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V OLUME XXXII . NO. 50.
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ACCUSES TWO OF
SLAYING
Dr. W. Pope Baker, Atlanta Phy¬
sician, Points to Defendants
as Men Who Murdered His
Father
ANDREW M’CULLOUGH
AND SON ON TRIAL
Tells of Shooting of His Parent
on Their Plantation When Vic¬
tim Went to Quell Disturb¬
ance.
Fayetteville, Ga., Oct. 26. (A 3 )—Dr.
W. Pope Baker, Atlanta physician,
told a jury in Fayette county superior
court today that Andrew McCullough
had fatally shot his father, William
Baker, after he had been urged on
by his son, Alvin McCullough.
Alvin McCullough is on trial for
murder in connection with the slaying
of Mr. Baker, former president of
the Atlantic Ice & Coal Company.
The McCulloughs were indicted jointly
for the crime, which took place
tember 25 when the Bakers went to
■ tenant house on their plantation
.jar here to quell a disturbance.
: Dr Baker was the first witness lor
the state He testified he had
ed a scalp wound at the same time
his father had been wounded fatally,
He testified he and his father start¬
ed for the tenant house w 7 hen some
negroes told them some “white folks
were causing trouble.”’
“When we arrived at the tenant
house,” Dr. Baker continued, “three
men were there: McCullough, Alvin
McCullough and Columbus Walker.
My father got out of the automobile
and as he turned to close the door
Alvin McCullough shouted: ‘There’s
Old Man Baker. Shoot him.’
“When he said that, Andrew Mc¬
Cullough drew a revolver and shot
my father twice.” attempted
. Dr. Baker said he then
to shoot at the McCulloughs with his
father’s pistol but that the weapon
missed fire and he ran. He said An¬
drew McCullough fired at him, wound¬
ing him o.n the scalp, and knocking
him to the ground.
“As I was on the ground, Alvin
McCullough approached and grasped
the revolver I had taken from my
father’s pocket, pressed it against my
neck and said, ‘I’ll kill you.’ He did
not shoot, howeever.”
The jury, composed of eleven Fa¬
yette county farmers and one mer¬
chant, was selected tw r o hours after
the opening of the trial this morning.
Action of Solicitor-General Emmett
L. Owen of the Griffin circuit in plac¬
ing Alvin McCullough on trial was
a distinct surprise, as it had been
thought the elder McCullough would
be tried first. The state’s move was
made after the defense had requested
a severance.
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FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD RE¬
VEALS THAT CONDITIONS
SHOW IMPROVEMENT
Washington, Oct. 26. (/P)—Above
seasonal increases in September’s
factory employment and payrolls, ac¬
companied by a downward trend in
price levels, are reported by the fed¬
eral reserve board.
It said also, in the September-Octo
ber summary of business and financial
conditions issued yesterday, that “in¬
dustrial activity and shipments of
conimodites by rail increased from
August to September by considerably
more than the usual seasonal
amount.”
The board said industrial produc¬
tion went from 58 per cent of the
1923-1925 average during July, to 60
in August and 66 per cent in Septem¬
ber, aided chiefly by largely increas¬
ed activity at textile mills, some fac¬
tories, meatpacking establishments
and coal mines. Steel activity went
up to 20 per cent of capacity in the
first three weeks of October, while
the automobile and lumber output
showed little change.
Employment increases in the cotton,
wool, silk, hosiery and clothing indus¬
tries were credited by the board with
boosting the general factory employ¬
ment level from 58.8 per cent of the
1923-1925 level in August to 60.3 per
cent in September. Coal movements
were said to be chiefly loadings. responsible for
the larger freight car
.After advancing for three months,
the board said wholesale commodity
prices decreased 2 per cent in the
first half of October from Septem¬
ber’s high point.
TREASURY RECEIPTS
Washington, Oct. 26. (A 3 )—Treas¬
ury receipts for October 24 were $4,-
466,916.07; expenditures $24,058,-
866.04; balance $787,339,979.56. Cus¬
toms duties for 24 days of October
were $20,137,416.S0.
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Arrest of Another Suspect
Brings Total of Detained Men
to Six in Series of Mob
Beatings.
Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 26. (A 3 )—Ar¬
rest of J. C. Godwin, bringing to six
the number of suspects taken into
custody in connection \vith a recent
outbreak of floggings in this city
and its environs, was announced to¬
day by the police.
Godwin, the authorities said, was
identified by one of the 20 victims of
floggers who have reported cases of
this type of lawlessness over a period
of several months.
Five who previously were arrested,
were identified, officers said, by two
women victims, Mrs. iSallie Geringer
and her daughter, Ola Bell Gilstrap.
They were released under $1,000 bond
each. The warrants charge them
with assault with attempt to murder.
The Duval county grandjury was
called into special session today and
spent the forenoon questioning wit¬
nesses. Outside the grand jury room
the corridor was lined w'ith prospec¬
tive witnesses, six of them women and
two negroes.
It was not learned whether all those
who awaited healing before the
inquisitorial body were victims. Ques¬
tioned by reporter before they were
called, several of them merely smiled
and said nothing.
Of the score who have reported be¬
ing whipped or mistreated five were
white women.
SEEKING IDENTITY
OF BODY OF CHILD
FOUND IN COFFIN
Milwaukee, Oct. 26. (A 3 )—Po¬
lice sought to establish the iden¬
tity of a year-old child, whose
body was wound today in an ex¬
pensive coffin on a street between
two cemeteries.
The child had been dead a year
or more.
Robert Reutec, who lives in the
neighborhod of the Holy Cross and
Wanderer’s Rest cemeteries, op¬
posite each other, found the cof¬
fin, of gray-white plush, Sheriff’s on West
Appleton avenue. depu¬
ties removed it to the county
morgue.
A name plate of nickel bore
these words:
“Our Darling.”
Although rain fell most of
Tuesday night and early today too
coffin was not wet.
Search of the cemeteries will
be made to discover whether any
graves had been disturbed.
ATLANTA DOCTOR DIES
Atlanta, Oct. 26. (A 3 )—Dr. E.
| Block, 59, prominent Atlanta
j cian and a member of one of the
jest families in this section, died
j j night year. after He an illness the of more of Mr. than
was son
Mrs. Frank E. Block, pioneer
: tans. He is survived by his
i the former Miss Julia Porter, of
lanta, and tw'o children, Miss
Lowry Block, of Atlanta, and
B. Block, Jr.
BRUNSWICK, GA.. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 26, 1932.
CASE PUBLISHED
Wickersham Commission’s Find*
ings Bring Out Startling Facts
Regarding Prosecution of Two
Suspects
SENATOR WHEELER IS
ADVOCATING RELEASE
Portion of Experts’ Work Has
Heretofore Been Suppressed
and Not Printed With Original
Report.
New York, Oct. 26. (/P)—The report
of a sub-committee of the Wickersham
commission dealing with the Billings
Mooney bombing case was published
today with an introduction in which
Senator Burtom M. Wheeler, of
tana, expressed the hope that its pub
lication would “aid in freeing these
victims of judicial tyranny and wip¬
ing from our national escutcheon this
ugly stain.”
The authors of the sub-committee
report on “lawlessness in law enforce¬
ment.” which included the report on
the Billings-Mooney case, were Dr.
Zechariah Chaffee, Jr., of Harvard
Law School. Carl Stern and Walter
Pollack. The sub-committee was
headed by Federal Judge W. S. Ken¬
yon, of Iowa.
“When the Kenyon report appeared
on Aug. 10, 1932,” Senator Wheeler
wrote in the introduction, “this por¬
tion of the experts’ work had been,
so far as the public was concerned,
suppressed.
“It should have been, I think, print¬
ed with the original Wickersham re¬
port.”
After a lengthy review of the case
the report ends with the following
conclusions:
“There was never .any scientific
attempt made by either the police or
the prosecution to discover the perpe¬
trators of the crime. The investiga¬
tion was in reality turned over to a
private detective, who used his posi¬
tion to cause the arrest of the defend¬
ants. The police investigation was
reduced to a hunt for evidence to con¬
vict the arrested defendants.
