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PAGE TWO SAX BERNARDINO DAILY SUN. TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1928 Flood Relipf Toilers Pchirp in Midst of Work and Pan Homage to Deki 14 BODIES ARE BURIED UNDER PALMS' SHADE Rabbi, Priest and Protestant Ministers All Join Hands In Memorial Services ONE LOSES 12 IN FAMILY Lone Suvivor Sees Four of His Flock in Caskets but Others Find Unmarked Craves (Fr Associated Press LOS ANGELES. March 19. Toil ers reconstructing the broken homes and blasted ranches of the Santa Clara river valley at Santa Paula today paused In their grief-laden work long enough to pay saddened homage to their dead victims Tood waters and hurling debris which crashed down upon them in the dark midnight hours of last Tuesday morning from the burst St Francis dam. Under the shade of two palm trees.

In the hillside Santa Paula cemetery which looks out upon the debris and silt-strew valley, the bodies of 14 were laid away under piles of flowers which the disaster survivors had heaped upon their caskets. The funeral services were held for these few of the 272 bodies now recovered, but was a memorial Ken-ice to all those who were swept into oblivion. Fifteen hundred persons from all walks of life, and from every section of the 65-mile long valley gathered at the simple services. In limousines, by horse and wagon, on mud-begrimmed trucks, and on foot, the mourners silently treked to the cemetery. Virtually every flower of the valley, from hothouse triumphs to the wild blossoms the dead bad known and loved on their nearby hillsides, decked the 14 caskets.

All Religions In Funeral Service A Catholic priest In the robes of the Franciscan Fathers, a Salva tion Army lassie, a rabbi, several Protestant pastors, and a represen tative of Almee Semple McPher son's evangelist church, joined in conducting the services. Jesus Peret, the one survivor of his family of 13, cried unashamed throughout the service. Four of hia flock were In the flower covered caskets before him. The others are buried, no one knows where, beneath the debris and silt of the flood devastation. An airplane, which ceaselessly had flown the length and breadth of the valley to search out torn bodies, appeared overhead, silenced its motor and dropped a bouquet.

Another funeral for three members of one family who lived on a ranch above Kewhall waa held at Garden, a Los Angeles suburb, this afternoon. More funerals will be held during the week over the bodies of additional victims. Leave Requested By Mulholland The Los Angeles bureau water and power this afternoon received and refused the request for an Indefinite leave of absence of William Mulholland, Its chief engineer under whom the St Francis dam was built His request said: I "If my presence is in any way an impediment in the path of the board or any other agency engaged in Investigation of the St. Francis dam disaster, I wish at this time to I auk an Indefinite leave of absence." In refusing the request, the bureau voted a resolution of renewed confidence In the engineer, asking him to "remain on the Job he has so faithfully filled for half a century." The city today appropriated which had been traniferred to the city treasury from the harbor commissioner's revenues, for the rebuilding nf the devastated area. A large cltltens committee is to be appointed to cooperate with the city attorney and Ventura county authorities to direct rapid and efficient use of the fund on necessary rehabilitation work.

Appropriate Fund For Rapair Work Another appropriation of $90,000 waa made by the Loa Angeles county supervisors to reconstruct roads, bridges and highways 1n the area at once. Over half of it was net aside for the removal of debris, and the balance for repairing 13 bridges and roads. The city and power commiion-rrs ordered the dispatch of guards to maintain 24 hours watch over all city reservoir dams and strategic points along the 250-mlle aqueduct water system, of which the St. Francla dam was a part. The move was termed as In preparation for any contingency, and to protect the city's water supply.

Several hundred guards will be employed to itand eight-hour watches. The dama be guarded Include the Mulholland dam behind the city of Hollywood, the San Fernando valley res ervoirs, and the Haiwee dam. In Dwens valley, which la the largest reservoir of the system. The official Investigating board lamed by Gov. C.

C. Young began Inquiry today, bringing to four number of inventigations being nade into the cause of the great Girl Reporter Finds Gangsters Aloof, Underworld Barons Go In for Culture Chicago Isn't Wicked City of Film Fame, Investigator Says Rv BOMiTA WITT rp HICAGO. March 10. It isn't difficult to find persons who tell thrilling stories of gang warfare in Chicago, but when It comes to actually meeting one of the notorious bad men that's a different matter. Here's what a girl reporter, Miss lone Quln-by, who has "covered" Chicago for five years, lias to say on the subject: "The gangsters of Chlcago'a celebrated underworld are more exclusive than European royalty or New York's four hundred.

