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THE TRIBUNE If your Tribune does not arrive, phone TE mplebar 6000 before 7:00 p.m. (Sunday, 11:30 a.m.) Paper will be sent at once. DELIVERY SERVICE IS GUARANTEED EXCLUSIVE PRESS WIKEPHOTOV. UNITED PRESj: vol; cxxxvi- oakland, California; Saturday, april 25, 1942 11 NO. 115 SHE IS AN ALL-AMERICAN GIRL Gen.

MArthur YOUNGSTER SEES HIS IDEA CARRIED OUT 350 Factory Heads Enroll For School Plant Protection Will Be Explained Under Defense Auspices loAnzacDead United Nations Chief Joins in Memorial Rites at Melbourne OAKLAN D'S ONLY LOCALLY OWNED, LOCALLY CONTROLLED A I LY NEWSPAPER Pays Tribute More than 350 Metropolitan Oak MELBOURNE. April 25. OF) Gen. Douglas MacArthur today led land Industrial executives and plant managers ere expected to attend the two-day factory protection a procession of Allied officers to this city's Shrine of Remembrance In a ceremony marking the first school to be held next week at the American participation In Anzac University of California. So enthusiastic has been the re sponse of reservations, in fact, Wlllard B.

Merrianv chief co-ordi- nator of Industrial resources and production for the State Council of Defense, said that another school probably will be held here later. The sessions next week, to be held Thursday and Friday, will be in the chemistry auditorium on the Berke ley eompus. Day, Australia's Memorial Day. Several thousand watched the ceremonial In silence as the general and his staff stood with bowed heads In silent homage. General MacArthur had made no such public appearance before since his arrival In Australia March 21.

The customary parade of the Anzac veterans who stormed Galli-poli 27 years ago was missing and, because of a wartime ban on large open air gatherings, the usual "children's mass meeting at the shrine was replaced yesterday by a Nationwide broadcast which was concluded with the Star Spangled banner and the Australian anthem. of the Australian imperial force of the last war and this war, however, combined, ranks before daylight for. the traditional dawn pilgrimage to the rock and the huge monument In which it reposes. The crowd watched intently, but scarcely stirred as General Mac-Arthur, his stars and medals glitter Merriam made his estimate of the 'm. probable attendance on the basis of reservations received just -two days after the program was announced officially.

TO TEACH NEEDS Organized to inform all industrial ists from San Leandro to Vallejo and Benicia as to all of the newest developments in factory protection, the school is receiving unlimited cooperation from all chambers of Norma Angell, elected Technical High School's All-American girl during a school-wide contest, ruled over the student dance last night in the girl's gymnasium. During a coronation ceremony she was presented with her crown by Elwood Hess, school student body while- Captain Raymond Nutter (left) and Captain Martin Nichols, both of the school R.O.T.C., stood at attention with drawn swords. Tribune photo. commerce and manufacturing asso ciations in area, Merriam said. ing in the sun, strode solemnly up the stairs and saluted as his aide, Col Le Grande Diller, laid a wreath He also thanked Ralph E.

Hoyt and the Alameda County Council of Defense for its help. on the flower-decked rock. Warning that reservations will be Without a speech or fanfare, Mac- Arthur stood within a semi-circle booked in the order received, Merriam urged that industrialists reply to the invitation as soon as possible. Should there be an overflow, he of his aides American, Australian CYCLIST CRASHES IN POLICE. CHASE; OFFICERS FIRE SHOTS and Dutchand bowed with bared head for prayer.

His visit was so said, efforts will be made to hold another school in this area later. simple and sincere that many women wept. Wafer Defense Chief Is Named Longwell to Direct Preparations for Protection of Supply However, quite period of time A card with his wreath was in scribed: 'To Anzac forces from Herman S. Turner. 27.

was lucky ger was riding tandem with him. their American comrades-in-arms Perhapi the proudest boy In town today la Franldyn Delano Winston, 814, shown hen with his mother, Mrs. Lew Winston, looking over the sign proclaiming fhat Mosswood Park now Is MacArthur Park. It was renamed after young Franklyn's suggestion. Tribune photo.

