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TO-DAY'B MAEKETS San Francisco--Butter, 92 score, 48c: Etrss, No. 3 special, 40e. MORNING I I VOL. XXIX TWO LEASED W1KES. MODESTO.

STANISLAUS .1928 SIXTEEN PAGES Warring Factions Agree To Postpone Action Until January BY MISSISSIPPI SOLON Borah LZaneuvcaug To Kellogg Treaty Called Up First tBr The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. press to-day found a place side by for the Kellogg treaty to renounce and the naval cruiser building bill. Beginning January 3 both wIH be taksn up under an agreement to let each have a show each day. This compromise reached to-day cleared the calendars of big controversial issues and gave an outlook for a peaceful two days on Capitol Hill before adjournment for the Christmas recess. Both the senate and the house put through appropriation bills during the day, the senate passing the interior department measure with its funds for No.

304 Of Bank Bandit Will Not Receive I IBinT'ip ffii 11 Under Tho Law State Mayi 1 IIMIW Al Pay Only For Arrest And Conviction QACRAMKNTO, Dee. --The reward offered by the state of California will not ho paid to the CoqtieHe, slayers of Marian Rube, alleged killer, bank robber uml escaped convict. Governor Young" announced hero Ruhc was- kilted Tuesday In I 11 ffiiii battle with CorjuelJn citizens, after an unsuccessful attempt to rob tho First Nntionu! nf A convict. Bud McGowan, who also escaped from highway camp, was captured. Tinner the state Iiiw, the stnte may pay the reward only ''for arrest and conviction" of the prisoner, the governor pointed out.

This would prevent payment of the reward to Rube's slayers. Names Linked With Wales Hero am somo of tlio titled girls of Europe, each of whom rumor has named, at various times, as po.sslhlo bride of the Jfrincc of Waifs. No. 1 Is tho beautiful Princess lleami of Kunuiaiu. Tho others; Ko, 2, Prhicess Mitrthn, second daughter of Carl of Sweden; Xo.

8, Princess Beatrice of Spain; 4, Mnrie Jpso of Belgium; Xo. 5, Crown 3'rincoss Juliiuui of Holland; No. Lady Anne Wollesley, leader in London society. To of the.so rumors have reniaineti runmrs and nothing mnrp. mmmw BE Cargo And Ship Consumed By I Flames; Body Thrown Clear Of Wreckage STORM RESPONSIBLE FOR OHIO ACCIDENT 1 1 'ii? To Ofcr! As Eirdman -Leaves Craft At Riverside Fielfl HURON.

Ohio, Dec. J. ilcGinn of pilot oE t'ne National Air Transport plant: carrying tho night mail from Cleveland to Chicago, lost his life to- nijfht when his plane fell in thu heart of the village of Huron during heavy snow storm. Buffeted about by a fifty-mile the plane which McGinn apparently could not longer keep aloft descended with a rush to the top of an apple ree in the yard of Charles Warnkc, then it bounded into a barn. Plnne Destroyed McGinn's bp-jy was thrown clear of the cockpit ns the crash came but an explosion followed which enveloped both the Ehip and the barn and reduced them both to a heap of ashes.

The mail cargo was western reclamation and irrigation nT rntpf 3 Tri Vnr Mnrp I consumed in the flames. projects. The house mads short Uperatea in IVlOaesio Or more RIVERSIDE, Dec. work of the bill proving $112,000,000 for the departments of state, justice, labor and commerce. By BA.Y9IOND CLAPPER (UniU-rt Press WASHINGTON, Dec.

a Christmas truce the senate has laid aside the anti-war treaty and the fifteen cruiser bill until after the holidays. When the senate reconvenes January 3, a vote wil! be taken to determine, which measure shall be acted upon first, A majority vote will decide the issue. This truce was proposed in the form of a unanimous consent agreement to-day by Senator Borah, chairman of the foreign relations committee, after feeling between the chief opponents of the two measures became so bitter that it threatened to tie up senate busi- nfvn completely until the Christ- K.ivy Drive Blocked According to the special agents, Backers of the navy bill renewed Hoque had a patient in his house their attempt ia get the right of which he was "curing" for way for it after having been charge nf S250. Tie used' a sort of blocked last night fay the objections I piaster as his cure, they said, of Senators Norris, Nebraska Re- The officers trailed Hoque from publican, and King, Utah Demo-! the Santa Clara Valley where hu crat. To-day they were on the i-had practiced for sometime, they Months Officials Charge W.

