Woodland Daily Democrat (Newspaper) - March 13, 1924, Woodland, California DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY WOODLAND CALIFORNIA EVENING MARCH ESTABLISHED 1877 DAYLIGHT Banks Here Promise Contribute Accepted as an incentive for Northern California banks to underwrite the amount of money needed to the stockmen of California who have lost heavily by reason of the foot and mouth disease the Los Angeles clearing house and the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce last night notified State Di- rector of Agriculture G H Hecke at his home near Woodland that they would raise provided a similar amount would come from San Francisco Woodland banks this morning had definitely agreed to do their part in helping the district get the necessary money providing the bank will grant them permission Hecke was hopeful that the San banking institutions would see their way clear this afternoon to join in the campaign The federal authorities ated a dollars with the understanding that the state would raise an amount equivalent If the state should fail then the ment's contribution will not be able It is simply a question of getting together here and paying the doctor's said Hecke today The people of San Francisco particularly the Formal notification came this ing to the Yolo board of supervisors banks there do not seem to realize the and the Yolo farm to great danger to their port which has fect that has been selected as been avoided by the prompt energetic of the nine counties to be work of the state and federal the quarantine The official release notice cers Hope was expressed by Governor After careful consideration it has er car Friend Richardson and Hecke that it been decided by the Department of not be necessary to call a special j Agriculture of California and the U session of the legislature to pass Bureau of Animal Industry that the propriation bills In a statement issued by the ernor he There are some very serious I release of nine counties from quarantine may be permitted without undue danger to those ties or to the other counties of the Stanislaus Merced Monterey Benito and Santa There will remain in the quarantine Marin San co San Joaquin San Mateo Santa Clara and Sonoma and in the close quarantine Alameda Contra Costa and Solano These ten counties are also included in the federal Continued On Page Four v VA W WAJ against calling a session of the These nine counties are legislature outside the legal and con- Mendocino Sacramento Yolo objections First it is not known how much money is necessary to be raised and hence there would be no definite program to present to the legislature Second the session would cost from to according to its length Fears Quarantines Third a session would tend to create alarm and might increase the of quarantines in other states Hecke Tells Aim Hecke elaborated today on his ob- to calling a special legislature session We are aiming to save the spring crops of he said If the state should call an extra sion of its lawmakers the number of quarantines in other states would likely be increased and made more drastic thereby causing great losses to our producers inasmuch as they would be unable to ship out their stuff Hecke told the governor that he believed that the spread of the dis- ease had been practically wiped out by reason of the energetic action that lias been taken And the effect of SCHOOL BOY VICTIM STATE HIGHWAY While returning home from school Wednesday afternoon Max Storz a student in the cultural class at the Woodland high school was run down by an bile near Shady Nook on the way and severely injured He was going south on the highway when Al Bowman driving a Ford delivery truck for the Woodland Meat Market attempted to pass Obe Lowe in the latter's ear traveling in the same direction At the warning of the hom young Storz stepped off the highway but the passing car struck him and ed him down the wheels passing over his back and legs Bowman lost con- trol of his car and it ran up against the bank before it stopped The ator was damaged It was necessary to tow the machine into Woodland Lowe stopped his car and picking up the boy took him to the Storz home about three miles southeast of the city Bowman also rendered whatever assistance he was able to give the in- jured boy Dr M B Bransford attended the injured lad and dressed his injuries His legs were badly bruised The student is unable to attend school day and complains of pains in the Lead His right leg is also giving much pain Teachers School Girls in Auto Crash Here An enclosed touring car in which the daughters of Mr and Mrs Clarence F Day Natalie Phonie and Phyllis were riding and a roadster occupied by Principal Lenear and Mrs Marian Mefford a teacher of the Esparto grammar school collided at the intersection of First street and Lincoln avenue this j morning Mrs Mefford sustained j slight injuries about the face The Yolo Farm Center was host evening to Plainfield Willow Oak Park Zamora and Spring Lake centers at a big meeting held in Yolo town hall More than two hundred members were in attendance there being some representatives from ly every section of the county At o'clock a basket supper was served on long tables which ran the entire length of the hall As the contents of the baskets were spread out on the tables a feast fit for the gods was revealed Coffee cream and sugar were provided by the Yolo center members C E Patton director of Yolo ter called the meeting to order at 8 o'clock After hearing committee re- ports and transacting routine ness the business meeting adjourned and the rest of the evening was given over to an address by J J Deuel of the Utilities Department of the state federation The speaker explained in detail the type of work performed by the Utilities Department He ed the members to familiarize selves with railroad rates power and kindred taxes on the farmers Deuel told of the critical condition in the southern part of the state due to the lack of rain He said that electrically generated power plants were being run at about half of their capacity in order to conserve water power If relief does not come soon more tic measures will have to be resorted to Fake Federal Men Fail To Come To Court Theodore and Joseph Hall suspected of having ated Federal officers and pilfered as well as household articles in the Broderick and river district ed to appear in Justice Jerome court today Their attorney ray's James Gaffney of Sacramento could not account for his clients District Attorney G T Kern was ready proceed with the tion and Judge Barry was on the bench That the two men have left for parts unknown and will not return was the theory