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PAGE FOUR New Deal Ready FIRST DRASTIC STEP IN WIDE CHANGE NEAR Many Stations, Freight Yards, Repair Shops Cut Out in Eastman's First Order By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN (United Press Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. The New Deal tonight prepared the first drastic orders in a national railroad consolidation program designed to simplify the country's entire transportation system and save the carriers hundreds of millions of dollars. Announcing that he was tired of urging the railways to take the initiative, only to be ignored, Federal Transportation Coordinator Joseph B.

Eastman said he would order terminal consolidations within a few weeks in 11 cities. The orders will mean abandonment of numerous passenger stations, freight yards and repair shops. Thereafter, he indicated, will come Kn avalanche of orders for other similar consolidations and perhaps unification of whole railroads if his plan reaches full fruition. SAVE $50,003,000 Eastman said he had surveyed 8,000 separate terminals, where consolidations could be made profitably, with an ultimate saving to the railroads of $50,000,000. "But these are only part of the program," he said.

"It is believed that the opportunities for savings, and even more important, for traffic gains from other improvements which can be made, run into larger figures. The groundwork for these Improvements has been laid and the time has come to get on with them." His plan, be said, is not to consolidate the roads into huge units or to stifle competition, but to enable the competing companies "to cooperate to mutual advantage Where their interests are common." PUBLIC CONTROL THREAT He warned that if private enterprise "proves unable to do what the public interest requires," public ownership of the carriers "is inevitable." He expressed the hope simultaneously that Federal operation of the railroads would not be neces-aary. His first 11 orders will affect terminals at Worcester, Me-chanicville, N. Grand Rapids, Jacksonville, Meridian, Freeport, 111., Des Moines, Iowa, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Beaumont, Texas, Ogden, Utah and Montgomery, Ala. The orders in general will force all railways entering each of these cities to abandon competing passenger stations, if any, make use of common freight yards if their capacity is large enough, and cease operation of duplicating repair hops.

Eastman said he had chosen these 11 particular projects because they were the simplest and easiest to put Into being. He stressed the fact that all of them had been approved Jn theory by chieftains of the railroads involved, whom he charged with unreasonable failure to act. When these first consolidations are put into effect, Eastman indicated he would order the tremendously complicated ones for which plans have been drawn up in such cities as New York, Chicago, St Louis and Kansas City. After this first step, he said he was prepared "to proceed with other steps of increasing magnitude, working up gradually from small to larger projects, but always with a willingness to stand aside if the railroads are able to proceed on their own momentum." He said that all of the first con-aolidations would be made in accordance with the present rail law, which provides that no railroad worker can lose his job through any such consolidation. He said he regarded this provision as being unsatisfactory, not only to the railroads but to their workers.

Because of it, he said the full economies inherent in the consolidations will not become apparent at once. Black Eagle Clears Passport Difficulty NEW YORK, Jan. 31. Col. Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, Negro aviator who served with the Ethiopian air force, was readmitted to this country today after a two-day detention at Ellis island.

Julian, known as the "black agle" of Harlem, was taken to the Immigration station to clear up a passport difficulty when he returned from a trip to Paris Wednesday. COLTON THEATRE LAST TIME TODAY Ronald Coleman Joan Bennett i THI MAN WHO BROKE THE BANK AT MONTE CARLO" ALSO OInger Rogers "IN PERSON" BmUmmm She Adit) IS till I m. 10c Always Two Feature! 2bc Cvvry Nlflht ti BigNite Only Living 'Executed' Man Describes 'Death9 (By United Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 31. A short squat man who helped decide a state election after he was hanged 42 years ago came out of the bayous of Mississippi today to describe how it feels to "die." William Isaac Purvis, of Purvis, was hanged Feb.

7, 1894, because they said he shot and killed Will Buckley. They led him up the steps of the yellow pine gallows, strapped tight his arms and legs and wrapped a thick silk bandage around his eyes. Have you anything to say? they asked. Purvis choked back the tears, because he was 19 and had much to live for, and answered: "Before God I am innocent." KNOT SLIPPED They cut the rope which sprang the trapdoor and Purvis plunged down to what should have been his death. But the knot slipped or un tied no one remembers now and Purvis crashed eight feet to the ground.

The tough hemp rope seared his neck, tearing the flesh, and Purvis collapsed, unconscious. A prison deputy scratched "Exectued Feb. 7, 1894" after Purvis' name, but the 62-year-old bayou farmer lives today as the world's only executed prisoner who can discuss his own "death." Will Buckley was killed from ambush June 22, 1S93, while riding back from Columbia, with his brother, Jim, where they told a grand jury how the Ku Klux klan had beaten a Negro to death. PREPARED TO DIE Purvis was a member of the "white caps" and that same night he was arrested at his home near the town named after his family. Jim Buckley said he recognized a figure fleeing through the bushes as Purvis.

