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Exrtwsro Press DflCDME The Seryxt Oakland and vicinity- Fair and mild but with fog tonight and Saturday mpder-ate to fresh westerly, winds. United Press i CENTS-SUNDAY, TEN CENTS OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1928 The MLVn, o. 52 PAGES i MRS. ISABELIDILWORTH TELLEGEN. who with her husband, Lou Tellegen, the actor, has filed petition ih PACIFIC SHIP R1TTI HITS LOOT GAINES DIES MEXICO TRAIN, FOR MURDER KILL GUARDS OE DAUGHTER Bare-Legged WomenDefy Ouster From League Hall International Sensation Is Created by Guests of Geneva Envoy.

Father Handed in Washington Prison for Killing Girl; Inocence Is Asserted to Last; Meets Death Calmly Final Statement Refuses to Forgive Friends Held Responsible for Punishment to Self, Family uni illu iiiuii tered and 'crippled by a terrific Wfi hurricane which officers and crew MiSM fought for three days with little USfe expectation of ever making lnnd, jjj sBL 'SB jLf-tMBflS jyBIy'uv, rdlegen, cUMaBsHB 'finite si 1 once leading iHH man for Sarah yPSj traces his finan- ydflHk i Jilfch rial collapse to MjB Siilai.9 -w Ml tm umtmmmmmmmmmim CIX THREE Spa rk From Bell Calling Worker Late in Rising Sets Off Gas; Suicide Laid to Grief for Wife AP artment walls Dam aged, Windows and Doors Blown Out by Explo-j sion Starting Blaze The pressure of a night clerk's finger on an annunciator Sutton wrecked the three-story Argonne apartments, ioid tjecona avenue, at 6:45 tpday, when a spark from a call bell In the room of George R. Jackson, 38, Key System conduc tor. who hart committed suicide by gas during the night, a terrific explosion. The gas-filled room was set afire by the blast which drove other occupants of the apartment to the street In terror. 80 terrific was the force of the explosion that a skylight was blown out, a huge hole was torn In the side of Jackson's room, the celling was lifted clear from the supporting walls, and doors and windows blown out.

Bedclothlng and curtains were set afire, and only quick work by the fire department prevented the place being burned to the ground. It was shortly before 6:45 this morning when a fellow employee of Jackson's, from the car barns a short distance away, ran into the Argonne apartments and hailed the night clerk. "Wake Jackson," he said. "He's late." BliAST FOLLOWS PRESSING BUTTON The clerk reached pressed the button to apartment. A terrific followed that rocked up and Jackson'so explosion the entire neighborhood.

On the xamc floor with the apartment. Herlicrt I.oniburdl, the proprietor of the place, was just leaving the bathroom when plasler showered all about him and a huge hole was suddenly torn In the wall of Jackson's room. Iiombardl peered In, to find Jackson dead on the bed and everything- In the room ablaze. Lombardl hurled a bucket of water on the bed ami turned In a fire alarm. When the fire had been extinguished, police and firemen took stock bt the situation and finally determined what had caused the explosion.

Jackson had killed himself by leaving the gas Jets In the place open and stuffing the cracks of doors and windows. When the night clerk pressed the call buttc.fi downstairs, the vibrator on the bell made just enough of a spark to touch off the gas in the room, and the explosion Xol-lowed. Police found evidence of Jackson's preparation for his death In the strip of cloth with which all sir had been stopped. A charred note on the table, addressed to Alice Irons, 1278 One Hundred and Sixth avenue, read as follows: "Dear Alice Lonesome nnd blue. Hnvc stood this as long as I enn, so I am taking the road to tile in her world to sec if can find my dear wife wl 1 limn love go dearly The note also gave minute directions for Jackson's funeral, a memorandum of bank deposits, and other matters usually covered by will or testament.

According to Lombardl, Jack-ton's wife died a month ago and he has been despondent since. Mrs. Irons told the police that he was an old friend and had known Jackson since childhood. Bhe said he had a mother in Stockton. His wife died following a tonsil operation several weeks ago, after a married life of two years, Jackson, she said, felt her loss keenly.

