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Show pae sdc Merald C PROVO (UTAH) DAILY " HERALD, TRIPAYy ATRU5rJM0 s Ji.il ii WIl a lui ii. Flaslk News ir World To You In Pictures Ice Floes Jam Rivers as Flood Threats Continue in East Mother SaidHit Me Wifh the HanYmer' KVp 6 rv? fp 5 5y Dock to 'Blighty' and Welcoming Arms Y i 1 k : J Y Y vfy. ' - ft ' 1 3 Si 4 ,k v , . : . - ' INKA Telephotot as flood threats continued Aa aerial view' of the ice-Jammed Genesee River, two miles south of Rochester. N. Y . - .....' upstate New York and other sections ot the East. On the Eastern Front, TooFlood Waters Go on. Rampage t -tl ' t ' k. . jr jy e v -a .. m , i A " i k, rA Ttlephoiot 1 While California farmers prepared to dig out from the second series of floods this year, 10,000 persons were torccd to evacuate their homes when rivers went on a nmpage in Pennsylvania.' ' At South Pymouth, a Coast Guard surf boat (indicated by arrow) rescue marooned residents from lowland areas. Meet Fuehrer Chaplin, Duce Oakie v ' 1 tNEA TelephtnoJ I A weird story of her mother beating; three children to death with a hammer, ham-mer, then ordering the fourth child to kill her was told Los Angeles police by Chloe Davis, 11. shown above being Interviewed In hospital by a police woman. The mother, Mrs.' Lollta Davis, set her. clothing aflame alter . slaying three of her brood. . ' , . ' ".-y '-,''' Girl, 11 Suspected OF Slaying Four In Family - LOS ANGELES, April 5 U.R)' Police today booked Chloe Davis, an 11-year-old, child with blue eyes and two hlond nicr-tails. on .1 charce of suspicion of murder. The sus picion was that she had murdered her mother, two sisters, n nn o nroiner-. , . Little Marraret Jenkins wshM to kks Ds.ddy. a sold'er rtturclng on liTe to Er.s'jnd. lie U 03 vtIv. leg In a London raUay taUca alter service on, the wwrtera Irc-t. Farms Inundated as New Floods Strike California 1 0' V- ' ' A L-Iv . I ilS.A-r. - Billy Gilbert as Hermann Goerinst Jack Oakle as Benito Mussolini Charlie Chaplin as Adolf Hitler Chloe had been questioned for hours and she had Insisted over und over aerain that ner mother had killed her sisters. Daphne, 10y and Ann, 7, and had Xrtgnuuuy wounded her brother, Mark. ; 3. She acknowledgred bavins: kUled her mother and killing Mark, to put him out of his misery, but only because her mother had so commanded. , ' ' Police took the chUd to the Juvenile home for the night and formally entered her name on the blotter, adding the charge: "Suspicion "Sus-picion of murder.' - Dr. Paul de River, police alienist, alien-ist, participated In the questioning and examined the child. He said: "Her physical development Is astounding In one so young: "She is cool, has no depth of feeling, has great powers of imagination, imag-ination, for. fantasy, and Is distinctly dis-tinctly ' capable of planning and committing the murders. But so far, I believe her story more than I disbelieve it.- - Chloe was questioned for nearly 12 hours in a room In the Georgia street police hospital, with . but brief respites. Only Survivor -. Chloe was the only survivor of the tragedy which occurred In the home of her father, F. Barton Davis. Da-vis. 51, a butcher. Tollce went there yesterday and found Mrs. Lolita Davis. 36, dead of. heavy blows and burns; Mark, dead of a crushed skull and Daphne and Ann 'dying of identical head wounds. - Chloe's story was: The same kind of secrecy with which Europe's di ctators hide tneir- moves nasf umi uuuw a. Her motiier and her sisters and Charlie Chaplin's new movie, a travesty on one-man governments Charlie's moustache made it. man- brothers were all still in bed when datbry that he take the Hitler role himself. Jack Oakie will portray II Duce under the name Benztno her father went to work. Her Napoleoni. and Billy Gilbert will do Herman Goer ing. Chaplin has aUowed no pictures to leak out,, mother then got up and began but here's an artist's version of the three roles, made by putting the Hollywood faces in the uniforms dressing. Meanwhile the older girl of their European counterparts. Any resemblance to characters living in Europe Is entirely intentional, had taken Mark from his bed and Her mother appeared, partly dressed, In the kitchen, grabbed up the claw; , hammer and ' beat Nazis Cite Pdlisn' Papers to Blame Europe War 6h!U.S; i 6 i t -v v. t a : t r r, . S " -. y j, i ' -. , - ostt "4ny so Mini5r Oyr 'r. van - r. XI.' - T t, rrt 1 e&7 - V ..:J Daphne in the tub. ntk a few blows she crushed . her skull and Daphne collapsed face down in the water. ' - Chloe, heard a disturbance, andr In pajamas, ran into the hallway where she met her mother. Her mother j swung at her with the hammer, but she moved and the hammer only grazed her head. : "."I'm' doing this for your own good they're after us," Mrs. Davis Da-vis said. "I love you so much that T ! , : repetition of early Hoods that caused widespread dimes throujhout the Eacrarrsrr.uj .ey U N o r t h er n Jifornla kft an estimated 10O0 fa-T.illcs homeless when the Sacrammto Riter wer.t cn another r.T read over rich farming lands. This picture, taken from a United Aim.