Santa Maria Times from Santa Maria, California • 1

'All About Whiskerinos' in Today's Story Installment by Holmes Tabb Page 4 I SPIED- THE WEATHER Fair tonight and Tuesday; morning; normal temperature; gentle wind off coast. maOIA VALLEyHI iCT-yALLEY ANEWSPAPER DEDICATED TOHThE'NTEBEOFrfE SANTA ro-jjJHEINTEREraoFHE SANTA CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, Subscription Price $7.20 Per Year Tokyo Posters Call Americans Enemies; New British Attack SANTA MARIA, Discussion of Wage Scale and Federal Payments Is Set Betteravia sugar factory will be started up on Aug. 14. The plant was steamed up today for a test. Beet harvesting in the valley will begin Thursday.

Evidence on labor rates for the i 1940 sugar beet crop and on prices i i to be paid for sugar beets in Southern California will be re-j ceived by the U. S. Department! of Agriculture at a public hearing opening next Monday in Los An- geles. E. F.

Ogborn, manager of the Union Sugar Betteravia, and L. C. Donati, of Santa Maria Valley Farm Center, will attend. Donati is chairman of the Santa Barbara County Agricultural Conservation committee. Counties included in the Southern California area are Imperial, Santa Barbara, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Orange, Kern, Riverside, Kings, San Bernardino, Tulare, Los Angeles, Fresno, Madera and Ventura.

According to Donati, in accordance with the sugar act of 1937, similar hearings were in California and other sugar producing states last year. The sugar act provides, he pointed out, as one of the conditions for payment to growers, that all persons employed on farms in the production, cultivation or harvesting of sugar beets be paid wages at rates not less than those determined by the Secretary of Agriculture to be fair and reasonable; Volume 22 Records Broken By Attendance OnS. M. Fair Exhibits Fast Being Removed, Street Decorations Down Climaxed by yesterdays attendance, which reached the highest mark ever recorded in the 12 years of tjie exposition, the annual County Fair in Santa Maria came to a close at midnight after a show universally acclaimed as one of the most successful in history. Hubdub reigned on the fairgrounds today as workmen started tearing down the exhibits which had drawn record-breaking crowds for the five days 6f the Fair.

Before the last visitors had left the grounds last night, dismantling of the booths was under way and the process was being continued today. Crews tomorrow or Wednesday will bring the tents to the ground and cart them away until another year. Santa Maria itself reverted to a quiet pace today after weeks of excitement preparing for the fair and five days of activity in entertaining Fair crowds. The gala banners and flags were taken down and only the wide streets remained to greet visitors. Record Attendance Although official figures were not yet tabulated, Ray E.

Hoey, president of the Fair association, estimated today that the 12th annual show had attracted between 35.000 and 40,000 visitors during the five days and nights of its duration. Yesterday was the biggest day ever in Fair attendance, he reported, with between 11,000 and 12.000 jamming through the gates. Saturday night drew another re: cord throng but the afternoons attendance faltered to cut the days total. Sell-out crowds were recorded for both the midget car and Horse Show, programs on both closing days. As one of the closing day fea- Continued on Page Col.

2-3 TAX LEVIES OF COUNTY GIVEN ANALYSIS Tax levies by the governmental units in Santa Barbara county totaled $4,047,457 for the year 1938-39, an average of $47.62 for each and every man, woman and child in the county, according to a study of tax levies in California counties, completed by California Taxpayers association. Included in the $4,047,457 taxes levied were $1,386,863 for general county purposes. $59,524 for county bonds. $1,233,049 for school purposes. $301,578 for school bonds.

$313,893 in special district taxes, and $752,550 in city taxes, the association stated. The countv ranked sixth from the highest in amount of taxes levied per capita by counties, the association found. The five counties with the lowest levies per capita were Mono. $19.95: Imperial. $20 50; Nevada.

Trinity, $25.41. and Siskiyou. $25.43. The five counties in which total local taxes per canita ware highest were $62.04: San Luis Obisno. Orange, San Francisco, $50.90, and Ventura, $47.73.

Postal cards from the E. L. Petersons, mailed in Belgium and Germany. A tourist from Texas asking Mrs. Elizabeth Blank if the whiskers in Santa Maria denoted a religious sect.

