"SO HELP ME : - 1 Max Baer grabbed the telephone yesterday, let out a whoop when told that his wife had given birth to an eight-pound son, then announced that Max Jr., was NOT going to be a boxer. Tribune photo. Max Baer Proud Papa, Plans Ring Comeback Continued from Page.l hardly, write his own name, as visitors at the hospital stopped him during his corridor pacing to ask for an autogijajjh. . The hospital switchboard was jammed With scores of calls from friends phoning to ask about mother and baby, and offer their congratulations, and congratulatory telegrams from sports personalities in all parts of the country began pouring in. "Oh, what a relief," Baer sighed as hospital attendants brought him word of his son's' birth. Baer had ! been at the hospital since 3 a. m. yesterday, when he took his, wife to the hospital from the San Leandro home of his parents. ' With his mother, Mrs. Dora Baer, Max left the hospital last night to "go home and recuperate." Mrs. Baer and son will remain at the hospital for the next ten days, The baby was delivered by Dr.' H. P. Struble. IT'S A BOY!1' Labor Chief Urges All to Buy Prunes Edward D. Vandeleur, executive secretary of the State Federation, of Labor, yesterday admonished certain civic and industry groups for what he said was their failure to cooperate in a campaign to sell thousands of tons of surplus California prunes. "The State Federation of Labor," Vandeleur declared, "appealed last Saturday to all organized workers, and the public to save the California prune industry from ruin. It was urged that every worker purchase a 25-pound box of prunes before Christmas. Answers to that appeal have flowed into the labor federation offices, Vandeleur said, but much to his surprise, he found Chambers of Commerce in the prune belt and the prune growers' association were unable properly to answer these quiries or execute orders, or cause them to be filled. "Certainly the prune growers association must know that warehouses throughout the' prune belt,
