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las 2 TUESDAY MORNING. MARCH 24. 1031. PART I. STATE QRT FHTS JOLIET CONVICT METALIZED 1 RESOURCES OVER 65 MILLIONS BOULDER CITY'S 'MAYOR' NAMED ABSENCE FAILS TO MAKE HEART FO.YDEIl BROTHERS ro Av, munta ACCUSES BOARD MILK AIDS IN ANEMIA to Twelve Men Sworn in to Trv Student Gets S5 Mailed Him Four Years Ago Bv Grandmother Mich igun ex-Represen tative to Be Administrator Parole Group Responsible for Riots, Charge Made Lingle Slayer Suspect Experiments at School in Georgia Proving Value of Latest Treatment THE BEATEN PATH OF SAFETY 'Rotten to Prisoner Shouts at Members ('minion's Authority ill lie Absolute in Town Prosecutor to Ignore Angle, of Gangsters Reprisal BljpLER iMo.i March Si.

i.T) RuBer Cummings's grandmother. Mrs. Eliza Cummines of Hays, mailed him a $3 bill In 1927 as a grammar gradua I i Record Assures Vain Matte Freedom Bought by Bribery Lost by Trick, He Says EMORY UNIVERSITY" Ga.) March 23. iA'i Increasing hope for sufferers from anemia is being pro-i tided here through experiments with "metalized milk." 1 A 'V ,1 IS one-Dry Regime Panel arned Accused Man Only One on Trial CHICAGO. March 23.

(VP, Twelve Bien were sworn in today to decide tion gift. The letter arrived Saturday. The youth to be graduated from high school in a few weeks. whether Leo Brothers fired the shot that killed the Chicago Tribune police reporter, Alfred Lingle, last June. As the last of the jurors was accepted in a brief but heated session the State revealed for the first time that it did not intend to prove why Lingle was killed or who ordered the assassination.

"It is unessential In this State fa prove a motive for murder," said Assistant State's Attorney Brooks as BV LAURENCE M. BENEDICT "Times" Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. March 23. Announcement was made today by the Interior Department that former Representative Louis C. Cramton of Michigan had been appointed special attorney to Secretary Wilbur to have charge of the appraisal of lands and negotiation of leases for residential and business property al Boulder City.

the new town which is to be the place of abode of the workers who will build Boulder Dam. Cramton's pay, It is learned, will be $25 per day. In addition, he will receive the usual government expense allowance of $6 per day when away from Washington. The ten a- he questioned the lajst venireman. "If we can prove that this defendant committed the murder, that he was seen to fire the shot, then you need not be concerned about Brooks further narrowed the case down by impressing upon rti'e jurors that the case they were about to hear was merely "the State of Illinois versus Leo Brothers." and by cautioning them against taking upon themselves the State's Attorney's duties and attempting to And anyone else guilty.

"No matter what may or may not be done about others." he said, "your problem here M. JOLIET ail.) March 23. IV) A convict serving lime for bank robbery told a legislative committee investigating the twin Jollet prisons today that he had paid $2000 for parole from ail undeserved sentence. Yet. eleven months after he was et free he was rearrested and returned to a cell, Joseph D.

Moran said. Speaking under a pledge of legislative protection. Moran whirled in the witness chair, pointed to members of the State Parole Board and said: "You're the cause of all this trouble In the prisons." "ROTTEN TO CORE" "P.otten to the core," he said rf all pardon and parole boards sines 1918, when he came here. "For twelve years I've served time here for a crime they know I did not commit, "Ward Thompson, (a board mem Dr. J.

L. McGhee, head of the department of bio-chemistry, avoids using the word "cure" in his report on the progress of the "metalized milk" treatment, which was originally announced almost a year ago, but he says that virtually all anemia victims have shown striking Improvement after drinking the fluid. In one experiment conducted in a Georgia cotton mill, 138 out of 140 workers showed a large increase in the percentage of hemoglobin, the coloring matter of the red corpuscles, from the treatment. The "metalized milk" Is simply raw milk in which an alloy of copper and iron has been soaked until small quantities have dissolved. Dr.