Many faces bearing white streaks today, where whiskers had been. Ted Elack showing off his prize tuberous begonias to friends. Cafe waitresses back to normalcy in attire after a splurge in Westerns. Several girls sleeping, as a lark, in the barn at the Fred Toy home on Orcutt road. Ray E.

Iloey washing the weeks accumulation of Fair grime off his car. A clothes basket filled with packages and mail in the Forest Service office. COMMENTS AND CACOPHONY By G. A. Martin A depression is what you make it.

If its not, then you can make a depression. So my son contends and, insisting that the senatorial campaign should have a rest for a day while everyone recovers from the Fair, he offers to prove his contention. Here is his offering, from the latest issue of the California Retail Grocers Advocate, published under the' heading of The Parable of the Hot Dog Man: Once there was a man who lived by the side of the road and sold hot dogs. He was hard of hearing; so he had no radio. He had trouble with his eyes; so he read no newspapers.

But he sold good hot dogs. He was a firm believer in adver-tisnig; so he put up signs along the highway to attract the travelers and inserted advertisements in the local newspaper to direct the attention of the townspeople to the merits of his hot dogs, and he stood by the side of the road and cried: Buy a Hot Dog. Mister! And people bought. He increased his meat bun order. He bought a bigger stove to take care of his ing trade.

Finally, business became so good that he brought his son home from the city to help him, Then something happened. His son said: Father, havent you been listening to the radio? Havent you been reading the papers? There is a big depression on. The European situation is terrible. The domestic situation is worse. Everything is going to pot.

Whereupon the father thought: Well, my son has been to college. He has lived in the city with big business men. He reads the papers and listens to the radio. He ought to know. So the father cut down on his meat and bun orders, curtailed his advertising and no longer bothered to stand by the highway and call out his wares.

His sales fell off almost overnight. He said to his boy: You were right, son, we certainly are in the middle of a great Now, there is a moral, of course, but I hate to draw morals cn a Mondav. However, I can see and I hope you can see, that one of the finest ways to kill business is to howl about hard times and fail to make plans to takje care of those who want to buy. There may be another moral something about not letting sons come home and interfere with what you are doing. Maybe I shouldnt have accepted any advice about dropping the senatorial campaign even for a day.

But, the campaigns not lagging. Were just taking a day off so the public can get its whiskers cut. Were continuing our promises uninterruptedly. Were like the Texas negro called into court for non-support. Dat womans always pesterin me to promise her money, explained the defendant.

Well, how much have you given' her? asked the judge. Well, soli, Mistah Jedge, I aint nevah give her nothin yet, but Ise promised her a lot. While this is going on, Supervisor Ronald M. Adam, closer to home, comes out with a frontpage column in his Lompoc Record and advocates publication of my platform- and discussions in every paner in Californi a. Guess well have to hold a huddle and discuss his appointment as chairman of the publicity committee.

for what are promises if you cant get them publicised? This is a big state and The Santa Times doesnt cover more than nine-tenths of its reading population. TEMPERATURE High 72 Low .49 Number 89 TROOPS SURROUND EMBASSIES OF TWO NATIONS British Accused of Assisting Reds in Man chukuo Raids TOKYO (UP) Extra police were assigned to the American embassy today as anti-American posters appeared on the streets, proclaiming: Eritain, America and Russia are our common enemy. The. newspaper Mainichi of Osaka, in an article by its diplomatic commentator, asserted Hint if the United States denunciation of the Japanese-American commercial treaty affected Japanese citizens in the United Stales, the United States will forfeit the loyalty of more than 100.000 citizens of Japantse parentage in Hawaii. As police guarded the American embassy, 50,000 Japanese paraded past the British embassy, shouting in an anti-British demonstration organized by a citizens committee.

The temperature was 95, the humidity was high and the crowd was perspiring. Big reinforcements were concentrated before the embassy, The police kept the crowds moving and arrested several persons who Hi row banners into the American embassy grounds. Japanese bombing attacks on American hospitals, missions and schools in two Chinese cities were reported in dispatches today. The Japanese opened up a big bombardment near the mouth of the Pearl river. British sources interpreted it as an attempt to isolate Ilong Kong from its principal trading points.

