Woodland Daily Democrat from Woodland, California • Page 1

WOODLAND, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 13, 1923 ISSUED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY ESTABLISHED 1877 FIGHT "GAMBLERS" 'Dapper Dan' R. R. ACCEPTS MEISTER CARS Five Hundred Dollar Fine Didn't Worry This Pigger TEARS WIN WARRANTS IN COURT According to the authorities here, L. S. Shackelford, aristocratic negro, who paid a fine of $500 in Justice R.

W. Harrison's court recently, for bootlegging at the American Rice Farm Company's rice camps, near Knights Landing, later displayed a flock of money amounting to $1,200. RpfnrP cninc into COUrt. Shackelford asked his atr.nrnev t.n rash A SfiOO Begs Alms Threatens SlUrned in his annual fnr financial assistance last night, a young fellow of dipper appearance, nattily garbed and of swagger manner, left the First Baptist Church "in a huff" and threatened to "return to a life of crime." The stranger's attitude became sn threatening that Rev. C.

H. Berry, Baptist preacher, to whom he had appealed, notified Nightwatchman Harvey1 Goodin. The officer combed the city for him but was unsuccessful in apprehending him. Rev. Berry stated that the young fellow called at the rectory about 8 o'clock, asking to see the minister.

Berry invited him into the house and then" into his private study room, the caller suggesting that the conference should be secretive. I he young man unfolded a tale of woe. He said that he had become the tool of crooks and had served a prison term for fore erv. He expressed determination to henceforth remain in the path of righteousness. I ve had onlv one meal todav and I need monev for food and a nlace to eat," he said, concluding with a touching appeal for alms.

Berry informed his caller that his own family required his assistance and he could not afford to support young men who are able to work. "I advised him to get out and earn an honest living," said Berry this morning. Indignant and enraged over the advice offered him bv the clerervman. the stranger turned upon him and remarked, "no wonder there are so many criminals when people like you refuse to assist." Muttering to himself as he slammed lore and will do it again it people wiH not help." Minister Berry's description of the fellow, as given to Nightwatchman Goodin, was that of a man, apparently 25 to 28 years old, black eyes, dark curly hair and smooth shaven He is not very tall but inclined to be of stocky build. He wore a dark suit of clothes and was pleasant appear ing.

Postpone Willow Oak Farm Meeting Miss Frances Liles, home demonstrator for Yolo county, who has been ill for several weeks, is convalescing at Santa Cruz and is expected to return to Woodland the latter part of tne weeK. Tne meeting ot tne Willow Oa Park Home Department to be held on Thursday has been postponed ntl1 Mlss Liles is again able to tike UP her duties. PEART SELLS LAMBS, Sterling Peart sold 500 lambs today to F. Carrere, San Rafael. J1 New Factory Head Takes Another change in Superintendents of the Meister plant in this city was announced today.

Richard Mansell has retired and his successor is F. J. Reeders. A few weeks ago E. F.

Sullivan was transferred to the Sacramento office, with the ultimate intention of a further transfer to the Los Angeles branch. Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan, in anticipation of this removal, sold their Woodland home. But the second change in the office of superintendent made it necessary for Mr.

and Mrs. Sullivan to alter their plans and they will remain in "Woodland for at least another month. President and General Manager Granville Hart requested Mr. Sullivan to return to Woodland and remain long enough to instruct the new superintendent as to his duties. Under Mr.

Sullivan's direction work has been resumed on the four new cars, course of construction. One of them will be ready for delivery next Friday and the others will be completed soon. R. R. Engineer Here.

Chief Engineer Russell of the Minaret and Western Railroad, with main offices Fresno, was Woodland Monday and inspected and accepted these cars. They will be operated between iresno and sugar These cars are of standard gauge and have a capacity of forty two passengers each. The cost of construction is estimated at $15,000. THREE SPEEDERS EST DOING 50 MILES wrcnm a penou oi tmuy imuui ea, Traffic Officers George K. Sharpnack and Henry Jacobs caught three speeders Saturday, the slowest of whom was clocked at 50 miles an hour.

All of the arrests were made between Sacramento and Davis. The offenders were: F. Evans of Vallejo, 55 miles an hour, stopped by Officer Jacobs; L. Price of the Oakland Bank of Savings, 52 miles an hour, and Philo K. Holland of the Western Lumber Sacramento, 50 miles, both of them halted by Sharpnack.

Banker Price said he was in a hurry to attend a funeral. MADISON OPENING SUCCESS. Madison Hall was reopened Saturday evening with a big dance. The spacious hall was well filled, and there were no unpleasant features PLAYS GAMBLER'S HIINCH, GIVES UP BAIL AS 'ANTE' L. Jones, arrested around the gaming tables at a rice camp, near Knights Landing, two weeks ago, played a "gambler's hunch" today and so he failed to appear in Judge R.