“There were flagrant violations of
the statutory law of California by
both the police and the prosecution
in the manner in which the defend¬
ants were arrested and held incom¬
municado, and in the subsequent
searches of their homes to procure
evidence against them.
“After the arrest of the defendants,
witnesses were brought to the jails
to ‘identify’ them, and their ‘identi¬
fications’ were accepted by the po¬
lice and the prosecution, despite the
fact that these witnesses were never
required to pick the defendants out
of a line-up, or to demonstrate their
accuracy by any other test.
“Immediately after the arrests of
the defendants there commenced a
deliberate attempt to arouse puHic
prejudice against them, by a series of
almost daily interviews given to the
press by prosecuting officials.
Witnesses were produced at the
trials with information in the hands
of the prosecution that seriously chal¬
lenged the credibility of the witness¬
es, but this information was delib¬
erately concealed.
“Witnesses were permitted to testi¬
fy at the trials, despite such knowl¬
edge in the possession of the prosecu¬
tion of prior contradictory stories told
by these witnesses, as to make their
mere production a vouching for per¬
jured testimony.
Witnesses were coached in their
testimony to a degree that approxi¬
mated subornation of perjury. There
is a strong inference that some of this
coaching was done by prosecuting offi¬
cials, and other evidence points to
knowledge by the prosecuting officials
that such coaching was being prac¬
ticed on other witnesses
“The prejudice against the defend¬
ants, stimulated by newspaper pub¬
licity, was further appealed to at the
trials by unfair and intemperate ar¬
guments to the jury in the opening
and closing statements of the prose¬
cuting attorneys.
“After the trials, the disclosures
casting doubt on the justice of the
convictions were minimized, and every
attempt made to defeat the liberation
of the defendants, by a campaign of
misrepresentation and propaganda
carried on by the officials who had
prosecuted them.”
BORAH UNDECIDED
HOW TO SCRATCH
HIS OWN BALLOT
Boise, Ida., Oct. 26. LA 3
William E. Borah, independent Repub
lican of Idaho, told The
Press today his vote for president
vember 8 “will be determined as the
issues develop.”
“I have never at any time made
reference as to how I should vote,”
said.
The chairman of the senate
relations committee in a series
speeches in Idaho Ifs discussed
tional and international affairs
an independent standpoint and
paigned for the reeleetion of his
colleague, Senator John Thomas.
V. F. W. ADVOCATE
Veteran Organization Places
Recommendations Before
President Hoover at White
House Today
ALSO FAVORING PLAN
TO ASSIST WIDOW'S
Opposes Cancellation of War
Debts, Urges More Strict En¬
forcement of Laws and Re¬
quests Aid.
Washington, Oct. 26. (A 3 )—Imme¬
diate cash payment of the soldiers
bonus, the enactment of legislation
granting pensions to widows and or
phans of World War veterans and
of disability allowances
were recommended to President
er today by the Veterans of Foreign
Wars.
The appeal, conveying actions taken
at the 33rd national encampment of
the organization in Sacramento, Gal
last September, was taken to the
White House by Admiral Robert E.
Coontz, U. S. N., retired, new com¬
mander-in-chief of the organization.
It opposed cancellation of foreign
debts, urged more strict enforcement
of laws directing civil service prefer¬
ence for veterans, and said recom¬
mendations Later would bo made for
improving veteran rehabilitation and
hospitalization. It said in part:
“The 33rd national encampment . . .
respectfully urges your utmost con¬
sideration of pending legislation that
would grant to the widows and or¬
phans of World Win- veterans pension
benefits on an equal basis with the
widows and orphans of veterans of
our previous wars and campaigns.
There are approximately 70,000 wi¬
dows and 105,000 orphans of World
War veterans who are not receiving
compensation or assistance in any
form from the federal government.
“Our investigation reveals that at
least 80 percent of these widows an<l
orphans are in serious need of finan¬
cial assistance. . . .
“The disability allowance act, pass¬
ed by congress with the endorsement
of the veterans administration, has
accomplished tremendous good; it has
relieved individual communities and
citizens of the burden of providing re¬
lief for destitute veterans—an obli¬
gation that we believe belongs exclus¬
ively to the federal government.
