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WEATH ER OAKLAND AND VICINJTY Fair and mild tonight, Sunday and probably Monday; gentle north to east wind, occasionally fresh. CHABOT TEMPERATURES Maximum 88 Minimum RAINFALI Last boura .00 1 Normal T.41 Season 5.41 1 Last year. 10.01 Complete Weftthtr Report an Para 15 HOM EDITION EXCLUSIVE ASSOCIATED PRESS WIREPHOTO UNITED PRESS VOL CXXLX-NO. 177 5c pAILY OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1938 10c SUNDAY 24 PAGE3 Pope Scores Army Plane, 15 ARE GIVEN Ickes Dispute Closed, Says Nazi Spokesman Moore's to Start i Ships at Once Yards to Spend $140,000 Immediately To Improve Facilities for Proceeding With Work on $2,857,760 U.S. Contract Picture on Section Page Executives of the Moore Dry Dock Company of Oakland busies themselves today with preparations for the first major 6hip construction on the Pacific Coast since the World War.

They plan an "immediate" start of work on two fast cargo vessels, costing $2,857,760 each. The award for the two ships was made yesterday by the United States Maritime Com -7 Christmas Spirit7 Reigns Among Diplomats, Although Press Continues BERLIN, Dec. 24. UP) A man today declared the "Ickes matically after it culminated in of a German protest against a interior. Though regretting that Acting Secretary of State Sumner A.

G. Tasheira Welles' rejection "left a sting spokesman said the Italy for Church Curb Restraint on Catholic Action, Marriage Curb Held Pact Violation VATICAN CITY, Dec. Pope Pius XI accused Italian au thorities today of encouraging "mis treatment" of Catholic Action which along with racial marriage discriminations caused anxiety for the 10-year-old concordat of reconciliation between the church and state. He spoke in his Christmas address to his cardinals, expressing his "bitter sadness" at vexations in re lations between the Vatican and the Italian Government. IN CONCORDAT In his statement on Catholic Action, an organization of laymen, the Pon tiff said: "Observing the zeal In the lower ranks, it appears too clear that while Catholic Action is distinctly contemplated in our pact of con ciliation, from above must come wire or rather occult gestures of permission and encouragement in order that those vexations not cease in various places from one end to the other of the peninsula.

"And not only in small places of little importance. Yesterday they were reported to us from Venice, Turin and Bergamo; today from Milan and In the very person of the cardinal archiblshop, guilty of speech and teaching which comes within his pastoral duties and of which we can only approve." ADDRESSED CARDINALS The Pontiff a the speechof nearly 1500 words to the cardinals in Rome as they visited him in body to present their annual Christ mas wishes through their dean, His Milan reference concerned Ildefway Cardinal Schuster, arch' bishopTir Milan. Cardinal Schuster denounced Fascist and Nazi racial doctrines as "en international danger not less than Bolshevism" in a sermon In hU catnearai November 13. PROTESTS MADE The Vatican protested to the Italian Government against the mar riage decree, after the Pope sought to prevent its adoption by writing letters to Mussolini King Vit torio Emanuele. The King later replied with a 1st ter assuring the Pontiff his objec tions would be given the greatest consideration.

(The Italian Cabinet on November 10 approved a decree excluding Jews from Government positions, restricting their businesses and professions, and forbidding their marriage to Italians Aryans. CONCORDAT VIOLATED (The Vatican protested that the marriage law was a violation of the Concordat of February 11, 1929, one article of which provides that church marriages should be recognized as legal by civil authorities and that cases involving nullification of church marriages should be decided by canon law.) The Pope said he had offered his life for peace in a broadcast before the September 29 Munich agreement on German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland, and he again offered it that Italy's "interpal peace" and prosperity remain unaffected. He said his remarks were prompted by thoughts of the approaching 10th anniversary' of conciliation between the church and the Italian State In the Concordat of February 11, 1929. EXPRESSES THANKS The Pontiff expressed appreciation and thanks to the "most noble sovereign" King Vittorlo Emanuele and "his incomparable minister," Mussolini, whom he credited with bringing the negotiations for that concordat to a happy conclusion. But he said, "we must unfortunately say, as a duty of apostolic sincerity and truth, that the coming decennial as It approaches real and serious preoccupations and bitter sadness." "Bitter indeed," lie said, "when it is a question of real and numerous vexations against Catholic action, this well-known apple of our The Pontiff declared that "it had to be recognized and confessed In the raiding of various headquarters and archives" that Catholic action was not in politics or in "undestred competition" with the Fascist regime.