McGhee is now conducting extensive experiments to determine the most effective amount of the metals for the treatment, and also to discover if any other combination of metals would be superior to Iron and copper. RAD IO Pacific States Savings offers you a safe and direct path for your financial progress. A path trodden smooth by the footsteps of three generations. A path along which 80 thousand prudent saver are confidently traveling today. Pacific States Savings offer of 6 on your funds backed by the greatest resources ever accumulated by an American Institution of this type.

But of far greater importance, it la backed by such self-imposed and long demonstrated safety factors as these: cash and bonds totaling over seven million dollars capital funds of over three million dollars a Statement listing furrdture and fixtures at the nominal value of $1, and free from bank indebtedness. Place these protective measures in the balance when you weigh the attractiveness of 6 compounded semi-annually. Then send for our Statement as a preliminary for the disposal of your April funds. ft ure is indefinite, but probably will continue at least for the construction period of Boulder Dam, set at mm titU immmm AJf -Tf a-ZIr wfHi toi. Lt simply: Did Leo Brothers kjU Alfred Lingle?" An adjournment was ordered until tomorrow morning to give th3 lawyers time to perfect their opening arguments.

The defense reiterated its demand for the financial lecords of the Llngie murder investigation board and was assured the records will be brought into court whenever needed as evidence. six and a half years. His headquarters will be here, but much of his time will be spent at the townsite. according to the In-! PECIAt TODAY AND TOMORROW June MacCloy Bra nil lerior Department's announcement. Cramton served in the House eighteen years, being defeated for re-election last November.

For a number of years he has been chairman of the House subcommittee on appropriations for the Interior De HOLLYWOOD WIFE SUED BY SPOUSE ber now dead.) sat there and toid me, 'Joe, I know you didn't commit the crime you're charged with, but if you did time for all the crimes you are supposed to have committed you'd be here a lonj time' "I paid $2000 for my parole to board member whose name I won't Colvin (another member tried to it, but he got Ills orders from higher up. was paroled out of the State after serving six years and three months and was rearrested after I had been our, eleven months be 1 i partment and ia that capacity had become familiar with government procedure and the method of hand- i ling concessions under the National Park Service. I Mr. Cramton was slated for ap- pointment to the commission hand- ling arrangements for the Wash June MacCloy Charged by Cincinnati Husband With Xeglect of Duty Vj P. S.

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mtt. Fallr Garnted. FIRST IN THf NATION HOOVER HAILED IN PORTO RICO (Continued from First I'aje) lined the streets, singing, cheering, waving flags and strewing vividly hued flowers. Boy Scouts aided National Guardsmen, Legionnaires, firemen and police in patrolling the roads. Secret-service operatives hovered close to the President at all times, but an aged, bent beggar woman evaded them once, beseeching Mr.

Hoover in Spanish for alms. He clasped her hand and the throng shouted with glee. The reception by the municipality of Ponce was held at the City Hall, several miles from the President's landing place. GIFT PRESENTED President Hoover was given an elaborate embroidered banquet cloth on which had been worked designs of the favorite flowers of all of the American Presidents who have held office since Porto Rico became part of the United States. The poppy, designated by President Hoover as his favorite flower, was included in the design.

Up to the last minute a small, active group of Nationalists continued their opposition to the entertainment program, urging all Porto Ricans. "for their own dig Other Special. Today TUBS Brian nut te and $39.95 $49.95 cause I stepped back into the State, and I have been here since. I was informed that an out-of-State parole expired in ix months, but Colvin put a five-year period of probation on me." PUBLICITY WINS He told his story after the committee had clashed heatedly over the question of permitting convicts' testimony to be published in newspapers. They decided in the affirmative and planned to call more Prececiin? Moran was V.

C. Jones, a storm center of convict protest. As chair. nan of the parole board he shifted the blame to the General Assembly for passing its law against robbery with a gun. "Our hands are tiec'," he said.

