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THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
VOLUME XXXII. NO.
PRISONERS BACK
STRIKE IS ENDED
Convicts at a State Road Camp
at Indiantown, Fla., Accede
to Demands of Officials To¬
day
PROTESTING AGAINST
BRUTAL TREATMENTS
Camp Kept in Turmoil For More
Than Twenty-Four Hours and
• Heavily Armed Guards Sub¬
due Them.
Indiantown, Fla., Oct. 28. I/P)—Ac¬
ceding to demands o! prison officials,
convicts at a state road camp near
here, filed out of their barracks and
returned to work today, ending a
strike that kept the camp in turmoil
Subdued alter being i kept , , at , bay
m a campi enclosure by heavily armed
guards,.the striking convicts agreed
to go back to work until their griev¬
ances can be aired at a hearing by
prison authorities.
State Prison Inspector Joseph
Gates, who was here when the disor¬
ders broke out, said an official inves¬
tigation of the trouble would be con¬
ducted next Thursday.
Conflicting reports were Circulated
as to the cause of the strike, parti¬
cipated in by JO or 40 prisoners.
One was to the effect that the
trouble started after four convicts had
been sentenced to solitary confine¬
ment in a sweat box for attacking a
negro cook.
Captain C. Musgrove said, however,
that the four men placed in the sweat
box were confined for other offenses
and had nothing to do with the at¬
tack on the cook, Oscar Lee Jones,
who is serving two years on bigamy
charges from Escambia county.
He said that four other convicts,
who had attacked the negro, had been
sentenced to the sweat box for the al¬
leged assault, but that before the
sentence could be carried out, MO or
40 indignant prisoners, in an act of
rebellion, started the strike.
The strike began yesterday, Cap¬
tain C. Musgrove, camp official said,
when punitive measures were taken
against four men accused of instigat¬
ing the flogging of a trusty cook in
the sleeping quarters. The strikers
refused to go into the stockade quar¬
ters last night and milled about the
prison enclosure.
All night long bonfires blazed about
the fenced-in camp and automobile
headlights were kept trained on the
enclosure. One group of guards
manned a nearby watch tower while
other armed patrols, made up of
guards and trusties, kept watch about
the prison fence to prevent any pos¬
sible attempt to escape.
State Prison Inspector Jeseph Gates
and Sheriff Marion McGee of Martin
county entered the enclosure unarm¬
ed and pleaded with the strikers to
go to their quarters and return to
work today but the requests were met
with stolid resistance. The convicts
would not even talk with the officials
until the four in the sweat boxes were
jYiven food and water. They voiced a
v&.mand for a new captain and yard
man.
Captain Musgrove said the same
four men confined in the sweat box
yesterday had beaten the cook once
before and that their confinement
was, he believed, the only complaint
the prisoners had. He said this was
the first outbreak since lie took charge
two months ago.
Prison camp officials reported the
striking convicts went to “sleep for
the night” early today and that the
situation appeared in hand. Sheriff
McGee and five deputies, however, re¬
inforced the regular prison camp
guard.
There are about 55 white convicts
at the camp in all. Names of those
confined in the sweatboxes were not
disclosed.
YOUNG M’CULLOUGH
FACES LIFE TERM;
FATHER ON TRIAL
Fayetteville, Ga., Oct. 28. (/P)—An¬
drew McCullough, 65-year-old former
convict, was placed on trial today
for the murder of William B. Baker,
former president of the Atlantic Ice
& Coal Company, following the cqnvic
t.ion oi his son, Alvin, yesterday o n
the same charge.
Judge W. E. H. Searcy, Jr., sen
fenced the son to life imprisonment
Witnesses at the trial of the young
er McCullough testified Baker was
killed and his son, Dr. W. Pope Baker,
Atlanta physician, received a
flesh wound when they went to a
ant house on the Baker plantation
near here to que.i a disturbance.
Dr. Baker testified Andrew
father lough fired after the, Alvin shot^that McCullough ^ killed had
urged him to shoot.
Alvin McCullough, in an
statement, denied he told his
to shoot.
