Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 3

NOVEMBEft'207'f93r 3 BUILDING TRADES PLAN 1000 JOBS FOR UNEMPLOYED LIFE II LIB FRIDAY'1 EVENING 4000 MEN GIVEN WURK IN fJA.S Rl AST fJv I ANKFR vPPIT A rC rlF A TU A III rn UIAP I EMERGENCY CAMPAIGN SO i DESIGNED SWAN SONG EAR, DRIVE 10 BE SPEEDED A Registration of Jobless Continued at BLASTPR00F A y' 0 0lSfe-Tt tl Charlie Watson, Built in Play 'Pantaloon' Reveals Producer's Philosophy and Awaits Competent Actors; Oakland in 1920. First a Diesel Endne Tanker Fire Stations; Effort to Be Continued! Another Week; Piedmont Gets Results Built in Oakland at the plant of the I'nion Construction company, tho oil tanker Charlie Watson whs Oakland's rmcrgencv work campaign, which has resulted in ihe creation of more than' 4000 jobs since beina launched Monday, today was unanimously joined by the building trades organizations of the city, it was announced by George Lickteig, chairman of the industrial divisions of the employment drive." C. J. Strublc, general campaign chairman, declared that a special division, composed of contractors, engineers and others engaged in building operations, had been organized and would make an intensive canvass for employment within their own By MORRIS WATSON. NEW YORK.

Nov. 20. C45) David Belasco believed life was a lie. Tlat was his swan song and he never lived to hear It sung. It Is In, the hands now of Achmed Abdul- lah in the for a a -I a nlflv anil jflt may wait yet awnue until actora worthy II i ii ilfciiiii ii li aui a re the Belaftco trad 1 tlon are found, v.

The great I producer until his death last May. the dean of them all wrote the play in col- I a oration I with Ah-dullah, and. so says the i aaaiaaaaaiaaaaauii i awwx imm mmmlmm mmm i i ACHMED ABDULLAH. latter, meant It to be the, symbol, ot his own philosophy. (t His philosophy wss: Remorse and forgiving wlli In Itself do away with evlkv The play concerns the For the characters the theater maa drew upon hie ancestors, and made) Pantaloon and Harlequin the chief dlapensora ot his philosophy.

Be- laaco's father was a famous Panta- loon of England. His grandfather was a prise-fighter and ancestors) before him back to the middle ages have been showmen of one type er 'l It LiV-irl i lanm another. "It's good theater," says Abdul- lah, "nothing highbrow; symbolic but Interpreted In strict terms of life It's a play for the masses." ntOUMil Harlequin delivers the theme, prologue: Mrs: I beg jreaar parrfoa, Id' ax mraa to disturb ms. Bat 1 rto yna know what la hack yon- drr hack Magr? Permit me to tell vntt then, sirs! Hack 1 1 MMiUiis a'ttlanTii a i tMiwlaCsw'uataMMMaMMSMj i i which was ripped from stem to stern. Huge clouds of smoke enveloped the ship (upper photo) and made the work of rescuing members of the crew trapped in the hold even more difficult.

The tanker's decks were awash a short time after the first blast. The lower photo shows her sinking at the pier. TRIBUNE Cxploding gasoline killed three members of the crew of the Standard Oil company tanker Charlie Watson at her pier in San Francisco today and injured more than a dozen oilier men, several of them to seriously that physicians despaired of saying them. Firemen risked their lives to quell the flames that shot out from the hold of the vessel. launched August 14, 1920, as th first full Diesel engine equipped tanker on the Pacific The ship had a capacity of barrels of refined oil.

At the time of the blast today, it waa discharging a cargo of 13,000 barrels of gasoline, taken on at the Richmond refinery earlier thla week. The Charlie Watson waa engaged principally in Pacific coast operations between the various refineries and Ihe distributing plants of the Standard Oil company. JU'ILT 'FOOIi The vessel was named In honor of Charles -A. Watson, Identified with the construction activities of Ihe standard oil company since The Charlie Watson. 165 feet long, was ritpahle of a speed of 11 knots an hour.

