The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 1

i 4 THE miHZB Fair and continued warm tonight and 8uaday maximum about 10S dtgrces light north wait Unitad State Waathar Bureau forecast i Lnnuu NEWSPAPER IN THE SAN JOAQUiN VALLEY -i THE REPUBLICAN vVOL 30 NO 5275 FBESNO CAL SATURDAY EVENING JULY 3 PAGES (TWO SECTIONS) Intend neoad clew saattet Ur Cirrltr Drlhrtr He Meathlrt Oct IT lin Fnaneb CalU tPtr Ccpr Dailr Unader Ilcl Somewhere In Midpacific HO POISONER I OVftfcT-pncinc O'qmiv Storms Hinder Hunt For Amelia Rescue Plane Turns Back Search being CONDUCTED NORTH AND WEST OF rtOwLAHD iaUHK erOrW-WD IS- Signs 247 New Bills In 16 Hour Session jero uHTroBj -fc Elizi Potigian Convicted In Sensational Murder Case Serves 13 Years Solomon islands STEPDAUGHTER SLAIN BY LETHAL STEW DISH Fifty Second Legislature Sees 360 Measures Die By Pocket Veto O'Donnell Oil Proposal Supersedes Olson's Dog Race Bets Killed a SACRAMENTO July 3 A- hand cramping aixteen houra of bill signing by Governor Merriim broken bv chort It' periods of rest and time out for eating put 247 new laws or Radio Amateurs Report Hearing Voices As Late As This Morning But Leaders Of Search Doubt Authenticity Battleship To Sail- HONOLULU (T H)f July Uncertain weather is hindering search for Amelia Earhart the cutter Itasca radioed to coast guard headquarters here this afternoon from a point north of Howland Island The cutter said it was making every effort to cover the widest area before nightfall (By The United Brett) SAN FRANCISCO July 3 An almost unprecedented south seas snow and sleet storm today abruptly halted an at tempted United States Navy air search for Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan forced down in their world circling plane yesterday after overshooting Howland Island on a flight from Lae New Guinea Meanwhile the ealm radio voices of Miss Earhart and Noonan calling out repeated SOS appeals reported heard in Loa Angeles as late as 8:55 A today spurred hope that they are still alive and gave impetus to efforts to reach them But leaders of the search expressed doubt that signals heard were those of the lost pair The storm forced back to Honolulu a powerful naval seaplana which left there last night for Howland to aid in ths search for Miss Earhart and Noonan believed either drifting on the ocean in their metal plans or stranded on some uninhabited island The seaplane fought Its way to within 500 miles of Howland when it was forced hack after battling tha storm for two hours Only Cutter Left Withdrawal of the seaplane left the coast guard cutter Itaeca HE THINKS PLANE IS SflFEJN ATOLL amendments on California's statute books Approximately 360 measures enacted by the fifty second legislative session died by pocket veto through lack of approval by the state's chief executive by midnight last night Previously vetoed blila hooatad the total of dlacarded measure to 418 All bill etgned total 933 General fund appropriation totaling about $24337587 wart signed Appropriation on special fund totaled around 1991921 for a grand tout of $25479518 on the last day on-which bills enacted at the last session could be approved Prior to the adjournment of tba legislature the governor approved gg 400000 of state expenditure over the biennial budget of $338- 00000a Several outstanding measures were left to dia automatically among these were the Plerovlcb bill legalising part mutual betting On greyhound racing tba Welsh oil drilling bill tho Keeugh biU mtttlng Indiana who are not wards of the government to' buy intoxicating liquors and tba Crowley salary adjustment bill None of tho Judgeship salary Increase proposals emerged from the "corner effiea" Virtually every appropriation measure signed was reduced in pmount by tbo governor Among th Important legislation receiving gubernatorial approval: Establishment of a venereal disease bureau In tbs department of public health with an appropriation $150000 An additional appropriation of that Britain is determined "to maintain the territorial integrity of Spain" in an address apparently pointed toward Germany and Ital This he told an assembly of constituents has beta objective through the wearisome nonintervention talks dsslsnsd to con-fins the war to within Spanish frontiers And ha said frankly that one reason for this attitude was Britain's desire that Ihd Mediterranean routs to be East be always an unhampered waterway