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Only Locally Owned Locally Controlled Daily Paper VOL. CXIIONE KILLED, 12. INJURED IN COLLISION Voman Loses Life When Drivers Misjudge Distance and Automobiles Crash On Highway Near Winters Following is a tabulation revised daily STOP of ber. the of num- perMAIN HIGHWAY sons killed or injured in Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley automobile accidents during 1930. Totals for the three cities, including today are: OAK.

ALA. BRK. Killed. 49 1 Injured .1042 80 217 WOODLAND, June 18. One woman is dead here today and 12 persons are injured as the result of A head-on collision which overturned the car in which she was passenger.

She is Mrs. Rocardo Valesco, 50, The machine in which she was riding was driven by Luchi Hermenez, who escaped injury. Investigation revealed that Hermenez and J. M. Bernards, misJudged distance, on the highway near Winters and came together while both were traveling at high speed.

Mrs. Bernards and three children were slightly injufed as were Mrs. Jennie Hernandez, and Frank Valesco, son of the dead woman. Mrs. Hernandez and Valesco Were riding with Hermenez.

The former received an injured head and lacerated ear and Valesco's left ear was almost severed. Three other persons, whose James were not. named, also occupants of the Hermenez machine, suffered minor bruises and lacerations. Passing motorists took the injured to Winters for medical treatment. Driver Cut As Car Crashes Into Train BERKELEY, June of the head and hands were suffered by John Barcellos, 50, of 3037 San Pablo avenue, when his automobile was struck by a Southern Pacific electrio train at Ninth street and Channing way.

Barcellos reported that when he saw the train approaching he applied his brakes. failed to halt the car. Barcellos was taken to Berkeley General hospital. 8 Injured as Car Overturns in Yuba MARYSVILLE, June persons were injured in an automobile driven by Coroner Frank Lipp poverturned. The injured, all of whom received slight injuries, were Mr.

and Mrs. Lipp, Mr. and Mrs. Jerr Sullivan, Mr. and Mrs.

Earl Monson, all of Marysville, and Mr. and Mrs. William Rice of San Francisco. Three'S. F.

Women In Narrow Escape NAPA, June San Francisco women narrowly escaped serious injury when the automobile in which they were to Oakland fell over a. 15-foot embankment near the Pierratt ranch in Brown's valley. Though it was necessary to employ a tow car before the three could be extricated, they escaped with minor bruises. They are Mrs. J.

Kieferdorf and daughters, Lina and Gertrude. Three Youths Injured In Modesto Auto Crash MODESTO, June Modesto youths are recovering today injuries received in an automobile accident on the Dry Creek road four miles from this city yesterday afternoon. Derwood Headland, 17, the driver, was bruised on the shoulder and received a cut lip. Barton Perdue, 17, riding with him, was cut and bruised and his arm was' fractured. Carlton Galbraith, the third passenger, suffered a fractured ankle in addition to many body bruises.

Their roadster was involved in a collision with a sedan driven by J. E. Boone, 54, who was coming out of his ranch onto the highway, according to Deputy Sheriffs Stanton R. Briggs and Jack Hammett, who Investigated the accident. The boys had been swimming and were driving to Modesto when the accident occurred.

Poultry Thefts At Hayward Are Probed HAYWARD, June thefts in the Hayward district have egun for the season, with Contable A. J. La Cunha launching an offensive against what appears an organized gang that uses light automobile trucks in the operations, it was announced today. The latest victim 1s C. M.

Russell of Ridge road, who lost 15 laying pullets. A large sack, apparently fabricated specially for carrying the stolen birds, was left behind by the thieves, offering the only clue to their identity, according to the constable. Palo Alto School Sold to Muldoons PALO ALTO, June 18-Purchase of the Muldoon school from Its former owner, Mrs. Katherine D. Emery, was announced today by Colonel William G.

Muldoon, Colonel R. N. Hayden and Miss C. Tette Johnson. The former Seale Academy, established ten years ago on the old Seale homestead, was operated last year "he the Muldoon school.

