Modesto News-Herald from Modesto, California • Page 1

MODESTO. STANISLAUS COPMTY. OAUFOSSIA. FBBJAY. NOVEMBER 7.1930 TWENTY PAOBS No.

367. G. 0. P. Is Saved By Election In Indiana TRAIN HERE piei Plans For Expenditures In Stanislaus Area Told By President HIGH OFFICIALS ON TOJBB OF INSPECTION! This District Not Hard Hit By Depression, Adams Declares Improvements In the Slanialaus district, to cost a total of "we!" over SJ50.000," arc contemplated by the Tidewater Southern Railroad 193L The expenditures will Include CHICAGO, Nov.

re-' construction of freight vision of votes for congressman! 8 1 roadbeds, laying of'heavier from the twenty-fourth Illinois dis-! raijs and improvement In freight trict, where Claude V. station facilities. hod been reported elect-j These announcements were made ed, to-day swung the lead to James! here to-day by H. Adams, presl- P. Heldlnger, Republican.

The I Jent of the Western Pacific Rail- pUirality was 356. HeWin-er Toad, which THcvatT 233S and Parson 24,979. Southern, and Charles Elsev, president of tbe latter road. On Inspection Tour Adams and Elsey. together with a dozen othex high officials of both ChsrU-s A.

Eosten of New York City, who rtertedi president of ifae American Bar Association to surwu Ute of Eecheck In i State Shows Republican Won By Nine Votes CONTROUSDOUBTFUL Administration Forces Gain 218th Seat In Twenty-fourth Illinois District BUULETC? There was apparently seme confusion In counting the votes because both were running for the short as well as the full term and a recount was demanded. By The Associated Press The Republican party retained a hare majority of one in the bouse in. Tuesday's elections on the basis ox complete but unofficial returns. The re-electiqn of Richard.Yatea as congressman-at-large 'from Illinois brought the Republican total, barring upsets caused by recounts and contests, to 218. the exact figure necessary for a majority.

Vestal's victory over Claude C. Ball was by the narrow margin of nine votes. Tbe Democratic na- 1 Uonal committee had previously ln A coming to Modesto private train, made a detailed tour of inspection of their properties between here and Turlock to outline e.Tpenditures for next year. The first improvement in the general program -will be the building 'of "a $10,000 mission type freight depot in Turlock soon after January 1. Adams said.

About $250,000 -was'- spent bv the Tidewater Southern the area between Stockton and Turlock this year and it was "amply justified" announced it Trould not accept such close figures fis final, and a contest was indicated. The Democratic total was 215, with one Farmer-Labor completing the membership of 435. Senate Alignment Meanwhile, Senator Brookhart. independent Republican, IOWR, threatened the narrow "Republican margin; In: the "senate with an an- cemefct. ha vote, with DeinbcrafifW organization; If that party nupporis legislative program satisfactory to him- Other mid-western senators, fan said, have adopted the same' atU- tude; including Senator Shipstcad, Fanner-Labor, Minnesota- The filial 'party alignment in the Ecnat'c was: Republicans, forty-elfrht.

Democrats, forty-seven. Farmer-Labor, one. State Bridge Over Bear Creek Falls; Girls In Auto Seriously Hurt STRUCTURE ERECTED I THIBTY YEAES AGO Traffic Rerouted; Money Al- ready Appropriated For Modern Grossing Four University of California co-eds were seriously Injured' today when the state highway bridge over Bear Creek at ths edse of I Merced collapsed and threw the girls, who were in an automobile. Inio the water twenty feet below. The fiirls are Bhize Morey, of Los Anffeles, who suffered, face cuts and a sprained neck: Clara Chan.