While Britain holds that Mapped above Is tho wests of tropical waters where ths hunt for America's No 1 aviatrix Amelia Earhart (left) and her "flying navigator Fred Noonan (right) centers Mystery LSurrounding: Death Of Husband Was Never Cleared Up" i Elisa Potlgian 48 central figure In one of Fresno 'County's most sensational murder eases is free again Mrs convicted In on a murder charge growing out of tha poison death of her step daughter Margaret Potlgian 17 has been released from-the California Institution for Women at Tehachapi by the board of trustees of that prison Mrs Potlgian was paroled June 19th according to Miss Florence Monahan superintendent of the prison because of ill health and with the expectation she wuold eater a hospital Residing With Son "Mrs Potlgian was In very health really not expected to live so a parole was Issued Miss Monahan said "We axpectedher to enter hospital for treatment lira Potlgian was paroled to her on by her first marriage Chlorin Kason ef San Francisco After visiting with relatives here for few days after her release she went to the noma of her eon where she is now living The Potlgian case occupied the attention of Fresno County peace officers nearly all of the year 1923 Early In the year her husband Se-trak Potlgian died suddenly Later tba stepdaughter died with the result that relatives caused an investigation to be made Mrs Potlgian was brought to trial on the murder charge and found guilty of the poison murder of the stepdaughter the prosecution aaserting she placed poison In an okra stew which she cooked for -the children Her stepson George Potlgian who became 111 after eating the stew wee one of tho principal witnesses against her Hus bond's Body Exhumed Before the trial the body of Parisian was exhumed at the direction of George Lovejoy at that time district attorney and an autopsy performed Even after burial for several months ths body was found to contain a large amount of poison enough according to physician to hava killed a score -of persons Mrs Potlgian was charged with the killing of her husband hut after a superior court jury bed found her guilty end recommended a life sentence for the daughter's killing the UEVlilAlN OAKLAND July 1 A theory that Amelia Earhart might have brought her plana down Moscow 'Peace' Forces Withdrawal Japan Warns Against New Invasions $1000400 for tho University of California cut from $1455483 Authorising the California Toll Bridge Authority to purchase or condemn by eminent domain th Antioch and Carquinea Bridges Placing toll bridges under the rate fixing Jurisdiction of tba stats railroad commission Revision of tbs state's alcohol beverage control get changing enforcement previsions lowering the tax on dry wines 1 cant a gallon and sotting up a fair practices act for the brewing industry -Jodie Retirement Batting up retirement system for tbc-statt supreme court ap A Radios Pick BEER WAR TAKEN Up SOS From J3 Crippled Plane safely on a small coral atoll south of Howland Island waa advanced today by her technical advisor Paul Meats In a telephone conversation with George Palmer Putnam Putnam husband of the aviatrix aid hs conferred with Manta at Burbank and that tha advisor advanced is pellate court Judges at 70 years oa half pay If they have served twelve of tbo Immediately preceding fif- HSINKING (Manchoukuo) July 3 (1X8) Soviet troops and twenty patrol boats today began evacuation ef the disputed Sennufu and Bolshoi Islands in accordance with the agreement reached la Moscow A final militant gesture by the Kwantung (Japanese Continental) Army nowevar accompanied the evacuation Amy headquarters beta Issued a statement expressing over the agreement reached in Moscow by Ambassador Msmoru Shigemitsu and Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov But tho army warned Japan and Manchoukuo "will not tolerate any further illegal acta by tha Soviets against Manchu The warning referred to an alleged "invasion" of Manchoukuo by Soviet gunboats whereupon Japanese artillery sank one Some Japanese authorities insisted Moscow must give adequate guarantees against a repetition of the Amur affair and recurrence of border incidents generally All members of tho cabinet of Prince Fumimara Konoye expressed deep satisfaction that a possible war had been averted (An official communique in Moscow announced the Russian evacuation had been ordered after the Shigemitsu