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A HOME NEWSPAPER The Leading Daily Associated Press In Kings County HANFORD "JOURNAL NEA Telegraph FEATURE News SERVICE FORTY-FIRST YEAR HANFORD, KINGS COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1933 MRS. RUSSELL STARTS KINGS INDIAN SURVEY Welfare Director Thinks Some Might Be Made Wards of U. S. Government County Now Caring For Several Families; Bank Account Racket Rare Here Mrs.

Theresa Russell, Kings county welfare department director, has begun a complete survey of all the Indians in Kings county to determine whether or not some of them at least should be made government wards. Mrs. Russell, who spent all day yesterday at the Santa Rosa Indian reservation southwest of Lemoore. intends to classify all of the 162 Indians registered in this county and is starting with the Tache tribesmen, about 60 of whom live on the reservation. Kings county, through the county welfare department, is now giving aid to seven or eight Indian families none of whom are now classed as government wards, The only government aid now being given Indians of the county, she said, is the allowance made to some 12 Indian children who are going to school at the Ramona school which is taught by Mrs.

Aley Hutton. The (Continued on Pave Rive) 4-H TRACK MEET IS PLANNED BY COUNCIL; DISCUSS LOCAL TOUR Plans for the annual track meet to be held at the Kings County fair grounds were made at the joint meeting of the Boys' and Girls' 4-H club council at the farm advisor's office last night. Mrs. Robert Burr presided. The track meet.

has generally been held in conjunction with the Kings county Farm Bureau picnic, which has not been definitely decided upon, but the 4-H club voted to hold the meet in any event. A committee consisting of Weir Smith of Stratford. 0. A. Roush.

Mrs. Raymond Ayers of Hardwick was appointed to draw up a program for the track meet and present it as soon as possible so that it can be gent to club leaders of the county for arrangement of entries in advance. Oscar Whittington. Mrs. H.

L. Stolte and John Warmerdam were named on a committee to prepare the grounds and the track and equipment for the events. PLAN TOUR An educational tour of local industrial plants wag discussed and (Continued on Page Eight) KINGS 'COTS DAMAGED BY WEDNESDAY FROST Considerable damage to apricots in the low lands and along the sloughs of Kings county was done by Wednesday morning's frost. L. 0.

Kings county agricultural commissioner, announced yesterday after a preliminary survey. Mr. Haupt said the frost caught the trees in the low lands at a critical time, doing material damage. and predicted that some orchards would show considerable loss of crop this year. Apricots on higher ground escaped serious damage and will produce a good crop.

Haupt predicted. Peaches and grapes of the county escaped damage, neither being far enough along to be hurt. FIVE MILLION DOLLAR QUAKE RELIEF BILL IS SIGNED BY ROOSEVELT the Associated Washington. March 23. President Roosevelt today signed the $5.000,000 California earthquake relief authorization.

The relief resolution. sponsored by Senator McAdoo of California, permits immediate loans by the Reconstruction Finance corporation for rehabilitation in the earthquake area. The Weather Fair Friday, with local frosts in early mornin Saturday partly cloudy, slightly warmer; gentle northwest wind. Official Santa Fe temperatures for 24 hours ending at 5 p. m.

March 23: Minimum, 40. Maximum, 58. Kings river water stage at Piedra, 5.68 feet; discharge, 1205 second NUMBER 88 Pleads for Relief NEA Miss Frances Perkins, President Roosevelt's secretary of labor. pleaded for the Roosevelt reforestation measure before a congressional committee yesterday on the ground that it is primarily aimed at affording relief, not jobs. She spoke in answer to objections against the $30 a month wage scale.

