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BRUNSWICK
Has the lowest death rate of
any city its size in the United
States .......
VOLUME XXII. NO. 228.
CHINESE GOVERNMENT TROOPS
AFTER SURROUNDING SUCHOW
BANDITS HAVE WITHDRAWN
Bandits, Puzzled at Cessation
Negotiations For Release
Foreign Prisoners Send Mes¬
sengers to Relief Workers
at Lincheng For Papers.
(By Associated Press.)
Tsaochwang, May 25.—Gunfire
was heard near here today and
it is believed to indicate that gov¬
ernment troops are engaging the
bandits in the hills or the bandits
are fighting among themselves
as a re.sult of disagreements at
their conference which was sche¬
duled for to,-lay.
It was learned today from reli¬
able sources that the brigands
had taken their captives from
Paotzuku to a place two miles
farther back into the hills.
Tientsin, May 24—The Chinese gov
eminent troops which had surround
ed the Suchow train bandits and their
foreign captives in the
mountain stronghold have fallen back
six miles, according to advices reeeiv
ed today from Lincheng. The
gand’s outposts are following the
troops as they retire.
Tlie bandits, apparently puzzled at
the recent cessation of negotiations
for the release of the foreign prison
era, sent messengers to the relief
workers at Line-hen* demanding that
newspapers he sent up to them.
The newspapers were sent but the
relief party carefully deleted all
ter pertaining to the kidnaping.
In reply to a message from his
ily in San Francisco, transmitted to
him through the Associated
Major Roland W. Pinger, one of the
captives sent out the following:
“I am with Allen and Solomon
jor Robert A. Allen and Lee
mon) confined on the summit of
zuku. Am perfectly healthy but hope
for an early release. Thanks for the
kind
Major Pinger added that he was
writing further details to the Associ
ated Press to be delivered by. mes
senger at Tsaochwang.
One of the bandit coolie
gers, employed in taking supplies
the Paotzuku stronghold, told the
lief workers at Tsaochwang that the
brigands got their idea for derailing
the Shanghai-Peking Express train
May 6, from a serial motion picture.
Pictures showed in detail how an
press train was was wrecked. wrecked, One une or or
jmore - of ...... the bandits the thriller,
saw
the messenger said, and imparted the
details to the outlaws, with the re¬
sultant derailment and kidnaping of
the foreigners.
Letters From Captives
Tientsin, May 24—Dispatches
ed from Tsaochwang Tuesday report
that the troops investing the moun
tains occupied by bandits had with
drawn i short i distance. i» i
a
Letters sent out by foreign cap¬
tives indicated that at the time only
three of their number (Major Roland
W. Pinger, Major Robert A. Allen
and Lee Solomon, all Americans) had
been moved to the summit of Paot¬
zuku mountain, the others remaining
at a camp on the slopes. The three,
however, were visited by other cap
tives who reported that they were al
lowed to see only a restricted area.
The summit, with its narrow area!
was described as insanitary. The kid¬
naped Chinese children, emaciated
and clad in remnants of silk, were.a
pathetic sight. Leon Friedman, sum¬
ming up his impressions, said the
place “would be a fortune to a movie
director, but as a prison, is hell.”
Both Friedman and another cap¬
tive, J. B. Powell, American newspa¬
perman, wrote that the bandit chief
was treating them kin.-llier since the
troops had moved back.
Powell used the significant phrase
that “you can almost tell when troops
are withdrawn by the- treatment of
us.”
Another infantry division arrived
at Tsaochwang, bringing; two guns of
calibre as well as machine guns.
4t was moved up toward the ban¬
dits’ retreat.
Complicated by Politics
Washington, May 24.—A delayed
message from Minister Schurman in
Peking, received today by the State
Department, expressed Mr. Schur
nian’s belief that the task of obtain¬
ing the release of American and for¬
eign captives held by Chinese ban¬
dits was “now complicated by Chinese
politics.” that certain
The minister said
“hostile factions” were using the ban¬
dit outrage to discredit the Chili par¬
ty, the Peking government and Tsao
Kun, who had been a “hopeful candi¬
date for the presidency.”
The message said it did not seem
probable that the bandits would kill
the foreign captives, but that there
BRUNSWICK
PRESBYTERIANS WILL
HAVE THREE WOMEN ON
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
(By Associated Press.)
