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1 SECTION TWO INLAND EMPIRE SECTION TWO CLASSIFIED WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 3, 1929 STATE TAMT SOUTH STREET PAVING MONDAY tifflf. DAVIS FACTOR! Those Lucky Pullens! (ConvrlEht. 1026, by Eugene Maclean) (Copyrlght, 1926, by Eugene Macl Eli!) FAIL AS ILEf Ig i Mesa Near Barstow Ideal For State Park, Asserts Rich After Desert Trip Fossil Remains of Prehistoric Animals Are Discovered by Chamber Executive standing SO to 40 feet high and measuring from three and a half to four feet in diameter. Mr. Rich brought back a number of Interesting fossil specimens, petrified bones of a large animal which the geologist believed to be ft three-toed horse of prehistoric origin.

Scientists of the University of California, excavating in the fos By MALCOLM DUART ing home at half-past five. Mrs. Pullen would be standing on the porch, usually, when he arrived. She would give him a dutiful kiss, and then bustle Indoors. Pullen immediately would call for Julia.

Presently Julia would appear, permit her father to apply a kiss to her cheek, and silently follow after him as he made his way to the kitchen to see how dinner was progressing. After dinner he would stretch out In the big chair, and read the paper while his wife washed the dishes. Occasionally he would wipe the dishes, absent-mindedly, while Mrs. Pullen described at length the events of the day. At nine o'clock, unless they were going out or had guests, he would begin to yawn.

At ten o'clock on ordinary nights all three were In bed, and Mrs. Pullen and Julia would be asleep, Pullen would worry awhile over things that had bothered him while he was at work, but customarily he also was asleep by eleven. There was nothing sensational In their lives nor habits nothing whatever. Even their house was liko a great many other houses In the neighborhood, and It Is like them yet. It was of about the same size furnished in the same general way, carried a first mortgage of the usual dimensions, and a second mortgage that was almost paid off.

It Is to clear away a lot of nonsensical tales about the Pullens that these details are given. They have been carefully gathered; are supported by reputable witnesses, and can be relied upon. The period of their adventures really began the night Mrs. Hamilton came to call. Pullen had Just settled himself on the small of his back, his legs crossed and hl3 head pushed deep Into a cushion, in order that he might read his paper In comfort, when Mrs.

Hamilton arrived. Mrs. Pullen was in the kitchen. Pullen dragged himself to his feet at the sound of the doorbell, put on his coat, which he had hung on the back of his chair, and admitted the visitor. "My DEAR-R-R Mr.

Pullen!" cried Mrs. Hamilton, as she entered the hall. "How WONDERFUL you look!" She always spoke as If part of her words were In capital letters. "And where Is DEAR-R-R Mrs. Pullen?" Her hostess appeared from the back of the house before Pullen could answer.

Mrs. Pullen had taken off her apron, dried her hands, tidied her hair before the kitchen looking-glass, and assumed an air of careless leisure in the interval between the ringing of the bell and her appearance in the hallway. "I'm so glad you could come over," said Mrs. Pullen. "Couldn't George come, too?" George was Mrs.

Hamilton's husband. 'You know perfectly WELL that George never goes out any place, unless I positively DRAG him," said Mrs. Hamilton, as she sank Into the big chair In the front room. "Why, Elsie dear, what WONDERFUL new curtains you have!" Elsie, of course, was Mrs. Pullen's name.

"Those aren't new curtains," said Pullen, coldly. He was standing, trying to decide which of the uncomfortable chairs he would choose, since Mrs. Hamilton had taken his own. "She's had them washed." "Why, Fred!" excallmed Mrs. Pullen.

"Isn't that just like a man, Mrs. Hamilton?" She appealed to her guest with both hands uplifted. "You would think, now, that a man would know you don't have silk curtains washed. You have them dry-cleaned. I think they did a very good job, too, although I did find a pale spot In one corner where they must have been quite careless." Pullen wandered off Into a corner, while his wife continued her description of how the curtains had become soiled, and what she did while they were away at the cleaners'.

He settled himself discontentedly In a corner of the couch, and frowned. Gradually he lost himself In thought. Ho was aroused by Mrs. Hamilton, who for the second time repeated a question she had asked him. "Don't YOU think that Julia is CONSTRUCT BEG Project Starts as Permit for $24,000 Issued; Work to Be Completed by September Construction of a two story factory building at 1134 street to house the Davis Manufacturing Co.

