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THE BRUNSWICK
VOLUME XXXII. NO. 46.
ITANS
FOR ROOSFVELT’S
ABRIL IN
Reception of Magnitude Seldom
Accorded By Georgians
Planned For Democratic Nom=
inee Today
MANY GOVERNORS TO
ATTEND CELEBRATION
New York Chief Executive
Also Visit Warm
Where Another
is Being Planned.
By GLENN UAMSEl
Atlanta, Oct. 22. (AP)—A reception
of a magnitude seldom accorded by
Georgians is planned for Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
Joined by Democratic leaders from '
border states, Georgia tomorrow tomorrow
and Monday will entertain her adopt¬
ed son and in turn hear him speak in
hitcampaign for the presidency.
Tyjwarm cratic nominee Springs, has where the Demo¬
a winter home,
will be his Sunday rendezvous with
old friends. There he will greet his
neighbors and preside over a session
of the Warm Springs foundation and
he the honored guest at luncheon.
The New York governor is schedul¬
ed to arrive at Atlanta at 9:30 a. m.,
central standard time, tomorrow
morning. Plans call for a short
speech to the reception committee and |
mere spectators at the terminal sta- |
tion.
Then the governor and his party
will be taken by automobile to Warm I
Springs. Along the route the towns I
and communities through which the j j
party will pass, are planning to turn
out enmass and hail the nominee as
he passes.
The governor and his party will re¬
turn to Atlanta late Sunday and that
night he is to confer with party lead¬
ers.
Monday at 11 a. m., there will be a
parade of school children and civic
leaders in his honor. At 1 p. m., the
governor will be the honor guest at a
luncheon given by Senator John S. Co¬
hen, Democratic national committee¬
man and vice chairman of the national
committee and close friend of the New
York executive.
Indications today were that the
luncheon will be attended by at least
500 persons, including the governors,
senators and committeemen from the
neighboring states and members of
the state executive committee as well
as other notables among the Demo¬
cratic leadership in Georgia.
Hugh Howell, chairman of the state
executive committee and general
chairman of the arangements for the
nominee’s visit expected at least 25,
000 persons from all parts of the stale
and adjoining states, to hear the g v
ernor’s address Monday night at the
city auditorium.
The auditorium rally will begin at
p. m., central standard time. The
.ss cr fjSSJ'nor > s to begin his'address at
m. over a radio hookup of two
V national " chains.
Because of the large crowd sched¬
uled to attend, arrangements have
been made for loud speakers not only
in the building but on the outside, in
order that those who are unable to I
obtain seats may hear the speech and
the other activities.
He will leave immediately after the
rally to continue his speaking tour.
Mrs. Roosevelt, who has accompan¬
ied the governor on his tour so far
will leave the special train at Marietta
in time to motor to Atlanta and catch
an 8 a. m. plane for New York.
Mrs. Roosevelt, who has many
friends in Georgia made during her
many visits to the state with her hus¬
band, is connected with a well known
girls’ school in New York state. Her
return is necessitated by her duties
at the institution.
While the New York executive’s
visit is primarily a Georgia affair, the
governors of five Georgia sister states
have accepted invitations to be pres¬
ent with representative delegations to
welcome Roosevelt. The senators
and national committeemen from
these states are also to be present.
The governors to be in the welcom¬
ing party are: Henry H. Horton of :
Tennessee; O. Max Gardner of North
Carolina; Doyle E. Carlton of Flori
da; Ibra B. M. C. Miller Blackwood. of Alabama. South Caroli- Three J
na; Democratic nominees for governor, j ;
Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, and David Hill |
McAllister of Tennessee ;
Sholtz of Florida are also to be in
the party.
EMPLOYMENT INCREASES
New York. Oct. 32. (A 3 )—The Phil
lips-Jones Corporation, textile mana
faeturers, announced today that em
ployment in its ten plants has in
creased 400 percent in the past six ^
months. A total of 5,050 persons now j
nre at work, the majority of hem
in Pennsylvania plants. The P >Us-j
vine plant now is employing t,400
iqotkers as against 300 -100 six six months months; j
P*#v •Or Other Other divisions^ divisions of of their the the com- fore-; 1
which have added to
es are situated in Minersville, Coal
dale, Boswell, Kane Mahoney City,
Meyersville and a me.-boro all in Penn
svlvania, City Warren, R. I., and New York :
i
Mule Bride Wounded
:
Louise Green,, 16, who ran away
from her 45-year-old husband three
years ago, claiming her father had
swa|,|M ‘ d her to him for a mule team,
sllot al,d wounded at Hopkins¬
ville, Ky., by William I’errigo, a
youthful suitor.