Montreat, N. C., May 24.—Al¬
though the general assembly of the
Southern Presbyterian church, at its
closing session here today, issued in¬
structions to its executive committee
to add immediately not over three
women to membership, each of the
“forty niners” opposed recognition of
women and left a protest in the rec¬
ords tonight as they departed .for
home.
The opponents of placing women on
the committee thereby giving them
direct voice in the assembly were de¬
feated yesterday.
PREMIER BALDWIN
HOLDS HIS FIRST
CABINET MEETING
LOIil) CURZON PRESENTS LAT¬
EST NOTE FROM SOVIET
GOVERNMENT
(By Associated Press.)
London, May 24.—At Prime Min
. tpl b ill,l first cabinet meeting
f toda ' > r T Lo J ™" d Curzon s presented the lat
>
note from the Soviet government
of J? 1 be UM,a ^construction for consideration, of the ministry
. tself 'bussed ami the sub
>. ' vas so
- lect relations , between Great Brit-
1 1 " and Russia received scant atten
tl . Congratulations extend
f n - were
pd > ho ™ 6V er ’ the secretary for for
affairs . for at least having ob
plt ; n
! Mned a diplomatic communication
from „ Mos '™ whlch dldlaot conta |"
recriminating , language There is still
'^cussum as to whether the Soviet
concessions meet all the British de
™ aads > but it is generally thought
£ at the Present trade relations with
Russia and the disputed questions re
maining may be settled at the confer
cnee table.
The Russian note is received fav
by the liberal newspapers
™ blph ^ concedes Great Britain s
demands on all the main issues ,li¬
volved aad removes any ground for
eve " tal kin » of a breach between the
+ tw iat!ons .
'^ * * '
Although Robert Cecil s reported
appointment as chancellor ot the
duchy of Lancaster has not been con¬
firmed officially, the Morning’s Postls
announcement that he has accepted
the office seems to be in accordance
with the probabilities of the situa¬
tion.
Mr B(mar Law dM not appoint a
separate chancellor for the duchy but
-the office, which is frequently given
to an experienced parliamentarian,
j whose debating power is needed by
! +-Vw-» the government, o'oiTQvnm nr-i P was xx**>c; held nnlrl T temporari¬ n m1"! Cl Lift'd V
ly during the last ministry by
Salisbury.
The Telegraph states that Mr.
Baldwin is a sturdy champion of the
League of Nations.
HIGGINBOTHAM IS
FIGHTING HARD FOR
CHANGE OF VENUE
GIVEN UNTIL TODAY TO SHOW
WHY FAIR TRIAL CANNOT
BE HAD IN CROSS CITY
(By Associated Press.)
Cross City, Fla., May 24.—Men,
women and children filled the pews of
the 'Baptist church here today to wit¬
ness the state’s second attempt to
place Walter Higginbotham, lumber
camp convict whipping boss, on trial
for murder in connection with the
death of Martin Tabent, North Da¬
kota youth who died while serving a
three months’ sentence in the camp
of the Putnam Lumber company. -
Judge Campbell heard a motion by
the state seeking change of venue, it
being charged that a fair trial could
not be had in Dixie county. The de¬
fense will be allowed until tomorrow
to present affidavits designed to show
that a fair trial carl be had here.
was danger during the prolonged ne¬
gotiations and compromises that
some of the prisoners might die of ex¬
posure, starvation or disease.
American Captive Paroled
Shanghai, May 24.—J. B. Powell,
American newspaper publisher, of
Shanghai, who has been held a pris¬
oner by the Chinese bandits at Paot¬
zuku, has been paroled to take part
in new conferences for the release of
the captives, according to advices re¬
ceived here late tonight.
THE NEWS IS A MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FRIDAY MAY 1923.
IS THIS MR . BRYAN'S CONCEPTION OF EVOLUTION?
EXPLOSION AND
FIRE WRECKS BIG
GASOLINE TANK
One Life Lost And Entire Com*
munity Threatened At
Birmingham
WRECKED TANK CONTAINED
80,000 GALLONS GASOLINE
Two Million Gallons of Gasoline
and Crude Oil Were Stored
Within One Hundred Feet of
Tank Which Exploded.
(By Associated Press.)
Birmingham, Ala., May 24.—One
life was lost and for a time the en¬
tire community was threatened when
an explosion and fire wrecked an 80,
000-gallon tank of gasoline in the
center of the plant of the Wofford
Oil Company here at 2:30 this morr.
rg.
