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BRUNSWICK
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VOLUME XXII. No. 279.
IMPROVEMENTOF
CIH STREETS IS
liINKLIFF’S HOBBY
City Manager Points Out Effi=
ciency of Service Rendered
in Few Weeks
CITY POLICE BARRACKS
PAST APOLOGIZING FOR
Many Improvements Outlined
by City Manager That Could
be Made at Inappreciable
Cost to City of Brunswick.
Step towards increasing the effi¬
ciency in the service rendered by the
city were outlined yesterday by City
Manager Rinkliff, in discussing the
work done in the past few weeks.
“Equipment is now on the way
which will be put to wont as soon as
it arrives in improving' the appear¬
ance of the streets,” said Mr. Rink
liff. “There are two things about the
appearance of Hie ojster shell and
dirt surface streets that are pleasing
neither to the peiple who live here,
nor to the visitors. One is the grass
ami weeds, the other the condition of
the roadways.
“We want first to cut the grass and
weeds, and then as soon as we are
caught up on this, to start putting
the roadways in better shape. We
will be able to reduce our payroll for
this work, and at the same time, in¬
crease the amount of work we can do
in a given time by this department.
“All the equipment we have order¬
ed we have tried out, part of it in
Brunswick ,and the remainder of it
was ordered after a visit to Savannah
this week.
“The people of Brunswick want to
remember that there are plenty of
people in the state of Georgia who
are watching this city, and expect to
see it grow and improve steadily.
You can ask almost everyone who has
visited other Georgia cities recently,
and they will tell you that people
.
everywhere are interested in the com¬
pletion of the St. Simon Highway.
They are going to make at least one
visit to Brunswick after it is complet¬
ed to see what we really have. We
want to have things in the best pos¬
sible shape when they do eome to
look us over.
“During the past week I have driv¬
en about Brunswick considerably. As
soon as 1 arrived in this city, people
were kind enough to show me the
best'streets. I haven’t been satisfied
Until I had seen the remainder. I am
taking every opportunity to find for
myself the actual condition of the
streets for carrying traffic. It is well
enough t<* -have someone tell you a
street is bad, but I expect to know for
^myself before long whether any street
t ^ 'tin good bad shape.
. or
r • And, while I have been going over
the physical end, I have also been in¬
vestigating the financial phases, and
I am confident of one thing, it is not
likely to bankrupt' the city to pur¬
chase the equipment for s treat main¬
tenance, or to operate it.”
Plans are being carried out in other
departments, for improvements in
theft operations, Mr. Rinkliff said.
Among these are the utilization of re¬
serve equipment in the fire depart¬
ment, and better conditions at the po¬
lice barracks.
“The fire department has an Am¬
erican La France steam pumper that
is now out of service, but which we
will put back into service as reserve
equipment unless in going over it, it
is found to be worn out. I no not
chemical trucks, one combination hose
built in 1907, and there are plenty of
fire departments having steamers in
their reserve equipment that have
seen longer service than this one, and
they are still working.
“The fire department also has a
ladder truck that can be motorized at
a very low cost, and put into service.
At the present time, oui* fire fighting
equipment consists of two triple com¬
bination pumping engines, hose and
chemica {trucks, one combination hose
and .chemical truck, and in addition to,
theSe, we will have in reserve a
pumping engine that can be placed on
the job in a long drawn out fight with
a fire, relieving the pumpers that re¬
spond on first call, and we will have a
motorized ladder truck that can be
put into service to respond to first
alarms of fires from localities in
which the hospital, the school build¬
ing, and the larger business buildings
are located.
“I wonder how many people in
Brunswick have paid an even casual
* the police barracks ? I pre¬
‘ visit to of
sume there must not be many
them. But, we must quit neglecting
the police department. If I had to
report to a headquarters such as that
(Continued On Page Eight)
BRUNSWICK NEW
GEN. “RANCHO” VILLA
World’s most famous bandit. . Great
Mexican leader who has been assas¬
sinated by his own followers.
ORDERS ISSUED
CITIZENS’MILITARY
TRAINING CAMP
MOKE THAN 4,400 MEN FROM
EIGHT SOUTHEASTERN
STATES OUT
(By Associated Press.)