A summer session opened Monday, Exclusive Associated Oakland Press' Service Gribune United Press Consolidated Press Association OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1930 CITY CLOSES LOOPHOLE TO GAS STATIONS New Ordinance Legalizes Permit Required of Men Proposing to Operate Within Corporate Lines this morning, Oakland was legally For 20 hours late yesterday "wide open" to the unrestricted entry of service stations into any section of the city, save strictly residential districts in which business of any sort is prohibited. Finding, through a decision handed yesterday by Judge T. W. Harris, that the city had without legal right for five or six years been demanding that service station operators obtain permits from the city council, the council today closed the technical loophole by passing a new ordinance. And as the council hastened to repair the lack in its ordinances, it was disclosed that that body had been aware for some time that such a situation impended, and had prepared for it by passing to print the ordinance which received the final vote and became effective today.

ONE OWNER BENEFITS One property owner. benefits from Judge Harris' decision. He is Samuel Upright, whose application to erect a service station at Lakepark and Rand avenues was rejected some time ago by the city council. According to his attorney, Bestor Robinson, the judgment, unless reversed, gives Upright the vested right to demand a permit from the building inspector at any time, irrespective of today's action by the council. Because the situation created by Judge Harris' decision did not become generally known until after the council's action, it was believed other persons who have been seeking service station permits were unable to make use of the "loophole." According to Homer Buckley, deputy city attorney, the council, in demanding that service station men obtain its permission to operate, N.

which defines garages and has relied on ordinance No. 418. outlines legal means for their control. Judge Harris, attorneys agree, In effect differentiated between garages and service stations in yesterday's decision and declared that the ordinance pertaining to garages is not applicable to service stations. Buckley stated today that, knowing the Upright case was on appeal before Judge Harris, and anticipating his decision, the council on June 10 gave first passage to a new ordinance defining service stations regulating them.

It is this ordinance which received final passage today. High School Teacher Faces Ouster Writ SACRAMENTO, June the first case of its kind in the Sacramento city school department in many years, ouster proceedings have been instituted by the city board of education against Norman L. Apollonio, Sacramento high school mathematics instructor, on charges of unprofessional conduct and incompetence. The board has set June 30 as date for Apollonio's trial on the charges. Charles C.

Hughes, city superintendent of schools, today declared the teacher's removal is sought because of "constant failure to make a reasonable effort to observe the rules and regulations of the school" and because "he is unable control students and is a poor Apollonio resigned early this month, Hughes said, after considerable pressure was brought to bear but rescinded his resignation later. Ouster proceedings were brought on the advice of District Attorney Nell McAllister. San Jose Pair Go To Jail for Liquor SAN JOSE, June the court they were unable to pay fines assessed against them for possession of liquor, Guadalupe Perez and Frank Gonzales have been 75-day jail terms each by Judge Percy O'Connor. a on a small Gonzales rooming quantity was house, of arrested police liquor in a in seizing when raid his room. Perez was arrested detectives nabbed him carrying a sack containing two gallon jugs of wine into a suspected bootleg joint on North Market street.

Telephone Engineer Named Councilman PALO ALTO, June H. Judson, telephone engineer, has been appointed to the city council to succeed George H. Whisler, resigned. The Rev. Whisler recently gave up the pastorate of the First Presbyterian church to join in the Community Chest organization in San Francisco.

Roger M. Roberts, former member of the council, will serve on the board of public safety during the absence from the city of Mrs. Jerome B. Thomas, $62,000 Sought in Auburn Mine Suit AUBURN, June Roy F. Pitcher and associates, non-operating owners of the Southern Cross mine in Placer county, yesterday filed suit against Bert Chase and Fred Chase of the Black Hawk mining company for $62,000.

claimed in the complaint "the Chases took $22,000 worth of chinery and other valuables from the Southern Cross properties to their own, and that the matter was not discovered until April 10, 1930, by the owners. Former Principal Of School Arrested SACRAMENTO, June 18. A. E. Armistead, 38, former principal of the Sutterville Heights grammar school, just south of here, was arrested today by Sheriff's, deputies on charges of improper conduct toward three small school girls filed against him by District Attorney R.

