Newspaper Page Text
BRUNSWICK
Has a landlocked harbor, the
best on the South Atlantic
Coast.
VOLUME XXI. NO. 214
REUNION BRINGS
VETERANS FROM
ILL SOUTHLAND
Richmond Opens Wide Her
Gates and Hearty Welcome
Extended Warriors.
CITY HOST TO ALMOST
FIFTY THOUSAND VISITORS
Grizzled Veterans are Being
Quartered in Many Richmond
Homes Where Every Atten
tion and Care is Extended.—
Gen. Jluian S. Carr Present.
Richmond, Va., June 19.—Re-living
in memory the hopes and fears of ’6l
and ’65, Richmond today opened wide
her gates and with love and admira
tion welcomed the surviving band of
grey-coated men who by their valor
made immortal the armies of Lee and
Jackson.
Hundreds who rallied about the
brilliant Stuart, many who charged
with the gallant Forrest, some who
trailed with the dashing Mosby; otb
who wore the Grey navy’s sea
men, men who drew sabres, shoulder
ed muskets and cannonaded under the
leadership of famous southern chief
tains, are asembled here for the thir
ty-second annual reunion of the Unit
ed Confederate Veterans.
From the green hills of Maryland
and the purple valleys of Virginia,
from the yellow sands of the Texan
plains, from the gulf waters and even
from the shores of the far Pacific,
they have come together again to wor
ship at the shrine of an unforgotten
cause —in the city that once was their
beloved capital and the heart of an
ever-to-be-remembered Confederacy.
Woods Alive With Voices
The silent woods and fields in and
about the historic city, which once
were loud with strife, today was alive
with the voices of this fast thinning
band. Slow treading, bent with age
and-touched to gray by the hand of
time, some so feeble they cannot
walk, others with eyes so dim they
can barely see, their diminishing
ranks now numbering nof more than
10,000, are reuniting and living again
in comradeship and ties hallowed by
sacred recollections. That gallant
army of 600,000 men that followed the
stars and bars sixty years ago has les
sened and lessened in numbers with
the pasing year until their rank have
become as elusive as a far sea line
dimly pencilled on the sky of the pres
ent.
With the old soldiers, their families
and friends, it is estimated that Rich
mond today is host to approximately
60,00'0 visitors.' The reunion will not
officially open until tomorrow morn
ing.
Homes Open to Visitors.
In the meantime the grizzled veter
ans are being quartered in Richmond
homes where every attention and lov
ing care is being extended. Younger
visitors ar e being lodged in hotels and
public buildings. In the latter, hun
dreds of army cots, loaned by the War
Department, have been provided.
General Carr on Hand.
Greeting comrades of former years
here today is General Julian S. Carr,
of Durham, commander-in-chief of the
United Confederate Veterans. Gen
eral Carr, who recently was critically
ill at his home in North Carolina, is
showing surprising vigor. Straight as
a spear, despite his advanced years
and precarious health, he is entering
Into the spirit of the reunion like a
youngster.
To keep up with tradition, as one
grey-coated wag has put it, “Half a
dozen negroes,’who claim they Were
body guards of General Lee and Jack
son are on hand as usual.’
Many of them are termed “fakes
and imposters’ by the old veterans;
nevertheless, they are accorded a
measure of recognition as a tribute.
If nothing else, to the great men the)
claim to have served.
OIL TANKER GOES DOWN
OFF KEY WEST SUNDAY
(By Associated Press.)
Key West, Fla., June 19.—The tank
er DeSoto was reported late yesterday
by the Norwegian steamer Borgested
as being in a sinking condition and it
sank at midnight, according to a ra
dio to the coast guard headquarters
bre.
The Borgested took off the tanker’s
THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
TAKES ANOTHER SHOT
AT SHIP PROHIBITION.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, June 19.—A bill
denying entrance to American
ports of any ship, American or
foreign, on which liquor is sold,
was introduced by Representa
tive Edmonds, ranking Republi
can-of the merchant marine com
mittee.
