The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 9

Sergeant Mary Brown Does Mary Brown find romance and hsppl-ness when she becomes a hostess at an army camp? Read about her adventures In the thrilling now serial story by Louise Holmes appearing daily In The Fresno Bee Dorothy Dix Tor tountl advice and entertaining resiling Dorothy Mix's advice to (he lovelorn column is to be highly recommended It appears daily on The Bee pages THE REPUBLICAN VOU 40 FRESNO CAL TUESDAY EVENING AUGUST 4 1942 LUGGAGE OKEH-NO PLACE FOR BABY Jeweler Pleads Guilty To Murder Of Girlfriend Gireth Will Be Sentenced Monday In Oakland For Slaying Sweetheart USES Is Blamed For Shortage Of labor On Farms Beet Grower Leader Hits Service For Failing To Aid Farmers Bandit Suspects Held For Trial In Superior Court Thomas Vickery Earl Pref zer Accused Of Stealing Auto Robbing Pair Work Replaces Frivolity In Hawaii Asserts Fresnan Hard work has supplanted frivolity in Honolulu since the Japanese' raid oil Pearl Hat Ivor December Tilt This is the opinion of Miss Maud Schaeffer who for fifteen years was the principal of the division of the Kamehameha School in Honolulu Formerly she was dean of women at the Fresno State College "The people were dismayed because our army and navy were caught off guard but instead of going to pieces they rallied and down to work" she dr-i vlared I Everyone Forced To Work one is forced to work at -omeihing Investigations are made )f all persons who are absent from work more than circumstances -vould warrant Thomas Vickery 23 Pomona and Earl Pretzer 22 Fresno were who are reluctant to work held to answer to the superior court Miss Maude Schaeffer OAKLAND Aug Dapper Leslie Gireth 39 Glendale Jeweler acting as his own attorney pleaded guilty In the superior court here today to the slaying of his sweetheart Dorena Hammer 21 in a San Leandro auto court Judge Lincoln Church set next Monday as the date for sentencing the defendant who waived all legal aid and preferred to represent himself on the murder charge Modified Plea Rejnrted Clreth was thwarted however In an effort to submit a modified plea and to have a Jury determine the degree of the crime Ills attempts caused temporary confusion In the courtroom necessitating a half hour conference with Monroe Friedman who had represented the Jeweler at an earlier hearing Gireth won permission to act as his own an unusual after Church had satisfied himself the defendant was aware of the seriousness of the charge Asks Determination Of Crime Then tn a cool and unemotional voice Gireth arose and said: plead guilty to causing the death of Lorena Hammer and ask that a Jury determine the extent of my crime" The court recessed after Gireth was Informed that the question of the degre of his crime could not be submitted to a lury Previously the Glendale jeweler disregarded the advice of his attorney and appeared before the grand Jury whlrh Indicted him for the fatal July 14th shooting of the girl whom he registered as his wife at the San Leandro auto court Gireth was arrested In Fresno the day following the slaying of Miss Hammer He came to Fresno nnd telephoned Oakland police admitting the slaying after conferring with his business partner In Bakersfield Youth Is Drowned In Shaver Lake Sheriffs deputies this afternoon started a search for the body of Melvin Huber 18 Kerman who drowned at about 1 o'clock this afternoon in Shnver I-ake Undersheriff John Ford said the youth had been swimming with Donald Fischer and Chester and Ernest Ifelmulh when he became exhausted The other boys attempted to rescue him bul were unsuccessful Their attempts to locate his body likewise were unavailing and Deputy Sheriffs Eugene Hunter and Harold Emmlck were dispatched to the lake to direct the search Cordon Lyons secretary-manager of the Central California Beet Growers Association charged last night In a radio address that the United States Employment Service has been extremely remiss In aiding farmers In obtaining labor His discussion originated in the studios of Station KFBK in Sacramento and was carried by The Fresno Bee Station KMJ and other affiliates of the Golden West Network Deny There Is Shortage the Washington office of the United States Employment Service did certify our application to import Mexican labor local and regional representatives have continuously maintained there is no farm labor shortage in California' said Lyons attitude has heen main lained despite their inability to fill orders for farnj labor which were Placed by our growers In local offices of the federal agency throughout the slate is even more tragic is that despite ample evidence on every hand crons are rotting in the fields because of this farm labor shortage these erroneous and 111 considered statements are still being made by local officials of the United Slates Employment Service This continues to hinder our efforts to get arm workers" Need Is Acute Lyons