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LXV. NO. 125. TEH fw pi 'l I jS mini ImUaka li Wii'-mtr Sf 3fr Two Killed as Navy A irship Carrier Damaged RECEIVERSHIP 110 LEAVES FOR FOX FILM DETROIT WHEN TO BE SOUGHT REDS PROTEST Boston Mob Stages Heated Protest on Killings by Guards Recruiting Posters on Common Torn Down And Trampled Under Foot by Crowd FOUR lie EXPLOSION ON PIE Si Tragedy marks the making of a film Intended for the entertain ment of the millions, and 10 men re dead as the result of a crash planes from which the camera men were to operate. The accident perhaps the most disastrous in he history of film making, which hot infrequently involves danger on he part of those who furnish the hrills tor the screen.

Two planes net in the air above the ocean off Monica late yesterday after noon, arm in an instant the planes ml their freight of human life had blunged to the bottom of the Pa nne. Observers say that the flames mist have caused the death of all board before the planes reached he water, but if any survived that org, drowning followed. Also, another tragedy In the line of duty took the lives of two taembers of the crew of tie airplane carrier Saratoga, at anchor off Loig Beach yesterday, while (four others were seriously burned. fThe manner of death of the two who are missing was most unusual. A.

turpentine pot being used by painters In some unknown manner became fired, and was thrown overboard from the punt, but it chanced to land on the water which was covered with residue from a gasoline compressor, and instantly there was a flash which enveloped the greater part of the big ship. Men on the punt and in the captain's close by jumped Into the water to save their lives, and it is believed 'hat two of them came up in time to inhale enough of the flame to cause their death, and they sank to the bottom with no one even seeing them. JTI The wedding of Italy's crown prince Is to be made the occa sion for amnesty such as one reads of in fiction. Because of the gen eral rejoicing, the king of Italy will free 6,000 convicts, the fines of many times that number will be remitted, and the sentences of long-term prisoners will all be cut one to two years, if they do not get inside of the amnesty list which is to enjoy absolute freedom and pardon. jl Senator Borah is likely to head the congressional commission to Investigate prohibition, which has already been proposed by the President.

Nothing could so surely guarantee that the commission will act promptly and that its report will mean someming. senator noiau is the outstanding critic of present prohibition enforcement, and as the head of such a commission he will be able to absolutely prove his charges, or else the charges will be disproven, which nobody expects. Detroit racketeers "ganged up" on Police Inspector Garvin yes terday morning and tried to assassinate him. Which is Important as suggesting what Illegal liquor dealers will do to eliminate an official who interferes with their illegal business. Garvin has been making It difficult for Detroit booze purveyors.

They ran the Garvin car into the curb, and then opened fire with machine guns, and when they thought the police official dead, they made their escape. fAll of which seems to be necessary If we are to have bootleggers, and the only reason for bootleggers is their patrons. The Detroit circumstance justifies absolutely the characterization applied yester-, Hnv hv Dr. F. Scott McBride, super- Sh 9fr fc ifr coast guardsmen of three rum run ners off Newport, R.

Sunday, the Investigation to be made "by somebody not connected with the coast guard or the treasury department." Officers of the Liberal Civic league, which called the meeting, presented a report of their investigation into the shooting of the three rum runners, an investigation which they said proved "flagrant violation of the law on the part of the Government agents." Deny Smugglers Trying Escape C. W. Crooker, general counsel for the league, denied the rum runners were attempting to escape when they were killed. He said their craft, the Black Duck, was only 15 feet from the coast guard patrol boat 290 when the men were cut down by a burst of macnine gun fire. He denied that a warning shot was fired with the cast guard boat's one-pounder, in accordance with the law for suppression of smuggling, or that, in the dense fog which prevailed, the coast guard ensign could have been displayed the rum runners.

The one-pound gun, he said, was found not to have been fired and no discharged shell could be produced, when the 290 returned to her base. EPIDEMIG IS IAN CAMP UL Measles Attack Latest in Series Of Hardships; 40 Children Dead, 50 in Hospital (By United Press) BERLIN, Jan. 2. An epidemic of measles has struck a camp at Hammersteln, East Prussia, where 4,000 repatriated Germans, including 1,800 children, are concentrated. Reports tonight said 40 children were dead and 50 in a hospital.

