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OAKLAND TRffiUNE, fTESDAY, DECEMBER 1935 OFFICIALS SILENT AS HAUPTMANN 'PLEADPFOR-LIBDETECTOESI FnMFclniiTrinpv rump i U. S. Delegates to Study CAREER ENDS IN AUTO GAS Wir--r llll 1 1 I I III II i I I I I .11 I I 1 I 8 I GRAZED BELIEf 1 1 1 1 1 i r-Neur'Britkk'NaM Plan I rnnn nririi nurf By LLOYD LEHRBAS Associated Press Foreign Staff 5, WOUNDS 3 ssttzi- 7jP1 LOS ANGELESc. 17. The body of Thelma Todd, blond film actress, as it.

11i4tfuitff wa ound "ini her car on tne coast northwest of Santa Monica, where she operated a cafe. LONDON, Dec. 17. The United States delegates to the International Naval Conference promised today they would study -British proposals for a new naval agreement "in a friendly spirit," on the. definite understanding, however, th.at the proposals would not contain a majo'r variation from the principles of existing treaties, The British plan is ihst each naval power Great Britaiiv-the-United States, Japan, France and Italy should make a "unilateral," or individual, public- declaration of its naval building program for a period whith the British suggest should be about six years.

WOULD DITCH ISSUE The British, in enunciating their plan, suggested that the present conference sidetrack all the ultimate questions of the equality of fleets. They urged that the delegations agree to the idea of the publication City Garbage Deal A ttacked A legal attack on the contract of the City of Oakland -with the Oakland Scavenger Company for collection and disposal of garbage, was launched iir the- Superior Court toJ day in the form of a suit; by Luigl Stagnaro for an injunction to prevent the company from interfering with his collection of "wet" garbage. Stagnaro sets, forth that he has entered into contracts with a "number of restaurant operators foF the purchase and removal of their "wet" garbage--which he contends is their property. He says he has agreed to pay them a "reasonable for the garbage, according to the quantity produced, and is ready to purchase trucks and other equipment to collect it in compliance with all sanitary and health regulations. But his complaint charges that the scavenger company claims to be the "exclusive owner of the right to remove and sell" the garbage and threatens to "forcibly prevent" Stagnaro from fulfilling his contracts with the restaurant The complaint asserts that-Stag-naro has lost $8000 in profits from the garbage contracts, and will lose at least a like amount each month unless the court prevents the company from interfering with his performance.

He asks, in addition to the injunction, $8000 for profits already alleged to have 'been lost and a like sum' for each month during pend-ency of the suit OPEN EVERY NIGHT of building programs, each individ ual program 10 De -equivalent to that nation's needs and security. The treaty, it was suggested, should be drawn in. such a way that the rights of the various powers to naval armaments necessary for their national security would be recognized KESERVE OPINION Japanese officially reserved their opinion of the proposal, but well-informed Japanese quarters indicated the delegation was likely to oppose the British plan. The French and Italian delegates did not object to the basic idea of the plan, but said they wished much shorter periods to be covered by the published programs. "A preliminary discussion ensued in the courseof which various dele gations requested the "Clarification of the proposal." The conference, will next meet Thursday; Murder Case ToBeDro Decision to ask dismissal of a murder warrant against Frank Ar-ruda, 16, accused -of being present when his Manuel, 25, shot and killed '-their step-father, Joseph Faria 50, near Niles in 1933, was reached by officials today, District AttorneyJE a 1 Warren announced.

Arruda is- being held In the detention home and when the District Attorney's office has been advised by relatives in the East as to that section of the country, he will beUaken before Justice Court in Niles, and dismissal of the warrant asked. Warren said. Young Arruda was arrested last Friday by Patrolman Lloyd Tice at 107th Avenue and Bancroft Street, where the youth was collecting junk in. an effort to sell enough to get something to eat. He -admitted, he was wanted on the murdgr complaint, officers said.

It was in September, 1933, that the elder Arruda, inflamed by reports thqt Faria had mistreated his mother, who died, shot and killed Faria, and also Faria's Joseph Jr. Arruda confessed and was sen tenced to lite in San Quentip, SPANISH HOUSE SUSPENDED MADRID, Dec, 17. () An official decree suspending Parliament until January 1 was published in ppe-OfficiatGazetle today, TO 9:30 lP.f M. FROM1 PATS! KELLY III COLLAPSE ASKS THAT JflFSIE' BE TESTEO. TOO Convicted Man, Declaring His Conscience Is Clear, Seeks Governor's Aid TRENTON.

