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WASHINGTON Merry-Go-Round Woodring Refuses to Nibble Bait of Rome Embassy Post Offered To Him by President By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. The President's quiet efforts to ease Secretary Harry Woodring out of the cabinet by offering him another job continue to prove unavailing. The little Kansan refuses to budge.

Roosevelt's latest offer was to make him U. S. ambassador to Italy. Ambassador William Phil-Hps is planning to retire in the spring and Roosevelt saw a chance of killing two birds with one stone filling the post quickly and at the same time getting shed of Woodring in the cabinet. But he wouldn't bite.

"Harry," the President said ingratiatingly, "how would you and the Mrs. like to go to Rome?" "Thanks, Mr. President," was the prompt reply. "It was nice of you to think of us, but I don't want to go to Rome?" And that was that. Roosevelt smiled, Woodring grinned back at him and is still in the cabinet.

Apparently It's going to take more than a sugar-coated hint to dislodge the secretary of war. Bricker for President Without public announcement, the presidential campaign of Gov. John Bricker of Ohio has been thrown into high gear again. It was voluntarily switched off several months ago after a series of secret pow-wows with Senator Bob Taft, at which Bricker agreed to give his fellow Ohioan a clear field. Taft has been busily campaigning ever since, dashing about the country with his dynamic wife, making numerous speeches, and jousting with Roosevelt over balancing the budget.

Recently Bricker lieutenants decided that Taft's boom was not catching on. After contacting friendly leaders in a number of states, they quietly reopened their headquarters at 120 South La-Salle street, Chicago, and are again doing business at the old stand. According to a private letter sent out to state leaders, "Governor Bricker has not sanctioned this activity, and in all probability will not approve of it." But to date he hasn't disapproved and the campaigning goes merrily on. Bricker intimates consider him a victim of repeated bad breaks. If it hadn't been for Taft, they say, the governor would by now have been far out In front as a "favorite son" candidate.

Another bad break they list Is the Cleveland relief mess. It is significant that in the publicity matter sent out by the Bricker headquarters, no men-tjon is made of the relief controversy. He is pictured as a great vote getter and administrator, but there is not one word about relief. Jackson's Hat Bob Jackson's first cabinet meeting as attorney general cost him a hat. He remained behind after the others left, to discuss several legal matters with the President, and when he emerged from the office his hat was gone.

There was a hat on the rack, but it wasn't Jackson's and there were no initials on the band to Identify the owner. "Well, Pat," he said to Pat McKenna, genial, White House receptionist, "I've heard of losing one's shirt, but I didn't expect to lose my hat." "Maybe," laughed McKenna, "somebody took it, to throw into the ring. They're doing that a llot these days." Anti-Lynching Vote Vice-President Jack Garner not only favors a Senate vote on the long-stymied anti-lynching legislation, but he has worked out a compromise bill to get a vote. Repeated southern filibusters have been the sole obstacle to enactment of this measure for years, and Garner has always sided with his fellow-southerners. But in this session, with his hat in the presidential ring, Cactus Jack has changed his tune.

Garner's plan is to junk the House-passed measure, which would subject local officials and counties to heavy fines, and substitute investigation by the FBI. His bill as tentatively drafted reads as "Whenever a lynching takes place in the United States and there are no arrests or prosecutions the Federal bureau of investigation will make a thorough and complete investigation and report to the governor of the state in which the lynching took place." This formula is similar to the compromise suggested by the President In the 1938 fight over anti-lynching, when a six-weeks southern filibuster, led by Senator Tom Connally of Texas, finally forced the shelving of a bill passed by the House. At a secret White House conference of congressional leaders, Garner was very emphatic. "I mean business," he told the conference. "I'm going to see to Continued oa Fags Twenty-three) SECTION TWO INLAND EMPIRE SECTION TWO INLAND EMPIRE AND TH1 OAILT ORANGI BELT KIWS 400 TO ATTEND DUCK ACCUSED 11 GUNMAN' GOES Tl TEXAS CELL Soldier on Furlough Identified As Bandit, Quickly Sentenced For El Paso Robbery San Bernardino's "tall, handsome" bandit erstwhile March Field sol dier assigned to military police duty has been sentenced to serve five years in a Texas state peniten tiary for armed robbery in El Paso, Police Chief Byron W.

Allen was notified yesterday. He is Jack B. Smith, identified as the gunman whose brief but rapid whirl at crime included three holdups in San Bernardino within five days. Smith, according to Officer M. L.

