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America fSmwE first Jffrm lot THE WEATHER 5 ioday Unsettled, Occasional Rain, Monday mum mititv Rl. Off. 3 Two for a Miracle. Not Much Gold. Silver Eighty to One.

Reprisals Doubtful. DAILY A ND SUNDAY I )NTH. 15 I VOL. CXXXVII, NO. 172 CO MONDAY.

DECEMBER 19. 1932 TWENTY-SIX PAGES DAILY 5 CENTS, SUNDAY 10 CENTS ER MON J3 1 JBy Arthur BrisbancL' iiiinnr- iii il New Hoover Plea To Roosevelt Seen; rears Brother Is iivnoel tn Dpnfh Hsu 5 I run oiain, iiian neia If JOHNSON SETS ANOTHER FUGHTJEGMD Aviatrix Returns to Croydon From Capetown in 7 Days, 7 Hours; Set Mark on Trip South LL.nl Cabinet aris Gets Florida Police Seize Suspect on Instructions From Rich Woman Relates Young Woman! Conyrttht 1932. Kin Ffaturn Svnrt in- MIAMI Deo. 18. It says In the ninetieth Psalm, "A thousand years In thy sight are hut as yesterday when It Is past, and as a watch In the night." That is true with the Almighty, but not with man.

The last three short years have seemed a very long time to him and he repeats this year with especial fervor the lines in that same Psalm: "Let Thy work appear unto Thy servants and Thy glory to their children." One more week, then Christmas. Another week, then the New Year, and end of 1932; good riddance, and another year begins. Those that spend the next two weeks trying their best to do something worth while, will make good use of the Now Tear. Those that do not, will not In Last Landing Threatened Suicide at News I of Her Sweetheart's Passing; Aid in Putting Debts Before Economic Parley Sought Acting on Instructions from Mrs, Olive L. Robinson, wealthy Piedmont woman, police arrested John H.

Leonard Plane Plunges Into Hillside Near Mt. Diablo ALL MAIL LOST Victim Missed Safety In Panama Despondent over the death last Saturday of her sweetheart in Los Penelope Pern-, attractive private nurse, yesterday killed herself by jumping from the sixth floor tit an anartment at fiOfl Fell street. City, erday. 4 and are rau 1-Boncour Forms Ministry to Act Temporarily OMlTsTlERRIOT Premier's Return Due When Settlement Is Effected By CEO. W.

HINMAN JR. Staff orrttiiHtndk nt ('nt versa SrrTtf. PARIS, Dec. 18. Premier- Police late yesterday were still holding him 1 ft 1 1 1 for Invest! LONDON, Dec.

18. (US) Amy Johnson slipped her plane to a landing on Croydon airport today to take another title, this time from a duchess, receive a kiss from the husband she robbed of another air record, and give her nose a much-needed powdering. Later from Lord Londonderry, Secretary of State for Air, she received the congratulationof King George. 7 DAYS, 7 HOtRS. When Miss Johnson's plane dropped to a landing from Paris at 12:05 a.

m. she was just seven days trying to obtain from Perry's friends the name of the Los An gat ion. to 1 MOVES HINTED Klein, in Apparently Inspired Speech, Links Problems By KENNETH CLARK Stuff rr(iui drill niverftHl Service, WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. President Hoover plans to so geles man whose death they said i led to the nurse's suicide.

They had declined to reveal it st a late hour, but said the man was considerably i nson, SI if SI police will 6 question Christmas recalls the age of miracles, and this country seems to need miraculous assistance. There are miracles of intelligence as well as of religious power and faith. Theodore Roosevelt in the Philippines, talking through the air across the Pacific Ocean to Republican voters all over the United States, is a good enough miracle. A miracle of intelligence, something that would release frozen by Ten Feet While Flying in Fog Death yesterday conquered Claire K. Vance, veteran air mail pilot and hero of a score of thrilling exploits of 1 1 and seven hours out of Capetown i designate Joseph raul-Bon- licit Governor Roosevelt's co- operation in a proposal forme1 a toV money, something that would put was the 11-day flight of the Duchess ot Bedford and Captain Barnard.

