Woodland Daily Democrat (Newspaper) - March 19, 1936, Woodland, California No other medium in this field than the Democrat can so quickly and effectively translate advertising into action and yet it lias the est milline rate because its circulation is four times greater than that of any other newspaper published in Yolo county ISS UED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY WOODLAND CALIFORNIA THURSDAY MARCH 19 1936 The Democrat's background of alert builds an in- tangible plus of extra vitality for its advertisers Its readers arc better buying prospects because the paper holds their attention longer ESTABLISHED 1877 NAMING OF WOODS TO HOSPITAL UNDER FIRE The status of Louis Wood land service station operator recently appointed superintendent of the wanee sanatorium in Madera county was in doubt today pending a Monday by 15 members of the boards of supervisors of Madera and Stanislaus counties j Wood is slated to take over the post April 1 i The supervisors will vote on ther to rescind their acceptance of resignation of Mrs Lola Cease for- mer superintendent as urged by grand jury investigating committees j The tri-county hospital board locked three to three yesterday on the question i Supervisor E K Finney of laus county who favored upholding the resignation said would have voted to rescind it it Wood had not already been hired and sold his service station business Wendall Erickson chairman of the Madera grand jury hospital tee charged that Wood had had no hospital experience and was appointed because he is the husband of the step- daughter of Supervisor Robert Yates of Madera H WICKS Attend Men Living in Squalor Revealed by Visit to TOLL AT 150 AS A petition signed by more than 175 residents of the Esparto district protesting the removal of Mrs Venus Brock as exchange operator for the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company was Thursday to be mailed to officials of the company in San Francisco j Disapproval was expressed by com- munity leaders in tie week when Mrs Henry I Stephens for ten years a resident of Woodland chosen to replace Mrs Brock New offices were stationed Tuesday at home of Mrs Stephens at Capay and j Winters streets N V I S IT TO MICHIGAN wn With dignitaries from all sections this afternoon to entertain more than 400 persons tonight at the annual H Wicks of the Woodland District Chamber pioneer died suddenly j of Commerce morning at 5 o'clock All furniture in the lobby of the Michigan after having Hotel Woodland has boon replaced Charles Woodland Thursday Dowagiac been ill for several days with a with long tables of the death was received here i which completely by his son Floyd W Wicks the of the Woodland post office but noi r mention was made concerning funeral i quarters and arrangements have been Mr Wicks accompanied by his made to wife left Woodland last as many to spend the winter in Dowagiac with j as oOO his daughter Mrs R C Moore They The event will be According to persons had planned to return home the largest of its for getting out the petition no joying an indefinite vacation in the krind ever held son has been given for the of j east 1010 county Mrs Brock who has lived in A native of Michigan Mr Wicks The dinner is for more than 15 years and has been j came to Woodland in 1907 to reside j scheduled to start exchange operator for 12 years The i He farmed for several years before i at 7 o'clock Judge Bruton petition becoming an employe of the Bruton Speaker Drivers Join in Safety We tre undersigned petition Grocery store During that time Pacific Telephone and Telegraph com- j a large group Of friends pany not to remove our present Within the last year and a half Mr change office from the home of Mrs Wicks celebrated their V Brock who been in charge en wedding anniversary in Woodland this office for 12 years Our Before her marriage Mrs Wicks was from her has been very satisfactory i Miss Mary Chapman both day and night Furthermore Besides Mrs Wicks present location at Mrs Brock's home is nearer ire business district the last ten years been on the Woodland office staff She previously had experience in Yakima Washington Mrs Brock is the mother of Superior J will i By JAY SEHORN Bordered on the south by tin cans junk year-old garbage rats ants hugs and broken-down furniture is Every city has its jungles and hobo camps but Woodland has its unique which although 99 per cent of the inhabitants of Yolo county do not know it is not more than a mile from Main and First streets a creepy place is southeast of the Pinto i grounds and just north of the old city garbage dump which has been the dumping place for cans and rubbish for a good many Not visible from the highway or what is often called the circus tract is in a slough formerly the scene of a i brick plant where from ten to 20 men j some regular residents and others just passing visitors reside in houses which one usually reads about in 1 novels but never sees in real life j Homes of Junk i Search where you will no better i I name can be found for the miniature j city than simple for the j homes are made of junk old pieces of tin iron and steel splintery I discarded doors signs boxes TRAPPED BY FLOOD i By International News Service With 64 known to be dead cations late today were that the death toll may reach 150 in the flood disaster that has swept a states leaving thousands of persons homeless and doing erty damage of hundreds of lions of dollars It was perhaps the most