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The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 7

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The Fresno Beei
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Fresno, California
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BOMANCE SUSPENSE Headers of The Fresno Bee will find them all in Jennifer Hale a new Hob Eden serial story Don't miss a chapter ADVICE TO MOTHERS The Bee publishes daily a Tour Baby And Mine department which will be of great help to mothers in the care of their babies T1IB REPUBLICAN VOL FRESNO CAL MONDAY EVENING OCTOBER ISM NO 4198 Cimen Comete Win Prizes In Broadway Parade TEACHES SLAVS Depreciation Study Findings Scheduled At Hearing Here To-morrow Kenneth Woodman Fatally Wounded Jealousy Over Woman Blamed Fresno Man Held On Charge Of Drunken Driving As Car Leaps Curb When the Lamsnuzxl gambling blood gets riled not even the cornering cameraman can bother tho game With Vincent shooting with deadly precision his brothers John on the left and Joe on the right the marbles flew from the ring on every shot and the had to resort tor rapid fire to get this shot in before tho contest was over YOU MAY BE NEXT DRIB WIN California Railroad Commlaalon engineer to-morrow will present their studlee on the depreciation of the Freeno electrical eyetem of the Ban Joaquin Light and Power Corporation Tha commlaalon engineer testified at a valuation hearing several week ago the Freeno properties of the company ara valued between $1300000 and $1750000 on a reproduction new baaie The engineers also testified that physical severance damages amounted to $64000 As the properties are not new although valued on a new baais it la necessary in order to obtain a true value to deduct the estimated depreciation value and add what 1 known aa intangible severance chargee Earning Considered Engineers explain Intangible severance la that sum of money which the power corporation would earn over a period of years if the Fresno distributing system la not severed from the central aystem It ia baaed on an estimated length of time it will take the company to build up its load to the earning capacity it had at tha tima of severance The hearing will be held before Railroad Commissioner Harris In the Commercial Club at 10 A Some company cross-examination is expected In connection with the testimony of Mess railroad commission valuation engineer aa to the reproduction new value of the property submitted at the last hearing BAHFfEUllS 10 SERVE Sim Succumbs At Hospital After Long Illness Two men were killed and seven others hurt in a series of Sunday accidents in and near Freeno which Involved one man accused of drunken driving and two others as hit-and-run drivers Those killed are Margorilo Villa a ranch worker whose car overturned on Mount Whitney Avenua near Elm Avenue and Wakayama 54 West Fresno merchant who died early to-day at the Hashl-ba Sanitarium of injuries suffered when a car overturned on tha Golden State Highway six miles north of Fresno Einer Laugesen 23 of Fresno ia held accused of drunken driving after his car a'ruck a car owned by Charles Buts of Coalings in tha 1200 block on Merced Street and then jumped a curb Pedestrian Injured Acosta of 2262 Rose Avenue suffered possible broken ribs when he was knocked down at Fulton and Tulare Streeta by a car driven by a hit-and-run driver Acorta was treated at tha emergency hospital Mrs Zetta Cochran 37 of Lodi suffered a scalp laceration bruises and a possible broken shoulder when a car in which she wa riding was struck by a hit-and-run driver's car in tha 300 block on North Street Three young Fresno men wer hurt one seriously when a car in which they were riding overturned near Academy after the driver Carl Hall 18 of 603 Weldon Avenue attempted to avoid hitting a turkey in the mad Driver's Skull Hurt Hall has a possible fractured skull brain concussion and severs bruise Haskell Betson 18 suffered bruises and cut and Louis Finks 20 has a severly lacerated leg Martha Petersen 17 of Route it Rox 33 suffered face lacerations In another automobile collision Eva Ginter 52 of 3012 Belirnnt Avenus is in the Fresno County General Hospital with a broken leg caused by a fall at her home Overturns Four Time Wakayama waa a passenger lit a car driven by Mistugo Hamanaka 'of 1825 Kern Street State highway patrolmen who Investigated say Hamanaka's automobile overturned four times after It skidded in passing a truck Wakayama suf-ifered a severed spinal cord and a I broken back I traveling east on Mount Whitney Avenua when hia car skidded