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THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
VOLUME xxxnif'hTOJ 4o.
FLORIDA PRISON GUARD CONVICTED
OTHER
One of Guards Charged
Murder of Young New
Youth is Convicted of
slaughter
HIGGINBOTHAM IS
GIVEN HIS
Attorney For Convicted Guard
Quickly Files Notice
Motion For New Trial Will
Be Asked.
Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 15. (A 3 )—The
jury in the Arthur Maillefert sweat
death case late today found Geo.
Courson guilty of manslaughter
and acquitted Solomon Higginbotham.
The jury was out two hours and 16
minutes, before notifying Judge Geo.
Couper Gibbs it had reached a ver¬
dict. The finding was not in proper
form, however, and Judge Gibbs sent
the jurors back to rewrite it.
Mrs. Rena Maillefret, mother of
the dead New Jersey youth, calmly
looked at the floor as the verdict was
read.
There was hardly a sound in the
crowded court room. Higginbotham
was discharged from custody.
Courson’s attorney immediately fil¬
ed notice of appeal for a new trial.
Arguments before the jury were
concluded today at 1:20 p. m..
Fuller Warren, attorney for Hig¬
ginbotham, made the final argument,
talking for two and a half hours, af¬
ter Charles M. Durrance, state’s at¬
torney, made the closing speech for
the prosecution.
Higginbotham wept visibly while
Warren pleaded with the jury “not
to take this man away from his two
small motherless children.”
The case went to the jury •at 2:49
p. m.
The jury was charged by Judge
George C. Gibbs after the noon re¬
cess.
Under the charge the jury could
have returned one of four verdicts for
either or both defendants. They could
have returned a verdict of murder in
the first degree, murder in the second
degree, manslaughter or acquittal.
Describing the punishment meted
out of Arthur Maillefert, young New
Jersey convict, as more cruel than
the Spanish inquisition, Charles M.
Durrance, state’s attorney, today
painted a picture of horror to a jury
trying two former Sunbeam camp
guards for murder.
With perspiration running down
his neck, the fiery prosecutor told the
jury he would never become a part of
At" “defense of this penal institution
• despotism.”
* Durrance called upon the jury to
visualize the punishment Arthur
Maillefert underwent before he
“couldn’t stand it any longer.”
“Because he wouldn’t tell where
some hand saws were, he was unmer¬
cifully beaten and because he wouldn’t
take a pint of castor oil they put him
in the barrel and then the sweat box,
the only legal place for corporal pun¬
ishment at that camp, and God knows
that’s bad enough.”
LEADING FARMER
HELD IN MURDER
OF GEORGIA MAN
Perry, Ga., Oct. 15. (JP)—J. D. Mar¬
shall, prominent farmer, yesterday
was arrested on murder charges con¬
tained in a warrant sworn out by the
widow of W. J. Boon, who was shot
to death Thursday night near Gro
vania, Ga.
Brothers of the dead man, who
came here from Orlando and Lake¬
land, Fla., accompanied Mrs. Boon,
who witnessed the tragedy, to the
sheriff’s office, where the warrant
was obtained.
Marshall previously had been ab¬
solved of guilt in the shooting when
a coroner’s jury returned a verdict of
justifiable homicide.
The shooting followed arguments,
it was brought out at the inquest, be¬
tween Marshall and Boon over the
ownership of a house. Boon claimed I
be had purchased the house from a j
the loan company while Marshall claimed j
property was part of his father’s
estate and was tied up in litigation
so no sale was possible.
The two, accompanied by their
wives, met at the house, Marshall
witnesses hoarding up the doors and windows. 1
to take testified, and Boon seeking
possession. I
Marshal] claimed he fired in self j
defense when Boon advanced on him
■with a club.
TAMPA SELECTED '
Washington, Oct. 15. UP )—The ex
ecutive committee of the American
Bar Association today selected Tam
pa, Fla,, for its annual mid-winter
meeting beginning January 24. i
Heads Insull Probe
Senator Peter Norbeck, chairman of
the senate banking committee, will
take charge of the senate’s investiga¬
tion into the Insull ease.
