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THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
VOLUME XXXII. NO. 62.
HURRICANE DEATH TOLL MOUNTING
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Armistic Day Observed By Allied Nations Of World
PAY TRIBUTES IB
Reading of Message From Pres=
ident Hoover al Arlington
Leads Ceremonies in All Parts
of Country
VETERANS HONORED
FOR THEIR
Members of Bonus Army
to Cemetery and Place
Wreaths on Graves of Hushka
and Carlson.
Washington, Nov. 11. (JP)—Trib¬
ute to tlie Unknown Soldier echoed
solemnly over the stillness of
ton National Cemetery today, with
reading of a message from
Hoover which said:
"The nation will linger today in its
annual tribute of revered memory of
the glorious youth who gave their
lives to defend our heritage of liberty
and will pay especial homage in the
dedication of the completed tomb of
the Unknown Soldier.
"Its beauty is a symbol of our na¬
tional pride in their heroism; our
gratitude for their supreme devotion.”
In a brief address, Secretary Hur¬
ley stood before the new tomb paying
honor to the soldiers and sailors
the war. As he rose to speak,
seventy or eighty of the audience
and left, in accordance with
ly announced intentions, as a protest
against eviction qf the bonus
from its squalid encampments
last summer.
Ihere was nojdisturbance, ~T however.
England Observes
London, Nov. 11. UP)—A solemnly
majestic ceremony at the Cenotaph
this morning marked England s Arm-|
istico Day remembrance.
Kmg George, tor the lust time’
since his illness which followed a chiUI
at the 19-8 Armistice pay ceremonies, j
laid a wreath at the base of the
symbol. His son, the Duke of York,
hud another.
A brigade of red-coated guards in
their huge bearskin hats were drawn
up in precision around the Cenotaph,
forming a hollow square. Within
were the king and the duke, repre¬
sentatives of the army, navy and va¬
rious military organizations, a mili¬
tary band and 'a vested choir.
The prayers and the religious service
were conducted by the bishop of Lon¬
don.
Frances , Inhute J j
Paris, Nov. 11. (JP) The booming
of cannon the shrill notes of the bugle
and the sharp click of hobnailed boots
joining at Attention preceded,
Frances one-minute ot silence °u |
Armistice Day today, the fourteenth j
anniversary of the end of the World
War.
The French army rendered homage
to the Unknown Soldier under the
Arch of Triumph at the Etoiles in
Paris.
The tombs of Marshals Jotfre and
Foch in the Invalides were banked
with flowers.
In Belgium
Brussels, Nov. 11. (/P)—Armistice
Day was observed throughout Bel¬
gium, the chief interest centering in
the ceremony at the tomb of the Un¬
known Soldier in the capital, which
was attended by the royal family and
representatives of the government.
Democrats Face
Weeks of Work In
Old Positions
By The Associated Press
Borne into office by a plurality that
f/peiled a mighty congressional ma¬
jority and 38 state administration^ as
it pushed past the 3,000,000 mark, the
nation’s new Democratic leaders fac¬
ed weeks of labor in old jobs before
assuming the new.
For Franklin D. Roosevelt, this
meant at least two months directing
affairs of New York state from the
Governor’s chair.
For Speaker John N. Garner, it was
the always difficult task of marshall¬
ing legislation during the crowded
three months.
But sandwiched in will be confer¬
ences with Democratic leaders, doubt¬
less including plans for both the short
session and new congress.
Smoothing the path of President
elm Roosevelt toward his White
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TEN PAGES
New Idaho Senator
j
j
James I*. I’ope, who figured in
landslide Tuesday,
Senator John Thomas, of Idaho,
for his seat in the senate.
BEING RENEWED
From Great Britain to
Washington Government
For Discussion of Several
Phases.
__
Washington, Nov. 11. (JP)—A note
rom Great Britain presumably seek
ing an international debt discussion,
Greece’s failure to pay and H un
g al .y> s no ti ee sb e can no t mee t her
December installment, today renewed
tlle wal . debt pl . 0 blem.
