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r- OAKLAND TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1933 $10,000,000 FUND FOR JEWISH REFUGEES PLANNED -1 ENMESHED BY TRAGEDY 65,000 FROM GERMANY IN II, 5, FAILURE nnuin hit SHRINKAGE IN GOVERNORS I A ET ASK FARM AID ASSETS I0LD OF PRESIDENT OU-lltl niiix Midwest Executives to Carry The Midwest's Demands Td Roosevelt in Person i WW IiIWWHWIIIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiih niiLMmjflaamnnwmrmrr-i mi.i hi lit 1 FIGHT OIL III BIKE CM Studebaker, Long Master Of Millions, Goes Broke Heir of 100-Year-Old Vehicle Fortune Lives Upon Charity of Friends SOUTH BEND, Nov. 1. U.R) The decline and fall of the for tunes of the house of Studebaker. once the city first family, was revealed today. In a modest frame house.

Col. George M. Studebaker and his wife. head of the clan and one -time master and mistress of a great grey-stone castle, are weathering out Jean depres sion years. Gone is the enormo COL.

O. M. STUDBBAKER fortune, va. p. photo, which tfated from the time the fore-bears-'Of the' present family started little'wagon factory here nearly 100 years ago.

The millions that piled up when the Studebaker factory turned to the manufacture of automobiles have vanished. MILLIONS VANISH Today the woman who ruled as arbiter of South Bend society and moved in the first social circles of New York and Chicago, is living with her husband upon the charity of close friends. The Studebakers live in a small, white-painted house on a quiet South Bend residential street. Mrs. Studebaker helps with the daily household routine.

Close friends of the family estimate the losses of Colonel Studebaker and his brother, the late Clement Studebaker at About $6,000,000. Most of this came in the terrific collapse of the Insull Utilities empire, in which the family had a heavy stake. OWES HAS $35 The Studebakers had been allied closely with Insull in his spectacular rise to fame and power. A few weeks ago Colonel Studebaker filed a petition in bank ruptcy. He liabilities- of $2,000,000, assets of $2000 and about $35 in cash.

Notes of other investors, which the Colonel and his brothel-signed, added to their heavy losses. Kidnaped by two bandits, Stanley Bailey, 38,. 2012 Channing Way, Berkeley, bakery wagon driver, was forced to drive, under the menace of their pistols, through th busy East Oakland district and then to Newark, where he was locked in a boxcar and robbed of $25 and his clothing. The kidnaping and robbery was revealed today by Oakland police as they started ahujnt for the two robbers, who escaped in Bailey's truck. After being locked in the boxcar for more ihan three hours, Bailey managed to attract the attention of employees of a Newark chemical plant by shouting and pounding on the car jdoor.

They released him lajLe yesterday afternoon. Bailey told authorities the two men covered him with pistols and leafed on the -running board of his truck as he halted at Eighth and Willow Streets yesterday morning to make a delivery. "Don't make a sound," one warnel mm. il you uu, win De your last." They ordered him to drive to the foot of Ninth Street, from there to Alice Street, and then through East Oakland to Newark, where they spotted the -empty boxcar and halted the truck. When released.

Bailey telephoned the office of the baking company and two other employees took some clothing to him. The bandits left him in his underwear and shoes. Society LeadePies Of Carbon Monoxide Nov. I. OP) Carbon monoxide fumes killed Mrs.

Bettihia Crozier, socially prominent opera patroness, whose body was found in the garage at the rear of her Home. s. Hervhusband, Richard J. sportsman and president of a Philadelphia steel company, found her slumped on the car seat last night after he had searched their home, alarmed at her failure to meet him at the railroad station. Police listed the death as accidental.

A patroness of the Little Opera movement in Philadelphia about five years ago, Mrs. Crozier was the former Bettina Lelghton of Helena, and a sister-in-law of former Governor Spriggs of that state. She was about 40 years old. Charles Hill, 72, Livestock Man, Dies KANSAS CITY. --(AV-Charles H.

