The Press Democrat from Santa Rosa, California • 1

The Weather SATURDAY Northern California: Fair and mild Saturday and sumlay. wpt nn-seitled Willi showers Saturdiy in tx-treme north portion. Temperature yesterday: Maximum, 77; minimum, 45. Rainfall, last 24 hours, rainfall, season to date, 14.72; nlnfai), i.or-mal,. 25.K5.

Largest Circulation in California North of San Francisco fl SEVENTY-FIFTH YEAR-NUMBER 67 Published Dally Except Monday SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1931 KrcecoPy TWO SECTIONS-TEN PAGES IE WREGE JTYinTiTx yTnTn Ami HI. 1LJJL NbwXaU. DIRIGIB (TP LMffiD PLOT AM bRICA SEA TTLE MA YOR FACES OUSTER Today Dreiser Not Sorry For Taking Slap at Lewis-Thinks Nobel Prize Winner Out of Senses LEAGUE BOI PLAIIE WRECK LAID TO SUSPECT Nevada Goes Gambling Mad As Wide Open Law in Effect; Richand Poor Crowd Casinos Author Denies Rumpus Was Regrettable; He Squawked Too Much and I Socked Him' His Story; Would Do It Over Again TARIFF GRAFT PROBE HINTS SCAIIDAL Limiting Size of Families Declared Valid and Moral wild talk so I let him have one. "Well, about that time someone came up and told me I was wanted on the telephone. I told Lewis that I would he back in a moment.

RECEIVES SECOND BLOW "1 came back into the hall and he was still waiting. He started it all over again. So I let him By H. ALLEN SMITH (Copyright 1931 by United Press) NEW YORK, March 20 (UP) Theodore Dreiser, considered by many to be America's foremost literary giant, said tonight that he possesses a deep admiration for the literary works of Sinclair Lewis, but that if Sinclair ever says the things to him again that he said last night, he will promptly give Mr. Lewis more, cracks across the face." In an exclusive Interview with this correspondent, Dreiser suggested that "this is getting to be a funny country where a man can't give another man slapping without creating a lot of hubbub," He said that he does not consider last night's incident, at Ray Long's exclusive dinner, to have been a regrettable affair.

Nor does he feel proud about it. He slapped Lewis twice. CAN WRITE WELL Dreiser said that he has known Lewis since 1904, and, that he rfally believes Lewis can "write well." "I knew him when he was a reader with Stokes," the noted novelist said, "and, as a matter of fact, I used to give him a little advice on ooftasions'. I don't think he really dislikes me. I know I don't dislike him.

I don't think he was in his right mind last night." "I went out into the hall," he said, "and was ready to go home. I ran into him'out there. He started making unseemly remarks and calling me names. He kept squawking about it and told him to act his age. cqntinued his FOOD RUSHED TO ST.

JOHNS, N. March 20. (jf) The government steamer Prosper was dispatched tonight with additional supplies for the steamer Sagona, which, with 110 survivors of the Sealer Viking, is ice-jammed off Horse Island. Sealing ships that engaged in the rescue and relief work also are held fast in the Ice, packed firmly against Horse Island by eastern gales. After searching the ice for 22 miles beyond the scene of the Viking explosion, sealing captains reported they were certain no trace remained of.

the 26 missing from the ship. It is believed they went down with the ship. ST. JOHNS, N. March 20.

iJP) Having madi -the first lap from Boston to St. Johns, Bernt Balchen, Andy Enslow and Merion Cooper hope to hop off from St. Johns early tomorrow, possibly soon after daybreak, on their way to Horse Island, scene of the Viking disaster. Rolph Outlines Week's Program SACRAMENTO, March 20 Gov ernor ana Mrs. Rolph will De guests at the Saratoga Blossom Festival on Sunday and on Monday they will attend the charter day exercises of the University of California at Berkeley.

At noontime Monday, the Rolphs will be the luncheon guests of President and Mrs. Sproul of the university. Saturday the governor will participate in the police and firemen's benefit at Neptune Beach and in the evening attend the dinner of the Northe-n California newspaper men to "je held in the Men's Club, Saratoga. I III LITTLE HIGHBROW BIRDS. YOU CANT HURRY EGGS.

