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THE FRESNO BEE SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 21 1935 San Joaquin Valle PONTOONS GET BLAME IN 1 A Farley Protests GOP Secret Campaign Funds ENDICOTT IN Y) Sept 21 postmaster General Jamas A Farley demanded to-day that congress and the state legislature take immediate steps to the item collection and use of a vast Republican fund to influence tie elections" "It is announced from Washington that the Republican Nations! Committee has organized a prlvdfe corporation to gather this hugs fund and hope that by this device the names of contributions may ba concealed" he told New York Shot On Duty CoaiingaTo Fete 99 Club Fliers At Annual Meeting Memorial pletion Plans Near Air Officials Plane Was Nose-Heavy WASHINGTON Sept 17 Tulare Ditch Concerns Sign Water Pact Costly Court Battle May Halt VISALIA (Tulare Co) Sept 21 The first definite step toward settlement of two-year old litigation of the Lakeside Ditch Company and sixteen smaller ditch companies against the Vutcliumna Water Company over water rights in the St Johns and Kaweah Rivers was announced here to-day Attorney James Burke coun- The airplane crash in which WUllocrats in an outdoor gathering con-Roger and Wiley Post perished in eluding a huge two-day rally Farley predicted that the electorate will show "hat they have more confidence in the builders than In the COALIXGA (Fresno Co) 8ept Fifteen women fliers from various parts of the West are expected to arrive at the Coalings Airport late to-day for the annual con-jvention of the western division of -yf the Ninety-nine Club this evening and to-morrow Arrangements for the ronvention have been made by Miss Peggy Yin-ing Coalings airplane pilul who was notified by telegram of the club's decision to meet in Coalings The western division includes California Idaho and Nevada Mrs Clenia Granger of Santa Maria the governing officer of the division will preside at the session Gladys O'Donnell one of the coast's best known women fliers will also be present at the convention as will Bessie Owene and Pansy Bowen The annual business session and election of officers is planned tonight The club members will be the guests of the Folvadcro Club at a barbecue steak dinner and other entertainment features this evening and Sunday "More Than 150 Representatives Of Division Five Will Attend Banquet EXETER (Tulare Co) Sept 21 150 person are expected to attend the banquet meeting of Divlalon Five of the Californla-Kevada District of Ki-iwenls International which ia to be held to-night in the Woman'a Clubhouse here The meeting will be in charge inf Coughran president of the local Kiwanis Club until after the entertainment when Lieutenant Governor George Wiley of Visalia will be Introduced and he in turn will Introduce Past District Governor Clark Clement of Hanford Clement will introduce William Harris of Los Angeles a past president of Kiwanis International Nine Kiwanis clubs will he represented at the meeting Taft Bakersfield Lindsay Visalia Sanger Hanford Kingsburg Fresno and Exeter An afternoon session was to be held in the Bank of America Building when the annual division meeting will be presided over by Lieutenant Governor Wiley Mrs Paul Dobson will entertain he wives of the visiting Kiwanians a tea in her home at Mcrryman Assistant hostesses will -be Mes- fli SELF WITH RIFLE Husband Ends Life While Wife Prepares To -Quit Family Home VISALIA (Tulare Co) Sept 21 --Rex Clark 32 a mechanic employed ly tha Exeter Merchantlle Company late yesterday ended his life with a 22 caliber rifle at the Clark home seven miles northeast of Visalia A sister-in-law Mrs Bruce Clark of Tulare watched frozen with horror as Clark sent s' bullet into his brain Tha Tulare woman told investigators Clark asked her to "tell all the folks He then walked into the kitchen The slster- in-law followed She told Clark to throw hi rifle down but instead he picked up a box of cartridges and inserted a stogie cartridge then fired Deputy Coroner Manuel Lewis who investigated the tragedy learned Clark and his wife were separating after marital difficulties Mrs Clark yesterday filed suit for divorce in the superior court here She charged Clark with cruelty alleging he used Improper language became intoxicated beat her and refused to use any of hla earnings to provide for his family Tha couple married in Hanford in March 1926 The mechanic met his wife aa shq went to the Clark home for her personal belongings' but no word was spoken Mrs Calrk had gone to the home of her father nearby Donald Clark 6-year-old son of the couple was playing on the floor in another room when the tragedy occurred Surviving Clark are his widow Mrs Marjorie Clark one son Donald Clark hla father Clark one brother Bruce Clark all gf Tulare two sisters Mrs John Bur-gan of Huntington Park and Mrs Grace Moreland Tulare and three uncles in Tulare He had lived In Tulare since 1912 and was a member of the Visalia Elks Lodge Funeral services will he