The same witnesses are expected
.fffitify in the trial of Andrew
Xtfillough 'nian’s trial. a were used in the
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Sues Comedian
Associated Press Photo
I Edna \\heston, former Follies girl,
I testified in Los Angeles court that
thcrt . „ as ll0thin funn> about , he
b(mu , , ifo her husband . Bert Gor
den, stage comedian. She asked 8500
a month pending suit for separate
maintenance, but won only $35 a week.
_________________
IN BANK ROBBERY
Group Armed With Tear Gas
Bombs and Sub-Machine Gun
Obtain Large Sum at Hills¬
dale, Mich., Today.
. Hillsdale, Mich., Oct. 28. (/P)—State
police and sheriff officers pursued in¬
to northern Indiana today four or
five bandits who obtained between
$8,000 and $10,000 in a holdup of the
Reading State Bank at Reading, near
here this morning.
Three of the bandits, armed with
tear gas bombs and a sub-machine
gun, entered the bank an hour and a
half after it opened this morning, or¬
dered the cashier, two employes and a
customer into a rear room, and loot ■
ed the place of all the currency in th ■
vault. They escaped in an automo¬
bile, closely pursued by one of the em¬
ployes. No shots were fired.
Half an hour later officials rune
were advised that the bandit car,
closely pursued, had passed through
Ray, Ind., 15 miles south of Reading.
Witnesses said either four or live
men were in the bandit car.
Leonard Slough, cashier of the
bank, said the bandits obtained “all
the money in the bank,” but could
make no estimate of the amount until
he completed a check.
The bandits, Slough said, forced
him and Kenneth Campbell, the teller,
into a rear room, threatening them
with tear bombs and the sub-machine
gun. While the man with the gun
kept guard, the others methodically
gathered up the money.
Slough said no shots were fired.
The bandits fled in the direction of
Coldwater.
Editor Of Digest
Traces Rumors To
National “Party”
New York, Oct. 28. </P)—Dr. Wil¬
liam Seaver Woods, editor of the Lit¬
erary Digest, in a statement publish¬
ed today said he had traced to “a na¬
tionally party committee headquart¬
ers” what he, said was a false report
that 35,000 persons who voted for
Franklin I). Roosevelt in the Digest
presidential poll had written asking
that their ballots be changed to Her¬
bert Hoover.
Amplifying his statement, Dr.
Wpods said he had talked with Repub¬
lican national headquarters in Chica¬
go and had been told the information
came from a Chicago employe of the
magazine.
Dr. Woods said the only represen¬
tative of the Digest in Chicago is an
I advertising solicitor.
j The editor said the report first was
circulated on October 15 by a stock
! exchange firm in a letter to all its
branches in this country.
j i The Digest of complained, Dr. Woods
as one the partners of the
j firm sent out a correction,
| Dr. Woods said the report sprang
■ U p again last week in a radio broad
cast by William Hard, who, Dr.
Woods said, told the Digest he got his
; information from a representative of
rthe Republican headquarters in Chi
jeago. The latter, in turn, said he got
. the report from the Digest employe
ji n Chicago branding
In the report as false,
Woods said he was issuing the state
ment because he was not
with the explanation.
“Up until the time the falsehood
was launched,” he said, “the Digest
had not received a single letter ask
;ing that a vote be changed.”
BRUNSWICK, GA., FRIDAY. OCT. 28, 1932.
SINCERE APPEAL
FOR
(Massachusetts’ Democrats
Out in Cheering Throng to
Hear Former Nominee l aud
Candidates
REPUBLICANS SCORED
FOR THEIR FAILURES
Salvatio i of Crisis Lies in Suc¬
cess t.. : Democratic Party and
Victory of Nominees, He De¬
clares.
Boston, Oct. 28. t/P)—Massachu¬
setts’ Democratic sons turned out - in
a cheering throng last night to hear
Alfred E. Smith urge upon the “un
qualified, full and complete support
of Franklin D. Roosevelt.”
He called for the election of Gov.
Roosevelt in the opening sentences of
his speech, and again, just before he
closed, he said: “The salvation of the
country in this crisis. . .lies in the sue
i c ess of the Democratic ticket under
| the . leadership of Franklin Roosevelt
and John Garner.”
The crowd of 15,000 in the Boston
arena vigorously applauded his criti¬
cisms of President Hoover and his at¬
tacks on administration policies. It
laughted as he greeted with “suspic- ss?