and overturned after leaving the pavement several feet from tha whera it finally turned oven eputy sheriff investigated Served Number Of Years As Postal Employe In Fresno Kenneth Woodman former Fresno employe of an oil company waa shot and killed at Santa Barbara early yesterday by John Kit-trell 34 Santa Baibara school teacher in what the Santa Barbara police described as an the ball altercation over a woman Woodman met at a dance Mrs Esther Woodman hie widow was Informed of the tragedy early yesterday by the Fresno police who found her visiting at the home of Mr and Mra Joseph Lombardi at 1621 La Salle Avenue With the Lombardis she left Immediately for Santa Barbara Jealousy Blamed According to the Banta Barbara police Klttrell Woodman and Lorraine Floyd 22 were at a dance at a large Santa Barbara hotel when Kittrell became incensed over Woodman's asserted attentions to the young woman whom he escorted to the affair Kittrell left the dance and wa at Miss Apartment when she and Woodman arrived there about 1 A A fight ensued in which Kittrell first set upon the young woman as she entered the apartment Woodman then dragged Kittrell away from the woman and threw him out of the apartment The fight waa carried to the street Kittrell drew a revolver and Woodman fled with Kittrell opening fire Shot In Head Back One shot grazed Woodman's head and the second entered hia hack felling him to tha pavement dead Mies Floyd and five other witnesses looked on Santa Barbara officers took Kittrell into custody after Julius Vambruggen on of the witnesses disarmed him Woodman was employed in the Fresno district aa a tire and accessory salesman by one of the major nil companies He moved to Santa Barbara about a year and a half ago State Bureau Offers Service For Disabled A specialized employment service for physically handicapped people of Fresno and vicinity operated by the bureau of vocational rehabilitation of the state department of education in conjunction with the local state employment office and the SERA was announced to-day by John Gearhart case worker for the bureau in Fresno Madera Kings and Tulare Counties Gearhart says all people who have a physical disability due to disease accident cr congenital causes are eligible for this service if they will register with Garrett at the state employment office 1823 Kern Street between 8 and 9 A effort will be made by the bureau of vocational rehabilitation to obtain jobs for handicapped people conslatent with their past training or experience' says Gearhart it le necessary for disabled persona to have special training before placement the bureau will provide it the last ten monlhs more than forty Fresno people victims of infantile paralysis industrial accidents tuberculosis and automobile accidents have received Federation Of Sportsmen To Be Perfected Executives of fish and game associations throughout California will meet at The Californian November 13th to perfect the organization cf the California Federated Sportsmens Associations combining 125 nr such groups with a membership in excess of 50000 sportsmen Harold Fox is president of the San Joaquin Valley Sportsmens Council Permnnent officers will be chosen and a state-wide program will be developed the federation it is hoped some means will he found for combatting tha appalling reduction In fish and game resources of the state that has taken place In the last few years" Fox says Dr Burt Lamkin 58 well known Fresno physician died today at the Sample Sanitarium following a long illness He was confined for eight iponths with a heart ailment He leaves a widow Mrs Angela Lamkin a daughter Mra Mary Lamkin Dau both of Freano and Clyde Lamkin of Oakland Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 Wednesday at the chapel cf Lisle under auspices of the Masonic Order' Dr Lamkin was born July 21 1876 in Woodland He was the son of Mr and Mrs Lamkin He came to Fresno in 1883 with hia mother and aa a boy in hi teens was employed aa a clerk in the Fresno postoffice under Postmaster Moodey Was Kail Mall Clerk At 18 he began an eight-year service with the railway mail department and during this period he attended the Cooper Medical College In 1902 he was graduated with honor and became an interne in a San Francisco hospital After returning to Fresno he opened an office in the Forsyth Building and began a general practice in medicine and surgery At the end of six yeara Dr Lamkin went East and took post graduate work at the Chicago Eye Ear Nose and Throat Hospital and waa house dSL DR LAMKIN These views show prise-winning entries in the Broadway opening celebration