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The Press Democrat from Santa Rosa, California • 9

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Santa Rosa, California
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CARNIVAL COMMITTEE MAPS WIDE PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN Aimee Smiles as She Recovers Aimee McPherson Hutton, the well-known evangelist, is shown in a Los Angeles hospital displaying a courageous smile as she recovers from a blood transfusion necessitated by a weakened condition. With her is her husband, David Hutton. NEW FORD '8' WILL GO ON DISPLAY THURSDAY 14 Different Body Types to Be Available in New Car to Have 75-Mile-Hour Speed DETROIT, March -The new Ford V-8 will be shown to the public of 200 cities in the United States and Canada, Thursday, March 31. Announcement of the date, made today by Edsel B. Ford, president of the Ford Motor company, brought to a culmination months of preparation on the part of the Ford organization, which is giving employment to 100,000 Ford workmen.

Ford manufacturing and assembly plants are supplied by 5,300 other manufacturing plants throughout the country. One of the chief factors in the Ford announcement is the confidence shown by Henry and Edsel Ford, that a measure of business revival is possible to the country at this time. TRIED AND TESTED know exactly what the car will do." Ford said. of our objectives has to develop an Weight-cylinder engine with plenty of horsepower and yet SO simply designed that its simplicity will be as much a feature as its speed and power. That enables us to build and sell it at a price to fit the average present American pocketbook.

Ill say candidly we have quit figuring costs on the car. The more you figure costs the higher the price goes, and this is no time for high prices, Time and money have not entered into our calculations. We have believed it our duty to do everything necessary to start employment again. Now we are ready to go ahead. Next Thursday the country may judge our work.

"In addition to our eight-cylin- THE PRESS DEMOCRAT 8t SONOMA COUNTY LEADING NEWSPAPER 76TH YEAR-NO. 76 SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1932 2D SECTION VALLEE'S 'LITTLE GRAY HOME IN THE WEST' Here is Rudy Vallee's "little chased this residence Webb, inset. they pretentious, will be "home" to the Valees. ROTARIANS TO PICK OFFICERS Curtis M. Redfern, representative of the N.

W. P. railway company will be the speaker of the day at the Wednesday meeting of the Santa Rosa Rotary club. He will speak on railroad business generally and will exhibit pictures of the famous Sunset route. Phil Alexanderson will be chairman of the day.

Nominations for the new officers of the club will be made Wednesday, having been postponed from last week due to absence of two of the nominating committee. The program of future Rotary dates show a scheduled meeting at Napa April 20. with Jerome 0. Cross in charge; the district conference in San Francisco May 12 and 14; the International convention in Seattle and the Pacific Rotary Conference in Honolulu in June. SON INHERITS BUTIN ESTATE Charles Butin, son of Mrs.

Ella Butin, who died March 22, is heir to an estate worth $5,020, accordto a petition for letters of administration he filed the superior court here. was found. and Butin is the sole heir at law. The estate includes two parcels of Santa Rosa realty, valued at $3,500. J.

Harold McAlpine is attorney for the petitioner. OKLAHOMA MAN WRITES HERE HUNT FOR WIFE He Is Good Tradesman, But Admits Being Short of Cash By HERBERT W. SLATER Girls, especially those of you who have some to spare and are willing to invest it in a husband with two trades but who needs a little coin to get a start! Young ladies, this may be your Leap Year opportunity! This is Leap Year, you know. A. lonesome P.

man Yesterday Cadan in he about Oklahoma wrote it. It wants Mayer is a not George wife. the first missive of its kind sent our worthy mayor from afar. Once before it was a girl in the British Isles who asked the mayor to find her a husband. Santa Rosa's chief executive got a good Easter Monday laugh out of the note.

