The Peninsula Times Tribune from Palo Alto, California • 1

DIME IN EVERY LETTER SWELLING POLIO FUND Nearly 100,000 letters, each bearing a dime, addressed to President Roosevelt, had arrived at the White House his birthday, and 75,000 more were expected in answer to an appeal for small coins for the Infantile paralysis foundation. W. S. Buckley (lower left) and M. C.

Reed, White House mail clerks, are shown sorting the letters while 1. R. T. Smith, chief of mails at the White House, receives a bag from Postman B. A.

Van Geuder. The mail bags contain letters still to be sorted. Far-Flung Search Is Instituted For Missing Girl of Burlingame ODDITIES IN NEWS GRIST OF THE DAY PASADENA, Jan. 29 (P)-A telephone call sent police the Colorado street bridge, suitide span across the Arroyo Seco. Beneath they found a horrible looking figure of a man, red stains on the clothing.

Disdainully, the officers cruelly kicked he figure under nearby bushes, and gingerly wiped their hands of the whole affair. It was a straw dummy and the blood was raspberry jam. Stool Pigeon' Cat Dies At Folsom FOLSOM, Jan. 29 -Rusty, the stool pigeon, is dead. For 16 years Rusty rambled the cell blocks of Folsom Prison.

(Incidentally, Rusty was a cat). He won distinction by his ability to detect food that prisoners sought to hide their cells. Said Clerk Joseph H. Doherty, of the warden's staff: "He would go to a cell door and sit there until a came if he detected the food. He guard, couldn't be bribed, either.

He wouldn't have a thing to do with anybody in convict clothes." Report Cards Out, Pupils Toss Eggs VALLEJO, Jan. 29 -Police were of the opinion today that solution of a rock and egg throwing episode at the home of Miss Ruth Devlin might be found in a sequence of events report cards at the high school where Miss Devlin teaches were distributed yesterday. One rock broke a window. Red Robin Hood' Hopes For Leniency LOS ANGELES, Jan. 29 Upon a unique affidavit in which Arthur J.

Kent purported to close Communist party activities, the "Red Robin Hood." who has pleaded guilty to burglary charges, today based hopes for leniency. Sentencing of Kent, who said 1e robbed from the rich to raise noney for Communist purposes, has been deferred to February 23 30 his affidavit may be investigated thoroughly. The affidavit, 12 pages long, was filed yesterday by Aaron Sapiro, Kent's attorney, to substaniate his that he be given consideration because he is assistng federal authorities in probing Communist-Labor relations. He said he was ousted from the Communist party because he told officials that Harry Bridges, D. I.

O. maritime labor leader, vas a member of the group under he name of Dorgan. WEATHER San Francisco Bay Region: Probably fair tonight and Sunday; frost tonight; moderate northwest wind. Sacramento and Santa Clara Valleys: Probably fair tonight and Sunday, with frosts tonight; northwest wind. San Joaquin Valley: Clearing and colder with frosts tonight; Sunday probably fair; northwest wind.

Temperatures yesterday, January 28: Degrees Maximum 54 Minimum 48 Lowest this 40 Barometer, 9 a.m... .30.02 in. Rainfall for 24 hours ending at 2 p.m. .20 in. Rainfall for season to data 9.34 Rainfall to date last season 8.26 in.

Palo INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER 5c a copy Year -No. 25 PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29. 1938 750 by the month ITALIAN ARMS BLAST KILLS 15. INJURES 200 SHOWDOWN IN PORT TIE-UP IS DEMANDED Redwood City Harbor Still Idle In Labor Fight While the Port of Redwood City stood idle today as the result of a labor dispute between the American Federation of Labor and the Committee for Industrial Organization, city officials and citizens of Redwood City were urging action that would bring about a showdown. The port became tied up yesterday when A.

F. of L. carpenters asked Port Manager Walter F. Murphy not to move lumber shipped from an Oregon mill manned by C. I.

O. workers. To bring the issue to a showdown, officials, including Mayor Paul A. McCarthy and Councilman Evans A. Fletcher, suggested that Murphy order the lumber moved to Redwood City lumber yards so that the dock might be the near future.

cleared for, shipments expected in "At least, it'll show whether the A. F. of L. is merely bluffing," McCarthy said. No pickets were ordered to the dock today, but officials of the local carpenters' union hinted that such action might follow if deemed necessary.

