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ATUJCa a fta4 cooler 1 EVENING EDITION TWO IEASED MODESTO. ETAKISLAUS CQOKTY. CAL ITOKNIA. MONDAY. OCTOBEE 20, 1630.

TWELVE PAGES No, 281. BlizzardMt Paralyzes a i I a I Modern Turk A symbol cf tfat? ty Has'j'n Ivmetlc- I rolled at Ituttlns ter PaiJi, ila. A native i TI I Smyrna, the old, air I A I has Irwn I I HI i American Olivia Institute i I i i i 1U in vnta. and live When Victims Left France An Impressive but tragic llit above v.b*u, at BeauvaU, France, railway! i'Ufttth and BJtwrt- than a vf srritf-d wiifa wffias contaioia; the ol Cl til? K-ivi fviiuttk-Utl lite Flrmh uf bodies; from the lynn o-ar uiuch tbe huge dtrljible fiasueU, i ths They were to'Boniofoe, inert? taken aboard two British and ia ICojUnd buried in a slnsle In photo below, a they loirchttl ia the icrim are the three of the air irajedv, 1 t'f the dirijiMr's cmv, camM and tiki. Kecord Early Winter Snowfall Ia New York And Pennsylvania AUTOISTSlAROONED i Condemned Man In Saa Quen- tin Blows Away Bight Side of Head HOMEMADE 8HBAPNBL EFFECTIVE Others In Death Row From Bunks By Terrific Explosion TT "A i SAX QUKNTJT PRISON.

Hoover Cabinet Committee the fruition of one of Meet In Effort To Re- to ingenious gaUows-cheat- nM ot in hiaiorv. William lieve Buttering Kcsut. s. condemned murderer, died at prison hospital early to-day. The right Fide of his head blown away yesterday by the explosion of a crude whose ingredients still a puzzle to authorities and Kogut's death occurred at 2:30 this morning.

According: to conflicting theories, Kogut. with the ingenuity of the condemned, somehow fashioned a volatile mixture from torn playing- cards ar.d water--if he had not come into possession of a small quantity explosive--placed the mixture in the hollow leg he had wrested from his iron cot, plugged the ends, placed the airtight cylinder on a small heater near his head and lay down to wait for oblivion. Chemists Disagree It was not Ions in coming. Though chemists disagreed aa to what effect was loaned by the presence of the painted" paste board, the liquid soon developed enough steam pressure to burst the pipe. a roar and concussion that tumbled condemned men from their bunks all along death row.

the bomb exploded, driving fragments of the homemade shrapnel through Kogut's face and Unconscious, he was taken to the prison hospital, where his coma endured until his death. Warden's Home Shaken So terrific the power of the explosion that Hblohen's home 1000 yards away, was shaken, he said later. Kogut was convicted in June of the murder of Mrs. Mayiue Guthrie, lodging house proprietress. His op- peal pending before the state supreme court- He left two notj, one to -War- dsn Holohan asking that no accomplice be suspected, as he "had fixed everything himself." the other to Mrs.

Fred Bennothoff. OrovUle, the contents of which were not disclosed, ERIE. Oct. 20. CPJ-Erle to-day waa recovering; from a ncar-blresarii which swept jhe lake last night, bringing aiul a high wind that caused property damage, hampered traffic, menaced shipping and spread discomfort over a -wide area.

Road and rail traffic was almost at a standstill for a time, highways being: drifted nigh. Many motorists spent the night in farm houses in the vicinity of Erie- Boats generally kept close to the harbor. One freighter came Into port late last night with its cargo damaged. Other boats, while none the worse for their battle with choppy waters, reportid making progress with difficulty. Snow, more than a foot deep In some of the rural sections, and the sharp drop in temperature.

was believed to have mined what remained of the Chautauoua-Erie grape crop. FOUR FEET BUFFALO. N. Oct. 20 of automobiles were In snowdrifs In western -New York to-day, abandoned by tourists who left home in Indian Summer.

Snow from nine inches to four feet deep mantled the ground all the way from Buffalo to Erie, Pa, The storm over Lake Erie was ao- cotrmanled by a gale, which drove freighters to shelter. Autolsts who. 'abandoned cars nlodded their way to farm houses "in search of food and shelter- The houses soon were overcrowded. Snow plows endeavored tp push their -way through to them with supplies, appeals having been, sent out when the few operating telephone lines brought word that provisions were running 1 low. In one ordinary-sized farm, house two miles north of Farnham, Erie County, sixty-seven snowbound au- toists were accommodated last night.