Atlanta, Ga., July 21.—The fuss
and fury is over.
The barrage of mimeograph sheets,
pamphlets, posters and orders is com¬
pleted. The artillery preparation for
the battle is finished. The staff at
headquarters of the Fourth Corps
Area sits back in its dugout, helpless
now to help or to Hinder.
Now and then messenger boys dash
.. with frantic telegrams from boys
m
seized with measles at the last mo
ment .who can t. go Now and then
somebody wires m for additional
munition m the term of application
blanks.
But the big job for the staff is over,
and now the troops must bear toe
brunt of the battle, and do their job.
The^ orders for Citizens Military
Trnining Camp, sending more than
4,400 men from the eight southeast
ern states are at last out, and Bill
Jones, clear down in the tip of Flor
ida, or Tom Hicks way up in the
mountains of North Carolina, now is
able to.eat another meal in comfort,
for he knows now that ne is really
and truly accepted to go to camp.
There is a general overhauling of
bathing suits all ova*- the south, and
hundreds of tennis-rackets are being
re-strung. It is expected that the
mortality of ukuleles at camp will be
enormous, but the troops, out for the
month s camp provided by Uncle Sam
will try to stand even such heavy
losses without flinching.
They will battle old General Ennui
bravely, while mastering the differ¬
ences between reveille ami mess-call,
and finding out what a long tail our
mess-kit has. According to good old
army custom, these 4,400 will coun¬
ter-attack again and again, without
sign of faltering, every time the ad¬
vance scouts say the enemy Chow is
approaching.
All camps are ready and on August
1st will commence the third year of
these Citizens’ Military Training
Camps.
BOOSTER MOTORCADE
Tifton, Ga., July 21.—Tift county
business men and farmers plan a
booster motorcade to Valdosta and in¬
termediate towns July 26^ for the pur¬
pose of heralding the opening of the
county’s tobacco market. Forty Au¬
tomobiles are expected to participate
ini the trip.
ZELMENOVITZ INAUGUR ATES
GREATEST SALE IN HISTORY
Outdoing even the high pace prev
iousiy set by himself, A. Zelmenovitz
is tomorrow inaugurating the great
est ready to wear sale of his lifetime,
In his announcement in this morn
ing’s paper, Mr. Zelmenovitz pub
fishes the first statement he has ever
made regarding one of his mereban
dising events. He considers this pres
ent Six Day Sale to be the crowning
achievement of a lifetime of success
ful merchandising feats. He has
marked his goods with one purpose in
view, that is to clear his shelves for
the fall goods that he is to purchase
when he journeys east next month.
When such a statement comes from
such a man, the success of the event
is practically assured. The sale be¬
gins in the morning and only lasts
one week, closing strictly
night.
THE NEWS IS A MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, JULY 22, 1923.
PANCHO VILLA IS
VICTIM BULLETS
OF ASSASSINS
Former Mexican Rebel Chieftain
and Secretary Ambushed
Near Parral
TROOPS ARE SEARCHING
‘ COUNTRY FOR ASSASSINS
For Ten Years Bandit Kept Mex¬
ico in State of Chaos—One of
Notable Escapades Being the
Raid on Columbus, N. M.
(By Associated Press.)
Mexico City, July 21.—The killing
of Francisco Villa, former rebel chief¬
tain, from ambush near Parral, in the
state of Chihuahua, created great
consternation throughout Mexico, the
assassination being discredited until
it was later confirmed.
One hundred «troops under com¬
mand of General Eugenio Martinez,
arrived in Parral early last night to
search for the assassins who killed
Villa, Miguel Trillo, his secretary,
and three men who were with them
near Parral yesterday. Troops from
the command of General Joe G. Esco¬
bar are also coming from Torreon to
assist in the pursuit.
