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WORLD'S LATEST NEWS is given Sentinel readers by Full Leased Wire Service of the United PressAssociation Tp DAY'S NEWS TODAY makes the Sentinel the read newspaper and brings best results to advertisers HANFORD, KINGS COUNTY, CALIFORNIA MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1936. VOL. 112 FIFTIETH YEAR. No. 65.

I ff 1V1 FISHER RESCUED, DEAD COMPANION LASHED TO BOAT CUT OF FRANC HITS SNAG IN DEPUTIES for convention ARE DEAD AS FIRES SWEEP THROUGH OREGON AND CALIFORNIA COMES OF TWO HANFORD WOMEN, DIES NORTH' Mrs. E. M. Pray, 66, former resi- dent of Fresno and mother of Mrs, Clifford Driskell and Mrs. Laura Montgomery of Hanford, passed at her PAIP.0LS ARE iiifncAtcn INCREASED IN STRIKE AREAS REBELS TAKE TOLEDO AS LOYALISTS RETREAT Property And Timber Destroyed As Throngs OF Men Battle Flames In Coast States; Worst Holocaust In Years; Cities Threatened; Situation Improves In California, Says Forester Pratt.

Oakland, Sept. 28 (IP) Delegates to the 22nd annual state convention of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks disbanded today after electing L. A. Lewis. Anaheim, president and selecting Pasadena as the site of the 1937 conclave.

Before adjourning, the convention adopted a resolution supporting the city of strike-tom Salinas in pro- tecting homes, private property and Lettuce Cutting, Packing the government against communists Are Continued Behind operatiRg under the guise of legiti- BarricadeS I mate members of organized labor." Other officers elected were: Vice presidents Edmund Sept. 28 (UP) ski, Oakland, for the San Francisco Marshfield, St pt. 28 (UP) Eight Coos and Curry county cities threatened all da) Sunday by forest fires which wiped out the towns of Bandon ani Prosper with the loss of at least seven lives, appeared safe today. Favorable winds and all-night battles against the flames which were licking close to the limits of Marshfield, North Bend, Coquille, Port Orford, Gold Beach, Langlois, Myrtle Point and Bridge, bore results and the only danger to the towns today was a possible recurrence of Sundays high winds. C.tie.s cf the tvo counties telegraphed President RocserelL and an allocation of at least Alcazar Dynamited Before Leftists Quit City In Orderly Flight.

1 MANY CASUALTIES Government Forces Check Insurgent March Upon Madrid, Report. By IRVING PFLAUM U. P. Staff Correspondent) (Copyright 1936 By United Press- Madrid, Sept. 28 (UP) Rebel troops dominated Toledo.

The greatest battle of the civil war now turns to Madrid. The rebels have cut the ledo road and apparently isolated the Toledo garrison from the main army. A war office communique tersely admitted the loss of the city after hours of denials by officials. No mention was made of the 1, 200 men, women and children who had withstood a siege of 10 weeks in the Alcazar fortress-palace. It was Indicated that they were free, though fighting continued in the vicinity of the Alcazar.

Loyalists In Retreat Apparently most of the Loyalist' army in Toledo had made its way out of the city along the Toledo-1 Madrid road, and was trying to fight away early Sunday morning home in Newburg, Oregon, according to word received in Hanford. Mrs. Pray had been in poor health for some time and she had resided in Fresno for about 18 years before moving to the north. Surviving are her husband, E. M.

Pray of Newburg, two sons, Clinton Pray of Kermit, Texas, and James I. Pray of Newburg, and three daughters. Mrs. Clifford Driskell and Mrs- Laura Montgomery, both orj Hanford, and Mrs. Erma Hicken- looper of Los Angeles, The remains will be shipped this city where uneral 1 ments will be announced by Russell Scott Mortuary.

1 UW IM llBIIll'AU Af Cyclone and Rain Starts City to Cave Into Mine. Mazatlan, Sept. 28 (IP) Ravaged by a tropical cyclone and Wjth jls streets sinking into caved-in mines, the northern Mexican town of Rosario appealed for doctors and medical supplies today. The storm struck Saturday, flattening approximately 70 per cent of the homes in the town of 5,000 population. in Sinaloa state.

Communications were destroyed, and word of the destruction did not reach here until today. Light and water services were crippled, threatening serious conditions. 1 STRIKE OVER UNIONIZING TEACHERS Devaluation Plan Fought As To National Wage Scale; Gov't Paris, Sept. 28. (IP) The Bank of France today fixed the minimum unit for sales of gold at francs, while denying that an actual embargo was in effect.

