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BRUNSWICK Ha the lowest death rate of any city its sire in the United States. ....... VOLUME XXI. NO. 311. IRELAND PUTS MEN TO DEATH AT BREAK OF DAY YESTERDAY SEVEN CHARGED WITH WRECKING TRAINS EXECUTEO Four Railroad Men and Three Laborers and (liven Quick Trial. MFN ARE SAIDTo HAVE BEEN REPUBLICANS With Yesterday’s Executions j Makes Total of Nineteen by Free State in Little More Than a Month. (By Associated Press.) Dublin. Dee 19—Four railway men and three laborers were ex ecuted here this morning for in t erf ring with trains in County Kildare. The seven men executed were j captured November 13 by Free j State troops in a house, the lo- ] cation of which is unknown, j With them a quantity of stolen goods, rifles, arid ammunition! was found. The men were tried by a mil itary committee and sentenced to death on the charge of train wrecking. The sentence wasj carried out at 8:30 o’clock this morning. The men executed are reported to have been mem-, bers of the Rpubiicau army. Today’s executions make a to-; tal of jiineteeu by the Free, State in a little more than a month. FARMER-LABOR DELEGATES WANT PARTY LINE DEFINED Chicago, Dec. 19.—Delegates of the farmer labor party who attended the reconi conference for frrogressive po litical action at Cleveland, soon will ask the national committee of their party to define the future relations of the party to conference and will recoin mend a national convention of the 7>art>’ to be held early in 1923 to plan .1924 prudential campaign, j. Cl. Itrown, national secretary, announced today. The conference at Cleveland de cided against an independent poltti < al action being taken. BIG BLACK BEAR AND AUTO CAME TO BLOWS Rodheafer, N. Y., Dec. 19.—A big black bear and an automobile came to blows near here’last night. The driver of the car reported that the bear insisted upon climbing into the car When it was stopped on a curve. The drjve r threw the car into gear and bumped the bear several times on the chin DAUGHERTY HEARING IS BEING CONTINUED KELLER’S REFUSAL TO ATTEND IS YET AN UNDECIDED PROBLEM (By Associated Press.) Washington, Dec 19. —Hearings on Impeachment charges against At torney General Daugherty were re sumed today by the house Judiciary committee at the point where they were broken off last Thursday by the dramatic withdrawal from the pro ceedings of Representative Keller, Republican, Minnesota, author of the charges. Prom this point the committee pro- posed to conduct the hearing on Its own initiative, calling before it such witnesses as it could obtain without the aid of Mr: Keller. who refused to obey a subpaena issued, it was de clared, with a view to obtaining from him the information on which be based his charges and the names of person* who could testify concerning them. As the hearings g 6 forward, it is the Plan to have a subcommittee make an Investigation as to what ac tion, if any, should be taken in con nection with Mr. TCeller's refusal to obey the subpoena- Chairman Vol stead expected to aPPoiPt the üb •cmmittM today or ’omorrpw ‘ THE BRUNSWICK NEWS REWARDS TOTAL $3,000 FOR CAPTURE OF CLARA PHILLIPS. MURDERESS By Associated Press Los Angeles, Dec. 19.—Re Wards offered for the recapture of Mrs. Clara Phillips, hammer murderess, who escaped from the Los Angeles county jail, to tal S3OOO. Of this sum $250 is offered by Sheriff William I. Traeger, $750 by the Los Angeles county board of supervisors and $2,00u by the Los Angeles Examiner. DEFENSE TRYING TO PROVE ALIBI IN HERRIN RIOT YESTERDAY IN PART IS DEVOT ED TO CROSS-EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES (By Associated Press.') i Marlon, 111., Dec. 19. -Severely I cross-examining state’s witnesses, i the defense for five miners charged j with the murder during the Herrin j riots today continued to lay founds {tions for its case. • . Special attention was directed to j the exact time of the killing by A. \W. Kerry, chief counsel for the de ; fense. All of the witnesses for the 1 state were questioned at length on | this point and their estimates of the | killings in the cemetery varied from 9 to 10 o’clock in the morning of June 22. I The witnesses also were loselj ! questioned on their identifications of !l)he accused men by the defense at -1 j:orm>y§) „whn were cmtfgig out .their announced intention of proving an ' iron-clad alibi for each of the five de ! fondants. PROHIBITION CASE WITH BIG SUM AT STAKE IS DISMISSED BY JUDGE Philadelphia, Dec. 19.