The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • Page 21

BEAD SECONDHAND LOVERS A new serial story by Vida Hurst is now running in The THE FRESNO BEE THE RBPUBUCAN VOL. a CREEL 10 TELL Western Director Will Be Speaker At Meeting Tomorrow Night Purposes of the'National Indus trlnl Recovery Act, involving the re-employment of large numbers of jobless men and women through general shortening of work hours be explained by George Creel, San Francisco writer and former newspaper man, at a valley-wide mass meeting at 7:30 P. M. to-morrow in Courthouse Park. Appointed district administrator under General Hugh Johnson, na" tional administrator, Creel Is directing the NRA program in Northern California, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii and Alaska.

Served As War Aldn Beginning his career as a newspaper man, Creel joined the staff of the Kansas City World as a cub reporter when he was 18. He went from there to New York City, he was free lance writer. Later he returned to Kansas City and founded the Independent. During the world war President Woodrow Wilson drafted Creel to take charge of the bureau of public Information. Under the pen name of Uncle Henry, he has been responsible for many magazine articles regarding current events.

His wife is Blanche Bates, well-known actress. Band To I'lay Following a half-hour band concert, which will be contributed by the musicians' union, and a quartet of trumpeters from Fresno Post No. 4 of the American Legion, Including Harvey Freeman, state cham- jilon, will call the meeting to order after the Star-Spangled Banner brings the concert to a close. Jesse E. Rodman, chairman of the Fresno NRA committee, will introduce Z.

S. Leymel, who will be master of ceremonies. After an invocation by Rev. Ray E. Orr, a will present N.

P. Gonser, chairman of the board of supervisors, and the fol- I lowing county administrators: R. D. Chittendon, Fresno; Stephen Gal- vln, Merced; S. B.

Glvens, Marl- posa; George Aydelotte, Kings; Malcolm Brock, Kern; R. S. Hillla, Madera, and George Tachumy, Tu- Creel's address will follow. Bakers Will Meet Approximately seventy-five San Joaquln Valley bakers, 'who will meet to-morrow evening at The Californian to form an organization NRA Leader --Acme Photo George Creel of San Francisco western district administrator the NRA, who will speak at a pub lie meeting in the courthouse park here to-morrow night. and discuss a code for the industry, will be invited to attend the park meeting.

Retail glass merchants of Fresno, meeting In the offices of the Fresno Merchants' Association late yesterday, adopted the president's blanket code Involving a forty-hour reek for employes and other pro- isions. Foundry owners of Fresno discussed a code for their business i the possibility of forming a valley-wide organization. Crittenden left Fresno early today for Conllnga to assist In the organization of a NRA committee. The Fresno post of the legion and legion auxiliary will meet at 7:30 P. M.

and adjourn at 8 o'clock so members may attend the park meeting. campaign in one day so that we Proposed Agreement Will Be Discussed At Meeting At Auditorium Called by a of local Eorwers, a mass meeting of San Joaquln Valley raisin growers will be held at 8 P. M. Friday in the Fresno A i i to review the industry code prepared by the growers' committee of sixty with the assistance of F. R.

Wllrox of Berkeley, i i a adviser to thp industry. Aram Saroj'an said the mcellnir was called so that growers could express their views before the code is forwarded to Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace. "A number of growers who are vitally Interested In the raisin pro-; gram deemed it advisable to cal the so that the growers in may acquaint themselvi with the proposed plan," sai Saroyan. Speakers will Include Ray Hum imreys. chairman of the growers committee of sixty which drafted program; A.

Sctrokian, John Kuless, H. A. Savage and Coleman Cainc, the latter three being mem hern of the temporary bonrd which will manage the raisin stabilization co-operative. Articles of Incorporation and by laws of the stabilization co-operative were approved at a meeting of Lbe board yesterday and sent to Washington. The agreement was approved last week by the committee of sixty and provides for a California Raisin Stabilization Co-operative.

