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ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME IN TWO PARTS 36 PACES Part 1 GENERAL NEWS 11 Paget" TIMES OFFICES 202 Weil First Street And Throughout Southern California LARGEST HOME-DELIVERED CIRCULATION LARGEST ADVERTISING VOLUME MAdiion 2345 Th Timet Tcltphon Numbtr Connecting All LIBERTY TRUE INDUSTRIAL M00M VOL. LVII 1. MORNING, JANUARY 20, 193S. DAILY, FIVE CENTS MB American BUSINESS LEADERS GIVE MOURNED IDEAS DN RECESSION CURE Policemen Questioned in Harry Raymond Case State to Paint Background of Dual Killing Witnesses Will Tell of Party Preceding President Discloses Plans to Organize Advisory Council From Economic Groups WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.

(JP) President Roosevelt said tonight he is working slowly toward the organization of an advisory council comprising all elements of the national economic life to guide him in the formulation of Federal policies. White House aides announced he made this disclosure to the Commerce Department's fifty-man Business Advisory Council after generally approving a statement of that group's ideas on what should be done to end the present industrial iV ml If tf West Given Ship Pledge Adequate Craft to Be Constructed, Kennedy Tells Californians Women Link Squad Men to Wire Tapping Fitta announced late last night that one of the officers questioned in connection with the bombing of Harry Raymond, private detective, had admitted he was assigned to watch Raymond's movements by his superior, Earl Kynette, acting detective captain. The officer, whose name was withheld by Fitta, said on questioning that he had been assigned to go to a bungalow at 2711 East Seventh street, opposite the Raymond home every day for the past three months. He said that he was assigned to the place with a fellow officer and instructed by Kynette to "keep an eye on Raymond." "I was told," the officer told Fitts according to the latter's announcement, "to watch every move that Raymond made, to shadow him, take the "'IweAse numbers of all the cars that came to the Raymopd home and to make a re i recession. In addition, he modified his Ptand of last week for the abolition of all holding companies.

Some holding companies, he as-petted, have produced a certain amount of mass efficiency in op eration or otherwise are in the public interest. VIEWS OX UNIONS And, commenting upon a request by the council for legislation fixing the responsibility of labor unions, Mr. Roosevelt suggested that unions should, by common consent rather than by law, publicly list their receipts and expenditures. The council, formed in 1033 at the suggestion of Secretary Roper and often critical of administration policy since that time, met in subcommittees and later as a unit to approve the statement of its views, before going to the White House. HARRI.MAX CIVKS VIEWS W.

Averill Harriman, chairman of the board of the Union Pacific Railroad and chairman of the council, acted as spokesman. While the President scrawled notes on a pad of scratch paper, he read the statement of the council. It approved the objective of wage-hour legislation, but asked that a study of the question he made before another bill is in troduced. To this Mr. Roosevelt later replied with the expres sion of a hope that such a study would not preclude action at this session of Congress.

COOPERATION' PLEDGED It pledged the co-operation of the group in working out legislation for the elimination of harmful business practices; "recognized" that the "anti-trust laws are to an extent outmoded," but asserted that monopoly and monopolistic practices are incompatible with democracy. It pledged the council's help In working toward the decentralization of industry, geographically, but "viewed with grave concern any general move to outlaw proper holding companies." It deplored the administration's controversy with the pub- lie utility industry and asked that that industry be assured it will not be destroyed through- government competition. On this noint. Mr. Roosevelt said the mis understanding affected but 13 per cent of the industry.

HOUSING INDORSE!) It indorsed the President's housing program. It called for modification of both the undistributed profits tax end the capital gains tax as impediments to the flow of capital into industry, and under this beading asserted that the mass of investors "need reassurance as to the direction reform is to take." It opposed any "further cheapening" of the dollar. When Harriman had finished Turn Page 5, Column 4 REFUSES TO TALK ABOUT BLAST Earl Kynette, acting police captain, shown in Fitts's office, where he defied questioning on Raymond bombing. Timf photo Ships Seized by Rebels Tanker Captured Off Spanish Coast Trying to Run Blockade PARIS, Jan. 10.

