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TODAY'S WEATHER Hay Ttnulnn Overcast, with llnht drizzle bediming Tuesday' afternoon and continuing Wednesday; continued moderate temperature; moderate southwesterly wind. Northern California Mostly overcast with light rain along the coaM. VESTERDAVS TEMPERATURE Maximum temperature Hanta C'ruas, 72; (minimum, 4.1); Fresno. 80; Loa Angeles, 7J; Han Francisco, 69. ante (Diruffs mttnm(fifl As We See It JVeirs tuifl Vleirs Of The Sentinel ASSOCIATED PRESS WIREPHOTO SERVICE SANTA CRUZ COUNTY'S LEADING NEWSPAPER SINCE 1855 ASSOCIATED PRESS TELETYPE SERVICE DAILY EXCEPT MONDAY gji SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1911 EIGHT PAGES VOL.

108 NO. 101 Washington sazfis May Sentinel Man Attends Hull, Roosevelt Press Conferences Southern Mine Owners Agree To Resume Work (Editor's note: George L. Moorad, now visiting in the nation's capital, was assigned by The Sentinel to do a series of articles on his impressions of the city that buzzes with serious matters of state. He attended the press conferences of Secretary of State Cordell Hull and President Roosevelt, and talked with dozens of newspapermen. Here is his first article.) Gets Wings Believing that nothing is too good for our readers, the Sentinel made arrangements last week to have George Moorad scout around Washington and obtain a series of articles on the inner workings of state.

Indeed, we are a member of the Associated Press, which keeps us informed on everything that happers in the national capital. But we thought it would be interesting to have a personal representative call at the State Department and the White House and then give us the benefit of his eyes and ears. Before Moorad started his hitch in Santa Cruz with the Sentinel he was a seasoned newspaperman in that city of many tongues, many people, Planning Commission Moves To Increase Recreation Areas By Establishing Picnic Sites Deadlock Ends As Shortage Draws Near Wages Upped Dollar A Day; Negotiations Due To Continue By Georje L. Moorad Washington, April 25 Washington is a newspaperman's town the busiest, gayest, most cosmopolitan city in the world of 19-11. It is filled with important people from every nation on the map, with politicians, secret agents, sightseers and job-seekers crowding the native Washingtonian if such an individual exists out of his formerly peaceful home.

Federal Aid Sought In Attempt To Halt Cliff Erosion But it is chiefly interesting Try Slrive Crete Clash With Russia Over Ukraine Predicted Berlin, April 29 (Tuesday) (I1). The Greek Island of Crete, new scrt of the government which fled from Athens, apparently will he the next objective of the (ci man army after the mopping-n campaign on the Greek mainland and in the Peloponnesus is completed. Adolf Hitler's newspaper, Voelkischer Beobachter, answering British claims the English fleet would be able to dominate the southern exit of the Aegean sea from liases on Crete, lends weight to this belief. Crete, in German hands, also would fpell great danger to British strongholds in Egypt, such as Alexandria, Port Said and the Suez Canal, it was pointed out. By The Associated Press While German dive-bombers put final explosive touches to the British rout from Greece yesterday German observers declared the Nazi army was ready for new and bigger tasks.

This could mean Adolf Hitler planned to try one or more of these courses: An overland drive through Turkey to the oil-rich Near East now guard ed by Britain; a revitalized push from Libya through Egypt to the Suez Canal; a push through Spain against Gibraltar; invasion of Soviet Russia's vast wheat-growing Ukraine. Too, there is always the chance of an invasion attempt against the British Isles. British leaders contend Germany has to knock them out at home before she can win the war. Vichy diplomatic circles believed a German-Russian clash over the Ukraine a distinrt possibility, and Prime Minister Churchill also suggested the same thing in his Sunday night broadcast. London military circles were disturbed by unconfirmed reports of a German "tourist infiltration" into Syria, at Turkey's back.

Turkey's newspapers said any i small German demand on Turkey would be evidence of Nazi intentions to attack. Of all these courses inviting to Germany, the eastern Mediterranean area seemed the most likely imminent theater of extended hostilities. (Continued on Page 2) Yacht Couples Still Missing Oakland, April 28 The disappearance of two young couples who sailed from Oakland Sunday noon for a picnic-ouling assumed serious proportions tonight when, after a 24-hour search, coast guardsmen and bay police were unable to find any trace of them. The mysterious case came to coast guard attention when a patrol boat found the party's 18-foot pleasure boat sailing serenely on the Oakland estuary, without a person aboard. Remnants of a picnic lunch and empty soft drink bottles were found on the little yacht.