It was hoped to prevent further spread of the contagion. The epidemic is only the latest of a series of hardships for those in the camp. Born in a Mennonlte section of Siberia, where their ancestors had migrated from Germany, they flocked to Moscow with thousands of others In the hope of leaving Russia for a land of greater prosperity. Many of them set their hopes on Canada, others on Brazil. They had difficulty arranging for passports and passage, and for months they were huddled In the cold outside Moscow waiting for red tape to unravel.

Finally, after others of their number had been sent back to Siberia with the few possessions they retained, they were permitted to come to Germany. A fund started by President Paul von Hlndenburg assisted them and wild rejoicing marked their passage across the border. With small bundles of clothing and not much food, they grouped at Hammerstein awaiting efforts of the German government to facilitate their travel to Canada or elsewhere. Negro Taxi Driver Wrests Gun From Girl in Attempted Holdup (Bv Af'S'vlated Press) KANSAS CITY, Jan. 2.

Thwarted in her attempt to hold up Jack Hickson, Negro taxi driver, a 23-year-old woman giving her name as Rene Flynn was held today by police. Hickson responded to the woman's call last night and met her on a downtown street corner When he stopped at an address given by his fare, she ordered him to "stick 'era up," but instead of complying he wrested the weapon from her. Persons nearby called police. She told police she was a saleswoman and had been out of work for six weeks. Fire Blackens Starboard Side of U.

S. S. Saratoga in Harbor, Destroys Captain's Gig FLAMES LEAP ABOVE DECK Victims Believed to Have Died In Burning Water Surface Bodies Not Recovered (Bv Associated Press) SAN PEDRO, Jan. 2. A gasoline fire which flashed over the surface of the sea and up the side of the U.

S. S. Saratoga, giant naval aircraft carrier, today kUled two men and burned four, three seriously. The bodies of the two men killed were not recovered. Commander A.

C. Reid, senior officer of the Saratoga, said the fire was caused by a turpentine pot in a punt alongside the Saratoga catching fire from an unknown cause, and firing the surface of the water which was covered with residue from a gasoline compressor pump which was being cleaned aboard the aircraft carrier. Captain's $25,000 Gig Is Destroyed The captain's gig moored alongside the big.ship, was burned. It was valued at $25,000. Damage to the Saratoga is not yet estimated.

Commander Keid said, however, that repairs can be made to the ship without difficulty while she remains at her anchorage. The dead: Mathew La Vielle, 22 years old, seaman, second class, 517 Hamilton street, Schenectady, N. Y. Nearest relatives, mother, Mrs. Clara La Vielle, Schenectady.

Vincent Valentine Lalor, 29 years old, engineer second class, 466 Pacific avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. Nearest relative, sister, Mrs. Muriel Mc Caffrey, 315 West Ninety-Fourth street. New York city.

The injured: George William Febrey, 19, An napolis, seaman second class. Nearest relative, father, H. W. Febrey, Annapolis. Burned about face, expected to recover.

Men Believed to Have Inhaled Fire Henry Kenfield, 24, R. F. D. No. 2, Hampton, seaman first class.

Nearest relative, father, George Kenfield, Hampton. Seriously burned, recovery in doubt. Albert Lee Houston, 20, R. F. D.

No. 1, Centralia, seaman sec ond class. Nearest relative, George Albert Houston, Centralia. Burned seriously, recovery In doubt B. J.

Morton, seaman second class, slightly burned. The deaths of La Vielle and Lalor were not discovered until some time after the fire had been extinguished. La Vielle was in the punt along- (Continued on Page Two) 3fr Cfr fi Sfr Mexico President -Elect Stated Occurrence Not Important, Then Suddenly Departs MAY BE GOING TO CHICAGO Accepts Mayor's Apologies and Says 'That Sort of People Expected Everywhere (By United Press) DETROIT, Jan. 2. Ortiz Rublo, president-elect of Mexico, his wife and two children left their hotel here tonight and drove away without telling anyone their des tination.

They had been scheduled to remain here several days. Rublo previously had said that demonstra tions by radicals against him last night "were of no importance" and that he "would pay no attention" to them because "Mexico also takes its politics seriously." It was believed that the Rubioa either had gone into seclusion at a private home here or else had boarded a train secretly for Chicago, the next stop on their tour of the United States. Inquiry at all railroad offices, however, revealed that no tickets bad been purchased in their name. No station agents would admit having seen them take any train leaving the city. The Mexican president and his family spent most of the day in the Booke-Cadillac hotel under heavy police guard.