FRIEND SAYS SHE FEARED NIIC1DE. When he moved Into the Argonne apartments, Mrs. Irons said he helped him fix the place up and noticed a gas stove In the place. It occurred to her that he might use it to kill himself and she urged him to come and live at her house. He refused.

"I had a feeling that he might do Just what he did," she told the authorities today. White Star Line Builds Biggest Ship in World BT ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIKE TO TRIBUNE OMDON, Aug. 31. Uncertainty regardint the site of the new White Star liner under ronMrur-tion Belfast for nse in the Southampton-New York service, as cleared up today by the company's announcement that the will have a displacement of 60,900 tens, it will be the larger liner in the world and will be romple'ed in three years at a cost of about While rumors are current that the Canard line alio plana to build a gigantic vessel, officials of the company said no derision had been reached in retard to the matter. Tber admitted that it ia heir- considered.

ni HPT rinrn dlhoi riro HOME AS IN Ml LS SELF 62 AIM WILL FACE GRAND JURY QUIZ 'Victims' in Lake Tahoe Land Deals Demand Action by District Attorney; Misrepresentation Is Charged Probe Result of $26,000 in Suits by Members of Flock; Further Damages to Be Sought by Others BY AHOCLATED PRESS LEASED WIRE TO TRIBUNE LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31. Evangelist Almee Semple McPher-son will be summoned before the county grand Jury In an investigation' of her real estate operations at Lake Tahoe labeled "fraudulent" by- civil litigants. This announcer ment was made by the district attorney today. Decision to bring the famous exponent of the "Four Square Gospel" creed before the Inquisitorial body followed closely upon the visit of" a group of alleged 'wlctlms" of her realty activities to the prosecutor's office.

Attorney Benjamin Lewis, leading the party, demanded a criminal complaint against the evangelist. 'All of his clients described themselves as members of Angelus Temple congregation. PLAINTIFFS CHARGE MISREPRESENTATION. After a brief conference at which her followers alleged that McPherson sold them property near the California resort through misrepresentation, Deputy District Attorney Hugh Me-fsaaca announced the matter would be turned Over to the county grand jury for investigation. Yesterday two suits asking damages from the evangelist totaling more thnn SSS.000 were filed by two of her congregation.

simultaneously came announcement from Mc-Isaacs that he had had the evangelist's realty operations under his official spectacles, fo-cussed to detect crime, If any existed, for more than two weeks. Mclsaacs, after examining contacts and other evidence purporting to establish the evangelist as the chief figure in a scheme to defraud, said' that he was not certain on what grounds the case would be laid before the grand Jury. It was probable, though, he said, that he would picture to the Investigating body a conspiracy to obtain money Under false pretense. SENDS LEGAL AIDE TO EXPLAIN DEALS. The evangelist, striking central figure In the disappearance and alleged kidnaping episode two years ago whlcli brought her before a criminal court on felony charges, hnd been expected to appear personally before the district attorney's representative.

Instead, she sent Arthur Veitch, chief of her legal staff, to present her side of the mnttcr. Mrs. McPherson recently, announced plans to leave for Europe next Monday. "I assure you," Veitch told the prosecutor, "that Mrs. McPherson will not try to run away.

She will sacrifice her personal desire to leave for Europe. It Is a tremendous thing, sure, to postpone this trip and I suggest that her deposition be taken and the document presented to tho grand Jury. WILL SUGGEST SHE POSTPONE TRIP. "However, I wlllj suggest that she remain here kor the time being," he added. According to the plaintiffs in thp civil suits, Mrs.

McPherson represented thnt a "tahcrnncle" would be erected on the lots alleged to have been sold to her followers, by July, 1918. Such work was not done, It was alleged. Exhibits In tho suits purported to show that Mrs. McPherson received a ten per cent commlslson on group sales of laud at the Northern California lake resort. Boy, 3, Smokes Cigars Daily and Doctor Approves WASHINGTON, Aug.