Villa’s Career
Francisco (“Pancho”) Villa, gueril¬
la chieftain bandit leader in Mexico
for more than ten years, declared that
'he had ended his career of outlawry
in August, 19290, when at the head of
900 followers, the remnant of what
once had been his army of 35,000 men,
he entered San Pedro, Coahuila, and,
amid the cheers of the populace, an¬
nounced the intention of himself and
men of accepting amnesty and set¬
tling down as farmers.
j ^ered A few weeks To" earlier, Villa had sur
| Federal forces at Sab
jnas _ Re then dedared his adhere nce
| to Provisional P , esident de la H uer
, ta and 0enel . al Alvara Obregon, later
: eIected p sident to succeed
,. e
| za . Before capitulating, Villa
j andwas RTa nted by the Mex
j can government, one year’s pay and
ia small farm for each of his men, a
j RTan (- e q Utd to $2,000,000 gold.
[ One of the most notable escapades
j j jj. M., yj][ a , was March ra j d on in which he
on 6, 1916,
J j alld ] dg f rt ]] 0W ers killed 17
ctls h resulted in a punitive
, can military expedition under Gen
- pnd Pershing crossing the border and
! maintaining a “dead or alive” pursuit
\ 0 f Villa which lasted more than nine
j mon ths and cost the United States
j government, according to a War De
j p a rtment estimate, nearly $100,000,
j qqq_
In a battle at Parral, American
troopers were ambushed and a num¬
ber of them killed. On March 31,
i however, the bandit’s followers were
i defeated a t Guerrero. The Americans
j were successful in a number of other
‘ skirmishes and penetrated far
so
south into Mexico as to meet the Con¬
stitutionalist troops pf Carranza who,
ostensibly, were also in pursuit of the
renegade Mexican leader.
Villa, wounded but always eluding
mountain cave for five weks. It was
located in the center of a perpendic
his pursuers, lived in a Chihuahua
ular cliff which rose 150 feet from a
brook on the level plain below and
from this point said he often watched
the American troops. Many times ‘he
was reported dead. Upon the Ameri¬
can army’s withdrawal from Mexico,
Villa renewed his depredations. On
April 4, 1916, he was indicted for first
degree murder at Deming, N. M., on
account of the Columbus raid.
“They call me a bandit and the
worst man in Mexico,” declared Villa
when he was welcomed at San Pedro,
Coahuila, “but I would preserve our
nationality. I surrendered because
further fighting meant intervention
by the United States. It is time for
peace.” In a manifesto he praised
the “good faith, honor and patriot¬
ism” of Provisional President de la
Huerta and declared it was his pur¬
pose to show the Mexican nation
. that },e and his men could “build as
we jj as destroy.”
! The former bandit went with his
family from San Pedro to Las Nievas,
j Durango, to “settle down” on his
jfarm there and shortly wrote to de la
j Huerta for school books and supplies,
j Villa was said to have been deeply
I a ff ee ted by the death of a daughter in
| San Antonio, Texas, a month after
j ! hj ho s surrender. Sixteen number of his captured men,
w were among a
by Pershing and convicted of various
offences were pardoned by the gover¬
nor of New Mexico t in November,
1920.
The first real tragedy in Villa’s life
occurred when General Filipe Angeles
was executed as a revolutionist by
Carranza trooops in 1919. Villa ad
(Contlnued on page 8.)
EXTRA SESSION
OF LEGISLATURE
NOT NECESSARY
Governor Clifford Walker Says
This Does Not Seem to
be Needed
LEADERS BOTH HOUSES
TC HAVE CONFERENCE
Chief Executive Compliments
Members on the, “Give and
Take” Stand Many of Them
are Willing to Ad6pt.
(By Associated Jftess.)
Atlanta, July 21.—No extraordi¬
nary session of the general assembly
will be necessary this year, according
to present indications, Governor Clif¬
ford Walker tonight stated in an¬
nouncing that Monday evening lead¬
ers of both houses would hold a con¬
ference in an effort to formulate a
definite program of procedure for the
remaining (lays of the present legis
lature.
The “working spirit” of the legisla¬
tors was described as “excellent by
the chief executive of the state who
added that there appeared to be a
tendency on the part of most of the
leaders to “give and take” in order
that something might be accomplish¬
ed. With such leaders, Governor
Walker said, it was entirely possible
that such proponents of the tax equal¬
ization act repeal bill (would accept
amendments offered to their measure
providing for it to go into effect after
another system had been adopted
through passage of a constitutional
amendment in a general election.
