The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 9

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The answer is found In Trailer Girl The Bee's new aerial by Vera Brown Through each chapter you will get a vivid picture of an artist's model who fights her way to the top THE REPUBLICAN YOL 31 FRESNO CAL WEDNESDAY EVENING JANUARY 5 1938 THE Healed Air Aids In Disease Fight Sun-Maid Raisin Tonnage Highest In Several Years Applications More Than Replace Cancelled Fresnans Seek US Attitude On District Suits Merchant Groups Cham ber Ask For Statement On Valleys Project Status Youthful Bandit Beats Fresnan In Holdup Try Telonicher' Fights Off Thug After Attack In West Fresno Store Revenue Office Warns Of Income Tax Deadline A reminder was issued today by the internal revenue department of the March 15th deadline for the filing of 1937 income tax reports with the Fresno office in the post-office building Officials of the department announced March 15th Is the deadline for filing the reports Forms probably will be available here during the latter part of the week but individuals who have filed reports In the past will receive them in the mail However those who do not receive the reports may obtain them at the local office The thirty day grace period to filing the July 1st to December 31st summaries on the Social Security Act taxes expires January 31st Supervisors Will Discuss Relief Fair Exhibit Callforonia unemployment relief problems and plans for a special exhibit by San Joaquin Valley counties at the Golden Gate Exposition in San Francisco in 1939 will be discussed at meetings of supervisors of valley counties In Fresno tomorrow Harold Pomeroy state director of the State Relief Administration will attend a session of the San Joaquin Valley Supervisors Association tomorrow afternoon at which relief conditions will be studied The valley supervisors will meet at 10 A in the courthouse to determine whet action will- be taken in sponsoring an exhibit at the bay city fair It Is expected that a decision will be made on what counties will join the valley exhibit group All Have Derided All county association members with the exception of Stanislaus County have Indicated they will exhibit with the valley group Stanislaus County a member of the valley association together with San Joaquin County not a member of which to fairs Is contingent upon participation of the county permanent fair improvements the valley groups have considered exhibiting with Aita California Supervisors Get New Fairground Stands Proposal Fair Leaders Tell County Aides Of Plan To Build With State Racing Funds Tentative plans for the construction of a grandstand at tha Fresno County Fairgrounds to cost approximately 382000 were submitted to the board of supervisors late yesterday by tha Fresno District Fair Association Tha construction of tha unit Is contingent upon the amount of money the state and county appropriates for fair purposes The new stands would replace the wooden structure now in use The grandstand is to be erected entirely with state funds derived from the state's- percentage of pari mutuel wagering but the amount of money allocated by the state will be based upon fairground funds appropriated by the countL Would Give Additional Space Louie Merrill fair district president and A Dodge executive secretary said the stands as proposed would afford additional exhibit space at one end and restaurant and garage space at the other A lobby in the center would house the pari mutuel machines Flans have been made for grading the space between the stands and the race track at a slight incline to provide for spectators who customarily stand near the track rather than occupy seats in the grandstand With this arrangement it is estimated more than 5000 people ran be accommodated for the annual fair races Merrill and Dodge said the fair association expects to receive between 340000 and 345000 from the state this year as its pro rata share of part mutuel receipts Of this amount 325000 will be reserved for fair premiums next year and the balance will be available to apply on the grandstand State Has Fund In addition the state has a fund of 34000001 the distribution of in It Fresno County General Hospital which is being used extensively for many ailments particularly in the fight against venereal diseases A hospital porter poses in the machine to show how it appears in operation Staff Photo There was a time when fever was considered a dangerous thing but now medical authorities are inducing fever artificially to save lives arid stamp out destructive organisms This photo shows the fever machine purchased for the The directors of the Sun-Maid Raisin Growers of California today sent letters to members advising them raisin tonnage now under membership contract with the cooperative is substantially larger than at any time for several years The board also announced that following the procedure explained in a statement issued November 27th It has cancelled the membership of such growers as did not sign crop contract renewals prior to December 31st "You will be glad to the letter to members says "that the response to our letter of November 27th advising that in order to continue Sun-Maid membership present members must sign their crop renewal contracts prior to December 31st has been all that could have been hoped for Applications Are Received "Not