The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 1

THE WKATHER Clnudv or foggy weather to-night n1 Tuesday Forecast hy United States Wea'her Bureau LARGEST NEWSPAPER IN rHE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY THE BEE fr Copt Only Surd t6e (B Carrirr Delivery toe Monthly) VOL 21 NO nfi37 Kniered weond-flas cna'ltr Oct nib I( at it to Calif FRESNO CAL MONDAY BVKNINQ DECEMBER 26 1932 14 PAGES (TWO SECTIONS) 33 BODIES FOUND Amundsen Hut Found Buried In Arctic Snow IN ILLINOIS HOOVER TO VETO BEER BILL IE IT PASSES CONGRESS Sack Murder Of Prettv Girl Stumps Police HANFQRD POWER EMPLOYE KILLED BY FALLING WAL1 Worker Was Attempting To Save Electric Wires From Flames COMPANION ESCAPES TOPPLING STRUCTURE DENTIST HUNTER AS WOMAN KILLER IS EOUND SLAIN I Mysterious Disappearance Is Solved In Discovery by Neighbor BULLET IN HEART ENDS ST LOUIS MAN'S LIFE Death Of Patient In Fight Confessed By Suicide Christmas Gift Stops Bullet Saves Girl's Life NEW YORK Dec (INS) A Christmas Rift battered ami misshapen already will be a life-long treasure i( Selma Siegel To the gift a compact $he probably owed her life to-day Mis Siojyel and three friends were walking 'when they were halted by the sound of gunfire An automobile shot past holly pursued by a police ear from which two officers poured a stream of tuillrts Miss Siege felt a sharp piiii in her left thumb She screamed dropped her ba' which she had clutched over her heart A bystander picked up her purse In it was bullet which had nicked Miss Siegel 'fl thumb penetrated the bag and been stopped by the compact liu Tee tulrd fratsl LONDON Dec 26 An m-change telegiaph dispatch from Berlin to-day4 said that officials of the Soviet Meteorological station at ape Chelyuskin in the extreme north of Asia have reported discovery of a hut apparently once occupied by liaoul Amiimlwn Norwegian explorer lost while attempting to rescue survivors of the III fated Italian polar dirigible Roma The Uut was found burled beneath a thick crust of snow In the shelter the dispatch said a diary and also notes by Amundsen collaborator Kassem weie found in good condition Jflflj LaaKc WWiME IjfK! President Quoted As Revealing He Will Not Sign Measure MOPE FOR BREW MAY REST WITH ROOSEVELT Action By Senate Committee Delayed: Dry Leader Meets Rebuff 15 STILL MISSING Christmas Marred by Tragedy Affecting Entire Coal Community RESCUERS IMPEDED BY DEBRIS-CHOKED TUNNELS Poisoned Air Also Adds To Perils As Rescue Work Goes Forward By A EILS (Associated Press Staff Writer) MOWEAQt'A (111) 1 pc 26 -) Twenty-seven miners were found dead in the south wing of the Mo-weaqua Coal Mine to-day making the death toll all fifty-four of the men caught In the tragedy of an undergi ound explosion Deadly after-damp finished the work of the searing blast that had killed those in the north wing Twelve bodies were recovered last night Fragile hope had been held thai Gallaher Grocery Mcaf Market Destroyed With Loss Of $65000 Note (Bit The II illicit Press) ST LOUIS Dee 26 Squire Bevier 60-year-old dentist Extra Session To Pass Beer Farm Bills Looms PIFFLE DECLARES INTER OE RUMOR sought since Friday for the slaving of Mrs Josephine Elder 71 patient was found shot to death In his garage buck of his home here to-day A neighbor looking through the windows of the garage saw In Dr Beviel 's hands wine (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON Dec 26 Speaker Garner that the prospects for avoiding an extra session I he new administration "do nol look bright to me said to-day congress by personally TAYLOR DEATH My PRASFH ROW Uls (Copyright IMS Universal San i in WASHINGTON Dec 28 Presl dent Hoover will veto any beer bill passed by congress This was revealed to Universal Service to-day hy one ot the closest fi lends of the president This friend put the tllrecl que Hon to the pi esldenl "Will you sign a beer bill?" The president answered yvit uu emphatic: "No'" The question was asked and the nnswei given in the Intimacy of the Lincoln study In Ihe While House I The speakei said be was hopeful that an extia session would be unnecessary but expressed doubt that President Hoover would approve fai in relief and beer legislation ploposed by 'tie Democrats at the Former