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WASHINGTON Merry-Go-Round U. S. Fears Germany May Seize Ireland to Nullify F. D. R.

Plans For Delivering Goods By REW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON, May 11. State and war department officials are not talking about it, but one of their biggest worries in connection with the new Atlantic patrol system is that Germany will seize Ireland. This is the best immediate means by which the Nazis can hullify Roosevelt's plan for making sure that vital lease-lend supplies get to British soil rather than to the bottom of the ocean. A neutral or friendly Eire is essential for the success of the patrol plan and even of convoys.

For should Germany seize Ireland, Nazi airplanes and submarines would have bases extending much farther west Into the Atlantic; thus creating a suicide zone in the direct path of Incoming supply vessels. Already Germany, operating from France and Belgium, has closed Britain's channel ports, forced the re-routing of all British shipping to the north of Ireland. So if Hitler should establish bases in Eire he could come closed than ever to accomplishing his goal of starving out tho united kingdom. This is why the British have frantically asked the state department to appeal for Irish cooperation. Glider Planes to Ireland U.

S. intelligence reports from Germany tell of a new type of glider that Nazi airmen are perfecting, allegedly for use in landing troops in Ireland. It has advantages over both parachutes or transport planes. Large transport planes carrying troops require large landing fields, cannot land on rough ground, and- it is relatively easy for home defense forces to protect their main airports against such landings. Parachute troops come down slowly, provide easy targets.

But gliders can coast down into any Irish cow pasture at a rate of about 20 miles an hour and are not easy targets. At present the Nazis are perfecting big gliders holding 12 men each, which can be towed by a mother plane over an invaded country, then cut loose. Aloof State Department Worry over Ireland is so acute in Washington that several steps have been taken to try to win the Eire government over to the British side in advance of a Nazi invasion. Consideration was given some time ago to sending Joseph P. Kennedy, or some other outstanding Irish-American, to Dublin as an extraordinary ambassador.

So far, however, nothing has come of this. More important has been a silent, but nevertheless definite state department boycott of Irish demands for war materials. When Irish Minister Bren-nan called upon Undersecretary Welles recently to ask for antiaircraft guns, trench mortars, anti-tank guns, he met with stony silence. On March 20, Minister Bren-jian had submitted a list of arms Eire wanted for its army. Welles did not say so, but it was obvious that no such equipment will go to Eire until she cooperates with Britain.

British Want Three Bases What England wants, specifically, is three bases, one in the north, two in the south. But (Continued on Page 4, Column 1) RIN AND BEAR Chiciftt Fit I Ame NFTV chart kf-ivJ mm SECTION TWO INLAND EMPIRE SECTION TWO INLAND EMPIRE AND THB OAILT ORANGi BKLT KEWS SCHOOL BOARD PLANS Youths Tried to Out-Think Slayer, Follow Route He Might Have Taken They Found Wells' Body Within Hour Edward Thompson and Oather Hawkins, who found Raymond Wells' body in the brushlands above Devore, tried "to out-think the slayer and follow the same route he might have taken" as he lured his half-brother into the foothills. Reporting too late to join the 600 men who participated in the search, Thompson and Hawkins decided to strike out alone, instead of working with a group, scores of which were scattered throughout a wide terri tory from Devil canyon to Devore, in Cajon pass. "We didn't know where to look," said Thompson. "But we decided to do just what, as we figured in our own minds, the killer would do.

'UP ALONG FOOTHILLS' "I asked Oather: 'If you were taking a man out to kill him, where would you go? "Oather replied that. 1 wouldn't take a man out to kill him but if I were I think I'd go up along the foothills in the brush off the "We went north off highway 66 about two miles above Devore end then turned toward the mountains on a paved road. We followed this road to a point right up against the foothills, where the pavement ends, and then continued on a few hun dred yards on an old dirt road. TRACKS INTO WEEDS "We stopped the car and I got out and walked on still farther toward the hills. Then I saw tracks leading into the weeds tracks like you make when you walk through grain field.

The weeds were crushed down and it looked as if two men had walked through the field over into the high brush. I called to Oather and we followed the tracks into the brush. There we separated and went on. "In a few minutes, Oather shout ed: 'I think I've found the Then he shouted again. I ran to where he was and there lay the body.

"I stayed nearby until Oather drove down to the highway and picked up "ieriff Shay." FOUND WITHIN HOUR By radio, Sheriff Shay flashed word to his officers in patrol cars stationed throughout the district. The volunteers were informed that the search was at an end. Thompson and Hawkins found the body at 11:05 a.m., within an hour after they had joined in the search. "We wanted to do our part and assist the officers," said Hawkins. "That is a big open country up there along 'the highway and there were a million places, it seemed to us, where the body could be hidden.