Women and children slept on floors from cellar to garret. 1300 Marooned The chsmber.pf of Silver Creek, io-oay took steps to find accommodations for 3300, persons marooned at hamlet These people mostiy- were" motorists, from many different states. Their cars were caught in which in some places rose as high as tea and twelve feet. About 400 cars were stalled in and near Silver Creek; Wbrkmen-'who set out to repair. broken wires had to travel on horseback in come cases.

bus lines, and heavy transportation. vans were abandoned. Several of these big trucks stalled at various points between this city and' Dunkirk. A Clevo- bus and a Buffalo- Chicaso us were among the vehicles stalled at Angola. Of The unseasonable, snow storm was of freak variety.

In this city snow. plows plunged through a nine-Inch -depth in. the southern part, while In. the central and northern portions the ground showed not even- a trace. In places it was reported that thunder and lightning accompanied the snowfall.

The heavisst fall -was reported in the vicinity Angola, where a four-foot depth was attained on the JeveL In- many places wires and trees were down. The unharvcstcd grape crop ia which western New York" prides itself, "was ruined. Orchards were wiped out. COLD IN I A Oct. 20.

Continued cold was forecast to-day as throughout the northern half of the nation dropped to the lowest October temperatures on record and chilling -winds added to the suffering and discomfort Temperatures thra.ughout.tlie Mississippi Valley and 'the North and Central Plains ranged from 18 to 30 degrees above zero. United States weather forecasts said there would be no change for at least two days, One of the coldest places on the continent was Edmonton, Alberta, it was two degrees below Agricultural experts said that a (See BLIZZARD, Page 2, Col, 4) Manager Of San PraBcisco Motion Picture HOUBO Attacked On Street. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20 police here made determined effort to-day to round up the gangsters who climaxed a long list of operations 'against theaters along the Pacific Coast by attacking- and severely beating Charles V. Taylor, manager of'the Castro-Theater, as he was-departing for'home early yesterday morning.

Authorities declare the similarity of tbe outrages, -which include bombings and the throwing- of stink bombs, has led them to the belief tbnt a well-organized gang- arc at work. The attack on Taylor came as-a startling- sequel to the finding of a bomb in the AThainbra Theater Saturday morning. Both -houses are owned by Nasser Brothers, whose other theater, the Koyale, was bombed last June, Clubbed On Head According to Taylor's story, told at a local hospital, where he is being treated for cuts, bniises and a fractured wrist, he -was set upon from "behind. Two men' hit him over the head with a Jarge club and beat? him-after he had fallen to the pavement He 'said they swore at him continually during, the attack. Taylor crawled back to.

the theater after they had left, him, and telephoned one of "the Nasser- Ero- thers. who came to his aid, A thorough questioning'of per- ON Shannon Willing To Leave Price To Disinterested Board Of. Three Immediate construction of a new postoffice building In Modesto was urged "la resolutions adopted today by tbe directors of the Modesto Chamber of meeting at the Hotel Modesto. The action of the chamber directors" was" evoked made Thursday by William A. Newman, In chsrge era! buildings on the Pacific CoesL said the: people 'of Mo-' Uesto did not seem to'fee iaterested in the project for a new.

postoffice: here, and that the construction 'referred- particularly to h(? efforts-to obtain an agreement -Ritlj Carl W. Shan-: non, owner ot iff ty. feet ol land adjoining the present postoffice that Newman says will -ultimately. be for postoffice purposes: Board Suggested The.government has offered 000 for the property; Shannon has not agreed 'to this figure, but has laid before i-Tewman through Congressman H. E.

Harbour of Fresno a proposal to sell at a figure to be fixed'by an unprejudiced board of appraisal. He also has entered into negotiations with Newman for a- lease on the disputed fifty feet of land, that will satisfy the needs of the government and of the undertaiting business Shannon conducts next to the postoffice. ResoluUon Adopted The chamber of commerce resolution nays: Whereas, the present site the Modesto postoffice is approved by the'postoffice, department and the Modesto Chamber of Commerce, Former Corporation Commis; sioner And Politician Win Dismissal Of Indictment i LEWIS. A DISCHARGED State Attorney Gives Insaffi- cient Evidence As Reason For Action LOS ANGELES, OcL the motion of (he dbirici at- 3gains: Jacob Friedlandcr, former state corporation commissioner, and Charles Crawford, politician, were tiitmiscd by buperlor court to-day as their cases came up for trial. Charges were dismissed apainsi 3.

C. Lswls. former presl- of the defunct Julian eum Corporation, acd four John Docs, ro-defendants in the Indict- mem. Lewis is serving a. federal i term at McNeil Island Prison, The seven men were Indicted on charges of asking and receiving bribes from J.

