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THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
.VOLUME XXXII. NO. 38.
PRISON CAMP
DEATH TRIAL
NEARJURORS
Time is Allotted For Defense and
Prosecution Arguments in
Jacksonville's Sensational
Murder Trial
DIRECT VERDICT OF
ACQUITTAL DENIED
Jury Expected to Start Delibera*
tions Tonight or Tomorrow
and Decide Fate of Former
Camp Guards.
Jacksonville, P’la., Oct. 14. (TP)—
Judge George C. Gibbs today denied
a motion for a directed verdict of
acquittal for Solomon Higginbotham,
2L£ 'Sf'rs, of Arthur
with the sweat box death
Maillefert, young New Jersey convict.
The motion by Fuller \Warren, Hig¬
ginbotham’s counsel, came immediate¬
ly after the state completed rebuttal
testimony. Warren contended the
testiony of state’s witnesses had
been sufficient to convict
am of homicide.
jpt^o if of motion George was W. Courson, presented the in other be
«
defendant.
Arguments were expected to
shortly.
It the rebuttal today, the state in¬
troduced testimony that Courson had
beaten Maillefert in May, whereas the
former guard captain testified he had
not whipped the youth since about
April lfi.
Alvin Leggett, a youth, testified
that Higginbotham threatened to kill
Maillefert after the convict escaped
from a heavy barrel and was recap¬
tured in the woods. Higginbotham,
on the stand yesterday, denied this,
saying he acted toward Maillefert
according to the Golden Rule.
Perry Blount, a storekeeper at Sun¬
beam, told the jury he went to the
camp after Maillefert’s death and was
told by Courson that the youth had
nothing to eat for two or three days.
Courson testified yesterday Maille¬
fert had been given bread and water
and that if the youth had asked for
something to eat in the sweat box he
would have given him his food.
Judge Gibbs granted each of the
two defense attorneys two and one
half hours for presentation of
ment to the jury and the state the
same length of time.
The jury then will be charged and
begin deliberations.
ARGUMENT OVER OWNERSHIP
OF HOUSE LEADS TO FATAL
SHOOTING IN GROVANIA
Grovania, Ga., Oct. 14. (/P)—A fatal
shooting last night was the culmina¬
tion of an argument over ownership
of a. house in which W. J. Boon, 36,
" jk, her of a prominent family here
shot to death.
J. D. Marshall, member of another
prominent family, who surrendered
to authorities following the shooting
was later freed by a coroner’s jury
which termed the shooting “justi¬
fiable homicide.”
Wives of both then witnessed the
shooting, and both testified at the in¬
quest.
Witnesses told the coroner’s jury
trouble between the two men began
Wednesday when Boon claimed he had
purchased a certain house from a loan
company. Marshall claimed the
house was owned by his father’s es¬
tate, the coroner’s jury was told, and
that it was tied up in litigation and
could not be sold.
Last night Boon and his wife went
to the house to finish repairs before
moving in. They found Marshall and
his wife there. Mr. Boon testified
Marshall was boarding up the doors
and windows.
The question of ownership was
again brought up and an argument
ensued, Marshall testified. He«aid he
ordered Boon away from the place,
but instead, Marshall said, Boon ad¬
vanced on him with a club. He said
when Boon continued to advance in
spite of his warning, he fired. Three
bullets struck Boon. Marshall then
notified authorities and surrendered.
Besides the widow Boon is survived
bv his mother, Mrs. Mattie Boon, of
Macon, visiting in Orlando and Lake¬
land, Fla., at the time of the shoot¬
ing; three brothers, 0. A. Boon, Or¬
lando, Frank Boon, Lakeland and C.
M. Boon. Miami; two sisters, Mrs. E.
D. Taylor, Atlanta and Miss Lois
Boon, of Macon.
Boon was a World war veteran and
saw service in France. Funeral ar¬
rangements will be announced.
PAROLES GRANTED
Atlanta, Ga.. Oct. 14. (TP)—Gover
nor Russell today granted paroles to
two men serving terms for murder.
They are J. M. Green, white man,
teheed file death from Tift county in 1921
of Daniel Sutton.
Stinson, negro, sentenced from
iwether county in 1917 for slaying a
negro girl.
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Starts Insull Inquiry
v
k ••'
James E. Stewart, federal operative
the •»«
and currency, committee, has begun
an investigation of the Insult financial
collapse.
