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OAKLAND TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1933 9 7 BACK TO LAND MOVEMENT AS JUDGE ISSUES 'LYNCH' WARNING 4 ARRESTS, KILLING SOLVE P. 0, ROBBERY SUSPECTS Executive Recalls Day When Men, Woman Held at Den Plan Urged Before State Real Estate Association by Lieut. Governor Merriarn He Was Laieled 'Radical ver, Desul Man Linked to $500,000 Chicago Holdup With Late A. F. of L.

Head ROOSEVELT PAYS PERSONAL TRIBUTE TO GOMPERS DRfQinniT i nun rhirunn rf Vl j- r-n fprf ir srSS? LU ill rni(" Juu -W wl) -i4swt ADVOCATED ITASMlSCTffi, Oct. 7, The text Koottvdt'l ttUrrn DENVER- Oct. 7. MP) A spectacular $300,000 mail robbery in Chicago nearly a year ago was virtual 1 solved today with the arrest here of three men and a woman, and the suicide, in Chicago, of a wealthy night club operator, U. S.

District Atforpey Thomas Mflrrissey claimed Those held were: Raymond Hol-well, 44, Denver stock promote, Theodore Norell. 27, pi Denver: Mrs. Bernice Sullivan, 32. of Chicago who resided at Nordic home, with -vr i yi- mfw By E. vsn RIBBINK RIVERSIDE, Oct.

7. A "back Jo land" policy, fostered by both the State and the Federal government, was urged by Lieutenant-Governor Frank F. Merriarn in an address before the 29th annual convention of the California Real Estate Association, now In session here. "TTie wa'y out; is to place men and their families on small farms, thereby enabling them to raise the necessities of life." Merriarn said. "Already the Federal government has made available the 'sum of $25,000,000 for this work an amount which is entiriy inadequate, but which may well be raised, in the near future." The lieutenant-governor warmly recommended the activities of the California Real Estate AssoeiatioA in bringing about relief from taxation on real estate during the last session of the Legislature, would have been ho relief "for ral estate at this session, hid it not been for the State Realty Association." he declared.

"However, th fight is not yet over. I believe in further relief to real estate common property, in the promulgation of additional measures which will, once again, make it valuable to own real estate." IMPROVEMENT TREND. nl the dedication amuei Cnmpert memorial monument fol Urns in part: It is fitting that In th Capital of the nation atatu ahould Mand through the agea, to remind future enervations of the -jaetrieeto that nation of a patriot who aerved "hi country well, it is fitting that the government through its representatives, should take part in the dedication of this monument It is fit ting that I should appear here in my official capacity; but it is also fitting- that I should be here ui my personal capacity, as one who has always peen proua or tne personal i friendship which I held for many years with Samuel Gompers. I knew him first" yrtien 'U a very young' man I 'came 'to New York City ao4 received' hta fine; support in Jtb establistiment of pure milk Ution4 for the feeding of unaer- nourished babies, from then on, we had many mutual tasks'. RECiUXS JOINT EfFOKT It is, I think, commentary on the progress toward social Justice which, we have accpmplished in a short space of time, when I tell you that to the year 1011 JnJy years ago Samuel "Gom- tsrt, Eobert T.

Wagner, Alfrt? E. mith and I were labeled as radi- cals when we fought for and finally succeeded In passing a bill through the New York State Legislature, limiting the work of women' in in dustrv to fifty-four hours week. These early struggles for social betterment struggles which in large part were Initiated by him have met with growing success with "every1 passing year. I like to think "thM Samuel Gompers ia today, and at Ihls aware of the fact done volunteer patrol duty in the Communist-fomented which has made Lodi an armed camp for the last three weeks and resulted in one murder, two attempted assattinations, a luicide and deportation orders for 2000 strikers, Tribune photo. Justice the Pec Slkmore of Lodi as he warned attorney for Sinjoaquin County grape picking strike agitator that there "may be hangings hete yet" from bis benHi in the Lodi Justice Court.