"Though that act laior was repealed, there are some 600 men in prison, sent here while it r.a.s WHEAT PRICES FALLSHARPLY (Continued from First Pafe) ment issued yesterday and refused to say whether it is applicable to cotton stabilization operations. Stone said the board hopes for a 20 per cent reduction in both wheat and cotton acreage. LQUALlZATIONFtE DEMAND AGAIN HEARD WASHINGTON, March 23. Abandonment by the Farm Board of its wheat stabilization operations today threw open the old question of dealing with the farm surplus and brought immediate demands for the equalization fee. The time-worn battle cry around which farm-relief advocates rallied as they marched the old Mc-Nary-Haugen bill through Congress to its death in a veto by President Coolidge was sounded almost simultaneously by Senate leaders and a farm organization leader.

McNARY BACKS WATSON Senator McNary of Oregon, whose name was attached to the original farm bill which carried the fee, joined Republican Leader Watson In opposing it again. Chester H. Gray, legislative representative of the American Farm Bureau Federation, predicted the next Congress will strip the Farm Board of its power to attempt to stabilize prices and substitute instead either the equalizaion fee or the debenture plan. McNary, who Is chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, expressed the opinion that the equalization fee is most "practical meth ington bicentennial celebration here next year, but his name provoked such a storm of protest on Capitol Hill that he was dropped from consideration. Cramton, an uncompromising "dry," is regarded as the ideal man to carry out the plans for making Boulder City as free as possible from law violations.

Leases of lots will contain a provision whereby they will be automatically terminated upon proof of bootlegging, gambling or other serious wrongdoing on the part of the tenants. Thus Boulder City will have a means of enforcement peculiar to itself. The former Michigan Representative will be "Mayor" of the town and his word, with the backing of the Interior Department, will be absolute law. Public notice will be given when applications for leases may be filed and it was stated by Interior De-nnrtmont. offirtals todav that it nrob.

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March 23. M. June MacCloy, 21 years of age, actress, was sued for divorce today by Wilbur Guthlein, 28, Cincinnati, representative of a motion -picture corporation, who asserted his wife refused to give tip her career and declined to live with him. He charged gross neglect of duty. The actress' legal name is Mrs.

June Mary Guthlein. Her address was recorded In Domestic Relations Court as Paramount studios, Hollywood. Cal. MISSING NAVAL FLYER BOBS UP $39.95 1 AIGEST tUILDIMC A LOAN ASSOCIATION IN THE NATIQM los Angeles branch 752 SOUTH BROADWAY near EIGHTH CEO. W.

VAN BRLNT, Ylca-Frealdent and Manaier Branchea in other Southern California CI lea CAPITAL FUNDS OVER 3 MILLIONS LOS ANGELES RADIO tOMTAM 952 S. BROADWAY and 1810 WEST 7TH ST. YOUR EYES GLASSES' COMPLETE abjy will be May 1, next, before lots! ritwrn rit.ni have been appraised and the necessary application blanks prepared for distribution. nity" not to participate. One hand bill, signed by Luis Vergne Ortiz, president of tne Nationalist party (Continued from First Tage) above them, but could see no other planes.

Then I went down below again and made a scouting circuit, first to the right and then to the left, trvlng to get back to my original starting point, for I figured I couldn't be very far from the fleet. Still I didn't see any ships, so I flew upwind for ten minutes and of San Juan, was distributed In the cars of the reception committee. It BOULDER DAM CONTRACT IN CONTRACTORS' HANDS SAN FRANCISCO. March 23. (Exclusive) The formal contract for the construction of Boulder Dam was received today by Six Compa criticised President Hoover as lead UAH this week, in Oculist Eye Ex-tmiuotiw, a piir of Spherical Glasses in a Zylo-Shell frame, complete for SUO.

