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THE WEATHER HEWS by ffT Russia can still be as terrible and unforgiving as it ever was under the czars, or' the earlier years of Soviet control. As the result of the assassination of Sergei Kiroff, secretary of the Soviet executive committee, who was slain a few days ago, 66 persons are reported to have been tried and executed, 37 of them at Leningrad, and 29 at Moscow. The most remarkable de tail of the present situation, viewed from a distance as we Americans must, is the fact that the actual assassin, Leonid Nicolieff, apparently has not yet been brought to trial, and the only hint as to the reason for that is that he is being held as a prisoner In the hope that through him other enemies of the Soviet re gime may be discovered. flf Of course all this means that Russia has reestablished the original policies that marked the Soviet In the beginning, and which of course were borrowed from the government of the czar which the Soviet succeeded In power. The re markable detail Is that so complete and absolute has been the rule of the Soviet that the assassination of Kiroff was the first In Russia in 15 years.

Which seems to suggest a government quite as absolute and powerful as that which it displaced, or that the 160,000,000 Russians have been to some extent satisfied with what the Soviet brought them, both In the way of government and of the means of living, although such other reports as have come out of Russia have not seemed to suggest he latter offered much In the way of comforts. But the sudden awakening of the Soviet in dealing with what It calls "terrorists" In the news, seems to suggest that It had laid aside little of the details of absolutism that it was the master of since the revolution, and if there is any element left in Russia which had thought of staging a revolution, its chances of success are little more than nil. How many of the possible leaders of such a revolt are included in the list of 66 who seem to have been tried and executed on the same day can only be guessed, but if there was any such plot on foot, the Soviet has left little to chance in clearing the field. But that does not answer the question as to why the original assassin Is still alive, when 66 other partici pants in the plot have already been tried and executed. 5 2 3 JNo word of the finding of Lieut.

Ulm and his two companions who took wing from Oakland Mon day afternoon, hoping to settle down on the'field at Honolulu early Tuesday morning. Nearly two full days had elapsed when night fell on the Pacific in the vicinity of Ha waii last night, but there has been no word and not a trace of any kind that would furnish a hint as to the whereabouts of the missing aviators, who exhausted their gaso line supply at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning, and sent out a feeble cry for help as they brought their plane down to the surface of the water. Whether the plane would float for two days is the unanswered question, although the ocean, particular ly to the north and east of Oahu, has been searched carefully. Twen ty naval planes, 14 army planes and 23 naval surface craft, augmented by the coast guard, are engaged in the search for the missing, and Rear Admiral Yarnall says the search will continue as long as there is hope of finding the plane. JJJ Of course hope persists long, and it will not be forgotten that sev eral years ago two naval fliers were found drifting after they had been missing for 10 days In Hawaiian waters, although it must also be re membered that they were on a sea plane, which has floating ability far beyond the airplane that Ulm and his two companions were piloting on a flight that was planned to reach not only to Hawaii, but on to Australia.

Jjl President Roosevelt and a group of his advisers are on a special train headed back for Washington and the chief executive's desk in the White House. They left Warm Springs in mid-afternoon yesterday, stopped momentarily at Atlanta early in the evening, and then left for the north. The President and some of his advisers had been at the Georgia spa for two weeks, although four members of the cabinet and others prominent in official life In Washington arrived more recently, and are with the chief executive on the train. But as to the results of those conferences during the two weeks, little is as yet announced, but It is understood that on a coming Sunday night, perhaps Dec. 16, Mr.

Roosevelt will talk to the people of the country over the radio, and outline some of the conclusions that have been reached. fj Of course Warm Springs said a hearty good bye to the President, and the news dispatches have It (Continued on Page Two) GOVERNMENT FORECAST: FAIR AND MILD THURSDAY AND FRIDAY; FRESH NORTHEAST WIND OFF COAST. FORTY-FIRST YEAR Non-Striking Carmen Jeered as 5G0 Storm City Hall, Go To Labor Temple Meet WOMAN AT FRONT OF LINE No Violence Reported by Group But Trolley Ropes Cut In Another Outbreak (By United Press) LOS ANGELES, Dec. 5. A body of 500 rioting men, believed at least partly made up of striking street railway employes, threw mid-town traffic into a jam today and then marched upon the city hall.

