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5 THE FRESNO BEE HOME I ION THE WEATHER Generally lair and cooler tonight Tuesday lair and somewhat wanner moderate north west Weather Bureau forecast THE REPUBLICAN VOL 32 NO 5593 FRESNO CAL MONDAY EVENING MAY 16 1938-14 PAGES (TWO SECTIONS) Entered Mcond eim matter Oct IT 18S at fm CaiiL (Per On vr Dally Sunday Hr) tBy Carnrr IWbuji tun Hoattlrl BLUDGEONED LONG CAREER IS ENDED Explosion Fire Ki Is 25 In Atlanta Hotel Strikers Win JobRights In High Court Mackay Ruling Says Le-gal Walkouts Do Not End Employment Death Takes Valentine McClatchy Former Part Owner Of Sacramento And Fresno Bees Dies Suddenly Three Suspects Held Another Is Hunted In Killing Of Rich Broker Powerfully Built Man Is Sought As Kern Oakland Officers Combine To Solve Mathias Warren Slaying (MrClatchjr Newspapers Service) BAKERSFIELD (Kern Co) May Police Chief Robert Powers of Bakersfield today asked state wide aid in a search for a powerfully built man about 40 years of age who is wanted as a suspect in the bludgeon murder here Saturday night of Mathias Warren 73 wealthy Bakersfield property owner and father of District Attorney Earl Warren of Alameda County Powers said the suspect Probably "Strauss Famed Bridge Builder Dies In South Is lefthsnded and has between $300 and 500 stolen from Warren's pocket book He is described ss five feet ten inches tall sandy complexion and wearing overalls when last seen He Is the fourth man sought for questioning Three other already are held by the police The officers say the feet the slayer used an eighteen Inch length McClatchy Socialists Seize Mexico Campus Shoot Students Buildings Are Retaken After Gunfire From Roofs Wounds Eight MEXICO CITY May After clashes in which eight per- LABOR BOARD WINS Reinstatement Is Held Obligatory After Unfair Practice Conviction WASHINGTON May The supreme court ruled today that working men who strike as a result of an unfair labor practice by their employer are entitled to protection of the National Labor Relations Act This decision was given in upholding an order by the National Labor Relations Board directing the Mackay Radio and Telegraph Company to reinstate five radio operators who had gone on strike in San Francisco in 1935 Justice Roberts who delivered the decision asserted that the strikers remained employes under the labor act "and were protected against the unfair labor practices denounced by In presenting its position to the court the labor board had conceded That an order of reinstatement is not authorized under the act unless there has been an unfair labor practice" Charles Fahy general counsel for the board said In a brief statement that 'It is gratifying that the court held that a trial examiner's report which is usually required under our procedure was not essential" No Dissenters Roberts announced no dissent Justices Cardoso and Reed did not participate The court reversed an opinion by the ninth circuit court of appeal The court said further the board's order did not violate the fifth amendment to the constitution Betnain Employes Roberts continued: "The plain meaning of the act is that if men strike in connection with a current labor dispute their action is not to be construed as a renunciation of the employment relation and they remain employes for the remedial purposes specified In the act We have held that in the exercise of the commerce power congress may impose upon contractual relationships reasonable regulations calculated to protect commerce against threatened industrial strife" The circuit court had held the men were no longer after they struck It added that employment was a contract relation which could not be Imposed upon the company and workmen Strike Failure Told The board told the supreme court that the San Francisco branch of the American Radio Telegraphists Association engaged In an unsuccessful strike after failure to reach an agreement with the company on wages and working conditions for its radio operators Following the collapse of the strike three days later the board said the company reinstated six of the employes and dropped five The board contended four of these had been leaders in the strike and were refused reinstatement in order to discourage membership in the ARTA The fifth was described as a member of the union This the board asserted violated the labor act barring unfair labor practices and guaranteeing collective bargaining to workmen Republic Steel Case Order The supreme court at the request