Political Campaigns Without a
EaFollette Nearing Close With
Results One of State's
Puzzles.
By ALVIN .1. STINKOPF
Associated Press Staff Writer
Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 22. (/P)—A
Wisconsin state political campaign
without a LaFollette dominatng the
proceedings is drawing to a close.
In the September primary Wiscon¬
sin surprised the nation and itself, by
upsettting- the LaFollette-Progressive
organization.
But, crowded out of the center of
fight, the LaFollette faction is
from the sidelines—and
shouting lor Democratic candidates of
national and state tickets. The per¬
plexing question political followers
say is whether homeless LaFollette
are going Republican or Dem¬
Heretofore they have been
in the Republican column.
The Progressives are pondering the
of Senator Robert M. LaFol¬
lette, not a candidate this year, who
said in a formal statement that there
is little to hope from either party but
that the Democratic “is the lesser of
evils.” He urged support for all
except those opposing the
Progressives who survived the
upheaval.
Governor Philip F. LaFollette, vic¬
of defeat in the primary, has
followers to support a Demo¬
for United States senator, but
remained silent on other candi¬
The LaFollette plea was intended to
to 320,000 voters who support¬
the governor in the primary. The
holding brothers are trying to
them to their 132,000 votes cast
Democrats in that election. The
gubernatorial candidate
polled 414,000 votes in the primary.
For governor Wisconsin voters will
between Walter J. Kohler, for¬
governor, philanthropist and
whose industries are
situated at the “Ideal Village” of
is the man who eliminated
LaFollette in the primary.
Schniedeman is mayor of Madison and
minister to Norway in the Wilson him-'
He has devoted
largely to urging strict regula¬
of utilities and demanding ade¬
care for the unemployed.
Kohler last week endorsed the can¬
of President Hoover. Thereby
Democrats who had dared
him to do it. Democrats charged
that Kohler, who made the primary
fight on state issues, chiefly economy
government, would hesitate to as¬
himself with the national Re¬
ticket.
For United States senator, the race
between John B. Chappie, Republi¬
,and F. Ryan Duffy, Democrat, of
Fond du Lac. In the primary Chap
pie, crusading young Ashland editor,
campaigned against what he called
“radicalism” and eliminated a veter
a n of the progsessive wars, Senator
John J. Blaine. But in the election
he faces Duffy, who also says he is a
f oe 0 f “communism and socialism.”
Wisconsin will elect congressmen
from ten districts and six of the can¬
didates are progressive incumbents
who who survived survived the the primary primaly storm. storm. The The
only only other other Progressive Progressive survivor survivor is is the the
candidate candidate for for secretary secretary of of state. state.
"
TREASURE FIGURES |
W ashington, Oct. 22. (IP) rreasury
receipts for October 20 were $.5,775,-j
881.90; expenditures, $16,523,457.64;
balance, $827,216,240.16. Customs
ties ties for for 2 days ol October were $16,
935,855.11.
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BLOSSOM APPOINTED
Washington, Oct. 21. GP)—President
Hoover today appointed George L.
Blossom to be acting postmaster at
Macon. Ga.
BRUNSWICK, GA., SUNDAY. OCT. 23, 1932.
PRISONER SLAIN
DORINE RIOT IN
WARE
City Penitentiary of New
Scene of Disturbance and
Available Police Officers
Called
MANY ARE INJURED
IN HALF=HOUR
Peace Committees Meet to
tie Racial Animosities
Parley Results in
Outbreak.
By OLIVER S. GRAM LING
New York, Oct. 22. iff 1 )—One pris¬
oner was killed and many injured to¬
day in rioting at the city penitentiary
on Welfare Island which started in
fighting among prison “peace mak¬
ers” in the warden’s office.
Two committees of peace makers
had met with the warden to settle rac¬
ial animosities which had broken be¬
tween prisoners.
