Woodland Daily Democrat (Newspaper) - July 23, 1931, Woodland, California Skilled Printers Good printers must do more than merely go through the routine of set- ting type inking the rollers and so on They must know how to set up your message so that it will capture the reader's that it will com- bine emphasis with refined appeal The Democrat's printers have that skill and ability ISSUED DAILY SUNDAY WOODLAND CALIFORNIA THURSDAY JULY 23 1931 This summer without end Now II cut mfr some way of going without unemployed would Judge ESTABLISHED STATE TO AID WATER SURVEY R LEATHERS DIES RITES TO BE HELD SATURDAY Following a long illness Robert S H Leathers 72 one of Yolo county's best known and oldest pioneers died at his home five miles north of j land Wednesday afternoon I Mr Leathers had been in health for some time and for the last year he had been bedfast His death removes from the community another of the county's oldest residents Hundreds knew Bob Leathers He born across the road from the place where his death occurred Mr Leathers lived practically his entire life jn Yolo county and for many years farmed the ranch established by his father the late John A Leathers When he was a young man he went east and worked as a railroad ger but love for his native county and his friends brought him back home a few years later For more than 30 years Mr ers had been secretary of Grafton Lodge No 141 Free and Accepted Masons He was member of the lodge In 1896 he was married to of Sutter county Mrs is in the hospital re- covering from an operation She will be unable to attend the funeral Those who survive are the widow three brothers George Leathers of Gazelle California John Leathers of Spokane Washington S T Leathers Newsstand Dealer Finds Majority Of People Honest OFFICERS OF Cattle Are Woodland news stand rons Yes and no but mostly says Wallace Huston who leaves newspapers outside his door with a notice that nickels should be dropped in the slot Huston has had some ing experiences with newspaper patrons who forget to drop the nickel Sometimes he leaves as many as 35 newspapers on the rack after he closes up at night Once he found that he was shy 18 nickels And you'd be surprised who Huston states Once in a while just for he parks his car near the store in the evenings and looks on He he was surprised to learn who suffers amnesia when it conies time to drop the nickel People are funny that way Huston believes Some persons go through all the motions of dropping a nickel but the nickel doesn't drop Colusa Chain Store Looted Of Big FARM GROUP SELECTE AT DAVIS Shipped Here To Graze on GRAND JURY PROBE INTO FATAL CRASH POSTPONED Officer Tarns Sleuth When Car Coat Star Lost i Because of the superiority ofj j Yolo county pasture more than 50001 head of cattle are being shipped here j i from California and Nevada points to i i graze on sugar beet land The cattle j Kingwill Colusa county j u The Sacramento County Grand Jury cultural commissioner late pastured in sugar beet as investigation into the accident on the I day was elected president of the soon as the beets have been harvested Stockton boulevard Monday night i Valley group of the Calif j Tom and Clyde Harris prominent j which caused the death of two liua Agricultural Commissioners Salinas cattlemen have already Persons and injury to three in the group's monthly 600 wn been postponed from ling held at Davis p d e week j i Harold Crane commissioner of j property near Yolo They have 400 j The postponement came when it was I Yuba county wa's elected j more on the way and the 1000 head announced that the condition of Con- j treasurer j will be pastured on the Coil and stable Del Cann of Elk Grove is j Discuss Weeds I son lands north and east of Yolo as j serious that he will not be able to The sessions were held in the until next week i cultural on the College of Agriculture campus The morning Patrolman Jack Kinkade was obliged to do a little police work in his own behalf early Thursday morning While covering his beat in his car Kinkade decided to do some walking The night was hot so he removed his coat and put it in the back of the car Leaving the machine in front of Hotel land covered his beat on foot for awhile When he returned car coat and badge were gone Kinkade look- ed and looked but car turned up So he went to bed Late Thursday morning the car was found abandoned at degast and College streets ing was missing from the chine HYATT PLANS TO LAUNCH PRELIMINARY WORK HERE The state of California Thursday agreed to take a hand in the wide water resources survey ied Tuesday to the board of jors by the Woodland city council j Councilman Arthur C Huston Jr returned late