The Times from San Mateo, California • Page 1

Briefly Told Short Items of ct'tvtd Over Leased AVire From United Press. UTILITIES CHARGED WASHINGTON, May aggressive campaign by utilities interests in Georgia to defeat biiis introduced in the legU- iuture of that state was disclosed today in the Federal Trade Commission's utilities i vest ion. GETS REPRIEVE SACRAMENTO, May CLP)--Governor C. C. young today granted a 90-day reprieve to Lon- iiie Johnson, llcreed wifemurdeier, Tirmci' sentence lv be lirtfigtu Sun Quentin prison tomorrow.

The governor's action was taken upon i-ceommendation, of the prison doctors and Warden James B. Holohan. No plea for clemency had been received from Johnson or his! counsel. OF SAN MATEO COUNTY fPEVOTEP TO THE INTEREST AND DAILY NEWS LEADER SAN MATEO COL'XTY Generally cliiuily and miltl and Friday. Gentle and norths til VOL.

XI RAX MATEO. r.UJKOKXIA. TIirKsDAY, 10. TEN PAGES i-i- 310 Bn NO RESERVE RATE HOLDS J' NEW YORK, May Federal Reflprvp bank of Xew 75fork made no change in its rediscount rate of 4 per cent at its meeting here today. FUGITIVES CAUGHT MERCED.

May Murdock, 26, and Harriett John, 17 who disappeared from Dos Palos seven months ago, were in jail bere today, following their arrest in Los Angeles, Murdock Is held on charges of kidnaping and contributing to the delinquency a minor. I MOTORS DIVIDEND YORK; May Motors corporation today declared an extra dividend of $2 on the common stock in addition to ihe regular quarterly dividend of the regular quarterly dividend of on the per cent preferred and 6 per cent debenture and SI.73 on the 7 per cent preferred. Man Struck By Rattler At Redwood Struck by a rattlesnake which failed to sound a warning. Henry Rasmussen, 352 Taylor street, San Francisco, was afternoon after having encountered the snake beside the Canyon road two miles west Redwood City, he told Dr. H.

A. ClaUenburg, Redwood City physician, who treated the oti IK). Taylor was at work pulling grass and weeds at a small country place when his left hand was struck by the fangs of the reptile, he said. a serum had been injected in the wound. The snake was of small size and struck out sounding the usual alarm, Tavlor said.

Harmony Marks First Gather- ing- of Reorganized Board of High School i 1 FACE MANV SLAYERS HUNTED SAN DIEGO, May (IP)-The aid of Mexican rurates was beinjf sought today in the hunt for James Durant, "tattoed killer," wanted here for the murder of Jb- an attempted holdup Sunday night, FORD- LINDBERGH CONFAB DETROIT, May 10. (LP) -Henry Ford conferred with Colonel Charles A- Lindbergh on the airman's European flight plans within an Jiour after he returned i-oni England todcy. "The -Conference was held at Dearborn and dealt Lindbergh's project of a Ford plane. ifi NEED Cooperation of Entire District in Solving Financial Problem Sought EXPLAINED Rotaiy ClWO How tO Proceed- Charier K-'. dressed members of the San "With a teynote of perfect har- 1 roony prevailing, the new board of trustees of.

the San JIateo Union, high school district heki their ini-1 tial meeting at the 3sn Mateo high school last night and acted enough business to keep the four members present, a goodly delegation of interested spectators and several othevs up to a late I hour before adjournment was offi- fially announced, i jivpspnt were Thomas) Breeze, 'chairman; Humphrey! Jones, secretary; A. S. Grun-1 dy and Thomas J- Brady, new! HendricfcsoTi Taylor, is at pres- I ent "somewhere in according to information given out I at last nieht's meeting, firlfc official act of the new- board -was officially to accept the High School Money Problem Is Explained Reports in a San Francisco paper this morning (tuotinsr Harrv Jenkitlb. maii.ist.-r iht- Amclicstl Trust nf BurlinKatiift. to the eCU-et that the recent special tax election to provide luuds For a i a i i the school district may have been illegal, were flatly denied by Jenkins todav.

