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ocAalcd IN THIS SECTIOI I FINANCIAL NEWS: FEATURE SECTION ryice gomlu IINrTEO PPttY'CHICAAO RULYl wtwr FOREIGN service: I Untti Pnrcs Crvolidafcd Prw AoocMta VOL. CXI OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1929- MJIG BLUEBIRD NEEDS AID TO MAKE CHRISTMAS HAPPY ONE 23 NO. 157 PDniimn iiii Puppets to Perform DIRECTOR Just a Matter of Ounces It takes the willing care of a corps of attendants to' look after the DESCENDANT OF SOLDIERS youngest male member of the Pirmorac family of Livermore but the unuvvuo in STORES BI6 "Winnie the Pooh" is the name of the puppet show to be given Saturday in Oakland during Mills college bazaar at special children's program. Six Piedmont girls will manipulate the puppets. MARY JANE RECTOR, one of these, is practicing tor the occa-" sion.

TRIBUNE photo. infant is said to have. an excellent chance to survive despite the fact that he weighed one pound, 15 ounces at birth. -A tablespoon malted milk suffices for the boy's dinner. TRIBUNE photo: HEEDS HELP REM SOON FOR SEASON llllifi) xpiSpIl pill i I i 1 -m' lis iiteiapfii Babe Weighing 2 Pounds Many Attractions Planned Doing Well, Thank You For Mills College Bazaar OF FINANCE Coupled With Word of Her-on's Retirement Conies Report That Senator King is to Succeed to State Post By ANTHONY F.

MOITORET. Resignation of Alexander R. Heron as state director of flnnnce before the end of the month Is expected In official clrclsji In Sacramento with the revival of a re port that has bobbed up persist- ently at Intervals ever since the1 legislature adjourned last May. Heron Is In Los Angeles, but the latest word of his expected retirement from official Ufa came from an authoritative source at the state, capltol late yesterday. Its nccepinnce as a probability was marred only by a denial of" alt knowledge of Heron's plana by Isidore Zellerbachi.

head of the Zellerbach Paper company, with which concern It Is understood Heron will become associated, i KING AS SUCCESSOR. Coupled with the word of Heron's early resignation came the report that former Senator Lyman M. King of Redlunds would succeed him as director of finance. King recently resigned as chief of tho division of service and supply in Heron's department. At the time it was given out that his action was prompted by pressure of his private business affairs In San Bernardino county, but In some quarters there wna belief that friction existed between King and Heron.

The post of director of finance pays $10,000 a year. Kings ap polntment as Herons successor would be regarded as another move by Governor C. C. Young to divide Controller Kay Jb. Klley i strengtn In southern California, where Klpg, who was the author of the King tax bill, has a considerable following.

Indeed, it has been pointed out by some political observers that events have Indicated the governor might select King as his running mats In next year's campaign. CANDIDATE IN J26. King was a candidate for lieutenant governor In 1926, making an independent canvass for the Republican nomination. Heron first entered the state service as an accountant for the board of control. He was later transferred to the state board of education and became a deputy under Will C.

Wood, former state superintendent of public instruction. During the Richardson ad ministration, Heron resigned to take a position with a Berkeley real estate concern in which Governor Young was Interested prior to his election in 3 926. When Young be came governor he named Heron to the board of control and later director of finance. 9 Reorganization of the recently created department of professional and vocational standards Is being proposed by Its director, James Collins. Originally set up with two divisions, Collins has recommended to Governor Young and his cabinet that a third division be created to permit a better grouping of the boards In accordance with their kindred Interests.

Collins proposes to place In the third division the boards of archi tecture, registration for civil engi neers and accountancy and tne bureau of contractors' registrations. Two. of these were created by the last legislature, the law governing them becoming' effective last Au gust 14. Under tne reorganization, tne first division would Include the boards of medical examiners, dental examiners and pharmacy exam iners. The second division would comprise the boards of embalmers nd funeral directors.

Darner ex aminers, optometry examiners and veterinary medicine examiners. Collins' department also Includes the board of chiropractors and the board of osteopaths, but It Is not Indicated that these would be placed In the same division 'with the medico-dental boards. Supervisor-elect Angelo J. Rossi of Ran Francisco is seen assured of the chairmanship of the finance committee when the hoard of supi ervlsors across the bay formally organizes next month. Composition of a committee on committees named bv Rossi yesterday points to his receiving the desired plum.

