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Id i i NEWS ON THE HCJX EVERY HOUR KLX 910 kc THE TRIBUNE STATION ASSOCIATED All AILT HEWS MREIII SERV1IE OAKLAND, CALIFORNfA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1948 NO. 43 21 VOL CXLIX If you have to do your own toting from the corner store and by that we mean if you have to carry your dearly purchased items without benefit of paper bag you can gsnw: oiame tne rain, enow ana warm i weather. Not the gentle California variety. but the selection which crashed down in Oregon and Washington P. ana seni me uommma Kiver on a high-kicking fling.

Landmark Being Razed Hush House, Built In 1865, to Give Way For Parking Lot 5 Among other things, the floods of June wet down the paper mills which supply the paper bags for the 'X Pacific Coast. While housewives have been busy using up the back lf log, the mills have been trying to dig out. The oroiects are about i) neck-to-neck at the moment If you can't find any containers at the The old Hush house at 1401 28th i. Avenue, where five generations of that family have lived for 61 years. grocery, be assured that it's a tern porary inconvenience.

Things again will be in the bag. There are some better left as is, some items into which the mind of men should not delve. The KNAVE, being a master at was being razed today to make, way for a parking lot Built in 1865, the 14-room house of rococo architecture and many memories has been one of Oakland's famed landmarks down the years. Its tenancy by the Hush family ended only yesterday when William Woods Hush, 68-year-oJd son of Millionaire Valentine Hush who bought it in 1887, moved out the last this business of minding his own curiosity about the following item presented with no more comment than the fact it was an awfully cold morning. lie The assignment came over the police radio, KPDA, It teresely ordered such and such a car to go to a certain address.

Just as teresely, it notified the patrolman to "meet a woman and stand by of his family heirlooms. Today workmen began ripping out the redwood walls, its five cast-iron fireplaces, its picturesque barn which could stable 10 horses and clearing the lot where once a fountain played in luxurious splendor. HISTORIC HOUSE Susan B. Anthony slept while she removes her things." opener through a tin can. The accident'happened at 8th and Linden Streets.

The truck was driven by James TunstalL 32, ci 2836 San Jose Avenue, Alameda. Tribune photo. Frank-Viera, 67, of 1863 Clemens Road, miraculouslY escaped death or serious Injury today when a 50-fbot steel girder ripped through the car he was driving like a can HP "(' here," Hush reported. That was in July. 1895, when in its parlors she gathered the first meeting in Alameda County of women interested in the burning question of women's suffrage.

Joaquin Miller, Oakland's "Poet of the Sierras." stalked injo the house in his high boots, stroking his beard and quoting his famous verse at its elaborate dinner parties. Hush recalls that as a boy his Girder Rips Car; Driver Escapes Two of the six minor planets ever discovered within the orbit of the earth, may be credited to Lick Observatory the next. time you get around to crediting anything to anybody. Former Nevada residents will picnic in Mosswood Park, come August 22, and they'll drink coffee, too. It took several months of wrangling with -city officials before the location was settled.

The coffee issue is still undecided, but anyone in Reno will give you odds the Nevadans win, on that, too. This old stove symbol of the Hush family home and hos pltality for 6 1 years will be taken out as the house at 1401 louse at 1401 28th Avenue is razed to make way for a parking ng lot. For 35 cook. Wil-J; of the house i years the stoye was presided over by a Chinese se Frank Viera. 67.

of 1863 Clemens liam Woods Hush, 68. stands beside the relic Road, narrowly missed decapitation irst patriotic fervor was instilled I today when a 50-foot steel girder! being carried on a truck slashed through his car. Viera was taken to Permanente' Hospital where attendants said hej i i i I i- t- sunerea oniy minor lateiBuuin mu abrasions on the back of his head. The accident occurred at 8th and -Einden Streets with the truck driven by James Tunstall, 32, ofj I I- i 1 4.1 Mrs. Sadie' Roberts, 557 Vernon Street, president, of the Nevada Reunion Committee, has formally announced victory in the controversy over Mosswood Park.

The annual picnic has been held there for more than 30 years, and there it will be again. City officials banned use of the Mosswood picnic grounds several I months ago? They were nice about it, explaining that the picnic grounds were to be re-built, and they offered the use of Lakeside Park. That didn't entirely please the Nevadans, who are strong on tradition, and neither did Codornices Parkin Berkeley, which was offered a a 2836 San Jose Avenue, Alameda. The truck was carrying a 10-ton load of the steel beams, 16 feet across the truck. Police said that as the cars passed the outside girder ripped into Viera's automobile cutting it into twisted ribbons of steel.