There they demanded return of an American flag seized in a police raid several days ago, jeered and hooted non-striking trainmen on passing street cars, and finally marched away to the labor temple and a lengthy meeting, proceedings at which were not immediately disclosed. Crowd Assembles To Watch Parade Captained by a woman, the line of march wound around and around the city hall, all chanting in unison "We want our flag! We want our flag!" Flanked by uniformed police during the entire demonstration, the marchers offered no violence beyond the abuse shouted at passing trainmen. Traffic in civic center was disrupted also as a great crowd assembled to watch the "parade." Tear Gas Routs Mid-Town Throng The march followed another riot at Eighth and Broadway and Hill streets, the approximate center of the city, where men in the street cut trolley guide ropes and piled up all vehicular and most pedestrian traffic In a jam seven blocks long on all three thoroughfares. Tear gas inevitably was brought into play, and bystanders as well as participants fled weeping from the locality. The city hall march was crowned by the expedition of four men into the building in search of Mayor Frank L.

Shaw, who, however, had left the building. Exhaust Venire In Doke Retrial (By Associated Press) WOODLAND, Dec. 5 The retrial of Judson C. Doke for the murder of Lamar Hollingshead was adjourned shortly after the start of the afternoon session of court today when a venire of 100 was exhausted without state and defense agreeing upon a jury. Court attaches said a venire of 30 would be called to court tomorrow.

The original panel included 87 men and 13 women and at no time did either side appear near an agreement. OFFICER GETS TRANSFER WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. Major Orn A. Palmer of the cavalry was ordered today by the war department from Fort Bliss, Texas, to duty with the national guard at Dallas, Texas.

RAM LiL RIOTERS II TRAFFIC DING MARCH IU1 Won't Work Out Fines So Trio Chained (Bv Associated Press) PAINTSVILLE, Dec. 6. In a scene reminiscent of Colonial days, three men who refused to work out fines Imposed for drunkenness were chained to power line poles en Main street here today. Crowds gathered to tee Town Marshal Jess Allen bind the men with log chains and attach two 25-pound Iron balls to each man and lock them with padlocks to separate posts on three corners. Allen said he acted on orders of Police Judge R.

A. Patrick, who said later that the trio would stay there, except at night, until they agreed to wcrk out their fines. The men chained were James Price, 25; William Dills, 25, and Oscar (Blackie) Pelphrey, 22. UK Hi (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Dec. 5 A revival of speculative fervor whirled grain prices upward in American markets today, corn, topping peak records that have stood six years.

In the broadest general trade in recent months, wheat at one time jumped to an overnight gain of 4 15-8 cents a bushel, reaching a peak of $1.05 for deliveries, within 12 cents of the season's best price. Cash corn sold at the top price since August 1928 when a load of No. 2 white grain was purchased at $1.09 1-4, a premium of 15 cents over December future contracts. This was more than double the value of corn a year ago. Corn futures rose 214 cents at one time to a peak for December deliveries of 95 'li cents a bushel.

Not since $1.03 was paid for May corn in August, 1930, have any prices as high been shouted In the corn pit. Meager supplies of the grain in the great livestock producing regions, a direct result of drought and crop reduction, were reflected in corn quotations. 66 Executed for Anti-Red Plots (By Associated Press) LONDON, Dec. 5. British news dispatches from Moscow tonight said 66 persons had been executed after being convicted of counter revolutionary activities by supreme military courts.

The court at Leningrad sentenced 37 to die, the dispatches said, while 29 were condemned In the court at Moscow. The sentences and executions grew out of the investigation into the assassination of Sergei Kiroff, member of the Communist party's political bureau, at Leningrad, Saturday. Federal Banks Have Offering Subscribed (Bv Associated Press) NEW YORK, Dec. 5. An offering of $18,300,000 in notes of the Federal intermediate credit banks was heavily oversubscribed today and the books closed early in the morning.

The notes run 6 to 9 months and bear IVi per cent. They were issued to provide for maturities. strong-arm act in the newspapers and learned that Finn was a married man. Picturing her victim ducking skillets and other household hardware, she became remorseful and telephoned Finn, asking if she "could come over" and straighten things out. It was all right by Finn, so when Miss Sothern appeared, he introduced Mrs.

Finn and his 15-year-old daughter. "After leaving my girl friend's house," Miss Sothern explained, "I spotted you about 50 yards away. In a flash, the crazy idea of leaping on you and kissing you several times occurred to me. Then I grabbed you, pinned your arms down at your side and kissed you right smack on the lips." Mrs. Finn laughed so did Mr.