said it Is the contention of farmers under existing conditions if their beet crops are to be harvested at all it will be necessary to Import labor immediately and called upon Paul McNutt head of the War Manpower Division to Issue such directives as necessary to Insure the full utilization of such labor as Is presently available He said this means that ways and means must be provided so labor-erg now needed on farms shall ren der sufficient and full time service Instead of in towns for days at a time" when work is to be done In the fields He urged wage ceil Ings be established consisten with farmers' ability to pay 'Pirating Is Charged Lyons further asked that McNutt Instruct the federal employment service to desist in the practice of labor from rural areas to supply newly created war industries Because of unsatisfactory experience in obtaining labor this year Lyons aald the temper of California farmers Is becoming such the production of foodstuffs in the future is seriously jeopardized He said some of the beet growers are considering planting their land next year to crops requiring a minimum of hand labor unless In the meantime they see evidence of real help being given them by government agencies growers have seen many of their laborers drafted into the armed forces and many others go Into war industries which are operating on a cost plus basis and thus can afford to pay higher wages than farmers" said Lyons They feel very strongly that since all of these things are beyond their S-ontrol they are entitled to help ef rom our government If they are to continue producing food" address was the second in a series over stations of the Golden West Network as a part of the Food For Victory program of California farmers hy Justice of the Peace George DeWolf late yesterday after a preliminary bearing on two charge of robbery one of grand theft and one of possession of firearm by an ex convict The men are charged jointly with the offensea which were committed here on July Sth and which were followed by series of hoidupa in Oakland and in Santa Cruz during the next three days Accused Of Aula Theft They are accused of stealing an automobile belonging to Alvin Dunn from a garage at 1601 San Pablo Avenue early on the morning of July 5th The hoidupa occurred within few hours after the theft of the automobile In one Paul Gandy North and Elm Avenues and Albert Sipe Route 5 Box 351 were robbed of $40 while they were parked at First and Shields Avenue The other holdup occurred on Elm Avenue south of Easton where they robbed Joe Klemoskl and Lloyd Denmark Jr soldiers formerly stationed at the Lemoore Basic Flying School of STOl Follow Soldiers' Car Deputy Distnct Attorney Clarke Savory said Pretzer and Vickery followed the soldiers' car as It was driven from Fresno and overtook it south of Easton where they forced it over to the side of the rosd and staged the holdup Vickery and Pretzer Savory said are ex convicts They were sen tenced to the San Quentin Penitentiary In 1939 after being involved In a series of hoidupa here and were released from the prison in April of this year Savory said the pair reportedly staged several holdups in Oakland before going to Santa Cruz- where on the night of July 8th four more holdups occurred Wanted By Santa Crus Officers The Santa Cruz authorities have filed a robbery charge against the pair and have requested they be turned over to them for prosecution after the rases here are completed Paul Otis Stanton 22 Pomona who was arrested after Pretzer and Vickery were taken into custody is faring a charge of being an accessory in the theft of the automobile Savory said Stanton drove Vick ery to this city from Pomona on July 3rd and that he furnished transportation for them when they stole Dunn's car He originally also was charged with Implication In the holdups but this charge wai dismissed when an Investigation revealed he was not present when the robberies were committed Arrested Soon Alter Crimes The three youths were arrested less than a week after the offenses were committed here They were trapped for a few min-ulci after the Santa Cruz holdups when 'te officers surrounded them a oded tract but managed to escape Stanton was picked up and questioned hy the officers there but later was released Pretzer and Vickery were arrested July 10th hy sheriffs deputies who were watching for them to return to this city and Stanton was arrested when he called at the jail that night to Inquire concerning them- iie hauled before the military -ourti for judgment "A customary fine for minor infractions usually consists of donating a pint of blood and buying a victory bond When the crime is revere a prison sentence is Japanese Restricted Miss Schaeffer said the Japanese on the 65 per rent of the total are allowed to carry on business with certain restrictions one can say whether the Japanese are she said many of them are employed on outside job in defense work