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THE
VOLUME XXXI. NO. 302.
LONE BRITISH FLIER SPANS OCEAN
Attorney For Mayor Walker
Continues Argument Before
Governor Roosevelt to Dismiss
All Accusations
BLOCK APPEARS TO
ASSIST DEFENDANT
Newspaper Publisher Brought
Into Trial as Man Who Es=
tablished Joint Brokerage
Account With Walker.
Executive Chamber, Albany, N.
Y„ Auk. 19 (A 1 )—Governor Roose¬
velt, after listening to seven hours
of argument in behalf of Mayor
James J. Walker, today denied a
motion to dismiss the ouster
charges against the New York
City executive.
Albany, N. Y., Aug. 19. (/P)—As
John J. Curtin, attorney for Mayor
Walker, resumed his argument today
for dismissal of ouster charges by
Governor Roosevelt, Paul' Blocks news¬
paper publisher, appeared in the “Hall
of Governors to testify for the mayor.
Block established the joint broker¬
age account from which the mayor
has testified he received $240,000
profit.
Resuming his argument for dismis¬
sal of the 15 Seabury conclusions,
which extended throughout yesterday’s
sessions, Curtin took up number 10,
involving the mayor’s business rela¬
tions with the missing accountant,
Russel T. Sherwood. *
Samuel Seabury, counsel to the Hof
stadter legislative committee, has
I charged that Sherwood was Walker’s
fiscal agent, handling in 5 1-2 years
stock transactions totalling nearly
$ 1 , 000 , 000 .
Curtin’s argument for dismissing
the Sherwood conclusion was based
on a contention that Mayor Walker’s
dealings with Sherwood had nothing
to do with his official life.
‘There is no evidence whatever.”
Curt, in said, “that the money de¬
posited in Sherwood’s various accounts
did in fact belong to the mayor.”
Curtin agreed yesterday afternoon
to limit his argument today to an
hour and a half.
Curtin produced a transcript of the
Central Hanover Bank account of
Sherwood showing it was opened in
October, 1924, nearly two years before
Walker became mayor.
“Certainlv nobody at that time be¬
lieved Mr. Walker was trying to hide
his affairs.” said Curtin, “as he had
not been nominated or elected, or even
spoken of as the candidate.”
“In the year 1924, between October
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MONEY INTO COFFERS
ALTHOUGH FULL BENEFIT HAS
NOT BEEN REALIZED THEY
CONTRIBUTE GREATER PART
Washington, Aug. 19. (A 5 )—The full
benefit of the new taxes hasn’t yet
been realized by far, but they contrib¬
uted more than 3 per cent of the fed¬
eral income in July.
The treasury's report shows some
of the old stand bys provided a big
share of the $01,686,467 received in
that month. Income taxes, for in¬
stance, gave $17,457,131; cigarettes
$28,605,437, chewing and smoking to¬
bacco $4,373,873.
The total fell short of that of $74,-
169,258 in July, 1931, but it included
these returns, many of which are ex¬
pected to get larger with a full
month of application.
Two cent tax on bank checks $1,
094,287, one cent a gallon on gasoline
$539,461, various rates on brewers’
wort, malt and grape concentrates
$221,359; tires and tubes $96,057, soft
drinks $89,569, automobiles and mo¬
torcycles $47,629, radios $32,848, elec¬
trical energy $32,196, toilet prepara¬
tion? $68,860, candy and chewing gum
$52,324, safe deposit boxes $45,848.
Income taxes dropped from $24,-
376,183 last year, cigarette returns
from $32,103,233.
ROOSEVELT ON AIR
Columbus, O., Aug. 19. (TP)—A na¬
tion-wide hook-up of twenty-three ra¬
dio stations will broadcast the open¬
ing campaign address of Governor
Franklin D. Roosevelt here tomorrow
afternoon. The hook-up will start
functioning at 4 o'clock and continue
until Governor Roosevelt has com¬
his address.
|All Operations in Area of
lorville, III., are Halted
General Walk ■ Out
Today
PROMISE TO SPREAD
THEIR CAMPAIGNS
Workings Being Picketed
Prevent NomUnion Workers
From Taking Up the Jobs That
They Left Open.
