Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 31

0.0 RICHARDSON MAY BE GIVEN NEW POSITION Rolph Considers Moving ForGovernor to Post of mer Insurance Commissioner VOL. CXX By ANHHONY F. MOITORET Transfer of former Governor Friend W. Richardson from the post of building and loan commissioner to that of insurance commissioner. to succeed E.

Forrest Mitchell. was under consideration today by Governor Rolph. The Governor, revealed that rehad reached him that Richports ardson, having straightened out the affairs of the building and loan department. would welcome an assienment to the insurance job. 111 which there will be a vacancy as Mitchell.

an appointee of soon as former Governor C. C. Young. completes the tenure necessary for a state pension.Rolph indicated the shift of Richardson from one post to other be acceptable to him, AS it would create a vacancy which could be filled without confirmation by the State Senate. NO DIFFICULTY SEEN Richardson.

the Governor said. should have no difficulty in obtainsenatorial confirmation of his ing appointment to be insurance commissioner. During the last session Legislature. appointment of of the Roland Tognazzini, former attorney for the building and loan sioner. to be insurance commisreported imminent, but sioner was Tognazzini's name was never sent to the Senate.

"If Richardson would be more contented as insurance commisthe Governor said. could sioner." his successor who name a man as would not have to be confirmed by the Senate." if such a change would not Asked of friends of interfere with plans Richardson to put him forward as a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor. Rolph said: "I know nothing about that." POST FOR That Frank C. McDonald. state labor commissioner and president of the State Building Trades Council, has the inside track for appointment as industrial accident commissioner.

succeeding Will J. French. was indicated by Rolph in revealing that A. P. Giannini, widely.

known banker. had telegraphed an endorsement of McDonald from New York City. Giannini's telegram praised MeDonald as "a citizen and labor leader." Giannini was recently appointed by Rolph to the board of regents of the University of California. "You couldn't get any stronger endorsement than that," said Rolph. French's term will expire on January 15 and Rolph has let it be known that he will not be reappointed.

A rival to McDonald for the job is Frank Burke of San Francisco. 000 Two new candidates for Governor are declared ready to flip their hats into the ring within the near future. J. Stitt Wilson, former mayor of Berkeley and Socialist candidate for Congress in the Seventh District in 1932, is reported giving earnest consideration to running for the Socialist nomination for Governor. OPPOSITION GROUP With Upton Sinclair having turned Democrat, it might be thought that Wilson would run for the Socialist nomination unopposed.

However, some.of the more radical Socialists are reported to feel that Wilson is too mild in his present attitude and a little too friendly toward President Roosevelt. Wilson campaigned on the same platform with Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President in 1932, urging votes for Thomas, but in recent speeches has praised Roosevelt's sincerity and courage, although expressing doubt as to the success of the President's program. The other candidate reported ready to make his bow is Charles H. Spinks of Los Altos, former resident of Berkeley. Spinks has been the chief promoter of the weekly radio program known as "The Voice of and is the head man behind the Jackson Day dinner to be given in San Jose next Monday night.

BURNETT TO SPEAK The Jackson Day dinner, according to reports, will provide the occasion for announcing Spinks' candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Governor. John M. Burnett, San. Jose attorney and descendant of the first Governor of California, is to be the principal speaker. 0 Tom King, head of a private detective agency, is the first of the 1934 candidates to announce intentions to run for a county office.

King has revealed to a group of friends that he hopes to get in the race for sheriff at the August primary. Work Postpones Wedding of Cortez HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 5. (U.P) Ricardo Cortez 'can blame hard for postponing his scheduled wedding to Mrs. Christine Lee, socially prominent widow.

Cortez and Mrs. Lee were to have been married on Christmas Day, but press of business matters delayed the ceremony. Now the actor has been assigned a new picture role, so a second postponement has been made. They don't want to be married until they can take a honeymoon to Honolulu. Exclusive Associated Oakland United Press Press Service Associations Gribune OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1934 FINISH OF HETCHY TUNNELS TO MAKE GHOST dodo 8 LIVERMORE TESLA MED4 CARNEGIE 'PIPE MITCHELL KANGE TUNNEL MOCHO COAST SUNOL.

MITCHELL SHAFT. MOCHO WHERE THE LAST FT. SHAFT OF EARTH WAS REMOVED IRVINGTON TODAY. 510 MILE COMPLETING BORE. THE SAN 60 "Holing through" of the last few feet of the Coast be abandoned and become "ghost towns." At upper left around Mitchell shaft.

