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TODAY'S WEATHER Fair Friday and Hatuiclay. Somewhat cooler with morning fogs. Gentle west winds. YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE Maximum temperature Santa Cruz, 84; (minimum, Fresno. 76; Los Angeles, ku; San Francisco, 77.

NOVEMBER TIDES Date Time Ht. Time Ht. HIOH LOW 211 3:45 4.0i 8:171 2.9 I 4.l; 0.0 il I 4:271 4.2 1 9:421 2.5 I 0.3 P. M. Tides Indicated by black fac (By U.

8. Coast Geodetic Survey) DAILY EXCEPT MONDAY FOURTEEN PAGES SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 193C Established 1855 00 in in WAR MAT ni Tin 00 04K 00 oo Municipal Moves End East Bay Cities' Milk ROUTE OF PRESIDENT'S TRIP NAT IN Prune Beer Brewery For Hollister Is Planned To Make 200 Barrels Daily torn WASHINGTON u. s. 0 new NT I opHARLESTON PACIFIC OCEAN 0 500 1000 I I 00 ooo DEATH BULLET Body Exhumed After Doubt Cast On Suicide Theory LOS ANGELES, Nov. 19 (UP).

The bullet that ripped through the brain of Reid Russell, who either killed himself or was shot in front of the Manhattan Beach home of Gou-vemcur Morris, noted novelist, was of the same calibre as the gun gripped in the dead man's hand, it was announced tonight after the body had been disinterred for examination. The body was dug up following disclosure of a possible "murder motive," the first that has appeared in the puzzling case since police reopened the investigation. The chief investigator said information uncovered in the past 43 hours indicated Russell may have been involved with a gun smuggling gang, members of which might have murdered him. Blacklist Suit From Salinas Is Set For Hearing SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 19 (P).

Federal Judge A. F. St. Sure issued an alternative writ today requiring the grower-shipper association and its members to appear in court November 30 to answer an anti-trust charge filed by five lettuce workers. At that time arguments will stait on a motion by the workers for a restraining order to enjoin the association from maintaining an alleged blacklist and from alleged intimidation of employers charged by the workers.

The action is an outgrowth of the recent strike of lettuce workers in the Salinas-Watsonville arcs. Auto Theft May Send Suspect to L. A. For Trial Randall Oswego Bigler, 16, arrested for driving away with an automobile of Emil Puccinelli, will likely be returned to Los Angeles, where he is a ward of the juvenile court. He appeared yesterday before Judge Donald Younger and was bound over to the local juvenile court.

The people were represented by District Attorney Benjamin B. Knight. Newspapers own or control 143 radio stations. IN 00 00 SHIP SHE Industrial Rift Spread; i Inland As Parley Is Deferred SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 19 W).

Labor difficulties paralleling the maritime strike reached farther inland today with the spread of a textile walkout in the bag industry. Efforts to bring about a resumption of maritime peace negotiation remained at a standstill although Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward F. McGrady continued his attempt to get union representatives and ship owners together. The federal commission decided to postpone its inquiry into shipping labor conditions until the strike is ended. The ship strike went into its fourth week on the coast with 192 vessels reported tied up and with speculation on each side as to whether the other was planning for a long siege.

Bag Workers Quit About 150 textile workers left their jobs at the Ames Harris Neville company here, joining 120 others quit the Bemis Bag company last wpli. Employes were negotiating with three other companies on wage and hour demands. Sonia Baltrum, organizer for the United Textile Workers, asserted a general tieup of the bag industry in Ihe northwest was in progress and that her union had pledges of support from the warehousemen's union. Citing lack of jurisdiction Federal Judge Paul McCormick vacated in Los Angeles an order calling upon Marshall Robert Clark to unload .1 banana cargo from the liner California, as petitioned by consignees. In San Francisco Health Director Dr.

Geiger, dispatched scavengers to the Mat.son line docks to remove 24.000 crates of spoiled bananas held there by the tieup. Santa Rosa Man New State Park Board Member SACRAMENTO. Nov. 19 ll'). George R.

Cadan, mayor of Santa Rosa, will be the new state park commission member succeeding Chairman William E. Colby, San Francisco, who resigned. Governor Merriam said today will aDnoint Cadan to succeed Colhv. effective either. Saturday or Monday.

