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I i PAGE TWO MANFORD DAILY J. E. Richmond Publisher and Proprietor (Successor to Dodge Richmond) Established Weekly 1886 Established Daily 1896 HANFORD DAILY SENTINEL Published everey evening (Sunday ex-, cepted) in the Sentinel Building No. 119 North Douty Street. intered at the Postoffice at Hanford, as second-class matter.

RAINFALL (Season 1929-1930) Commencing June 1. Measurements taken al Santa Fe rain gauge. June 9 .14 June 15 .10 December 10 .39 December 12 .2 December .1 January 5 .15 January 6 .3 January 7 .37 January 10 .45 January 13 .40 January 14 .14 January 15 .05 January 16 .05 January 17 .01 Total 2.31 Total rainfall for season ending May 31, 1929 6.79 FAKERS SLAP US IN FACE A 'blizzard death' in Kern county was a frightful 'knock' gratuitously handed the San Joaquin valley by the San Francisco and Los Angeles newspapers Saturday. It brought an immediate rebuke not only from Bakersfield and Kern county but also from all other counties and cities in the valley. The idea of such a thing? In their eagerness for the sensational, but ably not with a thought to injure, the newspapers in question 'played' the faked feature up prominently.

Such a thing would have been a good piece of news had it been true. But everybody who knows anything about San Joaquin valley and particularly Kern county, is aware of its mild climate in the winter and torridity in the summer. The 'unusualness' of the thing seems to have gotten the better of good judgment and provoked an inexcus- able, fanciful libel not only against the valley but all 1 who live here. Because of the printed stories of a man who had died of hunger and 'canned heat' rather than a 'blizzard' wrathful protests, strong and general, were wired and written to the editors of the newspapers using the fake, by civic, commercial, hotel, and other bodies in the valley. William R.

Metzger, of the tourist association bureau at Fresno, denounced the story in a talk before the Valley unit of the California Newspaper Publishers' association at Visalia Saturday night. His organization was only one of many which vehemently protested. Such fakes injure the valley and in fact all California. The people of the Valley are due not only a retraction but also an apology for that unkind slap in the face. GENERAL ROBERT E.

LEE MEMORIAL (Los Angeles Times) On this, the one hundred and twenty-third anniversary of the birth of Gen. Robert E. Lee, our countrymen, North and South, may well unite in paying tribute to one of the greatest military genfuses the world has ever produced. No for this alone. however, is his name kept in perpetual remembrance.

Gen. Lee will always be honored as a conscientious, gallant American, who proved his metal in defeat no less than on the field of battle, and never sullied the cause, misguided though it was, which he had at heart, with any act unbecoming to either the Stars and Bars or the Stars and Stripes. A movement is on foot to raise funds throughout the United States to purchase the old Lee homestead at Stratford-on-Potomac and to preserve it as a national monument to the great leader of the Confederate army. In connection with this memorial it is also planned to assemble a library of all material bearing on the war period and the subsequent development of the modern South. Time has healed the scars of the titanic conflict.

Today we are all Americans of a united country. The blue of the North and the gray of the South are now merged in the khaki of the United States that brought victory to democracy in the World War. Every loyal American today can subscribe with a clear conscience to a national memorial in honor of this fine American soldier. In doing so, we are but proving that this country has outlived the ancient sectional bitterness and that we can respect a true man for what he was, apart from what he fought for. Daily Bible Thought and Prayer January 20 THE- PROPHET--Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto 3:22.

Prayer "Let every heart prepare Him room, And Heaven and Nature DAILY SENTINBL HANFORD, BOOTLEG KILLER OF DRY AGENTS HELD ON CHARGE OF MURDER SLAYER WITH RUM RECORD SETS UP TECHNICAL PLEA POR SHOOTING DOWN TWO PROHTPITION OFFICERS. West Palm Beach, Jan. -A man with a long record of major bootlegging operations was held in the county jail here today on a blanket charge of murdering two federal prohibition agents who sought to search his home on a federal warrant Saturday night. Ln defense of that charge, George W. Moore, the asserted bootlegger and rum- runner, announced through his attorney, E.

M. Baynes, that he will plead legal technicality namely, that the warrant did not persearch of his home at night. The government, however, answers Moore's announcement with the assertion that his two victims Agents Frank R. Patterson and Robert K. Moncure-were "wholly within their legal rights and performing their sworn duty" at the time of their deaths.

