The Modesto Bee from Modesto, California • 2

REVISED PENSION SCHEME CALLS FOR $20 WEEKLY Willis Allen, One Of Sponsors of Proposal, Outlines Program LOS ANGELES, Jan. "Ham 'n' Eggs" dis not the "$30 Every Thursday" pension plan any Willis Allen, one of the sponsors of the proposal twice defeated by California voters, announced the organization will seek only $20 weekly for citizens over 50 at a third election next August. Instead of "$30 Every Thursday," slogan be "$20 now." thA, Allen Bald. a previous the proposal the post director of plan be limited to one or two individuals would be eliminated in favor of the election of three administrators. Another change exempt church and charity groups from taxation.

OUTLINES SAN DIEGO, Jan. Allen of Los Angeles, one of the originators of the $30 Thursday pension plan which was defeated at the polls last November, today pushed the 1940 campaign to pay aged Californians $20 every Thursday. Allen, campaign manager of the revised plan, explained to an yesterday "we realize $30 Thursday was too much Once get our foot in, it will be comparatively easy to raise it to the amount." Outlining preliminary draft of issues, he said as a means of converting "at least half a million voters to our cause," $20 Thursday "had to make certain concessions He said the latest Ham and Eggs plan will eliminate the clause "which labor interpreted as restricting their right to strike." Will Clarify Tax "The 3 per cent gross income tax is to be clarified to wipe out any objections raised by church groups but in every other way it will be applied as before," he or explained. He said the governor would appoint a three man commission administer the act--to nullify criticism the original act would tend set up a dictatorship in the state. Plans have been made, he said, to issue life payment coupons which would be sold to merchants, and "premiums will be that the general policy will be the same as affixing a stamp to a life payment warrant." Payments would be issued, through a bank owned and operated by California taxpayers, he said.

Commercial Club Visits San Francisco members of the Modesto Thirty, Commercial Club visited in San Francisco Saturday. They were accompanied by Robert Diehl, club sponsor, and Mrs. Evelyn Pearson and Miss Helen Holmberg. The students visited A large partment store and were conducted through the building by the personnel and advertising managers. Later the group visited Chinatown, where they had lunch.

They also visited the beach. The trip was arranged by Eleanor McCabe, club president, and Mary Zakarian, program chairman. The HANCOCK California QUIZ Answers on Sport Page QUESTION No.1 -The University of California had as its nucleus the College of California, founded 1855 by Henry Durant, at: Oakland Alameda Santa Clara Berkeley Modesto QUESTION No.2 -The mous Big Tree -The General -is in: Yosemite National Park General Grant National Park Muir Woods Sequoia National Park Death Valley QUESTION No.3 -The city of Oakland was founded in 1850 by: Russian sailors Mexican ranchers Spanish priests 'American squatters I Pacific Railroad QUESTION No.4 -Huntington Park was named after: A prominent citizen An oil field A railroad An opera singer A famous general QUESTION No. 5 -The golfer holding the low score record in the nationally Los Angeles Open Golf ment is: George von Elm al Harry Cooper Jimmy Thompson Gene Sarazen John Montague There's NO QUESTION, the California gasoline that surges with power and pep WINTER HANCOCK Five Point and Ethyl GASOLINE Sold by INDEPENDENT Dealers Has New Cat of her sex for many years. is pictured as she celebrated her 81st birthday in her New Rochelle, N.

home. She is looking over a new addition to her notable collection of cat figurines. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, pioneer in the fight for women's suffrage and outstanding leader Burglars Take Liquor, Leave Valuable Gems Burglars who apparently were more thirsty than desirous of getting valuables were reported by police today to have entered the residence of Ed Simidian, La Loma and James Street, within the past few days. Considerable valuable jewelry was overlooked, and stolen were: Four quarts of sparkling white wine, five quarts of red wine and a bottle of Scotch whisky, in addition to a necklace and purse containing $7.

The police say jewelry worth hundreds of dollars was not disturbed. Entry was made by breaking a bathroom window, officers report, in the absence of the owners. Rites Are Held For Sylvia Pickering Funeral services were held this afternoon in the Oakdale Undertaking Parlor for Mrs. Sylvia Ann Pickering, 67, a resident of the Modesto district for the past twenty two years, who died in a local hospital Thursday night after a brief illness. Rev.

W. P. Rankin, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, officiated! Interment was in the Oakdale Cemetery. Mrs. Pickering was born on August 21, 1872, in Vandallia, and came to California thirty six years ago and to the Oakdale district in 1917.