McAllister. IN THIS SECTION FINANCIAL NEWS FEATURE SECTION 19 NO. 169 ERNEST WESTMORE, film make-up director, and his new wife, ETHLYN CLAIR, screen actress, listening to MARY GINDRA (left) tell what she learned about, Westmore's first wife, from whom he was trying to gain custody of a daughter. Miss Gindra, a friend, had been acting as a "private detective" for Westmore. -A.

P. photo. In Marital Mixup MOVIE ARTIST EXPANSION OF BEATS ALIMONY GAS LINE, PLAN LOS ANGELES, June Ernest Westmore, motion picture makeup artist whose first wife served him with alimony papers several months ago as he left the altar of a bride, Hollywood church with second Ethelyn Claire, screen actress, today was free of marital difficulties. He won a double victory over Mrs. Veoda Westmore, his first wife, late yesterday when a superior court judge exonerated him from paying $50 a month alimony and ruled that his 7-year-old daughter, Muriel, be taken from Westmore and placed in a neutral home.

It was Muriel who waited at the door of the church Westmore with and her his mother new to greet bride with the words: "Daddy, why don't you pay mamma some alimony so I can go to school?" TRUSTEE QUITS. CALISTOGA, June Flora Mortensen has tendered her resignation as trustee of the Calistoga public library. I. C. Adams appointed by the town council to fill the position.

Several late books have been added to the library during the past few weeks. SAN FRANCISCO, June 18. Elimination of 13 small towns in Alameda, San Joaquin, Stanislaus and Yuba counties from the natural gas pipe system, and a new expansion plan for service to Petaluma, Napa, St. Helena, Calistoga, Glen Ellen and Healdsburg, are proposed in plans now before the state railroad commission, filed by Pacific Gas and Electric company. The new extensions will be built, it approved from a point near Carquinez bridge to the city of Petaluma, from the Carquinez-Petaluma line to St.

Helena, from Santa Rosa to Healdsburg, and from Schellville to Glen Ellen. The towns from which service would be held: in abeyance are Midway, in Alameda county; Acampo, Lathrop, Banta, Woodbridge, Escalon and Vernalis, In San Joaquin county; Empire, Keyes, Westley, Crow's Landing, in Stanislaus county; Lincoln and Wheatland, in Yuba county. Pipe lines from Kettleman Hills to Richmond, and to Tracy Junetion, are well on the way, the petition reveals, the first being 55 per cent complete, and the second 92 per cent. Berkeley Summer Camps Have Registered 700 People BERKELEY, June ley's three summer camps, just opened for the season, are proving their popularity again this year. In a report submitted to the council yesterday by Acting City Manager Earl Sinclair, approximately 700 persons were shown to have made registrations to date for the three camps.

Tuolumne Camp in the Stanislaus National Forest near Groveland leads in registrations with 379 persons signed up for vacation visits, representing fees of $10,422. Echo Lake in El Dorado National Forest is second with 194 registrations and receipts of $3166. For Cazadero camp in the Russian river redwood country there have been 183 registrations and At the $1754 in Tuolumne receipts. the camp approximate expense to date has been $2822, according to Sinclair's report. The camp 18 reported as in excellent condition with a recently reorganized kitchen unit now in operation and a new shower and laundry unit under construction which will be completed this week.

Echo Lake camp expenditures total $2900 to date, the camp 1s also declared to be in excellent condition. There the kitchen unit also been reorganized, while a shower and laundry unit is now under construction as well as a refrigerating unit. An engine and pump for pressure water supply is also being installed. At the Cazadero camp it is reported that a dam has been constructed in Creek, making the swimming pool 150 by 50 feet and seven feet in depth at the diving board. Kitchen reorganization is also reported as well as a construction of a laundry and shower unit, placing the camp in the same efficient.

condition as the others. U. C. Dean Tells Nation Of Cooperative Marketing BERKELEY, 'June early, and atrpresent intensive, interest in co-operative marketing, In the opinion of Dean C. B.