Pun-is was found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced to die Sept. 6, but an appeal was carried to the state supreme court and the execution was delayed. Then the court affirmed the verdict, the execution was set for Feb. 7, 1894, and the 19-year-old youth prepared to die. Purvis, a ruddy-faced man with a barrel-sized chest, described it in his slow halting speech.

"I had given up all hope," he said. "I really didn't see the crowd. They were just a blur of faces. Maybe I was sobbin', I don't know. You see, I was so young then.

But they didn't have to carry me up the Fur Trappers Anticipate Big Coronation Business (Bv Associated Press) TACOMA, Jan. 31. Dire things are about to happen to the weasels of the Northwest. Anticipating the coronation of Edward Vm in 1937 as ruler of the Britsh empire, fur men pre pared today for the greatest ermine catch in years. The weasel of the Northwest, close relative of the Russian ermine, provides most of the traditional trimming of the royal cape.

Furriers recalled the boom years of 1888, 1894, 1900, 1905, 1907 and 1910, preceding the coronations of yesteryear, and looked forward to increasing business. ANIMALS PLENTIFUL The weasel's size is the secret of the relatively high price of ermine. The little animals are plentiful in the Northwest and not especially hard to trap. Old-timers say, a weasel will eat anything, even his brother. But more than 150 ermine furs are required to make an average ermine cape.

Hyman Yewdall of Seattle, veteran of 30 years in the business, today was en route to Vancouver, B. to bid on 10,000 ermine furs available there. Last week, Yewdall and other buyers bid up all available furs at the Tacoma fur auction to a price of 25 to 50 per cent above the average at the previous sale. Between 35,000 and 50,000 ermine furs were sold on the Pacific coast last year, Yewdall said, and added the figure in the next 12 months would probably be half again as great BOOM FOR YEAR Yewdall recalled being at coronation ceremonies for Edward VTI, when even the theaters seemed to be masses of ermine every time the lights were turned up. Similar Not a Chain Theater Continuous 12:30 to 11 P.

M. JOE E. BROWN In "BRIGHT LIGHTS" Also Look Out! She's Dynamite JACK HOLT In "Awakening of Jim Burke" SERIAL, "THE LOST CITY" SPECIAL CHILDREN'S MATINEE Fun Galore for the Kiddies SAN BERNARDINO DAILY SUN, to Order Rail Terminal Consolidations in steps like they did some. I went myself. "You can't explain the feeling a man has, when he's about to die for a crime he didn't do.

I can't describe it. I just suddenly felt all alone and cold, and later my feet dropped from under me and everything went black." C. C. McDavid, a friend of Purvis and publisher of the Perry County Herald in New Augusta, took up the story from there. "When the crowd saw the rope slip, some of the women fainted, McDavid said.

"A strange hush fell over the 4.000 people. Then a minister leaped forward and screamed: 'This is an act of It is a sign of Providence that this man is innocent. Shall we let him die?" JAIL STORMED "They all shouted: and took Purvis away from the sheriff. Later he was returned because anoth er appeal had been made to the state supreme court." The court, however, refused to admit that Purvis was legally executed, asserting that he "did not hang by the neck until dead." Purvis' second execution was set for Dec. 12, 1S95, but a few weeks before the date, friends stormed into the jail and rescued him.

For three months he remained in hiding as A. J. McClaurin, candidate for governor, campaigned across the flat water regions of Mississippi with the commutation of Purvis' sentence as one of the planks in his platform. McClaurin won, and when he took office the third week of 1896, Purvis surrendered. McClaurin, who later became U.

S. Senator, commuted the sentence, and after Purvis served 22 months on convict tarms, granted him a full pardon. MURDER SOLVED Purvis returned and met pretty Sarah Boone, a direct descendant of Daniel Boone, at his own homecoming party. They were married two years later, and for the next 20 years, Purvis and Sarah lived on a farm, raising 11 children. In 1920, Joe Beard, living in Columbia, confessed that he planned to kill both Buckley brothers, but that Louis Thornhill did the actual shooting.

Two months later Beard died, and the Mississippi legislature gave Purvis $5,000 "for services rendered to the state" during his prison days. Thornhill was not indicted, because Purvis already had been "executed" for the same crime. A few years later, Thornhill confessed on his deathbed that he shot Will Buckley. scenes will come soon in London, he said. The lesser folk who ape royalty during coronation years by purchasing the white fur are just as important a factor in the market as kings and princes, Yewdall said, predicting the market would continue to boom nearly a year after the ceremony.

