dowii the gift. Chief Loch adds that : yesterday Vermilyea transferred a : piece of "property to Mrs. Shorr f or j the purrose of raising a defence j fund. ! Los Angeles Oct. 11.-- (CPi -- A j veil of silence today surrounded any connection Harold W. Vermilyea may or may not have with the brutal slaying of his 76-year-old mother, Mrs. Nathaniel Vermilyea, j near her Belleville, Ontario, home j last week. ! Under arrest here on a provision- : al warrant charging him with the unexplained axe-murder of his mother, Vermilyea. fruit farmer of Ontario, Calif., was quoted by Marshal Bcb Clark as declaring he would tell his story, when he reached Canada. · The 49-year- old prisoner stead- j fastly declined to answer questions, | Clark said. He waived extradition | and will be returned to the scene | of the crime by Inspector Hamar K. Gardiner of the Ontario Police. Wishing "to get my affairs In order before I go to Canada. ' Vermilyea drew up a will in Los Angeles jail. Sjnce then a special guard has watched over h,im closely. He will be permitted to see his daughter Aurelia. 18. and son Than 13, before leaving for the Dominion Believe Stains Found -save the others Crippled Thomas Adams. 35, \va-s found dead in the smo-k^1fillfd Toronto cottage where he ·lived alone. Bank Interest Cut to 2 P. C. OTTAWA, Oct. 11. -- ( C P ) -- Interest paid on savings deposits will be reduced to two per cent, as from Nov. 1, 1D34. by all chartered banks in Canada, the Dominion Government Post -Office Savings Banks and the Ontario Government Savings Office, Finance Minister E. N. Rhodes announced today. On May 1, 1933, the savings deposit interest rate was reduced by the chartered banks and similar institutions from three percent, to two and one half. o! Ambrose- J. Small of Tor and said he was- a theatre o in Canada It was impossih ider.ify him; definitely as the r ing millionaire Ambrose J. S: who dL&appearea from Toront 1919. Description Does Not Agre< Jugoslavian Regent Bloodstains ar* relieved to have beer found by the police of Ontario Caiuornia. on a ,^hoe and trousers of Harolo W. Vermilyea. alleged ass-issin of his mother, according to a message received by authoriti>s here. in a long distai.cr te.ophone conversation between Ti.rpector Hamar Gardner, wlv is an presenc in California investigating the murder and Chief InspectprJohn MiHer of the C.I.D. headquaFefrol^e^P^PL. jn Toronto, the fr»rmei officer it is reported informed his superior that what is believed to he a slight trace"of blood sta^-u- ha:! been found on the cuff of Vermilyea's trousers and on one of his shop?. Local authorities were informed PRINCE PAUL · ot tne iarest developments in the Uncle of late King Alexander o f ! case over long distance telephone late last njght but were not in a Jugoslavia, assassinated with Louis' position to comment on the matter Barthou, French foreign minister, to'lay. Yesterday's news bulletin Prince Paul has been named in the contained" a statement in which King's will as regent over the ·sh-i Ver .".ilyea was reported to have j youthful King Peter along with-, 9-4t i confessed ;o a fellow cellmate. This ,L':e qi-cen nnd the president of the I - t a t e council. I The man. who was also know Charles E. Morris, did not an tht; description of Small as § o';- by To;onto police in 1^20 v S50:000 reward was offere/ foi f )rmation as to his whereabc Kalama/oo police described man as 67 years old, height 5 91-.- inches, weight 190 pounds. £ biown evxs, medium comple g/cy hair The height figures la'^-n ' unrler the stick," police vvlier; quostioned as to fivst h( tirures at 5 feet, 11 inches. The description of Small in Toronto po.'ice circular of Jui 1920, was: Age, 53 years; IK 5 !.?tt 6 .»r 7 inches, weight K 140 jxjunds blue eyes, sallow < plexion, brown hair, moust fctr-aked -vith grey. Hair rece on ttmpics. Very quick in movements F.ie man held at Kalamazoo. said he owned a ranch near B Alt?., and theatres at various < adian cities from Toronto to couver, j.aid he had been in phone communication witlvHolmes, his nephew, at Tor' Tv.t: missing Ambrose Small h; nephew ot that name. Tlio £to--ls salesman further cl, ed he h^d a sister Florence S 'in New York in charge of or his -theatres and a half-brother te.- Small in Liverpool, C?nadf w^il as a sister Mrs. Maude H>.yes, of Monson Indiana." The cliiei of police said: man toia me he owned se1 buildings in Toronto--you d "1 he «-as JP'_tterfield (Michigan lionaire) .'.imseli He sain he a one-third interest with four c m-n in a ranch al Banff. Alta. w^ *elL'st homestead rigrte fo --S.'O for survey and $2 for : telling hi.? clients he and his 1