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CXXI-THREE CENTS; SUNDAY TEN CENTS OAKLAND, THURSDAY, NOV. 8, 1934 32 PAGES NO. 131 TOME Jar 'iw Democrats Plan Drive MURDER TRIAL DOES Jean Harlow To Sue Soon For Divorce DOUMERGUE QUITS; MOB ROUTS POLICE Oust Upton Sinclair; F. R. Gains New Power TD JURY; STATE ATTORNEY PUIS BLAME ON ACCUSED Roosevelt Maps Tasks To Be Given To Congress 'No Man's Wife Is Going to Be Unfaithful Unless He Fails as a Shouts Prosecutor; Psychological Issues Raised 4 WOMHN AND 8 MEN WILL DECIDE By NANCY BARR MAVITY WOOT)LAND, Nov.

8. After hearing District Attorney C. C. McDonald wind up his closing argument with the declaration that Judson C. Doke himself was responsible for the development of the fatal love affair between his wife and Lamar Hollingshead, the jury was this afternoon sent out to deliberate as to his guilt or innocence of Hollingshead's murder.

The eight men and four women were remanded to the Iks Constitution Revision May Bring Up New Radical Issue FRAUDS ALLEGED Epic Leader Repudiated By Vote, Say Members Who Bolted Party By ANTHONY F. MOITORET The prospect of further turmoil in California's political arena loomed today as a battle was launched for control of the Democratic party between Upton Sinclair's Epic supporters and old line Democrats who aided Governor Frank F. Merriam's victory. At the same time, apparent approval by the voters, on the basis of late returns from Tuesday's election, of the proposal for a constitutional convention opened the way for a new struggle over the radical economic planks of the Sinclair Epic program. The size of Governor Merriam's plurality over Sinclair and Raymond L.

Haight, Commonwealth party nominee, continued to grow as the last of the Stale's 10,721 precincts were being heard from. The Governor's vote had passed the million mark, returns from 10,257 precincts giving him 1.080,831 and Sinclair 835,900. Merriam's plurality had reached 238,106. MESSAGES FROM ALL OVER NATION ARRIVE As congratulatory messages from all over the nation poured in on the Governor and to headquarters of the Republican State Central Committee, Sinclair announced that he had demanded a congressional investigation of the election. After sending a telegram to United States Senator George W.

orris of Nebraska requesting the inquiry into alleged election frauds, Sinclair was reported as tapping off on his typewriter the opening chapter of a new book to be entitled. Candidate for Governor of California and How I Got Licked." The sequel to his famous campaign booklet, Governor of California." will not only include his impressions of his unsuccessful race against Governor Merriam, but reveal his conversation with President Roosevelt at Hyde Park last September. INSIDE STORY OF HIS VISIT TO BE REVEALED. "Now that the campaign is over. I'll tell the inside story of my visit to President Roosevelt and other high officials of the New Deal," Sirclalr said.

His telegram to Senator Norris said: "We are In possession of indisputable proof revealing a gigantic fraud in the California general election. State and Congressional candidates are affected. Our legal staff is compiling complete evidence of violations so we can submit them to some impartial body. It is imperative that a Congressional committee com? here at once so that a thorough investigation can be made. It is impossible to accomplish anything through local authorities and therefore on behalf of at least one million people in California I urge your cooperation in sending an investigating committee at once.

Kindest personal regards." Twenty-four hours after the polls had closed Sinclair formally conceded defeat. "I concede Ihe election has been stolen," he said in a statement announcing that the Epic fight will continue. REPUBLICANS PLAN VICTORY CELEBRATION. While Republicans, in cooperation with Democrats who bolted the Epic control of their own party, were preparing to celebrate the Merriam-Hatfield victory at a luncheon next Wednesday at the Hotel St. Francis, San Francisco, the battle for control of the Democratic party opened with a rhallehff from Serffftnr-elect JURY PLANS BERN SUICIDE QUIZ Probe of Screen Director's Strange Death Indicated In Demand for Papers Two-Year-Old Tragedy of Jean Harlow's Mate Is Linked With Fitts Case LOS ANGELES, Nov.

