The Times from San Mateo, California • Page 10

Welch Head of Legion District HniTy C. Welch of Bulmont was elected commander of the Twenty- sixth District, American Legion, ut a meeting in Burlingame Legion hall last nipht. Welch, who succeeds Capt. Philip I. Baker of San Mateo, will be sworn into office with other new officers at the state convention in San Diego, August "14.

Other Officers Philip Elanchard of Menlo Park was chosen first vice-commander and Joseph J. Madden of San Bruno "was elected second vice-commander. Serving- on the election board wore T. Louis Chess, Daniel Miller, R. L.

Crane and E. C. Signaro- Col. Felix La Cross of Half Moon Bay was chosen to represent the district at the national convention in Boston next September with Daniel Miller of San Mateo as alternate. Convention Aides Elected to serve on convention committees at San Diego next month were Emmett J.

Donnelly of Redwood City, Americanism; Dave McCulloufjh of San Mateo, Boys' State; Felix La Cross of Half Bloon Bay, Child Welfare; George Mann of San Mateo, constitution; Col. Frederick Peterson of Burlin- Kauie, finance; Stuart II. Ward of San Francisco, national defense; Mrs. Gayle Mann of San Mateo, convention city: E. C.

Signarowitz of South San Francisco, publicity; Daniel Miller of San Mateo, rehabilitation; J. J. Madden of San Bruno, resolutions, nnd Philip Blanchard of Menlo Park, Sons of the Legion. Captain Baker will be chairman and Clarmond Perry secretary of the San Mateo county delegation to the convention. Support For Sinclair Bert Brown of South San Francisco trill be the convention sergeant-at-arms with Fred Crumb of Redwood City Charles Bcr- ryessa of San Mateo assistants.

Dove McCullough will be parade On the convention election committee will be John Sinclair of Palo Alto, Daniel Miller of San Mateo, George Condes of Menlo Park, Roger Walsh of Redwood City and E. C. Signarowitz of South San Francisco. McCullough a that John Sinclair of Palo Alto is being groomed as a candidate for department commander in 1942 when it will be northern California's turn to nominate the commander. Car Hits Pole, Man Badly Hurt DALY CITY, July Ashton, 221 street, San Francisco, was In Villa sanitarium today with a possible broken nock suffered last night when his car crashed into a pole on Oeenn Shore highway at Rocknway Beach, according to the state highway patrol.

Ashton also suffered severe lacerations of the scalp. A companion, Ethel Sprett of Chicago, Buffered cuts and bruises. Edmund Scott To Aid Sen. Johnson Attorney Edmund Scott of Redwood City has been named a vice chairman of the, northern California Democratic executive committee sponsoring the re-election candidacy of United States Senator Hiram Johnson, it was annnunpod today. Supervisor John F.

Mc- Gownn of San Francisco will heat! the Johnson Demorcatic forces. Three degrees of illumination art provided by a new electric hull fitting standard socket-'. Leads in News--Advertising---Circulation Burlingame-THE TIMHS AND DAILY NEWS LEADER--San Mateo, Calih Telephone 1900 JULY 27, 1940 Cablephoto of Nazi Air Raid on British Shipping This picture, passed by the British censors and (sent via cablephoto to the United States, shows German air bombs bursting In the water along- side a British warship as the man-o'-war escorts, merchantmen up the English channel, Britain, fears a Nazi air blitzkrieg soon. The One-Room Rural School Goes Modern One-room rural school, an Institution to incite nostalgic memories for millions, acquires a new usefulness it summer session of San Francisco State College. Pupils of this class arc cllj children.

From Ml, George Kalph, Nancy McGee and Ingcborg Burpild, lenrn ho clolhms Is made, under supervision of UIIss Elielle Dingcss, rural supervisor of Imperial County. San Carlos to Dedicate Park SAN CARLOS, July record crowd is expected nt the school auditorium here tonight when the community will start its week-end festivities celebrating the park and recreation center dedication with a public, dance. The auditorium will be decorated in the recreation theme, and special surprise entertainment is scheduled. Mrs. Robert W.