Rossi, agreed upon as head of the. organization committee of the new board at a meeting of the new supervisors a week ago, named seven of the supervisors who stood with him against Supervisor Franck Havenner's motion for postponing organization. The committee aesigneo to mase up a state or stanning rommmre for the new board Is headed by Supervisor J. Emmet Hayden as Other members are PupervIor- frfreser J. Andrlano, James E.

Power. William P. Stanton. Jesi Colman. Jefferson E.

Pevser. Jack Snnulding. Frank J. MrOovern Carl Miles. A committee on rule also was nmed bv Ronl.

of Sun-r-r-v'-ors J. M. Tner. Jer'eron F. Pfvwr.

Shannon and Jsmes B. McSheehjr. 1 I Tl TO ARRIVE IIukc Douelas Fir Which Will Shine In Lake Merrifi-I Holidays Comi ng Aboard Ship Oakland's Christmas tree, destined to shine over the waters of Lake Merrltt as the symbol of the Eastbay's participation In "peace on earth, good will to men" throughout the holiday season, arrives today. At noon, or thereabftuts, the giant Douglas fir, fresh from the forests of Oregon was to enter the Oakland estuary aboard the freighter1. Skagway of the Mc-Cormlck Steamship of the tree.

Members of the I ca Legion-Elks-Junior Chamber of Commerce committee In charge of the Christmas project were to be on hand when the forest giant was transferred from the deck of the steamer to the largest truck in Oakland at the municipal dock and were to aid In its trip through the streets to the municipal boat house on tha shores of the lake. There a gang of men is already hard at work on the flont whlon when completed, will form the "floating island" which will sup port tho tree as It rides at anchor in the center1 of the laKe. MORE MONEY NEEDED William P. St. Sure, chairman of tha committee, today ordered an extension of the campaign for 11000.

which must be secured the nlan for the tree is to be com pletely realized. Donations to date include 49il appropriated by the cltv council. 1100 cash from tne rinklnnH Tjiiln nf Elks -and Friend, $16.50 from the Eastlake Kiwanis club, and 60 cents from nn hnv. The latter don or was a chum of Robert. Hillback nnw dead, who conceived the original Plan for the Christmas nnil whose father, tleorge Hillback, first publicly advanced the Idea In a letter 10 jne uuu Soon another crew will begin laying the tOO feet of submarina cable donated by the pnclflc Gas and Electric company wnicn win carry the power under the lake to the tree.

MUSICAL PROGRAM Meanwhile, the program commit tee, of which Bedford Boyes Is chairman, is preparing to ask the recreation department ior pernim sion to vise the Inn at the munlcl- nai hoathouse as a music room for broadcasting of Christmas carols and sacred muslo during tho hoiiriavs. An elaborate pro ara'm Is being arranged for the of December 14. Boyes says, when the tree will be lihted for tha first- time. Tha muslo will sound out over the waters of tho laKe mrougn a public address system leading from the boathouse to four giant loudspeakers installed at the base of the tree. Nightly after the tree is lit until Christmas eve there will be short programs of music on ine mie, i ho tiinht before Christmas and Christmas night there will prob ably be more pretentious programs, Boyes states.

San Jose in Drive For Yule Tree Fete SAN JOSE. Dec. 4. Plans for having San Jose dotted with out-Christmas trees in front of private homes during the approaching Yuletide- season were launched at a meeting of delegatus from local service clubs at the Hotel Sainte Claire this afternoon. W.

P. Isham, president of the Sempervlrens Club of California, presided at the meeting. The plana as put forth today call for nnniitinr evirv householder who has an evergreen in his yard or garden to decorate and Illuminate it during the holidays. The garlands of colored Christmas lights and greenery which makes the San Jose business district a gay bower of light and color by night and day during the holidays, will be illuminated fo the first time tomorrow night. The garlands have in past years attracted nation-wide comment.

They are being Installed this year under direction of a Merchants' Association committee headed by AI Buhet. Criminal Negligence Charged Against SF. 8AN FRANCISCO. Dec. 4.

