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PAGE TWO UKIAH REPUBLICAN PRESS, JULY 14, 1937 Newspaper with ia Conscience and a Heart Issued Every Wednesday $2.50 a Year $1.30 Six Months 10 Cents Single Copy Entered lii Hio Office tit Uklah, Cnll- toinin, na'Mnil Mutter of the Second Class EDITORIAL PAGE, A. R. O'BRIEN Pulflisher, THETRUTH also found in frank confession of 1 REDWOOD EMPIRE NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS to el RCUWOOb A310CIATI0N "DEVIL DAN'S" REWARD THE OTHKR DAY Florence O'Brien, of The Chico Enterprise, sat down at his typewriter and pounded owt Ihi.s homely fable, which goes to prove that all the glory in the world, at times, Is not enough to provide pork chops and a suitable place for a he-man to flop: "One of the strongest arguments cited against war is the fact that even the victor loses. The story of "Devil Dan" Daly proves that this truth applies to individuals, as well as to whole armies. One of the fightingest marines ever, Dan Daly won glory in several wars.

In the Boxer rebellion he held a bastion single-handed against a horde of yellow men; in Haiti he routed a detachment of Cacos; in one of the hottest engagements of the World War, single handed, he captured a machine gun nest and 14 of the enemy. All this valor won him a hatful of when he returned to private life he had a hard time getting a job, finally landed one as bank nightwatchman and, whtn he died of heart disease the other day, was practically penniless. If Americans will study the story of 'Devil Dan' and luarn how poorly glory pays, it may be still easier for us to keep mit of the next war." HORSE SHOES YES, SIR, THAT'S THE WAY IT STARTED, according to The Willows Journal. Two thousand years ago a Roman slave tossed a horseshoe in emulation oJ the aristocratic discus thrower, and thus an ancient, honorable of horseshoes or quoits was born. After all, quoits are horseshoes gone expensive.

Never in the 20 centuries that have since elapsed has the pastime been out ot favor although it has had its lapses from universal popularity. For its present revival two things arc chiefly responsible. The need for inexpensive amusements, and expanding waistlines. In fields, backyards, parks, playgrounds and vacant lots summer evenings find men of all tossing horseshoes or uppish quoits to get out of doing something that costs money or to keep the waistline under control. The health value of this homely pastime is not generally understood.

In an evening of quoits one will walk several miles, do bending exercises equivalent to a week's morning calisthenics and work most of the muscles of the arm, shoulders and back. It is effective bi4t not strenuous exercise. Strange as it seems, man's gamb- CONDITIONS CHANGE HAVE YOU HAPPENED TO OBSERVE metropolitan newspapers say very little against Communistic operations, especially, in labor circles? If you have not, do and you will soon be satisfied there is a graveyard stillness along that line. The reason is the newspapers fear a boycott. It is not a healthy condition, but we have to face it.

If a newspaper comments unfavorably on a labor racket the publishing plant is picketed and a boycott i.s run ag the newspaper. Not many papers can stanii up under such attacks. The vaunted "freciiom of the press" is more or less mythical. Newspapermen like to make themselves believe they can be independent, but they cannot. Another development which has come on the heels of the New Deal is reflected in what happened to The Literary Digest.

Before election The Digest, which had ill the past predicted, remarkably close, what the results in the election would be-, came out in pre-election days and, by a set of figures gotten, it claimed from a canvass of the United States, Roosevelt was to be annihilated. It alarmed the Democrats and a concerted attack was started against Thu there were, too, intimations a prosecution under seme New Deal statute was to be started. In fact there was such a hue and cry raised The Literary Digest was wrecked. A brief announcement the Literary Digest had been sold for a trivial price and will be merged with The Review of Reviews marks the passing of what was once an influential publication, with a circulation of a million and a half. Us end may have been inevitable, more sprightly magazines having captured vogue, but at least it was hastened by that fatal error in November.

The United States cannot be much of a country without a fearless press, but as the situation is today, it takes a man with a. lot ot backbone to ,3 taking part. Res and by, the columns of Ins newspaper, the completed a pleasant old-fashioncd doctrines upon whose teachmgs the I afternoon. Mrs. Knivtla was as- greatest country in the world was built.

As things sisted by Mrs. D. Mackintosh and look now the acid test will be applied to many a Mrs. G. E.

McAbee. NEWLYWED IS IN HOSPITAL Elwin Maxey In Hospital Is Suffering Appendicitis Speclnl of Tlie I 'resM ANDERSON VALLEY, July 12. E. Babcock, who has been critically ill with complications following pneumonia, has passed the crisis and has recovered sufficiently to permit his removal to his home. Dr.