only have most old members renewed their crop contracts but during the last weeks of November and the first two weeks of December applications for new memberships came so rapidly as to make it necessary about the middle of the month to refrain from further acceptance of such applications until the total membership resulting frpm new applications and renewals was known "It now appears that Sun-Maid will have a larger tonnage under membership contract than for some yean past" Membership Tabulated The announcement was made after a tabulation of old membership renewals and new membership applications received by Sun-Maid up to-December 6th No detailed figures were disclosed regarding the tonnage signed nor did the board disclose the current membership Early last month officials of the cooperative announced that until further notice no additional annual pool contract would be entered into for 1937 crop raisins and no additional applications for membership would be considered until after December 31st Bank Limits Tonnage They said this decision was reached because of the unexpectedly large number of new memberships accepted and the desire of the Central Bank for Cooperatives that no additional outside tonnage be accepted pending a determination of the volume delivered by Sun-Maid members Funds with which Sun-Maid advanced S60 a ton for Muscat and Thompsons and 355 a ton for Sultanas delivered by members and annual pool participant were provided by the federal agency Thomas Mitchell Of Easton Area Dies Thomas Clark Mitchell 86 a retired rancher and a resident of Fresno County since 19101 died this morning at his home at Washington and Elm Avenues near Easton He was a native of MorrisviUe Mo Surviving are his widow Sirs Mary A Mitchell: four sons Allison Mitchell of Vallejo Benson Mitchell of Hollister Earl Mitchell of Los Angeles and Herman Mitchell of Easton a brother and two sisters George Mitchell of Texas Mrs Frank Evana of Selma and Miss Lucy Mitchell of Missouri Funeral arrangements will be made by the Mission Chapel in for which tha state of the determine the county may Seeks Award Meek today court to decree Meek the support Meek unreasonable order he He said failure to pay bills is grounds for dismissal from the police department and he will he unahle to meet the obligation unless the divorce decree is modified County Hospital Uses Fever Machine To Help Cure Ills If It is rheumatism that is troubling your just turn on the heat Or if arthritis Is making your life turn on the heat Fever long regarded as an evil symptom in illness now is viewed by medical research experts as a life preserver and a destroyer of injurious organisms and mechanical contrivances to artifically Induce fever are now being used extensively In the treatment of these and other diseases County Buys Heat Machine Tha Fresno County General Hospital recently purchased a fever machine and Dr Ginsburg medical director says the results in the first thirty five treatments are encouraging The hospital purchased a machine which induces fever by means of humid heated air It is so constructed that tha temperature can be raised to any desired level and maintained lor any given period of time Research workers have experimented with fever treatments for many years and in the last six to eight years various machines for artifically inducing fever have been offered the medical profession Many regard this means of stimulating fever to have an advantage over the inoculation method tn Louis Slater local furniture store proprietor and Charles Connors president of Kyle A Company steel concern were named as new directors of the Fresno County Chamber of Commerce at a counties Representatives of these two counties however may attend the local meeting The supervisors also may determine the tax rate whirh will be imposed in the 1938-39 and 193SM0 fiscal yean to raise exhibit funds Assistance for WPA tewing project it expected to be one- of the matters discussed at tha relief sex- sround where the old pavilion i was sion particularly by the Fresno5 Fair officials suggested the County supervisors who have also undertaka the before them for several months a ftion of a new machinery hail is planned to seek sufficient money from this fund to complete the structure Merri! said such work as the Installation of a new pump and planting the race track infield to alfalfa would apply toward county improvements The county also plans to landscape the portion of the WPA request for sewing project sponsorship The SRA recently gave notice it would discontinue providing material for this project Earl Cummings area WPA director posted notices at the sewing project headquarters that the project employing seventy five women will he closed January 14th unless immediate assistance is received lie said several unsuccessful attempts have been made to induce the county supervisors to sponsor the project Waldron Rites Set Funeral services for Edward Waldron 69 a retired farmer will be observed at It o'clock tomorrow morning in the chapel of Yost A Webb Mortuary Interment will heihas become indebted 3550 or horse bam the money would apply toward grant A check Is being made fairground budget to credit which the claim Police Officer Cut In Alimony Police Sergeant A has requested the superior Iter terms of a divorce which awards Mrs Ellen 3100 as alimony and for of three minor children