We are glad that we were of some assistance, not only to the officers, but to the relatives of Mr. Wells." IT By Uehty Timet, In. Off All Kit. "We call this our Trojan Horse sales plan. When the prospect opens the box to see ivhat someone has sent them, our agent steps out and demonstrates our little nifty vacuum cleaner!" They Found Victim of Crazed Killer Oather Hawkins (left), a Morrow ing through the brush in Cajon pass of Raymond Wells, third victim of Alfred Wells' murderous frenzy.

(Photo by The Sun.) Body of Raymond Wells, Killer's Third Victim, Found (Continued from Page One) reported the slayer had been arrested at Glendale, a settlement on Lake Mead 60 miles north and east of Las Vegas. The suspect, a hunchback, had attempted to hitchhike through the Glendale district and was picked up by the town's constable. Officers hurried to the settlement from Las Vegas and determined that the suspect was not Alfred Wells, although the resemblance was striking. FLIGHT TO CHICAGO Sheriff Shay and his officers are convinced that Wells is attempting to flee to Chicago. In his apartment Saturday, the officers found a marked map on which Wells had penciled a route from San Bernardino to Chicago.

It followed the Union Pacific railroad through Las Vegas to Salt Lake City, Utah, through Des Moines, Iowa, and on to Chicago. A second penciled line extended to Toledo, Ohio. The sheriff's office yesterday re ceived reports from two separate Nevada points that a man answer ing the description of Alfred Wells was seen on Thursday. The slayer was reported seen at 7 a.m. on that day at Pioche, a desert hamlet on a branch rail road line 50 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

The other report, from Ely, said that a suspect was seen there at 11 p.m., Thursday. Ely is about 150 miles north of Las Vegas on the Union Pacific railroad. HUNDREDS IN SEARCH Discovery of Raymond's body ended one of the most spectacular hunts in the history of San Bernardino county. Anxious to assist the officers, hundreds of Santa Fe shop employes, Legionnaires and volunteers left the city at 7 a.m. Sunday to spread across the brush-lands along Highway 66.

Later in the morning more scores of volunteers joined in the search, directed by all available deputy sheriffs, the mounted possemen of tha sheriff's department, California highway patrol officers and city police. Sheriff Shay was in charge. Thompson and Hawkins, deciding MONDAY MORNING, MAY 12, yyyyyyy'' Aircraft Corp. employe, and Edward Thompson (right) are shown beat' foothills north of Devore where they to follow a route which they, in their own minds, figured the slayer would take, turned off the highway two miles above Devore and went into the foothills, almost to the end of a wagon road. There they left their car and within an hour after they had left their homes, they found the body, lying in head-high brush 75 yards from the wagon road.

Raymond was last seen as he left the shop yards at 10:28 p.m. Wednesday after an overtime shift. To a fellow worker, he remarked that he was "in a hurry to get home because Elaine will have a hot dinner ready for me." SCENE OF HORROR Alfred, it is charged, had met Elaine at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday and asked her to take him to Verde-mont where he had obtained employment at a chicken ranch. She agreed and with her baby and houseguest, Rose Destree, started for the ranch, Alfred accompanying them.

In the Verdemont district, he forced Mrs. Wells to turn into the brush and get out of the car. Then, threatening her and her baby with death, he forced her to write a note to her husband imploring him to assist Alfred in his search for the missing half-sister, Violet. As he wrote, Alfred held the baby and Miss Destree stood by paralyzed with fright, she told officers before she died at the county hospital early Thursday. As the young mother handed the note to Wells, he opened fire point-blank with a revolver, for which he had traded a carton of groceries and $1 in cash to a neighbor a few hours earlier in the day.

He placed the baby on her breast and then fired twice at Miss Destree as she attempted to flee. She fell mortally wounded and Wells, apparently believing both his victims dead, left the scene. WAITED FOR RAYMOND As officers reconstruct the accused killer's movements, he returned to San Bernardino and whiled away almost an hour at the home of his former neighbors, the William Strouds and Dale Cline, at 659 Kingman street. Alfred Wells left the Kingman 1941 found yesterday morning the body Shot in Back street house some time after 8:20, presumably to wait for Raymond to return home his work at the shops. As Raymond returned, Alfred met him and as Sheriff Shay and officers reconstruct the events lead ing up to the slaying of Raymond informed him that he was hold ing his wife and baby prisoners in the foothills until he, Raymond agreed to assist him in his search for the missing blonde and at tractive half-sister, Violet.

Raymond, who had warned Al fred to stay away from his home, probably accompanied Alfred because he feared for the safety of his young wife and baby, the offi cers believe. Otherwise, Raymond would not have driven into the hills with Alfred at that hour of the night. IN SINGLE FILE Once into the brushlands, Alfred probably pointed out the high brush as the scene where the wife and child were being held, the officers believe. The tracks through the high weeds indicate that the two half-brothers walked in single file Raymond probably leading at Al fred direction. In the head-high brush, Alfred opened fire from behind and felled the anxious young father, the officers further theorize.