would elapse before this would be possible, Merriam pointed out because scores of inquiries are being received from Southern California industrialists as to when schools will be held there. The officers gave chase and sounded their siren, but Turner only of yesterday, today and tomorrow." His 'was the first or a series oi all the way around last night when he led police a 70-mlle-an-hour chase on his motorcycle, dodged three shots fired at him and finally skidded and upset on the Fruitvale Bridge. increased his speed. At the arnl such pilgrimages by which Australia observed its somber day of remembrance in circumstances val grounds, at Derby and Elmwood EXPERTS TO SPEAK Outstanding exeerta en th va. He escaped with mere cuts and graver than this dominion ever has Avenues, lje slowed momentarily and the passenger jumped off and fled on foot Williams fired the three shots at Turner, missed bruises and was.

cited only for known. J. S. Longwell, chief engineer and general manager of the East Bay Municipal Utility District, has been named zone conference leader IT'S NOW MacARTHUR PARK; BOY'S SUGGESTION ADOPTED speeding, reckless driving and fail rious departments of plant protection will conduct the lectures here. Dr.

Benjamin W. Black, Alameda County medical director, will talk on medical services. United Nations' Power them all. ing to heed a siren. He was released from custody after treatment Turner was outdistancing the to direct preparations for protection of the water supply system of five Sproul Sees College Change Three-Year Course Likely to Survive" Says Attlee at Highland Hospital.

police car when the motorcycle hit Prof. Richard T. Le 'Mere, of Patrolmen A. Williams and A. the car tracks on the bridge and Clement Bay counties.

Preliminary action was taken LONDON, April Went out of control, throwing him to R. Attlee, secretary of State for Stanford University, will' discuss panic prevention. H. C. Van Pelt W.

Hansen ware cruising in a radio car at 29th Avenue and East 12th An Oakland schoolboy's sugges yesterday at a conference here of the pavement. tion to the "Dear City Hall Council- dominions, declared today the United Nations are Just beginning assistant special agent of the Fed renamed MacArthur Boulevard. And Franklyn, who is 8V6, was on hand with his mother, Mrs. Lew Winston, of 4964 Desmond Avenue, Turner lives at 066 Sycamore managers of all water works In Alameda, Contra Costa, San Fran Street when Turner roared past them on the motorcycle. A passen men became an accomplished fact eral Bureau of Investigation, will Street.

yesterday as Mosswood Park offi to gather the power which will prove that Japanese losses to date outline steps to be taken against sabotage. i when the new signs were hung over War, Says U.C. Head have been only a taste of what is the park gates. Safety Council Asks There also will be sound motion to come, i cially was changed to MacArthur Park. The boy Franklyn Delano Winston, his own name a combination of those two great men, suggested The youngster' embodied his suggestion to the city council in a letter pictures showing the stages of com In an Anzac Day broadcast to Hotel Night Clerk Beaten Unconscious Police today probed an attack on Conserving of Autos Streamlined three-year college courses and other speeded up fea plete piant aeiense.

addressed "Dear City Hall Council Australia, Attlee pledged that Britain and the United State! were The California Safety, Council to tures, adopted by institutions of men." the change after Moss Aveitue was cisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties designated as Zone No. 2 by the State Council of Defense. A complete plan will be worked out, he said, whereby mutual as-, sistance can be rendered in case of sabotage, bombing or other contingency which might put any system out of service or place It In a position to require aid from others. Under the program, each community cares for its problems to the limit of its ability, with the knowledge that there is always nearby standing aolidly with the island day adopted a resolution urging the William Custer, .84, night clerk at Mail Box Theft higher learning because of the war, probably will remain in effect after the war is over, in the opinion of Dr. Robert Gordon Sproul, presi the Bay 490 10th Street, who dominions of Australia ana xsew Zealand.

He said help would flow China Ship Strikers conservation of automotive equipment and the staggering of working hours. more and more and, with unified was slugged and left unconscious on the floor of a room of the hotel early today by a sailor and a civilian. Suspect Is Held strategy, would turn the tables on the Axis. dent of the University of California. Addressing the Commonwealth The program which the council Held in Internment Fair Backers fo Get Most of Money The Golden Gate International Exposition in 1939-40 had a net deficit of $9,106,489.10, but It was "definitely highly successful" be recommended for approval by civic, industrial and commercial groups A preliminary checkup after Lloyd B.

