Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 14

Exclusive, "VVsochtcct National (Tribune 'A mm Umtei.i.Pr.'SS CorooUdalcJ Press Associafto vol. cxix- OAKLAM), MONDAY, NOVKMHKR (5, 19.5:5 Knave Week -Day Column TRAPPED NO.129 BUILDING OF dav DDinnri $35,000,000) BOND VOTE WASHINGTON By GEORGE Dl'RNO Big squeezes of To some people It might come as a surprise for a man HONORS ENTIRE FLEET IWILL 'BATTLE' IXT AflDNDAY i UH 1 JIIILJUL PROGRESSES DUE IN S. I to subscribe to his own testimonial fund, but to those who know Morris C. James, Berkeley's beloved deputy superintendent of schools, an act of this kind would be taken as new indication of the character of the person involved. For thirty-eight years James has been attach to the Berkeley school department, as teacher, principal, superintendent and deputy, and no one person in the entire system can vie for honors in the affection in which lie is held by pupils, teachers and citizens at iaice.

Thus, when school colleagues sought to pay honor to the veteran educator on his forthcoming birth- day this month, the plan met with general approval, excepting that of He pleaded to be saved from a public function which would embarrass him. Then a new proposal to raise a testimonial fund which would provide an income to be given an outstanding Berkeley. High School student -each year was uggested. James was enthusiastic. "I'm for anything that will help boys'iind glils' -They have been my chief interest all these years," he commented.

"I will only consent to the plan on one condition, and that is that I be allowed to contribute to (he fund." Thus the Morris C. James Distinguished Achievement Award is being raised in Berkeley. The man whom lie testimonial is to honoK shared distinction wilh his former' Latin pupil. Dr. Monroe Deutsch, vice-president and provost of the University of California, in being the first contributors to the fund.

0 It is to be JN few i iimMt iJ faimnirmiimMiatiLgM. Police Inspector Eugene Murphy loWrliier subclued two bandits in II 4 Meruit Avenue, "on a ride. and Joe Raymond (lower insel) Mrs. Murphy lielcl Kaymond wliil Holdup Halted by Officer; Wife Aids in Bandits' Arrest Bus Service To Richmond Will Start To morrow Street l.iinto He Aliaii-(IoiiimI: Keiiioval of Ha'ls Due lo I5egin li o. '21 Street ear sei ill Aelllle.

Richmond, will be 1 on S.m Pablo Oakland and ili-t unturned lo-uid bus sel ice Fast bay Motor iiinuinK'fd todas niuiiiiu inoiiiiin uh- hinted. Ihe I 0.11 I anes. I id At Ihe same lime Berkeley city official-- announced that removal of Sheet car tracks on San t'ablo Avenue in Berkeley. Albany and Kl Cerrilo will coniinenee November 7 and thai Ji-pn inr between the car tracks and v. of Ihe avenue 111 Albany, a 000 project wdl begin immediately after the larks are taken un The )al land-1! ii hinoiiil express-service.

No will operale from Sixth Street. Richmond, to Tenth Street. Iraveliiu' dou iT San l'ahlo Avenue lo Broadway and down tiroadway lo Tenth, ainiuid Tenth and up Washington bark lo San Rabin Avenue. This express will make 110 slops for local passengers between Twenty-second Street. Oakland, and Asbby Avenue terminal.

Berkeley. Mhe service will operale on a headway daily, exciasl Sunday, throughout Ihe day I iglif hours. The fust express coach bound for Oakland will leave Richmond al li a. m. The last through ex-1 ixiess will leave Richmond at p.

in. The first bound for Richmond will h-ae al a. m. and the last at (1:17 p. in.

An Oakland County Line express. No. will operate belween Oakland and Ihe county line as a supplemental service to No. 12 during Hie afternoon hours of peak (ravel. Another coimly line service will be operated from the Ashbv Avenue lerminal in Berkeley.

This will he No. 74 No. A'tiby A venue-R ichinond service will operate from Ihe Ashby Avenue terminal. Berkeley, to Sixth Street. Richmond.

