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I a a McCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS SERVICE THE BEE'S SUPERIOR CALIFORNIA NEWS WEDNESDAY, NOV. 26, 1941 Page 7 Children Will Be Guests At Christmas Show Santa Claus Will Distribute Gifts At Free Holiday Program FOLSOM (Sacramento Nov. 9 are being completed here by local merchants, cooperating Elmith The Sacramento and Tilton, owner and manager of the Folsom Theater, for the big free Christmas show to be given for the children of the community on December 8th. Santa Claus will attend the performance which will start P. M.

Gifts of candy will be presented to each child attending. B. Schloss, ELMER TILTON principal of the elementary school, is making plans for an early tend the dismissal stouthe children may atThe feature picture will be Nancy You Seldom See and Toy Trouble. will be two selected shorts, Dogs Drew-Reporter. In addition there GRAND JURORS MEET WOODLAND (Yolo Nov.

26. The Yolo A County Grand Jury met in the courthouse here today a but the foreman, Leslie Morris, had no comment as to what was to be taken up. Quit shivering! PLUG IN AN ELECTRIC HEATER Of course you can take exercises to get warm. But that means time and energy. Thousands and thousands of Californians quit shivering the easy way.

They plug in an electric heater. Quick as "scat" the heat is on. The heater above has a fan that puts out a flood of heat in a hurry. The more you use it the more you like it. SEE YOUR DEALER OR PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY ELECTRICITY IS CHEAP AS EVER IN CALIFORNIA Son Of Author Will Be Given Prison Parole SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Nov.

26. (UP)-The state board of prison terms and paroles records disclosed today Thomas Alton Tully, 30 year old son of Author Jim Tully, will be from paroled "sometime five next sentence year" twenty year for an attack on a Lassen County girl in 1935. The board, at November meetings here, decided to grant young Tully nine years on parole. A board attache explained that this will cut the sentence to slightly more than fifteen years, includparole, and will make Tully eligible, for release "sometime next year." Tully would remain under parole board supervision for nine years after his release from San Quentin Prison. His father, Jim Tully, widely known Hollywood figure, is a former pugilist, who turned to literature.

Franchise Is Let For Reno Buses RENO Nov. franchise for a four route bus line in Reno has been granted by the city council to the Reno Bus Lines, Inc. The franchise, which has a life of ten years, provides for payment of 1 per of gross receipts for the first year; per cent for. the next two years; 2 per cent the fourth and fifth years; per cent for the sixth and seventh years, and per cent for the last three. Five buses of twenty seven passenger capacity each will be purchased and run on four routes to the downtown section of the city.

Officers of the bus company announced today the operation of the lines will start soon after the first of the new year. The company has had the vehicles tentatively on order since August 1st. Yuba Youth Is Held As Purse Snatcher MARYSVILLE (Yuba Nov. G. Edwards, 20, of Marysville was arrested by the city police early this morning on a charge of grand theft and was accused of having taken a purse containing $175 in cash and two diamond rings from the lap of Mrs.

Elsie Gasper as she sat asleep in a theater here. Mrs. Gasper summoned the police when awoke and found her valuables missing. A short search led the officers to Edward. The police say he already had spent $40 of the money on his friends i in lower Marysville.

BE WISE Consolidate YOUR BILLS Enjoy having only -one creditor! One Monthly Payment I 'CREDIT CO. 1003 NINTH ST. Speedy Verdict Ends Reno Trial RENO Nov. 26. The speediest jury verdict rendered here in the memory of the oldest court clerk was returned yesterday in the case against Poney Rone, Negro, charged with lewdness.

Hardly had the bailiff closed the door of the room where the jurors deliberate when a knock came announcing a had been reached. The verdict was guilty. The trial started yesterday, a jury was obtained quickly and evidence was presented by noon, Rone, only defense witness, denied the charge. He was to be sentenced today. The statutes call for prison term of from one to ten years, The charge involved a 9 year old child of Sparks.

REDDING (Shasta Nov. 26. Several power shovel at the Columbia Construction operators. pany's sand and gravel plant in East Redding, supplying the Shasta Dam, walked off the job last night. E.