Coincident with a report from Eng
] an( j that a note had been sent the
Un ite<i States, Sir Ronald Lindsay,
British ambassador conferred yes
er{ j a y w j bb Secretary Stimson. Later
bcdb dec ]j ne( | comment. But shortly
afterward Secretary Mills announced
the action of Greece and Hungary.
He said the treasury failed to re¬
ceive Greece’s payment of $227,000 of
principal and $217,920 of interest that
was that due yesterday. And he added
Hungary had notified the gov¬
ernment she “does not have the nec¬
essary foreign exchange with which
to make the payment due the United
States on December 15.”
This amounts to $12,282 of princi
pal and $28,444 of interest.
Already, Esthonia, Latvia and Po
i andi had given the formal 90-day no
tice a n owed un der the 1928 debt fund
a g reemen t that they could not
ma k e their December payments. The
debt agreement, however, does not
ma ke interest postponable.
Any expression from debts' the govern¬
ment regarding the of the Brit¬
ish note was considered unlikely be¬
fore President Hoover, who is return¬
ing from California, reaching the
White House. In recent speeches, Mr.
Hoover has expressed the belief the
American people would not demand
payments beyond the capacity of any
government to pay.
GIRL IS KILLED,
TWO INJURED AT
GRADE CROSSING
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Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 11. </P)—A
year-old girl was killed and her father
and two others injured last night
when their automobile, caught in a
traffic jam at a railroad crossnig, was
struck by the Dixie Flyer.
The girl, Ellen Chambers, and her
father, A. E. Chambers, were on their
way with Elmer M. Cobb and Louise
Farrida to Candler field to witness
an anti-aircraft demonstration. The
highway was jammed with thousands
of cars and the Chambers automobile
was stalled, unable to budge, on the
Hapeville railroad crossing.
Occupants were unaware of the ap¬
proach of the train until its headlight
flashed around a curve and it was too
late for them to perk open the doors
of the car to flee, The automobile
was carired 100 yards by the train,
none of the three injured was reported
in critical condition.
KING VIDOR SUED
Los Angeles, Nov. 11.
Boardman, film actress, has sued
King Vidor, director, for
naming Miss Betty Hill, script girl, as
co-respondent. The
marriage six years ago was called
Hollywood the “perfect match.”
Blum, attorney for Vidor, said the
rector would file a counter suit.
BRUNSWICK, GA., FRIDAY. NOV. 11, 1932.
ROOSEVELT !ll
ORDERED 10
[President-Elect Wakes
j Mid-Morning But is
Confined to His Bed By
sicians
CANCELS HIS TRIP
TO HYDE PARK
Contracted Cold Last Tuesday
on His Motor Trip to
York City on Campaign
Journey.
j Albany, N. Y., Nov. 11. (JP)—Pres
iident-elect Roosevelt today was con
jfined to his bed with a slight cold,
his weekend trip to
to rest at the executive mansion.
A report from the mansion said he
did not have a temperature. Mrs.
Roosevelt who arrived today from
New York, advised him to rest in _
over the week-end.
Mr. Roosevelt said yesterday that
he had contracted a cold last Tuesday
on his motor trip from Hyde Park to
New York City but he added he be
llieved he had tossed it off.
j and He during rode most in an of open the trip car that bare- day
Iheaded, was
while lie waved his hat to the
crowds in the villages along the way.
Mr. Roosevelt, who conducted a most
arduous campaign, said the day after
his election “I never felt better,” hut
added he was tired and expected
‘‘catch up” with his sleep during the
following week.
Mr. Roosevelt awoke al mid-morn¬
ing after working late last night.
He had his breakfast in bed, in the
big, high-ceilinged bedroom in the
southwest corner of the mansion.
After breakfast his secretaries
brought a portion of the morning
flood of mail to him, which he looked
over, dictating answers.