Fists, Rifle Flash In 'Debts' Wrangle A wrangle that began with "kidding" over one longings and led finally to a fist fight and the what was purported to be a threatening manner officers busy for a while yesterday and led to two Clifford Lindsey, about 40, who is charged peace in a complaint signed by Frank Gomes, signed Louis Rogers, 16, who, he charges, threatened him are of near Lemoore. RICE, DAVIES TO ARRANGE PARADE FOR HOMECOMING W. F. Bernstein. general chairman of the seventh annual Homecoming and Pioneer day celebration which will be held in Hanford Friday, May 12.

last night appointed Leland Rice and W. E. Davies as 1 committee to contact entrants in former Homecoming parades and report back to the next meeting of the general Homecoming committee next Friday night. Davies was chairman of the parade committee last year and Rice was his assistant. The Kings county homecoming committee, meeting at the city couneil chambers last night, authorized appointment of the committee after individual members expressed the opinion that the parade should be continued a8 one of the outstanding features of the celebration if it is practical and sufficient approval is obtained to justify going ahead with it.

PLANS OTHER FEATURES The committee also discussed other tentative features of this year's celebration including invitations to be mailed out to 1400 old time residents of the coun(Continued on page four) EVANGELIST IN TALK ON 'GREAT ROUNDUP' Using for his subject, "What Shall the End Be." Rev. Mr. Kilpatrick, who is conducting the revival services at the First Baptist church, spoke to a large group of church members and friends who attended the services last night. His subject for tonight will be "The Great Round-up." DRIVES ON SIDEWALK, SPENDS NIGHT IN JAIL It was a lot of fun to drive down the sidewalk on Irwin street-until the police saw what was going on. At least that was the way it appeared to the officers when they caught J.

M. McElwain steering his car on the sidewalk at the J. C. Penney company corner, and continuing in pedestrian territory till he reached the First National bank. A man and woman were riding with him.

Officers Tom Bomar and John Embrey took McElwain to jail about 1 a. m. this morning. He may be charged with reckless driving today, COUNTY GOVT. BILLS PASSED BY ASSEMBLY Kings Salary Cutting Measures Sent to Rolph After 0.

K. By Both Houses Ten and Five Percent Slashes Provided To Effect Annual Saving of $6000 the Associated Sacramento. March -The assembly today pased and sent to Governor Rolph two senate bills dealing with Kings county government. They recently went through the senate where Senator Charles King of Hanford was the author. Assemblyman Ford Chatters of Lindsay handled them in the assembly.

Senate bill No. 46, the principal county government measure, and senate bill 48, fixing salaries of the sealer of weights and measures and his deputies, were the bills passed. Senator King's county government bill No. 46 provides reductions in pay of all county officers and of deputy county officers, the cut ranging from 10 percent for heads of departments to 5 percent for deputies. King's bill No.

48 provides for it 10 percent reduction in the salary of the county sealer of weights and measures and cuts the pay of his depufies from $5 a day to $4.75 days actually employed. for, Pay reductions for all Kings coun ty officers including also the superfor judge and the agricultural commissioner will mean a saving of approximately $6,000 a year. HITLER MADE DICTATOR FOR NEXT 4 YEARS Associated "Berlin, March 23. The reichstag, with only the socialists opposing. today passed an empowerling act granting Chancellor Hitler's demand for four years of dictatorial power.

The outcome was inevitable, but the opposition was given time to express itself. Otto Wels, veteran of the revolution of 1918 which set up the republic, was the spokesmor for the socialists. "Take our liberty, take our lives, but leave us of our honor," he appealed. "If you (Nazis) really want social reconstruction would need no such law as this." Hitler, shouting above the cheers of his Nazi deputies, demanded four years of dietatorial power in a speech to the reichstag. He relegated the issue of the monarchy to the background, lifted the destruction of communism to the fore of his program, reiterated the familiar Nazi thesis of arms equality for all and promised 8 campaign of "barbaric severity" against all traitors.

SURPRISE RAIN ADDS .05 INCH TO TOTAL A surprise shower visited Hanford yesterday morning, bringing additional .05 of an inch precipitation to make the season total 4.92 inches. The total to date last year was 7.54 inches. B. L. BARNEY.