parade Saturday The electrically-illuminated float of the San Joaquin Light anil Power Curjmrafion which won i sweepstakes in the division for floats and decorated cars is shown at the top In the center Is the the ith left to right Jay Bmce Istnav Kennrtt The lower photo shows the Bunion Company's Staff Photo Fresno Fire Department trophy float with left to right Jay Bmce Istnav Kenneth Potilsen and Donald Williams who pulled it in the parade Manuel DeMello former bank teller at Gustine to-day was sentenced to serve six month in the Tulare County Jail by United States District Judge George Cos-grave following conviction on a charge of falsifying bank records Attorney Thomas Lope: ought probation for' DeMello bul Judge Coegrave held that bank embezzlements by employes ara increasing an alarming extent" and that ho will conaidei no mwvplicable for probation DeMello alleged to have falsified the recede to cover up his own issuance of fictitious checks George Ko end Ko Sing former operators of a store here were each sentenced to serve six months In the Fresno County Jail on a grand junr indictment charging violation of the national bankruptcy act They are alleged to have concealed assets after they filed petitions in bankruptcy January 80 1933 in Los Angeles Accused of conspiring to violate the Internal revenue act by operating an unregistered still and defrauding the Internal revenue department by failing to pay liquor taxes Al Costello Ed Capece Nick Provenzano and Joe Vernaci pleaded guilty Frank Borgia indicted with them entered a not guilty plea and trial was set for Monday The others will be sentenced following Borgia's trial The men were Indicted In connection with a still found in September near Mu roc Kern County Bank Debits Show Gain Over Same 1933 Period -bnk totaled $6397000 for the week ending last Wednesday an inereasa nf mora than 33 per cent over the I4l4nri0i debits reported tha same week last year Bakersfield bank debits also showed a substantial increase totaling $3-967000 Inst week compared to $1809000 the same week in 1933 The debits of fourteen California cltiea aggregated $397577000 for tha week against $385232000 the earns week last year Wine Promotion INDUSTRIAL SHOW Croup Will Hold 10 BE FEAIURED TO OFFUTT Meeting Monday Burwell Will Retire After 44 Years In Business In Fresno Display Of Products Planned To Picture Progress Of Plants Farms physician for six months After coming 1910 ha limited hia practice to eye ear nose and throat ailments and maintained offices In the Rowell Building On April 26 1908 he married at Academy Mis Annie Sample Tipton daughter of Semple She was fatally injured several years ago in an automobile accident Last year he married Mrs Angela Coeiho in Martinez His widow is tha mother of Louis Coclho Health Hoard Member Dr Lamkin waa a former member of the city board of health and waa president of the Freeno County Medical Society in 1919 During the world war he was a member of the district hoard of medical examiners of the Army Ho was a brother-in-law by his first marriage of Dr Sample Will and Filmora Sample Mrs George Beveridge Mrs Wilcox Mra Jesse Blaalngame and Mra John Shipp of Freano La inkin' daughter i the wife of Dr Chester Dsu Fresno dentist The family home is at 481 North Calaveras Avenue He was a Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the University-Sequoia and Commercial Clubs and Fresno Lodge of Elka l-wil Mflea I' a Weather area Bill Hid 'telephone 3-7171 Fieino Calilurnla October 33 MJt PareraI Till M- Titilil roll FKISNO AMU Fair cooler lo-mant Turadaz fair dinuniamr ourtliacit wind NOK1HKRM Fair (MeHalehy Newspaper Service) BAN FRANCISCO Ort 22--Or-ganization of the California Wine Institute launched at the statewide vintners' meeting beta Saturday will be rompleted October 29th when the twenty-nine directors are scheduled to hold Negotiations were completed today for the sale by George Bur-well of the Home Bakery Company property at 1235 Van Ness Avenue to IL Offult Fresno luggage shop owner The property purchased by Of-futt for investment putposes Includes a two-story building housing a bakery snd hotel snd lots withjnatinnal promotion campaign for a seven! y-five-foot frontage on VanjCalifurnia wines In motion without Ness Avenue by 150 feet to thedelay alley their first meeting in Ban Fian-ciseo At that tima the directors will choose an executive committee of seven members and they aso are expected to select a managing director and a secretary Arrangements msy ha made for a bank loan In anticipation of initiation fee and assessment payments in order to set the