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BRUNSWICK Has the lowest death rate of any city its size in the United States ....... TUESDAY MAY 29, 1923 BAXLEY BANK CASES TO BE TAKEN UP IN SUPERIOR COURT THIS MORNING, SAYS JUDGE " ■ — (1 Clash In Court Yesterday Re¬ sults In Case Going To Jury On Its Merits, Decides Judge Peter Medrim. Technical questions entered almost exclusively into the ease of the State against P. H. Comas and J. G. Har¬ mon, 'Baxley bankers, yesterday morning when the cases were called in the superior court by Judge Peter W. Meldrim, presiding for Judge J. P. Highsmith, who was disqualified. It is seldom, if ever, that a cause j of this kind, or any other, has been more vigorously contested by coun- j sei, both sides fighting every inch of i ground in their contention, embrac- j ing legal points that were not com prehended by the spectators. When Judge Meldrim called the ] court to order he stated that the court was ready to function and that there would be no unnecessary de lay° /tolerated as the operation of color's concerned more than any in dK'i Hdual and the public was to be safeguarded against any contingency vf this kind. When the Baxley bank cases were called, Judge Ed. Graham, leading Counsel for the defendants, and John W. Bennett, entered a to the indictment, claiming that the solicitor pro tempore—Mark Wilcox : —had not been properly and legally appointed. . , , ,,,, Th.s • point . , was argued , for some time and the court overruled When r .J , 1 ‘ the of P H. TT Comas _ case was called the defendant offered a plea in abatement to the indictment, in which he objected to the count and ed that it be dismissed because cer ''.‘'.V JUr °J S Wh ° l ; et " rn : ed the bill and the gentleman who had acted as solicitor general before the grand jury were related to in the bank. This plea was argued at length by both sides after which Judge Meldrim announced his decis ion overruling and denying the plea. Judge Meldrim, in his decision, an¬ nounced that objections of this char¬ acter did not go to the merits of the case but were mere technical objoc tions that could not be urged after the indictment had been returned. He ruled that any juror who was to to'sit any depositor would be disqualified as a trial juror upon the trial of the case, but that “there is a vast difference” between a grand juror who returns an indictment and a trial juror who passes upon the merits of the case ' The defendant them offered a de murrer to one of the indictments. The indictment demurred to contained three counts, the first charging the defendant vVith misapplying certain fur/ls. The court held that the State sjiould be more specific in stating how the funds were misapplied. In the other counts the State charged that the president of the bank, just about the time the bank closed, and with in tend to defraud, took two time certi ficates- which were not due into the hank and drew out the amount of them. It was charged in this count that Mr. Comas knew that the bank was about to close and that he drew out the amount of these time certi¬ ficates which took about all of the money in t^thircounf^taf the hank. The defendants ing‘tlmt demurred this did not constitute a crime ' the laws of Georgia; this demurrer was overruled by Judge Meldrim. The court then announced that the case would go to trial today on its merits. Should any contingency arise tiiat would prevent the trial of the bank cases, S. D. Levadas will be placed on trial for murder, the first of three cases that are on the calen¬ dar for the same offense. SANDS GIVE EVIDENCE THAT SKELETON FOUND UNDER PIER IS MOUNT'S : Chicago, May 28.—The sands of the Evanson pier under which months ago the skeleton believed to be that of Leighton Mount, a freshmaq of the Northwestern University, today gave up evidence that the assistant district attorney hopes will result in positive identification of the bones. Women, sifting sand under the pier, found twelve teeth and several pieces of bone. Eighteen teeth were miss¬ ing when the skeleton was found. TWENTY BIDS RECEIVED SHIPPING BOARD CRAFTS Washington, May 28.—Twenty pro¬ posals have been received by the shipping board, it was announced to¬ day, in response to the invitation for bids for the purchasing of govern¬ ment marine craft. Of the offers received Chairman Lasker announced four or five offered possibilities. THE BRUNSWICK THE NEWS IS A MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 4 4 4 FRENCH AMBASSADOR 4 DISCUSSES RULING OE 4 COURT ABOUT LIQUORS 4 --— 4 (By Associated Press.) 4 Washington, May 28.