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13., 'Hi STATE FIRE LOSS SHOWS SHELL CHIEF'S VISIT REVEALED TMAMOND LOST I News of San Joaquin Valley I He Mm Co. RAIDERS SPIKE DEADLY BOMBS PAR.I5 SENT THE ORiGiNAL PORTS' FROCI il May Company Reproductions Truly Authentic But What a Difference in the Price! AT BALL GAME Not Playing Field, but Gem. and Woman Gets it Back by Purest Chance CHICAGO. Oct 9. (JP A costly diamond brooch fell unnoticed from uie cress Mrs.

Stanley Field as she Jos-lied' her way through the crowd at the gate of Wrigley Field to attend yesterday's world series ball game. Mrs. Field discovered her loss later after entering her box, and told a companion. A woman in the next box overheard nd asked Mrs. Field what kind of a brooch it was.

Mrs. Field described it and the woman handed her the brooch. Out of 50.000 persons in the park the brooch had been picked up by one of the few persons within earshot ol Mrs. Field's voice. of E.

Roland Harrlman in Idaho, and is expected to reach PortlSvid tomorrow. From Portland, he plans to motor to San Francisco. The Shell-Dutch group of companies is the largest in the world under single control. GET FREE HAIR CUTS CAHUENGA PARK, Oct. 9.

More than 200 boys of the McKinley Industrial Home yesterday were given free hair cuts by San Fernando Valley barbers, headed by Johnnie Neal of Van Nuys. Sixteen barbers were in the party. LARGE DROP Decrease of Million in 1929 Most Spectacular in Division's History SACRAMENTO. Oct. 9.

m- Characterized as the most spectacu lar showing for fire control In the history of the division of forestry, the. 1929 fire season losses show a decrease of mnr than tl.000.000 from the totals of 1928 In the State of California. Deputy Forester William D. Rider attributed this remarkable record to the factors of a new control policy Involving the use or a greater num ber of trained wardens and super visors and more adequate fire-fight The greatest variation was in the grain and hay losses, with 1397 acres burned this season with a loss of $38,561, as compared to 22,756 acres and $740,633 in 1928. Timber losses were less than 25 per cent of those in 1928; range loss.

50 per cent, and improvements destroyed. 60 per ceni. The total losses this season amounted to $590,706, as compared to $1,773,000 in 1928. WATER CASE CONTINUED ttotiray. Oct.

9. Continuance of contempt proceedings against the Wutchumna Water Company tentatively set to open yesterday has been set Tuesday. The case was opened before Superior Judge J. L. Strother of Fresno, sit- September, but was not completed due to Judge Strother's inability to leave the Fresno courts longer at that time.

LLAMANDO TOPCOATS i "MEN ONLY" ON WOMAN'S JURY CASE None of Her Sex to Hear Action Brought by Mary Davcson Against School VISA1IA. Oct. 9. A Jury composed entirely of men will decide the $150,000 damage action brought against the Tulare Union High School District by Mary Dawson, former Tulare High School student, who asserts that her ankle, hurt In May, 1925, when a piano at the school fell, will permanently be one and one-half times normal size for the rest of her life. C.

J. Brainerd, principal of the school, was the first witness called by the plaintiff and his argumentative answers to questions concerning the extent of his authority and control over other teachers in the school, caused several clashes between attorneys. Leroy McCormick, Deputy Leslie A. Cleary, and Attorney H. B.

McClure are handling the case for Tulare county and the school district. The trial is being held before Superior Judge J. A. Allen and is expected to take several days. In a previous hearing.

Judge Allen granted nonsuit, the original action being against the school district, the principal, a teacher, and the board of trustees. On appeal to the Su preme court, Judge Allen ruling was reversed as to the school district and sustained as to the other defendants. Negro Woman's Murder Trial to be Delayed VIS ALIA, Oct. 9. Mrs.

Amanda Humphrey, 40-year-old colored school teacher of the Allensworth district, charged with the murder of Marvin Eaves, 9 years of age, on August 16, will not go to trial In Superior Court here next Monday, as previously announced, it was stated today. James M. Burke, attorney for the defensp. will nnt ho in trram tho earlv Dart of next weelc and THst. Atty.

McCormick. due to the pressure of other trials, has not prepared his case. Drs. Fred CVmzplmnn nf Rtnnlrtnn F. H.

