The Pomona Progress Bulletin from Pomona, California • 9

Thousands and thousands of dollars change bands annually between buyers and sellers who read and use the Progress-Bulletin's CLASSIFIED PAGES "Pomona Valley's Market Place Local News, Financial, Classifieds Sports and Comics Pages VOL XL1I NUMBER 225 SECTION TWO POMONA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1940 8 PAGES PPIPP 4 8 I 8 A CO CENTS A MC Rented Machine Sold; Man Held To Face Trial Swerve to Avoii Dog Wrecks Car, Injures Driver at Harvard university, will arrive Sunday morning to pass the Christmas holidays with Ids parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Endicott, 529 E. Baseline road, Claremont. 1I will leave on January 2 to reaume bis studies in business administration at the university.

Mrs. George ChacUtfield and her infant daughter hive left San Antonio Community hospital. Upland where he baby was horn on December 8. Their home Is at 2902 Curtis avenue, Alham.hra. Mrs Charksfleld is a daughter of Mr i rain, as predicted in a weather and Mrs.

A. B. Marshall, 644 San) bureau forecast, 30-focl waves Francisco stieet. Pomona. battered Los Angeles county Attempting to avoid striking a dog with her car, Bailie D.

Service, 58, of 1733 Laurenclta drive, Covina Heights, was gashed and bruised when the auto skidded and was wrecked, deputies at the San Dimas sheriffs substation reported today, Mrs. Service told Deputies Charles J. Rowland and Arthur M. McDaniel she was driving along Oregon avenue near Golden Bough drive at 9:30 a. m.

Tuesday when the dog ran across the street When she turned, the car hit the shoulder of the road, softened by a day and night of heavy rain, skidded when she tried to force it back on the pavement, and nosed Into a drainage ditch. Her right leg was bruised and a deep cut In the left side of her Jaw required that six stitches be taken. Lewis Sylvester Helms, 34, of Burbank, accused of stealing a 375 sanding machine from the General Paint store, 395 W. 2nd street, was returned here today from the Orange county Jail for trial on a petty theft complaint. Helms had served a 7 5 -day term In Santa Ana on a similar charge.

Using the name of Frank Kellogg, and giving a local address that proved fictitious, Helms "rented' the sanding machine September 23 last and then failed to return It. Orange county authorities arrested Helms In connection with similar bunco deals In that city and learned that he was wanted not only in Pomona, but in Glendale, Monrovia and Ana-helm. Loot In these deals amounted to several hundreds of dollars In equipment value, altho Heims as-sertedly sold the equipment much below what It actually was worth. Equipment stolen here was recovered In Bakersfield for store manager R. E.

Rider by Investigator Ralph Nichols of the police department. It had been sold to Jack Tomberlln, a negro floor worker. Forsit T. Gary, 1406 Elwood beaches, wrecking small boats, un street, is recovering very nicely dermlning the Redondo Beach following an emergency appender. strand walk and sendirg a few tomy he underwent Friday.

He la families fleeing from ocean front at Pomona Valley Community houses, hospital. The Misses Edith and Edwins Keene, students at the University of California at Los Angpies, are Developing In the wake of Southern Californias met severe storm of the season, the huge combers Rush of Sending Christmas Packages Reaching Peak; Incoming Mail Heavy Expectations ars mailing of Clfrlstmas packages from Pomona will be at or near the peak today. Postmaster J. Ransom Casey stated as hundreds of parcels of different sizes continued to pour Into the office for dispatch to people In different parts of the country. More than 1000 packages were sent from the local office Tuesday and on Monday the total was over the 1200 mark.

There were 580 Insured packages Monday. Five postal workers are being kept busy receiving parcels from lines of people going to the postoffice to send presents as well as letters and cards with Tuletlde greetings. Incoming mall will be growing heavier daily between now and Christmas as packages and greetings arrive here from relatives and friends of Pomona ns. Mr. and Mrs.

George G. Hamilton of Hamiltons Drug yesterday enjoyed a visit from the formers brother-in-law, B. L. Amos, Ida son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.

Dewey E. Amos and daughter, Elcnora, Mrs. Amos' sister, Miss Curlnne Richardson, and mother, all of Colby. Kan. They arrived a few days ago to spend the winter In Monrovia.

