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TODAY'S MARKET San Francisco--Butter, 92 score, FIVE NEWS SERVICES--The Auoclnfeil Prenni Tic United International Wem Service) Universal Service! McClnlchy Service. MORNING EDITION VOL. XXXIV. HlCHi Five Cent. Per Copr 7Bc Monthly by Carrier MODESTO, STANISLAUS COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1933 TEN PAGES No, 26.

2000 CAUGHT IN BLIZZARD SAVED AFTER LONG BATTLE Highway Engineers Forced To Fight 24 Hours To Free Motorists MANY AUTOS FROZEN SOLIDLY TO ICY ROAD Standard City Man Crushed To Diath When Barn Caves In LAKE ARROWHEAD, Jan. thousand Southern pleasure seekers were released to-night from a snow and fee barrier that trapped them over night while a blizzard raged across the San Bernardino Mountains. A caravan of 500 automobiles was caught by the snowstorm as it started down the mountainside from the mile-high resoit. Men, women and children were helpless in the face of the storm and were forced to beat their way back to the lake on foot. Highway engineers rushed all available equipment here, and after a twenty-four hour battle succeeded in opening the load.

Their last problem was to free the autos, many of them frozen solidly to the icy road. Great barrels of water, heated by roaring fires, were poured over the machines, and slowly the caravan got under way. A few cases of nervous exhaustion were the principal discomforts suffered by the unwilling visitors, MA.N3T MAROONED VISALI, Jan. Their previous rescue efforts having been undone by a foot of new snow, volunteers, officers and aviators resumed their attempt to-day to reach snowbound Eshom Valley, where many persons, estimated to number as high its fifty, have been marooned since lust Friday. The snow, falling yesterday and last night, added one foot to the already deep blanket in the highlands.

The searchers also sought traces of a rescue party of three men who left Visalla early Friday and have been unreported since. They are JJeputy Game Warden E. C. Vail of Dinuba and Deputy Sheriffs Carl Ensign and Jock Hill of Vi- STORM COMING SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. --iuuiti snow lor tnc aiceaay deeply blanketed Neyaojt highlands and additional rain for the coastal region were on their way southward from the Gulf of Alaska to-day.

R. C. Counts, weather forecaster, said the new disturbance would bring rains and snow to Northern California to-night, probably reaching into the San Joaquin Valley to-morrow and perhaps into Southern California by Wednesday. Floods In South Los Angeles and Long- Beach were drenched by rain, which brought the precipitation In the former city to the highest seasonal total in seventeen years. Lifeboats were pressed into service to rescue families in flooded sections of Long Beach.

Heno, was without power for the third day as a result of broken lines high In the Sierra Nevada. The snowfall at Yosemite National Park broke all government records with a total of 148 inches, settled to much lees than that, since the first blizzard hailed Winter's determined attack. At a number of mountain points, rescue parties struggled to reach persona cut off from sources of supplies by ever increasing snow drifts. 1Z Feet At Summit Historic Donner Summit, 1 transcontinental railroad and highway pass over the Sierra Nevada, lay under more than twelve feet snow. Snow plows and other highway equipment were snowed under.

Nine Fort Bragg, youths, members of a basketball team, were rescued from a snowbound ranch home where they took shelter Saturday after their automobile, in which they were traveling to another town, stalled in the drifts. CRUSHED BT SNGV." Tuolumne County's first snow this season, Stephen Rablen, 'about 70, was killed at his home near Standard City Sunday when the roof of a barn caved in under the weight of nearly two feet of snow. Rablen, a pioneer resident of the mountain country and well-known there as an old-time suf- (See ANOTHER, Page 9, Col. 4) FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: REfl.U.S.PAT.QFF. The Rev.

G. L. Conway, pastor of the Madison. Street Methodist Episcopal Church at Muncie, must luce trial on charges brought by Miss Helen Huffman, below, 18-year-old high school senior. He was Indicted by a grand jury yesterday.

NEW LEADERS GOVERNMENT ARE CHOSEN Former War Minister Says He Has Succeeded Despite Socialist Opposition INDIGNATION MEETINGS HELD BY TAXPAYERS Life Exists O'h Other Planets, Report Reveals TERKEUEY, Jan. Meteors bombarding the esrth from the unknown, depths of space have brought living proof that life exists on other planets, according- to a report made public to-day by Prof. duuiicb ix ijijtsmtii, aeau in uie graduate division of the University of California. Two types of bacterial growth --low grades of living: organisms --have been found in tho interior substance of meteorites, the noted plant pathologist announced In a paper in the American Museum Novitiates. Although the California scientist carefully refrained from drawing- any conclusions from his findings, it was pointed out that his research may help provide answers for two of the great riddles of the Is there life on stars and other planets? Where and how did terrestial life originate? Mamifacturing Company Again Resumes Production Of Ford Bodies DETROIT, Jan.

