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UNUSUAL SEA ERUPTION CAUI iF DISASTER TO SEVEN
U NITED S TATES DESTOYERSON THE COAST OF CALIFORNIA
7 U.S. NAVAL DESTROYERS AND
PACIFIC MAIL LINER WRECKED
ON ROCKS OF SANTA BARBARA
AMERICANS LOST
ARE TWENTY-FIVE;
ALL ARE SAILORS
Rut Six Hundred Survive the
Catastrophe Which Was
Caused by Fog
SOMETHING LIKE TWENTY
IS I HE LIST OF INJURED
Navy Department, Though, Re
ceives Report That Number
of Craft Lost is . Only Five. . —
Many in Hospital.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Sept. 10.—The
theory is expressed today by higdi
naval officials tiiat the tidal wave
and other seismic disturbances
reacting from, the Japanese
earthquake caused the disaster off
• the California coast yesterday.
Reports from naval officers on
the scene have not as y< t given
complete information of the con¬
ditions under which the seven de¬
stroyers were thrown on a rocky
coast and when twenty-five men
were drowned but from other
% data officials said it was evident
that an unusual disturbance of
■ the sea took place Saturday and
Sunday.
Safi Francisco, Sept. 10.—Seven
United States destroyers are ashore
miles ” “orth ofs;nt?C ar^ miningandUflx- X bara te 'twen
t>-nve five sailors lore aie missing ana tmr
teen have been landed and taken to
the hospital at Santa Barbara, ac
c.tiding to a message received here
Litp tnila ‘ v
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Unprecedented Disaster
Los Angeles, Sept. 10.—In a series
of disasters unprecedented in the his
tory of the Pacific coast
seven seven United uiiiteu States cuaies navy navy destroyers uesnuycis
and the Pacific mail liner Cuba yfes*
terday piled on the rocks of San Mig
ugj Island and the shores of the San
tiC Barbara county, California; coast
line. The ships ran aground late Sat
■ urday night during one of the heav
.' iest and must impenetrable fogs ever
seen on the Southern California coast,
according to shipping imen.
Twenty-five Fatalities
Santa Barbara, Cal., Sept. 10.—
Twenty-five sailors lost their live# in
the wreck of seven naval destroyers
off the Arguella light, 75 miles north
of Santa Barbara, Ca)., according to
a staff correspondent of the Santa
Barbara Morning Press, who went to
the scene.
A score of the injured are in the
Santa Barbara county hospital and a
relief train went to take away 600
survivors. All the wrecked destroy¬
ers are total losses, according to
statements credited to naval officials.
Reported Eleven Injured
Washington, Sept. 10.—The Navy
department was informed in a mes¬
sage received late yesterday from the
commander-in-chief of the Pacific
fleet that “so far as known” no lives
vvere lost in the grounding of destroy¬
ers on the California coast. Eleven
men, the message said J were injured.
The i/av.v message .said five de¬
stroyers ' had grounded,' the Delphy,
S. P. Lee, Chauncey, Woodbury and
Young, and that the scene of’the ac¬
cident .was two miles, off Argued!a
Point. Three tugs and the mine
sweepers Tern, Ostolan and Gannett,
it added, had been ordered to carry
out salvage operations. The cause of
the grounding was not given.
Officers Landed
r Washington, Sept. 10.—The officers
all the destroyers which
m'ground off Arguella Light, Cal., with
the exception of those of the Nicho
las, have been landed, the navy de¬
partment was informed last night.
The dispatch said ten lives weie
known tc be lost and that the bodies
would be taken to San Diego on a
special-train. The commander of the
destroyers squadron of -the Pacific
BRUNSWICK news
THE NEWS IS A MEMBER PRESS
FIVE DOLLARS A
BALE J ™P MADE
BY COTTON TODAY
l
THIS WAS IN NEW YORK, WHILE
A NEW HIGH PRICE MARK
MADE IN NEW ORLEANS
(By Associated Press.'
New York, Sept. 10.—Within the
first half hour of trading 1 today Oc
! tober cotton advanced ninety points
to 28.50, or $5.00 above the Saturday
j attributed to a 1 re¬
rdeu-tion of the crop estimate
,
i contained in a report published by a
• Memphis authority which estimated
| the yield at 10,240,000 bales.
New Record in New Orleans
j New Orleans, Sept. 10.—The cotton
i juice showed a new record in prices
i for ad months shortly after the op
j ening today.
Cotton rose almost one hundred
points or five dollars a bale from ear¬
ly low.
Last August Supply.
Washiglon, Sept. 10.—The total
world cotton supply on August 1 was
27,508,000 bales August 1, last year,
according to a survey made public by
the department of commerce this
6 morning.
