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4Sss i 0 A A DS ONLY LOCALLY OWNED, LOCALLY CONTROLLED DAltY NEWSPAPER TRIBUNE If your Tribune docrsjiot arrive, phont TE mplebar 6000 before 7 (Sunday, 4 11:30 a.mJ Paper will be Mrfwjt EXCLUSIVE ASSOCIATED Wl MP HOTO KITED vol cxxxn OAKLAND, CALIFO RNIA, TUESDAY. APRIL 16, 1940 19 -J Nab'Five i OPPOSES HOUSING PROJECT LEADER OF COLLEGE Gl RLS I I Elopers Say Brides Were Already Wed S.F. Slaying Port Board Will Speed Navy Hangar Commission Ignores Protests on WPA in 0 Suspect Admits Shooting Owner of Barbecue; Says Gang Drowned4 Youth To Prevent 'Squeal'; Woman Held Leader Details of the holdup slaying stand manager and the subsequent killing of one at the rob bers lest he "squeal" were given Sacramento authorities today, by members of the alleged) robbery-murder gang. Deputy District Attorney Francis O'Shea told the Assd- lateti Press that Albert Ives, and manager and also admitted complicity in the murder of life Ws Just so there won't be any misunderstanding, Louis Jardlne-posted this ijn in hie yard at 1680 Chase Street today to serve notice on wrecking crews that he Is prepared to resist by force any attempt to raze his home in connection with the West Oakland 'low cost housing project Homes all around the Jardine residence are being torn down; Tribune photo. Annulments Asked By Participants in Dual Reno Ceremony A double annulment suit was filed in the Alameda' County' JSu perior Court today as the climax of a double elopement to Reno two months ago.

Clarence W. Holloway, Pan Amer- lean Airways radio technician at Wake Island, sued for annulment of his marriage to Thelma Holloway, 24. Robert Lockhart radio tech nician here fon the same company. sued for annulment of his marriage to Ann M. Lockhart, 23.

Both said they were married in Reno February 14 and each said he learned Sunday that his wife was married at the time of the Reno elopement. Holloway named his wife's other husband as Al N. Marin and Lockhart said his wife was mar ried to James H. Shadoin.t James C. Walsh, attorney for the two men, said that all four had lived at 6425 Arthur Street until the men learned their wives had been previ ously married and had not been di vorced or widowed.

Holloway lived here only part of the time, however, for he went to Wake Island without his bride soon after the marriage. He flew back after.he. received a letter from a San Francisco man informing him his wife had been married before. Walsh said the men knew their wives as sisters "whose last name was Prevost. They met the two young women together while Holloway was on lme of absence from Wake Island.

Double Slayer, 70v. Gets New Reprieve Gov. Culbert L. Olson today granted second 90-day reprieve to Robert C. Perry, 70, sentenced to death for murder during a San Diego bank robbery and identified as the murderer gf another man during a San Francisco bank rob bery.

Sacramento dispatches said the Governor ttook his action to allow more time for consideration of the aged man's application for executive clemency. Perry was convicted-last June in San Diego of killing J. R. Anthony a janitor, during a bank holdup the previous March He was first sen' tenced to be excuted in the San Quentin" Prison gas chamber oifl January 19. The Governor's first reprieve postponed the date until Friday, and the new 'reprieve ex tends it to July 19.

Last July Perry was Identified fit GARDEN SHOW CREWS LABOR DAYS, NIGHTS ON 'FAIRYLAND' New president of the Mills College student body Is Miss Sybil Johnson of Casper, Wyo. Tribune photo. NEW OFFICERS ANNOUNCED BY MILLS COLLEGE STUDENTS $550,000 Construction In the face of criticism from both the construction industry and the building trades unions, the Oakland Port Commission voted unanimously yesterday to proceed with construe tion of a $550,000 hangar for the Navy Reserve Air at the Oak land Airport with the assistance of WPA funds. The commission awarded a contract for the erection of the structural steel frame of the hangar to the Golden Gate Iron Works' of San Francisco which submitted the only bid for the work at $36,360. Other contracts for preliminary work on the hangar were awarded to: M.

Catuccl for rock at 51 cents a cubic yard; Healy-Tibbitts Construction Company, pile driving, Johns-Manville Sales Corporation, asbestos cement pressure pipe, $5398. SPEED NEED CITED Commissioner Eugene K. Roland, urging that work on the hangar be started as soon as possible said: "I feci that we should go ahead with this project. The contractors and building trades unions knew we planned to build this hangar for a. long time without taking any action.

Then "they made a last-minute attempt to block the work. The Navy needs this new accommodation which port is honor-bound -to provide." The jiew hangar will be located about one-half mile northwest of Hangar No. 5. It will house the Navy Air Reserve unit which now occupies Hangar No. 3.