Actress Says No Money Was Paid To Shield Her through a window of the niitomo bile He called a policeman sta tinned in Dr Devicr'a home The door of the garage locked! from the inside was broken In The dentist was slumped down in: the sent of his automobile He had shot himself through the heart A I 32 caliber pistol lay on the flooi jof the automobile The well-to-do dentist had been FEDERAL AGENTS NOW IN STATE 10 GEI NO RECRUITS (II P) over after dinner cigar short ly be screen tre the president left for his I OS ANGKI KS lice 2fi Mary Mile" inter former present session "Nine oui of ten men would like to see a program of comprehensive legislation passed at this session looking toward the relief of the country" the vice president elect said missing since I hursday alter noon when Mis Elder mother of Con way Elder former Missouri Supreme Court justice was found beaten to death in his office hVe Hurray) HANPORD 'Kings Co) Dec 3 Ralph Green 35 veteran employe of the Soul hem California Edison Company was killed instant ir about o'clock this mornlacr when he was caught under a falling wa Of the Gallaher Grocery sn Meat Market which was destroyed by flit Green and RusssH Barrett another powev company employe were woikiug clone to the btunin-r building endeavoring to disconnect power lines that we threatened the flames As the wall started to collapse Butmll shouted a warning and rushed to safety but failed to clear the toppling structure and was crushed to deatn under Ions of mortar and dchri He was dead bafore he could ba reached The oilgln of the fire Is not known but it i believed to hac tatted in the basement of the store about 3:30 o'clock Night Watch man ED Huntington sounded th alarm and the firemen arrived promptly Only to find the bulldin-which housed the Gallaher store and L4 Horton-Wimpey Furniture Company now closed a mass of flames They confined their efforts to preventing the fire from spreading to neighboring mercan tile establishments It was Ihe third disastrous fire suffeied by Gallaher In the las' thirty-five years Thirty years ago his grocery store was destroyed an! valuable papers including low II Company stock went up In smoke It was only recently thai be won his fight to have his oil stock papers renewed and to gain title to valuable oil lands in the Kettlcman Hills Last year his workers in the south tip of the T-haped tunnel might have barri-rated themselves against the lethal fumes But to-day a mile and a quarter from the main shaft and "HO feet beneath the earth surface Iwrnty-scvcn moie bodies were discovered It had been thought that onlv twentv-five weie in that section The explosion centered in the north wing and none ventured a hope that any of the fifteen there escaped alive although theii bodies have not been reached The rescue workers daring decth themselves in the snarl of timbeis and the perilous tock falls of the wrecked bores came upon the nctrrss to-day branded as "pure piffle" rumors that part of the foi-tune her mother accused hei flnan eial agent of squandering was spent to protect hei name In the unsolved mill der of William lies mond Taylor Christmas vacation In the South Thus ends all hope of legalized beer before the advent of the Roosevelt admlnl (ration which comes Into powri with an null pi o- Ihibltlon congress on Marh 4 th Wets admit they can not RailBtei enough votes to Override vclo Bear By Raster There Is no doubt In the minds of Liquor Law Enforcement May Be Reduced To Mere Theory "They want the budget balanced and I believe they want carried out the mandate of The People in No vember as quickly as possible "That would give Governor Roosevelt a chance to survey the situation and we could go along until next December But if one Her motiiei Mrs Charlotte Bhel by has brought (rrand theft n'moratic leaders i that president elect Roosevelt will call a special charges Against Leslie Henry (By McClatchy Newspapers Wire) WASHINGTON Dec 26 Cali- may judge by reports and interpre twenty-seven dead to-day near the fornia'f repeal action which be-'tat ions in newspapers everywhere itosr GKNDIKH ROCK ISLAND IIIV) Dec 28 111 The police were still III 1111 Ini-passe today In their efforts to find ihe slayer of Hose Gcndler 22 whose body was