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SECTION TWO CLASSIFIED SECTION TWO INLAND EMPIRE and The Dally Oranta Belt News WASHINGTON Merry-Go-Round Pearson Sends First Letter From Europe Says Italy, Germany Nullifying Gibraltar THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 17, 1936 COOLER WEATHER MARKS STORM'S END BOYS II FLED Martha Raye Accepts Bid to Benefit Show 'FAUST' IH ACCLAIMED BY TAL PROBLEM OF TRANSIENTS VALLEY REGION GETS NEARLY 1 INCHES OF RAIN By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN (EDITOR'S NOTE: Drew Pearton, now in Europe, it writing a "Merry. Go-Ro-jnd" of the foreign tituation. Following li hit firit dispatch, from Gibraltar, the Atlantic gateway to the Mediterranean and southern Eur. ope.

in a letter to Robert S. Allen, who remaint in Wathington, Pearton taid: "The world hat turned from thoie idealittic dayt of the 'War to End War' to the dreary prospect of an. other certain catastrophe. I am going to write up tome of that changing attitude, tome of the human cross-currents behind the tcenes in Europe that seem to be drawing an unwilling but helpless population Into the vortex of war, I'm going to browse around and try to write some of the things people are doing and thinking, and I'm not going to con-fine myself to politics." Further reports from Europe will follow.) J-w-Cv iW'Sii'j'- DM CUSTODY. ADMIT CRIMES Another Youth, Donald J.

Dyer, Freed When Escapes Confess Grocery Store Hold-Up Three youths whose 36 hours of freedom after escaping from the county detention home encompassed grand theft, robbery of a grocery store and other offenses, were returned to San Bernardino yesterday. Immediately upon arrival they confessed to the robbery of Leslie H. Walter, proprietor of a grocery store at 225 Fifth street. Another youth, Donald J. Dyer, 20, who had been arrested by police and sup posedly identified by Walter as one of a pair who entered his store, was released immediately after the confessions of the trio of escapes.

Dyer was not in any way In volved in the grocery store holdup, according to the confessions of Robert Parsch, 14; Leo Zeolla, 15, and Louis Vieria, 15, the three youths who escaped from the deten tion home and were recaptured near Bakersfield only after an officer had shot a tire of the auto in which they were fleeing. FACE HEAVY SENTENCE Parsch, Zeolla and Vieria, In the short span of their freedom, are accused of stealing a revolver, holding up two men at the point of a gun, stealing two cars, escaping from a county institution and resisting arrest on three separate occasions. They were apprehended near Bakersfield Tuesday noon by Capt. LeRoy Galyen of the state highway (Continued on Page Eighteen) New Motor Bus Named for City The newest addition to the fleet of Greyhound super coaches will be named "The City of San Bernardino," officials of the transportation company announced yesterday. The new coach, embodying latest developments In this type of public conveyance, will seat 37 passengers.

All scats are on the same level. Indirect lighting, an Innovation In motor coach design, is one of the features of the new bus. The coach is streamline from front to back, its familiar blue and white paint trimmed with bright chromium. The conventional hood has been eliminated, since the motor is located in the rear of the vehicle. On the inside of the door, a plaque will advise all who enter that the coach is named "The City of San Bernardino." City to Seek Conclave of Scout Order A.

J. Roberts, Boy Scout executive, who announced plant to bring the 1937 convention of the Knights of Dunamis, honorary San Bernardino. A movement has been started to bring the 1937 convention of the Knights of Dunamis, honorary order of the Boy Scouts, to San Bernardino, A. J. Roberts, scout executive, said last night.

The plan was launched at a district meeting of knights from four southern counties, held In Riverside Tuesday night. The visiting knights pledged their assistance to the San Bernardino chapter In Its endeavor to obtain the conclave. The national organization, with (Continued on Page Eighteen) ANSWER TILED Declaring that Helen Scott Fairbanks, Pasadena matron, has an Income of $550 a month from separate property and the sum Is sufficient for her support, Frederick C. Fairbanks, filed an amended answer In superior court yesterday to her separate maintenance suit. Fairbanks, son of the late Vice-President Charles W.

Fairbanks, also said his net worth does not exceed $950,000 and his annual income does not exceed $36,000. Fairbanks lives in the Mission district west of Redlands. Mrs. Fairbanks is seeking $3,000 a (Continued on Page Eighteen) ture picture, he has selected a trl-star photoplay, Jack London's "Call of the Wild," featuring Clark Gable, Jack Oakie and Loretta Young. In addition, one of the popular Mickle Mouse cartoons and an appropriate color cartoon, "Christmas Comes but Once a Year," will be shown.