ON RELIEF PLANS
GOVERNMENT MUST
HELP WHEN COMMUNITIES
CANNOT RENDER All)
By WALTER T. BROWN
Albany,, N. Y„ Oct. 14. (TP)—Gov¬
ernor Roosevelt had added today to
his views on the obligations of feder¬
al government, the declaration that
when communities and states are un¬
able to meet the unemployment re¬
lief needs “it becomes the positive
duty of the federal government to
step in to help.”
Answering in a radio address last
night a question propounded by wel¬
fare workers, “do you favor a sub¬
lays during the economic emergency,”
stantial increase in federal relief out
the Democratic candidate for the
presidency said:
“I am very certain that the obliga¬
tion extends beyond the states and to
the federal government itself, and
if when’ it becomes apparent that the
states and communities are unable to
take care of the necessary relief
Comparing the action he sponsored
to provide unemployment relief in
New York with the record of Presi¬
dent Hoover’s administration, Mr.
Roosevelt reiterated a passage in his
message to the state legislature in
1931. which read:
“In broad terms, I assert that mod¬
ern society acting through its govern¬
ment owes the definite obligation to
prevent the starvation or the dire
want of any of its fellowmen and wo¬
men who tri’ to maintain themselves
but cannot. To those unfortunate cit¬
izens air must be extended by the
government; not as a matter of char¬
ity but as a matter of social duty.”
Mr. Roosevelt asserted he thought
it “fair to point out that a complete
program of unemployment relief was
on my recommendation actually un¬
der way in New York over a year ago,
and that in Washington relief funds
in any large volume were not pro¬
vided until this summer.”
“There are two ways of nayint? for
public works. One is by the sale of
bonds, In principle such bonds should
be issued only to nay for self-sustain¬
ing proiectf or for structures which
will without question hftve a useful
life over the period of years. The
other method of navment is from cur¬
rent revenues, which in most cases
means added taxes. And we all know
that there is a very definite limit to
the increase of taxes above the pres¬
ent limit.
“T am confident that the federal
government working in cooperation
with states and cities can do much to
carry on increased public works and
along lines which are sound from the
economic and financial point of view.”
A question regarding comoulsorv
unemployment insurance brought
from him:
“This is no new policy for me. T
have advocated unemployment insur¬
ance in rnv own state for some time,
and indeed last vear six eastern gov¬
ernors were my guests at a confer¬
ence which resulted in the drawine up
of what might be called an idea)
plan of unemployment insurance.”
In closing, Roosevelt made a plea
for charity. He said:
“Let us who have mbs or money
or shelter for ourselves and our fam¬
ilies share with the less fortunate. If
we do this in every community
throughout the land Thanksgiving
Dav and Christmas will take on an
added significance—the significance of
a higher American ideal of social jus¬
tice. - '
SHOT TO DEATH
Orangeburg. S. C.j Oct. 14. (TP)
! Mrs. Sallie Rurke was found shot to
[death I and fatal Policeman nistol wound J. K. Knotts in his
with a
(head, at the woman’s home today. The
:bodi>*- were King on a bed. A pistol
was in Knott’s hand. Knotts was to
have been relieved of dutv at noon to¬
day after 13 years on the force. Knotts
was married and the father of sev¬
eral children. An inquest was order¬
ed.
BRUNSWICK, GA., FRIDAY, OCT. 14, 1932.
BR 01ORC IERED
HELD FOR DEATH
United States
Charges Him With Second
Degree Murder For Slaying
of Hospital Inmate
TWO ARE DETAINED
AS STAR WITNESSES
Physicians Testify Soldier Had
Sixteen Broken Ribs After
Attack By Defendant at
Augusta
Augusta, Ga., Oct 14. (TP)—United
States Comissioner C. J. Skinner.
today , . bound , . over Austin , ..... LeRoy Brown
to United States district court on
charge of second degree murder in
conneotion with the death in the Au
veterans . bureau , hospital , n t
gus a
xveek ot Charles K. Dickinson, a pa¬
tient
Commissioner Skinner held two oth¬
er attendants at the hospital, Aaron
E. Ott and Walter L. Epps, as ma¬
terial witnesses, and they were re¬
leased under $1,500 bonds each. No
bond had been set for Brown.