Smoking of cigars by 3-year-old Bobbie (Juisley is no business of tie board of public welfare. Bobbie, son of Edward Quigley, smokes daily but be does not, inhale, and the familv, after a physician, decided that if permitted to have his own way ha might soon overcome the desire. A welfare board official who visited the home reported all of the children, including Bobbie, wuje healthy and that there was no reason for interference in a family affair. The youngster was given bis first cigar by his father, who believed it would make him tick and stop, bis cesseleis importunities to he Howedi to smoke. Instead he took r-4i'-- tn ihe weed.

May ar of El Cerrito Beaten by ax payer Assault Takes Place When City Officials Inspect Protested Paving. EL CEKRITO, Aug. 31. Mayor Phil A. Lee of this city was attacked late last night while engaged in street inspection, by Andy Shevlin, a property owner of 190 Terrace drive, knocked to the pavement, his head gashed, and one ear severely bitten, according to police reports today.

Shevlin Js in Jail, charged with mayhem. The attack occurred while Mayor Lee, in company with a number of city councilmen and officials of the California Construction- company, were inspecting street work near Shevlin's house. Shevlin has been before the council a number of tlnies- with protests against the work, and when the inspection group appeared on the scene, Shevlin came out of his house and approached them. After excoriating the mayor and cotincllmcu for what lie termed "unnecessary property costs," It is alleged ShcVlin struck the mayor in the face. Mayor Lee had his hands In ills pockets at the time, it is said.

He ducked a second blow and struck back. Slicvlln, who is a much heavier man, then bore him to the ground! it Is alleged, striking the mayor's, head on the pavement nnd inflicting two deep gashes. While the mayor was 1 on the ground, Shevlin. it is alleged, bit the matyor severely on the right ear. The two combatants were separated by councilmen and members of the construction company, and the mayor given medical treatment.

The chief executive around -today with his head In bandages, while Shevlin languishes In Jail with a felony charge against him. MUSSOLINI FOE Political Exile, Jailed With Girl as He Crosses Italian Line. ROME, Aug. 81. UP) A Stefanl news agency dispatch from Como says Oeneral Cesare Rossi, Italian political exile and sworn enemy of Premier Mussolini, was arrested at Camplone after having entered Italian territory clandestinely.

A Marguerite Durand, who accompanied Rossi, also was arrested, the dispatch says. PARIS, Aug. 31. UP) International complications were thought possible today, due to the arrest of General Cesare Rossi, exiled former Fascist leader, on what Was termed a "sentimental Journey" Just over the Italian border from Switzerland. Some Swiss dispatches questioned the regularity of the capture of the man, who, with Mussolini and two Others, organized the famous march on Rome, and later fled from Italy.

It is reported that' Roust was seized at Camplonl, where It Is said no Italian visa is necessary, for a visit, and wan taken to the, Jail at San Donnino. There are various versions as to how Rossi was "enticed" across the border. Some say a woman Fascist agent lured him there. Others state that Italian agents rented an apartment In Lugano, Switzerland, and organized on Swiss territory an excursion to a villa they had rented across the frontier, Rossi and the woman Joining In the excursion. It la not clear whether the woman was a party to the plot.

Until recently Rossi made hta headquarters In Paris and Is known to have been actively opposing the Mussolini regime. Not long ago he took up his abode In Switzerland. Warren Manley of S. F. Dies in China SANGHAI, 'Aug.

31. UP) Warren Manley.of Sah Francisco, secretary of the Shanghai American Chamber of Commerce, died today of pneumonia. Manley came to Shanghai In 1919 and established an import and export business. He formerly was In business in San Franclseo. He became secretary of the chamber of commerce in 1925 and was prominent In Masonic circles.

The funeral will he, on September 2.. Sharks Caught in English Channel BT BBITED PRESS LEASED WIRE TO TRTBUBE DEAL. England, Aug. 11. Another big 'shark, caught In the channel along the route taken by channel swimmers, waa brought to shore today.

