Woodland Daily Democrat (Newspaper) - July 5, 1934, Woodland, California World News Supplied To This Newspaper by International News Correspondents Valley News Alliance Covers Neighboring Town Events Daily In Your Favorite Newspaper ISSUED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY CALIFORNIA 5 1934 NATIONAL ESTABLISHED 1877 OUT Mystery Fire Razes Guinda Home H CRITES RESIDENCE DESTROYED BY FLAMES Fire at o'clock Thursday ing destroyed the Harry Crites dence at Guinda Crites an employe of the Hiatt and j Miller garage in Woodland was here at the time while Mrs Crites was in j Sacramento where she was visiting i her mother There was no one in the i house at the time the fire was j ered by neighbors j Because the fire had gained such headway before it was neighbors were unable to save any of j the furnishings The Capay Valley j fire truck in charge of Willard Smith j was summoned and volunteer fire j fighters devoted their energies to saving the home of Charles Crites and other property in the vicinity Origin of the fire is not known THREAT JAILS MAN Salmon Fishing Bare Ha n ded G e ts Resu Its LOCAL VICTIM OF STRIKE RECOVERS Lloyd Carter Woodland truckman who was painfully injured when attacked in San Francisco Monday night by striking longshoremen was dismissed from the Woodland Clinic hospital Wednesday Though still fering from cuts and bruises he is re- ported to be much improved Carter was kicked slugged and cursed by a gang of six strikers Parodi resident of Davis was treated at the Clinic July 4 after he had been bitten by a black spider He was the fourth victim to be ed during the last ten days A boy was born July 4 to Mr and Mrs Paul Reiff of Woodland Early Thursday morning an boy was born to Mr and Mrs James enis residents of Davis Beth ers and sons are getting along nicely During the last 24 hours Mrs lard Young of Woodland and Dehnar Johnson of Dixon were admitted to the Clinic for treatment j Among the patients dismissed from the Clinic during the last two days Mrs Tom Ajax of Willows A salmon caught Tom Orser of Woodland this feat Wednesday when he stalked a pound salmon a mile up the river to finally jump in the river and scoop the wiggling fish onto the bank Orser first tried to lasso the salmon as it bucked the current on its way to the headwaters of the river This failed and he cast down his fishing pole and tackle to follow and finally catch the fish without any artificial aids of civilization Orser and a group of friends were fishing near the District 1500 pumphouse HEARING IN MURDER CASE TO CONTINUE FRIDAY M a SWEARS TO CHARGE GAINST MEXICAN For Failing To Answer Troops Ordered As Guns Blaze Into Strike Area BULLETIN SAN FRANCISCO July 5 Frank F Merriam shortly before 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon ordered the California National Guard into the San Francisco strike urea to maintain peace and order The troops had been mobilized for some time about trie bay district and 2200 cers and men were scheduled to proceed at once for a general mobilization of units to proceed into the strike area in a single unit Mobilization orders for companies from more dis- tant points were expected later in the day in case it should be found that reinforcements would be necessary ony Preliminary examination of Lopez 10 charged with first degree as a result of the fatal jing May 10 of Joe 39 jerick will be continued Friday after- j noon at o'clock in the Broderick court The hearing opened Tuesday after- noon with the widow of the slain man 1 failed The keen memory of a Yolo county officer of the California Highway trol Wednesday in the ing in the county jail here of a man who has twice ignored citations to j -T Asunsion Acosta local Mexican re- appear m court to answer to i of traffic law violations at Third street is in the Failed To Appear i county jail here facing a charge of The man is Ralph Andrade 34 who assault with a deadly weapon as the gave his address as Yolo In April he of a Fourth of July celebration i was cited on a charge of reckless lhat a climax when ing and a short time later was j eel on a charge of failing to obey rules of the road Both times he allegedly Acosta was arrested upon Landing Man Hurt as Car Hits Bridge giving testimony that resulted in the j charge against Lopez being increased manslaughter to murder For first time she revealed that there i was a possible motive for murder in to appear in justice court at the appointed time to answer to the charges When Andrade allegedly failed to observe a railroad warning signal at Broderick the state officer arrested Edward V Jansen resident of Knights Landing escaped serious in- jury about one o'clock Thursday morning when the Pontiac car which he was driving crashed into a bridge east of Madison The right side of the car was badly damaged The front fender was ripped off and the wheel bent The running board was also smashed Jansen was treated at the Woodland Clinic hospital for cuts and bruises His condition was not serious He was able to leave the Clinic Thursday morning His car is at the Electric Garage that owed Lopez a small debt j recognized him as the man for Because of the mass of testimony presented it was impossible to com- plete the hearing Tuesday afternoon Lopez contends that the rifle had been unloaded and that he did not know that another shell had been whom a bench warrant had been sued and ordered him sent to jail j pending trial on the old as well as i the new charges Sacramentan Jailed j Gregonio Jiminez of placed in it He maintains his original arrested at Broderick on a charge of that allegedly reached a he threatened to kill his wife with a butcher knife was