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CIRCULATION Approved By ABC FINAL EDITION VOL. XXXIII, NO. 278 SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1938 3c Per Copy, 75c Per Month Sally Says She She Does CHINESE PLAN PEACE TALKS DETROIT, Henry Ford may call 35,000 men ning their factories, stores and offices in accordance with the fair labor standards act. The which establishes a minimum wage of 25 cents an hour for the estimated 11,000,000 workers in interstate indtistries, does not limit the work day or Work week when it goes into effect Monday. Alt On Same Basis Andrews explained that employers do not have to revamp their operates with 85,000 work schedules to go on a 44 hour peak production per- 'TU pose any way you stand on my I pose with a cried Fan Dancer Sally Rand, but it was too IMe.

Here is Sally, left, sans fans, in a Los Angeles court with Policewoman Cheryl Goodwin, center, and a reporter. Sally was in court to explain why she appeared earier in connection with a suit brought by one Hazel Drain, who claims la Rand bit her during a scuffle in a Los Angeles theater. Did This Start Name-Calling? -TV to Jobs within a few days, bringing his huge plant to peak production and the automobile industry generally to its highest level of the year, trade observers said today. About 50,000 men are at work now in River Rouge plant, according to automotive survey. With final assembly on 1939 models already started, it was believed Ford production would reach full stride next week.

The plant workers in iods. Pace New stimlants were being injected into the rising automobile industry. Leaders were confident that the industry, in the past a reliable barometer of general business conditions, again was setting the pace for general business recovery. With Ford at full production, the will have lifted production to levels in the neighborhood of those of the before 1929. Last night the Chrysler Corporation, which this week called back 34.000 employes to start work on 1929 models, announced salary increases for between 10,000 and 11.000 office workers receiving $300 a month or less.

The increases are restoration of pay cuts made last March 16. It was the second encouraging move in the industry of the week. I Form Wage- Beach Council MovesTo Hours Rules Block Tideland Drilling WASHINGTON, Oct. Administrator Elmer! A stringent ordinance designed! a F. Andrews and his staff worked! to halt further tideland oil 9'Vl Levee Work Optimistic? overtime today on rulings for the guidance of businessmen in run was given first reading as an emergency ordinance by the Huntington Beach city council this morning.

Second reading and adoption will take piace October 28. The action was unanimous. The measure is designed to keep the Southwest Exploration company from out its contract of drilling 87 wells into the tide- lando west of Twenty-third street New bids on the Santa Ana river levee project, as well as flood works on San Juan and Hickey creeks, will be opened by the Supervisors October 28. it and also to prevent the drilling of was decided at a special meeting 10 new wells east of Twenty-Third street under a stdte contract. The state has asked for bids on the latter project.

Under the ordinance, a company week, but must pay time and drill closer than 100 feet to half in cash for all work in excess railway line nor less than 35 feet of 44 hours in any week. Em ployes cannot accumulate over time and be paid for it in time off in a later week, he said. Large and small businessmen engaged in interstate commerce are from a street, must present proof of right-of-way, must secure a permit from the city engineer and must submit maps and other data on the project. The city has refused a two per on the same basis under the law, royalty and $40,000 bonus from which set up minimum the Southwest Exploration help inoculate our economic Pan.v» system against the virus of sweat-, Andrews said. Balk Reports were received in Washington that a few firms, primarily I (Continued On Page 2, Column 3) NEW YORK, Oct.

22 department probably will ignore a subpena from Federal Judge John C. Knox requesting retails of its questioning of Guenther Gustav Rumrich, a confessed spy who turned evidence against three co-defendants, it was derstood today. The information would reveal the entire workings of the spy ring. Benjamin Matthews, counsel for Erich Glaser, on trial with Otto Herman Voss, an airplane mechanic, and Johanna Hofman, a hairdresser, sought to obtain the memoranda made by state department officials from the questioning of Rumrich after his arrest. (Continued On Page 2, Column 3) BUDAPEST, Hungary, Oct 22.

may take armed action against Czechoslovakia within 48 hours unless the Prague do odd jobs, had been sought, po- BAKERSFIELD. Oct. 22. said today they believed their arrest of Van L. Starr, 30, might lead to the solution of the slaying May 15 of Methias Warren, 73, father of District Attorney Earl Warren of Alameda county.

