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Oakland Crifaunc DECEMBLR 15, 1929 A- 3 OAKLAND LAD' AS VI REAL SUNDAY CHRISTM BECOMES IC1GHTS Oil TR EE I LAKE FARM BOARD GETS BACKING Fantastic Dream Now Brilliant Reality Few children' Christmas dreamt have reached actuality as completely- as tliat of Bobby Hillback, who visioned a floating Christmas tree on Lake Merritt. That vision materialized with a formal lighting ceremony last night. (Upper right) The tree at night (Lower left) MR. and MRS. GEORGE A.

HILLBACK, Bobby's parents, view the spectacle; (Lower, center) MRS. HILLBACK turns on the lights. (Lower right)- MRS. MARIE HALBROOK (left) Bobby's aunt of Los Angeje and BUSINESS IN BLUEBIRD TQ U. S.

IS GOOD, HOLD PARTY SAY REPORTSOVER BADIG Hollywood Having Its Christmas In Big Way JL Movie Santa Claus Makes Arctic Variety Look Like Tramp. MRS. R. W. GREER (right) his grandmother, resent at the ceremony TRIBUNE photos.

TURNED Oil fc Program Will Be Given At KLX Studio On Afternoon of Day Before Christinas. The Bluebird's going to have a cl Christmas party. And since he couldn't possibly 5 find a hall big enough to hold all sf Jh" the children he'd like to invite, he's Lj going to hold it over the radio. -n't It's going to take place from "ti'- 3:30 to 4:30 b'clock in the after- noon on December 24, the day be- Sj-Sj fore Christmas, and everything that happens at the party is going v- .5 "fl)7- to be broadcast over KLX, The f- TRIBUNE'S radio station. L.

About 25 or the very best chll- "2l 2 il dren In Oakland, the youngsters 7T TT Sit jfemmmm who have minded their parents It Mil If Il 1 all the year round, and have been II 'lit in all ways most deserving, will II 5 ZZ be the special guests of honor. I They'll be in the broadcasting If 'V room on the seventh floor of The s'f I TRIBUNE building during the pro. I'kI ft. I gram. There'll be vaudeville 1 ((3 stunts, and lots of fun with "Happy il IS rr-f Hayseeds," the famous comedians I 8 1 1 i 1 I'll li.

ture act. The program Is beinar I II II AKAi'-f i II 1 "111 1 4 w- I A 1 GROWERS Outcry By Grain Dealers Leads to United Front On Embattled Wheat Fields of the Nation. By WILLIAM HARD. XEAREn WIHE TO TRIBUNE BY CONSOLIDATED PRESS WASHINGTON. Dec.

14. The outstanding political event nationally of the past week has been the mounting wave of agricultural sen1 timent in favor of the federal farm board's present efforts, particularly In reference to grain, and in favor of a quick passage of the tariff bill with its present schedules as more or less determined principally more by the coalition of democrat and reoubllcan insurgents in the senate. This double development begins to put ft new face on the farm problem and indicates strongly that possibly within the next rew months the country wiJJ pass out of the period of agricultural agitation for new legislation into a period marked, by the carrying of that legislation Into political constructive effort. The immediate origin of the sudden surge of farm feeling on behalf of the Federal Farm board has been due to outcries against the board in certain quarters in the private grain trade. Numerous grain dealers have thought themselves threatened, in the very existence of their businesses, by the board's operations.

FEARS MAY BE JUSTIFIED. In a degree their fears have been fully justified. The Federal Farm board, under the chairmanship of Alexander Legge, iormerlf president of the International Harvester company, is setting up' a new cooperative farmer-controlled wheat organization which undoubtedly- will do a. considerable part iof llie buy. Inir and selling formerly done by private enterprise.

In fact. It can probably safely be said that no such drastic competition under governmental auspices against the private businesses of private citizens has ever before happened In American history. It is true that members of. the Federal Farm board do not think that this competition will annihilate the private grain dealers. Former Governor McKelvie of Nebraska, a member of the beard, expresses to this writer the view tjjnt the cooperative organizatiaSet up by the board and finaifced by the board will be able within the immediate future to control not more than per cent of the wheat marketed.