Taylorville, 111., Aug. 19. (A)—Ten
thousand or more striking union coal
miners stopped all mining operations
in this area today and leaders an¬
nounced they planned to spread over
southern Illinois and continue their
campaign.
More than 2,000 miners protesting
a reduced wage scale picketed Pea¬
body Coal Company mines near Tay¬
lorville. Only a few employes ap¬
peared for work and they turned
away without attempting to enter the
mines.
Illinois national guardsmen were
held in readiness to move into the
picketing zone, but there were few
reports of violence. Fifteen hundred
special deputy sheriffs did not inter¬
fere with the strikers movements.
State police were directing traffic on
congested highways.
W. C. Argust, superintendent of
Peabody mines in the Taylorville
area, said no attempt would be made
to open the mines “until conditions
are changed.”
The troops were moved out of
Camp Grant at Rockford early today
and sent to their home armories at
Decatur and Springfield, both less
than 30 miles distant.
Christian county was occupied yes¬
terday by the striking miners from
adjacent counties..
The sheriff had intended to resist
the invasion of the striking miners, as
Christian county diggers were at
work in most of the mines in the
county. The decision of several lo¬
cals to join the strike movement,
however, caused the sheriff to aban¬
don his resistance to the invasion.
Two or three mine locals here have
voted to join the strikers who seek
abrogation of the reduced $5 daily
scale agreement.
The invading miners, joined by late
adherents from this county, held a
mass meeting last night at Kincaid.
They plan to hold another mass meet¬
ing here tomorrow.
But three large mines in Christian
county v/orked yesterday.
LANNIf
HIS THIRD FLIGHT
WILL BEGIN IMMEDIATELY TO
PREPARE ASCENTION FROM
HUDSON BAY SHORE
Desenzano, Italy, Aug. 19. (TP)—
Prof. Auguste Piccard, rested today
after his record-breaking ascent into
the stratosphere yesterday, announc¬
ed he would begin immediately to
prepare for a third ascent from the
northwest shore of Hudson Bay, in
Canada.
“The moment we finish the work of
calculating the results recorded by
our instruments on yesterday’s
flight,” he said, “we will begin prep¬
arations for the third experiment.
"We plan to take off from the
northwest shore of Hudson Bay, as
close as we can get to the noQh pole.
Our purpose will be to complete the
study of cosmic rays at a point where
the lines of magnetic force penetrate
the stratosphere.”
“A solution for many scientific
problems will be provided when we
know how the rays act under these
conditions.”
The third expedition, he said,
would not begin until the middle of
next summer.
His next scientific move, he said,
would be to take to Zurich, Switzer¬
land the instruments he carried with
him yesterday to a height of more
than ten miles above the earth. Zur¬
ich was the starting point of his
flight and there he will have the seals
removed and the results verified.
“Then,” he said, “we will begin
several months of figuring on our ex¬
periments. | free to start After planning that the he third will flight be
j from Hudson Bay.”
TREASURY FIGURES
Washington, Aug. 19 (/ P)—Treasury
receipts for August 17 were $81,064,
j 132.73; expenditures, $88,557,666.79;
nee, $413,793,951.27. Customs du¬
ties for 17 days of August were $13,-
640,300.78.
This is a recent pictue of Betty
Compton, New Y'ork stage actress,
who is now living in England.
IGE
GIANT PLANE CARRIER FLOAT¬
ED AFTER RUNNING ON SAND
BAR YESTERDAY
San Pedro, Calif., Aug 19. .(A 1 )—A
thorough inspection of the hull of the
U. S. S. Saratoga was started by
divers today to determine if any dam¬
age was done the huge $35,000,000
airplane carrier when it grounded
yesterday afternon on a sand bar off
Sunset Beach. Arrangements for a
naval board of inquiry to place re¬
sponsibility for the mishap were
started.
