Woodland Daily Democrat (Newspaper) - July 6, 1928, Woodland, California Get Our Prices Get our job printing prices and see samples of our work and you'll place an immediate order with the Interior California's most equipped newspaper and job printing plant ISSUED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY WOODLAND CALIFORNIA FRIDAY JULY Today's Beat Smile Here son ft fornia paper a food of the disaster out there I ain't got toft ter But here's a got every America's Humor ESTABLISHED 1877 PAL SAVES AVIATOR 220 Pupils Added to Yolo School Attendance in Year Their Pastime Major Carlo TM Prete and Major Arturo Ferrarin Italian aviators who broke long distance flight records in their hop from Rome to Brazil They also hold the world's endurance mark POPULATION GROWTH IS INDICATED BY INCREASE Yolo county's schools have ed by 220 pupils in the last year cording to figures compiled today by county school officials Average daily attendance for both elementary and secondary schools at the end of the last school term was 3625 it reported Last year's at- tendance to 3395 The increase according to school officials means added state funds and the augmenting of the staff by three new instructors Population Growth In addition it is pointed out school growth reflects a large increase in ShowBoat NAME USED BY PENMAN MAN HELD AS FORGER SAYS Sequences at Landing Show Bark in the days when Mark Twain was a youth standing round-eyed beside the pilot of a Mississippi stern-wheeler negroes astride cotton bales on wharves that dotted the of waters shouted the the whole town came running And now the Show Ferber's coining to Knights Landing and Universal Pictures is going to give it a niche in hall of fame For Harry Pollard who long ago abandoned the meringue pies of the slapstick comedian for the director's megaphone is making a film version of the 1927 best seller and with all the world to pick from he has chosen county population Elementary schools of the county contribute 2891 to the total The in- that hit his car crease over last year is 171 Woodland m EXPECT VERDICT IN AUTO CRASH CONTEST TODAY The automobile damage suit of Enrico Martinelli against eph went to the jury shortly before 4 o'clock this afternoon The trial delayed from last week re- opened this morning William Barlow driver of the truck has 717 in this classification as com- pared with last year Martinelli was on the stand of Kni hts Bar Use of his name by a friend with bad check-writing propensities was IB wona to PICK irom ne nas blamed today by Bruce Howard for Knights Landing for one of the arrest as a forger important sequences of the story Returned Friday from Chico where Will Bring Stars he was arrested to face charges in Headed by Joseph Schildkraut the Woodland Howard is being held for wily Judas of the King of Universal will bring a galaxy of stars to Grafton's levee on or about August 1 and for five days cameras will j grind away to revive for movie fans the days of 85 on the Mississippi And aiding and abetting Schildkraut and Pollard in the manufacture of the classic will be 300 Yolo county men women clad in 85 tumes and beer who will serve as extras Long Hair Wanted We're going to use about 125 men and 125 women and about 50 ot Bob Ross publicity man for at the opening of court Wilham And irea wiwi IKIO iat the opening 01 court High school students number McD tt of Knights Bar Universal told the we are particularly l the county There were 675 last year Woodland high school's daily average attendance is 423 an in- crease of but one over last year 56 In Kindergartens There are 55 pupils in low's employer and the third ant also testified Details of the mishap as related by we are looking particularly for en with long hair We want girls with old-fashioned smiles investigation Mrs Marie Eogers Davis grocery store proprietor and Sidney Pugh pool hall owner on whom bad checks i were passed by a man giving his name as Bruce Howard could not identify the man in Chico The Davis forger said Howard was probably one of his who name ard says he he was in BRAZIL FLIERS PLANE DAMAGED REST AT NATAL LOWENSTEIN HAD HELP IN PLUNGE PROBE REVEALS By United Press NATAL Brazil July Cloud when the Davis checks were passed A confusion in the checks that had been given to employees by A J By United Press LEBOURGET AIRDROME The ing Italian aviators today were re- i disappearance of Captain Alfred the plaudits of a worshiping jenstein international high financier populace while the world buzzed with from his private airplane was ed into deeper mystery Friday when LUNDBORG IS TAKEN FROM ARCTIC ICE FIVE REMAIN By United Press STOCKHOLM July Lundborg Swedish hero isolated at the Italia ice camp off Northeastland was rescued Friday by his fellow aviator and close friend Lieutenant Shai Schieberg the try of defense announced Soon after the news of his rescue was received here Lundborg sent a message to his wife saying he was safe aboard the rescue ship Quest at Virgo bay and that he was in good health Almost frantic enthusiasm marked the rapid dissemination through en of the heroic aviator's rescue by a fellow Swede Schieberg duplicated the feat in which Lundborg flew to the camp in an airplane landed on the little ice dangerously admiration over their momentous 4321 record-breaking flight over the south Atlantic from Rome The fliers Majors Arturo and Carlo Del Prete who made a landing near here on a beach find their mono- plane unable to serve them for the Pierce Chico