The American embassy in Chungking was notified by Dr. Casper C. Skisnes'of St. Paul, that Japanese airplanes dropped six bombs on the hospital and courtyard of the Lutheran mission at Koshnn, in Honan province. One bomb hit the hos- pita directly, causing severe damage and killed six Chinese Continued on Page 2, Col.

8 CONGRESS STILL TRIMMING ON SPENDING WASHINGTON (U.R) Con-grossional adjournment plans were jeopardized and President Roosevelt's S3, 060, 000, 000 lending bill was still being cut today as congress entered what was to have been the last week of this session. Leaders were pessimistic of ad-j jour nment by Aug. 5. Some be-j lieved at least another week would be necessary to complete the sessions labors. Mr.

Roosevelt did not return from bis week-end fishing expedition until after 11 a.m., so his customary Monday conference with his legislative leaders was cancelled. The senate forced a further reduction of $25,000,000 in the lending bill today, cutting it to from an original request of $3,060,000,000. The reduction was in the proposed additional lending, authority for the Export-Import bank. It was cut from $100,000,000 to $75,000,0000. Sen.

Walter F. George, warned that this governments foreign policy is being cut to fit the cloth of other countries. In the face of solemn declarations against barter, he said, we have become a bartering nation. In the face of our own statutes against dumping, we have become a dumping nation." The senate late today adopted. 44 to 37.

an amendment hv on. Harry F. Byrd, provision for taxation of bonds to bo issued to finance the program. JULY 31, 1939 FisIlGT Strike Draws Rioting, Many Injured Bridges Blamed in Hollywood Tangle; Hearing in Recess CLEVELAND, Mounted police charged a crowd of 2000 strike sympathizers before the struck Fisher Body Co. plant this afternoon in a second clash between police and pickets.

Several persons suffered head gashes from swinging police sticks. The second outbreak of the day occurred when an automobile carrying Harry Mason, Fisher personnel manager, attempted to enter the plant gates. A club whicli police said was wielded by a picket, shattered a window of Masons car as it approached. The crowd of pickets and sympathizers began immediately to surge forward, and police charged to hold them back of a riot area proclaimed by Safety Director Eliot Ness at noon. In a proclamation he forbade any person to enter it than those having legitimate business.

Earlier Rioting At least 35 persons were injured this morning. Leaders of the Tool and Die Workers union, a C. I. O. affiliate, said that 25 of their number bad been treated in a field tent set up near their lines.

Police said pickets threw back many of the tear gas shells anu fired other shells of their own from a gun. The police were attempting to protect non-striking workers seeking to enter the plant in automobiles. Joseph Begano, a strike leader, predicted new fighting during the afternoon when non-strikers in the plant were due to come off duty. It was estimated that about 25 workers were inside. Union Deadlock HOLLYWOOD U.R The name of Harry Bridges, C.

I. O. Westcoast leader, was injected to- Continucd on Page 2, Col. i SHIP GAMBLING OFF COAST TO BE HALTED WASHINGTON U.R The House Judiciary committee today reported favorably a bill to permit the federal government to prohibit operation or maintenance of offshore gambling ships. The bill was proposed by Attorney General Frank Murphv.

It would provide for a fine of and imprisonment of not more than two years, or both, for any persons convicted of playing or betting in any offshore gambling establishment. The bill would prohibit use of any vessel to carry or transport" passengers between the United States and any gambling boats. Chamberlain Feeling Flings New Charge ai LONDON 'I k' Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the House of Commons today that if the world could halt its war of words a long period of prosperity and peace might he expected. Concluding a long declaration on foreign policy, the prime minister declined again to draw a definite line at Danzig on which Great Britain would consider aggression had been committed by Germany. Unhappily bad feeling between nations has been fomented daily by poisonous propaganda in the press and by other means, Chamberlain said.

If war comes, the victor and vanquished alike will reap suffering and misery. I believe that this great and profound fundamental truth is beginning to get down to the minds of rulers and peoples alike. It is on that belief that I base Every Evening Except Sunday Seattle authorities are confronted with a mystery in disappearance of Chester Vaughn. His bloodstained auto mobile was found several miles from Lake Sammamish and an overturned rowboat with a rifle tangled in the bow rope was found on the lake. Officers think a rival for a girls affections killed him.