EX- MAYOR OF HANFORD. DIES Kings Pioneer One of Earliest Supervisors; Came to County in 1890 Rancher, Grocer, Fruit Packer; Active In Separation From Tulare County Bradley L. Barney, 84, pioneer Kings county resident and former mayor of Hanford and Kings county supervisor, died at the home of his daughter, Miss Anna Barney, at Chico Wednesday. Mr. Barney, former rancher, grocer and fruit packer, who come to Kings county in 1890.

had been making his home with his daughter for the past six years, having been in failing health due to old age. He leaves besides his daughter, a son, Fred M. Barney, of San Bernardino, Mrs. Barney having passed away about three years ago. The daughter is dean of Chico State college.

Funeral services will be held at Chico Saturday morning with ere- mation to follow in Sacramento. CAME HERE IN 1890 Born in Gouverneur, St. Lawrence county, New York, in 1849, Mr. Barney attended elementary school and Gouverneur Wesleyan seminary. He engaged in the mercantile business in early manhood in St.

Lawrence and Jefferson counties, New York, coming to Hanford in 1890. He first engaged in farming here but later went into the grocery business in the firm of Foster. Barney Felton. Selling his interest in this firm he became a member of the Barney Birkbeck firm, becoming its sole owner. Agsociating with others he formed the Barney, Kelly Widmer firm, operating stores at Hanford and Grangeville.

Mr. Barney finally became Continued on Last Page 6600 MILE HIGHWAY PLAN GETS APPROVAL OF ASSEMBLY GROUP the Associated Sacramento, Mar. The roads and highways committee of the assembly today approved a program for future road construction and maintenance, including addition of approximately 6,600 miles of connty roads to the state secondary system. The program, endorsed by the California League of Municipalities and automobile associations, also ineludes allocation of one fourth of cent of the three cents gasoline tax 10 cities, for construction of streets and roads within city limits; reallocation of gasoline tax funds to give each county $20.000 a year, plus an amount based on automobile registration: and inclusion through routes within cities in the state highway system. The plan includes approximately 89 miles of roads in Kings county, 18 follows: From Corcoran to LindHay, two miles in Kings county; from state highway, U.

S. No. 99, to state highway near Morro, 45 miles in Kings county: from to state highway near Maricopa highway near Coalinga, 18 miles in Kings county; and from Hanford via Corcoran and Earlimart to the Bakersfield General Grant park road near Ducor, 24 miles in Kings county. Telegraph Briefs By Associated Press. Miami, March Clobridge, 33, formerly of Staten Island, N.

was arrested here today and charged with sending Col. Charles A. Lindbergh at Hopewell, N. an extortion letter demanding $50,000. Tacoma, March Aaron Myers, 30, of Modesto, was convicted in federal court.

here today of violation of the Dyer act by transporting a stolen automobile from that city. to Woodland, last Janaary. He will be sentenced Saturday. Washington, March 23. The senate today passed the bill to permit state banks and trust companies outside the federal reserve system to borrow directly from reserve banks under the same conditions required of member institutions by the emergency banking act.

San Francisco, March George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist and critic of things in general, quipped and wisecracked his way into San Francisco tonight, making his first mainland contact with an official welcomnig party and a mob Beer Bill Author Smiles Delight One hundred per cent happy over 3.2 per cent beer, Congressman Thomas H. Cullen of New York. author of the beer bill, flashes a delighted smile into the camera as congratulations pour in upon him from all parts of the country. STORM DENIES FATHER'S CLAIM IN THEFT CASE J. D.