No. 7(i Pullman Avenue line will operate from Por-trero anil San Pablo Avenues, along Porlrero Avenue lo Pullman Avenue, lu Street, and along Tweiilv-thii'd lo Maedonald Avenue, Rirlnnuiid. This will be a peal; hour service only. Service of Ihe nresent No fiH IJ.iM-tt A 1 1,1,111. W.i.l 1 roach line will be extended from lis present terminal at Tenth Street hint Maedonald Avenue, Richmond, lo the Oil Company's plant.

Fa lba.v Street Railways Ltd. will continue lo operate the No. 2 San Pablo A vi line line from Oakland along San Pablo Avenue as far as Ihe Ashby Avenue terminal. This slice! railway service will make all regular slops between Oakland and ihe terminal. The No.

I Hay ward and San l.eandro sheet railway line will operate between those cities and Oakland 011 regular schedule via the Street loop in Oakland The No. Klmhiii st car line will operate 00 (ciilar schedule Via the on Street loop. THEATERS SAN I.KANDKO Palace "Moonlight and Pretzels." IIAYWAKO llaywarit "Her Kirst Mate" and "Annikehak," 20YEARS AGO (NovemlH-r (, I.li.t) (The day was Tlmrsday) EASTHAY. -tuary watei front project liu Ihered Ibis evening at The will la a mcotint i tatioll. be I 'in 1 1 II i ortln loner Downtown Asso-tbr' speaktrs will THIN THEliE: Wlb' THE BAD THAT IHOUOUI IHE "coffin coemn" HAD SONET HI NO TO DO WITH ll.ii i Audei -on a li il- I Samuels.

Judge Anderson will i im-proveinents. already r-laken, including Hie ipiav wall and Ihe I Street Bridge. The UII3 Ihea-ti'iral season v. i 1 1 he el una xed Hut; week Willi "the appearance of enure Ulricli disc" at the Ma- CASKETS PHEFEHH0 0 TribducH in "Bird of Para-donough Theater. The ladies of St.

Peter's parish, under Mrs. Will J. Loveland, will open their great bazaar tonight. Assisting Mrs. Loveland are Mrs.

If. W. Pi indie and Mrs. George F. Strobridge.

ELSEWHERE. INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 0. The entire Stale militia has been ordered out by Governor Ralston to "fjuell the street ear strike here. MEXICO CITY, Nov.

Iluerta is determined to seal the congress just elected, in spite of the stern opposition of the United States, it was learned from reliable sources today. SPORTS. Rally bonfires will bum" at both Stanford nd California tonight, as spirit reachesTfever heat lor the annual Big Game at Palo Alto Sat- 15 BANDITS ind his wife, Anita, win) Siniili, upper insel ie act taking Dr. Sidney Chaplin wlio conlessed another lioklup. Iitr liusliand li.uidiullcd liim rimnc rep led lo have told )r nio 'We're g.

tal. or a WOMAN si: Murphy, Ie car, an lo Hi grappled 1 1 ratred then of Miectatol AIM MI wife the and the I. i I I 111- cat As he a group lliered and Murphv a-ked one of tin men for weapon them. But Ihe ot "I'm ind ahaiil' Murphy, i luubinr Deftly she ran rh the held back. V.

Illlc I rs hiiiie. called i ait ilrs 1he ear Ho oil ml of hands the pocket follh a from one of hi, en. pulling oiill oliia. I helped her llielll. Th she ill Is of of husband? put hand A pisl found of ID Hie Hi Smith' ear The pnllie the intention 1 I lie ph I.

Ill IV spot and He I was i.nipe Iv.o 1 to '01 in I TONIGHT Tribune Kast -of-! Club, p. Kharma p. lall Hotel 11 111 1 ed ood School. Dance Club, in I Old Sh 141-1 I'll Km ningloii. Slice).

1 1 II U) p. 111., Dance Club. li HO I'aellie Building, lioiieome Whist lillhxStreel. Dailies of Malta. I'oui leeiilh Yorks Old Si le p.

roof garden Wins! Ii '-'D in ciub, 'i in Masonic Hall. K'l'i Slrecl. TOMORROW Tribune Needlev. room. Hoi I bay ladio bi'itadiasl oik Cillld.

all I Oakland. Slanfoid Alumni As-1 Holt eiation, noon Ci room, Oakland. Win t. 2 p. SI.

