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Evening star., 1932-10-12

8 o'clock. Newell said. The others came
shortly before O'Clock. Norris and
Weckerly coming in last. he said.
Miss Richmond said she was the first
of the banks staff to arrive. about 10
minutes before the o'clock opening
hour. Unaware that anything wac
cmiss. she let herself in with her pass
key and vas removing her hat and coat
when MIR. Norris entered and went to
open the vault.
Joined Other Captives.
As Miss Richmond turned from a
front cage to obtain currency for the
days business from the vault, she wes
confronted at the rear exit of the cage
by a man with a handkerchief over his
face and a gun trained on her.
Now be quiet" the man said In a
level voice. "and you won't get hurt;
come along"
The gunman waved Miss Richmond
past the vault in the rear and down the
steps. where .he found the janitor and
his friend under the guard of the sec
ond gunman.
One bandit asked Miss Richmond if
she would prefer TO get in the vault
or go back to the furnace where it's
warm" Miss Richmond. badly fright
ened. said she wished to join the other
captives.
"Calm and Courteous"
Norris told police the man who held
the gun on him wore a white and blue
checkered handkerchief over his nose
and mouth. Only his eyes were visible,
Norris said, his dark hat being pulled
we'll down on his forehead. The man
below wore dark-colcred glasses, accord
ing to police.
They were very calm and very cour-
teous." detectives were told.
Baldwin said that when they were
imprisoned in the basement vault, their
guard permitted the door to be opened
a fraction to give them air.
Weckeriy said that when he and
Norris were being escorted into the
basement their guard told him to put
his hands down as they passed q side
window. When he failed to heed the
order Immediately, he said the bandit
shouted
Put 'em down or I'll breeze one by
your head"
Assistant Detective Chief Thompson
said the robbery was one OF the
"smoothest" in the history of the local
Police Department. Lieut.. Fred Sand
berg, fingerprint expert, literally COW
cred the building looking for finger
prints, but found none.
Loss Fully Covered.
The loss is fully covered by bank
er,s blanket bond" issued by the United
States Fidelity &, Guaranty Co. of Bal
timore, according to bank omcials.
The last bank hold-up here was
staged on June 10, when five armed
men held up the Georgia avenue branch
OF the Washington Mechanics Savings
Bank, forced employees to lie face down
on the floor and escaped with $9,03l.
Five months before, on January IS,
four armed men with submachine guns
robbed the East Capitol street branch
of the same institution of SLABS. In
this robbery, also the employees were
forced to lie face down on the floor.
Norris home Is at 3003 Twenty-fourth
street northeast. Miss Richmond, who
is q and a combination bookkeeper
and teller. lives at 2501 Irving street
northeast; Weckerly, %, lives at 26l7
Brentwood road; Bell. "A, at 1l00 Mount
Olivet road northeast, and Janitol
Newell at 1907 Evarts street northeast
Another employe, Thomas MAllon, as
sistant cashier, of 2012 jackson street
northeast, arrived after the bank had
been robbed.
Evening star., 1932-10-12
Envoy Resignation Denied.

PARIS, october IL R.-A report that
Andre Francois -Poncet was soon to re-
sign as French Ambassador to Germany
was oficially denied today.
The Ambassador was in Paris yester-
day and had q long talk with Premier
Herriot. It was said in informed quar-
tiers that he 4 eager to return here, but
was persuaded to remain at Berlin.
Evening star., 1932-10-12
BOSTON TO HEAR SMITH

BOSTON, October II (P.-Alfred E.
Smith late yesterday accepted an in
vitation from Gov. Joseph B. Ely to
address a Democratic rally in Boston.
Gov. Ely asked the 1928 Democratic
standard bearer to come here October
20, ,hit that was impossible 5pd the
date5yas set at Thursday, October ~.
Evening star., 1932-10-12

succeeded to the throne of China in
1908, under the name of Emperor
Hsuan Tung. Four years later. when
ne was 6, he was forced to abdicate by
the revolution of 1912, which ended the
monarchy and set up the Republic Of
China. The boy Emperor was held
a prisoner for many years in the for
bidden city in Peiping.
His downfall as Emperor was def
nitely accomplished in 1924 when Feng
Yu-Hsiang. the Christian Genera"
took possession Of Peiping. Later he
moved to Tientsin and it was from
there he went, under Japanese pro ,ec-
ton, to assume the dictatorship of the
new state of Manchukuo. which was set
up after the japanese had driven the
Chinese armies out in the campaign
that continued through last Winter.
CHINESE "RIC SWORnSo killed
Evening star., 1932-10-12
BRITISH EXPORTS DROP
$e5 ,OOO, 900 September Total Low
est in Many Years.