In the afternoon they took an automobile drive through the city with squads of officers ac companying them. Accepts Apology-Given by Mayor (By Associated Press) DETROIT, Jan. 2. a a 1 Ortlz-Rublo, president-elect of Mex ico, today accepted the apologies of Mayor John C. Lodge for the communist demonstration which marred his welcome to Detroit last night and passed the incident off as of no consequence.

"One finds that sort of people everywhere," he remarked. At the time of the demonstration he had smilingly declared of the milling communists that "they have a right to their opinion." Fifteen years ago Rubio visited Detroit as an obscure colonel of en gineers on the staff of President Carranza of Mexico, and spent a month studying methods in the au tomobile factories that production principles might be applied to Mexican Industry. He emphasized that he Is here now, not as president-elect but as an engineering student, eager to learn more about mass production methods. Much of his time today was spent in automobile factories. Chambermaid Now Reigns (By Associated Press) I PORT CHESTER, N.

Jan. 2. In a rambling, gabled old mansion where for 17 years she served as chambermaid and in which her brother still is the butler, a middle-aged Czechoslovakian immigrant reigned today as mistress and possibly sole owner. She Is the former Anna Mary Schlels, who two years ago became the fourth wife of her employer, Frank W. Savin, retired millionaire broker, then 76 years old.

Savin died Tuesday after an appendicitis operation. His will has not been filed. Among the heirs are his son and daughter and two adopted children, but presumably his widow will be one of the principal beneficiaries. The size of theestate has been estimated from $5,000,000 to ifr 2fr ffc Sj Put Schools Under Guard After Blaze (By Associated Press) OAKLAND. Jan.

2. All Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda schools continued under armed guard tonight following the burning by an incendiarist last night of the Fremont high school and the attempted burning of two others. No arrests have been made. Oakland police and the arson squad of the National Board of Fire Underwriters, after an all-day investigation, announced cleverly designed "flame bombs" which left no trace of their construction had been used in all three instances. Damage to the Fremont school was estimated by H.

D. Blasefield, principal, at Only slight damage was done to the Lockwood junior high school and no damage at all to the Highland school, the two other buildings at which the bombs were hurled by the pyromaniac. The Highland school bomb burned itself out 10 feet from an outer wall, A blue sedan was seen dashing away from the Lockwood school by Edward Freitas, member of the San Leandro fire department. Freitas said he saw the bomb explode. TOWN SEEKING EL (By United Press) MULLAN, Idaho, Jan.

2. An appeal to President Hoover to lay aside the conviction of their mayor, town trustees, and police officers on conspiracy charges was discussed by residents of this little mining village tonight Twenty-three defendants In the famous Mullan conspiracy trial-which brought to light tales reminiscent of the Old West, with Its saloons and gambling halls, were convicted and sentenced to long terms at McNeil's Island Federal penitentiary. Sentiment Is rife over the Federal court action which has stripped the town of its government and placed many of its leading citizens In embarrassing positions. A fund to care for dependents of the prisoners while they are serving their sentences has been started by townsmen. More than $3,000 has been collected.

The greater part of the town was deserted today as friends and families of the convicted men were at the jail In Coeur D'Alene bidding goodbye tp the men who formerly ruled the, village. According to testimony at the trial, the town officials licensed saloons and gambling halls to enable them to pay off the town's indebtedness. Mayor Arthur Harwood, Trustees John Wheatlex and George Huston, Chief of Police "Army" Welch and Policeman Harcourt Morphy were given a rousing farewell before they left for the Federal prison today. in Mansion as Mistress "Twenty million dollars would be far too much, I think," the widow said today. "Five million would be nearer right" When he retired, Savin sold his seat on the stock exchange for which he paid $5,000 30 years before for $475,000.

With the house of towers and gables, the widow also had at her sole command several automobiles and a staff of servants, of which her brother, Joseph Schlels, the butler, is the head. Savin's first wife was the former Arriba Wheat of New Haven, said to have been a noted beauty. They were married In 1871, and she obtained a legal separation in 1898. Their two children, Josephine and Frank W. Savin drifted off to Europe and were more or less forgotten.

hy Fire Five Persons Aboard Each Plane And Were Ready for Filming Thriller as Crash Comes PROMINENT DIRECTOR DEAD Eye-Witness Tells of Viewing Smash and of Later Seeing Airplanes Strike Water SANTA MONICA, Jan. 2 Ten persons, includin Kenneth Hawks, directo and Max Gold, assistant rector and former nation? handball champion, died day when two motion pi. ture camera planes collide head-on in mid-air and fe into the sea. The cabin ships, heavily ladt with cameras and motion plctu equipment In addition to five pa sengers each, crashed together 3,000 feet altitude, three miles the coast They wedged togeth in a tangled mass, burst In flames and plunged to the surfat sinking Immediately. Three Passengera Thrown Clear Three of the passengers wera thrown clear as the Interlocked planes struck the water.

