Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 1

Exclusivcssodaicd aManii OAKt-ANO AND TICIXITI-iFalr tonltM and Thursday, but with some cloudiness; geqtl to moderat west winds. Temperatures SSTmlo. S3 S4 ionrs ending at 7:00 a. Oft Reason to dale'. Normal to date Last Tear 10 date SI ComoYuJatcd Press Assockrtiott VOL.

CXV THREE CENTSSUNDAY, TEN CENTS OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 21, 1931 36 PAGES NO. 113 esident Talks Over Air to Laval FIRE R0UIS4D0 PATIENTS AT SEE 1(1 OF mdc ii inn FRIENDS BURIAL Sought as Trunk Murderer MRS. WINNIE RUTH JUDD. wife of a Los Angeles physician, who is missing. She is sought on warrants charging murder of two women in Phoenix and shipment of their bodies to Los Angeles in trunks.

A. P. phoio, 13,00010 GRAFT LAID T0 1 50 POLICEMEN IN OAKLAND DEPARTMENT "ssssssssssss BTmiirwiiTniTiWsiinnimmTnnii 1 i 1 FEARED 1 it jar v.t. i i District Attorney and City Manager Confer on Next Move in Probe for Bootleggers of Protection' APPEAL TO 'I SHS I The entire Oakland police department, with the exception of the traffic squad, was declared today by City Manager Ossian K. Carr to be "under a cloud," as a result of the sensational disclosure that county and federal authorities had been investigating an alleged "protection racket" in which $3,000,000 is reported to have been' collected by police in graft from bootleggers.

Carr made his statement after conference with District Attorney Earl Warren over the next step in the investigation, and coupled with it a plea to members of the police force to assist in clearing the name of the department by bringing those guilty justice. The city manager was conferring with Chief of Police James T. Drew this afternoon on the advisability of a general police shake-up as an adjunct to moves by the district attorney which eventually may lead to suspensions and dismissals. ll'v'f i i fef: III II it bm(-AAikukmA sssissssBsMssiiisnssaiBsaHsssHssssssBsssssHss MOTHER HELD: SURCHARGE IS BABIES STARVE RAIL REMEDf Jealousy Held Motive in Mur der of 2 Women; Shadow Of Dope Covers Slaying Accused Doctor's Wife Flee As Police Enlarge Of Southern California LOS AXGKLES, Oct. 21.

CUP Jealousy was believedby author les today to have been' the motlvsi the slaying of Miss Hedvlg Sami nelson and Mrs. Apnea Ann T.jhrnti whose bodies were shinned here In trunks from Phoenix, Aria. Letters, interviews, and a study the circumstances led to the the fy as police extended the-search or Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd. 2Ti accused of the murders.

With Kent nlmnet Bnn.l search for William Edward Hick man, muraerer or Marion Parker, the hunt for Mrs. Judd went on. throughout Southern California, ni Vrlxon today. -i Mrs. Judd was reported seen dozen times in as many different; places but as the day wore on each of these tips seemed to have', been groundless.

Authorities think- Mrs; Judd: was in or near Los Angeles be-; cause she was believed to have; olily a few dollars, but, mindful, of the manner hi which Hick-1 man squirmed out of southern: California in 1987, they worked; carefully on each tip. RELATIVES. OFFICIALS SHOW FEAR OF SUICIDE Some officials and relatives wer Of the Opinion that thA wnman cused of murdering her two friends. iyiK, isamueison and Mra. Agnes Lefoi, In Phoenix and ship.

Ping their bodies here as luggage. iiu. ub lounu anve. Lounty Attorney Lloyd Andrews, of Phoenix, and Detective Inspector David Davidson of Los Angtdea agreed as to the possible motive. Andrews also said that, "the Jn yestigation shows that dope may have had soine part In the The attorney brougjht warrants here for the arrest, Sirs, Judd and two "John Do" eompanlons" Who, he said, possibly aided In the murders.

