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SAN BERNARDINO DAILY SUN. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1938 N. Y. Court Justice Says Raid on Home Prompted by Vengeful Maic PAGE TWO POISONS HER HUSBANDS JUDGE HOLDS UTILITIES AID IN PLANS FOR Czechs Mark Birth of Their Nation Quietly Citizens, With Little Spirit or Time for Celebration, Continue Reconstruction WAGNER ACT BALANCING IS SEEN AS VITAL DECISION HITS AT COMMITTEE PLAN IN STAT 1 Jt Ay voice for the nation to dismiss any thought of revenge for events of the past month. The government of autonomous Ruthenia issued a decree prohibiting all activity of political parties although not immediately dissolving them.

Party property was ordered held for future determination of its use and all headquarters were closed. MINOR CLASHES After pleading guilty to the poison murder of her first husband, Henry Kessenich, eight yean ago, and admitting an attempt to poison second mate, John Peters, Mrs. Florence Peters (left), broke down and was taken to the judge's chambers of a Madison, court to recover. She is shown with a policewoman. 1210 ITALIAN GERMANS DUi JEWS IT LI U.S.

DEFENSE Government, Companies Agree To Start Work at Once on Big Power Fusion Program (Continued from Page One) Consolidated Edison Co. of New York. Johnson revealed that his committee had arranged conferences with representatives of electrical equipment manufacturers with a view toward standardizing equipment essential for the new program, toward reducing costs and toward preventing "runaway" prices of boilers, turbines, genera tors and other appurtenant equipment. The forthcoming construction program, which will produce an additional 1,000,000 kilowatts of generating capacity, will cover a wide area in the East and Mid west, Johnson said. NEW CONSTRUCTION The project involves both mod ernization and new construction.

One of its primary objectives will be to move so-called "bottle necks" in the supply of electricity, and to build up a vast reservoir of reserve power generating capacity. In the event of war, or any other emergency, the Government shall have first call upon the facilities of the industry, both private and public, Johnson said. Johnson extended the committee's appreciation of the "prompt and whole-hearted" cooperation of. the utility companies and their en gineering staffs. He touched only briefly on the financial backing of the program, saying that statutes already in effect authorize the Gov ernment to give financial aid, if necessary, to projects designed to strengthen national defense.

Raw Food Advocate Again finder Arrest (By United Press) SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28. St. Louis Albert Estes, 73, Los Angeles, raw-food advocate and father of 11 children, was under arrest today on charges of falsely representing himself as a doctor during a health lecture. It was the fourth time since 1929 that Estes has been taken into cus tody on the charge.

He was arrested last night by Officers Thom as Hunter and J. Williams of the state medical board. Former Czech Chief Accepts U. S. Offer By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Oct.

28. Former President Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia cabled the University of Chicago today that he would come here for a three-month term as visiting professor. By ROY P. PORTER (Associated Press Writer) PRAGUE, Oct 28. Czechoslovakia came today to her twentieth birthday with little spirit or time for celebration.

Instead her efforts to cut her political and industrial life to the pattern of her new, diminished size continued without a pause. The Czechoslovak, state, now dismembered, by the Munich conference and reduced in wealth and power, came into existence on Oct. 28, 1918, when the national council took over the territory which had belonged to the Austro-Hungarian empire. WORK URGED General Jan Syrovy, the only anniversary speaker, told the nation not to "waste your time talking politics" but to work for reconstruction. He appealed in a dull, hesitant (Continued from Page One) tion of China, but in reality the situation is favorable to Chinese plana for prolonged resistance.

"We inflicted heavy losses on the enemy in the Yangtze valley. In desperation they invaded South China, attempting to interrupt our munitions and hoping for a quick decision in the war. "But we were prepared for this. For years we concentrated on de velopment of west China where bases for operations are established and where we will prolong resistance until victory is ours." The message said "the spirit Of national solidarity" was increasingly evident and 'this spirit is the foundation of our resistance. "We are prepared to make greater sacrifices.