—The at- 4 titude of French interests to- 4 4 ward application of the supreme 4 4 court’s decision on liquor aboard 4 4 ships was laid before Secretary 4 4 Mellon by French Ambassador 4 4 Jusserand, who is understood to 4 4 have presented certain sugges- 4 + tions relative to new regulations. 4- 4 Neither the secretary or the 4 4 ambassador would reveal details 4 4 of their conversation. 4 4 4 .J. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 ♦ 4 4 4 *J* -------- ViLAllA rtf ft J) ft 1)1111 OlLLlfu J 11)0 I WILL REACH NEW ORLEANS TODAY HAMMER MURDERESS BROUGHT BACK TO SERVE A TEN YEAR SENTENCE (By Associated Press.) New 1,1 V Orleans, May 28.—Clara v ” c “ Phil ■■ liP s hammer murderess, who escap . ‘ ed aftor she had becn sentenc c , to serw ten yearB for the murder of Mrs, Alberta Meadows, is expected to arl , ive in territorial waters of the United Statcs on the steamer Copan before ' morning The ship is due to arrive at the mouth of the Mississippi some time during the night and i s expected to reacb j 1er0 a t 7 gfclock tomorrow morning ___ MR§> GEORGE WRIGHT IS LAID TO REST IN PALMETTO CEMETERY Hundreds of friends of Mrs. George W - Wr igbt gathered yesterday after noon a * St. Mark s Episcopal church 0 their last tribute of love and es * eern *° * bls es timable woman. Mrs. Wright bad been a resident of Glynn county for more than half a century alld was krlowo 3,1(1 Iove<1 by 3 Wlde c * rc ^ e ^ frienns. * b ® old borne at Sterling yester day hundreds of friends, both white 3,1,1 colo, ' ed > S atbered to place a fiow ® r 0,1 * be caske * ol tbeir friend. Mrs. Wright was a gentlewoman of the old scl, ° o1 and bel ' 8' en,al P resence will be n,,ssed by those w,th whom she ass ° c,ated and in wbose P e, ' S0,,al ,nter - es * sbe was closely , attached. It was many years ago that Mrs Wright tl , joined St. Marks Episcopal c hurcll > and her to that church 1 has , been nokable - She was a devout, consistent member of the conffregation and her genial presence wdl be s ad,y by tbe eongre gation. „ Mrs. Wrig'ht _ was born on St. Simon and lived to see the island and Brunswick grow from its primitive stage to its present great propor¬ tions. Following the services at the chlm ' b - 3,1 * hat was mor tal ® f thi * truly ' beloved woman was 1 lald ] to rest at Palmetto cemetery. CUTTERS ORDERED __ TO SEIZE VESSELS SAID TO BE RUM RUNNER Norfolk, Va., May 28.—Orders to seize the steamship Mohave if it j comes within the three-mile limit have been issued to coast guard cut¬ ters now patrolling the Virginia capes against rum runners. Officers declared today that they were in receipt of information that the vessel was connected with the li¬ quor smuggling syndicate. It is ex¬ pected that the vessel will show up any hour. TELLS REPUBLICANS TO LAY ASIDE ARMS Dublin, May 28.—A document ad¬ dressed by Eamonri de Valera to all ranks of the Republican army, call¬ ing for discontinuance of the armed struggle, has been taken by Free State authorities from a captured Re Ly. leader, it was announced to The note declares that further sac¬ rifices by the Republican army now would be in vain, and continuance of the struggle would be unwise in na¬ tional interests. The note concludes, “Laying aside your arms now is an act of patriotism as exalted and pure as your valor in taking them up. BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MAY 29, 1923 IS PROCESS LEARNING TO SEE, SAYS PROF. DIFFERENT PEOPLE SEE DIF FEREN’T THINGS IN LIFE, SAYS WHITE Sparks, Ca., May 28.—‘‘Education is a process of learning to see,” Good¬ rich C. White, dean of the College of Liberal Arts of Emory University, told the graduating class, the stu¬ dents, and the guests of Sparks Col¬ lege at the closing commencement ex¬ ercises of the institution today. In addition to the students and the graduating class of 28, more than a hundred friends and the parents of the graduates gathered at Sparks for the commencement exercises. Certi¬ ficate from the high school depart¬ ment and the special departments, and diplomas from the junior college department, were presented by Pres¬ ident R. C. Mizell following Dean White’s address ‘‘Different people see different things in life, depending on their ed¬ ucation in certain lines,” Dean White continued. “We never see the whole of things. What we see depends on our preparation for seeing, as well as upon the setting and the purposes of the moment. We can learn to see and to feel if we will. The beauty, the joy, the truth, and the goodness are there, but too many of us having eyes see not. It is the pure in heart who shall see God. We see in the world what we come prepared to see. “We should all learn to see