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THE TRIBU If your Tribune does not arrive, phone TE mpjebar 6000 before 7:00 p.m. (Sunday, 11:30 a.m.) Paper will be tent at once. DELIVERY SERVICE Daily Knave Gossip and Comment Tribune's Daily Column of Sidelights On the News EXCLUSIVE ASSOCIATED PRESS WIKEPHOTO WIDE UNITED PRESS VOL CXXXV1 OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, MAY 15. 1942 33 NO. 135 1 SERPHY SAM REMEMBERS WAR PLANES GET THAT FEMININE TOUCH From the Farallone Islands, sugar loaf hill-top that floats In the Golden Gate, has come a cry more Gas Center Denied Till 'After War Hoyr Calls Attention OfWPB Head to Fact It Will Be Unnecessary Women Now In War Plant At Emeryville New Workers Prove Effective Making Parrs for Planes poignant than the wailing of gulls.

It is a cry for sugar from the forgotten colony of lonely souls on the Pacific's mud-spot It seems that everybody forgot r-Trr mvr TrriTffnwmriTrrcTn ih inn mm MipmiuiiM ill -T11 about the folks that live on the Farallones when the sugar ration books were passed out and they were left without sweetnin'. Hence Cto the poignant cry which has raised a problem for the price adminis. trator. He it is who must supply the ration board San Francisco 1118:81 Men sed to turn out egg beaters and pepper mills atthe Van Woert with data on the island residents before sugar books can be issued. Manufacturing plant in Emeryville.

And then the U.S. Coast Guard will have to take in the job of get That was six months ago. Today women have taken over ting books and sugar to the island residents. And ill bad weather, a breeches buoy has to be used to swing stuff ashore. However, it is a grand place to live no dirt, no the place to do the finishing on thousands of parts for planes used in this war, while the men fight the Allied cause on fa-flung battle fronts, in shipyards and munitions factories.

In uniforms to serve Uncle Scon as defense industry workers are girls and women of the Eastbay area. Efficient workers, they have taken over machinists Jobs to replace men on the battlefronL Trimming warplane parts are (left to right) Helen Walters and Lorraine Algrava. of Oakland; Olga Moresl Emeryville, and Lorraine RIzxo, Oakland.1 They are doing their work well, and efficiency. After solemn three-month deliberation wound up in bureaucratic red tape, the War Production Board at Washington, D.C., has denied priorities for Alameda County's badly needed gas decontamination. training center and blandly suggests that "this project be deferred until after the emergency Observers assumed that World War II is the "emergency" the WPB referred to.

District Attorney Ralph E. Hoyt, chairman of the County Council of Defense, dispatched letters to Reps. Albert E. Carter and John H. Tolan, asking that red tape be slashed.

To Maury Maverick, old friend of President Roosevelt, one-time Texas congressman and chief of the WPB's Bureau of Government Requirements, Hoyt wrote in part: WHAT NEED THEN? "It is possible that this application did not come to your personal attention. In a letter received from your office and dated March 27, it it The opinion of one man may not be conclusive, but the "boss," G. A. Tett, part owner and manager of the plant, is certain of his ground Serphy Sam Terry, former whisky runner and bootleg Icing of the Bay area, has returned to old haunts in Oakland but not for business. He only remembers, and tells, of old comrades' and prohibition escapades.

Tribune photo. smoke, no telephones, no bill collectors and no billboards. And just at the moment no sugar. N. Y.

Double-Talk Policeman Mahoney looked up from the report he was reading in the New York precinct station and his eyes were worried. "What's an israj?" he asked Policeman Oblowski. "I wouldn't be knowing," said Policeman Oblowski. "Does it have to be a three-letter word?" "I'm not doin' a cross-word," said Policeman Mahoney. "I'm readin' from the report.