The peace makers suddenly began
fighting and George Holshod was
stabbed to death. The killing was the
signal for general rioting which
spread among some 200 prisoners of
the 1,660 confined in the institution.
The rioting continued for half an
hour before it was quelled and many
were injured in the fighting.
The riot caused one of the greatest
police concentrations in years. Be¬
tween 600 and 800 policemen, emer¬
gency squads, police boats and air¬
planes were sent to the scene.
The police army was equipped with
machine guns, rifles, revolvers and
tear gas bombs.
The peace committees consisted of
two ipen each. Joey Kao, Harlem
gangster, and Frank Mazzio, repre¬
sented one racial group while Hol¬
shod, the man who was killed, was
one of the representatives of the other.
Holshod was said to have struck
Mazzio and then the fight began,
spreading among some 200 prisoners
who were being marched past the
warden’s office at the time.
The prison has a normal capacity
of 1,368 but there are at present 1,-
660 inmatqs. The hundreds in their
cells began screaming and shaking
the bars as the fight began and for
almost an hour there was bedlam.
After the riot was quelled the sur¬
viving “peace makers” were taken to
the warden’s office for questioning
and about 50 prisoners were herded
into an ante room for examination
later. They seemed in. an ugly mood
and more than 100 patrolmen were
assigned to watch them, ready with
revolvers, rifles and gas bombs to
stop any new outbreak.
The police boats continued to circle
the island and the planes to wheel
close overhead.
None of the injured was ser iously
hurt.
Rao was believed by the police to
have been the intended target of
gangster bullets in the so-called Har¬
lem “baby murder” in east 107th
street in July 1931. Vincent Coll,
since slain by gangster machine
gunners, was tried and acquitted of
the Harlem shooting, in which one
child was killed.
Access to the island is gained either
by ferry or by elevator from the cen¬
ter of the bridge. The island is sur¬
rounded by swirling currents coming
out of Hell Gate, where the fast East
river open into Long island Sound.
Many timds prisoners have sought to
swim to liberty from the island hut
few have succeeded because of the
treacherous currents.
Inspector Vincent Sweeney sent 50
detectives to the island from police
headquarters and ordered all squad
commanders to send additional detec¬
tives from all over the city. As a pre¬
cautionary measure detectives
patrolmen were sent to Tombs pris¬
on near- police headquarters to prevent
any sympathetic outbreak there. The
Tombs was the scene of the last ser¬
ious prison riot in New York.
Besides the bridge elevator and the
regular ferrv service the island is
connected with the shore by an emer¬
gency exit from the B. M. T. subway
tunnel from Manhattan to Queens,
which runs directly under the island.
There police airplanes were ordered
to make a reconnaisance flight over
the island to investigate a report
that the prsioners had set fire to the
great stone buildings.
ATLANTA COUPLE
HELD AT BAY AS
HOME IS LOOTED
Atlanta, the’threat Oct. 22. UP)—Held at
UIK j er of a nistol, Mr.
Mrs. J. L. Peacock were forced to
lie quiet in bed early this
while a burglar ransacked their
reported to police.
Mj*. Peacock said he was awakened
about 4 a. m. by a noise in the room.
When he sat un in bed, he said, the
intruder threw the beam of a
light on him and pointed a pistol, or
dering him to be quiet.
Mrs. Peacock was awakened about
thar time and received similar orders.
The burglar' escaped through a win¬
dow. taking $40 in cash, a pistol and
the keys to Peacock’s store.
MINNESOTA JAIL
HELD UP. BOBBED
81 BANDIT GANG
Polk County Bastile Victim of
Heavily-Armed Men Who Flee
With Much Loot After Bind¬
ing Attendants
GUNS AMMUNITION
STOLEN BY QUARTET
From Safe They Take All
ery of Prisoners After
ing Jailors in Padded Cells
Prison.
Crookston, Minn., Oct. 22. t/P) In
a raid on the Folk county jail, four
men held up the night and day jailers
and a third man, taped their eyes and
mouths and fled with $500, 20 slot
machines, a machine gun, 500 rounds
of ammunition, several rifles and pis¬
tols, and a small quantity of liquor
early today.
The raiders locked their victims in
a cell before they left.
The liquor was being held as evi¬
dence in pending cases of alleged law
violators. The slot machines contain¬
ed about $500 in coins.
The robbers arrived in a small
delivery truck.
