Modesto News-Herald from Modesto, California • Page 2

a MODESTO TOWS-HSBALD-MAT 31, 1927 MODESTO BAND NEAR VICTORY IN BLUFFS CONTEST Lack Of Instruments Causes Local Players To Lose First Position Mancini'B Proteges Given First by Popular Sentiment; Organization Will Return Via Tidewater Wednea COUNCIL BLUFFS, Msj; bt the judges' score sheets f611owing the national high school band concert here discloses i that the Modesto, band, which placed third, would have won first place had it not lacked instruments. Tin Modetto band hll most score of all in tire of tlx points scored. It won in interpretation, Intonation, tonal And harmonic balance, tone Duality ana precision, ratlnf these dtvlBlons, but had oeen Burked down 10 far In in 'that It placed third when the final average was taken. Popular sentiment gate the Mo- dttto band flret place. The ap- platug following the performance this band was' a remarkable demonstration.

The judges themselves expressed their amazement at the performance. Hard figures told-in the-end, however, and the lack of sufficient hutrunwnts of ctrtain daises too great a handicap be overcome by excellence in performance. The bands that woo. first and lecond, Jojlet and Council Bluffs, had taken part in the national con test before and had been enabled to prepare themselvei with the more costly instruments' which the Modesto band lacked. Juliet's band was the wlaiw, ol the contest last year.

Ae tribute to Frank Mancinl, director of the Modesto band, he was elected second rice president of the National School Band asso- 1 elation. The Modesto 'to the Council Bluffs contest well aware that it lacked certain instruments regarded as essential to make the band a well-balanced musical or- sanitation. The management relied, on "eicellenc'e of per formance to overcome thle handl-- cap. The deficiency existed despite the fact that $1300 had recently been expended to equip the with additional instruments. Many of the bands competing represented large cities.

The 1 population of Joliet is and thtt of Council Bluffs is 41,000 Interest here was intense Sat- 'i Telephone calls poured into the office constantly, anc about the. Associated Press telegraph operator waiting for news represented California jiuthe contest winning tho; riKh to do so at a state meeting hel( In San Francisco recently. The trip east, however, almost entirely by Mo desto. More than wa raised in a. whirlwind three-day drive that broke all precedent! financial campaigns'here.

Twenty-three bands competed it Council. Bluffs with 1,384. youth 'ful musicians taking part. Princeton, won the.honor In the.class division. Class A finalists finished ii this order.

Joliet first. Council sec Modesto, third; Nicholas Sonn, Chicago, fourth; Lbckport, N. fifth, and Quincy, Ills honorable mention. California wa also represented, by the Burlin high school hand. It wa "eliminated in the preliminary try The actual score the threi Readers, is still in doubt.

A query the Associated Press wire Drought the response that the score-was: Joliet, 270S; CouncI Bluffs, 2706; Modesto, 2625, bu the total number of 'points under the scoring sys tern announced in advance was .1200, the figures given are not nn derstood here. The special dis from Council Bluffs did noi lear up that matter. High School Band To Return at Six P. M. Wednesday high school band, champloni of California and winner! of third place In 'tile national contest, will return to MedMto via the Tidewater railroad, at 6 p.

tn. day, according to a telegram by the News-Herald from Howard F. chappsll. A turnout Is expected to welcome the band. The band stopped off In Denvir Sunday night and played at radio broadcasting station KOA.

The music was heard, by many Modestans who tuned In on Denver by chance. No opportunity had been given to Inform local people of the performance. Cruelty Charged In Divorces At Sonora SONORA, May interlocutory decree of divorce was In the divorce action brought by John Christian Bhend against Ms wife, Margaret Charlotte Bhend, formerly Margaret Barnwi, on tho pounds of extreme cruelty. Neither the' defendant nor her attorney appeared in court to answer to tha complaint. Bhend alleged that his wife would attend the public dances, and not return until early in the morning, and.