It was built with the express purpose of making her "fool proof" against just such type of accident that occurred today. AH motors In the pumproom were gaa-proof and of te. ventilated type, excluding possible accumulation of gasea in the motor where sparking might occur. Air for ventilating these motors wat supplied by blower directly con nected to a three horse-power motor. MIMMIZF.n.

This unit was located In a ateel gas-tight control room directly above the pumproom. In this room also waa located all tho control apparatus for the motors In the puniproom. In that manner. th were aide to minimize from explosive gas. The vessel whs equipped with a foam fire extinguisher outfit, consisting of soil.

i and acid tanks, hoses and mixing noxxles The tanks were charged with preaaurt from Ihe maneuvering air tanks In Ihe engine Oakland Men Among Crew of Tanker Watson Here are the members of the crew of Ihe nil tanker Charlie Wataon, as listed by the Standard Oil company: Otc lasmlalil. captain, 1S00 Beverly place, Berkeley. ft. Klmiv. chief mate.

I Xlnth street, Richmond. O. Vera, second mute. Elks club, Richmond. J.

third mate, 125 Golden Uate avenue, Point Richmond. pi. i. Taggard. radio operator, 1107 Keith svenue, Berkeley.

K. lilndbrrg. sailor, 69 Clay street, Han Francisco. Allen, sailor. 10 Flora street, San Francisco.

A. Erk-ksoa, aallor, 12 Matlorca wayT'fnn Franclace. J. Macklln. sailor.

14 Jackson reet, 8nn ra nclsco. K. Iwd. sailor, 4S Clay street. San Francisco.

F. A. Use, sailor, Albers Hotel, S.m Francisco, 4. Mi'nllen, sailor, 21' i Mission street, San Francisco. H.

Hornisn, sailor, Bog Mi-E, LomllH. H. Kengmea, sailor. 2 800 Blxty. second street, Oakland.

J. P. Mather, chief engineer, 1(7 Grand avenue, Oakland. J. Ib Clark, first assistant engt neer, 31 Is Nevll avenue, Oakland.

K. Jarvls, second assistant engineer, 2320 Esmond avenue, Rich mond. A. Hold, third assistant engineer, Route 1, Box 43-A, Hoerno, Texas. H.

Jorgenscn, pump man, 115 Drum street, Han Francisco. K. (Short, electrician, 3011 Harper street, Berkeley. F. Lewis oiler, 12S4 Washington street, Albany.

V. McrcrdlM, oiler, 1S3S Mason street, Han Francisco. K. MclW-rmed, oiler, 1010 Pacific street, Alameda. S.

Horrhak, wiper, 4S7 Bonnelly street, Marshfleld, Ore. X. Jamon, wiper. 20s South Thirteenth street, Richmond. J.

H. Amlof. steward, Octavla street, Han Francisco. J. Valgoma, flrt cook, 91 Broadway, Han Francisco.

II. Curling, mess man, 131 Thirty ixth tret. Oakland. ItrMasjoel, mess hoy. 139 Kearny street.

Han Francisco. 1. MII, mess boy, 41 Beacon street, Han Pedro. Wife's Illness Saves Assistant Engineer Illness of his wife probably saved the Ufa twlay of J. I Clark, tilt Nevll avenue, first assistant engineer on the tanker Charlie Watson, which blew up at her Han Francisco dock.

Clark wss to have reported at the vessel thla morning With other members of the crew. Ills wife complained of a severe illness, and he accompanied her Instead to the office of a physician in Oakland. i i WOMAN'S PUHE BXATCIIED. Mrs. Augusta Stromberg, 1105 Myrtle street, lost her purse -containing 5, when a man accosted her last night at Twelfth street, between Castro and Brush streets, snatched her purse, knocked her down, and ran away.

She was unable to give an adequate description of the robber. Many Dead or InjuredinS. F. Ship Ralph const guardsman, ere i ullwil by slnlle sparks gener-Hlaiidlng on Hie forward deck of luted by Ihe frlellon caused the i uitei liobleii fiate, first of i he pumping tasoline from the i.inli- ranks. It was estimated by I.icktel; who has assigned Frank 35.