-! plane rx-ar Colu&a. t.owt cn SJft- Mark and Ann on the head. She phone, returned and aat on the went to the bathroom and found doorstep waiting for her father. Held in Fatal Plunge of t. A. Woman A California nrnarl nvrr rich faj-minir land. This Dictlire. of farm oullcinjs unaer water. .vcs some cor.ccuou roVuTr, Pulitzer Won't Be. 'Shackled' Fights for Press Freedom BUUU. - . ii, mini i i -- , Mrs. Davis then handed her the r- hammer and ordered . her to neip drag a mattress into - the hpll. Mrs. Davis lay on the 'mattress, set fire to her hair and night dress, and shouted at Chloe to beat her until she breathed no more. -. Chloe started to beat her on the head wi'h the mammer. - She hit her; again and again perhaps 20 times. The head flew oTf the handle, and, her mother urging her on, she beat her with the handle han-dle of the hammer. v The exertion made her thirsty and she went to the bathroom, got a glass of water, drank some, gave the glass to her mother to drink. Her mother was crying with the pain of the blows and the fire, which ,"had been burning rlcht along, and she resumed beating her. . .After a while, she was thrirsty again and this time went to. the kitchen for water. Mark was still alive, moaning. She asked her mother if she shouldn't put Mark out of his misery, and her mother nodded. ', ' "So I went hack and hit him un til he waa still." : Returning, she resumed beating her mother. At last her mother waff Still, so she washed her face combed her hair, and decided to report to her father. She went to the neighbor's to use ine tcie- r w r .... . -V ; I V.;T ' y ( - 7 ::, ff -I y' ' i s V r ; - " V. '7 . "(y I ' '1 ' . ' !': ( VY 'I ' ! u . L" ) . -i Fiehtine mad over a contempt of court decision against Tl'.e EL Louis Pon-DLpatcX Japa i'-.r-r. pub lisher, declared he would not be "intimidated, thackled or gags. on the prncip.e ol ireecoa ci i..e He is battlln? a $2000 fine against his paper, and Jail ntences far D R. Flt:triclc. farnou rart-ocnuu and , Ralph Coghlan. editorial chief, who were involved in tne cxv ior tauciz:ri a coun tra.. w Pulitzer, ntzpatrlclc. EheriXf J. J. Flti.ur.ma ns, E. H. Iise, inar.asL-.j ec-.cr. ara -k.-5 ! ! i i .... , - i.ia.uii militia. wonaur nrhpn Cminr lertv Pnmrki wai Polish - ambassador to inis iciiei , i antgcvujr tiiicii .. , ,. ....... , , ..,, .. ., ,. . . Washington, was among' papers published ' in ' a German . rwhite book", which 'purports , to show pro-allied pro-allied activities on the part of American diplomats. Note the name of Bullitt, who is, William Huliitt now U. S. ambassador to France. Trans lated, the letter reads (starting from "Jednak") : "He was of the opinion, moreover, mat uermany wouia iumu Tner pians4 regaruiiig t"c u..i"v, ICorhmunist Ejected Thumb-PicRed Teams to Race to Seattle I - - - I t - i r . -1 r I- 7 I!- 4 AC TeUphotoJ but not until 1940. I did not .discuss- una uon witn uu.. a . oniy .asxea u wt u . tv, ,aff ftn Tt ai wm,.t, eM In laWoot death plunee tn such a case would play an, active row. ir mey ; wouia. attack- me reicn sxensioiy iur- e r pri WpU 38 attractive Los AnaeiesTvlsltor from St. Louis. Police tectlon of Russia. Bullitt answered that the democratic states had given up once and for 'all. all of Pearl WesgL: 8J-'J""6 Ai2fSi mesa auod Uurowi M imaginary armed intervention for " the protection of any "atata that was to become a victim or German attack." Picture radioed from Berlin, passed by Oerman censors. (NEA Radio-Teiephoto iEA teleyholo) Phil Frankfald. left, executive ec-crc. tary of New England Communists, fchown belnj ejected from-the Dies committee room by Oflicer A J. Murphy after being summarily held la contempt for refusing to answer committee questions. r ...... yy - ! Winston Hill. left, and Betty Johrton. Errkelf". Ca!:l, cc-cd. icn practicing hitch-nikinj technique. In hopes cf :rnu-.g a pUce on the team which will represent Unlverfity cf California In a cc:r-i.e U.urr.&-IcS U.urr.&-IcS race to Seattle and back. Botn are menbrrs cf the 11.iirr,a Viac: |