Dyer has charge of decorations. The dance will open the celebration culminating tomorrow at the in the 11 a. m. to 11 p. m.

ir i i activities featuring athletic events, a picnic sup- pc-r and formal dedication of the ccreation center by Mayor A. H. and other city officials. address will be made by Davis, recreation director the Golden (Jatu oxponition. AUBURN, July year-old Dun Pingree tumbled into well and wits drowned yesterday while older children of the.

family watched helplessly. The boy and three older children were romping in the yard of their home near Newcastle while Mrs. David Pingree, the mother, was absent a few minutes to look after their cow. The hoy over the low parapet of the 15-foot deep well and drowned in six feet of water. Attracted by screams of the children, Mrs.

Pingree tried vainly to get the boy out of the well, then flagged down a passing truck. The driver required half an hour to extricate the boy's body and artificial respiration failed to revive him. Well Look Win's Herd Recognize him? Several years ago he was in the news daily. He'z Melvln Purvis, former G-man who helped track down the desperado John Dllllnser. Purvis is shown at the Democratic convention where he is a delegate from South Carolina.

Wllh him li a sister delegate, Clara G. McMillan. Children LookJ Helplessly as Tot, 4, Drowns CCC Meals Cost 13 Cents Average "WASHINGTON (IP)--The Civilian Conservation Corps provided nearly meals to its cn- rollce.s a cost of $18,418,723.37 during the last six months of The CCC 139,782,870 meals at an average -cost of only 1S.1S cents per meal. NOTED REPORTER DIES HOLLYWOOD, July H. Ncimcyer, 63, noted newspaperman, for the past six years Hollywood correspondent for the St.

Louis Post-Dispatch, died in the Hollywood hospital today of lymphatic louccmia. i worked for the old New York Evening World and had hern with the Post-Dispatch 45 years. He was born in Portsmouth, Va. He was a veteran of the Spanish-American and World wars. FISHERMEN FIND BODY SACRAMENTO, July Garibaldi today sought thfc identification of an unknown white after George La- vcttc and Harold Schoessler, San Francisco nshcrmen, found the body in the.

river Isleton. The body had betn in the water from 10-to 14 The man was between .15 and GO years age, bad grayish hair, was five feet seven inches tall, and about 145 pounds. Shoes have been invented with plastic inner soles that can be softened by an electric 1 heating device, in stores when tine shoes are sold to make them conform to ers' feet. (apan Speeds War Cargoes SAN FRANCISCO, July --Hurrying to avoid threatened governmental tightening of scrap metal and gasoline, exports, several Japanese merchant ships in Pacific coast ports are loading cargoes of potential war materials ami heading for home, a checkup disclosed today. Elimination of crude petroleum from the president's extension of Lhe export licensing provisions was regarded by producers as a to the California oil industry, which had been threatened a drastic curtailment of foreign marketing under the original proclamation.

The San CIcmente Maru was loading 510 50-gallon drums of gasoline and 13,000 cases of kerosene at the Parr-Richmond terminal on San Francisco bay. The San Clemente was scheduled to sail for Monterey to take aboard additional cargo before sailing for Japan. The Nissyo Maru sailed from Avon after taking aboard a large cargo of Associated Oil company petroleum. The freighter Yasakawa Maru was headed from Sun Pedro to San Francisco to add a 3500-ton cargo of scrap iron to her present load of 1100 tons. The Kamakura Maru, passenger vessel, was due here from Hong Kong today, and the Hokkai Maru and Kinai Maru were due later.

United States customs agents thus far have not received instructions to intervene in the shipments of scrap metal and gasoline. A beam of light only one-one hundredth of an inch in diameter is used in a precision instrument developed at Northwestern university to measure the light from stars 300 times fainter than those visible to the eye. Crops Lost in Arizona Storm HOLBROOK, July farm lands, homes and buildings and washed- out roads and railways were left today in the path of the most violent rain, hail and electrical storm to sweep over northern Arizona in four decades. From small communities dotting 1 Navajo and Apache counties came reports of damage done by the storm-swollen little Colorado river of total destruction of crops a few weeks before their scheduled harvest; and of "scores of head of cattle killed by lightning or carriet away in the heavy runoffs. Traffic over the Apache Railroad company's line was crippled because of flood damage to bridges The road between nnd Keams Canyon on the huge Nnvajo Indian reservation north of here was washed out, isolating scattered Indian settlements.