A. F. of L. lumber was being moved. In San Francisco, a single A.

F. of L. picket paraded on the docks near lumber that was a part of the shipment sent down from the Oregon mill. The local case is thought to have been placed in the hands of the international council of the A. F.

of L. WILL SUCCEED STEIWER SALEM, Jan. 29 (P)-Alfred Evan Reames, 67, Medford attorney, was appointed by ernor Charles Martin today to serve out the unexpired term of Frederick Steiwer as U. S. senator from Oregon.

Reames is a Democrat. He will serve until December 31. Pacific Ocean Blank. In Weather Reports SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 29 (7P) The Pacific ocean was a blank again today on the weather maps as Weather Forecaster Thomas R.

Reed reported receiving only three reports from merchant marine radio operators who quit sending readings yesterday in their offduty hours. The radiomen have asked extra pay for rising at 4 a.m. to flash barometric readings to the United States Weather Bureau here which compiles forecasts. NATIONS ASK U. S.

HELP IN AIDING CHINA 3-Power Finance Plan Said To Depend On Washington GENEVA, Jan. 29 (P)-Great Britain, France and Russia were reported today to have agreed to extend economic and financial aid to China in her war with Japan provided the United States would co-operate. Competent League of Nations circles said the three major league powers had determined to follow such a course either with or without approval of the league council. A Polish decision to block passage by the council of a resolution of aid led the three powers to take the position that such a measure was unnecessary. The resolution passed by the league assembly October 6, 1937, was deemed sufficient to justify the aid to China.

The October resolution said, in part, that the assembly: "Expressed its moral support for China and recommends that members of the league should refrain from taking any action which might have the effect of weakening China's power of resistance and thus of increasing her difficulties in the present conflict, and should also consider how far they individually can extend aid to There was no indication of what steps might be taken to get cooperation of the United States in the plan to help China. Poland blocked the resolution, authoritative quarters disclosed, by declaring she would vote against the measure. U. S. Not Interested WASHINGTON, Jan.

29 (P)- Secretary Hull indicated today the United States was not inclined which join in a proposed plan by Great Britain, France, and Soviet Russia would supply arms and military equipment to China in her struggle with Japan. The secretary of state said he had received no communications from the three governments with regard to their reported agreement on the plan in Geneva. He added the United States had no new foreign policy on the subject. Officials interpreted this to mean the present policy of neutrality would be continued. Foreigners Restricted SHANGHAI, Jan.

29 (P)--Japanese today restricted the Shanghai areas into which foreigners may go, apparently in an effort to avoid possible new "incidents." A Japanese embassy spokesman announced the regions prohibited to foreigners included Kiangwan, (Continued on Page 2, Col. 7) PLANT BLASTED IN DISPUTE The interterior of the Dral Cleaning and Dyeing Works in Portland wrecked in the explosion of a bomb. The roar of the blast was was heard throughout Portland. Police said they believed the explosion was the aftermath of union trouble at the plant. Couple From China Confident of Victory In War With Invaders Business Upset Over F.R.

Appeal To Uphold Wages WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (P)- The United States Chamber of Commerce said today business. men had been "greatly certed over the suggestion from the White House that prices should be reduced at the same time wages are maintained or increased." In many industries, the chamber said, wages constitute the most important single factor in production cost. "Such industries," it added, "can not substantially reduce prices without lowering wages. To be sure, this might be done temporarily at the expense of reducing or eliminating profits." Dividend payments of manufacturing companies in 1936, the chamber noted, were "only about five per cent as much as the gross income of manufacturing enterprises for that year." Mrs.

Hollyer said her daughter had been attending school at Burlingame and working as a domestic, and that she was bound for San Francisco when she disappeared. The mother, said the girl planned to Bob Eisen, 18, Burlingame (113 Dwight road), but that Eisen had not seen her since she boarded the bus. Mrs. Hollyer said she had the girl made a ward of the juvenile court in San Francisco after Betty Grace, for some unexplained reason, lost interest in the school work in which she formerly excelled. The mother knew only as "Jimmie" an older man with whom she thought the girl might have been friendly here.

The father of the girl is a retired army officer. The parents are separated. Betty Grace had been staying with Mr. and Mrs. E.

