Woodland Daily Democrat from Woodland, California • Page 1

Fair to Public This newspaper is devoted to the fair but vigorous pleading of every cuuse that best serves the public int Today's Best Smile Chicago, sick with crime, scoma to have tried everything but arrest cure, Norfolk Virginian Pilot. ISSUED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY WOODLAND, CALIFORNIA. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1928 $10,000 FOR MISHAP HURTS 00 00 oo oo 00 fO 00 OP Rncin UllO II I RECORD FORCmmi8siJonsJ nnnntv mAnnOUIlCed at Labor Camps' Squalor Bared 00 0O 00 00 $200,000 IN OO 0O K) ChfO CH oa SIEVERS' ESTATE IN $100,000 DAMAGE SUIT hundred and twenty enjoyed the af J. W. Ferry, Yolo county hop ranch owner, is today $10,000 richer as the 0 nieen8 Yaf Fie.d Shaffer who acted at, toasimaster in outcome cf one of the speediest trials a in the history of Colusa county.

Ferrv'th? absfcs Al T. Spfocei. Tne as awarded that amount because of the evemn WaS WIFE SLAYERjcrippied Giri Arrest 5 for Unsanitary maKes way tow, California to YOLO LANDS RegainHealthDISTRIBUTED Among Cotton Pickers permanent injuries sustained in an automobile accident near Arbuckle in 1926. The jury was chosen in 20 minutes, it tock only a few more minutes to examine witnesses and the i favor of the plaintiff was returned in another 20 minutes. Sued for SI 00.000 Ferry sued the North Pacific Stages for $100,000.

He asserted that he tamed permanent injuries when one of the company busses in which he was a passenger struck a bridge 01 the highway near Arbutkle. A timber of the bridge was rammed through tne car by the impact and crusli rerrv against the side oi the bus. it Nearly 400 men, cen of four diiferent hoi elose Proximity unciei conditions urn 'r lack of sanitation anu squalor def belief inese are tne iacts mat iea late vesterdav to the arrest of five men across the continent if you're lame! and have crutches," said 18 year old Mary Bayham, a hopeless cripple from Bemidji, Minnesota, who made Wood land a "one night stand" this week! the highway between Davis ana Sac ramento by Charles Hoppin and brought to the Yolo county detention hoe' The girl enjoyed the hospitality of the county for one niSht' and then at 1 her request was freed to continue on 'held to be responsible for the condi i various perioas oi nis nte. aacung i or is.nignts landing. Ferry testified in court that since much humor to the talk.

To the fatb Representatives of the State Divi the accident he had been unable he said, "the greatest thing life ision of Housing and Sanitation uncov do any kind of work. He said he had 1S to be the father of a To the lered the conditions. The men ai tested a hop ranch in "i olo county and also sons hjs advice was, "pick your voca are P. J. McCarthy, J.

O. Brooks and a real estate and contracting business eariy in for the most unfoi jJack Pretser, for whom laborers aie in Portland, needing his atten tunare thing that can happen is that picking cotton, and A. A. Parkon, Fili tion. The jury appeared convinced a man should be a misfit in his job, pino labor contiactoi.

and George Fu that Ferry had sustained injuries oC0r vender through hie without Japanese contiactor. The latter a permanent nature. Feiry's son also V. Q. McMorrin of Sacramento, a3 two aie employed by Pretser.

1 miles noith Investigators were E. A. Blown, di lector of labor camp sanitation, and by hitch hiking and I want to finish I ance money that is due the estate the journey to San Francisco in the 1 after the death of deceased, who farm same wnv" she folil Mvc A A lorl in Rnlnnn Vnln nm fior' testified' that his father Had suffered greatly since the accident and that paralysis nad developed in recent stai tmg w.th its beginning in Eng James G. James, camp inspector oper I hunkhouse for 22 Filipinos. Immed months.

land in 1841. He chaiactei ized brief ating out of Sacramento. With F. J. 1 lately adjacent to the schoolhousC was Says Driver Dead i jj some of the leaders in the Y.

