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( BRUNSWICK |Has the lowest death rate of any city its size in the United States VOLUME XXI. NO. 306. imSTEtRI WINNER BY EIGHT VOTES IN SAVANNAH Aldermank Board Will Find a Fifty-Fifty Per Cent on Last Returns. CONTEST OF ELECTION IS ALREADY IN MOTION Ground Was That One Stewart Watcher, Who Had Been on Duty For Many Hours Was Relieved by Another. (By Associated Press.) Savannah. Ga., Dec. 13.—Mayor Murray M. Sted’art was nomnated for■ mayor yesterday by eight majority I over James M. Rogers, according to: complete returns. The Democratic executive commit tee met here at noon today for the: purpose of declaring the results of the Primary. At that time, the ma-! jorilv of 8 votes for Mayor Stewart was officially announced. Two con-j tested votes are excluded from the result, which would (have made it ; ten majority. Contest of the election has been filed by The Rogers supporters. The grounds given for the contest was objections made to substituting an other Stewart watcher for one who had become exhausted In a ballot booth after more than twelve hours’ vigil. The complete vote follows: For mayor: Murray M. Stewart, 5,010; I James M. Rogers, 5.000. Board of aldermen: Gordon Saussy (S), 5,207; A. TV. Morehouse (S), 5,166; Dr. Her man W. Hesse (R) 5,073; Frank Slate (R) 5.071; W. H. Wright (S) 6.063; John L, Cabell (S), 5,059; J. C. Slater (R), 5,024; J. P. Wheless (R) 5.003; Dr. James N. Carter (S), 4,966; Devereaux Bacon (S) 4,862; Stephen N. Harris (R) 4,704; CBryne (R) 4,729; E. W. RostgM^ (S) 4.691; J. P. McNamara fB 4.631; John R. Dekle <R), ,T. Garfunkel (S). 4,462; Walter P. Smith (R), 4,299; C. B. Wingate (R), 4.293; Morris Slotin <R), 4,243; Mrs. -Lucy' Barrow Mclntyre (R), 4,210; Mrs. ' Elsie Hawkins (R). 4,118; •Tames H. McKenna (S), 4,040; Madi son D. Mock. (S), 3,993; | rs. S. B. O. Morgan (S), 3.194. A firm determination to contest yesterday’s election, first by alleged evidence of illegal voting to be sub mitted to the city executive commit tee and in the last event to put James M. Rogers forward as an indepen dent candidate for mayor, seems practically agreed upon by leading men in charge of Mr. Rogers’ cam paign. Stephen N. Harris, a leading Rog ers supporter, and one of the suc cessful aldermanic candidates, said Ibis morning; "You can say for me that Mayor Stewart and his executive committee promised the People of Savannah a fair election. From in formation received from our workers , and from personal observation yes terday 1 am convinced that they did not Rive us a fair election. I hopej the executive committee will prompt ly throw out the illegal vote s cast for . Mr. Stewart and declare Mr. Rogers, the nominee.’’ "You may announce that there will he a contest of yesterday’s primary. ; It was the most outrageous exhibi tion of disorder and disregard of the] rights of the people to have a clean j election that has ever been seen in S- vannah.” said M. A. O’Bryne, an other Rogers supporter and who w'as : among the successful aldermanic can didates. Judge Paul E. Seabrook, John G. (Continued on page 8.1 ATLANTA JUDGE CONTRIBUTOR TO FUND TO SEND ERRING BOY HOME was Broke and Stole Automo bile to Return to Wife When He Expected a Little One Soon to Arrive. Atlanta, Dec. 13 —Hi s prison sen- 1 fence suspended, and traveling on money raised by the judge who sen tenced him, Harry Kramer, 19, of j New York, will be soeedlng towards I Gothman town tomorrow afternoon. Youn Kramer was arrianged in : 'Court here yesterday charged with ; stealing an automobile. He confessed j Pig guilt to the court and wa a sen- : tenced to serve one year. The owner of the automobile asked the court to", suspend sentence. ' The youngster said he is an actor, , The troup with which he was travel- \ ens '‘went broke’’ in Atlanta & few j THE BRUNSWICK NEWS THE NEWS IS A MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AMERICA CAN’T AVOID CRUISER NAVAL PROGRAM House Appropriations Served Such Notice Naval Appropriation Bill (By Associated Pre SR .) Washington, Dec. 13.