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THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
VOLUME XXXII. NO. 35.
SWEAT BOX DEATH
Second Witness Testified Ioday
It Was Arranged in Effort to
Clear Two Guards Now on
Trial
MOTION TO DIRECT
VERDICT IS REFUSED
Attorneys For Guards Petition
Court For Directed Verdict of
Not Guilty But It Is at Once
Refused.
Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. It. (TP)—
Testimony corroborating the claim of
Robert Blake, a state’s witness, that
hi' sought to arrange a suicide story!
to explain the sweat box death of
Arthur Maillefert was given by de¬
fense witnesses at the trial of two
//•[lanes fVmer prison guards today.
Birmingham, a convict
third witness for the defense, Blake,! toldj
jury he had been appicached by
who was head trusty at the camp, and
asked if he would join in the plan, i
Harry Schneider, Detroit convict, I
already had testified that he saw!
Maillefert going to “make hang a himself’’ motion while like he; he j
was
was in the sweat box, Schneider re¬
lated that after the youth was found
dead, Blake came to him and asked j
if he would tell about Maillefert’s al-1
leged “motion.”
Schneider said the “motion”' con¬
sisted of Maillefert dropping his head
on the chain and that Courson was
notified. When the door of the sweat
box was ojiened, the imprisoned
youth was dead.
Birmingham asserted that when
Blake came to him, “I told him I
didn’t want anything to do with it.
“Blake wanted me to say I saw Jer¬
sey (Maillefert) make the signs.”
C. A. Avrietf, who had called the
witness, “on behalf of the. defendant,■’
Courson,” looked up quickly as Bir¬
mingham admitted that he had been;
approached-by Blake.
He then began asking the convict
questions about what he had seen
when they brought Maillefert back to
camp after he had attempted to es¬
cape from the barrel.
When the defense turned the wit¬
ness over to the state f<jy cross
examination, State’s Attorney Dur
rance quickly said: “No cross-exam¬
ination.”
Judge George C. Gibbs today
liied a motion by attorneys for Cour-:
son and Higginbotham for a directed
verdict of acquittal.
The defense turned its verbal guns
on the state’s convict witnesses.
Avriett argued that the evidence
submitted by the state was “insuf
(icient and would not produce convic-!
l’ on -
Fuller Warren, Higginbotham’s at
torney, asserted his client could not
','e convicted under any of three
rees of homicide on the basis
Lde testimony.
1 he state’s one and only reliable
witness, Al Weaver, didn’t in any way
connect Higginbotham with the case.
He was no more guilty than any guard
who was standing arour\l,” he declar¬
ed.
“The state’s worst testimony would
not warrant conviction on any
o! homicide and I ask for a directed
verdict of qot guilty.”
“Motions severally denied,” said
Judge Gibbs without hearing argu¬
ment from State’s Attorney Charles
M. Durrance.
SOME OF THEM PROMINENT
LEADERS OF SOVIET REGIME
SINCE DAYS OF REVOLT
Moscow, Oct. 11. UP )—The
control committee of the communist
Party today expelled 20 of its mem¬
bers, some of them prominent lead
ers of the soviet regime since the
days of the revolutionary movement
for advocating the dissolution of the
collective and state farms.
The group included Gregory Zino
) iefi, former head of the Comintern
and Leo KemenefF, brother-in-law
Leon Trotzky, military leader of the
revolution, now in exile in Turkey.
Other members of the group were
fovmer followers of Trotzky and
members of the right wing 'of the
party. They were charged with cir
culating anti-party literature oppos
ing the present policy of eollectiviza
tion.
ZinoviefF and KanenefF were ex¬
pelled once before, but were reinstat¬
ed in 1927.
The 12th “Plenum” of the comin
/ ment tern concluded saying it “noted today with a state¬
capitalist the end of the
stabilization period” and
predicted the imminence of fierce
class struggles, culminating in war
and revolutions.
It was the first session of the
conuntern since April, 1931.
BUSINESS LEADER!