The court was crowded with armed "vigilantes" who have' Eli Lodi Killer Suspect Hunt Turns to Bay District gills (Continued From Page that through the quick ana praciir cal action 0 the National Recovery Act, child labor in the United States lias last come to an en. WIEND8HIP GOWS During th rears tf the Wilson administration' the friendship between us grew and strengthened. I need hot speak of his great service lo organized labor in their relations with private employers: but I can speak rightfully" of the'splendld cooperation which at all times he gave to the sympathetic adjustment js of problems relating to workers for the government itself. He well th fact, that those who i -Wrve "government serve the hppnple.as a whole. In the fulfillment of this "priHcipla that he approached the whole subject of the relationship of labor to the government at the out-I break of the World As a 1 Higher of the advisory committee q( council of national defence, jie was a part'of organization which, met' 'the crisis of wari more than.

it was Ms patriotic-leadership or the unanimous mobilization, of the 4 ment no matter what its nature," Sheriff Odell said OFFICERS AND "VIGILANTES' MAINTAIN CLOSE GUARD His regular and special deputies either patrolled the grape fields or kept themselves In readiness for Instant summons, and the farmer "vlgllsnles" whose patrols have been brought Into play during the turmoil of the last few days, were likewise maintaining an attitude of "watchful waiting." Throngs of vineyardists paid final homage) Beronio today at funeral lervfces'for the slain foreman. He was jfuricd at the Lockeford Cemetery. Throughout the city today, wher ever groups of merchants, farmers or householders gathered, the discussion centered upon the strike, the circumstances of Beronto's murder suicide yesterday of Dominic Giero, 40, who killed himself as posses sought him. and the "hanging threat" uttered by Judge Solkmore from the bench. Giero ended- his life with a bullet jrr the brain in a Lodi rooming house.

An intimate friend of Secco, who is sought as Beronio's slayer Giero was believed to have been Ihe fugitive killer's confidante and authorities considered' it likely also that he may have given Secco refuge from the angry posses. JUSTICE DISQUALIFIES SELF TO SET IN CASE "If the officers come for mc, let me know right away," he told the, lundlady of the rooming house. "I can't leave lown because they're looking for inc." Not an hour later, even as the officers finally learned his whereabouts, Giero shot himself. The landlady denied that Giero had been visited by any man in the last day or two. Judge Snlkmore's I threat" was followed by his action disqualifying himself to sit In Judgment of strikers charred with disturbing the peace, trespassing, resisting arrest, and other offenses.

Nearly 40 are In the County Jail awaiting trial on these charges. The judge transferred the hearings on two cases to the court of Justice of the Peace E. E. DouBla? at Manteca, and said he would grant changes of venue in other pending hearings. 4 "My sentiments are too well known," Judge Solkmore said after Attorney G.

R. Anderson of San Francisco, retained by the Agricultural and Industrial Can- his mother, and Francis Sullivan. 4.1.4 of Chicago, husband of Mrs. Sullivan. A fifth person, Robert E.

Bartlett former private detective, is sought here for questioning in connection with the case, Morrissey HELD FOR INVESTIGATION. Holwell' is held for investigation for alleged activity in attempting 1a dispose of $125,000 worth of bondj from the mail robbery, Morrissey said. Norwell was associated Federal official claimed The $500,000 loot was obtained ir. the robbery of Fred Voelsch, veteran mail carrier, and his armed guard. Frank Stastny, in the Chicago Loop District, December 6, 1932, the Federal attorney said.

At Chicago. United States Attorney Dwight H. Green said Edgar B. Lebensberger, prominent night cluU operator who killed himself yesterday, had been named in a secre Indictment charging him with com--plicity in the mail robbery. District Attorney Doubts Suicide Theory CHICAGO, Oct.

7 U. Distnci Attorney Dwight H. Green' today Suggested that the bullet, fired inu-the head of Edgar B. Lebensberger, 0. wes-ltby nignt club owner, a few hours before hi indictment 01' charges of complicity in a $500,000 mail robbery, may not have been self-inflicted.

