Stockton Independent from Stockton, California • 1

See Settlement Near In Strike Of 400,000 Miners itth PORT STOCKTON 685 Ocean-going Vessels Have Docked Here If you fail to get your Independent on time each morning Phone 55 SUCCEEDING STOCKTON EVENING NEWS AND STOCKTON INDEPENDENT VOL. 159 NO. 73 EST. 1856 STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1935 50c A MONTH NUT Ml Lots Of Flashes By UNITED PRESS (lull leased Wire) Wise and Otherwise By A. L.

BANKS Beheaded, Mutilated Men Start Horror House Hunt Victims Guillotined After Tortured by Surgical Emasculation CLEVELAND, Sept. 23. UP Poice and Cuyahoga County authorities tonight sought a "house of horrors, an insane sadist with a flare for surgery and a guillotine complex, in an effort to solve the decapitation murder of two men. One of the victims was identified late tonight as Andrew W. Andrassy, 26.

The identity of the other still HAVING business the City Auditors office yesterday, I had my annual meeting with my former co-worker Chester (Cap) Rim-ington. A good boy and a fine man, he is. 'Cap never changes, except to grow better looking. Been 12 years in the Auditors office. Came first to the City Clerks office when we put in the municipal license tax.

That was a piece of rush legislation designed to provide revenue that had been lost to the city through prohibition. Complicated and cumbersome procedure. Many classifications. Graded on gross receipts. A mussy mess it was when we opened that April day and sent word for business men to come in and disgorge.

I was all excitement and Cap wouldn't get excited over anything. We had a wonderfully efficient supervisor, however. Mrs. Freel, efficient and dependable, was always ready to straighten the kinks She was precise and methodical. Always knew what she was about.

Always ready to help some other person who was not so sure of himself. The Clerk must have driven her to near despair at times. How she stood it I don't know. And always pleasant and considerate, too. There was never in Stockton or any other city a more faithful, efficient, unselfish and, loyal public employe than was Navara Freel.

How well I know it! Well, anyhow, during the first year of that license Cap, Navara Freel and the Clerk collected considerably over $130,000. Just about the time we got to easy going, the new charter came along and took the collections, over to the Auditors office, so Cap Rim-ington went with them. He has been there ever since, and he is the right man on the job. Mrs. Freel and I have been private citizens for several years and are not sorry.

There is a chapter in municipal history that explains the shift. Have heard more discussion of that political deal the last five days than for 5 years. Since beginning to write this I have answered a phone message asking me to come to a private meeting and tell about it. Would you go? TOM STRIBLEY is evidently not unqualifiedly satisfied with our achievements. He writes to me: Dear Al: A short time ago I read a full page adv.

on the history of Stockton for 80 years and the achievements of the last 12 years, and while my memory does not go back quite that far, nevertheless, it does go back to the greatest and last half of that period. I might say that as an industrial city Little Stockton had it all over Greater Stockton. While at the present time we have a great deal of seasonable employment in those days 60 per cent of the residents were artisans and mechanics, employed regularly. Take, for instance, the corner of Wilson Way and Main streets, at present occupied by a service station and a few small business places. I have worked there when hundreds of mechanics made their living there, namely, at the Ship-pee Harvester Works.

The first street cars for the Stockton electric railroad were built there. At the same time we had four flour mills running to capacity manufacturing establishments such as Houser Haines, Holt Mat-teson Williams, Stockton lion Works, etc. I wonder if any citizen has been able to keep free from moths the clothing that was made at the Woolen Mills. In the old days we used to parade Main street on Saturday nights enjoying the sights of win- Furniture Storage Private Rooms Stored Right Priced Right jj Billings Testify For Mooney Plea SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23.

(UP) The shifting spotlight of Thomas J. Mooneys 18-year fight for freedom from San Quentin Prison veered tonight to Folsom Prison and Warren K. Bitilngs, forgotten man of the internationally famous 3916 San Francisco preparedness day bombing. Tomorrow morning, Billings, the diminutive shoemaker-labor agitator, will be released from Folsom for the first time sine he and Mooney were convicted in 1917 of perpetrating the holiday dynamite outrage which claimed the lives of 10 persons and injured 36 others. STRANGE CRISIS His appearance as a witness at hearings on Mooneys habeas corpus action was ordered today by the State Supreme Court in special session.