China's ultimate victory is approaching. Our plans to overcome the enemy will be fully achieved." Japanese forces in the Hankow area were engaged in mop-up operations while advanced detachments speared deeper into Hupeh province. The army spokesman said Anlu, about 100 miles northwest of Hankow, was captured. Troops 50 miles south of Hankow captured Sien-ning, gaining position for an advance alon? the Canton-Hankow railway to Yochow, 110 miles southwest of Hankow. The Sienning victory was reported to have trapped large numbers of disorganized Chinese in a large swampy area between Sienning and Hankow.

A naval spokesman said Japanese warships were continuing upstream from Hankow toward Yochow, principal city of northeastern Hunan province. The Japanese also announced their planes bombed Yingtak and other stations along the southern extreme of the Canton-Hankow railway to make way for Infantry assaults. Yingtak is about 65 miles north and slightly west of Canton and is more than 500 miles sduth of Hankow. Japanese Salesmen Follow Up Armies (Bv Associated Press) SHANGHAI, Oct. 28.

As evidence of the closeness with which Japanese trade follows military conquests, 2,000 cases of Japanese beer were unloaded today on the Hankow bund within three days of the fall of Hankow. A salesman for Japanese typewriters reached Hankow almost with the flag, and started taking orders'. CHIC WOULD LURE ON JAPAN Former NRA Chief Declares That Capital Needs Break With Revamping of Measure (Continued from Page One) navy's new $1,000,000 bomber landed here after a 14-hour non-stop flight from San Diego. i The 25-ton experimental ship carried a crew of 15. It reportedly can fly 4,000 miles without refueling Army officials will be able to tell the President also of a new pursuit plane which flew the 360 miles from Dayton, Ohio, to Buffalo, yesterday in 61 minutes.

The army is expected to announce soon an even faster plane. NAVAL BASE CURIOSITY At his press conference today Mr. Roosevelt said he wondered why there was so much interest in the location of new naval aviation bases. He made, this statement in re sponse to a reporter's inquiry as to whether new bases would be situated on the Atlantic coast. Mr.

Roosevelt said the question was part of the general defense program and that no decisions had been made. Responding to other questions, the chief executive said he had re ceived a great many letters regarding the situation in Pales tine. The President suggested recently that Palestine should be kept open as an unrestricted, international home for the Jews, but said the United States was powerless to prevent any modification of the mandate under which Great Britain controls it. Mr. Roosevelt disclosed that John W.

Hanes had been appointed un dersecretary of the treasury. A former member of the securities commission, and once a New York broker, Hanes has been serving as assistant treasury secretary. He will succeed Roswell Magill, who resigned recently to return to his teaching position at Columbia uni versity. The White House announced that the President's scheduled address from Hyde Park, N. on November would be made at 7:30 p.m.

instead of 9:30, as previously planned. Mr. Roosevelt is expected to discuss the New York state political situation. It was announced also that the chief executive would speak at 2 p.m. November 4 in connection with the dedication of a memorial to Will Rogers at Claremont, Okla.

LaureL FUm Actor Gets Court Retrial LOS ANGELES, Oct. 28. Municipal Judge Harold B. Landreth today set Dec. 5 for the retrial of Stan Laurel, screen comedian, on misdemeanor charges of drunken driving and drunkenness.

manager, is arriving in Los Angeles (at the Roosevelt Hollywood) tomorrow noon, and will take personal charge of the Menuhin's end of the controversy. Mrs. Irish, in Los Angeles, said she had written Menuhin reminding him that the guild frequently made exceptions to its contract with the orchestra and allowed non-members to appear with the musical organization. BY EMPLOYE Four Suitcases Carried Away By U. S.

Investigators but Contents Not Revealed NEW YORK, Oct 28. Justice Edgar L. Lauer of the state su preme court said todav the raid on bis home by eight United States customs officers bunting for smug- fled goods was the result of "an exaggerated and distorted story told by a discharged German maid." The maid was angry, he said, because Mrs. Lauer had expressed a dislike for Adolf Hitler. The agents had ended a six-hour search of the Lasers' Park avenue apartment last night and carried away four suitcases, refusing to say what was in them.