rancher caused first time in 51 hours and 24 minutes 01 tne us related uy i f S W Lillard of Davis were attacked i can by Martinelli's attorneys who T i 0.1 We are not so particular about that Lilard could not have seen we 5 f the men's haircuts But we want in Woodland and 24 in Davis mishap One hundred thirty-six boys A jury verdict is expected by who bawling for ice from schools this cream cones while we are shooting from grammar year it was announced were move numerous than girls who bered 124 making a total of 260 year's graduating sum was six higher than this year Girls and boys ed positions with the girls leading to 129 for a total of 266 The figures given out it was em- are those of average daily attendance and not of total ment The latter figures would be about ten per cent higher Yolo county has the highest average daily attendances in the state with 00.7 per cent night FARM TEACHERS HOLD BANQUET cream cones while we are them Ross is in touch with C V Hooper and others at Knights Landing and through them and through the crat he will inform would-be actors and actresses how and when they can apply for jobs Likes Choice Fifty-seven persons attended the Ross declared that Pollard who be- banquet of the came an expert on southern farm mechanics short course held with his masterly direction of the Hotel Terminal in Davis Thursday Uncle Tom's is tickled pink ard's arrest When Howard tried to pass one of the checks Pierce denied that he had written it It was later established that Howard actually had worked for Pierce but had been given the wrong check Howard was brought to Woodland by Constable Joseph Huberty of Davis Constable LeRoy Hillhouse announced that he will hold Howard until he is definitely cleared of connection with the check deals in Davis of steady flight through storm and wind over a seemingly endless expanse j of ocean Damaged In Landing Their plane was damaged in the landing not seriously but sufficient to keep its daring crew from uing the flight on to Rio Janeiro where more thousands are waiting to pay homage to the Romans experts asserted after tests that one man alone could not open the cabin door of a plane while it was flying In order to conflicting ments regarding Lowenstein's experts made a series of careful tests with a Fokker airplane similar to Lowenstein's rescued General Um- berto Nobile the Italia's commander On his second flight machine crashed on the rough ice Since then he had been isolated with five men of the Italia crew who pitched their camp there It was appropriate that should have been the rescuer He is operator and the tWo had been intimate friends In these planes the wing propeller j causes tremendous air pressure ly on the door leading out of the cabin After their tests made at the same height and same speed at which Cap- tain Ronald Drew Lowenstein's pilot had said the plane was flying experts reached the conclusion that the door ATKINS PRESIDES AT FIRST MEET night Professor H M of Berkeley was guest of honor at the THUGS BEAT AND woia fc j affair and gave his views of farm mechanics teaching in the past and present A seat of honor was also given to Professor H B Walker new A E Mendes 26 of Richmond pruner on a Yolo county ranch went to Brodenck to celebrate the night with the choice of Knights Landing as a location A few touches here and there and the natives will be talking with a Pollard said The show boat a replica of many that once swept up and down the LU A ntw i head of the agricultural engineering j Mississippi bringing smiles and tears division at Davis college who arrived at their one-night stands is now un- MRS HAWKINS DIES OF HURTS According to word received here not have been opened by one from the Late Coure Airplane com- man aione pany in Rio Janeiro the aviation firm's officials have offered to trans- port the men to the Brazil capital in one of their own planes Friends of the fliers believe the offer will be unless immediate means of patching up their own plane are coming Lost Bearings After landing at p m day at Beach near Natal unable to find the municipal airport the fliers hopped off again only to land at Turos a short time later It Funeral arrangements are pending for Mrs Grace Hawkins 50 who died Wednesday in a Pendleton Oregon hospital as the result of a fractured skull suffered in an automobile dent Mrs H E Bender of Woodland a j was at Turos that their plane was daughter who had been with Mrs damaged An automobile carried the Hawkins since Sunday was to this where they were late Wednesday by her husband who left Woodland as soon as a telegram of July 4 Today he is in the Sacramento county hospital suffering from deep cuts and abrasions sustained whan robbed and beaten by three men on the Yolo side of the river Physicians say he will recover Mendes was found lying The speaker of the evening was W Arthur Ross head of state teachers vocational training in Wyoming who is taking an active part m the tion at the short course After an entertaining and extensive program be towed shortly to its at the Knights Landing levee Shanty boats that will add atmosphere are also being built and will be parked on the other side of the river Use And Universal plans to import a here Mrs Hawkins had been living in Woodland for the last four years and was on a vacation tour through the north when the accident which cost her life occurred x on a Broderick street yesterday by Officers Higgs and Kearns When he regained consciousness at the hospital he told police