Found in Florida, Steps are
Taken Immediately to Pre¬
vent Infestation in Georgia of
Dreaded Pest.
Atlanta, Oct. 15. UP )—The Georgia
department of agriculture said today
pink boll worm had been found in
Florida and asked the federal depart¬
ment of agriculture to call a hearing
“to determine advisibility” of taking
steps to prevent infestation in Geor¬
gia from the dreaded pest.
The request was made by Eugene
Tahnadge, state commssioner of ag¬
riculture and Democratic nominee for
governor, in a letter to Arthur M.
Hyde, federal commissioner of agri¬
culture.
Talmadge said that on October 1
federal inspectors found one pupa of
the worm in gin trash at High
Springs, approximately 75 miles from
the Georgia line.
A week later, Talmadge wrote, one
larva was found in gin trash by the
same inspectors at Lake City, Fla.,
approximately 5o miles frm the Geor¬
gia line.
“Only three or four days ago,” Tal¬
madge wrote Hyde, “federal inspect¬
ors found a cotton field 10 miles north
of High Springs in Columbia coun¬
ty, which adjoins Georgia,, infested
by approximately 10 larvae and four
pupae.”
Talmadge’s letter said federal au¬
thorities advised Georgia that under
the plant quarantine act of 1912, the
states are prohibited from taking ac¬
tion in establishing a quarantine after
the federal government had placed a
quarantine on any particular insect
o)' disease, and that Georgia there¬
fore was unable to act. The gov¬
ernment, Talmadge said, has estab¬
lished quarantines in Texas, New
Mexico and Arizona.
Farm Loan Banks
In All Sections
Begin Business
Washington, Oct. 15. UP )—A chain
of twelve federal home loan banks,
strung across t'he country ,opened for
business today, ready to receive ap¬
plications for loans on small home
mortgages.
The new structure began official
life without formality or celebration.
At headquarters here, officials said
they had received notice that banks
at Cambridge, Mass., Pittsburgh and
Winston-Salem, N. C„ were open. The
others had sent in no notice but this
was the day set for all to start, and
officials said previous reports had
shown the regional offices were in
full swing.
For thirty days past the banks have
had subscription books open to af
ford member institutions opportuni
ty to contribute capital. What was
taken locally is. ,
not to be subscribed ,
by the treasury,
Board officials said no money is to
be handed out by the new banks im
mediately, but that cash will begin
flowing as soon as loan applications
are approved. The mortgages to be
taken are limited to those on homes
valued at not more than $20,000.
Other federal funds were made
available for distribution today, as
the Reconstruction Corporation ap
a total of $51,221,855 for relief
loans to six states for immediate use.
The states receiving these funds
are Arkansas, $529,000; Tennessee,
$193,256 Ohio, $182,887; Oklahoma,
$181,312; Montana $95,000, and Miehi
gan, $40,000.
”BRUNSWICK; (1A.. suibkv'f 601116, 1932.
Chicago Lawyers Reach
ington and Hold
With State Officials
ing Future Action.
REFUSE TO DISCLOSE
NATURE OF NEXT
Insull, in Greece, Says He
Be Very Glad to Meet Any
Legal Emissaries Who
Go to Athens.
Washington, Oct. 15. (/ P)—Syste¬
matic prepartions for the extradition
from Greece of Samuel Insull. Sr., de¬
spite the first setback, were launched
today in Washington by two assist
ant state’s attorneys from Chicago
in cooperation with state department
officials.
Charles A. Bellows and Andrew
Vlachos, the Chicago attorneys, arriv¬
ed this morning and immediately
went into conference with Joseph R.
Baker, extradition expert of the de¬
partment.
Afterwards Bellows said he and
Vlachos were compelled to abandon
their plan to sail for Europe October
19 and will remain in Washington un¬
til they get additional depositions
from witnesses in the Chicago pro¬
ceedings against Insull so as to have
complete legal records to take to
Greece.
