The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 11

BEE Empire For A Lady Th adventures of Captain Clyde gun runner and tw romance of Christine combine to provide thrilling story of the tropical seas In Alan Le newest serial now appearing In The Fresno Bee Brain Twizzlen It is real fun figuring the answers to these It keeps the mind alert Tty it on the Twisslers appearing dally on the comic pussies Brain page THE REPUBLICAN TOLl 81 FRESNO CAL SUNDAY MORNING JANUARY 16 1938 Husband Charges Conspiracy To Obtain Property Robert Stevenson Accuses Former Wife And Arthur Steintorf Commission Will Renew Franchise Study Tomorrow Present Draft Fails To Provide For Transportation To Roeding Park Hits Prisons Public Offering Marks Opening Of Radio KARM New Station Is Welcomed By Capacity Audience In Memorial Auditorium IDrivc 4807696 Miles Without Accident W-V -s: KMy: 4- THE Earl Warren Valley route carrier for The Fresno Bee wiZl receive certificates today marking completion of a four year period in tchich twfnty two of them drove their automobiles a total of more than fl00fl00 miles without an accident In the photo are: Upper row left to right Edgar Sumner Elijah Guest Wooley Lawrence Peter Block Carlson RonnCe Wells Gerald HaU Thomas Mar-check middle rour George Engebrecht Floyd El Fowler Cde Johnson John Judd Cochran Archie True seated Peter Salwasser Mrs Lceura Mel -drim Mrs Schneider Mrs Myrtle Fullerton Chester Speak and Jam es Boger Below is a reproduction of the safety certificate Staff Photo Programs of the Columbia Broadcasting System were brought back to Fresno last night after an absence of more than a year when George Harm local business man put his new 100 watt broadcasting station KARM on tho air with a series of programs emanating chiefly from tho stage of the Fresno Memorial Auditorium before a capacity audience Although tho atudioo were not opened to tho public during the inaugural broadcast the first broadcasts came from there being launched with Introductions of Harm and members of tho staff and a program of songs by Mary Lou and the Four Squires Columbia network entertainers from Hollywood The broadcasts from the auditorium stage reached their zenith in a program by the cast of the Hollywood Barn Dance directed by Peter Potter writer producer and master of ceremonies of the show and Jamboree consisting of impromptu numbers Program Marks Opening The public portion of the program was opened by Jack Orchestra and included musical selections by soloists a choral group from the Fresno State College and talks by educational religious and civic leaders of Fresno The station received many congratulatory messages during the day and evening and many of them were read over the air and to the large crowd that filled the auditorium Harm announced that beginning today the new studios on the second floor of the George Harm Motor Sales Company building at 1333 Van Ness Avenue will be open for public inspection and that the station will be on the dir daily from 6 A to midnight with network local and transcribed programs and news Accused Robber Pleads Guilty John Ouranjian Fresno who with his wife Marie Ourganjian Is accused of robbing Frank Astarin-hart December 18th yesterday withdrew his plea of not guilty to robbery and pleaded guilty to grand theft His request for probation was set for hearing January 31st The rase of Mrs Ourganjian set for trial January 24th was taken from the calendar to be reset Friday Astarinhart charged Mrs Ourganjian conspired to lure Mm to a lonely country road when Ourganjian beat and robbed him Gets Jail Term Frances Olsen Rcedley who pleaded guilty to assault with a deadly weapon Involving an asserted throat to kill hVs wife Esther Olsen and commit suicide was sentenced to ninety days in the county jail and warned to discontinue the use of Intoxicating liquor James Johnson who served ten days in the county jail In December for petit theft involving an overcoat was sentenced to ninely days in the county jail on his plea of guilty to petit theft with a prior conviction of petit theft The second charge also involved an overcoat Wins Probation Probation granted Milton Man-kin for the theft of an automobile was revoked after Mankin earlier in this week had been sentenced to San Quentin Penitentiary for another automobile theft Judge KIctte imposed a San Quentin Penitentiary sentence for the offense for which he was on probation and ordered both sentences to run concurrently Auldia McAIexander Fresno charged wiih burglaty and carrying