contends the amount is and because of the Telonicher 64 operator of a grocery store at 1513 Fresno Street today was attacked by a youthful bandit beaten on the head with the butt of a pistol and left bleeding and half conscious as the thug fled from the store without obtaining any loot overlooking S400 contained In a canvas sack lying on the counter of the store Telonicher told Detective Sergeant Brady the bandit entered the store and asked for a package pf cigarets and a few seconds later whipped out a pistol and ordered him to put up his hands When the merchant refused to obey the command he was struck on the head with the pistol butt The youth ran behind the counter and again beat Telonicher on the head but apparently became frightened by the cries of the store operator and fled out the front door Telonicher gave chase to the front entrance but berause of the heavy fog was unable to obtain the license numbers on the automobile used by the bandit Brady said the merchant was preparing to bank the funds when the bandit entered the store The police are searching for the highwayman described as wearing a dark jacket gray trousers and without a hat Telonicher was treated In the Fresno Emergency Hospital for Scalp lacerations Fresno Man Is Held On Federal Liquor Charge Harvey Brekke 40 of 330 Cornell Avenue today was held to answer to the United States District Court on a charge of possession of untaxed liquor when he was arraigned before IT Commissioner Frank Lerrige Bail was set at $500 Brekke was arrested by Patrolman Morris and Perry last night at 330 Cornell Avenue oa a warrant issued In Oakland and charging him with failure to pro vide The police said Brekke attempted to escape from them in the real of the residence at which the ar-rest wes made while they were placing handcuff on MajTlst In a routine search of Brekke's coupe the officers said they discovered four gallons of uncut alcohol and five gallons of whisky in a ten gallon keg The tax unit officers who confiscated his car said the auto mobile also contained two electric "needles" with which to age whisky and several empty bottles with federal stamps carefully cut for probable refills Brekke's wife Alma Irene Brekke filed suit for divorce from Brekke today charging he wrongfully accused her of associating with other men cursed and struck her and failed to support her and a child by a former marriage The complaint aid they married March 12 1930 and separated February 12th last he Weather Saral OffW rM Main Weather Rama IlMtl Hn ButMuif Telephone 2-7171 Permit Calif January IMS Pareratta Till 4 TharaSaf POK FKKKM) AM) Ctowty nr foggy ImurM and Tliiinda enalmua eonl: light variable wttula FOR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA fair and mol Kith valley fug tonight and Thursday Weather aadtltaaa Very III ITo change la barometric premier haa taken plane over waeletn glatrn during tha hut twenty four hours and umtiy no chart In weather tahlrh rental as fair while tempmlurra motbiur auhnomtaL Show-era fell In Texas and light annum In tha rasters lake ref hut elaewhert east Ihe Rookie lair weather prevails Temperature are lower In the northern plaftti and upper MU-aiMippt Valley Cloudy or foggy weather la Indicated fnr this valley over Thursday and probably for aavtral day BONNCTT Far 14 Nam Fading At A ljatk Mrrtdiaa Time Highest Lowest Iasi 24 last Prertp last 24 hour tl) 2)1 hour an Bn Inn Bur fata Ouragn i Cincinnati 44 Detroit 82 Kuteka 84 FRK8NO 40 Havre 40 Kansas City 80 lata Angeles 72 Montreal 82 Needles Newark 2d New Orleans 00 New York 24 Oklahoma City 44 Omaha 82 Phoenix US Pittsburgh 20 Reckling 02 Renn 80 Sacra mm to 44 SI Imns 40 St Paul 24 Salt Lake Oty 44 Scuttle 84 Tampa 80 Washington 40 Winnipeg 4 Yuma 70 82 Special California Smarts (Orrhard Temporal area) Max Mia Weather Rain -Stockton 48 411 Cloudy (IP 1 48 38 Cloudy no 40 80 Foggy Llnuroy 80 88 Foggy JW Pnrlervllle 88 88 Foggy 1W Bakersfield an 82 Cloudy Du If Iter Report King River Plsdra (7 A atage 878 feet discharge 815 second feet San Joaquin River Krerkhoff Power Hour (average fnr 24 hours to last midnight) 1418 second feet Loral Pals 8 PM 5 AM Nnon Barometer 2027 8028 8828 Temperature 'dry 48 Temprralure wet Humidity per cent Temperature at 2:30 today 41 degrees Seasonal rainfall to date 816 tnchea Normal rainfall tn dale 883 Inches I-ant year's rainfall to this date an Inc he Normal dally maximum temperature Mr January 54 Normal dally minimum lemperaturs tor January 88 Highest yesterday lowest this dale 48 and 38 Orchard maximum yesterday minimum this date 40 and 38 High and low thta dale last year 48 and 28 Tima or lunrisa today 713 o'clock of unset :56 o'clock County Adopts Rules For Welfare Aides The Fresno County Board of Supervisors late yesterday adopted minimum standards of qualification for county welfare department employes as outlined by the state welfare department to become ef-fecive March 1st Tha adoption of personnel standards for each county in the state has been required by the Federal Social Security Board Discontinuance of federal participation in Cal ifornia social security activities had been threatened unless the suggested standards were adopted by March 1st Mrs Minette Gutzler director of the county department said the requirements are so low that they can not be objectionable and will not force the department to go outside tha