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Santa Maria Woman Burns to Death in Home: Column 7. WEATHER Unsettled tonight, Tuesday partly cloudy, little change in temperature. TEMPERATURES High 58 Low 47 Rainfall 24 to noon 34 This season 13.82 Last season 14.78 ry-y w' A NEWSPAPER DEDICATED TO HEIhTrEBESTSOrHE SANTAMADIA VALLEY i i 1 FEBRUARY 14, 1938 I SPIED- Arline Bates ready for rain, in a white raincoat, white oxfords and white socks. AJvey Bruner asserting that rain is measured by feet instead, of inches in Oregon. Marinus Nielsen serving Times employes and Rev.

Arthur Nagel cold chocolate milk early this morning. Bob Bruce mourning the small attendance in school today, and the consequent cut in state cash aid. Bobby Hoag getting four shirts among his birthday gifts. Reg. Evans assisting a friend to put out a toyon hush he had given him.

Julia Martinez getting a hot pie for a valentine. SANTA MARIA, CALIFORNIA. MONDAY, Subscription price $7.20 Per Year Floods and Blizzard ENEMY TO TIKE Grip All California U. IS PMZEjMany Roads Blocked Volume 20 COCOS 1SLAN BEING Dill! FOR I AT BOOTY Capt. Hancock and Party Discover Fresh Evidence Of Activities RARE ANIMALS AND BIRDS ARE TAKEN Santa Marians Scientific Expedition Taktfj Many New Specimens Discovery of fresh evidences of digging for legendary pirate treasure on Cocos island in the South Pacific was reported today in dispatches from the Capt.

G. Allan Hancock scientific expedition. Well-used shovels and brush knives were found about deserted shacks of treasure hunters at the head of Wafer bay. A cache of, fresh dynamite was found beside; a stream at the head of Chatham bay, where the expeditions cruiser Valero III, anchored. Fresh diggings were found in various parts of the island.

A party led by Count Felix von Luckner, the German World war sea raider, visited the islands last October, but the Hancock scientists believed the treasure diggings were more recent or they would have been obliterated by the daily rains. What luck the would-be treasure diggers had, was not indicated. Inscriptions dating back to 1778 told of the antiquity of the search for the caches of gold reported to have been placed on the sea-specks by buccaneers. Rare Animals. Rare specimens of animal life, rather than gold-hunting, inter- (Continued on Page 3, Col.

2) County Names Oilfield Road For Inn Chief Frank McCoy now has a road named for him. The county board of supervisors has formally voted to change the name of Lake-view School road to McCoy lane. The road extends between highway 101 and Lower Orcutt road through the center of Section 27, Township 10 North, range 34 West, and separates a parcel of land owned by the Santa Maria Inn proprietor from one jointly owned by him and Ray Cooney. The McCoy tract, on the north side of the road, embraces forty acres and is the center of the Samarin drilling operations of Pacific Western Oil Co. The third Samarin well is now being sunk on the property.

The McCoy-Cooney tract of 80 acres lies on the south side of the road and fronts on Lower Orcutt road. It is under lease to Union Oil Co. and two wells will soon be drilled by this company on the property to offset P.W.s Samarin Nos. 1 and 2. McCoy lane leaves 101 highway at its junction with Orcutt road near Richfield Beacon and intersects Lower Orcutt road at Lake-view school.

Asserts Fate of Ethiopia; Awaits Unless Navy Is Increased FISH SAYS LET JAPAN BOOST HER WARSHIPS Sees No Reason Why She Shouldnt Have As 1 Many As U. S. (Copyright 1938 by United Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (U.R) i Rear Admiral Clark H. Wood-! i ward, commandant of the Third Naval district, said today that un-1 less an adequate armament program is rushed, the United States may become the Ethiopia or China of the Wesh rn hemisphere.

