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VOLUME XXVIII. No. 208.
S ESTABLISHED BY
Goes to Height of Nearly Eight
Miles, Exceeding Mark
Heretofore Set
‘MISS RANGER* FORCED
END ENDURANCE FLIGHT
Two Deaths Reported, Several
Injured in Plane Crashes Dur¬
ing Week-End — Atlantic
Fliers Still Held Up.
(By Associated Press.)
Minneapolis, Minn., May 27.—
The monoplane piloted by Gene
Shank and Owen Ilaughland was
forced down shortly after 1
o’clock today due to lack of gas¬
oline.
Dessau, Germany, May 27.—Willy
Neunhofer, a German air pilot, has
reached what he believes to 'have been
eight* a a height iic. .... of ». 41,000 ’setting" feet, just _____________ less
niles, a new world’s al
titude record.
His figure, if allowed by the In¬
ternational Air Federation, betters
considerably the hitherto recognized
altitude record of Lieut A. Soueek,
U. S. N., who was credited with achiev¬
ing a height of 39,140 let in a Wright
Apache biplane on May 8 .
Many Air Activities
Activities of the air the length and
oreadth ot the United States as well
as abroad, held a foremost place in
the public attention today.
A new refueling endurance flight
record of 172 hours, 32 minutes and
one second was established at Fort
Worth, Texas, by Reginald L. Robbins
and James Kelly, who brought their
single motored monoplane down yes¬
terday after a cracked propeller
threatened disaster. They landed
with all the world’s records for sus¬
tained flight, flight
Another refueling endurance
was in progress from Wichita, Kans,
Owen Haughland and Gene Shank
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varied the monotony of their ,
by cruising to Minneapolis, Minn.,
where after refueling their monoplane,
M’iss Ranger, in the air they flew about
the cit y-......
Fog and high wind , frustrated . . . the
attempt of Herbert J. Fahy to set
new solo endurance record at Log
geles after 21 hours in the an.
At Old Orchard, Me., two
were awaiting a change in the weather
that would permit them to start trans
atlantic flights. I he French
plane, Yellow Bird, with a crew ot three
Frenchmen, is headed for Paris.
American plane, Green Flash, manned
by Roger Q. Williams and Lewis A.
Yancey, is bound for Rome.
Aviation news for the week-end in¬
cluded two accidents which cost two
lives and injury to several. At Yuma,
Ariz., Harvey S. C'hristofferson
killed and Ernest Henderson probably
fatally injured in the crash of an old
“Jenny” plane. killed and
Pilot Richard Perry was
two passengers, Miss Helen Domanski
and Joseph Schweitzer, were serious¬
ly injured when their plane dived to
earth near Stirling, N. J.
Two young Australian airmen, Leiu.
tenant Moir and Flying Officer Owen,
who had been missing since May 17
when they took off from Bima for
Darwin, were found safe at the Cape
Don lighthouse, Queensland, where
/they have been living since they
wrecked their plane in a night land¬
ing.
“WHEEL SPOKE” GIRL
WILL BE TRIED FOR
SLAYING ATTACKER
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THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
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| Cecil Newton Mahan, Paintsville,
I j was uro K >'-> t* bo convicted ft nnv. -V, six and of 4 one-half slaying I years eight- ..1 ...Li old,
.. an
year-old playmate, and sentenced to
reformatory ant.,
years. A fight is now
against this sentence.
STOCKS FALL TO
■ NEW LOW LEVELS
_
General Motors Among ■* Several
ill Big Tumbling Act . _ .
$3 to $25 Per Share From
Paper Value.
(By Assoc ; ated Press.)
New Yprk, May 27.—The stock
market again broke wide open today,
scores G f issues tumbling $3 to $25 a
s jjare, many breaking through the
ow J eve ls reached in last Wednesday’s
drastic collapse. Predictions of a se
vero scarcity of money during the
J mid-year shifting off balances, and
another break in the wheat market,
carrying prices below $1 a bushel
fj rs t Gme j n 55 ycarSi caused the
heavy selling.
Although f there was an ample
ply 0 g t oc ]c market funds, with call
m(mey a (. q percent, the lowest rate
g j nce last August, the situation was
re g a r(] e d ag purely temporary, and
bankers predicted that call money
WO uld command high lates before the
enc | 0 f the W eek. In the wheat niar
ket, the May delivery dropped 1 5-8
cents to 99 5-8 cents a bushel, a de¬
cline of more than 33 cents since
February.
General Electric and Commercial
Solvents dropped $12 a share, and
General Motors reached a new low
for the year at $71. Montgomery
Ward and Canadian Pacific also sag¬
ged to new lows. Allied Chemical,
United Aircraft, Johns Manville, Borg
Warner, Columbian Carbon and Good¬
year last $0 to $15 a share.