JUNE CONSTRUCTION
RECORD FOR GEORGIA
June building contracts in Georgia
amounted to $4,899,600. This was a
40 percent decrease from the May
figures. The more important items
in the June record were.: $1,896,400,
lings; or 41 per cent, for-residential build
$1,078,000, or 22 percent for
I I public works and utilities; $803,700,
or 16 per cent, for business buildings,
j and $649,500, or 13 percent for in¬
dustrial buildings.
j Total construction started in Geor
gia during the first six months of this
year amounted to $47,064,500. Of
this total, $28,737,700 was for the
city of Atlanta. Atlanta’s June fig¬
ure was $1,848,900, a drop of 63 per
cent from May.
CRAZED SAILOR
SLASHES THROAT
FROM EAR TO EAR
LUDWIG CRONE, MEMBER CREW
OF STEAMSHIP CHEYENNE,
ENDS OWN LIFE
Seemingly on the road to recovery,
but evidently deranged from malar¬
ial fever, Ludwig Crone, a Swede
about thirty-six years of age, slash¬
ed his throat from ear to ear aboard
the British steamship Cheyenne, en
route here from a British port, on
August 13, and the body of the unfor¬
tunate man was consigned with the
usual ceremonies to the waters of the
Atlantic.
The Cheyenne reached this port
some days ago and the suicide was
reported to the Strachan Shipping
Company for whom the vessel is now
loading. Crone, it is stated, had been
a victim of malarial fever but after
leading Liverpool he seemed greatly
improved and informed the master of
the ship on July 13 that he would be
able “be ’ deck” the following
to on
morning of the 14th, and noticed a
pied the same quarters, awoke on the
morning of the 14th, and notced a
stream of blood under the bunk of the
unfortunate fellow sailor. The cap¬
tain of the vessel was notified and an
investigation disclosed the fact that
the man evidently had become de¬
ranged and with a razor, which was
in his hand, had slashed his throat
from ear to ear.
Deceased had been a sailor for a
number of years and was a native of
Sweden. He was known aboard ship
as one who never shirked a duty and
the fact that ha ended his own exist¬
ence is accounted for by 'his fellow
seamen by the opinion that he became
mentally unbalanced as a result of
the fever of which he was a victim
for many days.
SIMS SURFEITED
Atlanta, Ga., July 21.—Mayor Wal¬
ter A. Sims has had enough of this
city mayoralty honors, he declares,
and under no circumstances will he
be a candidate in 1924.
BRITISH NOTE ON GERMAN
REPARATIONS IS SENT TO I
FRANCE BUT KEPT SECRE'
GLYNN GIRLS WIN
EASILY IN BREAD
BAKING CONTEST
The Teams Representing Eight
Counties Make Most Ex=
cellent Showing
MAKE SCORE THAT HAS
NOT YET BEEN EXCELLED
Will Go to Atlanta to Compete in
State Contest for Represen¬
tation at Chicago During the
Fall.
Out of twenty-four contestants,
representing eight counties of the
Eleventh district, competing for hon
ors in the bread-baking contest,
Glynn county girls yesterday won a
decisive victory over their friendly
rivals, making a score of 1004, the
highest record to date—and there are
but three other districts to report.
The contest for this district was
held in the Glynn High school Tburs
day and Friday, twenty-four girls
representing the district, three each
from the counties of Chatham. Ware,
McIntosh, Pierce, Bryan, Appling,
Lanier and Glynn. The contest open
ed with the baking of bread and bis
cuit, and the product, the result of
the making at expert-hands, kept the
judges busy for many hours. Each
team had surprised the judges by the
superiority of their knowledge of
baking bread and the finished product
was even more complicated.
After several hours of deliberation,
it was decided that the Glynn con¬
testants, comprised of Misses Johnny
Paulk. Nellie Drawdy and Ruby
Chambers were the-winners, the lat¬
ter making the highest score on the
general knowledge of bread-making,
with flour and yeast. Miss Drawdy
easily won over her competitors in
making the best biscuits.
