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PAGE TWO SAX BERNARDINO DAILY SUN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1938 Milkman With Three Wives Listens to Accusations From Two of Them GIRLS TELL OF 1IG LOVE IN SAME ROOM Parent of Wife No. 3 Wanti Her To Retain Home, Reveals Former Misgivings (By TJnitsd Press) SAN JOSE, Dee. It-Larry Burke, years old, milkman held to answer to the auperior court today when he had a prelim inary hearing. Two of Burke's three wive testified briefly at the hearing, telling bow they had both married the same maa and lired together with him at the same time. Evelyn Hopping, whom Burke married laet Jane, and Lillian Oliver, his bride of Oot 4, oooupied a hotel room with Burke when polios stepped in yesterday.

Wife No. 1, Dorothy Masonholder Burke, was reported somewhere in Idaho with her parents and com paratively free of the entire mixup. LOVES EVELYN Wife No. blonde Evelyn Hopping, IS, who if to be a mother in a few months, emerged as the girl Burke wanted to live with if he had to make a choice of Just one. Frank Olivers, father of wife No.

dark-haired LiUlan Olivera, 16, was expected to take her back home to his Modesto duck farm. "I think I love Evelyn best," said young Burks with amaiing aplomb. "If any of the three is going to be recognised as my legal wifs, she had better be the one." This appeared to eliminate wife No. 3, who has been living with Burke and wife No. 3 in unusual but complete compatability for about two months.

ALL GOOD FRIENDS When authorities got word of the marital mixup they found wives No. 2 and the best of friends, living and sleeping together and going out together in the evening with their one husband. They were aware, the wives said, that Burke's first wife, whom he married In 1936, had left him to go to Idaho, They said they wars try ing to work out their problem in their own way. Lillian, wife No. who graduated from grammar school a year and a half ago, said Burke had married her in Modesto in October.

She later followed him to San Jose where she found him living with wife No, whom he had mar ried in July. "WeD, we talked it alt over," the girl said, "and decided there was no use making a fues about it We decided we could all live happily together, so I moved in with them, and we've been living happily ever after." TURLOCK. Deo. 14. Mr.

and Mrs. Frank Olivera, parents of dark-haired Lillian Olivera, 16-year- old third wife involved in the mari tal triangle of Larry Boyd Burke, 38, of San Jose, today offered to take the girl back into their home "If she wants to corns." Burke who is held by San Jose police on bigamy charges, married Lillian in Modesto Oct. 4 under the name of Lloyd Jordan and then lived with his wife for several weeks on the Olivera ranch near here, the girl's father said. "So that's where she is," was his first comment when he was informed of the bizarre mixup. He appeared more relieved at finding out the girl's whereabouts than perturbed at the situation in which she was involved.

'Til stand by her and try to help her out of this mess," Olivera said. "She's my daughter and Til give her a home here if she wants it" "That fellow didn't look any good to me, but what can you do? If they want to get married they are going to in spite of everything." AUNT HET By ROBERT QUILLEN "Sue can't change him much. When poor folks get rich, the wife changes herself to match her possessions; but a man just takes pride in bein' common." (Oopyrirht. 1988) DOWNEY GETS A FEW TIPS 1 1 JU jtosvjv sae airs i Sheridan Downey, Senator-elect from Cslifornls, get ths lowdown from the majority leader, Senator Alben W. Berkley (right), Kentucky the Capitol.

CHAMBERLAIN PLEDGES HELP (Continued from Page One) to the British government." He added that "1 cannot contemplate the possibility of aggression against Tunis." Simultaneously in Paris. Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet announced that "even if it means war" Italy must realize she cannot obtain so much as a single inch of the French colonial empire. Bonnet added that Britain had promised what amounts to -automatic aid" in event of any Italian aggression. The Italian cabinet motlnr with Premier Benito Mussolini rpnnrioA that "in view of the general situation" Italy will spend $526,250,000 on armaments. A showdown on Chamberlain's program of appeasement was promised in the house of commons Monday when the combined opposition attempts to overthrow his government on a debate motion stating that "this house has no confidence in the foreign policy of his majesty's government." It was disclosed in Paris that Britain and France have offered to serve as mediators in anv German- Lithuanian dispute over the status of Memel, but that Germany has made no reply to the offer.