—Blunt no-j tree that the United States cannot! avoid the new naval program in j swift erasers and the fleet of sub- I marines unless the treaty elimations I are extended to such craft, was serv. ' ed by th e house appropriations com- I mittee in reporting two hundred and ninety-three dollar naval aPProPria tions bill. The air line provision "as placed in the bill by the committee request ing the president to negotiate with Great Britan, France, Japan and It aly for such extension of the treaty of aircrafts to lie includ ed. TURKEY REFUSES TO ASSIGN HOME FOR ARMENIANS (By Associated press) Lausanne, Dec. 13.—Turkey re fused at today s session of the Near East conference to assign any spe cial part of Turkey as a national home for Armenians. declared mei^ in • i i Other points roneerniiig intent of minorities in , sides declaring Turkey would not set i aside :J n inch of Turkish soil f o r Ar menian national home, lie would not .accept regulations of rights of mjn j orities by an international commis i sion in Constantinople or elsewhere. mmi BILITY 0 F r —''fpjacH ing brings <% f JWes Dl n OF OR CHRIST (By Associated Press.) Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 13. —Re sponsibility and opportunity of the Protestant churches in America to work together for fuller application to the principles expounded by Christ, was declared to be the principal theme of all the deliberating executive committee members in the federal counsil of the Churches of Christ in America at the opening meeting of the annual session today. Two hundred leaders in religions work representing thirty-two denonii nations composed the council. RED CROSS MEETING Washington, Doc. 13.—The na tional officers of the American Red Cross, comprising the general board of the society, lia 3 assembled here for the annual meeting to discuss the larger programs of relief work of the organization. HEARINGS ON BUTLER NOMINATION RESULTS UNANIMOUS APPROVAL 'By Associated Press.) Washington, Dec. 13.—Hearings on the nomination of Pierce Butler, St. Paul attorney, to be associated jus tice of the gitpreme court, was con cluded late today by the senate ju diciary committee, which then voted unanimously to recommend confirm ation . week# ago. Not only did jKramer find himself out of work hut out of money. In this plight he received a message from home which told of the approaching arrival of another baby, hi R second. The primal instinct of fatherhood overcame Kramer’s fear for man made laws. Se stole an automobile h e says, and started or home. He was arrested in Virginia and brought back here for trial. Frankly confessing to the crime he told the whole story to Judge R. N. Hardeman. The sentence was passed and a respite ashed for. The Judge was quick tio yield and headed a sub scription list to raise the money to send Ktatier home where h eig need ed . & Indications are today he will Atlanta tomotSow with more than transportation money. BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, DEC. 14, 1922. VOLSTEAD THINKS THERE s IS NO GROUNDS FOR THE < DAUGHERTY CASE. * —- 4 (By Associated Press.) . Washington, Dec. 13.—Inter- - ■ rupting an extended /cross-ex- < animation of witnesses called be- * fore the house judiciary com- • mittee hearing the impeachment < ■ charges against Attorney Gen- - eral Daugherty, Chairman Vol- - stead declared tonight he did not • believe it possible, judging < from the character of testimony • ■ already presented, to make any- ■ tiling out of the case against • the attorney general. TIGER 19 SATISFIED NS FOR HOME! Georges Clemenceau, After a Strenuous Stf\y in America is Now on High Sea Bound For Beloved France. New. York, Dec. 13.—Satisfied that lie has accomplished his mission in America, Georges Clemenceau sailed for home today on the .Paris. He was up early, ready to find a place oil deck and waved fjUewellTo the coun try he wjSfev £\ xi *in with France in 't'urone's after-th^var Iproblenf JT A. v s I•••i.lie - m ini ]■ i. By'yK*- fjafsr fR [all In \merican silf-HBan a fWr ui rani'.‘.l b;te 1 * fPfflrh*ee fl j devastated FranMn l his rW ' marks by the statement "why should 1 'speak.? 1 am tired. I am old, and I want very much to go to bed.’’ lie spoilt only fifteen minutes, re ipeating his plea for American co operation. j Glcnicnceau found a surprise inboard Ihe Uaris, 'there he spent the | night—l terrapins, the rift of Ber’Baruch. He ex i resseil a fondness for turtles some time ago and Mr. Baruch sent to his i South Carolina estate for them. I Clemenceau spent yesterday fore in oon on his train writing letters of |thanks to persons who made his trip j possible. j Among those to whom he wrote jwere Charles M. Schwab, who loaned | the Tiger the priv#e car Bethlehem, [and \V. W. Atterbury, of the Penn sylvania railroad, who arranged the [transportation of his 5,000-mile I jaunt. GOVERNORS TO CONFER FOR FOURTEENTH TIME (By Associated Press.) White Sulphur Springs, W. V.a., Dec. l:;.