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The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 8

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The Fresno Beei
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Fresno, California
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Carole Lombard who is starred in Swing High Swing Low Wilson Theater screen attraction on Saturday JAIL TERMS AREgjijwin IMPOSED i ADMITTING GUILT Trainman 54 Southern ii under injury at He was State from tha general topic of Ife 1 tional Legislation Needed In Amar lea Today Select Own Topics Students will be permitted to as lect their own topics in tho ora -torlcal contest Although they will bo allowed to read their orations they must have been prepared by themselves Entries In the debate tournament' who will bo competing for a trophy donated annually by tho Fresno Lions Club have been received from Lowell High San Francisco Bakersfield Chowchilla Modesto Hanford Los Gatos Rlpon Read toy Washington Union Sanger Ms dera Vtoalla Edison Tech Fresno and- Roosevelt High Schools Wife Seeks Divorce Patricia Pearce has filed suit for divorce rom Thomas Pearce charging ruslty She said he slapped her and told ha ho no longer loved her They married February 9 1934 smd separated March 8 1937 SCHOOL DEBATERS The Freano State College debate department will be host to more than 100 debaters from fifteen San Joaquin Valley and bay area high schools tomorrow when tho annual debate tournament tor high schools is held at the college The speakers will register In the main foyer at the college at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning tho first debates getting under way at 9:80 o'clock Fred McGrow college debate coach said tho topic to bo debated to Resolved That All Elec trio utilities Should bo Governmently Operated Finale In Evening Nearly twenty-five debates will taka place each hour until midafternoon whan the quarter-finals and semifinals are held The finals will take place tomorrow evening An extemporaneous and oratorical speaking contest will be held In conjunction with a luncheon to bo oorved In tho college union at 11:80 Aj Reedley Sanger Bakersfield Visalia and Rooasvelt High Schools will bo represented In this competition Topics for tho extemporaneous contest will be selected fey Mitchell Brlgrs dean of men at Freeno state while all expenses above that figure would be borne by the state Assembly Borrows Funds The problem of financing expenses of the state assembly was solved temporarily by a group of lower house members who on a to borrow $6000 from a local bank The assembly depleted Its fund's after tbe governor vetoed a $50000 contingent expenses bill on the ground it was An effort to over-ride the veto fell four votes short of the necessary two-thirds majority No attempt was made to present a new bill asking a lower amount (Governor Merrlam said $20000 was sufficient) and the assembly found Itself without funds to buy stamps and pay attache sal' arles and other necessary expenses Speaker William Moseley Jones led a group of seven to a bank where their own salaries were pledged to obtain a loan With Jones were Assemblymen Pelletier Patrick McMurray Paul A Richie Gene Flint and Charles Lyon and Chief Clerk James Smyth Lyon was the only Republican in the group Various proposals to legalize art mutuel betting cm dog races ad their first start toward official conaideration as a result of the senate governmental efficiency committee's approval of Senator A I Pierovlch a bill on the subject The Pisrovich measure would legalise dog racing create a state dog racing commission which would operate like the horse racing board permit pari mutuel betting with 4 per cent of the going to the state tor improvement of state hospitals and institutions and 8 per cent to the track operators divide 100 days of racing between San Francisco and Los Angeles and permit private tracks to operate twenty days a year Both houses worked at equal speed yesterday each passing twenty-two bills The assembly adopted a constitutional amendment providing any judge convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude would be Immediately suspended by the state supreme court and his salary withheld If conviction was finally upheld the order would be made per-manentbut If reversed by higher la Injured Martin Bakersfield member of a Pacific train crew today treatment for a shoulder the Burnett Sanitarium injured when tha engineer suddenly stopped the train to avoid striking an automoMla stalled on tho tracks Thera Is Extra Flavor in now Tboro-Bakad Hotoum Bread Try It At your (adv Treated For Jeaa Strickland 84 2035 Clay Avenue was treated at the Freano