Starr, formerly emnloyed by the elder Warren to cut lawns and late yesterday, when the board received formal approval of the state for readvertising the job. This approval came in a letter from State Engineer Edward Hyatt. The Santa Ana river work will be contracted in one piece, instead of in six sections, the plan originally attempted unsuccessfully. The board rejected all bids, being threatened with litigation no matter which bids were accepted. Contracts for the San Tuan creek and Hickey creek jobs will be awarded separately, it was announced.

Supervisor Steele Finley, of Santa Ana, vote I against action. Supervisor N. E. West who had Joined with Finley in opposing the new program at an earlier meeting, was absent yester- day. ii Judge Knox said he would issue the subpena, but pointed out that it was within the discretion of the state department to ignore it.

government makes an offer enabling resumption of negotiations over its Hungarian-populated territories, informed politicians said today. More than 500,000 Hungarian The state were massed along the Hungarian-Czechslovak frontier as a result of the latest call to the colors. Radical elements in the army were said to be impatient and would not be held in check long. Demand These elements demanded that Czechoslovakia offer immediately to resume negotiations, hinging chiefly upon the cession to Hungary of the border towns, Komaron, Kaschau, Munkacs and Sergs- zasz. The government and Hungarians generally rejected Czechoslovakia's previous offers.

It was asserted that Czech offers would give Hungary less than half her The original Czech offer of 10 per cent of the Hungarian demands rose to 40 per cent during the course of four fruitless days lice said, since he dropped from sight the day after Warren was found beaten to death with an iron pipe. Acted on Tip Police Chief Robert Powers said arrest followed a secret tip that he had returned to Bakersfield. Starr said he had been in Sacramento since before the crime was committed. He denied any connection with the killing. Chief Powers said, however, he would question Starr about reports he had said he knew an man with plenty of and was going to him for the The search for the aged slayer, because of the prominence of his son, was one of the most intensive in Bakersfield history.

The son aided authorities in tracking down all clues. The grim countenance of Dr. Castillo Najera, above, Mexican ambassador to the United States, belies his optimistic report to Washington newspapermen after a conference with Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Dr. Najera said there were the dispute ov- 2r expropriation of American properties in Mexico may soon be settled.

Charles Lindbergh talks to Sir Nevile Henderson Russians charge he talked too much, denounce wfiat they call told the British during the war crisis about the inefficiency of the Soviet air force. The American aviator and the British ambassador to Germany are pictured at the Berlin congress of the Lilienthal Society for Aeronautical Research. Kaibab Forest Fire Controlled FLAGSTAFF, Oct. blaze which swept several hundred acres of timber in the Kaibab forest north of here was brought under control today. Fire fighters who worked nearly 36 hours on a two-mile line were relieved for the first time and only small patches of fire remained to be extinguished.

Forest rangers said they believed the flames had been started by careless hunters. JUST WAIT JEFFERSON CITY, Oct. Lenzer smiled yesterday when Warden Frank Ramsey told him that he had been paroled from the penitentiary and could go back to Springfield. But today Lenzer was held in the Cole county jail. He picked the pocket of another parolee while they were awaiting their release.

DUCK INTO THE REGISTER'S IQM lassified section EVERY DAY TO SEE D0XALD DUCK Walt New DAILY COMIC STRIP Assassin Kills Capone Aid CHICAGO, Oct. An assassin and killed Bert Delaney, 59, former superintendent of A1 $20,000.000 bootleg brewing industry during prohibition days, as he stepped out of his automobile last night. It was the 11th gang slaying in Chicago in four months. Police believed it had been motivated either by raeketeer-union or gangland troubles. It bore the touch of the professional dry-era killer.

sweetheart, Mrs. Ruth McAvoy, and her brother-in-law, Carl White, witnessed the slaying. They had driven up to Mrs. Me- apartment with Delaney. They got out of the automobile and went to the building entrance.