arrested upon com- plaint of his wife Maria Acosta who charges that her husband joined in j the Fourth of July and then began creating a disturbance about the house She accuses Acosta of attempting io start a quarrel with her cursing her and finally threatening her life as he pursued her about the house brandishing a huge butcher knife in his hand Mrs Acosta appeared before Dis- C C McDonald NEW RIOT STARTS SAN FRANCISCO July guns and pistols again were brought into play by police Thursday afternoon as another serious riot brought on Rincon Hill After setting fire to a freight car on the state-owned Belt Line railroad on the San Francisco waterfront the strikers 2000 strong at that point pelted the crew with rocks Police dashed in with tear gas and forced them to retreat Shot guns blazed into the ranks of the strikers many falling or limping away Hotel Part of the group split up in front of a hotel on Stuart street The police laid seige to the hotel tossing tear gas bombs and shooting at the windows Ambulances screamed through the streets picking the wounded A gang of strikers strong is now gathering at Stuart and Howard streets Chief Quinn ordered his men to use their pistols A police inspector was seen blazing away with both a shotgun and a pistol on Stuart street Two men were seen lying on the street at Stuart and Howard streets both shot waiting for ambulances Iwere I been trip occurring as he and examining the rifle that had used by the two on a hunting Last Rites Held for Mrs Rosana Johnson Club Meet Postponed There will be no meeting of the club Thursday evening Nagatani of Woodland Frank Kenneth Porter secretary Childs of Davis and Cooper ed today The meeting has been of Woodland until next Thursday because it Fred Hamel Sr prominent i was decided that too many members dent of Davis is reported to be j would be away over the holiday and iously ill He was admitted to the week-end Clinic Tuesday j Seek to Recover Truck Barley Market Shows From S F Strike Area Additional Strength Last for Mrs Rosana son 75 native of Clarksburg and ident here for many years and who died near here Monday were held Thursday morning at 10 o'clock from the McNary Funeral Home Rev A P Rossier pastor of the First tist church officiated Burial was in Woodland cemetery Pallbearers were C H Johnson jail here to await trial He had been drinking officers jed and was driving his car in a manner Other traffic citations over the jday period j Samuel H Catman Woodland M j Hayashi Sacramento and Frank Maner Broderick all for failure to observe railroad warning signals Vincent L Martin Sacramento ting in W E Snead Dixon ing and E A Riske Spokane failure to register Funeral Rites Held Here for Charles Fish taken into custody Wednesday and lodged in by city officers fe J J Catching Fish With I Hands Proves Painful Funeral services for Charles Fish Elmer Rumsey Ralph Blann C L native Knights Landing who died Musgrove Ed Dieudonne and Newell S G Epperson local truck fleet owner left for San Francisco day hopes of recovering the truck stored away in a garage Tuesday after its driver Lloyd er had been brutally attacked by a gang of striking longshoremen person will ask the protection of lice in moving the truck Carter was slowly recovering toddy from the severe injuries sustained when strikers listen to him and mistook him to be a er Grain tures were strong in a quiet trade aided by a in hedging sure and a pronounced strength in foreign markets Wednesday and again Thursday Barley was quoted at 90 barley futures at 52 W Fourth of July Sets Low Temperature Mark Reversing the usual the Fourth of July proved to be cooler than the preceding days this year After five days of ranging from 102 to 112 degrees the mercury dropped to 91 Yi degrees for the holiday Thursday morning the mercury reached the lowest point in eral days when it dropped to 49 degrees here this week were held Thursday morning at 10 o'clock from the Kraft Brothers chapel with Rev C C Black of Knights Landing officiating Burial was in Knights Landing tery Pallbearers were Harry Snowball Frank B Edson Tom Pierce William McDermott Bob Andrews and Carl Kindall Take my advice don't try to catch catfish with your hands Sitting in Dr W J Blevins offices in the Porter building Thursday morning Ernest Merger of Madison j had that statement to make Catfish are plentiful in several gation ditches in the Madison and his two brothers John andj Walter decided they would catch a few Thursday morning Herger grabbed hold of a fancy I swimming cater and one of the j prongs on the fish's back pierced a I finger on his right hand The prong i broke off causing great pain Fisherman Herger rushed to j land where the painful bit of catfish was removed from his finger I SAN FRANCISCO July the heights of con Hill police and strikers met in conflict Thursday as the opening of the Port of San Francisco from the disastrous mari- time strike proceeded to the echoes of gunfire and bursting tear gas bombs Shortly after noon hospital records showed eight men shot four badly battered and three being treated for gas The battle started when 800 strikers later reinforced to charged 50 policemen guarding Pier 38 from which trucks were carting cargo to a warehouse a quarter of a mile away The police drove the strikers back with tear gas bombs and tear gas shells to the slopes of Rincon Hill from whence they came As officers sped to the conflict their total finally reaching 700 the strikers concentrated in Harrison street around First and Second streets Again Stage Fight i Tne on the hill routed by shots stopped and put up battle again And then gunfire broke out menting the police tear gas