Large room will be left, in McKel-vle's opinion, for sound and serv iceable private grain firms, wc Kelvie also thinks that the increased stability given to the grain market bv the Federal Farm board's opera tions and by the farmer-controlled cooperative wheat pool will be of positive advantage to such grain dealers as are engaged not'in mere speculation but in the actual mer ehandising of wheat. FARMERS CONVINCED, These consoling thoughts from McKelvie and from other members of the board do not suffice to allay the anxiety of grain dealers who see before them an undoubted diminution of the need for their activities and who realize that a certain number of them, at any rate, may presently be obliged to seek other occupations. Tills attitude on their-part was apparently all that was needed to convince multitudes of farmers that the Federal Farm board must be moving In the right direction. It can be accurately stated, in sum, that at this week-end the organized farmers of the United States, through most of their societies, such as (notably) the American Farm Board Federation and the National Grange and he Farmers' Union, have at length ral lied definitely to the farm board as the immediate forum through which they have their best hope of working out their problem to a solution. crincinal effort of the west was 1 rVJ'J'vSl ai 'jf1? Cj By JESSIE HENDERSON BY CONSOLIDATED PEESS LEASED WIRE TO TRIBUNE HOLLYWOOD, Xec.

14. Santa Claus has gone Hollywood. The jolly old saint who used to sneak down chimneys with no more ad vanee publicity than a skitter of reindeer hoofs over the eaves has come right out Into the great open spaces of Hollywood boulevard and is doing his stuff in a big way. The movies have signed up Krlss Kringle. Thongh chambers of commerce, merchants' guilds and civic organizations are the back-- ers and sponsors, the entire merry Ynlctide in this town seems to be stage-set, micro-phoned, and continuity written according to the rules of the silver screen.

Merry? Yea, bo I Whatever else they may be, cinema stars are not reticent. This fact evidently was slipped to Santa when he accepted the lead In the gorgeous slx-reeler into which the pre-hollday season has been turned. Instead, therefore, of hiding shyly behind palm trees and polnsettla bushes he has burst upon Hollywood boulevard, and is going to burst there every night up to December 25, with all the effulgence of a newly discovered film hero. Is there a Santa Claus? Ask Hollywood. TREES BY STREEWCTj.

What Broadway is to New York, so to Hollywood Is this boulevard, renamed for the once "Santa Claus Lnne." It has been flanked on both sides by Christmas trees, each of which leaps Into Incandescence the instant darkness falls. Not erne Christmas 'tree, you understand place "here and there In a public park to satisfy the sim ple. soul of New York but dozens of em. And not ordinary Incandescence. The committee on arrangements has bought up well nigh every flashing light on the west, coast.

Hollywood Christmas trees do not merely shine; they wink--at-yoUj-- Not to be ontdone, the shops, hotels apd restaurants have made whoopee of their own in the mat- ter of Ynlctide observance. Santa In replica climbs down chimneys glittering wllh synthetic tlhst, which conceal phonngraplis that warble carols as you claw 'for place at greeting card counters. Dining room orchestras synchro-nlzOtscasonal airs with your sups of soup beneath evergreen bonghs. i SANTA WITH SIREN. But wait.

Amid the visual and aural clamor of good cheer, a devilish howl arises; it's a fire siren with a long drawn jelp like that of a thousand lost souls, the first un earthly of which would have sent the old-fashioned child scudding horns to hide beneath the bed. But the modern child, a movie fan froni' birth, reallzesrthat this dole ful uluiation heralds no disaster greater than the approach of Santa Claus. Simultaneously with the siren's bellow, there leaps from behind every Christmas tree along the boulevard a dazzling flood of purple, gold, green, bine, crimson, pink, orange, or violet radiance emanating from billion-candlepowcr kllegs loaned by billion-dollar moxie corporations. In response to urge of the siren, the operators give the kllegs a nudge and the kllegs begin to revolve, slashing the heavens with a bigger, better, busier borealls. Beside It, the ont-dated aurora flickering around Santa's earst-whlle Arctlo igloo looks Uke a tramp.