EVANGELINE BOOTH
STILL SERIOUSLY ILL
(Bv Associated Press.)
Hartsdale, N. Y., May 27.—Miss
Evangeline Booth, commander of the
Salvation Army in America, who was
injured when thrown against the top
of her automobile Friday, had a very
poor night and showed no improve¬
ment today, her physician announced.
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BRUNSWICK, GA. f MONDAY, MAY 27, 1929.
Presbyterians Will Use Active
Efforts to Bring Matter
Before People
WILL AVOID ALLIANCE
CHURCH WITH POLITICS
Would Give Encouragement to
President in Carrying Out Pol¬
icies, and Quickening Con¬
science of Members.
(By Associated Press.)
St. Paul, Minn., May 27.—That a
crisis is faced with respect to en¬
forcement ot state and national laws
in the United State, was the message
delivered today to the 141st general
assembly of the Presbyterian church
in the United States of America by
one of its principal committees.
To assist in bringing about “proper
respect for law,” the administrative
committee of the church’s general
council recommended an elaborate
plan of action including the operation
| of a special comimssion, It. -intention',. but spe
to maintain distinct separation of the
functions of church and state and to
make its influence felt morally rather
than legislatively.
“Whilg the church ough-t fat all
times to give the government its moral
support, that duty instantly becomes
more peremptory and exacting in a
i time of crisis,” the assembly was told
i by the committee:
i Its recommendations for action pro
| vide Creation for: of national loyalty com
a
j (headed , mia ® io , n , by the , frQm moderator, , ,() to , 2 [’ Dr. Cleland
D . McAfee, of Chicago (on a similar
(plan tional aK service the church’s commission emergency organized na¬
during the World Wlar).*
This group would have two fold
duty of, first, giving encouragement
to President Hoover in carrying out
the policies “he has so courageously
announced in behalf of the observance
and enforcement of law,” and secondly,
t‘cf quickening the eoseienee of our
own people to observe the law tliem
| I selves, both on and the their ground vesponsibili- of their
fluty as citizens
ties as Christians.”
Designation of June 30, the Sun
j 3 ay before the Day of Independence,
as National Loyalty Sunday for the
presentation of an appeal for better
’ law observance ’ ' in all ” its '• churches. ’ 1 —
MORROW ESTATE SCENE OF AC
TIVITY AS NUPTIAL DATE
APPROACHES
(By Associated Press.1
Englewood, N. J., May 27.—Ambas¬
sador Dwight W. Morrow and his fam¬
ily were gathered at the Morrow es¬
tate here today in prearation for the
wedding of his daughter, Anne, to
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh. The
date is yet to be announced. News¬
paper guesses have been mid-June.
The ambassador arrived borne yes¬
terday from Mexico City, smilingly
declined to discuss the approaching
marriage and turned a deaf ear to re¬
ports that Plutarco Elias Calles, who
was president of Mexico when Lind¬
bergh first met the Morrows, would
attend.
Shortly after his arrival a string of
limousines passed through the wall of
mystery maintained about the Morrow
estate by police. Soon afterward Col
Lindbergh and his mother, Mrs.
Lindbergh, drove up in
Lindbergh and his mother
|ft two hours later.
(Invitations to the wedding already
ive been ordered and aproximately
bOO will be mailed to prominent per
in the United States and Mexico.
dWeddtog gifts and letters pour in
ofjily. One admirer sent a silver wed
,hg ring, another offered a suckling
wafc. Many of the letters are congrat
anitory, some offer advice, and a few ! .
i.rn that there is still time to cancel
b wedding and avert the disadvan- ;
ges of wedlock.
ETHUSIASTS
MEET IN ATHENS
(By Associated Press.)
(JXthens, Ga., May 27.—Legislators j
commissioners from thirteen
ge. of the eighth district will meet
Jdifying fe tomorrow to plan a campaign for
sentiment in northeast
jjrgia in favor of the $75,000,000
isBUl? for state hi * hv ;T'
, the meeting , was called bv Com- „
ionei . j Griffeth, of this coun
who is chairman of the executive
( of county
_ I I the request of Walter
I Jue jte chairman Campaign of Committee. the Highway Invita- Bond
n has been extended to citizens
coughout northeast Georgia to at
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NEW TROUBLE IS
Agitation of Communists Among
Strikers Blamed For
Present Action
HAD MADE AGREEMENT
RESUME WORK TODAY
Woodruff Mill at Greenville Re¬
opened This Morning With
Nearly 3,000 Workers Return¬
ing After Long Strike.