They arrested Albert X. Chaperau, who was alleged to hars visited the Lauers apartment Oct 8, the day after he returned to this country on the He De France, and charged him with having taken nine pieces of luggage past customs officers without Inspection by improperly claim ing that he was the representative of the consul general of Nicaragua. VENGEANCE IS SEEN Justice Lauer, who last October paid customs authorities $10,400 to settle claims against him and his wife for failure to declare articles brought into this country, said: "The maid apparently wishes revenge for her discharge and undoubtedly the trouble will be cleared up when the true facts are known." Joseph Delaney, assistant United States attorney, who directed the search of the apartment, had an affidavit from Rosa Weber, who said she had been employed as a maid by Justice and Mrs. Lauer. She swore that the Lauers went abroad in June, returned in Sep tember on the French liner Nor-mandie with five trunks, the contents of which were put in a steel safe in a clothes closet of the apart ment Mrs.

Lauer said that trouble probably was the result of a dinner party she gave last week, which was attended by some Frenchmen and Russians who criticised Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain and Hitler in the presence of one of the maids. CRITICIZED HITLER Lucy Williams, maid for another family in the apartment building, aid that a German maid employed by the Lauers had told her she was going to inform Federal agents on Mrs. Lauer because she had criticised Hstie Miss Weber's afJdavrt charged that Mrs. Laser bad told her that the had not brought al ber clothes back from Europe, and that the rest, which had not been completed when she left, would come later. Mexico Raises Pay On Expropriations (By TTntted Press) MEXICO CITT, Oot 2a Reliable touroes said today that President Lasaro Oardenas had Increased.

Mecloo's oMbm to the United States In regard to payment for expropriated lands. A sum of about ha been in dispute in the aesjrotiatioM. No indication was given of the extent of the Mexican offer. Blind Bidding for Envelope Profitable (By VJnitd Press) NEW YORK. Oct.

Federal courthouse auctioneer, disposing of articles left aboard ships by 208 dead or deserting seamen, held up an envelope and said it contained "foreign money, value unes-timated." It went to an unidentified man for $10. He opened it and found 20 English pounds which he exchanged today for $95.40. AUNT HET By ROBERT QUILLEN "The zoo worries me. I can't stop wonderin' how the elephant atanda it when a nose likt that gets to itchinV (Conyrlrht, 19SR) MAD (Continued from Page One) but only a fraction of these are Jews. A new Polish law effective Sunday provides that Poles living abroad must have their passports certified by consular offices or lose their right to reenter Poland.

The measure was interpreted in Polish Jewish circles as an attempt to deprive Polish Jews abroad of their passports. The German government was represented in informed quarters as fearful that many Poles would not receive a revalidation stamp by tomorrow and become public charges. Weeping women and children, who saw their husbands, sons and fathers seized by Berlin police in the early morning hours, milled excitedly outside the police barracks where the men were held during the day. The women carried battered suitcases, blankets, food and cigarettes for the men. They were not permitted to see the men or say goodbye and were not told the plans of their evacuation.

In Vienna police were assisted by S. S. (black shirted) guards in a systematic search of the Jewish section. The number of Polish Jews taken into custody was not known but it was estimated to exceed 2,000. 'Bugs' Moran in New Difficulty (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Oct.

28. George "Bugs" Moran, notorious figure of prohibition days and now accused of heading a counterfeiting gang charged with conspiracy to pass 000,000 in suprious money orders and railroad bonds, was Jailed today after he failed to make bond of $30,000. With him, likewise for inability to provide bail, were seven others; named as members of the gang. Six cases were set for trial Nov. 28.

In all, 13 have been indicted, three of them Frank Quigley, Dan Keller and Robert Sexton already are serving prison sentences in Pennsylvania because of their premature efforts to dispose of the false securities. Parents Sue as Shot Fatal to Their Son (By Associated Press) LOS ANGELES, Oct. 28. Negligence in allowing firearms to remain about their home so children would be tempted to play with them is charged In a $25,298 damage action brought by Mr. and Mrs.

