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OOAl fltGHTl In Two Parts 42 Pages FART I GENERAL NEWS tt PAGES 'All the News All the Time LABGKST BOMf-DIXIVERED CIRCULATION LARGEST ADVERTISING VOtCM AM TIMES OFFICES 202 West First Street And Throughout Southern California MAduon 2345 The Ticei Telephone Number All Department! UC INDUSTRIAL MCtDOM ''fjAY MORNING, DECEMBER 17, 1935. VOL. LV DAILY, FIVE CENTS Observations By Hoover Demands End Waste and Body of Thelma Todd Found in Death Riddle HAUPTMANN CONFESSION REPORTED Irvin S. Cobb EX-WORKER MASSACRES F0UR0N JOB Two More Men Near Death CULVER CITY, Dec. 16.

In the paper I see where, for their Sunday sermons, three Politics in Relief Wit and Sarcasm Feature Address Kansom I ted to Him and Fisch Pair Hoaxed Condon After Water Carrier Runs Wild Before Wildly Cheering Throngs; Alternate Plan Proposed Real Kidnaper Became Afraid, Says Paper With Gun in W.P.A. Ditch; Lynch Threat Balked 'r ministers preached on modern youth with particular references to the shortcomings of same. I haven't a doubt that the first cave man, ST. LOUIS, Dec. 16.

(Exclusive) In a new type of 'J address in which he resorted to wide use of sarcasm, wit, humor and other qualities absent in his former political speeches, former President Hoover tonight advocated a NEW YORK, Dec. 16. UP) The New York Evening Post said today in a copyrighted story that Bruno Richard Hauptmann "has confessed that he and Isador Fisch collected surveying the antics of his plan to decentralize relief control, cut government allotments to States by more than half and to relieve human distress "which suffers enough without the poison of the $50,000 ransom for the Lind bergh baby." politics in its bread." The Post said it obtained its information "from sources so authoritative that they cannot be ignored. DENIES ACTUAL KIDNAPING It was indeed a different Hoover that spoke to a crowd In excess or 1200 at a dinner in the Hotel Jefferson and the nation over a coast-to-coast radio hookup. THIRD OF ATTACKS G.O.P.

PICKS CLEVELAND Convention to Hauptmann, the Post said, still insists that he had no connection with the actual kidnaping of the 0 His address, which was delivered infant, but that he and Fisch, fur at a dinner-meeting sponsored by rier who died in Germany, entered the picture after the abduction and the John Marshall Republican Club of St. Louis, was the third in a se extorted the ransom money. CREDIT THREE MEN ties of attacks he has made on the Mass murder flared on a W.P.A. storm drain project at Exposition Boulevard and La Brea avenue yesterday afternoon. Three workmen were slain outright, a fourth died in a hospital and two more are expected to die.

A seventh man was wounded in the wrist in the hail of bullets. KILLER SEI7.ED Charles N. Layman, 44 years of age, of 1404 South Hill street, was arrested as he fled the scene with a 30 caliber rifle in his hands and a .32 caliber revolver in his pocket. Layman, who had been water carrier on the ditch-digging Job, confessed the wholesale blayings to police and investigators from the W.P.A. "I was going to clean 'em all out," Layman said.

"They made life miserable for me. But dog-gone it, of them ran so fast I couldn't hit em." DEAD STREW SCENE Slain on the scene were: Lloyd E. Holden, 42. of 227 East Seventy-sixth street, shot through the heart. Peter M.

Coklit, 46, of 112 East Seventy-sixth street, shot through the right leg. He bled to death at the scene. Harry Sell, 56, of 3744 South Gramercy Place, shot through the neck. Lloyd Davis, 25, of 2188 Cambridge street, shot in the chest, died later The newspaper said that Haupt mann 's confession came as the re suit of the efforts of three men- Gov. Hoffman of New Jersey, Ellis coltish brood, remarked in tones of gloomy resignation to his hardy mate: "Well, Mommer, the world's done pretty well while we ran it.