Thursday from I mento where he was in conference with State Engineer Edward Hyatt soon as the harvest of sugar beets is Manyan of Winters is also unable to completed testify tonight Cann drove the automobile i sessions were featured by discussions H Moffatt and company are to ship weed control work throughout 2000 head here from Nevada to smashed into one driven by Mrs Irma j northern California and it was found jand and Woodland Mrs Boyd and George Manyan i that agricultural commissioners in all sections are facing almost identical Principally on the property ot the problems I Browning estate and the Day A demonstration of weed control and Stephens lands Frank off has revealed that stories of Boy Rescues Woman in Pool work by means of a power driven almost instantly killed and Mrs were injured Investigation of Sacramento I 111 ft of Gilroy has arranged to ship 1000 witnesses conflict Theodore Lauds Project Hyatt was greatly impressed with the initiative taken in the survey in Yolo county and declared it to be the logical move for the county to make in planning for future development Hyatt declared that he would place a man in Yolo county within the next few days to make preliminary I spray truck was held on the campus head here from Stockton stage driver said thai he during the afternoon concluding with I smelled liquor on Cann s breath i a tour of inspection of the campus and Eddy j accident and that Cann was j i Off were elected at the close of i and G F Cloud west and northwest driving at an excessive rate of speed Red Cross and V M C A swimming comprehensive survey proposed to the Training that he received from his that can be used in the more 1 the afternoon session i Progress Satisfies j of Woodland Another shipment Two Elk Grove physicians and two I courses enabled Bobby Anderson 1000 head will come from James business men said positively that there year-old son of Mr and Mrs Marvin county Mary Wayne of Fort Jones truck or an automobile to the rear and Mrs Addie Crane of of fche Penney By Valley News Alliance the of the group has been and these tops are said to make ex M- ln the issuing of a bulletin on weeds and n fc f d f R i who farms the adjoining ranch to that land most sensational robbery in the weed that is now available home of Mr Leathers two sisters I history of Colusa thieves drove a through the office of C E Berry Yolo were sent nere Iast the ex- hilp to the agricultural commissioner periment was so successful that Berry was host to the visiting are now to be sent in on a large scale ui u v A i i and Frank Leathers a son wno i missioners has been helping on the Leathers store aiter gaining to the j w Q Russell attended the sessions farm place by prying off some wire representing the Yolo county board of Funeral services will be held in the and smashing a window pane and supervisors Kraft Brothers Saturday took stock valued at Jt was decided to hold the next morning at 10 o'clock The Masonic order of which Mr Leathers was a The loot 100 women s member will be in of the 75 men's suits 213 men's Counties throughout the state are well satisfied Mi The doctors examined making similar surveys Hyatt work that is being done and good allotment will be north ot Yolo officer shortly after the accident j drowning at the Hiers club He lauded the work as a gress in all lines of the work was When the sugar beets are harvested i Saselli said that he witnessed the Thursday afternoon move especially for a county ported One of the most recent green tops are cut off and left j accident He told officers that he was wno refused to give such as Yolo that is devoted to C rvf Via c T i n f m to OT 40 IPS All i at the rate of 40 miles that a few seconds before the accident beyond her depth and had started to I It is not a good plan for a county meeting at Colusa August 19 MART SEE-SAWS TO CLOSE EVEN WALNUT GROWERS URGED TO SIGN go down when Bobby grabbed her badly frightened she vices McNEILL FUNERAL SET FOR FRIDAY dress shirts suit cases notions four dozen pairs of corduroy trousers one i i dozen men's hats and 14 dozen pairs j of shoes i j Professional burglars are blamed j for the robbery i An ironical touch to the robbery was MRS DENNY SELLS TO S F EMPORIUM i- Mrs Vivian K Denny has just dis- j Courtesy Dean Witter and Co I Sacramento offices NEW slight rally i ed by a slight drop left the Thursday stock about where it left off 1 day Fractional changes were the Open Close Var S R Hogan manager mento valley Walnut Growers ation announces that the membership rolls of all local walnut growers sedations affiliated with the nia Walnut Growers association of which the Sacramento valley Walnut Growers association