clear¬ ly. As soon as we leaim to see more and more of the beauty and truth ami goodness and joy and holiness of na ture and man and life, we acquire in¬ creasingly the ability to help others to see. And in making ourselves more and more nearly what we would like to be and what we ought to be we are helping make the world more nearly what we want it to be. This is the task you young men and young wom¬ en of Sparks College should set for yourselves.” . Commencement exercises at Sparks began on Friday, May 25, with a meeting of the board of trustees. Fri¬ day afternoon the students gave an operetta. Class day exercises were held on Saturday and a champion de¬ bate on Saturday evening. The com¬ mencement sermon was delivered Sunday by Dr. J. P. Dell, presiding officer of the Dublin district of the South Georgia conference. GRAMLING WILL MAKE NEW MAP OF ST. SIMON ISLAND HAS BEEN EMPLOYED BY COURT BOARD AND WILL BEGIN WORK SOON W. N. Gramling, who retires from the office of city manager on June 1, has been awarded the contract for making a new and comprehensive map of St. Simon Island by the Glynn county commissioners and he will be¬ gin work during the next few days. It is stated that the map will he one of the most thorough ever made and will call for about four months’ work of Mr. Gramling and his assist¬ ants. For a long time the need of a map has been great and now that the highway >s being built the dema J for maps by out-of-town prospective buyers will be great. Not only will the map embrace the island proper but the many streams as well. FARMER IS KILLED BY NEGRO AT FARGO Valdosta, May 28.—Four small children witnessed the killing of their father, C. A. Hunter, a farmer of Far¬ go, late yesterday afternoon by Sandy Armstrong, a negro, while the fann¬ er, his wife and children were stroll¬ ing in the woods near their home, ac¬ cording to a report reaching here. A deputized posse was reported at noon today to be close on the trail of the negro. OIL PROMOTERS ARE BROUGHT TO COURT Fort Worth, Texas, May 28.—The first of the oil promotion trials, grow¬ ing out of the recent government in¬ vestigation of oil promotion com¬ panies operating here, got under way in federal district court this morn¬ ing when defendants in the General Lee Development interests were call¬ ed to trial. Empanelling of the jury and ex animation of the veniremen was started when the court convened but when the prosecution asked for a re¬ cess until the arrival this afternoon of two other defendants, the court ad¬ journed until afternoon. .J. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 * 4 4 SHIP BRINGING RUSSIAN 4 REUGEES TO AMERICA IS 4 HELD UP BY CREW STRIKE 4 - ♦ (By Associated Press.) ♦ Manila, May 28.—It war re- 4 ported today that the Russian 4 crew of the American army 4 transport Merritt, enroute from 41 4 j Manila to San Francisco with 450 Russion refugees, hud gone oh strike, holding up the ship 6,000 miles from Clongpopo. The U. S. S. Harrison was started immediately from Corrigdor Island with an emergency crew of Filipinos, The Russian refugees, made exile by the Soviet occupation of Vladivostok, are emigrating to the United States under per ♦ mission of the government. The 4 transport Merritt, assigned for 4 their voyage, left Manila May ♦ 23. 4 ♦ * 444444444444 * FATAL SUNDAY j ] I AUTO ACCIDENTS I i\I\E ADC MVTMCDfUTC nUlTlLlYUUO ELDERLY COUPLE KILLED NEAR GREMEN. GA.; TWO BOYS DIE AT MARIETTA Waco, Ga., May 28.—J. R. Thomas and wife, an elderly couple, were kill¬ ed when a Central of Georgia train collided with the automobile in which they were riding near Bremen, yes¬ terday afternoon. The couple were returning from a Sunday school meet¬ ing at Rockmart ami were driving through the country. Brothers Die at Marietta Marietta, Ga., May 28.—Riley Reed, aged 1C, was instantly killed and his brother, Ralph, 10, died sev¬ eral hours later as a result of a col¬ lision between a Western & Atlantic railroad passenger tfain and the au¬ tomobile which they 'Were driving here yesterday. The accident occurred at Parks Crossing, where, according to witnesses, the boys attempted to cross the rjiijroad tracks in the rear o fast reel car. Seven Killed Near Detroit Detroit, May 28.—With the seven vicitims of the crash identified, Oak¬ land county authorities today were in¬ vestigating circumstances surround¬ ing the collision on Woodward ave¬ nue road, about ten miles north of Detroit, last evening between an auto¬ mobile and a south-bound interurban car. In addition to the seven who met death, all of whom were Detroiters, a dozen or more passengers of the interurban were cut by broken glass, or were injured when they jumped from the car after it crashed into the automobile. The airbrakes of the interurban were broken by the impact and the motorman was unable to stop the car for two blocks. Parts of the wreck¬ ed machine and the bodies of the five victims were pushed down the track by the interurb*. Two Accidents in Atlanta. Atlanta, May 28.