The family farmed in the Milnes section. She was secretary of the Claus Improvement Club for fifteen She leaves two sons, Val Pickering and Urbane Pickering, both of Modesto. She was a sister Blatchley of Washington, D. Henry Blatchley of Maquoketa, Iowa, and Mrs. Mable Case of St.

Joseph, and the grandmother of Nola Lee Pickering of Modesto. Funeral Is Set For Dr. John A. Smith Funeral services will be held in San Francisco tomorrow for Dr. John A.

Smith, 41, of Cedarville, Modoc County, formerly of Modesto, who died in an Alturas hospital last Wednesday. The services will be conducted at 2:30 P. M. in the chapel of W. C.

Lasswel Company, 6154 Mission Street. Interment will be in the Dr. Smith, a native of Cypress Lawn Cemetery. New York, attended the Modesto High School and was graduated in 1925 from the College Physicians and Surgeons in San Francisco. He brother of William, David, James and Robert Smith of New York City, Mrs.

Margaret Bright of Oakland, Mrs. Anna Welch of San Francisco and Mrs. Catherine Stier of Modesto. Nathan Shanen, 50, Is Called By Death Nathan (Ed) Shanen, 50 a cattie buyer, died in a hospital here yesterday afternoon, Shanen, native of Russia, came to the United. States thirty nine spent twenty six years years in Modesto.

Besides a widow, Mrs. Clara Shanen of Modesto, he leaves a daughter, Mrs. George Miller of Modesto, and a brother, W. Shanen of Stanford, Conn. Funeral services were held in the Sovern Funeral Home this afternoon with Rabbi Cohen of Stockton officiating.

Interment the Jewish Cemetery at French Camp. ADVICE TO LADIES: Gentlemen prefer Wieland's Ale. (adv 15 FOR CHAFED SKIN There is nothing more comforting than gentle bathing, and freely applying bland, soothing RESINOL RESINO OINTMENT SOAP: HARRY WINDUS INSURANCE EX Theirs 916 Street Phone 299 PA FIRST RECIPIENT OF PARALYSIS AID IS CHOSEN HERE Artificial Foot Will Be Bought To Enable Young Man To Support Family With the start today of the second annual Stanislaus County March of Dimes campaign, the Stanislaus County Committee for Infantile Paralysis announced it had approved its first appropriation for aiding a victim of the disease. to purchase Approximately an artificial foot for a $150 will be used Modestan in his twenties whose foot was amputated above the ankle recently as a result of being stricken with infantile paralysis at the age of 18 months. Complications, which developed many years after the attack, made necessary the operation.

Has Wife, Children The man receiving this aid is married, has several children for whom he will be able to make a living as an electrician, according to the committee of laymen who investigated. A professional committee composed of Dr. Evelyn Mayman, Dr. Richard Husband and Dr. Harris R.

Wilson previously had approved the case from the medical standpoint. Although the money to be provided by county infantile paralsis committee is an outright gift, the young recipient of the aid says as soon as he is able he intends to refund the money so can be used for other victims of infantile paralysis, Rev. Edward Goodman, chairman of the mittee, said. Material Distributed Opening of the March of Dimes found leaders throughout the county distributing literature and buttons in every community. Every county school was reported cooperating fully through the efforts Mrs.

Margaret L. Annear, county superintendent of schools, and Witford Wilson, head of the campaign in the Modesto city schools. By the middle of the week, Don Linton, a member of the Modesto Junior Chamber of Commerce infantile paralysis committee, announced wishing well, where contributions to the March of Dimes made in exchange for a wish, will be set up at Tenth and I Streets. Lyndall is in charge the Modesto campaign, and is being assisted by Henry Laws. During the weekend, the Womens Progressive Club of Modesto turned $100, raised in a previous paralysis drive, to Steve Caskey, treasurer of the recently organized county committee.

Emanuel Lutheran Leaders Are Chosen At Annual Meeting New officers of the Emanuel Lutheran Church were announced today by Rev. Herbert Gustafson, pastor. The leaders were chosen, at an annual meeting in the Guild Hall Friday evening. Mrs. J.

M. Anderson was reelected secretary. Other officers chosen are: A. J. Lundquist and J.

A. Johnson, deacons for three years; Walter Sederquist and Arlo Johnson, trustees for three years; Waldo Benson, trustee to fill unexpired term; Arlo Nossaman, assistant financial Johnson, financial a secretary; 1'rs. secretary; Mrs. O. H.

Anderson, Sunday school superintendent. Mrs. Charles Jensen will supervise choir work. The choir is to select its own director. Miss Evelyn Berg will be the pianist.