Uptain, had been sentenced before El Paso received San Bernardino's request that he be questioned re garding the robberies -here, but a photograph forwarded by El Paso police was identified by two of the San Bernardino victims. AMAZING RESEMBLANCE When arrested In El Paso, Smith had in his possession a gun that had been stolen from March Field and that tallied with the descrip tion of the gun used in the San Bernardino holdups. A strange angle of the case was the amazing resemblance between Smith and Jewell Hoskins, 32-year-old Trona miner, who in the mean time had been picked up as a suspect in the "tall, handsome bandit" holdups. Hoskins admitted one robbery, but vigorously denied committing any of the three now credited to Smith, Officer Uptain said, in spite of the fact that two of the victims in the latter three cases identified Hoskins as the robber. PHOTO FORWARDED When El Paso police transmitted a picture of Smith several days later it was eay to see how the victims had mistaken Hoskins for Smith, Officer Uptain said.

The resemblance even fooled Hoskins, (Continued oh Page Twenty-three) What's Doing Today 7 a.m. Argonauts, California hotel. 12 noon Lions club, California ho tel. p.m. Peace officers' training school, junior college p.m.

Women's association, review No. 73, Legion clubhouse. 6:30 p.m. San Bernardino county Bankers, California hotel. 6:30 p.m.

20-30 club, Mapes cafe teria. 6:45 p.m. Orange Show's annual duck dinner, Orange Show cafeteria. p.m. St.

John's Chess Checker club, St. John's Episcopal church. 7:30 p.m. San Bernardino local of the American Labor association, Municipal auditorium. 7:30 p.m.

Latin-American Civic club, 990 West Seventh street. 7:30 p.m. San Bernardino lodge of Masons, Masonic temple. 8 p.m. Ancient Egyptian Order of Sciots, Eagles clubhouse.

SHOE DEALER HONORED AT 25TH ANNIVERSARY DINNER Ralph J. Ochs, San Bernardino representative for Walk-Over shoes, was Tuesday night presented with a medal commemorating his 25 years of association with the George E. Keith manufacturers of the footwear. Eugene Keith, of Boston, son of Harold Keitn, president or the Walk-Over made the presentation at a dinner party given by the manufacturer at the Cal- fornia hotel In honor of Mr. Ochs.

Frank Tilt, Pacific coast representative for Walk-Over, paid trib ute to Mr. Ochs and the manner in which he has managed his San Bernardino shop during the past quar ter-century. The Walk-Over shop is the oldest exclusive shoe store in San Bernardino, and was established by Mr. Ochs in 1905. Three years ago In an expansion move, the business was incorporated and is now operated by the firm of Ochs-Launder, with Forrest E.

Cogswell as presi dent and Mr. Ochs as secretary- treasurer. Located for many years on Third street near and for a time in the Andreson building on street, the Walk-Over shop is now established at 441 street. ARMY STRIPS PLANE WRECKAGE OF MACHINE GUNS, INSTRUMENTS High on a peak above Pigeon the army bomber which crashed from the air, shows the all-metal ship, broken in two by the force of the ship did not nose into the hill, Indicating, said army officers, that DIMES MARCH APPEAL OPENS San Bernardino's "March of Dimes" campaign for funds with which to combat the dread Infantile paralysis will begin today and extend through next Tuesday, President Roosevelt's birthday, according to an announcement by Dr. F.

E. Clough, president of the San Bernardino committee. The drive in San Bernardino will be one of thousands of similar campaigns to be conducted throughout the United States for the joint benefit cf the national Infantile Paraly sis foundation, established by President Roosevelt, himself a sufferer from the effects of the disease, and local committees responsible for assistance to victims in their respective communities, Fifty per cent of all money col lected during the drive will be turned over to the national founda tion and the other 50 per cent will remain in the hands of the local committee for maintenance of the convalescent home, Casa Colina, near Chino, and the infantile paralysis unit at the county hospital. Committees in more than 300 San Bernardino business houses under the general chairmanship of Harold P. Thoreson have undertaken, the responsibility of disposing of more than 15,000 "March of Dimes" buttons designed for distribution to contributors of 10 cents or more.

Junior high schools and the San Bernardino senior high school will make their contributions through committees set up in the schools (Continued on Page Twenty-three) Ralph J. Ochs, San Bernardino representative for Walk-Over shoes, who was with modal by the manufacturers at a dinner, commemorating his 25 years' association with the firm. THURSDAY pass five miles from its March Field in a rainstorm Tuesday, killing its four (Photo by Aerial Photo Service) Camp Set Up Where Bomber Crashed, Killing Four Army officers yesterday were supervising the salvaging of parts of the twin-engined bomber which crashed high on a peak in Pigeon pass Tuesday in a storm, killing its four occupants. A temporary field camp was set up at the scene and technicians from March Field, the plane's base, began removing instruments, machine guns and bomb sights from the all-metal Douglas bomber, of a type widely used by he air corps. The salvaging operations were slow, because of the rough country in which the craft crashed within five miles air line of the field.

