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THE DAILY TIMES, SANTA MARIA, CALIFORNIA TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1935 PAGE SIX Tanks Make Scouting Safe in Italian Advance on Makale Rogers Memorial Fund Given Impetus in S. M. 1ST PROTESTS CANADIAN FACT Suuling, oiue the most adventurous phase of parties, from the vantage point of a high hill, military service, has been made a pio-aii- duty In the Italian officer at left scans the countryside for the Ethiopian conflict through the use of tanks rlifieations and drfen-e forces while his tank for the transport and protection of rcconnoitcring waits to tairy him bak to headquarters with his poi t. Santa Marias campaign for funds for the Will Rogers memorial was given Impetus today when Ed Bcre-in, cowboy etcher and close friend cf the late humorist: Sam J. Stan-woed, president of the Santa Barbara Fiesta association, and Sherwood Hall spoke to the Rotary club zt noon In the Santa Maria Inn.

Ray E. Hoey, president of the Chamber cf Commerce and Ki-wanis club; Geo. V. Footman, lieutenant district governor of Kiwan-ls; Ted Akahoshi and Frank Shields, were guests of Frank J. McCoy at the luncheon.

McCoy is Santa Maria chairman. The Santa Barbarans stressed the fact that no quotas have been set for the Rogers memorial fund and the form the memorial will take depends on the money raised. It prob-pbly will be a hospital, perhaps a heme for the blind. Borein said Rogers was always moved to aid as many blind persons as possible. He wouldnt want anyone to pinch to make a donation to this iund, said Borein, so give what you want to, anything from a penny up.

McCoy announced thr.t Borein had donated one of his etchings which the Minerva Library club will dispose of for the benefit of the fund. It is a large etching cf ten horses drawing a freighters wagon. Stanwood told how Rogers had often aided the Fiesta, once giving a benefit to get us out of the hole and raising $4000. Eorein told of many of Rogers charities related many personal stories about the late comedian, his friend of many years. Small boxes for reception of contributions to the fund will be placed at various points about the city.

One is located in the office of The Santa Maria Times. Contributions must be made within the next week or ten days, whereupon the national committee will tabulate returns and decide on the form the memorial will take. Guests at the luncheon today included Leonard Milan and Bill Keefe from Santa Barbara Rotary club. FOR RESERVES Officer of Area and Prospective Officers AJ1 to Have Chance The Mid-Coa-t counties area will be given an opportunity to install a group school for reserve officers and applicants for reserve commissions, when on November 29, Maj. M.

R. Cox, U. S. army, from the First Reserve Area headquarters, Presidio of San Francisco, will meet with the Mid-Coast Counties chapter of the Reserve Officers association in San Luis Obispo in Mul-holland grill. After a dinner meeting.

Maj. Cox will open a discussion as to the advisability of conducting such a school in San Luis Obispo and Santa Maria. The school was made possible through the efforts of Maj. G. A.

Benedict, department president of the association, who recently visited the local Mid-Coast chapter. At that meeting he told the chapter members that he hoped the younger officer material would interest themselves In national defense, apply for and obtain commissions, and then carry on as interested and active reserve officers, prepared to take the place of oldisr officers, soon to retire due to age or physical limitations. The group school training would benefit this type of young officer greatly, It is pointed out. Lt. Cel.

Chas. G. Baird, Capt. O. C.

Jones and other reserve officers in Santa Maria, said today they desired to hear from all reserve officers cf the area, who can and will attend this dinner meeting with Maj. Cox, and together with Merle Wilson, first lieutenant engineer reserve, of, San Luis Obispo, president of the chapter, they extend an invitation to all C.M.T.C. graduates or any citizens of Santa Maria who are fit material for commissioned officers, interested in national defense, to attend the meeting. San Antonio Road Work Is Commenced Construction of the new San Antonio road was under way today w'lth 19 men employed on the WPA project. Engineer Harry Neel Jr.

reported. The road is to be eight miles in length and will extend irem near Harris station west Into the fertile San Antonio valley, where it will intersect a proposed Guadalupe-Lompoc read. It will be necessary to completely realign the old road and much grading will be required, Neel stated. When brought to grade, it will be graveled. Federal aid to the extent of $23,600 has been granted for the project.

4. $500 FOR MANS DEATH LONG BEACH, Nov. 19. (U.I9 Mrs. Margaret Newman, who struck the man who struck her dog with the result the man died of heart disease, today was sentenced to 60 days in jail and fined $500.