agreed to the with- that Miea Earhart probably wouM tba theory Miss Earhart Mantx stated his belief that the aviatrix brought her plana down safely under its own power on one of the Phoenix Islands a group southeast of ths Howland Isaind Large Enough To Land "Several of tho Phoenix Islands are large enough to allow a plane to land" Mantx told Amelia's worried husband undercarriage might have been damaged hut the fliers could have walked away from tho piano uninjured" Mantx expressed tho belief- the plane's main battery or generator and tha emergency set for the radio probably were put out of commission If tho piano cams down in the ocean Ha said tha main battery was under the fuselage and the emergency one was inside The emer-genev battery might have been protected from the water Mantx oaid but added that ha doubted this Ho explained the main radio equipment was under the pilot's seat In the cockpit and could have scaped damage Manta said he believed they had the plane down under its own power when Miss Earhart realised the emergency Both Novices At Code Should they have alighted safely on an atoll Mantx said he thought it possible they had rigged up the radio to broadcast word of their Sight He stated the radio was ith code end voice apparatus but tha sole rescue unit searching for tha lost fliers The Itaeca waa reported between eighty end 100 miles north of Howland the sea The reecua plane with eight men aboard and commanded by Lieutenant Harvey- waa making its way back to Honolulu without difficulty Naval authorities said there waa no possibility of sending another plane to How land before tonight Knowledge of weather between Hawaii and Howland is most uncertain because of lack of reporting facilities Battleship Ta Sail The battleship Colorado waa scheduled to depart from Pearl Harbor later today for Howland carrying two planes for searching use The last word regarded sa definite by the searchers was a message picked up shortly before midnight last night by the Australian man of war Achilles near tha Solomon Islands but radio said this message which did not give arty position AKfty Bn Oi Captain Stanley Parker coast guard chief here said that if tha eignale received by the amateurs are genuine It is probable that tha aviatrix landed on some tiny coral island since tha radio would not normally work were tho piano floating in tha eea Miea Earfaart'e husband Georg Putnam maintaining a ceaseless vigil at Oakland Airport believed there waa a possibility the piano may hava landed on one of tho hundreds ef email islands in tho Howland area Two other warships wero speeding to Howland Eleven additional navy planes were standing by at Pearl Harbor ready to depart at a notice Putnam Doubts Be porta Putnam waa not convinced however that the voices were those of either Miss Earhart or Noonan her navigator Ho also was not certain that ths plane had actually sent out earlier dot and dash signals reportedly picked up by coast guard station by the Achillea and the freighter New Zealand I would bo tremendously cheered if these reports were true hs said "but the plane la obviously down somewhere and being down I am afraid its radio would be out of Kenneth Bartell radio amateur of Huntington Park near Loe An- a KHAQQ the call letters of Miss gelee said he got eignale from KHAQQ the call letters of form of government is matter for her people to decide Eden- uttered sa emphatic reminder that Britain is far from disinterested "where British interests art concerned on land of sea frontiers ef Spain or trade routes that pass bv her" pact with Italy guaranteeing maintenance of tne present alignment along tho Mediterranean was accompanied by Italian disavowal of any plan or intention to acquire Spanish terrt lory (Spanish Government sources have charged from time to timo that both Italy and Germany sought concessions In Spain) Tho wor ho continued was the outcome "of a prolonged period of weak government" Britain he added has most scrupulously" observed the nonintervention pact and "both parties in Spain know it and tha whole world knows It" (Premier Muaeolinl'e Milan newspaper II Popolo DTtalia this week charged Britain and France with violating tha "hands off Spain' agreement avowed that Italy would not now attempt withdrawal of Italian volunteers with tba insurgent army in Spain) He carefully avoided specific mention of the nonintervention crisis created by