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BRUNSWICK HAS A LAND¬
LOCKED HARBOR, THE BEST
ON THE SOUTH ATLANTIC
COAST. .•
VOLUME XXIII. No. 10.
FORCIBLY TAKE
MUSSOUN] TO
ANNEX ISLAND
PARIS REPORT
Premier Will Proclaim Annexa¬
tion on September IS,
It is Stated
ITALY WILL REFUSE ANY
JUGOSLAVIA MEDIATION
And Will Employ Forceful Mea¬
sures if Necessary to End
What She Regards as an In¬
tolerable Situation.
(By Associate,-1 Press.)
Paris, Sept. 11.—It is understood
from information gathered from re¬
liable sources that Premier Mussolini
will proclaim annexation of Fieume j
to Italy within the next week, prob- j
ably September lb.
The government of Jugo-Slavia is
represented as being aware of Pre¬
mier Mussolini’s intention and is in¬
tending to make no serious protest
that Porto and Sussak, adjacent, are
not directly affected. i
Intolerable Situation |
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Rome, Italy, Sept. H.—Best in- i
formed opinion here is that Italy will
refuse mediation in the settlement of
the Fieume question with Jugo-Sla¬
via as proposed by the latter.
" !y, it is declared, intends to set
airectly with Jugoslavia in line
th her demands made recently and
. Ating September 15 as the date for
a reply, even employing forceful
means if necessary to end what she
regards as an Intolerable situation im¬
periling peace.
FIRED HOUSE IN
WHICH TEN SLEPT j I
ONE WAS BURNED
I
ANVER DEAN, DECATUR, TEXAS, | j
IS CHARGED WITH MUR- j
DER AND ARSON f
(By Associated --- Press.) |
Decatur, Texas, Sept. 11.—Anver
Dean is in ail charged with arson !
and the charge of murder will also j
be lodged against him today accord-!
ing to officials.
A fire-which started yesterday and;
destroyed' the home of W. H. Miles,;
near here, burned to death II. T. j
Jones, sixty-five years of age, an em- j
ployee of Miles. The charges made ■
by Miles are substantiated by his
daugHter who said she was awakened ;
and discovered Dean in the house and i
he fled he set fire to the building j
in which ten persons wore'asleep. i
YARBOROUGH JURY IS SELECTED
HARDWICK’S NAME
CALLED WITNESS
IN MACON CASES
WHEN CASES OF THREE BELIEV¬
ED TO BE RING-LEADERS IN
FLOGGINGS SOUNDED
(By Associated Press.)
y> Macon, Sept. 11.—The name of for¬
mer Governor Thomas W. Hardwick
was called as a witness when the city
court today took up the cases of three
alleged ringleaders in the series of
local floggings.
The cases called were Dr. C. A.
Yarborough, prominent dentist; J. D.
Patrick, former deputy sheriff of the
(municipal court, and J. D. Blood
iv^rth, prominent citizen. All are
tUi! i-ged with rioting. Solicitor Moore
w trial
announced that the Yarborough
would start first and the particular
case is for the whipping of J. F.
Mills, in January of last year.
Oh account of the prominence of
the defendants and the state-wide in¬
terest oh account of the Ku Klux Klan
being mentioned in connection with
THE BEONSWICK NEWS
THE NEWS IS A MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JOINS MOVEMENT UNITE
ON COOEIDQE IN 1924
SENATOR ARTHUR CAPPER
The stormy petrel from Kansas, who
is following the lead of other Re¬
publican Senators to name Presi¬
dent Coolidge to succeed himself.
GEN. SEMENOFF
AND FOLLOWERS
’QUAKE VICTIMS
DISPATCH FROM PEKING DATED
SATURDAY CARRIES THIS
INFORMATION
(By Associated Press.)
Moscow, Sept. 11.—A dispatch re¬
ceived here from Pekin dated Satur¬
day says General Gregorie Semenoff,
former commander-in-chief of the all
Russian armies and later anti-Bolshe¬
vik leader in Siberia, and a group of
.bis followers perished in Yokohama
during the earthquake.
