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is as to by the no the eva aba TODAY'S WEATHER Clearing Sunday but light showers in morning; Monday fair; mild temperature; moderate westerly winds. YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE Maximum temperature-Santa Cruz, (minimum, 48); Fresno, 88; Los Angeles, 80; San Francisco, 66. SANTA CRU SENTINEL Established 1855 DAILY EXCEPT MONDAY SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY, MAY 3, 1936 TEN PAGES VOL. 93-NO. 107 ADDIS ABABA IN FLAMES; WITH HAILE SELASSIE AND EMPRESS IN FLIGHT 040 000 040 040 040 040 040 000 000 000 00 040 040 040 040 Confesses To Killing Wife With Rattlesnake Bite Warren Delegation To GOP Convention Picked To Win in S.

C. County Central Committee Shoots Self Members Look For 2 to 1 Victory Warren's uninstructed delegation will win a 2-to-1 majority over the Hearst- Merriam ticket at the polls in Santa Cruz next Tuesday, prediets Fred McPherson secretary of the Republican county central committee. "There seems to be an overwhelming sentiment in favor of the uninstructed ticket," said McPherson. "Even many local Republicans who regard Landon as a logical nominee realize that his candidacy would be seriously hampered at the Cleveland convention by the political influences that forced his name on the ballot in this state. If California corresponds to the Santa Cruz vote the Warren delegation will go to the national meeting free to work for the best interest of the party." John B.

Bias, chairman central committee, who has conbethe fined to his home with illness for several days, issued an appeal yesterday for all Republicans in the county to vote the Warren ticket next Tuesday. "It is estimated," said Bias, "that about two-thirds of the delegates to the convention will be uninstructed. This fact reflects that a majority of the Republicans of the nation want to consider the issues with an open mind and consider each prospective nominee in a fair manner. California should fit into that national tendency by electing the Warren ticket." George Morgan, supervisor of the Soquel supervisorial district, predicted that most of the ballots cast in his district will favor Warren's slate. After conferring with party leaders in scores of cities, Richard Barrett, northern California campaign director for the Warren ticket, said yesterday that election of Warren delegates is a virtual certainty.

The steady Warren gains in southern California during the past two weeks as campaign issues have clarified, is the phenomenon of the campaign which is said to be giving the Merriam-Hearst combination much concern. Recent straw polls in the south show steady gains, with a 19,000 jority expected in Los Angeles county alone if a 40 per cent vote is cast, and a larger majority if the vote is heavier. MARION HOLLINS HAS SOLD RANCH IN CARMEL AREA Frank B. Porter, real estate dealer and subdivider of Salinas and Robles del Rio tract, has just purchased the Marion Hollins ranch in the Carmel valley, which he is subdividing to suit the purchaser. This property is located between the Muriel Vanderbilt Phelps ranch and the Gordon Armsby ranch and is one of the most scenic sections of Carmel valley.

The along the highway is to be cut up into small restricted farms and the knolls and the higher country in the back may be obtained in beautiful large tracts. This property features an abundance of water, good oiled roads and an ideal climate entirely out of the fog belt. Colorado is making a "war" against alien and indigent -state workers who come there for work, by means of an airplane patrol all along the southern border. MAY TIDES Date Time Ht. Time Ht.

LOW HIGH 3 0.5 3.8 2:00 1,6 8:32 4.9 0.2 9:471 3.8 1.9 8:57 4.9 P. M. Tides indicated by black face ROMAN LEGIONS ONLY 30 MILES FROM THE GOAL American Minister Sends Word of Fire, Looting and Flight AMERICAN NEWS REPORTER HURT Selassie Thought On Way to French Somaliland (By Associated Press) Fire, plundering and rioting, swept Addis Ababa Saturday night as Emperor Haile Selassie fled from his capital with his empress and their son, the crown prince. The advancing Italians of Marshal Pietro Badoglio were presumed to be near the goal they had been seeking since Fascist troops moved into northern Ethiopia in the early days of October, 1935. Cornelius Van Engert, American Minister at Addis Ababa, informed the state department at Washington that the center of the capital--a city of wood buildings and straw hutswas burning fiercely.