Finn. Girl Tarzan Admits Mysterious Kissing (By United Press) BOSTON, Dec. 5. The female Tarzan who jumped out of a dark alley in Roxbury Sunday night, locked a man in her arms and smothered him with kisses, stepped out of character today to say it was all a gag. That is, Miss Elinor Sothern of Jamaica Plain was chased out of her Amazon role by her conscience and apologized to the huggee William Finn, 39, of Roxbury.

She explained she was just looking for excitement, so she picked on the first short man she met someone shorter than herself so she could handle him in case he became a too willing victim and Finn filled the bill. Miss Sothern is 5 feet, 9. The idea was a lot of fun, she explained, until she read about her Two Sections rf Newjoeuoev idtr iSaa Bevtmvaino County. 24 Paces no If BUM GIVES 01 OFFENSE NARNISQUIZIOFTHIRDMATE Head of Huge Delaware Firm Challenges Committee to Call Former President RAPS 'GOSSIP EVIDENCE' Munitions Makers Seek to Draw Line Between Sports, War Types of Small Arms By RICHARD L. TURNER (Associated Press Writer) WASHINGTON, Dec.

5. The story of an indirect shipment of Du-Pont explosives to Manchuria, despite embargo restrictions, a cargo that literally "changed its appearance at sea," was inserted today into the records of the Senate munitions investigation. Denying all knowledge of the destination of the shipment, DuPont officials accused the committee of building up a case against their industry by hearsay and "second hand gossip." Irenee DuPont directly challenged the committee to call Herbert Hoover for question ing on a previous development of the inquiry. Former President Explains Meeting The committee, which yesterday recived testimony that Hoover, as secretary of commerce, assembled a committee of gun makers, for a meeting with delegates to the 1925 Geneva arms conference, re vealed every Indication to ignore the challenge, although ready to receive any statement Mr. Hoover might care to make.

The former chief executive meanwhile issued a statement at Palo Alto, asserting that the meeting was called at the request of the secretary of state, then Frank B. Kellogg, for the purpose of "giving a hearing to the manufacturers' views as to the methods of discriminating between sporting arms on the one hand and war arms on the other." Tilson Proud of Aid to Americans John Q. Tilson, who also figured in the activities of the manufacturers prior to the Geneva parley, and was then majority leader of the House, also issued a statement today saying he was "proud of anything I may have done to foster and properly encourage the American munitions industry during my public service." "I have no sympathy with those (Continued on Page Two) U. S. Tobacco Firm In Special Dividend (Bv Associated Press) NEW YORK, Dec.

5. Directors of U. S. Tobacco Co. today declared a special dividend of $2.25 a share on the common and the regular quarterly disbursement of $1.25.

Last year the company declared a special dividend of $5 at the December meeting. Will OGER5 'soys: BEVERLY HILLS, Dec. 5. (To the Editor.) Having lunch In the studio cafe Tuesday with Sir Kingsford-Smith, the great Australian aviator. He was called to the phone, he come back and said, "They have missed the Hawaiian Islands, and are down, that's too bad." Then he told how important navigation was, especially over the ocean.

He paid great tribute to the American that took him to Australia, and the Australian that brought him over this time. Gatty is a great navigator, Lind-berg and Post are a couple of the best pilot navigators, thousands can fly, but few can find a speck in the ocean. You got to be on intimate terms with astronomy. Never mind the carburetors, or the feed line, or the Rpm, it's old man Sun, moon and stars, that you want to be on speaking terms with. Yours, WILL ROGERS.

jljl EAN HARLOW ASKS DIVORCE Platinum Blonde Asserts Third Husband Quarreled With Her All Too Frequently BERN TRAGEDY RECALLED Actress Asserts Rosson Stayed Aloof When She Entertained Friends at Their Home (By Associated Press) LOS ANGELES, Dec. 5. The airplane elopement marriage in Yuma, 15 months ago of platinum-haired Jean Harlow of the films and Cameraman Hal G. Rosson definitely cracked up today. Charging mental cruelty, the silver-blonde headed actress filed suit for divorce late today in superior court against Rosson, her third husband.