Despite sensational reports in London that Hitler is planning another "surprise" in eastern Europe, officials generally discredited the danger of an immediate "anschluss" such as the seizure of Austria and the Su-detenland. Under the unhappy aueurv of the Nazi banquet boycott, Dr. Hjalmar Bchacht, head of the German Reichsbank and economic and fi nancial authority, arrived In Lon don at 8 a.m. from Berlin to neeo- tiate with Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of and discuss financial matters of urgent importance. Schacht intended to talk over the possibility of an international agreement for emigration of German Jews under a plan nermlttine Jews to take a portion of their possessions with them and at the same time permit Germany to obtain enormous export orders from abroad It seemed hardlv likeiv.

hnwvpr. that any plans which Schacht might put forward would find an agreeable reception because of the Danquet incident. ROME, Dec. 14. Premier Benito Mussolini's cabinet today ordered a 33 per cent increase in the nation's armaments budget as an "urgent necessity" while Fascist leaders warned that Tunisia and Corsica may become French Sudetenlands.

PARIS, 14. Postponement of Syrian independence was voted by the foreign affairs commission of the French chamber of deputies today to tighten the French empire in the face of Italian aspirations in the Mediterranean. Mrs. Roosevelt to Be Insurance Man' CBy Ascoriatd Press)' WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt has become a member of the board of directors of the Boston insurance firm of Roosevelt Sargent. White House officials said today she had taken the position to protect the interests in ths firm of her son, James, who will spend most of his time on ths West Coast as an executive of a motion picture company. They added Mrs.

Roosevelt would have no part in selling insurance i ft iis IP fly S3 I AS Ruth Etting, Alderman Elope to Las Vegas (Continued from Page One) news of the wedding. Finally he said: "If it's true that they were married, then from the bottom of my heart I want to wish them all the happiness In the world. I mean that." Snyder, long a Chicago and New Tork rialto figure, said this in a firm voice audible to most of the court room. But the jury was out for a recess at the time. Miss Etting and the handsome Alderman arrived at Las Vegas in a chartered plane at 7:30 a.

roused ths county clerk from bed to obtain a license and were married shortly after 9. Miss Etting gave her age as 3T and Alderman his as 30. Among the witnesses was Snyder's 21-year-old daughter by a previous marriage, Edith Snyder, who is Miss Etting's secretary. Snyder is accused of shooting and slightly wounding Alderman at Alderman's North Hollywood home in the presence of his daughter and Miss Etting. Miss Snyder has testified shs fired at her father after he shot Alderman, Snyder also is charged with attempting to kill the two women, who had gone to the home to prepare Alderman's dinner.

THREATS RELATED Alderman's divorce from his second wife became final last week. She is suing Miss Etting for damages, charging the singer stole Alderman's love. At the trial today, Virginia De Marteau, a masseuse, testified she heard Snyder say last August. 'If what I think is true IS true, I'm going to kill Ruth and Alderman." Mrs. Harold Kaiser said Snyder declared in a night club a week before the shooting that he was "going to get Ruth," but did not mention designs on anyone else.

Under cross-examination, she said Snyder was drinking at the time. On the afternoon preceding the night of the shooting, Mrs. Maxlne McKlnley testified, Snyder refused an invitation to listen to football broadcasts with hsr and her husband, telling them "I've got business with that Etting dame tonight." Under cross-examination of Defense Counsel Jerry Giesler, Policeman B. M. Johnson denied Snyder had told him shortly after the shooting that "Alderman took a shot at me." Giesler then produced records to show Johnson testified to this effect before the grand jury.

"I guess I forgot," Johnson said. "Then maybe it is possible Snyder said Alderman attempted to take a shot at him," suggested Giesler, emphasizing the word attempted. "Is that right?" Johnson said "No." Giesler previously has Indicated Snyder would contend he was acting in self-defense. Alderman and Miss Etting appeared in court for the afternoon or in business activities of the company. BOSTON, Dec.

