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a of the TRIBUNE, SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 1935 A-7 SACRAMENTO SOLONS -FACE HEAVY WEEK Fate of Merriam Plan 1 to Have State Absorb County Roads to Be Decided By ANTHONY F. MOITORET: SACRAMENTO, March Legislature tomorrow, enters upon its heaviest week of business since the 1935 session convened, with a series of committee hearings scheduled on some of the more important issues before it. The fate of Governor Frank F. Merriam's plan to have the State Highway System absorb all county roads, repeal of the anti-syndicalism law, proposed delay of transfer of public utility opcrating properties to the County assessment rolls, the San Francisco transfer issue, the dairy bill and various liquor control measures will be decided at hearings slated by Senate and Assembly committees during the next few days. The Townsend Plan resolution, hanging fire since its rejection by the Senate last Tuesday, is expected to be finally disposed of on Monday.

Governor Merriam expresmes confidence that the measure will but declared he is giving 1 his attention to other matters. The administration tonight was understood to be hopeful that it could switch two negative votes, giving it 20 for the resolution, claiming to have the promise of Senator Edgar Stow, of Santa Barbara, that if his was the only voted needed for victory, 1 he would support the resolution. He did not vote last Tuesday. OPPOSITION STANDS PAT However, there are no signs that the Governor or his lieutenants have broken the resistance of the 20 Senators opposed to. the While the first reaction to the faNure of the $200-a-month pension plan endorsed was shower of indighation messages from Townsend planners, the last few days have seen letters and telegrams of arriving.

Popular support, it is evident, is clearly behind the Senators who declined to become rubber stamps. While the Senate is acting on the Townsend Plan resolution, Assembly will Have up for passage as special order of business the bill of Assemblyman Charles W. Lyon to extend the sales tax to renting or leasing of tangible personal property and to materials furnished by consumers for the fabrication of articles. About: $10,000,000 additional revenue is expected to be raised if 'he measure passes. Some opposition has arisen and, a lively debate is expected.

The Assembly Revenue and 'axation Committee will make a ew attempt on Tuesday night to ret some of the major tax measures the administration started on heir way. The real estate transfer ax, the bank and corporation franhise tax increase and the personal come tax measures will be con- dered. INCOME. TAX ISSUE scheduled for tabling. LIQUOR- BILLS VARIED All the personal income tax bills afore the Senate, as well as the ill to increase the sales tax to 3 per cent, will be given a hearing by the Upper House Revenue and Taxation Committee on Wednesday night.

There are four income. tax bills, an administration measure from Senator Will R. Sharkey of Contra County, scheduled to raise a bill by Senators William F. Knowland of Alameda Harold J. Powers Modoc County, John B.

McColl of Shasta County and Andrew Pierovich of Amador County, with, the same estimated revenue goal, both providing for rates of approximately one-third of the Federal income tax; a Farm Bureau bill, introduced by Senator A. R. Schottky of Merced County, and the Epic bill of Senator Culbert L. Olson of Los Angeles County, which would raise Wednesday, will committee be hear- day ings, starting at 9 o'clock in the morning, at' which, hour the Assembly Committee on Commerce and Navigation will consider the two rival bills to. relieve the State of responsibility for managing San Francisco's waterfront.

One of the measures would transfer the harbor to' the San Francisco city and county government, while the other provides for creation of a port district, with control removed from the San Francisco City Hall. In the forenoon, also, the Senate- Unemployment Committee will have up Senator Olson's cooperative self-help. relief unit In the evening the Senate judiciary group will decide the fate proposal to place the State in the liquor business. This measure seems All the liquor bills before the As-. sembly, covering a wide variety of suggestions on how to handle control -of alcoholic beverages, will be the subject of a public hearing before the Public Morals Committee of the Lower House Wednesday afternoon.

stellar attraction of Wednesday, however, is the joint public session of the Senate and Assembly, committees which on will roads listen and to highways, both sides of the highly-controversial Administration plan to wrest county roads away from the various Boards of Supervisors. This debate will begin at 2 o'clock and it is expected to draw the largest audience of the week. Another joint session set for Wednesday afternoon is that of the Senate and Assembly livestock and dairy committees, which will hear the arguments on the bill of Senator Sanborn Young of Santa Clara County to set up milk control board in a given area with power to regulate the production and marketing of milk. Opponents of the measure charge that it is aimed against cash and carry sales of milk and that it would tend to increase milk prices. BRIDE TO BE Miss Toria Pinckney, who won her mate's papers at 17, will become the bride of Eugene Huntington Benson, Thursday in Berkeley.