WHY NEWSPAPERS DIE. MONEY IS FROZEN POWER. By Arthur Brisbane (Copyright, 1931) Ray Long, who edits magazines, gave a dinner party on Thursday for Boris young Russian of great talent. Pilnyak made what sounded like a tine speech In Russian. Those that applauded violently Included 20 of the highest browed intellectuals'.

Including Rupert Hughes; Irvin Cobb; Sinclair Lewis, Nobel prize winner; Theodore Dreiser, who writes what he thinks plainly; Montague Glass, who, to his eternal glory, invented Potash and Perlmutter, and an admiring chorus of correspondents, editors and assorted columnists, in. eluding Hey wood Broun. There was interesting and child- ish discussion of the merits of Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, and the possibility of convincing human beings that they really don't want to own property, In spite of the fact that they have been murdering each other to get It for more than a million years. Obr young enthusiast said: "The youth of Russia will grow up, not knowing anything about monty, not interested in it." That sounds nice. But 15 years ago prohibitionists 'were telling you: "Our young people will grow upknowing nothing about whisky, not interested in it." Look at them now, each with a whisky -bottle hidden away in his or her clothing.

Young highbrows discussing Socialise, Communism, tindjabylltion of property "nTP ttlte J-yean-old -children discussing ways' and means of making their 6-weeks-old lirother walk right away. He Will walk when he is ready to walk. Forcing will only make him bandy-legged. Human beings will abandon grasping selfishness In due time. You cannot hurry them in their progress.

Yoii can't batch a hen's egg In ten duys. Biit the egg does hatch. When the party died away, according to morning newspapers, between those that stayed late 1here was discord, two highbrows forgetting Watts' beautiful lines: "Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight When children of one family Fall out, and chjde, and fight." However, It didn't last long, nobody was hurt, the air was cleared. The talented Pilnyuk and Russian friends from the Am tore had gone home, and will- not he able to tell Stalin: "We saw capitalistic American highbrows fighting." The New York World is "dead ns muttoh," its former employes have received their last pay they will' get. And soon a book will appear, "The End of the World," purporting to tell all about it.

There is nothing mysterious in that death. It was as natural as that a watch should stop when its mainspring is taken but. The late Joseph Pulitzer said a great deal when he told his' chief associate, S. S. Carvallio, long ago: VCarvalho, a.

newspaper is irude by the heart of its owner. The Irving Trust company, one. of the banks in America, yesterday dedicated 50 stories high, at the corner of Wall street and Broadway. Among the decorations is a great painting showing the: "Power of To Create Beauty." Wealth can create' for it is frozen labor and frozen intelligence, 'waiting to be released. AtOi- yesterday the Stock Exchange announced plans for a $10,000,001) addition to Its already gigantic- building.

-That intelligent institution knows that business will come back stronger than ever. And little lambs now growing another crop of wool may recognize) some of the lust" crop In the new stone and marble. Comment recently published in this column was Intended to arouse Interest in Mexico, the wonderful Jand and people south of us. The next paragraph really will arouse interest. "Northeast of in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, gold has been discovered in abnormal quantities." Two men have brought out 1,200 pounds of gold.

Some prospectors have collected as much as five pounds of gold In a day, worth close to And veins are said to be so rich in some places that "the precious metal Is cut off lb Jiunks with a hunting knife." Exaggeration always comes with (Continued on Page Two.) IE SPREAD Recall Vote Planned If Council Balks at Impeachment SEATTLE, March 20 (UP) Recall charges have been filed against Mayor Frank Edwards of Seattle. the Citizens' Municipal Utilities Protective League. The mayor is iharged with permitting wide-mread police graft, protection of iquor traffic, gambling and vice be practiced here. The charges were filed as an outgrowth of the. dissatisfaction expressed here when Mayor Edwards dismissed J.

D. Ross as superintendent of city light, That the mayor "knowingly and willfully" permitted collections by members of the police department of large sums of money from "bootleggers, gamblers and vice organizations is alleged by the charges. Members of the league said here today that the movement to oust the mayor will be put to a vote unless the city council acts upon it and impeaches Mayor Edwards. It also was alleged that the mayor attempted to decrease the efficiency of city light, purchased expensive office furniture without permission of the board of public works and appointed inefficient department heads. HEW SUSPECT SAN DIEGO, March 20.