A. Hester, business agent of the American Federation of Labor Operating Engineers Union, predicted more would quit today. Hester charged the firm drs permitting inefficient operators to work. A shutdown of the plant would lead to a cessation of work on the Shasta Dam, which employs 2,300 men. Shovel Operators Quit Gravel Plant Capital Men Are Held For Delta Burglary Jack Dietsch of 215 Street, John Witt of 914 Second Street and Lawrence Percival of San Francisco today are held in the county jail on charges of burglary.

They were arrested by Deputy Sheriff Harry Knoll in the act of removing farm machinery from Kimball Island, in lower Sacramento County. The men, according to Knoll, are accused of taking an from the island, which electrienator V. F. Kimball of Antioch. They also were attempting to steal, the officer said, a tractor, two mowing machines and a gasoline engine.

Mrs. Margaret Knisley Of Citrus Heights Dies ROSEVILLE (Placer Nov. 26. Funeral arrangements are pending the Lambert Funeral Home for Mrs. Margaret A.

Knisley, 56, who died in her home at 370 Mariposa Avenue in Citrus Heights yesterday. The deceased, a native of Illinois, leaves her husband. Fred S. Knisley, yard man for the Diamond Match Lumber Company in Roseville. She was the mother of Mrs.

Beulah Marie Vann of Geyser, Fred Knisley of Citrus Heights and sister of Mrs. E. R. Smith of Burlington, Iowa, John of Minnesota, F. D.

of Pennsylvania and E. R. Hawkins of Illinois. Retired Game Warden Is Injured In Maxwell MAXWELL (Colusa Nov. 26.

S. J. Carpenter, retired captain game wardens in this district, suffered fractures of two bones and a dislocation of his ankle when he fell in a Maxwell garage the same place where his hand was injured in a fall several years ago. Carpenter entered the Colusa Memorial Hospital the day after his sister, Mrs. Almeda Gregory, was dismissed.

She underwent an operation. Elk Grove ELK GROVE (Sacramento Nov. A Thanksgiving dinner was served in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fachner of Elk Grove, the occasion also being the birthday of Mrs.

Dan Fachner. Those attending were: Mr. and Mrs. Jackiel Schover of Elk Grove, Mr. and Mrs.

Dan Fachner of Galt, Mr. and Mrs. Egon Warnhe of Oakland, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Fachner of Sacramento, Lester and Fachner and Beverly Warnhe.

Ducks' Craws In Dunsmuir Contain Gold DUNSMUIR (Siskiyou Nov. and Mrs. James Creason cannot claim the distinction of having raised geese that laid golden eggs, but they did raise ducks that had gold nuggets, in which their is craws. responsible for the fact there is a miniature gold rush on along a small mountain stream which passes through the Creason's property. The Creasons sold their ducks to friends and neighbors for the Thanksgiving holiday.

The respective cooks, in cleaning the birds, found the nuggets. The gold is believed to have been washed down the stream from a vein on the mountain side. Small boys have been panning the sands to obtain Christmas spending money, Mare Island Is High In Safety MARE ISLAND NAVY YARD (Solano Nov. commandant's office announced yesterday that Mare Island holds second place in the race for safety honors. Safety figures released by the navy department show the Puget Sound Navy Yard is in first place and Philadelphia Navy Yard is third.

Mare Island formerly was in eighth place. Mare Island has a total of 113 man hours of work with only twenty seven reportable injuries, with a low frequency rate of 3.67. Tuberculosis Seal Talks Are Planned ROSEVILLE (Placer Nov. 26. Mrs.

Rita Spark, Roseville district chairman of the Placer County Tuberculosis Association, will present minute men in the Tower Theater three times a week month to acquaint the public with the work which the funds from the seal sale will accomplish. Local residents are receiving in the mail letters containing 200 seals for which they are asked to send checks to the association. According to Mrs. Spark, the proceeds of last year's sale enabled the association to carry on a comprehensive testing County program school in among the Placer children. The executive committee members from Roseville Mrs.

Cora M. Woodbridge, Elwyn H. Gregory, Dr. Empey and Dr. R.

P. Weddle. Courthouse Dome Will Be Removed YUBA CITY (Sutter Nov. Sutter County Courthouse cupola, county landmark for slightly more than half a century, will be torn down in the near future on the order of the board of supervisors. since bad condition The board yesterday that decided, and will take extensive repairs it will be removed before it falls and injures someone.