Itelo-German refusal to endorse France and Britain an dual patrolers of the Spanish coast BRITAIN REINFORCE FLEET LONDON July Great Britain began reinforcing her Mediterranean fleet today ns hope died for preservation of neutrality In the Spanish civil war Tha Royal Oak on a pared cruise of seaside resorts part of tho odmltnity'e policy of showing tho fleet to the received orders to cancel Its schedule and proceed at oner for tho Mediterranean It sailed from Liverpool Tho Malaya left the home fleet to go to the Mediterranean The Warepite received orders to leave as soon lerte wero finishes on its new engines and anti aircraft runs and was due to Join the Mediterranean fleet within two weeks Just Completed It la asserted In navy Quarters that the Malava and Warepite their reconstruction Just completed st a coat of $15000000 ere the hardest hitting best protected'1 warships In the world Parte reported Spanish loyalist charge transmitted bv the Agence PORTLAND (Ore) July courts became the battleground todav in tha inter union beer war here While attorneys for the team-iters union eourht removal of temporary federal court order restraining drivers from interfering with delivey of imoorted "red label" brew the brewery workers union filed suit against the teamsters in Multnomah County Circuit Court for $30000 damea The teamsters were charged with engaging in "commercial piracy by labeling their beer with a red label imitating that carried by the plaintiffs' product Dave Beck district chief of the teamsters: At Rosser local union chief and the Blits-Welnhard Rase City end Salem Brewing Companies were named as co-defendants Th complaint asserts that ths red label has been used oa products of plants employing members of ths Brewery Workers Union end has become a valuabla asset through the good will of the public while the white label which hat marked products of plants employing nem-eri of the teamsters union has been "looked upon with suspicion Attorneys for the teamsters appeared before Federal Judge James Alger Fee today and obtained postponement of argument on the courts order against the union's ban on the brewery workers' product The judge expressed willingness to postpone tho hearing un-sfter a hearing on a similar order In Seattle scheduled for Tues-y The Imported red label beer remained' undelivered today despite tho reported- advice of union attorneys that tha court order ha teen years and providing for com-' puisory retirement by tbs governor with tbo consent of the qualification commission If Judges arc Incapacitated by axe or disability Making California employer of four or more parsons subject to tho unemployment reserves act Instead of eight as at present -Giving the atete Insurance commissioner the right to deny licensee to ball bond brokers whom ha considers unfit to hold permits Revamping of the state's personal Income tax law and defining a resident as one who Uvea In the stale nine months out of the year Wane O'Donnell Rill The O'Donnell bill which supercedes the Olson bill governing the development of tho state's tldelands II fields The Olson hill wee restricted to tho Huntington Beach field hut the measure which became law applies equally to all holding tho elate Generally regarded as among the most Important legislation enacted by the fifty second session the -O'Donnell net provides tho state (Continued oa Page SA Col 3) IN THE BEE TODAY Pngs CmlaOWW eiveooeooeeaeeooeoee CB CkflfCkN iitiitteiiitMMn ilA City Xw In BrM SA CIimIIW Advntliliiff OllB NW tee im ettlMeM i4A COWllCl BA Contract Brtdfo 4A CroMword Foul 4A Dowthy XMi tiMMi4 XdltOflUB Mltaltl MMIMSIII IB Financial News Markets Health eeoeaeeaeee 4 A Household Arts 4A Glorifying Yourself 4A Msrw Hamilton MitHtuntit 4A Public Thinks aaooeee BB Oe McIntyre 6D Hews Behind The iR Fattens uteMiMtai ieiilR a BA Aerial Btorjr MIIMMtllltU 1 7A Social PTewo tiee m4A ApOrta neMMMiuietaMaIB Vital Statistics IB eatker hodolB Your Baby And Mina' 'BA MRS POYIGIAM LOS ANGELES July Two amateur short wave radio operators in the Los Angeles area reported hearing calls from the Amelia Earhart plane down in the Souta Pacific at A today Kenneth Bartell of nearbv Huntington Park said- ha got the signals from KHAQQ the call letters of the famous woman flier's plane The signals came in a man's voice Bartell said leading him to believe that it was the voice of Cental Fred Noonan navigator for Mies