,
after his (Smith’s) defeat at the Chi¬
cago convention.
“I was not satisfied with that Chi¬
cago convention,” he said. “And 1
know that you were not satisfied with
it. But listen, we’ll settle these
troubles in our party. We don’t want
any advice, and above everything else
we want no sympathy from Senator
Moses or his Republican cohorts.”
Referring to what he termed “ad¬
ministration failures” Smith said:
“If I was to be asked tonight what
in my opinion was the greatest fail¬
ure of the existing administration, I
would be impelled to say that they
left the people of this country entire¬
ly in the dark with regard to the ail
important function of government—
the final adjustment of our financial
condition. There is no doubt that they
will be able to explain it, but the ex¬
planation was not in their favor, and
it was therefore withheld.”
The crowd roared its mightiest as
he said:
“Every successful and progressive
president of the United States during
my time has been a former governor
of a state—Cleveland, Theodore Roo¬
sevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Cool
idge.”
Of President Hoover, Smith said:
“The trouble is that he lacks the
power of leadership, even over the
members of his own party, and what
is more he lacks the power to appeal
to the people themselves.”
Smith spoke of the bonus army in¬
cident in Washington and said the
president should have explained the
situation of the finances of the coun¬
try with respect to the claims the
bonus army members were making.
“Instead,” he said, “they (the bonus
army members) were encouraged to
remain in Washington until sanitary
conditions became so bad they had to
be driven away from Washington by
armed forces of the United States and
the secretary of war went out trying
to explain why it should have been
done.”
He blamed Senator Borah for
“President Hoover’s big mistake—an
extraordinary session for farm re¬
lief,” and he attacked the foreign pol¬
icy of the administration.
BOTH PARTIES HOLD
HOOVER SPEAKS FOR HIMSELF
AND REPUBLICANS, RITCHIE
FOR DEMOCRATS
Indianapolis, Oct. 28. (/Pj—Rivalry
in campaign showmanship flared
high in the Hoosier capital today as
President Herbert Hoover and Gov¬
ernor Albert C. Ritchie brought bids
for party support to Indiana voters.
The president and the Maryland ex¬
ecutive, speaking for the Democratic
candidate, Governor Franklin D. Roo¬
sevelt of New York, headed for this
“crossroads of America” with major
addresses prepared for delivery before
two great crowds.
Maneuvers of the state Republican
and Democratic committees, each
seeking to excel in presentation of
rousing rallies, wound up in a flurry
of arrangements frtr parades welcom¬
ing the two noted guests.
The president will address a Repub¬
| lican rally in the Butler University
field house, which seats 22,000 at 7:30
( j p. m. central standard time. Cover
nor Ritchie speaks at 9:15 p. rh. in
j downtown has capacity Cadle of tabernacle, 15,000. Both which ■n
j dresses will he broadcast nationally.
Arrjving at 4 o’clock this after
noon, President Hoover will be es
corted through the business district
and ovei a three-mile route to
state executive mansion where he and
(Continued on Page 5.)
FIVE BIG PIERS
BREAKING TRAIL
TO ASSURE PEACE
New Alignments to Promote
Security Among Nations
Been Reported Successful Re¬
cently
PROBLEM IS BEING
SOLVED GRADUALLY
Moscow Reports Tell of Better
Relations Between Japan and
Russia and Troublous Man¬
churia Quiet.
By MORG AN M. Iff M IA
Associated Press Cable Editor
New York, Oct. 28. pi’) Five world
powers-lhe Ln.le<l States. Great Hn- ,,
lam, France, Russia and Japan wore
breaking' trail today toward nr
lignments intended to promote peace
and security.
As reflected in Associated
dispatches from several capitals, their,
activity also introduced three power¬
ful factors into the international prob¬
lem. These factors were:
1. Improved relations between Rus¬
sia and Japan despite the troublous
Manchuria that lies between them.
2 The proximity of a treaty of
r^T*rc w T: i""""''
'Russia stipulating that F rance will 1
m ' Mm
3. Apparent Anglo-American unity I
at Geneva, implying that the world’s
two largest naval powers have reach¬
ed an agreement in principle to har¬
monize their views on disarmament.
