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The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 7

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THE SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 8. 1934 cc Doug 'Anxious to I 1 I 2 INDICTMENTS SCREENED OUT OF MARRIAGE I i 1 1 iint ciiininc! 4sfor Heir Plays Safe; Guards Balk A. 'Kidnapers WES CITED rr ea Laay asmey, SaysLondonFriend 1 niUL OUIUIUL JT i Convinced that a "man reaches his prime at 40," Ben H. J'" 42, city engineer of Martinez com- By THOMAS C.

WATSON. (Cmurlslit, 11)34, V'i)lral Sfrtle. Inc.) By JAMES LEE, Staff Corrrdiwiiilent I'nlvrrnal srtife. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 7.

Los Angeles, of course, has no kidnap- Only through distinctive newspaper advertising, appealing as much to men as women, may the future success of the furniture busi SUUJRUE Man and Woman to Be Tried Under Mann Act for Asserted Immoral Traffic in Honolulu i ers. Eleven California murderers ap-' plied for at the meeting of the State Prison Board of Term, and Paroles at San Quentin yester- day, with two being granted future date releases. Action on the parole applicatioi ot Vern Doran, implicated in th Frank Egan murder case, wai pos' But John Jacob Astor III, heir to a famous name ana a great xor- tune, wasn't taking any chances, anyway, when he arrived here today aboard a private railway car. LONDON, Feb. 7.

Douglas Fairbanks, American screen atar named as co-respondent by Lord Ashley in his divorce suit against Lady Sylvia Ashley, is worried about whether his present wife, Mary Plckford, will continue pressing her suit for divorce in California, This was disclosed today by a close friend of Fairbanks, who also definitely confirmed belief that Lady Ashley will not contest her husband's court action. She and Fairbanks, it was said, ness and its allied industries be assured. This was the belief expressed yesterday by Walter W. R. May, gen-eral manager of tha Portland Chamber of Commerce and president of the Pacific Advertising Clubs' Association, at the joint luncheon of the Western Furniture Maraet I 4S' "IteJf sheriffs deputies in his automo- 1SJMUl bile parked at the city garbage dump.

1 Greene had killed himself by W4 connecting a hose to his automo- L4 0J I i bllee's exhaust pipe and running it U) A -w jr-a through the floor board of his rt I closed car. MS I la survived onlv bv his widow. Three husky young men and a and the San Francisco Ad Club nl the Palace Hotel. May spoke on "Pushing Forward Through Better Advertising," as Two secret indictments by the Federal Grand Jury revealed yesterday the Government's determination to break up a white slave ring that has operated between Honolulu and San Francisco for years. One of the indictments revealed that James O'Bcian, held here, and Lola Farley, owner of the Service Hotel in Honolulu and in jail there, 1 I izi i-i Sk.

ifu I Start now! You may win $1,500 I SMV I I In the big $5,000 contest In The V. Vv KIt 1 I Examiner. Don't'delay. are anxious for both divorces to become legal as soon as possible so that they may marry. Fairbanks and Lady Ashley are still in London, having given up poned two months for further li vestigation.

Ralph Martin. 33, sentenced i. 1921 for the slaying of E. Poller Post street jeweler, was granted a fuUire date parole for 1937. Martm is leader of the San Quentin band.

Antone Silva, sentenced to 25 years in Alameda in 1925 for iec-ond degree murder, was granted a future date parole for the same year. The applications of Leon Steele, Clifford Conway, Joseph B. Brown, Herbert Barnett, Albert H. Kempf, Walter T. Hallowell, William Young, Frank Evers and Tony valet peered from the car through the morning mists that enveloped the railway station.

"Okay, said Mayaon H. Tucker. "It looks all right," remarked Blaine Ewlng Jr. "Let's go, J. suggested James Thompson.