Her divorce papers cited numerous instances of marital discord. Included were accusations by Miss Harlow that Rosson was "sullen and Irritable and of an ungenerous character." She complained that he refused to assist her in entertaining her friends and associates of the movie colony, which, she recited, constituted "continuous bru tality." First Husband of Actress Divorced unce, on uct. 7, 1933, just a month or two after their elopement, Miss Harlow said Rosson remained aloof in a room In their Beverly Hills home while she entertained in another part of the house. The 23-year-old actress, born Harlean Carpentier, first married Charles F. McGrew of Chicago.

That was in 1927. Two years later they were divorced. Second Mate Ends Life by Suicide In 1932, after her rise to film fame, Miss Harlow married Paul Bern, film executive. The marriage ended In tragedy with Bern's suicide less than a year later. On Sept.

18, 1933, Miss Harlow and her cameraman, Rosson, slipped out of Hollywood via airplane and a few hours later were married In Yuma, Ariz. Several months later they came to a parting of the ways. Divorce proceedings were held back, however because of Rosson's illness with infantile paralysis. When he recovered he went abroad. Exposition Leaders Conferring in North (By Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO, Dec.

5. Executives of the California Pacific International exposition to be held In San Diego, opening May 29, arrived here today to confer with representatives of 25 foreign countries and San Francisco civic leaders. The party was headed by Frank Belcher, president of the California Drinkers to Celebrate In Clubs, Restaurants and Hotels (By United Press) SACRAMENTO, Dec. 5. Legal drinking of liquor in California hotels and clubs will be celebrated during the Christmas holidays for the first time since prohibition banned the sale or consumption of intoxicating beverages.

When the electorate adopted "proposition No. 2," on the November ballot, it voted to liberalize liquor laws which for a year had legalized drinking almost everywhere except in saloons, public eating places, hotels, clubs and liquor stores. Under the new constitutional amendment, which becomes effective about Dec. 20, five days after the official vote is certified by Secretary of State Frank C. Jordan, liquor may be served in dining rooms, restaurants, hotel rooms and clubs.

But it may not be served legally in riublic saloons or barrooms unless food also is available there. Detailed interpretation of the new amendment has yet to be worked out by the state board of equalization and Attorney General U. S. Webb. The board submitted a long 7 60 a copy 85c a month Lila Lee Elopes, Wed to Wealthy Chicagoan's Son ill 1 a LILA LEE (By Associated Press) later that she was "very hard to NEW YORK, Dec.

5. Lila Lee, get. sometimes called the "hard luck had aged Lila several times to girl" of the movies, was married to- say the word," John Pine, tall day in an early-morning elopement and her new husband confided (Continued on Page Two) nnm nrn ninn l-rniini nnnnnrn DUN IIIUMH NUBS FINISH III PROBED (By Associated Press) BOULDER CITY, Dec. 5. The three millionth cubic yard of concrete was poured today into the world's largest structure of its kind the Boulder dam across the Colorado river.

Only 244,000 more cubic yards of concrete remain to be poured before the 727 foot high dam is completed. Some time in February, engineers say, the last bucket on the dam itself will be poured. The first bucket was dumped June 6, 1933, six months before the contract called for this operation. The engineers figured a thousand days to build the great dam, and with three million cubic yards poured in 536 days they say a new construction record has been made. The whole project involved cubic yards of concrete, of which 3,810,000 yards have been poured.

Work is now in progress on the power house, below the dam, and the installation of pipe In the penstock tunnels. list of questions to Webb several weeks ago, and will have a "liquor law conference" here Dec. 17, after which definite restrictions will be announced. One opinion of Webb indicated that hotel bars going under the name of tap room, lounge or club which have sprung up since the election, will not be permitted to serve liquor unless they also serve food. The amendment says: Intoxicating liquors shall not be sold or consumed in any public saloon, public bar or public barroom," but that "intoxicating liquors may be sold, served and consumed in any bona fide hotel, restaurant, cafe, cafeteria, railroad dining or club car, passenger ship or other public eating place, or in any bona fide club after such club has been lawfully operated for not less than one year." There was a question whether hotel tap rooms would be considered as bars.

And there was a general feeling here that the board would insist that liquor dispensing bars be equipped to serve food. Although details remained to be I ironed out, it appeared certain that We Do A 0ur Part THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 6, 1934 0 I Mi i (By Associated Press) LOS ANGELES, Dec. 5. The dismembered body of Mrs. Rosabella Happel, 46 years old, was found In a trunk In a windowless shack at the rear of a bungalow court In a modest neighborhood here late today.