When the contest was announced
it was stated by the judges that the
Glynn team had won by sixty-nine
points over their nearest competitors.
The team had been instructed by Mrs.
Madge B. Merritt, home demonstra
tio nagent, the girls under her tute¬
lage winning their laurels on the
score principally of technique and the
general knowledge of bread-baking,
The contest was predicated on the
appearance of the contestants; proce¬
dure: neatness; arrangement of ma¬
terial; manipulation; economy; gen¬
eral knowledge and judging bread. In
all of these the Glynn trio excelled.
The judges, however, took occasion to
compliment the other contestants on
their splendid showing, the products
of their efforts being superior to
those ever made in a similar contest.
Miss Etta Colclough, assistant
state agent of the girls’ clubs, of Ath¬
ens, stated that she was agreebaly
surprised at the showing made br¬
each of the girls’ clubs of the various
counties. “I 'have judged these con¬
tests on previous occasions,” said
Miss Colclough, “but I have never
witnessed such keen competition, and
such superior work on the part of the
contestants. It was inspiring to me,
and to others, to see the contestants
making such an improvement over
their former efforts. They have sim¬
ply excelled themselves, demonstrat¬
ing that they have received the most
adept tutorage.”
The successful contestants wifi go
to the Southeastern Fair, in Atlanta,
in October, accompanied by Mrs. Mer¬
ritt, at the expense of the state, to
compete with the club winners of the
other ten districts. The winners of
this contest, two teams to be selected,
are to go to Chicago, during the fall
to enter the national bread-baking
contest.
Mrs. Merritt leaves tomorrow for
the district short course, which is to
be held at the A. & M. college, States¬
boro, accompanied by C. J. Anderson,
Emma Belle Mitchell, of Bladen; Ila
Livingston, of Brookman, and Mar¬
garet Crine and Cecil Chambers, of
Southern Junction, who are members
of the Glynn county clubs. They will
be away until Friday.
Mrs. Merritt is confident that the
Glynn county girls will give an excel¬
lent account of themselves at the At¬
lanta fair and it is not improbable
that this county will be represented at
the national bread-baking contest in
Chicago.
JOHN M’CORMACK
Famous American tenor, who has
been out of commission because of
illness, returns from Europe and
announces he will return to stage
this winter.
BARRETT & CO.
MAY AGAIN BE A
GOING CONCERN
EFFORTS UNDERTAKEN TO AR¬
RANGE MATTERS LOOKING
TO THIS END
(By Associated Press.)
Augusta^ July 21.—The appoint¬
ment of a creditor committee' to con¬
duct the business of Barrett & Co.,
as a going concern was reported early
tonig-ht as being arranged by finan¬
ciers representing eastern creditors.
The company, one of the country’s
largest cotton factors, had announced
its inability to meet its obligations at
the present time which is variously
estimated at between eight hundred
thousand and one million dollars.
An agreement is expected to be
reached by interested parties some
time during tonight.
MEN CHARGED WITH
FLOGGING WOMEN
ARE ACQUITTED
Lumberton, July 21.—A verdict of
not guilty on three counts in the in
dictment on which they were tried
were returned this afternoon after
the jury was out fifty minutes in the
trial of Mike Lawson, Jule Brigden
and Johnson Hodgepeth.
The men were charged with and
tried for kidnaping ami secret assault
on a woman as a result of the kid¬
napping and flogging near Proctor
ville on April 14, of Mrs. Mary Wat¬
son and Mrs. .Hattie Purvis.
WINS SCHOLARSHIP
Milledgeville, Ga., July 21.—Miss
Mary Bacon Brooks, normal super¬
visor of intermediate grades in the
practice school of the Georgia State
College for Women, has been award¬
ed a scholarship for a summer course
in health education at Peabody Col¬
lege, Nashville. Miss Brooks won
one of the 15 awards given by the
American Child Health Association.