I With her Miss Johnson brought i the 4-dav-6-hour-and-56-minute Lon- Leonard about the sterious 1 appearance of her Fred S. Tagert, former Oakland mining man, geologist and oil engineer. a ert gap cabinet. submit the war debt question courage into frightened "best minds," start wheels turning and men working is what the nation I 1 I ded ito serr don-to-Capetown record, set on her wants. only until a a RimiNSOX MK.

O. But aa the able Mussolini has IhrtTln SrttrcU said, It takes two to make a mira cle, one to perform the miracle, one other to believe it Some man might come with the miracle-per older than Miss Perry. THREATENED Sl ICIOE. Miss Perry, who was 23, lived at 1505 Gough street. She received word of her sweetheart's death Saturday night, just before going on duty for the night, became hysterical, and threatened to kill herself, according to Mrs.

H. Holmes, landlady. Miss Elsie Wilson, a student nurse and close friend, was called, and she succeeded in quieting the girl. Early yesterday when Miss Perry ended her night's duty, Miss Wilson called for her again and took her to the apartment of a friend at the Fell street address. PLFNGES OVER RAILING.

At 3 p. m. yesterday Miss Perry was lying on a couch in the apartment, close to a low window. Suddenly she threw open the window and hurled herelf over a low Miss Wilson tried to prevent her, but was too late. Miss Perry came to San Francisco five months ago from the Kast, and had been employed recently as night nurse for Mrs.

Pauline Schoenberg, wealthy San Francisco widow, at 2010 Pacific avenue. Her sweetheart was also an Eastern man, according to Miss Perry's friends. She was his nurse, they southward flight. This bettered by almost twelve hours the previous mark of her famed husband, Captain James Mollison, transatlantic flyer. THRONG CHEERS.

Captain Mollison, who had not seen his wife for more than a month, was in the crowd of several thousand wildly cheering enthusiasts gathered at the ail port to greet Britain's first lady of the air. He battled his way through the crowd and planted a kiss on her lips. Said Amy excitedly: "The only thing that kept in forming idea, a new invention, new plan for International finance, was last seen in Panama City, In May, 1931. He suddenly dropped out of sight, and although a nation-wide search has been made for him, with police of six Central American republics co-operating in the hunt, no trace of the missing engineer ever has been found. Mrs.

Robinson asserts that her brother was murdered for his money. She also has alleged that that would restore the circulation of money In the veins of commerce debt aeree-m i reached with Washington and then give ay to ex-Premier Herri of return. The Paul-B mini stry'i survival, er, depends on its iv-mg support from the Social ists, and Industry, now frozen fast to a Only fifteen minutes after hopping off from Oakland on the first leg of his regular flight with the night mail to Salt Lake City, his plane crashed head-on into the side of Rocky Ridge, seven miles east of Mt. Diablo. His body, burned almost beyond recognition, was recovered early last night Jrom the charred cockpit of the plane.

The mail was destroyed, according to Deputy Sheriff Grove Mull of Alameda county, who led the searchers to the wreck. WRECK SEEN FROM SKY. Vance hopped off from Oakland airport at 11:45 p. m. Saturday, with orders to report every 20 minutes by radio.

He was never heard frorn after he took off, according to officials of the company. The wrecked plane was sighted late yesterday by Wes Moreau, one of twelve Oakland pilots who were searching for Vance. Posses small inadequate lump of gold. The difficulty probably would be lack of faith. New ideas are usual to the world economic Conference.

This was learned today from a high administration official, who declined to be quoted, but Dr. Julius Assistant Secretary of Commerce, in an apparently Inspired radio audress, revealed the purpose to link war debts and economic problems at the world parley, scheduled for Ixindon in April. Klein is an intimate of President Hoover. His speech was regarded as en administration feeler or trial balloon to determine the country's reaction to such a program. ISSUES Klein said: "Since the whole question of trade revival is so Intimately connected with that ot public as well as private Indebtedness between nations, it Is evident that there will be a close connection between a satisfactory adjustment of the war debt situation and the success or failure t.the world economic conference.