The Courts order precipitated a strange situation one in which Billings may seek to avoid testifying for his one-time friend. Although it is generally conceded that an order for Mooneys release also would mean freedom for Billings, indications today were that the Folsom prisoner may resort to legal action to avoid appearing in court in Mooneys behalf, BITTER FOES The two men have been bitter enemies for several years, since a disagreement arose over policies to be pursued, in their freedom flight. J. P. CARROLL, FORMER FIRE CHIEF IS DEAD James P.

Carroll, for eight years fire chief in Stockton and for four years a deputy sheriff under the late Thomas Cunnihgham, died in Oakland Sunday where he had lived for the past five years with his daughter, Miss Gwendolyn Carroll. The funeral will be held today from the chapel of Pe Young and Conklin, thence to St. Mary's Catholic Church, where services will be held at 1 p. m. ONE OF TWINS Carroll and his twin brother, Michael O.

Carroll, a former detective on the local police force who died two years ago, were born in New London, in 1852. The parents, Michael and Mary Carroll were on their way from Ireland to California and the twins were a year old when the parents arrived in Stockton. Carroll spent 25 years here in public service. After a term in service in the sheriff's office he became head of the Stockton fire department. He retired and for eight years was a director in the South San Joaquin Irrigation District.

For four years he was manager of the Stockton baseball team and during that time won the pennant of the coast league one year. Carroll married Miss Nellie C. Dempsey, daughter of the pioneer William Dempsey family. She was the mother of Alfred Carroll of Atlanta and Miss Gwendolyn Car-roll of Oakland. Her death occurred in 1921.

Interment will be beside her grave in the family plot at the San Joaquin Cemetery. Beside his son and daughter, Carroll also leaves a sister, Mrs. Annie S. Murphy of Atlanta. Olson Gains From Bullet Wound Albert E.

Olson, 47, Stockton garage owner, continued to show improvement at Bret Harte Sani-torium at Murphys where he is suffering from a bullet wound suffered accidently on a hunting trip in Alpine county a week ago. Physicians stated, however that he is not yet out of danger. The bullet struck him in the right side of the chest and ranged upward through the lung. Weather Fair Sacramento and San Joaquin Yallejs Fair weather and normal temperature today and Wednesday; gentle changeable winds. San Francisco Bay Region-Fair and mild today and Wednesday; overcast night and morning; moderate west wind.

Northern California Fair weather and normal temperature today and Wednesday; fog on the coast; moderate northwest wind off the coast. TEMPERATURES High yesterday 79 Low 50 IU1 Ini LOVE IN FLIGHT Juan Ignacio lombo, 21, new from Spain to Mexico to meet his sweetheart, Elena Rivera, but arrived only a few hours before she sailed for Spain. esterday In New York, a reporter, who thought she spoke only Spanish, asked an interpreter to ask her will you marry me mini. in perieci Engusn, me rsenorita replied, 'u no can tell? MURDER HERE RESULTS IN U. S.

MANHUNT Search for the slayer of Roderick Gordon. Western Pacific special officer who was brutally murdered hero September 8, has become a nation-wide manhunt. Sheriff Odells staff stated yesterday. Chief Criminal Deputy Ernest Hill revealed yesterday that arrests and examinations have been made in several eastern and middlewestern cities and that railroad officials throughout the nation are on the watch for suspects. Deputy Sheriff Rudy Weber returned from Ventura yesterday with two Negroes believed to have been members of a marihuana party' in the Western Pacific freight yards a few hours before Gordon was killed.

The two Negroes are Jack (Coast Line Johnny) Rogers, 35, and Jack (Deuce in the Hole) Brady, 65. Both men stoutly denied being members of the party and both disclaimed knowledge of West Coast" Negro suspect who is known to have been in the vicinity the night of the killing. CHAMBER TO HONOR DAIRY LEADER HERE Owners of high-bred dairy herds in the county will be entertained at a dinner Thursday night, sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. The guest of honor will be C. A.

