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U. S. WEATHER FORECAST SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY FAIR SUNDAY AND MONDAY BUT WITH SOME CLOUDINESS; CONTINUED MILD; MODERATE WEST AND NORTHWEST WIND OFF COAST. WITH 165,700 POPULATION IS FIFTH IN CALIFORNIA AND WITH 20.157 SQUARE MILES IS LARGEST IN AREA IN AMERICA. tMwspapev for tfati BevnmoCoutir.

FORTY-FOURTH YEAR-FIFTY PAGES 5o a copy 95c a month SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 20, 1938 AND THE DAILY ORANGE BELT NEWS cup REE SHOW'S MOVIE QUEEN in LaGuardia Adds Bit to Nazi Crisis KIDNAPED BOY DEAD, CLAIMS EXTORTIONIST CORONA TAKES SHOW'S LEMON SIEPSTAF Lithuania Grudgingly Bows Before Poland; Warsaw Jews Killed Tiny Baltic Country Forced to Extend Its Hand in 'Friendship' to Enemies THE INTERNATIONAL SITUATION KAUNAS Lithuania averts war by bowing to Polish demands for settlement of long-standing differences. WARSAW Triumphant Poland joyously greets Lithuanian settlement; two killed, 100 injured in anti-Jewish rioting. MEXICO CITY Mexican oil workers end "folded arms" strike; to "collaborate with government" in operating nation's expropriated foreign oil industry. PRAHA Hitler said to have demanded termination of Czech-Russian military alliance as price for peace; Czech government shows no signs of complying. HEN DAY Spanish insurgents drive almost to seaboard in their push toward Mediterranean.

Barcelona experiences respite after two days and nights of terrific insurgent bombing; 640 known dead, 200 more feared killed, 2,000 wounded. SHANGHAI Japanese army drives forward on southern Shantung front in one of most extensive battles since the World war. An estimated 150,000 Japanese advance against 250,000 Chinese. I (By Associated Press) WARSAW, Poland, March 19. Polish statesmen, victorious over Lithuania, turned to a move urgent problem at home to be the title given beautiful Rosella "Orange Show Movie Queen" will Towne, Warner Brothers' starlet, the National Orange Show.

Her selection was made from a number of motion picture "babies" on the basis of poise, charm, beauty and intelli gence. The coronation will take place on the main stage. CITRUS m- HIS TIEUP (By Associated Press) A.U A Li a i March 19. Lithuania surrendered in advance today to the Polish bayonets on her border, yielding angrily to Poland's ultimatum to prevent blood spilling. Her parliament, in a special session, hoard the government announce it already had been "forced'1 to extend its unwilling hand in diplomatic "friendship." I The decision was received in Stony silence in parliament.

Legislature Has No Alternative But the legislators had no alternative except to endorse the government's compliance with Poland's terms an exchange of ministers by March 31 and reestablishmcnt of rail, air, postal and other relations. Lithuania's forced friendship ended a feud of 18 years in which neither country had diplomatic or other relations with the other. It started when Poland, Oct. 9, 1920, seized about one-third of Lithuania, including the city of Wilno, her historic capital. The issue came to a crisis after a Polish guard was killed March 11 on the armed frontier between the neighbors.

Poland insisted border friction be ended and declared the only possible way was unconditional acceptance of her ultimatum. A wave of bitterness spread (Continued on Page Two) Youth Confesses Six Attempts To 'Chisel' $30,000 Ransom Out of Child's Father HE DENIES PART IN CRIME Jasosky Says He Knows Who Abducted Levine Youngster And Establishes Alibi (By United Press) NEWARK, N. March 19. Stanley Thomas Jasosky was reported today to have confessed that he tried to "chisel" $30,000 ransom out of the father of Peter Levine, 12, who disappeared Feb. 24, presumably the victim of kidnapers.

Held in $25,000 bail on charges of extortion, Jasosky also was reported to have told authorities that he knew who committed the crime and that the Levine child was dead. He denied being involved in the actual kidnaping, and, according to police, established an alibi by confessing that he was attempting to commit a holdup here at the time Peter disappeared in New Ro-chelle, N. Y. Arrest Does Not 'Solve Kidnaping Federal bureau of investigation agents declined to comment on those but the department of justice in Washington said Jasosky's arrest "in no wise" solved the kidnaping. The specific charge against Jasosky, a thin, nervous youth of 19, was that he wrote six letters to Murray Levine, Peter's father, demanding $30,000 and specifying a place where the ransom should be paid.