D. C. Oakleaf and Dr. Wm. Peters, of San Francisco, were called for consultation.

Dr. Peters is a close friend of the Babcock family and is a frequent visitor at their vacation. Mrs, S. T. McAbee made another trip to San Francisco Friday for treatment at Greene Eye Hospital where she has been a patient several months.

Her daughter, Mrs. Walter Metzler, of Hopland, drove her down and they were accompanied by Jeannette Knivila, who will pass her vacation with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Farrer, of Alameda, who are leaving Saturday by motor for Yosemite. Mrs.

E. N. Knivila took her small daughter and Mrs. McAbee to Hopland to meet Mrs. Metzler.

School Has Commenced. Signal school opened this week with Mrs. J. W. Slotte again as teacher.

This district Is one of the few where summer school Is held with the longest vacation during the winter months. The Music Ciub' sponsored by Mrs. J. C. Edsall, music teacher, met Saturday afternoon at the E.

N. Knivila home where it held a club meeting and musical with big newspaper before very long. Some of them will stand up, some will not. The law of average, as with human beings, will prevail. ling instinct has never shown itself in this game.

Nor has it ever been commercialized. These facts may help to explain the long popularity ot the game. More than 100 high class race liorsos will be at the Fair grounds in Ukiah next month. Bu.siness lia.s increased Howard Memorial Hospital, Willils, win have to be enlarged. A Ukiah calo reports having dono the greatest business for one day on July Fourth it has ever enjoyed.

The deer season has been sliorlcned. II you fail to read The Republican Pres.s you will not get all of the news of Mendocino county. Willit.s will clear about $1500 from its Frontier Days celebration July 4. The coast was crowded with over tlic Fourth vacationists and accommodations were hard to oblain. A huge bear has been raiding sheep flocks in Mendocino county and a hunt is on tor Again the warning to avoid deep pools in Eel river has been di.srcgarded and two victims lost their lives July 4.

Lumber busincs.s, which has been cxooptlonally brisk of late, it is believed, will lake a big jump this fall. Grapes will, it is predicted, bring better prices this fall than last year. More than $12,000 will be awarded in premiums by the Twelfth District Fair at Ukiah Augu.st 6, 7 and 8. Classified advertising in The Republican Press rarely fails to gel quick, satisfactory results. Mary Strollgo was Injured last week when the car in which she was riding south of Ukiah, struck a bridge.

Flrecrackcr.s cau.seci a number of incipient blazes in grass about the county July 4. Using of his bed to improvise a rope Van Riivenscroft, a patient at the Mendocino State Hospit.al. hanged him.scU last week. AUeraiion.s will in a few days on the Minetti block, Ukiah, and, when finished the J. C.

Penney Co. will occupy enlarged space there. J. W. Harrington, of Willits, is in jaii facing a charge of attempt to rape.

Hi.s victim was a young married woman. Fred Dumin. of Philo. h.is been placed in the asylum at Tiilmagc following manifestations of delu- BLUNDED OVERCOME iKt -if It -It. if ie ie It it (CondiiiifU from Onr) visors and director of Uie Golden Gate Bridge District, was elected president.

Leave To Meet Skeggs. After appointing all officers for the district, the three commissioners lefl for San Francisco to confer on the proposed project with Col. John Skeggs. district engineer of the division of highways. Po-ssibility of appointing a state engineer for the position was to be discussed, in view of the fact primary purpose of forming the district was to create the legal set-up necessary for contribution by the state to the $150,000 project, but it was later announced Rodney Messner, Marin county surveyor, had been named and his appointment approved.

Those Who Contribute. Joining in the project will be the city of Sausalito. which has appropriated Marin county, Golden Gate Bridge District, which has gone on record as prepared to participate to the extent of the state of California; Napa county, $500; and Sonoma county, $500, The latter two counties are cooperating in the joint highway district as a courtesy to Marin county and contributing only the legally required $500. Chairman Maxwell was appointed by the Napa supervisors as commissioner, while E. J.

Guidotti represents Sonoma county. Officers Are Named. Supervisor Rudy Pettersen was elected vice-president and Supervisor Guidotti secretary. George Jones, county clerk, was appointed assistant secretary, while Charles Redding, county treasurer, was appointed treasurer. Business will be conducted at the San Rafael courthouse.

How To Do It. District Attorney A. E. Bagshaw explained the most convenient method for the work to be launched was for the city of Sausalito to dedicate the waterfront area of the proposed highway to the county, which in turn would dedicate it to the district for performance of the work. LOCAL BANDIT FACING LIFE Not Expect Parole, If Convicted Judge June 111.

Miss Virginia Sand and Delmar June, of San Francisco, were guests of the latter's parents. Judge and Mrs. H. J. June, over I the recent holiday.

