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VOLUME XXXI. NO. 285.
BONUS ARMY TO LEAVE JOHNSTOWN
STAND AT TRIAL
OF M
Mrs. J. M. Keith*Miller
fies That Captain W. N. Lan*
caster Had Threatened
Take His Own Life
FLIER IS ACCUSED
OF RIVAL’S
Asserts That Men Quarreled
and Defendant Agreed to Sui*
cide So That Haden Clarke
Might Get Insurance.
Miami, Fla., Aug. 3. (/P)—Mrs. J.
Keith - Miller, Australian aviatrix,
testified in the murder trial of
tain W. N. Lancaster today that Lan
caster, her flyng partner and former
fiance, planned to kill himself so that
she and Haden Clarke, young author
•whom Lancaster is charged with
slaying, might benefit from a $1,000
life insurance policy.
Further, she testified Clarke had
insisted the night before he was fatal¬
ly shot at her home, that she lock
herself in her room “so that
won’t talk you out of marrying me.”
A quarrel between the two men
earlier that night over Clarke’s plan
to marry her had been settled at the
dinner table, she said.
Mrs. Keith-Miller testified she had
planned to marry Lancaster for near¬
ly five yeai's but changed her mind
and became infatuated with Claike
while Lancaster was absent on a busi¬
ness trip.
A crowded courtroom hoard Mrs.
Keith-Miller testify ifi a soft, hesliant
voice.
Her voice broke as she 1 old of
Clarke’s injunction to lock herself in
her room, but an immediate nocn
court recess halted further testimony.
Mrs. Keith-Miller satid Lancaster
changed his mind about killing Tin' -
self for the insurance# wedding pres¬
ent whet;., he learned the insurance
company had failed.
She was the fourth witness called
as the state actively started building
up its case against Lancaster.
Mrs. Miller,” State’s Attorney Ned
V. Sparks asked, “were you engaged
to Captain Lancaster?” *
“You can’t be engaged to a person
who is married,” she responded spir¬
itedly. “I always intended to marry
him—for almost five years.”
“Were you infatuated with Haden
wb Lancaster left here on March
si- ,?”
“.■To. I changed my mind ’ator. I
advised Bill by letter sent to St. Louis
and so did Haden. We read each oth¬
er’s letters before they were mailed.”
, She said she anticipated no trouble
when Lancaster returned.
She looked frequently at Lancaster,
upon whose innocence of the shooting
she has insisted. He smiled back as
if to encourage her.
Mrs. Keith-Miller testified that on
Lancaster's return from St. Louis he
was sad about the proposed marriage
to Clarke, but that he told her he
planned to kill himself in an airplane
so she would receive benefits from
his $1,000 insurance policy on her
wedding day.
She testified Clarke and Lancaster
quarreled over her at dinner the^night
before the shooting but that they ap¬
parently settled their difficulty for
the time being after Clarke agreed
to Lancaster’s charge that the young
author had' been unfaithful to him
in making love to Mrs. Keith-Miller.
Her voice broke as she spoke of
locking the door of her room upon
retiring that night.
“Why did you look the door?”
State’s Attorney Hawthorne asked.
“Because Haden told me he did not
that---to come to my room and
talk me out of our marriage plans,”
she responded.
Mrs. Keith-Miller testified until
Judge H. F. Atkinson recessed
at 12:05 until 2 o’clock.
The state opened its nrosecution
Lancaster by calling E. H. Huston,
Miami attorney, as the first witness,
Huston was an officer of Latin
American Airways, a concern
which Lancaster had dealt in
nection with a commercial firing ven
ture between Mexico and the
Slates,
The attorney described how
caster called him frantically on the
telephone shortly before 3 a. m. April
21 and told him Clarke had been shot
in his room at Mrs. Keith-Miller’s
home.
Huston described how Lancaster
gave him two notes which the flier
said Clarke left (The notes later were
admitted by Lancaster to be for
geries.)
Hu ton said the flier and aviatrix
suggested destroying the note.;
that he dissauded them.
