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Napa Journal from Napa, California • 6

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Napa Journali
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Napa, California
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6
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THE NAPA JOURNAL FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1939 PAGE SIX Svcniy tkp A Opsnlng Here Use Prepares fcr cn Saturday Calendar for SPECIAL MEET AT SACRAMENTO s. destroyed un guard in harbor of swatqw Woman Sought For Dye Damage SAN FRANCISCO, June 29. IP Police today hunted a dark young woman believed to be using potent red dye as a weapon in the San Francisco cleaning and dyeing industry prioe war, On at least three occasions, the police said, the woman has taken children's clothing to priceut-ting cleaning plants. A thin package of red dye sewn in the garment spreads in the cleaning vats and ruins everything in It Damage in one instance was $800 to $1,000. room will furnish music for dancing.

A door on the east side of the dance floor will lead to the cocktail lounge. The walls of the lounge wilt give a hammered silver effect. Along the east side of the lounge will be the 30-foot bar. Recessed into the walls will be pictures of early California life. Indirect lighting, carried out here as throughout the rest of the club, will lend the pictures the appearance of "reality and life.

On the other side of the dance floor will be located the coffee room, where light refreshments will be served. The pioneer Cali, foraia theme will be carried out here with an adzed lumber ceil-1 ing and stucco walls. Murals of the early life in the state will decorate the walls. Later in the summer, full course dinners may be served in the room. Extending the length of the front of the club will be an 80-foot open promenade porch, constructed in rustic style.

It will be furnished with porch furniture of a pioneer type, tables, chairs and lounges. Eventually plans call for the porch to be converted into an extension of the dance floor. The club will be open every afternoon and evening. llcncrcd by 2C0 I. Yerters praztir JMiCKOIl: WASHINGTON, June 29.

UV-The Senate tonight, by a standing vote, refused to confirm President Roosevelts nomination of William S. Boyle as U. S. District Attorney for Nevada, administer, ing a twin rebuff to the Chief Executive and to Sen. Key Pittman, who had made a personal plea for Boyle.

Pittman's Nevala colleague, Sen, Pat McCarran, demanded and won an adverse1 vote on the ground Boyle was personally obnoxious" and Mr. Roosevelt had named him as a reprisal for his (McCarrans) frequent opposition to the New Deal Only two senators Pittman and Sen. Carl A. Hatch, N. M.

stood when the vote was called. It was the fourth time this session the President had been given a senatorial reprimand, two instances Involving the traditional prerogative of senatorial courtesy." On the other occasions he was forced to withdraw appointments with the Chamber opposed. Pittman said McCarrans charge could not be justified- McCarran countered with the declaration the nomination was part of a "conspiracy" in which my arch enemy was selected over a man outstanding in the nation who is aid aside and repudiated as well as just to take a slap at me." a Fugitive Prof Search Spreads DETROIT, June 29. UP) Search for the fugitive former president of Louisiana State University turned to eastern Canada tonight after it was learned Dr. James Monroe Smiths and his wife crossed the border to Windsor from Detroit last Tuesday.

The couple, it was disclosed by Capt. Don Leonard of the state police, purchased a new car in Detroit Tuesday afternoon. Shortly afterward they drove through the tunnel beneath the Detroit river to Windsor, chatted with customs officials and as they lett remarked they planned to tour eastern Canada. For Job Printing Call 58 Hie United States destroyer Pills bury. Joined later by the United States destroyer John D.

Pope, remained In Swatow, China, harbor in defiance of a Japanese demand they quit port Meanwhile Admiral Harry E. Yamell, commander in chief of the United States navy in the Far East, instructed Consul General Clarence Gauss at Shanghai to Inform the Japanese government that the American government would hpld responsible for the safety of Americans In Ewatow. Final touches are being given the new $5,000 Club Nap-A-Nee, gala opening of which is slated for tomorrow night. Located next door to the Nap-A-Nee Market northeast of the city on the Napa-St. Helena highway, the new club will be under the management of Pete Daglia, well-known Napan.

According to plans announced this week, the club will be one of the best appointed night spots north of San Francisco. The club will carry the theme of Mission California throughout, with pictures of early pioneer times and Indians recessed iqto the walls and illuminated by indirect lighting to give them the appearance of life. Silver and Spanish red will be the dominant color scheme. The dance floor, 32 feet square, will be built around the theme of a patio garden in front Of a Spanish house. The walls Trill be in the form of adobe brick, enclosing the garden.

The top third of the walls and the ceiling will be decorated with a mural painting of the hills and sky of Napa Valley, lit by indirect lumiline lighting which will give them the appearance Qt reality. In the background will be the front wall of a Spanish home. Around the edges of the maple dance floor will be cocktail seats and tables of cromlum and Spanish red. A four-piece orchestra in one comer of the EE17 TODAY BRENT: 3 rm. Apartments, unfurnished and furnished.

