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OAKLAND TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1933 COURTHOUSE TITLE CLEARED AFTER 55 YEARS' FLAMES SWEEP OAKLAND PLANT 1 I LES MQVESl GANG TAGT CS' Goering Raps Comrftunists LEADERS TO COUNTY WINS CLEAR DEED TO PROPERTY At Reichstagll fl hi fl II i Or WAR ATTEND RITES FOR WALKER Sen ices for Leading Build-11 ja: Contractor on Coast Are Scheduled for 2 P. M. Mourned by hosts of friends, in-' eluding business and commercial leaders throughout the state, funeral -services were to be held for Per-rival John Walker, one of the lead- ing building contractors of the West, at 2 o'clock this afternoon at th. family home, 30 Sea View Avenue, Piedmont. Father Edgar F.

Gee of Rock Ridge Episcopal Church was to of- ficiate. The ceremony planned was of the most extreme simplicity, and at the special request of the family flowers were omitted. Chamber Demands Wiping Out of a rips That Beat; Umpire at Baseball Game NILES. Nov. Prosecution rioters who lat Sundav beat Dominici of Hayward.

during a Hayward-Niles baseball game, and ta-n brand of "Wptsohville liquor the wiping out of gangs, held ram- was the kind to buv brought to pant in the Niles district, had been liehl that sang warfare be-demanded today by a conimittee of tween Watsonville and Pajaro the Niles Chamber of Commerce. interests had broken out. The committee called on Deputy ys rf''t of this alleged gang District Attorney Stanley Small- i outbreak, patterned after Chicago's wood to urge that the District celebrated case Mike Roonev mmmtmmf' I I Interment services were to be private. and. were to take place at.

th Mountain View Cemeterv. PALLBEARERS NAMED" Honorary pallbearers were: E. 'A. Julian, William Robert C. Newell, Charles D.

Bates, Stuart Hawley. Leon A. Clark. William Volkman, H. A.

Mosher, H. A. Thornton. Dr. William Strietmann, Dr.

J. Louis Lohjee. Walton N. Moore, Frank H. Proctor, Guy C.

Earl, Stanley Dollar. Burlington Carlisle, C. E. Hume. Gdstavus Bradt, Joseph David Watkins, George W.

Kplhpm. Raymond Charles, lianrfeTGarland. W. W. Garthwaite, Howard Dudley, Ben R.

Meyer and Ed Nolan. Walker, born in Oakland of pioneer stock and founder of the con-, traofWig company which bore name, built during the. last quarter of a century many public, semi-public, and commercial buildings ot great size in Oakland, San Francis- co. Los Angeles, and elsewhere irl California and in Nevada and Utah. AUTO CLUB HEAD Besides these activities, he was a f.

pioneer in the fight for safe and was for six vears, froni 1910 to 1916, president of the Calt-: fornia State Automobile tion. In recognition of his work this direction, which included Strum-arm Methods Vn to I Fnforce Sales in Pajaro1 District. Officers Learn; WATsr.NVILLE. Nov. 4.

Strong- a-m methods to cnnvip.ee operators of Paiaro resorts that onlv a cer well known in the South Main Street section of this city, war; sentenced to 30 days in the Santa Cruz County Jail when he pleaded guilty yesterday in Police Judge Miller ('handler's court on a charge of assault and battery. Torn Marino, a companion, similarly accused, asked time to plead and was granted his request. He is being held in lieu of $10(2 hail. Both men were arrested on Ihe complaint of Jack Johnson, pur ported operator of an establishment on the San Juan ro-id in Pajaro, I iiist amiss the MonH-rey County line from Santa Cruz County. i.

ih.i and rviarino visited his home at 142 Van Ness in Watsonville at 1 o'clock Wednesday morning and attacked him. The cause of the early morning visit, was not brought out, although Rooncy declared it was about "a bill." Revelations of intimidation to force Johnson to buy liquor from certain interests, expected at the hearing, were not made, However. Johnson had previously told authorities a story that, two enforcers" had visited his estab- iisimieni iiiesuay mum. ana qe- msimrn io Know wny me nouse had stopped buying liquor from their bootleg organization. When told that the reason was a decline in the quality of the liquor, the two men are asserted to have left the place with the threat.