Parish Hall. Howe and Kidgcway Streets. Win. I. 2:15 p.

Ashby Friendly Whi Club, A-liby Hall, Berkeley. Laundry M'-n'. Association, p. Blue room. Hotel Oakland.

Auto Salesmen's Association. 7:30 p. rn North room. Hotel Oakland. Lecture, ti Dr.

Paul Cadman, auspices Forum, Oakland City Club Theater. CLUBS TONIGHT West Oakland Boosters' Club, 8 p. Present School. La onion Improvement and Pro-leelive Association, p. Cleveland School.

TOMORROW Sciots Luncheon Club, noon, IflOfrt Broad way. Adverli'ing Club, noon, -Hotel iOakland. Temple Club. p. French Loyvre Restaurant, View Impruvernetit Club.

8 p. Bay View Hall, Thirty-fourth and Peralta Streets. Sequoia Improvement Club, 8 p. 10303 Foothill Boulevard. CHICK HEADS "GRIZZLIES" SANTA BARBARA, Nov.

6. (JP) Ralph Chick, Los Angeles, was elected president of Vj9 "Grizzlies," composed of World War veterans who served in 144th, field ar- the are bat drug industry singing a merry OPIUM tle in the nuiet of the Treasury Department over the rich! to import next year's legitimate supply of opium ol something like 100.000 pounds. Out of this will be mnnufartured every single bit of the narcotics, our physicians need Before the "necessary import li- censes are granted this lime it looks i as though the Secretary of the I Treasury would have to step in and listen to -an appeal from whatever decision the Narcotics Bureau i makes. -j For some years Narcotics Commissioner Harry Ansfinger has allotted all the opium processing business to three big firms This has been on the theory it is far easier to detect and check leakage into illicit chantMs when the job is confined to a very limited and select group. He points proudly to the fact not so much as one per cent escapes.

The three companies thus favored are New York Quinine Chemical Works. Merck and Mnllinrkkrndt Chemical Works. This year Cane Ingram and the J. T. -Baker Chemical Co.

are knocking with renewed vigor at the door to the charmed circle. They want each concern licensed to import 20.000 pounds of opium, and char.e that the government will be guilty of fostering a monopoly if their claims are ignored. Representing the two applicants Die Major A. V. Dalrymplc.

Director of Prohibition in the earlv days of the Roosevelt administration. Bud Robert Jackson, secretary of Hie Democratic National Committer. They replace C. Bascom Slemp, Secretary to former President Cool-idge. and the late Levi Cook, who signed the successfully da vs.

me proposition un-duiing Republican 0 0 0 Maor Dalrymplc delivered a paper at the recent meeting of the Committee on Causes the course of which, ng pinhibilion evils, larcot ie-. lie at lacked An. Iineor for per-'i ei nmenl -maintained PRICES of Clime lifter he turner! to nulling a go ninnnpoh hiit sinners "more cn-t legitimate i'in-han two million dol- lais per annum nbiitc The attorney ad ised this gathering, sponsored by the American -'lag Association, that opium a pound 1o import, plus a dulv, yet its derivative- are sold for 1o an ounce is believed Dal-r mple 1 old the un in csioncr when he finally presen'ed ase at the won be Jin th il the--e firms 0 0 pl'IC ill if his re lie I lie uhm; ill- oent of Agri-iillure has just iboltl lirciinic the WARNINGS itching nei of Wa. h-in'ton. Pl( sident ha-su lie determined to lift faim pi lee-.

Jl'liec tin- special! -'Is are hociuig over Agricultural Adjustment headquarters to get the first lift of nn Our plunge into the gold maiket came as a result of a menacing threat from the farm bell: Because of this situation Im are wrestling with the men direction of ACUA seem to have stuff on what's about I in the main ring than more deep i come off it her New Dealers. Thes are hectic days in Washing-Ion. The is a stationary gadget compared to the way the national jigsaw puzzle is being shuffled around. But more and more the impression is growing that the warning to try another shuffle emanates from the Department of Agriculture. Congressmen from the farm belt have shouted for debentures.

