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THE ESC AN AB A DAILY PRESS VOL. XXXI NO. 272 IA ssociated ress eased Wma ew ervice ESC AN ABA, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6. 1940 (U pper eninsulas eading ewspaper (12 PAGES) SINGLE COPY CENTS MANNERHEIM LINE STOPS RUSSIANS THIRD TERMER CRACKS TIRING TO ROOSEVELT DOMESTIC POLICIES DEFENDED BY PRESIDENT St. Joseph Cave Man May Be Worth $9 400 BY DOITGLA8 H.

CORNELL Hyde Park, N. Feb. 5 Presldendt Roosevelt used the better part of an hour today to phaslze that he was weary of being harrasscd about his third term Intentions. Too, indirectly he pumped figures favorable to the new deal at nome of those who want to succeed him in the White House. Attempts of newsmen to lure him into dlsclosng his stand on a third term, the president said at a press conference, have been awfully amusing and have produced some perfectly grand wise cracks on his part and theirs.

Critics Suggesting that they quit trying to draw him out. however, the chief executive declared that when anything was said it would be at a time chosen by himself and not by newspaper editors. After all, he asserted. you can drive a willing horse to the press and the president. Whip he said in no uncertain terms he was tired of all the third term antics at his press conferences it was by indirection that Mr.

Roosevelt supplied an answer to critics of his domestic policies. He took no note by name of men like New York county District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey. Senator Taft (lt-Ohio), and Frank (Jannett. newspaper publisher, who hare lambasted the tion in speeches in which they JiHve campaigned for the Republican presidential nomination.

Secs Balanced Budget Nor did he speak of some execu- 11 the American Fedciatton of Labor who took potshots at the new deal yesterday from Miami, where the federation's executive committee met. Mr. Roosevelt merely read to reporters a list of figures, with a few comments interpolated, which were designed to show there were big in national income, wages and salaries, factory payrolls, farm produce, dividend receipts, exports, and non-agricultural employment between 1932 and 1939. These are pretty formidable figures, he commented, to take on and try to show that the country is, as he put it, bust. Again, as in a message to congress in January, 1939, Mr, Roosevelt said the administration was aiming at a national income of 580,000,000,000 a income which he said would permit a budget that would be a little better than balanced.

Is Expected There seems to be no question at all, he said, that there would be a balanced budget if the national income reached that level, since obviously federal expenditures for such Items as relief would go down, and government income would rise with virtually no change in taxes. Of course a lot of people do not want to balance the budget by attaining an income of $80.000, 000,000, he remarked. They want to cut government expenditures St. Joseph, Feb. 5.

Relief that a cave-dwelling hermit who has been confined to the Berrien county jail since last week is Peter A. DeVos, missing World War veteran who has approximately 110.000 to his credit in a Chicago bank, was expressed tonight by sheriff's officers. The man was taken from his cave in tho Lake Michigan dunes area north of here. Officers and American Legion officials disclosed today that Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Albrecht, of Chicago, old friends of the DeVos family, had identified the hermit COLD IS FATAL TO Former Powerful Figure In Illinois Politics Dies Suddenly Chicago, Feb. 5 Senator Charles S. Deneen, for many years a powerful figure in Illinois Republican politics, died today in his home. His death came suddenly. He had been suffering from a cold for two weeks, but appeared to be in fairly good health today, when he paid a visit to his doctor.

His death was attributed to C.s. QENEEN heart disease. Deneen, who was 76 years old. had served two terms as governor of Illinois before going to Washington. He wns elected 'i senate in deieatlng the faction headed by former Governor Leu Small.

Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago and State's Attorney Robert K. Crowe. Deneen served one term as senator. He started his political career as state's attorney of Cook county when that position was a fee office. He was nominated for his first term as governor in 1904 at the famous Republican state convention which met for more than a month In Springfield before Deneen emerged victorious.

as DeVos through a photograph forwarded to them by Mr. and Mrs. Richard Meas, of Hartford, Mich. The Albrechts said today that Peter Anselinus DeVos, their friend, bad disappeared from a government hospital at Great Lakes, 111., in 1932 when he was 51 years old and that he had "more than in the on- tinental Illinois National Bank K- Trust company, of Chicago, under conservatorship. A later announcement from the bank disclosed that it is conservator for a Peter A.