Williams of Los Angeles and S. S. Ginsburg of this citv. appointed by the court to examine the woman as to her sanity after she pieaaea not guilty ana not guilty by reason of insanity at the preliminary hearinir. hnvo nnt fllo1 tj report.

Negro's Death at Poker Game Held Accident BAKERSFIELD, Oct. 9. Sur prising officials who heard the tes timony, a Coroner's jury today namea wmie weexs, negro, as the slayer of Ike Rodd. nee farm hand, following an asserted riotous poser game at tne weeKs home in the Weed Patch district, hut declared the killing accidental. The inquest was held at Payne Son mortuary.

Dist-Atty. Ray Bailey late today had not indicated any further action against Weeks but Sheriff Cas Walser continued to hold the negro in the pounty Jail. Bostwick Gets Court Clerkship FRESNO, Oct. 9. Roy M.

Bost wick, local real estate and insurance man, has been temporarily appoint ed deputy clerk of the Fourth District Court of Appeal, it was announced here today by Justice C. R. Barnard. Bostwick and E. W.

Eiland. clerk of the Superior Court here and former clerk for Barnard as Superior Judge, were among approximately 200 applicants who took the State civil service examination for the clerkship. The appointment of Bostwick was made pending the selection of a permanent appointeee by the Civil Service Commission, Judge Barnard said. MARVELOUS SCENERY IN BRYCE CANYON VISALIA, Oct. 9.

Bryce Canyon National Park and the Southern Utah country, which may now be reached in less than twenty-four hours' driving from this city, con tains some of the world's most color ful scenery. Col. John R. White. Superintendent of Sequoia and Gen.

Grant National Parks, told members of the local Klwanis Club. Bryce Canyon may be reached over the new Mt. Carmel Road not yet officially oDened to public travel, but soon to be, Col. White said. The view looking down irom a high cliff into the canyon is the most remark able sight available to man, White declared.

Viscount Bearsted Reported Traveling Incognito A'otc in West and Expected in Portland Today Conferences With American Oil Officials Likely NEW YORK, Oct. 9. Viscount Bearsted, chairman ol the Shell Trading and Transport Company and a director of the Shell Union Corporation, arrived in this country incognito on September 27, last, and now is in the West, the Associated Press learned tonight. He is accompanied by Lady Bearsted. This is his second visit to the United States, the first trip of short duration being made about seven years ago.

Inspection of the Shell Union propeiUes in California and Texas is the primary purpose of Viscount Bearsted's visit, but it is believed that while in this country he will take the opportunity of conferring with American oil executives on the general problem of oil curtailment and two watch the operation of the California plan. The Shell Union interests rectntly have entered on an arsrressive penetration' of the retail field, particularly in the East. Viscount Bzarsted arrived on the Aquitania but his name was omitted from thepass3nger list and only a few intimate friends in New Yorlc, Including Walter C. Teagle, president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, knew of his arrival. He left New York about a week ago to spend a few days on the rancb I.

nil i 1 il f. A Sj.v i) i '-'i I i AN EXCEPTIONAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE REFINEMENT OF APPAREL FOR GENTLEMEN OF SOUTHERN A LI FO I A AID LOOMS FOR WATER PROJECT State-icide Plan Interests Federal Government Meek Outlines Hopes During JSpeech at Lindsay Clear Predicts Red Ink in Settlement Venture LINDSAY, Oct, 9. Federal aid In financing the State-wide water plan is practically assured, B. B. Meek, director of the State Department of Public Works, told several hundred guests gathered at the annual banquet and meeting of the local Chamber of Commerce last night In the arboretum.

According to Meek, all the land possible tn the State should be brought under cultivation, main taining that future markets wili call for the Irrigation of lands now with out water, and that California should develop these arid lands. All interests which will supposed ly benefit by the new plan should pay their part of the cost, he said, and the Federal government, the State and Industrial interests, as well as agricultural communities, should aid in financing the plan. Referring to the much-discussed "power end" of the project, Meek urged that the power companies should be consulted as to the various units where power would be developed and sold, so that the power market would, not be flooded with a larger amount than could be sold. During the next eighteen months. It was stated, nearly $500,000 will be spent through the Department of Public Works in further investigations of the water resources of California.