Previously the minimum unit for sale was 215,000 francs-The French government introduced its franc devaluation plan into the chamber of deputies today, met a radical Insurrection which threat- ened the solidarity of the cabinet, and defeated a rightist effort to send the legislation back to committee for revision. i Radicals in caucus, voted 32 to 28 1 to oppose a provision in the pro- posed law to adjust the national wage scab to compensate for the 1 fall of the franc, although they ap- proved 55 to 13 the rest of the legis-; lation. But they threatened, so in- I tense was their feeling, to withdraw their representation in the cabinet if the sliding wage scale provision were not changed. Rightist deputies vigorously at- the devaluation laws. One of them, Louis Marin, moved that be referred back to the finance; committee for revision.

The gov-1 ernment won its first skirmish on this point, defeating the motion 365 to 248. They did not make it a vote of confidence. Riga, Sept. 28. (IP) The Latvian government, it was learned today, has decided to abandon the gold standard, fixing its currency at 25 lats 22 centimes per pound sterling, the 1931 rate.

Townsend Man May Quit Race For Borah out furniture, and many Vances ithout Mitficient clothing Calif. Fires Mill Hire Sacramento. Cal Sept. 23 (IP) Are Despite imprmed conditions nio.se forest areas of California, fires con- tinned to be definite threat today as weaty crews attempted to retain their control over a score of blaze, Jasper. Sept.

28 (IP) which reached a climax over the Walker county's school strike spread end apidl.v today-as union labor par-1 Atrer a situation which State ents of students started picketing i Forester Pratt described as several schools in an effort to close the worst I can remember." re-them or force the teachers to union- ports indicated that crews gradually ize. were gaining control of the numer- San Diego, Sept. 2S rlP) Qne fisherman, near death from exhaustion and exposure, was rescued today after clinging all night to his tiny capsized rowboat and a coast guard airplane and cutter were dispatched to search for the boat to tyhich a dead companion was said to have been lashed. C. A.

Whitney of Chula Vista was picked up from the drifting boat oft Tijuana slough in the open sea 10 miles south of Pt. Loma by the fishing boat Easy captained by Joe Fla-mini. The rescue was accomplished at- 8 a. m. The boat had overturned iu heavy seas last night.

Whitney said his companion, Ben Langston, was thrown into the water when the boat capsized. Whitney dived into the sea and brought Langston to the surface and tied him to the boat, but apparently he already had died. The cutter Perseus and an amphibian airplane piloted by Carl Allen of the coast guard air patrol started out to search for the boat and Langston's body, 2,500 MADE HOMELESS IN WACO ANTI-DRUG DRIVE ON Washington, Sept. 28 (IP) The treasury today dispatched more than 2,500 agents on a mighty nationwide law enforcement drive to smash the narcotics, counterfeiting and bootlegging traffic in scores of cities. were increased today after strik jettuce here and at Watsonville to join the strike.

Filipino workers continued to cut lettuce in the Watsonville area de- a vote la.st night for an im- mediate sympathy strike. Three 1 thousand Filipino cutters in the 1 Salinas area will strike tomorrow unless growers meet their demands' for union recognition and 'increased 1 pay. Three hundred striking packing plant workers were dispersed by armed deputies without violence this morning when the strikers attempt-led to intimidate Filipinos at a labor 'camp near here. I Strikers on Highways I The strikers spread along the highways, shouting threats at the I Filipino lettuce cutters. I ing squadrons of deputies broke up the strikers as soon as they formed in groups.

There were no arrests or violence. Grower-shippers said they had ValleyNews! DRIVER ESCAPES DEATH; STORK NOT DENIED IN (RASHES we.st central district; B. F. Lew Fresno, state secretary; E. M.

Porter. San Jose, state treasurer; and trustees Fred Mistley, Sacramento; Frank A Pott, Porterville; and Morley N. Golden. Pasadena was selected as the 1937 convention city after a close race with San Diego. REICH COURT GIVES U.

S. RED TERM Seaman Simpson Sentenced 3 Years With 1 5 Months Off. i pending trial. The prosecutor told the court the charge of espionage against Simpson was not sustained by the evi-; dence. concentrating on the sailor's communist connections.

