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, BRUNSWICK
Has a landlocked harbor, the
best on the South Atlantic
Coast.
VOLUME XXI. NO. 217
ANNUAL SESSION
LEGISLATURE TO
MEET TOMORROW
Solons Gathering for Fifty Day
Drive and Everything is
Ready for Action.
REPRESENTATIVE MANN
DISCUSSES HIGHWAY BILL
One of Most Important Meas
ures to be Considered During
Session Will be State Bond
Issue for Good Roads.—Sen
ator Akin’s Last Term.
The Georgia legislature convenes
for its fifty-day annual drive tomorrow
and the representative from Glynn
and the senator from this district
have gotten everything in shipshape
for the great opening.
Representative Mann left for At
lanta early Saturday, by automobile
and is safely domiciled at his head
quarters before this time. Senator
I'Sjii. Akin left last night over the
Sc thern and-is scheduld to reach the
capital early this morning. Both leg
islators left earlier than usual to at
tend meetings of committees of which
they are members.
It is generally conceded that the
session which begins its grind tomor-
row will be one of the most important
that has been held in some years, a
number of bills of vital importance in
which the entire state is concerned,
and a large batch of local bills, are
to come up for consideration, and it is
hoped, for final passage. The most
Important bill, as far as the people
of the staet, generally, are concerned,
is the state highway bond issue meas
ure. which will in all probability be re
duced considerably from the figures.
originally fixed by the
Georgia Good Roads Association.
There is considerable diversity of
opinion as to the amount to be nam
ed, if the bill is passed at all.
The general opinion is prevalent
that the bill to abolish the justice
courts in Brunswick will not be taken
up for consideration at this session,
if the measure is ever reached at all.
Representative mann, one of the
most enthusiastic advocates of good
roads in the state, and who is chair
man of the highway committee of the
house, and president of the Macon-
Brunswick Association, in discussing
the state system of rogds, recently
said:
“As the time for the Legislature to
meet approaches, the interest in the
ever-important subject of a permanent
system of state highways increases.
It is best to pass a state bond issue,
and how large shall it be? Will the
ta> tag license and the tax on gaso
le authorize a sufficiently large
blind issue to complete a state sys
tem? Would the people of the state
when the depression has passed stand
for one mill additional tax for -■ *n
pleting a state road system?
“For the farmers to meet the new
industrial condition that now con
fronts them will require very careful
planning. Better and wider market
ing conditions must be had as well as
a more economic and speedy access
to such markets. Everything that en
ters into his business, social and reli
gious life is to a great extent depen
dent on gpod public highways.
“The first thing I would suggest is
that the state system be divided into
two classes. The first might be call
ed the primary or county seat to coun
ty seat system and includes only one
road through each county. The sec
ond would be the secondary or con
necting roads. By a strict adherence
of only one road through each county
the mileage of the primary system
would be near 3,500 miles and should
certainly be completed before any of
the connecting roads are constructed.
“More than half of the. county seat
to county seat system could be con
structed of well-graded sandclay
roads, costing around SIO,OOO per mile.
The other part of this system where
the traffic is much heavier should be
the macadam or concrete type
which can be constructed at about
$20,000 per mile. Following this plan,
after making due allowance for the
roads already built by federal aid and
what the state will get each year from
tills source, the primary system could
be constructed for something near
J£0,000,000.
L’iyyhe auto license fund together
CfcUth the gasolene tax would possibly
' nnance this size of a bond issue safe
ly. It would take the state five or six
years to properly and economically
THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
► PRINCE FUSHIMI, HEAD
► JAPANESE NAVY, DIES.
►
► (By Associated Press.)
y Tokio, June 26.-—Prince Yori
► hito Higashi Fushimi, fifty-five,
H scion of one of the oldest prince
t ly families, and admiral of the
h Japanese navy, died today at
► Hayama. He is believed to have
I been suffering from a cancer,
► complicated with influenza.
►
WIFE OF ILLINOIS
GOVERNOR DIES
Mrs. Len Small Succumbs to
Apopletic Stroke Following
Excitement of Celebration
Over Husband’s Acquittal.
(By Associated Press.)
Kankakee, Ilia. June 26. —Mrs. Len
Small, wife of Governor Small, of Illi
nois, died about 9 o’clock this morn
ing.
Mrs. Small was striken with apop
lexy Saturday night during the excite
ment incident to the celebration of
friends and fellow townsmen of the
governor as a result of his acquittal
that afternoon after his trial at Wau
kegan. Ills. With her at the time of
her death was the governor and their
three children, Leslie and Budd Small,
and Mrs. !A. E. Inglesh.
