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SECOND NOTE LEFT AT BROOKS HOME Slain Schoolgirl’s Family Is Threatened by “The Doc- tor,” Boasting Crime. By the Assoclated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif., March 26.—“The doctor,” ‘'Who in & previous note boasted of eommiting a perfect crime by slaying Virginia Brooks, yesterday left another sinister letter on the doorstep of the Brooks home here. The second note, discovered by Mrs. Brooks, was sald to have threatened the schoolgirl's family and police inves- tigating the child’s disappearance and discovery of her body on Camp Kearney Mesa March 10. Written upon heavy brown wrapping paper, the note was identlcal with a previous missive which defied policz to capture “the doctor.” Laid to Same Person. “I believe both letters were written by the same person,” said Lieut. of De- tectives George Sears, in charge of the investigation. Meanwhile 8 new suspect was taken into custody in Coronado, and at Los Angeles a youth surrendered and “con- fessed” t.h?e he knew the slayer of the ‘Brooks L Beln‘lruid ‘e did not believe the man arrested in Coronado was implicated in the slaying. Declaring he knew who killed the “little San Diego girl” and that he “had to get something off my mind,” a Mexi- can youth, who gave his name as Man- uel Lopez, surrendered to police in Los Angeles. Named Alleged Slayer. Lopez, officlals said, did not confess the actual slaying, but declared he crime and named an Prince’s Aide JAPANESE - SPEAKING OFFI- CER GETS POST Lieut. Comdr. Ellis M. Zacharias, U. S. Navy, on duty in the Office of Naval Intelligence, Navy Department, on crders issued today, to his imperial highness, Prince Taka- matsu of Japan, during his sojourn in this country. The American naval offi- cer is an expert on Oriental matters and speaks Japanese, having served in Japan and received special commendation for his work in the earthquake of several year ago. —Harris-Ewing Photo. CATHOLIC UN.IVERSITY BENEFITS UNDER WILL | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 26.—Under the will of George L. Duval, exporter and philanthropist, filed yesterday, the Catholic University of Americs, &t ‘Washington, D. O., is left one-fourth of the residue and $32,500. A trust fund of $36,000 was estab- lished for Mrs, John Harvey of ‘San Francisco. A cousin, Katherine Washburn of San Diego, Calif., was given a trust fund of $25,000, The income of $20,000 was bequeathed Anna C. Reinecke of Annapolis, Md. Various Catholic in- stitutions were remembered with $1,000 gh, including Associated Professors of . | St. Mary’s Seminary and Josephite |« Fathers of St. Joseph's Seminary, Bal- timore; Sulpician Fathers, Washington, D. C,, and Discalced Fathers, Carmelite, Washington, D. C. will become the naval aide ||| PHILIPPINE CONTROL BY JAPAN IS URGED Dr. Herbert Adams Gibbons, Au- thor, Says Islanders to Fight for Secession. By the Assoctated Press. MANILA, March 26—Dr. Herbert Adams Gibbons of Princeton, N. J., author and historian, told the Club here today that since the Fili- inos do not want to be Americans, the lands should be turned over to Japan under a League of Nations mandate. “War over Philippine secession would thus be avoided,” he said, “and we should gracefully be frze of our unwill- ing wards. Japan would round out her mandated area in this of the world and have & new fleld for sorely needed on. ex;:m.in earlier speech, however, Dr. Gibbons termed the cry for immediate independence of the Philippines as “claptrap,” and said Congress would not grant independence without its being preceded by & period in which Americans in the islands could liqui- date their interests. 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