8. UP) The County Grand Jury, which recently indicted District Attorney Buron Fitts on charges of perjury, today requested and was supplied all records of the district attorney's office in- the suicide two years ago of Paul Bern, film director husband of Jean Harlow, blond screen siren. The Grand Jury requested, among other documents, the suicide note which Bern was supposed to have written Miss Harlow shortly before he shot himself as he stood before a mirror in the bathroom of the home he built in Beverly Hills for his bride. In this note Bern said his act was the "only way to make good the frightful wrong I have done you, and to wipe out my abject humiliation." A postscript said: "You understand last night was only a comedy." Records of statements taken at the time of the suicide by investigators of the district attorney from relatives and friends also were obtained. What these statements were never have been disclosed, but at the conclusion of the investigation, District Attorney Fitts announced he was satisfied Bern had killed himself.

Although Fitts would not comment on the jury's latest action, it was suggested at his office that the summoning of the documents "prob ably is to go into expenditures of the district attorney" in the investigation of the film director's suicide. It was indicated, however, that the jury might wish to go into the cir cumstances of Bern's death. Clerk Found Dead In Auto Suicide Slumped over the steering wheel of his locked sedan at San Leandro Boulevard and Seminary Avenue with an empty glass on the seat beside him. police early today found W. O.

Farnol. 34, clerk, of 3442 Birdsall Avenue. He had committed suicide by taking poison. On the floorboard of the car was a can of water presumably used as a "chaser" for the lethal dose. Patrolmen George Armstrong and C.

Perdew of the Eastern Station noticed Farnol's parked machine as they drove by in a radio squad car. When they stopped and attempted to question Farnol they found the doors locked. It was necessary to smash the glass lo reach the driver. He left no notes. According to his wife, Martha, Farnol had been ill fpr some time.

Mother of 2 Shoots Self in Death Try Two minutes after she told neighbors she was "going to end it all," Mrs. Catherine Herget, of 1926 Grove Street, 26, walked into a yard at the rear of 1931 San Pablo Avenue, turned a revolver on herself and fired three shots. One shot took effect in her left shoulder, physicians at the Alameda County Emergency Hospital re vealed today. She is the mother of two children. "I can't face him I'll end it all," she told a passing acquaintance.

Two minutes laler she fired three shots. Fair Days to Greet Fans Over Week-End Bay region grid fans will view this week-end's football games un der sunny skies, Major E. H. Bowie of the United States Weather Bu reau here indicated today. In the meantime the forecase for today and tomorrow is "fair with considerable cloudiness." Bowie explained that a storm forming off the Gulf of Alaska will bring rain to Washington and Oregon, but unless abnormally strong winds prevail the disturbance will not reach California.

Japanese Freighter Destroyed by Fire TOKYO, Nov. 8. (IP) Fear that the Japanese freighter Ranan Maru, with a crew of 42, was destroyed by fire was expressed today in a Rengo (Japanese news agency) dispatch from Niigata, North Honshu Island, Japan. The vessel early today sent out a radio call for help, saying she was afire and drifting northwest of Niigata. No further messages have been received from her and rescue ships were unable to locate her.

Quake Reported in Mexico, Nebraska VERA CRUZ, Nov. 8. (IP) A sharp earth shock was felt over an extensive area of this state last night, principally in Codoba, Hua-tusco, Puerto Mexico and here. No injuries have been reported. WOODLAKE, Nov.

A distinct but not severe tremor shook buildings here at about 10 p. m. M. S. last night President, on Return, Starts Second Phase Of His Program POLICY WATCHED Democratic Roster in Senate Mounts to 69, 320 in House WASHINGTON, Nov.