After a brief consultation as to the best means for giving publicity to the appeal from the lonesome soul I suggested to Mayor Cadan that he let me publish the letter to at least give Dan Cupid an intimation. The mayor acquiesced. So, girls, read "Muskogee, Oklahoma, "March 23, 1932. "Mayor of Santa Rosa, "City Hall, "Santa Rosa, Calif, "Dear Sir: "Being this is leap year and that am lonely for a life mate I am seeking your aid to make my wants known to lonesome women of your city and state. am unable to make a fair living with two trades SO seek a woman that can aid a little financially.

My age if 44, look 35. Trades, painter, paperhanger and glazier. Handy at most any kind of work. Will marry on short notice. A widower, no children.

Here is hoping that you will seek that aid. of a reporter and radio announcer to make my wants known. Thanks in advance. "Yours truly, "George O. Strand, "Care of Hotel Huber." I imagine some of you may suggest that possibly Mr.

Strand is a bit nervy. Don't let this opinion influence any female of the species who may be disposed to allow the man to propose to her in a year when she has the prerogative of speaking first. $996 IN ESTATE Personal property aggregating $996.14 makes up the estate of James A. Agler, who died recently, according to an inventory and aping praisement reported to the superior court here yesterday by Gale and Gale, attorneys for. the estate.

The Misses Mary and Rosamond Temple passed Easter with relatives in Mill Valley. The Big Tuesday FOOD SPECIALS I Today and every Tuesday Santa Rosa's leading markets and the Nation's major manufacturers bring you news of exceptional food values through their ads. READ THEM TODAY AND EVERY TUESDAY THE PRESS- A 1807 MORNING ESTABLISHED Santa Rosa Republican EVENING ESTABLISHED 1866 RADIO WILL TELL WORLD ABOUT SHOW BOY SCOUTS OF FIVE COUNTIES PLAN 'LEGOREE' Best Troops in District Will Be Chosen at Conference A "Boy Scout, Legoree" will be held at the Veterans Home at Yountville May 14, under the auspices of the American Legion. Scouts living in Marin, Solano, Napa and Lake counties will participate in a long list of events which will be held to determine the best troops in the counties. Stanley F.

Dunmire, chairman of the Legion's fifth district Boy Scout committee, will be general chairman of the "Legoree." O. T. Sharp, scout executive of council will referee the contests. Louis E. Kahn, scout executive of Silverado council, will be registrar and Major Patterson, official scorer.

Colonel N. M. Holderman, commandant of the Veterans' Home, will be official host. The Legion will be the hosts to the Boy Scouts at a specially served luncheon between the morning and afternoon events. The program is being held in connection with sponsoring of Boy Scouts' activities by the Legion in California under direction of Archie M.

Closson Lodi, state the, chairman of Boy Scouts committee. Ag Club Leaders Will Give Card Benefit Tonight Scores of card players from all parts of the county are expected at Lewis school tonight when the county council of 4-H agricultural club leaders presents a benefit party, Arrangements for the affair have been under way for weeks under the direction of 0. L. Permenter of Todd district, All proceeds taken in at the party will be used in sponsoring a county-wide "Achievement Day" and junior fair for the program club members. The fair will be held in August with project exhibits by the young famers of poultry, livestock, vegetables, dairying and dress making.

The party will start at 9 p. m. Numerous prizes have been provided for high score winners by the leaders' committee. Refreshments will be served at the conclusion of the benefit party. der car of 65 horsepower, we are offering a new four-cylinder car of 50 horsepower.

Either may be had in 14 different body types. Except for the engines, there is but little difference between the two cars. Bodies and chassis are practically the same. There will be, however, a difference in price. For while the V-8 will sell at lowprice field figures, the will sell for still less.

