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BEE 3 THE WEATHER Partly cloudy to-night and Frt day lightly wanner 8 Weather Bureau forecast LARGEST NEWSPAPER IN THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY THB HE PUBLICAN VOL 23 NO 3981 FRESNO CAL THURSDAY EVENING DECS MBER 7 PAGES (TWO SECTIONS) Inured eecend-elene natter Pr Coer Daily la Bander lSe) Oct 17H im at Frame CalU (Br Carrlet Delivery (M Month) I THE Anxious Taxpayers NORTHWEST GALE $5780 A Year! High Up On NRA Payroll Two Fresnans Shot To Death In Feud Their Slayer Held Robert Rush Kills John And Louis Photos In What Police Declare To Be Dispute Over Gambling Claims Self-Defense In Street Shooting Two men are dead and afiollier held without bond in jail on murder charges aa the result of what the police said was a feud which reached a climax early to-day at Broadway and Mariposa Street with pistol shots The dead are John Photos 3G aud Louis Photos 2(1 hia brother both nf 1140 Merced street Hubert Kush 45 is the man held for the slaying The motive wae obscure hut in vestigating officers said witnesses told them Louis Photos accused Rush of bilking him nf $1000 They said Rush claims he knows nothing shout such a deal The police said Rush admitted he fired the shots but claimed ha did so in self defense after ha was attacked The men slain ara tha sons of Mrs Christina Photos of the Merced Rtreet address manner Remains Kllent Rush would make no statement excepting to say tha Photos brothers had beaten him "I am Mind In one eye and they nearly blinded the other ha said Attorney Benson said ha had been retained by Rush to represent him and that it was nn hia advlrs that Kush would make no statement After his arrest by Detective Sergeant A Scott at a local hotel where he has been living Rush was treated at the emrr gency hospital for bruises and contusions nn the head ha said he received at tha hands of tha Photos brothers Louis Photos was dead when ha was taken to the emergency hospital from the scene nf the shooting John Photos died a few minutes later Both had bullet wounds In tha chest fired at close rang with a small caliber automatic pistol Quarrel recede Shooting The argument which led to tha shooting began In front of a restaurant nn Broadway near Marl-pn-a Rtreet the police said Witnesses told the police that they heard angry vntre--mt -theit-tha Photos brothers attacked Rush At that time tha three men had moved from In front of tha restaurant toward Mariposa Rtrest About thirty feet from tha corner Rush pressed hia pistol against the side of John Photos and fired but Photos did not fall and hs fired again Around tha corner on Mariposa Rtreet Louis Photos was shot In ths him manner at close range and died almost Instantly Rush then went to his hotel on Mariposa Street hear Street where ha waa arrested a few minutes later hy Rcott after witnesses had told ths of I leers who had dona tha shooting Known As Gamblers The police said the three men are known to them at gamblers Although acquaintances of all three interviewed early this morning by tha police said there was bad blood between the men none was abl to tell the officers tha causa of the fight Coroner If Kennedy took charge of tha bodies Louis Photos is survived hy a son 8 years old and a widow In Kalina A sister Rophie lives in Northern California relatives said Rush waa taken Into the polire court where Polirs Judge Gibbs ordered him held without TAKES 10 LIVES FISHERMEN LOST Wind-Felled Tree Crushes Two To Death In Wash ington Camps BANKER SHIPPING MAN STORM VICTIMS Traffic Tied Up Cascade Peak Highway Passes Clogged With Snow By The Attocfn led Pmt) SEATTLE Dec The toll of Winter's first severe storm In the Thieifie Northwest stood at a nos-alble ten deaths to-day with six of the victims missing through fishing boat wrecks and an fishing boat off ths west coast of Vancouver Island Two of tha boats the 1629 and tha Bella' were ashore battered wrecks and tha Soien Knut-sen was missing Einard Oksvlk owner of the Bella Ola Hansen of the 1629 and 8oren Knut sen of ths Soren Knutsen were unaccounted for Little hope was held for their safety however nor for their companions Fishermen at Victoria said that undoubtedly each of the boats carried additional fishermen Two of the other deaths were logging camp fatalities with Paul Massar 50 being killed by a wind-felled tree at Buckley Wash and Thore Haasing 65 being crushed by a tree in a Grays Harbor County camp In Washington Auto Fatalities The other two fatalities were auto deaths A blinding rain in Western Oregon was blamed for an automobile collision in which Robert McBride 43 a prominent Portland shipping company representative was killed near Salem last night Elmer I Wilson 72 Burlington Wash banker was killed bv a motorist blinded by the heavy