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-'2 Leads in feurlingame-THE TIMES 'AND D'AILY NEWS LE'ADEK-San Mateo. Calif. telephone 1900 THUKSDAY, MARCH Call Flies to L. A. for Spy Session; Expects to Quiz Voshell Key Witness May Quit Reno Redwood City llureau) REDWOOD CITY, March 14 --With tomorrow's session of his assembly dictagraph investigating 1 committee promising a surprise, Chairman Harrison W.

Gall of Redwood City left by plane from Mills field this aferaoon to conduce the Friday meeting in Los Angeles. Commenting on his disclosure to the Times yesterday of the report that Robert E. Voshell, missing key witness in the has been in Reno, Call declared before he left: "I think there is a strong possi- that Voshell is in Reno. How-ever, I think hell come out of hid- "ing and be willing to testify before the committee is through." Subpoena Ready Call has been seeking to serve 'him a subpoena since discov- of the dictagraph in his Sacramento hotel room, connected to "a mioiophone planted in the suite of Assembly Speaker Gordon Garland in the same hotel. As predicted exclusively in yesterday's Times, startling testimony be given by a surprise witness Tin Los Angeles tomorrow.

Neither Call nor Assemblyman Ray Williamson, San Francisco, committee secretary, would disclose the name of the witness. Call said he understood that State Motor Department Director How-aid K. Philbrick will not tes- "tify tomonon. Philhrick left by plane for the south shortly after he was handed a new subpoena yesterday. He claimed he had not made up his mind whether he would ajv before the committee to tcs- He refused to answer a sub- on a previous occasion.

Says Committee Illegal Philbrick's attorney in San Francisco, George M. Naus, said he had -advised his client that his view on "the matter was still unchanged Attorney General Warren's that the committee held the power to compel witnesses to testify. MenloPark Man Held in Gambling Net AI Giannotti, 32, resident of 800 Live Oak Menlo Park, was rce on $2500 bail today after being ndicted by the Santa Clara county grand jury on charges of cy to violate the state gambling Arrested with Giannotti, assert- Santa Clara county slot machine kin" were Jack Pacheco, 55, former captain of the state highway patrol, and Cyros C. McMillan, 44, a salesman. The three will be arraigned March 22.

The indictments culminated long grand jury mvestiga- ion into alleged vice and corrup- ion in Santa Clara county. Three Hurt in Head-on Crash "I advised him," Naus said, "that in my opinion, the committee bar --no legal existence, and that he can 7 with reasonable propriety am safety, decline to testify." Present at the San Francisco conference with Naus and Philbrick weie 11. Stanley Mosk, secretary to Governor Olson, and Col. Charles Henderson, the governor's persona" aide. Mosk originally joined PMlbricK in refusing to answer the commit tee subpoena.

He has since decider to appear before the committee Henderson uill aldo appear before the probers tomorrow. Six persons in nil have been summoned for tomorrow, Call said. Maps Contempt Move The committee chairman that in event Philbrick fails to appear, he will ask the committee to pasg a resolution turning the matter over to the attorney general for contempt action against the vehicle director. The committee wsnts to question Philbrick regarding his contact! with Voshell. Mosk has chargec that anti-administration leaders i.new of the presence of the micro phone several days before it waj discovered, and Henderson has ad mitted renting dictagraph equip jnent similar to that found in the hotel.

Call said he expected to returr to his home here Saturday night. Murder Case Service) SOUTH SAN A I laich Burlingame man, Jan Mateo girl and her sister to day were suffering from injuries eceived in. a head-on automobile ollision during heavy late afternoon tiaffic on Bayshore highway Miss Olga Curusis, 21, acting registrar at the San Mateo and driver of one of ars, was cut on the head, arms and egs; her sister, Frances Curusis, 22 132 Bruno street, Daly City, ins cut un the face and legs, nn' T. M. Crotty, 46, 1533 Burlmgam Burlingame, buffered njuries and cuts on.

the face and cgs. Police said that Crotty, driving south on Bayshore highway south of the underpass, went into the hird traffic lane and crashed head- on, into Miss Curusis' automobile Traffic Officer August Terragno said Crotty, credit manager for a San Franehco electriral company would be cited for reckless driving Thp injured were treated ai South San Francisco hospital. Commuter automobile traffic or Bayshore highway was disrupted for nearly half an hour by tbe accident. Calendar for School Year A calendar for the 1940-41 schop year, practically the same as in previous years, was adopted at fl meeting of the Burlingame elemen taiy school board last night. Opening date for the first sem ester will be September 3, Because there will be a full two weeks holiday at Christmas, the secont semester will close on June 20, a week later than usual.

