The Californian from Salinas, California • 1

Mum A Newspaper For The Home Information and Enjoyment For Every Member of THE FAMILY Weather a 3.1 SALINAS VALLEY Fair and mild tonight and Friday; light variable wind. Temperature Yesterday i high. 73 Todayi low, 40 ESTABLISHED 1871 SALINAS, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1938 FIVE CENTS Ml M( uvJia Ini UVJ Fatal Fall Storm Death Toll Rises To 10 Japanese Order Code Books For Famed Moneymoon Bridge Buckles Espionage Probe Invaders Halted In New Offensives On Imjwrtant Points; Demand Firms Comply With Edict Immediately ti SHANGHAI (UP) All commercial firms in Shanghai, regardless of their nationality, must provide the Japanese censor with copies of their code books, the Japanese embassy, announced Thursday. The order applied to American as well as to all other firms. The embassy spokesman said that the censors had to have the code books by Friday 4f they are to permit the transmission of coded messages.

The purpose of the order, he said, was to control military information. The penalty for violation, he said, would be the suspension of the right to send messages. THOUSANDS of tons of ice, under pressure from the worst ice jam in history, buckled the historic Falls View bridge, spanning the Niagara river at Niagara Falls, pushing the structure slowly downstream. The ice jam nearly 60 feet high formed as icy blasts enveloped the eastern half of the United States sheathing the northern half of the nation with snow and ice. (Acme Telephoto).

The firms also will be required to provide, with each coded message, a certification from the consul of its nation that the meataga is bonafide. Difficult To Follow The order was expected to causa the firm considerable difficulty. Most of them have only one copy of their code books, and because of the length of some of them, it wae almost Impossible to make a copy overnight. Shlgeru Kawagoe, the Japanese ambassador, recsntly recalled, sailed for Tokyo Thursday aboard the Shangal Mara. Reports from the fighting fronts said that Japanese forces, apparently halted for the present In their attempt to capture the important junction of the Tlentsin-Pukowr and Lunghai railroads In the north, were driving further Inland hi Chekiang province south of Hangchow.

Admit Lose Chinese, admitting the lose of Guyang, south of Hangchow, reported that landing parties at-temped to come ashore from Jap-' anese warships off Hasmaoahan on the south shore of Hangchow bay. The Japanese, Chinese said, were repulsed by Chinese machine gun and artillery fire. The Japanese army spokesman here reported that 10 Japanese planes raided Hankow again, destroying four Chinese planes and setting fire to a hangar. Filibuster On Lynching Continues As Gag, Loses Glass Leads Attack, Predicting Bill Will Be Shelved Soon; Neely In Try To Defeat Word Battle REPRESENTATIVE EDWARD A. KENNEY New Jersey democratic congressman, who was found dead in Washington, D.

Thursday after a fall from his sixth floor hotel window. Salinas Aids Disease Fund With Program Wrestling Cartl Feature Of Saturday Show At Armory 4 With citizens all over the nation taking part in the non-partisan president birthday celebration Saturday, Salinas is making final preparations for the wrestling matches and program to be in the National Guard armory. Proceeds from the affair will go to the national infantile paralysis foundation fund. Receipts of the birthday celebrations from all points of the United States and Its territories will be collected in one fund and will be devoted to research and active fighting of Infantile paralysis. Should an epidemic break out here or in any other locality, doctors and their staff of nurses and equipment would be dispatched to the community Immediately to assist the local health officers and doctors In curbing and fighting the disease.

Mr. William F. Humphrey. San Francisco, president of the Associated Oil company and Mr. Chat-les E.

Perkins, head of the Lincoln Land company, Santa Barbara, are memebers of the national board of trustees for the administration of the general fund. The address by President Roosevelt, which will be heard at the birthday observances all over the nation, will be broadcast during the local program. With the wrestling matches as the central attraction, there will bo several acts of -nte niniuent presented preceding the matches and at the Intermission. Murray Gets Shift To San Benito Duty WASHINGTON (UP) Senate filibusters led by Sen. Carter Glass, democrat.

Virginia, Thursday smashed an attempt to limit debate on the anti-lynching bill and predicted that the controversial measure soon would be shelved. Glass and Sen. Tom Connally, democrat, Texas, formed an oratorical spearhead for a combination Dollar Fleet Solon Dies In Plunge From Hotel Congressman Believed To Have Mistaken Window For Door In Room WASHINGTON Rep. Edward A. Kenney, democrat, New Jersey, plunged from a window of the smart Hotel Carleton Thursday to almost Instant death on a cement driveway.