E. S. Laird against Royce and Marion Stetson. Earl Stetson, 14, son of the defendants, accidentally but fatally wounded the Laird's son, Donald, 12, last Aug. 31, it was set forth in the suit, filed yesterday.

Supreme Court Declares Inter Bodies Not Legal; Swing Group Is Affected (By Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28. state supreme court today swept! time-honored governmental cust into the discard by holding that California legislature had no povi to create committees to funct while the lawmakers were not session. The high court ruled that powers of a legislature terminal! at the sine die adjournment of state senate and assembly. Specifically the decision den legal existence to a special asse bly interim committee on putJ morals which was created to inqu into vice, gambling, alcoholic erage traffic and other matters Los Angeles.

In another opinion the court a disposed of a senate interim co mlttee headed by Senator Ralph Swing which was named last uary to study methods of bring about the temperate use of al holic beverages. The assembly morals committl went to the courts in an effort force 11 witnesses to answer qu tions. They had declined to test on the ground that the commits had no lawful existence. The committee asked the Los A geles superior court to compel witnesses to testify. That coJ held the assembly by single a separate resolution had no powl to create the committee, and tl even if such authority existed committee had exceeded its auth ity.

The committee appealed the supreme court. APPLICATION IS DISMISSED Swing's committee also went fore the supreme court in an effi to force State Comptroller Harry Riley to release expense money its behalf. The high court dismisd the committee's application for writ of mandate against Riley. Both committees argued that su interim investigating bodies been created year after year by legislature and had function without challenge as to their leg ity. The court held, however, tH "usage and custom, no matter long continued, cannot create right in the legislature that oth wise it does not possess, and whi is implicity denied to it." The decision conceded the exi.

ence of such committees in the ptJ but pointed out the court never been called upon before to deci on the legality of their existence, To committees' argument that tj United States Supreme Court hi upheld the legality of United Stat Senate committees functioning tween sessions of Congress, court replied such agencies we valid because the national Sena was a "continuing body" or oi which retained its identity from session of Congress to another cause its members were elected terms of six years embracing thr congressional terms. ine state supreme court sa however, the national House of Re resentatlves was elected only the period of a single session, an thus was not a continuing body, CREATION OF HOUSE The Dies committee, which cently heard testimony that Ca fornla Democratic candidates arl party figures had Communistic co nections, ia a creation of the tional House of Representatives Although the Los Angeles perior court held only that a sepi rate assembly resolution was insiJ ficient to create an interim corj mittee, the supreme court ruled th even, concurrent action by the sta senate would not have made til committee's existence legal. The court thus held that the stai senate, although its members elected for four years, was not continuing body because half of membership is subject to change election every two years. L. A.

County Will Seek 85 Million More for Flood (By Assnciatpd Press) LOS ANGELES. Oct. 28. Major Theodore Wyman district United States army engineer, informed the county board of supervisors today that an additional $85,000,000 of Federal funds for flood control in Los Angeles county will be proposed at the next session of Congress. The huge sum, Major Wyman said, will be in addition to $70,000,000 which has already been appropriated In a five-year plan.

The largest of the Individual projects to be proposed by Major Wyman will be in the Burbank western area. In the Tujunga district, It Is proposed to spend $5,450,000 for channe" Improvements from Hanson dam to the Los An. geles river down the west branch of the Tujunga wash. Rising anti-Semitic sentiment ap peared in a series of minor demonstrations, mostly impromptu street precessions led by youths who hand ed out typewritten anti Jewish statements. Heavily reinforced po lice patrols prevented any damage and took some marchers into temporary custody.

Members of various professional organizations also were disclosed to have taken steps to regulate the influx of Jews from Sudetenland. (Continued from Page One) when he told the Dies investigating committee in Washington that Democratic State Chairman John G. Clark and Ellis Patterson, Democratic nominee for lieutenant-governor, were Communists, and that Culbert L. Olson had subscribed to the program of a Communist strategy committee. Knowles is chairman of the legion's radical research committee in California but Dr.

