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5 i I if NEWS ON THE HOUR EVERY HOUR KLX 91 1) cc THE TRIBUNE STATION ASSOCUTEff PRESS, W10E 0 ft I ITED i A 80 DAILY IE WS F0REI6I SERVICE 21 NO. 135 OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 12, 1948 VOL CXL1X i- As yet there are no reports of ac- GAR ALL DS FOR FOOTB GRID-WISE GUYS M. BEAEDSLEY Chicago Daily News Service anyone picking 10 winners was infinitesimal. For years we've been hearing and reading isclnating fables about the crystal-gazing swamis who conduct these football odds. We've heard about their far-flung underground network of spies in every football squad locker room; about the broken down ex-professors of mathematics from Oxford and their slide-rule formulas for appraising the touchdown potentialities of football teams they have never seen.

The shrine of football odds on which the pools are based is in Minneapolis. It is Athletic Publications, Inc. This concern publishes footbaU, baseball and basketball annuals, schedule cards and books, weekly football, basketball and baseball reeord books, and furnishes football handicapping service to bookmakers throughout the Nation. IN BUILDING Its offices- are on the second floor of the Gorham Building, a drab brick loft building just two blocks off Hennepin Avenue on them enough to have scored a couple of touchdowns. "Every week we pick three games in which the underdog is likely to upset the, favorite.

We've been' hitting right on two out of three pretty consistently. We picked Yillanova to upset Kentucky, Harvard to upset Princeton and Oklahoma to upset Missouri. We were right on' Oklahoma, wrong on Harvard, half-right on Villanova the score was a tie. SHOULD NT HAPPEN "What happened to that tailor in Denver shouldn't happen. With a good handicapping service anyone can pick enough tougft games so that there won't be too many contest winners.

"Another thing we don't go in for anything but football, baseball and basketball. We don't try to figure odds on hockey, prize fighting, horse racing, or elections. Couple of years ago- some sports writer wrote that we had quit furnishing hockey odds because of a betting scandal in Detroit. We didn't quit because we never Si J- W4 1 STACK By HARRY the fringe of the wholesale tiro duce district. The Minneapolis Produce Exchange has offices on the fourth floor of the Gorham Building.

"The produce exchange supplies statistics and markrt information for the produce says Leo Hirschfieid, head of th-letic Publications, Inc. "We furnish the same sort of service for people in the football pool Hirschfieid, a stock middle-aged businessman type with a shock of white hair and an allergy toward reporters, suavely evaded answering any questions about the extent of Athletic Publications' business, number of clients, or details of its methods. "REALLY NO STORY" There is really no story in our operations," he said. "No mystery or glamor. It's just a statistical service such as numerous other firms furnish numerous clients in other lines of business.

"There is no crystal gazing in it just a lot of hard collecting, reading, digesting and in Jf around the office. Well, some of our Landicappers are college graduates." "What we want in a handicap per is someone with a knowledge of football, a photographic memory, and sn ability to interpret figures. He has to be able to think fast and clearly under pressure. Sentiment and guesswork have no place in our business." "How good a percentage do you maintain on your forecasts?" we asked. AREN'T INFALLIBLF "I wouldn't know.

We're not interested in our handicaps once we've made them. "We aren't infallible. Take that Texas Christian-Baylor game, for instance. We picked Texas Christian to win by three points. Baylor won 6-3: But Texas Christian outgained Baylor by a big margin and wound up on Baylor's one-yard line as the game ended.

Were we right or wrong? "Same thing about Southern Methodist and Texas. We picked SJW.U. by seven points. They won by 15; but Texas outgained ft. JtA a.

4 4 -w "'V 4c terpreting a great mass of figures. We don't have a big staff of correspondents on college campuses throughout the country. "We don't have spies under coaches beds. We subscribe to and read the sports pages of most of the newspapers of the eoun- 1 try, including the college papers. Where we can't get delivery of newspapers in time for out pur- poses, "we get special service on game statistics.

"All available statistical information on both teams in a coming contest Is digested. It is then studied by our handicappers. The final result is not the Opinion of. any one genius. It is a consensus of the opinions of six or seven men.

"We don't print or sell any football pool cards. Our only interest is to furnish our clients' with sound basic information as to possibilities. Most of our work is done between Saturday night and Monday afternoon. It's hard work. "One magazine writer, some years ago, made a crack about the 'non-collegiate looking people 4 a i land's harbor front that is not a commercial enterpHse, the directors pointed out.

