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VLUME XXIII. No. 87.
CLEVELAND GETS REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
COMMITTEEMEN
FROM SOUTH IN
THE
Southern Committeemen Win
Pight in Meeting of the
Committee Today
JUNE 10TH NAMED AS
DATE FOR CONVENTION
At the Banquet the Republican
Doctrine Was Expounded
Chairman Adams, and Mrs.
Upton, of Ohio.
Washington, Dec-. 12 (IP)—Southern |
committeemen won the fight ni the J
meeting of the Republican national i
committee today when the committee
adopted a resolution virtually
ing tile full Southern representation!
in the national convention.
,• ' Cleveland and June 10th were se-1 l
lected as the place and date of the
next Republican national convention, j
In preparation for the party’s fight;
next year, the committee named sev- i
oral general committees, including [
5 SSfJSf' be-!
out delegation contests to come
fore the national committee prior to ‘
its convention. Others will formulate ) !
recommendations on rules and make
arrangements for the convention. j
Nearly all of the committeemen to -1
day answered the gavel of Chairman ’
Adams, together with a large major- ■
ity of associate women members. All
gathered together at a banquet ten- j
dered hy committee officers. Presi-;
dent Coolidge and Mrs. Coolidge will I
he hosts tomorrow at a White House j
luncheon after adjournment of the ’•
committee meeting. The women coin- ;
mitteg members will hold a separate !
meeting tomorrow afternoon and be j
entertained tomorrow night at a din- ,
ner by Mrs. Leonard Wood of Penn
sylvania. i
At the banquet Republican doctrine j
was expounded in addresses by Chair- i
man Adams, Senator Pepper of Penn¬
sylvania; H. I-. Remmel, Arkansas |
committeeman, and Mrs. Harriet Tay- j
ior Upton of Ohio committee vice i
chairman. j
Through tiie proceeding's ran a con- |
slant note of the Republican loss in ;
the death of the President committee Harding, /will adopt and j j
tomorrow
formal memorial resolutions.
The only controversy in the reappor-! pro
feedings was over the new
tionment of delegates to the 1024 con
ventino, ordered by the 1020 conven¬
tion, by which the (Southern states
suffer a cut of twenty-three votes,
while those of some Southern and
Northern states are increased. This
attacked and defended at the i
meting, but was finally won by the I
• .Southern committeemen.
Leading the attack upon the reduc¬
ed Southern representation were a
delegation of negroes, headed by Per.
ry Howard of Mississippi; Roscoe
Conkling Simmons, of Chicago, and
Henry Lincoln Johnson, Georgia com¬
mitteeman. They were supported by
Mr. Remmel of Arkansas and M. J.
Mulvihill, Mississippi committeeman. I
siona! MM b,- iitlu.veil at lea.t oaa
delegate. ■ ------ , |
Under the new apportionment Gcoi- •
gia will have eighteen instead national of sev-1
enteon delegates ill the con- ;
vent ion. !
RICHMOND PEARSON
HOBSON, THOUGHT TO
BE LOST, IS LOCATED
Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 12.—Cap¬
tain Richmond P. Hobson, Spanish
American 'war hero and prohibition
worker, and Captain Jesse Hunter,
special investigator of the Los Ange
lelUVstrict smirch attorney’s office, for whom
a was started today in the
hills back of Tujunga pass, north of
here, were located late today, safe
and unaware of the fact that they had j
been considered last, according to i
telephonic advices received from Maj.
J. M. Hobson, a brother of Captain
Hobson.
JOHNSON TO BE CANDIDATE
Pierre, S. D„ Dec. 12—Senator Hir
ant Johnson will file as a candidate
for the nomination as president at
the March primary. This was made j
known today when John Sutherland,
attorney of this city and prominent
Republican, received a telegram from
Johnson giving him power of attor
! and asking him to file Johnson’s
. la me on the minority Republican
ticket in South Dakota.
THE BRDNSWICK NEWS
THE NEWS IS A MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
EATAI.I.Y WOUNDS WIFE
AND DANCING PARTNER
Louisville, Ky., Dec. 12 (.I 3 )—
•John George, twenty-six years
♦of age, insurance agent, shot and
probably fatally wounded his
♦ wife, fatally wounded Eugene
♦ Coates, seventeen, the woman’s -r
♦ dancing partner, and killed him- a
self at a dance in the home of
his mother-in-ky.- /?re a few
minutes after midnight.
♦ Jealous because his wife had
refused to dance with him and
♦ iwas dancing with Coates, has
* been advanced as the theory for
the triple slaying. Young George a
a son of John George, Sr„ A
of Atlanta.
