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i Oakland Tribune, Wednesday, May 15,1946 12 Service Men I On Way Home xvht. teMtf Tr7 fy vi ('StJ mvv i 1 -'S'TK v4 Qown Domis Stevens provides the thrill of a lifetime for little Chorion Valinott as the Aahmes Shrine Circus made special appearance at the UJS. NaVqi Hospital at Oak Knoll for its patients and their families. Shown with Charlens is her fcfther. Thomas Valinott PhM 2c.

The circus was transported to the hospital yesterday. Tribune photo. Dr. T. Harpr Goodsped Ucond from riqhU.

profsor of botany at the- Unhrwsity of California, was surprised with a cake, in honor of his birthday this week as he retired as president of the Pan American Association daring the annual business meeting of the organization. Shown with him art Qsft to right) Mrs. S. Victor Wagler. Mrs.

Fred Larson. Cheslsy M. Walter, the newly elected president and Mrs. Goodspeed. Tribune photo.

LUXURY AIR LINER CIRCLES STATE IN NINE-HOUR TOUR Names of the following. Oakland area servicemen are on the passenger list of the ship Admiral Rodman which arrived Tuesday in New York, according to an Associated Press report They are: Pfc. Winfred Jacobs, 1418 Linden Street: T5 Walter Rob inson, 1225 Market Street: T5 Eugene Brozowski, Oakland: Sgt Harold Burton, 2600 Harold Street; T4 Harold Edelson, Santa Rosa; CpL Daniel Rieh, Oakland; Sgt Samuel Price, 761 Rainer Street Vallejo; SSgt Eugene Soares, Napa; CpL William Thompson. 1070 Kennedy Street; T4 Harold Dennis, Oakland; SSgt Delne Smith, Hayward; T5 Woodrow Hanley, San Leandro; T4 William Mason, Vallejo: Pfc. Fred Marshall, Monterey; SSgt Nathaniel Sanders, Berkeley; Pfc.

Arthur Taylor, 400 26th Street, Richmond: Sgt Allen Davis, Oakland; SSgt Edward FantuzzL Niles; CpL James Scot 2424 Linden Street; Pfc. Robert Tip-pey, 306 San Pablo Avenue, El Cer- rito; TSgt Henry Rogers, 3343 Fern- side Avenue, Alameda; Sgt Loren McMesson, Hayward; Sgt Richard Helm, Oakland; CpL Harry Ardley, Oakland; CpL Billy TlndalL Vallejo; and Pfc. Daniel Boone, Oakland. 10,000 MEN DUE ON 19 TRANSPORTS Nineteen transports, carrying nearly 10,000 service personneL are scheduled to arrive today at New York. San Francisco, San Diego, and Seattle, Wash.

In addition, cm vessel witk 838 war brides and children is due at New York. Ships and units arriving: AT SAN rSANCISCO Samuel Chaa from Salsaa. 1314 Navy 33S Marines; Rutland from Wsarl Harbor. 1S5S Navy. IS Marines; Tred Ama- worttt from Australia, 414 Kav vwsjmi jt 1U.

4H Vmvy Vine, 1S1 Navy, tkry M- zi3 navy Tnuoan, lines: LST SS7 fratn Navy; Laurenua. 13 Navy. AT NEW TOBK Colby Victory from Southampton, fdut originally yesterday), SSS: Sea Tiddler from Le Havre, ttT: Sea Devil from Le Havre, 11T7; Wbeaton Victory from Le Havre, lie: niton victory from vre- merhaven, S41; Frederick Havre. SflS. ick victory Thomas H.

Barry from Southampton, us war onaes ana cnuaren. AT SIATTU John S. Bassett from Yokohama, two army. AT SAN DIEGO LSTs tit. 1004.

7Jt. MS and tTS. SOS Navy and Marines; LSD Comstock (due originally May IS), delayed indefinitely at Pearl Harbor. Term Fixed for Church Burglary The prison term of James R. Donahue.

