Santa Maria Times from Santa Maria, California • 1

I Blast Similar to World War Sabotage, Wrecks Explosive Factory in New Jersey '1? I SPIED- THE WEATHER Fair tonight and Thursday; little chaige in temperature; light variable wind off coast. TEMPERATE KB High 64 Low 36 RAINFALL This season 9.40 Last season 4.29 A NEWSPAPER DEDICATED TO SANTA ANTA MARIA, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1940 Subscription Price $7.20 Per Year REICH FOODS SHO Every Evening Except Sunday Pioneer Called Samuel Jefferson Jones, 86-year-old Santa Marian, longest resident in the city, who passed away yesterday afternoon. Gambling Raids Net Arrest of Four Men Here Names of Bettors Seized, Ail To Be Given Official Quiz Four men, O. M. Cowden, proprietor of the Rex cafe; Guy Ru-Dcrto, employe of Cowden: Ross Page, proprietor of the Melody club and Sam N.les, who runs an establishment back of Novo Cafe, were taken into custody this morning on a charge of possessing bookrraking paraphernalia and conducting a lottery.

Bail as fixed in city court this morning of 8250 each or $5C0 bond for each. Ruperto was the only man who had put up bail at noon. The arrests were made by Undersheriff Jack Ross. Deputy Sheriff Charles M. Taylor, Police Chief L.

M- McCandless and. Po-j lice Officers Jack Duncan and M. G. Carmichael. Jordan Rallies SACRAMENTO (U.R) Mark- improvement in the condition Frank C.

Jordan, veteran sec- rotary of state, was reported by attending physicians today. He breakfast this morning and A. C. Hart said he icoked much brighter. New Premier Admiral Mitsumasai Yonai, navy minister, has been named Japans new prime minister.

Labor Board Hi! By Court Rule Lumber Company Freed of Contempt SAN FRANCISCO U.R) The Red River Lumber Co. of West-wood, was cleared today of charges it had sponsored vigilante activities against union or-ganization when the United States Circuit Court of Appeals denied a plea of the National Labor Relations board that the firm be held in contempt. The court held the lumber company had in the main complied with a Labor board order and in at least two counts should not be held in contempt. On a count which concerned the discharge of two employes, the court ordered attorneys to file briefs and affidavits within ten days. The nature of the charges of contempt indicates it is unnecessary to proceed further with the charges so far as they relate to the alleged disturbances of the peace, the decision read.

The Labor board had alleged the company incited, assisted and encouraged vigilantes in West-wood for the purpose of union interference. The court held board attorneys had failed to establish a basis of the contempt order sought. Coast Disputes- WASHINGTON (UP.) The special house committee investigating the National Labor Rcla- Continucd on Page 5, Col. 6 Number 232 British Railways Heavily Guarded From Nazi Blasts Parliament Told German Economy Is Breaking Down LONDON (UP) hundred thousand British railroad men were put on the alert today against an alleged German plot to sabotage communications. It was asserted that authorities had uncovered a plot by the German intelligence service aimed at pul works, communications, bridges and railroads.

Necessary counter measures were taken at once, it was understood, and secret instruct ons were sent to railroad official; to keep a sharp watch for suspicious characters. Germany Desperate Germany, suffering severely as a result of the allied contraband control, is desperate, Minister of Economic Warfare Ronald Cross told the House of Commons today. At the end of 4 1-2 months of war, Cross said, Germanys economic troubles are similar to what they were at the end of two years of the World war. Conditions of life in Germany are strained, he said. Germany does not have the same resources of gold and foreign currencies which he had 25 years ago, he averred.

Her stocks of industrial raw materials are also far smaller, he said. There are shortages of pciro-eum. iron, wool, cotton and many other commodities in Germany, he declared. We have been informed, he aid, that important stool works might suspend operation for lack of raw materials. Food From Hungary However, it was reported Lori Budapest that Germany has concluded an economic agreement Hungary which is expected increase materially the sh p-ment on much needed foodstuffs to the Reich.