dis- flood since the turn of the century The Red Cross issued an emergency appeal for to aid the flood sufferers the accomplishments of civic ations in Woodland showing the that has been done them in the history of the relatives include three daughters j Mrs R C Moore of Dowagiac ian Mrs Chester Gallup of land and Mrs Al Henle of i and a son Floyd W Wicks of land j A number of state officials the surviving made reservations to attend including j Brock well player Woodland baseball i Approximately 500 Yolo county residents are now driving cars ing safety stickers it was by Charles Dulan president of the Achaean club is soring the drive Stickers may be re- at any Woodland service lion by signing a pledge to live up 10 all state county ami city traffic laws Persons signing applications ing the two days Charlotte Giguiere Buck Long wood C Nurse E liud Giguiere Geo Cothrin C K sen C E Flick Jr May Sieby C H French R W Gray W 1 Appleby K K Mewart E M Si nil Win Coll in F L Monroe Rose Monroe Roma Lawhead Lido Tozzi Paul Keller Lew A Cullis Ben C Hollman Mrs G F Motta Mrs Mildred March Geo A Warner J E Mezger E F Cordoza Jane Huston Harriet Huston Louie Wilson W E Leslie Morris Rae Humphreys John F Silva don J Davis t ritz Howlett W M Joe Richardson Mrs 0 strong Eugene L Laugenour Jr A SilocT.itoin C A U v L Gallup O D Perry C 0 Wood Mrs Cecil 0 H H Loomis E Reed Cook Joe dler Roy M Smith Charlott L A Scarlett Cornelius Stain H I Bobb Mrs Albert Frank Woodrow Wood Koy Covert T Fredrick M B Geo 1 ald D Strachon L Soveriegn Mrs Harry Wright Cliff Randolph C W ers donn Baccei Mrs Floyd Loots YOUTH DAY PLANS MADE IN WINTERS Hull Elected to A E Stockburger state director of finance Ray Riley state controller j Gus Johnson state treasurer George Moore state printer The will be accompanied by their wives j Representatives from chambers commerce throughout the valley will be present as will Continued on Pape Column 1 E W Hull manager of thc Rye Tractor company here representatives of Winters civic educational and religious day night was chosen exalted ruler of including rural school Wood Lodge No 1299 B P 0 E met Tuesday evening with Rev He be installed in office Apr C P Barkman general chairman William Baldwin first exalted Plan for a Youth Dav program to be the Oroville lodge as the Saturday April 25 installing officer A survey of the field was made and f L decision made to have a program ilar to those of previous years An added attraction will be the tation of a historical pageant en- titled Time Marches written by Mrs L A Winters club woman The committee will meet again March jl when the working Killed in Auto Crashes Pair Jailed to be weak and able to stand storm but many of were erected from ten to 15 years ajro with additions being made from time to lime Why must Woodland have a town or such an unsightly ly unhealthy little One visit to the slough will convince you that at least half the residents have no other place to go than their crudely built huts With the possible exception ofi the all the regular dents will never see 45 again Others t I have 50 GO and as many as 80 years jio their credit Their two by homes are all they have and when i envelopes the rooms they j are forced to retire for the i Woodland like all other cities must have its jungle homes as the j i dents of those districts will tell you Home for Seven Years i Richard Smith who admits hc has forgotten his true age but i he was born in 1856 has lived in his i Woodland Woman Awaits Word Of Family With no word sins imprisoned flood area Mrs First street yesterday letters to her trapped hopes of receiving some them My brother Harvey lives out on Cemetery i not to complained the aged i little lady But I can't help it You sec I've been through a flood WASHINGTON Mar Roaring through the lower sections of the city the swollen Potomac brought i serious flood danger to the nation's I capital today as 1000 workmen toiled to complete a sandbag dike s Fearful that flood waters might sweep over the government buildings from her three employes began this after- in the Johnstown j noon to remove important papers from Bertha Carlisle first floors of the navy and sent j buildings relatives in President Roosevelt canceled from tion conferred with a cial committee head by Secretary of War Dern on measures to coordinate s i flood relief work of the Red Cross the CCC the WPA the coast guard and the army Admiral Gary Grayson national Red Cross chairman said today that reports indicated that persons had been rendered homeless by the flood Mrs Carlisle who has been a dent of Woodland for 25 years was born in Pennsylvania agh is located 12 miles from town There was a flood in Johnstown in but I wasn't there I've some I pictures some place of thc graveyard I with unknown drowned people i lief chairman estimated today as JOHNSTOWN Penn Mar persons died in the flood that swept over Johnstown Robert Bondy Red Cross disaster re- Continued on Page 4 Col 1 l -o o M G G II Hoppin E J Niclas treasurer tyler E C Cooper Hull representative to and N D Simpson tees will be appointed grand 1 riate Initiation ceremonies will be held at a meeting next Wednesday night at the Woodland temple i j DUNNIGAN BARN Films Assist in RAZED BY FIRE Conservation Mar Bernice Ashworth 18 a result of a party in which groups of young Butte county residents some of high school the subject today of a searching cial investigation The young woman reported by cers to be the estranged