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Oakland EXCLUSIVE ASSOCIATED PRESS VOL. CXXX- OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, ACCUSED STATE NARCOTIC AGENT AT HOME The outlook for State Narcotics Agent George A. tortion and robbery charges in San Jose, seemed chief of the division, declared reports of a Fresno without foundation. He is pictured here at his ton, and his 3-year-old son, New Shakedown Charge Denied Fresno Plaint Against Narcotics Agent Held Without Foundation Reports that State Narcotics Agent George A. Norton, 36, of Oakland, now facing extortion and robbery charges at San Jose, had been involved in a dope raid "shakedown" in Fresno were termed without foundation today by William G.

Walker, chief of the division. "Norton, as far as I have been able to learn, acted on the square in Fresno," Walker said there today. The case under investigation had been that of Wong Fu, 68, who was arrested by Norton on charges of possession of opium and smoking equipment last December 8. Walker said he had verified Norton's report that a second Chinese escaped the raid on the asserted den. HELD LEGITIMATE Walker said the arrest was legitimate, although Norton had raided outside of his regular territory and did not report his plans to superior officers or Fresno police.

Norton is awaiting arraignment Friday in San Jose on charges of extortion and robbery. He is alleged to have held Joseph Lo Curto, San Jose cafe man, at gunpoint for 10 hours and then extorted $5000 from him. A State-wide search is in progress for Jack English, 50, said to have been his accomplice. COUPLE HELD CAPTIVES Norton and English are alleged to have held Lo Curto and his wife captives from 1 a.m. on January 3 to 10 a.m., when Norton is said to have accompanied the cafe man to a San Jose bank to withdraw the $5000.

In this connection, Norton's attorney, Jake Ehrlich, said ne could produce a witness who would testify Norton was in Oakland at 9:30 a.m. of that day. Norton's wife has already said her husband was home 3:30 a.m. of the same day. Norton lives at 2787 Fruitvale Avenue, Oakland.

He is free on $10,000 bail pending his arraignment. Final Rites Set For Henry Maloon, Oakland Pioneer Funeral services will be held tomorrow for one of Oakland's oldest pioneer citizens, Henry Maloon, 92, who died last night at a local hospital, where he had been taken following a heart attack. Maloon came to Oakland when he was 4 years old, or as he used to phrase it, "when solid timber stretched all the way back from Gibbons Point." In 1852 his mother brought him and his two older brothers, Frank and Seth, to California via the Isthmus -just three years after his father, Benjamin Maloon, sailed the Horn into the Golden Gate with his whaling bark, the Lenox. Henry was the third son of four born to Captain and. Mrs.

Maloon in Roxbury, Mass. He was a charter member of the Oakland Pioneer Society. In 1883 he was a member of the fifth California infantry, from which he retired with the rank of lieutenant, He was Oakland's first deputy tax collector in 1867, and later held a position in the San Francisco Mint. He was an uncle of Supervisor Clifford Wixson. He leaves two daughters, Mrs.

Jessie Thomas, Mrs. California Whittaker, and two sons, Harry and Orin Maloon. The funeral services will be held at the mortuary of Julius S. Godeau, 2110 Webster Street, at 2 p.m. Interment will be in Mountain View Cemetery, ISLAND TOWER AND COURT 1939 EXPOSITION By JACK BURROUGHS A hibernation conversation was going forward on Treasure Island, and it went something like this: "How are we going to make them stop hibernating?" "Well, let's see we'll take 180 feet of resistance heating wire, enclose it in a grounding sheath, and place it in the ground around these darned hibernators.

Then we'll attach a thermostatic control device and temperature regulator and turn on the current, and if that doesn't stop their hibernating, nothing will." Had my man Thursday been listening in, which he wasn't, he would undoubtedly have come back to the office and reported that bears were hibernating on Treasure Islland and were being driven out of Winter quarters by, an electrical heating device. Thursday would have been wrong as usual. It isn't bears that have been hibernating on Treasure Island, it's bamboo trees. Be patient while we go arboreal with that famous arborealist, Julius L. Girod, head of the expo's horticultural division.

Girod planted a couple of clumps of giant bamboo trees at the entrance of the Court of Flowers and waited for something to happen. What Girod wanted to happen was this: He wanted them to fill out quickly and produce two canes where but one had grown before. Nothing happentered I was afraid of that," Girod. "It's just like a couple of clumps of bamboo trees to hibernate when I want them to grow to fit into the architectural scheme of the Court of Flowers." Girod didn't blame bamboos, of course. They were 53 feet tall already and felt that they had done enough growing until Winter was over.

