Santa Maria Times from Santa Maria, California • 1

WEATHER Fair tonight and Saturday, some cloudiness; little change in temperature; gentle wind. TEMPERATURES High 64 Low 34 RAINFALL Season 0.82 Last year 3.16 A NEWSPAPER DEDICATED TO SANTA MARIA VALLEY Mt SANTA MARIA; CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER ,15, 1935 0nbBcrlption Prlc $0.00 Pr Yar Every Evening Except Sunday SPIED Chief or PoUce W. B. Hol-linfp-hrad explaining a bashed running board on the police xar to Mayor Marion B. Rice.

George Lichtenberger and Harry Takxen mscussing Los Angeles hotels. Parking lines obliterated by cil and gravel sealing opera, ticns on South Broadway. Tob Holcomb correcting a typographical error in a sign he was painting. A statement in the Santa Barbara Chronicle that C. I.

Frekker is very angry with the Chronicle. Kenneth Trefts, Virgil Alex ander and Jake Peck returning with their i)uail limits. Mrs. Harry Thornburg discussing the best means of doing embroidery and other fan-cywork. Probation Officer Alfred Fauerso hard at work, his coat cff and his shirt sleeves rolled up.

President Manuel Quezon, inaugurated yesterday as first president of the Philippine republic. President Roosevelt sent him a cabled weil-wish. Fiance Grilled in Strangle Death With his fiancee found beaten and strangled to death, Richard Tear, 29, right, Washington hospital attendant, was held by Hyatt ville, police for questioning. The body of the girl, Corin-na Loring, 26-year-old stenographer, who vanished two days before her wedding dale, was found in a thicket near Ml. Rainier, Md.

A ftt-mer suitor of Miss Luring also was held for investigalian. Vegc table orkers In Valley Demand Closed Shop Rule PICKUPS New Clues are Hunted in Case of i rl trangling Daily Volume 18 Resurfacing of Part of Broadway Will Begin on Next Monday FEDERAL AID FOR SEVERAL STREETS Mayor and Council to Scatter New York in Various Localities Work will begin Monday on resurfacing Broadway between Jones and Cook streets, by the State Highway department, Mayor Marion B. Rice announced this morning. The street will be resurfaced similar to the work done on the street several months ago between Jones street and the south city limits. Expense of the project will be borne by the fund from the quarter cent of gasoline tax allotted for state highways within city limits.

The city will commence Its street paving program as soon as men are assigned to the first $25,000 unit by WPA officials, the mayor said today. The first unit has been approved by the WPA. Streets Picked for Work The first street to be resurfaced in the project which includes the ultimate resurfacing of all city streets, will probably be Vine, between Main street and Tunnell, the mayor said. McClelland street has already been resurfaced, and the Vine street project will connect the two paved streets of Main and Tunnell. Residents on North Vine street are already constructing curbs and gutters in anticipation of the resurfacing work.

Following the completion of the Vine street unit, the city plans to resurface a street in the northwest section of Santa Maria, and will select a street close in, well-traveled, on which curbs and gutters have been completed by residents, the mayor said. Close-in Work First Next, a street in the southwest portion of town will be chosen, the mayor said. In this manner, an attempt will be made to treat residents in all sections as fairly as possible. Streets that are close in will be chosen first, and the work will gradually move out until all streets are resurfaced. Prosperity to Reduce Number Of Gas Pumps! LOS ANGELES, Nov.

15 (U.R) Return of the a-chicken-in-every-pot era should spell finish to a-f illing-station-on-every corner epoch, the American Pertloeum Institute was told at the closing session of its 16th annual convention. As prosperity returns, opening up new jobs, a corresponding decline in the dumber of neighborhood service stations probably will be noted, Howard T. Lewis, professor of marketing in Harvard university, informed the Institutes Division of Marketing. It has not been a difficult matter for a man to enter the retail gasoline business, he said. If he had no other job, this suggested a means of making a little money.

But as prosperity turns and as permanent jobs become more plentiful, there will be an appreciable number of abandoned pumps. Jury Fails to Agree In Gov. Langer Case BISMARK. N. Nov.

