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OAK LA ND'Si ONLY LOCALLY OWNED, LOCALLY CONTROLLED DAILY NEWSPAPER ijj if ASSItlATEl IITC9 ES NIC All IAILT MEWS FIREI8I SERVICE VOL. CXLV OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1946 13 NO. UO ON THE HOUR EVERY HOUR- iCLX 910kc. TH TR I UN I STATI ON 1 i Hooliganism Council Votes I ax On Juke Boxes -a $25,000 An nual Revenue From Various Types of Mechanical Vendors Expected Oakland's City Fathers last night threw an old shoe (with a. foot in it) at the thousands of boxes that have massacred' the silence of a simple cup of coffee and poured caterwauling into an otherwise good hig iball.

The City, Dads voted last night tc tax the juke boxes and make them pay the public for the ri-snorting western tunes Christmas onThe Brothers light (shown here) was as joyous as it was in the coziest Oakland home or apartment. The lighthouse is situated off Ihe shore of San Pablo Bay. 1 which in, recent years have i v. HliHiilJli.L .11 II II II I I Mil II II Ml I.IIH 1,1 II ''I I.DtWwmHlWlT I 4 I- I i 1 Celebrants at The Brothers lighthouse Christmas partyjvgere fleft to right) Mrs. Betty Morgan and her son, Robert 5 xnohthsl shown here as they gathered Laura Lynne Thurmonl 1 5 months, 'and her mother, Elizabeth at the Christmas treepf ribune photos.

1 3 Laid to War Psychiatrist Holds Youthful Rowdyism Reflects Adult Action By NANCY BARR MAVITY Recent arrests of eight Technical High School students for vandalism destruction on a Key System bus and a later assault on the driver the latest of a series of "youthful gang outbreaks which have occurred throughout ihe year have aroused experts on human, bejiavior to an intensive effort to, find the meaning behind such motiveless hooliganism. "Boys will be and pranks are jone thing but wanton depredation is an.oth.er but just what is the reason and what the remedy has the psychiatrists frankly puz zled. Adults are to. blame but not in the obvipus sense of the relaxing of old time "woodshed" parental discipline, according to Dr. Floyd Due, associate professor of clinical psyematry at the University of California.

The way we have been acting of late has set a pattern ol rowdyism for youngsters to imitate, ne suggests. BEHAVIOR BREEDERS "It is difficult to assess the psychological effect of the war years, in which the idea of violence became says Dr. Due. "Street riots attendant on strikes, not limited to those concerned with the issue on either side, give adolescents an example of undisciplined adult behavior. comic strips, prepared by adults, are no longer concerned with humor, but with violencesomebody is always getting hurt.

Radio programs beamed, at growing youngsters of the adventurous age are full of crime and bluster. "The breaking down of greater license in conduct, are all around' us, and make a particular appeal to-those at the age to throwing off the restrictions of childhood and express aggressive impulses. Of 10 boys in a group, each one may have a different individual mechanism, but mob psychology, leading a group to do what no individual in it would do alone. operates on the juvenile as weU as the adult leveb -i FACILITIES LACKING i facilities or'harmless 'group activity have not kept pace with the increase in population in this area. Group interests, in particular competitive sports, geared to each age level, are the best means of providingthe youngsters with chance to let off steam without damage." Dr.

David G. Schmidt chief psy chiatrist of San Quentin Prison, who has studied the past juvenile rec ords of hundreds of adult criminals, agrees that destructive impulses can be "sublimated" 'Ty directed recreation? "It is nbt enough to provide a park or a sandlot and turn the boys loose on it," Dr. Schmidt warns. "When that is done, the worst elements promptly take possession, be cause they are the most daring, reckless and careless of the rights of others. "The more inexperienced will always follow the leader, and that leader under a laissez faire policy, will be the most undisciplined type at the destructive period of de velopment.

At this period emotions and desires are full grown out xne social sense is 'still immature. HOSTILITY DEVELOPS "During the war many youngsters became hostile toward parents and all other adults who stand in a parent-position as a reaction to the sense of insecurity and inadequacy, of being useless or in the way, a 'fifth wheel'. The war damage to youth lies in the lack of supervision and guidance during formative years under more or less, abnormal conditions ot wartime are now beginning to reap the harvest "Boys will inevitably form into gangs anyway. What they need is understanding and direction to help the individual work off his energy and vigor jn socially acceptable channels. Without this guidance, emotional drives will run rampant and overstep, the bounds.