The plight of small farmers in the small White mountain communities of Taylor, Snowflake, and Show-low was especially serious. Al least 3000 acres of apples, corn hay, barley and other grain were laid waste by a hailstorm which accompanied the Thursday night storm. County Agent John McLernon said that beside an immediate loss running into "hundreds of thousands of dollars," the farmers faced as well the prospect of the coming winter season with their chief source of income gone. Poison Plot Test Negative SANTA CRUZ, July Chemical examination today failed to reveal any trace of metallic poisons in the vital organs of Mrs. Sarah Kitchen Uaglisli, whose Dody was exhumed after burial last week.

Joseph B. Swim, city chemist of San Francisco, said exhaustive had eliminated the possibility of the metallic poisons, such us arsenic or bichloride of mercury. He intended to complete his examination today with tests for or- gc.nic. or synthetic poison and a volumeter test i'or gaseous poison. The exhumation was ordered by District Attorney Ben Knight and Coroner Pat Freeman.

A post nortcm had attributed death to a pancreas. William Daglish, 44, who mar- Joan Allardyce, '22, two days after Mrs. Daglish's burial, was iack at his health food store. He accused the authorities of a plot Against Jiim because of his crusnd- ng against vice and gambling. charges have been made against lim and he has not been questioned by the district attorney, Daglish, who delivered the fu- leral sermon for his wife, said tfrs.

Daglish had approved of Miss Allardyce as his future wife and lad urged him to.marry her immediately after the funeral. Mrs. Daglish had long been an invalid. He Going to Stay Atop Pole i. Until Parade HACKENSACK, N.

July 27. --(LP)--Apparently impelled by equal parts of heat and patriotism, Michael Dumvay, 46 year uld American Legionnaire, climbed the courthouse flagpole today and said ic thought he'd spend the day thore. At 6:45 a. m. when an attendant jegan to raise the American flag the top of the 120-foot flagpole le was amazed to see Dunway installed about half-wny apparently comfortable in a sort of Boatswain's chair.

Dunway refused to come flown, saying; "I'm going to say on until the Legion parade tonight." To orders from sweltering po- icemen that he descend, Dunway's reply was: "Why should I'm cool and comfqrtnble up here." Foreign Traders In S. F. For Convention SAN FRANCISCO, July 27. to meet the issues presented by the spreading influence of the German economy ihroughout the world, the nation's eading foreign a gather icre this week-end for the opening of the 27th national foreign trade convention next Monday. Electrically operated scissors lave been invented for household use.

This Elmwood Home Now Open ThU InTMr In hljthlr rralrli'lftl nrrn, chur Milt hnmr ninr IIP unrHinnnt fin iminM.t). I.ncntrrt nl IKUt mil nt Klnmmxl Iritrf of lire, Itn for the xclprtlvc linger. MchnnlM, mill trnnnrinrinHon, umlrr FHA Icrnix of MrrH. ft. I'hour -ITit nr rnrniiii VPIIUC rn.1 llnjilr Sfrrrt.

Swiss Shelter French Troops Some SO.OOfl French continental and colonial troops who refused to mrrcnder with 1'ctain government (o Germany and who fled to Switzerland have been sheltered by the traditionally friendly Swiss. Those arc tiro fierce African "Spahis" shown together auuve. "Spa- lils" couldn't understand why they should he disarmed. Other photo fellows a temporary resting place for men and horses on river in the Swiss Jura, Starkweather Rites Pendim Mrs. Royal K.

Starkweather of lillsboi'ough tomorrow will return ionic with the body of her son, Tack, killed in a Browning, automobile accident a week ago. Young Starkweather Wednesday night succumbed in Browning hospital to injuries suffered when his station wagon apparently got nut of control as he cut onto thu main righway from a side road. The cor spun across the highway, hit a polo and overturned. Six other persons vith him suffered slight injuries. The youth made an annual trip Montana every summer and was studying- Indian lore for a book he ntcnded to publish.

Funeral services will he arranged the Frank C. Wykoff mortuary 30-Year Resident Of S. S. F. Passes (Tfjiir.f rmiiity SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, July Albert Rafaelli, 67, local res- dent for 80 years nnd the, fnthcr- n-Iuw of former Councilman M.

tlinuciami, yesterday afternoon succumbed to a long illness at his ionic, 3-14 Baden avenue. Formerly operator of a grocery msiness, was well known South San Francisco. He was a member of South Snn Francisco No. 171, Druids. Surviving are a widow, Mrs.