The Saratoga rested today at its
regular anchorage in battleship row
here after being convoyed from Sun¬
set Beach by three navy tugs which
had pulled her clear from the sand
bag with the coming high tide at 6:52
o’clock last night.
With a crew of .1,700 officers and
men and carrying eighty planes as
eyes of the fleet, the Saratoga ap¬
parently suffered no damage when
she lay stranded for more than four
hours on the sand bar a mile off
shore.
The Saratoga, largest ship in the
history of the navy to be grounded,
was engaged in target maneuvers off
shore between Seal Beach and Hunt¬
ington Beach when the mishap over¬
took her.
BISHOP CRANSTON
CLAIMED BY DEATH
New Richmond, O., Aug. 19. (/P)—
The Methodist Episcopal church lost
one of its greatest leaders last night
by the death of Bishop Earl Crans¬
ton, 92.
Retired 16 years ago, the bishop
had been in failing health several
months.
Bishop Cranston was chairman of
the commmission to reunite his
church with the Methodist Episcopal
church, south, and was author of a
book on the subject, entitled “Break¬
ing down the Walls.”
Survivor Of Once
Oldest Couple Is
Claimed By Death
Columbus, Ga., Aug. 19. (TP)—Mrs.
Mary Ann Blood Blackmar, 101-year
old survivor of the two who once were
credited with being the oldest living
married couple in the United States,
died at her home here last night af¬
ter a short illness.
Her husband, Alfred Owen Black
mar second, died in April 1930, six
weeks before his 100th birthday. The
couple observed their 78th wedding
anniversary the preceding November
and through a survey conducted by
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Aurand of Kan¬
sas City and the Kansas City Star
were found to be the country’s oldest
married couple.
Mrs. Blackmar was born April 26,
1831, in Charlton, Mass., and was
married in 1851 when she came south
to visit kinsmen. Her husband was
born in Savannah, Ga. Surviving are
three daughters, Mrs. W. L. Bullard,
Mrs. C. J. Edge and Miss Betsy Black¬
mar and a son, Dana Blackmar, all
of Columbus.
Funeral services were planned today
at the residence’ at 4:30 with Dr. Rob¬
ert S. Boyd of the First Presbyterian
church in charge and grandsons as
pall bearers.
Burial will be in Linwood cemtetery
beside her husband’s grave.
BRUNSWICK, CA., FRIDAY, AUG. 19. 1932.
PARTIES 10 OPEN
As Another Week Rolls By ami
All Formalities in Background
Nominees Prepare For Cam=
paigns
CANDIDATES READY
FOR THEIR SPEECHES
They Will Enter Various Parts
of Country With TheSr Ap*
peals and Sounding Issues of
Their Platforms.
By BYRON PRICE
Associated Price Staff Writer
Washington, Aug. 19. (TP)—Save
for echoes of President Hoover’s ac
ceptance speech and the daily grist
from the still politically imponder¬
able personal inquiry by Governor
Roosevelt into the case of Mayor
Walker, vice presidential nominees
took over the national campaign as
another week rolled by.
A high point for political discus¬
sion lay in Vice President Curtis’ un¬
qualified declaration in accepting re¬
nomination as Mr. Hoover’s running
mate against repeal of the 18th
amendment. Yet the excursion from
his Texas home of Speaker Garner,
Democratic rival for the vice presi¬
dency, to attempt in person the en¬
listment of Alfred E. Smith and his
New York and New England follow¬
ing in active support of the Roose
velt-Garner ticket vied for attention
with the Curtis speech.
