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VOLUME XXX. No. 189.
AMERICAN FLEE!
EQUAL TO TREATY
till IS URGED
Daughters American Washington
in Session at Adopt
Resolution Stressing Importance
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OBJECT RECOGNITION
OF SOVIET RUSSIANS
Formally Request Next Congress
to Enact Legislation Striking
at Communistic Agitation in j
United States.
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Washington, April 24. i/Pf—Resolu-1
lions line drawn advocating by a navy London that naval toes the j
the con¬
ference and opposing recognition of
Soviet Russia were adopted today by j
Daughters of the American Revolu-;
tion at their annual congress.
erican The naval fleet equal resolution the urged treaty an limit Am-1 |
to
“so that 4- at n 4 - t-Lo the AAnt-AiioviArt conference of aF 1936 t (t*)R mo we !
shall not be in an inferior position and
unable to assert our right , , u j
The congress voted to send the pres
ident and the chairman of the senate,
foreign resolution relations declaring committee its opposition copies of |
a
to recognition of Russia.
Unanimous endorsement was given
to the findings, of the special house 1
committee that investigated Commun¬
ist activities under the chairmanship of j
Representative Fish of New York.
The D. A. R. also formally urged
the next congress to enact legislation.
“to rid our country of all seditious i
and Communist agitation having in;
view the overturning of our system j
fij* of government by force and violence j
o„ i„„„ ier ,ti„„
aliens, deportation of fnr^Um.bnvn foreign-born s - j
Communists criminal and “and undesirable the thousands aliens who of j
have illegally entered the country,
and generally stricter legislation.
Another resolution urged legisla¬
tion to require ail public school teach¬
ers to take the oath of allegiance to
the United States.
“The children of the public kwhools
of the United States,” ., drown'into - . , j ! 1
. i
-Don , , „ . ,
Communist nucleuses ______* within the
schools through the establishment of
branches ---- V of the Workers (Communist)
party, known , as tne v,„- “J ,» Pim»pis "
and the toung vvorseis l -.ragu “Jr ,
..
that these - 8 ?, _
all authority, compel allegiance to the I j
red flag, teach children to hate our
government.” |
BUTLER IS GRANTED
LEAVE OF ABSENCE
TO ORGANIZE POLICE
Washington, April 24. </P )—Major
General Smediey Butler of the Unit¬
ed States marine corps will be given
several weeks’ leave of absence in or¬
der to organize the state police of Ore¬
gon.
Senator Mc-Nary called on President
Hoover today and found that the chief
executive had no objections to Butler
being given leave for such duty.
Secretary Adams previously had
toid the Oregon Republican that he
saw no reason why G Pal Butler
should not be so used.
Butler has said he would be willing
to assume the work if he could ob¬
tain the leave of absence.
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tIONAPE !
CRIMINAL HIDE-AWAYS IN SEV¬
EN COUNTIES BEING SEARCH¬
ED FOR DR. I. D. KELLEY
St Louis, April 24. t/P) -Criminal
hide-aways and play-spots in seven
Missouri and Illinois counties were
the objects of intensive search by St.
Louis police and county officers today
for D“ I. D. Kelley, missing St. Louis
phr-L-fan.
A i available members of the St.
Louis police force and detectives the
whose long acquaintance with un¬
derworld has given «,....................... them access to
channels of underworld information
have bent their efforts toward
tion of the ease, without developing
a single clue. family of the phy¬
Meanwhile the
sician has received many letters from
cranks. Carroll W. Harlan, a friend
of the Kelley family, today denied a
report by the Globe-Democrat that a
demand for $100,000 ransom money
had been received from kidnapers of
the doctor.
A j; mild flurry among investigators
was occasioned at 3 a. m. today when
Markedes, proprietor Dr. Kellejt’s of a office, res
hear recognized
the missing
among his customers. Paul
Johnson, night manager of a garage
where Dr. Kelley has parked his car
for seven n months months, hurired to the res
tMirant and instantly sa* ft was not
THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
TEN PACES
Mysteriously Shot
Assoeiaied Press Photo
,,, Hitcher , A (Nona) Rees, ,
star athlete ol the l mversitj of 1
as, was found in a San Antonio.
^ro’Lh lbr0U « h Yhe " U La'd'^ 1,edd - *
RUSSIA PRESENTS
NO MENACE-KADIK
Vice President of All-Russia Tex
tile Industry Declares That
Five-Year Plan Will Not
America.