H. Roth, broker, in return for brokers' licenses and for approval of his financial advertising in launching stock issues. Payment of the bribes, set in the Indictment as a total of $13,750 under fourteen alleged overt acts, wag charged to have been made through Crawford. Refused Testimony James Costello, deputy district iorney. moved the dismissal on the grounds of insufficient evidence ia prosecute due to the conviction c' one witness and the indictment of a second on other charges.

COB- tello said these two and Roth, the state's chief witness, had refused to testify without being given immunity, which could not- be? done because of the flagrant character of the charges aeainst the two indicted witnesses. Costello further told the court "circumstances have developed which have caused us to submit to the grand jury the facts concerning the third witness." which was understood to be Roth. Last week the district attorney Indicated Both would refuse to testify In the trial, and disclosed further investigation made of complaints brought against him. Whereas, 5191.000 federal government funds.IE cow available for tbe purpose of constructiagr a new postoffice building in this city, and Whereas, If additional property the owner of adjoining 1 land is "willing: to abide by. the appraisal of an unprejudiced board, and it is the desire of the feaeralvgovernthgnt to alleviate un- sons in the neighborhood failed to employment conditions by the -eon- give any indication" of who the I struction of public.

buildings wnere possible, therefore, be it Resolved. That the Chamber cf Commerce strongly urges that the postoffice' mysterious assailants might be. De Moss Must Face Trial On Tracy Job Popular Wet Wash In this a your laundry receives just as careful Crashing as in r.r.y othrx a thoroughly rinsed. guarantee your laundry mil be sweet and clean and absolutely odorless. A.

very wct "wash service. 20 pounds Sc minimum; 4c 1, per pound. Phone 93 --and our driver wiii gladly cafl MODESTO STEAM LAUNDRY Georpe O. De Moss, reputed "brains" of the Fleaglc band of bank robbers, was ordered removed to Tracy by Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson, of Chicago on Mon- dav, for trial on a charge of bolding up the Tracy postoffice in Oc- at once to the cpn- a new postoffice building ia Modeato.

Favor Present Site A former resolution adopted by the chamber directors places thern on record as favoring the present site aa against any other considered available. Copies of to-day's resolution -will toocr, 192S. be forwarded to United States-Scn- Dc Moss is surged to have been ators Hiram Johnson and Samuel one ol a. quartet that looted the Shortrirtpc. Congressman.

Barfaour postofficc of 52S.OOO in cash and the postmaster general at Washinz- stamps. He was arrested at Etrca-j ton, D. C- and Xevnnan; the super- tor. last -n-eek. I vising architect.

Esbape From Riverside's Jail Gives Self Up Here Thus did Jess Villa accost Fa- irolman Walter Anderson here early Sunday morning. Anderson asked questions and 1 was told by Villa that he was wanted in Southern i California, on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and JaH i escape. Tho officer look Villa fo ttte police headquarters and Riverside anthprities were notified. They substantiate! Villa's story, 37 Its mark. And last Monday Villa zscaped from the Riverside jail, Ihev added.

TiBa was detained In the county Jail here pending arrival cf Southern California authorities, "Since leaving Riverside I hare burned up ft worth of gasoline have had hardly any Resolution: 'Adopted. Dissenting Vote; Given Supervisors A resolution was adopted unanimously Stanislaus County Parent-Teacher Association Council, meeting at Crows Landing on Saturday, Indorsing of Dr.vIt.'-M. as full-time county health officer. The resolution also commended his supervision of tha-county health unit. be forwarded-to the Stanislaus County Board of it" was announced.

A' hearing a petition asking Dr, Coulters removal Is to be held by. the supervisors on November 10. The hearing originally was set for their meeting last week. At that time a second petition 'was stened by seventeen persons who signed the first document- askinj that their names oc removed. The case was delayed, the supervisors because of the absence of persons considered important to the California Liquor Deaths Show Gain (By Special Leased Wire) SAN FRANCISCO, OcL Bureau )--Increa3es in" deaths from alcoholism in Calh fornla.

and other western. states were shown in figures here tc-day from the bureau of vftej: statistics of the census bureau'at Washington Tills was-in spite fact that the totals for the nation showed a drop from 472T to 4339 in the vear. deaths increased from 177 In 1928 to 082 In 193, while Oregon, and Utah, showed fhe largest increases in tbe nation. In Utah the' deaths mounted from four to twenty-one while those in Oregon jumped from twenty-four to forty-one. Idaho was the only western state showing a decrease, deaths dropped from ten to efent In the year.

