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Kl AND'S THE TRIBUNE if your Tribune does not arrive, "phone TE mplebar 6000 before 7:45 p.m. (Sunday, 11:30 a.m.) Paper will be tent at on.ce. DELIVERY SERVICE IS GUARANTEED ffmbuite ONlY LOCALLY OWNED, LOCALLY CONTROLLED DAILY NEWSPAPER EXCLUSIVE ASSOCIATED PRESS WIREPHOTO UNITED PRESS vol cxxxn OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1940 33 NO. 138 Cornerstone For Miller Theater Laid FAMED POET'S DREAM COMES TRUE OA FOR HE'S A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW! -v- i- sV Two Oakland Homes Looted By 'Barefoot; Cash, Jewels Taken By Holes Bored for Entrance $1,000,000 Oakland Project Memorial to 'Poet of Sierras' The homes of two prominent Oak-landers were ransacked early today by a man believed to be the "barefoot burglar" who has stolen from a dozen or more wealthy homes in recent months. The victims were: J.

Evan Armstrong, 2922 Acacia Drive, founder and president of the Armstrong College in Berkeley. Leon de Fremery, 5757 Country Club Drive, attorney and scion of a wealthy pioneer Oakland family. The homes are within a few blocks of one another in the region north of the Claremont Country Club. The burglar was surprised in the Armstrong home by Miss Francis Armstrong, who awakened about 3:15 to find a man picking up her Cornerstones were laid today at the Woodminster Memorial Amphitheater, center oi a development in Joaquin Miller Park In the Oakland hill. The California poet after whom the park is named, dreamed of such a project years ago.

Tribune photo. Jh4 This was the scene last night as Oakland school teachers honored their superintendent Dr. E. W. Jacobsen.

who will become dean ol education at the University of Recoil Ing at the farewell party are (rear, left to right) Wendall Moore, president of the Oakland Teachers' Association. Dr. Jacobsen. Mrs. Jacobsen and Barbara Jacobsen Tribune photo.

AUTO FERRIES END SERVICE AS 'CAPITAL-LABOR' PLAN FAILS (9 The dream of Joaquin Miller to create a sylvan center, of culture In the eucalyptus-covered Oakland hills began to take on reality today with the laying of cornerstones In the Woodminster Memorial Amphithe ater. Already, the massive walls of the outdoor theater, centerpiece, of $1,000,000 development in Joaquin Miller Park, have risen. Today they were given formal recognition with the setting of appropriate plaques. Within two years Oakland will see completion of this project originally conceived by the "Poet of the Sier ras," and executed by the City of Oakland, the California Writers' Club and the Works Projects Ad ministration. The finished project will be a 250-acre park around the amphitheater, with facilities for pic nics, trails for hiking and horse iding in short a center for recrea.

tion both physical and mental. TRIBUTE TO CREATORS Officials who gathered today for the cornerstone ceremonies expressed amazement at the work done since 1933, when the project was started. And they paid vocal tribute both to the poet originator of the idea and to the thousands of men whose work is making it real. The great amphitheater may well rival the famous Hollywood Bowl, they said. In it will appear a sue cession of plays, pageants, symphonies and concerts.

It will be the cultural center of the city, one of the finest on the Pacific Coast, looking down from its lofty perch to the city six and a half miles below. Indicative of the future of this theater are the plans to have famed Max Reihhardt direct the first per formance. The theater is just above the knoll where Joaquin Miller built his and wrote the poem "Colum-(Cus." His original building has been restored as part of the project. COLORFUL CASCADE From the theater down toi the road Joaquin Miller Hoad through the same trees the poet planted, will gush a colorful cascade, 1000 gallons a minute, pausing in pools on the way to reflect the shrubbery andf-to twinkle in a blaze of brilliant electricity. Exemplary of the color "scheme is the second pool down, where it will take nine minutes for the lights to run through their com plete circuit, playing over a 25-foot center soout-ana lour ja-iooi spouus.

Lighting will feature the theater Itself. Under the direction pf Rolf Embroden, supervisor of the project, an intricate system has been- devised, bv which 1290 different com binations of colored light may be company should nbt turn ever to the trustee, one-half of the $600,000 worth of ferry company first mortgage- bonds, which they held. The. order pointed Out that at the first meeting of creditors in the bankruptcy adjudication. Southern Pacific waived one-half of its securities in order to pa-ticipate In election of a trustee.

7 ha law requires that secured cr can This is the old home of Joaquin Miller, near the amphitheater development, which was restored as a part of the same project The work on the cultural center at "The Hights" where the poet of the Sierra lived was begun in 1933. Tribune photo. purse. She gasped and the man fled down the stairs and outside. "He was either in his stocking feet or wore sneakers," Miss Armstrong said.