Storm who was arrested by Undersheriff Sparks Wednesday on a grand theft warrant sworn out by Storm's father, Sam Storm, Fowler rancher, appeared before Justice of the peace H. V. Brenton yesterday and had his bail set at $500 cash or $1000 surety. He went back to jail in lieu of bond. Storm's father charges that he appropriated approximately $2500 belonging to him.

then disappeared. part of the money being in a postal savings account at Hanford. Young Storm. who conferred with District Attorney Clarence Wilson yesterday, claims that his father authorized withdrawl of $1700 from the postal savings account which was in the son's name and its 118e (Continued on Page Five) RANDALL HEARING IS SET FOR APRIL 1ST Edmund Randall, Avenal service station operator who was arrested by sheriff's officers early this month on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor girl, will be given a preliminary hearing in the court of Justice of the Peace N. W.

Sorriek at Lemoore Saturday April 1, at 10 a. m. it was learned yesterday. Randall, who was brought to jail (here temporarily, was surrendered to Fresno county officers and taken to the Fresno county jail to serve jail term there for reckless driving after a bench warrant had been served upon him from Coalinga. J.

F. Pryor is Randall's attorney. NOPE, NO BEER HERE TILL 12:01 A. M. APRIL 7TH Washington, March 23 (AP).

-Attorney General Cummings ruled today that the new beer bill would become effective at 12:01 it, April 7, in every time belt, with the Pacific coast getting its beverage three hours after the Atlantic coast. Dr. James M. Doran, commis sioner of industrial alcohol, consulted his legal division yesterday and expressed the opinion the beer bill would become effective simultaneously throughont the na tion. with the earliest hour midnight eastern standard time- -controlling.

THREE GUESSES WHO IS YOSUKE MATSUOKA WARSAW WHAT IS THE POLISH CORRIDOR? WHAT IS THE CAPITAL CITY OF INDIA Answers on Back Page ASSEMBLY BILL WOULD REDUCE UTILITY RATES Emergency Measure Asks 20 Percent Cut In Heat, Light, Power, Phone Costs Tax System Changes Passed By Assembly to Shift Utility Properties to Counties NEA the Associated Sacramento, March in the basic system of state taxation were approved by the state assembly today and a bill was introduced to reduce consumers' bills for certain public utility services by 20 percent. In adopting a proposed constitutional amendment, the assembly took the first step towards repealing Amendment No. 1 to the state constitution adopted in 1910 which separated state and county tax sources. At. present the state derives a large share of its revenue from taxes on operative properties of utility corporations.

While counties tax other properties, sponsors estimated the new plan would return $1,300,000,000 worth of such property to county assessment rolls. The state board of equalization would make the assessments but the counties would collect the taxes. If the senate adopts the amendment it will be placed on lot at the next election for popular approval. Public utility companies would be ordered to deduct 20 percent from consumers' bills for heat, light, power and telephone service under terms of a bill introduced by Continned on back page) man's personal beflashing of a rifle in kept Kings county arrests. with disturbing the a complaint against with a .22 rifle.

All Jeff Moore, former employe of Lindsey's, was the innocent cause of the mixup. Moore moved to the Gomes place, it appears, and he he and Gomes and Rogers went to the Lindsey place to get some of Moore's personal belongings there. Lindsey gave Moore "the razz" about his "debts." making some crack about all attachment. Gomes took it up, denying that Moore owed the debts in question. Both became angry, it being charged that Gomes called Lindsey thus and 80 and that Lindsey retaliated by swinging on Gomes.

Lindsey admitted to officers that he struck at Gomes, but Gomes maintains that Lindsey struck at him and missed. Anyway Gomes later had Lindsay arrested. In the wrangle, young Rogers is said to have gotten out his .22 rifle and waved it in Lindsey's direction. Mrs. Lindsey stopped the argument.

Lindsey pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace before Justice of the Peace N. W. Sorrick yesterday, but Rogers pleaded not guilty to Judge Sorrick the Lindsey threatening Lindsey, with the rifle. case under advisement pending hearing of the Rogers case. LEMOORE GIRL.