State department officials still de¬
cline to say what their next step in
the case will be.
The extradition treaty negotiated
between Greece and the United States,
which is not yet effective because
there has not been an exchange of rat¬
ifications, includes both larceny and
embezzlement among the crimes for
which refugees may be surrendered,
should this treaty be made effective
within a few weeks it might simplify
procedure for Insull’s extradition
should other efforts fail, even though
its bearing retroactively might be in
question.
Iiisull Talks
Athens, Oct. 15. (A 3 )—Samuel In¬
sull, under indictment in Chicago fol¬
lowing the collapse of his utilities in¬
terests, said today that he would be
glad to see any legal emissaries who
may come here from the United
States.
“I’ll be very happy to meet them,”
he said, in commenting upon reports
that officers were on the way in con¬
nection with extradition proceedings,
“because they, like me, are sure to
have a very enjoyable time in Greece.”
He said also that he hoped his af¬
fairs would be settled quickly in the
United States and that the American
authorities would acknowledge his
passport rights so that he might be
able to leave Greece freely.
Officials at the American legation
said they had made no representations
to the Greek government in connec¬
tion with the extradition of Insull
since the letter several days ago con¬
firming verbal request for his arrest.
This statement followed reports
that Insull be detained pending extra¬
dition proceedings to take him back
to Chicago.
SENSATIONAL CASE
IN SOUTH AFRICA
WILL OPEN MONDAY
Johannesburg, British South Afri¬
ca, Oct. 15. UP )—One of South Afri¬
ca’s most sensational murder trials
will open Monday when Mrs. Daisy
Louise De Melker now the wife of
Sydney Clarence De Melker, famous
South African rugby player, will ap¬
pear in court to answer charges that
she poisoned two former husbands
and her son.
The crown alleges she killed her
first husband William Alfred Rowle,
in 1923; her second husband, Robert
Sproat, in 1927, and her son, Cecil
Rhodes Rowle, in March of this year.
No suspicion was attached to her
until the death of the son, who suc¬
cumbed after drinking coffee from a
flask which he had taken to his work
for lunch. The youth’s body was ex¬
humed and traces of poison were
found in it.
The authorities thereupon exhumed
the bodies of the two previous bus
bands, with the result that the triple
murder charge was lodged against
her.
MILLS TO RESUME
Aiken, S. C„ Oct 15. (A 3 /—The lang
ley textile mills will go on full time
operations Monday with 2,000 more
persons employed than during the
slack period of the summer, officials
of the company announced yesterday.
At that time some 200 to 300 employ¬
es will be added to the night shift at
mills in six places in Horse Creek
Valley.
Actresses Nominated For Film Award
These three have been nominated for (his year’s award of (lie Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
for the best performances of the year. Left to light Lynn Fontaine for her role in “The Guardsman,”
Hayes lor her part in I he Sin ot Madden t Jaudet,” and .Marie Dressier, who was voted the award last
for her portrayal of the motherly nurse in “Emma."
T
Curtis’ Right Arm and Shoul*
der Bruised When His Car
is in Accident in Salt Lake
City, Utah.
Salt Lake City, Oct. 15. <7P)—Vice
President Curtis’ right arm and
shoulder were bruised in an automo¬
bile accident near Layton, Utah, to¬
day as he was en route here from
Ogden, Utah, on a campaign trip.
Later he remarked he was suffering,
quite severely. He did not make a
scheduled talk at Layton, but smiled
and waved his handkerchief to the
crowd with his left hand.
The car in which the vice president
was a passenger was struck by a ma¬
chine driven by Mrs. L. Pec-hart of
Wendover, Utah. She was taken to
Layton by motorcycle officers who
were preceding the vice presidential
party.
The highway patrolmen had waved
the woman driver aside to permit the
cars of the Curtis party to pass. She
was said to have swung her machine
too far off the pavement and in an ef¬
fort to free it from the soft dirt
shoulder of the highway, drove it
broadside into the car in which the
vice president was riding.
A bumper was torn off and the
fenders on one side were smashed.