Cathcart, 49, of J434 CHUNGKING. April 25. UP) a large pool of materials, supplies and equipment upon which to draw Custer regained consciousness indi Club of California yesterday, Dr. Sproul expressed belief that postwar reconstruction needs will not allow for relaxation of educational routines because specialists will Eleven Chinese seamen were held The official Central Daily News declared today that a unified Allied In an internment camp in the Bay In emergency. cated that nothing had been stolen.

Custer was treated at Alameda San Pablo Avenue, a bookkeeper, face Federal prosecution today for assertedly pilfering mailboxes along Grand and Statin Annna inciuaea observance of the maximum "wartime speed limit of 40 miles per hour, sharing of car use with friends, neighbors and fellow employees, and staggering of business strategy was' a growing Imperative necessity and proposed the estab area, today because tney strucK their ship and refused to sail unless have to be turned out in less time than in the past. given higher pay. lishment of one council with power to determine strategy in all war County Emergency Hospital for multiple scalp lacerations and later released. He resides at 4043 Deakin Street, Berkeley. hours to relieve overloads on avail-1 cause it left an $8,000,000 landmark Treasure Island, Manager H.

C. Bottorff said in his closing The Chinese wanted war bonuses theaters. able mass transportation facilities, comparable with those given Amer. and Hit-Run. Driving Is Charged RICHMOND.

April 25. Frank Recitative methods now employed, Dr. Sproul believes, may give way to faster methods of learning, and long vacations which flow the educational process may be a thing of financial report today. Botorff said that businessmen who lean seamen. I.

F. Nixon, director of lmmlfra tion In San Francisco aald the for SHE TOOK HIS LEG, BUT SAVED HIS LIFE had enough confidence to let their the past. elgn ship sailed without the Chinese Wagner, 24, of Hodeq, faces drunk Cathcart was srrested yesterday by Police Lieutenant George Lalle-ment st 445 Staten Avenue. Lalle-ment said he caught Cathcart in the act of removing letter from the box, When arrested, police said, Cathcart was carrying en unopened letter belonging to Mrs. Lee Combs, of 120 Grand Avenue.

Residents of the area notified police when they noticed a man opening neighborhood mall and that they would be held in in Investment from 1939 remain in the 1940 fair would receive 83 to 83 per cent of what they had invested. The original estimate was for ternment until they decided to sign hit-and-run driving and Resisting an officer charges today after his aboard another ship. Alien Ends Life in Three-Story Leap about 20 per cent to be paid. Wlxon disclosed that 23 Lascars, arrest by Officer Edward Logan. Wagner assertedly drove his auto "Already, we've paid out East Indian natives, spent week 050.42," Bottorff said, "and another mobile on to the sidewalk near 23rd Street and Grand Avenue here early in the internment camp before con dividend, will be paid shortly, with sen ting to saiL They, too, were today, striking Robert Satrom, 27, of a final one by-May 15." dissatisfied with-their, pay.

police said, because of his impending evacuation as an enemy alien, Carlo Fagnacucci, 45, of 402 Broadway, San Francisco, leaped three floors to his death early today. He was dead on arrival at zuui oaynor Avenue, a pedestrian, Satrom. was knocked down but not rire uamages amp Injured. He remembered Wagner'i U.C. Assistant Wins Gate Bridge Told license number and called police Officer Logan stopped Wagner's At Bethlehem Yard San Francisco's Harbor Emergency Chile Fellowship Receipts Go Down' machine an hour later at 38th Street ALAMEDA, April 23.

Fire of un- Hospital. He had been drinking, officers said. He was a warehouseman. i BERKELEY, April 25. Louis Golden Gate bridge revenues and Macdonald Avenue.

Wagner, according to Logan's re dropped IS per cent for the first determined origin today damaged the bow section of the steam schooner Wellesley, which is being Cushman De Armond, teaching as sistant at the University of Call- 22 day of April, compared with port, objected to arrest, and had to be He was the worse for the same period last year, and traf PLANE VICTIM fornia, has been awarded a travel scrapped at the Bethlehem Shipyard here. wear because of his action. fic probably will be curtailed even more sharply, Auditor Roy S. West fellowship to study at the University i A'f (( IV i fv'''V; I pit' ll-iffS Illy lf -Mi ft I i The flames were extinguished by of Chile in Santiago, reported loaay. west informed the bridge direc Funeral to Be Held For Vallejo Suicide De Armond is one of six United the Alameda Fire Department Coast Guard boats towed a barge away from the dock area to prevent the fire from spreading.