Unless all signs fail they'll be back in January demanding price-fixing. Along with that, they may also fight for government control of industry. To say nothing of the clamor they'll raise for direct inflation. It looks like a wealbery session for Roosevelt. 0 Enlplovees of the Treasury Depart SOURED ment, particularly I iciu Hguins, sore, vime was I workers got an allowance oi day whiie traveling on Uncle 3am's business.

Then it was cut. to $6. Along rame the Roosevelt Administration and it was cut to Irhder Secretary of 1he Treasury Arheson went the White House one better and reduced his hired hands 1o a per diem of $4-out of which must come meals and incidental expenses. Employees serving outside continental V. S.

have always got a dollar a day more than their domestic brethren. So were the domestics mad when an order went out from Treasury headquarters putting the outsiders back to $6. They swear thev'll do their travel- ing by way of Canada ana lihh. 0 0 Railroad Administra tor Eastman has let it. be known to administration officials he NOTES nrrfers not.

1o be rushed in making his recommendations for permanent railroad reform legislation. He wants to make a thorough study and if he isn't through by January Congress will just have to wait for his report. All Washington is getting set for the pleasant business of listening to tomorrow night's returns. It looks like the end of a long road. (CopyriKht.

1933. for Tnr Tribune.) Discussion Group Plans Open House Members of the Discussion Group of Technical High School will hold open house Wednesday from 9:15 to 11 a. m. as a part of American Education Week. Mrs.

Frank M. Harris will be leader, Mrs. Leon Richardson, of Berkeley, will talk on I a the the the to lectors In liallot Tomorrow on Miniiiial Ownpr-lii Program. Officials Bv ANTHONY F. MOITORET San Francisco todav was winding up a whirlwind municipal campaign in which bond issues calling for an expenditure of on public project vied for nublic attention with 'the claims of candidates for preferment at tomorrow's election.

Submitted to the voters bv Mavor Angelo J. Rossi and the Board of Supervisors is a municipal ownership program for distribution of electrical power generated bv the Helen. Hetchy water system. Thre 'separate bond issues, totaling would provide for creation of the municipal electric distribution system. These include construction of a power house at Red Bar Mountain, building of transmission lines from Newark to the city and development of distribution facilities within the cilv limits.

FOR AND AGAINST Bond issue supporters claimed municipal ownership would mean both lower rates and lower laes. Those who opposed the plan claimed that Ihe city would not only lo revenue now derived from the sale of power to a privately owned concern, hut also would have to increase taNCS. Other bond issue proposals on tomorrow's ballot include expenditures for the extension of the city water system, development of the Dam at Ketch Hetchy. and creation of additional recreational and airport facilities. Supporters -claimed a victory for all the bond issues would provide woik for Tig 000 directly for two years and for 10 000 additional men ind ireel I v.

"We have at Ihe polls tomorrow Ihe opportunity of a lifetime." said Mayor Rossi in a final appeal to Ihe voters. "The 1'nited Stales Gov ernment is ready with a grant of $10,000,000 to forward Ihe program of unemployment recovery and the general prosperity in a great program of const rurl i vo development lor our city ROSSI TAKES HAND Rossi al look a hand in the till -poi isoi i 1 1 contest by i-'-uinv a statement a-king the defeat of the ticket of five candidates led by hi -old focinan. Adolph I 'hi. He charged t'lil with disloyally to San Francisco and the national government and a-Jifd the voters to prevent Ihe election of ifilld ida tes- representative of "political hypocrisy and threatened bossism Five siipervisoi will be elected at tomorrow's election, reducing the legislative body of San Francisco's municipal government lo its new size under Ihe cfiarler adopled two years ago. This reduction in the number of seats to be filled means that some oi mi' incuniueius seeking new teims face certain defeat.

Besides supervisors. Ihe San Francisco voters will elect city attorney, treasurer, and four municipal judges and vole on the ratification of Ihe mayor's appointee to the Board of Education. Another election tomorrow will draw voters in San Lorenzo, Ashland, Cherryland. Colonial adjacent territory to the polls to decide whether this area shall be annexed to Ihe East bay Municipal Utility District. OOO Election returns from the si: eastern and southern states ballot ing on the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, tomorrow will be broadcast, at, Ihe Oakland Auditorium tomorrow evening during the civic celebration sponsored bv the Federal Club to mark the first anniversary of the election of President Roosevelt.