Ott testified at the hearing that in
spite of his protests, Brown "beat,
choked with a towel and stomped”’ on
Dickinson a short time before his
death last Saturday.
Epps was not, called and Brown
made no statement.
A physician testified that an au¬
topsy revealed that Dickson had 16
broken ribs, one of which had punc¬
tured a lung, causing pneumonia,
which brought death.
Dickson died last Saturday
Brown, Ott and Epps were arrested
on affidavits made by Colonel R. W.
Soper, medical officer in charge of
the hospital.
United States District
Walter W. Sheppard, of Savannah,
attended today's probably hearing.
Brown’s ease will be heard
at the November term of federal dis¬
trict court here.
The penalty for conviction would be
20 years to life imprisonment.
Dickinson’s home was in Sommer
ville, Tenn. He had been a patient at
the Augusta veterans’ hospital for
several years.
His death was originally attribut¬
ed to a fall because attendants said he
was violent at times. Colonel Soper
said an autopsy aroused his suspi¬
cions and led to the subsequent ar¬
rests.
E!
WITH MINER’S DEATH
MEMERS OF NATIONAL TROOPS
HELD FOR SLAYING OF PICK¬
ET AT TAYLORVILLE
Taylorville, 111., Oct. 14. (TP)—War¬
rants charging two Illinois national
guard officers with murder were in
the possession of Sheriff Charles
Weineke today as the result of the
first fatality on the Christian county
front of the Illinois coal miners’ war.
The warrants name Col. Robert W.
Davis and Capt. Carl J. Meacham, his
executive officer. They were obtain¬
ed late last night bv Mayor Thomas
F. Foster of nearby Tovey shortly af¬
ter Andy Ganis, a Tovey miner, died
reputedly as the result of a bullet
wound inflicted bv a militiaman.
Corporal Russell Meyers, of Peoria,
member of company “E” of the 130th
infantry was held in the guardhouse
as a military tribunal investigated
the shooting .
The fatality—the fourth since
guerilla warfare fanned through
mining areas in the state’s three
months old mine controversy—cli¬
maxed a hectic day for Christian
county. Earlier yesterday Hollis
Butterfield, a rural mail carrier, was
shot in the shoulder as he disregarded
sentries’ orders at Langleville, and
later three women and six men were
injured when a national guard truck
in which they were being conveyed to
the county line overturned- and burn¬
ed.
As violence flared anew in the
county, Adjutant General Cailos
Black rushed here from Snringfield to
assume personal command of the sev¬
en national guard troops on duty in
the fear-stricken area.
The official report of guard ‘officers
and the story of witnesses differed
slightly regarding the wounding of
Ganis. .,
Witnesses said Ganis was standing
in the yard at the John Foder home
in Tovey when a guard patrol ambled
by. The patrol, thev said, was halt¬
ed by Mrs. John Miller, a neighbor,
who shouted to the troops to
j Ganis because he assertedlv
her a “scab.” Mrs. Miller’s
a constable, was reported to be a
member of the United Mine Workers
Union under whose contracts
Christian mines have been
One of the guardsmen. Mrs.
said ordered Ganis to walk out of
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JO HNSO NSW ITES
! HE WILL ill
“I Cannot and Will ot Support
Mr. Hoover," Declares Cali¬
fornia Senator in Answer
Question
HAS OFTEN FLAYED
PRESENT
Says He is Progressive Repub
lican and President lias Prov¬
en Himself Ultra-Conserva¬
tive Member.
San Francisco, Oct. 14.
1 ^ t0 a tele K™ m from
tatives of seventy southern
| newspape] , s asking him t() make
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p „i nr , nf ! nf - Rpnl .u
j ‘ ‘
i:.. i ticket*
tor Hiram W. w Johnson, t,,i, California r„i if,,,.., - ;' pro
ive Repllb i i( . aili said to dav, “I
cannot and will not support Mr.
Hoover."
Johnson’s statement to E. P. Clark
and others:
“Yesterday I received the night
ter signed by yourself and many oth¬
ers representing southern California
newspapers urging me to ,issue, a
statement in support of the Repub¬
lican national and state tickets. I
msk' is Inc
candidacy.
“I have publicly expressed my
upon national policies and concern¬
ing the present administration
the floor of the senate and otherwise.
I had assumed these were
particularly to Californians, ... and
theie was not necessity again to
p |. ess them in this campaign.