rain and wind The two-dav storm bearing torrential rains high winds and heavy snowfall over a wide area let up vesterday afternoon In tho Puget Sound area but the weather bureau predicted a new storm to-day Traffic Handicapped Land and water traffic was tied up or handicapped farm lands flooded highway passes In the Cascade Mountains clogged with snow nd basements In various cities flooded -by tha water A total of 4J Inches of rain fell at Salem Ore The Columbia River Highway and the lower Columbia River Highway were cloeed temporarily vi treffie hy slides and high water A elide twenty miles east of Portland delayed tha Portland Rose Union Pacific passenger train more than six hours and another near Oregon City delayed a southbound Southern Pacific train Deeds nf watchfulness and heroism which were credited with preventing a possible train wreck were performed by Mrs Julius Ia Meier wife of the Oregon governor and Hubert Rigej 13 of New Ere Ore The Blgej hoy weiking along a Southern sriflc track near New Era saw the treck bed give way with a roar and plunge into a river He raced back to New Era to give the alarm and a tlepranh operator did the rest Mrs Meier was also credited with having been driving on a highway and seeing the washout and making a report Distress Sales Of Gasoline Hit In Industry Plan WASHINGTON Dee The oil industry to-day aubmitted to Petroleum Administrator Irkea a seif-management' plan fnclutltTnr provision for an equalization fund deaigned to prevent distress sales of gasoline Ickes withheld decision nn the plan pending further analysis Its backers however were privately hopeful that it would both meet tha secretary's demands and would make any kind of price fixing unnecessary The proponents were represented as believing that prices of crude oil are satisfactory for the time being and that control nf excess gasoline stocks accumulated in anticipation of the oil code will serve to correct price maladjustments The plan was understood to propose the withholding from the market of many millions of barrels of gasoline by purchase with funds contributed by members of the industry Such supplies estimated at from ten to fifteen million barrels would then be released slowly so as not to disturb the market It wae said In ona quarter that prnpontits of pries fixing In the industry were willing to allow a test of tha plan for a period of say ninety days RAPS M'S STAND ON LYNCH President Urges Judiciary Re form In Church Councils Speech ROPE VIOLENCE BRANDED 'COLLECTIVE Executive Calls For A 'More Certain By All Government By FREDERICK A STORM (United Preaa Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON Dec Mob rule and lynching! t-day atood outlawed In the New Deal by President Rooeevelt In a hard-hitting speech before an audience of churchmen here the nation's chief executive heaped condemnation upon "collective murder" and called for abolition of violence through reform of the Judiciary "Wa do not excuse those In high places or In low who condone lynch law" the president said Marylanders Also Hit To many his utterances were clearly regarded as a atlnging rebuke to Governor James Rolph Jr of California for hia attitude toward lynchers of two kidnapers and to Maryland officials for their part in recent eastern shore disturbance Roosevelt's address was delivered last night to the Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America at Constitutional Hall He took occasion not only to excoriate actual lawbreakers but also those who conceal their wrongdoing! by legal technicalities In conclusion however he sounded an optimietia note with the cheerful statement that: "From the bottom of my heart believe that this beloved country of ours is entering upon a tima of great gain" Cites New Deal Creed The president swung Into his observations of recent violence by first citing tha new deal creed and then expressed confidence that the younger generation would not be found wanting "This new generation for example" the president said "Is not content with preachings against that Vila form of collective lynch which has broken out in our midst anew We know that It Is murder and a deliberate and definite disobedience of the commandment Thou shait not Wa do not excuse those In high places oi' in low who condone lynch law "But a thinking America goes further It seeks a government of its own that will be sufficiently strong to protect the prisoner and at tha same tima to crystalizs a public opinion so clear that government of all kinds will be compel to practice a mors certain justice Quick And Certain Justice "Tha judicial function of government ie the protection of the individual and of tha community through quick and certain justice That function In many places has fallen Into a sad state or disrepair It must hs a part