$1,000,000 Storm" SYDNEY, Australia, Dec. A wind storm caused damage estimated at $1,000,000 4oday on the outskirts of Sydney. One person was killed and 18 and 240 houses wrecked, 7 Men Blown To Fragments Californians Die in Mystery Blast That Hit Ship in Midair UNIONTOWN, Dec. 24. Blown to bits, by an explosion that shattered a twin-motored B-18 Army bomber and sent the pieces crashing to earth in flames, bodies of at least seven and possibly nine men were gathered up today in a clump of cedars that had been transformed into a scene of horror.

No immediate identification was possible. The plane left Hamilton Field, San Rafael, on Thursday. Maj. Warren A. Maxwell, operations officer at Maxwell Field.

Montgomery, said vapor from a broken gas line may have gathered in the passenger compart ment of the huge ship and. have ignited by a spark before the pilot, aware of his peril, could find clearing in the rainy night. Maxwell Field officers reported tneir investigation had given no hint of sabotage. Major Maxwell said a tramp over the area convinced him "at least seven were killed," and asserted never In all my experience in aviB' tion have I ever seen anything like' the devastation wrought by the ac cident. Effects recovered Indicated nine persons might have been killed, but reports from Hamilton Field, said only seven soldiers left there aboard the plane en route to Michell Field, N.Y.

BLAST SHAKES HOMES The terrific explosion shook many nouses in tne vicinity. Hamilton Field released the names of the following as those who left there with the ship en rout eto New York via Maxwell Field: First Lieut. James D. Underhill, 28, pilot, Morgantown, N.C., whose pocketbook was found in the wreckage. i Second Lieut.

John W. Pollard, Wasco, air corps reserves, co pilot. Both he and UnderhlU were unmarried. Second. Lieut John H.

Hydle, 30th Infantry, Presidio, whose checkbook was located in the debris. He was a passenger and his parents live in wuiiston, N.D. Capt. Fred Ruebe medical corps, Letterman Hospital, San Francisco, unmarried, a passenger, Privates Humbert Narro, 27, radio operator, Los Angeles; Ben L. Jones, 34, Los Angeles, and Sheldon Johnson, 26, Northvllle, N.Y.

TWO MORE INDICATED Warren Wunderlich, service con nection listed as "unknown" at Hamilton, was reported to have boarded the plane at March Field and effects found in the scattered wreckage Indicated a Capt. Reiber also had died, although some were of the opinion this might have be come entangled with Capt. Ruebe i Knee-deep mud hindered invest! gation and reclamation, and most of. those who came because of curl' osity went away horror struck. Even veteran newsmen and photographers turned away.

The plane took off Thursday on a navigation flight. It cleared Hen ley Field, Texas, and passed Barks dale Field, Shreveport, without landing only a short time before tragedy overtook Frank Glass, Uniontown business man, said cfothes were blown from parts of bodies and expressed the opinion "the plane exploded before it hit the ground, although there is some uncertainty." Fire from the burning wreckage attracted crowds from miles arcund, A rainstorm drenched the flames, SOUGHT TO LAND Major Maxwell advanced a theory vapor' from a broken gas line may have gathered in the passenger com partment of the ship, that the pilot sensed his distress and sought landing but a spark set off the ex plosion before a clear space could be found in the dark. A witness to the catastrophe, Bob Long, said the plane circled the town, obviously seeking to land. He Continued Page 3, Col. Train Guards Slain; $150,000 Gold Taken MANILA, Dec.