of the government ordered the third circuit court of appeal at Philadelphia today to show cause why it should not permit the National Labor Relations Board to recall its order against the Republic Steel Corporation After the circuit court had refused last Friday to authorize withdrawal of the litigation Solicitor General Robert Jackson and Charles Fahy general counsel of the labor board asked the supreme court -for a writ of mandamus to compel the desired action National League Boston 5 10 1 Brooklyn 4 6 0 MarFayden and Muel ler: Fitzsimmons Pressnell Mar row and Phelps New York 3 8 2 Philadelphia 12 13 0 Schumacher Lohrman Vandenberg and Danning Wallers and Atwood Only games scheduled sons were wounded students of the'p1 hJ 4edUaat in the histoiy of Atlanta" University of Mexico today reoccu-i Collapse of the roof plunging pied university buildings which had debris through charred floors to the basement cut off hope of survival for any who were trapped Only the walls were left standing The flames broke out with an explosion in the basement kitchen shortly after 3 AM Jump Breaks Neck Five persons jumped One man unidentified who leaped from a fourth floor window died of a broken neck A dozen hose lines still poured water through shattered windows at dawn Ambulances were lined up In the plaza of the Southern Railway station across a street from the hotel waiting for the discovery of other victims List Or Dead The identified dead: James Bonds 3L Knoxvin Tenn a truck driver A Bunn (or Munn) McBeait Ga Wilson Muscadine Ain Western Union employe Dr Gordon Jonnson Lecompetew La Carl Roberts Birmingham Morris Fitzgerald Ga rail road engineer Suttieworth Nashville Jimmy Overstreet 10 Knoxville Tenn been seized by Socialists hostile to to Institution The students recaptured their buildings in a concerted attack around noon after earlier forays had been beaten off by the Socialists whose fire from roof tops wounded several students Several hundred members of "socialist youth" armed with pistols and knives seized the main university building the preparatory school and the schools of commerce and law before darn and defied efforts of the police and firemen to eject them Students then took up the fight and shortly after noon completed reoccupation of all buildings scaling the walls of adjoining buildings and advancing over roof tops Immediately Filiberto Fentsnes leader of the Socialists asked and received guarantees they would not be molested Then they began evacuation of the buildings One Socialist gravely wounded by bullet was found in the main building The university rector Chico Georne attributed the seizure to government encouraged attempt to introduce Socialistic teachings in higher Institutions of learning and desire to end the university's rke Whole Families Die In Wind Swept Blaze Only Dozen Get Out MORE DEAD HUNTED (Tragic Scenes In Old Hostelry Are Described: Thirteen Are Injured ATLANTA May W) which started in a basement kitchen killed twenty five persons at the Terminal Hotel early today left thirteen Injured and an undeter mined number of others missing More than dozen persons were rescued or leaped to safety Reports to firemen and the police Indicated from fifty to sixty five persons were registered in the sixty two room five story brick and frame building A high wind fanned the flames Engineers estimated two days would be required to clear out the wreckage Roof Drops In Many of the dead were found In the charred timbers and steel which dropped from the roof carry ing away the burning floors Police Chief A Hornsby ex pressed belief or fifteen more1 bodies would be found in the mass of debris piled up on the street level The speed with which the flames gained headway amazed witnesses Police Lieutenant Laater said he was five blocks away in a patrol car when he saw the fire shoot up and that by the time he arrived smoke veiled all the building Heard Cries Prayers "I couldn't see them" he said "but I could hear people on the upper floors crying out and pray ing" Mayor Will Hartsfleld said thil hotel was of a construction type no longer permitted under the city building code but had been re modeled somewhat from Its original status The fire was described by Fire (Continued On Page 2-A CoL lk In The Bee Today Paco Calling All Dogs 3B Cartoons 6B City News In Brief 2A Classified Advertising 4-5B Club News 4A Comics 6A Contract Bridge 5A Crossword Puzzle 8A Dorothy Dix 5A Editorials 6B Financial News Markets 4B Health 4A Household Arts 5A