Meanwhile, Coroner Ben F. White, of Riverside county, said there would be no inquest into the deaths of the fliers, who remained in the ship after its controls became fouled by ice, which formed on the wings as the pilot fought his way through frigid temperatures above the storm. BOARD INVESTIGATES Whether the emergency door in the ship through which two fliers, Sgt. Gordon C. Purvis and Pvt.

Frank Carroll, escaped to land in parachutes, jammed as the ship spun out of control is a question which an army board of inquiry will attempt to determine. Carroll said he believed the door locked, preventing the escape of the four other fliers, all of whom died as the ship struck the hillside. They were Lieuts. Raymond W. Sumi, the pilot, and Benjamin G.

Holloway, Sgt. 'Gerald D. Wilcox and Pvt. Leonard A. Wiley.

From the position of the wreckage, army officers said it was their belief that the ship struck in a flat spin. It was broken in two but the nose was not telescoped. ON RADIO BEAM Carroll, who, like Purvis, landed safely in Pigeon pass, said the ship developed trouble while flying high about 9,000 feet over the mountains through sleet and cold air. He was ordered to leave the ship, he said, as it began to spin crazily through the clouds. Previously, Pilot Sumi had informed March Field by radio that he was in trouble and would attempt to come on through the storm to a landing at the base.

He was instructed to fqllow a radio beam, as fliers do when flying blind. The ship was en route to March Field from Monterey where it participated In the army's war drills. Bar Brawl Death Lawsuit Settled A $25,000 damage suit against Harry Neuman, San Bernardino bartender serving one to 10 years in San Quentin for manslaughter, and R. L. Brakehill, his partner in a cafe, brought as result of the death of Guy L.

Hough in a bar brawl, was settled out of court yesterday. The suit was filed by Hough's relatives who were J. W. Barnes, a nephew, and Mrs. L.

G. Schues-slcr and Mrs. E. Payne, sisters. The amount of the settlement was not disclosed.

Hough died last May 6 as result (Continued on Page Twenty-three) MORNING, JANUARY base lies the broken wreckage of occupants. The photograph, made the Lnpact against the hillside. Note it struck in a flat spin, pancake-like. Forced down by a storm at Ba- kersfleld Monday, 37 army bomb ing planes yesterday completed a test flight to March Field to dem onstrate possibility of transporting troops by air under simulated war conditions. One of the 38 bombers which left Hamilton Field in northern California Monday flew straight through to the Riverside base.

The 38 bombers in the transportation test carried 360 infantrymen. They will be flown back to Hamilton field as soon as weather permits. It was still stormy north of Bakersfield. "This, the first attempt at mass transport by air, is the beginning of a new era In military operations," said Major L. A.

Whittaker, battalion commander. "In spite of the enforced delay, the operation was a success." He pointed out if there had been actual warfare and troops were being rushed south to repel an invasion, the planes would have come through "weather or no weather." New School for Base Line Asked Claiming that their children must walk along highly hazardous, two-lane Base Line street to attend school, property owners and residents of the district immediately east of Waterman avenue will petition the San Bernardino school board to erect a school building in that area. Five petitions have been circulated during the past week among citizens of the Base Line Gardens district and will be presented within a few days, said W. E. Wells, a leader in the movement.

Because of the admitted danger to young children on much traveled Base Line and the additional hazard which will result from the (Continued on Page Twenty-three) STORM-BOUND PLANES ARRIVE CITY PROPOSES ZONE TO IDENTIFY PARKING City Attorney H. R. Griffin yesterday ruled that the city could legally prohibit parking of automobiles in a special business zone for periods of longer than two hours regardless of the number of 'spots in which cars are parked. The ruling was In response to an inquiry by the city safety commission which has under consideration a plan to halt the evasion of existing parking laws through the procedure of moving automobiles from one spot to another. To test the practicability of the plan the commission has requested the police to make a week's experiment In a zone that would Include that part of the business district 1 25, 1940 DINNER TONIGHT MERCHANTS TO DEFER VALUES ON DOLLAR DAT Semi-Annual Event Designed to Promote City as Shopping Center Set for Friday Dollar day, a semi-annual mer chandising event that has become famous in San Bernardino, will be observed Friday.

