattier, Belgium, and
M. Van Karnebeek. Holland, and al
ready they have begun their efforts
to shape the course of the conference.
At their Initial private meeting last
night they decided upon the scheme
of a main Russian commission, with
three sub-commissions, which will
give detailed study of the technical
questions of credits, debts, and treat
ment of private property owned by
foreigners in Russia, which must later
ba negotiated with the Russians. The
details of this project were to be sub
mitted at today’s session of the con
ference.
Meanwhile the war between the
press correspondents and Dutch offi
cialdom over the right of the former
to enter the Peace Palace where the
conference sits, is affording great
amusement .to the visitors here, as
well as a good laugh to many phleg
matic Hollanders who; like tlie people
of other lands, like tA-see bureadefatic
Biethofls; smashed,‘occasionally." The
iewspapjeMrten won the first'Migage
ment/aiiJ It'seemed likely they would
win another! today, ' - ‘
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%LdIDA OFFICIAL HAS
FLED MYSTERIOUSLY
, /y 1 . . r
’ (By A ssociate< T Press.)
PaTatfe, Fla ~ June S.* R,
Fields,, tof Bunnell, a member of the
,boJ’4 of cofoimissioners of Flagler
county, has jeft thq county as the re
sult of his third flogging at the hands
of unidentified persons in the last few
months, according to Flagler county
officers who have arrived here to run
down clues in connection with the
case. ,
The cause of the attacks have never
been 'learned 'but Fields has been in
the public eye on several occasions, at
one time appearing as plaintiff for an
injunction suit against the commis
sioner's in connection with building a
highway.
BANKHEAD AMENDMENT
REJECTED BY COMMITTEE
. (By, Associated Press.)
Washington, June 16.-—Without a<
record vote the house merchant ma
rine conurifltee today rejected the
amendment by Representative Bank
head, of Alabama, to the ship subsidy
bill providing that no government aid
should be allowed the ships on which
liquor was sold.
. The rejection of the Bankhead
amendment w’as 1 expected to put' the
fight over the'question of prohibitfETh
at sea squarely before the house Uii-’
iess a rule was allowed which would
permit a vote only on one commit
tee amendment.
GOVERNMENT WINS SUIT
. AGAINST REFINING CO.
■■
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, June 16 —Judgment for
over (our hundred and, ninety-nine
thousand dollars for the government
in a suit brought against the govern
ment by the Gulf Refining Company
to recover income on properties taken
qver during the war has been banded
down by the Ignited States court of
claims, It became known today.
The government’s counter claim
that the Gulf Refining Company had
collected more m operating revenues
than It wae entitled to a damages
wan sustained by the court’s decision,
THREE FEDERAL GUARDS
INDICTED BY JURY
(By Associated Press.)
Atlanta, June 16—The federal grand
jury returned indictments against
three federal penitentiary guards
here today, charging violation of the
Harrison anti-narcotic act, and start
ed examining witnesses in the patron
age cases charges. Clark Grier, of
Augusta, was the first witness to take
the stand.
TRAIN HITS AUTO
KILLINGJ CADET
West Pointer's Lady Compan
ion Escaped by Jumping.—
Wreck of Train Caused Injury
to Eight Persons. ,
(By Associated Press.)
Long Branch, N. J., June 16. —Je-
rome Stewart, a cadet at the United
States Military Academy at West j
Point, was killed at Allaire, near here,!
today, when a Pennsylvania train '
struck his automobile at a crossing. I
A young woman who accompanied
him escaped by jumping.
EIGHT PASSENGERS HURT.
Philadelphia, June 16. —Eight pas
sengers were injured in jthe wrecking
of a Pennsylvania railrpad train at
Allaire, near Asbury Pa)k, N. J., to
day, according to a report received
by the company.
The accident was due 3 to the train
striking an automobile containing a
man and a woman. The engine and
the baggage car turned Over and two
coaches were derailed. Among the in
jured, according to the company’s ad
vices, was B. McHenry, a government
inspector, on his way to Long Breach,
N. J.
CASE WAS DROPPED.
(By Associated Press.)
