Woodland Daily Democrat (Newspaper) - October 29, 1931, Woodland, California in the food advertisements appearing solely in the that flour can be bought for a sack beef oranges are lOc less a This alone pays price of your paper Today's Best Smile First Boy climbing over wall retrieving The ball hit Mr James right on the head Second What did he First by SUNDAY WOODLAND CALIFORNIA THURSDAY OCTOBER 29 1931 ESTABLISHED 1877 MOONEY CANARD DENIED HER ATTEMPT TO END WALKER AT HEARING Veteran Lawyer Fetes Birthday By Working Hard Well Known in Charles W Thomas dean of the Yolo county bar a practicing yer in the same office suite in Woodland for 47 years and as widely known as any attorney in northern California is receiving the congratulations of scores of friends Thursday upon the cf his birthday The occasion to him looks exactly like any other and he is MAN WOMAN HELD HERE IN Alameda FROM NORTH By Valley News OROVILLE Oct attempt to quash the whole matter involving a charge of driving a car while against Charles A Walker Butte county district attorney came to during the preliminary ing Thursday Roy Welch proprietor of a cigar and soft drink place testified before Harry Hills justice of the peace that he telephoned Walker's office the day after the alleged offense red and before the Butte county of- was arrested and said that he wanted to see Walker right away can quash the whole thing and it won't go any further he admitted telling Alvin Walker's investigator But when Walker was told of this he refused to see Welch and declared he would not attempt to have the charge dropped it was intimated by Oscar Goldstein attorney for Walker With Welch on the stand Ray Leonard special prosecutor and Goldstein traced and retraced the movements of Walker on the after- noon of October 12 during which Walker met with Welch Charles E Countryman and Andrew in rapid succession It developed on cross examination that all three of these men who had been with Walker before the incident were at teh scene when the trouble happened The incident in which Walker is J to have swung his fist at j By United Press j face and to hare broken Franklin stead the window in Andrew Nicholls 12 slayer of Sheriff John L scheld's car also was described 1 Wormell Thursday was sentenced to I life imprisonment in Washington Herbert calmly finished 1 ing an apple when the jury returned its verdict of first degree murder The i boy apparently not realizing the full import cf the sentence said he was re- I didn't want them to decide I was A Tacoma Washington deputy Jancy H Cowan 67 former of Woodland died early day morning at Alameda according to word received here sheriff and the father of Mrs Grace Mrs Cowan with her husband A Dodge 25 are on their way to Cowan made her home here for the usual time at the to return Mrs Dodge and many years and was active in church jert Trussing Tacoma j circles She was known by hundreds railroad man to the northern to I of people in this section Her husband spending office Born in Kentucky raised in Missouri and a Californian for a half century Small wonder that he is one of the finest citizens on the Pacific coast He was born in Lewis county Kentucky but was only six months when the family removed to Holt county Missouri He was educated in the grade schools and later attended the Teachers College at the alma mater of eral John J and other distinguished Missourians After teaching school for eral terms and acting as clerk of the senate judiciary committee during John S administration he admitted to practice in the circuit courts of his home state in January 1879 was connected with the news de- i face charges I The couple were arrested at the'partment of a local newspaper and depot here Wednesday night by Mater took over the Press i Surviving her are her husband now the Mooney trial The Hatcher Denies Late Oxman Story NOTE CLEARED BY Of Mooney Defense A p TIA w n p Breaking a silence of a dozen years the two persons closest to Frank I OH man Oregon cattleman who O against Thomas J Mooney stepped forth to exonerate now the slanderous that his testimony in the bombing trial was bought j One of these persons is Earl Hatcher Yolo county rancher An cven dozen headed gave testimony against Oxman when j c Kilgore commander and Opening Drive the San Francisco Grand Jury considering perjury charges in with the story s Charles G Hoppin membership nil con chairman went out this pany and William H Weeks San Francisco architect Thursday notified holders of the Woodland Hotel com- pany that he has cancelled a note held by him against the com- pany The note with accrued interest in- in the each was responsible for j Sheriff J W Monroe on