It says here a when he says: "They really do a better job than men. They are less trouble, they are more adapted to the repetitive nature of this work. THEY'RE ALL GOOD "Naturally they tire, but the NOW HE'LL PROBABLY Nt-VER -i women don't become as dissatis guy has lost one and to be on the V- lookout for same. GET THAT TRIP AROUND WORLD "One what?" asked Policeman suggested 'that this project be deferred until after the Qblowski, unbuttoning his vest "'I told you. An israj." fied as young men.

They're all good." Eight hours a day, five days a week the feminine crew ply a trade they enjoy at drill presses, trimming machines, reamers, and counter borers. Never losing sight of their femininity, but practical minded, they have adopted a blue denim coverall uniform' with bright red piping for trimming, protecting the utility "An israj? Oh ho. And what "Manifestly, after the emergency the need for this project wilt have 'I Accommodated Everybody Says Former King of Rum Runners, Sick in Oakland disappeared. "Your letter refers to the project and Terry escaped conviction of a garb from aluminum filings and oil murder charge. "I accommodated everybody." Serphy Sam Terry, king of rumrunners, bootlegger par excellence and the bane of prohibition enforce with heavy denim aprons.

The scene is a busy one. At as a 'poison gas decontamination I desire to make it clearr that the proposed building is de-' signed as a center for the training of personnel in the proper methods of decontamination and for the treatment of gas casualties in the "I only had to tell the jury the kind of an israj? Is it tall or short, I'm asking." "It don't say." "So," said Policeman Oblowski. "It is telling us n-yuthing. So we are expected to find it? Ha! Where are we getting, by vodka?" "This here israj belongs to a guy named Wasantha Wana Singh," said Policeman Mahoney, reading further. "Oh, ho!" said Policeman Oblowski.

"A guy is name Wana Singh eh? Then an israj is a banjo long table the majority of the crew truth in that case," Terry said. of 25 sit an day long filing off rough edges of the plane parts, Others stand on their feet hour on event of enemy attacks on this area ment officers up and down the Pacific Coast, today revealed the secret of his meteoric career in the hectic Nineteen Twenties thought I was going to be hi-jacked by this guy who came towatd me when I got out of my car. I had been hi-jacked before, so I shot hour at the drill presses. "Competent and responsible physi The girls and women are not the kind romance has ignored. Half I was bootlegginggn a small way lilji: 1 A il.

first. cians and members of the College of Chemistry of the University of California advise us that the build yes. And the guy is a Hindu yes, before prohibition, and I hit the durin the riavs of the noble ev7fvVORKED ON RAILROAD Because when a Hindu she wants to of them are wives and most of the others are engaged, many to youths in the Army and the Navy. They sing, she plays on a banjo yes. periment but now t- J' "i KMhimmJmmmt, i .111 n.n ml 1 1 I I ve seen em.

range in age from 18 to 45. Serphy Sam spoke his piece today from a sick bed in a North Oakland Serphy Sam's career started, he related, when he was still working for the Southern Pacific Railroad as a brakeman and switchman in the ing Is absolutely necessary for the adequate training of decontamination personnel and the proper treatment of gas casualties. INVOLVES USE OF GAS "Ha," said Policernan Mahoney FOR THE FIRST TIME wnn crime nere and there 'tis Except as a housewife, Mrs, banjo we waste our time on. Well nursing home. He is near the old haunts.

His former warehouse and center of rum running activities is Glenn Stout of Alameda is working frreight yards. t'hell!" for the first time in her life. practically around the corner. "I wanted to do some war work, "Thell?" said Policeman "T'hell with what I'm ask He began selling wine for 60 cents a gallon which he had purchased for 40 cents a gallon. And he had no But there is no custom built she explained her part in the de All day long Martha Mackley.

Oakland girl, sits before a counter boring drill press finishing aluminum castings before they are ready for their place in planes. Her work gets a careful inspection from Bernice Baldaramos, In charge of the women as their foreman. ing?" limousine waiting at the door, and fense factory. "It was tiring at liquor license. "Finish It yourself, you Siberian "Then along came prohibition, and first, but when I go to bed, I feel that I've done something for my wofi-hounri," said Policeman Ma "Such training Involves the use of samples of the various types of poison gas and it would be ex- tremely dangerous to use such gases except in a separate building where only persons properly equipped with protective masks and clothing could come in contact with them.