For an admission ticket, patrons may bring canned meats, fruits, vegetables and milk or clothing of any kind that is warm and serviceable. Special arrangements have been made with Manager Armstrong of the West Coast theater to present the same program there at 10:15 a. m. in the event the California theater is filled. Thus there will be room for everyone, Mr.

Jenner said. I 1 cfeA Itf LIN Comedienne to Take Part in Salvation Army Benefit Martha Raye, screendom's sensationally eccentric comedienne, is the newest addition to the galaxy of stars who will present the Salvation Army's Christmas benefit program at the California theater tomorrow night. Assurance that Miss Raye will appear on the program was received last night by C. E. Heaton, general chairman of the charity event, who predicted a sell-out of the house far ahead of curtain time.

MANY ENTERTAINERS "Last year, when the late Will Rogers, Irvin Cobb, Leo Carrillo, James Gleason, Vince Barnett and a score of other famed screen and stage artists came to San Bernardino to help the Salvation Army, there were a few empty seats, because many people did not believe that San Bernardino would have a bigger show than any staged outside New York or Hollywood," Mr. Heaton said. "Now, with the assurance by so many outstanding stars that they will return this year, we feel we shall have difficulty in accomodating all those who will want tickets. Miss Raye will be one of the featured entertainers who has not appeared here in a Salvation Army benefit, but many familiar faces will be seen by those who attended last year's show." 'BAZOOKA' BURNS Bob "Bazooka" Burns of radio fame, Leo Carrillo, the Three Stooges and others have telegraphed Mr. Heaton that they will be glad to participate in the program.

The advance sale of tickets has begun. All seats will be reserved. Applications will be filled in the order they are received, and the seats already are going fast, the chairman said. Reservations may be made by mail or in person at the box office of the California theater. Mrs.

J. Harold Barnum, chair man of the advance sale, has sent letters to several hundred persons YIELDS rM Nearly $3,000 has been collected in the annual roll call of the San Bernardino Red Cross chapter, Mrs. Gladys C. Johnson, chapter secretary, announced yesterday. Although returns from such outlying communities as Victorville, Bloomington and Needles have not yet been received, $1,460 has been reported from branches outside San Bernardino city, Mrs.

Johnson said. The city has contributed $1,527. An additional $400 is expected before the roll call is completed, bringing the total receipts from outlying localities to about $1,800, or $600 more than last year, she said. Colton's collections are the latest to be filed. Totaling $189.50, they (Continued on Page Eighteen) Compromise Petition Filed in Crash Case Approval of a compromise settlement of $2,250 between Helen H.

Seager and Homer W. Emmerton of Highland was asked in a petition filed in superior court yesterday. Mrs. Seager filed the petition in behalf of her son, Donald Barstow Seager, 16 years old, injured in an automobile accident last April 22 at Twenty-ninth street and Arrowhead avenue. Mrs.

Seager is represented by Attorney Walter F. Keen. 1 BE STUDIED Relief Agency Executives of San Bernardino County Plan Survey of Problem In a lhove to educate the public to the increasingly important transient problem in San Bernardino county and to seek a solution of the problem, a group of relief agency executives met yesterday to lay plans for studying the issue. Convening at the county welfare offices at the courthouse, the group outlined a program which will include surveying the transient situa tion from several angles: law enforcement, case work, public health and the displacement of local labor. "This county," stated Miss Dorothy Freeman, chairman of the group, "as a gateway to one of the most popular wintering sections in the United States, faces a perplexing transient situation each year, SERIES OF STUDIES "In an attempt to find out just how serious the problem is and to formulate some plan that can either be worked out locally or by state or Federal Governments, we are planning a series of studies' she said.

She added that it is now illegal for a public relief agency to aid a transient. Results of the studies will be made public, so that citizens may learn the exact extent of the problem in this county, Miss Freeman said. Police and sheriffs officers, as well as others interested in transi ents and homeless people, will be asked to assist by appearing before the committee from time to time. The commitfee was formed at the suggestion of Dr. Glen E.

Carlson of Redlands, acting chairman of the state relief commission and chairman of the commission's tran sicnt committee. At a recent Riverside meeting of representatives of public and prl vate relief agencies, Dr. Carlson ap pointed two committees, one in San Bernardino county and the other in Riverside county, to study transient conditions locally. MAKE FINDINGS PUBLIC In addition to compiling information for a transient program, Dp, Carlson suggested the value of dis seminating the Information to the public as it was collected. Members of the San Bernardino county committee, besides Chairman Freeman, are Robert J.