Look at the hole In the roof to let the smoke out, that I thought up right out of my own head, be-gee! And now when I get Jhe trick of this new throwing-stick worked out, civilization will just about have reached her peak. But heaven help the poor old earth when that bunch of crazy kids yonder takes hold!" Before we start blaming the oncoming generation for everything, including its own sins, which are sufficiently manifest already, let's go back to where this buck-passing habit started. Let's go back to Adam, the derned old experimentalist! Copyright. 1935. by the North American Newspaper Alliance.

Inc. GOVERNORS LOSEPOSTS Four Ousted in H. Parker, Burlington county (New Jersey) chief of detectives, and Col Mark O. Klmberling, chief warden of the New Jersey State Prison at Trenton where the convicted mar. is awaiting execution of a death sentence the week of January 13.

Thelma Todd liked this photo of herself better than any other of the thousands taken of her. At Trenton, tonight, all three of the men emphatically denied they had received such a confession for New Deal and the Democratic administration in Washington. Directing a major part of the speech to attacking huge relief expenditures which he said were shot through with "waste, folly, politics and the destruction of self-government," Hoover advanced this program. "Stop these wasteful Federal public works projects; confine them to projects which meet the needs of the nation. "Decentralize the administration of all other forms of relief.

Turn them back to the States and local communities. Discharge most of the Federal officials connected with relief agencies. "Do it now. That would go far to assure a clean election. It would relieve human distress which suffers enough without the poison of politics in its bread.

"True relief must come from honest productive jobs, not from (Continued on page 13, Column 8) Hauptmann. DOUBT CLEMENCY The Post said: "Men close to Gov. Hoffman in MILNE'S KIDNAPERS DEMAND $50,000 TO SPARE HIS LIFE PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 16. (UPJ Kidnapers of Caleb Jones Milne IV have demanded at least $50,000 ransom from his grandfather, Caleb J.

Milne, 74-year-old retired textile magnate, authoritative sources at the Georgia -street Receiving Hos no way expect him on the basis of what Hauptmann has told so far. to Intervene in the condemned pital. SHOT IN ABDOMEN man's behalf. There is no disposition on the Governor's part, it is Mexico Crisis Those gravely wounded and not expected to live are: Francis Secrest, 33, of 221East believed, to regard Hauptmann's CHINA RIOTS death house statement as any more Twenty-third street, shot in the abdomen. A major operation was performed in an effort to save his than a hopeful prelude to a much- Removed Officials Reported Start June 9 Defeat of Roosevelt Seen; Move to Grant Extra Seats Defeated BY WARREN FRANCIS "Times" Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec.

16. (Exclusive) -Confident of unseating President Roosevelt next November, the Republican National Committee today decided to convene in Cleveland June 9, 1936, to designate the ticket which the G.O.P. will send Into next year's election against the New Deal. All talk of rival candidates for the nomination was shunted into the background, as the G.O.P. high command reiterated its.

confidence that President Roosevelt and the New Deal will be thrown out of office by the voters next November. SEAT ISSUE SETTLED The only dispute of the session centered over the question of following the long-standing custom of granting three extra delegates to the six States carried by former President Hoover in 1932. After an hour of debate, the committee rejected a proposal to extend the "bonus" to the forty States recorded in the Republican column in the 1928 election. As a result of this action, only Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Delaware and Pennsylvania will be entitled to "bonus" seats in the convention and the whole number of delegates will be cut from 1154 to 997. California's representation at Cleveland next year will be forty-four on the baste of four delegates at large and two delegates from each of the twenty Congress districts instead of forty-seven as in 1932.