This connection was acknowledged by Secretary Ntimson In his recent note I I 4 .3 ly carried through by violence only, as in the French revolution, our own American revolution, the Civil she was defrauded of her share of his estate through forged letters. CLOTHES CLIK. Panama City authorities took Leonard, a former automobile sales CLAIKE K. VANCE, who lost his life when plane crashed near Mount Diablo. War or the upheaval in Russia, which has at least distributed land going was the thought of seeing my husband.

The machine behaved wonderfully. The terrific storm I hit between Kuala and Benguella on the second day out of Capetown was the worst flying experience of my career." among the peasants, taught every child and many old people to read and write, and replaced the auto man, into custody when he is said to have been found wearing a suit of clothes stolen from Tagert's trunk, No specific charge had been cratic brutality of the czars with DAUGHTER BORN an autocracy less brutal. placed ar 'J'it him yesterday, ac- 1 Li: V. TDrtin Gold, to which high finance clings declared, during an Illness a yeaf. COrdirvg la'dispatches from Pananla men.

cikvj. i lie i aniu reached Rocky Ridge, about four City. with desperate determination, may be the only hope, although England ha.n nnf it trttiVi ui Vi hut farvillir miles north of Danville, several for several years. has abandoned it, and one thousand hours later. UlUdUll uiiil i millions of the world's sixteen hun Experts declared the plane must sy ai dred million population have never have struck the hillside with full known it.

power. It plowed up the hill for TAPPAN-ON-THE-HUDSON. N. Cutting Recovers; Norris, III, Gains WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (AP) Two western senators who were on the sick list with colds were reported improved today and one, Senator Cutting, ready to return to work tomorrow.

Although it. was not indicated when Senator Norris would be back on Capitol Hill, he was reported at his home to be progressing satisfactorily. TallantTubbs Sued Over Press Clippings LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18. (AP) several feet, then overturned and There isn't much gold in the world.

Government officials tell you that since Columbus discovered America in 1492, the whole world burst into flame. TEN FEET FROM SAFETY. Hoover Veto Seen For Filipino Bill WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. (Universal Service) Freedom for the Philippines along the lines proposed In the House bill rather than in the measure approved by the Senate appears likely, but a veto by President Hoover is expected to put an end to Philippine independence at the present session.

This was the to the British government. "Let us note well, It Is proposed that the question of war debts be examined in preparation for the economic conference. There will inevitably be discussions of tariff policies and International debts. In these matters we may have the unqualified assurance that our representatives will have American interests constantly in mind." C. E.

Johnson, vice president In has produced only twenty-two thou sand million dollars worth of gold, Ruins of Pompeii NAPLES (Italy), Dec. 18. (AP) George Bernard Shaw spent today delving into the mysteries of long past centuries. The noted British writer is on a world tour on the steamer Empress of Britain. With Mrs.

Shaw and a group of friends he spent the morning in the Pompelian art section of the National Museum here. This afternoon they went to Pompeii. charge of operations of United Air Lines, offered an explanation of the tragedy after reaching the its value calculated at the rate of $22.67 for one troy ounce of 480 scene. grains. consensus today of representatives The ridge that Vance's plane JOSKPH P.U h0Se Tkf nniniiinii was -mainly lesponsible for the overthrow of Herriot, defeated because he proposed to pay "with reservation" ths war debts installment due in Washington last Thursday.

"CARTEL OF LEFT." The cabinet list Paul-Boncour presented to President Lebrun constitutes a ministry made up of the "cartel of the Left." Virtually all portfolios go to members of the Herriot government, in which Paul-Boncour was minister of war, but there are two notable exceptions. Edouard Herriot, premier and foreign minister, does not appear. Neither does his finance minister, Germalne-Martin. They were credited with formulating the plan by which Herriot tried toavert defaulting France's debt payment to ths United States. EX-PREMIERS.

