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BRUNSWICK
Ha* a landlocked harbor, the
best on the South Atlantlo
Coast
VOLUME XXI. NO.
SENATE WAS SOLID
IN A.8.& A. MEASURE
SENATOR MANSON
INTRODUCED BILL
QUICKLY PASSED
Seems That House Will Follow
A*' tion of Upper Body aud
Push It Through.
STRONG ORGANIZATION
WORKS TO SAVE RAILWAY
Mayor James L. Key, of Atlanta.
President, and Fred C. Warde.
of Brunswick, Secretary of
Association Formed in Atlan
ta Several Months Ago.
(By Associated Press.)
Atlanta, July 21.—The sesate
today unanimously adopted the
resolution providing for
appointment of a commission
to take steps if necessary to pre
vent the dismantling of the Atlan
ta, Birmingham and Atlantnc rail
way.
STRONG ASSOCIATION
FOR PRESERVING ROAD
The above telegram came with :he
regular Associated Press service last
night and the fact that the senate was
unanimous in voting for the measure,
which will likely end in saving of this
valuable property, and at the same
time giv e Georgia a straight line to
the sea from the mines and great iron
and steel plants of Alabama, by con
nectios witn the state owned W. & A.
railroad.
The association for the preservation
of the A., B. & A. has been active for
the past several months and has held
several meetings recently. Mayor
James L. Key, of Atlanta, is president,
and Fred G. Warde, managing secre-i
tary of the Brunswick Board of Trade,
is secretary.
Not only were meetings held in At
lanta but a great public gathering was
held at Oci)la at which gathered some
of Georgia's leading business and pro
fessional men.
HOUSE WILL FOLLOW
ACTION OF SENATE
There is absolutely every reason to
believe that the m’easure will find no
opposition in, fije house, in fact, the
saving of the road movement has
reached I 'state-wide proportions and is
not confined to those who live along its
J-lne. Many of the little cities and
' touched by the line are enthus-
in the support of the project.
To these it would not only deprive
many of them of rail transportation
but would mean loss of taxes as well.
The road is ißrunswick’s largest tax
payer and its dismantling would prob
ably be felt worse here than any other
place, except Fitzgerald, where the
general shops of the company are lo
cated.
COMDEN COUNTY HAYING
BIG SITE REMOVAL FIGHT
, >-•
A special election has been caljed (
In Camden county for August 24, by.
Judge R. H. Frohock, ordinary, to de-.
cide whether the county site shall be
removed from St. Marys and in the
event it carries Kingslcpd will then'
be the capital. * ,
Many arguments are being used by
those-favoring Kingslapd and one of
these is the easy accessibility to it
and the fact that St. Mary’s is not on
a railroad is another reason assigned
for removing. The election will be
watched with a great deal of interest
here.
WANTS COMMISSION TO
INVESTIGATE STRIKE
Washingon, July 21. —Senator King,
Democrat, o. Utah, today introduced
a resolution proposing the creation of
a commission composed of five mem
bers to investigate both sides of the
present coal strike.
COX POINCARE’S GUEST
Paris, July. 21.—Former Governor
.James M. Cox, of Ohio, will be the
* *uest of Premier Poincare at dinner at
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs tomor
row evening.
THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
THE NEWS IS A MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LIMERICK IS TAKEN
BY NATIONAL ARMY.
(By Associated Press.)
London. July 21.—The city of
Limerick has been captured by
the Irish National Army, says a
Central News dispatch from
Dublin this afternoon.
The Nationals took many pris
oners, together with arms and
ammunition.
CANDIDATE AFRAID
OF KUKLDX KLIN
Robt. I. Young, of St. Louis, Or
dered to Withdraw His An
nuncement From a Jewish
Newspaper.
(By Associated Press.)
St. Louis, July 21.—Robert I. Young,
of St. Joseph, candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination for the United
States senate, in a letter today said
j that he has received notice from the
Ku Klux Klan to remove a campaign
announcement he had contracted for
insertion in the Jewish Record, a local
Hebrew language newspaper, “because
the Tew is after tlie almighty dollar
and to hel! with the country,”
In a letter to the paper cancelling
his contract, made public by the pa
per’s attorney, Young is quoted as say
ing, “I have always been very friedly
Ito the Jewish people and am yet. I
j am no moral coward, but I do not care
to get a coat of tar and feathers."
i It was anounced that suit would
be filed against Young to collect on
the advertising contract.