(P) Authori tative sources tonight reported the American tanker Nantucket Chief had been captured by two Spanish insurgent gunboats off Barcelona Tuesday. SEIZURE EXPLAINED These sources declared the cap ture took place while the Amer ican tanker was attempting to run Insurgent Generalissimo Franco's blockade of the Eastern Spanish coast. The tanker, formerly named the Gulflight, was en route to the Catalan capital with a cargo of Russian oil. FRENCH SEE CAPTURE The capture was witnessed by French warships which declined to interfere. They reported the incident to the French Navy Ministry, however, the same sources said.

The Nantucket Chief was flying the American flag and carried an American crew. French reports said the tanker was last seen being escorted by the insurgent vessels to Talma, Mallorca Island stronghold of the insurgent sea and air forces. Captured Tanker Recently Sold BEAUMONT, Jan. If). The American tanker Nantucket Chief, captured by Spanish in surgent gunboats off the eastern coast of Spain, Tuesday, was formerly the tanker Gulflight of Port Arthur, and was sold to the Nantucket Chief Steamship Com pany of New York about two poration.

Capt, J. E. Lewis of Port Arthur is reported in com mand of the Nantucket Chief. Spanish Rebel Air Bombs Kill Hundreds Copyright, 1938. bjr thl United PrcM BARCELONA (Spain) Jan.

19. (U.R) Rebel bombing planes today attacked Barcelona and Valencia, the most crowded cities of loyalist Spain, and within an hour and a half piled streets with dead and debris for a total of hundreds of lives. Hurried estimates of the noontime raids by six black bombers that swept off the Balearic Islands put the number of dead at. somewhere between 700 and 1000, including hundreds of women and children. The six planes exacted a toll of civilian lives that exceeded the soldier dead of most battles in the front lines.

It was the worst extermination of in this eighteen-month-old "Little World War." The estimate of 1000 lives was only a sweeping one for the streets of Spain's two big cities along the Mediterranean coast were piled with debris and the bodies of men, women and children. The loyalist defense ministry listed 520 dead and countless hundreds wounded in Barcelona alone. The slaughter and destruction in Valencia, down the Levant coast, were described officially as even greater. THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1938 Negotiations to be resumed today in Portland printers' strike. Page 10, Part I.

Mattson children reported as denying Anders, Ross kidnaper, abducted their brother. Page 1, Part 1. GENERAL EASTERN. Cold creates mysterious black beam In New York sky. Page 11, Part I.

White boy reunited with Chinese foster father. Page 3, Part I. WASHINGTON. Business leaders give President views on how-to end recession. Page 1, Part I.

West coast given shipbuilding pledge bv Kennedv. Page 1, Part I. Garner fights Senate filibuster on lynch bill. I1age 4. Part I.

FOREIGN. Spanish rebels capture American Page 1, Part I. British and Japanese troops in near clash in "China. Page 11, Part I. Drums of Bedouins throb on eve of King Farouk's wedding.

Page 11, Part I. Soviet Parliament adjourns defying enemy nations. Page 11, Part I TWO MATTSON CONFRONT KIDNAPER ANDERS Slayings by Wright Last hours of John B. Kimmel spent in the company of the man the State charges murdered him will be described from the wit ness stand today to a Jury of nine men and three women in Superior Judge Bull's court where Paul A. Wright is being tried for his life.

From the lips of a bartender, two parking station attendants a hotel telephone operator and others will come the story of how Wright and Kimmel spen the evening of November 8 and tne following early morning hours. BARMAN" TO TESTIFY First witness today will be Dick Walsh, bartender at the It Club, where Wright and Kimmel drank together before driving to right Glendale home at 2 a.m two hours before Kimmel was fatally wounded. Next to testify will be Louis Russel and Carlos Carter, park ing station attendants. They will be called by Dep. Roll chief prosecutor, to establish the time Wright and Kimmel left Hollywood for Wright's home.

