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''Tlli: HEST
TUESDAY, ATLANTIC
JME XXIII. No. 4.
00D RIOTS ON IN MANY SECTIONS OF TOKIO
[IVER SUMIDA IS CLOGGED BY
3QDIES OF THOUSANDS VICTIMS
EARTHQUAKE, FLAMES,
Hi HALF MILLION
ATEST REPORT I
ON CASUALTIES
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liorities Unable to Estimate
Loss of Life in Yoko*
hanta City
FUL PICTURE DEAD
tND DYING ON ALL SIDES
Which Raged More Than
enty-four Hours Was Fi
ly Somewhat Checked by
e of Explosives.
riots are adding to the
ors at Tokio and many cas¬
tes are resulting in various
ions of the city. Frenzied by
ger thousands are maddened
desperate.
tioting which started early
yesterday continues unabated to¬
day and the police department
seems powerless.
Casualties from the earthquake
and fire in various Japanese cit¬
ies and towns total a half million
and three hundred thousand
houses have been burned, is the
•" t! ite Of the metropolitan po
Tokio.
«isenger liners Empress
I the President Jeffcr
mpress of Australia,
, rode out the tidal
is occurred in a num
ner ,cken cities and is Con¬
tinuing.
The United States consul gen- |
eral at Yokohama was killed, a
dispatch says.
The death of reported. Prince Masayossi .|
sAIatsukata is |
Prince Khimadzu, formerly of
the 1 great house of Satsuma and
others of royal blood, are re
ported to have lost their lives. I
Earthquake shocks continue
around Kawaguchi,
t Cities; Practically Destroyed
Osaka, 'Sent. 4.-—Almost the whole
of/Tokio and-.. Yokohama have been
destroyed by earthquake, followed by
fire, an dtflte loss of life now is
mgted at Tom 120,000 to 200,000 or
more.
Two hundred thousand houses have
been burned qown in the two cities.
Water maips have been broken and
food supplies destroyed by fire, so
that the people are near starvation
arm suffering from much thirst.
Jt is reported, but not confirmed,
that the section of Tokio where
of'its foreign population resided, is
not greatly damaged.
of'the l^he air broken- was yet buildings filled with which the had
crumbled from the force of the quake
. when the fires broke out, bringing
death to efid the/suffering of many
l pinned beneath the wreckage and
(stopping the efforts their of uninjured fortunate per
to rescue less
fellows. A high wind whipped the
Junes rapidly frorh burning regions
otb'vs at a distance.
of such a conflagration,
could make but little
Fhe same disturbances that
the gas pipes hail broken
mains anfi there was noth
herewith to'fight the
The fire, uncontrolled for more than
enty-four hours after it broke -out,
entually was checked through
of explosives, soldiers
kundreds of the lightly construct
Japanese houses with bombs to
1 barren space in the path of the
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Missionaries are Safe
m fy^naries'iu y-York, Sept. 4 — All the Baptist
Japan are believed ho
afe according to a cable
t the American Foreign Mission
piety from Charlea^B.
!>f the Japan Baptist Mis-
THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
THE NEWS IS A MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
♦•*•♦♦♦♦♦■»■•* -r 4 ♦
MEMBER AMERIC AN
EMBASSY AT TOKIO 4
SAFE ADVICES STATE ♦
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(By Associated Press.) ♦
Washington, Sept. 4.—Ail
members of the American em- 4
bassy at Tokio are safe, accord- 4
ing to a message received this
morning from Ambassador
Wood.
The message today is the first
word received from him by the
state department. The embas
sy was destroyed, Mr. Wood said.
He also state/! that food was
badly needed.
IS HAND OF RUSSIA BEHIND
ITALY IN NEW CRISIS?
GEOIt G E T( HIT(TIER1N
Foreign Secretary of
Russia, who is said to he the
fewer backing It >.(y in present
tiation.
AND
FENDIG CAN NOW
TALK BY
Connecting
Section Has Been
Completed
OF SECTION
ARE HIGHLY
Bell, in Response
Request of Citizens of
Town on A., B. & A.,
ly Installed Line.