"I trust that you will reconsider your decision and will grant the preference rating requested. "The list of materials needed is I made it my racket. IS jS, country. After all, I have a son honey. "Sure and there's plenty to t'hell from the commissioner "I got a friend of mine to buy in the Army in Honolulu.

I'm Serphy Sam could not use it if he had one. He tells his friends that he is dying. Broke? Sam says no, but he is not sure. DIVORCE SUIT PENDING It depends upon the outcome of 500 cases of whisky at $21 a case. down if y'ask me." working-for him, too." bought it from him at $60 a case and Two other women have husbands And he buttoned his uniform and went on duty, keeping a wary eye sold it for $100 to $200 a case.

Bandits Rob Lunch Room "My first good cleanup came in the Army, one now In distant Maine. out lor tne missing israj. through a connection I had with a not long and should not interfere divorce proceedings he has filed in the Alameda County courts against The majority of the workers have porter on the Portland run. I bought with the needs of military and Catnap Victim Home previous mechanical experience dozen suitcases, each capable of his wife, Mrs. Mary Florence Terry.

He claims community interest in Tito, the Persian cat, is home and like the men in the industry allohold union cards as members holding a case of whisky. CHECKED SUITCASES two bank accounts and two pieces A shabbily dressed youth and older of Machinists Local 1566, A.F.L. again in Berkeley after being kid naped by a strange woman In shawl. of real property in Oakland and companion took $40 from the cash Florence Schirripa, 1040 64th Berkeley, all now controlled by his register -of the White Log Tavern at "I would drive down to the Oakland pier and chck two or three suitcases with him there. Then I 42nd and Broadway early today, wife, from whom he separated in 1940.

Street, Oakland, left a stenographic position to turn mechanic and her reaction is simply: "I like it very threatening two waitresses with a "Tito wher have you been?" asked Tito's owner, Mrs. Jane Buell, 3000 Hillegass Avenue, when her missing cat walked up the front revolver. "I had $100,000 once during the much more. The work is not hard The youth, about 22, into prohibition days," he said, "and I started to quit the racket. steps this morning.

"I've had the and I make more EARN $30 A WEEK I was on my way to Havana with police looking for you and every would drive to the 16th Street station and hand him three more. Then I would beat the train to" Port Costa, where the S.P. ferried its trains across the straits, and give him the balance. "I paid him $25 for each case delivered to a hotel in Portland which the tavern alone at 3:15 a.m., ordered a sandwich and cup of coffee, paid his money and left. He- attracted no attention from the.

woman in charge, Mrs. Alva I. Williams, 2384' East my wife. We were going to take a The girls earn $30 a week, then- thing. What happened?" trip around the world.

I guess that naval authorities. "We are being urged by the Office of Civilian Defense and the military authorities to complete the training of all civilian defense per- sonnel at the earliest possible date. 1 May therefore, ask for your favorable action as soon as possible?" A WRITING FOR COUNCILS Hoyt pointed ouV? that he wa writing on behalf of the county defense council and the defense coun-ells of the 10 incorporated Metropolitan Oakland cities which are all located in the so-called war "target area." The district attorney, thoroughly aroused by the red tape maze which surrounded county's application Maverick assigned it serial number PD-200-A pointed out that to construct the center would require less than $2000 and consume only a "Miauw!" said Tito, putting it all wages just increased by the man ager. into one word. would be a tough trip now, but it was easy then if you had the money.

Twenty-first Street, Oakland, and A woman oversees the work of 0 I 8v.it 1 I the women defense industrialists "But I stopped in San Francisco was headquarters for my stuff ahd her assistant, Mrs. Anna J. Goodin 2050 Eagle Avenue, Alameda. Tito vanished yesterday when a woman in a shawl picked him up in front of his home and carried him off. Today Tito was riding past as their foreman.