Charles Clear, former Assembly man from this district and now head of the land settlement divi sion of the State government, spoke Dneny concerning nis worK winding up the land settlement business of California, predicting that even with the best of luck the State must take a large loss from its venture In the land settlements at Durham and Delhi. Election of chamber directors re sulted in naming V. R. Smith, A. T.

Clement, E. H. Cooklngham, Stary Gange and Ford Chatters. H. V.

Busby, president of the chamber, presided. Baker field in Move to Secure New Guard Unit BAKERSFIELD, Oct. 9. Belief that a unit of the National Guard will be established In Bakersfleld shortly after-the first of the year was expressed here this morning by a number of Bakeufleld former service men who have inaugurated a movement to Institute in this city a company of civilian soldiers. Active in the move to organize a unit of the National Guard here are Roland Curran, local postmaster and State and local commander of the Disabled American Teterans; Thomas McManus, organizer and first commander of the Frank 8.

Reynolds Post. American Lesion; Rev. William E. Patrick, chaplain of the local Legion post; John Watts Post, historian; A. W.

Kincaid.past second vice-commander and adju tant of the local post; James Ryan, Dr. C. Marslli and Maj. Charles K. Badger.

Probation on Thefts Denied FRESNO. Oct. 9. Accused of numerous petty thefts and four charges of burglary in various parts of Fresno county, Jake Colvin and James Napier were sentenced to the State penitentiary today after they had failed in a vigorous effort to obtain probation. They pleaded guilty to charges of burglarizing the home of A.

T. Julius at Monmouth and the store of G. W. Phebus at Clovis. They were also facing two additional charges of burglary and pieaaea guilty to six charges of theft.

In denying the plea of their at torney that the case be referred to the probation-' omcer, juage Beaumont said the probation law was not made for such cases. Costly Fire in New Oil Town AVENAL, Oct. 9. Fire, believed to have had Its origin in defective electric wiring, destroyed Ruth's Cafe and an adjoining ice-storage building in this new oil town In the Ketttenian Hills Tuesday. The loss was between $2000 and $3000, with no insurance.

Both buildings will be rebuilt at once. The cafe was owned by Earl Sortie and the ice storage by the Hanford Ice Company. HANFORD BASE OF NEW AIR MAIL ROUTE HANFORD, Oct. 9. This city Is to be a point of rlgin for air mail on a route which is to be run to the Kettleman oil fields, it was announced today by Postmaster George A.

Weissar, who received a bulletin this morning from the Postofflce Department, the air-mail route will start the 21st inst, at 7:30 a.m., replacing the Star route which now serves the territory. It will go via Armona. Lemore, Stratford, Kettleman City, Avenal end Reefe, to the J. E. Orchard ranch in Sunflower Valley, a distance of sixty-eight miles on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and on the alternate days it will travel by way of Hanford.

through Armona, Lemore. Stratford and Kettleman City to the Orchard ranch and return by way of Avenal through Kettleman City. Murray, feirauora, iemor and Aimona, Kern Squad Finds Death Trap at Still Absence of Owners Given Credit for Escape Throwing of Switch Blows Plant to Fragments BAKERSFIELD, Oct. 9. Three deputy sheriffs are alive today because moonshiners on the desert were away from a huge booze manufacturing plant in Jawbone Canyon when they called.

The plant was equipped with three powerful bombs, electrically wired with a control station in the ranch house 400 yards away. The plant was pronounced one of the most fiendish death traps ever "devised for the reception of officers. The officers who raided the place and returned here today are Vance Brite, A. Kanawyer and Al Welch. After investigating the plant, which was estimated at 300-gallon capacity and equipped with the usual vats and heating apparatus, the three officers walked to the look-out station in the ranch-house and closed the electrical switch.

There was a shattering -explosion and a portion of the hillside in which the still had been concealed was blown Into the air. Though the officers were several hundred yards from the plant they felt the ground shake under their feet and fragments of metal fell around them. The housing of an electric generator was hurled more than 200 yards with terrific velocity, striking in the vicinity of the deputies. Scraps of metal were picked up and brought back here by the officers. The still equipment was concealed in a dugout in a hillside and camouflaged by a covering of dirt and juniper bushes so as to conceal it from any but the most careful inspection.