(By Associated Press.)
Elizabethton, Tenn., May 27.—A
misunderstanding and a report that
Communists were in town, today halt¬
ed the registration of striking work¬
ers of the American Glanzstoff and
American Bemberg mills here and
threatened to prolong the walkout that
apparently had been settled yesterday.
William F. Kelly, vice president of
(he United Textile Workers of Amer¬
ica, who aided in negotiating a set¬
tlement of the strike of 5,500 em¬
ployes of the plant, declared Fred
Beal and Vera Bush, whom he termed
“well known Communists”, and two
helpers were in town inciting the
workers, most of them union mem¬
bers, not to return to work.
Union leaders said that when strik¬
ers appeared at a hotel to place their
application for reinstatement in the
mills and found T. Perry, alleged ab¬
ductor of two union leaders, there,
they refused to register.
It was later explained that Perry, a
prominent business man, was owner of
the hotel and his presence had nothing
to do with re-employment, but strik¬
ers apparently were reluctant to ap¬
ply for positions. McGrady,
Kelly and Edward F. per¬
sonal representative of William F.
Green, one of the union men abducted
several weeks ago, joined a citizens
committee in attempting to place the
strikers.
All Return Here
Greenville, S. C„ May 27. (AP)—’The
Woodruff mill of the Brandon Corpor¬
ation, resumed operations today leav¬
ing only one mill idle in the Piedmont
section of South Carolina due to
strikes.
The Woodruff plant was the last
unit of the Brandon Corporation to
resume operations. Workers of the
Brandon unit returned to work last
Monday and those of the Poinsett mill
Thursday. A total of nearly 3,000
workers had been affected by the
strike, which was in protest against
the “stretch out” efficiency system.
At one time 0,000 operatives were
on strike in the state, all protesting
against efficiency systems. About one
thousand workers remain idle at An¬
derson because of the strike of 200
weavers there.
SAVANNAH LEGION
POST TO STAGE VERY
UNIQUE MEMORIAL
(By Associated Press.)
Savannah, Ga., May 27.—-An anchor
made of poppies, symbolical of
French battlefields, will be east into
the ocean off Tybee Thursday by
Chatham post No. 30 of the American
Legion in honor of the World war
dead.
The memorial, sent here by Miss
Moina Michael, of Athens, will be
borne out to sea aboard the U. S.
coast guard cutter Yamacruw by a
committee of six or seven officers of
the post. The cutter was made avail¬
able by request of the legion.
A salute of 21 guns will be fired by
the Yamacraw when the anchor is
dropped and there probably will be
taps and prayer by Chaplain Mac¬
Gregor of the post.
IS CONVICTED OF
CRIMINAL LIBEL
(By Associated Press.)
Boston, May 27.—Harry J. Canter,
of East Boston, was convicted of crim¬
inal libel against Former Governor
Alvan T. Fuller in a sealed verdict
returned by a jury in Suffolk super
ior court today. Gantcr was charged
with having caried a placard in a
demonstration near the state house
which declared the former governor
was the “murderer” of Nicola Sacco
and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, executed
radicals.
MABEL PLANNING TO
QUIT PROHI SERVICE
(By Associated Press.'
Washington, May 27.—Mrs.
.Viable Walker Willehrandt, assist¬
ant attorney general, in charge of
prohibition prosecution, is expect¬
ed to retire from the government
service within the very near fu¬
ture.
For some weeks there have been
reports, which never have been
officially confirmed, that diffrences
had developed between Mrs.
Willehrandt and Attorney Gen¬
eral Mitchell regarding the pro¬
hibition enforcement question.
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The monoplane Fort Worth (lower) wiiich established a new endur¬
ance record, is shown refueling in its successful attempt to break the rec¬
ord ot the army plane Question Mark. The plane took to the air Sunday,
May 19, and landed yesterday afterno m.
FALLS 10 DEMO
FI
Young Son of Helena Blanker
Plunges From Window of
Hotel Following Participation
in Drinking Party.
(By Associated Press.)
Baltimore, May 27. Leigh Miltz
Marlow, 21, son of (’. Thomas Marlow,
Helena, Mont., banker and former
member of the finance committee of
the Republican national committee,
died yesterday in an eight-story
plunge from a window of the Belve¬
dere hotel following what was describ¬
ed by police as a drinking party with
Robert E. Phillips, of Paducah, Ky.,
a fellow Yale student, and Janies May
field, of Alabama.
Phillips told police that he, May
field and Marlow had spent several
hours drinking and had retired early
in the morning. Shortly after lliey
had gone to bed, he said, he saw Mar¬
low gel up and, clad only in his under¬
clothes, walk to the window and dis¬
appear through it. fie and Mayfield
were held, charged with violation of
the Volstead act.
