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FRIDAY EVENING Dakland Tribune JUNE 13, 1930 DRAINS FARM WORKERS FROM PORTUGAL Short Supply Felt in Agricultural Section As Spring Nears DO By GEORGE HALODJIAN CASTELO BRANCO, Portugal.UR -France is combing this country for agricultural labor so closely that Portuguese farming is Itself lacing a shortage of workers. With the approval of the ministry of labor in Paris, it is asserted, entissaries of employers' organizalions are arriving here with instructions to sign on as many workmen as they can recruit. From the province of Beira, Portugal's coinbelt. French agriculture, it 18 stated, hopes to draw whole battalions of. laborers.

Spring sowing time is here and the insufficiency of farm hands 1s accutely felt. Whole villages have peen deserted by their male population, and agricultural work is delayed. The French drain is adversely affecting the "wheat campaign," inaugurated. last year in a supreme effort to grow all the naton's bread at home. NO STONE UNTURNED The government left no stone unturned to make the campaign complete success.

The duty on foreign wheat was raised 50 per cent: the state supplied farmers with American motor tractors, with seeds and fertilizers; banks offered low rate loans. Despite all these facilities, the present price or home-grown grain does not pay a penny of profit, to the producers. An official of the board of agriculture said it was cheaper to buy foreign wheat than to grow the grain at' home. The bait held out by French employers consists of high wages, good working conditions, and free Tribal Battle Perils Couple DR. and MRS.

C. S. COON, while guests of a tribal chief in Albania, narrowly escaped an attack upon their host's home when 15 combatants were killed. Dr. Coon, Peabody museum anthropologist, and Mrs.

Coon were hastily sent to safety before the battle by the mountain prince, who with his family is shown below. -A. P. photo. tickets home when the engagement expires.

These form an attraction far greater than the months of unremunerative toll required to work the home farms. The authorities have tried to put Why this Test Wins so Many Folger-Flavor Boosters Comparison, day- by- -day, brings out the rich flavor difference that is Folger's. You will agree after making this test, that Central American Mountain Coffees do make a difference. YOU TAKE NO CHANCES Folger's Coffee from your grocer today. Drink it tomorrow morning.

The next morning drink the coffee you have been using. The third morning drink Folger's again. Then decide which you like best. If, for any FOLGER'S reason, you do not choose Folger's, your grocer will gladly refund the full purchase price. We will pay COFFEE him.

That's fair, isn't it? IF FOLGER'S COFFEE Dr Tillamook Cheese Buy it by the 37 delicious dishes made from Tillamook Cheese 37 Delicious Baapist Cheese Miss FREE! Prepared by Azace of Farmer's Cooking, Boston For your copy, mail this coupon to the Tillamook County Creamery Association, Tillamook, Oregon Name. ALBANIA FOUND THRILLING LAND -By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE Associated Press Science Editor CAMBRIDGE, June (P)-College men who seek adventure find it in a surprising field, anthropology, the once dry-as-dust study of historical remains, Anthropology is tame no longer. It sends young men into jungles, deserts, polar ice fields, the lines between fighting; tribesmen and among quarreling mountaineers. It studies living men, usually the fightingest kinds.

One such anthropological trek has just been finished in the mountains of Albania by Dr. C. S. Coon of Peabody museum, Harvard university, his wife, and Frederick Farnsworth. One of their Albanian hosts, a head of the tribe of Dibra, learnthat the anthropologist could ing shoot, introduced him to a parlor with rifles.

He would shout: game "Long live America." Coon thereupon would shoot a clip of ammunition through the window. That done the, American scholar would shout: "Long live Albania." And the chieftain would shoot a clip through the window. The chieftain invited the expedition to remain six months, and early the next morning brought their horses saddled for departure. He had received overnight word of impending attack. More than 15 men were killed in a feud before the King's guard arrived and restored quiet.

Mrs. Coon found Albanian hosts delighted in rolling cigarettes and tossing them to her, piling as many as 15 or 20 in front of her which she was expected to smoke. One night when the two Americans were guests of the Prince of Mirdita, the least accessible tribe, the entire household of about 25 insisted on tucking her in bed. Graduation Tonight In Walnut Creek WALNUT CREEK, June 13. Twenty-seven students will be graduated tonight at the annual commencement it exercises of the Walnut Creek grammar school, according to Principal Robert E.