U. 5. SEAPLANE IN
PORT YESTERDAY
No. 1109, Engaged in Cutter
Service, Pays Brunswick a
Short Pop Call for Supplies
and Left For New York.
fTh|fe United States seaplane |Na
1109 engaged in th e revenue cutter
service arrived in Brunswick late yes
terday afternoon and the trip up the
river was made at an auspicious mo
ment for some two hundred Georgia
newspaper men and their ladies, who
were returning from an outing to St.
Simon on the steamer Atlantic.
The big plane overhauled the Atlan
tic near the A., B. & A. terminals,
flew above the boat, to th e delight of
the happy excursion party and finally
in their presence descended to the wa
ter and made the landing a tthe Clyde
line docks, much as a regular liner
would have pulled the stunt.
The 1109 is one of a fleet of planes
now in Atlantic waters as “rum run
ners” and she has done some very
fine work and has two or three large
raids to her credit. She is in charge
of Capt. Hubbard Stanley and is en
route from Miami to New York.
The seaplane put into Brunswick
for a supply of gasoline and oil and
then put out again Immediately for
the trip to New York. Capt. Stanley
says he le(t Miami in the morning
and made quite a long stop at Jack
sonville and that lat e yesterday after
noon he concluded to put into Bruns
wick for fuel.
RETAIL DRUGGISTS FIGHT
ADDITIONAL TAX BURDEN
An organized effort to prevent the
imposition of additional burdens will
shortly be launched by the legislative
committee of the Georgia Pharmaceu
tical Association in which ail of the
druggists in tl’i state will participate
regardless as to whether they are
members of the association or not. It
is stated that the retail druggists are
already ’taxed to what they call the
freaking point, and facing further tax
es and restrictions at the present ses
sion of the general assembly they can’t
stand up under it any longer.
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, SATURDAY. JULY 22, 1922.
DOKEYS LAUNCH
BIG LABOR DAY
CELEBRATION PLAN
At Dinner Last Night in Honor of
Grand Chancellor Sutlive,
Scheme Outlined.
LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS
PLEDGE COOPERATION
Jemlah Temple D. 0. K. K. Plays
Host in Charming Manner.—
Savannah Will Send a Large
Delegation to the Proposed
Ceremonial.
In honor of Grand Chancellor W. G.
Sutlive, of the grand lodge, Knights
of Pythias of Georgia, the local D. O.
K. K. club gave a delightful banquet
at the hotel Royal at eight o'clock last
night.
Covers were spread for twenty-five
and in addition to the members of the
D. O. K. K. organization, the guests
included Grand Chancellor Sutlive of
Savannah, and Messrs. Millard Reese,
W. F. Symons, J. E. Lambright’ and
C. H. Leavy.
President L. A. Robinson acted as
toastmaster and he did so in a most
attractive fashion;. He jstatfed that
the object of the dinner was to ar
range for an immense D. O. K. K. cer
emonial and celebration for Labor day
in Brunswick and representatives of
the press and the civic organizations
had been invited to cooperate to the
end that the affair be made a real sue
cess.
Grand Chancellor Sutlive was first
introduced and he made a really elo
quent address. He promised that the
Savannah Dokeys would come oj’er *o
Brunswick on Labor day, one hundred
strong and that they would bring their
famous band, the “red fire” and all
that was necessary for a great, big
D. O. K. K. ceremonial. Mr. Sutlive
then stressed the meaning of Dokey
ism and pointed out that it had grown
in every city in Georgia; that it was
assuming civic functions in all of thes e
cities and every where was doing
things really worth while. He compli
mented the local organization on its
progress and assured it that it would
at all times have the hearty coopera
tion of the Grand lodge.
Other talks were made by ail of the
special guests of tlie eviening and
many of the'members of the organiza
tion in which hearty cooperation for
the Labor day celebration was pledged.
The D. O. K. K. is anew organiza
tion in Brunswick Pythianism, but it
is a growing one and it was stated by
President Robinson last night that
perhaps twenty, new members - would
be initiated in the order in the coming
ceremonial to be held on Labor day.
MONTGOMERY MAN
SHOT BYYOUNGGIRL
i
Mildred Willis Brewer Turns
Over Letters Described as
“Too Horrible for a Young
Girl to Read.”
(By Associated Press.)
v
Montgomery, Ala., July 21. —Coroner
John Diffly continued his investigation
today into the killing of Porter Me-
Keithan, baggage agent at the union
I station here, whose body was found
yesterday in a clump of woods about
( seven miles west of Montgomery, with
a bullet hole- through the head and a
pistol with one empty chamber lying
nearby. ' * . 1 - ’
Mildred Willis Brewer, 15-year-old
granddaughter of the late Represen
tative Brewer, who represented the
Montgomery district in congress and
was a historian of national repute, is
held in connection with the case. She
arrived at the police station in an au
tomobile yesterday afternoon and told
the coroner she had shot McKeithan.