ELIZABETHTON MILLS
SEVERAL THOUSAND TEXTILE
WORKERS WILL RETURN
AFTER LONG STRIKE
(By Associated Press.)
Elizabethton, Tenn., May 27.—With
peace established by the dissenting
factions in the Elizabethton textile
strike, industrial life had approached
normal today more than at any other
time since the walkout two months
ago. the
Their old jobs open under terms
of an agreement reached yesterday by
strike leaders and officials of the Am¬
erican Bemberg and Glanzstoff textile
mills, straggling groups of former
workers came into Elizabethton from
their hillside homes to register with
E. T. Wilson, newly engaged person¬
nel director of the companies.
Only “undesirables” among former
emplyoes will be barred from their
former jobs, Dr. Arthur Mothwurf,
president of the textile companies, an¬
nounced.
The strike was ended after a meet¬
ing by dissatisfied strikers who ob¬
jected to a statement Saturday by
Dr. Mothwurf, that he was
to deal with the union as a union, but
would mediate with all former em¬
ployes, regardless of their member
ship in the dissenting workers’ organization.
The factions were
brought together by Willson and Miss
Anna Weinstock, 28-year-old repre¬
sentative of the United States depart¬
ment of labor. A committee of five
strikers met with nine company offi
cials and the peace pact was drawn
and approved. Leaders of neither side
had announced today whether the or¬
iginal grievances had entered yester¬
day’s negotiations.
The 5,500 employes of the two mills
walked out when they alleged the
company had not made good its prom¬
ise to hear workers' grievance com¬
mittees.
TRAPSHOOTERS MEET
Atlanta, May 27.
ers from fourteen states will partici
pate in the southern zone handicap
(which opens here June 24 and ex
tends through four days Purses total
ling $ 4,000 will be offered and seven
tcen trophies including a dozen from
the A. T. A., awarded.
________ __________
NEW ATTORNEY GNKRAL
Washington, May 27. UV) -Charles
II. Sisson, attorney general of Rhode
Island, today was formally appointed
assistant United States attorney gen
eral to succeed John Marshall, re
signed.
ACTS AS SPOTTER
Reno Night Clubs in Turmoil
Following Indictments Based
on Information Secured By
Young Woman.
(By Associated Press.)
Reno, Nov., May 27. Night clubs
and roadhouses in and about Reno
^jerc in a turmoil today, awaiting the
outcome of a prohibition drive staged
by a young woman who ostensibly
came here to got a divorce and who
turned out to he a “contract inform¬
er" for the government.
The woman arrived recently and be¬
came known in the divorce colony us
Billio Rivers. She filed suit for di¬
vorce against Dewey Rivers and ob¬
tained u_doeree two weeks ago. She
visited most of the night clubs and
roadhouses, some of which have be¬
come widely known because of their
attraction to those here for “the
cure,” as divorce action is called.
The young brunette married Stanley
King, of Los Angeles, several days
ago. The next day she went quietly
to Carson City and testified before a
federal grand jury. here
Results were forthcoming Sat¬
urday, when it became known that 21
persons had been arrested following
issuance of 17 indictments against
proprietors of the clubs and Wayside
inns. All the indictments charged
violation of the national prohibition
law.
Among those arrested were Matt
Dtmoiack, for several years proprie¬
tor of the Overland hotel, one of the
largest hostelries here, and William
Graham, owner of the Willows, a
widely known resort.
LAGRANGE COLLEGE
AFTER LARGE SUM
LaGrangc, Ga., May 27......Every
sum raised for the LaGrangc College
for Women, including the $500,090
campaign now in progress, will be
matched dollar for dollar by Samuel
Candler Dobbs, of Atlanta, chairman
of the hoard of trustees of the school.
Mr. Dobbs made the offer at an
alumni luncheon meeting here, at
which it was planned to organize
alumnae in each county to carry on
the drive for $500,000 which will he
used for improvements and new build¬
ings on the LaGrangc campus.
Annual commencement exercises
will be held at the college this week¬
end.
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THE ALEUTIAN, VALUED AT
LION, WAS ONE OF FINEST
WEST COAST CRAFT [
(By Associated ----------- Press.) |
Seattle, May 27. The steamship j
Aleutian struck a projecting rock in
Uyak bay on the jagged coast of Kod¬
iak Island, Alaska, yesterday, and
sank after 15 passengers and 135
members of the crew had abandoned
her arid had been picked up by the
Surveyor, a coast and geodetic sur¬
j vey ship.