LONDON, october II R.-British
exports for September were valued at
f26, ,228, ,666 (about SOS, ,O00, ,O00) the low
est total recorded for many years, ac-
cording to trade figures announced by
the Board of Trade today.
This amount Is q reduction Of e., ,323,-
120 under August
Imports for the month increased
f953,63S over those of August and
reached q total Of 54,269, ,662, . decrease
Of E14,027, SAT under September, 1891.
Evening star., 1932-10-12
INSULL FREED IN GREECE.
United States Sends Warrant Asking
Arrest of Former Magnate.


ATHENS, October IL R.-Samuel
insult entirely free following his brief
detention by the police, awoke today IN
fine spirits at the Petit PalaiS, leading
hotel of Athens, and said he planned
to stay here for some time, enjoying
the glory that was Greece.
Meanwhile. officials at the American
legation said the necessary warrant was
on the way to secure his detention
again and that as soon ss 1t arrived,
a fight would begin in the courts to
take the erstwhile power magnate back
to the United States to face an indict-
ment for embezzlement in connection
with the collapse Of his utilities empire.
Climate Suits Him Exactly.
insult said his health was good. the
climate suited him exactly and he In
tended to stay here "for the present" :"
visiting all the places renowned in
ancient Greek history. The hotel
where he is staying is the former resi-
dence of Prince Nicholas.
Apparently the first process in the
extradition matter now will be the
presentation of attested documents
from the United States. On the basis
of these, the case would go before the
Appeal Court here, which would be
called upon to decide whether the Of
lenses charged were punishable In
Greek law.
M. Romanos, one of the principal
LAWYERS of Athens and president of the
Greek Order of Advocates, has been
retained by insult to take charge OF
the defense.
It was learned that Premier Eleuthe-
rios Venizelos, telephoning from Lout-
raki, where he Is enjoying holiday,
ordered the interior department to in
sure strict application of the law.
insults original plan was to stay here
about eight months. he said. but he in
dicated he intended to remain now at
least until after the elections in the
United States.
Met Premier Venizelos.
Evening star., 1932-10-12
Met Premier VenizeIos.

He said he met Premier Venizelos
years ago at the home Of Sir Basil
Zaharoff, the richest man IN Europe, to
whom reports published iIDthe United
States said he had applied for assistance
Evening star., 1932-10-12
PU-YI RESTORATION
TO EMPIRE THRONE
REPORTED PLANNED

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Evening star., 1932-10-12
INSULTS PASSPORT
ORDERED TAKEN UP
AT ATHENS By U. S

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Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-18
LABOR RACKET
GETS FOREMAN
INTO TROUBLE

Richard Fawke, foreman of plas-
tering at the United Artists the
atre now under construction here,
was arrested Saturday on a misde-
meanor charge. He attmeptedr to
eXort payment for employing two
valley plasterers at the site, ac-
cording to officers.
The foreman, said the officers,
is declared to have told the two
men that he was compelled to pay
them the SO a day union wage but
they would have to return So to
him each day they worked. One of
the men swore out warrant
against Fawke.
Harold Gillet and Tom Sharp,
investigators for the sheriff and
the district attorney respectively,
arrested Fawke as he was paying
workmen Saturday. When he was
arrested, according to the officers,
he attempted to destroy certain
checks he held at the time.
Marked bills and the checks, said
the officers, were found on his
person.
He pleaded not guilty at his ar
raignment in Judge I. Mayfield's
court Saturday and his trial was
set for Thursday afternoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-18

Ell Centre today entered upon the
Job of spring cleaning, following in
the footsteps of the age old house
wifely custom of routing dirt and
dust from hooks and crannieS.
A proclamation by Mayor H. w,
Fawcett has set aside the present
week as Clean UP and Paint Up
Week in El Centre. The mayors
example is followed by police and
fire chiefs and the members of their
staffs, who have offered every
means at their disposal to make the
campaign a success.
Various business houses in Ell
Centro also are cooperating in the
effort to make FL Centre a spoteSs
city. The Clean Up and Paint Up
campaign this year follows yearly
custom.
1t mad its first inception at a
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-18
Would Abolish
Aerial Branch
OF Navy Office