Glorifying Yourself 5A Mary Hampton 5A Public Thinks 6B News Behind The News 6B Patterns 5A Radio 3A Serial Story IS Social News 4A SpOrta eneeiaeaeneee 23B Vital Statistics 4B Weather IB Your Baby and Mine 5A Drastic Price Slash On the Newest Stewart-Warner 1938 Refrigerators Not Left-Over or Floor Sample A large family aise with porcelain vegetable freshener and complete set of nino enow white Vltrock special rtfrlgsra-tiou dishes complete Corns In today and get tha lowest price ever offered oa the famous Stewart-Warner Your Budget Terms Will Be With Us 1254FltM Mathias Warren wealthy father of District Attorney Earl Warren of Alameda County who was found murdered in his home in Bakersfield early yesterday His skull was battered with an iron pipe Redding Wins Water Fight In SuprenreCourt Utility Fails To Block PWA Grant Texas Gas Case Is Returned WASHINGTON May The California Water Service Com-Ipany failed in the supereme court today in Its effort to enjoin the city of Redding Calif from receiving and spending a public works administration grant of $162000 to aid the city in building a municipal water works The high court affirmed a decision of a three judge federal district court in Northern California that the city was entitled to build a water system if the company did not choose to sell its own to the municipality The water company told the high court the purpose of the grant was to "force the company to sell Its water works system to the city at an unfairly low price" Answering this contention the city argued that PWA Administrator Ickes motives in making the grant could not be challenged because he was not a party to the litigation Texas Case Is Sent Back The high Court returned to Texas courts today for further proceedings litigation involving a 1933 order by the Texas Railroad Commission directing the Lone Star Gas Company to reduce from 40 to 32 cents per thousand cubic feet its charge for gas sold to distributing companies in 275 Texas municipalities Chief Justice Hughes delivering the opinion said the Texas Court of Civil Appeal had held thst the gas company had not "sustained its burden of proof because it ha failed to make 1 proper segregation of interstate and intrastate properties and business' Hughes said the "determination of the court of first instance as the trier of the facts that the commission's rate was confiscatory could not properly be set aside by the application of an untenable standard of proof and In disregard of the evidence which had been appropriately addressed to the findings and had been properly submitted to the Jury" Black Dissents Justice Black dissented and Justice Cardoso did not participate The supreme court reversed a ruling by the Texas Court of Civil Appeal holding the city gate rate of 32 rents to be "Just reasonable and valid in every The litigation has been described as the biggest gas rate controversy in the history of the Southwest Fending a final decision by the supreme court the old rates were permitted to remain in effect with the understanding that the difference in the amount would he refunded In the company lost No estimate of the amount Involved was given American League Philadelphia 3 8 1 Cleveland 4 12 2 Batteries: Thomas and Brurker Allen Hudlln and Pytlak IT Washington 7 7 1 Detroit 13 11 4 Chase Kohlman Phe-hus Kelley and Ferrell Giuliani Kennedy and York Only games scheduled WAS 80 YEARS OLD Demise Follows Heart Attack In Apartment At San Francisco (McClatchy Newspapers Service) SACRAMENTO May Valentine Stuart McClatchy 80 formerly part owner of The Sacramento Bee and The Fresno Bee passed away suddenly yesterday morning at 11 o'clock In the Stanford Court Apartments in San Francisco where he resided The funeral services will be con ducted here tomorrow at 2 o'clock in the Clark Booth A Yardley Chapel 917 Street Rev William Hermitage of the Episcopal Church will officiate Friends will be welcome Private services will follow in the East Lawn Crematorium Was In Good Health McCIatchy's death was a shock to his family and friends as he had been enjoying the best of health and was active in his business enterprises As was his custom he visited in Sacramento last week was greeted by many of his old time friends at the Sutter Club of which he was a charter member Calls Physician While in his apartment yesterday McClatchy 1 became ilL Without notifying his wife who was there also he telephoned his physician Dr John Graves but when the doctor arrived McClatchy was dead having passed