of our program to re-establish it" In the first part of his address Roosevelt traced tha early growth nf Christianity and Its challenges to the pagan ethics c( Roma and Greece Hs paralleled this with challenges that now are hurled down to "the pagan ethics that ere represented In many phases of our boasted modern civilization" "We have called on enlightened business Judgment on understanding labor and on Intelllgsnt agriculture to provide a more equltehle balance of the abundant life be- (Contlnued On Page 8-A Col S) Hill-Dor say Wedding Is Quiet Ceremony HOLLYWOOD Dec In a ceremony attended by only four friends Fill Dorsay French film actress and Maurice Hill son nf a Chicago manufacturer were married here yesterday afternoon The marriage of the actress and Hill came after a three weeks' "trial honeymoon" in which accompanied by chaperons they lived under the same roof The witnesses were Mr and Mrs Vernon Wood and Mr and Mrs Roland Becker Wood Is Miss Dorsay'e business manager and Becker her Honeymoon plane are indefinite tour manager Problem Says Will Is To Create Taste BEVERLY IIILLS Dec 7 Editor Tho Bee Sir: Well sir from vrhat I can read and hear to-day folks stood tho shock of getting a drink (without giving their name) in mighty good shape Course the one that are clear we won hear of for days But it looked like everything went off better than expected You sec the whole problem is getting people from bad drinks back on to good drinka You take 'a good bucking horse rider lie would rather ride a bad horse than a nice gentle one So it 'a going to take time to get Vm to having a sociable drink without watching the door Yours WILL ROGERS FIND BRISK SALE IN NEJMfORK Manhattan Jams Liquor Stores Waits In Line For Legal Beverages SPEAKEASIES DESERTED BRIGHT SPOTS IN OPEN Administration Plans To Cfub Prices Down To Reach Of Slim Purses By IYAIK HARRISON NEW YORK Dec (47-Busl ness was popping around town today with all the pep of a rork from a bottle of champagne Activity at liquor warehouses mads the places look like the bleacher entrance to the Folo Grounds at a world aeries game Wins and liquor stores were eo busy that one nf them had to call the police to disperse lines of customers at closing time Smart hotels were gleefully reporting record buslnese Some despite large stocks of liquor found their supplies nearly exhausted even before the cocktail hour yesterday Many Orders Unfilled Drivers of liquor trucks worked aa lung aa twenty-four hours at a tired but glad Ona wine firm had mada deliveries of 16000 rases early to-day and waa still far behind In filling orders Department stores selling liquor found their aisles packed like a PaycMrPorlcr! IIere9s How To Refuse Wine WASHINGTON Dec (47 that wines are bark in circulation In certain places It might be illuminating to consult old etiquetta books nn how to turn them down as well as how to serve them Deb Randolph Kelm a social mentor here in 188U ruled: "Any guest not wish ing to partake should simply rest the Index finger nn the glass when tha servant appears with the decanter" To this observation is added "It would ba tha height of ill manners on such an occasion to express opinions against the use of wines Persona invited to a dinner shrild acquiesce In all Its accompaniments or declina ths Invitation" rush-hour subway train Most customers asked for rye but if there was no rye they tok gin and if no gin then brandy The demand for wines was surprisingly large Claret and sherry were the favorites but ports and tokays had their enthusiasts Even the upper strata ths sparkling burgundies and champagnes were moving off shelves st lively speed 2JNN) Kales An Hour Macy's cash register marked 2000 liquor sales an hour The sidewalks in front of Gimbals were four abreael The liquor department noted 10000 sales when the closing hell sounded Inst night Imported Scotch was not to be had in package late yesterday afternoon the supply having been quickly gobbled or down Liners and freighters are arriving dally with cargoes from Europe The Cameronla of tha Anchor line will dock Monday with 28000 cases California Vvlne Popular Wines from the California wineries are pouring in by the carload and ara finding a strong demand Signs reading "cocktails are now being served" decorate the windows of restaurants The Childs restaurant chain is serving beer and wines between 8 A and with cocktails after that hour Prices are under tha speakeasy scale In most places Domestic wines are offered as low as 20 cents a glass Cocktails range from 30 cents to 50 cents What? No Olivo A shortage of expert dispensers has been noticeable An order for dry martini cocktail at ona restaurant required twenty minutes In fulfillment and finally arrived with a red cherry nestling a bewildered outcaet where a green olive