15. (IIP) The jury cons'dering the case of former Gov. William Langer and three associates on charges of solicitation of relief funds for nolitical purposes, today reported disagreement and was discharged. Number 183 Will Refuse to Attend Ar bitration Board Meeting Here Monday 1 HIGHER WAGE SCALE TO BE INSISTED ON Agreement to Employ 90 Pei Cent Union Members Is Demanded Disputes in the valley vegetable industry over the dosed shop issue and requested wage increases will not be settled Monday, vegetable workers said today. As a matter of fact, an extended dispute in the industry loomed as a possibility.

A meeting of the arbitration board in the Santa Maria valley vegetable industry has been called by Chairman R. L. Adam, University of California, for 2:30 o'clock, Monday afternoon in tha Santa Marla Inn, but representatives of workers unions will not be present, it was declared today. The Fruit and Vegetable Workers union has protested the meeting of the arbitration board, which was organized last December. Last night Secretary H.

Ross Reed of the Santa Maria Central Labor Council, advised Chairman Adam that employes would not attend the meeting. Demand Closed Shop Vegetable workers in the valley have held frequent meetings during the past few weeks with employers. and have demanded a 90 per cent closed shop and wage increases ranging from five to 15 cents over the award by the arbitration board last December. The demand for a closed shop In valley packing sheds is the principal demand by union labor here, Secretary Reed said. The meeting of the arbitration' board which decided lost years wage difficulty was called at the re-.

quest of C. B. Moore, representative of growers and shippers, Reed stated, declaring the workers did not wish a meeting of the board, be-, cause they believe an agreement can be reached without recourse to the board. Other reasons given by the workers for refusing to attend the meeting of the board Monday, are: First, the board, according to provisions of the award last year, will go out of existence Monday; second, the arbitration board is not permitted, according to other provisions in the award, to consider the question of a closed shop. Members Missing Reed further pointed out that three members of the arbitration board are no longer on the body.

C. B. Lawrence, of the Fruit and Vegetable Workers' union, and Pedro Fiarro, Mexican Labor union, are no longer connected with their respective unions, and D. T. Batch-elder has resigned as a neutral member.

Other members of the arbitration board, beside Adam, are W. L. Hopkins. Ted Akahoshi, R. E.

Pezzoni, employers; Jose B. Sarmiento, Filipino labor union; Thomas Barker, deputy Los Angeles Division of Labor Statistics and Law Enforcement. a neutral member. While the closed shop issue is said by vegetable workers to predominate in the dispute, the following hourly wage increases have been asked by the Fruit Vegetable Workers' union: Packers, 65 to 70; dumpers, 55 to 70; washers, 55 to 60; lettuce trimmers, 60; paner folders, 50 to 55; crate liners, 50 to 60: ice crushers, 55 to 70; ice blower, 50 to 55f miscellaneous floor help. 50 to 55; receivers, 65 to 70; truckers, 55 to 60; automatic press operators.

65 to 70; air press operators, 65 to 70: hand and foot press operators. 65 to 70; loaders, 65 to 70; pea sorters, 40 to 45; tomato sorters, 40: tomato loaders, 65; pea loaders, 65 to 70, and cauliflower nackers, 60 to 70. Scale Submitted A copy of a new agreement embodying the wage and closed shop (Continued on Page 5. Col. 5) ATTENTION ODDFELLOWS All brothers are requested to attend the funeral of our late brother, Charles Franklin Fouts, at Dudley Mortuary, Saturday, Nov.

16th, at 10 a.m. C. W. HATCH, N. G.

GREAT emu Ramsay MacDonald Defeated, bet May Still Remain In the Government LLOYD GEORGE HAS HANDS STRENGTHENED Fiery Winston Churchill Is Returned by a Large Majority LONDON, Nov. 15 (U.R) The National government, strongly Tory and pledged to support international action against any war-maker, won the general election, today with a safe majority in parliament. At 2 pin. the government passed the 308 seats necessary for a majority and its victory became more pronounced as returns continued to come in. Labor headquarters, in admitting a clear-cut government victory, said it expected the government majority to be between 200 and 250 seats.

Labor made (Jains, but not as much as expected. It will have a stronger voice in parliament than in the last session, but not enough to upset the government. Lloyd George Strengthened The Liberals slipped and Labors gains were made from all parties, including the Conservatives. The defeat of Sir Herbert Samuel, leader of the main branch of the divided Liberal party, left David Lloyd George, former Liberal leader, in a stronger position, with a chance to unite the Liberal units. The main government casualty was J.