For many years in the politics
this nation, two distinct political phi
losophies have constantly clashed, and
in the present economic crisis these
two conflicting philosophies stand
kbe one against the other in hold re¬
lief. On the one hand is the pro
gressive, on the other the ultra
conservative.
“T am am a progressive Republican;
Mr. Hoover is is not. not. He He lias lias justly
earned the title ot ultra-conservative,
the difference between the two may
be described in a generalization,
could - .....t...... tie particularized ....................— in a hundred
acts ot the existing . . national
istrtmn
“The progressive believes this
ernment belongs to privileged all its people, not
to a favored or few, and
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Shakes Of 3,000
Persons Injure
Hand Of Hoover
Washington, Oct. 14. (TP)—
President Hoover, after retiring
early from a White House re¬
ception last night with more than
1,000 people still waiting to shake
his hand, today made an early
morning appearance with his
right hand bandaged.
Dr. Joel T. Boone, the White
House physician, said he was
feeling fit but had suffered a
bruised hand in greeting more
than 3,000 people who filed past,
him before he retired. He had
suffered also a small cut, presum¬
ably from a ring worn by one of
the guests.
The president arose unusual¬
ly early this morning and took
part in his customary medicine
hall game.
Washington, Oct. 14. (TP)—Through
the historic White House last night
went the largest aggregation ever to
attefid an evening reception there—
so large that President Hoover re¬
tired before he finished shaking
hands with the oncoming guests.
The president and Mrs. Hoover had
clasped the hands of three thousand
persons, and it was estimated that
there were more than one thousand
more to come, when he was prevailed
upon to retire.
As the bronze gates of the grand
stairway closed behind the presiden¬
tial party, ascending to second floor
private quarters, Captain Walter Ver¬
non, White House naval aide, announc
ed to the chatting crowd in the east
room that Mr. and Mrs. Hoover were
tired after a strenuous day. He
ed that they wished to be excused,
but to have their guests to enjoy the
hospitality of the White House. president
Later, it was learned the
had suffered a small cut on his right
hand during the reception, and that
when it began to bleed he felt, it would
be wise to discontinue handshaking.
A few minutes after Mr. and
Hoover had retired from the
scene downstairs, Dr. Joel T.
the White House physician, reported
the president “feeling fine,”
[ slightly tired from his active
which had included laying a corner
! stone for the new supreme
i building during a drizzling rain.
As A in the winter social
many of the guests i remained
the president had gone upstairs,
dance in the east loom.
Ordered To Athens After Insull
Charles A. Belows (left) and Andrew J. Vlachos, assistants to John
|A. Swanson, * ... ’ * state’s attorney have in Chicaago, were ordered to Athens by Swan
| son son 111 * lls at " tern pi ‘ to ~ Samuel * * Insull extradited and returned to Ghi
: fa k"> where the former utilities magnate has been indicted.
|
Letter to American Counsul
Gives His Reason For Not
Surrendering Passport to
Authorities.
Athens, ......... Greece, Oct. 14. - (/Pi ... Sam
Insull, wanted in Chicago to
an indictment in connection
[the collapse letter of his the vast American public utilities,
a to con
jsuI refusing today explaining surrender - his his reasons lor
j and to facilitate passport
- thus to extradition
"Sir,” he wrote, “1 was very much
surprised at your letter of yesler
partment ,|ay informing jne that the state de¬
Ii, hail instructed you to take
p my passport.
( “R “|t seems seems that that they they don’t don’t know know in
Washington that my passport is
uable until February, 1934, and
its authority I can stay out of
(.America iciiiici icu ip in any any country count i v I t choose. ciumo.c.
“Since the passport was issued by
'the country of which I am a citizen,
withdrawal is impossible especiai
j ] y w |,j| ( , | am traveling through for
eign countries.
“Because a genuine citizen is trims
formed by his own country, against
every sense of his obligation, into a
scamp who can neither stay anywhere
nor go anywhere, withdrawal of a
passport is equivalent to withdraw¬
al of citizenship. Therefore it is un¬
necessary for me to add that I cannot
recognize your i ight to cancel my
citizenship by surrendering to you my
passport before its expiration.
“Further than that, 1 protest vigor¬
ously because, contrary to the first
duty to an American citizen who has
lived honorably and whose life is a
history of his own country, you try to
deprive him indirectly of his citizen¬
ship, since withdrawal of a passport
without, any right has no other sig¬
nificance.