a concealed weapon pleaded not guilty and his trial was set for February 2nd Erocio Madueno Firehaugh cotton laborer pleaded guilty to contributing to the delinquency of a minor and was sentenced to four months in the county jail Benefit Dance Set Lung' Deliberations on the final draft of a franchise which will bo offered the Fresno Traction Company call-fng for the substitution of buses for streetcars will be resumed by the city commission at a session idled by Mayor Frank A Homan for IO o'clock tomorrow morning Transportation for mall carriers regulation of competition and possible limitation of the city's right to acquire the system will be paramount Issues to be discussed As tentatively approved the franchise draft makes no reference to possible extensions of the system beyond the city limits thus removing any possible city control The city may however demand extensions Into annexed territory or for public necessity within the present city limits A study of the proposed routes of the motor buses shows that unless the city commissioners emend the ordinance Fresnans will be unable to reach their largest and most popular park playground Roeding Park by the buses Instead of running directly Into the park as the street cars do at present and going on to the cemetery section it is proposed to stop the buses at Olive and Fruit Avenues from which point all passengers would be required to walk two long blocks to even reach the northeasterly border of the park Aa the park is Inside the city limits a demand probably will be made that the railway system extend its bus lines right into the park as an accomodation to those who cannot drive there in autos Hood Position Wanted The commission discussed a compromise on the mail carrier Issue Friday but dropped action pending a clarification by Postmaster Charles Hood of his position on rights in the existing street car franchise which give postmen free rides Hood In a statement to The Fresno Bee copy of which was mailed to the commission has declared he Is not withdrawing any clairs to rights under the present franchise but does reserve the privilege for the government to transport mail carriers with its own facilities if an Investigation now under way shows that coursro la feasible The commission delayed action Friday on a section of the proposed franchise to limit competition within half mile of the routes of the proposed system in the residential district The commission decided to designate the business zone In which competition may use the same streets as the traction company the area bounded by Franklin Avenue Angus Street Ventura Avenue Street Trinity Street and Palm Avenue City Attorney Claude Rowe advised the commission any section limiting the time or right of the city to purchase the system would be illegal and might endanger the legality of the entire franchise The company has sought to limit such action by tho city te after five years of operation Rowe holds the state utilities act allows the city to take over a utility at any time after provisions of the act as to notice: evaluation and similar matters have been met The matter of fares Is governed by tho same act according to Rowe and regardless of provisions mads in the franchise the state law will have precedence and allow regulation only by the railroad commission Legislative Commissioner George Sharp Is on record against including any of the assert edly Illegal provisions in tho franchise but other commission members said they favored a limitation on the time for any fare increase to one year as a matter of policy regardless of its legal status Firebaugh Workers Held As Hog Thieves Rafael Galvas 34 and Ondres Torres 37 Flrebaugh ranch workers are held in the Fresno County Jail on grand theft charges following their arrest by Deputy Sheriffs Roy Landers and Ripper-dan and Constable Al Lopez Landers charged the two men stole a hog from the Roy Stevens ranch two miles west of Firehaugh and butchered the animal in a cotton field a mile away The Weather lallrl State Of ltfaiWif Wrath Barraa Fresno Calif January 19 199 Fawuti Till Mmdar WAN JOAjlTIN Cloudy with rain Sunday night and Monday mud temperature: light variable wind SAN FRANCISCO BAY Or-ivcional rain Sunday and Monday mild ten pern turn NORTHERN CALITORNT Cloudy with rain in north portion Sun lay Monday prob-abiv ram: snur ever high mountain SOUTHERN I Main cloudiness Sunday: probably followed by rain tn wnl portion Monday: no chant in temperature moderate northwest wind alt coast Loral Oafa A Noon Barometer