Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 13

l-; 'V If f'S I -i --V--: i i I Colorful Old Mansion, Former Referendum Set Oakland Tribune; Tuesday, Sept 7 1948 13 YWCA Be Torn Down Here NOBLE 1 I mm In Virgin Isles THOMAS. V.I Sept 7.J-WJD The Virgin Islands, will have its first 'referendum at the general elections here in November, when the. voters will decide vn whether, to have. a single legislature for all the islands instead of two as at present They will vote also on whether they favor the election of ihe Governor by the people of the islands instead of appointment by the President The people eem to be divided on the latter issue. Some would welcome native 1 governor while others say that the islands are not SPECIAL BRUSH CURL, PERMANENT Rcgafnr 10.00 S7.50 Crmpltt Includes oil shampoo, hair shaping before Permanent given by expert eperatert Machine or Machlnelcss 1 ri.MiS" It i 1 III t4 (.: fi! i uif tUM.

wfCiam nn Dt left tour jkert All Permanent Wave Gnarante4 on 1 1 mo 1 .1 umi 1 1 -i t-j "I 2W- -lJSJ I jii rim tM-iminn 1. linn- 1 rir 1 tfunTtrmtii mifl urn I i 11 "swtii ---'r 1615 BROADWAY Room 01 Plirei Bid j. (old Read "Curtain Calls" by Wood Soanes The "old Playter House" on Castro Street at 14th, which is to be' torn down to make way for a service station. Qnce the home of a San)Francisco hardware' merchant Ely Welding Playter, it: was best known as the YWCA from 1909 to 1915. Tribune photo.

Sofa with fringe all around built by Kay fight opens for ior ipteitliiid personal taste typical of our" Navy Seeks New Disease Check GREAT LAKES. 111.. Sept. 7. (U.R) Medical researchers, at the naval training gtation, herft.are testing methods of controlling diseases of the lungs and throat which they say constitute the largest" medical problem still to be solved.

i The Navy said that i smallpox, diphtheria, typhoid fever, jtellow fever and "dysentery, which for- imerly took large tolls from the I military forces? have been con- MONROE MANSION AS PUBLIC SHRINE LEESBURG, Sept. 7. up) The next 90 dayj will determine whetner nistonc Oak Hill, where President James Monroe drafted his famous doctrine over 125 years ago. is to become a national shrine or a private residence. The white-pillared, yellow Mansion, designed by Thomas Jefferson, was sold at public auction yester- day for $220,000.

The purchaser. Thomas N. De home furnishing service which costs no merei I Hi Can Democratic ni. i Dossesj Kecoip By ALEXANDER GEORGE ept 0P) Will the big city fiemocratic or- ganizations. walloped in the 1945 elections, stagl a coinebackjin No vember? The Democrats' o.

presidential victorylare pinedola large extent on thefe city? organtations. They contributed whopping major ities for FranKlm Hooseveit his four election triumphs, in The Democlats usjially ieed to pile up huse Heads sin Hef York City, Philadelbhia aM'Cliilago to carrv New Yor3c Stati. Pennsylvania and Illinois, -rith thir. large electoral 6 Two yearn fego the Republicans Feverely drubbfcd the Tiew York and nuaaeipma democratic pramza By JOHNNY The old Plaj-ter Home would jncan nothing ielf sufficffen' to this generation of young ladies, but jnany an Oakland 'matron will sigh ith atnused hostalgia at hews that ihe venerable structure at 14th and is to! be torn down to astro Streets; make way lor a service station. There a more than four decades ago.

when the eyes of all females in, Oakland were turned on ihe mansion ais a refuse In a city of desperate characters preying -on in-! nocent Thatr was when It he expression "God protect the forking girl'was, a fervent prayer in this jf AnArmyof 3ft," both and yomen, civic; leaders, the great educators, preachers and all forces of i-ighteousnessi campaigned through Pakland for 27 days and. nights to raise purchase the; prop for forces of evil were at large etter the great earthquake of 1906, forking girli a new. expression 3hen, if yellowed newspapers are to be believed were sore beset. Girls jiewly releaseji from the cloisters of jfteir homes were hard-pressed to keep soul" and body together in "morality and "find" a good man with a Job to it ap pears, had the hardest time of alL They were the pretty little wage jlaves whofojeused the attention of the city on its working girls in general. 'EW LODGING URGED The leading ladies of Oakland, Tuch as Mrs.fH.

C. Capwell, Mrs. E. Sharon, B. Richardson.

"Mrs- John" Yule, demanded that the girls be provided with lodging that would be projper and economically They suggested that the old horai be purchased and irrde the center of the then youthful Young Wjmens Christian Association. The Playter.mansion seemed thp very place. Ely' welding Playter, who' had been a successful i hardware merchant in San Francisco, built the -mansion in 1879 and lived there jwith his wife and. two daughters when he was Mayor i Oakland. One of th daughters, Mrs.

iftrace Playter jwiie" of Dr. Murray. L. Johnson, 312 Mountain Avenue, a retired physician and sur recalls the old home. It was a threie-story structure with Jong narrow windows looking 'pn the busy carriage traffifc.