As they stood there, waiting for Delaney, the killer crept up behind him and fired three shots. Then, as Delaney lay on the sidewalk, tne gunman pumped three more bullets into his back, fled down the street and jumped into an automobile driven by an accomplice. The trial was in adjournment of negotiations at Komaron, it was over the week-end. It will be re-1 asserted. Now, according to quar- sumed Monday when Rumrich, ters usually well informed, Czecho- who blandly told the jury of 10 Slovakia must grant at least 60 men and two women yesterday Pev cent of the Hungarian de- that he became a spy to trap hisjmands before Hungary will con- co-conspiratcrs, because he loved sider i e-opening the negotiations.

America, his adopted country, again will be cross-examined. Rumrich told an intriguing story, so much so that Judge Knox intervened in the cross-examination. Rumrich had said he was full of gratitude to the United States army in which he had served, and (Continued On Page 2, Column 3) Mystery Shrouds Identity Registration Sets Record 22 citi- was Death of a woman whose body was found October 14 in the surf at Sunset Beach still remained a mystery, following appearance of Mrs. M. Cole of Los Angeles at Dixon's funeral chapel, Huntington Beach, today.

Mis, Cole telephoned officials! pjan she believed the woman to be hei Mrs. Arthur C. Thomao, Angeles. Today she saw tin body, said it was not that of her sister. The woman whose body was cut and bf-uised, may be the! victim of murder, officers declare, So far, no clues to the identity have been found.

Clothes of the woman, found clad only in a green bathing suit white stripes, have never been recovered. SACRAMENTO, Oct. of California zens in the Nov. 8 election shown today in the final official registration figures which set a record mark of 3,611,416 for all parties. Democrats held a margin of more than three quarters of a million votes over their Republican rivals.

Totals for the two major parties were Democrats 2,144,360, Republicans 1,293,929. Secretary of State Frank C. Jordan said a contributing factor toward the high total undoubtedly was the controversy surrounding the $30 every Thursday pension Blame Speed, Fog For Fatal Crash SK CHICAGO, Sikora, 31, the husband, acquitted of murder last night for killing the man who won his love, indicated today that he would make no attempt to win her back. can never feel the same towards her be said, I suppose she can feel the same toward FRESNO, Oct. Still Her ruIing from Harry L.

Hopkins, He said he still loves her. But WfA administrator, on whether she mourns Edward Solomon. 35, federal agencies should care for an man Sikora, agricultural workers who refuse shot and killed on a street corner last August 22. A jury of 11 married men and a bachelor, after twro hours deliberation, agreed unanimously on one ballot last night that Sikora was not guilty by reason of temporary insanity at the time of the slaying. In effect, they agreed with defense contentions that he had acted within provisions of the law when he fired the fatal shots.

Russell F. Hornburg, the foreman, said he and his fellow jurors had felt Sikora was no criminal. ABILITY OF CKIANG HIT HONG KONG, Oct. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek was said on high authority today to have arrived in Hong Kong, probably to meet the British ambassador and diecuss peace between China and Japan. The military leader of all China was accompanied by his talented, American-educated wife; by Wang Chung-Hui, China's foreign minister, a Yale graduate, and by Wang Ching-Wei, president of the execu- I tive council until the war-time re-4 organization of the government, when he was stripped of all posts.

Chinese credit him both with being a at any man and the originator of the policy of defense. Chiang The British ambassador, Sir A. Clarke Kerr, has said that he had no intention of mediating in the war, but reliable reports were received yesterday of a joint British- German effort to persuade Japan and China to come to terms. Chiaug was in a difficult portion, faced by dissension within the ranks of his own followers, and I bitterness among the Chinese over the easy Japanese capture of Canton, almoet without the firing of a shot, Eugene Chen, outstanding Southern Chinese leader and formerly foreign minister, attacked military ability and demanded a change in China's leadership. Blame Inefficiency Bitterly commenting on the fall of Canton Chen said in a statement to the United Press; Kai-Shek must remember the Cantonese in every corner of the world who have contributed to the national defense.