$250,000 TOTAL COST About one-fifth of the construe tioh work will be performed under private contract, the remainder to be undertaken as a series of WPA projects. The port's total cost will bt approximately $250,000. Preliminary plans for another new structure at the airport, a $25,000 repair and supply depot, which will be located between Hdngars 2 and 3 were approved by commission. Bids were called for and steel frame construction work for this job and also for 'a lessee. Thja building will prgytde facilities for a complete ail-plane repair plant approved-byfne Civil 'Aeronautics Authority, a ceo rd i to Arthur H.

Abel, port manager. S.F. Woman Robbed by Bandit Mrs." Mildred Klasky, 51, a San Francisco apartment, house manager, was critlcaHnjurcd today by a bandit who brat her and robbed hef of $240 in cash and jewelry. The attack took place in an apartment building Mrs. Klasky operated at 191 Frederick Street.

Mrs. Klasky managed to reach the telephone and. call tie operator for help, before collapsing floor, where she was found lice, with a deep gash on her AmbulaneDriver Itloyd Heddick administered first before taking her to Park Emergency Hospital. Attendants said the had a brain concussion. rives on April 30, members announce.

Rowclifft; Long 'Beach, secretary; New officers of the Mills College student, body were elected last night. All of them are fronrf out of town. Sybil Johnson of Casper, Wi oi was elected president and Mildred Eberle, Providence, R.I, vice-presl dent. Other officers are: Caroline Former U. of C.

Sued fopDivorce; Custody 'of their 3-year-old son and $200nonthly support was asked in a divorci action filed in Superior Hillis against Gervais HUlis, 1925 Of California intercol- tennis champion. Structural details of "Gardens of Fairyland," 1940 California Spring Garden Show presentatlorw-are rapidly being completed as artisans labor night and day to finish the architectural' background for the thousands of plants that will be transported here for the annual horticultural event. Giant toadstools have been made, painted and erected jpt the east end of the Exposition Building where the gardens of the elves will arranged. The big sculptured arches that form thfi central architectural detail of the, show are in place, ready or the Coating of turquoise and crystalline substance that will provide as sparkling effect under the flojrisiifestoons. Titania, in sculptured form, oc cupying the top of each of the fairy arches, is being hoisted to her perch, and artists are completing the series of murals set in niches alojig the walls of the building.

2 WEEKS TO GO. With little more than two weeks remaining to finish the geat spectacle before the show opens for its jfiVe-day run, starting May 1, the crew of workers will' be hard pressed to complete each- of the thousand and one details. Nevertheless, the scene, complete with its fountains, pools, banks of flow ers, orchid jungles and fairyland atmosphere, will be ready for the sponsors when preview night ar- of a San Francisco barbecu" 23, confessed he had shot the Civil Service Law Is Passed Berkeley Council To Take Final Step On Move Thursday BERKELEY, April 18. The City of Berkeley took its first step toward placing all city employee: under civil service today by givlnf initial reading to a civil service ordinance. The ordinance was accepted unanimously as presented by a committee headed by Mayor Frank Gaines.

It will be given final reading at next Tuesday meeting, and if passed, will become effective July 1. The ordinance is a revised draff of one presented some time ago? was referred then to the committee consisting of Benita Herrlck and Richard French. They held a number of public hearings and conferences with civic organizations to work out the best possible measure for the city, and reported today that -it -does not change, to' any great degree, the present system of employment. It provides a board of five members, of which the city personnel director will be secretary. Improper political activities by city employees is defined; i employees are assured, public hearings; seasonal workers may return to their positions without annual examinations, and nil present employees of the city are included in the act Rules and procedures of practice will be, worked out later.

fjATHER TO FACE STABBING CHAR6Ei A charge of attempted murder was today against John Bear-den, who escaped from AGnew State Hospital last week to lure hie stepdaughter, 8, school and beat and stab The complaint was signed by Bearden wife, Frances, 26, 1042 Or chard Avenue, Hay ward, against whom he was seeking revenge when he attacked the child. The glrL meanwhile, was recov ering1 slowly from the head wounds Bearden inflicted with a brick, and the stab wounds he-made' with. a hunting, right lung was punctured- by one lunge. She is at Alameda County Hospital, still in a serious condition. District Attorney Ralph Hoyt said the attempted murder charge was filed to get court decision and have Bearden committed to the -Mendocino State Hospital, at Talraadge, where.

he a closer watch is kept over inmates than at Agnew. Hoyt pointed out that, twfee during BeardenVs term a.tAgnnw he has escaped, Nonce go the other tin- to make a trip to Southern California. Bearden lis in the County Jail and was ordered held under $10,000 bail. APPRECIATION AGREEMENT OaklMid Trflron -Huili ADoraciatiea CUn ItepV kwrabr MMm. in.

consideration tti net belas required to submit nusis eoaoons to obtain complete my ten recorded symphonic msstiyptecea. to continue a render of the Oakland Tribune for a nertod of two weeks for each ol tha symphonic unit obtained. Address City Tar seoelste atalhv writs, eeass ta TkeTrikeae 01fi. G.i.K Conpeaert in the World's Greatest Music Series are: Bach Beethoven Debowty Frarirk Haydn Mosarf Mii'Mn Srhlhrt IVarrsT MUSIC READ! ifNGoodfteii el ff 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 30, 1940i the slayer of Joseph Marenco, a bankjeourt here today by Mrs.