County General Hospital last night for scalp lacerations Ha waa cranking an automobile when the motor started and knocked him down Cash-And-Carry Gardenia 20o each long daffodils 15o doz Fresh cut arid potted flowers for all occaalons we ship anywhere Buy flowers at 583 Blackstone (Florist) (adv Fire A small blaze at tha Standard Dinar 1331 Cherry Street was extinguished early today by firemen The damage was slight Falls Out Of Auto Tatum Fresno waa treated for minor Juries at the Freano Emergency Hospital laat night Ha fell out of an automoMla Knitted Garments factory blocked to measurements and guaranteed Prosperity Cleaners (adv Glee dub To Tha glee club of tha Bible Institute of Los Angeles on its annual tour of the state will present a program of acred vocal and Instrumental music at a special public program st 7:80 o'clock tonight at tho Memorial Baptist Church Belmont Avenue and Abby Street The organization la directed by John Trowbridge head of tne mualo department 'Fenny -A social" will bs conducted by ths young people of tho Salvation Army at 7:80 tonight in the hall 825 Tan Ness Avenue The proceeds will go toward tho missionary fund Edna Carl and Clara Lou Oklanburg are chairmen of arrangements Ths public is invited Norwegians To An-sok of Ban Francisco a representative of the Sons of Norway will be the speaker at a meeting eehedufed to organize a Norwegian Club in Freeno at 8 tonight at The Californian Norwegians persons of Norwegian extraction or related to Norwegians by marriage are Invited to attend Woman Motorist Hurt Mrs Golds Burket 40 2005 Dlviaadero Street today was treated tor knee Injuries at tha Fresno Emergency Hospital She told police she drove her automobile into tho curb to avoid colliding with another machine Dr Phillips Dentist hours 8:80 to 5:30 Saturday afternoons (adv License The application of A Kaprelian for writ of mandate to force Finance Commissioner William Glass to pant him a license has been denied by the superior court City Plumbing Inspector Gay Hll-llker said Kaprelian has never qualified aa a plumber according to the terms of the plumbing ordinance and that In 1921 he failed in an examination before ths ex-aming beard Every Mother Owes Her Child Protection AND ESPECIALLY PROTECTION FROM UNKNOWN DRU6E ASK YOUR DOCTOR Superior Judge Ernest Kletta today sentenced Rooney 58 of Route 1 Box 168 to tbe county Jail for ninety days on hie plea of guilty to a felony drunk driving charge and sentenced Robert Kelley of Klngeburg to Jail for six months on hla plea of guilty to Issuing a check without sufficient funds In each case Judge Kletta adopted the recommendation of Probation Officer Oliver Akers in denying probation Judge Klette said he took Into consideration Rooney's age In Imposing the minimum sentence Judge Klette ordered bench warrants Issued for five on probation who have failed to make reports to Akers These Include Harrison Phipps bad checks William Dance second-degree burglary James Zeth bad checks John Yesslan grand theft and Roger Ladd forgery A charge of handling produce without a license was dismissed against A Kerkorlan on ths motion of Deputy District Attorney Tuttle who said ha has been convicted of a similar offense in El Centro and was sentenced to a year In JalL David Weber pleaded not guilty to tbe theft of an automoMla and hla trial was eet for April 18th Warren Smith pleaded guilt to burglary and a hearing on hla request for probation was set for April 2nd A charge of forgery was dismissed against Leo Ernest Morris who has completed the terms of his probation Tl Hie first preliminary session of tho San Joaquin Valley bridge tournament opened last evening at The Californian with oleven tables of bridge signifying the interest shown in the tourney The Federal Post No 509 of tho American Legion is sponsoring the tournament which will be held on Thursday evenings tor seven consecutive weeks after which the semifinals and finals will be staged I Sbaughntoe and Russell Young scored 6111 per cent to win first place for ths north-south players Mrs Felix Mendelsohn and George Howard were second with a score of 5661 per cent and Cornelia Richart and Opal Simpson were' third with 5566 per cent First place for the east-west players went to Jack Prager and Mrs Lb Lb Ellis who scored 5886 per cent Mrs Wes Emerson and Paul Havner were second with a core of 5765 per cent and Mr and Mrs Cyril George were third with 5685 per cent Hesses is chairman of the tournament committee of the poet Harry Seymour of the Log in Bridge Studio is directing the tourney Raging Blizzard Halts Traffic In Utah Idaho SALT LAKE CITY March 19 A raging blizzard Midwinter style swept over Northern Utah and Southern Idaho last