Investigation showed he had entered a rear bedroom window with the aid of a ladder he took from a construction job next door. He took $4 from Miss Armstrong's purse and $12 from a wallet and left both purse and wallet in the street outside. The burglar of the de Fremery home was discovered this morning by a maid, Ada Johnson. She found de Fremery's wallet and trousers and Mrs. de Fremery's jewel case in the library.

JEWELS MISSING Jewelry valued at $2000 was missing from the jewel case, and a small amount of currency was taken from the wallet. De Fremery said the stolen jewelry included a diamond-st wrkt wnirh valued at 1000. a diamond ring and a bar pin. Also missing a vaiuaDie goia watch, with the, de Fremery coat of arms and de Fremery's name engraved on it. It was given to de Fremery on his 21st birthday by his father, the late James L.

de Fremery. De Fremery was happy that the burglar left a group of yachting trophies he has won. One of these is a $500 cufj which is the perpetual trophy of the Saint Francis Yacht Club for the annual race to the Farallones. THIEF BORES HOLES Th Vinrtflnr had entered a French window leading 'to the library by boring holes near xne iock ana reaching inside to release the lock. ki4 hnrlns nn another French window, but stopped be cause tie nit metai.

There also were Indications the kurolop hnfl lnnlteH over French windows on another side of the house. Shrubbery beside these win dows had been cut back with a knife, apparently to get it out of the way. Thn hnrolar. It was presumed, gathered his loot in the de Fremery'c dressing-rooms and took it to the library to inspect it. Neither the de Premerys or the maid heard the burglar at work.

Workers, Hurt at Fair, Win $40,500 A San Francisco SuDcriorNCourt jury awarded $4oT500 in damages today to four worxmen wno were hurt when constructing a ski jump on Treasure Island February 16, 100 lust hpfnre onenintf of the Ex position. Defendants were the con tractors, -Barrett at nnp. me awnrrln were made to Erich W. Goerke, H. W.

Hixon, $9000; George A. Sample, $9000, and Robert P. McKinney, $7500. Poem of 'Peace on Poet's Quiet Hillside' Dedicates Joaquin Miller Amphitheater tion, and Frank K. Mott, former Mayor' of Oakland.

Mott declared that the "building of this memorial and the planting of California redwoods in memory of the famed writers of our State will 'arouse National interest and awaken approving emotion throughout the land, giving assurance that iQilayed on the stage. The stage is a 0-by-80-foot solid platform over a maze of underground passageways and workshops. It resembles nothing It's Antenna Not Oil Derrick That Stirs Piedmont Residents Teachers Fete Superintendent Oakland Association Gives Dinner in Honor Of r. Jacobsen, Wife Oakland public school teachers last night paid tribute to their leader during the last five and a half years, honoring Superintendent of Schools W. Jacobsen and Mrs.

Jacobsen at a dinner held in the Scottish Rite Temple. More than 800 persons were present. The affair, held unHer the auspices of the Oakland Teachers Association, whs planned as a farewell party for Dr. Jacobsen, who will leave Oakland September to De-come dean of the school of education at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr.

Jacobsen "was lauded for his progressive leadership of the Oakland schools, which brought national recognition to the, city, and for his active participation in many civic undertakings. Speakers included Dr. A. M. Dins-more, resident of the Board of Ed ucation; William T.

Ewlng, assistant superintendent of schools who will succeed Dr. Jacobsen as superintendent; and Edgar E. Muller, Alameda County superintendent of schools. Wendall M. Moore, president of the Oakland Teachers Association, read Congratulatory messages from Wil-larH E.

Givens arid Fred M. Hunter, former Oakland school superintendent, and from the Educational Policies Commission, lor which Dr. Jacobsen had done work of notional importance. Headed by Mrs: Blanche- R. Mc-Laughlln, vice-president of the Teachers Association, a committee which planned the-affair Edward J.

Albrecht, Miss Helen C. Beesley, Miss Ethel C. Bell, Miss Norma Britton, Mrs. Dorothy Dierke, Eugene H. Dopp, Mrs.

Florence Fleming, Robert E. Gilbert, Miss Clara Glendenning, Miss Lu-ella Holman, Mrs. ElizabethvMadi-son, Frederick Martin, Mrs. Harriet Phillips, Edward T. Planer, Miss Leon a Rose, Mrs.

Bertha Schenk, Mrs. Martha Shea, Miss Mame Sheehan, Fred L. Taber and A. G. Starr.

-'X VP A poem of "peace upon a poet's quiet hillside" today dedicated the Woodminster Memorial Amphithe ater in Joaquin" Miller Park. The dedicatory poem was read by Harry Npiyes Pratt, former presi dent of the California Writers' Club and director-manager of the Crocker Art Gallery' at Sacramento. "Here on the memoried slopes of the poet's hill. "Let there be peace for those who feel their presence," Pratt read. The dedication was part of a cornerstone laying and plaque setting ceremony at the site of the outdoor theater; Tne ceremonies were opened by William H.