SuzZanne i watchmanT'ddring a San Francisco DcinK noiaup novemuer lvao. "Iljniver comparison of bullets used in tbetiplUiltp iversity rnte Robert Sherrod, 19. Ives said Sherrorfs body thrown in the Sacramento River Satur day night after Sherrod had been drugged and beaten. WOMAN HELD LEADER O'Shea declared that Mrs. Juanita Spirielll, 50, knownw "The Duchess" and described as the gang leader, also admitted complicity in the Sherod murder.

Ives linked the three other perr held in Sacramento with I series of crimes. They are' Lorraine (Gypsy) Spinelll, 19, daughter of The Mike Simeone, 32, described as the "case man," and Gordon. Hawkins, 21, former San Francisco automobile thief. Police Sergeant Perry Gamble of Sacramento said all five face prose cution if a search for Sherrod's body is successful. San Francisco police sent two inspectors to Sacramento to check, on the other murder, in which Leland S.

Cash, 55, died at his beach barbecue stand April 8. FEARED EXPOSURE Sherrod was disposed of, Ives told police, because the gang feared be might tell of Cash's murder. "Sherrod. had seen shoot Cash," Ives was quoted as saying, "and started to talk about it all the time. I got scared he would tell someone outside the gang so I told the others we ought to get rid of him.

"The Duchess and.Gypsy thought up the idea of giving him some knockout drops. We went on a picnic once and I wanted to shoot him then but the women didn't want me tqj. 'MERCY KILLING' Mrs. Spinelll was quoted by offl cers as saying that she wanted Sper-rod's murder "to be a mercy killing, because I kind of liked boy." Simeone admitted buying the Cash murder gun in Detroit and giving it to Mrs. Spinelll, according to or ficers.

And Ives said he got the gun with' which he shot Cash from Splnelli. Hawkins was quotei as saying his part in the gang was ti steal automobiles. "Gypsy" Spinelll insisted she had gone to Continuation High School in San Francisco daily, and had no part in any robberies. Ives jumped from the aliened car near Truckce last night iind gave himself up to hiphway patrolmen declaring he had overheard the olhrs Dlotling to "rub him out." He pointed out the others arrested. Two sons of Mrs.

bplnein, la ana 8, were with the group when highway patrolmen arrested thfem, and thfe boys were placed in. the detention home in Sacramento. IN STOLEN AUTO Ives said thit the gang had held up a gas station in San Francisco and also planned a holdup in Sacramento. The group, when arrested, was In an automobile stolen in San Francisco April 9, the day after th Cash shooting. Police Insciector Walter Gloistem of the San Francisco auto detail Mid Hawkins had served a Preston sen tence and two county Jail terms on auto theft.charges, Hawkins escaped injury in a Dubjin Canyon autemo-bile accident last March 20 when young friend, for whom he had been best man in a Reno wedding, was injured seriously with his bride.

There was no witness to the shoot ing of Cash outside the barbecue starfl at Lincoln Way and. La' Playa. His wife, who was inside the stand. heard him call that he was shot and found him dying. Cash was.

hard of hearing and po lice conjectured that he failed to hear a robber's holdup command. LITTLE FOXr coop early today and started to untangle. Tribune photo. New Fur Wrap Invades Yard, But Berkeley Police Save Fox Betty SnaetfT Evanston, 111., treas- urwsfind Mary Lane, of Phoenix, Ariz, social head. Shirley Summy, Oklahoma City, Okla, was elected president of the coming senior class and Margaret ph, of Topanga, wjw named chairman of the Judical board, Tennis' Ace Cruelty Charged Mrs.

Hillis also asks equity in the family home at 8 Sonia Street, and all furnishings. She charges cruelty and alleges that her husband drinks to excess. Wed in San Francisco in 1934, they separated on April 5 this year, ac cording to the complaint. of Harry W. TronBen 1504 Fourth Street.

Corso said the fox was welj-known to him, that it was always escaping. Too bad, retorted Mrs. Stoepkerd-son, but she was going tpeed the fox. POLICE SUMMONED So she called police again, his time to have call off- the ppundman. Corso also called police, to help him' get the fo'x.