An evening of music and literary exercises is planned, with George Creel NRA administrator, as the leading speaker. The public has been invited nc gue'ie of the Fed eral Club. Assemblyman Wilham W. Iloff- I man will address the Eastlake So- i cial Service Club tomorrow afternoon at. a meeting in the Alpine Hotel.

Hoffman will tell of the last session of Ihe legislature and the steps it. took to solve the stale's problems. 0 0 0 Captain Walt R. Bethel, state commander, and John E. Brock, state vice-commander, of the Veterans' National Political Lcaguh will leave for Seattle the end of this week to attend the national convention of their organization on November 15.

According to Brock, the organization has 8332 members in California. It is organized in 2fi states and expects to make its influence felt, in the congressional elections next year. Mystery Blast and Blaze Wreck Home SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 6 Wilh deafening roar, an explosion and later fire.

wrecKed the interior of home of Aaron Sarkesian. 527 Connection Street, caused scores of dwellers in nearby house to flee to street, scantily, clad, and threatened five adjoining buildings yesterday. Mystery surrounded the origin of explosion and flames, according Fire Marshall Frank iielly who investigated. One report indicated two men had been seen loitering in front of the Sarkesian home just prior to the 'Blast Kelly scouted the possibility of leaking gas having become ignited. I I I I I Ml Macon and Aii lane lo lake Part in lie- (Ml nl It'll Oale SAN FRANCISCO.

Nov. ti IM.ui lor perhaps the greatest bailie in AinerniMi peacetime history Which every combatant ship ot the 1'. S. tleet will lake part, were di-closed by Admiral David Sell- lllteil today Cl lielore Ihe IkHJIc fleet anchor at San l'ed s. Illi eallv Fianii-cu, and sailed lor San I' The 'maneuvers Will tal place, ifl olden Gate next day.

Sellers, con tne lleel, 'aid Mm id iinaiider- avatl-11 I lor Ihe reia-lll tloiue al part. sin, I' llinl i able ailp IV 100 surface siiips. iljmariiH'S and 111 will divide 1 1 nil The I'. S. K.

Macui 1L.1t. Iv installed iff its new SiniiiVvafo also will tal; MACON TO TAKE I'AUT. Matching skill anil cunning for 111, games Reeve: will be Admiral the scph battle Frank I 111! defense uper i uree, and ne-Admiral Lruniby, in charee of the force. Heeves will ilna-cl li ategy bile Hi ujnby will Hie "attack" Willi ins hlowai force of mal mt s. aircraft ill ships, sub-froin the earner Li tnglon and long range patrol plain t'he brown force will leave San Pedro early Monday fur a eel et destination beyond flu Golden Gate, t'lom that point.

Brumby will launch a sei les of "ile-lruct i ve" 1 aids along Ihe coast. The Macon will support the blue or defense force and will be aided by planes from the carriers Saratoga and l.aiieley. The deleinters will make 11 sort it- from San Kran-ciseo in ipies of Ihe altnckers and engage them in nclion. GAin: vo i 1 1 Sellers said Ihe games will test the Heel's I ael ica I devclopnien attained after a of maneuvers. "One of the most important phases of fleet training is the use of all eoniljalant types together, utilizing Willi proper relation to oilier typi- and lo II ie as a whole." he said.

11 ellioii can le weakness lies and gi li I si rent'! It." 'Only by it'll where where is Hlls 0111 Mdd'ical Officer Examination Set SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 6 Open compel il ive esaiiiuialiuns for the I po of junior medical officer for I SI Kliabelh's Hospital. Washing-j ton. 1) and secret operative lor the Treasury Department I wi'ir announced today by the M'nited Slates Civil Sei vice Oom- me sion beadipiai let here.

