Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 19

Oakland's only locally owned, locally con- IN THiTSECTIOP SHIPPING NEWS CLASSIFIED ADVTS. trolled paper tlnttod Press THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26. 1929 19 Yt NO. 180 Imagine! Lieut. Barbeau Called An Auto Thief! She Walked DOROTHY GALARDO lost hef "mad money" and had to walk home from San Leandro.

Police got it back for her today. CITY COUNCIL ilN BUILDII1G Golf No iMystery to Boys ARTHUR VARGAS. elf-appointed gplf professional at the Children's Welfare home at Niles, shows his brother, FRED, how to keep a mashie shot in 'the grove between rows of apricot trees. Baseball, football and other sports have gone into the discard since TREE III LAKE 10 RE-LIGHTED UNTIL JAN. I POLICE TRUCE SLAIN MAN'S CRIME LIST the bovs introduced golf at the institution.

TRIBUNE photo. 1 PERMIT ROl'I Ul I rite 4 l- 'v, -foi tf I 'j -7, MONET MAD 4 4 wkim if Sergeant Lallement's 'Wreck' Purloined as He Sleeps; Accuses Superior. This has to do with (lay at the home of Sergeant Georgei Lallcinent of the Oakland police department. I.at evening Sergeant Lallc-mcitt. surrounded by Minclry relatives, consumed goodly portion of turkey and fixln's and then stretched out.

on a eonriil. ent couch for a nap. How long he napped docs not enter Into tho story, but lie. woke In time to go on duty Hi midnight. Then ho discovered that someone hud stolen IiIh nil-tomoblle, parked In front of Ills home at I41 rcMii avenue.

Being a policeman, lie. inoile no report hut, on the basis of rapid deduction, promptly hied lilmsclr to the home of Iiieul. Fred Bnrheau anil searched his superior officer's garage. The car was not there. Midnight, came before ho could search further.

He. had to rcjiort to Barbenu at the Central station. There the following comcr-ii-tlon Is reKrted to havo ensued: "Begging your pardon, sir, hut whnt did you steal my car for?" "VUmt car?" "You know' very well what car what, did you do with It. after jou stole it?" "I don't know nnytlilug about, your ear; what would I mint to steal an old heap like thut for?" "Well. I think yon stole It." "I did not but I'll help you look for It." "Yon don't havo to look.

You know ilarti well where It is." They argued for a long time or longer. Ilarlx-aii ordered out the dragnet and the city Is now being combed for Idillcnicnt's missing automobile. Furthermore, Lnllenieiit can't sleep because Rnrhcaii Insists oil giving him Ilia I hourly reports on the progress of the, hum. DOPE HELD Theodore Ouptlll. 27, a cook.

said by officials to havo been long sought as a "dope" peddler in the Knslbay, wus arraigned before Police Judge Edward J. Tyrrell to day on charges of possession and sulo of narcotics. He was arrested yesterdny at Eleventh street and Broadway. Kail was fixed at $5000 and his preliminary hearing set for January 14. fiuptlll was taken Into custody hv L.

B. Gross, Inspector for the stntt- narcotics bureau, and Putrolman C. T. MeCurdy. after an alleged sale had been made to on undercover operative.

As he was seized, according to Gross. Guptlll threw into the gutter a package containing tan cubes of morphine. He had previously sold a cube of the drug to the operative for $2, It Is Tho pitckuge was According to' Gross, Guptlll wus In the habit of purchasing his supplies from a huge dope ring in Sun Francisco, paying $75 an ounce for morphine. He would divide the mor.phine Into tiny cubes, retnlllng them in such a fushlon as to renl-Ize $300 an ounce. Gross declared.

Alt efforts to make Guptlll reveal his residence, where It Is believed he keeps a large stock of drugs, nave peen unavailing, police say. City Milk Inspector Reported Recovering Robert L. Griffith, chief city milk Inspector, Is recovering from Injuries received in Tuesday's automobile accident on the Dixon road, according to Woodland advices. The steering wheel was thrust against hla body, causing Internal hurts. A.

