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HI ft MODESTO BEE JANUARY 0-21 1939- Draws Ballad hail at $2000 Morris was returned from Fresno a few days ago to fare the charge of passing a worthless $26 cheek on a grocery store hern SLAYER DIES IN Expedition Is Oakland Editor i tvt i Is President Of Subject Of New Book Auto Association TOLAN ASKS FOR MIGRANTPROBE Leroy McCarthy Is Executed For Murder Of Portland Oil Station Aide Representative Gearhart Backs Proposed Investigation Of Destitute Citizens Harold Pierce 46 was Hold to answer to the superior court following his preliminary hearing Thursday in the justice court on a charge of issuing a fictitious cheek on a Modesto hotel several weeks ago Pierce was returned to Modesto last week from Slate Hos pita! Santa Clara County to face the ('halve Gene Pava of Modesto signed the complaint Bond was set at $2006 John Morris 26 of 722 Fourth Street also was held to answer to (he superior court on a similar charge Judge Leslie Floyd set Fascinating a tu res while hunting with paint brush and camera phases of American life prob-1 'ms abroad and an absorbing novel iy a popular writer are features of ome new books added this week to McHenry Library anil branches of the Stanislaus County Free Library Brief reviews by members of the library staff follow: Frontiers Of Enchantment by Leigh Leigh American born painter of landscape and wild life first went to Africa with Carl Akcley on the expedition which cost Akeley his life The next year he went out with another expedition nree more in search of specimens and background sketches for African groups in the American Museum of Natural History in New York Frontiers Of Enchanment records those two expeditions Education Of An American hy Mark Sullivan For years Mark Sullivan has held a place at the top of his profession journalism He is also known ns a student and writer of contemporary history His autobiography is in itself a kind of history a record of a way of life which is fast disappearing The tie Of Palestine by David Henry Popper One of the sore spots in (In' world today is Palestine With a constantly growing number of Jewish refugees the Zionist movement gains Impetus but Palestine is already peopled by Arabs who have lived there for con turles and are unwilling to yield anything to accommodate the exiles Popper discusses the historic background of this situation and the many phases of the problem as it stands today Disputed Passage by Lloyd Douglas Once more Douglas reaches out toward that wider audience which he wanted to reach when he left the miinistry for writing Again his hero is a young doctor John Wesley Reavens who through association with "Tubby" Forrester becomes so devoted )o science that he cuts himself off from all other interests SAN FRANCISCO Jan OP) Joseph Knowland publisher of The Oakland Tribune today succeeded Francis Carr of Redding us president of the California State Automobile Association Knowland a director of the association since 1927 was chosen by the directors annual report showed a net membership Increase of 931)2 during 1938 for a total of 90831 and he forecast a 100000 member ship by the end of the year Other Officers Other new officers are Dr Guido Caglieri San Francisco first vice president Richmond San Jose second vice president Irving Kahn Oakland third vice president and Threlkeld San Francisco was reelected treasure) Dr Caglieri Richmond and Threl kold weie reelected directors for three year terms Other directors reelected are Frank Doyle Santa Rosa and De Oolia San Francisco Newly elected to the board were Charles Bird Stock ton and Fresno Watkins San Francisco was reelected secietary and general manager for the twenty sixth consecutive year COUGHING CAN OFTEN BE PREVENTED If your child often coughs at night because of even ft slight cold-do this at bedtime Thoroughly massage Vicks VapoRub on throat chest and back poultice-vapor action tends to keep the air-passages clear helping to maintain normal breathing through the nose and so reducing mouth-breathing (the frequent cause of night coughs) Try it tonight-learn for yourself another reason why VapoRub is a family standby in more homes than all other medications of its kind put man an omer meai- VICKS STATE PENITENTIARY SA LEM Ore Jan 20 (IP) first lethal gas execution today snuffed out the life of Leroy Her shel McCarthy 26 year old killer whose brief criminal career matched perfectly the moral that does not pay" Death was quick but there was a tortuous pause of nine minutes while McCarthy sat silent and erect in the gas chamber awaiting final preparations The slight dark youth paid with his life for the murder of a Portland gas station operator in a $26 holdup a year and a half ago Phosphorus Blaze Troubles Firemen Gas masks and shovels were used by me libers of the fire department Thursday afternoon to extinguish a phosphorus blaze in the rear of the home of Mrs Damrell 822 Sixth Street A five gallon can half full of WASHINGTON Jan (IP-Representative John Tolan (D Calif) today introduced a resolution for an investigation by a five man house committee of interstate migration of destitute citizens Tolan said that the California State Education Department is asking the state legislature to appropriate $750000 for education of children of destitute families from other are 30000 of these children and the financial burden they thrust upon the school districts and the state's fine educational system is appalling" Tolan said Representative Gearhart (R Calif) backed the resolution He said that over 300000 indigent migrants have entered California in the last two years There are four workers for every agricultural job he said and wages have been lowered to the of a Chinese MEN LEARN 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