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HANFORD MORNING JOURNAL HANFORD. CALIFORNIA PAGE THREE TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 2, 1937. DR. DEXTER IS! STATE'S NEW I EDUCATION 1 PRESIDENT'S BALL rmcc AT TULARE (LEARS imtr $300 FOR HIS HOME! Tulare, Feb. 1 (VNS More than $300 were cleared at the annual Presidents Ball held here Saturday night by the Visalia and Tulare communities.

Proceeds of the dance will go to help infantile paralysis victims. There was a large crowd present at the dance which was held In the new Memorial Hall in this city. A personal ban AeWice which is STRICTLY personal When you arrange a Timeplan personal loan here at Bank of America, the transaction is strictly personal between you and your neighborhood bank. Such a loan costs you only $6 per year for every $100 borrowed. You have 12 months to repay and you establish a valuable credit relationship with Bank of America for other needs.

The personal element is important in banking and in the establishment of bank credit, for bank credit is not only a valuable source of funds, but also a proof of character and personal responsibility. HANFORD BRANCH G. W. Gtines, Manager Bank of America NATIONAL TRUST SAVINGS ASSOCIATION A1TACK UPON: JOBS ACT IS REJECTED I I U. S.

Supreme Court Rule 1 In Effect Upholds Moss.i Employment Ins. Low. i Washington. Feb. 1 OP) The supreme court today rejected a new attack on the New Deals unemploy- i ment insurance provisions as in- i volved through the Massachusetts 1 state law and provisions of the fed-eral act.

The test case was brought by Howes Brothers company, a Boston concern, in the state courts. While the attack centered on the -Massachusetts law, the constitutionality of this act was only challenged on the grounds that the federal law 1 with which it is associated Ls Invalid. Briefs filed in the case by the counsel for the Howes company as-' sorted ttiat the company wanted the Massachusetts act to be sustained if the federal law was constitutional. The Massachusetts act Is not oper- I ative unless the federal law Is in ef- feet. The act differs in this respect from the New York law which was upheld by the court earlier in a four to four decision.

A rehearing has been sought in the New York case. The law was sustained by the supreme judicial court of Mas-! sachusetts and the appeal taken from that tribunal. rn NO GAME TODAY A sight no baseball fan expected to see. The National League ball park home of the Cincinnati Reds lies under B0 feet of flood water. The water reaches almost up to the second grandstands.

$500 FOR ANIMAL CONTROL Visalia, Feb. 1 (VNS) A $500 appropriation to carry on predatory animal control work In Tulare coun-; ty until July 1, 1937, was approved today by the board of supervisors at the request of William Mauser, state and federal supervisor in the 17 southern counties for predatory control work. The money is to be used to help pay the salaries of two county men assisting in this work. PORTERVILLE BEATS TAFT Porterville, Feb. 1 (VNS) The Porterville J.

C. quintet handed the Taft J. C. basketball team a 37 to 30 trimming on the Taft court Sat-! urday nigh.t PUBLIC SCHOOLS WEEK APRIL 26TH TOWNSEND RANKS SPLIT ON MARGETT AND OTHERS UNPAID San Francisco, Feb. 1 Public Schools Week this year will be observed during the w'eek beginning Monday, April 26, according to a proclamation issued here today by San Francisco.

Feb. 1. (IP) California ranks of the Townsend old age pension organization were split MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION today by charges and counter i Rollie W. Miller, grand master of Governor Raises Executive! Secretary To Succeed To Kersey Vacancy. Sacramento, Feb.

1 (UP) I Walter F. Dexter, executive sec- retary to Gov. Frank F. Merriam, today became state superintendent of public instruction, succeeding Vierling Kersey who resigned accept the position of Los Angeles superintendent of schools. Dr.

Dexter, appointed to the new post by the governor, was succeeded by Vemes S. Landreth, who will serve as executive secretary to Merriam. The triple change moved Kersey into a position paying twice the salary he received as a state official and permitted Dr. Dexter to return to the educational field at a salary of $6,000 a year. $1,000 more than he received as Merriam's secretary.

Ex-Whittier College Prexy Dr. Dexter, who was president of Whittier college for 11 years before accepting the position in the governor's office two years ago, will serve as superintendent of public instruction until January 1, 1939. standing for re-election in 1938. He said he would make no immediate changes in the organization of the state department of education. Dr.

