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XXIII. No. 96.
BOOTLEG SCANDAL INVOLVES HIGH CIRCLES
WASHINGTON IS
STIRRED AGAIN
BY BOOTLEGGERS
Scandal Threatens to Touch Ex=
elusive Circles in
Capital
GRAND JURY ASKED
TO TAKE DRAS TIC ACTION
to Have Been Under the A Pro¬
tection of One of the Foreign J
Legations.
Washington, Dec. 22 (TP)—A boot¬
leg liquor scandal that threatens to
touch the most exclusive and highly
connected circles in the national cap¬
ital were promised today by the pro¬
hibition officials of the District of Co¬
lumbia.
The district attorney’s office an¬
nounced that it, would ask the grand
jury to take action against the pur¬
chasers as well as the dispensers.
The basis of the request was an im¬
posing list of customers seized yes¬
terday when the police rounded up
the principals in what they believe a
bootleg syndicate to supply the dis¬
criminating drinkers of Washington.
The names will go before the grand
jury if the confessions said to have
been made are not overthrown.
Another ratification which caused
consternation was the stock from
which the liquor was supplied was un¬
der the protection of foreign lega¬
tions, according to the police. Tile-at¬
tempted seizure was protested by a
member of the legation staff.
The name of the legation was kept
a secret along with'the names of the
purchasers.
FOX’ ATTORNEY |
TO MAKE MM I
FOR NEW TRIAL i
:
MURDERER OP WILLIAM S. ”’)•
BURN GETS LIFE SENTENCE !
HANDS OF JURY ■
AT
Atlanta, Dec. 22.—Philip E. Fox,
Ku Klux Klati editor, last night was
convicted of the murder of Coburn
and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Testimony that Fox was in company
• with Mrs. Weaver shortly before, the
t killing was introduced at the trial.
The woman also was said to have had
the pistol used in the slaying in her
possession at one time.
Mrs. Weaver had clippings of news¬
's. paper stories of the Fox trial in her
* possession when arrested, Birming¬
s Assistant Solicitor
ham officials told
General Stephens of Fulton county.
The Birmingham officials said there
was no doubt about the woman being
Mrs. Weaver.
The woman will resist extradition,
Mr. Stephens was told. Plans to re¬
quest Gov. Walker to issue requisition
papers are under way in the solici¬
tor’s office, it was stated.
Motion For New Trial
Atlanta, Dee. 22.—Attorneys for
Philip E. Fox. former editor of the
Night Hawk. Ku Klux Klan official
organ, issued from the imperial pal¬
ace, who last night was found guilty
of first degree murder for the fatal
shooting of William S. Coburn, klan
attorney, by a jury in Fulton county
superior court, were expected to file
a motion for a new trial today.
The jury, after deliberating all day,
returned a verdict of guilty with rec¬
ommendation for mercy, which auto¬
matically fixed a penalty of life im¬
prisonment. Fox walked into Co¬
burn’s office on the afternoon of No¬
vember 5 and shot the attorney to
Njeatli with a .45-caliber automatic
pistol in Ijje presence of Coburn’s ste¬
nographer and a client.
Announcement of the decision to
file a motion for a new trial was
made last night by Frank Hooper, Sr.,
following a conference attended by
tfio defense attorneys.
Goes After Mrs. Weaver
Atlanta, Dec. 22 (JP) —Withrequisi
tion papers in hand, an agent of So¬
licitor General Boykin’s office left to¬
night for Birmingham to make an ef¬
fort to return Mrs. Margaret Weaver,
indicted as accessory before the fact
in the slaying of Captain W. S. Co¬
burn, Ku Klux Klan attorney, to
Georgia for trial.
^Officials were informed of Mrs.
saver’s arrest early today by Bir¬
mingham authorities.
THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
THE NEWS IS A MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOY ACQUITTED OF
MURDER CHARGE IS
ADOPTED RY RICH MAN
Now York, Dec. 22 (/I 3 )—Fran¬
4 cis K. Luxen, third, was today
acquitted of the charge of mur¬
dering eleven year old Jeannette
Lawrence in Madison, N. J a
year ago.
It is also stated that Young
Luxon, who is a mere boby, is to
be adopted by Monell Sayre, a
ric h citizen of Convent, N. J., in
whose home the boy has been
living for several months.