The dispatch, it is also reported,
. ’ J ed that M. Merkuloff, former head
of the anti-Bolshevik government in
Vladivostok, is dead.
BROOKS COUNTY TO
EMPLOY COUNTY AGENT
Quitman, Sept. 11.—Brooks county
commissioners have appropriated $1,-
800 to be used as part payment of tne
salary needed to employ a county
agent. The action of the board came
as a result of a movement started
two weeks ago when more than 200
farmers and business men held a
mass meeting and decided to get
away from cotton raising and inaug¬
urate a program of diversification
crops.
MAN SHOOTS WIFE,
MOTHER-IN-LAW,
DEFIES POLICE
BELLVILLE, ILLINOIS, IS SCENE
OF EXCITEMENT.—POLICE
CALL FOR HELP
(By Associated Press.)
Bellville, 111., Sept. 11.—Harry Ket
tier, twenty-seven years of age, shot
his wife and m'other-in-law and when
a score of policemen surrounded his
house, he opened fire on the officers,
seriously wounding two of them.
Local police appealed to St. Louis
for reinforcements and the gun squad
of that departmnet was dispatched
here. The wife’s body lay in the
front yard and the police were un¬
able to remove it.
Kettler apparently has ample am¬
munition. The police hid behind trees
and when one appeared Kettler would
take a shot at him. This afternoon
officers are guarding the house await
the arrival of the St. Louis po¬
iice.
TAX RATE SAME AS 1922
Albany, Sept. 11.—Dougherty
county’s tax rate for 1923 will be the
same as it was in 1922, according to
the county commissioners, who met
recently and fixed it at 11 mills for all
purposes. This includes 2 mills for
county school purposes.
BOY SCOUTS TO
GATHER IN TIFTON
(By Associated Press.)
Tifton, Sept. 11.—Approximately
250 Boy Scouts from the Second Dis¬
trict are expected to gather here in a
grand rally Friday, Saturday and
Sunday, October 27, 27 and 28, ac
cording to an announcement by Scout
Executive W. M. Bagby. Two camp
fire programs, a swimming meet and
an athletic contest will form the fea
tures of the three-day program.
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♦ FRENCH AMBASSADOR ♦
♦ AND GERMAN CHANCELLOR +
♦ DISCUSS SETTLEMENT ♦
♦ -
♦ (By Associated Press.)
♦ Paris, Sept. 11.—Conversa
■f tions that are taking place be
■ ♦ tween Joquin ' DeMargerie,
♦ French ambassador to Germany
■f and Chancellor Stresemann in
Berlin are considered by the
French government as leading
towards a settlement of the rep¬
arations question although it is
stated that the German chan¬
cellor has not as yet made a def¬
inite offer.
It is stated that no offer has
been made yet respecting cessa¬
tion of resistance in the Ruhr
or what could be proposed after¬
wards.
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YARBROUGH TO
KEEP OUT RACE
MAYOR OF MACON
REFRAINS FROM ENTERING ON
ACCOUNT OF CHARGES HEST
ING AGAINST HIM
Macon, Sept. 11.—“So long as there
is any shadow hanging over me, I
don’t think I want to go before the
public with a thing like that,” was the
comment of Dr. C. A. Yarbrough last
night when he was asked over the
telephone if he would make the race
for mayor against Mayor Luther
Williams.
“I don’t think I will enter the race,”
he continued, “although my friends
want me to. If there was more time
and I had the opportunity to clear
myself of the present charges agtunst
me, 1 might consider it. My friends
say the race will vindicate me, but I
don’t think I’ll enter it.”
Rumors were persistent that Dr.
Yarbrough would become a mayoralty
candidate. There were other rumors
that a full aldermanic ticket would
soon be announced to make the race
against the Williams’ ticket, but noth¬
ing of tlie sort has materialized.