Brunswick and Fendig are
associated—within
of each other, as it were,
Southern Bell Telephone & Tele
Company has just completed
toll line to that little village on
B. & A. For many months
of Fendig, and the
contiguous thereto, have
for communication with
world. They have it:
Local Manager K E. L. Reddy
smiles today when he
the line bad been opened,
could talk to
to New York, if it wanted to
The people of that
elated over the' fact that they
no longer isolated, as far as
concerned, with the outside world,
When the request was made for
it was taken up by
ger Reddy and the company
promptly. It was hut a
before the material was on
and a corps of workmen
installing the line. Its
tion required but a short time
Fendig is no longer a village
isolated from the world.
There is not a more prosperous
tion, nor a happier people, than
who reside at Fendig and
They are more pleased than ever
their environment, now that they
talk with Brunswick whenever the
easion arises. The enterprise of
Southern Bell is appreciated and
installation of the telephone line
prove a boon to that section.
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BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPT. 4, 1923.
GA. COLLEGE OF
COMMERCE OPENS
SESSION TODAY
! Marks Another Step in the For=
I ward Movement of
Brunswick
LARGE NUMBER PUPILS
ENROLLED ON FIRST DAY
Entire Second Floor of The News
Building is Used by Institu¬
tion Which is Furnished in an
Up-to-Date Manner.
The Georgia College of Commerce
opened its sessions at; 9 o’clock this
morning. The night school will open
tonight at seven. This marks the ad¬
dition of another step in Brunswick’s
movement forward. Hereafter the
young people of Brunswick will he
able to acquire a business education
without having to go to some distant
city for it. Further, many young peo
I pie throughout South Georgia will he
| brought here for the courses.
I President Perry states that the en
I rollment has passed ins expectations
I ' an nrwl ,| Hint that hp he is is greatly OTPrltUr ntpnsfol pleased ,v; with l 'll
j the outlook. A cordial invitation is
extended to all who are interested in
the college to visit it and see a reg¬
ular commercial college in operation.
To a representative of The News,
Mr. Perry stated: “We have been in
Brunswick, about ten days. In that
time we have advertised our courses I
extensively, equipped a centrally
cated building, enrolled a number of |
students, started actual instruction
and the college is now offered to the,
people of Brunswick for their judg-1
ment. Ail this could not have been '
done had it not been for the- splendid
cooperation accorded us by the secre- ;
tary of the Brunswick Board of Trade. 1
1 wish to take this opportunity of ex¬
pressing to Mr. Wai'de, managing sec¬
retary of the Board of Trade, to The
Brunswick News and to all others
who in various ways have made the
accomplishment of this
possible, my sincere appreciation.
hope that our work will be such as t ft
reflect credit upon their judgment.” I
The entire second floor of The Newt ft 1
building is used by the college, j
has been completely furnished from at-. I
j .front 'to back and those who are in
I tendance haye tiie advantage of
erytfcfnff new. The pupils state that,
they are delighted with the work and
' the surroundings.
j One of the outstanding features' of
; * *.1,:.. this college is the individual method
of instruction. Each student has-a
desk by himself and pursues his work 1
independent of all other students. By
this method those who are, /drier and ;
those who are deficient in general ed
ucation may take a course and not be 1
subjected to the embarrassment
class recitation. !
IMPORTANT CONFERENCE
TO BE HELD IN WAYCROSS
SEPTEMBER TWENTIETH
]
Much interest in T local , e , ucaiona .
circles is being manifested |
coming to be held regional m Waycross confer^ on septem which ei is j j
“Ori* - !
• This conference; which n one of a |
series of fourteen to be h'ld in dif- 1
...... , ~
to be held for the purpose of search
ing out and discussing the ictual needs edu- of f
the schools; to find:out the
cational conditions in tit | schools of
the state as a whole and |n the sev
eral counties. An ttem vill also be
made to secure the eo leration of
the superintendents and nard mem
hers and give them info: liation con
cerning the new work be ■ undertak
en by the department of So cat ion.
A number of the foremost educa¬
tional authorities in Gqir*ia will
speak before the gathering, among
them being N. H. Ballard state sup
erintendent of schools. 0*.r, on
ssa
pound. |
Supt. Chas, E. Dryden, if this city,
is also down for an addiess anil he !
is arranging to attend the conference.'
OF LEAGUE A>SfcMKL\
Geneva, Sept. 4.—Dr. De La Tor- .
Niento Peraza, of Cuba, hai been elect I
’Vw ient of the assembly of the
Nations.