should have been The snap-up of business was contagious with other lines of trade ehowing better figures on tho sales tape A demand for beer more authoritative than 32 waa promptly met tho new percentages running bo-tween 4 and 6 per cent Speakeasy Belt Gloomy Gloom that was thick enough to cut with a broadsword hung about the speakeasy belt the forties and fifties Most of the spots that wera considered very la-de-da during prohibition wera dark last night tbs proprietors cautiously awaiting licenses Rome that were open found business disappointing the trade having veered toward the grills nf the leading taverns and hrvtelrie The Park Lane with Its baron-wheels had yesterday tha largest luncheon crowd it ever had The Blltmore reported the greatest luncheon crowd since the armistice and the Commodore the same The Pennsylvania had tha joyous experience of observing customers waiting iii line at tha dining rooms The Aator the Waldorf-Astoria and other leading Manhattan hotels told the same story FLAN PRICK REDUCTION WASHINGTON Dec Determined to bring the prices for whiskies ryes and other newly legalixed potables Into easier reach of slim pocketbooks federal officials to-day contemplated Increasing liquor importations to swell the domestic supply The admlnielratlon also prepared to use as a club if necessary its authority over the prices charged (Continued On Pegs 6-A Col 1) Watch As Utilities Appraisal Is Begun Tremendous Job Faces State Board May Mean 20 Per Cent Reduction In Levies On Other Property Tests Riley Plan By HERBERT PHILLIPS (MrClatchy Newspapers Service) SACRAMENTO Dee 7 state board ot equalization has tackled a $1250000000 job This outstanding job to-day reported actively under way ia not liquor control or tlie sales tax administration but the accurate valuation of all the public utility properties in California Upon this valuation depends whether the taxpayers will gain much or little from the Riley tax plan return of the utility property to the local tax rolls in 1935 It is roughly estimated by revenue authorities that tha public serv-ire corporations own holdings worth $1250000000 throughout the state What these properties actually total must ba thoroughly determined before March 1935 Bark To 1911 Statue In 1935 the utilities now taxed on their gross earnings solely for state purposes will be back where they were before 1910 on the local tax rolls taxed on the bans of their property Already with the valuation work just beginning observers and agencies concerned with a fair valuation of the utility holdings and a consequent decrease in the burden on common property now paying government costs are centering attention oi a prime factor in the the valuation figures filed by ths utilities with the state railroad commission They contend that these figures presented by the utilities themselves as a basis for the rates they charge for service are of the utmost importance' in arriving at the proper total of utility taxable property The board of equalization Indicating a similar feeling has gone directly to the railroad commission and obtained the services of Its chief valuation engineer A Mott to be the chief of ths board's utility appraisal Mott fa thoroughly familiar with the valuation claims of the utilities before the railroad commission Anil it is reported ha Is to be given a free hand In the selection of qualified assistants to carry through tha state-wide task before him Whils no public statement has been Issued the word is understood to have gone out that no political interference or pressure will be tolerated In the work which must be accomplished during the coming year Understatement Not expected Experts on public tax matters looking to the railroad commission files as bearing significantly on the appraisals point out that since the utilities are assured a fair return on their investments It is certainly not to be expected that they have understated the totals in the data they have filed for rate fixing The records are declared to hold a wealth of material which will be utilized in supplying the stats and local govemmenta with a complete appraisal picture It Is emphasized of course that while utillfy service rates to the consumer are based upon Invested capital taxes must be based In effect upon what that invested capital Is worth what it would sell for in the open market Nonetheless tha railroad commission figures are asserted to be an index to the situation which Is not to be overlook sd May Be Even Higher In the cases of some utilities it is anticipated by finance authorities that the taxable holdings will prove even greater than the figures which have been furnished the railroad commission in rate casea Their selling value to-day In other words may ba higher than ths Invested capital The value of the properties