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ciated Press
VOLUME XXIX. No. 143.
COMMUNIST LEADERS HELD IN N. Y.
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OnePerson Killed, 31 Injured In Wreck
IN A COLLISION
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Second Seciion of the Seminole
Limited Ploughs Into First
Section Today
STEEL OBSERVATION CAR,
TWO PULLMANS DERAILED
Wreck Occurred on Central of
Georgia at Glen Alta Early
This Morning—Physicians Go
to Scene on Relief Train.
*(' y Associated Press)
Columbus, Ga„ March 7.—A flag¬
man was killed and thirty-one others
injured, one probably Seriously, at
Glen Alta, Ga., 25 miles south of here,
early today as the second section of
the Seminole Limited, fast Central
of Georgia Railway train ploughed in¬
to the rear of the first section, which
had stopped.
O. C. White, of Pheriix City, Ala.,
flagman of the first section of the train,
which runs from Florida to Chicago,
was killed as the heavy locomotive of
the second section smashed into a
heavy steel obseravtion car, telescop¬
ed it and derailed two Pullmans.
The injured included the following,
who had been brought to a- hospital
here:
Mrs. R. Bloomberg, South 29 St..
Birmingham, Ala., bruises,
L. G. Morrison, 55, Marion, 111.,
broken nose.
Mrs. L .G. Morrison, 53, Marion,
111., probable internal injuries.
J. H. Seaborn, 14, Phenix City, Ala.,
brakeman, concussion of- the brain
and lacerated scalp.
C. H. Wilson, 43, Columbus, fire¬
man. bruised Kimbreil, hip and lacerated face.
W. R. 314 Southlawn Ave.,
Kansas City, Mo., sprained foot.
Mrs. L. E. Boezt, 22, 724 South Wa¬
bash Ave., Chicago, injured leg.
Harry S. Williams, 56, 619 State
street, Fremont, Mich., leg and back
injuries. H. Parker
Mrs. D. Fromme, 50. 718
avenue, Rivver Park, 111., injured leg.
Mrs. B. P. Killingswroth, 45, of Co¬
lumbiana, Ala., injured ankle.
Mrs. A. J. Culberson. 4108 South
street, St. Petersburg, Fla., injured
ankle.
Mrs. Eleanor Gavin, Chicago, back
injured. Iowa, right
B. Ward, Dubuque, arm
broken.
Mrs. Harlow Adams, Dubuque,
sprained ankle.
Mrs. J. Mesehinger, Dubuque, Iowa,
back injured. Warsaw, Indiana,
Dan Alexander,
back inf'" -d.
Mrs, n Alexander, Warsaw, In
dianajTsprained Mrs! L. Cohn, ankle. Chicago, sprained
N.
Mrs. August Sehoel, Waterloo, la.,
suffering from shock.
Miss Hilda Oxby, Eau Claire, Wis.,
sprained ankle.
Mrs. John Albrecht, Columbus, Ga.,
sprained ankle.
Mrs. E. L. Tardy, Chicago, sprain¬
ed ankle.
Mrs. A. Houeek, Chicago, severe
bruises. Vitech, Chicago,
Mrs. Marie sprain¬
ed ankle. knee
John T. Thomas, Chicago, in¬
jured. R. Rogers, Chicago, sprained
Mrs.
ankle. Chicago, sprained
Mrs. Eliza Lilley,
ankle. Milwaukee, W
Mrs. A. G. Judge, is.,
fractured ankle.
M. J. Meaker, Chicago, scalp wound.
The Seminole Limited is a through
train operating from Florida to Chi¬
cago via Birmingham. The first sec¬
tion was composed of Pullman cars
and carried only passengers, while the
second section was carrying running perish¬ as a
through express train
ables from Florida.