Holidays are: Admission day September Armistico day, No vember 11; teachers' institute, No vember 18-20; No vember 21-22; Christmas New Year's, December 23-January 3 Easter, April 7-11; Memorial day 30. ihe first semester will clos January 31, and the second semes ter will begin. February 3. The board granted Boy Scou iroop No. 157 permission to mee at Hoover school and transactcc jther routine business.

from pace otu) of the elder Steed, unemployed accountant, although members of the family said hn had been drinking 'heavily several days before the Mrs. Steed, her 17 ycai old daughter, Anne, and other relatives yesterday attended the funeral of the slain man at the Crosby chapel, Preliminary hearing of young will he held bctoie Mumci- Judge Allan J. Ward in Buv- lingame next Thursday. Offers nf Help Offeis of financial and otlur iulp the youth been mailv by -jiunvMoufl persons, including several prummeni HilUhoiough iesi- dcntH, who became friendly with him at a San Muteo garage win re he was employed or who wtm impressed by his consideration when, as an ambulance driver, he had them to and from Milk PROTECT Your Famif with' the TIRE WITHIN A TlfifS- OU Flow Ends, Poor Farm Broke BRISTOW, Okla. --(LP) --Con tinued existence of the Creek count poor farm, once the richest inst tution its kind in the world, ap pears dependent on the strengt of iU inmates' old-age peniio chocks.

The farm, which sprouted fort 515,000 a day in oil from its land 1C years ago, is broke and Crep county commissioners said th county is no longer able to sup port it. Superintendent H. V. Snelling i seeking to have the inmates place on the state old-age pension roll Deducting from the $'2-l month ly check received by each person Snelling believes that he can kee the j'arm in operation. In the farm had 22 flowin oil wells on three of the riche oil leapcs in the Bristol field, Tl productive welts flowed 280 luavrals daily.

LIFE PROTECTOR: htflrtH 1 FirMtOM Stfity VitH ii lour kir sboiiM oittr wfl mi. AS LOW AS WEEK AUTO SUPPLY UMD SERVICE STORES ilh C.J I Phoil I. M. 113 Burl. Council (Continued from papa one) playgrounds and recreation cente in areas not now served.

3. Reduction of water rates, 4. Prompt submission to the crs of a practicable retirement pltt for city employes. 5. Provision for adequate par ing areas adjacent to Burlingair and Broadway districts so that res dents can do their shopping wi greater convenience.

G. Added efforts to make streets safe for pedestrians an children. 7. To stop the extension of Jun pero Serra highway to and throu Burlingnme residential districts. Why wear refldy-ma clothes? m.ide to measure 1 $21.75 up.

Krmw, 789 El Camh Burl. 8444. P. 0. box Realtors Hold Banquet More than 125 persons, includ- 1 high officials of state and tional real estate groups, were aected to attend the annual ban- et ot the Snn Mateo-Burlin- rae Real Estate boaid at Hotel Franklin today at m.

Heading the list of honored ests announced by President Johnson will be H. L. Giaiiet- of Pasadena, president of the alifornia State Association of eal Estate Boards, and Glenn D. illaman, secretary of the state oup. Capt.

Frank SI. Bartlett, presi- nt of the San Mateo chamber commerce and director of the estate board, is to be toast- aster. A delegation of more than 25 alters from Redwood City, as ell as delegations from Millbrae ghlands, San Biuuo, and South an Francisco are scheduled to tend. Among- the honored guests -will Clarence. Urban, California ate real estate commissionei, and 3 staff; officials of the federal authority; Louis Gai- ud, uce president of the Twen- eth 1 district, and Harry" Hoffler, esident of the Redwood City Real state board.

Diiud Bohannon, Northern alifornia director of the National ssociation of Real-Estate boards, ill be guest speaker. Also present will he Mayor rank F. Simmen, City Manager D. Soule, and the new secre- ry-manager of the San Mateo imbcr of commerce, Randle P. liclds.

Finns Stunned (Continued from pago one) orium wept without restrairt a ie ptesident said: "The peace terms have shown us the imperial tendencieii of etcr the Great have been re gwed." Robbed of Territory Viipuii and other national areas uilt up hy the Finns had been tnk- i fiom them, he said, "But the Finnish people, stitutions, their rights, are stiV reserved," he said. "After all, we ave only loat some territory. "On the credit aide can note ir fight for justice ami our mora ctory, which can never be too r.hly valued. "We trust to receive help from vittzed nations, nations vihicl ave the same ideals as ourn, to id us in our reconstruction. "But above all we must rely 01 urselvea.