Palm trees waved from the yard and by the carriage posWylnes and lawns GILA MONSTERS NOT SAFE PETS TEMPE, Sept. -7. (U.R) The poisonous! animals research laboratory at Arizona State College at Jisijed three types of persons who get bfittert by gila monsters In Arizona. They are (IV laboratory workers who handle gila monsters so frequently they get careless; (2) visiters who are attracted by a brightly colored lizard and pick it up. and (3 1 those who iare just plain foolish.

The laboratory pooh-poohed the that it's necessary to cut off a gila rripnster'is head before its jaws can be freed: when it bites a victim. Just slit eitner 'side of the lizard's jaw and it-will relax its grip. Another way is to hold a lighted, match under the Jizard's belly and it will soon let i-t. The; lizards' seldom cause death. Only -the largest i have enough venom ta kill a person.

Nebraska Lags in Chicken Production Lincoln. sept. 7. Nebraska Is lagging in the economical oDeration of chicken farms, ac- of it, a fpr 14th and Castro was the center Oakland's elite, in'fact the ideal central location for; working girls. CAMPAIGN STARTED i iThat was why the YWCA sought With such ian ideally appointed building so near the heart of town, the harassed working girls could even go, there to spend their noon hours.

So the campaign with mis announcement "Young women of Oakland are to be guided in the straight and narrow path. i No more lingering by the way side; no more ate hpurs at night; no more freedom Tin lodging, houses. ''The womeii of Oakland are 011 to. save and reform the girls. The whole effort of the ladies will be to keep good girls good and make bad girls good." The month cif February was dedi cated, to the drive.

There were small donations and1 "-jolly times" a large contributions, which tickets added to the fund, and a general outpour ing of dimes and dollars to save the working girl. One small boy. col lected and sold bottles to earn a dollar for the fund. A 12-year-old of a minister, gave daughter her entire savings of $100. The Hen- shaw brothers" of Piedmont tossed in $5000.

TALK OF TOWN IN 1907 merchant took advertising in the newspapers to announce he would sell twenty-five-cent tickets and (apparently collected quite a sum although he persisted in call ing it the "Prather any rate, it was the talk of the town in 1907. 1 And by the last evening of the campaign, a "jplly crowd" gathered to watch Ihe rkurns, and saw they had gone over the top. The sponsors had enough tq pay $20,000 of the amount lalthough far more iwas raised and the remaining" $20,000 simply was left on the mortgage) In fact, $145,603 was collected up to that evening. 1 By the end jof September, 1907, the YWCA was moving its young ladies into thej mansion, and very happy they were. The entire down stairs floor was jhcadquarters for the association, and, contained a lunch eon room and parlors (most proper rooms, rest asfeured.

There were rest rooms, and small class rooms on the second floor, and a gymnasium (don't $waon) on the third floor, PROVIDED SERVICES A paid matrdn met all trains at the depot "to direct strange young women to suitable places and give them advice and sympathy." Simple, inexpensive lunicheons were served at the Playter kouse. There. was a parlor where pjermanent guests could receive and entertain visitors, study room "ior those wishing to improve their minds, and a lecture hall for evening classes in "French, German and other The even could afford to bring out Miss Isabel Smijth from the Middle West as paid secretary. 1 But the jolly qlays ended too soon. By 1909 the horrte became too small for the great mass of working girls and the nice young ladies looked toward a large building.

They selected the present jite, at 15th and Webster Streets, but had to wait for three -years before staging another campaign jf or funds. It seems that the young jmen of the YMCA needed new quarters, worse, and were given those years to get the money: In 1915, YW finally got into its new hjome and the old Playter mansion wasr back on the market. The rest of the city movedliff and left it with Its memories of the jolly days and In tune it Decame just a rooming house in West Oakland. Its fame and day. in the sun were for gotten.

Recently, the Richfield Oil t-ompany purcnasea uie property to build a service station. rooh will start wrecking the mansion. But many a Bocai will; re member the day when he was a gay blade and the telephone number was Oakland 3314." i rS- III; SeduKuiu. fUntU.) TE 25SS3 i ft Oakland m. FREEZERS RCA RADIOS lashmutt, stock lfam owner ofjtroled effectively, but no control Prince VVilliam County, plans I measures have been developed yet to develop the 1800-acre estate for respiratory diseases, into a stock farm; and to make the The research unit here will con-mansion into a hoine for his family, centrate on methods of control.

Oak Hill previous owner, Frank analyzing them and discovering thrv arp cnrressful and uuieton, u. aajs 1 which to redeem the property oe- lions, une vnfaso qrganizanon oijiore the sale is consummaiea. wneni U. S. deputy marshals seized the Tmethods have been checked, the estate.