is one close on the night of July 31 Growers who no ill effects After being revived from the of the experience the woman left the club consistently refusing to give her name to witnesses Cardinals Study Row With Fascist Regime to allow huge investments to be made in extension of agriculture and then find that there is not sufficient water to properly develop the Hyatt told Huston The survey att stated will allow county to have a comprehensive report on the underground water situation and to just what extent development can safely be carried Similar Surveys Among other districts and counties of the state that have conducted or By United Press are similar surveys are the meeting of the Santa coun given by clearance sale signs which posed of her ladies wear stock to the j Caterpillar 10 CHURCH HEADS ATTEND CONCLAVE Ten members of St John's ical church headed by Rev Carl ger are spending ten days at Camp David Byron McNeill will be laid to j had been posted in the store rest in the Catholic cemetery thieves cleaned out the stock day morning Funeral services will be held in Holy Rosary church at 9 o'clock The body is at the home of Mrs Hiram Bullard sister of McNeill The Bullard home is in West Main street The Kraft Brothers are in charge of funeral arrangements Disorders Mark Strike Movement in Bulgaria SOFIA near Healdsburg attending the out in several Bulgarian cities annual Evangelical Training school day during communist rehearsals for j There are various religious classes strike demonstrations i and social activities At one workman was Those attending are Rev Saenger ed and others injured when striking Mrs Fred Plocher Martha and Fred silk and tobacco workers clashed with i Plocher Jr Robert Reiff Laura police Soldiers were called At j Mast Lena Florence na 1300 textile workers struck I Vergil and Erna Franke Librarians Compiling Book Lists for School Children Emporium planning to pac Lighting j enjoyed extended vacation She So Edi i closed her Town and Country Shop j p Q E in the Hotel Woodland building standard Oil The Emporium is moving Caj pack QQ TVs the stock to San Francisco I Mrs Denny has been engaged in business here for over a year and Byron Jackson Richfield U S Steel She feels that she Motors before that time was successful at Watsonville earned a rest and she plans to enjoy i Anaconda Copper 25 a ICSl SMC 1 -n v n T A r Amer Telephone visit her mother in Los An- 1A 23 44 93% under way in southern California and tne 01 OJ wnu i n i rn have not applied by that time cannot College of Cardinals was called tV Ventura county Napa county and be accorded the benefits of association day by the Pope The meeting A huge survey is now i packing and marketing j understood to be in connection with I More than new members have h dj of the See and this year The state tion now numbers nearly j Fascist government j bers and handles per cent of the entire state crop I Membership blanks are obtainable I from the main office of the Growers association Continued on Page Three geles and with other relatives before again opening a store American Can Mont Ward am opening a She stated that she is grateful for ic generous patronage in Woodland and at eel 44 asked the Democrat to express appreciation of many tended to her courtesies ex- Radio Corp 20 so ya 18 ma in Los Angeles or from the local nut association at Live Oak To be accepted they must be mailed by July 31 Francis DuBois Returns From Boat Tour of World Glenn's Expensive Prisoner Backs Down Attempt Made to Kill Chinese President j WHEAT Open 54 By United Press futile but daring attempt was made to assassinate T V Soong finance minister Barley cwt Close Var 53 By Valley News WILLOWS Herbert Baker After four months as a cadet on the The ship made the journey Dollar liners Francis DuBois son of stopping at Honolulu Kobe T Shanghai Hongkong Manila jMr and Mrs Luther DuBois of Colombo Suez Port Woodland returned here Wednesday Said Alexandria Genoa Naples j evening He completed a seilles Boston New York Havana i world trip on the President Cristobal Los Angeles and finally Tuesday Previous to that he made San Francisco again 53 trips on the President Young DuBois who graduated with SAN FRANCISCO STOCKS The Dow Jones averages 30 and industrials up 0.11 20 rails Boys and girls in Yolo county schools probably do not realize it but the library books they have on the was unhurt Tong- an advisor in the Byron Jackson Teachers are requested to send in finance ministry was fatally wounded Pac Lighting 54 ages and grades of the pupils From j and several persons were injured Pub Ser cOior-t one of guards h Hsts Packing county library staff shelves at their schools