The city of San Francisco today was charged with criminal negligence In failure to complete the War Memorial building at the civic center' on schedule in a suit filed by Mr. Ethel Boyca to recover damages for injuries suffered by her daughter. Betty Jean. The girl cut her foot severely on broken glass when she fell from a raft floating in a pond In the bottom of the war excava tion at Van Ness avenue and ilc-All'eter street. Mrs.

Boyee charged that the city was liable because it had left the great holts in the ground to fill with seepage and refuse, end without 'proper guards to prevent children from gftving int them. I HERE TO DAY afrald'that he would catch cold lf any more of him was exposed. A comparison can ba made between the size of his head and his grandmother's hand. The baby is so small that he Is completely lost in the little shirts and other pieces of clothing his mother had made for him. He is being fed on malted milk but his stomach la so 'small that a tablespoon of milk Is all that he can take at a feeding.

Dr. Paul E. Dolan, who officiated at his arrival, stated that while he la the smallest baby he ever taw he appears to be perfectly normal and has; a splendid chance tb live; LIVERMORE, Dec. 4 -Wrapped In more than twice his weight cf absorbent cotton and soft wool which keeps him warm," the smallest baby to be born and live in Alameda county Is peacefully sucking his thumb In a little ranch house east of here and wondering why he is attracting so much attention. He Is the son of.

Mr. nnd Mrs. Louis Plrmorac and weighed an ounce less, than two pounds when he arrived early Thanksgiv ing morning. The accompanying photograph cannot give much of an Idea of his size as a baby's head Is the largest part of its anatomy. Mrs.

Nick LIVermore, his grandmother, was Woman Whose Family Has Played Large Part "In, Nation's History Asks Aid From Bluebird A woman, decendant of a proud and Illustrious family, her four small children faces a cheerless Christmas unless' Goodfetlowa respond to her The Bluebird, believing no appeal he could write would equal tha words of this wc.nan, gives her'let ter Jn full, deleting only, the nama and address, as follows: "I am going to put my pride away and write you for my four little ones' sake. I have lew hungry, bnt would not Ask for anything because I flgnret it would bring shame to my family. My mother and sinter, who were always proud, would consider it terrible for a general's family to beg. t- "You see my great grandfather was a. revolutionary general.

I would never write my sister for help, no matter what happened. I have a good Jiusband, and it hasn't been his fault that he lins been sick for six months with rheumatism. Then, on top of that, lie has been out of for- practically-two years. wl('i the exception of a couplo of months here and there. HAS SOLD EVERYTHING.

"I liavo sold my rugs, nml baby's bed, and sewing machine and just everything to keep food in tho house, and now I haven't anything left to Hell. My husband has worked three weeks in the last three months, and lie has to walk as we haven't had carfare to spare. "It's Thanksgiving for some, bat all we have Is enough flour to make some hot cakes and they have to be eaten plain. AIho we have no milk for the little baby, Is nearly two years old. That's not the worst of it.

There's snother little strangrr coming within two weeks and all I liavo is 13 diallers nnd three nightgowns left over from tle I last baby. I can sew and make the most of things, but I haven't any clothing or, material to work with. Eve i if I had to sew bv hand day and night I'd be glad to. If I could only keep the four I have now and the little stranger warm this winter. ONLY WANTS WORK.

"My husband would be glad to go to people's homes and -help) with Christmas cleaning, or chon wood or do anything to repay any help we may receive now. father' who is tlead nov served in two wars. My brotlw still serving In the Philippines, nml went overseas. We arc not asking for something we 'don't need." Please remember the children, don't care for myself." This letter, it seems to the Bluej bird, Is deserving of the attention that only a large-hearted, fjenermil Goodfellow can give. Contributions received today wer as follows: M.

F. and R. $mj 8, Friend, Friend, $lj $1. Veterans in Sing Sin Denied Legion Posi ONKERS, N. Dec.

4.W)- By ft unanimous vote laet night th executive committee of the cheater county American Leonj denied ft request of 207 World Wat veterans who are Inmates of I Sing prison to organize an Amprn can Legion post. in the prison. The executive committee he 1 that the establishment of a pntci post was impracticable, but in i statement Issued today the eom mlttee "the rights and priv lieges of veterans who were in mates of the prison, to which the! are entitled by law as a result-oi their1 war, service, will continus r.l formerly-to be among the propel concerns of the Legion party organization," Wheatland Girls Wed hanks gtvin WHEATL'AND. Dec. 4.