Recent gang depredations have been puzzling because apparently motiveless. But there is no motivation on the spur of the moment "My experience at San Quentin has revealed a history of juvenile mischief in practically all inmates, due to the-combination of insufficient understanding and direction of energies and overcompensation for the feeling of insecurity. If these adolescent energies are not harnessed and converted into constructive channels, ever increasing dif- IlCUlUeS Will DC jiieviiamc. Attacker of Girl, 13, Gets 1 to 50 Years Superior Judge S. Victor Wagler denied probation to Leemon H.

gingham. 34, Alameda truck driver, who pleaded guilty to a rape -charge and sentenced him to San Quentin for of from one to 50 years. He was arrested afte ra 13-year old San Leandro girl identified him the man who entered a home where she as caring for some chil dren. placed a knife at her throat and then attacked her. Mrs.

wercx; Lara (above) is overcome with grief as she, is informed of the drowning of her LOCAL NEWS FRONT! Estuary near the High Street Bridge. Firemen Oower) worked administered artificial respiration In an- effort to save the If 46 DEC. 27 submerged for more than an hour. 1: 4 Cheery Yule for Lighthouse Men RICHMOND, Dec 27. Christmas on a lighthouse island isn't the dull holiday that some people think -it might be.

To the contrary, it's just about the same as Christmas on shore, and, perhaps, just a bit better. At least that what everyone of the inhabitants on The Brother light off the shore of Point San Pablo believes, from the youngest -to the oldest. Coast Guardsman Mickey Thur- mon, keeper of the lighthouse, "his" wife, Elizabeth, and their 18 months old daughter, Laura Lynne, aren't annoyed by the privacy of 1 their island, and, with the possible exception, of the boisterous foghorn, everything is wonderful. i GUESTS PLENTIFUL Guests-for Christmas turkey and all the trimmings were plentiful, and the high point of the visit proved to be the boat ride frp'm mainland to island. MrsV Thurmon's brother and sis ter, Mr.

nd Mrs. Robert Morgan and Robert her brother. Coast Gardsman Robert Joyner and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Winton of Oak land swelled the light's population for the day.

i On Christmas Eve, -the Thurmoni played Santa Claus to Laura Lynne, her mother says, "is a bit young to appreciate the old man with the whiskers. NAVY RESERVATION 4 The light is on the smaller of The Brothers, two small islands in San Pablo Bay, just a seagull's flight from what used to be Winehaven, but now a Navy reservation. A rambling structure don tains the living" quarters, which are tastefully decorated with modern furniture. The living, room is enhanced by a gaily decorated Christmas tree, under which are piled opened pres ents. The Thurmons leave the island once or twice a week, one day to shop, the other to attend a picture show in Richmond, or Oakland.

Before coming to The Brothers, the- Thurmons were stationed on Carquinez Lighthouse near Vallejo. BEST STATION "The best station' we ever had was New Year's that's where we went the week, after we were married," Mrs. Thurmon said. "We had to get on and off that island through the surf around Santa Cruz. It was lots i of fun, though." As for celebrating New Year's on The Brothers, the Thurmons haven't any definite plans, but they promise that it won't be uninteresting and that's a promise that will be kept; Yule Mail Heavy CROCKETT, Dec.

27. Volume of Christmas mail in the Crockett postoffice was about 25 per cent heavier than last year, it was esti-mat today by Postmaster Pat Lucqy. The postmaster said the largest, staff of workers ever employed by the -local postoffice' was required to handle the increase. SUPERVISORS ACT TO REVAMP FAIR SETUP AFTER PROBE and hi-de-hoing cacaphony equalled the tintinabulation of the bells. From now on.

th restaurants and cafes that offer, biarin music- with the a la mode will have to pay a tax of $5 a -year on each juke box. And. according to. City Manager John F. Hassler, the pubfcafwill be repaid $25,000 annually PUBLIC GETS CHANCE The tax-raisin? ordinance was of- 1tirtr in 4Vi fiir "AinrnI Ida 5rVit and-if the nublic has anything more to say "on the matter it can do so January 2 (the night after New Year's and a time when silence may be golden).

In addition to the juke boxes, amusement, and merchandise devices are going to pungle up to the public, -under. the new-ordinance. Three principle sections of, the (ordinance are as follows: i Merchandise machines Tax-of, $2 per year fpr. each', machine in which the coin or token used is of a value of less than five cents; tax of $3 per year foreach machine in which coin or token is "of the value of five cents or Mechanical music devices Tax of $5-per for each Mechanical amusement -devices-Tax of $10 per year for each device. At the same time the City Council gave first reading to an ordinance making it illegal for the operator of a licensed mechanical amusement device fo "offer or give, or to; permit the giving, of any prize, award or other thing of value in connection wifch the operation of said device or machine." MUST POST NOTICE v' City Atty.