The examining physicians said the bullet wound indicated Raymond was shot sa he leaned forward, prob ably peering into the brush. The second shot in the back of the head was fired at closer range, probably as Raymond lay dying on the ground. SHAY'S STATEMENT Sheriff Shay yesterday issued a statement expressing his apprecia tion to the hundreds of Santa Fe workers, the Legionnaires and others who assisted in the search for Raymond's body. The Santa Fe workers were organized by Edward Monroe, 159 street, and H. Deardorff, 1076 High street.

Norman P. Henderson, commander of San Bernardino post, called out the American Legion. Two physicians, Drs. C. A.

Wylie and Chauncey Baird, went along to administer first aid. TO HEAL BREACH DEFENDER FIB PUBL1GSDUGHT BY ATTORMEYS Board of Supervisors to Grant Hearing Today to County Bar Association Plea A hearing on the San Bernardino County Bar association's request to create the position of public defender in San Bernardino county will be held by the board of super visors at 2 p.m. today. The association contends that the mandatory duties of representing in court indigents charged with crimes "a burden forced upon" the at torneys. LONG-STANDING ISSUE Under the present procedure, each person charged with a crime may have an attorney appointed by the court to defend him if he is with out means of employing counsel.

The attorneys are appointed from an alphabetical list on which is the name of every attorney San Ber nardino county. Each attorney must take his turn in defending penni less suspects. The public defender issue has been raised many times in past years, EFFICIENCY SEEN The resolution to the supervisors from the bar association said that many attorneys do not make practice of handling criminal cases, but under the charity system must represent suspects. Every suspect is entitled under the law to legal defense and if a publio defender were appointed to handle indigent cases, "a speedier, more economical and more efficient enforcement of the law will result," the association's resolution said. Injured Man to Attend Funeral Robert Trusler, confined to a Los Angeles hospital by injuries suf fered in an automobile accident last October, returned to San Bernar dino in an ambulance for the fu neral of his father, Joseph Trusler, killed in a traffic crash last Friday.

Final rites for the elder Mr. Trusler, a widely-known San Bernar dino orange grower and prominent in Masonic groups, will be conduct ed at 2 p.m. today at the Stephens Bobbitt chapel. Burial will fol low in Mountain View cemetery. His son has been confined to the Good Samaritan hospital in Los Angeles and was taken to the Community hospital in San Bernardino.

He will remain at the latter hospital until Thursday. 1 Woman Found Dead In Redlands Home The coroner's office yesterday was investigating the sudden death in Redlands of Mrs. Cecile E. Morrison, 49 years old, whose body was found at 11:35 p.m. Saturday in her home, 615 East Central avenue.

Death was attributed tentatively to natural causes. Police said Mrs. Morrison was found dead by her daughter, and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Evans.

Mrs. Evans said her mother appeared to be in good health when she was taken home at 8:30 p.m. What's Doing Today 10 a.m. County board of super visors, courthouse. 12 noon City council reorganiza tion, city hall.

12 noon Board of education reor ganization, high school household training bungalow. 12 noon Real Estate board, Elks clubhouse. 12 noon Base Line Businessmen's association, 547 Base Line. 12 noon American Legion Past-Commanders, Mapes cafeteria. 7 p.m.

County Art association din ner, Cafe Madrid. 7:30 p.m. Elks lodge, Elks clubhouse. 7:30 p.m. Phoenix lodge, F.

A. Masonic templa. 7:30 p.m. Damascus lodge, F. A.

M.i Odd Fellows temple. 7:30 p.m. A.Z.A., Temple Emanu El. 7:30 p.m. Disabled American Veterans, American Legion clubhouse.

7:30 p.m. San Bernardino Community chorus, high school cafeteria. 7:30 p.m. Woman's Ambulance Defenso corps, Sturges Junior High school. 7:30 p.m.

Carpenters local and auxiliary, Labor temple. 7:30 p.m. League of Latin-American Citizens, 990 Seventh street. 7:45 p.m. Ellis L.

Spackman lec ture, "America in a Warring World," junior college auditorium. Driver Steps Out of Auto, Fatally Hurt A man identified as a 51-year-old Little Rock (Los Angeles county) apiarist, was killed at 8:30 last night by an automobile that struck him as he got out of his car, which had run out of gasoline on Kendall drive five miles north of San Ber- nardino. The victim, Gottfried Johnson, died instantly when hurled from the road by a car traveling toward San Bernardino and driven by Lee Miller, 18, of 2248 62 Killed In County Sepulveda avenue, TIf San Bernardino, Since Jan. 1 reported Edward 40 Killed at Same P. Doyle, deputy ua i-asi rear Coroner R.