The 61-year-old commandant of the Brooklyn navy yard told(' the house Naval Affairs committee that "diplomatic success do-1 pends more today upon the cali-; bre of the nations guns than on the calibre of its diplomats. He said battleships are the backbone of the navy and that congress should immediately authorize construction of seven replacements for those becoming I over age by 1942. Woodward charged that the gangster dictators and swaggering bandit legions of Europe and Asia menace the peace of the United States. Fears Foreign Attack It is not unreasonable to suppose, he said, that some nation which borrowed from the United States during the World war without intention of repayment, might conceive the idea of taking by force a dawdling and unprepared United States, together with many more billions of money. Woodward also advocated preparedness against propaganda by foreign-minded and foreign-in-spired theorists seeking to undermine national security.

He said that honest lovers of peace are being abetted in their disarmament campaign by paid professional propagandists mouthing pernicious preachings of anti-preparedness zealots, internationalists and Communists in (Continued on Page 6, Col. 1) Sea Flooding British Coast, Blizzard Rages LONDON, Feb. 14. (U.R) Waters of the North Sea flooded 20 square miles of Norfolk on the east coast today as heavy seas, whipped by a severe winter gale, crashed through coastal sea walls. The sea broke through a three-mile stretch of coastal defenses near the village of Horsey, 10 miles north of Great Yarmouth, and spread five miles inland.

The destruction was the worst in 50 years. A new crisis was feared because the maximum spring tide was expected today and if the water reaches Norwich by a Viver bed dried up for nearly two centuries, extensive damage may result. Shipping on the English channel was distrupted by a blizzard. Winds along the coast reached a velocity of 90 miles an hour. Every Evening Except Sunday Worries Pile Up Harry Bridges, Westcoast maritime labor leader, looks mighty harassed in the picture above, and he has plenty of reason, because he faces possible deportation in addition to the worry of internal labor dissension.

Man Killed In Tumble From Truck Clark Miller Barnes, 28-year-old employe of Houghtons bakery, met a tragic death Saturday afternoon when he fell beneath the wheels of a truck carrying 30,000 pounds of gravel. The accident occurred half way between Fugler point and the Fug-ler warehouse on the Garey road. Capt. Deane Laughlin of the sheriffs department, was called to investigate the accident, and the C. P.

Magner ambulance brought the body to Santa Maria. According to the story of Addison Iliff, driver of the truck, Barnes had been out at the Iliff (Continued on Page 3, Col. 2) Nojoqui Falls Running Strong Head of Water Nojoqui falls are roaring over the precipice in Nojoqui county park in greater force than most persons have ever seen them. The falls are carrying a heavy head of clear water and the foam and spray dances down the drop in rainbow hues when the sun is shining. So heavy is the fall of water that the benches placed for use of spectators are covered in the mist.

The road into the park is in excellent shape and the trail to the falls was undamaged by the recent heavy rains. any mineral which might be in jurious to agriculture, in addition to reporting more than 60 grains of salt per gallon, as required in the old ordinance. The planning department may enter and inspect all oil properties. It is made unlawful to abandon wells without having obtained from the planning department a certificate that all water outlets near the surface are shut off. The county ordinance supplements state laws concerning oil drilling and the handling of drilling operations.

Injure Farm. Land Action by the supervisors was hastened by complaints from Carpinteria valley farmers that wells long abandoned in that area have been flowing water impregnated with minerals harmful to crops. Number 254 Only One Highway North lo Oregon Is Open; Great Valleys Inundated WATSONVILLE STILL AWASH FROM RIVER Northern Part of State Is Euried in Snow; New Storm at Salinas SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14 (UP) Heavy rains, blizzards and high winds continued throughout California today, bringing serious flood threats, tying up railroad service, breaking communications and turning hundreds from lowland homes. It was the nineteenth consecutive day on which rain swept the state.

Nearly every fcathcr bureau record was broken. Most dangerously imperilled were the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys, richest of Californias inland agricultural empire. Thousands of acres of crops were flooded and destroyed, and property damage was extensive in towns bordering the rampaging streams. The mountains were locked in by snows. Immense drifts halted highway and rail traffic.