Capt. Bert Wallis, head of the police homicide bureau, tonight issued a broadcast asking the arrest of John H. Happel, 53, husband of the woman and caretaker at the bungalow court, on suspicion of murder. The body, badly beaten about the head, the legs severed at the knees, was identified by Fred Happel, her stepson and son of John Happel, and John Corrigan, a family friend. The officers said friends and neighbors told them Mrs.

Happel had not been seen since last Nov. 27 and Happel since last Saturday night. Corrigan told police Happel, who had been caring for Corrigan's 3-year-old daughter, returned her a week ago with the explanation only that he and his wife were unable to keep her longer. after December 20 It would be legal for the individual to; Climb on a stool in front of a bar where food is available and order as many drinks as he wishes without bothering about the food; order his drinks with his meals in restaurants, hotels, cabarets, lunch rooms, night clubs and other places where food is served; sit down at a table and order drinks without food; walk into his club and put his foot on the railing of an old-fashioned bar; order drinks sent up to his hotel room; purchase a bottle of liquor or a barrel of it In an "off sale" liquor store and drink it on the sidewalk or in his automobile or at home; drink beer at the bar in a beer parlor, since beer has become merely a "beverage." The regulations of the past year legalized the serving of ale and beer with meals, and the sale of liquor in bottles, but did not permit the serving of liquor In public eating places, barrooms or clubs. The board of equalization will base its final rulings and enforcement program on Webb's written interpretation of the new act.

HUGE Ail OFSKIES.SEAS PUSHING HUNT Experts Believe Ulm's Plant To Stay Afloat Long Time As Weight Is Checked NEW THEORIES ARE TESTED Searchers Move West of Island On Possibility Australian Had Overshot His Goal By WILLIAM H. EWINQ (Associated Press Writer) HONOLULU, Dec. New hope of finding Lieut C. T. P.

Ulm and his two companions alloat on the Pacific was born here tonight and the gigantic search by air and sea shift ed to the southwest of Hono lulu. A technical description of Ulm's plane, Star of Australia, wirelessed here from San Francisco naval headquarters convinced the search ers it was buoyant enough to remain afloat on the ocean for considerable time. 34 Planes, 23 Ships Engage in Search Buoyancy of the plane was at 1,800 pounds less the wel occupants and their equ Naval officers interpreted mean the plane will float for time barring accidents. Twenty naval planes, li planes and 23 naval surfacL augmented by the coast guard are engaged in the great hunt for Ulm and George Littlejohn, co-pllot, and J. Leon Skilling, navigator, of the Star of Australia.

Sphere of Hunt Is Shifted to West "The search will continue so long as there is hope of finding the plane," Rear Admiral Harry E. Yarnall said as the twenty-eighth hourr elapsed since 9 a. m. (3 p. m.

eastern standard time) Tuesday, when Ulm's chilling message said "on water now The sphere of the search shifted to the southwest of the Island of Oahu, on which Is situated Honolulu, today after a fruitless hunt to the northeast which took planes and ships as far as 400 miles from the islands. More than 30,000 gallons of gasoline have been consumed by military planes engaged in the search. Admiral Confident Of Sighting Object Surface naval vessels backtracked the course Ulm took after the Star of Australia flew bravely California, into the sky Monday and iff i tti islands. Naval vessels and the ciksI. jv-5 cutter Itasca were so gp-cM ibiv "cannot fail to sight the it is afloat," Admiral Yarni H.

Navy and commercli (Continued on Page Two) Roosevelt OH To White House (By Associated Press) EN ROUTE WITH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TO WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. President Roosevelt traveled back to the White House tonight convinced by studies at his Warm Springs, home that the new deal has taken root and is on the way forward. He returned to the capital surrounded by principal aides whose optimistic reports form the basis of a moderate legislative program to be proposed to the new Congress convening a month hence. With expressed regrets, Mr.

Roosevelt departed from his "other home" In mid-afternoon to takeover the White House desk. He carefully maintained his silence on the fu- ture except for a firm declaration to pursue the acreage control system as a means to bring parity for American farmers. Actress Loses Her Watch, She Reportt HOLLYWOOD, Dec. Loff, screen actress, reported to the sheriff's office today the theft of wrist watch, valued at l.VM) from her residence, while she W8 out dining last night..