Sand on the bottoms of the bottles and containers indicated the party might have been ashore somewhere. The coast guard learned that the boat belonged to Joseph P. River, 28, an Oakland policeman. Check ing further, it was ascertained that River, his wife Bernyce and the other couple, Mr. and Mrs.

Lester Groux, had been on the boat when it sailed. Woman Killed In Freedom Accident Mis. Manuel Costa, of route 3, box 223, Watsonville, was killed late Saturday night when she was struck by a sedan driven by Henry Locatelli, 27, of route 2, box 540, Santa Cruz, as she crossed the highway near Freedom. Mrs. Costa was removed to the Watsonville hospital, but died 45 minutes later of the injuries she received in the accident.

Locatelli, who narrowly escaped injury last week while he was crossing the Chittenden pass bridge as it collapsed, was not cited by highway patrol officers who investigated the accident. agner Act Broadened In Court Ruling Washington, April 28 ('). The supreme court held today the Wagner act prohibits anti-union discrimination in hiring of workers, as well as in their firing. Under this new and far-reaching rule, the court upheld the power of the labor board to compel a company to hire men alleged to have been refused jobs because of their union affiliations. The board alio can direct the company to give such men "back pay" from the time of their rejection.

But the board may not take such actions automatically. The court's opinion, by Justice Frankfurter, was careful to specify the board must find in each case such orders are necessary to effectuate the purpose of the act that is, to abate labor strife. The board failed to do this, the decision said, in the case at issue, involving the Phelps Dodge Corporation and two CIO copper miners of Bisbee, Ariz. Therefore the court ordered further proceedings by the board. In another important case today the court decided negroes must be furnished as good accommodations as whites for interstate travel.

Representative Arthur W. Mitchell only negro congressman, filed the test suit after being removed from a Pullman to a "Jim Crow" day coach in Arkansas in 1G37 during a trip from Chicago to Hot Springs. Forestry Tour Set For May 21 The annual county forestry tour will be held May 21, it was announced yesterday by Farm Advisor Henry Washburn. Washburn, Deputy District Attorney Stephen Wyckoff, Robert Burton, conservation instructor at Santa Cruz high school, and Woodbridge Metcalf of the University of California, Berkeley, decided the route on a recent tour of the area. The tour will go by way of Graham Hill road to Felton, then to Em- Great lecreational area development in Santa Cruz county within the next few years was Been last night in action taken by the Santa Cruz county planning commission at its regular meeting at the court house here.

Dr. H. E. Piper, chairman of the commission, appointed a committee composed of Stephen Wyckoff, M. M.

Murphy and Mrs. Olive Slossnn, to investigate the possibilities of establishing picnic sites at various points along the scenic roads of the county to attract more persons to the area on sightsoeing trips. The committee is asked to report at the June meeting of the commission. Sites Limited Now At the present time the only picnic sites are Mt. Madonna park, Sea-cliff and Sunset beach parks, Dc Lavcaga, Big Trees and Big Basin, with no fireplaces, picnic tables and benches, water supplies and sanita tion facilities provided at other points along roads traveled heavily during the summer months, Dr.

Piper pointed out. He said such a recreation program would lie in with fire control activities, youth movements and undoubt edly would be supported by service clubs in establishing, furnishing and maintaining of the sites. The committee Ls to investigate, also, possible ways of acquiring sites for the grounds, either by trading tax deeded land owned by the county to private individuals for the picnic sites or to ask direct donations of sites. County Surveyor Arnold Baldwin said he made such a survey about three years ago but the plan was dropped at that time because the county saw no solution for the problem of upkeep for the sites. Cliff Problem Studied W.

A. Williams of Opal Cliffs, member of the Santa Cruz chamber of commerce cliff erosion committee, told the planning board of possibilities for cliff erosion control which would result in a 200-foot beach from Santa Cruz to Capitola at a comparatively small cost if state, county and city agencies co-operated and secured the interest of the federal government. Dr. Piper instructed Secretary Robert Harris and Surveyor Baldwin to get in touch with the United States planning commission with a view to securing federal aid for such a project. The seven members of the commission present at the meeting voted unanimously to endorse the bill now before the state assembly which would provide that all signs be set back 1000 feet from roadways.