The victim was John J. Toms, 79, former Omaha man. RACER FINED AS SPEEDER LOS ANGELES, Nov. 19. (U.19 A1 Gordon, who earns a living by fast driving on the race tracks, paid a $20 fine today for driving 65 miles an hour on a highway.

Oil for War Machines of Italy! State to Inform All Owners How Much They Will Have to Pay A postcard from Department of Motor Vehicles will inform every motorist of California how much to pay to register and license his or her car in 1036. Realizing the new vehicle license fee, which charges motorists $1.75 per $100 valuation of their cars in lieu of present personal property tax, might be a problem for taxpayers. Gov. Prank F. Merriam has instructed Ray Ingels, director of motor vehicles, to prepare an assessment card for each automobile owner.

A force or more than 125 typists is preparing the postcards and about Dec. 20 they will be in the mails for owners of in excess cf 2,000,000 motor vehicles. Director Ingels warns motorists to save their assessment cards. Assessment cards are to be presented with validated 1935 registration cards when a moiorist appears for 1936 registration number plates in January. Ilow It Works The same basic $3 lee charged for pleasure cars will be collected for registration.

The vehicle license fee is to be paid in lieu of personal properly tax, and this fee will be charged at the rate of $1.75 for each $100 valuation placed on the car by the Department of Motor Vehicles. For example, John Doe owns an automobile which Department ot Motor Vehicles assesses at $100. To register tins vehicle and obtain registration number plates for 1936. John Doe will pay $3. To operate h.s vehicle under the vehicle license fee act, John Dae will pay $1.75.

The total cost to be paid by John Doe at the time he gets his new plates will be $4.75. Exemption for war veterans, under a ruling of the attorney general, will be granted up to $1000 valuation in the of the vehicle license fee. The veteran is not exempted from payment ol regis. ration fees. Barge Bandits Get Prison Sentences LOS ANGELES.

Nov. 19. (119-Three hooded pirates, who plundered the gambling barge Monte Carlo of $30,000 in cash and jewelry last summer, today awaited transfer to McNeil island federal prison to start serving eight-year sentences. The trio, August Wundeilich, Carl Cerillo and Walter Miller, were sentenced by Federal Judge Albert Le? Stephens, who then sentened Frank Dudly, alias Blackie Gibbons, to six years in another federal prison. Dudley had turned states evidence to testify against his three accomplices.

A fifth alleged member of the gang, Harry Allen Sherwood, is a fugitive. Public Opinion Judge Gets Loan From Bank with Case Before Him LOS ANGELES, Nov. 19. fU.R) Testimony indicating that Federal Judge Fred C. Jacobs of Arizona, negotiated a $5000 loan from the Valley National bank of Phoenix while litigation involving the bank was pending in his court developed today in the special senate committee hearing on receiverships and bankruptcies.

The jurist, denying anything improper in the transaction, said he obtained the loan by having the tank take over a $5000 balance on a $15,000 loan he originally obtained fiom Mrs. Ida Van Dyke, wife of Cleve Van Dyke, wealthy copper man and founder of Miami, Ariz. The bank loan, negotiated in 1933, was to finance completion of a new home, lie said he asked Attorney Charles Rollins to arrange the matter wilh the bank. Rollins was one cf the lawyers representing the Valley National in its suit to restrain the county from collecting taxes on property it controlled. I dont believe i was aware Mr.

Rollins was acting as attorney for lank in that suit, the jurist said. There were a number of tax suits pending In my court at that time in which Judge Albert M. Eames and I were acting jointly. Collusion on Steel Bids on Federal Work WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (U.R) Public Works Administrator Harold L.

Ickes said today he was sending President Rocsevelt a "statement of facts with prima facie evidence of collusion in steel bids on two government-financed projects. The material is for probable submission to the Federal Trade commission. for investigation. Ickes, at the same time, said he was increasing the 15 per cent differential allowed domestic steel over fcreign-prcduced steel to 25 per cent on all orders amounting to $100 or more. Ickes action came after American steel companies and organized labor protested against use of cheap German materials on the $44,200,000 tri-berough bridge in New York and the $1,555,000 Morehead City, N.

ocean terminal. Victim of Rioting Has Large Funeral CAIRO, Egypt, Nov. 19. 0I.P) Five thousand students held a silent demonstration at the government hospital today for the funeral of Mohammed Abdel Hoakem, instructor on the faculty of arts, who was killed in anti-British demonstrations. i The cortege was headed by girl pupils and nurses of the hospital.