found on the ice of the dock River Thursday Police were studying her diary and possible clues and seeking to trace the paper us I for a ransoiti note demanding (3000 and dellv ered to her fnmllv shortly before the body was found The bony si lipped of clothing nml tied In a sack was dropped from the Hock Island Bridge Mis Jacob Maik the gill's mother was still In a serious condition from shock occasioned In hei dauRhter'i trajrifl death prominent Pasadena broker and clubman who has acted as hei financial agent "It's absolutely ridiculous" Mis: Mintrr declared "When Taylor was killed we did everything posi Ibll came effective December will from the executive and his close th -i MKiHnladvifins- he prospects do not look a-c i bngtit tome bureau to send more men into the session of congiess eailv this Spring anil that one of Its fltst enactments will ire a beer-foi iev enue bill "Beei by Easter" seems to be the eatllest prospect for the legalized mult beverage Nevertheless the senate will pas the house 32 per cent beer hill within Ilie next thirty days in the opinion of leaders despite the fact that it Is doomed when it reaches the White House The president's reasons given to mine cats in which they had just ridden to work Saturday morning They were not burned Apparently they had run a short distance from the cars trying to find a refuge from the gases that pouted toward them from the focus of the explosion a half mile back But one by one they had fallen as the aftci-damp swept through the tunnel state to take over the task of rn-forrement now left entirely to the federal government Officials of the bureau have let it he known that the men now Search for his body had been concentrated on the Mississippi River after a truck driver reported he saw a man answering the uen-tist's description leap into the river from the Municipal Bridge Friday A "suicide note" found In the pocket of Dr Bejvler's coat confessed the slaying of the woman Chief of Police Joseph Gerk an nounced According to Gerk Dr Bevier said he killed Mis Elder be cause of an argument over the cost of dental work In the note Dr Revler threatened to return "and haunt" anybody who "made trouble" for his wife He said he remained in a clubhouse ten miles south of here from the time of the slaying until about ft yesterday "I'll return to St Louis and get myself before any one else gets me" the note said according to police He concluded the note wilh "It's an end of a perfect day" Physicians who examined the body said the dentist had been dead about twelve hours when found That would place his death at about 10 o'rlork last night A policeman stationed in his home fifty feet away said he heaid no shot during the night to help police and I still would gladly spend the last cent I have to find his murderer Suggestions however try Henry or any one else that money was spent to 'protect my screen career' are puie piffle "We promised to submit the eighteenth amendment immediately the Republicans used the word 'promptly' in their platform" Garner continued "We promised to modify the Volstead law immediately The Republicans said little about that operating in the state will be per unless anil until sometiodv pto Last night bodies of twelve men mitted to remain but no others had hern brought to the surface will be assigned their to augment duces evidence to the contrary I Both platforms promised ague ITS AWAIT Their names posted outside a-hasti- their force Because of their neg-ltnral legislation Judging tiy wnai ly improvised morgue made off icial ligible number enforcement of the you newspapermen sav the presi-t'o wives sisters and mothers who! Volstead Art will therefore be! dent probably would not sign a pressed close to read th- dreaded more of a theory than a practice farm bill worked out by us (Demo his friend In announcing his dec! ion to veto a heel bill weie: Immediate modification of the Volstead Act is a Democratic pro poaal Roosevelt made much of it! in the campaign The president re fused iluting the ram pall to yield! to the insistent picas of his friends and managers to announce for beer choose to believe in and trust mv mother and I refuse to get ex cited over self-serving Insinuations that Henry took funds from my