Girl Skipper Selects Mate BERKELEY, March 16. Miss Toria Pinckney, who won international fame four years ago, when she was 17, by winning her papers as fourth mater of an ocean liner, today took another kind of "mate's" papers a marriage license. Next Thursday will become bride of Eugene Huntington Benson 30, of 2631 College Avenue, at a ceremony at Clement's Church. Miss Pinckney the daughter of V. H.

Pinckney, president of a steamship line, and Mrs. Pinckney of 5425 Belgrave Place. Miss Pinckney "logged" 16,000 miles in her own log book, as a regular working passenger on her father's ships, before she was 16, and had become an expert operator of the She was given her navigation papers a year later. WORLD FAMOUS PAINTING HERE by thousands in the various cities of the United States and Canada, one of the world's most famous allegorical and symbolic paintings is on view for a short time at the Jackson Furniture Company's Store, 13th and Clay Streets. The painting, a massive canvas 10 feet by 14, is the work of A.

D. M. Cooper, noted California artist whose religious thematic, works have been widely known for many years. It is titled 'The Precipice of Life," was painted 30 years ago, and took the artist two years to complete. At a conservative valuation, it is said to be worth $50,000.

CELEBRATED THEME The theme of this great i is one that has captured the imagination of poets, writers and down the centuries -the two paths through life, which lead the wayfarer to Heaven or to Hell, in accordance with the road he has chosen to take on earth. Those historical figures of history, who followed alone the flesh-pots of life-Nero, Mark Anthony, Cleopatra, Salome- stand grouped in the foreground, their figures lurid with the red glow from the nether regions, their feet set on the brink of that precipice which marks the headlong, heedless plunge into Hades. Behind them rides Satan on his black steed; at. his heels lurks shrouded Death. Heedless, the doomed ones go to their fate.

Nero quaffs a golden 'goblet; Grecian girls pour golden wine. Luxury, greed, vanity, pomp are stamped on their brows and in their bearing. Their feet are set in' the way of eternal damnation. UPWARD PATH On a hill to the right, the glowing figure the Christ beckons those who, wearying of the scenes of dissipation below, have taken the rough and tortuous path that leads to Heaven. Onward, upward, their ears straining melodies to catch the first Celestial of the heavenly choirs, the pilgrims toil to their glorious reward.

Jackson's have made special preparations to accommodate the crowds that are visiting the painting during its stay here. Chile Seeks Data On Grain Elevators BERKELEY, March California's problems are similar to those of Chile, the latter country is seeking assistance in construction of grain elevators for Chilean ports. To obtain important information in this field, Mario P. Ilanes, Chilean consul at San Francisco, has been in conference with experts in this field at the Davis branch of the University of California College of Agriculture. Senor Ilanes conferred with J.

W. Gilmore, professor of agronomy, who has made a study of the subject and who has spent much time in Latin America, and with J. R. Long and Roy Bainer, assistant professors of agricultural engineering, who have been prominent in structures dealing with bulk handling of grain. San Joaquin Gains Enrollee Allotment STOCKTON, March The number enrolled from San Joaquin County for CCC camps this Sumhas been increased from 60 to 170, it was announced today by Paul Taylor, local enrollment agent.

Applications will be received starting April 1 and prior to that time Taylor plans to speak at meetings in EscaIon, Manteca, Lodi, Tracy and Ripon, telling of benefits of the CCC camps. STATE STAMPICRIME PARLEY TAX ON HARD TO BE OPENED LIQUOR URGEDON WEDNESDAY Yield of $4,000,000 Per Vollmer, Warren, Barrows Annum Is Estimated by Backers at Senate Quiz SACRAMENTO, March 16-New State revenues of $8,000,000 a biennium today were pointed out to the Senate committee investigating the manufacture and marketing of alcoholic beverages through a stamp tax of 40 cents a gallon on hard liquor, to paid by the consumer. Various witnesses emphasized the need of making a distinction between wine and beer on the one hand, and hard liquor on the other, pointing out that the first could be considered food drinks, on which the tax burden should not be increased, whereas the latter could be considered a luxury and well able to supporter tax. Senator Duval, chairman of the revenue and taxation committee, although not one of the probers, participated, in the tax phase of the inquiry and manifested much interest in the testimony of Louis J. Gilbert of the California Liquor Industries Association, that hard liquors could be taxed 40 cents a gallon.