LEWIS SURE STRIKE
WILE BE SUCCESS
Miners’ President Expects Sen
timent to Demand a Settle
ment Which Will be in Fa
vor of Both Striking Unions.
(By Associated Press.)
Cincinnati, June 19.—Three factors
will win a victory for the miners and
railroad men in a common strike, it
was predicted today by John L. Lewis,
president of the United Mine Workers
of America.
He is here to. meet tomorrow night
with the rail union chiefs to consider
a joint strike action in the threatened
rail walkout of approximately one mil
lion men.
President Lewis said that the first
factor would be the moral effect of
the joint strike on the public.
The second point would be the join
ing of the forces would dislocate the
transportation systems of the nation
almost perfectly, and force immediate
settlement of the questions before
both the miners and railroad men.
The third factor, according to Pres
ident Lewis, would be its effect on the
industrial fabric of the nation, giving
an additional jar to the public in a
most widespread manser and increas
ing the demand for a quick settle
ment.
STRIKE VOTE AUTHORIZED.
Cleveland, June 19. —A strike vote
of the railway clerks and freight han
dlers employed by the New York
Railway has been authorized, it was
learned here tonight. The strike bal
lots will be sent out tomorrow.
MAIL CLERKS WANT TO VOTE.
Cincinnati, June 19— Railway mail
clerks in various parts of the country
are asking official sanction to take a
strike ballot against the recent wage
reductions, President Fitzgerald an
nounced tonight.
LOCAL JUSTICE
COURTSTO STAND
Will Take a Constitutional
Amendment and to Put It Be
fore Voters Requires Two
thirds Vote of Both Houses.
The justice of the peace courts of
Brunswick will not be abolished not
withstanding the fact that a bill will
be introduced asking their abolition
and in their stead the creation of a
court which will have jurisdiction up
to five hundred dollars in civil mat
ters and misdemeanor cases on the
criminal side, a court very much
styled after the present city court of
Brunswick.
A bill has already been introduced
in the legislature but has never reach
ed a vote. It required two-thirds of
both the upper and lower houses to
place a constitutional amendment be
fore the votefs of the state and it is
doubtful, even if the proposed bill
does come to a vote, if it will receive
the required number.
Brunswick tis almost solid against
the creation of another money eating
tribunal and the proposed court
would, of course, call for a judge,
sheriff and clerk find would burden
the groaning taxpayers with a tre
mendous sum annually and a commit
tee will go to (Atlanta in the event the
bills gets before the legislature and
ask for its defeat. It is understood
that a man has already been selected
for the new judgeship, a case of
“counting chickens before they are
hatched.”
crew yesterday. No details of the
disaster of the steamer Della which
was also reported yesterday, have
been received.
THE NEWS IS A MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA. TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1922.
MOTHER AND HER
DAUGHTER SHOT
TO DEAIR IN CAN
Mrs. M. B. Dixon, 38, and Mrs.
Elliot Padrie, 18, are Found
Dead Near Dover, Ga.
DAUGHTER’S HUSBAND
CHARGED WITH CRIME
Two Women Were Driving
Through Woods When They
Were Held Up and Put to
Death*—Great Excitement
Prevails in Bulloch.
(By Associated Press.)
Statesboro, Ga., June 19.—Mrs. M.
B. Dixon, thirty-eight, and her daugh
ter, Mrs. Elliot Padrie, eighteen, were
found sjiot to death in an automobile
near Dover, ten miles from here late
today. The daughter’s husband has
been arrested and taken to another
county for safe keeping.
When the news of the murder of the
two women, who are prominent in this
commusity, became generally known
the most intense excitement prevail
ed, crowds forming and searching for
the slayer of the women. Suspicion
pointed to young Padrie, who was
known to have been estranged from
his wife, who had returned to her par
ents’ home soon after her marriage.