J9H 30 14 Temnerature dry MRS Temperature wet Humidity per cent 9d Id S7 Rainfall tiiMtiti 59 0X Seasonal rainfall to date S3 in rhea Normal rainfall tn date 999 Inches Lent year rainfall to Una date 98 inches Normal dally maximum temperature (nr January 54 Normal dally mlntnuan temperature for January 3 Highest ard lowest this date 0t and 49 Orchard maximum and minimum this date S3 and 40 High and low thia date last year and 38 Time of wnriM January loth o'clock: of ninarl 5:07 o'clock Real estate end personal property valued in excess of 9140000 end a five way marriage end divorce snarl involving the socially and finar-cially prominent Robert A Stevenson and Arthur Steintorf families of Flrebaugh yesterday was placed before the superior court here for unraveling Stevenson has filed suit for the recovery of large reel estate holdings and personal property which he values at 1140000 an accounting of proceeds fiom a cotton crop valued at $50000 and an accounting of other personal property At the sa re time he attacks the validity of Reno divorces obtained by Pauline Stevenson now married to Steintorf and Mrs Frances Steintorf Stevenson charges Steintorf and the former Mr Stevenson who is now Mrs Steintorf with conspiring to obtain all of his property and that under threats and coercion he entered into a property agreement Augst 20 1937 conveying the extensive property holdings to the then Mrs Stevenson Two Are Defendants The complaint prepared by Benson names Mrs Stevenson also known as Mrs Steintorf and Steintorf as defendants Stevenson accuses Steintorf as a part of the conspiracy persuaded Steintorf former wife Frances Steintorf and Mrs Stevenson to obtain Reno divorces after which he and Mrs Stevenson married and took possession of the property The marriage tangle according to Stevenson goes bark further than the Stevenson-Steintorf martial dispute Stevenson says at the time he married Mrs Stevenson -June 18 1929 she was the legal wife of Dewey Pflster Shstto who he charges obtained an Interlocutory decree of divorce in Alameda County December 20 1927 but who did not obtain a final decree until September 30 1931 Stevenson and his wife lived together acquiring valuable property In the Fircbaugh district until the latter part of 1937 when he says by virtue of the conspiracy to defraud him of Ms property the Reno divorces were obtained Both divorces are Illegal he charge because bona fide residences were not established by Mrs Stevenson who gained her Reno decree October 8th of last year and Mrs Steintorf 'Whose divorce decree was granted November 4th Charges Divorces Illegal Because of the 'alleged illegal Reno divorces Stevenson contends Mr Stevenson's marriage- to Steintorf is also illegal Ho says they obtained a marriage license in Fresno County November 19th and were married November 28th Prior to tho Reno divorrea Stevenson says he and Ms wife acquired six parcels of real property containing 124943 acres The Stevenson and Steintorf families Stevenson alleges were close socially and during his marriage with Mr Stevenson she became intimately acquainted with Steintorf It was some time early in 1937 that the divorce conspiracy and plans to deprive him of his property were conceived Stevenson says Stevenson charges Steintorf made thread to mutual friends that he was to ruin Bob and no holds barred It was because of the threats that he entered into tho property agreement with Mrs Stevenson the complaint says Property Is listed Stevenson lists the following property which he says was con' veyed to Ms wife under terms of the August 20th agreement: Household furnishings in their Flrebaugh home the six parcels of real property a certificate in the Firehaugh Canal Company representing 1239 shares of capital stork: a lease from The Pines Inc-oil Ms title and interest In a Joint business with and Bian-rued Britton and Steintorf for buying and selling property and the operation of cotton gins and Ms Interest in the purchase of two gins known as the Miller Colony end Cromir Gins all Ms livestock tractors farming equipment and office appliances described in bill of sale dated August 20th a rash deposit In the Flrebsugh branch of tho Bank of America Ms interest tn a $15000 insurance policy his Interest in fire insurance policies and rash deposits In the Fresno Branch of tho Security First National Bank He values the property In addition to the real property and the cotton crop at $25000 Stevenson says he has been refused an accounting of the cotton crop and other personal