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3 ccc THE SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER: THURSDAY, JUNE 21. 193 Fickert Named as Intermediary for Payments to Youth in McNab Case 'NOT AS A WIFE, BUT A VOTER' HERElTRIBUTE Pi ESTATE SUIl Two Veterans of City's Police Force Soon to Leave Service its Ite POLICE BELIEVE MISSING BAY WIFE SUICIDE 1R BLANCHE BATES BUTE IB HER 0 RALLY HERE 1,200 at Meeting Hear Advice Noted Actress Makes Political San Jose Woman Attempted to End Life, Chief Declares; No Ransom Note Received Debut as Speaker for Her Husband, George Creel by Meyer; No Crisis in San Francisco, Geiger Points Out Famed Attorney's Widow Brands Paternity Claim Preposterous; I Says Action 'Bolt From Blue' The name of Charles Fickert, one timA nutrirt AttnrnKV. vegterdav San Francisco last night paid a tribute to Blanche Bates, beloved of the city's great actresses, when she stood on the stage at the Tivoli Theater before a crowded house. There, in her role of speaker at her first political meeting, the "Girl of the Golden West," spoke for George Creel, her husband, as a candidate for the Democratic nomi SAN JOSE, June 20. For two reasons, authorities today swung to the suicide theory to explain the disappearance of attractive Mrs, Sybil Fidanque, Panama-Pacific Steamship Company officials' wife, missing from her home here since last Saturday night.

The reasons were: 1 Police Chief J. N. Black announced he had learned that two San Francisco's medical and dental professions threw their united support last night into the city's fight against threatened outbreak of infantile paralysis. Twelve hundred strong they gathered in the Veterans' Auditorium at the call of Dr. J.

C. Geiger. city health director, for a first-hand glimpse of the situation facing San Francisco and the part they can play in preventing permanent ravages of the disease. plopped into the case of Gavin Lippi, the 21-year-old lad who is suing for one-third of the million-dollar estate of the late Gavin McNab as McNab's natural son. It was through Fickert that McNab once paid $40 a week for young lilt iHfW wSSt'A I PREPARATION URGED.

times before her present disappear ance, the woman had attempted to take her own life. nation for governor. AS VOTER. CITIZEN. "Not as wife, but as a Cali-fornian, a voter and a cltlien of the State that we all love, I come here tonight," she said.

"I am impelled," she continued, "by my strong belief that George Creel is the man to pilot us through the rough waters ahead." I iff They were given to understand, above all else, that there is no crisis at hand and no immediate sign of one. They were informed by Doctor Geiger and by Dr. Karl Meyer, director of the Hooper Foundation for Medical Research at U. C. Hospital, that the health forces of the community must simply unite and prepare for a possible invasion of the malady which is sweeping southern California.

Dr. Meyer pleaded for the utmost 2 No ransom notes or other communications have been received. Authorities believe that had Mrs, Fidanque been kidnapped, some message from her kidnappers certainly would have been received by now. DECLARED NERVOUS. Authorities also pointed out that Mrs.

Fidanoue was known to many She spoke of the new relation of the voters who at last were "asking questions," not as to party politi Lippi's support, according to Harry Stafford, attorney for the youth. PAYMENTS CITED. That was in 1917, Stafford goes on to say, and for two months, Fickert middlemanned the $40-a-week payments from McNab to the boy's mother until other arrangements for the boy's support were made between the famed lawyer and the Italian girl-mother who claims she was McNab's sweetheart from the age of 17. Several years ago, she married Thomas Marrac-cini, furniture finisher. Young Lippi's suit, filed last Tuesday, drew only scornful denials from McNab's widow yesterday.

Through her attorney, McNab's former associate, Nat Schmulowitz, tha widow called the youth's claims preposterous. Besides, she added, the present suit "is a bolt from the blue." From Schmulowitz was added: "We haven't yet received a copy of the complaint" CHARITIES NOT CONTESTED. Stafford yesterday set at rest apprehensions that the boy's suit will interfere with the McNab bequests San Francisco ornhanaees and a -i iill'lf inn in mi if iifi rfHft i iwi "-ilimm if By Examiner Staff Photographer, TOM MURPHY (left) AND EUGENE SWEENEY They kept the town in order cians but as "to men to serve, and leaders to lead." "They want to know of fitness of men for the job of lifting the debt burden of unemployment and of all that has come upon us," she said. "FITTED TO SERVE." "And," she added, is because George Creel can answer those questions that I am for him. He has proved his ability In many executive posts.