In San Bernardino was launched yesterday, after a $24,000 permit for the project had been issued by Building Inspector Henry Hansen. The new building will be erected by Frank J. Solt, San Bernardino contractor, for S. O. Ferguson, president of the Security Investment who will lease the building to the Davis company.

Building Will Be of Reinforced Concrete Mr. Solt said yesterday that the building would be of reinforced concrete construction, two stories high, and 108 feet by 100 feet In dimensions. It will front 108 on street. The lower floor of the structure will hn devoted to snace for five stores while the entire second story will be given over to the Davis Manufacturing makers of women's and children's frocks. Considerable window space will be allowed on the second floor of tho building to give ample light to employes of the Davis Mr.

Solt said. The building will have a plaster finish similar to that of -the California hotel building. The structure must be ready by Sept. 1, tho contract stipulates. New Apartment House Planned The San Bernardino chamber of commerce assisted in retaining the Davis company in San Bernardino by taking over their unexpired lease on the second floor of the Mack Puthoff block, Base Line and street, when the manufacturing company was offered suitable sites in other cities.

The company employs 150 persons. Plans for a modern $12,000 apartment house to be located on the western Bide of Arrowhead avenue between Iola and Thirteenth streets were given yesterday to Building Inspector Hansen by Mrs. Julia Marie Burton, of the Glennwood Mission Inn at Riverside. Her application is for a permit to build a two-story, four-family apartment house of stucco-frame construction and tile roof, 39 by 62 feet In dimension. The permit for the factory boosted the building total for the day to S25.000 and brought the year's fig ure to 1- Doll Exhibition Is Feature Of Metcalf School Playground nniia nt nil descriptions were iori ovhlhltlon in the first doll show held at the Metcalf school playground center in San Bernardino under the supervision of Lo-rcna McLain, playground director.

Seven awards were given by the five judges as follows: Largest doll. Both Wyckoff; smallest doll, Edith Jones; prettiest doll, June Edwards; ugliest doll, William Donson; queerest doll, Rose Foytik; funniest doll, Betty Jackson; cutest doll, Gertrude Montgomery. Doll shows have been held at all playground centers and tho event hold last Frldny at the Eliot elementary school resulted in more than 50 doll entries. Masonic Club Will Forego Its Meetings Until Sept. 1 At the noon meeting of the San Bernardino Masonic club held Friday at the California hotel, it was unanimously voted to cancel meetings of the club during the summer.

Tho next luncheon will be held Sept. 1. ill SUIT CHAPTER I The Pullens were living average lives, In an average home, on an aernge street In an average district a year ago. Tho stories told about them recently have been false, for tho most part. The newspapers, of course, have been careful, and many things have not been put into print at all, because they could not be proved.

The gossips, however, have been busy, inventing new and marvelous tales, with the result that the whole matter has become confused In the public mind. The facts as they stood In the fall of last year are as follows: Mrs. Pullen was a plump, dimpled, cheerful woman, who did the greater part of her own housework. Fred Pullen was a tall, slender, dark man, who contrasted very well with his wife, who was a blonde. Further, he was quiet rather serious, in a way, while Mrs.

Pullen was a bit of a chatterbox. Their daughter, Julia, was 19, and for two months had been hanging perilously to a Job as stenographer, because this was her first employmentshe had graduataed from business college six months before, and had spent the summer hunting a place. However, she was proud of her position, and of the $17 that she brought home every Saturday night. She frequently told her father and mother that if she avoided discharge for another month, she believed her wages would be raised to $20. It was a cause of worry to Mrs.

Pullen that Julia never had received any young men callers. "You are pretty now, Julia, you ARE pretty," the mother would say. "I don't seo why you don't bring some boys around here, and have a good time." Julia would only gaze at Mrs. Pullen out of her large, dark, solemn eyes, and change the subject. "Let the kid alone," Pullen would advise sometimes, at one of these conferences on the boy question.

"When she sees a fellow she likes, she'll tow him In here soon enough and you and I will have to sit in the kitchen." At seven-thirty every week-day morning Pullen went to work, com- Humphrey, Electrical Foreman, Seized with Heart Ailment, Dead Before Aid Arrives Zell D. Humphrey, electrical foreman In the Santa Fe car depart ment in San Bernardino and an employe of the company In the city for the past 27 years, died suddenly In his office yesterday. He was E3 years old and death was due to heart trouble, with which he had been suffering for more than a year. Mr. Humphrey had been ill since last Thursday but said ho felt better yesterday morning when he left his home nt 798 Sixth street for his work.

