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WEATHER i HOME OAKLAND AND VICINITY-Fair and tool today and tonight, slightly warmer Thursday; moderate to fresh northwest wind, diminishing tonight, TCMPEBATUKES TE6TEKDAY Maximum SO Minimum 41 KA1NTALL FIGUBE8 1 Last 24 hours .00 1 Normal 1.51 Seasonal 1.0 Laat rear Si CiwltU Weather Beaert rate It EXCLUSIVE ASSOCIATED PRESS WIHEPHOTO UNITED PRESS VOL CXXXI NO. 117 5c DAILY" OAKLAND. CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 25. 1939 10c SUNDAY 28 PAGES EDITION MILLIONAIRE CRUSHED TO DEATH IN OAKLAND TRAGEDY Rulh Judd, Nazis Mass, Wait Order Trunk Slayer i ll To Break Maginot Line fife hf v- ivww 3 I HITLER ARMY 'i tj .5 3f.

0 i CTD Armies Finish Move From Polish Front PARIS, Oct 25. (U.R The French Intelligence Service reported today that the Nazi high command has completed the gigantic task of shift, lng its armed forces from the East to the Western Front and is ready for a major offensive when and if Adolf Hitler gives the order. PARIS, Oct 25. vTV-Sporadic artillery fire boomed along the West ern Front today as, small fctanVy patrols skirmished in the cold and mud west of Forbach, where French troops still occupy a narrow salient on German aolL Through the sullen rumble of the guns, loudspeakers in the German front lines blared a monotonous re-frain: 'Frenchmen, lay down-your arms and shake hands. The Germans don't want to fight!" The French soldiers shouted backs "Change the record!" Military dispatches said French machine-gunners silenced one loudspeaker mounted on a truck behind the German lines.

QUIET NIGHT The French general staff summed up the situation in a terse communique this morning, saying that on the whole the night has been quiet" The communique noted patrol and artillery activity to the west of the Saar." The lack of action spurred those at home to call for new steps to bolster the morale of the soldiers, The press Insisted -that radio sta. -tlons change their programs to suit the taste of the troops, who have been calllng for more lew music Authorized French circles declared German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop's speech last night in Danzig was an admission of in. ternal decay under the Allied blockade. RIBBENTROP'S CHARGES 'Ribbentrop credits England, per sonified by Chamberlain, with all the ambitions and perjuries which the universe, doubtless misinformed, usually attributed to Germany," these circles added. It was disclosed today that Alfred Napoleon Beauvis, 46, an, American Legionnaire with two sons in the French Army, had set out for the'' front with a volunteer ambulance In the crumpled wreckag of the automobile shown here, Joseph CaiuccL millionaire Oakland contractor, and a work' man, John Camara, 53, met death today.

The heavy fa-eight car, also shown, rolling free, ran down their automobile and crushed uiem to death. A priest was called from nearby St. Patrick's Church to administer last rites. Tribune photo. 'CONTRACTOR CATUCCI KILLED Railroads Face Antitrust Suit U.S.

Charges Trade 'Restraint in Pact Against Truck Rivals BY S.P.. FREIGHT CAR HERE Millionaire and Worker Crushed to Death When Machine Is Hurled Under Wheels Joseph Catucci, 50, millionaire Oakland" contractor, and a workman were killed today when a car in which they were riding through the West Oakland Southern Pacific yards was struck and crushed by a freight car. Both Catucci and the other man, John Camara, 53, of 3263 Of 2, Escapes Murderess Eludes Guards, Visits Her Parents; Wide Hunt On PHOENIX, Oct. 25. Winnie Ruth Judd, 34, blond slayer of two women companions in 1931, twice condemned to hang, escaped last night from the Arizona State Hospital here.

The small blue-eyed nurse, whom the State accused of killing Agnes Ann Leroy and Hedvig Samuelson In a fit of jealousy and stuffing their dismembered bodies in trunks, had enjoyed more than 12 hours of freedom before her absence was discovered. Hospital attaches said she must have escaped shortly after 9:30 p.m. It was 11:30 a.m. today before she was missed. WIDESPREAD HUNT The announcement of Gov.

Bob Jones that she had escaped precipitated a widespread hunt reminiscent of the one launched October 18, 931, when the trunks containing the bodies of the two victims were received in Los Angeles. Her aged father, the Rev. H. J. McKinnell, gave officers their only clue.