News oi the marriage of two former Wheatland gliis has been received hpr while on Thanksgiving day, tr.i wedding Of MLss Maxine Harn. and George Stam took place In i clty. Is the daughter Mr. and Mrs. William Stam is the son of Mr.

ami George Slant, also of this t-t- The- young will retuie ir Oregon. Announcements are now received here of the secret we last May of Miss I'sy Fr Wheatland to Thomas M. Oakland business man. Fi; also have recently learned marriage In Reno, Nevada. ber 24.

of Miss Dorothy LeRoy Baker, both cf this Burglar Work' Family Hears 1 While Fred IX his family listened to the front room of 1 Wayne street, a lu: win i-i c.i-. Dozen Merchants Report Like Condition; Extra Sales People Already at "Work in Every Big Store in City A new record for holiday. volume of business In the Eastbay was predicted today by leading retail merchants of the' city on. the basis of early Christmas shopping. Buying; has been steady for the last month but pot under way In earnest last Friday and 'Saturday following Thanksgiving Day, a dozen merchants reported, and Indications ar that the volume of Males for the season will be the largest In their history.

Crowds are larger than on the came days last year, they declared, and buying is heavy. Early shop- tlnj Is more -apparent -hls than, ever before, many said. EXCELLENT VOIAME. "very good," "fine," as good If not better than last year," "biggest volume In history," and similar phrase were used by the heads of department stores, furniture houses, and other retail establishments -to describe the Indications apparent with the. opening holiday buying.

1 All reported that extra salespeople are already on- duty and Jhey are preparing to further augment their forces before the peak business is attained two weeks hence. Btocks have been enlarged and special decorations and displays are being Installed by all the leading business houses of the city. Officials of the Merchants' Parking association also declared the es tablishment of their -hain of free parking stations In the downtown rn la oirAnriv nhnwinir rMtiltn In speeding up traffic and facilitating travel to and from the central busi ness district. OAKLAND IjEADEH. It was pointed out that Oakland has led In department store sales gains In the twelve western states for the greater part of the last year, according to figures compiled by the Federal Reserve district head-' quarters and further gains were predicted for the holiday season.

San Francisco etoree-also report- ad Increasing- volume of trade The sound condition of the East- bay's business structure was assigned by merchants as the underlying cause of continued prosperity, coupled with an Improvement In conditions throughout the country following President Hoover i "prosperity program," and the stabilising of business generally after the stock market collapse. Expansion of City's Foreign Trade Seen Oakland Is about to enter upon an era of expansion In foreign trade, according to J. 3. Flynn, assistant cashier of the Central National bank, wh today was elected president of the Oakland, foreign trade club at the December meeting of that organization. Other officers named by -the club are Percy Motty foreign trad agent for the Southern paelflo, vice president; A.

F. Zenl of the Bank of Italy, and George. McQ. Walker, custom broker, secretary. "During- the last year Oakland became a federal port." Flynn declared In reviewing 1929.

"This fact alone assures a record breaking year In the foreign trade Held forOakland and the Eastbay." "A highlight of the club's pro-rrm for thC coming year will be tha- seven-day program tiojv be-ins; -arranged for. the observance, Wphn.ftiw If to Z2 of California foreign trade week. Foreign trade programs In schools, clubs and other organizations and over the radio, together with display In store Windows and banks are only part of the elaborate program be-in arranged by the Foreign Trade club of Oakland for the observance of the week." he said. Woman Pleads Guilty oi Dope Addict Tells Commissioner She Seeks Prison Term as Cure for Habit FRANCISCO. Dec.

4. With the request that she be ent to prison for two years thaC she may be permanently cured of the dope habit. Mrs. Jessie Mullov SO. todav pleaded guilty to violating the Harrison narcotic laws before United States Commissioner Arthur Fisk.