Suspicions of a Southern Pacific baggage-master who thought two trunks shipped from Phoenix contained contraband, deer led to tha discovery of the bullet marked bodies, one dismembered, and the subsequent search for Mrs. Jiidd. Through the license number the car In which-a man and woe man visited the tnttn for the trunks, Burton McKtn brother of Mrs: Judd. iv.si-i cated. 1 1 He admitted ndt Vo sister, wlfs, nf u-mi fcanta Monica physician, to the-t tion tn r1im th, BROTH KR.

KAVa lit' ma NOT llF.4ni trnrt w.u JAJCXW i After the baggage-master'' t' fused to release the trunks until thev wer nnnsirl j.n i flam he took Mrs. Judd downtown, and nau noi seen or neard from he since. McKlnnell, held a material; witness for 24 hours, was re-' leased today. He refused to com-1 mcnt on the jealousy Detectives said, however, they1 learned that the women were-jealous of attentions paid each, other. Mrs.

Anna- Evans, 50-year-old nnrse, who first Intro-' duced Mm, Judd to the two victims, enlarged this theory. "Prom the tlm thav l-. trortueed," Mrs; Evans aald. "Mr. Judd and Miss Samuelson 'seemed to be gre ly attached to ch other.

Three weeks sen. Mra T.rM r. turned from Portland. It was my underslandlnr then that all ihm women were to live In the same ueieitive lieutenants i ran Rvan and Tl: R. Mrnrssrll- --IH they believed hre women fojinn1 it ImnnjBiBlhl-lr.

Hi.a (V and that jealousy eventually led to the slaylngs. i'- DOCTOR REFUSES TO 5 DISCUSS HER COXDITION" Dr. William C. Judd, the hunted woman's. hnahanrf '-ItiV'thm seven years, was asked If aha waa subject -to-spells, of melancholia or ever revealed an abnormal mental conoiuon, "I don't want to talk about that.

(Continued on Page 4, Col. I) wouw-b, PIRATES LOVE XX Introducing in the Ger-aldine Department the subject of the mala philanderer who tecomei panicky at the suggestion of matrimonial re-' sponsibilities. In the Magazine Section of next Sunday's 1 ST. ANTHONY'S General Alarm Sends All City's Apparatus and Ambulances to Hospital Patients Rescued Without Iniury and Blaze Con-Roof fined to Building's A general alarm fire broke out shortly before 10 o'clock this morning in St. Anthony's hospital, 1537 Jackson street, menacing the lives ot patlentSjjSfnd nurses and threatening a notel and other buildings in the neighborhood until the flames were brought under control.

Fifteen patients, some of tliem so ill that they had to he carried trom the place on stretchers, were rescued from the burning building by firemen, police, and volunteers. Panic among the patients was averted by the nurses, who stayed by those who were bedfast and reassured them until help came. FIRE STARTS OX ROOF OF MAIN BUILDING. The fire burst out on the roof of the main building, one of two three-story frame structures that constitute the hospital, and a great column of smoke, visible for miles, shot up and mushroomed over downtown Oakland. Fire Chief William G.

Lutkey sounded -a general alarm which called all the fire apparatus In the city. Scores ot police were detailed to the scene, and prompt work on the part of tho officers and firemen prevented spread of the flames to the other hospital building and to the Lakehurst hotel, which adjoins the hosnltal. All available ambulances In the r.asmay were rushed to the scene but It fortunately transpired that only two were needed. These were pressed Into Use to transport two of the patients, those who were most gravely 111, lo the emergency, hospital. Later-these natlcnts.

Jo seph O. Sears, 3.1, of 3247 Hannah street, and Airs. Thelma Robson, 32, of 27H5 Seventy-ninth avenue, were uansierreu to Highland hospital jney were rescued by Police Sergeant Pierre Van der Wlel and Patrolmen Frank J. Cttrran and M. Anderson.

Tho other 1.1 patients walked oi were carried on stretchers to the maternity annex of the hospital. According to Chief Lutkey, the fire apparently started on the roof from sparks, either from the hospital chimneys or from those of buildings nearby. It burned one wing of the root and a' section of the allfl: before the flames were halted by firemen. DR. ENOS.

PROPRIETOR, ARRIVES DlltlNIJ FIRE Dr. M. M. Enos, proprietor of the hospital, arrived while the rescue work was going on. He slated that the danuige would be slight.