Hill, ,72, retired cattle dealer and of tha Los Angeles 'Livestock 'Exchange, died here last night. He had been in ill health since ha retired from business in 1924. He is survived by his widow, two daughters, Mrs. -Maude H. Loeb, Los Angel; and Mrs.

Mary H. Wooten, Chicago, and three sons, Paul T. Hill and Robert H. Hill, both of Los Angeles; and Horace F. HilVVisalia, California, -i -J 1 'Ai I ustlJL I BANDITS IB, KIDNAP MAN NEED OF AID Yl 1 1 Tt rroposai to naise Huge Sum Endorsed by World Conference at London LONDON, Nov.

1. OP) The prob lem of how to raise $10,000,000 for Jewish refugees from Germany confronted a general session of the World Jewish Conference today. That is the amount it has been estimated will be needed properly to administer relief to the approximately 65,000 refugees. Emphatic endorsement of pro- posals to raise the. huge sum to settle the refugees was voiced at private sessions; and a specific plan was'expected to be formulated today.

The program, when adopted, will be submitted to James G. Mac Donald of New York, high commissioner for German refugees, for his approval. Mac Donald recently was named to the post by the League of Nations Council. he same time, the conference pected to present the names American, a Briton and a Iwho are to be nominated as bers of the high commissioner's governing body. While no definite decisions had been reached, it was reported the conference might consider a proposal to settle some of the refugees on the island of Cyprus.

Dollfuss Against Jews, Is Rumor VIENNA, Nov. 1. () Persistent rumors that the Government of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss is soon to steer a definitely anti-semitic course took on a more concrete form today. An editorial in the semi-official Reichspost sharply pointed -out that the Nazis must not be credited with the invention of anti-scmitism which in no way clashes with "the warmest Austrian patriotism." "The Austrian Government is fighting National Socialism because it is imperialistic, not because it is anti-Jewish." The word "shylock," applied to Jews, was indicative of the editorial's general tone. Extreme Discrimination In Prussia -Disavowed BERLIN, Nov.

1'. OP) Disavowal of extreme discrimination against foreign and Jewish businesses in Prussia was indicated today in instructions by Hermann Wilhelm Goering, nationaljninister without portfolio, sub-departments in cities and provinces dealing with public contracts. The statement cited previous instructions asking departments not to apply to the Chambers of Industry and Commerce for information as to -whether firms were Aryan, non-Aryan or foreign. IT declared that these, as well as the upper departments of the ministry, had been swamped with re quests. The statement also called attention to the fact that placards reading "This Is a German Business" no longer are being officially issued.

It was emphasized, however, that the new instructions were not meant to affect preference for German firms in principle. Japanese Destroyer Stuck; Prove On TOKYO, Nov. 1. (U.R The Japanese government today ordered an investigation of the failure of the new 1450-ton destroyer Hatsushimo to leave the ways during christening ceremonies. It was the first incident of the kind here.

A large crowd of officials and citizens was disappointed when the destroyer could not be budged from the Uraga Dock Company ways. Dr. Morrow of U. C. Heads Health Board SACRAMENTO, Nov.

1. (U.R) Appointment of Dr. 'Howard Morrow, member of the University of California medical staff at San Francisco, to be president of the State Board of Health, was announced today by Governor Rolph. Morrow succeeds Dr. John H.

Graves, San Francisco, who resigned because of pressure of other duties. The Governor also announced the reappointment of B. W. Bours of San Francisco, to the State Board of Accountancy, for the term ending January 15,. 1937.

James R. Martin of Los Angeles was appointed a member of the Spanish War Commemoration Commission. Bootleg Bribery Case Is Continued SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1. A continuance of three weeks had been granted today to five Emeryville men- who appeared in Federal Judge A.

F. St. Sure's court on charges tf offering a $250 bribe to Federal raiders to "lay off bootleg joints. The accused are J. J.

Mul-lane, Jack and' Willard McMahon, brothers; Thomas C. Turner, and George C. Schaefer. Honduras Ravaged By Rain, Floods TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Nov. 1 tlPY Wpnvv riamncr roetiltarl it was reported here today, from a tremendous downpour wnien sent rivers out of their, banks destroying bridges and inundating plantations in the region -of ht western town of nam.