of certain power companies for example may be substantially greater than ths invested capital while it is believed the reverse may prove true with reference to soma of the railroads In addition to the establishment of total values the-state appraisal staff Is confronted with a tremendous task in the breakdown of properties by localities the allocation of public service corporation holding! as between ths a' local taxing units All this is being watched with particular interest by officials in every section of California especially as I is anticipated In some quarters that the return of utility property to the local tax rolls will means an average reduction of 20 per cent for other property now carrying the burden From the political standpoint the utility appraisals are looker1 upon as pTacing a far greater onus on the state hoard of equalization than the sales tax liquor regulations or any of the other revenue matters within Its Jurisdiction One politician to-day put It this way: Make no mistake about it the board of equalization will rise or rail by the manner In which it handles this job Power Company ater FightMove Brings Challenge SAN FRANCISCO Dec A Joint statement was issued here to-day by State Senators Bradford Crittenden and Inman asserting that "the power corporations have finally had the courage to come out in the open" in opposing tha $170000000 central valley water project to be voted upon by the state December 19th "It is to be hoped in view of his new development" said the statement "that the power trust will have the courage to go ths full way and admit the spurious organisations original'y formed to for them are In fact manned by paid agents for the power Crittenden and Inman are officers of the state water plan association which ia supporting ths big project FEDERAL MY STATE Revenue Office Will Refuse To Allow California Officers To See Names (Hr MrClatrhs Nemsaerrs Benrlrcl SAN FRANCISCO Dec There may be two kinds of post-repeal bootleggers In California it develops to-day from a checkup of tha federal liquor control altuatlon in thia atate One kind of bootlegger ia the one who paya tha $25 federal retail liquor license fee to Collector of Internal Revenue John because ths retailer doesn't care to buck Uncle Sam for a mere but who violatea California liquor control liwi by aelling liquor for consumption on premises Bootleggers of this kind will be "protected" by Collector office to the extent that Lewis will refuse to let state officials look at hia list nf licenses Would Violate Lew Lewis declares his office "has nothing to do with tha state law" and that as far aa he officially ia concerned retailer with federal license can sell liquor "over bars or any way they wish" as long as tha federal taxes has been paid on tha liquor they sell The collector explains that his records of licenses are government secrets and that ha la liable to a penitentiary sentence if ha discloses them to any one But ths other kind of bootlegger who may try to sell moonshine or smuggled liquor that is Illicit because the federal tax has not been paid on It will find plenty of federal officers on his trail sa Lewi Uncle Barn's chief watchers over tha liquor traffic In California for thntime being will be the fifty-two field deputies of the bureau of internal revenue To some extent they will be sided by the field employes of tho bureau of industrial alcohol which agency was transferred bodily Into the internal revenue bureau yesterday by a Washington order Now Revenue Men Reinforcements for the "revenue men" will coma soon from the twenty-four federal liquor investigate: who were "prohibition agents" until prohibition was wiped from tha constitution Tuesday This is not know -officially here as vet but press dispatches from Washington say ths ex-prohis who still ar drawing their salaries will ba assigned by the department of Justice to help 'ths internal revenue bureau police tho liquor traffic Attorney General Cummings is quoted as stating the prohibition unit which since August 10th has been a branch of ths justice department's bureau of investigation will be renamed the "alcohol beverage unit" Captain A Reman heads this unit for Northern and Central California Lewis admits hia internal revenue deputies have numerous duties besides their new ones of catching moonshiners and those bootleggers who evade the federal taxes They have to collect the Income tax which is no picnic All this week the fifty-two California field deputies and sixteen colleagues from Nevada are In Lewis' offire here receiving their annual in the complicated accounting problems of the Income tax Lewi says the deputies are not being given any Instruction on liquor problems "because they already know enough about thoxa duties'1 Experts "HcIMNillcIng" "We don't expect