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OAKLAND'S LOCALLY OWNED, LOCALLY, CONTROLLED DAILY NEWSPAPER Oakland EXCLUSIVE VOL. CXXXIII- OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1940 13 NO. 177 THEY'LL RE-NAME IT 'LAKE' ALAMEDA AFTER THIS WEEK'S FLOODS SANTA BREEZES IN TONIGHT WITH BIGGEST PACK EVER The suspense ends tonight. Tissue paper rapped gifts come out of hiding in the closet to find their proper place under the Christmas, Claus tree. will carry a load than ever before, even bigger than that of 1929.

Never before had Oakland seen such a shopping season as the one ending today. But now the rush is over, and it's time to open Santa Claus' packSome of the gifts will be opened tonight; others tomorrow. Even the weatherman's forecast for rain failed to dampen the Christmas spirit, The Christmas spirit, in the form of parties, entertainments and celebrations, full swing for a week. It even reached the who have been the guests at poor, countless parties given by charitable, fraternal and civic organ- izations. GIFTS FOR ALL Here is double proof of the bay region early There were gifts for all at these parties and one group of Oakland businessmen presented shoes to 500 underprivileged children.

Other organizations entertained at dinners and made gifts of toys, candy and clothing. Even the U.S. Army has taken time out from its defense training to observe Christmas. Military life at major posts has been at a low ebb since a general 10-day holiday was ordered by Lieut. Gen.

John L. De Witt, commanding the Fourth Army, and the soldiers had scattered to their homes under the travel rate granted men in uniform. Special Christmas dinners, programs and religious services will be held by the Army for officers und soldiers who remain in camps. Relatives and friends of those remaining on the "skeleton crews" will' be included in the entertainments. There was a party today for children at the San Francisco Pre- sidio.

COMMUTERS CELEBRATE Ferryboat and train commuters in the Bay region held their traditional parties today. The Key System's transbay travelers had a party, complete with tree, Santa Claus and carolers, this morning at the San Francisco Terminal Building. The party was hearties perpetuate the old Yule held previously on the Key System and Southern Pacific ferries. A stage was erected in the Terminal building, where R. H.

Glissman presided over the festivities in the role of Santa Claus. From 7:45 to 9 a.m., "Gory and Roberts," eccentric violinists, and the Newcomb Brothers, musicians, entertained the commuters. Peninsula commuters of the SouthPacific celebrated while traveling as the "Los Gatos Commuters and Way Station Friends." Passengers on the Northwestern Pacific's feriyboats held parties. At the base of the General Grant tree, in King's Canyon National Park, a Christmas Day ceremony will be held by the Christmas Tree Association. In 2400-foot depths of a Grass Valley gold mine, 50 voices of the Cornish Gold Mining Singers will be heard tonight in a Nation-wide broadcast of Welsh Christmas music.

EXTRA HALF-HOLIDAY State, county and city employees began their holiday this noon, and the San Francisco Stock Exchange closed at 12:15 p.m. instead of the usual hour of 2:30. But the coming of Christmas means a busy day for telephone company employees, who will handie a flood of long distance and local telephone calls for persons extending greetings to friends and relatives. J. D.

Holmes, division manager of the Pacific Telephone Telegraph Company, announced that the operin the Bay area has been increased by 125 per cent. Storm conditions will add to the already difficult service problem. end telephone users may encounter delays on certain calls, especially to distant points. Holmes said he axpected the total volume of holi- Tribune to flood the Alameda Municipal surrounding neighborhood. The Sea School Site At Morrow Cove State Maritime Academy to Be Moved To Vallejo Location used for the school and a new dock would be built.

He estimated the maximum cost of expenditures at $7500. Under present plans the school would be ready when the schoolship California State returns from its annyal cruise around June 1. The school is to move because the Navy forcents the present site. The board of governors of the California Maritime Academy today announced they had selected Morrow Cove near Vallejo as a new site for the school at which merchant marine officers are trained. The site was chosen from a final list of three possible places.