The girder then fell from the truck. 4 At the hospital attendants said that only a few more inches would have decapitated Viera, a railway ticket clerk, and agreed with hiro when he said: to them. They held out for wood, and the city came to the con- elusion that the picnic ground inn provement project could just as well be postponed. "Thank God, I just escaped deathJ With that point settled, the coffee problem arose. It seems that caterers are and there are no facilities at by a miracle." WOMAN JAILED Mosswood for.

making coffee. A suggestion- that some of the old timers could roll up a few rocks, build a heat up the coffee ON CHECK CHARGE pot, prospector style, is not accep ALBANY, Aug. 12. Mrs. Tanya table to the park department.

The issue may have to go all the way up to the City Council and it will, too, if necessary. Mrs. Roberts expects some 500 former Nevadans, from all over the State of California, to attend the picnic. Prominent Nevadans have been invited as guests of honor and Prindeville. 29, of 2312 Ellsworth Street, Berkeley, former trvern operator here, is held in the city jail here on a charge of issuing a fictitious check.

Mrs. Prindeville was taken into custody at Crockett by Contra Costa County Sheriff's Deputy David Gardella after a complaint was signed by Mrs. Lucile Knapp, of 1089 San Pablo Avenue. Mrs. Knapp.

a tavern operator, said Mrs. Prindeville signed her own name to a $15 check May 10. Mrs. Prindeville told officers she expect This is the old Hush house, 14 rooms of redwood with five cast iron fireplaces and one of the earliest residential furnaces, which ft being torn down. Five generations of the family have lived here.

The last, William Woods Hush and his family moved out yesterday. a day of reminiscing and reviving old friendships is assured. ed an ex-huband to deposit $4000 The committee chairman is well qualified for the post. She is the widow of E. E.

Roberts, mayor of Reno from 1923 to 1933, among whose accomplishments was the creation of that city's beautiful Idlewild Park. She is being assisted by Mrs. Kate Loring 'Sheldon, as secretary of the committee, and Don R. Fraser of Alameda, treasurer. At the moment, they're sending out invitations to some 500 former Nevadans.

And they're promising coffee! in the bank for her. Police Sgt. Arthur K. Smith pf Albany said she has passed four small check here issued without account. Bail has been set at $3000.

A 1 1 rin mi iMniinwn 4i Lois Johnston, 17. of 5930 Fremont Street, rests on the beach at Lake Temescal Regional Park after she was rescued by Life Guards Jim DeWitt standing, and Sam Daughterly yesterday afternoon. The two guards went to her aid when she tired as she swam to the raft DeWitt lives at 6031 Acacia Avenue and Dougherty at 5566 La Puerta Street. Tribune photo. Sr- Plea Entered for Bill Pending U.S.

Appeal The State Supreme Court, which early this month ruled initiative measure No. 11 known as the California Bill of Rights off the No- The week's best household hint, on a subject of prime, importance at the moment ants. A Clarkston, newspaper ad announces: "Ants detest the odor of a goat. Tie a couple of strong Angoras in the pantry and the ants a Wills tnilav uros rf I i fYA by sponsors of the measure to port-pone putting the order into effect pending an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The State Supreme Court earlier rejected the bill because, the court said, the measure would alter the State Constitution, which can be Li revised legally only by a constitutional contention. Sponsors of the bill, led by Willis Allen and Roy G. Owens, requested that the measure remain on the ballot while" the appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court is being made. i will disappear." 0 Venison steak may lead to the proverbial bread-and-water.

That keeps many a hunter from going spotlight hunting these nights when a bite of game not only would be mighty tasty but help out with the high cost of meat. But W. J. (Bill) Harp, assistant chief of the California Fish and Game Patrol, contends the hunter is going to let the big one get away when he contemplates the very, very stiff penalties, being imposed for such illegal hunting. Total California fish and game arrests in July were 52(5, only two more than last July.

