Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 12

OAKLAND TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1943 12 POLICE MOVE IN' ON OAKLAND AND LOS ANGELES ZOOT SUITERS -f' x-X- Ml HI Jl.llll I l.ll.lll IU I HMII 'l If' 1 rrr" II Illl- JW IWll inn mum mmmii wwwwi. siiiitiiiif ii iiiaii 111 -CjfflMM'- Willi I llpiBBfcliilb h' A I rr, 7 Mrs. Vera Duarte TrQjillo visited her son. Vincente Duarle. 15, in Los Angeles hospital, where lay with a bulletVound in his leg then sha tore up his zoot-suit Vincent was shot last night during disorders at Azusa, where zoot-3uit rioters 'threw incendiary material into a theater A.P.

Wirephoto. A llf i CYCLE OFFICERS Individual Pleas Urge Redwood City Machinists to Return to Their Jobs Individual telegrams assuring ize them for returrrm them of "every protection at the Company officials reported they expected that 22 additional machin disposal of the United States Government," if they return to their jobs contrary to union orders', were Noe Vasquez (left), 18, and Joe Vasquez, 18. no relative, were seized by sailors in downtown' Los Angeles and stripped of their peg-topped zoot-suit trousers, which were sorely ripped. Overalls that hid his zoot pants failed to save Joe's treasured garb. A J.

PAY UPPED $15. The Oakland City CounciIMat night increased traffic motorcycle -officer pay $15 a month. According to City Manager Charles Schwanenberg. those rid mg motorcycles, including sergeants, were receiving the basic pay of $230 a month for ordinary police officers. "The additional cost o( clothing outlay to the regular motorcycle police officer, plus, the risk on in- jury and life, has occasioned, a Nation-wide extra condensation in ists would join the five who have already returned to work, and that wjth that force the plant could remain iii operation.

Approximately sent, by the Regional Labor Board today to machinists who walked out at the Redwood City plant of the National Motor Bearing Company In the first local manifestation of zoot-suit trouble. Rodrigue Zncarnation, 20. (left) and Leo Velasques. 21, (right) were lodged in the city prison last night. They are shown with Patrolman Wayne Johns following their arrest (Story on Page 1.

Tribune photo. last month. Sculptor Restores Missing Coolidge Ear the same time, the regional 40 originally were ordered out by union officials as the result of a contract dispute. The individual telegrams, in addition to promising protection, "The War Labor Board will not tolerate anyvffbstruction of the re sent a telegram to Harry WASHINGTON, June 11. VP) Hook nd E.

F. Dillon, business agents of Local 68 of the Machinists Union, declaring: this respect." Schwanenberg reported that there Open Air Parley Averts Steel Strike "As officers and individuals you State Hull yesterday, and the sculptor applied a chunk of carrara marble to complete the symmetry of the former President's likeness. Baker luckily had the measurements, having done a bust of Coolidge when he occupied the White House. That missing sbction of ear has been restored to Calvin Coolidge's bust in the hall of fame at the capitol. Architect David Lynn of the capitol sought out Bryant who are approximately 45 motorcycle-riding members of the police force are now ordered to take no steps which will impede those employees sumption of work so vitally needed for war purposes or any interference byx anyone who attempts to molest men who return to work pursuant to its entitled to the $15 increase, effec who desire to return' to work from so returning, or in any way penal- tive as of July 1, tinder a resolu- tion passed by.

the City Counc1'. CANONSBURG, June 11. (JP completed a bust of Secretary of 1 C. JTF-W'E I- TE-i-i-i-i iWmki Broadway, 20th, Telegraph Shop 10:30 to 6 p.m black lace trims your pretty filBllfllllilOfclR 4 There isn't going to be any Strike at the Canonsburg Steel and Iron Works. Four hundred employees, whose demand for a pay increase threatened to culminate in a strike, went back to work today after airing literally their grievance during a agreed upon by the management and the United Steel Workers of America (C.I.O.), The plant 5hu.t down yesterday and all those uVolved got together in the open air to talk things over.

James Malone and Rudolph Wood-house, union organizers from Canonsburg. gave the men's side of the question: Since the naval ordnance commission ordered a 30 per cent production cut six weeks ago. the plant has shifted from a seven-day work week to a six-day schedule. The speakers said the men now can't earn enough to Jive on. A.

