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1 3 Oakland a EXCLUSIVE ASSOCIATED PRESS 5e DAILY OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, mops Trabucco, Traveling' Jurist, Dies A Heart Attack Fatal To Mariposa Judge In S.F. Hospital Supervisor Judge Joseph Trabucco of Mariposa County, known California's traveling jurist" because of his frequent assignment to other courts by the State Judic.a! Council, died today at Dante Horse pital, San Francisco. Stricken with a heart attack after convalescing from a recent minor operation, the judge was removed to the hospital Friday night. Last night attending physicians said a high fever was lowering resistance rapidly and that his condition was extremely critical. WIFE AT BEDSIDE At his bedside was Mrs.

Trabucco, called from the jurist's home in Mariposa, his two sons, Eugene, of Hillsborough, and Louis of Piedmont. The judge was born 69 years ago in Valley, Mariposa County, and began his law practice after graduating from Santa Clara University, He was the fourth oldest in pointing of service among the 160 State Superior Court judges and sat in judgment in 40 of the State's 58 counties. He presided over many of the State's most celebrated criminal cases. FUNERAL FRIDAY The funeral will be Friday in Mariposa. His body will be at the N.

Gray funeral parlor in San Francisco tonight and tomorrow, after which it will be taken to the county where the judge's career began. Trabucco was elected assessor of Mariposa County when he was 21, and then was elected district attorney. It. was in 1902 that he was elected to the Superior Court in the post he retained until his death. Butcher's Wife Sues Divorcee for $100,000 LOS ANGELES, Dec.

Alleged love trysts between a rich society divorcee and a butcher were described today in a $100,000 alienation of affections suit filed here against Mrs. Ray Nell Gross, former wife of a millionaire Santa Cruz banker. Mrs. Mabel Schwabenland, who filed the suit, charged Mrs. Gross with alienati the affections of the plaintiff's husband, Fred G.

Schwabenland, a meat cutter. The Schwabenlands lived happily in Santa Cruz, the complaint. said, until the wealthy divorcee enticed the meat cutter to leave his wife. The complaint said Mrs. Schwabenland was abandoned without means of support and is destitute.

Two More Arrested In L.A. as Spies LOS ANGELES, Dee. Mikhail Gorman, a Russian, and Hafis Salich, naturalized American, charged with transmitting naval documents to a foreign power, were arrested today and immediately arreigned before the United States commisisoner. Bail was set at 000 each. Specific details of the charges were not revealed.

20-Foot Yule Tree Cut for White House ALBANY, N.Y., Dec. 13. (P) The White House Christmas tree wil lagain come from Eastern New York's Grafton Mountains. A 20- foot balsam was cut today by employees of the conservation department and will be shipped to Washington tomorrow--the same as each year since Franklin Roosevelt left New York's governorship to become President. Austrian Countess Missing in London LONDON.

Dec. (P) -Scotland Yard today sought Countess Mari a en missing from her Knightsbridge hotel since last week. The countess, 45 and wealthy, was said by investigators to be the Jewish wife of a Nazi official Austria. She had been living in England two years. TODAY IN THE OAKLAND TRIBUNE RAY TUCKER, "National Whirli-1 GEORGE SALVADORE, whose WHERE TO FIND IT prize ring rival, Andre Shelveff, "Advance agents (in Washing- died of injurieston) for Senator-elect Sheridan Page "The kid never seemed in disSubject Downey of California warn that and Plays 24 finishing appeared 1.

Amusements tress to me. He to be he never endorsed the $30-every- Classified Advertising 36 Thursday -First Maga- Comic Strips 26 ANTHONY EDEN, visiting Washzine Page. ingtonCrossword Puzzle 28 "I am here unofficially and have WALTER LIPPMANN, "New Knave Column 27 absolutely no mission." Page Deal Gestures Toward progressives who Editorials and Columns 40 REP. MARTIN DIES were. once preoccupied only with Editorial Features chairman of congressional inquirythe abuses of capitalism have be- 27 "Every effort is going to be made gun to see also its triumphant Financial and Stocks 34 not only to block our.

committee achievements, and above all, its Geraldine (on un-American activities) but to connection with their own dearest Column 28 get another and new one for Magazine Page. Marine News; Weather 39 washing purposes." -Page 14. GENERAL, commander RIKICH ANDO, Jap- Radio Schedules 29 MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY, in South China, Society and Clubs 25 British leaderto Chiang Kai-Shek- Sports and "We are determined not to at the head of 1,000,000 fice one individual or one inch of "Come Sportsmen 30 forees troops and determine encounter final Japanese Theaters; Wood Sones 24 territory and we will accept with in to battle." the issue Vital Statistics 39 its full implications any challenge a decisive -Page 8. to that policy." -Page 1. I he he WEATHER OAKLAND AND VICINITY: Cloudy and tonight and Wednesday; followed by rain; moderate easterly wind.

