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WINDLESS SEA Bodecker Party Camps on Tiny Vehi Veto for Week Until Native Town Located PAPEETE, Tahiti (Correspondence of the Associated Press) The yacht Malabar Of Lot Alleles, which lost one of the lohs of the owner overboard at the Marquesas islands on the voyage to the South Pacific, has been wrecked oh the island Vehl Vehi in the Tuamotu group. All aboard reached shore safely And are recuperating here from hardship. CAMP IN STORM The Malabar sailed from Tahiti for Honolulu by way of the Tuamotn islands Nov. 16. When she arrived about 10 miles northwest of Kaukura island at dusk two days later the Malabar was becalmed. Currents gripped the yacht, which with motof out of order, was cast ashore in surf on the reef at Vehi Vehi. Reaching; shore, all hands camped on the island, 18 miles from the village, for a week. A heavy storm arose and they were wet and uncomfortable until Nov. 23, when they reached the native settlement Mtormy weather held them there until Dec. 1. They then sailed for Papeete om a tiny cutter, and arrived three days latef. OWNER'S SON LOST LONG BEACH, Dec. 28. Lost overboard from the schooner Malabar in the South Pacific was Herman S Bodecker, son of George H. Bodecker, owner of the boat, friends of the family said here today. Bodecker and his two sons, Herman and George A., and Jack Gillis, sailed from Long Beach last July on a long cruise to Honolulu by way of the Marquesas islands. Bodecker is a Long Beach attorney. He was to meet his wife in Honolulu this month. Henry H. Clock, also a Long Beach lawyer, said Bodecker wrote him the Malabar had been wrecked and asked him to advise an Insurance companyt - Hen Felicitates Guest of Honor (By Associated Press) CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Dec. 28. In a manner somewhat appropriate to his office, Harry Lin, newly appointed state assistant secretary of agriculture, received a greeting laid by a genuine Iowa hen. At a testimonial dinner last night his hosts asked him to break open an egg. Inside was a message on thin paper signed by all the men present. Prof. P. E. Phillips Jr., of Iowa State college explained to the amaaed official that three such messages had been Inserted in the egg saos of three hens. Three were used to mrore having at least one egg in time for the dinner, One biddy did her part Helena Shaken by Moderate Temblor (By fcnlted Pres.) HELENA, Mont, Dec. 28. An earthquake of moderate Intensity shook Helena late today. Starting at 8:53 p.m. the quake lasted three seconds. It was the most severe in recent month!, the weather bureau reported. . ' Chinese Bandits Rob Shanghai Foreigners (By Associated Press) SHANGHAI, Dec. 28 Fifteen foreign men and women, mostly Americans, Were robbed of money and Jewels tonight in the biggest holdup in the Shanghai area in years. AUNT HET By ROBERT GUILLEN "If the Nazis take this country and want a detention camp for Jews, Catholics and Protestants that despise Hitler, they can just put a barbrir fence around America," r (Copyright, lffjW)

Finance Department's Head Chosen by Olson Phil S. Gibson, Beverly Hills Attorney, Awarded $10,000 Key State Post