The Surveyor, with the survivors
aboard, today was plowing through
heavy seas to Seward, 300 miles north
east, of U yak bay. normal
The weather was reported
at the time of the crash. An SOS
was immediately flashed by the striek
en vessel and the Surveyor, stationed
: nearby, rushed tp her aid.
! The Aleutian, a 5,400 ton vessel,
| was valued at $1,000,000 and was re
garded as the finest ship in the serv-
1 ice of the Alaska Steamship Company.
j She formerly was the Panama and
I Havana. Built in Philadelphia in
j 1898, she was put in Alaskan service
I two years ago.
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THE WEATHE?
Partly cloudy tonight and Tues
dny: gentle to moderate suuth
vast winds.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Called Before Committee Investi
galing “Leak” Regarding
Lcnroot Vote
PROTECTS NEWS AGENCY
WHEN MAKING REPLIES
Believes Public Welfare Best
Served By Making News
Quickly Available When to
Public's Interest.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, May 27. Paul Mallon,
correspondent, for the United Press
who published a roll call purporting
to show the vote in executive session
of the senate on confirmation of Ir
vine I,enroot as a judge of the court
of customs appeals, today refused to
tell llie senate rules committee tha
source of his information.
“The United Press, to which I am
directly responsible, believes the pub¬
lic welfare can best he served by mak¬
ing all news quickly and easily avail¬
able when it is in the public interest
to do so,” Million’s statement said.
“Therefore and notwithstanding any
lack of authority of this committee I
am here to answer questions if I can
do so without violating any confidence
which I may consider has been repos¬
ed in me either directly or by custom
of the press.
“I am authorized to state that the
United Press desires to aid in tl is
and any other investigations by this
committee in consonance with its du¬
ties to the public but neither the
United Press nor I conceive it to be
my duty to reveal any confidential
communications made to me.
“This statement is given with all
possible deference to this committee
and each of its members and 1 am
ready to answer questions within the
limits which I have just stated.”
Chairman Moses asked Mallon di¬
rectly where he obtained his informa¬
tion.
“I must respectfully decline to an¬
swer that question,” said Mallon.
Various committee members put
questions to the reporter who was sur¬
rounded by other newspapermen in
the crowded committee room.
■Senator Harrison, Democrat , of
Mississippi, quoted from Million’s
story which declared the roll call came
from r “confidential and indisputable
authoritative source.”
“What did you mean by that?” ask¬
ed Harrison.
“Exactly what I said,” replied Mal¬
lon.
Senator Watson, Republican, of In¬
diana, suid that the published roll call
had been checked off and that there
were some inaccuracies in it.
Watson asked Mallon if it was cus¬
tomary for reporters to ask senators
about what occurred in executive ses¬
sion.
When Mallon hesitated, the Indiana
senator remarked amid laughter, “I
guess we cun all testify to that.”
Can Arrest Sheriff
Washington, May 27. t/P)—Sheriff
Thomas W. Cunningham, of Philadel¬
phia, was declared by the supreme
court today to be subject to arrest by
the senate for questioning concern¬
ing his refusal to answer certain
questions in connection with the in¬
vestigation of the election of Wiilliam
S. Vuro ns senator from Pennsylvana.
ATLANTA HIJACKERS
BELIEVED CAPTURED
(By Associated Press.)
Atlanta, May 27.—Confessions to
police credited to two men held on
blanket, charges of suspicion, are be¬
lieved by the authorities to have solv
< d a baffling series of safe-blowings
and hold-ups during the last six
months.
E. C. Wheeler and C. R. Akridgo
were arrested yesterday by Patrol
men O. M. Crankshaw and R. C. Mc
(Jill, who said they found dynamite
caps, braces, bits and other tools in
their possession. Wheeler surrender
without resistance, but Akridge
being captured after the officers
fired several shots.
McGill said Wheeler threw a i’e
volver into the darkness as he and
approached, and that the
man then tossed a four-ounce bottle
of nitroglycerine at McGill’s feet,
which the officer said “fortunately” did
explode.
WILL ENDEAVOR TRY
MANLEY TOMORROW
Atlanta, May 27.—Solicitor Generrl
John A. Boykin announced today th it
every effort will be made by the sta .e
to prevent further continuance in t le
case of W. D. Manley, former pre: i
dent of the defunct Bankers’ Trust
Company, when the case is called f or
trial tomorrow.
Mr. Boykin said he expected to have
doctors appointed by the court for t ie
purpose of making a report on Man
ley’s condition and would demand that
a legal showing be made by defense
counsel in open court that Manley is
unable to stand trial.
Manley is reported to be in a pri¬
vate sanitarium in Milledgeville.