New, reasonable. Steuck, Main and Central. Phone 997-W. Ju-4 NOTICE We, the undersigned blacksmith, machine and weld-i ing shops will be closed July 3 and 4. A.

tfallmer Bruno Goetz LePlatt French K. K. Stoshner Frank Goetz Ju-l-ntd. NOTICE The undersigned places of business will be closed Monday, July 3: Jaekle Bros. Napa Lumber Co.

1 Noyes Lumber Co. Napa Builders Supply Co. Banks Building Supply Co. j-30-ntd Unforgettable meals served on the spacious, airy veranda! The finest foods obtainable, coupled with superb cooking. THE MADRONES 1 MUe North of St Helena 21 ALL KINDS OF FIREWORKS RODES CURVE SERVICE STATION I Mile South on Napir Sonoma Hi way ntral Press map showing Chinese cities, including Swatow, now in bands of Japanese, SACRAMENTO, June 29.

UP Tax legislation and the defeated Pierovich Central Valley bill will be placed before the special session of the California Legislature early next year. Gov. Culbert L. Olson said today. The $170,000,000 revenue bond Pierovich bill would finance public distribution of power from the projected Shasta Dam.

It was beaten by two votes in the Assembly. The special session must be called to consider relief legislation. vwalwnllji WIBiil kt Is By Ed Yerren SAN FRANCISCO, June 30. IP Off-shore gambling ships, operating in southern California waters, will be one of the first objectives of Attorney General Earl Warren's drive to wipe out big-time gambling in California, it was revealed today. The attorney general, In announcing he was preparing to move-in" on the luxuriously fitted gambling ships, which are anchored off the southern California coast, assertedly outside territorial waters, also said he would launch a drive against bookmaking activities in San Mateo and Santa Clara countiest health for several years and was in' straitened i financial circumstances which forced him to leave his two-story home in Carmel Highlands and reside with friends at Carmel Point, where he died.

Doctors said Wilson, best known for his "Ruggles of Red, Gap the story of an English butler in Americas wooly west died in from cerebral hemorrhage. Townsenders to Hear Reports Reports on the 4th annual Townsend convention at Indianapolis will feature tonights meet ing of the Napa Townsend club, when members gather in Giar. dina Hall on Coombs street for their regular session. The report will be made by the Rev. George Arynstrong, official delegate of the Jocal club to the big meeting.

Mrs. Walter Tripp, also a delegate, is on her way home, and may arrive in time for tonights meeting. There will be no business session. The meeting will be conducted by President Runyan. Refreshments will be served at the conclusion of the session.

wild and For Job Printing Call 58 i sleep Every Fri Sat Eve. PLAY BIG 4" SCREENO Always $25.06 Given Away TODAY and SATURDAY BIG DOUBLE BILL LOOT Modular-fey fcU Ihrtrf HftiUi bln Ptaak hdn Sad FiiiIm TImh v4 Vwmrut Cartoon Sat Mat. A 6:40 Sat Eve. Chapter IV "RED BARRY" Starring Larry Buster" Crabbe Coming Sun. and Mon.

More than 200 Mare Island Navy Yard workers were present at -a farewell banquet for Charles Dever, 60-year-old Napan, who last night retired from duty at supreme Court as to whether the the Navy Yard after 35 years of ships are anchored inside, or out-continuous service with the government. The event was held at the Barrel Club at Vallejo. With Frank Algeo, of Napa, serving as toastmaster, Dever was presented with a gold wrist-watch and a $50 gasoline book. Dever spoke briefly, stating that he felt much too young" to be retiring. Among those present were numerous Mare Island difj-! nitaries, including Jack Morony, shipfitter master.

1 Warren stressed, however, action against the gambling ship operators would be dependent upon a decision by the California Famed Author Is Dead at Carmel CARMEL, June 29. IP Genial Harry Leon Wilson, famous author whose gay, whimsical writings entertained two gener. ations of Americans, was found dead today in his bedroom. He was 72, had been in ill Halifax Issues Warning to Nazis Continued from Page 1 that tonight with all the strength at my command, so that nobody may misunderstand It WARNS HITLER Then, in a direct warning to Hitler and the Nazi Reich, he said: "If- you deliberately isolate yoiMelf from others by your own actions, you can blame nobody but yourself." -Germany, he added, can end her present self-imposed isolation at any time she desires, by turn- fog to a policy of cooperation. WARSAW, Friday, June Doors Open Mat 1:45, Eve.

6:45 Matinee 20c Eve-, nings 25c Kiddies 10c Now Playing fcWALT DtSHETS first fluhn wm Selected Short Subjects Possible Increase In Tax Rate Seen With Huge Sum Continued from page i a new janitor and night watchman to be added; From the classification of general repairs the trustees removed $500 and placed it under improvements. During the session it was suggested by District Attorney Wallace Everett, that' the board could follow recommended procedure in the future in the hiring of any persons to be employed in positions of trust and have those persons fingerprinted. During the first week of August a public hearing on the budget will be with the final budget to then be turned over to the county board of supervisors. Present last night were the following: Chairman Oliver Hoff, man, Clerk Sutro A. Frost, Trustees Arthur Munkand Herbert Fruehauf, County Superintendent of Schools Lillian Anderson, District Attorney Wallace Everett, G.