The agreement was regarded as i victory of some importance for Germany, particularly because trade negotiations between France and Hungary were expected to start in Paris within the next two weeks. Funds Impounded- BERLIN P' The Economic Continued on Page 5, Col. 1 ITALY MAY GET INTO FRAY SHORTLY ROME 'up Italy may at any time laced wth the necessity of taking up arms, Gen. Etore Muti, secretary general of the Fascist party, warned todav. Addressing a gathering of Fascist fedtral i etanes, Muti said: We must not sleep in the illusion that Italy's present stand regarding this confbct will bo perpetual.

Fascist Italv might find itself at any moment faced with the necessity and duty of taking up arms. We must therefore be ready with arms and above all in spirit. THE WEATHER 1 Employes in the Highway Patrol office hoping motorists will take advantage of the present lull and get their plates before the last minute rush has started. E. L.

Peterson here from Corona en route to Sacramento, Mrs. Peterson to main while he is away. The air full of navy planes off Avila today, in the coast attack maneuvers. Poinsettias still holding up under five nights of frost. Jack OBrien with ample time on his hands to kid The Times staff about not working.

Bob Bruce shiveringly expressing regret that he left home this morning without his overcoat. A lobby visitor kidding the postoffice staff with the statement that if he didnt get amay, somebody may, think Im a Democrat. Arleen Kletts third-grade pupils star gazing last night through A. B. Stephens telescope, planning to go again tonight.

commTnu AND CACOPHONY By G. A. Martin Texas did not have the first woman governor. Nellie Tayloe Ross (present director of the U. S.

mint) and Mrs. Miriam Ferguson were elected governors of Wyoming and Texas on the same day, Nov. 4 1924, but Mrs. Ross took office Jan. 5, Mrs.

Ferguson not until Jan. 20. Helsinki is Finnish, Helsingfors is Swedish. The Swedes gave the name Helsingfors to the capital of Finland when they held it; the Russians continued it when they held it. Not until Finlands independence after World War I was the name changed to Helsinki; not until the recent assault on Finland by Russia did the papers generally begin using the Finnish name for the capital.

The Catholic church has a special bishopric for members of the faith in the army and navy, active and reserve. Recently made bishop of the flock of Catholic chaplains was Most Rev. Francis Joseph Spellman, archbishop of New York; his assistant, Rev. John Francis OHara, president of Notre Dame university (named auxiliary bishop of chaplains) In Gone With the Wind, Clark Gable looks just like you expected Rett Butler to look. Business machines in the United States are in need of operators.

Girls are being urged to take up this work instead of learning so much stenography. British motion picture censors have banned the Wizard of Oz, because the witch scenes might frighten children. Snow White was banned for a time for a similar It is reported that Coyle Ritchie wanted to deduct 25 cents from Dr. Consers bill for the six cigars the doctor broke thumping his chest. Asbestos covered with wood veneer is the latest material for interior finish fireproof.

The word wiener comes from its origin in Vienna, spelled Wien in Austrian. Hamburger originated in Hamburg, Germany, and was called Liberty steak in the United States during our World War I. Dr. B. U.

L. Connor says they are building modern automobiles so that five people can get into them with comfort, and ten if they are well acquainted. Today is the anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin, in 1706. Today is also the anniversary of the revolution in Hawaii which resulted in the dethroning of Queen Liliuokalani, in 1893. This is also the anniversary of the birth of David Lloyd George, Britains great dissenter in the present war, its manager in the last.

You cant expect to get ahead of your bills, says Etta-mae, if you let them keep running. There's a salesman waiting, with a msutaehe, said the girl in the bank. Tell him no; Ive got a mustache, said Leo Scaroni as he continued immersed in w'hat he was doing. A public speaker on a lyceum tour, asked what was the hardest part of his work, said: "Waking up an audience ater the man who introduces me has finished. Our rrinds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the ihange of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

Quintilian. New City Traffic Law Effective Jay-Walking 'Out Parking Regulated Revamping of regulations for highways, streets and alleys in Santa Maria is called for in the new city traffic ordinance which became effective today. An hour limit for parking in the business district is set, between the hours of 10 a.m. and 6 p.nu and 2 a.m and 6, a.m. ordinance authorizes the police to impound cars violating parking restrictions, and the owner must pay the cost of impounding and storage before redeeming the vehicle.