Railway officials were unable to
definitely fix the cause of the wreck,
or sav why the first section had halt¬
ed at Glen Ata, but reports here were
that it had stopped to remove by section a sig¬
nal flare placed there a
man. The second section crashed m-,
to the rear ol the halted train before
a flagman could be sent back to stop
it. expressed . the; ,
Trainmen, however,
opinion that poor visibility was uai-,
tially to blame. The crash occurred .
at 4:55 a. m. _ Pullmans
The two derailed w.'ie
quickly restored and the first section,
of the train proceeded physicians here. and A rebel
train carrying nurses
was sent from here.
ATLANTA MAN DLAiJ UP) —Newton
AH/fK a < G*-’ March 7.
Smita Tnomas, 59, real estate man
and resident of Atlanta for 25 years,
died at a hospital late yesterday after
a short illness.
THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
TWELVE PAGES
Pays Tax Fine
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Eleanor Boardman, screen star,
was fined $2,000 in Las Angeles when
she pleaded guilty to an indictment
charging failure to pay income tax.
Mrs. Herni Marchand, Wife of
Prominent Buffalo, N. Y.,
Artist, Slain, Jealousy Being
Assigned as Cause.
(By Associated Press)
Buffalo, N. Y., March 7.—Miss
lian Jimerson, 35-year-old Indian, has j
charged, hero, that according another older to police Indian detectives j
woman
from the Gowanda reservation yester¬
day killed Mrs. Clothilde Marchand,
wife of Henri Marchand, eminent art¬
ist and curator of the Buffalo Museum
of Science. Miss Jimerson is also said
to have admitted that she was present
at the time of the slaying.
The motive was jealousy, it was
learned from Police Commissioner W.
R. Connolly, who arrested Miss Jim¬
erson. at the reservation near Silver
Creek, N. Y.
Police were searching the river bed
near Spri'ngville this morning for the
weapon said to have bene used by the
woman in slaying Mrs, Marchand at
her home here yesterday afternoon.
The Indian woman was said to have
become infatuated with Henri Mar¬
chand, the dead woman’s husband ,
while posing for him as a model.
Buffalo, Story of Crime j
N. Y., March 7.—An Indian
woman in was sought as a suspect today
the brutal slaying of Mrs. Henri
Marchand, wife of the famous artist
oi the Buffalo Museum of Scietice.
William R. (formally, deputy police
commissioner, said the woman, whom
. he described , ., , Jo „„ old, had been
as years •
enamored of the victim’s husband j
wrhout his knowledge. 1
.Mis. Marchand, o0. and herself an
artist, beaten ,
was to death in her,
home yester'.ay, the body being found j
iy her young son. Henri, Jr., when |
he returned home from school. Before
striking Mrs. Marchand on the head
with a heavy instrument, the killer
had stuffed into her mouth a chloro¬
form-saturated wad fo paper, tied to¬
gether with thread.
Police said the woman left town bv
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A ,L ERLANGER DEAD i i
AT HOME IN NEW YORK j
"NAPOLEON OK STAGE” PASSES
AFTER ILLNESS DURING PAST
TWO WEEKS
I By Associated Press)
x evv York, March 7.--A. Erlang
theatrical manager, died today at
; homo in New York. He way in
70th year.
Mr. Erlanger, who was president
0 j- the famous <|ld tbearfjcal firm of
an <| Erlanger, bad been
ill for two weeks.
Called the “Napoleon of the stage,
be was credited as being the first man
t0 put thcarticals or a --'Bund busi
neSs fi as j s
He organized the first theatre “syn¬
dicate” and controlled many of
principal theatres of the country. In
jD07 his firm incorporated the inter
es t s of the Shubert brothers and sub
sequently “vaudeville” branched out into the
field at more than 50
houses in the United States.
BRUNSWICK, GA., FRIDAY. MARCH 7, 1930.
IS NO
Important Decision Rendered
Today By United States
Court Jurist in Boston
COMMENT MADE BY
WASHINGTON OFFICIALS
Decision Rendered Covers Ap¬
proximately Ten Typewritten
Pages—Case Will Be Carried
to Circuit Court.
