Modesto News-Herald from Modesto, California • Page 2

nO change in tempersfogs 1 and frosts Friday morE- Modesto News Herald EDITION San Joayuin Valley Fair EVENING to-night and Friday: local tore: light varlabic winds. Modesto report on Page! elated The United Frees: International News Service: Universal Service; McClatehy News service FIVE NEWS SERVICE TEN PAGES No. 10. PRICE: Five Cents Per Cop MODESTO, STANISLAUS COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1933 VOL. XXXIV.

The Monthly by Carrier 26-Cent Price For Butterfat Is Voted Lower House Of Congress Passes Emergency Farm Relief Bill SENATE MUST ACT Amendment Provides Minimum Guarantee For Important Dairy Product WASHINGTON, Jan. The house to-night approved the Democratic emergency farm relief bill, embodying the domestic allotment plan, and sent it to the senate. The bill was sponsored by Democratic leaders and believed generally to conform to the ideas of President-elect Roosevelt. It would collect a processing tax and pay producers of these commodities a bounty on their share of domestic production. An additional import tax of 5 cents a pound on imported fats WAS inserted into the bill before final passage.

It took well over an hour from the opening gavel to adopt the first committee amendment, which tablishes an initial marketing period for, the benefited cropswheat, cotton, rice, hogs, dairy products, and peanuts--and fixes during the period the following minimum prices which the Dl bill seeks to guarantee the farmer: 75 cents a bushel on wheat and rice. 9 cents pound on cotton. 5 cents a on hogs. 5 cents a pound on peanuts. 26 cents a pound on butterfat.

This Initial marketing period would precede the 1933-34 market-! ing year, to be defined by the secretary of agriculture. The bill would not become effective on tobacco until after the be ginning of the 1933-34 year. FILIBUSTER IN SENATE Threats to block all legislation to A WASHINGTON, Jan. force consideration of currency. inflation and hunger relief were 4A.

HoT the canata and in the lobbies. Talk continued, meanwhile, of plans to invoke the drastic cloture rule to break the filibuster againat the Glass banking bill. Senator Long (D. La) who today entered his third day of delaying tactics to kill the Glass bill, joined Senators Wheeler, (D. Mont.) and Thomas (D.

Okla.) in an effort to force currency relief. Petition Likely Invoking of cloture to limit debate, which requires a. two-third vote, only reached the discussion state. Those talking about it hesitated to start circulating a petition to obtain the necessary sixteen signatures to bring it up because sufficient votes were believed to be lacking. Reports were circulated that Senator Fletcher, (D.

Fla.) was preparing a cloture petition, but be denied it. Wheeler interrupted Long's fillbuster to say that unless legislation to inflate the currency is enacted he would be "perfectly willing to stop all legislation until congress wakes up to the necessity of doing something." RELIEF ASKED FOR WASHINGTON, Jan. John Barton Payne, chairman of the American National Red Cross, told a senate committee to-day that cotton voted by congress last session to provide clothing for the needy, is meeting only about 20 per cent of the demand. Testifying at hearings on the La Follette-Costigan bill under American Federation of Labor who followed him on the stand, urged immediate enactment of the half billion relief measure, saying: "Half our population is living below the level needed to maintain health and efficiency." Payne told the committee that the need for free clothing "is very general." which $500,000,000 would be raised by a federal bond issue and given out right to the states for unemployment relief, Pavne said continu-ithe the ing requests and for that more cotton Is clothing are needed. He did not commit himself on the La Follette-Costigan bill but described to the committee work of the Red Cross in distributing flour and clothing made from government wheat and cotton.

Green Indorses Bill President William Green of the FLAPPER U. FANNY SAYS: S. GLADS TARKE A 19 NEA Even the smartest heads find these are trying times TWO DEAD, THREE MISSING IN WAKE OF TERRIFIC GALE Naval Commander, Retired Seaman Killed During Fierce Windstorm DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT OVER $1,000,000 Hundreds Of Homes Unroofed; Garages, Poultry Houses Carried Long Distances LOS ANGELES, Jan. (P)- In the wake of its most terrific windstorm on record, Southern at two, its missing three California counted, its dead a property damage in excess $1,000,000. An accurate estimate of damage to agricultural crops will be unavailable for several days, but the loss is expected to equal that suffered by the oil industry which reported $500,000 damage, most of which resulted from toppled oil derricks.