F. Bert Fernhoff. who "prepared the ordinances, declared that the practice of awarding "free" games by some machines been held to be unlawful. The. ordinance also makes it mandatory for operators to -in a conspicuous place a printed state ment declaring it snail be uniawrw rr other thing of value in connection with the operation- of said machine." These statements will be supplied by.

the city at the: time a sticker is the devices have been licensed. Specifically excluded from-the ordinance are gas meters tele phones, pay toilets and machines vending postage stamps and sanitary drinking "cups. Collection of the tax Is placed under the supervision of City Treas urer James F. Carey, who also heads the Department of Permits and Licenses. 4000 KINDS OPERATE There are approximately 4000 vai luus iyuc ui iiidi.iiiiit:3 now uuci a ating in Oakland.

city attorney said he was' informed by Chief of Police Robert P. Tracy The new tax will levied upon "every person owning any mer rhandbe vending machine, me- rhanieal mu i or mechanical amusement device who places, hot causes to be placed, such device. in any public place or place of busi ness, whether upon consignment, lease or otherwise," according to the nrHinanr. Another section of the ordinance states -that -any person paying to the city a -license fee based upon gross income shall not include in computing sueff income the income from any device or machine li censed under this' measure. MUST START SOMEWHERE Discussing the ordinance with the rouncil prior to the tegular meet inr.

Hassler said: have to start somewhere. If we don't like it we can amend it in ix months." City Manager remarked "we will leave the stamp vending ma chines out for the present, but we will review that classification The section covering mechanics amusement- devices and machines includes lawfully' operated amusement devices or machine of whatsoever Wnd or character. which upon the insertion of slug, token or similar representa tion of value into a slot; crevice or other opening, orby the payment of any price, operates or may be operated for the. purpose of! play ing any game or. furnishing other amusement.

THIEVES. GET $3000 IN SAFE ROBBERY Eurglars la night broke into an automotive concern at 4200 East 14th Street and stole a 500-pound safe. containing $3000, then added a truck to their' loot in order to cart the safe away. I Officials of the company, the Better Truck Rental -and Harry's Used Trucks and Cars, said their loss included company books, $500 in cash, and two checks they said were negotiable. One' chetk was for $1500 find the second for Clay M.

Courtney; 37, of 8313 Outlook; Avenue, truek dispatcher at -the discovered the theft when he went to work this One of. his trucks- was missing, and in checking on it he found that the thieves also had taken the Entry to the plant yard was gained Tribune photo. discovered, they will be corrected in the next salary ordinance. Commenting on the Grand' Jury insistence at new Juvenile Hall be constructed immediately, the Super- visors revealed they plan to use the former County -Prison Farm? near San Leandro for-a new hall as well as a boys' camp.V Hoyt explained I the Grand Jury was unaware of this; intention and pointed out it had. expressed approval of the boys' camp plan.

OBJECTION ANSWERED Bartell's objection -tothe section of the report which declared the board responsible for asserted lax accounting procedure-in the county auditor's office was answered by Hoyt." He explained the present arrangement, under which the auditor has full control and responsibility, was set up by the board in 1913, prior to the service of any of "the present members of the board. Bartell was the only member of the board to question Hoyt, on the report. He. returned to consideration of the Fair by reading an auditor's; report or Fair Association books. Grand Jury charges that two relatives of Everett Nevin, Fair auditor, overpaid, brought explanations I om Bartell and Supervisor Chester Stanley.

They" said two men, William C. Murphy and J. D. Murphy, had worked from 5 a ju. to 9 p.m.-or later each day, in several different capacities, and conse quently their, pay came from three different funds "At any rate, Bartell said, "both county and state auditors checked the books daily and it was certainly the duty of the.

county auditor to inform the Supervisors if there were irrejularities. CONCURS WITH FINDING' He concurred in the Grand Jury recommendation that all Fair accounts should be placed under the direct control of the board. Bartell also" agreed steps should be taken to prevent a recurrence of the incident when a resolution approving a Fair racing deal appeared in minutes of a board meeting, although other Supervisors have no recollection of its adoption. He suggested that certified copies of minutes be furnished board mem bers and the district attorney for checking. He indicated the Fair will operate son.