She is Bernice where I got up to $200 a case. Five minutes later the customer and my old friend and partner, Joe 'Blank' (Sam will tell you his real name), wanted to buy the yacht, "Then I got greedy, and lost that returned, revolver in hand, accom' the same house in a shopping bag, account. "'I steamed off the tops of the bot panied bya man whom the women described to police as about 35 and 'Lady and he needed some money. when he suddenly leaped out and came home. The woman in the ties, emptied half of the original wearing a gray shirt and light hat: I accommodated him, as usual, whisky and refilled it withmy own Nervously the youth ordered, "This is a stickup and you lie down and that was the beginning of the Monterey case." OFFICERS SWOOP on the floor." Mrs.

Williams defied home-made whisky. "When that stuff arrived in Portland, and they got one taste of it. they wouldn't pay a nickel, and I lost the whole shipment." SACRAMENTAL WINE that order and the two women hud' small amount of cement, steel and Baldaramos, her responsibility to see that the weekly quota is completed and completed accurately. Every "hole trimmed in the drill presses is tested by her for accuracy to the smallest fraction of an inch. Faulty work is discarded.

Bernice knew the factory in its egg beater days when she was the only woman mechanic there. It was natural that when the transfer to feminine labor went into effect, she be named their foreman. THEY KNOW THE WQRK The girls know the detail of their work to the last filing from a curved bar. It was at Monterey in June, 1922, died together while the older man lumber. rifled the till.

It was to have been, built at shawl who had been carrying Tito In the shopping bag never glanced back. Police have decided the affair Is very mysterious and have decided to drop the Whole business except the part about the shopping bag. The woman was carrying a long-handled one and, as everybody knows, those long handled shopping bags are hard to get. THE KNAVE. The theft was investigated by that Federal officers swooped down on the "Lady Mine" and broke up the liquor smuggling Serphy Sam escaped capture and Sacramental wine was always a airoimen A.

J. Hendricks and Cowell Hospital on the U.C. campus and serve as a "pilot" center for the training of decontamination per- source of good business with Set- Walter Price. fled to Canada. phy Sam, who extended his "accom personnel.

modations" to include a mythical "I looked the ground over before Officers Elected HOPES DASHED orthodox congregation, its leader the boat came in, and I spotted a Later, Hoyt hoped, 50 other sta and his regular customers. By C.E. Society trail up the cliff, which I kept in the back of my mind. When the tions would be constructed through- What they do not know is the SAN LEANDRO. May 15.

Phyl Federals closed liv that's where out the county. Maverick's letter disabused him of that idea, however. purpose of the assorted aluminum parts they finish, ready to go into its proper place in a plane that will went," Sam related. lis Bartlett is the new term president of the Christian: Endeavor So In his letter denying the necessary After a few months in Canada he priority, Maverisk, speaking through came back and was sentenced to 18 help protect their homes and their men. ciety of the First Presbyterian Church.

his assistant, George Blowers, told Mrs. Mabel Smith, Alameda County "I had the head of this congregation working for me at 25 cents a gallon, and sold 20 barrels of sacramental wine every week. It cost me $3.25 a gallon and I sold it for $7. The leader of his flock ordered the wine for his which would have made an obituary list a yard long. Most of them had been dead for years." 1 The big money was in whisky, however, and it was through Cana The use of each part is kept from She was recently elected together Two Are Promoted Promotions to the rank of captain In the California State Guard yesterday included one resident of Oakland and one of Walnut Creek, according to Adj.

Qen. J. O. They are: Lieutenants Alden A. Michelsen, Oakland, and Henry C.

Pitman, Walnua Creek, both members of the Ninth Regiment. them, except may know a bar, purchasing agent, that it has been with Edna Miller, as vice-president: months at McNeill's Island, plus a fine of $3000. While out on bond pending appeal of the case, he shot and killed Oakland Police Officer H. J. Robbins, who was on guard at Terry's place awaiting his return.

