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UelttlMl lnl i MeCUtrhy XewiMpen Service MODESTO STANISLAUS COUNTY CALIFORNIA MONDAY FEBRUARY 25 1935 TWELVE PAGES No 48 PRICE: Flee Cenli Per Copy 75c Monthly by Carrier VOL XXXVI It Is The Woman Who Pays Ex-Mayor Janies Walker shown below with his second wife the former Betty Compton told a chancery court in London to-day he is broke and that hla actress mate has been paying his traveling expenses Including their honeymoon trip Exploded When Senator Huey Lung received a mysterious package It was turned over to Washington poliee as a Here Is Burke chief of detectives exploding the story The package contained a dry cell battery and a broken bottle SKY STORMS SWEEP 1 i GIRLS HOPED TO SEA BUZZARD Divided GRIPS IMESlOn Wage Provision JOINLH LEAP FROM Letters Disclose Of Corridor To Dead Aviators Shipping Is Disrupted Distress Calls Come From Many Vessels Extortion Angle Is Heard In A Suit Policies On Power May Go To People Vision DEATH TOLL IS MISSIVES ARE READ THIRTEEN 130 ARE HURT First Returns Fail to Definitely OVER PROTEST Indicate Sentiment Of Heavy Rains Dust Wreak Misses Du Bois Are Held To Country Possibility Of Taking Roosevelt Program To Referendum Is Considered Mrs Sewell Testifies Walter! Emerson Was Suspected Of Sending Letters MISDEEDS ARE DENIED Have Ended Lives Of Unsound ACTION IS DELAYED Havoc Tornado Tears Through Three States By The Associated Press A howling gale that for three Senators Who Vote On Relief TVA PRESENTS ISSUE Constitutional Amendment Is Proposed If Development Is Blocked Character Witnesses Are Offered For Wife Of Screen Actor Bill Change Retain Views On Measure days has swept North Atlantic shipping lanes and battered the coast of France as it turned through the Bay of Biscay Into the Mediterranean added to-day to its mounting toll of lost lives and disrupted shipping Earthquakes along the eastern Mediterranean shores and an explosion off the coast of Tunisia increased the list of dead FISHERMEN ARE LOST BY HAROLD OLIVER Associated Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON Feb 25 ('Pi-First returns from the country as assembled in senatorial mailbags to-day were represented as about evenly divided on the prevailing Several fishermen were lost when wage issue which has deadlocked titAMA i L' A Ai'AluArl ha vma the administration's $4880000000 they were washed overboard as the lashed their craft In the waves tiny WASHINGTON Feb The possibility of taking President power policies to the people in what would amount to a national referendum was considered to-day by some administration advisers Under a plan suggested for possible use if the intention to sell electricity In the Tennessee Valley is blocked by the supreme court the sentiment would be tested by submission of a constitutional amendment to the states The proposed amendment would be worded so that if ratified by the necessary thirty-aix states It would stamp approval on tho Roosevelt power program The amendment was one of several possibilities studied for use la event the government should lose finally the appeal it Is preparing from a decision by Federal Judgo I Grubb of Alabama He ruled last week that the Tennessee Valley Authority haa no right to sell surplus electricity Another Pmpoeal Another proposal given consideration by administration advisers was that a corporation financed Bay of Biscay Ten were killed work-relief bill ashore In France as winds of gale! That the verdict of early force Interrupted communication mining letters to senators who Eight were killed and five in-1 voted for and against the prevai -jured in earthquakes in Greece nS wap requirement which Presi-Other earthquakes were reported itent Roosevelt opposed So far at Malta and Cairo 'most found the country attitude Four persons were reported not been reflected in a greatly killed and several injured when an increased Jitviptt uitthfs explosion smashed the hold of the TDWAlt Gouverneur General Jonnart With President Roosevelt watoh-In the harbor of Tunis Tunisia tng the crisis In the legislative sit- Many Ships Imperiled nation from his home at Hyde Two ships reported themselves Democratic leaders Insisted retention of the prevailing wage would be too heavy a drain on the treasury and render Impossible the substitution of work-relief for the LOS ANGELES Feb UP) Testimony' was given to-day In trial of the Walter Emerson-Jane Scholtz Emerson divorce suit that Emerson a screen actor and writer once was suspected of sending extortion letters to Barton Sewell bis millionaire Beverly Hills friend whom he named co-respondent in the suit The witness was Sewell's wife Mrs Leah Clampitt Sewell who was named co-respondent