(By Associated Press) SACRAMENTO. Dec. 28. Phil S. Gibson, Beverly Hills attorney and businessman, was named by Governor-elect Culbert L. Olson today as the next head of the state finance department, key position in the state government The position pays $10,000 yearly. The appointment will be for four years, Olson said, and Will not be a six months appointment scheduled for replacement by the new relief administrator, H. Dewey Anderson, as had been widely reported. WILL COOPERATE The new governor said Anderson and Gibson, however, would cooperate closely with him in the formulation of policies both fiscal and otherwise. He pointed out if the administration's relief objectives are achieved it would cost $100,000,000 for two years, approximately double the last biennium appropriation of the Merriam administration. A tax program, he added, is under consideration in hopes of finding sources of revenue to provide adequate relief and at the same time balance the budget He declared it Would be RELIEF SETUP TO BE PROBE (Continued From Page One) imous report was in prospect was accepted generally as meaning it would use terms strong enough to satisfy the most critical. Byrnes said he had received no Information about the status of WPA funds other than that which has been carried in newspapers. He asserted there always had been "great difficulty" in ascertaining the exact amount of WPA funds available from time to time, because varying amounts of "unexpended balances" have been reapproprlated annually. In the past, Byrnes has contended that the distribution of relief funds among the states Is Inequitable and advocated use of a formula, based on population and unemployment conditions, for the allocation of funds to states. He has urged, too, that communities benefiting from relief projects be required to put up a definite; percentage of their cost. Byrnes presumably Will discuss these proposals with the unemployment committee. The South Carolina Senator said he had heard reports that an effort would be made in the next Congress to establish non-partisan boards in all counties to consider any complaints of "political" administration of relief. From other reliable sources came a report that such a plan is under consideration by President Roosevelt as an answer to contentions that the WPA was used for political purposes during the fall election campaign. The suggested county boards would serve without pay and would be composed of local citizens. Workers who lost relief Jobs, or who Could not get such jobs, could lay any claims of discrimination before the boards. The latter would study com plaints and then take any action they deemed appropriate. A Republican Senator, Capper of Kansas, said today that there un doubtedly would be an aggressive effort in the next session to "tight en up regulations so as to keep politics out of relief." woric rener snowa be aammistered on a more non-partisan basis," he said, "and more representation should be given to states and counties." Girl Wedded at 14 Gets Divorce at 16 (By Associated Press) ST. LOUIS, Dec. 28. A bride at 14, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Frantz be came a divorcee today at 18. Circuit Judge Eugene L. Padberg awarded her a divorce from Walter Scott Frantz, 22, and custody of their 14-month-old son. They were married July 22, 1939, and separated last July 29.

Tighter State Laws For Election Urged

(By UhltM Press) FRESNO, Dec. 28 Assemblyman Hugh M. Burns of Fresno today outlined legislation designed to "purify'' California elections which he intends to Introduce at the forthcoming session of the state legislature. His measure would require a complete accounting of all money spent by candidates' persons or organizations In behalf of any candidate bt ballot propositions. Now in the hands of the legislative council, the bill provides that 60 days before the election, every candidates' organization and individual must file a statement of re-

Impossible to wipe out a deficit which he again placed at $42,500,000 as of July 1, 1939, and which figure is disputed by Gov. Frank F. Merriam. Olson said he hoped the deficit woUld be taken care of by increased yields from existing sources of revenue. FROM MISSOURI The new state finance director is 48. a native of Missouri and a graduate Of that state's university with the degrees of A. B. and L.LB. He also studied at the Inns of Court, London, and specialized in economics, taxation, finance and law. He has been a resident of California since 1922. He served overseas in the World war. The new governor said definitely he would not favor an increased sales tax, added he would like to see additional exemptions but doubted if they could be made because of the revenues needed. He also expressed the hope that Lieut.-Gov .-elect Ellis E. Patterson, Democrat, and the Republican senate would be able to agree upon the appointment of standing committees of the upper house.