He had no lawyer when he was arraigned in Federal court, and, unable to raise bail, was taken to Newark jail. Police said the ransom notes were printed in pencil, and inferred that Levine tried one or more times to deliver the $30,000. Each time, they added, Jasosky apparently became frightened and did not keep the rendezvous. One note ordered Levine to bring the money in a New York taxicab, to a theater on Market street No one was there to receive the ransom, police intimated. Youth Establishes Alibi With Holdup They added that in one of the four statements ho had made on the Levine case, Jasosky told how he and an unnamed Negro attempted to rob Ben Wigler here on Feb.

24 the day Peter disappeared while on his way home in New Ro-chelle. They quoted him as saying he and the Negro tried to rob Wigler while the latter had halted in his automobile for a traffic light. Wigler, according to police, refused to halt his car and apparent ly the holdup was unsuccessful. Acting Police Judge Thomas Guth rie signed two warrants for Jaso sky's detention in the Wigler case. ARMY DAY PROCLAIMED WASHINGTON, March 19.

President Roosevelt in a proclamation today designated April 6 as Army day and invited governors of all states to issue similar proclamations. EYES FOREIGN Oil Workers Return to Jobs to 'Collaborate' With Cardenas And Offices Taken Over ECONOMIC CRISIS WIDENS Dispossessed Companies Assert Union Unequipped to Make And Market Products (By Associated Press) MEXICO CITY, March 19. Provisional councils of Mexican workers tonight moved in on offices of the expropriated $400,000,000 foreign oil industry under the government's "Mexico for the Mexicans" program. The oil workers ended a "folded arms" strike and went back to work late today to "collaborate with the government" which last night took over the 17 American and British companies. As fast as the 31 locals of the oil workers' syndicate appointed their "provisional councils," the groups took over administrative work which under company management had been done mostly by British and Americans.

Shell Office First To Be Taken Over Aguila (Royal Dutch Shell), biggest of the 17 companies, was the first affected. Workmen walked into the office and told foreign employes that "we have nothing against you personally, but we must take over your jobs." The government's abrupt move in expropriating the companies resulted in a widening economic crisis. The companies, meanwhile, mapped a legal attack on President Cardenas' expropriation decree. New labor difficulties brought possibility national expropriation might be extended to include the equally important mining industries of Mexico. Foreign Exchange Dealings Suspended Financial paralysis followed the dramatic turn in Mexico's long-smouldering oil industry dispute.

The Central Bank of Mexico suspended all dealings in foreign exchange, and all Mexico City banks followed suit. President Cardenas indicated devaluation of the peso was considered and called on congress to appropriate funds to finance the government's newly acquired properties. The peso was quoted yesterday at 27.75 cents. Spokesmen for the dispossessed oil companies said they planned an appeal to a district court for an injunction against the expropriation decree and an ultimate appeal to the supreme court against constitutionality of the 1936 law on which the president based his action. Most oil officials were frankly (Continued on Page Two) Mexico in Protest Concerning Germany (By United Press) GENEVA, March 19.

Mexico protested to the league of nations today against Germany's action in Austria. it. Mussolini was picked to fly for the rebels. I was chosen for the loyalists. "It was on Sept.

28, 1937, 15 miles off I flew up from our base and met the Italian plane with Mussolini at the controls at 15,000 feet." Dickinson said each plane had three machine guns and raked each other for 22 minutes using "every maneuver known to aviation." His own plane was struck 326 times, the Oregonian said, adding: "That brought us down from feet to 3,000 and just when my ammunition was giving out his must have, too. He threw his glove over the side. "But I salute young Mussolini. He is a gentleman and a pilot and a good fighter." 1 1 (By UnLed Press) NEW YORK, March 19. Employes dashed into Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's office today to report that Nazi propaganda was being disseminated in city hall.