Cornered in a house near Thirty-second and Island streets immediately, after he is alleged to have attacked a 10-year-old girl, a man who said he is John Paul, 45, tonight was held in the city jait for questioning in connection with the murder of Virginia Brooks, also 10 years old. Mrs. Madeline Butera gave the alarm which resulted in the capture of Paul. She raid she had gone to his house to purchase vegetables and observed the man appeared unusually nervous. At the same time, she said, she saw a little girl poke her head from behind curtains.

Remembering the fate of the Brooks girl, Mrs. Butera called police and two officers responded. As the officers forced their way Into his house, Paul tried to escape, but was captured after a rough and tumble fight The girl admitted Paul had attacked her. Questioned by officers concerning the Brooks case, Paul refused to talk. Mueller, German Leader, Succumbs BERLIN, March 20, UP Hermann Mueller, former chancel-', lor and among the leading statesmen developed in post-war republican German, died tonight after a heroic fight for life against a lingering Illness which In recent years had sapped his strength, Mueller's conditions had become steadily worse after an operation for bladder trouble last Saturday.

Pneumonia developed and complications set In. He. was 55. $100,000 GEM THEFT MIAMI Beach, March 20 (AP) Moescha Rosenberg, jewelry salesman for a New York firni, tod police tonight three nandits robbed him of jewelry valued at approximately $100,000. He said the bandits held him up with pistols as he drove in the northern part of Mlamo Beach.

Tollman Tip' L. A. Officers GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala, March 20 (UP) Los Angeles authorities who came here in a for William Loren Tallman, accused of being the missing brick bat slayer of Mrs. Virginia Patty, admitted tonight that their trip was a failure. Interviewed by a United Press 'orrespondent, Deputy District At torney Robert Stewart nni Infective Starritt of the California city said they will leave 5 CASE Additions Being Rushed To Completion on All Houses of Chance RENO, Nevada, March .20.

(UP) Wealthy easterners here for a divorce stood besido old pros pectors to celebrate the advent of legalized gambling by betting on the roll of a dice or the turn of a roulette wheel. The casinos of Reno were over crowded and the elink of dollars being thrown on the tables almost drowned out by the pounding of hamrriers as the construction of additions to the gambling houses rapidly progressed. The famous Bank Club here is being trebled in size. Throughout the state there was a new excitement in the games of chance. An anti-gambling bill passed by the Nevada legislature.

-in 1910 had long ago become obsolete and gambling operators have acted openly, but the fact they were now fully within the law drew larger crowds than they have, had for many months. When Governor Fred Balzar signed a bill Thursday night to permit "wide open" gambling In this state, effective- at once, was only a formality. Since scores of gamblers were using licenses granted by city and county officials while gambling was supposed to be banned, there was not interruption in their operations. Those who wish to build casinos here in "the future must await approve! 'Of fljrthorities? before re ceiving the licenses. Proprietors of the casinos were still hesitant to accept checks for gambling debts as such obligations i were not regarded as legal in the new law.

Hunt for Missing Flyer Fruitless MANILA, March 21 (Saturday) (AP) Although the army and navy had widened their search today. Glen W. Brophy, Los Angeles aviator, was still missing as the third day passed- since he left Macao, China, on a 600-mile flight to Manila. Two army planes, which began a search of the Batanes islands and the sea north of Luzon, the principal island of the Philippine group, In the hopes he might have lended in that vicinity, Returned to Manila this afterooon. Three destroyers which left yesterday from Prater reef also reported they were returning after a fruitless search.

U.S. 'See America First' Drive Asked WASHINGTON, March 20 (P) Secretary Hurley has. laid before the department of commerce and President Hoover' unemployment commission for further study a proposal by L. E. Phillips," Oklahoma oil magnate, that the slogan, "See America First," be revived and-popularized.

The suggestion was that the department of commerce, in conjunc tion with the chamber of commerce of the United States and other agencies, try to keep in circulation In the United States vast sums of money annually spent abroad by tourists. Station Robbed at San Rafael; 4 Held SAN RAFAEL, March 20 Burg lars broke into the Northwestern Pacific depot at Fourth and Railroad streets early today and rob bed the till of $29. Police later took into custody four suspects. Daniel Ferguson, Paul Peyter, Thomas O'Keefe and Lewis Franks. They were found in a box-car near the station.