24, World War veteran sentenced to San Quentin for a burglary at the parish house of St Mark's Church in Richmond, has been fixed at five years by the Adult Authority. Donahue, sentenced in April of last year, was captured by Fattier Thomas Bresnahan, who held him at gunpoint until' the arrival of police. 425 War Brides Arrive in S.F. The Army transport Fred C. Ains- wortn, with 430 Australian war brides and babies, was scheduled to arrive today at Pier 45 in San Fran cisco, completing the ships first run as a "diaper express." California claims the largest group on the passenger list, with 90 fam ilies bound for 28 cities in the State.

Fourteen families listed San Fran cisco as their destination. RADIO TELEPHONE IN RAILROAD TEST Radio telephone communications between switch engines and railroad officials will be given trials soon by the Southern Pacific Company in Ran Francisco. Joint announcement of the tests was made today by the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company and the railroad. No permanent installations of the kind are planned by the railroad at this time, it was said, but the tests are expected to develop the value of two-way conversation between switch engines and directing officials of yard system. at 4.

-Oil'! Alia Tyler Mastick Last Rites Today ALAMEDA. May 15. Funeral services were held today at Chapel of the Chimes for Mrs. Alia Tyler Mastick, 86, member of a pioneer Alameda family, who died Monday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Alia M.

Paterson, 1809 San Jose Avenue. She was the widow of Charles L. Mastick, who operated a wholesale leather business in Portland, many years. She became interested in dahlias there and developed the Charles L. Mastick dahlia, familiar to many Bay residents who remember the Mastick display around the Hall of Flowers at the fair on Treasure Island.

Born in San Francisco, Mrs. Mas- tick resided in Alameda, then lived in Portland nearly 50 years belore returning here in 1941. Sur viving oesides Mrs. Paterson are two other daughters, Mrs. Cara M.

Howes, Portland, and Mrs. Maud M. Ash, Astoria, Ore, and 11 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. The late Mrs. Edwina M.

Anthony of San Francisco also was a daughter. Services were in charge of the Fowler-Anderson parlors. $125,000 Asked in Westerq Poc. Suit Damage suits, totaling $125,000 were filed in Alameda County Superior Court today by two of the 77 persons injured April 5 when the Western Pacific's Exposition Flyer was derailed near Pilot Nev. The plaintiffs, Thomas G.

Pop plardo, 34, of 328 11th Street Oak land, who asks $50,000 for back in juries, and Mrs. Ruth Robinson, 50, of Salt Lake City, $75,000 for jaw, head and back injuries, allege the crash was caused by the transit concern's negligence. Two persons were killed in the accident Attorneys for the plaintiffs are Hildebrand, Bills and McLeod. Tavern Kiss Cited In Divorce Complaint Testimony that she saw her husband, Gerald, 29, kissing another woman in front of a tavern today won an interlocutory divotce decree for Mrs. Joyce Bauer, 24.

of 2021 San Antonio Avenue, Alameda. Mrs. Bauer told Superior Judge T. W. Harris that her husband, a welder, was moody, sullen and prone to remain away from home.

In addition to the divorce, Mrs. Bauer, who waived alimony, was awarded custody of two minor children. Bauer filed a cross complaint to his wife's action but did not appear in court to contest the matter. Casually Correct nernnaaoncs 'Annie Vincent Rites Conducted tomorrow i ALAMEDA. May 1.

Fun oral service wil be held tomorrow for Mrs. Annie- Vincent, 79, a owner resident of SAIameda who dd Hr-riay at an foakland hospital, fterv-' ices wtII he at the ftmtley h. Gal-i lagher Chapel in Alameda at p.m. I A of Iowa. Mrs.

Vmcnt resided at Dowling Boulevard, San Leandfo. She had been a resident of thf Bay area for 12 years. Surviving re her husband, Leopold Vincent, 8 and one sen. Wendell Vincent, a former resident of Ala-rrteda. now'of Denver.

Colo. A 1. VAif 1 KB 49 1. teles. Kansas City, and making connections in- the East with TWA overseas service to Shannon.