wife of Robert Asworth Oroville mill worker was mortally crushed when one of two automobiles containing Chico Chico Paradise and Oroville young people went off tre Oroville road a mile above Berry creek shortly be- fore 3 o'clock Youth Jailed Harry Le Rossignol 18 of Para Le ague Attacks Hitler Stand LONDON Mar many at its session today adopted a League of Nations council with Franco-Belgian resolution declaring Germany violated the Versailles and Locarno treaties by dispatching troops to the j The resolution was approved after Joachin von German em- had delivered a lonji speech Residents of the Dunnigan district Thursday were continuing their into the origin of thc fire which Tuesday destroyed a barn owned by Mrs A M Bemmerly on the Rankin ranch with a loss of It is believed spontaneous combustion Mrs W H The loss settled in y by Wraith and Parish i pi i Date Set for Annual Mother Service Club Forum Preparations have been completed for the presentation of the seven reel free moving picture show in the Woodland High School auditorium Friday evening at o'clock by the United States Forestry Service under the personal direction of Supervisor L P Bigelow Local Boy Scout troops Girl Scout Manners Service Clubs Y M C A and schools have been extended tations to attend as well as the eral public The pictures which are of an nature dealing with outdoor life and recreation are being shown in connection with the observance of Conservation Week throughout the disc said to be a student at Chico i defending Chancellor Hitler's actions High school is held in the county jail as the driver of the car Donald Slater 22 of Paradise er of the car also is in custody but was removed to an Oroville hospital because of an arm injury Germany has a deep conviction that the resolution of the council will not be maintained in the judgment of he said after the vote j The council at a secret meeting morrow will consider the Three gallons of wine which of the Locarno powers as buried there Witnessed Flood I know how it is out there she explained I you don't remember about the Topeka flood in Kansas It happened in I there then A wall of water breaking down and then the bodies of thc drowned floating around ple turned out of their homes and left without food or to think that my friends and cousins are out there Mrs Carlisle has not seen her tives for years Those who are ably victims of the flood are Mrs William Allison Mrs Southwell and Mr Finley Two friends of the land resident Martha and Mamie Shoupe are also Johnstown residents Visited Here Martha always liked Woodland continued woman She's been here lots of times 1 only hope she can come Martha was always a faithful letter writer I know she'd write if she could It me that doesn't though Harvey says it's because she's drowned but because she can't a letter out mobilized rescue workers in this city The work was spurred by a ing sky that threatened rain and new floods River Subsides The rise of the Conemaugh river apparently had passed this afternoon although new rains would swell the stream again Amid scenes of indescribable sion every type nf vehicle ed into service to remove thousands of refugees to higher ground At Westmont the danger of a typhoid epidemic with lack of pas and heat preventing thc boiling of drinking water Harrisburg capital of Pennsylvania was threatened with a flood late day the Susquehanna river rising to 28 feet bers of the party said had been chased at Bar according toj officers figured in the violent death j and threatened to bring further in- Officers were also to learn the names of j of a second car of young pie who apparently participated in the party I what action to take against Postal Inspectors Woodland Visitors Brother of Local Dentist Opens Office The boy who told local officials many and varied stories of his life Wednesday evening ed over to his brother who lives in San Francisco It developed that the boy's true name is Robert Keegan and that his j mother who lives in Tacoma had him to live with his brother because of the boy's habit of running away though thc boy told officers here that hc had left the bay district this week I it developed that he had been since a week ago Monday and had I been thc object of a widespread search When he left home he was wearing a white shirt but hearing his tion broadcast he secured a blue shirt to make his identification more cult April 15 has been set as the tive date for the annual service club forum it was revealed here Thursday Service clubs from Woodland state The local American Legion post ters Dixon Davis and Knights is bringing the pictures to Woodland ing will take part in the affair each through the efforts of George a stunt The annual forum is man Harold McCollom and Harold one of the outstanding club meetings Rudolph constituting the committee way of the year arrangements COLUSA Mar land L Pop Winters one of lusa's best known residents star player on the baseball team in the Trolley league days city master for many years and Spanish War veteran was instantly killed night when struck down on the a block from his home by an driven bv West of K Roife and James A Kenny federal government postal in- made their annual visit to the Woodland post office Thursday While in town they viewed the new office which will be dedicated this summer Dr Fisher graduate of the school of dentistry at the University i of California announced Thursday that he will open an office on the first floor