WALKER MAKES
“FINAL APPEAL”
TO LEGISLATURE
Governor Delivers Message jll
p erson to Both Houses
Today
IF CAN’T GRANT REQUEST
ADJOURN IMMEDIATELY
Appealed . . House Recede
to to
From Its Amendment to the
Lankford Income Tax Meas¬
ure by Striking Word "Nat”
Atlanta, Dec. 12 (IP)—A “final
appeal’’ to the legislature to
reach an agreement on its differ¬
ences on tax reform legislation
was made by Governor Clifford
Walker in a message delivered
in person to tiie two houses to¬
day.
The governor appealed to tiie
house to recede from its amend¬
ment to the Lankford income tax
measure by striking out the word
“net” and asked the senate to re¬
cede from its position insisting
on crediting the ad valorem tax
payments against income tax as¬
sessments and vice versa.
If they could not acquiesce in
this request, the governor appeal¬
ed to both houses to immediately
adjourn.
After the governor’s address a res
olution in the senate that would have
instructed the conference committee
considering the Lankford income tax
measure to recommend a
mise was voted down. The senate also
Lnnis revenue department bill af! or
both houses had refused to recede
from the amendments.
SENATE REMAINS IN
DEADLOCK TODAY OVER
ELECTION OF CHAIRMAN
Washington, Dec. 12 (/P)—Al
^
senate a. -JSS lemaineu m (leatuocic today ' i '’v on on
the election of the chairman of the
interstate Commerce Committee,
Thl . ee ba)lots were taken and the
senate the n adjourned,
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LARGE BODIES MEN
JOINING SANCHEZ ON
MARCH ON MEXICO CITY
San Antonio, Dec. 12 (JP)—Large
bodies of armed men from all sections
of the state of Vera Cruz are joining
General Sanchez in his rebel march
on Mexico City, according to private
advices by the San Antonio Light.
The army at present is believed to
number 25,000 well armed and equip¬
ped men.
” KJUL.LJ r» LL/luij i r.cr jilUnLu CUflAI Q i
TO FORD, PROVIDED (
FERTILIZER IS MADE
Washington, Dec. 12.—Lease of
Muscle Shoals to Henry Ford with a
provision that he manufacture fer¬
tilizer is provided for in a bill pre
pared today for introduction by Rep
resentative Dickinson, Republican, of
Iowa.
The lease would be given unit#/
control of the water power act at a
nominal rental with a rebate on all
power used in the manufacture of
fertilizer.
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BRUNSWICK, CA., WEDNESDAY, DEC. 12, 1923.
nurse
INDICTED IN THE
COBURN KILLING
Mrs. .. Margaret ... Weaver ,
as Accessory Before
she Fact
EVIDENCE OBTAINED TO
WARRANT OTHERS INVOLVED
Preliminaries in Fox Trial Were
Quickly Disposed of This
Morning and Selection of a
Jury is Under Way.
Atlanta, Dec. 12 |/P)—Mrs. Margar
et Weaver, trained nurse, lias been in
dieted as accessory before the fact in
the slaying of Captain W. S. Coburn,
klansman, and attorney, by Phillip
Pox, publicity director of the klan, it
announced hy Solicitor General
S. Boykin just before the trial
started today.
Evidence has been obtained to war
rtnt similar indictments against sev- j
kin. oral other Mrs. persons, Weaver, said who Solicitor is not under Boy- j
arrest, and whose whereabouts are
not publicly known, is alleged to have
known of Fox’s intention to kill Capt.
Coburn and to have been with him a j
short time before he started on his j
death mission.
Tiie preliminaries in the Fox trial j
this morning were quickly disposed of
and the selection of a jury was begun j
from tiie two hundred and forty-sev- .
en veniremen.
Atlanta, Dec. 12.—Phillip E. Fox, j
former publicity chief for the Knights I
of the Ku Klux Klan, was placed on I
trial here this morning on a charge of j
William !
Shnmoiu faction of the Klan. ,
Two hundred and forty-four tails- j
probable men have been summoned will and it tak- is j
that the first day be ;
en uo in the selection of a jury. j
Final preparations have been made j
for the trial of the case and the hand-j !
ling of the crowd which is expected j
to tax the capacity of the court room,
Klnnsmcn following the standards of {
tiie present Klan administration and
of the Simmons faction were reported j
last night as arriving here from I
sections of the country to attend the
1 trial.*
Hundreds of witnesses have been
summoned by the prosecution and de
fense, many coming front Dallas, Tex
as, former home of the defendant, and
other parts of Texas.