Ramsay MacDonald, form-mer leader of the Labor party, who brought it to the height of Us power as prime minister. Hated bitterly by the Labor party because he Joined the Conservatives in the present coalition government, he was defeated in his constituency of Seaham a vitriolic campaign, by E. Shinwell, Laborite, with a vote of 38,380 to 17,882. -MacDonald, lord president' of the council, may remain in the government, however, and his long dramatic political career is not necessarily ended. Son Also Defeated It was expected some seat would be found for him by the resignation of some pro-government noneity in a staff constituency.

MacDonald would contest the seat in a bye-election whose result would be a foregone conclusion. MacDonald's son, Malcolm, who is secretary for colonies, also was defeated, and may be brought back by the same method. The standing at 2 p.m., when the government valned its 308th seat, follows: Government Conservatives, 278 (5 gains, 51 losses); National La bor, 7 (2 gains, 5 losses); National Liberal, 23 (2 gains, 8 losses), total, 308. Opposition Labor, 108 (66 gains, 4 losses); Liberals, 10 (1 gam, 6 losses): Independent Liberals, total, 120. Others Independent, 1.

Conservatives Elated Conservative headquarters were elated by the result. It meaas that Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and the old die-hard Tory regime is firmly in the saddle. The words "National or Coalition as applied to the government became almost meaningless. Winston Churchill, the battling, imperialistic, free-lance Conservative, rode back into parliament with the others. He first sat there in 1900 and for 35 years had been providing excitment and entertainment.

He won by 34.849 votes against 14,430 for Granville Sharp, Liberal, and 9758 for J. Ranger, Labor. 4 Mexico Says Revolt Chief Flees Country MEXICO CITY, Nov. 15 (UR) The Ministry of War today replied to manifestoes which suddenly appeared on walls and lamp posts telling of a new rebel mevement in the state of Sonora, by declaring that Luis Ibarra, who signed them had fled to the United States. 4 Three Children Are Victims of a Blaze KIRKLAND LAKE, Nov.

15 (U.R) Trapped in the flaming ruins of their frame dwelling, the three children 12, 11 and 8 years of age of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wilson were burned to death today In a fire which razed the building. Wilson, a miner, was at work, and Mrs. Wil son was visiting friends.

4 MAN MISSING FOR NINE YEARS DECLARED DEAD LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15 (UR) Frank Bricantino, wealthy realtor whose wrecked automobile was found at the foot of a cliff on the beach near San Diego nine years ago, was declared legally dead today by Superior Judge Frank G. Swain in ordering payment of a $1000 life Insurance oolicv. Opening of Sney Camp Is Held, Up Conversion of Suey park into a camp for unemployed single men of Santa Barbara county has been delayed. WPA headquarters in San Francisco yesterday afternoon wired Colbert Sullivan, WPA property and equipment director from Santa Barbara, not to accept the camp for the present.

When the telegram came, Sullivan was in Santa Maria ready to take the camp over and conferring with WPA Directors Elliot and Houston from Los Angeles and George H. Gama, former superintendent of Suey camp and now head of the San Luis Obispo Hot Springs transient camp. An approved WPA project received by County Forester Frank Dunne, provided that the buildings used by the formpr transient camp would be taken to house men employed on the highways in removing fire dangers. Dunne said that had been allocated for the work of cutting weeds along the roads and substituting fire-resistant planting in their place. The project would employ 153 men.

4. Boy Missing, Note Intimates Suicide Police were notified last night that Raymond Hiraga, 17-year-old Santa Maria boy, had left his home Monday night or Tuesday morning, leaving a note intimating that he might commit suicide. His mother, Mrs. Mabel Hiraga, resides at 405 West Cook street. His father, Nobutado Hayashi, lives in Guadalupe.

Officers throughout the state have been notified, Chief of Police W. B. Holllngshead said. Young Hiraga was five feet, eight inches tall, and weighed approximately 155 pounds. Japan Will Set Up a New Chinese Nation TOKYO.