“This legislation is now being at¬
tacked by individuals and forces thor¬
oughly unfamilar with the problems
involved. In the interests of econ¬
omy, these groups would throw the
burden of reductions in federal ex¬
penditures upon disabled veterans and
their families who have no other
source of sustenance or financial as¬
sistance. We call upon you for your
assistance and counsel in the preser¬
vation of this legislation. . .”
PRESIDENT MAKES ARRANGE¬
MENTS FOR WINDING UP RE
ELECTION DRIVE
Washington, Oct. 26. (/I 3 )—Presi¬
dent Hoover prepared today to wind
up his campaign for re-election with
a series of speeches beginning at In¬
dianapolis Friday night, that may
keep him on the road almost continu¬
ously from now to election day.
With three speeches definitely
scheduled for the next five days, the
president was considering those which
would keep him on the train and
and speaking platforms throughout
the final 10 days of the campaign.
He will leave the capital tomorrow
night for another swift dash into the
middle west to speak at the Indiana
capital and then hurry back to Wash¬
ington to complete addresses already
arranged for delivery Monday after¬
noon at Newark, New Jersey, and in
New York city that night.
His plans beyond that still are ten¬
tative hut his aides are urging propos¬
als ranging from another tour of the
hotly disputed middle west to a
sweeping transcontinental swing that
would carry him to his home at Palo
Alto, California, for election day.
Tentative plans to speak in Chica¬
go Saturday before his return from
Indianapolis, were abandoned by the
chief executive yesterday in order to
allow more time drafting his Newark
and New York addresses. His friends
say he considers the latter one of the
most important of the entire cam
paign.
As be hurriedly worked today over
his Indianapolis speech, President
Hoover kept silent on its subject, but
his aides predicted that he would
again stress the economic policies fol¬
lowed by his administration.
The president will be accompaned
to Indiana by Mrs. Hoover, and as
on his three former invasions of'the
middle west, will make a series of
rear platform appearances with her
en route
For Governor In Michigan
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Opponents for the governorship of Michigan in the November elec
* w “ Wilbur M. Brucker .left). Republican incumbent, and William
j -'• Gomstock (right), of Detroit, Democratic nominee,
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Former Pastor Found Guilty of
Poisoning Wife to Marry Choir)
Singer — Makes No Public
Comment.
Muskogee, Okla., Oct. 26. (A 3 )—The
Rev. S. A. Berne today faced lite im
prisomnent lor the poison (loath or |
his first wife
Convicted of murder by a jury late
yesterday, the unfrocked 52-year-old !
hymn writer looked down at..... his 19
year-old bride of five months and
smiled. Eyes brimming with tears,
she tried to smile back. She went with
him as lie was taken back to the jail
cell he has occupied since early Au¬
gust.
Berrie made no public comment. Ilis
attorneys said they would ask a new
trial and probably would appeal if the
request is denied.
District Judge W. J. Crump an¬
nounced he would pronounce formal
sentence next Monday. After sen¬
tence, the pastor will be taken to
state’s prison at McAlster, pending
the outcome of a possible appeal.
Jess (Doyle, former constable, who
was foreman of the jury, said the ju¬
rors first agreed ballot upon Berrie’s guilt on the
and argued whether to
make the penalty death in the electric
chair or life imprisonment during the
remainder of their deliberations,
which lacked hut 15 minutes of con¬
suming 24 hours.
The conviction was based upon cir¬
cumstantial evidence that Berrie pois¬
oned his 50-year-old wife, Mrs. Fan¬
nie Berrie, last March, in order to
pursue his romance with Ida Bess
Bright, whom he married May 17.
British Prepare
Reconsider Dole
System In Nation
London, Oct. 26. (A 3 )—Reconsidera¬
tion of some phases of the national
government’s dole system came as a
promise from Prime Minister Ram¬
say MacDonald today as 2,000 mem¬
bers of a nationally recruited “hunger
army” moved within a stone’s throw
of London.
It is the “means test” in the dole,
or unemployment benefits administra¬
tion, which has brought much of the
rising tide of discontent that has cul¬
minated recently in protest riots and
now the march on London.
The prime minister spoke during
the debate yesterday on a motion of
censure against the government’s
dole policy introduced in the hoqse of
commons by the labor opposition. The
motion was defeated, 462 to 55.