’FRISCO REPORTS
SHOW INCREASE
NUMBER KILLED
Show Great Cities of Japan Now
Reduced To Shattered
Wilderness
FOREIGN RESIDENTS IN
YOKOHAMA ALL ESCAPED
Buildings Destroyed Take in a
Large iNumber of Handsome
Structures Owned by the Gov¬
ernment.
(By Associated Press.)
1 San Francisco, Sept. 4.—Every re- O
port received front Japan throughout
the day either confirmed or increased
estimates of the havoc havoc wrought wrought in
|,death and destruction by the quadru¬
ple catastrophe which has befallen
the central eastern section of the
Hondo, largest of the islands of the
Japenese empire.
Beginning at noon Saturday with
a series of earthquakes which razed
most of the city of Tokio I and large
sections of Yokohama and other cit¬
ies in tlie vicinity, the disaster was
continued by fire which broke out in
scores of places. Tidal waves follow¬
ed, engulfing and washing in to the
sea hundreds of buildings. Then
came a typhoon, adding a final and
tragic touch to what is probably the
greatest calamity in modern times.
Foreign estimates from various
sources had,placed, the casualties as
I high as 150,000 dead in Tokio alone.
1 One of these came fro mthe Japanese
j minister of marine by way of Osakavv.
| Other reports told of severe casualties
both oh land and sea.
A composite of reports depicts To
kio and Yokohama as shattered wil
harnesses of mortar, bricks and stone
where once stood some of the state
liest structures of the empire. ’
Dead and dying aie on eveiv hand,
Sti i11 i v > ’'(ifc. 'ois, who who -enn can i>'rnni> grope thc 1 hr <r r \v;iv ,'Ut
about through the fire. smlsN-i and
rubbish'; arc leaving the city for places
of safety
Those who still live are threatened
with starvation and many are trying
to catcli fish from ponds and lakes to
tide them over until food arrives.
It is estimated that at least i00,
000 tons of rice alone is needed to
meet the food shortage.
The imperial palace which was bad¬
ly damaged by quake and fire has
been thrown open to needy and in¬
jured survivors.
What happened at Yokohama can
be barely more than surmised, But
every report, though meagre, confirms
the worst fears. While it seems cer¬
tain most of the foreign residential
sections escaped, it is estimated 1,400
buildings in the city' were destroyed.
The number of dead is countless. An
officer of the steamship London Ma
ru, reported that bodies were scatter¬
ed everywhere on land and in-the wa¬
ter, where many sought _ refuge in
ships after the quake.
How extensive the quake was can¬
not be accurated stated. It is known
it extended as far south as the Izu
peninsula, on the eastern seaboard,
about 100 miles south of Tokio.
A message by cable from Kobe to
the Associated Press said there was a
bad shake at Toyama, a city of more
than 60,000 population near the north¬
west coast of Japan, nearly 200 miles
northwest of Tokio and in Kobe, fully
350 miles southwest of Tokio. The
vibration seems to have permated
the island transversely.
In addition to the hundreds of large
public and private buildings destroy¬
ed, Which include a large number, of
Japanese government buildings, Jap¬
anese and foreign naval hospitals, ar¬
senals, printing plants
per offices, it has
through Osaka that
French embassies ir
stroyed. Nothing a
of the fate of the
but its staff is safe.
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HOLDING IS OWN IN GREC()=
IT ALIAN WRANGLE
M. VEXIZELOS
grand old man of Greece and
premier, who in the present
situation of his country is
tuning f'L his attitude with signal abil
f .
If DIVERSIFIED
WILL MAKE
1 BETTER
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BI GG THINKS THE
THIS YEAR WILL BE TOO
MUCH TOBACCO
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Atlanta, Sept. 4.—Crop diversifi
always pays, even when
jce of one crop is high one
is no guarantee that it will
again the next year, and the
who pins his faith to any
loses in the long run. was
expressed here today by
1, • . in • discussing 1? .....• the , 1 ,1
0 r farm crops. Railroad officials
supporting the farm program
in many sections of
and the South take the
;,.w.