held Tuesday morning at 10 in the Goble Parlors here and burial will be In the Tulare Cemetery Bay Ferry Boat Races To Shore But Stork Wins Alaska on August 15th probably was caused by the "extreme nose-heaviness" of Post's craft the bureau of air commerce reported today after an Investigation Aa the bureau made public its report Chairman Jesse IL Jones of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation a close friend of the Rogers family arranged to reveal later in the day plans for a memorial to the screen and stage actor Follows Earlier View The bureau of air commerce report followed closely the lines of a preliminary report issued several weeks ago in which engine failure and nose-heaviness of the craft were blamed as principal factors in tha tragedy "A study of the effect of the varl- oue changes made on the the final report said "Indicated that it was decidedly nose heavy and must have been extremely difficult if not impossible properly to control without the aid of the engine" "A statement by the pilot after the change to pontoons confirms this conclusion exact cause of the engine failure can not be determined The temperature at the time waa about 40 degrees and the failure could have been due to the engine having become cool while standing on the lagoon or to ire or to water condensation forming in the carburetor Unable To Control Plane "It is the opinion of the accident board that the probable cause of this accident was loss of control of the aircraft at a low altitude after sudden engine failure due to the extreme nose-heaviness of the aircraft iijKinERiMM fnrn frn STAS of MIDNIGHT" Also Millionaire rnpeye Cartoon News FRESN COO ST THE BIG NIGHT! SPECIAL MAJOR STUDIO Hope Held For Policeman Who Slew Assailant LINDSAY (Tulare Co) Sept 21 Attending physicinna irf the Lindsay Hospital reported to-day that Police Officer George Barlow who critically wounded early yes- waa terday morning when he was shot by Mumford Tackett 50 whom he killed had spent a satisfactory night and appears to have a chance to recover The condition is still extremely critical his liver having been punctured by a bullet from Tackett's 22-caliber rifle Barlow went to the Tackett Lome shorlly after midnjght yesterday after Mrs Tackett who had fled Tackett died Immediately and Barlow staggered aeross the street to the home of Dr Bowen Teckett'e body Is being held In the Webb Parlors here pending word from relatives In the East to a neighbor's house called Chief of Police William English and complained her husband had come home drunk snd had chased her with a rifle after beating her As the officer approached the Tackett porch Tackett loomed up in front of him and shot from a distance of about ten feet the bul-llet taking effect in his abdomen Barlow discharged his revolver four times at his assailant as he ssnk to the ground the bullets taking SAN FRANCISCO Sept 21 SIB effect Iti Tackett's chest and stork and the Sausalito auto domen IN ADDITION TO LAST SHOWING OF CLAUDETTE COLBERT IN Married Her STARTING TO-MORROW sel for the plaintiffs disclosed that Slaughter secretary of the litigation committee fdr the plaintiffs had turned over to a representative of the Wutchumna a twenty-eight-page agreement embodying the proposals for the settlement Superior Judge Erwin Owen of Bakersfield has been presiding In the trial of the controversy since February 1933 and has repeatedly urged the litigants to effect an amicable settlement The agreement prepared by the Lakeside company must bs considered and acted upon by the Wutchumna directors before it will be known whether the death knell has sounded for the complicated legal battle Many Complexities Arise After the last signature and seal had been placed upon the proposed dames Coughran Todd Dofflemyer and Smith Paul Dobson I chairman of the reception committee The visitors will be treated to a turkey dinner after which they will be entertained by musical selections by Miss Veda Murphy of Tulare ELIA A Bicycle Races Fireworks WEDNESDAY OCTOBER BENNIE GOODMAN QUART Mrs Mary Brown Dies At Tulare TULARE (Tulare Co) Sept 21 Mrs Mary A Brown a native of Illinois died at her home In Tulare yesterday She had lived In Tulare County over nineteen years Two sons Edgar and Albert violent quarrel Brown and a daughter Mrs live in Tulare Rev Gerald Bash will he In charge of the funeral to be held-in the Goble Funeral Parlors Monday morning at 10 o'clock she was drinking Rogers with the intimate He to off" doing considerable farmhouse the of the and of and refusing her departure Hr denied agreement Burke Issued the following statement: "Few people except those who have to deal with them hava any realisation of tha complexities of the water rights on the Kaweah River and SL Johns River For example this proposed settlement Is signed by the respective presidents snd secretaries of sixteen different ditch 'corporations one irrigation district and one water con- aervatlon district The water con-1 servation district is the Intervener in