The new cabinet holds seventeen portfolios. It numbers among its ministers two former premiers, Ca-mille Chautemps, minister of the interior, who failed in an attempt to build a cabinet to succeed Herriot's, and Paul Painleve, minister for air. Paul-Boncour retains the foreign affairs portfolio. The other cabinet members are: Vice premier and minister of justice, Abel Gardey; minister of war, Edouard Daladier; minister of the navy, Georges Leygues; minister of finance, Henri Cheron; minister of education, M. Monzie; minister of labor, Albert Dalimier: minister of struck was the last of a series of and senators.

CO-OPERATION NECESSARY. hills stretching down from the heights of Mount Diablo. It was Governor Roosevelt's co-operation will be necessary to assure success of the conference idea. Only twenty-two billions of gold In all the world, including that which Is buried in the teeth of the dead, and Uncle Sam himself has outstanding in bonds, notes, and gold certificates, promises to pay more than twenty-two billions of gold, which of course he could not the last ridge the pilot had to sur A suit filed in municipal court here charges that Tallant Tubbs, Republican candidate for United States Senator at the recent election, failed to pay a balance of $201.72 for a press clipping service during his campaign. The complaint stated $50 was paid on a total of $251.72.

Dec, 18. (By Universal Service) A daughter was born today to Charlotte Gibson, 23-year-old society girl who ten days ago brought to court Sidney Homewood, the dashing young riding master she accused as the father of the child. Homewood was sentenced to one and a half to three years in Sing Sing. Robert Gibson, the girl's father, answered the telephone at the luxurious Gibson home today and said: "The baby was born this morning." There was a note of pride and joy in his voice. Homewood sat in his cell in the New City jail, and nobody told him his daughter had been born.

Sentenced last Tuesday, he was given a six-day stay of sentence, pending a petition for a new trial. The Gibson family has announced its intention of adopting Charlotte's baby and taking both mother and daughter away. mount before reaching the safe and level Sacramento valley but Hoover will be out of office when the parley meets. An effort is to Jessel Hops East To Open New Play LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18.

(US) George Jessel, noted star of stage and screen, left today from United Airport bound for New York, where Fire Razes House Of Walt Whitman GLENDALE (N. Dec. 18. The old farmhouse in which Walt Vance was flying just 10 feet too Whitman completed his famous poem, "Leaves of Grass," was destroyed by fire today. Adolph Schweiger, the present owner, con low.

"If he had taken 10 feet more altitude he would have crossed the ridge safely," Johnson said. "There was fog Saturday night. We can only suppose that he was flying For some reason he didn't get up quite high enough. The top of the ridge where he crashed Is 2.000 feet above sea level." be made, therefore, to obtain Governor Roosevelt's consent to the program and his co-operation in naming the American delegation. At the White House conference last month Governor Roosevelt declined to participate in naming delegates to a debt commission or to the world conference, and Democratic leaders here doubted he would change his position now.

They are advising him to main do, except by using the same gold over and over. All the silver produced in the last three hundred years is worth much less than ten billions of dollars, the amount this country lent to Europe. Production, of silver, in prs-perou? isr.es, with copper mines turning out quantities of it, as a by-product, is only THIRTEEN times as great, in ounces, as the Colombian Breaks Lindberghs Record BOGOTA, Colombia, Dec. 18. (AP) Ernesto Samper, Colombian flyer, flew from Cartagena, Colom verted the building Into a general store several years ago.

he will open with Eddie Cantor next Friday In a new play. Prior to his departure, he and Cantor had completely rehearsed their parts in a ninety-minute session over the long distance telephone. Secret Little Entente Conference Started bia, to Bogota today in five hours and 45 minutes, cutting two and a Vance, war flyer and one of the first to fly the mails, had been reg production of gold. Tet gold sells at more than eighty times the price half hours from the time set by Colonel Lindbergh. ularly employed in the Boeing di tain a free hand to conduct his own negotiations with Europe after March 4.

Necessarily he will have to tackle the debt problem then. Europe has served notice it won't pay the June debt installments public works, Georges Bonnet; min Spain Leaders Open Arms Budget Fight MADRID, Dec. 18. The Spanish Government faced a sharp test when the Cortes met today and immediately began consideration of the budget prepared by the Ministry of War. Premier Azana plans to take the floor and demand quick approval of the budget.

of silver per ounce. Perhaps something could wisely be done about that ister of colonies, Albert Sarraut; Judge Crater Hinted Exile in Monastery NEW YORK, Dec. 18. (By vision of the airmail service for approximately 14 years. Five pilots before him have perished in the 28,000,000 miles of airmail flight be minister of agriculture, M.