are carefully in assassins threw a bomb and opened up selected for them by employes of the books should be ot m with rifle and pistol fire as the party J ar terest to the boys and girls from the train bhell Linion Each year the books are returned j to the library shelved and then re- Miss Nancy Laugenour and her corps of assistants are now making up library collections for children in I county schools Approximately j assigned to other schools for the next j 5800 books will be distributed I year Wedding Annulled by Court GVj 23 Y Minton Held to Answer on Bad Check Passing Charge H D Minton charged with issuing Peace J A Murray Thursday J J A 1 a 11 r O rr a check with insufficient funds in the ing for preliminary hearing and was bank appeared before Justice of the held to answer to the superior court Minton was unable to post bail and is being held in the county jail to await trial in superior court the mid- dle of August when the court holds its midsummer session The man admitted thc check but stated that he had offered to make it good to N 0 Raglin com- plaining witness as goon as he had worked on his present job to draw some money on due him Raglin however to the complaint and had Minton arrested he was employed By United Press LOS marriage ofj Gold Mrs Minnie Ma Kennedy mother nf Aimee Semple McPherson and G ward Hudson was annulled Thursday in the superior court of Judge Joseph Standard Oil Pac Gas Pfd West Pipe Crown Zellerbach Cities Service Sachs 54 23 23 V Glenn county's most expensive DuBois explained his job as a com- j high honors from the Woodland High 8 -4.1 i i deck hand and with school last year plans to remain at er morning withdrew pleas most of his d jes on for a month and then either go ot not guilty and not guilty by reason where the ship is controlled He i to college or study languages in Eu- of insanity and pleaded guilty to a steered the ship four hours daily un- rope charge of assaulting II H Busse of supervision of an officer and The sea is fascinating and most i other duties included he said but there is not witn a snot gun decks wood work checking the future in ship work that there is Baker's request for probation and similar tasks jin land enterprise denied because of his record and he will be sentenced Friday morning I either to a term in the county jail or to San Quentin prison for a term I up to ten years Two doctors Press Time Bulletins ed Baker sane 7 4 10 V8 C Sproul Mrs collapsed as] the decision was given Funeral Services lor Mrs Irma Boyd Held of BODY FIRM In yon CM to bvinpii dmU and body tar will SHATTERS RECORD By United Press Frank Hawks Winters church at reduced the flying time between New i o'clock Thursday morning by Funeral services for Mrs Irma j ise Boyd who was killed in an auto mobile accident on the Stockton vard Monday evening were held in thc 10 Wife Children See Man Drown in Creek By Valley News Alliance his wife five children and brother stood helplessly by unable to swim Charles Joksch 38 Capay district rancher drowned i CANYON WRECK VICTIM DIES j QUINCY July Mehos 43 Oroville merchant died i in the county hospital of injuries received when the jauto he was driving to Quincy plunged off the road into a canyon i Mehos was alone in the car and was found conscious by a highway J workman who checked on a mysterious red light deep in a canyon The light proved to be the tail light of the automobile WIPE OF STEEL MANUFACTURER DROWNS SAN FRANCISCO July body of Mrs Belle E Dehneman 57 wife of a prominent steel manufacturer and mother t a San Francisco was found in the Golden Gate by Wednesday after stepping into lfish gnp had been Her husband F J Dehne h hi f h d d f despondent Over a deep hole in Stony Creek near The body was taken from the water 20 minutes later by John Seidell but efforts at reviving thc man failed FIVE KILLED BY CONFIRMED MANIAC FLIGHT HELD UP MERCER Pa July people were killed and thm By United Press j others injured near here Thursday by Marko who weather j five and stabbed three others The dead included Mrs now record of took in thc eight hours and eight minutes Stam is spending his cation in San Francisco at sian river points cemetery The pallbearers were N A McArthur A C Sullivan A S ett A L Martin II E and II U Rice Thc Kraft Brothers were in charge of the arrangements The rites tions caused Reginald Wife of the Fogetti hU had been adjudged insane by a medical here late Wednesday and was awaiting removal Tto lie seized a shot gun and shot his wife and sis BURIED ORLAND Green 715 a resident of the Orland section since 1875 was buried here Wednesday dashed out of thc house After shooting threw thc gun away and stabbed the carrying
