The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 11

a Sift THE FRESNO DAUGHTER Kathleen thrilling new aerial which begins in The Fresno Bee to-morrow is a California story with a state-wide background Bead how Victoria Herrendeen achieved happiness after seeing too much of both beauty and suffering LEARN ABOUT STYLES Mary Hampton who wrote for twelve years under the name of Ninon in San Francisco has a daily column about styles in The Bee and read it Be sure THE REPUBLICAN VOL 28 FRESNO CAL THURSDAY EVENING APRIL IS 1838 NO 6840 EXPERT EMPLOYED TO REVISE WATER IN CITY IS 50 PER CENT UNDERLASTYEAR County Official Says Record Collections Will Benefit 1936-37 Budget Action Follows Protest On Rates For Sprinklers In Business Buildings Study To Determine Savings On Bills Of Consumers Under New Schedule I The city commission to-day spied i propriated $250 for tha employment The Fresno County tax delinquency for the 1935-86 fiscal year is 50 per cent less than last year and for the first time since 1929 has reached the pre-depression level of the 1927-28 period This la shown to-day in an incomplete tabulation by Hatch tax collector who says the delinquency to date Is 0396 as compared to 0786 for the same period last year These figures do not represent the final Walter Cooper former ft-search director for the California Railroad Commission was authorised by the city commission to-day to study the voluntary rate reduction offered by tha Sen Joaquin Light and Power Corporation to its gas consumers In order to determine if Fresno consumers will obtain the savings on their gas bills to which they arc entitled The railroad commission consider the application of company to make effective rate reduction May let while sib-ting en banc Monday City Attorney Claude La Rows and Mayor 3 Lcymel said they will he In attendance Heating Quality At Issue The employment of Cooper was authorised on Rowe's recommendation The city attorney said Cooper should study tbs revised rate schedule and should also study tho question as to whether the railroad commission Include In its -order concerning the reduction a provision ae to a minimum heating quality of the gas The motion of Mayor Lcymel to this effect passed unanimously Finance Commissioner William Class wax absent Mayor Leymel'e request of three weeks ago the railroad commission fixing the minimum heating quality of was served Fresno consumers at 1150 British thermal units was answered to-day by Msthewaon secretary of the commission Mathewson In a brief letter to tho city commission said the request had been received and the railroad commission will give tha Eugens Jewett extreme right commander of the Fresno Poet of the American Legion presenting checks to the winners of a slogan contest for Public Schools Week They are back row left to right Elmer Ogle Edwin Kandarian and Clay Coiner front row left to right Merel Bradley Donald Knight and Kitty Clairs Butler Staff Photo 1 Stammer Slayer May Be Hanged of Walter Cooper rat expert to revise all water department rates with the exception of the flat rates as the result of numerous protest from business buildings in connection with the standby charge made for automatic sprinklers in basements Firs Marshal A Moore presented a file of protesting letters received from tha business men to the effect the charge was too high in consideration of the water used and the small amount of maintenance expense connected with the systems Commissioner of Public Works Jean Vlncenx said he believed tha raise should be revised and recommended the employment of Cooper Sprinkler rates are baaed on a standby charge depending on the toe of the installation Medium-sized basements are charged 34 monthly and larger and smaller ones are charged accordingly Damage Claim Is Filed A claim for damages aeeertedly resulting from the municipal airport made by Mrs Pearl Oliwlen Tellman Avenue and Whites Bridge Road was referred to City Attorney Claude Rowe Through her attorney Lindsay South Mra Oliwlen says the drainage wells at the airport has resulted In the polu-tlon or her domestic water supply which to obtained from a well She aid her water supply on occasion contsins dust and oil City Clerk Harry Foster was authorised to advertise for bide on the paving of Street from Stanislaus to Fresno Streets the bids to be opened at II A May 14th Permission was granted Don McKee to operate an airplane instruction school at the municipal airport Elimination from the fruit buying and shipping field of the 1-Jump Fruit Company operated until recently at Modesto by Joseph D'Ae- osepr cardo became effective to-day when the California State Division of Market Enforcement announced D'Accardo'a license as a produce buyer shipper and commission merchant has been revoked DVAccardo doing business as the Hi-Jump concern was accused of failure to make payments or settle accounts with three Fresno district grape growers Parker