They believe that a section should be set aside that would be available for the club and for the public. OBJECT TO DEAL The club officers said that the consensus of opinion now was that, matter what happens." "In the past 15 years we've had no co-operation with the Port of Oakland," one member said. "The question now is whether we want to bow down to the rules of the port or leave and build our own facilities some other place." As a Coast Guard auxiliary, the club has served as a training center and furnished boats and men for service during the war. It also has assisted in Sea Scout training and was described by the directors as the "only place in Oakland where Lhealthy interest in marine life is fostered." BROUGHT TO HEAD The current dispute between -the club and the port commissioners, brought to a head over decision of the board to advertise for bids on leasing of the harbor facilities, is expected to be climaxed when the bids are advertised. At that time a meeting of the three finalists from Los Francisco, and iiiaiirtaiww deft to right) Mary Filzpairick, 18, Kappa Kappa Gamma Angeles; Joan Young, 18, Gamma Phi Beta pledge from San Barbara Thomas, 19, Alpha Xi Delta from Piedmont.

One ol these three Urdvereity of California co-eds will be named Sweetheart of Sigma" Chi when fraternity members make their, final selection tonight Yesterday they narrowed the campus-wide contest down to these BOOKIES had been In that business." While there is too evidence that the organisation maintains any extensive corps of information gatherers In college towns, It has clients. In all college towns who make it a point to keep In close touch with the lcl team and Its opponents. 3 INFLUENCES HANDICAPPERS "Much inforntalion gathered by the bookies and ool card operators undoubtedly? finds its way to the office of Athletic Publications, and some of it undoubtedly influences the handicappers. The statistics may show that team A should beat team by six points. But the foach of team may be keeping quiet the fact that his star passer who has ben hoPitalized weeks Is now v.

Or he may be Covering up the fact that htsiohiy good pass catcher has a broken hand that he can't catch a pass and will be used only as a decoy. Information like that is worth a whole filing cabinet full of statistics. Cepyrtrht, 1948, Chfeo Pscy Swt, Us. School Site Acreage Acquired For Co-educational Upper Grade Edifice Acquisition of 16acres of land st 98th Avenue and. Searns Street for a co educational Catholic High School, was annoifeced today by Archbishop John Mitty.

mere are no co-eaucatlonal cath olic high schools in California at the present time. Mpnsijpnor Harold E. Collins of. the-Sin ancisco Arch diocese said anotherf is proposed at Greenbrae, Marin Coinry. rri -L 1 jl ne property was icquirfa irnra Mrs.

Bella Julia Diodati 61 76 Cambrian Avenue, I Piedmont, well- known Catholic lay woman and widow of Joseph Caucci, wealthy Oakland contractor. She said she made available to the Acchdiocese" for l'low figure" because of her" realization ot the need for such a icho. 1000 EXPECTED It is expected, 100 students will be accommodated. Building costs -are fxpecled to run high into the thousands and will be financed by the arhdiocese, possibly by parish assessments, Mon-sienor Collins said. 1 Financing will directed by Archbishop Mitty.

1 Several buildings! will be" included. Mrs. Diodatijsaid she Understood the school auditorium will be named as a memorial to Catucci, killed October 25, 939, wheti his automobile collided! with work train in West Oaklarip. PLANS PREPARED! -t Specific plans nof are being prepared for the schoolunder direction of Archbishop Mitt, Bishop James T. O'Dowd, archdiofesan director of education, and thel Rev.

James N. Brown, superintendent of Catholic Schools in the archliocese. Girls will be taught by the Sisters and boys by the priests, although the school administration win act as a unit Laboratory, library and other academic ficilities will be 3lnuy Seaman Sentenced For S.F. Bank Holdup Arthur E. Richalds, 24 merchant seaman, was gfvfn a three-year Federal penitential sentence today for the $1450 "lost eek-end" holdup of a San Franciscb bank last Oc- tober 9.

Sentence was imposed by Federal Judge Louis E. G6oodman in San Francisco. Richard! previously had pleaded guilty to robbing an American Trust Compahi branch bank at Polk and California Streets at the height of a drinking spree. He was captured four hours later. morning before coming down Catholics Get MINNEAPOLIS, Nov.