Kenney, New York and Hackensack attorney who won prominence in congress for his sponsorship of proposals for a national lottery, fell from French windows of a sixth floor suite after attending a party of New Jersey political leaders and business men. Find Body He waa dead when his body, clad only in underwear, was found shortly after 8 a. m. Physicians at emergency hospital said he apparently had plunged to his death about two hours before his body waa found. Kenney Wednesday night attended a gay party sponsored by the New Jersey state chamber of commerce.

A special train from Newark, had brought several hundred New Jersey political figures and business leaders to the capital for the celebration, which was attended by 10 of the 18 members of the states congressional delegS' tUx John New sey, newly-seated senator, was is a guest of honor. Solon Identified Identification first was established by discovery of Kenney's clothing, watch and wallet in sixth floor room which was part of a suite reserved for the New Jersey party. French windows whose sills were only about 18 Inches above the floor, were open. Police surmised that Kenney, groping In the darkness of the winter morning, mistook the windows for a closet or bathroom door, and stumbled into space. Coroner A.

Magruder MacDonald certified Kenney's death as due to an accidental fall. MacDonald said no Inquest would be necessary. Swindler Is Put On Stand NEW YORK (I'D Noble John Moore, convicted swindler, testified Thursday in the third mail fraud trial of William J. Graham and James C. McKay that two day; before the trial opened he visited defense attorneys and told them he would testify in the defendants favor.

In two previous trials, which ended In jury disagreements, Moore testified for the government that the two Reno gambling kings received 15 per cent of the profits of an international confidence ring which the government charges swindled 70 persons out of in bogus rare track and stock market transactions. Last Saturday, Moore testified he told defense attorneys John Taaffee and Moses Polakoff In the I latters office that In the present i trial he was going "to tell the truth. A deputy United States marshal guarding him waited outside Pol-akoff's office during the conference, Moore said. w'hich when released next fall, will have two kinds of prints, one for use In ordinary movie houses, and I the other for showing in those the jaters equipped with machinery modem enough to reproduce perfectly the music of a full symphony orchestra. "There are only a handful of the latter kind of theaters In the whole country, he said.

"Our new picture admittedly Is an experiment, but it is one film which will be really satisfactory only in those houses equipped and staffed to handle it. The other print of the' sound track, for use In the Icy Gales Spread To East Coast Blizzard Extends Down To Gulf; Niagara Fall- Bridge Collapsing BY UNITED PRESS a bitter cold wave. Intensified by raging galea and heavy anowa, spread across the country to the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico Thursday as winter made its most severe onslaught of the year. Three quarters of the nation east of the Rockies was covered by now or ice. In northern Michigan, buried beneath drifts 20 and 30 feet high, the worst blizzard in 40 years was abating but in Its wake left families marooned in snowbound homes, isolated villages and paralyzed traffic.

Head South The storm dipped into the deep south, brought snow In central Florida and freezing temperatures In Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida, In Illinois and Wisconsin, floods continued to harasa lowland real dents, despite near-zero temperatures. Wintry galea whipped the At lantic and Gulf of Mexico, endangering shipping. A coast guard patrol boat was standing by a large oil barge with a crew of 10 aboard in the gulf about 120 miles off the Mississippi river. The barge had drifted helplessly for 36 hours. Rescue vessels went to the aid of a British freighter and a steam trawler, helpless off the Atlantic coast.

The floods and blizzard caused at least 10 deaths, four in Illinois, three in Indiana, two in Michigan and one in South Dakota. Cold To Continue U. S. weather forecaster J. R.

Lloyd forecast continued snow in Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York. He predicted no relief for the rest pf the country but said clear weather was probable In the middle-west for several days with the exception of Michigan. Only the far west and New England escaped freezing temperatures. The high flung view falls bridge at Niagara falls, from which thousands of honeymooners have watched the cataract, buckled under a mountainous ice jam and was threatened with destruction. The bridge, its steel girders groaning from the pressure of a 90-foot wall of Ice, was forced out of line from two to three feet.

Representative temper atures Duluth, Moorhead, Minnesota, Beniidji, Minnesota, 10; Yuma, Arizona, 72; San Diego, 76; Miami, Florida, 60; Eastport, Maine, 40; Chicago, 10; Detroit, 10; Kansas City, 15; New York City, 26. Jackson Will Succeed Reed WASHINGTON 0) President Roosevelt Thursday nominated his trust busting assistant attorney general, Robert H. Jackson, to be United States solicitor general. succeeding Stanley F. Reed.