He said Mrs. Judd appeared his humble residence here about midnight. Y. C. White, executive secretary to Governor Jones, took charge of the investigation.

He said Mrs. Judd apparently escaped by the ruse of leaving her bed so as to appear she still occupied it. Attendants believed she was asleep. HAD BEEN MOODY Mrs. Bertha' Easton, a matron, said Mrs.

Judd had been moody recently and frequently cried all night because she was not permitted to visit her father, who has been ill. Mr. McKinnell, who moved here from the Midwest to be near his daughter, had made numerous efforts to obtain a pardon for her, but the death sentence still stands. Should Mrs. Judd be found sane she would be subject to execution.

Fair Visitor Honored The ten millionth visitor arrived at the Golden Gate International Exposition at noon today, only four days before Treasure Island is to close its gates. The honor guest was Mrs. Edith Boswell wife of V. W. Boswell, Tort Worth, milk dealer who came here for the dairy conventions and expositions.

The 33-year-old, brown-eyed bru-net arrived in the midst of Women's Day at the Exposition and promptly won honors from Women's Day officials. She was presented with a wrist watch and then started out, with her husband, on a tour which will include all of the major attractions of the island. Opie Read, Author, Near Death at 86 CHICAGO, Oct. 25. Opie Read, 88, humorist, philosopher bird author, the last of a 'group that Included Mark Twain, Eugene Field and Josh Billings, was near death today.

He became famous more than 50 years ago through his work, "The Arkansas Traveler." FUGITIVE Winnie Ruth Judd, "trunk has escaped from the Arizona State Hospital, It was revealed today. US. Alarmed For Safety Of Flint Crew By FRANK McNAUGHTON WASHINGTON, Oct 25. (U.R) The United Slates Government sought today, amid mounting concern, to learn the whereabouts of the 41-man crew of the Government-owned freighter City of Flint, seized last week by a German warship. Inability to crew by Inquiries at Berlin, Moscow and in Norway gave the incident a more serious turn.

The United States' course awaited development of the full facts of the seizure. Secretary of State Hull plainly indicated his concern for the welfare of the crew. The vessel is in the Russian port of Murmansk' according to the official Soviet news agency, Tass. But inquiries of the Russian Government regarding the crew yesterday brought no information. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt, who saw high Soviet officials, was reportedly informed that the Russians did not know where the crew was.

He was promised the "earliest possible data." OFFICIALS MUM In Berlin, officials professed lg norance of the incident. Reports from Norway were that the vessel was brought into the port of Tromso as a prize of war last week to leave hurriedly within a few hours, the crew was aboard. The crew may be in Murmansk. It may have been taken aboard the German warship. Or the 41 men may have been put off in another Norwegian port, or alqng the coast of Norway in a lifeboat.

Officials hoped to clear up the mystery quickly. Hull indicated that the Govern ment was preparing to ask Russia to release the Flint. Hull pointed out that the vessel carried some 60 Commodities, that probably over half were "conditional" contraband, and something less than half were absolute contraband. INTERNATIONAL LAW Under International law a vessel mav be seized when more than half the cargo is absolute contra band and consigned to a belligerent. Hull reiterated yesterday that the United States was reserving all rights under International lait thus paving the way for strong represen: tatlons.

President Roosevelt said he hoped the vessel would be returned. He added that it would not have been seized had the neutrality law ieen revised to impose a cash and carry trade policy with belligerents and prohibit American vessels sailing into combat zones. Germany, U.S. Confer On Freighter Seizure BERLIN, Oct. 25.

(P) German authorities worked with the United States Embassy tonight to clear up the complicated circumstances' surrounding the seizure of the American freighter City of Flint by a German sea raider. Charge d'affaires Alexander Kirk was told by Baron Ernst von Weiz-saecker, secretary of State in the German Foreign Office, that the Government was discussing the case with Soviet Russia. The City of Flint was taken to the Russian Arctic port of Murmansk, It was understood that Germany had sent a marine expert te Bussia to' negotiate for the release of the prize crew and establish what should be done with the freighter. The ship was seized, inquirers were told unofficially, because it carried war contraband. According to the German report, the City of Flint was taken into Tromso, "Norway, as "unseaworthy" because the American crew had put certain maps essential for navigation out of the way before the Germans took charge.

