Santa Cruz Evening News from Santa Cruz, California • Page 1

WEATHER. San Francisco Bay region Unsettled and mild tonight and Sunday, probably rain Sunday, moderate south wind. San Joaquin and Santa Clara Valleys Unsettled tonight and Sunday, probably rain Sunday, mild; gentle south winds. FEBRUARY TIDE TABLE Compiled by W. R.

Springer Day Time Ht. Time Ht. 7 1 8:09 1.1 1.2 0.8 1.9 T. 8 P. 3:34 3.9 7:52 9:23 8:41 Member Associated Press, United Press and Audit Bureau of Circulations Vol.

47 No. 83 SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1931 Ten Pages AO IKM fu VJ a a a lJ nan a a a nun nun a a a a a nan a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a 1 Hlr IS BIDS OUNTY HITT They Will Try HARBOR FLOOR AT NAPIER IS Awards To Be Made Friday On RESIDENT OF S. C. COUNTY FOR 45 YEARS BLAST IN A. HURTS 30 II GOhRS ILtff'''' $fys Mrs 1 '4 is Si General Butler Corralitos Ranch Raid Victim Pays $400 Liquor Fine Charles R.

Reickhoff, 65-year oia Corralitos rancher who was arrested yesterday afternoon at his ranch after a raid by the force of Sheriff A. T. Dresser, to day paid a fine of $400 to Jus tice of the Peace Charles C. Houck in the Watsonville justice court. Represented by Attorney Stanford G.

Smith, Reickhoff entered a plea of guilty soon after his arraignment. Ho was arrested yesterday afternoon in a raid on his property which brought to light 2700 gallons of wine and a small quantity of brandy. Those who participated in the raid were Sheriff Dresser, Under Sheriff Cliff' Jones, Deputy Sheriff Arthur Huddleson and Deputy Sheriff Fred Royse. Mr. Royse spent the night at the Reickhoff ranch guarding all but a small portion of the haul.

Judge Houck, sitting in Watsonville for Justice of the Peace Phillip Hayward, ordered the wine destroyed. -a- STORM I'RKIHCTEI) FOR PACIFIC COAST SOON" SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7 (IP) A storm brewing over the Pacific ocean between here and Honolulu was rapidly heading towards the California coast, and may strike the bay region tomor row, the U. S. weather bureau said today.

The disturbance is of the kind that nearly always causes i -a Girl Flyer and Publisher Wed -a AMELIA EARHART GEORGE PALMER PUTNAM Amelia Earhart And G. P. Putnam Marry In East NEW YORK, Feb. 7. () Amelia Earhart, transatlantic fly er, and George Palmer Putnam publisher and explorer, were mar ried today at the home of Mr Putnam's mother, Mrs.

Frances Putnam, at Noank, Connecticut. Announcement of the marriage was made by Mr. Putnam's secre tary in New York and confirmed by relatives at Noank. The bride said she would retain her maiden name and continue her executive position with an aviation company operating between New York, Philadelphia and Washington. She said she would be at her desk Monday and her husband would be at work as usual in his New York publishing firm.

Putnam, who has delved into the icy fastness of the Arctic, has been married before. Putnam and his first wife were divorced in Reno, in December, 1929. In applying for the marriage license Miss Earhart gave her age as 32, ten years younger than Putnam. The bride is a native of Atchison, Kansas. ILKE AND DOYLE TO GET LIFE SENTENCES SAN FRANCISCO, Feb.

7 (JP) Superior Judge Isadore Harris, before whom Henry A. Use and Thomas E. Boyle, convicted dynamite plotters were tried, said under the law he will be compelled to give them life sentences. COAST GI ARI) SKKKS MISSING FISH BOAT SAN PEDRO, Feb. 7 (JP) Two coast guard cutters left today here for the fishing boat Maiden, to search 60 miles southeast of a 52 foot craft carrying a crew of four and overdue four days.

LIFE IMPRISONMENT GIVEN CHILD SLAYER PRINCETON, W. Feb. 7. (P) A verdict of first degree murder with a recommendation of life imprisonment, was returned today by the jury which tried Mrs. Minnie Stull, 30, for the fatal scalding of her step-son Mickey, 8.

The boy died after he had been scalded in a tub of hot soap suds. llwmuMWy Afc PAWS a Biillllillli yr fir Z- i -a I To N.Y. Bench Judge Walter H. Evans, Portland, nominated by President Hoover to the U. S.

Court of Customs in New York. He served several terms as circuit judge in Oregon and was twice Portland district attorney. DROUTH RELIEF TO SENATE ON COMPROMISE WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb.