J. Hopkins of New York, vice-president and general manager of the company, agreed to join union officials in asking the ordnance commission to give the workers a higher pay rate. The men said that was fair enough and voted to -continue working six days a week. LACK DINNER DRESS Black is right especially a black rayon sheer. iAsjC I Filmy lace trims the low neckline and j( 1 apron front Sizes "9 to 15.

16.99 l'W' H- Capuell's Collngienne Shop, Second Flo's a Russell E. Foss. 32, Los Angeles war worker, told police two hitch-hiking zoot-suiters dragged him from his auto and beat and slashed him with a knife, snipping off portion of his ear. With him is his son, Douglas, 5. A.P.

Wirephoto. (Zoot-suit story on Page 2.) Harlem Hailed as -Zoot-Suif Birthplace, But Then Georgia Puts in Loud Claim NEW YORK; June 11. (U.R) The. NEW YORK, June 11 UP) At dubious distinction of having ere- least part of the zoot-suit favored A PASTEL JERKINS BflV-VJ, ated the zoot-suit belongs to a habiliment, of Los Angeles youths! Gainesville, Ga busboy. in the involved in rints with memhei nfj i it i 1 11 1 1 i i a i i 4 2 7 VXmj THE VERY Cirls 7 to 14 are going to like I the armed forces was born in Har- lem, fashion experts from the mid-; towngafmcnt district north to Har-ilem agreed today.

But no one knew the origin of the name. Four ago. say those who I follow clothing fads, a Negro youth opinion or J. V. D.

Carlyle, fashion editor of Men's Apparel Reporter, garment trade'- publication. The February, 1941, issue of the Reporter carried an "exclusive style flash" that depicted "the newest model, known in South Georgia as the killer-diller. length 37 inches, button top 14-inch bottom, requiring a shoehorn to get your foot through. The trade was amused, strolled into Harlem Savoy ball-' VX White Swiss or dimity flU i V' ifvH- room. Instead of regulation trousers, he wore slim ankled slacks which ballooned from below the knee and were so high waisted they al- Imost reached the armpits.

rmm. s.M i RUSH OF HOT BLOODS The next day Harlem's hot bloods rushed the tailor shops to have I I I it I BO. '1 I 7 JT" I a i mi'. similar "peg tops" made. Just where, or the oversized zoot -coat originated was not known heje but the sartorial fad experts said the properly clad zoot euiter would wear a coat three to four inches longer than the average 29- Carlyle said.

The story pictured Clyde Duncan of Gainesville wearing, the model he ordered from Frierson-McEver's early in 1940 complete with "drape shape," "reat pleat," Snd "stuff cuff." A. C. McEver, conservative half of the Gainesville combination, said he forwarded the specifications to the Globe TaikHn" ComDPjjy of Chicago after futilely trying to "talk the boys out of Duncan was adamant. McEver disclaimed any credit for the creation, asserting the specifications were Duncan, so far as he knew. The suit cost $33.50.

"I thought it was crazy as could be," McEver commented, "and I told Globe Tailoring so in my mch jacket length, the drape would be extreme and the oversized shoulders padded. Trousers would be 13 inches wide at the cuff instead of the ordinary 20, and 28 tq 32 inches wide at the knee as opposed to the ordinary suit's 22 inches. 'BIG APPLE' HAT A wide-brimmed, flat-crowned "big apple" hat, loud suede shoes, shirts with long pointed collars and screaming ties loosely knotted would be worn to complete the en 'fryT' Drsy enough for school yJ I graduation parties. Rayon i 1 A shantung with felt flower I I I'1' A) I LACK CALOTS White batiste blouse, 2.50 I -A I For dinner HchJ I 7 fK "yn taffeta colots irt black with perky pink roe.Bvt fojfj I we have many other Xyfes. tt.

C. CnpnelVt Merry Modern an Vw4r1 Girls' Shop, Second Floor 4" semble. An extra long, wide-linked chain always dangles from the watch pocket. Although manufacture of the zoot-suit now is outlawed by OPA regulation, J. V.

D. Carlyle," fashion editor of the Men's Apparel Reporter, says the suits have been sold the black market since April. i Telephone OLympic 5522 5396 Claremont Oakland.