CHABOT TEMPERATURES Maximum 49 Minimum RAINFALL Last 24 hours .00 Normal 6.00 Season 4.56 Last year, 9.60 Complete Weather Report on Page VOL. CXXIX- NO. 166 S.F. Fighter Dies After Ring Beating Shelaeff Collapses After Finishing Bout; Rival Under Arrest Picture on Page, 30 Andre, Shelaeff; 18, Russian prizefighter, and welterweight champion of the Orient, died early today from brain injuries inflicted by George Salvadore, 26, in a bruising eightround fight in San Francisco last night. An emergency operation performed in an attempt.

to save the youthful fighter's life showed that his brain had, literally been beaten to a pulp. by the blows. Shelaeff collapsed in his dressing room a few minutes after the fight, the main event at National Hall Pavilion. He was groggy when he left the ring, spectators said, and fainted after taking his shower. Salvadore won the decision but did not knock the boy off his feet in the eight rounds.

Shelaeff a terrific body beating through the fight and was nearly unconscious at the end of the fifth round. FAVORITE IN BOUT Regarded as a murderous puncher, the youthful Shelaeff was a 10 to 6 "favorite to win the bout, according to betting odds before the "battle. A warrant for Salvadore's arrest was issued this morning shortly after Shelaeff died at 7:53 a.m. in St. Luke's Hospital.

Salvadore, who lives at 825 Van Ness Avenue, will appear in Municipal Court tomorrow to answer the charges of technical manslaughter. Shelaeff's condition was not noticed until he went to his dressing room, when he complained to his manager, Harry Seelig, that he had "pains in my stomach and head." DECIDES ON OPERATION A Seelig called an ambulance and had the boy taken to Central Emergency Hospital and he later was transferred to St. Luke's, where Dr. John G. Sullivan decided on the emergency operation.

Dr. Sullivan said he found laeff to be suffering from a severe concussion and other brain injuries. The youth did not regain consciousness and died three and one-half hours after the operation. Authorities said the youth came here two months ago from Harbin, China. He had had 28 professional fights, four of them here.

He entered the ring at 144 pounds. Salvadore, a veteran of 180 fights in nine years, weighed 146. "He was the promisingest boy ever saw," Seelig said. Salvadore was at a loss to understand what had happened. 'APPEARED STRONG' "The kid never seemed in distress to me," Salvadore said after his arrest.

"I didn't notice he was groggy. He appeared to be finishing strong and hit me some hard blows in the last round. I had to fight hard to win." Salvadore said the fight appeared to him to be close up to the fifth round, when it turned in his favor. Spectators said Salvadore gave the youthful Shelaeff n. bad body beating, though they didn't notice any extremely hard head punches.

After he heard his opponent had collapsed, Salvadore went to Shelaeff's dressing room and tried to revive the boy. He helped give Shelaeff a cold shower and rubbed the back of his neck until the boy was taken to the hospital. SHOWED NO INJURY Don Shields, State boxing commissioner, and Al Young, promoter of the fight, said that Shelaeff.in fought the entire battle without showing signs of serious injury, He was on his feet ate the end and walked from the ring, they said. Both agreed with Seelig's statement that Shelaeff was in good physical condition before the fight. Doctors representing the State Boxing Commission had examined Shelaeff before the fight and pronounced him physically fit.

An autopsy will be performed on Shelaeff's body today to determine the exact cause of death. Shelaeff's death was the first San Francisco ring fatality since 1931, when Max Baer knocked out Frankie Campbell and killed him there, authorities said. Tribune WIREPHOTO UNITED PRESS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1938 10c SUNDAY Daughter of Snyder Tells Of Shooting 0 Ruth Etting Feared For Life for Years, She Says on Stand HOLLYWOOD, Dec. Snyder, 21. today testified against her father, Col.