"You'll buy your stuff from us or we'll wreck the joint." At midnight Johnson and his partner, Fred, closci" their place, and. with Johnson's wife and Tony Majors, drove to the Johnson home, where later the same "big shots" and five other men called, the visit resulting in Johnson being struck a vicious blow on the head. The next day fianchez and Johnson did not open their Pajaro place and went hunting, according to their story. When they returned they found callers of the night before had made good their threat plates, and were blaze at At lire i i iui Murder Is (lommuniMii First Commandment. Cries Prtmian Prime Minister BERLIN.

Nov. 4 P' Hermann Wilhelm Goering, Prussian premier and national minister without portfolio, voiced an impassioned arraignment of Communism at today's session to the Reichstag building fire trial. Aprjearing as a witness in the case in which five men are on trial for setting fire to the building last February. Goering declared that "murder is Comminism's first commandment" "Sadism has its 'horne in the Communist party and cruelties are nowhere so bestial as when the Communists arc in a position to torture people." Often shouting excitedly. Goering waxed more and more elocjuent as he proceeded, gesticulating animatedly and moving nervously to and fro in the witness box.

NOT IN UNIFORM He was dressed in a hrown suit, not in his uniform. He wore a brown and brown tie and was accompanied by a large retinue of adjutanfs and higher officers from the Prussian ministry, the police and the federal air ministry. Ernst Torgier. former Communist whip in the Reichstag and one of those on trial, took copious notes as Goering spoke for more than an hour, and Georgi Dimitroff. one of three Bulgarian defendants, often laughed derisively.

Dimitroff's reappearance in coin I came, as a surprise today, because he was ordered excluded yesterday for three clays" for what the judge termed "insulting remarks." His return was interpreted as a move to forestall criticism that Goering was being spared Dimitroff's cross-examination. AGAIN EJECTED Dimitroff was expelled again today after arousing the ire of Goering, who shouted that the defendant should have been strung up long ago. The courtroom was turned into a mass meeting, with th audience yelling when Goering, in response to various questions by Dimitroff, flew into a rage and cried: "I order you not to put such insolent questions. You are a scoundrel and. ought long ago to have been at the gallows (or firing the Reichstag." President Judge Wilhelm Buenger supported Goering's view and ordered two policemen to eject Dimitroff.

"I regret extremely that, certain Communist leaders have been saved from the gallows through the premature forcing of my Goering said. Torgier followed Goering on the witness stand and again solemnly declared he had nothing whatever to do with the fire and that he surrendered voluntarily because he was incensed at the allegations against him. REFERS TO HOODLUMS The witness sought throughout his speech to prove that Communism, until the Nazi assumption of power, was Germany's and the world's greatest danger. Goering invariably referred to Communists as hoodlums, criminals and pests. Referring to the London brown book 1 which listed instances of alleged Nazi mistreatment of foreigners', Goering said: "This is too low for me to reply, to.

All thas is lacking in the brown book's picture IS that I wore a toga and played a harp like Nero." Many were in attendance. Miss Martha Dodd. daughter of United States Ambassador William E. Dodd, was one of those present. SURPRISED BV FIRE Touching on the Reichstag b'aze.

Goering said: "It came as much of a surprise 1o me as to any other decent-minded person. "It was not necessary for us to let this symbol of parliamentarism go up in flames after we had already destroyed the parliamentary state." Chancellor Hitler commissioned him, Goering said, to use all means to annihilate Communism. "When on January 30 the leader appointed me to take over the Prussian ministry of the interior, the task I had to perform was perfectly clear," he continued. "He "appealed to my eneigy tu annihilate Communism with all means. We had come to the conclusion during the last few years that the fight was no longer between the November State and Nazi movement, but exclusively between two different points of vie.w (the Weltan-SchauungenJ." Floods in Puget Sound Area Subside SEATTLE, Nov.

4. iP)--Receding waters today in low land areas of western Washington, in the wake of a near record-breaking rainfall of two days ago which brought nearly two and a half inches of rainfall to the Puget Sound area, revealed little serious damage. In eastern Washington and northern Idaho the storm was also severe, with 1.8 inches of rain falling at Wallace, Idaho, and nearly an inch at Grangeville. The first heavy snow of the Winter fell in the Bitter Root Mountains. C.