The other two were on the Marin County shore of San Francisco Bay at Ring Point and at Newport Harbor in Southern California. An academy spokesman said several conditions were attached to the final choice to be met by March 15. He did not anticipate difficulty however in meeting them. One of the conditions is changes necessary in Federal and State legislation to permit the academy, now at California City, to move from San Francisco Bay. The spokesman said that buildings of the Rodeo-Vallejo Ferry Company at Morrow Cove would be Mother, 17, Wins Divorce; Court Finds Paternity A divorce was granted in the Alameda County Superior Court today to Mrs.

Margaret Caracciolo, 17, 593 Sycamore Street, mother of Edward 10 months. Edward Caracciolo, 18, who married her in Reno October 7, 1939, denied paternity, of the boy, but Superior Lincoln S. Church found that he was the father and directed that he pay $10 monthly the child's support. Mrs. Caracciolo charged that her husband was cruel to her.

She also had asked an annulment on the ground of her youth at the time of the marriage, but evidence showed she was of age in Nevada, although not in California. Both plaintiff and defendant were represented by their parents, acting as guardians, since they are under age. Edwin Atherton Is Sued by Wife Edwin Atherton, Pacific Coast Conference commissioner of athletics and former G-man, was sued for separate maintenance in San Francisco today. In her suit Mrs. Atherton charged cruelty and asked $475 monthly maintenance.

Horse Is Rescued From Well As Cowboy Takes to Water Both Dobbin the horse and Ivan Myres, a cowboy of 3583 Dublin Road, Hayward, are staunch supporters. of the old adage "A friend in need is a friend indeed." Both needed friends and both got them at the right time. Dobbin, owned by Bob Gould of Oakland, been pastured at the Dublin ranch where Myres was "breaking him in." He wandered through a wire fence and dropped through a rotten planking into a 10. by 10 foot well with about 10 feet of water. He managed to keep.

his head THE If your TE mplebar 11:30 DELIVERY nature of golfers! is such they out of the dampness. (Story ACCIDENTAL TO BOY AS HE "Mother will be surprised," Thomas Clark, 12, and his sister, Aileen, 14, agreed yesterday afternoon as they started to shift the furniture about their home to prepare for Christmas. They moved a chair here, a table there, and then Tommy reached for his rifle to get it out of the way for more furniture shifting. The gun was discharged, the bullet went through Tommy's and he died at the Alameda cohend, Emergency Hospital a short time later. MOTHER SEES AMBULANCE His mother, Mrs.

Verdia Clark, saw an ambulance speed by her bus as she was en route to the home 2687 Fisher Avenue from her work as a practical nurse. "Some poor soul has been hurt," she said to the woman riding beside her. The ambulance was speeding back as the bus neared Mrs. Clark's stop. "Oh, it must have been bad," she said.

"The ambulance is going SO fast." She discovered what had happened home a few minutes the later. at SISTER'S STORY Aileen told her mother about the furniture moving they had done. She said she didn't just what happened, but she knew Tommy was starting to get the gun out of the way when she heard it discharge to see her brother fall. and, turned, father, Allen J. Clark, gave the .22 caliber rifle to Tommy, an Elmhurst Junior High School student and a Boy Scout, so that he could join a rifle club.

But Tommy had never used the gun. The father was at work in the furniture store in which he is employed when the accident happened. SUSPECT RELEASED FOR HOLIDAY IN CEMENT MIXER CASE ALBANY, Dec. McCoy, 28. Berkeleyan accused of whisking away a cement mixer from an Albany construction job during a dense fog, was held to answer in Superior Court today on a charge He appeared before Judge Louis Hardie, who, in the trule Yule spirit, reduced his bail from $1000 to $750 SO McCoy could spend Christmas at home.

McCoy had been held in jail since a "grapevine tip" resulted in his arrest for the theft of the bulky mixer. His attorney requested the bail reduction because his client could not "make" the $1000 figure. The $750 was posted immediately. The mixer vanished during the "pea soup" 10g early this month from a project on Washington Avenue, towed to Vallejo and sold to a contractor there for $275, according to police. It was owned by Joseph H.