TvW- OH Anvil 01 ,/p, g v
tion presents no menace to American
econom y i ■" n addressing artdveosino- today todae the the con
ve ntion of the American Cotton
s » Association.
One hears a great deal about the
‘menace’ which the sifccess of the
year plan is supposed to present
the economy of the United States
of European counties,” Mr. Kadik
said.
“Extravagant reports have
as to lhe flood ? f the worW markets
wiili cheap Soviet products. . . .
“The entire economic policy of the
Soviet Union,” he said, “is based-on
the principle of serving the home
market first. Exports are
solely as a means of paving for the
i*«P cl 'ts to ‘ needed for the development,
the c . ountrv jntry.” . slightly slightly
He gaid imports im p 0l . ts have have been been
in excess of exports since the Soviet
union began foreign trade activities,
“Instead of discussing the fantasy
V . i U Soviet . ,1 menace,” tuonoxo ’ he L O said, ."ini “it
t-.,. 1 , \ Inn Knot 1 Vl I nl*/lel l 1 III
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The solution of the problem is the ere
ation of better trade relations.”
New York Misses
Chance To Greet
biamese 0 . n |
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New Vn,* York. April Anvil 94 24 i/Pi WP)—New N™
York, with its inexhaustible supply
of top-hats, ticker tape and noise for
distinguished guests in years.
King Pradiahipok and Queen
fcaibarm of Siam slipped into town in
a driving ram. had lunch and tea,
itea neu a a doctor’s ioj s office, mme, shopped Me,,,,,, u and a,.u slip- m,c
ped out again with only a handful of
of people knowing of it until the
morning newspapers appeared today.
hor the time being Oh r Hall, a
Purchase, N. Ythe country home
Whitelaw Reid, has become the
set: up o
descended'on the party. ail Invitations
are pouring 1 1 ‘and in from parts of th<?
country, - innumerable '• cranks
trying to capitalize the visit.
RFAIYY TO DFTMCATF
STRUClURL e-rn. iot, mr Al » T ALIO a ita
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Atlanta, April 24. (/Pi—Directors of
the state tuberculosis sanatorium
Alto, and officials of the state board
of health and the school department
cation' of a n^'schoofLlldTng^m'
struction of tubercular children under
treatment in the institution.
The building was erected
through gifts from school
over the state who raised
mately $3,500 toward it.
dealers and contractors for the
part donated their services and
toward the structure.
School officials said the
gifts for the building generally
serted the proceeds of such
prises a? the ' gathering of * pecans,
sale of butter and ‘ by the .....
eggs
dren.
Instruction in the new school
be accommodated to the physical
dition of the pupils.
BRUNSWICK. CA„ FRIDAY, APRIL 24. 1931.
QUELLED; REPORT
REACHES CAPITAL
{Movement Terminated Accord
ling to Communication Received
By Washington Legation Today
DECISIVE ENGAGEMENT
HELD AT
Message Follows Earlier Dis¬
patch Relating Briefly
Revolutionists Had Concen
trated Forces.
Washington. April 2-1. i/P) -Official
declaration that the
movement in Honduras was terminal
! ed was contained in a communication
its (fovet . nrn(jnt today to the
; Washington legation,
A u , rs( , message f rom the foreign
: relations department said: "Revolu
jtionary movement quelled.”
i This 1 Illy: followed an earlier message
(relating briefly that the their revolution
ists had concentrated forces
'ChameletOH and were defeated aftei
i JS hours of fighting*. Thai was eon
j sidered • i i hero i a the .i decisive t engage- ............
ment.
Flans for Captain Lisandro Garay,
{Honduran purchased flier, to return in with the a United plane
recently
States, were unchanged.
Legation officials said" he would
; leave from Wilmington, Delaware.
| probably Sunday after permission
' S
Another aviator, Captain Jose
Aguilar, was still under orders
i Kansas City to be in readiness to
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nCMICn ULlllLU PV Bl OilUUOL CUfj! (QF
| CHAIRMAN
| ASSERTION THAT
WAS “DELIBERATE LIE”
i BRINGS SH ARP REFLY
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i Washington, April 24.
j.assertion by Senator Less that a
(statement credited to Chairman
Shouse of the Democratic national ex
I endive committee, was a “deliberate
| He” drew a sharp reply from the lat
| j ter. Shouse denied the Fess accusation
j J
in the controversy around
j Republican attacks o'n Chairman Ras
Jkob ! t of the and ..,..1 Democratic retorted ol o/l that t k national i the In,. ** “short com
I i, . I . , . . »> .. e
n rrl if inmul nn/l t ll < 1 1 mi 111 Will Wl II
, the
[bought for distribution
I Cruise McManus attacking Raskob.