DeVos, who is missing, and that at tho last report to a court the fund totaled In addition, sheriff's officers said, the veteran is entitled to army pension credits for the years that he has wandered about the country. Mrs. Meas said she recognized DeVos from a picture published here as an acquaintance in Belgium, where she too was reared. She sent the picture to the Albrechts. cave was all says DeVos.

who was clad in ragged overalls and a coat and had the skin of a dog wrapped around his feet in place of shoes when he was visited by officers. man ought to have a little place of his American Legion officials say that DeVos served with the 60tii Infantry. Fifth Division, in the World War and was wounded and received a citation. INSIDE ABOUT SCHOLL PARDON BARED ACTION BLAMED TO PLEA OF FRED GREEN ORPHAN ROADS RULING DENIED Attorney General Thinks Highway Abandonment Is Court Matter (Continued on Paca Two) Weather LAKE MICHIGAN: Gentle west and northwest winds; mostly cloudy Tuesday. LOWER MICHIGAN: Mostly cloudy Tuesday and Wednesday; not much change in temperature.

UPPER MICHIGAN Moatl cloudy Tuesday and Wednesday, light snow in extreme northwest Tuesday; somewhat colder In northwest Tuesday, colder Wednesday. Liquor Purchasing Moratorium Ended; Defoe Signs Orders Lansing. Feb. 5. one- man that brought Murl H.

Defoe into conflict with fellow members of the liquor control commission and the executive office expired today. Defoe had accused the liquor control commission of having bought In quantities from six distilleries, and declared a 20-day moratorium on purchases from those companies. With the elapse of the 20th day. the commissioner declared he felt he had accomplished his purpose and that he was willing to sign purchase orders addressed to those firms. He added that he saw sense in quibbling because one batch of whisky was delivered ahead of He referred to a $25.000 shipment of liquor that reached the commission's warehouse from two of the distilleries on the proscribed list before purchase orders had been signed for the liquor.

Defoe said he would sign the orders for the alreadv-delivered li- Lansing. Feb. General Thomas Read declined today to interpret the right of Highway Commlssolner Murray D. Van Waeoner to abandon stretches of highway from the state trunk line highways. Controversy followed his orders abandoning 212 miles of trunk line road, throwing them back to the counties for maintenance.

request a formal opinion from this office advising whether Act 12 of the Public Acts of 1925 authorizes the action of your department in this Read declared. seems apparent that there is a serious question of statutory construction involved, and that this is a matter which probably should be brought before a court for adjudication. It is also apparent that any such action would require the appearance of this office and necessitate our representing your department. pursuance of a long established policy, we prefer to refrain from rendering any opinion on a subject that may come before a proper court for Lansing. Feb.

5 Counsel for Frank II. Scholl presented to the state parole hoard today the how the notor -1 lous swindler obtained a pardon and parole from the late Governor Frank D. Fitzgerald. Bespectacled, heavy featured Scholl was returned to the Stair Prison of Southern Michigan after the hearing on charges that he Is a parole violator, to await the parole board's decision. Edward C.

Stanton. Cleveland attorney who appeared as his counsel, informed the parolu board it was the late former Governor Fred W. Green who Interceded with Fitzgerald and obtained the pardon and parole for Scholl. The action later became a political issue but, Stanton said. Fitzgerald did not feel free to speak because Green had died In the interval.

Fled to TennfsM'c The lawyer, addressing the board oral arguments, declared he met Green at a Republican national convention in Chicago in 1926 and told him he considered the manner in which Michigan officers returned Scholl from Ohio to face charges of larceny by conversion in Rattle Creek and Rig Rapids kidnaping. Green Investigated, the attorney declared, discovered tho statements were true and on that basis obtained Fitzgerald promise that Scholl would be released. Scholl received a pardon on one of the convictions and a parole on the other in December, went to Cleveland to for Stanton as an investigator. Scholl testified that he was in Akron. Ohio, on a business trip when Ralph H.

Benson, deputy state corrections director, and Lieutenant Edward Cooper of the state police visited Cleveland April 12-14 in an attempt to arrest him on a new warrant charging with having swindled Alfred E. Haab. Washtenaw county farmer. When thev failed to locate him they obtained an order for his arrest as a parole violator and he fled to Memphis, he said. Prejudice Feared felt Gellein (Hilmer Gellein, (Continued on Page Two) Paint Maker dives Plant To Employes Worth 3 Millions At Low Last 6:30 T.

