The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California • Page 1

U. S. WEATHER FORECAST SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY FAIR WITH TEMPERATURE ABOVE NORMAL, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY BUT COOLER NEAR COAST SUNDAY; MODERATE NORTHWEST WIND OFF THE COAST. WITH 165,700 POPULATION IS FIFTH IN CALIFORNIA AND WITH 30,167 SQUARE MILES IS LARGEST IN AREA IN AMERICA. (zLMWk5paper for Saa County, FORTY-SIXTH YEAR TWENTY FAGES So a copy 95o a month SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 21, 1939 AND THB DAB.T ORANGE BET.T NEW mm rn II II nevtwcmtio mm wmm LfL PRISON WHIPS EXAMINED ARRESTS BARE 'SHAKEDOWN' FRENCH PEACE OFFER RUMOR Armies Jockey for Position at Front TALK BARRAGE ON ARMS BILL NEARS CLOSE THE WAR IN BRIEF Small Units Skirmish on Guard William G.

Lewis, In charge of solitary and condemned row prisoners at San Quentin prison and who testified before the California state prison board that 41 prisoners at the penal institution had been whipped, is shown as he appeared before the prison board, meeting at whips he said were used to show BERLIN Official Nazi circles deny Hitler contemplates another peace move; Germany has "taken up gauntlet" and will fight war to the end. LONDON British pleased with defense performance as German planes fly over Firth of Forth but fail to bomb. PARIS Small advance patrols clash in no-man's-land on western front. HELSINKI Finland reported reliably to plan firm stand with Russia, asking that Russian "demands" be settled at once when Moscow conferences are resumed on Monday. ROME Mussolini's newspaper says In editorial that Allies will not be able to involve United States in war this time.

WASHINGTON General neutrality debate nears conclusion. ITALY SAYS U. S. fpv- United Press)- ROME, Oct. 20.

Allied diplomacy and propaganda will fail to involve the United States in the European war. Premier Benito Mussolini's newspaper Popolo d'ltalia said to day in a front page editorial. The newspaper asserted that the extent of America's aid to Britain and France most likely will be limited by the amount of ready cash the Allies have available. "An important battle, which can influence the development if not the outcome of the war, is being fought 4,000 miles r.way from the European front," the newspaper said. "This is the battle between the supporters and opponents of amendments to the United States neutrality law.

"Many persons will try to guess from what occurs on the banks of the Potomac what will happen' on the Rhine. "France and England stake much on the American card. Their diplomacy, propaganda, financial, industrial and military agents weave over America threads of sentimental, political and commercial solidarity. "But in this war, in which the (Continued on Page Two) Negro Dies in Gas Chamber for Slaying (By United Press) SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Oct. 20.

With his eyes taped with gauze, William Green, 39-year-old Fresno Negro, died in the San Quentin lethal gas chamber today for the slaying of W. G. Leek, a 69- year-old recluse. For the first time since the gas chamber was adopted for executions here a condemned man's eyes were covered, to spare the witnesses the ordeal of watching his eyes roll as the fumes reached him. Green was pronounced dead 14 minutes after pills of cyanide dropped into a pan of acid, pro duced the lethal fumes.

ILL NOT FIGH RACKET IN L. A. 'Higherups' in State Board of Equalization Linked With Alleged Liquor Scandal SIX TAKEN INTO CUSTODY Southland Cafe, Bar Operators Declared Forced to Pay for Protection of Licenses (Bv Associated Press) LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20. With half a dozen men under arrest in connection with an asserted liquor dealers' shakedown racket, Dis trict Attorney Buron Fitts dicated today at least two "higherups" connected with the state board of equaliza tion would be brought into his investigation.

One of those arrested was Gilbert Forte, former district supervisor for the board or eauanzation in down town Los Angeles and transferred last Aug. 3 to Long Beach. Fitts announced another board official, O. B. Lavalle, supervising liquor control officer in charge of the wholesale division, was taken int temporary custody for questioning." It was stated no charges had been filed against him, 'Collector Poses as Salesman of Liquor In formal custody together with Forte were: Ed Levine, local political figure described by Fitts as the "brains" of the group, which he declared had demanded payoffs from cafe operators under threat of loss of their liquor permits.