COLD ENGULFS ill STSTES

(Continued From Page One) ton belt after a frosty morning. Minimum readings included zero at Mt Mitchell, N. C, 16 above at Asheville, N. C, 20 at Atlanta, 22 at Birmingham and Memphis, and 32 at New Orleans. The cold damage was to exposed water pipes and tender vegetation. Upstate New Yorkers shivered in temperatures ranging from 10 below in the Adlrondacks to 18 above at Albany. In New York City the mercury dropped to 19 above. It fell to 2.5 above in Chicago and 6 below in suburban Des Plaines then rose to the 20s. Marks in the 'teens and 20s were registered in New England. The cold was expected to continue there. At Warroad, Minn., the red line in the thermometer ascended from 37 to 23 below. More than 100 persons were driven into 20 below cold when fire destroyed three frame buildings at the airport in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was 51 below there. Hundreds of automobiles lined ditches in western Michigan as snow plows labored to restore transportation on the main highways. Dickinson county temperatures scaled down to 18 below. A snow storm sweeping the Cascade mountains blocked McKenzie pass, principal highway touts between western and central Oregon. Patrols were dispatched to learn whether any travelers had been stranded. Government Orders Tax Liens Discharge (By Associated Press) LOS ANGELES, Dee. 28. Income tax liens totaling $2,428,580 against E. M. Smith, wealthy oil machinery manufacturer, were discharged today. Nat Rogan, collector of internal revenue here, said the liensi were discharged upon orders from Washington, where Smith and his lawyer, William Neblett, were said to have effected a compromise settlement with the Government. Rogan Said there was no information as to terms of the compromise. It was reported, however, that Smith agreed to pay off on a 50 per cent basis. The government indicted Smith more than a year ago on income tax evasion charges. He was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison and pay a $25,000 fine. After serving eight months, part ly in a Federal road camp in Arizona, Smith was paroled. CENTER ABANDONED LOS ANGELES, Dec. 28. The projected $20,000,000 civic center de velopment must be abandoned be cause it will be impossible to Obtain any PWA money, Mayor Fletcher Brown Baid. ceipts and expenditures In behalf of himself or any ' candidate proposition. It provides for weekly statements of expenditures there after until the election. "As It Is at present, there Is ho requirement on organizations or in dividuals to make public the amount of money they spend in elections," Burns said. "I believe this legislation will do much to purify California election laws. It would take the limit off the amount of money which eartdl dates spend, and force everyone to come out In the open With the money spent."

RAILWAY HELP MEASURE 1ILL

BE Represenfatire Lea Declines to Disclose Details of Plans to Succor U. S. Carriers (By United PressJ WASHINGTON, Dee. 28 Representative Clarence F. Lea, California Democrat, chairman of the House Interstate commerce committee, said today that he Will offer far-reaching legislation to succor the financially harassed railroad industry during the first few days of the seventy-sixth Congress. He declined to disclose specific details of his measure, explaining that it has hot yet been whipped into final form. But he said it Will be so drafted as to protect all of the nation's economic factions involved In the future course of the industry, Including labor, shippers and investors. In this connection protracted hearings will be held so that business and labor leaders can air their views DISCUSSES PROBLEM Chairman Burton K. Wheeler, Montana Democrat, of the Senate interstate commerce committee, yesterday discussed the rail problem with President Roosevelt and pledged his full cooperation to a program of rehabilitation. Despite this optimistid picture, there Was no indication tonight that there was any agreement among Lea, Wheeler, the White House or other government agencies responsible for the forthcoming legislation. There appears to be a unanimity of feeling, however, that the solution does not lie in Government ownership. Wheeler insists that the carriers put their financial hoUse in order and that many of them "go through the wringer" if necessary, to scale down top-heavy financial structures. FROWNS ON PROPOSAL The Montana Senator, who led the fight against the President's supreme court bill, also frowns on a proposal advanced by some New Dealers that the Government lend money to the carriers at a rate of interest as low as 2 per cent He contends that if the administration adopts this policy toward the rail roads, it must be prepared to lend money at the same rates to the farmers and other forces in the nation's economy. Lea and Wheeler are agreed that there must be no attempt to jam the program through either house until all who wish to be heard have been given the opportunity, The President is understood to be agreeable to this program. VITAL ISSUE Lea indicated today that compe tition in the transportation industry was one of the most vital is sues to be considered in the forth coming program. He believes that a step should be made toward diverting freight traffic into the most economic channels, but declined to say whether his measure would propose such a step. 1 am sure that we can draft a good bill," he said. "It will take many Weeks, maybe months, before we arrive at a program which will help everyone concerned. We will give everyone who wants to be heard a chance to present his position. My bill Will mean only a start in the direction we are to take. It can and probably will be changed. It offers only a basis and will represent the views of many who have Worked on the problem." Trio Arraigned As Blackmailers (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Dec. 28. The Gov ernment "throwing the book' as it is called in the vernacular to day arraigned three accused black mailers of the late F. Donald Cos-ter-Musica under a Federal act, passed in the flurry of legislation following the Lindbergh kidnaping, which provides maximum penalties of 20 years imprisonment Walter H. Cragg, a disbarred lawyer, and Joseph Brandino each were held in bail of $7,500 and Brandino'S sister, Mary, in ball of $5,000, On complaints charging ex tortion through threats made in interstate commerce across State lines. Specifically, they are accused of holding over the head Of Coster Musica the indicted president Of McKesson 6c Robblns, Inc., who committed suicide Dee. 16 after leaving a note blaming "Wall Street plunder" and blackmailers for ah $18,000,000 overstatement of assets in his company the threat of exposing his criminal past as Philip Musica. Roosevelt Urged to Lead Peace Project WASHINGTON, Ded, 28. Presi dent Roosevelt was asked by a dele gation from the National Peace con ference today to lead a campaign for a world conference for ecohomld and military disarmament. John Nevin Sayre, president , of the peace organization, said after a call at the White House his group had "gained the Impression frdm the President that prospects for such a conference are hot hope. less." .