Martin (Moe, the Gimp) Snyder, who is charged with kidnaping and attempting to murder Myrl Alderman, boy friend of Edith's stepmother, Ruth Etting, the blues singer. The dark-haired daughter Snyder by a previous marriage testified after her stepmother, now di-1 vorced from Snyder, teld the court Snyder had beaten, and abused her for years caused her to be constantly, in fear for her life. Edith Snyder told how she and Miss Etting were. at home on the night of October 15 preparing dinner just before her father appeared. 'END OF US ALL' "When I first entered the kitchen saw my' father with a gun in his hand." the girl testified.

"He called me profane names and said it was going to be the end of all of us. "He marched us into the music room and said: 'Now, sit down. I'm going to do all the "Miss Etting and Mr. Alderman sat down. But I stood up.

said: 'If you're going to shoot, why don't you do it and get it "Then I saw he really meant it and I sat down. He sat down. too, near the door. Miss Etting asked him not to do anything he'd be sorry for and Mr. Alderman started to say something and my, father began shooting.

FIRED TWO SHOTS "He fired two shots, The lights went out and Mr. Alderman fell at my feet. I thought he was dead. "I heard Miss Etting and my struggling in the bedroom. ran in there and got my arms around my father and we struggled.

I said he'd already killed Mr. Alderman and please not to kill Ruthie. "He kept saying that he was going to kill her and he knew what he was doing. I pushed him up against the wall when he ran into the hall. told him again that Ruthie was all 11 had and please not do anything to her.

THREATENED EX-WIFE "He ran after her, and yelled to Ruth: 'I'll kill At this point court recessed for lunch. Previously Miss Etting testified that Snyder was a hot-tempered little man who constantly picked fights with others and kept her in fear of her life. Questioned by Prosecutor U. U. Blalock, the blond singer who once made $20.000 a month crooning over the radio, described her former band as a wifebeater who struck her with his cane, threw her to the floor, cursed her, pinched Ner arm, and made so much trouble generally that she had difficulty obtaining employment.

WAS DRAG ON HER CAREER Q-Is it true Snyder helped you find 'work? A--I found trouble getting work in the last three years because Mr. Snyder made so much trouble in the studios and got into so many arguments and fights they simply didn't want to bother with me. I even had to go to England to get work, and he came over, too, and the first thing he did was get in a fight with a man on the street. It came out in the headlines that my Continued Page 22, Col. 1 PLUCKY STUDENT WITH FOUR CENTS TO NAME NEEDS BOOST U.C.

Youth Faces Doubtful Future but Is Determined to Finish Education By JOHNNY The only money he has in all the world is four copper pennies! A college student in the middle of taking his final examinations and he hasn't even the price of a cup of coffee. It's mid-December and he hasn't an overcoat. That, if you will consider it, is the situation of Thomas, a 20-yearold boy in the 20th Century, in a country that prides itself on the fact there is plenty for all here. Yet Thomas broke and cold, worried by a series of grueling tests still can grin and still can jest with the other students on the University of California Campus. We talked to Thomas yesterday as he walked from the library on the Berkeley -Campus after eight hours of digging through textbooks.

He, as you remember, is Case Number 1 on The Tribune's Bluebird Fellowship list. He is the one for whom $174,50 is asked. 'SURE IT'S TOUGH' "Sure it's tough," he said. "But I've seen it worse. And I'd rather do this and learn something than be idle and get no place." And Thomas has seen it far worse.

Remember, he's worked for his support since he was in grammar school. There are nine other chil- HOME EDITION 40 PAGES CAREER ENDS Superior Judge: J. J. Trabucco, California's "traveling Judge." died in San Francisco today. Arrests Ordered In Drug Probe McKesson, Robbins Officials Charged With Fake Accounts NEW YORK.

Dec. Donald Coster, president of McKesson and Robbins. drug concern whose financial affairs are under investigation, was ordered 'arrested today by the Federal authorities on a charge of violating the Securities and Exchange Act, George S. Dietrich, assistant treasurer, and George Vernard, Montreal agent of W. W.

Smith and English agents the drug concern. were also ordered taken into custody. Warrants for the seizure of the three men were filed in Federal Court by Assistant U.S. Attorney Irving H. Kaufman who left immediately with officers for New Haven to arrest Coster and Dietrich.

