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BRUNSWICK
Has the lowest death rate of
any city its size in the United
States .......
VOLUME XXII. No. 286.
NA T ION’S CHIEF ILL - NCELS
DING
fdW RESGARDED
AS A VEkY SICK MAN
LEADING DOCTORS
IN CONSULTATION
THIS AFTERNOON
Four of California’s Most Re
nowned Physicians Have
Been Called
BULLETIN PROMISED BUT
HAS NOT BEEN ISSUED
Thosj» Close to Nation’s Chief
.oSeem to be Alarmed.—All the
Dates in California Have Been
Cancelled.
San Francisco, Cal., July 30.—
President Harding will be rush¬
ed back to Washington by special
train as soon as his condition
improves sufficiently to travel
but it will probably be two weeks
before he will be able to make
the trip back to the capitol.
The two San Francisco physi¬
cians who were called into consul¬
tation by General Sawyer last
night were again in conference
with him this morning.
Secretary Weeks, of the inter¬
ior department, also again met
with the consultants.
The President spent a fairly
comfortable night, according to
a bulletin issued at II o’clock this
morning by General Sawyer. The
nntK’fif's condition is acute and
he has temporarily overstrained
the cardiac vascular system
by carrying on speaking en¬ |
gagements while ill, the bulletin
said. ;
The said it would be 1
statement
necessary for the President to
have complete rest during the
period of acute symptoms. Pres¬
ident Harding, the nine o’clock
statement said, had temperature
of one hundred and pulse one
hundred and eighteen, respiration
three.
'
San Francisco, Cal., July 30.—Pres
ident Harding today is a sick man.
Just how serious the condition of the
President is his physicians have
said beyond the statement that new
symptoms had arisen during the
“indicating complications in the Pres
ideht’s case,” ;a physician said this
morning. His- condition is regarded
as sufficiently serious as to cause can
cellation of the entire California
gram and to bring about a
tion into which two leading Califor
nia physicians were called.
Four physicians are participating
in the consultation which was held
today but no statement was issued by
either of the four, although General
Sawyer, President, ' Harding’s
per¬
sonal physician, previously announced
that a bulletin would be made public.
An -effort was made to get a per¬
sonal; statement from one (of the
quartett of doctors but this proved
futile.
It is known that those who are close
*to the President are more than alarm¬
r ed at his condition. It was announced
Saturday night that he was the victim
of “slight ptomaine poisoning,’’ and
developments, it seems, have been
anything but favorable.
The following statement was issued
Jate last night:
“The president is deeply apprecia¬
tive of the fact, that the people of
California and its great cities have
planned a series of magnificent dem¬
onstrations in honor of his visit.
“He realizes the great inconven¬
ience imposed on public authorities,
volunteer committees and the people
in general by reason of uncertainty
whether .the program in which he was
to have participated can be carried
out. He has been particularly con¬
cerned to avoid the possibility that
many thousands would travel long
distances and then be disappointed.
“Accordingly, after full consider¬
ation of all circumstances, he has de¬
sired the statement made public that
by advice of his physician he will not
attempt to carry out the program ar
" singed for him for San Francisco. is reluc
ireover, the president
persuaded that it will be nee
to cancel the entire California
im. >>
thought was given at the con
e which preceded issuance of
THF. BRUNSWICK
w THE NEWS IS A MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Warren G. Harding
Is ill in San Francisco, Cal., and his
condition alarms those close to him.
DRAFTING BILL
FOR BRUNSWICK’S
MUNICIPAL DOCKS
SOON AS-APPROVED WILL I?E
FORWARDED TO REPRE¬
SENTATIVE MANN
As a result of the enthusiastic
meeting held Saturday, which was
tended by a large number of Brums
wick’s" leading citiens, including
e:'al ladies, a bill is being * drafted to
be submitted, and later forwarded • .....
Representative B. F. Mann urging ij$s
passage .......................... at the present session of til
legislature, authorizing the
Brunswick to increase its bonding I mi? ea-"'
pacify from seven to fourteen per;
cent o. its assessed valuation, the in
crease to be applied specifically to the
construction of ' municipal terminal
dock facilities. ■
The meeting Saturday was marked
by the unanimity of those present in
favoring and endorsing the
tion to place Brunswick in a position
to own and operate its own docks,
a nd authorizing the bond issue to
make this possible. It was pointed
out; bv Mayor IVI. B. McKinhon that.
in or ,; er for this city to keep pace
with the other seaport efties, this
action W as absolutely necessary,
The mayor has been spending sev
0 , a: days Tn Atlanta making observa
tions in reference to the state port
terminal bill, which Savannah is
pressing, and he realized that when it
became known that Brunswick had
no municipal dock terminal facilities,
it placed this city at a decided disad
vanta g e . Ho concluded to call the
mass meeting and place the matter
squarely before the citizens, with the
result as above stated.