The storm, which brought winds ranging in velocity from twelve to eighty miles an hour, was due, the weather bureau stated, to an high pressure area over western Nevada which was relieved Los by blowing to the south. Angeles Escapes One of the freak actions of the storm was that metropolitan Los Angeles escaped from the fury of the gale, the wind reaching a velocity of only twelve miles an hour in the downtown district. Lieut. Commander Carl Hupp of light cruiser U. S.

S. Raleigh, this swept overboard and drowned when he attempted to secure a boat attached to the ship while it WAS whipped about by the storm. His body has not been recovered. The other death from the storm is believed to that of Theodore retired seaman living bouseboat at Cabrillo Beach. The of his boat.

was found on the shore. No trace of him was found. Sallors Missing Three sailors from the aircraft carrier Saratoga were reported missing in a shore boat, altbough there was. no officiai statement from the navy to this effect. Hundreds of houses were unroofed in various parts of Southlepragesa and California, poultry and houses nutnerous were carried by the wind for distances of a mile or more.

Many fruit trees were blown down, as well .88 telephone and telegraph wires. 000 would be a conservative estiCounty officials estimated mate of the total loss. authorities ware in-1 two reports of ships in distress. Attendants at an airport at Oceanside said they saw what they believed to be the flash of burning vessel off shore from there: A second report said the small cabin cruiser, Pumkin, which left Newport Beach Tuesday had not arrived at San Diego, its destination. Who owned the craft or who was aboard was not learned.

YACHT SINKS SAN DIEGO, Jan. 12-(P)- Taking fire between 2 and 3 A. to-day, the yacht Pandora, owned by H. W. Rohl, El Capital Dam contractor, burned and sank about twenty miles off Oceanside, according to reports.

The two men aboard -Earl Schetca and an unidentified crew member, received second degree burns. They were rescued by the Star and Crescent tug maca, which happened to be passing. SHIP WITH 254 ABOARD PERILED Radio Messages Report Russian Vessel In Distress In North Pacific SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12. -UP, -A confusion radio messages early to-day told of the distress of Russian steamship Sakhalin in the north Pacific.

Japanese said 254 Russians were aboard. No details beyond location of the vessel, in the Sea of Okhotsk off the island of Sakhalin, were carried in the messages. The San Francisco Coast Guard I Station (Japanese) reported tanker the Manju N. Y. Maru, K.

land the State's Line steamship (General Pershing were standing by. The government. radio station at Victoria, B. named these two craft. as rushing to the assistance of the disabled vessel.

Mackay's Los Angeles Radio Station, however, reported the steamship Golden Dragon, twentyfive miles from Dairen, gaid there was no marine trouble in the vicinity aside from the Japanese freighter Shimuzi Maru, being refloated from Taku Bar. Third Time RENO, Jan. 12 (P)- Josephine "Fifi" Widener, Philadelphia heiress, whose elopement at the age of 17 launched her first matrimonial venture, was a bride to day for the third time as a result of her marriage here to Aksel C. P. Wichfeld, former Washington, D.

Danish legation attache. 'FIFP WIDENER CITY AUTHORIZES WORK TO CREATE ADDITIONAL JOBS Storm Sewer Money Provided; Attorney Says Taxpayers Will Not Object Important civic construction work to give employment. relief. to 300 was authorized last night by the city council. while in regular session.

The jobs ordered include installation of storm sewers in the Capital Heights Addition, In the northeastern residential and the breaking of "bottlenecks" on Ninth Street. The council appropriated $5200 as its share and of the given storm assurance sewer pro- by gram was various residents in the district that balance of the estimated cost, $17,000, would be readily met by property owners in the addition. Expects No Petitions asking for the sewer improvement were presented said by Attorney N. A. Hawkins, who he did not believe taxpayer in the area would actively protest against the project.

Preliminary work already is under way in widening the Modesto Irrigation District canal in bridge Ninth at the northern city limits Street, which will break the thoroughfare, while crews are now removing and setting back power poles at the southern end of the artery, which will become the main route of the Golden State highway when a new bridge over the Tuolumze River is completed and the highway south of the stream realigned. Other employment also is to be provided later when Ninth Street is connected with the bridge, now well along in the course COnstruction, according to Mayor L. Dennett. Plan Special Session A wish to cut all red tape possible. in an effort to start the sewer installation immediately because of the acute need of jobs was expressed by the city council, and to this end a special session will be held next week to complete details incident with starting of work.