CALL SWITCHBOARD GIRL Telephone calls made by Kim mel to his wife, Marrene, just before he agreed to Wright's plea to accompany the latter home to prove to Mrs. Wright that the two men had participated in a 'stag' evening, also will be re counted. The witness will be Gertrude Gustavson, telephone operator in the Hollywood Plaza Hotel. Wright's, calm deserted him yesterday when the widow of clad in black, and Mrs Evelyn Edith McBride, mother of Wrights slatn wife, took the stand. I EXTI FY PHOTOG RA PHS The women, both of whom were called to identify photo- graphs of the murder victims, glanced tearfully in Wright's direction as they awaited Roll's questions.

When Mrs. McBride, asked if she had attended the wedding of Wright to her daughter in a Detroit church on November 30, 1932, spoke of the quiet ceremony in the chapel Turn to Page .1, Column 1 PROGRESS MADE IN RUBENS CASE Embassy Referred to Secret Police MOSCOW, Jan. 19. (JP) A United States Embassy request to interview Mrs. Marie Rubens identified as an American citi zen held on suspicion of espion age was understood tonight to have been passed on to the secret political police.

Prospects of Embassy officials being able to visit the woman, presumably held in Lubianka Prison, appeared strengthened by the soviet Foreign Office's willingness to submit the request to proper authorities. Bits of Lost Clipper Arrive at Honolulu HONOLULU, Jan. 19. (fP)-A that was found of the Samoan Clipper plane, which crashed in flames near Pago-Pago, American Samoa, eight days ago, killing seven men, arrived here today in a small box. The box three feet by one contained bits of veneer, adrift smoke-bomb rack, part of a navigating table and bits of metal.

It is en route by steamer to Pan American Airways headquarters in San Francisco. Lions Kill Trainer During Cage Act UIIPETRE (Hungary) Jan. 19. (IP) Edward Schneller, 25 years of age, member of a famous circus family, was mauled to death in a lion cage at a performance in an inn courtyord here Tues- dav. Spectators ran home today for their guns and returned to shoot the animals.

Robert McWade Actor Drops Dead on Set Robert McWade Stricken After Finishing Scene Robert McWade, veteran character actor of stage and screen, finished his final scenes in a Civil War drama being filmed at the MctroGoldwyn-Mayer studio at Culver City late yesterday, then slumped to his death. McWade, familiar as the "lov- agle grouch" of many film parts, had just received congratulations from Clarence Brown, director. REPLY PROPHETIC "Good work, Bob," Brown said. "That's your final scene." "Yes, it's my final scene," was he actor.g prophetic reply, Actors James Stewart and Gene LockharL also of the cast, noticed that McWade appeared exhausted as he sat down. In a second, he slumpd forward.

Dr. Susan Jones, studio physician, found he had succumbed to a heart attack. FAMILY OF ACTORS The actor was the third to carry the name of Robert McWade to stage heights. His father and grandfather had been stage successes. He was born in Buffalo, N.

and began his stage career in 1902 with the Murray Hill Stock Company, later becoming a Broadway star. He played in the original "Ben Hur" on Broadway. In 1925 McWade came here to appear in Henry Duffy productions, later turning to a film career. LEAVES WIDOW McWade leaves his widow, Minnie Lee, whom he married in 1910; two sons. Robert, and Charles Lee, and two brothers, Edward and William McWade.

Funeral arrangements are in charge of Edward Brothers mortuary. PLANE SIGHTS FIRE AT SEA Coast Guard Sends Aid to Vessel JACKSONVILLE (Fla.) Jan. 19, Coast Guard divisional headquarters here said tonight an Eastern Airlines plane had reported sighting a ship afire off Cape Canaveral, on the east coast of Florida. The crew of a life saving sta tion at Titusville was instructed to proceed to the scene. Women Boycott Roosevelt Party CINCINNATI, Jan.