*1* T ♦ 4 ♦ 4
STRONG APPEAL
TOVENIZELOSTO
RETURN
Council of Ministers Decide to
Instruct Plastiras to
Make Overture
FORMER PREMIER WILL
STAND FIRM, HE SAYS
Would be Glad to Receive Invi¬
tation Committee, But Doubt¬
ed That He Would Decide to
Return to Greece.
Athens, Dec. 22 (/Pi—The coun¬
cil of ministers has decided to in¬
struct Colonel Plastiras, of the
revolutionary commission, to ask
Premier Venizelos, without any
conditions, and with the Chapter
of Liberty of the Initiate, to re¬
turn to Greece and take the polit¬
ical situation in hand.
Will Stand Firm
Paris. Dec. 22 t/P)—-Former Pre
mier Venizelos informed of the in¬
vitation to return to Greece, an
nouneed through his secretary that
e would be glad to receive the invit
- delegation but that lie doubted
- •/or the invitation would cause
niter his decision not to re
« iJSB KILLED
INN LSI l WRECK
near
NO PASSENGERS \J?v IUTT ‘ VT
SEVERAL SHAKEN UP . ’ I
TRAFFIC TIED 1 1
Atlanta, Dec. 22 (/P)—En-r" J.
W. Brown, of Decatur, was killo a v, ,l
Fireman H. L. Young and J. M. B ild
win, brakeman, were slightly injured
when the Dixie Limited, southbound,
of the Nashville, Chattanooga and
St. Louis railroad was wrecked at
Kennesaw, near here, this morning.
No passengers were hurt, but sev¬
eral were shaken up and traffic tied
up for five or six hours.
Another Account
Atlanta, Dec. 22 HP)—Investigation
will be held next week to determine
the cause of the wreck today of the
Dixie Limited, Chicago -Jacksonville
train of the N. C. & St, L. Railroad
in which Engineer Brown was killed
and two other trainmen injured.
The accident occurred near Kenne
saw Station, near here, the engine
turning over and the baggage car and
two Pullmans leaving the rails. No
passengers were hurt hut several are
suffering from shock. The wreck oc¬
curred at seven o’clock this morning.
BIG HAUL MADE
BY LIQUOR BANDITS
NEAR BALTIMORE
Baltimore, Dec. 22.—A score of
armed men and a fleet of trucks last
night swooped down on the Gwyn
brook Distillery warehouses at Gwyn
brook near Owings Mills, shackled the
three guards and broke into two of
the three whisky-stocked buildings.
An army of state, county and city
police and national guardsmen on mo¬
torcycles last night scoured the roads
and countryside for the fugitives, who
fled in time to escape the closing net.
Four men were captured in a motor¬
truck. Half a dozen others escaped
amid a fusillade wrf shots, abandoning
two trucks believed to have been stol¬
en from the Manhattan Transporta¬
tion Company, Philadelphia.
More than forty barrels of whisky,
valued at $60,000, was stolon.
BRUNSWICK, GA., SUNDAY, DEC. 23, 1923.
REVOLUTIONISTS
TRIUMPHING SAYS
MESSAGE TO U. S.
Emphatic Denial That Overtures
are Being Made For a
Peace Parley
EVACUATE
j CITY OF PUEBLA
After Holding City For Several
Days Abandon Stronghold for
Reasons of Military Expedi
ency, They Declare.
Galveston, Dec. 22 i/P)—Em¬
phatic denial that overtures for
a peace parley will be entertain¬
ed by the De la Huerta faction
was contained in an official dis¬
patch from the Alvarez de Castil¬
lo, secretary of foreign affairs for
De la Huerta, at Vera Cruz, was
received here today by Adolfo
Jiminez, rebel agent.
The revolutionist are triumph¬
ing everywhere, the message de¬
clared.
Rebels Evacuate Puebla
Vera Cruz, Dec; 22 (IP) —The rebels
have evacuated the city of Puebla for
reasons of imilitary expediency, it is
♦announced by their headquarters here.
They had held the city for several
days past.
NEW YORK TEACHER
WINS CHECK, TRIP,
WITH SAFETY PLAN
MISS TERESA PENNEY WRITES
BEST LESSON ON HIGH¬
WAY SAFETY
Washington, Dec. 22.—Miss Teresa
M. Lenney, a teacher in the New Ro¬
chelle, New York, public schools, con¬
tributed the best practical lesson on
highway safety entered in the 1922
national contest, according to an¬
nouncement by the Highway Educa¬
tion Board. More than GO,000 ele¬
mentary school teachers competed.