Sh was arrested yesterday by fedc-al aeenu for posessinr narcotics. She told the agents she was taking the dope to old woman who was In pain, but Inter declared she had been a us- her-I v. 13 TPtn id. Commissioner Fifk refused the woman's request, raying he hnd no power to sentence her. Pile was over to the federal grand Mail Order Romeo, Gems, "Winnie" the Pooch," a clever puppet sh6wJi that, stellar, attraction on the children's program to be given Saturday rternoon at 2 o'clock at the 1 Hotel Oukland In cdnnectlon with the annua) Mills college-oazaar.

puppets are manipulated by Barbara Hector, Mary June Rector, Betty 'McCasfln, Doris 'Goodman amd Louisu Bulware, Piedmont hlgh school st udents. At the Mills, college summer camp at Gold Hollow, the girls devoted most of their time last summer to making five puppet characters and fabricating all the cos tumes and other properties neces sary forthe production. The per formance was presented on only one previoi occasion before Mills college students. In addition to the nupoet. snow, Clare Freeman Alger's film.

"Tho Princess Necklace will also displayed. Gloria McUner, 7-year- old magician, is to-, offer feats of legerdemain on the -same program. Hostesses for the children party Include Mrs. 'Arthur chairman: William Dallas, Mrs. Karnham P.

Griffiths Mrs. A. J. Hamilton, -Mrs. John Hockett.

Mrs. Harold Jewett, Mrs. Edwin A. Lee. 'Mrs.

Rudolph Llndqulst, Mrs. E. C. Llpman, Mrs. Robert Mackeur Mrs.

Harry iast ana Mrs. Lucius Norrls. The bazaar program -combines entertainment features with a card party, a -dance in the evening, and displays of handicraft, art work and children's books. Miss Margaret Pettyjohn, direc tor of the Mills College Nursery school, will supervise the book display. She was assisted In.

selection of the. reading material by Miss Harriet Schneider of the children's department of' the Berkeley library. Books will not only be sold at mm 7-A 'mm tha bazaar, but parents will be provided with suggestions to help them obtain proper subjects for children of all ages. The booth displays will contain Delia Robbia. wrejiths, home made cookies, plum puddings and fruit cakes, grab bags and balloons.

Christmas cards and needlework novelties and toys. f'llltlSTMAsi The opening program featurC. at 10:45 a. will feature a reaaing by -Mrs, Hugh Brown, who will Interpret "Berkeley Square" by Jahn Balderston. A Christmas luncheon Is to be followed by an elaborate fashion show, provided through the courtesy of Capwell, Sullivan and Furth.

display is scheduled for the main dining room of the hotel. The card party Is listed for 2 o'clock In the Rose room. Mrs. Henry Wilbur Harding has been named chairman, her assistants being Mrs. Elmer S.

Church, Irn. Ralph Vilas, Mrs. H. C. Capwell, Mrs.

M. E. Gaines, Mrs. A. W.

Mrs. George Nichols Lamb, Mrs. A. S. Lavenson, Mrs.

Minna McGauley, Mrs. J. O'Neill Mrs. Thomas Mitchell Pot-ter, Mrs. A.

W. Rickersham, Mrs. W. K. Sharon and Mrs.

Charles Y. Youngberg. In the evening, the bazaar will be climaxed by a dance, attended by students of Mills College and friends from the University of Call- fnmln Ktanfnrif find' St. Mary'S. Miss Mary Nehr is In charge of the dance, which, like the bazaar.

Is open to the public. The entire affair Is sponsored by the Mills club of Alameda county, of which Mrs. Victor Doyle Is president. Mrs. Morton M.

Garbus is rnera1 chairman of the day. Pro- i ceeds derived from the bazaar are to be placed in the Mills College president's building fund. life was saved. Others died, how-ever, when live steam was turned Intd their cells to quell a mutiny." For seven years Dupres lived In the colony, shackled to his mates day and night. They lived on moldy.

maggot-Infested bread brought to camp in the same wheelbarrows which carried corpse to tha sharks, his story goes. Fever and starvation constantly thinned the ranks. By agreeing to work among lepers, Dupres and others finally obtained greater freedom and eventually made their escape In an outrigger canoe, he told Dr-Hover. All his companions either died or were recaptured, but he flnallv made his way to Dutch Guiana and there took ship for Philadelphia. ne.nlii.

the nunishment which awaits him In his native land, Du pres nopes against nopps nf be permitted to return even'usllv. "I cannot be happy until I viit the crave of my mother," he de- clartd. Ex-Apache, Terror Island Escape Found in S. F. Money Gone, By NANCY No more mall order bride's for Jamet Totten.