At Is exi of ail Pole itiernl 'Theoretical Sayi American Foundation Report No Recommendations NEW YORK, Nov. 1. Th philosophy of Communism and the practical policy of the Soviet gov ernment were declared to be sej' arate and distinct in a report "JajJ" Russian-American relations pubJ hshed today by the American' Foundation. s-t. ine report, prepared by a eonX-mittee which offered.no recommendations, said confusion of tha.

Communistic philosophy with tha-Soviet policy "has done perhaps more than anything else to cloud the issue of Soviet-American rehtw tions." The American Foundation was eV tablished by the late Edward Bok. It has frequently sponsored interna tional studies. i v.3 ARGUMENTS In setting forth the argumepW commonly advanced for and against recognition, the report said tqeyt "seem in some degree to bear out the contention that on the one hand arguments agamsi recognition, 1 fronnonllv nrnmnfn 1 no-. the other hand the arguments for recognition are often prompted bjr.ja Dale liberalism, sentimental notlnr ol universal tolerance, or by tha exigencies of trade. "Clearly some of the arguments on both sides have an emotional rather than a rational Non-recognition of Russia, with its 165,000,000 inhabitants arid a government which has continued for 18 years, was called theoretical anomaly.

cijangen emphasis! there no evidence- of sa chance 1n the fundamental ine v-ummunisi meory, mere 1S.JB creasing evidence of a change of emphasis on tne part of Soviet leaders," Unreport states in tha cnapier on propaganaa. fit would probably be fair to say that there has been a distinct change in their conception of Jha oest way to realize their objective. i.e., that they now feel that tha best way to change the social struc ture of the world js to demonstrate in Russia how well their system can be made to work. wire ueaicaies ner, Book to Zee. SPRINGFIELD, Ill.f Nov.

1 VS)f-Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of "the Interior in the Democratic "administration of President RooseyeJt, today had the honor of a Republican office holder dedicate ar a book to mm. jt And the author. Is none otber than his wife, Anna Wilmarta Ickes. Republican member of-ill Illinois Legislature.

-i-t Representative Ickes, back at her Springfield desk after a round. pt Washington social activities as -tha wife of It cabinet member, slid tha hnnlr "Mmq T.nnri" umillH Ha ceived from the publishers today. It is a study of the history -and customs, of the Indians in tha American Southwest. Mrs. Martha Jane Stevens, a native of Cortland, T.

and'a pioneer resident of Minnesota, diji last night rpHE grest North Ameriesn eoii tincnt. It would bea- lonf, long walk from San Miguel, Pin-ama, to Cape, Prince of. Wslea, alitka. would bi more thin a six-day bicycle ricf from Cape Mendocino, California, to Chatham, New Brunswick. Yon need a copy of this fine map of North America, in order to gain iome idea of the trae vsstnesi of the great North Amerj ican continent.

You need a study of the facta and figures on (he reverse tide of the map "in orier to appreciate a bia and interesting part of the world it la. Every Ameriesn should 1 hsvf this mip. For it gives a fine idea of just what North America is, and carries a liberal education in the up-to-date and fascinating data on its reverse side. irnnrnell of thia excellent and useful map. The price is mere coat and postage charge ten eenla: You'll be 'delighted with it Use this coupon.

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I New North; America Map Now Readyj $35,000,000 Concern Valued at $4,000,000 After Three Years' Receivership LOS ANGELES, Nov. 1. vast shrinkage in assets of the Italo Petroleum Company, now in receivership, was disclosed today before the third day of a United States Senate committee investigating receivership and bankruptcy matters. "Italo Pete." as the property 'is popularly known, was looked upon as a $35,000,000 concern during boom years. Today, after nearly threes-years in receivership, its assets amount to only about it was disclosed.

Receiver Cvrus Clav Carpenter of Long Beach testified, however, that he had shown an operating profit of $672,077 in the three-year period. Yet by charging up depreciation, depletion and interest that "profit" would be turned into a net loss of $310,717 for the period, Carpenter admitted. 5 NO EXPERIENCE who told of being appointed Italo receiver Federal Judge William J. James of Los Angeles, said he had had no experience theretofore -inffperating an oil company, except that he had specialized as an attorney for oil and gas companies. Before Carpenter' started testifying, Senator Henry F.