Plain, 3715 Cutting Boulevard. Richmond. McCoy, who had been employed by Plain, lives at 2219 Ninth Street, Berkeley. Two Arrested on Narcotics Charges A Berkeley musician and a San Francisco entertainer were arrested today in San Francisco and charged with Narcotics Act violations in a raid which officers said netted. $2000 worth of marijuana.

Arrested were Robert Scobey, 24, of 1331, McGee Avenue, Berkeley, who was charged with transportation possession of marijuana, and Charles S. Haer, 31, of 2911 16th Street, San Francisco, who was charged with possession. State Narcotics Agent Ralph Armstrong said he trailed Scobey from hall at 16th and Mission Streets to Hier's room, TRIBUNE Tribune does not arrive, phone 6000 before 7:45 p.m. (Sunday, a.m.) Paper will be sent at once SERVICE IS GUARANTEED ASSOCIATED PRESS These scenes were found in Alahigh tide on San Leandro UNITED PRESS OR OR the fury of the downpour that today, bringing .26 of an inch of day calls to exceed last year's record by 65 per cent. GIFTS FOR THE NEEDY Many relief organizations have provided either funds or provisions for Christmas dinners for the needy, and others will cook and serve the Yule dinner to the itinerant.

Practically all jails, hospitals and other public institutions will have turkey dinners. Special Christmas services will be held in nearly all churches in Metropolitan Oakland. Some religious institutions will have services both tonight and tomorrow. The Pan American's Honolulu Clipper leaves Treasure Island at 4 p.m. today with a heavy load of special delivery Christmas mail which will be delivered to homes tomorrow in Honolulu.

The clipper also will carry provisions for a Christmas Eve dinner for its crew and passengers, and will be decorated with a Christmas tree. Hayward Civic Leader Is Stricken HAYWARD, Dec. rites will be held Thursday Otto Emerson, 85, prominent Hayward civic leader, who died this morning at his home at 2672 Foothill Boulevard. A native of Illinois: Emerson had been living in this district for the last 69 years. He was known for his interest in Boy Scout work and two years ago was given the Beaver award, one of the highest Scout honors.

Services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Pratt Mortuary. He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Leulla Kool. struck to Oakland in one hour.

rain meda, where an exceptionally Truck, Man Plunge in Bay Mystery Surrounds Fatal Accident at Foot of Seventh St. Mystery today surrounded the tragedy in which Giovanni Rivieccio, 35, San Francisco truck driver, plunged to his death yesterday from the wharf of the Albers Milling Company, at the foot of Seventh Street, A search, started after he had been missing -nearly all day, found skid marks on the dock and an oil slick on the water. Divers located the truck at the bottom of the bay, Rivieccio's body still in the cab. It was impossible to determine what caused the truck to leave the dock, said. Rivieccio, driver for the Columbia Machine Works, 160 Spear Street.

San Francisco, left there at 9:30 a.m. yesterday to pick up welding equipment at the Albers plant for repair. He loaded the equipment and got into his truck, but no one noticed him after he started the engine. Rivieccio is survived by a widow and a daughter, Jeanette, 11. Gunman Holds Up Oakland Coffee Shop An armed bandit held up the White Log Coffee Shop at 346 14th till of $10 after forcing the atStreet early today and rifled, the tendant into the kitchen and forcing a patron to remain seated at a counter stool until he made his escape in a waiting automobile.

HE WORE HIS WIFE'S NEW HAT; CAN'T JAIL A MAN FOR THAT! A man hiking around the street at 2:15 a.m. wearing a woman's hat might arouse the suspicions of policeman, but then it's Christmas time and anything can have sense. So it was that Johnny Owens, steward on the Matson liner Mariposa, won a suspended judgment on drunk charges today. Owens, according to Patrolman Eugene L. Cleu, was cutting a pretty figure when they met downtown.

Cleu locked him up, and this morning he appeared before Police Judge Chris B. Fox. He had the female millinery under his arm as he strode before the bar of justice. 'IT'S MY WIFE'S' "What are you doing with that hat?" demanded the judge. "It's my wife's," Owens replied.

