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THE BRUNSWICK NEWS VOLUME XXX. No. 192. WITNESS KILLED; George L. Perry Believed to Have Been Slain By Associ= ates in Recent Faro Swindle VICTIM REFUSES TO IDENTIFY SLAYERS Woman Being Held on Belief That -She Can Give Some Definite Information About Husband’s Death. South Bend, Ind., April 25. (/P)—De¬ tectives investigating the slaying here of a man identified as George L. Per¬ ry, alias George Parker, today ques¬ tioned his widow concerning a re¬ mark that her husband had participat¬ ed in the “Blacklidge case.” Mrs. Perry was held at police head¬ quarters as a material witness. Offi¬ cers expressed the belief she could give some definite information of the killing of her husband. Mrs. Perry told officers she and her husband fled to France last February shortly after the revelations of the Edward Litsinger-Myrtle Tanner Blacklidge $50,000 “faro swindle” at Springfield, 111. Mrs. Blacklidge, for¬ mer collector of internal revenue for northern Illinois, said she was swin¬ dled out of the money in a card game. Litsinger, a Chicago politician, admit¬ ted lending Mrs. Blacklidge the money but said the loan was not for the gambling game. Perry, shot down last night as he stepped from the garage of his fath¬ er-in-law, John Canniff, cursed offi¬ cers who questioned him before he died. “It’s none of your business,’’ he told officers. To a nurse, however, he said the shooting was done by “a friend.” That revenge rather than robbery was the motive for the killing was in¬ dicated by the fact that $300 in cash and some expensive jewelry were not taken. Mrs. Blacklidge, without being told the description of the dead man, gave a description of the “parker” who had tricked her over the telephone. The description tallied generally. Chicago, April 25. I/P)—The Chicago Herald and Examiner said today that Chicago detectives were working on a theory that George L. Perry, alias George Parker, slain last night in South Bend, Ind., was put to death by two associates in the Edward Lit¬ singer-Myrtle Tanner Blacklidge $50, 000 “faro swindle” at Springfield, 111. Perry, or Parker, the Herald-Ex¬ aminer said, was accused by his wife of having been involved in the Litsing er-Blaeklidge affair, which occurred several months ago. Mrs. Blacklidge said she was swindled out of the money in a card game. Litsinger, a well known Chicago politician, said he had lent her the money, but not for the faro game. Mrs. Blacklidge, who was collector of internal revenue for northern Illi¬ nois, subsequently resigned. Perry was shot as he stepped out of his father-in-law’s garage where he had just parked his car. Chicago police were hurrying to South Bend with descriptions of Roy Burgess and Roscoe Reynolds. From the descriptions of the slayers given by the widow, police were convinced that they are involved in the slaying. They advanced the theory that Perry failed to divide the cash with Rey¬ nolds and Burgess. Although Perry lived and was con seieus a half hour after he was shot, he refused to divulge the names of his slayers. “He was a friend of mine,” was all he would say. The widow said that she and Perry had fled to France February 10, short¬ ly after the swindle. Their flight, she said, was because of her husband’s participation in what she termed as the “Blacklidge case.” DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME IS EFFECTIVE IN NATION TODAY New/York, April 25. 1/P)—Watches and clocks of millions of persons will be an hour fast for five months, be¬ ginning tomorrow. the In 437 cities and towns of na¬ tion, mo/*- of them in the eastern states, daylight saving time becomes effective at 2 A. M. tomorrow. At that hour up-to-the-minute clocks, in theory at least, should register 3 o’clock. The system will remain in effect until the last Sunday in September, ^when the hour lost in sleep tomorrow will be picked up again. Advocates of daylight time argue that it pro¬ vides cool morning working hours, de¬ creases eye strain, and gives an hour more of recreation in the evening. BROOKS IS ELECTED New Orleans, April 25. i/P)—W. D. Brooks, of Memphis, Tenn., was elect¬ ed president of the American Cotton Shippers’ Association at the closing sessions today, and Memphis was designated as tjhe 1932 convention city. Brooks was elevated from the vice presidency, which vacancy will he filled by the board of directors. He