Twt million gallons of gasoline
and crude < il were stored witiui one
hundred and fifty feet of the tank
that exploded and for a tire • firemen
field no iiopi that the blaze would he
confined to the one tank.
At 4:15 o’clock firemen said the
heat had been sufficiently assuaged
to warrant the statement that the
other tanks were safe, plant officials
announced. “1 would hate to think
what would have happened t'o Nor¬
wood if these other 71 tanks had
gone,” said an official of the fire de¬
partment. located within
The tanks are a
few feet of each other and are con¬
nected by various pipe lines. Most of
the 71 tanks contained gasoline, plant
officials said.
Frank Williams, a negro, was said
to have been working on a pipe line
leading to the tank that blew up and
was within a few feet of the tank.
His body had not been recovered.
Water sprayed from scores of nozzles
kept the temperature about the tanks
sufficiently low to avoid other explo¬
sions. Firemen worked heedlessly of
the possible danger. loss
First estimates of the were
placed at $40,000.
Nothing prevented a “disaster,”
firemen said, except the successful ef¬
forts to save the tank nearest the
one that exploded. “If that one oth¬
er tank had gone, ‘goodbye Norwood”
said a fire official.
Origin of the fire had not been de¬
termined, firemen said. They were
investigating two reports, one that
an electric spark might have caused
the fire and the other that the work¬
man might have been using a chisel
to calk a pipe.
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♦ ♦
♦ TO WITHDRAW STEAMERS
♦ ON ACCOUNT SUPREME
♦ COURT’S LIQUOR RULING
4 ♦
4 (By Associated Press.) 4
4 New York, May 24.—The ♦
4 Spanish Royal Mail Steamship
♦ company, operating a line be
♦ tween Barcelona and New York,
♦ has ordered discontinuance of all
♦ sailings to America, according to 4
♦ Louis Llanso, local agent of the
♦ company here, in a statement
> made tonight.
4 The discontinuance order came
♦ as a result of the supreme 4
♦ court’s ruling barring foreign
♦ vessels from bringing liquor into
■f American waters.
4
t I t t ♦ + ♦ ♦ ♦ t
POINCARE QUITS
POST AS PREMIER
ACCOUNT
SENDS RESIGNATION TO PRESI¬
DENT MILLERAND WHO RE¬
FUSED TO ACCEPT IT
(By Associated Press)
Paris, May 24.—Premier Poincare
resigned this evening. President Mil
lerand refused to accept the resig¬
nation, however.
Premier Poincare withdrew when
the senate, sitting as a high court for
the trial of Marcel Cachine and oth
er Communists, charged with acts of
endangering the safety of the
lie, voted by a majority of thirty
,4 it was ti * iii, unable LI4-/-v to bring Kiiiywv the t no defendants iiATonrio nrc
to trial.
Poincare has headed the French
ministry since 1922. His direction of
affairs has been marked by unusual
firmness toward , Germany _ and the oc
cupation of the Ruhr section has been
carried out under his direction.
OFFICIALLY SAID
TEN ARE DEAD IN
GERMAN RIOTING
TROUBLE RESULTED FROM THE
WITHDRAWAL OF THE SE¬
CURITY POLICE
Berlin, May 24.—Ten persons are
now reported killed and several
'Wounded in the fighting late last
night and early this morning between
strikers and police at Gelsenkirchen,
in the occupied area.
The trouble is reported to have
ended with an agreement under which
a committee formed of four of the
trade unions would assume responsi¬
bility for the maintenance of order.
Berlin newspapers claim that the
trouble resulted directly from expul¬
sion from the Ruhr district of German
security police.
TWnTY NAMED
! DIXIE HIGHWAY
DIRECTORFORGA.
Brunswick Man Chosen To Sue*
ceed Bell At Chatts*
nooga Meet
WAS GIVEN OVATION
BV GEORGIA CONTINGENT
Officers Are Also Elected For
Florida and Tennessee— Ban¬
quet Tendered Delegates at
Hotel Patten Last Night.
(Special to The News.)
Chattanooga, May 24.—F. E. Twit
ty, prominent Brunswick attorney,
was unanimously elected the third di¬
rector for Georgia at the Dixie High¬
way Association convention in session
here, early tonight. Mr. Twitty suc¬
ceeds Frank G. Bell, of Savannah, re¬
signed.
