Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 13

OAKLAND'S ONLY LOCALLY OWNED, LOCALLY CONTROLLED DAILY NEWSPAPER' -V WANT ADS aiMam PHONE TEMPLEBAR 60004 MAIN OFFICE, 13TH AT FRANKLIN IN BERKELEY, 7 SHATTUCK SQUARE. EXCLUSIVE ASSOCIATED FfUSS WIREPHOTO UNITED PRESS vol. cxxxn OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, JANUARY 8. 1940 13 NO. 8 TREE SMASHES HOUSE, HIGHWAY SUFFERS IN SEASON'S HEAVIEST STORM Transports Sail to Get U.S.

Invaders' Four Ships to Bear 'Black Army' South as. 'Blues' Await 'Attack'; vVA Cr 4 4V 1,,, 1 r-'--k- The Waldo approach to the the heavy rain, and traffic Golden Gate Bridge was blocked today by a slide caused by was forced to detour via Sausalito. (Story on Page 1.) Loss of 10,000 POLICE OFFICERS STUDY LAW ENFORCEMENT AT BAY MEET The high wind that accompanied the heavy rain swept a 75-foot redwood tree into the Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority house in Berkeley, punching a hole in the roof and breaking out a window and frame. All of the sorority members were away during college vacation. Park department employees are shown clearing away the debris.

Tribune photo. 0 AS SWALLOWS RETURN TO CAPISTRANO, SO DRUNKS RETURN TO JUDGE'S COURT HERE traffic control by the brief but Intensive training. "It will return graduates well fitted to execute sound traffic control programs and train officers in proper procedure," Pettit declared. 17 EXPERTS Seventeen experts are on the faculty, which will offer instruction each day and evening through January 10. Capt.

T. R. Berrum of Reno is the "student" farthest from home, followed by Lyle Guthrie, investigator for the San Diego accident detail. Certificates of graduation will be given to the officers on completion of the course, when they meet at luncheon at the Hotel Durant. Dog Poisoning Arraignment Set WALNUT CREEK, Jan.

8 Arraignment of Dr. Francis M. Shook, 59, prominent Orinda and Oakland ear, nose and throat specialist, on dog poisoning charges as the aftermath of the deaths of 45 pets owned by socialite Orinda residents, was set today for Thursday at 1 p.m. Judge C. L.

Thompson of the Third Township Justice Court here set the date. Dr. Shook is free on $1000 ball on the misdemeanor charges. Shook, who lives on his "Fairway Acres" estate in Orinda, was arrested on the night of January 4 by constables, district attorney's investigators and private detectives. He was alleged to have thrown away chunks of meat, Impregnated with what appeared to be poison.

He denied all charges. His attorney charged a "frameup." Rancher Found Dead FRESNO, Jan. 8. (JP) J. Klas-sen, 48, rancher, was found dead in his carbon monoxide-filled car near here Sunday.

In Two Fires Factory, Apartment House Here Burn; Paint Can Ignited Fires'in which the damage totaled nearly $10,000 occurred yesterday in an Oakland manufacturing plant and a local apartment house. A switchboard short started the fire in the Atascadero Apartments, 700 East Twenty-fourth Street, ac cording to firemen. The flames spread from the basement switch board to soundproofing between the basement ceiling and the first floor, where they smouldered. Difficulty of access to the smoul dering soundproofing forced fire men to tear up pieces of flooring in several first floor apartments. The damage, confined to the switchboard and floor, was estimated at nearly $5000.

The Everbright Manufacturing Company plant at 2209 East Four teenth Street was destroyed by fire, with loss estimated at $4000. Rob ert Cole, manager, said the fire started when a paint can he was carrying ignited as he walked by an open oven. Chemicals stored in the one-story building exploded with force that smashed windows and echoed over the neighborhood. Landlord, 73, Pleads Innocence of Arson Joseph Colonico, 73, of 1730 Grant Avenue, San Francisco, pleaded not guilty today before Police Judge Chris B. Fox to a charge of arson on which he was arrested last week.

Colonico was charged with having set the fire which swept through stores and dwellings at 9812 East Fourteenth Street last December 29. He was owner of the property. In court today his bail was reduced from $5000 to $3000 on motion of his attorney, Frank Creely, and January 23 was set for prelimi nary hearing. TRAFFIC The Army and Navy's test of Pacific Coast defenses moved another step toward "combat" today as four Army transports cruised northward to pick up the Third Division forces that will attempt a landing on th California coast. The transport General Hunter Liggett left San Francisco today for Tacoma, following three other transports that left yesterday and the day before.