our liquor revenue enforcement work will be a hard a job as the federal prohibition ngents Lewis says "The industry will be self-policing to a large extent Legitimate licensed and tax-paying manufacturers can be expected to report those who do not pay taxes Legitimate retailers should report evaders of the license fees There is an impetus to such self-policing now that was larking during prohibition" deputies assume tha pre-prohibition character of the famous who chased moonshiners in the hills of Kentucky and other places not so noted for moonshlning Tha collector says ths Inspectors and gaugers of the former bureau of Industrial alcohol also will help watch legitimate wlnemnkers brewers distillers and rectifiers to (Continued On Page 6-A Col 7) San Francisco Clabman Faces Bigamy Ckarge RAN FRANCISCO Dec Pllnlo Campana clubman athlete and former bank manager was charged to-day with bigamy in a warrant sworn by his former wife Mrs Frances Campana Mrs Camps nn who obtained an inleilncutcrv decree of divorce 'sat May alleged that the clubman had married a former Ran Francisco girl at Tijuana Mexico In July and that the two were In New York preparing to sail for Europe- Peace Signs Appear After White House Parley Peek To Stay WARHINGTON Dec Intervening In a heated controversy in his Agricultural Recovery Administration President Roosevelt has sought to ward off a break up In that organization by transferring much nf its cod work to General Johnson's NRA Roosevelt act ed shortly after Admlnlstra tor a a Peek went to the White House for a showdown Peek was aroused hy atntrm ants of Secretary Wallace questioning issue had See Wallace told friends that tha sented as being particularly hitter toward tha brain led hy Assistant Secretary Rex Tugwell which has insisted with- Wallers that crop re-strict ion rather 111 than marketing 1 agreements held the most hope of improving farm conditions All codes in the AAA except those relating 1 to first process- George Peek ing of farm products were ordered transferred to the NRA This was Interpreted to mean that all AAA code negotiations would be transferred except those dealing directly with raw farm produce such as milling packing and canning In strict Interpretation It was said that this would leave distillers and brewers under AAA hut not liquor wholesalers and rectifier AAA officials explained however that the degree or supervision of the Federal Alcohol Control Administration waa purely technical Peek's Face Red Tha announcement surprised those who had not seen Peek's face reddetl during Wallace's press conference when the agricultural secretary asserted that contrary to Perk's view ths hope of farmers lay in reducing their crops to the six of effective demand rathei than in tha establishment of aibl-trary values through the control in agreements end codes of ths marketing of their products Their surprise was heightened by the fact that only a few hours previously Peek had announced hie administration In December would condurt the most rode hearings since its Inception He listed thirty-seven They included milk fruits vegetables restaurants and fisheries Resigning Peace signs hovered over the dispute after President Roosevelt had conferred with ths warring leaders Peek and Tugwell both told reporters they are not resigning There waa some talk of Peek going to the NRA to take charge of the food codes just transferred there but Peek Mid he had "not heard anything about It It been considered so far as I Inquiries at the NRA developed tha Impression there that Peek would remain at the agricultural adjustment post to keep charge of some of the codes as well as of the farm act in general Preparations were mada at the NRA meanwhile to take charge of the numerous other codes dealing with farm products after the original processing which will he devised under the Johnson regime Driver Falls Off Water Wagon CHESTER (Penn) Dec 47 Wilfred Green 24 fell off the water wagon both literally and figuratively giving him ths doubtful honor of being the first man arrested in Chester on a charge of driving while Intoxicated since repeal Hia truck loaded with bottled spring water collided with an automobile yeaterday and Green toppled to tbs street Hie arreat resulted DIES RAN FRANCISCO Dec (47 George McNear 65 president of the Petroleum Products Com-ny and son of the late George McNear Rr once known a the "California grain king" died here yesterday FRANCES ROBINSON Not A Mere Stenographer WASHINGTON Dec 147-Miss Frances Robinson administrative assistant to Hugh Johnson was disclosed to-day to receive $5780 a year one of the largest NRA salaries and on a par with the compensation of soma of the most expert government employe Afier publication of tha fact in the Washington Post reporters Inquiring of Johnson were