D. Hoque, 31, was arrested at his home, 123 Virginia. late yesterday afternoon on a charge of practicing medicine without a licensj or credentials, a misdemeanor. J. W.

Davidson and R. B. Nobfc, special agents of the board of medical examiners, armed with search warrants, made the arrest Hoque, they said, has been operating here for more than three months. Davidson said that Hoque admitted he had no license and had only a small knowledge of anatomy upon which to base his practice. i Specialist' ton L.

Boardman, flying cadet, fell 500 feet to his death in an attempted parachute jump at March Field here, to-day. When Boardman leaped from the airplane in which he was flying alono ho apparently did not wait the usual length of time before pulling the release string, field officials said. The parachute caught in the plane and the cords snapped, letting him fall hut with nothing but the, whipping strings attached to his belt. KNSION VICTIM SAN DJEGO, Dec. En- i F.

E. HRUC'K, U. S. naval re-' Scaltlu waj, killuJ Hoquc's forts, Davidson said, was I when his piano nrashPd'while fly- in curing: cancer, a disease that has far baffled science and a euro for which the Rockefeller Institute i point of obtaining a favorable vote by quick, parliamentary ma- in which Senator Norris joined for a time by making a motion which he actually voted the navy drive was blocked and a truce declared. will happen when the fight f-is resnnird January 3, is subject to possible peace conferences during the Christmas holidays.

Showdown Sought Chairman Borah announced he move to take up the peace treaty at that time. The motion will be put imder circumstances which iviil make it thus forcirjff a quick, sharp showdown on whether the peace treaty nr the fifteen nuisers will be first to erect UK: now year. This action was grudgingly ac- fiiiifiFcen in by Senator La Toilette, Wisconsin Republican, who paid was onlv 'postponing the evil day" and that tiio senate might as weil fact; the showdown now instead of two weeks hence. Tbo inevitable Pat Mississippi Democrat, was on hand to twit thn Republicans in their predicament. "Why." he asked, "do hold in one hand a pact for the peace of the work! and in the other Senator Heckled He heckled Senator Hale, who has bcsn trying to get action on naval bill.

"It has been charged In some fpiaricnV' said, ''that the administration regards the peace treaty as an empty gesture. I cannot believe this. I have more confidence in the administration than tho senator from Maine (Hale). If we are to show tho nation? of the world thRt the treaty Is offered in good faith, let us get behind it with unanimous approval. T.et us help Iho administration make amends for its bad deportment in the past conduct of foreign affairs." before transferring his busi- nes here.

The sign on the front of place of business in his home in Virginia. Avenue reads: Dr. Hoque, cancer snd skin specialist. Consultation free. Ointment found by the was of a poor grade and of little medical value, they said, Hoque even carries a doctor's emblem on his automobile, Pavidsou declared.

Released On Bond Hoquo was arraigned before Judge B. C. Hawkins yesterday afternoon and his preliminary hearing set for 10 A. M. to-day.

Bai! was fixed at. $1000. bond or 5500 cash. HOCJUC furnished the $500 cash and wan released at 7 o'clock last mphL Hoque refused to make statement last night, saying "I'JI have my- defense prepared" Friday." near Camp Kearny. nr! rA-srrn TA JOKimitlHU THY OTfl iiU GUiiUiv Twelve Injured In London Explosion LONDON, Dec.

persons including seven who weie passed wc-re injured so seriously thai they were taken to a hospital after an explosion which occurred on the pavement in the heart of the West End retail district to-day. The explosion is believed to have Tieen caused by a bin sting gas The explosion occurred between I the junctions of ami High Kolborn snd St. Giles Circus and Tottenham Court Shortly before noon, large quantities of gas were escaping from the area covered by the explosion. persons outside the police lines were, overcome. It was estimated that damage would aggregate thousands of pounds sterling.