succeeds D. E. McCuen, Greenville, S. C., as the association's head. Diamond In Court Associated Tress Photo Jack (l.cgs) Diamond. New York gang leader, shown in court at Cat skll, N. Y., where he faced charges of kidnaping and beating Grover Park, a truck driver. Larger Payrolls Predicted During Next Few Months Washington, April 25. (/Pi—Larger payrolls to more men shone forth as a promise for the future today as re¬ pel to to the commerce department in¬ dicated wage levels were being main¬ tained. Only “isolated cases” of pay reduc¬ tions affecting 39.000 men in Febru¬ ary were found by officials in state¬ ments reaching the labor depart¬ ment’s bureau of labor statistics. As an offset, labor officials said yesterday indications were that more men were being given full time work. They cited an increase of $13,500,000 m the march aggregate weekly pay¬ roll of 13,000 plants, as compared with January, and 152,000 more persons re¬ ceiving salaries. A desire of employers to support ex¬ isting levels was seen by commerce Secretary Laniont. He said there was no movement to reduce wages, follow¬ ing a poll of the main industries. Laniont declined to amplify a terse statement that “I have canvassed the principal industries and I find no movement to reduce the rates of wages.” “On the contrary," he concluded, “there is a desire to support the sit¬ uation in every way.” The survey was made after discus¬ sion of possible salary cuts began some time ago. / The White House announced recent¬ ly President Hoover was gratified by an absence of wage reductions in ma¬ jor industries, which lie opposed in a speech before the Cleveland conven¬ tion of the American Bankers Associa¬ tion a few months ago. Industrial leaders promised the president at a conference in 1929 they would endeavor to maintain wages, and labor leaders pledged themselves to avoid strikes. ARMIES IS EXPECTED REPORTS THAT INSURRECTION¬ ISTS WILL COMBINE AND AD¬ VANCE CAUSE OF CONCERN Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, April 25. </P)—Persistent reports of a union of two insurrectionist armies and their advance toward this little port city, led to considerable apprehension and fear 'of an attack today. The city had only a negligible num¬ ber of national guardsmen for its de¬ tense and although the U. S. S. Lang¬ ley and two destroyers stood offshore no American naval forces have been landed. Orders have been issued to the blue jackets, that if taken ashore, they are not to fire until they are attacked and not to pursue their at¬ tackers beyond the city limits. The instructions are in accord with the new Washington policy of non-use of American forces for protection of American citizens or property inland from the coast towns. A man captured by a patrol working out of here was said by the patrol to be a spy of General Augusto Sandino, leader of the Nicaraguan ihsurgents. The man carried papers, believed to be advices from the general to his lieutenants, but because of their age the papers were not decipherable. Little credence is given here to ru¬ mors that Sandino has been captured. Many rumors exist as to his whene abouts. No confirmation was possible today of reports that he had captured Cabo Gracias A Dios, most northeastern point in Nicaragua, which was cap¬ tured, looted and abandoned by San dinistas a fortnight ago. BRUNSWICK, GA., SUNDAY. APRIL 26. ~1931. OF HER HUSBAND Jimmy DePew, 22, and Mrs. John T. Colon, 37, Alleged to Have Plotted Robbery MONEY WAS NEEDED TO OBTAIN DIVORCE Young Men Near Death in Hospital as Result of Fight Which Proved Fatal to Vic¬ tim. New York, April 25. (/PI—A youth of 22 and a matron of 37 were ar raigned today on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and robbery, the victim of the attack being the woman’s husband. The youth, Jimmy De Pew, nattily dressed and debonair, said he would like a postponement. The woman, Mrs. John T. Conlon, said: “I want a lawyer.” The case was put over until next Friday. Police said De Pew confessed at¬ tacking Conlon, who is in a hospital near death. Police made public 25 letters ex¬ changed between De Pew and Mrs. Conlon. They charge Mrs. Conlon plotted with De Pew to rob her hus¬ band to obtain money for a divorce so that she and De Pew might be mar¬ ried. Some of De Pew’s letters to Mrs. Conlon addressed her as "dearie,” while hers saluted him as “sonny boy.” One of them indicated