Labensberger's body, clad in silk pajamas, was found in his "Desde mona's Palace" home at 1258 Lake Shore Drive along Chicago's fashionable "Gold Coast" yesterday. The hou te became known as "Dcs-demona's Palace" a few years 6o when it was designed by the lati Martin architect, for a wealthy yoiKng eoiiple who had become enamored of the Palazzo faring the Grand Canal in Venice and which legend held was the home of the tragic Desdemona in Shakespeare's "Othello." I'NDER 9 INDICTMENTS. Against Lebensberger. one-time broker and sportsman and the other two, Green said, were nine indictments each, eight charging possession of stolen hnods and one charging conspiracy. It was disclosed by Green that Solomon Stern, a bond broker, had been arrested previously and released on $10,000 bond.

Among those questioned at the inquest was the widow. I.ouella. who said she was 6V the home of her sister-in-law seeking aid in dissuading her husband from committing suicide after repeated threats. "Mr. Lebensberger was quite de- i pressed." she testified.

"He had been struggling to make both end? meet and had been, subjected to frequent spells 0 despondency. This had been going on for He was the soi of Lafayette Lebensberger. wealthy distiller, and was reputed to have inherited a large fortune. At one time police said he was th? associate of Ted Newberry, and as a result questioned last spring when the gane-ster's body was found riddled with bullets. Masonic Funeral Given Albany Man BERKELEY, Oct.

7. Under the auspices of Masonic bodies, of which he was a life member, last rites were said this morning at Ihe Berk Undertaking Parlors for Thomas M. Blackstock, 1014 Talbot Avenue, Albany, whose death occurred at his home after a brief illness. Blackstock was a life member of Rising Sun Lodge of Masons In Aurora, Ontario, Canada, and was also affiliated with Crockett Lodge, 1. O.

O. and California Aerie of Eagles of Berkeley. He was a member of the choir of the Albany Community Church, tht pastor of which, Rev. H. Brooke, assisted in today's services.

Black-stock is survived by a widow. Frances. He was an employer of a Berkeley manufacturing concern British to Deport Escaped Convicts PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad. Oct. V.iPiFrench convicts who escape from Devil's Island every year must plot a new course of flight that will avoid this British colony.

Police issued an order saying such refugees will henceforth be arrested and given a certain time to quit Trinidad. If they do not comply they will be deported, probably back to Devil's Island. PLAGUE TALE DENIED HANKOW, China, Oct. 7. The National government's reports that malaria is killing thousands in Kiangsl Province, were called false today by foreign missionaries ret turning from the area.

The missionaries believe allegations were made to bring money for relief work from abroad. DIES IN WINDOW LHP SAN FRANCISCO, 7 After writing a farewell note to his wife, sleeping in an adjoining room unaware of impending tragedy, John Burnham. 6fl-year-ola manager of a local cigar ptore, plunged to his death early today from a -window of his sixth story apartment at 340 Eddy Street. Pedestrians saw his body crash on the pavement of an areaway and notified police. Burnham was dead on arrival at Central Emergency Hospital.

In doubt as to Burnham's identity, police went back to the apartment building and aroused Mrs. Burnham, asking her if her husband was. home. "Why, yes," she responded. "He's asleep in another room." She went to th? room, found the "suicide note" lying on Burnham's bed and collapsed.

The note said: "Ada dear: Am sick and de sponaent. just ran carry on longer. I am doing this because I just do not want to be a burden on you any longer. Forgive mo PA." For many years Burnham has neen employed as manager of a cigar store at Herbert's Bachelor Hotel, O'Farreii and Powell Streets Radio Squad Police IJalk Woman's Leap SAN FRANCISCO. Oct.