M. DeAndreis, director cf the Sacramento a pile of refuse and garbage about The defense was purely technical. C. A. work.

office of the division, they laid the 1 as high as the little children's heads. Only one of the representatives of! Give Dads Tips facts before District Attorney Arthur The offense is a misdemeanor. ESTABLISHED I8f7 OO 00 S0LAN0 AND TO FAMILY g0 deased A fZ at Woodlind XveSbe? 25 g28 was filed for orobate Fair Sid' Thurs'S oy Ittortyaude Rohwer. Undel' the Provisions of the will Auiruste Sievers. widow, was triven all 1 Held Winters Stock Henry G.

Sievers, a son, is given 319 acres of land known as the Block wood ranch, together with five shares of capital stock in the Citizens' Bank ol winters and ten shares of capital stock of the First National Bank of Dixon, together with an automobile, gasoline tank and oil burner. To Annie Sievers Van Sant of Dixon, a daughter, is bequeathed the residence property she now occupies in the town of Dixon, certain property in Richmond, also notes and mortgages to the amount of $15,000. To John L. Sievers, a son, is given 282 acres of land known as the Norman and George Udell ranch in Solano county, also 20 shares of capital stock of the Bank of Dixon. Otto H.

Sievers, a son, is bequeathed a certain two thirds interest in a ranch nov in the name of the three iges amounting to $2100. Putah Canyon Ranch To the three brothers Henrv John and Otto Sievers, are joint ly oequeatneo acres ot land Napa county known as the Putah Canyon ranch. in the terms of the will all the residue of the property is to be divided equally between Auguste Siev ers, widow, ano tne lour children, Annie Sievers Van Sant and Hem v. John and Otto Sievers. It is further requested that the' three sons he ap pointed as executors the will.

The petition will be heard before Judge W. T. O'Donnell on Mondav. December 31. MEEK, BULL WILL INSPECT HIGHWAY To consider the advisability of in cluding the unfinished Sacramento river highway, between bacramento and Red Bluff, in the state highway commission.

Bert B. Meek, state director of public works, and Ralph Bull, chairman of the state highway commission, will next Thursday make a trip over the completed portion ot tne road with Assemblyman Van Bernard of Butte City. Ihe committee will be guests of the people of Ord community at a luncheon at 1 p. m. Frank Bushee is in charge of arrangements for the lunch The principal uncomplete portions the highway lie in Yolo county.

"We of the river district feel," said Assemblyman Bernard today, "that a trip over the river route will convinco Mr. Bull and Mr. Meek of the importance of the river road as a notth south artery of traffic through the Sacramento valley. Not only is this a scenic route, but it taps an area of considerable population, and there i no question out, what tne completion of the highway would result In ti stimulation of settlement and indus try the river district. A RRI AGE DECLARATION SCHM1TZ GENUREAU In land, Dec.

7, Jackion Dfnnit ScM and Maude Ethel both of Woodland. HIGH SCHOOL BOY jACCUSED LIQUOR INJURED AS AUTO POSSESSOR WINS TIPS IN SMASHUP! JURY ACQUITTAL tne iNoiui idLiiiL oudgea appeuieu in, lips lor lip lop Dads a series court. He stated that Noith Pacific of sentence talks, were given by Low Stages had been operating in eon ell Fenton and the members of the junction with the Seattle Poitland Pawnee tribe. A father and son yell San Francisco Stage company, that was led by Edwin Proctor. Following there were five men involved and no i it Campbell Larsson gave a "Chal association existed.

He declared that lenge to telling that he expect the driver of the staffe in which Ferry ed his dad to be his pal, to have good was injured, Claude Christy, had manners and to set him a good ex disappeared and that he believed him ample. to be dead. S. A. Laisson answered his son's The awarding of $10,000 to Ferry, challenge.

"My son and his compan although he asked $100,000, is one ions are better boys than my pals and of the largest amounts awarded anyjl ueie," according to Larsson. "They plaintiff in a superior court action! are more self icliant and cleaner in 'Y' Fete for Fathers, Sons Fathers and sons of Woodland attended their annual banquet at the Elks Temple Thursday night. One yn bhocock oi bacramento. The program was arranged under i 'the direction of L. R.