C. C. Camp Youth Killed by Train LOS ANGELES, Nov. 4. CU.R Virgil Styers, 20-year-old recruit in the Civilian Conservation 4 Corps, was killed under the wheels of a freight train while riding into Los Angeles shortly before midnight.

His body was found near the Glen-dale depot. The boy lived at Sum-mittville, and had been working at a C. C. C. camp in' Ventura County.

Hall of Records Included: City Only 'Squatter" When 2 Lots Were Transferred Alameda County, which for 55 years has conducted its official business from the Hall of Records and the County Courthouse at Fifth Street and Broadway, today for the first time holds legal title to the two blocks occupied by these buildings. A cloud on the title, arising out of the fact that Oakland, when it deeded the land to the county in 1874 was really, a "squatter'' on the property, was "-formally removed yesterday in a judgment by Judge Leon Gray as the upshot of proceedings to quirt title which were started December 5, 1930. The successful move to clear the title came during the county's campaign to secure a new courthouse in a different location. The case was won through testimony of county officials that the rounly has a clean title, through legislative acts and because it has held exclusive title to the property for more than 20years. Testimony for the county hs put on by Robert Hunter and James, Oakley, deputy district attorneys.

Homer Buckley, deputy city attorney, was in court representing the purported "adverse interest nf the City of Oakland," but offered no testimony. TITLE ATTACKED IN 190'. Illegality of the city's deed of gift to the county is based on the fact that the land was not included in the plats made in 1350 on purchases made from the original Pcr-alta grant. Only the "upper part" of the town was platted at that time. The "lower part." including the property in question, was included in the corporate limits -in 1352.

but squatters had taken possession. In 1902 the title was questioned in a suit brought by Mrs. Teresa Casserly. claimant to. a thirty-sixth interest in the land.

Her suit was lost in a State SuprVme Court ruling in 1908. birt the claims of 35 otheV persons still stood against the title. It is these that are now eared away. The history of the two blocks as developed in court yasterday traced the two pieces of property back to the Kellorsbcrgor map of 1353, which showed both blocks as public p-rks or plazas. The, block upon which, the courthouse is situated was known as Washington Square, and the -hall of records was known as Franklin Square.

F.oth blocks were used as public free markets and asxamping grounds for persons who waiting for the occasional ferry from Oakland to in Francisco. LEGISLATURE ACTS The first, legal step to give the county title to the property- was taken by the State Legislature. February 4, 1874. when an act was passed authorizing Oakland to give a deed to the two squares to the county for the constructing county buildings within four years. On "February 1 1.

1874. such a deed was given by the city to the county, and G. W. Bacon, county recorder, was called to the witness stand to produce the recorded copy of that deed. A subsequent legislative act of 1 March 25, 1874.

provided that the Supervisors of A'ameda County should issue $200,000 honds for construction of the county buildings, and Section 7 of that act specifically. artoiowledRed the deed given bv Oakland to the county. On FemHiU'y 1873, the Legislature amended i act of February 4. 1374. to permit construction of the buildings in six years instead of four years, and the buildings were constructed Within that time.

The suit was filed by the county against the following defendants: City of Oakland, Vicente Per-alta, John Clar, B. de la Barra. Joseph K. Irving. John C.

Hays, John Caperton. Jacob Alexander Cost, James M. Goggin. William C. Jones, Anna R.

Poole. Catherine S. Lyons, Alexander H. Young. Henry Hillebrand.

Edson V. Adams, Julia Adams, Elizabeth A Simpson. Ella Adams Wi'son. Erbestinc S. Haskell.

Adams Uhl. Vere de Vcre Adams, Ernestirfe Haskell Adams, Schatzie Adams. John Charles Adams, and Esson Adams. Italy Has Own Armistice Fete ROME. Nov.

4 With bell-ringing, parades, reviews and band roncerts. Ital" today celebrated the fifteenth anniVersarv of her Armistice Day marking the end of her World War struggle with Austria. Premier Mussolini led a group of b'gh officials to snecial news in the imperial basilica Santa Maria Degli Angeli. where a triumphal mass was, held. Afterward he inaugurated a monumental cript for military chaplains.