Hutchison, of the University of California College of Agriculture, has been due chia fact that the state's crops are largely perishable, produced at great distances from large consumer groups, and largely specialties for which markets had to be created. Speaking recently over a wide hookup, Dean Hutchison said that California farmers, first in the field of intensive and specialized farming, were forced to band together in an endeavor to solve their own distribution problems. The Bids for Plane Business Causes First Price War FRESNO, June 18. CAP) And now we have the airplane price "Competition among passenger carrying agencies at the Chandler municipal airport has become so intense that airplane rides are being given for as low as 50 cents per person. The "war," it was reported, began last Sunday when one of the passenger-carrying aviators cut from the regular $2.50 price to $1 and was followed by a competitor who cut to 50 cents.

As a result, all operators at the airport are now offering trips through the skies for a half dollar, the lowest that has been asked since passenger flight service was inaugurated at the airport. BECKER WILL APPEAL CASE One effort to escape trial having met in failure, former Sheriff Burton F. Becker, Cromwell Ormsby, attorney, and former Deputy Sheriff J. L. Davis today declared they would carry their fight to the higher courts.

Superior Judge Fred V. Wood defeated the first effort this morning when he overruled a motion for dismissal of the indictment charging the three men with conspiracy and bribery. The dismissal petition was filed yesterday by Joe Faner, attorney for Ormsby, and Kenneth Gillis, counsel for Becker. Faner immediately announced that he would appeal to the district court of appeal or supreme court for a writ of mandate directing Judge Wood to dismiss the indictment. The appeal, he said, would be taken today as the case is scheduled to gO to -trial before Judge Wood tomorrow.

60-DAY PERIOR CITED Both efforts based on the fallure of the three defendants to go to trial within sixty-day period provided by the state law. The sixty-day period expired last Sunday, Opposing the motion for dismissal today, affidavits were filed by Deputy District Attorney R. Is. Chamberlain, in charge of the criminal calendar for the district attorney's office, and Assistant District Attorney J. Frank Coakley, who will handle the prosecution of Becker, Ormsby and Davis.

Chamberlain's affidavit that the calendar has been congested ever since the three defendants pleaded not guilty on April 24, necessitating repeated continuances of their case. DELAY UNAVOIDABLE Both criminal departments, he said, have been actively engaged in trying cases in which indictments or informations were filed prior to the indictment against Becker, Ormsby and Davis, and the delay has been unavoidable. TE ad been "ready to Coakley's affidavit declared, that proceed -ith the trial. Elmer Martinoni, clerk of Judge Wood's court, also was sworn, and testified that naturalization hearings had been transferred out of the court, since April 25 to enable all possible time to be devoted to criminal cases already on the calendar. indictment against the three men grew out of alleged bribes in connection with a still on the Oreste Santucci hog ranch at Russell City.

Stockton Man Wins San Francisco Post STOCKTON, June local manager of the CaliGriffin, fornia Water Service, and promiment In community has been promoted to the "office of manager for the northern district, and will take over his duties in San Francisco July 15. He will continue as head of the local office until July 1, and then will leave with his family for two weeks' vacation. Griffin is president of the Stockton Chamber of Commerce, and has just guided that organization through the most successful membership drive in its history. Griffin was formerly connected with the Pacific Gas and Electric company, and has been with the California Water Service for the past five years. In addition to being president of the chamber of commerce, Griffin has done excellent work as the head of the marine committee, and is well known, in bay regions for his speeches on Stockton's deepwater channel.

Inquest Ordered In Death of Worker REDWOOD CITY, June Inquest will be held here next Tuesday into the death of John Orton, 38, auto mechanic, who is believed to have shot himself to death in the garage at the rear of his home in San Carlos. His body was found on Monday night by C. G. Ellis, San Carlos, who entered the garage when he received no response to a knock. Orton's father, Wellington Orton, was visiting in Redwood, City the time.

The body was removed to the James Crowe Company, where the inquest. will be held. Orton had placed a 12-guage shotgun into a vice and pushed the trigger with a wooden lath, it is believed. He faced the gun, the charge entering his chest. Released Slayer to Go to South Seas SAN FRANCISCO, June Jerome Merwin, admitted slayer of his mother-in-law, today was in San Francisco following his writ of habeas corpus.