Watters said the California department of the legion knew nothing of Knowles' presence in Washington. Repercussions from Knowles' testimony continued. William Schneiderman, state secretary of the Communist party, issued a statement asserting Knowles' story was "a crude attempt to smear the New Deal before election day." "The Democratic candidates," said Schneiderman, "are not by any stretch of the imagination Communists, any more than President Roosevelt is a Communist, even though we support the progressive principles and objectives of the New Deal. "If everyone in California who is for the defeat of Merriam and Bancroft is a Communist, there will be a lot of them for Mr. Dicp to investigate after election day Nov.

8." Blond Wife of Phil Plant Free (Bv United Press BRIDGEPORT, Oct. 28. Blond Edna Dunham Plant went out of a courtroom in tears today, $173,500 richer and freed by divorce from Phil Plant, Broadway playboy turned chicken farmer. Mrs. Plant told of a married life which began in 1934, in Clearwater, began to be unhappy five months later and ended by separa tion in April, 1937.

Plant, she said, boasted of his affairs with other women, for whom he bought "furs, jewels and furniture and all sorts of things." "He choked me once," she testified, "and used to push me around a great deal." 1 Youth Dislocates Jaw in Celebration (By United Press) SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 28. Dangers of excessive Halloween celebration were illustrated by the case of Raymond West, 17. West, attending a Halloween party, dislocated his jaw bobbing for apples. picture.

I doubled that last figure, and they met it. "So I went back to Texas and talked it all over with my commanding officers. They were all for me. They agreed that filming of the story not only would be good for the army, but more Important, for the country as a whole. They knew, as I did, that it would help give the public some idea of the necessity for a real national defense.

"They gave me a year's leave of absence and here I am, working on the story with Sy Bartlett, one of the best scenario writers in the business. He figures that it should be ready for the cameras in around six months. "As we've worked it out, there will be an opening scene showing the chief of staff pleading with a congressional committee for sufficient funds to defend the country properly. He starts to tell the lawmakers what would happen if America were Invaded today and then we picture what actually would happen. It's none too pleasant, I can tell you." 10IES SI IN 'POLITICS SETTLERS (Continued from Page One) grant peasant families.

Tonight they were getting acquainted with their shipboard accomodations and with each other. They will be neighbors on homesteads along the coastal reaches of the north African colony which has been decreed an integral part of Italy. Each family already had its homestead allotted and each colonist wore a card and a bit of ribbon indicating his destination and the name of the village from which he had come. The homesteads consist of 30 to 123 acres, depending on the condition of the soil, a three-room dwelling and a well. Each colonist family was required to have not less than three male members between the ages of 16 and 60 and two females.

Many of the families were much larger. Each man was chosen for hi3 strong faith in Fascism and his able body. The majority were small land" -owners or share-croppers. Italy's Libyan colonization program calls for migration of another persons in 1940. Aboard the nine ships at Genoa were 30,000 tons of provisions, including 25,000 gallons of wine.

The first 2,000 colonists to arrive sat up all night in railway coaches. Genoa was flag-draped in their honor. Bands played patriotic music, radios and loudspeakers blared with speeches. An enormous lunch was served to the emigrants. Private auto owners and taxidriverg volunteered1 to carry women and children to the waterfront but the men had to march.

Bank Clerk's Salary Declared Adequate (By Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28. A $150 a month salary is sufficient to provide a decent living, Federal Judge A. F. St.

Sure said today when he sentenced Jurgen D. Ras-mussen, 32, to five years imprisonment for embezzling $12,842 from the bank that employed him. Rasmussen, 14 years an employe of the Anglo-California National bank here, admitted using the money for race track gambling. The Judge denied the probation plea that $150 a month was a small salary with which "to dress well and maintain a bank clerk's social standing." Phyllis Haver Hurt By Simian at Party NEW YORK, Oct. 28.

Mrs. Billy Seeman Phyllis Haver of silent screen fame gave her husband a birthday party last night and her reward was a monkey-bite. The monkey came in a box, wrapped up like a birthday present. Mrs. Seeman opened it and the monkey nipped the first thing he saw Mrs.