20, of San Francisco, the driver of the car. lacerations of the face and body bruises; Grace Takata. Berkeley, -serious face lacerations and cuts on thft arms; and Fannie Lin. of San Francisco, who suffcir-1 a fractured right shoulder. The girls were en.

route iron- Berkeley to Los Angeles to attend i the California-University, of Eouth- I crn California football tomorrow. Built 30 Tears Ago The bridge 1 was made of steel and i built thirty years ago by the county. It had been main- Figures In 82.20 'Fee' Murder Ben J. Brown (Mi) ronfrsKd to the. police he pruu'JtM KOOO by Umory Mis (rightl'to E1U Itaby In amis) but that recchsl only Kilt ivis declared to have made a like confession to the Lvs poUcA Mrs.

Wls slain while with fcfr httrmed. wn. ubo KM not cIiii'J Prfai phyto -and replaced by a ucw structure in a months: The accident apparently was due by to returns In Klness. accord-i WASHINGTON Nov 7 colapse of a centra! span of ing Adams. Moving on toward completion of a tno Etoe! superstructure.

"The Stanislaus district evidently i report on prohibition now the dor- forty feet long anti about twenty was hard hit by the depres-j lion is out of the' way, the presil feet high. said, "as our volume of business this year topped ail previous years." dent's. law enforcement commission to-day engaged in a study liquor conditions ahroad. Just before the four university students drove on to the.bridge a California Transit Company bua Besides. oonsidering the mass of wlth I teen passengers had crossed.

WA "IIMH, Vnlrln-n Jnn-n 1 1 r.1 1 1 -1 T- With thc-bridge down, 'vehicular traffic gain? south is dctourlng to dccumentary daia accumulated in I past months, the commission yes' agala. to. hear The flratj Johtf M.vMQro- 1 i terday i head, Ames-lean minister to jden-ziLeethe views! I regarding (he operation; jn Sweden OI Uie Bratt syaUm-of liquor control. him the superintendent ot Pennsylvania Stats Police, Lynn wsnt-in io-teli the committee about conditions in bis statc- What the two eaJd was-liept secret, anil EO will the testimony of others who are to be heard. the right on Greek Drlyt, jiist north or and r-.

entering -tho 'Golden State Highway. CONTEST MUNICE, Nov. 7. GF)-Congressman Albert H. Vestal, Republican was re-elected to congress from the eighth Indiana district over Claude C.

Ball, Democrat, by nine votes, a recfaeck of the vote disclosed to-day. The change which brought victory to the Republican whip in congress was made in the thirty- first precinct of Delaware County where Vestal gained one vote and Bali lost eleven. Until this change! was made Ball led by three votes. Chicago J-ddge See 3 Scheme Of Beer Baron To Kill Gang Chief CHICAGO. Nov.

A plot to "Scarface" Al Capone, the czar of Chicago gangs. was read to-day between the lines of a letter found by detectives who raided the downtovm hotel suits and the elegant North Side apartment of Terry Druggan, beer baron and "public enemy." The letter was one of a number writtan to Druggan by criminals in Los Angeles. San Francisco and was -under discussion caused excitement and specula! uon outside the commission rooms until it was learned the Canadian control systems and other plans of limited liquor dispensation also are to be studied. Woodcock's Kecali More speculation connected the sudden recall of Prohibition Director Woodcock to the capital with the commission hearings, but there was no Indication whether h2 would appear to tell the members The total for the district, as New York, found along with rec- tabulated fi each count 44.202; Ball from official reports from ords and deeds that invtstigat ity clerk, showed Vestal said would reveal Druggan as of thif wealthiest In the "racket" Thy Delaware Coimtycanyassins uds Jonn who rortelu board completed its original tabulation early to-day and announced Bali as the winner. The recheck completed at midmorning disclosed, cd Pruggan's SIO.OOO bond on a vagrancy charge yesterday and issued a capias for his arrest, interpreted the letter.