8. (IP) The unprecedented Democratic ma jority in Congress continued to climb today as President Roosevelt returned to the White House to steer the New Deal through its seond phase. 'As the happy chief executive turr.ed to budgetary and relief problems, late returns carried the Democratic total in the Senate to record breaking 69, and the party membership in the House to 320. With one Senate and five House contests undecided, the Democrats had picked up nine seats in the former six in the latter. The newest addition to the Democratic Senatorial certainties was Carl A.

Hatch, New Mexico incumbent, who won -over Richard C. Dillon, his Republican opponent. The other New Mexico contest, was still unsettled, with Senator Cutting, Republican independent, leading his Democratic challenger. Dennis Chavez, by a few hundred votes. LATEST FIGURES ON CONGRESS LINEUP The latest figures on the Con-gressipnal lineup were: Senate Democrats, 69; Republicans, 24; Farmer-Labor, Progressive, missing, 1.

Hoase Democrats, 320; Republicans, 102; Progressives, 7: Farm- er-Labor. missing, 3. The outcome of the gubernatorial contests was complete, with the Democrats holding 38, the Republicans 8, Progressives 1, and Farmer-Labor, 1, The latest Democratic victory in the House was David Lewis, incumbent from the sixth Maryland district. A New Deal supporter, he was the House sponsor of much social legislation, including the Wagner-Lewis unemployment insurance bill of the last session. REPUBLICANS CHEERED BY RITCHIE DEFEAT.

The Republicans drew some consolation from the defeat of Mary-lard's Democratic Governor, Albert C. Ritchie, by Harry W. Nice after a see-saw fight. Ritchie was not extremely warm in his reception of the New Deal but local issues played a large part in the campaign. President Roosevelt, silent but happy over the most overwhelming "off-year" victory since the Federalists were ground to pieces by the Republicans 132 years ago, had a luncheon engagement today with Senator "Young Bob" LaFollette who won on the Progressive ticket in Wisconsin while his brother Philip was capturing the Governorship.

RIGHT OR LEFT IS GREAT QUESTION. No one knew what the two friends, Roosevelt and LaFollette, would talk about but some speculated that it might be the relief problem. The paramount question occupying observers now is "will the administration's policies turn to right or left?" The administration's view has been that It is proceeding straight down the middle. Some predicted that Congress, divided into a huge majority and a pitiful minority, would proceed to split on lines more economic than political, putting pressure on the White House from right and left in more marked degree than in the past. The Republican campaign command, whipped but declaring it would not stay whipped, sought to reform the lines for 1936.

At Republican headquarters it was said Chairman Henry P. Fletcher planned to call conferences of leaders within a few days tr consider plans for rehabilitating the organization. Subsequently the Republican members of Congress are to be called together in January to formulate plans for the Presidential campaign. DEMOCRATS TAKE 26 SENATE SEATS. Of the 35 Senate seats filled Tuesday, the on the all-but-complete count, had taken 26, Republicans 6, Farmer-Laborites and Progressives, one each.

Of the 33 Governorship contests, the latest count was Democrats, 24, Republicans, 7, and Progressives and Farmer-Laborites, 1 apiece. There was some shifting In Governorships. Democrats lost one to Wisconsin Progressives and three to Republicans in Michigan, Maryland and New Jersey. The Democrats picked up five in Oregon, Pennsylvania, North Dakota, Wyoming and Nevada. In New Mexico, the Independent Republican Senator, Bronson Cutting, held a slight lead for the long term over Representative Dennis Chavez, lrdent Roosevelt follower, while Senator Carl A.

Democrat, apparently was elected over former Governor R. C. Dillon, for short term. North Dakota's independent Republican, Senator Lynn J. Frailer who trailed at first, final, ly was safely elected.