Charles Micholson was chosen district meeting delegate, with A. G. Lundquist as alternate. Lundquist was chosen delegate to a conference convention in Riverside with Charles Snedi ar as alternate Mrs. J.

V. Johnson, Mrs. Tenney Norquist and Mrs. Walter Sederquist were named on an auditing committee. Rev.

J. Herman Olsson, regional director for the Augustana Synod in California, reported on a meeting held in Minneapolis relative to home mission work. Modesto is one such home mission congregation. Veteran Coach Is Guest Of Garrisons Frank M. Dobson of Washington, D.

dean of Southern Conference football coaches, visited Senator and Mrs. J. C. Garrison at their Waterford Road ranch over the weekend. Dobson, who recently accepted a position as director of recreation for the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company at Newport News, was accompanied by Mrs.

Dobson and her brother, Edgar W. Curtner of Carlisle, Ind. The coach served at Georgia Tech in 1908; University of Georgia, 1909; Clemson College, 1910-12; University of Southern Carolina, 1913; University of Richmond, 1914-34; and University of Maryland, 1934-39. In his position, Dobson will direct recreation for some 10,000 men employed by the company. He also will coach teams of the apprentice school.

A son of Mr. and Mrs. Dobson, Jack, is a graduate of West Point and is stationed with the United States Cavalry in Monterey. Socialite Drowns While On Cruise With Friends -THE MODESTO LOS ANGELES, Jan. -Accidental drowning of Arthur R.

Daggett, San Marino statistician and socialite, off the coast of Lower California while on a fishing cruise with friends on the yacht Enchantress was learned today. Powers, body, one of. in the charge party, of is Hugh en route here by train from Mazatlan. Word of Daggett's death was telephoned from Mazatlan by Morgan Adams, to his father in Los Angeles, financier and owner of the 136 foot steel auxiliary schooner. Young Adams said Daggett fell overboard and drowned while a small boat was being lowered from the yacht in rough seas last Saturday.

The victim was twenty seven and a graduate of Stanford University. Young Mother Is Believed En Route To Rejoin Daughter LOS ANGELES, Jan. Hungry mother love, a ish former Ohio State University student, may be bicycling today en route to Cincinnati, Ohio, for a reunion with her little daughter. M. Pauline Anderson, the mother, said she expected to depart eastward Sunday on a bicycle after receiving a letter from her 8 year old daughter, Mary, which said in part: "I love you so much that I cry nights.

I want you very much." Anderson's rooming house said she left Sunday. She tinkered with a bicycle Saturday, the landlady reported. To finance the Cincinnati trip, Mrs. Anderson pawned spare clothand belongings. Karl M.

Roth, aeronautics instructor at the junior college, today urged all students and others interested in taking aeronautics courses at the college to register with him before the start of the second semester on January 31st. Roth said it is necessary to determine how many are planning to take the course in order to arrange for a instructor. Although he has a reserve list on hand at present, Roth said he may be able to accommodate a few more persons. Approximately students at the college are intending to enroll for the courses. Registration Of All Aeronautics Pupils Is Urged Evangelist Gives Topic For Tonight Rev.

S. Paul Daugherty, who has been conducting a revival campaign in the Church of the Brehren, Sierra Drive and Rosedale Avenue, will speak tonight on A Conservation Between Heaven And Hell. Rev. Daugherty will close the campaign tomorrow night. The public is invited to attend the final metings, Rev.

Paul B. Studebaker, pastor, said. BEE-JANUARY 15, 1940 PRESIDENT TELLS OF PROGRAM FOR BIG PLAYGROUND Says Power Development Is Only Small Part Of TVA Project WASHINGTON, Jan. President Roosevelt submitted to congress today a proposal by tie Tennessee Valley Authority to convert the area encompassed by the TVA development in six southen states into a giant national playground. "Many of our citizens and even government officials hold a belief," the president said in a special message to congress transmitting the report, 'That the purpose of the act creating the (Tennessee Valley) Authority was primarily the development of electric power.

"It is perhaps time to call attention. to Additional this utter objectives, Roosevelt said, were to control flood damage at $20,000,000 annually -end to make the river navigable. In its broader sense the TVA was formed, he continued, "To raise the standards of life by increasing social and economic advantages in a given area." Plan Outlined Power development, he declared, was only a part-'and ultimately only a small the the social and economic effort in Tennessee watershed. With his message he transmitted a study prepared by TVA on recreational possibilities in the area. The report, signed by Harcourt A.