Padrie had been heard, it is said, on
several occasions, to threaten the
lives of his wife and mother-in-law,
claiming that the later was partially
responsible for his domestic troubles.
Fortunately the sheriff located Pad
rie before the infuriated mob reached
him. He was hurried to another coun
ty in an automobile. The two wom
en were murdered as they were driv
ing their car home from Dover. They
were passing through a secluded
woods when they were held up and
shot to death. Their bodies were left
in the automobile, sitting upright.
The tragedy has caused the most
intense excitement throughout this
county.
JUDGE TAFT WILL CALL
ON KING GEORGE TODAY
(By Associated Press.)
London, June 19.—Chief Justice
William Taft, of the United States su
preme court, spent the first day of his
visit to London quiietly working oh
the address he is to deliver tomorrow
at the Pilgrim Society.
The king has expressed a desire to
see the former President at' the first
opportunity. Mr. Taft will go to the
palace tomorrow afternoon.
MINNESOTA PRIMARY TODAY.
St. Paul, Minn., June 19. —Minne-
sota voters went to the polls today to
nominate party candidates for the
senate, congress and state house offi
cers, in a primary elections that will
determine to a large extent the effec
tiveness of the new party convention
law.
ARRESTS MADE IN
BOMBING CASE
Two Men Behind Bars in Colum
bus Charged With Being Im
plicated in Bombing Home of
Mayor Dimon.
(By Associated Press.)
Columbus, Ga., June 19. —Two men
are behind the bars in Muscogee coun-,
ty jail today awaiting the meeting of
the Muscogee county grand jury Wed
nesday aft.ernoon, which has been call- ]
ed in special session by Solicitor
Frank W. McLaughlin to consider evi
dence against tile men in connection
with the bombing of the home of May
or J. Homer Dimon and sending of
anonymous letters to city officers.
One of the men is Sergeant J. B.
Kimball, and the other prisoner’s
name is being withheld by the solic
itor. Whether the latter is to face
trial in the superior court depends
on the action of the grand jury, while
Sergeant Kimball will be given a pre
liminary hearing before Recorder
Flouruey tomorrow Pro)
viding the preliminary bearing of the
soldier does not find it advisable to
hold him for higher court, then action
by the grand jury will be asked, ac
cording to the authorities,
REQUEST HARRISON BE
TAKEN FROM COMMISSION
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, June 19.—Members of
the American commission to the Bra
zilian centennial exposition today
unanimouslv adopted a resolution cen
suring Commissioner Frank A. Har
rison for “falsifying the records of the
commission” and later called at the
White House and asked President
Harding to remove Harrison from the
commission.
NIXON RECEIVES
SHOCK 2300 VOLTS
Well Known Worker at Atlan
tic Refining Company Barely
Escapes Electrocution Yes
terday.
Narrowly escaping electrocution
early last night, O. L. Nixon, employ
ed at the plant of the Atlantic Refin
ing Company, at Arco, is at the City'
Hospital where he is recovering from
the effects of a shock in which he is'
said to have received 2300 volts of
electricity
Miller’s ambulance was dispatched
to the scene and conveyed the uncon
scious young man to the hospital,
where it is stated that his injuries will
not prove fatal, in fact Mr. Nixon’s
condition late last night was not re
garded as serious, although he had
not sufficiently recovered to give a
coherent account of how he came in
contact with the powerfully charged
wire, which he Js supposed to have
walked into without realizing the
danger.
It is stated that no one saw the oc
currence and how it happened is not
known, only that Mr. Nixon came in
contact with the wire and was knock
ed unconscious and was in that con
dition when found by his co-workers
at the plant. That h waes not instant
ly killed is regarded as a miracle by
those conversant with the conditions
under which Mr. Nixon received the
shock. He is a popular young man
and has many friends at Arco and
Brunswick, who wish for him a speedy
recovery.