Frlsselle Mrs A Clark and A Unruh It was charged the firm purchased grapes from the local producers on consignment received payment from Eastern buyers then failed to make returns to the growers The Hl-Jump company on April 3rd filed a 1 voluntary petition in bankruptcy and later an Involuntary petition filed against the concern and Anthony Bianco of New York an affiliate listed claims of $40000 and assets of $12000 5345 Persons Are Employed By WPA In Valley District A total of 5545 persons are em ployed by the Works Progress Ad-atio ministration in the Ban Joaquin Valley end eastern Sierra counties comprising District Nov 4 This was announced to-day by Earl Cummings following the latest employment survey completed by the organization Freano with 1575 leads the list and Alpine County with none le at the foot of the counties of this district Other figures are Kern 1452 Tulare 1060 Kings 210 Madera 604 Inyo 92 and Mono 52 COBLE RITES SET Funeral services for Chris Coble 83 who died here yesterday of automobile accident injuries suffered March 27th will be conducted at 3 to-morrow in the Lisle Chapel Coble who lived for many year at 2412 Mariposa Street is survived by an uncle Mlnturn Coble in North Carolina However the father gave John no specific instructions and setting off the explosive seemed to him the easiest and best tray to obey Yesterday John obtained a cap and fuse took the box of dynamite about 300 yards to the rear of his home and touched off two-foot fuse Windows at the Msltla home and those in the near vicinity were shattered John Injury I Government Charges True Facts Of Hollywood Dry Misstated LOS ANGELES April 0U9 Assistant Attorney Leo Silver-stein charged Hollywood Dry Corporation declared dividends as "come-ons" for stock buyers to-day at the trial of the firm's officers on mall fraud chargee Silvers tain contended the firm was not Intended to be a legitimate enterprise hut a promotional scheme LOS ANGELES April WV-The first witnesses were summoned to-day in the mall fraud trial of three officials of the defunct Hollywood Dry Company Prosecutors allege the true condition of the company was misrep resented by the defendants Harry A Williams Glenn Black and William Munton in mailed matter which induced the public to Invest Defense counsel maintain the representations were mads in good faith and except for internal dii sension among directors the concern would have prospered The trio was indicted in 1932 Two others named in the indlct- ment obtained postponements of their trials until June 29th and Henry Dernier and Herbert Freeland former officials of the company have entered nola contendere pleas Dermer testified after the prosecution had read into the record a detailed account of the articles of Incorporation of the company Lloyd Henley JrM Slated To Head Fresno Ski Club Lloyd Henley Jr is a nominating committee's choice for president of the Fresno 3ki Club which will elect new officers at the final meeting of the 1935-36 season at 7:30 to-night in the Hotel Hughes Dick Mitchell to nominated for vice president and Barbara Warren for corresponding secrets ty Ted Ruschhaupt and Jean Glasscock are nominated for secretary-treasurer Others may be named from the floor John Hodgkin youthful Fresno adventurer who recently made lone trip on skis into the high Sierra will show motion pictures of hto exploration Another film will be shown of the national ski championships at Mt Rainier Principals In the opera Martha Fresno High School to-morrow night by Flotow to he presented at the with George Wolf William Gorham and dfMi and below Jane McPherson and Jack James who sing the leading roles The costumes worn were designed for the San Francisco Civic Opera Company this Staff Photos Upper Vivienne Hi anaen pictured oss Bagdssarian left to right delinquency ch says the tax collections to date amount to $489919518 as compared to $374435920 for last year The tax charge for 1935-36 was $5-10156664 against $4063484X3 for the last fiscal year Better Conditions Cited He said better prices realised for crops last Fall and the ability of farmers to borrow money from banks and federal crop loaning agencies account in a large part for the heavier tax collections County officials said the heavy collection 'of current and delinquent taxes is expected to ease -the tax burden during the 1936-87 fiscal year The county annually makes an allowance of 10 per cent for de linquent taxes and tha delinquency of 0396 leaves more than 6 per cent of the estimated delinquency to go Into the unbudgeted reserve as a credit toward expenses necessary to carry on the government during 1936-37 Mass Education Held Aid To World Peace Mass education was offered as tha best means toward universal peace by David Tuttle deputy county superintendent of schools in a talk last night at a Joint meeting in The Californian of the Federal Post and Fresno Women's Post of the American Legion