Riding with the vice president were
Senator Reed Smoot and Ernest
Bamberger, Republican national com¬
mitteeman for Utah, and Lieutenant
Harry A. Randall of the Utah nation¬
al guard, owner of the machine. It
was said to have been traveling about
35 miles an hour at the time.
SMITH IS WANTED TOR
LI IT j
DOUGLAS AUTHORITIES ASK
PENNSYLVANIA OFFICERS TO
ARREST HIM ON WARRANT
Douglas, Ga., Oct. 15. t/P)—-A war¬
rant for arrest of a man named Hoke
Smith and who is wanted in Coffee
county on a charge of child abandon¬
ment has been sent to Uriiontown, I
Pa., for service, but authorities there J
said today they had been unable to lo- j
cate them.
rant Sheriff to Pennsylvania R. C. Relihan and sent said the today! war- j
said “I sure the want wife to catch held that in man.” high lie j
teem in Coffee was county where she es- is j
'
home Sheriff demonstration agent. )
Harry Hackney of Union- war-j
town said there today he had a
rant for Smith, but that he had
unuable to locate him. He said the j
warrant arrived two weeks ago and
that he had been awaiting an
tunity to serve it.
The wife who charges abandonment'
v/as Miss Elizabeth West of Rome,!
Ga., before her marriage. She lives
here with her mother, Mrs. J. F.
West.
Sheriff Relihan said Mrs. Smith '
told him she was home demonstration !
agent for Appling county when she
met and married Smith in the sum
sales mer of manager 1928. She for said Valdosta he then was j
pany. The sheriff a said she told com-j him
she had not seen Smith since he
.... April 7, 1929, arid that the child was
bo rn three months later.
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BANK IS ROBBED
New York, Oct. 15. f/P )—Five
bers held up a branch of the Public
National Bank in the Bronx, today,
subdued eight employes by firing
four shots in the air, and escaped with
$15,000,
YOUNG STUDENT
HANGS HIMSELF
“FOR EXPERIMENT”
Fairfield, Oct. 15. (A 3 )—A 17
year-old college student and
member of a prominent family
here hanged himself in the bath¬
room of his home here last night
in what the family described as
“an experiment" and the coron¬
er called “suicide.”
The youth, Nelson Van Tol, Jr.,
was descirbed by his parents as
addicted to experiments and they
said he apparently placed a mir¬
ror in a window where he.could
watch himself experiment with
“strangulation.”
Coroner McOullom returned a
verdict of suicide but said he
could find no motive for such an
act. Friends said he was in
good spirits and was to have ac¬
companied them to a football
game last night. In his clothing
was found a ticket to the Alaba
ma-Tennessee game in Birming¬
ham today.
Germany Rejects
Proposition For
Four-Power Meet
Berlin, Oct. 15. t/P)—Germany re¬
jected today the plan for a four-pow¬
er conference on her demand for
arms equality which, as agreed to by
Premier Herriot of France and Prime
Minister MacDonald of Great Brit¬
ain at London, called for a meeting
at Geneva.
The German government’s objec¬
tion, Foreign Minister Von Neurath
told the cabinet last night, was to
the place selected. It was also learn¬
ed unofficially that Lausanne, Switz¬
erland, near Geneva, would also he
unacceptable to Germany as a place
tor the conierence.
Because of this refusal, prospect
for a “disarmament conference ma¬
terializing soon” was looked upon by
officials here as still further lessen¬
ed. Germany would be willing to go
to London, undoubtedly, for she ac¬
cepted ' ..... London '“""I when the four-power "'“'-I'"" 1 '
conference originally . was proposed
I>y Great Britain, but France would
not agree toeholding it there.
“It is an impossible presumption,”
it said, “to invite Germany to a place
charged atthc outset with francophile
and League of Nations influences.”
CLEMENCY MOVE
FOR JOE GROVES
WILL BE OPPOSED
Valdosta, Ga., Oct. 15. (/P)—G. C.