SEEK BANKRUPTCY
FOR LOTREWIS CO.
Three Creditors of Well Known
Wholesale Grocery House
Seek United States Court at
Savannah Yesterday.
Creditors of the Lott-Lewis Com
pany, wholesale grocers, yesterday fil
ed a petition in bankruptcy against
that concern. The liabilities are plac
ed at SBO,OOO.
The company filed an answer and
while admitting SIOO,OOO in liabilities,
alleges it is not bankrupt. The pe
titioning creditors are: The American
Tobacco Cos., of New York; The
Cheek-Neal Coffee Company, of Jack
sonville, Fla., and the Republic Candy
Company, of Chicago, 111.
In reply to the petition for involun
tary bankrruptcy, the company tissued
a proposition for a compromise on a
basis of 25 per cent. The Lott-Lewis
Company schedules its liabilities at
$100,835.54 and places its assets at
$70,043.93. The hearing has been set
to take place in Savannah on July 3.
The Lott-Lewis Company in its an
swer declares its unwillingness to be
adjudged a bankrupt, and offers the
compromise. The concern also issues
, a long list of debtors, most of whom
1 are farmers. l lt cites notes in bank
I to its credit total $19,800 and valued
at $5,000. In scheduling its liabilities
the unsecured claims are placed at
$89,199.04.
WAYCROSB ASKS FOR
FEDERAL COURT BRANCH
Waycross, Ga., June 19.—At a re
cent meeting the Waycross Bar Asso
ciation started a move for the estab
lishment of a branch of the federal
court In Waycross. A committee was
apopinted to draw up resolutions .en
dorsing the proposition. Copies of
this resolution will be mailed to Con
gressman Lankford and to the Geor
gia senators in Washington. It is
pointed out that Waycross 4a the logi
cal point for such a court, possessing
excellent railway and hotel facilities.
WILKES COUNTV
PHYSICIAN TO FACE
MURDER CHARGE
Dr. J. G. Saggus Arrested and
Placed in Washington, Ga.,
Jail, Pending Hearing
WIFE CLAIMS DOCTOR
VICTIM OF “FRAME UP.”
Coroner’s Jury Charges Physi
cian With Poisoning His First
Wife and His Present Wife's
First Husband.—Both Bodies
Ordered Exhumed.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Ga., June 19.—Dr. J. G.
Saggus was arrested and placed in
jail here late today pending his pre
liminary hearing on charges that he
poisoned his first wife and his present
wife’s first husband, Charles W. Wil
banks.
Dr. Saggus, who claims that both
died natural deaths, came from his
home at Harlem and surrendered
when he learned that the coroner’s
jury had acused him of producing the
two deaths. The present Mrs. Sag
gus asserted that the physician was
the victim of a “frame-up” by his en
emies.
Medical testimony today indicated
the belief that there were symptoms
of poison in both cases and the bodies
of Wilbanks and the first Mrs. Saggus
were ordered exhumed. Letters Intro
duced at the coroer’s inquest were
designated to show improper relations
between Dr. Saggus and his present
wife before the deaths of the other
two, and also that they benefitted by
life insurance policies.
BALLARD SATISFIED WITH
HIS POLITICAL OUTLOOK
Prof. N. H. Ballard, candidate for
state school superintendent, is back
from and week’s trip to various parts of
the state and he expresses himself
as being well pleased with his race
and the progress he is making and is
of the opinion that he will win out.
Mr. Ballard will leave later in the
week for another campaign tour and
go to points where he has not visited
during the campaign. There is little
doubt but that a majority of counties
in south Georgia will go for him.
M’CORMICK AND FRIENDS
STILL REFUSE TO TALK
(By Associated Press.)
Chicago, June 19.—Physicians, hos
pital atetndants and friends of Har
old McCormick, chairman of the ex
ecutive , board of the International
Harvester Company, are stil pledged
to secrecy today concerning the oper
ation which McCormick underwent
last week.