and the Federal Auxiliary "We must teach democracy and tolerance" he said "Building great armiea and naviee will not assure peace" Embry Ratcllffe professor of science at the Fresno State College said the price of peace includes "keeping our nationals and money at home during war and giving up much of our foreign 1 The Federal Auxiliary will sponsor a dance for the benefit of child welfare fund Saturday evening In the Marigold Ballroom Infant Son Of Senator Ray Hays Dies Here Edward Hays 25-day-old son of Stats Senator and Mrs Ray Hays of 8261 Belch Avenue died yesterday in a local hospital Private funeral services were followed buriel in the Holy Cross Came-ter There are four brothers and sisters Lecal Offtea Dallas StmtM Weather Sanaa Fresno Callfi April 31 1911 (19-921 BrU Bld( Teltphon 1-7111 Fererasti Till FrlSsr FOR FRESNO AND Partly cloudy to-ntiht and Friday mild temperature lidit variable wind FOR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA Fair south and cloudy in north portion tori laht with rain on extreme north coast Friday cloudy with oeeoelonul rain in north portion no chanse in temperature Weather Coadlttoae An unsettled elate of weather has continued over the Pacific-Northwest and over Northern and Central California with llahl ahowen over the I renter portion of those redone la connection with the relatively low pressure which (till prevail! writ of the Rockies Rein and snow fell in Montana and tha Dakotas and rain In the toutheuetem states hut mostly fair weather has prevailed beyond the Rockies In connection with the extensive hlch pressure covrrini the reclon There wee tract or renin temperature In the upper Mississippi and Ohio Valley lake redan and middle Atlantic states Lcverlni pressure alone the middle Rockies Is attended by a substantial tin in temperature In the northern plains elates More or lee cloudy and unsettled weather Is indicated for this valley over Friday and probably Saturday duo to- the barometric disturbance which remains off the Orecon roast BONNETT For 34 Hears Enilnr At i A 139th Meridian Tima Lowest Freda Richest last last 14 yesterday nliht hours Bismarck Boston Buffalo 911(9999 "ChiCIIO IMMHI Oinclnnfttl Detroit 44 El Paso 79 Eureka (4 Pikestaff 99 FRESNO 9 1 Havre Kansas City 99 Los Anteles Memphis Minneapolis 41 Montsomery Montreal Needles New Orleans 71 Hew York Oklahoma City 94 Omaha Phoenix Flttsburuh 43 Portland 90 Redd Ins Reno I Sacramento St Louie Balt Lake City 71 Ben Antonio Ban Dleco Ban Francisco Santa Fa Seattle Tampa a Wash tattoo Yuma Special Calif erala Beporte 1AM (Orchard Temperature) Stall one Max Min Weather sen Stockton Meroed FrtffflO netlliiiiii I Lindsey Porterville 17 Bakersfield 91 Klnxs Piedra (1 A Ml stars 110 feet dlscherre 1(99 second fret Ban Joaeuln River Kerckboff Power House (overate for 34 hours to last mid-nl(ht) 9M9 second fret -Local Data 1 9 PM (AM Noon Barometer 3911 3991 3000 Temperature dry 71 3 79 Temperature wet 99 3 Humidity per cent 30 99 4 Temperature 3:39 to-day It dc- Friday June 12tb The execution of Elton Stone for tha fiendish murder of Mary Louise Stammer can take place June 12th on the Folsom Prison gallows if legal machinery operate at top speed between now and that date District Attorney Dan Conway to-day received notice from the supreme court that the remittitur in the Stone case would arrive in Fresno May 5th effective May 6th as tha date of execution can be filed thirty days from then June 12th a Friday likely wllfbe the day set It will not be necessary for Stone to be in court at the time the date hie execution to pronounced TREE FRUIT PACT Unanimous approval was given the 1838 California Fresh Deciduous Tree Fruit Marketing' Agreement by a group of Fresno district growers meeting last night at The Californian to hear provisions of the pact explained by McDrew rep-resentaive of the AAA and Gray of Sacramento tha agreement manager Formal voting on the plan will be started at once with ballots distributed to growers by mail or through farm advisors' of flees and returned by mail before May 1st the AAA regional headquarters San Francisco The group proposed Estes ln- airman Wendell Erick- cumbent cha eon and Reynolds of Madera and Buck of Fresno as members of the local control committee A similar meeting was held in Reedley at the high school auditorium last night and others are scheduled in various Central California cities William Petracone who is held the Fresno County Jail for New York officers who have sought him a manslaughter charge late yesterday petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus claiming he is il legally restrained of his freedom Superl set the erior Judge Thomson is case for hearing Satvday at 10 A Petracone was arrested by Constable Earl Bennett of Selma April 17th and New York officer were notified Petracone baaea hie petition on the ground he is held here without commitment of court and without a