The whole outfit was demolished by the explosion. The officers said that any person within 100- yards of the dugout would have been killed or badly injured by the explosion, while a person in or near the dugout would have been instantly killed. The officers said the ranch Is known as the old Evans dace and is about eighty miles from this city in a lonely and isolated district that 13 seldom visited. South Dakota Maid Treks to Bakersfield BAKERSFIELD, Oct. 9.

At an age when most girls once were Just losing Interest in mud pies and dolls, Bernice Wilcosen, 15-year-old Kern County Union High School freshman, has achieved a 2500-mile hitch-hiking trip across the continent by herself. Bernice, whose home Is in Rapid City, S. arrived here this week after more than six weeks en route. She is at the home of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

W. C. Howe, 3630 street. Miss Wilcosen, who will be 16 in February, packed her tiny traveling bag at her home in South Dakota on August 17, said good-by to her parents and, with the same spirit that possessed hardy pioneers of the old west, set forth upon her hike to the coast. Asked why she chose such an unconventional method of making her way to California the girl said: "Oh, I wanted to visit my grandparents and go to school in Bakers-aeld." Flapper Bandit Gets Ten Years BAKERSFIELD, Oct.

9. Eleanor Walling, Kern fcounty flapper bank bandit, who went to prison in 1924, has been sentenced to serve ten years at San Quentin, her term hav ing Just been set, according td i-fcrmatlon received here today by County Clerk F. E. Smith. Pretty, bobbed-haired, a violinist and former vaudeville performer, Eleanor participated in one of the most spectacular bank- robberies ever effected in this county.

With male confederates she assisted in holding up the State Bank of Taft escaping with a large sum of money. She was caught and pleaded guilty. LEGION OFFICERS GET SEATS TONIGHT BAKERSFIELD, Oct. 9. The annual Installation banquet of Frank S.

Reynolds Post, American Legion, in Legion Hall tomorrow evening promises to eclipse any similar event in the post's history, Capt. Leslie S. Robinson, retiring commander, declared today. The banquet and subsequent ceremony will mark installation of Fred R. Dukes as commander.

The new commander is sergeant-at-arms of the California Legion Department and is associated with a local oil company. night discussed the rumored pro' test but took no official cognizance of the rumors. It was stated in official circles at the City Hall that it is believed an aviator-superin tendent, through close contact with fellow-airmen, would be tempted to show partiality and thereby; cause dissension, it is the official contention that the chief requisite for the position la administrative ability A Llamando is a fabric which is South America's gift to the apparel needs of the gentleman who shows the greatest discern ment in his apparel selections. It is woven entirely of Llama hair in natural colors, excepting blue and black, and possesses warmth without weight, and comfort without sacrifice of style CUSTOMIZED BY HICK FRE EM AN LELONG Blue Boy is the name ot tne original a masterpiece. Replicas every bit as chio with tweed jacket, paneled 1 and flared skirt and the elev i crest tuck-in blouse of angora.

Replica, $69.50. CHANEL Simply everything that's new from the material JERSEY TWEED (going like wildfire in Paris) to the demure collar and cuffs of white pique. Note the princess line. Replica, $39.50. SHOP Third Floor) MOLYNEUX It's the acme of porti smartness I Two-piece with knitted top, the rest of jersey.

Among its very new features the flared skirt, notched collar, leather buttons. Replica, $49.50. R.EONY AH young Paris goes to Jane Regnyl Could anything be younger than this three-piece ensemble of jersey tweed, the blouse with a square neckline and so very different. Replica, $49.50. (SrORTS ATPAIiEL APPOINTMENT RAISES ROW A viators Plan Protest on Nonflying Director for Fresno's New Municipal Field i FRESNO, Oct.

9. Appointment of George T. Johnson, former union labor official and secretary to former Mayor Toomey, as superintendent of the new municipal airport, Chandler Field, will be protested by a group of local aviators, it was announced today. The aviators will base their pro- The Civil Service Board last Mullen LUETT In Los Angeles Hollywocxl In Pasadena Broadway at Sixth HollvA'ood B'vd at Vine Colorado near Madison test to the City Commission on the grounds that Johnson is not an aviator and that, to properly serve the city and the flyers, the superintendent of the airport should be well versed hi the art of airplane operation. Johnson was appointed after; a civil service examination in which he beat Lee Bishop, war-time aviator, by a small margin..