Huston testified that after
va- shot Lancaster tried to get him
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BRUNSWICK NEWS
Signs Film Contract
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| Dorothy Hale, young society ma
trt1 '' ant * manager of a New V ork art
I gallery, recently signed a long-term
contract with a film company. She
cnee ran away from home to become
a chorus girl.
Issues Statement Containing
Developments Which Led to
Ejection of Marchers From
Capital.
Washington, Aug. 3. (/P)—Secre¬
tary Hurley today issued a state¬
ment reviewing the developments
which led to the ejection of the bonus
marchers from Washingtn, asserting
he believed such a statement was nec¬
essary because of “the apparently de¬
liberate propaganda and misrepresen¬
tations that are being circulated.”
Hurley related the series of inci
dents dating from the arrival of the
men in Washington ami concluded
with a denial that women and
re were evacuated by troops or
there had been any undue
in the removal of the bonus
ers from the varous camps they
set up here.
“No one was injured after the com
ing of the troops except that which
was destroyed by the marchers j
selves. Te duty of restoring law and
order was performed with directness, I
with effectiveness and with unparal-!
leled Hurley humanity said and kindliness.” j
no one had yet march-1 given j
a satisfactory reason why the
ers remained in Washington after I
congress adjourned.
tinuance “There of was these no reason marchers for the con-!
in Wash-j
ington except to carry out the orders
of propagandists and radicals to
harass, obstruct, intimidate and co¬
erce the officials of the government,”
he said.
America Willing
To Participate In
Economic Parley
Washington, Aug. 3. (TP)—The
United . States is willing to join a
world economic conference that wall
ignore debts and specific tariff rates
—but it has left open the possibility
of debt discussions with individual
nations,
j An invitation to the economic meet
! sponsored by the League of Na
tions was accepted yesterday. The
I American note, delivered to the Brit
; isH embassy, was not made public but
i it outlined reasons for acceptance and
j would said representatives be named later. for this country
i
The request to join stipulated that
[individual tariffs, reparations and
debts would not be on the agenda for
I discussion. It specified that general
j tariff representatives policy and of silver the would participating and that
nations be designated to three com
mittees—one to arrange the confer
jcnee financial itself, one problems. on economic and one
011
By accepting this invitation, the
state department passed up a sugges
"tion by Senator Borah, Idaho Inde
pendent Republican, that war debts
and reparations should be considered
at the meeting along with disarma
menl. But debts and reparations can
be gotten at in another way.
Neither officially nor unofficially
has a responsible administration lead
er s aid so far that the United States
would not hold separate talks with
European nations on war debts. The
question hangs, however, on some
[concerted plan abroad first to reduce
atms. When such an agreement is
'reached, it is almost a foregone con
I elusion that America will at least talk
[ about debts.
BRUNSWICK. CA., WEDNESDAY, AUG. 3, 1932.
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BOLIVIAN FORGE
Five Hundred Soldiers Leave
Asuncion For Front to Engage
in Undeclared War Against
Foe
CONFUSION REIGNS
AS TROOPS DEPART
Eager Young Men Rush Aboard
Vessel Just Before Sailing
Time and Tragedy is Nar¬
rowly Averted.
Asuncion, Paraguay, Aug. 3. (/P)
Five hundred Paraguayan soldiers,
the first to leave here for the front
to engage in the undeclared war
against Bolivia, started up the river
today toward the Chaco.
There was considerable confusion
and a near disaster at the very start,
for so eager are the young men to
join up that 300 volunteers stormed
the vessel just before she shoved off
and nearly capsized her. The de¬
parture was delayed while they were
ejected.
During the night 1,200 men reach¬
ed the capital answering the mobili¬
zation order issued in the name of the
government. Most of them are college
students and school boys.
By The Associated Press
Paraguay and Bolivia are rapidly
moving closer to a state of actual war
over their conflicting claims in the
Gran Chaco area, potentially one of
the richest in the world.