In the center is a map showing tunnels of the Hetch Hetchy water system today is shown all that is left of Tesla, 30 years ago the center where the final tunnel blast opened the 28-mile tunnel Range the end of five small but thriving communities of of Alameda County's coal mining industry, now without system, and below is a view of the town and heading of presaged workers which have sprung up in the hills south of Liver- single inhabitant. Another famous abandoned town Mocho shaft. The blast took place approximately halfWhen work is finally completed a few months of the region is Carnegie, just over the line in San Joaquin way between the Mocho and Mitchell shafts. more. hence villages at the heads of the five tunnel shafts will County.

At upper right is shown the buildings clustered -Tribune photos Hetchy Long Tunnel 'Holed Through'; Work Near End LIVERMORE, Jan. -Completion of San Francisco's Hetch Hetchy project, which was completed today, will mean the adto this region. They through" dition of five more "ghost, towns" the last of the Coast Range tunnels of the system today. The "towns" which are to drift into disuse when all work on the tunnels has been accomplished are the groups of dwellings. office buildings, and working at the heads of the five great shafts by means of which the bore has been built.

The shafts are Thomas, Mitchell, Mocho, Valle, and Indian Creek. Best known of the "ghost towns" in this region is Tesla, in 1900 A thriving place and the center of Alameda County's coal mining industry. It was deserted in 1906 when financial troubles caused the mines to close. For the past several years it has been without A single inhabitant. Just over the line in San Joaquin County is Carnegie, another deserted village where a few years ago a brick industry flourished.

TUNNEL "HOLED THROUGH" At 11:47 o'clock this morning a blast of dynamite ripped out last feet of rock in the 28-mile tunnel system, which has been under construction for. five. years and four months. last major secthe vast project, which has years in the building. First, Mayor to step Angelo through Rossi the of hole San Francisco.

He was followed by Lewis F. Byington. president of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission; members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors; E. G. Cahill, manager of utilities, and other civic officials.

On the other side of the newly blasted bore they greeted and congratulated L. T. chief engineer of the McAfee, project. WATER IN 3 MONTHS. Although there is still about three months of work to be accomplished before water will flow from Hetch Hetchy dam, in the Sierra, into San Francisco's water mains, engineers through" said marks that, the today's, "holing all difficult features of their task.

Remaining work includ- lining the tunnels. sealing entrances to crossand cleaning the bores preparatory to the entrance of the water. The section of tunnel completed today was that between the Mocho land Mitchell shafts. The two tunnels through the Coast Range com- Oakland's Only Locally Owned Locally Controlled Daily Paper Knave -Day Back in 1914 on the eve of the November CACHE election so fagged-out campaignfor the Republican ticket tossed surplus supply of election cards his behind a partition at the San Francisco Hall of Justice. It was like souvenirs in the center of placing A corner stone.

for they have remained there all these vears and would be there vet. were it not for repairs and alterations ordered under the CWA program. Some CWA workers tore down a partition in the structure the other dav and brought out the election cards. There's no date on them. but the candidates listed fix the time.

They are buff colored cards. about by 412 inches in size. and were issued the Republican County Central Committee. Here are the candidates they urged voters to support: For United States Senator- Joseph R. Knowland.

For Congress- -Julius Kahn. For Governor- -John D. Fred ericks. For Secretary of State--Frank C. Jordan.

Surveyor General -Frank E. For Wright. For Board of Equalization- Ed H. Aigeltinger. For Justices of the District Court of Appeal- -Frank H.

Kerrigan and John E. Richards. For State Senator--Eighteenth District, Gus Hartman: Twenty -second District. D. Twenty-fourth District, Lawrence J.

Flaherty.For Chief Justice of the Supreme Court- Frank M. Angellotti. long ter.n: Henry M. Owens, Short term. For Associate Justices the Supreme A Court -John D.

Murphey and Lucien Shaw. For Justices of the Peace James G. Conlan and M. J. Roche.

0 0 Cleaning the confetti BROOMS streets land off of Oakafter the G. Fletcher Dodd. 'LITTLE DOGIE' Crescent New Year's Eve celebration was the biggest, heaviest, toughest and wettest job that the street department ever had. according to Walter F. Gibson, superintendent street cleaning, who is still trying to recover from his ordeal.

Confetti is not SO very heavy when it is dry. but when 11 15 thoroughly wet 11 1S tremendously weighty. Then. it sticks to the pavement. The cleaners almost had to shave the stuff off to use razors the sidewalks and paving.