she had given him money and gotten him a job, and another said “ 1 want to moth¬ er you.” De Pew, admitting the robbery of Conlon—in which he obtained $63— insisted the shooting was accidental. He told of receiving money from Mrs. Conlon. “We used it to go out. to¬ gether and have a good time,” he said. Mrs. Conlon was quoted as admit¬ ting knowledge of the intended rob¬ bery of her husband, but said he was to have used a toy pistol. The night before the robbery, she said, De Pew phoned her and she begged him to abandon the plan. FAMOUS COMSTOCK SILVER MINE NOW PRODUCING GOLD Reno. Nevada, April 25. (/P)—The Nevada State Journal said today the Comstock lode, once one of the most famous silver deposits in the world, is now producing gold averaging $19.29 to the ton. Quoting James M. Leonard, manag¬ er of rehabilitation operations spon¬ sored by the Comstock Tunnel and Drainage Company, said gold promis¬ ed to “bring back” the mining camp of Virginia City, where the silver bo¬ nanza built fortunes. It was the silver from the Corn stock which helped stabilize the credit of the United States following the Civil war, and which caused Nevada to be brought into the Union. It is estimated that one already ex¬ posed and within the proved ore zone probably exceeds $1,000,000 in gross value. The Journal said the present development is at a comparative shal¬ low level, with the definite length and depth yet. to he determined.” SEIZE THREE TONS OF NARCOTICS ON OCEAN STEAMER New York, April 25. I/P)—Three tons of narcotics, confiscated after they had been unloaded from the liner Milwaukee, were at the army base at Brooklyn today for inventory. Con¬ stituting the largest seizure ever made in New York at one time, they were valued by police at more than $5,000,000. Newspapers said that a tip came from abroad. Police detectives cus¬ toms officials and federal narcotic agents clustered around 17 large crates on pier 84 yesterday afternoon and together opened one of the boxes. The tip-off on the consignment came from police but for several days fed¬ eral agents, apparently having the same information in a garbled form, have been searching the He De France. Their search ended yesterday with nothing more exciting $50(f. than 500 bottles of liquor valued at MEXICAN SOUGHT IN MURDER CASE Laredo, Texas, April 25. I/P) —Unit¬ ed States officers today were nego¬ tiating with Mexican authorities for custody of Alberto Sanchez, detained at Neuvo Laredo in connection with the slaying of Edna Merle Springer, Jl -year-old school girl, who wa.-> stab¬ bed to death near San Antonio Wed¬ nesday. Neuvo Laredo officers ~a,d Sanchez admitted he was the man wasted in connection with the killing, Sheriff John Lott, of Ata cons coun¬ ty, said Mexican authorities were Ik filing Sanchez on the belief he was a Mexican citizen. The sheriff assert¬ ed Sanchez was born and reared in Texas and is a citizen of the United States. CROWD’S PROTESTS AGAINST FASCIST Students at Rome Stage Demon' stration But It is Quelled By Address of Premier of Italy GATHERING DISPERSES AFTER HIS APPEARANCE Students Had Plastered City With Red and Green Posters Urging Uprising Against Bel¬ gian Acts. Rome, April 25. i/Pl - -Premier Mus s °Hni, appearing personally before a i^7a t t Thr1l^e^ ,< Paiace^h;’r^m i quieted their protests against anti Fascist demonstrations in Brussels with a pledge of Fascist alertness against its enemies. II Duce, holding his hand aloft silence, shouted to the crowd, which had moved en masse from the univer¬ sity to the palace, intending later to go to ‘he Belgian embassy. "'ITie Italy of the students is on its toes to defend the revolution¬ ary regime and Fascism against the stupid calumnies of anti-Fas cists!” When Premier Mussolini had con¬ cluded his brief appearance before the mass of shouting humanity most of them dispersed but a number of groups with flags marched toward the Belgian embassy. squads of They were stopped by the 1,000 soldiers and police who were stationed at every corner within a quarter-mile radius of the embassy. They attempted a half-hearted demon stration at the bounds of the restrict ed area, but the troops broke it up. Police arrested two student leaders. The students have plastered Rome with red and green posters urging a protest against the Belgian demon¬ strations, which were held in connec¬ tion with the arrest of the Belgian professor