It sets up a plan by which each raisin grower may sell lo any licensed packer a part of his'1933 crop which shall be determined as "fref tonnage" by the co-operative, FBKSNO. WEDNESDAY BVENING. AUGUST ZS. ADVICE TO MOTHER! The Bee publishes daily Your and Mine department, which will be of great help to mothers in the care ol their babies. Use Of NRA Name Unauthorized; Hanford Session Called To Consider Wages Second Charge COMT1EE IS FOR QUIZ Filed By Court In Bigamy Case (his tonnage to be the grower the price agreed upon between and the packer.

Amount of the crop considered "free tonnage" nnd "controlled tonnage" is left In the hands of the executives of the co-operative to be determined when all final crop estimates are available. The agreement also provides for i i prices on the controlled tonnage. things," Mayor 2. S. Leymel urged to-day In an appeal to more than ISO citizens at the Hotel Fresno to Bupport the national recovery program morally and enthusiastically.

"With the campaign force thai has been organized and the right kind of spirit we can start the campaign at 8 o'clock next Monday and finish by 8 o'clock the same day. It can be done. Let's do it with a bang so we can sit back and watch the rest of the country. It won't be hard to do, for 90 "per cent of the business concerns of Fresno have already signed up." Problem Declared Local Presenting the outsider's Burglars Lead List Of Fresno County Criminals Burglars led the list of criminals to trial in the superior (By Itee llitrcau) SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23--Fred Huss of Fresno, deputy state la- tor commissioner, was ordered today by Director of Industrial Rela- lons T.

A. Reardon to go to Modesto to investigate reports that an organization calling itself the farmers And Workers NRA Union Of Modesto is organizing a strike if fruit pickers. At the same time the office of George Creel. Pacific Coast NHA halrman, advised of the Modesto Ituation in rcnorts from that city nd from the Stockton Chamber of Commerce, announced that "neither hat organization nor any other has ny right or authorization to use he name of the recovery adminis- ration." "Such use of the NRA name Is bsolutely unauthorized, misleading nd a subterfuge," said the ouncement. Creel referred the reports to Mur- H.V Williams of Modesto, Stanislaus NRA chairman, for inves- gation.

HANFORD MEETING CALLED TULARE Tulare Aug(. 23 Chambers, leader of the aims Ranch strike recently ended, aid to-day that a meeting of grow- and pickers has been 'called Hanford this evening to consider charges that various Han- peach growers are paying pick- rs less a 25 cents an hour. Meanwhile peace prevailed on he Tagus Ranch, where 700 work- rs are busy at 25 cents an hour arvcsting the peach crop of one the world's largest orchards. MERCED MEN EXPECT MERCED (Merced Aug. 23.

---Quietly marking time at their amp near the Tuttle Warehouse, ore than 400 fruit pickers who 2Cently refused to work in the alifornia Packing Corporation rchards to-day awaited the word om orchard officials to return the fields. It is expected several hundred en will be put to work to-mor- ranch officials said, and that the end of the week the Mid- ummer harvest will be in full Ing with 1,500 pickers employed. The idle men have their own tup kitchen and are suffering tie inconvenience in the enforced yoff. A. A.

Allen. leader of the oup, reported to-day. The new ale of wages Is 25 cents an hour compared with cents here the strike was called. INJUNCTION DISSOLVED V1SALIA (Tulare Aug. 23.

--Superior Judge J. A. Allen to-day dissolved the temporary injunction under which 150 striking peach pickers were ordered off the Tagus Ranch and eight families evicted from their homes last week. The injunction was granted bv Judge Allen on the application o'f the Tagus Ranch Company. Fred J.

Held of Tulare, as attorney for the company, moved for the dissolution. He filed a stipulation setting forth that the situation for which the injunction had been Issued was at an end and asking Lhat the bond posted by the company be exonerated. The injunction, directed against Fred Swift, W. C. Channell and 150 John Does, forbade the defendants frcm interfering with the op- jration of the ranch business and from entering upon the ranch prop- HERMAN (Fresno Aug.