—Seven persons were injured in the two automobile accidents here yesterday. Mrs. F. Griffin was taken to a hospital suffer¬ ing from a broken collarbone when the car in which the Griffin family was riding was struck by an automo¬ bile driven by negroes. Mrs. Grif¬ fin and their two children, aged 6 and 3, also received severe bruises. Ernest McCall, Andrew Robinson and Mitchell Robinson were injured when an unidentified white man steer¬ ed his automobile into the side of a drug store in the residence portion of the city. FOUR DEFENDANTS IN ONE FRAUD CASE PLEAD GUILTY (By Associated Press.) Fort Worth, Texas, May 28.—Four defendants in the “oil fraud’ ’case? which started in the United States court, today entered pleas of guilty when arraigned before the court. Three pleaded not guilty. The case will in all probability get underway tomorrow and much inter¬ est is being manifested in various parts of the country in the final out¬ come. FUNERAL OF WALTER POULSON YESTERDAY Walter Forrest Paulson, twenty two months old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Poulson, who died yesterday, was laid to rest in Palmetto cemetery yesterday afternoon, The funeral services for the little fellow were conducted from the First Methodist church, Rev. Thomas H. Thomson offiiating. The pallbearers were H. H. Rust, Edwin Dart, James Osborne and Horace Symons, HAYNES SAYS PROHIBITION SLOW BUT EFFECTIVE UNITED STATES HAS “DRIED UP” UNDER LAW DECLARES COMMISSIONER Washington, May 28.—How' the United States has “dried up” under prohibition, despite rum-running and ] bootlegging, was the subject of sta-1 tistical statement today by Prohibi- j tion Commissioner Haynes. .\ He gavel out . figures „ showing , that , . . major iin ports , of - distilled spirits to the near- j by liquor amounted smuggling slight sources altogeth- 1 j er to y over .per cent ot the pre-prohibition American I liquor withdrawals. Allowing none for , home use, „ said • j . ^ Commissioner • • tt Haynes if a, the entire 4 - , 0 t, t ' X ?^ 0t J b,StlUc ‘ ( L Spl " t S i from the United Kingdom : to the Ba- . h-amas, West Indies and Canada in ; 1923, as indicated by the present rate, he added, to the imports of Mexico ; 1921 (the latest figures available) ; and smuggled into the United States, j the total would be about one paid and one- j fourth per cent of the tax liquor the! 'v ithdrawals for consumption for fiscal year 1913. “It is readily seen that there is less occasion to worry over the ‘rum fleet’ smugglers than over domestic con¬ coction of fraudulent spirits. If a greater amount is smuggled in than these figures show, it is certain that expansion comes by means of adulter¬ ation and rectification, or in syn¬ thetic stuff smuggled out and in again. The per eentage of good liquor found in government confiscation amounts to less than one per cent. Recent magazine and newspaper rev¬ elations bear out this statement.” Commissioner Haynes’ figures showed 1,624,136 gallons of spirits ex¬ ported from the United Kingdom to Canada in 1913, before prohibition, against 813,105 gallons last year. The Canadian imports thus far this year, show a reduction of about 59 per cent from the 1913 rate, he added, United Kingdom imports to the West Indies and Bahamas showed an increase from 94,140 gallons in 1913 to 350,- 311 gallons for the first four months of this year, or at an annual rate of 1*050,933 gallons. “If the entire amount was smug¬ gled into the United States,” said Commissioner Haynes, “it would equal less than three-fourths of one per cent of the tax paid liquor with¬ drawals for consumption in the Unit¬ ed States for the fiscal year 1913, which amounted to 140,289,424 gal¬ lons. “Stories broadcast regarding the large amount of liquor being smug¬ gled into the United States are valu able to the bootlegger to foist his poisonous ware on the public as ‘gen uine imported stuff” which he gets fabulous prices for. In the same manner is the ‘embassy’ fiction used "help sale of bootleg | in Washington liquor. TRAFFIC ON A. B. AND A. IS DEMORALIZED BY WASHOUT Montezuma, Ga., May 28.