mother's account because she wanted him to do something she did not want me to know" Miss Mlnter broke her silence after Henry's counsel had promised npw i The samp ot course wi ami 'We would be obligated to call Delaved Bv Work to the other fouiteen states in- extra session in mv personal t- 1 i 4nv I I ill in the timbering" process consist- either formally moved to repeal opmrnn to carry out out i omto ing of supporting the ceiling and their state enforcement arts or lf they re not enacted at the ml session to uniavel the "while story and I on the tlieoiy that it would help slaughter house wa destroyed with i heavv loss He estimates his MM in I his morning's fire at $8V0OO of which 112000 was In goods De-I spite his misfortune Gallaher declared that he plans to rebuild im- I mediately Green's body Is at the Lewi' Madison and RIUSSjl Funeral Parlors He Is survived bv his widow I Mrs Eva Green one daughter Genevieve Green two sons Ralph Jr and Robert! his mother Mrs waus or tne passageway mat nave never nao sucn acis if(lli tna( if tlie legislation ther tragedy would be averted asMaryland is the lone common- Democrats weie spare no one The case scheduled to go be Mrs Elder's bodv was found bv i the rescuers forged ahead her son and two detectives Fiidav unf county grann jury torn ROOSEVELT STUDY OF STATE AFFAIRS President-Elect Leaves Big Pile Of Gifts Goes To Capital By telephone John Millhouse di wealth in the latter group 'enacted at the special session Within a short time approx-! prPsj(iert-elect Roosevelt would imately one-third of the stales of hav an OTnortunitv to see what afternoon when thev investigated ow Henry is at liberty undei itfVOOOO bond on a complaint chaig rector of the state department ofj mines and mineials who took him to cany wet states He believes the question of repealing the eighteenth amendment should he submitted to the states before rtnv action is taken on modi fical ion The president was represented asj still clinging to the Idea that na-i tional prohibition Is a "noble expe-i her failure to return from an sp the Union extending from meHrd before drafting his The 'ng theft $75000 charge of the rescue work told) pomtment with the dentist dentist had been making set of those above of the perils and ob teeth for Mrs Elder York to California and represent- recommendations to the new coning one-third of the natiton's popu- stress next December lation will have repealed their en-j Garner Indicated that If the forcement laws and left the bur- senate approved a proposal to re- stacle? encountered Debris-choked Charles de Legh of Stockton and a sister Mrs Lena Searing of Stockton He had lived twelva years in Han ford Christmas Cake tunnels made work slow Poisoned i dpn (if nsprnt inr- law the eighteenth amendment it air made it dangerous Judge Elder said his mother was dissatisfied with the work and had declared she was going to make Dr Bevier "make good his work or she would not pay him" The dentist's room hore Indira bv The first body brought up bore lators on thp fedrtal government would be given consioerauuu the house rimenl" and that he fears the modi ficatlon of the Volstead Act might mean the let urn of the saloon The president was quoted as say Ing: "No I will not sign a beer hill no mallei wbal the alcoholic con mute evidence of the tidgedy con- firming the theory that an explo-' The sion brought the catastrophe It! funds 'o Funds Available 'act that no additional are available to make up 'lions of a desperate struggle Mrs Klder's skull was fractured in half was the bodv of one of sixteen chil Poisoned Five In Family Die tent anil the fellows at the capltoll SPEAKERSHIP OF HOUSE IS PRIZE might as well know it now" for the non-co-operative policy of the several states has emphasized the embarrassment of federal en-: forcement officials Net only is there no additional money in 1 sight but the prospects are that the present congress will further a dozen places her face bore deep ruts and four of her fingers were broken A blood-stained two-and-one-half pound mallet was found near the bodv Dr Bevier returned to his home Thursday afternoon and ap dren of a father who himself was buried in the mine The other bodies were scared and disfigured No