They will exact an account from those responsible for the Canton disaster. The persons responsible will not escape by going Shortly before Chen made hia statement another Chinese leader of world standing, who asked that his anonymity be preserved, blamed the fall of Canton on inefficiency." In these and previous statements by outstanding leaders, the tenor was that the central government, and specifically Generalissimo Chiang, the strong man of the private employment was sought today by the Associated Farmers of California. Members of the farm organization asserted at the close of an all-day session here last night that I country, had failed to send trained because the state employment serv- troops to defend South ice has withdrawn its recognition which had sent its best men of a walkout of cotton pickers in ago to aid him. Kern county as a strike, relief Chen was unsparing of Chiang. agencies should not assist persons who refuse to accept employment in the cotton fields.

A W. B. Camp of Bakersfield, president of the Kern county unit of the Associated Farmers, forward- Demand Change fall is a national hu- (Continued On Page 2, Column 4) protect the sanctity of the Ameri can he said. SAN DIEGO, Oct. Solomon, a university man, ur- speed and fog were respoci-: bane, handsome, had attracted Si- sible for the automobile accident pretty wife, Margaret, 22, 40 miles east of San Diego last by reading her poetry and talking night which killed one youth and1 with her in side street rendezvous possibly broke the back of another.i about culture and music, showing Deputy Coroner Dave Gershon re- her a glamor Sikora never had.

ported today. She was unrelenting in her atti- Raymond Draper, 20, Lake Wohl-1tude against her husband after the ford, was killed instantly when and said she could never car in which he was riding careen-1 forgive him for destroying the ed off the road near Valley she had ever loved. She turned over, and crushed him to testified against him before a jury death. qualified to inflict a death pen- Another passenger in the car, Charles Wilson, 17, Valley and broken ribs. lack fradure Settlement The driver of the car, Jack Couste, 19, escaped with minor injuries.

U. S. Agents Probe vuv ex ruling iu, kins through W. P. Lawson, North- JCrilnnte (cMiirP'P ern California chief of the WPA.

Vjiiai8C acted in a way that should ed the request for a ruling to, Hop- The farm organization contended that the walkout in Kern county cannot be considered a strike because picking is being carried on NOTED WRITER DEAD Convict Admits L. A. Slaying Two Escaped Convicts Nabbed MACON, Oct. Stillwell Edwards, whose Aeneas story of a wanderings of a southern 1,000,000 copies, died early today of bronchial pneumonia. He was 84.

The Townsend party, Edwards, dean of Georgia writ- registered as a party for the firstjers, was a close friend of Henrv time this year, listed 32,970. who often visited with him gressive party total was 11.988. I on his winter tripg to Georgia. rites arkannual flight OF SAN JUAN MISSION BIRDS In Labor Row SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. agents of the La Follette Civil Liberties committee, at the normal rate.

The strikers have been investigating as- are demanding $1 per 100 pounds in serted vigilante actions in Califor- place of the prevailing wage of were today to be preparing to subpena witnesses. Disclosure that the investigators had been in California, some of them since Oct. 1, came yesterday when it was learned that the old government mint building at Fifth and Mission streets had been turned over to the agents for hearings scheduled to be held during the next two months. It was reported the first witnesses to be subpenaed, would ba leaders of the Associated Farmers DETROIT. Oct.

22. (UP) The and that investigators are obtain- general trend toward lower prices jing background material on recent appeared today to be spreading labor troubles at Nevada City and i through most of the automotive in- I Westwood. 75c per 100. Pat Harold Pomeroy, director of the (Continued On Page 2, Column 2) Auto Industry Slashes Prices WESTWOOD. Oct.