24. OP) Robbers who boarded an express train en route here from Baguio killed two messengers and robbed "the bag gage safe of $150,000 in cash and gold bullion tonight. The Christmas Eve crime was discovered when the train arrived from the northern mining districts. Both messengers were hacked to death with bolos. mission.

The work that will begin next week is preliminary to actual construction, which probably cannot get under way for two and a half months; Officials said there is much work to be done at the company's yard on the Oakland Estuary. Slips will be prepared and machinery acquired and repaired, the entire preparation costing about Jtf.40000.r The shipyard is busy now with repair work and smaller construction. Its payroll, now 1100. will be increased by approximately 3000- at the peak of activity on the two cargo vessels. CONTRACT FOE 50 The Maritime Commission has awarded contracts for 50 ships costing about $140,000,000 to date in its program for rehabilitation of America's Merchant Marine.

Its program calls for 50 ships a year for a 10-year period. The figure for the two ships was fixed after considerable negotiation. The Moore firm originally bid each. Joseph Moore, company president, went to Washington and, after a series of conferences, agreed to build them for $2,857,760 each on an adjusted price basis. This allows for adjustments either way for increased or decreased costs for materials and labor.

The price was based on low bid by the Ingalls Iron Works of Birmingham, for a' group of nlna a 6 ner cent dif- ferential allowed by the Merchant Marine Act for west toast snip-yards. REQUIRED O.K. Because of 'the differential, the award required the approval of President Roosevelt and the Navy Department. Keels for the two ships probably will be down within three months. The first will be completed in 15 months and the Second within an additional two months.

Contracts for all crafts that will be employed already have been signed, Moore reported. They were negotiated before Moore went to Washington. The ships will be, 492 feet long, with a 70 foot beam, of 11,000 tons deadweight, and capable of 16 knots speed. They are capable of qaick conversion into naval auxiliaries in the event of emergency. Oldest Cardinal In Service Stricken TROPPAUi Germany, Dec.

24. W) Leo Cardinal von Skrbenskl-Hriste, archbishop of Olomouc (01-muetz), oldest cardinal in point of service in the Roman Catholic hierarchy, died today. He was 75 years old. Cardinal Von Skrbenski, scion of an old baronial family, was conse crated a bishop in 1899 and was made a cardinal in 1901 when he was only38, the youngest at the time. had been an invalid since an automobile accident In 1920.

He was a one-time officer of Dragoons and close adviser to, Em peror Franz Joseph of Austria-Hun gary. French Air Chief Dies PARIS, Dec. 24. Major General Philippe Fequant, 55, technical inspector-general of the French Air Force and former aviation chief of staff, died today in his Paris home after-'a heart attack. FIRST HAPPY YULE IN YEARS By JOHNNY NOBLE 'Tis thertight before Christmas Right now Santa Claus probably is putting the tinkling harness on Dasher and Dancer, Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid and Don-der and Blitzen.

His sleigh is loaded for the flying trip around the world. Santa, him self, is limbered up for the many trips he must make over roofs and down chimneys. He has a list of all the good boys and girls in the world and what he is going to give them. And that list includes the names of, practi cally every boy arid girl there is. Wise old Santa kind old Santa overlooks a lot of minor Infractions.

DREAMS REALIZED Yes, Christmas finally has ar rived. Tonight and tomorrow morn' ing will see the dreams of nearly everyone answered. Oakland there will be almost no one over looked. Many names have been added to Santa's list here, names that he wouldn't have gotten otherwise, for there are a host of people without resources to reach Santa. But the kindness that finds its expression in all hearts at Christmas time has made it possible to give Christmas to these unfortunates.

And it is the kind of Christmas they want most. 5000 FAMILIES AIDED Baskets of food, clothing and toys, orders for coal and wood, furniture and all those other things that are lacking most of the year have been provided for nearly 5000 homes. The generosity of Oakland made it possible to provide the comforts of the day for all of these people whose situation was made known. For 15 others, the greatest Christ mas ever known will dawn tomorrow. They are the ones for whom The Tribune asked aid in.