He is seeking a discharge from the army, after which he says he will go to the South Sea islands for the remainder of his life. He was released after being found guilty of murder under the double plea, and sentenced to one year at the Mendocino Institution. Alienists later declared, however, that regardless of his condition when he killed Mrs. E. H.

Carlton of Santa Rosa, he is now undoubtedly sane. ABORTED GIRL RUNS AWAY TO HUNT. KIN Oakland Maid, 15, Vanishes From Foster Parents' Home in Quest of Mother She Has Not Seen in Years could take care of herself. WOULD ENTER MOVIES By ANNE CLARK A persistent longing to find her real mother triumphing over her affection for her adoptive parents may furnish the explanation for the strange disappearance of 15- year-old Irene Fraga from the home of her foster parents at 2185 High street Monday, evening. From the eight years ago when Irene learned that she was not the real daughter of Mra, Joseph Fraga- she has been beset by the yearning to discover the whereabouts of her true mother, even while protesting that she loved her foster parents, who took her when she was 3 years old, Mrs.

Fraga said, in searching for a motive which could have led the girl, recently graduated from Hamilton Junior High school, to slip out of the house by way of her bedroom window, taking all her belongings with, her. "The idea that she might pass her mother on the street without recognizing her made such A strong impression on her mind that my husband and I made every effort to lay this haunting ghost by finding out what became of the woman who deserted her baby before we took Mrs. Fraga said FLIGHT LONG PLANNED "However, the home in Berkeley from which we got her has since gone out of business, and our offorts through the homefinding society to trace her parentage was fruitless. I did know, however, that the child's original name was Grace Barber, and after I told Irene this, she often expressed the wish that the original. name had been retained.

She may be going under that name A brooding, reserved and strong nature, ascribed to the girl Milled, foster mother, make it possible that she has been planning for some time to leave home, although she gave no hint of her intentions and frequently declared her love to the woman she knew 09 "mother." "Since school closed she has withdrawn into herself and spent. her time in her bedroom, reading," Mrs. Fraga said. "She wanted to go to work, but my husband urged her to finish her education before going out into the world on her own. Like many young girls, she though we were old fashioned and insisted that she "On Monday afternoon, we went for a walk together and she would hardly answer when I spoke to her, as if her mind were on something else.

When we got home, I. went into the yard to take in the washing, and when I returned, the winlow was open and she was gone. Yet many is the time she has left little notes me saying, 'I do love you, mother so often that I have watched every mail since disappearance, excepting letter from her assuring me of her love and that she was all right." The possibility that Irene may be hitch-hiking her way to Los Angeles to visit a sister of her adoptive mother, Mrs. Lester Boardway, who lives at 4245. Union Pacific avenue, is also being considered by the distracted foster parents, "Irene was very fond of my sister, and said that if anything ever happened to me she would rather live with her than anyone Mrs Fraga said, "She is a very pretty girl, and" hoped that she might have a chance in the movies.

I wanted to give her everything she longed for, so I planned to take her south this summer to see if her movie ambitions could be fled. But if 'it was her plan in leaving us, I do not see why she did not wait for me to go with her. "She is a good girl, and though she was reserved in nature, I am sure that she really cared for us. Her disappearance 1s a terrible blow and a complete mystery unless the years of brooding over her lost real mother led Irene to pursue the quest in person." Stockton Masons Raise Huge Fund STOCKTON, June sum of $91,725 has been raised by local Masonic lodges in the drive to clear off the $145,000 debt on the Masonic temple, which started last week. More than $36,000 was raised since Friday, it was reported at the meeting today.

George Whitall's team had high total today with $5300: Women of the Eastern Star lodge reported $4740 for a total of $11,920. The drive is expected to close with the goal reached Friday. Seeks Mother IRENE FRAGA, 15, who has run away from the home of her foster parents and is believed to be seeking the mother who abandoned her 12 years ago. -TRIBUNE photo. BLAZE SWEEPS GRAIN FIELDS MODESTO, June loss estimated today in excess of $20,000 was caused by the grain fire near Waterford, 12 miles east of Modesto, fought by rural apparatus from two towns and 200 vounteers for five hours before brought under control last, night.