The police said the girl had an empty
revolver when she surrendered, but
that, it had not been fired.
Coroner Diffly is working on the
theory that letters Miss Brewer turn
ed to Miss McMillan, probation offi
cer, had som e bearing on the killing.
The letters, said to have been written
by McKeithan to the girl, who is his
wife’s cousin, were described as “too
horribly for a young girl to r*ttd.”
EX-GOVERNIOR CATTS
TAKES BANKRUPT ACT.
(By Associated Press.)
Pensacola, July 21. —Former
Governor Catts, of Florida, who
is under indictment charged with
peonage here, filed his petition
in voluntary bankruptcy here to
day.
Liabilities are placed at $43,000
and assets are listed at $1,900.
SOLDIERS BREAK
GANIP ON ST. SIMON
111 6 A. M. TODAY
Encampment Has Been Success*
ful One, According to Many
of the Officers .
REGIMENTAL PARADE
WITNESSED BY MANY
Col. Russell Tells The News Isl
and is an Ideal Place for Camp
Site and That It Has Advan
tages Not Possessed by Any
Other Place.
At 6 o’clock this morning the 122nd
regiment. Georgia National Guard,
which has been in camp on St. Simon
practically two weeks, will break camp
and will leave the island on special
boats entraining here for the various
company headquarters in other cities.
There are something like two hun
dred guardsmen now doing patrol du
ty at Waycross and these will be kept
there for an indefinite time, press dis
patches state. f
The regiment went into camp on
July 10, under command of Col. Henry
D. Russell, of Macon, and something
over twelve hundred men have been
on the island since 'hat date, until a
detachment was ordered to Waycross
iby Governor Hardwick last Wednes
day morning under command of Major
Pope.
It has been one, if not the most,
successful encampment ever held and
especially is this true as regards the
health of the officers and men. No
one has been an inmate of the hospi
tal and there has been nothing to in
terfere with the daily drills as weath
er conditions have been realonahly
good, there being only slight showers
on several occasions.
In discussing the camp with a News
representative yesterday Col. Russell
said St. Simon was an ideal camp site;
was of the opinion that there is no
place with all the advantages in the
state and spoke in the very highest
terms of his men and what had been
accomplished during the camp period.
Yesterday afternoon th e last regi-!
mental dress parade was held and
hundreds of Brunswick people, as well
as others from all parts of-the state,
witnessed the interesting event.
Specials over the Atlanta. Birming
ham & Atlantic and Southern will take
the men on at the terminals, it is stat
ed, and if this is the case the city
will not have the pleasure of having
them oven for a short stay here. All
equipment and everything cosnected
with the camp will be loaded there
and with an official of the road along
the husky Georgia Guardsmen will re
turn to their homes well trained and
ready to serve their country.
It may b e said that a better crowd of
men have never been assembled and
the record they have made calls for
congratulations to the company offi
cers who trained them asd had them j
in the pink of. condition for the hard
two weeks’ before them.
WARRANT FOR ARREST
OF EDITOR WM. ALLEN
WHITE WILL BE SERVED
(By Associated Press.)
Topeka, Kan., July 21.— -Judge J. A.
McDermott, Of the Kansas Industrial
[court, left ’today for Emporia to in
vestigate the William Allen White
case.
From the Governor’s office it was an
nounced that there had beeh no
change in the state’s plan to arrest the
Emporia editor for alleged violation
of the Industrial court act in posting
placards encouraging striking shop
men.
Tie Governor Said the only treason
of the delay was to determine the plan
of action.
PRESS MEETING
COIIIES TO CLOSE
HERE YESTERDAY
Final Day’s Prgram Proved a
Charming One for Members
of Press Association
ST. SIMON FISH DINNER
WAS REAL FEATURE
Newspaper Men Visited South
ern Terminals, Atlantic Refin-:
ery, Jekyl and St. Simon and
Adjourn Singing Brunswick’s
Praises—Many Linger in City
The annual meeting of the Georgia
Press Association came to a close
on St. Simon yesterday afternoon after
a meeting and outing pronounced by
many of the member,s to be the most
[delightful in the history of the organ
j ization.
[ The Association convened in Quit
man on Tuesday morning, arrived in
[Brunswick on Thursday afternoon and
t since that time up to the hour of its
final adjournment, has been the recip
ient of various entertainments at the
hands of the people of Brunswick.