L. Mitchell and Ralph Garrett of the Oakland milk Inspection bureau, visited hlfn today and report that he may not be seen at the city hall for severul weeks. William Downle, chief deputy, will be In charge of the office during his absence. Plane Service Cuts Rates to Rail Fare CLEVELAND, Dec. 26.

The first commercial airplane pns-senger service to compete with railroad service on the actual price of transportation began here today. It Is the Universal Air Lines nml the tvw rates are to be the exact equivalent of railroad tickets plus sleeping car fares. YULE GIFT KIM.S JEROME. Dec. 2.

P) A shotgun, the present of his family to John Smith, erased the joy of Christmas In the Smith home here when the boy accidentally dis charged it. killing his sister. ALLEGED Musical Program Ended, But Many Special Events Are Planned for Season Up to Advent of the New Year The Lake Merritt floating Christmas tree, focal point of attention for holiday celebrants for two weeks, will remain lighted until New Year's day. The musical, programs, which brought thousands to the lake shore nightly, were officially ended last night. Bedford W.

Bbyes. tbe program chairman, terminated today the nightly broadcasts which have drawn thousands to the lake since the lighting of the tree December 14 by Mrs. George A. Hillback, mother of 10-year-old Bobby, who conceived the Idea before his death. "There will he nt least one more-broadcast, though not of a musical nature," Boyco said.

"We intend to broadcast the progress and results of the outboard molorhoat races to be held on the lake New Year's day and we may be able to broadcast one of the -football games, either the Shrine Enst-West gume or the Pittsburgh-U. H. game. Plans have not yet been completed for a football broadcast." DRAWS THRONGS The night after Christmas found the lakeshore lined with a hollduy audience drawn from every city in the Eastbay by a gala program of radio artists, choral societies, and other star performers. The Musaphllathean club and tho Elks' glee club divided the program last night.

The former organization opened the program at 7:30 o'clock with the 'singing of "Hark, the Song of Jubilee," one of three Old England carols brought to Oakland by William Nieholls. director of tho club. The other two were "Behold What Splendor" and "The Seraphic Chorus." The club sang as additional numbers "Joy to the World." "It Came Upon a Midnight Clenr" and Come, All Ye Faithful." TREE TO RE REMOVED The feature item on the program of tho Elks' Olee club, which furnished the major portion of the entertainment, was Miss Lotus Anderson, singing "The Birthday of a King." A second number, "Stills 1st Die Nacht," sung with the accompaniment of Ray Throckmorton, violinist, was enthusiastically received. Selections by the assembled glee club were: "Adeste P'ldelcs," "Send Out Thy Holy Light," "The First Noel," "God Bless You, Merry Gentlemen," "Unfold, Ye Portals." Silent Night" and "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing." The program was presented under tha directorship of Eugene Hlanchard, who also sang a number of aolos, as did Archie Thomas, Ralph Laumelster and Emll SchJlctmann. Plans for the removal of the spectacular tree ore being completed by G.

L. Dalzell of the ThomRS Rigging company, who had charge of the work of erection. Reckless Driver Draws Fine of $100 BERKELEY. Dec. 26.

A fine of $100 was Imposed today by Police Judge Oliver Youngs In the case of Charles T. Flcenor, 44. of 482 Thirty-fourth street, Onklund, found guilty of reckless driving. Fleenor was saved from death yesterday by Patrolman Alfred R. Frock when Fleenor's automobile hurtled a low concrete wall at Sacramento and Tyler streets and stalled on the tracks of the Key system.

i When Frock saw the wrecked car he ran to the tracks and flagged an electric train which was bearing down on the machine and Its occupant. Fleenor was under the Influence at the time pf the accident, the patrolman reported. Ten III of Fumes From X-Ray Films LANSING Dec. 26. Three firemen, a doctor and six nurses were under close observation today after they inhaled fumes of burning X-ray films during fire' at the Edward Sparrow hospital Tuesday night.