The oth er seven were carried beneath tha surface. Three bodies later brok free from the wreckage on the sea bottom, and rose, to be picked up by patrol boats. The doors had been removed from the plane cabins to give- cameramen fr nitr and searchers believed all bodies eventually would appear on th surface. The official list of dead: Kenneth Hawks, director. Max Gold, assistant director, George Eastman, eamerman.

Conrad Wells, cameraman. Ben Frankel, assistant cameraman. Otto Jordan, assistant cameraman. Hank Johannes, property man, Tom Harris, property man. Halleck Rouse, pilot.

Ross Cook, Pilot. All of the dead were employed by the Fox Film cornoratlon. iinrt all, except the two pilots, Rous and cook, who were Santa Monica men, were residents of Hollywood. Were Engaged in Filming Picture The two planes and a third, nfl. oted by Lieut Col.

Roscoe Turner transcontinental flier, were engaged in filming a sequence In a picture based on the death on July 5, 1928, of Capt Alfred Lowen-stein, multimillionaire Belgian financier, who disappeared from a transport plane over the English channel and whose body later was found washed ashore. Turner carried with him In his plane a parachute jumper, who wa to leap Into the ocean, the camera planes swooping down on either side of him to photograph him as he fell and struck the water. Turner's plane was 500 feet away from and below the camera planes when the collision occurred, and he was not involved in it. "I was circling 500 feet to tb left, und helow the camera said Turner, describing the disaster. "They were over my shoulder, and I could not see them.

Sudden (Continued on Page Two) Mire Tulare Frosts Met by Orange Growers With Smudgfl By Associated Pre LINDSAY, Jan. 2 Orange fro, ers of the Lindsay district wr busy last night keeping smudge pots aglow as the temperature dropped to 23 degrees. SHIPS HUE NTO OCEAN ON DIM PLUNGE Counsel for Stockholders Says Action Will Be Instituted To Guard Its Investors STOCK SUFFERS DECLINE Record Low of $1 7 Reached in Comparison to $105.62 for Its Peak Mark Last Year (Bv Associated Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 2. Stanley M.

Lazarus, counsel for the class stockholders of the Fox Film cor poration, announced today that unless the creditors Immediately applied for a receivership, the holders of the shares contempalted such action "for their protection." The Immediate effect of the statement was a drop of $5 a share in Fox Film class stock on the New York stock exchange, carrying the stock to $17 a new low record, and depressing the market generally in sympathy. The peak price last year was $105.62. Had Offered to Give Up Control The corporation's class stock is controlled by William Fox, who a month ago offered to relinquish control of both the Fox Film corporation and Fox Theaters corporation. H. L.

Stuart of Halsey Stuart Co. and John E. Otterson, president of Electric Research Products, a subsidiary of American Telephone Telegraph then agreed to act as trustees with Fox. "Class 'A stockholders of the Fox Film corporation announce that the prospect now in Fox Film corporation and Fox Theaters corporation does not look encouraging," said the statement by Lazarus, "and indications are that a receivership must be resorted to at once in order to protect all interests. The reported disagreement among the trustees and class 'B' Fox Film stock, the unwillingness of the company officials and trustees to cooperate with the class 'A' stockholders committee and the status of the creditors whose claims are reported due with no present arrangement for satisfying them makes such steps seem inevitable.

None Give View On Receivership None of the trustees for the banks which are understood to hold approximately $90,000,000 in short term obligations of the Fox com- (Continued on Page Two) Will Rogers BEVERLY HILLS, Jan, 2. (To the Editor of the Sun:) Results of the big interdenominational football game, California Methodists (Modern) 47; Pittsburgh Cumberland Presbyterians (old school) 14. While 81,000 part-time atheists howled in heathen glee the Methodists believed in the "passover," and their faith was well founded, for seven out of eight passes were touchdowns. It was their greatest day since the Wesley boys, Johnny and Charley, single-handed beat the Church of England. The Rt.

Rev. Russell Saunders was the principal presiding elder called upon to carry or heave their message and text Into infidel territory. As darkness enveloped the field Pittsburgh did better. The Presbyterians seemed to be carrying out the traditions of their new Senator, Uncle Joe Grundy, they was always "lobbying" when they should have been running, it Yours, WILL ROGERS. P.