newcomers to the Island or 'malchinis' in Hawaiian view the Japanese with suspicion The natives of the islands who are called kamaalna' consider the Japanese loyal and employ them latter group takes the viewpoint the Japanese are under close surveilance by the FBI and army lgents and are helpless anyway" Bond Sales Heavy Hawaii ranked fifth among the forty eight states and the territories in the purchases of victory bonds during June Miss Schaeffer lists some of the means by which the provost marshal encourages the drive: Each person In the Islands is limited to $200 In currency Those who are apprehended for hoarding must buy victory bonds with all surplus funds All minor offenses tried In the military courts require the defendant to purchase a bond and to donate a pint of blood Tells Of Bald Miss Schaeffer said at first she thought the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor was only an army maneuver 'I was standing on the balcony of one of the school buildings which overlooks the harbor when the raid started" she said could see planes falling to the earth in flame hut until we received a phone call twenty minutes later we thought they were only very realistic maneuvers Even then none of us could believe Impregnable Pearl Harbor was being attacked Yet we could see the smoke from the disabled ships in the harbor and the fountains of water spouting from the falling bombs Bomber Shot Down The most tragic sight was a formation of about seven bombers which flew in unarmed from America I saw one of these shot down Most of the others were permitted to land then were strafed with machine gun Miss Schaeffer arriver by the Honolulu Clipper at Treasure Island July 23rd She retired from her school position because of ill health She is residing at the home of her sister Mrs A Warner at 1623 Street Formerly a member of the Fres no High School faculty Miss Schacff'r became the first dean of women at the Fresno State College and was member of the original faculty She resigned in 1927 and was associated with the school In Honolulu until her recent return She is a graduate of the University of California and attended Columbia University and Oxford In England Miss Schaeffer received word since her return that the school In Honolulu has been taken over by the army ai an annex of the Tripler Hospital Japanese Mai Order Purchases Of Sugar Banned Mail order purchases of sugar by Japanese in the Fresno District Fairground Assembly Center from retail grocery stores throughout Fresno County has been ordered stopped by the Office of Price Administration following an Investigation conducted under the direction of Fred Kurz district manager of the OPA here We received complaints the Japanese were having sugar sent out to the center and Immediately investigated the situation" said Kurz found the reports to be true and submitted our findings to the stale office In San Violated Reg-illation A1 King executive secretary of ihe Fresno Sugar Rationing Board said the Japanese were purchasing the sugar in violation of federal rogulationa which require persons to turn back their ration books if they are confined in a public Institution for more than ten (lays state headquarters ruled the purchase of sugar by the Japanese was Illegal and ordered an immediate halt to auch sales and delivery" said King Ration Books Taken Up He said the government furnishes ample sugar for the Japanese In the assembly centers Pulliam manager of the renter Is now engaged in collecting the ration book throughout the renter which haa a population of nearly 5000 persons King explained when the books have been turned in they will be retained in the family folders by Ihe authorities in charge of the assembly center Meanwhile Curtis Miller secretary of the Fresno County Retail Grocers Association Issued Bovs Girls Souoht At a bulletin to the membership call-Doy wru ougnT )n(f atlonton t0 the rulIng by the Wage Dispute Brings Strike At Cutler Winery Employes of the California Growers W'nery at Cutler went on strike today and two picketr were placed at the plant as the outgrowth of aj breakdown In wage negotiations between representatives of the Winery and Distillery Workers Union AFL affiliate and the South San Joaquin Winery Employeri Aa-soelation Approximately twenty persons were directly affected by the strike which included all hut the office and administrative employes of the winery Association Has 82 Wineries The association's membersnip Includes thirty two wineries In Madera Frerno Tulare Kings and Kern Counties Wallace Henderson representative of the union said the wage negotiations were conducted on a slate wide basis but he declined to reveal the extent to which the union plans to extend the strike action Ho Said the wage contract expired July 31st and the strike action was taken when it became apparent there was no hope of reaching an agreement with the employers on a higher arale for the