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VOLUME 'fXVIll No. 23.
ZEPPELIN IS DELAYED BY ACCIDENT
Service Between United Stales
and That Country Was
Opened Yesterday
GREETINGS EXCHANGED
OVER NEW CABLE LINE
Two Executives Talked Over
Radio and Telephone For Dis¬
tance of (5,500 Miles By New
Means of Communication.
Washington, Oct. 13.-—Speaking miles ov¬
er a radio and cable circuit (5,500
long, President Coolidge and King Al
phonso, of Spain, inaugurated today a
telephonic service between their two
countries, acclaiming the new means
of communication as a great factor in
the perpetuation of friendship and
peace between them. t
Availing himself of his first oppor¬
tunity to speak by radio-telephone
villi Europe, Mr. Coolidge told King
’honso that with the possibility by of
ce ..mimicating with far countries
word of mouth “the danger of any
serious disagreement is immeasurably
lessened.”
The chief executive also took the op¬
portunity to express to the Spanish i
king his satisfaction that America and
Spain adopted identical attitudes as
to tiie promotion of peace in the world
as shown by Spain’s prompt indication
t hat she would become a party to the
recently concluded covenant for the
outlawry of war.
After greeting King Alphonse “in
the name of the people of the United
States,” President Coolidge said over
the telephone: less
“ 1 welcome this added link, no
strong because it is invisible, between
Spain and the United States. I be¬
lieve it to be true when two men talk
together the danger of any serious
disagreement is immeasurably lessen¬
ed arid that what is true of individu¬
als is true of nations. The interna¬
tional telephone, therefore, which car¬
ries the, warmth and friendliness of
the human voice, will always correct
what might be misinterpreted in the
written word.
"Whatever brings our two countries
closer is of value to us and to the
world. This western hemisphere, dis
covered by the wonderful navigators
of Spain, has always owed much to
your country. The language of Spain
is the language of a great part of the
Ameiieas. The line traditions of Spain
are the basis of the culture of a large
part of the Americas and our friend¬
ship with , the great nations to the
south draws us closer to their mother
country. . . . orally
“1 am especially glad thus
to greet your majesty because I know
the sibility position hold of great in directing personal the respon¬ pol
you
icies and progress of your country. 1
wish for your majesty a long and hap¬
py life and for your country all the
prosperity and happiness which come
from wise and benevolent leadership
in all those tilings whicli make life
lie: v and finer.”
I ke king replied to Mr. Coolidge as
follows:
"I heartily recinrocate in my own
name, and in that of Spain’s, the
greetings of your excellency.
"Mr. President, I thank you for the
cordial words in which you do Spain
the honor and justice to recognize her
outstanding services to the Americas,
and I agree that we ought to expect
from this new means of communica¬
tion ever closer relations because of
the intimate and more perfect under¬
standing between the two peoples.
"I reiterate to your excellency, with
my salutations, the testimony of my
most sincere appreciation, and extend
best wishes for the peace and prosper¬
ity of the United States.”
IS DENIED NEW TRIAL
FRF.fJ I). FAIR LOSES HIS APPEAL
IN FULTON SUPER¬
IOR COURT
(By Associated Press.)
Atlanta. Oct. 13.—Fred D. Fair, sen¬
tenced to death for slaying John Mc¬
Daniel, policeman, on August 16, was
denied a new trial bv Judge John D.
Humphries, in superior court today.
The death of the policeman culmi¬
nated an alleged kidnaping episode in
which Fair is said to have abducted
Mrs. Kitty Heath and to have taken
her to Lakeland. Fla., where she es¬
caped.
Returning to Atlanta, Fair is alleg
ed to have attempted to shoot rela¬
tives of Mrs. Heath as they sat in a
parked automobile. The defense
claimed Fair accidentally" shot the po¬
liceman as he ran to him for protec¬
tion.
Attorneys for Fair said a bill of ex¬
ceptions xvould be prepared for the
state supreme court.
f THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
TWELVE PAGES
Pierre S. DuPont, noted financier
and industrialist who is actively
working for the Smith-Robinson tick¬
et. Mr. DuPont was formerly a
staunch Republican.