The firemen carried 'the mnoking film from the hospital without using gas masks. The condition of Dr. Milton Shaw, chief of staff ot St. Lawrence-hospital was aaid to be serious. The six nurses apparently were recovering.

More Than 100 'JolV Laid to Thief Killed in Berkeley; Widow Tells Efforts Made to Reforrj Erring Husband BERKELEY. Dec. 2G. As the body of William Berger. 43, Berkeley's "hole-in-the-wall" burglar, who was killed by police Monday night, lay at.

the parlors of Deputy Coroner Frank Berg awaiting funeral arrangements, the criminal career of the slain man grew 111 proportions today. HVIore than 100 crimes were today laid at Rerger's door by the police by Captain A. Greening, chief of the detective bureau of the Berkeley police department, disclosed that Berger was Berkeley's "burned match" burglar, sought for dozens of house burglaries. Ixiot found in the Berger basement definitely linked him with many Berkeley burglaries. Berger's widow.

Mrs. Olive Berger, who sought for Six years to have her husband abandon a life of crime, revealed yesterday lliat the slain man had been wounded by Patrolman Waller Gordon in a gun duej more than a year ago at a rhaln store at San I'slilo avenue and Hopkins street. At tiro time of this burglary a large quantity of blood was found In the store. REFORMATION TRIED, Berger was shot In the left arm. his widow disclosed.

He ba.ndaged his own wounds, refusing medical attention. "I fried nt tlrnt time, to have dim abandon the lire ho was lending." Niild Mrs. Berger. "He promised me Hint lie would, and for ii time he did. Rut Ills old nervousness returned nnd lie wns menially nimble to see the danger he was In nnd the wrong lie was doing." It was at this Ilmo that Rirs.

llerKer made renewed efforts to have her husband Join the Oakland church In which she was an active member. A scar on lierger'n right heel is being investigated as possible evl- denco of his having been snot an other time bv police. MENTALLY iN BALANCED. With a quantity of loot missing from stores known to have been entered by Berger, police today are working on the theory that ne iook stolen articles with him on his an nual trips to Alaska, where he shipped as a carpenter on packing company vessels, and disposed of tfrcin there. Several hundred dil lars' worth of perfumes, A' large number of alarm clocks and watches and other articles are mls-ilng.

Articles taken from the same stores from which these things were stolen connect Berger these crimes, police say. "lie was undoubtedly erazy," was Cnptuln Greening's answer today tho "psychological" problem afforded hy Merger. Greening substantiates tlio atate nientN of the slain man's widow Unit he wns menially unbalanced. Details or the errutic manner In which Berger worked were given. In substantiation of tne assertions Unit the Main mun "wns tortured mentally and physically" hv his Ills.

At one unfinished house, where Bercer was declared to have gone in search of work, paints and oijier materials were stolen, and then, in iiiulice. because lie was refused a Job, the man is declared to have Miieared the house with paint, causing considerable damage. At another unfinished house he la said to have flooded the place with water. Still another house was damaged when the Intruder hacked the interior finishings with an ax. That Berger's burglary career in Berkeley extended back Blx years wus borne out today with Identification of guns stolen from the home of George Farmer at Hopkins and Gilman streets In 1923.

Accidents and Death Attend Yule Party NEW YORK. Dec. 28. (A) Double misfortune resulted from a Christmns party attended by several married couples in the Bronx last night. In the midst of the.

festivities. Louis Saul, 36. a butcher, witlked into his hostess' kitchen and stabbed himself in the breast with a carving knife. In falling he fractured his ikull against the kitchen sink and died. Police were (old he was unhappy because hid wife had kissed every one at the larty.