Comes a fanfare of bugles. Not a mere tootle; an absolute fanfare. Comes ths roar of an airplane, trailing a snowstorm down upon the crowds' not mere natural snow, but snow more scientifically sclntil-lant. KEEP OLD TITLE. Then sweeps into view Santa Claus on a float, reJndeer and ail-but Santa Claus with a difference.

When Clnemavllle took over the ancient legend, they rewrote the nlot: modsriilzed It In srcnrdAnr-j- with the best methods of high pres sure scenario men. For some in scrutable reason, they adhered to the former title of "Merry although, since stockings are universally hung up, they might easily have thought out a boxofflce wow like "Whose Hose?" or "Legs." But while adhering to the orig inal title, they realized at once that the Santa Claus legend lacked sex appeal. Hence, when Santa heaves Into view distributing tickets (who wants striped candy, nowadays?) from a sleigh hung with sliver icicles, there also heaves into viewt seated at his side. Anita Page or Nancy Carroll or Lillian Gish or Dolores Del Rio. as the case may be a companion with personality, and a different com panion promised for each evening.

Small wonder, perhaps, that Santa Claus, himself, has shed years since his arrival here. De spite his long, white beard, those who happen to look at him gain the impression that he is really young and handsome, with a nice straight nose, yes, sir, Santa Claus has "it" In Hollywood. Altogether, you gather that this is Christmas by DeMllle or Grlf. fith. Only one flaw exists.

They forgot to gild the--C'hristma trees. (csprnrbt, iz. for tribune.) New 'Rioe Prison Warden Selected AUBTJRV. N. Dec.

14. Dr. Raymond F. C. Kieb, commissioner of correction, announced today that Frank L.

Christian, superin tendent of Elmlre reformatory, had arrived and would assume temporary rhlria fit thm Anhnrn nrlimi Administration Officials Say Retail Buying of Nation I "Holding Up in Spite of Overproduction By DAVID LAWRENCE. WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. With an eagerness born' of a -desire to refute any psychology of hesitation in business that "may have resulted from the recent stock market decline, administration officials are pouncing upon every bit of Information and statistics that throw light on the business situa tion. What happened in November Is considered particularly pertinent.

The assumption is that If the stock market losses were widespread they would be reflected In a 'diminution of retail buying. But the figures for department store sales throughout the twelve federal reserve districts actually show a slight in crease. There is no denying that the increase would have been sub stantial i stances. pressed that November, 1929, more than held its own with November, 1928. Ths figures on Christmas buying are pointed to by the White House as sign that the country has not at all been shaken by the recent crisis.

In fact, the volume of holiday trading is ahead of last year. BUSINESS INCREASES. In many cases the reports indicate that some stores show a substantial increase In business. The belief is expressed by the experts here that the buying power of those who speculated in the market was undoubtedly affected, but that, relatively speaking, the whole country averaged up as well as last year on buying power. It la pointed out that many of the people who sold their stocks at a profit before the decline are undoubtedly buying luxuries and that the large number who saved their money and did not speculate are proceeding in normal fashion to satisfy their wants.

The most important piece of news with respect to the business situation is the notable increase In construction contracts during the first week in December. The average for 27 eastern states, according to Secretary Lamont of the department of commerce. Is well over the figures for the same week of last year and also higher than the previous week. RECORD FORESEE. There is every evidence that construction is going to have a record year in 1930 and that much of the labor laid off In the radio and automotive industries will find Its way into construction.

