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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 I (Continued Page Eight) •I- ♦ ♦ *■ ♦ ♦ ♦ M. ♦ ♦ t ♦ ♦ -f MOVEMENT UNDERWAY •f TO OVERTHROW GREEK ♦ MONARCHY, I.S REPORT ’ ♦ --— ♦ (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. ♦ .J. 4 ♦ 4 4 ♦ ♦ -f 4 4. 4 4 4 UNDERWOOD TO STATE POSITION ON EYK ‘be°turn™ ™l GOMERY TUESDAY _ 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. A COMEDAN WITH A *" mm mmm. j | 1 I ! j * j *: ; f rp 1 isa? 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.. ' 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.