Unity gave us strength the fight. It must be our basic rinciple in future." Stand at Attention Those in the audience stood a Petition during the five minutes the president's speech. His broadcast was preceded by ic rendition of the national an icm, "Bjornejborgernes," a mai'cl honor of the Finnish army whicl as composed for Napoleon when came to Finland in 1809, So oppressive was the sorrow ie people, they hardly realized tha ie war was over--though they ealized only too well the Russian eace terms which their leader ad perforce accepted. The air laid, blarkout, for in bance, was imposed in full fore uring the night. Streets were no ghtcd, and as a United Press cor espondent telephoned a dispatc torn his hotel room a policema vent in to ask him to lower the cur as the light could be see roni the street.

Censors Still Work (The censor was working also Vhen the dispatch on Presiden Kallio's talk was sent to Copenhi 'en, the United Press correspom nt was cut off as soon as he bega uoting the speech. The uring the war, insisted on bavin -written copy of the dispatch fo advance approval.) Mannerheim, in an order of th broadcast by radio last nigh asserted that more than 15,00 had been killed In the wa md that the Finns had killed 20C 100 Russians. Russia had lost 150 anks and 700 airplanes, he adde "Unfortunately," he said, "th valuable promise of aisistan which the western powers gave ould not be realized when Q'- leighbors, concerned for their oft refused the right of tran -it for troopa." Device Warna of Radium Exposur WASHINGTON-- UP)-- The tional bureau of standards veloped a device which flashes warning to persons who are dftttgci' of over-exposure to Adiu rays. When exposure to radium rai ation reaches the limit deem safe by the bureau's experts, device flashes a red light ant emits a buzzing sound. The bure oincd out that in hospitals whe large quantities of radium a handled it is important to prote the technicians from over exposur Rummage Sale PMlniuhi Chopin H.doiioh 249 STREET Son SAT.

MARCH 14, 15, 16 Slor. Op.n Ii30 f. M. IOST DEADLY EXPLOSIVE FinlandSeeks EMONSTRATION SOUGHT WASHINGTON, March inventor of "the deadly" explosive sought permission today to demonstrate force by blowing up animals. 'It won't hurt them," he nee it causes instantaneous ath." Lester P.

Barlow of Stamford, so impressed the senate mili- ry affairs committee yesterday ih a description of his new explo- that the committee burned the nutes of the two-hour session lest oreign power learn the formula. A joint meeting" of the senate and use navy and military affairs mmittee has been called for next onday to discuss the experiment. ar and navy department officials 11 be invited to attend. Barlow said he was asking to monstrate the explosive by ex- oding mines of. it in a field of ani- als.

He asked the rmission to so demonstrate. Senator Gerald P. Nye (K-, N. whose suggestion Barlow testi- ed, said the explosive Tvas so dev- astating it would give anj- nation "incomparable advantage in wartime." Its detonation, he said, "utterly destroys everything 'NS ithin miles." "Never in 15 years," he said, "have I seen a senate committee so impressed." Barlow presented to the committee affidavits, photographs, and descriptions of his experiments with the explosive "which he said combined liquid oxygen and carbon. He called it the "most deadly explosive known." Barlow told reporters later that the war potentialities of liquid oxygen were first realized when the Germans bombarded Baicelona during tbe Spanish civil war.

A bomb smashed a huge apartment house, he said, "and killed hundreds of people besides sending the world's military experts into fuior." Highway Continues Closed Dormer. Resident Of S.M. Passes The Ocean Shore highway at Pero Point on the San Mateo county astbide, closed since storms used huge slides there two weeks probably will be closed for other two weeks, according to 'illiam F. Holbrook, superlnteml- of highway maintenance lor an Mateo and Santa Cruz coun- es. Holbrook stated that slides also ntinue to block part of the high- iy near the Santa Cruz county ne, but that the road is passable.

Train-Auto Crash (Continued Page One) almost at the moment the en- ne crashed into the side ot the uck. The engineer was slowing wn for the town of Alamo and he opped the train within 300 yards. long each side of the right of way ero bodies. Among the first identified dead ere five members of the Perez mily Juan, Estaban, Trinidad, anuto, and Miss Otinn. Hears Crash Miss Mary Ann Wall, secretary the Alamo Citrus association, hose place is 200 feet from the rossing, said bodies were hurled irough a sheet of flame as the rain smashed the truck and the asoline tank exploded.

"I nearly always look up when ie train passes, but was busy and didn't," she said. "I icard the roar of the approaching ain and then I heard a tremen- ous crash. I looked out the win- ow and saw a sheet of flame in 'ront of the passenger train en- ine. Through the flame bodies ere pitched in all directions. "I guess the truck's gasoline nks must have exploded.