'leave their two children his care. An interlocutory decree of divorce was granted to Jose San from Esteila Santoyp on grounds of extreme cruelty. The couple were married in Tnblumne county, December. 5, L925, and were separated November 5, 1926.,, Strangles Wife To Death; Kills Self LOS ANGELES, May 30. (LP-Believing that he had permanently lost the affections of his wife, Pearl Evelyn Tatum, an actress, Lawrence S.

Mueller, 35, strangled ner to death and then committed suicide by hanging himself, according tc police reports today following discovery of the tragedy. The murder and Rtiinldn WHFR rifg. covered by a chambermaid in a downtown hotel. The actress was lying across the bed, her throat discolored and nearb r-as lound a blood-soaked towel. Mueller had hanged himself with a sheet Smithing Coal High Quality--Low Price Coal--Charcoal--Coke All Kinds ot Wood Pine Mill Blocks Big Load Delivered S5.0C BRAZIL--In Turlocfc, May 29, John R.

Brazil, husband of Mary Brazil Ceres; Mrs. Mary Joseph of Newcastla; Charles of Waterbury, Nellie Azavedo of petaluiha," and Edward L. of Gustine, brother of William," Joseph and Anthony Brazil, and Mrs. Julia 1 Lawrence, all of Massachusetts. A native of Azores; aged 59 years, 2 months, 1 day.

Friends are Invited to attend the funeral services Wednesday, June 1, at 9:30 m. from are Shannon Funeral chapel, 921 Twelfth street, Modesto, thence to St. Stanislaus church, Seventh and streets, where mass will said for the repose of his soul, commencing at 10 a. m. Interment St.

Stanislaus Rosary' services at the Shannon chapel Tuesday evening at o'clock. LOCEY--At her home near Delhi, May 29, Esteila Margaret Locey, wife of L. L. Locey, mother of Lester Locey of- Delhi, sister uf I. M.

Fesler of Santa Maria, A. Fesler of Modesto, L. D. Fesler Long Beach, L. E.

Fesler of Santa Maria, Mrs. D. E. West of Ava, Mo. Was a native of Santa Maria, aged 43 years.

A member of the Eastern Star of Santa Maria. Friends are invited to attend fun. eral services at the Masonic cemetery Tuesday at 10:30. Rev. R.

C. Cantrell officiating. Arrangements in charge of Soverns Funeral Home. GANT AGAINST WAR IN Possibility of Conflict Mus Be Eliminated, -Assembly- luau Deudfes OAKDALE, Maylo. we justly glorify memory of those who died in the war, we cannot glorify or even justify war itself," declared Assembly man Vernon P.

Gant at the memor lal services hem here Sunday. "If our modern civilization IB to bo perpetuated, If the'things tha 1 we love and enjoy are to be passed on to our children and our chil dreh's children, the possibility ol War must ba forever Gant said. "I am not one of those sentimentalists; I am not a pacifist; I am not a 'peace-at-any-price' man. But 1 am one of those who believe that so long as UIP nations of the-earth arm -ud prepare for. war, we should not in the rear; so long as the people of the earth insist upoii cutting each other's throats we should be reddy and willing to do our part of the cutting.

"Self-preservation Is the first law of nature, and this applies to nations as well as individuals. But none the less, we should at all times, by precept, and example, by education and by every means within our power work toward solution of the problem and the establishment of means whereby disputes between nations and peoples may be settled in an.orderly way on a basis of equity and right rather than by- force and might by this sword and the cannon'. purely a'resort, to the primitive forces of might and has no relation to justice or right Datp Set For Truck Freight Line Controversy SONOEA, railroad commission, of Call- 'orriia has. notified the parties concerned" that the hearing, for he application for. a certificate to operate a 'motor, truck freight'line Taolumne county-will be held the superior court room 1 of the court house on June- 28.

at 9 o'clock: Commission Examiner Gannon will preside at the the two "for certificates filed with th commission by. the.Sierra Railway company of ualiiornia, which wishes to riju from the. city of Stbcltton, San Joaquin county, to (lift city Sonera, and making with points, hp- and by R. B. O'Brien arid B.