Andersen (1545 Howard street), Burlingame. $10,000 FIRE DAMAGES S.F. BOX FACTORY SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 29 (7) A large portion of the city's down-town fire apparatus sped to the Embarcadero today when flames in the Independent Box Factory, on the second floor of a two-story building, threatened to spread to other structures in the produce district. Clouds of smoke, which hovered over the area even after the fire was under control, hampered firemen.

and, material, were destroyed. Fire Charles Tools, Brennan estimated damage at $10,000. MINE DEATH PROBED GRASS VALLEY, Jan. 29 (P)- Authorities, North investigated Star a Mine that in caused the death yesterday of W. W.

Henry, a miner. Another View of Niagara Bridge Toppled by Ice a. Hammered by ice floes, the famed "honeymoon bridge" over Niagara Falls collapsed, the 39-year-old span, successor to one blown down by wind, dropped to ice in the gorge 200 feet below and the twisted steel is shown on the ice between the American and Canadian shores, just after the crash. RESIDENTS OF TOWN FORCED TO FLEE HOMES Carelessness Of One Worker Blamed For Tragedy Northern California's investigation of vice rings swung into new channels today with the reported disappearance of pretty Betty Grace Hollyer, 16-year-old high school girl, who was last seen boarding a bus at Burlingame, January 8. Mrs.

Grace Hollyer, mother of the girl and an employe in judge advocate's office of the Presidio in San Francisco, said her blonde, blue-eyed daughter was sent to Burlingame to stay with friends several months ago when her interest in school work in San Francisco lagged. The mother expressed the belief that "something evil has happened." Inspector Marvin Dowell said that through friends Mrs. Hollyer enlisted the aid of Major Charles Schoffel, of the New Jersey state police, but that investigation showed the girl was not with her father, Winthrop A. Hollyer, Mount Holly, N. J.

U. S. INCOMES UP 5 PER CENT IN LAST YEAR NEW YORK, Jan. 29 (P) come received by individuals in the United States last year rose to $67,534,000,000 from 000 in 1936, a gain of 5.5 per cent, the National Industrial Conference Board reported today. The board, a private research organization supported mainly by corporations, pointed out the gain was not SO great in terms of actual goods and services as in dollars because the cost of living increased 4.4 per cent.

There was, still a lag of 15 per cent compared with the nation's income of $79,101,000,000 in 1929. The 1936 flow of dollars to individuals, the board recalled, was swelled by distribution, of more than $1,800,000,000 in payment of the bonus to war veterans. Last year, it was found, 000,000 was derived from producing industries and regular government services. The rest came from such sources as pensions and government payments to farmers. Salaries and wages, the board said, amounted to $42,400,000,000, or 69 per cent of the total, an increase of 11 per cent over 1936 when the total was $38,109,000,000.

Civil War Veteran Dies At Age Of 95 Burial services will be held in the National Cemetery at the San Francisco Presidio at 3 p.m. next Monday the late William Dempsey, 95, veteran of the Civil War, who died yesterday afternoon at the Veterans' Administration Facility here. The "old soldier" was a native' of Canada, but enlisted in the Union Army September 20, 1864, and was discharged three years later. For many years he followed the merchandising business, dealing in mining supplies, and made his home in San Francisco. He entered the hospital here on July 2, 1936.

Surviving is a son, H. H. Dempsey, of San Francisco. Wife To Seek Divorce From Tennis Coach NEW YORK, Jan. 29 (P) -Mercer Beasley, internationally known tennis coach, said today his wife was en route to Reno to seek a divorce.

Beasley, coach at Princeton University and mentor of Frankie Parker, American Davis Cup player, said a property settlement would be arranged by attorneys. The couple, married in 1915, have two children, James, and Katherine, 21. AP Returned Missionary Confirms Report Of Determination Courage is an intangible thing; yet the courage of China can almost be felt in the air and seen in glowing faces when one speaks with two Chinese patriots now in Palo Alto on the first stop of a world tour that will take them away for perhaps a year from their home near Amoy on the south coast of their native land. Yes, the courage of China is evident from the words of Mr. and Mrs.

Toh Bien Seng, who tell how a great mass movement of their countrymen is proceeding inland, away from the dangerous coastal cities to new homes which they pray will be safe from the invasions of the Japanese. Whole university faculties, laboratory equipment, business firms, and families are being moved piecemeal and in entirety to refuges out of range of Japanese gunfire and soldiers, where the business of living may be carried on until the aggressors can be assimilated, conquered, or driven off Chinese soil. This feeling of Chinese unified determination is confirmed by the travelers' guide and protector here, Dr. E. J.