Its Bluebird Fellowship campaign. They are the ones to whom a bas ket of food or a few toys would not bring Christmas. They have laced the barrier of Insufficiency and frustration. They needed help oi anotner sort, the kind that would make them self-supporting at the same time they are self-respecting. More than $2500 has-been sub scribed in their behalf by generous givers who saw the opportunity to spread the Yuletide a little farther, who wanted to give the chance for new life to these 15.

FUND ALMOST FULL Their fund is full. Theyean sleep wnignt in the knowledge that to- morrow will bring them notification that they can start on a program of rehabilitation. Their prayers will nave been answered, And undoubt- edly each of these 15 will kneel to night and say a prayer of gratitude, A few hours remain in which to collect the final dollars. In these few hours will come the word that hope is on its way. As you sit down by your tree tonight, and as you add "the last few ornaments to the think of these 15 people and how happiness has been brought them.

It is your Christmas greeting to them. It is the proof that in the United States there is plenty to go around and that human sympathy aemancrs mat it go to all. HOPE RESTORED You can be happy tonight for you have given more harminen to these 15 than they ever have known. our contributions have done for them what nothing else could. They are to nave the chance tn nrn ductively from now nn nimr.lv he cause nunareds or Oakland people put forth the effort to give them a few dollars and cents.

Where a month ago there was notning anead but dreary days and months no better than those of the past, now there Is real hope, real promise for the vear ahead. This is a Christmas miracle without equal. Your gifts have brought back hearing to deaf ears, employ ment to tne unemployed, education Continued Page 3, Col. 3 Independence Hall Sale Is Proposed PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 21.

(IP) A proposal to sell Independence Hall was laid today before hard-up Philadelphia's would-be budget balancers. Dr. George ENltzsche, recorder of the' University of Pennsylvania voiced 'the idea. He thought the birthplace of American independence might bring as much as 000,000 from. Uncle' Sam.

Heretofore, the controversy had been over marketing the municipally-owned gas works. Mayor S. Davis Wilson cried "un thinkable" at Nitzsche's plan. And a member of the Mayor's advisory tax commission snapped: "Next, it will be your shirt and mine." Would-Be Purse Thief Slugs Woman Margaret Chekalovlch. of 1612 11th Street, was slugged three times last night when she resisted a- purse snatcher who accosted her as she was walking near her home with her brother, Dominic Chekalovlch.

Before the brother could defend his sister, the assailant struck her with a blackjack and fled without the purse, escaping pursuit RAP AT REICH DRAWS FIRE IN CONGRESS WASHINGTON, Dec. Congressional criticism developed today of the State Department's stiffened attitude toward Germany, as demonstrated in its refusal to apologize for Secretary Ickes' de nunciation of that country's treat ment of minorities. Fear of retaliation against Jews In the Reich as well as concern over the possibility that this atti tude might entangle the United States in a controversy would accomplish no good prompted several senators to counsel caution in future exchanges. Asserting that he agreed with Ickes' criticism of Nazi treatment of Jews, Senator Burke Neb.) said, however, that he. believed it was "unwise" at this time.

"There can't be any war beween the United States and Germany un less spokesmen for executive de partments like Ickes make inflama tory statements that take us beyond the point where level heads can operate." Burke declared. "Ickes is the sort of person who can say Christmas' to you in a way that makes you want to fight him." OUTBREAKS FEARED Senator Lewis Adminis tratlon whip, said he feared that acrimonious exchanges between of ficials of the German and American Governments might be followed by new outbreaks against the. Jews in the Reich. Senator Sch warts also cautioned against putting any avoid-able strain on relations with Ger many. Representative Fish N.Y.) agreed with the State Department i action, but said that Cabinet of' fleers "should not publicly denounce foreign governments or indulge in abusive tirades." Meanwhile, Frederick J.