Mr. Roosevelt submitted the name of the 45-year-old Jackson to the senate where there was some possibility of controversy over confirmation. Jackson was named to the post left vacant when Reed was elevated to the supreme court. Jackson has conic Into the public eye with a rush In recent weeks as, with Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes, he sounded the keynote of an administration drive against monopoly and for revision of anti-trust laws.

He is In the race for the democratic nomination for the New York governorship and has been mentioned as a likely candidate for the 1940 democratic presidential nomination if he should clear the New York hurdle. I 1. S' i -a Wright To Take Stand As Climax Medical Evidence Introduced By Defense Is LOS ANGELES Ol The defense fought to introduce medical evidence of Paul A. Wright's sterilization operation Friday preparatory to placing the defendant himself on the witness stand to give the jury a detailed description of the embrace in which he claims to have surprised his wife Evelyn tofcji B. Kimmel before shoot- Wright, former president of Union air terminal, la charged with the first degree murder of his wife and Kimmel, his best friend and business associate.

He admits killing tha two In his home early the morning of November but claims justification under the unwritten law of the outraged husband. Defense Attorney Jerry Giesler, refuting reports that Wright might cur ail his testimony to save hia wife's good name, informed the jury that the 38-year-old aviation executive will detail the eight he saw upon awakening from a nap and finding pretty Mrs. Wright and the male friend on a piano bench. Wrights appearance will come as a sensational climax, he said, after presentation of groundwork evidence showing that such a sight goaded the husband into slaying fury. A key portion of this evidence was the testimony of Chicago medical experts regarding the operation to save his wife the peril of further motherhood.

Four Children Die When Home Blazes MARSHFIELD, Oregon O) Four children, all under seven, were burned to death when fire destroyed the farmhouse of Mr. and Mrs. Walter W. Westbrook at Sixes Thursday. The Westbrooks, parents of the children, were visiting at a nearby farm when the flames broke out.

Tue mo'her and a neighbor, Amt Homer, rushed inside the home 1 ed at site of the old Madden mine near the town of Sixes. at the controls is more necessary still. Most theaters control the sound from the projection booth, where the operator cant hear it properly, and wouldn't know what to do about it, if he could. "What there must be in every movie house is a musician sitting in the audience with the sound control dials before him. "He must watch the picture before him and he must play upon his amplifiers as he would an organ.

There are 18,000 movie theaters In America and I am certain that before many years have passed, a musician will hold an indispensable job in every one. Is Cut Down SAN FRANCISCO (CD The Dollar line fleet, operating under new six months subsidy from the government, will be reduced from 13 to eight ships under a new sailing schedule, the company announced Thursday. Four "President liners will be placed in round the world service and the remaining four, Including the line's present queenship, the President Coolldge, will play transpacific runs. All sailings will be out of San Francisco harbor, according present plans. Lieutenant Escapes Injury In Air Crash RIVERSIDE (U.D Lt.

J. S. Travis was safe Thursday after hia army attack plane, which ripped off its landing gear in a takeoff from Boulder City, Nevada, landed without a mishap at March field, This Little Penny Went Into Court Copper Introduced In Evidence Against Ex-Con ict On a one-eent copper piece Thursday rested the major part of the state's case against Wilbur Chester Foster, 27-year-old Seattle laborer and ex-convict, undergoing jury trial in Superior Judge G. Jorgensen's court here on charges of burglary. The penny, allegedly found in possession of Foster at the time of his arrest by city police, late Sunday night.

December 26, waa identified in court Thursday morning by Mr. H. L. Rosson, beauty parlor proprietor, as one of several hundred pennies which were burglarized from his office. Fenny Identified He pointed to two minute depressions on the copper piece as positive identification that it was the same penny he carried in his pockets for months, finally placing it In the cash register with several hundred other pennies.

Foster, defended by Attorney Louis Phelps of Salinas, had not taken the stand In his own behalf up to the time the Salinas Index-Journal went to press. He was expected to testify before the day's session was over. It was generally conceded by court followers that the case would go to the jury by late afternoon. Evidence Introduced Prosecutor In the action, Deputy District Attorney Dan G. Bardin, introduced into evidence the penny, photographs of the "jimmied" door of the beauty parlor, and a crowbar, allegedly found In Foster's possession by police.