Three bullets struck the legation. but no occupant was hurt, he said. There was much firing in the city and plunderers were active. The home of an American viceconsul was sacked and an American newspaper man received sword cuts. he said.

In Djibouti, French Somaliland, it was reported the Ethiopian royal family was expected there Sunday morning. Late telephone reports from Addis Ababa indicated Italian planes had dropped pamphlets on the city announcing the successor to Haile Selassie had been chosen. The state department in Washington understood there were 53 Americans in the city and Engert reported some of them had informed him they were safe. Revelers in Rome celebrating the word that the Ethiopian emperor had fled and Addis Ababa was swept by internal strife, yelled "It's all over but the shouting." The French legation at Addis Absent word to Paris that while Haile Selassie fled to the east his ministers had gone southwest by automobile, carrying the government's archives. If the emperor goes French Somaliland, it was said Paris officials, he will be treated a chief of state and will be allowed freedom of movement.

In London it was officially stated word had been received that Selassie had actually abdicated. It said he might be headed for Gento plead his country's cause before the League of Nations. ABANDONS CAPITAL LONDON, May 2 (Copyright by United Haile Sel- assie fled from his capital today, abandoning it to its fate and leaving several hundred Europeans there at the mercy of fearless bands of plundering Ethiopian warriors. Firing and looting broke out. The Addis Ababa radio station went dead and the only authentic news received here came in a communication from British minister to the British government, reciting the above facts.

The natives were inflamed by hatred of all whites because of their humiliation at the hands of the Italians. Plundering the shops, they filled themselves with cheap wine and (Continued on page 6) Says Townsend Plan Members "Hoax Victims" WASHINGTON, May 2 (UP). Chairman C. Jasper Bell. Democrat, Missouri, of the house old age pensions investigating committee, tonight charged Townsend leaders sought Townsend contributions "for their own personal benefit." Bell's attack was made against a proposed transcontinental motor caravan of Townsend followers scheduled to leave Los Angeles for Washington next week to demand legislative enactment of the $200 a month pension plan.

Bell labels the caraven proposal "another cruel hoax upon the aged and infirm people already deluded and misled to believe the plan could be adopted by congress." 300 MEMBERS OF 78TH ARTILLERY IN CAMP IN S. C. On the march for the next few days, 300 men and horses of the 76th field artillery of the Monterey Presidio arrived in Santa Cruz early yesterday afternoon and went into camp at the old Bay street baseball grounds, where they will remain two days, later returning to their post at the Presidio. Another contingent went to Yosemite. The group came over the Pajaro bridge at Watsonville.

Of interest at the camp were the folding canvas watering troughs divided into partitions, out of which the horses slaked their thirst. The troughs were filled from a fire hydrant and after they had served their purpose were folded again. Concessionaires Of Early Days In City Yesterday A number of the first concessionaires on the boardwalk were here yesterday and met old time friends at the beach. Arthur Loof is here with his wife. They reside at Long Beach.

His father was the builder and put in the Hippodrome here and also the hippodromes at the southern beaches. Another from Long Beach is Louis Salee, who had the Penny Arcade here for years and had one at Long Beach. Louis J. Fortro is here from San Francisco. He for a number of years conducted the bowling alleys here.

Group Meeting of State Bankers In Session at Beach A group meeting of the California Bankers' Association was held last night at Casa del Rey. Bankers gathered from the entire district and were in session last evening following a banquet at the hotel. A program in keeping with the banking business was carried out. NOBODY HURT Cars driven by Frank Estelle of 130 Bay street and Tony Day, Seabright merchant, collided last night at Soquel and Front streets, with slight damage to fenders, police reported. Pleated tulle is being used for the newest bridal veils.

'WOMAN IN RED' DEPORTED Mrs. Anna Sage (center), the "woman in red" who decoyed John Dillinger to his death at the hands of federal agents in Chicago, shown on the deck of the liner Harding as she left for her native Rumania. She was deported by the government. (Associated Press Photo) Karpis Loses Bravado; Trembles Like a Person With Palsy In Jail Cell Prisoner So Nervous He Can Hardly Talk To Officers ST. PAUL, Minn.