Johnson as a major in charge of the areas covered by the building groups, that "at least. 10(10 men bo placed In jobs for the winter months throuch the new la-bor department." William Makin. president of the r.nilders' exchange, will head the new iHiibJin? unit, and has appointed 10 sub-chairmen to carry on the work of job solicitation dur-fnjr the next few days. Registration of both men and 1 women continued today at all of the. 23 city fire houses, the Emeryville, fire -station nnd nt the Oakland Y.

W. C. ISIS Webster street, for women exclusively. The campaign committee decided today to speed up the drive organization In an effort to secure more than jitou jobs by tomorrow night. TO COXTIME RRIVK.

It was expected that the drive ould be continued into next week, nllhouch the time first s-t was from November IB to CI. Klbert M. Vail, chairman if the ricilmont divisions, announced that it was anticipated that more than II jobs until. I be found ill lhat riirnnionity by tomorrow noon. Mrs.

Si iles Wi lls, sub-chairman of the Wlbluood school Parent-! Teacher association's In the flrhc, lias enlisted the aid of Mrs. Thomas Hughes and the follow Ins Mrs. Mavr. Mr-. P.ud k'en-Bedv.

Mis .1 M.sseisioilb.' Mrs. Chester II. IMiiuty. Mrs. A.

W. Mis, (icorge Va iule ei Mrs. II. K. Merrlani.

Mrs F.dward Hart, Mrs. Richard 1.. IMgga. Mrs Kvclvn p. I'hrlstcnsen.

Mrs. p. Jluiu-w. Mrs. 10.

11. t'aker, Mrs. K. Can in. Mrs.

.1. A. Mtj. W. Marr.

Mrs. 1. A. Ilat.h. A.

T. Mrs. lb I r. Oeorg K. McKay.

Miss M. I'. Hales. Mrs. l.cn-nlojx ami Mrs.

Ruby Webster. The sub-committees, represent-ins till parts of the building trades, appointed by Makin. will Include William K. 1' H. Donnelly, 11.

Steinberg. Harry llennlngs, A. llellert, Richard Harmon, M. M. Friedman.

William K. coram. William Makin, A. Poulsen, C. M.

Vance, William Iiigney. Rajjih- Kins. n. W. Handera.

H. O. kMh. I op. O.

J. dimming. J. A. Tur-geon, .1.

II. ice and Waller limes. PART-TIMF. JOBS All of these building renrccn-Mtiwv wiir iiltempt to place as many unemployed men in part-time Jobs as possible dining the winter month. chairman I I and Vice-chairman Thomas A.

I'n stated that 'as yet It was almost Impossible to ascertain definitely the number of permanent joba secured, although more than 4imi Jobs were-being filled a rapidly aa they are created by tho volunteer workers. All married men with families are still being: given preference by the committee appointed by Msy-ir Fred N. Morcom. This committee, consists of Mm. Oladys Kccles, secretary; Walter Frlckstad, city Chairman Htrnble, Vice-Chalrman Cm and other members of the general rHmpalgn.

1 7 Unemployed Submit Ten Demands to Council A delegation of 17 unemployed men and women, headed by Joseph Ktudevant, appeared before tho city council last night and aubmitted ten demands for the allegiation of their condition. Ktudevant, In a short talk, declared that the relief given by the Associated Charities ia "wholly Inadequate," and demanded cash, free milk, free rldea and free salar-ies. Tiie demanda were: 1 No eviction of the unemployed for non-payment of rent. One quart of free milk per day, plus one quart for every chil l. 3 No turning off the gas supply.

4 Free carfare on street cars. 5 Free medical attention. Abolition of the chain cans, full union wages for all work already done there, 7 No discrimination because ot citizenship, age, sex or residence. All salaries over $3000 per annum cut to that figure and tho remainder given to the unemployed. Immediate cdsh payment of $150, plua 5o for each dependant.

10 Immediate attention to these demands. Mayor Fred N. Morcom aald that the council la very sympathetic to the unemployed and the poor. The session ended with no further discussion. City Officials Give Day's Pay to Jobless SAX FRANCISCO, Nov.