in a cross complaint filed in the case by Mrs Emerson former Denver society girl Asked how she and her husband happened to see so much of the Emersons Mrs Sewell said the couple had lived with them temporarily as company and protection after Sewell received some extortion notes Several persons were suspected of sending the notes she said the plaintiff here one of those suspected?" a lawyer asked he was" Mrs Sewell replied Blayney Matthews chief investigator for the district office was reported to have been called to-day' as a witness in the case in connection with the extortion notes Denies Misconduct Mrs Sewell denied there had been any misconduct between her and Emerson at a beach party last Fall at which the two couples and Red Davis a district attorney's investigator were present This was the party at which Mrs Emerson has testified she and Sewell occupied one room and Emerson and Mrs Sewell another Two character witnesses testified for Mrs Emerson One was Mrs Francos Mae-Arthur maid employed by Mrs MUNICH Germany Feb 25 Emerson for fifteen months Mrs iLTh Monarchism and republican-MacArthur said up to the time she ism are dead in Germany says left the Emerson home last year Reichsfuehrer Hitler Mrs Emerson was good The fuehrer so told his old Nazi and did not drink She said she did campaigners yesterday in an ag-not see Sewell about the place gressive address commemorating A next-door neighbor Mrs Ednathe fifteenth anniversary of the Klmmey gave similar testimony foundation Armed with various bank records The speech delivered in the huge Dictator Declares That Old Systems Never Will Return To Germany (See VIEWS Page 2 Col 4) By GAYLE TALBOT Associated Press Foreign Staff ROMFORD Eng Feb UP) Elizabeth and Jane du Bols who plunged from an airplane to death last week visualized their suicides as a corridor to the dead men they loved A jury to-day returned a joint verdict of while of unsound minds" after it had heard the contents of two letters which the girls had intended only for their father Cocrt du Bois United States consul general in Naples and their mother The father tight-lipped and white-knuckled attended the Inquest The mother stayed alone at a hotel still unaware of the complete details of her plunge from a commercial transport ship LETTERS DESCRIBE GRIEF In their letters the two beautiful American girls told of their grief for the deaths of Flying Officer John A Forbes and Flight Lieutenant Henry Beatty who were killed at Messina Sicily two weeks ago when their royal air force flying boat Ace of Diamonds crashed into a hillside One of the notes said that Flying Officer Forbes engaged to another girl was going to break off his engagement in order to marry Jane The letters were read publicly over the protest of Franklin Gowen United States consul The coroner said he only did his duty in redding the letters as without them It would have been difficult for the jury to arrive at a proper verdict time to he said am sure the father will realize that reading these letters was the only course to be taken in the Sympathy Expressed The jury retired only a few minutes before arriving at the verdict which was worded in the usual phrases for suicide cases in England The jury expressed sympathy to the parents and also to Pilot Kirton of the plane from which the girls jumped adding admire the courage of the pilot in not losing his head in a most critical situation Gowen argued the letters should he submitted to the jury privately as the father of the two young women had hoped that their contents might not be made public The father Gowen said wished later to read the communications Half-Way Howe Owner Armed Bandit WEST SIDE ROAD TELLS COURT HE IS FLAT BROKE urgent need of assistance while dozens of others were endangered by the mountainous seas The Italian Caterina Madre about forty miles west of said that her propeller was gone and added "Dangerous situation Save us" The 2993-ton Greek steamer Eftlchia Vergottis called for help saying her steering apparatus was disabled She gave her position as latitude 46 north longitude 8 west in the Bay of Biscay Another Italian steamer the San Pietro reported she had repaired her damage but asked nearby ships to as near as possible" as we be broken The Ottinge without a rudder off Lands End reported that she had been taken in tow SOS Is Flashed The Belgian Syrie bound from Antwerp to the Levant sent an SOS asking immediate assistance and the British 8 Ban Melio from Tuxpan to Tyne reported that it had asked the American Liberty to stand by and was jettisoning the cargo The United States Shipping Board freighter Oakman reported she lost her rudder 700 miles north of the Azores but was in no immediate danger