property delivered under the property agreement and the defendanta have refused to reconvey the property to him The complaint does not ask that the divorce decrees be set aside but does ask a decree annuling the property agreement and a further order of the court for an accounting of the cotton crop and tho described personal property Motor Vehicle Office Hours Are Extended Ethel Kay Collins manager of the Fresno district office of the depart ment of motor vehicles yesterday announced the office will bo open from 9 A to 5 Saturdays as well as week days for the mainder of tho automobile registra lion period which ends on February dth The number of motorists applying for 1938 license plates this week is far below the total for last week whn the office carried on a ca- parity business Mrs Collins said there will he no period of grace this year and motorists failing to obtain their plates by February 4th will be subject to fcnalliea LI More Labor For Felons Asked By Prosecutor Earl Warren Alameda County district attorney yesterday branded California's penal system as a failure in rehabilitating criminals and suggested more physical labor for both jail and prison inmates as a corrective measure His criticism was made at a Joint meeting of the San Joaquin Valley Peace Officers Association the Fresno County Peace Officers Association and Fresno Chapter No 11 of the Interna tional Footprint Association at which several speakers emphasized ccooperalion between various peace officer agencies as the most important factor In reducing crime Deputy District Attorney James Thuesrn was elected president of the county association at the close of rtte valley session lie succeeds Highway Patrolman Joseph Masini Other officers of the county association elected are Meyers assistant probat ion officer vice pres-dent Anna Louisa Aynesworth reelected secretary and Joseph Birk-head treasurer "Most of our prisonAa spend their time either In solitude or in talk talk' talk and few are rehabilitated" Warren said "They come out more anti social knowing more about crime than when they went in and are more of a problem to police and law enforcement agencies "There is not enough labor in San Quentin for Its 6000 prisoners to provide enough work to make them physically or mentally Road Building Recommended Warren said prisoners could be employed constructing many roads In our mountains end back countries furniture could be manufactured for our public buildings but ail such programs ere opposed by contractors and business men who have strong lobbies at Sacramento blocking such steps Tho Alameda district attorney said organized kidnaping has been abolished in the United States organized crime of other types largely baa been abolished and gang murders have been greatly reduced by legislation of a helpful nature ana a closer working between law enforcement agencies The next step he said should be centered among juveniles In preventing boys from becoming criminals District Attorney Dan Conway-defended tho California parole system end said records show that few ex convicts get Into difficulties while on parole Conway said the prisoners should be from those who show of rehabilitation Drunk driven are California's greatest highway menace Raymond Cato chief of the California Highway Patrol told tho officers He saidL however the driver with only a few drinks not classified as intoxicated represents the greatest traffic menace I am proud to say that of 14000 drunk driving arrests In 1937 we had a 97 per cent record of Cato said To reduce the traffic accident toll Cato said the public as well as the officers must be cognizant of traffic safety He placed little value on adult education on the ground "old dogs are hard lo teach new tricks" but eupported the present program for tho education of school children in accident prevention New Ian Are Told Tho fresh pursuit law allowing officers in pursuit of a criminal to make arrests in other states is forward step In taw enforcement Deputy District Attorney Richard Chamberlin of Alameda County told the association He said changes In extradition laws establishing uniform extradition laws also will prove of benefit to California Frank Ostrander former Merced County district attorney stressed the importance of training peace officers to make good witnesses Police Chief Arington of Modesto president officiated at the afternoon session and addresses of welcome were made by Mayor Frank A Homan Sheriff George Overbolt and Police Lieutenant Wallace The invocation was