It Is more difficult to meet the czars of Chicago's bootlegging principalities than It is to engage royalty in conversation. No Machine Guns Unlm "Visitors to Chicago who expect to see gangsters in action with their machine guns are doomed to disappointment, for these men of drastic tactics are not Interested in individuals not connected with other liquor gangs encroaching on their so-called territories. The average person is as safe as a babe in arms as far as gangsters and gunmen are concerned. Here and there citizens are robbed, slugged or shot in Chicago. Just as they are in other cities, but this is done by bandits who haven't any connection with the gangsters, whose warfare seems to have struck terror into the hearts of readers throughout the country.

I nave attended gana- weddings and funerals, but I've never seen a machine gun. Gangland's most gorgeous wedding waa that of one of the Genna brothers to Lillian Spin-gola. daughter of a wealthy Italian olive merchant. (The remaining Genna brother never has been con nected with a gang). The enormous cake waa made to resemble cathedral.

"Soon after the hon evmoon bridegroom was 'taken for a ride and in the months that many of the guests 'took a last ride' at the request of a rival gang tonng laaen ior a ride" means a forced trip in an auto and then a noay along a roadside. Like to Attend First Nights I have sat next to these alleged gangsters at first nights at the theaters. They have been faultlessly dressed, accompanied by wives or sweethearts, bent on absorbing ciass ana This, however. was before the order went out 'to pick em up on Bight' ith other reporters. I attended first victim of the gang feud which later was to give Chicago a worldwide reputation for gang crime.

O'Banion was burled In a $10,000 casket and 20 cars filled with flow ers preceded him to the cemetery. politicians mingled with gun men at the ceremonies. Everv bad man' in town was said to be at the grave and reporters asked editors please not to sign their names to stories about the funeral. Photographers, who hid In trees to get pictures, had their cameras smashed as they were held at bay with guns. Some of the girl re porters wore black veils so they would be identified as mourners rather than as sob sisters.

"Some of the so-called czars, however, that I have met wouldn't strike terror into anyone's heart. I fully believe they don't want any are those of Los Angeles county, district attorneys, Ventura county, and the Los Angeles bureau of water and power. The Federal investigation is scheduled to start tomorrow, with the arrival here of Dr. El wood Mead, chief of the Government reclamation sen-Ice. Reports to the coroner at the Inquest scheduled to be hold Wednesday will be made by engineers and geologists employed by the district attorney.

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the funeral of Dean O'Banion. who ni Treatment waa shot down in his flower shop. Not By Gangsters 7 rrri 1 ll "I've never been treated as rudely by the underworld as I waa by officials on the special train which took Queen Marie of Rumania on a tour of the steel mills. On that story I lost a shoe, pocketbook and umbrella, but stayed on the train, unlike Lole Fuller and Sam Hill, because a fellow reporter came to my rescue as I hung to the side 7 I R. "IE VVt'" WfiWii'WKt bemad iff.

ill REP Miss lone Quinby, Chicago girl reporter, top. Al Capone, underworld "czar," and, below, Tim Murphy, former mail bandit. more battles. Take Al Caponj, king of Cicero, who goes south in the winter, plays golf, likes society and theater first nights. He says he's tired of warfare with rival business com pet Iters and desires to en-Joy cultural things.

"Tim Murphy, who served a. sentence for mail robber', and was mentioned as Capone'a manager a while ago, ia the last person in the world I would be afraid of. He has an intriguing Irish smile, open pocket book and a magnetism that wins him a lot of friends. "'Mike de Pike' Heltler, one of rail with my knees on the second step." Poes this sound like the Chicago we've read about In the papers, und seen on the stage and at the movies? No. One desires to pry deeper.

(Another Dispatch Tomorrow) Woman Claims Theft Of Scenario as Base For Pickford Action (By AsociHtd Press) LOS ANGELES. March 19. Mary Pickford, firm actress, Kathleen Norris and Mary Pickford Pioduc-tions, were made defendants In a $25,000 damage suit filed here today by Corinne M. Swenson charging the plot of a scenario written by h-r was appropriated for the picture "My Beat Girl." Miss Swenson's suit alleges she wrote a scenario entitled "Maggy Murpby from Cork," and showed the scenario to Miss Pickford, who refused It. Later, the suit declares, the scenario appeared under the title "My Best Girl." featuring Miss Pickford with Kathleen Norris as the scenarist.