Parking of any truck or truck and trailer in the residential district is banned between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. In parking parallel to a curb, a vehicle shall be no more than a foot from the curb. Watch Your Step Pedestrians have the right of way over motorists in all crosswalks that are rrirked, unless an officer or a traffic signal is directing traffic at a given point. It is unlawful for a pedestrian to cross a street at any point other than a designated crosswalk, within the business district.

It is unlawful to stand in a roadway to solicit a ride. No vehicle may turn around except at street intersections in Donati, Dr. E. K. Dart, Dr.

E. II. the business district nor in a res- Humphrey and W. A. Vandegrift.

City officials included City Engineer York Peterson and City Attorney Hurley T. Bailey. idential street if another car is within 200 feet. Turning Markers Names Seized Reports for some time regarding alleged bookmaking and lottery games in Santa Maria prompted todays investigation, with the resulting arrests, it was stated. A large list of names of persons placing bets in the establishments was discovered and each name will be investigated by the district attorneys office and local police, Assistant District Attorney T.

P. Weldon stated this morning after the raids. HERMOSA STREET CLOSING GETS APPROVAL A joint meeting of the city council and the Planning commission scheduled for last night was postponed until the first Tuesday in February. The Planning commission met, however, and approved the request of Mrs. Fannie Tunnell that a portion of land donated to the city bv the late W.

II. Tunnell for a continuation of West Hermosa street, be returned to her. It was the second hearing on this matter, and, in the absence of written or oral protests, the request was sent to the city council with the approval of the planning group. Miles Booth, president of the Mens Garden club, attended the meeting and submitted a list of trees his club felt suitable for street planting in Santa Maria. Commissioners present were Chairman Frank H.

Gates, L. C. MADIA VALLEY Long Machine Leads in Poll In Louisiana Fist-Fights, Goon Squads, Wide-Open Saloons the Rule NEW ORLEANS I The as sacsinated Huey P. Longs pokti-, cal machine piled up a lead today for Gov. Earl K.

Long, candidate for renomiration in yesterdays tumultous Democratic primary. Sam Houston Jones, one of four opposition candidates, was close on his heels and threatening 1o make a run-off primary necessary. Run-offs are required when no candidate gets a majority of all votes cast. The runoff possibility loomed larger as a tabulation of state returns this afternoon showed that Long had a total of only 85,093 votes out of 103,634 for his opponents. Jones, Lake Chailes attorney, was second with 52,002.

State Senator James A. Noe had James H. Morrison, Hammond attorney, 10,236, and Vincent Moseley, Opelousas business man, 2469. Federal Probe Looms In general tumult, the election compared favorably with any conducted during Huey Longs reign, and like several of its predecessors, it was foredoomed to federal investigation. Noe had four fist fights in the course of the day, even though he had broken his right hand in the first one, at 5:20 a.m.

Goon squads pug-uglies from the wharves and bums from the hobo jungles roamed the city all day in the interests of at Continued on Page 8, Col. 2 COAL HAULERS STRIKE WHEN COLD HITS NEW YORK (UP) Drivers handling 75 per cent of the citys coal deliveries were called out on strike today in all four boroughs, as the temperature dropped and a cold wave embraced the nation's largest city. The strike affected 2500 drivers and 2500 yard men and helpers employed by 100 dealers. Local 553 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (AF.L.) called it after negotiations had broken down on the unions demand for an increase from $1 to $1.20 an hour wages for drivers. Mayor F.