Bamboozled "Oh for a bamboo sighed Girod. Suddenly his eye tion. There was a bamboo bamgleamed with the light of inspira- boozler at hand in the person of H. A. Breeding, General Electric engineer, who was busy putting finishing touches on the Exposition's million-dollar illumination program.

He hunted up Breeding and the result was the conversation at the top of this column. When the electric bed warmer was finished and the current on the bamboos were so thoroughly bamboozled. they began to grow forthwith. "Why they're growing an inch an hour!" exclaimed Girod, who had been holding a stop pocket watch rule in in the one hand and.ou can actually HEAR them grow!" This may have been a slight exaggeration, but the fact remains that the bamboos did live up to their reputation for rapid growth by adding to their size at the rate mentioned. Soil heating cables are used in hothouses, but Girod said this was the first time the experiment had been tried out of doors.

Daredevils In the absence of more accurate data, a horse's value used to be estimated by the number of times he would roll over. For every complete turnover he was supposed to be worth an additional $100. It the value of the horse's rubbertired successor were estimated on a similar basis we'd have more automobile fatalities than ever. Did we hear a snippish query as to what, it anything, this has to do with that certain exposition? We were just coming to that. There are two ambitious young fellows up in Portland who believe an automobile's entertainment value is enhanced whenever the car is turned over in the presence of thrill-hungry spectators.

They want the Exposition somebodies to give them an opportunity demonstrate this on Treasure Island during the Fair. In their letter of application they offered to entertain Exposition visitors as "daredevil drivers turning cars over for fun." One of the applicants signed himself "Vern White" and the other was referred to as "Vern's Buddy." White is 24 years old, is six feet two inches tall, and weighs 180 pounds. "I am in bad need of a job and am free to. travel," he wrote, "If you need a good daredevil driver for turning cars over, I am your man. There is two of us.

My buddy is 210 pounds, six feet tall and 23 years old. He has had a lot of different kind of work too. He will do anything I will do and I will do anything he will do." This Paul Bunyanesque duo informed the Exposition officials that they had spent several years in Pacific Northwest lumber camps. Despite their willingness to turn cars over, their application was turned down. Mrs.

Alice Tapley, Exposition personnel director, explained that no more applications for employment are being, considered by the Exposition there are now 80,000 applications on file. Funeral Rites Held For Alameda Pioneer ALAMEDA, Jan. 23. Funeral services were held today for Frank Green, 72, Alameda pioneer, who died Saturday at his home at 2622 Central Avenue, after an illness of several weeks. Green, who had lived in Alameda since early childhood, was the son of the late Frank Green, who was reputed to have started the first woolen mill in California, which he operated in San Francisco.

Green had been associated with a San Francisco wool house for 50 years. He was a member of the Union League Club, San Francisco. Surviving are his Mrs. Ada Green; a daughter, Mrs. J.

Zarwell, and a sister, Mrs. Beatta McCann, of San Leandro, The Rev. Gail Cleland, of the First Congregational Church, officiated at services today at the peorge Murphy Mortuary. Tribune WIREPHOTO UNITED PRESS MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1939 D. Five Killed In Bay Area Car Crashes Two Victims Meet Death in Metropolitan Oakland Accidents Two persons met death in Metropolitan Oakland and three died in San Mateo County to give Northern California a traffic death toll of five for the week-end, police and State highway patrolmen reported today.

The dead: Miss Sarah Wolfe, 32, of 184 13th Street. Garland Parrish, 24, 608. 22nd Street. George W. Devin, 23, 1414 Main Street, Redwood City.

Police Officer Herman G. Fleischman, 36, Redwood City. Robert Crowe, 32, 705 Haight Street, San Francisco. Miss Wolfe, recently moved here from Chicago, was killed when the automobile, Finkle, of her 43, brother Alcatraz Avenue, was forced on to the train tracks at Seventh and Cypress streets by a bus, and was struck by a westbound Interurban Electric train, police reported. THREE OTHERS HURT transfusions given by police officers.