Read the Classified. COMPANION OF HICKMAN TOLD IF II i Chicago. Fl 1 'Of Course He Did It' Is Hunt's Answer When Informed That 'Fox Admitted Murder (By Associated Press) SAN QUENTIN, March 19. When Welby Hunt was told today that William Edward Hickman had ndmltted murdering C. Ivy Toms, Rosehill, California, druggist, absolving Hunt, the latter said: "Of course he did it.

He knows it and I know It." Hunt and Hickman were brought here Saturday from Los Angeles. Hickman, convicted of the kidnaping and murder of 12-year-old Marian Parker, for which he is under sentence, was convicted Jointly with Hunt, for the murder of Toms during a holdup in 1926. Hickman, according to his guards, confessed en route from Los Angeles, to the Toms killing. Hunt did not know It until told today. With reference to his claim for a part of the reward for the cap ture and conviction of Hickman In the Parker case, Hunt said hia claim had not been filed Jersonally, but was filed for him by A.

Gray Gilmer, Oklahoma City attorney, claim the reward, or a share of it, because I was the first to sua pect Hickman and to report my su spicions," Hunt said. "The Parker girl waa kidnaped on Thursday, Dec. 13. On Saturday night the girl's body was returned and the hunt started for the murderer. at once suspected Hickman and when I read on the following Mon day the descriptions of the suspect, I wired my mother in Kansas City asking if Hickman was there.

had known Hickman in Kansas City and elsewhere in the Middle West. My mother wired back that Hickman was supposed to be 1n "Then I went to W. H. Rappold, chief clerk In the bank where Parker (Perry M. Parker), father of Marian Parker (the kidnaped girl), worked, and told him Hick man was the naan he wanted.

Hickman and I worked In the band." Hoover Presidential Petitions Filed for State Verification By Associated Frees) SAN FRANCISCO, March 19. Hoover presidential primary peti tions were filed for verification today with registrars in six California cities, completing, the last step necessary to place the name of the secretary of commerce before the Republican voters in the May primary. In San Francisco 5,000 names were on the petitions. In Los Angeles. 5.000; Oakland, Fresno, Stockton and Sacramento, 500 each.

The total for the state was 12,500 names. The petitions required only 4,075 names. After the petitions are verified they will be filed with the secretary of state. England's birth rate for 1927 Is the lowest ever recorded there. ORB A rep: LY 7 350,000 Persons in U.S.

Living by Crime, Claims Veteran Criminal Judge Defends Death Penalty and Recommends Lash as Restraint to Law-Breakers (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, March If). Thirty- three yeara on the bench have con vinced Judge Kavanaugh of two things: 1. That there are 350,000 persons In the United States who live part ly or wholly by crime, who com mitted 12,000 murders last year, and who obtained Illegally In the same period enough money to pay for the building of the Panama canal. 2. That there are "simple methods of relief available, it only the public would Insist upon their adoption.

Judge Kanavanaugh, who sits on the superior court bench, has based his opinions not only upon his long experience but upon three years of intensive study of the crime situation. His conclusions are presented in "The Criminal and His Allies," a book now on the presses. Many Agencies Of Law Blamed Many agencies of law are blamed by Judge Kavanaugh for the American conditions he pictures governors, legislators, prosecuting attorneys, police, and the supreme court. Chief responsibility, however, he attaches to the public fpr Indifference. A country, he declares, earns the crime it suffers.

"Public apathy," "quibbling courts of review," "antiquated legal processes," and "new processes designed to protect the criminal rather than the public," are some of his criticisms. He defends the death penalty and encourages the use of the lash in these words: "No underworld lord can retain $50,000 Demanded by Victim of Shanghai (Bv Associated Tress) LOS ANGELES. March 19. A li bel action asking $50,000 damages and charging that Thomas O'Brien was shanghaied several months ago aboard the shipping board steamer West Nlvaria, then operated by Swas-ne A Hoyt, was filed In Fed eral court here today by O'Brien against the ship. The action follows a similar case filed six months ago by Stephen Rless, another member of the ship's crew.