expressed by the Dis- Attorney Aviator In Fall Able To Leave The Sanitarium In Custody HAS THE DAYLIGHT BURGLAR WHO HAS BEEN BAFFLING THB POLICE OF SACRAMENTO COMB TO WOODLAND TO PLY HIS THE FIRST INKLING OF HIS PRESENCE HERE CAME DAY WHEN MRS JACK SCHMITZ WIFE OF A YOUNG ELECTRICIAN NOTIFIED SHERIFF J W ROE THAT THEIR HOME HAD BEEN ENTERED ABOUT O'CLOCK TUESDAY MORNING AND TAKEN FROM HER PURSE While Mr and Mrs Schmitz suspect a local party the authorities not be surprised if the Sacramento He has been released from the j daylight thief is working here and Marino Gugliemetti Petaluma rancher and aviator who was badly hurt when his airplane dropped a dis- tance of 100 feet last February 26 at Dixon has sufficiently recovered as to be able to be at his home again land sanitarium Sheriff Monroe asked the Democrat The airman suffered a fracture of warn all housewives to keep their the skull ly The break has healed Nomination and election of gates to the coming Grand Parlor which will convene in Sacramento will be held at the next meeting of Woodland Parlor No 30 N S G W on Thursday evening March 20 A new wood veneer mill started operations February 15 at Russian Gulch Mendocino county Seven Boys Are Prisoners Six Being Accused of Serious Crimes Both cars were badly damaged Continued on page five MORE UNIFORM DECORATING IN F Bender George and Gas Schlosser committee were to-day accompanying Jack s a Sacramento decorating firm through the business district with a view of interesting the people installing sockets in the sidewalks for holding a flagstaff and Hag The idea would be to create a more uniform system of decorations on holidays The committee was meeting good success Co Land Company Reports Big Surplus Appreciates County In addition to freeing itself of debt the Holland Land Company whose chief properties are in Yolo county increased its surplus from to daring the year ended February 29 1924 its stockholders were told at their annual The increase in surplus is accounted for by the annual earnings fer of the surplus of the Holland By-Pass Company being dissolved and an increase in previous land Of the nineteen prisoners at the Yolo county jail today seven are boys years of age or under Another j youth Clyde Gore 24 was taken to the state penitentiary yesterday to serve time for burglary at Knights Landing and still another boy aged 23 John Long taken to San Quentin four days ago from here for passing bad checks The seven now confined in jail here JOE IS awaiting sentence for burglarizing the Knights j Landing pool hall of I W I JOE HOEKSTRA 10 implicated in the murder of John O'Connor at Knights Landing yesterday 21 ing trial for burglarizing store in Woodland is doors locked Sheriff Warns There is no cause for any alarm but good reason for being extra suggested the sheriff The loot obtained at Schmitz home at 214 Elm street was taken from purse It had been left on a table in the front room Access to the house easy the front door had been left unlocked Mr Schmitz had just left a few minutes before for his work She did not discover her loss for some time afterward v The Sacramento police took into custody Arthur Denny alias Carrol Colley as a daylight burglar suspect yesterday sentence for stealing J W Gallup's j The man answered the description automobile the daylight burglar but LAWRENCE DAVIS 19 accused approached by the detectives he in- of stealing a Winters car JAMES DAVIS 17 likely to be re- leased although he was arrested with his brother Lawrence in a stolen chine which had been repainted to make it look different from the one stolen Murder Assail on a charge similar to that Sowash LYMAN DAVIDSON 22 awaiting profits due to government reduction in the original appraised land values less 1923 dividends and reserve for the 1923 income lax The of President J V Mendenball in part as As intimated in oar last re- port the remainder of the out- standing bonds of the company was redeemed daring the year 1923 The amortized discount and premiums on such bonds amounted to which was charged against the profits of the year The Holland Land Company therefore is debt free This debt once amounted to The handling of the bond re- Continued Irom Five Thankful Home Reward Firemen Keehn Brothers donated to fund this morning in of the efforts of the in Wednesday's fire which carne very close to the handsome Kechn dences on the comer of and Mam streets A barn belonging tr the partially together was a quantity of hay harness The total loss amounted to The barn was insured for Efforts were c that he was a visitor from San Francisco and objected to being ar- rested Taken to the police station Denny WRC to have a diamond ring and a diamond stickpin and several cles which the police believe were stolon in a daylight robbery shortly before the arrest Chief of Police Bernard McShane stated that Denny answered the description of the light burglar Taken before Captain Max P er superintendent of the criminal identification bureau it developed that the prisoner had been arrested nineteen years ago under the of Carroll Colley aged 14 years whom police of that time said had committed fifty burglaries then to finger prints and police A complaint in partition er Ross C Wilson today to conduct Captain Fisher inquest at 10 July S he was sentenced o'clock over Jack O'Connor Ihc confined in the Whittier reform year-old who was Knights -11 j 41 laborer for a of in Sacramento He escaped afterwards and leaving wie and as a result of which Grfford Hc ftfc 46 and Joe Hockstra 19 are being there held in the county jail here and J A Fisher said and to follow Bailou 43 is being detained at filed The coroner had no in- from morning by L M against heart or relative of and Theresa Sutherland H C who at and others arc That and unknown designated as First Doe been implicated 31 ihr killing of Second Doe and Doc J O'Connor were drunk has been The plaintiff seeks a partition of ed to the authorises a doubi 240 acres of land alone Cache Crock whose pinned in Yolo county according lo the re- the murder upon Gifford and Ballou rights of the parties It is j will likely escape prosecution upon a after each According to the records reformatory Walla Walla In Columbia and in ftc Ana California in at Oakland San Francisco and he was convicted degree burglaries that Is Chief of Police Mrs Arthur Duncan returned to an Francisco Thursday afternoon j property alleged in the complaint that ants whose names are are endeavoring to establish claims to the murder charge He stated that ford shot four times at his heels dering him to beat it after nor had been shot down A ewe on the R L Wilson raw birth to four lambs all and vigorous