! Chairman Fess of the Republican
(true. national committee, said that was not
He offered to donate $10,000
| “to Mr. Shouse’s Democratic publicity
b ureau if he can Five that at any
I time . the Republican national commit
j I tee /iKtvif-nil distributed has either otl ordered of of thi» the or mnirny.inps magazines purchased or
unv any or or
I, h ; { magazine, to
h ••
j ‘
sho use was al . ouse d over the Fess
(distributed i national committee had published and
a pamphlet containing ex
L ,', a Scribner’s magazine ar
! , ast September ejltit l e d “Smear
Hoover—Uaskob’s order to his sub
( ; ... di d , propagandists, •• T That i,,w was
. , . sa,fl . , m . San Francisco, he
j a( ;
M y the comp ! i imcnt to
, M . klu w enough
i about , . whal , . was gomK at , thp ., Re 0
on ‘
i or ?° extravagant that it would buy
j C0 P ,es <)f a magazine when it might.
.vonenHuee in m pamphlet nnmnhlet form form the the por
| Uon s of an )n(llv,,i " al .“ r ^f Ia l! tlnent
(to its . purposes and circulate them as
(it Hu pleased.” a ' W( d )l lat 1,1 )ast ,al1 s cleet ' on
“a studied ; effort was made to
(size John Raskob as an issue
|of his membership in the
j church. ”
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j BR °KER ABDUCTED;
WHIPPFD vvnirrLLi Dl RY mu’!
1 /
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f ^ iai71, April 24. Of; J.
>
Meredith, Miami investment
i reported to police today he was
’i rom his home last night by a band
(men, whipped with his own belt,
j left lying by the roadside.
Meredith returned io his home
<morning and made his report to
i Jenkins, Miami detective.
said ' J Meredith "—■*“*■ was bruised - j but was
seriously hurt.
Mrs. Meredith said her husband
seized by several men last night
he went to the door of his home.
Accuses Husband
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Associated Press Photo
Mrs. Helen Fisher Drill, co-ed
i heiress of St. Paul, had her husband,
Harry K. Drill, and two companions
arrested in Madison, M is., on the
charge* that they kidnaped her from
1 i New V .. York. V .,..I
j | CASE NEARS JURY
i
Defense Rests "J at Springfield and
F!,tt Cf Oele„ d a„.s
; ■** *• K " own Ei,ri> T
ntgnc.
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Springliold, La., April 24. i/P) The
defense in the trial of Mrs. Jessie
I , u!il 1,:<,VV!m, s. her brother, William
Sasknighf and K R. Henderson, a
farm liami. charged with the nuirder
of Dan Kdwards, husband of the worn
Ian, rested today with st-foments of
jtho Defense defendants. counsel by placing ' wit
no
nesses on the stand, will have open
j ing and closing arguments.
side was allowed two hours for argil
! meats, indicating the case would go
j t 0 The the jury presocution, early in in (he opening afternoon.
ments, said the state did not ask for
j conviction of Henderson, since they
| were convinced he was not implicit!
j 0 d in (he staying of Edwards.
j Mrs. Edwards, i.i her own defense,
made a sweeping denial of
i niade by neighbors in testimony
they i 1 had I I seen her I administer 1 ! . the i l-
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L .rcxirs^-sssK
jy. j,.j r Sanford reported of the University by attaches of of Geor- the
| general a WUK hospital here resting well
as
; today following his recent operation
| for draining of the gall bladder.
j Sanford was very ill Tuesday
Wednesday after his operation
, ( |ay night, hut enjoyed u better day
I i TKiipl./I- Thursday. .