The commission voted to recommend to the board of supervisors that the petition asking that Orchard drive near Boulder Creek le made a county road, be denied; that Redwood avenue in Alpine addition, Boulder Creek, be made a county road provided it Ls improved to meet county road specifications; and that Buckeye drive of Felton Acres be made a county road if it is improved to meet specifications. pire Grade, Eagle Rock, Bonny Doon and Big creek. All interested persons are invited. Robert Barrow dough of Santa Cruz received his silver wings and a commission as second lieutenant in the army nir corps when his class graduated from Kelly Field's Advanced Flying school in Texas last Friday. Lieutenant Harrow -Hough is the son of Mrs.

Ethel Karrowrloiigh, manager of the C'asa del Key apartments. Only 4 River Easements Outstanding Flood Control Advocates Hopeful For 100 Per Cent Sign-Up All but four property owners on the San Lorenzo river have signed atirfi'mpnt? riromisinc easement: for the city flood control project, as rep- refiented by Amendment No. 3 on the municipal ballot, George Bertolucci reported to the city council yesterday morning. Bertolucci, chairman of the Santa Cruz Flood Control club, said his committee has contacted owners from the city limits to the mouth of the river. "By next Monday we will have the signatures of the other four property owners, and then we can assure the voters of 100 per cent co-operation," he said.

Ten Cent Levy Amendment No. 3 proposes a special levy of 10 cents per hundred dollars, which would yield $11,000 per year, to establish municipal flood and erosion control. The money would be spent for dredging and levee construction. "It should be made clear that this Ls not a bond issue," said Bertolucci. "A 10 cent levy means simply that the man whose property is assessed at $500 will pay only 50 cents and the $1000 assessment will bear a cost of only $1.

For less than a dime a month a property in the $1000 as- scs-slm'nt class can remove one ol the worst detriments to real estate values in the city. The city does not borrow money, and it pays no interest as is the case with bonds. By creating a special fund we merely join together and pool the taxpayers' contribution." The regular weekly meeting of the flood control club will be held tonight in the city council chamber. Airport Meeting To Be Broadcast With Ben Janes as the chief speaker, the Santa Cruz Exchange club will give a special airport bond issue program tomorrow noon at the St. George hotel.

Janes will give reasons for a favorable vote on the $100,000 bond issue, which appears on the May municipal ballot. The speech will be broadcast over Station KDON. Del Pearsall Ls chairman of the meeting. to a newspaperman because so many of his kind are here people who listen a little, write if it comes to a pinch, and talk interminably about everything under the sun. And they have managed, perhaps by sheer weight of numbers, to make a front seat for themselves in the counsels of the mighty.

On Tuesdays and Fridays they sit in with the President, each noon they interview Secretary Hull, and on various unstated occasions they subject other lofty figures to questioning. Examined Passed So, when a newspaperman comes to Washington his chief ambition is the press conference, organized and operated by the White House Correspondents' association of some 500 men and women. You must be vouched for by a member, examined by Bill Donaldson, chief of the press ganery, exammea casuany corps of secret service men by a and there you are! The press conference, applying both to the President and Secretary of State, is comparatively new. Mr. Roosevelt Ls the only President to receive reporters on a no holds-barred basis, and thereby hangs a tale.

Up until 1910, according to the veteran Mike McDermott of the state department staff, the nosy gentlemen of the press just didn't see the nation's bigwigs unless by stealth or personal connivance. They reported mainly by second or third hand and then came Bill Price. Bill was the Ernest Otto of a little paper in South Carolina. He met every incoming train and buttonholed each passenger. Like Ernest, he had about him an air of sheer friendship and an unfailing nose for news.

Bill came to Washington about 1910 and, modestly recalling his success as a train-meeter, applied for a job with the Washington Post. (Continued on Page 2) Morgenthau Hits 'Poor Man's Tax' Washington, April 28 Secretary Morgenthau, who has recommended stiffly increased income taxes and other means of raising opened fire on a rival revenue plan today by declaring it would tax "the poor man's table." He referred to a plan drawn up by experts of the joint congressional committee of internal revenue taxation. Among other things, these experts suggested levies on coffee, tea and sugar, and Morgenthau said such taxes were contrary to "everything this administration has stood for." Life-Saving Plan Adopted Supporting a joint senior-junior chamber of commerce life saving project, the city council yesterday voted to spend $8 per month to maintain an electrical alarm system on West Cliff drive. Gardner Finn, chairman of the committee, said the senior chamber of commerce Ls providing money for equipment, and the junior chamber of commerce is supplying labor for installation. Seven alarm boxes will be installed between the lighthouse and Wood-row avenue.