Crews fought to bring stranded passenger trains through. Despite the seriousness of the storms and their wide extent, only two new deaths were reported. Railways and Roads Blocked Torrential downpours on hill and mountain slopes sent numerous slides crashing down on highways and railroad lines. Wide gaps were torn in concrete roads. Trees, rocks and earth buried railway tracks.

One of the most serious threats endured in the Sacramento delta region near Isleton, rich asparagus district. Hundreds of men worked there on levees along the Sacramento river, swollen to dyke top by rains and tides backing up from San Francisco hay. Following virtual cloudbursts, levees burst in the Stockton area, near the junction of the Stockton and Stanislaus rivers. Truck-loads of men were recruited in Stockton and rushed to fight the waters spilled over fertile fields. Wind, almost of gale strength, whipped snow into 30-foot drifts, and from Redding came a report that snow plows were trapped.

North Is Snowed-In The extreme northern part of the state and southern Oregon suffered the brunt of a driving blizzard. A score of towns between Dunsmuir and Oregon were isolated. The worst slides occurred at Dunsmuir, Cantera and Castclla. Yreka was cut off from the outside. Mt.

Shasta Citv, Weed and Klamath Falls had only partial communication. The weather bureau reported no relief was in sight. San Francisco and the surrounding terri- (Continued on Page 6, Col. 6) Arroyo Grande Flood-Control Hearing Is Set A public hearing will be held in Arroyo Grande, in the city hall, at 10 a.m. Friday, March 11, concerning preliminary examination of Arroyo Grande creek in San Luis Obispo county, with a view to control of floods, wafer conservation, soil erosion prevention, in accordance with congressional acts of August 23.

1937, and June 22. 1936. as modified by act of July 19, 1937. Those were the acts passed to cover the Santa Maria water conservation project and others in this section, including those in San Luis Obispo county. The hearing has been called by Maj.

Theo. Wyman U. S. army district engineer in Los Angeles. Up in the Air 5 This man became a telephone pole sitter not by choice when flood waters trapped him near Sebewaing, Mich.

The flood at Sebewaing, only one of many which swept north central states, caused damage of $300,000. Wright Sane Jury Is Told By Alienist LOS ANGELES, Feb. 14 (U.R) Paul A. Wright, former president of Union Air Terminal, was sane when he was examined in the county jail hospital, Dr. M.

E. Rowe, court-appointed psychiatrist, testified to day at the opening of Wrights sanity trial in Judge Tngall Bulls court. A second alienist testified similarly. Wright, 38, was convicted Saturday on a double charge of manslaughter for the admitted slaying of his wife and John Bryant Kimmel. He said he was seized by a white flame of rage when he assertedly found his wife and Kimmel in an abnormal embrace in the Wright home last Nov.

9. Wright returned to court today for the trial of his sanity under his dual plea of not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity. Case Soon Finished Both sides rested soon after the case was called before the same jury that heard the murder evidence and convicted Wright. The sanity issue was to be submitted on argument, on the basis of testimony recorded at the murder trial. Prosecutor Ernest Roll informed the court that the state rested its case on the presumption of sanity, provided the state were given the right to submit testimony in rebuttal to the defense showing.

Giesler agreed to that stipula- (Continued on Page 3, Col. 3) Joint Finance Campaign Here Is Called Off Proposal to stage a joint financial campaign for the Boy Scouts, the Y. M. C. A.

and the Camp Fire Girls, failed to materialize and the three groups will stage separate campaigns this year as in the past. J. Ben Wiley announced today that the Y. campaign would be staged for three days beginning Feb. 23, and Geo.

V. Footman, finance chairman of the Scouts, said the Scout campaign would be staged in March, probably starting on March 23. Date for the campaign to raise funds for the Camp Fire Girls has not been set. DIES FR On HEART ATTACK Noted New York Columnist Is Called, After Brief Illness in Home SMALLTOWN BOY WHO MADE GOOD IN CITY Wrote of People and Places In Metropolis, Made Large Fortune NEW YORK, Feb. 14 (U.R) O.