Calls Ambulances "Then my boss, Albert Jensen, ushcd out to the plant platform nd told me to call all the ambu- nccs in tbe lower Rio Grande alley. "I started and when ookfld out again I saw bodies pilet the side of the tracks. I callec mbulances from five nearby towns was the most horrible thing ever seen." Pete Baldassar, former resi- ent of 619 South Eldorado street, lan Mateo, died early today at her S.mta Cruz home after an more than two months. Baldassar moved to Santa Jieaily i3 years ngo with her lusband, who operated a grocery First avenue and street heie or more than ten yeais. She was he mother of Jane, Jeny and Boblie Baldassar, all of Santa Cruz.

She was also the sister of B. Jongera and Angcline Bongera, loth of 903 Ninth avenue, San Ma- fo. Funeral services are pending at Santa Cruz. S.M. Dr.

Meyer (Continued from Patjo One) county to enforce vaccina- lon." Doctor Meyer last night reiterated facts contained in his recent report to San Francisco and which condemned the recommendation for noculation which has "little or no effect," He reviewed the history of rabies and its distribution in r.nimals and then discussed methods of control. (Continued from onO ha'mber said, will he the mailing questionnaires to all local busi- iesa interests in order to determine vhat products are bought elsewhere and which of these products could ogically be manufactured or dis- nhuted from San Mateo county offices. Need PtyrolU "Kvery effort will be made to attract only those industries which will definitely fit into the San Mateo scene," Bartlett explained. "The new payrolls attending such indus- onld materially stimulate business." The chamber president said that organizational machinery is being constructed to put the campaign nto motion immediately. He is to announce members of the business and industrial survey committee within a few days.

The full program was expected to be started within few weeks. Quarantine Best "The most effective method of control lies in restraint and quarantine," said Doctor Meyer. "It is of particular importance to control stray animals. Quarantine neasures must he vigorously employed and, to be effective, must a large area. While vaccina- noh of animals holds hope for the said Dr.

Meyer, "methods available at present are not ol effectiveness and cannot be relied upon for protection aguins' disease. The co-operation of the imhKe, the newspapers and the health officials will be necessary to stamp out this menace." "Animals which have bitten per or other animals, or which arc sick and suspected of having rabies should not bo killed, but should be placed under observation in suitable isolation quarters in order to es tablish the diagnosis." Against Hysteria "In tbe face of a matter so seri ous," said the letter sent Bcnning hoven, "and one of such vital im portance to the general public, it is a source of great satisfaction to feel that flur medical association has taken the time and thought necessary to bring technical facts concerning this disease to the attention of all. Such, knowledge will go far to fortify public opinion against the hysterical attitude so often found in regard to the possibility of rabies in. human beings or their pets; and will be of material aid in handling such cases should they occur." The letter was signed Harold L. Mack Natalie Lipman, Cristo- hel WnKefield, Paula Sclover, George Agnew, Dan Shuttleworth, E.

D. L. Wrentmore ana W. N. TVFaguire.

Protection (Continued from ons) 'inland's army "is still ready to I'Otcct our work in futuie and our new Sweden prepared to pioyide Fin- and immediately, it was under- tood, with credits, Joans and pub- subscriptions worth $47,680,000 $71,620,000 for reconstruction. (It was indicated strongly that art of these contributions would ie used for fortifications along "Inland's new frontier with Rusia.) Purely Defensive The pioposed defemive alliance --and Us purely defensive nature vas emphasized--is to bind each the Nor- ay and Finland to defend the oth- rs against attack. It was understood that Sweden ad agreed definitely to conclude alliance and that Sweden was confident that Norway, which had greed to negotiate, would likewise agree to conclusion. COPENHAGEN, a Tarch entire abinet may resign in favor of a rovisional ministry which would ake the lesponeiMHty for ratify- ng the Russo-Finnish peace treaty nd resuming diplomatic relations dth Russia, it was reported to- ay. New Cabinet If this course were decided upon, was reported, the piovibional ninistry would in turn give way a new permanent cabinet as soon is the formalities of ratification nd restorations of relations had ieen completed.