Mr. Curtis speaking at his notifi¬
cation ceremonies at Topeka, added
fuel to the fire of prohibition discus¬
sion precipitated by Presdient Hoov¬
er’s acceptance address a week ear¬
lier. With the exception of publica¬
tion of Garner’s acceptance letter,
the notification phase of the campaign
is now complete.
That Democratic orators will make
much of any difference in prohibiting
views they may profess to detect on
comparison of the Hoover and Curtis
position is to be expected. Their own
candidates are pledged to repeal both
personally and by platform.
To complicate the vexed picture of
the place prohibition will have in the
election, Bishop James Cannon, Jr.,
contributed from Switzerland where
he is traveling his awaited statement
as to the Hoover prohibition views.
He charged the president had “sur¬
rendered” on prohibition enforce¬
ment.
Like the convention of the woman’s
Christian Temperance Union in Seat¬
tle, which predicted the rise of a new
party, the bishop saw only in the
congressional elections a place for ad¬
vocates of federal prohibition.
Speaker Garner, aside from his re¬
iterated assertion of party loyalty in
1928, sought to refute during his New
York visit the charge of radicalism
raised in the east by Republican
spokesmen. It was promptly reiter¬
ated from the newly established Re¬
publican general headquarters in New
York city.
More than that, Republican plans
to throw secretaries Mills and Hurley
into the Maine state campaign which
terminates September 12 were dis¬
closed. That will be the first real
test of the election.
On the Democratic side plans for a
Roosevelt 21-state swing through
middle, north and southwest and the
Pacific coast in September were an¬
nounced. Before that, however, what
the Democratic candidate will say in
answer to President Hoover at his
speech tomorrow in Columbus, Ohio,
was the next major scheduled event of
the campaign.
With that speech, the Democratic
presidential drive will be fully
launched. President Hoover’s person¬
al campaign plans are yet to be dis¬
closed in detail.
FOUR YOUNGSTERS
BURNED TO DEATH
AFTER AUTO CRASH
Midland, Mich., Aug. 19. (A ’)—Four
were burned to death and
.three adults, including the children’s
parents, were critically injured in an
automobile which caught fire after a
collision here early today.
The dead are: Edward Messer, 12;
Forest Messer, 10; Stella Messer, 6,
and Ruth Messer, 4. All are ehildren
of Mr. and Mrs. George Messer, of
Thompsonville, Mich.
Messer, 43 years old, his wife arid
Harry Crane of Bear Lake, Mich.,
were seriously burned. None of the
three is; expected to live.
The Messer car collided with one
driven by George Patrick, which bore
an Ontaria license. Patrick was car¬
rying two five gallon cans of gasoline
on his running board, and in the col¬
lision the cans burst.
Weakened by (lie slrain of attending ouster proceedings against her
husband in Albany. N. Y., Mrs. James J. Walker was ordered home by her
physician. Mayor Walker (left), looking tired after several appearances
before Governor Roosevelt, escorted her to the train. Dr. William Schroed
er, Jr., is on the right.
South’s Business Is Improving
Improvements In Markets And Increased Industrial
Activities Are Reported
By ROBERT BUNNELL
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 19. (TP) The
south added improvements in the cot¬
ton and tobacco markets to reports of
increased industrial and construction
activity today and found the total
something to grow optimistic about
in the way of business.
From the Mason Dixon line to the
Gulf coast today came announcements
of industrial resumptions and expan¬
sions. Construction projects con¬
tracted for or contemplated and a
generally improved economic out¬
look as tobacco growers in South Car¬
olina and Georgia and cotton farm¬
ers over the belt jingled money from
higher priced crops in their pockets.
In Virginia, the Lone Star Cement
Company at Norfolk has reopened
with a payroll of 200 persons to meet
a spurt in building trades and the
StehiJ silk mills at Waynesboro,
which recently added 150 workers, an¬
nounced an increase of 10 per rent in
piece work wages.