Lacking these maps, it was explained, the ship could not be navigated through the complicated North and Baltic Sea war areas and therefore was taken to the Far At Tromso. the prize crew attempted unsuccessfully to obtain the missing maps, informed circles said. The" City of Flint then was taken to Murmansk, Home to Vote own members support It "In the hope, for an immediate solution to the suffering of the aged." Ha said he opposed the plan because "It is unfeasible and actually looks toward destruction of the business of a wonderful State only to get pensions out of It "The good sense of the common people wilt prevail," he said, "just as it did four years ago when Upton Sinclair launched his ill-starred Predicts Defeat CHIEFS CONFER; BATTLE LOOMS By, LOUIS r. LOCHNER BERLIN, Oct 25. iPy More than 20 generals and staff officers con ferred for several hours in the Reichschancellery today, presum ably in the presence of Adolf Hitler, but the subject of discussion was not disclosed.

Newspapers throughout Germany took up the cry for a relentless battle after Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop's speech in Danzig last night, when he indicated the war was "on in earnest." Germany's next war move probably will be to loose a shower of bombs on England, the authoritative newspaper Nationalzeitung of Essen said today. This daily is known to be especially close to Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering, air minister and No. 2 Nazi. Hence its editorials command special attention. "The moment has com when the war desired by England must rain down upon the British Isle itself," Nationalzeitung said.

"The patience of a people has limits. In their boundless indignation the German people to a man now. turn against the British war inciters in order, by a fight which hereafter will be relentless, to create the necessary guaranties for their security from such irresponsible machination." Last Poilus Driven From Germany, Claim BERLIN, Oct 25. (flV-The German high command declared today the last French soldier had been driven off German soil. An 'assault by German troops west of Voelkllngen yesterday, a communique disclosed, caused the withdrawal of the French "rear guards" across the border.

These "rear guards" were said to have made up the one French company still on German soil as a result of operationi on the Western Front, in the first weeks of the war, With the exception of this action, the communique said, there were "no, pedal actions" on the Western Front. Negotiations with the Holy See concerning Catholic affairs in Poland are said to be progressing normally. Technicalities for resumption of church services and other religious activities are being arranged, it was said. Law Aimed at F.R. Voted Down Mandatory Neutrality Beaten; Balloting on Act Further Delayed By D.

HAROLD OLIVER WASHINGTON, Oct Senate, rejected today an amend' ment designed to limit the Presi. dent's discretion in invoking the Ad' ministration's proposed neutrality legislation. A proposal by Senator Johnson (D. Colo.) to 1 discretionary language from the measure was de feated, 61 to 26. In effect Johnson asked that once the President found that a state of war existed he would have to pro claim invocation of the law.

As the bill now stands Invocation ot the law is merely authorized. PROVISION RETAINED By the vote the Senate approved retention of this provision which Johnson said would permit the President to decline to invoke the act despite the outbreak of a lor- eism war. 1 Meanwhile, senator jua oiieie Wis.) proposed the bill be amended to require a National advisory election be held before Congress could declare an over seas war. His proposal came as the Senate's rush toward final vote on the neutrality revision legislation bogged down In a fresh flow of speech- making. Leaders of both sides in the arms embargo controversy said the final ballot was unlikely before to morrow or CLARK RIDER OPPOSED The Senate leadership, meanwhile, expressed vigorous opposition to an amendment by Senator Clark Mo.) to bar armed merchant ships from American ports.

-v Although expressing hope that the House would uphold the em' that repeal would get from 55 to 60 votes. minus orders or credentials. With 1 his wife, Beauvals managed to reach a point Jour miles behind the lines, where he remained for two before being sent back. In that time, he said, he trans ported 68 or 111 soldiers to the rear. President Albert Lebrun returned from a trip to 'the war sone where he visited Strasbourg, now almost completely empty of civilians, and inspected sandbag protections erected around the Alsatian eity's Naming of 'Red' Officials.

Flayed. Dies Prober Angered At 563 U.S. Aids Are Linked With Radicals WASHINGTON, Oct. 25. (IP) The Dies Committee Investigating un-American Activities published a Washington "membership and mailing list" of the American League for Peace and Democracy and one of its own members promptly accused It of taking a "most damn: able" and "most un-American" action.