Hicardo. 5, in the Oakland feverishly with a pulmotor and child life after he had been The body of a 5-year-old boy was recovered from the Oakland Estuary late yesterday after nearly 50 police men, firemen and citizens joined the -v The child had fallen into the water while playing on a pier near the High Street Bridce shortly after 1 p.m. Rescue efforts: by inhalator revive Ricardo squad fiiled to "Ricky" tt-ara of 4721 Bird Road, Housing Project- He was Estuary pronounced dead on arrival at High- land A ameda' County Hospital after being in the water for an hour and 25 nutes. TRAGEDY SEEN The bov lather, John. 36.

ism; Manila -with the Army and his mother, vera, 28, works in a nearby box factory. They have two other children, asaac, 8, and Carlos, 3. First news of the tragedy was given whsn other children ran to a nearby btilding materials firm for Maurice A Frye of 3127 Marina Drive, Alameda, recovered the body approximately 300 yards from a point where the child was last seen, underneath the Oakland, side of the High Strejet Bridge. 1 STRUGGLE WITNESSED According to "Mrs. Betty Dreyer, 21, of 323" Fernside Drive, Alameda, the child struggled briefly and then disappear She and her husband, 22, searching for.

the child in. the pilings near the pier where he had disappeared. Later rs. Dreyer and a fireman, Jack O'R urke, dove in the' 35 feet of water looking for the body. "Ricky! i was playing with his older brother.

Isaac: Peter Nan- nnini; 4741- Alvin Road, and Wayne MfrFarland. 12, of 4735 Alvin Road. Another child, Eugene Winter, 9. wjio' was not playing, with the boys but witnessed the accident, informed jHarold G. Simmons, yard foreman bf the building materials Arm, whd in turn called police and firemen, Thieves Carry Away Cable jValucdar $330 ALBANY, Dec.

27. The Scott-Buttner Company, 534 20th Street, Oakland, sported to Albany police late yesterday the disappearance of MOO feet of lead covered cable which, had been stored at a substation onj Buchanan Street a week The fcable, in 200 pound rolls, is worth 15 cents a foot and company officials estimate, the entire 2200 feet jto be worth $330 It was salvage cible from Richmond shipyard Railway line. Drowned Boy Body Recovered DEATHS Funeral services were h'el. Sister-day for Mrs. Rose Rushfajrih, 34, who died Tuesday at AlamPi Hospital.

Services; were condySfed at Smiley Gallagher Mortugy, 1415 Oak Street Alameda, an Inurnment was in California'Criatory. A nath'e of Germany and eident of California since 1928, survived by her husband, Georjfftush-forth. and two children, SC5orge Thomas and Agnes Brocp push-forth, 142 3antClara Avem4 Ala" meda. Funeral services will be sSiId at Fillmore for William G. Buk; 77, retired mining engineer ofjpa Dorado, who succumbed at a local hospital following an operation.

on Christmas day. Busick, bor in El Dorado, is survived by a fefeught-ter, Mrs. Raymond Berkeley, and a son, Charles Lemoore, as well as a sistif V. King of Fillmore. iMivate services yesterday at thel Spittle Chapel of the Flowers.

willftfe fol lowed by the Fillmore on RtCs Monday. Gl Injured in! 7- 3 Pvt. Donald C. Poston, 19Jf the Oakland Army Base Distribution Center, is in Highland-. larjeda County Hospital today a broken; arm and laceration after plunging from the seventh floor of a hotel at 338 13th Street Poston reportedly attempl ing to elude capture by police ani Sroom clerks, had fashioned a Ei)6e of sheets and blankets and waijj hanging from a seventh floor Vindow.

when one of the knots looserd and he felj to the marquee of ttfrhotel. He is under police guard the hospital for mvestieation burg larytafter he reportedly atternpted to break" into the room of Gsorge N. Bowman i A room clerk, Algie Mctfeui gfll, chased Poston into a vacant where he barricaded hjmself ifoahlnd the door and started his desciit via the window and the improvised rope- In the police ambulance, vhi re portedly told attendants be had been reading defective storki on Okinawa and "they gave me Ideas." Poston registered at the hpfel last night withPvt Albert J. Gattraud, 19, also of the Oakland Distribution Policei1fiund Gautraud asleep in his room qQ the fourth and are holding for questioning- ill' Ex-Congressman Dies RICHMOND. Dec.

27H-P) Dave E. Satterf ield Jr 52, exff jjtive director of the Life insuranqeiAs sociation America, and Iptmer congressman irom tne xnira Virginia Story nun MISCELLANEOUS Patients of Booth Memorial Hospital will have a party tomorrow at 2 p.m. The Kings Daughters of the First Presbyterian Church, and a gvoUp of Lakeview Club member will sing carols. A musicar program will be given by Helen Corder Froebe, Margaret Warner, Yada Coddington and Annie Laurie Van-low. Mrs.