Of Rancher is Object Of Search SALINAS, Dec. ing for nearly a week, Margaret Alvifre, wife of J. H. Alvitre, Na- xividad rancher, was hunted to-day this section of Califor- AlvihA .1 slat3 traffic officer and brother-in-law of the Tiiiasinp woman, wan preparing to distribute circulars bearing a de- Fcripiion of her. A reward of $500 Jnr infornifitiim n-t to her where-1 r.

The woman disappeared last; Fri- Hay nipht after a quarrel with her while on the day home irom Salinas. Make Study Of Proposal SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. --Thn state highway commission, at a met-ting here to-day, authorized E. K. Wallace, district engineer at Fresno, to make, a study for local communities, of possible automobile routes, between Robles nn tho state highway north- to Knnford nnd points north.

This road, which would connect Paso Rohles with the San-Joarjtiin Valley via Hanford, Lemoorc and Stratford would probably cut several hours from the present driving time between the two points. I Tha highway commission's action was taken at the request of civic bodies of the three i ties. The Proposed rouic would the Bakerefirld-Paso Robles Highway at a point near cutting out UakersfieMr Slayer Of School Teacher Life i District Attorney Not To Ask Death Penalty, He Declares Eipht men and four women were selected Inte yesterday in the su- court at Honora to try Charles A. Ralph, rancher, accused of murder of Walter Albers on December 1, last Rapid progress was made after thi jury selection, four witnesses taking the stand before adjournment Thursday. Those who testified are Dr.

G. C. Wrigley, who attended Albers laler performed tho autopsy: Robert Thorn. county surveyor, who presented a diagram of thf. cabin; Roy Eamber and 13d who were at the cabin at the time of the shooting No new evidence was presented.

District Aftornev C. H. Grayson toid Judge J. T. B.

Warne. before whom the case is being tried, (hat he would not ask for the death penalty. The case will be continued at i 10 A. M. to-dav.

Much i.s i ireint: manifested in the case. The courtroom was crowded through- Thursday afternoon. Men Found Marooned In Auto 3K SPRINGS, Dec. 20. -An for Les- 111 Baker, publisher of the KernmerfM-.

Gazette, nnd James Vickers, Kemmerer busi- cnded this afternoon when they were in an found marooned thirteen miles The engine of their nutomobiln became, frozen and they were forced to spend the nicht on an isolated stretch of the highway. Waldorf A i a Hotel To Be Razed NEW YORK, Dec. The Waldorf-Afltona Hotel, one of most famous hostelries in the conn- iy, has been sold to the Bethlehem Engineerinjr Corporation and wili be the cominfr year to pH" fnr nrv nf- STANTON, Dec. Jirnmv 15. to murder of Flossie fjce structure, it was announced '2i.

his former school Teachor, to- to-nitrht by Lucius M. Boomer, ay wag sentenced to i impris- of the Waldorf-Astoria 1 In Pursuit Of Girl Out Of Gas In Carson City (By Tho Aasndated T'ress) SAN FRANCISCO, 26, who sayfr-SnV was horn in Salem, and educated in Portland, denied herself to the public here to-night while Dr. David O. Meeker, whose pursuit of the girl across the continent by train nnd airplane has won much publicity for them both, was arranging to come here by train from Ke'no after his second misfortune, on the Meeker flew from Salt Lake to Southern Oregon on a mysterious visit lo a ranch there and his airplane ran out of gun en route from tho ranch to Reno, Nevada, leaving him stranded at Carson City. SAN FRANCISCO.

Dec. episode from life with al) the eic- mtuU of mystery thriller developed more drama to-night, as the whereabouts of iho leading man became as mysterious as Iho reasons the girl ho was pursuing had fieri across the continent Dr. D. O. Meeker, who said he had been asked by the parents of McConnr-l, 20, New York heiress, to follow her across the country and persuade her to ic- i i homo, had not been reported by any airports In this vicinity.