HURT IN AUTO COLLISION; TWO DRIVERS ESCAPE Miss Maxine Clayton, 15 year old Lemoore girl, was slightly injured in a collision at the Belli corner two miles northwest of Lemoore last night. Miss Clayton was riding in 8. car driven by Harold Burch, 17, when it collided with a car driven by Lee Mattos, 39, of near Lemoore, the Burch car being overturned and demolished. According to State Patrolman William Morton who investigated the crash. Burch was going south on Elm avenue and Mattos was gOing west, the Mattos car striking the Burch car on the left rear wheel rolling it over.

Mattos' car remained upright and was only nominally damaged despite its crash with the other car and into a telephone pole. Mattos resides at Route 1, box 14-B. Lemoore: Burch at Route box 358. Lemoore: and Miss Clayton at Route 2, box 247. Lemoore.

The accident occurred at 8:30. IOWA OIL TO START HILLS DRILLING SOON, The Kettleman North Dome Royalty Syndicate is rushing work preparatory to drilling on section 27. 21-17 on the 80 acres which it recently leased from the Iowa Oil company. Drilling operations will commence a8 soon a8 the ment has been installed. SULLIVAN NAMED TO FARMERS' CROP LOAN POST AT SALT LAKE Wallace Sullivan, former Kings county farm advisor who for the last year has been doing marketing work for the University of CaliCornia extension service, has been called to Salt Lake City, western headquarters for the U.

S. crop production loans to farmers. Mr. Sullivan's appointment to the advisory job for California was announced by L. B.

Smith, assistant state leader of farm advisors, who conferred with Advisor H. R. Keller here yesterday, Mr. Smith announced that Director C. W.

Warburton of the U. S. extension service in Washington had been placed in charge of crop production loans for the United (Continued on Back Page) U. C. OBSERVES ITS 65TH CHARTER DAY the Associated Berkeley, March -The University of California celebrated its 65th birthday today in a Charter day program of speechmaking and conferring of honorary degrees.

Walter Lippman, author, editor and economist, was the speaker of the day and was one of the three who received degrees, He was made a doctor of laws. The other recipients were W. 1. Ritter, emeritus professor of biology, and Miss Katherine Conway Felton. lecturer in social economies.

A warning that "any further diminution of university support bevond the budget prepared by the regents will impair the efficiency of the institution, destroy entire programs of valuable research and eliminate needed services both on its campuses and off them" was sounded by President Robert Gordon Sprout in 011 address introdneine Lippman. of newspaper interviewers and cameramen. Chicago, March W. Stevens, former president of the Illinois Life Insurance COmpany now in receivership, and naitonally known hotel operator, was found shot to death tonight, apparently a suicide. San Francisco, March Making better time, due to improved wind conditions, the U.

S. S. Constitution tonight fied naval authorities here she and the tug bringing her here from San Pedro would probably pass through the Golden Gate nt, 9 m. Sacramento, March arguments that "this is not the time to propose such a project," the senate military and veterans' committee approved for passage today a bill for a 000,000 bond issue for ex-service men's home and farm loans. Palo Alto, March loaded revolver in his pocket, police said, William Compogiani, janitor of Burlingame, tried yesterday to visit former President Herbert Hoover at his home on the Stanford university campus.

ST. MARGARET'S UNIT GIVES PROGRAM TODAY A very interesting program has been arranged for the meeting to be held today at 2:30 o'clock of St. Margaret's Unit of the Church Service Leagne of the Church of the Saviour at the parish house. Rev. H.

R. O'Malley will present 11 book rewiew of "Rethinking Missions' and Mrs. F. N. Isaac will give a talk 011 "Modern Japan." A cordial invitation is extended to the public to attend this meeting.

Today's Events Tennis tourney, Delano high vs. Hanford, high school courts, 3:30 p. m. Book discussion group, city library, 2 p. m.

Legion membership cleanup meeting. Veterans Memorial hall, 7:30 p. 11. Hanford Encampment No. 68.

1. 0. 0. Odd Fellows hall, 8 p. m.

Sons of Italy No. 1543. Dewey hall, 8 p. m..