23. --Lorcnz McKee of Stockton to-day was held to answer In the superior court to a charge of bigamy and a statutory charge following his preliminary hearing before Justice David Scott here. Judge Scott set McKee's ball at 52 500 on each count. The court dismissed a charge of failure to provide for his asserted first wile, Mrs. Leona McKec.

The evidence on this count was held insufficient. The complaint filed by the district attorney's office against Mckee contained only the one count of bigamy, but the court held the evidence to include the statutory charge and ordered the defendant held on the count also. Witnesses at the hearing were Mrs. McKee, Mrs. Leona Macey, the asserted second wife; Constable A.

J. Russell of Madera, a witness at asserted second marriage, and Otto Ludwig of Fresno. SECTION--B--NO. S87J Local Board Will Study Findings Of Engineers Of Underwriters Released this -week, the report of the engineers of the National Board of Fire Underwriters on Fresno fire hazards, will be submitted to the city fire commision shortly by Mayor Z. S.

Leymel. John Herring heads a committee ol the fire commission investigating the possibility of obtaining insurance rates. The report was made following a survey here by the underwriter engineers as the basis for regrad- ing the city on insurance rates. It recommended increased personnel for the fire department, installation of service meters on -water consumers to prevent water wast- aie, additional fire alarm boxes in the residential districts and two additional pieces of fire apparatus. Mayor Leymc! said that as far as the installation of service meters on water consumerse is concerned, this would be out of the question.

He said he did not care to comment on the report i it is submitted to the fire commission for consideration. The report made no recommendations on insurance rates. It was confined to fire coditions. Fire Marshal L. A.

Moore said the report will be submitted to rate statisticians of the board, who will recommend a system of rates, FREMJFEE Tree Fruit And Tokay Agreements To Be Used As Patterns Patterned a agreements adopted by deciduous tree fruit and Tokay grape- growers in Northern California but providing a revised pro-rating set-up for car allotments, a marketing agreement for table and juice grapes was being completed in tentative a committee of four shippers today for presentation to growers and shippers at a special meeting to-morrow night at The Califor- 'an. The committee, made up of John 3. Arena, chairman; L. M. Tracy E.

B. Brigham and Harry Hitzel! was empowered to draft the agree ment at a meeting of grape grow ers, shippers and buyers last night at The Californian with B. -H Critchfield, manager of the Regional Agricultural Credit Corporation, and Professor E. A. Stckdyk of the Giannini Agricultural Foundation.

Cash Buying liberalized Meeting with Critchfield and Dr Stokdyk after the general meet-' ng of more than 125 grape men adjourned, the committee decided incorporate the basic principles of the Tokay and deciduous fruit agreements in the juice and table grape agreement, with the excep- ion of that section which com- elled cash buyers to furnKsh bona- fide evidence of grapes contracted for before receiving car allotments under the pro-rata plan. Cash buyers, who claimed they purchased more ban 75 per cent of all fresh grapes shipped out of the San Joaquin Valley each season, said the restrictions on cash buyers in the Tokay agreement would work a hardship on them well as growers who depended on cash sales of their grapes. Dr. Stokdyk, in outlining procedure for grape growers undei the agricultural adjustment act suggested that the local group fol low the basic principles of the de ciduous tree fruit and Tokay mar keting agreements, which have been accepted by department of ag nculture officials as model plans for the fruit Industry. Shipments Restricted "California comes under that prc- of the agricultural adjust ment act which says any program that a majority of the Industry thinks it Is one of the largest amateur telesco'oes of which he knows TM UL i nt and he ought to know because his father was an astronomer ion mav bp nnxt! They'll Tell The World supports will be the government ut i effeet'by law," said Dr.

Stokdyk. "Those who do not co operate be prohibited from OAKLAND. Aug. Hatch, San Francisco attorney associated with his father-in-law, John W. Preston, associate justice of state supreme court, to-day substantiated testimony given by Preston yesterday that the associate justice and not Theodore Stuart.