First fears that a tragedy might result were calmed when It was found that all the patients In the building were on the first and second floors of tho building. The third floor is occupied by nurses, all of whom were on duty at the time the started. Home ot the nurses, after seeing their patients lo safety, rushed back into the hospital and climbed to the third floor to save personal effects. Others removed valuables from the patients' rooms and from the hospital office. Mrs.

Mnry llrown-Lcwcr, hospital superintendent, was III In bed In her room on the second floor when she heard someone outside shouting Although weak and feverish from Illness, she ran to the third floor, mobilized orderlies and nurses, and aided In (he care and rescue of patients, Not until all per-' sons were out of the bulltling-dld! Mrs. Itrown-Lcwrr consent lo go to the annex. WOMAN PATIENT RESCUER HERSELF One of the patients who was able to leave the building without aid was Mrs. Helen Moore, 640U Wal-, nut street. Although seriously til, Mrs.

Moore was able to walk, and when she saw smoke swirling around the place she got out of bed, slipped coat over her nightgown, and ma'de her way unaided to safety. Passersby, seeing the smoke from the street, rushed Into the hospital and gave the first alarm to Miss L. DcCosta, nurse on duty at the hospital telephone switchboard, she called the fire department and then aided In rescue work. Additional alarms were sent In by residents of the Lakehurst hotel. When firemen arrived the fire had gained considerable headway, and for a few minutes the outcome of the battle against the flames was In doubt.

After a stiff fight, howT ever, the flames were, brought tinder control and the danger was pVer. Chief Lutkey detailed Assistant Chief H. AlcOrath to make nn Investigation of the fire and officially determine Its origin. The hospital buildings were at one time among the most fashionable residences In They were converted to hospital purposes some year ago by-Dr. TSnos.

Here Are Who" Were 111 in Hospital Here Is a list of patients who were confined In the Bt. Anthony hospital at, the time, of the fire. Police and '-firemen aided doctor on Page Col.2.) 0 EDISON Mrs. Hoover Takes Place Of Detained President At Quiet Funeral Rites Ford and Firestone Among Those to Pay Last Tribute At Grave of Inventor WEST ORANOR, Oct. 21.

(A') In the drawing room of the spacious, Victorian mansion where he had lived for many years, a simple and moving tribute was paid today to one of America's greatest peace time heroes Thomas Alva Edison. There assembled his family and his friends to bid him farewell, with the music, the poetry and the flowers that he loved. The wife of the President of the United States, whom the inventor counted among his friends, was present, but there was about the funeral little of the stately 1 ceremony one would associate with the obsequies of a man of world-wide fame. "fc The service opened with two of Edison's favorite songs "Little Grey Home In the West" and "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen," played on the violin by his old friend and business associate, Arthur L. Walsh.

TRIBUTE FROM OLD ASSOCIATE IS HEARD. There was more of his favorite music from -Bach and Beethoven, a reading of the 23rd psalm, a tribute from Arthur J. Palmer, one of Edison's old associates in the laboratory, and a prayer. Then his body was borne away to rest under a giant -oak tree In Rosedale cemetery near that of his assistant, John Ott, who died' Monday of grief and shock over the passing of the inventor. As far as possible, the brief and unostentatious funeral schedule was kept private.

Mounted police patrolled the borders ot the eslule, and admission was byard only. But those who gathered I hero numbered morn than 400. It wan said tho house had been equipped with amplifiers so that all could hear, MRS. HOOVER TAKES PLACE OF PRESIDENT, Henry Ford and Harvey S. 'Firestone, arrived.

President Hoover had planned to come himself, but was unable to leave Washington, and Mrs. Hoover arranged to represent arriving Just before the. funeral at 2:30 p. m. Hy mid-forenoon a stream of cars, and friends of the Edison family had begun to roll Into the estate.

Today was a perfect Indian summer day, warm and gunny. The trees In Llewellyn park, were colorful In autumn foliage. Edison's tyidy lay In the drawing room of (Jlenniont. Over the bronze casket lay a blanket of tea rose, orchids and llllles-of-the-valley. The room, the hallway and an adjoining conservatory were banked with yellow and white chrysanthemums, asters, orchids, deep red roses and autumn tinted lenves his favorite tree, the oak.