I Simpson's attorney, Werner Am- thor, had asked the court to give the American a maximum sentence of one year in prison on the trea- son charge and throw out the espion-1 age charge altogether. 1 Simpson, cool but pale, said 1 candidly that he had brought com- Berlin. Sept. 28 (IP) The Nazi people's court today sentenced Lawrence Simpson, of Seattle, to three A torrential downpour, climaxing 'T'- years imprisonment on charges of prehensive regarding the danger of treasonable activities against the reich in connection with the sailor's communistic activities. Simpson, who confessed the communist activities on the stand during his sensational trial this morning.

will be given credit for 14 of the 15 months he has spent in prison total of eight feet of rainfall since Aug. 1, caved in mines extending heard of no cutting crews on strike and had experienced no trouble in 1 getting field crews thus far. Meantime authorities were ap dynamite being used in a new strike Brazas River Floods City Causing Damage And Suffering. its way through to join the main! army. But the rebels seemed to Waco, Sept.

28- (IP) A half command the road a few miles to dozen torrent-fed streams and tribu- the north. tartes repeating scenes of scarely A war office communique admit- fortnlght ag-sPread destruction ted today that the rebels had taken throu6hout central Texas today, To)e)0 I leaving more than 2,500 persons "A rebel column from Maqueda homeless-and Torrijos advanced on The rampaging Brazos river, which said the communique. "Our troops brought havoc to Waco, was reced were obliged to retreat in orderly fashion, taking war material. Our fortified line has been es- feet high in the business section, tablished in the neighborhood of National guardsmen patrolled Toledo, from which our artillery is parts of the city under virtual mar-bombing rebel concentrations." tial law. East Waco was inundated.

500 Dead in Blast Said iA levee washed out as unprecedcnt- A report said the loyalists before ed flood strength hit it, and families, retreating discharged a final mine grabbing a few belongings that could of 13 tons of dynamite beneath the be carried, fled before the water. Alcazar, the terrific detonation The northern and southern secthrowing refuse a mile and shatter-! tions of the city were partly under ing scores of buildings in the vi- water. Approximately 2,000 persons cinity. were homeless in this city alone, ten Tlie rebels claimed 500 militia- blocks of business section were still men were killed in the capture of deep in muddy water. Toledo.

City Manager W. C. Torrence, na tional guard colonel, called out guardsmen for volunteer duty. Working rapidly, they cared for persons marooned ih upper floors of homes, school houses and business buildings. 80 Dead, 500 Wounded Talavera, Spain, Sept.

28 (IP) Rebel headquarters announced officially today there were 80 dead and 500 wounded among the cadets in Boise, Idaho, Sept. 28 (IP) below the city. Late reports said a Byron Defenbach, Townsend nomi- portion of the town was grad-nee for U. senator, today intimat- ually sinking. ed he may not run in opposition I m.

K. Campbell. American man-to Republican incumbent Senator ager 0f a mine, was fatally gassed William E. Borah and Democratic whHc inspecting damage undernominee Gov. C.

Ben Ross in the ground. The property, Minas Del final election. iTajo owned by the Bradbury estate, I have a week or two in which may have to be abandoned, to decide whether I'll run as the Municipal officials appealed to the Townsend candidate. Right now. governor for relief.

At Mazatlan doc-Im not saying whether I intend to tors and medical supplies were be-run or not, Defenbach said. ing assembled. Difficulty is expect- State Towasend officials have al- led in reaching the stricken conunu-ready filed Defenbach. Unless he nity, since most roads into the in- S3 000.000 to Prosper and communities, standing 1 600 per ons rehabilitate Bandon, other fire damaged Not one home was Bandon today and were homeless, with- ous blazes that threatened heavy torest stands throughout the norther section of the stare. The worst fire of the day had developed in the Buckhorn Lane ridge district of Shasta county, and 100 CCC workers were thrown into the area.

A fire wh.ch ate into 400 acres of the Prairie Creek State Park in northern Humboldt countv was brought under control shortly before noon. In Santa Cruz county the big basin fire s.ruation was termed "satisfactory" alter a fresh, crew of more than 100 men had dieted the weary workers who fought the blaze over the week end. By DAVE EYRE P. Staif Corre-nondent U. 2000 tfcmelevi.

Many Dead Marshfield, Sept. 28 IP) Relief workers tori.i brought aid to 2.000 homeless refugees in lue-ra wished southwestern Orec n. as forest fires raged uncontrolled on a dozen scattered trouts. The fore, holocaust, which razed the towns of Bandon and Prosper, killed at least seven persons, burned more than 6.000 acres of timber, including some of the aluabl? Port Orford cedars, and menaced many other towns. Huge trucks lumbered over debris-choked roads and charred bridges throughout the main to carry the refugees into Marshiiekl, where relief headquaretrs was established.

