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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. _________ ; 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. - 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 - 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. IE 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. -.....—-------------------— 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, ___