Registration continues at city hall
in spite of the fact that there is yet
but one candidate in the field.
VALUE OF A.. B. & A. FIXED
BY INTERSTATE COMMERCE
COMMISSION AT $23,245,257
(By Associated Press.)
Washington,*Sept. 11.—The Inter
state Commerce Commission today
fixed the; valuatio nof the Atlanta, i
Birmingham & Atlantic Railroad at |
$23,245,257. authority given This by is in line with The the | j
congress.
road sought a valuation on the esti-j
mated cost to reproduce the property j
at $30,000,000.
TO WELCOME MASONS
-
(By Associated Press.)
Thomasvillc, Oa., Sept. 11.—Judge
Roscoe Luke will deliver the address
of welcome at the convention of
Thomas county Masons here Thurs
day. The place of meeting for the
next convention and election of new
officers will be included in the busi
ness on the program. I
lice floggings, a large number of peo¬
ple from various parts of the state
are 'at the trial.
The jury to try Dr. Yarbrough was
quickly selected. Each juror was re
quired by the state over a vigorous
protest from the defense, that he was
not and never had been a member of ]
the Ku Klux Khan.
Mills, the victim of a flogging, tes- j
tifying, first identified Yarbrough as i
the man who took him from a car
preparatory to his whipping. Blood
worth and another man,, held his
hands he said, while another whipped I
him.
The witness swore that all wore i
masks but he later saw them disrob- J
ing. He said he wrote a letter to I
Governor Hardwick asking him for j
protection that but the executive did
not reply as he had never received
it. Notwithstanding, he stated, he
was approached by a man giving the
name of Payne and who disguised
himself as an agent from Governor
Hardwick’s office. This man he iden
titled today as J. P. Durkee, organ¬
izer of the Ku Klux Klan and "’bo
was arrested yesterday and who has I
been several weeks purporting to in¬ I
vestigate the Klan and official in as- I
sisting in running down those guilty ,
of the many floggings in Macon. I
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPT. 11, 1923.
IMPETUS GIVEN
TO UNDERWOOD
OVER
Thousands of Pamphlets
ing Endorsements Distrib=
uted Over South
ALABAMIAN IS GOING
STRONG IN ALL SECTIONS
Belief is Expressed That Geor¬
gia Will Send Her Delegation
■to National Convention In¬
structed for Underwood.
Atlanta, Sept. 11.—-The Under¬
wood boom in Georgia, as well in
other southern states, reports receiv¬
ed here state, has been given
impetus by the receipt of thousands
of Underwood pamphlets, filled
endorsements by prominent Alabam¬
ians and hundreds of newspapers
throughout the country.
Win. W. Brandon, of Alabama,
orary chairman, heads the
which distributed the pamphlets.
It is stated by supporters of
Alabamian for the presidency
approximately 85,000 copies of
pamphlets have been sent into
Southern' states alone, addressed
practically all state and county offi
ceis, leading bankers, attorneys, all
members of state, county and local
Democratic organizations and to
ery newspaper. In addition
30,000 copies were sent to
farmers.
Extracts from recent editorials
pearing in various newspapers
lished outside the southern
which appear in the pamphlet,
a strong sentiment for Underwood
every section of the United States.
“The rank and file of the Demo¬
cratic party in Alabama are so
vinced of his (Underwood’s)
standing availability,” says the Ala¬
bama committee, “that they
Democrats in the sister states to give
serious consideration to the
in order that, if the general concur¬
rence which the senator considers so
essential, shall become
name may be suitably presented
Democratic convention in 1924 as
South’s pledge to the nation of sound
and courageous political ideals.”
The pamphlet is signed by the pres¬
ent and all of the former governors of
Alabama now living and political
leaders here regard it as a
presentation by Alabamians of Sena¬
tor Underwood’s availability for the
Democratic nomination. Many lead¬
ing Democrats of Atlanta and other
sections of the state who have dis¬
cussed national politics here are out¬
spoken'in their support of Senator
Underwood. The belief is expressed
here that Georgia will send a delega¬
tion to the, national convention in¬
structed for Underwood.