Fresno lawyer, was the guiding mind in i i a judgment of nearly $315,000 in a Fresno suit In 1928. Stuart is suing Preston and James F. Peek, his clients in the suit, for a fee of $50.400 for his Public Opinion Held Measure Of NRA Success Public opinion will be the decid- ng factor in the success of the National Recovery Adminl-tration's program, Dick Down of the Fres-j services. Justice Preston testified operating. So far as deciduou fruits are concerned, there have been two programs, one for tree fruits and one for Takef grapes.

They contemplate restricting the volume of shipments to avoid market gluts and red ink. The 'program Is set up among shippers alone because the government can only make contracts with shippers, processors and grower co-operatives and not individual growers Critchfield made the following statement: "Our interest is to get back for the government the money It has loaned to growers and to help the growers get just as much money as the market will possibly afford. These marketing agreements offer an opportunity for quick action in bringing the growers the most money passible." He said in the event the grape agreement is approved by Thursday night's meeting it can be sent to Washington with a request for an emergency hearing, insuring a public hearing on the program Announcement of the repayment of all 1932 crop borrowings, sale of balance of raisin brandy, proceeds of which were used in tha settlement of an old $200,000 indebtedness, and disclosure that ne- are pending for early financing of the 1933 crop and payment of advances to mem- 'Crs, was made to-day by William N. Keeler, general manager, at a meeting of the Sun-Maid advisory ouncil In the San Joaquin Power Building. Sun-Maid originally took over 600,000 gallons of he brandy from the old associa- lon, the product having been developed as a means of disposing if part of the raisin surplus.

The irandy has been stored in a fed- rally licensed warehouse near Calwa. Crop Loans Cleared Keeler said payment of the last crop borrowings from thu Reconstruction Finance Corpora- 1,000,000, means that for the first ime in Sun-Maid's history the co- perative will go into a new crop ear free from any indebtedness rising out of previous crop bor- owings. He 1 also announced that comple- on of negotiations for the sale of he rest of the raisin brandy taken ver by Sun-Maid from the old co- perative In 1923, has resulted in ie settlement of a debt to Stevens age and Sterling, Los Angeles In- estment brokers, created in 192T i a stock transaction with the old un-Maid organization. The negotiations, by which financial position was" trengthencd, were completed by vf a a conference in Vashlngton with government of- cials. His statement to members the advisory council concerning 1 hese negotiations follows- Sun-Maid has completed the repayment to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation of Its 1932 crop borrowings, which were in of $1,000,000.

It will be recalled' that last September the Reconstruction Finance Corporation made available to the Sun-Maid organization the first commodity loan made by the RFC to other tnan a government agency Borr Carried Over inis loan, amplified br Its own working capital, enabled' the operative to receive and make ad- Delegates to the annual convention of 20-30 clubs at Santa Cruz TMnces "Pon its members' raisins PAYS OFF LASI 19.32 II S. Co-Operative Negotiates New Financing For 1933 Advance Payments will know raisins come from Fresno after 20-30 Delegates To Learn About Fresno's Raisins within ten days. J. Bennett of Fruit Exchange, the who California no County Chamber of Commerce aid to-day at a luncheon meeting the Loyal Knights of the Round Table at the Hotel Fresno. Arthur Sutton, Everett Holllster ind George Gouge were named antains of the club's NRA drive point, B.

Burrus, nationally known sales counsellor, a visitor in Fresno to-day, told the group the problem is largely local, for when each community has solved its own recovery problem, the national problem will have been solved. "It's a tremendous job, but It is a chance for Fresno to make a record," he said. "If you use a little sale? nhychology 'you can accomplish what your mayor suggests nnd when the campaign ends you will have written for all to read, are real. Americans, and we have done "Fresno Always Does Its Par will he the kevnote of the cam palgn," said Gerald F. Thomns oxwutivc secretary of the Fresno County Chamber of Commerce "The object of the campaign is to every business man display the Blue Eagle nnd conduct his I)iislnc5s in the spirit 'that the Insignia demands." E.