From the moment of Mrs. Small’s
collapse, physicians offered no encour
agement. She had suffered for some
time with high blood pressure and her
condition was believed to have been
aggravated by the strain of the gov
ernor’s trial.
Mrs. Small was born December 17,
1861, in Livingston county, Ills. She
ivas married to Governor Small in
1892.
WIPEOFHIRSCHIS
RELEASED ON BAIL
Mysterious Shooting of Wealthy
Electrical Contractor Takes
Another Turn When Wife
Takes Him From Hospital.
-t i
(By Associated Press.)
Freeport, N. Y., June 26.—The n)X£-
terious shooting of Oscar A. Hirsch,
wealthy electrical contractor, took
another turn today when the wife,
who was released on bail after having
been accused of shooting her husband,
took him home from the hospital to
nurse him back to health.
Both Hirsch and his wife denied
that she fired the shot, which came
near causing his death, but neither
said who did the shooting.
construct this system. Then the con
necting roads could be considered and
the problem of their being financed
could be more intelligently solved.
For the next two or three years I do
not think any more bonds should be
issued than can safely be taken care
of by the present income of the state
road fund.
“I sincerely hope the wide-awake
citizens of every county in our section
will consider carefully not only the
suggestions I am here making but all
the feasible propositions made on this
vastly important subject and review
them with their senators and repre
sentatives. The opportunity is before
us—in many, respects it is urgent.
Careful thquglit and sound judgment
should be had from all. Let’s' do the
best possible for every section of the
state. Let’s grasp the vision'—yet let
every step be made safely and wise
ly.’’
Representative Mann has announc
ed that he will not offer for re-elec
tion at the expiration of his present
term. He has made Glynn a valuable
member of the legislature being ac
tive at all times in legislation that af
fected his home county, city and sec
tion.
Senator Akin, under the rules gov
erning the election of senators of
this district, is not eligible for re
election, it being Camdpn’s time to
furnish the senator. Senator Akin has
announced that he will be a candidate
to succeed Mr. Mann in the lower
house. James C. Vocelle, of St. Marys
is an aspirant for senatorial honors
from his county, ana mug far has no |
opposition.
THE NEWS IS A MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, TUESDAY. JUNE 27, 1522.
CIGAR DEALER
OF THOMASVILLE
GETS COAT OF TAR
0. Hazelgrove is Also Given
Good Whipping and Made
to Leave Town.
YOUNG WOMAN, IT IS SAID
CAUSE OF TREATMENT
Had Shooting Scrape Some
Time Ago.—Men Guilty Took
Vote on Just What His Pun
ishment Would be and Delib
erately Carried Out Plan.
(By Associated Press.)
Thomasville. Ga., June 26.--O. Haz
elgrove, a cigar manufacturer of this
city, was kidnapped Saturday night
by four men in an automobile He
was taken to a scope of lonely v<oods,
tied to a tree and severely beaten.
After this whipping Hazelgrove was
tarred and feathered. He agreed to
leave Thomasville within sixty hours,
according to his own statement. He
was then brought back to the city and
freed near the court house.
He said that seven men comprising
the party in the woods took a ballot as
to the form of punishment to be giv
en him, the result being that it should
be the whipping, tar and feathers and
a promise to leave the city. This step
was declared by. the men in the party
to be in the nature of minor punish
ment.
The affair occurred about 10 o’clock
Saturday night but did not become
known until this morning.
Hazelgrove was engaged in a shoot
ing affair a short time ago becouse of
a young woman working in his fac
tory. and this is believed by some to
have had something to do with the
treatment given him by the men Sat
urday night.
EFFORTS TO SETTLE COAL
STRIKE MEETS CHECK
(By Associated Press.l
Washington, June 26.—Administra
tion efforts to bring about a settle
ment of the bituminous coal strike
met with a preliminary check today.
After a conferences with President
Harding and Secretary Davis, Presi
dent Lewis, of the United Mine Work
ers of America, announced the union
policy as being still unyielding in the
insistence that anew wage scale must
be fixed for the strike-ridden section
by national or semi-national confer
ences with the operators.
CLIFFORD WALKER
COMING JULY 14
Sends His Entrance Fee of $250
to Secretary E. W. Jordan, of
State Democratic Executive
Committee.
Clifford Walker, of Monroe, candi
date for governor, has mailed to E.
W. Jordan, secretary of the Demo
cratic state central committee,, his
entrance fee of $250 as a candidate
for governor in the Democratic state
primary to be held on September 13,
next.