Two years ago they were In Iotnona for several months. Mr. and Mrs. John Veramontes of Etlwanda are the parents of a son, born at 5:30 a.m. Friday, December 13, at the Butka Medical building.

Weight of the baby was seven pounds, 12 ounces. Mother and baby have gone home. Ralph Humble, 1394 S. Park avenue, left Tuesday for Boise, Idaho, for an indefinite stay with his sister. Mrs.

C. A. Hatfield. Mrs. Hoyt F.

Boylan of Monon, arrived here today via the Union Tacifc to spend the Christmas holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Roy L. Driscoll, 320 Randolph street. Mrs.

Boylan, sister of Mr. Driscoll, is publisher of the Monon News. Her mother, Mrs. Clara Driscoll, who has spent the last year here at her son's home, will return with Mrs. Boylan.

Miss Helen Placher of Bay RIdgg, N. Is visiting her fiance. Paul E. Tynan, and his mother, Mrs. William Knodel, 1235 E.

5th avenue. Miss Placher was employed formerly by the Metropolitan Life Insurance company In New York City. William E. Baker, publisher of the Pomona Tribune, Is again at his home, 319 N. Central avenue, Chino, having been brought home Sunday from Ban Antonio hospital, Upland, where he was under treatment for an illness with pneumonia.

He Is improving nicely. John Endicott, graduate student smashing against the shore were declared hy some oldtime Redondo residents to be the largest In 29 yea ra. A woman was reported cut by flying glass when a huge breaker smashed In windows of a home on Ocean Front street, Venice. Life- Mayor and Council Object To Wakefields Attitude On Local Depot Plea Pomona city council having reaffirmed Its determination, at the Tuesday afternoon session, to continue efforts to secure re-establishment of a Pomona store or depot for distribution of federal surplus food and cotton stamps, to replace the mall order plan now In effect. Mayor Charles Short went Into action again today.

The mayor was to write letters and send telegrams to Governor Gulbert L. Olson, Assemblyman Lee T. Bnshore and State Senator Robert W. Kenny, protesting the attitude of Ralph "Wakefield, acting head of the State Relief administration, toward the city's proposal that a surplus commodities stamp store be operated here. Wakefield's letter received this week by Mayor Short, the answer to the first series of telegrams and letters to the governor and legislators, was highly discouraging to city officials, who disagree with Wakefield In his assertion that the mall order system Is more beneficial than the local store plan for handling food and cotton stamps.

Clients Here Want Store From experience which has been gathered In other parts of the county where mall order procedure has been In operation we find that after It Is given a trial It (the mall order system) Is more acceptable to participants than the (Continued on Page 8, This Section) Building to be Completed Late Friday; Dedication, Inspection Dec. 30th Occupancy of ths new Southern Pacific station In Pomona Is scheduled for Saturday, W. E. Campbell, traveling passenger agent for the railroad company, stated today following announcement frcgn the contractors that work on the new building would bs finished Friday afternoon. Saturday and Sunday will be moving days for the office personnel which has been occupying the temporary quarters adjoining the new building on the east The temporary building Is to be moved Monday and Tuesday.

Thus by Monday, December 30, the date set for public dedication of the new building, everything will be In readiness for Inspection of the station thruout by the throngs of people Interested in seeing this new structure and its facilities for serving the public. Interior Being Finished Finish work In the Interior Is rapidly nearing completion. Counters have been Installed and various other furnishings are being placed. Electrical connections are being made as lighting fixtures are being hung. The elaborate mural to be in the west end of the waiting room will be in place this week.

Plumbing Is being Installed in rest rooms as a part of the finish work. The baggage and freight (Continued on Page 8, This Section) spending the Christmas holidays with their parents, Mr. and Mrs Newton Keene, 129 E. Kingsley avenue. They will be here until January 6.

Mr. and Mrs. Oscar D. Kull, 625 Randolph street, had as guests Saturday Mr. and Mrs.

Walter Bell and small son, Arthur, of Oxnard, guards and police went to the as-Tom Jones, student at Stanford elstanre of tho three occupants. Barber Shop Blaze Causes Estimated $100 Damage Loss In a barber shop fire Tuesday morning at 466 N. San Antonio avenue was estimated by the fire department to have been approximately 3100. Firemen were called out on a still alaim at 4:55 oclock when a truck driver sow flames and smoke Inside the little shop, which Is operated by J. I.