M' MacDonald defended the gov¬
ernment’s policy and declared the
means test, which is given to deter¬
mine the means of a dole applicant to
subsist normally, cannot be abolish¬
ed.
But’some questions, the premier
said, would be reconsidered. These
might include the items of pensions
and savings, which under the present
arrangements, must be spent before
an unemployed person is eligible to
receive benefits.
The dozen or more groups of un¬
employed marchers who have been
trudging—■ and riding when possible
along muddy roads reached outlying
suburbs last night, and were moving
closer in today toward Hyde Park,
their goal.
PAGE RIPLEY!
Biwabik, Minn., Oct. 26. (A 3 )—Foot¬
ball statisticians will have to make a
place in the records for this one. Half¬
back Saari of the local high school
football team, has intercepted at
least one forward pass in the last five
games his team has played, each time
scoring a touchdown. His runs for
counters in such cases have averaged
75 yards.
HELD IN SPAIN i
Man Who (iave Name of Jean
Saul Arrested After Informa
tion is Supplied By American
Sailors.
Seville, Spain, Oct. 26. (A 3 )—-At the
request of the American ^ice-consul
police today . . detained ... . who
a man tfave
his na !™. aK Je «}" S “ uI uml ar r “ n ?‘‘ d
, to sl ' l,(l h \ m lo . M .?' , ln / . for questioning .
in 1,1 connection with wlth « the h “ kidnaping of <lf
the Lindbergh baby.
He was apprehended after the Am¬
erican consulate had received an
anonymous note from two American
sailors who said they had talked with
Saul in a saloon here and Unit “he
seemed to know entirely top much
about the Lindbergh kidnaping."
The vice-consul asked the police to
investigate and it was discovered that
Saul's identification papers were in
complete. Police also said he made
contradictory statements about his na¬
tionality, then declined to answer
further questions, declaring that he
would tell nothing more “until 1 can
face the American police where I can
expect fairness.”
At. the consulate it was said that
Saul speaks English with a heavy ac¬
cent and it is suspectejl, therefore,
that lie is not an American. The
name he gave the police, they said,
urobably is an alias.
Detectives who questioned him said
lie had admitted he knew something
about the kidnaping and the distri¬
bution of Die $50,000 ransom paid for
the child’s return. The American vice
consul attended the preliminary in¬
quiry, hut announced afterward Uml
he hud withdrawn from the ease and
left it entirely in the hands of the po¬
lice, although he will forward a com¬
plete report to the embassy at Ma¬
drid.
This morning police said they had
found an unfinished letter among
Saul’s belongings. It. read:
“Dear Bill: I’m afraid I've talked
too much, but 1 hope I haven’t com¬
promised myself. You know how I
am when 1 am drinking.”
Police said Saul told them that
friends in the French consulate at
New York had helped him to obtain
a French passport which he burned
when he entered Spain so that the
friends would not he compromised.
Tags on his baggage showed that he
had been in Genoa, Nice, Toulouse and
Barcelona. Labels of New York cloth¬
ing houses were on his suits. Appar¬
ently the only money he had was 600
pesetas about $48.
COOK’S SENTENCE
OFyj)EATH CHANGED
Atlanta, Oct. 26. (A 3 ) William J.
condemned to die in the electric
Friday, yesterday had his sen¬
tence commuted to life imprisonment
iri an executive order signed by Gov¬
ernor Russell.
Cook had been sentenced Lo death
for the slaying of his daughter. Cle¬
mency was recommended by the trial
judge, members of the convicting jury
and the prison commission.
The prison commission today is
scheduled to hold hearings on peti¬
tions for clemency from William and
Fred Hulsey, convicted of slaying one
of three men in a card game at Rock
mart. The commission will also hear
the clemency plea of Tom King, Butts
county negro, sentenced seven years
ago for the slaying of a prohibition
agent.
WHEELER IS NAMED
Atlanta, Oct. 26. (A 3 )—Judge A. C.