The monoplane in which Dr. Meeker had unsuccessfully tried to catch Miss McConnel's train before iL reached here, waa sighted over Wendover, nf. 10 A. M. to-dav, officinia of Mills Field, the munir'i- of the damage, which was a nidio inquiries about The piano had been broadcast.

It had not been sighted at Reno, Nev. the rumornary stop between here'and Lake City. The start from hull Lake was mado at 7:50 A to-day. OJrf Rcnmlns Silent Miss Mr.Connell, who refused to sny why she had rushed away from MIM- prominent parents and rela- I fives in New York City before. I airrkcr arrived, reached tho city I his morning.

She claimed she would make her pursuer understand her motives. The plane carrying Dr. Meeker had been due here "in niid-after- noon. Shortly before o'clock to-night E. E.

Mouton. district inspector of aeronautics for the department of commerce, instructed the radio Increase. On Market Amounts) station at Concord airport on the MANILA, Philippine Islands, Dec. violent earthquake rocked the island of Mindanao of the Philippine group Wednesday hut casualties were surprisingly low, according to first advices of (ho temblor received hctc to-day. Mindanao is situated at the southern end of the islands and Is one of the largest of the group.

One person waa killed, and several injured, the reports said. Residents of many towns were startled, however, as buildings col- estimated at more than was reported by the towns cf Co- tabato tmboagna and Davao. A si.raipht line from cast to west would run through the three towns and would ateo pierce Macaturing volcano, which is near the center of 'he island and approximately equidistant, from Cotabato and Dav; To More Per, Carload CHICAGO, Pec. 20. In wild irariing to-day on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, December etfps iumpnd higheiit price lftvr-1 in two years, A gain of 2 Dial) $250 a car, was scored.

The advance was brought about a heavily oversold condition in market. Since early thin month prices have advanced more than a rarloftd. jjijcea to the ron.sumer, however, have not been affected. Retail prices are lower than a year ago. DI-C.

liis red eye at the high- I Taxicab War Feared By Southern Police an electro-mechanical traffic cop may be scientifically perfect but ho has no judgment at all. Furthermore, he. can't do thins the children. "Mr. TeJtivox" stands at an in- forheclioii of the bun.v highway.

Ho is supposed stand still and nut interrupt Ihc peninsula traffic unless a car approaches from side nnd wif-hcs to Hi it i i i i ear uinch, ulipn aiilii- mohlln linni is alone Iho lateral siree.t, a iises him lo translate the sound into motion, throwing out his amis and way traffic. He was making food on tho job until a gnmli hny canin along the intersecting street and "ii-booooa" at lam, Jift Rot rattled, threw np his hands tun! winked his red ryn lie. shouldn't, have done, so. he's a favorite puIU-enian of fho younger set hereabouts. "Mr.

hnss is going to do something about it. A MAN TUKS i -George Franklin KMiott, 47, I a oiviier and resident of Bakorafifk! for twenty years, died to-day of a i 1 attack. The chase eafit side of San Francisco Bay, to broadcast inquiries about the plane io airports in the interior. Thus the unusual situation had turned into a search the pursuer. Heiress Leads Chase heiress, who led" a merry across the continent, drew hero as they followed her speeding laxicab through the hay regions and when they finally cornered her they did not learn the reason for the panic of hide-and-seek.

The told of numerous reasons she might have left home. All of them seemed 03 vague as the distance that had separated the girl and her chief pursuer in the rnrf of airplane against train across the nation. Dr. Meeker chartered thn special plane in Omaha, but was only a short distance out of Salt Lnkn City when the elusive girl arrived here. Only one possibility did she refuse to comment about.

She did not talk about her uncle's state 1 ment in Now York, but it seemed he an endeavor to obtain pub- T.OS ANGELES, Drc, Police lo-day were apprehensive of a possible "taxicab -fol. lowing assaults upon two drivers. Jnmes Morgan, driver for the California Cab Company, was by a blackjack and knocked micnnsrioiis hy two men he hafi driven them to an address on Riverside Drive. Perry Tsrtus, a driver for Iho Diamond Can Company, waa beaten -'-y two men who hinm hi.s rah. hiui unconscious.