of the Porter building within the next two weeks Dr er is the brother of Dr D C Fisher of Woodland During the last few years be been practicing in San Francisco KNOWN IN PITTSBURGH AREA PITTSBURGH Penn Mar scored several she major victories today in its battle not against the worst disaster in recent i history power was restored to city i pumping stations and they to fill the lowering 1 A skeleton telephone system was placed in operation i National guardsmen excluded one from the business district in fear of an outbreak of looting The city council appropriated i for relief J Known deaths in the Pittsburgh area totaled 12 today W Mar were estimated dead upper Ohio valley JURORS DRAWN 1 WHEELING j INS Twenty j in floods in the i with the Ohio river at 52 feet this I and still rising j Wheeling Island was completely submerged home three miles west past 80 years Fischer was born in t College City West was placed iniiliM- technical ar- j rest pending outcome of an I this afternoon He he was I ing about miles an hour in a mile Other persons said the car was traveling between j 40 and 50 miles an hour Winters was carried on the car der for a distance of feet after of Winters where he had lived and farmed for being struck He leaves his five children including L WINTERS MAN DIES Claims Theodore Fischer Theodore V Fischer 82 died Wednesday shortly after noon at his ranch 30 Summoned for Libel Trial Thirty prospective jurors have been summoned for possible duty in the trial March 27 in superior court of of Madison chanced with libel Enloe is accused by a prominent Madison resident and his wife of sending a letter through the attacking the good names of the Preston Sackett 1 nci Two Drivers Cited By State Officers Sacramento C Fischer Winters Jr former Valley league November iO nf lhc home ranch and baseball player Funeral services will JO but at thc age of onc of be 2 on Graveside funeral services will be held Friday morning at 10 o'clock in the Winters cemetery with Rev C P Barkman of the Winters church officiating Kraft Brothers arei WMI in charge of arrangements three years moved to the Winters dis- and lived there continuously after that time His wife Mrs Belle Fischer died in September 1932 They were ried in Winters October 2 1078 is survived by two sons John Graeser Wins pie Those on the jury panel J Rush Anna M Clover Henry W Croco Thelma M Drever Charles W Foy William L Holland Eunice L Kincheloe Lee P Lyman and Thomas 13 W from Knights A Adams C P Stephen J Roy Ralph T Marvin William II Meek and Joseph A G Baker Jessie Rhodes and K and Russell Winters G Fenn Ouida G Nellie W M Alden F Azevedo B Boyd Cleary A Cranston M Rickard South E Rue Two drivers were arrested Wednesday by Yolo county of thc California Highway F N Cabutotan of Arvin was ed hiving a glaring headlight and no tail lights on his car while Guido Santucci of Duly City was cited for speeding 4-H TOUR SET Group Plans Inspections Members of the Madison club Saturday will hold their in- tour of projects being conducted hy the club members Thc group will meet Saturday morning at 0 o'clock at the Madison hall and a visit will TO CONFER DEGREE The first degree will be conferred be night upon one candidate at the regular meeting of Woodland i are being conducted Lodge No 150 F A M The Robert Hayes president of thc club ing will be held at o'clock in is making preparations for thc event I Masonic temple which is preliminary to thc exhibition of stock at thc annual show to be held here Thc tour will be under the direction of the local leaders D L Hayes D P Snyder and Mr and Mrs L E Stites John Graeser of Woodland has been appointed as Colusa county court porter by Superior Judge Ernest Weyand He succeeds Mrs Shelton former Woodland woman who was killed recently in an automobile accident Graeser had been doing re- lief work in the courts and won the appointment over a field of several candidates Weather Sacramento day night and Friday little change in temperature light northwest winds STAGE OPERETTA Holy Rosary Academy Presents Play Tonight is the traditional first night for the cast of the comic operetta to he presented by the members of thc Holy I BOSTON Mar dents of the Connecticut valley fled to high ground today as two dams burst near Danielson Conn The breaking last night of the Rice City dam flooded a wide area of southern Massachusetts and northern Rhode Island I Jessup Attends Amador Session G L Jessup former president of the Yolo County tion represented Woodland at a quet and business meeting of the Amador True club night at Sutter Creek proximately 05 persons were present to hear talks by Mr Jessup S H Lyons supervisor of game wardens who resides in Woodland H C Davis secretary of the fish and game com- mission and Sutter Creek community leaders Rosary Academy High school glee dub demy auditorium Bused on the well known Legend of Sleepy a short story by Washington Irving Ichabod Crane is reported to have retained thc wit and humor of the original story Miss Gaylene Johnston the Thursday and Friday in thc cast as Ichabod Crane Others who take prominent roles are Marie ris Arlene Munoz Eleanor Davis Mary Browne ucillc Gloria Nancy Owen and Barbara Harris Business Women Erect Emblem on Highway As a feature of National Business and Professional Women's week which closes Saturday the local bers have placed a road sign at east end of Main street The sign has been placed with the emblems of Woodland Rotary and Lions clubs