The city's share will consist in building of a trunk line, while the property owners will bear the cost of other lines. Expense to taxpay(See JOBLESS, Page 2, Col. 7) 'Round-The-World Rescue Of Man By Radio Bared Universal Service NARMEL, Jan. startling drama of the radio world became known here to day. Through 10,000 miles of ether the faint whisper of a radio key stuttered and went deadA man lay unconscious in gas-filled shack In Teller, Alaska, his hand limp beside that radio key.

In the electric silence which followed a man on the other side of the world, in New Zealand, sensed danger in the sudden halting of the message. His hand flashed to his own key and he sent out this appeal: "Come in- in- any Pacitic Coast amateur- anColonel Claire Foster, millionalre radio amateur of Carmel, answered the appeal and learned to amazement that danger WAR striking at his old friend, Clyde FORMER GRIDIRON PLAYER ACCUSED OF MURDER PLOT Captain Of 1916 U. S. O. Team Planned To Hire Wife Killer, Charge $300 AGREED UPON AS PRICE, IS CLAIM Control Of Joint Estate Worth $90,000 Declared Motive By Officers LOS ANGELES, Jan.

12-(A)- the result of what the police charge was his plot to have his wife slain, Gerald A. Craig, 39, captain of the 1916 University of Southern California football team, was held in the city jail to-day on police charge of attempted murder, Chief of Detectives Joseph F. Taylor accused Craig of pianning pay a killer $300 to beat Mrs. Ethel Craig, his 40-year-old wife, to death with 8 steel bar in their home in order he might gain control of a joint estate estimated at $90,000, Chief Taylor charged he was approached a week ago by a former friend of Craig who revealed that Craig was seeking some one to kill his wife. The former friend, Chief Taylor charged, had been approached by Craig with the proposition to kill Mrs.

Craig, but had asked for time to consider the proposal, and in the meantime had notified. the police. Disguised Detective Detective Lieutenant Thomas B. Bryan, member of the police noricide squad, disguised and posing as "Buckeye" Bryan, an eastern gangster, said he approached Craig saying he had learned he had killing job." Bryan alleged Craig offered him $100 to kill his wife, but later agreed to give $300. Bryan sald, made all arrangements for the officer to enter the home and supplied the piece of steel with which he was to kill Mrs.

Craig, Bryan was to obtain a ring from Mrs. Craig and deliver it to Craig. as proof he bad killed the woman, the officer stated. Steel Bar Found Mra. Craig was informed of the alleged plot against yesterShe was taken to the police station where she gave the officer one.

of her rings. Craig, however, 4 Bryan and was arrested when he drove up in front of He home. The police, on searching the house, Sound the piece of steel in a closet where Bryan said Craig told him would be placed. Craig denied any knowledge of the plot. Mrs.

Craig said the only intimation she had of an estrangement between herself and her husband came geveral weeks ago, when she "suspected him of being interested in another woman." "The incident passed off, however, and I had thought nothing of it in recent Mrs. Craig told the police. "I am Craig for the past several years has been superintendent of a truck garage. Mrs. Craig is the former Ethel Morley of Los Angeles, and is prominent in club: circles, LIBBY MAY SEE SON TO-MOR Reynolds' Widow Expected To Get First Look At Potential Heir PHILADELPHIA, Jan.

Libby Holman Reynolds, former Broadway torch singer, may see her multi-millionaire me for the first time to-morrow, if her son's condition continues to improve. Physicians at the Pennsylvania Hospital said the mother had not asked to have the child brought to her. Miss Holman occupies a suite on the seventh floor of the hospital. Her baby, potential heir to a large part of the 000 fortune left by Smith Reynolds, is being kept in an incubator few rooms away. Guarded By Policeman Guarded by an uniformed policeman, the tiny child became the center of what may be one of most bitterly contested fights for millions in the history of the nation's courts.

Circumstances -the will of the child's grandfather, R. J. Reynolds, the trust fund established for the baby's father in which no mention was made of possible widows, young Reynolds' two marriages, and the uncertain legal status of a posthumous child conspired to produce a legal tangle in which the a minds of the country were at variance. Veto Of Philippine Measure Awaited BULLETIN WASHINGTON, Representative Republican late to day change of transmittal veto message dependence morrow. WASHINGTON, Republican been Informed toing the dence bill gress today New York, floor leader, announced that last minute plans called for the of President Hoover's on the Philippine inbill to congress to- Despite the understanding house, Theodore Joslin, to President Hoover, papermen he did not communication to be capitol before to-morrow.