Mahas Pasha, extremist Wafdist (Nationalist) leader, attended. The cortege was orderly. The students wore their nativp red head-gear, the tarboosh, strips of crepe for mourning and strips of red to signify the spilling of blood. Ethiopians Gather for Stiff Fight Secrecy surrounds loading cf a million dollars worth of aviation ga-Uine aboard the steamer Oregon in I.os Angeles, but it is pretty well accepted that destination of the 9259 tons of gas is for Italian Somaliland. Owners of the vessel would not deny the cargo had been bought by the Italian government for war use.

I Lumbermen Charge Sellout In Behalf of Eastern Manufacturers PORTLAND, Nov. A three-point program, incluynfA challenge of President Roosevelt authority to reduce excise taxes, was outlined today by Pacific Northwest lumber interests opposing the new U. reciprocal trade agreement. Although the view was not unanimous opinion, many in the industry felt that reduction of tariffs on Canadian lumber imports constituted a sell-out of Northwest lumber workers and operators in the interest of Eastern manufacturers. Senator Charles L.

McNary of Oregon, will carry the industries fight to Washington. He said he would leave Salem today, taking with him 10,000 letters and telegrams of protest. Wallace Discusses Pact In an official statement Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace said the treaty would benefit the whole of agriculture and predicted' recovery of most of the $35,000,000 decline In United States agricultural exports to Canada during the past five years. Wallace cited the reductions granted to Canada on a quota-limit of beef cattle, calves and dairy cows and added: There are a few farm groups which fear' they are being hurt by the pew agreement, but actually in those cases the tariff reductions are moderate.

Canada has agreed, he said, to reduce import duties on a long list of American farm products, reductions ranging from 25 per cent on certain fruits and vegetables pier cent on potatoes. 4- MERCHANT MARINE WARNED NEW YORK, NOV. 19. U.P Sec-etary of Commerce Daniel C. Ropier warned American ship owners last night that unless they increase efficiency to piermit reduction of subsidies.

the merchant marine must be taken over by the government. RAFTER When you see all those people coming into our store, its because theyre RAFTER U. S. Royals for protection on slippery highways. More and mere are buying them.

Why dont you? ACME SUPER SERVICE 24-Hour Service Main at Pine important factors and equipment. Jury Attacked In New Lamson Trial 'SAN JOSB, Not). 19. (U.R) Superior Judge J. J.

Trabucco at 12:30 p.m. today recessed the Lamson trial, to study a petition filed by Defense Attorney Leo Friedman challenging the jury panel. Friedman contended that the late Charles English, jury commissioner, who died two days ago, usurped functions of the court when he asked prospective jurors whether they favored or (opposed the death penalty. The attorney claimed such questions invalidated the entire pdiiel. COMPARE S.P.

TRAVEL WITH ANY OTHER Up and Down California By these 5 most itf COMFORT Roomy Rrom, are taboo in California and liquor establishmnnts have been cautioned to remove them or face the danger of license revocation. cars on steel rails, smoothest highway yet invented 5 completely air-conditioned trains East air-conditioned cars to most western points finest modern Pullmans special, de luxe reclining chair coaches. Wmen DBug Mews HBkeaks erpviCE through cars to -more eastern cities than 1,6 any other railroad 4 great routes East (Continued From rage 1) League adds these to its penalties list. SEAMEN MOVE GASOLINE FOR DOUBLE PAY SAN PEDRO, Nov. 19.

(U.Ei The steamer Oregon, loaded with 36,000 drums of aviation gasoline ostensibly consigned to Singapore, will sail tonight, operators announced after reaching an agreement with the Maritime Federation to pay seamen a bonus of 50 per cent of their full pay to Singapore, and during 2000 miles of steaming thereafter, plus $100 insurance on their personal effects. The Oregon has been tied up sine? Saturday, when union seamen refused to take her out unless assured the gasoline was not bound for Italian Somaliland. Yesterday, seamen's union officials telegraphed Secretary of State Cordell Hull asking if they could expect a guarantee of safety from the American government. In his reply, Hull said: If the gasoline mentioned is in fact destined to an Italian possession, no guaranty for the safety of the crew can be given. EMPEROR SELASSIE TAKES FIELD WITH ARMr ADDIS ABABA.