institute's START RELIGIOUS SURVEY OF CUV Took Leading Part In Local Moves To Install Public Health Safeguard William Beales 56 Fresno County sanitary inspector and a resident of Freano for most of his life died yecter- day at his home at 1561 Street He had 'been ill for some time He is survived by a sister Mrs Charles Gibson of Fowler and a brother Frank Scale of Mount Shasta He was the uncle of Hattie Gibson of Fowler and Will Gibson of Freano and the cousin of Anna Humphreys of Scale Fit soo and Mar garet Wadsworth of Tracy Born February 24 1876 in Farmington III he was the son of Mr and Mrs Levi Scale He came to Fresno from Leadvllle Colo in 1881 with hia father sisters and two brothers following the death of his mother Operated Ranch After completing his education in the Fresno County schools he ranched for two years five miles east of Selma He spent five Summers at Bartlett Springs Calif where he had charge of the postoffirc He waa at one time a bookkeeper and collector for the Jersey Farm Dairy Later he was employed for three yeara by the McCloud Lumber Company Siskiyou County as a bookkeeper In 1910 be was with the Hume-Ben-nett Lumber Company at the time the flume wa built from Hume to Station Four He was In Portland Ore for a year and for three years (Continued On Page 4-B) Plans for an Industrial exposition in the Fresno Auditorium November 20th to 24th under nueplce the Fresno American Leclon Post ni buk foud folloard mm riran zcgrnn net by ho mPIIU north soman: wore snnouricetl to-day by Mayor leooltr rstrrme anmh portion to-aliht general chairman of! py Saturday nicht a storm of amall the convention commitie In chnrgeiV "l1 nuiii barometric depth nd of preparafion for the 1935 T'a SLrrdVS conclave of the legion In Freano Lcyniel say a the ntajor msnil-i'hraer Ml in Caluorria vrurn to Merced fnctuers distributers retailers ndjhK growers of the Brin Joaquin Valley Mlowd by clear inc and cooler or- I nine- invito! in niiki jestlier In noriltern Calilorma thu morn-are being Invited to contribute pro-lna Since Saturday mnrnini rile deducts and mater lais lurbance then over Mlnnoot hat aimed I 'low hr etuoard Into (lie upper A local committee appointed to mire Valley attended be rain in (he it assist in putlng on the industrial KTItr'SfJViUhiSVuwiiwa exposition roneistr cf Waren are mnnerxe ler Geaihart Fred 11 TE111 cooler (o-nlaht but wl'houb irr i- wv (teaman rrea vinite frot Ham and fair seather over Tue Jeyse Epstein George (lambs Harry I (abbs l'r Edward Barbour Scott Wood Kay Hays Robeit Allen Geuiga Hi-nnnssy A nine am' Jewett Will Show Progress Other Fre-nana and technical experts ays Levmel will he actively engaged In arranging details of the rxjoslion through which it la propo-eii to show the progress the Ban Joaquin Valley has made exposition is being staged aa a preliminary tn thn next state convention of the American I-egion which will lie held In Freano with an anticipated attendance of V)nno pet sons and which i exprcied to bring approximately flu's'OOO into the city' The five-dav exposition will be presented with numerous entertainment feature Two shows will be given each evening hours 11 HO HO Kl on 44 HO 00 aPO ho oo 0 10 00 ro no A3 40 0 Fmihurah Pqrilnnd PrddiiK Kano Kaeramrntd Pi Loin Sail Lake The consideration Involved In (he deal a cash transaction waa not disclosed The property hns an assessed valuation of $25500 Burwell Will Retire Sale of the property marks the retirement from btislne sof Burwell who established the Home Bakery Company here forty-four years ago Offutt save he has under consideration the erection of a new business building on the property although no decision will be mad-Immedistely The Van Ness Avenue property Is the second purchase of dnwn'own business property to he made by Offutt In recent weeks He re-r-ntly acquired the Fulton Street FOR WAREHOUSE (1'lrture On I'age 5-A) Armed with detailed information on the opportunities afforded home owners by the Federal Hou-inc Act a group of nearly 100 woik-is New SERA Work Here To Employ Twenty Men SERA authorities to-day approved a Freano City project which will glva work to at least twenty men Mayor Ley me! who applied for the project obtained word of its approyal by telephone from San Francisco He raid the project involves the painting or the fire engine houses and the tank house and residence In Roedlng Park The mayor said it Is planned to put the pai residence in order so A A Boyer park zoo keeper can reside there Boyer's presence in the park twenty-four hours a day is desired the mayor said becauae of the nature of his duller Building