Christmas Trees Lighted Women and children roamed the streets of the deserted cheerless village of darkened homes asking NEWPORT (Ark 1 Dec 26 Authorities of Newport to-dav reduce the annual appropriations were investigating the of the fate of their loved ones 0f'or on oropniprit and peared greatly agitated his said His clothing was torn his fare deeply scratched Hi Walter Hallew his wife SI deaths of and three i result of INPARTYCONTE left children who died as immediately Dried skin from the lace of her antagonist was found under Mrs I Elder's finger nails She was said Christmas trees were burning Last year Prohibition Commis-When tragedy visits a mining gjoner Amos Woodcock had at community differences are forgot- his disposal a total of $11 760000 ten Most of the entombed miners I0 spend for enforcement The were affiliates of the Progi essive amount was cut to $12945000 bv Miners' Union formed in opposi- tne budget hureau in its 1 eport sent tion to the United Mine Workers ofto congress at the opening of the America But despite their affilia-session But he nouse appropriations miners volunteeied to aid Uon committee bent on economy-John Lewis president of the iT fi0i unitltnn wherever eating Christmas cake Mrs Ballew baked the cakes eaily last week in preparation for the holidays small cake was served for dinner Thursday Shortly after the dinnri the family became violently 111 SENATE ACTION DKXAYEIJ WASHINGTON Dec 2fi (ZD-Absence ot a quorum blocked action by the senate judiciary committee on the house 32 per cent beer bill to-day but Chairman Not ris authorized subcommittee to begin woi Immediately on an Investigation of the constitutional problems involved N01 ris directed the sub-committee now drafting a prohibition ie peal resolution headed by Senator Blaine Republican Wisconsin to begin Immediately a study of the legal questions involved In drafting a beer bill Blaine asked to have the bill referred to his sub-commltlee but (Continued On Page 8-A Col 1) Rainey McDuffie Byrns Equally Optimistic In Quest Of Chair to have been an exceptionally vigorous woman for her age A note found In 1 desk in (lie dentist's office said: "This blackmailer got hem -me for the 1 iver" Ballew and bis wife died Prlday land their three sons ranging in age from 15 to -J3 died Saturday Sheriff Albiight aid an examina United Mine Workers was at the possible may reduce the sum to WASI1INGTON Dec rhe contest for speakership of the Lindy Kidnaping 'Gonf ession' Is Doubted By Police NEW YORK Dec 26 -) Martin Drayson a 26-year-old homeless Blelght-of-band expert told the police he was ie kidnaper of the Lindbergh baby was held In $1000 bail to day on a charge of violat ing (he Sulllvatl Act Drayson was arrested In the lobby of a mid-town theater last night after he had phoned police headquarters and said he was the kidnaper Police said they did not tak his "confession" seriously The Sullivan law chatrge was based upon his possession of a revolver He told police he had Intended to commit suicide New York Schoolboy Is Killed In Suicide Leap NEW YORK Dec 2H-W -John Phillips 17-year-old schoolboy died in a seventeen-story leap to-day He tore himself from the grasp of a maid who sought to stop hint and plunged from a window of the Phillips apartment a fashionable place near Central Park No motive for the art was discovered The bov's fathe is Harold Phillips attorney Blast In Palatial Home Bares Still LOS ANGELES Dec rPi $10000000 The states which moved to re- next house has been enlivened by tion of the bodies established tie I family died from poisoning He said jhe found eight pounds of poison In! barrel in the Ballew attic under-! (Continued On Page 8-A Col 7) Three Youths Perish In Christmas Tragedy POUND (Vs) Pec As would-be rescuers stood help- France May Pay War Debt By 'Decree Law' pea their enforcement laws in the informal statements from three November elections weie in addi leading Democratic candidates ex-tion to California Colorado Wash- pressing confidence in their ington Michigan North Dakota chances foi the nomination New Jersey Oregon Aiizona and Representative Rainey of llli-Louisiana Previous to that the nois the Democratic floor leader stood to have been used last Sum jmer for rot