30 FIREMEN OVERCOME
FIGHTING $250,000.00
BLAZE ON FREIGHTER
Los Angeles, Sept. 10.—Thirty fire¬
were overcome, four requiring
hospital attention in combatting a
which spread through the entire
hold of the American-Hawaiian
ton freighter American here
The American put in here
with fire in her hold. It was
tonight that $250,000 worth
damage had been done.
THOUSAND
BODIES RECOVERED
IN TWO JAP CITIES
FROM U. S. DE¬
STROYER BURIES AMERI¬
CAN DEAD
(By Associated Press.)
Tokio, iSept. 11.—Sixty thousand
have been recovered in Tokio
Yokohama up to and including
and the police estimate that a
million persons have been treated
sickness resulting from the earth¬
A detachment from the U. S. de¬
Huron took charge and buried
the American naval station at
who were killed.
BIRTH RATE
FAR BELOW NORMAL
(By Associated Press.)
Augusta, Sept. 11—Augusta’s birth
for the year 1923 is far below
according to figures obtained
the city health department. The
reported up-to-date, the birth
should average 27 per thousand,
the births thus far this year av
only 21 per thousand. •
REPORT IS CURRENT
TROTSKY HAS BEEN
KILLED AT MOSCOW
(By Associated Press.)
London, Sept. 11.—A dispatch
received here from Berlin says
♦ it is reported from Moscow that
i: war Leon minister, Trotsky, has Russian been assassi¬ Soviet
i+ i: nated. No details are given and no ♦
confirmation of the report has ♦
I ♦ been had. ♦
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MOTOR CLUB OF
COLUMBUS TO BE
HERE THURSDAY
Will Leave City on the Chatta¬
hoochee Early Tomorrow
/Horning
TO SELECT ROUTE
BETWEEN TWO CITIES
Will be Entertained by Board of
Trade and Young Men’s Club,
Following Business Meeting
Thursday Morning.
The members of the Chattahoochee
Motor Club, with other citizens of Co¬
lumbus, will be met at Broadfield to¬
day by R. L. Philips, and other mem¬
bers of the committee assigned to
welcome th? visitors to Brunswick.
The motorcade left Coluimbus this
morning and will spend the night in
either Baxley, Reidsville, or Jesup,
having traveled more than two hun¬
dred miles during the day, weather
conditions permitting. There is now
every indication that the schedule ar¬
ranged by the Columbus motorists
will be carried out.
Escorted into Brunswick, the Co
lumbusites will be dire ted to the
Oglethorpe hotel, where a business
session will be held in the Board of
Trade rooms for the purpose of dis¬
cussing the most desirable route be¬
tween the two cities for a highway
that will connect these two cities. It
is understood that three routes are to
be taken under consideration, to be
agreed upon by the Columbus contin¬
gent, and the Brunswick Board of
Trade and the Young Mens Club.
Several representatives of cities on
the proposed routes are expected to
accompany the motorcade to Bruns¬
wick, and present their claims as be¬
ing preferable to any other. The Way
cross route is to be seriously eonsid
ei'ed, in view of the fact that Ware
and Glynn counties are to sponsor the
building of that project through
Brantley county, which is the “miss¬
ing link.”
At the conclusion of the business
meeting, the Columbus motorists will
be the guests of the Young Men's
Club at their weekly luncheon, which
was arranged for Thursday, instead
of Friday, their regular meeting day.
At 2:30 o’clock the visitors will be
conveyed to the Mansfield street
docks, where they will board steamers
for St. Simon and Long Islands.
Arriving at St. Simon, the visitors
will be met by automobiles and taken
for a ride over these islands, visiting
the spots of paramount interest on
both islands. Some time will be spent
at Frederica.