"I made" nn such statement," said Jenkins, "and have no doubt whatever that ihe tax bj such a tremendous; majority of the taxpayers of the district is legal and will tut entirely collected." Humphrey L- clerk of the school hoard, when iues- tioned on a was of the same opinion. a graie financial problems facing, said Jones, "and we count upon the wholehearted cooperation of the people of the entire district to aid us in meeting Ihe crisis. The people unquestionably sanctioned the tax and even though there was something technically wrong with the so much of the money was spent for buildings and other capital outlay that he a simple matter to vote bonds to meet the emerjrency." 'The Junior college situation is apparently -tones continued. "It appears that there are-outstanding bill against the college district of about $12,000 and salary obligations of over SSOOO for the balance of the year. To meet this liability there is little over S2000 in the district treasury.

Nothing definite can be stated, until we complete imr task of thoroughly going over the bouVs and claims. We will tonight and work night after nijjht until the task is complete. When we have determined what is necessary, I am confident that the people of the district will back us up in whateier action is necessary to insure the continued success if our schools." I HEIRESS It Comes a Cropper The romance Vi alta Linforth, of Mcnlu Park and i i i i Threlkeld, her riding master, which culminated in I heir marriage in 11125. was due for a tali the heiress announced her determination ulJlain a divorce. SHE EXPLAINS 1 Disappearance of Mrs.

Threlkeld Explained With Her Return Today TRIP TO 0 TOT.1D TRAMPLED TO DEATH LOS BANGS. May William Neff, GO, is dead hei'e today of injuries suffered when he felt from a rake he was operating on a ranch rwar here and WES trampled by his horses. "UNTIMELY" TO REPLV CHICAGO, May proceedings pending against him at Washington make it "untimely" for Colonel Robert W. Stewart to make any reply to the demand of John D. Rockefeller that he resign as chairman of the board of directors of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, Stewart said in a statement here today.

PLANS RUSSIA FLIGHT OSLO, May TJmberto Nobile was preparing to start possibly today on a Teeott- noiiering flight to Leningrad, Russia, in his polar dirigible Italia, a report said today. The report- added that several members of the crew, after refusing to join in the flight because Koblie wanted to leave them at the Korth Pole for several days to make observations, had sailed for Oslo on the Hobby, SCHOOL GIRL IS WINNER OF HIGH SENIOR HONORS Divorce Action to Be Filed Here if Mexican Decree Is Not Recognized i ''I ant unhappy with my husband-' I have no liberty," This was the statement today of Mrs, Walta Linforth Thrclkeld, Menlo Park society favorite and noted horsewoman, in explanation of hei ims- terious disappearance of a week, which sent pitvnte detectives a coastwide search a became knoivn for the first time yesterday as the Mi-nlo Park heiress was taking a train in Los AnjrfcW to return tn San F'-ii Her marriage to William Threlkeld. riding master. hich rocked is to. be by a divorce for which application was made at No-J sates, Mexico, said the daughter of Walter H.

Linfonh. wealthy attor- Tesignarions of L. Giascoefc, former school superintendent of the district, and that of his secretary, Florence Boliret. The tendered resignation of John Was ley. principal of the San Mateo high i laid over for further' teo Rotary Club today on the problems presented in the movement to obtain a charter form of government for San Mateo county.

Kirkbride is a recognized authority on city and county government and a deep student of new ideas in public management. consideration at a future meeting, He outlined the methods neces- of board. The notification of sar to brine about a charter elec-j accep an ce of the resignations was tion and outlined the more impor- ffi i a iiy transmitted through Pan- tant subjects ivhich would come up sv Abbott, county superintendent for the consideration of a county 1 0 sc nools board of freeholders. He advo- Found cated a short ballot, stating that! the best interests of the people would be served by reducing the number of elective officials to a EMAXUEL-McTIGUE LOS ANGELES. May OP) Armand Emanuel.

Jack Demp- sey'a light heavyweight protege, and Mike JIcTigue have been matched for a bout in Madison Square Garden, New Tork, June it was by Charley Johnson, representing the veteran Irishman. minimum and putting the others either under the appointive power of the supervisors, or under civil service. Needs Are Told Major Kirkbride pointed out thL many major problems now demand the consideration of the county. Among these he enumerated the matters of roads and highways, water, sanitation, recreation and central and co-ordinated control and direction of county police. "The movement for a county charter offers great possibilities for obtaining efficiency and econ- One question that caused the new official board to knit thtirj various brows in deep thought the outstanding- obligations of the school district to tradespeople and others to whom the district is in- debted to approximately $W-O O- The board considered the calling of another special election to raise the necessary funds to meet these outstanding obligations.