WASHINGTON, April 18. U.RS-
The house naval affairs commit
tee today reported favorably the
Vinson bill abolishing the office of
assistant secretary of the navy for
aeronauticS.
The committee action, taken in
the name of economy, followed
testimony by Secretary of the
Navy Adams that the office could
be eliminated without danger to
the efficiency of the naval forces.
David S. ingalls, is the present
assistant secretary.
A companion bill abolishing the
similar position in the war de-
partment is now pending before
the house military affairs COM
mittee. 1t is estimated that 100000
would be saved annually if both
bills became law.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-18
WITNESS TELLS
OF RICHFIELD
FIRM RECORDS

LOS ANGELES, April 18. U.P-
From a states witness in the trial
of three former Richfield Oil COM
pany officials, charged with con-
spiracy and grand theft, defense
attorneys today drew the admis-
sion that the defendants never
made any particular effort to keep
secret the confidential records of
the concern.
The defense considered the point
important since it has maintained
from the first it would show a
lack of criminal intent on the
part of the three accused men, j.
A. Talbot, c. M. Fuller and r. w.
Mckee, respectively former chair
man of the board, president and
vice president of Richfield.
The admission came from George
p. Lyons, former accountant for
Richfield, who identified for the
state checks drawn by the defend
ants to pay for income tax. ra-
dios, automobiles and other per-
sonal matters. The checks were
against Richfield funds.
Lyons was asked if anyone OF
the three ever had asked him to
keep secret or told him to keep sec
ret the confidential records of
Richfield, including the personal
accounts of the accused men.
mo, sir" was his answer.
Lyons spent four days on the
witness stand as a prosecution wit
ness and first was turned over for
cross ss-examinatior this morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-18
HOLTVILLE MAN
UNDER ARREST
AFTER HOLD-UP
Admits Part In Robbery
OF Wife; AccOmplices
Not Known.

d. E. Bridges, 90, was arraigned
before Judge I. Mayfield this
morning on a charge of second de-
gree robbery, waived preliminary
hearing and was to be taken into
superior court this afternoon, prob
ably to plead guilty and receive a
sentence as one of three men who
Saturday night robbed Mrs Bridges
and three men in front of the
Bridges residence west of the Ala
mitas school near Holtville.
The defendant was arrested Sun
day morning by Don Campbell,
deputy sheriff. after the officer
obtained information which led
him to believe Bridges was one of
the robber trio which held up Mrs.
Bridges and her companions after
they had attending a moving pic
ture show.
Officers were seeking clues to-
day to the identity of the two men
who accompanied Bridges, but this
Afternoon were still seeking vainly
the unidentified robbers.
Campbell, after arresting Bridges
yesterday morning, called in Tom
Sharp, investigator for the district
attorney. Sharp questioned Bridges
regarding the robbery, finally Sc
curing an admission the prisoner
was one of the trio.
Bridges and the other two in
tended to rob a road house near
Holtville, the prisoner said, but
changed their plans when they saw
Mrs. Bridges, with two other wom-
en- and three men, in the show.
Bridges talked to his wife at that
time, then left with the others.
The waited until the show was
over and followed the three men
as they were taking Mrs. Bridges
home. Waiting until the party ar
rived in front of the Bridges home,
the trio stopped. Bridges remained
/ in the car, while the other men
held up the party. The two took
the car the three men were using,
and met Bridges after the robbery
Bridges yesterday showed Don
Campbell and Tom Sharp where
the stolen car, three pocketbooks
and another automobile, stolen in
Ell Centro Friday night and used
in the robbery, were hidden near
the scene of the robbery.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-18
INSURANCE JURY
DEADLOCKED ON
ISSUES OF CASE
Jurors Dismissed After
Asserting Belief They
Cannot Agree.

Deadlocked since they first went
behind locked doors Friday after
noon to consider evidence in the
Lewis Hart insurance case, the jury
this morning was dismissed as un-
able to reach a verdict, and May 81
was tentatively set as the date for
a second trial.
An unusual situation arose in Su-
perior court when the jury report
ed to Judge A. C. Finney, whose
name has been mentioned many
times during the course of the trial
as one of the men upon whom
stock salesmen called while selling
stock in the Associated Insurance
Underwriters, Inc.
Judge Finney dismissed the jury
because Judge Arthur l.. Mundo,
who presided over the trial, is in
San Diego, his home.
On the first ballot after retiring
last week the Jurors were divided
eight to four, with the majority
favoring conviction, they reported
today. The last ballot taken
showed one juror switched for &C
quittal, with seven voting for
guilty verdict and five voting not
guilty.
When the jurors were summoned
into court Judge Finney this morn
ing question each one, singly, as
to whether, in his opinion, it would
be possible for the jury to reach a
verdict if more time were given for
deliberation. Each juror replied
that it would not.
The Jurors were not able to
agree on the guilt or innocence of
any of the six defendants as to any
of the 81 remaining counts of the
grand jury indictment charging
grand theft.
District Attorney Elmer w. Heald
and D. H. Wolford, as a result OF
the hung jury, are faced with the
task of again presenting before an
other jury, evidence relative to the
activities of Lewis Hart, Bernard
Phillips, Simon Newman, P. c. Pic
kerall, Louis r. Rogasner and Ar
thur Goldberg in selling stock in
the ssociated Insurance Underwrit-
ers, Inc assertedly under the rep
resentation it was stock in the As
sociated Life Insurance company
With legal points ironed out,
however, second trial should be
shorter than the first one, which
required five weeks and ranks as
the most lengthy criminal trial in
the history CT imperial county.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-18
Discover Cause
Of Queer Malady