It was eight feet long and weighed 400 pounds. It waa caught by the same fishermen who took a six-foot shark the night HI IN All but One of Military Escort Are Slaughtered; Passengers Robbed and Express Cars Plundered Ranchers Are Killed and Homes Rifled in Series of Frsh Outbreaks; Troops Sent to Quell Activities BY ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE TO TRIBUNE WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. The state department was advised today by Americnn Consjul Lowry at Guadalajara, Mexico, that E. J.

Bunisted, a mining man of Los Angeles, was reported to hnvc been kidnaped oil August 25 at Ixtlan Delrlo in the state of Najnrlt. Tile embassy In Mexico City has mnde representations to the Mexican foreign office requesting that npproprltc measures be taken to obtain Btini-stcd's release. MEXICO. CITY, Aug. 31 Seventy-five bandits attacked and looted a coast-to-coast train between Cuautla and Puento de Ixtla.

State of Morelos, a dispatch said today. All but one soldier of the train's military escort was killed, the message said. The passengers were robbed and the express ears looted. Most of the booty was obtained from the express cars, as the train carried comparatively few passengers. Relief trains carrying troops and doctors with medical supplies) were sent to the scene.

Reports of disorders also were received from other parts of Mexico. Dispatches to El Universal from Vera Cruz state that bandits operating near the town of Medel-lln have killed four persons and wounded a number of others dur ing the lust two days. Ranchers and other residents of the region are fleeing from the country Into towns where federal garrisons are stationed. The dispatches say that gangs re roaming the country pillaging the ranches. At one ranch they killed the owner and a servant and at another killed one employee.

A cattle man was hanged nt a third ranch. The bandits began intense operations a few daye ago and In one day looted five ranches. Federal troops have been ordered In pursuit. One bandit was killed, yesterday when a group of twenty attacked a ranch near Atzcopotzalco, not far from Mexico City. The ranchmen resisted the bandits and after a brief battle drove them off.

Federal troops were sent In pursuit of the men and the military forces In the region were strengthened. Celebrities Gather at Mix-Morrissey Trial BY UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE TO TRIBUNE LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31. In a courtroom crowded with celebrities of the stage and screen, the various versions of the Tom Mlx-Wtll Mor-rissey-Midgle Miller battle-royal were described at Mix's trial on two battery charges today. Morrissey and Miss Miller both attributed black eyes and other injuries received at George Beban's housewarmlng to the flailing fists of the screen cowboy.

"I pulled Mix by the coat tall when he was kicking Miss Miller testified, "and then he turned on me and biffed me in the eye." Pirates Beat Cards In First of Double PITTSBURGH, Aug. 31. UP) The PtBates drove Grover Cleveland Alexander from the box and withstood a four-run Cardinal rally In the eighth to win the first gamp of a double-header from the leaders before 20.000 fans today by. 6 to B. Ray Kremer gave way to Burleigh Grimes after the visitors had bagged their four markers In the eighth, but retained credit for the victory.

BOSTON. Auk. 31. UP) Philadelphia defeated the Braves In the first game of a double-header today, 4 to 3. a iii Two Women Killed As Train Hits Auto UNDERWOOD, Aug.

II. UP) Mrs. Aaron Larson, 28, of Underwood; Leon Cole, 19. and Jacqueline Cole, 10, both of Portland, were killed, and Mrs. Cvll Cole, IT, of Portland, sister of Mrs.

Larson, waa perhaps fatally injured when their automobile was struck here today by a motor train. Three children In the auto were lso Injured. Navy Football Star Sunstroke Victim BT ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE TO TRIBUNE ANNAPOLIS, Aug. IL Miles Seeser Fox, 19-year-old star, on whom the navy had built high nopea ror Its coming football sea son, died early today after suffering a sunstroke at football practice aster Say afternoon. LONDON, Aug.