S. The winner will be allowed to cheer till they meet Notre Dame, (By Associated Press) BOSTON, Jan. 2. Coast guard recruiting posters on Boston common were torn down and destroyed today shortly after a meeting in Faneuil hall, in protest of the killing of three rum runners off Newport, R. Sunday by coast guardsmen, was concluded.

The petty officer in charge of the recruiting station was unable to cope with the demonstrators. The crowd approached the station and before Chief Water Tender George Brlggs could do anything to prevent them, they tore the posters from the metal standards upon which they were pasted and trampled them into the ground. They then kicked the metal frames about the sidewalk. Ask President to Investigate Acts Briggs, when the demonstrators had finished, picked up what remained of the standards and hurried with them to eastern division coast guard headquarters at the customs house, where he reported the incident to his superiors. A resolution unanimously adopted by a meeting which taxed the capacity of historic Faneuil hall today asked President Hoover to order an investigation of the killing by Senator Johnson Wins Battle From Shortridge on Federal Appointment in Bay City (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan.

2. The contested nomination of Alf Ofte-dahl to be collector of internal revenue at San Francisco, probably will be withdrawn by President Hoover because of the complaint that the nominee is a resident of Maryland. The nomination has been the subject of stubborn controversy between Senators Shortridge and Johnson of California, both Republicans, with Shortridge defending the Hoover appointee. Senator Johnson complained of Oftedahl's residence in another state, and also objected that he was the selection of the "Benjamin machine" in San Francisco. He threats ened to carry his fight to the Senate floor.

Recently Senator Shortridge received evidence that Oftedahl, who was a deputy prohibition director, had registered last year In Maryland and had voted in that state. It was understood tonight that he would communicate this fact to the President and that the President will withdraw the nomination after the Senate reconvenes next week. he told police he was Muke Toth, 27, of Philadelphia, a former sailor. With two companions, whom he would not name, he said he intended to burglarize the Scheldt home and that he had accepted the nomination to enter by the chimney and open a door for his companions. All thought It was a good idea.

But as Toth eased his way down the chimney he met a damper at the second floor. He got halfway past It, then stuck. He braced himself against the side of the chimney and tried to raise himself. AH be raised was a cloud of 60ot as his struggles became more frantic, the clouds of soot became thicker. The soot could not get past him and it settled about his shoulders and head.

His struggles became weaker and his groans were getting faint when young Scheldt heard them. III To BE Mi i jtendent of the Anti-Saloon league, who declared that the rum runners recently captured some of them I killed by the coast guard Involve "a deliberate and murderous assault by bandits and outlaws upon organ-Tfii government." fl After six years of as absolute a 3i dictatorship as the modem world has known outside of Russia, Spain is proposing to return to a modified constitutional government. It was Sept. 13, 1923, that Gen. Prl-mo de Rivera headed a military but bloodless revolution to take over the government of Spain, not to dethrone the king but perhaps to maintain his throne for him.

The example of what Mussolini had done in Italy was then fresh in mind. The Spanish constitution of 1876 was suspended, parliament was dissolved and sent home, and for six years Rivera has been most of the government of Spain. Now, at his own suggestion, a one-house parliament is to be assembled, and the country gradually led back toward constitutional methods, although with the constitution itself still suspended. Which sounds odd to American ears, but the plan may have saved Spain a revolution which would not have been bloodless. 2 3 3 American delegates are prepar-inc sa to London to attend Santa Claus Goes Wrong, Found Stuck in Chimney (By United Press) CHADDS FORD, Pa, Jan.

2. A Santa Claus gone wrong, who came not to give but to receive, stuck In the chimney of a house today and nearly paid with his life for his visit. Harry Scheldt, son of John D. Scheldt, retired business man, heard faint but sincere groans emanating from a. fireplace at the family mansion at 4 a.

m. today. He called two policemen. They soon ascertained that someone was stuck In the chimney, but were unable to aid him. The Concordvllle fire department was summoned and arrived in Its red wagons to find It was expected not to put out a fire but to pull out a half-conscious, bedraggled, soot-covered man.

The victim was extricated and taken to Chester hospital. There the disarmament conference, the third in the decade, and all of them called by American Presidents. Harding called the first one in 1921, Coolidge another In 1927, and now Hoover follows in 1929 with a call for a third, to be held early in 1930. The first conference may have jf (Continued on Page Two),.