—Declaring United States prohibition officers vio lated the fourth amendment to the constitution. Judge Thomas, in the ; United States district court here t.o !day dismissed two liquor cases in volving several hundred thousand dollars. COLD MODERATES NORTH AND WEST; SOUTH IS CHILLED (By Associated Press.l Chicago, Dec. 19 --Slowly rising temperatures today marked the pass ing of winter’s first determined of fensive in the lower lake relgon, which sent the murcury down to its lowest level 0 f the season. Slowly climbing thermometers were forecast for the northwest plains state* and the Rocky Mountain reigon and cold wave warnings were Issued (or Pennsylvania, New York and the New England states Although rising tcmperature s were predicted for the country west pf the Appalachain moutains and as far south us Florida, the mercury was still below hormal for tbjs time of the year. Chicago today w a , recovering from ft coldest weather of the year yes terday when the thermometer was reported variously 1n the vicinity from 3 to 11 below. Five deaths were at tributed to th e cold wave. Snow, sleet or rain was announced today for the middle ana south At tenict states, the Carolinas and the east Gulf states with mostly fair weather Wednesday for the low P r lake region, Ohio Valley, Tennessee }l no the east Gulf states. Cooler weather was in prospect,, for the Florida Peninsular, while no material change was anticipated for the Atlantic states north of | Florida for the next two days. HEARINGS ON THE RURAL CREDITS NEARING END (By Associated Press.) Washington. Dec. 19.—-The hearing on the rural credits legislation before the senate banking committee is near ing conclusion. The member* are predicting that a comprehensive bill t*7ijbodying the best" features of tbe*everai farm re lief measures now pending would b* ready for submission to the senate arly n*t week. THE NEWS IS A MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BRUNSWICK. GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY. DEC. 20, 1922. UNUSUAL ITEMS IN RUN OF NEWS JUST FOR A DAY! Soldier and Woman End Lives.- Four Given Up Return. ‘By Associated Press.) San Antonio, Tex., Dec. 19.—Cor-j Pornl James Huntington, of Camp Travis, and Mrs. Ruby Krenk, of Youngstown, O. were found here this morning- when the Police broke open the door after hearing two shots fired. A bullet had E ntered (he brain of each of the dead people. The police believe that the man shot the woman and then shot himself. The woman's husband was asleey in a room near by where the tragedy was enacted. THOUGHT LOST—RETURN New Orleans, Dec. 19—Forty hours without food or water and exposed to a cold rain while battling with a storm on Lake Ponchartrain, four tnen and a hoy made shore in a small launch early this morning. FOUND DEAD UNDER AUTO. Galveston. Tex., Dec. 19.—A man, aged about forty years, and u woman, apparently about twenty-five, were found dead under an overturned auto mobile in a ditch on the Galveston- Houston road this morning. The mishap occurred about one mile from Virginia Point. The bodies were brought here where efforts are being made to identify them. * MISSING AIRMAN FOUND | Salt Lake City, Dec. it).—Air Mail Pilot Henry G. Boonistra, missirKf since last Friday when he became lost in a blizzard en route to Rock Springs, Wyoming, hi(s been found alive and well at the Rigby ranch, four of this city, < Jsx'KpPfplune y discov ered ’Vgjfecovding lo advices j- I 'dyul officials here. M# JLaJRANQES i V Jm iptir MOVING thousand cars Passing through here every week loaded with oranges and grapefruit trom according to Supi o. T. Warning, of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad. Mr. Waring slat ed that today might be said to mark the peak of the citrus traffic. Over 175 cars of fruit pass through here every day on the average^ Waycross i* the diversion for a great proportion lda orange crop, irain-loads oNKng ay being sent from here via. Albany, Montgomery a nd Savannah to the larg er cities of the United States. A large force of men aAh employed at the lo cal railroad shops to supervise the diversion Wallace reid reported TO RE SOME BETTER NOW (By Associated Pre 9 g.) Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 19.—Re >orts available early today at the san tarium where Wallace Reid, the mo ion picture actor is suffering from a break down which his relatives as ■ribe to complications which came - fier he broke away from the use of whisky and narcotics, indicated an mprovement in his condition. The Methodist Preachers Associa ion of Southern California have .ianned to ask the city council to ap >oint a commission to make a thor ough investigation of the use of drugs n Los Angeles. AMENDMENT WOULD STOP ISSUANCE OF NON-TAXABLE BOND — i . BACKED BY PRESIDENT HARD ING PROPOSED MEASURE IS j CENTER HARD FIGHT CBy Associated Press.) Washington, Dec 19.