night Snow plied up in the mountains delaying traffic The Central Utah Price-Thistle Highway was closed to traffic because of soft spots Tho Northern Utah Bear River Clty-Corinne Road was denied to heavy trucks Five inches of enow fell in the mountains east of this city Two inches lay on newly-plowed field southwest of hers Farmers and orchardists welcomed the moisture but feared frost would follow Drifts stalled twenty -five care near Murtaugh In Southern Idaho The road was cleared by snowplows Robert Diltz Leases Pop Norman's Fountain The fountain and lunch establishment at 415 Belmont Avenue for-mcrly known as Pop A Norman's has been leased from Arthur Cruegcr by Robert Diltz who ie making extensive alterations and installing new fixtures and equipment Diltz formerly was sssociated with a Fresno Street establishment end previously wss in the automobile business Hie newly-acquired business has been named The Icicle cloud The mud nests fill every crevice of the old adobe Father Hutchinson believes that swallows may be keeping a schedule just as regular the world over but that the clock-work arrivals and departures at the mission here havo been emphasised because they coincide with the feast days SaiarSar i a ta srH 9KEHS 1 HIGHER BILLS SACRAMENTO March Two pro do ala to Increase state aid to aired persona were recommended tor passage by the assembly social service and welfare committee today after discussion on mors than forty bills dealing with the aub-jeet A bill sponsored by Assemblyman John Pelletier Los Angeles Democrat providing old age pensions of $50 a month and reducing the age limit from 65 to 80 years was given pass" recommendation after lengthy argument The measure calls for removal of the requirement that lndigents give liens on their real property in order to receive state aid and eliminated visions making relatives responi for their support It was estimated the bill would add $180000000 to the biennial cost of pensions Favored By labor Aida Edward Vaadeleur secretary of the state federation of labor spoke In favor of the bill urging the necessity of taking aged persons out of industry so that unemployed young people might be given lobs Assemblyman William Hornblower urged caution In formulating old age pension legislation pointing to i the fact that California had re- pealed a law of that type In 1880 when the burden on taxpayers came too great The second bin approved by the committee retains the present state age limit of 65 and the maximum out age payments ol $35 a month It also provides that recipients of aid may have an outside Income of $15 a month without suffering reduction of pension Amendments Are Made Amendments to the proposal were accepted providing registration as a voter would constitute evidence of citizenship allowing pensioners to possess real property of an assessed value of $3000 personal property valued at $500 and insurance policies amounting to $1000 If taken out three years prior to application for aid The bill also would make it Incumbent upon district and city attorneys to file suiCagalnst children of aged persons financially able to 'support them who fall to do Parents would thus continue to celve state aid but would be relieved of the auty of prosecuting charges against their relatives County Control Plan Okehed Meantime the assembly public charities and corrections committee reported favorably a bill carrying the recommendations of the California State Association of Supervisors which would transfer administration of all stats relief activities to the counties under supervlon of the department of social welfare The plan advanced by the supervisors calls for payment of all re lief costs up to a 5 per cent levy 'per $100 assessed valuation Costs hom 5 to 16 cents per $100 valuation would be split equally with the REFRIGERATOR WASHING MACHINE All 3 tor $795 Month Vic's Radio Home Appliance 8318 Tulare Bet and If G53W uCfl out asking your doctor first When it conies to1 the widely used remedy of magnesia" many doctors for over naif a century have said For Milk of Magnesia is the standard of the world Safe for children Made in a laboratory devoted solely to making this important remedy there no other like it" Keep this in mind and say MILK OF MAGNESIA" when you buy Comes Swing High Swing Low Is New Wilson Feature Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray se co-starred in Swing High Swing Low which starts Saturday st ths Wilson Theater It Is a romance with music most of which takes place in Panama Mies Lombard plays the role of a night club entertainer who makes a famous musician out of Fed MacMurray after he has been very much on the loose In the canal port The role gives Min Lombard