away apparently from a heart attack McClatchy enjoyed robust health despite his years although he suffered a serious Illness few years ago due to pneumonia Interested In Sports In his younger years he took an active part In sports of various kinds He always was Interested in boxing and was adept in the manly art of self defense He also was a bicycle enthusiast in the days before the automobile and was a member of one of the city's first formed rowing dubs As a tribute to the memory of his father James McClatchy and Mrs McClatchy in January 1927 purchased JoyUnd Park in Oak Park from the Pacific Gas and Electric Company and donated it to the City of Sacramentoi Formed Realty Company After selling his interest in the Sacramento Bee and The Fresno Bee to his brother the lute Mode tchy in 1923 as he was familiarly known entered the real estate and investment fields forming the McQatchy Realty Company here On February 9 1931 and Mrs Mcdstchy observed their fiftieth wedding anniversary In San Francisco with five of their eight chil dren being present Testimonial Dinner and his wife were honored at a testimonial dinner and public reception in the Elks Temple on January 14 1937 The affair was sponsored by the Sacramento Ledge of Elks of which was a member in recognition of his service as a citizen to the dty of Sacramento Born In Sacramento Valentine Stuart McClatchy was born in Sacramento August 29 1857 the ton of the late James Me-Clstchy California pioneer who founded The Sacramento Bee and of the late Charlotte McCormack Mcdatchy He was educated In the public schools of Sacramento and at Santa Clara College After graduating from college he worked in an Oakland bank and in the subtreasury of San Francisco Upon the death of his father In 1S83L returned to Sacramento (Continued On Page I-A CoL 5) Hand Grenade 'Toy' Kills Boy in China SHANGHAI May i-Seven year old Igor Yavtreb playing in the bomb strewn ruins of the Hong-kew section found a new toy Today It killed it was a hand grenade He was the child of a white (anti Soviet) Russian family Two other white Russians identified as Ivan Hovaresh 35b and Alexander Pekkar 34 were shot by Japanese sentries in Hon skew Hov aresh fatally The sentries rharged the pair when carrying off loot 1 thought I would kill him" police said Kullander told them "I did not know whether he had a gun but it seemed reasonable to suppose he did I raised the hammer over his head "Suddenly I thought of the thou ahalt not kill I' couldn't kill him" By that time the burglar sensed something was wrong looked up and submitted to the Jeweler's mend that he march ahead of him down the corridor As Kullander called for aid the man twisted out of his hands and disappeared down' an alley He had obtained only a $10 locket befort being surprised Engineer For Golden Gate Span Succumbs Of Heart Attack In A LOS ANGELES May Joseph Strauss 68 engineer for San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge and other world famous structures died today of a heart attack In his apartment here Strauss rsme to Los Angeles for the benefit of his health but ha was not seriously ill until stricken by coronary m-bonis March 28th lie had been under the care of a physician since then At his bedside' when he died at (AM were his wife his two sons Richard and Ralph a nurse and his physician Dr II Schneider Funeral services Wednesday will be private Strauss was born In Gndnnati and was graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1892 later serving that Institution as Instructor In the engineering department He began his business career as draftsman for the New Jersey Steel A Iron Company Trenton acted as designer for the Sanitary District of Chicago and then founded the Strauss Engineering Corporation of Chicago and San Francisco Invented Bridge Type He was the originator of five types of the Strauss trunnion bascule bridge which Is standard throughout the world and also originated two types of lift bridges He invented a portable searchlight used by the United States and Russian Governments in the world war Among the 500 bridges be constructed in the United States Canada and European countries were the $12000000 Montreal-South Shore and the Columbia River Bridge at Longview Wash second largest of cantilever construction ever built' He was desigtng engineer for the Arlington Memorial Bridge across the Potomac River at Washington and consulting engineer for the Port of New York Authority on the George Washington Memorial Bridge