Police bundled the others present into a patrol wagon and started for a station house. On the way the patrol collided with an automobile driven by an intoxicated reveler. Six of the occupants of the patrol, including one policeman, were slightly injured. TO When a girl has an argument with her boy friend while out auto riding she should hold tightly to her "mad money." This is the advice of Dorothy Galnrdo, 833 Linden street, 22, who "walked home" from San Leandro last night. The girl somehow lost the $18 she says she had taken along, and asked the assistance of the Oakland police department to have It restored today.

On a Jaunt to San Leandro with John Roper. 1807 Seventhstreet, a Southern Pacific brakeman, Miss Galardo and her host quarreled, and she decided to walk home, Looking In her purse, ahe discovered that the $18 was missing. There was just enough left for carfare home, although the street cara weren't running at that hour. "I shivered and stamped my feet, but decided I'd walk back to Oakland if It took all night," Miss Galardo said. She was dressed lightly and a cold wind was blowing.

Tha girl walked half the distance before she met the first street car. Today Miss Galardo told her story to police, and they took Roper to her home. "Of course I did not take her money," said, "but I feel sorry for her and since she was my guest, I'll make up her loss." He offered her $18 and walked from the house. There la no charge against Roper. EVEN FIGHT SEEJI Senator's Trip Here From Washington Linked With Campaign of C.

C. Young; Hoover Attitude Figures Br ANTHONY F. MOITORET State administration plans for next year's gubernatorial campaign, to be under the sponsorship of Senator Hiram W. Johnson, will be announced shortly, according to reports closely linked with the eenator's trip home from Washing-tan to spend the Christmas holidays in San Francisco. Whether the candidate is Governor C.

C. Young, seeking a second term on the strength of Ms administration's performances, or some Southern Californian, such as Lieutenant-Governor H. L. Carna-han, the campaign is expected to be Johnsonian to the core, with the standard bearer under such handicaps as may spring from the senator's known attitude toward President Hoover. Within the last few days the belief has been growing that the question of putting up Toung for another term, with Johnson's O.

has been but there is still a trend of thought that Carnahan may he substituted In order to take the aggressive against Southern California opposition. OPPOSITION IN SOUTH With Young as a candidate, political observers see a campaign fought out along Johnson versus Hoover lines, an issue which will be made much of below the Te-hachapt, where popular resentment over the senator's tactics in opposition to a national chief executive from his own state is said to he pronounced. The Los Angeles county vote wall be the grand prize of the election, and in the fight for It an effort undoubtedly will be made to force Young to come out In the open and declare whether he is a Johnson man or a Hoover man. Thus far Governor Young and his chief lieutenant have tried to be both, but in Southern California the voters are making more and more of a distinction between the two labels. TUse Who believe Young's declaration of candidacy for re-election will be forthcoming within the next week or so point to numerous signs that his campaign" has been in process of preparation They make much of Senator Johnson's nresent sojourn in San Fran cisco and of the fact that Governor Young came down from feacra- niento the day after the enator arrived from Washington.

HOLPH AS CANDIDATE The attempt to strengthen the administration prestige In Southern California with numerous appoint mentg to state jobs is seen as an effort to counteract the hostility there to Senator Johnson. In Ban Francisco, also, more thought Is being given to the August primary returns, since Mayor James Rolph Jr. Is regarded a potential candidate. The governor is reported to hnve recently offered Frank C. Hykes, member of the board of narDor commissioners, joo be vacated by former Senator Lyman M.

that of chief of the division of service and supply in the state department of finance. King Is to succeed Alex R. Heron as finance director. But Hykes is understood to have turned It down. One theory of the campaign is that since the state administration will be on the defensive under attacks from opposition candidates, Its best defender would be Young, who must stand or fall on Ms record and the public reaction to his known tie-up with Senator Johnson.

The governor must make. bold and" proud acknowledgnvit of the very things Controller Ray L. Riley has been criticising, but Instead of calling them extravagance, as does Riley, they will be dubbed efficient and economical management. Democrats of Southern California are beginning to show some concern over Republican activity In regard to congressional reapportionment. The series of conferences called by Chairman William Krio Fowler of the Los Angeles Republican county central committee, which will be resumed next month, has awakened the Democrats to a realization to they ought to have something to say about the redistrlcting, although the only Democratic congressman from this state In many years has come from Northern 'California.