7. Her suicide, leap from a six-story build ing foiled by the timely arrival of policemen who had been warned of her intentions by police radio, Mrs. Frances Ogden, 29, or 1287 Pine Street, was in the Detention Hos pilal today, held for observation. Mrs. Ogden climbed a fire escape at 80 Geary Street last night to the roof, threw her purse and book to the street, and started climbing a parapet with the apparent inten tion of hurling herself after her bcloncings.

A janitor saw her and called police. A radio call was sent out and Inspectors Will jam McMahon and George water re sponded. They climbed the fire escape and caught, the woman just as she was about to leap. She said she' was" a writer, and was despondent because of a recent divorce. 6 Navy Planes Begin Long Hop COLON, 7.

(U.RT-Six Navy planes of the VP-lfT $qu9diof took off in ideal weather at 3:25 a m. today for a 3200-mile one-stop formation flicht to Sail Diego, Cal. The. planes headed for Sari Juan Del' Norte. Nicaragua, then across country for the Pacific coast.

Thiy expected to arrive at Acapuico, Mexico, within 12 hours. There the navy aircraft tender Wright awaited them. Afler resting and refueling thu planes are scheduled to leave Monday for San Diego. AC'APULCO. Mexico.

Oct- The U. S. S. Wright was anchored here today to rwait the arrival from Coco Solo. C.

of rix American Navy bombers for which the vessel will be the supply base. The planes were expected to land here today on a flight to San Diego Cal. Four American ships are pa trolling the route. Behn, President Of I. T.

Dies MADRID, Oct. 7. (JP) The death of Hernand Behn, president of the International Telephone and Tele graph Company, was reported today in dispatches to telephone officials from San Juan De Luz, France. His brother, Sosthenes, officials of the firm and the family were pres ent. His death, after several months illness, from stomach and other ali mentary disorders, had been ex pected for several days, MAN Joseph P.

Smith, State real estate commissioner, told the cdnveVitfon that there is a decided trend toward improvement in real estate values throughout the State. Smith said: "My investigation of real estate conditions throughout the Stte convinces me that peophj in all-wfiks of life, can best make se fe nd stable investments in real estates at this time. Our reports from real estate brokers in all parts of the Stat Indicate that the buying public 'is' displaying more interest now than In recent years. The aggregate sales may not total as much as in forpner years when the speculative value of real estate was higher, but there are a larger number of sales being recorded in different parts of the State than in any year during the last three, years." Stabilization of rents, loan practices, and real estate values are th problems in which organized real estate is interested, E. Avery McCarthy, Los Angeles, declared.

LIKENED TO CHAINS "Stabilizalioh Is a chain." he said. "Every link of which holds the other in place. Stabilization link are being forged day by day. and wa may look to accomplishment of fair stafiilizstion in rents, loan practices and realty values in a not ton distant future." Several hundred copies of the Oakland Tribune Yearbook 'hava been distributed at the convention. Special notice was directed to this distribution in an address by Glenn D.

Willaman. manager of the California Real Estate Association, who commended the Oakland Trlb'iine for its public spirited participation. The Oakland delegation js extending an invitation to the delegates to hold their 10.14 convention" in Oakland. No action will be taken until, next January when the board of directors will announce its deei- Labor I lot-Heads. Selfish Employers 1 lit by Roosevelt (Continued From Page temporary platform providing seating space for 2500.

William Green, now president of the Federation, also was a speaker. Telling first how Gompers. born in England, later became the "chieftain" of workers in the United States. Green continued in his prepared speech: "Today, labor places a new value upon his wise counsel, his sound judgment and his foresight. "The principles of collective bargaining, of cooperation, increased purchasing power through high wages, the limitation of hours of employment suitable to the manufacturing and economic needs of industsy, though regarded as revolutionary when first proclaimed during the ear.ly period of Mr.

Gompers' career. are now accepted as a fixed part of our governmental policies." GOMPERS IS CENTRAL FIGl'RE OF GROUP. The central figure in the monument, done by Robert Aitken, sculptor, is Gompers, seated. Behind stand three allegorical figures signifying unionism, fraternity and brotherhood. Gompers was president of the A.

