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JANUARY 31, 193S. PART FRIDAY MORNING. Voids Fine HUGE POWER Pioneers9 Modern Home DILLINGER'S FRIEND FREE LOEB CALLED i PRISON PET SUICIDE LAID TO FEARS OF WEAK HE ART A M' LINE STARTS AIMS TOLD BY SARRAUT French Premier Says Aid of Britain Ieeded'to Guarantee Peace ih 'Evelyn Frechette Swears and dreading a fatal shock, I am Current for Aqueduct Will Come From Hoover Dam and Run Pumps States Attorney Starts Quiz She's Pauper as Lat Step to Release taking his way out On a daybed near the body ofj Capt Harry C. Stinson, United: States Army, retired, this not was! i lipb uG6 DljB DHR.L privileges of Slain Killer, through the head, police reported. DETROIT.

Jan. 30. JP Evelyn His wife, Mrs. Mariem Stinson, Frechette, 27 years of age. sweet-' had called the home at 1046 South heart of the slain John Dillinger GDB DdE 'jziJ'-ijGE ill and Partner Leopold Being Investigated PARIS, Jan.

30. UP Premier Sar-raut today threw his lot with Great Britain, declaring that that nation's co-operation with France is the essential guarantee of the peace of Europe. In a seven-minute ministerial declaration read to Parliament, the Premier admitted his main task to assure impartial elections, but he JOLIET (111.) VP How Nathan Leopold and" his slain part ner in crime, Richard Loeb, assert-; edly roamed State prison offices asj trusties will be tnoroughiy investi-i gated. State's Attorney McCabe of; Will county said today. First steps in actual construction of the Metropolitan Water District's huge power transmission line between Hoover Dam and th: Colorado River Aqueduct wre taken; yesterday as contractors crews moved ahead with the placement of footings for the line tow-, ers in the Danby Dry LaSe region.

The line, which ultimately will carry 36 per cent of all the electric energy generated at the Hoover Dam power plants, will run south from the dam in the form of an inverted connecting with ths five pumping plants on the aqueduct Work on the job being carried forward by Fritz Ziebarth, Long Beach electrical under the direction of General Manager F. E. Weymouth und Chief Electrical Engineer James M. Gay-lord of the Water District. i promised to try to reduce encourage trade and protect the gold franc in the struggle to Determined, he said, to get to the bottom of the affair, the prosecutor ward a happier tomorrow.

The elections to which he referred plans to question Leopold. Hej are those for Parliament, coming in took a pauper's oath today as the last formality in her release from the Federal Detention Farm at Milan, to which she was sentenced two years ago for harboring the notorious gangster. She told United States Commissioner Hurd that she intends to go straight. The pauper's oath was necessary to release her from a $1000 fine imposed at the time of her sentence. Mrs.

Splivalo to Rest Anew Mrs. Rheba Crawford Splivalo, associated with Aimee Semple Mc-j Pherson as pastor of Angelus Temple, returned to the Glendale Sanitarium and Hospital yesterday to recuperate from a recent illness. After some time in the hospital suffering from nervous exhaustion she went to her home, but her physicians advised that she return to the hospital for further rest. charged that both Leopold and Loeb were Denitentiarv nets. i i uuu duu yuu uuu April or May.

Even as he spoke the Bank ol Testimony of yesterday's inquest; Hudson avenue, from downtown to speak to her husband. The maid found the body when she went to call Capt. Stinson, and told Mrs. Stinson to come home Immediately, that something terrible had happened. The captain was 54 years of age.

Pierre Du Pont Income Revealed as $31490,000 WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. JF Senator Hastings, Republican, of Delaware, inadvertently disclosed today that Pierre S. Du Pont probably had an income of approximately $31,490,000 in 1929. Addressing the Senate, he said Du Pont paid a t4.563.988 income tax in 1929, after deducting $982,473 for gifts to charity.

Treasury statisticians said should Du Pont's income have been the same as the average income above $5,000,000, he earned $31,490,414 on the basis of taxes paid. In 1929 there were thirty-eight returns showing a net income of Prance announced the withdrawal of another billion francs (about 980,000) in gold irom its vaults dur Evelyn Frechette, who yesterday took pauper's oath to win freedom. mi if ing the week that the government of former Premier Laval was falling. "The financial situation," declared VISIONS OF DEAD WIFE LEAD MAN TO SUICIDE ma in ir(if mrrn Sarraut, "imperiously demands our attention to dissipate the menacing catastrophe and to defend the iranc's stability. Modern in every detail, this new home of Jacoby Brothers, Los Angeles' oldest department store, at Sixth street and Broadway, will be opened the first week in February.