Spurlin, solicitor general of the
southern judicial district, said today
he would not sanction any movement
to abtain executive clemency for Joe
Groves, convicted of murdering a
county deputy sheriff,
Groves has accused his father of the
slaying. He has been granted a re
spite for an investigation of his men
tai condition. He was to have been
electrocuted yesterday at the Mil
ledgeville prison farm.
The solicitor said Groves threaten
ed his life after the trial and also had
threatened Sheriff Gordon Davis of
Thomas county,
“Groves is a dangerous character,”
Solicitor Spurlin said, “and I cannot
recommend mercy for him.”
He added that in his seven years as
solicitor he had always heretofore
supported clemency moves brought
about by attorneys for men he had
convicted.
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TREASURY RECEIPTS
__
Washington, Oct. 15. (fP) —Treasury
receipts for October 13 were $2,814,-
649,62; expenditures $7,424,752.94;
balance $774,936,884.30. Customs du
ties for thirteen days of October were
$10,030,151 19.
ROOSEVai 8USY
Democratic Presidential Candi¬
date Spends Day at Hyde
Park Preparing Speeches For
Forthcoming Trip.
Hyde Park, N. Y., Oct. 16. (A 3 )- In
the quiet surroundings of his country
estate, Governor Roosevelt worked
today over speeches he will make on
his forthcoming tour into the south
and middle west. In them, he is ex¬
pected to reveal his position on the
bonus.
With Mr. Roosevelt this week-end
is Senator Joseph T. Robinson, of Ar¬
kansas, the Democratic leader of the
senate, and Professor Moley of Col¬
umbia University, one of the gover¬
nor’s economic advisers in his cam¬
paign for the presidency. Prof. Mo¬
ley is assisting the governor in prep¬
aration of material for his speeches
of the tour.
Soon after the governor arrived at
Hyde Park he made public a letter
from Edward S. Paine, a New York
attorney, declaring that contrary to
a “statement made by the assistant
secretary of war," stockholders of the
United European Investors, Ltd., of
which Mr. Roosevelt was president,
had realized a profit when the com¬
pany was liquidated.
“My attention has been called to a
public statement made by the assist¬
ant secretary of war that you, as
president of the United European In¬
vestors Limited, advised the public
to invest in German securities in
1922 as a result of which money was
lost,” the letter said.
Paine wrote that lie was a Repub¬
lican ^nt Hooverimt and intended beTkv<X“fair to vote for Presi
play"
required ........:.....i an „„ explanation _____i....... i: .....« of ,, the situa¬
tion.
The company was incorporated
in 1922 for the purpose of affording
to American holders of German
Marks, which were rapidly declining
in value, the opportunity of recoup
some of their losses,” the letter
K!li(I said. .. “It Tl neither solicited „„„ nor re
reived subscriptions in any form of
money other than the actual paper
marks which were held in large
amounts by American citizens and
which were speedily becoming worth¬
less. . . .
“The company prospered under
your management, and that of Mr.
William Sehall, and his associates on
the executive committee, aided by a
distinguished advisory committee of
bankers in Germny.
“As a result of the investments
made, the hook value of these marks
reached nearly $K per share, where¬
upon iri late 1924 or early 1925, the
company under my supervision, liqui¬
dated. Its shareholders were paid
at the above rate, which yielded ap¬
proximately three times the amount
of the value of the marks at the time
of their deposit.
“It is therefore inaccurate, in fact
totally incorrect, to charge that in¬
vestors lost money in the transac¬
tion. . . .
“These marks, as every one knows,
became absolutely worthless.”
GEORGIA MAN IS
KILLED IN WRECK
Valdosta, Ga., Oct. 15. (A 1 ) Ivey
Barker 28, young resident of this
county was instantly killed and his
wife slightly injured this afternoon
when an automobile in which they
were riding skidded and crashed from
the highway rio.-th of this city. Roy
Parker, brother of the victim was
driving the machine and escaped in¬
jury. Mrs. Parker was brought here
for medical treatment. Parker was
a member of a prominent Lowndes
county family.