12. If you've ever tried to pick three, six or 10 winners on a football card, yea might be interested in personally conducted tour thronrh football's mystle temple of magic numbers. It's at Second Avenue North and Seventh Street here walk one flight up and save a dollar by not trying to beat the handi-cappers. Football pools are big business. Every week they take in millions of dollars from smart suckers who think they can outguess the handicappers who make the odds for the gamblers who sell the pool cards.

A Denver tailor who ran a pool to advertise his recently got nicked for $22,248 when 412 persons picked 10 winners. BAD HANDICAPPING That was bad handicapping. An expert would have seen to ft that there were enough tough 'games included so that the chances of as Murder Clue Bits of Body Found In S.F. Ruled Out of San Leandro Case Possibility that three human bones -found on a San Francisco public dump might be a link to the still unsolved mutilation murder two years ago of Ramon B. Lopez, 52, San Leandro nurseryman, was ruled out today after an examination by the "coroner's office.

In the Lopez case, the missing parts of the body were the head. hands, upper arms and the upper legs. The bones found resterday included a right and left tibia the larger of the bones of the lower leg, coroners deputies said, ine uura bone was part of a jaw. It held four I gold-filled teeth. The leg bones had been wrapped in newspaper and placed in a wicker basket The worker who found them discarded the paper but be lieved it bore a 941 date.

Police believed for a time that the bones might be those of Iopez, whose dismembered body was. found behind a San Francisco theater on September 8, 1946. "Coroner's deputies saidth ey were convinced by their examination that the bones came from a laboratory and had been used by medical stu dents. EDUCATION GRAND; YOU MEET SUCH NICE BERKELEY, Nov. 12.

Higher education is a wonderful thing. For instance, if 'are a pledge at Theta Chi Fraternity, 2462 Le Conte Avenue, it gives you such icieas as: 1 Moving all the furniture out of the house and piling it on the lawn; 2 Dumping sawdust all over the floor; 3 Mixing in hundreds of marbles (out of their heads?) and potatoes; 4 Taking all the light bulbs out; 5 Returning at 5 a.m. to set off All this they did last night to show upper classmen that they are true blue brothers. Neighbors to whom the relationship is most elusive called police and Patrolman W. Plantz picked up six of the pledges, admonished and released them.

3 This has Inothing to do with the "brothers" plans for them. The six: David Dalton. 21: John Jackson. 20; Roy Wigginton, 21; Frances Stagnaro, 23; John Way land 21. and Mark Bates.

24. Knife Suspects Hunted Ttf ARYSVIIiLE, Nov. 12. (UJ9 A statewide alert was sounded today for two unidentified -youths who last night fatally stabbed Kenneth Wheeler, 27, Gridley, during an argument at a service station near here. Dials to Replace Chinese Phone Office in S.F.

uui auc aiit wmcn is Chinese for "number, please" is fading, into San Francisco telephone The Pacific Telephone and Tele graph has announced plans to switch I700 subscribers served by the famous morrow. The remaining 1 1400 1 will NS changed early next yearJ. A leaflet in Chinese and English is being distributed to acauaint Chinatown old-timers with the'mod- ern system. xThe company says its China office itf the only Chinese telephone office outside of China--and the only telephone in the world conducted tongue foreign to the country in which Jt is located. The office was opened in 1894.

Bones Fail tuai xjsucuij.5, dui oia inenasmps re watering between heated argument and cold glares out Livermore The biggest argument ince What was the worst -dry year, 1898 or 1899, is, still at fever -itch. Not a single old-timer is willing to admit that the Palm Ballroom, which was destroyed by fire afternoon, was only 44 years 0W. Some are positive that the building was already, old when they first saw it 50 or more years ago. And they get very cross indeed when Mait Henry, publisher of the Livermore Herald, digs into the files the building was com pleted in May, 1904 Most Livermoreans just know It must have been older than that, and the1 assumption is not surprising. For more than ffour decades the huge, barn-like structure was a center for the city's social life.

So important was it to the that it was regarded as an 'historic- landmark, and nearly everyone assumed.it antedated other livermore buildings which actually are much older. To hundreds of old-timers in the city and many not too oldthe structure never was accepted as the Palm' Ballroom. j. To them it always was, arid always will be remembered as i Sweeney's Opera House. That's the title it held when it was built-in 1904 Dy jonn Sweeney, pioneer saloonkeeper whose place of business adjoined the structure.