Bigelow, secre lary 01 in.e i. iu. Kj. a. une 01 tne ii'eatuies was a balloon blowing con test.

Fathers opposed the sons. M. I Anderson won for the men. and I jWilhed Schlieman was first in the I ontest for boys. A taniale supper was served by the oi tne Missionaiy Alliance.

Offers Advice Beryl P. Babcock of Sacramento, I deputy d.recloi cf finance of the Cali iloinia Y. M. C. gave a humorous interesting cuiiv witn aaice lor i boys.

lie began by telling of his school Linve mri sistant state secretary, gave the his t0ry of the Y. M. A. organization, tnd body. 1 think bovs should be courteous, orderly, prompt and thrifty with time and money." John Spencer in talking on "Some Dads I have Met gave his idea of a correct dad.

The dad one I Srencer, is the one who is congenial and makes a pal out of his boy. Toasts to Fathers Toasts to Dads by the Pioneers in eluded "Alibi "No Accoun Let Another Do It "The Preoccupied "The Grouchy Dad'' and "The Conscientious Sidney Epperson sang "Sonny Boy" and "Tommy accompanied bv Mrs. W. H. Martin.

There were various table irames provided by L. R. Bigelow. Rev. C.

G. Zieik of the First Methodist Episco pal church gave the benediction. Commissions for the 1929 supervise Y. M. C.

A. work were announced as follows: Announce Committees Finance commissionEmil Kraft, chainnan; H. J. Bush, Asa G. Proctor, C.

C. McDonald and Frank. Morris. Christian Fellowship program S. Larsson, chairman'; 'Bruce Brubaker, ivari uiguiere ana w.

n. Martin. Hi club work H. J. Bush, V.

J. Blevins and Leslie Morris. Camp Charles L. Eddy, L. R.

Big' low and Dr. Frank L. Reese. Father and son affairs Ernest nun aiui r. iNorayKe.

Mother and son affairs Wilson I Scarlett. Young Men's Activities W. D. World brolheihood Fred Meier. County relationships Fred Shaffer, i uicier isoys conterences Butzbach.

Leaders J. W. Coons. SHOOTS TOO MANY GEESE; PAYS FINE Things happened fast for W. A.

Baer of Los Angeles Friday. He went hunting, shot too many geese, was arrested, fined and turned loose all the same day. He was arrested by Lee Sinkcy, game warden. Appearing in the court of Justice, R. W.

Harrison, shortly after his arrest, Baer paid a fine of $35. Two others accompanied him. I jj. 1 Severe contusions were sustained by The iirst acquittal in a liquor pos Carl Given, 15, Woodland High school session case in two years was recorded student, when the light coupe he was Jusce Harrison's court Fri I day. Harry Grosch of Knights Land drivmg crashed into, a large touring ing.

WM freed by a jury headed by car at the intersection of College and Frank Wohlfrom after 40 minutes' Cross streets about 5 o'clock yester debate. Allowing Conditions Coates of Sutter county. lames sv. to a warrant before Justice E. Pioner of Tudor.

F'llipiri0Sj JapaneSj Albicans Unites were all lodged together. cording to the housing division. Most ri tne worKers were without cols ana were using improvised bedding laid the bare boards of the tents or bunkhouses. No effort was made to gather up the garbage or lefuse, but it was al lowed to he in piles upon the ground, it was asset ted. Drainage, from the Kitchens ran through open ditches, ar.u lavatories were in such condition as to be unusable.

Twenty four childien were attending school in an improvised school house which was partitioned off. On one side of the paitition school and on the other side was a Details of the raid on the McClintlC Place where Grosch was found alone tre told bv Deputies Robert Litsch. Clem Lowe and Charles Hoppin. They (found "jackass" and wine in an out building, but none in the house, they care for a sick man named Hunter, nnH tW. Tip had no connection with any possession or sale of liquor John Anderson, L.

S. McCann and Alec Pujol, former employers of Grosch, 'also testified for him. Ray Coughlm of Sacramento was his attorney On the jury were Frank Wohlfrom, W. K. Uavis, ranK Salisbury, J.

u. Walker, O. S. Fisher, R. T.

