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BRUNSWICK Has the lowest death rate of any city its Size in the United States ,VOUj:v,H ADJUTANT GENERAL NASH MEETS DEATH IN AUTO ACCIDENT LIEUT BUTLER IS ALSO KILLED NEARJJRIFFIN AUTOMOBILE RAN OFF OF HIGH EMBANKMENT Nock Was Broken and Death Was Instant—Major Cox and Lieut. H. A. Hines- of Atlanta, Was Injured,. (By Associated Press.) Macon, Oct. 20.—Adjutant General J. Van Naftl, of Atlanta, and Lieut. Butler, of Atlanta, were in stantly killed tonight whe n an au tomobde i n which they were riding overturned near Griffin, Ga. General Nash and Lieutenant H. M. Butler were among the army officers’ guests today at a big barbecue given by Major Mallet, at his home.near Jackson, at which all officers of the ■'22nd., infantry hdd been invited. The automobile ra.i off the fin two miles from Griffin, according to reports, and Gen. Nash’s lieck was broken. Major 1 Charles Cox, of the Second Ba tallion, Atlanta, suffered a broken bone arid had a broken rim, while Lieut. HLyA. Hinos, also of Atlanta, receivedJßtere injuries. General* Nash has been in the mili tary service of the state since 1886 and has bee n adjutant general since January 1, 1913, except for a period of fourteen ntonths during the world’s war whet) he resigned a s ad jutant and went to the second offi cers’ traimng camp at Fort McPher son, near Atlanta and graduated as the only major of the class, and served as such tintil February 18th, 1919 and was appointed adjutant general on the following day. HAD MANY FRIENDS HERE The death of General Nash will cause a great shock here. When in formed of th e sad accident last night Capt. W. L. Harwell, of the Bruns wick Riflemen was deeply grieved and he spoke in the very highest terms of the dead both as an officer and a gentleman. Hi s death will cause general sorrow in military circles throughout the entire^fetate. LEGION NAMES ALVIN M. OWSLEY ITS COMMANDER End of Five Day Convention Came Late Yesterday Afternoon (By Assort -.red Press) New Orleans Oct. 20. —The Ameir can Legion finished a five day con vent) n today and unanimously elec-i tfd Alvin M. Owisev, of Texas, as its; national commander, succeedingi Hantiford MacNider. Among the matters handled as a plea for international action which, according to its Sponsors, wounded men cf the Inter-dllied Veterans As sociation, would bring the word of peace, then, after selection oi a vice ccmander and ehfplain, the conven tion adjourned and the delegates and their wives departed for their teenies. BRYAN ASSERTS LIQUOR INTERESTS WANT TO TURN NATION OVER TO LAWLESS; e. (By Associated Press.) Peoria”, 111... Oct. 20. —William Jc n- j nings Bryan, in said liquor inVßrekaji are not fighting j to repeal the eighteenth amendment, to aid the campaign for the sale of beer and light wines was a comou flage. “The real intent of the liquor in terest,” ((aid, "is to turn the nation over to the lawless.” Mr. Bryan prophesied his death on tlie platform speaking for prohibition, “Some day.” he said,.“l will he speak ing for a cause like tHjs and some in terior weakness of which I may not have been aware, may stop me. But when history is written I want my children to know that I died fighting.” “1 am an old man,” he continued, “and the work of the day has tired me, perhaps beyond what a man of age should hear. But I will take The risk ” THE BRUNSWICK NEWS ► WOMAN CHARGED WITH ► MURDER OF BABIES, FREE ► (By Associated Press.) f Hammond, Ind., Oct. 20. 1 Mrs. Hazel McNally, accused by t her husband of murdering twin t babies he claims were born to ► her last December was dischurg t ed at the close 'of a preliminary ► hearing here today. ► Mrs. McNally ela'med that the ► babies wer e not born but that she had paraded dolls before her t neighbors to satisfy her hus ► band’s ambition to become a ► father. GREATER AGTIVTY MARKS REVIVAL IN SEVERAL CHURCHES No Services at Bijou Today But a Mass Meeting For Men Sunday Afternoon. GATHERING WILL BE HELD AT FIRST METHODIST Dr. Cleveland Will Address the Assembly and a Special Musi cal Program Has Been Ar ranged by W. H, Taylor. One of the most interesting and helpful services of the evangelistic -campaign now in progress in the city was that for men at the Bijou yes -torday. Dr, W. A. Cleveland, the speaker, was at his best and his earnest message made a profound impression. The theme of the dis course was “The Reward of Christ ian Service,” based upon the Mast er’s reply to Peter when that dis crnle remqided Jesus that he and his fellow apostles had left all to fol low him. Dr. Cleveland insisted that we are not to espouse the cause of Christ from mercenary motives; we are not jo follow for the loaves and fishes. At the same time, he explained, nothing pays so well as the Christian life. Fidelity to the Lord gives one a name which is above rubies. He referred to the statement of J. P. Morgan, one of the world’s greatest financiers, that “character and not wealth is the basis of credit,”, and told of an experience in the life of Mr. Mor gan when the latter gave to a cer tn man a check