The 3 Newport News was standing by largely by the government but net connected directly with it might be set up to carry out the president's plans The officials Insisted meanwhile that they regarded Judge ruling only as a temporary setback which would be overcome in the higher courts Because the judge granted an injunction against PHnI allotments for constructing municipal power plants to distribute TVA power counsel for the Fuhlto Works Administration has announced it will join in appealing the ceae Obstacles Foreseen Should the final judgment hi this litigation go against the government one power expert mid the proposal for a constitutional amsnd- Proprietor Usa Confederate Of Gunman For Shield Suspects Are Held Former Mayor Of New York Says Actress Wife Financed Honeymoon Trip Kelly Tells County Group He Will Seek New Money For Maze Bridge The $100000 allocated for the erection of a fixed-type span across the San Joaquin River as a part of the plan for the extension of the Maze Road definitely will be transferred for use in straightening the Crows Landlng-Newman Highway This was announced by Earl Lee Kelly state director of public works at a conference with repre Munich Town Hall and broadcast throughout the reich marked a return of Hitler's old-time fighting style of oratory and elicited uproarious cheers from his followers NEVER I prophesy he shouted and papers Emerson took the stand again to-day in efforts to refute his wife's testimony last week that her parents had practically supported her and Emerson since their marriage Although Mrs Emerson testified sentative Stanislaus County citizens The Greek steamer Delphoi the at Sacramento this morning Swedish Steamer Delphinus and At the same time Kelly agreed to the 1 tl freighter Hillcroft file a new: application immediate! added their messages to the steady stream of distress signals which ely with the United States Army engineers for a fixed-type span that Emerson had defrayed only none of the old systems will their minor expenses she in her return cross-complaint is seeking $250 aj had no confidence In the month alimony for support of their existing regime but in the German three young sons people when we began our fight Democracy promised to enable a majority of outstanding achievements but jobbers and usurers destined German economy charlatans and criminals German policy believe In Germany as (represented before the Hitler turning to the monarchial Election Is Contested In Action By Chavez flashed over the storm-lashed seasj New funds for the bridge will be Some Confusion (sought from the $4880- Some confusion existed over the 000000 work-relief bill HAVE NEW PLAN (See BLIZZARD Page 10 Col 1)1 with the filing of the new application the state will point out to the army engineers that the San Joaquin River at the Maze Road point is not navigable If the army engineers give their approval the state will agree to install a movable type span if and when the San Joaquin does become navigable at that point Stresses Importance Kelly told the delegation there is Temperature Of 23 Degrees In Rehabilitation Corporation Is gg? Some Oakdale Sections Is Formed With Funds opinion of the state quietly to his wife Alternate In Writing Each girl had written alternate paragraphs in the letters one of the ranked before Reported WASHINGTON Feb 25-UP) The right of Bronson Cutting RisysterriT Dubllcan independent of New Mex- said John Bock 60 stolid German proprietor of the Half-Way House on the Crows Landing Road late yesterday told a young bandit who covered him with a gun to to Then Bock quickly grasped a companion of the gunman and used him aa a shield as he backed toward the rear of his establishment where he kept a gun Just ae the proprietor was getting ready to reach for the weapon the young man broke loose from his grasp and he and hie companion ran outside and fled in an automobile while pellets from 10-gauge ehotgun spattered around them Two Are Arrested To-day shortly after 12 deputy sheriffs arrested Carl Hoover 24 and his brother Walter 20 and booked them in custody on charges of assault They are reported to have admitted being in Bock's place but denied threatening him They live In a camp near the Half-Way House and the older brother recently was released from San Quentin Bock says he wae waiting on a customer at his gasoline station when the Hoover boys drove up Both went Inside where Bock haa little store The proprietor told officers he found Carl behind the counter tempting to steal shotgun shells when he entered Started For Shotgun Bock says he ordered the young man to drop the shells whereupon the other Hoover produced a gun and covering the man ordered him to him Quickly Bock