Undeterred by appeals from the
League of Nations, both countries
have ordered mobilization of then
armed forces. Bolivia has called to
the colors all classes of young men
between 22 and 29 and all retired offi¬
cers between 20 and 50. Reeriuting
stations in Paraguay have been be¬
sieged by volunteers eager to enlist.
Even women are demanding that they
be sent to the front,
President Guggiari of Paraguay in
message of inspiration to the troops
called upon thorn to uphold the tra¬
ditional valor of the Paraguayan
army.
In the meantime armies in the field
continued to clash in the vicinity of
the frontier forts which both coun
maintain in the Chaco,
Hundreds of evicted Paraguayan
women—society belles, debutantes
and farm wives—besieged the gov
ernment today, demanding the right
to go to war.
They came by dozens, hanging on
trucks and wagons, crowding out of
trains, and rushed for the stadium
where recruiting activities looking
toward war with Bolivia were center
ed.
The women demanded active ser¬
vice on the battle front. This the
government regarded as impossible
but in the deep Chaco wilderness
where even the mildest non-combat¬
ant service is considered too severe
for women.
MERGER OF TEXTILE
PLANES PROPOSED
CONSOLIDATION OF EIGHT COM¬
PANIES ANNOUNCED BY CAL¬
LAWAY MILL OFFICIALS
LaGrange, Ga., Aug. 3. UP )—The
organization of a corporation known
as Callaway Mills for consolidation of
eight textile companies was announc¬
ed here yesterday by Cason J. Calla¬
way, president.
Stockholders of corporations affect¬
ed have ratified the merger as a move
toward economy and efficiency
through simplified corporate struc¬
ture, Callaway announced, and will
receive stock in Callaway Mills equiv¬
alent to their holdings in the old com¬
panies which will surrender their
charters.
Mills belonging to the eight com¬
panies, members of the Callaway
group, in the merger are the Unit
Cotton Mills, Unity Spinning Mills,
Oakleaf Mills, Elm City Cotton Mills,
Rockweave Mills and Hillside Co.tton
Mills, all in LaGrange, the Manches¬
ter Cotton Mills of Manchester, Ga.,
Milstead IVfilstead, Manufacturing Company of
Ga., and the Calumet Cot¬
ton Mills of LaGrange and Ilogans
ville, Ga.
The new corporation also will own
a controlling interest in the Valway
rugs mill and Valley waste mills of
LaGrange and Truline, Inc., of Roa¬
noke, Ala. The head of the new cor¬
poration said there will he no change
in production or sales policies of the
mills which will use about 100,009
bales of cotton a year.
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HELD BY
j Sixty Non-Union Miners are
1 Hemmed " ' * In " By ...... Ring of Union
Pickets and Shots are Ex*
changed
ONE PERSON KILLED;
FOUR ARE WOUNDED
Defenders are Still in Shaft
Without Medical Attention
and Ambulances are Turned
Back By Foes.
Indianapolis, Aug. 3. (TP)—Gov.
Harry G. Leslie today ordered
Indiana national guard troops into
Vigo county where union pickets
have besieged sixty non-union
miners in the Dixie Bee shaft.
Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 3. UP)- The
siege of the Dixie Bee mine in south¬
ern Vigo county was continued today
with desolutory firing.
Sixty non-union workmen hemmed
in by a ring of union pickets exchang¬
ed bursts of fire at daybreak and
then the attackers and defenders set¬
tled down to cautious sniping tactics.
The siege began late yesterday.
One picket has been killed and four
wounded. Four defenders of the mine
have been wounded. The latter are
still at the shaft without medical at¬
tention. Pickets last night turned
back ambulances sent to bring out the
wounded miners.
Meanwhile representatives of the
non-union workers were at Ihe state
capitol in Indianapolis seeking a con¬
ference with Gov. Harry G. Leslie.
They left here hoping to persuade the
governor that national guard troops
are needed to bring about a cessation
of hostilities between the pickets arid
the group at the mine. Two specific
requests for troops sent by Joseph
Dreher, Vigo county sheriff, have
been ignored by the governor.