Final pre-trial conferences were
trial charges that the klan publicity j
chief and editor of the “Night Night Hawk,” Hawk, j j
the official organ of the Klan, ’ shot 1
and killed Coburn, while the latter
was seated at a desk in his office here
on Nov. 5. Coburn was almost in
stantly killed.
Fox charged that Coburn was pre
paring to “ruin hint’’ by introducing
affidavits in a suit for receivership
for the Klan, which Coburn, as attor
hvS
,h *
Fox issue( | a statement to alienists
that he shot Coburn because “God
told me to do it.”
It was indicated here a short time
ago that the defense would enter an
insanity plea, but counsel late today
declined to divulge the nature of j
defense to be offered.
r. m. M1AUGHLIN LAID
TO REST YESTERDAY IN
OAK GROVE CEMETERY 1
i
Funeral services for R. M. Mc-1
Laughlin, former popular citizen of j
Bruns,wick, whose death occurred
• home i at Homerville, . r •»• Ga., Monday »
was held yesterday after¬
at Millers mortuary chapel, the
services being impressively conduet
by Rev. C. D. Ogg. A number of i j
of the deceased were present
pay their last tribute of respect
love to the deceased, who spent
years here and who was held in
esteem as one of Brunswick’s
valuable citizens.
At -the conclusion of the services
the chapel, the body was conveyed
Oak Grove cemetery, where it was
to its final rest by the side of his
wife, who died here twenty years
ago. The pallbearers were: Herbert
Miller, A. O. Anderson, F. N. Knight,
H. Tankersiey, M. A. Anderson,
Dv. G. W. Blanton.
Relatives attending the funeral
Electricity Proves Itself Mightier Than Steam
in Terrific Struggle of Powerful Locomotives
The latest words in electric and steam railway locomotives in a test of power.
Electricity won a decisive victory
over steam us a means of transporta
tjon a llemonstration heW at Evie
p , u by thg buiklers of the 1110St pow .
e Ml electric locomotive so far con¬
COURT OF HONOR
OF BOY SCOUTS IN
REGULAR SESSION
MET LAST NIGHT AT BOARD OF
TRADE; EXAMINATIONS
CONDUCTED
The Brunswick Court of Honor of
the Boy Scouts " le tin re * ular sessio ”
last night at 7:U0 o’clock at the Board
of Trade rooms with seven Scouts to
be examined for promotion into dif
ferent ranks of scoutinff .
Dr J w Simmons, assisted . by.1.
- - -
E. Glover, R. E. L. Reddy, and Fred
G. Warde conducted the examination
and the following boys were passed:
Raymond Symons, Edward Reddy
Dan Middleton, first class; YVal
ter Johns, Buck Price, Dennis Kline
Henry Farr, as speond class. Ed
ward Reddy and Dan Middleton
the prize of $5.00 in gold fof greatest
efficiency offered by Scout Master
Villard Royal,
At the conclusion of the business
session the Scouts, with Scout Master
tendered'T and/the ZstTnlovable Court of Honor, 'b^auet were
t } lC J 1 1 bv
’
n
nient in Brunswick is groiwing rapidly
and it is expected that at least one
hundred boys will be enrolled within
the next few months. The interest
and enthusiasm recently awakened
has placed the local troop in the front
rank of Scoutdom as to efficiency.
Numerically -. the organization : : is also
, . .
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COMPANY PETITIONS
«r> BE iimnnnnn INCORPORATED . Trn
tition having been (Red with Super
ior Court Clerk Harry duRignon this
morning for a charter for the new in¬
dustry. The company, which has been
in existence for some time, ;, is now
composed of H. A. Borsar g W. E. i
Yeatman, and M. H. Burroughs, and j
will be greatly enlarged, its capacity j
being practically doubled. ‘
The Atlantic Sea Products Com- , j
asks that it be incorporated with j
a capital . ..__. 1 stock a .—.Ip- of . £ $25,0000, tf* O fl/IDD and a /4 t to a Ka be
permitted to engage in the canning
of shrimp, crabs oysters and other r '
sea foods, and to engage in the catch- -!
selling and exporting and dealing j
in fish, oysters and crabs, !
It is the intention of the new cor-j
to install the latest mac-hin- j
for the canning of shrimp and
and general equipment for the
handling of sea foods of every de¬
The new concern is composed of en
energetic young business :
men and its success is assured.