a telegraphic j j warrant from Washington Alameda a daughter Mrs S F i both to he held on charges The i Walthall of Alameda and two sons i couple deny any crime and officers J R M Cowan of Alameda and G A believe that they are being j Cowan city editor of the Chico En- I sought for alleged violation of the Funeral services will be held in Mann act I don't care if my father docs Mrs Dodge wife of M Dodge Tacoma optician told Sheriff Monroe They can't take me away from Robert j And remained by h's at the time of his n 1111 ing in pursuit of renewals for Yolo post roster man's wife a resident of two were signed gon Another Lie Nailed Another Mooney League lie also was nailed today by Mrs Oxman in a sworn statement That his pro rata of the debt Designed Hotel Weeks was architect of the Hotel Woodland and supervised its for the year Ninety per cent j lion In his letter to the stockholders of the World War veterans stressed the fact that he has Or nine out of every ten Also 1 no affiliation with and is connected up be it boasted there was not a single refusal in the ten per ent who did jurday morning at 10 o'clock from declaration of Mrs Rena wife have the fee before I Truman Funeral Home Telegraph j avenue Oakland Rev Smith and Rev D I Saywell will officiate loves Mrs Dodge and will I years if need be to Continued on Page Four Year Slayer Sentenced To Life in Prison that he wait 50 her Both declare they will fight extra- dition According to he and Mrs Dodge were en route to San Francisco where the wife intended to apply for BURNED TO DEATH By United Press INDEPENDENCE Mo While LUt UU divorce The wife stated that parents were out one in search cruel and that she fled with husband to whom she was married of work and the working live about a year ago was inhumanly i children were burned four fatally when a cook stove in their Thursday Believing the house the woman and insisted that he will too cold one of the children poured marry her if I have to wait 50 kerosene on some wood in the stove of the bomber that Mrs Oxman told her she would tell things which would free Mooney if she were paid i I positively deny I ever told on intimated to Mrs Mooney or to jne else that I had any information whatever or that I suggested or mated I would accept any sum or other consideration for any read Mrs statement Both Defend Oxman Both Hatcher who at one time was affiliation with and in no capacity with the Weeks ties corporation other than as a holder The corporation his letter states is controlled by its board of Armistice Day and that means we will directors The eeks Securities corporation is now pressing suit for collection of alleged due from 67 be members of the was the summarized chorus of the delayed membership group stockholders here Naturally we're feeling said 0 K Kirk adjutant during the committee luncheon at the Hotel Woodland a 100 per cent effort Cites Reasons Week's letter in part Inasmuch as some of my good friends are involved in this obligation and also in consideration of the fact There is not the slightest doubt that that the people of Woodland have we will reach the 235 The ways been kindly disposed toward me gible response has been 102 out of response as been 102 out 110 visited The most optimistic could I am cancelling this obligation and absorbing the entire lobs myself This in addition to not want anything bettor than slocks all told is my donation partner and Mrs Oxman post promises to continue to to the City of Woodland that day said that Oxman never jne for legionnaire have a good hotel We stated he would resist ex- tradition to Washington because he has violated no law We oe m ing her mine own but she is way and I am paying The Thomas Roy G Edith 31 Kathleen White 9 Thomas Brown 11 The injured is Ella Wright 11 ACTION TY Councilman J 0 Chalmers and Amos Roth and Fire Chief George j he said Kazeman were in Sacramento day in conference with Dean Dean architects relative to detail changes in the fire and police station unit of the new city hall According to Mayor Harry I Bobb it is possible but not probable that the plans will have been perfected in time to instruct the city clerk to ad- Marysville Favored For Farm Meeting By Valley News Alliance Matthews was elected president of the Yuba NEWARK N A farm bureau Wednesday night talent enriched I a report read at the meting it was Edison Leaves Stock In Firm As Estate By United Press First Yolo Lettuce To Leave For East son whose inventive the universe left in worldly goods chiefly stock of Thomas A Edison burn of the California federation announced that President R red cent for appearing as a ness against Mooney On the hand it cost Oxman of his