Wife of Prominent Birmingham
Business Man is Found in
Automobile Dead and Officer
Wounded.
Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 13.,—Mrs.
Nany Rochell, wife of a prominent
Birmingham business man, was found
shot, to death and Clyde A. Vaughan,
Birmingham policeman, seriously
wounded in an automobile in Moun¬
tain Brooks Estates, one of Birming¬
ham’s most exclusive residential sec¬
tions. early today.
A pistol beileved to have belonged
to Vaughan was found in the ear,
two of its chambers emptied, by Ed
Patiilo, traffic officer, who was at¬
tracted by the scene by the shooting.
Patiilo said Vaughan was slumped
over the steering wheel, attempting
to start the car when he arrived, and
that. Mrs. Rochell’s body was crum¬
pled forward in the seat by Vaughan’s
side.
Mrs. Rochell is the mother of four
children.
Mrs. Rochell, wife of Raymond It.
Rochell, proprietor of a soft drink
company here, had been shot through
the head and Vaughan had been
shot in the temple. At the hospital it
was announced lie had slight chance
to recover.
Police had been searching for Mrs.
Rochell at the request of her hus¬
band when she failed to return home
after departing on a shopping tour
yesterday afternoon. Late last night
the Rochell ear which Mrs. Rochell
had driven, was found parked on a
downtown street.
Patiilo later this morning said that
when he arrived at the scene of the
y hooting, M. (’. Hamilton, of North
Birmingham, as standing near the
car with the pistol in hi- haul and
stated that he had taken it from
Vaughan. recently had been
Vaughan only
placed under suspension by the Bir
ham police department following an
altercation with a fellow officer dur¬
ing the Alabama State Fair here.
He is 36 years old, married and up
to the time of his suspension, had
been a member of the police force
five years.
JESSICA REED, OF
FOLLY FAME, NOW
MARRIED AGAIN
Chicago, Oct. 13. lias .Jessica Reed,
of the Follies, been married again?
Some one whispered to some one
that she had; that there had been a
quiet ceremony' last Monday in the
_county building; and that her fourth
husband was Leonard Reno, son of
H. O. Reno, wealthy publisher.
Records of the marriage license bu¬
reau carried this entry: Leonard Re¬
no, 33; Jessica Young, 31. That was
confirmatory; yet reporters were un¬
able to find either Reno or Miss Reed
to make certain.
Miss Reed sprang from Texas to the
Follies, earning within a short time a
reputation as the highest salaried
chorus girl in the country. She was
married in the south before her beau
tv won her a place on the stage
Dashing Dan” Caswell, of Cleve
land. Ohio, wa her second husband.
That marriage, like her first, ended in
; the divorce court. Caswell died about
i three years ago.
Back to the stage, Mis Reed was
i playing in Chicago four years ago
when she met William F. Young, an
I advertising man. A courtship that be
I pan one evening ended the morning of
the following day when they were
married at Waukegan, 111. They were
divorced a year ago.
P.eno, as a member of the Lafayette
i Escadrille during the World war, won
j the German croix de planes. guerre for bringing down
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BRUNSWICK, GA., SUNDAY, OCT. 14, 1928.
MAKES AN ADDRESS
AT HIS HEADQUARTERS
Delegation of New York Men
Call on Him in Washington
and Listen to Talk on Busi¬
ness Cooperation.
(By Associated Press.)
Boston, Oct. 13.- Herbert Hoover
has been asked by the Carded Woolen
Manufacturers’ Association to state
his position on the wool tariff question
in connection with his visit to New
Knglaml Monday. He will speak in
Boston on the tariff.
In a letter, signed by Edward Noir,
president of the association, and made
public here today, the Republican
presidential nominee, was informed
that (54 percent of the woolen and
worsted manufacturing industry is in
New' England.