Full inforinalion on Ihe exarnina-lioos is obtainable from the Twelflll di'll'iel oftices of I lie cum-mis ion, loom 1 1 I'oslolliee li'-ia1. 1 AT THE Allendale "No Marriage and "Kid From Spain." American "Bedtime Slur Tic am "Lucky Devils Broadway Cover the Waterfront" and "IPs Creal. to Be Alive," 'apilol "Secret of the Blue Boom'' and "Mama Loves Papa." ('intral "SweelbeaiKof Sigma ('In" and "By Appointment Onlv." lJimoiid "Paddv Ihe Next P.e-I Thing Fastmont "Her "While ombie." Fairfax "Paddv Bodyguard" and the Nevt Best Thing." "Metl the Friiilvale" "Doclor Boll." Oolden Stale "llei B.l and "Sunset Pass." 'iianada "Tn-ason" and Sti angei Man When High I lira b. a "Hell and Water" "Wild Hoys of Road." Oipheiiin and C.us" vaudeville. Palace "No Marriage Ties" "Secret of the Blue Room." Parkway "Oainblhig Ship" "Circus Queen Murder." Paramount "Ann Vickers." Pelalln- "The Nuisance" and Whirlwind." Piedmont.

"Maedchen in form" and "Di pluman iitcs." I'laza'Tei; o' My Heart" "Sundown Jtider." Premier-- "Orand Hotel." Rialto "Kluier the Creal" "Strictly Personal," Royal "Warrior's Husband." Roxii "Lady for a Day." Senator "Tugboat Annii "Isle of Desire," Stale "Doclor Bull" and Had to Say YeV' "College Humor" "Lilly Turner." Uptown "Tugboat Annie." Ihe and wid and "The and ind 'She and ALAMEDA Alameda Bull Neptune Palace "Keyhole" and "It's Great to Be Alive." BERKELEY California "Tugboat Annie." Campus "Morning Glory." Lorin "Voltaire" and "Man of the Forest." Oaks "Lady for a Day." Rivoli "Secret of the Blue Room" and "Midnight Club." Strand "Voltaire" and "Professional U. "When Ladle Meet" and "Hello United jArtlsts "The Way -to a li i n. I 1 I 1 Hay I'liuiKlaliiiii al Pier aiimilf It-l inii Are 2 iNeailv Timcliing; Hutlum 1 Progress on employment and con-jstiuclion fronts on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is picking I up tempo, according to a report filed with Director of Piablic Works I Karl Lee Kelly today by Chief Fngi-i neer C. 11. Purcell.

Kmplovment "on location" has reached 1300 men. according to fig-j iires. with an additional 1000 men al work icat ing steel for Ihe bridge in Eastern steel mills. I 'oust met ion work on the east baV" aild West btiy' substructures', island cable anchorage and tunnel. and San Francisco cable anchorage and land pipes is ahead of schedule.

Here is Ihe detailed report of new work: Bridge Builders. contractors for Ihe Kaslbay bridge foundations, tlnedged din ing Ihe week at Pier 1000 feet west of the Key Route Mole, so that the cutting edge of this caisson' is resting in the material at the bullom of the bay. 30 feet below the sui face of Ihe waler. This caisson has approx inialcly 00 feet vet to go. NEW I.I1T I'l ACED At Pier 15(11) feet west of the Key Route Mole, aij.

additional lift 20 feel high was placed on the caisson during the week, and the culling edge at the bottom of the caisson has been landed successfully uh bay bottom, -IT feel below water surface. Concrete has been poured into this caisson up to about 25 feet above low water. Construction of Piers E-lfl. E-20, 21 and K-22. alongside the Key Route Mole, which go to a depth of lf feel with piles extending below this, is progressing rapidly; and excavation is completa and piles are being driven at.

Pier F-22. Fifteen thousand cubic yards of earth and lock were mined last week from the west side of Verba Bueua Island by the Clinton Construction Company In excavating the west approach to the tunnel. To dale approximately 00 0011 cubic yards of earth has been removed and dumped into Ihe bay. I'lElt 6 PROGRESSES The compressed air flotation caisson al Pier ti. 1 1 10 feet west" of Yel ba Bilena Island, continued to hold the attention of commuters.