City officials, inoludlng Mayor Jlossl, supervisors and department heads, have signed to contribute a ire Stations Where Jobless May Register LTERE are the addresses of all Oakland fire stations where the work of registering unemployed men and women wss tarled today: S22 Fourteenth street (city ball). Sixth itreet. In8l Eighth street. 2500 Market ttreet. 1235 Karl fourteenth ttreet.

2228 Eest Fifteenth ttreet 1095 Fifth-ninth ttreet. 466 FiflT-firtt ttreet. 1311 Msgnolia itreet. 17 A lie ttreet. 16 Santa Clara avenue.

12l. Thirty-third avenue. 3161 Champion ttreet, near Hop-kint ttreet. 427 Twenty-fifth ttreet. 3411 Thirteenth avenue, rorner Hopkint tireet.

I TOM Fiftieth avenue. "'Nt College svenue. 1X'7 Ninety-third avenue. 42.11 Menlpomrry strr-t. .1.1.10 Msgnolis tireet.

7201 Trenor ttreet. corner Foothill boulevard. 622 Morata road. ovn ntry. trtth ttreet, Oover tireet.

day's pay each month for eight months, as their share In the clty-wlde movement to raise Jl.lMili,-miii for unemployment relief from the rivle payrolls. Many departments have reported lull per cent signed up," and today, at a meeting In the city hall, tern hers are to fall into line with the other civic inker. Livermore Picture Benefit Planned l.lVKRMOni:, Nov. 20. Ear Johnson, president of the Liver- more Chamber of Commerce, and Jrstmaster M.

S. Cm fwen appointed by tl ployment committee, i llughan hava he local em-to promote a benefit motion picture ahow to lit Riven in the California theater Thanksgiving night. James Lima, manager of the theater, volunteered lo turn the house over lo Ihe enmntittee nnd provide a f'-a-I in pittiie for Ihe show. The entire proceeds of Ihe show W'lll lie turned over to the emergency fund, according lo Pr. Paul K.

Idilan, chairman of Ihe commit, lee. Steps to Be Taken at Onee in Alameda to Provide Work With $20,000 Fund ALAMEDA. Nov. 20. An organisation meeting of the newly appointed Citizens' Committee' on I'n- employment will l.e called within 24 hours.

City Manager Nell B. Pierson, announced today, following a conference with Councilman Em 1 1 M. Brodersen. The committee on unemployment consisting of Henry Jesse Delanoy, A. K.

Tichenor, .1. Henry Cumpe and O. II. Hall, will elect Its own chairman and will assume supervision over the expenditure of the $20,000 fund to create employment appropriated by the city council, Plernon aald. One of the big problemi farina the committee will be finding worth-while civic Improvements on which to employ the workers." Pierson said.

"We will welcome suggestions from the citizen and improvement clubs, and I uik those having suggestions to sen-l them to the city manager as soon as possible in order that they maybe presented to committee Its first meeting. These suggestions, if adopted, will enable ua to put a larger force of men to work. The men so far employed, on street tree, pruning and electrolier painting, have done splendid work, and have clearly demonstrated that they want work and not charity." MELODRAMA TO BE GIVEX SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 20.

Players from the San Francisco State Teachers' College will present Paul Cruger'a new three-act melodrama, "The Sky Train," this evening at the Community playhouse, 609 Sutter street. It la directed by Mlaa Jessie Casebolt, assistant professor of English at the state college. ACTION NEAR TO I JOBLESS yomlcr is troth my mistress Trath and I are lovers. For tho kr ef truth. I change the patt-hea a my suit day after day.