’PRICE FIVE“cEfi?§
Parly Leaders Ask Him to
Head West in Democracy’s
Cause, But He Has Not Yet
Decided
HIS RADIO SPEECH
WAS WELL RECEIVED
Senator Robinson Says Re¬
publican Independents Who
Support Roosevelt Be Dealt
With Favorably.
By R. HIPPELHEUtSER
New York, Oct. 15. (A*)—Democrat¬
ic chieftains, desirous of further cam¬
paigning by Speaker John M. Garner,
awaited loilay a decision from the
vice presidential nominee on a pro¬
posed tour of the west.
Saving their desires had been en¬
hanced by the reception of t;he speak¬
er’s address last night, the strategists
have urged the nominee to Lead west
through the corn belt to the Pacific
coast.
Already, the presidential nominee,
Governor Franklin Roosevelt, has
carried westward the cause of Democ¬
racy.
^elore the speaker returned to
Washington, close associates reveal¬
ed he expressed doubt as to the nec¬
essity of such a tour.
“While he wants to do everything
possible for the success of the ticket,”
said one of the speaker’s associates,
“Mr. Garner feels there is no need for
such an extended tour. Should the
speaker decide not to go west, he will
surely make several more addresses
in the eastern half of the country.
These will probably be announced
some time early next week.” 1
The national committee headquar¬
ters said many appeals for the speak¬
er’s appearance in all parts) of the
country were received late last night
and today.
This address, touching as lit did on
government finances and budget-mak¬
ing, was regarded by the Democratic
committee and by the congratulatory
messages as one of the prims' contri¬
butions of the campaign.
Arriving last night from Paris
aboard the Berengaria, another Dem¬
ocratic campaigner, Gene Tunney,
prepared a second tour in liehalf of
the Roosevelt ticket.
“The whole world is looking to
Roosevelt,” said the former; heavy¬
weight champion, “and 1 thimk Hoover
will be the worst defeated man in the
history of the Republican party ex¬
cept, Taft, who erried only two states
in 1912. The Hoover myth has com¬
pletely exploded.”
Robinson Talks
Hyde Park, N. Y„ Oct. 15. (A 3 )—A
disposition to deal favorably with Re¬
publican independents in the senate
who support the national Democrat¬
ic ticket, was outlined by Senator
Robinson, of Arkansas, the Democrat¬
ic leader, today at the Hyde Park
home of Franklin I). Roosevelt.
Talking in the drawing room of the
Roosevelt home shortly before he
went picnicing with Mr. and Mrs.
Rosevelt, Robinson said he believed
the national platform made necessary
prompt modification of the Volstead
act, and that he would join in cooper¬
ating to that end.
Discussing the Republican inde¬
pendents who are joining in support¬
ing the Democratic presidential nom¬
inee, Robinson said: “I don’t see any
occasion for penalizing anybody for
supporting the national ticket.” Some
important committee posts would be
involved in any reorganization by the
Democrats that would follow the elec¬
tion of a Democratic majority.
Robinson said he believed prompt
action to permit the sale of beer
would follow the success of the Demo¬
cratic ticket.
His post as leader of the minority
in the senate will give Robinson, who
was the Democratic vice presidential
nominee in 1928, a strong voiee in
determining the policy of any Demo¬
cratic reorganization which might fol¬
low the election.
HOSPITAL HEAD QUITS
Augusta, Ga., Oct. 15. (A 3 )—The
resignation of Dr. T. R. Ponton, su¬
perintendent of the University of
Georgia hospital became effective to¬
day arid Dr. L. P. Holmes, clinical di¬
rector of X-ray at the unuiversity’s
medical college was named to suc¬
ceed him temporarily. Dr. Holmes
will serve until a meeting of the
board of trustees October 21.
WATERWAYS GETS AID
Washington, Oct. 15. UP) —The act¬
ing secretary of war, Colonel Fred¬
erick H. Payne, approved the allot¬
ment today of $375,000 for the intra
coastal waterway, Jacksonville t»
Miami, Fla.