The propaganda, they said, was subtly inscribed on bottom of six cuspidors delivered today and placed conveniently about the building. The cuspi-dore bottoms bore the legend, "made in Germany." "Well," the mayor said, "I can't think of anything better to do with a Nazi product than to spit in It." Russell Forbes, commissioner of purchase, said he would seek a certificate of destruction from the comptroller's office in order to make legal the elimination of the cuspidors. (By United Press) NEW YORK, March 19. Traffic in Times square was tied up for a half hour tonight when 2,000 members and sympathizers of the Young Communist league staged an anti-Nazi demonstration. Many carried signs denouncing Hitler's annexation of Austria.

One man, carrying an effigy of Hitler, was arrested. Sixty-five policemen cleared the area. (By Associated Press) LONDON, March 19. British Fascists staged one of their biggest demonstrations in months tonight, marching through London's West End shortly before theaters closed. "Down with Jewish warmongers," they shouted.

Mounted police were drafted to break up the crowds. A number of night spots closed their doors, admitting only those who had reserved tables. LOS ANGELES, March 19. Sev eral hundred members of the American League for Peace and Democracy picketed the German consulate here today in protest against absorption of Austria. SAN FRANCISCO, March 19.

Pickets marched in single file past the German consulate on Sansome street here today in an anti-Nazi move while four policemen stood by. DETROIT, March 19. One hundred men and women who said they were members of "anli-Fascist societies" were dispersed by police today when they attempted to hold a demonstration in front of the Hammond building, in which Fritz Hailer, German consul, has his office. Redlands Second To Pomona Club (By Associated Press) CLAREMONT, March 19. The men's glee club of Pomona college won its twelfth consecutive title in 15 years competition tonight in the Pacific Southwest glee club championships on the Clarcmont campus.

First place in the women's division went to the defending cham pion Occidental club. Second and third places, respec tively, were: Men, University of Redlands and Occidental college; women, San Diego State college and Pomona college. Other schools represented in the competition were the University of California at Los Angeles and Santa Barbara State college. Trophies in each division were awarded by the donor, James G. Warren of Los Angeles.

Prof. Ralph H. Lyman is director of the Pomona titlists and Howard Swan directs the winning Occidental women. Men Students Seek Date Cost Equality (By United Press) FRANKLIN, March 19. Men students at Franklin college today called upon their brothers in co-ed colleges throughout the country to support their campaign for "equality of the sexes" and "share the wealth" in dating.

The men picketed girls' dormitories bearing placards demanding: The third Friday of every month shall be "independence day" when girls must make the dates and pay the bills. moras ATM HITLER night after a wild day of anti-Jewish rioting in which two persons were killed and more than 100 injured. The windows of hundreds of Jewish-owned shops were smashed and strong police guards encircled Warsaw's ghetto to prevent large crowds from invading it. President Ignace Moscicki, in an address at a triumphant moment in Polish history, condemned the demonstration as "brutal" and warned repeated disorders might compel Poland to become totalitarian to maintain discipline. TerriLIe Scenes Mark Celebration "I cannot hide my sorrow that so many people who used to stand behind the marshal," the president broadcast in a memorial address on the patron saint's day of the late Marshal Joseph Pilsudski, "are today obstacles to the realization of his aims, What had been a spontaneous celebration of Lithuania's capitulation to a Polish ultimatum turned into a fierce anti-Jewish demonstration.

Orators talking about Lithuania (Continued on Page Two) litical circles believe there might be some reorganization of Czech policy. Hitler's long-expected move, said to have been made through diplomatic channels, came as the Czech government capitulated to another German demand. By action of the cabinet council, the 3,500,000 Germans in Czechoslovakia were given a greater voice in the war-created republic's government. The move permits administration of German districts by German nationals. Although the concession apparently would not satisfy completely the Czech Germans, headed by 39-year-old Konrad Henlein, it was evident Czech leaders were in the mood to compromise.

Highest Valencia Award I Phoenix and Indio Com Wins Grapefruit Trop SATURDAY RECORD Los Angeles County's Towering Exhibit Acclaimed Best in Beautiful Exposition By FRANKLIN K. ARTHUR JR. Washington navels from historic Smiley Heights in Redlands yesterday captured the coveted sweepstakes prize at the Twenty-eighth National Orange Show. Exposition gates swung open to admit the largest Saturday crowd in the show's history, which officials said approached 25,000 in a turnstile count. Redlands swept the navel competition, with the highest Valencia prize goipg to Phoenix, the lemon sweepstakes to Corona and the grapefruit to Indio.