The Viscose Corporation of Virgin¬
ia at Roanoke has employed 1,000
workers after laying off 4,500 for
more than a month and the state road
program, under which the Virginia
highway department expects to spend
approximately $20,000,000 this year
is getting under way with daily con¬
MRS. M’CORMICK’S
DEATH IS MATTER
OF ONLY FEW HOURS
Chicago, Aug. 19. (TP) The death
of Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick,
physicians say is hut a matter of
hours.
Early this morning, however, the
woman who once was known as the
richest in the world, was sleeping
peacefully, in her suite in a local ho¬
tel. Members of the sick woman’s
family ’rested from their long vigil
at her bedside, in nearby rooms.
It was a tense day for members of
the McCormick family, united by
sickness after long-enduring schisms,
as was yesterday when Mrs. McCor¬
mick sank into a coma from which
doctors said she would not recover.
There was frantic activity to revive
her sufficiently to recognize her
younger daughter, Mathilde McCor¬
mick Oser, who arrived after a 7,000
mile trip from Switzerland to he at
her mother’s bedside.
Florence Everett, East Hampton,
Mass., nurse, administered a treat¬
ment for which she has been specially
trained.
The result was beyond the highest
hopes of the assembled relatives.
Grouped around the daughter of
John 1). Rockefeller, were. Harold F.
McCormick, her former husband, ami
their children, Fowler McCormick,
Muriel McCormick Hubbard, and Mrs.
Oser, as well as Fowler’s wife.
THOMAS DECLINES POST
Washington, Aug. 19. (TP)—-Presi¬
dent Hoover today received and an¬
nounced the declination of Ernest B.
Thomas, of Rushville, Ind., to accept
his recent appointment as a member
of the federal farm hoard.
tract awards.
Textile mills, furniture factories,
paper paints and other industrial con¬
cerns through the Carolines have re¬
cently added to forces and increased
working hours. The North Carolina
highway commission opened bids on
$904,000 of road and bridge work
this week and plans another letting
later in the month. South Carolina
has just announced plans for a $2,-
500,000 road construction program,
and Alabama plans road work.
Two Picayune, Miss., saw mills, em
bavc announced plans to open within
a few days.
ploying between 400 and 500 men,
A $3,000,000 flood control project
is under way along the Mississippi
from Cairo to the mouth of the White
river and approximately 800 men are
working on levees near Friar Point,
Miss., and Helena and Osceola, Ark.
The Mem is, Tcnn., cotton mills have
announced reception of an order for
approximately 11 , 000,000 square
yards of cloth., the largest since war
limes and the Corinth, Miss., Hosiery
Mills and Weaver Pants Company at
Corinth, have just put 400 back to
work.
The Louisiana highway commission
has completed arrangements to re¬
sume road construction by execution
contracts totaling $10,000,000.
TOBACCO STILL
POURING IN AT
GEORGIA CITIES
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 19. I/P)- Addi¬
tional tobacco poured into the twen¬
ty Georgia markets today after an
opening that brought farmers prices
approximately three cents a pound
more than those paid last year.
The increases, for the most part,
markets reported, were for the lower
grades. At Tifton, Ga., where the
largest tonnage was handled last
year, approximately 300,000 pounds
was offered and the price average the
opening day was $10.47 compared
with $6.64 last year.
Valdosta ,Ca., reported an unoffi¬
cial average of 11 cents for approx¬
imately 350,000 pounds offered there
at the opening of the markets yester¬
day and Moultrie and Statesboro re¬
ported similar better prices than a
year ago.
Tobacco sold at an average of 10
cents a pound at Vidalia where 240,
000 pounds was offered. Quality
ranged from exceptionally poor to
exceptionally good.
GARNER HITCH-HIKES
San Antonio, Tex., Aug. 19. (/!’)