Party leaderg of meanwhile, agreed to pected to a vote delay final action on until to-morrow. at the WASHINGTON, Jan. secretary A rellef loan for California was told news- discussed to-day by S. R. Biack, expect any chairman of the California Labor sent to the Camp Commission, with Fred C.

(Croxton. assistant to the directors the house, of the Reconstruction Finance Cor-: bring the ex- poration In charge of destitution to-day, andireliet funds. Black declined to farm bill cuss the situation for publication at this time. Jan. 12 house leaders have that a message Hare Philippine indepenwould be sent by President Hoover.

Here is a committee named by the senate of the California legislature to sift charges of wastefulness, favoritism, against the administration of Governor James Rolph, Jr. "There is evidence enough to blow the dome off the capitol," declares Senator J. M. Inman, chairman. "'Let it blow; the sky's the limit, and it may move two ways," retorts Governor Rolph.

Left to right, seated, Senators B. 0. Crittenden, J. M. Inman, chairman, and William A.

Harper. Standing, Senators W. P. Rich and H. C.

Jones. OAKDALE WATER BOARD LAUDED BY GRAND JURY They Probe Charges Against Rolph 14 Voters Die From Cold On Way To Polls Rumania, Jan. are missing also were believed dead. 12-4P-Fourteen voters, en route to a polling place in rural. district in western mania who lost their way in a blizzard, were found dead today.

A number of others who WOMAN DENIED DOORSTEP CHILD: New York Jewish Matron Loses. Fight To Adopt Catholic Foundling NEW YORK, 12. -The plea of Mrs. Hugo Connor to adopt into her Jewish home a foundling designated a Catholic by the department of welfare was denied by a' court decision. Supreme Court Justice Charles J.

Dodd. refused Mrs. Connor's. application for an order of mandamus compelling Commissioner Frank J. Taylor to turn over to her the baby found on the porch of a relative last December 1.

The department, under an arbitrary system designating foundling children alernately Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish, had denignated the child a Catholic and refused her request for adoption. Found By Hushand The infant was found by Mrs. Connor's husband on the doorstep of the home of her brother-in-law, Jacob Connor, after midnight on December 1. The child was warmly dressed in expensive clothes and wrapped in a blanket purchased in one of New York's best. shops.

Mrs. Connor, childless, developed devotion for the baby and When decided the attempt adoption. child was turned over to authoriMrs. Connor made known her wish." But welfare department officials maintain the child was a Catholic under its arbitrary rule and held that she could not adopt it unless it could be proved of the Jewish race. Impeachment Of 2 Judges Is Sought All Is Well In Fertile Acres; 71 Beat Depression SACRAMENTO, Jan.

12-UP-A petition signed by Fred: B. Hewley, Long Beach, asking impeachment of Municipal Judges Wilber F. Downs and Charles D. Wallace of Long Beach, was received by the state assembly to-day. Speaker Walter J.

Little referred it to the judiciary committee. Hawley's petition declared Judge Downs had acted improperly in a case involving an unlicensed contractor and that Judge Wallace, who later sat in the case, was interested in the Goiden State Bond and Mortgage Company, a party to the suit. The petition was sent to committee without comment, and was not read to the assembly. ACRES SETTLE FERTILE Jan. 12-(P)- A year or 50 ago persons found themselves poverty stricken, but a way out of their troubles was found by a man who helped them "go back to the farm." Today the hardy seventy-one Hive on the farms of Fertile Acres, farming, lumbering, TOWing flowers, happy in the bellet.

that after the depression they will own their own farms and homes and be out of debt. Otto G. Hansel, landowner, saw their vision and led them toward its fulfillment. At the same time he did what he considers a good stroke of business. He had 450 acres of farm and timber land, and no buyers, so he gave the seventy-one the option of starting payments in two years, built houses, put up a shingle mill, and told the settlers to ro to.

it. Repeal Is Approved By State Assembly Spirited Debate Precedes Pas. sage Of Resolution To Congress VOTE WAS 54 TO 21 Vandegrift And Toner Called To Testify Before Senate Committee NEA Charges Of Irregularities In Affairs Of District Held Baseless Charges of Irregularities in atfairs of the Oakdale Irrigation District were declared baseless in a special report made late yesterday by the Stanislaus County Grand Jury to Superior Judge C. Needham The investigating body. which cL H4 UMP.

triot, two weeks ago, concluded the its report by complimenting board of directors and other affic-1 ials of public utility. "We further: believe that the people of the district should weigh and consider for themselves charges of incompetency and of irregularities rather than lend willing ears to the criticisms of those who do not have the interests of the Oakdale Irrigation District at heart," the grand jurors also said. The charges investigated were those of alleged unauthorized entries in assessment rolls of the district and asserted "incompetency and dishonesty against certain officers and directors of said district." Death Threat Sifted The grand jury also investigated the recent anonymous death-threat letters sent to H. B. McMath, president of the board of directors, and! T.

