Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 9

OAKLAMU lKlbtyifc, lriUhQUAI. MAI lL. 1941 Mitsui Dead IJane Hoxie Dads Clubs to Family Dies in Fire 1 FREMONT. May A family of-five perished- in. a- fire that: swept their one-room home three miles Southwest of here at dawn today.

The. victims were Frank Townsen, 33; his wife Elsie, 30, and their three children'. Jay, .10, Janice, 5, and Frnk, 3. 4117 DEGREES TO GIVE U.C ITS1 BIGGEST COMMENCEMENT 1 .11941 Class Will Receive Sheepskins TOKYO, May 22. (JP) Benzo Mitsui, Japanese industrialist, died today at the age of 53.

He was a graduate of Birmingham University, England, and a director of Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, an investment company, and the Mitsui Min--: ing Company. Open Convention U.C. to Honor Five Saturday Mexican Statesman, Retired Navy Officer, 3 Scientists on List CONTROVERSIAL HOUSING PROJECT BIDS ANNOUNCED Contracts had been tentatively awarded today to firmstwo of them from Oakland for the construction at a cost 'of $1,175,525 of the Lockwood Gardens low-rent housing project in East Oakland, center of a bitter controversy for the past two morfths. Regatta Queen Three-Day Water Carnival in Alameda -Starring May 30 5 ALAMEDA, May 22. Jane Hoxie, 17,: of the Sah Francisco Presidio, California Council Parley to Begin Here Tomorrow At University Memorial Stadium Saturday BERKELEY.

May 22. A total of greeted at a reception at the home May 22. A Mexi THE ONLY SLEEPERS The 13th annual convention of the of President and Mrs. Robert Gor 4117 degrees and certificates will be can statesman and scholar, a California Council of Dads Clubs will begin here tomorrow with a don Sproul and tonight there- will be an informal dance in the men's was today- announced as the regatta queen of Alameda's three-day water tired Naval official and three awarded Saturday the Univer sity off California, "making it the in- business session and will end Satur to the EAST gymnasium. IMPRESSIVE CLOSE All bids have yet to be approved stitution's largest commencement in day night with a banquet at the carnival which will begin here May 30.

American scientists will receive honorary Doctor of Laws degrees at the University of California history Registrar. Thomas Steel an Hotel Claremont. Miss Hoxie, Alameda High School This year's "Glory Road" of Senior nounced today. student, will be attended by a court Week will come to an academic and commencement exercises Saturday, Earlier Steel had predicted that the fieure would be slightly lower than the; 4097 degrees and certifi Registration of delegates will take place at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow in the California Council office at 4336 Broadway.

Some 200 delegates are expected. Rex. R. Randall, council by the United States Housing Authority at Washington, D. C.

$963,000 LOW BID Low bidder for the general construction work covering everything except plumbing, heating and elec impressive end at 2:45 p.m. Saturday, when graduates and recip Dr. Robert Gordon Sproul, presi including- four ladies-inVwaiting, Betty Anderson, Jean Doyle, Carol Moss and Kay Ohanneson. Alameda dent, announced today. cates awarded last ients of higher degrees don caps and gowns to wend their way across the greensward of the Memorial A class of approximately 2500 secretary, will direct reelstratinn.

The honorary degrees will go to streets will he gaily decorated for the! event and Alamedans are urged senior students will receive sheep to wear nautical costumes, for thi trical installation, was the J. I. Barnes Construction Company of skins at the commencement. In ad. Stadium.

Prior to exercises an other Commencement Day tradi Dr. Alfonso Reyes, prominent Mexican art critic and poet, rector of the Collegio de Mexico, and for week preceding the regatta in order Later tomorrow the delegates will gather for a dinner in the Technical High School cafeteria. The dinner speaker will be Charles Craig, first president of the council," who will speak on "The Dads Clubs' Respon dition 566 higher degrees and 406 certificates, will be awarded, as well tion will be perpetuated in Faculty as a number or special degrees. mer ambassador to Brazil and Ar to publicize it Alameda west End will hold Its own bathing beauty contest duriny a street dance to be held on Saturday, May 31, to: select Glade as "old- grads" return lunch under sDearinE oaks. Res HIGHER DEGREES LISTED gentina and minister to France and CHICAGO ervations have been made for ap sibility.

The number of higher degrees Miss Alameda of 1941,. Spain. YARXELL HONORED proximately 1500 including follow: Following the dinner the business session will be called to order by Canoe races '-of1 boats of 134; M.S.. 179: M.A.. 236: graduating seniors and their parents, university officials Rear Adm.

Harry E. Yarnell Peter Feenan, president, who will U.S.N., retired, commander-in-chief doctor of education, electrical engineering, 1: mechanical engineer present Marshall Rutherford, past and friends of the State institution, Luncheon, starting at 11:30 a.m. all including the whaling boats of the United States Coast Guard and lighted boat parade, Saturday after the street dance, will be the climax the of the Asiatic Fleet from 1936 to 1939 nd a veteran of the Spanish- bachelor of laws (School of DETROIT New york washington Overnight sleeper and scenic daylight flights. will be presided over, by Charles Travel the cool, economical, interesting way this summer. 5flightsdailyoverthe shortest, fastest route to Chicago, Detroit, New' York, Wash-1 ington.

Call travel agents, hotels, or Jurifprudencev, 60, and M.D., 52. American war, tne in Stetson Wheeler San Francisco surrection.i the Boxer Campaign Santa Monica with a figure of $963,000. A bid of. $187,525 was submitted by J. A Fazio, 2059 Webster Street, Oakland, for installation of plumbing and heating equipment.