Gilbert said the consumption of hard liquors in California is 10,000,000 gallons a year and at the stamp tax rate suggested, would bring in $4,000,000 a year. NO TAX AT PRESENT is State tax on hard liquor at present. The Senate two ago passed a bill calling for such a tax, but it failed in the Assembly. Gilbert urged that an appropriation of $30,000 be allowed the State Board of Health for more inspectors check up on liquor law to offenders. Hearing from Representatives of some of the smaller wineries today.

the Committee was given a series of protests against any increase in the State tax on wine. J. E. Digardi of Martinez, H. L.

Markwith of Lodi, and Packard J. De Flores of urged State regulation of wineries and enforcement of wine Acamp, standardization. Digardi said "the wine men cannot get together." while De Flores held it impossible for the wineries to regulate NOT OPPOSED TO H. L. Hansen, Sacramento representative of a national wholesale drug concern, said a reasonable excise tax on hard liquor would not objectionable.

Frank E. Mortenson of the Southern California Business Association, agreed, but said State liquor stores would mean confiscation. He favored a gradutax scale with the larger dealers paying higher licenses. Carl, E. Bundschu, Napa County wine man, complained that various taxes made wine too costly for the consumer.

He defended the old time saloon. "It was better than what we have today," he said. "The people themselves are to blame for present co conditions. They voted for them." Claus Mangels of winery at Cordelia, said old. stock held through prohibition times, was responsible for the inferior quality of some of the first wines on the market after repeal.

Senator Andrew Pierovich of Amador County, chairman the committee, said its members would confer next week on the report to be made to the Legislature. 2 U. of C. Men Held On Bad Check Charge BERKELEY, March 16. Further "research" activities of two university graduates were today as George Christal, 27, Stanford graduate, and Francis J.

Heidemann, 34, who claims Illinois as his alma mater, were being held in jail -awaiting arraignment on Monday before Judge Oliver Youngs for passing bad checks. on local merchants. Patrolman Wesley J. Compton returned the two men from Los Angeles. Heidemann is an airplane mechanic and former kowner of a "drive-yourself" agency in Berkeley.

Christal, who told police he was working for a D. degree, admitted passing three checks for $15.19 on 0. S. Bolton, pharmacist, 1888 San Pablo Avenue. Heidemann is charged with two bad checks approximating $10.

Naturalist to Speak At Church Service BERKELEY, March 16. C. A. Harwell, chief naturalist of Yosemite National Park, will speak at 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the regular Sunday vesper service at St. John's Presbyterian Church, College Avenue and Derby Street.

Harwell, formerly principal of Emerson School, Berkeley, will give unique rendition bird calls of Yosemite in an address of "Music of the Out-Of-Doors." Dr. Stanley Armstrong Hunter, pastor of the church, will give a brief address on "Through Nature to Dr. Hunter has asked persons attending the service to bring donations of old magazines for the Civilian Conservation Camp in Yoin attendance in recognition of the semite Park. Campfire girls will be 23rd birthday of their organization. Official of W.

B. A. Guest of Review Mrs. Leora Gonsalves, managing deputy, was the guest of Golden Gate. Review No.

112, W. B. at the last meeting. The review plans to help entertain the guests of the State convention to be held here April 11-13. About 100 delegates are anticipated.

Mrs. Sallie Botzler of Texas, supreme vice will be guest of honor. Kathryn Billings was elected delegate from Golden Gate, with Hazel Nolan a as alternate. MENTALLY FIT, TOPIC Edward Carr of the University of California will be the speaker at the meeting of the Sciot Luncheon Club at 1906 Broadway, Tuesday noon. "Keeping.

Mentally Fit" will be his subject. WHERE STORM PUT OUT SUN DENVER, March have arrived in the Rocky Mountain sands of tons of dust from Eastern lands were in this dust cloud that Denver. Visibility was near zero, SAN LEANDRO BUS WAR SAN LEANDRO, March officials of this community and Hayward will appear before the State Railroad Commission Monday afternoon to add their support to fight against the issuance of a temporary restraining order against busses now operating place of street cars between San Leandro and Hayward, and Oakland. Denied on the Commission rehearing, the East Bay Street Railways permission to substitute -busses for street-cars, the Peerless Stage Company has indicated that it will carry its plea to the Supreme Court, and has asked 'that the Commission restrain the street railway concern from further operation of the bus service until the matter is settled. The protest is based on a claim that the stage company pioneered in the field and that the territory served does not warrant operation of two bus lines.