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U.S. SPEEDS MORE SHIPS, By ALEXANDER ft. GEORGE (Associated Pre Writer) WASHINGTON. War specters in 1938 spurred the United States toward the greatest strengthening of its defenses since 1917. Some $600,000,000 was poured into tha navy as international tensions spurred Uncle Sam to strengthen the nation's "first line of defense." The army got $450,000,000, the larg est amount since 1920 when the American army of occupation was still In Germany. Besides the regular 1938 appropriation. Congress approved a $1,156,000,000 10-year naval expansion program designed to make our battle fleets the greatest In U. S. history. BEYOND BOUNDS? Then, after the Munich peace had failed to eliminate International jitters, President Roosevelt announced that developments abroad necessitated a re-survey of our defense needs. As the year ended, protection of South America as well as our own shores was the subject of preparedness agitation. While defense advocates contend that "force tactics" abroad have made Americans more preparedness-minded than at any time since the war, peace orgahisatlons and some members of Congress aver that preparedness agitation has gone beyond bounds. Defense work started during the year Included: construction of six dreadnaughts, mightier than any battleships that ever put to sea, two large airplane carriers, an undisclosed number of the World's biggest naval bombing planes, 37 destroyers, 18 submarines and seven cruisers. Congress also authorized, but did hot immediately provide funds for, 84 Other War Craft. The fttftiy received more than" 500 new planes, bringing the total of first-line aircraft td about 1,700. In midsummer the war department, placing a $14,000,000 Order for 98 LABOR ACCORD (Continued From Page One) ed a "reception" from thousands of his friends in the Bay area as one of the first fruits of his prospective freedom, he has Indicated repeatedly that he would harbor ho vengeful feelings If fthd Whfeh he received executive clemency. "The whole purpose irt my life," he said, "will be to work for unity Within the labor movement. 1 hope to live to see the day when all three of the big sections of labor the American Federation of Labor, the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the railroad brotherhoods Will be one." Mooney said the outside world would not be altogether strange to him despite 22 years of Imprison ment. He said he had kept In touch with many men of affairs all over the world and had tried to keep step with the march of events. He has been perhaps the most studious of San Quentin'S 5,000 or more prisoners and lays claim to a mellowing philosophy. Before 1916 Mooney was regarded by his foes a firebrand in the ranks of labor. Along with Warren K. Billings, who also Was convicted of the bombing, he received among police and other authorities the title of "direct actionlst." President ot Eire Will Visit America (By United Prefl.) DUBLIN, Dee. 28. - Prime Minis. ter EamOrt de Valera of Eire, the former Irish Free State, announced tonight that he will visit the United States next May at the invitation Of President Roosevelt And Will be a guest at the White House May 8. The NeW York-born Irish leader said he Would visit the 1939 world's fair at New York May 13. He may officiate at the opening ceremony at the Irish pavilion.