31. CP) An exchange telegraph dispatch from Geneva says that an international Incident was narrowly averted In the council room of the league of nations today when three women wearing exceedingly stylish seaside summer dresses, but minus stockings, strolled toward the diplomatic reserve seats. League rules are very strict and the secretariat only recently Issued a ukase, which was widely published, forbidding women with bare legs to come Into the league building. The head usher consequently determined to take prompt action and Informed the women that they could not be allowed In the council room. The women protested vehemently and ns they possessed the necessary guest cards, which Incidentally had been given them by an Important delegation, were finally admitted, creating somewhat of a sensation In the council ropm where the delegates were discussing means for the suppression of opium.

GIRL ATTACK HELD Released, Claims Hat Lost by Assailant of Young Girls, BERKELEY, Aug. 31 Released on a drunk charge preferred by his mother, Cecil K. Sanford, 24. 1 74 2 Grant street, was re-arrcsted In the Berkeley police station today when ho identified as his own, a hat dropped by a fiend who has attempted assaults on four little girls within the past twenty-four hours. Snnford was being closely questioned by detectives following this revelation.

He declared his innocence of the girl charges, but admitted ownership of the hat. He told the police a cousin had taken his maehlno and hnt, and he hail not henrd'from his relative for two days. Two EI Cerrito glrs, nnd two children belonging to an Oakland family, reported attempted attacks to tho police within" the past two days. The El Cerrito girls, 12 and IB, were lured Into a machine, taken into the hills and assaulted. They mannged, to.

escape, one. girl getting the license number of the car. GIHL BREAKS AWAY AND BRINGS HELP. Two of the victims of alleged attackers were picked up near the Berkeley Country club. Tho young men talked to them and attempted to drag them Into a machine.

One of the girls broke away nnd ran to a new house where a carpenter was at work. She enlisted his aid and went back with her. The youths fled, one dropping his hat. The girl obtained the license number of the car and turned It over to the police when they reported the Incident at the police station. Wednesday noon, two students of Frlck school, Oakland, 14 and 16 years of age, were given a ride by two young men to a deserted spot near tho head of Chabot road.

The girls managed to escape and returned home late In the evening with their clothes torn, and their faces and hands scratched from their battle with the men. SANFORD PROTESTS INNOCENCE OF ATTACKS. The police believe the two attempted attacks are connected. Sanford. while admitting ownership of the hat, steadfastly protests his Innocence of the attack charges.

The police have sent for the four children involved and will confront Sanford for identification purpose. U. sTBars British Labor Leader, Report NEW YORK, Aug. 31. CAP) Reports that the state department had refused to permit Mark Starr, British labor organizer, to visit this country to lecture at Brookwood Labor College, Katonah, N.

today puzzled authorities at the college. Starr, an organizer of the National Council of Labor Colleges of Great Britain and author of a book on labor, was 'Invited to Interpret the British labor movement for Brookwood students. He also planned to study the problems of American labor. Records Link Police To Bootleg Graft PHILADELPHIA, Aug. ll.UP) Records of graft navments In black arid white today police officers And police officials to a boot legging ring which is credited with banking $10,000,000 In seven year.

These records were revealed In the books fo Marks, Weinberg at public accountants, seized by District Attorney Monaghan last Wednesday to aid the grand Jury In Its investigation of gang warfare In Philadelphia. Utah Man Takes Post In State Department ASSOCIATED PRESS LSAAZD WIRE TO TRIBUBE WASHINGTON, Aug. II. J. Reuben Clark, Salt Lake City lawyer, waa sworn in today as under secretary of state, succeeding Robert F.

Olds, who resigned Jan II. WALLA WALLA, Aug. 31. UP) Wallace C. Gaines was hanged at dawn today at the state penitentiary here for the murder of his daughter, Sylvia, 22, in Seattle two years ago.

Hi last words were: "Get It over with as quick as possible." The trap was sprung at 4:07,, a. ho was pronounced dead seven minutes later. Frank Novak. Seattle prison evangelist, who was closeted with Gaines for nine hours before his dentil, sold Gaines' Inst words to him were, "1 nm tnnocent of this crime." Novak said he told Gaines, who was an ardent believer In a hereafter, that If he was guilty, he would have no peaco until he confessed. Gaines, who had steadfastly maintained his Innocence, walked unaided to his death.