M. Simonson, consulting engineer, City Electrical Inspector Martin Landers, Philip E. Phillips, trustee-elect, and Helen Johnson, board secretary. BITTER SQUABBLE SEATTLE, June 29. UV-The squabble over King County Prosecutor B.

Gray Warner's threat to enforce a 30-year-old Washington Sunday blue law in Seattle grew bitter today when Warner revealed he had taken dictaphone transcriptions of a conversation with Chief of Police William B. Sears. JULY 1 ST MsrgeFet Buck Wed in Virginia WILLIAMSBURG, June 29 Miss Margaret Anne Buck of Vacaville, daughter of Rep. Frank H. Buck of the third congressional district, California, was married here Thursday afternoon, June 29th, in the Chapel of the Sir Christopher Wren building, William and Mary College, to H.

Gardner Putnam of Oakland, Cal. Putnam, a University of California graduate, and practicing attorney of Oakland, is the son of Mrs. S. O. Putnam of La Jolla, and originally from Leavenworth, Kans.

After a wedding tour across the country by automobile, the young couple irill make their residence at 104 Pala avenue. Piedmont, Cal. They expect to arrive in California about July 20. PASSENGERS REQpVER RATON, N. June 29.

OPh Hospital attendants said tonight nine passengers of a transcontinental Greyhound bus which ov-terturned near here last night I would be allowed to continue their trips probably tomorrow." (IP) Polish authorities shortly after last midnight issued an official communique declaring that the organization of a Danzig free corps has been established beyond doubt and can easily be observed despite Danzig denials. The outspokenness of the communique, which came as a surprise, was interpreted by political quarters to mean that the Polish government intends, to give Germany to understand that Poland Is aware of developments in Danzig aiTcT ateothat Poland might not continue to look passively on reported infiltration of Germans from East Prussia into Danzig, but might take steps. LONDON (IP) After fighting in four wars, surviving a shipwreck in which 100 men were drowned, and living through a famine in Russia, John Bell Findlay, an 84-year-old sea captain, was knocked down and killed by a motor car in a London suburban street. High School Board Rejects Offer of Contractor Russell Continued irom Page 1 changes he sees necessary through an addendum, PLANS STUDIED. i FJobr plans of the nlain build-ipg were briefly studied by the trustees.

It was explained that the north and south wings were in good condition and that nearly all changes will come in the portion that was handled through Bussell and his men. Will Corlett signed the plans as consulting architect, Dr. Sutro A. Frost signed for the trustees, and Mrs. Lillian Anderson signed as the county superintendent of schools.

When plans are sent to Sacramento for approval, a check for one-half of one per cent of the estimated cost will be enclosed. Specifications were said to have been written broadly enough to give the city inspector nearly unlimited powers and control over the work to be done. DEFECTS FOUND The original controversy arose some months ago when an investigation of the schools system revealed numerous defects in wiring. Following a thorough survey the board called for a Grand Jury investigation of the matter with the result that Russell was indicted for grand theft and Architect W. Herbert was Indicted for filing a false affidavit in Sonoma county.

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Look for Thoso Features Speedy new Hi-Power, Wind-Proof Burners. "Solodur" Metal Fuel Tank cannot rust or corrodes easily removed for filling. Folds up lika a suitcase. New Models, New Convenience. Come in for a demonstration! OPENING! SATURDAY BETTER LIGHT OUTDOORS AT NIGHT! Youll need a Coleman Lantern, tooi The finest outdoor light made and we've got fust the model you want Lights Instantly.

Gen uine Pyre Globe. Storm proof, Insect-proof, CLUB NAP-A-NEE One Mile North of Napa on St. Helena Highway NAPA VALLEY'S DANCING COCKTAILS COFFEE SHOP MOST BEAUTIFUL COCKTAIL LOUNGE The management of the CLUB NAP-A-NEE takes pride in announcing opening of one of the finest afternoon and nigfit spots north of San Francisco. Here is offered quick, friendly service amid modern surroundings. A restful retreat Music and an excellent dance floor! MART and swift.

ress a button its pen; press another youve got the icture. Doublotlens. Eye-level finder ictures, hA 2 inches. Weve uny equally fine, buys" on astman cameras; Prices have beet harpiy reduced throughout the line ewest models included. LEVINSON'S PHARMACY Rlght-A-Way" Delivery Service PHONE 257 NOTICE: Uptown Office Open AH Day Saturday for the Convenience of Patrons.

For Information Concerning Camping Equipment, Call Main Office, Telephone 1344, other than Sat-urday. BASALT ROCK CO Uptown Office 1034 Main St Main Office 8th River Sts. PETE anager.

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