States college students selected for tors that receipts in April so far totaled $112,372, a slump of $20,050 from the $132,622 collected during fellowships by the Institute of In VALLEJO, April 25. Funeral ervices are pending for Eric Lewis No damage estimate was given. the same period in 1941. ternational Education in New York. Anderson, 44, who killed himself in but yard officials said the 125-foot ship was of no value except for its scrap metal content.

No damage He will study Chile's colonial his nis parked automobile yesterday 40-Fr. Fall Fatal tory. despondency over marital diffi culties was believed responsible. was done to the yard. dock.

RICHMOND, April 25. A 40-foot fall from a piledriver last night Yuba City Man Dies PILOT SON KILLED, VALLEJO. April 25. Richard claimed the life Of Gus Poulson, 30, of 144 Parnassus Street, San Francisco, a loftsman at Richmond Shipyard No. 2.

James Sutton, 69, of Yuba City, died suddenly in his automobile on U.S. Highway 40 near Vallejo late yes PROF. HARRIS GETS Poulson was declared dead upon WAR EMPLOYMENT IN STATE RISES ALMOST 300 PCT. terday afternoon, apparently as the arrival at Richmond Hospital. He is survived by hig widow.

result of a heart attack. Girl. Surgeon Leg California war employment has leaped item 150,000 workers to 425, OOO and might be doubled within CALL FROM ARMY April 25. Less than 24 hourS after he was informed that his only son, a Navy aviator, had been killed in a flying accident. Prof.

Joseph T. Harris, 46, of the University of California faculty, was himself called to active duty as a lieutenant colonel in the Army. Professor Harris and his wife will leave next week for where 18, months or less, the State Chamber of Commerce was told yes- Of Trapped Man Under Engine leraay. Stuart CMelveny. Los Angeles, RICHMOND, April 25.

m- enairman oi tp? chamber State, wide social security committee, re- big wheel was squarely across his mangled leg. There -was only, one way to free The saga of an attractive girl in terne who crawled beneath a loco will take over special assign him amputation and there was ported to the board of -directors and commented that the need or total mobilization, of American manpower and woman power was well only one way 'o get at it from un derneath the motive, held flashlight in her teeth and amputated the leg of a railway workman with a borrowed pocket knife, was disclosed here today. Shivering as we night wind cut established. He added that "the case of total conscription of workers has not yet through her white -uniform, Miss Diez-Rivas crawled under. Lying fiat on the gravel, grease and ashes, the story Was Marina Dier-RiVas, slender, young brunette from' Puerto Rico, who has been" On ment His son.

Ensign Wlllard 'E. Harris, 22, was killed late Wednesday while on a routine training flight frnm the Norfolk, naval air station. No other detail than that the plane was lost at sea was given. Harris Sr. was a flier In the ir-1 World War and was commissioned, like his son, at the ase of 21.

"ri new assignment is with the infanh v. He has been a professor of pub! administration in the defartr-" she 'went to work by the dim rays been made. The directors voted to urge all governmental agencies concerned to fftvfk full rnnsHripratinrt in (ha io- Ensign WiUord E. Harris, son of Prof, and Mrs. Joseph T.

Harris of Berke- ley, died In plane crash at sea while on routine training flight out ef Norfolk, Va. quirements of California agriculj thejught ambulance-riding assignment at the Medical College of Virginia Hospital. A call came from the railroad yards. Trapped beneath a locomo of her flashlight with a small hospital scalpel. Heavy muscle-.

and the cramped quarters presented problem. The scalpel wasn't enough, In desperation she borrowed a big pocket knife and finished the Job. The patient is recovering. Miss Marina Oiei-Rivas, young girl interne from Puerto Rico, comforts Bernard Colgin In a Richmond, hospital after amputating his leg with a pocket knife. She crawled under a locomotive to perform the operation when a wheel pinned Colgin AJ.

Wlrephoto. ture, facing a labor shortage, with i the chamber assisting in making ttudies as to the labor needs- and tee available sources of supply. tive, groaning and half -delirious with pain -was yard employee. A political science.

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