After slugging and binding James
Duckworth, the night jailer, (lie rob¬
bers dragged Duckworth to the jail
garage. Entering the jail they went, to
sleeping quarters upstairs and con¬
fronted Iver Forseth, day jailer, and a
friend named Lamm, with pistols.
“Come on, get up there,” one order¬
ed. The other taped their mouths
and eyes. A third bandit joined them.
Duckworth was brought in and as
one man stood guard, (lie others ran¬
sacked the jail building. j
From the jail safe they took $1,000 |
in cash belonging to jailers and pris
oners.
The loot was loaded on the truck,
driven by a fourth man.
The victims were locked in a padded
cell, from which they were released
with the aid of a woman jail inmate,
who had been awakened by the noise.
HOOVER TAKES HIS
DRIVE INTO OHIO
PRESIDENT SOUNDS ANOTHER
APPEAL, CONTINUING CAM¬
PAIGN FOR RE-ELECTION
By NATHAN ROBERTSON
Aboard President Special, En Route
to Detroit Oct. 22. (IP)—President
Hoover carried his campaign for re
election into the pivotal state of Ohio
today for the third time in as many
weeks, after telling West Virginia
audiences “the country is beginning
to right itself” and pointing to Re¬
publican tariff policies as “a neces¬
sary factor” in the trend.
At Charleston, W. Va., the first stop
in his hurried, dawn to dusk dash to
Detroit for a campaign speech
the president told a throng overflow¬
ing the city’s football field that, the
Democrats proposed to lower tariff
rates and destroy the tariff commis¬
sion. He said they were attacking the
Republican tariff with an ingenious
hypothesis and a “fantastic idea.”
Again at Huntington, W. Va., where
lie left his train a second time to
speak from an improvised platform
at the station edge, the president at¬
tacked the Democratic tariff policies.
While a crowd that filled an open
park beside the station applauded and
cheered him, Mr. Hoover said, “I am
happy to tell you that during the last
three or four months since we were
freed from thet obstruction of the
Democratic parly in the congress these
measures (for reconstruction) have
proved themselves so vital and so
potent and so powerful that we have
begun to see the evidence of recovery
in every part of the country.”
“That’s true, too,” someone shouted
from the crowd that spread out be¬
low him.
In contrast to what lie called the
Democratic proposals for reductions
{Charleston in tariffs, the chief executive told his
audience he had asked the
tariff commission to reinvestigate the
tariff schedules to see whether many
commodities were getting adequate
protection in view of depreciated for¬
eign currency.
FORMER ATLANTAN
KILLED IN CRASH
Albermarle, N C„ Oct. 22. (A 1 )
I John It. McNair, of Miami. Fla., and
formerly of Atlanta, was killed and
his wife injured in a head-on col
ilision of. automobiles two miles south
|of here,
I The McNairs were en r oute from
Atlanta to Sanford to visit relatives,
A man booked as S. F. Thorn, of
j Charlotte, the with was which held the as McNair the. driver col¬ of
car car
lided. He was released under bond.
Investigating authorities sard wit¬
nesses informed them Tho<o was
driving on the wrong side of the road.
Mrs. McNair received minor injuries.
Four More Persons Report to
Authorities That They
Taken Out and Beaten By
Group of Men Recently.
Jacksonville, Fla., Ocat. 22. t/P)
Four more persons reported to the an
thorities here today they hud been vie
lima of ('loggers, bringing to ten the
number who said they were beaten or
mistreated by mobsters recently.
Five of the alleged victims are ,w -
men. inc luding a mother and dattgiiL-i,
two are white men and three are m -
groes.
Sheriff’s deputies and the police
withheld the names of those who re¬
ported today, saying secrecy would
aid them in their investigation of the
cases.
One of the floggings occurred last
August, a woman told authorities.
She saiil she feared another punish
merit from the ('loggers if she report¬
ed it sooner.
This woman said two cars loaded
with white men came to her- chicken
farm in east Jacksonville, severely
heat her with a stick and left her
there, telling her the reason for their
act was because she “lived in a negro
district.”
The woman denied Ibis, saying she
owned property in the district and
operated a chicken farm on if, but did
not live there.
The other' woman who reported her'
case today lives in the fashionable
Ortega section.