personal funds to defend himself against a charge of subornation of perjury He was acquitted I saw him make out the checks for his lie paid Jim Nichols of Baker Oregon and Samuel Shortridge for de- fending him Oxman never received any of the reward money nor did he ever at- tempt to obtain any of it hy should regret exceedingly that the venture T he committee is notable a but dustry m post activities Besides I tnat the stockholders are more Commander Kilgore Committee than repaid for the little sum they Chairman Hoppin and Adjutant Kirk i have invested in the splendid hotel 1 the ritv now the others at luncheon were Ar- thur Huston past commander John 0 Miller first vice commander J P Williams Robert H Mumm Frod Peterson Herman Frank Mike Roach Vaughn Evans and McCullom The drive will continue during tho remainder of the week and will he intermittently continued until mid- night of Armistice Day It is expected i building the city now RAIL DELIVERY SERVICE ASKED At the time of the explosion that tho have gone far over the top by thai date man was worth and and it was nothing unusual for him to a MO tip in a rant Opposed Him In Trial Hatcher before the San Francisco grand jury that Oxman was Inc his will filed for probate holding the 1932 state convention Woodland at the time of the TELEPHONE CO TO SPEED WORK The first shipment of lettuce for the present season is expected leave for the east over the Sacramento vertise for bids at the regular Pacific lines day revealed This concern the holding company was valued at by Charles Edison who with another son dore was named as chief beneficiary The amount of stock the father held here T or Monday consigned to New ing next evening He thinks T-I b b The Fruit company of ot estate is divided between one of the more exten i i Charles and Theodore with six There is a possibility of course said Mayor Bobb that the matter come up and bids advertised for at the meeting next week I do not think so however It is hardly j and daughters sharing m the residuary estate Provision for 1 the bids may be called for within an- sive buying concerns in this section I is the consignor i The lettuce in the Yolo district had been made before hjb j reported as of average quality and j will yield approximately 200 crates an j iacre There are approximately 2500 able that all details will have to thig season -n approved to The it ig will be around 1700 carloads i or a half million crates valued at around Police Chief in Warning Hallowe'en Jokes Day explosion Oxman I he was in San Francisco j I think I was said i SAX Hy United million The Western Pacific Railroad Com- pany and its subsidiaries the mento Northern Railway and water Southern Railway are filing a tariff with the California State load Commission to become effective December 7 1931 which will provide for pick-up and delivery service on merchandise at stations located on those lines extending from San cisco Oakland Alameda and San Jose to stations on the Western Sacramento Northern and jer Oxman never dropped a word at j dollars in building projects on the water Southern as far north as Chico and Oroville in the Sacramento ley and south to and not coast originally planned for will be started sit once by the advertise and perhaps another weeks to formally let the contract I am not inclined to think that actual construction work will start before the first of the year The first unit it is estimated will cost about The authorities arc making every effort to complete the fire station because of the effect it will have upon the in- j rates The contract for the city hall proper it is understood will bo let late in the spring Its cost also Shipment Ready Attack Auditing Methods In Butte is roughly estimated at around By Alliance county are intact but methods in auditing should be changed in some of the of- fices said a grand jury report on file here today C of C Directo rs to Hold Meeting Here Tonight Funeral Two hundred boxes of i j Sultana raisins are being prepared atj the D J Earner Packing company's plant for shipment to New Zealand by way of the company at i Oakland The shipment will leave i day over the Southern Pacific i The consignment will be equally vided half going to and other 100 boxes to Napier The raisins J were grown in the W G Stephens Union Orchards vineyards and in the vineyard of Ed Johnson at College City The Aukland shipment will leave November 1 and the Napier No- 5 Directors of the Woodland Chamber tion of a new highway bridge at of Commerce will meet tonight at 8 J Knights Landing will tm told The o'clock in the room in the court house to review the work of For Accident the organization month during the past Among