F. of L. 40 years. In 1924 he went to Mexico for the inauguration of President Calles a few weeks after an arduous federation convention. Stricken with a heart attack in Mexico City.

Green reminded today, "he begged his friends to help him reach the border of the Urtitei States so -that he could breathe "his last in the land of his His memorial was authorized that same year, Up to last August 31, A. F. of L. members had donated $132,827 the monument. 1 Hurricane Feared As Gale Hits Bermuda HAMILTON, Oct.

7. 1 (fP A wind stronger than 60 miles an hour swept Bermuda to day as the harbinger of a which the meteorological station said would pass the Island to the Stanley J. Foster, alleged "super-bandit," and Miss Clara Marrs were held for Tf stigation today in connection with long list of Eastbay and auto thefts. Tribune photos. SUSPECT Mil FACE VICTIMS Victims of a dozen or more chain store robberies -and holdups today were to be taken to the city prison in an attempt to Identify Stanley J.

Foster, 27, held as a suspected gangster frnm Portland. Orf-, wanted there in connection with gang killings and the murder of a Salem watchman, and believed responsible for a score of crimes in the Eastbay. Held for investigation with Foster was Miss Clara Marrs. 22, of 27 Thirtieth Street, who is believed to have knowledge of his recent activities. according to police, has admitted knowledge of the slaying in Portland several months ajjo of Jimmy Walker, ex-convict, and Mrs.

Edyth McClain, whose bodies were hurled out of an automobile on a lonely road near St. Helens. But he declared he would not reveal the names of the slayers for fear of being "taken for a ride'' himself. MCRDF.R DENIED He denied all connection with the murder of a watchman at the Valley Packing Company plant at Salem. Ore on August 5 last.

Oregon State Police, however, have informed Captain of Inspclors Bodie A. Walhnan that they believe he was implicated in this killing. The watchman, surprising yeggs in the act of drilling the company's safe, shot it out with them and was fatally wounded. Foster's arrest, by a slrange quirk of circumstances, came out of a petty theft rase which caused him to be picked up for questioning, with the result that officers at the City Hall placed him as a man for whom a Coast-wide search has been made for the past six weeks. CHANCE BRINGS ARREST Tony Pcrre-a.

606 Thirty-eighth Street, reported that a mirror had been stolen from his automobile, and that he had seen his stolen property in a green sedan parked neoibv in a parking lot at Sixteenth and Clay streets. Patrolman Joseph Phillips questioned the parking lot attendant and learned that the driver of the green sedan had a room in a hotel across the street. Phillips went there and arrested Faster. At the City Hall, as Phillips and Lieut. Ira Reedy were questioning Foster.

Phillips made the chance remark: "This man uses a green sedan. Do we want anybody using Euch a car?" "I'll say we do!" shouted Reedy, whereupon, according to police. Foster became deathly pale. Then revelations followed in swift succession. Police said the green sedan had been stolen from Fred J.

Hose. 17.8 Oxford Street. Berkeley, and with changed license plates had been using in the daring daylight kidnaping and robbery of Joseph Faulkner, chain store collector, in downtown Oakland on Thursday. FEARED OLD GANG Police linked Foster to two anonymous notes addressed to Captain Wallman which have been picked up on sidewalks recently. The writer, signing himself -George S.

Foster," said he had knowledge of the Portland gang killing and feared lie was "on the spot" because he had quit the gang. A search was made and. on the sidewalk in front of Foster's hotel a third note was found, saying that if he was dead the names of the Portland killers couii be found iu his left shoe. workers in every part of the union 1. which supplemented the mobilization of the men who went to the front KEFERS TO WILSON The.

keen analysis of President Wilion made this reference to Mr. Gompers, in November, 1917: "If I may be permitted to do so I want to express my admiration of his. partiotic courage, his large vl-: sion and his statesmanlike sense of what has to be done. I like to ay my mind alongside of a mind that knows how to pull in harness. The horses that kick over the traces will have to be put in a corral." In those few words President Wilson summed up the splendid national services of Samuel Gompers, and at the same time preached a sermon that applied to capital and labor alike.