Nov. 19. dP Emperor Haile Selassie left the capital hurriedly by airplane today and was believed to be on his way to the front to take commend of his armies in the field. It was reported both that he left for Dessye, the chief war base in the north, and for Harar, the war base on the eastern-southern front. In any event he was not expected to return to the capital until after a supreme test between his ill-armed warriors and the Italians.

Copyright, 1935, by United Press. Dr. Socrates Will Be Here Tomorrow Dr. Socrates. the Warner Bros, production in which Paul Muni will appear tomorrow only in Santa Maria.

theatre, is heralded as one of the most powerful dramas in which that star has appeared on the screen. Th picture is based on the novel by W. R. Burnett, author of Little Caesar." and carries an engrossing romance in which a great surgeon cuccunihs to the charms of a little hitch-hiking girl. Ann Dvorak plays the part of the little hitch-hiker.

This is the first time Mss Dvorak has played with Muni since she made her first hit with him in Scarface. Barton MacLane is the ruthless killer who heads the bandits. Henry O'Neill is a government agent while others in thp cast include Hobart Cavanauch. Helen Lowell. Mayo Met hot.

Grace Stafford. Raymond Brown and Olin Howland. 4 SCHOOL BONDS UP LOS ANGELES. Nov. 19 (UP A surge of earlv morning voters to the polls today inspired the confidence of school authorities that a proposed $12,393,000 bond issue would be approved at the special election.

to the Buellton water district and increase the bond issue. C. A. Storke. father of the Santa Barbara publisher and former owner and editor of the Santa Barbara News, was 88 today.

Kenneth Fratis of Los Olivos, has been elected president of the Santa Ynez Valley Farm center. Sixty-eight San Luis Obispo singers are practicing for a presentation of The Messiah at Christmas. John J. Judge, new director of the San Francisco Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, said today California got the best deal of any state. in the new United Statcs-Ciuiadian trade agreement.

I porter service in coaches and tourist sleepers club and lounge-observation cars, market reports, shower baths, barber, valet, maid service on crack trains including famous Golden Stale and Sunset Limiteds. press associations could be forewarned as to where the BIG NEWS would break, covering these stories would be a comparatively simple matter. SPEED two ays 3 n'Bhts to Chicago, unsur-' tcw passed by anjr regular-fare train on any trip, the time-saving of riding while you sleep overnight to San Francisco, less than 11 hours to Phoenix, 38 hours ta Portland. But BIG news has a habit of breaking in the most unexpected and out-of-the-way places. This means that press associations must have staffs of trained newspapermen stationed at strategic points all over the world.

UNITED PRESS veterans young in years, but old in experience are at these focal points throughout the two hemispheres waiting watching for BIG stories. LIQUOR AM) YOUTH Editor, Santa Maria Times: We know the harmlul effect of alcohol on body, mind and soul, when used to excess, leeding to all manner of abnormalities. One half to three-fourths of all crime is directly traceable to, or closely allied to alcoholics. A large percentage of suicides, sexual crimes, mental defectives, and a large percentage of the population of our poor houses and other charitable institutions are made up of the grist of John Barley Coin's jnill. Roller and Diem, two noted psychiatrists, who investigated a series of 3515 insane cases, found that 20 9 per cent had ancestry tainted with alcoholism.

Snell in gathering statistics on 352 cases of epilepsy, found the alcoholic taint in the ancestors of 25.89 per cent. Pierce Bailey found that of 9533 mental defectives mvestigatcd, 31 8 per cent had an ancestry tainted with alcoholism to the extent of 31.8 per cent. In Berne, Switzerland, a doctor investigated ten families in which one or both parents were drunkards. These families produced 57 children, 12 died in infancy, eight became idiots, 13 were epileptics, five dwaifs, five deaf mutes and only nine appeared normal. The doctor also investigated ten sober families.

They produced 61 children, five died young, two suffered cholera, four were backward, but not idiots, and 50 were normal. But these statistics cannot interest the parents of this community, as much as the appalling condition which is menacing our youth right here in Santa Maria. When the saloons were licensed, there was no provision for barring minors. I shudder to think what the next few years will bring forth, but as sure as the sun shines over this beautiful valley, there is going to be plenty of grief and heartaches for the mothers and fathers, and trouble without end for the youth of the valley who are being snered. When an adult imbibes alcoholics to excess he loses judgment, human sympathy and manhood, but when alcoholics are put within rearh of our youth, it is sad to contemplate their future.