Stevens, supervisor of employment for the WPA; Mrs. Imogcne Garner (Continued on Page Eighteen) Scouts' Trading Post Is Formed San Bernardino Boy Scouts interested in Indian ruins, collection of arrowheads, antique pottery and samples of minerals are urged by A. J. Roberts, scout executive, to contact the unique Boy Scout trading post just established at Boulder City, Nev. Returning to San Bernardino from an inspection of Boy Scout troops in the desert regions, Mr.

Roberts said that Troop No. 61 of the Arrowhead council at Boulder City has discovered extensive Indian ruins seven miles from the city and spends week ends excavating skeletons, jewelry and weapons of an extinct native race. These boys are interested in collecting minerals, plant life and items of historical value indigenous to this region. They will trade these articles for arrowheads and other trinkets excavated at the ruins, Mr. Roberts said.

For this purpose a trading post has been established. Donald Norbeck is scoutmaster of the Boulder City troop. STILL! Lit 111 Stidham, Dewse, Horton, Ruth LaGourgue, Englund Score New Operatic Success Another near-capacity audience enthusiastically acclaimed the second performance of "Faust'' presented by the San Bernardino Federal music project last night at the senior high school auditorium. Produced with a new opera technique, emphasis was placed on the acting, on striking sets and on gorgeous costumes as well as on the music. The production was heard by music patrons from many parts of Southern California, who expressed high approval of the leads, the strong supporting cast of 70 persons, the excellent orchestra and the directors who made such an outstanding production possible.

Among the young artists playing title roles were two talented San Bernardinans, Everton Stidham, who sang Valentine, and Carl Dewse, singing the part of Faust as the old man. As Marguerite, beautiful Ruth La Gourgue, of Riverside, completely won the audience, both by her singing and acting. Russell Horton, playing opposite her, as the young Faust, was excellent, as was Sten Englund, singing Mephistophcles. VIVACIOUS MARTHA Beatrix Mayo was vivacious as Martha. Both other leads, Harold Lutz as Siebel and Edwin Brown as Wagner, were well cast.

Mr. Stidham, baritone, is well known to San Bernardino valley audiences, before which he has appeared in concerts and other musical productions for several years. In "Faust" many of his admirers saw him for the first time as an actor. Miss Harle Jervis, state director of music projects, was warm in her praise of Mr. Stidham.

"I have never seen anyone do the part of (Continued on Page Eighteen) Unlicensed Peddler Pays $5 Court Fine For selling and delivering groceries in San Bernardino without a business license, Horace E. Lee, of 126 East Thirty-sixth street, Los Angeles, paid a fine of $5 in police court yesterday. Judge Donald E. Van Luven suspended $20 of a $25 fine on condition Lee obtain a license before selling any more groceries from his truck In San Bernardino. William T.

La Voir, city license collector, made the arrest and testified against Lee. Wife Seeks Divorce On Cruelty Charge Charging cruelty, Aimee Swift Gibbs filed suit in superior court for a divorce from Wilmot A. Gibbs. The couple were married in 1917 and separated last Nov, 19. Mrs.

Gibbs is seeking all of the community property, consisting, she said, of mining claims 40 miles north of Barstow valued at $50,000. Desertion Charged In Divorce Action Alleging Blanch Harcourt deserted him after 24 years of marriage, H. S. Harcourt filed suit in superior court for a divorce. The couple were marrir March 12, 1906, and Mrs.

Harcourt deserted him September, 1930, he said. Attorney Archie M. Hall of Needles represents Harcourt. TODDY Martha Raye, eccentric screen comedienne, who will appear with other famous stars in the Salvation Army benefit performance tomorrow night. who purchased tickets for last year's show, she said.

Preston Sherrard, chairman of the men's ticket teams In the business section, said their canvass will begin today. MEMORIAL TO ROGERS At the conclusion of Friday night's show a bronze plaque commemorating the final public appearance of Will Rogers will be unveiled with appropriate ceremonies directed by Leo Carrillo. Rogers' last appearance was made in the California theater at a Salvation Army benefit performance. The plaque later will be placed outside the theater as a memorial to the beloved humorist and as a mark of appreciation for the service he rendered the Salvation Army and humanity at large, Mr. Heaton said.