FRUIT CHIEF INGREDIENT
OF ILLICIT WHISKEY
Atlanta, Ga., July 21—Fruit is tak¬
ing the place of corn as the chief in¬
gredient of illicit whiskey, according
to federal pohibition officials here,
who have captured 550 gallons of
peach beer, thirty gallons of peach
brandy and twenty-five gallons of
blackberry wine. The industry has
its crest in the middle and southern
section of the state, the agents as¬
sert.
DALTON’S NEW HOTEL
Dalton, Ga., July 21.—Dalton’s new
hotel, modern fireproof structure,
sponsored by the local Civitan Club
at a cost of $170,000 has been open¬
ed for occupancy. The hostelry has
45 rooms.
NOTED CRIMINAL ESCAPES
Philadelphia, July 21.—Erwin F.
Wilson, of Brookline, Mass., who was
pardoned by President Wilson for I
preventing a jail delivery at Fort
Leavenworth, where he was imprison-!
ed. escaped early today from the state
hospital for the criminal insane at
Fairview, Pa.
BRUNS HSL_
Has a landlocked
best on the South At‘* nt,c
Coast
PRICE FIVE CENTS
CONTENTS NOT
KNOWN ONLY TO
FEW OFFICIALS
Allied Views are Requested in a
Communication From the
British Premier
COPY OF IT ALSO SENT
TO WASHINGTON CITY
French Cabinet Will Meet Today
and Give the Document Its
First Official Consideration at
That Time.
(By Associated Press.)
London, July 21.—The British note
in reply to the German reparations
communication has been delivered to
the allied ambassadors.
Immediately following this all of
t'he British cabinet members have
dispersed to the country for the week¬
end, there being nothing to ,-Io now
but await the reply which will be
made by the French government.
It is understood here that the
French cabinet will meet tomorrow
when the British note will be given
its first official consideration.
With the British note seeking al¬
lied and American views on the rep¬
arations issue safely in the hands
of the various diplomatic representa¬
tives for transmission to their respec¬
tive governments, there was an evi¬
dent feeling of relief and satisfaction
! in Downing- street this morning.
The British foreign officials left im¬
mediately for an extended week-end
vacation, but a number of the Amer¬
ican embassy staff members wifi not
be able to enjoy such recreation for
they were busy coding messages for
Washington so the note might be on
the state > department’s desk early
Monday morning. By the end of an¬
other week the British government
expects to have answers from the al¬
lied and American governments.
Note Reaches France
Paris, July 21.—The British note
on German reparations was received
at the French foreign office today it
, was officially made known during the
morning.
| Knowledge of the contents of the
j note is limited to a small group of
j the of these foreign have office promised officials. Premier Each Poin- one
j j
care to keep the information to him
self, the Premier saying that the
! French government has given its
j words of 'honor to observe absolute
1 secrecy until the British government
has agreed to the publication of the
text of the note.
Premier Poincare’s address at the
monument ceremonies at Villerscot
teret tomorrow will present anew
terest tomorrow will present a new
France’s attitude on the reparation
issue, but if the speech had been
written before the British note ar
j rived it will be a simple statement of
the French position without regard
to the questions raised by the Brit¬
ish.
Actual negotiations among the al¬
lies will be begun next week as soon
as the French , and Belgian premiers
have had time to discuss the note with
their cabinets. „ ,
Document in Washington,
Washington, July 21.—The British
note on reparations, sent to the al¬
lied capitals, also was delivered to the
Washington government today as a
matter of information.
The state department officials said
that the text would rrot, be (made pub¬
lic nor would the subject be discussed.
The note came through the American
embassy in London.
It was said that the officials had not
had time nor opportunity to study the
note in detail, but it was indicated
that when such an opportunity had
been afforded no announcement could
be expected in view of the British
government’s injunction to strict se
crecy.
GOVERNOR TO SPEAK
TO RURAL CARRIERS
Columbus, Ga., July 21.—Governor
Clifford Walker, it is understood,
be one of the speakers before
Georgia Rural Letter Carriers’ as'
iation when they assembled
Monday, Sept. 3, for their tw
annual convention,
being made to place Un
Senators William J. Ha
ter F. George on the i