barrage The officers however claimed that the strikers also fired revolvers Hundreds on both sides fell over- come by gas or felled by clubs and Only the badly injured were i taken to hospitals The rest went on j with the fight Set Fire to Grass Fire alarms came in in rapid cession from the Rincon Hill section where the strikers in retreat set fire to the grass Women and children fled from their homes in that neighborhood For two Local Youth Goes To Sea Strikers Te rm in ate Trip SAFE SANE FOURTH OBSERVED HERE Girls Leave j For Camp July Melvin Wilkinson of Woodland had an ambition to go to soa He applied to one of the big shipping companies for a trip io Boston thence to New York and over to the Panama Canal and back to San Francisco thence up north to Portland It was all fair enough until the big freighter landed in the west Then the maritime strike set in and for the last month young Wilkinson has been im- prisoned on the freighter which is tied up in the Columbia river It's just like being in the hoy wrote home to his parents Mr and Mrs Henry Grass Fire Threatens Buildings at Esparto A grass fire was started near the United Brothern church at Esparto late Monday afternoon and for a time threatened not only the church but neighboring dwellings Volunteer fire fighters and the Esparto fire truck controlled the blaze none too soon for the dry grass and strong west wind whipped the small blaze into a ening conflagration in a very few minutes Two young boys of the town were questioned in connection with the case as the fire started after they passed the spot in their car Equalization Task Described by O'Donnell The responsibility and trust now placed in the state board of tion was the subject of the talk ered Wednesday by Assemblyman John H O'Donnell at the Farm reau and grange picnic held at wild Grove Hundreds of residents and politicians were in attendance Mr O'Donnell said that previous to the last session of the legislature the duties of the state board of tion were few but very important and that the operations of that board were little known At the last session the ture passed the constitutional ment which was approved by the ple transferring hundreds of lions worth of utility property to the county tax rolls for taxation he declared It was thought best that one agency should property of the utilities re- of where located The Legislature realized the ness of the undertaking and the trust and responsibility that must be re- posed in the hands of those who were given the duty of making that Mr O'Donnell stated Mr O'Donnell accompanied by his wife returned to Woodland day night Aside from the blasts of fire crackers and torpedoes Woodland enjoyed one of the quietest Fourths of July in several years Woodland residents headed north east west and south day night and Wednesday ing Only a scattering of people were left in town Our day was one of the most peaceful in Chief of ice L W Hillhouse declared Thursday morning The people of Woodland praise for living up to the city ordinance We had only a couple of calls and they were on routine matters The fire department was not called out Fire Chief George and his volunteers were at the fire house nil day in case an alarm should be turned in Woodland residents all ex- pressed the same opinion about the sane and quiet fourth Madison Man Better From Blood Poisoning Y girls will leave Monday July for Camp Sierra to enjoy their an- j ten-day outing About 12 girls I are planning to attend this camp which will conclude the camping sea- son for the Y club members of Madison is The girls planning to attend must oring from an attack of blood register by Saturday with G G ing in his hand The infection resulted person at Epperson's Garage and irom a barlev which was have their baggage at the garage not later than Saturday afternoon The girls will leave Monday at 7 a m into his finger while he was lifting a sack LOCAL GUARDSMEN AWAITING ORDERS Late T h u r sday afternoon Cap- tain Ford Shaffer commander of Company B National Guard had received no orders to mobilize the local units of the National Guard The local organizations however are ready for immediate tion should it be found necessary to draw on reserves from points as far distant as Woodland Four Men Jailed as Murder Suspects in Butte Slaying in the neck and again over the suspects held in tho county jail for i heart The body was found in the questioning the sheriff's office river by passersby who notified the day was attempting to solve the j sheriff's dur of Ed Kennedy alias Kelly 45 j The suspects held at T H Kennedy Spanish War veteran who was claims he is no relation of the nnd killed Wednesday at a cabin on dead man T S Stanley John hours the strikers retreated slowly to the top of the hill setting it afire behind them From the hilltops the police finally broke the ranks of the rioters and sent them scurrying away in small which set to in nearby streets j wrecking trucks not connected with i moving strike efforts i cording to police to get the truck drivers union to declare strike instead as at present mertly the Feather river near Nally and James McFarland The murder followed a drinking j land is said to havo witnessed parly Wednesday morning at the cabin and is laid to a grudge between the killer nnd the dead man Sheriff C W Toland said Kennedy had been shot twice with a revolver the and officers arc searching Cor another man said to be the one who fired the fatal shots Toland said the shooting was done at very close Continued on Page 2 Column 4 MARRIAGE DECLARATIONS 1 In Woodland July 3 1934 Gerald Pitts Cook JO and Elsie May Ness 20 both of In land July 5 1934 C 37 and Ann R of Winters