Webster, wh6 recently purchased a herd of 88 pure-bred Herefords. San Joaquin county is building up a coast-wise fame as a center for high-bred dairy stock. The Webster herd is the largest unit moved into the county in history. Representatives of the State Department of Agriculture, the extension service of University of California, and leading dairymen have been invited to attend. The dinner will be at Hotel Stockton at 8 p.

m. Native Sons Thank Police For Fete Aid In appreciation of the manner in which traffic was handled during the Native Sons parade heic September 9, the following letter from the Native Sons committee was received Police Chief Frank H. Fredericks yesterday; Chief of Police Frank II. Frede-i icks: Dear fiiend This is to acknowledge your wonderful co-operation given to us in our parade of September 9. Without your aid and organiza tion, much of the bautv, smoothness and apparent ease with which our parade moved would have been lacking.

Please accept our verv sincere appreciation for your aid on that day. Sincerely, John R. Williams, ohaiiman. Ray Ftiedhergei. secretary.

J. P.iordan, finance. Walter Rolhcnbush, grand ft U. S.ftRBITE SMILING OVER PEACE EFFORTS What Strike Means Told in Brief; Miners Wait U. S.

Orders WASHINGTON, Sept. 23. (UP) Early settlement of the bituminous, coal strike, involving 400,000 miners, was indicated tonight when Union leaders and operators ended a friendly conference and agreed to meet again tomorrow Aftr conferring at a hotel for four hours and a half the representatives of labor and capital said there was no necessity for a night session. They adjourned and went to dinner. WAIT ORDERS Throughout the nation, meanwhile 400,000 miners were staying away from work, waiting for their leaders either to rescind the strike call or send out orders for a prolonged walk-out.

For almost the first time since the negotiations started early yesterday, Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward F. McGrady had a smile on fys face when the conference broke up. The situation looks hopeful," he said, very hopeful. In fact, I am figuring on catching a plane tomorrow and going up to New York to see the Baer-Louis fight." WHAT IT MEANS (By The Lnited Press) The bituminous coal strike at a glance: Four hundred thousand members of the United Miner Workers of America are on strike in Helds from Pennsylvania to the West Coast. No violence reported.

Representatives of operators and the Union continued their negotiations in Washington Monday with indications that President Roosevelt would not intervene immediately. DISPUTE CAUSE Cause of the dispute: Renewel of the wage contracts which expired Sunday midnight and automatically precipitated the strike. What the miners want: An increase of 10 cents a ton on coal mined on a tonnage basis: An increase of 50 cents a day in the pay of men who work by the day. What the operators offer: An increase of 6.9 cents a ton on the tonnage basis: An increase of 40 cents a day for by-the-day workers. MINERS PAY The average soft coal miner works 162 days a year at a average salary of $4.97 day, giving him an annual income of $806.

The Union wants to raise this average to $5.67 a day, which amounts to $919 a year. So far, operators have refused to go past $5.40 a day. Broadly speaking, the miners are asking an average wage increase of 10 per cent. Effect on the public and the price of coal: none immediately; there is a 53-day supply of soft coal for the nation already above ground. LEGION STAND ST.

LOUIS, Sept. 23. (UP) The American Legion opened its 1935 National Convention in St. Louis new municipal auditorium today, striking as its keynote an insistence on the perpetuation of American traditions and principles, ANIMALS FRIEND DIES CHICAGO, Sept. 23.

(UP) Throughout the 84 years of his life Vito Labriola was kind to animals and befriended many stray dogs and cats. He was dead today. He stooped to pet a kitten and fell down a stairway. MEAN THIEVES KANSAS CITY, Sept. 23.

(UP) Police had in Willie Smith and Jake Richardson a pair of mean thieves. They stole automobiles, stripped them, but saved the keys so that they couli do a return job after the cars were again outfitted. dow shopping at Rosenbaum3, Hale going as far as Austins to view the display of mechanics tools. We would go across the street to enjoy a glass of Valley Brew at Henry Hermann's, then down to Julius Johns to get a package of cheroots, and late in the evening go home. We did not have to pack around purses as large as valises, but they had a golden jingle.

Now, my idea of achievement is when a party can take a run down farm and make a success of it without running the stockholders into debt for caterpillars and all kinds of folderoll. The dividend is what counts. I think I had better ring off, as under present conditions I will be considered an old grouch, but I will still claim that those I were happy days. Yours truly, (Signed) TOM STRIBLEY. CHURCH LABOR PLEA CLEVELAND, Sept.