$4000 BOND POSTED Finkle suffered a leg injury, and also injured, were his wife, 1 Mrs. Minnie 42, hip injury, and Sol Finkle, 59, his brother, who was cut and bruised and suffered knee and leg injuries. All three injured were. taken to Merritt Hospital. Miss Wolfe was hurled 15 feet out of the car by the impact and was dead on arrival at the Alameda County Hospital.

Finkle told police he was about to make a. turn rom Seventh into Cypress Street when a bus forced him to veer over on to the tracks and the train struck his car rear. J. W. Laurent was the engi.neer of the train.

Miss Wolfe is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Wolfe; two brothers, William and Joseph Wolfe, and her sister, Mrs. Finkle. Three men were held for investigation in connection with Parrish's death in a collision of automobiles Berkeletornia and Stuart Streets, Parrish was riding in the automobile of his roommate, Alfed R.

Pierce, when the car collided with one dricen by Simpson Robinson, 18, Negro, of 1604 Ashby Avenue. Parrish was dead on arrival at Berkeley General Hospital. OFFICER KILLED Police said that Robinson tinued on for several blocks, and then turned back and drove to the scene of the accident, where he was arrested. He held for investigation pending a possible hit andrun charge, and Louis Benson, 24, of 3017 Dohr Street, riding with him, was held for investigation. booked Pierce for investigation pending a possible charge of negligent homicide.

Devin and Patrolman Fleischman were fatally injured when the automobile of Robert H. Lee, 28, of 657 Channing Avenue, Palo Alto, crashed into them while they stood behind Devin's automobile on the highway north of Redwood City. Devin had been halted for speeding by Fleischman, who was standing behind his car with Devin while his partner, Walter Ryan, remained in the police car nearby. Lee's car, approaching from the rear, crushed the officer and Devin between the two machines and knocked Devin's car 200 feet. Devin's legs were sheared off by the impact and Fleischman lost one leg.

Both men died within a few hours at the Mills Memorial Hospital, despite blood Lee was charged with two counts of negligent homicide and was released on $4000 bond. A passenger in his car, Miss. Lois Bellum, 21, of 340 Parkinson Avenue, Palo Alto, was cut and bruised. Crowe was fatally injured when he was pinned under his automobile which overturned on the Crystal Springs Lakes section of Skyline Boulevard, in San Mateo County. A companion, Charles Pryor, 31, 714.

Haight Street, San Francisco, was slightly injured in the accident but was thrown clear when the car overturned. U.C. Student Hurt In Freak Accident BERKELEY. Jan. Van den Bosch, 20, junior of C.

student from Martinez, was in Cowell Memorial Hospital with back injuries today after a freak accident over the week-end at Martinez. Returning to his home, 1315 Court Street, Martinez, early yesterday, van den Bosch stalled his machine at the hilly intersection of Ward and Huntington Streets, Martinez. Getting. behind the car, the youth gave it a shove with his shoulder to start it, and it began to roll down the hill. Van den Bosch ran around in front of the machine and was knocked down.

As he fell he grabbed the axle. The car, rolling free and dragging Van den Bosch under it, ran over a curb and on to. the lawn of Superior Judge Thomas D. Johnston. Neighbors called police.

Van den Bosch, complaining 'that his back hurt, advised them note to move him until a doctor arrived. He was given emergency treatment by Dr. W. L. Taylor and then taken by ambulance to Cowell Hospital.

He has possible spine injuries aud multiple cuts and bruises. Van den Bosch is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Van den Bosch, prominent Martinez family. WANT ADS PHONE TEMPLEBAR 6000 MAIN OFFICE, 13TH AT FRANKLIN IN BERKELEY, 7 SHATTUCK SQUARE.

13 NO. 23 AUTO VICTIMS Miss Sarah Wolfe, 32, was killed in a train-auto collision, while Garland Parrish, 24, died in a collision of autos. CUSS WORDS AIMED AT JUDGE, POLICE COST SPEEDER $25 BERKELEY, Jan. have policemen and Judge Oliver Youngs smile when I I you call Berkeley names, S. LeRoy Gibbs, 40, Oakland salesman, learned today.

He admitted a "lack of adjectives" when he appeared before Judge Youngs on a charge of speeding 45 miles an hour in a 25-mile zone January 10. The courtroom audience roared when Patrolman D. M. Davis, testifying related how Gibbs refused to sign the speeding citation, declaring that "Berkeley cops are a bunch of until" Officer Even Judge Davis Youngs added smiled that Gibbs said: "And Judge Youngs is a wouldn't pay him a penny." Gibbs said he couldn't remember calling anyone anything, but added that "if I did, I apologize." "But why did you use such language?" the judge inquired. "Was it for a lack of adjectives?" Gibbs said it was.