The outcome of the orderly dispute over the apportionment meth- (Continued on Page 12, Column 1) Finland Pays on War Debt WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. UP) Secretary Morgenthau announced the receipt today of $230,453 from Finland in full payment of its war debt installment. All other debtors continued in default. i disclosed tonight.

demand was contained In a package postmarked "Grand Central Station, New York," received by the grandfather today. YOLTH'S WATCH The exact amount of Money demanded was not revealed. sought full confession." FLAREANEW AUTO FUMES HELD CAUSE IN AUTOPSY Victim in Garage Near Home Recent Extortion Threats Spur Officers Inquiry; Last Night Related The finding by autopsy surgeons last night of evidence that monoxide gas poisoning caused the death of Thelma Todd, blonde motion-picture actress whose body was found in her automobile in a Castellammare garage yesterday morning, did not lessen the vigor of an investigation being made by police into the riddle of circumstances surrounding the finding of the film player's body. A preliminary post-mortem examination report issued by police indicated that death was due to monoxide poisoning, but because of the circumstances surrounding the rendezvous with death kept by the actress the investigation was pressed unabatedly. Until the brain is examined today, no official report as to the cause of her death will be Issued.

RECALL DEATH THREATS Because Miss Todd within the past few months had been the recipient of several extortion notes threatening her with death unless she paid $10,000, and because no apparent reason existed for her taking her Own life, investigating Full page of pictures on Thelmt Todd death on Page 16, Part I. officers desperately sought an answer to the mystery of her death. Coagulated blood marred the screen comedienne's features and stained her mauve and silver evening gown and her expensive mink coat when she was found, her blonde locks pathetically awry, in the front seat of her automobile in the garage of Roland West, film producer and director, in front of West's residence at 17531 Pasetano Road, less than 500 yards from Miss Toda's cafe on the Roosevelt Highway. The body was found by Mae Whitehead, a maid who had been' serving the actress. DEAD TWELVE HOURS The maid, whose duty it was to go to West's garage, where Miss Todd had been keeping her car, and get the actress's machine each morning, notified R.

H. W. Schafer, manager of Miss Todd's roadside cafe. Schafer summoned a physician. Dr.

J. P. Sampson, and also called police. Dr. Sampson found no evidence of bodily injury and ex- (Continued on Page 10, Column 7) MOTHER OF ACTRESS IN BREAKDOWN On the verge of a nervous breakdown, Mrs.

Alice Todd, mother of the blonde actress found dead in her car at Pacific Palisades yesterday, last night was placed under a physician's care. Taken to the scene of Thelma, Todd's sudden death by Harvey Priester, one-time fiance of the comedienne and close friend of the family, she collapsed. Unable to see anyone, Mrs. Todd remained in seclusion in her daughter's beach home. The actress's mother had been la her apartment in the film city since Saturday afternoon.

At that time Miss Todd took her from Santa Monica to Hollywood in a hired car before she proceeded to the gay party at the Trocadero. Mrs. Todd's first word of her daughter's tragic death came when Priester telephoned her at 11 a.m. yesterday. life.

Sympathetic to Cailes; Neic Bombings Flare Harold Johnston, 27, of 618 East SAYS FISCH KNEW MAN The substance of the purported admission by the Bronx carpenter, according to the Post, is, in part: Fifty-second street, shot in the head and probably will not recover. Less seriously wounded is James reining ocene "A few days after the kidnaping. MEXICO CITY, DSC. 16. UP) ROOSEVELT ODDS SHO SHORTENING Healey, 49, of 1559'i West Twenty Fisch hinted to him (Hauptmann,) The package also contained young Milne's watch and a bloodstained The Senate, meeting in special ses of Clash first street, whose left wrist was that he knew something about the (Continued on Page 3, Column 2) slon ousted the Governors of four 'States who were known to be sympathetic toward former shattered by a bullet.

Fleeing from the hall of bullets clipping from Albank (N. paper giving an account of the youth's Sprowl Perry. 32, of 1929 South Sixty Students Wounded as Wall Street Receives U-to-10 Grand avenue, fell over an obstruction and suffered a spralnked ankle PLANNED FOR DAYS disappearance, it was said. THREATENS DEATH The note purportedly said: President Cailes, as two new school bombings further disturbed Mexico's turbulent political atmosphere. Guards were ordered thrown around all school buildings in the Thousands Aid Outbreak Against Japanese Troops Enforce Meningitis War; More Stricken "One more false move and your capital after the latest bombings, Brazenly, but without an air of bravado, Layman told officers how he had planned the mass slaying name will be finish.