14. The Lowell Leader said today Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt had been voted a member of the Boston insurance firm of Roosevelt ft Sargent. "I will neither confirm nor deny it" said John A. Sargent, partner in the company with the President's eldest son, James.

The Leader also said that James Roosevelt would retain his interest in the company. i 1 1 4 en what a Senator is expected to do Democrat, shortly after his srrivsl In session, sitting apart in the last row of the spectators' section. Mrs. Fred Campett, wife of an automobile dealer, testified that Snyder told her: "Well, Ruth Is married all right. If it's that piano player I'm going to put a bullet through his head." She also testified that Snyder was morose, threatened suicide, and gave her and her husband large sums of money to keep for him.

To be given back as he needed it Mrs. Campett told how Snyder gave several women $100 bills to use as bets at horse races. She said the biggest check Snyder gave her to turn over to her, husband was for $5,000. DRANK COPIOUSLY Later, three days before the shooting, Mrs. Campett said, she met Snyder on a Hollywood street and he told her: "I'll kill him (Alderman) and I'll swing for it.

but I'll do it. Til put her (Miss Etting's) name in the headlines." Mrs. Campett testified Snyder drank copiously at Southern California race tracks, talked of sui cide and several times "cried on my shoulder" over his love for Miss Etting. She said he asked her to have Miss Etting at his funeral and she promised she would. Campett himself testified Snyder, as their guest last September, de clared that after his money ran out he would walk out into the ocean until his hat floated.

The prosecution rested its case late today. Giesler said Snyder probably will be the first defense witness tomor row. The defense, with only about half a dozen witnesses, possibly can complete its testimony by to morrow night, he said. Dall Will Marry in Pennsylvania Today (By Associated Press) HAVERFORD, Dec. tis B.

Dall, divorced husband of President Roosevelts daughter, An na, will be married tomorrow to Miss Katharine Miller Leas, daughter of Mrs. Donald Stewart Leas. Announcing wedding plans, Dall said in a statement he regretted "Siutie and Buzz," children by his former wife, "could not be present at the ceremony owing to their be ing in school in faraway Seattle." Dall's tow-headed son and daugh ter live with their mother, now the wife of John Boettiger, Seattle newspaper publisher. U.S. Citizen Held By Nazi Officials (By Associated Press) HAMBURG, Dec.

14. The arrest by Nazi police of George Roth, naturalized United States citizen, on a charge of "preparation of high treason" was under investiga tion today by Wilbur Keblinger American consul-general. (In Washington it was reported Roth was arrested on leaving the United States liner Manhattan when she docked at Hamburg. The state department ordered the investigation.) Nazis Will Rebuild Synagogue of Jews (By Associated Press) VIENNA, Dec. 14.

Nazi authorities agreed today to rebuild one of the 20 synagogues they destroyed In the outburst against Jews last month. They will restore at their own ex-pens a temple used by Turkish Jews, the authorities said. Jewish circles interpreted this as an effort to court the favor of Turkey as a part of the Nazi drang nach osten drive to the east). Religious services for other Jews Is if'- PENSION PLAN BACKERS SEEK VOTE RECOUNT State Supreme Court Asked to Prevent Certification of Election's Results (Continued from Page One) thus, the 40-day provision is de claratory but not mandatory. Peelers petition was supported affidavits from several so-called "watchers" at Los Angeles county election precincts, who listed specific alleged election law violations.

Typical of the affidavits was one by Charles J. Kroening of Los Angeles which asserted members of precinct 1933 organized themselves into separate squads in an attempt to conduct more than one count of the ballots at the same time. VIOLATIONS LISTED Another affidavit by Miss Ruth Ella S. Vaught of Los Angeles alleged there was no ballot box in precinct 1060 and the ballots were merely folded and laid on the table. Kegley stated in a memorandum accompanying the petition that the reason for seeking a writ of mandate against the secretary of state was because the filing of an elec tion contest would require court action in each of the state's 58 counties.