Moscow reports told of better re¬
lations between Japan and Russia
especially affecting their mutual
trouble spot, Manchuria. The Rus¬
sian government has been acting as
go-between between binese irregular
troops and the Japanese government
in disrupted northern Manchuria.
The’Chinese troops have cut off a
large area of no.rthern Manchuria
from the world, and several hundred
Japanese are held in Manehuli, just I
across the Russian border. Half of j
these may be released through the!
gooil offices of the Soviet.
Too, Yosuke Matsuoka, who will
lead Japan’s defense of her Man
ehurian policy before the League of.
Nations in November, will first visit i
Moscow. There he presumably will
seek to ascertain Russia’s attitude!
*------- toward 1 the Lytton report ‘ to the ” ‘' i
League, which condemned Japanese j
aggression.
Norman Davis, ... the , American . rep-1
resentative at the disarmament eon-1
ference, went to the French
today to talk over disarmament with I
Premier Edouard Harriot.
He left London last ni^ht after
reaching an agreement in principle
with Prime Minister Ramsay Mac¬
Donald to harmonize the Hoover dis¬
armament proposals and the British
viewpoint.
It was authoritatively stated that
the conversations between Mr. Davis,
Mr. MacDonald and Sir John Simon,
the foreign secretary, had threshed
out the Anglo-American differences to
the point of unity of purpose .at Ge¬
neva.
It was not revealed, however, how
the_Hoover th\rd cut in plan armaments, for a general and the
British demand lor ample naval
bility, had been reconciled.
Italy Celebrates
10th Anniversary
Of Fascist Rule
____
Rome, Oct. 28. (/+>)-- All Italy
ed out today to celebrate the tenth
anniversary of Premier Benito Mus
solini’s fascism.
The event was marked by a
wide holiday, and the climax of a
week-long series of inaugurations lie
noting fascist progress.
Perhaps the most important
on today’s program was the review of
15,000 disabled war veterans by the
premier and 100 foreign and military
naval attaches, four of the Americans,
The invitation to the foreign group
to ride with II Dure when he reviews
the parade set a new fascist prece
dent. The Americans invited were
Col. E. R. Warren McCabe, military
attache, Captain Macgiltivray Milne,
naval attache; Captain Francis M.
Brady, assistant military attache, and
Lieutenant Oomander Frederick W.
i’ennoyer, Jr., assistant naval attache,
The veterans’ parade was aranged
j i the to inaugurate hills” from the Venezie new “highway Square, fac- of
j j ing the premier's office, to the coli
j scum,
1 Other events included inaugurations
of new public works, swearing in of
| new fascists, the reading of Mussoli
j ni’s message iri every community of
il the ‘ nation, ‘ hand - concerts, * and ring¬
ing of bells for a half hour during the
forenoon.
Premier Mussolini arranged to ded¬
icate the reconstructed Piazza Vene¬
zia, the principal square in Rome.
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I
I. it It e seven-year-old Princess Tern (left), daughter of the emperor
and empress of Japan, is shown skipping along with one of her fellow slinl
"its In a school picnic. She seems to enjov the outing.
_ Charges » Hoover w w Forces
j
Wifh Attempts To Get Stalin
To Endorse Governor Roosevelt
Through Secret Channels Re¬
publicans are Trying to Get
in Touch With Soviet Dictator
in Russia.
New York, Oct. 28. (/P)—James A.
Farley, chairman of the
national committee, issued , state- ...
a
nu>nt 1 , , . , , 1,0 ''nargod , , , .
<>< s,y 111 w 1K ' 1
managers" are attempting
have Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator,
endorse the candidacy of Governor
Franklin D. Roosevelt for president.
His statement said:
,‘There is no doubt tlml from now
on all kinds of k'i nils' rumors 'of accusations' will he circu¬ wii
lated and all l
lic made bv the opposition. As
indication of whal I have in mind
the extreme length the Hoover mana
gers are prepared to go to, the f () |
lowing is the latest story that has
come to my attention.
“Through secret channels their
r,-scuta!ives an- trying to get in ti.m li
representatives of Stalin, director
the Soviet government, with the
object, of seeuring some sort of state
incut from him which could he made
up as a news story to he published
in London newspapers, to the effect
that he favor: Governor Kooscvelt.