declares he grasped the boys as a shield and started backing toward the rear of his store where he keeps a loaded shotgun just wanted to get the shells on credit" said the Hoovers to-day ment and the suggested indepete dent corporation might have serioaa drawbacks An independent corporation might get out of federal control It ia said and obtaining approval of thirty-six states to a constitutional amendment usually requires long time Speculation continued in the capital regarding the possible effect of Judge decision on other links in the power program Some suggested that the administration might not press for senate approval of the proposed St Lawrence waterways until present uncertainty is past The 8L Lawrence project Involving extensive power developments long has been advocated by Roosevelt Steel Chief Got $12282000 At Bonus In 14 Years WASHINGTON Feb 25 UD Bonuses paid to Eugene Grace as president of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company and Bethlehem Steel Corporation were disclosed to-day before the senate munitions committee to have amounted to $12282000 from 1917 to ItU in addition to a salary of $12000 a year for most of the period Just previously he expressed opposition to elimination of all profit in the event of a future war involving the United States Bond Settlement Plan Is Attacked By ALBERT WILSON Associated Press Foreign Staff LONDON Feb Buffeted by New York creditors and English police regulations James Walker former New York mayor told a chancery court to-day that he was so broke his present wife Miss Betty Compton had to pay their joint traveling expenses out of her savings as an actress The dapper Jimmy was still dapper but he was worried when he was called to answer to two judg ments against him for bills allegedly run up by his first wife in New York MAY BE DEPORTED Then he emerged to find that his status as a legal resident of Great Britain was in jeopardy because of his failure to comply with regulations and register with the police in London Such failure subjects one to the possibility of fine Imprisonment or occasion all three Informed of this last straw in the steadily mounting burden of grief Jimmy exclaimed: I am willing to do anything except give up my citizenship!" He told the court how he once made a $25000 salary as mayor of New York got $10000 of it for his very own and is -now reduced to $5000 of which he pays out 40 per cent Debts Pursue Kim He described this financial maze In answering two summonses from Ameriman companies trying to collect bills He testified that his movie actress wife financed their honeymoon and a recent trip to Spain can make no offer at thin time" Walker said replying to questioning by counsel for Sommers Inc who with the Sixty East Sixty-fifth St Corporation brought the action have no he added Walker said that during his recent tour of the continent with Ills wife Miss Compton paid the bills the time you were mayor of New the attorney asked were possessed of considerable are Of FERA department Maze Road Bridge project is of utmost local Importance as well as Kelly said Damage to almonds in parts of the county is feared to-day as the top result of the heavy frost and low temperatures of last night and this morning It was reported the temperature fell to 23 degrees in some low sec of SACRAMENTO Feb 25- UP) Machinery for extending io Cali-j "and we will rank it 83 the fornia farmers small federal loans project for any future funds" to finance land equipment or live- The Stanislaus delegation incltid-Mtock purchases has been set up ed Senator Garrison Assem-through incorporation of the Cali- blyman Hugh Donnelly fornia Rural Rehabilitation Cor- Finney chairman of the board poration (supervisors Councilman Harold tlons in the' Oakdale district This Financed by the Federal Emer-1 Rogers Richard Davis of thejwoujd cause damage to almonds In gency Relief Administration the Grange Power Boothe of the full bloom However this "as roa rural re-(Modesto Chamber of Commerce nture was not general habilitation powers granted by and Supervisor Leo Hammett Alien government meteor- emergency state legislation passed Fred Tatton secretary of the ologist stationed here during the in January In repayment of loans central' Valley Council California frost danger season says 27 de-the corporation may accept labor state Chamber of Commerce also grees was registered here for about produce or scrip as well as money attended (fifteen minutes Issue Statement I No Danger Here The committee from Stanislaus County this afternoon issued the following statement on the matter: Because of rulings by the bureau of public roads that money recently Federal and state relief executives form the