Libby, executive secretary of the National Council for Prevention of War, sug gested that "the question may well be rad whether recent statements by Administration officials are part of an effort to create an inter national spirit of fear and hate which will overcome rising opposl tion to the President's armament program." ARMAMENT MOVE Senator Frazier N.D.), voiced a similar view in wondering if the statements might "be more ballyhoo for the super defense and armament Senator Norris said however, that this country had done the right thing in bluntly refusing Germany's demands for retraction of criticism. The veteran Independent is the only present senator who voted against war with Germany in 1917, "I have never seen anything like the brutality now existing in the world," Norris said. "We have at least three governments now en gaged in open campaigns of brutal ity and murder. These are not outlaws, mind you, but governments that act for millions of people. It makes you wonder about civiliza tion." CANAL DEFENSE While congressional discussion of foreign affairs centered about the European the executive branch in two unrelated actions moved toward better protection of the Panama Canal which Secretary of War Woodring said recently must be made impregnable.

They were an announcement the present tern porary Atlantic squadron would be come a permanent unit of 35 war ships on January 6. and President Roosevelt's decision to elevate' the American legation in Venezuela to "an embassy, United States' eighth In Latin America. The recognition accorded Vene zuela follows similar elevation of the legation in Colombia October 1 Both countries are close to the Canal. Founding of A.P. To Be Dramatized The founding of the Associated Press 90 years ago will be one of the events dramatized at the A.P.

anniversary program to be broad cast over a Nationwide NBC.net work tomorrow, The broadcast will be' heard on KGO from 10 to 11 a.m Pacific Standard Time. The program which will be held in 'connection with the dedication of the new Associated Press Build ing in Rockefeller Center, will present dramatizations of National and international events of the past 90 years, and tf outstanding news stories of the past year. A talk will be given by Bryon Price, ex ecutive editor of the Associated Press, i 1 1 Its Attacks propaganda ministry spokes incident" was closed diplex the United States' rejection speech by the secretary of the protest was couched in such terms that diplomatiq action ended with the strong American retort. Not even diplomatic Quar rels must interfere with the Christmas spirit, so there will be no offi cial "reaction," said the spokesman, adding that "we Nazis are regarded by many as heathen, yet I think we are better Christians than soma other people," PITTMAN DENOUNCED At the. same time Senator Key Pittman's four-point statement ex pressing disapproval of" the Berlin and Tokyo Governments elicited an angry reply from the officially inspired commentary service Deut-scher Dienst.

c-. The service said: "Senator Pittman's declaration constitutes a carefully timed brutal disturbance of the Christmas peace. -wnat cynical baseness and, the same time what impudent smug- ness is apparent from these utter. ances by a man who, as committee chairman (of the Senate, Foreign Relations Committee); occupies a position of responsibility, yet wh acts with complete irresponsibility ne man't ask the American people, yet he considers himself au thorized to Insult a great European power in such an unbelievable manners After all he must know he in sults the German people in its en tirety and in all Its strata when he arrogates to himself such an exores. sion of opinion," CHRISTMAS SPIRIT "We don't' think utterances lika Ickes' help promote the Christmas spirit." (Ickes, Speaking Sunday before the Zionist Society of Cleveland, said Germany's treatment of Jews carried her back to "a period of his tory when man was unlettered, benighted and bestial." He also criticized acceptance of German decorations by Henry Ford and Col.

Charles A. Lindbergh.) "We believe In the true Christ mas spirit; hence we will not do anything further about the unfortunate incident. Of all times, this is not the season for quarreling. "As regards the rejection of our protest, that naturally leaves a sting and also was not calculated to enhance the Christmas spirit "But there was not anything ultl- mative about our protest hence from the diplomatic point of view the incident now is closed, we had our say and the American Government had its." ENVOY DECORATED Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, meanwhile, decorated Japanese Ambassador Hiroehi Oshima with the Grand Cross et the Order of the German Eagle. The award to the Japanese of the highest German decoration at this time was regarded in some dipls- matic quarters as an indirect reply to Pittman In emphasizing the solidarity of the Japanese and German Governments.