ton inserts He said Mrs Ballew may hav i POLICE IDENTIFY used some ol the poison hy mis PARIS Dec 2fi (INS) Unoffl- take or that it may have been cial circles buzzed to-day with intentionally mixed into flour dm -rumors France may resort to "de-iing her absence Bv ROLAND ALSTON IIVliK PARK' YI Dec 28 Great plies of Christmas gifts were slacker! in the library of President-elect Franklin I) Roosevelt'" home lo-dav their gay holi day wrappings unbroken while the New York governor prepared to hurry back to Albany His Yule-tide reunion with his family was interrupted by pressing affairs of sisl "I'll never get them all opened that's all" he said as he surveyed the scene In the center of the big homey room wns Christ runs tree reachln(r almost to the celling and bedecked in tinsel and colored bulbs Every hour brought scores of holiday greetings try mail and telegraph Hundreds of Christinas raids for Mi R4bsevU and his family flooded into the big house on the Hudson Two of the governor's grandchildren Sistie and Bussy Dnll were missing when Ihe master of Kium Elbow carved a forty-pound turkey for sisteen members of his family Sistie or Anna Eleanor years old was "trlcken with chicken pox Thursday snd little Birzv 1 fin lis Roosevelt) is stif-feiing from tonsilltts Their mother Mis Curtis Dall fixed small tiees in their rooms Affairs Of State A conference with Norman Davis delegate to the Genes disarmament conference was the occasion for Mr Roosevelt's shortening his slav at Krnm Elbow The Roosevelt advisors sav his talk with Davis will be in line his plan to get first hand information regarding European debts disarmament and thp world economic conference before his inauguration After talking with Governor Roosevelt Davis who has been mentioned In connection wilh the post of secretary of state in the Roosevelt cabinet will return to New York to see two experts who are helping arrange the agenda for the world economic conference before they return to Europe this week They are Edmund Day director of social sciences for the Rockefeller Foundation and Professor Williams of Harvard The Rooseveits observed Christmas Dav in the manner traditional at Krnm Flbow attending Saint James Episcopal Chapel in Hyde Park village and later calling upon and receiving friends from the lower Hudson valley The forty-pound turkey Mr Roosevelt carved was sent to him GI SUIN ON lessly by three youths burned to following other states had acted: tola newspapermen ne nao ir-deat'h beneath their blazing auto-'New York Massachusetts Wisron- reived indication of support from mobile near here in a Christmas sin Monttana Maryland and No- "160 members three more than night highwav tragedy 'vada a total of fifteen necessary" Representative Mc- The car caught fire as it Nearly Half Country Duffie of Alabama Democratic plunged down a fifteen-foot em- The population of the' fifteen whip and Representative Byrns of hankment and pinned benrath aggregates 43 388 770 or 35 3 Tennessee chairman of the appro-the three occupants Claude Boll- Dfr ccn the country If 'Illinois priations committee were equally cree laws as the defaulted I HICBIIID 'l 'a 111 war debt instalment Fugitive Felotl Is id states December a means of paying due the United 15th Taken In Missouri DRIVE Although such a movement ing 17 Bernice Boiling IS andwnoae legislature voted repeal optimistic In the next house there will be vvsyne coiling is cousins or me onlv to have it vetoed bv its gov-Flat Gap neighborhood jernor is added to the list the total reived no official confirmation it ST JOSEPH (Mo) Dec was pointed out payment of the in- A 1 Carver who escaped from jstalment by means of a decree I New Mexiro State Penitential in jwould obviate the necessity of re-i 1918 where he was serving a term iferring the matter to the chamber for murder started bark to-dav lof deputies which overthrew Pre- under guard from St Joseph to imier Hen iot because he advocated finish serving his term Carver payment said he escaped after serving one Desnite the inmois it was ore iyear of a went five-yea term Former Employer Says Maid Always Went Wilh Good Company 313 Democrats 117 Republicans and five Fanner Laborites The election of a Democrat is assured in view of this