That good old Irish name stuck to the building xor many years. Some 10 or 15 years ago someone nailed some palm branches to the interior, walls and gave it the more recent title. 'It was Sweeney Ballroom or a tinwTbefore that, and the name of Its builder was further kept an Emerald Green for many years in the adjoining Sweeney's Restaurant. That place was distinguished as the only Sweeney's Restaurant in the world which specialized iri Italian cooking. In recen years the anachronism was corrected by renaming -iti the Italian Inn.

Recollections are vague as to whPther Sweeney's ever was ac tually an Opera House, but nearly everything else was presentea nitViin its walls, 'In the early days, traveling theatrical troupe and amateur thes-pians trod its National Guard units usedjt as a drill hall 'Company l9th Infantry, and Battery 143rd Field Artillery. It was the scene the city's greatest social fuictions New year's Eve masquerades presented by the Foresters, the Firemen's Ball which came annually on the first Saturday after Lent, the Halloween Ball oft the -TLX. military balls by the Guard outfits, the an-ual dress-up event of jthe Woman's Improvement Club, and minor af-Hfairs almost every Saturday night ot minor by aay stretch of the imagination were the Lions' Club Rodeo Booster events, which stretched everyone's And thousands of Bay area residents will, recall the Ballroom as the place where linexplainable thines hanoened during the cowboy dances staged by the American Le gion as a feature or tne ftoaeo cer Viratinns. I Raer long before even he rtrpamed he would become heavy champion was one of the tvenniless youngsters who hung round outside the place until mid night on 4 Saturday nights before imnintf the festivities Inside. It was customary to 'quit charging admis sionat-midnight.

'Vj: it was in Sweeney's that the Liv ermore Cowboys composed mostly of McGlincheys scored their bas ketball triumphs and ibecame con tenders for the National aau chamniortshio. Long after, theatrical glories had vanished, the Opera House staged a brief comeback in that field, serving as movie theater while fire damage to the regular ineaier -was Deuig epau cu. In recent years it had been used as a dance hall and roller skating rink and its front had been remodeled into a food market, with apartments above, To the lore of old-time recollections must now be added some of the incidents which occurred when the structure literally went out Tuesday in a blaze" of glory. Paramount is, the story of George Chaoell. service engineer for' an Oakdale manufacturer of fire fight? ing equipment; wh0 ust happened, to be driving through Livermore.

en route home from demonstrating a pumping engine at Lafayette. He hooked up the pumper to a "hydrant and started delivering water at tne rate ei ooo gallons a minute. Fire Chief! Al Bonne cred its that lift, together with- assistance from Pleasanton, Santa' Rita Prison Farm, and Veterans Hospital fire department, as enabling his men to stop the fire when it threatened to destroy a "whole block of wooden business buildings. To the estimated $100,000 loss' however, must be added one item of fire department equipment." i While the Livermore fire were busy saving adjoining build Jlings, one of their ladders burned up. i i O.

fe Almost as badly stricken by the fire as Roy Anderson, the owner the building, was George White, who operated the skating rink and lived in an apartment fn the build- ins. WhJtp had just disposed nsss- interests at had sold his heme there, and was preparing to become a permanent resident of Livermore. -r--" -1 He was in Salinas, loading furniture jtor removal to Livermore, when the' fire broke. He arrived with his household equipment to find no place to put OO Hundreds of pigeons wf re left homeless by the blaze, Accustomed to roosting on the building every, night, they were flying around in huge flocks after the fire, obviously bewildered. Owners of near-by large buildings are.

unanimously hoping they do NOT fall heir to the pigeons. THE KNAVZ. 1 OAKLAND YACHT CLUB TO MOVE IN ROW WITH PORT COMMISSION Pioneer Actor, Director Dies NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 12. WVi-Fred Niblo, whose career began in a small Nebraska town and included fame on Broadway in Hollywood, died of pneumonia here yesterday.

He was 74. 'His death broutrht an nd to nlans a thirtieth wedding -anniversary Years of bickering between the Board of Port Commissioners and the Oakland Yacht Club over use of the harbor facilities at the foot of 19th Avenue appeared today to have evolved in a decision to move the club to new quarters outside of the city. The removal of the club, if it is completed, will leave Oakland without a yachting organization which according to club members has been lof high value in the past, both from standpoints. The opinion that the club would not be able to bid satisfactorily against a party for profit was reached by the board of directors at a meeting last night, according to Dr. W.