A vast amount of lumber Is used In mak ing radio sets and bodies of auto- DN" will be needed in construction On the whole there is an, underlying confidence now in the business situation reflected by government officials, which is backed up by statistics gathered in the last 30 days. tdrrrickt, IMS, fx The TxIBVXX.) but gratification is ex- I1 Mrs. Hillback, MotEer tEe Boy WEo Envisioned Spectacle, Officially Starts Electric Current. (Continued From Page 1 .) their presentation of Christmas ballads, Boyes outlined the season's program. All of the programs will be "ca jfrom- mounted on- the float which supports ths tree and via KFWM.

Immediately following the ex erctses Mr. and Mrs. Hillback, Mrs. Halbrook, and Mrs. Robert Greer, grandmother of Bobby, entered a boat end were taken for a trip around the tree by water.

According to Supervisor J. H. Moore of the municipal boat house, boats will be available throughout the Christmas season, for those who would like to view t.hn tren from tlm Kiirfjtee fit ths lake. Clinton Morse, and Ernest A. Richards, with their chorus of Shrine Chanters, opened the' program with a number' of Christmas and other holiday ballads.

They were followed by Miss Margaret O'Dea, nationally known radio contralto, singing "Silent Night, Holy Night," and "Sampson and Delilah." She was accompanied by Rose Leaves Heder of San rancisco. Caro Roma. Internationally known Oakland composer, scored with her "Shout the Glad Tidings O'er Hill and Vale." Miss -Dorothy Brown, Oakland riiezzo-sdprano, sang with VUJllfJUDfl 113 HUUUIIlltLlUBl. The song has been sung at a number of larger' chrio Christmas celebrations, Including otte in Now York, several-yearssgor-E ccordlngto Roma. Boys of the Fremont high school brass septette concluded the program with "Quartette from Semlra-mlde," Serenade from "The Student Prince," "Pilgrim's Chorus from Faust" and selections from "The Desert Song." I Lt AAA AAA nr i ou.uuu.uuu i ax vur, Passed by Congress, i i- IU I IUUVCI IU ftJlgll (Continued From Page ell, LaFollette, McMaster, Norbeck, Norrls and Nye.

Democrats 8 Blease, Thomas of Oklahoma and Only one pair was announced, that of McKellar, Democrat, Tennessee with Townsend, Republican, Delaware, for the resolution. Stubborn reslstence was put up by the farm bloc group. Five amendments proposed by- them were voted down. The opposition was led by Senator Norrls, Republican, Nebraska, who insisted the treasury surplus be applied to reduction of the piib- which would benefit ths greater number of persons. Colorado Warden Urged to Resign DENVER, Dec.

14. -i The failure of Colorado penitentiary officials to place Danny Daniels and Jimmie Pardue in solitary confinement, when they knew they "were cold blooded killers, and not to be trusted," led to ths bloody October riots at ths penitentiary, and is ground for their ouster, Benjamin C. Hilllard reported to Gov. W. H.

Ann a si Hilllard, a Denver attorney. Investigated the riot for the governor with W. W. Grant and Henry McAllister but refused to sign their report because he could not concur in a majority of their recommendations. His minority report today recommended wholesale ousters of the penitentiary person nel.

He declared the warden and deputy warden should resign, and "as rapidly as conditions permit the guards should be replaced by men honesty and firmness of character (some of that kind are now Hilllard proposed repeal of the laws under which the state civil service commission operates, tbs abolishment of the commission, ana mo appuimmeni or an state employes by elected officials responsible to the voters. He declared the members of the board of corrections should resign. Advocating reforms in the state penal system, Hilllard agreed with the other investigators that a prison chaplain ought to be employed. that convicts be given work on pub lic roads, the state to pay for their subsistence, and that a portion of the convicts' earnings be credited to him for such use as he desires to make of It, -i Magnate's Son Freed From British Jail BT UNITED JHESS LEASED WIHt TO TBIBOXt LONDON, Dec. 14.