Dinsdale, Dennis. Fred Shaffer. Joe George Hollingsworth, L. K. Vaughn and Zach Kiiicheloe.

HOLD RITES FOR MRS. W.H. LUCE Funeral services for Mrs. W. H.

Luce, who died at her home in Wood laud Wednesday after a lengthy ill 3. Luce was laid to rest in the Woodland cemetery. Ihe Kev in. Clayton pastor of the Lodi Adventist church, officiated. Johnson Battles For Dam Measure (By United Press) WASHINGTON Negotiations for a week end cruise to allow time for private discussion of the Colorado dam bill failed Friday in the Senate.

Senator Johnson, author of the bill, refused to consent to an adjournment unless opposition leaders agree to fix a time lor a vote on tne measure. Fixation was refused. riav afternoon. The Lourin" car was operated by L. DuPont, 1013 street, Sacr James Motta, 16, who was riding i ON GALLOWS PUFFS AWAY ATCIGARETTE SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Dec.

defiance, John Joseph Malone, convict ed wife slayer and a leader in a Thanksgiving clay escape plot from alltmsnFrida0v' gallons 1 iiday inT Uh 1, steps shortly after 10 a. m. He spurn ed the aid of guaids i and took his ing a cigarette. A few seconds before the black mask was slipped over his head, Malone flipped the cigarette to trre gafc lows platform and gazed down at the 37 men who were to watch him die. Malone fell through the trap al 10:07 a.

m. and 11 minutes later Dr. L. L. Robinson, assistant prison physician, pronounced him dead.

PEART EXPECTED TO SUPERINTEND ALFALFA PROJECT Sterling B. Peart, young Woodland rancher, who. is looking after the farming interests in Glenn county 'of the French American Corporation, a Giannini controlled institution, is likely to become superintendent of a big alfalfa planting near Willows. According to W. K.

Hatch, manager of the Willows branch of the Bank of Italy, approximately 1,000 acres of the lands of the Bank of Italy, in Glenn county, will be planted this season" to alfalfa as a step in the carrying out of a program of intensive land development. The bank', said Hatch, "has large land holdings throughout the state and it is making a survey of its properties with a view to cultivating them scientifically. It is felt by the bank's land developers that one of the biggest op Dortunities in this section is in dairy ing and consequently alfalfa is being planted wherever the lands seems suitable to this crop. One thousand acres is a fair estimate of the acreage of Bank ol Italy lands in this region that will go into alfalfa for the tirst time this year." Jim Purinton Injured in Wreck James Purinton of Sutter, formerly of Woodland, and Frank Souza were injured and narrowly escaped death when a truck ran off the grade near Grass Valley. Purinton was driving and tried to control the brakes which failed to hold.

Souza jumped from the machine but Purinton held to the wheel and was thrown from the truck as it turned over two or three times in the fall. Punnton was cut and bruised about the body. Souza was badly cut about the head and shoulders, having landed The truck Hoover Ship Heads For Ahtofagasta ABOARD U. S. S.

MARYLAND Out of the subtropical waters, the Maryland carrying President elect Herbert. Hoover on his Latin American tour, was steaming toward its next stop, Antofagasta, Chile where Mr. Hoover will confer with Bolivian officials. with Given, was cut and bruised District Attorney Weal thai given treatment at the Woodland mers Prosecuted. Clinic hospital.

His hurts are only! Taking the stand himself, Grosch slight. William Powell, 15, another of 1 said that he had been taken to the Given's passengers, escaped injury, farm by a man named "Reynolds" to rPowerSj wife of the Yolo county pro bation ofifcer. Crippled as Infant Miss Bayham said that she had been a cripple ever since she was a baby, her condition being due to an attack of spinal meningitis. "Folks have been good to me and I had no. trouble hitch hiking," she said, as she set aside her crutches to rest on a couch at the county detention home.