the Wutchumna case and represents all the thousands of pumping plant owners on the delta The other sixteen corporations and tfne irrigation district comprise all of the plaintiffs in the Wutchumna case "Soma of these plaintiffs have water rights on the St Johna River some have water rights on the Ka- Y1 some have rights on both rivers weah River below McKay Point and Then there ia the defendant Wutchumna Water Company which has two water rights one for its main canal taking out of tha Kaweah River above McKay Point and of course above ail the plaintiffs' ditches and the other for Barton Cut which takes out of the SL Johns River northeast of Visalia Eighteen Meetings Held "To obtain the necessary legal action by the various plaintiff corporations and districts involved in this agreement there have been involed eighteen different meetings of boarda of directors there being approximately ninety-five directors concerned Almost every one of these directors attended the meeting of hie corporation or district These meetings have all been held since last Monday Byron Allen president of Oakes Ditch Company was in the high Sierra bringing out hla cattle from the mountain ranges but he was reached through the aesiatance of the park ranger and reached Visalia yesterday in time to attend the meeting of hla board and sign the agreemenL "No one can say of course what the director! and stockholders of Wutchumna Water Company will think of the proposed aettlement embodied In this agreement and it would not be proper to give general publicity to any of the details of the proposition until they have considered and acted upon it It can be said however that the agreement attempts to elaborate upon it It can be said however that the agreement attempts in elaborate detail to set forth a final and permanent settlement and compromise of both the upper Wutchumna water right and the Barton Cut right aa well as an adjudication of all the water rights It contains provisions by which ltchumna Water Company may from season to season move all or a part of Its Barton Cut water diversion upstream and take the same Into its main canal thus giving Wutchumna Water Company more flexibility in handling and distributing all of Its water to all of Its stockholders" "For the pest two months many meetings or the directors and stockholders have been held to discus and Iron out differences among themselves Eight different drafts of the proposed agreement were made before one was finally drawn to which all the seventeen plaintiffs and the intervener could and did agree for there were many points of difference among them Case On Trial Two Yeqrs "This so-called Wutchumna case bps been pending in our superior court since June of 1928 With the exception of Summer vacations it has been steadily on trial before Judge Owen since February of 1933 The record In it ia already much longer than the record In the Lindsay-Strathmore case which is one of the largest of any case ever tried in California "The plaintiffs have endeavored to make a clear-cut definite agreement of aettlement to cover all points of controversy and end the wearisome and expensive litigation All the separate plaintiff corporations have executed the agreement in order that there he no doubt that if accepted by Wutchumna it can be promptly ranied into effect "If that happy result is reached then with the construction of the Central Valleys Project now getting under way the principal water troubles of Tulare County will be solved and a tremendous Impetus will he given to the prosperity and well being of our great county" ST JOSEPH (Mo) Sept (A farmers to-day pleaded guilty in federal court her to charges of contempt of court and interference with federal officers in halting a farm foreclosure sales at riattsburg Md August 15th The pleas came after the government had virtually completed its cese on the contempt charges Roy Rucker defense attorney announced at the opening of court that seven farmers represented by him withdrew their plea of innorent and pleaded guilty both on the contempt charge and on an indictment charging interference with an officer in line of duty The seven were A Holman Marvin Arnold Homer Crowley Randal! Arnold Charles Anderson Pipes and Frank Hixon Sheppard another defense attorney then entered guilty pleas for Sam Divelbis Sr owner of the farm which was to have been sold Ivan Divelbiss Allen Handley A Jones Dan Stoefel Clifton Gall snd Harrison Nathan Jones It is within the discretion of the court to impose fines or prison sentences ranging up to life Porterville Matron Dies In Talare Hospital TULARE (Tulare Co) SepL 21 Vera Frame 61 a native of Illinois died in the countv hospital here last night She had been in California for tw years living in Porterville Breidea her hubnd Frame she leaves four ST ROGERS BLAMES WEST CHESTER (Pa) Sept 21 Henry Huddleston Rogers Jr Standard Oil fortune heir put behind him to-day the ordeal of more than two hours' questioning and a record of hia firm denial that he