M. 24 Hours ESCA NABA 81 2 Tem perat Yesterday Alpena 28 Los Angeles.43 Asheville 32 Marquette 28 Atlanta 37 37 Bismarck 2 Miami 48 Posti 11 23Milwaukee 35 P. 24 Chicago 2SMontreal Cincinnati New Orleans59 Cleveland 30 New' 31 Denver------- 29 Oklahoma 34 30 4 24 Parry Sound 15 El Paso 44 42 Evansville 34 Pittsburgh 29 Frankfort 16 Port Arthur.10 Galveston 52 St. Louis 29 Rapids 28Salt Lake 3 2 Green Bay Frisco 52 Indianapolis. Soo, Mich.

21 Jacksonville. 39 4 5 Kamloops 2 Washington. 31 Kansas City. Winnipeg 21 kapuskabing 18 Yellow stoue. tish government to seek speedy quor when they were presented to settlement of the Asatna Maru Britain To Return Seamen Seized On Japanese Steamer Tokyo.

Feb. 6 (Tuesday) Foreign Minister Machiro Arita told the diet (parliament) today Great Rritain had agreed to return nine of 21 German seamen seized Jan. 20 from the liner Asama Maru, but cannot sav that the case is entirely settled." The foreign minister said Japan would continue to negotiate for surrender of all the seamen and added the Japanese government does not fail to appreciate the desire on the part of the Rri- Canadian Steamer Sunk By Torpedo Off Irish Coast London, Feb. 6 (Tuesday! (tV) Rritain counted new losses today in the relentless war at sea as 9.874-ton Canadian Pacific steamer lerburn was reported torpedoed off the Irish coast a few hours after the minesweeper Sphinx, crippled by German air raiders, sank as she was being towed to port. Mystery shrouded sinking of the Reaverhurn.

which was announced In a terse bulletin by the authoritative Rrltlsh Preess association. No details on number of casualties was Immediately available. Shipping circles said it was unlikely that full details would be known until rescue vessels had picked up survivors. Owners of the ship, a fast freighter plying between Liverpool St. John, New Brunswick, said she carried a crew of between 100 and 200 men.

Democrats Pick Chicago HUGE NUMBER As 1940 Convention City Qp QfflQ BY RED ARMY BY RIMI L. TI It NE II Washington. Feb. 6 The Democrats chose Chicago, a center of pro-third term activity, as their 1940 convention city today and left It to National Chairman James A. Farlev to the date, Chicago, the scene of President Roosevelt's original presidential in 1932, is also the home of the powerful Kelly-Nash i l)emocratlc organization which has a foremost position in tho i move to draft Mr, Roosevelt for presumably after he learns when an additional term, the Republicans will meet, Today's meeting was notable.

These were reached at i loo, for a warm exchange of fellcl- att excited and sometimes turbu- nations between Farley, who is lent meeting of the party's national widely regarded as a presidential FINNS SEIZE MUCH WAR BOOTY NEAR LAKE LADOGA BY REPUBLICANS Plymouth Dinner Speaker Brands Roosevelt War Fomenter Helsinki. I (f) committee, which I aspirant, mad Garner, aa outright nanlth watched tho an a I candidate, latrodadag a 1 Texas, Vice Garner referred to him as the President (Jar- most efficient national chairman ner's own state, In fifty years and praised him aa vainly offer most agreeable fellow to work 000 for the con- he had ever know n. Garner Farley returned tho compliment in a nationally broadcast radio address. In thanking the members of the committee for past assistance, ho Included stalwart John Nance Garner, vice also offered I president of the Inlted ventlon, moro than Chicago's bid. Chicago's nearest competitor.

In a I. was PI la- delphia, which Ambler, Feb. 5 If teen key employes of the late J. Harvey Gravell, paint manufacturer, who once gave his workers a $100,000 Christmas gift, learned today they had been left the bulk of bis $3,000,000 estate. Gravell, former president of the American Chemical Paint Company, died Dec.