Judges who reviewed the lessons
j were Mrs. Louis N. Geldert, Wash
| ington, D. C., national president,
League of American Pen Women; Dr.
I A. B. Meredith, Hartford, Conn., com
* missioner of education for Connecti
j cut, and Dr. Ernest Hamlin Abbott, The
j I New York City, editor in chief of
Outlook. They served at the request
j of the United States Commissioner of
Education, Dr. John J. Tigert.
Second national honors in the 1922 ;
lesson contest were awarded the les
son plan by Miss' Henrietta M. Horn- i
berger, a teacher in Pueblo, Colorado, i
schools, who will receive a check for ■
V. three White, hundred Briggs dollars. School, Portsmouth, Miss Clyde j
Virginia, is the recipient of check j
a
for two hundred dollars, a. token of
third national honors awarded for the
lesson she entered in the contest.
Miss Denney’s reward is five hun¬
dred dollars in cash and a trip to
Washington with all expenses paid,
her prizes the gifts of the National
Automobile Chamber of Commerce.
WILL PROSECUTE
BIG SYNDICATE
OF BOOTLEGGERS
DISTRICT ATTORNEY IN WASH¬
INGTON THROWS BOMBSHELL
INTO THEIR CAMP
Washington, D. C., Dec. 22 (IP )—
Some one is always taking the joy out
of life.
This was discovered today when it
became known that a public declara¬
tion had been made by the district at¬
torney to make new prosecutions in a
big bootlegging scheme just unearth¬
ed.
The list of those included in the
new raid is a long and imposing one
and also includes the names of many
prominent customers who are liable to
be brought into the affair.
The syndicate is regarded by the
police as one of the most powerful yet
discovered by the authorities.
G. 0. P. Leaders Gathered In Cleveland
To Lay Plans For National Convention
The Republican chiefs and Cleveland reception committee inspecting public hall, in which convention will be
held. Left to right, in front row, are: T. Coleman Du Pont, LaFiiyette It. Gleason, David W. Mulvane,
John R. Adams, R. J. Tompkins, Maurice* Maschke, James 1>. Preston, James McGuire, Associated Press
representative, and Col. Carmi Thompson.
♦
♦ WILL RE DOWN TO
♦ HELP CELEBRATE
♦ -
♦ C. H. heavy, Editor,
Brunswick News.
Dear Sir: Find inclosed my
check for $ 2.00 for three months’
subscription to the News, begin¬
ning November 20.
Your paper is one of the best
dailies I know of. Your editori¬
als are fine, and you are a wor- ♦
ker for your town and section,
and here is hoping that you will ♦
get your women down there ♦
stirred up sufficiently to help you ♦
move Tin Can mountain. A
When the St. Simon’s High- ♦
-f way is opened I will be down to ♦
4 help celebrate. ♦
4 Yours truly, ♦
♦ ANNIE L. PICKETT. ♦
SENATORS FAVOR
PASSING BONUS
OVER PRESIDENT
POLL SHOWS SIXTY-FIVE MEM¬
BERS ARE IN FAVOR OF
THE MEASURE
Washington, Dec. 22.—A poll of
the senate on the soldiers’ bonus, tak¬
en by the Baltimore Sun, shows six¬
ty-five senators in favor of overrid¬
ing the veto, which would pass the
bill over the presidential opposition.
The Sun also says: “Three senators
intend to vote for the bonus, but are
not committed on a vote to override
a presidential veto. So far they are
undecided as to their course in event
of a veto message and have indicated
their action finally will depend upon
circumstances at the time and the
contents of the veto message. They
are regarded as ‘probable’ to vote to
override. They are: George, Georgia;
Howell, Nebraska; Stanley, Kentuc¬
ky.”
POINCARE WINS
FIRST STAGE OF
FIGHT ON BILL
\V\S SUSTAINED BY CHAMBER
OF DEPUTIES BY VOTE
392 TO 169.
Paris, Dec. 22 (A*)—Premier Poin¬
care won the first stage of a hard
fight in tonight’s chamber of deputies
when that body, by a vote of 392 to
169 rejected the amendment of the
high cost of living allowance bill.