23. (I P) Thousands of Catholics from all over America, assembled in a huge Lakeside Cathedral, tonight heard Postmaster General James A. Farley make an appeal for industrial peace between employer and employe and world peace between nation and nation. TELLY FLEA GUILTY SU3ANVILLE, Sept. 23.

(UP) Thomas T. Tully, 24, son of Jim Tully, famed hero novelist, today was sentenced to serve from one to 50 years imprisonment when he pleaded guilty to a statutory charge. "I would gladly submit to hanging if that would wipe the slate clean for the girl and her family, the youth told Sheriff OUf Johnson. IP TO ARBITER SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23.

(UP) Settlement of the Hot Cargo," dispute between Longshoremen and waterfront employers will be up to Judge M. C. Sloss, aibi-trator, it was indicated late today. SEN. LEWIS I K.

I INC. MOSCOW. Sept. 23. UP) If.

S. Sen. J. Hamilton Lewis fought powerfully tonight, against the spread of bronchial pneumonia to his left lung and physicians neld out a of hope that, he might survive despite his 72 years. SCHOOL STRIKE ENDS PITTSBURG, Sept.

The iron house school strike of It students ended today whmi patents of five strikers'' appeared before Justiro of lie Pervc Wade Home and announced that their children would return to class. ACTOR CHEW ED HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 23. -(IT) Physicians fought tonight to save Charles Fiekford, brawny he-man of the movies, from 'jungle poisoning" infection in the neck, where he was chewed by an enraged lion this afternoon while filming scenes for East of Java. SUES VIGILANTES SAN FRANCISCO, Sept.

23. (UP) A suit for damages against Fred Cairns, secretary of the Heraldsburg Chamber of Commerce and asserted leader of a vigilante mob which tarred and feathered two asserted radicals in Santa Rosa last month, was filed in Federal Court today by Jack Green, victim of the mob TIIFASIRY SHORTAGE SACRAMENTO, Sept. 23. (CP) Accounts of William rt. Shearer, 71, missing State Treasury Cashier are short $14,813, State Treasurer Charles G.

Johnson claimed today. He said the method of auditing Shearers accounts had been changed to make future peculations impossible. Missing funds nro adequately coveied by bonds, he said. S. F.

FAIR, AIDED SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23. CUP) Officials of San Franciscos projected 1938 exposition celebrating completion of the Golden Gato and San Ft and-co-Oakland Bay bridges tonight were informed by telegraph that President Roosevelt has approved a $3,010,120 WPA allocation for reclamation of Verba Buena Shoals, midbay fair site. BIRTH ONTKOI. CHICAGO, Sept.

23. (UP) -Dr. Leo J. Latz. president of the Lata Foundation, is an authority on the so-called rhythm" theory of birth control.

Today lie was also father of a six- pound bov. (ppireiillr people lire celling more npprt-eiu-tiie himI Getting Thirstier 11 of t.t ah I i.s', 1 i) LU-1 i- v. U- i 1-p-v i I in 1 in in i in i n-t oi 1 1 i 1 1 ii 1O-jin i'd 1 I .1 a i.f SMto la-ard of i aa 1 1 n. This iltad "Trir f- i win- i -1 i fn 1i'Ui .1 i- i -u -t hit i. 'll 1 w.

II ill i.u i 1 VALLEY BREW Order from Pruf Store Dealer, or Phone 34 ITALY MAKING HUGE BLUFF SAYS ETHIOPIA British Air Fleet Masses Close to Intended Scene of War (Copyright 1935 By lnited Press) ROME, Sept. 23. (UP) Premier Benito Mussolini and British Ambassador Sir Erie, Drummond conferred tonight on the critical international situation. Jt was reported without continuation that they discussed a plan to return Ilalo-Ethiopian peace discussions to the 1906 treaty powers Britain, France and Italy. The British envoys visit to the Venice palace followed announcement at Geneva that the League Committee of five had given up efforts to find a compromise and would throw the question back to the council for decision on possible penalities against Italy.

