Show TEMPERATURES For the put 24 hour period up to m tbit moretec -- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE UNITED PRESS Year—No 193 th Sixty-seven- wly Airlmer‘CrasJie§9 Promoted 4 Police Insurance Investigators and Owner Join In Seeking Unknown Who Tries K Three Times to Destroy Old Building street was underway today to apprehend the who attempted Sunday morning for the third time within a month to bum down the vacant three-stor- y — frame structure" ’' at The third attempt was discovered six twenty-fou- r a m Sunday when an unidentified man saw flames flashing from beneath the stairway on the first floor of the building and turned in a lire alarm Firemen had the blaze under control in 10 minutes but Chief Noble J- - Hinton said a few minutes more delay might have resulted in destruction of the hotel STARTED AT STAIR BASE "Whoever started the fire started it at the base of the front stairway on the theory that if the stairway were blocked our chances of putting out the fife would be lessened” said Chief Hinton The blaze was started with a large under the stairs and O'ile of kindling of gasoline were strong inside the building as on the two previous attempts to bum it “It seems evident that someone ' with a mania for destroying the old hotel is responsible for the three incendiary fires within a month” declared Chief Hinton From1 Mayor Hannan W Peery came an announcement today that the owner of the building is making arrangements to raze it “within the next three or four weeks” Mayor Peery said he contacted W P Stephens of 3920 Chimes Circle after being informed by George S Spencer vice president of he Zion's Savings Bank and Trust ompany Salt Lake City that the (Continued on Page Two) ( Column Two) x a Here' it is December 28 are not far from January 1936 We 1 1937 We begin to look back- over the twelve months to ask as to what the year has brought us and to look forward Inquiringly to 1937 er - - We are going forward to a pros' perous - year in America I CBut our there are forces operating the ocean which may affect in the years to come j J Spain at present is a storm center from which a cyclone of great develop proportions may - If the storm spreads there is danger of the entire world being involved including America al- though this country is endeavoring to keep out of the path pt the whirlwind of war - - January 4 1937 will be the anniversary of statehood 41st L L Coray now 74 reminds me that ’ of the 107 members of the Constitutional convention held in 1895 he is one of the fifteen sur-Ivo- rs Tacoma Boy Stolen From Home Just Two Blocks From Weyerhaueser Mansion Father Told to Contact Abductor Through Press By WILLIS DUNIWAY United Press Staff Correspondent Dec 28 (UP) — Fingerprints found on TACOMA Washransom note left by a masked and armed man who kidnaped little Charles Mattson 10 from his home late Sunday sent and police on ‘a search of Bertillion records today The note was examined at police headquarters and an officer said fingerprints had been found on the paper which was of poor quality possibly newsprint The boy’s parents Dr and Mira William W Mattson are to contact the kidnaper through the classified columns of a Seattle paper it was learned authoritatively The kidnaper asked that the ransom be in old currency $10000 in small denomination used bills and $18000 in $50 and $100 greenbacks 1 BLOODY TRAIL O A OWENS To Position of Chief TO AUTO WRECK BODIES FROM CAUSES SEARCH PEERY MOVES """ Stolen Machine Discovered Overturned n j ured Person Missing IDAHO PLANE RETIREMENT OF BORNE HOME CHIEF HINTON A trail of what appeared to be blood leading from a wrecked stolen O A Owens To Succeed Bad Weather Halts Hunt For Utah Air Riders was found in the As Head of Ogden City of Ogden Sunday Placed On Train Fire Department to uheck with automobile which foothills southeast led police today physicians and residents in an effort to learn who may have been injured in the car The automobile owned by W W Cranney of Smoot Wyo was stolen from Salt Lake City Friday according to Detective Henry G Allred and Traffic Officer W W Richardson Jr who investigated They said two boys found it overturned in a street rocky gully near Thirty-thir- d and Tyler avenue PLAINLY MARKED TRAIL “There was a plainly marked trail of blood leading from the automobile as though someone had been hurt when it tipped over” declared Detective Allred “We traced it for two blocks and finally lost it It led toward the residential district” Hospital attaches reported that no one who would fit the case applied to the hospital for treatment in the past two days The officers expressed belief that a check of residents and physicians might reveal the identity of the