'That the power of the supreme court should be asked to prevent cer tification of the results of an election is one of the first steps in a proper determination of the actual results of the votes cast," the memorandum stated. "Notice that we use the words actual votes One of the petitioner's attorneys in attending the numerous meetings conducted by the registrar of voters in Los Angeles county heard these significant words repeatedly used by the county counsel to the numerous members of the election board in asking for an explanation of their wrongful acts: DRASTIC ACTION ASKED "'It i no longer possible In this county, at least, to make sense out of fcn election. We know what you people spy the results are, but we do not know and eannot tell the people what actually! transpired be cause of your violation of the election The petitioner's memorandum stated further that "snore than 1,200 election officials were called In Los Angeles to explain violations by them of election laws, but al most all of them were unable to explain them. "Drastio action must be taken," the memorandum continued, "to insure to the elector that his action and his vote will not be distorted after he has completed his job in the election booth. These actions strike at the very rudiments of our democratic Institutions." Swing Called to Legislative Quiz (Bv A.soriatert Press) SACRAMENTO, Dec.

14. Sacramento county's grand jury will renew its legislative irregularities investigation tomorrow with state superintendent of banks, Friend W. Richardson, state Senator Ralph Swing, San Bernardino, former As semblyman Ralph Welsh, Los Angeles and Kennett B. Dawson, San Francisco and Arthur H. Samlsh, San Francisco lobbyist summoned to testify.

District Attorney Otis D. Bab- cock announced a score of pel-sons had been subpoenaed to appear. legislative action afrectlng a building and association, the National Orange Show at San Bcr nardino and a theatrical labor union in Los Angeles are expected to be under consideration. New Trial Planned For Werner Couple (By Associated Press) LOS ANGELES, Dec. 14.

Mr and Mrs. Erwin P. Werner, former Los Angeles political figures con victed on two counts of solicitation of a bribe and attempted grand theft, will go to trial again on Jan 31 before the original trial judge, Thomas L. Ambrose. Judge Clarence L.

Klncaid exonerated their bonds of $20,000 each and set new bonds of $2,500. Big Bill Thompson Seeks' Chicago Mayor's Seat on Happy Days Plank (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Dec. 14. It's vote round up time again for William Hale "Big Bill" Thompson. Chicago's three time cowboy mayor has set out to corral the Republican nomination for the city's biggest Job at the Feb.

20 primary. The flamboyant 69-year-old politician who gained International notoriety during 38 turbulent years in Chicago politics formally announced his mayoral aspirations last night. In a gesture typical of the man's showmanship, "Big Bill" whipped his 10 gallon campaign sombrero onto the stage of the Medlnah tem Oklahoma Executive In Plea for Walnuts Acting Governor Asks Merriam to Relax Ban on Yule Nuts for Orphans (Bv Associated Press) OKLAHOMA CITY. Dec. 14.

In terception of a ton of English wal nuts threatened for a time today to bring on an economic war between Oklahoma and California, but acting Gov. James E. Berry reconsidered his plan for an embargo on California citrus fruits, moving pic ture films and actresses and decided upon an appeal to Gov. Frank F. Merriam.

The walnuts, intended as a Christ mas gift for 2,750 Oklahoma orphans, were intercepted by California agricultural inspectors who claimed they did not meet marketing specifications. TELEGRAPHS MERRIAM Berry, lieutenant governor serv ing while Gov. E. W- Marland is attending an oil compact meeting in Texas, sent the following telegram to Governor Merriam: 'Erie Halliburton, a distinguished citizen of Oklahoma who owns a 40-acre ranch near Riverside, California, has donated to orphans in Oklahoma state institutions a ton of English walnuts from said ranch. Press reports today advise that your state agriculture department officials have held up this donated shipment for the reason that same does not come up to your law specifying the kind of nuts to be marketed.

"Inasmuch as this shipment is a (Continued from Page One) to show cause a further statement will be made." An SEC official described the company as an investment loan association which sells investment contract certificates and bonds calling for monthly payments by investors. The contract it was said, for either a lump sum pay- ment at a certain date or periodic payment to investors over a period of years. The company reinvests the funds. The company's financial state ment for June 30, 1938, listed the following officials, who are also directors: John Marshall, Washington, D.C., chairman of the board and former U. 3.

assistant attorney general; Carmi A. Thompson, of Cleveland, president, and former treasurer of the United States, and F. S. Risley, of Wheeling, W. vice-president.