He is peculiarly fitted to serve. "But perhaps, after and above all, I am Influenced by the man's personal qualities of honesty, uprightness, courage and passionate devotion to Ideals of social Justice." Harold J. Boyd spoke eloquently for the battle against Communism sad "false prophets." Jerome Politzer spoke for Creel. Frank J. Hennessy presided.

care. "By proper diagnosis and care In the early stages, we can largely prevent paralysis and thus take the sting out of any epidemic which may develop," he said. "Finst symptoms are often nasal catarrh or some slight Intestinal disturbance such as nausea or vomiting and frequently are accompanied by temperature. The Infective agent cannot be seen under the microscope. It most usually lodges In the upper nasal passages.

"If not perceived then, It advances first to the brain and then to the anterior horns of the spinal cord, producing paralysis. Obviously, then a cure Is far more difficult and sometimes impossible." ADVICE FOR FARENTS. Two veteran police officers will-fwith the railway strike there when of her friends as a "nervous ana excitable" individual. Police Sergeants William Browtt and Roy Farley today were searching the Coyote Creek bed, within a half mile of the Fidanque home. They were joined late in the afternoon by a dozen State College youths, enlisted to aid by Mrs.

Fidanque's student son, Jack. San Jose police were also attempting to trace three so-called mysterious phone calls made today to the home of Mrs. Nora Mo Murdo, close friend of the missing woman, in the possibility that they might have some connection with the case. The calls, received while Mrs. McMurdo was away from home, were in a man's voice.

SEARCH MADE HERE. A Federal agent is on duty at the Fidanque home. Lieut. A. J.

Rich, of the Navy's intelligence service, and a friend of the Fidanque fam shortly put away the badges which have shown in the city's service for many years. (By F.xamlnr Staff rtiotnpTRpher.) IN NEW DEBUT Blanche Bates, famed actress, shown making appeal in behalf of the candidacy of her husband, George Creel, at rally here last night. Inspector Thomas Murphy, "0, of 111 Steiner street is slated to retire July 1, after forty years with the department, and Inspector Eugene Sweeney, 57, of 122 Clinton Park is due to retire as soon as his application has been passed upon. he was advised of his appointment. Murphy was for many years attached to the southern station.

At one time he was assigned to special duty with William Burns, private detective, and worked with Burns on the San Francisco graft investigation which resulted in imprisonment of Abe Ruef. Though he is many years Murphy's junior, Inspector Sweeney has a very special claim to fame. He was for more than 20 years assigned to the Board of Education as a truant officer. "I had to kpo to it that many of the young fellows now on the police force didn't try hookey," he chuckled yesterday. other charitable institutions.

These bequests will not be disturbed. Instead, said Stafford, they will be ruled out of the boy's suit as one Girl's Charges Against Film Agent Detailed in Testimony Doctor Meyer strongly parents to keep children advised out of in this crowds. Crowds, he said, of the first moves when the action Tachp court, and the claim will directed onlv against the widow, Both are at present detailed to duty in the Missing Persons Bureau. Murphy was called to the police department in 1894. He was a member of Company of the National Guard, and was standing by at the Armory here in anticipation of being called to Sacramento to deal Talbot's Sentence Postponed Again Fixuig of term of sentence of LOS ANGELES, June 20.

(AP). Wilms, "and several other large beneficiaries." Stafford plans to have the case A V. A transcript of Grand Jury testi ily, spent last night at the noma and stands ready to act as intermediary in case ransom demand! are received. From Panama came word that the woman's husband plans to leave there as soon as possible for San Jose. In San Francisco, on request of San Jose police, Captain of Inspec mony was made public today in "Oh, yes, (hat's about the only way you can get work." "Did you ever hear of Mr.

Allen having affairs with other women?" "Oh, ves. Hundreds of reacn trial Deioro juiy tuu, which June DcLong, movie actress, sense, often mean gatherings of two or mole persons. Swimming pools should be avoided by children and adults alike, he added. Doctor Geiger revealed the city has had 51 case's since May 1 with five deaths. There have been 980 cases throughout the State since that date, he said, compared to 1,900 during the 1930 epidemic, Jean Harlow's Husband said.

James A. Talbot, 58, former Richfield Oil Company president, was postponed for a month yesterday at Talbot's request by the Parole Board, meeting at Ssn Quentin Cleaners and Dyers tors Charles Dullea issued mstruc- 1,11.1 Ll.lJi'll Li-rimi'. ...111 km. "frominrr" Vi I U'hnn tinns fnr rhprk-un of all hotels. Scran NRA Code a woman friend came unexpectedly rooming houses and other places of prison.