Do as the let Copyright. 1935. by the Associated Press which caused heavy property dam age, but no injuries. ADVANTAGE TAKEN since last Friday. PEIPING, Dec.

17. (Tuesday) (. HOBART (Okla.) Decs 16. CP) A night of fierce rioting against ter says. If you fail you will find him dead.

Send (the amount was not disclosed) in denominations of $10, $20. and $50. Take them to New More National Guardsmen were sent "They wouldn't let me work with them in peace," said Layman. "I couldn't stand it any longer. And Three similar incidents during "Japanese aggression" here left six to this Southwestern Oklahoma area the day were attributed to oppon today to enforce a meningitis quar ents to socialistic education, apparently taking advantage of the sit antine that was extended with the ty student patriots reported wounded today and drew quick warnings from the Japanese mili report of two new illnesses.

uation created by the return to Quotation on Re-election; London Support Grous NEW YORK. Dec. 16. (UP) Betting odds favoring reflection of President Roosevelt in 1936, 10 to 1 in the summer, shortened tonight to 11 to 10, Ryan Wall Street betting commissioners, announced. Odds quoted three days ago were 7 to 5 favoring the President.

At the same time the betting brokers disclosed increased gambling support for Gov. Landon of Kansas. Odds tonight were 5 to 7 that he would not receive the Republican nomination, against even money three days ago. Among the Republican possibilities. Col.

Frank Knox, Chicago publisher, was next at even money. Senator Borah was third, 7 to 5 being (Offered against his nomination. Mexico of Gen. Cailes. (Continued on Page 11, Column 1) AD VALOREM TAX HINTED The quarantine, limited yesterday to southern Kiowa county, was ordered over a.

two-mile strip of tary. Tftie four Governors removed are The Rengo (Japanese) News Dr. Manuel Paez of Sinaloa; Ramon Ramos of Sonora; Carlos Real of northern Tillman county. One death and thirteen previous illnesses were attributed to the dis Agency reported Gen. Sung Chen-yuan, forced to postpone the inaugu Durango, and Manuel Yanez Maya of Guanajuato.

ease. BY MERRIAM SACRAMENTO. Dec. 16. CP) An ral meeting of his semi-autonomous Stores reopened here and in other They were accused of seditious activities and violations of the con council for Hopeh and Chahar Prov cities in northern Kiowa county aft stitution.

ad valorem tax "looks like the only inces, announced he would expel er being closed three days and pre Dr. Hu Shlh, noted scholar and au way out at the present time if the people repeal the sales and income pared for a delayed Christmas rush. Only a half dozen customers were allowed in a store at any time. A few hours before the Senate acted, Gen. Cailes, political foe of President Cardenas, let it be known he would not leave the country thor, and President Chiang Mengl- York.

Grandson waiting for orders." LETTER UNSIGNED The letter was not signed. Members of the family reportedly made contact with the kidnapers tonight, but no details could be learned. Rumors that the elder Milne left Philadelphia on a mysterious mission tonight could not be confirmed. OFFICERS SILENT Government men hunting the youth, who vanished Saturday morning after a strange note reached his New York apartment, declined to confirm or deny reports that this was a second ransom note directed to the head of the Milne family. But the coincidence which sent an agent to the home of Caleb J.

Milne II. a textile magnate, was too pat to be overlooked. The agent arrived shortly after the mailman (Continued on Page 2, Column 2) taxes next November, Gov. Mer rlam said today. lin of the National University of The Governors statement an THE "TIMES" TODAY-NEWS SUMMED UP Peiping, to the south.