Los Angeles county's "Tower of Fruit, Flowers and Water" was adjudged sweepstakes winner in feature exhibits, followed closely by San Diego county's "Southern Garden" and Escondido's "Dutch Windmill." Directors Cheer Perfect Weather With those two important cokbv. tition3 out of the way, directors turned to the business of welcoming a throng of Southern Onlifor-nians and eastern visitors tor the exposition's first Sunday, hopefully anticipating an attendance mark TODAY'S PROGRAM Los Angeles city and county day, Ventura count day; Canadian day. i 10 a.m. Doors oper. 11:30 a.m.

Concert by Jin-nistan Grotto band of Los Angeles. 12:30 p.m. Reception for Canadian society in mezzanine lounge. 2 p.m. Hugh Herbert, guest star, with the Hollywood Symphony of Lovliness, Roy Rogers, corned acrobat; the Three Winter 2rothtrs, xylo-phonists; the Varsity Four, comedy quartet, and Hudson Hudson, equilibrists.

Cliff Nazarro, master of ceremonies. 4 p.m. Canadian day program, coronation of Charlotte Simmons as "Miss 8 p.m. Hugh Herbert, guest star, with the Hollywood Symphony of Loveliness! Roy Rogers, comedy acrobat; the Three Winton Brothers, xylo-phonistsj the Varsity Four, comedy quartet, and Hudson Hudson, equilibrists. Cliff Nazarro, master of ceremonies.

8:45 p.m. Crowning of Rosella Towne as Orange Show Movie Queen; ceremony during stageshow intermission. of 40,000, which would be a post-depression record. From the north balcony, as last night's performance was presented, a sea of humanity jammed the main exhibits section, spilling over into the commercial division, enthusiastically calling Dick Powell, top-ranking screen singer, back for encore after encore. Powell obligingly entertained for 25 minutes.

Hugh Herbert on Today Program Perfect weather, which contribut ed heavily to yesterday's exceptional turnout, was in prospect to day and Monday as well, and show officials were considering making Col. L. H. Daingerfield, Southern California's weather man, an honorary member of the board to assure continued kind treatment at his hands. Plenty of features are on th program for those who push through the turnstiles today.

Such as: 1. Hugh Herbert, funny man of a score of motion pictures, who will (Continued on Pag Nineteen). Hitler Demands Czechs Give Up Soviet Alliance tonight in coronation ceremonies at ED (By Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO, March 19. Federal funds aggregating were made available today for California highway contraction during the fiscal year beginning July 1. The United States bureau of public roads announced money previously allotted but temporarily withheld while the administration sought a nation-wide curtailment would be available.

California will receive $4,735,268 in regular Federal highway aid, $947,054 for secondary roads and $1,825,553 for grade-crossing elimination. The Federal bureau also announced the allocation of $1,000,000 from emergency funds to help rebuild California roads damaged by recent floods. The state will be required to match the contribution with an equal amount and obtain Federal approval of the projects in question. Only yesterday the state highway commission voted to postpone $2,117,000 worth of budgeted highway work in various parts of the state to conserve funds to match expected Federal aid in the flood area. Webb Gives Further Ruling on Pensions (By Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO, March 19.

Attorney General U. S. Webb ruled today residents in private charita ble homes for the aged, not under contract, were eligible to apply for $35 monthly old age pensions from the state. Mississippi Kahn went to a dance where he saw Irvine Htnry, a New Haven, athlete. In Dallas, he found Monetta Darnell, who is 14.

All four have been in training here. Miss Healy, so far, has been the luckiest one of the quartet. She has been signed to a contract. Miss Bowdon, who didn't fare so well in her first test, is to be given a new one. Henry didn't make the grade but he was able to impress an agent, who is sure he can place the handsome athlete.