SERMON GOOD TODAY That sermon is just as good today 7 as xt was in 1917. We are engaged in another war, and believe from the bottom of my heart that organ-ized labor is doing its share to win this The whole of the country has common enemy; industry, agriculture, capital, labor are all engaged in fighting it. Just as in 1917 we are seeking to pull in harness; Just as in 1917 horses that kick over the traces will have to be a corral. Mr. Gompers understood and went along with that thought ing the years of the war, and we 4 have many evidences of his accept- WASHINGTON, Oct.

The troublous problem of Russian recognition which has hounded every administration since the World War apparently is nearing a settlement by President Roosevelt. High "administration sources say the question Is Into ad vanced, 8 far nag the study progressed- that conservative spokesmen said early personal con sideration by Roosevelt lookin? to final disposition was a "fifty-fifty" chance. Trade benefits expected to flow frnm diplomatic relations are providing, the stimulus in behalf of recogniUffO. Russia wanta to buy through credits about a billion liars' worth is a late estimate by her commissar of foreirn ef- faira,) M. JMtvlnnff.

The United States wants to sell especially to a potentially huge foreign market But indications were that the President's ultimate decision prob ably would not mean the swift un conditional recognition advocated by some, but rnther that, final action would result from negotiations covering numerous differences. Some $300,000,000, p( confiscated American property, $187,000,000 government obligation, and in repudiated Russian bonds have been major obstacles to Russian recognition. Officials foresee their possible adjustment in the credit negotiations between Russia and France which point to a formula for composing claims Indirectly by paying a bonus on borrowed money or contracts the bonus going to old creditors, Important to American statesmen, too, has been a guarantee from Russia to stop the "continued propaganda is) overthrow institutions of this country." Now officials believe the United States hns "passed the crisis'" of Communistic propaganda: that Russia lacks the time, method or means to ngilale the doctrine of "world revolution." Senator Dale of Vermont Is Dead ISLAND POND, States Senator Porter Hin-man Dale lay dead today at his summer home in the nearby mountain town of Newark victim of a heart attack. Dale, a Republican and the senior United States Senator from Vermont, Was 06. He had been stricken ill about a -month ago, but apparently had recovered.

Three days ago he suffered a heart attack and failed to rally. He was born In Island Pond on March 1, 18K7. He studied law under his father, the laic George N. Dale. He served in the State Militia and was made a colonel on the staff of Governor Grout.

He was elected to serve an unex pired term in the Upiled States Senate on November 6, 1923, and was subsequently twice re-elected. Mother Is Freed of Charge of Murder NEW YORK. Oct. 7. -iI'i-- Freed of a charge of murder.

Mis Cecelia McCormick was reunited today with her 5-mnnths-oJd bnby, born while she was awaiting trial. A jury acquitted her last niht of the murder charge she '-faced for smuggling in the pistol with which her convict husband. Andrew McCormick, killed a keeper in Raymond Street jail last' November. McCormick committed suicide after the slaying. The jury decided after deliberating ten hours, that she was temporarily insane.

SUICIDE FAILS William Schafer, 27, 1227 'Fifty -fifth Strect.Js recovering today at Highland Emergency Hospital from a poison suicide, attempt last night at Sixteenth and Market Strteti. He has refused to give -any reason (or his act nery Workers Union to defend the accused strikers, had filed affidavits attacking his impartiality. JUSTICE GRANTS PLEA FOR CHANGE OF VENUE. In a statement from the bench, the judge had desrribed the agitators as "nothing but a bunch of rats, Russian anarchists, cut'throats and sweepings of erealion," and ended hi outburst wfth the warning that "in some places they would be taken out and hanged from the nearest limb." The judge also assailed the demands of the agitators for a jury trial, describing juries as "the means of escnpe" for guilty mn and outgrowths of medieval justice. "If they want justice, I'll give It to I them," Judge Solkmore cried.