Proves False. Admit Failure for home on the first boat. Accompanied by a Los Angeles newspaper reporter, the two officials came here from the United States on a "tip" that a radio operator believed to be Tallman was working here. They said tonight that while the man was a double for. Tallman the "Up" had proved false.

Tallman has been sought for two years since the slaying In Los An. geles of 'ra. Fatty, his paramour. Mania for Destroying Any Agent of Warfare Is Told AKRON, March 20 UP) Paul F. Kassey, a tall, blond Hungarian, who pleaded not guilty to a charge of having plotted the destruction of the navy dh-igibla "Akron," now under Vonstruction by the Goodyear Zeppelin corporation, is by his fellow workmen as a man with a mania for the destruction of any agent of warfare that might be used by the United States against Soviet Russia.

The United Press was informed tonight that the government' will attempt to furnish proof that Kassey has definite Soviet connections, and that trial of the charges against him may develop sensa-, tional allegations of communist espionage in America yet uncovered. FATAL CRASH TOLD Information reached Akrop today from government sources that Kas- sey may be charged further with, having weakened the superstruc-: ture of a hhge bombing plane, built for the United States navy, which crashed in San Diego last September, causing the death of a This ship, one of 18 built by the: Great Lakes corporation, was found to have the gusset plates left off the wings, it was said. according to the informant, was an employee of the company and worked on the planes hlch were sent to San Diego. 't Although the district offic of the communist party has issued a. statemsnt dwuyfnar" that Kassey is a member of that organization, it was made known today that Yetta Land, a woman attorney who has been active in defending Communists, has arrived in Akron with.

the intention of taking charge Kassey's defense. CHARGES FRAMEUP When he was, arraigned today before Police Judge Frank Harvey, Kassey was in a genial mood and smiled at everyone in the He remarked that his arrest was the result of "a dirty frameup." lie Insisted that he knows nothing of the charges that have been brought against him, denied he belongs to the communist party, and said that he couldn't why these federal agents have tried to rope me in." Death of Jailed Negro Starts Quiz SACRAMENTO, March 20. The authorities were today asked by two Sacramento negro societies to Investigate the death last week of Frank Hamilton, 43-year-old negro bootblack, after being transferred to the county hospital from the city jail, where he was. booked on a charge of being intoxicated. Counsel retained by the, National Association for Advancement of Colored People and the Frn Knights of America announced that five witnesses would testify that Hamilton was struck, a "severe blow" in the stomach by an unnamed police officer, and that Hamilton's death was due to the blow.

Attorney Otis Babeock charged hospital ret-oids showed Hamilton died from ulcers of the stomach, but an examination by Dr. S. J. Wells revealed "severe bruises about the stomach." PLANE VICTIM CAINS SAN FRANCISCO, March 20. (UP) Alfred Westerlund, an army private who was injured in the airplane accident near Sacramento today in which Lieut.

August G. Rehlmeyer, 30, of Crissy Field was killed, rallied after a major opera-tion in Letterman hospital here to-nieht. Rehlmeyer, a World war veteran, was killed Instantly. Westerlund was brought here in a transport plane. TENTH STREET FIRE Fire of unknown origin destroyed the upper floor and roof of a two-story bouse at the corner of Tenth and Morgan streets early this morning.

The building, which had been vacant for more than a. year. is owned by Mrs. A. Metzger.

The fire department succeeded in checking the blaze before It sprf.ad to other timij.es in the block. FRFSH DRESSED POULTRY Fryers, Hsns, Squab and Belgian Hare Economy Market 627 Fourth St. Phone 1473 2 High Republicans, 2 Democrats Linked in Senate's Probe WASHINGTON, March 20 (UP) The names of two Republicans and two Democratic leaders, all of national prominence, have become involved in the senate lobby committee's Investigation of the report that a member of the senate received large sums of money from the head of a domestic sugar company during the tariff fight. The two Republicans are men other than Senator James J. Davis, Republican, Pennsylvania, who appeared before the lobby committee to deny that he had received money for tariff lobbying and to demand a full investigation of the published reports.