MJnards from McNeii Inland Both drivers rc-porlrd to poHre fr-ntiary to-dny captured Jesse i ft-. had xvarnrd I i nnd Alvin Hodges who es- theni "tn lay off our driven! from I rapcrl from the prison yesterday I (Jui'ing church services. Guards Capture Two a Prisoners IN I A Jurist In Raniori Abduction Case If Warned By Gangsters NOTE IS SCBAWLED IN BARELY LEGIBLE HAND ported Missing; Heavy Guard In Court Ur The AKRocIateit Press) CHICAGO Dec. 20. Following fi hectic day in which the life of the trial judge waa threatened and ten state witnesses were reported missing, the state closed Its case this afternoon in the trial of three defendants accused of the kidnap- ing of little Billy Ranieri, for whom the prosecution has demanded the death penalty.

A letter threatening death to Judge Robert E. Genteel was received by the judge to-day shortly before he took the bench to the trial. The letter, written on brown paper with a blue crayon, mailed at 2 o'clock this' morn I and waa received by the judge in hjs chambers as he prepared to open court. The message was scrawled in a scarcely legible hand in an upper corner of the page of paper. "You arc to late," it read, "you are died now quit your case." It was unsigned but the authorities said the'writing was similar to that of threatening letters received by several others involved in case, including the Ranieri family and several state witnesses, one of which, Ofe Scully, was assassinated two days ago.

Another Marked Tho message received as Mikii Do Vito, who tho state charged, had been marked for death, was waiting in the court nioni under heavy gimrd to take the stand. Prosecutors remarked grimly that they wanted his testimony "before somethinng happened fn him." A detective called at the state's attorneys office shortly, after the threat against Judge Gcntzcl's life received and said ho had been state had subpoenaed. They included-, relatives of both De Vito ami Scully. Yesterday, at a hearing before Judge Gontzel, the state opposed the freeing of three suspects in the slaying ea.i'Unn In tho -week of Scully hy declaring that one of the men held had remarked to a bailiff that De Vito would bo the next to die. Judge Gentzel continued the release hearing after the prosecutor had maintained that if the suspects, held for the killing of Scully, were freed, they would De Vito.

Tho suspocta include a brother of Angclo Pctitti, one of the defendants, and Billy's godfather. Angelo'Petitti IB said fo have ade the break against De Vito. Scully, the prosecution said, wo a tho only witness against Pctitti in an extortion ease, and Do Vito is the only witness against him in still another case of similar nature, Tho other defendants, Andrew iappellano and his IM-year-old son, Tony, are alleged to have held the Ranieri boy prisoner for thirteen days on their farm near Kankakre, after Pctitti had engineered the kidnaping. SENT TO Youth Convicted Of Passing Bogus Checks; Posed As Blind For 5 Years LOS ANGEL.13H, Dec. The Rev.

Arthur 13. Arnold, was sentenced to servo one to five in San Quentin to-day fol- his conviction on n. charge of issuing worthless checks, and a confession of "duping" religious' organizations. The 23-year-old pastor of the Pentecostal Church ot Hunting ton Park. told the court he had losed as blind for five years, and hen waa converted hy Aimec Scm- McPherson.

Afterward he was Woman Given $100,000 For Crash Injuries Victim Compromises Bather Than Await Appeal Of Company AN FRANCISCO. Deo. nearlv a decado of litigation, Sirs. Victor Klec. wife of former local nanmnnn, received for injuries received when siio was struck liy un electric L'ar at Simla Cruz.

Mrs. filee was paralyzed from tho waist down i ns ft result of the strrldent. She awarded $118,000 tlumages it Uical iMU.i, mil iiu- dvK-ud-. ftiif, Uio Coast Counties Gas anil! Kleetne Company, anpcaU'd tha cifuisloti and Mrs. lileo agreed to accept SlflO.OOO.