Judge June accompanied them on the return trip to San Francisco where he entered a hospital for X-ray ex- nminations. He returned home the latter part of the week. Honeymoon InteiTupted. An emergency case of appendi- wrecked the honeymoon i plans of Mr. and Mrs.

Elwin Maxey and took him to Ukiah 'General Hospital tor an emer- jgency operation, which was per- I formed by Dr. H. O. Cleland, a LOUIS Colombo Must days after their marriage last week. Mrs.

Maxey has been a guest at the Frank Gowan (. home in Ukiah during her hus- wilhout I stay in the hospital and WORLD-FAMOUS HYPNOTIST COMING Sidelights of Sadness or oauiiDcrio 'Being Incidents connected, with Calilomla's as observed by A. E. O'Brien, editor, of The Republican Press, who is a director of the State Board of Prisons of California. ONE'S CODE OF HONOR Ukiah theatre-goers are promised a long to be remembered attraction when The Great Delmar makes a personal appearance on the stage of The State Theatre tor two days starting Friday.

Delmar is one of the World's most outstanding hypnotists and escape artist and comes direct to The State Theatre from a long run in San Francisco. Mr. Delmar has baffled police and criminologists aU over the world with his uncanny faculty to be able to, in some manner, free himself from any and every type of handcuff, straight jacket or shackle known to police or science and offers a standing reward of $25 to anyone who will bring any type of handcuff to the theatre from which he cannot escape. Delmar's great knowledge of the art of hypnotism has brought him fame abroad as well as in this country. All in all.

The Great Delmar, billed as "The strangest show on earth," is in no way exaggerated and will furnish absolute tops in entertainment. Life imprisonment hope or po.ssibility ot parole I .0 move him here to the the price which the state will Parents, Mr. and demand of Louis Colombo, a convict for his recent embarka- lion upon a career of banditry and kidnapping at San Rafael where he kidnapped a service station operator, carried him to IMrs.M. C. Gowan.

within a few days. Frank Wallach, Bill Day and Elbert Tolman, were up from San Francisco for the weekend. Miss Myrtle Babcock, of San remote spot, beat him with a accompanied by a revolver over the head and! stabbed him, puncturing a lung, From iMendocino. Louis Colombo, originally, came small son were Ukiah visitors Saturday. The Pinoleville school, with Mr.

Lawson as teacher, was to have opened Monday but due to so many children having whooping cough, it was thought best not to commence at ttjis time, so the Lawson family is continuing its vacation here. Cut 15,000 Daily. Lawson Slotte Lumber with the largest mill in this section, commenced sawing' last week and this week will start shipment of lumber on a large scale. They have a crew of experienced loggers and millmen and will probably saw 15,000 feet la day. Remodeling House.

Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Ornbaun passed several days at their rancli on Eel river recently. They took E.

Wellington, local painter, up with them to do painting and paperhanging and also took along a carpenter do some remodeling. BONIFACE HERE Owen Kinney, owner of Tlie Hotel Calistoga and postmaster of his home city, stopped off in Ukiah enroute home from Humboldt county, to see A. R. O'Brien. Mr.

Kinney is one of the stalwart democratic leaders of ills section. from Mendocino county and Babcock. Mrs. Ornbaun Sick. Mrs.

W. V. Ornbaun, who has Press Ads always pay. TAKEN TO CITY Cedric Thornton, son of. Mrs.

Bonnie Thornton, of Potter Valley, who has been seriously ill, was taken to Stanford Hospixal in a city ambulance Wednesday. He will be cared for by Dr. Sterling Bunnell. WAS IN OREGON J. K.

Bigelow, owner of Rodeo Rancho at Dos Rios, stopped in Ukiah Thursday enroute to his home in San Francisco following a trip to Oregon. He was also a weekend visitor here. I probably hold my word to a convict more sacred than to a freeman. I will not be a party to a double-cross in prison problems. The other day at Folsom I witnessed an explosion over a double-crosser from a man serving life as an habitual -Driminal I concurred In it.

He probably was the best loser In thfe big institution. He had a most likeable disposition. He did not appear to hold a grudge against any man, except one. He told us, and I believe he told the truth, his father had been a minister, but.the good instructions of his preacher-parent did not do a very complete job in the case of the offspring. The man was 43 and all the years of his life, ex- jcept 13, had been passed in reform schools or prisons.

Reverting to the personal injection of the writer at the start of this story; You have to, if you expect to hold the confidence of a convict, "shoot square" with them. You -will see the point of my contention at the finish ot this article. So as not to use the word convict too often, let us call the inmate Richard Roe. He had done time at. both Folsom and San Quentin, but probably because of his effervescing good nature and really splendid traits Industry and freedom from trouble making he made the road camp.