One of the Securities Commis sion's allegations was that the company failed to purchase and deposit in trust sufficient funds and other securities as required by the West Virginia law and by ths terms of certain contract securities issued by the firm. The commission also alleged that the company deposited with the treasurer of West Virginia certain securities which either were in default or which failed to meet the requirements of West Virginia law. Crooner-Fighter To Wed Actress (Bv United Press) HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 14. Jack Doyle, 'crooner and prizefighter known as the "Irish thrush," put romance ahead of his troubles with the U.

S. immigration bureau today and applied for a license to marry Movita, the Mexican actress. The couple appeared in Ventura accompanied by Doyle's manager, John Bac-So. The boxer gave his name as Joseph Alfonsus Doyle, his age as 25, and his residence as Hollywood. Movita, born Maria Louisa Casteneda in an Arizona bordertown, said she was 22 and also lived in Hollywood.

Under California law Doyle and his actress-fiance must wait three days to obtain the license. Doyle, meanwhile, Is in the United States on probation, pending a hearing on his request for a 90-day stay of deportation. He was convicted of entering the United States from Canada Illegally. ple as a large crowd of friends cheered. "The people think it is time for a change," he boomed.

And the crowd answered in song. "Happy days are here again; "Big Bill will be our mayor again." Thompson's cowboy hat the best known headpiece In town bore an "anti-foreign wars" slogan which denoted the latest of his many and varied campaigns. The former mayor promised to lead the city back to prosperity. "When Thompson was mayor the SEC ACCUSES ICE COMPANY donation to needy orphans I respectfully request that you do us the courtesy and favor to Interest yoXuself in seeking if departmental regulations may be relaxed, in view of all circumstances, to permit this shipment promptly to come through as the time is growing short." HEAD OF COMMISSION Halliburton, who is chairman of Oklahoma's Santa Claus commission" which administers a state appropriation for Christmas presents for boys and girls in 21 institutions, said he would buy walnuts in Oklahoma if the shipment were not released. California's state director of agriculture, A.

A. Brock, commended the quarantine officers who refused to pass the walnuts and declared that if Halliburton wants to give the nuts to orphans in California he would "gladly provide a man to accompany the shipment right to the door of the orphar age." However, Brock added, "if these nuts are under requirement for shipment, they must be of pretty poor grade, If they are permitted to be shipped beyond California's borders, what control would we have over Halliburton, or any other shipper who might express a similar motive, from changing his mind and selling the nuts?" (Continued from Page One) Gorin, 34, manager of Intourist, Soviet trade agency. Their arrest on espionage charges threatened International complications and prompted the Soviet embassy to send here the New York vice-consul, Mikhail Ivanushkl, to interview the two men. Bureau of investigation agents declared the suspects trafficked in Japanese naval secrets obtained by the naval Intelligence. Confidential plans of U.

S. military and naval forces were not involved in the stolen records, they said. "To sum this case up," an FBI spokesman said, "what these men did was to steal the secret information we had obtained on the Japanese military, and converted it to their (Russia's) own use. They let us do all the work and they hoped to get all the benefit from this material." Salich, operating out of the San Pedro office of the naval intelligence, was accused of passing on stolen information to Gorin, Salich has lived in the United States for 15 years. Both are held under $25 000 bail each, pending action of the Federal grand jury next week, According to Information released by the FBI, Salich has ready ac cess to Japanese naval data, including amount and type of muni tions purchased by Japan in the United States, and advices on Jap anese bases, mobilization plans number and power of Japanese ships.

Agents said the information was particularly vital to the U. S. S. R. The complaints on which they are being held charge them with transmitting to a foreign power "docu ments, writings and Instruments" important to the national defense of the United States.

Historic Silver of Hearst Auctioned (By Associated Press) LONDON, Dec. 14. Historic silver from William Randolph Hearst's St, Donat's castle in Wales brought 41,882 (about $195,170 at the current rate of exchange) in one day today under the "hammer at Christie's auction rooms. The "Puwsey horn" which King Canute was said to have given to Wyllyam Puwsey for saving him from Saxon ambush was bought for presentation to the Victoria and Albert museum. The price was 1,900 which was 50 ($233) less than Hearst paid for it.