Representatives of the railway company contend that no, injunction should issue, and that in view of the Commission order the company should be permitted to start removal of car tracks between the Hayward terminus and Begier Avenue in San Leandro. Proposed improvement of East Fourteenth Street and Castro Street, its extension in Hayward pends on removal of the rails, "has the State Highway Department issued a call for bids to be opened on April 3. City officials are anxious to the controversy settled as quickly as possible, so as to secure pavement work, now considered a vital necessity. Quentin Felon Sues for Liberty SAN FRANCISCO, March Anthony Durand doesn't think San Quentin is the proper place for a person convicted on a simple drunk charge to spend his time, especially after he has already served 180 days in the Los County Jail. through Attorney Gladys Towles Root, of Los Angeles, he today petitioned the District Court of Appeals for a writ of habeas corpus to effect his During the time he was serving his county jail sentence as a trusty in the employ of the Los Angeles County fire warden, Durand escaped from custody and was free for seven days.

After his re-arrest on April 30, last year, he served out his 180- day sentence and was freed only to be re-arrested on a charge of escaping from custody, He pleaded guilty to this charge and got the San Quentin sentence, for an indeterminate period. But, his attorneys says, the escape charge on which he got the penitentiary sentence was based applies only to felony convicts, while he was convicted of a misdemeanor, intoxication. Summer Session Courses Announced BERKELEY, March 16. Official bulleting detailing a wide variety courses in University of California Summer sessions are now ready for distribution, according to announcement of Dean R. G.

Gettell, Intersession will open May 13, immediately after close of regular session and will conclude June 21, while Summer session is scheduled from June 24. to August 2. Dean Gettell announces that the intersession program is made up of 23 departments, offering 93 courses. Bulletins giving information concerning dates, admission requirements, fees, courses, and instructors may be obtained from dean Summer sessions, 102 California Hall, Berkeley. Charged with violating the State liquor control' act by selling liquor without a State permit, three Pleasanton men were jailed here last night by Chief J.

J. De Lusio. The ten, Angelo Valaino, Alonzo Irwin and Louis Sachetto, were released on $100 bail each to await trial today before Justice of the Peace Charles M. Gale here, THREE FACE LIQUOR CHARGE PLEASANTON, March 2 CANDIDATES QUIT RACE FOR CITY GOUNGIL Will Be Eastbay Delegates On Sacramento Program SACRAMENTO, March trict Attorney Earl Warren of Alameda County, August Vollmer and Dr. David P.

Barrows of the University of California, will be the Eastbay representatives on the speaking program of the anti-crime conference called by Governor Frank F. Merriam. The conference. to last two days, will on Wednesday in the Sacramento Municipal Auditorium. Governors of 11 Western States have been invited to attend or to send their representatives.

Governor Merriam today issued statement in which he said success of the conference, on the basis of acceptances of invitations extended by him, was National and State criminal authorities, the Governor said, have promised to be on hand to give the conference the benefit of their experience and advice. GOVERNOR'S STATEMENT The Governor's statement said in partiepresentatives of the United States Government, coming here at the request of Attorney General Cummings and of J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Division of Investigation of the Department of Justice, and of Catherine Lenroot, director Industrial Division, Federal Children's Bureau, as well as, State, County and municipal peace officers, will address the conference. "Every aspect of our great and increasingly grave criminal problem will be discussed. "It is hoped that a direct consequence of this two-day meeting, improved criminal laws will be adopted by States and that the entire machinery of law-enforcement will be strengthened.

"Particularly, it is anticipated that more effective cooperation will be developed between the States in the matter of apprehending and holding fugitive criminals, who enjoy great advantages through. the loopholes and delays ocsasioned by our present contradictory and conflicting State criminal laws. 11 GOVERNORS INVITED "The Governors of eleven Western States have been invited tend the conference and to have their State representatives present. Replies from the Governors are expected within- the next two or three days. "The attendance of every peace officer able to be present is earnestly desired, and 8 general invitation to attend is extended to district attorneys, sheriffs, police chiefs and others interested in crime prevention in California and other Western States.