Brigrgs Manufacturing Company announced to-night it had resumed production of Ford automobile bodies, cessation of which caused a nationwide shutdown of Ford plants last week at a cost of about $1,000,000 a day. Former Judge William S. Connolly, treasurer and spokesman for the company, told the United Uress that 1000 men were enrolled to-day on the company's payrolls. These included mnnv shikers who rc- tmned to work and strike-breakers who stepped to take over the jobs. Connolly declared that the strike, which stopped work not only in the Brlggs plant, but in all Ford plants as well, was "Communist-inspired and Comrnunlst-led." He said ihe company was satisfied with progress made in rebiring strikeis and in hiring new men to take the places of those who refused to return to work although a higher baic wage scale was announced.

are hiring men generally," lie said, "and hope to regain full production within the next few days. 1 Minister Surrenders After Indictment; Jb'ace Church Trial MUNCIE, Tnd. Jan. SO--(ff)-The Rev. G.

L. Conway, pastor of the Madison Street Methodist Episcopal Church, was indicted to-day by the grand jury that investigated charges of an attempted attack on an 18-year-old girl. surrendered to Sheriff Fred W. Puckett shortly after the indictment The pastoi is soon to face church trial on a charge of imprudent and unministerial conduct. Clash Occurs When Rioters From Royalist Group Try To Storm Chamber PARIS, Jan.

(Tuesday)-- (IP) Edouard Daladier, former minis- of war. announced early to-day despite refusal of Socialist Party leaders to offer co-operation, will complete a new French cab- net to succeed thst of Joseph Paul- Bouncour this morning. Daladisr, who said he would present his complete cabinet to President Albert Labrun this morning, also announced that he would remain war minister as well as premier. Seven others who will have seats the new cabinet, he said, ars Georges Bonnet, finance minister; Chautemps, minister of the nterior; Lucien Lamoureaux, min- ster of the budget; Paul-Boncour, minister of foreign affairs; George Leygues, minister of marine; Henly Quequille, minister of agriculture, and Laurent Eynas, minister of posts and telegraphs. Oppose Program Socialists withheld their support aecause of their opposition to a financial program suggested by Dal- adier as a means of balancing the: Budget.

i Cabinet negotiations proceeded; ast night while thousands of tax- 1 layers from all parts of the coun-j indignation meetings; against proposals to raise taxes balance tha budget the item onj which the Paul-Boncour ministry, fell last Saturday. A delegation of small shopkeepers marched on the chamber of deputies and was dispersed by the )olice. The president of the shop- peepers' association, Alexander Javin, was arrested. Another sharp clasa occurred 'heii 300 demonstrators from royalist groups sought to approach the chamber from another direction. They were dispersed after fighting and many arrests.

The office in the war department where Daladier held his conversations was heavily guarded. Tux levies Hit Two other mass meetings against Salle Walgram and. the Salle.BuI-r denounced tfie JURY TO THY CASE DETROIT, Jan. ecclesiastical jury to try the Rev. G.

Lemuel Canway, Muncie, minister, accused of making undesirable advances to an 18-year-old girl member of his flock, will be chosen at Fort Wayne February 7, Biahop Edgar Blake of the Methodist Episcopal Church, announced to-day. have been preferred against Rev. Mr. Conway, and there will be a meeting in Fort Wayne February 7 to select a church jury to try the case." the statement said. The bishop declined to make further comment Widow Who Slew Children Sentenced CHARLESTON, 111, Jan.

-Mrs. Inez Carrell, widow who killed her three children because she feared she could not provide for them was sentenced to one to fourteen years in prison to-day on her plea of guilty to a manslaughter charge. The mother, driven frantic by financial worries, drowned her three young children In a bathtub they slept and attempted in -sain to take her own life. Insull Directorate Sued For Millions CHICAGO, Jan. Insull and the "entire directorate of the bankrupt Corporation Securities Company were made defendants to-day In a suit filed in federal court seeking an accounting of $23,233,000 due the bondholders of the investment concern Similar action against the fiitcc- tors of Insull Utility Investments, Inc, involving $40,000,000 alleged to be due its bondholders, was taken last week.