Just one illustration. After a recent football gc.mn. some out-of-town girls had a room in a local hotel, overlooking the street and were leaning out the window drinking from a flask and calling to boys and invitng them up to the room. Several of them responded and the orgy which ensued would bring the blush of shame to the cheek of every clean-minded person in Santa Maria. A BARLEYCORN GRADUATE.

The California State Chamber of Commerce leport, building peinnts 51 California cities during October totaled $8 511.638, an lnciease of 29 5 per cent over the total for the cci responding month iast year. Production cicdit loans advanced on crop-' and livestock in the Eleventh district, including California, totaled approximately $35 000,000 on Ott. 31. at voiding to T. P.

Coats, president of the Federal Crdit agi ncy. Sunday's ram saved Santa Bar-bat a five million callous ot water, $500 and gate ltv firemen a rest. It put out the lire the municipal rubbish dump. Nov. 21 has been set as the date for selling the turkeys of the Atascadero tuikey pool.

Growers expect 21 cents a pound this year ag.iin-t 18 last year. The Atascadero turkey peel is said to em-brere 35.000 pounds of turkey meat. San Inis Obispo automobile dealers arc stncing an Automobile Show in the Winter Gaiden tonight and tomorrow evening. Paso Robles will sot'1 Dec 14 on an issue cf $10 000 in high school bonds for additions to the high hcol and a ho additions at the Shandon school. Opposition to a contract authorizing private collection of delinquent gasoline taxes in California took concrete form when Controller Ray L.

Riley said lie would not approve the payment of commissions to col lectors. Finance rector Arlin E. Stoikburger, acting under terms of an act approved bv the legislature, had signed a contract. Santa Barbara merchants will inaugurate the Christinas lmvinr season bv turning on lighted Aide trees and staging a parade of Santa Claus" oil the night of I rid.iy, Nov. 29.

more than four weeks ahead of Christmas. Louis J. Taber, Columbus. reelected master of tli? National Grange, began his thirteenth year ns elvef executive of the farmers organization today in Saernmeno. Outdoor liquor signs exceeding 720 square inches or containing iho words Bar Barroom.

"Saloon." I Cotkluil Lounge," or kl.u! I I CFTY All the modern safeguards that make train I I travei the safest known to man millions spent annually on roadbeds Superior Judge William J. Palmer lias awarded Helene Costello, motion picture actress, $4665 50 from the estate cf her foimer actor-husband, the late Lowell Sherman. Sherman had made Miys. Julia Sherman, his mother, sole beneficiary of the will. California State Chamber of Commerce has pledged support of the rffort of communities along the Coast highway to have Cuesta grade north of San Luis Obispo realigned.

San Luis Obispo county tax payments are ahead of a year ago at this t.me and the countv today began redemption of $50 000 in registered wnrrants issued prior to October 23. Approximately 28 acres of the J. D. Patterson subdivision, situated in Rancho la Goleta. has been sold to J.

W. Rochlitzer ior $26,000. Pczo Farm center has decided to stage a war on hawks and ground squirrels. The former are getting the chickens, the latter are eating 1 the grain. Pomp-o Righctti, former rancher in thp San Simeon and Cambria urea, died this week in Redwood Citv.

I Ben Piazza, chief talent hunter for Paramount studies, declared trday that there's a shortage of new talent. No longer are the movies able to draw upon stock ce.mpanics because such companies are all but evlinet, he said. The California oil industry lost mm of its most militant stabilization advocates tedav with the death of George Swindell, public relations counsel for the Oil Produces agency of California. He was formerly publisher of the Bakersfield Morning Echo. Oakland has been selected as th meeting place of Allied Independent Merchants and Home Owned Bus-.

nesses of California when they rrnvmic in their third annual contention in January. Gant a Barbara county supervi-sors have set Dec. 9 for hearing on the proposal to add additional area Thousands of miles of UNITED PRESS telegraph and telephone wires, cables and radio put them within a very few minutes of this newspaper office. j. ECONOMY One-way and roundtrip fares at 2 cents 1 a mile and less money-saving table dhote "Meals Select in all dining cars low cost tray dining service (sandwiches, 10c; coffee or milk, 5c; doughnuts, 10c, etc.) in coaches and tourist sleepers no excess fare on any Southern Facific train.

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