The Premier promised the con MME. ROSALIA DIOXNE Requiem mass will be celebrated today at St. Victor's Catholic Church for Mme. Rosalia Dionne, one-time pupil of Sarah Bernhardt and character actress in the days of silent films. She began her theatrical career in Paris and later organized her own troupe and purchased a theater in Grussels.

She came to the United States in 1918 as the widow of Rene Gervais. She tinuance of the collective security Visions of a wife, dead for five years, yesterday led William R. Holmes, to take' his life by inhaling illuminating gas, according to a note found by his body in a. rooming-house at 528 South Wall street. The note read: "I might as well be with her, as I see her every night.

God take care of you. Good-by, kids. I sure love you all, but I can't take it" policy in the League of Nations ar.d p'edged himself to do everything io facilitate ant hasten within the FORMER PRESIDENT DIES MANAGUA (Nicaragua) Jan. 30. UP) Bartolomeo Martinez, former President of Nicaragua, died today of a heart attack at his home in Matagalpa.

JACOBY BROTHERS WILL OPEN NEW STORE SOON League the settlement of the ItaUv more than $5,000,000, representing Ethiopian conflict and the cessation ra total of $360,000,000, or an average 'leaves a son in Paris. of hostilities. Of $9,500,000 each. Into Loeb's slaying by 23-year-old James Day in what Loeb had called his private bath aroused the prosecutor. Loeb was slashed to death Tuesday In a fierce fight with Day, a Chi-cagoan serving time for thievery.

Day's quoted statement that Loeb promised to get him an easy clerical job and that Loeb asserted he had good connections in prison, fanned the clamor for investigation. Warden Ragen said he is investigating Loeb's prison finances. The talked of receiving spending money, 30-year-old Chicagoan, Day said, raising the question of whether he was able to use his wealth for luxurious prison living. Ragen said, however, that Loeb, eon of a mail order house millionaire, had only $8.50 in the prison bank. The secrecy with which Loeb's body was taken from the prison Tuesday night, in an ambulance with license plates concealed, revived reports current some weeks ago that a plot was under way to free Loeb and Leopold through hoax deaths.

The warden, State's Attorney McCabe and county investigators scoffed at these reports. All of them saw the body and said it unquestionably was Loeb's. Meanwhile, Leopold was reported under guard to prevent some fellow tonvict from attacking him. Jacoby Brothers, Los Angeles' oldest department store, having served three generations of Cali-fornians, will open their new six-story home at Boradway and Sixth street the first week in February. For sixty-one years this company, starting in a one-story building at the Plaza in 1875.

has continued in the same family. The new home will house three shops of millinery, four shops of dresses, two shops of suits and coats and a wide variety of accessory departments, according to Julius Jacoby, president-manager. The six floors of the ultra-mod-ernly designed building will be devoted almost exclusive to popular- What's NEW Ji in Western Living priced women's and misses' apparel. Two entrances, one from Broad BYRD TELLS 6000 ABOUT POLAR TRIP way and one from Sixth street, will serve the store and the various merchandise departments will Include the entire range of women's and misses' apparel, accessories, draDeries. radios and electrical Exnlorations in Antarctic household appliances.

Other executives of the company besides Julius Jacoby. are Leo Ja coby. vice-president and general merchandise manager; G. J. Cot- trell, sales and advertising manager and superintendent, and Henry ja coby, assistant merchandise man ager.

Farmers Report Know where to catch boca dulce or Or why Westerners build glass houses? Ever see Cellophane curtains or plaid painted to rent a trailer or grow sunflowers that flower in December? Ever tasted Chayote (pronounced chi-o-ti) or pears with claret? Crash of Plane Recounted and Pictures of Bleak Territory Shoun Six thousand persons filled the Shrine Civic Auditorium last night to hear Rear-Admiral Richard E. Byrd lecture on and look at the motion pictures of his recent expedition in the Antarctic. The lecture and accompanying motion pictures were sponsored by the Pacific Geographical Society. Byrd explained the nature of the expedition, which covered 25,000 square miles of usexplored territory, and showed films of camp activity in Little America and scenes of the surrounding terrain. Of peculiar Interest was the "Devil's Graveyard," so named by Byrd because of its weird ice formations, and the explorer's outpost weather station established 125 miles south of the base camp.