TAKES 01EIFE;
Sewell L. Avery, Jr., Sorf of
Chairman of Montgomery
Ward and Company, Found
Dead of Asphyxiation
SUICIDES FOLLOWING
DEPRESSED PERIOD
Only Child of Manufacturer and
Financier Found Dead in
Library of Palatial Chicago
Residence.
Chicago, Oct. 11. (TP)—Sewell L.
Avery, Jr., son of the chairman of
Montgomery Ward and Company was
found dead in their apartment today
of asphyxiation.
Avery was <‘!1 years old, oldest child
and only son of the manufacturer and
financier. He was the manager of
United States Gypsum Company, of
which his father is president.
A policeman called to the Lake
Shore Drive apartment this morning
found young Avery dead in the li¬
brary, gas pouring from a five log
in the grate.
Today was the 33rd anniversary
of the wedding of his parents, who
were prostrated by the tragedy.
Young Avery’s mother was the for¬
mer Hortense Wisner of Pontiac,
Mich., his father, besides heading the
two big corporations, has become one
of - x * Chicago’s /tl * , * r, foremost + AVQm/MJ public leaders
as head of Mayor Anton Cermak’s
civic advisory committee. He is al¬
so director of U. S. Steel, Armour
and Co., The Chicago Daily News, the
Chicago Great Western Railroad, the
Northern Trust Bank and other cor¬
porations.
Seweli Avery, Jr., was general
manager of the Philadelphia Gypsum
mills. Last spring he returned home
at his father’s suggestion to spend
the summer.
I „‘‘.^k_ was general manager of the
] vited him work here last this spring fall,” the to get father in
j «ha Pe for
told the coroner. He wasn t in any
; financial difficulties and had no love
j ! affair. and this But he was often mixed depressed much
summer never
j socially.
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I REPUBLICAN REGIME
CHARGES DISREG ARD FOR SHER¬
MAN ANTI TRUST LAW BY
ADMINISTRATION
Des Moines, la., Oct. 11. UP )—
Speaking from the same speakers’
platform upon which President Hoov¬
er recently started his campaign, Jas.
A. Reed of Missouri attacked the ad
minstration last night in a political
speech billed as a reply to Mr. Hoov¬
er’s opening address.
He charged that disregard of the
Sherman anti-trust law by Republi¬
can administrations, the Smoot-Haw
ley tariff, and what he described as
President Hoover’s “scheme to reduce
the price of American farm products
were responsible for present economic
conditions.”
The former Democratic senator
branded the president as an explorer
of foreign enterprises whose
“scheme”, he said, was “to reduce the
prices ’ of American farm products,”
and declared that by so doing he “laid
the foundation for agricultural bank¬
ruptcy.”
Departing from his prepared text
Reed launched ari attack upon the
last 12 years of Republican adminis¬
tration with a charge that “the Sher¬
man anti-trust law went into the dis¬
card” at the start of the Harding ad¬
ministration.
The result, he declared, was the
shrinking up of large “superholding
companies” whose stocks were thrown
on the market “for gambling.” He
named specifically the Insull corpor¬
ations, but said there were many
other similar projects launched.
“When the bubble burst.” he said,
“banks began to close. Finally the
effect reached out into the heart of
the country and all business became
paralyzed.”
He said the tariff caused a falling
off in foregn trade, holding the Re¬
publican party responsible “for this
catastrophe which swept away much
of the wealth of our country.
He branded as a “willful
, sion of the truth” statements he at
tributed to the president that Gover
nor Roosevelt “promised a
of farm tariffs.” He also attacked
the president for a statement made in
the latter’s speech here last week in
which he said that, at. one time
United States was within two weeks
of going off the gold standard.
“His statement has done infinite
harm and if credited will send a shiv¬
er of fear throughout the financial
land industrial world,” he declared.
Sweat Box Trial
Solomon Higginbotham, one of two
former prison guards accused of kill¬
ing Arthur Maillefert, a convict, by
slow torture in a sweat box, is shown
en route to court during trial in Jack¬
sonville. Fla.
10 SLASH WAGES
Hail Time Work and Half Time
Pay For All vVhO are Not De=
pendents, ’ Declares Chairman
Barnett.