Savannah, Ga., June 16.—dn the city
court today the case against N. B. F.
Close, a grammar school principal,
charged with assault and battery for
having whipped a boy pupil, was plac
ed on the dead docket. The mother of
the boy who signed the warrant with
drew the charges. The school author
ities are disappointed that the case
•was not determined so they will know
how to be guided in the future.
NEITHER PROVIDENCE OR
HARDWICK INTERFERED
AND JIM DENSON HANGS
Negro Who Made Miraculous
Escape from Mob Goes to
Gallows Cool, Calm Manner,
Asserting His Innocence to
the Very Last Minute.
Irwinton, Ga„ June 16.—Jim Den
son, negro, who made a sensational
escape from a mob one night several
weeks ago after the jail here had been
stormed and who was later recaptured
and taken to the Bibb county jail for
safekeeping until the day he was to
'hang on a charge of criminally as
saulting an aged white woman, paid
the death penalty this morning.
The trap was sprung at 10:15 by
Sheriff W. L.-Player, and physician#
pronounced the negro dead five min
utes later. Hls body was Interred In
,the potter’s field.
, Denson protested his innocence to
the last. He was asked several times
Jp state whether or not he was guilty.
*nd, in each instance insisted that be
■was innocent. He showed little signs
pf nervousness as the rope was placed
around his neck and apparently went
to his death cooly and calmly.
The hanging, took place on a gal
lows enclosed .with a fence, and was
witnessed by about 150 persons.
Denson is alleged to have commit
ted the crime in January, 1920. He
was tried at Irwinton on February 7,
1920, and sentenced to hang. The
Georgia Supreme Court affirmed the
decision of the lower court on Novem
ber 1. 1920.
Macon, June 16.—(About two hun
dred people gathered about the Bibb
county jail Friday morning when Sher
iff W. L. Flayer, of WUkineon county
came here to take Jim Denson, sen
tenced jo die, to Irwinton, where he
NEW POLITICAL
FIGURES APPEAR
A! CONFERENCE
Already Have Begun Their Ef
forts to Shape the Course
at The Hague.
ANOTHER AND YOUNGER
GROUP OF LEADERS
At Their Initial Private Meeting
They Decide Upon the Scheme
of a Main Russian Commis
sion Which Will Give Detailed
Study Technical Questions.
(By Associated Press.)
Dublin, June 16.—Voters of South
ern Ireland went to the polls today to
elect an Irish parliament as provided
for under the terms of the Anglo-Irish
treaty.
The Anglo-Irish treaty, signed last
December, under which the Irish Free
State is being created, passed by the
British Parliament in March, stipulat
ed that elections to a provisional par
liament for the Free State should be
held ‘‘as soon as may be” after the
passage of the act. These are the
elections being held in Ireland today.
The parliament so elected is to pass
upon the constitution of the Free
State under which a permanent par
liament for southern Ireland will be
chosen.
Lacking any constitutional division
of the country into districts for the
present election, the act of the British
Parliament stipulated that the pros
pective members be nominated from
the constituencies which elected mem
bers to the parliament chosen under
the government of Ireland act of 1920.
Elections were held in Southern Ire
land that year under the act. but the
parliament never came into being. In
stead the members elected were de
clared by the Irish Republican gov
ernment at that time to constitute the
membership of the Dail Eireann, or
Republican Parliament, which, since
the adoption of the Anglo-Irish treaty,
has been allowed by the British gov
ernment to function as virtually the
recognized legislative body for South
ern Ireland. It was the Dail Eireann
which passed upon the Anglo-Irish
treaty itself, ratifying It, as will he re
called, by a majority of seven votes.
will be, executed. Sheriff Player with
Deputy Parker arrived before eight
o'clock and departed with the young
negro shortly after. 'Denson still pro
claimed' his innocence as he wag tak
en from the Bibb jail.
Denson was convicted for assault
on an aged white woman at Irwinton
and sentenced to hang. One night sev
eral weeks ago. after he had been
resentenced, he was taken from the
Irwinton jail by a mob. He made a
spectacular escape from the mob, free
in the swamps for a day, only to be
captured again by Sheriff Player. Den
son was them brought to Macon for
safe keeping.