Strauss designing for the Golden Gate Bridge Is recognized as the finest In existence This bridge is the longest single span in the world the main span being 4200 feet and the total length 9 200 feet Dream Of Twenty Years Is Realized SAN FRANCISCO May IS Joseph Strauss who died In Los Angeles today brought to reality what he called "a bridge builder's dream" 1 when the Golden Gate Bridge longest suspension span in the world was completed last year For twenty year while he was busy building great spans In other parts of the world Strauss dreamed of bridging the Golden Gate entrance to San Francisco Harbor The small alender white haired engineer realized the dream when the 35000000 structure which hangs suspended from giant towers for 9200 feet across the Golden Gate was completed During the reign of Nicholas II of Russia Strauss built the famed bridge to the Winter Palace of the car over the Neva River He spanned rivers In Japan and China and later built bridgea for the Norwegian Danish and Swedish railway systems He leaves two sons Ralph Strauss first lieutenant in the United Statea Army at Fort Sill Okla and Richard a Stanford University graduate now an engineer in the Chicago office of Strauss A Falne Valentine Japan Tightens Iron Ring Around Besieged Suchow a Fall Of Rail Junction Is Expected Momentarily Thousands Trapped SHANGHAI May Japanese army spokesmen tonight announced thst Nippon's gigantic net of steel was steadily being drawn tighter around strategic Suchow with one column driving forward less than ten miles from that city where thousands of Chinese are trapped This column leading in what the Japanese called the race for the nerve center of the Central China battle area was advancing after capturing Siaohsien fifteen miles southwest of Suchow 906900 Set For Attack The war offered the dramatic spectacle of Japanese forces estimated at 20000(1 well equipped with tanks planes and heavy artillery moving in from all directions on Suchow where the vital east-west Lunghai Railway crosses the north-south Tientsin-Pukow line Japanese declared they had cut the Lunghai both at Tangshan west of the junction and Sinan chen to the east Roughly a circle Chiang Flees SHANGHAL May A Japanese Army spokesman declared today that General Chiang Kai-Shek China's war leader bad fled by airplane May 11th to Chungking one of temporary capitals Chungking in Szechwan Province is on the Yangtze River 1000 miles from the sea or some forty miles ndious described the contracting Japanese net inside which Chinese strength was estimated at forty divisions of 6000 or 7000 men each Chines Refute Claims (In Peiping Japanese officers estimated the Chinese strength between Sintnchen and Lanfeng 200 miles -west of Suchow at eighty divisions) Sharply challenging Japanese assertions that the Chinese must either surrender or perish i spokesman for tha Chinese high command at Hankow declared the 'Japanese were "still remote from the Lunghai both in distance and strength" The Japanese asserted it would be only a matter of hours before they actually assault the strategic city for which they have been fighting for months Rail Rout Is Reported (Communiques issued by Japan's North China army headquarters at Peiping declared that China's defense of the Lunghai Railway was turning into a rout with all lines collapsed and chaos observable on all fronts Beeeiged Town Is Taken Pihsien long besieged city twenty miles northwest of Suchow wss captured and the Chinese defenders were driven across the Grand Canal the Japanese dispatches said General Count Juichi Terauchl commander of Japanese forces in North China moved his headquarters to un undisclosed point "somewhere south of Peiping" assuming personal command of the "final drive" to rrush Chinese resistance in the Suchow Railway zone of two inch pipe picked up in the hack yard of the wealthy man's small home et 707 Niles Street in dlcates he probably did not approach the home with the intent of killing Warren though he might have planned to rdb him Blows Crush Skull They believe the slaying was the result of a sudden Impulse which flared with the discovery of the 1 lpe as a weapon Acting on this I mnpulse the officers believe the killer softly pushed open the unlocked back door tiptoed across the room to where Warren sat in his easy chair and rained blow after blow on the alight elderly man's head from behind The blows shattered bis skull The slayer then apparently stole from 1300 to $500 and a checkbook from Warren's pockets