He called fellow workmen when he was attacked yesterday afternoon and they summoned the company physician, Dr. J. N. Eaylls. Ho died before the physician arrived, however.

Mr. Humphrey was born In Des Moines, Iowa, and in 1873 moved with his family to Kansas. Later he moved to Canon City, and 27 years ago with his wife and two daughters came to San Bernardino. Ho was an active lodgeman, having been active In the San Bernardino Elks lodge for 20 years. He was also a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Eplscopnl church.

He Is survived by his wife, Mrs. Effio Humphrey; two daughters, Mrs. John Hansen and SANTA FE IN DIES IN OFFICE 'arke Builds Mains to Serve louses Which Have Depended i Upon Artesian Supplies 'With the failure of several arte- wells supplying more than 50 uses within the limits of San the city and valley this fmmer is facing one of the most ute water shortages in recent fyrs. Superintendent William of the water department iid yesterday. One main was finished yesterday supply eight of the dwellings, the first of three more asked being started.

The wells which ve gene dry have In previous iars supplied wnter throughout summer, Mr. Starke said, uster Street ain Launched Die main just completed is an Vht-lnrh pipe in the 200 block of uth Livingston street. The large iln was installed In the street for future industrial development the section although a number of private residents on the street ve asked that they be connected th tlio main immediately, because jartrsian wells going dry. (Workmen of the department rtej yesterday the work of lay- a on Cluster street, west AlV.i Ftreet where five houses without water as the result of lis dry. A three-inch main being l.iid.

1'hc -incipnl source of worry to ili j'iii tincnt is supplying So uses in the Ealdrldge tract, be-cen Fourth and Fifth streets and -a of Sierra Way, which are wlth- their usual supply of water artesian wells. The depart- nt has been asked for connects for the houses and the work expected to be started soon. sen Bids Tuesday 1 New City Well main extension has also been lad for Home avenue In the end to supply eight houses, to extension would be 901 feet i and three inches in diameter. request was made by Harry M. view of these Increased (lend-, for water service, Superin-: ilcnt Starke is planning to rush 1 rk on the proposed well at Scc-il and streets which the board water coniniiHsioncTS authorized I week.

Bids on the work will be nod ut the meeting of the board Tuesday evening. irm Centers Discontinue Conferences Until September Farm centers in a number of San inardino county localities have continued meetings until fall, It is announced yesterday at the farm advisor's office. The creek farm center, San rnsirdino-Del Rosa farm center Grand Terrace center have i announced discontinuance of cetlngs until September when It planned to open tho fall season ith large sessions. NEW TRIAL GIVEN SAN FRANCISCO, July 2. The S.

circuit court of appeals today anted a new trial to Dr. George Buehler, of Los Angeles, con- in Federal court here last rember of conspiracy to defraud vestnrs in a potash reclamation inn in tho great salt lake or tah. INVASION OF FLEAS ST. LOUIS, July 2. An invasion fleas, caused by wet weather, dnv brought calls from an sec- ons of the city for aid In erftermt- atlng the pests.

More appeals were ade this year for relief man were nde In the last three years com- Ined. The state of California wouldn't go far wrong In establishing one of Its natural park areas on the Coolgardle mesa in the desert regions 33 miles north of Barstow. This was the word brought back to San Bernardino yesterday by Lyman S. Rich, assistant secretary of tho chamber of commerce after a week-end Inspection tour of the area prominently spoken of for inclusion in California's proposed state-wide, park system. The mesa, some 10 miles long by five wide, abounds In natural wonders and seems admirably to meet the requirements laid down by the state, according to Mr.

Rich, who made the inspection with L. M. Ceer, noted geologist, formerly of Detroit but who of late months has been doing some research work in connection with the proposed park system. Gigantic Joshua Trees Inspected The Coolgardie mesa district Is conspicuous for two natural wondersa spreading grove of perhaps 5,000 acres of giant Joshua trees, the largest ever seen by Mr. Rich, and large fossil beds which have been attracting considerable attention from scientists all over California, It Is the Joshua trees which will probably Interest the state park engineers chiefly when they make their official inspection of the proposed park site, Mr.