W. Harrison's court for a preliminary hearing. judge Harrison accepted Jones $100 "ante" as his fine. This made $725 that the gamblers, and one bootlegger in the raid, contributed to the county's "jack pot" for violations of the law. $50,000 IN BILLS RECEIVABLE SHOWN CRANSTON ESTATE The will of the late R.

B. Cranston was filed this afternoon in the countv clerk's office. It is dated January 22, 1922. It recites that at the time of executing the will the deceased had made gifts of deeds of all his real estate in Woodland, and in the city of Kicnmond, oontra Oosta countv. to his wife, Alma V.

Cranston. The rest oi. the nronertv. both real and personal, is bequeathed to the four children: Lester George Thornton E. and Hazel in eaual shares, subject to the following conditions: that the children or their sur shall pay to his wife SloO per month during the period of her life time, the first payment to be made as of date of his death; children shall pay all debts, charges, inheritance taxes.

It was the wish of the deceased that his wife should have all property conveyed to her in deeds free from all encumbrances. If the sum of $150 is not sufficient for the support and maintenance of his wife, she shall have the right to demand $200, states the will. Qju ro are named as execu tors without bonds. The petition for the probate of the will shows that Cranston held many shares of stock in various corporations. Local propositions in which he invested included the Bake rite Consolidated and Esparto Lincoln Oil Fields stock.

He had purchased $1900 worth of Liberty Bonds. In addition, the personal property includes $40,000 hardware stock, bills receivable and promissory notes valued at cash in Bank of Woodland, cash in Bank of Italy, $8024.51. Gaddis McDonald are attorneys for the petitioners. CHILD CRACKS ELBOW. Rosalie, the nine year old daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Roy E. Cole, met with a painful accident Monday afternoon while playing with children in her yard. She fell from a fence and sus tained a fractured elbow of the left arm. be in th" tbnt while it had not accmplih all th.ng hoped for it was cm the way.

lionrdmnn Talks. The nrond speaker. T. D. Board man of nn Frnnr' rn.

upon the topic, "The League From the Point of View of a Non Member Nation." Mr. Rwdman. at one time president of the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, 5s a man of unusual intelligence and a mt effint citizen. He spoko of the work done bv the League of Nation. He thinks it most unfortunatt that so murh false propaganda ha? been given to the people in rcfTcnre to the league both as to what it is and what it might bc He believe, ho nrevr, that many neonlc who have not approved now realize that THE LEAGLE WAS THE FOOTBALL OF POLITICIANS AND THAT HAP i tir.ii ft.

aui BEEN A FTlFSii'FNTlAL CAMPAIGN IN THE UNITED STATES THE LFAGTF WOULD HAVE BEEN ACEP" Li). was, were were M) jr. 1h enal favoring i a 3 irany oth t.s ere in favor of moi5! Nations ol conditions of the Covenant, Mr. Board was arann and illuminating. He impreeo the writer as a man nign xype oi ciw wncJiJn, ftr.c who eares greatly and desires for his country her greatest good as well as being desirous for the baoniness of the rest of mankind.

HinCKievs tteinarns. At 10 o'clock November 10 the meet cnecic lor mm. xne xmius. in. 3 no scruples about cashing the check.

It is the opinion of the officers that wnisKey peaaiers nave ueeu mao iug small fortune off the farmhands en acrpri in tli p. rice harvest. Shackel ford was seen doling out booze in a minute glass at twenty five cents a sip. Ed. O'Connor, the one legged prisoner, who made the mistake of asking Constable Joe JiuDerty to pilot an au tnmnViile for him.

was exoected to se cure his release from the county jail today. O'Connor will probably tur nish his own bail. Billiard Asked To Interest Sheep Meh In Big Convention The annual convention of the Cali fornia Wool Growers Association will be held at the Palace Hotel San Francisco on November 15 and 16. F. N.

Bullard, who is one of the directors, has received a letter from the secretary, stating that President A. T. Spencer requests that special effort be made on the part ot all the directors and presidents of branch asso ciations to be present. The convention will be called to order at 10:30 a. m.

and will be wel comed by Mayor James R. Rolph. The banquet will be held on the evening of the 15, and the main speaker of the evening will be John L. McNab, one of tne most prominent lawyers tne state. Every director will be asked to give A four mir.ute talk on conditions in his territory.

WESTERN UNION MAKES ANOTHER LOCAL SURVEY A. 51. Willison, Inspector and Traffic Supervisor of the Telegraph Department of the Southern Pacific Company, was in Woodland today making inquiry as to the efficiency of the Western Union Telegraph service. So far as the railroad operators who handle the business are concerned, there is no complaint of inefficiency, but it is unconceivable that the company refuses to maintain an office in the business district of a city of around 6,000 inhabitants. THIEF UNLATCHES SCREEN.