later throwing the checkbook away on the ground of the Washington School one block north and one west of the Warren home The checkbook was picked up on the school ground by a child yesterday Bay Officers Assist Participating with Bakersfield and Kern County officials In the most extensive murder Investigation here In many years are bay district experts In murder Inquiries District Attorney Earl Warren flew to Bakersfield today to Join in the Investigation The prosecutor who has sent tnore than 200 murderers to prison Including many to the gallows spent his last few minutes in Oakland comforting hi mother 70 year old Mrs Chrystal Warren who has been visiting him Ai a routine step in the inquiry the Kern officers have made a thorough check of all transients In the vicinity Farm Worker la Held They arrested Huley Bell farm laborer hut Chief of Inspectors Thomas Hildreth of the Bakersfield police says they do not believe he had any eonnection with the crime The officers declare Bell was intoxicated and was heard to mutter: "1 didn't kill the man'' They plan to question him Curtis Wetrne 45 of River-view a former tenant of Warren who according to the officers was 0 -puled to have made threats 'ainst his ex landlord was detained for Investigation Sheriffs officers arrested Chris Gonzales on a "hunch" In connection with the case They say clothes bore stains they think might have been blood and that he told them he had been drinking William A Reed a carpenter who worked for Warren In the maintenance of his many Bakersfield rental properties found the body of his employer at 9 o'clock yesterday morning Reed had an appointment to see Warren at his home at that hour He found the back door open and when he received no answer to his knock entered the house He found the kitchen floor spattered with blood and letters and legal documents strewn about Body Is Found On Bed Tit the bedroom he saw Warren's body lying in a natural position on the bed face up The covers were pulled up in a natural position chest high How the body got in this position Is not yet explained to the satisfaction of the officers They are uncertain whether Warren fatally Injured made his way to the bed and pulled up the covers or whether the slayer carried the body into the bedroom They are (Continued On Fage S-B) For The BEST DEAL In Town Visit The Plymouth Pelletier Crocket 1501 Broadway autonomy Associates of the Agrarian leader General Saturninl Cedillo charged today that President Cardenas was trying to "drive him to rebellion' to distract the public from the administration's troubles Has Feasant Following Cedillo who has an armed peasant following to whom he had allotted land on his estate In San Luis PotosL broke with Cardenas last August and quit the ministry of agriculture The latest rumors of rebellion this weekend sent more federal troops into San Luis Potosi Cedillo stronghold northwest of here Under virtual martial law they mounted guns on rooftops Cedillo's friends here said he had promised through representatives not to revolt if Cardenas discontinued moving troops Into the state but Cardenas refused There are now nearly 9000 soldiers there whereas the usual garrison Is 3000 to 4000 If this movement be continued Cedillo associates here predicted an uprising might result The government was permitting the situation to develop these informants contended to camouflage its troubles over oil climaxed onj Friday by the breaking off of diplomatic relations with Great Britain Polish Flying Five Reach Canal Zone COLON (C Z) May Five Polish fliers enroute from California to Poland arrived at France Field at 1:28 PM today The fliers will take off for Cuay-aquil Ecuador tomorrow They flew here from Guatemala City Thief's Life Spared As Commandment Is Recalled BETSY ROSS BREAD brings sew flavor to BREAKFAST LUNCH DINNER DES MOINES (Iowat May XV-Hesitancy of Albert Kullander Jeweler to break the commandment "thou shatt not kill" probably saved the life of a burglar he surprised In the act of looting a safe containing several thousand dollars worth of gems and settings Kullander was in the rear of the Jewelry office when the burglar picked the lock on the front door entered noticed a safe door ajar and bent over to scoop up the Jewels Unable to reach the telephone the Jeweler picked up a four pound machinist's hammer from a work bench stepped unnoticed behind the burglar and poised the hammer jKec bead Tho Time To 3(odornizo 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