II. LaGuardia obtained from the union a promise that deliveries to hospitals, schools and other public institutions would not be interrupted. Fire Kills Four HOUSTON, Tex rti Four men were killed and 12 persons iniurcd today when fire swept the c. i it Salvation Army Industrial Home. 2 Volume 22 Last Rites for S.

J. Jones, 86, Friday Morning Resident Here for 69 Years Helped Lay Out the City Friday morning at 10:30 in the Dudley Mortuary, last rites will be held for the late Samuel Jefferson Jones, 86-year-old Santa Maria pioneer, who passed awav yesterday afternoon at 3 oclock in a local hospital. Rev. Horace Campbell of the Christian church, will be in charge. Deceaseds father and mother, the late T.

A. and Sophia Jones, organized the Christian church in Santa Maria, and S. J. Jones taught Sunday school in the church for many years. All of the nine children of the deceased pioneer and his 14 grandchildren will attend the funeral rites.

Those not residents of Santa Maria were en route here today. The children, in the order of their ages, are: Roscoe V. Jones (Oakland), Warden S. Jones (Yuma), Thomas Randolph Jones (Modesto), Laro Viola Jones, Alfa Mary Mason, Nelson C. Jones (Yuma), Mrs.

Lillian J. Towsley, Bernice M. Andrews (Pozo). Gaylord Jefferson Jones, and Thomas Randolph Jones (Modesto). Except those mentioned as having residence elsewhere, all the children live here.

Here for 69 Years S. J. Jones had lived in Santa Maria for 69 years and was the oldest inhabitant in point of residence, in the valley at the time of his death. One of the best posted men on the early history of this section of California, Mr. Jones owned one of the finest collections of prehistoric Indian artifacts in the West.

Until a few months ago, he made wreekly excursions along the coast excavating mounds and collecting arrow heads, mortars and pestles of the prehistoric men who once inhabited California. It was to his credit that he discovered many of the former Indian village locations, extending from Point Sal down to Lompoc. His researches greatly aided the study of the early history of thi section of California. Love in a Cottage Mr. and Mrs.

Jones made their first home after their marriage on Oct. 20, 1887, in the cottage removed a couple of years ago from South Church street to make room for Safeway Stores parking lot. Mr. Jones had erected it as the first rent house in Santa Maria, two years prior to his marriage. When they were married, he moved their household effects into the new place in a wheelbarrow, and they spent their honeymoon there.

After three years of residence there, they moved to fhe corner of Broadway and Cook, where the Associated Oil station is now located, and lived there for eight years. Then they constructed their present home and occupied it for 50 years. It was Continued on Page 5, Cols. 2-3-4 PALMDALE HAS TEMPERATURE DROP TO 26 Temperatures in scattered points throughout the Southland dropped below freezing before dawn today, but the mercury arose with the sun, and the area again basked in unusual warmth. The mercury dropped only to 36 in Santa Maria, one above the 35 registered yesterday, but it fell to 23 degrees in Palmdale and to 28 in Newhall.

lowest points in the Southland. Light smudging was necessary in some lemon groves in the Southland. There was a heavy frost in Santa Maria this morning, but little damage was done vegetation. The recent rains resulted in very little loss to California truck crop growers except for cauliflower in the Central Coastal areas, the Federal-State Market News Service reported today. Some washing and loss of stand by poor drainage has occurred, but has been more than offset by excellent growth brought about by rainfall and warm weather accompanying it, the agency said, and provided frost does not interfere, most vegetable sections arc off to a good start.

Girl Found Safe Anna Hutchinson. 18, above, reported missing from her Canton, home last December, is back with her parents after detectives found her living in Pittsburgh with a husband, Donald Stone, his mother and another woman. Stone and other two women are held by Pittsburgh police for questioning on $2000 ransom note received by girl's parents shortly after she vanished. Explosive Blast Wrecks Plant Two Men Killed At DuPont Factory GIBBSTOWN, N. I' At least two persons were killed today, and two others injured seriously, when 6000 pounds of nitroglycerine in a dynamite mixing plant of the E.