JOPLIN (Mo.) Jan. 30. UP) Of fleers and farmers searched tonight for an airplane, which farmers in an area several miles northwest of here reported down. One farmer reported two puffs of smoke, once while the plane was high in the air and again when it apparently struck the ground. Another farmer said he heard the roar of the mo UTTERLY DIFFERENT SUNSET MAGAZINE-OUT TODAY Siinoy B.

Mitchell Dig Up Hi Garden Experiences see "Leaning on My Hoe" tors and a third reported a loud crash. One farmer described the (ftgt 46 Tihriurj Stmtl) ship as a monoplane. T5l It NEWS OF THE CAFES Searchers abandoned the hunt at 10:30 o'clock tonight to await the coming of daylight before resum ing. Two Now Montbrotiat "This Month in tho GrdnH (ftf 19 Ttitry Sitt) "Hi Mijesty" tnd "Una" re recent varieties of old favorite. Montbretia are liked because they need little water or care and faithfully furnish sparkling tummcr flowers.

"His Majesty" is 4 feet tall, and the flowers are 3 to 4 inches across. The center of the bloom i deep gold, shading outward to the color of the outside, dark flaming red. "Una" is feet, with bloom that are orange above and aim-son bronze beneath. Plant Montbretias now for this summer, in groups of 3 bulbs 2 inches deep, the groups foot apart. Recognition from epicureans and gourmets is reaching Alexander Perino, proprietor of Pertno's Restaurant and Bodega on Wilshlre lawn from which they get weekly waterings, they have persisted for years and are free of their deadly enemy the mealy bug, which attacks them, where they are allowed to dry out in our rainless summers.

Cellophane Curtain see "Kitchenew" (f'l 36 Fetrmrj Stnitt) Sparkling curtains of Cellophane laminated to, or backed with gaure, are smart and new for kitchens and bath rooms. They are extremely practical, too. for they can be cleaned by merely wiping with a damp cloth. A simple finish of rick-tack btaid is all that is needed in the way of decoration. Most large department store have this material in yardage or made-up.

At the foot of stone retaining wall looking east, where they get morning sun but are spared the heat of the afternoon, I grow some beautiful blue primroses, in shade from delicate Alice blue to a deep blue purple. They are early, at their best in February. By giving them rich soil, dividing them after flowering every three or four years and placing them at the edge of a piece of 'I Boulevard. Perino, taking an un-, precedented pride in the cuisine i and service of the rendezvous, is! oftentimes seen personally attending to favorite guests or discussing recipes with those many people who have realized the relish of the food; and the charm of the setting. VILLAGE POPULAR Joe Tadini, manager of the Italian Village, reports a most satis-; factory patronage during both lunch and dinner in the cocktail lounge, recently enlarged.

This week's show! features Hardy and Werner, adagio! team; Ginger, acrobatics, and Bel-! Take Some Soap Along see "In the Bag" (fit I Flhrnry Stnitt) WHERE YOU GET IT-IF YOU GET THERE IN Tito: 1 AwiriM Stultl Mtdtl Hmw Natitiutl 6M(rhlt Society. vie and Romaro, Spanish dance There are many magazines. Here is something quite new. Sunset for February covers with amazing completeness "What's New in Western Living." It tells about new Western homes and what's new about them. About Western gardens, styles, food recipes, outdoor living.

It covers Western sports, parties. And the care of Western fingertips and eyebrows. And that's only the beginning. Actually in the new Sunset for February there arc more usable ideas than you have ever seen in any magazine. We can crowd it all between two covers because it is written with no "padding." For busy people.

For busy people who are too intelligent to waste the world's greatest natural opportunity for bountiful living. We're told the new Sunset is as newsy as Time as lively as the New Yorker as authoritative as Good Housekeep Soap is not served in most hotels in the Orient and Europe (England excepted). Where it is provided it's usually not-so-good. Favorite brands, if available at all abroad, are quite costly. So it' well to remember, when packing, to add some cakes of suds.

Statistics show, among other things, that the average person is all washed up with a cake a month. To Cook Chayote ee "Cooking by the Calendar" (tl 34 Ftirmr) Stnitt) Chayote (pronounced chi-o-ti that pale green, pear-shaped, one-seeded relative of the squash family, is becoming more common. To prepare it Dice if wished. Cook 15 to 20 minutes Drain, add butter or bake with cheese. Left over Chayote is excellent in salad, atone, or with other vegetables.

It holds its shape nicely in cooking and is beautiful color. From Seattle to Palm Springs and San Diego, the new Sunset is on newsstands today. Its 121 separate articles, each as West Coast as abalonc steak, mirror Western life as you want to live it with variety, vivacity, and vigor. What's more, Sunset tells how you can do so. Go get your Sunset now or you may miss out.