They will pick up 5500 soldiers of the Third Division and return them under simulated wartime conditions for an inva sion "somewhere between Santa Barbara and San Francisco." From the moment the transports Tumitia with their loadj-of men ana equipment, uiey wm wiv ii V. "black" or enemy forces ana-wui move as secretly as they can. Ships and planes of the Navy's battle fleet will join them, while other snipa and planes will serve with' tn "blue" defenders. f.tttW?. DEFENDERS WAIT The actual landing place pected to be on the Monterey Pen-i insula, where defense forces al ready are concentrated, and th time of the landing is expected be the latter part of next week.

Military authorities consider land ings on hostile shores one of most difficult of wartime operation, and Army and Navy omcers nop to gain valuable information from the maneuvers, the largest Joint war games ever undertaken. The defenders hope to spot. tn Invading planes through the fair- craft warning service in which, citizens and various Government agen cies cooperate, a service which was tested last Summer. The land forces also expect to get a line on the 'black" forces by use of scouting planes. LANDING PLANS MADE When the attack gets-to the -point of landing, troops will go ashqr in motor launches, each holding about 50 soldiers.

The launches will be run up onto the sand so the soldiers will get only their feet wet, unless, of course, "blue" forces are ad judged successful in thwarting tha landing. The first troops ashore will set up machine guns to protect the following launch loads, and eventually when a number of soldiers -'are landed, heavy equipment will be brought ashore to aid in the attack. The mock warfare will involve virtually every National defense unit. Infantry, cavalry, air corps, artillery, signal corps and other units are either assembled already or are being moved into camps to take part in the maneuvers. Piedmont Skier Injured at Truckee Victim of a skiing accident over the week-end at the Truckee Sum- mit "Sugar Bowl," Allan M.

Starr, socialite, of 329 Hampton Road, Piedmont, is in the St. Mary's Hospital at Reno, today." According to witnesses, Starr was skimming down one of the steep slopes when one of his skis struck a rock and he fell The snow was very "fast" at the time. Dr. Joel Pressman, husband of Film Star Claudette Colbert, gave Starr first aid. Then he was loaded into a "snowmobile" an transported to Nordes and thence to Reno.

His wife, the former Adaline Eddy of Seattle, se-companied him to the hospital. Starr suffered six fractured ribs in the fall but at first it was feared he had incurred internal injuries. 3000 Guardsmen Break State Camp SACRAMENTO, Jan. 8. (ff) Three thousand Northern California Guardsmen and officers broke camp at the State Fair Grounds today to return to their homes after a weeks emergency maneuvers here.

Headquarters 1st 'Bat, talion, comprising the Suisun-Fair- field unit and the Eureka, Santa Rosa, Napa unit left at 2 a.m., to be followed later by-contingents from Oakland, the Sani Francisco" Bay area and San V'i' imi The men and officers were paid $34,170 for the training exercises. called in response to President Roosevelt's National defense procla-matton, 1 MUSIC COUPON differently, nuir coupons from twelve imi. The Tribune, in aocoi-danre the teims of The Tiiuw-1 I Appreciation C-'er, eru.vie 10 receive one cs tn t' fchonies or swn-''n Police Judge Joseph A. Kennedy was reminded today of the swallows that return annually to Mission San Juan Capistrano as he faced an array of "rppeaters" charged with drunkenness. He remarked at the similarity between his "swallows" and those that have made the mission famous when old Harry Housman, a chronic defendant, appeared and pleaded guilty.

"When were you here last?" Judge Kennedy inquired. "A year ago at Christmas," Housman replied. "Have you ever read of the swallows that always return to San Juan Capistrano?" the judge asked. "I have," replied the defendant. "You're like one of them," Judge Kennedy declared.

"You come home every year. I'm going to give you probation now, and don't come back." That was but one of the conversa tions between the bench and prisoners that appeared in the monthly trial of drunk cases, heard from the first to the fifteenth of each month. To some Judge Kennedy was less philosophic and more stern. Take Arthur Ryan for instance. He also pleaded guilty.

"I wasn't drunk," he protested. "I was just waiting around town to get some clothes." "Didn't Judge Chris B. Fox order you out of town last week and put you on probation for 180 days?" Judge Kennedy demanded. "I know," Ryan replied, "but I went to Grass Valley to my sister she's a nun there Judge Fox knows her "I'll teach you not to mention respectable members of your family in a police court," the judge roared. "You're just trying to gain sympathy.