The last known passenger pigeon died September 1, 1914. PEACE MOVES SLOCKED III Miles ftlES JA This Associated Press map shows the route of President Roosevelt's travels on his way to attend the Pan American peace conference at Buenos Aires. He sailed aboard the U.S.S. Indianapolis. COAST RANCHER VOL.

94 NO. 122 oo 00 Strike Oakland and Berkeley Force Agreement In One Day supplVassured by capitulation Drivers and Milkers to Return to Their Regular Jobs OAKLAND, Nov. 19 (AP). Settlement of the milk strike in Oukland and Berkeley after the municipalities had taken over processing plants was announced by J. F.

Galliano, attorney for the unions involved, tonight. Galliano said deliveries will be resumed by the private distributors tomorrow under an agreement reached with the Milk Drivers' union and the Milkers' union. Agreement to end the dispute, which caused Oakland and Berkeley governments to take over the plants assure a milk supply, came after an all day conference between employers and the union- groups. WALKOUT IS KNDEI) OAKLAND, Nov. 19 (U.R) Oakland and Berkeley city governments tonight went out of the milk business as suddenly as they went in when dairy operators faced union employes and it was announced distribution of milk would be resumed immediately.

The city governments distributed milk in the areas today. Three Youns S. C. Musicians Play in S. J.

Orchestra Three local young people have been recently accepted as members of the San Jose State college symphony orchestra, acknowledged as the largest organization of its kind on the Pacific coast. Miss Dorothy Noah, George Hay-don and Benjamin Patten are all new members of the large group. Miss Noah is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ira A.

Noah of 96 Olive street. Patten us the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Patten of 430 River street, while Haydon is the son of Mr.

and Mrs. George Haydon of 49 North Branciforte avenue. The 100-piece symphonic orchestra is now busy in preparation for its coming first concert of the season on December 5. Disabled Vets Pay Honors To Schumann-Heink The Disabled American Veterans' meeting last night was dedicated to the memory of one of the most beloved and highly honored women in the hearts of all the American soldiers of the world war, Madam Schumann-Heink. A number of the members of this chapter who had met and talked with Mme.

Schumann-Heink in the different hospitals in France, told of the things she stood for in the eyes of the American soldier. ADULT EDUCATION INSTITUTE TOPIC Adult education and its problems will be discussed at a special adult education section of the Central Coast Section Teachers Institute here next week. Dr. Gertrude Laws, chief of bureau of parent education, California state department of education, will be the leader. The Yale-Brown gridiron series dates back to 1880.

IIS AGREE DELIVERIES TO BE RESUMED ARRESTED Promoter Says New Use Would Aid Market For Fruit HOLLISTER, Nov. 19 UP). Plans for construction of a $175,000 cannery and a $50,000 brewery were submitted to the industrial committee of the Hollister chamber of commerce. Sam Cava of Salinas, seeking endorsement of the cannery proposal, said stock would be sold. He said it would provide an annual payroll of $250,000.

George Sykes of Hollister, who plans to build the brewery, said the beer would be made from sub-standard prunes under a formula patented recently by Eberhard A. Klepper, San Francisco brewer. Sykes said under the Klepper formula 2 tons of prunes would make 175 barrels of beer, eoual in taste and quality to the best California beers. Sykes said successful operation of the proposed brewery would provide a market for the fruit. He said the brewery would have a daily capacity of 200 barrels.

Morning Blaze Burns Cottage in Boulder Creek I Fire yesterday morning in Boulder Creek destroyed a small cottage at the end of South street. It; belonged to Mrs. Frank Stewart of Santa Cruz. Wallace Moody and his mother were living in the home at the time, and I very little of their household goods were saved, despite prompt action of the fire department. LESLIE WHITE TO TELL TEACHERS OF Leslie T.

White, author of "Me, Detective," a book which has recently been acclaimed by critics throughout the country, is to discuss the problems of authorship before the library group of the teachers' institute next week. This group will begin its institute activities with a luncheon at Pasatiempo Monday noon. Mrs. Ma-belle C. Hale, libraiian for the Santa Cruz senior high school, will act as chairman.

