Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 11

A OAKLAND'S ONLY LOCALLY OWNED, LOCALLY CONTROLLED Al LY NEWSPAPER THE TR IB 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 mimMvih mik wsxt IXCLUJIVE ASSOCIATED PRESS WIREPHOTO UNITED VOL CXXXVI- 11 WAR DOESN'T WAIT ON THE WEATHER, SO UNCLE FIGHT WINTER'S WORST 4 I PRESS 1942 TROOPS TO JS aw SATURDAY. MARCH 28, SAM TRAINS 1 5 i "0 x- -til i n'" iv i i A A llilillPllllilil 1 A MM Hi A i -As 5- pictures were taken. Motor OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, ice cavern carved In the slope.

"a- a(A' -V Sit." A-v V'p AA.A A A i i a 1 a v. AA'xAi them were expert skliers In civilian life and were placed In the ski corps at once. Others learned to use skis, snow One of the most Important training centers for American eoldiers is the one on the snowy slopes of Mount Rainier, in toboggan! (left), designed to carry men or equipment over the snow, are given a tryouL Center, a mountain trooper Notice his wide-hooded uniform. At right mountain troops, bending under 50-pound packs, strap their feet into their day's Winter drlllr Many of shoes and toboggans after Washington, where these i a ta o-. All AT, A I A- 1 tA lAA skis for the start of a typical a rehearses sniper duty from an A sj' A7- 'i ''ff 1 A' jv: Ax i A 1 rLA NO.

87 1 -r Joining the Army. CANNON SHELLS and types of fuel havt jet to'lM solved. Chandler aays the axptclcMnti Indicate the direction tan in the gun to that tht shell flight will take it to htk Present experiment art wMh J4t shell ranging from ona tfrt Inch caliber. Advantages thaa (uu tsetwda very light weight Soma aaostol could be carried as easily as a machine gun. There is no reeofl, ts the jet-shell starts slowly.

Con-Jtrary to an artillery fllt shell would? Teach its maximum velocity at or hear the end of Its flight. A Another Rocket Society engineer, Zbigniew Krzywoblocki, says that jet wings should increase the effectiveness of airplane bombs. Tha speed, and consequently the armor-penetration, of these bombs it now limited by the resistance of the air counterbalancing gravitation, Jet propulsion would drive tha falling bombs much faster. It. also would enable planes, aiming at large target areas, to launch their bombs at some distance, perhaps several miles away.

Sleeping Man Hurt, Burned in Home Blaze CONCORD, March 28. Clyde H. Lowry, 31, was cut about tha head and suffered severe burns yesterday when fire broke out in the house In which he was sleeping. Neighbors saw smoka rising from the house and ran to the scene. They found Lowry unconscious on tha floor, suffering from a gash on his -forehead and first and second degree burns on his hands, face and back.

Mount Diable Fire District firemen extinguished the blaze after it had done $1000 damage. Fire at (rvington Hits Power IRVINGTONj March 28. Fire of undetermined origin burned two riser cables and a pole atthe-P. G. E.

substation at Irvincton yesterday afternoon, damage bcirg estimated at about S1000. F.ff work of the local fire department was praised by company officials said the damage otherwise would have been considerably more. Power service In IrvirigSon, Springs and Mission San Jo interrupted briery. jt? i JAU'xJ; Increase SoughtJET One of the first things the mountain soldier must learn Is to sustain himself under sub-zero conditions. He Is taught to dig cavee in the snow, to cook, clean his gun and sleep comfortably In the Icy shelter, like the men at left.

Center, enowshoe troopers form sled teams to haul equipment through the mountains, combining speed with hard-striking effectiveness and surprise. At right, MaJ. Gen. Kenyan A. Joyce, 9th Army Corps commander, sits In the "tonneau" of a motor toboggan cm his chauffeur takes him over the snowy training area.

Troops like these would be used mJ fronts opened fax Russia, Norway or flier regions where the temperature Is freeing. AJ. photos. -PROPELLED SKI TROOP COMBAT FORGE IS TRAINED IN MOUNTAIN SNOW SAN JOSE AUTO VICTIM DIES; WOMAN DRIVER IS NOT HELD BEING TESTED BY ENGINEERS AT-' 'A' In creating the new combat force, officials had to pioneer the way- experimenting with many types of untried equipment to make the mountain troopers an Independent factor even if he becomes separated from his organization during a blizzard. The manual of arms wag revised to include handling of skis and poles.