In his opening statement to the jury, Deputy District Attorney Bardin told the court that the prosecution would prove Fosters commission of the burglary by overwhelming circumstantial evidence. Foster, arrested on top of the building which housed the beauty parlor, told police at the time of his arrest that his presence there was due to his efforts to evade his wife, whom he said was endeavoring to serve him with divorce papers. Denies Burglary Confronted with pennies and a fountain pen found in his room, which were allegedly taken from the beauty parlor, Foster blamed a man whom he said he met the day previous as having "planted the articles to make it appear that ha was responsible for the crime. Stone Laid On Fountain Travertine Installed In Courtyard Here Installation of travertine stone on the fountain of the new $50,000 Monterey county courthouse was nearing completion here Thursday as workmen labored under the direction of County Inspector Chet Phillips. The stone, pink-hued, Is being laid around the elliptically-shaped fountain In the center of the courtyard, Foundation work was done in concrete.

It was announced that work on the fountain will not be completed for several weeks. Remainder of the work will deal with the foun tain centerpiece. f' Union Leader Favoring CIO MIAMI, Florida (UP) Charles P. Howard, secretary of the com- mittee for industrial organization and president of the International Typographical union, announced Thursday he will seek to lead tha 80,000 members of his union out of the A. F.

of L. Howard said both he and his membership were "fed up with the federation to which the union has remained affiliated despite Howard's CIO office. He said he will call for a nationwide referendum "In the near future to ascertain whether tha union wishes to Join the C. I. O.

BOILERS EXPLODE EL SEG UN DO-aUD Steel and debris lay scattered over a 700 foot area Thursday from an explosion of four boilers In tha El Segundo oil field Wednesday night. Cause of the explosion was not known, A drilling company employe, A. Crispen, was burned about the head and hands. of republican and democratic forces that defeated a proposal to invoke the senate's rarely applied "gag or cloture rule. Glass denounced the bill as "sinister and unconstitutional.

privileged motion by Sen. M. M. Nely, democrat, Virginia, to invoke the cloture rule and thus break the three-weeks filibuster againBt the anti-lynching bill failed to win the necessary two-thirds majority. Neely, in a vigorous plea for congress to stamp out lynching, led the debate for cloture with an unusually frank description of eral lynch murders.

The vote was 51 against cloture and 37 for cloture, far short of the two thirds required to Invoke the rule. Clipper Postpones Takeoff To Friday HONOLULU (UP) The China clipper's takeoff for Midway is- land Thursday waa postponed un- Capt. J. H. Tilton turned back to Honolulu Wednesday when trou ble developed In the instrument panel after the clipper was 200 miles out of Honolulu with 14 passengers.

on the screen mostly with his hands, credited Walt Disneys shadowy mouse with the developments which he jelieves eventually will result in 18,000 jobs for musi cal men. "Every movie theater in America will have to have a first class musician at w'ork, controlling the sound equipment, he said. "Otherwise forthcoming musical films won't sound right on the screen and the public will be dissatisfied. Stokowski has produced the musical accompaniment for the newest Mickey Mouse picture, entitled Sorcerers Apprentice, Capt. Charles Hall, commandant til Friday while Pan American alr-of the Boulder City CCC camp, ways mechanics repaired the saw the landing gear being ripped i plane's Instrument panel.

SACRAMENTO (TP) Chief E. Raymond Cato of the California highway patrol Thursday an-! and Homer were burned severely, nounced that Joseph Murray, Mon-1 Cause of the fire was not deter' terey, would he the sergeant in I mined, the San Benito county patrol unit. but were blinded by smoke and could not get to the children. She The Westbrook home was locat away aa Travis' plane took off! with six other army planes to re-, turn to March field. Hall telephoned army officials at March field.

They In turn notified Travi? by radio. BY FREDERICK C. OTHM.VN United Prec Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD O) Leopold Antoni Stanislaw Boleslawowicz Stokowski, who has a record of musical achievements as long as his name, completed a trick orchestral job Thursday and predicted that it would be the starter in opening an entirely new field for America's depression ridden musicians. The white haired Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia symphony orchestra, friend of Greta Garbo, and a movie actor who talks The appointment will be effec tive February 1 Cato said. majority of cities, sounds like an imitation of the one which will be shown in really modern theaters." He said that other studios also were beginning to produce sound pictures of high fidelity, which were ruined in the unreeling in a vast majority of theaters.

"That cant go on forever," he said. A few theaters already have installed the proper equipment, and hired musicians to control It, and the public is beginning to flock to them. Other houses will be forced to follow suit. "The proper sound amplifiers are necessary, of course, but the man 7.