F
IS MING THRONE
I ISSUES M ANIFESTO Nill WHICH
SF.RTS HE’S READY AND WILL
ING TO VOID AN ARCHY
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Paris April 24 (/P) Don Jaime (h
anarachy.” people d<
J-Ie asked the Spanish to
dare in the approaching
whether they arc republican or mon
(archest, (the latter, and, said inviting that them the resulting to
(monarchy need have no relations with
the former regime but could he
; newed, progressive and decentraliz
ed.”
i “My desire is to have a king head
: the federation ot Spain,” he said,
j“A, king above parties. Even the Re
publicans admit that a great part of
the Spanish people favor the mon
farchy. It is unjust to suppress the
(monarchy because one king does not
1 know how to make hi- people love
.him.” The Carli.st had its inception
..... ........ cause
jin 1820 when Don Carlos, younger
brother ol Ferdinand VII, opposed
(Ferdinand’s alteration of the law oi
j succession so as to allow his
f ter, Isadel, to come to the
(Considering would fight the insurrection a sin,
not against
edict, but he refused to renounce
rights to the throne.
These passed on tc* his son,
-cailed VI, his second son. Juan,
Juan’s son, Charles do-called VII,
was Don Jaime’s father.
TEN PACES
CREBiTFOREYRD’S
ATLANTIC FLIGHT
Anthony Eokker's Recent Book
Declares Pilot Alone Was Re¬
sponsible For Success of Trip
ADMIRAL ISSUES NO
COMMENT ON STORIES
Author Declares That Bernt
Balchen Took Over Naviga
i tion and Piloting When the
Ship Reached France.
, New Yol k, April 24. (/I’l The Kiv
igrside Drive apartment of Anthony
H. (!. Fokker, “The Living Dutcli
: miin," as he calls himself in his an
Lithography just published, swarmed
todav with reporters, all seeking iron
his own lips some further words from
tlu- airplane maker amplifying his
comment on Rear Admiral Richard K.
, Byrd.
| Fokker s hook written in colluhora
j tion with Bruce Gould, criticized
Byrd’s technique in his trans-Atlantic
llight, and praised the skill ol Bernt
Mm Balchen 1 1 • IIi‘Tl Ini both 1 Vi as • i < pilot ii 1 1 1 it ami i w 1 navigator 11 •! v 1 < 1 »• i on »11
some of Byrd’s most famous flights.
Byrd so far lia.Srtlorljned to comment
on the book.
The book said that Byrd might have
flown to Paris ahead of the “unscieii
trific Lindbergh,” if he hud not delay¬
ed what Fokker regarded as an un¬
necessary long time.
“Bernt Balchen took over both
navigation and piloting when they
reached France," Fokker wrote, "and
j brought brought the the ship ship over over Paris Paris in in a a dense dense
,l ',' sa ' v or l ww 1,1 “
!3S'if . S
^
Bert Acosta was a physical wreck:
Noville, by damaging his radio, had
|destroyed his sole usefulness.
“Through the black night, whipped
, by storms, Balchen steered resolutely
! back to the const, lie communicated
j with Byrd by notes.
Balehen’s eomment on Fokker’s d<
I script ion of the flight today was:
“I don’t know where Tony got all
, bis information. When 1 asked him,
he just grinned at me. But I’ll say
this, there are no mistakes in it.”
Beit Acosta, pilot of Hear Admiral
Byrd’s trans-Atlantic flight, made the
following comment:
“The controversy aroused by the
book doesn’t worry me if 1 bad any •
j thing his face. to sav to Tony, I’d say it to
( in “The entire and effective matter was conducted 1
a sure manner. am
positive that if it was to lie done
there would be no change.
“I '* I have l. ■, , > , . the I L ,. highest l,i..«l«...l regard I for I'..., Ad- A.I
I I e I k I D , , Ai, I i, .i.i It,
(revolver is used
TO FORCE MARRIAGE;
| I GRANT ANNULMENT
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Los Angelos, April 24. f/Pi- A story
Louis Gregory Allen, Wndiing
j * ton, I). business man, enforced
Liu his proposal 1 with revolver, * won
iiimnn a
; Fli/.aheth Ilooe Allen marital
here yesterday,
Mrs. Allen attempted several , weeks,
J wo to obtmrj an annulment on UK'
| ground laileij. she She was under \t when le^al Ihe.v aite, win but e
; was
• married in A upust, 11)21).
She told Superior Jud^e Kmmel
Wilson she liW Allen, who was
ly 40,” at a house party in Washing
ton and that a few days Inter he told
her it was immaterial wliclher she
| loved him, that lie revolver, wanted she to said. marry
(her. i "I %vis He drew frightened,” a she explained,
and through the hack door and <'*
caoed.
.Judge Wilson granted an annul-
1 ment.