Seeman's thumb. new topic each year. Last year he discussed the origins of monotheism and the year before the Gor-gons, the three sisters of Greek mythology. A the Baldachin is said to trace back to Babylonia, it was recalled that the kaiser, visiting an Amsterdam museum during the recent Czechoslovak crisis, refused to talk about anything "less than 2,000 years old." Princess Hermine, the kaiser's wife, attended the session at which her husband spoke. In the audience also were a number of savants whose names were withheld "in order to avoid International complications." It was believed this might have meant some of them were non-Aryan.

The Doorner Arbeitsgemeinschaft has several American members, but none of them was present this year. Violinist Strikes at Critics in Quild Row Noted Artist Rebels at Idea of Joining Unions to Play Twice With Orchestra Inexperienced as to Produce Movie Army Captain, I Writer, Helps Archaeologists in Meet With Kaiser (By Associated Press) LOS GATOS, Oct. 28.. Yehudi Menuhin, world famous violinist, struck back tonight at critics of his stand that he has the right to play concerts in the United States without holding a union card. The Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra meanwhile stood by its ultimatum that Menuhin must join the American Guild of Musical Artists, an American Federation of Labor affiliate, before he plays two concerts with the orchestra next week.

PUBLICITY DENOUNCED Menuhin in a statement tonight said the orchestra's ultimatum was "high-handed, brutal, dictatorial, illegal and unethical." Mrs. Leiland Atherton Irish, executive vice-president of the Philharmonic, retorted that Menuhin had been unethical in making the controversy public. Moshe Menuhin, Yehudi's father and secretary, immediately commented that this was "one more proof that A.G.M.A. must work in the dark, that it knows it cannot afford to have things like this dragged out into the open." Lawrence Tibbett, opera and concert baritone and president of the A.G.M.A., said in Chicago that Menuhin Just doesn't understand the guild's alms, and said he would telephone the violinist and try to straighten things out. At the Menu-Jiln home here it was said no message from Tibbett had been received THREAT AT FREEDOM In his first statement yesterday, Menuhin said he believed the demand for A.G.M.A.

membership was a threat to his artistic freedom, and that he proposed to disregard the demand and play the Los Angeles concerts exactly as contracted. Jack Salter, Menuhin'i national By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN (United Press Correspondent) HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 28. How Capt.

William F. Cox of the U. S. army became a screen writer, though he is the first admit he can't write anything but military reports, makes a Hollywood story which should keep you blinking. The fact that his picture will be perhaps the most pretentious filmed here next year makes his rise in the movie world all the more amazing.

The captain, himself, still is a little dazed, a couple of the best-known literary agents in town are blushing furiously and if half a dozen picture producers aren't, glck-ing themselves, they should be. Eighteen years ago the captain was a buck private at Fortress Monroe, Va. What worried him was the fact that nobody there dared to shoot any of the big guns. They were so old they'd probably explode. What Private Cox wondered would happen if an enemy decided to invade the woefully unprepared United States? He kept on wondering as the years passed and he worked1 his way up through the ranks, studied at the Chemical Warfare college, organized ROTC units, and served in seven branches of the army.

The guns became better, but there still were too few of them, and the word "invasion" remained etched in the captain's mind. In Texas, Captain Cox met Gene Autry, star of western films, and was urged to come to California. He did and ran into a great many rejections. He became discouraged and was ready to depart when introduced to Eugene Zukor and his father, Adolph. "The first thing I knew, they'd made me an offer," said Cox.

"They set a whopping big price for my idea and then a salary for me to serve as technical director in the writing and producing of the (By Associated Press) DOORN, The Netherlands, Oct. 28. Former Kaiser Wilhelm, himself learned in their field, today was host and chairman at a meeting of archaeologists In this little city of exile. Annually for the past 14 years Wilhelm has invited leading German, Netherlands, Austrian, Hungarian and other archaeologists to Doom for these discussions. It is called the annual meeting of the Doorner Arbeitsgemeinschaft or cooperation committee of savants.

The former Kaiser always presents one paper himself, the results of his own researches between meetings. This year he spoke on "The Origin and Use of the Baldachin," an ecclesiastical canopy. His paper was not made public, but it usually appears a year later- In book form, richly illustrated. it is his custom to look for a.