i Some of the les'ser creditors sub- 1 mitted letters with an underlying note of entreaty that paid I for service and merchandise ren- 1 dered implying that they needed; money badly to carry on in their own enterprises. I The laundry bill mounting into three heavy figures was comment- McHugJi Lose Out 'With horn Qualified for Tomorrow's Round SAXD1VICH. May --Jose -Tarado, the little Argen- tinian professional, today headed a field of 52 at the end of thc second round of the o)en qolf: championship. Jurado's aggregate was 1J5. Tommy Armour, of the American team, and Douglas Grant, Anglo American amateur, passed out of the tournament with mutual aggregates of 161.

John MeHugh, San Francisco, and Bob Stupple, Chicago, also were eliminated- McHugh -was out in an aggregate of "63. Qualifiers for tomorrows 3G holes in the open championship are: Jose Jurado. Argentina. IJ5. Walter Hagcn, United States, Francella Winch ell wins the highest ant! last honor of-the San i Park-, The purpose of her disap- has been "anriotfnced.

Principal i pearance was to make application John T. IVasley, assisted by Miss for the divoice. she explained, upon Hazel Wolhaupter. faculty advisor her return today to thc Menlo Park of the honor society, made the se-, home, one of the show places of lection. Miss Winchess has the Peninsula.

of the highest scholastic records i Action Here ever made at San Mateo high I I the Mexican decree is not school, but she was closely con-- recognized in thc United States, tested by Albert Arthur. Ruth Fen-' sey and Adricnne Kneass. i Her record is singular in that she has completed her work in three and a half years, coming to San Hateo two years ago from Denver, Colo. HOOVER PICKED BY CONGRESSMAN FOR HI REPORTER the Menlo Park heiress is ready 10 begin action in thc courts heieJ she intimated. High points in thc mystery appearance of the young society matron, including references to having visited a Hindu mystic and i to tho fact that she had left San' Francisco in company with two strange v.jmen.

one posing as herl mother and the other as her sts-1 tcr, were cleared up today, Mjslery Htjiinined had decided on the trip to with Jlrr. Ha-; SHOBM IF mi Verbal Report of Shortage Made to City Council Last Might Council Asks Audit Firm to Mate Immediate Report of Shortage A shortage of $2792 in the funds of the citv of San Bruno was re- in the audit of former City Xottie 'Wiltits find verbally reported to the city trustees at their meetin" last night by representatives of thc accounting firm fif Ernst Ernst. The accountants were recently employed by the rirr cnRiuil to audit the books of the c-ity after Emil Bohm had-de- fented Willits for the office of clerk of the city. Mayor Edward J. MeGuite re- tiuested the auditors to t'ile a written rejioi't of their findings with' a svcmcc ar COL.

STEWART IN SECLUSION, WILL NOT TALK She CHICAGO. ILiy i one! Robert W. Stewart arrived 7.CL Hawksworlh. and immediately went i i 0 "Mint 0 ftorlwion. refusing to make Herbert Hoover wil, be and Gene Sarazcn, United States.

nated on the Republican ticket and Hindu. Maneck Anklesaria. and ri under his leadership more Republi- without notifying her father or onsv if properly said on by various members the Kirkbride, "but it must be an board. Thc amount splutely impersonal movement, de-i a alns signed solely to bring about a. better method of managing our pub- much more pretentious than that against the San Mateo high school- which caused one of 14S.

Archia Compston and Wild Bill Mfehlhorn, United States. 140. Stewart Burns. Tnggart and Tom Williamson. 350- Percy Alltss, 151, George Duncan.

IT, Cotton. Fred Robson. Aubrey Boomer, W. H. Davies.

152. Jean Gaspiat. 1 A T. Tor- ranee and Abe Mitchell, 153. cans will be elected to Congress, 1 is the opinion of Arthur M.

Free, representative of the eighth Congressional district, expressed in a been gitcsis at thc Menlo Park letter to Creed Habcrlin, senior home. student at San Mateo, A journal-j The two women were seen ism assignment secured this writ- Mrs. Threlkcld she left ten reply; Free will bo remembered at San able rvpiy to thc demanti of D. Rockefeller, that he i as chairman of the boanl of direc- other memhers of her famtly. the torf ()f thc standard Oil Companv' heiress stated.