SANTA PAULA, Calf, April l8
U.P)-The mystery of an illness af-
fecting hundreds of Santa Paula
residents last week appeared to be
solved today after analysis of city
water showed the presence of the
larvae of a midget fly.
Health authorities said the larvae
apparently had fastened themselves
to the inner membrane of the vic
tins and caused nausea and pain
similar to the effects of ptomaine
poisoning.
The larvae we're believed to have
been carried into the city water
supply fro none of the streams
feeding the system. They were de-
clared to be unusually numerous in
river bottoms this year.
Between 600 and 800 persons were
made i'll, none seriously.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-18
TWO Die
IN FIRE
OF HOME
Heroism Of Mother Saves
Lives Of Two Chill
dren.
SAVES YOUNGEST
Boy And Girl Perish At
tempting Return. TO
Blazing House.

Heroism on the part of Mrs.
Candalaria Adama saved the lives
of two of her children while two
lost their lives when they returned
to their burning home after she
once had carried them to safety.
Mrs. Adama was In bed with her
day-old baby when flames burst
from a clothes closet and spread
rapidly through the room. The
home was situated mile and A
half northeast Of Writings
crossing.
She succeeded in taking jose
phine, 6, and Renaldo, 4, and I.
2-year-old son out of danger and
returned for the baby. When she
reached the outer air again, jose
phine and the 2-year-old boy had
returned to the house for some
reason. Their burned bodies were
found near their mothers bed. 1t
is believed they were frightened
and followed their mother when
she returned for the baby.
The cause of the fire was un-
determined but one of the children
is believed to have been responsible
for it. The father was away from
home working when the fire oc-
Cured.
Mrs. Adama is in the county
hospital where she is suffering
from severe burns and shock. The
baby and Renaldo we're unhurt as
result of the tragic accident. The
mother is grief stricken at the loss
of her children.
Remains of the two children are
at the Arnold funeral home here.
Burial arrangements have not been
made as yet.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-18
Commission Would
Regulate Stages

WASHINGTON, April 18. (U.P =
The interstate commerce commits
sion today recommended that con-
gresS give IL authority to regulate
motor trucks and buses engaged in
interstate commerce.
The commissions findings, which
upheld the findings of Examiner
Leo j. Flynn, were similar to rec
concentrations made congress in
the commissions annual report last
December.
The commission found that the
transportation of buses and trucks,
within certain distances and in cer-
tain respects, is a superior service
to that offered by railroads and
that the rail and water lines should
be encouraged in the use of this
"instrumentality of commerce"
"Unrestrained competition is an
impossible solution of the present
transportation problem" the COM
mission found.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-18
Woman Killed;
Husband Hurt
I'm Auto Crash

SAN BERNARDINO, April 49,
Daniel Bosqui, engineer of South
west Seattle, Wash, probably will
recover from injuries he received
when his wife was killed yesterday
in an automobile crash on the
Third Street viaduct here.
Physicians said Bosqui'S chest
was crushed but they reported he
had an excellent chance to get
we'll. Mrs. Bosqui was killed in
stantly as the Bosqui car failed to
make a curve and bounded through
the viaduct railing to drop 40 feet.
Bosqui's address was given as
1341 Forty Fourth avenue. A son,
Edward, was reported enroute here
from the north.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-18
ONE ARRESTED
in KIDNAPPING;
OTHERS SOUGHT