About 1000 acres of grain, some of it thrashed and sacked, were I destroyed. It was the second fire near Waterford in three days. A blaze, declared to have been of incendiary origin, was discovered afternoon on the Walter Lynberg ranch. Phosphorous, wrapped in a dampened newspaper, was found on the Lynberg place, and the chemical reaction produced when the sun warmed the paper and sulphur compound started the fire, Sheriff Grat Hogin said. W.

A. Kennedy, arson investiga-. tor of the national board of fire underwriters, is here today probing the blazes, The most recent fire started on John Gilbertson's ranch, and, fanned by a wind, made great headway, burning a strip through the heart of valuable grain land in three miles long and wide, Gilbertson's ranch house and barn were Those for to a suffer threatenedro R. S. Hawkins, Ivor and John Gilbertson, and Lawrence Johnson.

On John Gilbertson's ranch, several hundred sacks of grain, Just harvested, were destroyed. After it was thought controlled, the fire broke out a second time, and necessitated calling of volunteers before extinguished. The area of the fires. is one of the biggest wheat and grain -sections in Stanislaus county. Truck Driver Runs Into Streetcar, Hurt Contusions of the right knee and of the back were suffered by Isema Narahara, 28, of 1634 Park street, Alameda, Japanese driver of a florist truck, when his machine crashed into a street car at Twentyeighth and Telegraph today.

Miss' Esther Lierley, 19, of 541 Hobart street, suffered lacerations when she was struck down at San Pablo and Mead avenues by a hitand-run driver. WOMAN, 84, DIES. SACRAMENTO, June an illness contracted last November, Mrs. Mary M. Barry, 84, 8 resident of Rio Vista, died yesterday in a local hospital.

Funeral services will be held in Rio Vista. Mrs. Barry is survived by two daughters, Sarah Barry, of Rio Vista, and Mrs. Agnes Sweeney, of Vacaville. Kidnap Threats Told by Guardian in Ricci Suit NEW YORK, June 18.

Miss Beth Lackey of Berkeley, guardian of Ruggiero Ricel, nineyear-old violin virtuoso, and his brother, Giorgio, testified today that kidnaping threats had been received her during the last few days. She made the statement in answering a question by counsel for the boy's father as to why she had excluded him from her apartment. The father is seeking the custody the boy through habeas corpus proceedings. Miss Lackey said the times he had been refused admission strange men had been with him and, alarmed by the kidnaping 'threats, she refused to let them in. Asked if she was afraid the father was going to kidnap the boys said she had "never given it a thought." Miss Lackey testified that if she NEW BUDGET ESTIMATES BOOST TOTAL Requests for Fiscal Year Reach Nearly $4,000,000, With Important Departments to Be Heard From With the arrival of the mayor's and the street department's finane cial requests for the 1930-31 fiscal year, the commissioner of finance now has $3,733,450.92 in departmental budget requests already submitted to him, while the police, fire and other departments are scheduled to ask a few more millions, according to their preliminary askings, sent to the commis sioner of public health and safety unofficially.

The mayor made two budget requests. was for the mayor's office, $19,000, and the other was for public affairs, $2800. For the -mayor's office, which got $19,0.0.0 last year, $1000 is asked for printing his annual message, $500 for his urgent necessity fund, and $1200 for motor transportation. The $2800 for public affairs mainly to pay for the auditing and. inspection of the various departments of the city, which are under.

the mayor's general jurisdiction. STREET DEPARTMENT Containing a public betterment fund of $2,185,031, the street department budget estimate for the coming fiscal year totals 301. The department asks $727,830 for operation. It got $650,000 year. It asks $77,750 for equipment, $4500 for minor ments, $107,000 for the muntcipal garage, $5630 for small equipment, $116,045 for engineering.