for one million dol lars, knowing that the recipient did not own a dollar in the world. Christ will see to it, the speaker said, that the man who consecrates his life to him loses nothing by so doing. Clos ing the message, lie spoke of the Christian’s hope of brighter, better tilings in tlpo world to come. That hope, said he, we would not give for all the treasures -of this earth. When the minister asked those who would pledge themselves to follow and be faithful to Christ to stand, the re sponse was almost unanimous. No service w’ll he held at the Bijou today but arrangements liav e been made for „ great mass meeting for men at ‘the First. Methodist church j Sunday, afternoo,, at 3:30. This will be a union meeting, all the churches I participating in th e revival campaign ! taking part. Dr. Cleveland will ad- I dress the assembly and all me n of the city are cordially invited to at j tend. W. 11. Taylor, who has direc ! ted the sing’ng at the noon-day meet ings, will be in charge of the music, i Nr, service will be held at the First ; Methodist church today but it is an | pounced that the meeting will con t nue next week. Dr. Charles Lane, who has been assisting the pastor, is re vci'ing from his recent illness and will probable be able to conduct the morning as well as evening service* throughout the week. Sunday will ire a red letter day with ah the churches. Special attention will be given the music, 'and the creaching will bp evangelistic. Dr. Lane will be heard the First Meth odist church, Dr. W."A. Cleveland at the Presbyterian and Dr. L. E. Rob erts at the First Baptist. Rev. L. C. Gray, the pastor, will preach at Mc- Xendree Methodist and Rev. C. D. Ogg at the Norwich Street Baptist. Dr. W. A. Sadtler will fill the pul pit at the Lutheran church and early (Continued on page 8) THE NEWS IS A MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, OC i. ... /. UNLIKE THE PRODICAL SON’S RETURN- HE’S UNWELCOME, UNREPENTANT AND BRINGS HIS OWN FATTED CALF y / -pushnelL , ' U *.2.2 CAPT DUVAL’S SCHOONER HAS BEEN FLOATED Following John Paul Jones’ “Don’t Give Up the Ship,” He Finally Won Out After having been high in the marsh near Raccoon keys since Sep tember 24, when a strong northeast er blew his schooner ashicre, Capt. Charles Duval. 81 years of age, slept aboard his beloved craft in the harbor of Brunswick last night for the first time in many weeks. It will be remembered that J. D. Baldwin interested himself in the saving of the old marienr’s craft and has from time to time carried and sent provisions and made one other attempt, to pull the little schooner from its high perch, where it has been driven by a fierce northeaster while an effort was bring made to return to this port from a point in Florida. Thursday night the launch May, Capt. William Clark, whiefi had taken shelter near the stranded beat and Capt. Turkey of the launch R. L. No ble, which left here in the face Qf a heavy seas to render aid, succeeded in pulling the craft to deep water and all three anchored under a lee shore un til yesterday morning when th trio came to port. Capt Duval landed neary the Goesenflo shrimp factor while the rescuing crafts went to their respective mgoring locations. Besides Mr. Baldwin, R. R. Mac- Gregor. Rev. Thomas H. Thompson, Rev. F. D. Thomas and Rev. O. P. Gilbert assisted financially in secur ing the necessary amount to defray Die expenses of nulling the boat off as well as keeping the standard old mariner in food during the timer was following John Paul Jones famous say ing Don’t give up the ship.” With only the song of the sad sea waves and the shrieks of the many sea fowel driven from far out ocean ward in search of a place of safety, thr old man. who having lost all of his relatives, had only his boat to love, remained on beard, day in and day out and the northeaster, whiich is, always unwelcome to shipping on this part of the coast, as a Godsend to him. and with kind friends he has keen freed from high marshes, which have held his craft a prisoner since September 24. It is stated that Capt. Duval will block his boat up near the foot of Prince street and will spend his remaining days aboard of the craft he loves to well. MEXICAN BEAN BEETLE IS INVADING GEORGIA (By Associated Press.) Wash'ngton, Oct. 20.—1 tis announced by tire agricultural department that the Mexican heetl e is rapidly becoming an increasing menace to the food plants of the south and has made it s appearance in twenty four counties of southern states, including Georgia, Tennessee, North and South Carolina. URGENT NEED OF RED CROSS GROWS Mr. and Mrs. W. S Nathan Back From Nat'onal Convention in Washington—Report Great Meeting Was Held. According to reports brought back by Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Nathan, : who hav e just returned from the nation al convention of the American Red Cross, held in Washington recently, there is greater need of the Red Cross :n the world today than ever before. , The Red Cross, which is an inter national organization is the only agency of its kind which can be call ed upon at a moment’s