majority Rainey said "if the election were held now I feel confident I would reseive the nomination" "While I am not making claims as to how many members have pledged themselves to support me" McDuffie said "my friends have informed me of support fiom Maine to the California coast" Byrns said: "I have receiver in-foimation of support from every section of the country I have every confidence that have a Ipopulation involved would be some 51000000 or neatly half of the jcount ry Should congress and the several fail to take early action on jthe repeal amendment which is scheduled for prior treatment In Jthe next session one effect of the situation will be to add to the congestion that already exists in the jfederal courts with respect to prohibition cases There are now some ilJSOOO prohibition cases on the jdockets of the federal courts Undoubtedly the department of jdicted in some circles definite ac- Carver had been living In St i tion on the debts might be held up Joseph as a river fisherman tinner I 1 1 1 111 "rc until President-elect Roosevelt the name of A Hale He has alTh vounR itakes office although It was he- wife and seven children the oldest Kngla fa-hion and found beside llieved tentative negotiations would eleven He Is 39 lonely country road was identi-i 'continue I fled today police said as that of A ctitemcnt In an article bv iwiMu wunanns ir ar sr rvnss ieriMioe ivionrow i ioimei- SANTIAGO (Chile) Dec 25 if ly of suburban Idenl ificat ion Be 1 1 wood was made Colonel House former ad-ivisnr to the late President Wilson It was officially announced to day police An explosion in a palatial home in Ihe Wilshire district led police to-day to the discovery of a larga still in the basement of the residence About $1000 damage was caused to the house which was vacant at the time No arrests had been made Jealous Lover Confesses Knife Murder Of Rival that the incoming Roosevelt admin -that there ate now 1404 1 workei said by Finest Dowerdt who justice would have to decided on mfignuirmt cnance io win rne policy of prosecuting onlv the big nomination istration would liquidote the warlin inues goin neio ami tnat rni viewed the body in a morgue heie debt was featured in the news- number will be incieased to 40000 He said she formerly boarded at offenders leaving the others to The other Democratic candidates ithe ir own conscience are representative Rankin of Miss paper his home In Bellwood after her father was committed to the state hospital at Kankakee Dowerdt police said could offer no motive for the slaying of the modishlv dressed young woman issippi chairman 01 tne veterans I committee and Representative Crosser of Ohio who is being backed by his state delegation I Indications are that Representative Arnold of Illinois chairman Greek War Debt Instalment Is Girl Braves Death To Be Home For Christmas Ties And Sox Just The Same Will Finds SANTA MONICA Dee Editor of The Bee and Republican Sir: This "ticnocracy" rlirln't seem to make much difference with Christmas Father's neekties and socks were done up in the same deceptive boxes they were before the scientists took us over People didn't jret "beer by Christmas" They just had to struggle alonp on gin and corn Hoover went Fishing in the South but didn't catch anything lie had waited too long and the fish had all pone back Democratic France went info a "huddle'' and practiced some of Shakespeare's signals "To pay or not to pay that is the question whether it's better to pay and use the Yanks again1 Or not to pay and lose 'cm?" Yours WILL ROGERS I nnrr Ts( syrrnA hc Democratic caucus will as-lUny UCl CrrCa semble the Democratic member ship of the new house about March WASHINGTON Dec 26-HP list to nominate a candidate to A iwr1eoe rctnAnnnn" i succeed Sneaker Garner vice LOS ANGELES Der 26 -'UP) A few hrushes with death were mere trifles to 18-year-old Pauline whose body )vith thiee bullet wounds was foind by a milRmanl iearly Christmas morning near the' village of Addison Ill He said Miss Modiow had been a quiet girl and had always gonej in good company though he had! not seen her recently After leaving his home he said he heard she had! I worked as a maid in the suburb of Oak Paik She was graduated fioml a suburban high