conuty for social workers Board Expresses Approval Members of the board expressed approval of the plan requiring minimum Standard Tha minimum qualifications apply only to departments having 1500 or more welfare case and do not effect employes who may be hired prior to March 1st Mrs Florence Turner state welfare director said the state social welfare board is required to submit to the federal board minimum standards of qualifications for the personnel to be employed by counties The standard adopted for the Fresno County department requires the director to be graduated from an accredited high school and to have had four years of successful administrative experience or some other equivalent combination of education and experience University Work Substitute One year of university training may be substituted for each year of experience For case workers the standard requires employes to be high school graduates and to have had two years of experience in case investigation or other social activities one year of which must have been spent under supervision: or some other equivalent combination of experience and education In lieu of this requirement workers may be accepted who are high school graduates and have had three years experience in some related field one year of which must have been In social service activity under supervision Mrs Gutzler said these requirements apply only to employes In the old age blind and orphan aid departments She said local applicants could be accepted In the county indigent department and trained for work later in the aged blind and orphan departments The supervisors aim approved a plan by which county workers may be granted leaves of absence to continue their education Recruit Officer To Visit Valley Cities Sergeant Nathaniel Bayless of the Fresno 'Army Recruiting Station will visit Tulare Visalia and Hanford tomorrow and Friday to interview applicants for army service Bayless will be in the Tulare Postoffice tomorrow morning and in the Visalia Postoffice tomorrow afternoon and Friday morning Friday afternoon he will be In tha Hanford Postoffice John Page commissioner ol the federal bureau of reclamation will be asked to issue a statement through Walker Young chief construction engineer on the Cen tral Valleys Project on the ques tion of whether condemnation suits on file in behilf of the Fresno Irri gatlon District are holding up the start of the project Committeemen of the Fresno Merchants Association and directors of the Fresno County Chamber of Commerce at a special session to day at which they endeavored to formulate plans to aid in expediting the start of the project agreed to wire Page for a statement The group also voted to send a delegation of twenty to Tulare January 13th to attend tha mass meeting in honor of Young Direct Move Tabled The group after lengthy debate decided to table a proposal initiated by the merchants to wait on the irrigation district to urge it to speed its legal efforts to obtain a share in water from the Friant Reservoir David Pecklnpaugh Gilbert Jertberg and Loescher alt directors of the chamber asserted no showing has been made that the condemnation suits of the district are delaying the project and that the condemnation suits of the district are delaying the project and that the joint committeemen are not In position until a definite state ment is made by the government to criticise the Irrigation district of take any stand in the matter Loescher said any committees ap pointed should offer the district as sistance in its attempt to obtain Friant water Peckinpah said 9000 Fresno County farmers are represented by the Fresno Irrigation District and that the best offer made to them for Friant water was 34 an acre foot compared to the present cost of approximately 3L20 for irriga tion Harry Coffee local merchant urged that a committee wait on the district as a fact finding body and to plead for speedy action by the district In deciding its next stepi Peckinpah in defense of the district declared it had made a proposition to the government's legal negoti tors the State Water Authority and was denied an application to store water in the Friant Reservoir without a counter proposal being made EVeano 'Apathy Hit Coffee and Sam Pudlin president of the Merchants Association in formed the chamber southern San Joaquin Valley fanners and individuals have criticised Fresno for its "apathy" in regard 1 to Friant Dam and are claiming the Fresno Irrigation District condemnation suits are blocking construction on the dam -Jertberg read a dispatch dated December 14th quoting Page that the dam will be constructed and that there are no major difficula ties in the way "1 believe this group should not take any action until It learns from the authorized government officials exactly whether or not the Fresno Irrigation District is blocking con Jertberg said He was supported by Peckinpah and Loe scher Coffee said the merchants hare met with James Fauver Exeter IrrU ration authority who has charged the asserted apathy of Fresno merchants and the chamber of com merce and the irrigation district's legal fight were causing a general criticism of this territory through out the southern valley Gearhart Suit Settlement Seen A settlement for 35750 of damage suits totaling 311669288 against Congressman Gearhart of Fresno growing out of an automo bile accident on the Whites Bridge