Preliminary reports, clearly lished it was said, that Agent Moncure produced the warrant at the front steps of the Moore home and told Moore he and three other agents had come to search the premises. Without replying and refusing to accept service of the wararnt, it was said, Moore rushed back across his front porch, slammed the front door, and forthwith fired a charge of buckshot through it. One slug struck directly in the forehead, instantly killing him. Patterson, according to reports, was at door of the home, and on hearing the shotgun, rushed in through the kitchen to overpower Moore. He was met half-way with a charge of buckshot which lodged in his abdomen, mortally wounding him.

PARAGUAY- BOLMM WAR BREAKS AGAIN Asuncion, Paraguay, Jan. A serious crisis threatens in the longentangled relations between Paraguay and Bolivia as a result of reports reaching here of an attack by Bolivisn troops on Paraguayan forces. The minister of war conferred with President Jose P. Guggiam concerning what action to take, reporting he had received word of an attack at Isla Boi thre days ago in which one Paraguayan soldier, Sixto Benitez, was killed. The reported outbreak of hostilities is the most recent incident in rivalry between the two nations for the disputed Chaco territory lying between them.

Negotiations with Uruguay as mediator have been under way for the some time and an agreement was reported reached last week which this outbreak may thwart. FAIR SLAYER OF POLICEMAN LOSES IN HIGHEST COURT Denver, Jan. Colorado supreme court today upheld the murder of Farice King, Denver nurse, who shot and killed Patrolman Robert K. Evans, a patient under her care at a Denver hospital when she recognized him as a former lover who had discarded Miss King's defense was that a "love mania" caused her to commit the murder. She was sentenced to life imprisonment.

STOP THAT COLD Bart's Special Cold Capsules will do Cousins Howland. 80tt MAN SAPAND SALT Bert modes Top. and the Ashland. The less a woman wears, the more it costs. O- The cheapest man to hire usually asks the highest fee.

Honesty isn't patented, but a lot of folks seem to think it is. You can't get the better of an argument with a man who refuses to talk. It seems to me that the principal function of the stomach is to cause trouble. When you swear at everything, you don't get as much out of it as when you swear only when you have to. "Some wimmin ain't so bad as they are painted, while others is considerably MONDAY 520.000 ORE STRIKE IN MARIPOSA Mariposa, Jan.

(UP) Gold ore expected to run as high as $20,000 a ton was uncovered in a new drift of Spread Eagle mine in the Whitlock district five miles north of here, it was reported. The discovery was made Friday morning when miners returned to the new drift on the 300-foot level after blasting just before quitting time Thursday evening YOUNG REPARATION AGREEMENT SIGNED The Hague, Jan. -The protocol of the Hague reparations conference which will put the Owen D. Young reparations plan into operation was adopted and signed by delegates of the allied and central powers today. Acceptance of the Young plan by the conference followed on settlement of the troublesome problems of Hungarian reparations, which were arranged last night only after extended sessions.

The settlement between the principal allied nations and Germany was arranged without great difficulty except in the forcing of Germany to acthe allies' right to enforce sanctions or military guarantee of payment. The Young plan now must be ratified parliaments of the nations involved! Farmers in' Yuma county, Arizona, planted more than' 8,000 shade trees in 1929. Longview, Washington, is becoming known nationally a center for growing gladiolus bulbs. study period Mrs. J.

H. Van Vorhis acted as hostess. Dainty refreshments were served. EVENING, JANUARY 20, 1930. CALIFORNIA'S FOOD BASKET California's food basket for the year just closed was worth $42,000,000 more than 1928's.

It totaled over a half a billion dollars in value. That is the figure computed by the Federal-State Crop Reporting Service, which keeps track of what we raise and what we get for it. To be accurate the grand total was $553,249,000. That is a lot of money. Hay as usual led all unit crops in dollar value.

It yielded $34,919,000 on the year. Oranges were a second with $79,345,000. Cotton furnished its quota of value with $21.000.000 income. The humble bean topped it with 000.000. Wine grapes put $11,560,000 into the growers' pockets.

Dried raisins followed closely with 3. value of $13,650,000. Table grapes totaled $11,095,000 and raisin grapes some $7,000,000. Prune growers fared well with an income of $19.776,000. Grains, vegetables, melons.

dairy products swelled the total two hundred million. Peaches ran up our yield in dollars $12,224,000. The pear crop brought $12,789,000. We had a short apple crop but the price it brought was $6,930,000 against $5.897,000 for 1928. While the apples were less in yield they brought a better price.

The walnut crop was $12.480.000 and almonds $4,760,000. Figs also had a good year. And so on, we might continue. It was a year of plenty--more than in the year previous. While 1928 crops showed a larger tonnage, those of 1929 brought high prices.