--Because of washouts on the A., B. & A. rail¬ road, traffic has been more or less de¬ moralized for the last thirty-six hours. There is a washout a quarter of a mile long' and in places fifteen feet deep between Lilly’and Byrom- i ville. A freight train was caught on the track with a washout in front and behind it and has stood there since early Saturday night. The regular passenger train from Fitzgerald to Atlanta left Cordele last night at 12:30 but was stopped between Lilly and Byromville, four-j teen miles from ------ Montezuma, --------------- after standing on the track until daybreak, | j The train backed to Cordele where it proceeded to Americus over tjie Seaboard Air Line tracks and then came to Oglethorpe on the Central of Georgia road. Work trains are at the scene and expected to have traffic restored today. ACTRESS VINDICATED BY ORDER OF COURT Court I New York, May 28—Supreme ; Justice Lehman today rendered a de- j cision vindicating Miss Stella Larri more, a young actress, who was nam¬ ed by Geraldine Farrar as one of sev¬ eral co-xespondents in her suit for di voi'ce from Lou Tellegen. Justice Lehman acted on the appli¬ cation of Farrar for pei'mission to strike allegations concerning Miss Larrimore from her divorce petition and in granting it the court saved the j befoi'e Diva from the the jury necessity evidence of already placing j brought against her husband in the referee’s chambers. 1 The decision quoted a letter from I Farrar’s counsel in which it was mitted that an investigation led to the | conclusion that the charges against ] Miss Larrimore were not true and J that it was desired to abandon them. .J. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 -I- 4 ♦ 4 NEW YORK KU KLUX 4 4 KLAN LEADERS TO FIGHT 4 4 STATE ANTI-KLAN LAW 4 ♦ 4 4 (By Associated Press.) 4 . ♦ New York, May 28.—Refus- 4 4 ing to consider seriously the 4 4 challenges reported to have been 4 4 hurled by Ku Klux Klan leaders 4 ♦ at a dozen meetings through- 4 out the state yesterday, ocftiials 4 declared today they were ready ♦ to begin enforcing the state anti- 4 Klan law when it becomes effec- 4 tive next Saturday. The law for ♦ bids members of secret organi- 4 zations from wearing disguises 4 , . public ... and , orders . ,, that , „ names ___ m f, 4 ^ of , their . members , be . recorded ....., , at , ^ ^" y ; ^ tti t ude of the Klan to + the bm was expreS sed by King Kleagle, who gave the ♦ . ot ,v Major • Johnson, T . ,, r L. - a b. name A., , retired, betore members and . ♦ ^ j ^ at Eastport . The Klan 4 never reveals its membership, he 4 declared, and would fight to the 4 4 last breastwork” to keep the 4 4 names secret. 4 4 ♦ .T. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 ♦ 4 4 * MACHINE GUNS, CONCEALED, GUARD BANK TREASURES Cleveland, May 28.—The new Fourtn Federal Reserve Bank build¬ ing here is rapidly nearing comple¬ tion, and will be ready for occupan¬ cy about June 1. The building has many details of architecture and in¬ genuity that make it one of the most remarkable in the United States, ar¬ chitects and builders say, . with strength and safety the keynotes. The main vault is 30 feet below the street level. Side and rear walls are six feet thick. The front wall is sev¬ en feet thick and has the heaviest door in the world. The vault is de signed to hold upward of two billion dollars in gold and securities, accord¬ ing to D. C. Willis, chairman of the hoard. The first floor, for the transaction of public business, is finished in Ital¬ ian marble. Customers can lock them¬ selves behind iron bars when traps' acting business With a teller.. A gallery of armor plate sur¬ rounds the first floor, with loopholes from which guards can see everything occurring below. 1 Truck driveways lead directly into the mail room. It cannot be “rushed.’ The truck first enters a vestibule and the street door must be closed and locked behind it before the second door, opening direct into the mail room, can be opened. j Armed guards can look down upon the mail room and command it with . rifles, and statues at each of the en trances to the building will conceal machine guns, G0VERN0R=ELECT WALKER PARTICIPATES IN WELCOME OF NATONS’ KIWANIS (By Associated Press.) Atlanta, May 28.—The policy of bringing closer relations between the farmers and city folk and obtaining a square deal for under privileged chil¬ dren—future citizens, has been car¬ ried out during the past year, George Ross, of Toronto, Canada, told the Kiwanis The declaration club meeting was heie.^ made follow¬ ing welcoming ceremonies in which Governor-elect Clifford Walker and Mayor Sims, of Atlanta, participated. Response in behalf of the organiza tion was made by Harry Karr, im mediate past president, WOMEN GOLFERS ___ _ BAR YOUNG GIRL PHE'NOM New York, May 28.