Two white nterr reporting today live
in the Lackawanna section and near
Ortega.
The flogging earlier this week of
Mis. Sally Geringer and her daughter
by a former marriage, Ola Bell Gil
strap, caused the arrest of l ive men on
changes of assault to murder. The
fivewill be given a preliminary hear
ing next Wednesday. They are at
liberty on $1,000 bond«;ach.
In every instance, authorities re
ported, the floggings and beatings
have occurred late at night or before
dawn in the morning. Also in every
instance there lias been more than one
carload of men participating.
Three negroes, one of them a jani¬
tor at a high school, previously had
reported beatings they received at the
hands of Doggers. The janitor- said
the men who lashed him said he was
“holding a white man's job.
Police Lieutenant W. O. Wilcox, in
charge of the Riverside precinct sta¬
tion wlro is leading the investigation
for the police, today expressed tin'
belief the floggings were the work of
a band of 12 or 18 men.
In each instance, tire officer declar¬
ed, the victims were told why they
were being beaten or being mistreat¬
ed, and in some of the cases investi¬
gation has proven the floggcrs'
charges unfounded.
CONTRACTS INCREASE
New Yor k. Oct. 22. <A‘) - Residential
building contracts in September total¬
ed $22,803,900, a rise of 10 percent
over August, whereas a I percent de¬
cline is usual, the K. W. Dodge Cor¬
poration said today in reporting on
construction contracts in 37 eastern
states. Construction contracts as a
whole totaled $54,339,300 from Oct.
1 through October- 15, comparing with
volume of $58,901,000 between Sep¬
tember 1 and September 15 and $111,-
735.600 for the first half of October.
1931
Rev. S. Althea Berrie, former l*resbyterian pastor, who is charged
the poisoning of his first wife to permit him to wed a young Sunday
teacher. Mrs. Berrie is shown at the right. The defense closed its
yesterday without having railed Berrie to the stand.
Floggings Are
Reported To Jacksonville
Police By City
DEFENSE RESTS
Defendant is Not Called to Stand
in Sensational Trial on
I Charges of Poisoning His
First Wife.
Muscogee, Olda., Oct. 22. (/P) The
(defense in the murder trial of Rev. S.
' A. Berrie, charged with poisoning bis
first wile rested today without plac
ing the defendant on the stand.
The last witness was Dr. K. M. Ish
am, Okmulgee chemist, who testified
an analysis showed Mrs. Berrie lur'd
nephritis. The the test was made on
Mrach 21, shortly before Mis. Berrie
died.
Asked whether nephritis caused
convulsions, Dr. IshUrn replied:
“Yes.”
Dr. W. W. Osgood, who treated the
pastor’s wife, testified he gave her
some medicine which eontaineil a
poison.
He said, however, she died of urae¬
mic poisoning.
The trial was resumed this morning
with the recovery of W. L. Puckett, a
juror, whose illness from an attack of
malaria halted the proceedings yes¬
terday.
At the defendant’s side in the
crowded courtroom was the pretty
19-year-old wife whom he married
two months alter the death of the.
spouse he is accused of having poison¬
ed.
As the defense rested, Grover Wat¬
kins, one of the minister’s attorneys,
remarked in an aisle:
“Mr. Berne's proof of innocence is
complete."
Plante Prepares
To Spend Fifth
Year Outdoors
Flynn’s Line, N. R., Oct. 22. {A')
The gathering winds of winter' are
whistling about a dreary, hoiaded-up
house on the Canadian border, whose
owner' lives in the. woodshed and is
barred from even entering his own
house.
Arthur Plante, banned by the Unit
od States immigration service into
his own back yard, is patching up the
( hinks in the woodshed and preparing
to spend his fifth winter there. The
woodshed leans against, tire back of
the house, hut is separated from it by
the international boundary line.
But if Plante may not, enter his
house, neither ran the immigration
inspectors, for the only entrance now
is through the woodshed itself, and
that, is in Canada. All other doors
and windows Plante has hoarded up.
Plante, a French-Canadian, immi¬
grated to the United States and lived
30 years. Then immigration agents
were informed that Plante had made a
visit to Canada, and fortified Iris
rights to dwell in this country. When
he returned to his property, the im¬
migration office at Malone refused to
let him across the line. He became
what is called in the service “line
bound.”