occupied by the Brooks in the Fresno Better Housing Clothing Stole Campaign to-day commenced CO A building permit for concrete brick and steel warehouse costing $5000 was issued to the Freeno Auto Wrecking Company at 560 Broadway to-day by the department of public works The permit was issued on the written agreement of Sam Davidson owner of the company that within three vears ha will remove the present frame structure which face Broadway The warehouse Is to be built in the rear of this structure According to the permit the warehouse will be twenty-four feet high seventy-two feet In length snd fifty-six feet wide city-wide r'anva1 of property owners shout a large alteration repair of homes WOODS SERVICES HELD Funeral services for Mrs Cornelia Woods 73 who died Bafur- day st her home at 1473 3emoiiljand business buildings expected to bring expenditure tn the end modernization Avenue were conducted to-dav in the chape) of Stephen and Bean Burial was in Belmont Memorin! Park She was the mother of Carl Woods of Selma The will continue for ter days with the workers providing data on which property owners (Continued On Page 4-B) Canvass of 1100 blocks in Fresno to learn the church preference of families in the area was launched to-day by workers under tha direction of Dr A Earl Kernahan of Washington The eurvey under the auspices of the Fresno Council of Churches with the co-operation of the Fresno Ministerial Union was inaugurated with a union service last night at tha First Methodist Episcopal Church Dr Kernnhan spoke on The Changeless Christ And Evangelism and Ur Luther Rteln Dr CL Trawln president of the ministerial union and A Ewing president of tha council participated in the service Division headquarters are located at the First Presbyterian Church the First Christian Church the First Church and at the A where the general headquarters also is maintained Union services In conjunction with the religious survey also will he conducted at the First Church at 7:30 Wednesday and Friday Canvaaalng will be concluded Friday afternoon P-T A Group Hears Talk On Proposed Legislation Arthur Shephard Freano attorney spoke on proposals on the November ballot at a meeting of the Freano City Council of Parenta nd Teachers to-day In the Lowell Q-hool Auditorium Mrs riggs the president presided At a meeting of (he 'members of the executive board preceding tha general session reports of officers were made It was announced Mrs Henry or Glendale program service chairman of the California Congress of Parenta and Teachers will be in this dis- trlct for five days next month and ia scheduled to he In Fresno November 6th With the eleventh district snd the city council as sponsors Mrs Henry will rondurt parent-education rlaaaea at 0:80 A and 8 November 6th at Tha Californian which will he open to the public The next district meeting will be November 16th at the Presbyterian Church In Merced TAILSPIN TOMMY Acting Dumb! By GLENN CHAFFIN and HAL FORREST PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES FLEW IN THAT AIRY PLANE --TEDDY ROOSEYELT-HE LIKED IT-IF YOUlLGlVC ME GOME SAS ILL TAKE YOU FOR A HOP? I DON'T KNOW WHETHER YOU'RE OFF YOUR NUT-OR WHETHER VOLT RE TRYING TO KID I WOULDN'T EVEN LET MY MOTHER-IN-LAW FLY IN AlNT A CRATE'-r PAP FLEiO MV PAPPY TOO- IT'S SAFER'N THESE NEWFANGLED AIR CONTRAPTIO NS VM A'PROVIN7 LISTEN (CHATS THE IDEA OF THE GAY NINETIES GET-UP- ANO THIS ANCIENT CRATE YOU'RE FLYING HOW COME YOU PICKED THIS PLACE TO LAND? MISTER DON'T 6C SORE--MY RAPPY USED TO SAY ITS OUST LIK6 A FEUJER MAKIN A THREE-fOl NT LANDIN' IN A YOU DONE SOMETHIN'- BUT YOU AlNT DONE YOURSELF NO 600D- Citr Han Anmnio Han Uiao -Han Zrnrt: Keatfl Tame Wahinzton Yuma asocial lilHwal es-rU'l A Jd (Orrbard Tfm-ralBril Mx Rail Sinrk'nn 7 Oar M-r-ert 7 41 Ft Cldr (IT Firno 77 41 Cloudy 09 River Resort Kina Rlvre-Pirdr (i A Ml ftase 1 4n fee diacharir 144 econd trt San Jnaauin nir-r Kercthnff Fewer Home versa for 74 hoar (a lart mid-maliti 3P1 rend fr-t Ural Pals P-M I A Noon Karmnfler 10 03 10 11 30 11 'Tmurvaiura dry 71 P4 1 'Temperature art (O 'lliinnrity Mr cent 41 VO iTrinseiaturc 3:34 (I lo-day 44 d-sr- lneh4 Hfon1 ralrf'l to date eaa Normal rainfall tn date Lot year's rinlall lo this date Normal daily maximum lemperatart for Onober 7t Normal dally minimum temper tar for Huhet yentcrdy towet thl dale 16 snd 3 Orchard maximum ycteiday minimum tha date 77 and 53 Kish and low this dal lad year 93 and mi Time of yunrlte to-day (13: act tM IVVx I SAID -TAKE THE AIR-YOU AND YOUR CPAXY CRATE-GET OUT OF HERE quick OR---- 202:.

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