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OAKLAND TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1939 HELD FOR N.Y. Warrants Issued REPUBLICAN WOMEN OPEN DRIVE ON-FEDERAL SPENDING Bonds Impede Bridge Toll Cut Refinancing Necessary Board Orders Men Rehired Luekenboch Line Mutt Place Four On Preferred List Labor Trouble Laid to NLRB Ex-Gov. Martin Says -Board Backed Thugs' In Oregon Battles WASHINGTON, May For Swindlers Two Men Sought for Fleecing Loborer Of $1000 Savings An audacious strong-arm confi I alarm mAttrttnrt GOVERNMENT ISLE PLANS DISCUSSED ALAMEDA, May 31. Iva Dean Myers, executive secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, is in receipt of a telegram from Congressman Albert E. Carter concerning the passage of his bill by the Senate.

This is the bill which pfpvides for the acceptance of 35 acres of land on Government Island ir recently voted at a municipal election. The acceptance means that the government now will enlarge several departments located there, add new departments and increase the scope of the maritime school. Approximately $5,000,000 of government funds will be expended in these additions and improvements. Decoto Cannery Begins Cherry Run DECOTO, May 31. Approximately 150 men and women are employed at the Joseph Pearce Canning Company here which opens its cherry run today following the start of the picking season several days ago.

Another hundred will be employed at the Schuckl plant at Niles where cherries formerly processed at Sun-) nyvale will be placed in brine for maklng'imaraschinos. The Cannery at Center-ville will open July 1, for the apricot canning season. Both Booth's and Peace's will have a continuous season through Fall months. The cherry crop is said to be excellent, only slight damage been done by the recent rains. Members of the California Council of Republican Women, Northern division, have launched a brisk campaign against continued Federal spending in wholesale lota and the mounting National debt.

i Placing of four discharged em- dence racket involving a mythical Women throughout the State are being urged to write Senators Hiram W. Johnson and Sheridan Downey ployees of the San Francisco office Former Governor Charles H. Martin, of Oregon, asserted today that hi of the Luckenbach Steamship Company on a preferential rehiring list the National Labor Board had "played up to thugs" in Oregon protesting any further increase in the National debt. "little girl" with a 25,000 Inheritance, cost Tony Russo, 60, Italian laborer of 06 Manchester Street, San Francisco, $1000 be said and today be obtained grand theft warrants against two of bis countrymen, both was ordered today by the National Mrs. Jessie Williamson, president Con Be Effected Jtefinanclng of bonds of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge must be completed before realization of the 20 per" cent toll cut which Govj Culbert Olson beliavea to likely," dispatches from Sacramento explained today, Olson said there would have to be new sale of $73,000,000 In bonds ttrough the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

inatir al transac- Labor Relations Board at washing ton, D.C, labor disputes and thereby "made a bad situation worse." Testifying at Senate Labor Committee hearings on proposed amend The board also instructed the con cern to cease discrimination against of the council, recently told the Los Altos Women's Republican Club that "women have a right to be shocked and alarmed over New Deal spending." She told the Republican women that "the National debt has unidentified. According to Russo, on May 19 ha was walking to the corner grocery p'f members of the C.I.O. Maritime Office Employees Union and ordered store when be was accosted by a stranger who outlined this proposal a collective bargaining poll among passed the 40 billion mark, with an other five billion already guaran ban irancisco executives empowered to hire or discbarge EXECUTTVESLISTED toed' as a result of the Federal to him: The stranger said he was looking for a family who would care for a "little girl" with a $25,000 lnherlT Izxy Engl 25, arretted hatr spending that averages almost Ui. mi- tion which would permit cutting the flat automobile rate from 50 cents to Why 81 HairsDie UnbovnEachDav No date was set for the election. 000 every minute of the day and night, 365 days in the year, since tance in return for $100 a month which will determine whether the executives wish to be represented 40 cents ana an eveuiuieW.

In the price of commutation tickets were not disclosed, the Associated by the C.I.O. union, ah affiliate of 1933." ir-x "Women throughout the Nation are vitally concerned," Mrg, William for questioning In two Ntw York murdcttv Murder Suspect the International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union. plus 4 $500 annual "bonus." In addition, the stranger said, the family who cared for the child would be allowed to cara for the $25,000 which was In a strong box. But, the stranger said, the family would have to post $1000 to show son said, "and we feel our homes, our security, our investment! are at The board said that executives to be polled will include claims agent, superintendent, assistant to the Pa cific coast marine superintendent, stake. Women realize we are passing this terrific debt as an Jnheri-tance to the children' of the future, i The solidarity of women's opin- Jahh im irltol 4wna, in rkfUinm inAnv1 ments to the wagner labor act, Martin accused the board of "Meddling" and encouraging labor "outlaws." Martin recited various Instances of violence which he said occurred as a result of A.F.L.

and C.I.O. rivalry for dominance in the Oregon lumber industry. Seventy-six individuals, he (said, were sent to prison for conspiracy or violence. Chairman Thomas Utah), of the Senate committee, asked Martin if he blamed the labor board for the State's laboc. troubles.

"I lay it right at their door, most of it," the former Governor, a retired major general, replied. Rivalry between the two labor organizations, he added, "was built up and aggravated by the way the board acted in taking sides with the C.I.O." Charles Fahy," the board's general counsel, contended meanwhile before the House Labor Committee that many pending amendments to the Wagner labor act were intended to Impair enforcement of the law. Present procedure is sound, fair and "so temperate," he argued, that any change ahould be aimed at strengthening it. paymaster and stevedoring superin "good faith." Russo fell ty with the plan, went to his bank with the stranger and drew out $1000. There, Arrested Here tendent, according to United Press dispatches.