That is our conception of expanding service to the motoring public, particularly in the face of present economic conditions." Simultaneously with the announcement of the presentation date, the Ford Motor company made public the following details: The new Ford, is large, long, roomy, fast, powerful and alert. Its V-8 engine develops 65 brake horsepower. The new Ford V-8 is capable of 75 miles an hour. Fourteen body types of modern, streamline design are offered. The four-cylinder engine, developing 50 horsepower and capable of 65 miles an hour, also can be supplied with any of these body types at a lower.

price. The new car embodies a number of outstanding features, including a silent synchronized gear shift and silent gear, engine rubber mounted, down draft carburetor and carburetor silencer, automatic spark and a diaphram type pump which drives fuel from a tank in the rear. There are also soft, flexible transverse cantilever springs and a newly designed rear spring; self-adjusting Houdaille double-acting hydraulic shock ab(Continued on Page 11) SAFEWAY WASTE STORES DISTRIBUTION WITHOUT FEATURES FOR TUES. and MARCH 29 and 30 Peets Soap Coffee With Each M. J.

B. Vacuum Pack FREE--One 10c Package Large Package 1g. pkg. 29c lb. can 36c CATSUP 3 bottles Our Choice Brand Regular Size SALMON ASPARAGUS Alaska Firm Pink Meat Raisin Bread White or Green 3 tall can 29c Product 2 lbs.

15c A Santa Rosa MACARONI GRAPEFRUIT Semolini Paste 1g. Fancy loaf 10c Juicy 4 lbs. 25c doz. 19c SARDINES Small Norwegian Sardines 2 cans 15c String Beans Flour SAFEWAY BRAND Cut Stringless 3 cans 29c lb.sk. 63c Cheap Flour 49 lbs.

95c MARKET FEATURES Boiling Beef lb.08c Round Steaklb.20c From Young Steer Beef Lean Steer Plate Lamb Chops 2 lbs. 35c Sliced Bacon lb.25c Eastern Sugar Cured--Rind Off Large or Small Rib We Reserve the Right to Limit Cor. 5th Mendocino--Ph. 676 530 3rd 2073 429 3rd St. 1060 SEE Drive to Sell 2,500 Buttons Will Be Renewed This Week EN gray home in the west." The at Beverly Hills, for himself have a lavish apartment in New It is one of the show places of noted radio crooner has just purand his wife, the former Fay York, this modern castle henceforth the movie colony.

Rancher Dies of Shock After Killing Large Rattler NAPA, March 38-Apparently the victim of a heart attack which prostrated him shortly after her had encountered a large rattlesnake, David Douglas Every, widely known Bennett district rancher, was Found dead in the hills near his home late Sunday afternoon. His body was discovered by Joe Bognasco, a neighbor, who had gone to search for Every when members of the family became alarmed at the rancher's absence. Earlier in the day Every left his home on. horseback to look over some cattle. Some time later his horse was seen on a distant hill, but there was no one in the saddle.

When the -body was found there Burris Will Open Sebastopol Branch B. M. Burris, proprietor of a general merchandise store at Graton, has announced the opening of a branch feed store 111 Sebastopol. The brach will be situated on Burnett street, opposite the Petaluma. and Santa Rosa Electric Railway depot on Main stree.

He will also handle eggs along with the feed business at the Sebastopol store, Plans for an intensive publicity and advertising campaign for the Santa Rosa Rose Carnival, to be staged here May 5 to 8, were outlined last night at a meeting of the general committee by A Colin McKinlay, chairman the publicity committee. He exhibited samples of 10,000 illustrated folders, carrying information about the carnival and an invitation to attend the four-day fete, a like number of colored window cards, automobile tire covers and other advertising and publicity material, distribution of which will start during the current week. The committee has arranged for wide dissemination of the publicity material through the Redwood Empire association hotel and service station units, stage lines. California State Chamber of Commerce and American Legion organizations throughout northern California. WOMEN TO SELL BUTTONS was evidence that Every had encountered a snake and had just killed it with a rock when he was stricken.

Every was a native of this county and spent his entire lifetime here. He was widely known in the upper section of the valley where he was engaged in farming. He was 67 years of Surviving Mr. Every are his age. widow, Mrs.

Nancy Every, and a daughter, Mrs. Gladys E. Williams of St. Helena. The remains are at the Harry P.