- After a sharp preliminary skirmish, the house | took up the resolution proposing -rnendment to the constitutional un der which issuance of tax exemption gecuritie* by the federal government and states would be prohibited. ; Backed by ; thp endorsement of PresLi dent Harding and the treasury depart ment, the proposal is the center of a hard fight, many republicans opposing it. Passage will require two-thirds vote and Its opponents claimed claim-! ed tonight that they had it defeated, alljough th e proponents Insisted that it would go through. The few hours of debate allowed under special rule,, was not) concluded *whert adjourn* tonight. .v’a mm U. S. GRAND JURY FINDS TRUE BILLS AGAINST TWO FORMER BANKERS (Bv’ Associated Press.) Albany,"Ga., De<'. 19. S. (' Wat son, former president of the First National Bank, of Colquitt. Ga., and David Bragg, Nation. <Banld officii of Fitzgerald, were indicted hy the federal grand jury today on charges of embezzlement DENVER BANDITS WHO ROBBED MINT NOT SEEN CAPTURED POi.ICE DEPARTMENT THERE 1 VAMINES MANY RUT NO CLUES TS YET (By Associated Presß.) Denver, Dec. 19.s—Eighteen hours of searching by federal county and city officers and questioning of six teen persons at police headquarters had failed up early this morning to reveal an.v trace of the identity of the bandits who yesterday fed eral reserve bank truck of. s®o,ol>o after a. gun buttle in front of the United Slates mint here,: in whieh Charles T. Linton, one of the guards on the truck, waR fatally Wonded. Many persons telephoned police headquarters that they hhd seen (he automobile in which the bandits tied from the scene of the battle, and that it "as traveling at gyet speed. In every case, investigation showed that the was one of the many contain) officers who scoured the the rob bery. The truck, accompanied by J. E. Olson, cashier of the local federal.re serve bhhk, who was in charge pf the Party, Guards Linton and J. Adams, and Chauffeur William Havener, hud eall“d at the mint to rftrisfer the $20e,000, ull in $5 bills, Com the mint vaults to the bank. The 'film guard* taken the money to-the curb- it over to tlie bunk em ployes, TUien \P CMM ai\ m'''< ' lukat IftMut, *hen I is dro./|j£ijr y&SjuP*dth<.‘ii eo#' Sehljpl*the LicTiit oie'i 1 Opened lire on f?: ' -1 / of > ~ | P'' £ two andu Fife , rtftgaiaing rotiscious •A . f mint, all of whom arrtheir Posts of duty, vi-apons and rushed w wipiiows, but were In* returning , the bandifsV he bank employes were and the robbers. While the. gun fight raged, mne of the rob,- bers put the money in their cor and as soon as the work wag, completed, they drove off. During the flight, one bandit stood on the running board to fire a final volley at the mint guard if A bullet from one of the g|Jrds’ gu rf apnliently hit him, for he cmrnplA up aud ttas dragged inside the cutm LAST DAY TO SETTLE STATE-COUNTY TAX THOHE WHO PAY TODAY WILL SAVE GfcOD BUM IN EXPENSES Thi 8 la the last day for the payment of state and county taxes for last yuar and those who can possibly do so should visit Collector Harwell, who will bo at his office In the court house practically the entire day. Payments have been steady the, past severui days and continued tbig way yesterday notwithstanding the horri ble weather. CaPt. Harwell hopes thai when toda’s business e“d ß he will have a showing mneb better than Was the case last year. CHURCHES UNITE TO MAKE • THIS A WARLESS WORLD (By Associated Prsns.) Washington, Dec. 19.—The federal council of the Churches of Christ of America has issued a request to one hundred thousand congregations in the United States to observe Decem ber 24 as a “World Peace Sunday." This is being done to demand the governments of the world that they find ways and mean# to settle dh putes other than by war. The mes sage also asks the churches to act in concert throughout the year toward the attainment of a wariess world through international co-operation. AMERICAN OR JAP PLANS SCRAPPING INCOMPLETE (By Associated Press) f Washington, Dec. 19.'