thai the trio had attacked him and struck him with a blunt instrument before robbing him He lost about he said Former Is Drum Major Kier Snavely of cigar store is exhibiting a picture of the American Legion Military Band of Albany Oregon said to he one of the largest and finest Legion bands in the United States Lennie 0 Green erly of this is the drum major of the organization He is easily in the picture in which speeches music and a bit of I special trainload of 150 negroes from comedy played an important part the Sacramento to add further banquet was concluded tude to the sets Incidentally apparatus will be working in conjunction with the cameras durings the filming of most of the scenes It will be the first time the newest film appliance is used in northern California Welcome Amelia Back to New York The farm mechanics short course will end on next Thursday after which those enrolled will journey to ley to attend the state convention of vocational agricultural teachers on Friday and Saturday Invite Former Ceres Minister Rev James Morris of Ceres Madera county will take the pulpit at the Christian church Sunday Rev Morris bears an excellent tion as a minister and speaker i Gas Blast Burns I Bottle Worker Robbins Rancher Taken to 5 F By United Press NEW Amelia Earhart came home in triumph Friday Up through lower Broadway where New York shouted its acclaim to NAME PALLBEARERS I bergh Chemberlain and Byrd rode the The following acted as pallbearers j Boston girl who joined the select band for Adolph E Bridges who was of Americans who have conquered the buried in Woodland cemetery Atlantic by air day following services at the Ross With her were her companions or C Wilson Leo Haze Roy the flight from bay to Haze Dexter Haze Leonard Haze Wales Wilmer the pilot and Charles Jones and Joseph Day j Lou Gordon mechanician feted during every minute of their waking hours Then landing on the coast of zil last night ended a flight that left far behind the previous long-distance flight record of 3909 miles covered by Chamberlin and from New York to Germany Will Continue Hickman Fight By United Press LOS plea of Mrs Eva Hickman to save my son from the gallows has re-inforced his in- tention to carry the case of William Edward Hickman to the United States supreme court attorney Richard tillon said Friday Following the decision of the state supreme at San Francisco dering Hickman to hang for the der of Marian Parker Cantillon re- received word from Kansas City that Mrs Hickman wishes defense counsel to continue efforts to prevent the George Atkins newly elected dent of the Lions club presided over his first meeting at the luncheon held Thursday He gave an outline of his policies for the year and discussed the aims and objects of a service club in a most entertaining manner In his initial efforts as leader of the club Atkins made a most favorable impression Next week the luncheon will be held Wednesday which is the regular day for the club gathering It was announced that on that occasion Earl Linsley professor of astronomy at Mills college and director of Chabot Observatory will speak before the will be Other This is a club His subject Worlds Than Ours ular astronomical talk fully Athletic Board Gets New Member George Knight 60 Robbins district rancher who suffered severe burns when a gasoline tank exploded and showered him with flames is declared improved today by attending ians He was treated at the Woodland Clinic hospital HALT LATE SERVICES During the rest of the summer the late hour service at St Luke's copal church will be discontinued it was announced Rev timer Chester rector This service is the usual 11 o'clock meeting For son's execution SAN ham Edward Hickman tary confinement on condemned row apparently unconcerned that he must hang unless the United States court or the governor of fornia intervenes Thank you were only words of the fox when Warden James Hollohan notified him of the decision of the state supreme court upholding the California law under By United Press SACRAMENTO Governor Young Friday appointed W H Hanlon QUENTIN Sacramento hotel proprietor to be a was in i of the State Vernon Fawcett employee of the Woodland Ice and Bottling works was Friday taken to San Francisco by Edward H Miles of the San Francisco police department to face a charge of I which Hickman pleaded not guilty by failure to provide for his wife and child Fawcett had been free on bonds sion succeeding Seth W P ger of Los Angeles resigned Japanese Infant Buried at Yolo reason of insanity month it has Until Fall there will be only the 8 o'clock service An eastern manufacturer of is havine an experimental plot of tobacco grown on the J S Hook ranch Walnut Greek Contra Costa County Nye to Preach at Union Services The Sunday evening Union services will be held at the First Baptist church with Rev M S Nye of the United Brethren church delivering the sermon it was announced Friday by Rev Carl Saenger president of the Ministerial association The lervice will begin at 8 o'clock Wheat Prices in Declining Scale By United Press Splendid weather in all parts of the wheat belt brought on hedging by northeastern and western houses and wheat dropped The infant child of M of Zamora was buried in etery Yolo Friday afternoon KOM C Wilson was in charge of ments The child died Thursday Mrs Harbinson f Fractures Wmt sharply July Open 186 Close Mrs Mary Harbinson of to mother of Dr J son of ft wrist when she stumbled Mi Ml her home Friday under treatment Clink
