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SAN BERNARDINO DAILY SUN, TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 28, 1939 Wife of President Volunteers to Appear Before Dies Investigation BEERY ADOPTS SECOND DAUGHTER DEWEY fill ID SPEAK UPON PUBLIC ISSUES CHOSEN FOR IMMORTALITY TEST PAGE TWO TEXAN TAKES OFFER'UNDER Mrs. Koosevelt days rrobers Never Asked for Comment On Communist Charge (By United Press) WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. Mrs, Franklin D.

Roosevelt volunteered today to appear before the House committee on un-American activi ties and Chairman Martin Dies indicated he might accept the offer. Mrs. Roosevelt coupled her offer, made at her press conference, with a charge that the committee never had asked" her for comment statements about ber interest in the American Youth congress, which she denies is Communist controlled, in contradiction of testimony be fore the committee. Kenneth S. Goff, Delavan, salesman and witness before the committee, accused Mrs.

Roosevelt last summer of entertaining Communists at the White House after she gave a tea there. LIKELY TO APPEAR Dies said he would take her proposal "under advisement" and that it was likely that both she and Alfred M. Lilienthal of New York, vice-chairman of the Provisional Committee for American Youth would be given an opportunity to air their apparently conflicting views regarding the reported domination of the youth congress by Moscow. Three other members of the Dies committee, Representatives Jerry Voorhis, California Democrat; Joseph Starnes, Alabama Democrat, and Noah M. Mason, Illinois Republican, indicated they would welcome the first lady's testimony.

The committee held its first hearings today on the alleged infiltration of communism into the American educational system. Major Hampden Wilson of the veterans' administration said his eight-month study of 50 educational institutions in 42 states convinced him that the American Students union, an A.Y.C. affiliate, is a tool of the Soviet Un ion. 'INTEREST OF TRUTH' Mrs. Roosevelt said she "would answer anybody's questions in the interest of truth." "I would be glad to give any in formation of value before anybody who desires it," she added.

Her offer came after she was in- formed that Lilienthal had suggest ed they both testify. When the Goff accusation was made the President's wife dismissed It with the assertion that it was not her habit to inquire into the political beliefs of guests at the executive mansion. She said today that she did not care to be placed "in opposition" to Lilienthal, whose own organization has withdrawn from the A.Y.C., but nevertheless is willing to answer "any" questions "anybody" cares to ask. MENACE TO PEACE The public, she added, should study recommendations advanced by the American Youth commission, headed by Owen D. Young, for making available employment and medical care to unemployed youth.

Widespread unemployment, whether it involves young or old, is a menace to peace, she said. Wilson, onetime headmaster at Cluster Springs academy; Cluster Springs, said that the American Students union is a secretive organization sponsored by "red, pink, or so-called liberal" professors. In an unidentified state university with an enrollment of 12,000, he continued, efforts to establish a reserve officers training corps unit were defeated by the opposition of one of the professors who is "a mother of a well-known Commu- fXxm HET Vv r.v-SrK"" QUILLEN 1 curred in the Russian side of the frontier but no inimical act was di rected against the Soviet Union by Finnish forces." The denial was supported by a log of Finnish frontier guards on the Karelian isthmus, about 22 miles north of Leningrad. The log, said to have been made before the frontier guards knew of the Soviet allegations, reported seven shots and a number of grenade explosions on the Russian side of the border shortly after 3 p.m. Sunday.

The Soviet allegation said that Finnish artillery fired seven shells at about that time. The frontier guards' log listed the exact times and distances of the shots from the Russian side, based on calculations from the speed of sound waves. The shots were said to have occurred about 800 yards across the frontier. Meantime, orders went out to the Finnish armed forces to maintain calm even in the face of the most gross provocations. "It wasn't bein' a Sunday school teacher that made Joe steal from the bank.

It was bein' a thief that made him teach Sunday school to it." I nied by another unidentified German warship, fled under cover of darkness. Of the approximate 300 officers and men aboard the Rawalpindi which was on contraband patrol in the North Atlantic, 30 men were taken aboard the Deutschland and 11 others the only survivors were taken from the stormy water by the British cruiser. The Rawalpindi went down a virtual blazing funeral Pyre for most of her men young Eritish naval reservists in their 'teens for the most part after they had waged a dramatic battle against futile odds. The battle at sea marked the first authentic news of the sea-roving Deutschland since Oct. 9 when she captured the American freighter City of Flint in the Atlantic.