The bargain opportunity is made possible through the cooperation of San Bernardino merchants with the trade promotion division of the chamber of commerce. Attesting to its success is the vol ume of trade realized from out-of- town shoppers who make a practice of coming to San Bernardino from cities' throughout the county on these occasions. SPRING MODES READY Through the cooperative arrange ment, merchants participating are able to provide consumers with ex ceptional values in every line of merchandise. Household od wearing apparel and innumerable other articles will be offered at an exceptional saving throughout the day. Spring attire is being displayed in many of the stores, and generous values will be available in this type of merchandise.

The influx of shoppers from desert and other areas surrounding San Bernardino consistently sets a new record on the occasion of each successive Dollar day, and the bargain opportunities to be offered Friday are expected to establish another new high in volume buying, according to the trade promotion committee. Pierson Case's Dropping Asked Friends of Dr. Clyde Pierson, San Bernardino osteopathic physi cian and surgeon who is scheduled to face trial for the third time before a superior court jury on Feb. 6, were yesterday reported to be circulating petitions requesting the district attorney to dismiss the case against Dr. Pierson.

Dr. Pierson was indicted by the grand jury on a murder charge following the death of 18-year-old Hazel Waters, who died at the county, hospital in August from an infection following an abortion. Unable to reach verdicts, the juries trying Dr. Pierson the first two times were discharged. 1 Skies Clear as Another Storm Thought Coming RAINFALL TABLE 24 Sea.

Hrs. Storm son Last Year 10.32 8.07 6.76 12.41 10.76 11.42 6.42 7,79 10.97 12,54 8.68 n.37 7.15 11.12 8.87 7.78 14.28 San Bernardino .44 .63 10.12 Colton 36 ,51 7.81 Redlands 39 .43 9.10 12.10 14.34 13.65 9.98 9.71 10.05 15.80 10.51 23.43 19.62 5.36 17.21 12.30 13.44 21.92 Ontario 33 .60 Upland 55 ,75 Alta Loma 74 Yucalpa 35 .44 Highland 47 .52 Rialto 44 .68 Etiwanda 39 .75 Fontana 34 .59 Crestline 34 .54 Bear Valley 67 .82 Riverside 53 Powerhouses Santa Ana No. 1 .34 .43 Santa Ana No. 3 .45 .52 Mill Creek .45 .53 Lytle Creek 95 .97 Skies cleared over the San Ber nardino valley yesterday following a brief but intensive storm which brought .63 of an inch of rainfall to San Bernardino, but a new storm was believed to be heading toward Southern California. The U.

S. weather bureau last. night predicted rain in the northwest portion, which Includes Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles 1 (Continued on Page Twenty-three) between Second and Fifth and and streets. Instead of police marking cars at two hour intervals, officers would make a permanent record of the numbers of every car, in the zone at one-hour Intervals. This would be done by use of a police car and two officers.

They would drive slowly through the streets of the zone and record the automobile numbers. At the end of each shift the numbers would be tabulated and those which had been In the zone more than two hours would be assembled. At the end of each week the police would then be In possession of the proof as to who are the habitual offenders of the parking regulations. The commission will not present the plan to the city council until ELECTED Mrs. John A.

Patterson, elected president of San Bernardino coun cil of Campfire Girls last night. The third annual election and re port dinner meeting of the San Ber nardino council of Campfire Girls was held last night In the Green room of the California hotel. Mrs. John A. Patterson, former social chairman of the council, was elected president for 1940.

She succeeds Mrs. Clement D. Perkins. Other officers elected were Mrs. Roy Lincoln, vice-president; Miss Velma Helen Brewster, recording secretary; Mrs.

Richard Crippin, corresponding secretary, and Ralph H. Binford, treasurer. Highlight of the dinner was a talk on "Skillful Living" by Mrs. Alice Springer, secretary of the Rio Hondo council with headquarters in Huntington Park. Mrs.

Springer, in explaining the purposes of the organization, said that the program of constructive development of Campfire Girls has been standardized since the group was founded 28 years ago. "It is our aim," she said, "to teach our girls how to live skill fully, Ia our. program they, are taught how to excell in all domestic and social activities common to girls between the age3 of 10 and 18. We teach them to have fun while learning to be better citizens." Miss Elizabeth Barnes, new San Bernardino executive secretary of Berkeley, who is in charge of ac tivities work of the Campfire Girls (Continued on Page Twenty-three) LEO BENJAMIN Leo Benjamin, prominent San Bernardinp valley produce dealer, was slugged over the head with a revolver and robbed of approximately $50 in cash by a group of youthful bandits last' night about 9:30 near his home on Mission road at the west city limits of Red-lands. The robbery-attack followed a wild chase from San Bernardino to Redlands, Benjamin told police and sheriff's deputies, who launched an intensive search for the assailants.