So Judge Youngs ordered a fine of $10 for speeding and an additional $15 for using abusive language. Gibbs pondered that a moment. Then he shouted: "I won't pay it. You can throw me in jail and throw the key away." The judge, however, decided that the fine must 'be paid by Gibbs working five days for the city of Berkeley at a rate of $5, per day. Funeral Rites Set For Prof.

Maxwell BERKELEY, Jan. rites will be held here tomorrow for Samuel Steen Maxwell, 78, Professor Emeritus of, the University of California, who died Saturday at his home, 15. Hillside Court, after an extended illness. Professor Maxwell was born in Manor Cunningham, Ireland, August 4, 1860, and was brought to this country by his parents at the age of 8. When he was 14 he began teaching in a country grade school in Iowa, near Mt.

Ayr. EDUCATED IN EAST He attended Amity College, Page County, Iowa, graduating in 1886, and getting his master's degree in 1888. He taught at the college while working for his degree. From 1889 to 1890 he was a teaching fellow at Johns Hop' as and from 1890 to 1902 he taught at Monmouth College, Illinois. He received his Ph.D.

degree at the University of Chicago in 1896. From 1902 to a 1905 he was assistant professor of physiology at Harvard. He came to California in 1905 and from that year until his in 1927 he was professor retirement logy having at the been an University educator of California years. WIDOW SURVIVES He belonged to Sigma Phi, science honor society; the American Association for the Advancement of Science and many similar organizations. Professor Maxwell is survived by his widow, Mrs.

Lulu B. Maxwell; a son, Robert O. Maxwell of Berkeley; a daughter, Margaret C. Maxwell, also Berkeley; two grandchildren and one great-grandchild. The funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m.

tomorrow at Berg's Chapel, 1936 University Avenue, with Dr. J. A. B. Fry of South Methodist Church, Berkeley, offielating.

Interment will be in Sunset View Cemetery, Seven Boys Held In 'Crime Wave' DESPERADO PUT 'IN JAIL DESPITE VOW getting $10. GIVEN HEAVY GUARD Despite his repeated threat that he would never be taken alive to the county jail, James William McChesney, 40, an ex-conviet, was in a cell there very much alive today and facing probable life imprisonment as a habitual criminal. He was held to answer by Police Judge Dudley Nebeker today on three counts of robbery, three prior convictions and one charge of violating the gun laws. A charge of drunken driving was dismissed. McChesney was arrested December 16.

by California Highway Patrolman Cecil D. Dempsey at the Bay Bridge tollhouse for drunken driving. A search disclosed that he was carrying a gun. RECORD DISCLOSED Taken to the Oakland City prison and fingerprinted, it was found that McChesney had served three terms in San Quentin and Folsom for robbery. The Oakland robbery detail later learned that McChesney had committed three robberies here, one against Sam Gee, 406 10th Street, November 26, in which he got $160; another against Frank Scardigli, 1001 Franklin Street, December 13, netting $36, and the third, December 15, when he held up Frank Acurso, 1051 East Twelfth Street, After his arrest, McChesney told police that if he was held to answer they would never get him to the county jail alive.

a result, he was given a heavy police guard for each court appearance. And today, after Judge Nebeker ordered that he held to answer, Police Lieutenant Fred Barbeau and a squad of six officers personally escorted McChesney to the county jail. YOUTH ADMITS SETTING FATAL S.F. HOTEL FIRE Revenge and burglary were the motives that caused William Mattravers, 23, itinerant bus boy, to set fire to the St. James Hotel at 87.

Third Street, San Francisco, last January 15 in which an aged woman paralytic perished and 10 persons were injured. That was the confession he made to Police Inspector George Engler and Fire Marshals Frank Kelly and Edward Dullea yesterday. He was booked on arson and murder charges. The youth, police said, also confessed setting a similar fire in the Hotel Western at Portland, several weeks ago. GUILTY PLEAS STOPPED Mattravers appeared before Police Judge Clarence Morris this morning and attempted to plead guilty to both the murder and arson charges.