The admiralty's statement tonight said it was 3:40 p.m. last Thursday when the Rawalpindi was Is off Iceland that Captain 1 flaw a warship approach ed his glass, then an- itschland, all right." id ship appeared on nd the Deutschland Rawalpindi to stop, yarning shot across Rawalpindi's cap- cleared the decks CLi'H VICTORY 'here came a salvo ic'rjand's powerful 11- ii -O'0 yards range. The 'U-t'! with her four guna. Another fin ft i third came from 1 rh)Dlinsr the Raw. 'V 'i destroying the I I' (.

4 1 Si V. 1 ery' I -h j. pessary to bring (-a -1 iik. i and the other up "a in on the crin- Vuig! ught mm hn Vi until ev iction and 1 Phyllis Anne Beery, seven months old, the second of the children Wallace Beery of the films has adopt' ed, posed for her first picture with Beery and her new sister, Carol Anne Beery, 8, at Hollywood. Beery indicated he intended adopting more as the present two grew older.

FINLAND TURNS DOWN DEMAND (Continued from Page One) ferred to an already established Finnish-Soviet commission on frontier affairs for settlement. Finland's answer, transmitted to Moscow, denied that Finnish artil lery had opened fire on Red army troops along the Karelian isthmus frontier Sunday and killed or wounded 13 officers and men. "It may be that an accident oc Conservatives Draft Plan to Slice Budget (Continued from Page One) 523 for the army, navy and marine corps. A large part of this defi ciency resulted from the expansion of the three services ordered by the President under his proclamation of a limited emergency. Any suggestion pointed toward raising the statutory deDt limit would find virtually no support among this group, if substantial economies are made at the next session, they will originate in tne appropriations committee.

'ECONOMY IMPOSSIBLE' Representative John Taber, New York Republican, ranking minority member of, the committee, today scoffed at reports that the President was blue-penciling departmen tal appropriations and that there was a possibility the budget might be cut, below $9,000,000,000. "Economy in this administration!" he exclaimed. "Impossible! If sav ings are made and I hope they will they'll come from our committee. Republicans will try to stop the racketeering in Federal spending just as we have tried in the past." He said substantial savings could be made from: A cut in the civilian conservation corps. Repeal of the national labor relations act to "give business and workers a chance to work." Sharp reductions in the appropri the whole ship was ablaze except for the forecastle and the poop," the admiralty said on the basis of the stories of the few survivors of the tragedy.

At 4:25 p.m. the battle ended, with the Rawalpindi sinking in flames. THREE BOATS LEFT Three lifeboats, the only ones which remained unshattered, were lowered. In two of the lifeboats were 30 men, the ones picked up either by the Deutschland or the other Nazi ship as prisoners. The 11 others In the third water-logged lifebcat were picked up by the armed cruiser Chitral another P.

O. liner chartered and armed by the British navy and probably would have been taken prisoners if the British cruiser had not approached. The Rawalpindi, blazing amidships, turned turtle arid foundered "with all remaining hands" about 8 p.m. ESCAPE IN NIGHT The British cruiser attempted to pursue the German ships, its radio crackling calle, for aid, but the Nazi warships "escaped in a sudden, heavy rainstorm and the darkness of night. "A search for the two enemy warships is continuing in tempestuous weather, both by night and the brief hours of daylight." Some Britijh naval experts said tonight that, now that the approximate location of the Deutschland's wanderings has been discovered, there is prospec of a great naval battle because the British are determined to run down the sea terror.

STEAMER SUNK The other major victim of the war at sea today was the British stean.er Royston Grange, which was torpedoed and sunk by a U-boat in the Atlantic, The crew of 36 i saved. Other slnklngj which occurred today or were disclosed belatedly included: The British tanker James J. Ma- ation for the Tennessee valley Horizental cuts in appropriations for all emergency New Deal agen cies. Repeal of the farm security act. Reduction of the interior depart ment appropriation to prevent ad ditional land from being placed into unnecessary cultivation.

Elimination of "racketeering in relief to save a minimum of WOODRUM CHEERED Curtailment of publicity of the various Government departments and curbing police sur veillance by these bureaus wnicn "is worse than in the old czarist days in Russia." More hopeful than Taber of possible economies was Representative Clifton A. Woodrum, Virginia Democrat, chairman of the subcommit tee. He led the economy drive that fizzled at the last session, and is prepared to carry on the fight again. He was cheered by reports emanating from Warm Springs, where the President is vacationing, that ordinary Government expenses would be cut in anticipation of a bulge in national defense spending. "That is one of the brightest notes that has been struck lor a long time," Woodrum said.