Washington, Ottawa and London
became interested. The secretary of
labor commended the officers.
Plante resolved to stick to his prop¬
erty. He sealed his woodshed against
cold, brought a big Canadian stove
and “dug in” for the winter. He has
lived in the shed ever since.
PRICE FIVl: CENTS
PROSPER!!!! FOES
Declares Adniinistratiivn is Ab¬
solutely Destructive of Pros¬
perity of the American Peo¬
ple
LOUISVILLE PEOPLE
LISTEN TO NOMINEE
lakes Issue With President
Hoover’s Contention That
Conditions Abroad led to
Economic Distress.
By E. R. VOSBlfRjGH
j Louisville, Ky., Oct. 22. t/P)—Gov¬
ernor Franklin I). Rooseyelt, in a
j campaign address today before a
crowd which filled the big Jefferson
county armory, assailed the Republi¬
can administration as “leadjershin that
is not only inept bin absolutely de¬
structive of the prosperity of Ameri
Taking issue with President Hoov¬
er’s contention that conditions abroad
led lo the depression in this country,
he told his cheering audience that
failure of the administration to check
the boom of 1929 caused tile depres¬
sion in this country and that the
Nmoot-Hawley tariff plunged the rest
of tiro world into it.
lie cited a report on the causes of
depressions, which he said President
Hoover himself helped to prepare as
secretary of commerce in 1921, and
said the administration’s subsequent
actions unde, him did not conform lo
the theory expressed in the report
that the best method of preventing de¬
pression is to cheek dangerous boom
tendencies.
The gover nor asserted Mr. Hoover’s
administration failed to follow the
principles which he himself laid laid
down and that "this is the measure of
the sincerity of their alibi in this
campaign.”
The crowd that heard him filled
every seat in the huge structure which
holds 15,000 persons. Several thous¬
and swarmed about the entrance out¬
side.
Several times he was interrupted
by whooping cheers that came down
from the clinging on to the steel gird¬
ers that supported the roof.
Governor Roosevelt on being intro¬
duced by Governor Ruby Lafoon,
turned directly to a discit ’ion of the
campaign. He said the uepublieuns
are “losing their sense of proportion
and their sense of humor."
We,” he said, “have every reason
to keep our sense of proportion and
our sense of humor and maintain our
eour.se.
“I want, to go back and discuss the
greatest economic depression the
country Iras ever faced and especially
the president’s discussion as to the
causes of this depression.
“This is not the first Republican
depression we have had in this coun¬
try. There was one in 1921 during
the Harding administration.”
Continuing, he said, President
Harding had Mr. Hoover, then secre¬
tary of commerce, go into the matter
of causes of “that depression.”
“Ther e was a coin mission appoint¬
ed,” he said, “since then you have
heaiil a lot about commissions.
“By the time that famous commis¬
sion orr depression reported the de¬
pression was all over through natur¬
al causes.”
The commission, he said, “did make
a finding as to the ups and downs in
depression.” report he quoted
Reading from the
it as saying depressions are the di
icct result, of booms and “the boom
not the depression should be the point
of attack. 1 subscribe to that.”
He said President Hoover .then sec¬
retary, wrote the introduction to the
report, and declared that in the boom
days of 1927-1929, the administration
gave no record to that theory.
“It actually promoted and encour¬ after
aged that, boom,” he said, “and
it, broke it undertook to minimize that
depression to the nation.
What, he (President Hoover) be¬
lieved at one time is not what he says
at. another time. And he says it is a
(Continued on Page 3.1
PIONEER MEDICAL
MISSIONARY DIES
Augusta, Ga., Get. 22. UP) —Dr.
Margaret II Polk, 72, a pioneer med¬
ical missionary of the Methodist Epis¬
copal Church, South, died here today
at, the home of her niece, Dr. Ethel
Polk Peters, on the campus ol' Paine
College.
She had been a mission worker in
the Chinese field more more than thir¬
ty years.
Funeral services will be held in
Perryville, Ky., where she was born.
The body will be sent from here Sun
dav at 1:10 a. m.
Dr. Polk was the third of four gen¬
erations of physicians in her family
who have contributed 125 consecutive
years of ser vice in America and China.
She was a descendant of Daniel
Boone and one of the most prominent
figures in Southern Methodist missions
ary work. J
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