"Fines of $1000 and $500 and six months in Jail leave a very bad taste." Harp contends. "Spotlight hunting is certainly not out of hand. It's nothing to become alarmed about not even with Mama Police Chief's Brother Named Deputy D.A. 7f David Holstrom. 34.

brother of Berkeley Police Chief John Hol strom, was appointed a deputy dis- strict attorney today by District At torney J. Frank Coakley. Coakley said that Holstrom will This barn with room for 10 horses and 20 tons of hay is indicative of the spacious, leisurely life of the days when the Hush home was an Oakland showplace. Tribune photos. at rousing meetings on behalf he taught to, fcnow nd love things iMagee at Alder Farm, at the head i stavina away from the butcher of the mmnaisn nf William McKin- Oriental.

of Fruitvale Avenue. Only one of shop." the Those were? the Says when The fact of the matter seems to be that this kind of deer hunting work in the Hayward area office, which serves southern Alameda County. The new deputy, a graduate of the University of Santa Clara Law School, passed the bar examination in April of this year. From 1941 to 1945 he served as an officer in the Navy. Holstrom' lives at 3691 Hillegass Avenue with his wife, Winifred, and his daughter, Sally Lynn.

vivid are Hush's vivid are Even more is just a little too dear. city limits of Oakland was at 24th. Avenue, Hushisaid.iand the family Jean Mary Hush) Wells. The clans 'including the! Folgers, Whit-! others are Valentine G. Hush of neys.

Major C. C. Clay and Wellman 1 Santa Barbara, Walter L. Ifc Hush families wentl vmtng each other 0f San Francisco, Mrs. Charles from their estates.

3 Bentley of San Francisco, and Wil- EARL.T HEAT PL4NT Ham Woods Hush. The Hush mansion had a wood Woods has moved his family, his The Dixiecrat revolt has not only memories of the pigtailed Chinese cook named Lee. When Valentine Hush took his wife and their six children to live at the house on September 7. 1887, they found the 1 i cx. i reached California, but has smoul dered right up to the base of some of the biggest things in the state kitchen presided over owned in fart bv who had been left be-! and coal furnice in the basement wife, Julia Norton Talbott Hush; Tourists from Sequoia National i Park and Kings Canyon National Berkeley Woman Leaves $330,000 An estate of more than $330,000 Park report the usual flurry of visitors Northern style a round hind when John Harrob, who built land the.

radiators are believed to their two daughters, Mrs. Joseph it, moved out lhave been th earliest models of Goodyear (Juelita) and Mrs. Jean Lee promptly established his that kind in th country. The rooms Hush Curley, and three grandchil-ownership of that kitchen with its were paneled? with; massive doors dren. Kyrina Curley.

15; Susan Ann big wood burning stove which had 19 feet high and remainder of Curley, 12, and William Hush Cur-it4 Hwn th vear bv ehasinslthe house scaled to proportion, i ley, 8, to 476 Boulevard Way. i the General Sherman and the Gen ecsl Grant sequoias, largest trees on was left by Mrs. Elisabeth Beckh, who died last month at her home, 2519 Hillcourt Street, Berkeley, it (A earth. Mrs. Hush out of the room with a Beautiful mirrors adibrned the walls.

Inroads upon the original estate But do the Southern rebels gather to admire? Noma'mm! Nobody who fever sipped a mint julep under a With all th visiting, horseback already were maae witn ine leasing riding, tennis land Entertaining no 'of East 14th Street frontage to a family ever had a better time, he chain grocery store, said. The house and barn property has butcher knife. He made his peace by baking the best popovers the family had ever eaten. magnolia tree would pay homage to mere giants named Sherman and I Then when the si children grew -been purchased by Marston Camp- Lee stayed as their cook for 35 rmiv a a valued servant ud the old house was thrilled with! bell as an investment. He an- was disclosed in a Superior Court inventory filed, today.

A will executed in 1941 calls for dividing the estate equally between her two children, Mrs. Hildegard M. Volwassen, 1516 Euclid Avenue. Berkeley, and Dr. Walter Beckh, 50 San Buenaventura Way, San Francisco.

The estate includes stocks and bonds and a half interest in a business building located at 923 Market Street, San Francisco, Grant The Southern forces aren't out-3 maneuvered, however. They spend their time looking 5 if the General Lee tree and what it lacks in size is more than made for with fine, eye-filling pride. 'X --THE KNAVE but practically a member of the a double wedding that of Estelle nounced it will become a paved and family Huh said i Woods Hush to; Thomas Magee, and landscaped parking lot, as an ad- But 'in the first days the maid her sister, Harriett Louise, to his dition to the industrial center which who had come out rom Minneapolis brother, William -Magee. jhas been established in that area, with the family was terrified ol Leei Mrs. Thomas Magee now lives ins The area is zoned for apartment and he lascinated the children.

who 1 San Mrs, William A. buildings, Campbell said, An Army honor guard prepares to lire a rifle salute as the Army Transport Dalton Victory warps alongside an Oakland Army Base dock today. Aboard the vessel are the remains of 3961 Pacific war dead returned to this country for final buried. Among these were the bodies of 35 ex-servicemen frcmi Bay ccrea diieTrlbune photo..