$6700 for the sanitary and drainage commission, $88,085 for garbage disposal, and $2,185,031 for public betterments. Last year, the department got $84,000 for garbage disposal and $384,000 for public betterments and $120,000 for engineering. FOR PAVING, WIDENING Among the larger of the new improvements contemplated from the public betterment fund are the opening and paving of Hopkins street from Coolidge to Seminary, widening of East Eighth and Tenth streets, provement of East Tenth and Ruse sett streets, High to Jones, 764: Belt line highway, Fifth to Ninth avenues, Grand avenue storm sewer, Park boulevard and Moraga road improvement, repairing Twelfth street dam, Harrison street widening, Glenwood outlet sewer, East side ship yard sewer, $40,000. Among the street opening and widening projects are the Clay street extensions from San Pablo to Twenty-third; the Grand aveopening from Broadway to Telegraph; the Foothill bouleopening at Lakeshore avenue to Twenty-third avenue. There is also projected $128,000.

for a new garbage wharf, and 000 for deepening Lake Merritt channel. $12,000 ASKED FOR BEAR. For the upkeep of the revenue cutter "Bear," only $12,000 18 asked instead of the $15,000 pended previously, as the ship has been cleaned, painted and overhauled. Anderson said, concerning the policy of his department: "There has a strong tion to ask for sufficient funds to meet real requirements. A large proportion of the streets are in bad condition as the result of neglect through the past several years.

However, I believe the best pollcy for next year is to make as much progress, as organization, possible efficient through mar Imchinery, better supervision, and slight increase in the labor force: therefore the operating, estimate has been kept to a minimum." A. P. French Scientist Is Luncheon Speaker ALAMEDA, June Conditions among several hundred- convicts confined on Devil's Island; French prison colony, as revealed by the visit of a research expedition of which he was a member were told by Gustav Severin, M.S., French scientist, in a talk before the weekly luncheon meeting of the Alameda Kiwanis club this noon at Hotel Alameda. Severin spent more than four years in Dutch and French Guinea and collected a vast amount of data on prison conditions in the colonies. Man Faces Trial On Possession Charge Ransom Ring, arrested today at 302 Coolidge avenue by Patrolmen George Pardee and C.

E. Brown on a charge of illegal possession of liquor, had in his house 15 gallons of wine, two of rum and one of alcohol, with boxes of counterfelt. labels, officers said. He appeared before Police Judge Edward Tyrrell this morning and demanded a jury trial. Judge Tyrrell will set the date for this, when Ring's teatimony appears before him tomoz? row.

wins proceedings involving custody of the boys, she will be in a position to obtain aid greater than received from Frederick Bartlett, Chicago millionaire. "Another Bartlett?" asked Carl Sherman, counsel for the boys' father, Pietro Ricei, in habeas corpus proceedings. Miss Lackey declined to say. Bartlett for several months contributed $700 for the boys' mainsical education. withdrew his tenance and to pay, for their musupport in January, because, he said, he felt that the boys' abilities were being exploited.

The father, a bandmaster of San Francisco, in addition to 'the action here, is contesting Miss Lackey's guardianship in the California courts. He alleges that a proposed ten weeks' recital tour for Ruggiero next fall would endanger the boys' health. CALIFORNIA 25 Years Ago trend to specialty production has been faster than markets could be purchased, Hutchison said, and since' California's crops were those for which markets ha dto be created, farmers naturally sought to control their own destinies. The college chief told the farmers in other states that as a result of this union of farmers, produce worth more than $240,000,000 was disposed of by co-operatives last season. These he said, now number approximately 550, among them about 400 members of federations and 150 operating independently.

Some 25 them, he added, are large scale co-operatives, regional, or state-wide in scope, and a dozen or more have related subsidiaries. JUNE 18, 1905. were adopted for a new Carnegie library, after being submitted by Architect Kirby Fresno. Los Angeles Three hundred delegates to the National Editorial Association convention, which had just closed at Guthrie, Okla, an rived on a special train. They were to go to Santa Cruz the next day.

San Francisco The South kota, first-class cruiser of the U. 8 navy, which was launched last was put into the drydock Hunters Point for final work. was expected to be placed in coms mission early next year..