Queuille; Decimal Points minister of posts, Laurent Eynac: tween San Francisco and Chicago, 8,500 TRIPS. BELGRADE (Jugoslavia), Dec. 18. (AP) The secret Little Entente conference opened this afternoon. Foreign Minister Benes of Czecho-Slovakia, Foreign Minister Nicholas Titulescu of Rumania and Foreign Minister Jeftich of Jugoslavia attended.

A communique given out later intimated there had Universal Service.) Officials are checking a tip that Judge Josepn without aubstantial downward revision. SAME THEME. Klein's speech was acofpted as in line with the administration's In Baby's Milk F. Crater of this city, who dis Vance made 3.500 trips over the hump" in 8,000 hours of flying. appeared two years ago is a willing exile in a monastery in New Mexico.

including 2,000 hours of night effort to convince the American people that debt revision, based on The tip was broadcast over1 the been discussion of disarmament. radio tonight by Walter Winchell, At his home at 2829 Yosemite ave certain nebulous economic conces newspaper columnist. There are By ARTHUR "BUGS" BAER. Congres is going to be busiw than feathers in a wind storm. It Is colne to put beer over this nue, Alameda, Mrs.

vance was Alma Tell Will Wed Screen Actor Today LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17. (AP) Alma Tell, film actress, and W. Stanley Blystone, actor, will be married tomorrow afternoon, they announced tonight, at the home of the bridegroom's father, John Blystone. sions to the United States, would promote business recovery.

Recent Socialist Leader's only three monascteries In New prostrated. She was nursing her six weeks' old baby, Richard. With Mexico. They are at Las Vegas, notes to debtors carried that theme. minister of merchant marine, M.

Meyer; minister of pensions, M. Mlellet; minister of commerce. Julien Durand, and Minister of health, M. Danielou. PLANS REVEALED.

That the ministry is merely a stopgap, pending the working out of a debt understanding with the United States, after which Herriot will resume power, was stroncly intimated by Paul-Boncour as hr left the presidential palace. Hi said: Herriot Is our chief ot yesterday and tomorrow. This ministry is a continuation of the Herriot ministry and its polii-it-s will give the same proofs." The new cabinet will meet Condition Critical nta Fe and Bernalillo. her also were two other children President Hoover is convinced a re INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 18.

Pow Robert, 5, and Jacqueline, 4. adjustment is necessary. News from Washington appears to confirm the suggestion made in this column concerning the French debt default, that France probably would reconsider and pay the trifling item of nineteen million dollars. Many things this country might do to collect its due by indirection, increased tariffs, taxes on shipping, extra Panama canal tolls, etc. But it seems unlikely that after mature reflection any such measures will be adopted.

After the war everybody was determined to hang the Kaiser because he had violated Belgian neutrality. It wasn't done. The governments in default may decide to pay if they can, and of course France can, having billions of gold in her vaults, rather than establish a precedent upon which other public debtors might eagerly seize. Hero of many an escape under After pointing out the United States had previously barred debts ers Hapgood, prominent Socialist, was still in a critical condition here todav from an accidental bullet much more difficult conditions, Sloss Is Re-elected To Welfare Council NEW YORK, Dec. 18.

(AP) week. It will he the 3.2 brand. Palatable, non-Intoxicating, nourishing, quenching and harmless. That means the weta have argued twelve years for nothing. It's practically a victory for the Vance was reputed one of the best pilots in the air mail service.

Italy Flyer Claims In 1923 he was lost for 36 hours New Altitude Mark and specifio tariff rates from the scope of the world meeting, Klein significantly said: "But let us bear In mind that the United States is not going to be In a position to sit back com Judge Irving Lehman of the New wound in the abdomen. Hapgood was shot by a pistol hi the hands of William L. Hines, a busniess associate, during target practice. ROME, Dec. 18.