10, (Exclusive) A number of socially prominent Cincinnati women served notice today of their refusal to have anything to do with the committee assisting in arrangements for the President's Birthday Ball, January 29. Referring to January 29 as a "sad day in American history," Mrs. Gilbert Bettman, wife of a former Attorney General of Ohio, informed Postmaster Bock-let, who appointed her to the committee, that she is willing to contribute to the Foundation for Infantile Paralysis but that she is "sure this is a sufficiently free country for me to object to participating in the anniversary celebration." HV WALDO DRAKE "Times" Staff Representative WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. (Ex elusive) Assurance that ade quate intercoastal and coastwise vessels will be built by the Mari time Commission, even if the government has to operate them, was given by Chairman Joseph P.

Kennedy tonight to members of the west coast "save-the-liners" committee. The conference as also attended by Rear-Admiral Emory Land, commission member and prominently mentioned as its next chairman. Kennedy said that both the President and members of the Maritime Commission are in fullest sympathy with the west coast's plea for preservation of the intercoastal liners "as a necessity of national security," REQUEST FAVORED "I have talked this thing over with the President," he said. "We must build these ships as a defense measure, not chargeable to commerce, but as the Maritime Commission's aid to the Navy. "I say, and reiterate my for mer statements, that I am in favor of what you ask.

"I feel, however, that without doubt the government will have to build these ships and allocate part of them to the Pacific. To accomplish this we may be forced to operate them." WEST COAST BUILDING Kennedy also declared the commission's desire and intention of constructing a definite amount of this new tonnage in Pacific Coast yards, as a further measure of national security. Earlier today the Senate Commerce Committee, holding hearings on Chairman Copeland's proposed labor amendment to Turn to Page 5, Column 5 Bruno Mussolini Will Hop South Atlantic ROME, Jan. 19. (yP) Bruno Mussilini, II Duce's aviator son, tonight was prepared to start, possible tomorrow at dawn, on a three-plane flight across the South Atlantic to Rio de Janeiro.

Three S7!) planes were made ready at Guidonia Airport for the flight, to be led by Col. At-tilio Biseo, who has flown with Bruno Mussolini on other avia- tion adventures. SPOUTS. High landmark wins Santa Anita feature race. Page Part II.

Pasadena golf tournament opens today, Page 9, Part II. i Bud Taylor and Ritchie Fontaine in lured in car crash. Page 9, Part II. THE CITY. Prosecution to paint background of Wright love slayings today.

Page 1, Part I. Playing girl killed on sidewalk "by asserted- drunken driver. Page 2, Part II. Plunge from Pasadena's fenced bridge injures victim. Page 1, Part II.

Robert McWade. veteran character actor, dies. Page 1, Part I.Sinclair Lewis denounces propaganda flooding country. Page 2, Part II. Supervisors block transfer of fund to charity Page 1, Part II.

THE WEST. Union Pacific head blames Lewis and Green for large share of recession. Page 10, Part- I. REMEMBER THIS Ambition prompts always to do a little more than you have to. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan.

19. (Exclusive) Peter Anders, kid- nap-slayer of wealthy Charles S. Ross of Chicago, was confronted San Francisco two days ago by the brother and sister of Charles W. Mattson, Tacoma schoolboy, murdered a year ago by a man who abducted him for $30,000 ransom. The meeting, it was disclosed today, brought Anders face to face with the children as Federal agents looked on, but wheth er the slaver of Ross was identi fied as the kidnaper of the 10- year-old schoolboy remains an official secret.

AXDKRS NOT MAX From a reliable source, how ever, it was learned that the children. William Mattson, 16. and Muriel Mattson. 14, studied Anders and then told the Fed- ral agents: "He isn't the man we saw car rying Charles away." It was reported also that Virginia Chatfield, 16, playmate of Charles, who was with the Mattson children in the Tacoma home of Dr. W.

W. Mattson when CHILDREN the kidnaping occurred, likewise failed to identify him. The three children aje understood to have been taken from their homes by Federal agents and flown here soon after the arrest of Anders in Los Angeles and his confession to the kidnap-killing of Ross, Chicago manufacturer. The plane that brought the children to San Francisco arrived almost at the same time that another plane reached here from Los Angeles with Anders and his captors. The Federal group that arranged the rendezvous, it is declared, was headed by J.