It is expected that the bill, which
is being drafted will be ready for sub¬
mission within a very few .Jays and
if approved it will be promptly for¬
warded to Representative Mann with
the request that it be pressed for im¬
mediate passage.
the statement, to any substitute for
the cancelled California program and
it was said that the chief executive
would remain in San Francisco until
he completely,recovered his health.
How long the president might stay
in San Francisco no one, not even
•his physicians was prepared to say,
but it was generally agreed among'
those in the presidential party that
tonight’s decision indicated that Mr.
Harding’s condition was worse than
had been generally believed.
The belief was expressed by some
of those close to the president that in
addition to cancellation of the, Cali
fortSf Atlantic program by the water of the trip Panama to the
coast way
canal probably would be abandoned
also, although the matter.yas confidence. not dis¬
cussed at tonight’s
Participating in the conference at
which the decision with respect to the
California program was reacltfefl when
Brig. Gen. Charles E. Sawyer,
so'nal physician to the present; Secre
tary Work of the interior department,
tian, Jr.,-secretary to the pres id %t,
anil Mrs. Harding. Some of %
members of the president’s immed edit'
party indicated that a
statement, giving the president’s con
(Continued on page 3.)
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, MONO \Y, JULY 30, 1923.
DEATH TOLL IN
AUTO SMASHES
Grade Crossing Scenes of Most
of Fatalities That are
Reported
SEVENTEEN ARE INJUI
IN ATLANTA CIDEN
In Terre Haute, Ind., Nine Per¬
sons Were Killed When
Train Crashed Into an Auto¬
mobile.
Atlanta, July 30.—Sixyear-old
Ethorline Pen/Hey, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Walter D. Pendley, 278
South Asby street, was killed, and
seventeen other persons injured, four
seriously, in automobile accidents
Sunday.
The little girl was killed instantly
about 1:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon
at Whiteford and DeKalb avenues,
when the large touring car her father
was driving collided with a light, tour¬
ing machine driven by J. S. Bradley,
35 Leslie street, who is being held
| by less the driving police under and murder. a charge Pendlev, of reck
i
father of the little girl who was kill¬
ed, was arrested under a charge of
j reckless driving, being released under
i a copy of charges.
Besides his 6-year-old daughter
j who Walter, was killed, 8, Pendley’s and Fay, wife, 3-year- his
I son, age
j-suffered old daughter, were in the car. All
bruises and cuts, Walter suf¬
fering a badly smashed leg and pos¬
sibly, a,fractured shoulder.
Bradley, driver of the other car,
was knocked unconscious when
J hr0W1 ] from his machine by the force
the impact. Surgeons at the Grady
fc ,s P' ta * st ht? < l tkat his left shoul.-ier
n§nde was broken., who
( SMrs. Bradley and six children
were riding in the car with Mr. Brad
ley, were H. G. Fields and Mrs. Stel
' a Fields, of Chatahoochee, all were
-.badly bruised. The children’s names
are Horace, age 14; Roy, age 9;
H-ene, 8: Ruth, 12; J. S., Jr., 1 year
and Marie, age 5.
! Bradley stated that he was driving
| ir > ‘ an easterly direction—out DeKalb
| avenue crossing and DeKalb that Pendley’s in car souther- was
avenue a
ly direction in Whiteford avenue.
The body of Etherline Pendley was
removed to the chapel of T. C. Bazo
rnore & Company. Funeral arrange¬
ments had not been completed late
today.
In an accident just after 2 o’clock
Sunday morning in Ponce de Leon
avenue, iear Highland avenue, D. W.
McClair, of 100 1-2 North Pryor
street, and a woman said to be a Mrs.
Gordon, narrowly escaped death. Both
were rushed to Wesley Memorial hos¬
pital, and allowed to return home aft¬
er treatment, at their request.
Both McClair and his woman com¬
panion were badly cuit and bruised
about the head and shoulders. Sur¬
geons at first thought McClair had a
fractured skull. • He was rendered
temporarily unconscious.