Yewdall, however, foresees an end to the era of royal ermine because of the political trend. The Romanoffs of Russia, the Hohenzollerns of Germany, the Hapsburgs of central Europe and the erstwhile royal families of Spain, Portugal and other countries are no longer factors in the market, be said. British Ship Burns, All of Crew Saved (By Associated Press) TOKYO, Jan. 31. All 32 officers and men from the British freighter Forthbridge were rescued at sea after abandoning the ship, which was destroyed by fire in the sea of Japan.

The crew, drifting in lifeboats off Oki islaid, were picked up by the freighter Kahoku Maru and three motorboats from Saigo, on the island, to which they were taken. A Domei (Japanese) news agency dispatch said the Forthbridge burned to the water's edge before dawn. Dancing Every Saturday AND Nights 8:30 to 1 A. 31. Muilc by The COSMOPOLITANS 12 Real Artiiti and Entertainers Listen to Our Dance Programs KFXM Saturdays 8:30 to 9 P.

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Women of Mexico are taking an increasingly aggressive part in politics although they are not considered citizens and in most sections may not vote or hold office. The seizure early this week of the Santa Barbara ranch of Gen. Plutarco Elias Calles, former president and one-time "strong man" of Mexico, by 200 women was illustrative of several incidents in which women have taken forcible action to accomplish their ends. A majority of the women joined the attack on Calles' property, it was disclosed, because they were promised the ranch would be divided among them. Newspapers said three women "professional Communists agitators" led them.

ACTIVE AGITATORS It is in the role of agitator, and especially in the ranks of the Com munist party, that women have been most active in the capital. But elsewhere in the country they have participated in movements. Recently, in a small town in the state of Vera Cruz, 400 women dared rifle and pistol fire to attack the town hall and oust members of the municipal council. Federal troops removed the women, but not until a new group of officials had been installed. The first woman to hold public office in Mexico, 30-year-old Senor-ita Aurora Mesa Andraca, a month ago became mayor of Ciudad Bra-vos, capital of the state of Guerrero.

She won popularity as founder of an "improvement society." Her first act was to announce that she would return her salary to the municipal treasury. CARDENAS IN SYMPATHY Differences of opinion as to whether the wording of the federal constitution actually bars women from voting prevented them from casting ballots in public elections. A general extension of this privilege to all women is expected some time soon, in view of the expressed opinion of President Lazaro Cardenas that the constitution gives the women suffrage. Cardenas, who has repeatedly shown his sympathy with the efforts of women to take a more active part in public life, broke a precedent by naming Senorita Palma Guillen as minister to Colombia, the first woman to represent Mexico in a diplomatic post. The national revolutionary party is conducting a campaign for the political education of women.

This work has been entrusted to Senora Margarita Robles de Mendoza, internationally known for her efforts to obtain political equality for the women of Latin America. Find Cow in Tiny Kitchen, Arrest Man (By Associated Press) TUCSON, Jan. 31. Police arrested Faustlno Vargas, 33, today when they found a large Holstein cow in his kitchen. Vargas, who allegedly took the cow from his brother-in-law's property, was unable to explain how he maneuvered the animal into the tiny kitchen.

Police booked him for intoxication and disturbing the peace. The cow was left in the kitchen. Discharged Company Executive Kills Self (By United Press) LOS ANGELES, Jan. 31. Roy Donnell, 43-year-old sales executive, died after slashing his wrists and shooting himself through the chest.

He was found at his home by R. M. Holland, employe of the com pany for which Donnell worked. Holland said he had been despondent because he was discharged from his position Tuesday morning. He formerly lived in Springfield, Mo.

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and Sierra Way SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1936 READ THIS FIRST: Thora Dam, who has left her home In Minnesota and journeved east, obtains a position as housekeeper for an eccentric gentleman named Selwyn Marsh who lives in suburban New York. Thora meets Sherman Gordon, a friend of Marsh and his daughter, Wilms, who is away. Marsh is writing a historical book and Thora helps type his notes for him. While they are bending over the typewriter, a gill's voice greets Marsh. (Now Go on With the Story) CHAPTER 15 Selwyn Marsh straightened with a jerk when he heard his daughter's voice.

"What he began. His voice changed. "Oh. It's you!" The slender dark-eyed girl, framed in the doorway, smiled slightly. "The same," she confided.

Then added: "I hope I'm not disturbing you." "Don't be silly." Marsh was striding across the floor as he spoke. The girl lifted a cheek for his welcoming kiss. "Why didn't you let me meet you?" he demanded. "No need. Jim was at the station to get Aunt Dorothy.