Morgan, chairman, called attention to the fact TVA's lakes had supplied the region with "the one element which Nature omitted from an otherwise lavish recreational endowment." Morgan said in a letter to the president the TVA Act of 1933 authorized a study of the region from a recreational viewpoint but the TVA board still lacked power to carry out own recommendation. He suggested additional congress grant TVA this power. "Such powers," the report said, "should include authority to construct and to operate recreation facilities on property acquired in connection with primary purposes of the water control, program: to utilize the work resources of such agencies as the NYA, WPA and CCC in carrying out the fundamental program; and, at least durling a trial period in which management problems and public demand can be more fully explored, to operate recreation facilities developed under the program, either directly or through a system of carefully supervised concessions." Legion Will View Safe Driving Film Motion pictures on safe driving will be shown following a busine 35 meeting of the Modesto Post No. 74, American Legion, tonight in the Dania Hall. The session will begin at 8 o'clock.

Albert Pedersen, commander, urges all members to attend. Refreshments will be served. EE ALE Classified AVINGS AD Page Night! ENSATIONAL EELY'S On Wednesday The FREE 50 FREE WHY NOT SAVE For Limited Time Only With each order of $1 or more you will receive an addiE tional 50c free in cleaning. Rugs 8x10-9x12 cleaned and sized, $3.00, subject to 50c discount. Cash and Carry.

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M. Phone 1726 1420 STREET-MODESTO City News In Brief Term Suspended William -L. Rose, a transient, pleaded guilty in the justice court Saturday to a charge of vagrancy and was given a suspended sentence of six months in the county jail. Hardin's Spring Skirts and sweaters, wool tweed jackets, $5.98. (adv tf Corset, Foundation, Brassiere clearance discontinued styles.

Sperry, Corsetiere, Hammer's. (adv. 16 Boy Returns -A 16 year oid runaway Modesto boy, the object of a search Central California officers, returned to his home last night. He had left home Friday. Living Room and draperies.

Howard Furniture, 1416 J. St. (adv Dollar Dresses, see values, cottons, -out crepes. Kelly's. (adv.tt Auto Abandoned A 1937 coupe was found abandoned yesterday in Salida.

a Lecture By Dana Lamb Will Assist Boys Brotherhood Hardin's Formals, chiffons, moire taffetas, nets, satins, $6.98 to $12.98. (adv tf Injury Reported -The police took Bill Strivens, 18, of 618 Seventeenth Street, to the county hospital early today for medical attention for a lacerated lip. Officers say several stitches were required to close the wound, which had been inflicted in a fight with another youth. Dana Lamb, who, with his wife, Ginger, wrote Enchanted Vagabonds, will give an illustrated talk on his adventures tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in the torium of the Modesto High School. The lecture, which is open to public, is being sponsored by the Boys Brotherhood Republic to ENCAMPMENT IS TO SEAT LEADERS Jailed As Vagrant- Edward Reeves, 33, a transient, was arrested here over the weekend on a charge of vagrancy.

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(adv 39 Corset Sale-Gossard Foundations at sale New merchandise. Lennon's priceset Shop, 811 10th St. (adv. 38. Is Held In Jail -Kenneth 23, of west Modesto, is being held in the county jail while the police investigate his alleged attempt to pass two checks Modesto store yesterday afternoon.

The police say it appears the checks had been forged. They were written in the sums of $10 and $7. Hardin's Clearance, dresses, $2.98 to coats, $10.98, suits, $15.98. (adv tf New Shades, wool sweaters, slipovers, coat styles, $1.98. Kelly's.

(adv. tf Taken To Hospital--Becoming ill in a stage office, Clarence Bradish of Fresno was removed by the police to the county hospital this morning. Swedish Massage, Steam Baths, for complete elimination, reducing, congested nerves, etc. 1308 Eye. Phone 1235.

(adv 20 equipment from the Modesto Post No. 74, American Legion. Mr. and Mrs. Lamb, both of Santa Ana, made a 16,000 mile voyage in a sixteen foot canoe along the coasts of Mexico, Guatemala, Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica and Panama.

Lamb will give highlights of the trip, which took three years. The customs and beliefs of little known tribes in the Mayan jungle will be told by the speaker. WANTED: MORE "men from Missouri," to try Wieland's Ale. Officers of the Modesto Encampment No. 48, IOOF, will be installed at a public ceremony tomorrow night in the Odd Fellows Hall.

J. W. Updike, district deputy grand patriarch, and his staff of ofifcers will be in charge of the affair, All Odd Fellows, encampment members, their wives to and attend. Rebekah members are invited MINCE PIE "SPECIAL SALE" ALL THIS WEEK 25c A crisp brown crust with our own MINCE FILLING. They've been our specialty for years.

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