Just a few minutes before ’heir in¬
jury in Ponce de Leon avenue, Mc¬
Clair and the woman had been stop¬
ped by Decatur police, who preferred
charges of reckless driving against
the man.
Citizens living near the scene of the
accident, who rushed out in their
night clothes to render first fid and
summon help, were unable to tell just
what caused the accident.
In another collision Sunday morn¬
ing at Hunter and Broad streets be¬
tween the auto of Mrs. Elmer Bun¬
j nell, 211 North Moreland Bunnell avenue, nad
a motor truck, Mrs, was
slightly bruised and hurt. The truck
belonged to B. U. Jones Transfer com¬
pany, 109 Peters] street; and was driv¬
en by W. F. GihsPn. , .
Charges of reckless- /driving wfere
preferred against Gibs®fc H. and Mrs.
Bunnell by E. King,
who investigate{lv'fhe accident.
Nine Killed
Terre Haute,- Ind., July 3<L-—Nine
persons were killed yesterday when a
Pennsylvania eastbound
train .crashed into the . automobile in
which they had started across the
tracks at Liggett, eight miles west
j j of here. The train wak traveling R
aboqt 50 mites ap hour was.’fekn
if our persons were killed.
Five New ■
in York
§ 30.—William
j New York, July
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•I- ♦ ♦ *■ ♦ ♦ ♦ M. ♦ ♦ t ♦ ♦
-f MOVEMENT UNDERWAY
•f TO OVERTHROW GREEK
♦ MONARCHY, I.S REPORT
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♦ --—
♦ (By Associated Press.)
■*- London, July 30.—Reports
■f have reached the British govern
■f merit of an attempt to set up a
♦ republic in Greece in place of a
♦ monarchy, Ronald MacNeill, un
♦ der secretary of foreign affairs,
♦ told the house of commons this
4 morning 1 .
4 The movement, it is stated,
♦ has been underway for the past
4 s everal months and has been
♦ growing throughout tl;e entire
4 Greek empire.
♦
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UNDERWOOD TO
STATE POSITION
ON
EYK ‘be°turn™ ™l
GOMERY TUESDAY
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Montgomery, Ala., ’ July
eyes of an entire nation will be
the Alabama capital Tuesday
United States Senator Oscar W.
derwood is expected to state his
sition concerning probable ,
for the Democratic nomination
President of the United States
1924.
Senator Underwood has
his intention of touching on his
tion in the 1924 race for president in
his address before the Alabama
islature, as well as on world matters.
The Alabama senior member of
senate is said to be looked on
favor by the Democrats of the
nation for the 1924 campaign.
was a strong contender for the
ination in 1912 at the Baltimore con¬
vention at which time
Woodrow Wilson was the nominee.
Senator Underwood, who is at home
in Birmingham this week has
ly returned from an extended tour
Europe and the eastern
where he was a close student of
eign affairs.
No intimation of the stand the A1
abaniian will take has been made yet
and just whether he will toss his hat
formally into the ring while in
Alabama capital is a matter of spec¬
ulation.
Hotel facilities are said to be
most wholly taken at present
reservations being wired
Visitors from the entire section will
probably crowd the city to
the senator.
Senator Underwood is expected to
spend several days in Montgomery.
CAR CRASHES OFF
HIGH EMBANKMENT
KILLING FOUR MEN
PROMINENT CITIZENS OF FLOW¬
ERY BRANCH MEET TRAGIC
DEATHS ON HIGHWAY
Flowery Branch, Ga., July 30.—
Four men were killed when their au
tomobile ran off a high fill in the
Gainesville-Atlanta highway
here late yesterday afternoon.
The dead are: j. W. Hunt, Henry
Harris, Grover Crowe and Will Me-,
Kinney, all of Flowery Branch.
Crowe was killed instantly. Harris
died while being rushed to a local hos¬
pital and Hunt and McKinney died
while efforts were being made to save
their lives.
Hunt was driving the car, and is
said to have been going nearly 80
miles an hour in a high-powered car.
Paul W^yne, of this city, who was
behind of the- car driven by Hunt,
says he rounded the curve just in
time to see the automobile plunge
across the ditch.
He turned back and assisted in
bringing the dead and injured men
here.
The crash was seen by a farm
hand named Vaughn.