PRESIDENT SINCE 1926 Coster lives in Fairfield, and has been president of the firm since 1926. He is 54 and a native of Washington, D.C. The board of MeKesson and Robbins yesterday demanded his resignation. The overt act charged in the complaint was that Vernard, on December 3, 1938, deposited a check for $15,000 in a Brooklyn branch of the Chase National Bank, drawn against Manning Co. on the Royal Bank of Canada in Manning Co.

is one of the concerns which supposedly had warehouses in which McKesson and Robbins stored crude drugs. Testimony has indicated that much of this stock was non-existent and it was because of alleged irregularities in the crude drugs department that McKesson and Robbins assets were overestimated by perhaps $18,000,000. The concern filed a petition in Federal Court last Thursday for reorganization under the Federal Chandler Act. Simultaneously a Federal inquiry, one by District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey's office and another by Attorney General John J.

Bennett Jr. got under way. DEWEY STARTS PROBE A brother-in-law of Coster's testified today in a hearing in Bennett's office that a sizeable brokerage account in his name, John 0. Jenkins, was actually operated, by Coster self. Jenkins is a brother of Mrs.

Carol E. Coster who is under a temporary court order restraining her from using a $100,000 brokerage account her name. George Roberts, counsel for Federal trustees appointed by Judge Alfred C. Coxe in the reorganization proceeding, said today the preferred dividend, amounting to $443.771 and declared payable December 15, would be passed. Canada to Probe U.S.

Drug Firm. MONTREAL, Dec. (Canadian Press) -An investigation under the Quebec Securities Act into affairs of the McKesson 'and Robbins, drug concern was ordered tonight by Edouard Asselin, deputy attorney general of the province. BOYCOTT PUT ON GERMAN CEMENT HERE Because it is in direct competition with local products, 340 tons of German cement lay on Oakland docks -untouched -by A.F.L. teamsters and ignored by A.F.L, buildings trades unionists.

The teamsters, by formal action, have refused to haul the foreign cement, while the building trades workers, by an informal understanding, have agreed not to handle the product in construction work even if it was hauled to them. Charles Real, business manager of the Oakland local teamsters, explained that the cement was deposited on the and offered for sale at $1 a barrel, in competition with, local cement selling at $2.25 a barrel. TEAMSTERS IN ACCORD Draymen and contractors have been notified of the teamsters' stand, Real said, and are in accord. One drayage concern was said to have canceled a contract to haul 100 tons of the German cement when informed of the teamsters' position. J.

C. Reynolds, business representative of. the Alameda County BuildTrades Council, said his group would augment their informal agreement with formal action at a regular council session tonight. He pointed out that similar action had been taken in the past against products from other countries. "This is a matter of pure business.

Reynolds said, "and is not something directed against Germany alone. We must take such action to prevent upsetting of the -business cycle by cutthroat competition engendered by cheap products." ORDERED LOCALLY While the unionists contended that the shipment of cement was brought here as ballast, and should be returned to Germany, as such, agents of the Hamburg-American Line reported that the consignment had. arrived aboard the freighter. Oakland as regular freight and had already been sold to a local buyer, Identity of the buyer and what disposition he might attempt to make of the cargo was not disclosed. 340 TONS IN CARGO Reynolds estimated that the consignment amounted to 2000 or 400 tons, but ships agents said that manifests showed that the shipment was actually 60 tons below that figure.

The embargoed cement is at the Grove Street Pier in Oakland and the Encinal Terminal in Alameda. Boatman Is Killed By Army Air Bomb LANGLEY FIELD. Dec. -Milton Hoffman, about 35, of Messick, was killed today when bomb, dropped from a Langley Field plane during bombing practice on Plum Island, exploded near his boat. The plane was in a squadron of bombers which rained explosives on the Langley Field bombing range.

Hoffman, a former Langley field soldier, was clamming in Back River opposite Plum Tree Island. French President Not to Run Again PARIS, Dee. 13. (P) President Albert Lebrun informed close friends today he had "definitely decided" not to seek re-election in May, 1939. It had been rumored he might try for a second seven-year Presidential term.

Chamberlain Warning Given Aggressor Powers BRAZIL MOVES TO CHECK MINORITIES ANDRUE BERDING LIMA, Dec. Brazilian proposal to deny alien minorities in Latin -America any special minority privileges, such as Sudeten Germans demanded of Czechoslovakia, today was referred to the PanAmerican conference committee on international law. Brazil, which has large German and Italian settlements. advanced the project yesterday. Mexico proposed a declaration against bombardments In wartime.