An unlatched screen and open window indicated that thieves had entered the home of former District Attorney C. C. McDonald, on Oak avenue, but Mrs. McDonald stated today that nothing had been missed thus far. The McDonalds were at Dunnigan with the Sam Barker familv, returning here yesterday DRAWS WELL.

Notwithstanding the manv counter attractions. thf romilu n. li. at Knights Landing was well attended vvmw ana as usual everv body had a good time. dition that the States shall the cost of upkeep.

Upkeep is the clare It is an expense which continues for ever and ever Tn son the original cost is trivial and when the majority of the road system of a state runs over imbroH aA ment land the cost of road upkeep bc unjust, ouraen on the small part of the state which is in pnvaxc owncrsmp. Association officials declare that this ronditinn rapidly depleting the treasuries of the Western states. Not only is increased assistance in (Continued on Page Eight) WINS HOPE CHEST. To Miss Ruth Gordon of this city fell the hone chest offorail Catholic women's fair at Colusa. Miss Gordon has just returned from the norwern city.

BURIED IN SHASTA. Mrs. busan Maumn. 68 vwaiss age, was laid to rest at Gas Point, Shasta county, Monday. She was a step sister of Mrs.

Cordelia Crites of viuinaa. M. O. Wvatt of FsiMt taf this city this morning. WAR VETERAN TAKES BRIDE ON ARMISTICE When Thomas F.

Webb, young rancher from McCloud, was at the front with shells dropping all around him two days before world war hostilities ceased, little did he dream that five years hence he would be celebrating Armistice Day by getting married. Webb cams to Woodland yesterday, accompanied by Miss Ethel B. Hulich, an attractive Sacramento society girl. Deputy Clerk Chester Hiddle son consented to open up the records for the day and issue a permit. Rev.

Burton Neale, new South Methodist minister, then officiated in his first wedding since taking up the pulpit vacated by Rev. C. C. Black. CORONER DENIES MURRAY HAD MORE THAN ONE WIFE To the "Democrat" this afternoon.

Coroner E. G. Dodge of Santa Barbara denied metropolitan newsnaner re ports to the effect that four wives who was killed when his car ran off the highway at Gaviota Pass. Murray's wife, Mrs. Gertrude Murray, now at Long Beach, and who formerly lived here with him, was the only woman who claimed the body.

SCHOOLCHILDREN IN AUTO CRASH; ARM IS BROKEN Miss Ida Orrendorf. daughter of J. H. Orrendorf. suffered a broken arm and lacerated lip and Chris Weir, vul canizer at tne mnson snop, a puncture wound in the head, this afternoon, when the car in which the Orrendorf girl was riding and Weir's machine collided at the corner of Fourth and Cross streets.

The in jured were treated by Dr. W. J. Blev ins at the Woouland sanitarium. Buster Mezger was driving the school car.

With his besides the Or rendorf girl, were Merle Duncan, Hel en Gregg, Laura Green and John Mezger, none of whom was hurt. More Business Firms Hundred Per Cent For Red Cross Additional business firms on Main street were announced today on Mr. Ernest Norton's list of those who arc hundred per cent Red Cros members. The new list includes: Electric Garage, W. P.

Bc Son, T. S. Spaulding, Woodland Buick u. n. u.

JLawson. Amer Railway Express Diamond Match Wraith Farish. George Lurk. Leithold Drug Store No. 5, Adams Studio, Columbia Market and A.

W. Morris Pasteurized Milk Ox The check from the "Ekririr Garage amounted to $23, and in eluded every employee and salesman. Mrs. Norton has succeeded in collecting $260 from Main street firms, and expects to bring the amount up to $300 wthout any great effort. ThoRP in rnnro A frose drive for membership are well 'leafed with the generous respond of the waens oi wis community.

Funeral Wednesday For Mrs. Pritchett Funeral services for Mr, lith' cia PritchetL whrt dSwi at Gninda zi'T day in about her 94th year, will be held Wednesday morning. Services will begin at 10 o'clock, it the hom of Samuel Pritchett, son of the de Mrs. Pritchett was a forty niner, coming West from Indiana, her native She was a half sister of Mrs. Mo linda Woods of Brooks.

vr.i the burial arrangements. The interment 1 Search warrants wer twlav irriimI by Justice R. W. Harrison's court here, authorizing the officers to enter the Hanson and Warring properties, at Washington, and determine whether or not gambling is going on. Appear ing before Judge Harrison and Dist trict Attorney Geo.

T. Kern, with af fidavits'to secure the warrants, were Mrs. E. Painter, Mrs. J.

McNeven and Mrs. Archibald Cameron, prominent women of Washington. it was told to Judge by the women that they could not secure search warrants in the court at Washington. Judge Harrison at first noti field the applicants that he would not mtenere. "It is Justice Jerome Barry's township and I don't see why I should be bothered about troubles outside of my own district," said Harrison.