“The danger next year will lie
surplus acreage in tobacco,”
B. L. Bugg, recewer foi
Birmingham and
ay, who has just returned
S on S s
“Danger lies in any one crop,
Colonel Bug : 1 . “1 he farmer
wheat-growing state is in ju ,c
a fix “ ^; as the ' 7 cottoi^ V n' might‘be‘in planter.
w e s 0
condition if he had only
Tobacco has its good years
off years. The man with a
is not badly hurt in the
and when tiie crop hits
, money.
onlv’safetv lies in
The man who has half a
to depend on cannot miss on
thp’m ”
Colonel Bugg, Pl ,„„ „„ on his , his • trip, ta ... tp „
in Tifton.
■'____ by A. D. Daniel, passenger ,'
and , Geo. ,, M. Gentry, ,, . ______
of Atlanta; R. H. McKay,
and F. H. Hill
ill ~iTa_sj._ agent y at» Fitzgerald.
Visited the tobacco j . markets
• . other ,, enterprises. ■
,
i „?J • i i,, ,
itl ,' thc qu of th „ , obacco
‘
‘
, e are gett} rich
for evrey dollar they have
thege tobaccf) Iantg » said
and AtIantic railroad {or the in
ro duction of tobacco raising in
w \v. Croxton,
(Continued On Page Eight)
STATE TO HONOR
GEN. OGLETHORPE,
FOUNDER GEORGIA
MOVEMENT RECENTLY START¬
ED TO MAKE FEBRUARY 12
FOUNDER’S DAY
Atlanta will participate in a state
! wide celebration next February to
j commemorate state and to the honor founding the memory of the of
1
| General James Edward Oglethorpe, if
; plans now being pushed to completion
| by the chamber of commerce are car
I ried out, it was Announced Monday by
I Alfred C. Newell, president.
This is in line with a movement
j already under way by the Macon
j wide chamber memorial of commerce, to for have General state
! services
j Oglethorpe on February 12, next,
j being- the date in 1732 that the little
band of colonists landed on Yamacraw
i Bluff.
Details regarding the exercises to
be held here will be made public as
| soon as completed, Mr. Newell said,
“A movement to make February 12
; 'Founder’s Day’ was recently inaug-
1 united by the Macon chamber of com
j nierce,” said Mr. Newell, “and I am
| j informed that many cities have not
only signified their intention of jain
ing in the movement but have already
I begun making preparations looking to
j its success. The Atlanta chamber of
! commerce is always glad to cooperate
i with Macon in any undertaking.
“The idea is a most execellent one
land should be fostered by every
chamber of commerce in Georgia.
“Washington is no better entitled
I to he called the father of his country
! than Oglethorpe is to the same dis
tine cion with reference to the state
which he founded.
“He gave up a place in parliament
land single-handed and alone, guided
ibis colonists across across the Atlantic
i ocean, spending a private fortune
I amounting to nearly a million dollars
' and undergoing the hardships of a
i wilderness in the enterprise. He per
isonally made all negotiation with
the Indians and conducted all wars
against the Spanish- to the south. He
| was, perhaps the greatest character
of pre-revolutionary times and "well the 'to
people . of Georgia would do
, learn more of hsi lfe.
1 “In giving impressions of him at
that time, it was said fav the South
Carolina Gazefte that Oglethorpe was
j indefatigable and beloved by the peo
’ Pie. “The title they give him is
; father’ it said. “If any of the people
are sick he immediately visits them
i and takes care of them. If any dif
' ference arises he is the person who
decides it. His name deserves to be
immortalized.
TAX AND LICENSE
MONEY IN STATE
t\ A iildLLIUn Mil HAN mUIVLi MfiRF
_
HAS INCREASED THIS SUM
EVERY YEAR DURING THE
PAST FIVE
Atlanta, Sept. 4.—The tax and li¬
cense money which Georgia collected
from the people have been increasing
one million dollars a year for the
last five years, according to tax ex
ports here. In 1922, it cost $12,000,
000 to i'un the state government. This
year the state will collect $13,000,000.
Next year.it will be $20,000,000, if the
I estimates clals anywhere of some of the right. state offi
al ' e near .
J Colonel McGregor commissioner of
pensions, estimates that the new to
j bacco tax will raise nearly $6,500,000
^ ^ TJlat will be , $1 , 000 ,000 more
! H 1811 H* e t axes on farms and city
land town property.’