POSTPONE HEARING
/-jp OIVORCF SUIT
AGAlNb 1 tv II LUdO rnDD
Augusta, (ja., April 24. t/P) Post
ponement of the hearing of the nuit
f or divorce brought by Mrs. Ty Cobb
against her husband, former major
) eftKUe baseball star, from tomorrow
until May 2, was announced by the
superior court here today.
The postponement was. granted on
request of attorneys for both Mrs.
(tobb and her .........................—- husband while negotia- ■
t; 0 ns for a settlement out. ol court
were continued, 'lhe nature of the
proposed settlement was not indicated,
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GEORGE KOBHR DIES
.
Washington, April 24. t/P) Dr.
<;, !0 rgi M. Kober, HI, creator of the
Kober Foundation to Promote Medical
Research, died today at his home here
r ,f heart disease. He was a leader in
National Tuberculosis Assoeia-
John 11. Overton. Alexandria.
will succeed the lute Rep. James It.
\ swell as representative from the
0 i e h*li Louisiana dislril.-t.
victorious in the Democratic primary,
which is equivalent (o election.
As Police Seek Solution to Grue
some Deaths Of x -i- Two Gills /-'•i
Body of Woman is Discovered
... Her Apartment . ,
rn .
Ban Diego, Calif., April 24. t/F)
Peace officer*, worn by their efforts
’
here today.
q'|,,. | )()( | v „f ivirV. VV. 1). Bilitiens,
:;5 i W as discovered in her apartment
determrm' | Hat night. Officers were unable to
immediatelv or' whclber she
hud been strangled her throat
been cut. A newspaper dated April 'the
| ( ; f, miu j ; n <j„, indicated
time of her death.
jyirr. Hiblx-ns usually wore many
j eW els and was a follower of
'
A „ u; , ( alier.tr races. The apartment
hud been i ansacked and gave evidence
n j- ('■ipiain :i violent struggle.
of Detectives Paul llays
said hot- jewels were missing ami
| H . rv nmv ha v<* been the motive, lie
’ ,• |
, l)U p, wh() | u , . oj ,| uu |
die .qmH ment with Mrs. Bil,liens
untl | j v . 'operator, Waiter W. Bartleman, i
,.|,. >»i'i Vi itor’ was held for
, ' ■ i* no
The Miss'Tuber's* killing came just live days al l
’ 'p,. * body was found
j, , a Dee ’near here.
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(.-rdrr CHARGES I’EACED
\<;\INST GROUP AGt ( USED OF
OPERATING * ‘......... THEFT * RING
A l,lanta, April 24. I/P)— Seventeen
youthful members of what I’eilera]
' automobile tlu-ft
;xu;i , niH aM
operating between western
Mm'tii (laroiina and north f ieorpjia
it.b a side-line of liijuor running were
i n< | i( ,tmc nt here today, the
The Tll „ syndicate, sv ,„n, had’ it j, was Wiis charged chargci in
. heen operafing from
May, __ '(j, 193(1, .......................... ,’ to ii,./j April. 1931. The in
s t , su fthree months
“ , j". j. )V ,. s i| K alion Jf
ltll< ,„( justice agents said
aJ , lo |, avt , figured in
operations charged in the imlietmeni,.
,/„ n[ia | charges in the indictments re
lated only to violation of the national
motor vehicle theft act.
The defendants, ranging in age from
IH to 29 years, will he fried beginning
Mav 4 in Gainesville.
Those indicted were Roy Jones
Jack j Frcsncll, Wayne Jarrelt, Bell
0 ,„, S( .j a ck Canup, Gordon Cathey,
J a he] York, Roy Davis, Denver Jus
|„ Mi ,j„hn Ball, Porter Taylor, Roy
Thompson, Floyd Lunreford, Howard
• Robbinx, Gailor Luneeford, Dewey
Farmer and Piumer Lowe.
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BROKERS ARE SUSPENDED
;
New ..." York, . u.n, ....... April 24. t/P) ™ ,—. Pynchon ,
and Company was suspended from
membership in .the New York stock
iexchange today for insolvency. The
. firm hold-' membership in thirteen
other security and commodity markets
q n the United States and abroad.