notice for rt> I'ef work of a vast extent. For this I reason, it was the first to rush aid t.c! those unfortunate Christian fugitives in Greece, who are dying of starva tion and disease. The Red Cros s has , sent food, cloth’ng and nurses to the j stricken urea and stands ready to give all it has if necessary to furnish adequate relief to these sufferers. Through no ether agency could this relief have been obtained with the speed and dispatch .furnished by the , Red Cross. Tlii s idea was most strongly con veyed by Judge John Barton Payne, Chief Justice Taft, General John J. Pershing, Mrs. August Belmont and other noted personages, who address ed the convention during its three days session. Greatest enthusiasm prevail" 1 among the delegates, who gathered from all sections of the country, in regard to the future programs of the Red Cross chapters. Referring to local conditions: Mrs. Nathan, who has accepted the chair manship for the 1923 Roll Call in Glynn Ccunly, expressed the belief that the coming drive will he the most successful this country has had since the world war; since the people gen erally, hav e waked up to a realization lof the wonderful “peace-time” pro igram the Red Cross is carrying on. EYE WITNESS TO MURDER OF HALL AND MRS. ILLS Sensational Turn in New Bruns wick’s Double Killing Mystery (By Associated Press.) New Brunswick, N. J.. Oct. 20. On the heels of unconfirmed reports that the grand jury of Somerset coun ty had returned an indictment in the Hall-Mills murder mystery, the investigation was give n a sensation al twist tonight when if was official ly learned that an eye witness to the double shooting, a woman of reputa ble character in New Brunswick, had be on discovered. Authorities investigating the mur der mystery today were checking up details of new information which they said dovetails with facts previ ously obtained and points to a definite solution of the case which has baf fled officials and detectives of Mid •dlcsex and Somerset counties for more than a month. They wer P said to be carefully weighing a story to the effect that Mrs. Frances N. Hall, widow of the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall, rector of the Ep'scopal Church cf St. John the Evangelist, and Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills, choir singer, who wa s mur dered with the clergyman, quarreled shortly before the Halls left New Brunswick. for a vacation last sum mer, and that the ill feeling was pro nounced after thfc*r return. Information of the quarrel was given out by M : ss Florence North, woman attorney for Charlotte Mills, daughter of the slain choir leader. Miss North told reporters that a scene had taken place between Mrs. Mills and the rector’s wife at a camp maintained by the church at P< fit Pleasant on the Jersey coast last summer. Reference wn s made to the quarrel i n a letter written by Dr. Hall to Mrs. M ils, she said. CENTRE IS AT CAMBRIDGE READY TO MEET HARVARD Cambridge. Mass., Oct. 20.—Th! picturesque Centre football squad was primed tonight for the test that will determine whether two victories against Harvard or only one shall he emblazoned on the record of the littlg institution back in old Kentucky Harvard won the first game in 1920, Centre won last year. Charlie Moran, coach, said tonight he did’nt “reckon its anything near certainty that we will win tomorrow but w© are go ng to put up a game of hard clean football”. JUDGE BUTTS LOSES ON A TECHNICALITY BEFORE COMMITTEE A GIRL WINS PRIZE OF • GEORGIA BOVS PIG CLUB - (By Associated Pms.) ► Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 20.—Miss 1 • Lois Duncan, In, of Royston, • • Ga., has the distinct On of being 4 • thy champion hog raiser of the • • Georgia Boys’ Pig Ciubs. Her 4 4 entry in the senior pig show won 4 ■ t!ie grand championship. Miss 4 ► Duncan, with W. G. Owens, of 4 r Franklin county, who kept a • 4 watchful eye 0,-. the girl’s en- 4 ■ try, will be given a free trp 4 ’ to the International Livestock 4 ’ Show in Chicago next month. 4 CLERGYMEN ARE DINNER GUESTS OF YOUNG MENS CLUB Visiting and Local Ministers En= joy Hour With Brunswick’s Splendid Organization. SEVERAL OTHER QUESTS MADE INTERESTING TALKS Hon. Robert C. Neely, Waynes boro, Member of State High way Department Pays Peo ple of Brunswick Compliment. The Young Men’s Club played host to the local and visiting clergymen yesterday who are conducting a great series of relig ous meetings i n the city and all of them were invited to the one o’clock dinner meeting o.f the club. Most of them came and they succeeded i n adding a charm and a delight to the gathering. Those present were: Rev. L. E. Roberts, for several years pastor of the Frst Baptist church of this city, now of Atlanta; Rev. W. A. Cleve land of Jacksonville; Rev. F. D. Thomas of the Presbyterian church and Rev. Sadtler of the St. James Lutheran church. All of th e minis ters, a, the invitatio n of the chair man, made interesting talks and each in turn pointed out the value of such an organization as the Young Men’s club to any community. They ex pressed the