SPRAY OF OAK LEAVES RESTS I 'PON CASKET Most ot the time while his body lay in state in his workroom, a spray of oak leaves, placed there by his son, Theodore, lay on the casket. Near his grave, on a hillside in Rosedale cemetery. Orange, Is 'an aged and a giant oak treei Southwest of the burial plot, about 75 feet away. Is the freshly covered grave of John Ott, Edison's assistant for more than BO -yearn, who died Monday of shock caused by the Inventor's death. For four days and four nights police will maintain a guard of honor over Ellison's grave, It was announced today.

The first 4 8 hours will be taken by stato troopers, six men in eight-hour shifts. The watch will be continued by Newark police, for the next 24 hours, and will then be taken up for 24 hours by West Orange police. MILS. HOOVER ARRIVES WITH POLICE ESCORT. Mrs, Ifoover arrived the' home of Mrs.

William Thayer urown in Llewellyn Park, near the Edison 1:30 p. m. With a police escort she motored from Newark, where she had arrived by train from a short' time earlier. TIenrv Tfmil and Harvev Fire stone arrived at GlenmontTfagelher at 2 p. said they were prepared to have Edison's experiments In the manUfafilure of 'synthetic rubber carried on.

Ford said he would not view the body of Edison. "I prefer," he said, "to remember my friend as the cheerful, smiling mart that he was." Both Ford and Firestone rem Inlsced 'about their friend's 'long search, for a formula which would enable him to manufacture-rubber from colden rod. Firestone said that only a few weeks ago, in. the library at Glwnmont, Edison Showed hirh four1 pieces of crude, rubber derived from, one' of hlsyexperl- "He was greatly elated," jFIre ton- Mi's. Hoover and party ar rived at Glenmont at.li m.

FAVORITE HYMN'S OF, INVENTOR ARK PLAYED Shortly after the arrival of. Mrs. Hoover thai service began. Two aonga of Edison were jilayed th vlollrV ib'y old frlen and associate, Arthur L. Wals(i, vice-president of Thomas Continued on 2,..

7.) Hoover Sends Greeting To French Premier on Liner Bound for N. Y. WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. f) President Hoover today wirelessed Premier Laval of France a welcome In his own name and in that of the American people.

"As you near the shores of the United States," the President's message said, "I take great pleas ure in extending to you a most cordial welcome in my own name and In that of my fellow countrymen." The message was similar to that which the President wirelessed to Prime Minister MacDonald of Great Britain as he neared Amer- ca two years ago. An attempt to- broadcast a greeting to America by Premier Iaval ot France from the steamer lie de France will be made by the National Broadcasting Co. this eve ning, it was announced by NBC officials in San Francisco today Engineers plan to board the vessel 100 miles at sea with a Bu-watt transmitter. The Premier will speak In French and his talk will be translated into English. Mile.

Laval, his daughter, will speak it) English. The time Is not definitely announced, but it was stated that if successful, the. broad cast would be. released sometime between 8 and 8:30. RE-HROARCAST FROM NEW YORK PLANNED, The talks will be picked up by receiving apparatus 6n top of the Empire building in New York and at Riverhead, Lory? Island, and rebroadcast over aXcombined coast-to-coast network.

NBC officials -also announced that the reception to Premier Laval at the city hall in New York, would probably be broadcast at 6 a. m. tomorrow. It Is expected that Secretary of State Stlmson and Mayor Walker of New York will be heard on this broadcast. It these two programs are released" on the coast they will probably be heard through both KGO and KPO.

Broad Readjustment, of World Finance Visioned Hy BYRON PRICE WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. A) A broad readjustment ot the tangled fabric of world economics, Including possible debt revisions and drastic arms reduction, but Involving no American guarantee of French political security, Is conceived by the American government to be the theme ot Premier Laval's coming conferences with President Hoover. There Is no expectation here that any sort of prior commitment, in the form of a Franco-American consultative pact or otherwise, will be discussed when the two states-meiit sit down together at the White House later this week. The United States does not consider Itself In a position to make promises respecting the security of Franco or any other European nation.