Wheeler, Gainesvilles was named yes¬
terday as vice chairman of the board
of control of the states eleemosy¬
nary institutions to succeed the late
John T. Brantley. The hoard also re¬
elected for one year the heads of all
the state charitable institutions. The
terms for those re-elected begin Jan¬
uary 1
PRICE FIVE CENTS
ROOSEVELT PAYS
VISIT TO PARTY
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Governor and PresidenGal Can*
didale Lauds Leaders For
Manner in Which Campaign
Has Been Handled
PROMISES BIG PARTY
AFTER ELECTION DAY
His First Visit to National Head*
quarters in New York and
Delighted With Results of
Workers.
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By WALTER T. BROWN
New York, Oct. 26. (A 3 )—Governor
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic
candidate for the presidency, told
some 500 workers at his national
headquarters today that the 1932
Democratic campaign was “the most
practical, worthwhile” one in the
whole history of campaigning.
“We’ll have a great big party after
November 8,” he said, and the work
era cheered.
It was Governor Roosevelt’s first
visit to tlu* headquarters of the Dem¬
ocratic national committee and he
went shortly after arriving in the
city from his southern campaign tour.
He was introduced to the workers by
National Chairman James A. Farley
as “(lie next president.”
“This is a nice family party,” the
governor responded. “We have had
a splendid trip and we’re not through
yet. This is just a brief word of
thanks. There’ll he more thanks later.
“There has never been a national
headquarters run so efficiently. In all
the history of campaigning this is the
most practical, worthwhile campaign.
It’s a record. And it’s been the cheap¬
est, campaign for the American peo¬
ple.”
The governor said that his hat had
lost half ils lining on the southern
trip and that his voice was a little
“lagged” hut that “everything else
is all right.”
“Jim Farley is right,” he said.
“We’re not only looking to 36 states
hut lo 48. We’ll have a great big
party afliu- November 8.”
Roosevelt suid he only had three
definite engagements at this time for
further campaign speeches, one in
Boston Monday, one in Brooklyn on
November 4 and one in Madison
Square Garden on November 5.
He indicated, however, that he in¬
tended to make other speeches in New
England in connection with his Boston
engagement but, said there was noth¬
ing definite to announce as to dates
and places.
Asked about the speech two days
ago by former Governor Alfred E.
Smith, Roosevelt replied that he had
not yet read file speech and so could
not comment on it.
The Democratic nominee in his sev¬
en-car special train headed back to
tln> sidewalks of New York and the
hulls of Albany after winding up Ilia
stumping tour last night at Balti¬
more.
lie caused something of a stir and
received some applause when he said,
departing from his prepared address,
that the Republican party after March
1 1929, “was in complete control of all
branches of the federal government.
The executive and the senate and the
house of representatives and I might
add for good measure the supreme
court as well.” He did not elaborate.
The crowd that filled the big fifth
regiment armory, stood and cheered
for nearly a minute at Lhe governor’s
mere mention of the word “beer.”
Men stood and waved their hats ar.d
shouted. Women waved their hand¬
kerchiefs and screamed.
It was 50 seconds before the bedlam
died down sufficiently to enable the
governor to be heard.
“You people are in a great hurry,”
he exclaimed, smiling.
“I favor modification of the Vol¬
stead act just as soon as the law al¬
lows,” he asserted, departing from
his prepared address.
“This is the way to divert three
hundred million dollars or more from
the 1 pockets of "the racketeers to the
(Continued on Page 2.)
YOUTHFUL JOCKEY
SERIOUSLY HURT
Covington, Ky., Oct. 26. (A 3 )—Gil¬
bert Elston, sensational 17-year-old
jockey, lay unconscious from a skull
facture in a hospital here today after
a fall from his mount at the Latonia
race track yesterday.
Elston had not regained conscious¬
ness since hi.s fall, and his condition
was pronounced serious.
After winning two races on the
day’s card, Elston’s mount, Black
Dust, fell while in close quarters on
the last turn. Jockey Monte Parke,
who rode Lady Oouven on to win,
was blamed for the accident and sus¬
pended by the stewards for the re¬
mainder of the meeting.
Already looked upon as the year’s
best on American tracks, the Helena,
Mont., youth won additional fame last
week when he rode four horses to vic¬
tory in one day. _