—Evofcthlng is in readiness for the fourteenth annual conference nf governors, the sessions of which will begin here tomorrow and eon : tinue through the remainder of week The deliberations will be Partici pated in by an usually large number of ,*tate executives, together with many of those elected to gov rnorship jn November, hut who have not yet been inducted into office. The conference thi s year promises to ho the most important as Well as the largest of its kind that has been held. Many problems of government, taxation, industry and questions af fecting the public safety and welfare will be dealt with in the papers, addresses and discussions which will he. included in the three-day program. HARDING PRAISES RED CROSS (By Associated Press.) Washington, Dec. 13.—President Harding formalyi opened the annual meeting of the directors of the Red Cross here today with a short address ) raising the organization’s work dur ing the past year. COCA COLA CO. TO QIVF FREE TICKF.TS TO GRAND THFATRR Manager M. A. Copeland of the Brunswick Coca-Cola Bottling Cos., announces in an advertisement in The News this morning that he is going to keep his portion of the contract recently made by his company to pro vide free tickets to movie perform ances. j Mr. Copeland s aye he made his i contract in good faith, issued many \ free tickets and that as these have j been dishonored by te Bijou theatre j he ha s made arrangements to have | them honored by the Grand Opera! House. j If Parties holding tickets to the, Bijou, presented to them by the Co-; co-Cola Bottling company, will bring them to the offline of the company, 1212 Newcastle street, Mr. Copeland j will excange them for tickets to the Grand, WOMAN, CHARGED WITH PLOTTING DEATH * 4 %H —* hi&. iPi J"*'' jBBB.-.- iJ R\lr. At ay Bleu d Detective Lieutenant Kunath of Detroit, who ' she to have hired to kill her husband WITNESSES IN „ George JH SamuekGi,. ’ r .minus - Washitfg’Son, Ih-cPBK U icl;er lan. former al, afvl Gonmei ; . the FcdfllSpon of IjMwl were the principal witnesses s*® moned to appear before the house Yfft dieiary committee today in continiP ing hearings on the impeachm m proceedings brought against Attoiw riey Genera] Daugherty by UepreseJ tativc Keller. Republican. MinnesoM This summonds Was requested fifl r Jackson IT. Ralston, counsel for ItH KeUcr, to be, heard on the first spfl ifieption taken up at the opening V the hearings vesUpdny of the fotw teen submitted iiflhugitfjiqncHotu r<§>- resentative's the at torney general. Summons, of several other witnesses, including Chairman McChord of the Interstate Commerce Commission, also had been requested by Mr. Ralston for today, to be heard on the second specification of the three which tie committee agreed yesterday to take up first. The second alleges failure by Mr, Daugherty to enforce the railroad safety appliance laws. The specification which was still before the ! committee rotates to the appointment Mr. Daugherty of William J. Bums as chief of the bu reau of investigation of the depart ment of justice. DETECTIVE BURNS DENIES CHARGES I (By Associated Prss.) Washington, Dec. 13. —W. J. Burns replied late today before the lions judiciary committee to charges brought against him in connection with impeachment Proceedings against Attorney General Daugher ty. Burns denied undue activities in connection with drawing a jury in the trial of William Jones, convicted in the Oregon land fraudes cases and the charge that Jones had paid for his pardon, granted by President Taft in 1912. PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT AND KU KLUX KLAN BEFORE MEETING OF GOVERNORS (By Associated Press.) White Sulphur Springs, Va., Dee. 13.—Prohibition enforcement and Ku Klux Klanism loomed up tonight as important subjects for discussion at the fourteenth annual conference of governors, which started here. It is indicated that chief executives of at least half the states of the union will be at the conference. CHILDS ASKED , MPASHATO Would Call of Rest fan the Work, "•cMfv Associated Press.) 