delivered by Aaron King Arthur Shepard presided a toastmaster at a banquet last night A dance dosed the meeting The next meeting of the valley association will be held in Fresno April 1611k City Golf Course Labor Is Sought An application for 'VTA labor to improve swimming picnicking and golfing faculties at tfc-ie Riverside Golf Club and tho adjoining forty acres is being prepared! by the city engineering depart men Public Works Commissioner Jean Vincenz said consideration Is being given to the development of the property as the needs grow but the WPA application when finally submitted probaably will Include provision for thro entire project As tentatively outlined It la proposed to grade the river bank to provide a beach for wading picnicking and swimming improve the river bottoms area for baseball and picnics and construct road to the river sites to avoid interference with golfing Vincenz said he beiiwves the city can begin its operations of the golf course immediately wipon formal acceptance of the deeds to the property and improvements on the golf course can be carried km with little interference with golfing Mayor Frank A Homan proposes that the existing ninro hole course bo improved before the adjoining forty acres is brought into use to provide eighteen holes Safety Council Slates io Suspected Killer Probe Dropped Jack Sullivan 24 and Marvin Alexander 23 suspects In the fatal beating of Pat Demera In a downtown rooming house here December 27th will be arraigned Monday in the police court with eight other' persons charged with possession sale and use of narcotics and vagrancy The police have been unable to obtain from Sullivan Alexander or any of their associates an admission of their presence in the rooming house on the date of the fatal fight The two suspects Mrs Demera Charles and Katherine Shaw Leonard Stevens and Floyd Jackson were questioned at length yesterday at the police station but none would give any information that would connect Sullivan and Alexander with the beating of Demera All are charged with possession or use of narcotics and Wong Tow Edward Wong and Gene Lee are accused of possession and sale of narcotics A Phillips Dies A Phillips 5L died yesterday at Burrel He was unmarried and leaves no relatives in Fresno The Lisle Funeral Home is la charge of arrangements Bee Auto Route Carriers Set Unusual Safety Mark Daily they have traveled over the network of highways and roads throughout the lower San Joaquin Valley speeding the latest news to thousands of subscribers A great share of their travel has been In the darkness much of it through dangerous intersections much more over routes made hazardous by rain or Almost countless items have appeared in their papers relating details of fatal or less serious automobile wrecks St Have Ferfect Record Yet twenty five men and wsmen carriers for The Fresno Bee have driven their vehicles a total of 4807696 miles in the past four years without a single accident! Twenty two of the group established a perfect record over the four year period their Individual mileages ranging from 21600 to 300000 for an aggregate of 4300696 Three others drove a total of 507000 miles in the past three years Best Individual records were made among tho men by Guest of the WoodvUle auto route 300000 miles in four years and Peter Block one of the Coalings route drivers 277400 miles while Mrs Myrtle Fullerton of the Cutler auto route leads the women with a mark of 200000 miles Annual Dmner Scheduled The twenty five will be rewarded with safety certificates today when the entire valley carrier force of The Fresno Bee celebrates at its twelfth annual dinner and dance at the Edison Social Club Hall Drivers who have operated for four years without an accident also will receive cowhide belts with silver buckles supplementing the safe driving certificates issued by the Maryland Casualty Company three year drivers will be given calfskin wallets and certificates also will be presented to others who have driven one or two years without a mishap Program features at the party Include numbers by entertainers provided by Fanrhon and Marco of Hollywood the Avalon Trio Evelyn Brase Hazel Arnold's Orchestra and Leroy Calhoun vocalist Drivers Are Listed Drivers in the four and three year group their routes -and individual mileage records are: Guest Wood villa 300000: Block Coalings 277400 It Lawrence Tulare 266608: Johnson auto 1L 260000 Thomas Marrheck auto 9 240000 Chester Speak auto 19 242000 Cochran Dinuba 160000 Wooley Dinuba 209-488 Schneider