E. Williams. Miller and his two companions, Robert Henkle of 459 North street, Colton, and J. G. Davis of 856 Orange street, San Bernardino, suf fered lacerations when the wind shield shattered and were given first aid treatment by officers.

Highway Patrolmen C. Dan Tripp and Charles Castle said the victim apparently had stopped his car in the middle of the road and Miller passed it on the right hand side since another car was coming to ward him. The body was taken to the Stephens Bobbitt mortuary. A 13-year-old San Bernardino bi cyclist, Jack Daniel Goerhing of 365 Fourth street, was seriously injured yesterday on East Base Line near Palm avenue when an automobile skidded into him after hitting a post. County hospital attendants said the boy, son of Mrs.

Laxra Goer hing, suffered possible fracture of the spine and cuts and bruises of the face and head. They described his condition as "only fair." Highway patrolmen said the lad, one of a party of four pedaling west on Base Line, was hit at 1 p.m. by an automobile driven by George H. Gardner in, 21, of 239 Norwood street, Redlands. Patrolmen quoted Gardner as say ing his car skidded when he (Continued on Page 4, Column 1) Honors Won by Music Students Eight San Bernardino music stu dents were awarded superior or ex cellent ratings, the two highest, in the National Schools Music contest and festival for three states, 4ield in Fresno during the week-end.

Competing with students from other schools in California, Arizona and Nevada, five San Bernardino boys and girls won the highest, su perior, rating and three others the next highest, excellent, rating. San Bernardino won more high awards than any other city in the contest, Receiving the superior rating were Barbara Seeley, French horn Frank McCrackin, cello; Ray Snell, cornet; Bill Woods, baritone, all senior high school students, and Lowell Withem, violin, a Sturges Junior High school student. The excellent ratings were award ed to Glenna Rouse and Keaton bmitn, Doth violinists and senior high school students, and Wayn Miller, a violinist and an Arrow- view Junior High school student. They all received medals. Henderson to Talk On Fifth Columnists Norman P.

Henderson, investigator for the district attorney's office, will address a noon meeting of the Base Line Businessmen's association today at 547 Base Line. "Fifth Column Activities" will be the subject of Mr. Henderson's talk. The program was arranged by James Gerrard. Charles F.

Kircher, president, will preside. MSI HI AS AUTO SKIDS SAFE SUMMER STORAGE for Your OUT of SEASON Garments LARSEN DYE WORKS 407 South Fhone 351-03 Street Redlands: 112 E. II FACTIONS ILL SEEK 10 What Steps Will Be Taken to Achieve This at Meeting Today Are Not Decided Reconciliation of the two factions into which the San Bernardino board of educa tion has been split for more than a year will be attempted today as the five old and wo new members meet around the luncheon table for the biennial reorganiza- ion. Board members last night, how ever, had not decided upon what specific steps would be taken to heal the breach which resulted from a dispute between Superintendent D. Graves and the former busi ness manager, U.

V. Keity. The dispute wag followed by tha dismissal of Mr. Kelty and far-reaching changes in the administrative organization of the school system. One of its results was tha resignation of Dr.

A. E. Hancock as board president and the election of Dr. Trenton D. Huls to the post Revision of the board's rules for administration of the schools made the superintendent instead of the business agent secretary of the board and redefined the duties of both offices.

LINEUP CHANGED Virtually all of the changes were effected with a 4-to-3 vote. Dr. Huls, Verne E. Johnson, Earl Truscott and Willoughby McKinley com prised the majority group and Dr. Hancock, Homer W.

Emmerton and the late Harold D. Shaw, the minority group. As the result of the recent elec tion, Dr. Huls, Dr. Hancock, and Mr.

Emmerton were returned to the board and Mr. Curtis and Dr. E. Engel were elected for the first time. The other two members, Mr.

Truscott and Mr. McKinley, having been reelected two years ago, are holdover members. NO CLEAR-CUT MAJORITY The election gave neither group a clear-cut majority and individual members of both sides have expressed the hope that the reorganization will provide the opportunity for past differences to be buried. In addition to the president, the board will elect a vice-president. The new president also will name members of the board committees, building and grounds, cafeteria and teachers, for the next two years.

The board will meet at noon at the household training bungalow on Nineteenth street. Its meeting will follow a luncheon served by students in the home economics class of the high school trade training division. Motorcyclist Hurt In Mountain Mishap Flung from his motorcycle as it hit a rock and skidded, Lloyd Freeman, 22 years old, of Gibson Park, incurred a serious head injury in an accident yesterday on the Rim of the World highway near Panorama point. The youth was confined to the county hospital and attendants said that his skull probably was fractured in the accident, at approximately 1:45 p.m. They reported his condition was serious.

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