The car, in making a slight curve,
almost ran off the right side of the
road, and the driver cut the wheels
too sharp to the left. The car jumped
a ditch a struct a tree 40 feet from
where it left the roadway, ..._______ The tree
shews very deep gash, about 20
feet from the ground where it was hit
by the car. people
• The car was a total wreck,
was left.
J- The victims had been seen
times during the afternoon riding
rapidly through the streets of the
citv, according to municipal officials.
PROPOSED NEW
TAX LAW WILL
BE POSTPONED
As Also Will a Numbfer of Im=
portant Bills Now before
the House
IMPORTANCE CALLS, -OR
CLOSE INVEST iATION
i
j Fleming of Hancock Introduces
a Resolution Which Will Car
I ry Many Important PVoposed
Measures Over Until 1924.
' Atlanta, July 30.—Asserting J that
! sufficient information cannot, be ob
| tained at present and that only four
I j teen session days of the ™ generapassem- ®f the
present
bly, a resolution bv Fleming on Hand
«* k aml othera a8ki n « that a ¥ ax r< "
-
torm measures be postponed for
j duced sideration in the until house. next year, was] intro
^ The resolution, which enumerated
!
the lea ^ ns for Postponement, re
l quests the presences of various,
j ate billg in the house g eneI . ;t | ap -
propriations bill and tax act pending
investigation of the agricultural
department, highway department and
other pressing matters were referred
to the rules committee.
Reformation of the entire taxjsys
tern of the state is of too graves without im
portance to be attended to
complete said. authoritiwe information 4 b
was
First National Bank "Id
of Colquitt, This State ,
Failed to Open Toaqy
I
Colquitt, Ga., July 30.—The First
1 National Bank of Colquitt failed to
I °P en its doors today as a result of a
j I run cause on of the the institution heavy withdrawals Saturday. is The not
announced.
The bank has a capital stock of fif¬
! ty thousand dollars and is reported
! to have carried deposits totalling thir
ty thousand dollars.
WOMAN IS SENTENCED
j TO SERVE FIVE YEARS
I
! FOR STEALING NICKEL
j
New York, July 30.—Roscoe Kra
j mer, was sentenced to serve five years
i in prison for stealing five cents,
j The girl stole a purse from a shop
] girl. The purse contained a nickel.
1 Two previous convictions for similar
! offenses were cited by Judge Baker
i when he imposed sentence.
TWO SHIPS ARE IN DISTRESS j
Seattle, Wash., July 30.—An uni- j
dentified ship, reported in distress at j
the Fuca., mouth which of later the strait vanished, of Juan the de j
and j
Siberian Prince, Furuness-Prince
freighter, which went ashore one mile j j
from the Race Rock Lighthouse on
Bentick island just outside Victoria
B. C., harbor early this morning add-
1 e( j two to ^ list of marine accidents
of the last three days while heavy
fogs hung over Puget Sound waters.
GOVERNOR WALKER WANTS
ACTION ON TAX MEASURES
BUT M’MICHAEL OPPOSES IT
OPPOSITION TO
ANY MORE DELAY
MEASURE NOW ON
GOVERNOR CLIFFORD WALKER
URGING ACTION AT PRES¬
ENT SESSION
(By Associated Press.)
Atlanta, July 30.—Opposition to
! any move in the general assembly to
i delay consideration on tax reform
j measures until next Clifford year was express
I ed by Governor Walker to
; dgy before the house sub-committee
j the constitutional amendment and tax
measures until 1924.
j The governor said he was strong
; in favor of some action on the mat
Iters referred to at this session.
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CHARLIE CHAPLIN
America’s greatest comedian, who de
ceives his looks Pola Negri, also a
film star, at the last moment re
f used to marry Charlie because of
his “horrible temper.”
BRIDGES RESIGNS
AS READING CLERK
OF LOWER
WAS ALLEGED TO HAVE COUNT¬
ED OUT AMENDMENT IN
IMPORTANT BILL
y A ,T ,
At,,, “ 1 a , u I resignation ■
’
of Fred ^ Bridges, reading clerk of the
house of preseBtatives, who was at
tacked in a resolution charging mis
conduct on an amendment relating to
the department of agriculture last
week, was today accepted by Bismark
Moore, chief c-Ierk.
The resolution directed at Clerk
Bridges was defeated by the house
after several hours debate. The
amendment which was alleged to
have been counted out was the one
removing all appropriations for the
Bureau of Markets. The resolution
provided that no one holding office in
the state department within six
months- of date, could hold any posi
tion in the house,
Bridges was. formerly connected
with the department of agriculture.