Nov. 15 (U.R) Autonomy of North China will be declared by proclamation not later than Sunday, informed circles in Peiping and Tientsin were convinced today, according to Nippon Dempo News Agency dispatches from those cities. The Japanese destroyer Tsuti arrived at Tangku, port of Tientsin, today. New Regime Opens Up for Philippines First Step in Ter -Year Trial At Self-Government Is Taken MANILA, P. Nov.

15 (U.R) While a quarter-million jubilant celebrating nationals shouted wild acclaim, Manuel L. Quezon, surveyor, former revolutionary soldier, today became the first president of the new Philippines commonwealth. With a prayer and a plea on his lips, Quezon took the oath of office in the presence of thousands of his countrymen and scores of world diplomats and civic dignitaries, gathered for one of the most brilliant political events In the islands 400 years of history. Quezons prayer was for divine guidance; his plea for the courage and cooperation of his countrymen through the 10-year transitory period from which, on July 4. 1946, Americas little brown brother of the Pacific will emerge a free and sovereign nation of the world.

U. S. Well Represented The inaugural was not lacking in pageantry, riotous celebration or impressive ceremony. Two hundred fifty thousand persons, favored by a warm sun and clear skies, were Jammed into P. Burgos avenue and public squares skirting the Philippines legislative building when the new government was proclaimed in a message from President Franklin D.

Roosevelt of the United States at 8 25 am. Gov. General Frank Murphy, now sworn as the United States commonwealth commissioner, j-ad the proclamation from a' flag-draped dais. Assembled on the sun-splashed stand were- hundreds of officials Including Vice President John N. Garner, Secretary of War George H.

Dern, speaker of the House of Representatives Joseph W. Byrnes and more than two score United States senators. Dern was President Rosevclt's of-fical representative. Prior to Murphys reading of the proclamation, the secretary of war delivered to thp people of the Philippines Americas official greeting and benediction. President Visions Ilard-hips After administration of the oath of office.

Quezon, who once served as corporal in the revoutionary army and leader in the long campaign for independence, delivered his inaugural address. We are seeking the fruitition of our a ire -old striving for liberty, he said. We are witnessing the final stage in fulfillment of the noblest undertaking ever attempted by any nation in its dealing with a subject people. "Under the commonwealth our life may not be one of ease and comfort. Rather, it may be one of hardship and sacrifice.

We Shall face the problems which lie In our path, sparing nrlther time nor ef-fort in solving them. 4. Ranchers in Duel. One Shot to Death WINKELMAN. Nov.

15 (UP.) Silas Franklin, 53. was killed when he and Amos McDaniels, 45. stopped the automobile in which they were returning to Franklins ranch, and opened fire at each other. McDaniels, who left his friends hodv beside the road and hitchhiked here to report the affrav. said Fraoklin shot at him first He refused, however, to disclose the cause of the quarrel.

property settlement has been reached. Any statement on a divorce must come from Mrs. Gable. Meanwhile, an arrival in Hollywood from New York was Mrs. Clark Gable No.

1 nee Josephine Dillon-dramatic teacher who pulled Clark off a telephone trouble-shooter's Job to start him on the road to cinematic fame. The dark-haired, gray-eyed actor, son of a Cadiz, oil man, had tried everything from traveling salesmanship to oil drilling in Oklahoma, before Miss Dillon took him in hand 12 years ago, married him and made a stock-company actor out of the future screen lover of Greta Garbo and Jean Harlow. It was not until seven years later that Miss Dillons training bore results. when Gable, acting in a stock company, caught the eye of Lionel Barrymore. Mother of Murdered Sunday School Teacher Quizzed Ey the Police MT.

RANIER, Nov. 15. (U.K) From the modest bungalow in which she outlined the lessons for her Sunday school pupils, police have started to trace from the beginning the mystery of Corinna Lorings slaying on the eve of her wedding. Early theories were reversed. Ex perts exploded what were thought to be important clues.

Police today found themselves back where started last Saturday when the girls body was found. Investigators, working under the direction of Lieut. Joseph H. Itzel, Baltimore detective, questioned Co-rinnas mother, Mrs. George Loring, who was said to have opposed her daughters plan to wed Richard Tear, 29-year-old hospital attendant.