On the advice of Deputy Public Defender James Toner, though, he was prevented from doing so and the case was put over until February 1 to allow for an definitely inquest Thursday to determine the cause of the old woman's death. "And we are not satisfied Mattravers is telling all he knows," the police inspector said. "He may be connected with a score or more of incendiary fires along the coast. We particularly, want to question him series of apartment house fires in Seattle last August." "Newspaper Kate" Schiller, 80, picturesque crippled news vendor woman who was trapped in her smoked-choked hotel room, because of infirmities and died in the flames last week. Ten others had to be rescued by firemen in the $10,000 blaze.

CLERK CHARGES THEFT The denouement came when Kenneth Davis, night clerk in the hotel summoned police and said he had trapped Mattravers in taking, $2.55 had from previously the till. tried to steal from the hotel till on January 15 under cover of the confusion resulting from the fire, Engler said. "I didn't like the joint anyway," Engler said the youth told him. "They overcharged me the last time -I stayed there a year ago." Alcatraz Officials Called to Inquest Warden James A. Johnston and other Alcatraz Island penitentiary officials have been subpenaed to testify tomorrow at the inquest before Coroner T.

B. W. Leland in San Francisco into the death of Arthur (Doc) Barker, Midwest kidnaper and bad man, who was killed by a guard in an attempted escape plot January 13. ton, U.S. Attorney Frank Hennessy, Subpenas were issued 01 for Assistant Warden E.

J. Miller, H. W. Weinhold, lieutenant of guards; C. E.

Ditmer, custodian officer, and Dr. R. M. Ritchie, medical officer on the island. Johnston was instructed to have the guards who participated in the actual shooting also present.

Local Youths Seized After Car Thefts 75 GOLDEN WEDDING COUPLES TO BE HOUSING SHOW GUESTS More than 75 couples from the' Metropolitan Oakland area who have celebrated their golden wedding anniversaries will be the honored guests of the second Oakland National Housing Exposition in the Exposition Building, 10th and Fallon Streets, this evening. Attendance tonight when the couples, honored as "ideal home makers," will visit the show, contrast the gleaming new architectural wonders on exhibit with the simple dwellings in which they made their start, and receive homage from the crowds at the show, is expected to break all records. Grover McDonald, manager of the exposition, said that visitors have been amazed at the strides in the building industry which they have noted through the model home and individual displays at the show. SHOW OPEN 2 TO 10 Sponsored by the Oakland Real Estate Board, the General Builders' Association of the Eastbay, and the Oakland Tribune, with the cooperation of the FHA, and labor and contractor organiza- Norton, 36, of Oakland, now facing exbrighter today as William G. Walker, "shakedown" involving the officer were Oakland home with his wife, Mrs.

Alta Norphoto. of Vision. MANY FEATURES high spot, has been worked out in elaborate A. committee of young hostesses will greet the Golden Wedding celebrants and present to them corsages and flowers furnished for the occasion by Pasquini and Dias. The climax of the program will be the cutting of a mammoth cake supplied by Hotel Leamington.

Serving on the hostess committee will be Miss Phyllis A. Sharp, 2326 Corona Street, Berkeley, chairman; Miss Bernice Rippie, 2430 Eighth Avenue, Oakland; Miss Margaret Catto, Lincoln Avenue, Alameda; and Miss Louise Jacobsen, Richmond. "Extravagant praise has been heard on every hand for the complete nature of this second annual exposition," McDonald says. "The first impression is made by the House of Vision, of course, which is the most arresting design ever shown to the Eastbay public, both in exterior and interior effects. Glass blocks, plate glass and enormous mirrors combine to make it more than justify the name, House "In fact, there are so many striking features throughout the house that it is impossible to center on any one as most noteworthy.

To some it is the bathroom with its -bottom bathtub, with its heavy, plate- -glass shower door and its startling backing of large mirrors; to others it is the great panel of mirrors reachfrom floor to ceiling in the living room, with the fireplace in the center; others are most impressed by the large, glass pillars which furnish the indirect lighting. No one can see it without getting many new impressions from it and from the effective fashion in which it has been furnished throughout by Breuner's. MODEL HOME DRAWS STUDENTS Miss Elaine Shapero, architectural circular open window in the land National Housing Exposition, mond that she is enthusiastic the model home -M. L. Cohen Seven boys between the ages of 13 3 and.