Mr. Walker is expected to open his
campaign on the stunip about the first
of July. In the meanwhile, he has
attended numerous gatherings around
and about in the state, and has made
some preliminary speeches.
It Is stated by one of Mr. Walker’s’
strongest Brunswick
that he will be here on Friday, July
14, and will deliver an address, the
hours and place to be-mi-ade known lat
er. The former attorney general has
many friends here who are giving
him their hearty support.
AMERICAN KIDNAPPED
PANI IS OFFICIALLY ADVISED
(By Associated Press.)
Mexico City, June 26. —Alberto J.
Pani, secretary of foreign affairs, has
been officially advised by the Ameri
can embassy of the kidnapping yester
day of A. Bruce Bielaski, and prom
ises have been given that all possible
measures will be taken to effect his
release.
The other person kidnapped was
Manuel § Mealoag a(torn^.
INJUNCTION PREVENT
DYNAMITING VATS.
(By Associated Press.)
Atlanta, June 26.—Governor
Hardwick today instructed Attor
ney General George Napier to
bring injunction proceedings in
the Echols superior court to pre
vent the further dynamiting of
cattle dipping vats.
NEW LAW ON WOMEN
BARRED IN VOTING
Attorney General Napier Issues
Interesting Statement on
Subject and Think _awmak
ers Will Pass Statute.
A suggestion that the legislature at
its session beginning Wednsday might
pass on an act authorizing the regis
tration of women for the state pri
mary and general election was made
by Attorney General Napier yester
day. Unless such an act is passed
hundreds of women will be prevented
from voting, the attorney general stat
ed.
Attorney General Napier said he
has received numerous inquiries as to
the rights of women to register and
vote in the general state election this
year, and the law appears not to he
fully understood. Under the law. the
registration books are closed six
months before a general election. He
issued the following statement:
“While females, under the act of
1921, are entitled to exercise the elec
tive franchise in as full and complete
a manner as males, the law regarding
registration of voters has not been un
derstood by the women. The regis
tration lists are made up from names
on the voters’ books and the voters’
books are closed six months before the
general election. Women had no
taxes to pay in 1921, unless they own
ed individual property, and as many
of them did not think to register, their
names are not on the registration
lists.
“A brief act of the legislature could
authorize women to register now for
the general election and require
county authorities to open the voters'l
books for them, and provide for sup
plemental registration lists so as to
enable women to vote. A great many
would thus be permitted to exercise
the elective franchise.”
THIS WILL BE GREAT DAY IN
NICHOLLS, COFFEE COUNTY
This will be a big day in Nicholls,
according to information received
‘here yesterday morning and is to be
celebrated with a barbecue, baseball
game and bank opening. Several ad
dresses by well known speakers, and
there will be plenty to eat. free lem
onade and good music throughout the
day.
The ball game is called for 4 o’clock
when the fast Nicholls team will cross
bats with the celebrated Baxley team.
Several Brunswiekians will be pres
ent.
BRITTON DEFENDS TITLE
AGAINST LEONARD
(By Associated Press.)
New York, June 26. —Jack Britton,
world’s welterweight champion, suc
cessfully defended his title against
Bennie Leonard, lightweight cham
fl|ion' f tonight when Referee Haley*
awarded the: match to Britton on the
grounds that Leonard hit him while
he was on his knee, in the thirteenth
round/
Britton had all.the best pf the fight
up to that time.
FIFTEEN MASSING MEN
OF WRECKED SCHOONER
ARE BROUGHT TO PORT
(By Associated Pcess.)
La Have. N. S„ June 26—The
schooner Spray arrived today with 15
of the 16 missing men of the Glou
cester schooner Puritan, which was
wrecked off Sable Island, June 28.
Only one of the crew was drowned.
Hope had almost been abandoned
for the men by Captain Jeffrey Thom
as, who with four of hip crew had
been brought here. The schooner, a
prospective contender for the inter
national fishermen’s race next fall,
was reported g helpless wrack.
DIFFICULT FIND
MAN TO SUCCEED
LATE MINISTER
Dearth of Available and Suitable
Men for the Post,
Says Wirth.
GERMANY FEELS LOSS
OF DR. WALTER RATHENAU
Question of Realignment of
Coalition’ is One f Possibili
ties Growing Out of Present
Situation.—Former Emperor
May Try Escape Holland.
(By Associated Press.)
Berlin, June 26.—The selection of a
man to fill the post of German foreign
minister made vacant by the assassi
nation of Dr. Rathenau. presents diffi
culties of some magnitude to Chancel
lor Wirth.