An airplane reconnaissance of the
Dixie Bee shaft made this morning
by Orville Lancet, secretary-treasur¬
er of the corporation operating the
shaft, disclosed that the mine build¬
ings were still intact. The pickets
have prevented any outsiders from
approaching the shaft.
National guard troops and air¬
planes equipped to scatter the at¬
tackers by use of gas, were request¬
ed of Governor Harry G. Leslie by
Sheriff Joe Dreher, whose deputies
were helpless to raise the siege in the
face of a picket strength estimated
a 3.000.
The union men blocked a!) roads in
a square mile surrounding the non
union- shaft, permitted no one to ap¬
proach within half a mile of the mine,
arid turned back two ambulances sent
last night to remove the injured work¬
men.
Grimly holding their lines, they
were reported by observers last night
to be “closing in on the mine.” The
met) in the mine were said to be con¬
serving their ammunition and pre¬
paring for a possible battle at close
quarters.
Governor Leslie at Indianapolis
kept in touch with the situation hue
said he would order troops into the
region “when and if the time comes.”
The nine casualties resulted from
more than six hours of almost con¬
tinuous firing after the first violence
broke' out late in the afternoon.
Taylor Kellar, 24, of Linton, Ind., shot
in the head, died in an ambulance en
route to a Sullivan, Ind., hospital.
Grant Swann, 22, of Jasonville, Ind.,
was in a hospital here, a bullet wound
in the leg. Others wounded were
treated by a farmersburg physician.
Prosecutor Charles C. Whitlock, who
visited the mine with Sheriff Dreher,
said the four wounded there were
placed in the fan house and mine
office. One was shot in the side, an¬
other in the leg. Whitlock and the
sheriff said shots were fired at them
before they left the mine property.
Unconfirmed reports about the pick¬
et line were that three mine guards
had been killed.
Wage differences have split ihe mine
field since the last working contract
expired last March 31.
KILLED IN CRASH
Atlanta, Aug. 3. UP)— E. S. Gar
rett, .Jr., of Logansville, was killed
here last night when a truck was tele¬
scoped between the wall of a building
and^a with telephone automobile pole at after street a collision inter¬
an a
section. Garrett, 21, was riding on
the truck with A. J. Webb, 27, also
of Logansville. It was loaded with
brick. Webb was thrown clear of the
! wreckage John and was not seriously Rail- in¬
jured. W. who Smoak, Southern driving the
i ! way engineer was
| automobile, was reported critically in
jured.
Mrs. Maude Edged, of Catonsville, Md., for the nominal sum of $1
deeded over to Walter W. Waters, bonus army leader*, 25 acres of lim¬
bered land in Anne Arundel county, Maryland, us a refuge for his follow¬
ers. With her is Wayland R. Kern judge advocate of the bonus force.
Seventeen=ear=OUl Evelyn San*
ford, of Ludington, Mich.,
Victim of Maniac While En
Route Home.
Ludington, Mich., Aug. 3. I/P)—
The body of 17-year-old Evelyn San¬
ford who disappeared last Saturday
was found buried in the basement of
a vacant house in the rear of the home
of Francis Nash in Freesoil today.
Nash was taken into custody for ques¬
tioning yesterday.
7'he body was found at noon by
Corporal Colburn Monger of the
state police, who have been aiding in
the search for the girl.
A spade at the bottom of outside
steps leading to the basement led
directly to the discovery. The girl’s
body had been -buried in about, 13
inches of sand. Part of her clothing
had been torn off.
Coroner Rupert Stevens of Scolt
villc was called.
The vacant house, known as the
Bill Hartwell place, is across a side
street from the rear of Nash’s home
in the outskirts of the village of
Freesoil, and is about half a mile from
the place on a lonely swamp roan
where the girl was reported seen alive.
It is not far from the farm home of
the girl’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Sanford.
At the time the body was found
posses of state policemen, sheriff’s
officers and volunteers were search¬
ing the swamp through which Miss
Sanford was walking when seen Sat¬
urday night.