Food and water supplies appeared adequate at Mar liiield, for the time I being. Twen; -lour arniv trucks, loaded with food, blank-ts and medical supplies commandeered at (Continued on page four) Weather Tcmp-iatui Sept. 26- Max Sept. 27 -Max at Hanford 92, null. 52.

1)4, 54. San Joaquin Valley Fair tor.u'.it and Tuesdav; littl change in temp mine; northwest winds. SeuUu-i atifnniio. Fair tonuht and Tue dav; rising temperature in east, gentle vanab.a winds. San FrjnriMt; 11 iv Rtgion Fair and mild teuisl.t and Tttes-dav; overcast tonight; moderate west winds Northern alilornia Fair tor.hiht and Tu-sdav; log, on coast, little tiaaiie tempi tuie; gentle change pile winds.

King Kiwi- Stage and Flu Kings Riei stage, 151; dl.whaig 165. appear in the superior court for munist stickers and pamphlets from raignment. made a plea of not guilty submits a written declination of nomination to Secretary of State Franklin Girard, he will appear as the lone Townsend candidate on the November ballot. Defenbach ran as a Republican in the primary and was defeated by a 3 to 1 margin by Borah. MONEY FOR DAM Washington, Sopt.

28 (IP) The war department today approved an allotment of $1,600,000 for continuation of construction work on Bonneville dam on the Columbia river in Oregon. Tulare, Sept. 28 i VNS) Two tin-1 America but apparently saw no usual auto accidents occurred on the harm therein, inasmuch as com-Golden State highway south of here numlsts in the United States have Sunday. In one of them Mike Perez, pUbnc meetings and their own of Porterville, escaped death when 1 presidentia, candidate, a six by six post drove through his Bruno Rietz, a former member of Rqsignation of A. S.

Scott ft-county superintendent also was demanded. Scott was accused A dismissing three teachers because of union affiliation. Pickets were on duty at Parrish and Cordova, mining communities. The schools were operating with about half the pupils at their Beth adult and student pickets were at the schools. i The county high school here.

1 which was not expected to be affected by the strike, reported that I only 86 per cent of its students at- tended classes today. Grade schools here reported reduced attendance. Sketchy reports from outlying districts indicated sharply reduced attendance. although most of the schools were open. FRUIT DEALER PLEADS NOT GUILTY; CASE SET Nish Kerkorian.

charged with acting as a dealer without having first procured the necessary license, who was returned here on a bench war-I rant issued after he had failed to in the superior court today. His trial was set for October 8. by Judge C. E. Beaumont, who presided Forfeiture of the defendant's bail ordered by Judge Van Zante was set aside at the request of District At- tomey Walch and Judge Beaumont fixed a new bail of $300.

The charge against Kerkorian came when he allegedly made purchases of fruit here without a state license. fore the New York State Democratic convention at Syracuse, which will renominate Gov. Herbert H. Lehman of New York. Republicans meeting Albany at the same time will select their gubernatorial candi- I date Returning to Washington, the president will preside Wednesday over a conference of government of- ficials and private utility executives to discuss a southeastern power -pooling scheme.

Wednesday night Mr. Roosevelt will leave Washington for Elkins, W. where he will pause for a short time at the mountain state forest festival. Hurrying on to Pittsburgh he will make Thursday night what is expected to be a major political address. This address will be followed (Continued on page eignu communist party youth move- ment on trial with Simpson, was sentenced to four years' imprisonment with the loss of all civil rights for four years and police supervision after release.

a tcrior are washed out. One thousand miners were put out of work by the mine damage. Corn and bean crops were destroyed. COLORADO SNOW STORM SETS NEW MARK; FIVE DEAD Denver, Sept. 28 (IP) A record breaking September snowstorm struck Colorado and the Rocky Mountain region today disrupting communication, delaying railroad and highway traffic and doing extensive damage to late crops, trees and shrubs.

I More than seventeen Inches of wet, I heavy snow had fallen and the snow continued unabated. Lnigc trees were torn down. Tcle- phone and telegraph wires were i down and power lines were disabled. Schools were closed in the rural I districts. Three men were reported maroon-1 1 Peak, in the Colorado Winded by dust, he ran into an auto- on a Denver street.

Gecuge W. Mullen of Denver and his two granddaughters. Shirley May end I Ruth Larsen, were fatally injured ln 811 automobile crash at Reck I Springs. Wyo. mol)ile I Landoii Optimistic Over Swing Thru Farm Belt And Visit With Lowden Presidential Campaign Gains Momentum as Old Parties Speed Up Plans the Alcazar, who numbered 1,200 at the start of the siege.