The judge then proceeded to tell the women that the work in his own inm has become so heavy that he has to do clerical duties in his court chambers at night. "I don't see why I should be bothered with court business outside of my township," said Harri son. Sobs Move Court. But the women, oartirularlv Mrs Painter, were insistent. Mrs.

Painter sobbed and pleaded with the court. "I live next door to one of those nuisances and I'll be driven out of mv home, unless something is done," said inrs. ramrer. Judge Harrison, who had nreviouslv issued search warrants for Washington gave in. "I can't stand to see women crying my court room: I'll do this for vou for the last.

time, and on condition that you'll not bother me again with troubles at Washington," said the obliging judge: Mrs. Painter. Mrs. McNeven and Mrs. Cameron directed their attaefc this morning upon the Warring and Hanson properties.

Mrs. Painter said that she is kept awake all hours of the night by automobiles driving to and from the place next door to her home. "I'm sure there is gambling some on." she said, rather hvsterieal ui late weess, bnerrtt j. w. Monroe, District Attorney G.

T. Kern. Consta ble Henry Buckingham and other local authorities have devoted much time toward stopping Chinese gambling at Washington. j.ne women oeiore ouage narrison todav said that the places for which search warrants were asked this morn ing have not previously been raided. FREE MOOSE SHOW.

The Loval Order of Moose rented the Strand Theatre for this evenine and will give a free moving picture show. The public is invited. ing opened in a large hall decorated artistically in oriental fashion. Miss Marian Delancv presided. Mr.

Frank E. Hinckley, attoraev and instructor in international law. University of California, opened the program. What he said was so full of interest that one could but wish he spoke with less hesitancy and more vigor. He spoke of Lord Shaw, that eminent jurist, snd quoted him as having said that today we have so much more intelligence than formerly.

For instance, in Scotland we no more have the wars between the Campbells and McGregors but Scotland through her intellectual attainments has acquired great excellence in jurisprudence and thereby great power. The small nations, as Switzerland and Holland, exert great moral influence through their maturity in civili He snnkf F15hn PM ATm. inir the onininn that the Snflm the people today in making law is greater than at any previous time. Senator Root said democracy has jiad a wonderful influence upon law. international law is the result of thi intelligence of the law.

Boston Tea Party. In this country, the right of representation was contended for mpm the ground of a free people The Baetoft tea party has been ridicaleJ, Wt hi tha (Continued on Pajp Fife) Institute of Far Beaching Importance to End War; Impressions of Club Leader AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION WINS SUPPORT NATIONAL BODY ON FEDERAL AID PROGRAM Notes and comments conveying her impression of the talk of Mrs. Thomas Winter, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, and of thc addresses of others who were hoard in San Francisco last week at ihc International Institute, were to the "Democrat" today by Mrs. i.v'iia Jawncaa, wno wiui aits. J.

V. itbold, Mrs. T. H. Dixon and Mrs.

1. Shute attended from Yolo county. rs. uiwncaos own siory oi we Institute is reproduced as follows: The program was most unique. As De Lancy, president of the Wo vviTi Voters League, remarked, "Some us felt that Armistice Day had not Irffn observed as we would like to Lave it, hence this Institute of Inter TVilional Relations," Fifteen organizations met for bet tc understanding and an opportunity n't hearing speakers specially fitted to di 'uss this, the all absorbing topic of the day.

the evening of November 9, the rut eting opened at 8 o'clock in Califor Tja Hall Consul General Heard. The first speaker was Consul Gen ml Gerald Campbell of Great Britain. Hi topic was "'The League From the TVunt of View of a Member The consul spoke most guardedly as, 1 f.f course, we expected he would do, Hi? appearance in dress and manner honirhi him a novi in Officii, ihrmoh ihfive rvc rc in the audience. He gave the irnpres. sion that it was well for England to Support of its program to secure Federal aid in the maintenance of highways across unappropriated public Bands and additional assistance in constructing these roads has been promised the California State Automobile Association by the American Automobile Association.

the national organization of automobile owners. The American Automobile Association wall also co ooerate with its af filiate in California in securing Congressional appropriations to provide more and oeuer roads in me iNationai Parks and National Forests. This program, onganaily instigated by the local automobile dub, received the endorsement of the national body when C. C. Cottrcil, manager of we Automobile Association's Good Roads Bureau, who is in Washington on business for his club, placed the Western States' situation before the executive committee of the A.

A. "Officiais of the Automobile Association point out that nearly one half of the area of California, nine tenths that of Nevada and three fourths of T3iah is in the hands of the Federal government as unappropriated public lands or Federal reserves. The government owns a majority of the land in all of the states west of the Rocky mountains. The Federal government does contribute substantially toward the building of certain roads in collaboration with the States, but solely on the con will be in Capay cemetery..