Ireland; Paris, Geneva, Madrid, Lisbon, Rome, Athens and Cairo. VETERAN CLASSES START MAY 27 BERKELEY, May 15. Designed to give instruction to veterans seek ing training under the GI Bill of Rights, full-time classes will start on May 27, at Berkeley Evening Trade School, vocational center, at Grove Street and Bancroft Way. Principal Earl D. Parkhurst announces that instruction will be afforded in practical work, as well as in trade-related subjects, for 26 hours per week throughout the Summer and as long as a demand exists.

Parkhurst states that veterans training for 26 hours may obtain full Government subsistence and may also work not to exceed 36 hours in industry while attending school. Training classes are announced in the following subjects: machine shop, radio repair, electric repair and maintenance and production isogonic drawing, with other courses to be organized shortly. Classes will meet from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to noon and 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Red Cross Project Seeks Volunteers Volunteers are urgently needed by the Oakland Red Cross Chapter to help turn out the chapter's quota in the organization's $1,000,000 national clothing project according to Mrs, James Mulholland, production chair man.

Oakland's share is 450 girls coats and 1600 boys' shirts, part of which will be distributed overseas by Red Cross civilian relief workers. All work at the chapter is machine sewing, Mrs. Mulholland said. Volunteers may obtain the material, purchased by the American Red Cross, at the chapter's headquarters and work on the garments at home. Previewing the tart it 300- mile an hour luxury transcontinen tal air service tonight, a Trans- World Airlines four-engined Constellation yesterday made a one-day tour of California's borderline.

The Star of San Francisco," to be christened at San Francisco Air port at 3 p.m. today by Mrs. Earl Warren, wife of the Governor, car ried a full load of 51 guest passen gers and six crew members on the novel flight believed to be the first of its kind. The plane left San Francisco Air port shortly after 10 a.m., made nearly a two-hour stop at Los Angeles, and completed the round-the-state flight at San Francisco Airport before 7 p.m., averaging 295 miles an hour for a trip of 1960 miles. CIRCLES STATE Its course straddled the coastline to the Mexican border, turned east to Arizona, then up to Boulder Dam, along California's eastern border over Death Valley, over the snow capped Sierras to Mono Lake, and Lake Tahoe, turned west near the Oregon border to the coast again and headed down for San Fran Cisco.

Noted places of scenic beauty. from desert wastes to high moun tain peaks were separated by less than half an hour's flying time. The huge plane pressurized cabin kept the interior below 8000 feet while the plane itself ranged between 000 and 17.000 feet altitude. Hot lunches were served in flight by Hostesses Carol Enstad and Mar- jorie Nelson. HAti FULL CREW The Constellation was piloted by Capt.

Paul S. Fredericks on, superintendent of flying. Western Region, for TWA. Members" of the crew were First Officer Phares Mc- Ferren, system superintendent of flying, Kansas City; Edward Man-gus and Earl Jinnette, flight engineers. TWA Constellations will leave San Francisco at 9:30 p.m.

daily and arrive at LaGuardia Field, N. at 1:40 p.m. (EST) the following after noon. Westbound planes will leave New York at 8:15 pjn. and reach San Francisco at 7:30 a.m.

the next day. The 51 -passenger planes will operate to New York via Los An 3 Candidates Given Support RICHMOND, May 15. Election of three new members to the boards of trustees of the Richmond elementary and high school districts was advocated today by the Richmond Committee for; Better Education. A platform, prefaced by the slogan, "Your Child Has a Future, Vote for has been distributed tb voters asking for the election Friday of H. E.

Sweeting to the high school board and Robert Golden and Gilbert Hutcheson to the elementary board. Other candidates for the three vacancies on the grammar school board are Warren Brown Jr. and Louis Hi slop, incumbents, and Francis Watson. Two vacancies exist on the high school board and Robert Collins, attorney, and Gust Allyn, Point Richmond businessman, are incumbent candidates. SUPPORT REQUEST DENIED BY COURT Superior Judge T.