"I believe Congress will go along with such a program. Congress is ready to cut. Bloody, Flaming Qerman Victory Over British Warship Revealed (Continued from Page One) guire, 10,525 tons, sunk off the east coast of England last week. The German Borkum of the North German Lloyd line, beached after being attacked and set afire by a German submarine while in the hands of a British prize crew enroute to a harbor. Four Germar sailors were killed but there were no British casualties.

MINE HITS TRAWLER The German trawler Northbound, 300 tons, sunk by a mine off Lange-land island, Denmark, in the same place that a German mine layer Went down Saturday with a loss of 12 lives. Fate of the Northbound's 10 crew members was not learned. The British steamer Stangate beached after a collision off the southeast English coarst during a storm. The crew was reported safe. The 171-ton French trawler Si-mone Michel sunk near the entrance of the Somme river, France.

Two of the 12 crew members were drowned. Cause of the sinking was not learned. The British admiralty announced that a British warship had captured the German freighter Konsul Hendrik Flsser and taken it to port. WOMAN VICTIM The woman victim in the Spaatn-dam disaster was identified by a member of the crew as Mrs. Fred-rika Gobel Stcffcns, a Dutch citizen who boarded1 the vessel at New Orleans to return to Rotterdam after visiting a son-in-law in Mexico.

A steward, Ynze de Boer, 18, made a futile effort to save Mrs. Steffens after they were washed from a lifeboat by heavy seas. "Mrs. Steffens was two yards away crying out," De Boer said. "I caught hold of her and tried to keep her head above water, but she struggled and eventually was swept away.

The only thing I could do was to get back to the boat." The Spaarndam, 8,857 tons, had left New Orleans Sept. 22, sailed to South America and from there had arrived at the Downs Nov. 10. His New York 'Friends' Soon Open Headquarters and Make Campaign Official By RICHARD L. TURNER (Associated Press Writer) WASHINGTON, Nov.

27. E. Dewey, the spectacular young New York gang buster, apparently is ready for a new chapter in his political career a public presentation of his views on national issues, the platform on which his presidential candidacy will rest. Unusual among presidential pros pects, he has managed to date to obtain and hold a leading position in the Republican nomination sweepstakes without having committed himself on such questions, beyond a few generalized statements. His boom has rested instead upon two other factors: his national reputation as a successful public pros ecutor with the aura of romance and danger that surrounds such figure, and his demonstrated ability to get votes in the highly important state of New York.

THOSE 47 VOTES Now, New York has 47 votes in the electoral college, one more than the combined electoral ballots of the 13 least populous states. On election day, the 47 go as a unit to the man who can command a ma jority in New York. So, to poli ticians who take a practical view of things and want a winner first of all, any candidate with a reasonable chance of carrying New York and thereby gathering in nearly a tenth of the electoral college at one sweep must be given serious consideration, In running for governor of New York in 1938, Dewey gave certain clues to his opinions on national is sues, but did not go into great de tail. He favored the objectives of social security and laws for high la bor standards. He seemed to en dorse certain New Deal purposes and object to New Deal methods, 'FRIENDS' READY "The Federal administration has too often fumbled near the goal," was one of his sentences.

Now, word fromNew York is that his "friends," a powerful group of New York party organization lead ers, are ready to establish Dewey headquarters and make his cam paign official. On Dec, 6 he is to make the first of a series of speeches that will take him to sev eral sections of the country. It will be in Minnesota and its political character is irtdicated by the fact that he is to speak under the aus pices of the Republican state cen tral committee. These appearances will give him an opportunity to elaborate on his previous utterances, convert gen eralities into specific statements, and in a word construct his plat form, plank by plank. The Repub lican national executive committee expects to do some platform-making of a preliminary nature when it meets here on Dec.

7. Many will be curious to make comparisons. HANDICAP AND ASSET Dewey's lack of a record on public questions is, at this stage of his career, both a handicap and an as set. It bothers Republican voters who impartially condemn "extreme New Dealism" and the "reactionary attitude of some of the past lead ers of the Republican party. They want to see just which way Dewey is jumping.

But it is advantageous, too, to have no past record. Many a politician has wished he had none. Dewey's "past" apparently lies in the immediate future. He is in a position to make his record as he sees fit. Gannett Tosses His Hat in Ring (By Associated Tress) SPOKANE, Nov.