All the meetings of the conference will be held in the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium and will be open to the public. "Among those already assigned places on the conference program are: "Hon. Justin Miller, chairman of the United States Attorney General's Committee on Crime, Washington; Hon. Joseph E. Keenan, assistant director, Bureau of Investigation Department of Justice, Washington; Beatrice McConnell, director, Industrial Division, Federal Children's Bureau, Washington; Hon.

Earl Warren, district attorney, Alameda County; Hon. August Vollmer, University of California; Chief of Police James E. Davis, Los Angeles; Chief of Police William J. Quinn, San Francisco; Sheriff Eugene W. Biscaliuz, Los Angeles; Hon.

U. S. Webb, State attorney general. Hon. David P.

Barrows of the State University, Hon. James A. Johnston, warden of the Federal Prison at Alcatraz, 'and Hon. John Francis Neylan have been. requested to speak at the conference.

COOPERATION PRAISED "The very generous cooperation of the Federal Government authorities, and the readiness of State, county and municipal officials to contribute to a full and practical discussion of the problem created by the modern criminal and his activities should enable us to make much greater extent, headway been in a what, losing to battle against organized crime. "I very much hope that result of this conference immediate and specific recommendations will be drafted looking to the adoption by the States of model codes of criminal procedure and to a more effective coordination of effort between the Federal Government and States, between the States themselves, and between the peace officers the States and their political concerning any phase conference may be obtained by addressing the Governor's office in Sacramento." Santa Cruz Renews Breakwater Request SANTA CRUZ, March an adverse report has been made on the Santa Cruz breakwater project by the engineers investigating Congress, board the Army Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce will appeal the matter. Louis Beverino, head of the chamber's breakwater. informed that report to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors in the Lower House by Army Engineers following a public hearing here seven months ago, said the project on which residents of this community have worked since 1863 would not be dropped. Army engineers found "that the benefits expected to result from construction of a breakwater at Santa Cruz would be almost entirely local in character and it recommends that no work of improvement be undertaken, by the United States at the present time." Clyde O.

Jackson and Ered Anderson Withdraw; List In Whole Field Now 55 this short term. OFFICIAL LINE-UP The list of 57 candidates for City Councilman or School Director at the April 16 election was reduced to 55 yesterday by the withdrawal of two candidates who had previously filed declarations or petitions of candidacy, yesterday being the last day permitted by law for withdrawals. The 55 remaining candidates must go through with it now, according to the City Clerk. They cannot withdraw now. The withdrawals, were made by 1437 Ninetieth Avenue, candidate for Councilman from District 7, and Fred Anderson, 5344 Lawton Avenue, candidate for Councilman-at-Large.

Withdrawal of the former leaves only five candidates opposing the incumbent. Alex Arlett, and withdrawal of Anderson leaves 14 to oppose the incumbent, Dr. John L. Slavich. LOTS OF CANDIDATES There are so many candidates for City Councilman that political observers at the City Hall say they doubt if any candidate, incumbent or otherwise, will win at the primaries.

It is believed that there will be runoffs for these positions at the May 7 elections. Meanwhile, various tickets and combinations of candidates have admittedly been organizing, and campaigns have started all over the city. Each of the incumbents, Herbert L. Beach, Dr. John L.

Gresham, Alex Arlett, Dr. Thomas Fitzsimmons and Dr. John F. Slavich, is scheduled to open up a campaign this week. Dr.

Fitzsimmons, appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Councilman George Fitzgerald, was appointed "until the next election" and must also run for a short term between the April 16 and May 7 elections, having one opponent for and big winds drivers turned region. Thou- little good for Colorado farm dust. descended on -A. P. Pr and automobile With on their headlights, but these did those whose eyes were filled with Wirephoto, Today's Pictures Today's News.

Boy, 7, Found Suffocated In Kansas Storm HAYS, March body of Hile Salmon, 7, suffocated by the dust storm described as the worst in Western Kansas history, was found late today by a searching party 200. The child, son of Mrs. Pearl Salmon, was found near Winona, a quarter of a mile from his home. He had wandered from home last night shortly after a gale started swirling billows of dust over the countryside. Apparently blinded, he had fallen and his body was partially with the powdery topsoil.

Death resulted from suffocation. A rescue party of 200 persons from Oakley, Winona and Russell Springs had searched throughout the day for the missing boy. They had many square miles before the body. covered, Another Winona child, a nineyear-old son of Ava Couch, who" was lost in last night's storm, was found today. He was not hurt.