Leo Moulin April 1(1 in Milan, which the authorities are al¬ leged <tr, have kept secret for a week. Italian authorities announced today that Professor Moulin has confessed to anti-Fascist activity and that he will he held for trial before a special tribunal for defense of the state. SMALLER EXPENSES DECLARES THAT GOVERNMENT NEXT YEAR WILL NEED MIL¬ LIONS LESS THAN THIS YEAR Washington, April 25. IA‘) Presi¬ dent Hoover expects $3 15,799,OH,'! Ifcss will be needed to run the government next year. After „a cabinet meeting yesterday he said estimated expense for the fis¬ cal year ending June 30, 1932, was $4,- 119,230,649. The expected cost for the present fiscal year, which ends next June 30, is $4,435,029,732. The next year’s expensp estimate shows a $187,000,000 increase over budget figures submitted to the last congress which made appropriations for the period. At that time the budget bureau expected there would he a $30,000,000 surplus. Its estimate of income, however, failed to allow for the sharp falling off of income taxes. At the close of business last. Wed¬ nesday, the government hail spent $3, ■151,159,206 for the current year, or $801,167,797 more than all collections. It. is expected this deficit by the end of the year will be $700,000,000. “The budgets for all three years,” the president said, “are greatly in¬ fluenced by the increased expenditures for construction work in aid of unem¬ ployment, for relief to agriculture, and for increased service to veterans, but it will be seen that these, increased expenditures are somewhat offset by reductions in other directions.” All construction costs, he said, now are more than $725,000,000 a year, “being about $500,000,000 per annum in excess of the rate of expenditure for construction previous to the de¬ pression.” The largest expected saving in ex¬ pense is in agricultural aid. This year $341,645,134 will he needed, while next year’s figures call for $160,873. 025. War department funds will show a drop of $12,000,000, while the total for national defense will be $741,- 227,072 as against $717,372,440 this year. The president said his estimate did not include loans upon World war veterans adjusted compensation cer¬ tificates “except so far as they are represented in the annual payment into the bonus fund of about $112, 000 , 000 .” “But loans on the bonus certificates necessarily affect the treasury fi¬ nance,” he added. PASTOR WINS SIU Kansas City, Kans., April 25. </P) The Rev. James Cornish held a jury’s verdict today in a suit for $5,000 dam¬ ages brought by Mrs. Bertha Thomas, a Sunday school teacher, who charged the minister had tolen a kiss from her. 2‘ Preparingflrlgceqn Solofi H 01) W W h ^ I ! | 5 Ruth Nichols, Rye. N. Y.. Ilicr, is planning a solo Might over the Lind¬ bergh trail to Paris. She expects to lake off from Harbor Grace, N. F., early in May and will he the first woman ever to attempt a solo Might across the Atlantic. Family of Dr. I. D. Kelley, naped in St. Louis, Has Knowledge of Whereabouts or Fate of Doctor. St. Louis. April 25. t/Pi William I). Orthwein, II. spokesman for I he family of Dr. I. I). Kelley, and broth¬ er-in-law of Mrs. Kelley, said today no word had been received from l)r. Kelley or his captors, directly or in¬ directly, since the physician was kid¬ naped Monday night after he had been lured from his home by a fake telephone call. Orthwein’s statement followed pub¬ lication of a report by the Morning Globe-Democrat that the family had raeived a letter Thursday afternoon from Dr. Kelley and with it announce imiil that the kidnapers wanted $25(1, 000 ransom, hut would compromise for $150,000. Characterizi.ig this report its with¬ out foundation, Orthwein declared the latest news of Dr. Kelley was the re¬ port of a witness who saw tlm phy¬ sician kidnaped in Clayton, a suburb, where he had been summoned by the telephone call, “That statement is absolutely un¬ qualified,” Orthwein said. “We have received no word whatever, either by telephone, letter or other means of communication, cither directly or in¬ directly from Dr. Kelley or his kid¬ napers.” her Mrs. Kelley was in seclusion at home today. Friends said she was highly nervous hut apanretilly is in no dangerof physical collapse. 