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BRUNSWICK HAS A LAND¬
LOCKED HARBOR, THE BEST
ON THE SOUTH ATLANTIC
COAST. . . ......
VOLUME XXIII. No. 23.
COMMISSIONER J. J. BROWN DENIES CHARGES
JURY TIED UP IN SECOND TRIAL OF DR. YARBROUGH!
MEN HAVE BEEN
OUTMANYHOURS;
AREBADLYSPLIT
No More Flogging Cases at Tins
Term of Court Sa.*s the
Solicitor
WITNESS IN ALEXANDER
CASE IS SPIRITED AWAY
For This Reason Case Was
CallecL—Dentist Gives Jury
History of His. Life and His
Family.
Macon, Sept. 27,—The jury having
the fate of Dr. C. A. Yarbrough -on
his second charge of rioting had not
reached a verdict early this after
noon. They had been
since yesterday.
In the meantime it was announced
that no more flogging cases would be
heard at this term of the court.
Solicitor Moore stated that Nelson
Britt, one of the principal witnesses
against J. F. Alexander, whose cases
was scheduled for trial today, had
apparently been spirited away. A
continuance therefore, was granted,
Dr, Yarbrough in his statement,
said he was born in Randolph coun
ty, Alabama, June 15, 1880, on a
farm 18 miles from Roanoke. His
father is now 73 years old. He told
of his early life, how lie struggled for
an education and of his marriage to
ttge of 23.
He told how he came to Macoji
in 1912, “a stranger, broke and in
debt,” and how he worked to build
up his dental practice.
He then said he was a member of
the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and
explained what he said were the prin¬
ciples of the klan, declaring the or¬
ganization aid not approve of -flog
Kings and that live personally did “not
approve of it for any one or by any
““Teachers, doctors, lawyers, busi
ness men and men in other honora¬
ble! ^alks of life are members of the
klan,” he said.
Explaining a statement he made to
O* Deputy She,-iff Urn Mull*
that he had expected arrest, Dr. Aar
brough said he referred t» articles in
the Macon newspapers, an address
by Charles Hall before the Kiwanis
Club, in whicih Mr. Hall said a promi¬
nent dentist was the “whipping boss.”
He- said several friends told him these
articles referred to him.
; Referring to a conversation be
tween himself, iRev. Hewlitt, H. Con
lessness was talk about liqupr selling
in the Bellevue district. He said he
told Quarterbaum he had friends in
the sheriff’s office and if he would tel
ephone Rev. Connell, the minister
would telephone him and he would
have those things looked after by the
sheriff’s force.
Testimony of Dr. J. H. Heard re¬
garding a visit of J. P. Durkee, Ku
Klux Klan organizer, and himself to
Dr. Heard’s home was true, the den¬
tist said. The matter mentioned in
the anonymous letter was attended to
through the courts,' he said.
He denied any knowledge of the
whipping- of W. W. Arnold,- W. O.
Barnett and R. A. Hartley, asserting
he had never seen the latter two untit
he saw them in court. He said Ar¬
nold was a former patient of his and
that they had always been friendly.
“I am not guilty of taking part in
any floggings that have been charged
against me,” he said in conclusion.
‘I could not afford to take the chance
or risk of that kind of thing when I
have .a family consisting of my wife
and \jKvt children to support. My oldest I am
now 43 years of age.
daughter is 18 and is now a student
at Bessie Tift College, Forsyth. My
second daughter is 16 and will finish
at Lanier High School this year. The
third child is a boy of 10 years and
there is a fourth, a girl of 7 years.
The youngest is our baby boy of 11
months. y?..
“Gent! ' of the jury, I am not
guilty, nad I hope you will so find.”
JERSEY CATTLE TO BE SOLD
Jackson, Ga., Sept. 27.—The Ki¬
wanis club, in line with its program to
county" build up has"made the . _____ dairy industry __________ in Butts ____
plans for a carload
of Jersey cattle to be s<4d here Octo
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THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
THE NEWS IS A MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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4- LOADS LIQUOR TAKEN 4
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♦ Philadelphia, Sept. 27.—A 4
♦' band of about forty men, some 4
of them masked and armed, 4
bound and gagged guards at the
warehouse of the Philadelphia
Distilling Company at Edding¬ ♦
ton, near here, and got away
with seven to ten truck loads of
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i STORM SIGNALS
ORDERED UP AND
j VESSELS WARNED
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NORTHEAST GALE PREDICTED
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C, Don Parker, local weather ob
server, received the following tele
gram this morning:
“Change back to northeast storm
: warnings Savannah to Jupiter inlet
! 10 a. m. Northeast winds and prob
! ably gales next twenty-four hours,
| Disturbance centered this morning
approximately latitude twenty-eight
j and longitude seventy-eight,
! slightly northward. Rapid movement
prevented area of high barometer to
the northward. Advise vessels.