Accompanied by her husband sho is now umtnr treatment at Warm Springs, Ga. Donald Conn Addresses 200 On Problems Faced By Industry ADVlEES NAMED FOE ABS Army Planes Continue Hunt; Three Men Sighted In River Gorge Oly The lliilii'rt PI-CMS) FRANCISCO, Dee. rescue party to-night was reported noarinj? the spot where; the boat of Glenn Hyde and his wife of Hanson. Idaho, is Grand Canyon stranded in the of the Colorado Two army aviators flying over the canyon to-day sighted three men in depths of the river gorge eighteen miles above the entrance fo Diamond Canyon, where the boat ia stranded. The aylators dropped a message to tlio men instructing them to proceed down tbo river to Diamond Canyon and find out if there waa any trace of Hyde and his wife there.

Word of the progress of the search wan received In a telegram to Major General John L. Hinca, commanding general of the. Ninth Messages Dropped The two aviators, Lieuts. Plum- mcr and Adams, after dropping tho note to the rescue party flew down the canyon past tho stranded boat and dropped a second message. It wag to inform the missing pair.

1C they are sMIl alive and near the boat, that rescue waa almost at hand. Whether Hyde and wife hod perished in the treacherous rapids of the river or are wandering along the canyon seeping to climb Us precluHoua cliffs is not kaiown. Many liays Overdue They many dayy overdue at Needles, Arizona, the destination of the river i an which lhty started from El Tovar Hotel, 122 iT'ilns above tho point where the aviators aighleil their boat, stranded on a pandbar in a shall- low stretch of the stream. Army i here studying large maps of the canyon area thought it Hyde nnd his i a abandoned Hie boat and wore, attempting to make their way up Diamond Creek Canyon, a lat- canyon running off cast from thn Canyon to the town of Peach Spring. Arizona.

Condition Of King Remains Favorable, Physicians Report LONDON, Dec. condition rf-niainrii favor- now established nn a. i basis 1 an official a signed by five lihyulrSnrut und iiiuuoJ at Buckingham Palace said. For the i time in four weeks no i i a i was Issuwl al. Ihft rmlacc In-night, hut an i i a announcrment said tin: liing'tf (lit ion "remains satisfactory." May Develop Into Seal Asset; Member Drive Mapped A new and definite- plan for betterment of the grape industry based on two years of experience, waa outlined here last night at the annual meeting of tho California Vine- yardlata' Association members of this district by Donald D.

Conn, managing director ct? the association, Tli meeting 1 held in the Winter Garden, was attended by fully 200 growers, and waa featured by the election' of a new a i board. "As grapo growers, you have come to the place- where you must choose between two pathg," Conn said in outlining, tho vlneyardlst body's new plan. "One leads to ruinous 1 'hin 0 a slow kut sura Accomplishments of tho past two years he characterized ns a mji away of the underbrush, a brushing aside of, the froth. Prom tho experience and the knowledge gamed during those two years has come the new C. V.

A. plan, based on a larger membership nnd a clearing house agreement, dealgnttd to fr ve greater control of the flow pf the ra crop to marketg Qf tho world. Tho goal in the membership drive, now in progress in other parts of the state nnd scheduled to be hckMiere in February, is 95 per per cent of the crop "is" signed" thti new plan will not go into effect. Each C. v.

agrees ta sell only to clearing house shippers, a provision, that would leave, outside shippers without grapes if the grower membership goal Is attained. That this goal will be reached ia Indicated by results In sections where the drive has started, Conn said. In Tulare County, described as the "toughest district" for tho campaign, 85 per pent of the growers already have joined. Tn Lodl section. 37 per cent of the To- jcny and 60 of the ha sicrned, nml virtually all of other black grape men arc expected to to-day.