directorate: Frank McLaughlin SERA administrator San Francisco Lowry Nelson rural rehabilitation advisor for the FERA Provo Utah Will lam Brummett Jr This temperature Allen says lo critical to almonds In full bloom So short a duration however is insufficient to cause damage An hour or more at 27 degrees or low- nationals told us to cease attacking the republic and give peace You monarchists suddenly expect the third collapse and the approach of another system But you forget the state illegal must grow out of its people" votes were counted in the 1934 elec- Reviewing Germany's develop-tion for Cutting and that legal merit under Nazi leadership the votes were not counted for himself Reichsfuehrer exclaimed: He opposed Cutting in the sena-: destroyed parliamentarian- torial race ism and democracy and the founda- Illegal use of money and unlaw-tions of the old state What we ful expenditures by Cutting also created in two years only forecasts were charged what Is coming Here I announced The petition was signed by A a program fifteen years ago We Hannott Fred Wilson and Hugh have fulfilled the mission bequeath-B Woodward all of Albuquerque ed us by dead comrades and and A Kiker of Santa Fe (will continue "To fools who still dream of a re- Trial stored he asserted say vumiuuniHi i rial that what once wag can never be Resumes At Capital aaienr You win never return t0 SACRAMENTO Feb 25 OP) of the reich's foreign policy the The bloody San Joaquin Valley cot-fuehrer said: ton strike which resulted in two! We are all for peace but not at deaths and injuries to nearly a the price of our honor We are score more in October 1933 was readv for any kind of co-operation the subject of testimony intro- but if the world does not under-duced by the defense to-day whenistand we are ready at all times to the criminal syndicalism trial was stand on our own feet resumed after a recess of six days Hershell Bowen and his wife Sally of Tulare were the wit- 1 1 UDDS lS nesses Both said they were cotton i pickers Divorced In Reno Bowen said he knew Pat Cham RENO Nev Feh aX nd Former State nat Tallint ant a find hfit CnambGrs old not er 11 advocate violence as prosecution 'S rlftl1" witnesses had related Republican politics in California was divorced on ground of extreme -x (cruelty to-day by Mrs Olivia Pills- oanaits Lftpturc Tubbs San Francisco society ma- Cleric In China The decree was granted by Dis- SAN FRANCISCO Feb UPh-The cash settlement plan approved informally by a majority of Merctd Irrigation District bondholders under which they would receive $51501 for each $1000 bond was attacked as to-day by the regional field executive for the FERA San iLlllTlfrh! tempPratUrP wl" danaK' Frsnrism Smiih highway improvement must be un- Francisco Smith acting di-l rL at the Dresent stage I Walker replied hud a When petal! have fallen the over Uncritical temperatures are somewhat i which was (then to my then higher nd the fruit reaches who caused the debts nigner ana tne trim iescnes me WVl th attorney lector of the state agricultural ex-( tension service Berkeley A Jecause of tho tent the Land assistant to the state re-! TJnlted States Army engineers have They were arrested by Deputies Stanton Briggs and Jack Ham-: California Irrigation and Rsclaao- metl tion District Bondholders Aasocio- According to Briggs Carl Hoover tjon recently was paroled from San xhe cash settlement refinancing Quentin Prison 1 plan made possible by an $8600 006 Both youths were overhauled Reconstruction Finance Corpora-they were riding in the car alleged-jtion loan was submitted formally ly used in the crime They are to t0 the district bondholders Febru-be questioned in detail lated to-day ary 15th by the Merced Irrigation District Bondholders Protective FARM STUDY IS VOTED Committee WASHINGTON Feb A resolution proposing an Investigation of farm income and agricultural conditions generally was approved to-day by the senate and sent to the house transfer not SERA San Francisco Principal offices of the Rural the Maxe Road project as it is rec- Almonds are the only major crop plained that part of the Feh rict Judge Thomas Moran at a Rehabilitation Corporation will be 'agnized as the No 1 project In now affected by moderate frost in San Francisco (See FORMER Page 7 Col Stanislaus County I Broadcast Warning It was felt that the Improvement Frost warning broadcasts will be on the West Side was Important RVen to-night at 7:30 over and funds would be spent In the KMJ in Fresno and at 7:45 o'clock county and that when additional over KWO in Stockton funds became available (hey would Allen says growers wishing their! be allocated to the Maze Road thermometers tested should take to Legs Of Man Are Found Hidden In