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BRUNSWICK Has a landlocked harbor, tha best on the South Atlantlo Coast •LUME XXI. N0.249 SREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE HAVE REACHED AGREEMENT REEK ARMY TO BE ASKED EVACUATE ' EASTERN THRACE For Period of Thirty Days and British Will Occupy Territory. POINCARE, FRENCH, AND CURZON, BRITISH, AGREE Agreement Reached by These Allies Shall be Submitted to Turkish Representatives, Who are Now a c Peace Nego tiations Meeting. (By Associated Press.) London, Oct. 7.—An official com munique, issued tonight after a cab inet meeting called to consider a long ispatch from Lord Curzon, which said that Premier Poincare and Cur zon had reached an agreement this, afternoon by which the Greek army should be invited to evacuate east ern Thrace on the understanding that the Allies should occupy the terri tory for a period of thirty days. This agreement must now he presented to the Turkish representatives at Mu dania. ON NEUTRAL GROUND AGAIN. (By Associated Press.) Constantinople, Oct. 7.—Turkish in fantry and cavalry, it is announced, have violated, the neutral zone around ismid. This is the first violation of the zone protecting Constantinople on the Asiatic side and is regarded as a mat ter of first Importance. Kemalists have not advanced, however, far enough to come In contact with Brit ish troops. The movement is neces sarily attracting attention at Mudan la. AGREE IN PRINCIPLE Paris,' Oct, 7. —Viscount Cufzon, the British fjbijeign secretary, Hollowing i another conference with Premier Po incare, said they had agreed in prin ciple on the new instructions to be sent to the allied delegation at Mu dania. . BRITAIN’S , PLAIN STATEMENT (By Associated Press) London, Oct. 7. —A sensation has been caused by the letter from An drew Bonar Law upholding the British government’s attitude in the near east ern crisis. The pronouncement is widely held as having been the equivalent of a direct threat to bring the British troops home from the Rhine and com pletely terminate the entene unless France comes into line with the Brit ish policy in th e near east matter. , it is surmised that the cabinet, members, especially Premier Lloyd George and Coicnial Secretary Church 1 ill, had something more than a mere I knowledge of the launching of this ut terance at the moment of Foreign Sec retary Curzon’s mission. GREEKS CONCENTRATING :(By Associated Press.) London, Oct. 7. —Ten thousand Greek troops hav e been concentrated in the :Tcha Taiga district in eastern j Thrace, which is under the control | of the French cavalry;, says a Central j News dispatch - from Constantinople, | The Greek officers sire reported to have distributed arms to some of the population of Thrace, telling them to repulse the -Turks. % OPTIMISTIC FEELING (By Associated Press.) Mudania, Oct. 7. —The conference! opened amid a feeling of optimism. l A statement byTsmet Pasha, the Turk-t ish nationalist representative, sound ed a conciliatory note. His attitude had softened markedly. Did Not Fire on U. S, Vessel. 6 'By Associated Press.) •Constantinople, Oct. 7. —Inpuiry has disclosed that the report of the tiring an American destroyer recently , Ty the Turks is without foundation. THE BRUNSWICK NEWS JELLY FINE MATERIAL FOR STRONG HOME BREW (By Associated Press.) Youngstdwn, 0., Oct. 7.—The source of “jags” which the pris oners in Mahoning county jail have been accumulating has been discovered by the sheriff and the result is that the jelly ration has been eliminated. The prisoners have been hav ing jelly which they put into- a bucket and made strong home brew. TWO FREED RFIFU 10 TEARS IN PEN Young Men Who Took Part in Killing Members of Court are Pardoned by Governor of Vir ginia as Reformed. (By Associated Press.) I Richmond, Va.. Oct. 7.—Friel Allen and Sidna Edwards, youthful mem bers of the Allen clan that on March 14, 1912, shot up the courthouse at Hillsville, were en route to their moun tain homes tonight “reformed young men and worthy of anew trial in life." The ten years they spent in the Vir ginia penitentiary fulfilled the purpose of the law f declared Gov. E. Le e Trin kle Friday, in granting them condi tional pardons, “and they are capable and will in the future lead law-abiding lives.” Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards, two other members of the clan, serv ing thirty-five years and twenty-seven yeasr imprisonment, respectively, for their part in. the affair in which the presiding judge, Thornton 1,. Massie, Commonwealth’s Attorney W. M. Fost er, Sheriff L. F. Webb, Augustus Fowl er, a juror, and Miss Betty Ayers, a spectator, were killed, and Dexter Goad, court clerk, and seven jurymen were wounded, were denied clemency because “they have so short a time for their punishment." The other two members of the clan were electrocuted at the state prison here for their part In the shooting. WAR DEPARTMENT GIVES APPROVAL Authority Given for the Con struction of the Necessary Bridges on the Great Saint Simon Highway. Information was received by Acting Chairman E. L. Stephens, of the Glynn county commissioners yesterday