Max Joskowitz, former Chicago bartender, declared by the district attorney to have been collector for the combination. Leon Cline, hotel and cafe operator. Ray Huntsman, identified by Fitts as the "strongarm" member of the syndicate and suspected of making collections while acting as a liquor salesman. Violations Declared Permitted for Price An unidentified young attorney against whom Fitts said evidence is as yet insufficient to warrant asking an indictment. The district attorney declared his investigation was producing new developments as the inquiry widened and all evidence would be presented to the county grand jury next Tuesday with a request for indictments.

Fitts declared evidence indicated (Continued on Page Two) Sinclair Hits Ha and Eggs Plan 'Illusion' (By Associated Press) LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20. Upton Sinclair, Socialist writer and Dem ocratic nominee for governor of California in 1934, emphatically condemned the ham and eggs pension plan tonight. In a manuscript of a radio speech Sinclair called the plan a "menacing illusion." He expressed belief if the voters adopt it Nov. 7, it "will bring chaos and suffering to our state and set back the movement for economic security for many years." The plan calls for payments of $30 in warrants every Thursday to qualified persons of more than 50 years of age.

In his race for governor, Sinclair proposed a state pension of $50 a month for persons 60 years old and over. He recalled this tonight but said he knew of no way by which it could be paid except through operation of a state system of production-for-use for the unemployed. Such a system was the main plank in his platform for governor. Of the "Ham and Eggs" plan, he said: "Many people in our state are in such-, a mood of desperation that San Quentin, and cut open one of they were not loaded. Another whip INQUIRIES SEEN (By Associated Press) SAN QUENTIN, Oct.

20. Possibility of two rival hearings into charges of brutality at San Quen tin prison meeting in the penitenti ary simultaneously next Monday developed tonight. The board of prison directors adjourned its hearing over the weekend because of "unusual unrest" resulting from the investigations and an execution which delayed start of today's session half an hour. It granted permission to an attorney for John G. Clark, director of penology, to resume his investi gation over the week-end if he saw fit.

But Clark said tonight he would renew his investigations before Monday. The fact the directors would be holding a simultaneous hearing, he said, would not pre vent him from resuming his inquiry if we find it desirable or helpful." Clark's hearing was broken off Wednesday by two of the directors, who adopted a resolution today directed at him. It forbade the paroling of any convict to a member of the board of prison directors or the board of prison terms and paroles. Clark is chairman of the parole board. T.

N. Harvey, prison director (Continued on Page Two) 1 Sayre A rrives In Philippines (By United Press) MANILA, P. Oct. 31. (Satur day) Francis B.

Sayre, former assistant secretary of state, arrived here today to take over his new position as U. S. high commissioner to the Philippines and was greeted at 'the dock by Commonwealth President Manuel Quezon and a ciowd of more than 10,000. Sayre succeeds Paul B. McNutt, who resigned this year to accept a Federal appointment.

DUAL FLUGGING the SAID 'ABSURD' Fuehrer, Closest Advisers Map Retaliatory Plans Against Turkey, Pact Partners MINISTERS ARE SUMMONED Nazis Direct Angry Warnings Toward Ankara, Attempt to Minimize New Blow (By United Press) BERLIN, Oct. 20. Germany has "taken up the gauntlet" where Britain and France threw it down and there will be a war to the finish on the western front, an official statement said tonight in angry denial of reports that Fuehrer Adolf Hitler is contemplating: a new peace offer. The official D.N.B. agency described as "absurd" reports that Hitler planned to make a new peace offer to the French, possibly through a third power, after halting his armies at the German frontier and failing to push on to French soil.

Germany Taking Up Gauntlet of Allies "The situation needs no further clarification," said the D.N.B. statement. "England and France rejected the fuehrer's hand of peace. They threw down the gauntlet a Germany has taken it up." It was stressed that Germany's version of the fighting on the western front the pushing back of French troops from German soil-was factual in contrast with enemy communiques. "To claim to see a 'peace offensive' in this is completely absurd," it was stated.