The two story porch on the front of the courthouse will be repaired. A recent inspection by painters showed it to be in bad condition. Frank Langford, Jenny Lind district stockman and mining man, appointed a member of the Calaveras County Board of Supervisors by Governor Culbert L. Olson today. He will fill the vacancy caused Jenny Lind Man Is Named Supervisor Hospital in Sacramento, convalescing after A blood transfusion necessitated by an illness.

Sumpter, 79, has lived on Lake Tahoe for more than fifty years. by the death of Jacob F. Tower. TAHOE CITY: Tahoean Is IllAndrew Sumpter isin the Sutter Be good to yourself! "TREAT YOURSELF TO HERMITAGE For Generations -A Great hontucky Whisker Good to your budget, too, is this smoother, mellower whiskey! Tonight- -buy the bottle that generations of wise drinkers have cherished HERMITAGE as an American heritage. Try Old available BRAND fine Kentucky bour- in bon, as smooth, mellow and delicious 100 Bond, as any you'll ever taste for the mod- Proof.

KENTUCKY SPRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY est price you'll pay. KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY Distributed by Argonaut Liquor Company, 517 Eye Street. Sacramento, Calif. 93 Proof Mare Island Man Is To Be Retired MARE ISLAND NAVY YARD (Solano Nov. Pharmacist Charles Schaffer will be detached from his present duty at the Mare Island Naval Medical Supply Depot within a few days and ordered to his home preliminary to retirement at the age of 64.

Schaeffer has spent forty five years in active naval service, and has served at his present station in the capacity of executive assistant to the commanding officer since 1936. He is a native of Brooklyn. Schaeffer entered the navy in March, 1897, and after serving on many ships and shore stations in this country, served in Cavite, Canacao, Coco Solo, Canal Zone and then concluded his naval career at Mare Island, where he had served previously. He saw service throughout Spanish-American War, participating in the Cuban blockade. tion against the forts at San Juan, Porto Rico, and engagements along the southern coast of Cuba.

Schaeffer holds medals for naval engagements in Indies, the Spanish campaign medal, Mexican service medal and the Victory medal. Honoring him on his retirement, fellow officers from Mare Island held a farewell dinner this week in the warrant officers' center. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. The body of a woman who plunged to her death from the twelfth floor terrace of the Western Womens Club was identified as that of Mrs. Persia Briggs, 70, widow of J.

Watts Briggs, former Nevada mining figure and state senator. Mr. and Mrs. C. C.

McMillan of Burlingame identified the body in the morgue here. In a note written to Mrs. McMillan, Mrs. Briggs said she was "suffering from loneliness" Widow Of Nevadan Plunges To Death and "dreading the nights." LOOKOUTS ARE NAMED TAHOE CITY (Lake Tahoe). Nov.

Harry Johanson of Tahoe Park was requested to act as head of the local air raid warning service. He appointed Mr. and Mrs. J. P.

Obexer of Homewood and Roy Stark of Dollar Point as assistants 020 BUY DEFENSE BONDS NOW Survivor Of Indian Fights On Plains Dies In Siskiyou MOUNT SHASTA (Siskiyou Nov. serviceswere held in the Treadway Funeral Home here Monday for Mrs. Julia Hivley, 82, who died Saturday in the home of her daughter, Mrs. George Howard, of this city, Interment was in the Evergreen cemetery, Yreka, besides the grave of her first husband, Dr. William A.

Perkins. Rev. William R. Troutner, pastor of the ty Church, officiated. Mount Shasta, Methodist Communi.

The shalltown, deceased Iowa, was April born 24, in 1859. Mar- At the age of 10 she crossed the plains to California with her parents. The train in which they came consisted seventy wagon teams and experienced several fight with Indians. They arrived in Burney Valley, Placer Farmers Conduct Election ROSEVILLE (Placer Nov. John Malone of Lincoln is the newly elected chairman of the farmers of the western end of Placer County and will represent them on a county farmers' committee.

The election was held Monday evening at a meeting in the Dry Creek School attended by 150 farmers from the western portion of the county. Eugene Gorbolino of Roseville was elected vice chairman. J. R. Dyer of Roseville the third member of the committee.