27. Frank Gannett opened his western tour here today with what mem bers of his party called "virtual declaration" of candidacy for the Republican nomination for Presi dent. He followed that up by out lining what he believes will be the principle issues in 1940. The Rochester, N. publisher and chairman of the National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government, told more than 400 who gathered to hear him at a Pro-America luncheon that the nation's greatest crisis "since Lincoln's time" lay In keeping the country out of war.

Earlier, at a press conference, he put himself in the light of a presidential possibility with a prepared statement saying "No American would decline the nomination (for President) if it were offered to him." Plane Firm Employe Sentenced in Killing I (By Associated Tress) LONG BEACH, Nov. 27. Fred H. Little, 46, aviation company employe, was sentenced to prison for five years to life today after pleading guilty to second degree murder In the slaying of Mrs, Mamlo Lcona Moore, 43. Mrs.

Moore's body was found last September in Bixby park. It bore three bullet wounds. 4 Members of the Royal Fraternity of Master Metaphysicians admire Baby Jean (above), five months old, whom they selected for an experiment which they believe may maka the baby immortal. Baby Jean, daughter of indigent parents, will be provided an environment, In the Vanderbilt mansion at Oakdale, N. free of word or thought of death or disease in her quest for immortality.

Shown above (left to right) are fraternity members In the mansion: Eleanor Shehr, Charlotte Schmidt and Louise Kerfs. I OAKLAND PORT TIEUP BROKEN (Continued from Page One) to return to work pending settle' ment of the "hot" pears dispute, without loss of civil service status as registered warehousemen. Eugene Roland, acting president of the commission, said the com mission would agree to this, and would reinstate the warehousemen who walked out Nov, 14 "as of that date" so that their status would riot be impaired. However, he said the port, under the city charter, could pay the men only for days actually worked. Both sides agreed that the "hot" pears dispute, over whether fruit from a struck San Jose warehouse would be loaded directly from car to ship, or would be routed through the warehouses, be submitted to settlement by regular arbitration machinery operating under the in formal agreement now in force be tween the port and the unions.

Roland agreed to confirm a port pol icy of operating under "existing practices" on the waterfront in a letter. The commission has insisted it cannot make a formal con tract under terms of the charter. Business and union observers, who rejoiced at achievement of the agreement, expressed misgivings informally, however, over how fully the Oakland piers would be in op eration, after cargo now in the warehouses was shipped, since San Francisco waterfront employers naturally would not welcome a situation in which ships ordinarily berthed at piers now tied up could be worked in Oakland. Neither employers or union spokesmen would be quoted on this question; though some discussed it 'off the record" to newsmen. Hollywood Promoter Acquitted of Theft (By Associated Press) LOS ANGELES, Nov.

jury acquitted Frederick Falkin, 40, Hol lywood promoter and actor's agent, today of charges of grand theft of $15,000 from Mrs. Evelyn Byrd Christian, a cousin of Rear Admiral Richard Byrd. Mrs. Christian testified she gave the money to Falkin to invest for her after he proposed marriage. He, however, produced evidence intend ed to show she advanced him money as a personal loan and that he had lost it on the stock market.

Father Keeps Barefoot Boy, Objection Hit (By United Press) LOS ANGELES, Nov. 27. Judge Clement L. Shinn settled the ques tion of the barefoot boy today in ruling a father was not neglecting his duty in allowing his son to take off his shoes. "I have the fondest memories of the thrill of feeling the cool grass between my toes when my parents permitted myself and brothers to doff our shoes at the first sign of summer," Judge Shinn commented The court directed that Howard Chillenhouser could retain custody of his 10-year-old son, Eugene, Mrs, Theba Chillenhouser, divorced from the father, sought custody of the boy on grounds he was allowed "to go about in a slovenly state of semi-nudity to the detriment of his health and well-being." The mother emphasized the boy went barefoot and played with his shirttail hanging out.

Once, she said, he stubbed his toe on a rock, injuring it badly. The court said: "A stubbed toe is the risk a small boy takes when he goes barefoot, but at the age of 10 a boy should have responsibility to shoulder the risk." But in ruling that the father would retain custody of the son, Judge Shinn suggested that he en courage the boy to keep his shirt inside his trousers. Child Shooting Held Accidental (Bv Associated Press) LYNWOOD, Cal Nov. 27. The fatal shooting of Arthur Ray Wil son, 9, was held by a coroner's jury today to have been accidental.