Grant, of Stockton and Daftdale, who desire' to a freight line Oakdale, Stanslaus county, to Tuolurane, Tu- ohimne county. Property Changes Hands At Sonora SONORA, May 80-- (Special)-- 'acob Heimberg, of Tuolumne, las deeded to Carl Heimberg the east half of the southwest quar- er' of section 19, township 1 rangs 16 east, including ivestock and farming implements. Mr. and Mrs. Homer D.

and Mr. and Mrs. P. P. of Sonora, have deeded to ilr.

and Mrs. Wert D. Rial, a of land in sections 7 and i of township 2 north, range 16 ast, which contains about 160 acres of land. Mr. and Mrs.

M. i. VanSahdt, if Ontario. have deeded to Jr. and Mrs.

Ralph D. Sturte- the west half of the north- ast quarter and the east half of he northwest quarter of section 7, township 2 south, rang? 15 HORSLBY--At the home in Waterford, May 28, Orleac Holt Hors-' ley, mother of S. M. Sampson of Oakdale, Mrs. J.

B. McKenzie of Portland, Oregon, J. Horsier Waterford. Friends are invited to attend funeral services at Soverns Funera! Home Tuesday at 2:30. Rev.

H. S. Erewster officiating. Interment in the Masonic cemetery. together with all water ighis.

Dr. Percy K. Telford, of James- own, has deeded to Peter Barend- egt, also of Jamestown, lots 1, and i in block number 2 In Addition to the town of amestown. TO TAKE'TN'TERESTS LONDON, May way is to take over Gfeat Brit- In's diplomatic, interests in So- Russia following the break, tetween the London and Mos- ow governments, it was con- irmed in Downing street today. After Driving of "The Pace that Kitis" AYWARD THOMPSON, wizard ot thrilled bis mother, Mrs.

L. M. Thompson, tor the first time, when, he drove a British Sunbeam 119 miles per hour on the great Brookland oval, Brooklands, England, He Is here shown after the ordeal. The physical strain of the (eat is very ranch in evidence, in fact, Thompson was blind when this photo was made. --London Times Photo.

Dancing Classes To Give Program In Sonora-Theater Modestans To Witness Marvelous Auto Drive SONOEA May 80 (SKCM) The dancing classes of Miss Modecto and environs are due to witness the most unique and Helen Moore will give a dance awe 0 exhibition given in this community tomorrow at irecital- of classic dantes. Tuesday 12 30 noon Hay ward Thompson is the attraction and his Chrysler evening, in the Theater, 70" roadster is the media through tfhich he will. demonstrate and under, the-direction of their in- ihrough the congested areas of Modesto, alone and unaided, obey- all traffic laws to-the letter, while bis normal vision is totally obscured through tlio scientific application of a light-impervious blindfold! PUBLIC INSPECTION INVITED Three -hundred and fifty times layward Thompson has performed lis feat during tht )ast four years and ten months once has he failed and no once bas lie a traffic or scratched a. fender. Every arge city in America and Europe lias witnessed his entertainment Press and layman, and magicians pronounce Thompson's eat one that has to be witnessed be appreciated.

It will be for It" is free There is no collection to be up nor anything sold. Promptly at noon tomorrow Thompson will park his Chrysler front of the News-Herald build ng. From that time until 12:30 Thompson, personally will pass among the crowd asking all to examine the mask and its mode af application. Prior to the actual of blindfold oy some disinterested spectator Thompson will call upon a group of spectators 10 examine his Chrysler to affirm tliat it is no different from any Chrysler the show rooms of Haddue Weber, local distributors for ihrysler. At 12:30 sharp the lindEold will be applied and Thompson will be off to a flying over the route that is print- id elsevvhere on this page, OBSERVATION CARS FOLLOW Directly behind Thompson's ar will be a fleet of observation See MODESTANS, page 7, col.