The first MOToot lift of steel cylinders, timber cofferdam and the ners-essary steel bracing to go on the caisson since it was moved to site, was added to the structure last week, bringing the height now to 03 feel from its cutting edge beneath the water to the lop. Concrete tu the total oT 7000 cubic yards has been puurt-d iulo the caisson around the cylinders to a height of 12 feel. Three more litis, each 20 feel high, will lie added before" lie (aisson rests on the bolloin of the bay. PIER 2 COMPLETED At Pier 2 on the San Francisco Jlaibor line at the end of Dock 2-1, Ihe Transbay 'oust rurl ion Company, contractors lor the west bay foundations, has completed this unit of the bridge except for reveling the bearing upon which the stetd tower base will be erected. The steel piling for Pier 1, on the east line of Speer Street, between Harrison and Bryant, has been starli'd by Ilealv-Tibbills Con struction Company, contractors on (he land piers and cable anchorage on Rincon Hill.

Concrete operations on the San Francisco cable anchorage on Rincon Hill added another 200 yards of concrete to the iiinnolitliintu which will be fixed the two calces thai will support the suspension bridge. A total of 0000 cubic yards bas been poured in this anchorage to Fabrication of caissons for Piers ami a it: in prot.ies.-i. Tin caissons are for west bay foundations. Elks Will Sponsor Debate on Russia "Should the United Stales Recognize Soviet will be the topic of a debate to be held at p. in.

November 23 at the Oakland Elks building under auspices of the Americanization committee of the local IJ, P. O. Iv lodge. M. C.

Mc-Donoitgh, chairman, announced today. The speaker for the affirmative will be W. L. Peet of Palo Alto, a member of the foreign relations committee of the San Francisco Commonwealth Club, which recently went on record favoring recognition of Russia. The negative will be lanen uy imiiip u.

Solon, local attorney and past commander of Oakland post. American, Legion. The debute will be open to the public. eeting on Water Program Is Called California's $170,000,000 water development program will be discussed a week from tomorrow night at a meeting of the F.ast Twelfth Street Improvement Association to be held at the School Administration Building, Second Avenue and East Eleventh Street. The water development project ts due to come before the voters at the special election December 18.

Joseph N. Steiner, who was 'Installed as president of the association at a recent banquet, will' pre- jjOkCALEN DAIC1 CORNERSTONE hoped that the corner- stone of Oakland's new postoffice is securely in place. After what has happened up in Napa, you never can tell. Napa also lias a new postoffice and the cornerstone was laid with ap-" proprkde ceremonies before the change of administrations at Washington. But Napa Democrats were not content wilh a Republican cornerstone and, according lo the Napa Register, they have dug.

out the stone with lis historic contents and are preparing to replace it with a new one all their very own. "The story is one that tells of Very small deeds," says the Regls-ler, which points out that It doesn't believe for a minute that President Roosevelt ever heard of the "fool scheme" or that, lie would have for a moment endorsed it if he had. IMS, nnoui a reminder or tie Democratic announcement some months ago I hat Hoover Dam would henceforth, be Known as Dam. 0 0 0 Baby Peter Barnato sleeps in a lovely and cosily ctib the Fairmont supposed kid-1 SAD STORY in a penthouse on Hotel, all safe from papers under the watchful eyes ot Ins parents. Captain and Mrs.

Wool? Barnato. You will remember that Captain Barnato is an heir to the Kunberly diamond millions. The kidnapers wanted him to divide wilh lit-in. Bui it's Ihe crib, which lias a Louis XV touch, or something, about whioij this sail tale is written. You will hae to follow it closely.

It's very involved. The crib originally belonged to relative of Mis. John Drum, who owns the penthouse wherein little Peter sleeps in luxurious surroundings. The first owners of the crib finished with it. There wasn't any more use for it so they, with hope in their hearts, gave it to Berkeley-relatives.

The Berkeley one child, a dog and two-cars, passed the crib on to other Berkeley relatives, who had just succeeded in marrying off their only two children, a son and a The parents of the newly married children look the large afid ornate crib into their home where it was always Kept in readiness, like a fire engine, for the first alarm of the' stork. Two years passed and the parents relaxed their vigil beside the crib. Ti son had a dog and the son-in-law a broken down car. That was all. When Peter was about to arrive at the penthouse lie was pborin, Mus.