New commands were created and new methods of combat were studied to be used with the new equipment. For the fast movement of troops and supplies over the snow, the Army has a motor toboggan a sled win an endless tread running at high speed. Powered by a two-cylinder motor, the toboggan rears over the surface of the snow at a fast clip. During a preliminary course, the mountain trooper is taught to ski alone and in formation with a. load on his back including a 50-pound pack, high-powered rifle and other equipment.

He carries his own tent, food for several days, and a small gas cook stove. He also has with him a change of clothing and plenty or ammunition. Cause of 12-Car Train Wreck Probed Ir.vestigation Into the cause of derailment of a helper engine and 12 freight cars on the Santa Margarita grade Thursday night continued today as Southern Pacific coastal line service between San Francisco and Los Angeles was restored to normal following 20 hours disruption. The wreckage was cleared shortly before dark last night. Trains had been re-routed through the San Joaquin Valley and were hours late.

Although the probe has not been completed, company officials expressed belief the mishap was due to mechanical failure. Three members of the crew were injured, two of them hospitalized. Prisoner Pleads Guilty of Escaping SAN JOSE, March 28. Walter Radigan, 50, pleaded guilty before Superior Judge R. R.

Syer yesterday to charges of escaping from the county jail industrial farm while serving term for Radi-gah'i probation application waj conL tlnued for ene week. at a by Boys Hold Up 2 Liquor Stores Oakland police today sought a pair of youthful bandits, one Negro and one white, who held up two liquor stores last night, slugged the proprietor In each case and escaped with more than $20 In loot. The pslr appeared first at a store at 1204 Fruitvale Avenue at 9:45 p.m. The Negro boy walked In and asked William Jordan, 47, the owner, for a bottle of gin. Jordan questioned the youth's age.

As the boy fumbled in his pockets for identification papers, his companion slipped behind Jordan and slugged him over the head with a gun. Then he smashed a bottle over Jordan's head, knocking him un conscious. When the man revived, the pair had gone, taking $16.40 from the cash register. Jordan telephoned police and went to Highland Hos pital with multiple scalp lacerations. Two hours later the youths ap peared at a liquor store at 5760 Ade line Street.

The young Negro asked for a bottle of whisky. When Andrew Galli, 48, the proprietor, asked his age. the boy poked a gun in his ribs. The second youth then walked up and hit Galli with a whisky bottle. The pair took $5 from his wallet and fled.

Galli was treated at Berkeley Hospital. At the same time Fred W. Cook, proprietor of the Serenader tavern 504 Lake Park Avenue, reported that someone had broken into his place during the day and stolen $175 in cash and a $20 check. burglar removed the glass pane from the front door and then took storeroom door off the hinges to get at the cash box. TIRES AND TUBES ALLOTTED' BY BOARD SAN LEANDRO, March 28.

Pur chase orders granted this week by the San Leandro. Tire Rationing Board were announced today as follows: Passenger tires Dr. Elbert W. Ashland, one; Dr. John M.

Simp- kins, two, and Rev. Henry M. Shires, one. Truck tires and tubes Manuel A. Lopes, one; General Concrete Com pany, four; D.

B. Vierra, seven, and Bay City Creamery, two tirei, and one tube. Nine applications were turned down and three were held over for further consideration, pending completion. The latter, were submitted George Walter Poole and M. P.

Treeman. i In Wharf Rates Plans art under way by tht California Association of Port Authorities to raise the present basa wharfage rates and to cut down the free storage time on docks In order to offset soma of the grave rerenu deficiencies under which tht California marina terminal industry Is now suffering. According to the notice of In tention sent out by M. D. McCarl, of the Port of Oakland and secretary Association, -the- proposed change In coastwise wharfage rate will advance from 15 cents a ton to 25 cents, and for offshore from 25 cents to 40 cents a ton.