This is not only because of a dearth
of available men, but also for inner
political The question of the
realignment otjcealition is one of the
possibilities growing out of the pres
ent situation.
Parliamentary circles, it is believ
ed, will direct the office until a man
is found to fill the position.
WILLIAM MAY SLIP AWAY.
(By Associated Press.)
London, June 26.—Aprehension ex
ists in Holland lest the former Ger
man emperor attempts to slip away
and re-enter Germany in the event of
a royalist uprising resulting from the
assassination or Foreign Minister Wal
ter Rathenau.
ELEVEN ARRESTS MADE.
(By Associated Press.)
Berlin. June 26.—-Eleven persons
alleged to be members of a Bavarian
secret organization known as "the
council,” were arrested here yesteriay
it was announced by the police today.
The police expressed the opinion
that the organization which is sus
pected of playing an important part
in the murder of former Minister of
Finance Erzberger, was also impli
cated in the assassination of Foeign
Minister Rathenau last week.
NOMINATION OF V/ERNON
VANFLEET CONFIRMED
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, June 26—The senate
today confirmed the nomination of
Vernpn Vanfleet ( of Indiana, as a
member of the Federal Trade Com
mission.
RAILROAD UNIONS
10 FAVOR STRIKE
Returns from Maintenance of
Way Employes and Shop La
borers Show Union Men Solid
for Strike.
(By Associated Press.)
Chicago, June 26.—A general com
mittee of ninety union leaders, repre
senting six railway shop crafts met
here today to discuss the strike vote
being taken against recent wage re
ductions.
President Grable, of the United
Brotherhood of Maintenance of M'ay
Employees and Shop Laborers, said
the returns from his union show an
overwhelming majority in favor of
strike conditions on similar action bv
the other craft affected.
SENATOR AKIN TO GIVE BIG
BARBECUE NEAR ATLANTA
Both Senate and House Members to
be Invited. ' *
Senator L., R: Akin is preparing to
entertain senate and house members
with a big barbecue near Atlanta on
a date to be announced in a few days,
but it will be the early part of the
month.
Nlot only will -senate and house
members be present, but all state
house officers and hundreds of friends
throughout the' state will be iqviied,
among them will be a score or more
of the Senator’s Brunswick and
Wayne county friends.
Among the number will be Uoveiuor
Hardwick and It i stated that it is
mors than likely that Senator William
TO GIVE RULING ON
SALE LIQUOR ON SHIPS.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, June '26. —Secre-
tary Mellon has formally request
ed of Attorney General Daugher
ty a ruling as to the legality of
the sale of liquor on shipping
board vessels.
PRINCE OF MOHACO
IS DEAD IN PARIS
Ruler of World’s Smallest Coun
try Passes Away.—Was a
Friend of Late Buffalo Bill and
Had Visited United States.
(By Associated Press.)
Paris, June 26.—Prince Albert Hon
ore Charles, of Monaco, died here this
afternoon.
■Prince Albert of Monaco, ruler of
.the smallest principality in the world
within whose eight square miles is
the famous international gaming town
of Monte Carlo, was well known in
the United States as a sportsman and
scientist. One of his old friends was
the late Col. W. P. (“Buffalo Bill")
Cody,'on whose ranch in Wyoming he
went hunting years ago.
The Prince made three visits to this
country, the first in 1868 as a sailes
in the Spanish navy, when he obtain
ed a three months' leave of absence;
the second in 1913, when he passed
considerable time in the West, and
the third in April, 1921, when he re
ceived the Alexander Agassiz gold
medal from the National Academy of
Science and a similar medal from the
National Geographical Society for his
researches in oceanography.
He was also an enthusiastic paleon
tologist. but held that the sea held
few, if any, secrets of the antiquity
of man.
SEN’S ARMY STILL
REMAINS LOYAL
Marching on Canton Fifty Thou
sand Strong.—Reports of Up
rising in Kiangsi Province and
Killing of Natives Confirmed.
(By Associated Press.)
Shanghai, June 26. —Sun Yat Sen’s
northern army, estimated at fifty
thousand, still remains loyal to the
deposed president and is marching on
Canton in three sections, according to
reports to vernacular newspapers
from various Canton sources, believed
to be reliable.
ADMIRAL BULLARD ARRIVES
Shanghai, June 26.—Rear Admiral
Bullard, commanding the United
States naval patrol on the Yangtze
river who arrived tonight on the flag
ship. Isabel, confirmed the reports of
an uprising in the Kaingsi province
and the killing of many natives, but
declared no foreigners had been killed
or captured.