The return to Brunswick will be
made in time for a dinner at the Ogle¬
thorpe, complimentary to the visitors,
at 8 oclock. Tickets to this luncheon
will be $1.00 each. J. P. Davenport,
president of the Boar dof Trade; Clar¬
ence B. Greer, chairman of the Young
Men’s Club; Mayor Malcolm B. Mc¬
Kinnon; Ed. L. Stephens, chairman of
the county commissioners; C. P. Dus
enbury, president of the Rotary Club,
and F. E. Twitty, general chairman,
make an earnest request to the citi¬
zens generally to take an active part
in entertaining the visitors, especially
the meeting in the Board of Trade at
noon tomorrow, and the dinner at
8:30 o’clock at the Oglethorpe.
All who expect to attend the dinner
are requested to notify Fred G.
Warde, at phone 118, not later than
5:30 this afternoon.
EXCHANGE CLUBS TO
HONOR LATE PRESIDENT
(By Associated Press.)
Macon, Sept. 11.—The Macon Ex-1
change Club has endorsed the idea of
erecting a monument to the late
President Harding, which is now be
ing considered by Exchange clubs
throughout the country, The idea
owes its inception to the Cleveland
Exchange Club. The secretary of the
Macon club lias notified the Cleveland
cl»o that it is behind the proposal.
BUY WHAT YOU NEED AT
HOME AND THUS HELP
BRUNSWICK GROM' TO BE
BIGGER AND GREATER. . .
TOTAL DEATH
NOW TOTALS
MOST SEVERE
GEORGIA AND THE SOUTH
LINING UP FOR UNDERM OOD
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HON. OSCAR UNDERWOOD
Distinguished son of Alabama, w ho i
is in the race for the Dtmocrartic !
nomination, and to whom the South
is gradually turning.
KLAN OF STATE
BLAMED FOR MANY i
MACON OUTRAGES !
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J. P. DURKEE, OFFICIAL ORGAN :
IZER, WAS ARRESTED IN [
CENTRAL CITY LAST NIGHT
Macon, Sept. 11.—Sitting in the
office of Sheriff J. R. Hicks, Jr., last
night at S o’clock “awaiting further
developments” in flogging cases, J. P.
Durkee, official organizer of the Ku
Klux Klan in Macon and Bibb county,
was arrested on two warrants charg¬
ing assault and battery and rioting.
Durkee’s arrest on the eve of the trial
of at least one of right other men
charged with complicity in the flog¬
gings came as a surprise to M. O.
Dunning, chief of staff of the Ku
Klux Klan in Georgia, who is now
registered at the Hotel Dempsey “to
assist the authorities in bringing an
end to flogging activities in Bibb
county.” When Durkee was arrested
he remarked, “Huh, well I’ll be dog.”
Simultaneously with the arrest of
Durkee come dispatches from Atlan¬
ta implicating the entire organiza¬
tion of the Georgia Klan in the flog¬
ging of R. F. Mills, a former Macon
chiropodist. The dispatch quotes an
interview with a former Klan em¬
ploye in which he charges that Dun¬
ning has been sent to Macon to “save
the Klan’s hide.” The interview with
Rhodes McPhail, former Klan public¬
ity man, also charges that official re¬
ports of the flogging of Mills on two
occasions were made to Klan head¬
quarters in Atlanta. Other charges
are made that a letter from Mills’ at¬
torney to Governor Hardwick asking
for protection was diverted in the
United States mails by three em¬
ployes of the Atlanta postoffice.
McPhail, according to his state¬
ment, was forced to resign from the
Klan after Imperial Wizard Evans, of
Texas, came into office, because “there ■
was such an increase in atrocities and
lawless acts.” Referring to flogging
cases in Macon in which McPhail
charges that “Dunning has no inter¬
ests in aiding justice or bringing!
about law enforcement except where 1
it is desired to protect the midnight!
activities of certain members of his ,
organization,” McPhail said. “Before !