At the present time 10 days free time is allowed at the member ter minals. In coastwise shipments this will be cut to five days in and out. On intercoastal shipments the change will be made1 to five days on inbound cargo and 10 days on that bound out. On foreign and offshore shipments the free time will give seven days on inbound and 10 days on outward bound shipments. The proposed demurrage and storage rates and rules are designed to restrict the storage on the terminals to, the most vital materials and supplies, as space may be available, during the war emergency.

The application to make, the proposed changes is now in the hands of the California Railroad Commission. MUNITIONS BOARD NAMED FOR WEST Formation of an and Navy munitions board regional office to break priorities bottlenecks in vital West Coast war industries was announced yesterday by war production board officials. The office In San Francisco will be headed by Major Joseph C. Wilson, who served with the H.A.F. in the first World War, and Lieut Commander Emory B.

Bronte, who made 'the first civilian flight to Hawaii with Ernie Smith In 1927. This sub-office of Army and Navy munitions board will be a co-ordinating agency for all military and naval procurement. Tbe office will have' the, right to change existing priority rations to break bottlenecks and establish "priorities for the Hawaiian department Final decision on military priorities rests with the Santa Clara Avenue, and Tommy Carabello, 23, of 358 Filbert Street, collided at Ninth Avenue and East Fourteenth Street. Riding with them were Fred Browning, 50, of 1412 Ninth Avenue; his wife, Mildred, 44, and Ernest Calarson, 19, of 277 Harrison Street. None was Injured seriously.

Driver Unhurt as Train Hits, Demolishes Truck SALINAS, March K. Coleman, 32, of Salinas, considered himself a lucky fellow toTiy." When his truck, was struck anrTTlcmoI-ished by a Southern Pacific freight engine at Alisal Street "crossing, Coleman suffered only minor bruises. Palo Altoan Killed in Auto-Truck Collision Theodore Wiesick. 28, of Palo Alto, was killed last night when the light car he was driving collided with a truck on the Bayshore Highway near Brisbane. John Lamb, 47, of Venice, driver of the truck, escaped with cuts and bruises.

Ex-Convict Nabbed In Car Theft Case BERKELEY, March rented car that David R. Ponton, 47, Folsom ex-convict, "forgot" to re turn to San Francisco a year ago landed him in jailnere yesterday, police reported. Fred G. Armstrong, who operates a car rental agency at 1037 Geary Street, San Francisco, happened to be in Berkeley yesterday and happened to see his missing auto parked at Channing Way and Milvia Street. He called police iand Patrolman D.

C. Bull took up watch by the When Ponton returned to It' he was put under arrest. Police, said that he Is wanted up and down the, Pacific Coast for pass ing bad checks. Wins Research Grant BERKELEY, March 28. A $500 research grant to continue a study of the primary centers of lobular development, growth and calcification of the tooth hBs been awarded Dr.

James Nuckolls of the University ef California College of Dentistry by tha American College MOUNT RAINIKH NATIONAL PARK, March 28. F) A mountain combat force of Winter-hardened soldiers has been in extensive training fot many weeks in the slopes of Mount Rainier, the Army announced today. These mountain troops were chosen from the best available gkiers In the Nation, both professional and amateur, besides many veteran mountaineers, forest rangers and cavalrymen. The troops, dressed in white parkas, which cause them to blend into the whiteness of thesn'AV, work out in 6W)()-fooT high sn ow fields. Paradise Lodge, the Summer home lor many inousanrts 01 tourists in the past, has been taken over by the Army' and is now being used for the housing and feeding of the specialized troops.

The men are all volunteers. The newly-created combat force would not only be used for fighting in the snow; as mountain troops, they will put away their skis when the snow melts and concentrate on mountain climbing and moving pack artillery through mountain re-! gions. I Symphony Concert Tomorrow at U.C. BERKKLEY, March con eluding event of Charter Week, the University of California Symphony Orchestra will present a concert at 3:15 p.m. tomorrow in the Men's Gymnasium, with Prof.

Albert Elkus, head of the music department as conductor. Soloist will be Walter Tullis, senior student, who will appear in Chopin's Concerto for Piano-and Orchestra, minor, Op. 11. First part of the program will.be devoted to "Fingal's Cave Overture, 26" (Felix Mendelssohn-Bar-tholdy); and Haydn's Symphony In Flat or the "Drum Roll Symphony," with the following movements: adagio-allegro con spirito; andante, Menuetto and allegro con spirito. The concert is announced by uni versity authorities as open to the public without admission fees.