showing of reasonable or probable causa He says no charge has been filed against him nor has he been taken before a magistrate and charged with a crime as provided by law FIKE FUNERAL CONDUCTED Graveside rites were conducted to-day for Milton Fike 2-month-old son of Mr and Mrs Chester Fike of Fresno in the Mountain View Cemetery 1 The child who died in a local sanitarium was a Sandson of A Ludlow and Mrs arlon Fike and a brother of Verna Le Fike of Fresno The father is a rancher at Route 1 Box 583 IS SLOGAN FOR EDUCATION WEEK Elmer Ogle Wins Contest To Boost Observance In Fresno Make it a rule to visit a school That ia the slogan adopted for next week by the Fresno City schools which will hold open house exercises for the public daily from Monday to Friday and sponsor two evening programs to demonstrate the musical and physical education work being done in tl the schools Elmer Ogle high tenth grade student of the Fresno Technical 8chool submitted ihe winning Public Schools Week (login in a contest conducted by the Fresno Post of tha American Legion Clay Comer a sixth-grade student in the Addami School submitted an almost identical slogan in the elementary Make It a rule to visit your school Prises An Awarded Each winner was presented with $250 in cash by Eugene Jewett legion commander Approximately 2Q0 slogans were turned In from the thirty schools Second-place prizes of $150 each went to Edwin Kandarian Edison Tech in the secondary division for See America's citizens of to-morrow In school to-day and to Kitty Claire Butler of the Jackson School in the elementary division for We spend nine months doing it come end spend a day to see it Third-place prises of $1 each went to Merel Bradley of the Longfellow Junior High School for Everybody to a Missourian at Public Schools Week and to Donald Knight of the Rowell School for A week for us to have some fun ehowing mom and dad what we have done The judges were Warren Tinkler Mrs Lloyd Henley and Mrs Cron bach A Emory Wishon Is Operated On For Appendicitis A Emory Wishon president of the San Joaquin light and Power Corporation wee reported in a sat isfactory condition and recovering I- rapidly to-day at the Alameda San: tarium In Alameda where he underwent an operation Monday following an acute appendicitis attack Associates here said Wishon suffered the attack while at his offices earlier Monday and went to hto San Francisco home then was removed to the sanitarium and an emergency operation performed that night after the appendix burst Julia Allison Widow Of Pioneer Ice Dealer Dies Julia Allison 88 the widow of Allison died vesterday in a local hospital Mrs Alltoon was bom in Michlgan-snd came to Fresno forty-one yean ago She lived at 842 Franklin Street Alltoon who went into the ice business here in 1875 was manager of a consolidated ice company an official of a former raisin growers' association superintendent of the Mountain View Cemetery and a past master of the Lae Palmas Lodge of Masons Ha died here in April 1828 There an no descendants Funeral services for Mrs Allison will be conducted by Bishop Louis Childs Sanford at 10:80 A tomorrow in the Lisle Chapel TAILSPIN TOMMY fat BURROW in ome end or THE MYSTIC TUNMEL LEADING PROM THE DEM OP THE TERROR GAVE TOMMY AM IDEA OP ESCAPE BUT BEFORE HE AMD SKEETER COULD PUT THEIR MAM INTO ACTION THEY HEARD THEIR JAILOR ami PUSH BACK TO TWEE- HUNT WHERE WE FINIL HAM of to at in on request its consideration An application to revise the gaa rat schedule was filed by the company late last week State Marketing Agreement Is Intended To Set Up Fair Practices A Brock of Siscramsnto stats director of agriculture of a marketing agreement for macaroni manufacturers will make ths pact binding upon the Fresno Macaroni Manufacturing Company 1145 Street and the thirty-eight other California manufacturers effective April 29th The program is designed to fix quality standards and provide a standard of practices for fair competition No price-fixing provisions are included although the pact provides it is illegal to sell below the cost of production Tiro Industry boards of five mem-here each one for Northern California and one for tha southern part of the state are set up to supervise administration of tha agreement A Borreli is manager of the Fresno plant Accidental Death Toll Gains Among School Children Accidents have become the greatest single cause of deaths among children of school age replacing tuberculosis it was reported hero to-day by Dr Marion 8 Telford of Chicago director of field work for the division of education of tho National Safety Council Mra Telford spoke on Safety Programs and Individual Schools at a meeting of thirty local principals deans and counselors In the Commercial Club and later on Content of Courses in Safety Education at a meeting of school faculty safety committees in tbs board of education offlca School safety problems are peculiarly local" eh said "For