Hoffman, of the Oak land Park Board, after which Pratt Id of the many years of work Ivhich led up to the fulfilling of Joaquin miner aesire xor uie Hights. The dedication and cornerstone laying followed a luncheon at the Lake Merritt Hotel. Speakers there were Mayor William J. McCracken, William R. Lawson, State adminis trator of the Works Administra A SURGEON so much as a Maginot Line lor cui tnral txmoses.

This theater as may be seen from the materials required to build it: 111,712 board feet of lumber, 5883 tons of concrete aggregate, 13,404 sacks of cement 247,215 pounds, of steel and 16,020 feet of conducs. me cascaae iauing away irom it required wos unear ic water lines. Fifty-eight acres ready have been cleared and 7, plants and shrubs set out WRITERS' MEMORIAL The stairway leading from the road up to the amphitheater is to be Auto ferry service between Oakland and San Francisco was discontinued last night. The bankrupt Southern Pacific-Golden Gate Ferries, acting under orders of a Federal referee in bankruptcy, sent its last ferry out ef-San Francisco at 9 p.m. and tied it up at the Oakland Mole at 9:20 p.m.

Burton J. Wyman ordered the trustee to cease operations after he heard of the failure to agree on a proposed "capital labor" plan for operation of the ferries. The Southern Pacific Company, owner of 40 per cent of the bonds of the ferry company, rejected the plan. Five double ended ferries, of the type that has been familiar to the Bay for '90 years, were tied up in an estuary shipyara wrai uie abandonment Six other boats, tairon nut nf rvice since the open ing of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, already were in ine shipyard. 3 ROUTES IN SERVICE rvntinn nf iserviee bv the S.P nn inft nnlv three ferrv runs in service.

They are the. ferries the Southern Pacific operates between Oakland -and San Francisco for mnin linn stam train nasseneers. the Richmond-San Rafael, auto and passenger ferries and the San Fran cisco-Sausallto ferries. The North Pnr-ifir i seeking Dermis sion to abandon service of the last named line. When made his order, Joseph Sharp, attorney lor cm ployecs who hold a $400,000 judg mnnf niiaincl fhp rnmnanv for dis missal pay, declared it uncertain whether the Bankruptcy Court or the State Railroad Commission naa InrlariiMinn in fhp abandonment.

"If the State of California is not satisfied with my decision," Wyman "the -State can run the boats at the State's loss." TRUSTEE'S NOTICE SERVED At th. rinse nf' the hearing Francis P. Walsh, attorney for the trustee, served notice on the isouin-ern Pacific of a summary order filed with Referee Wyman, directing the Southern Pacific to iappear and show cause on May 24 why the i -J A Its a radio antenna, and not an oil derrick," that is. annoying the St James Wood Homes Association it became clear today. Three weeks ago the association asked the Superior Court to order the removal of "a structure about 25 feet in height resembling in ap pearance an oil derrick which At torney J.

Deasr and Ala wife, Lucy.had erected at their home at lis Banqnngnam noaa, neamoni. BY ACCIDENT not participate in such elections. Wyman said that on Saturday he would 'sign an order turning ihe ferries over to the Anglo-California Bank for sale. Anglo-California is the trustee for the company's bonds. Proceeds from the sale will be impounded, pending determination of rights of bondholders and of employees.

6 Bay Youths in Annapolis Class Six Bay region youths are among the 24 from California in the class of -456 students who are candidates for -graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, next month, according, to lists received here today. They are Ernest William Coble Jr. of Piedmont; John Howard Bpwell, 560 Kenmore Avenue, Oakland; Arthur Henry Berndston, 5839 Clover Drive, Oakland; Ralph Paul Desmond Paul -Vance Thompson and Demetrius John Bellls, all of San Francisco. Final examinations will start tomorrow' and end May 25, after which time, the successful candi dates will.be listed.

k.1 1" All! To See Treasure Isle Harvey Gibson, chairman ef the board of the New York World's Fair, has accepted an Invitation to attend the opening of the San Fran cisco Fair, May 25, and he and Mrs. Gibson will arrive at Mills Jieia by airplane Saturday morning et 7:20 o'clock on that date. Replying to an Invitation tele graphed by Governor Olson, Gib son said he felt greatly honored and "we accept with pleasure." A similar invitation was sent to Gro'ver Whalen of the New York Fair and Mrs. Whalen, but answers have not yet been received. Faces Girl Charge ALAMEDA, May 17.