1. DuPont de Nemours Co. exploded. The plant is one of the units at which the company posted 27 additional guards two weeks ago to guard against possible sabotage." Those killed were working near the vat in which nitroglycerine was stored. The explosion left a crater 18 feet deep in the ground.

A column of smoke rose 300 feet in the air following the blast. A Du Pont spokesman said the explosives manufactured in the plant were for commercial purposes, and not intended for war material. Windows in the Greenwich township in Gibbstown were broken and school authorities, fearing further explosions, sent all the children home. Company officials said there was no danger of further explosions, however. They pointed out tha huge Ins of life and piopetlv damage was i averted because of the peculiar construction of the units, Inch are placed isolated spots to guard against such The same plane was v.

locked by explosions hi January. Mnv rnd Odohoj ol 19i6 a World war ai Mil, a d( uth toll ol 18 BOY ALIGHTING FROM BUS IS INJURED Robert O'Dell, fourth-grade Or- cutt grammar school pupil, was 1 injured at 3-30 yesterday after- noon when struck bv a car drive by Henry Rinaldi of Lompoc, on the Oreutt mad about 300 feet beyond the Blanca apartments. Riding in a school bus en route from Oreutt to Santa Maria. 1 vnum, O'Dell alighted from tin bus as it stopped to discharge six children. Rinaldi, duving south in a coupe with his brother, Atlilio, failed to stop for the bus and the right front fender hit the boy and knocked him to the side of the road.

The youth suffered injuries about the face and a badly-skinned leg. He was taken later released. The accident is being investigated by the Santa Maria branch of the Stale Highway Patrol. All cars must pass around turning markers when making a turn from one street to another, v. hen markers are in position Dnving out of un aileV, the op-'cd erator of a car must come to 1 of full stop.

The ordinance confers power on the council to establish Eou-lat 1 Dr. Continued on Page 5, Col. 8 Dairying in Santa Use of Butter Maria Valley Is an Important Cog in a Tremendous National Industry Increaes So Rapidly in California That Importing Necessary PREAMBLE This is the sixth of a scries of articles being published the Wednesday issues of The Santa Maria Times during the next nine weeks. These articles arc compiled and written from the standpoint of showing the stability of resources in the Santa Maria valley, with Santa Maria the center of marketing, production and commercial activities, which make for a permanent prosperity. Its purpose is supported by fifteen commercial and professional institutions of Santa Maria and Guadalupe the pu king center expressing their confidence in the future.

Each of these firms has an interesting message carried on Page 6 of this i BY R. KENNETH EVANS Since the beginning of time agriculture, under many different names, has been mans basic industry. Nature has provided the requisites for the substance of the human being, and today there is not a single food product that does not come from the soil either directly or indirectly. Science lias always been called on in the economical production of food products, but in recent years changes have been brought about 1 which have departmentized agriculture into a score of logical vocations. It was not many years ago that the dairy industry was confined to the neighbors cow, which supplied the milk for several families.

It was, usually, delivered to the home in a tin Ducket, poured into a container and allowed to stand until the cream for the coffee arose to the top and the children of the family drank skimmed milk. Cutter was made by the farmers wife, churned once or twice a week from soured cream taken to the neighborhood grocery store and set on the shelf to wait for customers. Today, however, dairying has s.dairy products, in one form or an-grown into one of the nations othei most important industries. A report from the Milk Industry Foundation shows that during 1939 m'lk led all other products as the largest source of farm cash income. The total received by fanners was approximately No longer is milk a side-line on the farm.

It has been separated from the parent industry agriculture. It touches the lives of everyone living within the confines of the nation as there is not a family that does not use every day in the year. Dairying Is Important On a largo percentage of the fai ms in Santa Baibara countv are found dairy cows not the old type of mixed breed but high quality stork. Instead of milk being produced by the farmhands, every morning and night, machines have been introduced that do the job scientifically and with safety. The cows have come to accept this scientific method Continued on Page 8, Col..