—Male golfers may be willing to compete with young upstarts- may even encourage them, j: as witness Bobby Jones and Jess Sweetser—but the New Jersey Wom¬ en’s Golf Association is determined to keep its tournaments open to wom ^' r jlTcLlr It has refused to permit the Be young phenomenon, Miss Maureen Orcutt, 15> for p ] ay j n the association’s one ((ay tournanie nt, on the ground that she is too young. Miss Orcutt often breaks 90. She (competed in the women’s national tournament two years ago. GERMAN MARKS SELLING AT $16.25 A MILLION (By Associated Press.) New York, May 28—German marks sold in the local foreign exchange rnai'ket today at $16.25 a million, a new low recoi'd for all time. Bank e rs report little commercial demand the German currency, although large quantities of marks are pur chased by local residents for trans mission to relatives and friends in Germany. . BRUNSWICK Has a landlocked harbor, the best on the South Atlantic Coast ....... PRICE FIVE CENTS GERMANS PLAN BIG MORTGAGE ONREAL ESTATE New Reparation Program As Now Outlined To Be From Ground Up / ALMOST EVERY SQUARE INCH SOIL INVOLVED Five Hundred Million Cold Workers to Flow Into The Reich Melting Pot For The First Few Years. (By Associated Press.) Berlin, May 28.—Germany’s new reparations program, as it is now out¬ lined, wftll literally be constructed from “the ground up,” for it will rest primarily on a nation-wide real estate mortgage. What promises to become the greatest hypothecation of land in the history of economics will eventually encompass every square inch of Ger¬ man soil, which will be made to pay tribute to Germany former foe for a period of thirty years. The assess¬ ment will be made on a basis of fifty per cent of present gold values. Five hundred million gold marks annually will flow into the Reichs’ reparations melting pot from this source during the first few years. The ultimate yearly total will approxi¬ mate one billion gold marks, the in¬ crease depending upon the prompt¬ ness with which metropolitan real es¬ tate can be subjected to the mort¬ gaging process. A beginning will be made with the agricultural lands and the physical properties of the industrialists. The plan for the great mortgage is the most important point in the pro¬ gram of the German League of In¬ dustrialists, as submitted to Chancel¬ lor Cuno for the perusal of the gov¬ ernment. This organization indi catesits readiness to assume payment of forty per cent of the hypothetical sum of 500,000,000 gold marks which it believes the government can raise by assessment on the industrialists properties. The remaining 60 per cent will be guaranteed by the bank¬ ing, commercial, shipping and grain interests. JOHN VEREEN KILLS HIMSELF BY SHOOTING Tifton, Ga., May 28.—John Vereen, 27 years old. committed suicide by shooting himself at the home of his father, W. C. Vereen, at Moultrie Sun daj , n jght about 9 o’clock, Death re su [ted instantly. Mr. Vereen, according to a long distance telephone message, had been suffering from a mehtal depression for several days. The funeral was held in Moultrie Monday afternoon with interment in the cemetery there. The deceased was married, but had no children. He was a member of one of the most prominent families in South Georgia and was identified with a number of business enterprises at Moultrie. AMERICAN LEGION TO PRODUCE FILMS Indianapolis,-Ind., May 28.—The American Legion will enter the film industry as a producer. The new ven¬ ture is to be a topical review to be is¬ sued twice a month and distributed throughout the entire country. Com¬ plete plans for the enterprise .were approved at the recent meeting of the national executive committee. It is planned to make the produc¬ tion of general interest, carrying ma¬ terial of a general-magazine nature, and giving-special attention to activi¬ ties of the Legion which are of inter est to the general public. The re¬ leases will be under the superxisiou of the American Legion Flm Service, which has for some time been engag¬ ed in the distribution of war and his¬ torical films throughout the country under sponsorship of the Legion’s eleven thousand local posts. EVANS COMES OUT —, TO TAKE NEW JOB Former Secretary War Under Lloyd George Named Postmaster Gen- . eral by Baldwin. (By Associated Press.) London, May 28.—Sir Laming Worthington Evans, secretary of war in the cabinet og David Lloyd George, has accepted the office of Postmaster Genaral under Prime Minister Baldwin. Evans was a member of a group, including Austen Chamberlain, which went into the “wildnerness” at the time of the Conservative split which gave Andrew Bonar Law the premier¬ ship.