Because 206,000 copies of this month's Sunset arc already bought and paid for. Right now, these copies are in Uncle Sam's post-office, on their way to the homes of well-to-do, keenly active Westerners who subscribe by the year. Only 6,000 extra copies of this, issue have been printed for sale, while they last, on newsstands today. team. Leo Randinl Is master of cere-; monies.

MAGIC MIRROR FEATURE The Magic Mirror, recently featured at the Latin Quarter, Ninth street and Vermont avenue, has met with such popularity among pa-; trons that it has been decided to make it a permanent entertainment attraction. The cafe is presenting, in addition to the magic mirror, other nightly attractions of novel interest to party goers and tllners-out. CAFE HAS SEARCHLIGHT "Follow the Searchlight on Lincoln avenue" to the Marcell Inn at Altadena has become the popular slogan on a return from the Santa Anita race track. The location of the Marcell Inn Is illuminated by a giant searchlight that sweeps over the countryside making it easier for guests to locate this gay little "foot of the mountain resort." Music for dancing is supplied by Donald Cook and Ms Midshipmen, with songs and entertainment by Sybil and Naomi OLD POLICY. REVIVED The White Spot Cafe on Beverly Boulevard near La Brea avenue recently returned to the old policy of nerving a complete dinner.

Prices are still the same, with dessert now being included as formerly. The es Deep Sea Fiahing see Autographed copies of Admiral Byrd's "Discovery" TOMORROW a limited number signed with Admiral Byrd's own hand. The living, glowing story of hazardous exploits, amazing discoveries from which 22 branches of science profit. "OH the Paremente" A( (ptt 42 ftbrnnrf S'utl) In the south, boat may be chartered at Stearn ing. We'll let you judge for yourself.

The new Sunset for February is on newsstands now. The price is what it was before. A dime! FEBRUARY "SUNSETTINGS" YOU'D HATE. TO MISS "Tipe fof Gypiiei" (ptft I) Ttiriiinj Snmtt) dence $12.30 per week-end, $25.00 per week. Excellent trailers can be bought in the larger Western cities tt prices starting from $200.

To ones who want to build their own, the Wharf, Santa Barbara, to run out to the Uian-nel Islands, particularly Santa Gut. Smaller craft for fishing in local waters come as low at $1.50 an hour. No trolling, but bank or rock fishing is good, with cod and bass predominant. From Catalioa water, launche will be coming in with albacore, barracuda, rock bass, bonita. Pig in a Bandanna see "Host and Hoste" (tS'9 Sumtt) Here's a tasty trick to accompany cocktails or tomato juice.

Josephine Wylie, home economist visiting from Chicago, devised it. Make some really good pie panry, either simple puff or plain. Roll out, and tut into equilateral triangle with 2-inch sides. On each triangle lay a tiny link ausage (fresh-cooked or canned) or a. we jardine.

Bring up 2 of the cornets to overlap, headkerchicf fashion, around 'ui age or wrdine, and pin in place with tooth- pick. Bake in hot oven, replace plain tooth-pick with wckwil rid ol crv tablishment at this location remains open all night. THOMAS FURLONG Now that one can rent, build or buy house Shop (see page 15 for name), sell i'o increaie in price jor autograph 3.75 various complete blueprints at $3. trailers, there may be something in Roger Bab- Last rites for Thomas Furlong, resident of Los Angeles fifty-nine years, will be conducted at 2:30 BOOK STORE Strtet Floor p.m. tomorrow from the chapel of Paul Robinson.

Cremation will The license is the atne as automobile's. Gasoline consumption is about one mile less per gallon. No particular driving hazard one must merely get used to the extra length in traffic and on turns. In a de luxe trailer three San Franciscans made a 105-day trip 12,000 mile long, seeing Yellowstone, Lake Louise, and the Northwest. Total expense all inclusive; $11 for persons per day.

1 son' forecast that we will eventually live on wheels. Why not? The modern insulated trailer with electric lights nd hower bath is compact knd mobile form of the modern home. And the fun of living wherever one-stops the car is something to sing vagabond songs about. From the Company (see ptge 1 for name), one can (ent complete trailer resi- lollow at Ingle wood Park Crema heMAYco. tory.

He died yesterday at 71 3'ears of age. He had been a curio dealer forty years and resided at J030 West Thirtieth street. He leaves Brotdwjy Hill Eighth els widow and a daughter. I.

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