Miss Darnell was disappointed, too, but she had been told to expect that. That it costs $2,000 a head to bring potential leading men and women here is a safe guess, yet the studio feels that if its score is only one in 20 or even one in 100 it will be well repaid. FEB EJ (By Associated Press) SAN PEDRO, March 19. One stevedoring firm broke away from the otherwise united waterfront employers in the shipping tieup today and called longshoremen to load a citrus fruit cargo aboard the Italian motorship Edda. The International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's union, with 4,000 members out of work for six days and apparently anticipating a long period of idleness, sent two representatives to San Francisco to ask state relief officials to set up a temporary office here to care for the jobless, Twenty-two ships are tied up here.

Two thousand of the union's members assembled at the central hiring hall and agreed to submit to an arbitrator Secretary of Labor Perkins promised to send as soon as possible the question of whether the liftboards dispute is subject to arbitration. If it is, they agreed to submit the entire controversy to the Federal arbiter. The Blue Star line asked special dispensation to load the Edda with 45,000 boxes of citrus fruits for United Kingdom ports, but was refused by the Waterfront Employers' association. Shortly afterward the Marine Terminal corporation ordered 52 longshoremen to load the Edda. The union previously had agreed to resume work, pending arbitration of the dispute, but the employers insisted they return "under conditions that prevailed on Feb.

14, 1938." The dispute is over the use of "liftboards" in handling cargo from freight cars not placed immediate ly aboard ship. you aren't successful to go home and try to forget about it. Potential stars are that scarce. Apparently the campaign warning youngsters bitten by the film bug to stay away from movieland is bearing fruit. It seems that candidates for stardom are scarce in these parts.

The gentleman who is liable to turn up in your home town one of these days is Ivan Kahn, talent scout. He will come unannounced and he will work quietly. Kahn has just returned from a two months' scouting trip of the southern states, bringing with him four youngsters he believes have film possibilities. He found 19-year-old Mary Healy In New Orleans. In Baton Rouge, where she was attending Louisiana State, he saw 20-year-old Dorris Bowdon, of Memphis, Tenn.

At Talent Scouts Scouring Country for New Faces to Go Into Movie Mills Yankee Flier Says He Beat Duce's Son (By Associated Press) PRAHA, March 19 Adolf Hitler was said by diplomatic sources today to have demanded that Czechoslovakia abandon her military alliance with Soviet Russia but the Czech government showed no indication it would comply. Hitler's demand was said to have constituted Der Fuehrer's basic condition for talking terms with the little republic, now two-thirds surrounded by the expanded reich. Czechoslovakia's existence virtually rests on her alliances with Russia and France, apart from sturdy reliance on her own military resources. The Russian alliance never has been extremely popular, and if Germany offers good compensation, po- Pig Sacrificed To New Prison Death Machine (By Associated Press) SAN QUENTIN, March 19. It took 35 minutes to kill one little pig today in the initial test of criminal science's newest death machine a $4,000 lethal gas chamber.

The test was carried out at slow speed, however, to enable San Quentin prison officials to observe details of operation. Authorities said It would take "nowhere near that long" to dispose of condemned men when the apparatus is formally put into commission. )A few hundred feet away In death row five men, the first to be condemned to die in the chamber, went through their daily routine presumably unaware of the test. They were convicted of killing the wardrn and guard in an uprising at Folsom prison last September. (By Associated Press) HOLLYWOOD, March 19.

If a gentleman asks you if you'd like to be paid to take a vacation in Hollywood while his studio turns its experts loose on you, don't call the cops. His offer may sound too ridiculous to be true, but it's on the up and up. If you happen to be the person he is looking for, he will tell you Twentieth Century studio is willing to pay you to come here while It grooms you for a film test. He will promise nothing, except two weeks or more of training and coaching and help in preparation for the test. He will advise you if (By United Press) NEW YORK, March 19.

Derek Dickinson, Brandon, claimed today that he had fought an air duel by prearrangement with Bruno Mussolini over the Spanish front and that the son of II Duce threw out a glove to signal defeat. Dickinson, who boarded the liner California for the West coast, had other stories, too, of his exploits as a loyalist flier, including the claim that he shot down 21 planes, killing 14 of the pilots. A World war veteran. Dickinson exhibited credentials that showed that he had been commended by the loyalist government. "The way this duel with Mussolini came about is that we agreed on it," he said.

"The loyalists sent word over to Franco they wanted.