Varied Plots "The writer," said Judge Lyle, it was said, Ihe errors in the Ciirty- first precinct. Ball announced yesterday that in o- the event DB was defeated and the I offered to do anything with refer- vote -was close he would contest encc to Capone that Druggan waat- tha election. ed Jt was couched In terms which believe that Druggan had BBOOKHAETS ATTTTUDE WASHINGTON, Nov. 7. (ffi -Senator Brookhart, Republican, Jowa, said tc-dy he would support the Democratic organization of the new senate If that party would sponsor a.

legislative pro- grain which he considers satisfactory. what he discovered in his extensive travels surveying, prohibition enforcement over the country- All that was out about the directors abandonment of an Inspection trip (o Hawaii was that Attorney General Mitchell wanted from him some information for President Hoover and also wished to discuss appropriations. Woodcock will be in Washington by isovember 13. and the completion of a prohibition report by the commission before that uate is es- tremely improbable. Timber Span CorislrucUba' "oT a her -bridge will -be started Immediately 1 It waS announced by the state division of highway's-The temporary Etructurc will servo traffic until the new' $100.000 bridge and overhead cross provided under Governor Young's budget- for the present biennlum Is completed.

Salida Chamber Joins In Defense Of M. I. D. Meeting Of Protest Against P. 0.

E. To Be Held At Junior College To-night; Advodate Will Talk; Complaints Filed -With Railroad Commission A DOPTION of resolutions pledging the support of the Salida' Chamber bar of Coauu'er'cs to the Modesto Irrigation District and tie filing Company, with, the State Commission the deVelooments late yesterday in this community's fight against.the power company's attempted inroads into electrical btteiness hare. To-day's will be Lercd in a protest, mass meeting at. the North Hall of tile Modesto IHia l.ea~guS:^f" 3lmerlcai'f3 to'speak. RcS ficcti artahsi by J.

a dlrecUrf.of desto district In 1 to Thompson's' address, the. program will includo a statement by west, ai chairman, of the meeting's German Seaplane Beady For Second Lap Of Flight To IT. S. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 7.

LT--Tbe German seaplane DO-X. which made a brief flight over this city to-dav, will leave for Southampton, on the second lap of her flight to New York to-morrow morning, Dr. Ciaude Cornier announced to-day. an unexpected change In the weather will delay the takeoff, he said. It is planned to remain in England two days and procetd to Havre on Monday.

Dr. Dornier refused to take i seriously a reported protest by the French-Portuguese air monopoly He said if the election just held was to amount to anything the Democrats and Progressives should deraand the resignation of Secretary Mellon and of Ogden Mills, un- against permitting his ship to stop -Ten charged with murder, der-secretarv of the treasury. "If the Democratic victories not mean 1 Brook- See DEMOCRATS Pg- 2, Cot 3) formidable "list of" jriuuiuiuuu jjirectcr i --leii UIKII Hidden away -with tbe corrcs-1 Woodcock has been suddenlv or-1 conspiracy and assault In connec- pondence were records showing dered home from an inspection lions with the lynching last list of .93 saloons, resorts and! tour in the West to furnish data of Allen Green. 52-year-old gambling houses and papers re-! needed by tbo chief executive. i were acquitted early to-day.

to properties and mortgages. I Official announcement bv Attor-1 These were turned over to tht gov- r.ey GeneS" MuSJdl IBI HOPS ernmeat, which awaits said Woodcock would i'-cd to CLEVEIAND. Nov. va T. i "WWULm-tv WOUJO OS SSaCU ty i i Tk' by R.

Kimmsl, secretary of the Modesto Chamber oi Commerce, and music by the Modesto High School girls' orcheitra. After Thompson speaks, The Harmony Four will provide music. Complaints Hied Of tho complaints Hied by the district with the railroad commission yesterday, one asks the ccm- misslpn to rev-oka the P. G. operating certificate within the Modesto Irrigation- District boundaries, and the other protests Et rate schedules, tiled to become effective In the City of Modesto on November 20,.

as discriminatory. The first protest objects to the railroad commission permitting the G. E. to. continue the operation of Its electrical system In the district's territory.

and petitions the commission to compel the company, at a formal hearing, to show cause why it should be permitted to continue. Kate Schedule Hit The second protest recites that ihe P. G. Sb B. has placed in effect a new electrical rate schedule applicable within the City of Modesto, which Is part of the district's territory, -which is "discriminatory because it represents lower charges for the same classes 1 of electrical energy than are charged elsewhere, and that the present schedules -do not earn sufficient revenue to represent a fair return on the company's investment involved.