(By Associated Press)
Boston, March 7.—Federal Judge
James M. Morton today ruled that a
purchase of liquor is not a crime un¬
der the national prohibition act. The
decision was given in the ease of
James Farrar, of Watertown, recently
indicted for purchasing two pints of
liquor. Judge" Morton’s decision ap¬
proximately covered ten typewritten
pages.
Farrar’s counsel had moved the in¬
dictment be quashed on the grounds
that congress did not intend to make
the purchase of liquor a crime. After
lengthy argument Judge Mortoii
quashed the indictment.
Assistant U. S. District Attorney
Fiiihu D. Stone immediately took steps
to appeal the ease to the U. S. circuit
court of appeals.
No Comment
Washington, March 7. I/P)- —Prohi¬
bition officials declined to discuss the
action of Federal Judge Morton in
Boston in holding that James W. Far¬
rar had not violated the national pro
hibition law in purchasing liquor, but
said it was the first test case in which
a purchaser had faced a federal court
on the single charge that the pur
chase alone was a violation of the law.
Officials said Dial whether any fur¬
ther action toward an ap.neal from the
decision would be taken would be de¬
cided by the United States attorney at
Boston, but Commissioner Doran
pointed out that the prohibition bu¬
reau had prosecuted purchasers of li¬
quor only where some other element
of prohibition law violation was in¬
volved.
LINDY GOOD FLIER
BUT RATHER POOR j
POLO PONY RIDER i
(By Associated Press)
Del Monte, Cal., March 7.—Having j
been catapulted from the back of a '
galloping polo pony and dragged sev¬
eral yards on the choice turf of Del
Monte field, Colonel Charles A. Lind
borgh went back to his glider today
for a safe and sane ride.
It happened yesterday while the
colonel, as the guest of J. Cheever
Cowdin, of New York, was making his
first solo flight on a polo pony.
With the flying colonel on its back,
the pony banked sharply, Lindbergh ,
unceremoniously left the controls, I
went into a stall and side-slipped,
Lindbergh didn’t have his parachute 1
with him, but it wouldn’t have done
any good anyway. He lost altitude
too rapidly. In some manner his foot
caught ip the right skid-fin, which po
losists Insists carelessly carelesslv call call the the stirrun stirrup. Un¬ Tin.
aware of the identity of its famous
rider, the pony went right on about
its business and taxied down the field,
towing the colonel by the foot.
Colonel Lindbergh left a trade-mark
about 25 feet long in the turf and
then his foot came free. He scram
bled to his feet, laughed and announc¬
that he was unhurt. Shortly there
after he went home to his glider, the
Lindbergh,” with a new view
point on the safety of flying,
The famous flier’s riding experience
heretofore has been limited to com¬
paratively gentle saddle horses.
PAROLE FOR COOK
GIVEN APPROVAL
Washington, March 7.— The parole
of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, serving a
sentence in the federal penitentiary
at Leavenworth, Kansas, for using
the mails to defraud, has been approv¬
ed by Attorney General Mitchell.
Announce merit of the parole was
made today by the department of jus
tice. Officials there : aid the exact
date when the parole would become ef¬
fective could be ascertained from the
warden of the penitentiary but it was
their opinion it probably would be to¬
morrow.
TO MAKE STATEMENT
Washington, March 7. I/P> —Presi- j
l dent Hoover is expected to make a
' statement business and unemploy¬
on
ment conditions at his regular 4:00
o’clock conference today with Wash¬
ington correspondents.
REVERSES
FORMER ACTION;
DULY ON CEMENT
Democrats and Republican In¬
dependents Met Another
Reverse Today
RECONSIDERATION OF
SUGAR DUTY DEMANDED
Five Senators Changed Their
Previous Vote on Cement
and Win Out For a Duty of
Six Cents.