Convinced that jealousy was the principal motive in the case, Itzel said his only purpose in questioning Commas family was to determine whether they could throw some light on the hunt for the person or persons who beat the girl and strangled her with a piece of wrapping cord. Egypt Stirred By Disorders, Fearing More CAIRO, Egypt, Nov. 15. (U.H) Pears of further disorders hung over Cairo today as the authorities learned that Madame Zaghloul and Nahas Pasha were planning further demonstrations of anti-British char-acter. Madame Zaghloul is the widow of the founder of the Wafd party, which champions more complete independence for Egypt, and Nahas Pasha is, leader of an extreme wing of the party.

Nationalist feelings were heightened by circulation of a rumor that one of the students injured in Wednesdays riot'ng had died and been buried secretly. To forestall a demonstration, the victim of yesterdays clash at the Abbas bridge, which spans the Nile between Chitza and Cairo, was sent to Alexandria by train fo- burial there. The minister of the interior issued a decree suspending publication of a number of newspapers which have stirred up popular unrest. Train Crushes Car, Kills Aged Couple GLENDALE. Nov.

15 (UR) Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Bittle of Baker, en route to Los Angeles to visit their son, were killed today when their automobile was demolished by a south-bound Southern Pacific passenger train at a local grade crossing.

4 BRUSH FIRE CHECKED PASADENA. Nov. 15 (ti.P)-A snectaeular brush fire in the Linda Vista hills near here today burned over ten acres before it was put under control by 100 Civilian Conservation Corps workers. The blaze started from a spark while workmen were welding a water pipe. 4 BARS FOREIGN STEEL WASHINGTON, Nov.

15 (U.R) Public Works Administrator Harold L. Ickes moved today to bar German steel from nqw federal work-relief projects by announcing that no foreign materials may be pur. chased for PWA construction without his personal approval. and COMMENT By G. A.

MARTIN Supervisor Sam J. Stan wood of Santa Barbara, revealed on a visit here today that Jesse H. Chambers, secretary of the Santa Maria fair, recently got some of his letters mixed and wrote to him for prices on side walls for fair displays. The Santa Marian had really written a letter to the supervisor asking him if dates had been set for next years Old Spanish Days Fiesta, but he had also written to a carnival company in Kansas City about the side walls. The letters were put into the wrong envelopes and Stanwood received the one inquiring for quotations f.o.b.

Kansas City on second-hand side walls. The Santa Barbqran seriously addressed a reply in which he said: Your letter to hand, and am sorry I have no second-hand sidewalls for sale f.o.b. Kansas City, but I have on hand several thousand square feet of second-hand sidewalks that I can quote you at 10 cents a square foot f.o.b. Santa Barbara. Boston had the greatest fire in its history on this date in 1872.

Somebody must have become inflamed over being forced to eat Boston baked beans Jfull of molasses. Councilman Albert A. Dudley, who has a rock garden and fountain in the garden of his home, 429 South Lincoln street, has a large chunk of 1 silica in his collection that is as clear as glass and a bright green in oolor. Generally, silica has numerous flaws, and streaks, but this piece, larger than a mans head, is so opaque that it is almost possible to see through it. The block was mined near San Pedro in this state "and, while one of his most prized possessions, was not brought as far as many of the stones and ore in the Dudley collection.

Ettamae and Dr. B.U.L. Conner were absent from their accustomed haunts today said to be looking for a federal subsidy not to work. Ed Borein, Santa Barbara etcher and friend of Will Rogers, when he met Luther Hopper on his visit here and learned that the Santa Maria shoe man was barbecuing for the Chamber of Commerce dinner, said: He comes by that naturally. His uncle was an old cowman and could cook a piece of meat in the open fit for a king.

Borein was a cowboy before he took up etching and became known as the cowboy artist. Another oldtimer is one who recalls when, if you smelled liquor on a womans breath, you talked about her behind her back. A STRENUOUS EXERCISE Hundreds of masks of the kind worn by the devil dancers of old Ceylon, when they were engaged in exercising the deviL Birmingham Mail (England). Frank McCoy has a Chumash Indian basket made on the old Foxen ranch more than a hundred years agov The late Mrs. Matilde Carteri, one of the Foxen daugh- ters, gave it to him.