Sandlin. A defective connection on a gas heater that had been left burning was blamed. Mogt of the barbers tools were destroyed. The building was dnmaged and ths gas heater damaged. Loss was not Insured, firemen learned.

Alfalfa Hay Output Of California Sets New High Record Alfalfa hay production In California In 1940 established a new high record, estimated at 3,280,000 tons, according to the annual summary made by the U. S. department of agriculture. Southern California will have a smaller acreage, however, according to trade reports. Los Angeles county has around 48,000 acres In alfalfa, Riverside county 34,000, San Bernardino county 15,000, Orange county 5000 and Ventura county 7500 acres.

Antelope valley furnished truck shipments aggregating 68,800 tons during the first half of the 1939-40 season, as compared with 46,000 tons during the first half of the 1938-39 season. Quality of the alfalfa hay received in the Log Angeles market during the six months ended September 30, 1940, showed marked improvement. university, arrived Saturday to spend the Christmas vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. V.

M. Jones, 859 Columbia avenue. HIh sister, Miss Ruth Jones, who is enrolled at Panta Barbara State college, will come on Friday to Inhere for the holidays. Another sister, Miss Margaret Jones, who resides at home, will be on vacation from her duties as a teacher at Ontario. Mr.

and Mrs. Albert Lubosch and daughter, Dorothy, 1210 Dudley street, and Mr. and Mrs. John Meyers and children, Billy, Jean and John, of Los Angeles were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.

Herbert Gray and children, Donald and John Harry, of Pasadena. The three families were formerly neighbors In Los Angeles. Miss Lucille Lathrop, teacher at Orange, and Paul Lathrop, coach and teacher at Petaluma, will spend the Christmas holidays with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. S.

H. Lathrop, 734 E. 6th street who began piling up their furniture to keep it front the swirling water. Evacuats Redondo Home Two other families were reported moving out of their home at the north edge of Redondo Beach, where the water washed over the Pacific Electric tracks. Heavy sand erosion occurred all the way from Ocean Park to Playa Del Rey, and a few pilings were wrenched from the Hermosa and Venice piers, according to lifeguards.

At Manhattan Beach, the combers swept up the strand and broke against the Muff on which the town Is situated. In several beach towns sar.dbag barricades were hastily erected about many homes on the ocean front A dozen fishing boats, 25 to 3S feet In length, were reported ewept onto the shore at Redondo, smashing several of them. At Santa Monica, two small boats broke loose from their moor-(Contlnued on Page 7, Thla Section). 'etud EVERY CLASS AT HAMILTON PLANS PARTY How. many times are there during the year when you'd like to let him know how swell you think he is but just become a "timid soul" about it? Well now it's Christmas, and what you haven't been able to put into words, you can express In a really handsome gift of quality, selected from where he shops himself, for better things.

Eleven separate Christmas parties at Hamilton school will celebrate beginning of the holidays on Friday afternoon, the last day of classes. The 370 pupils will be given Informal entertainment In their 11 rooms by their teachers, Instead of the usual single program by the entire school. A Christmas tree, music and candy will be part of each celebration. When the students leave school for vacation after the parties they will take home gifts which they have been making for their parents during the past few weeks. Amu-Wmqi SHIRTS in white, stripes and combinations.

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The seaplane Is known as the N-3, carries a ton of bombs and has a speed of more than 235 miles per hour. It Is operated by a crew of three and has a complement of six guns. Two dozen of the bombers were ordered by Norway before that nation was overrun by Nazi Germany. Despite the setback, the Norwegian air force Instructed Northrop to fill the order, because Norway had decided to carry on Us battle from bases In England. Balance of the order will be filled at the rate of one a week.

LICENSED TO WED Marriage license had been Issued here today to Charles Clifford Condit, 58, of 490 Preclado street, Pomona, and Roberta Jordan Guerin, 55, of 783 E. Kingsley avenue, Pomona. INTEND TO WED Notice of Intention to wed was filed here Tuesday afternoon by Murray Landium Gibbons, 34, of 720 E. Kingsley avenue, Pomona, and Virginia Clark Rudolph, 23, of 680 W. Holt avenue, Pomona.

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