Thousands Smash Lines in Front of Opera. Shout 'Down With the Deputies Flandin Trying to Form New Cabinet as Radical Socialists Force Out Premie PARIS. Nov. 8. Shouting jthousands of persons smashed through police lines in front of the opera toni ghtas many in the throng tried: "Down with the deputies!" Authorl-1 1 who feared dis-o a would ensue follow-ing the resignation today of Pre-m i Dou-mergue and his cabinet, had drawn up the police in troop formation The massing of police was made in an to overawe the crowd, but it failed.

FTIF.NNE FLAND1N Scores of the demonstrators were arrested. Thousands of errsons swarmed the boulevards. The square in front of the opera the Place de l'Opera was packed with the crowd. Mobile guards on horseback, their, carbines swung weir shoulders, were ordered into action. They trotted into the square and lined up against the buildings along the boulevard.

Before the advance of the horsemen the crowd thinned. FLADIN ATTEMPTS TO FORM CABINET Etienne Fladin, agreed to form a new French Government and serve as premier. He accepted this task at the request of President LeBrun, who pre- viously had offered the premiership to the chief neutral in French politics, Pierre Laval, the resigned foreign minister. Laval, however, refused the task. Dourhergue had based his rule on the idea of a "political truce" and LeBrun had called upon Laval in an effort to salvage that type of government.

But the refusal of Laval, the avowed enemy of payment of the French war debt to the United States, was regarded as irrevocable. RADICAL SOCIALISTS FORCE RESIGNATION Doumergue's resignation, forced as it was by the refusal of Edouard Herriot, minister without portfolio I and leader of the radical socialists, and five other ministers affiliated with him to cooperate, left the veteran statesman disillusioned and disheartened. He immediately issued a brief appeal to the people in an effort to-preserve the peace of the country. His appeal read: "I have been led to abandon power. I beg all my fellow citizens, in behalf of the interest and security of the fatherland, to maintain the calm necessary to the settlement of the present difficulties," DOUMERGUE REFUSES TO PERMIT DICTATORSHIP Doumergue refused to continue with the cabinet, which came into power with him nine months ago during the bloodshed of last February, because he felt it would fur-, nish an excuse for the establishment of a dictatorship, since his cabinet, losing Herriot and his friends, would represent a parliamentary minority.

The retiring premier, who also once was president of France, blamed the Radical for', the rupture of the jjtical citing Herriot's refusal to support his request for a three months' appropriation to facilitate constitutional revisions. Doumergue bitterly arraigned the radical Socialists, of whose party he was once a member, as responsible for "the February riots and the deaths of unarmed war veterans." He revealed that his cabinet'! overthrow in Parliament had been prepared for November 18 and charged Herriot's party with unwillingness to face "the sovereign people" in new elections. V2 Beginning' Next Sunday THE PAGFANT OF AMERICA Picture story of the United States, representing nine years of research and the expenditure of almost half a million dollars by the Yale University Press in assem- bling material from all parts of the World, will be published serially, starting next Sunday, in the Magazine section of the (Oakland WASHINGTON, Nov. B. (P) President Roosevelt and Chairman Buchanan of the House Appropriations Committee arranged today for a running start on work of the new Congress to permit quick action.

This was done shortly after the President returned to the White House from Hyde Park, N. where he voted in the election which gave the Democrats an overwhelming' majority in Congress. After a White House conference, Representative Buchanan announced his committee would meet before Congress convenes to prepare the supply, bills for immediate consideration when Congress assembles in January. Buchanan said specific figures for appropriations to run the government during the coming year were not mentioned in the White House conference. The emergency council, composed of members of the cabinet and heads of the various recovery units, was called for a conference later in the day.

It was stated at the White House this meeting was arranged by the President before he left for his home to vote. The meeting gave him opportunity for an immediate check-up on the National Recovery Campaign. Buchanan expressed the thought that early preparations of the appropriation bills would make it possible for a reasonably short session of the new Congress. 'Middle of Road' Policy Is Forecast By RICHARD GRIDLEY United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.