Rodman, general com. mitlcc i a presided. Shor were hv Miles o. Hum- phrevs, district sales manager under H. H.

Coiirlright: W. A. Spar- llason officer for the seven luntles; David Pecklnnnh, Hny Wakcfield, Kiwnns Club; Jo'' IDnlc, Rolnry Club: Mark Hull Lions' Club; Mrs. Charles A. Liddell, chairman of the women's division, nnd C.

E. Dowd, secretary of Frepno l.nbor Council. Pockinpnh said a only thn IM- oMf Terence nf the American peonl in the wny of success. "If the poopln don't cet behind the president, this nation is llkel" lo full nnd posterity will know where to nut the blnmc," he snld, "Tills nppenl come.i from the prr-''Vnt of TJnlled SI.Mrs, nnd nnt f--in clinmhor of commerce o- orcnnlzndon," Vliroyii Bfilcl. court of Fresno County in 1932.

total of eighty-six being convicted and thirty-one sentenced to prison. This was disclosed in a report compiled by Deputy County Clerk George W. a nnd sent to the state bureau of criminal Identification. The report shows that of 356 per sons broueht to trial in the sunerioi court. 240 were convicted.

106 sent to prison, 84 given jail terms, 40 placed on probation. 1 sentenced to death and the remainder fined. A I A ACTION DEFERRED Action on a proposed ordinance restrict the operations of carnivals in Fresno County was postponed by the board of supervisors vcsterday. The ordinance provides a heavy license fee and the nishing of a $1,000 bond to guarantee compliance with the low. MRS.

ORPHAN' DIES Mrs. Dapata Orphan, S2, a resident of California for thirty-one vcars and a native of Armenia, died yesterday in a local hospital. Fu- )eral arrangements will bo made by Stephens and Benn. cams. It was announced that W.

O. Walters, past president of the club, has been appointed chairman of the International constitution committee of organization by the international president. Earle Scott sang, accompanied bv Hazel Arnold. W. O.

Miles and Frank Palumbo were program chairmen. Teachers To Meet As Opening Nears Preparatorv to the re-opcninc: of Fresno nublic schools on Beptem- yesterday he had agreed to take the case for $2,500. The judgment of 1928 was won for Preston and Peck against Amelia Herminghaus and her two daughters. Hatch, testifying for the defense, told of going to a Fresno Hotel the Saturday before the trial began in October, 192S, when he said Stuart received minute about how to conduct the case from Preston and Peck. Hatch also was assigned to the case, he said.

"But i Stuart nor I had very much to do with it, really" he added. This was the seventh day of trial, which is expected to continue throughout the week. her 12th a feachers wil September 8th in at the schools' general meetinq; of be held at 3 P. M. the auditorium administration where Sunerintfndent O.

S. Hubbard address the group. The Fresno i School probably will open October 1st. nnd the meantime on effort will hp made to recruit a faculty from the ranks of local unemployed teach- Hubhard called attention to a new state law which raises the age limit for admission to kindergartens from years to 5. Wage Scale For Grape Pickers To Be Set To-morrow Grape picking prices for the 1933 season, expected to show an ncrease comparable to the new general wage scale of 25 cents an hour, will be fixed at a meeting of growers at 2:30 P.

M. row in The Californinn. Fred C. Huss said to-day there 'as a understanding with Urike lenders that there would he no attempt lo rail a walk-out until proposed code has been formu- nted and studied. Washington for five weeks assisting in the formulation of the deciduous tree fruit agreement, said the fundamental principle of the program is proration and matching the supply with the demand." County Road Men Put On Shorter Working Hours County road district employes will work on a forty-hour-week basis ind those engaged in new construction work on a thirty-hour-week under a ruling adopted by the board of supervisors late yesterday as provided by a new state law.