— ;
from a distance were Mrs. B. K. i
Young and Miss Lula McLaughlin, of
Lakeland, Fla., daughters; W. S. Mc¬
Laughlin. Atlanta, and D. O. Me
Laughlin New Smyrna, sons. I
structed.
The engine was matched with a
steam locomotive of the same weight
in a tug of war. rower was applied j
to both at exactly tiie same time.,
A A A A A A
A
•F LABOR PARTY ISSUES
A COMMUIQUE STATING
POSITION IT HOLDS A
A
London, Dec. 12 DP)-—The ex¬
ecutive board of the Labor Party
has issued a communique saying
it had decided, in the event of
labor being invited to form a
government that the parliamen¬
tary party should' immediately
accept full responsibility of the
* *° V “" raent "-ith
A out compromising itself with any
A form of coalition.
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*----- t t t t H t t t t > t .J.
I LflUl I A & AWN a nn *«y
UliVHUUI l\Uu D
REPRESENTATIVE
VISITS BRUNSWICK
_
>V. C. STOKES TALKS INTEREST
INGLY OF WHAT ORGANIZA
TION IS ACCOMPLISHING
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W. C. Stokes, representing the
Georgia Association, is in Brunswick
in thp interest of that great organiza
and talks most interestingly of
s ‘
Association has i s .
a public . appeal ______, to all the people ------- 1 „
of Georgia to unite m definite plans
and methods looking Economic'' towards a great
er Georgia. emancipation
and greater prosperity is bound
result because of. Georgia Association
activities Every section from
*..«»* Activities along ,__.........._•...... three main lines
are claiming the attention of the
or land settlement. To be sure the irn
mediate and most pressing need is for
agricultural development. The other
‘ 1 j..‘
operative ,. credit which ,■ , will bring irn
mediate relief and provide cash for
living expenses while the next crop
is being produced. Along with this
agricultural aj,iu uuuiai production j/umuvui o program t' * ....... the
Georgia Association is undertaking to
work out the most efficient and com
prehensive prehensive market market system system ever ever under- under
taken in Georgia. Being free from
any selfish or political entanglements
A the L association ,i .,A , n «I « co-operates /i r> t\ vi av* ■ v I a e l.M with 4 * ll and *11.
encourages every worthy and worth
while agency in existence. Knowing
the good work being done by the
College 6f Agriculture, through its
farm agents and home economics
agents, the Georgia Association is
del-taking to popularize the work and
lend encouragement to the idea of
employing such agencies where not
already installed. And it is in
felt sympathy with every worthy ef
fort being undertaken by the Depart
nient of Agriculture and all other
agencies, civic clubs, chambers of
commerce and boards of trade.
Mr. Stokes, whose home is in Jef¬
fersonville, is enthsiastic over the
prospects for the greatest era of de¬
velopment in the near future that
Georgia has ever known.
The electric engine slowly but surely
pulled its straining, goaning opponent
backward.
The electric locomotive was built
for the Mexican railway.
BALLARD CHAPTER
DE MOLAY ELECT
FIRST OFFICERS
ROBSON TRAVIS IS ELECTED
MASTER COUNCILLOR—OTH¬
ERS NAMED FOR POSTS
N. H. Ballard Chapter of the De
Molay, held its first meeting at the
Masonic Temple last night since it
I was organized by the Cecil Chcves
• Chapter, of Savannah, on Saturday,
of last week.
I All ,„ of the . twenty-six . members, ,
| | large of local Masons who a
number
I are interested in the DeMolay and
j giving of their of the assistance most flourishing to the making Chap
one
, ters in tiie state were present. The
election of officers and their installs
I tion required most of the evening’s |
Nprograni. W. S. Nathan conducted |
'the beautiful installation services that
i left a profound impression on the
j new officers that have the honor of be
! ing the first to hold office in the ,
i ch f pter ol 1 he DeMolay. ;
j While the three senior . officers were !
| s selecting the appointive officers,
! ! chairman of the advisory board, vvlio
has been instrumental in organizing organizing 1 j
a chapter in Brunswick.
The officers of the chapter are:
Master councillor,Rabson Travis; sen-
101 councillor, ' c ?“ nc,1 *? Ralph r ; P\ M. Smith; S ’ treaaur- JUmor
01 ’ iv " Cunningham, scribe, (. U.
llavi(l Gordon; y; ” steward,
i t ' 0,1 > senior
Slmmol,s ; junior steward, M.
.
I standard bearer, B. Farr; _ orator, G.
Cunningham; first preceptor, Ed.
Tolcs; second preceptor, M. D. Eadie;
U McLaughRn; sixth precep
tor, E. W. Whilden; seventh precep
.