CHARGE DROPPED A dishwasher arrested here on an a second stranger met them and all three went to the Russo home. At the home, Russo said, he and his wife, Angelina, watched one of the men open a suitcase, displsy the Charges that the company had wmmmt: refused to bargain with the union amateur detective's tip admitted to police inspectors today, they aaid, that he is Izzy Engle, wanted in press saia. GOVERNOR OPTIMISTIC In an optimistic pronouncement, however, the Governor declared there is an immediate likelihood of: "An early reduction of 2Q per cent in the vehicular toll. "A possible future reduction or an additional 10 per cent, probably before the end of the year, "A similar reduction in the two classes of commuter vehicular tolls. (These are the 30-ride and the 54-ride monthly commutes.) 20 PER CENT CUT "A 20 per cent cut In the Treasure Island vehicular passenger fares "but no further lowering of the cost of round-trip tickets to Treasure Island from either side of the Bay until all ferry vehicular traffic has been entirely eliminated." The Governor said he based his m-KHintlnns unon a reoort made to were dismissed by the board in the absence of Woof that the union rep The Los Altos Republican Women's Club, first among State bodies to go on record with a resolution protesting to California senators on continued large governmental expenditures, has made Mrs.

Charles Spinks, Los Altos, an honorary member. Mrs. Spinks, for many years a leader among Democratic women, was a delegate to the Democratic convention in 1932, resented a Toajority of the em New York for questioning in two ployees. murders three years ago. The new decislohvhad no relation The man was arrested under the to a previous NLRB ruling against the Luckenbach company, involving name of John C.

Davis, 25, and at "strong box," and then produce a gun. Russo said the man with the gun said: "We ought to kill them both." The other man demurred, saying: "It would make too much noise and might attract attention," After threatening them and warning them not to inform police, the men left with the $1000, Russo said. Both he and his wife collapsed. Fear caused them to delay notifying authorities. first denied he was Engle or knew THE average healthy scalp sheds and grows $1 hairs each day.

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The company has not obeyed a board order to reinstate three employees there, and the NLBB has not yet asked tha courts to enforce the ruling. This controversy recently resulted in a shut down of the Portland port Later, Inspector L. M. Jewell said, flcials of the Eastern Steamship Lines and representatives of the Seafarers International Union him by Frank W. Clark, director of public works, upon his return from Washington.

where he conferred with Harold L. Ickes, secretary of The board said that the four San he admitted he is Engle and said he had been "present' 'at the fatal shooting of Jacob Avnett, New York money lender, in August, 1936. He would say nothing more about the slaying, nor would he discuss the death of Morris Fried, another League Official (A.F.L.) resumed negotiations to Francisco employees to be placed on a preferential list had been discharged in such a manner that the me interior, ann uesse jones, i-imir-man of the RFC, To Be Feted in S.F. action was "timed effectively to curb Abovcdife I ram howl I hair (E) in I I bald icaln; 1 (D) shrunk i sebaceous Clanda; (F) tl arvea and jr. blood vea.

aalainneed 1 (I I "on- 'v. James T. Shotwell will be money lender from whom New York guest of honor at a dinner at the growth and activity of the union." The company contended that the workers were released because of day in an effort to settle strike called last Friday, tieing up the 14 coastwise vessels operated by the company. The old agreement between the company and the union expired last March. The union's demands for a new' contract include' wage in-increases and overtime pay.

Bellevue Hotel, San Francisco, this Wage-Hour Violator Gets Jail Sentence WHEELING, W. May The first jail sentence under the Federal wage-hour act was imposed in Federal District Court today In the case Of the Standard Trousers Company, whose officers were accused of failing to produce records demanded by the Wage-Hour Administration. Federal Judge William E. Baker fined the' company $500 and costs on a contempt of court charge, and sentenced Sanford Lerner, vice-president of the firm, to six months in preston County Jail, the sentence to be suspended if -Lerner pays the fine and produces the requested records at the Pittsburgh office of the Wage-Hour Administration by changed business policy. Apartment Rented to 1 of Tribune 'readers who called at 2835 Hopkins.

The other 4 are still en the lookout Have you a vacancy? evening In recognition of his longstanding leading position in the set tlement or world eifalrs by the con ference table method. Dr. Shotwell, Eastern Railroads history proressor at Columbia University, New York, is president of Approve Fare Cuts police said he had borrowed money. Chief Inspector L. F.

Costuma of New York wired that he would send a copy of the murder Indictment against Engle to Oakland and would start extradition proceedings, Jewell reported that Engle agreed to waive extradition, although he at first had said he would fight such proceedings. Engle was pointed out to police by a detective story fan who said he saw on Engle's arms the same tattoo marks pictured in a magazine article about "wanted" men. The amateur detective's name was not divulged by police. NEW, YORK, May Diairam at ritht ihowi () normal healthy hair) (A) healthy iibaceoua flaade; (C) narvas and blood vanele funetiooins normally. NOTE: Tha two men pictured above art professional models.

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dinner is sponsored by the Northern California branch of the League of Nations Association. Dr. Monro E. Deutich', provost of the University, of California, will i Dr. Shotwell was ona of the United 'States officials at the draft-ing of the 1918-19 peace conference.

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