The other members of the director¬
ate for Georgia of the association are
W. T. Anderson, editor of the Macon
Telegraph, and Clarke Howell, editor
of the Atlanta Constitution, both of
whom were Mr. Twitty’s strong en¬
dorsers for the place. The Bruns¬
wick attorney was the recipient of
many congratulations and was the
center of a group of admiring friends
j throughout today’s proceedings. He
ig considered one of the most enthus
iastic d roadg advocates in
! “
South and his selection as a Georgia
director is considered a most happy
one.
For Florida, which state is largely
represented at the convention, Frank
| R Shutts> of Miami> was electe d vice
ident The . 3irectors named for
j that state are W. O. Miller, of Jack
sonville, and HugJ) McDonald, of Fort
] Myers.
\ Von Lowell was chosen vice presi
| dent of the association for Tennessee,
j succeeding V. C. Patten. This com
; pleted the election of officers for the
j states in which there were vacancies
| existing.
Tonight the delegates are being
banquet # the Hotel Pat
j tendered a at
ten. Tomorrow the day will be given
over to the transaction of important
business matters, in addition to ad¬
dresses by President Allison and oth¬
ers.
Brunswick is represented at the
meeting by F. F. Twitty, R. E. L
Reddy, Andrews Wright and Fred G.
Warde.
BALL PLAYER KILLED
Detroit, Mich., May 24.—Joe Lan,
26-year-old shortstop of a city league
h seball team, died early today after
j being hit o nthe head by a pitched
i ball in a league game yesterday af
ternoon, fracturing his skull.
BRUNSWICK
Has a landlocked harbor, the
best on the South Atlantic
Coast.......
SHIPPING TAKES
ON IMPETUS IN
! LOCAL HARBOR
Largest Number of Vessels
Loading Here Recently
Than In Years
MANY VESSELS ENROUTE
TO THIS PORT FOR CARGOES
Indications Are That Volume of
Shipping Will Increase With
Each Succeeding Month, De¬
clare Shippers.
Shipping in the local harbor has
| taken on a decided impetus during the
past few weeks and the indications
are that the number of vessels load¬
ing here within the next month will
exceed the record of any period since
the World war. For the first time
in months there were three or four
big steamers tied up during the week
at the Clyde ann Downing docks, ex¬
clusive of those at the Strachan docks
and the Southern docks.
The largest number of schooners
that have been chartered by local
shippers in several years are enroute
to this port where they will take on
cargoes of various kinds, the
pel items being cross ties, lumber and
naval stores. Two steamers consign
ed to the Strachan Shipping Company
are enroute here and are expected
within the nqptt few days.
The steamers in port yesterday
were the Norwegian S. S. Erie, tak¬
ing on a cargo of rosin at the Down¬
ing dock; S. S. Bird City, Strachan
Shipping Company, naval stores,
Downing Company, and the Clyde S.
S. Katah»lin. The latter two sailed
early last night. The schooner, Oak¬
ley C. Curtis, is taking on a cargo of
ties for the Mutual Timber Company.
The steamers and schooners en¬
route to this port and which are ex
pecte.-I to arrive here daily for the
next ten days are: the Brt. S. S. Nor
tonian, Mexico; the Japanese S. S.
Wales Maru, from Jacksonville, to
complete cargo; both for the Strachan
Shipping Company. The schooners
are the Gladys M. Taylor, Boston, to
load crossties and lumber for Sam
Baker; the Orleans, New York; Nan
cy Hanks, New Haven, and the Au
gusta the Georgia D. Hilton, Creosoting Vineyard Company; Haven, the for j
Dolly Madison, Philadelphia, for
Joyce-W'atkins and the D. D. Cres
sy, N. Y., for Reynolds Bros., for car¬
go piling.
It is said that the present increase
in the volume of shipping is by no ;
means sporadic, but that it will con- I
tinue for many months to come, with j
every prospect of its being perma
nent.
PAROLE CHANGES i
RECOMMENDED BY
THE COMMISSION
OPPOSES PARDON AFTER THREE
YEARS IN REPORT TO
LEGISLATURE
Atlanta, May 24.—Changes in the
parole laws of the state which will
make a life-term prisoner eligible for
years service, as at present are rec¬
ommended by the State Prison Com¬
mission in its annual report to the
legislature, which was made public
Tuefway. The commission also rec¬
ommends that $7,500 be appropriated
to pay for repairs needed at the State
Prison Farm.