Corporal Munger’s visit to the va¬
cant house was a part of a planned
search of all unoccupied buildings,
but he said that a “hunch” took him
to the basement first.
Nash was arrested because of
scratches on his face and because,
state police said, he seemed to take
little interest in the girl’s disappear¬
ance and the search for her. He told
officers during an extended question¬
ing^ last night that, his face was
scratched by flying ehips as he was
chopping wood and later said that it
was rubbed by branches of a tree.
The suspect, who is about 32 years
old, is a bachelor and lived alone.
THREE DROWNED
IN SHIP CRASH
Norfolk, Va., Aug. 3. (A ‘)—Three
members of the erew of the little
schooner Milton S. Lankford, of Eliza¬
beth City, N. are believed to have
drowned following a collision last
night with the Old Bay liner State,
of Maryland.
The schooner was run down around
mouth of the Potomac river, the lit¬
tle craft being rolled under the larg¬
er vessel’s keel and smashed into
shapeless wreckage.
Two of the crew of the little schoon¬
er, loaded with 3,500 watermelons,
were picked up by the State of Mary¬
land and two more by the Chesapeake
bay liner, City of Baltimore, and ar¬
rived in Norfolk today.
The three men missing are: Cap- |
tain R. N. Midgette, fiO years old,
father of the skipper of the schooner;
R. N. Midgette, Jr., of Pantego, N. C.,
and Bill Gregory, of Coinjock, N. C. !
The men picked up by the
of Maryland are: Guy Shavender, of
Pantego, and Captain E. W.
who was in command of the
Son of Late Speaker Today
Holding Strong Majority in
Senator Contest Over His
Opponent.
St. Louis, Aug. 3. UP) Col. Bennett
C. ... Clark, son of the lute Speaker
Champ Clark, today took the load
from Charles M. Howell, Kansas City
Pendergast organization candidate, in
the Democratic senatorial primary as
the half-way mark in tabulation of re¬
turns was passed.
In returns from 2,29k of the state’s
4,195 precincts Clarks was leading,
132,18(1 to 113,243 for Howell and
5(1,277 for Charles M. Hay. Howell
at one time was leading Clark by about
33,000 votes.
Jacksdn V oWs r, eam!‘" fixmi’^Ksas ‘ ("7and
county. Supporters of Clark
were holding to their predictions that
he would carry the state by 40,000.
Clark, an outspoken wet, made pro¬
hibition the issue in the light against
Howell and Hay, veteran dry, who re¬
cently announced he was for re-sub¬
mission. Howell affirmed the stand
of the Democratic national convention
on tb« liouor question.
In the Republican race for sena¬
tor, Henry W. Kiel had a safe plu¬
rality over a field of five. Kiel is a
pronounced wet, and was thrice
mayor of St. Louis.
Francis M. Wilson was assured of
nomination in the Democratic guber¬
natorial fight, receiving 151,483 votes
to (ifi,309 for Russell L. Dearmont.
Both endorsed the Democratic national
liquor plank.
The Republican gubernatorial race
was a toss-up between Charles U.
Becker, secretary of state, and Lieut.
Gov. K. II. Winter.
Becker endorsed by the Missouri
Anti-Saloon League, had 45,400 votes
to 44,444 for Winter, who stood on
the Republican national liquor plank,
and 8,994 for Leo E. Koehler, a wet.
YOUTH BEING HELD
IN MOTHER’S DEATH
TO HANDLE ESTATE
Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 3. (A 1 )—
The son charged with slaying her was
named executor of the estate of Mrs.
Jessie A. Boyle, Ofi, in .IcITerjmn. coun¬
ty probate court today.
The son, John R. Boyle, Birming¬
ham attorney, is held without hail
pending trial in Jefferson county cir¬
cuit court ori October 20, on charges
of slaying his mother June 13.
No estimate of the real and person¬
al property was made, hut aside from
a few small bequests, the estate
left to Boyle. Ihe will li ed for pro
hate was da tori April I.L»4 but
was revealed in open court that **
previous will, dated July 5, 1930, was
in existence.