Ward Undertaking Parlors in St. Helena, Funeral arrangements have (not as vet been announced. Timers Will Hear Address on Alaska Alaska will be the topic of a meeting of the Borrowed Time club at the Baptist church Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, according to J. W. Curry, president.

Experiences in the northern country will be descibed by one of the club members who formerly lived there. Literary and musical numbers will also be presented at the gathering. Ralpir Brown, chairman of the fund-raising committee, reported that the "buy a button" appeal will be continued until April 15, in an effort to sell at least 2500 of the carnival buttons at one dollar each. He announced that a group of women and girls representing the Business and Professional Women's club will be on downtown streets all day Saturday selling the badges, Plans for a house(Continued on Page 12) AUTO PLUNGES TO CREEK BED Albert M. Gave, Sebastopol vinevardist, escaped serious injury Saturday night when his car was forced off the Madrona bridge near the E.

L. Finley ranch. Gaye was returning to Sebastopol after spending the evening in Santa Rosa when another motorist crowded him into the bridge railing. Two sections of the railing were torn away and the car plunged into the shallow water ten feet below. Although Gaye only received minor cuts and bruises, his car was completely demolished.

Efforts were made for several hours to get the car out of the mirk Saturday night, but finally abandoned until Sunday. MONS TUES WED MON. TUES. WED. PRICES EFFE STORES PRICES EFFFCTIVE MEAT SPECIALS AT 609 FOURTH STREET STORE ONLY OUR MEATS ARE GOVERNMENT INSPECTED CORNED BEEF lb.

15c SPRING LAMB CHOPS SUGAR CURED, BONELESS 2 Lbs. for 35cl LOIN STEAK lb. 20c EASTERN BACON lb. 14c CHOICE STEER QUALITY CUDAHY'S Grocery Specials at 609 4th St. and 317 4th St.

Also in our Sebastopol, Healdsburg and Guerneville Stores SUGAR 10 lb. bag 39c PEAS, Del Monte Lge Can 10c FINE GRANULATED Limit 10 lbs.) LIMIT 2 CANS TEA, Lipton's, 8-oz. pkg. PORK AND BEANS Can 5c BLUE LABEL Orange Pekoe and Pekoe CAMPBELL'S With Rich Tomato Sauce PASTE Semolina Spaghetti 3 etc. Pounds 6 lb.

box. 39c. RICE 4 Pounds 19c Pure Macaroni, FANCY LONG GRAIN CAMEL Cigarettes 2 pkg 25c PINEAPPLE 2 Cans 25c APPLES, Winesap Doz 17c Sweet, Golden Matched Slices Large No. A. Red Apple for Baking and Eating BANANAS 4 Pounds 19c RED ROSE--Highest Quality Flour 49-lb.

Bag $1.09 MILK Tall Cans FLOUR 244-lb bag 57c 5c Quaker Maid Pure, Wholesome 8 small cans 25cl BEANS, Fancy 10 lbs 31c LARGE WHITE 5 Pounds 17c SOAP 10 Bars 27c ORANGES, good size, doz 15c A White Bar For the Laundry, dishes, cleaning Small Juicy Fruit 2 dozen 15c GEMS 15 Lb Bag 23c BUTTER. Red Ribbon, lb YAKIMA-Fine for Baking 50 lb. bag 59cl CHURNED FROM PURE RICH CREAM WESSON OIL Pint Tin 27c CARNATION FLAKED QUART TIN 49c WHEAT Small Package SALAD DRESSING 15c A Hot Cereal (No Premium) Large package 21c PINT JAR OLIVES Quart Can 144 SUGAR Pound Package 7c RIPE Large No. Quart Can BROWN OR POWDERED MAYONAISE Pint Jar 21c BEANS Large Can 10c ELGIN'S FAMOUS PRODUCT DEL MONTE Stringless Orders of $3.00 or over delivered free in city (Limit Right Reserved).

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