the committee reports to be heard will be that of the road com- headed by Arthur Huston in which the results of a conference with the board of supervisors on prospects for the immediate be made available to permit ate construction work The baseball committee will report on progress being made at Clark Field and the status of the baseball tion here in preparation for the spring training camp of the San Francisco Missions Secretary Fred Shaffer will make his monthly report Ralph Carmack young Red Bluff i groceryman who died Wednesday as a result of an automobile accident in i which Miss Montgomery was killed outright will be buried Friday afternoon Services will be held at the Westfall Chapel at Red Bluff Carmack well known here Juvenile goblins who plan gamboling about the townsite on Hallowe'en are warned by Chief Roy Hillhouse of the police de- to observe certain essary rules and regulations I don't want to cramp the boys style commented Chief Hillhouse but there are certain limits in which the celebrants must remain to do their funny stuff For They must stay away from the hospitals They must not endanger life by obstructing the streets They must not destroy that's nailed down is immune And finally must not turn in any fire may be a bad night for fires and the department might be needed for real flames Safety and sanity should be the guiding rule of the boys and I am sure their good judgment and spirit of fairness will dictate that they do nothing seriously wrong If they do then the police have no option thoy must act The chief also announced that the entire force would be on duty Saturday night and lie intimated that special officers might he the tial sections We want cm to enjoy concluded the chief but remain within the safety zone any time to indicate ho di he was absolutely sincere in j every word he said Pacific Telephone and Telegraph com- n the San Valley I Oxman was meticulously honest in j pany to relieve unemployment I his dealings as a cattle buyer dent A announced men swore by him and do to this day day There was not a vicious spaik in The first of the projects a new On the other hand he was kind He i 500.000 office building in San was not given to romancing cisto already is under way Hindus Face Ruin As Result Of Rice Crop i It is my story he was not in San Francisco on the day of the yet why Oxman should have was if he was not is something I1 i never have been able to understand WILLOWS MAN A uncle of Joseph Lawrence druggist died here suddenly The episode was absolutely his nature Remained Good Friends After the Oxman trial we Jed good friends but there was an un- By Valley Mews Alliance rice land ers are becoming so bold that they are storing rice in Glenn county houses in their own names officers FAIR AND WARM Fair and warm tonight and Friday investigating alleged illegal leasing of lands have found Many Hindus are almost penniless as a result of this year's operations Local merchants report a deluge of i bad checks Press Time Bulletins SIX KILLED 33 HURT JN CRASH MARION Ark Oct persons were killed and others injured near here Thursday when a trailer broke loose from a motor truck and plunged down a six-foot embankment spilling its cargo of cotton pickers All of the dead were spoken understanding between us we j Gentle would never discuss the case The only thing ho ever said about the case after that was that the tribe had offered him iC he would sign an affidavit saying he was mistaken He said he ran them off the place Hatcher stated that after Oxman had been arrested on a charge of subordination of perjury he was first person to whom Oxman Marietta Mississippi a little farming community Hatcher to go to San Francisco to sist him Hatcher later appeared be- fore the grand jury to testify against Oxman and after the grand jury in- the cattleman ho helped to raise bail for his release Hurts Friend j I went to San Hatcher because I heard some sons wore trying to buy testimony to the effect was in the day of the explosion FIRE THREATENS RAILROAD TUNNELS SAN LUIS OBISPO Oct forest fire in the Santa Lucia Mountains north of here threatening the Southern Pacific tracks and tunnels Thursday as 100 men battled the blaze The fire had burned more than 1000 acres Thursday Many tele- phone lines wore destroyed BARNETT ADMITS MANSLAUGHTER SACRAMENTO Oct Barnett Thursday pleaded Woodland guilty to a manslaughter charge in connection with the death of Mrs Alice Richie rooming house proprietor and was sentenced When I was called I was an Continued on Page Eight by Judge John F Pullen to serve 10 years in San Quentin was arrested following the discovery of Mrs Richie's body a highway bridge near here