injured person who they said might also be the thief Doubt that the blood was human was expressed by Officer Richardson who pointed out that some of the glass in the although car was smashed the interior of the machine was not spattered with blood He said the blood might be that of an animal JACKET ONLY CLUE The only tangible clue upon hlch police had to work was an old leather Jacket with the initials A B in ink on the back which was found m the auto Officers estimated it belonged to a youth 17 or 18 years of age The automobile Vas the found in the vicinity in thesecond month Traffic Sergeant Darrelpast E Shaw said today that he found a car concealed behind a knoll in the same vicinity several weeks ago The machine had been stolen and stripped of accessories he said t - CALDER Idaho Dec 28 — (AF) —Toboggans bore the bodies of Recommendation that Fire Chief N J Hinton be released and retired on pension and that Captain O A Owens be appointed chief in his place will be made to the city commissioners late today Mayor Harman W Peery announced "Effective January 1 1937 it is my( recommendation that N J Hinton be released from his duties as chief of our fire department and that O A Owens be appointed in his stead” said Mayor Peery in a communication which he prepared for presentation to the commissioners two Northwest Airlines pilots toward this little town at the base of a rugged North Idaho mountain region today The cargo of two combined rescue parties also includes seven pouches of mail from the transport which crashed before dawn Dec 18 in rugged country 15 miles north of here FIRST FLANS CHANGED A radio message from Big Creek cabin the halfway station of the journey indicated originally reported 'plans to takethTTExlies and mail northward to KeUogg had ELIGIBLE FOR PENSION “In making this recommendation I do so in view of Chief Hinton’s age and long service with Ogden City In talking with him I find that he is eligible for the state pension which is provided by the state for firemen of long service “Mr Hinton has been a valuable man in the Ogden city fire department I have great confidence in his integrity and ability and I make this recommendation in order that we may make an addition of a younger man to the department without at the same time working a hardship upon Chief been changed The radio message said: “Plan to leave Big Creek at eight with mail and for Calder” “Ex-loahas been the term used in radio reports for the bodies of Pilots Joe Livermore and Arthur A Hald Searchers found the bodies yesterday thrown clear of the wreckage The impact of the crash caused the big plane to telescope smashing tail rudder and the motors Hinton The wings clipped off by trees "At this time I further recom- were found some distance from the mend that we employ one more rest of the wreckage fireman who is eligible and who is WEATHER SLOWS SEARCH an experienced machinist I would suggest that this appointment be SALT LAKE CITY Utah Dec made as soon as possible and that 28 — (UP) — For the second succesthe man considered be given an sive day stormy weather today forcexamination and that he produce ed a halt in a search for a Western credentials as to his mechanical Air Express transport plane miss- (Continued on Page Two) ( Continued on Page Two) (Column Two J (Column Five I ex-lo- twin-motor- IN S L COUNTY Report Accuses Former Deputy Auditor With ‘Abstracting Sums left i rob-oeri- on re-cei- “7 4 pts ed Snow Brings Promise of White New Year In Utah j Ketchum Resort Jubilant Over Two-FoFall KING Snow Ogden Light ot siiortageTound ad d” (By The Associated Press) Snow over the week-en- d painted the scene for a white New Year’s in Utah Idaho and neighboring states Heaviest falls were in eastern and central Idaho Temperatures in general remained moderate with indications more snow nay be expected during the week KETCHUM GUESTS CHEERED Most appreciative was the blizzard at Ketchum which provided inore than two feet of skiing surface for guests at the new Sun Valley lodge The snowfall following a “green Christmas” came later than in the 36 years the United States forestry service has maintained a weather station there except in 1917 whep there was no snow until January A storm which began Friday deposited a foot of snow at Elackfoot eight inches? at Idaho Fall and throughout the upper Snake river valley three inches at Pocatello and only a trace northwest at Boise Nampa and Caldwell Temperatures ranged from a maximum of 44 at Boise to a minimum of 15 at Caldwell Clouds had cleared over mast of Idaha today but much of Utah remained overwidely-publiciz- cast ed - MELTS FAST AT OGDEN An eight-inc- h fall at Brighton Utah brought the snow level at that winter resort