J. Dec. 17. Bruno Richard. ffauptmann's expressed wish' to undergo lie detector test in an effort to prove his innocence jn the- Lindbergh baby kidnap-murder brought no Immediate response from New Jersey authorities today.

"I don't want tp comment now," was the answer of Governor Harold G. Hoffman, to whom the convicted murderer of Charles Lindbergh Jr. addressed h5 appeal. Other officials, including Attorney-General David T. Wilentz, chief prosecutor of Hauptmahnr, also were silent' Hauptmann made his request in a letter penned in the death house of State Prison.

Governor -'Hoffman made it public yesterday. 'NO GUILTY FEELING' "I assure Your Excellence, had I any guilty feeling in this terrible crime, I not trouble Your Excellence with this request," Hauptmann wrote. "But since it is iny deepest desire to proof to Your Excellence and the world that I have spoke the truth, I' would be very thankful for. permitting any able persons, whom are free of any opinion in this LcaseL to take a test with a so-called lie detector, serum, or whatever scieie may offer." He suggested, also, that Dr. John F.

Condon, the Jafsie of the ransom negotiations, submit to a similar test. "I have a deep interest," he said, "in' what kind of force made him change' his, saying. Because when he was visiting me in my Fleming-ton cell he said all excited to the prosecutor 'I can not testify against this Condon, reached between performances in a Lynn, theater, termed the suggestion a "good joke" and defense fireworks. SEEK COURT 'RELIEF'" Hauptm 'nn's defense counsel, meanwhile, decided at a conference In Somerville to apply to the Court of Pardons "for relief." It, was understood they would seek commutation of the death sentence to life imprisonment. The attorneys as well as Gover- nor Hoffman, Colonel Mark O.

Kim--bcrling, principal keeper at the State Prison, and EUis Parker, Burlington County Detecve Chief, who has Been conducting avprivate investigation of the case, derHdj3ub-lishcd reports Hauptmann had made partial "confession." Mauptmann's Mother Appeals to Governor KAMENZ, Germany, Dec. 17. W) Bruno Richard Hauptmann's mother has appealed to Governor Hoffman of New Jersey to commute her son's death sentence for the murder of the Lindbergh baby to life imprisonment, it was disclosed today. In a letter to the Governor dated December 14, she emphasized her long-held belief in his innocence, and tried to excuse his "minor transgressions" in Germany. As the father of a "small son, she said, Bruno could not commit a crime, She-asserted he had repeatedly affirmed his" innocence in letters to her.

Mrs. Hauptmann declared that thousands of people had written to her that the prosecutors in his trratf sought the death penalty lest blame for not having cleared up the mystery of the murder would rest on them permanently." El 1 0 Alcohol Found in Nominal Amount; Extortion Scouted in Police Probe (Continued From Page 1.) film director, told Captain 'feruce Clark he-had- "locked out" Miss Todd Sunday morning from "hei living quarters been "getting in late" "Perhaps she-- tainted and succumbed to the fumes. She had been subject to fainting spells." West said he had been "around the place" all day Sunday! He said he did not launch a search for Miss Todd. A sinister note was injected into the case when West disclosed the actress, victim of extortion plots which resulted in arrest of two men, recently received two new extortion notes which she Tiad not turned over to authorities. The series of extortion notes Miss Todd received, several months ago contained threats to "wreck that Santa Monica cafe of yours" said that "our San Francisco boys will lay you out." Two men were arrested, in New York.

A janitor, Han-ySchimanski, pleaded innocent and was released on bond October 31. Edward -Chiffert was reported still in custody. One note named Abe Lyman, orchestra leader friend of Miss Todd; as an to whom she should "pay $10,000 by March 5, and live." TEAMED WITirzSU PITTS; PATSY KELLY IN FILMS A top-ranking comedienne on the screen, teamed first with ZaSu Pitts and then with Patsy Kelly, Miss Todd launched' her' cafe venture with West about a year agd'ns an entertaining, side-line. West once directed her in a motion picture and their friendship was well-known. She had been married only once, to Pasquale J.

de wealthy sportsman, and their union of two years was dissolved in divorce court in 1934. Rich New Yorker Sued or Divorce RENO, Dec. 17. (U.R) Ogden Phipps, wealthy and socially prominent-New Yorker, was sued for divorce by Mia. Ruth- Phipps here today.