British Train Wines Are Praised By Frenchman SIAN Shensi China Rev Frencham young hrlef pnvate trial Australian missionary has been esptured by bandits from his station at Ninkiang southwest Shensi Province Ills young wife a Ixmdoner has disappeared These were known facts to-night after days of uncertainty during which unconfirmed rumors reached the China Island Mission that both Mr and Mrs Frencham were murdered Communications with Ninkiangj have broken down California REIMS France The Marquis Polignac head of house says Bridge the agricultural extension service office In the basement of the Modesto Post Office before 11 A Wednesday They will be tested free at the risk i NRA Plans Special Study Of Textile Copyright 1935 Associated WASHINGTON Feh 25 tTl-Confronted by glowing discontent! human being front which the legs LONDON Feb Two leg aevered from a body were discovered (o-day stuffed under the sent of a train arriving at Waterloo Station The railway police mystified by the find and unable to deter-( mine at first even the sex of the man's torso In Brighton's Crime No was wrapped similarly The Brighton crime which occurred last Summer wan officially closed last week when a Jury returned an "open verdict" after Scotland Yard men nnd criminologists were unable even to determine the Identity of the murdered woman Physleians after examining the legs found (o-day estimated that the latest victim hod been dead only about twelve hours LOST TWINS ARK FOUND WASHINGTON Eeb 25 The 8-yeai-otd twins John and Margaret Miller who were the object of a frenzied nil night search after the disappeared vetrday In Indian Creek Swamp In nearby Maryland were found early today Feb Melcholr de a famous champagne American wines are good Americans should drink them and though he knows It is popular to criticise American wines lie "refuses to join the anvil chorus" The marquis recently returned from a two lslt to the United Stntes Ills wife the former Nina Eustls Crosby Is a New Y'orker are good wines In said the marquis They vary In a 1 1 1 us do French wines hut the better American wines lime distinctive attributes which I admire and which should be Itelier known to (lie American public the Untied Stales become diet that California will furnish most of the wines (he plain (able wines and some of the finer classes however should not try to Imitate Anjou or Alsace Harsae or Beaume for she ennnot possibly succeed She should and ean develop her distinctive wines nnd create a taste and definite market for them know It Is popular to erlti-else American wines hut I refuse to join the anvil chorus There are good American wines Why not admit The marquis expressed the opinion that upon the California growers reals the problem of making the I nlted States as a "shuc healthy and enjoyable custom the best antidote to alcoholism and could be made Officer Discount Alleged Plot To Kidnap Steel Chief BETHLEHEM Ps Feb 25 'J1) Department of justice authorities discounted to-day an alleged plot to kidnap Eugene Grace president of Bethlehem Steel Company for a ransom supposed to he $25000 Agents or thp United plates Investigation Division Bureau at Philadelphia dismissed the purported conspiracy as a "lot of wind" while one federal source said he was convinced the matter amounted to a prisoner let I lirg off steam" The Pennsylvania State Police view of forestalling anot her textile however actively engaged In run- strike threatened early In the ning down the story obtained from 'Spring If Labor demands for wage one of lire four men in custody hei concession and more ant lafaetoi In connection with a series of bank code enforcement is not forth QDkiUUiM Ud hold pa- IttWUft 1 Light Is Thrown On Mellon Deals PITTSBURGH Feb 25 Records of brokerage marginal account held by Andrew Mellon while ho was secretary of the treasury but not listed In his name in ids ledger---wore Inlroduceil at the board of tax Inquiry Into the financier's Income tux affairs to-day Howard Johnson Mellon's sec-retaiy rending fr fifteen-page list of asset nnd liabilities ashl the eeount ns of January 1932 lind had Ireen chopped called in Scotland detective The criminal Investigation division operator announced within a few moments that the legs undoubtedly laid belonged to a man A couch cleaner ltiecting the third-clan compartment on a rain which arrived nt Waterloo front suburban iluitslow found lire legs wrapped In newspaper covered with brown taper turd lied with a string It wm retailed that the wo- WrtfT I Friend are sweet whoa they five their candled opinion balance of SflOlsOO to cover stock Lmmint) MdM dfiblUAC onnnb-y yq "nsllql He said wine on the Biltimore-Washington Pike by a Almylaml County policeman.