to 33 inches Logan and Brigham City had four inches Cedar City three Ogden’s fall melted as it came providing tut 09 of an inch of precipitation Sunday Salt Lake City had a gentle rain mingled with a slight amount of MAY ASir PROBE OF WPA huge airliner disappeared last night after wirelessing the union air terminal here for a radio beam to aid it in landing after a flight from San Francisco MOTORCADE ADVANCES While operations planes soared overhead guiding them to the scene a motorcade of about 20 automobiles including five ambulances and three undertakers’ vehicles drove through Saugus about 20 miles northwest of here and penetrated as near to the wreckage as possible I Then the searchers proceeded on foot laboring over brush-studde- d hills and through deep ravines Attaches of the Saugus airfield said a squadron of searching planes orcled the spot NO SIGNS OF PASSENGERS Dickinson said he could see no signs of the passengers The report climaxed a frantic starch which began last night when the giant United Airlines plane flying from San Francisco to Burbank with nine pasengers and a crew of three disappeared into the stormy night a few minutes before it was scheduled to land at the Union Air terminal The ship was due at seven thirty-nin- e p m slightly late it messaged tor a radio beam into the port’ That was the last heard of or from the plane Although regular transport planes flying between San Francisco and Los Angeles were ordered to watch closely for signs of the missing ship an Intensive and wide-sprea- d hunt did not get underway until this morning when visibility cleared sufficiently The hunt was concentrated in the mountainous region north and west cf Burbank focused there by the reports of persons who said that last night about tHe time the ship was due to land in Burbank they saw a flash in the mountains and heard accompanying explosions that sounded like thunder RELATES SIGHTING WRECK J M Dickinson who was with his brother when theflying discovery of the wreckage was made gave this account of the find: “With my brother R E Dickinson manager of the Santa Paula airport I left in a plane early this morning and a few minutes later while flying east we saw the wreckage about two miles west of Weldon canyon near Saugus “We had been flying low looking into canyons and along ridges when my brother looking out of the left tide of the plane he was piloting said here it is’ “We turned and flew at an altitude of about 200 feet and could ste where big oak trees along the rfdge had been broken off by the (Uonttnueo on Page Two) ( Column Three) H I Priestess in Letters Seeking Larger Sum Hill Inspired By Chiefs Retreat Claim WASHINGTON Dec 28— (AP)— Voicing a suspicion that "persons within the WPA organization” were inspiring letters to senators urging additional work relief appropriations Senator King Democrat Utah said today he would ask for an investigation if he found the practice general SEEKS CURTAILMENT He already is seeking to curtail relief spending declaring the work relief appropriation for the remainder of the fiscal year should be held between $250 000 (XX) and $300000000 President Roosevelt twice has mentioned $500000000 for the re- mainder of the year Harry I Hopkins relief administrator fav- ors $750000000 With the debate over the size of the relief program growing warmer King said “a cloud of letters is coming to senators urging them to' vote for additional WPA ap- propriations" “I have no direct evidence” he added “but I suspect they are inspired by persons within the WPA organization They appear to be form letters" DISPLAYS LETTERS He displayed a half dozen letters which he said came from WPA workers snow and central and southern “If find that there is a conI Utah reported light rain certed effort to propagandize conHighways generally remained in gress” King said “I shall call fair condition with snowplows it to the attention of the senate clearing away drifts in the Idaho and introduce a resolution asking ’ 4 ‘ storm centers an investigation” Rules Tribe WASHINGTON Dec 28— (AP)— A true story of a secluded high priestess ruling a tribe of negroes in southern Rhodesia which tivals the most fantastic fiction was told today at the annual meeting of the Society of American Anthropologists Dr H Wieschhoff of the University of Pennsylvania who spent many months in southeast Africa excavating ruins said the tribe was ruled by a woman regarded as both human and divine acting through a king to whom she transmitted all orders and decisions REPULSED FROM MOUNTAIN Existence of such a priestess he said was evident from the customs of the people On several occasions he declared he attempted to reach the mountain on which she was reported to