The accusations were made by Representative Dempsey (D N.M.), who was absent when the' list of 563 names was given out soon after the committee's morning session opened. The list made no distinction between those Government employees named on it who might be members of the Washington branch of the league and those who might merely be on the league's mailing list here. RED CHARGE DENIED Previously the committee had charged the league with being dominated by Communists. League officials have consistently denied this charge. When Dempsey, arriving a few minutes late, heard about revelation of the mailing list and membership names, he said he had protested earlier about releasing tho names and that Chairman Tie3 Texas) had promised to delay distribution until 10:30 a.m.

(E.S.T. "I'm afraid," Dempsey said heatedly, "that, in doing this, we r.ot only release the names of some members (of the league) but those who contributed to Spanish refugees and are not members of the league at "I want to protest this as most I don't want to harm anybody who is innocent. I think it is most reprehensible for this committee to do this. As a member of this committee I want to say that at no time am I going to smear anybody. It is a most damnable thing." ALL MEMBERS.

IS CLAIM The question of whether- those named on the list were league members or whether many were just persons to whom the organization sent its literature cropped up in the committee itself as a new fuel for already overheated tempers to feed on. Representative Mason 111.) explained there had seemed to be some, uncertainty -about the list so he had had it "carefully checked." "It is," he said, "a list of the membership of the American League Continued Page 2, Col. 5 French Seize Norway Oil Shipment to Nazis 'PARIS, Oct. authorities announced 'today that a French armed trawler had taken the 7910-ton Norwegian tanker- Elise into an unidentified French port with 11,000 tons of- oil which they said was consigned to Germany. v.

The authorities said the Elise was halted and boarded off Cape Finis-terre while en route from. Syria to Rotterdam. -v, (Cape' Finisterre Is on the northwest coast of Spain.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 25. (JP) Attorney General Murphy announced today that he had authorized filing of a complaint charging violation of the Sherman antitrust act against the Association of American Railroads, its officers and directors and 236 member railroad companies.

The bill of complaint charges, the attorney general said, that the railroads had combined to restrain trade by agreeing not to extend to motor carriers the same cooperation in carrying freight and passengers which the roads customarily extended to each other. J. J. Pelley, president of the Rail Association, said in a statement That he would "welcome a suit pf this character in order that there may be once and for all authoritatively determined to what extent the railroads are permitted, under existing law, to declare sound policies, consistent with the public interest." Saying "there is no authority in the law for compelling railroads and motor carriers to establish these through routes and joint rates," he added hat' the association had no power to force its members to conform to any particular policy. Thurman Arnold, head of the Justice Department's antitrust division, said that the agreement complained, of consisted of resolutions adopted by the Railroad Association, which includes all major railroads.

Japanese Planes Menace Chungking CHUNGKING, China, Oct. r-The populace of this provisional Chinese capital huddled, in air raid dugouts from sundown Yesterday early this morning-while Japanese-: planes ranged Szechwan Province In the bright moonlight, Suifu, west of Chungking, and two towns near the entrance of the Yangtze River gorges were; reported bombed. Low-hanging clouds hid SHANGHAI, Oct. de ilayed dispatch to the United States embassy reported today that Japanese airmen had bombed the Yale-in-China at Yuanllng in Hunan province, on September 21. One building was Townsend Flies 'No' on Ham, Eggs CHICAGO," Oct 25 fl)Ji-Dr.

Francis Townsend was a frute to California today to cast hisvote. November -3 against the Ham and Eggs pension plan which draws much of its support from former members of his own old age revolving pension' plan, He predated before boarding an airliner last night that the Ham and Eggs, or $30-every-Thursday plan would be defeated at the polls and despite the fact that many pf hi i Hyde Street, were killed were killed in stantly as the heavy freight car crumpled the light coupe and rolled over it, dragging the wreckage more than 40 feet. Witnesses said that Catucci Ignored warning shouts from watch-men and drove directly into the path of the car, which was being shunted away from a weighing station. The switch engine that was moving the car had stopped, and the lone car was rolling free when it bit the automobile. ROLLED UNDER TRACKS The coupe was rolled under the trucks of the freight car and wadded into a twisted hunk of metal.