F. Holcomb, club commodore. NEW HOME SOUGHT The directors have just about given up hope of being able to enter a bid, he said, and a committee is looking for and probably has located new quarters outside of Oakland. The directors revealed that there was a feeling, as citizens, the Oakland should have a harbor set aside for recreational purposes, either the park; department or the recreation department. Several members of the club will appear before the City Council next Tuesday in their capacities as citizens to make that request.

There is not "one inch" on-Oak- Contest Narrows to 3 By MERR1E MEADOWS They're the Sweethearts of Sigma Three beautiful blond, blue-eyed U.C. co-eds haven't been able to concentrate on their studies today but they're at the top of their class in beauty. The finalists chosen yesterday by secret ballot at Cal are Gamma Phi Betta pledge Joan Young, 18, from San Francisco; Piedmont Alpha Xi Delta Barbara 18 year old Kappa Kappa Gamma from Los Angeles. This tantalizing trio were luncheon guests at the Sigma Chi house today to further acquaint themselves with the members of the fraternity. The chapter will vote tonight for their final choice who will be presented Saturday midnight during the annual "Sig" Sweetheart formal.

This 11th annual U.C. Sigma Chi Sweetheart will receive a silver loving cup and a perpetual trophy for her sorority. She will then be presented with a lei fashioned from red ginger blossoms and congratulated With a kiss from fraternity president. Bill Killeen. Bart Bromberg expressed the house's sentiments and smiled, "We're the luckiest men on campus to have such a wonderful anyone of the gals would make a fine i I Queen www mi.

mm.m I "'If club membership will be called and "after we see what they're demanding," the club may enter a bid, the directors said. If it is decided definitely that the club cannot com-Dete with outside bidders, the mem bers will withdraw their yachts and remove their other facilities Vwi divided between "one-third strong 1 T'r-A and one-third which doesn care, AW -i -v 4U in jfv 4 i rt Dr. Holcomb said. Charles Watts vice-commodore uic uuu, icjjvjrteu uiai iu several meetings with the port commissioners, he had reached no satisfactory working agreement. Policemen Guard Home of Actress HOLLYWOOD, Nov.

11 flj.R) Six special policemen guarded the secluded mountain home of Actress Ida Liipino and her husband. Studio Executive Collier Young, today. "Tuesday night our" two police puppies were stolen from their kennel," Miss Lupino said. "Last week a maid found a prowler in the garage, and on September 25 a bullet was fired through a bedroom window." Sheriffs deputies said the shot may have been fired accidentally by a rabbit hunter. Bob Fraies didn't take time to to survey overturned chairs, Floor is covered with sawdust, 1 -s I i (-! i I '11 cruise with his wife, the former EnicLBennett of Australia.

Niblo retired 10 years ago. He was: widely known in the early days of Hollywood and was acclaimed Musketeers" and "Blood and Sand." The veteran performer appeared in vaudeville in the early IflfKVs. during which time he made two command performances before the British royal family, and appeared in numerous Broadway productions from 1910 to 1918. Franco Would Like tflfln flfin ffftfl I AlL iUU tJUJ LOOIl NEW YORK, Nov. 12.

Gen-41 erahssimo Francisco Franco desires United States loan to replace outmoded industrial and transportation equipment in Spain, the New York Times reported today. Spain would be willing to join an "alliance of the Occident" to meet such a war danger, he said. dress at Theta Chi Fraternity this j.ijiiimii. in. i -it 4, i i 1 ii ft a 3, if 41, t' iwiiwuwmnwiwiim iiniiimw wmi imiwi iiiwTiinnniTinrnnrTiT i mirmrrri i i rmr i mn yi'M I i 'i I i r.

I 12 years before the earthquake and! i tire of 1908. Original operators were UL m0inmli.m-tmmmmmmtm0mmt inn mi i i in nu.ii muMMiwm im T1 "mr-fi-vr-P-1 1 1 raWM-'iM. Have a dbairl Have two chairs, but beware ol Al CtindalL bouse manager of Thela Chi Fraternity, at 34S2 Le Conte Avenue, Berkeley, who stands ready to chastise fraternity pledges who put the choirs ca the loro os part of a night playful pranks. men who vuxiea ineir pigians in a knot to keep them free of the switchboard. Now it is operated by Chinese girls, all of them expert in both English and Chinese.

strewn furniture and general disorder, created by pledges sprinkled with marbles and potatoes. Tribune photos,.