dwell but always was repulsed All important business of the tribe is referred to the priestess by the king through a messenger the only person allowed to see and talk with her Dr Weischhpff said She was reported to exercise sole choice of her successor taken from a group of young girls of the tribe DICTATES KINGSHIP She also was described as holding dictatorial powers over selection of a new king Each candidate is required to climb a steep cliff the successful one finding the task comparatively easy but the others finding the path greased edition off twin-motore- SALT LAKE CITY Dec 23— (AP) —An alleged $67039 shortage In tax us an idea of the That gives collection accounts In the county toll the years take assessor’s office was reported in an rate 3000 of the audit today to Salt Lake county At that only now in living Ogden commissioners grown ups The report signed by Elmer J will be alive by 1978 Burnett former chief deputy county auditor accused Henry J HamilNew York city police have estab- ton former cashier in the office lished ft "deadline” beyond which of Assessor Arthur J SJtidmore of known crooks cannot go during abstracting” certain sums paid by certain hours of the night taxpayers as audit began Furthermore crooks are not to bonded to Skidmore for be allowed to enter night clubs where men and women wear costly $iooo left the assessor’s office shortly after Sept 16 the date jewels the audit started A $9938 shortage revealed to the order was police That by by Police Commissioner Val-- f comparing cash register tapes and es a number of Jhtine following county assessor reports with tax roll collections started the inves-tigatithe report said and added: i Thus we learn to what extremes was necessary to break down the police of a large city are forc- 10903 personal property tax ed in protecting those who flash and check each individual entries in tax against jewelry in the night clubs rolls This KCfUnds amounting We also gain a close up of the made reason of dupconstant vigilance necessary to licate payments These duplicate keep back the army of crooks payments had not been posted to the rolls” This conflict in a great city creFICTITIOUS ENTRIES ates the impression that human Examination also disclosed three '“Nnd is not unlike the dumb beasts the wilderness where wolves fictitious entries totaling $14505 the report said make attacks on the sheep fold The audit disclosed also a number (Continued on Pags Two) of alterations and shortages in auto(Column One ) mobile collection accounts -- Oh Coast Moimtaiii (AP) — Searching parties BURBANK Calif Dec 28 tangled mountain brushland today toward the wreckage of a large transport plane which vanished in a storm with 12 persons aboard The searchers were spurred with the faint hope that all had not perished in the wrecked ship Planes which soared over the big d Boeing that the in a mountain valley reported fuselage lying about two miles from the Saugus emergency airport seemed intact although no signs of life were apparent — The United ‘Tire-bug- ’' LAST GUMenu FoEee ' Wreckage Sighted By Searchers Near Saugus Passengers and Crew Believed Dead Rain Hampers Ground Crews In Hurried Hunt COMBINED effort by police insurance investigators and the owner of the New Central hotel at 218-22- 6 h 12 Pages 129 M o Twenty-fift- vly OGDEN CITY UTAH MONDAY EVENING DECEMBER 28 1936 Himt For Firebui Pressed As Third A 1 G-m- en Dr Mattson a but not wealthy physician and surgeon was said to be ready to follow the Instructions set forth In the note well-to-- do COPIES WEYERHAUSER The crude ransom note apparent-ly printed on a child’s rubber type hand press set was similar to one left by the kidnapers of George CHANG IISUEII-LIAN- -- Weyerhaeuser on May 24 1935 in that it promised the Mattson boy would not be harmed if directions G Not Really a Revolt were followed Officials believed the kidnaper may have copied the plan of the Weyerhaeuser crime The Mattson home is just two blocks away from the home of the late John P Weyerhaeuser grandfather of George The Weyerhaeuser boy was not kidnaped from his grandfather’s residence however Federal agents and Tacoma police who at daybreak searched underbrush in a deep gully below the Mattson home and running down to Commencement bay on Puget Sound were unable to find any trace of the kidnaper EXTRA TELEPHONES Five extra telephone lines were' strung into the Mattson home so any incoming call from the abductor would get through immediately and not receive a “busy” iyn1 There was no indication however that any such call had been received at the home state city and county police organized a gigantic manhunt for the kidnaper CHANG TO HEAD ARMIES HE LED IN CHINA REVOLT Release of