The proposal was referred to the committee for organization of peace. BLOC FORMED Delegates of the 21 republics kept close watch to see how far a newlyformed bloc of 13 Nations would agree on important economic and political issues. The bloc, by means of prior agreements, put over all its candidates for conference committee posts when the conference convened. The bloc includes Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Generally favorable to some tion for continental defense, the bloc is believed to.

have done considerable sounding of other delegations on this and other questions to spur conference action. TRADE LINK SOUGHT Projects to link the Americas by increased trade while cooperating for peace took definite shape today as the conference speeded its work in the hope of adjournment before Christmas. The United States delegation led in preparation. of economic proposals, an important parallel to the peace endeavors, And these were to gO before the committee on economic problems. Secretary Hull, in a speech tonight on the progress of the conference, was expected to touch further upon trade issues.

Peace proposals included plans to guard against both military and political incursion. Two were before the peace committee, that by Venezuela defining aggression and proposing a continental defense system, and a Mexicansponsored code of peace. CONSOLIDATION PLAN A project was maturing with 1 the Argentine mad Mexican delegations for consolidation of the Western Hemisphere, and the United States plan to coordinate existing peace accords. was ready for committee consideration. The Argentine delegation last night foreign approved a resolution against political propaganda also will be taken up by the committee.

It would deny foreign citizens Continued Page 14, Col. 2 Typhoon Kills 302 MANILA, Dec. Deaths 1 the typhoon which davaged Central Philippine provinces last Thursday reached 302 today, with many still missing. Britain Will Defend Empire, Allies, But Will Push Policy Of Appeasement, Premier Says LONDON, Dec. -Prime Minister Chamberlain told the world tonight he was determined to follow his, policy of European appeasement but cautiously warned aggressors that "attempts at domination are never long successful." at a 50th anniversary observance included Italian Speaking to the Foreign Press Association, whose guests and other diplomats, Chamberlain announced that Britain Nazis Refuse To Hear Talk Envoy and Other Germans Boycott London Press Dinner LONDON, Dec.

The German ambassador, Dr. Herbert von Dirksen, the Embassy staff and all other invited German guests boycotted a dinner of the Foreign Press Association tonight. The boycott assumed the aspect of a serious diplomatic incident because the principal speaker was Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, The Germans were annoyed because advance copies of Chamberlain's speech showed that he intended to criticize the German press, especially for its attacks on Lord Baldwin, former British prime minister. Among those who refused to attend was Gottfried Aschman, head of the press department of the German foreign office, who was sent by Fuehrer Adolf Hitler to London especially to hear the' speech. None of the invited German newspapermen attended.

Autopsy in Death Of Kneeling Woman LOS ANGELES, Dec. An autopsy solve the puzzling death of a blond young woman with blackbirds tattooed on her thighs was ordered by the coroner today. Her body was found kneeling in a downtown alley. She was tentatively identified as Mrs. Madeline Osborne Merrill, 21,4 wife of Lester Merrill of Ventura.

Police said identification was made by Russell Harris, whose name was found on a slip of paper in her pocketbook. Blood about the mouth was the only indication of violence. L.A. Doctor Suicide In Grief Over Jews LOS ANGELES, Dec. Dr.

Ernest Freund, 36, Viennatrained physician, committed suicide last night by taking poison in despair over mistreatment of Jews in Germany and Austria, police reported today. Police said Dr. Freund left a suicide note in which he said he had grieved over the mistreatment of the Jews and had found himself unable to adjust himself to living, conditions in the United States. is ready to defend her empire and allies, but also offered to join any international disarmament conference. The Prime Minister admitted he had received "checks, disappointments and setbacks," but added "I am neither disheartened nor deterred by these passing His speech was broadcast in all major languages and by shortwave to the United States.

RAPS NAZI PRESS Referring to a recent German attack on, Former Prime Minister Baldwin in the German press (Baldwin was called a Chamberlain said: "I must deplore the present tone of the German press which in one case has not scrupled to pour out its vituperation upon a most respected statesman. himself but lately Prime Minister of this country, and in few cases shows any sign of a desire to understand our point of view." (The German attack followed speech Baldwin gave December 8, which opened an appeal for contributions to a refugee fund and in which he said he spoke as "an ordinary Englishman shocked and distressed" at the plight of victims of "an explosion of man's inhumanity to Chamberlain took the opportunity to restate his loyalty to BritishFrench understanding by saying: "Our relations with France are 80 close as to pass beyond mere legal obligations since they are founded on an identity of interest." NO TREATY (Before the House of Commons yesterday, Chamberlain said Britain was not obligated by specific pacts or treaties to aid France if she were attacked by Italy. (British Ambassador Sir Erie Phipps called on Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet of France in Paris today for a talk which was understood in London to be a result Chamberlain's bald statement. (It was considered likely that Sir Eric assured the French foreign minister that Britain's firm, it unwritten, support of her ally had not been impaired by Chamberlain's wooing of Premier Mussolini.) When Chamberlain started his ad dress in the ballroom of a London hotel, he first paid tribute to the press by saying: "I have hardly ever known a case where my confidence has been deliberately betrayed." He then outlined the "aims and actions" of British foreign policy since he became Prime Minister on May 28, 1937. TWO ALTERNATIVES He said there were only two alternatives: "One was to make up our minds that war was inevitable and 10 throw the whole energies of the country into preparation for it.