It will be a surprise if Laval actually suggests suelrn step. ECONOMIC RECOVERY HELD AIM OF PARLEY. The understanding here Is that the sole basis of the Hoover-Laval conversations will bo world economic rehabilitation. France and the United State, holding between the'm most of the world's gold, stand In a position of special responsibility, and are expected here to approach their decisions with a full realization of that responsibility. It is recognized by many officials In Washington that revision of the war debts must come to the front In any such discussion.

All along, the United States had urged the yardstick of "ability to pay" In dealing with these obligations, and that yardstick again will (Continued on Page 3, Col. 4.) FEARS 3 LOST IT SEfl S. F. B. Morse, Millionaire, Safe as Yacht Returns; Other Craft Still Missing r.VRMKL, Oct.

21. that three or more persons were drowned when their 40-foot craft went down a mile and half off shore today were heightened when a mattress was found floating near the spot where the boat was last sighted. The report of the sinking was made by Mrs. Alma Hathaway of Hncramento and her daughter, Mrs. lister Prlmslng of Courtlnnd, occupants of a Oarmel Xjottage.

They said that at 8:30 o'clock this morning the'y saw the cruiser In distress, watched through field glasses, and nw the boat sink beneath the waves. They said they saw three men waving their arms In frantic distress signal; until the waters closed over telr heads. A coast guard cut! and several small boats took up the search for the small boat. The coast guard at Monterey was notified and a radio message 'was dispatched to the fuller Monterey, off the coast. The cotter Is at tho scene.

When the Dolphin failed to put In Its scheduled appearance this rhornlng, fear was felt for the safety of Morse and his party. Morse, president of the Del Monte -Properties company; together- with Charles Olmstead, an executive officer of the firm, and Captain den Johnson had left early this morning on a fishing trip. An airplane piloted by Major H. Ui Watson of Monterey, took off for patrol i the -scene. was.

fixing low over the 'water. CAM ENTIRE FORCE Graft Quiz Statements By Officials Here is rhii District Attorney Earl Warren, City Manager Ossian E. Carr, Police Chief James T. Drew and commanding officers of police divisions have to say on the investigation of alleged "liquor grafting" oy. members of the Oakland police department: District Attorney Earl Warren: "Complaints pave been made In this office concerning conditions In the Oakland police department.

io conclusions have been reached "as to the guilt of any particular person, and the proof at present Is not In such shape that It Is ready for presentation to any grand Jury, state or federal. "I have received certain statements concerning the bank accounts of members of the department, or their relatives. Up to the present I have not been able to verify these statements, although I will say that it looks bad. EVIDENCE GIVEN TO DISTRICT ATTORNEY "Likewise evidence concerning alleged payoffs has also been presented to me. Witnesses have been produced to tell of such payoffs, but 1 have not been able up to the present time to verify these stories.

"Our Investigation has been undertaken with the sanction and usslstance of Ossian Carr, city manager. Much of the information we, have received has come from him. Also there no suspicion pointing tn head of the department. Chief Drew has been most helpful during the investigation. "in conclusion I will nay that there apparently is no Immediate need of calling a grand Jury for tho evidence Is not in shape to warrant such procedure.

However, the publicity may speed this action." MOTHER CALLER TO ATTENTION OF CARR City Manager Ossian E. Carr "It Is unfortunate that those under suspicion have been Informed at this time that they are tinder Investigation, as I felt we were Just in a position to get evidence In connection with rumors of graft. "This matter was first called to my attention about two weeks after I arrived in Oakland. Certain stories reached me from time to time about graft In the police department. I turned everything 1 learned over to District Attorney Earl Warren, as I figured he was In a better position to get at the facts.

"None ot the rumors point any suspicion to the head of the department. I have not conferred with the chief- regarding action, but I had told him of the rulnors reaching me. I have heard enough to make me believe there has been graft, but I have no direct knowledge of It. "There was the ease of a police officer dismissed from the department, about whom the story came to me that he bjd built a $20,000 home, bought ft high-priced automobile and had ft tvtat on the bay. When this police fff-ficer and his wife quarreled, I was told that the wife went to the safe deposit vault to which they both had keys, and removed $50,000 to place it in another safe deposit box In another city, As as we have any evidence to warrant suspensions or dismissals, we shall place the matter before the clvlt service commission." CHIEF PROMISES FL'JLIV COOPERATION Chief of Police James T.