to the effect that the War Department had approved submitted plans for the construction of the St, Simon high way. Wliiee this is largely a matter of form, it is nevertheless another step in the preparations now being made to get to work on this big project in Brunswick and Glynn county have such a deep interest. Under the law, it is necessary for the War Department to give its ap proval to all bridges, etc., that are to he built over navigable streams, hence it was necessary' to get the authority in question. When questioned on the subject last night Mr. Stephens said that it was the intention of authorities to push the work as rapidly as possible. The bonds have to be validated in Glynn superior court, and it is hoped that this/can be done November first. In that ev.ent, the work on the highway will be commenced early in December. Mr. Stephens was of course delight ed that there was no objections offer ed by the War Department. MRS. AUGUSTA TIERNAN IS SUING FOR DIVORCE (By Associated Press.) South Bend' Ind., Oct. 7.—Mrs. Au gusta Tiernan, wife of Jolin P. Tier- THE NEWS IS A MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, OCT. 8, 1922. 'JACKSONVILLE TO PAT HER QUOTA 0 F BRIDGE MONEY Messrs. Twitty and Warde, Back ! From Florida City, Delight” ed With Situation. VISITORS CORDIALLY RECEIVED BY CITIZENS ! Jacksonville Auto Club and the Chamber of Commerce to Combine and l.iquidate Their Obligation to Brunswick.— Payment be Made Promptly. Messrs. F. E. Twitty and Fred G. Warde, representing the Brunswick j Board of Trade and the Young Men’s j club, returned yesterday from Jack sonville where they went to investi gate the situation as to the collection of the amount due by the Jacksonville people on th e Darien bridge. Both of the gentlemen are enthusi astic in their praise of the very cordial fashion in which they were received by the people of Jacksonville and be cause of the additional reason that ar rangements were perfected wherby, it is believed, that the amount due from that source will soon be paid. Both of the Brunswickians appear ed before th e Jatksonville Auto olub and in neat talks explained in full the situation, which as is generally known jin Brunswick, is growing to be a del | Icate matter. (The wlifole situation I was thoroughly explained by them. 1 every detail being thrashed out and 'an earnest appeal was made that Jack ! sonville liquidate her qhota of the in debtedness as speedily as possible. Messrs. Twitty and Warde were giv en the very closest attention on the part of,the large number of Jackson ville business men present and they , were assured that there was no dispo ' sit ion on the part of the people of that ! city to sidestep the obligaion. i It was finally agreed to turn over to the Brunswick people a handsome new tractor, said to be worth SI,OOO, and to pay S2OO in cash, now in bank. It jvas further agreed by the club to arrange at once to make an additional payment to the Brunswick people of SI,OOO on the amount due by Jackson ville. With these payments there will still be something like $2,500 due on the Jacksonville quota and the members of the Jacksonville Auto club have agreed to go before the Chamber of Commerce early this week and make a very sincere effort to produce the money. Messrs. Twitty and Warde are de lighted with their visit to the Flor ida city and they are positive that her quota will be in hand in a few weeks. BROADFIELD ROAD WORK PROGRESSING ALL RIGHT Contractor Wright’s force is doing gcod work on the Broadfield road and indications at the very beginning are that the project will have been anish ed before the time called for in ’the contract, which is two hundred work ing days. It is true that weather conditions for times during the past few days have stopped operations, this season rain always comes and it was expect ed at the beginning and all concerned were prepared for and have; figured the number of days that rain will stop the work. The force is now quite a large one and will be added to from time to time. nan, has, filed suit for divorce Charg, ing cruel and inhuman treatment. Recently Mrs. Tiernan charged Har ry Poulin was the father of her ten months old son. Poulin was found not guilty. In her complaint Mrs. Tiernan as serts that her husband threatened to take her two daughters away from her and he told her their characters and ideals were not compatable. Mrs. Tiernan with her children left for her hom e In Bronson, Mich., this after noon, the husband accompanied her to Bronson and then returned here. GUNS OF JUTLAND VETERAN MENACE TURKS ", ‘ \;i; ... , - -' ; - ■ '-'XU V, ' f '•: KM v.w •• -• a ■ * - . -t | / ' • „* I** * H. M. S. Iron Duke, veteran of the battle of Jutland. Mustapha Kemal Pasha had better have a care lest the Iron Duke turn loose its big guns on POPULIST PLAN Mil BEAOOPTED Australian Ballot System to be Used J n Senatorial Primary and, It Seems, All Others in Future. Atlanta, Ga„ Oct. 7. —The Austral ian ballot system will be used in some counties in the senatorial primary October 17, as it was in the guberna torial primary in September, accord ing to a state politician