(By Associated Press)
Washington, March 7. — Recon¬
sideration of the increase voted by the
senate on the sugar duty was demand¬
ed in the senate today by Senator
Nye, Republican, of North Dakota,
after the coalition of Democrats and
Republican independents met another
reverse when a duty on cement was
restored to the tariff bill.
Five senators who previousy have)
voted against an eight cents rate on I
cement and in favor of restoring this
commodity to the free list, today vot¬
ed for the six-eents duty. They were
Couzens, Nye and Pine, Republicans,
and Tydings and Wagner, Democrats.
Senator Couzens explained before
the roll call that he did not want to
be accused of “trailing” and was
changing his vote because the senate
in the meanwhile has eliminated the
countervailing duty on cement which
permitted this country to put up a
piotecton against Canadian cement.
Senator Nye changed his vote after
the roll call was taken in order to
move reconsideration, he explained.
Nye is a member of the coalition
but he had voted for the increased
sugar rate. Giving notice that he
would ask for reconsideration of the
sugar vote, the North Dakotan called
attention to the “accusations of trad¬
ing” on votes.
He did not ask, however, for an im¬
mediate roll call on sugar. It can
come up at any time. |
Nye said he “thought” he had “seen
some evidence” of “trading” when the
senate vote dthis week on sugar and
approved, 47 to 39, an increase in the
duty on Cuban raws from 1.76 to 2c
a pound.
Ft 10 REACH TERMS
CONFERENCE TODAY AND SLUG¬
GER REFUSES TO AGREE TO
COMPROMISE
(By Associated Press)
St. Petersburg, Fla., March 7.
—The first conference today be¬
tween Babe Ruth and Colonel
Jake Ruppert, owner of the Yan¬
kees, failed to bring agreement
on the home run king’s salary.
Ruth rejected a compromise offer
of 885,000 for 1930 and 880,000 for
each of the next two seasons.
Ruth and Ruppert each made con¬
cessions, coming.closer they'have to an agree¬ time
ment than been at any
since tbe big debate arose, but the
conference, held in the clubhouse at
Orescent Park, broke up without a
fountain pen being produced or will any
indication when the famous hitter
come to terms.
Ruth countered Col. Ruppert’s of¬
fer with a proposition to sign for
$85,000 for the next two years but
the owner declined.
Previously, Ruth’s demand was for
a three-year contract at $85,000 while
the best Yank offer had been $75,000
for a two-year term.
The colonel’s concession today came
as a surprise as he had been emphatic
beforehand in saying the club had
gone the limit at $75,000.
JAM AICAGINGER
CAUSES ILLNESS
OF MANY PERSONS
Oklahoma City, Mar. 7—Near¬
ly 100 cases of an illness resem¬
bling paralysis, attributed to the
drinking of poisoned Jamaica
ginger had been discovered today j
in Oklahoma City, and physicians
were seeking to find cures.
Most of the victims were men.
The greater part have lost use of j
their feet, while the mouths and
hands of several were paralyzed.
Four drug stores had been nam¬
ed today by victims as sources of
the extract. Owners of two of
the stores already were under
charge*.
Samples of Jamaica ginger
were being tested by C. E. Clif¬
ford, city chemist.
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Catherine Schweitzer, of Cincinnati, Ohio, are looking forward <o a hap¬
py married life. The bridegroom must serve a 10-year term in the stale
penitentiary at Columbus for robberiy After his license the couple plans
to be married again. Photo shows them in a Cincinnati jail.
New Highway Chairman Says;
There Will Be No Politics in
Department if He Can Possi
bly Prevent It. j
(By Associated Press)
Athens, Ga., March 1, J. W. Bar
nett, newly appointed chairman of the. i
state highway board, today announced
that his policy as head of the road de¬
partment would be to build mails as
rapidly as possible and that he would
confine his aotivtiie:: exclusively to
his post.
Captain Barnett succeeds Colonel
Sam Tate as chairman, effective April
1, and has been officially notified of his
appointment. Colonel Tate resigned
because of ill health.