Mrs. Hawksworth i iiana and her daughter, an artist, have, Stewart arrived from New shortly before noon and eluded with San Francisco for Los Angele.s on the night of May 2. The Hindu she newspapermen by leaving at Englcwood, a sonthsidc i th new members to ino.uire if the I youth of Burlingame ivere not so meticulous as the youth of San BAXCITALY PRICES SAN FRANCISCO. May Bancitaly Corporatiojn" stock closed at 217 1-S on the San Francisco stock exchange today. Bank of Italv closed at 301 INSURANCE cnn never repay you for ihc loss of kccj- He affairs and free from schemes or designs against any particular officials.

"The county is fortunate in having a very competent staff of lie offices and they are perform-i 3 I fafttdious. The laundry ing wonBerful work in spite of -ae i a handicaps which our antt- for the esont, qua ted svstem of ernment im-; Seek Co-operation I poses upon them. Unless the free-j Ife was finally decided that be-1 elected with the this matter is taken care desiring of accomplishing an i TM a member each of the provement in our countv system Parent Teacher Associations of the of government, their work -will be district and a representative rom i useless and in each of the chambers of commerce; in thc district be appointed to "as-' sist the board in arriving at a (Ie- Mateo for hi? speech on social visited sonic time previously "May and Octo- Jim Barnes, United btates: a Washington which he made lastl advice on how to se'cure Tfc. I Riifus Stewart, Aus-1 year. tralia; Young.

T. Twine, i Free explained that lobbyists do 15-1. not bother mcmlrcrs of Contrresa, Pierre Hirigoyen, France; Wil-. He was asked if he thought the Ted Ray. Major C.

0., present qualifications of Congress- piness froni the ber" maniaire. i Tan Itark Homancc She WHS married in February of i 1025 to Threlkeld. stable CONGRESS WILL DECIDE SOON ON BRIDGE LAW be pursued by rhe council woum be determined. The audit has been'in i progress since April 9 when Miss retired after ten years of as t-ity clerk and deputy i tax coilettot. Krrnr Is Claimed Wht-n interviewed on the matter toJsiy by Tlic Daily Times.

Hiss stated that she knew nothing about the shortage reported by Ei and Ernst. She stated she. herself, had unearthed a discrepancy in her books before surrendering her office and had per- reported the matter to the thy authorities and requested that be employed to en- dciivor to find a possible error. Miss Willits stated that she had rt, knowledge of what the accountants had found but stood ready to make gotxl anj" error that was prmon in bcr liooks. U'illits served as city clerk (f Pan Bruno for ten years and has a record for honesty and efficiency.

STATEREBEKAT ASSEMBLY NAMES OFFICERS TODAY Mesxlitt. C. G. Faulkner, Tom Bar-: suitable im tls ils 'i, 15 n-u-t 1 wcre bllfc beli( vci millionaire. The romance bloomed i D.

McCullogh, R. A that the term of representatives a tja nt ancc bccun at so-" i tn(J owcr owse should he fwrj S.HOIV* wh Th TM irl 1S wa hibit Francisco hill lw sent TTab- fnthcr 1L tntrlcs Thc lable cro j-J le Hoi- cr lhc text of original Kenn tr was J0 av tin)c hn AtalwAl ate joint resolution opting an of lhfc arriaEe consummated a last ni-ht ly Mayor; at a meetini; J. Smith, George Gndd, A. T.acy, J. McDowell.

157- Arnaud Mnsscy, France; Konyon. Rex Hartley. William Icy. J. O.

Ker.lon, 15 Wallace, Bert Hodson. I amendment to thc United SAX FRANCISCO. May Iciety how where thc Menlo action by vn an I States Lydia Fahey Wins Election Contest Haimce nen nonson. a to ti.c United affainsl lhe wiph cs of the Linforsh Uolph Jr Perkins. a A.

R. Brad-, Constitution txme the commencc-j a i i aml Ur jn di th heer. A. I. Kvans.

James Braid, A of the term of thc rc ei the entire mt online T5- II i i I i i mv Tho termination of the outstanding i of lhc dbtrfct at this Pabey, contesting an election for school trustees at San Pedro, won out over C. SI. Chambers, opposition candidate in a recount conducted today in the Sn- court -at Redwood City, The plaintiff was declared to have won over Chambers by three votes. Election officials had previonsly given Chambers a plurality. Health Causes Death Plunge LOS ANGELES, May 10-- (IP)-Walter J.