"The other was to make a proContinued Page R. Col. 8. FLASHES OF LIFE OVER NATION NOBLE dren in his family and their father has seen hard picking since 1929. There was a time, in 1930 and 1931, when Thomas brought home more money than all the rest of the family combined.

He was finishing high then, and he sold wood after school. family newspapers in the morning, and cut lived on Thomas brought home, and still he managed to make grades- in his classwork. THREE CENTS FOR BOOK It wasn't pleasant, and it still isn't. The only bright factor now is that he's getting a college education. But what a struggle it is! Twelve days before Christmas and with only four cents to his name! What's worse, it costs three cents just to take a final examination at the University of CaliforContinued Page 6, Col.

2 President-Emeritus Of Harvard Is 82 BOSTON, Dec. 13. (P) The "Prophet the Back Harvard's president -emeritus, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, was 82 today. Lowell served Harvard for a quarter century before his retirement from academic life in 1933. FREEDOM IS GIFT HARRISBURG, Mi: nor's plea to "please don't make me spend two Christmases in jail," won him freedom in Judge Frank B.

Wickersham's court. Charged with unlawful sale of beer and liquor, Minor received a suspended sentence after he told the judge he didn't want to go to jail because "I was there last year." REMOTE CONTROL ALTOONA, The congregation of St. Paul's Lutheran. Church heard the customary Sunday sermon by the pastor, the Rev. John L.

Barnes but he wasn't there. Ill abed and unable to find a substitute, he had a microphone placed in his room and connected with public address system installed in the church. SANTA'S MAIL DECLINES NEW Poor old Santa Claus doesn't get much more mail now than a fading movie star! Postoffice officials said am today that the fat man in the red suit is getting fewer letters every year; only 1500 in recent years. Only 500 have been received so far this year, EGGS-CEPTIONAL CASE SALT LAKE Shoemaker; according to complaint of his wife, Myrtle, hated the sight of eggs so much he'd smash them on the kitchen floor if he found any in the icebox. On the other hand, she added, he was very fond of Keeping cake in the house and eggs out proved a problem for the cake-mixer-in fact, too great problem.

She sued for divorce. SEASONAL JOB -Paul Claus, roly-poly, 240-pound machine pairman, is out of a job this December for the first time in years. He carried his plight to the Stale Employment Service. Recognizing his advantages of figure and name. officials promised to try to land him a berth as Santa Claus.

LUSTY LUNGS LYNCH, -Strong lungs saved Harry Irwin a lot of suffering the other He felled a tree and it crushed his legs, injured him internally. He shouted lustily for help -and a neighbor one-half mile away came to his rescue. OUT OF HARMONY LOS ANGELES. Mona Gleed filed complaint that on several casions she was forced to leave home for fear of physical violence because she had expressed doubt of her husband's ability as a singer. The breaking point came, she added, when' their son, 8, observed "Daddy's singing off key again." Leonard, her husband, upset the breakfast table at that remark, she stated.

Bobbie Russell Wirephoto. BOY KILLER DAZED MARION, Ark. Frightened and dazed, Bobbie Russell, 14, sat in the County Jail here today awaiting a hearing for the shotgun slaying of his father, W. L. Russell, 50; a cotton picker.

Bobbie said his father had been whipping him and his mother and. "I just got tired of it." He shot his father twice with a shotgun, Deputy Sheriff C. C. Culp said The admitted. She sued for divorce.

DURABLE SOUVENIR ALTON, A hotel. proprietor here will have 8 better outlook when guests take towels and wash cloths when they leave. He received a washcloth in his mail which, a letter explained, was taken from the hotel 25 years fore. The letter said the original "abductor" was now dead, and the present owner wanted a "clear con" science.".