Angelina Rafaelli; two sons, Bruno ind Levio Rafaelli, and a daugh- Mrs. M. Jtinuciarni. Funeral services will bo held from Nirri chapel here Monday morning at 9 o'clock with requiem mass at All Souls' church at )'clock followed by interment in 'talian cemetery. B'nai B'rith Lodge In Menlo Park Picnic Several hundred members of Cali- 'ornia lodge 1G3, Order of B'nai 3 rith, San Francisco, and guests gather at the Menlo Park picnic grounds tomorrow for their annual picnic.

A program of sports las been raranged. Democrats to Hear Report The executive board of the Young Democrats of America, California division, will meet at tlie Benjamin Franklin hotel Monday night at 8 o'clock to hear reports of delegates to the recently- concluded national convention at Chicago, State President James Kchoe of San Mateo announced today. Kehoe expects about 50 persona to attend the executive meeting with almost every club in northern California to be represented. Plans to continue organization of the club for tlie presidential election will be drawn up by the executive boanl and date for joint meeting of the north and divisions will be set. Kelioe, also president of the San Mnteo Young Democrats club, said a meeting of the local group will be held at the Benjamin Franklin August 21.

'I Ulness Fatal To Carl Hansen, 69 REDWOOD CITY, July '27. -Carl Hansen, ijS, 244 Dumbarton uvciiuc, died late yesterday in a San Mateo hospital following a long illness. A native of Denmark, he had resided here for the past six years. He WH.S a member of the Longshoremen's union and the Danish Brotherhood of San Francisco. Surviving is his widow, Mrs.

Anna Hansen. Funeral services will be held nt 1 p. hi. at the Lay rig a Tinney chapel with interment in Alta Mesa cemetery. A humane society medal has been awarded to a Long Beach, fish market owner for surgical operations he has performed on pelicans injured by fish hooks or lines.

ADJOINING MENLO COUNTRY CLUB All thi nallvn beauty of Peninsula foothills is found' In the wtnd-p 1 A slopes of Woodslde Hills. HTS minutii from churches, shopping tern 35 mlnulot from San Francico. open for Inspection. Drlvo two miles west on Woods i a from Five Redwood City. ACRE AND LARGER HOMESITES FROM $2150 and COMPLETED HOMES A I D.

A $62,782 Gas Tax to S. M. Stats Controller Harry B. Kiley in Sacramento today announced the apportionment of $62,782.65 In gasoline tax funds to San Mateo county. The apportionment, largest fourth quarter distribution of motor vehicle fuel funds, was madu on tlie basis of a total registration of 43,353 registered motor vehicles in this county.

Santa Clara county received Santa Cruz county San Francisco, 798.11 and Alameda county, Controller Riley distributed S3- 005,217, one-third of the total, to the 58 counties of the state on the basis of motor vehicle registration and deposited $7,030,433 in the state highway fund. Itiley also announced that diescl fuel tax revenue for the quarter ending June 30 totalled $131,492 the entire amount being transferred to the slate highway fund Xrr repair of bridges on state highways. Receipts of the motor vehicle fuel fund for the fiscal year 1939 40 totalled compared with $51,941,243 for the preceding fiscal year, an increase of per cent. In the year just closed the stale controller refunded to purchasers of gasoline used for non-highway purposes. It cost $192,087 to collect gasoline taxes in 193U-4Q.

In 1939-40 the controller apportioned of gas tax money, an increase of $3,410,138 over the preceding year. Of the total $16,808,459 went to the counties. Workers Probed SACRAMENTO, July Autopsies will be asked in the deaths of Oliver Irwin, 50, and Kenneth Whitton, 21, found dead in a septic tank on the campus of the University of California College of Agriculture Davis, Assistant Dunn Knowlcs K. Ryerson announced today. Kyursoii said college officials bc- ieveti the men might have been overcome by gas fumes while clcnn- ng the tank.

It -was thought at "irst the men had drowned in "eel of water, or that Irwin might lave suffered a bead injury in a fall against the tank and that Whitton drowned trying to make i rescue. Whitton was a former all-star ilbletc from Stillwuter, Texas, and planned to enroll in the college next nonlh. Irwin, the father of three children, was a laborer employed by Hie college. "FRANCISCAN" Sunnybrae'i nowosl model "Economy" Completely fur- rhhfld by Wm. E.

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