Retaliation Toward Turkey Pact Studied Hitler and his closest advisers were in conference throughout the day and evening, mapping retaliatory measures against Turkey's entrance into a tri-power mutual aid pact with Great Britain and France. The fuehrer was understood to have summoned home his ambassadors to Italy, Turkey and Soviet Russia to discuss "the further warlike complications" said hers to have been created by Turkey's decision. 'Quick Reactions' Promised by Nazis The German ambassador to Turkey, Baron Fran von Papen, arrived from Ankara and immediately went into a conference with Hitler and Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop at the chancellery. The meeting lasted several hours. Although Nazi leaders sought to minimize the blow of the tri-power Mediterranean pact, it was evident that it virtually had shattered Nazis' hopes of destroying Anglo-French influence in the Near East, Angry warnings were directed to (Continued on Page Two Heads of Cotton Pickers' Strike Clapped in Jail py Associated r-ressj MADERA, Oct.

20. Seven teen men named by cotton growers as leaders of striking C.I.O. cotton pickers were taken into custody to night by sheriff's deputies on warrants issued by the Madera county district attorney. The men were seized at a strikers' mass meeting in the county park two hours after expiration of a deadline set in a notice sent to Gov. Culbert L.

Olson that state officers would have to agree to take action against strike activities, or the growers would "take matters into their own hands." Deputies moved in among a crowd of between 2,000 and 3,000: persons, and arrested the men, one by one. They were taken to the county jalL SACRAMENTO, Oct. 20. Continued tension in tbe Madera county cotton strike area makes Immediate attempt at mediation futile, the governor's office announced tt day. Nazi Planes Flee After 'Invasion' (By Associated Press) LONDON, Oct.

20. Invading German warplanes flew over the strategic Firth of Forth again today but dropped no bombs and es caped anti-aircraft fire and British fighting planes which went up to meet them. Air attacks on British naval strongholds had been expected one authority said. He added the defenders' performance in shooting down eight German planes during earlier raids was "encouraging." On the western front, Britain buttressed the allied "waiting wall' with fresh troops and counted as a gain every day of mud and every delay of a possible wide-scale German offensive. British military authorities disclosed the flow of troops which put 158,000 British soldiers on French soil in the first five weeks of the war had been continued and might soon be increased.

Allies Strengthen. Forces at Front Allied armies gradually being strengthened were described as dig ging in for the winter in the block ade by land and sea to starve Germany out. Reviewing minor "experimental" actions of the week, one authority declared: "We are one week nearer winter. Each week makes the chance of German large scale operations that much less." He added "if we ever expect to win this war" the military resources of the whole empire must be de veloped. He disclosed ministers from the dominions would map such developments at a London conference.

The Nazi planes over the Firth of Forth today second such flight in five days flew at extremely high altitudes and defending aircraft took up pursuit so quickly no bombs were dropped. British Aircraft Warn of Approach Gunfire was heard and civilians saw British airc-aft before the warning sirens were sounded. An all-clear signal was given within 30 minutes in part of the area and a short time later the alarm had been lifted throughout the nation. On the home front a national tribunal awarded railway workers the 50 shillings (about $10) a week mini mum they asked in a strike threatened just before war broke out but which was called off. The award is subject to accept ance by workers and employers.

It would involve wage increases totaling nearly 1,000,000 (about About 350,000 Lancashire cotton workers were granted a 12M per cent wage increase. The board of education started school children gathering acorns and beech nuts to feed pigs. A memorandum sent to 10,000 rural schools said acorns were more nour ishing than oats and beans. Two Hollywood Marriages Fail (By United Press) HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 20.

Two movie marriages went awry today, with Gale Page, pretty actress, slipping quietly into court to win a default divorce and the former Mar-jorie Daw of the films filing suit for divorce. Miss Page obtained a divorce from Frederick T. Tritschler, Chicago investment banker. She wore dark glasses and used her married name of Sally R. Tritschler so that court clerks did not learn her identity until she had gone.