(U.R) An important administration statement coming immediately after the sweeping Democratic victory, today strengthened belief that President Roosevelt hopes to pursue success fully a "middle-of-the-road" policy in the recovery fight. Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper, in the first administration expression of policy following the election, emphasised that no sudden turn to left or to right aa regards monetary and other recovery matters was contemplated. RIGHT TO STRIKE AND WORK UPHELD Many observers believed the Roper pronouncement and the Congressional analysis meant that the "middle-of-the-road" policy would meet no serious obstacle, provided business continues its slow upturn through the Winter. Among Roper's statements were expressions: Defending the right lo strike, but maintaining at the same time "the right to work without molestation." That consolidation of gains in the recovery fight must come before remaining problems are attacked.

That equalization of prices and elimination of disparities is sought rather than a rise of all prices. Pointing out the dual nature of the President's program, first, emergency relief with recovery; second, fundamental reforms. Emphasizing that emergency activities will be reduced as rapidly as normal business revives. WHITE HOUSE TO SERVE II Beverage Must Be Light And Must Be American, Announces Mrs. Roosevelt WASHINGTON, Nov.

8 (IP) The White House will serve light wines at state dinners this season, the first time since pre-prohibition days. It must be light wine and American wine, in accordance with Mrs. Roosevelt's pronouncement on that subject when wine first became legal. No more than two wine glasses will be at each plate at any dinner In making this statement to her press- conference today. Mrs.

Roose velt said of the serving of wines: "With us it will be a very simple thing always, serving American wines to those who care for them." Her statement was in response to questions which followed the recent announcement of the annual White House social program. That made certain the cabinet will be first to sample this hospitality, the diplomatic corps second. Mrs. Roosevelt referred to the custom in some places for a wine to be served with every course, add ing that she did not think that plan "would be at all attractive to any of us." 1 She said if guests Mid not care for the wine they ould refrain from drinking it. custody of the sheriff, afer hearing the instructions of Judge Neal Chalmers, to be kept under constant guard until their verdict is reached.

McDonald, In making his last plea for conviction of the former San Leandro official, who admits that he shot the 22-year-old poet after reading letters the latter had writ- ten to Mrs. Helen Louis Doke, de- i nied defense assertions that Doke had been cruelly wronged by Hollingshead. "tfecLARES HUSBAND IS ONE TO BLAME "No man's wife is going to be I unfaithful to him unless he has failed as a tutor Jiatne shuld have known that when oppojv tunity is presented to two youngV people, they're bound to fall for I The final arguments on both 'sides of the. case presented two contrasting pictures of Doke, between which the jury must choose. Is he a murderer of Macchiavel-lian cunning, cold-blooded and calculating? Was his triangle slaying of Lamar Hollingshead.

his wife's confessed lover, so carefully plotted in advance that he even robbed Holr llngshead of love letters written by his wife, Helen Louise Doke, in order that these letters might be introduced at his trial to sway the jury by the illegal but still potent excuse of the "unwritten law?" Or is he "a fine type of Ameri- can manhood," an "admirable character." patient, charitable, unselfish, thinking primarily of the welfare of his erring wife, even when the happiness of his home crashed on discovery of her Illicit romance with her poet-sludent-farmhand lover? PSYCHOLOGY ENTERS CLOSING ARGUMENTS Psychology entered largely into the closing agrumcnts on both sides the. psychology of Mrs. Elizabeth Inglis of San Leandro, who betrayed the confidence placed in her by Mrs. Doke, by revealing to Doke evidence of his wife's, clandestine love affair. The psychology of the harvest hands on the ranch where Hollingshead worked men who were oddly indifferent to the shooting of one of their mates and refused to go to his aid.

men who had no motive for falsification, yet differed markedly in their accounts of what they saw grid, heard when a shot rang out across theft hot noon-hour siesta. MRS. DOKE ROMANTIC OR DESIGNING; ISSUE And there was the psychology of Mrs. Doke, the "White Hibiscus" of Hollingshead's poetic effusions and the apex of the triangle. Was she merely romantic, unstable, visioning herself as the necessary poetic inspiration to a man of genius? Or was she, as District Attorney C.