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Atlanta, Oct. 11. (TP)—Plans for
half-time work and half-pay for most
State Highway Board employes who,
have no dependents were announced
Chairman J. W. Barnett today.
a number of details of the
rema i n to be worked out, so that
Lull application could not be
pu blje, Captain Barnett said. 'He
P ] a i nc d it was made necessary by a
reduction ip anticipated revenue
t j, e gasoline tax and license tag fees,
an( j diversion of $1,080,000 in highway
funds for purchase of Western &
Atlantic Railroad rental notes and
000 for purchase of a new prison'
am . He could not make an accurate
of the amount tax and tag
revenues had fallen off' but said it
was “considerable.”
The scheme contemplates a saving
of about $200,000 a month, Captain
Barnett said. He added that employes
with dependents “will be taken care
of.”
The greatest shift was made in the
su) . V ey and construction departments.
The board chairman said survey work
was about a year and a half ahead of
construction, and that as an economy
measure all survey activities would
be discontinued, employes oi that di¬
vision being given work in the con¬
struction department which necessi¬
tates reducton of each man’s working
time.
The department expects to go back
on a full-time basis about February
1, when new revenues will become
available.
Captain Barnett said the step was
decided on in preference to “having
payrolls we couldn’t meet, or cutting
men off the payroll entirely in the
face of the coming winter.”
EDITORIAL CHARGES
] PRINCE FREDERICH
WITH TREASON PLAN
, 11. (TP)—This evening’s
i Berlin, Oct.
—
1 edition of the newspaper Vorwaerts
[carried an editorial charging the for
! mer crown prince Friedrich Wilhelm,
; with treasonable plans to restore the
[monarchy in Germany,
The article quoted him indirectly
as having said that he, 1 lesident \ on
Hindenburg, Chancellor Von Papen
and General Yon Schleicher, the min
ister of defense, had made up their
minds that he would be appointed
regent, that President Von Hinden
burg would retire, and that Crown
Prince Ruppreeht of Lavaria would
become the ruler of a Danubian mon
Representatives of the Hohenzol
] evn family said these charges were
“beneath their notice.”
TREASURY FIGURES
Washington, Oct. 11.
] receipt for October 8 were
720.38; expenditures, Customs
balance $778,821,598.22. of
tii .; for eight days October
$6,680,170.87.
BRUNSWICK, GA., TUESDAY, OCT. 11, 1932.
OFFICERS
RELEASE INSULL:
DETAINED t HAYS
Financier Wanted in United
Slates on Criminal Charges
is Given Liberty By Authori¬
ties Today
TREATED AS GUEST
DURING
Was Held By Greek Police
Pending Hearing of Extradi¬
tion Proceedings For Return
to U. S.
London, Oct. 11. (TP)—An Ex¬
change Telegraph dispatch from
Athens this evening said Samuel
Insull, detained there pending
extradition proceedings, had been
set at liberty.
The Greek judicial authorities,
having examined the evidence in
the case, decided that there was
nothing to justify his further de¬
tention, the dispatch said.
Athens, Oct. 11. (/P)—Samuel 1 n
sull, once multi-millionaire head of the
greatest power and utilities organi¬
zation in the world, today occupied the
“best room in the house” at the Ath¬
ens police station while officials in
Athens, Washington and Illinois par¬
ticipated in negotiations intended to
take him back to Chicago to face in¬
dictment for embezzlement and lar
ceny.
The “detention" which the police
effected yesterday when he was held
on technical grounds while Greek
thorities looked through his
and papers, was extended later
the American government requested
the negation here to ask for his
visional arrest.
Partly through "and the influence of
erican friends partly because of
his years, his former position and the
affability he showed, the police
treating him more like a guest.
He was given the best quarters
the station afforded and ojfered the
best of food. He took only a
wich and a glass of soda water
night, however, thanking the
heartily for their attention.
“This whole affair is the result
a thirst for vengeance on the part of
my enemies,” he said as he entered
the room in the station.