Fifteen years ago today the Austrian forces, borne down by the Italian advance at Vittorio Veneto, asked for a cessation of the fight. The Austrian collapse was one mi the main causes of the German fall a week later. Hence the Italians frequently have laid claim to a lion's share in the Weld War laurels on the ground that they brought about the central powers' downfall. When other powers observe Armistice Day next week, Italy will join th the celebration, but for another reason. That will be the King's birthday.

6000 license plates for the City of Oakland, destroyed. Upper pholo shows the three-alarm its height. Al lower left is a group of employe who flfd, abandoning clothing and personal properly. lower right is Howard Bishop (left), who, with William Handelin, made a desperate allcmpt to prevent the fire after a barrel being moved by Handelin opened and its contents splashed on a hoi baking oven, then ignited. An explosion followed.

Bishop is holding two of the stale license plates of ihe type destroyed. Clyde Sunderland and Tribune pholos. One hundred and fifteen men and girl employees of the B. W. Norton Manufacturing Company fled yesterday when flames raced through thr factory al 3098 Last Tenth St reel, causing damage estimated at $250,000.

More than half a million 19 34 stale automobile license Auto License Plate Shortage Likely in $250,000 Blaze ClVincilli I il Inr ih frmalinn In. San Francisco of the first polic traffic squad and the erection ot 1 Ihe first street signs. Walker wtl' named vice-president of the Amer--'-ican Automobile Association. He Is also credited, through hit of the interior. Franklin K.

Lane, 1 with lifting the government against automobiles in Yosemlt Valley. Walker was affiliated with several exclusive clubs here and in San Francisco, and belonged to sev-' eral Masonic organizations. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Edith Lynn Walker; a son, Percival John Walker his father, John Cook Walker; a sister, Mrs. William T.

Murcell. and three brothers, George Fred and Hubert Walker. Germany's Bolt Aids G. B. S.

Says BERLIN. Nov. 4. lP) Georg Bernard Shaw, said the Munich, i newspaper Neuesten Nachrichten today, approved of Germany's with- tirawal from the League of Nations. The Irish dramatist expressed hit stand, the newspapeyexplained, in answering a questionnaire sent out to European notables.

The newspaper quoted Shaw: "The world is tired of France'! childish and anxious demands for impossible security and the pacific protestations through which En gland and other powers desire to screen their decisions not to disarm. "Europe, instead of being plunged' into war, was pulled back from th brink by Germany. Hitler grasped historical hour and spoke a deem ve word. A free Germany is peaceful Germany." Handy Letter Writer Gives Correct Forms II OW often have you had a note, a letter, an invitation. or an arreptanre to write and were not exactly certain the form, il iiliniilil Kvtn.th htt in.

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I enclose herewith TEN in coin' (carefully wrapped! for a copy of the. booklet, the HANDY LETTER WRITER. Name Street State'- e-. (Mail -to Washington, D. Plans for the temporary recon- struction of the R.

W. Norton Mann factoring Company plant, 3093 East Tenth Street, to provide necessary 1934 State automobile and City of Oakland license plates were under way today following a fire which I gulled the building yesterday and endangered the East Oakland 11 I rlustrialjMrea. Three alarms were I turned in. Approximately 70 per rent of all the automobile license plates re- quired by the Slate were destroyed. together with dies, stamp machines and other equipment, as the fire, fed on lacquer, paint, and other in- flammable materials, swept the place The loss in building damage, equipment and plates already made was estimated at $250,000.

Manufactured plates destroyed totaled 570,000 for the State and 6000 for the city. A possible shortage in license plates appeared probable, although Howard Norton, manager of the con DEITH CALLS SHERIDAN, Nov. 4. nj.P) John Benjamin Kendrick, pioneer Western cattleman, conservationist and statesman died sundown yes- tcrdny. fit the ago of 70.

For the in- i i i lfl.it HI vr'ma lit- hail, United States Senator from Wyoming. Hundreds of messages of grief were received today from almost every state in the nalion. Funeral arrangements have not been completed but it was -announced services would be held in Sheridan. Death' resulted from an uremic I condition which caused Senator Kendrirk to suffer a sudden breakdown Wednesday night. He lapsed into a coma from which he never entirely emerged.