Yesterday morning at nine o’clock
the entire party and many Brunswick
people boarded the steafner Atlantic
for a day’s outing. First the trip was
made to the Southern terminals and
the Atlantic Refinery on Turtle river,
I then followed a complete journey of
[the harbor to Jekyl, in which the, vis
itors had ampl e opportunity to view
the splendid port of Brunswick at its
very best. Many f the visiting news
paper men were absolutely surprised
at the almost unlimited facilities of
the harbor and at its natural advan
tages.
At Jekyl. a stop of an hour was made
and the visitors were shown the won
derful palaces that dot. that Sylvan
isle, the property of many American
millionaires. It was a rare treat to
them and they enjoyed it to the limit.
St. Simon was reached shortly be
fore two o’clock and here in the shady, l
oak bowered grove just in the rear of
the St. Simon hotel, the party was
treated to a magnificent fish, dinner.
The menu was a tempting one and the
hungry visitors found pleasure and de
light in partaking of it.
After the fish dinner, the association
automatically disorganized and the
1922 meeting became a thing of the
past, the members being free to make
their own arrangements for their own
pleasures. Many of them remained
on St. Simon and will spend two or
three days there; others came up to
the city and caught afternoon and
evening trains for their homes, while
a few others still linger in the city.
The newspaper men and the lady
members oT the party were all loud in
their praise of the charming manner
in which the people of Brunswick had
entertained them and they expressed
the hope that another invitation from
this city Would come at an early date.
RIFLEMEN TO BE
HOST TO SCORES
Local Company Will Not Break
Camp Today But Will Remain
on the Island Through To
morrow.
While all the other companies at
Camp Coney, St. Simon, will leave the
island at 6 o’clock this morning, , the
Brunswick Riflemen will not break
camp until Monday morning. The
company will be under command of
Caf>t. W. L. Harwell, who has been act
ing as major sisee the first day the en
campment started.
The members of the company will be
under hte same military discipline as
during the entire camp period and an
invitation is extended to the people of
Brunswick generally to visit the com
I pany Sunday evening and have a regu
lar camp dinner. It makes no differ
ence how many go over, Capt. Har
well and his company is able to take
car e of all and really wants the people
o*f Brunswick to be the company’s
guests.
CIRCULATION DECREASE
Washington. July 21. —Th e per cap
ita circulation of July 1 was $39.89.
compared with $44.78 a year ago, ac
cordin gto a treasury statement today.
NORTHCLIFFE’S CONDITION
C/AUSES GRAVE ANXIETY.
(P.y Associated Press.)
London, July 21.—The condi
tion of Lord Northcliffe, who has
been very ill for the past several
weeks, continues to be the cause
of grave anxiety.
That he is not progressing in
the last, it is learned is the case,
while he grows weaker each day.
HARDWICK FILLS ;
BENCH VACANCIES
Wiliiam V. Custer, of Bainbridge,
is Appointed Jurist for Albany
Circuit: J. Littlejohn Gets Val
dosta Toga.
(By Associated Press.)
I Atlanta. Ga„ July 21. —Governor
[Hardwick on Friday morning appoint
ied Judge R. C. Bell, Of the Albany cir
; euit, to the Court of Appeals to suc
[ eeed Judge Ben H. Hill, who died at
his home in Atlanta last Wednesday.
He apointed William Vance Custer,
i a prominent Bainbridge lawyer, to suc
i ceedceed Judge Bell in the Albany cir
cuit, the two appointments going si
i multaneously to the Senate for con
firmation.
Judge Bell resides at Cairo and is.
well known throughout South Georgia.
Though a comparatively young man,
[lie is regarded as one of the ablest
[judges on the Superior Court bench of
the State. He was one of the five su
perior court judges named by Gover
nor Hardwick to make investigation
i of conditions at the State Prison Farm
some weeks ago.
It was understood that Judge Bell
would make arrangements to come to
Atlanta at once to assume his duties
ion the Court of Appeals. His succes
sor, Judge Custer, is one of the lead
ing lawyers of Southwest Georgia.
Governor Hardwick also sent to the
i senate Friday the appointment of Al
-1 bert J. Little, of Valdosta, as Judge of
!'the City Court of that city to succeed
[Judge Oscar Smith, who died suddenly
[last week.
SUTLIVE MAKES
| ELOQUENT TALK
Grand Chancellor Commander,
After Dokey Dinner Meets
With Rathbone and Ogle
i thorpe in Castle Hall.