Rey nolds, 2S-year-old sort of the late millionaire United States tjjbacco magnate, has been released secretly from Wormwood Scrubbs prison after completing a five months' sentence for manslaughter, and sailed for Njw York, it was learned today. Ex-Premier Elected Greek Presldczl BT trif'rro LIASKB WIHE 10 ntTUPVJ ATHENS, GKEECE, D-. 14. Alexander Zalmis, president of senate and forme1 prerr. elected to the rf t'ourJo rioUs, Thousands of Outdoor Christmas Trees Will Be Lighted on Thursday given under ths auspices of Ths TRIBUNE Lost and Found bureau of this classified ad department.

which la cooperating with the Bluebird to make the party a success, SANTA TO BE THERE. Santa Claus will be there in person, to hand out gifts, donated by the Goodfellows, to the youthful honor guests. And maybe, -If the youngsters look sharp, they'll catrh a glimpse of the Bluebird himself. Every bit of the fun-maklngi every Joyous chuckle In the broad -castihg room will go out over the ether to thousands of other little folk In the Eastbay at whose homes the Bluebird will call a few hours later with gifts to make Christmas a happy day. In order that lie fnay not have to miss any homes, however, the Bluebird still needs lots qf help.

There's a family of which the Bluebird learned today for which he would like to find a Goodfel-low. The father Is crippled from wounds received in the World ar. and cannot work. He has spent years In hospitals, and although now able to limp about, cannot make a MOTHER TAKEN ILL. The mother worked steadllv until a few months ago.

when she fell ill and was taken to Highland hos pital. While she was there her baby died. She came home a month ago, and ever since has been hunt ing tor a Job, but without success. This father and mother have two little girls. The oldest, II.

Is deaf, having been run over by an automobile several years aeo. Eha Is going to the hospital tomorrow for an operation. She will be home bv Christmas, but her homecoming will not be a happy one unless some help Is forthcoming. Neigh- Dors wno iniormed the Bluebird of this case declare that the children do not have enough to eat or suf ficient clothing to kep them warm. Vtbo'll lend a hand 7 PITTSFIELD.

Mas. about killing two birds with one etons. Henry Hart of New Marlboro recently killed two wildcats with a single rifle bullet The cats were fighting over rvt'4 tits lift fired. California, from the border of Mexico to the boundary of Oregon, Thursday night will burst forth In one glorious panorama of Illuminated outdoor Christmas trees with giant redwoods, pines, spruce. Douglas firs snd deodars ablaze with lights as the California Christmas Tree association officially opens the Tuletlds season.

The Bay region will be one of. the most beautiful in the state. Besides the Lake Merritt floating Christmas tree, officially lighted last night, hundreds of smaller private and semi-private outdoor trees will ehlne forth in Oakland and the Eastbay in accordance with association plans. The entire length of Hollywood avenue will be lined on both sides by illuminated trees as the Hollywood Avenue Improvement club joins in ths festive spirit. TO LIGHT BIG REDWOOD Practically ever7 horns In Piedmont will have an outdoor Christina tree, and a dozen blocks along College avenue -h- Berkeley will be lined with Illuminated trees.

The entire Fernwood addition of Alameda will be Illuminated as residents there join In the plan. The great redwood beside the Southern Pacific station on Ehat-tuck avenue, Berkeley, will be decorated with 150 colored lights, and bright bits of tinsel will sparkle through Its boughs. Seventeen families In Trestle Glen bave joined to bespangle g-rent pine In their neighborhood. Beneath its branches parents and their children will gather Thursday night in a neighborhood sociable to watch Its lights go on. Hundreds of families In the hills above Berkeley and Piedmont have signified their Intention of having 4 laast on glittering ejmbol of the season flash to the cities below them.