Fred Vierra, 32, a gardener, of 944 Eagia Avenue, was free on $2000 bail to riav fnllnwinff him arrest bv Lieut. Albin" Olsson and Inspector Lloyd. Wendland on statutory cnarge involving misconduct with girl, 11. VTn hiV. in IMlBT Police Judge Daniel H.

Knox, May. 24. CITY DEEDS SITE OF NAVY DEPOT AT CEREMONIES' Middle harbor property on which the Naval Supply Depot will be created was deeded to the U.S. Navy at a ceremony following the City Council session last nlghu Action sanctioning the aeea was taken by the Board of Port Commissioners on Monday, and tne necessary ordinance was passed by the council last mgnt. The instrument was signed V' Mavor William J.

McCracken James J. McElroy, president of -Port Commission, and was acce- in behalf of the eommanflant 12th Naval District by Car' G. Taylor, of the public woo -vision. Although granting cf 1 had been held up for marv due to legal technic?" V-, has already unv'T" i ca ei NAVY GETS MIDDLE HARBOR LAND this monument will become a National shrine. We are the fortunate custodians and it shall be our sacred duty to always protect it." The luncheon sjuests were wel corned by James Csbblcdick.

presi dent of the Business Men's Garden Club. Hoffman presided at the luncheon. The association declared erection of the structure was against the rules of the association, which were de clared to be. binding on Deasy and all other resident of the St. James Wood tract Today Deasy filed his answer to the action.

It was a demurrer asking aismwsal of the injunction suit. Deasy explained that the structure is a radio antenna, and he declared it his belief that it does not fall within tha scope of the structures which the association has the right to "censor." Informally, Mrs, Deasy explained that the antenna is used by her son, Robert, 18, who is a radio amateur, for short wave transmission. She said he was appointed by the Pied mont post of the American Legion to serve with the Legion's emergency radio program. FALL ON STICK SEVERS TONSIL OF BOY AT PLAY BERKELEY. May was an efficient toniUectomy, although an incomplete one, that six -year-old Gary Nelson did on himself.

He fell while playing with a stick In his mouth and, through a chance that doctors said was one in a mil lion, the only damage was the partial severing of his left tonsiL' Emergency surgery at Berkeley Hospital finished' the removal of that tonsil end then, since Gary was not complaining, the doctors rounded out their work by removing the other tonsiL Gary was "lust fine" this morn ing, after spending the night In the hospital. But his parents were still ghast at. the thought of what might have; happened the stick missed his carotid-artery by a fraction of an inch, and If it hadn't missed the boy probably would, have bled to death. The accident happened yesterday afternoon at Gary's, home at 1138 Keith Avenue. He was taken to the hospital by his father.

Sergeant Edward A. Nelaoo I a memorial to California writers ending wiffi a Temple of Honor, a 80-foot tower on the hill, symbolically planned as the pinnacle lor writers. Each step In the stairway Is made from a ton of California basalt. Each flight of stairs is named for a poet or writer who has carved his niche In the field of literature. Two great 18-foot statues will look down from the amphitheater to the Bay.

Both were designed and carved by WPA sculptors. One represents the mother and her child, the other the child and its teacher. William D. Mason, project director, who has worked out the project with Sanborn, forester and project administrator, and Wheeler Edwards, park engineer, told today's audinc tnat the memorial will last ibr He likened it to the pyramids of ancient Egypt, built by hand as a reminder 'ol a cultured people, a All documents connected with con-ruction and improvement of the park' were placed behind the one-ton cornerstone plaques today. They arl in sealed copper boxes, supposed to last as long as the concrete itself.

COMPLETION ENVISIONED. Today's visitors, looking over the cyX I i SCOO-capacity amphitheater and the newly landscaped grounds, tried to envision the completed park with its mile, and a half of roadways, three miles of paths, parking accomodations for 1000 automobiles, lookout points and picnic areas. Their thanks went to the California Writers Club for its inspiration in starting the work and' to the City Council and WPA for their work in making it possible. Instrumental in the work have been John G. Griffin, general project supervisor; Thomas F.

Watson, president the Board of Park Directors, the Mayor and Council and these mem-1 bers of the writers' club: Gertrude Mott. Harry Noyes Pratt, Charles 1 Ketler. Derrick Lehmer. Eunice- Mitchell Lehmer. Howard Gilkey, Richard S.

French and Milton H. Shutes. Signing the deed bj which the Nary wai granted title to Middle Harbor property for its supply depot Is James McLTroy, president of (he Port Commission. Witnesses are Mayor William McCracken and Capt, G. Taylor, ol the 12th Naval District TrCbuae jhc'a.

When Gary Nelson. 6. fell on a stick he had In his mouth, the suck was poshed toward his throat but all it did was to partly sever a tonsiL He wos'fine" today, after doctors finished the tonsil ectoniy Tribune photo. v..