The Puwsey family used the horn to warn the king of approaching enemies. city employes never had a payless payday," he said. Thompson's return to the hustings assured the city of a heated campaign, His campaigns have never been waged with kid gloves. Nor have they been confined to local issues. In 1926 he threatend to punch the late king George of England "on the snoot" If he sver came to Chicago.

Betimes he has demanded "freedom for Ireland," and "America first." Thompson deserted his party for the first time' in 1936 to run for governor on the Union-Progressive ticket. He finished a poor third. DUSTER FACED BY BUND CHIEF 1 BROADER 0 DOCTRINE Colombia Minister Would Take AH 'Free America' Into Famed Monroe Policy BY ANDRUE BERDING (Associated Press Writer) LIMA, Dec. 14. A Pan-American Monroe doctrine under which all countries of the western hemisphere would assume' the burden thus far maintained by the United States alone came before the Pan-American conference today.

Foreign Minister Luis Lopez do Mesa of Colombia told the committee for organization of peace that the Monroe doctrine can now bt widened to embrace all fret America as a subject of responsibility." OPPOSE FORCE Mexico, apparently mindful of controversies with the United States over expropriation of lands and oil properties, followed the lead of Argentina in submitting a resolution asking that the conference reaffirm past decisions that force must not be used for collection of debts between nations. It was believed the resolution had little chance of passage, since there are already sufficient accords and agreements among American states against forcible debt collections. Lopez de Mesa called attention to pressure of European evants and political theories on the Americas In his proposal for a broadening of the doctrine proclaimed lit 1823 by President James Monroe ra. a hands-off-the-Americas warning te Europe. INTERESTS COINCIDE "National interests of the United States are coinciding with those of individual states of Latin America," he asserted in praising the "wonderful broadening of ideas of great statesmen" of the United States.

He made his proposal during a plea for Colombia's project for a league of American nationt', which the conference seemed likely to postpone until its next meeting in 1943. Behind-the-scenes discussion for reaching a common plan on continental defense went ahead, Secretary of State Cordell Hull conferring on the subject with Dr. Isldoro Ruiz Moreno, chairman of the Argentine delegation. Argentine sources said a defense proposal had not yet been submitted formally because approval of all delegations had to be obtained. NARROWS DOWN An Argentine-Mexican plan for a declaration calling for an end to the Spanish civil war narrowed down through discussions to a simple appeal to the Spanish people to end the conflict.

The original idea of offering Pan-American mediation virtually was abandoned because some delegates argued that at the moment when American nations were denouncing any European intervention in the western hemisphere they should not attempt to interfere in European affairs. The conference began a study of the report of the legal experts committee recommending a declaration against recognition of territory acquired through any form of aggression. HAS THREE POINTS The suggested declaration has three points: that armed aggression was unlawful, that conquest was not admissible as a means of acquiring territory, and that no recognition would be accorded acquisition of territory through arms, under pressure of armed force, or through any other method of coerlon. American delegates were Interested in getting an interpretation of whether the principle should be applied to the western hemisphere or be world wide because of United States problems of recognition or non-recognition of Ethopia, Man-choukuo and Japanese China conquests. Textile Union Releases Chief (Bv Ufflted-'Press) WASmNtffON, Dec.

14. The textile workers organizing commit-tei ly djflmisd President 5 Gormnr of the United Textile Worker as a member of the T.W.OC. advisory committee, an affiliaW of the Congress of Industry' Organizations. C.I.O. Vice-President Sidney Hilt man, who Is T.W.O.C.

chairman, announced Gorman's dismissal and charged the U.T.W. leader was attempting to "split the textile ranks and play directly Into the hands of that minority of employers who itlll seek to depress conditions." Hillman said the union now Is seeking restoration of a 12 per cent pay cut affecting 150,000 woolen and worsted workers and declared th.it Gorman's "splitting tactics" are ''doomed to failure." Gorman announced yesterday that his U.T.W. was out of the CIO. and that he would call a convention of 700 locals with 400,000 members In Washington soon to decide the union's future affiliation. He added that he personally had' joined the American Federation of Labor, from which the U.T.W.

was expelled for Its part in the C.I.O..