Road in 1936 In which Will Kelly former county auditor was fatally injured today la reported to be pending The plaintiffs in the actions are Kelly's widow Mrs Florence Kelly her daughter Rose Kelly Lund and Mrs Frances Miles The tint indi cation cf the settlement came when the cases set for a second trial Jan uary 10th were taken from the court calendar While details of the amounts in volred were not announced it is reported Mrs Miles will receive $1500 and the balance will be divided between Mrs Kelly and her daughter for personal Injuries suffered by Mrs Kelly and the death of Kelly Mrs Kelly and her daughter sued for $10133668 and Mrs Miles for $153561201 The first trial of the suit last Summer resulted in a Jury disagree ment Wilbur James MacNeil Former Fresnan Dies Notice has beed received by friends in Fresno of the recent death at Honolulu of Wilbur James MacNeil one time Fresno school teacher and for the past thirty three years a member of the faculty of the Punahou School In that city MacNeil a native of Manachu sett died the day before hi seventieth birthday lie was an Instructor at the Fresno High School lit about 1993 He also taught at Redlands before moving to Honolulu in 1903 Cremation services wars conducted at Honolulu lie is survived by his widow Mrs Flirabeth Mai-Netl a sister Miss Helen MacNeil of the University of Hawaii and a brother Herman MacNeil Long Island sculpt or Pr in the Belmont Memorial Park Waldron who died yesterday hao been a resident of Fresno for eight years His home was at 736 North Fresno Street IT Officers Seize Un laved Liquor meeting of directors today at The Californian They succeed Louis Slater Ralph Heaton and Sam Davidson whose terms expired The annual election of chamber officers Is scheduled at a noon luncheon meeting Janu- Connor ary 2Sth at The Californian Gilbert 1L Jertberg vice president this year is expected to receive the nomination for the presidency Directors renamed at today's meeting included Kenneth Crawford Joseph Dale George Harm Loescher David Peckinpah and Smith Chamber directors with unfinished terms are Antrim Car-roll 1L Baird Durfey Frank Everts Goodwin Jertberg and Kendrick Flunk Thomas was chairman of the nominating committee which included Edwin Einstein George Ball A Hunter Gerald Thomas George Engstrom and E- Harrison Officers of the Fresno Junior Chamber of Commerce will be named later this week by a committee comprised of Keith Patterson chairman Elmer Tuschoff Vernon Redman Philip Elllthorpe William Mortland and Ralph Aten John Gilbert 68 Fresno Painter Dies John Gilbert 68 a painter died last night at a local hospital He was a native of Illinois and lived in Fresno at 1051 Biackstone Avenue Survivors include a sister Mrs Lillian Wright of Fresno and a niece and a nephew Gilbert Wright of Sacramento and Mary Carr of Corcoran He is the great uncle of Marilyn Wright of Sacramento The Sullivan Fueneral Home Is in charge of arrangements that it does not leave the customary aftermath common in Inoculation Heat Kills Organism Dr Ginsburg said fever therapy i used on the theory that certain organisms can not survive at certain body temperatures and that if the fever can be increased to the level at which the organisms can not survive for a sufficiently long period of time they will be destroyed "Fever therapy has been found to be particularly effective for the treatment of venereal infections1 Dr Ginsburg said "It also is effective for the treatment of arthritis rheumatism due to infection and in some parts of the country this treatment also has been used in meningitis cases High Temperatures Possible "It is necessary some times to raise the body temperature to 1064 degrees and hold it at that point for from six to fourteen hours In most cases however we prefer a lower temperature of about 105 degrees for a shorter period of time and repeat the treatment so long as necessary "la cases where high temperature is sustained for many hours it is necessary to have some one in constant attendance At the slightest unfavorable reaction the patient immediately is taken out of the machine Patients become restless with the high temperature and we try to put them to sleep by the use of sedatives "Because the body loses much of its salt saline water is adminis- (Continued On Tage 6-B) Mrs Mary Jones Is Summoned By Death Mrs Mary Jones a resident of Fresno for the past thirty years died last night at her home at 1717 White Avenue She was a native of Arkansas and had resided in California for fifty five years Mrs Jones is survived by two sons and three daughters Walter and Ezra Jones and Sirs A Shedd all of Oakland and Mrs Lela Mills and Mrs Cobb both of Fresno a brother Frank Lewis of Madera and fire sisters Mrs A Howard Virginia McCleland and Mrs Cobb all cf Fresno Mrs Angie Black of Le Grand and Mrs Lucy Fox of Mountain View Thirteen grandchildren and twelve great grandchildren also survive Stephens A Bean is in charge of funeral arrangements Hal Forrest Reminiscent of prohibition days it this collection confiscated by agents of the Fresno of fice of the Federal Alcohol Tax Unit following the arrest of Harvey Brekke fO of Fresno Shown above is a barrel of bootleg whisky assertedly found in Brekke's automobile together with an aging device a box of white oak chips and a collection of empty bottles Staff Photo Running Out Of Retd Tallspin Tommy If.