13. —Ambassador jpfSWFcoiirerred with Isniot Pasha •' and urged him on PBwHPlFouiids to make liberal coin for the protection of Ar- Brqiiian.s, Greeks and other minori- PK, remaining in Turkey. ■Mr. Childs emphasized the good %ng Turkey could inspire in the world by such attention. Is : will make n statement before commission tomorrow on thp . WATH FOLLOWfK EXPLOSION IN . CUBAN REFINERY w (By Associated Press.) t’amaguey, Cuba.,, Dec;. 13.—The search continued today in the ruins of La Estrella Sugar Centra, which was wrecked yesterday by a boiler explosion. It Is certain that there are yet six bodje s hidden in the wreckage of the plant from which eleven dead have already been taken. In addition to those recovered, two of the injured have died s ince thoir removal which brings the fAlties up to a total of nineteen, persons Injured. Twenty-six the injured have been broughjt Cenppeda the little town ifßpich the Central was located, nnd^ffnclßally all of this number of the injured are ex pected to die. The most of the victims are Span iards. Two of the boilers of the big bat tery at the Central are believed to have exploded practically at the same time, wrecking the plant qnd taking the death tot) and injured to many others. BEGIN EXAMINING MANY WITNESSES IN HERRIN CASE. • (By Associated Press.) Marion, 111., Dec. 13—Comple tion by both the prosecution and defense of their Statements to the jury and the introduction of testimony of the first three wit nesses for the state, marked the opening day of the trial of five men charged with murder in connection with the Herrin riot last June. The jury is composed of elev en farmers arid one miner. IM EY, ONE H NTEK IS SIIO% itY ANOTHER (INK By. Associated Press Dubliy ila., Dec.- 13.—Lee Da vis, in /r, saw the bushes move, iSKid a turkey call and shot Jqfdan Ellington, another hunter, r.vho had imitated a tur key. GOVERNOR-ELECT WALKER RETURNS Spent Several hours in City Last Night JEiyoute from Cumberland island to His Home in Monroe. Oovqmor-elect Clifford Walker reach the city from Cumberland last night and was warmly greeted by his many friends here. He is returning from a hunting trip on Cumberland Island where he had a delightful stay. He is accompanied by Ids little son Harold, and in the party on the isl and were: Senator E. P. Hobbs and OaPt. E-red Morris, Marietta; James Dobbs, Athens; Judge Sam C. Atkin son, Atlanta; Dr. Carl Betts, Rome; Robert Hightower, Thompson; J. D. Paulk, Anguilla; and the following from Brunswick: W. H. Wood, B. A. White, L. A. Miller, L. R. Akin, Ted ICkin, J. H. Thomas, of Jesup; Dr. Spence. s Atkinson, of Atlanta; and Georg e -Watts, Rome, Oa. The governor-elect i s looking fine and he says hp feels the same way. He is delighted with activity in Brunswick right about now and ex pressed himself a being leased at the good showing made Bruns wick and Glynn county bonds at the sale here yesterday. ; MAN ON TRIAL WHO „ CAUSED GUARDSMEN BE SENT TO WAYCROSS (By Associated Press.> ' " waycross, Dec. 13 n. 11. Kinlaw was placed on trial today . on charges <(f assault with at tempt to murder in connection with an attack on J. T.. Ross, chief car inspector of the Atlan tic Coast Line on July 17, which resulted in sending the National Guard here, and wh 0 remained a month at this place on strike duty. Two panels of jurymen were called before a sufficient number could be found to tty the case, being qualified to render a verdict . Two jurors w r ere excused on account of relationship to the accused, after the final jury had been completed, both the stale and the defense-agreeing to go the trial by ten jurors. D, M. Parker, assisting Solicitor General Allen B. Spence in the oase; addressed the jury and stated that th R state would attempt to show that the essential faot s in the indictment re- by the grand jury at its pres ent term against Kinlaw were true. Jerome Crawley, attorney for Kinlaw, made his tnltinal address to the jury, declaring that he would attempt to prove that Kinlaw was not at the; railroad restaurant at the time the crime was alleged to have been com mitted. t POINCARE SAYS FRANCE USE FREE HAND IN COLLECTING GERMAN DEBT Premier Does Not Make Clear Just What Procedure His Government Will Take To ward German Collection. (By Associated Pr3S.) Paris, Dec. J 3.