May 2 (UP). Robbed of his bravado and trembling, like a man with palsy, Alvin Karpis. sat in an "escape-proof" jail cell tonight waiting for the law to him for crimes which earned him the unofficial title "public enemy No. 1." "This was the man who' said he would never be taken alive," said J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the federal bureau of investigation, who personally made the arrest at New Orleans Friday night.

"He offered no resistance whatsoever," Hoover said. "He was SO nervous he could scarcely talk. His hands were shaking like a leaf and his knees shook as if he had the palsy." DELINQUENT TAXES ONLY ABOUT HALF OF FORMER YEARS Santa Cruz county tax payers paid to April 30 a total of $983,309.16 for the 1935-36 year, according to a statement issued yesterday by J. F. Helms, county treasurer and tax lector.

An accurate statement of the collections could not be made until yesterday due to the time required to work the mail that poured into the office prior to delinquency date. Total property tax charge for the county was $1,032,640.01, leaving unpaid $49,330.85 to be entered on the delinquent roll. "The percentage of delinquency is .047 as against .082 on the 1934-35 tax roll," Helms stated. UNIFICATION OF CHURCHES IS M. E.

PLAN To Merge Into Largest Denominational Unit COLUMBUS, May 2 proposal for unification of the three branches of Methodism into the world's largest protestant denomination headed tonight toward a vote at the quadrennial conference of the M. E. church with leaders predicting speedy approval. Placed before the conference unexpectedly the proposal was made the first order of business Monday. Unification, the goal of many clergymen, would create a body of more than 8,000,000 members.

The program must be ratified by the eral conference of the three branches, the last of which meets in 1938. NICHOLAS THIES. BRIDGE BUILDER DIED LAST EVE Nicholas Thies, for 25 years a resident of this city, and who has been a contractor who had built many of the bridges of the county and also the construction work of the Santa Cruz Portland Cement company's first buildings at Davenport, died last evening at the home of his daughter. Nick Thies, as he was known by all, has been one of the leading contractors ever since came to this he city 25 years ago. Much of his bridge work was for the county.

He was born in Wisconsin 66 years ago and before coming here to reside lived in San Francisco and then at Davenport. His home for many years was on High street adjoining the Holy Cross hall, on the site which was once the county hospital in the very early days. In religious faith he was a Catholic. He was ill for four months and had been at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Frances Hill, at 11 Dake street, where he had her constant care and devotion.

He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Hill of this city and Mrs. Marion McHugh of San Francisco. The body was removed to the C. C.

Chase Mortuary. Funeral services are to be held on Tuesday morning from the C. C. Chase Mortuary, thence to Holy Cross where at 8 o'clock a high requiem mass will be sung for the repose of his soul. The interment will be at Holy Cross cemetery.

The rosary will be said on Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock at the chapel of the mortuary. 40 Orphans From S. San Francisco Have Outing Here Forty orphans came in a bus yesterday 1 from Mount St. Joseph's Orphans' Home, South San Francisco. They were accompanied by three members of the Sisters of Charity.

The orphans were given an outing on the beach and it was a wonderful day for them. In the morning they enjoyed the plunge; at noon had a lunch on the beach and in the afternoon took in a number of concessions. Black swans with red bills have been found near Singapore, Malaya. ADMITS CRIME AFTER A LONG QUIZ ORDEAL Ex-Sailor Tells of Buying Snakes and Witnessing Deed DROWNED AFTER SNAKE BITTEN Wife Tied On Back To Table and Bound And Gagged Doris Dudley (above), 18-yearold daughter of Bide Dudley, dramatic critic, shot herself in the chest with a small calibre gun at the New York apartment of Sidney Kingsley, Pulitzer prize winning dramatist. The wound was comparatively slight.

Accounts of the shooting differed. (Associated Press Photo) BOULDER CREEK CARETAKER IS KILLED BY LOG Henry Wich, 50, Hurled Down 15-Foot Embankment Henry Wich, 50-year-old Boulder Creek caretaker, was almost instantly killed shortly before 9 o'clock terday morning, when he was thrown down a 15-foot embankment by a ing curred to shift around. The accident ocsmall redwood log, he was attempton the Hazelton property, two miles above Boulder Creek on the Big Basin road. A. La Plante, deputy sheriff, and Alfred Frenz, Berkeley visitor at Boulder Creek, who witnessed the fatal accident, told Coroner Pat J.