Attofney Anderson based his af fidavits for a change of venue on the judge's statements and won his plea for a new trial location, from the judge himself. In fact, the judge permitted Anderson to draw up his affidavits on the courts typewriter, and Anderson sat in. the judge's chair during the noon recess of court, composing the sworn accusations of prejudice. Tulare (Irowers Band To Oust Agitators TULARE, Oct. 7 (U.R The State moved today to investigate a strike in which thousands of- cotton pickers walked off San Joaquin Valley ranches, demanding a 66 per cent wage increase.

Herbert Williamson, deputy State labor commissioner, arrived here to confer with strikers and growers and to offer to mediate the dispute. Meantime, growers took- what was regarded in snmn quarters as significant steps to terminate ihe smke. They organized "growers' committee" and were adamant in refusal to accede to strike leaders' demands for $1 for picking 100 pounds of cotton, 40 cents more than the present scale of 00 cents. Spokesmen for some of the grow-s' group admitted their purpose w-wWo-drive the and agita-(jjrrout of the valley." They charged That the strike was fomented and led by communist agitators and aliens, and insisted he majority of their pickers were willing to work for the present scale if not interfered with. The growers planned to seek cooperation of merchants and others in refusing donations to strike committees.

and shot herself. She was found there after police had been summoned by neighbors who heard the shots. "I couldn't sleep," police quoted her as saying. Mrs. O'Brien has been in ill health for some time.

The woman wtfs removed to the Santa Hospital and a charge of "suspicion of minder'' lodged against her by police. Couple Married I fere 16 Years Ago Mrs. Hazel O'Brien -is the estranged wife of Willis O'Brien, 47. of Oakland, son of the late William H. O'Brien, for IS years' assistant city attorney of Oakland.

O'Brien, a famous motion picture technician, has two brothers and a sister in Oakland, Douglas L. O'Brien, architectural designer and Meredith O'Brien, both of 58.1 Montclair Avenue, and Mrs. D. L. Walbridge.

765 Excelsior Avenue. Mrs. O'Brien and O'Brien were married 18 years ago, according to the brothers, who said that of late yean she has been "erratic." Mother Kills Two Sleeping Boys, Tries to End Own Life ance of the fact that the horses pulling in harness were the horses of the employee and of the employ-' ers as In those years a few, happily a every few, horses had to be lassoed both kinds of horses; and today the conditions are very similar. 1 Done HpNote Left by Suicide SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 7.

Com mitting suicide by taking poison at 1 the San Francisco health farm, near Ban Mateo, Robert E. Hollis, 50, v- cook, died yesterday. 1 Hollis left a note asking thai come one care for his dog. Police beUeved the note was written after he took the poison as It began, "I LOS ANGELES. Oct.

7. uV -Mrs. Hazel O'Brien, wife of Willis H. O'Brien, formerly of Oakland, a film technician whose work made possible the weird production "King Kong," shot and killed her two sons and then attempted to end her own life this morning, police reported. "My husband is not to blame in any way," Mis.

O'Brien was quoted by police as saying after shqh'ad been removed to the Santa Monica Hospital for treatment of a bullet wound in her chest. "I just couldn't sleep and there was no one to leave the kids with." The two dead boys are Willis 13 years of age, and William 14, who was blind. The tragedy took place in the palatial Westwood Hills home where Mrs. O'Brien lived with her two sons. She -has been separated from her husband for the last three years.

Police said Mrs. O'Brien first entered the front bedroom and shot William, and then went to the Sleeping porch where she fired a bullet into the younger boy's bead. She then returned to her room (' done it" Radical Socialists 1, Oppose Inflation VICHY, France, Oct The Radical Socialist party, in conven tion here, was record today as opposing inflation and favoring sound money. The resolution was taken as confirmation of the belief the government intends to keep the franc on gold. Premier Daladier is 1 attending the.

congress. 4.