Earhart Walter McMenazny another Los Angeles amateur also reported taking up the 8:55 A signals icMenamy said ha had been get-ting the signals at Intervale during the night and eariy-morning but without being able to ascertain the position ef the plane McMenamy also said it was Noonan's voice he heard and not that of Mss Earhart who apparently bad been sending the earlier distress caPa McMenamv was In contact with Mias Earhart in her hop to Hawaii several months ago and said he recognised her voice distinctly on th air McMenamv eaid the voire said: "SOS SOS SOS KHAQQ SOS SOS a Over And Over "She Just keeps repeating that over and over again Just now she aid something else but I could not make it out" McMenany said Miss Earhart and Noonan appeared to be in communication with some weaker radio close by "They seem to be talking with some one" he said "Every eo often we can hear them send okeh'" After more than-one hour the SOS call continued to come steadily every fifteen seconds Shortly after IA1L tPST) the signals became loud enough to be picked up by a loudspeaker and relayed over telephone The radio operator attributed this to tho fact that ie was dark the entire distance end there was no longer daylight static Mrs Ryan 78 Widow Of Tobacco Financier Dies LYNCHBURG (Va July Mrs Thomas Fortune Ryan year old widow of one of the nation's leading financiers died at Oak Ridge her Virginia estate late last night after being stricken with a heart attack Mre Ryan inherited a life tenure In approximately one sixth of her husband's fortune when he died in 1928 The Ryan estate was spptaised In 1932 as of the date of hie death in at $135164000 Much of it was derived from the Ryan interests in the American and Britieh-Amerlcan tobacco Noonan The a Will- 5) 0 2 Lopei Man-cuso 1 0 and 1 Ofrodow-skl: and 0 1 and drawal of Japanese-Manchoukuoan military cutters from tho Amur Islands May Bo Embittered Informed circles feared that in the long run feeling between the two countries would or greatly embittered by the incident Many saw the result ae a serious blow to Soviet prestige in the Far East an incident which might rankle for a long time to corns There was apprehension over possible effect on other questions involving tho two grest nations particularly renewal of negotiations for a permanent fisheries treaty to end another long standing dispute At Hsinking capital of the Japanese supported state of Manchoukuo It was indicated before the settlement that Japanese gunboat would accompany all Japanese of Manchoukuan merchant ships on the river enforcing tho right to navigate the deepest channel of all reaches of the river which Japan insist is ths real boundary Boundary Start Conflict That boundary was ths basis of the dangerous conflict Russia maintained that Ruseo-Chincee treaties of 1S5S and 1860 fixed the line and that it did not necessarily follow tho deepest channel Tha exact position of tho channel apparently would determine ownership of the river Island such Sennufu and Bolshoi which 1 claims and which Japan demands for her sstellite Mancnoukuo Near11rn1 the islands one Soviet gunboat wee! sunk June 30th a second beached RliUnjCuiu 1 peak into it because she and were only novices at code ON RAKER ISLAND? LOS ANGELES July man who mapped Amelia Earhart globe circling flight Lieutenant Commander Clarence Strong (Continued on Page 2A Col NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston 7 8 New York 4 9 Batteries Turner and Schumacher Baker Smith and Dannlng Re Brooklyn eeoooo 2 10 Philadelphia 7 12 Butcher Jeffcoat Phelps Passeau and Grace St Louis 2 3 Cincinnati 3 9 Weiland and Derringer Hollingsworth Lombardi Pittsburgh 5 10 Chicago 10 13 Batteries Bowman Bauera Todd Carleton and Hartnett a 5 11 Dietrich and and a third put to flirht by Ear hart's plane at 9:55 A Pa- (Continued on Page 2A Col IX Wife Former Merced Girl Collapses OAKLAND July 3 11 Mrs Fred Noonan wife ef th navigator of Amelia Earhart'e missing plan and formerly of Merced becam hysterical today and wee placed under care of a physician at her home Mre Noonan wet en route by automobile to the Oakland Airport with a friend to confer with George Palmer Putnam husband of tho aviatrix when she collapsed (Continued on Pegs 2A Cot 26000 Scouts Scorn Fireworks At US Jamboree accusation against her as tho result of Fotlgtan's death waa dismissed Mother Ends Life During -the investigation