And then of it than usual, and there was more it was much dirtier. The street had to work in some of sweepers the nastiest weather in their lives. all this was only a part of But the evening's grief. The new road wharf. at the foot of to the garbage picked this evening 10 Adeline, in spots.

creating small come apart of mud where the overrivers worked garbage wagon horses could hardly plow through. In some the confetti almost had 10 places be portaged or ferried across the rivers in the road. 0 A. 0 C. Fleury, State plant quarantine ILLICIT chief, tells me he AS much diffiwith apple smugglers as the culty Coast Guard once had with rum runners.

Fleury directs a border patrol whose duty it is to infested keep out of California all pest vegetation. A tourist returning from Massachusetts with 100 pounds of "gift" apples was stopped at Yuma on the Arizona border by Fleury's but refused to give up his deputies, A week later he bobbed apples. in Yermo, San Bernardino County. He had back-tracked through Arizona, covering an extra miles, and then braved the heat 300 of Mojave desert in his futile effort to prove to friends that he thought New England apples better than California's. Truckee another apple Mend was intercepted with some Tennessee fruit.

He willingly submitted to confiscation- -but while the patrol wasn't looking "snitched" of the apples. "I just wanted one I could smuggle," he to prove when it was taken from laughed him. The "love apple" which an Edmonton, Canada, woman protested sentimental value because it had was sent to her by a "gentleman friend" in France is still doing duty as an amorous trophy. It turned out to be a hybrid ornamental squash, available at any California fruit stand. It carried no bugsother than the love one--and was considered safe.

Sweet potatoes are another fawith the smugglers; so are vorite, grapefruit, cotton bolls. Florida and scores of greens for oranges house decorations. Fleury says he run across any commercial smuggling lately. The latter are to catch. He guesses a lot of easy.

the amateurs get away with it. 0 City's five-foot city clerk, has solved one of life's little problems, a Del Norte County friend tells me. Dodd, who is an authority on law, has Blackstone as a hobby and "The Last Round-Up" and such for an aversion. His wife and son, John, are musically inclined at least they are radio and phonograph addicts. Recently Dodd discovered that he had been reading the same page of Blackstone for about 15 days; then he decided to take things into his own hands.

Some one was singing "get along" at about that At an automobile wrecking yard Dodd found an automobile-trailershoe-shop-on-wheels that no longer suited the purpose of a cobbler. An outlay of $2.50 was required. That night the wheeled house rested on the Dodd lawn. In it were the family radio, bolted to the floor, and the family phonograph, securely wired to the wall. -THE KNAVE.

31 NO. 5 FUNERAL OF FITZGERALD HELD TODAY i The CALENDAR Tribute radio broadcast. Theosophical Lodge No. 4, 8 p. Madison Street Temple.

Family Forum of American Institute of Fraternal Citizenship, 8:30 p. 528 Seventeenth Street. Bridge, 8:30 p. Hotel Oakland lounge. Whist, 8 p.

Berkeley Post No. 7. Veterans' Memorial Building TOMORROW Tribune radio broadcast. Dinner dance, 6:45 p. Athens Dinner dance, 8 p.

Hotel Oakland. B. and W. Club, 8:15 p. Thousand Oaks Masonic Temple.

Prosperity Whist. Club, 8:30 p. Eagles Hall, Whist, Fairfax Community Club, 8:30 p. 5234 Boulevard. Dance, 8:30 p.

Square Dance Club, 536 Forty -seventh Street. "Dance, evening, Lake Merritt Motel. Dance, 8:30 p. Oklahoma Social Club, Roof Garden, Pacific Building. Dance, 8:30 p.

m. Status Societies Social Hall, Berkeley, I. 0. 0. Temple.

Letter Carriers' concert and dance, evening. German Pioneer House, 32 Home Place. Dance, 8:30 p. Roosevelt Social Club, Moose Hall, Twelfth and Clay Streets. Dance, 8:30 p.

Former St. Bernard's Club, Mason and Foothill Boulevard. Dinner dance, 9 p. Hotel Claremont. $86.40 Per Pupil Spent by Schools During the year 1932-33 the average expenditure per pupil in the California elementary schools was $86.40, which is less than the corresponding expenditure in any of the past ten years, the State Department of Education said today.

Alameda County schools were well above this average, with an expenditure per pupil of $96.02. The expenditure per pupil in the Alameda County high schools dur'ing the 1932-33 period was $152.09. Georgia's first public health law, passed in 1732, appropriated 13 guineas for the relief of impovrrished women about to become mothers. Pallbearers Included Former Law Associates; Rites Conducted by Rev. Ramm Funeral services for Robert Fitzgerald.