To Sponsor Dance LAFAYETTE, March 27. will sponsor another old-fashioned dance in the school tomorrow night with Mr. and Mrs. William Rhoadei' of 1 while? la eharce. NEW YORK, March 28.

Science has fashioned its first cannon of tht future, to shoot ahalis which fly by their twn power wrth jet This first weapon la small, a Bght metal tube three Inches In (Hamattor, four feet long. The shells are six Inches long, a Mttle mora than two Inches thick. It Is entirely experimental, but Is a start on a principle recognized as sound by aviation engineers. The gun was designed by Edward F. Chandler, New York engineer, and is described irr'Atronairtlclfc5'oitfnaT of the American Rocket Society.

The purpose is to experiment with jets, of burning powder, gasoline, liquid oxygen and other power sources, to drive the shell. Jets which drive an 18-foot long pro jectile seven miles have been de veloped by Dr. Robert Goddard in LNew Mexico. Lesser jets have been tested in the Rocket Society. None of these were militnry.

The new experiment seeks to adapt the information of explosive shells. Power and distance already are available. But problems of accuracy in flight, cheapness of construction, Identification Tags Urged for Everyone SACRAMENTO. March 28. to Identification tags for the entire civilian population of California are under consideration by the State Department of Education, Walter E.

Morgan, assistant State superintendent of public Instruction, said today. In event of air raids or other war developments which might cause civilian casualties, the identity of victims could be established rapidly if each wore a tag, Morgan said. Survey of the plan's workability has been requested by the Tate Council of Defense, Morgan said. Recommendations will be made to Archibald B. Young, chairman of the Council's Committee on Health, Welfare and Consumer Interest Held on Draft Charge Oril B.

Fuller, 33. a butcher living at 1520 Central Avenue, Alameda, was held lor tne ederal urana Judy in San Francisco yesterday on charges of violating the Selective Service Act. FBI agents who arrested him a week ago said that he falsely to be living with and supporting his wife. He waived a hearing when he' appeared' before U. S.

Commissions Francis St J. Tea. SAN JOSE, March 28. Cusschia Santana, 55, local laborer, died In the County Hospital yesterday from injuries received when he was struck by an automobile driven by Mrs. Willette Rodriguez, 30, of 630 North Fourth Street, at Santa Clara and Montgomery Streets.

The woman was not held by Invest! gating Patrolman Barton Collins and Deputy Coroner Harry Ryder. Santana leaves a son, Joseph Santana, and a daughter, Mrs. Torres. He was a widower. His home was at 360 Lenzen Avenue Mri-(orma Conant, 35, of 122 South Twelfth Street, received seri ous chest injuries when her car and that driven by Dr.

L. L. Truscott, 75 South Fifteenth Street, collided at 12th and San Fernando Boy Hit, Hurt" Alighting From Vallejo School Bus VALLEJO, March 28. John Buchanan, 10, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Barney Buchanan, who reside at a Carquinez auto court, suffered head injuries when struck by an automobile yesterday as he alighted from a school bus. His condition is not serious, hospital attendants reported. Edward Hardesty, traffic officers reported, passed on the right-hapd side of the bus. This was the fifth similar accident in Vallejo in a week, one of which resulted in the death of William Harrison, 12. Woman Pedestrian Critically Injured BERKELEY, March 28.

Miss Jenny L. Gallagher, 68, of 1933 Milvia Street, a pedestrian, is in critical condition at Berkeley Hospital, following an accident last night at Addison Street and Roosevelt Ave nue; Miss Gallagher was struck by an auto driven by John E. Hama, 21, of 1101 Stannage Avenue, Albany. She received right leg injuries In eluding fractures of tht ankle, knee and leg. Hamala told police he was watch ing a group of pedestrians crossing the street from the side, opposite Miss Gallagher and did not see her in time to stop.

5 Suffer Minor Hurts In Two-Car Collision A Five persons suffered minor In juries' last rlighfwhen cart' driven bjr Elden Trevethlck, 23, of 148 rational office. ol uentMU..