belief that Brunswick had finally learned how to do things and predicted anew era of growth and development for her in the immediate ■ future. / State Highway Commissioner R. C. Neally, of Waynesboro, was also a guest of tiie club and he made quite an interesting talk. H e stressed the fact that Brunswick and Glynn coun ty had always evinced a keen interest in the great subject of better high ways and roads and paid the people of the community a neat compliment o n their progressiveness. L. N. Sutton, of the Georgia divis- ' ion of tiie Bell Telephone company, ! was another guest who talked in- i terestingly on the scope o,f the work j of his company and startled the mem- j bars with the statement that here in ' Brunswick almost eleven thousand; tails are answeed in th e local ex change every day. A. G. Wetherald, of Philadelphia, i was also a guest and made a brief j talk to the members of the club, as | did Manager Spencer of .the Grand j Opera House. Mr. Spencer urged J that more attention be paid to the question of keeping the state high way in good shape between here and Savannah and here and Jacksonville. He volunteered his aid and that of the Grand in any movement looking to the betterment of the community. It was unanimously and enthusias tically agreed to suspend the regu- j lar meet'ug for Friday next and go J to St. Simon to be the guests of the St. Simon Board of Trade at an old fashioned barbecue to be given on that date. A special boat will leave the city at 11:30 o’clock in the morning scheduled to return in the early aft ernoon. Chairman Scarlett is anx ious for every member of the club to take in this trip. L. Ludwig, thg newest member of the organization was at the meeting and on invitation made a neat little talk, which was appreciated by the other members. FIFTEEN GOVT. SCHOOLS Pagopago, Omer'.can Samoa, Oct. "O.—Nineteen schools now have been established b ythe island government 1 of American Samoa, 1 BRUNSWICK Has a landlocked harbor, the best on the South Atlantic Coast. ‘ PRICE FIVE CENTS CLAIM IS MADE DID NOT SEND CONTEST NOTICE This Should Have Been Done Before Consolidation of Vol^. HIGHSMITH DECLARED DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE Seems That State's Rules and Those of Many Counties Were Not Same, Herce Mis understanding Occured. Atlanta, Oct. 20.—The Democratic State Executive Committee heard the contests of Judge E. C. Butts, of Brunswick v.. Judge J. P. Highsmith of Baxley thi s morning and this af ternoon decided against Judge Butts, declaring Judge Highsmith to be the nominee. The decision was rendered or a technically ai.d the merits of the con testant clain was not entered into. WHAT THE TECHNICALITY IS The action ol the Democratic Ex ecutice Oommitte, above refrerred to was rather unexpected here in Bruns wick. It is thought that the techm cality referred to i“ the fact that Judge Butts didn’t file his protest and notice of contest with the Appling cemmittee i n time. It is claimed that the state rules require notice of con test to be given to the county com mittee befor e the vote is consolidat ed and the result declared. How ever in the printed rules as sent out by th e state committee to the local committees, including the Glynn county committee, this provision was omitted. Judge Butts also took the position that he had no way of know ing that such a large number of ille gal votes w-er e cast in Appling coun ty until after the executive committee I of that county had consolidated the returns. The comittee tonight i s hearing the Summerall-Quiney contest for the nomination of the Wayci’oSs circuit judgeship. SOUTH CAROLINA POLICE CHIEF IS FATALLY SHOT Rogers, of Wagner. Was Shot At An Early Hour Yesterday Aiken. S. C„ Octy 20.—Chief of Police Rogers, of Wagner, a small t'wa on the northern boundary of this county, was shot and probably fatally wounded early today by Mur ray Quattlebaum. a negro, according to telephone reports to the sheriff’s office here. Sheriff Howard and a pessee of officers left imiuediateely upon receiving information of the shooting. A possee of citizens is said to be scouring the section around Wagner in search of the nesro, who made his escape. The shoeing, according to information reaching here, occurred when the police afficer went to the Quattlebaum, home to arrest Murray Quattlehaunt's brother. Doctors hold out no hope for the police officer’s recovery, a load frotn a single-barrel shotgun having been emptied int,c his stomach. MISS L. M. CLARK DIES AT HOME IN MAINE Miss L. M. Clark, sister of Capt. J. A. Clark, c* Jekyl Island, passed away on We ce.sday at Ellsworth, Me., where she had been visiting for sonic time. Information of the death of Mis* Clark was received by her brother yesterday. Miss Clark had been in bad health for the past several years, and during the past .few months her condition wa s considered serious and but little hope was held out for her recovery. Deceased resided with her brother o n Jekyl for many years and was well known among many friends in Brunswick who will be grieved to 1 learn of her death,