On Tuesday and Wednesday mornings beginning at 9 o'clock in room six of the high school the following program will be followed by the group: "Stage Door," by George Kaufman and Edna Ferber, will be reviewed by Mrs. Beryl Bliss. Miss Dorothy Chandler, librarian of the Watsonville public library, will discuss the new children's books. Mr. White will discuss the writing of his book, "Me, Detective." On Wednesday there will be group discussion of library problems led by Miss Ruth Bradley, librai ian of Mission Hill junior high, followed by a conference on the 1937 convention with Mrs.

Hale as discussion leader. This library group meeting will bo of interest to all book lovers and to those interested in the problems of the librarian. 00 ATLANTIC OCEAN BY Installation of the officers of the Cooties, fun branch of the V. F. was conducted Wednesday night at the Veterans hall, with Cootie Earl Blair as the installing officer.

The officers installed were George Nelson, commander (Sam Squirrel); Antone Gaxiola, vice commander (Blanket Bum); Clyde Potts, junior vice commander (Hide Gimlet); R. G. Haren (Shirt Reader), Leslie Dans (Jimmy Legs), Charles Dorn, chaplain (Sky Pilot); and John Tatter-shall, secretary-treasurer (Custodian of the Crummy). Much fun was had when the fine box was out and all money collected will be turned over to the national home for widows, at Eaton Rapids, Michigan. The women's organization of this fun division is called the Military Order of Lady Bugs and is sometimes called Cootiettes.

A dinner at the Santa Cruz hotel preceded the installation Wednesday night and there were 29 at the dinner. The Cooties were dressed in colorful regalia and a happy time was had by all. Jail Population Is Jumped to 43 The overcrowit'd jail is steadily growing in populate n. Yesterday the number in the 23-prLsoner capacity jail had reached 43. The day before it was 33.

Rev. A. R. Adams was over from Watsonville yesterday. of the "Big by a Stanford nocturnal band, planned a raid by air and ground.

The bonfire was set off by a Stanford student. Several times in the past the pyre has been lighted prematurely by Californians. Stanford and California football teams clash in the big game at Berkeley Saturday. lIV-NV AMERICA I N0V.Z7 mo oe ikHim.oix N0V.3O tDC3 BUENOSoZ'MONTEJflOEO 00 00 Morgan Returns Home J. P.

Morgan, American financier, Is shown as he returned to New York from a long vacation in England and successfully met a barrage of questions from reporters ranging all the way from Mrs. Wallis Simpson to the Roosevelt landslide, (Associated Press Photo) DRIVING GUILT Changing his plea from not guilty to guilty when he appealed before Police Judge Donald Younger, John B. Carrington, Aptos vaiator, yesterday morning was sentenced to spend 10 days in the county jail and pay a $50 fine, on a drunken driving charge. An additional 30 days was suspended pending the defendant's good behavior. Attorney Simon Collins represented Carrington in court.

Hawaii Is Short Of Food Because Of Ship Strike HONOLULU, Nov. 19 (UP). Governor Joseph Poindextrr of the Territory of Hawaii announced tonight that he was asking the assistance of the federal department of the interior to counteract a food shortage which he described as precarious. He announced his plans after conferring with army and navy officials and the chamber of commerce on the situation caused by the shutdown of shipments occasioned by the Pacific coast strike. "The situation Is alarming and we are in a precarious position," Poin-dexler said.

"Supplies are running out; some already are out." County Engineer Lloyd Bowman is in San Francisco attending a meeting of the State Chamber of Commerce. under the train wheeLs and begging her husband "to forgive me I hope I will see you again." Killed with her were an infant son, one year old, and a second son, six years old. London had its first professional baseball league this summer. ADMITS DRUNKEN Italy, France and Britain Move to Protect Interests FASCIST REBELS WINNING MADRID Aerial Bombs Hurled Into Heart of Besieged Capital (By the United Press) Danger of war in Europe increased alarmingly Thursday as three nations, Great Britain, France and Italy, took steps to defend their interests, should the Spanish civil war get out of hand. Italy's and Germany's recognition of the rebels as Spain's legal government and threats of the rebels to blockade the Catalonian coast to starve out the Spanish loyalists, caused all the great powers, including Soviet Russia, which supports the loyalists, grave concern.