Gaines stoically accepted his fate, and showed little emotion through his two years of Imprisonment. He was most affected, perhaps, three weeks' ago when Em-mett Bailey, his erstwhile cellmate', was led to the gallows. INNOCENCE ASSERTED TO LAST MOMENT "Guinea declared he was Innocent up to the last moment," Novak said. "He maintained he was not guilty of the crime-Most of the night lie spent praying. He confessed to me, upon my earnest request, a few minor sins having no hearing on the crime of which he was accused." Later, Novak said, Gaines had told him, "I nm sorry I was drinking that night," but In the crime was From the prison Novak went to a hotel room here where William Gaines, brother, and Mrs.

Elizabeth Lewis Gaines, wife of the dead man, were waiting. In a final statement made public through his. wife, Gaines again reiterated his innocence, concluding with: do not forgive the friends who. are (he, cause of inking an Innocent man's life, and know that they will be made to suffer for the unjust punishment (hey have Inflicted upon my fainllj. They will pay dearly for this outrage on earth and In the hereafter, for their sins will rind them out." Gaines was convicted August 19, 1926, after a sensational two-week's trial, of the brutal slaying, of his daughter, Sylvia, Juqe 10 of that year.

Subsequent, appeals to the state supreme court and the United States supreme court, and at 'the last minute, to the governor, proved futile. Steadfastly fighting afralnst the hangmnn'a noose and protesting his Innocence to the last, were Oalnea' second wire nnd his brother, William A. Gaines, former King county commissioner who appointed the prosecutor who obtained Gaines' conviction. BROTHER MAKES FINAL APPEAL. Gallics' brother made an elev-enth-hfur attempt to have the execution stayed when he appealed for a writ of habeas corpus in the I'nlted States district court of Spokane yesterday, on the grounds that the conviction wns the work of his pollticul enemies.

Telegrams late last night to Governor Hartley In Seattle from both Mrs. Gaines and the former commissioner were still waiting to be delivered when the condemned man walked to his death. The telegraph company was unable to lo cate the execuUve who had refused to make any comment on the many petitions submitted to him asking for clemency. William was on the verge of hysteria after saying good-bye to his brother. Mrs.

Gaines waa In tears, while the doomed man was cheer ful and laughed as he told them of a visit of two priests. During the previous night Mrs. Gaines appeared composed. When told It was rumored her husband had made a confession, Mrs. Gaines merely smiled and said the rumors were ridiculous, as her husband had no confession to make.

She affirmed her belief in him to the last. As the hour of the execution struck, Mrs. Gaines said, "It's near the time, Isn't It?" She wept quietly when told' that it was all over. William Gaines, on the other hand, was much distracted, pacing the floor In an almost hysterical manner. He Was prevailed upon to calm down, however, but often put his hand up to his neck as though the rope were about his own.

The body of Gaines waa found on the shore of Green lake hr on June 17. 112. The prosecution In outlining Its case against Gaines Mid that 8ylvla was the object of Gaines' "strange Unnatural affections," and that Mrs. Gaines knew of this and went away to California. He said that Sylvia finally resolved to get away and that Galnea slaw her while he was rank.

Actor Blames Bankruptcy on Appearance in 'Slap-stick' Comedies. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 81. (A) Lou Tellegen, actor, yesterday filed a petition In bankruptcy' In federal court, listing his debts as $20,901, nnd his assets as $2200. His wife.

Isabel Dilworth Tellegen, filed a similar voluntary petition naming similar amounts. Tellegen and his wife" both listed of their debts ns being unsecured, mostly In the form of promissory notes given to local business men. One debt to th United States, that of $0925 Income tax, also was set forth. SEATTLE, Aug. 31.