With loyalists, six miles north of Toledo, Sept. 28 (IP) The loyalists checked a rebel march on Madrid along the main Toledo highway today. The loyalists claimed some progress and reported the recapture of Bargas after a fierce artillery duel. ACCUSED ROBBER OF BANK HELD AT L. A.

BY U. S. MEN Los Angeles, Sept. 28 (IP) James Blake, 30, long sought for reputed complicity in New York and Massachusetts bank robberies, was arrested by federal agents today and booked in the county jail under $25,000 ball, pending return east. Agents said Blhke had been sought In connection with the $8,000 robbery of the Farmers Bank and Deposit in New York City.

August, 1925, and also was suspected of complicity in the robbery of a Dalton, bank several months ago. They said he once served a term in Oregon state prison for assault with intent to rob and kill. Heavily manacled, Blake was brought to the federal building where he was ordered held under. the high ball, pending removal hearing. -Agents said his parents live in San Francisco but gave no further By JOE ALEX MORRIS (U.

P. Staff Correspondent) Sinisslppl Farms, Oregon, 111., as the guest of former Gov. Frank auto. In the other, Dell Demi of Pixley, was critically injured while bringing his wife to a maternity hospital here. i Derms car was struck from the; rear by a car driven by an auto-1 jst from Fresno, A Haney, at 2 a.

m. Sunday a mile north of Pixley. Dcnn's ear overturned and was de-1 moltshed. Mr. and Mrs.

Demi were rushed to the county hospital here, where Mrs. Denn. not injured, gave birth to a healthy baby boy shortly (Continued on Page Eight) I S. SPAN OPENS SOON Sept. 28.

(IP) A of paving extends Fianeisco to Oakland world's largest and long vehicular span, the Francisco-Onkland bay bridge, chief engineer, reported metropolitan arcars were highway when woik-ers paving the nter section truss spans of the west Although the highway- six lanes wide is completed, the bridge will not be opened to traffic until the second week of November The paving consists of 10.622 linear feet of concrete on the upper deck of the two deck span. Sept. 28 (IP) Gov. Alf M. Lan-don turned homeward today from his first campaign thrust into the farm belt, during which he outlined his full agricultural program.

The Republican presidential nomi- O. Lowden of Illinois, the Republican nominee was described as confident the tour had aided the party's drive in states where most political veterans forecast a close vote in November. With preparations already under-way trip strong wind brought a dust blizzard est ausp-nsion Michi- whlch was by rnhv 4.500- Five deaths have been attributed for a to the storm since Friday night, com- Harry Pit linger, a power company his Hnonian, of Denver, was killed in a im fall from a pole while he was repairing a power line. Charles A. Sheeley, was fatally injured when.

ed atop Pikes Springs dl triet and four more 'sought shelter at Glcncove, part way up the peak. The marooned men had food and fuel. The storm moved into the Rocky 1 Mountains Friday night after a PAVED; San Francisco. continuous lane from San across the San C. H.

Purcell, today. The two first joined by completed of the bay crossing. Washington, Sept. 28 (IP) The presidential campaign gained momentum today as both major political parties entered a week of intensive activity. President Roosevelt adds cam- t() a bllSy week of execvitive duties.

Gov. Alf M. Landon returns to Topeka, for conferences with Republican leaders after his farm belt speaking tour. Alfred E. Smith, the "happy warrior" of 1928, makes the first of five major addresses in opposition to President Roosevelt under the banner of the Jeffesonian Democrats.

Mr. Roosevelt, in his first week of avowed political activity, will make two major political addresses and one expected to be largely non-po- litical. Speaks At Syracuse He will speak tomorrow night be- neb. swinging into a final scries of rear-platform appearances in Illinois, Iowa' and Missouri en ruote to Topeka, was understood to consider his five-state journey, more of a uccess tlan he had expected. Gov.

Landon's proposal to spend train this morning at Byron, two days campaigning through the state dominated by the La Follette organization, friendly to President Roosevelt, had been frowned upon by some of his advisers, but the for victory in November were Kansas governor insisted. Guest of Lowden By the time he arrived at the Sinisstppi Farms to spend Sunday for his next campaign through Indiana, Ohio and gan, Gov. Landon visited the acre Lowden farm Sunday horseback ride and a period of plete relaxation before rejoining Prospect' Held Grif He heard. the former Illinois good The grcy-hnlred Lowden to reporters that the nominee's (Continued on page four) ernor declare Republican gov- remarked farm prospects very.