“Ihis will be a good chance tor him
to get a little rest,” it was explained
b.v one of the members of his staff
who had gone through the months of
travels, speeches and crowds with the
president-elect in his campaign.
In a brief statement last night the
president-elect said no decisions re¬
garding any federal appointments
would be reached “for at least, two
months.”
In the meantime, lie said, he wilt
give his attention principally to the
affairs of New York state.
He will return to Albany Monday
to continue whipping the state budget
into shape and to prepare for his trip
to Warm Springs, Ga., about the end
of next week.
The governor took time yesterday
to explore with newspaper men into
the speculative rumors which had
arisen about his plans since the land¬
slide Democratic vote which swept
him to victory Tuesday.
He issued the statement about, fed¬
eral . appointments to settle specula¬
tion about his selections for cabinet
and other federal posts.
Regarding suggestions that, Mr.
Roosevelt might visit the White House
to discuss with the president matters
relating to the future of the nation,
intimate associates of the president¬
elect said any initiative toward such a
meeting should properly come from
the White House. Mr. Roosevelt does
not now plan to stop at Washington
on his trip south.
The two weeks lie will spend at
| Warm Springs will give him ample
| opportunity consult congressional
to
| leaders prior to the short session of
congress opening early in December.
It was considered likely that the much
discussed possibility of early congres¬
sional efforts toward modification of
the Volstead act might come up at
such conferences with members of
congress.
GRID PLAYERS HURT
Newberry, S. University C., Nov. 11. UP)—
Three Furman freshmen
football players were injured, one ser¬
iously, when a bus carrying them to
Columbia for a game with South
Carolina freshmen collided with a
truck near here today. Leroy Cablet',
of Effingham, S. 0., suffered a broken
leg and posisbly internal injuries.••Hu¬
bert I). Blair, Houston, Tex., and
Burrell Burt, of Elko, S. C., were
slightly hurt.
RACES SUSPENDED
New York, Nov. II. (/Pi—Frank
Keeney, owner of Keeney Park, Fla.,
today announced through the New
York press he had decided to indefi¬
nitely suspend the proposed race
meeting there, scheduled from De¬
cember 30 to January 18. Recent un¬
certain financial conditions were giv¬
en as the reason.
Actress Witness
!j Marion Nixon, film actress is
n a Los Angeles court when she
I pt , areri as „itness aj , ainst a
| bandit. She was among thos held
in a train ro | >bery m . ar Los
more Ulan ,„<» years ago.
1 '
M’DUFFIE SEES
I
Democraic Whip in HoilSe
dares He < J>eeS IV) x KettSOIl n
For Not Changing Law at
Session.
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Washington Nov. 11. (JP)
sentative John McDuffie of
Democratic whip in the house,
told newspapermen “the thing to do
is to modify the Volstead act as quick¬
ly as possible and I see no reason why
jit [session cannot of he congress.” done at. the December
j certain “The people have their spoken endorsement in no of
terms
the Democratic platform,” McDuffie
said. “There can be no mistake as
to their wishes. I see no need of wait¬
ing for the new congress to act on
this issue.”
“Economical reasons alone are suf¬
ficient to justify the .... action ......... although .........
the matter is of even far more
portance. Revenue from the sale of
beer would help to balance the fed¬
eral budget and maintain the gov¬
ernment’s financial stability.
“I have been in New York during
the past six weeks at Democratic head¬
quarters and 1 was informed there
that there are more speakeasies in
New York than there were liars in
the days before prohibition. Some¬
body is getting the money and the
federal treasury might as well get
it.”
Questioned as to whether the com¬
ing session of congress would reduce
federal appropriations for
ment purposes, McDuffie said:
“I don’t see why appropriations
enforcement should not be
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PROPOSES RELEASE
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GOVERNOR-ELECT COMSTOCK TO
GIVE MEN LIBERTY IF HE
FINDS IT IS LEGAL
Detroit, Nov. 11. l/R)—Freedom was
in prospect today for imprisoned vio¬
lators of Michigan’s prohibition law,
if Governor-elect William A. Corn
stock finds it “legally possible” to re¬
lease them when he assumes office in
January.