20 Years Ago in Kings County (Items reprinted from the Daily Sentinel Files) In a new Hanford city directory issued by the Sentinel, the names of 50 Smiths were listed. T. B. Ferguson, manager of the Santa Paula Land company, was planting 000 acres on the Bottsford tract south of Armona, to grain. S.

C. Lillis, J. O. Hickman, J. A.

McCormick, G. E. Shore and G. Merz were elected directors of the Bank of Lemoore. A display of huge lemons of the Ponderosa variety was placed in the exhibit of the Kings County Chamber of Commerce by Mrs.

Howard Armstrong of Armona. The Lemoore Cream Butter company paid 40 cents per pound for butterfat for the month of December, the highest price paid during that month in the county. Today (Continued From Page Onel children see it. Our railroads offer the maximum of luxurious comfort. Or an automobile will take you and your family anywhere for as little as you choose to spend.

It is such a fine country that we really ought to retain exclusive control of it, and not let any League of Nations Court tell us what to do about its resources and responsibilities. George Washington managed that with fewer than 4,000,000 people. Why cannot we do it, with Mr. Murdock's. Wichita Eagle, able Kansas newspaper, tells a disappointing story of a "Tenth birthday victory dinner" in honor of prohibition.

Three hundred were expected, only 150 came "because it was so cold." An irreverent "wet" suggests that if beer and wine had been part of the dinner, the "noble three hundred" would have found a way through the snow, somehow. Mayor Lawrence of Wichita warns prohibitionists that their most dangerous enemy is ridicule. It is, he says, "the sharpest and deadliest weapon." "Wets" will be interested in that. Governor Reed of Kansas told the gallant 150 that prohibition will surely stay 'but it will take another generation before it will be satisfactorily enforced." That seems a long time to endure bootlegging and its crime wave. SONS OF ITALY AUXILIARY DANCING PARTY PLANNED Under the auspices of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Sons of Italy, recently organized in this city, a dancing party will be given on the evening of Friday February 7 at the civic auditorium.

Excellent music for dancing will be provided, and from 8 to 9 o'clock a program of entertainment has been arranged. The proceeds of the event will go for the benefit of the newly organized auxiliary. The committee in charge is doing everything possible to make the event a pleasant one, and the dancing public is asked to be present to enjoy the evening and at the same time aid the newly formed organization. There are almost 40,000 laying hens in the Pueblo, Colorado, district, and the number is rapidly increasing. STOP THAT COLD Bart's Special Cold Capsules will do it.

Cousins Howland. 80tt Daily Sentinel Liners will always bring satisfactory results. RIVERDALE NEWS (From the Free Press) The wonderful showers which fell during the past week have brought an increase of 1.16 to our total for the season since our report a week ago, and not counting the rainfall since noon Wednesday. The total to Wednesday noon was 2.21. Up to the same date a year ago, we had a total of 6.62.

The annual stockholders meeting of the Riverdale National Farm Loan Asstriation was held in I. O. O. F. hall on Tuesday, January 14, with 742 shares of the association's 5347 represented.

The directors cleated for the ensuing year were: J. H. Holcomb, W. D. Cornwell, M.

A. Ipsen. Bud Gailtraith, C. H. Dewey, S.

E. Williamson and W. D. Stanley. J.

H. Holcomb was elected president; W. D. Cornwell, vice president, and Ray C. Williamson, secretary-treasurer.

The appraisers are J. H. Holcomb, M. A. Ipsen and S.

E. Williamson. While the amount of the total loans granted by the association was small compared with the loans granted the four previous years, theless as compared with the total loans granted in the Eleventh Land Bank district for the year past, the loans 'of the Riverdale association were very large. The Riverdale Association has 700 of loans in force with no delinquencies due for a period of ninety days. Country Club Meet The Alvina Country Club held a regular monthly meeting on Wednesday afternoon of last week et the home of Mrs.

H. G. Kopenhefer. Mrs. Karl Schroeder was in charge of the ing.

Mrs. J. A. Butler gave a report on the finances. The date for meeting was changed from the second Wednesday in each month to the second Friday in each month.

Mrs. O. D. Cook was appointed to prepare material for a quilt to be made at the next Refreshments were served by Mrs. S.