Dual Life Bared As Wife No. 2 Frees Tennesseean Girls who prey on men never jpray lor them, Jnn. 30 56-year-old man, who has for twenty-two years lived married and reared a family under the name of Ted Morris and says ho remembers nothing about it, was on his way to New Jersey to-day to join a wife and two grown sons nho know him as Edgar G. Allen. Walking along tho streets here Thursday, the man said he remembered his name as Edgar Allen and messaged his people In Ridgewoort, N.

J. At police headquarters yesterday, L. C. Allen of Chester, N. and Roseoe Allen, 30-year-old real chtato dealer of KicJgewood, X.

identified tho man as their brother and father, who disappeared about twenty-two years ago. Shortly afterward, Mrs. Ted Morris, a frail little woman, and her 13-year-old daughter, Dolores, of Madlsonville, hugged him and claimed him ns husband and father. Ho gave no sign of recognition, staring blankly at them. Witnesses said he immediately recognized L.

C. Allen as his brother. The two families finally held a conference with police authorities. Safety Director Walter C. Anderson that Mrs.

Morris signed nn agreement for her husband to return in New Jersey with his brother nnd his son to be placed in a sanitarium for observation. Mrs. Morris said she nnd her husband married In Atlanta and would havo celebrated their twenty-first wedding anniversary to-day. She said ho had worked ns an automobile mechanic nnd salesman since their marriage. Inclusion of Hermit Boosevelt (below) among President-elect Hbt of guests for tho forthcoming yachting trip off Florida indicates the healing of a rift between the two branches of tho Roosevelt family which started over political differences in li'20.

'discriminatory 1 repartition of proposed tax levies. The Socialists held the balance of power which Daladier sought. They earlier agreed to participate a government which he headed provided "it is inspired by the Socialist program of 1931 and is directed by Socialiist ideas Daladier had offered five port- 'ohos to the Socialists, in an ef- 'ort to gain a united front against the new Kitler regime in Germany. Hoovflys President Accuses Democratic Committee Of Adding Huge Sum To Budget WASHINGTON, Jan. 30-- UP)-With the senate bogged down in appropriations debate, President; Hoover late to-day authorized statement criticizing the Bemo-i cratic house and its appropriations! committee as having added 319,642 to the budget figures he submitted.

The White House In its statement pointed out that the president had suggested a fund of $977,636,000, excluding permanent appro- pi iations for the state, justice, and labor departments or the next fiscal year, but tbat he house appiopiiations committee lad increased this figure by Other increases also were made, the statement said. PASS BANKRUPTCY BILL WASHINGTON, Jan. A sweeping bankruptcy measure designed to aid both individuals and corporations, including hard- jressed farmers and railroads, was assed to-day by the house and sent to the senate. The standing vote was 201 to 43. Taken up under suspension of he rules the measure got the necessary two-thirds vote by support rom both sides of the chamber.

The general principles of the bill are favored both by President Hoover and President-elect Roosevelt. It Is expected to prevent costly receiverships for railroads and to enable them and other corporations to escape bankruptcy through rccapitalizaticn and their indebtedness a slashing of Along with a companion bill to iclp i pf inance me farmer, its sponsois claimed it would go far toward the prevention of wholesale foreclosures and enable agriculturalists to hold their land pending the return of hotter times. Charges Against Woman Dismissed SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. UP) --Although Municipal Judge Sylvain J. Lazarus said a few days ago "the law has to protect hus- uands," he dismissed to-day chat Res of attempted murder against Mrs.

Georgia DuCharme Thf wounded Philip DuCharme, who is recovering in a hospital, wrote the couit stating he was to 1 Mrs. DuChaime, happy at the dismissal, snid she was sorry she had shot her husband, "but he 1: a changed man now!" Their quarrel icsulted from attentions ansertedly paid DuCharme by another woman at a party. Selection Of Glass, Walsh And Farley Appears Certainty; Woman To Get Post WARM SPRINGS, Jan. by Lite men who helped steer his cause to overwhelming victory, President-elect Roosevelt to-mghfc continued with' them the task of passing upon the awards of patronage. It was learned reliably that the following had "been invited to enter the cabinet of the new administration Senator Carter Glass, Virginia, for secretary of treasury.

Senator Thomas J. Walsh, Montana, attorney general. James A. Parley, New York, postmaster general. secretai there came information Roosevelt was "all set" on the fifst three.