Deutscher Dienst, In its comment on the Pittman statement, recalled the German elections which were almost 100 per cent for the Governmentand contrasted them with American elections. v. "It is therefore understandable," it said, "that insolent effusions of this queer parliamentarian, who evidently acts as an exponent of a) certain sufficiently notorious Democratic Jewish clique in America, call forth the deepest resentment in the entire German people, 'CLIQUE' RAFFED "The form of the state of the German Reich is solely the business of the German people, who owe no accounting for it to any other Continued Page Col. WHERE TO FIND IT Subject Pcc3 Churches 1 Classified Advertising Comic Strips Crossword Puzzle Knave Column Editorials and -Columns Editorial Features Financial and Stocks Geraldine Column Marine News; Weather Radio Schedules Society and Clubs Sports and Sporterrrrt Vitd I-C 12 4 6 5 13 5 r. 15 Franco Drive- Bogs in Snow Loyalists Beat Off Thrusts Along Whole 100-Mile Battle Line HENDAYE, France, (At the Span' ish Frontiers), Dec.

24. IP) nrm Government resistance, it was. reported today, has checked a great Insurgent offensive all along tne frozen Pyrenees front from Tremp to Balaguer in a momentous battle of Spain's civil war. News filtering across the border Into France said the big push by Insurgent Generalissimo Fran cisco Franco's-Moors and Italians, had been brought to an abrupt halt The front was said to be com pletely quiet except for occasional artillery shelllngr SNOW SLOWS BATTLE Heavy snowstorms almost wiped out visibility and freezing cold made fighting virtually Impossible in the mountains where two of the greatest armies assembled on a single front in more than 29 months of warfare have been locked in combat since yesterday. Renorts from the front said the cold was so severe that water cool ers on machine-guns usually boll- inshot had frozen.

The advantage in the fighting was said to have been with the Govern ment's seasoned mountain troops, defending well fortified hilltop po sitions. ATTACKERS MOWN DOWN Insurgents were unable to advance their machine-gun platoons to take the summits of Government-neia hills, these reports said, and Government rifle fire mowed down waves of insurgents attempting to charge un the sIoies with fixed bayonets. Border sources estimated that half a mtlilon men were engaged in the battle area extending from Tremp 101 miles south to the Grosa Moun tains. The Insurgents' main goal and the Government's prize possession was the little industrial town of Ar- tesa, called by both sides the "Key to Catalonia." The success or failure of Franco'i drive, both sides acknowledged, may decide the two-and-a-half-year-old war. LOYALISTS FAVORED One point in he Government's favor was that the Insurgents struck at the same sector wher their at tacks failed December 15, when, ac' cording to some quarters, an espion age dot gave their plans away, On the second morning of his of fenslve Franco apparently had been stopped in the Balaguer and Lerida sectors.

His troops, howei er were said to have broken through at least the first line of Government de fenses near Tremp and in the Grosa Mountains, at the two extremes of the battle front Casualty lists ran Into the thou sands, although the Insurgents strong in artillery and aviation were believed to have lost less than theGoverment ARTILLERY FIRE HEAVY; Since dawn yesterday and through the night the crash and rumble of artillery fire and the stutter of ma chine-guns and automatic rifles echoed through the Segre Valley, Here is how the situation stood on the second day, based on a compari son of dispatches from both sides: At Tremp the Insurgents appeared to be concentrating most of their 800 pieces of artillery toback a force of close to 100,000 men. Insurgent dispatches from this area said the Insurgents had carved out advances of from one to ten miles on the eastern bank of the Noguera Bal laresa River. ANOTHER THRUST HALTED North of Balaguer powerful for tlfications guarding the junction of the Segre River with itsfltributary. the Noguera Pallaresa, apparently had stopped another Insurgent thrust aimed at secondary roads leading to Artesa. Insurgent attacks north of Lerida also were said to have proved un successful.

At dawn several units crossed the river, but were forred back asain under the withering fire of militiamen. Dies Suddenly Oakland Law Leader, Clubman Succumbs After Heart Attach Arthur G. Tasheira, 61, of 215 La Salle Avenue, Piedmont, prominent Oakland attorney and clubman, died yesterday from a sudden heart attack while on a business trip in San Francisco. Tasheira had just returned from lunch with Mrs. Wigginton Creed, of Piedmont, whom he represented in legal affairs, when he sagged in a doorway at Sansome and Pine Streets, telling Mrs.