S. Pendergrass, secretary, and other officials, the report set forth, but found nothing on which to base action against the writers. The letters threatened death less the officials to whom they were addressed "resigned at once." It was suggested by the jurors that "for the purpose of promoting harmony, directors of the district make available at all reasonable times for examination by the I citizens of said district all records! and documents pertaining. to said district." Directors Lauded "Subject to this single. criticism, we believe that the people of the Oakdale Irrigation District are most fortunate in the selection of the present officers and directors of said district, and in the manner in which the affairs.

of the district are being they! added. Only charges pertaining to the! irrigation district and the findings were incorporated in the grand fury's report yesterday. Within in a few weeks, its final report which various recommendations pertaining to county are expected to be will be filed. In the course of the probe, memberg of the board of directors and other officials of the district, together with newspaper publishers of Oakdale and Riverbank and Lee, Oakdale business man, questioned. French Mail Plane Challenges Zeppelin For Atlantic Service ISTRES, France, Jan.

12 French tri-motored plane, Rainbow, hopped off to- day on the first. stage of a flight to Buenos Aires in a challenge to the Graf mail Zeppelin as a A carrier. Seven were in the plane, 1n-i the only passenger, M. Courinet, cluding Pilot. Jean Mermoz, and who built They were stop first at Casablanca.

Morocco. "We wish to show the airplane superior to the dirigible for assuring postal service," Couzinet. The party will wait at St. Louis, Senegal. for authorization of the air ministry to cross the Atlantic.

California Relief Loan Is Discussed MAYOR EXPECTS COMPLETION OF DAM THIS YEAR Council Makes $3500 Available For Purchase And ing Of Piling Creation of Lake Modesto in time for use next Summer was indicated AS virtually: assured to by Mayor L. L. Dennett as a result of unanimous action by the city council. last night. avaliable from the park fund for purchase of: piling and the driving of piles, which will forin the foundation.

for the weir type dam. Action was taken at this time to allow preliminary work to. proceed in- connection with the butiding of the new $229,000 Tuolumne River bridge. Material Available Equipment necessary for the driving of the. piles, together with the piling, 53 used: in the building of the span, and can be obtained at an economic advantage by the city, said Mayor Dennett.

Approximately $12,000 additional will be needed to complete the dam, according to Dennett, who said the money. already is available in the park fund. "I can. see no reason why the damn cannot be. completed in -time for use this Summer," the mayor said.

"The city is getting a good. deal on the piling, and all that remains to be done is to build. the frames. to boid the weir boards, together with some other. lesser things." Will Create Lake: When completed, 'the dam will back up water in.

the Tuolurane 8 a distance of about four miles, thus. forming a length of sufficlent depth to boating and other aquatic sports. The Modesto American Legion Post has purchased five acres and will donate them to. the city for a site in connection with the lake. The dam will be erected near the new Tuolumne River bridge.

addition: to affording needed recreational facilities for Modestans, the lake alao will attract siders. here, in the opinion of Mayor Dennett. LOANS DECREASE WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. Loans to brokers and dealers held by New York Federal Reserve member banks for the week ending January reserore announced by the federal board to as $381,000,000, decrease of 000 as compared with the preceding week.

MARINE PLANES RETURN WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 Twenty-two marine corps airplanes, last of the five-year Nicara-! guan occupation, landed here this! morning. The fliers were officially welcomed by Secretary Adams and Major General Ben H. Fuller, commandant of the marine corps. Now they produce in the community almost everything they need, and expect to become virtually independent In short time.

Most of them are either growing their produce or cutting mill. Cash lumshingle derived from these enterprisco, with barter and exchange of services by the specialists, forms the financial structure of the settlement. Leon Dorocher, appointed by Hansel to superintend the work of farming, clearing land and building houses, has an Informal advisory counoll, which reporta "everybody is happy." "We have twenty-two farms being worked now, and in the Spring more settlers are coming. Eventually we will try for a plant to make rubber articles out of old automobile tires. The only aid we receive is a small amount of four from the Red SACRAMENTO, Jan.