"I want "to continue tomorrow," she added. According to the story told in Woodland, the girl married a man very much her senior in age and she left him at Bemidji, Minnesota, hoping never to return. "He doesn't even know where I am," she said. "I got enough pennies to buy food and I begged my lodging on the trip," she continued. "I sang Irish songs and limped through some Irish jigs the sight of a cripple was a novelty and people gave me their dimes to help out.

The girl was penniless when she was picked up by Hoppin and brought to the detention home. Story Changes Upon her arrival in San Francisco yesterday, the crippled wanderer told a story that differed somewhat from that given here to Mr. and Mrs. Pow ers. She changed her name to that of Betty McKonin and increased her age irom lo to 26.

The Travelers Aid Society gave her help and provided a temporary job for her, that of caring for three children whose mother had just died of blood poisoning. The father of the kiddies relieved her of that re sponsibility today, taking the children to their grandmother in Phila i delphia. Meanwhile the little cripple told the authorities that her story of her marriage to an old man was a "bit of fiction," but that she really had been advised to come to California by the Mayo Clinic and that she was without funds and so decided to join the great horde of hitch hikers. She was on her way to Los Angeles 'APE MAN'S' FATHER SAID IMPLICATED (By United Press) had knowledge of a murder committed by nis son, uorflon Stewart rsortncou, the Wineville chicken ranch, Dis trict Attorney Ford said Friday. The senior JNorthcott, according to Ford, admitted hauling lime to the ranch to aid in destroying a body.

Ford said the father "understood" the lime was to be used in the burial of nine year old Walter Collins. According to the district attorney Northcott has promised to make i complete confession Saturday of the whole attair COQL WEATHER Generally foggy weather will prevail Friday night and Saturday with possible irost Friday, IN. K. Taylor of the United States bureau reports, Powell and Motta are also high school x.ray examination of Given show ed no broken bones He was dismissJ ed from the Woodland Clinic hosnitaL today. Given's car was going north on Col lege street and Pount was driving east on Cross.

Investigators said that hoth machmse arrived at the section at the same moment. The drivers hesitated, and, then, each thinking the other' would' stop, leaped on into the intersection. The bigger car faster than the other, was in front when the collision occurred, and as struck in the rear. 'Given's coupe turned over and badly damaged. The heavier machine sustained little damage.

Investigation by 'traffic Captain! Henry R. Jacobs and Constable LeRoy that there is no occasion oi DuPont was unable to' take the in 1 1 in Solusa in many years. TWO CRIME CASES IN COURT MONDAY Two accused burglars are scheduled to appear in superior court for arraignment on regular law and motion day Monday. They are Hans Hoeft and Robert Johnson, bo.th charged with stealing automobiles from private garages. Boyd Dingman is slated to appear in answer to a citation to show cause why a restraining order preventing his disposing of the $1400 insurance on the home that was recently burned down should not be made permanent.

Mrs. Dingman, who is suing for a divorce, seeks half of the insurance as community property. Other matters to be heard follow: Petition for letters of administration in the estates of John Mande ville McCoy and Charley Suei. Final account and petition for distribution in the estate of V. H.

Rob To be set Lucy Lovell vs. Bank of Espai'to and Thomas Daly vs. L. R. Bates.

Lulu M. Stephani vs. Myrtle C. Abbott presentation of trnascript. Prep.

Musicians To Give Program An assembly with the program to consist entirely of music will be given next Wednesday morning at the Woodland High sohool auditorium. The band, orchestra and Roys' and Girls' glee clubs will all take part. Moves to Yolo, Quits! School Job Mrs. Minnie M. Gray, superintendent of schools of Sutter county, has appointed Virgil V.

Evans a 'trustee of the. Sutter school district. Evans succeeds L. B. Peart, who has come to Yolo county to reside.

Hjjured lad to the hospital because were held Friday alternoon at from her home and sped the lad off to the clinic before DuPont had a i chance lo recover his wits. Millers Monopolize Marriage Ceremony GRID LEY The Millers had a marriage ceremony here Thursday. Rev. II. Miller officiated.

The, bridegroom is Aldcn F. Miller. The bride was and, by Ihe way, still is Evelyn Miller. Both bride and groom are from Gerbcr. i i.