ONE WHITE WOMAN IN COLONY
_
Nairobi, July 30.—Mrs. Sarah G.
Richardson is the only white woman
living in the Suk-Kamasia Reserve of
Keyna Colony, a district of 4,500
square miles.
M’MICHAEL FOR
POSTPONEMENT OF
TAX MEASURES
MEETING LEGISLATORS WILL
BE HELD AT CAPITAL
THIS EVENING
(By Associates Press.)
Atlanta, July 30.—Representative
McMiphael, of Marion, urged delay
today to consideration of tax reform
measure*- until next year and called
a meeting gf all interested in an in¬
vestigation 'deJpFtments * the highway and ag''
cultural for tonight^
the capital.#'
The Ifduse resolved itselff in
committoe of the whole and toe
cons’deritionj/of the general apt
nations bill,
DS CLUB
VIST BRUNSWICK
ON AUGUST 9-10
Formal Invitation Extended to
Motorists feipSty Civic
Organizations
TRIP TO ST. SIMON AND
LONG ISLAND ARRANGED
To Select Rou/te Which is to
Connect Columbus and "Bruns¬
wick Great Highway to the
Sea., ' ]]|
At joint ■ _ ; , p|
a meeting of the godd
roads committee 'of the- Board., hf -
Trade morning, and the the Young effi^Club foi> the
program en
tainment of the Columbus Motor Cl a
was agreed on when that’ , organ;:
tion comes to Brunswick to ilisp
the two or more routes and
the meetings Columbus-Brunswick to be held by tlicpwo H^hVay 1 al
organizations. ’ 7 fp..
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j The date selected for the meeting.,
was Thursday and Fridajt, Adgust
9th and 10th, if those dates are agi»e
able to the Columbus ten¬
tative program Thursday calls for morhirt|: a feting at
9 o'clock at the
Oglethorpe hotel, at ^hiifh every
phase cities of will the be highway discussed between until the lunch two
time, when the party will be escorted w.
i to the Clyde doejes, whffre they will
1 ^ oan ' a steamer for St. Simon and
Long Islands, and they will be driven
over both islands in automobiles. The,
delegates will be given the option; off* v
remaining on St. Simon ever night, ' *
returning to Brunswick on*the early j 5 *' ]
boat.'
Friday morning a short business
session will be held, rrrviyring'flpprdx
innately two hours, at the conclusion
of which a drive ovot* the city will be
tendered the visitors, which 'frill in¬
clude an inspection of the operations
on the St. Simon Highway, as far as
they have progressed. This interest will no
doubt prove of especial to
the delegates as this is one of the
j I most stupendous good roads projects
construction in the South.
, | Returning to the city the visitors, ,
many of whom will be ladies, will, be
j guests of the Young Men’s Club at
j Program Iunch eon. will An be unusually arranged on interesting this oc¬
I
casion, which will include a number
of Columbusites being assigned to
make brief talks. It is not unlikely
that a number of the delegates will
go over to St, Simon for the week¬ i
end, following the closing of the meet¬
ing.
The visit of the Columbus Motor
Club to Brunswick will be of more
than ordinary significance and nam¬
ing of the highway that it is to con¬
nect the city oft the Chattahoochee
with Brunswick. There are three
routes, it has been pointed out, any
one of which would be acceptable and
the selection will go to the one on
which the cities of that route will give
the strongest guarantee of co-opera¬
tion and financial assistance. The
Columbusites will in all probability
come by one route and returfi by an¬
other. It is expected that members
of the good roads committee of the
Board of Trade and the Young Men’s
Club will make a trip to Columbus
within a short time, when one of the
three routes will be definitely decided
OSCAR UNDERWOOD
IS GIVEN RECEPTION
AT BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
Birmingham. Ala.. July 30.—Dis¬
cussion of political matters was ta¬
boo at the great reception given Unit¬
ed States Senator Oscar W. Under¬
wood when thousands of Alabama
people, despite a driving rain that fell
for hours, gathered to do him honor
at East Lake.
Governors, congressmen, heads • of
cities, judges, men and women who
head organizations of citizens, mili¬
tary officers, each in turn spoke words
of welcome to Senator Underwood
and told the assemblage of what he
has done and is doing as an Alabam¬
ian and in the nation’s affairs.