ensuing year Cite Living Cost Rise He sn the union sought wage 'creases with the eared rc-ls of living L'anuel Harklerond president the employers' association said Ihe employers offered an Increase of 10 cent an hour which was declined by the union and added union representatives refused to arbitrate Ten New Officers Are Assigned To Medical Staff At Hammer Field Assignment of ten new first lieutenants tn the medical staff of Hammer Field is announced in a bulletin received today from Brigadier General A Davis commandant of the Medical Service School at Carlisle Barracks Car lisle Pa The officers are: Saul Daiell Brooklyn Paul Yallerott St Louis Mo Leo If Mugnton HyatlaviUe Ind Redmond It Walsh Bronx Harold Goldberg Little Rock Ark Henry Myers Boston Mara Samuel Kline Colin Birmingham Ala Oscar A Hamilton Jr Rixhnrds Texes Lester A Wall Jr nnliimoic Md and Camhle Ilnli New York City They are physirlans and most of them completed their Internships In June In medic! schools they studied military courses along with their professional training In the medical field service school they were tn a class of 840 being trained for field duty with the medical corps receiving an Intensive one mouth course A Unc photographer recorded tiiesc i ncongruous scenes on Fresno streets showing the attitude of the Fresno City Lines toward itassmgers with baby buggies as eontrasted with Us treatment of those unth luggage Upper a bus driver denies two young women the right to board his bus with a Italy buggy A moment later he drove autay leaving them to trundle the carriage four blocks home Lower another driver cheerfully jumps out tn help a young woman carrying turn large suitcases which occujncd more more space than the Italty buggy Suitcase Welcomed On Bus Is Aniwer To Gocart A typical scene was enacted nn a Fresno residential corner ye' terduy afternoon where two young women one with a small baby in her arms were waiting on the shudeless corner fur a bus Beside them was a folded hnhy carriage The bus rolled up stopped end Ihe doors opened One' of the women stooied to pick up Ihe folded carriage while the other carrying the hnhy started to board the bus 'You might as well not pick that' 2000 Japanese Are Evacuated In Latest Move OPA banning sales of sugar to the Japanese County Tires Stolen Sheriffs deputies were railed today to investigate the theft of nine tires which were removed from county owned equipment In the Krrman district Answer Fire Call The fire department was railed to Ihe George Pope residence at 929 Yale Avenue at about 7 o'clock last night when food burning on a store resulted In a smoke scare Acting Fire Marshal Speed said there was no damage Red Cross Workers Boys and girls of high school age experienced in stenographic work are needed fnr volunteer work In the Fresno County chapter house of Ihe American Red Cross at 282? Fresno Street Increased work In home service for military families and correspondence with men In the armed forces neceisitate the addition in the chapter staff Volunteers may apply direct to Miss Katherine O'Connor at the rhnpter house or telephone Mrs William Keeler at 2-7428 Approximately 2100 of the Iasi 6000 persons of Japanese ancestry in Fresno and Tulare Counties excepting the 5000 In the Fresno District Fairground Assembly Center and 4700 in the Tulare County Fairground Center have been moved to relocation centers tn Arl- ihod been a 15 per rent Incrtnse In "'tit fiom Visalia Sanger and immirv i04t the question George Hume of Fresno served as mediator In the diseussions Harkleroad said the employers based their offer of a 10 rents an hour Increase on the derision of federal officials In the Little Steel wage controversy which was settled upon basis of a finding that there illving com between January 1941 Record Hits Of 1917 Again May See Service With Fighters Old phongrsph records of hits of the first World War urh as Over There By The Beautiful Sea and K-K-K-Katy may see service In the present world conflict All of the records collected In Ihe notion wide Records For Out Fighting Men drive are to he sold as material which will he used to make new and the proceeds used to buy new records 'from the manufacturers at cost Many of the records collected by Whaf You Buy With 'ICTORY BOND I take that on here" the driver called to the woman picking up the buggy Tut It On Lawn' rnmpany wax involved In $5000 suit on account of one of those he continued ''Put it over there on the lawn (indicating a nearby ynrdi and pick It up when you i-arne back" The wntnrn stood back heslital-Ing They had come more than four blocks with the baby and buggy brut on shopping trip downtown But without the carriage along baby wa too heavy and besides It was tough on baby The dilver snapied the doors shut and drove on leaving the young women to push the huggy fuur blocks home In the heat of Ihe afternoon sun Suitcases Are Welcome In conttnt wilh this treatment of