8. His com panv has branches at Newcastle, Detroit and Toronto, Canada. All the workers named In his will are employes in the Ambler plant. The industrialist, who said he started In business with nothing but bucket, a stick and an also bequeathed $100,000 each to a brother, Thomas, and his secretary. Clara C.

Bordona. He placed the stock of his com pany in trust for the 15 employes for 10 years. After that they will own it outright. Plymouth. Feb.

President Roosevelt and his advisers were accused tonight by Rep, Paul W. Shafer (R-Mlch of Rattle Creek, of attempting to foment a war hysteria in America as a means of continuing themselves in power. Schafer, a vigorous critic of recent army expenditures, was principal speaker at the Plymouth buffalo stew Lincoln Republican dinner, an Inspiration of State Rep. Klton R. Eaton.

The toiffalo meat whs obtained from a nearby ranch. Urging attention for domestic problems. Shafer said: stomachs, continued unemployment, mounting national debts, agricultural problems and the rescue of the small businessman and employers from domineering federal bureaucracy are far more important in this year's campaign than any possible menace from Hitlers and Stalins pictured as having their greedy eys on The audience of persons also heard James F. Thomson. Republican state chairman, urge creation of a state finance department "to take fiscal affairs much out of politics as trouble at Lansing is lhat all thought is given to raising more taxes rather than to and the limitations of the spending Thomson said.

o00. For a moment it appeared that Philadelphia might win, but Jas. A. rarlcy members from western states who had cast their votes for San Francisco and. In some for Houston, witched to the Illinois city.

The final count was Chicago 4 8, Philadelphia San Franslco 7 and Houston 2. One of the last two votes was cast by Garner himself. Gamer Praises Karlc) After the meeting, Farley told newspapermen that he understood President Roosevelt himself favored taking the convention to Chicago. He Indicated he would announce the date for the big party meeting atter the Republican national committee selccts its time and city at a meeting here on February 16, RAILROAD LINE IS JAP TARGET Tokyo Insists Attacks to Continue Despite French Protests Green Bay Slayer Given Life Term Green Pay. Feb.

5 (A Joseph Devroy, 54. was sentenced today to serve a lift term In Wisconsin state prison Tor the slajint of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Emily Kaiser, last July 25. Circuit Judge Henry Graass ov-j railway, erruled a motion for a new trial. He also overruled a defense claim that a ride given three Jurors In the judge's automobile constituted prejudice.

Jurors were ordered not to discuss the case, he said. Mrs. Kaiser and wife both were shot to death. He was not tried on a first degree murder charse against him in his wife's death. Tokyo, Feb, 6 (Tuesday) (A The Japanese army will continue attacks on the French-operated Kunming-Hanoi railway in southwestern China as long as there is a a foreign office spokesman declared Monday.

The spokesman, Yaklchlro Suma, spoke as France was lods- Ing a protest over bombing of the line Thursday and after the I'nited States had made representations about previous bombings. Although bombing. In which the French said five Frenchmen were killed and several wounded, provoked a stiffened French attitude which bulwarked the American representations, Suma said the Tokyo government endorses'' the operations against the Applause followed the remark. Theexrhange inevitably aroused speculation as to political implications. Some have been predicting eventual emergence of a Garner-Farley working alliance, aimed at preventing a third-term nomination for President Roosevelt.

Tho third-term possibility was, of course, on everyone's tongue, and Just as tho meeting closed, word spread that at llyde Park. Mr. Roosevelt had said he was tired of attempts to sound him out on the question and that any announcement would come at a time of his own choosing and his alone. Slratctc) Minted Deals and strategy and rumors of deals and strategy were also much discussed by the members. of these reports had It that Charles Sawyer would enter the Ohio preferential presidential primary, for the purpose of swinging the Ohio delegation to President Roosevelt.

Whether ho would be by Senator Dona ha? (J)- Ohlo), who has been suggested as a favorite nominee, remained undisclosed. Sawyer was the Democratic nominee for governor of Ohio In 1938. It was learned, too, that a full slate of delegates would be entered In the coming preferential primary In Wisconsin. Garner was informed of this in a telegram from state Democratic leaders to which he replied: is In keoping with my public statement in which I said I would accept the nomination. In that statement I expressed the opinion that the people should deride and that the candidate should be selected at primaries and conventions as provided by And, sifting in from the Repub- (Contluued on Two) offic I alsstop WASPISH NOTES Neutrality Matters With Britain To Be Settled In Quiet Conferences I (Shanghai dispatches number of killed In him.