"It neems propitious, sir," added the valet So John Jacob Astor HI set foot on Los Angeles soil, to spend the day here before sailing tonight for Honolulu and the Antipodes aboard the liner Monterey. Tucker, Ewing and Thompson, youths from New York's Park avenue sector, are accompanying the Astor heir on his cruise, which is said to be an antidote for a broken neartthe young millionaire's engagement to Miss Eileen Gillespie having been terminated recently. Astor refused to admit, however, Christa were denied. part of the program of the Western Retail Conference and Market Week, which has brought hundreds of representatives here from eveiy part of the State. Louis F.

Breuner, of John Brcu-ner Company in Sacramento, was unanimously re-elected president of the Retail Furniture Association of California, at its annual meeting which preceded the luncheon yesterday. Harry A. Saxe, of the Sterling Furniture Company, San Francisco, was also unanimously reelected chairman of the board of directors. Edward A. Filene, of Boston, internationally known business leader and author, will be the principal speaker at today's Palace Hotel luncheon.

He will speak on "Pushing Forward by Improving Retail Store Operation." plans for the moment to go to the continent, where Doug is scheduled to compete his latest film, "Exit Don Juan." Both refuse to see anyone or to answer telephone calls, and they are not frequenting London's "night life spots." According to legal custom here, neither Fairbanks nor Lady Ashley can discuss Lord Ashley's suit But one of the American screen actor's closest friends said: "Douglas' worry at the moment is whether Mitts Plckford intends to continue her divorce iuu against him. The delay of the California petition Is causing Doug great anxiety, as he is anxious to marry Sylvia as soon as he can." will be tried under the Mann act. The woman is accused of sending money to O'Brien with which he allegedly purchased tickets for these three girls to be sent to Honolulu last November. The girls were named as Patricia and Jacqueline Ryan, twins, and Patricia Lunsford. The latter is being held here as a witness against O'Brien.

CONSPIRACY CHARGED. Incidental to this, M. R. Phil-brick, Department of Justice agent, yesterday arrested Paul Rinaldi, who has a police record on a charge of violating the Mann Act in aiding and abetting in the transportation of two other sirls, Beverley and Betty La Marr, to Honolulu. He was released on $1,500 JANE ADDAMS ILL CHICAGO.

Feb. 7. AP) Jane Addams. 73. noted social worker was ordered by her physician today to cancel all speaking engagements because of a heart attack.

that such was the reason for the voyage. "I'm lust off for a lark with the iwv4nr v. boys," he stated. "This Is a good time of year to get away from New York." "Is thoj-e any chance of a reconciliation between Miss Gillespie and yourself when you return?" he was asked. "Where," he responded, "Is your famous sunshine?" An All-u'eck Sale of Resuscitator Aids Boy's Life Fight Two physicians with the aid of a resuscitator and inhalator from the Pittsburg, Contra Costa county, fire department were last night waging a battle to save the life of a five-year-old boy stricken with bail.

Federal officials expressed opinion Rinaldi, howevei. was a tool for O'Brien and the latter had given Rinaldi the money to buy the tickets. Other indictments revealed yesterday charge conspiracy to violate the Mann Act, and names O'Brien, Mrs. Farley, Miss Lunsford, the Ryan sisters and Gail Crosse Price Fixing Laid To Rayon Firms WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.

(AP) The ten companies that produce the bulk of rayon manufactured in this country were formally charged by the Federal Trade Commission today with having formed a price-fixing monoply. They have 30 days Hysterical Wife Breaks Up Trial Leaping dramatically to her feet in the courtroom of Federal Judge Frank H. Kerrigan, Mrs. Gus Forrest, proprietor of the Bronx 5jh rtTJl Dispatches stated to answer. Hotel, Honolulu, Jams and Marmalade Gail Forrest is held there vorced her husband, H.

N. Vickerman, who, she said, objected to her career as an actress. STAGE BRINGS RIFT Helen Vinson, theater and film star, who yesterday di j.ms was mt nrsi cnarge oi I monoply against an industry oper-! ating under an NRA code, but since Schultes interrupted the trial of her double pneumonia. They had used seven tnnks of oxygen during the past two days and received four more tanks last night on an emergency call to San Francisco. The boy, John Lopez, was given an even chance to recover by Doctors H.