Shc charged extreme cruelty. They were married June 14, 1936r Mi Men, sports type I If 1 V' vi 'liltl I 111'lWtCiiiiii mm mm i HOLLYWOOD, Dec. '47. -(ff) -Patsy Kelly, screen and off-screen partner of Thelma Todd, collapsed when "she learned of the glamorous actress' death. "Thelma dead? I can't believe it.

She was too full of life. It's just one of her jokes she's kidding us." Those were the first words of 'the romping Irish comedienne. Then she learned it wasn't "a joke." Her smile vanished. Her voice choked. i "I can't believe -it.

I can't believe it." The two had just finished a new comedy, "An All-American Toothache," for Hal Roach Studios, one of thota rollicking farces over which the Nation laughed. Business Prevented -Holiday Trip Home LAWRENCE, Dec. 16. (P) A change of plans kept Thelma Todd, blond movie star "found dead at Los Angeles, from returning to her native Lawrence for the holidays. L- A short while before Miss Todd wrote that movie contracts and private business affairs prevented her from coming here for Thanksgiving.

Miss Todd vas the daughter of Mrs. Alice E. Todd and the late former Alderman John S. Todd, who as a member of the board of alder-, men from 1913-14 was director of public health and charities. Miss Todd's father died on her 20th birthday.

Her only 'brother died when she was eight. 'Fantasy Lover' of Miss Todd Held Insane NEW Dec. ward Schiffert, 26, was adjudged mentally unbalanced today because of a "fantasy love affair" with Thelma Todd. Schiffert was arrested six weeks ago for sending threatening letters to the Harry Schimanski, 34, is free un der $1000 bond awaiting trial on charges of attempted extortion for allegedly sending three threatening I letters to the actress. LOS ANGELES.

Dec. 17. May Whitehead, Thelma Todd's Negro maid, telling Pat De Cicco, theatrical agent and former husband of the blond ac L. A. Man Babbles jn County "JaiT Cell That' He 'Missed "Two'; Lyncbing Averted (Picture on Section Page) LOS ANGELES, Dec.

17. (JPh-Charles N. Layman, 45, crazed relief Worker who killed five men on a WPA project and wounded three others, one critically, today babbled in his County-Jajl'cell that he "missed two He was rushed to Counjy Jail by a police shotgun squad as an enraged mob composed mainly of fellow relief workers trapped Aiim in a blind alley and threatened to lynch him. The armed officers surrounded Layman and forced their way through the angry crowd to police cars. Layman, who stands over six feet tall and weighs than 200 pounds7appeared at the drainage ditph beijjg'constructed by the Federal Government with a revolver in one hand and rifle in the other- Stancffflg on a dirt heap above the -ditch where the laborers were working, Layman shouted, "I said, I'd get you guys" as he opened-fire.

With unerring he 'brought down Pete Coklit, 25; Lloyd Holden, 36; Harry Sell, 56, and Lloyd Davis, 25, and Francis Secrist, 33, who died today. 1 Three of the men died instantly while Coklit bled to death as he tried to. crawl out of the ditch. Harold Johnson was in critical condition. James Haley and Sproul Perry received minor -wounds.

Layman sat in his cell today and muttered words. of hate against a foreman whom he accused of "pouring sand in my shoes." "I'd have killed a couple more If police hadn't come so sqon. I missed two guys I wanted to get." While Layman was firing into' the ditch, Charles F. Ernau, a salesman, saw what was happening and started to drive to a nearby police station-. Layman fired at him, smashing his windshield as.

he sped away. A dozen officers armed with shotguns and revolvers rushed to the WPA ditch, but Layman saw them and retreated into the alley -with the angry workers after him. As the police cautiously advanced-on him with their shotgtjns, Layman threw down his arms and rm xnrougn." GIFT TIES OoriteouB new eilkj. Mammoth assortment of. smart patterns.

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WEDNESDAY UNTIL CHRISTMAS 0ldtf i Gifts for MEM Sparkling Wit of Actress at Last Party Is Told by Host Mvns Suits OR Toddy" herself, gowned in an ultra- modern mauve and creation that blended perfectly with her blonde beauty. "She was beautiful," Lupino recalled today. "We discussed many things. A film I intended "to make-in England starring "her. She told me she cared little anymore for the gay -whirl lofso-ciety.

Other interests, includingner famous sidewalk cafe, required much of her time, she said." "She was dazzling," summed up Patricia Ellis. Overcoats I1(B-50 Mi m. a HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 17. (P) Thelma Todd's last Hollywood party sparkled like the champagne that was served.

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