There are times a man should not mention his family, and this is one of them. Sixty days." Louis Sullivan was another who pleaded guilty and asked to make a statement to the court. Judge Kennedy told him to go ahead, "but it had better be good." Sullivan started to say he had been working for his mother for two months, when the judge interrupted: "You never worked for anyone for two months. You ought to be ashamed of yourself bringing your mother's name into a courtroom. I'll have an officer interview your mother today and see what you've been doing.

Case continued." Lawrence O'Rourke had nothing to say for himself besides pleading guilty, but Judge Kennedy did. "You just got out last week after serving a sentence for the same offense. Thirty days." Curtis Carpenter got similar treatment. Judge Kennedy informed him: "You're in jail most of the time. Twenty days." BERKELEY, Jan.

8. Police officers from large and small municipalities scattered from San Diego to the Oregon border gathered in classrooms here today to learn more about the law they are sworn to enforce. The second annual Pacific Coast Traffic Officers' Training School opened this morning in Wheeler Hall, on the University of California campus, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation School started this afternoon. Fifty-one officers registered for the t.rnffic sessions sponsored by the University Extension Division in cooperation with ten other organizations including the Berkeley Police Department WELCOME ANNOUNCEMENTS Welcoming announcements were made by George Pettit, assistant to President Robert Gordon Sproul; Capt. L.

H. Laird, in command of the Berkeley police patrol and traffic division; Chief of Police John A. Greening, Berkeley; Boyd B. Rakestraw, assistant director of the Extension Division, and Miss Ber-nice Hubbard, executive secretary of the class department of the Extension Division. Other speakers at the traffic sessions today were Lieut.

W. R. Kidd, personnel and training officer and director of the police training school of the Berkeley department; Prof. O. W.

Wilson of the bureau of criminology, department of political science, University of California; Lieut. F. M. Kreml, director of the Northwestern University Traffic Institute and traffic expert of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and Capt. B.

R. Caldwell of the motor patrol division of the Los Angeles police. POLICE EFFECTIVENESS The course is designed to train men to provide effective police action in accident prevention work and proper investigation of accidents. Jn outlining the classes, officers said the course of instruction will result in modern methods of Coast Traffic Officer Trainln Autos. Kill 4 Over Week-end Hit-Run Suspect In Death of Two Boys Traced by Car Plate Despite heavy rains that obscured vision and made streets and highways slippery, only four traffic deaths were reported in Northern California for the week-end.

The dead: Andrew Parra, 38, Itinerant vender. Alvin Warnes, 14, Dos Palos. William Smith, 13, Dos Palos. Joseph Brett, 53, San Francisco. Parra, identified through letters in his possession, was struck when he wandered onto El Camino Real at Five Points, San Mateo County, yesterday.

He stepped into the path of a car driven by Bernard J. Perry, of Atherton. Last known addresses for Parra were in Fresno and Rodeo. He was a wandering pencil and shoelace peddler. Brett, an old-age pensioner, was fatally injured as he started to walk across Alemany Boulevard at Sickles Avenue, San Francisco, last night.

He was struck by a car driven by Joseph Tuccori, 25, of Colma, suffering a fractured skull and fractures of both legs and arms, from which he died early today. Tuccori was booked on a technical charge of negligent homicide, although Patrolman Vincent Gould said Brett was not in the pedestrian crosswalk. The Warnes boy and young Smith were fatally injured by a hit-run driver who struck their bicycles in Dos Palos Saturday night. Paul O. Wettengel, 45, also of Dos Palos, was arrested after the accident when officers- traced to hirrfa license plate found at the scene.

He, was held on an open charge pending an investigation, was taken to the county jail at Merced after reports of threats against him in Dos Palos, according to Police Chief John Campbell. The Smith boy was killed instantly, and the Warnes boy died yesterday in a hospital. A third youth, William Bristow, 14,. was critically injured. THEY STUDY TO IMPROVE TECHNIQUE OF HANDLING CITY bill f7 7-V vJ xr7J S'-i Sentence for Theft OOf Cameras at Fair George Workman, 29, ex-convict, of Salt Lake City, was sentenced today to serve one to 20 years at Fol-eom Prison on a conviction of grand theft growing out of the theft of u.ij frtfnnnntilirf nmrw rflliirioi mm if film roiirrfifr -tiwrnrnvK ft.

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