(AP) What is (Continued on Page Column York court of appeals was re-elected president of the National Council of the Jewish Welfare Board at believed to a new world's altitude drys. Those reformers have got ecord for a tourist airplane was the diluting habit so bad they its annual meeting today. Directors elected for a two-year term in made today by the civilian Pilot Renato Donati, who flew to a would drop a handful of decimal ORG GETS li GE Directory of Features Feature I'as' 1 STIES height of 9,500 meters (about 5.9 cluded Judge M. C. Sloss, of San Francisco.

miles). Comics CANNIBAL PLEDGE ETHEL BARRYMORE Crossword Piiule 1 Drama and Stage Editorial Page li Fashion Note 1 points In a baby's milk. However, It's the best we can do. And, with Stephen Decatur, we are for our country light or strong. One hundred thousand men will go to work right away.

Provided that the lame goslings don't crab the works. fortably and blandly suggest the things it wants the other nations to do for the common good. If we want concessions front others, we may be called upon to make certain concessions ourselves. As to what those concessions might be, I venture no predictions." Meanwhile administration efforts continued to find a satisfactory formula to obtain payment from France of its defaulted $19,000,000 Interest payment That is the administration's immediate objective. Unless France pays she will get no Financial LONDON.

(AP) As one king Three Big Features Today Three interesting features you would not care to miss are in today's Examiner. library In Miniature li to another, a reformed cannioai March of Events Motion Picture Comment .......11 O. O. Mclntyre 1J Prudence Penny it Radio News chief has sent presents and a vow to King George. He is Ringapat, king of the Eig Nambas, a tribe in the New Hebrides.

The voc, sent in care of Miss Evelyn Ch-esman, the woman explorer, reads: There is to be "no beer for Christmas" and few will regret it. Christmas and beer do not go together. The "wassail bowl," whatever that may have been, the more modern punch bowl, egg-nog, or Tom and Jerry, with nutmeg, fits the holiday season. Beer goes with the Fourth of July and other hot days. The senate will talk about beer after the new year.

If as now seems probable, it comes without any change in the prohibition law, with no repeal of the 18th Amendment and without legalizing natural wines, the country will have beer and bootlegging mixed and no decrease in gangster NEW YORK, Dec. 18. (AP) The cold which forced Ethel Bar-rymore to abandon a road trip at New Haven December 1, developed into influenza and then pneumonia, it was learned today. Doctors believe that the crisis is passed, and that the actress is on the road to recovery. Miss Barrymore is expected to Rlplev's "Believe It or Not" 19 The defeated Congressmen are sore at everything.

Say, they have one bird in Washington who hasn't even stated his position on Mississippi floods. They don't know whether he's agin 'em or for 'em. uoiMinrart (Shipping 'Society 1 story and pictures of the first candidates In the contest will be found on page 17. 3 Last, but by no means least, is the Inside story of relief for San Francisco's poor. Did you know that San Francisco spends more than a month for auch relief Turn to page 4 and see how It done.

San Francisco once was the throne center of the "Empire of the United States. A story of the "Emperor Norton, who "reigned" for 25 years In San Francisco, is on page 1 Just how young1 Is the youngest grandmother In California? The Examiner Is attempting- to find out, and a (Coprright. Ki.trlbntrd bs I nireriwl "Ringapat, king of the Big Nambas, wishes King George to know that he will never eat man's flesh, white man or black boy; that he will never kill man. white man or black boy, and that he will he good to all white men so long as they are good to his boys and do not steal them." Biggest Vienna Store Bombed by Fascists VIENNA, Dec. 18.

(Universal Service) Austrian Fascists today heaved tear gss bombs throuch the windows of Vienna's largest department store. Forty were arrested. service. Inf.) Sport Tages 19-J0-71 Ted Cook's Cook-Coos 11 Vital Statistics Want Ads t.HI- Weather Kejort Women's Fajs .11 be inactive several weeks. Her latest play, "Encore," was to have of arm and tht been given Its Broadway opening man who won drop them on tomorrow nignt.

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