C. McDonald described her, "a designing woman, a woman of experience, who led this young boy on, who followed him to Lodi in order to be near him, who knew how to prey cn his mind and affection?" Despite their necessary legal aspects, these closing arguments by the two Arthur Hustons, father and son, for the defense, and by McDonald for the prosecution, were primarily contrasting interpretations of human character and human nature under vital stress. They were (Continued on Page 1 3, Col. 2) Today's Tribune Subject Page Amusement, Theateri 1 2 Classified Ads 29 or ii ii 28 Cross Word Puzzle 2ft Culbertson Contract 2A Editorials 32 Editorial Features 25 Fiction 26 Financial .22 Geraldine 27 High Schools 8 Knave 21 Marine 19 Martha Lee's Corner 27 National Whirligig 21 A. and Clubs 9 Radio 19 Society, Women's Events 9 Sports 14 3ute News 3 "'it' Statistics 31 Queen Mary Has Hat That Breaks All Tradition ONDON.

Nov. UP) For the first time in many years, Queen Mary appeared in public today with another type hat than her own particular brand of untarnished toque. She arrived at the ceremonies opening new headquarters for the Royal Institute of British Art wearing a hat with a jaunty feather spray sticking up from the left side. RIOTS Woman Hurl by Missile Wlien Fans Hoot at Bout Decision Given by Referee A near-riot, In which more lighting was done outside the ring than in, featured last night's boxing show at the Oakland Municipal Auditorium. When the dust of the melee had cleared away Referee Jimmy Duffy, whose decision in the Pete Lewis-Frank Hammer battle proved unpopular, escaped unscathed, but Mrs.

W. E. Thomas, 3843 Grove Street, sitting at ringside, emerged with a black eye. Mrs. Thomas' eye was injured when a belligerant fan, roused to fury by Duffy's decision, hurled a pocket flashlight at the referee.

His aim was faulty. Duffy ducked but the flashlight traveled on and landed under Mrs. Thomas' left eye. Police made a search for the flashlight thrower but could not find him. Mrs.

Thomas refused hospital treatment. The riot came after Hammer was given the decision 'at the end of ten rounds of milling with Lewis. Boos, catcalls and threats resounded in the auditorium when Duffy raised Hammer's hand. Then things started to sail through the air. First Lady Rates Election 'Success' WASHINGTON, Nov.

8. (IP) President Roosevelt may keep silent on the election but not Mrs. Roosevelt. Her greeting to her press conference today was: "It certainly seems to have been a successful election." Later she laughed and added "from my point of view." However, she would not comment on the election of Mrs. Daniel O'Day.

for whom she campaigned, as New York Representative-at-large. Parents Die in Fire That Trapped Son FAIRFIELD, Nov. 8. U.R) A father and mother sacrificed their lives last night in a vain attempt to save their 10-year-old son from their burning home. Louis O.

Selzer, 38, New York advertising man, and his wife, at a nearby home, were told of the blaze alod both dashed into the building. The bodies of all three were found by firemen. Three Brothers, in Pact, Hang Selves STOCKHOLM, Nov. 8. (U.R) Three brothers named Akeson, aged 59, 64 and 65, and all unemployed, today hanged themselves simultaneously in one room of their apartment.

Town Feared Razed By Gasoline Blaze JOHNSTOWN, Nov. 8. (U.R) The entire town of Cherrytree, on the Indiana-Cambria County line, was feared destroyed by fire today after a gasoline truck exploded at a service station." Kathleen Burke of Pictures, Divorced LOS ANGELES, Nov. 8. (U.R) Kathleen Burke, film actress, today was granted a divorce from fclenn N.