—Secretary Denby informed congress today that neither the United States nor Japa nese plana were complete for scrap ping existing ckpltal ships pending promulgation of the Washington con ference* u*v*l treaty. > •* REFUGEE FROM TURKEY TELLS OF TREATMENT All Relatives Killed, She Es caped to the U. S, But Door is Closed - Washington, Deo. 19—Eliza Spaff inian, refugee from 'turkey whose flight was stopped by the immigrflh tkm authorities at Ellis Island, testi fied before the house committee Con sidering the bill to admit certain classes of Near East refugees into the United States. Between sobs the woman related how she was carried into captivity by the Turks, her near relatives all be ing killed, and she escaped to Ameri ca to find the door dosed against her. She is under bond to return to Ellis Island. IRISH PARLIAMENT PASSES ADAPTATION OF ENACTMENTS BILL (By Associated Press.) Dublin, Dec. 19—The first act pass ed by an lish Parliament for more than a century went formally through the Free State senaUat a brief sit ting today. It was a nighty technical measure entitled “Adaptation of en actments bill." It passed the Dali last .week and was accepted by thd senate without opposition. Th%solemnity of the occasion was emphasized by Sir Thomas Esmonde, who, speaking with much emotion, said: “I think it is fitting that at tlus moment the senators should pniwo and the significance of what we have just done. We have passed the first act by an Irish parliament for one hundred and , twqnty-three VnoA “I think we may all thank Provi dence that we have been allowed to take part in this work. We have marked a milaatone in our nation’s history, Wf^ rave done what many r.'P‘ "tion^rp,f j Irishmen lost their I .. mdcaJorifig to’lbf able to do, MbW all thank God w,. have lived to see this day." Eoch park is named by CROW INDIAN COUNCIL (By Associated Presa.l Killings, Montana. Dec. 19. —The spot at the Ooy Agency where Mar shal Fotch was initiated Into the Crow Indian tribe on November 2s, 1921, has been named Focb Park by the Ciow Indians In general counsel as leembled. At thosame session a letter was written to General Foeh asking him to send a ome fitted be placed In the, park In The letter Wan written by Pleuty Coos, Die bead chtaf of the tribe. In the letter th a Indians asked preferably, that a small captured cannon be sent for this purpose. NUMBER ARRESTS ARE FEWER HERE THAN PAST MANY YEARS Police department records show that up to the present this has been the most quiet December In the past, fif teqp years in this Particular depart ment and not near the total number of arrests have been made afl is gen erally tho ease, when , some take Christmas joy Jho wrong way and finally end in im-ow. Not only haslhlfcabeen the condi tion of affairs dSanjjl this month but It has existed for several and these cases made at municipal court are al! violations of the less serious nature. MONROE MILITIA SENT TO GUARD AT TRIAL KIDNAPERS FIVE PROMINENT MEN TAKEN BY HOODED BAND—TWO DID NOT RETURN (By Associated Press.) Monroe, La , Dec. 19. —The Monroe company of the Louisiana Guards has b e en sent to Merrouge, Morehouse parish, under directions of the ad jutant general. It is understood that the troops were called in connection with she situation brought about by the kid oaPPing last August by a band of hooded mend of five Merroug e citlzen 8 two of whom disappeared, one report said. ' The trpops will guard the Bastrop court bouse during the open hearing into kidnapping’). LAUSANNE MEETING NOW IN' JEOPARDY; BREAK IS LIKELY - nayOVfvui e wants \ uM NAVAL STRENGTH f IW\IP \RE WIT H (I I iIERs • (By Associated Press.) Washingimi, Dee. 19.—The • Navjk League of (he United • Suit* issued a statement to night™ inviting earliest consid ■ eration by the public of the rel ative strength of the Anireiean, British and Japanese navies. The statement suggested prop ■ erly providing adequate person ■ nel to fully man American ves • Pels. TARIFF AND TAXES GET MOST MONEY OF ALUARMERS INCREASE PRICE OF FARM PRQ urOTS LEAVES VERY SMALL MARGIN EOR HIM. (By Associated Press.) Washington, D. C., Dec. ID.—Ad vances in the prices of agricultural products will be greatly exceeded by the increases in the cost of living, among agricultural producers underl the operation of the Fordney-McCum-i her tariff act, which puts a higher; tax on all the commodities 11# farm-1 er consumes without giving him a corresponding return for what he sells. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, in his annual report for 1922, testi fies to the disproportion betweou*the prices the farmer has been compelled to the prices lie receives for his grain, live Btook, fruits and other pro ducts. This report shows that the farmers of the country have been in the greatest distress, witli the cost of living and the murden of taxation growing while fheir incomes have been diminishing. “While the prices of many impor tnnt farm products have advanced considerably over last year, this ad vance has been accompanied by equal ly larger advances in the prices of other commodities,’’ says Secretary Wallace. “For example, the index of wholesale prices of commodities other than farm Products wug 176 in August this year (1922) as against 150 in August, 1921.” SNOW REVEALS HIDING PLACES OF SHINE STILLS Tacoma, Washington, Dec. 