and they pre dict that before many more elections all counties will put it in operation. It must not he forgotten, political observers point out, that the Austral ian ballot was one old-time Populist plan that Democrats -opposed. Now both Democrats and Republicans in Georgia favor the Australian ballot with practical unanimity. Two successive grand jury recom mendations are required to put the Australian ballot system in operation. Then, when a sufficient number of counties have adopted it, many poli ticians claim th law should be amended so as to make it mandatory on the minority of counties, in order that the state, it is claimed, by a reas onable, gradual process soon may have a clean, dignified, safe uniform ballot system which will permit, to quote one politician “decent men and women to go to the polls without fear of th e frequent nuisance and indecen cies which have been experienced un der the present loose method." REPUBLIC OF CUBA TO GET BIG LOAN Capt. Rosendo Torras, Consul in This City, Advised That the Congress of That Country Has Passed Foreign Loan Bill Capt. Rosendo Torras, Cuban vice consul in this city, yesterday received telegraphic information from Senor Padro. Cuban minister at Washington, advising that the Cuban congress had passed the foreign loan bill. This legislation has been pending in the Cuban lawmaking body for some time and means much for the rehabilitation of the Cuban commerce and business generally. It is of particular interest to Bruns wick and to all other port cities, for the reason that up to the time of the present financial crisis in Cuba, there was a large volume of shipping to many Cuban ports, It is now believ ed that this business will speedily re turn and it will mean much to the com merce Of the ports. The telegram from Minister Padro reads as follows: make public the informa tion that the Secretary of State cables me that the Cuban congress has au thorized a foreign • loan - providing means by which all past obligations of the republic of Cuba will be paid. This and other important measures wUI place the government and the credit of the country on a solid basis." his advancing army. The giant rifles literally can plough j the earth l’or nearly twenty miles. SHIPS LEFT BONE DRY; “MOANING AT THE BAR.” (By Associated Press.) New York. Oct, 7.- —There was “moaning of the bar” upon lin ers putting out to sea today, despite Attorney General Daugh erty’s ruling on high sea liquor and Chairman Lasker, of the Shipping Board, who announced that all Shipping Board vessels had been ordered to travel dry. TRAGIC DEATH OF HAHIDA CHILD Timber Cut Away From Neat- School and “Butt” of Tree Left Turned, Catching Young Clarence Folson. Valdosa, Oct. 7.—The seven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Folsom met death in a very tragic manner at the Shiloh school house several miles from Hahira yesterday. According to information reaching Valdosta the timber had recently been cut away ifront around the school! house for saw mill purposes and some of the large ‘butts” of the trees left about the school house. While a num ber of the children were playing around one of these large “butts” in some way it was turned, catching the little boy and instantly crushing out his life. The tragedy was a great shock to the entire student body school, as wdll .is gat entire community, where the family is well known. There were many varying theories regard ing the cause of the tragedy, but little of the details were reported in Val dosta, the idea being given that the children in the party were so shocked by the tragedy that they could hard ly give an account of the affair. ABDICATION OF TURK RULER AGAIN REPORTED - (By Associated Press.) London, Oct. 7.—-Thb report < that Sultan Mohammed, of Turk- • ey, abdicated this morning, was ■ received by the Russian delega- - tion here in a wireless dispatch - from Miscow. MEXICAN SOLDIERS KILL OFFICERS WHO WERE LOYAL (By Associated Press.) Mexicali, Lower Cal., Oct. 7. —Men Of the Twenty-ninth Mexican Battal ion mutinied and killed those of their officers who refused to join them in deserting to the rebel forces of Gen eal Carrasco, when the battalion was sent to Mexicali to fight in Sina loa two weeks ago, and are now in re bellion, according to delayed advices received. Friday, „ • These guns are Britain’s answer to Kemal’s threats to cross the Dardanelles into Thrace. DRY LAW AGENTS ATTACKED BY IWOS Officers Seize 25 Cases of Home Brew in Baltimore Saloon and are Besieged for Two Hours by People. (By Associated Press.) Baltimore, Oct. 7.—Four prohibition agents ant! two negro assistants were j beleaguered for two hours in the sa loon of Henry Schglitzky following a raid. Several thousand men and wom en threatened the agents and demol ished the plate glass front of the build ing in efforts to reach the raiders. Bricks were hurled both from the street and house tops, tires on the agents' automobiles were cut and the windows and lamps wrecked. The trouble started is the agents were loading a small truck with 25 eases of seized home brew. The ne gro chauffeur of the truck, it was said, threatened the crowd with a revolver, fn attempting to assist him the agents were driven into the saloon where they were barricaded for two hours. Forty police reserves held the crowd in check. A patrolman was knocked down by! a brick thrown from a house top. A j bartender was injured on the arm and] several other received minor injur- j ies. Schalitzky was arrested and held for a hearing. ■ HEW BRUNSWICK CASE PERPLFXING Willie Stevens is Questioned.