Santa Maria has a reputation for holding more barbecues than any community in the state and may the reputation never change, even if some of us do have to pay a tailor (occasionally to set gores into our vest backs and waistbands. Closest friendships mature slowly. REAL COURTESY PERSONAL Lawyer will read will tomorrow at residence of who died June 19 to accommodate his relatives. Teaneck (N. paper.

Modesty is the best policy. And the San Luis Obispo Tribune 7 thinks its difficult to predict which 1 1 party will win the coming presiden- tial election, what with the Democrats proclivity for letting the cat ou of the bag, and the Republicans policy of getting left holding it. Fidelity bought will sell again. The Santa Paula Chronicle modernizes an old maxim to read: Mans inhumanity to man makes countless thousands rich. And theres the man who carries a life insurance policy large enough to protect his wife if he dies and small enough to protect him while 1 he lives.

Curve corners carefully. Motorist Defies Ticket-Giver and Finds Hes Judge JERSEY CITY, N. Nov. 15. (U.R) William Brungers face Is still red today.

His parked car was holding up a long line and a man in civilian clothes drove alongj.de and said: Unless ycu move ycur car, I shall give you a ticket. Oh, yeah? asked Brung-ers. "I can get any ticket you give me killed. In traffic court Brungers recognized Judge N. L.

Pala-deau as the man who gave him the ticket. The jurist fined him $10 and revoked hta license for 30 days. States Credit Use Felonious; Arrests Loom SACRAMENTO," Nov. 15 (U.R) Criminal prosecution- of more than 100 state employes for misuse of the state credit In making private purchases loomed today with disclosure by Finance department auditors that the practice of obtaining discounts had been widespread. Articles costing more than $8000 were bought for personal use through credit channels of the state printing plant during the past six years, the auditors reported.

While the state lost no money through the dealings, payment for the purchases sometimes was delayed as much as 30 days, they said. District Attorney Otis Babcock said he would ask the grand jury to take action against all persons involved if it were shown the employes feloniously used state credit to realize discounts. An opinion by Jess Hession, deputy attorney general, pointed out use of the states credit for private gain is prohibited by the constitution as well as being in violation of other statutory provisions. 4 FILM STAR QUITS HUSBAND HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 15.

(C.P) Lina Basquette and Teddy Haves have parted comDany. She said today that she and her husband, onetime trainer of Jack Dempsey, have agreed on a "friendly separation. She will retain custody of their son, Eddie, 19 months old. and the situation is such that new or substitute mail carriers lose mucl) time in finding addresses, Postmaster Shamhart said. The problem, he said, has been aggravated since the 40-hour week went into effect in the postoffice, because of the necessity of putting a substitute carrier on each route for part of the week.

Could Ifflt Mail Delivery The situation not only affects the postoffice, but tradesmen and deliverymen as well, local merchants have pointed out. It is within the province cf the postmaster to refuse to make deliveries to houses incorrectly numbered. Persons on rural routes have to furnish boxes for the reception of mail, with their names on the Screens Greatest Lover Just Cant Keep Wives Wrong Numbers on Homes: Mixi ng Up Ma i I Carriers HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 15 TP) Aj strange sequence of real life romances which have colored the career of Clark Gable, No. 1 leading man of the films, today reached a new milepost with the announcement that Gable and his second wife, formerly Rheta Lachman Lucas.

wealthy Texas widow, had separated. Gable made the statement by long distance telephone from New York while Mrs. Gable, left behind In their West Los Angeles home when the actor started on his latest "vacation two months ago, conferred with Ivar Parker, her lawyer. Mrs. Gable, mother of two children and 11 years the actors senior, married him In 1931.

They separated once before, and It lasted seven vreeks. Gable's only comment was: Mrs. noKio iinri have senarated and a House numbers in Santa Maria are wrong in many cases and do not comply to numbers painted recently by the city cn curbs. Postmaster Reid Shamhart said today, telling of the difficulty that substitute carriers have in finding houses. Houses have often been given arbitrary numbers when they were first built and this has caused the mixup.

According to the practice followed by the city engineering department, each 25 feet of a block is given a number, lets on the north and west being given odd numbers and lots on the south and east, even numbers, Citv Engineer York Peterson explained. Owners Refuse to Change In many cases numbers on houses are on the wrong side of the street,.