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: The northeast storm warning is a
! red P en " an t ab " ve a sc l« ai ' e Y f
Wlth a black l c ' onter > by uay.
or two red lanters, one above the oth
er, displayed at night. This indicates
1 the approach of a storm of marked
‘violence with winds beginning, from
the northeast. Hurricane or gale
j warning is two square flags, red with
black centers, one above the other,
displayed by day or two red lanters
with a white lantern between, dis
played at night. This indicates
' approach of tropical hurricane,
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j Both vannah \ hese yesterday. signals were seen in
Up to this afternoon no
^ int, ve A° cit J., h ;i f i, bee "
the South „ Atlantic coast,- but epndi
tious indicated northeast gales to¬
day. Higher temperatures prevail in
the Gulf states, New Orleans having
j maximum “ of 88 The only heavy rain
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reported was at Jacksonville, where
.40 of an inch fell. Savannah, in spite
of its minimum of 09, had an excess
of temperature yesterday amounting
to two degrees, making the excess for
September up to this time 51 degrees.
! The weather bureau has warned
vessel , to . . port.
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ITA LV TURNS OVER CORFU
| TO GREECE THIS MORNING
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Athens, Greece, Sept. 27.—The isl
i and of Corfu, which was occupied by
Italian forces last August, was re
turned to the Greek authorities this
morning, dispatches' received here
state. !
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NEW PRESIDENT OF
AMERICAN BANKERS
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President of the Omaha National
Bank, who was yesterday
president, of the American Bankers
Association at Atlantic City, where
the annual convention is being held,
BRUNSWICK, GA., THURSDAY, SEPT. 27, 1923
MILITARY TOOK
GOVERNMENT OF
GERMANY OVER
Situation is Regarded as Being
Full of Dangerous
Possibilities
MINISTER OF DEFENSE
(iESSLER IN FULL CHARGE
Internal Requirements Demand¬
ed Such Action.—Minister is
Authorized to Take Any Ac¬
tion Necessary.
(By Associated Press.)
Berlin, Sept. 27. : —The German gov
ernment lias practically been handed
over to the military dictatorship, it
is deduced at the foreign offices from
Berlin dispatches,
The situation is regarded as being
full of dangerous possibility but as
furnishing no basis at present for any
action by the allies. The authorities
of the occupation of the Ruhr, how
ever, say they would be prepared to
meet any emergency which may arise
as a consequence of the proclamation
issued in Berlin placing Minister of
Defense Gessler in full charge and au
thorizing him to take ai?' r measure
to insure order and this action was
taken last night and is considered as
partly responsible for Bavaria’s ac
lion in setting up a dictatorship and
in any ease as solely related to re
quiremcnts of internal politics,
WALTON EXTENDS
MILITARY SCOPE
IN OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma City, Sept. 27.—Mil¬
itary activities have bee nex
tended to the third county in Ok¬
lahoma as preparations were be¬
ing made by members of the
louse of representatives to in¬
stitute injunction proceedings to
restrain governor Waiotn from
m.erfdring with their meeting of
the lower chamber.
Fifty guardsmen arrived at
Wagner this morning unannounc¬
ed.
COURT RULES MAN
CAN BE A FRIEND
TO ANOTHER’S WIFE
NOT LIABLE TO HUSBAND FOR
DAMAGFS, THOUGH ACT
MAY BE DISTASTEFUL
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Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 27.—The Geor
gia court of appeals has ruled that a
man mav maintain friendly relations
with the wife of another man, and
enjoy her company and society on
various occasions, without becoming
liable to the husband for damages
unless there is a proven effort to in
terfere with the marital relations of
the husband and wife,
“Although such acts may be dis
tasteful to the husband and contrary
to the edicts of society respecting
conduct where a married woman is
concerned, they are insufficient to es¬
tablish any violation of the purely le¬
gal rights of the husband,” the opin
ion -says.
The decision upheld the action of
Judge Bell in the Decatur superior
court, in non-suiting an action for
damages filed by M. L. Martin against
L. Ball, alleging alienation of affec
tions. Judge Bell, who is now a
member of the court of appeals, was
disqualified by reason of the fact that
he was the trial judge.