E. Neu-feld and George Kelso. The boy is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Lopez of 262 East First street.

husband for alleged counterfeiting yesterday by shouting hysterically at a woman witness: "She's breaking up my home. She's breaking up my home." ACTRESS SUES all varieties as follows tn 1-lb jars the rayon code does not yet contain unfair trade practice prbvls-ions, it was said at NRA that the code constituted no protection, and that NRA could not be considered as having approved or overlooked such practices, German Students Convict Escapes Must All Be Nazis To See New Baby BERLIN, Feb. CANON CITY Feb. when a university student (AP) Ralph Callison was back in might closet himself and live the i a Colorado penitentiary cell tonight, non-political life of a "bookworm happy. Cherry Blackberry GIRL SEIZED HERE.

He also stated to United States Commissioner Williams that he believed the Lunsford girl was spirited away from Honolulu when the investigation started there. She was picked up here. Both the Lunsford girl and O'Brien were arraigned in Federal Court yesterday. His bail was fixed at $15,000 and hers at $1,000. Officials have expressed opinion several hundred girls have been taken to Honolulu in the last few years for immoral purposes.

Black Currant Red Currant Strawberry Raspberry Damson Peach, Apricot Attorney Pleads Green Gage Gooseberry For 2 Mdivams LOS ANGELES, Feb. 7. (Univer old He had seen his 11-month FLAMES KILL TWO NEW YORK, Feb. 7. Two persons were killed late today and five injured, one probably fatally, when flames swept a four-story tenement dwelling in Harlem.

a it Sobbing and screaming wildly, Mrs. Schultes fell to the floor and, while Judge Kerrigan declared a recess, was removed by deputy marshals. The woman at whom Mrs. Schultes hurled her accusations is Mrs. Phyllis Rossi, former employe of Schultes when he operated a San Francisco hotel.

Mrs. Rossi was jointly charged with Schultes with passing counterfeit currency. She Urange Marmalade sal Service) "This is the first time LOS ANGELES, Frb. 7. Testify-' ing that hot- husband napged her because he did not wnnt her on the stage, Mrs.

Helen Rulfs Vickerman. i known in ihe theatrical and film In my 45 years of actual law practice that I have seen two reputable 29c for 85c daughter for the first time. Callison escaped yesterday, impelled by a craving to see the little daughter his wife had written him about so often. He got as far as a Colorado Springs suburb. were ended in Germany today with promulgation of the Nazi government's charter for all institutions of higher learning.

"Every student will hereafter bo expected to serve In the Nazi storm troops for purposes of national defense, In a labor camp and in the Nazi party," said the persons brought before the bar of justice on criminal charges when no criminal act was committed. pleaded guilty and turned govern- Then he telephoned police to come ment witness, Thus did A. V. Andrews, of de or 12 jars assorted (your oven selection) for $3.23 CITY OF PARIS, APPETIZER SHOP. NORMANDY LANE and cet him.

fense, counsel for Princes David Thev broueht his wife and baby Get jobs now through examiner and Serge Mdivani, today sum up to police headquarters at Colorado "Positions Wanted." Investigate decree. I It was read by Dr. Wilhclm Frlck, Minister of the Interior, before a gathering, including Chaneellor Hitler. the attractive low cash rates. Springs.

the case of the two brothers who for the past three weeks have been on trial on charges of grand theft from the oil company they founded world as Helen Vinson, was grantee! a divorce today from Harry Nelson' Vickerman, Philadelphia carpet manufacturer. Miss Vinson said she was married in May, 1025, in Houston. Texas, and separated from her husband March 1, 1932. In 1927, she testified, her husband first, objected to a stage career. The actress declared that in 1930 her husband changed his attitude and consented to her going on the The case is expected to go to the jury Friday.

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"He would ask me to invite my theatrical friends to the house, and when they came he would criticize and make fun of them," Miss Vinson testified. Sprvins cluh brpakl'HBt, 25c, guilty, J. B. Saunders, alias H. T.

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