Strick, superintendent of a. missionary hospital at ChuanChow, A short distance from Amoy, who himself arrived in Palo Alto December 21 to Strick on an eight-month furlough. "Japan," he said. "has met with unexpected resistance from the Chinese peonie whose military power it wholely underestimated. Tananese ferocity has not intimidated the defense, as it was intended to do, but has only served to stir the Chinese to supreme efforts.

"China has been unified by the war." To facilitate mass emigration been investing in automoinward, the Chinese, peoples have biles, which can operate to advantage over the nation's improved network of highways if railway lines are destroved or controlled by Japanese. The University of Amoy has already obtained inland sites and made preparations for the removal of its operations from the sea coast until peace is restored. Mr. Toh, the Chinese representative of American business firms, has taken opportunity of the industrial inactivity upon the war to trip. consequenta This is the first visit of the Chinese couple to the United States, which they find refreshingly peaceful.

Later they will visit England, where Mrs. Toh was educated, and then the continent. "I am certain that will regain its invaded Mr. Toh said simply. "Otherwise I would re-estabiish my business inland and not waste this year, waiting for the return of a normal China." Dr.

Strick is a veteran of 24 years in the missionary hospital service China. A graduate of Hope with the 1903 class, (Continued on Page 2, Col. 4). SEGNI, Italy, Jan. 29 (P)-At least 15 persons were killed and more than 200 injured today when the explosives section of one of Italy's greatest munitions plants was destroyed by a series of blasts that devastated the business district of this town' of 10,000.

Residents of the central section of the city, where the brunt of the damage was experienced, were forced to evacuate their shattered homes. All clocks within a. wide radius were stopped by the blasts. Premier Benito Mussolini hurried from Rome, where he had been attending the wedding of a niece, to survey the wreckage. He was persuaded, however, not to venture beyond the safety lines drawn more than a mile away from the factory.

Police cordons held back wives and mothers who hysterically sought to search the flaming ruins for missing workmen. Frantically working rescue crews were able to drag out 15 bodies from the wreckage. Firemen believed many more would be found when they were able to penetrate the smouldering ruins, The explosion was blamed officially on the carelessness of a. worker who broke a compressed air tube. A communique announcing the disaster gave no definite casualty figures but said there "some dead and dozens injured." Stores of wool used in making high explosives were burning in the cellars and prevented further rescue work.

Many persons were injured by flying splinters of glass and the tiles hurtled from the rooftops of neigh boring buildings force of the blast. Two minor explosions occurred at 7:35 a.m. and 7:50 a.m. before the huge blast at 8:03 a.m. just as the day shift was relieving the night workers.

Segni suffered widespread damage. Many roofs were shaken down and virtually all windows were blown out. King Vittorio Emanuele and Queen Elena hurried from Rome to the scene of the tragedy. They were accompanied by the governor of Rome, The superintendent of the Bombrino Pariodi Delfino factory, built six years ago to speed Italy's rearmament program, told Mussolini the number of casualties would have been much larger had he not 'ordered the plants evacuated after the first explosion. The premier visited the scene in mid-afternoon and then walked through the center of the town, inspecting the wide-spread damage.

5 Munitions Blasts Recorded In Week By The Associated Press Munitions for war that exploded prematurely in peace have claimed scores of lives in five places around the world within the week. The series of blasts which ripped through one of Italy's greatest munitions factories today, resulted in death or injury for more than 200 persons at Segni. On Monday a Finnish army in(Continued on Page 2, Col. 7) Haight May Run For Governorship Raymond L. Haight, a Los Angeles attorney well known on the peninsula, will run again for governor of the state, Burlingame friends predicted today.

The attorney was a candidate in 1934, opposing Upton Sinclair and Governor Frank Merriam. He will campaign as a member of the Commonwealth party, it was predicted. WA Popeye's Originator Undergoes Operation SANTA MONICA, Jan. 29 (P)-- E. C.

Segar, cartoonist and originator of the Popeye comic strip, underwent an operation today for the removal of his delicate one, was 40 The operation, considered, surgeons. It was performed by Dr. W. H. Olds, assisted by Dr.

Raymond Sands. Dr. Sands said the operation was and expressed timism cartoonist's r'esuccessful, covery. He said the operation was considered necessary to save his life..