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Napa Journal from Napa, California • 1

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Napa Journali
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Napa, California
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I 10c Per Copy $3.50 Per Year NAPA RUMORED LOCATION SITE FOR ANOTHER HOLLYWOOD PRODUCTION A rumor that Napa is being considered as the site for another Hollywood film production was heard in Napa yesterday and fostered by the Napa Valley Players to promote interest in their forthcoming play Return Engagement. The rumored visit of Hollywood film representatives to this area recalled the production of They Knew What They Wanted, filmed on location in the Napa Valley. The latter production brough such film stars as Charcs Laughton, Carol Lombard, William Gargan and Frank Fay to this community. According to the Napa Valley Players, four members of the cast of the forthcoming local play have been spotted by the AIR CRASH Two Napans, Sam Randol, 316 Berna Avenue, and I jured in the crash. The other occupant of the plane, Second Lieuten-Sam Fore, 78 Midway, stand back'as a doctor administers treatment to First Lieutenant Willard A.

Smith of Sacramento, seriously In- an William C. Ocker, was killed. Vallejo Times Herald Photo. NEW PANAMA GOVERNMENT BARES PLOT PANAMA, Republic cf Pana-1 ma, Nov. 20 (in The new government of President Arnulfo Arias today uncovered and thwarted a plot under which lower ranking police officers planned a counter-coup against the State, reliable sources said.

At the same it was disclosed that a number of prominent Panamanians had gone to the American Government Hotel Tivoli in the Canal Zone as political refugees. At the same time, the chief of the Liberal Party, Raul Jimenez, was arrested. Manuel De Jesus Quijano, former aide and son-in-law of ex-president Enrique Jimenez, was taken into custody previously. Arias was sworn in a president yesterday following a coup a week ago that unseated Daniel F. Chanis, Jr.

That coup was reported engineered by the countrys highest police officer. Meanwhile, a spreading general strike against police rule here virtually halted all normal business, banking and educational activities. CITY WATER SUPPLY Cl VANCOUVER, B. Nov. 26 -ilPi Torrential rain, driven by 45-mile-an-hour.

winds cut a swath of destruction across the Pacific Northwest today, claiming six lives, washing out bridges and cutting the water supply of this -city of 400,000. British Columbia appeared the hardest hit by the North Pacific storm as six men wore killed when a boat capsized, and four bridges were swept away by rampaging rivers. Six of the seven crewmen aboard the tugboat George McGregor were drowned when tneir vessel swamped and capsized in a 45-mile gale off Ten-Mile Point near Victoria, B. C. Three bridges over the Ma-quam River were washed away tonight when the normally peaceful stream became a rain-swollen giant.

A few hours earlier, the Capilano River tore out the ap-roaches to the 200-foot Capilano bridge and broke pipelines carrying this city's water supply. Police Chief Charles Hailstone reported 200 homes in West Vancouver were flooded. The Muquam pushed water into about 100 riverside houses at the town of Squamish, about 45 miles north of here. More than 1.33 inches of precipitation was recorded in the last 24 hours here, weather bureau officials They said thero was no let up in sight'! south, the storm -set two skiffs adrift in Puget Sound near Seattle, but rescuers hauled the two duck hunters in each skiff to safety. TRIO OF NAPA PHEASANT HUNTERS VITNESS FATAL ARMY AIR CRASH, AID IN RESCUE OF YOUNDED FLYER Hollywood representatives as potential thespians for the location scenes.

Those cast in the play, their names familiar to all Napans, are Lucille Dalton, Robert Dalton, Dick White, Sue Trabucchi, Bessie Van Deusen, Phylis Davis, Dick Ingraham, Jodean Busby, Walter Slack, Adeie Bishop, Marian Kenny Brown, Willard Perry, Don Geisler and Polly Frazier. Perry also directs the play. In passing along the Hollywood rumors, members of the Napa Valley Players are careful to mention that their new comedy Return Engagement, will be presented in the high school auditorium on December 9 and 10 at 8 p.m. lead over his nearest competitors as the contest neared its close. Tied for second with 224 points each were Bill Kroplin and Oli-veres.

Lester Anderson, Bill Bcr-tino and Marie Hampton scored 223 -points -each; Ed Barwick, Ann Kennedy arid Sylvia Mitch-, ell tallied 221 apiece, and Henry Lagorio and Howwd were still in the running with 220. Winners will be announced next Sunday. Leno Caffo Holds Lead As Sunday Journal Grid Contest Nears End Mr. and Mrs. A.

A. Amaral, of Cotati, eye-witnesses who were fishing off- the levee bn the island, said the plane seemed to conie out of a roll too near the earth, successfully cleared the levee with one wing dipped, but piled up in the field 100 yards beyond. The injured victim was pulled from his trapped position in the rear cockpit by the three Napans and farm workers James Bresch-iani and Charles Leahy the own-erof oatfield, John Hale, assisted with first aid. The dead mans body was cat apultcd out of the plane, carrying part of the canopy with it. 28th Bomb Group based at the Rapid City Air Force Weaver, S.

D. He resides in Sacramen- to. The Mare Island Naval Hospital where Smith was taken said his condition was but not critical. He, was suffering from multiple fractures of the right leg, a broken nose, fractured left arm, and contusions of the face and body. It was hours before the injured man could be removed from the island accesible only by boat or plane, to a waiting Hamilton Field ambiilancer although two doctors were flown in from Vallejo and Napa by volunteers from nearby airports.

planes wing tip dug into the ground for about 30 feet before the plane crashed, the Napa eyewitnesses said. Hamilton Air Force Base officers identified the dead man last night as 2nd Lieut. Win. C. Ocker, 23, USAF, a member of the 83rd Fighter Squadron of the 78th Fighter Wing (Jet) based at Hamilton.