instance in Fresno you have tho Summer swimming problem Programs must be planned to meet individual Mrs Telford was to speak on Programs of Safety Community Education' at a public meeting sponsored by ths Fresno County Junior Chamber of Commerce And the Fresno City Council of Parents and Teachers at 4 this afternoon in the Hotel Fresno Is Named In Divorce Complaint Eva Pratt hs filed suit for divorce against Herman I- Pratt naming Charlotte Smith as a corespondent The plaintiff ijy Pratt hex associated with the other women for the past four years and for sixteen months she lived in the home of Mr and Mrs Pratt Mrs Pratt says during that time Pratt made love to the other woman while she waa subjected to insults and abuse Pratt Is accused of giving money and presents to the other woman and carrying on a daily correspondence with her since April I3th when she left to visit friends and relatives The complaint listo community property as household furniture and Pratt's Pantry at 1308 Belmont Avenue Mrs Pratt asks $25 a month alimony Plans For Raisin Prorate Campaign Will Be Mapped cam paten id a 1936 raisin industry stabilisation pro- -cram 'proposed by the Fresno Countv Farm Bureau and a grouts -of other representative grower- wUI meet at 7:30 o'clock to-morrow night at the Commercial Club in fhg Holland Building to discus tentative management details and other preliminary -plans for launching a drive for signatures on' petitions Paul Vincent the committee chairman will preside TO BE HEARD AT FRE! Proponents or the Emergency Peace Campaign will gather tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock In the Fresno State College Auditorium for a mass meeting to discuss world peace and the keeping of Unitea States out of war Preparations for the meeting have been under way since the local peace committee met in the city hall two weeks ago The committee is headed by Dr Norman Henderson pastor of the First Congregational Church and Gilbert Jertberg Fresno attorney- Mrs Vanderburgh Is the secretary Movement Started llers The peace movement was started here four weeks ago by Dr Kirby Pags a member of the policy forming council of the campaign during a talk on world peace Speakers who will be here Induce Mrs Elisabeth McManus chairman of the board of the League of Nations Association of Southern California Dr Henry Kendall Booth of Long Beach pastor of the Long Beach Congregational Church and Frank Fager-burg of Los Angeles pastor of the First Baptist Church of Los Ango- BITES ARE CONDUCTED Rev Chester A Snyder conducted funeral services to-day for John A Richmond 43 in the chapel of Stephens A Been Richmond who lived at 474 Callisch Street died Tuesday after a long illness LARGE CAST TD Mora then 150 Freano High School students will take part in tha opera Martha to be presented by the music department of the school at 8:15 o'clock to-morrow night In the shcool auditorium Miss Virginia Watson is ths director of the production and has been assisted by Muller who has written the recitatives for the opera Jane McPherson Is singing the title role while Jack James ten has the male lead Tha opera by Flotow Is the story of Lady Harriet who weary of court life and envious of the Joyous note in the voices of the singing girls on their way to the servants' market at Richmond Fair persuades a friend Nancy to go with her disguised as peasants They also are accompanied by Sir Tristan a cousin-admirer In their disguise they meet a rich farmer Plunkett and hie foster-brother Lionel The latter la of unknown birth but possesses a ring by which he hopes to be recognised some day The girls discover that after accepting a shilling from the men they have bound themselves for a year's service As Martha and Julia they are servants at the Plunkett farm house Lionel fells in love with Martha Later the girls escape The two last acts of the opera tell of Plunkett and Lionel finding the girl the identification of Lionel ae the earl of Derby and the reconciliations of the four principal characters By HAL FORREST BETTY WAIT Y0U CArfT DO AMYTMIMGJ THERE'S SOMETHING Father Scolds-Johnny Gets Rid Of Dynamite That explosion which broke windows in houses and rocked homes for miles away in North and Eaat Freano late yesterday was only John Maltia 16 of 1304 North Fresno Street minding his father Investigating officers say Maitla recently brought home a box of dynamite friends at Huron had found and given to him and when his father heard of it ordered him to get rid of it Betty Suspects Trouble! Seasonal rainfall la dais 10 43 inchas Normal rainfall ta date 170 Inches Lost rear's rainfall ta thla data 1991 inches Normal daily maximum taapcraturi far April 14 Normal dally minimum temperature for April 49 Highest yesterday invest this data II and 69 Orchard maximum rsaterday minimum this 'dots S3 and 90 Hlsh and low this dots last star 79 and 99 Time of to-day 1:14 e( sunset 41 ('clock 5.