Generalissimo Entitles Marshal To Consideration ! NANKING Dec 28— (AP)—Marshal Chang Hsueh-Lian- g it was believed today will be restored to command of the armies he led in revolt against Generalissimo Chiang Kai-She- k and the civil crisis his capture of the premier precipitated will soon be forgotten Chiang was reported to have told his erstwhile captor who in a sudden turn of events voluntarily gave himself up he would be returned to Sianfu seat of the rebellion and his military post ‘GUILTY OF TREASON Legally the marshal is “guilty of treason and should suffer a traitor's punishment” Foreign Minister Chang Chung said “but his release of the generalissimo unharmed has entitled him to con- G-m- en -- A sideration” Authorities believed the premier’s recommendations for leniency would be accepted by the government but to satisfy the require- ments of justice Chang would be condemned and then given a special pardon Fatigued by his captivity Chiang canceled public engagements The generalissimo after Chang penitently released him and begged forgiveness told the young marshal he believed the central authorities would be lenient ‘NOT REALLY REVOLT Some quarters expressed the belief the affair was "not really man Charles had Just taken a lath and was dressed in knickers a blue' sports sweater and brown house slippers FEAR FOR HEALTH The weather was cold and misty and fear was expressed for the boy's health because he was so lightly ' clad The kidnaper appeared at the (Continued on Page TwoJ (Column Five) “Chang fherely detained the general sufficiently to make him listen to certain proposals the former Manchurian commander had been unable to bring to the ears of the busy generalissimo” they said il At the time of the seizure of Chiang the marshal issued demands for inclusion of communists in the government and war planemo DOWN AT PRICE gainst Japan Pontiff Gives Up Hope Says ‘It Is Better I Die’ Physicians However See r Hemorrhage In Leg As Minor Matter PRICE Utah Dec 28— (AP)— A snowstorm forced Pilot Ira Bortles en route from Miami Fla to Spokane to land his plane here today Bortles with William Stone as passenger had attempted to maintain his course by following the Denver and Rio Grande Western tracks but the celling west of here was too low to permit him Snowplows were called out to clear deep drifts from all highways in this region No serious traffic accidents were reported e —Pope I dark-beard- ed police a revolt” VATICAN CITY Dec 28— (AP) Pius despairing of his recovery after a slight hemorrhage in his paralyzed left leg was reported tonight to have told a church official: “In this condition I cannot be the poptb it is better that I die” Physicians attending the however were understood to regard the hemorrhage as a minor development in the holy father’s struggle against circulatory congestion and accompanying ills of old age The pope’s declaration reliable sources reported was the first indication the pontiff has become aware of the gravity of his illness Previously he has been described as the only person in the Vatican who was not worried over his paralytic condition and pain The holy father broke his own ban against receiving church officials by discussing ecclesiastical problems with etc PIKUP HERE swarthy who broke the glass out of a back door with his gun reached in and unlatched the door was sought At the time Charles was with his brother William Jr 16 & sister Muriel 14 and a friend’ Virginia Chatfield 14 of Seattle Mr and Mrs Mattson were at the home of friends and had just telephoned to assure themselves the children were all right Not five minutes later the kidnaper intimidating the children with his gun "snatched” Charles’ The children tried to telephone their parents but found the friends line busy William Jr then called By STEWART BROWN United Press Staff Corespondent ROME Dec 28— (UP)— Italy has suspended shipment of "volunteers” to Spain pending negotiations for a general agreement to forbid the dispatch of men to either faction in the civil war persons close to the government said today Usually reliable informants said that the mysterious “Count Rossi” commander of the Italian contingents based in the Balearic Islands off the Spanish east coast had returned “for the Christmas holidays (Continued on Page Two ) (Column Seven £ Stork Repeats Visit With Twins FREMONT — Mrs Ohio Dec 28— (AP Edward Wilhelm of Toledo gave birth yesterday to the second set of twins this year The mother and the boy and girl are progressing satisfactorily hospital authorities said today The girl weighing less than two pounds was placed in an incubator The' boy weighed two pounds Mrs Wilhelm who is 23 gave birth to twins Donnie and Dottle last March 3 |