Whisker Prizes Are Awarded Bob Meinecke Wins For Longest Beard Bob Meinecke won the $50 cash prize for growing the longest beard, awarded at the Whisker-ino ball Saturday night in Veterans Memorial building. Mrs. Meinecke won the prize, a pair of shoes, offered for the wife of the winning man, for putting up with him while he grew the beard. In addition, 28 other prizes were awarded for best beards. First prize for the best Van Dyke beard went to Mickey Fitzgerald, second to Leon Vaughn.

The best goatee prize was awarded to Ernest Black; Balboa beard, Irving Gregory, first, and Ernest Nunez, second; chin whiskers, Harry Pikes, and mutton chops, Frank Quaresma. Marvin Hamilton was given the prize for the best full beard, with second prize going to Chet Ryan. C. L. (Larry) Kyle won the prize for the best sideburns, with Ralph Tuthill second.

For the best unconnected sideburns, first prize went to Augustine Pa-ciocco and second to Dewey Davis. Other decisions included the following: Thickest beard, P. M. Johnson, first, and Addison Iliff, second; Larry Dorskind, third: chin curtains, Herb Tognazzini first, and W. S.

Carroll, second; thinnest beard, I. S. McFadden, first; Dan Glocckler, second; comic, Melvin Simas; reddest, Hugh Bacon; blackest, F.larion Hernandez; blondest, Dan Glocckler; whitest. Sam Stotts; short full beard, Dudley Brady; Chief Justice Hughes beard, Sam Stotts; character beard, Bert Black as Abraham Lincoln, and best looking beard, Angelo Novo Jr. A special prize for the ugliest beard Continued on Page 4, Col.

7 What chance does an individual farmer have if the Communist-dominated Workers Alliance can get the support of the governors office every time they make a charge, whether it is true or a deliberate series of lies such as this Marysville thing? Watson said. Badger said farmers must fight to keep dictator methods from running us off the farm. Their statement, following one by Holmes Bishop, president of Associated Farmers, who also asserted that Carey McWilliams, appointed to an administrative office by Olson, had proposed a Communistic solution to agricultural problems in a book Factories in the Fields. The farmers are faced with administrators who do not even believe in our form of government, Watson said. Favors Dictators i On the heels of breach of the U.

S. trade treaty with Japan came the news that one of Nippons highest military officers, Gen. Count Juichi Terauchi, pictured above, had, in Berlin put the finishing touches on the Rome-Berlin-Tokio axis by negotiating a trade treaty with the Nazis. City Bond Debt Is Down Low Analysis Shows It $9.37 Per Capita jtoday to seize and hold for police a suspected burglar in his San Fernando valley home. The man.

who gave his name as Willard J. Broski, 18, transient cook's helper, was discovered in a closet of Gables home. Building War i vfi Hopes of labor peace fade as C. I. O.

invades building construction field, long dominated by A. F. of L. building trades unions. A.

1). (Denny) Lewis, (above), brother of John L. Lewis, heads staff of top-ranking O.I.O. leaders, composing new United Construction Workers Organization Committee. in Train Attack But Bandits Fail To Get Big Payroll CHAMPAIGN, Hi.

U.R) Two bandits were wounded and a mail clerk injured today when four men made a daring attempt to hijack the $56,613 payroll of Cha-nutc Field, U. S. army air base, on a moving train. Mail clerks drove the bandits off in a rain of gunfire that wounded two, one so severly that lie could not escape. The other lied to an automobile containing two confederates which was speeding along a parallel highway.

The seriousness of his wounds was not known. The captured bandit identified himself in Champaign hospital as John Waldon. Doctors said he was wounded in the head, shoulder anti leg. One shot had broken his leg. Clerk Injured Mail Clerk Guy O'Hearn, Chicago, was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head inflicted by a pistol butt.

Railroad employes said the two bandits apparently boarded the train at Onarga. about 35 miles Continued on Iagc 4 for Peace as Danzig Action of Poles DANZIG (UP) The government of Danzig formally charged Poland with attempting to boycott the free city's exports today and threatened reprisals. In a note delivered to the Polish commissioner, the government alleged the Poles were boycotting Danzig fat products and herring usually exported to Poland and said the Danzig senate will take counter-measures if necessary. The Polish action is not only a boycott of Danzig products from the Polish markets but a clear breach of the Danzig-Polish economic union, the Danzigcr Vor-posten, mouthpiece of the Nazis, said. my hope that we may yet find a way to escape the present nightmare and come once ngafn into sunlight and peace.