In discussing the parole law, the
commission said:
“We recommend that the parole
law, allowing prisoners serving life
sentences for murder to be paroled
after three years’ minimum service,
be amended to make the minimum ten
years’ service. A term of three years
is much shorter than the minimum
prescribed for other offenses less
grave and we think the ends of jus¬
tice would be served by making the
minimum ten years in cases of life
imprisonment.”
During the last year there were
341 escapes and 302 recaptures at the
prison. The governor granted 187
paroles and 39 pardons.
SIX PERSONS INJURED
IN NAPTHA EXPLOSION
(By Associated Press.)
Chicago, May 24—Six persons were
reported injured in an explosion in
the naptha plant at Mauer of Bauer
Black, manufacturing chemists, late
today and fire broke out after the ex¬
plosion.
Two firemen were seriously injur-
FIVE CENTS
COMMUNISTS
HOIST REDFLAG
GELSENKIRCHEN
Take Possession of Police Head*
quarters And Rioting
Follows
FIVE REPORTED KILLED;
SIXTY=ONE WOUNDED
Interference of Firemen and
Self Defense League Force
Seemed Only to Add Fuel to
the Flames.
Essen, May 24.—The Communists
have taken possession of police head¬
quarters at Gelsenkirchen and have
hoisted the red flag over the building.
Reports from German sources say
that five persons were killed and six¬
ty-one wounded in the fighting for the
possession of the building. The strug¬
gle began late last night and contin¬
ued until early this- morning'.
The trouble began to take serious
form yesterday afternoon, when a
Communist “commission of control”
visited the shops, demanding that the
price of foodstuffs be cut in half. The
housewives of the city, hearing that
the stores were complying with this
demand, swooped down upon them
with market baskets and exhausted
the supplies for a short time,
Town Without Protection
Meanwhile the streets began to fill
With people and a general scramble
ensued. As the Security Police had
been expelled in February, the town
was without protection except for a
force of firemen which had been doing
some patrol duty. The force of fire
men were called upon tp make an ef
fort to disperse the crowd. It was
aided by the newly formed civilian
self-defense league, the members of
which are armed with clubs, but not
with guns. The interference of the
firemen and the self-defense league
force seemed only to add fuel to the
fire, and the crowd began counter-at¬
tacking. In one instance the demon¬
strators attacked a squad of firemen
who were occupying a fire truck,
wounded several of them, and over-- 1
turned the truck which was being
used as a patrol wagon.
Seeing matters were growing
worse, the firemen began using their
revolvers, this resulting in several
persons being killed and others
wounded. At least forty wounded
persons are reported to have been
treated in the hospitals.
Additional French troops were or¬
dered into Gelsenkirchen, which is in
the Essen region, six miles northwest
0 f Bochum, but it was announced
there was no intention on the part of
the Flench to interfere so long as the
demonstrators did not clash with the
French military.
When the French troops appeared
they were cheered by the Germans,
who thought the military had come
to suppress the demonstration, but
the French merely went to their va¬
rious posts and looked on.
SUES FOR $100,000
FROM KLAN EMPEROR
(By Associated Press.)
Little Rock, May 24.—Dr. H. W.
Evans, of Atlanta, Imperial Wizard
of Klan, has filed suit in Pulaski coun¬
ty circuit court against William J.
Simmons of Atlanta, Emperor of
"an, *100,000 for alleged de
famation of character. The basis for
Evans’ suit was a telegram which
Simmons is alleged to have sent locql
newspapers for publication May 13th.
According to the petition the tele¬
gram charged that Evans -Turing a
period of six months prior to the tel¬
egram received money in excess of
$100,000 belonging to the Klan and
deposited it to his personal credit and
appropriated it to his own use.
FIVE PEOPLE KILLED
IN TEXAS COLLISION
(By Associated Press.)
Fort Worth, Texas, May 24.—At
least six persons were killed in a
head-on collision early this morning
between two Texas Pacific passenger
trains, between Cisco and Putnam.
Help has been sent from here.
Two of the dead have been iden¬
tified, one a resident of Fort Worth
and the other a negro porter. One of
the trains was on a siding at Dothan,
seven miles east of Cisco. The other
plungc.-I through a switch.
Five of the men killed are said to
have been riding blind baggage. One
engineman was probably fatally hurt
and two or three others less serious¬
ly injured.
ed when they fell from a steel girder
while fighting the fire. Four or five
persons working in the laboratory
were the most seriously injured.