Low bid lor installing the electrical equipment was that of the Clifford Electric Company, 4010 Foothill with a 'figure of $45,000. BARNES FIRM WINS On an "all work complete" basis, the lowest bid was that of the Barnes Company, $1,198,000. By dividing the work up among the three firms, the Housing Authority will save $22,475, Warren Sisson, secretary, said. Members of the Havenscourt District Pride Club have been attempting to block construction of the project at East 14th Street and 60th Avenue. i Other degrees are: Bachelor of arts (College of Let attorney, who has been re-elected nd the occupation of Vera Cruz.

president of the alumni body. New ters and Science), 1920. Dr. Charles A. Palache, professor officers will be installed.

Bachelor of science: pharmacy, 24; of mineralogy at Harvard Univer- Sponsored by Alameda's three nautical the Aeolian Yacht, the Encinal Yacht and the Alameda Boating Clubs; the regatta has the suoport of the city and county of Alameda and local Chamber of Commerce. dentistry, 31; agriculture, 276; chem Luncheon speakers will Include istry, 8Q; commerce, 307; engineer president Rutherford will discuss "The Need for Organization." Officers of the California Council will be elected for the coming year and reports from executives will be heard. Among district presidents reporting be David Graves, Alameda; Percy Coward, Albany-Berkeley; Lionel Benas, Oakland; H. R. Wil-kerson, Contra Costa; Rudolph Rudd, Sacramento, and John H.

Wright, Southern Alameda County. At the banquet Saturday night in the Hotel Claremont the newly-elected officers will be Installed. President Sproul, Vice-President Deutsch, who will- introduce retir UNITED Mr Linos ing, mining, 58; school of nursing, ity, a graduate of the University of California and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science and of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences and a member of the Geo ing faculty members; Ralph T. A race for the annual Lieutenant LL.D., Hastings College of Law. Oakland 1940 Broadway, HI gate 6655 Barksdale troDhy by Aeolian Yacht 58; D.D.C, College of Dentistry, 270.

Fisher, banker and former president of the association, representing theclass of 1901, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary: Certificates: non-degree agricul Club members -will start the three-day festival at 1 p.m., May 30. Baseball gVnes, Department's May festival, yacht clubs a logical-Society of America. PLANT WRITER RECOGNIZED ture, 113; public health nursing, 53; nursing education. curriculum in nursing, curriculum in optometry, and four students, John McPherson and Betty -Barton, AS.U.C. presi Dr.

Willis L. Jepson, professor 40; pharmacy, social welfare, 69; emeritus of botany at the Univer dent and vice-president; and Rob- pageant, water ski and shell races by the University of California crew will be part of it. hospital dietetics, librarianship, sity of California, the author 56. erton Williams -and Louise Lindley, senior class president and GLORY ROAD' MARCH Tomorrow the members of the books on the plants of California and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Arts and other scientific organizations. He was graduated from the University of A.

S. Ridley On Civil Service Board graduation class will march along "Glory Road" as senior students Thieves Replace Good Whisky With Bad hold the traditional pilgrimage May 22. Albert E. California in 1889. through the campus.

Dr. Alfred Lee Loom is, director The sadness that comes to the Ridley of 532 Lincoln Avenue, Alameda, San Francisco banker, was named today a member of the Alameda Civil Service Board by Mayor small army of marchers tomorrow of the Loomis Laboratories Tux edo Park. N. rhysicist and chem will not be of parting from friends or loved ones but from a campus which has been "home" for four Henry A. Weichhart.

WILLOWS, May 22 (U.R Thieves who robbed the Superior Beverage Corporation plant here apparently had plebian tastes. They removed 16 cases of bonded whisky from a truck, reloaded' the truck with a cheaper grade of bar whisky and drove away. 1st and a trustee of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D. and the Massachusetts Institute of Ridley will fill the unexpired WITH DIAMONDS SHANE'S term of Howe who was appointed to the City Council this month. The Technology.

years. Beginning at 4:30 at Sather Gate, the traditional senior pilgrimage will wend its way to campus landmarks, ending at term will until June 30, 1945. Faculty Glade, where Robert Sib' ley, executive manager of the Exclusive with Shane U.C. Student Pleads Guilty to Burglary Alumni Association, will greet them as future members of the graduate body. Other stops will be made at BERKELEY, May 22.

Henry J. Penner, 20, freshman student and Wheeler Hall steps, Library steps, Engineering Court, Mining Circle, Campanile, Eshleman steps and Stephens Union. Speakers who will member of the freshman crew at the AOU can always depend upon Shane's for the unusual in diamond rings. Come" in today or tomorrow; and see the great variety of ring designs now available to you at modest prices and on terms of No Money Down and as little as 50c a Week. Take a year to pay.

University of California, today en voice words of farewell include. John McPherson and Betty Barton, retir tered a plea of guilty to one charge of burglary before Police Judge Oliver Youngs, and was certified to ing president and vice-president, respectively, of the Associated Students; Bob Williams and Louise Lindley, president and vice-president of the senior class; Jack Chapman, Hugh Koford, and Wrede NO MONEY DOWN cbajrman of Senior Superior Court for sentence; The youth, who- bad told police that he was driven to a crime career in vengeance for having had a pair of his own shoes stolen from a locker room at the university gymnasium, was represented Jby Attorney David Dunlap, himself a former California crew man, The proceedings were routine, with officers testifying as to the finding of a quantity -of lqpt stolen February 2 from a hardware store "1 Week committees; Sarita Hendersqn and Ed Tackle, former editors of Daily Californian; Joseph Ralston, former A.S-V-C, secretary, Ed Sauni ders, chairman of Athletic Council and Betty Berryhill, prominent in campus dramatics. at 2405 Telegraph Avenuei at Pen-ner's rooms, at 2318 Channing Way. Money, clothing and watches taken from lockers in the gymnasium, were also recovered. Penner is the son of a retired minister living at Elk Grove, Sacramento County.

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