01 ’ ' ' ‘ lt( al11 '
All officers elected tor . three
are
months, with the exception of the
^urer and scribe, who are elect
«
e( 01 > f > 1 1
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ASKS BODY TAKEN AS
XMAS nnmniT PRESENT ta TO ntipr WIFE.
THEN LEAPS TO DEATH
New York, Dec. 12.—After writ
ing that his body be taken to his
home as a “Christmas present” for
his wife, Kalman Snied, a tailor, last
night leaped to his death from the
platform of an elevated railway sta
tion 110 feet above the ground. The
body narrowly missed two women pe¬
destrians.
“Officer, please take my body home
to my wife for a Christmas present,”
the police said the note, found in
Snied’s pocket, read. “I told her I
would not come home again, and 1
won’t. She has caused me to live a
dog’s life.”
BRUNSWICK HAS A I. ANO¬
UK HKD H \RBOK, THE BEST
ON THE SOUTH ATT.ANTIC
t OAST.........
PRICE FIVE CENTS
EXTRA SESSION
COMES TO END
FRIDAY NIGHT
Lower House Rejects Once More
The Ellis Statutory
l ax Bill
SEEMS BE LITTLE CHANCE
OF BREAKING DEADLOCK
House Side-stepped Senate Res¬
olution to Adjourn Sine Die
Next Friday.—Still Debating
Amendments to Tax Bills.
Atlanta, Dec. 12.—The extraordi¬
nary session of the legislature will
end Friday evening. /The definite
time fixed in a joint resolution adopt¬
ed by the senate this morning is tv
p. m., which .means at that hour the
official docks will be stopped and
| sometime before daybreak Saturday
the final gavel will fall,
j joint resolution from tne sen¬
ate was immediately sent to the
house, but laid aside in that branch
because the body was at the moment
engaged in the second attempt to pass
the Ellis statutory income tax bill,
which some members of the senate
claim is the basic reason for the un¬
breakable d< adlock between the two
brain lies. Thai is, among even the
■senators who are favorable to the
house constitutional amendment in¬
come tax measure, there is unyielding
opposition to trying to accomplish the
same purpose by statutory enactment,
which gives the people no voice in the
matter.
That there is still that deadlock,
with little prospect of its breaking
was emphasized when Senator Duke,
chairman of the conference commit¬
tee now out, offered his sine die ad
journment resolution and spoke in be
half of its yassage.
i here if now such a divcrsitv of
’
opillion amonf , the |MJ0ple 0 r tlu .
state,” he said, "I am conv inced it
precludes the final enactment of any
0 f the proposed tax reform legisla
tion. Among the members of the Isg
islature there are so many divergent
opinions on the subject that pre
c .i ut | eg t | K . probability of ever ivach
j n , r any agreement on the differences
after the amount of time spent
0 n this one subject—50 days in the
summer and almost 50 days in this
extra session—the people of the state
0 f Georgia are entitled to know when
and where we are going to quit. More
over, 1 am convinced no definite ae
session, the effect of which would bo
1 to „ nnnomu-i. announce to to t.hoso those rummitim committees fhev they
must do something more than .-fit out
am | continue to disagree.”
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Again Fail lo Agree
Atlanta, Dec. 12.-Reinain.ng in
session until G o’clock tho house oi
CO me tax u bill, and it cannot again * jz in be -
reconsidered. The vote was 96 to «1.
The status of legislation, now,
therefore, is that the sole remaining
hope of reform lies in the Lankford
bill, over which the two branches are
hopelessly deadlocked at the moment.
The fifth conference committee on
that measure was in session until aft¬
er 4 o’clock and adjourned until i> this
morning. That they will be able to
reach an agreement is no nearer a
prospect than with any of the oilier
conferences, and there is some possi¬
bility that another conference failure
will bring a motion in the senate,
which has physical possession of the
bill, that the measure be tabled.
The house manipulated throughout
the day so as to stave off a vote on
the senate sine die resolution, but it
will have to come up for adoption or
rejection today. If the house rejects,
that will raise a constitutional differ¬
ence on adjournment between the two
branches and the matter will be in the
hands of the governor, the constitu¬
giving him the power, when there
is such an agreement, to adjourn the
session. There was some speculation
last night over what his attitude will
be, and in it a little disposition to be¬
Governor Walker may take that
of the dilemma and adjourn the
session, which nvould put the respon¬
of failure of the program up¬
on the assembly rather than upon
in that he has done all he could
do in having called the extra session,
and striven to induce the enactment
of his program.
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