The premier had made rejection of
the amendment question in the confi¬
dence of the government.
PROCLAMATION
The ordinance prohibiting dis
charge of fireworks within the' city
limits, are hereby suspended, except
within the following area: Between
tile water front or Bay street, in the
west, Union street on the east, J
street on the north and Third avenue
on the south. Outside of this area,
fiiewoiks may be discharged,
within two hundred yards of the Yar
yan plant and Box factory. This sus
pension is only during Christmas Eve
and Christinas Day and night,- and
New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day
and night. The discharge of fire arms
within the city limits, anywhere, is
strictly prohibited.
This being especially the children’s
season, it is hoped they will and they
are expected to enjoy it to the fullest,
but everyone is cautioned against
boisterous or unseemly conduct near
churches where divine services
b TOs^pension is made by
of authority vested in me and given
at the city hull this Dec. 22, 1923.
M. B. M’KINNON,
Mayor, City of Brunswick.
DOCTORS GIVE
POISON THROUGH
ERROR; TWO DEAD
—“
STRANGE DEVELOPMENT RE
VE U.ED BY INVESTIGATION I
,, . T ,i- *>y physic! \\s
____ |
Columbus, 0., Dec. 22 <fP)-A most
remarkable case has developed here
which is baffling many medical men. I
After months of investigation by i
leading physicians, it has been:
brought out that Drs. Jonathan For
man -and E. J. Gordon have been un-!
knowingly administering poison to j
patients, who died in September. ■
It was also revealed that the doc
tors have been giving the poison to 1
other patients, who happily recovered.
All of the patients m ere being
treated for digestive disorders. Just
what steps, if any, will be taken is
not now indicated. The physicians in¬
volved stand well and the error seems
to have been purely accidental.
NEGOTIATIONS FOR
LIQUOR TREATY NOW
MAKING PROGRESS
1
Washington, Dec. 22 (fP)—Negotia¬
tions with -Great Britain for a special
liquor treaty have progressed anoth¬
er stage with the transmission to
London of American suggestions in
connection with the counter draft of
the original American proposal.
An agreement is expected in the
near future.
JIIlS. MARGARET WEAVER ♦
ARRESTED IN BIRMINGHAM ♦
^4 CONNECTION FOX CASE ♦
4 4
/♦ Birmingham, Dec. 22(/P>—Mrs. ♦
! ♦ Margaret Weaver, indicted in ♦
I ! 4 Fulton county, Georgia, as an ♦
j accessory before the fact in the ♦
j ♦ aeam death of oi Capt. vapt. W. vv. S. Coburn, v ouurii for 4
♦ \ vhich phjii ip Fox yesterday was 4
j ♦ convicted at Atlanta and sen 4
4 fenced to serve life imprison 4
j ♦ ment, was arrested here today. ♦
4 - Mrs. Weaver admitted he! . ♦
j j 4 j 4 | e ntity, but claimed she was not
4 j n Georgia V- f the day Capt. Coburn “
was k,lled t - q, u had in her pos- ♦
session newspaper clippings of
4 . the trial of Fox. She said she 4
; 4 would fight extradition. 4
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EARLY LAST NIGHT
LEROY CAMPBELL IN HOSPITAL
WITH SLIGHT CHANCE
TO RECOVER
Leroy' Campbell, colored, lies at the
City hospital, suffering serious, if not
fatal, wounds as the result of being
stabbed at 6:30 o’clock last night by
George Powell, known as “Slim.” The
stabbing occurred at the corner of
Norwich street lane and I street.
According to accounts of the affair,
who is employed by B. A.
Lewis, furniture dealer, was driving a
tnick through the lane when Powell
^aped, unexpectedly, upon him and
began using a large knife slashing
h ‘ s ™t>m in the back, between the
shoulders, Campbell brought the
truck to a standstill, and leaping to
the ground attempted to escape from
assailant He was soon overtak
en *>>’ Powli - " ho "f^d a ghastly
"’ound just above the heart of his
vlctlm ’
The negro then turned and ran be- ,
»eving that he had killed
Several witnesses to the cutting ran
to the assistance of the prostrate
man. He was hurried to the hospital,
where it was stated that there was
but the slightest chance for Campbell
to recover. A gash, eight inches in
length, was inflicted in the back, be¬
tween the shouder blades. The other,
above the heart, was four inches in
Physicians stated late last
Campbell’s recovery.