Mardi Gras Draws 100,000 Visitors; Carnival On Today New Orleans. Feb. 3 by the scores of thousands laughed at leaky skies and cavorted through the streets tonight, warming up for tomorrow's 2 4-hour spree of a mad, Mardi Gras carnival. The weather was springlike and balmy and there was a chance friendly winds might rout showers and make tomorrow a perfect day for the final celebration preceding the penitential period of Lent. The century old carnival this year is one of the greatest in history, The city is filled with an estimated hundred thousand visitors.

impressed by the vast, yearlong effort and considerable expense behind the celebration. George H. Terri berry, attorney, will preside over the festivities as Rex. kiug of carnival, and his queen -will beautiful Miss Ksth- erlne Phillips, daughter of and Mrs. William D.

Phillips. case, it cannot express satisfaction because the number of Germans to be delivered to Japanese authorities is only part of those whose extradition was The Germans were taken from the Japanese liner 35 miles off Yokohama after the vessel had been halted by a Rrltlsh warship with a shot across her bows. They were interned at Hongkonc, British crown colony. Nazi Bombs Sink 24th British Naval Vessel placed Th at 1 with an other 200 wounded. They said there were further attacks on the railroal last Saturday but no casualties were reported.) Suma denied that undisciplined military authorities were responsible for the raids.

Japan was believed to be insisting that the railway is a legitimate military objective because It Is a main munitions supply line for Chungking. The French deny this. Washington. Feb. 5.

lA decision to refrain as far as possible from Binding any more to Great Britaiu over neutrality questions has been reached by American officials in charge of foreign policy. In future, questions arising between the two governments are Karelian isthmus and the Lake regions today for the major development in the war with Russia, but reports abroad that the Russian 18th division bad been destroyed were denied by a headquarters representative. The spokesman said the report of the annhiliation of the division apparently arose from the fact that a decisive development north of Lake Ladoga, in the Kitela area, had awaited for days since the Soviet offensive thers had been stalled and many Russians were cut off from their supplies. Stronghold Captured Some observers interpreted a heavy Russian attack at Summa, on the Karelian Isthmus, as a Russian attempt to divert the Finns from the Ladoga region and relieve the two divisions reported stranded there Instead, the Finns have been boring into Russian positions north of the lake and yesterday's communique announced the taking of a new stronghold, the killing of 500 Russians and the capture of seven tanks and other war materials. The Finnish populace hoped to- dav for a reptitlon of yesterday general snowfall which blotted out the countryside so successfully that air raids were restricted to a fCTw scattered districts, chiefly along the southwestern coast.

Offensive Weak The communique yesterdaj said four Held guns. 30 automobiles and much other war material fell Into Finnish hands In the district north of iJike Ladoga after the repulse of relatively weak on three Finnish positions, one of them on the shore of the lake and two others on Islands near the shore. Other attacks were reported set back at Summa, on the Karelian isthmus, at Aaittojokl. north of Kitela. and at Markajarvl, on the Salla front.

Heavy artillery exchanges thundered tonieht along the Karelian Isthmus front, fitfully lighting a. snowy battlefield strewn with Russian dead, slain in a fruitless Soviet offensive which appeared to have spent itself at last after fl'e days of unrelenting attacks. So Sleep or Military sources said the nerheim line remained unbroken by the repeated Soviet assaults in which tanks, armored and parachute troops were and during which Finnish front line troops went practically without sleep and food. Finnish counter barrages, these sources said, thus far had blocked every attempt of the Russians to dig in closer to the Finnish lines. The Finns made no official mention of their own losses, but foreign observers said they unquestionably had paid a hea'V price themselves in dead and wounded.

Russian warplanes, meanwhile, continued their attacks on areas behind the front, sweeping across central Finland this morning to rain explosives on the town of Ka- jaanl. The extent of the damage and the number of casualties were expected to be threshed out al- not Immediately disclosed Psychiatrists Check Up On South Haven Patricide Confessor Grand Haven, Feb. 5 of Neil Koopman, 30, who is held on a charge of slaying his father, John Koopman, has been completed by three psychiatrists but their report not yet been filed. Sheriff Frank Van Etta announced today. The examination was ordered under provisions of a new state law which that all persons charged with murder be examined by at least three psychiatrists before passing of sentence.