REVIVE QUERIES Officials were silent as to purpose of the visit but the United Press learned from reliable diplomatic sources that the League, the Mediterranean naval situation and the plan to revive three-power talks were The original three-power negotiations blew up in Paris a month ago w'hen Mussolini turned down a plan for collective government of Ethiopia, with military safeguards and economic concessions to Italy. These conversations were held under the 1906 treaty in which the thiec powers recognize each others spheres of influence in Ethiopia. AIR FLEET GATHERS jLCjm.VJ'ighfc -J JAy-UnifretE -Press) DJIBOUTI. French Somaliland. Sept.

23. UP) Within easy flying distance of Addis Ababa, or the Italian military ports in Eritrea, a British air fleej is being assembled at Aden, across the Straits of Bab El Mandeb. French Officials said today that the planes arc being groomed lor two possibilities; 1. Quick flight to Addis Ababa to evacuat British Nationls or 2: Enforcement of sanctions against Italy if voted by the League jo Nations. FEAR BLACKS DJIBOUTI, French Somaliland, Tuesday, Sept.

21. (UP) Fear of an uprising ot Amoas colored peoples in common cause against the whites as result of the threatened Italian invasion of Ethiopia, today caused colonial powers in East Africa, to act drastically to control their native subjects. Military forces were strengthened on the borders of British Somaliland, Kenya, Uganda, and the Sudan. The French sent a detachment of Senegalese to Alisabiet, last outpost of French Somaliland. DUCKS BLUFF ADDIS ABABA, Sept.

23. (UP) Emperor llaile Selassies advisers were convinced tonight that Premier iSnillo Mussolini was pulling 'the most costly bluff in history. The said his latest proposals for peaceful settlement of the Italo-Ethiopian dispute are unworthy of consideration and deserving only of ridicule. They are unthinkable from the Ethiopian point of view. TERRITORY.

ABSURD The absuidity of territorial cessions when even Italys railroad proposal, involving construction across Eastern Ethiopia from Eritrea to Italian Somaliland, is unacceptable, must be evident, officials said. And tc think that the Ethiopian army would tolerate Italian commanders is to think that it is an army of children, they asserted. EEAl.LE REJECTS (Copyright 1955 15v United Press) GENEVA. Sept. 23.

(L I') lie League of Nations refused today to settle the Italo-Kthiopian quarrtl on Premier Benito Mussolini terms. Rejection of the dictators counter-proposals by the League Committee of Five dealt an unexpectedly prompt and seveic reburf to the fiist Italian gesture toward conciliation. Ethiopia placed itself in a favorable position by announcing to the committee its acceptance of the Committee of Five proposals as a bnus of negotiation. oultrymen See Sport Pictures Spoils pictures Liken in Germany at the plce where the lh3h Olympic games winter sports wii be held, were shown at a meeting i of the San Joaquin Poultrv Clua in Pythian Cattle last. nigiM.

QU.U KIDNAPID MORS. Ilpi Little Bright Eyes." the wooden Indian mjiuiw who lias stood outside W. H. Dixons cigar' store for 8-1 years, was kidnaped today. Dixon said she was the only vood-en squaw the state.

Death Fans Hopper Of Dp iasey rame KANSAS CITY', Sept. 23. (UP) The booming bass from the sick room assured the doctor that ail was well. It was the cocky voice of Ko-Ko, Lord High Executioner of Titipu, It was the mocking tone of Dick Deadeye, the sailor man, and the boast of Casey before he went to bat. In short, it was the voice of William De Wolf Hopper, grand old man of the stage.

The voice was a little tired and at dawn today it was forever stilled. RESTING, NOT SICK The 77-year-old trouper died in his sleep of heart disease complicated by bronchial trouble. Trouper to the last, lie made his Sunday afternoon broadcast ns narrator for a musical program while seriously ill. His last words to the doctor: Tell em Im resting, not sick. Go on home Doc, I never go to sleep before three.

MIGHTY CASEY A few minutes later, it was again the voice of Mighty Casey who asked a nurse how the Cubs come out. He laughed gleefully when he learned it was 18 straight for his home team. He was probably baseballs most famous It was his recitations of Casey at the bat some 10,000 times that made the ballad a part of. the. National game.

He was more famous for the poem than its author, Ernest L. Thayer, who had it first published In the San Francisco Examiner in 1886. Til probably stand up on resurrection morn and repeat the lines, Hopper once said. SIX WIVES Not a friend was near when he died. His sixth wife, visiting with her parents in Oakland, California, had not been notified that Hopper was ill.