All persons at the bedside refused
to comment on the widely published
reports that the operation was for the
transplantation of glands.
COBURN WALK IN
AND OUT AGAIN
FORMER GRAND GOBLIN K. K. K.
SURRENDERS TO SHERIFF BUT
MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARS.
(By Associated Press.)
Los Angeles, June 19.—William 3.
Coburn, former grand goblin of the
Ku Klux Klan, walked quietly out
of the court room here today while
hi3 bond was being fixed at $5,000 and
Is being sought by the sheriff.
The latter said he did not believe
Coburn had fled, as he- came here from
Atlanta prepared to give bond, but
thought he took occasion to retain his
liberty pending the making of bond.
Coburn pleaded not guilty to the in
dictment resulting from the Ingle
wood raid.
INDICTMENTS WILL
LIKELY NOT BE ASKED
(By Associated Press.)
Atlanta, June 19.—United States
District Attorney Hager announced
tonight that indictments would prob
ably not be asked in the investigation
of the charges that government em
ployees were forced to contribute to a
fund in return tor appointments. The
district attorney said the grand jury
would probably be asked to formulate
some recommendations.
COMPROMISE PROGRAM
REACHED ON BONUS BILL.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, June 19.—A com
promise program of Republican
leaders to defer action on. the
soldiiers’ bonus bill until after
the tariff bill had been disposed
of was approved today at a con
ference of the majority leaders.
CANTON SHELLED.
CITIZENS ROBBED
Two Separate Attacks Were
Made on City; Six and Three
Pound Shot Being Used by
the Chinese Gunners.
(By Associated Press.)
Canton, June 19—Dr. Sun Yet Sen,
former head o fthe Chinese govern
ment, was on one of the warships l
which shelled Canton Saturday, say
a Hongkong dispatch to the Times.
Dr. Sun Yat Sen fled from Canton
upon the occupation of the city by
the forces of General Chang Chi'
Chung Ming, and evidently took re
fuge upon one of the warships in the
harbor.
The dispatch says that the ships
continued the bombardment of the
city for an hour at midday Saturday,
using three and six pound shot.
The firing was resumed at 4 o’clock
in the afternoon. The gunners were
apparently reckless of the lives of
civilians, firing indiscriminately.
After the firing the troops robbed
the people in the streets of the city
on the pretext of searching for arms
and ammunition.
FRANCE WILL TAKE
PART IN CONFERENCE.
(By Associated Press.)
Paris, June 19. —France will take
part in the conference at The Hague
with the Russian delegates, beginning
June 26, it was officially announced at
the foreign office this morning. If po
litical questions are introduced, how
ever. the French delegates will
promptly withdraw.
The French delegates have receiv
ed instructions to adhere to the
French policy as outlined at Genoa
and leave the conference at once upon
the entrance of political questions.
They will stick closely, it is stated,
to the French contention that the So
viet authorities must realize the prin
cipal of foreign owned .private proper
ty and payment of foreign debts.
NEW TRIAL DENIED
TO GLENNJUDSON
Dougherty County Farmer Was
Convicted of Horrible Murder
of His Ttwo Little Stepsons
at His Home Near Albany.
(By Associated Pres- '
Atlanta, June 19.—The-gn £h(ne
court today denied a ne\ r upholst,
Glenn Hudson sentenced^ erlace s
the murder of his two . ~
Hudson was tried *Timping j j n
the Dougherty cou’j g . .. court
several months ag 1 . , -ife, whom
he implicated in ot most bru
tal murders ever committed in that
section of the state, was promptly ac
quitted. She accused her husband of
the crime a short time after they were
arrested in connection with the hor
rible affair.
The two young boys, about ten and
six years of age, sons of Mrs. Hudson
by a former marriage, were found
shot to death on the back porch of
the country home of their parents,
about five miles from Albany. The
mother told a revolting story of how
her little sons were cruelly murdered
by their step-father after having been
unmercifully beaten with a .hickory
stick.