Rich believes. The trees, of a particularly rich and lustrous green shade, are much larger than those found in other sections of te desert, many of them LEFFEN Tl I 101 MEN Volunteers to Assist Regular Force in Guarding City as Fourth of July Observed A force of nine members of Fire Chief Ernest E. Leffen's volunteer squad will be on duty for 14 hours tomorrow aiding the regular men in i coping with the July 4 celebration, tho chief announced yesterday, Tho volunteer group, named just after Chief Leffen took office In May, will go on duty at 10 a. m. tomorrow and remain on duty until midnight.

The 28 regular employes of the department will work their regular shifts and most of the off-shift men will be on duty at the stations on their hours off. The remainder of the off-shift men will be at their homes and will be called to duty by telephone If they are needed. In connection with his efforts to prevent any serious fires as the re-sut of the Fourth of July celebration. Chief Leffen yesterday called on all persons to refrain from throwing lighted fire crackers into automobiles, In hallways or win-, dows and not to point lighted Roman candles at any one. Firearms being used In the celebration will be confiscated by the police or firemen under a city ordinance which prohllbts their use In the cltv.

The volunteer firemen who wllfl be on duty tomorrow are A. D. Littleton, Bert Mee, Howard Windsor, Melvln Snyder, Walter Crane, F. E. Dunson, James Pruiksma, Frank Harbour and Gerald Dunson.

CLEVELAND, July 2. The little powerboat, Karf, manned by the five men who built It, put out from hera today In an adventurous attempt to cross the Atlantic ovean. TO Contract Stipulates Herz Must Finish Project in 125 Days After Work Is Launched Paving and widening of South street from Mill street to the Santa Ana river bridge will be started Monday by tho George Herz Co. of San Bernardino, E. Q.

Sullivan, district engineer of the state division of highways, announced yesterday. The Herz Co. is at present completing work on the Mecca-Blyths road, a 22-mlle project which will be finished this week, enabling them to move their construction machinery and crews back to San Bernardino to be ready for the South street job Monday. New Pavement To Be 30-Feet Wide The Herz Co. was awarded the contract for this job on a bid of $60,846 June 5.

The project Is one of the first to be authorized by the highway commission during th? biennium which started July 1, and is included in the $3,000,000 which the state will spend on highways In San Bernardino county during the next two years. The Cajon pass realignment and paving project between Al Ray and Summit, under way now, is another of these jobs. The South street work will in-elude the laying of a cement-concrete pavement 30 feet wide over the 2.3 miles distance to conform with the highway between the Santa Ana river bridge and Redlands. Alongside the Orange Show grounds and between the Warm creek bridge and the Santa Ana river bridge the entire 82-foot right-of-way will be graded. Where the road crosses the fills Just south of the Orange Show grounds, the right-of-way will be graded to a width of 40 feet.

Work to Be Ended Within 12S Days Over the swampy ground south of the Warm creek bridge the roadbed will be raised by hauling In dirt, thereby preventing the new pavement from sinking and buckling as the present one has done In several places. The contract provides that thj work must be completed 125 days after the start of construction and that the road must not be closed to traffic for more than 90 days. These provisions were put in the contract, Mr. Sullivan said, because the road is one of the most heavily traveled In this district, and the highway commission wishes as little Interference with traffic as possible. The Warm creek bridge was widened some time ago to conform to the 30-foot highway.

In addition to the paving, the sharp curves over the fills will be corrected. E. L. Fleming, office manager of The Sun underwent an emergency operation for appendicitis early yesterday morning at the Ramona hospital. He was taken ill during the night and an operation was ordered Immediately by his surgeons, Dr.

E. H. Hull and Dr. C. A.

Love Jr. His condition was favorable last night. ATTENTION MOTORIST Take heed to the new Automobile Financial Responsibility Law. For information phone 292-21, or write for free booklet. J.

L. IIICKEY Dependable Insurance FIRE CASUALTY AUTOMOBILE 201 Katz INVESTORS Do not forjret we pay 7 On Collateral Secured Trust Notes Money invested up to July 10th draws Interest from July 1st TRADERS FINANCE CORPORATION 493 St. Phone 23171 ra Two Children Slightly Hurt as Hit by Autos, Injuries Slight Tot Four Years Old, Knocked Off Tricycle By Car; Boy Suffers Fractured Jaw sil beds not long ago, found an entire skeleton of a three-toed horse which died thousands of years ago and whose remains were gradually covered by the sands of time. Area Reached On Old Wagon Road These fossil beds are found at the base of a great cliff which marks one end of the Coolgardie mesa. The mesa rears Itself high above the surrounding desert land, with an altitude of something over 4,000 feet above sea level, according to the chamber of commerce executive.