Freeman that Wich had just felled a tree, which had a diameter of 12 inches on the stump and was trimming it. The log, 32 feet long had its top end caught behind a small madrone stump. Wich picked up the small end and lifted it over the stump, but as the log was in midair, it started to roll, catching Wich's shirt so that it wound around it in such a manner that he could not free himself. It took him down the bank and flung him on the road below with terrific force, snapping his neck and death was almost instantaneous. by a Mrs.

C. E. Dodd of The deceased had been employed Creek, but was not working on her property at the time of the fatal accident. The victim had been working in and around Boulder Creek for the past three years, most of which was spent working for Mrs. Dodd, it was said.

Coroner Freeman said that an inquest will be held at the Chase Mortuary next Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. An operation ended the 19 day hiccuping siege of Nellie Marcum, 21-year-old Hamilton, girl, The operation was to adjust a nerve in the life side of the girl's neck. All other hiccuping remedies failed. LOS ANGELES, May 2 (U.P.) District Attorney Buron Fitts gave Robert S. James a lengthy grilling tonight on accusations that he killed his wife with rattlesnake bite and drowning.

He announced late this evening that James confessed to the crime. Fitts announced James said: "If you convict me of this murder I won't squawk. I had just as well say I did it as I didn't." The district attorney and two homicide deputy sheriffs continued the questioning. They took James over the story of Charles Hope, ex-sailor, that he bought the man a box of snakes, saw him push his wife's bare leg into the box until she was bitten and later was told by the husband that he had drowned her. Hope was questioned in another room.

Investigators said he stuck to his story of seeing the young woman strapped to a table with one leg thrust into the nest of snakes. "He had the girl tied on the back to a table in the kitchen," the exsailor related. "He had adhesive tape over her eyes and mouth so she couldn't scream. He said, 'you can't get out of this thing now. Bring those things in here'." Hope said he brought in the box of snakes and James set it on the floor beside the table.

"She had only a nightgown on," Hope said. SUMMER ROUND-UP BY A. TO BE HELD WEDNESDAY The first of the summer roundups, at which the Parent-Teacher Association, through the courtesy of local doctors and dentists, offer free physical examinations to children who will enter first grade or kindergarten next year, will be held at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning at Bay View school and at the same time on Thursday at Mission Hill. Dr. S.

B. Randall and Dr. Frederick Shenk will examine children at Mission Hill, and Dr. Gordon Bunny, Dr. J.

H. Harrington and Dr. W. L. Stanley will comprise the staff at Bay View.

Diphtheria immunizations will be offered at these clinics at a cost of twenty-five cents a child, to cover expenses, for those who can pay, and will be given free for those who cannot. Infants of a year or more will be immunized, although these pre-school children are not included in the group to be examined. No child will be immunized without the signed consent of the parents. Mrs. Marie MAdams is chairman of the Bay View committee, and Mrs.

L. L. Gomes of the Mission Hill ladies. STILL IN JAIL J. L.

Carpenter, charged with disturbing the peace was still in the county jail late last night in lieu of a $50 cash or $100 property bail set at his first hearing yesterday morning in Police Judge Donald Younger's court. Carpenter, a former preacher, and at one time candidate for justice of the peace, was arrested by Merchant Patrolman Ed Jackson. Local A. To Hold Open House On Monday Eve Santa Cruz Council Parent-Teacher Association will hold "Open House" Monday evening, May 4, honoring Mrs. George Reid and her guest, Mrs.

J. A. G. Tappe of Long Beach, at the home om Mr. and Mrs.

John Ryder, 39 Peyton street. Mrs. Reid, formerly a resident of this city, was active in A. work during her residence and has a host of friends who will welcome an opportunity of meeting her and her guest. All A.

members and their friends are invited to call during the evening to meet the Long Beach visitors. Two Building Permits Given Here Yesterday Building permits issued yesterday by Clayton Staples, plumbing and building inspector, were the following: Mrs. Rosie Walker, remodeling apartments at 593 Pacific avenue, $600; Peter Tori, alteration to restaurant at 703 Pacific avenue, $150. Every farmer in Russia between the ages of 18 and 45 has been ordered to work six days a year an road construction without pay..