Ashurst of Arizona, chairman of the committee, ruled that the witness could not be represented by counsel, say jng the hearing is not a trial. His ruling followed the appearance of attorney Henry Bodkin who told the committee he was there to represect Carpenter. William H. Neblett, counsel for the committee, read an. order issued by Judge James last month authorizing Carpenter to employ attorneys Bodkin and Roland G.

Swaffield to represent him before the commiU. In the order, Judge James instructed that the attorneys present a bill for their services to be paid "from funds of the receivership estate." Yesterday, however, Judge James told the committee that, although his order had not been rescinded, "it had been agreed that Bodkin would act in the matter without pay, and that they could not allow fees. REPRIMANDED -BY SENATOR Bodkin said he was informed that former executives of Italo Pete would be summoned to testify and that he understood that witnesses to be called held enmity for Carpenter and would "attempt to attack his character." Senator Ashurst reprimanded Bodkin but said that statements might be made, after Carpenter's testimony, by any other witnesses desired. Several former executives and promoters ft Italo Pete a few months ago received prison sen tences and fines on charges, of fraudulently using the mails. Captured Convict' Pardon Hope Fails COLUMBIA, S.

November The hope of C. D. Cooper, a life termer who "made good" during nine years of freedom in California, for an immediate pardon went a-filimmering today. But the doors to possible executive clemency were not entirely closed to the former Los Angeles business man, since Governor Blackwood, following a clemency hearing yesterday, promised to "hold the matter Admitting that Cooper's "restitution" after he escaped from the State prison here nearly a decade ago was "a point in his'favor," the Governor told Cooper's lawyers that "I do not feel that I can liberate the prisoner-now." Van Lee Hood, a Los Angeles attorney, argued that Cooper became a "resurrected man" after he fled to California and assumed the name of Ben M. Jones, and provided a home not only for his wife but her aged parents and a sister as well.

5. F. Grand Jury Concludes Work SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1. With the return of eight indictments, the Federal Grand Jury had concluded its official-activity today.

A new jury, will replace it next week. Four men were indicted for conspiracy to 4120 rounds of ammunition frorh Fort Scott and sell it from a sporting goods store at 53 Market They were: George Whiteman, warrant officer at the Presidio; Richard Heydt, owner of an aiHnmobile used to carry the loot; Robert Ross, a druggist, and M. H. Shine, store manager. The jury also indicted William Grady and Joe Palm for impersonating United States marshals in obtaining $1700 from Fred La Franchi, Nicasio dairyman, for alleged failure to report his income tax, Marconis to Sail For Orient Tomorrow SAN FRANCISCO, Nov.

1. Sen-atorGuglielmo Marconi and Mar-chesa Mftrconl will sail at 4 o'clock tomorrow for the Orient aboard the N. Y. K. liner ChichibtTMaru.

They have been visiting here for severaj. days. Deputy Probation Officer Succumbs SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1. William J.

86, chief deputy adult probation officer here, died yesterday at his home, 1374 La Playa. Ht had been ill teveral month i. By THOMAS HAWKINS Associated Press Staff Writer DES MOINES, Iowa, Nov. 1. The problems of the Midwest farmer are to be tossed into the lap of President R5bsevelt tor a solution.

This decision was made last night by five governors from as many Middlewestern states and the authorized spokesmen for four others, who recommended to the President these steps-, The immediate fixation of minimum price levels for major farm products. An NRA code for the farmer. Currency inflation, properly safeguarded and controlled. The quickening of Federal re-financipg of farm mortgages. The governors Langer of North Dakota, Berry of South Dakota, Herring of Iowa, QJspn of Minnesota and Schmedemah of Wiscon sin together with representatives of Indiana, Illinois, Kansas and Ne braska, drafted their recommenda tions after two-day conference with leaders of ttuf nation's chief farm organizations.