an opportunity to eing and dance ana MacMurray plays the trumpet tor the first time since entering pictures The supporting cast Includes Dorothy Lamour Charles Butter-worth Jean Dixon and Harvey Stephens Miss Lamour la the young actress who first appeared in The Jungle Princess Before entering pictures aha was a radio singer Time Out For Romance the second feature on the program la a comedy romance which takes place on the highways of the United States Claire Trevor and Michael Whalen are the stars Swallows Keep Annual Date At Coastal Mission By ALAN SAN JUAN CAPI8TRAN0 March Ik (IMS The famous swallows of San Juan Capistrano Mission which for 160 years have arrived every Spring on St Day flew In from the sea and popped Into their nests under the old adobe eaves right on clockwork schedule this morning Squadrons of the birds began appearing from over the Pacific Ocean soon after dawn coming from a wintering place that is mystery They wheeled over the miaslon dived down and began their annual battle to oust the swifts occupying their nests The famous flock has flitted out from the eaves of Mission San Juan Capistrano October 23rd San Day and returned the following March 19th for as far back as memories reach In this ancient early California village Scouts Rout Swifts So regular has been the schedule that again this year a broadcasting crew had its equipment set up in the mission patio to tell the story of the swallows' arrival over a national net-work A band of 90 or 100 birds arrived yesterday as they always have and stirred up a nervous unrest among the Interloping swifts who have been using the swallows' mud nests all Winter The scouts inspected the nests chirruped angrily over the many that fell during the heavy rains this year and flew off Father Arthur Hutchinson mission priest believes they speed nut to sea to urge on the tired flock Winter Homes Unknown Where the swallows Winter Is a mystery Devout 8panish-Califor-nla natives who attach religious significance to the birds' arrival and departure on church feast days believe they fly to the Holy Land No one here can remember when the swallows have not arrived on Saint Joseph's Day- Dona Magdalena Murillo 89 recalls them as a child Her parents told her they always came In good weather the birds arrive usually in the morning Rain delays them to afternoon Not even Leap Year throwe them off schedule They leave on the appointed dev In gale duet storm or rain The flock is ao big It covers tbe sere mission patio like a black suspension would lifted and the judge's full salary paid Sponsors say It Is designed to correct situations such as arose in the case of Justice Gavin Craig OIL REPORT IS DEMANDED SACRAMENTO March (INS) Ftill report from the department of findnce on Its authority for assertedly granting leases to operators tapping state oil pools at Huntington Beach today was demanded by the senate committee on oil inquiry The report which will also Include names and dates of all drilling permits was requested following debate on a bin by Senator Culbert Olson Democrat Los Angles which would prohibit further aauancs of jesses by the finance department unless with legislative iithor ATTORNEY BILL PASSED SACRAMENTO March The judiciary committee of the assembly yesterday recommended for passage a bill to require at least two year college education of embryo attorn eya Sponsored by Ralph Welsh Los Angeles before the committee which voted 9 to 4 to return It to the lower bouse with a pass report" the measure was sttacked by Assemblymen Hornblower Tenney and Richie Hornblower declared some of the beat attorneys of the state and nation were admitted to the bar without benefit of a college education Proponents of the measure urged Its recommendation on the ground a higher standard of ethics could be established if college training of at least two years was required of law students A Mil which grew out of the recent maritime strike in the San Francisco Bay region was given favorable recommendation today by the senate Judiciary committee The bill Introduced by Senator Howland Alameda would forbid Interference with the delivery of food and medical supplies when the Interference deprives a community with necessary food and medical supplies Approval of the deletion of the temporary salesman clause In the state real estate act was handed to the assembly by its Judiciary general committee Los Angeles subdivision Interests opposed the bill State Real Estate Commissioner Mortimer Clark who also supported the amendment said approximately one-half of the real estate salesmen are operating under temporary permit feature milk of magnesia PROMPT ACTION Oil HOME LOANS Local personal attention eliminates much