school in 1931 he said Later police revealed that thev $130000 Greek war debt instalment president-elect jdue the United States January 1st was announced bv the treasury de- ew Quake Registered partment to-day The postponement was obtained DeUVeT Collepe under the regular terms of the 5 'original debt fundlne agreement DENVER 1C0I0) Dec -atB-This provides that where a debtor A mild eaith shock echo of the by South Trimble clerk of ihe house of representatives at Washington "One side did for all sixteen of us" Mr Roosevelt said laughing "and I had the other side left for seconds That's expert carving" One of the Christmas cards the president-elect received was addressed 't "the unforgotten governor Cf Hyde Park" Men Guard Town In Exchange For Food PAUUSBORO iN Ji Dec (VP) Five men recruited from the ranks of the unemployed and armed with pistols form Pauls-moro's first "bandit squad" Serving in exchange for food or ran not mv a rtolsu mnv he oh oiiinn suuicimiinu uunnc mm the entire West December SAN FRANCISCO Dee 26 Police said to-day that Nicho'aa Santos 36 a Filipino had confessed to the knife murder of Karl Theodore Eymann soldier hera yesterday The officers declared the Filipino was arrested at the suggest-tion of Eymann's fiancee Enri-jqueta Valenzuela and admitted I killing the soldier because of his love for the young woman and jealousy of Eymann i "I still love her" police report eci Santos as saying "If I couldn't have her no one else could" Vicente Faaganda 21 also Filipino who said he vas withk' Santos at the time of the stahj bing was arrested for questioning 4 Eymann's body was found on thm sidewalk in front of Miss ValenVl izuela's home Ul aighu ained on ninetv-davs' notice to the shook pilot Dubiously he asked hei if she wished to rhanre it "You bet' she replied "I'll be at the airport in half an hour She was there ahead of time and without so much as a look at the leaden skies crawled into the open cockpit behind Jimmy Carson Carson got his cargo of mail and passenger through to Salt Iake City but in doing so was forced down by fog and snows between Ixis Angeles and Salt Lake "It was the most thrilling experience of my life" the gill telegraphed back befote catching the next plane east Another wire sent from St Joseph told of hei success in racing against time: "This is the happiest Christmas of my life and was dad surprised? You're a great Santa Clans" Pauline is an office clerk hcie 21st was registered on the seismo Schaher compared with her anx- iety to spend Christmas at home in St Joseph Mo Ben Elkins manager of the Air Lines Consolidated ticket office here revealed to-day how the girl stricken with homesickness braved 'the perils of storms in an open I mail plane in order to surprise her father After booking passage on a commercial line the gill was told that storms had bogged down all aircraft Pauline was wretched It looked as if it would he her first Christmas away from home She begged Elkins to find some plane that would take her thtough Finally 'he managed a passage with a mail treasury department The Athens Government similarly obtained a two and one-half-vear delay on its July instalment on the same debt It is in default also on a postwar debt contracted with the United States Tn the nresetlt instance the graph at Regis College Sunday-night Father A Forstall said to-day The quake occurred at 10:08 and lasted two minutes Father Forstall said it was a tumble from the big quake neaily a week ago Aat the same time he had located a sister Mrs Otto Dan-nenberg Jr of Oak Park Prior to the identification police said they had exhausted all but one 1 clue the presence of a single man-sized foot track besides the body They said it indicated she had been pushi from a car by a man and I that ns she lay on the ground he stood beside her and with one foct on the giound and the other on the running board had filed two shots into her head ders the men have been enlisted by Mayor James A Wert to euro an outbreak of robberies ninety-day notification clause wast revealed that nis seismograpn nan w'aived bv Secretary of Treasury 1 register ed the tremors that are Mills tinder authority of the debt shaking the province of Assam in funding agreement northeastern India.