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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 CHINESE GOVERNMENT TROOPS AFTER SURROUNDING SUCHOW BANDITS HAVE WITHDRAWN Bandits, Puzzled at Cessation Negotiations For Release Foreign Prisoners Send Mes¬ sengers to Relief Workers at Lincheng For Papers.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. .J. 444444444444 ♦ ♦ ♦ 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.