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visionary centers brain through hyper sensative nerve ends ot the skin. Hayward. Thompson, today, ib not the same nervous Individual that appeared in a little ot ''blind" driving here In 1922. Today, this man is recognized the world as the greatest one man exhibitor appearing, in public. A man possessed of high men- and gifted with the most astounding ability Hayward Thomp- Modesto Man Lands Three Large Trout of Trio Weighs Nearly Sis Pomids; A.

R. ANDERSON, of desio, returned from Lions Dam with a Loch Laven'trout weighing 5 3-4 pounds, and. with two others weighing 2 1 2 2nd 1 3-4 nminrts. The fish were caught with worms. Anderson used a -four ounce rod, a twelve pound test line and a pound leader.

Fifteen minutes were required to land the largest trout. When finally landed, the fish had almost dislodged the hook, and only a shred of tissue prevented its escape. On cutting the trout open, Anderson found a five inch trout and a Five Generations At Family Reunion FRESNO, May 1928 reunion of the Blair-flloffatt family will be held at Cutler, 163 members cE here Sunday. was featured made the family decided This year's reunion by the reading by Jolm Blair North Carolina in 1777 and ths of Coy Goodwin, the oniy living member of the family who crossed the plains. There were five generations represented at the reunion.

TONIGHT AT THE BIG TENT 16th and Hear Rev. N. 0. Beskin, The Converted Jew SUBJECT: 'Who Is The Is Mussolini? "666" of Rev. 13 Will the Roman Empire' Be Revised? Tuesday "Camp Meeting in Heaven" Wednesday "Whore Are the Ten Lost Tribes?" Harry Black, Pastor I structor, Miss Moore.

The following 'program has. been Part (1) Polish Mazurka--Genevieve Nichplls, Phyliss Bourthis, Rowena Carter, Jean Smullen, "Midred O'Beirue and Donna Lant (2) Japanese Parasol--Florence Whitforfl, Yolanda Balbini, Ane Wilson and Dorothy -Longeway. Beggar--Mavis Durgan. Tripoli T.fapola--Constance Me-" 'Kibbon, Jasquelyn Bristol, poro- they Hoffman and Lois uyyaie ijove toug--uanm anu Mavis Durgan. Tambourine--Crops.

Intermission Part of 'Spring' (1) Sunshine--Donna Lant. (2) Mistress Jeaff Rtrardl. (3) Pass De Bouguet--Florence Whitford, Volinda Balbini tend Ane Wilson. (4) Dainty Miss--Rowena Carter. (5)' Sunset--Constance McKibbon.

(6) Lone Moon--Genevieve Mich- (7) Graces--Mildred O'Beirne, Phyliss Bonrthis, Dorothy Longe- Doris Lee Francis, and Jean Smullen. (5) Will of the Wisp--Jacquelyn Bristol. (9) Schubert's group, Tho music for the dancers will be by Nadine Colvin, piano; Glon Herzer, violin, and Carlin Durgan, drums. STILL SLEEPING FRESNO, May condition still critical according attendants, 22, today entered ner ninth week of sleep. Since April 4, when she was found in a gas-filled room, Mrs.

Drummond jas been in an unconscious condition. to county hospital Mrs. Clara Drunimoni TEACHER SAVES Principal of Sjctlon School Reftouei Boy SVoui Modesto Canal Paul ton gf Mri. A. Guihe, of eiion, wtt tiived from; prohibit drowning afternoon PX Principal Amoi E.

Clark of Eicalon High School. The boy swimming in the irrigation canal was caught in undertow of the apillway ntar Ertiltir Park. Whilt hit father-and mother, neither of whom could swim, atood on the bank, the boy atruagled hopelenly In the ten feet of water. He had gone Idown twice when Clark, attracted by the crlea of the; parents, saw hit-plight and plunged In withou removing his clothing. After a hard etruggle Clark, a strong swimmer, succeeded in getting the who was un- consclousi to' the bank, where he Clark, figured In a somewhat similar rescue.