Benjamin said he was driving one of his produce trucks from San Bernardino to his home and four or five youths in a roadster attempted to force him off the Ocean-to-Ocean highway on two or three occasions. Managing to keep ahead of the pursuing car, Benjamin reached his home and started to get out of the truck when the young bandits arrived. Benjamin said that two of the boys approached him and, without warning, one of them struck him over the head with a revolver. The other grabbed Ben jamin's wallet containing between $40 and $50 In currency and a check for $6. PATROL VIOLATORS all Its phases have been explored, including the tabulation of the names and addresses and Vices of business of those who mak a practice of repeatedly evading parking regulations.

It Is the theory of members of the commission that in the interest both of merchants and shoppers, men and women who make their living In the business district should not park on the streets in the business district. The first test of the proposal will be made as soon as the new license plates are in use generally, probably in March. A somewhat similar plan Is in effect in Azusa, and it has been met with general approval In that community, a letter from ths city attorney said. SHOW HOST TD NOTED FIGURES OE CALIFORNIA Traditional Event Opening 1940 Exposition Season Will Be Held at Gassic Building By HOWARD C. HEYN A distinguished list of state, county and civic lead ers, comprising a cross-sec tion of California's official dom, will assemble in San Bernardino tonight for the traditional duck dinner of the National Orange Show.

Approximately 425 guests will be entertained in the cafeteria of the National Orange Show building by executives and directors of the an nual citrus festival. Each year, the Duck dinner marks the approach of the Orange Show. Its program is designed to acquaint representatives from all sections of California with the glamour and magnitude of the forthcoming exposition. DIGNITARIES TO ATTEND The thirtieth presentation of the citrus classic is set for March 14 to 24, inclusive, and the Duck dinner is its prelude. Assembled at the tables in the cafeteria building at 6:45 o'clock will be a score of state officials, including department heads, assemblymen and senators; representatives of the governor's office, ranking army officers, forest service of- ficials, chairmen and members of boards of county supervisors throughout the Southland, mayors and councilmen of many Southern California cities, citrus packing house officials, and presidents and directors of every leading chamber of commerce in the southern counties.

Gov. Culbert L. Olson and E. Patterson -will be able to attend because of the dinner's proximity to the special legislative session, opening Monday. BROWN TOASTMASTER The Orange Show's awards committee, of which John Andreson is chairman, sponsors the Duck dinner, and Chairman Andreson will open the program by introducing Arthur J.

Brown, chairman of the publicity committee, who will serve as toastmasted. Mr. Brown in turn will present John Oakey, president of the thirtieth annual Orange Show, who will welcome the guests. A program of entertainment furnished by the Musio Corporation of America, will be presented after the (Continued on Page Twenty-three) 100-Degree Day In City Cooler Than 82 in Ohio Scientific weather data, how H. is compiled, Its value, and probabilities or error were discussed at yesterday's luncheon meeting of the San Bernardino Klwanis club by Dr.

Ford A. Carpenter, California meteorologist for many years in charge of the Federal Government's Southland activities. Dr. Carpenter told why scientifically the San Bernardino valley has a climate considered one of ths most healthful in the entire nation. He offered picture slides for the members showing how with a 100-degree thermometer reading in San Bernardino the dry thermometer read but 52 giving the apparent effect of the weather as under 60 degrees.

This, he said, was cooler than the weather in an Ohio city at 82 degrees, due to excessive humidity. Official temperatures as high as 135 have been recorded in Death Valley. In speaking of San Bernardino's weather the scientist paid tribute to the late Dr. A. K.

Johnson, who served for 30 years as volunteer observer for the weather bureau, The Johnson records, according to Dr. Carpenter, are among the most complete and accurate possessed by any city. Earth revolutions, the dominance of Pacific ocean weather In California, pressure variations farther north and other scientific factors were discussed as basis for the Southland's climate, Harry T. Smith served as program chairman. Dr.

Claude H. Lashlee, club lieutenant-governor, spoke briefly on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Klwanis which came on Jan. 21. SAVE MONEY USE OUR AUTOMOBILE FINANCING PLAN Low Bank Rates CITIZENS NATIONAL TRUST ft SAVINGS BANK Southeast Corner Third flts. Member Federal Deposit Insurtne Corporation i I Hi 3 1 1 5' 1 1 11 i i i.