Gibson. program will be held in the school auditorium. The graduating list follows: Margaret Alcorn, George Alling, Dorothea Benetis, Barlow, baker, Chester Brown, Call, Edward Bigelow, Virginia, BruJames Conover, Doris Dailey, Margaret Dean, Virginia Ferrier, Gordon Gray, Arda Jones, Maurice King, Alyse Laird, Florence Linn, Ian Lawrence, France Martinez, Malcolm Newell, Marvin Ritter, Irene Sals berg, Willard Smith, Valentine Senavsky, Virginia Thickens, Alice Tycer and Claude Woodson. Richmond Woman Asks for Divorce MARTINEZ, June -Charging infidelity, Mrs. Dorothy Carter of Richmond today has filed suit for divorce here against Cecil R.

Carter. Mrs. Carter claims that her husband has not taken her to any places of amusement and has 1g- nored her. She asks to be awarded the custody of a son and $30 monthly for support. The couple married in 1924 and separated on April 30 last.

Funeral Held for Veteran of South WATSONVILLE, June 3. Funeral held yesterday for Conrad Herwid, 82-year-old Confederate soldier, who died here Tuesday, Rev. E. C. Phillio, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, conducted the services.

Interment place in the I. 0. 0. F. cemetery at Gilroy.

now lower priced pound or You can use all sorts of obstacles in the way of the emigration tide, but have been unable to arrest the ebb. Thousaids of pea cants continue cross the border into Spain, where no passport formalities are required. Ostensibly they are bound for seagonal work at Huelva, but in reality they are headed for labor boats, bound for French ports. ST. LOUIS PLANS BAN ON NOISE ST.

bottles, old iron," the time honored cry of the junkman as he drives his cart up and down the alleys; the "extry" of the corner news boy; the shout of the huckster as his vegetableladen truck passes by, even the bell of the ice cream. man's push -cart, may become a thing of past here. An ordinance is being considered by the board of aldermen prohibiting all unnecessary noises. Even trucks must be so loaded that their contents will not bang as the vehicles pass over rough pavements. Between 10 o'clock in the evening and 7 o'clock in the morning the din of construction would be prohibited.

Pile drivers, steam shovels, pneumatic hammers, steam and electric hoists will be compellto cease operation if the ordinance is passed. BURMESE SLAVES FREED CALCUTTA. The last of the slaves in the Hakwang Valley of Burma have been freed, England having paid the full purchase price to their owners. BATTLE FOR GIRL'S LIFE CHICAGO. Four physicians won battle for 18-year-old Harriet Mason's lite, massaging her heart as a final resort.

Tillamook so many different ways that rich, piquant golden flavor slices for men like in sandwiches, salads, to add or to give creamed vegetables a cheesy taste in any of your favored recipes that require cheese, you'll like the delicate savoriness of Tillamook. It is a full cream cheese made by the famous old English Cheddar process that brings out all of the rich creaminess of the milk. Buy it by the pound or the half pound -and be certain that every slice is stamped TILLAMOOK on the rind! Look for Trade Mark Registered TILLAMOOK Never re cooked on every slice or re-worked and TILL AMOON in TILLAMOOK whole milk CHEESE Football Ace Has Busy Day EARL "DUTCH" CLARK, football ace at Colorado college, was graduated from college in the morning, married MISS DOROTHY SCHRADER at noon, and left the same evening to enter a summer coaching school in the P. photo. Grid Star Graduated, Weds, Departs for New School COLORADO COLLEGE, June 13.

-To become a graduate in the morning, a husband at noon, and to be on the way east at night to become a student again, doesn't happen to everybody. Earl "Dutch" Clark, football "ace" here, had all those experiences day before yesterday. In the morning he graduated from college. Then at noon, he and Miss Dorothy Schrader were married. That same night, Clark left for the east to enter a summer coaching school.