Drum made inquiry in. Berkeley if the crib were It was not, and the parents who had been barking their shins on the crib's carvings saw it depart in a truck with a good deal of relief. The truck driver knocked off th street lamp getting the crib out. 0 0 0 'V This strange society. game of "Scavanger wluch has taken New" York's jaded elite BORED storm "may have originally been "incubated" "right here, I learn.

Elsa Maxwell, purveyor of enui-remov" ing diversions for New York, Lon' dun ifad Paris society, and who' thoughtVup ttiis substitute for the' "treasure? hunt" hales from Oak- land. This Scavanger game calls for the's gathering of various nondescript ar" tides within a given time, prefer-ably during a ball. In the York premiere, underthlngs ac-tresses, autographs of notables 'and a Roosevelt mustache were among, the loot. Miss Maxwell, who studied for a -musical career, was York, Society by the late Mrs. O.

H. P. Belmont. She collaborated with Mrs. Belmont in writing a suf- -frage opera, titled "Melinda and Her Sisters," produced as a benefit -in the Waldorf-Astoria in 1916.

"Leave It to Elsa" became a May-fair byword when the Duchess of; Marlborough introduced her to London's bored top-notchers as "organ- ier of affairs." That was afr she had ceased to be a suffrage agitator. THE KNAM-. Belief that the two bandits ho were ai re: ted Saturday night by I'olicp Inspector Eugene Murphv and his wife, Anita, during an attempted holdup, were responsible for several other bay district expressed by the police todav. The two were seized as they were attempting to kidnap and rob Dr. E.

G. Smith, V. Merrill Avenue, us lie was silling in his pai ked automobile Mrs, Murphy, who had been riding with her husband when he started after Ihe pair, aided him by searching the men after he had arrested them. The two, who gave the names of Sidney Chaplin and Joe Raymond, confessed that they had robbed E. A.

Krumrei, Sanla Rosa salr anan. of his watch and money at San I'alilo Avenue and Twenty-third Street last Thursday night. OI IK KR SICKS HOI 1)1 I'. An attempt today to link Chaplin with Ihe killing of George I.illi-bridge, who was slam during bottling plant holdup September I'll, failed when witnesses of Ihe slay lug said they could not identify luio But the police were thai lit men would be connected with olher Eastbay clinics before the day over. Murphy, who was on his way home wilh his wife, not iced the men acting suspiciously in front of a store Saturday night, and follow- ed them for more than an hour.

During part of that time (hey hid in some bushes. Then he saw them enter Dr. Smith's automobile, in which Ihe physician was sitting at Grand and r.uciin avenues, one going in (in each side. Raymond, on entering the car, LODGE LEADER vmsm SAN FRANCISCO. Nov.

and fi. Two charged men were arrested with robbery early today after they assprleril.Y attacked Andrew Ris-ehoff. Seventeenth Street, secretary of the Independent Order of Foresters, in a beer parlor at Haight and Fillmore Streets. The men are Vernon llammer-stad. .10.

of 1207 Page Street. id Phillip Thatcher. 23. of 400 Dubose Avenue. In their possession police found several of Risehoff's belongings, including a list of members of the Foresters, it was reported.

The alleged attack and robbery followed a fight, in the beer parlor, according to Bischoff, who said that he called a taxicab fr an unidentified man who had been fighting with Hnmmcrstnd. When Ihe cab arrived. Hammers-lad insisted that. Bischoff pay for it. Bischoff told police.

The secretary refused and Hammerslad and Thatcher then attacked him. he said, and rifled his pockets, taking me membership a fountain pen and $4.40 in cash. Three men held up George Wil- kining. 168(5 McAllister Street, as he was. seated in his parked car at McAllister and Larkin Street, forced him to drive them around the city for half an hour, and, after robbing him of $1,50.

ordered him out of the machine on Geary Street. They then drove away in the auto. i MEXICAN CLERIC DIES TUCSON. Nov. 6.

fP) The Rev. C. C. Cota, pastor of the Mexican Methodist Church at Nogales, and once a soldier under Pancho Villa, rebel general, died 9 last night. tulery.

uiuajr ai tvi liu vita.