TO VISIT WASHINGTON The five governors plan to carry their program in person to Presi dent Roosevelt Thursday- They were to meet in Chicago today, pre paratory to the Washington trip. -t tt "his earnest efforts to find an ef fective and just solution of the farm problem," and for progress "thus far made," the midwestern execu tives added their belief that cer tain immediate action, supplement ary to action taken by the national administration is imperative." This immediate action, the execu tives asserted, includes: An NRA code for agriculture- authorizing Federal determination of minimum prices for basic commodities to allow cost of production plus a reasonable profit; regulating marketing to encourage ultimate control by cooperatives and to "eliminate the speculative sale ef farm determining the amount of products to be sold on the domestic market; and providing for licensing of producers, processors and dealers in farm com modities. PRICE FIXING URGED Pending adoption of the NRA code, the governors recommended that the government immediately fix prices for basic farm commodities "to restore the farm commodity price index to the same level as the all-commodity price index Inflation "under proper safe guards and control," and payment of the Fourth Liberty loan in new currency "instead of refunding witti another interest bearing bond Is sue," were urged. To speed farm mortgage refinancing, the governors suggested that applications for farm loans be accepted without payment of application fee in advance; that re-appraisal? be ordered where the appraiser has recommended less than 75 per cent of the normal value of the land as tile basis for a loan, and that "if necessary, such changes be made in the personnel in the various land banks as will be necessary to carry out the intention of the act and the policies of President Roosevelt and Governor Morgenthau." RENO HEARD FROM From Milo Reno, leader of the National Association, came the assertion that the conference "without doubt resulted in a much better as to the justness of our demands and the solving of our problems." Nevertheless, Reno and his associates in the national association counselled that produce continue to be held on farms and that the association "hold their lines pending the outcome of the visit of the governors to Washington." Should the governors gain acceptance of their recommendations, chiefly those presented by Holiday leaders, prices on farm products will rise at once, Reno pointed out. Should they fail, he added, "the farmers by holding their products at home will be in a stronger position to carry on their strike," STRIKE HELD UP The Holiday Association's strike In Wisconsin was called off but the Wisconsin 'Cooperative Milk Pool's anti-selling movement is to continue at least until Friday when its members will vote on the question of continuing or abandoning the campaign.

At Lincoln, Governor Charles W. Bryan appealed to tax sale bidders to refrain from bidding on property put up for sale next Monday, pending the "heroic efforts" he said the state and national governments were making to save such properties-for their owners-He said his appeal was directed in particular to "tax title loan sharks." S. F. Firemen to Get 1 Medals of Heroism SAN FRANCISCO, NoWll-Med, als of honor will be given two' San Francisco, firemen at the Firemen's Ball November 10 in the Civic Auditorium, for conspicuous acts of bravery. They are Robert Ceiley, tillerman-of Trek No.

12, and Denis McGree, hoseman of Fireboat No, 10. Ceiley carried a young woman and her brother from their flaming apartment last April, and McGee rescued a woman from drowning. Miss Isabel Moseley, "26, school teacher, held in the city jail, faced further questioning today in connectionwith the killing of a boy by an automobile she was driving. She is shown (above) with her mother, Mrs. Emma Bell Moseley.

The latter' grief was increased by death of her own mother yesterday as the girl surrendered. In the lower picture Miss Moseley is thanking Frank Eicher, 65, Hayward realty dealer, for his attempt to shield her. He was jailed after claiming to have been the driver of the death car. -Tribune Jihoto. Death Car Case Teacher Passes Night in Jail Cell OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov.

1. (U.R) Burstjng into flames following a mysterious explosion at daybreak, the No. 1 Reno Oil Well of Frank Russell Petroleum Company, about a mile from the City Hall, was out of control here today as 150 firemen fought the liquid fire. Three oil tanks adjoining the well were in flames. About 50 other wells nearby' were shut down.

Camphouse families were evacuated and guard lines set up as the flames shot into the air and heavy black smoke rolled over the entire east-ter half of the city. Millions of dollars of oil company property was imperiled. An hour after the explosion, the flames melted away the supports of the 100-foot steel derrick and it crumpled around the mouth of the oil furnace. Additional firemen were summoned. Virtually every oil company in the city rushed crews to aid in fighting the flames and to protect the many storage tanks, holding hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude, that are situated in the vicinity pf the well.