Cylindrical glatiet. told or shell frames, torict, fancy shapes and double visit (lasses correspondingly low, nd the best of all is the good correc-Horn I the you, flit if not simply fettiitg a Pair of Classes. They may do you an irrepur-obit harm by injuring your Vision for the Years that are ahead of you. Buy Skill, Ability and Experience. er of the national Republican party, which it described as "capitalistic, plutocratic.

anti-Socialist and opposed to the interests of workers." PRISON CHAPLAIN FORMER CONVICT CHICAGO. March 23. Exclusive i Rev. George L. Whitmeyer.

ousted chaplain of Joliet penitentiary and a storm center in the legislative quiz into the recent prison disorders, served two terms in the El-mira Reformatory at Elmira, N. it was disclosed today. He served twelve months on a sentence of one to five years for larceny of an automobile and six months for vclation of parole. Detective bureau records here substantiated the revelation which the clergyman admitted. OKLAI10LACAPITOL LIOUOR QUIZ CALLED od yet devised for segregation of set her down on tne water Decaue my gas supply was getting very low.

nies. successful bidders. Their legal experts Immediately began a detailed study of it. Officials announced ti-e document will be signed as quickly as possible and returned to Wash'ngton for the closing of essential Federal officers. H.

J. Lawler, chairman of the construction committee, and F. Q. Barlow, one of th? engineering staff, BOTANIST OF IOWA EXPIRES ON TRAIN I put, out the flotation gear witn which the plane wa equipped and it functioned properly. This was about 11 a.m.

Tuesday. litre the Lenses properly fitted to as to take the Strain from the and Protect the Fy for the Future Years, lit in this i4ii77 and Experi-l AMES iIowa March 23. tPi Ad- vif nf th rifnth nf Prnf T. Pammcl, 69 years of age, professor left for the dam site today. Ii started to rain hard right aft- i er I landed and the visibility, of course, was very poor.

I got out the rubber lifeboat on top of the uuuer wine, put. In a canteen of emeritus of the department of botany at Iowa State College, on THANKS VOICED i water and a sienal pistol and a red a train at Ogden, Utah, was received here late today by Dr. I. the surplus. FARM BOARD'S PROBLEM McNary spent sn hour at the Farm Board today, discussing the situation.

It later developed that the board's announcement that it will buy mere of the 1931 wheat crop was prompted by difficulties disposing of its present holdings, the expectation that it would have approximately 250.000.000 bushels accumulated by July 1, when the new crop comes in and the prospects of having perhaps twice that amount on hand next year when another crop is due for harvest. Senator Borah. Republican, Idaho, an advocate of the export debenture plan, predicted agitation for the debenture and equalization fee will be increased at the next session. Borah said the so-called stabilization program had to have an end as it was "leading to disaster." once that I offer an Oculist's Examination. My rc are always reason-able and I do not use drops in the eye for examining.

C. N. HOPKINS, M.D. tya. Ear.

Noie and Throat Specialist Sirt LKitlM 14 Yuri Suite 201-203-205 Laughlin Bldg. 315 South Broadway Mclhus. head of the department BY MRS. HOOVER PLANE SINKING 'About 8 o'clock Tuesday night of botany, in a telegram from Mrs OKLAHOMA CITY, March 23. Ai the request of Gov.

Murray, the House of Representatives today voted to appoint a committee to investigate reports of the existence of a "permit" to furnish liquor in the State Capitol in connection with the operation of the Capitol (Continued from First Page) the left wing flotation bag deflated Pammcl. Prof, and Mrs. Pammel were returning here from Califor saw- i and tne wing went unaer. i nia. that she could not stsy afloat much longer so I inflated the rubber lifeboat and launched it, tying up to the fuselage so I could stick with the plane as long as possible.

About 2 a.m.. Wednesday I heard the air hissing out of the right GRAND JURY TOLD OF WITNESS FEE GRAFT Colorfully Nov, Italian Type SERVING TRAYS Just arrived! In fact, these attractive, wood serving trays were unpacked in order to prepare this advertisement. Offered now at remarkably low prices. Hand painted with an Italian type. flotation tank, so I shoved off and concluded, "for work you have shared as members of the women's division of the President's emergency committee for employment, from the officials of that committee, from those you have aided, even from those yet to be aided.