Why? Beraime trath changes. Bn-aase truth te never twice alike. Bevaane trath ta a la moth aad brlbh Aye Truth In the road tews which I travel. Troth speaks aader my feet all day. "Therefore, ahoald there be any liars amongst yea, sirs, will yoa suit have the goodness tm leave the theater ae that truth) may aot shock yea er.

belike, that yea may not shock trath Ah! Ne departs? Capital bat my stomach! Now then hetweee sws and men pardon! I perceive mme ladles la the andlence. All truthful ladies I entreat remain. Bat as te IImwc wb are addicted a lie and gossip nut wfh them! 1 see right? a tody depart. IMxIby my tall! We are aM friends. And an Indies and sire (pnlllng attain aside) behold trath! I wonder, though, would yoa know trath hT yoa saw H.

face te face whs are se trathfal? Xe? Ah" permit me te tell yoa, ladies and airs trath is a lie! -Life In Met Ie i year pardon, ladle aad aire. We are at a play aot at a sermon. TWO YF.ARS or WORK And the play goes on. llelasco spent the last two year of his life working, on the piece, Abdullah helping with dialogue. A character dies In the first act.

He is alive again In the third. Remorse and forgiving bring him back. Abdullah says the play will be expensive to produce and difficult to east. "It requires two Barrymore and both of them are In Hollywood," he said. "Columbine must be a great emotional actress there-Is none." rescue all to leai Ii the scene, said be sa I lie mobile llYitch cover or the tanker hurled L'lHI feet Into the sir.

Jlesl from the blazing gasoline and the flames leaping high in he sir drove th cutter awav from Ihe tanker and prevented other res. cue workers from reaching the ship for nearly half an hour. The force of the explosions broke windows In warehouses and other buildings within several hundred yards of the The sound was heard In the main business district more than a mile from the pier, Klre Marshal Frank Kelly and officials of the Standard oil com-pimysald an investigation would be launched Immediately. expressed belief lhat the explosions Supervisors Talk Plan For Aid of Unemployed Explosion of approxiiiiati Iv operaies Ihe Ian. tMrly-flve men Father's Dealh Saved Son From Explosion RICHMOMi, Nov.

Itesth played a hand in saving Nathaniel Jinninn, of 28 South Thirteenth street, from possible Injury aboard Ihe Standard Oil tanker Charlie Watson, which exploded In San Fram bn'O harbor at noon today. I in mini, who is a regular member of the crew of Ihe lanker, did not board her today for work becaui'e of the sudden ilea Hi of his father, Wnller Keith liainon, thla morning. The elder Hainon hud been employed by the standard Oil company al Klcliiiniiiil for the past years. 111m sou baa worked In tho marine depn it tiient of Ihe company for several vears. COLL Flying Coloned Opns Route Ovrr Carililiran Sra From Miami to South America Cuba, Nor.

(A) Colonel Charles A. IJndbergh, piloting the seaplane American Clipper from Miami, landed here at 1.46 p. m. (Eastern standard time) today. He la carrying 31 passengers and mall over a new Caribbean route to Cristobal, Canal Zone.

He will take mall aboard here for Houth and Central America. From the Cuban city, a seven-hour water Jump, over the Caribbean will bring the huge plane Into Kingston, capital of Jamaica. Arrival there Is expected to be matte after nightfall. The party will ltend the night there, taking off at a. m.

tomorrow for a seven hour hop to Barranquilla, Colombia. At Barranquilla, Col. Lindbergh will leave the plane (or a four-day business visit, rejoining the American Clipper at Cristobal for the return flight to Miami. Among the passenger was Igor Sikorsky, designer of the craft. (Continued From Page 1.) he a I 111 own to tile flimr of Ml ualb-v where be wn pi "paring lum-h hen the fii explosion oe.

curred. sounded an alarm with four other men lo safely. Thosn who escaped with Ainloi were James MeCullen, Ueurge Itynn, John Valczonla. and Fred Ofril. Valczonia, cabin bov, said he reached the rterk in time lo see Captain Landahl mounting a ladder to the bridge.

Tim captain vanished as ihe second explosion rocked the ship, he said. "Wo heard splashes on the other side of the, ship, as though some of the men A-ere Jumping Into Ihe water." Amiot aald. "Kither that or there were bodies being thrown over by the explosion." GyroroMr Drv'ice Will Krcp Slii on Cour-r, I.rvrl and at Its Altitude Ry RAVMOMI J. I ROW LEV. Assm'lntfd lrrs Staff Writer.