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More Billionaires in Prospect If America Maintains Present Pace

(By Associated Press) RICHMOND, Va Deo. 28. One or two fortunes' of two or three billion dollars, marking the coming of the first American triple-millionaire, were predicted within 80 years to the American Association for the Advancement of Science here today. The forecast was made by Call Snyder, New York economist, tt was based on the proviso that the system by which wealth has been created irt historic times will survive that long. The present system Is likely to continue, he concluded from a study of It measured by the Pareto curve. This is a mathematical method invented by the Italian ecriiiomlst Vllrreda Pareto, to show the distribution of wealth, talents

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fighting planes, proclaimed that the United States was superior to the rest Of the world in designing military aircraft. But following the Czechoslovak crisis and coincidental with revelations that Germany had from 7,000 to 9,000 modern skyfighters, Army Air Chief Gen, H. H. Arnold said developments abroad threatened American supremacy in aircraft development. The new Congress may be asked for an air force upwards of 13,000 planes.

Murder in Hollywood Blamed on Qamblers

(Continued From Page One) i the floor of the car and there were powder burns on the body, indicating the shots were fired from Close range. Neighbors reported the car had been parked on Selma avenue around 9 p.m. last night and that two distinct shots had beeri heard at approximately that time. The dome light oh the ear Still Was burning when police Investigated today. A suitcase was found near the body. It contained clothing, a shaving kit and a loaded, pearlhandled, 32 caliber revolver. Identity was established through the automobile resgistration, which was made out to Weldoh L. IrVln, room 9206, Biltmore hotel. The same name was found on a card in the man's wallet. The Biltmore reported Irvin had registered there more than a year ago as being from Morongo lodge, Whitewater, which he said was patronized by motion picture celebrities. MANY INTERESTS Officers were unable to determine his present address, but said he operated an office for Rahcho Palm Springs, Inc., In downtown Los Angeles, was interested In the Morongo Valley Water Co. and in construction of the Pendleton hotel at Indio. In the building where he maintained an office, his business was described as an exporter of fruit Juices. Irvin was about 0 years of age and of Stocky build, and had iron gray hair. Irvin's police record showed he had been known also as H. W. Cur rier and George W. Rogers. He Was arrested In Philadelphia in 1933 on charges of attempt t6 defraud; paid a $50 fine in San Ber nardino on gambling charges last year; was arrested here last August on drunk driving charges, and on bookmaking charges after a raid on a Santa Monica boulevard establishment which officers Said catered or other things in an entire population. Measured by this curve the poor Have not been getting poorer and the rich richer. Wealth distribution has not changed much. "George Washington," said Mr. Snyder, "or Stephen Glrard or even Thomas Hancock, the rich men of colonial days, amassed as great a fortune, for their generation, as John D. Rockefeller or Henry Ford in our own." The Pareta curve, applied to income tax records, shows that although prices, production and national income have been fluctuating, there has been "remarkably Slight" V&rlfttion Irt the distribution Of wealth.

The bulk of a $65,000,000 allotment In 1938 for Sea coast defenses was earmarked to strengthen strategic fortifications on the Pacific coast, in Hawaii and the Panama Canal Zone, But Secretary of War Woodring later demanded a large increase in anti-aircraft weapons for the canal.