women wish baity carriages an-olhrr dilver quickly Jumped out of Medical detachments In all branches of our military and naval forrea require leg splints for emergency service The uncalled Thomas steel splints cost a pair ind May 1512 Granted Increase IjI Year fie said a wage Increase granted by the winery operators year ago coupled with the 10 rent an hour tnrrease offered at thfi time would bring the average Incense tn winery workers to approximately 30 per rent He said the union has asked inrreases averaging 3m per cent over the scale that was In effect to last Saturday Tire Wheel Stolen Edna Long 4247 While Avenue reported th inis of a tile and a wlir'-l which wore stolen from autnmi'hile l-ccdlcy under the supervision ot military authorities Willard Mun-h local nuinngcr if the Wartime Civil Control Ad-ministration said the evneuailon Is scheduled to ha completed Friday night Contingents of 500 persons leave each morning at 10 o'clock from Ihe Sanger rivll mntrol station while soerial trains e-ive every other night from llcedley and Visalia Morsh said In addition to per- onnl belonging taken hy the Jap-men as they entrain for the I epic-on renters llirv ir unity Ink'- alum l-x-kcts of fruit from the tam-hes th-'y are leasing ords on ttelr porches for pickup on the following delivery Boy Scout are making a house to house canvas In a last mlnutf effort to meet the local quota Tersons unable to leave their records at the designated rollerting stations may call Ihe following for rollectlon: Legion heailqunrlrrs 2-2521 Frd-erst Po-l N' StS MM! rlh! of niixilifiry tiri No 4 2-1474 AMs Wcti'ii 5-1104: Lula Kerrh'k 2-1378 and Flotenc' Roth 2-4761 DRAPERY CLOSEOUTS V2 to OFF! Large Selection Some Half Pairs I 2 or 3 Pairs In Soma Pattarm ALSO 2j-Yard Lengi Sample Uphofotery Fabrici Damaiki Tapeitriei etc his bus and cheerfully helped a young woman carrying two heavy suitcases hy plarlng the luggage in the bus for her like you've got more there! than you ran enrry" he said ns he leaped to help his customer What is ell this stew alioui hnh buggies and buses ocratri ty tin Fresno City Line now seeking to increase its fares (torn 5 cents to 7 cents? Ask any young mother who has to use a bua to do her shopping for i the family and has to carry her hahy along with her because there is no one at home to care for it Problem Faces Mother One young mother tiding home on a Fresno City Lines lm yesterday fared this very problem Luckily for her she had her year old nephew along to help with the burden i-nnMfm: nr one 14 month old hnhy ho and two shopping hags full of things "It rertalnly i inconvenient for me" she cxclninird snoot take a buggy nn the bus nnd I have to use the bus beratiM wa have no car do not know where they would put Mg buggies nr go calls In these buses hut why they have compartments or luggage racks In them like nn Greyhound buses? folding buggies do not lake any rnnre room than a tool box nr a suit ruse and they let them hiing them nn a MimI l'e ar Another young mother shopping downtown It It her small hah) In a factor lot lemnikcd: "I ued to none down town fie-quenlly nn the bus helot the luihy jwas horn But they would not let me get nn with a small rullapslhle (Toni billed Page Mil 1 Ihe American Legion In Fresno were made prior to 1914 The materials In these dlsra actually will become veterans of two wars Local Drive Kxtended The national campaign was to end Sunday hut the lornl drive has hern extended to Thursday Onl) two days remain nnd Fresno at lit in more than TOmxj record shy of ll quota The national quoin I 17 500000 records which if obtained will in i vlrle a fund of at least 5iil7rsii io supply music for An-eiics's fighting men Frank Onrta ronmimirr of the Ficsno Post No 4 of tile legion urged Fresnan to make a Inst minute checkup for old reroids lie -nl-i it Is estimated at least 2We (Minrxj worn scratched and battered reordn are gathering dust in American allies basements and closets and there surely an rniiiiqh In thli district to meet thei lornl quiita All grocery Here are cooperating as rnllerling depots Records nlso may he Irfl at Veteran Vcnuiiliil Iluililuu! M-inpo-a and Streets or al the P'ies-t'er A Sihhfler P-idin Riorc at 1213 I reel ie-wiunriers for lh Fed Jerry Siegal And Joe Shuster He Wants Out superman Base hospitals and many siillii regular equipment although in hospitals require these siillnl as many cases two rifles are used as splints when no regular equipment Is available fnr ue on broken legs Ynur purchase of Victory bonds and stamps will help buy these essential splints for nur in lured soldlei and fliers Join the Ten Per tent' 10G0 North Fulton Mere Hour Dolly I'nlll 7 Frills I'nlll IFM flub- lnvcl at eit l't per cent 'frM 0f rin your Income In Victory bmls an I miknr their rtHprrlrs Wr-rtcy and today in the re I- way To lnvrl'K sect lm left reminder fnr It lmsiiry Department 'he consume! to leave their rec-' I I.