As soon as the cutting was report¬
ed to the police, Chief Register, As¬
sistant Chief Slaughter, Officer Rho¬
den and Constable Symons and Brown
began a search for Powell. He was
found late last night at the cld cy¬
press mills in the home of a negro by
the natme of Jones. He is being held
pending the condition of Campbell.
] TWELVE PAGES
PRICE FIVE
BUDGET FOR 1924
IS BEING PLANNED
BY COMMISSION
City Manager George Rinkliii
Discusses Matter
Yesterday
EXPECTS SOME DRASTIC
REMEDIES COMING YEAR
Most Important Thing to be
j, Done is to Place the City on
| the Soundest Financial Basis,
Says City Manager.
Plans for the operations of the city
j government during the year 1924 will
: in all probability be completed during
the coming week, according to an
; nouncement at the cky hall, vester
j (by, and so far as it is possible to do
so, the method of meeting the contin¬
gencies that will arise during the
1 next twelve months will be adopted,
j Mayor G. M. L. B. Rinkliff McKinnon and considerable City Man
: ager spent
| time yesterday going over the situa
I tion, and it is planned to hold a com
; mission during the week to finally
! adopt the budget for the year,
j City Manager Rinkliff in discussing
j the matter yesterday said that he ex
| petted to see drastic remedies applied
j to some of the perplexities confront
I ing the city during the coming year.
■ “We might just as well look the
| matter squarely in the face, just as
' j the city commission is endeavoring to 1
do, and decide that Brunswick’s fu
j tare is not to be hampered by failing
j j to time, do the right though thing it is at the pleasant right
even not
j to do it. think the im
“For my part, I most
] portant immediate thing to be done
I is to put the city on the soundest fi¬
nancial basis. Due to the economic
readjustment foilwing the war, some
of the best revenue producing prop¬
erty in the city passed into the hands
1 receivers. This resulted in taxes
j remaining unpaid. In order borrowed to keep
on operating, money was
j | leans ' vith t! when “‘ int the * ,,ti “ taxes n of encumbered takin « ur ,\ by hl '
receiverships were paid.
I am quite sure that at the tiime
i this was done, ' it ’ was considered good
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j paid sooner or later, and bear interest
; so long as they are unpaid. But while
1 this policy was all right at the time
it was adopted, it was, like many an
’ other good policy, good only so long
’ it not overdone.
as wits
“We must not overdo it. We have
on the city’s books all the frozen as¬
sets we can stand. I am opposed to
taking the 1923 tax executions on
property now in the hands oT roceiv
ers, and therefore not collectible un
til the courts order them paid, and
borrowing money on them for operat
Ing purposes, or for that matter, for
any other purpose. On the entrary,
I hope that from now on, whenever
one of these outstanding notes fall
due, we mill curtail it, considerably if
possible, but under even the most un¬
favorable circumstances, a little.
“Now this means that when wo
stop raising cash from hills payable,
we will not get the cash until the ex¬
ecutions are paid by the receivers.
We can’t extend the scope of opera¬
tions beyond the scope of cash in the
treasury. Therefore, the scope of the
operations must be restricted. We
can’t do every filing we should like to
do, some things will have to wait.
“But I want to emphasize one thing.
What has to be done ought to be done
because it is good business policy. By
following a good business policy, the
city government will in the long run
be able to give to the people more im¬
provements and better service tliaii
otherwise. By failing to follow suc-h
a policy, there is the certainty ahead
that that instead instead of things getting better,
they will get worse.
“In the meantime, we are hopeful
that there will 'be some settlement of
the past due tax obligations. We
have the assurance from all parties
concerned that every possible effort
!%vill be made to clean up the execu¬
tions by the receivers. The city at¬
torney -has seen to it that our legal
rights are properly protected. We are
going to get the money.”
Mr. Rinkliff said that he believed
that the prospects of Brunswick in
the year 1924 were very good. Bruns¬
wick, he said, was steadily coming to
the front in the eyes of the people
who are well acquainted by conditions
on the South Atlantic coast, as an
ideal agricultural and industrial cen¬
ter. Each year it will be more at¬
tractive as a place to live, and to
make a living, he said.