The mesa region Itself is not easy of access, which should aid the state in its policy of natural preservation should the region bo designated 89 a park site. It is approximately 35 miles north of Barstow, and is reached only by an old unimproved wagon road. There appear to be numbers of rattlesnakes in the mesa tract, and Mr. Rich and his companion killed seven of the reptiles during their trip. The voters of California recently passed a $6,000,000 bond issue for the creation of a system of stato parks.

The money expended is to be matched by local governments or private agencies In the counties where they are established. HER UMTS RIMES Girl Will Live Despite Attack of Septicemia Which Sent Her Temperature Soaring After suffering for more than a week from septicemia, during which time her temperature went as high as 110 degrees, Inez Reeves, 16-year-old Rlalto girl, is almost out of danger, Dr. J. A. Patterson, of San Bernardino, attending the sick girl, said last night.

Miss Reeves was brought to the Ramona hospital a week ago Sunday when Infection set In on a scratch on her hand. Durlne the time she has been at the hospital her fever has ranged between 104 degrees and 110 degrees, Dr. Patterson said. Dr. Patterson said the 110-degree temperature lasted for more than half an hour and then subsided gradually.

Barring unforeseen complications, tho girl will recover. Former Telephone Company Manager Visitor in City R. B. Fairly, former manager of the Associated Telephone Co. in San Bernardino, and now general manager of the State Telephone Co.

of Lubbock, Texas, is in the city on a business trip. Police Searching for Car Stolen from Riverside Man San Bernardino police were last night looking for an automobile owned by George Sun, of Riverside, which was stolen from Fifth and streets lnte Monday night. THAT IS A PITY! ou' 13 nt unwr NEWS OF MY (Continued on Page Twenty-three) mona hospital by Stevenson, where he was treated and dismissed. Running into the path of an automobile driven by William King of 265 Temple street, on Fourth street just east of San Bernardino, late yesterday, Corryne Botts, 13 years old, of 736 Fourth street, suffered a fractured jaw. This motorist reported to police that he was driving west on Fourth street when the girl ran from the sidewalk.

He took her to her home nearby where her Injuries were treated by a physician. Edison Company Completing Line to Valley of the Moon The Valley of the Moon and the Pacific Electric employes' camp will be "cut in" this week to the extension being made along the crest by the Southern California Edison H. J. Mouiton, district manager announced yesterday. The Valley of the Moon will be connected to tho system Wednesday night and the Pacific Electric employes' camp Saturday night.

SGIOTS Picnic for Sunday, July 7th, has been postponed until Sunday, July 21st. Robert Winfield Daniels has become a partner, in the general practice of law, of former Judge Eugene A. Tucker under the firm name of TUCKER DANIELS with offices at Los Angeles. (Attorney George F. Lord, Associated with Mr.

Daniels in the practice of law at Snn Bernardino, will continue to work In tho business at the Daniels Lord office, Andreson Building, where Mr. Daniels will meet clients by appointment.) Two San Bernardino children, one 13 years old, the other 4, were injured yesterday when struck by automobiles in separate mishaps. Neither child was badly hurt. While riding his tricycle on the street near his home early last night, Francis Poncy, 4 years old, of 738 South Waterman avenue, was hit by an automobile operated by George Stevenson, San Bernardino restaurant proprietor, and cut and bruised about the face and body. The child was taken to the Ra Mrs.

Dot Steele, both of San Bernardino; a sister, Mrs. Laura Hub-bell of San Bernardino; a brother, Earl of San Francisco, and four grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Fri day at 10 a. m. from the Mark B.

Shaw Co. memorial chapel with the Rev. Otis D. Ironmonger, pastor of the Presbyterian church, in charge. Interment will be In Mountain View cemetery.

LEAPS TO DEATH CHICAGO, July 2 Grief over the death of her husband a year ago caused Mrs. Stella Sondel, 55, to leap to her death from the roof of an 11-story hotel today. She left a note explaining her net. Marie Wic- gait a saleslady, attempted to restrain her from taking her life, but Mrs. Sondel ran to the roof and jumped.

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