“I want the people of Georgia to un¬
derstand,” Captain Barnett said, “that
I am just as anxious to see the state
highway system completed as any
Georgian, and it is my purpose to give
the job the best there is in me.
I am not.a politician ... and there
is going to he no polities in the work
mg ol the highway department, ll I
have anything to say about it.
“Them need be no fear among the
peisonnel of the highway organization
that they wil lose their places if they
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to tii i d e p a rt m en I
“What we want is results in the
shape of good roads and more of
them.”
Captain Barnett expressed his “pro
found gratefulness” to Governor
Hardman for his appointment to the
chairmanship and that he will do ev
erytbing iri his power to merit such
confidence.
The newly appointed chairman ex¬
pressed deep admiration for the re
suits accomplished by Colonel Tate,
making particular reference to the li
quidation of the highway department's
financial obligations.
EXCHANGE BANK IN
CORDELE CLOSES
(By Associated Press)
Cordele, (la., March 7. The Ex¬
change Bank of Cordele, one of the
oldest hanking institutions in this sec
tion, failed to open for business today,
Notice was posted on the doors that
the institution was in I he hand-, of the
state superintendent, for liquidation or
reinstatement. The Exchange Bank
was a member of Hie Federal Reserve
system. J. J. William, is president,
TVie last, published statement of the
hank made on December 31, 1929,
shows a capitalization 'of $100,000; to¬
resource: of $876,409.95; surplus
$100,000; undivided profits $9,051.10,
and total deposits of $594,284.76.
TAFT STILL IMPROVES
Washington, March 7. t/P, - Dr.
Francis Hague!', one of William How
ard Taft’s physicians, said today that
the former chief justice was “proba
bly a little bit better and certainly no
worse than he wir. yesterday.”
President of , Reichbank _ . ,, , An- ,
Bounces He Will Send in
Resignation Due to Hague
Protocol.
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(By Asaucatod Press)
Berlin, March 7. l)r. 11 jalmur
Schaeht, president of the Keicliimnk,
today announced his intention of re-;
sign ng from his post.
The announcement was made at
meeting of directors of the Reichbank
this afternoon.
Dr. Schaehl informed the director
ate he had taken steps to
his presidential contract with the
before it: expiring date but would re
man in office until his successor was
appointed, , ,
The resignation, it was understood,
was due to his personal interpretation
of the final protocol reached at the S(
ond Hague eonferenee on
which be claimed made changes in the
original Young plan such as to rndan
ger.ts success J
While i D, .Schaeht at p.esent w.
not discuss his announcement, mem
hers ners of oi his ins staff sum told ioio the me Associated; n»wuaini
I’re.-s he wu.- so convinced that
seemM Hague conference fieparte.l
ronr) the ........ plan which he helped
spondbilit'y , I i 1 t 4 V. ‘'for'd. •> t V\ /. /ojnnnl C “Teeiition 'iuuntfti> Um ‘’ 1*1* - 1
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They said that the Reichbank presi
dent felt the so-called new plan was
immeasurably inferior to the original
Young plan and placed one-sided bur
dens upon Get many which enabled her
creditors to do practically v^hat they
wanted with her.
Now that adoption ol the plan by
the reichstag is assured, Dr. Schaeht
was represented as feeling honor
bound to make room for some one will
ing to assume responsibility for lnl
fdmerit.of the Reiehbank’s obligations
under the plan,
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DEATH SENTENCE
FOR LUDOWICI MAN
(Bv Associated Press)
Eudowici, Ga., March 7. —Convicted
on a murder charge arising from th
killing of C. Herbert Phillips in a b..
lianl parlor, Preston 11. Caison today
was under sentence of death in the
electric chair.
His execution was set for March 20
by Judge J. S. Daniel here last night
after a verdict of guilty was returned
by a jury which deliberated for four
hours.
Caison first entered a plea of insaii
ity, but a jury found him sane Wed¬
nesday.