A message from General Evangeline Booth, world leader of the Salvation Army, will be cabled from London and read at the unveiling service, it was announced by Sherman G. Batchelor, chairman of the advisory board of the San Bernar dino Salvation Army corps. Arraigned on kidnaping charges, Claude Emerson, 27 years old, was bound over to superior court for trial after a preliminary hearing in the Bloomington justice court yesterday. 'Emerson is held in the county jail In default of $5,000 bail set by Justice Grant Ferguson. Lloyd Stafford, 22, Chino, gave Emerson, a hitch-hiker, a ride near Ontario Dec.

6. Arriving at a market near Ontario, Stafford stopped and told Emerson that was as far as he was going. Emerson, however, shoved his hand into his coat pocket and jabbed what the driver believed to be a gun into Stafford's ribs and forced him to drive on, according to testimony. Stafford said Emerson threatened to "blow him in two" unless he drove him across the Nevada line. As the car neared Fontana, Stafford said, it was running out of gas, but Emerson slid into the driver's seat, saying he would drive.

Stafford snapped an auxiliary switch as he left the Emerson ordered Stafford to go to a service station, believing the car needed a condenser, and from there Stafford telephoned to officers. Emerson's "gun" was found to be a pipe. Charges will be filed against Emerson in superior court Monday. The state was represented by Deputy District Attorney John P. Knauf.

FEUD SUSPECT HELD TOR KIDNAPING Cloudy but Dry, Is Forecast; Lower but Not Dangerous Temperatures Expected RAINFALL TABLE 24 Hr. Storm Sea, Year Ago 2.20 2.53 1.12 1.50 1.23 1.23 1.28 1.13 1.38 1.30 1.67 ion 7.59 7.38 5.7S 6.65 7.34 7.2S 8.04 5.40 4.95 6.81 7.75 7.36 10.53 13.46 15.87 8.00 5.67 8.14 7.68 7.66 11.13 San .26 1.86 Redlands 21 1.2 Colton .18 1.34 Rlalto .27 1.77 Fontana .25 1.79 Etiwanda 28 2.50 Highland 53 1.90 Ontario 31 1.97 Chino .58 2.15 Upland 67 2.77 Alta Loma .62 2.83 San Antonio canyon .88 2.66 Bear Valley 33 5.00 Camp Baldjr 2.25 4.75 Alpine 3.25 7.93 Yucaipa 15 1.10 Riverside 22 1.19 Power Homes: Santa Ana No. 1. .55 2.41 Santa Ana No. 3.

.51 1.86 Mill Creek 44 1.74 Lytle Creek 1.19 6.72 1.5 5.25 2.29 1.63 3.8T 2.61 1.88 268 2.91 2.34 A two-day storm which brought 1.86 inches of rain to San Bernardino appeared ended last night, although the sky remained overcast and partly cloudy weather was in prospect for today. A light drizzle which virtually had ceased before noon yesterday added .26 of an Inch to the storm total, raising the figure for the past 48 hours to 1.60 inches. The season's total was advanced to 7.59 Inches, two Inches above normal and more than five inches above the total of 2.20 inches at the same time last year. Temperature readings varied only flv 'ogrees during the day, from a degrees early in the nr i -s of 59 degrees. i.p Fed- Ms, no the vail A drop In cast, but the merw above the freezing mai.

-i a tlons in the area, he said. SKIES OVERCAST Overcast skies were reported In most of the lowland areas last night, although at Alpine, which earlier experienced another deluge measuring 3.25 inches, the sky was clear. The seasonal fall for Alpine now stands at 15.87 Inches, aa contrasted with last year's mark of 1.53 Inches at the same date. Other mountain statlom also reported clearing skies last night. Camp Baldy and Lytle Creek received more than an inch for the hours.

In the surrounding lowlands, th fall yesterday varied between inches in Highland to .18 inches fo: Colton. The West End reportei' slightly higher figures, Ontario re ceiving .31 and Upland reglsterinj .67 inches. The warm rain which fell stead ily in the valley lowlands wai hailed as a great benefit to agri- continued on Page Eighteen) Man Falls Dead In Hotel Lobby A man about 65 years old, tentatively identified by a bank book as A. F. Prill, fell dead In the lobby of the Sunset hotel last night.

The cause of death, Deputy Coroner E. P. Doyle said, apparently was a heart attack. Efforts to locate relatives of the man or a San Bernardino address were not immediately successful, Mr. Doyle reported.