7 (IP) The $20,000,000 drouth relief loan compromise was agreed to today by conferees of the senate and house. The fund would be in addition to the $45,000,000 already made available for drouth relief loans to farmers. It is slated to replace the proposed $25,000,000 fund for Red Cross which the senate voted into the interior department supply bill, and which President Hoover emphatically opposed. The conference report, embodying the compromise, will be reported to the senate for its approval, with a vote expected on it Monday. While rebellion against the compromise is developing in the ranks of the senate coalition, Democratic leaders Robinson and Caraway of Arkansas have ac cepted it and enough votes for passage seem assured.

Interest today swerved to oth er disputes standing in the way of completion of business before adjournment of congress, with that of money to veterans as the principal one. The senate finance committee agreed to defer action until next week to give the house ways and means committee, which claims jurisdiction, opportunity to act. TODAY'S QUOTATIONS ON STOCK EXCHANGE SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7. (IP) Following is the official list of transactions on the San Francisco stock exchange, givinj; stocks for morning session: Caterpillar Tractor, 43; -Coast Counties Gas and Electric, 99Vi bid; Fageol Motors, 1 bid: Food Machinery, 24; Golden State Milk, IS; Kolster Radio, 1 bid; Magnavox, Pacific Gas and Electric (common), 47; Pacific Telephone and Telegraph.

125; Richfield Oil, Shell Union Oil, 9y2 bid; Standard Oil of California, 49; Transamerica, 12; Union Oil Associates, 22 bid; Union Oil of California, 24; Pacific Lighting (common), 56. San Francisco curb: Bank of America (New York), 62 bid. Chicago Wheat Futures Close March, old 79, new 79; May, old 82 to 82, new 83; July, 67 to September, 67. Two Big Jobs B'ds for construction of the Chittenden underpass and tho completion of the Mount Hertnon cut off were ocncd by the county Nil per visors this morning. The low bidder for the under-piiss was Carl M.

Swenson company of San Jose with The second lowest bid was from the P. T. Wallstrum Company of Wulsonville for $44,421. The bids nnd checks from these two companies were retained until the matter comes up for formal award next Friday. IMds and checks from the other 12 were ordered re-t iirncd.

The low bid for building 4,100 feet of highway and paving to complete the Camp Evcrs-Fclton roal was from Karstedt and Kar-Ktcdt of AVatsonville with 831. All other bids for the highway improvement were ordered returned with their accompanying checks and next Friday afternoon Bet for making the award. VndcrpnNs Ilids The other bids on tho Chittenden underpass were: Granite Construction Company, Watsonville, $44,781. Thermotite Construction Company, San Jose, $45,014. Healey Tibbetts Construction San Francisco, Leo Cardwell Construction Santa Cruz, $52,024.

J. L. Conner, Monterey, A. W. Kitchen, San Francisco, $52,497.

Frederickson and Watson, Construction Oakland, $52,978. Dodenhamer Construction Oakland, $52,992. Merritt, Chapman and Scott, San Pedro, $55,171. M. B.

McGowan, San Francisco, $55,199. Frank Bryant, San Francisco, $57,647. W. H. Hauser, Oakland, 180 Day Limit The contract calls for the excavation of 44,300 cubic yards of earth, the pouring of 2,912 cubic yards of concrete, the placing of 6,000 pounds of reinforced steel and the supplying of 697 feet of corrugated metal pipe.

The underpass on the county highway near the Monterey county line will eliminate a dangerous grade crossing at which a number of deaths have occurred. The underpass will be long enough to permit three tracks of the Southern Pacific to cross. Part of the cost will be bourne by the Southern Pacific. The bids call for (Continued on Page Three) Ranch Bargains $200 DOWN, Balance monthly, rrlee $3150. Acre in town.

B-R. plas. houso, garage, chicken house for 1000, fruit. No. 2159C.

$200 DOWN, Balance monthly. Trice $3900. Brand new 5-Rooin stucco hunpalo, garage feed room chicken house for 400, on over 1 Acre of finest land near Live Oak. No. 2345C.

$200 DOWN, Balance monthly. Price $3000. B-Hm. house, garage, chicken houses, rabbit hutches and nearly 4 acres of berry or truck land, 3 miles out. No.

21C4C. $4000 DOWN. Trice $8000. (Cost $12,000.) Finest country home ranch near Santa Cruz, newly remodeled 7-R. bungalo, barn, silo, chicken houses, barn; orchard, rich bottom land, pasture and wood.

No. 2143C. NEA Washington Bureau The most striking group of high ranking officers ever gathered together for a court martial in this country will compose the navy board before which Maj. Gen. Smedley D.

Butler of the Marine Corps will be tried for alleged remarks derogatory to Premier Mussolini of Italy. Hear Admiral Louis R. de Steiguer, upper left, commandant of the New York Naval District, will be president of the court. Among the other members are RearAdmiral John R. Y.