W. Harris today denied a request by Mrs. Andrew Williams, 40. of 1012 Ash-mount Avenue, Oakland, that her former husband, founder of the markets which bear his name, be ordered to pay $250 a month for the support of her minor son. 1 Mrs.

Williams, who was awarded a divorce here in 1937, claimed through Attorney Paul D. Morse, that at the time the question of child support was left open pending Williams' financial condition. During the past four years, she naid. Williams, now operating a packing plant and chain of meat markets in the San Diego area, has failed to provide for the son. Last year, according to Morse, Williams earned $96,000, while his wife's income was $6000.

Judge Harris refused the request in view of Mrs. Williams' assets and income. Morse said he would appeal the matter. The plaintiff, Doris L. Williams, was the executive's second wife.

Williams subsequently remarried and became the father of twins. Mrs. Williams also remarried Jimmy Tyrie Campbell, English song writer and recently obtained a divorce. 5 Officers Win Raises in Rank EL CERRITO, May 15. Five members of the El Cerrito Police Department had been given perma nent raises in rank today by the City Council, following a study of scores of recent civil service ex aminations.

Sgts. Howard Thulin and Arthur Peralta were elevated to the grade of lieutenant Thulin, who has been acting lieutenant has been serving as chief of police in the absence of Floyd. M. Gilbert Peralta has been serving as inspector. Patrolmen promoted to sergeants are Don Nichols, Robert Bowers and Homer Jolnson.

Officer Marino Soldavini, who also qualified in the sergeant examination, will be placed on the eligible list for placement, as soon as a vacancy for the position exists. Oakland DAY to Install Officer St Denis Perkins, World War I veteran, will be installed as commander of Oakland Chapter No. 7, Disabled American Veterans, at ceremonies Friday at 8 p.m. in the Oakland Veterans' Memorial Building, 200 Grand Avenue. Other officers to be installed in clude Edward J.

Wintermute, senior commander; James H. Buckley, junior commander; Vincent A. LaBarge, treasurer; Edward W. Lee, State executive committeeman and building commissioner; Chester Wright Vincent F. Hughes, Bernard Owens, Raymond A.

Maddux, Ray mond P. Miller, and Raymond Gill, member of the board of di rectors. Superior Judge Thomas J. Foley will preside as installing of ficer. Lodge to Observe Past Masters Night RICHMOND, May 15.

McKinley Lodge of Masons will observe Past Masters' Night tomorrow at 6:30 p.m, at Richmond Masonic Temple. Past Master Thomas Summers will serve as master of ceremonies at the annual affair, which will be marked by a special dinner. Junior Past Muter Gerald Minor is to be especially honored at the meeting, Housing Authority Pays 'In Lieu' Taxes ALAMEDA, May 15. Checks for $104,508.49, in lieu of taxes, have been turned over to County Auditor H. P.

Ross by the Housing Authority of the City of Alameda. Floyd B. Comstock. executive director, announced today. The payment was authorized by the Federal Government for services rendered by the County to nine Alameda war housing projects during the 1945-1946 fiscal year.

EL CERRITO PLANS MUNICIPAL PARK EL 'CERRITO, May 15. Plans to develop foothill property recently acquired by the City of El Cerrito into a municipal park are being formulated- here today by Mayor Melvin HeinkeL Mayor Heinkel has asked city fraternal organizations to assist in the moving of 300 shrubs and trees from a former nursery site to the park site. The El Cerrito Chamber of Commerce has signified it wiU sponsor ANaE 1 rt J' cna Dttuoxi styles. Just like old times r74 I I 1 i yv I I I FLOESHEIM Dad's Favorite Twosome! WITH REMOVABLE METAL CALKS These famous golf shoes wert "just rrrtmory" during the war. But they're here now (in limited quantity) to make your spring and summer holidays the most enjoyable in years! 00 fi 4Uitet kwflil8 Ay csa-t iiHilr fc-3 rf Kir t- Pi; Tmt so Wwe yom picture takca Sot bim! A fine photograph of his two favorite and baby-is the Father's fhet will thrill him more than mf Come to oer portrak stwdio now.

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