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•BRUNSWICK
lowest death rate of
VOLUME XXI. NO. 303.
PEACE REIGNS AT LAUSANNE CONFERENCE
DELEGATES ARE !
ALMOST AGREEOI
ON DARDANELLES
Russian Minister Yields to Pres
sure Brought Out in l ast
Objections.
EXPERTS NOW AT WORK
OPINION SOON TO COME
Naval and Military Officers Are
Completing Details of Set
tlement of the Dardennelles
Problem.
(By Associated Press.)
Lausanne, Dao. 9. —Optimism
reigned supreme iu v,
the Ha -t
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meat "eie t" i , o''^feißsy?l'
t,y the naval and
informal meetings.
Turkish capitulations i oeiSK
out by sub-commissions. Jap
Tchitcherin, the
minister, his
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\ inei lean nmhas ad "I#;j
yeriTng the straits and
commerce in the Black Sea.
said he had listened with great de
light to the statements of Ismet
Pasha, on behalf pf. Turkey, who had
approached the difficult problems in
sympathetic and conciliatory manner.
Baron Hayashi added that the ad
dress of Lord Curzon, the British for
eign minister, had assured him that
a solution iof the straits question
was nearing.
Lord Curzon opened the :
with a long detailed revic"^^^^B
I points on which the Turk.sßH
f fioio ti.e entente plan aiid\l,.
questions on old. h l-inc t ® ' A ,
asked ft_.it in-1 in I, ,i iiki i itMfi
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eil that nio-t of the .|U.“^B
which tl.e entente arm the
fered were proper subjects nMliOft
mai discussion by military
exerts, and expressed the oPiniqn
such discussion would bring for
ward the necessary technical infor
mation which would undoubtedly
form the basis for agreement.
The only harsh note of the session
camp when M. Tchitsherin and M.
RadovskV, also of the Russian dele
gation, demanded that Russia be ad
mitted to all formal discussions which
may take place between the military
and navy experts of the Turks and
the entente on the straits quesdtion.
Lord Curzon held that this would be
impossible as these discussions would
be informal and wholly unofficial. He
said that Russia had no right to de
mand representation "hen the other
powers interested in the straits were
making no such request. In ease the
Problem of the straits was discussed ;
in full conference or by lib-commis
sion, Lord Curzon explained that the
Russian experts would be welcome.
GOVERNMENT’S OPINION OF
MERGER COMES MONDAY
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Dec. 9. —Secretej-y
Wallace announced tonight that he
would giv e the government’s opinion
l of the proposed Armour-Morr; s mer
■ ger early next week.
WICKERSHA.M AND GOMPERS
CALLED IN DAUGHERTY CASE
Washington, Dec. 9—The house
i judiciary committee has subpoened
I former Attorney General Wickersham
’ and Samuel Gompers to appear at
the impeachment hearing against
Attorney General Daugherty as wit
nesses. _ _ _
THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
REV, 0. P. GILBERT
TELLS OF BAPTIST
I MEET IN ATLANTA
Interesting Facts in Connection
With Recent Great
Convention.
'officers elected have
SERVED CHURCH WEI I
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Regrets That Brunswick Was
Not Designated as 1923
Meeting Place and Tells of
Secretary Ward's Talk.
The News requested Rev. O. P. Gil
bert, minister of the First Baptist
church, on his return from Atlanta, |
Jester day, to write a report of the
Baptist Convention, which
to a close on Friday. He saVs:
Georgia 'Baptist t',,n\enti.,n
} KV>a*f t lie largest deliberative bod-
Mis
llifXiliP* 1 °f b'lpli i mini t.-r and
Re. been
I*. ..’"This departure has not
favoratd.v received liy many
raKß’hes and as yet but few women
t.l ‘ Invaded them elves of this 0)1-
E'li’.wCnity. The future, however, will
women on the floor of all
This will likely in
the number of tepresonlalives
jußnur meet in c" its women are more
the eonventions of their
men.
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pastors' and LavmenV
iTuesday preceding the convention.
This is n new organization with thej
i purpose of tleepening the spiritual’
life of the churches and bringing the
'ministers and laymen into closer re
lations. :
‘‘The convention this year was
without any nut. Landing episode.