“ For sixty-one years,” the letter
said, "every tariff that placed a duty
on wool for clothing has made the
duty a fixed amount per pound regard¬
less of value. As a result the tariff
tax on wool has varied from a reason¬
able percentage of the value of high
priced wool to an indefensible tax of
several hundred percent of the value
of medium and low priced wools.”
Under the Fordnoy tariff of 1912,
still in effect, Mr. Noir said, the duty
on clothing wool is 31 cents a pound.
After setting forth the effects which
the association held were produced
upon the industry, the letter said that
“in other words the present specific
tariff is 68 percent higher than the
specific tariff of schedule ‘K’ which j
President Taft denounced as indefeu |
to several hundred perrihl are un¬
avoidable with either.”
The letter declared the depression in
wool manufacturing, while due to sev¬
eral causes, is chiefly the result of the
specific tariff on raw material.
Washintgon, Oct. 13 </P) -Voluntary
cooperation between business and gov¬
ernment was emphasized today by
Herbert Hoover in a speech made at
his headquarters to a delegation of
New York City trade paper publish¬
ers and business and professional special men
who came to Washington by
train to greet the Republican presi¬
dential candidate.
Mr. Hoover asserted that this coop¬
eration, started under his administra¬
tion as secretary of commerce, mark¬
ed a new mode of relationship between
government and business and worked
to the mutual advantage of both busi¬
ness and the people. He added that it 1 j
was an effective method of removing
the need for governmental interfer- I
cnee in commerce and trade.
E. A. Simmons, publisher, and j |
spokesman for the dclegfiution, in pro
sen ting the visitors, addressed Mr. |
Hoover as “Mr. President-elect.”
That brought applause from the
group.
THREE CHILDREN
Tried to End Life of Her Other
Two and Suicide When Of¬
ficials Arrived and Saved
Them.
(By Associated Press.)
Detroit, Oct. 13 Mrs. Beatrice Can
tera, 32, drowned three of her five
children in the Detroit river shortly
after midnight and attempted to
drown the other two and herself.
Those drowned were: Nita, 3 years
old; Mary, 2 years old; Gloria, eight
months.
The other two children, Nellie, 8,
and Lorenzo, Jr., 7, although thrown
into the river by their mother were
able to rescue themselves and call for
help).
When attaches of the local harbor
master’s office arrived the woman was
i holding one of the three victims under
J the the water water. but She the was child, dragged Gloria, from was
[dead. ! Mrs. Cantera and the two rescued
' children taken to local hospital
were a
where the mother was detained for ob
serration. She was hysterical and
went continuously for the baby Gloria.
The woman first threw in the two
older children, then Nita and Mary,
Holding Gloria in her arms, she leap
ed into the water herself,
Cantera, a factory worker, was at
home when th - drowning occurred,
He told police his wife recently had
, exhibited signs of mental collapse.
ON BYRD’S SHIP
Names of Men Stealing Ride on
Mis Flagship, However,
are Nol Known
discovered Triday
BY MEMBERS OE CREW
It is Believed the Two Secreted
Themselves in the Machinery
Filled Hold of Vessel and Re¬
mained There Three Days.
(By Associated Press.)
San Pedro, Calif., Oct. 13. Two
unnamed stowaways rode the high
seas today Antarctic bound, with
Commander Richard E. Byrd, avia¬
tor-explorer, but if the predictions of
“old salts” here mean much there is
little glamour about the trip for the
pair.
The old-time seamen snickered when
they heard the news. Life on a
whaler is a hard one at least, they
said, and for stowaways it is a cease¬
less grind. The stowaways will “work
their passage believed. good and plenty,” the
seamen
Discovery of the self invited passen¬
gers was learned here when Captain
Oscar Nilsen, commanding the whaler
('. A. Larsen, flagship of the Byrd
exploration fleet which sailed from
here Wednesday night, wirelessed A.
Grove Knutsen. Knutscn, agent .for
the Ross Sea Whaling Company,
which owns the Larsen ,said Captain
Nilseu’s message gave no further' in¬
formation.