PASSIVE BLOCK
OF GERMANY IN
RUHR TO CEASE
OPIN,ON I>REVA,LS THAT OVER- |
TURKS WILL SO,,N BE MADE |
, TO FRANCE A NI) BELGIUM
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London, , , „ Sept. . 1ft 10 The German „ gov -1
.eminent iias oideied the passive ie- j
distance of its, occupied section dis- j
continued, according to a Central i
, News correspondent at Berlin.
J The correspondent says the.leading
; industrialists of Germany in a few
days will approach France and Bel
j j K'.dief ffium .....-.....—..... that seeking the terms of — settlement will ..........— short- I ,
! government
i ly make overtures to France and Bel
! j Liam is the opinion in strong political |
circles, the correspondent adds.
1
i battle fleet was said to be on the
; scene,
:
Cuba is Also Sunk
j Pacific Santa mail Barbara, liner Cal., Cuba, Sept. which 10.—The went
| aground Saturday night reef
on a on
| the Southeast end of San Miguel isl-. I
and, 25 miles from Santa Barbara,
apparently Santa Barbara has sunk, Morning according Press, to which the j
i
sent a boat to the scene. The boat re- I
turned here and reported that after I
scouring over the sea for miles no
trace was found of the vessel.
Treasury Announces New Issue
of Certificates of Indedtedness
Aggregating Sum of $200,000,000
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Sept. 10.—After
maining out of the money market
three months, the treasury today an
flounced a new issue of certificates of
indebtedness, aggregating'- two hun¬
dred million dollars and maturing six
months from September 15. The
notes will bear four and a quarter per
cent interest.
The announcement of the Septem¬
ber financing program also contained
the declaration that no further fiscal
operations are contemplated by the
government before December 15,
when maturing certificates of indebt
edness will require new borrowings,
Thus it is shown that the treasury
will carry through the first half of the
current year with only two pieces of
financing and this, in the opinion of
financiers, is evidence of a satisfac
tory position with respect to caring
for the great public debt, most of
which grew out of the world war.
Government securities, matured
and outstanding or maturing Septem
her 15, aggregating slightly in excess
of half a billion dollars, must be
vided for in the September program.
The treasury figures tljat if will re
cieve about $.240,000,000 in September
income and profits tax collection—The
j third quarterly installment of this
| calendar—and this with the funds ob
tained from the new certificate issue
and the usual monthly receipts from
miscellaneous taxes, will care for ma¬
turing obligations aqd provide for
current cash requirements, until the
nejet tax installment, December 15.
About $290,000,000 in certificates of
indebtedness will become payable
September 15, and the treasury has
j made the usual offer to exchange new
for oldeertificates that has character
ized refunding operations. At the
! same time, interest on the public debt
amounting to $145,000,000 must' be
j paid.
i Ifl addition to these obligations,
j provisions must be made to care, for
I about $53,000,000 in Victory notes,
j some of whieh called for retirement
i last December and the others of
j which matured last May, and about
thirty -million dollars in war savings
.certificates, maturing last January,
like .the Victory notes
been coming in .slowly for retirement.
>NDA,\ SEPT. 10, 1923.
AIDED IN SETTLEMENT IN
GRECOITALIAN SITUATION
PREMIER BENES
Astute Czecho-Slovak statesman, who
is credited with doing his full part
in the adjustment of the trouble j
between Greece and Italy.
CALCUTTA ’QUAKE
KILLS AND INJURES
FIFTY PERSONS
CASUALTIES, IT IS REPORTED,
OCCURRED IN THE NYMEN
SINCH DISTRICT
r
LondS? ‘person S
are reported killed and injured in an
earthquake Vs"a„'Exchange'Tefe^pk'dis- which shook Calcutta to
day s
patch from there received here this
orninp .
It is reported that the casualties oc
curre(1 m Nymensinch district where
many ' houses collapsed.
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GEORGIA TOBACCO TAX
FOUGHT BY SMOKERS
Atlanta, Sept. 10.—Tlie cigar and
cigarette smokers of Georgia, said
to number 900,000, have started, a
movement to demand the repeal of
the ten percent tax imposed by the
legislature at the recent business ses¬
sion. Tlie consumer s, calling them¬
selves the Georgia Tobacco Associa¬
tion-, are circulating petitions all over
the state, demanding repeal of this
special tax at the extra session called
for November.
The smokers say that if the tax is
allowed to „„ stand, it will take $6,500,
000 a year additional from their pdck
ets. They expect to organize county
by county and work in close relations
the tobacco growers,
It is predicted that this tax will
cut quite a figure in the state caim
paign next year.