An investigator for the lobby committee, has at work for the past two weeks on the books and records of companies allied with' the domestic sugar interests involved in the original investigation. TWO REPUBLICANS The four political leaders are two Republicans who have been allied with the high protective tariff group in that party and -two Democrats whose views on the tariff have been rather more inclined to the high side than the majority of the party. The two Republicans now hold public office and the two Democrats do not. The. lobby committee has temporarily suspended its investigation of the sugar lobby report, because Davis informed Chairman Thaddeus Caraway, Democrat, Arkansas, he desired to make a trip to California and also because the eommittee Investigator had asked for more time to complete his inquiry.

Davis in Pittsburgh today denied that his, purpose in going to California is to negotiate for an appearance in a motion picture version of his" autobiography "The Iron Puddler." Naomi F. Smith, 26, of 2648 Kiehth avenue, Oakland, was ar rested last night byf Officers Fred Eberhardt and Lawrence Walker on icharB of driving while drunk and 'hit and run driving, following an aeciaenx on the Sonoma highway at Murray's Corner. The car she was driving side-swiped the automobile of Noble Kramer, 1 Boyes Springs driven by nis aaugn- er Mrs. Lucile Erickson, and con tinued on Its way without stopping. No one was injured in the accident, but the Kramer car was damaged.

A little later she was arrested in Sonoma where the officers were conducting a "light raid." Sleep Is Hoover's Chief Recreation ABOARD U.S.S. ARIZONA, at Sea, March 20 (UP) President Herbert Hoover, off for a 10-day rest on a cruise of American possessions in the West Indies, indicated today that he was not going to permit medicine ball or fishing his two chief recreations to interfere with his sleep. The chief executive, smiling broadly, commented that any other member of his party could get up early to toss the heavy ball about the decks of the Arizona, but that he was making sleep his official recreation as the warship moved lazily through blue tropical waters toward Porto Rico. Wool Growers Head Quits, Disgusted -SONORA. Tex.

Mar. 20 AP) Roger Oillis of Del Rio, president, and Fred Earwood of Sonora, director, of the National Wool Marketing association, resigned today. In a statement here to a meeting of cooperative associations of Texas and New Mexico, Oillis and Earwood said they were "utterly disgusted with the incompetent representation afforded to wool and mohair growers'" by C. R. Penman, demn-ber of the federal farm WOMAN DRIVER HELOAS DRUNK NE YORK, March 20.

(IP) The "careful and restrained" use of contraceptive measures to regulate the size of families wa endorsed today by an organization made up of representatives of 27 American Protestant churches having a total membership of approximately 23,000,000. Sucfr use by married people, the majority report declared, "is valid and moral." The endorsement was "given In a majority report on birth control submitted after several years of study by the committee, on marriage and the home, of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. It was issued with the approval of the council's administrative committee. The committee consists of 28 members, among whom are several distinguished, clergymen and a number of influential laymen, including 'George Wicker-sham. Mrs.

John D. Rockefeller Jr. and a number of other prominent women are members. Twenty-two of the 28 signed the majority report, three signed the minority report and three ex' pressed no judgment either way. Rosenberg Buys Ware Building at 4th, Davis Streets Purchase of the former Ware property, one story concrete build ing housing three stores at the corner of Fourth and Davis streets, as an "investment" was announced yesterday by Fred Rosenberg, local merchant.

Rosenberg declined to reveal the purchase price, which was reported in local real estate circles to have been in the neighborhood of 15,000. Rossi's cyclery, an electric sup ply house and a cigar store are in the building, and it is expected that all will. remain there. The building has a frontage of 40 feet in Fourth street and 100 feet in Davis street. Milton Wasserman, local real estate broker, handled the negotia tions for the sale.

Woman Admits City Fund Short BAKER, March With more than; $112,000 of La Grande's city funds yet unaccounted for, the defense, rested today in the trial of Mrs. Emma Fowler, 50, former city treasurer, charged with larceny of public money. The case was expected to go to the jury early tomorrow afternoon. Mrs. Fowler, city treasurer of La Grande for more than ten years, while denying -she ever misappropriated any city funds, admitted in her' testimony the sum of J112.000 must be accounted for before her books will balance.