The final event in the chain will be when he returns to Colorado College next fall with his wife, to become assistant football coach, and basketball coach, at college. Clark took part in the annual east- west football game at San Francisco last January. King Murder Trial Expected To Reach Jurymen Today EUREKA, June fate of Clarence L. King, ex-convict, accused of slaying Mrs. Minnie his former sweetheart, was expected to be placed in the hands of a jury today with the conclusion of final arguments.

District Attorney S. E. Metzler In summing up the state's case yesterday, sought to prove Mrs. McCoy's slaying premeditated, while Attorney Marc Morrison for defense argued in support of King's contention that the woman accidentally slain in a struggle with him a gun. Mrs.

McCoy's body was found on the Redwood highway north of here last March beside a redwood log, where King was said have carried her after the shooting, which occurred while they were en route south from Portland by motor. In support of his contention that King had intended killing his former sweetheart when he started south with her, Metzler emphasized the withdrawal of the woman's balance in a Pocatello, Idaho, bank by King. This occurred, Metzler asserted, before the southern trip. Morrison maintained, however, the money was withdrawn by King after Mrs. McCoy's death and on his return to Corvallis, where he married Eunice Pardee.

Concord Prepares for. Holy Ghost Fete Crowd CONCORD. June Justice of the Peace E. P. Jackson leading the parade for his nineteenth consecutive year, the annual two-day Holy Ghost celebration will be ushered in tomorrow night at 8 o'clock with a procession starting from the home of Mrs.

M. Perry on Bonifacio street. the Holy Ghost park where a conThe marchers will a proceed to cert will be offered by the Concord Community band under leadership of Director Jack King, followed by dancing in the new hall. Sunday morning grand parade will leave from the Portuguese society's park for All Saints' Catholic church, where mass will be celebrated by Father Stephen Barron. Following church services the celebrants will return to the park for a free barbecue, dancing, games and entertainment.

Miss Ida Evora will reign 88 queen of the nineteenth annual fete. Dorothy and Marian Alvernaz will be maids of honor; Kathleen Azevedo, flag bearer; Olive Amarante, Clara Evora, Isabel Ferrera and Betty Richards, rod girls; Mary Jane Alves, Jean Correa, Josephine Machado, Elsie Olivera and Lucille Phillips, flower girls, and Irene Feria, Lorene Faria and Eleanor Semas, children's directors. Officers of the society directing arrangements are Manuel Evora, president; Manuel Machado, vicepresident; J. Azevedo, C. Noia, secretary; Manuel treasurer; MC E.

Perry, Tony Machado, Fernandez Duarte, Joseph Williams and Tony Calderia, directors, and Manuel Alvernez, John Azevedo, Joseph E. District -Attorney To Deliver Address REDWOOD CITY, June 13. District Attorney Franklin Swart will deliver an address on "Changes in Laws and Changes in the Administration in the Past Twenty Years." next week when the annual convention of the District Attorneys' association of California convenes at Lake Arrowhead. Swart is presdent of the association. He expects to leave Tuesday night for convention, which will start Wednesday and continue on to Friday.

ESCALON PLANS CROP EXHIAIT ESCALON, June 13 Escalon plans' an elaborate exhibit, showing the diversification of this district's crops, at the annual South San Joaquin irrigation district fair to be held in August. This town will with Manteca, Ripon and possibly Oakdale in forming a big sectional The Escalon District chamberlag; Commerce yesterday appropriated $200 as the preliminary step for the exhibit. C. C. Moorehead is in charge of Escalon's plans for the event.

At the chamber session, Henry A. Bierschwal brought up the subject of the annual Escalon park fete, and the date was set for Saturday night, July 26. A donation of $50 was commerce made for then chamber. Speeches, dancing and music, as well as a pageant are planned. The subject of a general improvement in all roads in this district also was discussed, and it was decided to ask the associated chambers of commerce of the dis- triet to act in, securing ments.

A resolution, introduced by President Arthur Tibbitts, to $135 to the Lions' club as the give chamber's share in redecorating quarters used jointly by the bodies, was unanimously adopted. CALO Doc 1008 DOG "His Master's Choice" and Keeps your: pet healthy and happy because it contains exactly the right foods, properly balanced, CAT carefully cooked. Recommended by leading veterinarians. At all stores. FOOD PURITAN MALT IT'S Puritan vary.

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