This Will Be Doae at Meeting
to be Held Late This
Afternoon
FOREST CITY IS ( DUE
BRUNSWICK $5,240
This Debt Has Been Subject of
Much Discussion ■j. and Also a
Great Deal of Criticism For
Its Non-Payment.
L The matter of Savannah’s debt due
as that city’s pro rata and agreed
amount on the Darien bridge, $5,240,
will be the principal subject to be
discussed this afternoon at a meeting
of the Savannah Board of Trade and
it is more than probably 'that definite
action will be taken looking to the
payment of t,his iporal obligation.
In discussing the board’s meeting
the Savannah News of this morning
said; “The principal task of the direc- j
tors of the Board of Trade this aftert
noon when they meet will be to dis
cuss and act upon the recommenda-1
tion coming from the Young Men’s
Dynamo anent the Darien bridge
debt balance of $5,240 owing Bruns
wick. The Dynamo has recommended •
to be the paid directors that the so-called the debt |
and suggested that direc- j
tors authorize a campaign to be con
ducted by the Dynamo Cabinet to
raise the money. It is known that
many of the directors are syimpa
tk,«c with th,
concrete action 1* expected
aft f^t OT \ SeSSi ° n
As has been printed in the^e col¬
umns several times, the amount stat¬
ed above has been due a number of
BrunswickiaUs who underwrote and
paid this sum and have been out of
the money for many months and al¬
though dignified efforts have been
made to collect it these have been un¬
successful but it is now believed that
it will be paid as> the obligation is
one of an honorable nature and mem¬
bers of the Savannah commercial
bodies, the Board of Trade and the
Young Men’s Dynamo have put it
strictly upon a moral proposition.
Several well known citizens of the
Chatham capital have already offered
to donate and some of these in snug
sums. Indications are that the meet¬
ing, this afternoon will result in the
money being paid to the. patriotic
Brunswickians who underwrote the
debt.
GRAND THEATRE TO
BE RE-OPENED BY
NEW MANAGER
J. B. ASHLEY HER* REPRESENT¬
ING M’CLURE’S INTERESTS
IN OPERA HOUSE
i J. B. Ashley, of Atlanta, represent¬
ing C. W. McClure, arrived in the
city last night to investigate the lo¬
cal situation looking to the opening
of the Grand opera house, which has
been “dark” for several weeks.
Mr, Ashley is ark experienced mow¬
ing picture and theatrical manager,
having been connected with houses
in Macon and Atlanta. In the; latter
city he managed the Howard, one of
the leading movie theatres in the
South. Mr. Ashley stated that he was
favorably impressed with the pros¬
pects here for re-opening the Grand
a more elaborate scale than ever.
“In addition to booking the very
best ‘road’ shows that make this cir¬
cuit, we expect to feature the best
pictures procurable,” said Mr. Ash¬
ley. “In other words, we expect to
make the Grand a popular priced
amusement house, such as are con¬
ducted in Atlanta and other Southern
cities. Mr. McClure, as is known, has
had his theatre thpj-ougKIv renovated
and remodeled, and it is now in splen¬
did condition. I am confident that
the house will be re-opened within a
short time and the aipusementdovers
of Brunswick will be given the very
best in both the legitimate and movie
lines.”
Mr. McClure, who is at present in
Savannah, is expected to arrive in
Brunswick tamorraw and final at
rangemeats will be. mad* for the op¬
of the Graad. *■-
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♦ IRELAND IS NOW FULL ♦
♦ FLEDGED MEMBER OF ♦
♦ LEAGUE OF NATIONS
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♦ (By Associated Press.)
♦ Geneva, Sept. 10.—Dr. Epi
♦ tacio Pessoa, of Brazil, has been
♦ elected to the Permanent Court
♦ of International Justice by the ♦
♦ assembly of the League of Na- ♦
♦ tlons. ♦
-f Dr. Pessoa succeeds the late ♦
♦ Roy Barboso, of Brazil. ♦
♦ Ireland was unanimously ♦
4 elected to membership in the ♦
4 League of Nations. rt
♦ -*
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GREECE ACCEPTS
TERMS AS FIXED
BY AMBASSADORS
AGREEMEND REACHED BEEN
OFFICIALLY GIVEN OUT.—AF¬
FAIR WITH ITALY ENDS
(By Associated Press.)
Paris, Sept. 10.—Greece’s accept
ance of the terms of the Council of
Ambassadors in connection with the
Italo-Greek controversy has been re
ceived officially at the French foreign
•flice. The acceptance lays particular
insistence on the evacuation of Corfu
fiy the Italians at the sootiest possible
moment.