“Where the only evidence is that
the man and woman were seen with
each othei* on various occasions when
the husband was not present—once
at a dance and several times in an au
tomobile in the company of another
women, talking together near the de
fendant’s place of business; in a pub
lie park, where they were met and
drove off together, and the fact that
the wife went to an automobile es
tablishment and took out the car of
the defendant for her own use, a
claim for damages is not set up,” the
court of appeals rules.
Plenty of Pep and Color Displayed
In Oklahoma’s Bloodless Little War
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Above, “Buck” Garret, famous Oklahoma sheriff and two-gun mail, and machine gun crew on top of building
opposit city police station in Oklahoma City, Okla. Below, the Ku Klux Klan, in full regalia, marching
through streets of Tulsa, Okla., despite efforts made to halt them. Ex-Sheriff “Bill” .McCullough, who
tried to stop parade, is at left of hooded horse.
SIX MEN AND ONE
| WOMAN BOK PRIZE WILL WINNER NAME
NOTED CITIZENS SELECTED TO
AWARD FORTUNE TO PEACE
PRIZE WINNER
Washington, Sept. 27.—With a hun¬
dred thousand dollars as the prize,
thousands of citizens are trying to
win the Bok Peace Contest Award.
The jury which will decide as to the
most meritorious peace plan propos¬
ed, has just been chosen.
The six men and one woman who
compose the jury were selected be
cause 0 f their experience, education,
am , fitnesg t0 understand and pass
u P on the P _ la " s subm,tted , ... , ’ They m, iare:
Col. Edward M. House, formerly
confidant of Woodrow Wilson, special
governmnt at the Interallied Con
ference of Premiers and Foreign Min
isters held in Paris in November,
1917 .
Maj. Gen. James Guthrie Harbord,
president of the Radio Corporation of
America, chief of staff of the Ameri
can Expeditionary Force, chief of the
American Military Mission to Armen
ia in 1919. t
Dr. Ellen Fitz Pendleton, president
of Wellesley College. ' '
Dr. Roscoe Pound, dean of the Har -
vard Law school, formerdly of the fa¬
culties of Northwestern University,
and the University of Chicago.
William Allen White, of Emporia,
Kans., editor and novelist, observer in
France for American Red Cross in
1917, delegate to tihe Russian confer¬
ence at Prinkipo in 1919.
Brand Whitlock, formerly ambas¬
sador to Belgium.
The winning plan will be submitted
to the people of the United States for
a vote as to whether or not they ap¬
prove it, sometime in the early part
of 1924. This vote, of course, will be
strictly nonofficial, but it may readily
be supposed the senate would pay
much heed to its mandate. Plans
must be ubmitted by November 15,
and the award 1 is planned for Janu
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♦ KARELIAN BODY IS 4
♦ KILLED IN FINLAND 4
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♦ Moscow, Sept. 27—M. Lavroff, 4
4 chairman of the Russian Kare- 4
4 lian commission, has been killed 4
4 and two others of the commis- 4
+ sion wounded by assassins at 4
4 the frontier while returning 4
♦ from Finland, according to dis- 4
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ATLANTA INVITES
LLOYD GEORGE TO
VISIT THAT Cin
BRITISH STATESMAN, WITH HIS
FAMILY IS TO VISIT NEW
ORLEANS
j Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 27.—Atlanta
j w jjj include Atlanta in his southern
| i itinerary plated visit when Ihe the pays United his contem- States,
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j leaving Saturday. London, with his family next
Tentative plans of the British
J statesman, it was learned here,
[ eluded Richmond and New Orleans
only and when this fact was brought
to the attention of local business or
ganizations they immediately
activities to change the announced
itinerary.
“You can’t see the South unless you
come to Atlanta,” was the substance
of a communication which has been |
dispatched to London officials who are
discussing details of the trip with Da¬
vid Lloyd George.
The Kiwanis Club of Atlanta which
has taken hold of the movement to
bring Mr. George here has appointed
a special committee headed by C. W.
McClure to look after the details.
Theother members of the committee
are Asa G. Candler, Henry C. Heinz,
Arthur L. Brooks, and Colonel W. L.
Peel. Mr. McClure said today that
James J. Davis, secretary of the d«
partment of labor at Washington, has
already at his request, communited
with friends in London who will see
the British statesman and urge that
he come to Atlanta.
BUY WHAT YOU NEED AT
HOME AND THUS HELP
BRUNSWICK GROW TO BE
BIGGER AND GREATER. . .
OFFICERS MAKE
BIG HAUL ON A
LITTLE ISLAND
TWO MOONSHINERS AND COP¬
PER STILL OF FIFTY GALLONS
CAPACITY CAPTURED
On a little island, snugly tucked
away in an isolated spot, about eight
miles south of Brunswick, which but
few mortals have ever explored, an
exciting scene was enacted early this
morning when four county officers
swooped down on the islet and cap¬
tured two moonshiners.