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j SIXTY KILLED
(ty Canton, China, Anri! |’4. t/P) -Six
persons n/ii'ii/inu ii/oro were ’ j / today lr.rl.iii mhu/i when
•; bandits blew up t 4a (cam launches,
owners of whom efused to pay
PRICE FIVE CENTS
LOS ANGELES Oil
BY QUAKE; SEVERE
No Damage Reported But at Re*
dondo Beach Number of'Store
Windows are Broken
SOUTHWEST AREA IS
ROCKED EARLY TODAY
Laboratory at Pasadena Rec¬
ords Quake of More Than
Hour Duration But Unable to
Locate Center.
Li s Angelos. April 21, (/Pi — A fair.
h ' t rung earthquake wu. felt here at
i' : 1 ' l! o'ehti k this morning.
Hie renter ol the earthquake seem
ed < to lie i.i I lie southwest part of Los
Angeles, and it was lelt quite severely
al t'amptoii. a southwest suburb, and
at Long Beach. No damage was re¬
ported.
Redondo Bom b, Calif., April 24. (Ah
A number of store windows were
today in a strong earthquake.
other damage was reported. It,
was felt severely throughout the San
Monica hay district.
Pasadena, Calif*., April 24 .(/Pi - A
rt rung distant earthquake was record-
1,1 '•< «• '»• <‘ M,a >' '>’>
llu ' fl * s *' u ‘ ( anic^H* Institution of
Wa-hinj^toii Suismological Laboratory
Flu* distance anil dinwtion wax
n'-t obtained, Iho roaist ration eontin
uing f »r more than half an hour.
WAGES OF WOMEN
WflRKFPG DECLINE rfFCI IMP
sharply in the pas' IK months, accord
to a report issued today by offi
' 'id-; of the bureau of women in in
dusiry, state department of labor.
Comparisons between the autumn
of 1929 and Fcbiuary, HKII, made by
the bureau reveal that clerks are mak
'from $2 »o $-1 less a week than in
192!), and ‘hat the wages of typists
are from Cl to $3 less. Switchboard
operators are making from $3 to $r,
less and cashiers *5 less than in 1929.
Domestic workers, according to the
Bureau, an* suffering the greatest
wage losses among women. Where
formerly they commanded $40 to $70
a month, I he.v are now getting $15 to
$55.
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EDITORS OF STATE
OPEN PRESS HAVEN
AT DINNER TONIGHT
J’rcs.s Mayen, (,»a., April 24. IA*;- ~
parts of the stati*
press a-socialion, will preside at the
dinner tonight and there will be brief
talks by Hal M. Stanley, executive
secret a ry of the press association, and
Pieavanl, of The Newman He raid,
elmii in ,hi of the camp committee.
Hubert Dyar, mlilor of The Roys
ton Record, and Mrs Dyar will act as
lies! and hostess for the summfr.
MRS. JOHN B. GORDON ILL
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Augusta, tin., April 24. DP)--De
spile u rally ea-ly in the day, physi
eia.i • held out littfo hope for f.ho ru~
coveVy of Mr-. John B. Gordon, widow
oi the Confcojerate general and one
t imp p.overimr of (iwn ^ia. Mr«. Gor
(ion is if! at the home of her dau^Fi
ter, Mrs. Frances Gordon Smith.
10 RESIGN HIS POST
LAYMEN OF CHl’RCII
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Bristol, Va., April 24. i/P)- The
Herald-Courier said today that it had
been advised that a petition request.
ing the resignation of James Cannon,
[Jr., as bishop of the Methodist Epis
copal ehurch, south, was being cireu
luted among Methodist laymen.
Its inforinanl, “a leading Methodist
layman,” the paper said, had revealed
that the petition would protest the ac
tion of twelve elders who recently
Passed on Bishop Cannon’s character
(and would urge the college of bishops
not to elect him president.
1 Under the order of rotation. Bishop
iGarmon was to have been elected
| president of the college of bishops last
- December, Bishop Horace M. .... Du uuuuw Bose
i said in Nashville last night ,but be
i cause Bishop Cannon was then “un¬
j ;der duress," Bishop W. B. Beauchamp
succeeded to the office.
! I Biffiop Du Bose said there is no pre¬
cedent for the college to follow in de¬
jciding be its president. whether Bishop Cannon shall
By the rotation rule
each bishop, starting with the senior
' j in in point rioinl of of uawimoa service, serves 1 in — 4.1__ the of- f
| f ton, ice. Tex., Bishop follows Samuel r...,hou R. Hay, Beauchami* of Hous-.
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