I am delivering to you messages of heartfelt gratitude." Mrs. Hoover reached the capital from her week-end vacation at the President's Rapidan fishing camp this afternoon. Although arrangements are uncertain, she plans to leave tomorrow If possible for Ashe-vtlle, N. C. to visit fcer son, Herbert Hoover, who is convalescing there.

Mrs. Ray Lyman Wilbur, wife of the Interior Secretary, and MiaS Susan Dyer of California, who went to the snow-covered mountain camp Regarding the Farm Board Agency's wheat holding he said the very least the government can do will be to "give the absolute assurance that this wheat will not put upon the market until the world price has reached at least $1.50 a bushel and then only in such amounts as will not materially lower the price." DALLAS (Tex.) March 23. District Judges Adams and Pippen joined today in convening the Dallas county grand jury to investigate reports of State Auditor Lynn and Asst. Hooper that the State has lost more than $100,000 the last ten years from forged witness fee certificates. the plane sank quickly.

Wednesday was overcast with much rain. I sighted nothing, but estimated by general drift at about two knots northeast. Thursday and Friday were uneventful. All my sensations of hunger had gone. I conserved my strength, not bothering to use the oars, but I was sopping wet from the rain, which poured down without let-up.

SAIL IV SIGHT colorful decoration. You'll delight in using them for serv ing cocktails, tea, desserts. rti Z.J I or other refreshments or just as a decorative. El with her. did not return to Washington, but started by motor direct TELEPHONE for an to Asheville.

Slain Gangster's Tray measuring 9 by II inches Tray measuring 9Yi by 14 inches Tray measuring 12 by 16 Tray measuring 73 by IS inches. Brother Talks I QD al Cialilli ouiun.i! fTlawtr lOS AKC.6i.rs LONG J-ACH AjADCNA SAN DitwO iuj In. L7 jiimutf wwwwwai ii ann.mw i. I'iii u. -mum On Saturday the visibility gcjt better and at about 8:30 p.m., I sighted a ship fairly close on the port side, heading south.

I shot off all the red stars I had but they didn't notice them, so I heaved the pistol overboard. Sunday was clear. At 8 a.m. I sighted a Pan-American Airways plane bound north and flying low, but she was too far away to see me. Then about fifteen minutes past noon I saw In the distance a steamer coming my way.

I broke out the oars and rowed over right into her path. She picked me up at 12:30. WELCOME SIGHT She was the Cerigo of the Hamburg American lines and no other ship in the world will ever look so good to me. The officers treated me splendidly. As soon as I got aboard I tried to radio the Canal station but the ship's outfit was too weak to redact): more than fifty miles.

Now thar I think it over, I remember that during the first couple of days I was sort of worried about the sharks which tried to tip me out of my lifeboat 'several times, but alter a while I got used to them. ANGELENO IN VATICAN POST VATICAN CITY. March 23. Frederick Thorne-Rlder of Los Angeles today assumed his duties as private chamberlin to his Holiness Pope Pius XI. He will serve all this week.

For Caster CHICAGO. March 23. UV-The Genaro family broke the code of gangland again today. August Annerio told police the names of those who threatened his brother. Johnny Genaro, Capone lieutenant, who was shot to death late Saturday to the southwest side.

Police would not reveal the names but asked for a postponement of the coroner's Inquest until April 9 to investigate. EX-SHERIFF FACING LIQUOR PLOT. TRIAL WICHITA (Kan.) March 23. il) Howard King, former Sheriff of Ford county, and Max Cohen. Jim Stiff and Sam Mass faced trial In Federal Court here today on charges of conspiracy to violate the national prohibition act.

The government charges King accepted money from Cohen. Stiff and Moss for unmolested operation of a still in Ford (jOur cashier will bring the check to you. This Autobank super service saves you time, ejiminates parking trouble and completes the transaction in the privacy of your own home or office. Forty-One Sworn Statements now in our offiee prove that Autobank charges are less. and or day weddings nothing graces the gentleman like a cutaway suit worn with the proper accessories.

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