No American voter, of course, will he
fooled by such progaganda.” i
Parley lauded former Governor AI
fred ft. Smith for hi speeches yes
ltty in P, ' <,vi,l< ' ,,,e ’ u ' 1 ’ un<l Bos
Commenting on reports that Henry
F,ml, after advising hi, employe*
vote for President Hoover, had failed
to regisler, Farley said:
“How can Mr. Ford give advice to
the voters to support Mr. Hoover when
himsef, does not. lake the trouble
register and qualify to vote? Is
to measure hi interest in Mr.
Hoover-' reeled ion by hi word: nr by
) his ad ions?”
Farley said he had received a
phone call from Senator lluey 1’.
I 1 Long, of Louisiana, who has been ram
paigning in the west., ,-aying North
land South Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota,
(Kansas and Nebraska would go Demo
cratic.
j
i COURT WILE HEAR
j
| CHARGES AGAINST
i BISHOP CANNON
j Washington, Oct. 28. (/!*)— Charges
; against Bishop James Gannon, political Jr.,
which grew out of the 1928
campaign are to be heard in the Dis¬
trict of Columbia court of appeal
Monday.
The government is appealing from
ja lower r court’s dismissal of
merits against the churchman and
former secretary, Miss Ada L.
roughs, of Richmond, W
The true bills followed complaints
that Bishop Gannon violated federal
election laws in 1928 by failing to
port contributions given him by E. C.
Jameson, wealthy New Yorker
WALTER G. TAYLOR
DIES AS CONVICT !
|
Former Atlanta Cily Clerk Suc¬ | j
cumbs to Paralysis Before ;
Pardon is Granted By Offi¬ | :
cials.
Atlanta, I/I’) Walter C. |
Get. 28. I
Taylor, <>.'!, once colorful figure in
politics, who was former city •
clerk . . was sentenced , , to , more ,, than tour
((als bribery in a graft invesli
died in a hospital here last
night after an attack of paralysis
AI the time of his death, a move
was underway to gain a pardon for
him. lie had always maintained his
innocence arid told jurors that "con¬
viction would mean my dealli the
death of an innocent man." He was
-'""vieted of two of twenty-five brib
"mills «'"l Dually .Imped his
<,JI "' lo s llu ' 1 ,! , ' v " l « 1 h< ’
««'»-' sentence , last I’ebruary.
In addition to the sentence, a $1,00(1
.. in ‘‘ w [ ls um|>os<mI.
l aylor was stricken last I ties,lay
1 had been m a dm he Uc cornu at
« ! 1,IS 1 >"nl in Atlanta since.
ftany editions oi newspapers here
hist night. forecast a full pardon for
him if lie lived through the night and
said Solicitor (ieneral John A. Boykin
had recommended such action if Judge
Kdgar ft. Pomeroy, who tried him,
would agree.
Kor years, Taylor was active in
work in Atlanta, lie was
a newswriter for the Atlanta Consti¬
tution and for the Atlanta Journal.
At, one t ime he was business manager
of the Home News 'tribune, lie had
served a ** executive secretary for
Mayor Woodward and was city clerk , ,
I lo1 ," '* 11,1 1 : l "
1 “-V 1 '” wl,y WI,I "'' V kn,,wn l,,r l" !r
serial charities and was for ten years
secretary of the Masonic hoard of re¬
lief. Recently lie was admitted to
membership in the Catholic church.
He is a native of Nevvnan, Ga., artil is
survived by bis widow.
3 CTFX/trNC’ I fc* V fclNo IVlkOo MPCCAPr Aljfc.
TO HIS EMPLOYES
NOT LIKE FORD’S I
|
Del roil, Oct. 28 l/P)—A note by
Frederick It. Stevens, foundry
manufacturer, lo employes of his
organization today urged them lo
vote solely as their conscience
dictates” at the November elec¬
tion.
' ll makes no difference to you
liovv I vote, and it makes no dif¬
j ference to me how you placed vote," in said
the note, which was pay |
1 envelopes. “Coercion has no place !
in American politics. As a bus¬ I
iness man and your employer, I
wanl to say to von that T have
confidence in your judgment, and
no matter which way the election
goes. America will go on.”