M'WHORTER NAMED
Atlanta, March 7. (/Pi— I). P. Mc¬
Whorter, acting state highway engi¬
neer since February 1, today was
designated by the highway board as
> chief of the engineering division in
j full status. Mr. McWhorter was Ueet
: <-d acting engineer as successor to W.
R. Neel, resigned.
THE WEATHER
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Saturday
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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Former Presidential Candidate
of Workers Party Among
Five l.eaders Held
MANY DISTURBANCES
REPORTED YESTERDAY
In Various Sections of United
States There Was Disorder
and Large Number of Persons
are Reported Injured.
(By Associated Tress)
New York, March 7. (/Pi Refusing
to answer all important questions, live
Communists leaders, alleged instign
tors of yesterday's riots in Union
Square, in which more Ilian 100 per
sons were injured, were paraded be
line 200 detectives in the line-up at
police headquarters today after a
night in jail. They had failed to fur
nisli bail.
file live are William X. Foster, pres
idciUial candidate of the Workers,
(Communist) parly in the 1928 elec
lions; Robert (>. Minor, editor of the
Daily Worker; Isrcal Amter, Harry
Raymond and Joseph I,ester,
All of them answered such ques
lions as to where they were born and
tiic like but balked when asked what
their part in the unemployment dem¬
onstration yesterday was.
Following a Yorkville police line-up the fiv •
were taken to court to an¬
swer the charges of inciting to riot.
Some six hundred , , , Communists _ were
under arrest in the United States, Can
ad aand Europe today beaeause of
Communist unemployment demonstra¬
tions on "Red Thursday.” Three
were dead and approximately 200 in¬
jured.
One death occurred in demonstra¬
in Berlin and two in Halle, Ger¬
many. In the United States aproxi
mutely 150 persons were injured and
200 arrested. The ibjured include po
lice and bystanders as well as Coni
ltuin i«ts.
In the main demonstrations fur
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.^persons eluToSs'u» 1 ‘"ee h th.'
police precautions against violence.
Hl'eechmaking generally was permit
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, uml 100 persons injured dur
« not precipitated when demon,
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temiiU'tl <n '»<*'<;•»_ on t he city half
Washington. I' 1 "’ 1 * , * u A ' 111 ' bomb
tea, gas
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'! w 'rusts clashed with
police. Six were injured and 11 ar*.
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Bet-in.- One man was ......., 14 .
were .njurnl and 270 acres tod as po
u R ht to h,,,ak "I’ 'Imnonstra
( ;„. mony . Tw „ Communists
kiJlcl| am , nm . st ed when po.
fired or, a mob which attacked
lh with um , c | ub *.
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monstrators ,j
j n| | 0|| An attempt Mansion by unemploy. House,
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in a clash with police in which ,
five were injured and five arrested.
Baris.--Stringent police regulations
prevented disorders. Subway con¬
struction workers and taxicab driv u-s
were on si rike.
Stockholm. Three persons were ar¬
rested and a policeman was injured
in disturbances.
Gablonz, Czecho Slovakia. Six
workers and three policemen were
wounded and 20 persons arrested.
Athens. Police arrested 40 when
they dispersed a gathering before the
city hall. Communists
Antwerp. Two were
arrested after demonstrators tried to
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BIG BOMB FOUND
IN CHICAGO CLUB
(By Associated Press)
Chicago, March 7. A bomb large
enough to demolish the entire building
was found last night in the rear of
the Little Club, North Side cabaret, by
police answering an anonymous tele¬
phone call that a bomb had already
been exploded.
- > ,CUt 'use had burned within a few
in,.. of the dynamite when Sergeant
Herman Dorf smothered it with hi.s
gloves, but police said they thought
the fuse had become disconnected and
the bomb would not have exploded
anyway.
The bomb was made of eight sticks
of dynamite which police said would
have enough force to wreck the two
story building and kill most of the
occupants. They believed the man who
pfaced the bomb in the rear entrance
of the club telephoned the station
when it failed to explode, j
m t