O. McIntyre, the small-town boy from Gallipolis, who won fame and wealth interpreting the big city, died today. His death apparently was caused by a heart attack. Only his wife was with him in the apartment. She said that his last words were: Turn your face toward me so I can see you.

The columnist was taken ill on Saturday. Following his lifelong practice, he refused to call a doctor. He died about 2 a.m. today in his Park Avenue apartment. McIntyre Oscar Odd McIntyre was his full name would have observed his fifty-fourth birthday anniversary on Feb.

18. His close friends tailed him Odd. Drew Big Sums McIntyre applied to New York the principles he learned when he was a reporter for the Gallipolis Journal in 1902. At his death his column, New York Day by Day, was syndicated in 380 newspapers, earning him a huge salary, said to be $500 a day plus his magazine income and back royalties. McIntyre gained his great: popularity by personalizing New York, by treating its masses of stone and steel and its, millions of inhabitants as though they were places and people whom he knew intimately and whom his readers wanted to know.

He was born in Plattsburg, Feb. 18, 1884, and was educated in Bartletts college in Cincinnati. From the Gallipolis Journal he went to the East Liverpool, Tribune as a feature writer and in 1906, when he was 22, he became political writer and later managing editor of the Dayton, Herald. The New York Leap From the Herald he went to the Cincinnati Post as successively telegraph editor, city editor and assistant managing editor and became also an associate editor of Hamptons Magazine. In 19l2 he took the big leap he came to New York, where his literary flair brought him the coveted job of drama editor on the New York Evening Mail.

Not (Continued on Page 6, Col. 5) City Soaked By New Rain Of .34 of Inch Santa Marias rainfall for the season was lifted to 13.82 inches by a downpour of .34 of 'an inch during the night. This corresponded to 14.78 a year ago at this time. Possibility of further showers here tonight and tomorrow was forecast by the weather bureau in San Francisco today. Because of the recent heavy rains, last nights rainfall did not soak rapidly into the ground and pools of water again stood today in many places while the gutters in all east-west streets ran with water again.

Cook street was again a millrace, and water rose onto the lawns in the 1100 block on South Broadway. Schools continued in session today, though there were 235 absent in the elementary schools and many in the high school. County road workers, under the direction of Harry Neel, Fifth road district engineer, worked over the week-end repairing damage to county roads caused by the recent storms. Two bridges, the Pine Grove and Black Road bridges, were washed out, he said. However the roads have been made pasable now.

The Pine Grove bridge is on the road leading to Pine Grove schoolhouse near Orcutt. The other one is on Betteravia-Casmalia road. PICKUPS and COMMENT By G. A. MARTIN Seator Neely of West Virginia, in successfully appealing to the senate the other day for confirmation of Roy Yoke as collector of internal revenue for his state, despite the objections of Senator Ilolt, pulled a brand-new one on the chamber when he began thus: Mr.

President, by way of prolegomena. The word has nothing to do with the lower extremities. It means an introductory remark. The omniscient staff of official shorthand reporters was jarred a bit by the West Virginians unfamiliar jawbreaker. But John D.

Rhodes, veteran member of the senate pot-and-hook brigade, says it has been prepared for anything ever since the following eruption from Senator Hiram Johnson some 10 years ago: Mr. President, during the last year, bellowed from the hustings, tintinnabulated over the radio, ululated from a servile press, enjoined by presidential proclamation and resounding from every quarter, has come to us here the objurgation: Agriculture must be placed on an equality with industry. There is no dissonance in the repetition of the generality. It is only in concreteness that comes cacophony at all. Since that Pennsylvania town has appointed a petting patrol, Ettamae says girls will now also have to look out for the arm of the law.

Today is the birthday anniversary of Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock, born in 1824. He served in the Mexican war as a captain, though only 22 years of age, and rose to the rank of major general in the Civil war. Oregon became the nations Valentine when it joined the Union on this date in 1859. Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone on St.

Valentines day, 62 years ago. A man may not be drunk just because he is down on his hands and knees in the center of a highway, said Dr. B. U. L.