Dexter has been interested in educational work most of his life. He graduated from Penn College in Iowa in 1916. specializing as an undergraduate in public speaking. He then enrolled in Columbia University and obtained a master of arts degree. In 1919, he entered Harvard and carried courses covering all phases of education, receiving the degree of master of education two years later.

It was the first degree of that kind ever given by a graduate school. He also received the degree of doctor of education, one of the first five granted by Harvard. Educated at Harvard After his education at Harvard, Dr. Dexter became head of the department of education in Earlham college, Richmond, Ind. In the summer of 1922, he conducted teacher training courses in Franklin college.

and in 1923 he lectured at the University of Virginia. He then accepted the presidency of Whittier college, remaining there 11 years before he became executive secretary to Governor Merriam. Much of his work at Whittier was in connection with teacher training and similar educational pursuits. NEW PATROLMAN Visalia, Feb. 1 (VNS) Highway Patrolman Richard H.

Ruft of Pasadena reported for duty at the Tulare county highway office today. Ruft has just completed his schooling at the state patrol school in Sacramento. There are now 11 men 1 on the Tulare county force. Frosl Protection Masons of California, and addressed to 130.000 members of the order in the state, The celebration this year marks the eighteenth annual observance of the event, which was originally established to call attention to, and charges hurled by Dr. Francis Townsend, OARP founder, and his No.

1 manj in California, Edward J. Margett. In a statement released from Washington Saturday, Dr. Townsend accused Margett with falling to turn For Fruit Topic In EARLY DOOM OF Hardwick Meeting DICTATOR STALIN SEEN BY TROTSKY over to the national organization i aU1 in correcting a critical condition $4,039.71. He also called Margett, I in Publi0 schools due t0 a short' former California manager, a Bol- ot personnel because shevik without office in the Town-', of war condlllons I Cooperation Urged Public Schools Week," said Miller send organization.

HELD IN MURDER Visalia. Feb. 1 (VNS) Joe Herrera. 34, was arraigned in Visalia justice court today on a charge of murder, growing out of his asserted confession that he killed his former i roommate, Bascilio Alvarado last Friday night in Farmersvllle. He was remanded to the custody of the sheriff without bond and time for i preliminary hearing was set for Feb.

4 at 10 a. m. Margett today threatened to sue the aged Long Beach physician and the people of California an opportu- OARP founder not only for libel but At lnAKHinra (ah (KnmrAlirAe nnnp themselves how nity of learning for well the school people, the servants of the public, are administering tlieir stewardship. Miller urged co-operation from parent-teacher groups, the American Legion, chambors of commerce to Chicago, asking for payment. Now flnd other service and civic groups.

for "some $3500 which I am out of pocket. "When I quit last December, a certified audit showed books in order and that the organization owed me $3500 odd, Margett said. I wrote Interest is being taken among fruit growers in a meeting scheduled for tomorrow at the Fred Arthur ranch near Hardwick, at which methods of protection against frost will be discussed and demonstrated. A press of business in the citrus groves of the south precludes the attendance of Warren R. Schoonover of the Riverside expriment station, who was scheduled for an address and demonstration, but this will be taken over by Clark Johnston, an assistant farm advisor of Tulare county, who lias extended experience in methods in use in the citrus belt.

The meeting is called for 2 p. m. Although late frosts have been damaging to fruit crops here but little has been done for organized protection, and through the extension service some practical methods will now be demonstrated. AGED WOMAN'S RITES Visalia, Feb. 1 (VNS) Funeral services will be held here Wednesday morning at 10 oclock for Mrs.

Mary Dailey, 78, who died here Sunday. Among the surviving relatives are I a son, Jolm C. Dailey of Porterville, a daughter, Mrs. Norman Schultz! of Delano, and two brothers, James' and Alex Bacon of Hanford. comes this blast and these unfounded charges.

I shall not throw mud. I merely ask the thousands of Townsend friends in tile state to withhold judgment until the truth Is brought out in Meanwhile employes of the San Francisco Townsend office, unpaid for four weeks, notified Dr. Town- The proclamation continued: "The people of California are invited. through meetings and by actual visits to schools dining Public Schools Week to familiarize themselves with the work of the schools. Opportunity For Service In this manner opportunity is afforded to the general public, as PIN GAMES GONE Porterville, Feb.