The MDie years past the financial burden of operating the system within 'lie tions vrith the lynching last Soring area covered by these new sched- of Allen Green. 52-year-old has been carried by the io health to Alicia Patterson of New York c. come tax indictment against him. I forcement to be u'luVca by the' off from Cleveland AliTiort Ipruggan's physician presented a i president Unlay In. an attempt to set a new con airplane speed record for women trlcal energy nscrs outside of the Modesto region.

Both protests are signed by H. G. Jecobson, president of the board of directors of the district, and I J. Maddux, the district's at-j --CLEANING --PRESSING --FOR LESS! This i equipped plant--the oldest established Modesto is i QUAIJTT WORK AT BTC- KAVTN'GS. FANNY SAYS: CASH AXD CAEBT SUITS cleaned and pressed Sl.OO OVERCOATS id pressed Sl.OO DRESSE5 SI .25 COATS Sl.OO ganger was suffering fromlo ot i fs i from Cleveland Yo New Yoric" a continuance of the trial! to ask an increased appropriation rccen Jy.

Judge Lyle found yes- of about 42 000 000 with which Coi. terday Druggan -was able to vcn- Woodcvcfc can add 500 new agents i iture out of his Loop hotel for air- to the federal drx- army. His tours although-he could r.ot make 'have convinced Woodcock that the i I court appearances sciied-jleu for; present force is "pitifully Inade- Ja jHopes Fade For Six Fliers I Lost In British Columbia (By the Associated Press) ported flvinjp northward to join OPEa of recovering allre 5ir in the wratrh. They fUers in northern being sought hy Pilot Ansoel Eck. Briilsb Coicnibia niann companions and by to-day as search continued Hicppughs Kill $60,000 Secured Daring JLil er OrWomac And Di- LOS- ANGBUSS; With Benjamin Fmnklin Brown and' Enic.ry iElls indlcCed the i i a -itk HAKRT 11ALFORD, Prop.

Twelfth and Streets by plane and boat. Frank Dohrandt, Alislia pilot, left AUin, yesterday for Anchorage, Alaska, aficr srarrh- Captaln E. J. A. Vancou- nnd companions, iasi seen sonfh of I.f.ird October 11.

He believed farther search vras useless. Pilot E. "VVasson, Wnitefiorsc. Ynkon, TVHS ai AtUn to continue tho search another plane arrives. Pilot Robin Rfnahan, Vancouver, B.

and fivo have nribhing of Princr- RufKTt, B- on the Mnrc October 28, when lUey, re- pafrol Application has born made at Ottawa for ajiwsiancc from Ihe Uoyal Canadian Air Force for the Hcnahan search. Kenahan Ia5t was reported ovrr Txwe I sift, J50 ntilTM soulh of Krfchikan, AJaslca. Us had refueled at Bntedale Can- nsr-. Ecknmnu made flight ev terday over tho Inlet viciR- Ity and expected to make additional flights to-day. Bnrke's companions trerc air rngincer, and prospector.

They vietf InM on a prospcrtinTM flight. ahan's torn ey. The resolutions adopted by th? Salida Chamber of. Commerce on Wednesday nlstfit condemn the G. tactics in to take away business of the district's electrical department and point out il is Io the interest of the community that the Ciy of Modssto continue to caironize the district.

Resolution Adopted piris, -wlip. WBB vfsEted by'ahnostr 5000'doctors ot Iiiccouglis, is dead of.the aliment. 'IHlw Copplns first, became III of in September, -1929. was Her case, aroused amonp. medical men sad about fiOW of who were attending a jneetiftf of the American Medical- Society sat BetroiV visited ier.