Blakely, upper right, of the General Board of the Navy; Maj. Gen. Joseph H. Pendleton, retired, center left, the only representative of the Marine Corps; Hear Admiral George C. Day, center right, of the General Hoard; and Rear Admiral Frank H.

Clark, lower left, director of fleet training. The special prosecutor or judge advocate of the court martial will he Captain William C. Watts, lower right, chief of staff of the Fourth Naval District in Philadelphia. INKING AGAIN WELLINGTON, N. Feb.

7. (P) Due to a considerable improvement in sanitation and relief situation in the Hawkes, Bay district, stricken by the earthquake last Tuesday, the orders for evacuation of Napier have been rescinded. Occasional tremors continue, but there has been none of a serious nature in many hours. Many inhabitants returned to temporary homes in the vicinity of the ruins. The deputy harbor master at Napier said today that the harbor floor which was raised five to eighteen feet during the quake, was gradually sinking again, although until soundings are taken its new position will not be charted.

It is believed the H. M. S. Veronica, marooned by the receding waters, will be able to get out without difficulty. Work of recovering bodies of victims proceeded.

To date 160 victims have been buried, many of them unidentified, in Napier and Hastings. More than 1500 have been treated at the Napier field hospital and before the evacuation stopped ten thousand' had left Napier and Hastings. The mayor of Wairo stated that the town was financially ruined. The business district collapsed in the quake but the residential quarter is habitable. PLANE WRECKAGE ON ATLANTIC MAY BE OF TRADEWIND LONDON, Feb.

7. (JP) Captain Alvin Johnson of the U. S. shipping board steamer Youngstown, told The Associated Press when his vessel docked today at Havre that 130 miles northwest of the Azores his vessel had passed a piece of wreckage which looked like an airplane wing, which might have been part of the airplane Tradewind. INDIAN HELD FOR MURDER OF WHITE MAN NEAR REDDING REDDING, Feb.

7. (JP) Ira Gfmmel, 46, was shot and killed today at Big Ben, 30 miles east of here. William Wright, 78-year-old In dian and brother-in-law of Gim mel, was arrested and charged with the murder. Wright, in the county jail here with a deep bruise under one eye said Uimmel attacked him. The argument was said to have begun during a card game.

Gimmel was white. a MOUNTAIN RANGE IN SEA BEING CREATED BY RECENT QUAKES SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7. (JP) Captain T. J.

J. See, government astronomer at the Mare Island naval station here, said the New Zealand earthquake, shifting the ocean bed, was incident to the manufacture of a new mountain range in the western Pacific, similar to the Andes of South America. "Running diagonally from New Zealand almost to San Francisco is a trough of water about four miles deep," Captain See said. SANTA Cltl COI PLE WEDDED AT REN'O Announcement was made today of the wedding in Reno January 30 of Lola Sweet and Bert Prit- chard, both of this city. Mrs.

Prit- chard is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Desmond of Soquel.

Mr. Pritchard is a driver for the Pickwick stage company. The couple will make their home at 61 Myrtle street. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 7.

(JP) Thirty persons were Injured, several seriously, and a panic in a theater audience of more than 2,000 was narrowly averted when an explosion in a power main in front of the Orpheum theater shook the building late last night. So terrific was the force of the blast several persons standing in front of the theater were lifted into the air and others hurled against store windows. A portion of the street was torn up and windows smashed. A brilliant first night audience, augmented by the presence of more than one hundred motion picture players packed the theater for the first showing of Cimarron, a picture featuring Richard Dix. Many film stars were on the stage, making personal appearances, and screen and stage attractions were drawing to a close when the roar of the explosion was heard ami its shock felt in the theater.

4 Calms Crowd Robert McWade, veteran stage and screen actor, averted what gave indications of being a fatal rush for exits by making a hu morous arresting announcement. "Don't get excited," cried Mc Wade, "that noise is just part of the celebration in my honor." The audience grew calm, a laugh ran it and the show goers returned to their seats and filed out in an orderly manner a short time later when squads of police and firemen took charge of the situation. The blast was attributed to ac cumulation of gas in a power main. The cars of several motion picture luminaries were parked nearby, near the taxlcab that bore the blunt of the explosion. They were slightly damaged.

Flames Shoot Up Flames shot out of the manhole when its cover was sent crashing through the floor of the taxicab. The street was lifted up for a space of fifty feet along the curb and the force of the blast was felt throughout the South Broadway area. Flames seared persons lined up along the curb. Several men were arrested by police who observed them looting display windows shattered by the blast. I CAUGHT FLY DR.

JOHN T. HARRINGTON serving "seagulls" to his boy friends at dinner. BOBBY BALES, the whistling newsboy, with his cowboy hat. T. W.