From other leaders among
Democrats, who will be in control
when the state legislature
two months hence, came
that, repeal of the state prohibition /luiiimiiuii en
lorcement net would b<*
should it be found that the voters,
repealing constitutional
j Tuesday, did not repeal statutory
t ; hihit.ion hibition.
j ! Comstock Governor defeated, Wilbur M. Brucker,
announced
would “enforce the law” as long as
remains in office.
In an informal opinion, Emerson
Boyles, assistant attorney
said the repeal does not extend to
enforcement act.
Should Comstock carry out his
of extending amnesty to
prisoners, which he said he
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TEN PAGES
TASK FACES
! DEMOCRATS SOON
! AT WASHINGTON
The More the Election Returns
are Studied the More Appar¬
ent It Becomes That Oppor¬
tunity is Great
INSTRUMENTS NOW AT
HAND ARE IMPRESSIVE
'Ejection Figures Demonstrate
I That Country is in State of
j Peaceful Rebellion Against
I Republicans.
Hhe | Washington, election returns Nov. 11. (JP) studied The more
are
I more apparent il becomes that few
presidents in the whole history of
country have entered the White House
through so wide a door of
ity as that which awaits Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
I Not only the task ahead, hut the
[instruments The millions at hand of his are impressive.
supporters rep
■ resent every section and every po¬
litical party. Serving with him will
I he a congress highly sympathetic .with
Ibis political purposes. And he
icmt* 'only through the campaign pledged
to broad principles, and lettered
by a minimum of promises as to spe¬
cific cnactents.
It. is the unanimous judgment of
I those on both sides of tin* political
1 '™ 1 ' 1 ' ^ 1!l ' °f future history de
j |president pends on the degree to to which his challenge the new
measures up
j to The hold election independent figures leadership. demonstrate
[that, fill insurrection the country is against in a state the of present peaee
,,, in Washington. Even riven the me Dem- ‘-’em
erratic campaign managers give credit
the advantage they derived from
resentment against the Hoover
ministration. In an extraordinary
gree, the country will look hopefully
(shapes ion as (lie Roosevelt administration
its policies, and tile vast ma
jority who voted it into power will lie
eager to applaud whenever opportuni
offers.
The situation in congress after
March 4, will lie the most advan¬
tageous any president has found in re¬
cent years. Not. even the Wilson vic¬
tory of 1!) 12, though it split, the Re¬
publicans, uii.-., left on. that nun .party I’.m.v at ai so so low iu«
(mint as it will reach in March. The
house will be three to one Democratic.
in the senate, scarcely twenty out of
ninety-six nmri.v —uia will mu remain "'"uiiu who »n.i can lun u"
counted on to go down the line for
Republican organization.
In several of his campaign speech¬
es, Mr. Roosevelt voiced an aspira¬
tion for closer cooperation between the
White House and the governors of the
states and declared the president
should take national leadership for're¬
duction of state and local taxes. ■ For
such an endeavor, conditions scarce¬
ly could bo more propitious. Of the
forty-eight governors, thirty-eight will
he Democrats who supported him foi
(the j presidency.
Special political debts, incurred i 11
'handicaps the election, have been the greatest
to many presidents; hut Mr.
| Roosevelt’s support was so widespread
jas to make his obligations national in
their scope. ,
.
| [point H lias of special been said before, Neil,tier hut it is the a
moment:
jsoutji, (the industrial nor the centers agricultural of the slates, east,
nor
(any individual among Ids
j nor the organization of any local po
litical leader can claim to have sup
plied the margin of victory. He could
have done without any one of these
single factors and, on the basis of
gures, won the election.