Members of the board said al- hough work will soon be curtailed the various road districts with he end of the Summer season, the working week will result increased employment when work is resumed next year. Some of the supervisors formerly operated their road district on a Several hundred packages of Sun-Maid raisins from Fresno wil be distributed to delegates at the eleventh annual convention of 20-30 clubs In Santa Cruz from Fridas until Sunday by members of the Fresno 20-30 Club. Wayne Stone, chairman of the Fresno delegation and candidate for trustee of the association, said more than fifteen Fresnans will attend the convention including Lawrence Ecklund, president and official delegate, and Dale Orr. alternate. The convention will open Friday morning with registration, followed by a dance in the evening The convention ball will be held Saturday night and George Creel NRA director for California, Nevada and Utah, will speak at a farewell luncheon Sunday There will be golf contests for men and women and boating and swimming.

Business sessions will be held Saturday. Auto Accessory Men Will Discuss Code Fresno, Madera, Kings and Tulare County automobile supply jobbers will meet at 8 o'clock to-night at the Hotel Fresno to discuss the adoption of a code of fair competition for wholesalers of automotive parts and accessories in conformity with a state code. A S. Lindley of Fresno is chairman of the local group. Proposed organization of unions xr building service employes and ns following the termination of tha left to right, Dale Orr, Wayne Stone and 5, ct ities of the former California Raisin Pool.

This loan has now been repaid in full and means that for the first time in its history, Sun-Maid will go into a new crop year free from indebtedness arising out of previous crop borrowings. "Within the past few weeks arrangements have been completed whereby Sun-Maid has disposed of the rest of the raisin brandy taken i i the old organization in 1923, and as a result has oeen able to settle an indebtedness of long standing. The debt thus was owing to Stevens, Pago Funeral services for Eugene A. wa cre In 1927. Fornes, 55, former chief of police the company, of Fresno, were conducted to-day of more than $200000 plvpn of 1930.

The sail of the 0. un- rf 5 a settlement of the in- der auspices of steHIn "wer" Stevens Page an1 completed in connection the general rehabilitation effected by. (Continued On Page 5-B) E. A. Fornes Gantry Regiment forty-hour basis and others had'dry cleaning plant drivers and escrows operating forty-four and ployes will be discussed at meet- forty-eight hours, paying them of the groups to-night nnd to- the hour.

morrow night. The building serv- ncp'itv District Attorney Arthur ice employes, including janitors bhcpnrd said the forty-hour- elevator operators, caretakers and week, as provided by the state law, will also affect all workmen, laborers and mechanics in the countv employ, including those in the shop and engineering departments. He said the law also affects nil political subdivisions, including cities and school districts. Office employes are not affected. It was not determined whether bounty hospital employes are af- ected by the new forty-hour law.

other service employes, will meet at 8 o'clock to-night at the labor union hall, 1139 Broadway. The dry cleaning plant employes will meet at the same place to-morrow night. Employers and employes of the local painting industry will meet at 7:30 o'clock this evening at 1837 Merced Street to discuss the adop- lion of a. code of ethics under the General Jacob H. Smith Camp No.

6. i a ish War Veterans. Burial was in the Odd Fellows Cemetery. He died in a local hospital from a heart ailment Monday night. A veteran of the a ish- American war, Fornes served in Company or the 22nd In- of New York.

He was born in Buffalo, N. and was in the wool business in New York City before he came to California about 1907. After working as a lumberman and surveyor in the Fresno County mountains, he joined the Fresno Police Department. September 24th 1911. In 1915 he was promoted to sergeant and that position in the department until June, 1925, when he was appointed acting chief by Mavor Al Sunderland and filled the oosition vacated by Chief of Police Frank P.

Truax, who was retired temporarily on a disability pension. Fie became seriously ill from a heart ailment the following Fall and resigned. He leaves a widow. Carrie E. Fornes; a son, Edwin M.

Fornes; a daughter, Lucile M. Forncs, and a grandson, Gene M. Fornes, all of Fresno; two sisters, Clara M. Fornes and Mrs. George Briden- mck.

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