Reply Sent From Athens
Athens, Sept. 10.—Greece has re
plied to the note of the Council of
Ambassadors announcing her readi
ness to conform with the decision of
the ambassadors with regard to
Italy’s demands in connection with
the killing of the Italian members of
the Greco-Albaniap boundary cnm
mission.
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MUSCLE SHOALS MOVE
WATCHED IN ATLANTA
Atlanta, Sept. 10.—Industrial lead
ers here are greatly interested in re
orts which come from the national
capital that Henry Ford has undei
consideration the request of President
Coolidge that the auto magnate modi¬
fy his offer for taking over the gov¬
ernment nitrate plants and water
power plants at Muscle Shoals, Ala.
It appears that the Alabama Power
Company owns the land upon which
the Gorgas power plant is situated,
hence a new bid from Ford will be
necessary.
C. W. McClure, Atlanta merchant
financier, and others who started the
Ford-for-Muscle Shoals movement
the South, today expressed the opin¬
ion that every effort \vill be made to
have congress act on the Ford offer
as modified—should he modify it.
which is., expected.
“In Ford’s ■ hands Muscle Shoals
would become 1 mighty machine for
a
the development of one of the finest
sections of our country, and it would
be a healthy development,” said Mr.
McClure. ‘North Alabama, east Ten¬
nessee, north Mississippi and north
Georgia, particularly, 75,000 square
miles or 45 million acres would be¬
come one of the most highly develop¬
ed sections of America and would
create wealth that would make the
Pittsburg district take second place
—and it would come to pass quick
ly.” o
Moscow Reds Through Revolutionary
Movement in the United States Seeking
Overthrow Our Government Say Miners
(By Associated Press.)
New York, Sept. 10.—The United
Mine Workers of America today made
public the first of a series of six arti¬
charging that “red forces, under
direct supervision of Moscow, are
attempting to seize control of the or¬
ganized labor movement of America
and use it as the base from which to
on the communist effort for the
overthrow of American government.”
“Imported revolution is knocking
at the door of the United Mine Work¬
ers of America and the people of the
United .Statqs and Canada,” says the
introductory article, which adds that
its disclosures are “the. result of an
independent, searching investigation
by the‘miners’ organization which led
directly to original sources.” ■
Through a revolutionary movement
this continent the communist in¬
at Moscow has undertak¬
en, according to the miners, to carry
oat the following program:
“Overthrow and destruction of the
federal, state, and provincial govern-
FINALLY LANDS IRELAND
AS MEMBER OF LEAGUE
SIR EDWARD CARSON
Noted Irish patriot and leader, who
has finally succeeded in seeing his
counrty become a member of the
League of Nations.
MACON PASTOR
SAYS KU KLUX
MEN TRAITORS
REV. WALTER ANTHONY IS
STRONG IN HIS DENUNCIA¬
TION OF ORGANIZATION
Macon, Sept. 10.—“Lawlessness is
treason. No man, not a traitor to his
country, has any reason 1 to have re
course to a mask, ’ declared Rev. Dr.
Walter Anthony, pastor of Mulberry
Street Methodist church, last night in
bitter arraignment of the Ku Klux
Klan.
Dr. Anthony touched on lawless
ness throughout the world and
pecially in Macon. He spoke of local
floggings, of the activity of the Klan
and gave Biblical citations showing
that others who had followed such
teachings had been led to ruin.
‘ Underneath all mob violence there
is the enthronement of self above
country and the common good,” said
Dr. Anthony. “The men who compose
'mobs are not patriots. They are gen
erally the scum and criminal element
of a community. They engage in their
illegal practices, not because they
their country, but because they
desire excitement, adventure or, as
they express it, ‘fun. Professed pa
triotism is ‘the last refugae of
scoundrel.’
COLUMBUS ROTARY
AFTER DIST. GOVERNOR
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(By Associated Press.)
Colulmbus, Sept. 10.—The Columbus
Rotary Club, which was granted its
charter in 1915 and is one of the old¬
est Rotary clubs in this district, is
backing a movement to have one of
its members elected Rotary district
governor at the convention which is
to be held in Macon next March. The
Columbus Rotary club has a member
ship of 200 and believes it has earned
the honor.
ments, with the elimination of
ing constitutional forms and founda¬
tions.
“Establishment of a soviet dicta¬
torship, absolute in its exercise of
power, owing allegiance to only the
communist or third international at
Moscow.
“Destruction of all social, economic
and political institutions as they ex¬
ist at this time.