Drew "I haven't "heard anything, about this, but I shall with the district attorney and the city man ager to bring alt the facts to light "We are handicapped In our; efforts to get evidence of such graft, because we generally find that the same people who make accusations against members of the department will deny everything when we start to Investigate. "A police officer who will accept sums of money from a bootlegger on-Page- 2,1 Col. 1 .) "The whole police department, except the traflc squad, Is under a loud," said Carr as he came trom Warren's office at the court house, "and they owe It to the department to track down the guilty parties find assist in elearing the name of the department." Carr declared that inasmuch as a 11 heats are affected by the reports of systematic collections for protection to bootleggers over a period of years, he doubted whether a shake-up and reshlfting of patrolmen would be advisable. The question was the subject of his scheduled conference with Chief Drew. STORIES OF (JRAIT TO UK CAREFL'LLY CHECKED rearing that the premature fill closure that many member of the department ai'Wesvler suspicion might slow up the Investigation, Carr went to Warren's office during the forenoon to discuss the progress) of the inquiry.

After, their conference Warren said the probe Would go on, and the stories of various witnesses carefully checked, in spite ot the expected general movement to run to cover. more than 150 police officers reported to be Involved In the inquiry launched by Warren and department of justice operatives, the police department awaited expectantly for news from the court house, and speculated on the possibility of Its members being called before the grand jury to give testimony to support indictments. War-ten Indicated that the investigation had not reached the stage where It would be possible to predict thut the evidence will be placed before the present grand Jury, soow to be retired. While a mass of evidence has been gathered, Warren indicated before he went Into conference with Carr today that there Is much investigating work to be (lone. Federal operatives, Warren said, had ended their work, which was done in cooperation with his office.

PROOF NOT READY FOIl GUAM) JFKY PRESENTATION. "The proof at present is not In such shape that it Is ready for presentation to the grand Jury," said Warren. "I have received certain statements concerning the bank accounts of members of the department, or their relatives. Up to the pYesent I have not. been able to verify these statements, although I will say that it looks bad." Efforts to counteract a general movenient to "cover up" on the part of those under suspicion were under consideration today at the district attorney's office.

Both Wafreri and Carr expressed regret that knowledge that an Investigation was in progress had reached those about whom it had been hoped to weave a net of puncture-proof evidence. Carr revealed that stories of police acceWTng gitaft from bootleggers for1 protection had reached him shortly after he came to Oakland. These he turned over to Warren. 40.000 TO MONTH SAID TO HAVE BEEN PAID. Among the "highlights" thus far revealed In the probe, Warren said, are: From $40,000 to 950,00 lr month In protection money Is licing collected every month from certain bootleg resorts.

The money Is divided among uniformed officers on the beats and certain special duty men. One officer is alleged to have withdrawn nearly $40,000 from a hidden bank account since last July. In addition to protection money, the ring has reaped a harvest of graft through the sale of whisky and alcohol to bootleggers, some of It liquor pre vlously seized In raids. City Manager Ossian E. Carr has "full knowledge" of -the In.

vcstigatlon, Warren said and has supplied much of the evidence and wholesale dismissals may be another development of the probe. ti TUCKET OPERATES NEARLY FOUR. YEARS. Evidence now said to be In War ren's hands. It was revealed, lndl rates a systematic graft which has attained the status of "big, busl- ness" and a smooth-worrjlig organl nation which has permitted the asserted racket to, operate for nearly fnnr venrs.

The inspectors' bureau, traffic (Continued-OD. Page-2, Girl-Wife Arrested on Check Charge; Money Needed To Feed Two Children "It was so easy snd the 1 1 1 1 di-en needed food." Mvh. Myiile Henry, 21. 1527 Pomcii avenue, Albany, mollicr of Inn children and cjpectnut mollicr of a third, sat In a cell lit I be county Jail, and told how she passed more than 40 worthless checks on Oakland and Itcrkrlcy Irildcsiiicil. "I didn't have an account at any time." fhe said.