Roosevelt asserted at his conference with newspapermen that today's discussions did not involve cabinet positions. "I want to say in the presence of Jim Farley and Frank Walkar and the others," Baid the president- elect, "that I will not discuss the cabinet with them, that is peculiarly my own official family." Goes Over List The president-elect was closeted the entire afternoon in the oak paneled living room, of the 'little White House" on Pine Mountain. Seated befoVe a blazing log fire that dispelled the chill of a rainy and misty day, he went over the list of eligibles with James A. Farley, Democratic national chairman; Col. Louis McHenry Howe, confidential secretary; and Frank C.

Walker, Democratic national treasurer. There was the persistent report that for the all important agricultural portfolio the conferees had not i cached a decision. It was aald, however, that Frank Murphy of Wheaton, or Senator Georga Norris, veteran Progressive Republican of would be the choice. Baker Mentioned Regarding ambassadorships, it was believed here that Roosevelt wants Newton D. Baker, secretary of war in the Wilson administration, as envoy to the court of St.

James; Judge Robert Bingham, Louiville, publisher, for Paris; Robert Dunham, Chicago, for Berlin, and Clark Howell, Atlanta publisher, for Italy. As to the award of other cabinet positions it was asserted the president-elect and his advisers were giving serious consideration to Senator Baikley of Kentucky for secretary of war, and Archibald McNeil of Connecticut for secretary of the navy. McNeil is Democratic national chairman. Wife Of Former U. Diplomat Dies PARIS, Jan.

John Ridgely Carter, the former Alice Moigan of New York, died to-day at their country home at Seulis, near Paris Mrs. Carter's husband is a banker and former American diplomat at seveial foreign capitals. The Carters were married at Washington in 1887. He became secretary to the American ambassador in London in 1S94. Then he was minister to Rumania, Serbia, Bulgaria and Turkey.

In 1911 he entered J. P. Morgan Company, New Yoik bankers. Later he became senior partner Morgan, Karjes Company, Paris. The Carters were among the most prominent Americans living in France.

Couple's Appeal In Mail Fraud Loses DENVER. Jan. Circuit Couit of Appeals to-day dismissed the appeal of S. E. J.

Cox and his wife, Mrs. Marie Cox, who were convicted in Oklahoma on mail fraud charges. Cox at one time "did i in Lca ip emvoith Prison with Dr. Frederick A. Cook, the "North Pole discoverer." ROLPH RECALL LAUNCHED BY STATE GRANGE Petition Asking Removal Of Governor Placed In Hands Of Printers CAMPAIGN ADEQUATELY FINANCED, SAYS LEADEE Ten Thousand Copies Prepared For Distribution Throughout California SACRAMENTO, Jan.

1 )-Recall petitions asking the removal of Governor Rolph were In the hands of printers to-day, attorneys for the California State Grange said. George Sehlmeyer, master of the Grange, and leader of the recall movement, said the campaign was "adequately financed." Other Grange officials said they doubted a petition seeking cam- uaigti could be financed. C. O. Busick, Grange attorney, said that as soon as one petition is filed with any county cleik, the govprnor cannot resign.

Such a filing would make impossible Govner Rolph's resignation, with the understanding Lieutenant Governor Frank F. Merriam would appoint him United States Senator. 'Although officials have declared no such shift Is contemplated, rumors were that the governor would such an appointment should Senator Hiram Johnson resign to become a member of President- elect Roosevelt's cabinet. Ten thousand copies of the petition will be printed and are expected to start circulating In twenty-five or thirty California counties by the end of this week and Sehlmeyer said he expects to accumulate the necessary qualify" 166,000 signatures within a short time. Fears Ad Valorem Tax Sehlmeyer has said the Grange bases its recall contention thai NAVAL OFFICER DIES WASHINGTON, Jan.

30 --UP)-Rear Admiral William Henry Hudson Southerland, 81, one of the few smvivors ot the days when the navy was a fleet of sailing vessels, died to-day. 1 movement upon the "the Rolph administration has' been extravagant" and that "there is a very grave danger of an ad valorem tax which would smash agriculture off the face of the map The Grange discussed the ouster move when it met in convention at Fresno last October. No definite step was taken at that time but subsequently John Hartley of Napa, Harry Barnes of San Jose and F. W. Looseley of Shasta County, members of the Grange ex- determine tha opinign, LoulS'Tabe!" of-'Coliimb'usr ter of the National Grange, regard- Ing a recall.