By next summer the army will have 300 to 400 new anti-aircraft guns from a $23,000,000 fund. Gen. Malin Craig, army chief of staff, told Congress these weapons were to the movie trade With bets of $75 or $100 each. He was to have appeared With three other men for trial on the bookmaking charge Jan, 9 and was at liberty on bail. The case Was remarkably similar to that of Gray, which has not been solved. Gray was found slumped In the seat of his automobile in front of the Hollywood postoffice last June 30. Thousands of per sons passed the car without notic ing the body. The shooting also recalled the unsolved murder of another gambler, George (Les) Bruheman, who was riddled With bullets ih a Temple street beer parlor two years ago. Police still are searching for the gangsters wbo escaped after fatally Wounding a bystander. BORrt IN PHOENIX (By Associated Press) PHOENIX, Aflz., Dec. 28.-Wel-don L Irvin, found shot dead in an automobile in Hollywood today, was born and reared irt Phoenix, and his body will be brought here for burial, a spokesman for his family Said tonight. Paul 'Barnes, his brother-in-law, left by train for Los Angeles to make arrangements for bringing the body here, but the date was uncertain, pending an Inquest. The spokesman for the family said IrVln had been engaged in building a hotel at Indio, California, and WaS developing a tract of 700 to 800 acrcS in Morongo valley, 10 miles from Palm Springs, where he Cperated Morongo Lodge, a pictur esque desert resort. He had not lived here for IS or 20 years, it was said. WINS SOLO PLYING LICENSE SAN DIEJGO, Dec. 28. - Seventeen years of age, Mrs. Vina Kavan today Joined the select group of Women In the United States whd boast Solo aviation pilot li censes. She is one of the youngest ih the State to get the honor. Most remarkable, he said, is the further fact that the records of England, Germany and Prance, as shown In income taxes, distribute wealth in about the same propor tions as In the United States, All this, he declared, suggests that there is a "law" at work which regulates size and distribution of fortunes, The explanation, he went on, is that these fortunes are distributed Just he same as the money mak ing talents. It is not a fact, he declared, that any large proportion of the wealth Inherit their riches Of 40,000 millionaires in 1929 in come tax returns, he said only atound 3 per cent derived their money from inherited fortunes.

the army's most Vital needs. Army officers considered a plan to train 100,000 civilian pilots and 125,000 airplane mechanics at Government expense, to bolster air defense. Such a plan would have to receive the approval of Congress. There was intensified study of plans for swift mobilization of the nation's tremendous industrial re-

sources and for enlargement of the reserve forces to 1,000,000 men who would take the field within a few months in the event of war. (Continued From Page One) Somaliland as "an invention of the French press." PARIS, Deo. 28. France pre pared virtually to double her mili tary and naval forces in Somaliland today with orders for new reinforcements to face any threats from Italy's East African empire, A second warship was assigned to the East African port of Djibouti, named in Italian agitation for French territory, while the 1,969ton dispatch boat D'Ibervllle, mounting three 8.5-inch guns, proceeded from Beirut, Syria, back to Djibouti, her base during the Italian-Ethiopian war. The second Vessel was the 2,441ton destroyer Epervier of the eastern Mediterranean fleet. She is capable of 37 knots and was expected to reach the Somaliland port before the slower D'Iberville. During the afternoon Navy Minister Cesar Campinchl Conferred with Erik Labonne, French resident-general In Tunisia, Who has been irt Paris Conferring on the colonial situation and arranging details of Premier Edouard Daladler'S projected trip to Tunis Jan. 3, Two passenger Ships Were held at Marseille to carry 1,000 Senegalese sharpshooters to Somaliland to bolster 'a garrison of 1,500 troops already there. The two warships and tha battalion of troops ordered to East Africa were understood to be all the reinforcements contemplated for the present by the French government, although that is only a handful against the 80,000 troops which Italy was estimated here to have in East Africa, The reinforcements satisfied French press demands for strengthening Colonial defenses. French and British officials, meanwhile, undertook to put a damper on a scare stirred up by reports of Italian troop concentrations around Somaliland, French editors received the government's recommendations not to emphasize unduly reports of FrenchItalian tension, The British embassy made a similar request of English newspaper correspondent in Paris. Colonial ministry officials said frankly that "the eventuality of Italian invasion of French Somaliland has not been envisaged." The Inference wag left that any Italian demands or actions In this direction were part of a campaign to win colonial concessions when Prime Minister Chamberlain of Great Britain visits Rome Jan. 1114. There, too, French officials gave evidence of confidence that Britain had been made to understand through reports from Bir Erlo P h I p p s, British . ambassador to Paris, that France would yield none of her empire even if Fascist territorial agitation, which has contlnt Ued since Nov. 30, earns to war.

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