He had with him a bank book issued by the San Bernardino branch of the Bank of America on Dec. 31, 3935. The desk clerk at the Sunset hotel reported Prill walked in, apparently dazed, and asked for room 24. He slumped to the floor a moment after being told there was no such room In the hotel. He was well dressed and had considerable money in his pocket, Mr.

Doyle said. Information obtained from papers on his person Indicated he had been In San Bernardino several times previously. The body was taken to the Mark B. Shaw mortuary. Walker Jones Still In Grave Condition The condition of Walker Jones ot Victorville, seriously 111 in St Ber-nardine hospital, was reported tnv changed last night.

Attendants said his condition remained dangerous. KliM CkiM Aid WMHaf Wora so 4 Chlldna Come In Modern Barber Shop Nia Location GIBRALTAR, Dec. 16. This Rock, identified in the United States with life insurance and in Europe as the mightiest fortress in the world, is on the verge of becoming about as useful as Fort Robinson, Nebraska, once a blockhouse against hostile Indians. The life insurance companies will have to revamp their advertising.

Gibraltar is still a most Imposing sight. It juts out into the Mediterranean with alt the authority of the British Empire which rules it. Its artillery emplacements are so cleverly con- cealed that the strongest binoculars cannot locate them. Its placid, rocky surface covers a labyrinth of underground passageways connecting a series of the most powerful big guns in existence. It has elevators running far down to' arsenals stocked to withstand a siege of months.

But all that painstaking preparation is about to be rendered I useless by one development, now recognized as plainly as the nose on your face by all those who have watched the Spanish revolution. It is this: In order to get German and Italian airplanes, aviators, and the munitions without which he would have been defeated long go, General Franco has made the following promises: 1. Italy gets the Balearic Men, strategically placed just inside the Mediterranean and capable of controlling its western bottleneck into the Atlantic. I. Germany gets the Spanish colonies in Africa, chiefly Spanish Morocco, which 'is directly opposite Gibraltar, and capable of nullifying the power of the British batteries so carefully hidden inside the Rock.

Prostrate Spain This deal is a proposition of "Heads Germany "ni Italy win; tails Spain loses." For even if General Franco is defeated as is now beginning to sppear likely Hitler and Mussolini will go ahead with the deal Just the same. The only difference will be that instead of claiming Spanish colonies in payment for the munitions they have given Franco, they will attempt to take them in the role of "protectors of Europe against Communism." A prostrate Spain, no matter which way the war goes, will be able only to protest. And it is doubtful that Britain, rapidly 4 arming but still unarmed, will risk war, even though the proud might of Gibraltar is punctured. Note England always has wanted the Balearic isles and Spanish Morocco to remain in weak hands Spain. King Alfonso was decidedly pro-British, and an English princess also sat on the Spanish throne.

More than once Spanish premiers wanted to relinquish barren Spanish Morocco, but Alfonso and the British opposed. They opposed even such relinquishment to France, a friendly power. No Real Peace There is no question In the minds of impartial observers of the sympathies of the bulk of the Spanish people. They are overwhelmingly with the Spanish government. Furthermore, the use of black troops and the Foreign Legion which have borne the brunt of Franco's fighting has increased the bitterness against the Fascist revolutionaries.

Finally, many Spaniards have come to realize that Franco is heavily mortgaged Hitler and Mussolini, and that he wins Spain will have to pay 1 large bill. This has played a leading role in the tightening of the loyalist morale- and vigor the last few weeks. Franco cannot possibly win now without direct Italian or German intervention and that would mean war in Europe. Busy Portugal One of the most prosperous ports in this part of Europe Is Lisbon, capital of Portugal, which Is bordered on its north and west by Spain. Its port is crowded with ships.

Its streets hum with activity. Lisbon is one of the chief centers for munition-running to General Franco and the Spanish (Continued on Page Thirty-One) Benefit Matinee Planned For Aid of Poor Families With the price of admission consisting of canned foods or clothing, a Christmas benefit matinee sponsored jointly by The Sun and Evening Telegram, the Salvation Army and the Elks' club will be staged at the Fox California theater next Tuesday at 10 a. m. Proceeds from the show will be turned over to the Salvation Army and the Elks club for distribution to provide Christmas dinners and furnish clothing to poor families in San Bernardino. The public is invited to participate in the worthwhile production to help the sponsors make a happier holiday for scores of underprivileged families.

William H. Jenner, theater manager, has arranged a special program for the event. For the fea By George Marcoux i PC TODDY MYRTie' cm-Din 't 1" Jl 487 Third an Benwrdln 1 T. J. Ralstin.