His widow, son, Manville, and daughter, Rosa Maye, were near when he died. The daughter is the wife of Major Hubert Harmon of Fort LcavenwVirth, Kan. Born in Cherokee County. on September 6, 1857, he came to Wyoming when he was 21 years old with a trail- herd of thousands of cattle. Even at that time, however, he was an experienced cowhand, having quit school at the age of 16 to ride the range.

When he died he owned approximately 200.000 acres of cattle land in Wyoming and Montana. He served in the state Senate and as governor before his election to the U. S. Senate. YOUNG COUPLE WED PRINCETON, Nov.

Elizabeth Katherine McBeth, 18, and Clarence Hoss Thompson, 24, both members prominent Princeton were married in Chico Wednesday The couple wil itake up residence here, SEN. Attorney's office prosecute ringleaders of the moh that attacked Dnminirl, who was the umpire at the game- Small wood said the District. Attorney's office is having difficulty finding witnesses who will swear to complaints against the mobsters. After the conference with Small-wood, Justice of the Peace .1. A.

Silva swore to a complaint, charging Joe Ferirra with interfering with an officer in the performance of his cjuty and with failure to prevent, a crime. Silya had deputized Ferirra to arrest one of the rioters but Ferirra refused, according to the judge. Ferirra was taken before Justice of the Peace Allan G. Nor-rls of Centerville, where he. declared he was ignorant of the law and did not know that he was supposed to obey Silva's Instructions to make the arrest.

He was given a 90 days suspended sentence. The Niles, Chamber of Commerce executive committee met, Thursday night snd decided to call on the District Attorney to "make examples" of the rioters. The committee report will go before the ni commerce mcmoersnip mi a Knt-iai meeung ftionaay nigni. according to F. V.

Jones, president, Dominici was chased from the baseball diamond by a crowd to the home of Tony Costa. The mob followed him there and beat him unconscious. As he was, being taken unconscious from the place to a waiting automobile they beat him again, according to repqrt. Two Badly Hurt in Automobile Accident REDW50D CITY, Nov. 4.

John Narramore. 52, of 1009 Rosewood Avenue, San Carlos, suffering from a severed tendon of one hand, and his Avife, Anna, who incurred cuts on the face, were under treatment today following an automobile accident in San Carlos between Nar-ramore'a car and one driven by TtU Pratt, also of San Carlos. One hundred and fifteen men and girl employees fled in panic as the flames raced through the building All escaped unhurt, but lost clothing and personal property left in lockers. TRAFFIC IS HALTED The fire CnrPl i-noirllv Ihi-nurh 1 i Ihe building, which occupies hal a block, and flames and smoke rose 300 feet in the air, endangering a i cmX varri Western and Southern Pacific Fi-u i vn Ic railroad stations, and I Traffic, both molojr and rail was on 'East Twelfth Street and rajimnfl for two hours during the blaze. Thousands of persons gathered to watch the conflagration.

Fire Chief William G. Lutkey expressed the opinion that the fire might have caused, untold dnmagr to the East Oakland area had there been any wind. Fire hoses played on the building and its interior had little effect until the paint and lacquer had been consumed. Minor explosions were heard through the building as the flames reached the small containers. Box cars on adjacent tracks were scorched.

Ickes Favors Local Hawaiian Governor WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. -VP)-Secretary Ickcs today told Hawaii's home rule commission he would prefer appointment of a local man as Governor if one can be found who is not influenced by "sugar interests," -and who is able take a broad view of the racial situation. Ickes added, however, that he still favors enactment of a bill that would permit designation of a nbn ai Goyernor. cern, said both machinery and ray materials would be provided as soon as possible and work on the plates resumed.

WORKERS FLEE IN PANIC Fire broke out when William Handelin, 3815 Marion Avenue, a( laborer in one of the paint rooms, was trundling a drum of enamel across the factory floor-Just opposite one of the lacquer baking ovens, the lid fell from the drum and the contents splashed to the floor, directly in front of the oven, he said. He shouted to Howard Bishop, 3401 East Eighth Street, a laborer, for assistance. Both seized burlap rags in a futile attempt to mop up the inflammable liquid, but the enamel exploded with a roar which (hook the building..