Littleton had said ne wanted may be able to combine the to protect the property es a shrine ivarious methods proposed into one for the benefit of the people of control system. United States. i rormer jviayoc. iveny. New Jersey's! Frank Haue and Kansas City's James M.

Plndergast also took a lacing. Tennessee's Ed Crump weathered the 1946 stornt, but candidates for U.S. senatoj- and ygoverppr were Beaten this summer Yesterday, after the public auc tion. Lawrence Hoes of Washington. es.

It was Crumps mor al Foundation of Fredericks-; Aiui.t' mi. tuAAAAi in cratic primaries first major political! defeat 20jbur made an appeal that $150,000 Durg. maae an appeal apple growers, are planning to be contributed by. the public to soutnern migrant farm labor in deem the now-dilapidated house as harvestine their croo. Albert Pace years.

i In 1946 the Kepubllcans Smseated IV lour Democratic congressman iroma shrine. mode -you'll see this rn new qook Cpunty HChicajro). 4nd won 53 nty "5 I great-grandson of Monroe, proposed lget but that hf? Oak Hill be opened the ments are made to fill out sofa and accessories for the entire ws.j "ujbirtnpce gna honie 01 tne labor suppiy with migrant farm furnishings for modern and traditional homes. QHEST6REIEID- Hoe. who said he was a great- Outnumbered I 30-rO-I Ex-Wac Doesn't Care PERRY, Sept.

7. (U.R)-It"s 130 to one, but that doesn bother Mrs. Cecil Bartow, the only ex-GI Jill in the veterans farm training program in Noble County. Mrs. Bartow served a year ana a half as a wau sergeant aunng World War II.

Now, as a farm wife, she is taking advantage of her vet eran rights to attend the general farm course. She's the only woman in the course taken by 130 men veterans. Her teacher, Kenneth Hicks, says she's a good student. jyet ready for such. There is a group which looks with dis favor en Negro being appointed or elected Governor.

Knights of Columbus To Honor Deputy Plans were being completed today a testimonial banquet hon oring John B. Growdon, California state deputy of the Knights.Qf Columbus from Fresno. The banquet is scheduled for October 3 in the Claremont Hotel. ViciorianlCidney to suit particular Visit our showrooms "show piece" room! Distinctive ill NORGE REFRIGERATORS, BLENDED SCOTCH WHISKY 86.5 PROOF Mfilii yi; failoX- eon see f)Lf7jj: Oh, yeah? distinctive Complete Heme Oft 'Oh, yeah? BLACK Blackie to satisfy Fornhherf 5424 E. Fosrteenth St.

yuudaf 1uxUA4f Ut 9fi. WA5HIRS, IRONERS, STOVES AND cording Prof. F. W. Mussehl' of the University of Nebraska.

i Six millionr pounds Of chicken BUY Wh while i LOWS TERMS ARE AVAILABLE where tncy are fauity phe unit chief said that after Southerners Welcome CONCORD, N.H., Sept. th tim New Hjm. or me iirsi urne, iew riamp- of the state employment service haids. T. ADVERTISEMENT NEED extra money unexpectedly Let Anglo Bank solve your problem.

Personal Loans from $100 up made for almost any purpose. Cost less than half of what most loan companies charge. No red tape. Convenient terms. Helpful service.

Phone or visit any office of Anglo California National Bank. EXPRESS FlflGHT From LOS ANGELES In EXTRA SAVt $50 10 wmm New Government Rcslriciioru elected by a substantial In 1948, too, tfie Republicans gained five; House seats and IB State Legis- lature seats jnjiNew jotk jjny ana six House in Philadelphia. Democrats attributed thfeir 1946 losses in the cifies to grouch ovef the shortatge of rneat, oap and other goods. TKey now contend that a majority of Siese voters are anti-i KepuDiican, tnat tneyieei congress failed to take action reduce prices. 4 Ambulance Patient Ducks Alter Crah MEMPHIS, (U.R) When Helen rM'Neff pushed into the crowd at-he scene pfianacci dent involving an ambunce she heard the ambulance driver shout: "Where's mv! natiefit?" The patient i had jumpei out of the' of Ihe damaged, ambu lance and disappeared Into the crowd.

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direct from Oakland Airport Convenient departures dsrlnej the day aid evenlnf. 1940 Broadway. Call TWinoakY 3-7000 or an authorized travel agent. I 1 I i were imoorted into 1 Nebraska last year, he said, from Dela ware Maryland Arkansas and Vir ginia. The easterner nave iouna a way to hold -iorjerating costs at minimum and yet raise large flocks, he said while jthe 'operation is more of a gamble in the Cornhusker state.

Many chicken producers have left their Nebraska farms, heading for the city and a more' sure, substantial income, Mussdhl said. As a result, the state's poultry ind egg produc Jion has dropped: 10 per' cent from iast year's level. I Australia's Winds Play Hob With Sport Chictto Dally News Foreign Service MELBOURNE. Australia, Sept. 7.

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