The assembly engaged in its most. spirited debate of the present sea-. slon today before approving by a vote: of: 54. to 21 a resolution memorializing. congress to repeal the eighteenth amendment, The debate, growing heated at times, branched out into such subjects as states rights, the Republi-.

can platform plank on liquor control, and interstate control of liquor Speakers were reminded. several times they had. strayed. from the matter at hand. Arruments for passage of the ZION OPPOSED resolution were led by Assemblyman William Hornblower, San: Francisco, its author.

Opponents included E. Zen, Modesto, Frank W. Wright, Whittier, and Edward Craig, Bred. Almost the "no" votes came from Southern California Republicans. The resolution, which now goes to the state senate, provides the legislature shall memorialize.

amendment cons: to gress propose an the federal constitution repealing the provide eighteenth for. state: amendment, conventions to and vote on the matter. VANDEGRIFT CALLED SACRAMENTO, Cal, Jan. 12 2 UP) -Director of Finance Rolland who has expressed littie interest in the proceedings of the investigation committee was called to face that body to day and answer questions concerning his official acts. Senator J.

M. Inman, chairman' of the committee, said Vandegrift (and Dr. J. M. Toner, director of In(stitutions, would be questioned concerning the purchase as of 1500 site for acres in: Ventura County a new state mental hospital, among other matters.

Just WAAC woe WOULD to find out about this purchase has not been made clear. Walter Garrison; ousted state. director. of public works, referred to it when he testified Tuesday. Garrison said Vandegrift urged the.

purchase of the Lewis Ranch for $415,000 after a Los Angeles appraisal set the value at $360,000 and a San Francisco appraiser estimated it to be worth $450,000. Garrison also told the committee he heard that Vandegrift subsequently bought, nearby property from the Los Angeles bank that held a. mortgage on the Lewis Ranch. Defends Purchase Vandegrift. said yesterday the Lewis site was "the best land ourchase ever consummated for the purpose for which it.

was. intended" and that "it was purchased by the' unanimous. vote of the selection committee." Dr. Toner was instructed to pro; dude records of the purchase as handled by the hospital site selection committee of which he Garrison, Vandegrift and other state officials were. members.

The finance director. also pressed the opinion that the sec. ate investigating committee wasting time on inconsequential. matters." He added he has "not the investigation of enough importance to be concerned with it when compared with the serious financial problems which must be solved before the constitutional recess." Bond Investigation Senator Inman sald the committee wants to ask Vandegrift regarding several otter things including hire buying and selling of bonds which caused heated controversy between the director, State Controller Ray L. Riley and Treasurer Charles G.

Johnson last 0g- tober. Riley and Johnson told Governor Rolph in October Vandegrift WAS "speculating" in the bond market with state monies and had lost approximately $100,000. Vandegrift countered with a vigorous denial and said that instead of losing he had made more than $500,000 for the state. Inman said the committee also wants to question Vandegrift about his negotiations for leasing a building in San Francisco which was described by witnesses during yesterday's hearing as illegal, tremely absurd," and consummated with "cynica! indifference to the rights people." Involved In Court Referring to the Jast remark, Vandegrift said last night the lease is now involved in legal actions and that the courts have not tained the opinion concerning cyntcal inditference. The committee plaas questioning several witnesses from San Francisco regarding the building 80 it was undecided how far the interrogation of Vandegrift will be carried to-day.

The investigation proceedings started at 2:30 o'clock to-day. SALARY INVESTIGATION SACRAMENTO. Jan. The state assembly voted today to proceed independently of the senate In investigating state employer' salaries with a view to equallaise and reducing them, A resolution offered by Assemblymen Edward Craig, Bree, C. Don Field, Glendale, and Willam Knowland, Alameda, was adoptad, asking the finance department to furnish figures on salaries, with changes made during the lat two Craig declared the ways Its own investigation of stats means committee wanted a I (See VANDEGRIFT, Pr.

1, Col. I Devinna, famous movie cameraman and chief operator for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was Devinna who lay unconscious in that Alaskan shack with the snow banked up to the windows. Colonel Foster, 8000 miles nearer the scene of danger, swung his powerful radio set into action and made contact with another amateur at Teller. The Alaskan amateur hastily donned furs and snow shoes and hurried to Devinna's shack.

He smashed in the door and dragged Devinna to safety. He had been overcome by carbon monoxide fumes from small gasoline heater. Today, Col. Foster, in Carmel, the was being congratulated by great fraternity of amateur radio operator? for the strange "roundreache which took place joat before Christmas. Devinna has fully recovered from his terrifving.

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