The officer was in plain clothes Flroence Schirripa (in foreground) and Lucille Abenth, her working partner, contribute the patience essential to accurate work as they drill press the plane parts, their hands shiny with oil. Both are from Oakland. Tribune photos. for instance, will later form part of a defroster. the policy of the WPB and other defense agencies not to allow construction of air raid shelters, poison Virginia Davis, secretary; Barbara Giesecke, social chairman; Shirley Thurston, missionary, and LaRee Combs, prayer meeting officer.

gas decontamination buildings and Services Held for dian operations" with two partners that Serphy Sam made the big kill ings, Mrs. Wright1 Today Last rites were said today for BIG DEALS other such protective measures in the continental United States due to the acute shortage of materials." Blowers or maybe it was Maverick dispenses with the usual "yours truly" closing in his letters. It's "FOR VICTORY" in capital letters, the.file showed. 1 Mrs. Clara Wright, 74, an Oakland His first operation was a shipment Keel Laid at Richmond for First of 30 Ships In Less Than Four Months After Yard Started Red Bluff's One Jap Family, Has More Than Share of Woe of 23 cases of Scotch which he bought for $123 and sold in one lot to prominent Oakland and Emeryville resident for more than 30 years and daughter of the late Dr.

Henry N. Bolander, former State superintendent of public instructions and latet1 superintendent of schools in San Francisco. Mrs. Wright died last Tuesday at gambler. The same client was always good for a sale of 50 cases later on when Terry wag bringing shiploads of 1050 cases into Bodega Bay, Moss if ready for launching.

Gates are RED BLUFF, May 15. U.R) ways than the British vessels and by the time the last of the latter is finished, the yard expects to have then opened and the ship floats County officials sent out for head- over the line," said the judge. Moore balked again. "We can't take the defendant over the line either," he said. Landing or Monterey, directly into the bay insead of slip che tablets today after colliding, RICHMOND, May 15.

Within less than four months after the initial blast of dynamite bit into the rocky promontory from which it was cut, Richmond-Permanerite Shipyard No. 3 laid the keel for the expanded all its The ferry trip from San Rafael was the big worry when the whisky her home, 1814 11th Street. Services were conducted today at the Grant D. Miller chapel on East Fourteenth Street by Rev. W.

H. G. Batterskill, pastor of St. Episcopal ping down ways. Miss Eleanor Dan Bayley, sec The judge compromised on a tele was brought from Bodega Bay.

phone call to Kamiya, Fukioka learned the nature of the charge against him, promised not to do it retary to Chairman tErnory S. Land, of the Maritime Commis ALAMEDAN HURT IN MYSTERY, Church, followed by cremation. "We used to line up our trunks on a side-road early in the morning awaiting the first ferry," Sam re head-on, with Army evacuation orders for Japanese. Red Bluff has only one Japanese family, but that was a minor problem. The city was divided by Army orders an'' Japanese residing on the east side of Highway 99 were first of ,30 18,000 tons Army trans-J A husband, J.

J. Wright, and ports yesterday. sion, initiated the keel-laying cere lated. Then we would rush them three sons, Howard, Wilmer and Harold; a twin sister, Mrs. F.

W. again and drew a 20-day jail sentence. NOTICES POSTED Ultimately, when construction is down to the ferry slip before any complete, the five-basin yard will ALAMEDA, May 18. When ILLINOIS PRISONER FACES. TERM HERE WHEN HE'S PAROLED First prisoner to escape from the Alameda County farm, Charles Allen alias C.