1 (VNS) Pin and marble games are apparently a i tiling of the past In Porterville, for the time being. All operators of the machines, as far as could be learned, have taken out the games before the county ban went Into effect this morning. send they held him personally re- well as t0 the parellts of pupiiSi of sponsible, adding they would press Vjsdjng their community or neigh- wage claims with the state labor bur hood schools in order that first i commissioner unless paid this week. hand judgment may be made on Hie Dr. Townsends charges against public school system as to efficiency Margett followed receipt of a peti- and economy, and to learn whether! tion urging appointment of Mar- the schools are in fact performing gett as general manager of the na- the service they are expected to per-j I New York, Feb.

1 (IP) The i early doom of the Josef Stalin dicta-' torship in Soviet Russia is predicted in a copyrighted article by Leon Trotsky in today's New York World-, Telegram. The story was wired from Mexico 1 City by Trotsky In response to a 1 telegram from Roy W. Howard, editor of the World-Telegram, asking for an explanation of the amazing confessions made during the recent trial of 17 former Bolshevits leaders. and by defendants in previous trials. "The Moscow trials have nothing In common with a tribunal, Trotsky wrote.

They are purely theatrical productions with role written out in advance with an absolute 'fuehrer' as stage manager. Their political aim Ls to kill the opposition, to remove everyone who speaks in its 'name and to poison at Its very source, once and for all, every vestige of critical thought. Errors To Be Fatal "Has bureaucracy attained Its pur-1 pose? No, Stalin is greatly mistaken. The consequences of his error will be fatal to his dictatorship, We shall see that in the near future. Trotsky referred to the Moscow i proceedings as "a chain of frame-! ups.

"The criminal may confess under pressure of proof and testimony of witnesses," he declared. But here there ls neither. Absence of proof 1s as much an enigma as the sweep-! ing character of the confess. Trotsky said confessions have been built up over a period of years in 1 a sort of geometric progression, Oppositionists, frightened by the prospect of persecution by the dreaded gaypayoo (secret police), he I said, decided to re-enter the ranks 1 of the party at all costs and publicly recanted. "From time to time," Trotsky continued, "the unfortunate capitulators were again arrested for inslgnlflcent or purely fictitious reasons: the aim was to destroy their nervous systems, break their will.

After each new I repression, a new amnesty was I granted at the price of more humiliating self-accusations tional organization. 3 INTERLOCUTORY DECREES GRANTED IN DIVORCES Interlocutor)) decrees of divorce granted to plaintiffs in the superior court Monday were: Eva Rose Noble vs. Fred Noble. Juanita Martin vs. Walt Martin and Lucille Gertrude Dickinson vs.

Clark Herbert Dickinson. All were on the grounds of cruelty and the default of the defendants had been entered in each case. Divorce actions continued one week were: Zelma Ruth Bittner vs. Alvah C. Bittner, and B.

W. Creasy vs. Vivian Charlotte Creasy. form in preparing our youth for worthy citizenship." Announcement of a statewide committee to handle the weeks observance. under the chairmanship Californias 1936 canning spinach crop totaled 40.892 tons.

GET UP NIGHTS DUE TO BLADDER IRRITATION? Its m.t nnrmal. Its Man- I Ksr Signal." Mako (liis zr.i Is. Imehu juniin-r oil. aioi tl oilier tlrugs, ina.le little ealle.l Idlkels. Flush mil exeess aei.ls an.l iniiuiities.

F.x.-es a. -ills can cause irrilulion resulting in getting lip nights, scanty flow, freiient ilesiro, burning, backache, anil leg I. ains. Just say to your ilrug-glst. In four (lavs if not jour CSe will he refllmleil.

I-arlholo-rnew I'. rug Store. 1 1 1 PAYS FOR MURDER Bellefonte, Feb. 1 (IP) Robert Dreamer, 40, was executed in the electric chair today, nine ctmries Albert Adams, will be made shortly. years and 33 days after he murdered 17-year-old Thelma Young near her Washington, home.

I Morning Journal, eve per month. 120 (EAGLES INITIATED Porterville, Feb. 1 (VNS)-vAs a part of the ceremony honoring Dr. H. B.

Mehrmann, national head of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, 120 candidates were Initiated into the 1 Porterville Aerie Saturday night. Members of the Hanford, Tulare, and Fresno Aeries attended tire re-1 ception and dinner for Dr. Mehrmann. Dr. Mehrmann addressed the order on recent social security legislation which he said the order had sponsored and supported for many years.