They brought me and my bags to the door." "Didn't she come in?" "No "I see. Marsh seemed suddenly to recollect Thora who had risen from her chair. There was no way she could leave the room while the other two occupied the doorway. "Oh, Wilma I want you to meet Miss Dahl. She is looking after us in Mrs.

Myron's place. My daughter, Miss Dahl." "How do you do?" was Thora's quiet greeting. Wilma Marsh nodded carelessly in return. She gave the new housekeeper a swift glance of appraisal. Then she walked to the table and tossed her gloves and bag down beside the typewriter.

"I suppose my room is ready?" She was removing her hat as she spoke and the question seemed addressed to no one in particular. "It is all ready, Miss Marsh. I will have your things taken up." Thora's words were quiet, deliberate. But a strange rebellion seethed up in her. For the first time, she was trying conscientiously to assume the manner and tone of a well-trained servant.

For the first time the barrier had been raised and by a slip of a girl. A girl who had regarded her with an air of well-bred insolence. Thora tried to accept the situation philosophically, as she went to find Ted. It was all very well to remind herself that she was being silly, but she couldn't quite help it. She would get used to it, no doubt.

She would have to that's why she was being paid. Wilma's eyes followed Thora speculatively as she left the library. The returned traveler helped herself to a perch on the corner of the big table, took a cigaret from her bag, lighted it. Selwyn dropped into his chair, first moving it back where it belonged. "Well, Selwyn Tuckett Marsh," his daughter observed, blowing a leisurely thread of smoke from her carmined lips, "it's apparently time I was getting home.

Do you mind confiding in your child how it happens that you have taken a beautiful blonde under your roof." Selwyn fanned the smoke with an impatient hand. Wilma knew he loathed the smell of her cigarets. But this was scarcely the time to remind her of it. "I told you," he said shortly. "I hired Miss Dahl to take Mrs.

Myron's place." "I thought you said something of the sort. But I don't remember Mama Myron struggling with a typewriter here Just curious, was all." "Clever, you mean," her father growled. "Miss Dahl is acting as housekeeper. And she's a good one, incidentally." "Then she isn't your secretary?" "No! I got that typewriter the PMILY TOMORROW 5tV mL GEO. BRENT KW Aln Mowbray 31 It gffffl jBraM MichH i jjjj and I LAST DAY JAMES CAGNEY in "FRISCO Kill" With Margaret Lindsay and With 8 John Howard Wendy Etarrle S) S) Terrytoon Serial News 11 other day to use in getting my notes in more readable form.

Miss Dahl knows how to run a machine and I asked her to show me. She was doing a page for me It's still there." "Father, darling! I don't doubt your word. I'm only thinking how funny it is." "Funny what is?" "Why, Aunt Dorothy's been telling me that you had finally decided that Mom needed a vacation. She said you hadn't been able to find a woman that suited you up to the time she came to meet me. So, this morning while we were in the city Wilma smiled enigmatically and flicked her ashes to the rug.

"Well? Go on. What about Dorothy?" "Nothing, only she went to an agency that supplies high-class help and looked over some prospects." "What was the name of the agency?" "I'm sure I don't know. She told me that she found a good woman and that she would be out here tomorrow to see you." "Very kind of Dorothy," was Marsh's dry comment, as he reached for his pipe. "But Miss Dahl's services are very satisfactory so far. I'm not considering a change." "Where did the efficient young person come from?" "I got her through the same agency that sent me several others," Selwyn evaded.

"Good references and all that, I suppose." "None whatever." "What do you know about her?" "Not a thing." "Where does she come from "Haven't the haziest notion." "And you took her in, just like Jewish Influence in U. S. Is Surveyed by Magazine (By United Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 31. A survey of Jewish influence in the United States, published by the magazine Fortune, reveals the following: In banking: Influence relatively small; only 30 of 420 directors of leading New York clearing house banks are Jews.

In heavy industry: Practically nil; only two Jewish families interested. Automobiles: Practically nil. STRONG IN LIQUOR Light industry: Influence small in production end, but in distribution of wool, silk, cotton, rayon, Jews control 50 to 80 per cent. In tobacco, Jews have practically blanketed the buying business, and control three of the four leading cigar factories, but are unimportant in the cigaret business. About half the leading distilling concerns are controlled by Jews.

Retailing: Jews are in a minority in the country as a whole. Publishing: Jewish influence very small. Radio and theater: Approximately 50 per cent Jewish. Motion picture: Predominantly Jewish. Agriculture: Jewish participation infinitesimal.