of the cam in which there were involved stories of midnight mystie religious rites In which the bones of animals were burned and the ashes used officers went to tha ranch home of Mr Potlgian to question her mother Mrs Torosian who they believed wee involved with Mrs Potigian In a conspiracy to kill the remaining members of the family Arriving at the ranch they discovered Mrs Torosian dead a suicide by hanging Mrs Potigian first sought' a parole In January 1931 Refused she tried -again in November 1935 and again in October 1933 She entered San Quentin Prison October 31 1923 and was transferred to the women's prison at Tehachapi when that institution was completed two years sgo Chile no Rancher Dies After Being Gored By Ball PETALUMA July (IN81-Gored by a bull Plauao G- Bloom 49 Chileno Valley rancher is dead here today Bloom wee trampled by the maddened animal while transferring cattle between corrals at hie ranch near heie Rushed to a Petaluma hoepital for an emergency operation Bloom died on the operating table His Record Of No 1 Woman Flier NEW YORK July 0i Amelia Esrhart waa the first woman to: Fly ths Atlantic Fly the Atlantic alone Fly the Atlantic twice Fly an autogiro Receive the distinguished flying cross Make a transcontinental nonstop flight Fly from Hawaii to tho United States Cross the United States in an autogiro Lindy Lands In France Speeds Away In Aato DINAN (Brittany France) July 3 lA Colonel Charlee A Lindbergh landed her last night after a flight from England Ha was met by a private automobile and left for en unspecified destination after placing hie ship In a hangar 1 2 Sewell: THE HOTEL CALIFORNIAN WASHINGTON July The 2S000 Boy Scouts at tha national jamboree will try to set an example for the entire United States In keeping Independence Dxv safe and sane They were instructed by their leaders today not to shoot firecrackers or any fireworks containing powder in accordance with a capital ordinance Ths scouts however win he honor guests at sn elaborate municipal fireworks display near ths white House Monday night Ths American Automobile Association foreseeing heavy traffic asked motorists to observe all the rules of the rood in order to make the weekend safe Travel was increSaed by favorable weather reports 4 1 Battei tee: Murphy and Dickey Weaver and FerrelL Philadelphit 3 8 6 Borton 8 14 0 Batteries: Kelley Turbeville and Brucker Ostermueller and Berg Detroit 9 10 1 CivclNiid 5 10 0 Batteries Wade Coffman and Bolton: Gatehouse Wyatt and Pytlak Jap-snevs-Manrhoukuoan' artillery The pi-'tnce of the Russian ships was railed "an invasion" by th Japanese wee a flisht of three Soviet planes over Sennufu Island Thursday BISHOP GETS HONOR VATICAN CITT July i-Monsignor Patrick MacGovern bishop of Cheyenne Wyo was appointed assistant bishop ef the papal throne by skull and chest were crushed the enraged beast Electric Jolt To Start Rattlesnake Race Today Ideal Holiday Entertainment AFTER CELEBRATING No hsadachts tho "day after if you do your celebrating at Ambrose Bros for here you re served with th best quore end foods that money can buy and there ie "Not a Headache la a Carload" Meet Your Prteuds AMBROSE BROS 1681 Broadway la Froeao Join The Procession Dine At The Pleasanton Oocr the Holiday Here you can enjoy a delicious dinner expertly served in a refreshingly cool dtning room Havo a leal holiday Dint out at the Pleasanton Cocktail PLEASANTON CAFE 1015 Broadway During tlie hottest weather you'll enjoy the refreshing atmosphere in Fresno's coolest hotel Drop in at Our Beautiful COCKTAIL LOUNGE for Your Most Popular Beverage CARLSBAD (N M) July than 200 of the southwest's speediest serpents awaited their call to the barrier today for the second annuel running of Carlsbad' $300 added rattlesnake derby The reptilian classic chief event on the opening day program of the Cavern City Cavalcade Carlsbad Wild Wert celebration is a sellout Fifteen hundred persons will line 'the circular arena to watch the rattlers ramble Full of venom end with fangs undrawn the snakes will "toe the in a wire enclosure at the center of- the ring At the starting gun the cage will be lifted and en electric shock will spur the reptiles awav from the pole The first make to reach ths outside circle which la prudently separated from the ringside seats by a tight wire fence will bq the winner HS MIRIAU HOPKINS JOEL McCREA "THE GREAT With Marian Mamb 4 I a 4.