Reprieve Granted
Groves Day Before
Date Of Execution
Milledgeville, Ga., Oct. 14. (TP)—Joe
Groves, sentenced to die in the elec¬
tric chair today was granted a 20 day
retrieve late yesterday shortly aftei
he told officials at the state prison
farm here his father, now dead, had
fired the shot which killed Deputy
Sheriff II. A. White.
Young Groves, now 24, was convict¬
ed a year ago last June. The reprieve
granted by Governor Russell follow¬
ed a plea of insanity filed by Groves
physician. In a statement made in
Atlanta Governor Russell said the
story of an alibi as told by Groves is
“not new.”
“I have gone over the evidence in
the Groves case” Governor
said, “I recall that at his trial
claimed an alibi and offered several
witnesses to substantiate it,
ever the jury did not believe it and
j found him guilty. 1 see nothing I
do about the matter,” the
said. The chief executive, at
| time he granted the reprieve, had
I learned of the condemned man’s
i statement.
The elder Groves was arrested
| the time of the slaying Thoinasville and was
held in jail at when
died last year.
Young Groves said his sisters
gone to him in the Thomas
jail and had told him his father fir
ed the shot which killed the
He said he did riot learn it until
ter his trial. He himself, he
was visiting friends 17 miles fr
Sylvester, Ga., and 72 miles from
scene of the slaying, when the
ing occurred, he said.
He said his sisters told him
White broke down three doors iri
Groves home and used abusive
guage to th“m before he was shot.
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AUNT HURLS 1*0
MS TO DEATHS
I Throws Them From Window of
Sixteenth Story of Hotel
J While Hundreds W a t c li
Tragedy.
1 Milwaukee, Wis., ............ Oct. 14. (TP)
Thrown from a window on the six
floor of a downtown hotel by
|their aunt, two small children met
! death in the street, white hundreds of
1 workers and shoppers were on their
way home.
the woman responsible for their
(deaths, Mrs. Aurelia Lorenz, 31 year
j old wealthy divorcee Milwaukee and former wife of then a
contractor,
ended her own life by leaping after
t hem.
She left a note, blaming mistreat¬
ment ________, by her brother, Rudolph Li bo for
art. Her victims were:
1 Vivian and Milton Liho, aged 5 and
4 respectively.
I j . Authorities munormes investigating invest igaung the rue trag- i rag
j edy which occurred late yesterday,
were bolding Libo for further ques¬
tioning. Thep also questioned his wife,
the mother of the children, but snbse
qucntly permitted her to return to
her home.
Mrs. Lorenz, who had made her
home at. the Liho residence, ' H Iasi
Wednesday taking a room ,n the ho¬
tel. Yesterday afternoon she reap¬
peared at the Liho home and suggest¬
ed that she take the children for a
walk. She and the children appar¬
ently had always been on friendly
terms and their mother raised no ob¬
ject ion.
Shortly afterward, the police learn¬
ed, Mrs. Lorenz hailed a taxicab and
took the children to the hotel, where
she tied their arms and legs with silk
stockings before tossing them from
the window.
The body of one of the children
struck an automobile fender. The
other narrowly missed injuring Wil¬
liam Brings, knocking off Lis hat.
In the note Mrs. Lorenz left be¬
hind in her hotel room she accused
her brother of having misinformed
her as to the seriousness of an ail¬
ment from which she had been suffer¬
ing, and charged that her relatives
were fonder of their pet dogs than
they were of her.
“And so” she wrote, “1 have no fu¬
ture. That’s why I am going to end
it:, hut not alone.”
HOAGLAND IS HELD
FOR FATAL MISHAP
Omaha, Neb., Oct. 14. (TP)-— A
coroner’s jury today
William B. Hoagland, of Omaha, lie
held to the district court “due to his
negligence” in an automobile acci¬
dent last Saturday which resulted in
the death of Mrs. Kathleen
Gram broil, of Atlanta, Ga.