In each box will be 150 feet of rope, to be used in rescue efforts when any one falls into the bay from the cliffs. When broken open, the box would sound alarm signals at the police and fire stations. Finn said the system would be ready for operation by June 1. It was worked out some time ago by Santa Cruz Boy Scout troop 77 and Alden Moody, scoutmaster. Gets Under Way container, sack or box and placed at the curb before it will be picked up.

The collection schedule follows; Today District No. 2 East of the San Lorenzo river and north of So-quel avenue. Thursday District No. 3 West of the river in the areas including Beach Hill, the Flat and the Potrero. Friday District No.

4 West of the river on Mission Hill, flat and Garfield Park. I Washington, April 28 (AP). The White House announced tonight the Southern Coal Op erators had agreed to resume production of coal immediately Stephen Early, Presidential Secretary, issued this statement: "The President shortly after 11 o'clock tonight received! telegram signed 'L. Ebersole Gains, Chairman Southern Coal Operators Wage Conference' advising him that 'The 13 Southern Districts which have not yet negotiated a wage agreement accept your proposal without equivocation' add ing 'We are ready to resume wbrlt President Roosevelt's proposals, which he publicly recommended April 21, were: "1. The miners and operators already in agreement resume coal production under the terms of that agreement.

"2. The operators and miners who have not yet reached an agreement, enter into wage negotiations and at the same time reopen the mines, the agreement ultimately reached to be made retroactive to the date of resuming work." Had Been Deadlocked At the time the proposal was' advanced the Northern Operators and the Union had reached an agreement for wage increase, but the Operators and Miners were deadlocked. Earlier in the evening a delegation of Southern Coal Operators conferred with Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones, it was learned from Southern Operators. It was understood the cabinet member urged the Southern Producers to accept Mr. (Continued on Page 2) Lone Eagle Quits Army Air Reserve New York, April 28 (P).

Charles A. Lindbergh resigned today as colonel in the United States army air corps reserve because he said hia commander-in-chief President Roosevelt had implied certain things about "my loyalty to my country, my motives and my character." Thus, the thin young man who at 25 historically flew the Atlantic, became a world hero, and rose at once from captain to colonel in recognition of his feat, beseeched his government at 39 to return him to private life because he had "no honorable alternative." In a letter to President Roosevelt, Lindbergh took exception to "implications" he said the president uttered concerning him at last Friday's press conference. In this conference the chief executive criticized the flier and others who say the axis powers would defeat Great Britain. The president compared them to appeasers of Revolutionary and Civil War days who insisted defeat was imminent and peace should be sued for promptly. The president thus "clearly implied," Lindbergh wrote, "that I am no longer of use to this country as a reserve officer." He told hLs commander that he was "greatly disturbed" and that he had hoped he might "exercLse my rights as an American citizen to place my viewpoint before the people of my country in time of peace, without giving up the privilege of serving my country as an air corps officer in the event of war." men's floor show, staged by Skip Littlefield and 40 commercial fishermen, and raved for the second successive year over the novelty of the entertainment.

The show followed the dinner. Sunday they lolled on the whr rf, took joy rides around the hay, and said before leaving' that they'll be glad to come back again next year. Fish and Game Warden Forrest McDermott, general chairman of the Day, was given a beautiful wrist watch and Little-field a summer ensemble by the fishermen for their work done with litem on (he wharf. and many intrigues Shanghai. And so to ask Moorad to sit in on a White House press conference called for no more strain on our imagination than asking Ernest Oito to write a pretty piece about Mrs.

Jones' ice cream social. After we had ascertained that Moorad had already purchased his ticket for Washington now the truth on fiscal details thus relieving us of economic liability, the thought occurred to us that any gentleman who pays his own way deserves excellent press credentials. In reply to hurried requests, Stephen Early, the President's secretary, Columnist Raymond Clapper, and AP Manager Brian Bell each assured us that the Sentinel's special representative would be given proper recognition. Consequently, the first of a series of articles on Washington starts in another section of the Sentinel today. I EDUCATION WEEK "The immediate future of Democracy depends on war materials from U.S.

industries. Output of industries depends iU it lilt ui vj ui cuiu mnnntJors Snnnlv rf rip-I I pends largely on American education. The defense-training program is education's answer." This statement was made recently by John W. Stude-i baker, U. S.

commissioner of education. Since this is national education week, the statement bears repeating. It may shock the sensibilities of academicians to sec education in the role of gun making, but nothing seems clearer at the moment than that education must defend itself by contributing to the nation's armament needs. Responding to industry's need for men, the U. S.