"Where did you get it?" asked the judge. "I bought it last night. My ship is tied up in San Francisco, but the stores weren't open there last night, so I came over to Oakland Christmas shopping," Owens explained. "The officer says you walking around wearing it. Why?" pursued Judge Fox.

"Well," said Owens, hesitating, "I didn't want it wrapped, so I thought I'd wear it." "Where is your wife?" "Oh, your honor, she's a stewardess on the same ship and she's over there," Owens answered. "And you were wearing the hat as a matter of convenience and not intoxication?" Judge Fox queried. "That's right, your honor." JUDGMENT SUSPENDED "Well, it's Christmas, so I'll suspend judgment," the court decided. WELL, WELL-IF IT ISN'T A HORSE IN A WELL A cowboy always returns with his horse, no matter where it strays to. This horse wandered from its pasture on a Dublin ranch, stepped on a rotten plank and splashed in the bottom of a well.

First the well was bailed to lower the water level, and then Cowboy Ivan Myres dived in to fasten ropes with which the horse was rescued. -Tribune photo. Bay Joined with the rain Golf Club course and And Owens departed with a "Thank you, your honor." But that doesn't end the storynot quite. He stepped out the nearest door to the corridor and then became confused, not being used to the Oakland police courts. So he walked in another door, and there he was, right back before Judge Fox.

"Oh," he said, "I'm back in jail!" "Not quite," said the judge, "but you may be if you don't get these doors straightened around in your mind. That's (pointing) the way out." "Thank you again, your honor," Owens said, scuttling for the door, "and 8 Merry Christmas to you, sir." Slayer of Child Is Released Mother Who Left Baby to Die in Paper Bag Wins Freedom Now, perhaps, Mrs. Rose Bozich, 30, believes in Santa Claus. Admitted slayer of her infant daughter in 1938, Mrs. Bozich won a degree of leniency when she appeared in Superior Court in March, 1938, for sentence on a manslaughter charge.

Instead of a one to 10- year term in the penitentiary she was placed on eight years probation, the first three to be served in the county jail. Today, with Christmas spirit pervading the Superior Court, she appeared before Superior Judge Lincoln S. Church and received a Christmas present in the form of an immediate release from jail. The petition for modification of the sentence was submitted by Public Defender Willard Shea and drew support from Assistant District Attorney Leonard Meltzer, who lauded Mrs. Bozich's exemplary conduct in jail, and Deputy Probation Officer Arlene Hersey, who reported Mrs.

Bozich a model prisoner. Although she had served only a year and nine months of her sentence, Mrs. Bozich had actually been in jail two years and one month since her arrest after she caused one of her children to abandon her infant daughter in a paper bag in a vacant lot. Found alive, the infant later died of exposure. Leniency in the original sentence was based on Mrs.

Bozich's story of a sordid home In submitting the plea today, Shea a home and employment by reported that she had been offered tives. Sculptor Dies NEW YORK, Ettl, 69, portrait credited with machine to enlarge Sunday. don't care enough to come in on Page 1.) -Tribune photos. FATAL AIDS MOTHER Thomas Clark, 12, who accidentally shot and killed himself last night. OAKLAND MAN AND WIFE DIE ONLY FEW HOURS APART Harry Lucas, 51, 534 Merrimas Street, and his wife, Violet, 50, died within 12 hours of one another early today and last night.

Mrs. Lucas, who had been bed: ridden at her home for a month, was found dead last night by the apartment manager. Lucas died early today in the Alameda County Emergency Hospital. He was taken there early Sunday morning after he was found lying in the apartment driveway in the rain, clad only in an undershirt and a blanket. Dec.

John sculptor, who was inventing the first sculptures, died above water until Myres found him yesterday morning, 12 hours later. Myres needed help to get his steed back to terra firma, so he called for assistance. Neighbors from ranches, as well as a crew from J. Harry Rowell ranch, responded, and with pulleys and tackle hoisted Dobbin from his water hole. However, before all this was accomplished, Myres had to strip to the skin; and swim in the icy water to place ropes around the horse.

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