The principal defense witness was J. L. Soule, public accountant of Baker, who contended Mrs. Fowler paid out in January, 1029, $50,115 not credited on her bcoks that month. He said this reduced her shortage by that amount.

Judge Refuses to End Bowles Trial HtLLSBORO, March 20. (UP) Circuit Judge George R. Pagley late today again over ruled motions made by the defense for a directed verdict of acquittal in the trial her of Irma G. Loucks- and Nelson C. Bowles, charged with the first degree murder of Bowles' wife, Mrs.

Leone C. Bowles. Arguments on the motions occupied the entire day in court, and at the conclusion. Judge Bagley declared that "my present convictions is that this case should go to the jury." GOLD PILES UP NEW YORK, March 20 (API- There is more monetary gold in he United Stales now than at any time in its history. The amount revealed in the week- federal reserve statement for March JS.

is 42.5 per cent of all he monetary gold in the world. and is $1,000,000 greater than the previous high mark of 000 established May 14, J927. have it again. I thought all the time that he would hop on me and break my neck. Having given America's Nobel prize winner two good sound licks.

Dreiser went on home, he said, and forgot about it. What happened briefly was that Lewis rose to make a speech. Opening on the note that he would not make one he confined his speech to giving his reason why he wouldn't "While there was a man present Who had thefted 3,000 words of my wife's book and two eminent ciltics who had made nie feel like a swine with their criticism of the award of th Nobel prize in literature to me." Lewis sat down. Dreiser rose for his speech. Lewis rose abruptly and left the dining room.

Dreiser spoke at length, but did not mention Lewis. Lewis re-entered the room during Dreiser's speech. The two men met in the dining room doorway. "Dreiser, when are you going to explain this theft of my wife's literary work?" asked Lewis. "Let's talk it over right now," said Dreiser.

They walked together to a corner of the room, sat down comfortably in big leather arm chairs, and proceeded to talk it over with slaps. TEACHERS LD CHILD BEATERS HAN FORD, March 20 Two school teachers who whipped a 16-year-old girl because she painted and powdered her face were charged with battery in a complaint filed in court here today. The girt, Adeline Nunes, was beaten February 26, the complaint says, by Mrs. Amy Tomer, principal of Excelsior school, near here, and Ernest Melntyre, one of the teachers. Both resigned from the school immediately after the incident when prosecution was threatened, but the school board refused to accept the resignations and they were both reinstated two weeks ago.

The teachers said the. girl was whipped with a leather strap because she was continuously rebellious. They pleaded not guilty and asked a jury trial. They were released on their own recognizance. LOS ANGELES, Marrh 20 P) Mi's.

Anna L. Curtis, principal of the Thomas A. Edison grammar sVhonl of Glendale, must pay a fine of $100 or serve 10 days in jail for administering a whipping to Louis Cortez, 7-year-old pupil. City Prosecutor A. Lawson accused Mrs.

Curtis of striking the boy 31 times With a paddle for fighting with other boys at the school. Kansas Man Jailed On Sonoma Charge KANSAS CITY, March 20 P) Postal Inspectors reported today that Ernest Hightower, indicted at Sonoma, was in jail at Paola, Kansas, his former home. The inspectors said Hightotwer posed as an official painter of mail boxes, extracting fees for his services. At one time he was held here in connection with the death of his wife through poisoning in 199. A.

C. Rlumcnthal, a member of the Walker party, declared that Mayor Walker is building up his health and "will have plenty of fiRht when he gets back to New York." Walker himself said: "I've been to all health resorts in the east and Continental Europe, but as far as I am concerned this has them all beaten by miles." A deep tan and an improved appetite may be the causes of his enthusiasm. The mayor taken sun baths daljy since his arrival last Saturday. i Walker in Improved Health May Let Bars Down Tuesday PALM SPR 20. (UP) RINGS, March After having re peatedly declined to comment on the New York political situation, Mayor James J.

Walker said today that he may have something to say on the subject next Tues-da y. He refused to amplify his terse statement: "I may let the bars down Mayor Walker said, however, that his position on Tuesday would be influenced to a great extent hy whatever action the New York legislature takes in the meantime..