Professions: In New York City 33 to 50 per cent of the lawyers mm DAILY MATINEE EXCEPT SUNDAY 25 EVENINGS 3 KX 5Q tODDiESIQt AW TODAY For the Crowds CONTINUOUS SHOWS "ROSE MARIE" shown at 3:40 P.M. 7:00 and 10:25 Complete Show after 9 P.M. TODAY Gloriously Produced with the Brilliant 8tars of "Naughty Marietta" HtDOlD msro EDDY ROSE MARIE with Jamta STEWART Reginald OWEN MICKEY MOUSE ft MATINEE at 1:00 P. M. I Tan si til rii sYd Sjw AN MOM XA Also "WE'RE ONLY HUMAN" With Preston Foster, I i Jimmy Qteason I Mickey Cartoon I 1 Serial News that." Wilma stared unbelievingly at her father.

His face was an expressionless mask. "Oh, well," she observed lightly, getting off the table, "I don't suppose it makes so much difference whom we have. I plan to be at home now and look after things for you." Selwyn sucked hard at his pipe. "Glad to hear it," he observed curtly. "Just the same, we'll let the house arrangements stand exactly as they are, for the time being.

They suit me. You'd better go and clean up. I want to work." Wilma looked at her father for a long moment, before she Baid: "How's Sherm? I think I'll give him a buzz and tell him I'm back." Her hand went out to the telephone. "You won't find him home," Marsh remarked. "He's having one of his rare fits of industry.

I talked to him this morning a minute. He was headed for the office." "Then I'll call his mother and leave word that he's to come to dinner." "All right. We're dining at the usual time. Let Miss Dahl know about your plans." Marsh caugnt up some papers from the desk and paid no further heed to Wilma or her sprightly conversation over the telephone. When she was finished, the girl picked up her hat, gloves and bag and left the room without another word.

Her father sat for a time, scowling at the papers in his hand, sat until he heard Thora's energetic steps in the outer hall. Then he called sharply: "Miss Dahl!" (To Be Continued) and approximately one-third of the doctors are Jewish; throughout the country the percentage is much smaller. However, Fortune points out, most of the more important legal business is handled by non-Semitic lawyers, and the medical profession is completely dominated by non-Jewish doctors. The article concludes that the 4,500,000 Jews in the United States are conspicuous as a race only because they are practically all concentrated in cities of 100,000 population and over. After naming and describing 20 anti-Semitic organizations in the United States, the Fortune article says that the greatest danger of the Jewish race in this country is its own "growing" fear of persecution.

Seaman Navy Escort For Brother's Body LONG BEACH, Jan. 31. Wood-row Wilson Warner, seaman aboard the battleship Tennessee, was on his way home to Milnor, N. as official navy escort for the body of his brother, Keith Howard Warner. Keith died aboard the hospital ship Relief after a short illness.

He was a fireman. 4- I STOOGES COMEDY BAND NOVELTY REEL Cartoon In Color NEWS fpr a Sv ff I 11 Cities State Committee Seeks Ban on Tideiand Oil Wells, Greater Development for Tourists (By Associated Press) LOS ANGELES, Jan. 31. The California Beaches association announced today the launching of a statewide movement to conserve and develop the state's ocean beaches. Northern California headquarters will be opened next week at San Francisco and a general state chairman named.

Members of the southern counties executive committee of the nonprofit body are H. Wamodell, Glen-dale; Leonard E. Blackmer, Los Angeles, and Dr. Floyd I. Beckwith, Pomona.

The organization is designed to coordinate the efforts of all local groups interested in solving beach problems. ATTACK BEACH EROSION Main features of the association's program, announced here today, include a scientlfio attack on the problem of beach erosion, prevention of oil well drilling on tide-lands, halting of pollution of shore waters, securing of legislation for beach protection and improvement, and greater development of the beaches as tourist attractions. Committee members of units outside Los Angeles Include Col. W. W.

Crosby, president of the San Diego County Parks Beaches association; C. L. McGaw, secretary La Jolla chamber of commerce; Tom Talbert, mayor of Huntington Beach; Jack Miller, secretary Ox-nard chamber of commerce; Gus Gleichman, chairman Ventura county beach committee; K. F. Fort, president Morro Bay chamber of commerce; B.

J. Pardee, city manager of Monterey; A. C. Jockmus, secretary Pacific Grove chamber of commerce. LOS ANGELES, Jan.

SI. United States Attorney Peirson M. Hall, returning here after a month's visit in Washington, D. predicted today that new legislation would be provided in the near future to drive gambling ships off the Southern California coast. BOREL'S SATURDAY NIGHT Dance V.F.W.

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