An appeal was sent to Governor
Hardwick asking hiui to remit the
sentence, but the oGvernor ruled that
the sentence should stand.
Denson has maintained ever since
he has been here in jail that some
thing would happen to keep him from
hanging. lhi the heavy wind a few
days ago the scaffold built from which
he was to’drop to his death was de
stroyed by a high wind. Another has
been erected in Its place.
Last night was a scene of Wild re
ligious demonstrations at the* jail by
the negroes confined there. Both
men and women prisoners sang, yelled
and prayed. Jim weakened considera
ble when placed in the death cell, but
he maintained his religious fervor.
Denson said he was Innocent, hot
was prepared to meet bis death. He
said with the permission of the sher
iff he would make a short speech be
fore he was put to death. Since be
ing confined in the jail here he has
made an extensive study of the Bible.
He maintains he will be saved as Dan
iel was saved from the Hons and was
able to recite many verses of Scrip
tur*, • * ‘
STRIKE SITUATION AT
VERA CRUZ SERIOUS. -
(By Associated Press.)
Mexico City, June 16.—A dis- -
patch from Merida, Yucatan, -
says that the strike there has -
been amicably settled. At Vera <
Cruz the situation shows no im- <
provement and the city is with- *
out transportation, hotels and <
restaurants closed and, port •c- <
tivities are paralyzed 4
, ■<
WILL RESUME THE
JEHKIUSIUIJUEST
Coroner Baldwin Going to Thall
man This Morning—Attorney
J. T. Colson Has Been Retain
ed by Railway Conductors.
Coroner J. D. Baldwin will leave at
6:30 this morning for Thallman where
the jury investigated the killing of
Conductor Jenkins, of the Seaboard
I Air Line, which occurred Thursday
morning at this station. Accompany-
I ing Coroner Baldwin will be Attorney
. James T. Colson, who has been retain
|ed by the Order of Railway Conduc
tors, of which deceased w|s a rnera
| ber, to assist in the investigation, and
it is understood that sensational de
velopments may be expected.
It has been known for some time
that Conductor Jenkins and certain
non-union railroad men had been at
outs. In fact, the matter had reached
such a high pitch that the man killed
had told friends he expected trouble
every time the train stopped at Thall
man. Deceased was a strong union
man and the Conductor’s order will
spare no expense in their investiga
tion of the murder.
Two or more Seaboard special
agents have been at work on the case
since an hour after the killing and
these may appear before the coroner’s
jury this morning with such testimony
as may lead to an arrest, it is stated.
NEGRO BOY HELD
ASSAULT CHARGE
1
Will be Tried by Juvenile Au
thorities of Richmond.—Were
Arrested Some Miles of Scene
of Attempts.
(By Associated Press.)
Richmond, Va., June ne
gro youths, arrested in Newtown, Va..
just north of Richmond last night, are
in the city hall and will be given a
hearing in the juvenile court tomor
row, charged with attempting to at
tack a 9-year-old white girl and her
6-year-old boy companion, while the
two were picking flowers near their
home in the northern outskirts of the
city late yesterday.
In a statement to a local newspaper
today the girl’s father said the negroes
16 and .17 years of age, respectively,
were identified by his daughter last
night as the negroes who attempted to
attack her and her little companion.
According to the father, the report
that the girl was dragged from her
home by one of the negroes, is erron
eous. The negroes, he said, asked the
children to accompany them to some
woods .nearby, saying they could find
cherries and peaches there.
The boy, he said, started to follow,
but the girl refused to do so, where
upon one of the negroes attempted to'
grab her hand. She ran away scream
ing and the little boy began to scream.
At the same moment, according to the
story, the father says his daughter
told him, one of the negroes struck
the boy a hard blow, loosening one of
his teeth.
ALBERT FENDIG IMPROVES
SINCE REACHING NEW YORK
Scores of Brunswick friends will be
pleased to learn that Albert Fendig,
who left here some days for New
York, accompanied by Mrs. Fendig,
is improving. He stood the long trip
well and is greatly encouraged.