The committee will act on soil conservation, wheat allotment and other farm problems. Farm Bureau Will Hold Elko Meeting ELKO Nov. Nevada Farm Bureau Federation will hold its twenty third annual meeting here December 1st. 2nd and 3rd. Speakers are scheduled to dwell upon various phases of food production in connection with the defense emergency.

George F. Ogilvie of this city, is the president of the organization, and will preside at all of the general sessions. Ray B. Wiser, president of the California Farm Bureau Federation, is to speak Tuesday afternoon. His subject will be The Farmers' New Frontier Lies In The Field Of Organization.

Mining Man Is Killed In Crash In Wadsworth Shasta County, where the family resided. In 1887 she married Dr. Perkins and moved to Yreka, where family lived until the death of the doctor on September 12, 1912. She was married a second time to George Hivley, Surviving are two daughters: Mrs. George Howard, Mount ShasMrs.

Rose Owens, City; four sons: Charles H. Perkins, Yuba City; Richard S. Perkins, Marysville; Burt F. Perkins, Oakland; Leroy Perkins, Sacramento. All attended the funeral services here except Mrs.

Owens, who is ill. Forty grandchildren also attended the last rites. Pallbearers were Orval Howard, Cecil Howard, Harold Perkins, Richard Perkins, Leroy Perkins and Jess Schooler, Elko Man Is Found Dead In His Auto ELKO Nov. services will be arranged here for Otto Schaechter, 57, resident of this community, who was found dead in his parked automobile nine miles west of here. Death was due to a gunshot wound.

A pistol was found on the floor of his car. Clarksburg CLARKSBURG (Yolo Nov. -Miss Florinda Fraser and Rob. ert Mercer of Alameda visited Miss Fraser's parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Guy Fraser, in Clarksburg during the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Willard J. Fisher of Alameda visited their son and daughter in law, Rev.

and Mrs. E. L. Fisher, for a few days last week. Karl Schneider, a former teacher in the Clarksburg High School, visited with Mr.

and Mrs. Jesse C. Marshall for a few days before goGeorgia to receive special training for an army commission. Schneider has been stationed at Camp Roberts as a private. Mr.

and Mrs. Robert Lingscheid of Burbank arrived in Clarksburg Wednesday night and visited Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Heringer, parents of Mrs. Lingscheid, until Sunday.

December 5th is the date set for the annual football dance to be held in the Clarksburg Union High School. In the Mount Rainier National Park. wind and water combine to carve the world's most fantastic ice caves. Victim Of Nevada Truck Collision Once Lived In Grass Valley RENO Nov. Golden, 55, Nevada mining man, was injured fatally in a truck collision in Wadsworth yesterday when his pickup truck and a large express truck collided as he was making a turn.

He was thrown to the highway. The express truck, driven by Edward Whiteside, careened from highway and was damaged, but the driver was uninjured. Golden died before he reached the hospital here. He had been engaged in mining in this state for many years. At one time he lived in Grass Valley, Calif.

There are no known relatives. a Peace Disturber Is Fined In El Dorado PLACERVILLE (El Dorado Nov. De Lory, 49, Coloma farmer, was fined $25 yesterday when he appeared before City Judge E. E. Creed and pleaded guilty to a charge of disturbing the peace.

He also will make restitution for smashed windows. The B. J. Dellis family, who live on the Coloma road, were awakened early yesterday when and buckets began coming through the windows. Awakened by the shattering of the glass several neighbors, one armed with a shotgun, gave chase to the disturber.

De Lory was lodged in jail by City Officer Orville Reinoehl. Justice Of Peace In Sparks Pays $5 Fine TRUCKEE (Nevada Nov. 26. Justice of the Peace E. R.

Simms of Sparks, appeared before Justice of the Peace C. E. Smith here on a charge of illegal passing on the highway. When the Nevada officer pleaded guilty Smith issued a mild reprimand and assessed him $5. Re-conditioned Appliances GU GUARANTEED Lots of good wear and use in these yet! Our experts have gone over them, cleaned them up, replaced worn parts-in short, given them new efficiency and made them ready for your homes at savings indicated by the listing.

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