—Prmeier Poincare, at. the resumption of parliamentary debate on the French foreign policy, will announce that the government retains the right to -.is'* a free hand jin seizing security for the German I debt. However, he will not specify what this security will he. The : *-tr.vr made Mrs clear t * in terviewers last nif.ac, K-T-'ing that lip wend s; eak either spontaneously or iri reply to Interpellations on “the fresh appointment of the occupation of the Ruhr,’’ of which Leon Daudet and others have given notice. “1 never said I thought, of oecu PYing the Ruhr, or taking; such se curity, 1 ' the premier told his ques tioners. “I do not know exactly which we should choose. If we did we should be very careful not to cry >it from the houstops. j “This, however, is certain: what ever action we decide on will not in BR U NS WICK Has a landlocked harbor, the best on the South Atlantic Coast. PRICE FIVE CENTS ANOTHER THEORY I SHOOTING OF MRS.miIWSOII But Officials * ive Failed to Discover . * Motive For £ REMAINS ARE\\\t TO ATLANTA, i\ l IFR HOME j Evident That Wo Was Kill -1 ed by Shot Froi ?r Own Pistol at Home er Em ployer in Richmo * Richmond, Va., Dec. 13.—-With no definite motive established for the killing of Mrs. Thelma Richardson, stenographer, formerly of Atlanta’ who wa s s hot to death late M o nd a y at. the home of Thomas Pollard, real estate and insusance man, local po lice early today were working on the theories which may solve what they now- consider a mystery. At the same time they admitted .they had failed to establish a motive, the authorities also s ahl they had not ascertained the exact manner in which the young woman was shot-. The body of Mrs. Richardson, ac companied by be r brother, William Pierce Han, will be shipped from here today to her Atlanta home. Mrs. Richardson, w a s formerly Miss Thel ma Haw, who resides in the Georgia city. The theories under consideration b.v the police are that Pollard shot the girl following a quarrel, prob ably believing (,b a t she was about to kill hint, or that the stenographer was shot accidentally during a strug gle for possession of the pjistol, whlcli the police say wa s her property. SHIPPING BILL PICTURED CURSE; AND BLESSING SENATOR RAYS A GOD- , SEND; OTHER DDRS IT JUST REVERSE (By Associated t Washington, Dec. i strati on’s shipping to the senate today as a mHo for the benefit of the AmericaiWKriuei ami the business men of the nation, and on the other hand as a direct aid on the treasury to pay some people to do what they should without pay ment. Senator Jones, of Washington, praised the measure while Senator Fletcher, of Florida, attacked it. . NO TRACE YET FOUND OF MISSINfi YOUTH (By Associated Press.) Junction City, KJan., Dec. X 3. Although aearcher s continued their efforts throughout lase night by the light of lanterns, no trace had been found early today of Marvin, 5 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Koepke, here. Th e boy w a s lost fete Sunday and as the search opened to day, friends and neighbors who per sist in the hunt were further from a tangible elu 0 than When they started. volve the calling up of a single man. What is no less certain the time for i threats without action is past. We | have fully resolved to act, even alone | and even if before January 15, if the i reparations cotnmission pronounces !in favor of a fresh moratorium for i Germany. | “In any case we cannot take any step before January 15. It is Wrong !to speak of postponement. We post ! Poned nothing, and the fact that we are adjourning continuation of our 'discussions to the beginning of next ! month involves no loss of time.” The atmosphere of the parliamen tary lobbies now appears less fever ish and the situation is viewed with greater complacency by the press, which like the Petit Parisien. more or less supports the government pointing out that the premier did not come back from London empty hand- ed. Attention is also called to the fact that France obtained from her allies concessions which, while not complete, are none the less mo3t im portant, notably Britain’s new atti tude toward the inter-al'icd debts, which would hardly have been hoped for after her refusal even to consider the question six mnoths ago.