UP) Acting In "slapstick" film comedies Is blamed by Lou Tellegen, stage star of pre-war days, for his financial downfall. A voluntary petition in bankruptcy In hchnlf of Tellegen and his wife. Isabel Dilworth Tellegen, waa filed in Los Anijeles yesterday. Recounting the troubles which a five-year motion picture contract had brought to him, Tellegen said here last night that he had been unablo to resist the offer of "the biggest money In my lifetime" when It had been offered by an un-nafned producer. Tellegen; who once was leading man for Sarnh Bernhardt, declared he had told the producer that such a film contract would kill his name on tho stage.

"I knew the' public would lay 'we thought this roan Tellegen was a dramatic actor and he is not even a second-rate the former stage star said. Last month In New York his prediction came true. Tellegen said ho called In his creditors, all of them his friends, and told them of his Insolvency. He declared he promised to repay them some, day. Americans Beat French Net Stars BROOKLINE, Aug.

31. (s7 George M. Lott, and John Hennessey had an easy time defeating Henri Gochet and Jacques Drugnon of France hero today In the first set of their replayed semifinals tennis match In the national dubs championship. The American pair, topseeded at the start of the tourney, broke through the service of both Stench Davis cup players and took the set, 1-2. Storms Prevent Los Angeles Flight WASHINGTON.

Aug. 11. UP) Because of threatening thunder storma, the dirigible Los Angeles will not make her flight scheduled today from Lakehurst, N. to Youngstown and other Ohio cities, the Navy Department was advised by Lieutenant Cemmnnder Herbert V. "Wiley, her commander.

John Coolidge to Quit Camp Monday BY AIBOCIATID PRESS LEASED WERE TO TRIBUNE SCPEHIOR. Aug. 11. It was confirmed today that John Coolidge will leave Cedar Island Lodge Monday, for Hartford. Conn.

How long he will stay there or the purpose of hla visit waa not the motorshlp Molokni limped Into port today, Its crew gaunt-eyed and, exhausted from their battle with the storm. They brought word that the same gale, that nearly swept them from the seas unroofed tho Cape San Lucas lighthouse, off the ooast of lower California, but thnt the lighthouse keeper Is heroically operating his light by hand power since tlie storm carried away the top of his beacon. The Mexican village of San Jose del Cnbo, on the tip of Lower California, was left almost a ruin by tho wind, which exceeded 90 miles an hour In velocity. The roofs of many houses In the village1 were torn off and Carried several blocks. Tho number of possible dead and Injured Is not known.

The Molokal was engaged In an attempt to take a cargo of wild sheep off the Socorro lalands when the hurricane struck. The sheep were placed there several years ago by California owners for breeding and'gfazlhg. Two unsuccessful attempts' have been made to take them off. The motor ship, which Is a 130-foot craft, rode out the hurricane off Cape San Lucas from August 9 to IS. Part of the superstructure was carried away.

A giant comber amasbc In the pilot house, and the crew and officers' quarters were flooded after time. It Is expected that Survey will be made of the vessel before she puts to sea again. League Keeps Hands Off Monroe Doctrine By HENRY WOOD, Valtcd Trtt lUff Corrtipondtnt. GENKVA, Aug. 31.

The League of Nations will refuse to interpret the Monroe doctrine, It was understood on good authority today. The league council was reported to have drafted a reply at a secret meeting today to Costa Bica's demand for an Interpretation of the doctrine's application. The reply Indicates that It Is Impossible for the council to comply with the request because the Monroe doctrine concerns only the states directly Interested. Oakland Flier Hits Fence, Escapes Hurt An airplane piloted by Roy Patterson. Oakland aviator, and owned by the Pacific Air Service Company, having headquarters here, sldeswlped a fence and damaged a wing while making a landing near Yreka, according to reports received here today.

Patteraon had been on forest patrol for the United Htatew forestry service In the Klamath national foreat and Mt. Shasta region. He waa unhurt. A second plane was dispatched by the forestry aervlce to complete the' patrol.1 Bobby Jones Wins Walker Cup Play BT ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIKE TO TRIBUNE CH1TAGO. Aug.

II. Bobby Jones defeated T. P. Perkins, the British champion. It up and 11 to go in the first of the eight singles matches for the international Walker cup today..