A recent meeting of the Los Angeles Democratic county central committee named a committee to confer with the Republicans on reapportionment plans with a view to insuring protection of Democratic party rights under the new map of congressional districts. ADVERTISING MANAGER DIES PHOHN'IJf. Dec. 26, (At Carl Bartle. 43, a member of the Phoenix boxing commission, and for six years advertising manager of the Phoenix Evening Gazette, died yesterday.

CALIFORNIA 25 Years Ago December 26, 1904. San Jose Dr. E. C. Moora of San Francisco presided at 4ha opening of the State Teachers' Association annual convention.

Los Angeles The Sherman Indians defeated the University of Nevada 29 to i at football this afternoon. Santa Clara Death took J. M. Kimberlin. one of the largest seed-growers in the state.

At one time he was professor of languages at the University of the Pacific. OaWlaDd Police Judge Smith has prepared for submission to the legislature a bill which would result in money collected from fines being paid Into the city treasuriM Inmates at Children Home Show Interest in Golf Play Policy of "Whether License Shall Be Revoked or Not to Be Threshed Out Behind Clo'sed Doors Tho advisability of a new city, council policy, with regard to revocation of building permits after a building is already half constructed, will be threshed -out by council members In executive session, according to an agreement by the council today. The matter arose over a garaga permit at 1615 Webster street, where residents have lodged a protest. The garage is partially built. Commissioner W.

H. Parker suggested that Field Engineer Chester Hunt of the city planning commission should canvass the. reel-dents of any district where any commercial building permit, application is pending. Commissioner C. C.

Young commented that "there would never.be another building constructed In Oakland, because nothing is ever done without someono bringing. In a protest." NOTICES NREAn. "Better have this," said Par-ker. "than revoke permits when buildings are half constructed. If we are going to stop building In Oakland, let lis stop it cold, not by piecemeal." "The law," said Young, "renuires that notices shall be posted in the Immediate vicinity, and the rights of any prbtestant are thereby safeguarded." "But people do not read the notices," Parker.

"They should bo canvassed, personally." The matter ot this garage w-as laid over till September 30, and meanwhile the commlssionera agreed to thresh out the matter prlvatelv. IMPROVEMENT ASKED. A petition for the improvement of Hermosa avenue, with a plea for speed because school children find the street Impassable, was referred to Commissioner W. H. Parker.

Parker said that the bidding prices for this job are per front foot, a prohibitive price. He promised to try to obtain lower bids. The contract for resurfacing Broadway, from Tenth to Fourteenth street, was awarded to the Hutchinson company. Dry, Agents Charged Immorality CO EUR D'ALENE. Idaho, Dec.

26. W) Witnesses for the defense in the "Mullan whisky rebellion" conspiracy case today testified that federal prohibition agents In Mullan had been guilty of drunkenness and Immorality. D. B. Rogers, special agent, and Richard Cooper, under-cover worker, who had testified Mullan was 'wide open," with the police chief collecting license fees from saloons and vice dens, were accused of leading lives that were far from exemplary durinf their prohibition work.

V. C. BASEMENT Dec. 26. Damage to electrical equipment stored in the basement was done last night when a four-inch, water main burst and flooded the new life science building near completion on the University of California campus.

mice to moose. Among the big game specimens are three skeletons, two pelts and four skulls of moose; two skeletons and two pelts of caribou; one skeleton, one pelt and four skulls of grizzly bear; one skeleton, one pelt and five of black bear; two skeletons, two pelts and one skull of mountain goat, and one der skull. Among fur-bearers there are marten, fisher, weasel, mink, wolverine, otter, skunk, fox, coyotn and lynx. In addition are some Sod specimens of small mammals, Captain McCabe Is a graduate of Harvard University, and before the World war was a member of the English department faculty there and later at Annapolis. He enlisted with the Roys, Field Artillery of the British army.