This is the conclusion reached by tha correspondence school suitor who traveled rom Brooklyn, N. and laid his entire patrimony of three diamond rings at the' feet of Rose Pollock, real estate operator and matrimonial expert, of 3865 Buell The complications of romance and finance were taken up by Prosecuting Attorney James Klrby this morning, when Totten had Rosle cited to appear in the hope that he might get his diamonds back and straighten out the en tanglements in which, as variously stated by the principals, Totten pulled tha diamonds, out of his sock as a guarantee of his good behavior until his matrimonial bu reau acquaintance with Rose progressed to the altar, gave the dia monds in exchange for a deed to real estate which failed to materialised, or, as Rose herself has It, traded the diamonds for $600 In cash which Totten declares -he never received. StlTOK CHIVALROUS. "I'd like to have my diamonds back, but I don't want to send Rosle to Jail." Thus chivalry conquered lucre today, when Totten decided to charge his adventure to experience and let It go at that. I paid 15 to a matrimonial agency for a list of names, and en tered Into correspondence wun about "40 pruxpecls, but out ef them all I chose Rosle." Totten said.

"My first wife lett me the three diamonds and the furniture of the rooming house, of which she had been manager. I sold thq turnlture for $125 to get the far to corns by boat to California ana Rosle. HE LEARNED ABOUT WOMEN. "Now I'm broke. No furniture, no diamonds, no wife.

Not that want a wife," he added hastily. "If Rosle came up to me now and said, "Lets get married, 'I'd say, 'Nothing riolnjj-' Itosie lias taught me a lot. I'll say that for her. I'm oot only steering away from any BAR to Hike Home II MAVITY other brides by the eorrepondence. methods, but I've) gfven'up wanting a wife on any terms.

The prelimi naries are too expensive." Totten has also decided that, so far as his personal experience goes, California Is altogether too much of a' "gold coast" to appeal to him. Having spent his Inheritance in getting here, and being out of any diamonds' to make a lump In his sock, he has decided to walk back tff Brooklyn. "It may be cold there at this time of year, but life is simpler," he i "All I ask is that I should continue to remain a peaceful widower. I haven't any money and I haven't any diamonds. I think I'll just 'kiss her goodbye and- call It quits." Court Ruling Raises Interest Due Estate MARYSVILLE.

Dec. 4 The Bank of Italy National Trust and Savings Association receives $34.49 instead of $1410. S3 as its commission for serving as executor in tha estate of Edwin McCord Smith, ao cldentally drowned at Lake Alma-nor last year. The acion follows, a ruling of state-wide interest made by Judge K. S.

Mahon here In September, when he said that executors have no tight to use estate funds and pay Ui estates only 4 per cent Interest. Cash on hand In the Smith estate, as the decree of final settlement was allowed, was $43. 170. JO. The final accoit originally acknowledged interest of $700.13.

at. 4 per cent. Judge Mahon contended that the executor deposited the estate moneys in the Bank of 'Italy, "co-mlngling the funds with Its own money, and used in transacting its own business." This, he contended, entitled It to the legal rate of 7 per cent, so that the correct Inter-ett paid Into the estate diouU! have been The final r. deducts 1 1 the int. t-ferpnoe.

from tVl asAeJ, leaving $31.4. SA- FRANCI6(COr 4 A former -Paris Apache, one of few men who has ever escaped from Devil's Island, French" penal colony and lived to tell the tale, resides here and makes an honest though humble living as a mechanic. r. The name Tinder which he noes is Pierre Duwes. He told his story of horrors to Dr.

Glenn. -Hoover, professor of economics at Mills College, Oakland. Once known -In -Pariclan night life as the "phantom bandit," who fled on a motorcycle after robbing his victims, Dupres told Dr. Hoover, he was caught and sentenced to the guillotine. Through executive clemency his Bentence was w-onimuted and he was sent to Devil's Island.

"There were 1070 of us aboard the convict ship Loire." Dupres told the college professor. "One man broke a razor, swallowed the blade and leaped overboard. His.