Mr. Fendig has been ill for several
months and at one time his condition
was serious. As soon as able he went
over to his cottage on the Island and
really improved some there but de
cided that a change of climate would
probably result more beneficially than
anything else and it seems that he
has hot been mistaken in this.
BRUNSWICK
Has the lowest death rate of
any city its size In the United
States
PRICE FIVE CENTS
ORGANIZING OF
FARM INTERESTS
RESULT OF MEET
Gathering at Board of Trade
Rooms Yesterday Was De
cided Success.
L. M. M’KINNON TO HEAD
NEW ORGANIZATION.
J. E. Ferguson js Elected Secre
tary and Treasurer; W. H.
Shadman, First Vice Presi
dent and J. H. E. Dimon, Sec
ond Vice President.
Those responsible for the meeting
of the agricultural interests of Glynn
county yesterday were gratified at the
turn matters took and the result was
actual organization of an association
which will have for its’object further
ing of farming, stock raising, poultry
breeding, in fact, any and everything
connected with the farm and the rur
al generally.
J. E. Ferguson called the meeting
to order and presided until the elec
-1 tion of officers and before the selec
tion of these, interesting talks w’ere
made by a number. Those who will
guide the ne worganization, named
at the meeting are: M. L. McKinnon,
president; j. E. Ferguteon, secretary
and treasurer; W. H. Shadman, first
vice president; J. H. E. Dimond, sec
ond vice president.
A motion was unanimously passed
requesting the president to appoint a
committee of three to draft a constitu
tion and by-laws and also suggest a
name for the organization and R. R.
MacGregor, L. R. Akin, of this city,
and R. A. Taylor, of St. Simon, were
named. A motion also carried asking
that the secretary get information
from like organizations in this state,
whlcb-he will proceed to do and report
at the next meeting, date of which will
be announced lateiv-
It was brought out that of all the
applications for loans from the Farm
Loan Board, made by Glynn county
farmers, not one had been acted upon
favorably. These applications, it
seems, must pass through the hands
of the Board’s agent, Mr. Dean, of
Charltou county, whereas if there was
a norgaization here probably an agent
[of the Board would be named and
I those farmers needing financial as-
I slstance would stand some chance of
favorable action.
Some of those present yesterday
were: Hon. L. R. Akin, J. H. Rutledge,
A. B. Cain. W. H. Shadman. R. A. .Tay
lor, N. C. Young. B W. Murray, Dr. G.
V. Cate, R. R. MacFregor, W. E. Mit
chell, J. H. E. Dimond, Harold Ely,
Mrs. J. J. Lott, Mrs. Madge B. Mer
ritt, Prof. C. E. Dryden, C. G. Stevens,
C. S. Stevens, D. C. McCaskill, James
M. Massey. Sr.. Mrs. K. G. Berrie.
INTERNATIONAL BANKS
ARE TO FINANCE MEXICO
(By Associated Press.)
New York, June 16.—A comprehen
sive agreement covering all phases of
Mexico’s external debt problem was
signed tonight by Mexican Minister of
Finance De La Huerta and an interna
tional committee of bankers in Mex
co.
HARDWICK ASKED TO OFFER
REWARD JENKINS SLAYER.
It is understood that the Order of
Railway Conductors will offer a re
ward for apprehension of the slayer of
Conductor Jenkins, murdered at Thall
mhan early Thursday morning and it
is also stated that the state may do
likewise. Fact of the matter Is. Gov
ernor Hardwick has been asked by
Coroner Baldwin, of this county, and
others here, to offer a reward also and
it is likely that he will grant the re
quest.
The slaying of Conductor Jenkins
has caused deep regret as it seems
that he was one of the most popular
present day bell cord pullers and the
cowardly manner in which death came
to him has aroused indignation every
where.
DR. GLENN RETIRES FROM
DAHLONEGA INSTITUTION
(By Associated Press.)
Athens, Ga„ June 16.—The board of
trustof the University of Georgia
system .oday accepted the resignation
of Dr. G. R. Glenn, for eighteen years
president of of the North Georgia Ag
ricultural College, at Dahlonega,