John N'. Garndr, Democratic vice
presidential nominee, hitch-hiked into
San Antonio early today on his way
to Uvalde to resume a vacation in¬
terrupted by political conferences in
the east. The speaker of the house
traveled by airplane yesterday from
Cincinnati to Austin, where the plane
was. grounded last night by a rain¬
storm. The Texan traveled the 80
miles between Austin and San An¬
tonio in a motorcar with two young
men whose names were not learned.
The men offered the speaker a ride.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
ON WEST FLIGHT
His Destination When
Plane Functions Perfectly and
Lands Near St. Johns, N. B.,
Today
SPORTS PLANE
MAKES SPLENDID TIME
Continue to New York and
Will Immediately Start His
Return Trip to England, He
Declares.
St. Johns, N. B„ Aug. 19. (/P)—
Capt. J. A Mollison completed the
first westward solo (light across
the north Atlantic today, bringing
down his smail sports plane to a
perfect landing at I’enn field
Ridge, forty miles from here.
He bad plenty of gasoline left, he
and might have gone to New
but he was too tired to do
more (lying.
He had been at the controls of his
Heart’s Content” for more
than 24 hours, sitting on a bare,
uncushioned seat, pushing his flying
tank across more than 2,000
He had intended to stop at Harbor
for fuel, but be got better mile¬
than he had expected and passed
Harbor Grace without stopping.
At 5:05 o’clock this morning he
over the airport at the air¬
port at Halifax, 100 miles east of St.
headed west. Then for a time
he was lost to sight in the fog which
blanketed the Bay of Fundy region.
If was 11:45 a. m., E. S. T., when he
landed sit Pcnnfield Ridge.
“I was too tied to go on,” he said
over the long distance telephone. “I
passed Harbor Grace and Halifax this
morning and went over St. John at
noon.
All through the night, he said, he
flew through clouds and heavy mists.
During the last 18 hours the weather
was especially had.
Pemifieidridge is a village of not
more than 300 population. Even tel¬
ephones are scarce, but Capt. Molli¬
son was on a long distance wire re¬
porting his landing a few minutes af¬
ter he was down.
Farmers and fishermen crowded
from the village to the field
half a mile from the tiny rail¬
station.
They had seen him coming and had
the roar of his motor. His
had hardly stopped rolling be¬
the first arrivals were crowding
him.
What he wanted most of all was a
so one of the farmers took him
his home nearby. The captain ask¬
that his wife, the former Amy
he notified of his safety.
was telephoned immediately to
John, 40 miles up the coast to the
of Fundy for relay t.,- Mrs. Mol¬
at London.
I
PASSENGER COACHES
AND TWO OTHERS PLUNGE
OFF FILL IN ALABAMA
Brantley, Ala., Aug. 19. (/!’)—More
a score of persons were injured.
of them seriously, as three pas¬
coaches and two other cars of
southbound Central of Georgia rail¬
train plunged over an embank¬
three miles north of here yes¬
Passengers said a scale, or testing,
immediately behind the engine
the rails first dragging with it
others. The engine remained on
track. The injured were taken
hospitals in Andalusia, Ala., and
cities.
Conductor J. H. Hardy of Colum¬
Ga., and Miss Evelyn Railey of
were reported unconscious
head injuries at the Andalusia city
Another of the critically
Torn Wright of Tray, Ala.,
taken to Troy for treatment.
Others of the injured included:
Miss Ola Hall of Saco, Ala., frac¬
ribs; C. H. Bradshaw of Colum¬
Ga., baggage clerk, sprained
and bruises; J. If. Schnelling of
Ga., fractured skull; Mrs.
Day of Columbus, Ga., inter¬
injuries; W. F. Thompson of
Ala., mail clerk, bruises; Mrs.
of Dozier, Ala., Miss Virginia
of Troy, Ala., and a grand¬
of Mrs. Day of Columbus.
Several, the city hospital at Anda
reported, were treated there for
injuries leaving as soon as they
given first aid. The injured
taken to Andalusia in a box car
out for relief work.