Evans and Dunning are through with I
the forth cases, that propaganda the 'ldan, will be going j
as usual, ran j
down the criminals and upheld the
of r.he law.’ ”
STORES CLOSED
ON ACCOUNT OF NEW YEAR
All the establishments of Bruns- ,
Hebrews are closed today on ac- !
«f their New Year but these j
open at the usual hour tomor
• s
There are several orthodox mer¬
in the city and all of these ■
remain closed tomorrow. Ser-;
were held at the Hebrew Asso- oth-; j
hall on Grant street and
meetings will take place this eve- this j j
conducted by members of
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DESTROYERS
IS
PEACE TIME BLOW
NO EXPLANATION
OF CATASTROPHE
FORTHCOMING YET
Navy Officials Withhold Judg*
meat on Loss of Seven
First Class Craft
OFFICERS SCOUT IDEA THAT
’QUAKE IN JAPAN WAS CAUSE
Shipping Men Who Viewed the
Wrecks are of Opinion That
There is No Chance of Saving
Any One of Crafts.
(By Associated Press.)
Santa Barbara, CaL, Sept. 11.—The
death list in the disaster which sent
seven naval destroyers crashing on
the rocks of Point Honda, seventy
five miles north of here, Saturday
night,-had increased to twenty-nine
tonight, according to a message from
n correspondent of the Santa Barbara
Morning Press.
The body of U. R. Van Schaak, fire
man third class, of Araza, Iowa, and
an unidentified body floated ashore to-
1 h® body of R. Conroy, a fire
man on the Delphy, was recovered
yesterday.
A heavy fog which hung over the
scene of the wreck hampered the
work of investigators. A force of
naval photographers who attempted
to photograph the vessels before they
broke up was forced to abandon the
attempt.
Officers of the wrecked destroyers
scouted reports that tidal conditions
were responsible for the wreck. All
virtually agree that the heavy fog,
which necessitated navigation by
dead reckoning was to blame.
Shipping men who viewed the
wrecks said they feared the destroy¬
ers could never be floated, but must
be left to rust and break up. At¬
tempts are to be made, however, to
save ships' instruments, radio equip¬
ment, torpedoes and explosives and
other movable articles from them.
Thirteen of the most severely in¬
jured among the sailors who manned
the seven ships were still in the San¬
ta Barbara county hospital tonight.
The remainder of the survivors were
at San Diego, where they arrived ear¬
ly today on a special train.
Navy’s Hardest Blow
Washington, Sept. 11.—Lacking
even the barest official explanation
of the loss of seven first class de¬
stroyers on the California coast, navy
officials continued to withhold judg¬
ment on what they termed the most
severe peace-time bio wthe navy has
ever sustained.
Although regulations prescribe that
every effort be nfifde to forward im¬
mediately names of dead and injured
in such cases, no such list had been
received at the department .ufp to a
late hour. The initial dispatch from
Admiral Robinson, commanding the
Pacific fleet, informed the department
that specific orders had been issued
for the preparation and relay of this
list, the duty being assigned to Cap¬
tain Edward H. Watson, command¬
ing the wrecked squadron.
ROTARY CLUB HOLDS
INTERESTING MEETING
Quite an interesting program was
rendered at the Rotary Club today.
The back to. school movement that
was inaugurated, last year will be
continued again this year.
Villard Royal, scoutmaster, Troop
No. 1, was the honor guest, and gave
an educational talk on the Boy Scout
movement, and thanked the Rotary
Club for their donations to the en
campment, for without it Troop No. 1
would not have been able to have had
the camp this year.
M. J. Welsh, who has just return¬
from an extended trip North, gave
interesting account of his travels.
It was voted to render all 'assist¬
possible to Mr. McLean, who
from Palatka, Fla., to locate
St. Simon Island as a truck grow
CHEESE FACTORY AT ARABI
Cordele, Ga., Sept. 11.—Members
the Arabi Dairy Association have
arrangements for the con
and operation of a cheese
at Arabi. The proposed plant
expected to be ready for operation
the next sixty days and will
a capacity of three to five hun
gallons of whole milk per day.