H. Calentine, Mrs. J. A. Butler and Mrs.

Karl Schroeder. The work on the new American Legion Hall has now progressed far enough so that one can see what a nice looking building it is going to be-a distinct addition to that end of town. The frame is all' up, the shingling about done, and it will not be very long before the completed building will give the legionnaires an' opportunity for a celebration. School of Instruction Deputy Grand Matron Alice Hord of Reedley was here Wednesday evening to conduct a school of instruction for the local Eastern Star lodge and get them ready to meet with the Hanford, Lemoore and Corcoran lodges at an early date when the Worthy Grand Matron Myra Moyse, will be present. This will be held at Hanford.

After the meeting session, delicious refreshments were served. A large crowd attended the hearing of a damage suit against John Poli filed by Julius Kolster at the justice court last Saturday, January 11. Kolster was given the decision of $134 and costs by Judge Bradley. Kolster charged Poli with damage to his property and for labor expense in repairing it. Poli's attorney, Chas.

A. Hill, is appealing the case to the superior court. A farewell banquet was given Friday evening, January 10, by the senior class of the Riverdale high in honor of Merlyn Jones, and Celeste Johnson, two senior girls, who left Saturday morning for the Berkeley Western Normal. Games and music were enjoyed by all present. Daily Sentinel, per monto CORCORAN (Special Correspondence) Mr.

and Mrs. K. Battelle, R. F. Nordstrom, W.

R. Engvall Billy Kron, Kenneth Battelle, Lewis Nordstrom and Wilton Adney, attended the annual banquet of Mt. Whitney Council of Boy Scouts at the civic auditorium in Visalia, Friday evening. Mrs. Mary M.

Davis, who has been visiting with her son, Capt. Robt. M. Davis, in' New York city for the past six weeks, returned to her home Saturday. The following officers of Corcoran Lodge, No.

490, F. A. attended a school of instruction held at the Masonic Temple in Hanford Friday afternoon and evening under the direction of Thos. J. Baker, H.

G. Jobe, F. C. Carroll, H. S.

Hurlbut, J. C. Stewart, George McBride and E. L. Osborne.

Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Bartlett and Mrs.

R. J. Woollett were Fresno visitors on Friday. Mr. Meek of Los Angeles was in Corcoran on Sunday looking after his ranch interests here.

Corcoran Chapter, O. E. held its regular meeting Friday evening at Masonic Hall. A good attendance was present and after the routine business a social hour was enjoyed. Cards were the form of entertainment and refreshments were served.

Mrs. J. F. Peery was chairman of the evening. P.

F. Nordstrom and family motored to Kingsburg Saturday afternoon to witness the basket ball game between Corcoran and Kingsburg, in which Corcoran was the victor. Mrs. J. L.

Lester and Mrs. J. E. Dunn, worthy matron and associate matron of Corcoran Chapter No. 370, O.

E. attended a luncheon given for matrons and associate matrons, in Fresno on 1 Saturday. Miss Roselyn Rutland left for Los Angeles Friday for a two weeks vacation. The missionary society of the First Presbyterian church held their regular meeting in the social hall Friday. Mrs.

S. M. Barber had charge of the STRATFORD NEWS (Special Correspondence) Arthur Rich, a member of the Stratford road crew, who was injured while at work on the road near Kettleman City a few weeks ago, started to work again last Monday. He is working at Reef Pump Station in Kettleman Hills. M.

B. Corcoran, butcher for H. M. Case in Stratford Meat Market, is suffering from infection in his eye. He has been doctoring his eye, but 1s still suffering from it, and he is forced to wear colored glasses to protect it from the light.

Stratford Grammar school closed Friday for two weeks owing to the great absences caused from the mumps. The epidemic has been' going on for sothe time, but Professor Weir Smith last Priday decided that they would profit by closing the school until the epidemic had quieted down to some extent. Three of the teachers and about half of the students are confined to their homes with the disease. Mrs. D.

E. Barnett and' son, Tommy, were visitors in Lemoore Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Axtell were Visitors in Fresno Friday.

VIRGINIA CITY BANK ROBBER SUSPECT HELD IN FRESNO Fresno, Jan. 20-(LP) police today believed that the arrested Jesus Esinas here last night to the solution of the robbery of the First National Bank of Virginia City, in 1927. Esinas admitted he was in Virginia City at the time of the bank robbery, but denied participation in the affair, police said. He was held on a liquor charge while officers continued investigation of the bank robbery. CONFEDERATE SOLDIER DIES Redding, Jan.

20- (UP) -Thomas Pemberton, 79, last northern California: confederate Civil War veteran, died' here yesterday following a long illness. He had lived in Redding for 40 years. H. P. Hall, Yelm, Washington, exhibits an egg eight by nine inches, weighing five and a half ounces.

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