The" girl. suffered -another attack of hiccoughs four ago, was relieved after two weeis, was returned to the hospital wfesk 'ago, npiin-sulferinar from tfie same ailment, and died yesterday. Physicians.ald that bo- fore she 'died her temperature was 107, her respiration forty and -her heart beat 140. President Issues Proclamation For Thanksgiving Day WASHINGTON- Nov. 7.

UFt-- President Hoover, to-day called upon, the people of the United States to observe Thanksgiving Day by extending aid to those who are in r.eed and suffering from causes beyond, their In his annual Thanksgiving Day proclamation the chief executive said this country has manv causes foi thanksgiving. He added that as a nation "we have suffered far less than other peoples from the present world difficulties." Roosevelt Boom For Presidency Started LOS 'ANGELES. Nov. T. Fioosevelt-For-Preafdent Club is on way to incorporation here to- Patrick 3.

airman of the'Dem- soon. as possible and. that ocratlc County Central Committee; Martin I. Welsh, defeated Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor; Thomas J. Clark, N.

M. Phillips and L. Mills, prepared articles of Incorporation acd mailed them to Sacnunento. Thc purposes of the organization arc to "promulgate the candidacy. laic few7minutos after Srowa.

appeared" -the body io confession' that he shot'Mrs. "Ells -a shotgun her 1- months-bid early, last Sunday i' told wbpm met a rcataui-ant. promlssd "pay "tq'hili the "wife 'of' man." It" TTSS only after the slaying; ho said that he. learned the "victim was -Ells' wife and that a mere wag all money'Elis-could-pay him. EUs confessed "Wring Brown for the cold-blooded murtjer when the police confronted him with Brown's confession.

Naval Personnel Is Discussed At 'Geneva GENEVA. Nov. 7. OPWThe chief naval powers the preparatory commission to-day disagreed on the of limiting, naval personnel and the question was referred to', a. Bab-committee.

The'difference w.is on, a British proposal that limitation should be only cf the aggregate of officers; petty of fleers'and men. TheTTrench position, which was. supported today by the. Russians, was ibat a maximum be fixed for the number of officers. Hugh a 'Gibson, cblef'of the American delegation, announced that the United States government regarded the limitation of "naval as of little importance as it considered the limitation of ships would inevitably result in all the needed limit on personnel.

Mrs. Breuner Sues For Eivorce Decree SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. cruelty' was charged by Mrs. Eleanor Breuaer of Sen Francisco la a suit for divorce filed today against John Breuner, son of the furniture store owner of San Francisco, Sacramento and Oafc- I- j3d. Mrs.

Ei-snner asked the divorce and custody of -cwr Jean. Il, and John HI, 7. Property s-ttlement, it was understood, was tnaao out of court Tbn couple wan narHed In Car- Band Of Heavily Armed Men Loots Baggage Gar Near Berkeley PANIC Payroll Currency Estimated At $40,000 To $85,000 And Silver Taken OAKLAND. Kor. Five or mere armed, masked bandits, reminiscent at the Old-West." out vforktnff vrtth coolness, precision and machinery of modem gangsters, held up end robbed a Southern Pdilc passenger train of cash and checks est.tmn'ied than 360,000 near Nobel to-day, throwing passengers into a panic- SS, en routs-from' Oakland, to Tricy, carried, a.

consignment of $40,000 to 555.000 in currency acd silver In malr sucUa for the'American Tract Company at Pittsbarg, Calif. The money was to be used to rash checks for Columbia- Steel; Worhs Otter Vahiabte Blair In addition, there was raid to bs much other valuable -mail aboard. One- robber" boarded tha -I train, presumably as it' left- Berkeley. -Walking through or over tho cars, he'reached the inglno wHere no and.engineer a amair-station. Ha farcea them to.

stop the train-t6erc, leave the engine "and Ue face dowis 'en the ground. At.Nobel.a"Iarge'sedaa--wiih eev- arnied, masked mea'uiid BioUntBi'micliine gi erigineet 'a covereid-. Mfss-i6bel to a robber pass mail 'aacE from" the an- other; man--waiting on a flat-car an'd he in the waltlpg IJarliig. th.V Tobbery-'an- elsofarla- trahEformer'at'tlft Side af-thelfraclc out arid-threw' pasEengera into a Thfeicngrjt' was got out jewelry, other: valuables them in their laps. But the after, bigger loot aid ignored" pasr senders.