The ury recommended, however, that 'further investigation by proper au thorities" be made. Colleen Linton, 13, who, Police Lieut. Paul W. Kerr said, admitted the shooting, sobbed fr6m the witness stand that "I don't want to tell about it." She was excused. John Tompson, 11, testified Colleen was forced to remain in the house until she had washed the dishes and made the beds.

"We all pitched in to help her," John testified. "Colleen got into an argument with Arthur Ray about the way he made a bed. We were all laughing. Colleen went in and got the gun. That is how it JOBLESS YELL FOR CITY HELP (By Associated Press) CLEVELAND, Nov.

27. A thousand shouting unemployed persons stormed a city council meeting tonight and asserted they would ob- tain food "on our own authority" unless the city takes immediate steps to restore recently curtailed relief services. "That is anarchy," sharply retorted Mayor Harold H. Burton. The group's demand was voiced by C.

B. Cowan, head of an association of unemployed Clevelanders. He did not elaborate. "It must not be permitted inrf America and will not be permitted I in Cleveland," Burton said. "Wah hn.VA hppn TVinoHno.

ha relief ifn i ation and we will meet it." "If it is necessary to destroy the city's services, that will be done. Relief comes ahead of every obligation." Earlier, Burton had denied a charge made at Columbus that certain large Ohio cities "made no sin cere effort" to raise funds locally lor relief operations. Kuhn Belittled By His Attorney (Continued from Page One) ary to the auburn-haired prosecutor, Herman J. McCarthy, whom he described as "perhaps the handsomest man in New York City," hinting strongly that the prosecutor's manly beauty had some con siderable influence on the willing ness of Mrs. Florence (My Golden Angel) Camp to testify against her one-time suitor.

McCarthy will make his final ar gument tomorrow and after Judge James G. Wallace has charged the jury it is expected to retire before nightfall and deliberate the fate of Kuhn, who is liable to as many as 22 years' imprisonment if convicted. In the course of Sabbatino's im passioned argument Kuhn heard himself compared, as an extra marital romantic, to Napoleon, Ju lius Caesar and Marc Antony and, as a victim of prejudiced prosecu tion, to ureyius, wno was a jew. Lest the jurors hold some notion that Kuhn would emerge from acquittal as a heroic figure, Sabba- tino assured them that the pub licity given his broken-English love letters to Mrs. Camp had made him so "ridiculous that he was no longer "effective." Two Men and Doodlebug Start Hunt For Riches in Hollywood Bowl Lot (By United Press) HOLLYWOOD, Nov.

27. Per spiring in the sun, Henry Jones, Bakersficld garage owner, and as sistant swung picks into the hard crust of the Hollywood bowl park ing lot today, hoping to dig up a burled treasure. Jones insisted he wasn't looking for any ordinary treasure. Down under the ground where he shoveled away the dirt, ho said his electric "doodlebug" reacted to a cache of Jewels, gold and gild and silver tho treasure of Benito Juarez. The doodlebug led Jones to the center of tho parking lot and about 100 yards off the highway down Ca-huenga pass.

Ho marked off a spot six feet square and started digging. Jones, an oil and mining expert, snickered at the suggestion of a "curse" on the treasure. "Legend has it that eight men met violent deaths because of their connection with Juarez' money," he said. "But we're going right ahead here." The county board of supervisors agreed that he had "something" and signed a modern-day contract for a 50-50 split of the loot, if any. Originally, Jones had two partners to help in the search.

They decided it was too risky and withdrew when one of them became 111. Now only Ray Johnson is his assistant. Johnson, a movio stunt man, looked out of the hole he was digging with Jones, and said he just doesn't bother about curses. Down about 15 or 20 feet the hunters said they believed they would find tho treasure, reputedly worth $200,000. The Btory of the treasure was unearthed from hearsay and a care ful study of early California histor- ical documents.

Accumulated in Mexico to purchase arms and muni tions for the patriot army of Juar ez who ousted Emperor Maximilian from the throne, the treasure was brought to San Francisco by Gen, Placldo Vega and a comrade. The; burled it while negotiating for Bup plies. A sheepherdcr saw them cache th funds, stole it, and headed south for' Mexico. Vega and his friends, according Drdlngt to the legend, suspected each of treachery and were killed fight. The sheepherder, in tur came fearful of pursuit and burled1 the treasure in Cahucnga pass, and then met a violent death.

Five oth-; er men died In the hunt, the story says. Jonei and his doodlebug plcke. the tiail up from there. I other! in al f. be-f 1.