She received the news in Oakland today and said she would fly here tomorrow. The actors body will be cremated and the ashes placed in the family vault, she said. But his personality and talent had made itself felt over two generations. And none who had ever heard him could forget: Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright, the band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are tight, and somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout, but there is no joy in Mudville Mighty Casey has struck out. STOCKTON DRY GOODS STAGES FASHION SHOW Yesterday afternoon at 2 oclock the Stockton Dry Goods Company staged one of the nicest Fashion Shows that has been seen in Stock-ton for some time.

T. J. Walker, manager of the kStokton Dry Goods had charge of the show. The show-room on the second floor was utilized for the purpose and made comfortable with Chesterfields and easy chairs. During the entire show, ushers, in dinner jackets, moved about with cigarettes and corsages for the guests.

The room was filled to capacity, even the stairs being crowded with interested spectators. Lovely fall and winter apparel was shown by charming models, inelud ing sports, dressy, afternoon, semi-formal, cocktail dresses, formal attire and fur coats. There was such a variety of styles in such a wide price range that everyone there could surely find something to interest them. The most outstanding garments were two evening gowns; one of black cellophane, glittering and shimmery, and the other a green hammered satin. There were many other gorgeous creations.

Fur coats wore outstanding in all price ranges. At the close of the show Walker cordially invited all to attend the mammoth White Elephant Sale which will start today. was unknown. Andrassy was the younger of the two. A comparison of his fingerprints with prints in the Bureau of Criminal Investigation established the identity.

It was revealed that Andrassy was arrested here in March of 1931 on a charge of carrying concealed weaxms. RELATIVES IDENTIFY His father, Joseph, and brother, John, confi-med the identification. That the murderer possessed some knowledge of surgery and chemistry, was evidenced by the manner in which he castrated his victims rohably to torture them before lopping off their heads with a heavy, razor-edged instrument then embalmed them. The bodies of the two men were discovered In a remote ditch, partially covered by rank weeds, by two boys, James Wagner, 16 and Peter Kostura, 12, as they were playing ball in Cleveland's East Side flats between two railroad tracks. DEGENERATE FIEND As police Bernard Wolfe, in charge of the Investigation, reconstructed the diabolical crime, he envisioned a fiendish degenerate who delighted in torturing his The first theory that the men had been slain in the same Isolated spot where the bodies were discovered, was abandoned.

It is now believed that the madman slew the first victim, a man about 45 years old, at least a fortnight ago and preserved Ills body by dousing It with an embalming fluid, undoubtedly of ills own concoction. HORROR HOUSE He apparently kept the body in his house of horrors" until he killed the next victim some 30 days later, in identically the same manner. Then it is believed that he bundled the two together, drove with them to the flats and threw them into the shallow ditch, burying their heads a few feet away and dumping their clothes in a bush nearby. Doctors said death was caused by decapitation. The wrists of both men were bound tightly behind their backs and were chafed, apparently by their futile struggles as they writhed in excruciating pain as emasculation operations progressed.

COUNTY LOANS $28,000 0 SCHOOL USE The San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors authorized a $28,000 loan to the Stockton School district yesterday. At the same session the Escalon Union High School district was authorized to borrow $1800 from the county'. The local loan is made to help the school district meet expenses until tax collections are available. The Escalon loan will be paid out of the road fund of District No. 3 and will be returned to the county coffers December 31.

FUNDS LACKING In both cases explanations weui offered that the district will not have sufficient funds to meet current expenses without temporary help. Repayment will be made as soon as taxes are collected. Another traffic outlet in the King Island and Empire tract districts was given authorization. A bridge connecting the two sections is now under construction. Tnc ferry which has operated between the two islands will he movd and operated between Empire and Terminous.

The move is intndid to afford a more direct connection to rail facilities at Terminous. AGE RELIEF The first old age relief lien to develop under the new slate old age relief act was filed at the request of Col. B. C. Wyman.

The law provides that benefits paid by the county accumulate as a lien against property of the person receiving the benefit. The first lien involves a 10-acre site in the Summer Home district. The owner is entitled to receive aid and at the same time retain title to the property. The county' however, holds a claim which may he exercised when the estate is settled..