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BROOKE HART'S BODY FOUND
SAN JOSE, Nov. 25\ (AP)—The
body of Brooke L. Hart, kidnap
ped and slain son of Alex J. Hart,
a wealthy San Jose department;
store owner, was found floating in
Ska Francisco Bay near Hayward
Sunday. Harold E. Stephens and
Leonard L. Dalve, Redwood City
duck hunters found the body. It
was badly decomposed. The ident
lfication was made by firm officials
of the store. from the clothing.
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MOB LYNCH
HART'S KIDNAPPERS
SAN JOSE, Nov. 27. (AP)— A
mob, which had been repeatedly
repulsed by ^tear gas bombs during
the evening, while police reinfor
cements were sought from other
cities, finally battered down the
jail door and rushed Thomas H.
Thurmond and John Holmes, con
fessed slayers of ‘Brooke L. Hart,
■down the street to St. James
Park. Both were badly beaten
and almost unconscious. They
were stripped naked. Thurmond
was unconscious when hanged.
Holmes resisted and managed to
throw the rope off his neck, but
it was forced back after he was
severely kicked.
The hanging was witnessed by
a joerihg crowd of six thousand.
The sheriff, William Emig, was
taken unconscious to the hospital.
He was beaten about the head by
the lynchers. They first took the
wrong meji from the jail, the in
terior of whch Tyas reduced to
wreckage.
Eight inch pipe, stripped from
the partially completed new post
office, were used for rams. Police
and special officers fought tierce
ly to overcome the lynchers. The
bodies were left hanging ten feet
off the ground.
After, the bodies hung some time
the lifeless forms were cut down.
The mob was satisfied and there
was no further attempt to inter
fere with the officers. Autos park
ed across the alleys about the
jail did little to impede the ad
vances of the beseigers. Two
shots fired from the crowd as a
signal, started the first attack. A
berage of rocks rattled against
the jail walla.' Officers within the
jail let loose three tear gas bombs.
Blinded and weeping, the attack
ers fell back. Now three thou
sand persons had gathered to
watch the attacks. Thirty-five of
ficers defended the jail. A call
was sent out for more tear gas.
i All the lights in the building
were put out when the second at
hack began. The bi nding tear ga8
from the first three .bombs was
still hanging about the building.
Several attackers took eight inch I
steel pipe from the post office
building, now in process of con
struction, for a battering ram.
with wh'ch they smashed the
Jail door. The officers used some
more gas, which momentarily
stopped the assault, awaiting for
he gas to lift. The mob stormed
again, playing a fire hose on thfe
building as it advanced. The
steel doors gave way after another
steel pipe was added by the second
group which let Antone Serpa, re
cently convicted of manslaughter
for slaying Leonar Ramonda, a
ranchman, out. The invaders
pressed on. and laid hands on the
whimpering Thurmond and drag
ged him to the street. Holmes
was powerful and • taciturn as he
was dragged from the cell. He
was pummelled and jeered and
cursed by thousands of watchers.
It became a death march for the
two men. They were dragged to
the park and the officers .were
forced to give up the fight. Meu
and women, with babies in arms,
watched the proceedings, it seem
ed not unlike a carnival throng. ,
MOB ACTION PRAISED
AND CONDEMNED
SAN JOSE, Nov. 28, (AP) t
Praise and censure for the tnob
vengeance on Hart’s slayers is
met by official efforts to close the
case and wipe out. the scars of its
furious climax.
Governors, Church leaders and
prominent persons from all pacts
of the country are among those in
lauding or condemning the mob’s
action and Governor Rolph’s ap
proval.
HOOVER REBUKES
GOVERNOR ROIjPH
SAM FRANCISCO, Dec. 2, (API
— A public rebuke for Governor
Rolph, to which Hoover's name
was signed, intensified the cross
fire of criticism over the Sun Jose
lynching of Hart's slayers. The
statement was issued through the
chairman of the Chamber of Com
merce and declared that every
spirit of government was violated
by the state and in the eyes of the
world will be considered a brutal
outburst of primitive lust for ven
geance. The laudations of th.'B
lynching coming from the Govern
or undermines the very founda
tions upon which all clvilzatlon
is built.
| ROLPH REPLIES TO HOOVER
SACRAMENTO, Dec. 2, (AP) —
Rolph replied to the San Fran
cisco Chamber of Commerce Hoover
attack hy aiming criticism at the
Hoover administration for using
troops aganst bonus marchers in
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Washington. "I deplore the use
of troops against our own boys.
Look at the mess we got into
when the troops were called out in
Washington against the bonus
marchers. Men with bomibs and
guns were sent out to attack good
American citizens, our World War
veterans who fought for us.” Rolph
said.
CALLS FOR LARGER ARMY
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 27, (AP)
— General Douglas MacArthut,
Chief of Staff. Sunday after a con
ference on the Army’s strength,
said: "The Army's strength is be
low the danger line. I consider
ft most, urgent. that this condition
-be rectified immediately.’.’ He
wiarned the Americans about their
military standing, saying that we
stood seventeenth in relative
strength to the wrld’s armies.
In making his annual report to
Secretary Dern. MacArthur, In
making specific recommendations
for increasing the army’s effic
iency recommended among other
th'ngs to boost the regular army's
enlisted strength from one hun
dred to one hundred Bixty-dlve
thousand; the expenditure of two
hundred million on air craft; the
motorization and modernization of
field artillery; the mechanization
of anti-air craft equipment; the
maintenance of the national
guard at its existing strength with
forty-eight drill periods and two
weeks of active training annually;
and at least one hundred and
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The Chief of Staff said that the
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CLARK MADE MONEY FAST
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1, (AP) —
The Senate stock market oomrpit
tee records disclosed how Harley
L. Clark tufne3" a-small stake es
timated at a million In the. movie
business to slxty-ffve million in
five years after becoming presiden'.
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STOCKS SALEH LIGHT
NEW YORK, Dec. 1. (AP) —
Stocks went to sleep after a mQde
rate early push. They closed fair
ly steady, but sales were light.
FLED FROM
gXndhts SEMINARY
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(AP)—Nila Cram Cook, an Amer
ican woman, who fled from Gand
hi's seminary, where she went “in
search of thrills,” was offered a
movie contract.