Van Etta quoted Koopman as confessing the slaying London. Feb. 5. The British navy sustained its 2 1th loss today when the 875-ton mine- 1 sweeper Sphinx, crippled by German air i aiders two days ago. foundered as she was being towed into port.

Fifty-four of the 100 men were feared lost. Five were known to have been killed by Nazi bombers which ranged British east coastal waters Saturday attacking at least 11 ships. The minesweeper's engines were shot down Saturday but in the first two raids, Monday and Tuesday, all the German warplanes escaped, apparently unscathed. British military exerts asserted. however, that swift expansion of the allied fighting forces and munitions industries had blacked out Germany chances of inning a spring war.

The land and air power of the I belligerents, these experts declared, is approaching a disabled and as she was being q( th. Mason County Road Officers On Trial For Malfeasances Mason, Feb. 3 Ingham county board of supervisors today to conduct a hearing February 20 in the cases of Arthur H. Phillips, of Lansing, chairman of the county road commission, and Archie J. Earl, of East Lansing, a county road commissioner, who were accused by a one-man grand jury of misfeasance and malfeasance in office.

towed into an eastern port tow-line snapped and the Sphiux capsized Ruilt in at a cost of about $500,000. the Sphinx was the third minesweeper Rritain has lost. The other two went down in Novem ber. Judge I W. Carr, of the bet for Britain and France to try jngham county circuit court, filed his grand Jury report with the supervisors today.

He charged the to win the war. The are adjusting their national structures now for such an effort. Because of this British and French spring offensives were expected to be in the economic Naval observers regarded Ger- and propaganda their three air attacks last week military forces used more for de- jrom county road funds to reim- on shipping off the exposed east fenslve purposes than in big burse themselves for trips for coast as a prelude to sharper cf- which they filed no expeuse ac- forts to establish a real In line with efforts to step up counts. and a renewal of the'arms production as fast as new Earl already is awaiting a mun- Nazi submarim campaign in an are called to colors, icipal court hearing on charges effort to offset allied martime plans are under consideration that he accepted a bribe In strength. which may result in i connection with the purchase of Britain said three raiders were meat ot 1,000,000 wotucu.

road equipment. two men obtained life insurance at the expense of the county, failed to fulfill an obligation to call for bids in awarding certain sales contracts, and withdrew money most entirely through personal conferences between Washington officials and Lord Lothian. the British ambassador, or between Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy and British authorities. The series of strong notes sent from Washington to London in the last two months stirred up American public opinion to an extent alarming to some officials.

They could see no advautage accruing to the world from an acrimonious debate between the United States and Great Britain. They invisaged it as a direct encouragement for Adolf HiJer, whom they have no desire to please. Heavey Seas Wreck Homes And Streets A Redondo Beach Redondo Beach. Feb. 5 heaviest seas in years battered the Strand walk, undermined homes and apartment hous and caused sections of streets to cave in today.

Property owners and friends labored tonight, filling sandbags and placing thtm under weakened residence and store foundations. They said they feared further damage from a high tide at 8 a. m. tomorrow. Small beach shops collapsed to- and porches and balconies of beach homes fell into the sea.

Most of homes been deemed. Air liabls Tried The Finnish press bureau also reported that Soviet bombers had (Continued on Two) Big Tiger Turns On Wife At Detroit Show Detroit, Feb. 5 Harriet Beatty, wife of Animal Trainer Clyde Beatty, escaped through a safety door today when a tiger got out of control in an act before S.000 persons at the State Fair Coliseum. Tho tiger, Primba, rode once around the cage on an elephant, Anna May, but balked when Mrs. Beatty prepared to have big cat Jump through a fire ring.

Primba first lashed out at the elephant and then turned on Mrs. Beatty, who dived for the door. Outside attendants subdued the tiger, but the elephant teeame uu- ruly an I tri twice to smash out of the cage. The bars held but were bent a foot out of line. Trainer Eugeue Scott finally quieted the big beast by getting her out and letting her run, which he said later, was the best way to quiet an jitters.

Beatty, who had been nearby awaiting his act, said that Primba apparently needed more training and that extra rehearsals would be held in an effort to avoid further trouble with her..