CHICK IS INJURED
Dublin, Ga., Aug. 3. (/P)—Louis P.
Chick, blind representative of Walton
county in the state legislature, and
candidate for public service commis
doner, suffered cuts and bruises on
his legs, and his wife, who was driv
ing their automobile, suffered injuries
to one knee and her neck in a col
Iision near here last night. George
Prescott, Dublin business man who
drove the othei car, also was hurt.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
PLAN 10 EVACUATE
10 ANOTHER SHE
Mayor Eddie McCloskey De»
dares After Conference Will
Furnish Trucks to Transport
Marchers
POLITE INVITATION
TO LEAVE IS GIVEN
Close to 8,000 Men are in
Camps Where Food is Short
and Disease is Threatening to
Spread.
By LEO W. SHERIDAN
Johnstown, Pa., Aug. 3. UP)—
The mayor of Johnstown and lead¬
ers of the bonus expedition visit¬
ed the bonus-seeking veterans’
camp today to tell them they
must move on.
Doak Carter, the veterans’
chie of staff, told the veterans
he has resigned.
It was a sorry gathering of men
encamped near here who heard
Mayor Eddie McCloskey and their
leaders say that they no longer
can expect shelter on the groun
that the mayor provided for
them after their flight from
Washington.
Johnstown, Pa., August 3. (dP)-*
Doak Carter announced today the bo*
mis expeditionary force will move
from Johnstown as soon as posibte,
probably to some other Pennsylvania
site.
Carter is chief of stall' of the B.
K. F.
The announcement was made fol¬
lowing a conference called by Mayor
Eddie McCloskey for a “showdown.”
The mayor previously hud announced
he would wire Commander Walter W.
Waters asking him to “clarify” his
Iilans for the immediate future of the
veterans.
The mayor asked the field staff to
tell him whether Commander Waters
wants the expedition disbanded.
He referred to conflicting state¬
ments attributed to the commander
last night.
Summoning Carter and other mem¬
bers of the field staff to his office,
McCloskey said:
“I’m getting sick and tired of this
buHincHH - 1 h T’ T |,0, ts
that Watere sllys to <llsba,,d , the .
army, then you say he says ‘stick.’
“Why doesn’t he communicate with
me. I am the mayor and I was good
enough to invite you here.”
While the conference was in ses¬
sion, a telephone cal! came from
Washington advised Carter that Ed¬
die Atwell, commander of camp
marks, will come to Johnstown at
once.
McCloskey said he will obtain
trucks from Governor Pinchot if the
expeditionary leaders decide to dis¬
band or move.
“The governor wili iut me have all
the trucks 1 want and you can leave
the city as peaceably as you came,”
McCloskey said. “I want you to get
out, when you do, without leaving a
bad taste in the mouth of Johnstown.
“If anything happens out there we
will be blamed. If deaths occur out
there we will he blamed. I want you
to he fair with me us I’m trying to
bo with you.
“If you are moving out, let me
know something.”
Carter left the conference while the
mayor was talking.
Some officers viewed the mayor’s
speech as a polite invitation to leave
town.
Carter then announced he would
move the veterans.
Several hundred veterans arrived
today and registration showed there
were close to 8,000 now in the camp.
To, Provide Trucks
Johnstown, Pa.. Aug. 3. I/P)—After
conferring with leaders of the bonus
expeditionary force, Mayor Eddie
McCloskey said today he would ob¬
tain trucks tomorrow morning to car¬
ry the bonus seeking veterans .from
their camp here.
Ousted In Maryland
Waterbury, Md., August 3. UP)-—
state police today informed
() f the bonus expeditionary
force at “Camp Waters” near here
they would have to evacuate the camp
before fi p. m. today.
Led by Capt. Edward McK. John¬
son, a detail of state police acting un¬
der instructions from the office of
commissioner of motor vehicles visit¬
ed the camp early this afternoon, and
issued the orders.
In at javy rain, veterans and their
wives began packing their scant be¬
longings and taking down tents, the
first of which had only been put up
Sunday.
Action of the state police followed
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