Washington showed an increase of one. The'increased population of the West is expected to account for part of. Hie increases, while the percentage death rate may be actually lower. Earthquake Shakes Southern Louisiana QFJ.KATTS, Oct --SonttJ eastern Louisiana. Including New 'Orleans and Baton Kcagf-, reported the first known earth tremors In the state's history Sunday but no serious damage resnlted.

A rtsilient crartip of alluvial silt and moist loam; 2300 feet deep underlying the region affected, was credited bv scientific with softening the tremors. r.everlheieis were suiiiclcsay strong to ihrow scores Into a panic. The only injuries reported were at Morgan City, where worshippers in a Catholic church became fright- cried at apparently seeing uie wails of the church sway and were bruUed in a dash for exits. THBEE MIXERS KILLED JOHNSTOWN. Pa-.

Oct. 20 At least three men -were tiled anot eighty others injured to-day when a "man trip" elevator at t'ne Son- 'Brazilian Town Is Captured By Rebels i Harare On Sao Plain Siid To Hare Fallen To Insurgents RIO IS THREATENED TROSTCB Brancri Of Bank To Be Housed At Eleventh And Streets R. K. "Whitmore, manager of Modesto branch of the; Azntrican Trust Company, announced to-day that tho bank has purchased Community Market Stceots as a site. Vb'r-" construction, "of Its 'The pTOpSrty comprises four 'feet" on- Eleventh and sixty bn Street "TKe not -Plan To BnJld Construction of a wll! start sometime' "in- flie near'.

Whitratire hope 1 within a' year 'or bo added. According to Whitmore, the buiiaing be given over.entirely;to,headquarters for the local "Building of the. hew- bank a guarantee of the American Company's faith In fcture of Modesto, Has "The bank regards, this, city aa: one of the, best, standpoint in California, and-, is going to raake this subslanUai in, vestment here to keep Modesto's growth and development. "We believe the Jocation at Eleventh and Streets Is'a. good one, as business district must Our view.

city's future Is very optimistic, and the American Trust Company" desires to.keep-up.with ifbdesto's as; Bured a-short, time, Whitrcorfi said he expects to announce further details of construction Mining Official Is Air Crash Victim Oct. ity of a pilot to see another plane under him as he glided land- Ing at United Airport was blamed to-day for freakish accident caused the death of C. Cushman, Mexico mining Cushman had just landed his own alane when another ship, piloted by Don landed on top of him. Cusbman was dragged from the cockpit and catapulted into the propeller of his plane. was killed D.

D. Santry of GlendaJc, owner of the plane piloted by Cushrasn, was riding with him, but was not Cushman was manager of the San.Luis Mining Company in the Mexican state of Durango. Revolt Leaden Also Claim Advances In Siege About Florianopolis RIO GRANDE DO SUL, Brazil, Oct, 20 capture of the Important town of Iiarare. on tbe Sao Paulo frontier, wa? reported in messages to revolutionary headquarters. The advance troops of rebel army marching northward on Sao Paulo and Kio de Janeiro took the town after a sharp battle, in which government forces were routed, the advices said.

ESTKETTO OCCUPIED PORTO ALEGRE, Kio Grande Do Sul. Brazil, Oct 20 rebel siege about FlorianoppUi, sole- 1 federal stronghold in Southern Bra. sil, pressed so hard toniay that troops withdrew from the mafn- laud across the bn'dga to the island en which the city la located. Revolutionary forces under Generals Waldroiro Lima and Ftolo- rcso issls Sunday sornfrg occupied Esireltcv.pn. a mainland point opposite obtained control of the power lines' supply the The power was" shut ccmmunlqub said, and In JlBj-obr sfthce the -was tdarfc last night Oavaldo Aranha," temporary dent of the state of Rio Graado-do Sul, said an attempt would to mine channel'- of Santa Catharhiaji FlorlanopoIIa and tha mainland BO.

as tb bottle up federal it'ai a base and bdmbardiisg rebel coast r- City Of 46flG6, Florianopolls a city of a5sbut 4ftOOO populatlch acdiia tha capital oC tbe state of Santa Catharine Jt is. located on th island of Santa but is the mainland. bar'snspensioii i sniaH the wished thelreiitirer' forces on the Parana-Sao fsslci fronti. I 1 1 Ebie With SKoiildgr Hurt RAPPER FANNY SAYS: u. a.

PAT, err. OLLYWOOB, Oct. 20. Janls, former stage ac' a screen' I a i i i herftrni in. a sllDfr these dnya itnd.