Conner, but somethings wrong when he tries to roll up tlhe white line. Big placards displayed in every restaurant in Santa Barbara, By Order of the City Health Department announce that No doge are permitted in any eating place in Santa Barbara. Its a fine rule. Very few persons like to eat in places where dogs are permitted to enter. In Santa Barbara, police explain, the penalty applies against persons taking dogs into restaurants as well as to cafe owners permitting it.

Another oldtimer is one who recalls that you did not have to understand a lot of trick phrases in order to be able to understand the operations of the national government. John Stephen McGroarty, a Democratic congressman from California, is worried that the people take no deeper interest in government, and says: Maybe it is because they have become used to a system, the principle of which is that the country can lift itself out of debt by pursuing a policy of continuous borrowing. And it may be that a big nation like the United States can make a success of that theory. An individual cant do it, but maybe a nation can. Possibly a nation has tricks up its sleeve with which an individual has not become familiar or expert.

The United States Treasury receives and redeems about three million dollars worth of mutilated money a year. The real name of Peter Spray-nozzle. who broadcasts from Station KSL, is Sam Kiefer. This truck stops at all railroad crossings. Son to Wed I i In America to see her son happily married is Lady Violet Astor, above, the former Lady Nairne of England, who received an outright gift of and an income of per year from the late Viscount William Waldorf Aster when she agreed to marry his son, Capt.

John Jacob Astor, after the latter was horribly wounded during the World war. Mrs. Wilson Is Victim Of Flames Mrs. Edith Wilson, wife of George Wilson, truck driver for the operating department of Midland Counties Public Service was burned to death this afternoon when her home at 603 West Orange street caught fire. Mrs.

Wilson was believed to have been asleep, for efforts of her neighbor to arouse her or to get into the house were futile, and her husband, who had been home for lunch, told Police Chief L. M. that she was lying on the bed smoking a cig-aiet when he started back to work. He concluded that she dropped off to sleep and the cig-aret set the bedding ablaze. The alarm was turned in by Mrs.

Martin Ujano, who lives next door to the Wilson home, at 601 West Orange street. Mrs. Ujano said she noticed smoke coming from the Wilson house and ran over to investigate. She tried both doors and was unable to get in. Running back to her home, she asked for assistance from Bernarbe Arcy, who was successful in breaking a window on the house door, but was still unable to get in.

The two neighbors also telephoned in a fire alarm. Members of the fire department, under the direction of Fire Chief Frank Crakes, succeeded in getting the body of Mrs. Wilson out of the burning house, and the C. P. Magner ambulance was called.

The inside of the house was a mass of charred wood. Advised of the northern assessors action, Charles Tomlinson, Santa Barbara county assessor, announced that reductions in farm assessments for taxation are also certain in this county. The Southern California county assessors will meet in Los Angeles on March 1 to agree upon standardized valuations for livestock and crops in southern California, said Tomlinson. There is no doubt that they, like the northern assessors, will make Santa Barbara County Is Tightening Oil Ordinance Supervisors of Santa Barbarafport water production carrying Farmers of County Will Get Tax Cuts Next Year county, at the insistence of agriculturists and upon the advice of the County Planning commission, are tightening the oil development ordinance. Strict supervision is awarded the county planning department over all oil field drilling, development, maintenance and abandonment.

In addition to the original fees and inspections provided for in connection with original developments of oil lands, recent amendments (now being published in The Times) provide for a $10 annual inspection fee for inspection of oil wells producing 50 barrels or more daily. Also required is a monthly report concerning water flow from oil wells. Protects Water Supply Oil companies, by further amendment, are required to re- For the first tir i 1934 the assessed valuation of Santa Barbara county is expected to decrease when assessment valuation begins on March 6. Definite indication of shrinkage in the valuation base to which next fiscal years tax rates will be applied were presented yesterday by Sacramento reports from a northern California county assessors convention. The assessors of the north repeated they will reduce farm crop and livestock assessments as much as 50 per cent when they begin assessing in March..