Peaceful labor relations in this sole indus- announced thus far have reduced try Is the Red River Lumber Company were restored today in out-of-court settlement while national labor relations board hearings were in progress. The settlement pact was signed by representatives of the company, the American Federation of Labor! and the Committee for Industrial I IX 1 Organization. LZCCfi 1 TCSldent It provides for the rival unions to participate in an election to de- ifl ilV fO I 1 termine the collective bargaining! agency of mill workers when called! by the labor board; a clause that LONDON, Oct. 22. (UP) Former President Eduard Benes of prices as much as $100.

an Chevrolet, announcing its reached: modej today, followed the and disclosed prices ranging down ward as much as $45 from the 1938 figure. See End of S. F. trena Dispute Oct. Nixon, 18, Negro, confessed slayer of five women, who is scheduled to die in the electric chair t'oday after" Tuc-; i 4 bio cn i With the swallows of San Juan Capistrano scheduled to leave Mission San Juan Capistrano tomorrow, a program in observance of the event was broadcast from the mission at 9:45 this morning over a National Broadcast company hookup.

Another radio program is scheduled for 10 a. m. tomorrow. The program this morning in-t follow, or the reason for the mi- cluded a talk by the Rev. Father is unknown to ornitholo- the company will not interfere with the unions; and arrangements for SAN FRANCISCO.

Oct. of San two major labor disputes was expected to be settled definitely today whila outside mediators expressed ot an early settlement of the second. Warehousemen members of CIO International and Union meet Czechoslovakia arrived at Croyden this afternoon to vote on an agree- next week, his conscience today by confessing a sixth murder, FLORENCE, Oct. 22. convicts, Clyde Cameron 30, and George Smith, 27, -----who fled the Arizona state prison Arthur Hutchinson and songs in Warden John G.

auto-I niiSlSion chorus. The broadcast mobile were to be returned here was conducted by Clinton Buddj 1 vent Their punctuality, however, is a son last night. Sermon Theme tradition at the mission. The convicts, both former me- Capt. Albert N.

Park pastor Each St. Day, for as far that of Mrs. Valdez, 20, were asked to warm-up the Presbyterian Community back as the oldest Indian can re- Angeles housewife. Warden car Tuesday. They of San Juan Capistrano, member, the birds have risen in Thdmas R.

and drove it way. ihas selected for his Sunday mass flock wheeled over the i lirnnrt tnrinv I ment ending a four-month back wages and the reinstatement timately Umted States. which closed more than 130 ware- The former president, who re- signed alter the Munich agreement' The agreement was reached ear- on Czechoslovakia to permit a new lier chis at mediation con- government to reorganize a ferences attended by Taul C. Smith, ond arrived by newspaPer executive and has been airplane. accepted by the members of the He left the airport by automobile.

San asao-t going in the direction of London. clation- I Benes was accompanied by his wife and a secretarial staff. of 44 CIO 'workers. Urge Boycott Of Goods Hearst Plans To FOOTBALL RESULTS Answer Churchill Police Lieut of Los Angeles announced Nixon had made his latest confession at the Cook county jail where he is held pending execution Friday for beating to death Mrs. Florence Johnson in her Chicago apartment last May 27.

Brvan said Nixon had not given details of the Valdez slaying. "Truth About Swal- Cameron told officers they aban- mg sermon, doned the car in the brush north of the prison and then doubled Each year the swallovve depart back toward Tucson, hoping to, from the mission on St. Day. mission, and disappeared out to sea. Five later they reappear RIVERSIDE, Oct.

Boycott of goods from dictator-ridden nations was favored today by the California State grange. The boycott was urged in a resolution adopted by the grange in its convention which closed here late yesterday. The grange meets Dartmouth ....13 Lafayette 7 New York at Chico in 1939. Two ballots were Holy Cross ....29 Georgia 6 necessary to eliminate the candi- Navy ............13 Princeton publisher, tonight will dates of San Jose, Stockton and r- 7 Ply t0 a speech of Santa Cruz. Col CnurchiU in which the former Other resolutions demanded an State ....42 Chicago 7 lord the British admiralty de- investigation of camps scattered 0 that the United States SAN SIMEON, Oct.

Randolph Hearnt, just as mysteriously out of nation in which youths al- board a freight train. tomorrow, and arrive just as sky and again take up residence legedly are receiving training Wesleyan 0 Amherst Fordham .........26 Oregon 13 not wash its based 40 Boston Univ dictatorship problem. Both men were wearing clothing: promptly on the day dedicated to in the eaves of the miesion. on foreign military training ............15 earst speech will be to replace their prison garb hut St. Joseph.

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