Even if the stowaways fail to reach
the south polar region, they will get
to see Wellington ,New Zealand,
where l,he Larsen first touches port
about four weeks hence. There they
may he turned loose to shift for
themselves, Knutsen said, or they
may he invited to continue the voyage
by the commander, who loves ven¬
turesome spirits. secreted
It, was beileved the two
themselves in the machinery-filled
hold of the Larserj and remained un¬
discovered until yesterday.
Wireless Message Tells of Trou¬
ble Experienced By Freighter
Trojan Star After Being
Struck By Gale.
(By Associated Press.)
San Francisco, Oct. 13. A wire¬
less message to The Associated
Press from Edward Metzdorf, purser
of the Matson steamship Makiki, to¬
day er'Trojan reported that the British freight¬
Star was limping through
heavy seas toward Vancouver, B. C.,
after extinguishing a bad fire which
broke out in tyr hold last night
while off Gape Mendocino, northern
('alifornia.
The purser reported that one fire¬
man aboard the Trojan Star tamed
’Tennyson was dead, nearly all the
crew was gassed and that several
sailors were badly injured. the
The Makiki arrived alongside
Trojan Star last night a few hours
after the British ship had sent out
distress calls.
The Trojan Star is a Blue Star
Lino freighter of 9,000 tons built in
1010. London is her home port.
On arriving at the scene Captain
Wait, of the Makiki, advised The As¬
sociated Press that, the fire could not
be seen from his ship. Shortly after¬
ward the captain of the I rojan Stu"
wirelessed the conflagration had been
extinguished by steam.
The I nited States coast guard cut¬
ter Smith, in distress 30 miles off
Point Arena ,on the northern Cali
fornia coast, Thursday night, reached
Shelter Cove, half way between Fort
Bragg and Eureka, last night, and
radioed that she needed no assistance.
The cutter was rendered practically
helpless by engine trouble, and then
sprung a leak in a heavy sea.
AMERICAN MINER
KILLED IN MEXICO
(By Associated Press.)
Mexico Gity, Oct. 13.—A Guadala¬
jara dispatch to El Universal today
said that an American miner named
Ghrales Smith had been slain by insur¬
gents at Ara Juez. Hi- address iri
the United States was riot given.
The dispatch said that Smith re¬
fused to deliver money demanded by
the insurgents who were commanded
by Jorge Ibarra and gave no further
details.
Civil and military authorities were
stated to he actively pursuing the in¬
surgents.
TWELVE PAGES
JAIL OFFICE OF
YOUNG “BOSSY” GILLIS,
NEWBURYPORT MA YOR
Tile Salem, Mass., jail (below) is now headquarters of Mayor Andrew .1.
(inset), the red-haired ex-gob, of Newburyport. Gillis, who has long
to operate a gasoline station, pleaded guilty to running one without
permit and wa,s sentenced to (it) days’ hard labor and lined $545. lie is
(right) demonstrating how lie can wield an axe. lie was photograph¬
ed about the time he was summoned to court for cutting down shade trees to
make way for his station.
Newburyport, Muss., Oct. 13. (/!’)
This staid, 300-year-old New England
city is passing through the novel ex¬
perience <d absentee government by a
mayor residing in jail in another city.
Andrew J. "Bossy” Gillis, young,
stocky, red-haired ex-gob, gained na¬
tional note when he won election as
mayor of Newburyport last winter.
But the fruit of victory,has had a taint
of bitterness during a nonc-too
:.monthly running administration. And
now “Bossy” is in jail in Salem for
conducting a gasoline station illegal¬
ly
That filling station lias been a
source of both ambition and tribula¬
tion for Mayor Gillis, even long be¬
fore he became mayor. His plans to
dispense gasoline at a chosen corner
of undoubted commercial value early
ran on the rocks of a zoning ordinance
and official disapproval.
Gillis’ decision to seek the chief ex¬
ecutive office of bis home was one of
the fruits of his difference with prev¬
ious city administrations. After a
clean-cut victory at the polls, “Bossy”
at once became Newburyporl’s best
known mayor. The fact that he bad
bounced a solid fist, off the chin of a
previous mayor, his forthrightness
and generally colorful temperament
attracted ever-widening interest.