auto 7 196-(XX) A Thomsen Farlier 149600 Ed Sumner auto 14 210000 Mrs Fullerton Cutler 200000 Cole Chowchilla 184000: Peter Salwas-ser auto 240400 John Judd auto 8 200000 Ronnie Will auto 12 209000: Floyd Fowler Coalinga 149000 George Engebrecht Single lecture tickets may be pur- Lindsay 160000: James A True 4iQ HiaWlMa'DaallAII (kVWMA IP ft chased for Parlier Forum Speaker Will Tell World's Economic Trends 7 Conclave Plans Session Further preparations for the statewide convention -of state traffic advisory committee members in Fresno January 28th end 29th will be made tomorrow aCternoon at a meeting of the Fresno Safety Council The group will meet In the offices of the council president (X Thorwaldsen at 4:30 o'clock Convention sessions will be held at The Californian ith a talk by Governor Frank -erriam to climax the first activities Ray Ingels director of the state motor vehicle department will be among the 200 traffic experts and civic officials who will discuses problems of speed night driving drunken driving licensing of drivrars safety education and tho coordination of judi clary efforts Selection of the safwst California city for 1937 Is tentatively scheduled to be announced at the The campaign to supply the FTOno County General Hospital with an improved and supplementary artificial respirator will continue this week with a benefit dance In the Hotel Hughes Friday evening Camp No 17 Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War and Auxiliary No 6 will sponsor tho event which will feature the musie of A1 Orchestra Entertainment features from local night dabs dancing schools and the Fresno State College are being arranged Mr and Mrs Wilbur Coursey are cocbairmen of the committee on arrangement The Iron lung drive was Inaugurated late last year by members of the George Kellogg Womens Relief Corps No 133 Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic of which the Sons of Union Veterans is an affiliate order Communism Fascism Nazism and Democracy described as the four systems or ways of life emerging from the chaos of a world torn by economic social and political conflicts will be discussed by-Abram Leon Sachar of the University of Chicago when he speaks on Four Roads To Security at the Frosno Town Forum Hall meeting tomorrow night at 8:30 in the Fresno High School Auditorium The lecture will be the second In a series of twelve to be presentee this season Sachar professor of economic and social science at the University of Chicago will analyse the basic philosophy of each of the four systems the factors which have developed It the personalities who symbolize It its limitations and merits and its likely effect upon civilization A native of New York Sachar was educated at Washington and Harvard Universities doing post graduate research at the University of Cambridge England A frequent contributor to organs of opinion Sachar has just returned from a throe month tour in Austria Poland and the Baltic states where he interviewed political figures correspondents relief officials and labor leaders Tickets for the remaining eleven lectures are available at $923 Brennan Gives Praise To Roosevelt Program James Brennan San Francisco attorney and former state assemblyman characterized the Roosevelt administration as on which will go down in history as one of Ideals His observation was made at meeting of the Yourt Democratic Club of Fresno at the Hotel Fresno last week "The goal of the pxvsent administration has ever been a fairer distribution of our national wealth" he said Brennan named aj leaders in this nation's march of progress Washington Jacks on Lincoln Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt Rites Are Scheduled Funeral services for Ira Thomas Houston £0 a Railway Express clerk whortiicd Friday at a local sanitarium will be conducted at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the hapel of the Colonial Funeral lome Rev Sumner Reynolds of the Flint Methodist Church will officiate Fellow employes of the express company will serve as pallbearers for Houston Burial will be in tho Mountain View Cemetery $125- Those wishing season tickets for the five evening lectures only may obtain them for 5459 Tickets are on sale at The Californian and also may be obtained at the high school preceding the lecture tomorrow night 209 (XX): Carlson Hanford 144000 51 Nicholas Raymond 21600 Gerald Hall Riverdale 200090 Mrs Marge Bennett Merced three years 199000 Boger auto 13 165400k and Mrs Lora Mel-drim Hanford three yean 162000 witMte '1 4.