Sounds Warning Taber informed Sehhneyor the question of sponsoring a recall was entirely up to the Cal: ig a liforniiia organization and not one in which the National Grange would Interest itself. Taber warned the California agriculturists to be certain the re(See GOVERNOR'S, P. 3, Col. 2) STAIETQDEUY FEBRUARY PAY Checks To Arrive Two Weeks Late, Auditor Of Finance Department Says SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 30 (IP)-February pay checks of state em- ployes will arrive two weeks late, it was learned to-day. Reports that there will be a delay were confirmed by Edward Morris, auditor for the department of finance here.

Morris said he could not confirm reports that the state's financial condition was so impaired that it would be Impossible to provide the payroll funds in time. "All I know is there has been a change in the clerical system of making up the payrolls," Morris said. "Instead of getting their checks for February on the last day of the month or on March I ths em- ployes will be paid on or about March 15. The orders came from Eaci amento, and any further information will have to come from there." President von Hindenburg yesterday granted Adolf Hitler, below, picturesque German Fascist leader, the ambition of his political lifetime hy naming him chancellor. Two of Hitler's chief aides were placed In the new ministry.

Policy Of Friendship' Toward United States Assured, Close Adviser Says BERLIN, Jan, (Tuesday) --A general strike as labor's answer to Adolph Hitler's coming JAto jQwer was advocated to-day by the Communist organ, Rote Fahnc, which said representatives of 2000 organizations hoS resolved to fe for a ntrike. Dr. Wilhelm Prick, new cabinet' member and a Nasal lieutenant, said the government was prepared to take sternest measures against a strike. Disorders occurred In many cities Germany even before tho second day of Hitler's government dawned. In Oranleburg, three persona were Injured seriously iu fighting jetween Nazzis and and two persons were killed in clashes in Berlin, one a Nazi and' the other a policeman.

In another fight between Nazis and Communists two Communists. were injured, one severely. The police said they had re-established order. Two Give Lives In Attempt To Savo Companion; Fourth Is Injured FOLSOM PRISON, Jan. --Three convicts were killed and one injured when they were caught in the prison quarry to-day landslides of approximately 1 400 tons of huge rock and earth.

The dead: William Hughley, S6, Negfro, sentenced from San. Diego for burglary, John Mitchell. 28. sentenced from Los Angeles lor bocunu degree in Jackson, S9, "serv ing- five years to life for robbery in Alamcda County. The injured: Clark C.

Vansickle, 28, convicted in Los Angeles for burglary. He suffered a broken leg. Jackson's body was removed from under tons of enormous granite boulders to-night. The other two bodies were recovered immediately after the slide. The landslides Hinkler Is Reported Found Alive In Alps LONDON, Jan.

A report which could not be confirmed immediately that Bert Hinkler, missing British flier, had been found alive In the Alps was received to-day by the committee which has been directing a search for him for three weeks. The report resulted in cancellation of a memorial service which was tc have been held for him here. fifteen seconds apart. The first Hughley. Mitchell, Jackson and Vansickle rushed to rescue buried companion and were caugnt by a second tremendous precipitation of mud and rock from off the face of the 100-foot cliff flanking the quarry.

The quarry crew at the time of accident totalled 800 men; all were sent to their cells and a select rescue crew of fifty convicts, rushed to the scene from the prison farm, was set to work with air drills, picks, shovels and the (quarry derrick. It was at first thought five or six men had been caught by the slide, but two checks of all convicts in the prison showed three missing and one in the hospital, Two Top Grades Of Butter Forced Down A Half SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. --Butter came into the market here in liberal supply to-day, forcing the two top grades down cent a pound. The 92 score wholesale price was and the 91 score 19 cents. Heavy shipments arriving from Idaho tended to counteract the of the market situation, said P.

H. McCampbell, federal market expert. He reported holdings in six leading Pacific Coast cities were 158,895 pounds less than a year ago. The current total for San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, San Diego, Portland and Seattle was 815,064 pounds, compared with 873,959 a year ago. GIRL ENDS SAN FRANCISCO, Jan.

30 Miss Miriam Kenner, 26-yar-old music store employe, died last night of poisoning which her physician said waa self-administered. She was Identified as the daughter of John H. Kenner, Long Beach Bandits Seize Fashionable Home, Then Abandon Plan gT. LOUIS, Jan. 30 plan to seize and rob wealthy guests as they nrrlvpd at a pro- wedding luncheon for Miss Lily Busch Magnus was abandoned by bandits jeUerday after the gang took possession of tho country home of George F.