The reports of the .different boards
,n some directionsj
jetfr /‘*f it other direciionjJ
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linos. Thi: will be dobnnjHp -iK
the Iva- ii'iO'
which meet,; in Atlanta,
“I deeply regret that Bruns
not get the convention for next
Mr. Warde. our genial and gracious
secretary of the Board of Trade, was
, there and made a strong appeal for
Brunswick before the committee on
itime and place, of which I was a
; member. We failed, because a mem
ber of the committee who holds a re
sponsible Position on the Mercer
i hoard of trustees, expressed a desire
for the convention to meet in Macon
next year. He put the matter before
the committee in such a way that, it
could not be denied. But Brunswick
will get the convention in 1924, if
she wants it, and that in the face of
plcfls from Augusta and Columbus.
“I do wish to say just here that
Rnmswick is .missing much in the
way of spiritual, moral and material
Progress in faelingtto build one
of the great assembly groumS iof the
southeast. I/lcnow of, nothing that.
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THE NEWS IS A MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, DEC. 10, 1922.
BOSTON MOTORCADE
OF FIFTY CARS 10
COME 00 TUESDAY
Big Early Left Boston* Mass.,
Several Days Ago Enroiite
to Florida.
M W REMAIN HERE FOR
SIM k"l DAYS, II IS SAID
Brunswick Bo.ml of Trade Will
Show Members of the Distin
guished Party Every Atten
tion While iuCity.
Notic e has been received b.v the
Brunswick Board of Trade that a
Motorcade composed <\f somethiug
like fifty cars and which left
in Massachusetts several c o f~‘
will reach Brunswick on TtiesdasSf T ,
plans are underway tor
distinguished visitors every attention
while in the city.
A V.miuililee from
i meet the party near the city
: con them in. T__
Tile Borud mLjTrade has
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many rjmm
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r With the heart of the citvVp F in
'smouldering ruins, plans for
ing were nebulous, but it was; the
general sentiment that reconmption
dt a larger and more substantial
as soon as the more imV
r H
i .-I,'!'ram offering
were ,-eceiVVell
committee announced
amounts of staple foods and
Brant ities of clothing were needed at
gmee. Word from Portland was that
a special . train carring supplies
from there today.' Summarized, the
Li'iiation was ns follows:
5 Twent.v-UjV. hundred persons home
less.
The citv without hanking faeilities.
No food obtainable except from a
central distributing station establish
■d by a quickly organized committee
If fifty.
F Last night beds were provldtd for
Fall and hot meals were served at
several stations.
Hundreds of homes have been
thrown open to those made destitute
and others were given to commandeer
all of the city’s f °od supplies.
Lighting facilities were Partly re
stored last night, but throughout the
darken district Policemen pr
darkened district a Heavy guard of
soldiers and special policemen pre- j
vented looting.
Chief of Police Carlson said that j
fourteen men had been arrested by ]
his officers during the confusion and
that ail were attempting to carry
away a r ticles from stores within the
district..
Fire fighting apparatus still was
working eary today and will continue
until all the ember s Pave been ex
tinguished. ,
Three churches were directly in the
Path of the fiam e s, but none was
burned. In each c a se the fire was
either checked before the church was
reached, o r veered around the house
of worship.
Whn flames threatened the cftjy
Jail the doors were opened and about
thirty-five prisoners were released.
The Jail docket disappeared and no
record of the malefactors could be
found..
AMERICAN DIPLOMATS ARE: OBSERVERS
AT NEAR EAST PARLEY IN LAUSANNE
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PBFmphis,'. Term., Dec. 9.
jof police instigating the findins|
; bound hand and foot, and gagged, be
|side the street car tracks in a suburb
early yesterday of Miss Jennie Rog
ers, .’l2. trained nurse, whom it was
j reported had been Placed IWj#’ by a
after having
a railroad station
days
of one of the the I
| notes scrawled on an enveWpe found
' in her possessions, accordmg to an
nouncement early today, m
I Lee Rogers, brother Rog
ers, referred to in the as “Lee”]
I went to the hospital morn- j
ing but, accodring to attaches and j
nurses, she did not recognize him. 1
According to incoherent notes folnd 1
by the police, addressed to her moth- j
er and brother, Miss Rogers, who!
i graduated from a local hospital, and
j for several years was in charge of
I a sanitarium at Charleston Miss., left
| the home of a relative early Sunday',
morning to visit her mother at RiP
| ley, Miss. The notes explain that
while waiting in the station she fell
| asleep and when she awoke was “in
[the clutches of the masked man,” who l
“had threatened to kill her if she
refused to eat and do ks she was
told,’’ and begging anyone who found
the notes to rescue her.