‘The truth will come out finally.”
He declined to say whether he would
fight . . extradition l I • , ■ or ....... go I back I . to » . the 4 l .
United States voluntarily.
Legal authorities explained the
tradition process in Mr. Insult’s
would involve first the transmission
of attested documents from the Unit
ed States, after which the matter
would be brought before the appeal
court in Athens. This court would <le
eide whether the offenses charged
were'punishable under Greek law.
Mr. Insull has turned his
over to M. Romanos a noted lawyer,
who is president of the Greek Order
of advocates.
Mr. Constantini, president of the
Jewish community of Athens, who al¬
so is Paraguyan consul here, visited
the Chicagoan today.
TO ELECTRIC CHAIR
PROTESTING HIS INNOCENCE
CONVICTED MAN MUST PAY
THE PENALTY
Atlanta, Oct. 11. (/P )—Protesting
innocence, William J. Cook, was re
sentenced today to die iri the electric
chair on October 28 for the murder
September 11, 1930, of his daughter.
In resentencing Cook, Judge John
D. Humphries denounced iho “long
delays” in executing the orders. and
findings afinfttUSS of the superior courts
criticism in the delay in 3 the = exeeu
tions of the court,” the judge said.
“I do not mean any criticism when
I say that it appears to me that the
appellate courts could work out some
way of speeding up their deliberations
on the findings of the lower courts to
the end that swift and sure justice
may be obtained,” the judge added.
Cook was convicted two years ago
of shooting his daughter, Emma Jane
Cook, as the climax of a domestic al¬
tercation.
YOUNG STUDENT
BURNED ni murn TO nr DLA a tu i H
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Macon, Ga., Oct. 11. UP)
Hull, 17-year-old high school
burned yesterday when a
age of chemical in his
j exploded. At hospital he said he found
a
chemical and put it in his
! wrapped in paper. “I don’t
[what it could have made it explode
j was the warmth and
from my body. It just burst out,
burned like gunpowder,” he said.
The boy had just returned
from school when the explosion
He was burned about the
hips and legs.
Start Inquiry Into Rail Needs
i
Calvin Coolidge (left), chairman of the Coolidge non-partisan railway I
commission, and Alfred K. Smith, one i f the members, are shown in confer¬
ence when the group held its first fit rmal meeting in New York to dis¬
cuss a program for an extensive stir vey of the nation’s transportation
system.
( Demonstrators at Belfast
j Police Officers Who Return! 1
| Attack With Bullets From
Pistols.
1 Belfast, Northern Ireland, Oct. II.;
W- Police fired on a mob of j
i ployed men today having been stoned
by the demonstrators, and five vie-j
Jims were sent to hospitals with lull-;
j let The wounds. mob had stoned trolley j
cars,
I barricaded car lines, looted shops and
j seized a city bus after attacking the I
driver and forcing him to abandon the
vehicle. \
Scores of tram cars were stoned, |
the passengers lying on the floors for |
j safety. A lorry laden with spout was seiz
ed and after queueing their thirst,
j the demonstrators smashed bottles io
the streets. Stones, bottles and every
kind of missfe obtainable were used
in the battle. After a shot had been
fired 1 from 4- It,.. the crowd ...... I the 4 I . . . .... police I i ... . load- I I ’
their rifles and replied.
Reinforcements in armored cars
were hurried to the scene of the
I worst outbreak. Many police found
their truncheons useless and drew
their revolvers, emptying them over
the heads of the mol).
] Two policemen, hit by stones, were
sent to hospitals,
| Two thousand police had been mob
ilized in anticipation '' of “ unemploy¬ ........ ~> -
ment disorders. They struggled with
10,000 jobless men and women, who
demanded additional government re¬
lief.
THREATEN SCORES
WITH ARRESTS FOR
KILLING OF GEESE
Memphis, Term., Oct. II. UP) —
Scores of residents of Water Valley,
Miss., were threatened with criminal
prosecution today by Lawrence J.
Merovka, U. S. game protector, as ho
left for that, city this morning to in¬
vestigate the killing of hundreds of
wild geese.