The house tonight voted confidence in Chambprlain by refusing to pare Foreign Office estimates. i I I I The city of Santa Maria owed a bonded debt of $9.37 for each The sugar act also provides man, woman, and child in the city! for determination by the secre-'at the close of the fiscal year tary of agriculture of fair and ms according to a study of the! reasonable rates to be paid for' oon sugar beets by processors who as i bonc ed dc)t 280 California producers apply for payments cities, made by California Tax-under the act. payers association. Total bonded Growers, laborers and others indebtedness of the city was will participate in the i 000 and the ca pita dcbt 0f Los Angeles public hearing. 6 I $9.37 based on the city clerk estimate of the population of the city, shows the city ranking J95lh from the highest among the 247 cities owing bonded indebtedness in the state.

Payments by the city for debt service durnig the year amounted $11..725 of which $4725 went for interest and $7000 for redemption, the association found. Eight cities had bonded indebtedness of over $100 per capita, the association stated. The cities included Vernon, Seal Beach, Los Angeles, Newport Beach, Beverly Hills, Eureka, and Stockton. On the other hand, the association pointed out, thirty-three cities had no bonded indebtedness as at June 30, 1938. These were Alviso, Amador, Bayshore, Bell, Belmont, Blue Lake, Crescent City, Emeryville.

Fairfax, Gardena, Hercules, Lawndale, Los Gatos, Loyalton, Maricopa. Marysville, Maywood, Menlo Park, Patterson, Placentia, Plymouth, Point Arena, River-bank, Rocklin, San Joaquin, San Leandro, Sutter Creek, Trinidad, Tehama, Tulelake, West Covina and Westmorland. OIL MAN FACES COMPLAINT BY STATE In the first action of its kind filed in Santa Maria court, L. C. Dougan, local oil field operator, was charged with a violation of the state oil conservation act in a complaint, filed in Justice of the Peace L.

J. Morris court by S. G. Dolman, supervisor of the State Division of Oil and Gas. The complaint charges Dougan with failure to make reports to the state division on oil and gas produced in Dougans Yelkin No.

1 well during the last two months. On the basis of the complaint. Justice Morris issued a warrant of arrest of arrest for Dougan, who resides in Long Beach. Grading for Squires No. 21, a Union Oil Co.

well in the Orcutt field, is under way. Bell Loff-land will drill the hole on contract. In the local valley field, Fred Cole was down 3100 feet on his ODonnell No. 21, west of Lower Orcutt road. More Planes Six new PT13A training planes were received yesterday from Randolph Field, Texas, for use in the cadet flying course at Santa Maria School of Flying.

This brought the total of such planes now in service for the school to 20. Six more are due in a short t. Associated Farmers of State Denounce Olson Rule as Forcing Agriculture to Doom Petersons-Back in United States Mr. and Mrs. E.

L. Peterson arrived today at noon in New York, aboard the Normandie, ending a European trip begun when they sailed aboard the Queen Mary May 10. England, Scotland, Sweden and other Scan- dinavian countries, and Germany and Belgium were visited. On Karl and Bertram Bell re- the way to Santa Maria, the Pet-turned from a fishing trip to ersons are to visit Minnesota and Avila this morning with a North Dakota, their former home, story about the one that got Clark Goble the side of their boat, but Captures Burglar the line broke. The fish HOLLYWOOD Clark swam away with the gaff.

Gable, husky and romantic film In a few minutes, the men ctar, ran from his shower bath SAN FRANCISCO U.n Two, vice presidents of the Associated Farmers of California issued a joint statement asserting that California agriculture would be forced out of existence if present tactics of Gov. Culbert Olson and his administration are not halted. The statement, issued by John Watson, Petaluma, Northern vice president, and Ray Badger, San Diego county, Southern vice president, was based on Olsons intervention in labor troubles in the peach harvest in the Marysville area. Watson and Badger said they considered the situation so serious that the Associated Farmers were starting a new drive for membership "so that every farmer in California will be shoulder to shoulder in this fight to save their farms. were surprised to see the gaff return to the surface near the boat, where they were able to retrieve it.

A good catch was reported of fish!.