told by him: "I think that was one below the belt" The story had said Miss Robinson was elevated from a $25 week clerkship to her present sal-ary "In tha original setup of NRA' said Johnson Robinson and Bobby Straus (Robert Straus son of the ambssador to France) were personal assistants to tha ad-mtnlatrator at a salary of $5000 a year "Mins Robinson came recommended to me as an excellent ad' minlstrator and executive from RKO (Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation) In many ways she knows more about this law and this organisation than any one else I am sure that nobody hers ever thought she was a mere stenographer nr secretary She has been my personal assistant straight 4UmiiwIi through' Asked whether ha had any ob-jectlona to publication of the entire NRA payroll Johnson said he had not and that "I think people will be surprised when they see He added that only Donald Rirh-berg general counsel Alvin Brown administrative assistant and Boas Ijong deputy administrator for Puerto Rico were drawing more than $6000 That is Johnson's own salaiy THREE MEN SLAIN IN BATTLE WITH EL PASO (Texas) Dec (47 Three men were killed and an other was wounded in a battle between United States border patrolmen and liquor smugglers here eerly to-day Tha dead Dome Melton SI border patrolman shot through the heart Francisco Gonzales 25 Juarez Higlnio Perez Juarez The wounded man Francisco Mosquero Is In a serious condition in Liberty Hospital Juarez American officers seized 150 gallons nf mixed liquors Melton came here In January from Conyers Georgia His body will be sent to Conyers for burial Others Relieved Killed Patrolmen said more smugglers may have been killed They saw two men fall In the river during ths battle and are looking for the bodies They mav have been the men who are dead at Liberty Hospital Juarez The battle started when Melton and five other inspectors challenged sixteen men who had waded (Continued On Page 6-A Col 2) Automatic blocks and signal control will permit undlmlnlshed speed even during heavy fogs The trains similar in structure to modern European trains will be operated by the stats unless an agreement is reached with present bay transportation companies An additional advance of $15-600000 to finance construction of transportation facilities will he asked of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Kelly signed $3850 000 of the first block of bonds sold to the government for cash with which to build tha Immense project (Continued On Pag 6-A Col 5) Duce Sends Priest To alt Italian Gangsterism Here NEW YORK Dec 7 An Italian priest arrived to-day on tha liner Rex declaring Premier Mussolini had sent him to help America -eradicate- gangsterism Ths priest Father Lorenzo Spirals treasurer of the Augus-tlnlan order raid Italy Is resentful of those few of her younger sons in America who have lent themselves to crime "We regard these offenses against property and 'life as a reflection on the modern Italian spirit" hs said "Our premier does not dralre to Interfere in any way with American living but he la anxious to make young men ef Italian blood good dtisens where-ever they are" Father Rpirale plan to speak In all August Inian churches and to Italian American congregations Hs will reside temporarily st the rectory of St Church Philadelphia Warden Ousted For Favors To lYomanBluebeard BOISE (Idaho) Dec After a stormy session the state prison board nn a divided vote today ousted George Rudd aa warden of the Idaho Penitentiary because of alleged excessive leniency to prisoners Including Mrs Lydia Soul hard serving a ten-year to life sentence for poisoning her fourth husband The warden was removed' by a vote of two to one on a resolution of the board termisating hia services December 15th The vote wae: For removal Attorney General Miller and Secretary of State Girard Governor Roes The board by unanimous vote chose State Representative Ira Taylor of Jefferson County to succeed him The request for the resignation resulting from disclosures concerning handling of prisoners largely admitted hy the warden Included one that Mrs Southard had been taken for an automobile trip to Twin Falls 145 mile distant and there left unguarded with her mother then ilk Steamlined Bridge Fliers To Cross Bay In 9 Min utes SACRAMENTO Dee Practically noiseless streamlined trains capabls of traveling seventy or more miles an hour will operate between San Francisco and Oakland when the new bay brldga la completed according to plans revealed to-day by Earl Lea Kelly director of tne state department of public works Tha tralrs will travel from the heart of Ran Francisco to the heart of Oakland in nine minutes maintaining a sixty-mile speed serosa ths bridge ha said Platforms at ths terminals will be built flush with the car floor level.