A barbecue supper was served to several hundred at the Eagles hall earlier in the evening. HOW IT BEGAN Berdanier She loved him and betrayed his most precious secret! HB dl To Marry He put the happiness of others before hers and his own. But Sheila could not bring herself to go as far. Her love was too strong. He might hate her for what she had done.

But he would be the better for It. To her. that alone mattered. Youll flnd this new serial by Vemle Connelly a stirring and revealing experience. Begin It TODAY MORNING JOURNAL VICE RAID IN TULARE Tulare.

Feb. 1 (VNS) Tulare po- lice staged a vice raid ill the Mexican and Negro quarters here Satur- day night and as a result five wo-1 men and four men appeared in the; police court today on social vagrancy charges. AGED WOMAN DIES Tulare. Feb. 1 (VNS) Mrs.

Lula Bilaye, 70, died last weekend at VI-! salia. She was a half sister of Clay I Holt of Tulare. Graveside services will be held here Tuesday morning i at 10:30 o'clock. -San Diego Catholics i To Receive Bishop Trade unions NUMA POMPIL1US, KING OF ROME IN THE 7 CENTURY ENCOURAGED THE USEFUL ARTS BY ORGANIZING GUILDS OF FLUTE BLOWERS, GOLDSMITHS, CARPENTERS, DYERS, POTTERS AND SHOEMAKERS THE BEGIN NING OF MODERN TRADE UNIONS Mil Stanislaus, San Joaquin and Merced counties harvested 3087 acres of spinach in 1936. RED CROSS DONATIONS NEAR $10,000,000 NOW Washington, Feb.

1 (IP) Pub-I lie contributions to the Red Cross flood relief fund mounted today to $9,963,354. Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Red Cross chairman, had asked for but pointed out more than that amount probably would be I needed. He asked 3,700 chapters to continue the drive for funds. HANFORD NURSERY Fruit Trees Phone 9-F-4 Hanford One mile south Hanford Airport on Corcoran Highway All Makes Reasonably Priced FORD BERRY Milking Machine Rubber HAUPTMANN'S ATTORNEY INSANE HOSPITAL PATIENT New York, Feb.

1. (IP) Edward J. Reilly, who defended Bruno Richard Hauptmann against the charge that he murdered the Lindbergh taby, was a patient at the Brooklyn State Hospital for the Insane today. He was admitted late Saturday under an emergency commitment filed by hia nfother, Mrs. Helen Reilly.

Dr. Mortimer Sherman, an alienist Who filed the papers, said Reilly's marital troubles and worry over Hauptmann's electrocution were responsible for what he termed a severe nervous breakdown. San Diego, Feb. 1 (IP) San Diego Catholic dlgnataries and lay- men today prepared for the arrival i of the most Rev. Charles F.

Buddy, first bishop of the newly-created diocese of San Diego, who will be enthroned with elaborate ceremonies at St. Joseph's cathedral here Wed- nesday. Bishop Buddy and a large party are scheduled to arrive in San Diego tomorrow at 9 a. m. Seven bishops will be present for the enthronement, the Rt.

Rev. Msgr. John M. Hegarty said today. The mass of St.

Didacus, patron saint of San Diego, will be sung during the ceremonies and the most Rev. John J. Cantwell, archbishop of Los Angeles, will preach the To Dicker IN FUR BARTER. BETWEEN THE ANCIENT ROMANS AND THE BARBARIANS, A SET OF TEN SKINS WAS AftDECURlA? Tl GERMANS ADOPTED IT AS "decherlater corrupted TO "DICKER TO MEAN HAGGLING BETWEEN TRADERS PRELIMINARY TO A DEAL. 217 W.

7th St. Phone 54 50c BRIDGE TOLL ON 1 San Francisco, Feb. 1 (IP) Tolls on the San Franc! sco-Oak-land, bay bridge today were reduced from 65 cents for an automobile, driver and maximum of four pas-! sengers to 50 cents. DINE and DANCE at Bats Tavern KILEV THORNE, Prop. PRESSURE SYSTEMS JACUZZI, Original.

Injector type BURKS, and MYERS Wellington Machine Shop 505 Laccy Opposue Swift's FRANK WEBB STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHS IS It tar UaHa, him feMlwu, ba. Tm rl-Or AH Jlrhu imml Morning Journal Sec per month. I 4.

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