THOUSANDS IN OUTBREAK Thousands of demonstrators from swered an inquiry whether the prediction of Arlin Stockburger, Director of Finance, at Riverside last again. He returned Friday from Los Angeles from a self-imposed exile. SUCCESSORS NAMED After removing the Governors, week represents the views of the outlying universities, marooned in bitter wintry weather inside the administration. Stockburger said the Senate named Col. Hernando an ad valorem tax appears probable If the other taxes are repealed.

(Continued on Page 2, Column 4) "We are calling a tax conference in January to determine whether some other tax program might be developed," the Governor said. "I State Reward FEATURES. Radio, Page 18, Part Women's Fashions, Clubs and Society. Pages 5-6-7-8, Part II; Cross-Word Page 13, Part II: Markets and Financial, Pages 20-21-22-23, Part Oil News, Page 23, Part Comics, Page 17, Part II. DRAMA.

Page 19. Part I. SHIPPING NEWS. Page 18, Part II. think the people should know what is in prospect if they reject the sales and income taxes.

lor Capture of Slayer Offered SACRAMENTO, Dec. 16. CP The Young Liver more Suffers Relapse From His Wound ing of Associated Press news. Page 8, Part I. GENERAL EASTERN.

Hoover demands end of relief waste and politics in speech featured by wit and sarcasm. Page 1, Part I. Milne heir's kidnapers demand $50,000, threatening to kill him. Page 1, Part I. Nurse admits mercy killing, police assert.

Page 1, Part I. Threats sent Mary Boland in New York theater. Page 2, Part I. Tax lien suit totaling filed against utility corporation founded by Hopson. Page 4, Part I.

Townsend announces his organization will file third party, petitions in all States. Page 12, Part I. locked city, howled anti-Japanese slogans throughout the night. Police charged the rioters with swords, gun butts and fire hoses and the Japanese military attache. Tan Takahashi, told Mayor Chih Teh-chun the demon- (Contiryied on Page 2, Column 5) McNamara Will Quit San Quentin for Folsom Cell SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Dec.

16. CD Warden Holohan announced State through Gov. Merriam tonight offered a reward of $500 for appre WEATHER REPORTS AND VITAL STATISTICS. Page 18, Part II. Millions Voted for Military by FrenchChamber PARIS.

Dec. 16. W) The Cham hension of the murderer of Marv Louise Stammer who was killed November 24 in her home in Fres no. The Governor said the reward will ber of Deputies voted heavy budgets for the French Army and Navy to day. THE CITY.

Thelma Todd death mystifies police as gas poison found in blood. Page 1, Part I. Ousted W.P.A. employee kills four and wounds three on ditch project. Page 1, Part I.

Institute on World Relations told Philippines Independence Act will cause America trouble. Page 1, Part I. Traffic takes five more lives, raising death toll since January 1 to 945. Page 1, Part II, Teachers' Institute gets under way, with speaker warning of danger of Fascism. Page 15, Part Supervisors reject plan to transfer dole load to county.

Page 2, Part II. Early Federal appropriation for Ross Field project expected. Page 9, Part I. State Administrator Stout calls liquor conditions intolerable. Page 1, Part IL Telephone company files downtown rate analysis in f.ght against department stores' reduction plea.

Page 3, Part II. THE WEST. Dudley attorney reports he has asked Cum-mings's aid in Inquiry into beating given client Page 3, Parti. Assembly group asks Merrlam to halt old age pension subventions to counties ignoring intent of law. Page 7, Part Injuncticn ordered barring Washington radio station phat- be paid "to the person or persons making the arrest immediately upon the conviction of the person so arrested." SANTA BARBARA.

Dec. 16. (Exclusive) After a week of slight but steady gain, the condition of Jesse L. Llvermore, shot in the lower chest, assertedly by his mother, Mrs. Dorthea Livermore Longcope, took a turn for the worse yesterday and today has been the cf use of grave concern to Surgeons Ussher and Wills.

