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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1935
Page
2
The Los Angeles District Court of Appeal voided California’s 1933 debt moratorium, reversing a lower court ruling favoring A. G. Brown over James Ferndon over a $6000 deficiency. The court said the moratorium imposes no conditions and favors debtors at creditors’ expense.
Paul Scharrenberg a longtime leader and secretary treasurer of the California State Federation of Labor is expelled from the Sailors' Union of the Pacific. The sanction removes him from his state federation executive role and triggers wider union repercussions in California.
Citizens without jobs in Santa Monica may clear weeds on vacant lots to pay delinquent water bills, under city action. Ira L. Miler of the water department announced the program as part of relief measures.
Mrs. Lillian Hurlburt Gist, age 80, receives the Master of Arts degree from Claremont College. A Ohio college graduate from sixty years ago, she pursued Romance languages and philosophy, with eight children, eleven grandchildren, and three great grandchildren listed as her family.
The Bowie Switch Company manufactures the world's largest 1000-pound insulator pedestals and 15 oil switches to disconnect Boulder Dam power supply and transmission lines as construction proceeds. Aurelius Tullius is shown inspecting the equipment.
About 300 workers are employed at the Kings County Packing Company four miles west of Hanford for cherry canning. An additional 300 have just begun work canning apricots, expanding the workforce and processing capacity.
Danville California news reports 10 year old John Wimmer as the first gold finder, a claim supported by George Van Gordon age 90 who says the boy handed a nugget to his father, then to James Marshall. Van Gordon, a rancher near Danville, is described as a longtime horse breeder.
Superior Judge Robert Syer set September 23 as the opening date for the third David Lamson murder trial. Lamson faces trial on charges of killing his wife Allene at their Stanford home on Decoration Day, 1938, with state and defense agreeing quickly on the date.
Dr Karl T Compton of MIT argues for a cooperative national effort linking scientists with government. He calls for broad scientist collaboration to maximize efficiency of federal science bureaus and a new type of leadership to unite scientific men in tackling major national problems.
Charles R. Gay explains the New York Stock Exchange as a market place not a buyer or seller, not dictating prices, but a national institution where members transact securities. It serves to turn cash into earning power and securities into cash, reflecting global hopes and fears, existing to fill a vital need and provide service.
A concise essay by Sir Wilfred Grenfell reflects on a maturing world. He argues religion remains strong beyond church attendance and notes science shifts religion toward spiritual discussion, claiming modern doctors speak more openly on spiritu al matters than in the past.
Polish economist argues that political Locarno failure necessitates an economic Locarno to revive world trade. He calls for tariff questions to be on the agenda and says opening tariff walls would relieve nations and restart circulation of trade.
British naval expert Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell argues that old battleships today provide strong defence against air attack and that future battleships will be fortress like. He believes battleships will remain pivots keeping empire communications open and contributing to world peace.
Professor Welford L King of New York University laments the grisly idea that financiers prosper from war while ordinary soldiers endure death injury and disease for scarcely any pay. The piece condemns profit-driven motives behind conflict and highlights the human cost borne by enlisted men.
The article explains that gold prices have not moved since February 1933 and today in free markets a roughly 50 percent rise in living costs would be needed to absorb the slack created by reduced gold content in the U S dollar. WNU Service.
Vallejo, home to Mare Island Navy Yard, played a decisive part in state capital fights. Benicia and Fairfield later emerged as key centers while Sacramento retained the capital, and Solano County matured as an agricultural gateway with a growing harbor plan and a Fairfield county seat.
Reports from Sonora and Stanislaus regions say fishing is improving with foothill streams showing better catches while high mountain waters lag. UCSA track star Jimmy LaValle returns from Cambridge for finals then heads to Princeton invite and NCAA heats in Berkeley, aiming to cover 8000 miles by season end. Jack Opdyke enters California State tennis at Berkeley June 15 to 23 after Sacramento title win. Al Fitch earns IC4A bronze at 200m then third in 220 after switch back to sprinting under Coach Cromwell.
In Woodland a locksmith named Arthur Atkin faces a tainted business image after his house was burglarized twice within a week. The brief note ties the incidents to local security concerns and affects Atkin's reputation.
After dark practice flights, a pilot lost sight of the leader's light during a wing-over. He found the light again and fell into formation behind it. Fifteen minutes later he saw the lit dome of the State Capitol and realized he had followed a Boeing transport ship to Sacramento.
John B Meyenburg, born 1847 in Switzerland, advanced condensed milk with a new process. After patenting in 1886 and founding an Illinois firm, he moved to California, building plants at Buena Park and Hollister. His work boosted California dairy, with operations in San Francisco and San Jose, and he died in 1914 in Bay City.
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