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Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 10

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Oakland Tribunei
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Oakland, California
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JANUARY 1930 DaklanD WEDNESDAY EVENING io ASKS floating Christmas Tree to Be Dismantled Today WARREN Something to See About SURVEY SITE 0 FPOSTDFFICE i fit- nr4inr of hostilities. nilEKI IJI fioHne Christmas tree. Numerous letters received by the Forum department of The TRIB Buflt to he the United States wi nthe war. dui mumeo imo thr iconcrete ship PALO ALTO is 'receiving finishing touches at the Moore drydocks Oak land tfu will transform the vessel into a floating amusement pelace. The craft to be toved to Santa Cruz and anchored off a 400-foot pier to reign as carnival queen.

TRIBUNE photo. of Bobby H1U- 1MNT0F FIVE PLACES UNE have urged the continuance oacav- temtjorary reHremeri at midnight tonight, and J'S RECORD 1 hi? this tuns dismantled and removed Whether tne uw airland' Institution of a Department's Success Eight- ing Bruclj Fires In Hills i Given Much Praise. Oakland Firm to Furnish U. S. Bureau Topographical Map of Lot definite step toward actual of Oakland's federal building and post office will be taken tomorrow morning meTm.mory is still a.

moot ques-tTon to members-of the seneral thev agreed today. Much feeling for of the" floating tree Idea and the perpetuation of the dream of Bobby Hillback. Variations of the Idea, such as the transplanting of a. huge tree to duck Island, have also been received. This latter suggestion was almost immediately abandoned when park officials announced that such a'move would destroy forever the duck roosting places there, made possible through years work on the part of park employes.

The task of towing the floating "Island" to shore, lowering the tree and dismantling the float, has been undertaken by the Thomas Rigging company with L. Dalzell fh charge. The removal and packing of ornaments, wiring, cables, and other equipment will be handled 1y the societies and business concerns that furnished them. 1 ivhen the Lord Engineeimis coraing ul.e of the prog-11)0 tV.o nuthnard tnnnpranhlflal SS o( the-site for the District Attorney Files Action Against Premises Which Sold Liquor. -r- Abatement of five buildings for violaticm of liquor and red light laws is sought by District Attorney Karl- Warren as the new year betrins.

The places Warren wants closed, together with defendant owners or operators of the property, are: 3618 Peralta street. Emeryville; Mmnila SIcKlnney; for violating liquor laws December 13, 192.9 and for two years prion, 2301-2303 Clement avenue. Alameda; Glen Lowes, O. D. Lunt.

Ab-nr is. Adams, Florence I Adams, Charles King and T. W. Leydecker; for violating liquor laws December IS. 1923.

and four months prior. 619 Eighteenth street, Oakland; T. fi. TJelamothe. Louise Dela- races on the lake was motor boat r.i extensive ue" etruciur.

The building will be erected on to brln? tnvBlvand other holi-progrann oi i rrm the Block-. U'''' 'r r-hMl -w iiJu y' Si racOTnc. beiVrtber 14. the Tbirteenta, auc StAuthorizatiorl to commence a onenlng SnaletrWeved. Student Federation Opens National Meet at Stanford mothe, Catherine Delamothe, Harold Johnson, Harry Lord and Frank Mitchell; for violating liquor laws November 6, 1929, and for 14 rtav by me born signed by S.

Homme, acting executive officer of the office of the supervising architect. Depar -rhent of the at Vvash- lnSWonrkDonCthis must be completed within 15 calendar days, which will mean that the survey will be ended byAaennThye ground will be brolcen is still problematical, but Indication" are that It will be In the near and specifications for the structure must be prepared and bids for construction called for. Biddings occupying the site have tructed of a solid reinforced concrete. It Is of 3C96 net tons register, 420 feet long. months prior.

Concrete Ship Will End Days PALO ALTQ. Jan. 1 W) Delegates from universalis and col-feees-throuBhout the United States today opened the fifth annua eonJress of the National Student Federation of the United StateB of federation ui R. C. Porter, twao- -i-iarwooa 2003 AlarKec street, uaKmna, Roy G.

Moseley, Myrtle G. TUofv Tmhupn and Cain. treet. owner of the craft, haa Th ulnglo feat of any Organization within thrn riepartrnfinl of public health and salety durlns the'vear 1929 In Oakland wan the euceesa of the flr department In roping; hthe daucerou hruh L' flreg in the bills no that only one mtiall building, worth 300. lost," according to an annual mm-rmary of departmental affaira by Commissioner C.