The officers didn't quite know what to do. While they dug through law books vIth the city attorney, Mrs. Shepherdson, Corso and the fox stood around and glared at each other. Finally the police decided they could legally seize the animal and Patrolman Ray Knowles went to join Corso in doing so. Mrs.

Shepherdson watched the men carry the io? away in a bag, but she wasn't; satisfied. She still wanted a silver fox. NYAH-5A1D THE GARDEN SHOW TAKES SHAPE RAPIDLY Last year 100,000 persons visited the show, the theme of which was "Shangri-la." This year another record attendance is expected at "Gardens of Fairyland." The show has been increased in area and garden show crowds will be given an extra day in which to see the famed horticultural event. Instead of a four-day showing, the California Spring, Garden Show will run for five SPACE INCREASED The outdoor garden area will be more "plentiful than ever, it is predicted, as this space has increased to give flower lovers added suggestions for landscaping their own gardens and shows large plantings of wildflfcwers, rainbowj terraces of pansies, violas, English daisies and other low-growing blooms, fcnd gardens featuring shrines, pool, tree nlantines and rock interest, according to Howard Gilkcy, landscape architect, siRner -of the show. Members of the garden show board, headed by Abe P.

Leach president, are meeting almost daily now to settle last-minute problems that crop up as. the show hears completion. With him are board members Walter Clark, secrfetary- treasurer; R. C. Bitterman, O.

Ho mer Bryan, Julius O. Dohrmann, Edward T. Foulkes, Harper. Good speed, Arthur E. Navlet, A.

Shulte, William Steinmetz. to 5. BERKELEY, April 18. It Just-I doesn't seem possible mat one silver fox could cause so many people so much truble. Mrs.

Ethel Shepherdson fllscov- ered the in her yard, 1634 Fifth Street, at 7:30 a.m. today. Spe cifically, it was in her chicken yard. True, there were- no chickens in the coop. There is only one chicken in the district and that belongs to a noighbor.

But the -fox was making a lot of nevertheless. Mrs. Shepherdson called her hus- Lband, While he locked the chicken yard gate, she called ponce, iney called the pound. THAT FUR ENTICES But by the time Pouhdman Jerry Cotso could coil his lariat and -get to the scene, Mrs. Shepherdson had changed her mind.

She had always wanted a sjlver fox; she decided to. keep his one, Corso said she couldn't keep it. He recognized it as the escaped pet 'NYAH, NYAH, i wo buik nuiaups snowea iney came gun ern Stabber ets Mine Months Joseph G. Gonzales, 37, of 511 Myrtle Street, was sentenced to nine months in jail today after pleaded guilty before Superior Judge E. J.

Tyrrell to two counts of assault arising from a cafe brawl. He was said to have stabbed Mrs. Katy Matulovich of 1215 14th Street in the arm and slashed at Anthony Torres, 24, of Centerville, during an altercation in a downtown Oakland tavern. Woman Sentenced For Rifling Mails Denying her plea for probation, Federal Judge A. F.

St. Suse today sentenced Mrs. Laura Giesen, 42, tp five years in the Peneral peniten tiary for rifling mail and stealing checks in San Francisco. Last week he imposed a five-year sentence and $1000 fine on her companion, Robert Savage, 44, former San Francisco bank nmnaser and owner of a Sonoma CoUnty ranch, Oaklanders Named On Jewish Board Dr. Harold G.

Trimble and Leon ard Meltzer of Oakland were elected to the executive committee of the Western States Regional Council of Jewish Federation and Welfare Funds at a meeting in Salt Lake City yesterday, dispatches said. Meltzer is an assistant district at torney here and Dr. Trimble a physician. Three San Franciscans, George L. Levison, Edward S.

Newman and Ernest J. Sultan, also were elected to the committee, as was Leon Jacobs of San Jose. U.C. Seismograph Records, Earthquake BERKELEY, April 18. A fairly Urge" earthquake, lasting three hours, was' recorded on the University of California seismograph last night, beginning at Prof.

Perry By erly said the center was 3150mnes aw cay, ei trier Ci eatral I Ate-: Tui JU'A Aim fci i mri hi mi i Mini. ii iii i ii 7ir i i iirfml Janet Wilson deft) and EjeJyn Winder checE the accuracy -of watches by 3Vant floral sua dial to be teen In thAoutdoor garden section of the-California Spring Garden Thls-tiny surer fox walked Into an empty Berkeley chicken off a round of excitement that took police more than an hour Show, which will be at the Oficiand Exposition Building Jvjay 1 or the Aleutian Jslani Wwneria American TERi APRIL 20 i pe a r-. MIL BE DELINUWj.