•500 JAPS SLAIN
Tsisthar, Manchuria, Nov. 11. t/P)
Japanese army headquarters here re¬
ported today 500 Chinese were slain
in a bitter hand-to-hand fight yester¬
day on a wintry battlefield near
Khurkhura Chinese eastern railway
station, five miles west of I lie Nonni
river. A Japanese regiment, seeking
| I to to relieve u’iicvp the tit* menace jit'-imcr to t*» Tsitsihar 1 mimiiri of
) revolting 1 Chinese troops in northern
I Manchuria, was reported to have
routed .‘{,000 followers of Ceneral
1 Chan# Tienohu, nrinojpal lieutenant of
! (i General to. Su Ping-Wen. ue, .
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"SILENT” SHOOTING
New Orleans, Nov, 11. UP) •Miss
Angelo Lofaso, 24 year old deaf mute,
today shot and slightly wounded Mike
Gunearo, .53, also deaf and mute, re¬
porting to police that she did so tie
cause of repeated derogatory re¬
marks made about her by Guenearo.
The shooting occurred on a rcsiden
t.ial street corner, Miss Lofaso sur¬
rendered immediately afterwards to
police.
I ., ,, Democrat, who
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Falls in Woods Near
Tenn., and Carried
Crew to Death—Was Off
Course.
Kenipville, Tenn., Nov. 11. (JP)
Flying far oil' its course and
ently lost, a plane crashed in a
(m a steep hillside near here
nifght, carrying its live occupants
their deaths.
Two of the dead were identified as
M| . ul1( | Mrs. Joseph F. Hirt, lil t i»r of i*\,* <
Lauderdale, Flu. A young woman,
presumably their daughter, and a hoy
and girl, about live and four years old,
respectively, were the other vielimr.
All were killed instantly except the
girl, who died of a brain concussion
this morning. 'The children w.er • be¬
lieved to lie grandchildren of the
Hilts.
Dr. C. W. Robinson, who was with
the searching party that found the
demolished (ic mol is lioi l plune, plane, said sum it ii crashed erasneu
a high wind that, was accom
left'Sky liv a riiglil drizzle. The plane
,' Harbor, near Nashville,
al 5.15 igjn p [i. in., n . t yesterday yesterday en en route route to to
via Chattanooga. Favorable
conditions prevailed all the
way, but instead of flying southeast,
the plane went northeast and was
about 200 to 300 miles off its course.
Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Nov. 11. (/R)
Joseph F. Hirt, killed at Kcmpville,
Tenn., with three others of his fam¬
ily in an airplane crash last night,
was a Chicagoan who had
able financial interests in the Foil
Lauderdale area.
He spent, a short time each year
on a large farm near I’ompano he was
developing. Mr. Hirt also operated a
wood working plant in Fort Lauder¬
dale.
During Hie World War, he held a
government contract for
of airplane propellors. and this
caused him to become greatly inter
in aviation, lie held a’
pilot's license.
Until a year ago lie was editor
publisher of the Wood Workers
Publication.
Chicago, Nov. II. t/l’t Servants
the home of Joseph F. Hirt,
industrial engineer killed with
wife and two others in uri airplane,
said the flirts were accompanied on
their airplane trip by Mrs.
Hunter, a widow arid her two chil¬
dren. They did not known Mrs.
ter’ home address or the narfies
her children.
PAIR IN GEORGIA
MUMMY CASE HELD
UNDER HEAVY
Macon, Ga., Nov. 11. (/P).....Two
cused sponsors of “mummies”
and paid to see after their
ery” at Indian Springs, Ga., have
hound over to city court under
bail each on charges of cheating
swindling.
The two, Dr. W. C. Bryant,
Springs physician, and Leonard
Gregory, said in a statement to
court at a preliminary hearing yester
day they had never' exhibited
“finds” as “genuine muprmies”
had merely claimed they were
mies dug up at Indian Springs.”