Hundreds of geese, headed south¬
ward. flew low through fog and
ty rain Iasi night to crash into build -1
said mgs and wires of at them, full stunned speed. Reports by the j
scores
impact, were killed by residents.
j Citizcns rejoiced, for they figured
there was free goose for all. I
ka said before starting. I am going
to the bottom of this affair and file j |
criminal complaints against all per¬
sons involved.” I
Mervoka said the fiO day season for
killing Geese docs not open until
vember 10.
SUSPECTED SLAYER
FOUND IN SWAMP
Albany, Ca. Oct. 1 I. (TP).....Found late
yesterday hiding in a peanut patch,
negro docketed as J. C. Jackson was
i in the Dougherty county jail today
barged with the slaying of Mike
; is, 22, of Damascus, Ga.
Arrest. of the negro concluded a two
d a y search by poxsemen of the
n the vicinity of Damascus
Davi- was shot while aiding Policeman
; Carl Lanier in attempting; to arrest
Jackson last Saturday at
Tip. negro was wanted at that time
] by authorities at Pelham, Ga.
Sheriff Sid Howell, of Early
ty, aid be brought the negro
| because the jail at Blakelv was
( .,| and also as a, precaution.
[ Jackson was slightly wounded by
a shot fired bv Officer Lanier when he
from the scene of the Davis shoot
I j n g.
]
S. Baker, Former Head of
W. and J. College, lakes Own
Life With Pistol in Open
Field.
Washington, Pa., Oct. 11. (TP) The.
of Simon S. Baker, (15, fanner .
of Washington and .leffer
College, was found in a field two
miles northeast of Washington by a
pipe line walker today. Police said
he apparently had committed suicide,
Pittsburgh, Oct. 11., (TP) Alarm for
welfare of l)r. Simons Strousse
Baker, 05, who resigned as president
of Washington and Jefferson College
after a student “strike” lust, year, in
creased today as his family looked
in vain for the retired educator, miss¬
ing for about 24 hours.
Highland Park, Dr. Baker’s destina¬
tion as be left home for a stroll yes¬
terday, was searched without success
a vigilant police watch failed to
i., I more , , !•« , ill'll! than several ij / I scant ' 4 • *.l I I I 4'I clews.
a statewide search was
launched.
Dr. Baker was president of Wash¬
ington and Jefferson, his alma mater,
for 10 years, resigning in 1931 after
students called for his removal.
The action by the undergraduates
followed the dismissal of two profes¬
sors and the possibility of disciplin¬
ary action against two football play¬
accused of fighting in a hotel.
The editor is reported to have re¬
broken-heart <‘d.
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SOMEWHAT UNNERVED BUT UN¬
HARMED. NORMAN It. COLLINS
FREED BY ABDUCTORS
Chicago, Oct 11. (/P) Somewhat un¬
nerved but otherwise unharmed, Nor¬
man B. Collins, Chicago banker, was
back at lib home today after having
been freed by kidnapers whu released
him and escaped a trap police set for
No ransom money was paid,
Collins held captive for I2 hours,
was set free when the five men who
had seized him and his wife yester
morning near their home in pa
trician Wilmette apparently became
alarmed at the headlined activities oi
-
ier.
When she returned to her home, she
found a note thrust under the door,
directing her to drive along n dcsig
nated route in northwest Chicago,
the ransom demanded, $f>,000.
Operatives of the Secret Six, Chica¬
go anti-crime organization, were en¬
listed, and Alexander Jamie, head of
tiie body, dressed one of his men in
Mrs. Collins’ clothes, placed him in
her car and sent him on the course
outlined by the kidnapers. In the
rear seat was another official, armed
with a machine gun, arid other ofli
[cials were disguised and planted along
route. The kidnapers did not ap
pear. release,
Following bis Collins went
to a drug -lore where be telephoned
his wife. He had been held captive
[ unused in what he said and appeared had to not he been an
garage
harmed.
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BURGLARS CRACK SAFE
Atlanta, Oct. II UP )—Burglars ham
the combination knob off the
(safe of the Brookhaven Country Club
last, night and escaped with $894.13,
Fulton county police reported today.