had any part in the killing of Evelyn Hoey singer of Broadway musicals Mias Hoey he told a jury of six men and a packed courtroom last night shot herself to death in hia secluded Chester County farm- th "'Rht of September 11th because "she waa unhappy and depressed" didn't sing and thought she lost her voice I think she felt she couldn't go back to that part of the he said reflectively Rogers' testimony ended the second day of the inquest and Deputy 'Coroner Haivey Cox recessed the proceedings until Monday night At that time he said ha will call a fingerprint expert a doctor who conducted an autopsy and Downingtown police Rogers testified Miss Hoey attempted to leap from the window 'of a New York hotel a few weeks ago while they were conversing He Culled her back he said when all ut an arm and leg were out of a window and she hurt her nose in the struggle was always moody when he said' acknowledged his relations musical actress were denied he wanted He acknowledged drinking at the afternoop and evening fatal day at the farmhouse talking sharply to her request for an Immediate to New York however there was a rASTiDAY 2 FEATURES Into Your Donee" At JoUon Rnbr Krrlrr Al "LIGHTNING STRIKES an Tartan" Ob tha State Ean rrr afatSTARTJ Tomorrow 2 First-Run Features rabllr Enrol? Ka 1 af All tha HarlS Man Who nflh NOVA PILBEAM EDNA BEST SECOND FEATURE A Brim Charles Starrett HELD OVER 2ND WEEK EON PARR FAMOUS PSYCHIC Daftrr It thf Ultiat fttraiiu mt AL ROSE An ms MUSIC tM la la ta II Enja thr riant Cblnraa CHICKEN DINNER StTiantT AND SINDAT CELEBRATION DANCE AND CARNIVAL TO-NIGHT with all kinds of entertainment AT TIIE ITALIAN ENTERTAINMENT PARK RENDEZVOUS NEXT TO AIRPORT WAYNE McCLUNG and hi 15 ENTERTAINERS 15 0 I Foot Race Fireworks ferry Golden Shore ran a race through the fog yeeterday The atork won Mrs Fay Babcock 34 Sausalito and her husband George boarded the ferry at Sausalito They were going to the University of California Hospital in San Francisco in anticipation of a blessed event 1 The Golden Shore moved slowly towaid Alcatraz Mrs Babcock looked at her husband He knew He dashed from the car burst into the wheelhouse he panted to Captain Edward Hallin "my wife's going to become a mother" Without blinking an eyelash Captain Hallin took command Ignoring the fog he ordered full speed ahead The Golden Shore leaped The first mate rushed to the restaurant calling for a doctor Dr Pischel enroute to hia San Francisco office shoved aside his corn flakes and responded In the captain's cabin with the assistance of Captain Hallin he ushered into the world an eight-pound girl Dr Pischel is an eye specialist It waa his first maternity case since he left medical school in 1923 "I have to notify the United States Inspector of hulls and boiler said the captain "What'e he got to do with he was asked "Government regulations" said the captain "All out-of-the-ordi-nary events on these boats have to he reported eo they can determine If the captain ia to Lonely Hitch-Hiker Is Picked Up By Parents WILMINGTON (Del) Sept 21 Albert Megginson traveling fiddler stood on a lonely Ohio road and pointed his thumb homeward For a long time no motorist paid any attention A couple returning from a vacation in Missouri stopped and picked him up It was Megginson's father and mother REX THEATRE 909 St Phone 3-6815 Mid-Night Show Saturday ON THE STAGE WITH JACK RUSSELL AND CO OX TIIE SCREEN Little Man What Now Now playing on the stage "THE PETTED The musical comedy hit of the year Also chorus specialties and ON THE SCREEN BROADWAY BILL WITH MYKXA LOY WARNER BAXTER LIONEL HAMPTON ana California's Most Entertaining All-Colored Orchestra TO-NIGHT at Smart Place to Dance Rainbow Popular Trices Ladles 5 Hr Men 75 SUNDAY SPRAGUE FUNERAL TLANNED TULARE (Tulare Co) Sept 21 services for Mrs A Sprague who died at a hospital here yesterday will he held in the Goble Funeral Parlors Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock Arthur Smith 45 of Merced pleaded guilty to issuing a fictitious check to a Merced grocery store and was placed on probation for two vears DANCE TO-NIGHT JOHN'S BARN Curler if MrKinlrr mi CirfWd Grntft 40c lAdlfR Free gpoiuirfi bf KKRMAX HAS EK A IX CTrB Cool Dine in Comfort GENEROUS PORTIONS FRIED CHICKEN DINNER Chinese Style DINNER FROM TO 10 SATURDAY AND SUNDAY TRY OUR CHOP SlEY AND CHOW MEIN Family Trade Solicited BEST CHINESE FOOD FRIED NOODLES QAc To Take Out quart MOON CAFE 1434 TU'-ARE ST BETWEEN AND STS Special Chinese Chicken Dinner Sat and Sun Daily Luncheon 304 Dinner FRIED NOODLES TO TAKF OUT quart SO Open 11 A to A Phone 3-261 DANCING TO-NITE COMES TO TOWN" LIONEL HAMPTON With hia All-Colored Band and Entertainers Ladle 35e Gentlemen 75c Including tax NEXT WEDNESDAY GUS ARNHE1M Sweet's Rainbow Ballroom IMPERIAL ICE CREAM CO rAlM AT BFIMOVT SPECIAL FRIDAY axil 4TrrlHV- ICE CREAM £0' VANILLA READY FAt'KKD Made fresh daily of nothing but the finest of Ingredients FINAL OPENING DATE FOR NEW SAT EVE SEPT 28 SEQUOIA HOTEL BLDG i IPHONE 2-8618 A.