"When 1 bought things, I'd If they would take a small check and there Wasn't any bother about It." The- glrl-vvlfe revealed the tragedy of a runaway marriage at 15, wheli she was. tittenUIng cciiool in Chicago. Hhe met her present husband, Rarney Henry, 37, in a little, cafe near the school, where he worked, and' where the students used to drop In for milkshakes. Thu girl eloped with Henry; 'they were' mar-lied. They wandered from city to city In search of Jobs.

Her first baby was horn live years ngo, 'it boy named llerl. Fourlven months ago a second boy, Tommy, came to the poverty-stricken home. Thp'faihrr had been out 'of a Job for a 8HII moving from town lo low I hey found theiti-" selves five monlhs 'ago; l' Oakland. Henry had -worked "only 10 weeks 1 his year. Therm wan food for the children; the trim bought food -and clothing with the worthless checks.

I 'For the checks, she received' only In. cash; the rest she spent' for nerpsMrieM. Hhe was arrested yesterday by Berkeley police, i i i i i ii Boy Kills Self After Commerce Commission Tells Lines to Submit Plan For Handling Rate Pool NKW YORK, Oct. S1.G45) Railroad executives were busy studying the proposals of the lntcv- state rommerre commission- today, made In denying the rarrlers' ap plication for a 10 jrpr cent blanket Incrense In freight, rates. i official comment was generally withheld, both jit railroad, and financial 'quarters, pending more thorough' study of tho "Interstate commerce commission's plant, ot a temporary and conditional 'Increase on 'certain commodities', giving! additional revenue to the extent of about a quarter of Unit-, requeued.

Nevertheless, th'e cleels'ion' was Informally' described In seven. 1 quarters. hs btit by no means wholly, adverse, Some promfnent railroad executives are known to have had doubts over the advisability of a 15 per cent In fearing lint 'It might drive more business to the. trucks and the1 waterways. t'onsltterable opposition was Informally expressed, however, to tho plan of the commission of pooling the additional revenue for the.

aid nf the weaker This has been a traditional amorig.the stronger lines. They, have adopted the, attitude that 'forcing tliem to Ifell'i' weaker lines whs merely penalizing good WASHINGTON, It W) Flat'ly' denied' permission to1 'raise freight rates 15 per America's railways have before them a. new and untried Interstate Commerce Commission proposal tor pooling moriey 'derlwed from surcharges on freight bills to aid the less prosperous lines. Tho railroads were left Willi no. nppurent alternative but.

to accept the They were told by the commission their IB cr cent; proposal would lie harmful to themselves because of the growing use, of trucks and pine lines. Their executives wero directed to submit a 1 plan for handling, the pool by December 1, and were Informed It could not operate longer than March ma. The spectacular effort''Vf the as a was brought to a startling conclusion' with an nouticement lata yesterday of the commission' proposal. 'Railroad men' and attorneys had' scoffed at the' plan' when' shippers suggested It tot It was unworkable, thev The commission; -how, today asserted' It 1 was work- tOMMTSSIoV -v -AMOUNT OV 'SURCHARGE, At same- time ithe commit slon outlined the, commodities on which would permit surcharges and the amount of those i sur charges. They were to a maximum, of 10 Borne commodities, Including ores of all kinds and forest products were limited-to 13 carload; som others, to $6 a car, and still others on Page 3, Col.

8.) Poor School Report MODEBTO, Oct'. 8 Because he had're'eelved' a poor report card at school, Earl Woodbrldfte, 15, Modesto boy, committed suicide by swallowing poison In his ranch borne here today. T1(JS' theory 'of. the suicide, was advanced' by. his father, 33.

Woodbrldge, wealthy Modesto rancher, and Coroner George govern, he.body was found father when the youth failed, to an-swer a.caU to breakfast this Beside; the, bofly lay a notejin which boy bade memttri of his family "good-bye," Outside bedroom -window, an -opened can containing poison, was fodnd, Spreckels Estate Gets $1 ,504,490 Refund WASHINGTON', '21. (UP) An over-estimate of estate taxes of against the -estate of John D. Hpr.eckels, San Francisco, waa lannounced 'by -the. internal revenue bureau eptire sum.wM. abated.

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