delay and red taps 918 Van Neea Ave Ph 8-3381 first day FEVER And COLDS 30 Militia -rr WerMI Baal Ua in tiblets that taste lika candy and that con equivalent of the liquid Milk of Magnesia Get the form you prefer But see that what you set is labeled Phillips' Milk of Magnesia' for a big box of tablets ALSO IN TABLET POEM Back tiny tablet la tha equivalent at a tmapoaaM of muiM Phillipa1 MUk of Maseaaia SPRING COATS an opportunity to get an up-to-minute style coat for Easter at an amazing low price Our racks are loaded with swaggers prince ea and sport models 95 AND UP Sizes 12 to 82 Try The Banquet Rooms at Spend as much or as little as you want No cover charge (adv Battery Plana Reunion Tbe annual reunion dinner of tbe former members of Battery of the 114th Field Artillery will be conducted at 7 o'clock tomorrow night in the Hotel Fresno Delegations from all sections of the valley and the 8an Francisco bay area arc expected to participate Eugene Browe of Selma will preside Sava Time Ph Condi te Flowers 2-4727 Pay accounts monthly (adv Child Is Injured Charles Archibald Jr 8-year-old eon of Mr and Mrs Charles Archibald of Madera today was treated tor head Injuries at the Fresno Emergency Hospital Ths child was Injured when the automobile In which he was riding with hla father collided at Fulton and Los Angeles Streets with a car operated by Mrs Caldwell 43 of Calwa CU1 for this free banquet room offer 2-6134 (adv Alumni Arrange Wayne McClung and hie orchestra will play at a public dance to be sponsored by the alumni of the Roosevelt High School Tuesday evening at tne Sweet's Rainbow Ballroom Dancing will bo from 8 to midnight Gena Militano president of the group la in charge of arrange mentis Bock Wool Insulation 2595 fuel saving Farls-Oeborne Go 2-2827 Club Plane Forum Discussion An open forum will follow a meet' Ing of Townsend Club Na 1 at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow evening at the Parlor Lecture Club Hall with leaders of local clubs discussing the plan 8 Rankin will preside and a musical program will be presented The club housing committee will report on the progress of a project to locate a central club building for all Ferano clubs Ths Club Na 1 Women'i Auxiliary Band and Orchestra attended a meetlni of tha Clovla club laat night a Clovis Owensby Estate Appraised Th estate of tho lata Sherman Owensby la valued at $32230 in an Inventory filed by -William Croealand Inheritance tax ap-pralaer Tha report lists real property valued at $31000 Jail Release Flora Crlael sentenced to jail tor five months after pleading guilty to drunk driving has petitioned for an order to modify the judgment to permit her Immediate release She says aha to In need of medical treatment Gets Year In -Ernest Mo-Fadden withdrew his plea of not guilty to issuing fictitious checks end waa sentenced to the county jail for one year after pleading guilty ten Henningeen 16 440 Yale Avenue a school studont was treated for first degree burns at the Freeno Emergency Hospital yesterday He spilled sulphuric acid on hla clothing GUILTY BYJURY Lorlg Vemlan of Freano late yesterday wss found guilty of negligent homicide and will be sentenced by Superior Judge Ernest Kletta Monday Vemlan was found guilty of the criminal offense for the death of Rose Harbedlan and Edward Karla In an Intersection collision at Jensen and Cherry Avenuea November 22nd Witnesses during the two-da: trial testified Vemlan failed to hee a stop sign and also failed to yield the right-of-way to tha Karle automobile Vemlan from the stand contended he brought hla automobile to a atop and was making a left turn when the collision occurred He said ha did not see the Karla automobile until too late to prevent an accident Frequent convenient schedules New Super Coaches courteous expert drivers and LOW FARES make Greyhound the ideal transportation for all occasions I EXAMPLIS OF LOW FA from FRESNO ONI VAT BOUND TRW Lot Angeles 3-75 675 Sen Diego 5-50 990 Portland 13-45 2425 Seeramento 3-15 570 Bakersfield 1-95 355 DEPOT CUT YOUR SPRING APPAREL BILL IN HALF We have been preparing for our Spring Opening for many weeks Our buyers have scoured the buying markets to give you the greatest bargains we have ever offered You afford to pass up these savings Do come in and convince yourself SPRING DRESSES Spaced flower prints geometric prints print pliques running a riot of color on dark grounds soft pastels you be able to resist them! Low necks high necks the very new short sleeves' they all have the newest details Look at them try them on see what exciting things they do for you! BUY TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE! 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