According, to the suits O'Brien and Rless went aboard the West Nivarla to ship out as seamen but finding the food poor and condi tions unfavorable, they declined to sign articles. They declared Capt. Harry Krog refuaed to set them ashore but set sail for New MAKES ALGIERS CALJ. PARIS. March 19.

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S. Fries Tonight, 7:30 o'clock In reply to a Sermon the Sabbath Question Bible Answers to the Following Questions Will Be Given: "Did Christ put an 'end' to the moral law? "Does the 'Book of Acts' teach Sunday-keeping or Sabbath-keeping? "Is the Lord's day the First Day of the week? "If the Fourth Commandment is abolished did Christ give a new law commanding Sunday-keeping?" We Ask Some Questions If the Ten Commandments are abolished, as some preachers say, why do they still teach them to their children in their Sunday School? GOD DECLARES "THY LAW IS TRUTH." Ps. 119:142. Does truth ever change? Whoever saw arevised edition of the Ten Commandments saying "The first day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God?" 7 the respect of hia followers after he haa winced under the pain of a whipping. The eat-o-nlne-tails Is feared more by the moron and rack' eteer than a Jail sentence." Judge Kavanaugh, who sits on dy for delays occasioned by trial technicalities.

A statute of 18 words he believes, would aid greatly. "All laws and rules of courts," he writes "concerning forms, practice and procedure, shall be directory only, and not mandatory." Claims Alienists 'Pamper' Criminal Employment of alienists in modern criminal procedure, Judge Kav- anaugh holds, Is "another Instance of pampering the lawbreaker." The Jurist suggested that If Socrates had been given a trial before an English-speaking Jury and been de fended by a modern lawyer, using an insanity defense, "he need never have drunk the hemlock." Ruth Snyder's slaying of her hus band Is cited by Judge Kavanaugh in defense of his statement that the female criminal is more to be feared than the male. He says: No man can be as good aa a good No man can be as bad as a bad woman. A woman is always more hurt by her fall than Is a man by his fall, for the reason that a man only drops from the first story window, while a woman tumbles from tfte roof." The Sacco-Vanzetti case ia men tloned as an example of how Judge Kavanaugh believes the present court system delays justice which, he holds, should be prompt to be most effective as a deterrent. Fog Causes Pacific Electric Collision (By Associated Press) LOS ANGELES.

March 19. Low haninnif fog which blotted out a signal on a two-way high speed track was given by Investigating officials of the Pacific Electric railway as the cause of a head-on collision of two trains on the Van Nuys line today, resulting in the death of one man and the minor injury of several other persons. Pacific Electric officials said the inbound train had the right of way and the signal was set to show it. The fog, however, prevented a view of the signal and the outbound train sped past It. The two trains, each carrying a heavy load pas sengers, met head-on.

The impact threw passengers down the aisles and shattered glass cut many persons. H. C. Porter, motorman of the outbound train, received Injuries which later caused his death. The other Injured, al though some received broken limbs and severe cuts and bruises, will re cover, physicians said.

Head the Classified. .1 worn by the elite at lieatiYille A MM mW FUNERAL RITE! ARE HELD Ft FLOOD Ml Services Conducted in Barm "Cz echo Died in Dam Disaster (Special to Tht Sun) BANNING, March 19. Fun-; services were conducted this at noon at Banning for the late Ham Y. Welnland; his wife, Kalar Welnland; their eon, Llo Mrs. Olive Kalar Imus, slater Mrs.

Welnland; infant son. five tlms of the Ventura county fl who were former nsldcnU of I erslde county. Despite the fact that the bot of Mrs. Welnland and Lloyd not yet been recovered, the mei rial service was held. William Y.

Welnland was a of the Rev. and Mrs. W. H. r.

land of Banning, long-tlm- I'B UCI1L9 Ul 11113 UI Iftu AUiuaii vation where they were Monrav missionaries. He waa on night as engineer at a power houae a and a half below the ill-fated Francis dam at the time of the aster. His wife and slster-ln-1 and the two children were rw away with their home in the fli waters. Both Mrs. Welnland and 11 Imus were residents of Banning number of years, their father, L.

Kalar, having been a rancl here. He Is now a resident of Bernardino with the one remain; daughter, Mabel. A ron, Paul, victim of accidental death ia zona several years ago. Negro Janitor Held As Teacher Slay (By Associated Press.) PATERSON, N. J- March 19.

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