Authorities are unable to account
for her movements from the time she
left the house until picked up yester
day morning by a street car crew in
the woods near Memphis.
Police Physicians expressed the
opinion that Miss Rogers is tempor
arily unbalanced, caused by nervous,
shock, exposure and lack of food.
NARUTOWICZ PRESIDENT
(By Associated Press )
Warsaw, Dec. 9. —General Naru-j
towicz, minister of foreign affairs, j
was elected president of the Poland!
national aa**mbly today i,
DIED
fygftCin MTAI.
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UtenjA iTT.N 'Jj
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numerous relatives IR^mlitig
AiWind IT. W. Peters, of t.hi s city
and W. W. Peters, of Savannah,
nephews.
r The funeral will he held from the
Bate residence on F.gmont street at
B o’clock this afternoon conducted by
w. William Johnson and intermeu#
fl|ll be in Oak (Trove cemetery. •
are the Pallbearers: B.
it Harris, J. D. Brown, K. Y. Rob
ots, C. L. Elliott, 1,. Ludwig, Pat
Horan.
FORMER GOVERNOR, BIL.BOA
4VITIAK IN RUSSELL CASE
beinc^m!£ ht 8Y officer S
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: ;^Bn^9^B >, ;y 1 .
in the efforts;
. ®rmfrGovernor Hilhoa as'
i|M^*fo r the plaintifl in the
outlook tonight it i, r\-
rn Il “' 1 :,s, ‘ B° to the
y-tl IROOPS CAN’T
Assist prohibition
OFFICERS IN KENTUCKY
* (By Associated Press.)
Washington, Dec. 9.—Use of
federal troopts in assisting in
prohibition enforcement in Ken
tucky could not be expected un
til all the other agencies of
state and federal authorities
had failed to restore order and
the governor of that state had
so certified in formal request to
the secretary of war for assist
ance, according to advices here.
It had been intimated that the
federal authoriites would proba
bly be asked to assist prohibi
tion enforcement by sending
troops to work in conjunction
with state and federal Prohibi
tion officers.
DEATH OF GIRL AT
HOSPITAL ENDSiN
MURDER WARMr
“Mrs. I. H. Crosby,” Who Died
Early Friday Night Was
• “Miss Crosby.”
MAN WHO GAVE NAME AS
I. H. CROSBY IS S. H. CARTER
j Same Old Story of Man of
| World and Unsuspecting Girl
With Death and Suffering
j Following.
Yesterday's issue of The News car
nfV on the last page a little, but sad]
■hm, of the death of “Mrs.
White S’, mu's. Fla."
■ CrorltV." White
sI- ’ (Bdid net p.i'-s aw;i\ but
' ' f Kaxle'. ' ’ ii""l
nee did.
man of the
fi 4; iSfS*Rlß| u I I,,,M|IU ' m ud
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To story short, the
MdjMßff. HF.by,” repotted as hav
ing was really Miss
Alma Baxley a school
t cachet over eighteen
ye.t.rs the husband, (that
is he _ j |oi- Miller he was)
S. of
N of the
Ulead V ■ fljkand several chil
®l J y A Pierce capital,
o Jpught her to
iirTfljl Iruin
D;ia in the hope that
be relieved of an
situation —but—instead, she
-}■ ; Brabthv funeral will occur at the
IX 1 placejmar 'R'txley to-
KKW e
m ' ‘ ! ' ” i
| iy.'M in the
;pjMte<4BP''>' n miit. will I
l! I mm
relatives
,3 ;■ "WtiiKsod" her us a
,f| -fa#cam,, yesterday.
M ijflvinter Haven, Fla.,
Pine Grove, Ga.
facts and at once
§ -Nfice of Judge J. L.
* 1 out a, warrant
I a.#::/ i Garter charging him!
i with murder.
After the warrant was
just before making an effort
| municate witli the authoriti^^of
Pierce county, (Thief of
i.ter was called over long jKtancc
iphone by Solicitor General d|mn Sel
lers, at the time at Baxley, who. when
(being informed that the warrant had
been sworn out for Carter, took the
matter up with the sheriff of that
(county and it is likely that S. 11. Car
(ter is now in the county jail, at Bax
i ley.
But Friday night •(here was a
(deathbed scene at the hospital which]
(will never be forgotten. The mother:
of the girl, having- been hastily sum-(
moiled, responded and was with her 1
daughter when the end came. The i
| dejected, heartbroken creature at j
[death’s door told “mother nil.” There j
(was nothing kept back and she died j
with the hope that here sufferings!
here would atone for her sin.
