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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1929
Page
2
In Americus Georgia on June 4 Mrs Idell Grantham 30 tearful widow testified she did not murder her husband Oscar Grantham. She sobbed that she did not shoot him and step on his brains. The trial for murder began closing as attorneys argued and the jury was to hear final statements.
On June 4 the Idell Grantham murder trial entered its second day as prosecutors prepare more witnesses to counter the plea of death by own action. Dr E D Anderson testified Oscar Grantham did not die by his own hand noting no powder marks. Grantham, titian haired widow, held a child in court as relatives from Waterboro South Carolina sat nearby. The defendant was arrested two days after her husband’s death while traveling to her parents in SC.
The Transit Section of the League of Nations recommends an international conference for 1930 to draft definite international law governing rivers and inland waterways that border two or more nations.
Macon Georgia June 4 1930s era Mercer University graduates hear Dr William H Kilpatrick of Columbia University urge youths to confront modern unrest especially in morals and marriage with fearless study. He warns of shifting parental authority and defines marriage as a human rather than divine institution to be adapted to changing conditions urging self-made conclusions.
Gratulations pour the second agreement mark a success for Mr Young whose intervention saved the conference from failure. He leaves for home aboard the Acquitania after steering creditors to present figures. He is hailed for lifting Europe from postwar mire with support from J. P. Morgan, Thomas W. Lamont, and Thomas N. Perkins. Zane Grey noted as a famed American author and fisherman.
Charlotte hosts United Confederate Veterans for a 39th reunion with an expected 15 000 visitors. Governor O Max Gardner and General A T Goodwyn open the event amid songs and parades, while aging veterans reflect on Davis and the Confederacy. The youngest registrant is 78 and seven veterans lie exhausted in a hospital.
Naples dispatches report mounting danger from Mount Vesuvius with Barre evacuated and lava advancing at 150 feet per hour. Crater flow widens beyond 70 feet and narrows the path to Terzigno while surrounding vineyards and woods burn. panic spreads through nearby communities.
Mr. D. O. Mimms of Boston attends to business in town. Several residents and visitors from Metcalfe Albany Jacksonville Lakeland Omaha Neb Tampa area are listed. Mr Ballard’s health concern noted. Coolidge guests report crops fine with tobacco and melons near ripening.
Atlanta June 4 The 36th annual convention of the International Association of Chiefs of Police focused on narcotics enforcement and advanced methods. Addresses highlighted cooperation with the U S Bureau of Investigation, radio use in policing, teletype systems, and police training.
A Kansas City mortgage racket is under investigation by the Better Business Bureau. Victims were pressed into buying first mortgages without recorder reference. fraudulent notes and forged deeds of trust were used. racketeers paid initial interest to simulate validity, then payments ceased.
Former member resigns amid praise for board unity and Georgia road progress. He pledges future support and continued interest in road construction, hoping under new administration the state will reach greater heights and undertake planned construction programs.
Atlanta June 4 Colonel Sam Tate of Tate Ga. was ready to assume duties as State Highway Commission Chairman. He takes over from John N Holder who retires under an agreement with Governor Hardman to relinquish the chair before June 5. Holder leaves the board finances in condition to allow 1929 1930 construction plans and will recommend projects for the new road budget. Presentations of his resignation were arranged by Holder in a Governor's office meeting this morning with Tate present.
Abingdon Virginia June 4 Sterling Dutton testified he heard no commands to halt the night of May 6 when J W Kendrick Emory and Henry College student was shot to death while riding with Dutton and Paul Phelps on a highway near here Dutton said neither he Phelps nor Kendrick had whiskey between six o clock and the shooting about 11 30 He described a vehicle moving to pass and then pulling back later shots were fired Kendrick slumped in his seat Phelps admitted prior whiskey convictions but denied drinking on the day of the killing
American League results include Chicago losing to New York and Boston beating Cleveland. Fonseca hit a homer in the first, while Detroit and Philadelphia played without full box details. National League shows New York at Chicago and Boston at Cincinnati with multiple home runs noted and varied battery pairs.
The Moscow Agricultural Gazette reports a Russian expedition this summer to locate rubber producing plants within Soviet territory. It notes a wild Central Asian plant said to yield rubber from its roots, with a hornlike excrescence weighing up to a pound. The rubber sap and sand binding form a rubber-like substance with about 20 percent yield.
Mary Culberson daughter of former Texas senator Charles A. Culberson marries Alexander B. Robertson in New York after a seven year courtship. Robertson, an English world war veteran, had faced private detective pressure in 1922. he later joined Dillon Read & Co. in banking.
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