They gained entrance to Hie building
by "jimmying” a window at the rear.
’ PRICE Five "CENTS“
CIVIL WAR ALONG
of Thousands Open
Rebellion Throughout China
and Manchuria and Over Wide
Territory
EXPECTED
TO WI TNESS BATTLE
One Province Alone 250,000
Soldiers are Involved in Strug¬
gle For Power Among Military
Groups.
MORRIS -- j ,j
By .1. HARRIS
Associated Press Stall' Correspondent
Shanghai, Oct. II. (TP)- North,
east and west, hundreds of
of soldiers waged civil war
rebellion throughout, China and
Manchuria today, from the northern
border of Manchuria to the province
Fukien on the south, and from
Szechuan province to Shan
img on the east.
There were reports also of an im¬
pending uprising in Sliihli province,
in which Peiping is located. These
based on a sudden mysterious
from retirement of Gen¬
Feng Yu-Hsiang, the “Christian
who recently went; from his
in Shantung to Kalgan, west
Feiping. ,
This gave rise to a report tie is at¬
to gather together the mil
leaders of the northwest for a
against Marshal Chang Hsiao
former ' Manchurian war lord,
Peiping, to regain control of north
Tn tin* province of Szechuan ap¬
proximately 250,000 soldiers are in¬
in the struggle for power
their military groups. The
lighting ' s centered around Chengtu,
provincial capital and, together
the other troubles, is the cause of
uneasiness among na¬
tional government officials at Nan¬
king.
In Shantung the fighting, pillaging
and murder which began more than a
week ago is still going on, in spite of
from local officials of the na¬
tional government for protection. The
is between Han Fu-Ghu, the
chairman, and Lui Clien r
war lord of the Chefoo area.
Entire villages were reported burn¬
by the troops of both sides; ref¬
poured into Chefoo, many of
with bayonet wounds; farmers
had rejoiced over the first boun¬
crop since the civil wars of 1928
192'4 are experiencing miserable
and if is feared that large
of linen and thread in the
of up country workers in that
of the lace and embroidery
have been seized.
in Fukien province on the south
flic provincial military forces,
including the famous nineteenth route
which put up the long defense
Shanghai against, the Japanese last
.are engaged in a bitter strug¬
against communist forces and
bandits.
In Manchuria the Japanese were
t wo campaigns, in the north
the south, against Chinese insur¬
gents against the regime of Henry
1 *u-Yi at Changchun. The drive in
the south was directed against, 30,000
insurgents, while in the north, around
Marichuli on the soviet border, an¬
other large force of insurgents has
seized most of the Chinese eastern
railway west of Hailar and is holding
a large number of Japanese as hos¬
tages.
FROM ALL DIRECTIONS WEAL¬
THY MEN GATHER AT PHILA¬
DELPHIA FOR OPTING
Philadelphia. Oct. 11. (TP)—The
“Millionaires’ Club” composed of men
who would probably have to use ten
figures to total their combined
wealth, is going to take a bus ride to
dav for fun.
From all directions wealthy men
gathered today to get away from care
for a simple outing.
The occasion was the third annual
northern dinner of the committee of
100. official name of what has come
to be called the Millionaires’ Club. It
is a group of industrial and financial
titans (and some poorer men tool
who spend their winters in and about
Miami Beach, Fla., and who like to
get together at other seasons also.
Joseph Widener, turf and Art Pa¬
tron, and Cyrus H. K. Curtis, publish¬
er, mapned the program as joint
hosts. Luncheon in the Ledger build¬
ing as I he guests of Mr. Curtis, and
inspection of the Curtis publishing
plant wax to he followed by a bus ride
to Mr. Curtis’ home, “Lyndon,” in
Wyneote.
After an hour they get in the bus¬
es a<-ain and ride to Lvnnewood ball
in Elkin® park, the estate of Mr. Wid
ener. Therp they will view the Wid¬
ener art galleries, and then set down
to dinner, the climax of the day,
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