Spewrs, 33, leaped from the fifth fioor escape ot the Morris hotel to instant death on the pavement below today, A note described ill health us the cause of his act and disposed of his estate to relatives throughout the West. friends It was also officially announced' that the board intended to advcr- tisc in county and metropolitan! area TiewspapviS that all claimants submit their claims xvith proof of delivery, or service, and that the claimants should do this before May 21 of this year so that a prop- i er checfc up of the liabilities of district could be made, Tinjrey. L. Hone. 150, 'BUCK 1 KELLY IS READY FOR DEATH AT SAN QUENTIN j.ta;injr; io bring Legality Thc legality of some of the bills rendered against thc school district mildly questioned by Chairman Breeze, but as the board seemed irked by trivialities the chairman did not press the matter.

SAN QUFXTIN JO. (IP) "With hut a Hay inp to live, Clarence "Buck" San Francisco "terror oc- cupted his lenth cell today in ap-l parent unconcern. Dramatic -events centered around him yesterday failed to i shake his calm cf erase his rmile. commit See. vice-president and the members Menlo "rsVk lw intci1 1 1 ho Congress, and fivin- the time for i.

di, bk wat; 1tIKrtoi 1 by assembling of Congress. iernincTto VcTe a "lie mnwr Other literature accompanied thc had alreailv" -T edified "pv" in Hc 1 cff ts O1 hetter. tolling of recent bills and record? iltc containing pictures of the presi-1 0 dent, his cabinet antl other she wished it In cers. Other thc jour- 3et ftr ijj vortc nalism classes, whose instmctor is; 0 Harry Stcinntctz, letters to; i other prominent men including i Oy Cr Governor Young. Steward Kdward May jMTiite and Senator ShortridRe.

IieSlffllS tier S.AXTA CRUZ. May officers elected at the Ee- hckah assembly held here today 'in connection with the "state meeting of the 1- O. F- were announced i President. Carrk' Hutchins. San Fraiicii-co; vice-pro id ent, Hilda Fnif.

Fresno: jrrand warden, Amelia Prather Gustin: Malison San Francisco; treasurer, Leonora Majrjnini, Oakland; assembly trustee, Neljie Herbold, I'asadcna; tnistee orphans'-home, Ell-en Sherman. Palo Alto. ln rcss re- ipcd Former School Man Interviews Pupitsl MSllrw "J(tf Coey vice-president of San hi.srh president of the hish schooi stu- school, today intervicxvod a few of, tendered, her body, resijjna- (vn at tnc mcet ng cxccu I tive lward last Tuesday, Thc res- former Mario Cian-j nnv connected with thc Bank of Iinly, ns havincr the most while Harold Bar- Alleging cruelty. Mrs. Ethel H.

I ijrMsuion was accepted. Miss Harvard street, Bur-ihoefor is moving to I-os Angeles jneson had' the moi-i lucro. Going; though he indicated that win jr to; Before jniards led the youth from jlingame, today filed suit'for i Saturtiav, She came to San Ma- idown the row, Hopler said: "This the failure of some ot the claim? "condemned over a certain iigurc properly to idvertised that he doubted their into the solitary vorce from Gilbert Hall, Cus-; teo three years asro and ixits one i follow is ci.nti«tr that, one is i death cnamocy.ncar thc paHows be; tony of a minor daughter and a i of thc most popular students at the thc consular in thc asked and was granted permission i mony of $150 per month arc asked hijrh school and was elected vice-1 Scarcely a face failed of recotrni- i 1, $ity and feared that if some to have his picture taken in natty in the petition: filed in the Snperi- president Inst Her two sis-1 tion. Claude Hirschcy, police chief' civ' protested that thtt board won id be in another tangle, It was also announced unot'ft- Continued on Page 6) clothes. He cxnlained he xvanted "the for his misters, -whose earlier farewells left him undisturbed.

or court at Hcdwood City. The couple married at San in separated last Friday in Bwlingamc, the complaint says. tcrs, Sena and Beulah, were als-ojof Tlillsborouch, was among the! students at San Matoo and will I notables, together with Henry leave many friends. They cxpcctjor of Burlinjjamc and Cliff 1 to return in about one year. of baseball fame.

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