“Seizure of ail labor unions,
through a process of boring from
within them, and utilizing them as a
strategic instrument in fulfillment
of their revolutionary designs upon
organized and constitutional
ment.
“Invasion of.- the United Mine
Workers of America, with the ouster
of its present officials and leaders and
the substitution of a leadership of
communists.
“A well-organized movement is be¬
ing promoted within the big four rail¬
road brotherhoods and sixteen oth
ers.”
BUY WHAT YOU NEED AT
HOME AND THUS HELP
BRUNSWICK GROW TO BE
BIGGER AND GREATER. . .
PRICE FIVE CENTS
CHATTAHOOCHEE
VALLEY MOTOR
CLUB IS COMING
Will Leave Columbus Wednes¬
day Morning for Bruns¬
wick Trip
TO BE ENTERTAINED BY
CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS
Several Routes Have Been Map¬
ped Out, the Result of Study
With Regard to the Road
Conditions.
The Chattahoochee Valley Motor
Club, of Columbus, one of the livest.
organizations of its kind in the state,
will leave that city Wednesday for a
trip to Brunswick with the view of
selecting an official route for the Co
lumbus-Brunswick highway. The
motorcade will be in charge of Man
ager Leland J. Henderson and Presi
dent A. J. Little.
The automobilists will arrive in
.
Brunswick Thursday and will be
guests of the Young Men’s Club,
whose weekly luncheon will be held
on that day instead of Friday. The
visitors will be given a boat ride to
Jekyl, St. Simon, and Long Islands.
A fish dinner will be one of the most
enjoyable features of their stay. This
will be served on St. Simon.
In referring to the proposed trip,
the Enquirer-Sun of yesterday has
the following to say:
“To complete arrangements for the
motorcade to Brunswick Wednesday
and to consider other matters of im¬
portance, the presidents council of
^h e mo t or c ] u fi w ju meet at Dimon
( ou ,.( tea room tomorrow afternoon
a j. orle 0 k. Details regarding the
camp and the number of auto
mobile accidents in Columbus and en¬
virons will be discussed. The council
also plans to prepare the fall activb
jjgg 0 f t j ie mo t or club, including a
welcome of the officers of Fort Ben
n ; n g._
“Other matters affecting the auto
nlo ()ji e owners and roads of Muscogee
CO unty and the territory of the Chat
jahooehee Valley Motor Club, will de
manf ] attention of the presidents
counci i 0 f the motor club.
Brunswick Trip
“Chairman A. J. Little will an
nounee his final plans for the trip to
Brunswick. A delegation from the
jf; wan j g club of Tifton may go* be pres
ent to urge t j le par ty to or return
by V vay of Tifton. It was stated yes
er( | a y t] ia t although it is not likely
the Coluimbus-Brunswick highway
will be located through Wa.vcross be¬
cause of the impassable condition of
the Satilla river district between
Waycross and Brunswick, it does not
follow that the highway may not be
located through Albany or Americus,
Tiftpn,. Ocilta, Alma, Baxley, Jesup
to Waycross, the-distance being 307
miles.
“The road Columbus, Americus,
Abbeville, Ocilla, Alma, Baxley, Jesup
to Brunswick is 311 miles.
“The route, Columbus, Abbeville,
McRae, Reidsville, Darien, Brunswick
is 289 miles.
“The route Columbus, Hawkinsville,
McRae, Reidsville, Darien, Brunswick
is 296 miles. ,
“The bridges, are in on all of the
above routes, all are state highways,
and in passable condition in the worst
places, while most of all of the routes
is good road.
Interest Increases
“Interest continues t<j iftcreaSe, tel¬
egrams and letters have been received
at motor club headquarters flaring
the last few days from Tiftpn Board
of Trade,’Tifton Kiwanis Club, ^mer
icus Chamber of Commerce, Vienna
Board of Trade, Cordele Board of
Trade, Abbeville Chamber of Com¬
merce, Mayor of Reidsville, Fitger
Herald, Ocilla Star, Albany Cham¬
ber of Commerce, Lions Club Tifton,
Willacoochee Times, The Montezuma
Georgian, Hawkinsville Kiwanis Club,
Brunswick Board of Trade and Young
Men’s Business Club, and from the
to General Gordon, Ft. Benning.
“It is likely the party will stop for
lunch in Abbeville or Tifltojni and
Wednesday night in Reidsville
Baxley, making the first days trip
200 miles, and the Thursday
run about 100 milea.
All members of the Meter Club
invited and urged to attend the
at Dimon Court, and should
reservations to Dimon Court
Room 792 or the club headquar¬
phone 2248. Any visiting AAA
are urged to ‘sit in’ witk
local members.”