XKW YORK, Nov. robot airplane pilot, who lives in a mall metal box, was halted today as a staunch pioneer that would help give the south a transportation system unequalled In history. The man who did the hailing was Klmer A. Hperry Inventive son of an Inventor father, following the trip yesterday of rfie 18-paasenger plane on its (light over an eastern air transport route, which officially placed the automatic pilot In service. Sperry's famous dad, who died in 1030, gave the world the gyrocompass, a device for detecting "cancer" In steel rails and many other Inventions.

Working by his side, the younger Sperry saw and helped him develop the automatic pilot down through the years from 1909, when the, first one was installed on an airplane. "The automatic, pilot has been ready for the task for years' sald1 NEW ROBOT CAN GUI IMF Huch sparks, he said, wmild be sufficient to ignile (lie hluhly inflammable gas, TWKKR Rl II.T HF.RKj Asjt a Hilda id Oil tanker I'liullle Wataon la a craft of lTllS tons register, and la 250 feet long and 37 feel beam. The vessel was built In Oakland in 1920, nnd was designed for service between San Francisco bay and the Standard Oil company field In southeastern Alaska, After several trip to northern waters I ho craft was placed in IIib coastwise service of the oil company. It arrived In the bay on November IS, after having delivered a cargo of gasoline and oil to Coos bay and northern points. A crew ployment relief, but that It would lie legal for the hoard to Improve or build county highways by day labor and so on.

Supervisor lledmond Plaals asked rtoliert Mct'rearv. deputy district sttorney, for information on the proper procedure in building or maintaining city streetn or county highway. "The district attorney's office will he glad lo answer written que, tlons from the board regarding the legal aspects of any program the hoard may seek to adopt, hut it does not propose to submit a program of unemployment relief to the board." declared McCreary. Hiaat then offered a motion that the. board should ask Ktruble to suggest a program for unemployment relief.

There was no second. "Aviation's greatest contribution to American civilization will be In linking communities which now have no adequate service by rail. It will be a tremendous as set to sections like the south, where the rail network is not so closely woven as In the northeast." The automatic pilot was developed by the Sperry Gyroscope Company, now a wholly owned division of North American Aviation, Inc. The younger Hperry is consulting engineer of the gyroscope Mexican Revolution Anniversary Marked MEXICO CITT. Nov.

Op) Twenty-one years ago a burst of serious rioting in Mexico City launched the Mexican revolution." on November 20. The anniversary La being retebrsted today with whst la claimed to be the greatest athletic demonstration la the country's history. The flick of Mexican" youth, estimated at forty thousand, will march In review befere President Ortlx Rublo. General Calles. cabinet and diplomatic corps in a pa-i- flc demonstration designed to show that development ot athletic In Mexico has succeeded.

Alameda county supervisors today were considering the problem ot evolving an employment relief pros ram, following a session yesterday at which Ihe county's sld was requested by Oakland's unemployment committee. C. J. Strublc, chairman of the committee and president of the Oakland Chamber of Commerce, appeared before the board, In committee session, to voice the request for unemployment aid. Ktriible read a letter from District Attorney Karl Warren, in answer to questions he had put regarding the legal limits of the board's possible participation In unemployment relief.

Warren's letter stated that the supervisor had submitted no program of unem Sperry. "But five years sgo there was no commercial air transportation to speak of. "We believe It Is a forward step In the onrushlng progress of air transportation. Economically It will "be a benefit. It will relieve the -hlirnSn pilots of the terrific physical burden of -flying a large transport plane hundreds of miles.

leaving them free to study maps. correct for drifts, and keep a watch outside the plane. For flying through- fog, It will be a big help. It will be a safety factor. The automatic pilot makes no mistakes.

Three Killed in Chemical Blast DAYTON, Nov. 10. UP) Three men employed In the plant of th Thomas and Hochwalt Chemical laboratories were killed today when chemicals In a lar; tank which they were cleaning i Th dead are George Conrad. Walter Besecker and Edward I'u-terbaught Th cause ot the blatt. was not determined.

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