Eastbay attorney who died at his Oakland home Wednesday, were held at 1:30 this afternoon at the Albert Brown Chapel, 3746 Piedmont Avenue. Officiating at the services. was Rev. Charles A. Ramm of St.

Mary's Cathedral, San Francisco. Interment took place privately in Mountain View Cemetery. PALLBEARERS NAMED. The pallbearers included Thomas A. Crellin.

vice president of the Central Bank, and five of Fitzgerald's law office associatesCharles A. Beardsley, Milton W. Dobrzensky. Frank L. Hain.

James H. Anglin and Edward B. Kelly. The funeral took place less than three weeks from the day that Carl H. Abbott, Fitzgerald's law partner for more than 34 years, was buried.

with almost the same group of pallbearers. Fitzgerald, who was 76. had been a prominent member of the bar 1n Oakland and San Francisco for almost half a century. OFFICER OF BANK. He was -a vice-president of the Central Bank, a member financial advisory committee the of, Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge, president and charter, member of the Claremont Club, and had long been one of the leading Democrats in the State.

Besides the Claremont Club which Fitzgerald had headed continuously for 17 years. he was also a member of the Pacific Union, Bohemian, Athenian-Nile. Sequoyah, Diablo, and Elks Clubs. Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. Laura Crellin Fitzgerald.

and children- Mrs. Willis R. Baillard, Miss Kathleen Fitzgerald, and Crellin' Fitzgerald, Oakland attorney. 'Sex Factor in Life' Theme of Lectures The San Francisco State Teachers College will present 15 lectures on "The Sex Factor in Human Life" at the Oakland branch of its Extension Division, Technical High School, Forty-third and Broadway, beginning next Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock. These lectures, open to the public, will be given by Henry M.

Grant, educational director of the Sex Education Society, and will cover the biology, physiology and psychology of the subject in an effort not only to disseminate accurate information but to encourage an attitude of understanding and wholesomeness with regard to the various social, educational and personal problems involved. Visitors will be admitted to the first. two lectures only. Engineer to Talk at Laboratory Opening Lyman King of the King-Knight Engineering Company will lecture. at 8 o'clock tonight at the opening of the new Diesel Engine Laboratory at the Polytechnic College of Engineering.

President W. E. Gibson has issued an invitation to those interested in this modern power plant to attend this lecture, which will be illustrated with slides and interesting data covering the growth and development of Diesel engines. The new laboratory is being completed and will be ready for stu- THEATERS Allendale "Last Trail" and "Good Companions." American "Ruling Voice" and "Her Majesty Love." Arabian "Hold Me Tight" and "Parole Girl." Capitol "Elysia" and "Dance Girl Dance." Central "Masquerader" and "Strawberry Roan." Dimond "Lady for a Day." Eastmont "My Weakness" and "Golden Harvest." Fairfax "Gold Diggers of 1933." Lady." Fruitvale "Love, Honor and Oh Baby." Golden State- "The Bowery." Granada "Before and "Thrill Hunter." Grand-Lake "Goodbye Love" and "Kennel Murder Case." Moulin Rouge- Burlesque. Orpheum- "Right.

to Romance" and "Blood Money." Palace "Dance Girl Dance." Paramount- "As Husbands Go." Parkway "The Bowery." Peralta "What Price Innocence." Plaza "Circus Queen Murder" and "I Loved You Premier Years in Sing Sing" and Broadway Bad." Rialto "Tomorrow at Seven" and "Devil's in Love." Roxie. "Thunder Over Mexico" and "You Made Me Love You." Royal "Her Bodyguard" and "Thirteenth Guest." Senator "Prizefighter and the Lady" and "Before Dawn." State "Lady for a Day" and "Captured." "Kiss Before the Mirror" and "Crusader." Uptown "Ann Vickers" and "Meet the Baron." ALAMEDA Alameda "Midshipman Jack" and "By Appointment Only." and Gus" and "When Strangers Palace Marry." Neptune Again" and "Life in the Raw." BERKELEY California and "Hell and. High Campus She Had to Say Yes" and "Man Who Dared." Shooter" and "My Woman." Rivoli- "Sing, Sinner, Sing." Strand- Bowery" and "Untamed Africa." United Pretty" and "After Tonight." HAYWARD Hay way Through a Keyhole" and "Before Dawn." SAN LEANDRO Palace "Morning Glory" and "Hold the Press." AGO of at the last of the five main prise, divisions of the Hetch Hetchy project. Work on the tunnels was started at Tesla Portal, seven miNes south Tracy, on September 6, 1928. Since then work has been going on continuously, night and day, Sundays and holidays.