Meanwhile, rebel planes killed 60 more Madrid citizens with bombs. The rebels also claimed to have occupied all of University city, from which they may penetrate to the center of the capital. LONDON MAY USE NAVY LONDON, Nov. 19 (U.R Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden warned the rebels and their friends abroad that the British navy would be used to protect British merchant ships if the rebels blockaded Barcelona. HOME SPEEDS PROGRAM ROME, Nov.

19 (U.R) The fascist grand council decided to speed up Italy's, naval and air program, to cope with any emergency which might arLse. FRANCE SENDS WARSHIPS PARIS, Nov. 19 (U.R) France sent two warships to the Mediterranean to protect its shipping if the rebels bombarded Barcelona. BOMBS HIT STREET CARS MADRID, Nov. 19 Fascist aerial bombs struck in the heart of Madrid again today, partly wrecking the postoffice, the Central bank and an ornate palace.

Crowds in the postoffice were sliced down by shrapnel from the exploding bombs and unestimated numbers were killed. I Tum chw wprp ierked into the air by the force of the explosion near the postoffice. Crowded straphangers were cut down by the shrapnel. Most of them were believed killed. City In Ruins The horror of the two weeks' bombardment was etched on the faces of the weary populace as they surveyed the ruins of their once beautiful city.

Most of the business district was a smouldering pile of wreckage. Store fronts were crushed in and apartment houses cut in half. Everywhere were rescuers poking about the ruins for bodies. Death carts rattled to and from the morgue all day. There was no way of estimating even remotely the dead in the day's bombardment, but the morgue was stacked high with mutilated bodies of men, women and children.

The defense council announced: "They may reduce the city to ruins, but we'll defend those ruins to the last man." CELERY WORKERS' STRIKE IS DELAYED STOCKTON. Nov. 19 (UP). A threatened strike of celery workers in the San Joaquin river delta area was delayed tonight as the agricultural workers' union sponsoring the walkout, just as the harvest was beginning, called another meeting before taking final action. i John Fromboni, 43, a Davenport rancher, was booked yesterday at the sheriff's office by Deputy Sheriff Ora Dunlap on charge of battery on Ernest Tabacci.

He was released on furnishing $200 cash bail. Justice C. C. Houck set November 27 at 10 a. m.

as the time for Fromboni to appear and plead to the charge. Salinas Murder Trial Results In Guilty Verdict SALINAS, Nov. 19 (UP), John Matta, 21, broke down and wept Superior Judge H. G. Jorgensen's court room today when he was found guilty of murder in the second degree in the slaying of James D.

De-lancey, 33, on the Monterey waterfront September 28. In commenting on the evidence, Judge Jorgensen said that it had not been shown that Matta fired the pistol in self defense, as his attorneys contended. Sentence will be read Monday. BRITAIN WOULD AVERT BLOCKADE BY REBELS LONDON, Nov. 19 (U.R) Great Britain, fearing the spread of Spain's civil war, suggested a compromise tonight to avert a rebel blockade of Spanish ports but accompanied the offer with a stern warning that the rights of British shipping on the high seas will be protected.

STEAMER BREAKS IN HALF Stanford Students Ignite Pyre Of Oil Soaked Wood Unhindered By U.C. Raid Mother Clasps Babies In Her Arms And Kneels To Seek Death 'Neath Train STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Nov. 19 (AP). Surrounded by hundreds of howling, whooping students, a tall pyre of oil soaked wood roared and crackled and flared high into the black sky in Stanford's huge big game bonfire rally. Everything went off as scheduled despite reports that California students avenging the painting Tuesday NORTHWOOD, N.

Nov. 19 (A3). Kneeling before an onrushing Great Northern passenger train, her babies clasped in her arms, a North -wood mother tonight killed herself and her two small children near her. The mother, Mrs. Belle Paulson, 30, left behind an incoherent nonte telling of her intention to destroy herself This aerial photo snows how the American steamer Bessemer City looked after it ran aground on the rugged Cornish coast of England.

It broke in two, and the halves swung at right angles to each other. The entire crew of 33 and the ship's est, too, were saved. (Associated Press Photo).

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