At the close of the war he returned to teaching, but found his health so undermined that his only hope was to get into the open. For that reason he went to Canada, and after traveling through the country, he and his wife aelected north central British Columbia as the most Ideal place. LIVE FAR IN WILDS. The McCabes now live on a ranrh In the Bowron Lake country, 100 miles from Barkervllle, the nearest town. The district Is one of tie finest In North America for animals, according to Captain Cabe, and supports an abundant of moose, caribou and mount i goat.

As an Instructor In English. tain McCabe had had no for-training in systematic bloloeoy i zoology. But when his interest aroused he began to study the v. Ject. He hunted and 1 mammals, and his wife rr t.

her interest on birds. caught and banded some 7000 birds, an achievement e-; by few other banders. Panni legs of birds is done for the. pose of tracing migration etc. One robin banded hv Cabe in British Columbia tured in Txs.

Most of iu which she h. seldom studied fisf.v'.-birds as the rne finches, cri r-tjt'o hep ef NILES. Dec. 26. Two clubs, a couple of golf balls, and a knowl edge of the game acquired wmie he served as a caddy at the Crtstle-wood Country club this summer have made Arthur Vargas the most envied boy'in the children's home of the Southern Alameda County Welfare Board.

The boy has given himself the title of golf "pro" of the Institution and he has no trouble finding pupils ready for Instructions when his less Interesting chores are completed. His brother, Fred, is his most apt pupil, and spends much of his time In explaining the finer points of the stance and follow- U. C. Gets Rich Collection of Canada Mammal Specimens Booze and Bootlegger Are Jhrough to the other beys. While officials of th home are not Interested In producing golf experts they recognize the game as one or the cleanest of sports and one that will keep the boys out of mischief.

For these reasons, the "pros are being encouraged. While there are no greens or even fairways at the! disposal, the boys have developed swings that send the balls singing along be tween rows of apricot trees for more than 100 yards. Since the Vargas boys arrived at the home nearly all of the letters to Santa Claus have Included requests for gorf clubs and balls. at County Jail when the agents crashed Into alleged speakeasies at 2703 Mission street and 1400 Irving street. $20,000 in Liquor Poured Into Sewers Wines and liquors worth on the bootleg market flowed through the Oakland sewers today.

Deputy sheriffs, acting on federal orders, dumrled the liquor. The liquor was seized when deputy sheriffs arrested J. Kapoldl and confiscated the truck he was driving through Oakland about six months go. Although Rapoldi was sent to the federal courts for trial, the liquor was held in the sheriff's Office until his case was disposed of. Delivered SAN FRANCISCO, Dec.

26. Business was brisk yesterday with Frank Fuehzer. who, prohibition agents say, is a bootlegger. Christmas orders poured in faster then he could deliver. He had 20 cases of assorted varieties of Christmas cheer loaded in his hu-tomobile, end was lust leaving his place at 1459 Baker street when up came a squad of prohibition agents.

They delivered both Fuehzer and the liquor at the county Jail. 1 Later the agents raided a saloon Lat 408 Eddy street, arrested Louis Jiuiier, proprietor, ana seized six dozen bottles of beer, two dozen bottles of gin, and a small quantity I of whisky. Nicola Mlgllonlca and Cornelius Cronin were arrested BERKELEY, Dec. 26. An un usual collection of a thousand specimens of Canadian mammals.

representing is montns' worg on the part of the war veteran who collected them with his wife's aid. has been given the University of California museum of vertebrate zoology. The specimens were brought from north central British Columbia by the donors. Captain and Mrs. Thomas T.

McCabe. and turned over to Professor Joseph Grinnell, curator of the museum. who will take charge of the classification work. Arrangements have also been made by the McCabes to store a collection ot 600 bird specimens In the museum, and to make the university their winter headquarters hereafter for the purpose of working up wild life data gathered in British Columbia during the summer. COLLECTION VARIED.

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