Charles H. Wood is general chairman: of arrangements. ORGANIZATIONS R. E. (Bob) Donovan, safety and health advisor for Department of Labor, will be the speaker at today's luncheon meeting of the Richmond Rotary Club, President Duncan A.

Currie announces. Donovan formerly was regional director" of industrial safety committees of the 11 western states. 0 i The California Rallf ans Association, an organization of teen-age youths interested in trains and rail vehicles, will hold a dinner meeting today at 5 p.m. at 55- Grand Avenue, according to Les Westling, president of the organization. Installation ceremonies for Job's Daughters, Bethel No.

88, will be held tomorrow at 8 p.m. at the San Leandro Masonic Temple, East 14th and Hepburn Streets. Bertha Jean Pisani will be inducted as honored queen. Special musical numbers will be presented by Una Jeart Boorman and Betty Pisani Valentiner, retiring honored -queen. Services Set for Drugstore Founder PIEDMONT, Dec Funeral services for Clair V.

Keenan, 69, retired president of the Federal Drug Company, will be held at 11:33 a.m. tomorrow: from the Chapel of the Chimes, 4499 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland. Keenan. native of Kansas and a resident of the Bay Area for the past 40 years, died yesterday at his home; 106.Oakmont Avenue. He began his career as a druggist in 41893 after studying at the University of California.

He worked in Honolulu for four years then returned to Oakland to enter the employ of the Bowman Drug Company. In 1919 Keenan founded the Federal Drug Company with one store at the corner of 16th and Broadway in downtown Oakland. The concern grew to a chain of five stores under Keenan, who retired from the presidency two years ago because of ill health. He was a charter member of the Oakland Kiwanis Club and past president of the Alameda County Retail Druggists Association. Surviving are his widow, Louise Keenan: a son, Carl H.

Keenan, an Oaklatid attorney, and two sisters, Mrs. Ada Fry and Miss Josephine Keenan, of San Francisco. Alameda County Supervisors moved today toward a complete revamping of the County Fair organization, following i study of the highly critical Grand Jury report oh the Fair's operations. 4 Sam J. manager for the past two years, will not.

seek that position again. 1 He will probably be succeeded by WrayBergstrom, who 'was named Fair manager by the supervisors' in 1941' but had since been relegated to the position of a grounds manager. Plans for. a 1947 Fait will be set in motion as soon as the board con fers with Bergstrom Slated for partici ar consideration are the prospects for conducting a race meeting and the vital need for im provement in agricultural and: industrial exhibits. Announcement of the retirement of whom the Grand Jury had linked with William P.

Kyne, racing manager, in distribution of profits from racing at the 1945 came from Supervisor Harry Bar-tell as the board conferred yesterday with District Attorney Ralph E. Hoyt on the Grand Jury report. PAYMENT DEFERRED Payment of a $12,000 claim filed by Kyne for his services in directing the racing program at-the 1946 Fair was deferred as Hoyt posed eight questions regarding a verbal contract which would turned all rating profits, above $13,200 over to the Pleasanton Racing Association. The Grand Jury asserted that organization is composed by Kyne and Whiting. Hoyt wanted to khow: Ii Whiting, as Fair manager, entered into a contract with Whiting, as a member, with Kyne of Pleassnton Racing Association, for all moneys over $13,200.

and if so, what, authority did. he have?" r. He also asked when the contract was entered into, by whom, was it approved by the board, what serv ices if any were rendered, has any money been paid as yet, who is the Pleasanton Racing Association- and what services were rendered for spe cific bills already received? REPORT STyjDIED The conference also considered other sections of the reporfwhich Bartell said he regarded as critical of the board. Charges of inadequate pay for. police officers were declared to apply principally to city police departments, rather than the sheriff office, which is under jurisdiction of the board.

The Supervisors declared, however, that surveys are now being made and If inequalities are next year under "a different setup," but the Board of Super-r kj visors ever has to conduct a horseljecrean' a'Vca racing meet you can count me Charles E. Gibbs, agricultural and Hoyt complimented the board for legislative manager of the San its study of th report. "I think itSFrancisco Chamber of Commerce, is 'a fine declared, "It today was appointed executive sec-is the first" time that, a boards has jretary of Associated Farmers Inc, indicated an interest 'of California. Tby breaking a window lock. -l 1.