17-all with police recordswere held in' the Oakland Detention Home today as members of juvenile crime ring after officers said they left a trail of looted 1 homes and stolen cars in their wake. Two of the "apprentice criminals," thoroughly frightened, were arrested in a blaze of police gunfire in Emeryville last night after a wild flight in a stolen car. Meanwhile, two other teen-age youths with gangster ambitions were being held after they allegedly snatched the purse of Mrs. Gloria Baker, poet and musician, 2967 Avalon Avenue, Berkeley, serious charges against members of the ring loomed as Inspectors George Wurthman and Harold Boyd of the Oakland Police Department prepared to question them regarding the brutal assault of Miss Mary Gray, pretty Berkeley; nurse, 2326 Webster Street, North Oakland hills five days ago. Her assailants, however, were.

believed to have been older. 'AGENDA OF CRIME' The "agenda of crime" for the ring thus far, according to Wurthman, includes: Theft of three cars, burglary of two Oakland homes, burglary of a home in Martinez. One of the boys was brazenly wearing a ring and wrist watch ho had stolen, Wurthman said, A diamond studded wrist watch and camera were found hidden under another boy's bed at his home. Other loot was buried in the hills and cached in storm drains, the officers said. The "ring" had an "emergency meeting place" under a street light at Encinal Avenue and Chestnut Street in Alameda, where they could gather "in case of trouble Wurthman recounted.

Five of the youthful criminals are from Oakland; one from Alameda, and one from Emeryville. Two of the boys were sighted in a car stolen from Dr. Ronald Slater, 2159 Central Avenue, Alameda, by Emeryville Police Officer Sherwood Ashbrook as they drove a high rate of speed along San Pablo Avenue. SHOT FLATTENS TIRE tions, the show will be open daily from p.m. to 10:30 p.m., until January 28.

The principal object of the exposition is said to be to demonstrate to the public that, dollar for dollar, the home builder gets more for his money today than ever before. This theme is worked out in numerous displays, which show on one hand the materials and methods of the past on the other, the materials methods and of today. Commercial booths of today demonstrate the latest inventions in equipment materials for every purpose, and in the model home many are displayed in their proper setting. The "Homemakers Day" program for this evening, with the Golden Wedding couples presence as the They failed to heed his siren and a wild 60-mile-an-hour chase 45th and Streets, Ashbrook through heavy, traffic began. Neat opened fire flattening a rear tire with his first shot.

The boys, cowed and frightened, surrendered. The five been arrested early Sunday at their homes. Wurthman said he was pressing an investigation to learn whether the boys were, linked with burglaries of six other Oakland homes. And Inspectors Harry Orbell and Neal Plunkett said the "ring" might be responsible for. other auto thefts.

Three of the boys had planned a joy ride to Santa Barbara in stolen car, Wurthman reported. Meanwhile, in Alameda, a boy, 14, faced revocation of his parole on burglary charges after he chased Rosamon O'Brien, 16, of 3278 Briggs Avenue, last night on a bicycle and almost ran her down, police. reported. Officers arrested him at his home, where he confessed hav ing stolen the bicycle. Oakland Woman Dies of Crash Injury Death of Mrs.

Elizabeth L. Walker, 48, of Oakland, wife of Otto Walker, from injuries received when she was struck by a truck while waiting for a bus near Coos Junction, Ore. was reported today in an Associated Press dispatch from Roseburg, Ore Mrs. Walker, whose local address was not learned, was said to have been a World War nurse. She had been visiting an uncle, Martin Brucker, at Coos Junction.

THREE OAKLAND STORES RAIDED BY SAFECRACKERS Safecrackers broke into three Oakland business places last night and stole the safe and all its contents from one store while falling to open the strongboxes of the other two places. The thieves apparently worked for hours to crack the safe in food store at 7101 East Fourteenth Street and finally carted it away. With the store's receipts for both Friday and Saturday in the safe, there was more than $1000 in loot. Thieves also entered a tire shop at 1700 East Twelfth Street, by rear window last night and knocked the combination and hinges off the safe in an attempt to open it. The safe was not opened.

A third safe-cracking attempt was reported by Rex Diehl, manager of food company concern at 1510 Powell Street, Emeryville, Robbers apparently using crow bars and picks entered, the place: sometime between: 5:51 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. today by climbing onto box car and crossing to a loading platform roof and then prying off corrugated iron sheeting from they warehouse wall. The mate was found, student, looks through a "House of Vision" at the Oakto tell Miss Miriam Diaabout the ultra modem lines of photo,.