The message adjured the em¬
ployes to “vote your convictions,
in any event. No man has a right
j to interfere in your politics, any
more than he has a right to in¬
j terfere religious in your belief.” family affairs or
your
PRICE FIVE CENTS
BRITISH TO OPEN
JOBLESS DEBATES
AT EARLIER DATE
Three Days of Discussion on Un¬
employment Problem to Be¬
ilin Next Friday in House of
Commons
HUNGER MARCHERS”
PARADING STREETS
No Trouble and Activities Con¬
fined Largely to Area Where
They Slept After Rioting
Thursday.
London, Oct. 28. (/P) — Throe days
of debate on liio unemployment prob¬
lem will begin in the house of com¬
mons next Friday, several dsays earlier
thiin had been planned. The house
deeided this afternoon to terminata
debate on the Ottawa agreements on
and to go on with the un¬
issue.
The "hunger marchers,” whose ar¬
rival yesterday precipitated a serious
riot in Hyde Hark, paraded the stiee.s
in groups again this morning, hut
mainly to collect funds for their main¬
tenance while they remain here.
There was no double and their aiti
vities were confined largely to areas
near the institutions where they slept
Iasi night.
Sir John Gilmotir, home secretary,
largely exonerated the marchers from
for yesterday’s disturbance. In
report to the house of commons tie
the real trouble was not caused
by genuine unemployed but by Lon¬
don loughs incited by communist
Magistrates who dealt witb_ rioters
arrested yesterday found that nearly
allthc men arraigned before them this
morning were Londoners.
A dozen of the casualties, three po¬
licemen, were seriously hurt in the
furiously melees that transformed
the fashionable park into a battle¬
ground yesterday and last night.
The battle was between several
thousand police and many thousands
more of unemployed, who ostensibly
were lighting under a red flag that
bore the hammer and sickle of com
immisni.
The signal for warfare was a brick
heaved through a postoffice window
near the park.
The policeman nearest the briek
heaver swung a club, and before many
minutes passed, pandemonium came.
Completely organized to fight in the
presence of 100,000 persons that jam¬
med the park, the police charged
again and again.
Each charge provoked a barrage of
stones and mud. Even the trees and
railings in the park were mutilated by
t tie mob in its desperate effort to gain
the upper hand.
But the police prevailed, and slow¬
ly but surely cleared the area of the
rioters, arresting only 14 persons dur¬
ing I he whole disturbance.
The police charged the worst of the
outbreak to London toughs, heredi¬
tary enemies of the Bobbies. These
men, the authorities said, are always
ready to take advantage of every op¬
portunity to make trouble.
The Morning Express expressed
gratification that things were not
worse, and press commentators agreed
the police showed great forebearance
in a difficult situation.
I ’oi ice maintained their guard to¬
night in possible trouble zones, espec¬
ially in the vicinity of the houses of
parliament. A non-uniformed guard
patrolled the neighborhood of Hie
home of Montagu Norman, governor
of the Bank of England. An anony¬
mous telephone call said a party of
unemployed would attack his resi¬
dence during the night. The call was
regarded as a hoax, lint nevertheless
the police set up a guard.
Nothing appeared until the arrival
of three taxis filled with young men
attired mostly in evening clothes. All
of them were very merry, shouting,
“we want to see Professor Skinner.”
Tim police shooed them away. (Pro¬
fessor Skinner was the name under
which Mr. Norman visited the United
States recently.)
Eight men were arraigned in Mary
Jebone police court today on charges
growing out of the riots. The first
two were convicted of assaulting the
police and sentenced to six months at
ha nl labor each.
ROYAL POINCIANA
CLOSED THIS YEAR
Palm Beach, Fla., Oct. 28. (/P)—-One
of Palm Beach’s show places will be
missing from the list of where to go
and what to see this season. Offi¬
cials of the Florida East Coast Hotel
Company have announced the famous
Royal Poinciana, with its sixteen
miles of hallways, will remain closed
until another season. The cocoanut
grove, tea dance gardens connected
with the hotel and the estate front
Lake Worth also are not to be used.
The Breakers Hotel, night clubs
and social organizations are to oper¬
ate as usual this season, it was an¬
nounced.