( Developments as to the movements j
lof Carter and the girl after reaching
Brunswick have not been thoroughly
investigated, but it was learned that
the girl was not taken to the hospi
tal until four days after her arrival
in he city. It was stated by "Cros
by,” really Carter, that his “wife”
was suffering from Peritonitis, as he
stated to Undertaker Miller.
J. R. Dunn, of Winter Haven, Fla.,
and W. D. Dunn, ( of Pine /Grove,
Ga., were in consultation with Chief
Register last night and from what
they say, ,Carter has a serious charge
to answer for. Not that he will like
ly be convicted of murder, but a crime
the penalty of which will send him
to the penitentiary for a term of
years. In the meantime the Messrs.
Dunn will search for the Person oi
persons who performed an operation,
on the unfortunate girl, if such was
realy performed.
THIEF ENTERS HOME OF A. L.
CHURCH ON FRIDAY NIGHT
While (he family attended moving
pictures Friday night, sneak thieves
entered the home of A. L. Church,
on Union street near Prince and took
there from two diamond rings and
other jewelry.
The thief was evidently an ols one
at t he business as he covered up his
tracks with all the art that “thief
dom” knows. The value of the articles
stolen will go t+> something (Ktx f%QQ>
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best un the
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
POINCARE i ;T
TO TAKE FLob\v
PREMIER’S MT
To Invite or Not to Invite Unit
ed States Seems to be
Problem.
JAPAN HAS APPLIED FOR
ADMISSION TO MEETING
French Premier Perturbed Over
General Rumor That His
Country Was Preparing to
Annex Rhine District.
London, Dec. 9.—The conference
of allied premier a held a two-hour
session thi s morning. The heads of
all four delegations—British, French,
Italian and Belgian—addressed the
gathering, Premier Poincare of
France, holding the floor longest.
While Premier Poincare was re
ported not to have reached the point,
of definite proposals, lit declared thejj
reparation question had arrived at <8
something radical must'
HWSTne. He came prapared he said,
to discuss with the others what ac
tion should be taken.
France’s great intrest, he insist
ed, must be recognized.
Those present besides the premiers
w'ere the finance ministers of Great
Britain, France and Belgium, Count
d e Saint Aulaire, the French ambas
sador, Foreign Minister Jasper of Bel
gium and the Italian members of the
reparations commission.
M. Poincare appeared perturbed
when he left his hotel for the com
ference, having just made a denial
of a charge that France iutends to
annex the Rhine region. He was in'
good spirits, however, when h@ re
turned, from which the French at
taches drew the inference that tha
conference-gas .
In
mat-.
fl JTi •*-
the
Ut„■ t-rl Sr a 9? L'*. Kvto '* lu
of U "^HP^Hrench,
lltalian and 'jhere
this week end, ]s by
the diplomatic correspondent of the
Daily Telegram.
The writer says that Japan has al
jagV formally requested admisßion
Pr that although America has not
Hiade the same request, “this fact
need not preclude consideration of
the point, especially having jn regrad
to the' strong vjew s > entertained by
Washington ami vigorously expressed
by tbe American ambassadors upon
certain aspects of tbe issuq s at stake.
The correspondent suggests that
the four participating delegations
may devote their first exoange of
views to settling thi s question, the
inference from his statement appar
ently being that if admission is de
c'ided upon tbe United States will ba
invited to attend.
STILLMAN MAKES
ANOTHER APPEAL
CASE IS FILED IN THE SU
PREME COURT AGAINST
HIS WIFE
White Plains, N. Y., Dec. 9. —
James A. Stillman has made another
effort to appeal from the court de
cision which declares bis wife," Anne
U. Stillman, was not quilty of mis
conduct with Fred Beauvias, a Ca
nadian guide, and that baby Guy was
Mrs. Stillman’s legitimate s ° n and
not the son of Beauvas.
An appeal filed by counsel for Mr.
Stillman asked the appellate division
of the supreme court to decide on
the legality of the final Judgement of
Justice Morchauser, confirming the
report of Referee Daniei J. Gleason,
who decided in Mrs. Stillman’s fav r
or. j
TREASURY BILL WHICH
CARRIES $115,000,000 IS
PASSED BY THE HOUSE
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Dec. 9.—The an
nual treasury appropriation bill
carrying one hundred and fif
teen million (hollars, of which
nine million is for enforcement
of the Prohibition laws, was
passed by the house today.