The verdict followed testimony
three Lincoln, Neb., men that
land was seen drinking at a
game t here several hours before I
crash The accident occurred
the coupU was returning to
from the Nebraska-Iowa State
hall game at Lincoln. Hoagland,
jured seriously, was still in a
Mrs. Gambrel], daughter of
General Johnson Hagood,
ant of the Seventh Corps Area,
buried at Charleston, S. C., after
eral services here.
|
j MURDER-SUICIDE
j I Bradenton, Fla, Oct .14. (TP)
Campbell, filling station operator
j ! Bradenton, Samoset, a shot few and miles killed southeast his
last night and then ended his own
No motive was definitely known,
jealousy was hinted as officers
one of the children as saying,
accused mother of being out with
other man during the dav, which
denied.”
PRICE FIVE CENTS
BOY 9, TELLS
OF SLAYINGS
IN HIS HOME
Billy Tressler on Death Bed
Rallies Long Enough to Give
Police Details of Horrible
Crime
THREE ARE CLUBBED
TO DEATH BY PAIR
Although he Does Not Know
Grandmother, Mother and
Sister Dead He Accuses Uncle
and Mothers Suitor.
Uonnellsville, Pa., Oct. 14. (TP) -
Beaten by the clubber who killed his
mother, grandmother and sister, Billy
Tressler, 9, rallied today and from his
hospital cot told police that his uncle,
Clyde Harden, 28 and his mother’s
suitor, Philip Rendu, 50, struck him.
The hoy lias hovered between life
and death since he was attacked Tues¬
day night. He improved today i^d
police who have been at his bedside
constantly questioned him.
The child seemed lucid and gave
clear straightforward answers.
Chief of Police John (’. Wall asked
him:
“Who hit you?”
“Clyde Harden,” tin - !>ov replied.
“With what?”
“With a knife.”
“How many times?"
‘He hit me three times.”
'Who else was in the house?”
“Mama.”
"Who else?”
“Grandma.”
“Where was Sadie?”
Sadie, 11, the boy’s sister; his moth¬
er, Mrs. Nellie Tressler, 2H, and his
grandmother, Mrs. Amanda Harden,
62, were slain by the clubber.
“Sadie was out,” Billy Replied.
“Out where?”
“Outside.’ ¥
“Where was your mama?”
“In the kitchen.”
“Do “Yes.'” you know Renda?”
A
“Who is he?”
“A man who goes with mama.”
"Iibl Renda hit. you?”
“Yes, he also hit me.’
At. this point the questioning was
slopped as Billy grew tired
Billy doesn't know his mother,
grandmother and sisloi are dead. He
said that he wants to go home and re¬
turn to school. When he emerged
from a coma lie asked for candy and
I watermelon. Yesterday physicians
said the boy could not live through
I the night They were amazed by his
| recuperative powers. f
i Harden was was taken taken into custody
Wednesday night when he walked into
the police station and asked to. seo
the bodies and sought details of the
crime.
He told police he had iust arrived
on a freight train from Cumberland,
Mil., where he has been living with
relatives. He is in jail at Uniontown,
ns is Renda.
Renda, a nested Wednesday after
the battered bodies were found, ad¬
mitted lie visited the Tressler home
Tuesday night hut said the family was
in good dealth when he departed about
midnight. lie said there were no
ot her visitors.
T
FATE OF ARMS PARLEY DE¬
PENDS ON OUTCOME OF
CONFERENCE
London. Oct. 14. (TP)- Great Brit¬
ain and France have agreed to hold
a four-power emergency disarma¬
ment conference at Geneva, it was an¬
nounced today at the conclusion of a
conference between Prime Minister
MacDonald and Premier Herriot.
Italy already has accepted an invi¬
tation to participate, but thus far
Germany has not agreed to holding
the meeting at Geneva.
Germany’s attitude indicates an¬
odic p- deadlock, hut her objections
were described at No. 10 Downing
street as “temporary.”
This special conference would deal
with Germany’s demand for arms
j eoauilty and would attempt to get her
I hack into the world disarmament Pon
I ference from which she retired when
the other powers declined to concede
her equality claim.
When the British government first
suggested a four-power meeting sev¬
eral weeks ago Germany accepted
London as a place foi the conference.
The task now facing the other .pow¬
ers is to get Germany to come to the
parley at Geneva.
The two premiers wrestled with tha
problem until late last night with
other officials of both governments.
The bulletin issued at the close of the
talks was non-commital, but it was
learned both agreed Germany’s par¬
ticipation at Geneva is essential.
Premier Herriot expressed the
opinion that not much progress had
been made yesterday, however.
It was learned the British govern
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