Finland already had announced he resignation of War Minister uhu Niukkanen and Education Sinister Uuno Hanuula. Thote ministers resigned, how- vcr, because of their bitter op- )osition to the government's de- ision to accept the Russian peace erms. It was Indicated that, if the ahinet of Premier Risto Ryti de- iided to give way to a povisional me, theie would be an eventual eorgnnization on the basis of the iresent cabinet. Fear Bolshevism A Stockholm dispatch to the quoting ad- mid that th 2 other way. or- my no UiffeiencG to me.

icwspapcr Politkcn, vices from Helsinki, dea of a provisional ministry was (dvanced partly to relieve men 'who waged such a dramatic and icroir war of the onus of having conclude a humiliating peaci 'ith Russia." Danish newspapers, in their edi- arial comments, icflected the anxiety in Sweden and Norway regarding stregthened position in the Baltic and the Scandinavian zone generally. "Bolshevism advancing westward and opening the door to lorthern territory and northern ports," said the National Tidcnde. "Never before has Russian advanced its own borders so far toward Scandinavia as in 1940," said -he Socialdcmokraten. Sportsmen Meet To Plan Fiesta Exhibit The Consolidated Sportsmen of the Peninsula will meet at the Redwood city hall tonight to discuss plans for a wildlife exhibit at thi San Mateo county Fiesta this yeai and to elect new officers, according to President Richard Fischer San Mateo. The meeting will open at 8 o'clock with Fischer presiding Inquest Jury Suspicious in Clayton Case (Continued from vKf ona) et wound in the head and internal njmies iniHcted by brutal blow, vas found in the foothills wefat of telmont the morning of February 20.

She had been dead approxi- natcly 20 hours. Souza, iormer 3an Leandro bill collector, commit- ed suicide the night before at a Jilroy nuto camp which he and Mrs. Jlayton had occupied on February 5 while they were oil a trip to Tells Strange Slory Clayton, jobless steelwoikcr, told Joroner William P. Crosby's jury his morning of an, extra-marital affair between his wife and Souza vliich began nearly two years ago, and which he tolerated, explaining: "I eventually discoveied the re- ationa between my wife and Souza vere more than just friendly. There was nothing I could do about it.

I didn't force the issue. "My wife couldn't understand it. We agreed it would have to work out-the way. It made Shortly after Unnersheriff Nieri md testified, Clayton resumed the itand and told the jury that Souza md once suggested that he (Souza) anil Mrs. Clayton 'enter a suicide iact before giving each other up.

Te said Souza had suggested "tak- ng Clayton with us" if he (the lusband) interfered. Hard to Believe George P. Paul, foreman of the nquest jury, declaied that "Clayon's story is peculiar. It is hard believe that he countenanced the affair between his wife and the 'thcr man." Floyd Granger, deputy county nnd another member ot the ury, said "the members feel that llayton is not telling us all he mows. We feel there's something else behind this strange triangle, and that the husband could thiow more light on the affair.

That is vhy we recommended a further in- The jurors said they liad no suspicion that Clayton hail any connection with the slaying, but be- icved that "all the truth haa not been told." Points io Souza Undersheriff Nieri infoi mod the lurors after the inquest: "We didn't put everything on. This was not a trial." The undoraheriff said the sheriff's investigation of the murder case "has not been concluded." Near the end of his testimony, Nieri was asked by Coroner Crosbv whether it was the opinion of the investigators that Souza had slain Mrs. Clayton and then committed suicide. "That's what the investigation 8 id the undersheriff. inere is no way we can prove that Souza killed the woman.

But the evidence has established that Souza's car earned her body to the spot where it was found, and that nobody but Souza used Ms car. All the evidence points to Sugar production of the Japanese empire this year is expected to be more than 101,000 tons less than last year. A novel vehicle for children that a New York man has Invented is propelled by two riders operating Deed Filed for St. Cyr Estate CUT Buitim) REDWOOD CITY, March Sale of the De St. Cyr estate, which vas recently announced as another arge San Mateo estate to be subdivided, was consummated here today filing of deeds through the California Pacific Title and Trust company.

With stamps indicating a purchase price of 000, the deed of ilelen Strong Carter, latest wife of fean De St. Cyr and who is reported now seeking a divorce from him, was transferred to David D. Bo- mnnon, real estate broker. A portion of, the property was jlaced in trust by Bohannon with 'iling of an additional deed for The section being placed in tcust until complete subdivision is ready will be held by the Central bank at Oakland, the deeds indicated. C1TV "FAIR TO DEAD" I.ANESBORO, won.

their light io pro hibifc billboards near St. Luke's cemetery on grounds that it was 'not to the dead." LIGHTHOUSE VETERANS BEST CLEVELAND, 0. --(IP)-- More than 100 yoara of combined service at their "lighthouse home" three and one-half miles off Cleveland harbor in Lake Erie is the record of the Holzworth brothers, Art, Harry and Edward, back on land now for their annual winter vacation. NAPS; BAGPIPE STOLEN QUINCY, Mass. --(LP)-- MaeKenzie fell asleep after playing Ms bagpipe and awolce to find 'it gone.

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