(Then, by one of those bad errors all of us make at times, he ran away from the road camp and he landed at W'feaverville. He met up with a companion in his flight. At Weaverville an officer, probably on general principles, because they were a hard looking pair, picked them up and put them in jail. Now, one of the criminal attainments of Ricliard Roe was his ability, with a piece of wire, to pick almost any lock he came, across and the second night the couple were inmates of the Weavferville bastlle, Richard Roe longed for the outside and he forthwith preceded to obtain it by picking the jail lock with a wire. Out into the night wandered Richard Roe and his side-klcker and they gave the town a general sizing up and then went back to jail and locked themselves in.

The weather was extremely bad at the time and the two rascals had had all they wanted of sleeping out in the snow along mountain peaks and Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Nicholson, of Mendocino, motored to Ukiah Wednesday for a short stay with friends in the valley. MO'VE TO EUREKA Mr. and Mrs.

A. Hornbrook and daughter, Ruth, who have been residents of Ukiali for a number of years, are moving to Eureka where they will make their future home. Victoria Frazicr, of Covclo, fine young Indian horsewoman, will be a contender at the Ukiah Fair next month. There is a good opening for a young doctor in Round Valley. rved a term for forgery at San been seriously ill some time, has Quentin from this county.

At' been worse during the past week one time it looked as if the Jroung bandit would faco a first degree murder charge. IS MUCH IMPKOVED Frank L. Bechlol, who has been very ill some weeks, is on the road to recovery, being reported almost well again. Mr. and Mrs, Value Paoll and son liavc been visiting during the week with Mr.

Paoli's parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. Paoll, and other relatives at Mendocino. but was resting easier Sunday.

On Long Trip. Mr. and Mrs. George E. Clow motored to Ukiah Saturday evening to meet their son, Marion Clow, who was returning from a motor trip with a party including Mr.

and Mrs. H. Kerr of Santa Rosa and Mrs. Kerr's sister, Miss Chrystlne Burke, of Ukiah. Their route covered Portland, Yellowstone Park, Salt Lake City and other points of interest.

Sickness Halts Opening. Mr. and Mrs. L. A.

Lawson and IS THE PRICE OF AN SNAP EUilY EGLMIPPED VEVODA MOTOR SALES Smith and School Streets Telephone 370-W Acquire the health habit. start with an order for daily delivery now. ERVE and vigor, and the ability to stand strenuou.s exerciseare tlie benefits gained from a healthy diet. At least a pint of milk a day is to your well being. Oo you drink it? MITCHELL'S CREAMERY North State Street they decided they would stick around awhile, but they continued to go out at nights.

On the fourth night out Richard Roe ran into a man who proved to be a minister. On discovery of the calling of the new-made acquaintance Richard Roe became confidential and he told the preacher man his father had been a member of the cloth and he went even farther than He told the minister all about himself and his erstwhile companion, that he wa.s a Folsom inmate and had escaped from the road camp and then, probably, because he liked lo brag, ho laughingly told the preacher how he could pick locks and how every niglit after the jailer locked him up, he picked the lock and went out to take a fresii air and, lo give his story fvUl boastful atmosphere, he informed the minister that, because there was a reward of $200 on escaped convicts, he had to be careful and, accordingly, as soon as the weather cleared a little, he intended to pick the lock some night and beat it. Now, -the brothers and sisters in country congregations are, it is commonly known, Rot any too liberal with their pastors and some preachers have hard pickings, and some preacher's conscience can be, say for $200, in some cases, brought to a point where, although they have pledged their word to retain a confidence, they can justify themselves in breaking it, especially if they have as an incentive their "public duty" to turn in a roaming a $200 reward on his head. Now, I only know what' the convict told the preacher. What the preacher told the jailer the second day following his talk with the escape, I do not know, but I do know a new lock was put on the Weaverville jail whore the lock-picking' convict' could not reach' 'The conyict then confronted wltli his past record by the officer and taken back to Folsom and, pretty soon after that, the preacher was seen to have more chalnge in his poc- kecs than usual.

So I really could not disagree with the convict when lie burst forth in a string of profanity and classified the divine as a iblankety, blank, blank- In fact I rated him even worse than that myself. GOT DECREE Donna Cowan, Sonoma Rodeo star, has obtained a final decree of divorce from Norman Cowan, once holder of the Roosevelt world's champion cowboy trophy. GIVEN APPOINTMENT Dr. H. E.

Allyn received word Monday of liis appointment as clinical director of the California Chiropractic College Clinic in tlie Henshaw building at Oakland. REFRIGERATORS $120.5 Automatic THRIFT all models 1-save on PRICE! 2 -savG on CURRENT! 3 -save on UPKEEP! aced to put up wiili inadequate, expensive refrigeration service. Now all America can afford a General T.lcctric. The only refr with OIL COOLING that means ENDURING ECONOMY 1 5 new brilliantly styled G-E models. ROBERT L.

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