FOREIGNERS FORCED TO
FLIEE FROM SEN’S GIJNBOAT
(By Associated Press.)
Pekin, June 19. —Foreigners were
forced to flee for safety from the in
discriminate firing of Sun Yat Sen’s
gunboat, Sunday, according to a Can
ton dispatch to the foreign legations
hero.
BRUNSWICK
Has the lowest death rate of
any city its size in the United
States.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
WORK WILL START
OR BROADFIELO
ROAD ID FEW DAIS
More Than Likely That Glynn
County Convict Gang
Will Build It.
GRAVEL WILL BE MATERIAL
USED IN CONSTRUCTION
Survey is Started Yesterday
Morning on the Two Mile Gap
Through Buffalo Swamp, and
Will be Paved from End Cme
ment Road at Everett’s Store.
It was announced by members of
the county board yesterday morning
that work on the Broadfield road will
begin within the next two weeks and
it is more than likely that the Glynn
county .convict gang will build the
road, which will start at the end of
the paving near the city limits and
extend to the Darden bridge.
It is likely that gravel will he used %
In the past this has proved to he ex
cellent material for just the hard
wear the road will be subjected to.
It will be twenty-six feet wide, includ
ing shoulders, which will make the
road proper eighteen feet and it will
be rushed to completion as rapidly as
possible. The new highway will cost
in the neighborhood of $130,000, with
government aid to the fiftydlfty ex
tent. The funds have already been
provided for and it may be stated
that unless the state good roads bond
issue is passed, this will be the last
appropriation that will come from the
federal source.
Another project initiated yesterday
morning was the beginning of the sur
vey of the Buffalo Swamp road, a dis
tance of slightly over two miles. This
v:ll start at the end of the concrete
road at Everett’s store and the dis
tance to be covered is two miles. The
county board has not decided yet just
what material will be used but it will
be of a substantial kind and one that
will traffic. It was stat
ed thatrthe convicts may also build
this road. Fact of the matter Is, the
county can save thousands of dollars
b~ using the gang on fjoth roads. The
work will be done under the supervis
ion of a state highway engineer and
with government engineers taking a
part in seeing that the road will meet
afl requirements made by federal au
thorities. This two miles will prove
of great convenience to the scores of
cars which use it almost daily and
will -be the means of bringing to
Brunswick people who now go else
where for shopping purposes. The be
ginning of work on these two roads
will end the road construction provid
ed for except the St. Simon highway.
ALMAITES TO PICNIC
ON ST. SIMON ISLAND
Tomorrow morning a large crowd
from Alma will arrive in Brunswick
over the A.. B. & A. railroad for their
annual outing on St. Simons.
Reports received last night indicate
that the largest number of pleasure
seekers that ever left the Bacon coun
ty town will avail themselves of this
opportunity of visiting the island and
a gala time is anticipated by the Alma
Promptly on their arriv
al the picknickers will be transferred
to the St. Simon boat, eturning in
time ot take the C:10 train for their
homes. This is one of a number of
outing parties from up the A., B. &
A. that will go to St. Simon during
the season.
SENATE PASSES NAVAL
APPROPRIATION BILL
(By Aes'ciated Press.)
Washington. June 19. —The annual
naval appropriation bill, carrying ap
proximately two hundred and ninety
five million dollars and providing for
an enlisted personnel of 86,000 men,
was passed by the senate late today
and sent to conference.
HALE IS LEADING
IN MAINE ELECTION
(By Associated Press.)
Portland, Me., June 19. —Returns
from ten elections precincts out of six
hundred and thirty-five in the state,
give United States Senator Hale 127
votes; former State Senator Davis,
fifty-five, and former Congressman
Guernsey, forty-nine, for the Republi
can nomination for the United States
senate. ,
_ _