10 STATE INQUIRERS LEGISLATIVE INVESTIGATORS WILL HAVE NO HARD TIME IN OBTAINING DESIRED DATA New York, April 25. f/P)~ Mayor Walker has offered free access to all city records to the committee of the legislature which is conducting a gen¬ eral inquiry into the municipal af¬ fairs of New York. The mayor’s intention to co-operate was made clear after James A. Dig gins, commissioner of accounts, had volunteered to give the committee the testimony of his many investigations into city departments. The case of Arnold Rothstein, a gambler, murdered iri November, 1928, has been called hack to public atten¬ tion through investigation of the of¬ fice of District Attorney Thomas C. T. Crain. Members of the. staff of Samuel Seabury, who is conducting ouster proceedings against Mr. Crain, are pouring over the records of Un¬ ease, the. minutes of the grand jury and the 400 pages of testimony taken in the investigation which followed. Their purpose is not to solve the mur¬ der but rather to determine whether Mr. Crain’s failure to solve it was due to inefficiency or negligence. Another phase of the investigation has revived a study of the circum¬ stances of the $250,000 fee paid to former County Judge W. Bernard Vau.se of King" for negotiating a pier lease. LOANS ARE GRANTED Washington, April 25. I/P) The ag¬ ricultural department today granted 102 loan totaling about $11,000 for the purchase of stock in the Pied¬ mont Agricultural Credit Corporation in Atlanta. The organization oper¬ ates under an old charter but. is a new organization with new management. BY HAITI LEADER General Replies to Charges That He Captured a Non-Existing Fort in Troubles of 1015 MINISTER’S SIGNED STORY OPENS AFFAIR Existence of Fort Riviera For Whose Capture Butler Was Awarded Medal of Honor is Doubted. Washington, April 25. (,/P)—Major General Smedley 1). Butler was at the lore of another international dis puti- today this time with himself as t lit- protestant. A letter of protest from Butler against statements attributed to Min¬ ister Bellcgardc of Haiti questioning the basis upon which a congressional medal of honor had been given Butler lias been turned over to the state de¬ partment for investigation. In transmitting the protest to the state department, the navy depart¬ ment said it was taking that course as a matter of routine. Secretary Stimson said it had not yet reached him and he would nut be able to take up the matter actively until next week, hut that il would he investigat¬ ed. The attitude of the secretary was understood to he that the question should lie approached without pre¬ judice and without reference to a re¬ cent previous incident when remarks by Butler about I’remier Mussolini of Italy forced the state department to apologize formally to the Italian gov¬ ernment. Minister licllegardc was quoted in a copyrighted article in the Washington Herald recently as saying that a fort for the capture of which Butler was awarded a congressional medal of hon¬ or did not exist. The fort in question was known as Fort Riviere, in Haiti. Minister licllegardc said today that, when the reporter of the Washington Herald called on him he had on his desk a copy of a paper carrying a statement of General Butler’s regard¬ ing Fort Riviere. In the course of the general con¬ versation, he said, he told the inter¬ viewer that no one in Haiti knew of the fort in the past or present. The minister said he did not know a congressional medal had been given General Butler for this particular ac¬ tion. licllcganie said he knew nothing of the protest filed by General Butler. "I made no statement that the tort did not exist," he said. "It, is simply that nobody of our knowledge knows about ibis fort. II is not known in Haiti." He added that he had told his inter¬ viewer Dial lie did not know General Butler very well, nor was the officer very widely known in Haiti generally. I’ort-Au-I’riiice, Haiti, April 25. UP i. Reports from Washington that the Haitian minister there had questioned the existence of Fort Riviera for whose capture General Smedley I). Butler was awarded the congressional medal of honor, surprised marine corps veterans of the 1915 campaign. They remember it well. It stood on a 3,000 fool peak about thirty miles south of Cape Haitian and was gen¬ erally believed to have been built by the French sometime before 1800. Il was of solid masonry in the form of a square with walls from eight to twelve feet thick and from twelve to twenty-five feet high. The French used it as a, link in the chain of outposts. In 1915 its exist¬ ence was not widely known, for it had not, been used in many years and was well hidden by the jungle growth. In that year the Cac-os occupied it and it, was discovered accidentally by a marine patrol in September. In November it was stormed and captur¬ ed by the combined forces of the navy and marine corps commanded by Gen¬ eral Butler, then a major. Dr. Joel T. Boone, now personal physician to President, Hoover, participated in the engagement,. The fall of Fort Riviera broke the ipii'il of the Caro uprising in northern Haiti for the time being. The day after it capitulated the walls were dyrm mil.ed. RURAL MERCHANTS ARE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS IN STATE Atlanta, April 25. I/P)---Under Georgia law a country merchant is classed as an agricultural product. Checking a inotoi bus regulatory hill passed by the recent special ses¬ sion of the legislature it has been discovered the statute provides that “the phase ‘agricultural products’ as used in this act shall include fruit, livestock, meats, fertilizer, wood, lumber, cotton and naval stores, household goods and supplies, prod¬ ucts of proves or orchards, . . . fish and oysters, and all country merchants in rural districts.’ ” How the hill got that way is just another legislative mystery, but state house officials assume the authors meant to say “country merchandise.” Discovery of the unique definition! was made during an investigation of allegations that th chill had been aU terc-d after its adoption,_____ Telegram Asks President to Use | His Power For ‘Rehabilitation of Cotton Industry’ in Na tion. New Orleans, April 25. I/I’l Presi¬ dent Hoover was appealed to by Un American Colton Shippers' Associa¬ tion today to use his power for “re¬ habilitation of the cotton industry.” A message approved by the asso¬ ciation in executive session this morn¬ ing was telegraphed to Ihc president by 1). E. McCuen. of Greenville, S. ussociation president. _ ’the message in part said: “The rapid and wholesale loss of markets to foreign (cotton) producers tit the expense of the United States producers, forms a most tragic chap¬ ter in the economic history of the I nited Stases. “In the interest of our farmers, us well as of our country as a whole, we arc pleading, lip-st, for the withdraw¬ al of the government and its farm hoard from all participation iri the merchandising of cotton, and from fin (her attempts at control, stabiliza¬ tion and valorization. “We are also pleading for a search¬ ing and comprehensive investigation of each and every substitute for the farm hoard that may he proposed in order to make dear to the people of the United Stales the economic ef¬ fect of such proposals, should one or more of Ihem he writ.ten into law. “(tin' large commerce cannot hope to survive any furl her economic mis¬ takes of the magnitude of the federal farm hoard. “We feel confident I Iml when the use your great power wisely and well for the rehabilitation of our now sore¬ ly distressed cotton industry.” SERUM INJECTED INTO EGGS GIVES COLOR TO CHICKS Calgary, Alberta, April 25. (/)’)-■ Now come purple chickens. Just a matter of serum. Some pen file interested in such things injected the serum into eggs by means of a hypodermic needle on the I9t.li day of incubation. Yesterday the chickens were haleli- 1 ed, all purple. Others were all green. The serum people figure they can ob¬ tain a blue chirk by a mixture of the sei uni. It was not explained why. OFFICERS OF CLUB ROBBED BY BANDITS New York, April 25. i/l’) Four I robbers lined up 12 officers of a Bronx neighborhood club against the wall early today and robbed them of $2,- 500 in money and jewelry. The gunmen walked into the meet¬ ing room behind a 14-year-old hoy who was carrying sandwiches and coffee to the officers. The leader of the f -1 i earehed each victim and pocketed the loot. A general meeting of the club had been adjourned about, midnight amt the officers remained behind for a husines session. The robbers entered by breaking a first floor window. ■SPRING IS HERE! Hammond, Ind., April 25. (/P)—-This is a fish story based upon a tale by Hugo Volkman. In landing a pickerel he sprained his ankle, fell to the bot¬ tom of the boat, injured his scalp, wrenched his back and neck is arising, lost his false teeth, then toppled into the lake. When fellow fishermen pulled him out Hugo was hanging on¬ to the fish. _ , PRICE FIVE