At Cottage Hospital tonight he Was reported "considerably sicker" and spending much of his time PICTORIAL PAGE. Wirepho-tos and Other Camera High Lights, Page 16, Part I. SERIAL STORY. "Small Town Girl" by Ben Ames Williams. Page 8, Part I.

FINANCIAL. New Richfield reorganization proposal looms. March of Finance. Canadian oil discovery reported. Heavy tone registered on stock market.

Page 20, Part I. To the army was alloted francs $24,552,000. These allotments are in addition to the extraordinary armaments The girl was slain while her pa today that James McNamfira, serving a life sentence as the result of the Los Angeles Times dynamiting twenty-five years ago, is being transferred to Folsom Penitentiary. rents were absent from their home. The fingerprints of the slayer nevs budeet of 6.000,030.000 francs have been identified.

Holohan said the transfer is mere 000,000 voted Saturday. under an oxygen tent. ly routine. John McNamara, brother of James, was paroled several years ago. Slayer of Volpe GUN FOR DEEP SEA -S UP ANCIENT FACTS MERCY KILLING CONFESSED THE SOUTHLAND.

Police confiscate radical dodgers as Red trial" opens at Corona. Two boys rescued after all-night search in mountains. Fireman narrowly escapes electrocution in Signal Hill blaze. Page 14, Part BY NURSE, POLICE ASSERT Doc. 16.

'rings back from record, of the WASHINGTON. Cleveland chosen for 193S G.O.P. convention. Page 1, Part Representative Hoeppel and son file plea for new Page 2, Part I. v.

"Frontier philosophy" blamed, in survey report, for relief needs in rural problem areas. jf Page 12, Part I. FOREIGN. Mexico Senr discharges four Governors crisis forced by CaJes's Page 1, Part Sixty 1 wounded in riot ch ing outbreak against Page 1, Part I. Crisis faced by BrituX net over Etniopian pei posaL Page 2, Part I.

Japanese at naval parlcyx cede that nations have varyX iip(! In sj-i strrntrth. Pas- ago was bottom when the instrument reaches it. The- tube is fitted with a hard-steel bit and contains a sampler tube which gathers and retains the sediment. When the weight strikes the bottom after being lowered from a ship at the end of a long cable the shock Trio Sentenced SALERNO (Italy) Dec. 16.

m-Gulseppc (Big Mike) Splnelll was sentenced today tc thirty years imprisonment for premeditated homicide in the slaying of the three Volpe brothers in Pittsburgh, Pa, 'arnegie la- WOONSOCKET (R. Dec 16. (U.R A Manchester (N. prac tical nurse confessed tonight, police it -st time said, to the "mercy killing" last in 1932. will be arraigned in Twelfth District Court tomorrow on a murder charge, authorities said.

Miss Sevigny, according to police, confessed she gave Mrs. Normandirt an ammonia solution because wanted to put the patient out of her suffering and because she "considered it a merciful thing to do." Authorities said alienists will examine the nurse to establish hec Because Spinelli was an Italian Wednesday of Mrs. J. Valmore Nor-mandin, 36 years of age, wife of a former City Auditor here. SPORTS.

Santa Anita track bans wire betting. Page 9, Part IL- Coast League adopts play-off for 1936. Page 9. Part II. Leu Daro "double-crossed" by Testllrg manager.

Page 9, Part n. Ted Turner back on top in Miami golf. Page 9, Part H. citizen Italy refused to return him to the United States to face charges. sets off a charge of high-explosive Dccupy powder in the same manner that a arth rifle is fired.

The explosion driv5 the bit directly downward, the depth a it reaches depending on the amount powder used and the depth of -tjthe water. When necessary the bit ,1 can be driven through solid stone. 1 The nurse, Marie Simone Sevigny, Rcmember This Nature never says one thing and wisdom another. 5 years of age. who had been at-Wnding the victim from December Instead he wa.

tried here with witnesses brought from Pittsburgh fcesUfj Ing against hto. Part I. 2 cr.tll her death, was arrested and.anity. 9 I.