F. Franklin, 37, faces no." vista of, freedom' when he is paroled from the Illinois Slate prison, at Joliet this month; For, Alameda County Deputy Sheriff Ben Olson will be waiting at the gates to take him into custody and return him here to face felony escape charges. Allen fted from the "honor farm" on October 21, 1932. He was serving a one-year forbidden to cross to the west side, Anderson, 1534 Morton Street, Alameda; another sister, Mrs. I E.

other traffic had a chance to get ahead of us. Then the whole ferry be the largest of the three operated where the courthouse and Jail are Harold Finley, 2425 Webb Avenue, stepped from his car after by the Henry Kaiser interests. Curtois, anc a brother, Louis Bo load would be nothing but our own situated. whisky trucks and automobiles. lander, survive.

parking it at his home last tileht The transports, to cost $6,500,000 each, will be delivered to the U.S. Yesterday Toshio Fukioka, 29, "What a haul they would have monies. Others in the official party included Carl W. Flesher, director of the Maritime Commission's West Coast Regional Construction Office and Clay P. Bedford, general manager for the Kaiser Shipyards.

PRODUCTION KEEPS ON (Production at yards No, 1 and 2 did not slacken because of the ceremonies. Across the channel, yard Meanwhile Army jeeps arrived and soldiers tacked up notices evacuating all Japanese west of Highway 99. And that includes the county Jail, where Fukioka supposedly will still be incarcerated. Judge Ludeman wearily wrote Lieut. Gen.

John L. De -Witt, com Maritime Commission. made if they had ever looked into was arrested in Gerber, just south of Red Bluff, on a battery charge Kemper New Director When the first dynamite blast was one of those ferry loads." touched off on January 17, the yard HI-JACKER BATTLES Golden Gate Bridge, site was merely a barren point of he discovered an unconscious man lying 'in the parking strip. Whether he struck the or just what happened, Finley dW not know, he told Alameda police. The injured man, Bert Anderson, 45, 2845 Santa Clara Avenue, was taken to Alameda first aid station and then to Highland HosDitaL Bodega 'Bay became Tiot as a Because he slapped Mrs.

Mary Stin-eon. He was hustled to the county jail. INTERPRETER ORDERED Because Fukioka was unable to land jutting out into San Francisco manding the Western defense, for George W. Kemper today suc landing place, however, and the an answer to the problem of ceeded James E. Rickets as a San Bay.

Today, several buildings are already in use, the largest four- shipments were transferred to points Fukioka. Francisco director oft the Golden along the Monterey Peninsula. No. 1 (the old Todd-California) launched the Verity, its 24th freighter for the British Government and its second in five days. speak English, Justice A.

H. Lude- Then from across the highway Gate Bridge and Highway District Then came the hi-jacking attacks story concrete warehouse. Material cut away from the hill was used to fill in the waterfront. Board following his appointment by where attendants reported this an ordered Undersheriff Ed oore to Trlng in an interpreter came" the wails of the Kamiya family. There is no grocery store of a rival gang led by Seattle "Blackie," and finally the Monterey the Board nt Supervisors.

Although it has six more freight jail term as a condition of five years probation' on forgery charges. Subsequenty, he was re-srroMid in Illinois and sentenced, in USES BASIN SYSTEM on their side of the highway, which Rickets resigned his directorship, case which was virtually the end of morning he had severe forehead and scalp lacerations and probably a fractured skull. His condition Was fair. tney cannot cross. How to eat? Yard No.

3 will employ the basin Serphy Sam career. Kamiya solved his problem by foreshadowing his appointment as general manager of the bridge and highway district, succeeding William rather than the ways system of ers to build under the, British contract, with the launching of the Verity, yard No. 1 faid the keel for the first of its American Liberty cargo boats. "Many a time I have wished 1 from the Kamiya family, which operates a-laundry across the highway. Moore balked.

He said he would be forced to arrest any Japanese crossing the boundary. "Well, we'll take the defendant had taken that trip around the world, Finley is an instructor at the to serve a term for armed robln-ry. He faces a possible Q.sort i term of from one to 1) advertising In the Red Bluff News for an American i bov to deliver but I had to accommodate Joe. shipbuilding. Something like dry-docks, the basins lie below water level and are flooded when ship Navy ground school at the Oakland H.

Harrelson, who resigned because of ill health. i bis laundry and bring him his "I accommodated everybody. The Liberty ships require larger irport. I his Alameda farm escp;.