The well is just outside the city limits, with no residences near. Earthen embankments were being thrown up in mid-morning around the batteries of tanks in the danger zone. TIVERTON. R. Nov.

1. P) A 50.000-gallon tank partly filled with gasoline blew up late today at the New England Terminal plant, with a shock that rocked the city. A tank collapsed earlier toi the day and killed three men and injured several others. Accident Victim Is Identified in N. Y.

NEW YORK, Nov. 1. (U.R) Identified ater three days in the morgue, the body of Mrs. Minnie Hoover Linton, a distant relative of former President- Hoover, probably will be sent to California for burial. Mrs.

Linton was killed by an automobile Saturday night. She was a literary agent. A brother lives at Eureka, Calif. Nell Martin, author, who identified Mrs. Linton, said the accident was an indirect result of the explosion in the Los Angeles Times Building, in which 21 persons were killed 28 years ago.

The explosion left her nearly deaf. She walked in front of a car. Warrant Issued for Baer in Speed Case SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1. A bench warrant for the arrest of Max Baer, heavyweight contender, was issued late yesterday Justice of the Peace Edward Farrell.

Judge Farrell sighed the warrant when Baer failed to appear to answer "to a charge of speeding 60 miles per hour In a 45-mile, zone October 28, on the Bay shore High way. He was arrested by Officer August Terragne of the South San Francisco police department. When he was given the speeding tag Baer gave his address as Ave- nue, San Leandro. i Vi 1 After spending the night in the city jail, Miss Isabel Moseley, 26-year-old teacher, faced further police questioning today in connection with the death of one boy and the injury of another Monday night when an automobile she was driving struck them. Miss Moseley teaches at the Stony Brook School near Hayward.

Also held for further inquiry was Frank Eicher, 65, Hayward realty dealer, who was arrested at the crash scene on San Leandro Boulevard when he police he was driving the car. When the girl surrendered yesterday, accompanied by Attorneys Kenneth C. Gillis and Darrell B. Edwards, she insisted that Eicher had taken the blame to shield her, and he admitted the fact. BECAME HYSTERICAL.

Miss Moseley, booked for investigation, repeated her previous story to inspectors. She said she became hysterical after 'the machine, owned by Eicher, hit the boys and mechanically obeyed his instructions to leave the scene. She departed with Lee Tanner, chemical company executive, third occupant of the and later arranged to surrender through Gillis. Tanner is feeing sought for questioning by the Gillis-said he would appear today at the iipito; hall. "''V- The boy victims of the crash were Howard Scalf, 18, 1163 who died at Highland tftaergency HospitaX Jo- sepn uaruMj.

1.1. it.it ot--vuinly -liiii Avenue, critically hurt. Mrs. Pauline Peterson, of Hayward, sister of the Scalf boy, said the family has retained the firm of Applebaum Mitchell. Oakland attorneys, to institute civil action, over the boy's death.

"We realize that no criminal action will restore my brother's life, but we will seek redress in the civil courts." she declared. Meanwhile Attorney Edwards said he had found a witness, Oscar Brauns, who informed him that he was driving his car on San Leandro Boulevard at the scene of the fatal accident, and had passed the point where the boys were walking without seeing them. Brauns was driving east, and Missf Moseley was traveling on the boulevard, in the direction the boys were walking. Edwards said Brauns declared the visibility was "very poor" when the accident took place, at about 6 p. m.

Monday' night ARRANGE FUNERAL While Miss Moseley remained in jail, her mother, Mrs. Emma Bell Moseley of Castro Valley, made preparations for the funeral of the" girl's grandmother, Mrs. Catherine Mosely, 83, who died of a heart attack yesterday. She had been, ill some time and was unaware Of the girl's predicament' Services will be held at St. John's Catholic Church in San Lorenzo at tomorrow morning, with interment at-Cypress Lawn.

The body Is at Sorensen Brothers funeral par-Iom in Hayward. .1 'i.