Disabled Veteran Appoints Guardian SONORAj May Edmund Michel "has been ap--. pointed guardian of. the estate, of John Patrick O'Neil, at the the latter, who lias.no' relatives living In The estate of money' tank, an compen sation certificate and household goods, totally, valued at $1325. O'Neii is a veteran of -the World War, and by reason of'in- juries received while -a PC the American Expeditionary Forces In Belgium, is unable to manage or care for his property Former Ranger To Work At Pine Crest SONORA, May Adams, formerly. assistant ranger on the Stanislaus Forest, who has been in business for himself for several yearsi will: be in charge of the grounds and camps at Pine.

Crest-this summer. Ha-will handle ttie recreational features, show people the available lots, help out in the matter of cleaning lots, issue camp fire and and swimming permits, and take, care of the public camp grounds in. general. 6,185 Autos Enter CLEARING HOUSE Conferences Held By Committee and New Manager of drape Association SAN FRANCISCO, May --A series of conferences with tha California Grape Shippers Clearing House committe has been arranged by Donald D. Conn, managing director of the fornla Vineyardlsts assoclatin, to formulate working rules for the clearing House, it was announce! today by the California Develop, ment association.

Conn recently conferred with Governor C. C. Young relative to the production, distribution and marketing of California grapes. Tilden Contiues Tennis Victories ST. CLOUD, Prance, May T.

Tiloen, American his whirlwind pro. press through' the international hard court tennis championship tournament today, defeating the South African champion, Louis Raymond 5-7, 6-2, S-6, gave the American his first real test since the tournament. opened a week ago, taking the first set by strenuous play and again threatening In the third. In latter frame he led at- 5-3, and was within two points of taking the set before Tilden rallied to. carry it to deuce and eventually capture it at S-6.

Spain, Brazil Urged To Re-Join League BERLIN, May 30. (ff)--A resolution urging Spain and Brazil to reconsider their withdrawal frpm the League 01 Nations "aid reiicciinr the seats to which they are entitled," was adopted unanimously at the plenary meeting of the League of Nations Union yesterday. j. Sofia chosen.as'the seat for the October 1927 session and the Hague for the meeting in June 192S. COUPLE MARRIED SONORA, May marriage license was issued iu lori-Saturday to Czeslaw p.

Nevis, 42, a native of Poland, and a resident of' San Francisco, and Florence Gorman, 25, a native of California and also -a resident YOSEMITE, May 30. (IP --Breaking records, autoniobiles entered Yosemite National park Saturday and Sunday, park officials UUCeu today. I was estimated that 20,000 persons -were occupants, of the ars; serious acicdents were re Investigation of Fresno, Death Ends May investigation ot the sheriff's office here, which, was started with tbo discovery of. Thomas. Brady, 50, jlacksmith', in the San Joaquin river near Firebaugh, was virtually ended today with deputies ot the sheriff unahle to say whether the man was accidentally drowned or murdered.

INSECT BITES Don't scralcli-siop iht miseraHs stinging itch with a light touch of Resinol Little Chats About YOUR HEALTH HO. 25, VIGILANCE COMMITTEES la the early days' of the West, miscreants ot various kinds were summarily dealt -witn by vigilance committees composed of neighboring residents. Whenever the 'evidence warranted action, justice vas autnmisiereii in the quickest possible time. Why not appoint yourself a vigilance committee of one to protect yourself 'against illness and disease fay taking swift and proper actioa the moment it presents itself? Go to your doctor at the first indication of trouble and have those about you use similar precautions. Whenever medicine is let us fill the prescription.

MODEL PHARMAC7 Next to Modesto Theater. Phone 13 VICTOR DRUG CO. Beaty Bldg. Phone 800 The couple were married Saturday morning in tbe justice court by Judgs G. G.

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