Aftor the robbery, which wai eio- cuted with precision, the" rohbcra'-. piled into their waiting: and' dashed away. A trail of loot found later Indicated thoy hadJ gpno toward Oakland. 'C. Stige, accompanied by Southern Pacific special officers, found JIOOO In currency, evidently part loot, behind a hedge near Stegt A slashed mail sack was found-near-.

the Berkeley city limits and- an empty pistol holster on a 'Cat car near "Postal inspectors. Federal. -Be- rerye officers. Southern.Pacific po- lice and peace officers.of surrounding counties immediately 'organ- Ized a man hunt AU roads leadiog from the general vicinity wero blocked'off ana all motorists scrutinized. Held 0p In 1829 This same train was held up far from Nobel Jutie 22, 1929 by a gang led allegedly by the late Jake Fleagle, notorious ouUaw who was slain by detectives recently ir.

Missouri while he was be- iaj? hunted connection with'a bank robbery at Lajncj-, Colo. A description of the holdup was given by R. E. Lemery, the engineer. S.

B. and McCllntock, all of whom wera 'stuck up" by tha bandits. Sedan Stolen The sedan used fay the robbers ras stolen last night from an Oak- and garage. Two men called at he garage, held up Robert Lay ton, (See 69,000, Page 2, Col nomination and election of Frank- son City, November 30 1917 i The first "rpsoiiition foilows: Hn D. Eoojerelt for president," 'and separated in June ofhiEyear! "VVnsreas.

It appears through news items and editorials in th: press that the Pacific Gas Klcetric Company intends to Modesto Irrigation District and "Whereas. We. the Salida Cham- (Sec SALIDA. Fate S. 11 Missing Navy Flier In feExplorers To Seek Cradle Of Human Race In Africa TJARIS, "ov.

7. dltion which may prov cradle of tbe htunan nee iras out for tna bcnrt of tho mander Bsmairi la Pon- -Io find nnportent prc- lics believed to exist In desert. special alr- 1 SAN BERNADINO, Nov. 7. f.T^--Foilcc'said a man ar- rested in lumber ysrd admitted fc? was Second Lieutenant Richard i Do 2S.

for EcveraJ months from his post in San Diego and wanted in Angeles for i -passing bad checks. plane, tn which members of the The officers said the man was party win make quick dashes dressed in ragged-clothinc and car-! I ried a roll of bedding; on his back, i I Upon shown a circular re- into regions where rnaa is sWe to cxtat for only brief intervals, CTS part of the wrnipment. The expedition will lira for two months In desert antomt-biles and in two ili-wheeied desert trucks designed, to over ground cipc- never crossed by an antomobUe. I fe Jst acccin- panled by son of Gen. Etiennr, two members ol Oie latematlonal Archeological Instltnfe, one.mrt- uratist, one modon plctaro pho- a and many native snides and workmen, will start i aonth from Aljrlcry.

Addi-' i I Uonal equipment has been as- sembled. From scattered finds already i made In North Africa the tbtorr i has bwn adranrat that the hn- i roan race had its begmninff In i tire feibara. It Is contended that at that time the Sahara was not i draert, hut it flourishing land similar 0 ii, 6 northern 1 tioos ol Ajfeiia. Coey's Big Shoe Sale Still On ihose that Received the $5 in Gold Wednesday and Thursday Wednesday H. J.

Overton Ceres Thursday Mrs. R. A. Bflov HL 1, Certs H. S.

COEY SHOE CO, 912 Eye Street Jfcsr the Arcb Bo Sore Ton Are la tbe Klgbt Stan.