Creed that he felt faint AlnrmeH Mrs. Creed asked a naurhv tn telephone for an am bulance. At Harbor Emergency Hmmltel. Tasheira died 45 mln utes later without regaining con iciousness, AUTOPSY PERFORMED An antnnav performed by Dr. Sherman Leland established a heart attack a the cause of death.

Tootiolr. 4a atirvlved bv a widow, Helen Garth waite Tasheira, daughter of W. W. Garthwaite, president of the old Oakland BanK of Savings. An uncle, George Taiheirn livoa in Berkeley.

Tasheira had been a member of the legal firm of McKee, Tasheira and Wahrhaftig, attorneys for the Bank of America, and other cor porations, for the past 34 years, Surviving partners are Matt Wahr-hafttg and Ridley D. Stone Jr. SOK OF PIONEER Tasheira was the son of the late Lewis Tasheira, one of the en gineers in charge of construction of the Central Pacific Railway. After graduation from the Uni vprnitv nf Tnlifnrnia in 1900. Ta ihoira tank hi law degree at Har vard University, and for a short iim nmntirpf! law in San Fran Cisco with MaJ.

Charles Lee Tilden, now president of the Eastbay Regional Park Board. Returning to Oakland, he formed a partnership with tha in Ram Rflll McKee. to establish the law firm with which nraetlred for the cast 34 years Among Tasheira's clients were the Bank of America, the C. A. Hooper rnmnanv Plant Bav Water Company.

Realty Syndicate Company, Farm ers and Merchants Bank, tne Aia- maAa fniintw nnrl EasthaV Title Insurance Company and several others. LECTURER Tasheira was a former lecturer at the University of California and a former member of the board of ex aminers of the State Bar Associa tlnn He held memberships in Piedmont Tnrltrp nf th Masnnirt Order. Faculty Club of the University of California, Commonwealth lub of California, Pacific Union Club and Piedmont Trnila f.lnh Funeral arrangements were being maae today tnrough the Cathedral Chapel of the Grant D. Miller Mor tuary. BERDING Secretary Cordell Hull worked until midnight' on two speeches, one, to be' delivered today and one at a dinner to be given by Peru's president, Oscar Benavides, Tues day night.

U.S. Plans Survey' Of Trade Resources LIMA, Dec. 24. W) United States economic observers at the Pan-American conference today disclosed plans lor an exhaustive survey of Latin American countries with a view to developing Sources of raw materials which the United States now buys from other world markets. The first survey Is to be of agricultural products in Paraguay.

An-, other will concern' hard woods in Central America. Development of Western Hemisphere raw materials Would enable the two continents better to fulfill their aim of solidarity for defense. Brazil Signs Defense Pact; Americas Form Solidarity Fair Christmas Weather Is -Forecast for Oakland Vicinity By ANDRUE -LIMA, Dec. 24. (P) Brazil's sis-nature tocVay gave unanimous backing of the 21 American republics to a Pan-Arjierican Conference declaration on continental solidarity and defense.

Afranio Mello head of the Brazilian delegation, signed the declaration at 12:15 p.m., ending two weeks of controversy over the action of the conference. I The agreement, previously signed by the other, republics, was announced Thursday night as pro claiming the decision of the Nations of the Western Hemisphere to maintain and defend their continental solidarity against all for eign intervention or activities. Brazil earlie had held out- for "modifications" of the declaration, and it had been feared that agreement would not be reached in time for final action by the conference. The last plenary session comes at 4 p.m. today and the conference will clot Tuesday.

Continued fair weather for Santa Claus' visit tomorrow, and probably through the Monday holiday, was forecast today for the Bay district While gentle north to east winds may freshen occasionally in Metropolitan Oakland, it will be generally fair and mild, according to R. C. Counts, U. S. weather forecaster at Sas franeiscew The same conditions will prevail throughout most of Northern California, except that there -will be light frosts in the Interior valley.

Sufficient snow is on the ground for light skiing in the Sierra Nevada, the weather forecaster said. At Soda Springs, six Inches of snow was reported. 'I.