It was the third postponement, granted because Talbot also has applied for parole from his two to 20-ycar sentence on grand theft charges. The board granted two paroles. WASHINGTON, June 20. (AP) Charging Hugh S. Johnson with said she and other girls were virtually forced to compromise themselves in order to get work through a film casting agency operated by Dave Allen, recently indicted with Gloria Marsh, another actress, on a morals charge.

As the transcript was made public, Deputy District Attorney Arthur Vcitch said he planned to rc-questlon Miss DcLong and other witnesses. Stories of revels were told In Miss DcLons's testimony. PIER RUE hud fulth. the code authority or tne to Miss DCLiOng aparimcni, wneie, i rciupe, 111 me (nissiuiuiy maw n.w the actress said, a revel was in woman, if not a suicide, may be progress. i hiding out.

Both Allen and Miss Marsh have A police teletype description of emphatically denied Miss woman has been sent through-statements. I out the State. cleaning and dyeing trade tonight TodayLongestDay; Sun Sets at 7:36 Today will be the longest day of the year! Old Sol will be out at 4:47 o'clock this morning and he won't call it a day until 7:36 o'clock this evening, giving a total of 14 hours and 49 minutes of daylight, according to Thomas R. Reed of the United States Weather Bureau here. Beginning tomorrow, Old Sol will turn southward, and the days will gradually shorten into winter.

announced it had scrappea me coae for ths industry. All but the wages and hour pro Is Reported Recovering HOLLYWOOD, June 20. (US) Harold G. "Hal" Rosson, ace movie cameraman stricken with infantile paralysis ten days ago, was reported recovering today. Speaking of the condition of the estranged husband of Jean Harlow, a friend said: "He Is resting comfortably.

The doctors are holding out great hopes that Rosson will recover without being marked with any of the signs of the illness." SomT.er&Kaufmann I visions had already neen discarded by NRA, but the executive committee said in a communication to President Roosevelt they would Hawaii Sugar Law Justice Demanded WASHINGTON. June 20. (Universal Service.) Demand that the next Congress right the "flagrant Injustice" done to Hawaii under the sugar control act was made today by Lincoln McCandless, Hawaii's delegate to Congress. not bind themselves to abide by "Were you ever sent out on parties by producers, directors or actors?" she was asked. "No, only by Mr.

Allen." "Did you ever find It was necessary to have affairs with other men to get a job in pictures?" these. Snl Rosenblatt. NRA deputy ad ministrator in charge of the code, aid the waees and hour provisions were still in force despite the an Alameda police were searching last night for incendiaries responsible for the spectacular early morning blaze which yesterday consumed 250 feet of the pier and track of the Santa Fe freight slip at the foot of Sherman street, Alameda. Police expressed the belief that striking longshoremen started the fire. The blaze burned fiercly for more than two hours and did damage estimated at $125,000 by railway officials.

It was brought under control only after the arrival from San Francisco of ihe fire boat Dennis Sullivan which assisted Alameda firnen under Fire Chief Lane. "There is no doubt that the fire was fncfn diary," Chief Lane said after an investigation. "I found that an acytelene tank on the dock had been fired and someone had parted the cable so that when the blaze got under way the whole apron collapsed." nouncement. NRA Puts Limit No More Washboard Drudgery! A Complete Faultless Home Laundry Unit On Free Matches WASHINGTON, June 20. (AP) NRA is putting a limit on the numhrr of matches handed out Drastic Reductions on Higher Priced Lamps and Mirrors In a Sensational Event featuring Frank Arts Weil-Known Bronzes and Figurines FAR BELOW REGULAR $fL95 llfGet into Washer Wringer Ironer Cun Metal Mirror.

with your cigars. "The retailer may give not more than one pad of matches for each unit told or five pada per box 85 cigars or ten pads per box of 80 cigars sold," the requirement reads. Trucks which come to the slip No interchanging No lifting .95 $4 haul freight to and from the En-cinal terminal where strike pickets are stationed. Company officials estimated that it would take three months to repair the pier. And Get Your White Shoes at This plan was part of the whole sale tobacco trade code approved by President Roosevelt last nignt.

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(AP) An annulment of his marriage to Elinor Fair, film actress, was granted today to Thomas W. Daniels, stunt flyer, although the actress already has a Mexican decree of divorce from him. Daniels told Judge C. M. Sheldon he and Miss Fair eloped to Yuma, Arir, December 27, 1932, and were married there.

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