— Is Accused of Plotting Death of Aged Woman to Get Her Money. (By Associated Press.) New Brunswick, N. J., Oct. 7.—State and county authorities, after spending most of th e night working on the case, were up early today to continue their efforts to solve the mysterious shoot ing September 14 of the Rev. Edward ! Wheeler Hall, rector of the Episcopal Church of St. John, the Evangelist, and his choir leader, Mrs. Eleanor .Reinhardt Mills. Considerable pro gress was made during the night by 'detectives working directly with Col. iH. Norman Swartzkopf, 0 f the New i Jersey state police, and the prosecu tors of Middlesex and Somerset coun j ties. Willie Stevens, eccentric brother of Mrs. Frances Hall, widow of the slain ector, returned to the Hall home about 1 3 o’clock today, after a lengthy quiz at the hands of detectives who took him from the Hall home yesterday. Colonel Swartzkopf. who directed Stevens' examination, admitted that Stevens had been closely questioned about his movements on the night of the killing. SENTENCED TO DIE. Mineola, N. ‘ Y., Oct. 7—William Creasy, of Fort Thomas, Kentucky, convicted last Tuesday of the murder of his former fiancee, Edith Lavoy. a Freeport school teacher, was today sentenced to death in the electric BRUNSWICK Has the lowest death rats f any city ita size In the United 6tates PRICE FIVE OffiTra THREE QUARTERS OE MILLION WILL BE EXPENDED HERE Brunswick Away Ahead of Other Cities in Matter of Local Betterments. OLD BRUNSWICKIAN TALKS ON SUBJECT Shows That We are About to Spend $770,000.00 on Civic Improvements.—The Record is Wonderful One and Has No Equal in Georgia. A well known Georgian dropped in to The News office yesterday and ask ed: “how are things in Brunswick?” He lived here a few years ago and was merely passing through on a visit and not being a politician, asked that his name be kept out of the papers. He was told that things were moving along all right, but htat * it was awful quiet” just, as it is everywhere at the moment. '.Stop right there," said the visitor. “You are all wrong” and then he took I a pencil from his pocket and here was what he jotted down and handed jacross the desk: New Memorial school $175,000 'Colored school 40,000 j Brunswick-Broadseld road.... 130,000 St. Simon Highway 350,000 Incidentals 75,000 Total $770,000 j ' Now,” said the visitor, “how do you get that way?” Then he proceed | ed to say that Brunswick was in the I best fix of any city in the state; that j she was making improvements that | foot up nearly three-quarters of a mil j lion dollars and that in a few weeks, she would begin to receive the bene fits of a general revival in her ship ping and in her general situation. It did lot* good! Incidentally many other improve ments are being shaped up in Bruns wick; men who know, men of affairs, believe that the city is on the eve of ] a great industrial and commercial j awakening. Before backing out of the office door, ; the visitor remarked, ‘All of your big j paints are running on full time; your payrolls are at the top notch, what’s the matter with you anyway?” Think it over! WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR WEEK ENDING OCT. 14 (By Associated Press.) J Washington. Oct. 7.—Weather out i look for, the week beginning Monday: | South Atlantic and East Gulf states: Generalyl fair, temperature be low normal the first part of the week | and normal thereafter. Pressure is | low and falling over the Caribbean sea i hut no disturbance has appeared as yet. West Gulf states: Generally fair; temperature below normal first part of the week and normal thereafter, j Pressure is low and falling over the I Caribbean sea but no disturbance j has appeared as yet. TEXAS OFFICIALS MADE PARTY TO FEDERAL SUIT (By Associated Press.) Austin. Tex., Oct. 7.—The state of ficials made defendants in a suit filed in federal court at Mobile, Ala., yes terday, and called upon to show cause why George E. B. Petty's name is not included on the Texas election balldt as the republican candidate for the United States senate, had not received notice today of the suit, t According to the reports the suit I makes Governor Neff, Secreary of States Staples, Democratic nominee Mayfield, each county judge, county clerk and sheriff in Texas, a party to the suit. vjHMn ARMY MEN TO COMPETE IN LEGION ATHLETICS New Orleans, Oct. 7.—A1l officers and enlisted men of the regular army who desire to enter the American Le gion national athletic championships October 16-20, will have permission to proceed on detached service to New Orleans, the Legion’s National Athletic Commission has been inform ed by General Pershing. chair at Sing Sing prison during tba week of November 6.