The dust storm in this area was abating tonight. Mercury Tumbles 50 to 60 Degrees KANSAS CITY, March (U.P) -A brisk north wind caused temperatures, over the Middle to plummet from 50 to 60 degrees below yesterday's maximums, The sudden shift in wind current which smothered a 'six-State region under a pall of dust yesterday, today brought. snow to sections of Nebraska Kansas and heavy rains elsewhere. The wind, shift line extended from Green Bay, south and east. A northerly wind blew from Eastern South Dakota across Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Northern Texas.

Rising temperatures were pected tomorrow, with the brief cold wave moving rapidly eastward. Winds of gale force caused considerable damage in the upper Arkansas River Valley. of Colorado, Southern Nebraska, Western and Southern Kansas. The dust storm area extended over those regions, and Missouri, Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. Winter wheat was menaced.

Snow fell in Nebraska from the Missouri River west to North Platte, with temperatures in the 30-degree vicinity. Concordia, and Sioux City, also reported High Lights of Kansas Dust. Storm GARDEN CITY, March. 16. -Here are a few of the things that happened today during a dust storm.

The wind blew so hard that it knocked the tops off of sealed milk cans in a truck. The police and sheriff officers were deluged with calls from frantic parents asking aid in locating their missing children. So thick was the dust that James Seymour, a truck gardener, was lost in his ten acre patch eight hours. Frank Anderson, a farmer, was marooned and was almost smothby the time rescuers found him. Dust, a foot deep, was shoveled off sidewalks like snow in the Winter.

All air and bus travel was suspended. Hundreds of motorists were forced into ditches, their vision obscured and the wind of sufficient strength to blow the cars off the road. Wheat fields 'appeared to have been stripped bare of all plants. Business Block Is Torn Down by Gale FLORENCE, March (U.P) -Damage from the swirling dust storm, the worst blow in this region for 50 years, which Friday swept the drought-stricken upper Arkansas Valley, had exceeded $112,000 today with reports from outlying farms and mines still coming in. Center of the storm's lashing fury was Westcliffe, 45 miles southwest of here.

One whole business block was blown down, a theater unroofed, chimneys torn from residences, windows broken all over town and outlying barns all but demolished. The storm, cold blizzard in Wyoming, became a sand-laden sirocco as it swept southeastward into Colorado, then swirled through parts of Texas and curved upward into Kansas. It scattered haystacks, tumbled silos and windmills into farm yards and blew over buildings in the Arkansas Valley. In the oil field nine rigs were destroyed and pumping equipment damaged. Thirty thousand dollars was the damage estimated.

Two homes of oil workers collapsed about their occupants. The workers escaped injury but were found by neighbors wandering lost on the dust-saturated prairies. Ten miles south of here, in the village of Wetmore, business buildings and homes were damaged to the extent of $15,000. Throughout the entire length of the valley the sand-laden winds whipped the paint from automobiles which crept along in of the day with their headlights on. Northern Texas Swept by Storm DALLAS, March The worst dust storm of the year swept North Texas today.

Carried by a 30-mile-an-Hour wind, the storm struck Fort Worth at 11 a. and 30 minutes later descended upon Dallas. Visibility was impaired. Airplane traffic was at a standstill. Automobile driving was a hazardous undertaking.

Weather bureau reports indicated the -storm extended from Big Spring, in West Texas, to Dallas and was moving eastward rapidly. Bureau of Mines Change Opposed PLACERVILLE, March 16. President Lloyd A. Raffetto of the El Dorado County Chamber of Commerce has issued an invitation to Senator Andrew L. Pierovich, author of the bill to remove the Bureau of Mines from the State Department of Natural Resources, and all other interested in the proposal to attend the meeting of the chamber here Monday night.

The session is be devoted solely to discussion of the proposal, with opponents and proponents both given an opportunity to present their views, and upon the outcome will depend the chamber's action in supporting or opposing the measure, now pending before the legislature. Pierovich has indicated he either be present personally or will have a representative, here. Metal and of California, leading the opposition to the measue, is expected to have a representative on hand to oppose the measure. Woman's Fire Death Held to Be Suicide HAYWARD, March 16. Mrs.

Lucretia Chenoweth, 49, whose charred body was found in the garage of her Castro Valley home last March 7, died of burns received accidentally, a coroner's jury decided here today. The jurors, sitting before Coroner Grant D. Miller, returned the verdict after only a few minutes' deliberation. Deputy Sheriff James Ritchie testified he believed the woman had committed suicide. The dead woman's husband, Fred Chenoweth, and other witnesses testified they believed the woman had been burned to death accidentally when gasoline caught fire.