PRICE FIVE CENTS
ETHAN 1.500
IN CUBAN AREA
Fate Reports Eronn Stricken
Section Indicate That Damage
and Loss of Life is Most
Appalling
RELIEF WORKERS TO
START [THEIR TASKS
Surveys are Being Conducted
Throughout Bahamas and
Cuba in Effort to Determine
Exact Conditions.
B.v J. P. ttlulf M’KNIGHT
Vssoeiated Press Cor respondent
(Copyright, !!)32, By The Associated
1’IT'SS)
Canuiguoy, (’ulna, Nov. 11. </P)—A
wide strip ot central Cuba lay pros¬
trate today amid the devastation of a
tropical luirrieiuie that left ail esti¬
mated 1,000 or mine dead in its path.
Camaguey province, the richest su-
1 gar growing province of the nation,
i bore the brunt of I lie storm. Milling
men said they Believed tile cane ciop
had been virluuflly destroyed.
Most of the dead were drowned i i a
tidal wave t hat) swept I lie Caribbean
port of Santa Cruz Del Sur. Tii hur¬
ricane whipped ii wall of water 20-feet
high through the town and hundreds
of the 4,000 villagers were trapped in
their homes.
Elsewhere through Camaguey and
adjoining parts of Santa Claru and
Oriente prqvihees, the destructive
winds damaged dozens of cities and
towns and leveiled vast areas of culti
j vated lands.
Estimates ,, ol. the dead . . varied . . . he
! cause it was imnossible to obtain com
n ’ un "' ull °!' W| U' many remote parts
i u 'sti’U'kc.ii provinces.
First definite news of the disas¬
trous wave brought from Santa Cruz
Del Sur by a train filled with injured
villagers. After talking with them
authorities heiv estimated the Santa
Cruz dead at between 1,300 and 1,800.
The police department of Camaguey
estimated the Santa Cruz death list
at 1,300; Mayor Humberto Rodriguez
of Camaguey said lie believed 1,50(1
hud Aguilera, perished, and Manuel Dupuy
a Santa Cruz survivor,
thought 1,800 hud been drowned.
On the basis of available reports
from other parts of this province, it
1 appeared ............. that the ......... deaths ' outside . ....., Sail-
1,1 ( iuz were tar short ol 100. In ,, Cam
“kuey 17 Were known to be dead and
75 injured.
Three trains, each hearing scores
of injured, had arrived by 2 a. m., to¬
day.
Throughout the night doctors were
operating on the injured by candle
light, the power plant here having
been seriously crippled.
Tile last, train this morning brought
word 2(10 bodies had already been
buried at Santa Cruz and that hun¬
dreds of corpses were lodged in trees
anil debris.
Another nine car train bearing 4.5(G
day. more injured was due here later to^
’I'lie hurricane, which had been lush¬
ing its way around the Caribbean for
a week, struck Santa Cruz early Wed
j | nesday morning. It cut a diagonal
l«*th northeastward through Cuba,
> leaving 1 rom the neighborhood of
Nueviltts on the northern coast. To
i <ia J5 slowed by its overland passage,
1 the disturbance was going through
the Bahamas.
Communication lines were wrecked
in every direction. Each incoming
train brought stories of havoc in cit¬
ies and through the countryside.
Colon, Panama, Nov. 11. (JP)—The
I r . S. navy tug Sciota on the way to
Philadelphia to he re-commissioned
was reported out of danger today af¬
ter a bad time in yesterday’s storm.
She wirelessed last night that she
did riot think she could remain afloat,
but today she was south of Folly Is¬
land with one destroyer standing by
and another proceeding to her aid.
Warning Issued
The weather bureau this morning
issued the (blowing storm warning:
“Tropical disturbance central about
midway between Nassau and Bermu¬
da moving northeastward attended
by shifting gales and probably winds
hurricane force near center. Caution
advised vessels in path.”
GEORGIA LEADING
Clemson, S. C., Nov. 11. (JP)—Geor¬
gia led Clemson 32 to 18 early in the
fourth period of their game here to¬
day- .j
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