A Marjorie Daw filed suit against Myron Selznick, motion picture agent, charging extreme cruelty. They had been married 10 years and 10 months, she said, and asserted his conduct often caused her embarrassment and humiliation. 'Gratuitous Insult' Offered to Canada by Lindbergh, Says Democrat of Michigan FLIER'S AUTHORITY SCORED Consideration of Amendments to Measure Expected to Begin In Senate Next Week (Bv Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. A barrage of short speeches from both sides carried the Senate's general neutrality debate toward a close today with Senator Brown, Michigan Democrat, asserting Col.

Charles A. Lindbergh offered Canada a "gratuitous insult" in a recent radio speech. The Michigan Senator, supporting the administration move to repeal the embargo on arms shipments to belligerents, referred to an address in which the famous flier caned for retention of an embargo on "of fensive weapons" and virtually demanded Canada cut her link to Britain. Asserting if Canada should be attacked from abroad, the United States would have to defend that country, Lindbergh simultaneously questioned tie dominion's "right lej draw us int a European war simply because they prefer the crown of England to American independence." 'Unasked Advice to Canada Draws Fire Brown charged Lindbergh was trying to deny Canada the control of her own affairs and thus was encouraging "the spirit of nationalistic imperialism that has cursed the world for centuries and which is the potent poison that has killed peace." He challenged Lindbergh's statements and his authority to make them. The flier, he continued, speaks on no one's authority whatsoever but his own, and "does not represent the views of any considerable part of the American people." He added: "His argument as to the right of the United States to deny Canada control of its own affairs and his unasked advice that the connection with Great Britain be cut is not only a gratuitous insult to a sister nation.

It is based on a wholly erroneous concept of our continental policy." All-Day Speech by-Reynolds Expected Because the day's oratory got a number of scheduled speeches out of the way, the administration leadership expected Monday or early next week would find the Senate ready to begin the consideration of amendments. An all-day speech by Senator Reynolds, North Carolina Democrat, was scheduled for tomorrow. Among other speakers of the day, (Continued on Page Two) She Prefers Jail To Mental Test (Bv Associated Press) LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20. Rather than submit to a psychiatric examination, Arlynne Sherman, 23, daughter of Harry Sherman, film producer, began serving a six months' jail term today.

Municipal Judge Byron L. Wal ters described her as a "spoiled child, who has more money than is good for her and has made up her mind she can do no wrong." After Miss Sherman was convict ed of three traffic violations Judge Walter offered her probation, if she would let a psychiatrist determine whether there was a psychological reason for her "nonconformist" at titude. Tommy Manville to Stand at Altar Again (By Associated Press) HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 20. Elinor Troy, who came here three months ago to enter picture work, boarded a chartered plane tonight for New York, where she said she would marry Tommy Manville, asbestos fortune heir, upon her arrival.

The wedding will be Manville's fifth and Misa Troy's third. German Soil (By Associated Press) PARIS, Oct. 20. Small patrols of French and Ger man advance guards were re ported tonight to have skir mished in no-man's-land on the western front as the two armies jockeyed for posses sion of isolated heights and small wooded areas to strengthen their new lines. Military dispatches from the front indicated the no-man's-land about a mile wide separating the new positions of the two forces lay wholly in German territory.

Activity Confined To Small Regions The French line marking the more or less active front, apparent ly followed almost exactly along the frontier to which the French withdrew before a German attack the first of the week. The outpost activity was said to have been confined mostly to the twd areas Where Germans attacked in force just east of the Moselle river and between Saarbruecken and Zweibruecken in the center of the northern flank. Officer, 50 Men Lost During Patrol A French disclosure that a unit of one officer and 50 men was lost during a dawn patrol indicated to military observers the seriousness of the effort being made by both sides to cover their new positions. The patrols were operating In a cold, heavy rain which has fallen generally on northern and eastern France for four days. Meanwhile, French artillery shelled the German road from Perl to Sehndorf, just across the frontier near Luxembourg, in an effort to break up reported troop concentrations at the point where Germans gained a toe-hold on French soil earlier in the week.