She was found by her daughter, led to the garage by the family's pet dog. SAN LEANDRO, March "Through the Andes With a Pack Burro" will be the topic of a talk to be given at a luncheon meeting of the San Leandro Kiwanis Club Tuesday, by Judson Boynton of anthropology department of the University of California, according to. William Lucio, president. The program has been arranged under the direction of Roland Esteves, who will preside, and special musical entertainment will be presented by David McAdam, former -San Leandro High School student. 'Through Andes With Burro' to Be, Topic The official line-up of candidates on the April 16 ballot, as corrected after the two withdrawels, will be: Councilman, District 1-Herbert L.

Beach, Arthur, A. Macy, E. L. Ormsby, Welboan. Councilman, District 2 Dr.

Thomas Fitzsimmons, James F. Galliano, Frank Hilken, Al Marshall, E. R. Noldin, Leon Vannier, W. H.

Vailes. Councilman, District 3 (unexpired term--Dr. Thomas Fitzsimmons, James F. Galliano. Councilman, District 5 -Thomas R.

Farrell, Dr. John L. Gresham, W. F. Kennon, Frank B.

Shattuck, Joseph N. Steinen, P. J. Tutts, E. W.

Woodard. District 7 -Alexunder, B. Bethel, 'Arlett, Thomas Henry E. Gilmore, Becker, Edward W. Lee, Richard W.

Tutt. Councilman-at-Large Ralph D. Emery, Gillham, Frances H. Gonsalves, Sam B. Goodman, George T.

Loher Jr. Kenneth Morle, Dr. J. H. Morris, William Morrison, X.

Newman, Fred E. Reed, Samuel A. Reeve, Herbert Schultz, Dr. John F. Slavich, Robert Trimlett, Edward Kremheller.

School Director No. 1-J. M. Kinucan, Nannie Kramer, Meyer Leson, W. W.

Patty. School Director No. 2-Carl E. Bartlett, Hilma C. Bjork, W.

H. C. Hatteroth, Franklin N. Kornhaus. School Director No.

3- Robert Hunt, Charles W. Snook, C. Stirrat, Virginia Weber. School Director No. 4-A.

A M. Dinsmore, John W. Hughes. Rites Planned for Pioneer Teacher Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Miss Mary Merrill Burnham, pioneer Oakland restdent and teacher, who died at her 1633 Linden Street, Wednesday. Miss Burnham, a native of Massachusetts, came to' Oakland 42 years ago and for 35 years was head of the primary department of Miss Norton's School.

Services will be held in the Albert Brown Chapel at 2 p. m. Interment will be in Cambridge, Mass. She is survived by a sister, Miss Susan P. Burnham of New York City; a brother, Addison Center Burnham of Boston, and two cousins, Mrs.

Arthur F. Friend of Crockett, and Miss Charlotte F. Center of Oakland, with whom she made her Church of Little Flower Plans Cards annual St. Patrick's card party given for the friends of the Little Flower Church will be held on Tuesday, March 19, at the Elks Club. Arrangements for the affair are being made by a parish committee under the honorary chairmanship of Rev.

D. J. O'Kelly. Bridge and whist will be played. The following comprise the general committee in charge: Mesdames M.

J. McCormick, C. F. Breiling, R. D.

Garibotto, J. F. Bishell," E. V. Carbone, P.

J. Scanlon, J. F. Chambers, W. H.

Manning, L. Guinasso, Sexton, A. Trotter, A. McAllister, J. Dooher, J.

Hughes, L. C. Fuller, J. Mulholland, C. Ellacott, Donahue, Mrs.

H. Norris. I. Craig, O'Mara, H. O'Keane, Klein, J.

O'Connor, and F. Otto, A. to Plan for Parties of Future LEANDRO, March 16. Awards to be made at future parties of the Roosevelt will, be prepared at meeting of the home department of the group Tuesday afternoon, at the home Mrs. Ellen Hamilton at 981 Dowlini Boulevard.

Plans for a benefit food sale be conducted on March 23 will be formulated at an executive meeting following the regular monthly "luncheon for mothers and pupils or Thursday. The sale has been art ranged to raise funds for. purchase of a new stage, curtain for the auditorium..