Tiffany, where the luncheon was to have been held. The gunmen bound and gagged Tiffany nnd six others. They remained in the home nearly five hours and then abandoned their robbery plans about three hours before (he guests uere to begin arriving. Two of tho gunmen entered ihe Tiffany home first, and a short time later two automobiles hearing eight or fen additional roh- hers, some armed with machine 1 guns, entered the Tiffany garage, where a chauffeur was bound. Tiffany was beaten unconscious hy the first two robbers who entered his home.

Loot taken from Tiffany, so far as could be learned, consisted only of a rifle and a shotguns. The luncheon was postponed. Miss Magnus is the granddaughter of the late Atiolphus Busch, founder of the Busch brewery Interests. Her "engagement to Arthur D. IS.

rrcccc was announced recently. FORMER SLAYK DIES WOODLAND, Jan. 1 --Mrs. Emma J. Morris, 95, Negro who was a slave In Asheville, N.

C-, before the emancipation, died here to-day. She had lived in Woodland 42 years. HITLER AIDES CELEBRATE HIS SELECTION AS CHANCELLOR Fiery Little Chieftein Stands On Balcony As Thousands, Of Followers March PARADE REVIEWED BY PAUL VON HITLERITES CELEBRATE BERLIN, Jan. Hitler, dapper Fascist apostle of an unfettered Germany, was joyously acclaimed fay a singing, jjghing" populace to-night as chancellor of a new era. The fiery little chieftain of the- 'brown shirts" stood on a balcony the chancellory, eyes glistening with emotion, and watched thousands of bis followers march lickering torchlight procession, singing martial of 1914 and- Nearby, "President Paul von Hindenburg, stern, gray haired, stood, erect, as he returned the salutes of the jostling throng.

He- reviewed the tumultuous parade from. window in the old chancellory which he is using while the German "White House" is under re- liair. The fcour's long procession and. t-cUat; do a. ciiiuoj.

ut. o. day aflmpving events in. which the president named Hitler Hsad the government. HITTER SKLKCTEP BERLIN, Jan.

Hitler, picturesque leader of the German Fascists, was made chan- ceilor of Germany, to-day, succeed- ng General Kurt von Schleieher who resigned last week. But in granting him the ambition, of his political lifetime President occurred about von Hindenburg surrounded him. with a cabinet of conservatives- von Papen, the former chancellor and confidant of the president, is vice chancellor; Konstantln, von Neurath remains foreign min- ster; Alfred Hugenberg, the Na- leader, has an important cabinet post Hitler placed his best mec, iam Frick and Hermann; Goeringr, the cabinet, Frick as minister of he interior and Gaerlng as ter without portfolio. The new chancellor, who Is only took the appointment in hia stride. 'Well, we shall see," WES aU said to the correspondents as he returned to his hotel from the president's office.

"Now let's Worlw Out Program He had been up all night and! jntil 5 o'clock this morning working out a detailed program, to mit.to the president. With his new associates he went over to the executive offices. Otto Meissner, the president's! secretary, met him. They talked' 'or a little while. Metesner assured him that tha president, in his talks with Col.

von Papen over the week end, finally had been persuaded to overcome his last scruples againsb placing Hitler at the head of the ijovernment. Then Hitler was to the president. Meeting Described One of those who was there described the meeting. dd The venerable field marshal was Kindliness itself, he said, when. Col.

von Papen, in the presence of Alfred Hugenberg and several others proposed Hitler for chancellor. "Yes, yes Indeed," the president nodded. Then he rose 3 towering above the others, grasped Hitler's hand and ormally made the appointment. The word went about quickly; ind when Hitler got back to his lotet the streets were jammed- His own close Iriends waited hako his hand, and there were mndreds of others, cheering aa bey lifted their hands in the Nazi alute. Hitler He went in on with Herr Frick and his associates.

The reichstag council of elders, meeting this afternoon, adopted a motion by the National Socialist members to reconvene the stag on or before February 7. Startling Rumor There was a startling rumor that! group of high army officers leaded by General von Schleicher threatened to take the law into heir own hands and set up at itler grinned and waved into the hotel for lunch- (See HITLER, Page 9, Col. 2) FROSTY WEATHER San Joaquiu Valley Partly- cloudy, heavy, frosts, north winds.