Next of kin is his mother, Mrs. Doris M. Ocker (box 33) -Barksdale AFB, La. Lieut. "Oekcr graduated from West Point with the class of '48.

-The injured airman was identified as 1st Lieut. Willard A. Smith, 27, ySAFR, a member of the 717th Bomb Squadron of the Leno Caffo still was leading all contestants for the free trip to the Rose Bowl game last week with 227 points, but scores for the final week, o.f the contest were not yet. tabulated. Winners of the weekly contest was John Oli verCs who picked 26 winning" grid teams ottfof Tied- for second were Naidefl Anderson, L.

Averlar and Ken Bacon with 25 each. Caffo maintained a three point VuLE TREKS PLENTIFUL' CHICAGO, ttov. 26-f Christmas trees will be plentiful this year with prices similar to last year's, a survey of tree-growing regions showed today. Dragnet Out For Rape-Slayer Of 36-Year-Old Pittsburgh Woman An AT-6 rolled out of maneuvers with another two-place trainer from Hamilton Field yesterday and plunged into an oat-field on Russ Island south of Napa, killing its pilot and critically injuring another air force reserve man. Three Napans, Sam Randol, John Randol and Sam Fore were pheasant hunting near the and assisted in pulling the wounded man out of the wreckage.

The Napans were about a half-mile from the crash and saw the plane come out of a roll and attempt to avoid a crash. The NOV. 1930 FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE FRANK KELLOGG was awarded the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE for his part in KELLOGG I A X) PEACE PACT outlawing war CHARLES E. WILSON of NAPA has commenced erection of a SERVICE STATION south of CALISTOGA on the main valley highway WILLIAM THOMPSON, wed known son of MR. W.

G. THOMPSON, Napa realtor, is a member of the ATHLETIC COUNCIL at the UNIVERSITY' OF CALIFORNIA which is SELECTING a new COACH to succeed CLARENCE Nibs PRICE CECIL ROSS. GEORGE HAINES. RHODE W1GGER, WILDER WIGGER, DICK FLANAGAN, ROBERT HANNA, JAMES AULT, BOB FLANAGAN and ROBERT ROMAN enjoyed a STAG "TURKEY DINNER" at the WIGGEIL RANCH on Allas Peak 194? RED-HOTS rested after a storekeeper overheard him remark, "is that killing in the papers already? The victim, Jean Brusco, an attractive brunette who led a quiet life no men friends, was beaten almost beyond recognition with a beer bottle, some kind of an iron pipe and her assailant's fists. Her half, nude body was found sprawling in a backyard only 200 yards from her home by a milkman making his early-morning rounds.

But fully eight hours before a neighbor, peeping through the blinds of her third-floor apartment, witnessed the attack. PITTSBURGH, Nov. 26-UIl Homicide detectives threw all available police forces into an intensive, city-wide manhunt tonight for the maniacal rape-slayer of a iH-rt 36 year-old shop clerk. One known sox offender and a habitual drunkard were seized and held for questioning in the crime, one of the most callous and savage in Pittsburghs history. Both susiiects wore what appeared to be blood-stained clothing.

They were being grilled continually. One of the men, a 33-year-old ex-convict who served time for statutory rape, was ar The Year Outstanding Value in G.O.P. OFFICIAL DIES IN SLEEP WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 11 William C. Murphy, publicity director of the Republican National committee, died suddenly toright.

He was 51 years old. The cause of death was not immediately determined. Friends said 3Iurphy had been in good health and played a round of golf only this afternoon. He had reHirted to Republican headquarters yesterday. Murphy's wife, Muylielle, discovered he had died in his sleep shortly after' midnight.

Murphy was a veteran Washington newsiapcrmun. Among the pacrs lie served here were tile New York World, Philadelphia Public ledger, Philadelphia Inquirer and the Washington Post. He was also a United Press correspondent at one time. Besides his wife, other survivors are a son, William, who is a student at Wabash College at Crawfordsvllle, I and a daughter, Mrs. Thomas C.

Fraser. Murphys first wife, Irene, died in 1923. YULE PARTY MANNED FOR RESTAURANT WORKERS Plans for the first annual Christmas party and dance of Loral No. 753, Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union will bo made at a special meeting to be held Monday night at 8 p.m. The party will be sionsorcd by local restaurant and tavern own- TOT FEARED DROWNED COURTLAND, Nov.

26-U A An intensive ground search for 22-monthsold David Dunni-gan, missing from his home here sinoe yesterday, was abandoned WEATHER San Francisco Ray Region: Mostly cloudy Sunday mid Monday with rain Monday. Little change In temperature. law Sunday morning 47-52, high Sunday 58-63. Southwesterly winds 13-23 MPH. but wait till you see it for 5 (ID! ALLAN LEDFORD PONTIAC 3rd and Coombs Phone 6-2037 ON DISPLAY ALLANLEDFORD PONTIAC A California Corporation Coombs off Third Dial 6-2037 ren, BuIk'ux takes special pains to sis that their Christmas wishes are granted.

Although many Individuals and organization have offered to assist Santas representative In his work here, Halx-ox has declined all financial and physical help, letters to Santa and his representative must have a legible return address to get an answer, Babeox points out. Napa Sunday Journal Photo by Janies Babcock SANTA'S REPRESENTATIVE George A. Balieox, above, figured Santa didn't have quite enough time to take care of all of Napa's necessary business, so he volunteered to take over part of the merry old gent's work In this area. All letters addressed to Simla Claus, Nupu, California, are turned over to BuIkox elm carefully answers each one as Santa's own repiesentalRe. In tile case ot needy child.

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