Office of Education and vocational school heads are moving swiftly to put thousands of additional workers in training. Schools in 300 cities stay open around the clock 21 hours a day. Others are adding new shifts, expanding shops, rushing new buildings. Original estimates called for 700,000 trained by June 30. The stepped up schedule may de liver about 1,000,000.

More than 100,000 workers have already gone into defense industry from preemployment-refresher courses. Record enrollment of more than in regular day and evening vocational classes are, in large part, taking training important to defense industries. The aircraft industry will need about 244,000 new workers by August 1941 to make deliveries on schedule, Bureau of Labor statistics of the U. S. Department of Labor reported December 19.

An average of 25,000 men a month must be trained between January and August. Total employment in aircraft and accessory industries should reach 555,500 by the end of August. Skilled positions will likely be filled by training and upgrading semi-skilled labor, their places to be taken by new men fresh from training classes. New engineering defense courses approved will bring the total to 864 in 128 of 155 eligible colleges and universities. These are college grade specialized short courses to meet shortages of engineers in (Continued on Page 2) Mr.

Moorad goes to Washington, and from there he is writing a series for The Sentinel on life in the world's largest capital. (See story above.) Water District Office Seekers Toss In Hats Ten Expected To Be On Ballot In June Vote Five prominent valley men last night were "drafted" as candidates for directors of the new San Lorenzo valley water district to be elected June 10. Earl Lyon, J. E. Parish, J.

Louis Hayes, George Bent and Dr. W. E. Stiles are the "draftees." Eighteen valley leaders gathered at Ben Lomond for a general meeting of the central water committee, composed of representatives of all the organizations in the valley, voted unanimously to ask the five men to present their names before the public as candidates for directors of the recently formed water district. The committee had given the matter several weeks of study before calling the special meeting and issued the following statement: "To Insure Progress" "The selection of these men is based on the desire to be of real service to the district and to insure regular advancement in water development with the thought of careful consideration of the tax burden.

"It is felt that these men, together with such others as maw determine to run, will create a group from which a voting selection can be made with safety." Interest in the coming election grew in the valley yesterday, with indications that at least 10 persons will seek the five director positions. Petitions are expected to be in circulation by the end of this week for at least five candidates. Others mentioned for the post besides the five endorsed last night are F. J. Whiting of Ben Lomond, Mueller of Bear creek, Ernest Locatelli of Boulder Creek and Theodore Smith of Ben Lomond.

Friend are urging George Cress and Dr. G. L. Fleming, both of Boulder Creek, to become candidates but both said yesterday they will not run. Father Munro's Condition Better Father A.

R. Munro of the Boulder Creek Catholic church, who has been ill for several days from a heart attack suffered while he was recuperating from the flu, is improving remarkably, the attending physician said yesterday. He will be able to be up in the very near future. Father Munro is at his home at Boulder Creek. Cleanup Week With cleanup work already finished in one section of the city, Santa Cruz got off to a flying start with its annual cleanup week yesterday.

Rubbish in sacks and boxes was removed by city crews yesterday in district No. 1, the area east of the San Lorenzo river and south of So-quel avenue. Free collections will continue through Friday, but rubbish and trash must be placed in some sort of Elephant Fells Keeper It's A Draw Third Day On The Bay Is Success All the fish they saw was what they parked under their bells at Saturday night's cioppino dinner, but nearly four score California newspaper men kicked up their heels at Santa Cruz' third annual Day on the Bay party here last week-end. The visiting newsmen were headed by Dick Chase of the San Francisco News, Tod Powell of The Chronicle, Bob Dwyer of the Oakland Tribune and Donnell Culpepper of the Long Beach Press-Telegram. Saturday night at the Casa del Rey hotel Ihcy saw the fisher 1.

fit With what appears to be a sly grin, Ziggie, six-ton elephant of the Brookficld zoo in Chicago, pins his keeper. George Lewis, to the ground between his tusks. Seconds later, Lewis struggled upward far enough to smack Ziggie in the eye with his fist. The elephant, in turn, raised up a hit and Ix-wis rolled free, suffering only a few bruises. Ziggie was then given a big meal in order, zoo officials said, to "cool him off.".