C. Younp. When It la astimoted thnt nearly one-third of the aixty square mile within th Oakland' city limit was huriid by these brush fires at var-loiia times, the acrompllKhment of ths fire department IS held to be i of the most remarkable in any city It the country. Hundred of homes were Mvd from the on-: rush of the flames at various l. times, Th par-capita fire loss in Oakland during the past, year has been reduced to 1.1.

as against a national per-caplta losa of about $4 for 1928. Young asserts- alao that "the po-lice department- has recovered more than $1,600,000 worth of stolen property and haa kept the general crime condition, eo rampant In other sections of the couu- tjt. down to a minim Oakland's milk aupply still leads the state In purity. The building department expects to be working at full speed shortly because) of the large bulldlnK pro-gram of Oakland for 1830. "Altogether," suys YounR.

"1929 was a euccessful year and the next year will undoubtedly be- much for Oakland." ACCrSKD MAX JBKED FLORENCES Jan. Rodney Kclleher, held In Jail here four days as Erdrnan Olson, accused slayer of his sweetheart, Clara Olson in November, 1926, was released today after officers failed to identify him, as the long rltles, relatlonshlpi of students to the city in which the college Is located, and other phases of student activities. Officers of the federation are, Ursel C. Harver, president, Oregon State college; Martha H. Biehle.

vice-president, Wellesley. and Max J. Chapman, treasurer, Oberlln college. John D. Van Amringe of Stanford university will be congress chairman.

As Museum at Santa Cruz lyjoined 'with other investors in for violating liquor law November TheecoCgr68 will continue through UltlllUO 11IIUUDU creating the Heacnrr Amusement enmnanv. whleh will operate the Hanta Cru, venture. His colleagues January problems to comerbefon beforTie conies artfd national itrnltles, eore- are: O. Heiner of Santa. Jjruz, tt an Instrument 11 and ror lour years prion 4216 Holden street.

Emeryville; Michael J. Hays, Viola L. Martin, Billy Freeman, Lydla Stansberry and six Does: for red light law violation during the past three months, Santa Cruz, pulled by tugs, the con- AfA.A nlaaanfA fratt will find been ri" nBriiiiiiv. hv the nrnilKtlce ellginii'iy permanent haven off even before it was scheduled to Charles M. Krb and George C.

Humes of Aptos, K. J. Banks of Salt Lake City and R. Carpenter of Ely, Nev. beacn, at tne end ei a iuu-ioui vmi now under construction.

bopin. Now the iz.tMiu.uuu concrete ship Palo Alto, tied up here for a long time, will soon bo converted nto a floating amusement Deput District Attorney Robert Hunter filed the proceedings for Warren. v.fn nil I he made fast by two huge anchors, each with 1200 feet or chain, uer prow- i headed out to sea to split the waves, lia 1010 wlian the. end at palace. 1 Within a week the vessel, one of five concrete ships built In Oakland by the United Btates government during the war, will leave the Moore shipbuilding yards, where she Is being made ready for her rinhiit a carnival aueen, ana hostilities pushed the Palo Alto Into the discard, the ship has been tied 1, 1 1 1.

arrant Tin rf of S. to Welcome Rubio of Mexico SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 1 An elaborate welcome is being planned by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce for President-elect Pas-qual Ortiz Rubio of Mexico, now in Washington, should ha carry, out a plan to visit San Francisco en route to the southern republic. Ru-blo has made tentative plans to stop at Chicago, Detroit and San Francisco. He will leave Wash EXTRA INTEREST time.

Recently she was moved New Drive to Open On Faulty Brakes Declaring that more than 60 per cent of teh automobile accidents in the state are duo to faulty brakes, the California safety conference of tho state chamber of commerce, In cooperation, with Frank Snook, chief of the division of motor vehicles, toddy announced a January campaign for good brakes, head for Hanta Cruz.i A dance swimming pom, t.M,.H. Uf.niV.rn ffh o-rnttn and to- tne lietmenem pium nmo nun later to the Moore drydock, where the extensive work entailed In her outfitting as a floating amusement palace was undertaken. Originally bullt to carry oil In retlCnUUIIIk various amusement devices have FREE! been JnstRllea in tne vessel i mo docks in Oakland. ington at the end of this week. war servwe, me raiu ailu.ib rnmn a.

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