Edgar Hoover, chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 1)R. MATTSON SILENT In Tacoma, Dr. Mattson confirmed that his children had left their home with Federal men, but he refused to disclose where they had gone. He said they had not yet returned home.

"The children are frequently out of school and they have been taken various places by Federal agents at various times," he explained. It is believed the children Turn to Page II, Column fi i Weather Lu port on my findings to him each day." Five other of the officers questioned preferred to stand on their constitutional rights and refuse to answer questions put to them by the District Attorney and his questioners. Earl Kynette, acting captain of detectives of the Los Angeles Police Department, in charge of a special police investigating squad, and seven members of his personally-operated unit, last night were identified as tenants of a leased bungalow near the home of Harry Raymond, bomb victim. Identification of the eight police officers came when Fitts late yesterday afternoon launched an unexpected foray in the investigation of the attempted assassination of Ray mond and called to his office for questioning Kynette and members of his squad. RFNTEI) IX SEPTEMBER The police officers were identified by Mrs.

Beulah Raymond, wife of the private detective, and six other neighbors, who reside hear the mysterious bungalow at 2711 East Seventh street. The house, assertedly occupied by the officers was rented last September and is approximately 100 feet from the Raymond residence, located at 935 Orme street. The rear porch of the bungalow, according to the investigators, looks down an al-. ley with a direct view of the Raymond home. PAYING OF RENT Announcement of the officers' identification was made by Fitt3 after he had ordered the neighbors brought in for questioning.

The witnesses, all women, tofd Fitts under close examination that the men at the time they jert selves as being engaged in the radio business. All said that different members of the identified group paid the rent on the place at various times. They also told the District Attorney that they observed members of the same group boring holes in the rented house and subsequently stringing wires On one occasion at night several members of the tenants the mystery bungalow were seen stringing wires from the house tn near-bv telenhone Affer the homhin these wir were traced and showed con- Turn to Tage 2, Column 3 IN THE TIMES' TODAY Clouds and Showers Forecast Talos Verdes. tne oungaiow represent- After Unsettled After a lull of unsettled er the Southland's latest rain storm continued last night, bring ing with it a forecast of clouds and showers for tonight and tomorrow. Cloudy and unsettled, with tie change in temperature, is the; forecast for today.

Venice, .03, and Alhambra, .34. ine aisturoance bringing the new showers boosted the rainfall total for the season to 4.70 inches, still considerably under normal of 6.33 inches and last RADIO. Page 10, Part I. COMICS. Pago 13.

Tart I. FASHIONS. CLUBS, SOCIETY. Pages 5, 0, 7 and 4'art IF. FINANCIAL Pages 14, 15, 10 and 17, Tart I.

OIL. Page 11, PUZZLE. Page 15, Part II. FRANK KENT. Page 4, Part I.

DRAMA. Pages 8 and 9, Part I. SHIPPING. Page 18, Part II. 'WEATHER.

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Governors elected at Los Angcle Stock Exchange animal meeting. March of Finance. Wheat futures close lower. Stock prices continue downtrend. Page 14, Part I.

THE SOUTHLAND. Redondo Reach Chamber of Commerce outlines vast program of civic improvements at annual Installation dinner. Slate, relief economies criticised by Ventura Supervisor. Page 12, Part I. mark at this time, 9.06! inches, United States Weather itiuieau.

records show. inch and Big Pines a like! The storm, accompanied 1 -nous in lhroilRh the same holes jthe mountain regions received! snow in high mountain areas, snmvfa Ri wrti an iSKEV STRINGING WIRES amount. Arrowhead reported two and one-half inches at Kel-iin i brought .26 inch of- rain- to the city. Of this, .13 of an inch fell yesterday up to 10 p.m. The official total to yesterday morning was also .13 of an inch.

At Bakersfield and Orange. .) ien. j-nmnt-y xui dido, Redlands. .67, and Ir-j vine, .50, while Glendale had Peak. A two-inch fall was mpasnrprl at near Ricr Temperatures in Los Angeles Turn to Tage 2, Column.