PHILADELPHIA, April 10. W.P>-
One man was under arrest today
in connection with the kidnapping
of Hilda Brodsky, 8-year-old Will
mingtonton girl, Philadelphia po-
lice official said. The girl was re-
turned home Sunday without pay
ment of ransom.
After admitting the suspect was
being held and that the arrest of
another man and woman is ex-
pected shortly, the police official
refused to commit himself further.
The girl was lured into an auto
mobile while on her way TO school,
Friday. After she was returned,
police took her to her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Brodsky, in Will
mington. Police said no ransom
was paid.
The child was returned to police
by the Rev. Joseph M. Pugliese,
South Philadelphia priest.
Police said the girl recognized
a woman who took part in the
kidnapping as one she had been in
her fathers hosiery factory in Will
mington about 10 days ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-18
KANSAS FARMERS LYNCH
SLAYER OF SMALL GIRL

ST. FRANCIS, Kan, April 49,
U.P(-An infuriated mob of western
Kansas farmers early today lynched
Richard Read SO, confessed alb
ductor and killer of Dorothy
Hunter. 8-year-old girl.
The mob overpowered Sheriff
A. A. Bacon of Cheyenne county,
forced him to unlock the Jail,
seized Read and took him to an
isolated rural spot near Mcdonald
and hanged him from a tree.
AS he stood beneath the tree
with the moose about his neck,
Read, former Colorado convict,
again admitted his crime and told
the mob:
you are lynching the right
man."
He said he was intoxicated at
the time he kidnapped the little girl
at Sheldon, Kan, Thursday after
noon, assaulted her and held her
captive more than "a hours before
he killed her.
Nearly 200 men were in the
crowd that drove in automobiles to
ST. Francis when the carefully
guarded secret that Read was held
there finally spread across the
western Kansas prairies.
The mob entered st. Francis
quietly and surrounded him before
he had an opportunity to prepare
to resist it, the sheriff said.
"The men came running up
as was standing outside the
courthouse" Sheriff Bacon told
the United Press. Before I
had a chance to run inside and
lock the doors behind me,
was overpowered and carried
about 200 yards. where there
were other members of the
mob. Then the crowd ran to
the Jail, unlocked the outer
door, ran down to Reads cell
and opened it,
Read was half carried and half
dragged out Of the Jail to an auto
mobile waiting in the street. He
was showed into the automobile,
and it drove eastward from st,
Francis, with other members of
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-18
MORE RANSOM
MONEY IS SAID
TO BE In BANK
Condor Issues Statement
Contact Is Made With
Kidnapers.

NEW YORK, April 18. U.R)-
Contact with supposed kidnapers of
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's baby
has been established, "Jafsie",
reported today as other sources
claimed 100000 additional in ran
som money had been deposited
here.
John F. Condor, the negotiator
who paid a $4,000 ransom without
effecting the return of the infant,
chose TO make his statement
through a newsreel microphone,
saying:
I'VE are in contact with the kid
napers. and the baby will be re-
turned soon, I hope"
But behind Condon's announce
ment several significant reports
stood out during the days develop
ments. including:
Deposit by Colonel Lindbergh of
a large sum of money, in currency
and gold, with an agent in New
York. The Daily News today placed
the amount at 100000.
Activity of United States ships
in Martha's Vineyard, Mass, fol-
lowing the appearance of a mys-
terious amphibian plane at night.
Renewed interest in Norfolk ne
gotiators said to be awaiting a visit
from the high seas as attested by
three phone calls to John Hughes
Curtis by Colonel Lindbergh.
If Condor has renewed his con-
tact. it must have been sometime
Sunday morning, for Saturday he
had said he still hoped" to get in
touch with the kidnapers again.
He refused to amplify his newsreel
statement and said the public will
understand why"
1t was understood the agent for
the reported 100000 was author
lied to pay at any time, day or
night. He was bound by only one
stipulation, it was said, and that
was the money and the baby must
be exchanged ION the spot
The mysterious meeting of the
plane with the coast guard destroy
er MacDougall occurred early Sun
day morning off Menemsha Light,
near Vineyard Haven, Mass. The
destroyer and two picket boats
hove to soon after midnight with
all lights out. At 1:35 a. m. a
plane roared overhead. Immedi-
ately a red landing flare was sci
off by the MacDougall. The plane
landed alongside and all lights re-
NAMED out for 80 minutes.
The contact between ship and
plane was broken off abruptly by
the destroyer turning on its run
ming lights and heading out to sea,
nothing was seen of the plane
thereafter.
The second U. S. ship to arouse
curiosity was a naval cruiser. re-
sembling the U. S. S. Milwaukee.
1t steamed through Vineyard Sound
and headed toward New York.
New Jersey police continued to
issue non-commital statements on
routine work.
In Norfolk Rear Admiral Guy H.
Burrage, spokesman for negotiators
there, cancelled a press conference
when reporters submitted a list OF
20 questions.