When the officers arrived, blue
smoke was seen curling above the big
copper still, which was of fifty gal¬
lons capacity, and which was being
operated by Robert Bunkley and Nel¬
son Brooker, two well known local
white men. As the officers closed
of a serious dilemma, they thought,
They surrendered gracefully as the
curtain was rung down on their illicit
operations.
The officers received a “tip” several
days ago that smoke was seen issuing
from Chanie Island, one of a small
group about which little is known on
account of its being almost impene
trable. It was in the very heart of
the island that the still was located
and it required some time for the
officers to get to it. A more secluded
spot could not have been selected for
c moonshine outfit, and it would have
remained undiscovere?! indefinitely
had it not been that—it was found by
a “straggling” boatman, who gave the
secret away. With the still, two bat
teaux were taken. Also seven gal¬
lons of ’shine and several sacks of
sugar and meal.
This morning at 11:30 Deputy
Sheriff George Owens, Chief of the
County Police W. H. Norris, Special
Officers Horace Symons and R. M.
Brown arrived in Brunswick, having
in custody Robert Bunkley and Nel¬
son Brooker, operators and owners
of the big copper still, which with the
two boats were also brought along.
The two men were given cells at the
county jail, awaiting the assessment
of bond, which they will in all likeli-
PRICE FIVE CENTS
CARSWELL AND
NEILL BEFORE
FARM PROBERS
Both Senate and House Heads
Said Had No Talks With
Commissioner Brown
MEMBERS INVESTIGATING
ARE NOT A PICKED CROWD
This Had Been Charged by
Representative Stewart, of
Atkinson County, Made Sev¬
eral Days Ago.
(By Associated Press.)
Atlanta, Sept. 27.—Commis¬
sioner of Agriculture i. J. Brown
took the stand in his own behalf
this afternoon and denied every
charge ihat had been made
against him, attributing all of
these to political enemies.
He suggested that any ques¬
tion that might be asked by mem¬
bers of the investigating com¬
mittee would v be answered and
they were.
! Atlanta, Sept. 27.—George Cars
! well, president of the Georgia senate,
; and Cecil Neill, speaker o r the house
; of representatives, testifying before
j the house legislative committee which
] is investigating thp agricultural de
j partment, denied that they held any
| conference with Commission o r Agri
j culture Brown relative to the appoint
! ment of members to conduct the in
j quiry.
; Senator Carswell testified that he
' had voted for Mr. Brown’s opponent
, in the last contest. It had been clairn
; ed by Representative Stewart that the
j committee had been picked and is, of
course, flatly denied. The investiga¬
tion did not develop anything of a
j sensational nature today.
CONDITION OF MISS
JANIE GIGNILLIAT
SHOWS IMPROVEMENT
The many friends of Miss Janie
Gignilliat, who fell and fractured her
hip at her Union street home, will be
delighted to learn that there was a
slight improvement in her condition
today.
Miss Gignilliat fell from a box on
which she was standing and sustained
her injuries, Which, while painful at
first, were not considered serious. A
day or two later it was found neces
j i sary tal, where to remove she her has to since the city been hospi- in
a
j ! serious danger, condition. her physicians While hold not out out of
some
hope for her recovery. This is shar
j ed in by the host of friends of this
estimable woman, who will anxiously
await the news from her bedside.
GERMAN MINERS
STRIKE. PROTEST
IN RUHR ACTION
GOVERNMENT’S ABANDONMENT
• OF PASSIVE RESISTANCE
GOES AGAINST GRAIN
(Bv Associated Press.)
Duesseldorf, Sept. 27.—Miners of
Gelsenkirchen, Recklinghusen and
Wanne districts, in the heart of the
Ruhr mine fields, have declared a
general strike as a protest against
the Berlin government’s decision to
end passive resistance.
Another feature of the strike is also
a protest against exploitation of the
district by the French. It is esti¬
mated that six thousand miners have
quit.
RUMANIA WILL FURNISH
BULGARIA MILITARY AID
Bucharest, Sept. 27.—It is report¬
ed that Rumania has offered to Bul
garia military assistance in restor
ing order in that country should the
, Communist revolution assume an up¬
per hand.
hood be able to furnish.
The capture of the men and the
outfit is one cf the most important
made by the officers in some time. It
is the general belief that there are
but few more, if any, stills of this ca¬
pacity in operation in this neck o’
the woods. They are passing with
the days.