The men were crushed beyond recognition. Bystanders, called Father William Benz from St. Patrick's Church, a few blocks away, to administer last rites to the two men. They were dead before the wreckage could be cleared away from them, -Catucci, who came here from Italy as a youth of 18 and started his construction company in 1010, had a contract to repair and build roadways in the railway yard. He had gone to supervise the work personally when he met death.

A brother was" working a few yards away and heard the crash. SIGNALLED TO STOP 'A watchman "protecting" the crossing where the accident oc curred, said signaled Catucci to stop, that a freight car was coming. He said Catucci apparently thought he could beat the rolling car across (he crossing; and continued on his The switch engine, operated by Otto H. Kipke, had been working at the spot all morning, moving newly rebuilt freight, cars on and off of the scales. Alter a' car was weighed, lhe''rengipe would shunt it off the scales fcrid then cut thi coupling the car.

roIL For thaf reason. Kinke said? tner4 was nothing he could do car alter it sJWKea roilUMfcHf story was verified by Fireman Ray W. Leavitt. i-'v Catucci; who lived at 1238 181K Avenue and had his plant at, 1212 18th Avenue, also held large contracts for construction of Navy air station it Alameda. He was regarded as one of Oakland's biggest tJicavation contractor; Beside his widow, Catucci is survived by four daughters.

Mrs. Churchill Hurt In Auto Accident Oct. 25. (fl3) Mrs. Winston Churchill, wlfef thfe first lord of the' Adrnlralty, suffered bruises and shock last night when her automobile skidded and crashed into a store In She was reported recovering today, at Admiralty House.

Wallace Urges E.R. Third Term Secretary, on Bay Visit, Says President Best Man in War Crisis By WESLEY E. ROBBINS Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, arriving here to participate in the conference of Western Governors, today made it clear that he stands for a third term for President Roosevelt. The secretary's schedule calls for an inspection tour of the San Joaquin Valley today, a cornerstone laying at the Western Regional Research Laboratory at Albany on Friday, and speeches at the Commonwealth Club and the Conference Of Governors San Francisco tomorrow.

He also plans to sandwich in a few conferences with party leaders while he is in the Bay area, he appears willing to talk on the subject of the Roosevelt third term whenever there is an opportunity. "It seems to me that war situation makes it clear that the President's talents and training are especially necessary to steer this country through the shoals of foreign relations to a safe harbor," he declared this morning In Berkeley Just before leaving for the valley tour. "I think the President's experience in foreign contacts over a period of 45 years has placed him in the unusual position of understanding what's up in foreign fields better than any. other person." He added, however, that the President's prime objective, now is to keep the United States out of the war, and he would maintain that as an objective so long as the controversy goes on in Europe. Questioned to the sentiment existing in Washington on the subject of a third term for the Presi- Continued Page IS, CoL Holland Fires on Planes, Is Report AND VOORT, The Netherlands, Oct.

25. 4V-Many persons in this West Coast resort town reported hearing sounds of heavy gunfire between 11 and 11:30 a.m. today seemingly coming -from theNorth Sea, Nothing could be seen, however, and there were later indications the firing might be coming from Netherlands coastal batteries shooting at belligerent planes over Holland territory. architectural treasures; French Civilians Leave Rnine Border BASEL, Switzerland, Oct. 25.

(P) -French civilians began a com plete withdrawal today from an other six-mile strip along the Rhine River frontier from Strasbourg south to a point below the Swiss frontier. When this move is completed the areS abandoned will extend 12 miles back from the Rhine. Reason for the exodus was not Immediately learned. Some military observers associated it with the recent destruction ot three Rhine railroad bridges and the Kembs Dam foot bridge by the French, taken as an indication that the French command was preparing for a German attack across the river from Baden WHERE T0 FIND IT Subject Page Amusements, Plays 7 Classified Advertising 22 Comic 3 Crossword Puzzle 22 Editorial Features 9-25 Editorials Columns 25 Exposition News 5 Fashions 9 Financial 23 Geraldine 9 Knave 10 Marine News, Weather 1 5 Radio Schedules 11 Society and Clubs 12 Sports and Sportsmen 17 Theaters, Wood Soanes 7 Vital Statistics thj 4 ra Epic proposal.".