JOB DIFFICULT ONE. The mountains through which the bores were driven were discovered to present tremendous difficulties, and several accidents occurred 10 delay the work. An explosion of methane gas in the Mitchell shaft on July 17, 1930, took the lives of 12 men. On August 27, 1932, five men were killed when the roof of the Valle-Mocho section caved in. Quicksand and water were often encountered, causing other delays.

safety equipment of the most expensive type had to be installed to meet the difficult and dangerous conditions. But. in spite of these difficulties, the tunnels today were to be completed with alignment errors no greater than 1.79 feet and errors in grade of no greater than .273 of an inch, the engineers reported. FRY GIVES CREDIT. C.

H. Fry, representing the State Industrial Accident Commission on the job, said of the tunnel boring in his latest report: "I believe that had these tunnels been started on A contract the contractor would soon have thrown up his contract and the bonding company would have forfeited the bond, rather than to attempt to complete the contract. "I trust that some day there may be a complete report of tuis project made and credit given to the men who have worked so hard and under such unusual and difficult conditions th their only reward to date of unjustified, adverse criticism." Tax Refund Made To 2 Californians WASHINGTON, Jan. $28,845 refund for income tax overassessments against. Louis V.

Olcese, deceased, of Merced, announced today by the Internal Revenue Bureau. The refund goes to administrators of the estate. A $1294 refund and $47,989 abatement for overassessments of estate taxes on the estate of Edward Joseph Bowen, Los Angeles, was announced today by the Internal Rev-, enue Bureau. The Citizens National Trust and Savings Bank of Los geles is trustee. January 5, 1914 (The day was Monday) EASTBAY Nominations were filed for this year's Chamber of merce directors.

Running for are: F. A. Briggs, John T. G. Munroe, ANOTHER SHINING Abrahamson, EXAMPLE: AN NRA BOOTBLACK THibduck C.

Capwell, S. Day, Gibson, Gier, Heeseman, Hatch, A. ing, H. K. son, A.

A. Young, Keith, Pardee. Folk will be at Park Spring as A recreation the children, cording Winifred Van Hagen, girls' visor. RICHMOND, Jan. 5.

automobile parade and mass meeting Richmond greeted the news from man Charles Curry in that the Army Rivers and Board has passed. favorably plans for improvement of mond Harbor. ELSEWHERE dancing revived Mosswood during the months form of for acto Miss super- yesterday Comoffice Scott, C. Jules H. A.

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W. H. IrvJack- Jonas, E. W. W.

George C. With an open air today CongressWashington Harbors on the the Rich- SACRAMENTO. Jan. Johnson ended all conjectures on 1 his immediate political future when he announced here today that he would be a candidate for re-election as governor. Johnson, it is said, had hoped never again to run for public office, but the "wish of the majority guided his course." SPORTS A computation of games played and runs scored during the last Coast League ball season showed Sacramento as the league's leading scorer, with an average of 3.9 per game.

Portland, however, won the pennant, with an average of 3.8. Oakland's average was 3.4. EXCHANGE CLUB STOCKTON, Jan. officers were installed today by the Stockton Exchange Club. They were Dr.

J. H. Jordan, president; Vernon Hurd, vice-president, and W. H. Sheets, treasurer.

dents' use on January 8. Wife Granted $300 Monthly Alimony SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. admitting that she owned a home here, had a $7000 bank account and other minor incomes, Mrs. Florence M. Stratton, 1276 Avenue, was granted $300 a month temporary alimony pending her suit for divorce against George Stratton, vice-president of the Merchants' Ice Cold Storage Company.

Stratton testified that instead of getting $1250 monthly as his wife testified, he was in getting but $625. Snowbound Men Make Wagers on Plane Service SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. United Airlines was on record today as "aiding and abetting gambling" but under the circumstances the officials of the transcontinental airplane concern felt that they were 1 justified. George Baker, a prospector "wintering" at Soda Springs, Nevada County, wrote local officers that "the service of the planes was unsatisfactory." Baker explained that he and his partner, snowbound in the Sierras, bet on the transcontinental planes as diversion from their other amusement, pinochle. One bets high westbound planes and low the eastbounds and the other "sourdough" takes the ether odds.

Recent stores disrupted airplane service and broke up the betting program. So Baker complained. He asked for the latest schedule so that the betting could resumed "with some degree of regularity." Ever obliging, the airline officials decided to drop at the mountain camp. a copy of the newest schedule to aid the prospectors..