19. — The heavy s now that has covered Grays Haror county ’ recently result ed in the arrest of a numer of al- Jpged moonshiners and the capture of a dozen stills with the confiscation ; of hundreds of galloua f liquor and mash according to an announcement 1 at prohibition headquarters. The federal agents were in several instances able to follow track s through the snow and in wooded sec tions wher e before it was impossible to lacate s tills. ARE TO BE DEPORTED Cleveland, 0., Dec. 19—Eight aliens including one woman, left' here today in charge of immigration officers for New York where they will be doport -d. The woman was charged with having stolen the affections of her sister's husband. With her was her thirteen-year-old daughter. PROHIBITION MATTERS BETTER UNDERSTOOD (By Associated Press.) Washington, Dec. 19.—General en couragement as to the prospects of meeting present prohibition prob lems through closer cooperation of the federal and state authorities and an earnest appeal for reverence of th e law, i s felt today by the admin istration officials as the result of President Harding’s conference on this subject with the various s tate governors. In a statement after the conference Prohibition Commissioner Haynes said that in many instances the reports of the governors were of an “encour aging nature.’’ The enigma of prohibition enforce ment was discussed at length by the President and the governors at yes terday's conference, this being the beginning of the President's announc ed policy of working out a definite! division of enforcement responsibility ; between the federal anil tthe VsTfonsj state government*. vjT TV Vi*' * tt ‘y ■£ BRUNSWICK Has a landlocked harbor, the best on the South Atlantic Coast. .* .... PRICE FIVE CENTS TURKEY MUST GIVE A YES OR NO DURING IS OH Fear o( Allied Submarines and ’Planes Seems In the Way , Now. BRITISH EXPERTS GONE, FRENCH LEAVE TODAV Foremost Difficulty Seems to be Allaying Fear of Turks For Safety of Their Belowed Con stantinople. Lausanne, Dec. 19.—Turkish j fears of submarines, swiftly- Iflying military aiplanes, bomb -1 laden and generally the Turkish j fears of aggression from with iout that will put Constantinople lin danger, have tonight placed I the whole Lausanne ('(inference jin jeopardy. The United States is silent bill allied leaders say tonight that they have uttered their last word on question of Überty of the straits. Tomorrow it he Turk must say “yes” or "no” to the allied project. British expets have already left lor England and French ex perts expect to depart tomorrow night at the conclusion of the last, session for the discussion of the straits. Whether or not rupture will corpe. on tiro straits problem de pends chiefly on whether the en tente diplomats and experts can ! remove Turkish fears. — _—. BRUCE M’LEOD 01* TRIAL THIRD TIME IN Mcßae, Go., Dec,. 19. third time Bruch McLeod-is oiui’rial hero ou charge of murder in cJhhec tion with th e killing of Marion Hen derson on the streets of Mcßae De cember 23, 1917. At the October term of oourt, 1920, McLeod was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and given live to eight years. He got anew trial, on techni cality and at the (February term, 1922, a mlstital declared be cause of the illness of a Jkiror. FOUND DRUGS PACKED IN BARREL OF FISH ON PIER (By Associated Press!) New York, Dec. 19.—Drug a valued ! at one hundred thousand dollars which had been secreted in barrels of tlsh were seized by fedora! customs officials on board the French steam er Fenchurcli at her pier in Brook lyn. The vessel arrived on December 8 from Spain. The discovery of the drugs was made, the customs officer said, when an automobile (ruck acci dentally knocked over one of the barrels. t MILITARY LEADER CHINA’S PREMIER (GENERAL TSENG’S APPpiNT MENT MEANS MILITARY GOVERNMENT (By Associated Press) Peking, Dec. 19.—General Chang Shao Tseng, a well known Chinese military leader, has been appointed premier with the approval of the Chinese Parliament. His selection for this position; •which was supported by General Taab Kun, is believed to indicate the in tention of the military party in China, to resume control of the government. The Chinese newspapers publish reports to the effect that President Li Yuan Hung will soon retire and General Tsao Kun win take his place as. the head of the government. In addition to these published sto ries there is another report that is in circulation to the effect that Ts&o Kun, with ~the backing of Genital Chang Tso Lin, is preparing for hos tilities against General Wu Pei Fu early In the spring for the purpose of placing the government completely in the baa'd* of thh militarists,