Ttamnn Tf.fty.ftirf filni actor, is InK blamed Xof -Espied- on-a Hollvwood motion plctore. set; with.ii a a a Rround member, Miss -TaniV said; she and Xavarro i her home' lost lasle'Janis'" about to claim- Tlctory- he gave his body, a slight -twist and my Khpnldcr slipped out of rptace, 1 the former actress sold. A physician dicgnosed the Injury as Two Killed Aboard By Explosion 6ct 20. UP)-- Two men were two others wrre severely burned, and two tug- boats an oil task- barge Btrbved in a gasol'ns -explosion aboard the 'barge hv the Hudson River" to-day. The cause of the cjcplisioa is not known, but there was- a terrific blast aboard the barge which enveloped that craft and the two tugs alongside, in flames.

The detonation shattered all -windows in five blocks of River Street, tils cJly, and blew 1) the glass oat of three blocks cf buildings in Wa- NEW YoklCvOct. i .29 '(ff)i-r An in jiiiioUon tb two compa- "m'ca of Chariest frpm-'-fui'- ther stock sought by tbe itate'tprday after Vash- Haid possible loss of Bob. days atter-. leaving, hla- private airjdansi at rinutilcapal airport in Chicago. He-Has been: sought 1 by qlficIatB.of nure.au -of securities -'for' questioning in an of Metal, and Mining, an.

In- Ralcbow. Liunuioiis Inc. aald '-Shout $6.000,000 of the loss will "probably, be ac- 'counied' for by'-tfcev collapse 'of Metal Mining shares, aa invets.tment: trust, -of which Bob president. He. paid, although Kainbow Lu- mlnpus in Bob" is a.

director, la belitrv'Pd. to be solvent, the lose foithe public would "probably greater than that caused by "Metal and "Mining Shares, Junior College Student Killed Robert Clark, 19, a 'Student at tbe "Modesto. -Junior -College, was Killed in an automobile accident near Dublin Canyon en Sundacy. He en to Modeato after a visit In San Francisco. Tbe youth was the son Milton Clark- of Sin Funeral services will' be hrJd on on the opposite bank of I Tuesday at Gray's Funeral Cbapel the river.

'ia Sah Francisco. the'rebeJplot The; macbineflV c. Paulo ptato i.poUce,^--,,«, with. guns ago against; the '-the- state foreign engineer brangiit word that-the CaiapoB, a- sugar baking: centsr. in.

the etate i 61 Rip east of the had. never been menaced -fay: "rsbels, from -the. state of Minas "Geraes. Previous reports Jijdleated 'bandit slipping 'over nearby Miaas.Geracs border; The people of- Rio and Sao PE.UJO are tept informeS. of -by.

goverhoient stations, -which go -air every polntinif. out the filtuatioii an- Bweriag. Iha- claims ary force.s. Child Trapped In Blazing; Grib Oct. 20.

cradle bars, designed to 2- year-old Frank Waflm had today formed the walls which confined him hlezTng fced-. clothes, and cost him hisJife. Leaving the infant hi an upstairs-, bedroom, -while visited, "hla parents inadvertently left' ssyeral matches on the nearby While his grandparents ,58,1 below, the child managed to get to them and ignite one. His grandparents rushed upstairs they heard tbe Infant screaming, but extricated-him too laJa; He died shortly afterward at Ais- meda Sanitariom. 650 Die When Fire Sweeps Craft Along Chinese River China, Oc(.

20 hundred and fifty died in a. holocaust in Uw tea house district of Wucfaow, nn the hor- rtpr. to-day. The fire was reported (o havo started in a floating restaurant In the West River, or Sikiang. It spread rapidly to other craft on the stream, and finally reached buildings on tbe shore.

Hundreds of persons leaped Info Ihe trrsm from blaztns: jfomc of them mBnaped to rpach shore, but scores were reported lo have drowned. Because of a peculiafitr of the- MUU ivvt vtruf.f ill it in- i i to jjj and offices Tie Tnvtt prosprrous part He who laiichs first probailyj West River, a condderable por- 1 (old th; Isans story I tion cl Its Is doss aboar4 "the boats and on pontoons. A dtffcr- of about sixty in the water Terci between fall water in Summer and low water in many bare The i of the. city is located along river. Wuchow is naturally so as to wrve a center of distribution for trade between Canton and ihree great provinces of tnfi Mxiift Vtinnsn.

Kwaitptf and Kweichow. The West Klver, which carrier most of the shipping, sometimes is with pirates. The Standard OH Company of 2few York has an office thcrco Coey'sBigXj SHOESAEE Still On soars 16-Inch Boots The.greatest value in ibe Sworld. Friday's largest purchaser: C. B.

Ferris, 3or 1232. Modesto. i F-aturdav's largest purchaser: 'Mcndosa, Box 331, Fran It Certs. H. COEY SHOE-CO.

Be Sure Too Are ta thoIUrhl Store.