The new clenrir.gr house agreement was described by Conn as probably the moat rljrid ever developed. Already 42,000 carloads of next year's crap are represented hy thn shipper members. Conn prefaced his outline of thn new phin with a nummary of the vineyard 1st association's accomplishments and a discussion of the grope situation. Satisfied With Progress "We are satisfied that things am off now a they wruM havo bpnn without the C. V.

he declared. "This vast industry, taking in lOO.OnO acres of grapes, represents a notional, and in thn c.ise of raisin varieties, a monopoly, but growers have allowed themselves to be pawns In the hands of those "The a to give, control." Answering fhe question of overproduction. Conn declared that never has another agricultural commodity been distributed so rlV as havo grapnn. He blamed A. plan was absolute grower was explained that no bulletin nf the k-nu'hy a during the late- aft' noon, As a result of thn fnvorablo i the.

last i days nd the attitude of court physicians as exn retrod in the announcc- fhe Rritifih Krnpiio accepted the a King.Georgn at last had "turned the corner" in his erif iiadfi an "apostle," at tho Angelus icnl ilinesa and a continuance of Temple, he. claimed. his progress might be, expected. State Engineer To Aid In Road Survey RAN FRANCISCO, Dec. UP The state highway commission o-(lay took favorable action tho request of Hnnford and Le- moorc Chambers of Commerce for he loan of services of a state high- wnv enirineor to make surveys and study of work to dune in constructing the Chnlme Pass Tionfi.

connecting lower San Jonquin Valley with the coast at Kan Luis Ohispo. Stribling Defeats Cuban By Knockout MACON, Dec. Young Klrihling, Macon heavyweight. knocked out Don I'nnchn of Havana, Cuba in tile roup.f! of a ten-rounil fight here to-night, i i i ''ii- a right to the iaw down for the count of nine earlier in tile round. Strihling weighed 18H, Castano i low prices of raisins on exec: sivn eonmel iUnn uacke.ra and Stm-M'tld Raisin Grower.

1 and said that, is no good for a. two and one-half or three rent raisins. Must Control Supj'iv Sooner or later, he paid, thn prowerK of raisins must realizo that. Hie only solution JK the control of supply, so a a comparatively Hmnll carryover ran not set tho prtcp of i i i crop. The prnnJem i.s figgravated by i on poor Innd nnd by liIanli'iL-s on Rood land that nave firfiin'ontod.

Thf.se vineyards, he snid, hf rtulled out. They 200,000 tons annually. pi.intintrs coniinq Into bear- licnvcvcr, would offset this re- With the WUVP. of the in fliienra epidemic steadily proachinR the larger centers of population, public health sen-ice officials tn-day predicted a tolul of cases by Christmas. Official reports received by heullh service showed a totul of 141,077 iiclnal cases reported hy state authorities for (he week ending December lit, lint tills was IhotiBht to be less than 11 fifth of fhe I Ipiilcatlmr ubout pcrsoii.s now aft: afflicted.

If the present rate maintained, offlclaln said, (hero probably will be new cases for (he week ending December 22. Tliu epidemic probably bus reached iln height in the West and Middle West, officials said, since the cycle of the, disease nins from three to sl.v weeks. Kxperts agreed littlo can bo done to halt an Influenza epi. demic i tbo cycle has expired. Intensive experiments are brine made by the public health service on rabhlls, monkeys and anhvuiU in efTorN lo dclermlni! cause of the disease.

Scientists believe the In- fllli-imi germ may ho too inlnutu to obsen'o with existing microscopes. On this basis. Conn estimated, frapp face the problem of di.sryjsal of tons. Of drviri" a i a fully 1.000,000 tons he sold nvofitably as A 1,200.000 tons of vnriftifii, he snid, could be nrr.fifjibjy disposed of in the fresh markets. Fnr iii.spnsal of tho remainder of thn crop.

Conn expects much from bv.prortiiels. Three were mentioned nrticularly promising. The first is crane concentrate. If one rrallon of this predict could be sold in evcrv home in the nation vr-ju- entire California crop he absorbed in the process this, he said, obvkmaiy is impoa- (Ree CONN. Page "15, CoT.

4) V7EATHER San Joaquin Valley. Pair liciivy il'OSt, frcntlo variaMc Coia '5.