After the Dokey dinner last night a
joint meeting,, of Rathbone and Ogle
thorpe lodges] Knights of Pythias,
was held in Castle Hall, with Chancel
lor Commanders Krauss and Symons
presiding. The joint session was held
in order that Grand Chancellor Com
mander W. G. Sutlive, of Savannah,
who had kindly consented to make an
address, could meet many of the local
Pythians with whom he desired to be
come acquainted.
A more beautiful oration was never
heard than that made by Mr. Sutlive.
The subject was “Pythianism,” and
this, his favorite, was handled in a
masterly manner, and with all the
force of his nature the state grand
chancellor told exactly what Pythian
ism stands for. Notwithstanding the
fact that the speaker had been contin
ually on the go for the past several
days in connection with the meeting of
the Georgia Press Association, he was
at his best and every member who
heard him left Castle Hall a better
Pythian.
AMERICA WILL GETS ITS
QUOTA OF GERMAN DYES
UNDER PRESENT PLAN
(By Associated Press.)
I Paris. July 21.—The American gov
j eminent would receive its quota of
i German dyes, amounting to over three
I million dollars annually, as part pay
jment for maintaining its army on the
■Rhine, under the terms of a plan now
being worked out by the American
government with the aid of the repar
ations commission.
All that remains to put the plan
into effect is the final approval of som e
of the aliled powers and this is ex
pected within the next several Weeks.
BRUNSWICK
Has the lowest death rats ef
any city its size In the United
States. .........
PRICE FIVE CENTS
PRESIDENT GETS
FIRST HAND VIEW
RAILWAY STRIKE
Summons Chairman Hooper, of
Railway Labor Board, to
Washington.
GOVERNMENT STANDS PAT
ON THE COAL SITUATION
Will Ascertain Whether Suffi
cient Production Could be Ob
tained Through Re-opening.
—Bituminous Mines to Supr
ply Essentials.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, July 21.—Determined
to obtain first hand view of the rail
road strike situation, President Hard
ing today called Chairman Hooper,
of the Labor Board, here from Chica
go, for a personal interview tomorrow,
prior to summoning him the President
reviewed Chairman Cummings and
Senators Kellogg and WAtson, (Indi
ana), of the interstate commerce com
mittee, who reported on their confer
ence last night with the eastern rail
road executives and later the cabinet
discussed the whole situation.
Meanwhile Attorney General Daugh
ret-y conferred at the capitol. first with
Chairman Borah, of the senate labor
commitee, later with Senator Cum
tilings. Th e discussions involved the
possibility of legal action in both rail
road and coal strikes although Attor
ney General Daugherty stated after
wards that no immediate legal pro
ceedings were contemplated.
PLANS DISTRIBUTION
OF CURTAILED SUPPLY
COAL TO ESSENTIALS
(By Associated Press.)
Washington. July 21. —The govern
ment is prepared to stand pat for ten
days to a fortnight in its attitude to
wards the cbal strike, it was indicated
today, in order to ascertain whether
sufficient production could be obtained
through re-opening of the bituminous
I mines under guarantee of federal pro
tection to assule fuel requirements for
essential industries.
In the meantime plans for the dis
tribution of the curtailed supply will
| be. pushed, It is said.
EIGHTY-SEVEN PER CENT
OF SOUTHERN CLERKS
DESIRES TO WALK OUT
(By Associated Press.)
Chattanooga. July 21.—With the of
ficial announcement of the result of
the ballot of Southern railway clerks
today withheld on orders from'head
quarters. it was said that the vote was
i eighty-seven per cent in favor of a
walkout, on account of wage reduc
tions.
Members of the brotherhood here
today expressed the opinion that the
strike will start in a few days.
RYWI BANKRUPT,
OWES 532.000.000
[Spectacular Wall Street Specu
i lator, Son of Thmas Fortune
Ryan, Has Assets of Only
$643,000.
(By Associated Press.)
New York, July 21. —Allan A. Ryan,
generally regarded as one of Wall
street’s mflst spectacular; operators
during the war boom period and the
son of Thomas Fortune Ryan, went in
to bankruptcy today.
Mr. Ryan’s liabilities ar e listed at
thirty-two million dollars of which
twenty-seven million are secured
claims and assets are placed at six
hundred and forty-three thousand dol
lars.
LABOR MEMBER OF RAIL
BOARD WILL SEE DAVIS
(By Associated Press.)
Chicago. July. 21.—W. L. Enimen,
members of the labor group of the
Railroad Labor Board, announced to
night that he would go to Moosehead,
111., tomorrow to confer with Secre
tary of Labor Davis on the shopmen’s
strike.
The request for a conference WS
made by Secretary Davis.