George Friend, president of the Berkeley- chamber of commerce, already has illuminated a beautiful green spruce In front of his new home, located high above and to the north of the unlveraltju His bejeweled tribute to the season may be seen for more than ten miles by passengers on transcontinental trains and by tourists on the highway. San Francisco, too. Is to have a great Christmas spectacle. Thursday night what Is said w11 be the greatest panorama sf lighted Christmas trees irt ths world will be flashed forth on the panhandle of Golden Gate park. IDEA SWEEPS STATE Every one of "The Mils of Trees" there will be Illuminated some In red.

some in white, come in green and green and blue, some alt gold, all white and many In varied shades of lights. Special reflectors will cast the colored rays of 6500 lamps into" the leafy branches. They will shine every night until New Year's. Richmond avenue In San Ft-an-rlsco in to be another lane of brilliant symbolism, while every residence along El Vcrano wsy will have an Individual C'hrNt--nins tree In Its rnrd. Even the name of the street lias been changed for the acann to Christmas Tree avenue.

The residents pooled together and went so far as to buy new street signs to replace present ones. At Gilroy. H. P. Atkinson, a merchant.

Is decorating 14 redwoods that stretch In a -straight line for more than 600 feet be-j tween the Pacific highway and the Southern Pacific track. Every tourist in the district will eeo them. TO DECORATE CEDAR Along The A'amedt between San Joes and Sanu Clara each of ths expended In fighting the ast. That was the stage of construction. NYE APPROVES TARIFF.

We now. In the tariff matter, seem to have come Into the stage of achievement. The coalition of democrats and of republican insurgents in the senate has re-written the duties in the bill to such an extent that Senator Nye. always alert to catch all the new drifts of things, has been willing to commit himself on the senate floor- to the following proposition: i 'Tills bill Is clearly being made Into the best tariff bill that has ever been written hr the congress or the United States." Being Interpreted, this statement means that In Senator Nye's opinion, the bill now contains more new advarisSges for farmers and fewer advantages for Industrialists than in any former instance of congressional tariff action. It is natural that a large number of northwest-f rn newspaper editors should have affixed their names to the recent famous newspaper advertisement demanding that the congress now Vpass the bill as rapidly 48 possible.

The best judges here at this moment are absolutely confident that the new urgent agricultural demand for quick tariff legislation will presently give us a tariff bill that can be passed and that can be Th TurBUJX.) LEICESTER. Eng. Twins bom Jn the Margaret MaeDonald ward of Leicester Infirmary while Prime M-nister MaeDonald wm receiving 97 residents will have at least one deodar tree bedecked in trinkets and bathed In colored light. The California Nurseries at Nlle will trim at least a dozen of the trees on the highway. Most of them will be 25 feet high.

Among the famous lofty mon-archs of the California forests to be trimmed and lighted will be the original Cedar of Lebanon now standing guard over the tomb of Luther Burbank near Santa Rosw. The government will dress up the famous old redwood. General Grant, In Sequoia National forest. Shriners will decorate and lilu-mlnute the tall tree In front of the Children's Hospital at Nineteenth and Lawton avenues, San Its lights flash on next Saturday night the children will sing Christmas carols. Candy and fruit will he given them as a sample of what they are to get Christmas dny.

In Yosemlte Valley, winter residents will have a gorgeous fir in a "Christmas setting, while each home will have a shining token of the Yuletlde glittering In the snow before Its door. A tree that will be seen from nearly all of the Bay Shore highway, the Dumbarton bridge and the San Mateo-Hayward toll bridge will be bedecked by the united Masonic lodges of Centerville, Niles and Livermore. The tree will shine forth from an elevation of nearly 2.000 feet from the Masonio Home at Decoto. An organization in ths bay region complying with the requests of the California Tree club not affiliated in any way with the Christmas Tree association will he the Business and Professional Women's club of Oakland. The club will Uke live nine trers in tubs for Its annual Chrktmas 1 next Thursday.

In both those Industries Ueutenat-oovernor Herbert 91. State Police Captain Stephen Mc-Grath troop, Oneida, and his men for the heroic part they played In the Auburn riot Wednesday, when they risked death to rescue Warden Edgar S. Jennings Und se from ths con- Lehman officially the freedom of the city were ehris. -4 Rmy m-hbhj '4.