THREE WOMEN IN
FIGHT TO DEATH
MILLY WATERS IS KNIFED TO
DEATH AND SISTER WOUND- j
ED BY MRS. CREECH.
(By Associated Press.) '
Moultrie i Ga., June 26,—rMilly. Wa
ters, twenty-six, is dead, g,u,d Florence
Waters, twenty-three, is} seriously
wounded as the result of a knife bat
tle here today between them and Mrs.
Sarah Creech, twenty-six, according
to the police, who plated the latter in
the county jail charged with murder.
Mrs. Creech claimed that the two
sisters attacked her. Jealousy, she
said led up to the fatal altercation.
J, Harris will be present and deliver
an address. The event will be of
state-wide Interest and wijl assemble
a majority of Georgia’s public men
and Officials.
Georgia - pension fund it
IS SAID SOON BE READY
Atlanta, June 26.—The various in
terested departments at the State cap
#tol were prepared today to lasue
BRUNSWICK
Has the lowest death rate of
any city its size in the United
States. . ,
PRICE FIVE CENTS
POTTERS’ FIELD
RECEIVES HERRIN’S
MASSACRED DEAD
Sixteen Unidentified Bodies of
Non-Union Workers Placed
in Shallow Graves.
NOT SINGLE ARREST MADE
SINCE THE MASSACRE
Inquest is Being Conducted in
Williamson County, 111., to
Place Responsibility Where
It Belongs.—Murdered Sup
erintendent Killed Union Man
Herrin, 111.. June 26.—Williamson
county buried the dead in her latest
mine war yesterday, conducted an in
quest to determine the cause of their
death, and today faced the responsi
militv of bringing the guilty to jus
tice. While not a single arrest has
been made since the massacre last
Thursday when at least 19 men were
killed after strike sympathizers storm
ed the Lester mine, and with county
officials making no visible effort to
place the blame, the investigation is
being carried on by government of
ficials;
Coroner's Jury Returns Verdict.
Yesterday six men of Williamson
county—three miners, a merchant, an
electrician and the superintendent of
the Herrin waterworks—were solemn
ly impanelled, listened to the evidence
of witnesses called by Coroner William
McCown, and returned their verdict.
They found, and so recorded, that
C. K. McDowell, murdered superinten
dent of the Lester mine, killed a.
union miner on Wednesday, the day
before the massacre. Of the other
dead, 19 in all t including two other
strikers, the jury found they came to
their death by gunshot wounds inflict
ed by. unknown persons.
Sixteen Bodies Buried.
Yesterday morning sixteen un
known dead, all non-union workers
and guards at the Lester mine, were
buried by the county in Potters’ Field,
on a bleak hillside, beneath a broil
ing sun, by six miners, led by state
Senator William Sneed. Sixteen shal
low graves were dug, four rows of
each. The bodies of the massacre
victims, in plain black caskets, were'
placed side by side on the parched
grass. Four protestant ministers of
Herrin—a Methodist, a Baptist, a
Presbyterian, and a Christian—con-.
ducted the brief burial service, while
a hundred overall-clad miners and a
dozen newspaper correspondents look
ed on. A nearby hillside on which
were a few women, dressed in summer
apparel, furnished the only color of
the burial.
MEN RELEASED BY
CORONER’S JURY
NO EVIDENCE TO CONNECT THEM
WITH SHOOTING OF CONDUC
TOR J. H. JENKINS.
Developments that were expected
from the examination of the three ne
groes, Harry . Lee, Willie and Henry
Middleton, held in connection with
the murder of Conductor J. H. Jen
kins. failed to materialize when they
closely interrogated by the coroner’.s
jury at Thaimann, Sunday, and the
three men were given their liberty.
It is said that certain facts could
be proved by the negroes, which
would lead to the apprehension of the
1 guilty party or parties, but this prov
ed to be untrue. At no time were the
three men thought by the officers who
arrested them tq be the actual perpe
trators of the orirae. After a severe
grilling by Col. J. T. Colson, represent
ing the Order of Railway Conductors,
it was evident that neither of the
thee negroes could throw any light on
the murder and they were released.
While the coroner’s Jury recessed, it
is known that other evidence whit h
is not ready to give out, will be laid
before them when they are again
called. The special agents working
on the case will not abandon their ef
forts to locate the guilty party, which
they expect to do before many days.
checks for the final payments on Con
federate pensions, fn the expectation
that an order would be signed by
Judge Samuel H. Sibley releasing a
portion of the oil inspection fees tied
up in United States court litigation
for nearly two years. The accumulat
ed fund amounts to more than |400,-
000.