Hardin," Chicago, on the charge of extreme mental cruelty. OAKLAND CROWD That long-anticipated divorce of Jean Harlow, "bombshell" of the screen, from her sedate cameraman husband, Hal Ros-son, is due shortly, she says. She likes him but not as a husband. A. P.

photo. 'Hal's Grand Not as Husband' HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 8. (IP) Jean Harlow, the screen platinum blond, said today she plans to sue her estranged husband, Hal Rosson, ace cameraman, for divorce "in the near future." "Hal is a grand person, but we simply were not suited to each other," Jean said in announcing she would take steps for a legal dissolution of the marriage. Miss Harlow has been in the company of William Powell, screen actor, at many Hollywood parties and at sporting events.

Powell was divorced several months ago by Carole Lombard in Nevada. "I'm not planning to obtain a divorce with the idea of marrying again," Jean said. "It's just the idea I think both of us should be free, since there is no possibility of a reconciliation." ACE AHEAD IN Riekenbacker Over Texas, Half Hour in Advance of Sebedule, on Way to IN. Y. KANSAS CITY, Nov.

Capt. Eddie Riekenbacker, seeking a new transcontinental airplane speed record, messaged shortly after I o'clock this afternoon that he had passed over Goodland, about 400 miles west of here. He was flying at about 14,000 feet. KANSAS CITY. Nov.

8 (IP) Capt. Eddie Riekenbacker. who toc off from Burbank, at 5:42 a. m. i Pacific Coast time) today in an attempt to set a new transcontinental record for transport and speed planes, was reported flying high north of Amarillo, Texas, at 12:28 p.

m. (Central Standard time), in a message here received by the Transcontinental and Western Air Lines. The report Indicated Capt. Riekenbacker was about half an hour ahead of his schedule, which called for him to reach Chicago at 4:30 p. m.

Central Standard time, to make his only refueling stop before continuing to New York. He hones to better his record of 13 hours 2 minutes. Six Bandits Invade Town, Flee Robbery CAMBRIA, Nov. 8. (U.R) A bandit gang took possession of this Village today, firing upon citizens and terrorizing them, but was thwarted in attempts to blow open a bank safe.

Six men invaded the village, cut all telephone wires, stationed guards at the Bank of Cambria and set off three charges of explosives in front of (he vault. The outer door of the vault was blasted away but the bandits failed to get to the flash before they became frightened by the assembling crowd and fled in an automobile. Father of Picture Star Dies Suddenly SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8. Frank M.

Dee, 50, 845 California Street, an official of the Home Owners Loan Corporation and father, of Frances Dee, the movie star, died early today at his home after being suddenly stricken at a dinner party last night. Dee was entertaining Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Bowne of Oakland, when he collapsed. Dr.

Ralph E. Scobel was summoned. Tl Culbert BL Olson of Los Angeles.T""' who was Sinclair's chief campaign lieutenant. In his capacity as chairman af the Democratic State Central Committee, for which post he was picked by Sinclair, Olson served notice on those who bolted the Sinclair candidacy that the Epic group considers them out of the party for keeps. "Only those who remained loyal to the Democratic party during the recent campaign will remain in the party and be recognized as Democrats," Olson declared following a Los Angeles meet last night at which 5 Sinclair presided.

William H. Neblett, law partner of Senator William G. McAdoo, and William Jennings Bryan son of the late Commoner, accepted Olsons challenge. Both had bolted Sinclair and supported Merriam in Tuesday's election contest. Neblett predicted the Democrats would repudiate EDic.

while Bryan said the election returned had indicated refusal of the Democrats to recognize Sinclair as a member of their party. "Upton Sinclair, who is not now and never waa a Democrat, mast no longer be regarded a leader in the Democratic party," said Bryan. "Ills Invasion has been repudiated." As he had during the campaign, Senator McAdoo held aloof from the hostilities. Ha said he had "voted the Democratic ticket all the way through" aneexpressed the (Continued on Col. h).