The new tax on gasoline, counting
* the increased number of automobiles,
1 wlU f lse . more A han , ^.500,000 addi
money. Hence, the state
'collect collect next next year, i on this basis, $8,
; 000,003 more than it collected in 1922,
» to “ l
’ T -
Several legislators, who have dis
cussed the matter here, express the
I opinion without that $20,000,000 will thin be quite
enou S h adding an >' ^ more
j at the extra session.
* “A jump of $8,000,000 in the mon
of the people• m two years.appears
I ™ ost 0 us 0 e a P en sal1
I one lawmaker . m expressing . his views ,
before a group of business men in one
of the hotel lobbies here.
T"
BEY WHAT YOU NEED AT
HOME AND THUS HELP
BRUNSWICK GROW TO BE
BIGGER AND GREATER. . .
PRICE FIVE CENTS
BLYTHE ISLAND
TO BE USED BY
GOVERNMENT
i To Become Experiment Farm
For United States Depart=
j ment of Agriculture
j ALBER , nT 1 M ,, SMI . lI1TU 1 H .„ IS
! ’
| REAPPOIN I ED CUSTODIAN
j Believed There Will be Consider¬
j
able Sums Spent in Improving
j the Property to be Used as an
j Experiment Station.
j
| and,
Brunswick and Glynn county,
| in fact, the entire Southeast, are to
receive at least one direct benefit
from the Washington Arms Limita¬
tion Conference. As the result of the
policy adopted by the government,
based upon the experience of the
World War, of concentrating all fa¬
cilities for the fleet at one or two
great naval bases, which the Arms
Conference made it possible to' put
into effect, the Blythe Island Naval
Reservation, which was purchased by
the Federal government in 1857, as a
site for a navy yard, will become an
experiment farm for the United
States department of agriculture.
While this information has jusf
j been confirmed, The News is informed
that the Department of Agriculture
has actually been in possession of
Blythe Island for more than a year
past, and that the Bureau of Plant
I Industry, of that department, has had
1 the use of the reservation during that
time ' II * understood that, because
I , * )f the ie £' al necessity of having an
act ° f „ congress passed authorizing
the transfer of the property from the
Navy department to the Department
of Agriculture, which probably will be
secured at the next session, the res¬
ervation has been nominally under the
control of the Navy department, and
still is, but, through cooperation of
I f >lant Industry departments, has been the enabled Bureau to of
I experimental work the
- I do /Ienmn some nvnovimniiTQ I ximv u rvn on tnP
j property, and to plan future exten
i I sions and improvements, which, it is
j ! ! importance salli .... ’ wl11 make for , tkis the a use statl0n , to . which f. . it
I will be put. that of growing, testing,
and improving, species and varieties
of plants and trees both those native
to America and those from foreign
countries which it is suspected might
be made of commercial value to this
climate and section.
The experts of the Bureau-of Plant
Industry have been busily engaged in
growing and testing a new variety of
cotton on Blythe during this year;
in fact they have been too busily en¬
gaged to give any publicity to their
work. The News understands that a
new variety of cotton, brought from
Mexico known as the Acala vari
;ety, which is said to be very early ma
! turing and of special value for use in
I boll weevil sections, w?s planted on
Blythe this year, and that excellent
results were obtained, though the boll
weevil were present in vast numbers
on the island, as everywhere else.
Albert M. Smith, who has been cus
todinn of the Blythe Island Naval Res
ervation since the death of the tfor
mer custodian, F. Joseph Doerflinger,
I in 1917, has been transferred from
j the Navy department to the Depart¬
ment of Agriculture and appointed
custodian of the property for the De¬
partment of Agriculture. ■ T
It is believed that there will be ex
pended considerable, sums in irpprov;
ing the property as an experiment
station, from which Brunswick will
'much receive benefit, but it is certain that
greater benefit will result to
! this city and section from the trans
! fer of a property useless for naval
j purposes in these modern times and
I its conversion into a farm on which
many new plants, and even trees, will
be tested out and proved to be of
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i great commercial value to the coastal
J region.
MADISON SCARLETT, WELL
KNOWN COLORED MAN, DEAD
Jrfter being in ill health for nearly
five years, Madison Scarlett, well
known and highly respected colored
man, died at his home on Amherst,
street shortly after nine o’clock last
night and the news will carry sorrow
to many of both races as he was
known and respected toy all.