When he went to New York for a
triumphal tour, a retinue of newspa¬
permen waited in his hotel bedroom
and followed him about town.
Back in Newburyport, again, there
were clashes with members of the city
council when they refused to endorse
some appointees. A policeman lie re¬
moved from the force was reinstated
by a court’s writ of mandamus.
“Bossy” busied himsel fwith prob¬
SOUTHERN CROSS
REACHES SYDNEY
(By Associated Press.)
Sydney, N. S., Oct. 14. (Sunday)
The transpacific airplane Southern
Gross arrived here on her return flight
from New Zealand today.
Her co-pilots, Captain Charles
Kingsford-S no i t li and Lieutenant plane!
Charles T. P. (Jim, brought the
down at the airdrome here at. 2:171
p. m„ 22 hours after they 'hopped
from Wellington. |
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IS GIVEN RESPITE
(By Associated Press.)
Williamsburg, Va., Oct. 13.—Lady
Nancy Astor, member of the British
parliament, today came to the oldest
institution of learning in her native
state of Virginia- -the college of Wil¬
liam and Mary -to have conferred on
her the honorary degree of I.L. I).
Simple ceremonies marked the con¬
ferring of the degree. Dominion, Lady Astor, a
daughter of Urn Old in all
her glory as a member of the govern¬
ing body of Great Britain, received the
honor with a retiring bow.
Lady Astor smiled in appreciation
as more than a thousand college stu
I dents sang “Carry Me Back to Old
jVirginny.”
lems of reorganization and found time
for a few speaking dates here and
there about New England, but he re¬
fused a vaudeville contract.
Last. June the storm brewing over
“Bossy’s" proposal to operate d fill¬
ing station took definite form as May¬
or Gillis was summoned to court for
felling shade trees without the ap¬
proval of the city council. These trees
were removed to improve the filling
station site. After the mayor’s sta
lion had been operating full blast, in
a district that, he contended was
growing into a business district lie
was charged and convicted *d' operat¬
ing a gasoline station without a per¬
mit, and the district court assessed
$1,140 in lines and imposed a sentence
of 330 davs.
“Bossy” busied himself with prob
appeal was. pending lie sought out the
state fire marshal for aid in arranging
for storage of gasoline. The New¬
bury port. city council experienced a
change of heart and voted him a per¬
mit. Ili ; long sought goal apparently
within his grasp. Mayor Gillis was
moved to tears. But more complica¬
tions over the question of storing gas¬
oline followed.
And when his case was reached in
superior court, “Bossy” pleaded guilty
to the charges. Sentence of 60 days'
hard labor and fines of $545 were im¬
posed.
While “Bossy’s” friends discuss
olans for a parole, insisting that he
has done much for the city and con¬
tending that he is more popular than
ever, the mayor goes about the city’s
loudness in Salem jail. Rules have
been cast, a: ide to some degree in his
case to permit him to carry out. his du¬
ties of office.
BIG ADVERTISING
STUNT IS CLOSED
!
(By Associated Press.)
Los Angeles, Oct. 13. — Investiga¬
tion of threatening letters received
by Mr. and Mrs. I). W. Walker, of
Temple, Calif., parents of Mabel
Walker Willebrandt, ai sistant Unit¬
ed States attorney general, was vie
tualiy closed by the Los Angeles
county sheriff’s office yesterday. De
puty sheriffs who have been stanil
ing guard at the Walker ranch home,
were withdrawn. they,'
Sheriff’s investigators said
had L'isi satisfied themselves 5 L<i m eoluiu- (Viol that, F the Vi et Inf let- .
t.ers weie the work of a political crank 1
and that, the threats would not he
ried out.
AMBASSADOR TO I
RETIRE IN 1929
(By Associated Press.)
London, Oct. 13. The British for¬ ;
eign office announced today that Sir
Esrne Howard, British ambassador to
the United States, since 1924, would he
retired in December, 1929. He will
then reach the age limit of 65 and ac¬
cording to civil service regulations
must relinquish his post.