THOMSON compliment ing Forrest McDermott on his ability as a fisherman. E. J. OWENS, who learned his fishing in Colorado, getting a six and a half pound steelhead in the San Lorenzo. MERVIN KERRICK standing on his head to connect new pipe fittings being installed at the laundry.

R. N. A. CHOOSES NEW MANAGER Elmer Nystrom was elected manager of the Royal Neighbors of America last evening, following the resignation of Roland Riley. Announcement was made of the meeting of the social club at the home of Mrs.

Emma Pieper Thursday. The Yellows of the organization will give a party following the next regular meeting February zu. Refreshments were served after of Mrs. Suporvlsor Frank E. Roanlor died at his Cnpitola home this morning at the ago of 75 years after an Illness of two days.

His death came as a shock, a 11 hough he had been In failing health for many months and had recently considered resigning from tho board of supervisors of which he was the member from Soquel district. A 45-year residence In Santa Crua county with whose history he was prominently connected was ended when the courthouse flag went to half mast. Mr. Reanier's position as supervisor will bo filled by the apxint-ment by Governor James Rolph, of a resident of the Souuel district. He had served In that rapacity since his appointment In October of 1027 by Governor C.

C. Young to fill an unexpired term. In the autumn of 1928 he was elected for the regular four-year term taking office on the first Monday in January, 1929, and had two years yet to serve when death overtook him. Born in Brecksville, Ohio, in 1856, Mr. Reanier came to Cali fornia, soon after the death of his father, with his mother and a sister by way of the Isthmus of Panama at the age of seven.

The family settled in Grass Valley where he attended school and where he met Miss Ida S. Elster, who was to become his wife. Came. Here In 1880 In January, 1886, he moved to Santa Cruz and in June of that year was married here to Miss Elster. Four years later he left Santa Cruz to make his home in Capitola where he became superintendent of the F.

A. Hihn company's properties. Until the dissolution of that corporation 25 years later he had active charge of the Hihn holdings including timber and orchard lands and the Aptos, Soquel and Valencia water works and watched (Continued on Page Two) 22 BOY SCOUTS TO BE GIVEN AWARDS AT N. S. C.

THEATER Twenty-two members of the American Legion Boy Scout troop 69 of this city will receive awards at a public court of honor in the New Santa Cruz theater Tuesday evening, according to the announcement today of Joe O'Connor, theater manager. One half hour between shows at the theater Tuesday night will be used in connection with Scout Anniversary week which opens tomorrow. Al Huntsman and J. Tonjum, assistant Scoutmaster, will be mas- ters of ceremony. The following will receive awards: Jene Adams, William Adams, Roy Connolly, Donald Fife, George French, George Hurst, Daniel Leonesio, Bradley Lynn, Philip Lynn, Robert McKean, Francis A.

Munson, Clarence Nichols, Patrick O'Laughlin, Billy Pinard, Clair Riedman, Walter Riley, Howard Rogers, Clarence Schultz, Raymond Siefert, Jacob W. Slaughter, Paul Smith and Vin cent Williams. NORTH CAROLINA FOLK FLEE RAGING FIRE MARION, N. Feb. 7 (JP) With the highway almost impassable in spots and dense fog and smoke hanging over the mountain side, the mountain folk of two sections of McDowell county today were fleeing before a forest fire which devastated a wide area.

The flames roared through gorges and up mountains and last night destroyed several homes. S. C. Sportswoman Pays $16,000 For Undefeated Filly Miss Marion Hollins, Santa Cruz sportswoman, yesterday purchased Nevada Queen, one of the fastest fillies on the turf for $16,000. The purchase was made from "Wild Horse" Charley Farrell, Lovelock, Nevada cowboy at Agua Caliente where the filly has started three times and is undefeated.

She has set two track re cords, one for a quarter of a mile and the other three furlongs. Farrell will continue to train Nevada Queen for her new owner, grooming her for entrance in the Tanforan meeting in April and later at the Del Monte races. Miss Hollins has signified her intention of purchasing additional thorough breds. Nevada Queen, unfashionably bred and intensely inbred at that. was seven months ago one of a herd of horses ranging the sage at Lovelock.

SOQUEL-CAPITOLA SANITARY DISTRICT ACTION POSTPONED Action by the county supervisors on the engineer's report on the proposed Soquel-Capitola san itation district was deferred by the county supervisors this morn ing because of the death of Frank E. Reanier, supervisor of the So- quel district. The report is from W. H. Oli ver.

The district plans an elec- tion for a bond issue of approximately $56,000 to build a sewer system and disposal plant. rain. Forecaster Thomas R. Reed! the meeting in charge said. JAnna Mae Keller..