Bombers Set for British Delivery (Bv Associated Press) BURBANK, Oct. 20. Four bi-motored reconnaissance bombers bearing British royal air force in signia left Union air terminal today under secret orders. Beyond saying they had left, of ficials of the Lockheed Aircraft cor poration, which manufactured them, declined to indicate their destination. They were believed to be destined for Newark, N.

as part of 60 "in terned" planes built on order of the British government and to be held pending determination of the Federal embargo. Ninety of a total of 60 bombers ordered by Britain at a cost of 000,000 remained undelivered when the United States neutrality act was imposed at the outbreak of the European war. the Athenia, was revealed last Tuesday to have filed an affidavit with the state department in Washington stating that the liner carried guns, although none actually were mounted. (Anderson quoted officers of the Athenia as telling him that the guns were to be used for coastal defenses at Halifax and Quebec). On the basis of its interpretation of Anderson's statements, the official German news agency D.N.B.

said that "responsibility for the sinking of the steamer and the deaths of hundreds of people rests solely with Winston Churchill." The German statement laid stress on Anderson's purported report that the Athenia, after being kept afloat for 14 hours, finally was sunk by (Continued on Page Two). lies in front of Lewis. FREED OF (By United Press) Oct. 20. President Roosevelt today drew a sharp line of differentiation be tween surface fighting ships such as those with which Britain controls the seas and submarines on which Germany is basing its hope of smashing the British blockade.

He gave indication that his proclamation outlawing undersea-craft within three miles of America's coastlines probably will not apply to surface vessels. Mr. Roosevelt's differentiation between submersibles and surface vessels would apply to British and German ships alike. In practical effect, however, his assignment of surface fighters to a category different from submarines would have little effect on the "pocket battle ships" of Nazi Germany which would be unlikely to appear in American waters unless the British blockade is broken. He mentioned neither Britain nor Germany by name.

Arriving at his Hyde Park home for a week-end holiday, Mr. Roosevelt was asked at a press confer ence about the basis on which his (Continued on Page Two) Alaska to Get Two ational uard nits (Bv United Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. Secre tary of War Harry Woodring announced tonight that two national guard units will be formed immediately in Alaska as part of the program to strengthen the national defense. He said that the order is in response to a joint memorial by the Alaskan legislature.

It will mark the first time a national guard unit has been established in the territory. Dr. Ernest H. Gruening, newly named Alaskan governor, also recently urged the action on Woodring and Gen. George C.

Marshall, chief of staff. of the concessions, preparing today for a record week-end attendance, as the advanced Oct. 29 closing date nears. The fair board of managers obtained from' Federal Judge Harold Louderback a restraining order under which the exposition may continued to operate under its present control, until closing date. The order also prohibits anyone from bringing actions to collect debts.

As the suit was filed, the exposition management issued a one-sentence statement, which said merely: "In anticipation of the liquidation of its affairs following exposition close Oct. 29, 1939, the exposition company has filed a petition with the United States district court for assistance to the end that an orderly and equitable liquidation of its affairs may be carried out." SURFACE SHIPS 1 'Athenia Crime Proved Blare German Headlines Bay City Fair Asks Court Aid in Liquidating Debts (By Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20. The San Francisco world's fair management filed proceedings under a special section of the emergency bankruptcy laws in Federal court late today, stating help of the court was sought for "an orderly and equitable liquidation of its affairs." The petition listed debts of $4,606,914. The proceedings were filed under chapter 11, a section of the bankruptcy laws to enable a composition of debts for unsecured creditors.

Suit may be filed in this way only by those threatened with involuntary bankruptcy proceedings, attorneys explained. Assets were listed but not evaluated in the petition. The list contained chiefly a description of the various buildings of the Golden Gate international exposition, and (By United Press) BERLIN, Oct. 21. (Saturday An official Nazi account published by newspapers today under headlines "Athenia Crime Proved!" said that an American survivor, Gustav A.

Anderson, had established that the British liner was sunk on Sept. 3 at "the command" of Winston Churchill, first lord of the British admiralty. The Germans stubbornly have denied the British claim that a Nazi submarine torpedoed and sank the Athenia on the first day of the war and have said that Britain ordered the vessel destroyed in order to arouse American anger against Germany, because many American refugees from the European war zones were aboard. Anderson, a travel bureau operator of Evanston, who was on (Cspntinued on Pags Two)..