Sir Esme’s five year term will ex¬
pire in February, 1929, but it will be
renewed so that he may complete his
diplomatic career in the United States.
THE WEATHER
Faith cloud} today; moderate
northeast and east winds.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
PORI STABILIZER
Made and Hiy; Dirigible
Winding Her Way to
United States
RHACH HI'K GOAL
LATE T HIS AFTERNOON
Head Winds, How¬
ever, May Delay Arrival at
Lakehurst Until Late Tonight
or Tomorrow Morning.
(By Associated Press.)
New York, Oct. 13. The giant Ger¬
dirigible Gruf Zeppelin, hindered
first by adverse winds and then by
to her port, stabilizer, tonight
steadily winging her way to the
United States with the likelihood that
would reach her goal some time
tomorrow o rearly Monday.
For a little time today the world
was given a thrill as word came from
the air liner with its twenty persons,
indicating' that she might require as¬
but reassuring news came
and the latest advices gave ev¬
promise that the ship was forging
toward Lakehurst, N. J., and a
mooring. At 1:30 o’clock Ibis
morning, eastern standard time, the
(Laf Zeppelin was approximately 1,
miles due east, of the Bermudas.
Shi' had swept 251) miles south of the
Azores in a wide loop from Madeira,
taking advantage of more favorable
wnids over that course. She was
nvakin ggooil progress and had set a
course that would carry her over Ber¬
muda .
Hour after hour she sped to the
west until at 6:25 o’clock this morning,
i astern standard time, she sent word
t hat trouble had cropped up. Her port
horizontal, used as a stabilizer, was
damaged and repairs were being made
to the cover as conditions permitted.
She was compelled to reduce her speed
by half, and was making but 35 knots.
With this news came a request that
a surface vessel proceed along her
course and stand by. The ship was
then about 1,300 miles due east of
Charleston, 8. G. The message was
signed by Lieutenant Commander
Cliai'lcs E. Rosendahl, commander of
the American dirigible Los Angeles,
and a guest of Dr. Hugo Eckener, com¬
mander of the Graf Zeppelin. Later,
however, the navy department receiv¬
ed word from the ship that repairs
had been made and that the ship was
proceeding at 50 knots anil a course
directly toward Lakehurst, where the
navy department was making exten
nive preparations to receive her.
The forecast, said that a direct
course to Lakehurst would bring the
ship into headwinds, while a more
: outherly course would give her more
favorable wind conditions. In view of
this there was a possibility that the
ship might again veer southward and
pass the Bermudas before turning
north to skirt the south Atlantic coast
for the United States.
fn Trouble
The dirigible Gruf Zeppelin was ap¬
parently in trouble for several hours
this morning, hut latest advices from
her indicated that conditions were not.
serious and that she was making fair
progress on her voyage to the United
States.
At 0:30 a. m., eastern standard time,
she sent out a message staling that
her port horizontal was damaged and
requesting that, a surface vessel in the
vicinity he sent to follow her course.
At this time the huge airliner was
about 1,100 miles due east of Ber¬
muda. The United States naval de¬
partment ordered all the light cruisers
stationed at Hampton Roads and the
destroyers at Charleston to lie ready
to leave immediately for the assist
a nee of the dirigible if they should
(Continued on Page 5.)
TRIPLE TRAIN WRECK
DEATH LIST MAY GO
i. v i'V silt' iter l\ WCIDENT
is ENGLAND
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(By Associated Press.)
Gloucester, Eng., Oct. 13.—At least
eleven persons were killed, with the
possibility that the complete roll will
be twenty, in a triple train collision
this morning on the Birmingham and
Bristol line. The bodies of the vic
tirns were so mutilated that none had
been identified this afternoon.
The number of injured was esti¬
mated at forty.
The collision resulted from a delay
in getting a freight train off the main
line to a siding. First there was a
collision between an express train and
a freight and then a third train run¬
ning on a parallel track crashed into
the wreckage.