Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 17

i NEWS ON THE H0U1 PIKY HOUR KL 910kc THE TRIBUNE STATION 111 C- 4JI0CUTE0' DIELT MEWI PfiJIEISI SEKVICC aciJt 'fesnxi ij jfx Ji a NO. 43 VOL. CXLV1II 17 OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1948 the 'mountain and hidding, they 'are jus likel the -robbers the day time That window sign at 13th and i Broadway the one headed "No 1 Snow in the Mountains! No lights the sleep and, night' time they go into; the towns and kill' who they SUspisd Held ssue Rests! Key Control I feelt like and take some food and cloths and guns and go back to the mountains again and hidding. "Cast night they when in town; torlif-Runner On Commission Ruling abou 10 miles way from my town. and took food, guns, cloths and some cold money from man and killed 2 man and put fire on 2 house, and when soldiers; go after theni they ran up to mountains.

So It continues: TIf our stores seem dark and dreary, it's not I because we're tight; It's because the lack of Really means a lack of light. j. But you've heard about poetic license? At noon the ether day, with a bright sun beaming outside, patrons counted no. less than 50 overhead lights beaming brightly inside, plus neon signs blazing in every window, and art aura of indirect lighting ground iach interior pillar. The Forty-Niners were ageing a bit by but they still had visions of aitd greater discoveries or maybe' just a well-developed sense of humor.

r- i would be very long now to come in my town some night and what ap-pens no know. Cigaret Holder of Victim Is Foupd On Step of Auto' Miss June Smith, 24, of 819 East "We my have a bigv fight with theni. because we have plenty guns Stalemate on New Transit Franchise 1 Overshadows Bus Changeover Move City Council demands for control Key System service operations rested today on a prcfepective ruling by the State Public Utilities Commission. I The issue of a protracted stalemate on a new transit franchise overshadows the application the company for con 12th Street, was' jailed early today after the cigaret holder of hit-run The Colfax Record found this accident victim was found on the item in the Dutch Flat Enquirer of 84 years ago: running board of her parked car. version to motor coaches of but we not, know how many -will be of them, my be 60 or 200 and more canteL- This country never will stop this trouble except if this country will be colony to Unite State of America.

Otherwise we will have troubles al time. "Bat the best way for me is to selling my property and come back to Sweet Pleasanton to -make living like 4 man but not like animals we do here. I have try all this summer to selling no body will to buy on account those troubles, but if I found anybody this winter or not the No. 14, 15. and 18 street fWe have seen a gentleman who has made a trip to Green Valley, car lines.

-Hearings' on the where, he fortunate enough to The young woman, in a virtual state" of collapse, was taken into custody at her home by Emeryville and Oakland police who had traced her. car by its license number. Victim of the accident was John Setas. 62. a cook, who was struck and left strike a vein of pure copper, or so nearly so that the ore, it is said, can be used for practical purposes ASTRONOMERS WILL OF MARS TONIGHT PROBE SECRETS were concluded in San Francisco; yesterday, and the proposal was undercpmmlssion consideration today.

without, being assayed. 4t the summer I will leave for Sweet '-Charges that Key System busses are-heina operated illegally and that Pleasanton any way." I "Jsmes Dowdle is the fortunate individual and being of a generous disposition has already given away the greater portion of the lead, and is willing to sell the balance at a trifle as he is opposed to mining for copper; he was prospecting for unaries Moore, au, oi aigu scnooi Street, Richmond, and his wife, Irene, witnessed the accident, which occurred at 2 a.m. at San Pablo Avenue and 40th Street They gave Startling and deplorable as the news lis, spread of the hasheesh chase in their car as the hit-run the company record is a long trail of broken promises." were placed before the commission yesterday by Arch Bowden, assistant city attorney. He: maintained the company is violating a charter amendment adopted last year which requires. a franchise- for bus lines.

DEMANDS FRANCHISE habit imaong the junior population doesn't surprise the owner of a McDonald observatory, FORT DAVIS, Texas, 17. (V-Astronohiers at McDonald Observa tory hce to settle within the next 24 hours two key questions about the possibility of life or? Mars. As tfie planet swings closer to gold. "Another discovery was mr.de by auto sped south on San Pablo with its Eghts off. OBTAIN CAR LICENSE souped-up jalopy out our way, another of the party, which is cal culated to greatly aid in the growth "First, you old guys horn in on our yo-yosr" he explains.

"Then you stick your nose in our bubble gum. At Stanford and Eastshore, Moore sr-fi I of our town, should it turn out earth tinight than it will be at any anrl wtfii n7r aKI Bowden asked the commission to! other time in two they hope well as expected. It is a large beer The other day I read where an jieense number. They returned well which- is reported to yield some ancient-buzzard of 35 ups and mar and reported it to Emeryville police. require the company to obtain a city i to detesnine, with the observatory's franchise as a prerequisite of serv-j 82-inch reflecting telesobpe: ice changes.

He said that would 1 Whether water, in; the form of 800 gallons a minute, but owing to Earlier last night another hit supplement the commission or fMater vapor, is present. 2 Whether the green areas obvi isdiction over company operations ous onlMars are trees'1 or. grass or "Both commission and the City Council would be looking down thefweeds, pike our own. 'or are they some ojher vegetable fjfcrm? Key System throat" he explained. Frank S.

Richards, attorney for Key System, contended the city is seeking to usurp the control powers The gastronomers alio are concerned bout a very earthy question. Tfiey hope the weather on the rounded summit of Mount Locke voted to the commission in 1914. He; ries a 1 17-year-old dame. There's nothing left to us but hop." The current issue of Coronet has an article describing modern developments in the use of glass. It's written by Madelyn Woed.5 And that brines tm the fact that the first City Manager of Woodland is named Ferns.

Scientists at the Scripps Institution of pceanography at La Jolla, who solemnly swear they haven't even smelled the laboratory alcbhol, confirm the report a couple of eyeless, pink catfish were pumped from 1250 feet underground in a San Antonio, artesian well Ancestors of the peculiar pisces ape supposed to have been trapped underground declared flatly that the company wfll bf clear. Statistics show that "will never accept" a franchise Mdtf Id Observatory is in one of runner critically injured John N. Davis, 80, of 824 51st Street, as he was crossing San Leandro Street at 51st Avenue. young-, woman who reportedly was driving the hit-run car stopped, asked Bjchard Marshall, a clerk, in a grocery store, to call an ambulance, and -then drove away. Davis was reported to be near death at Highland Hospital today of a possible skull fracture and internal SETAS IN HOSPITAL Setas, who lived at an Emeryville hotel at 40th and San Pablo, suffered a possible fracture of the left knee, cuts and bruises.

He also is at Highland Hospital Acquaintances said that Setas, well known in Emeryville where he has been a cafe cook for years, was almost never seen without the which gives control to the council. City insistence on control is delay the molt favorable locations in the world, but Texas weather sometimes defies Statistics. Dr. Gerard P. Kuipe observatory directo, has been using a newly-developed infra-red Spectrometer attached to McDonald telescope's big eye! in recent studies bearing on the possibility of life ion Mars.

He hopes during the nex few hours, when fie planet comes within Smiles of the eirth. to make ing action on the application which, in addition to motorization of the three Oakland lines, would provide express service for Hayward and Richmond patrons, Richards declared. COMPANY STAND The company attorney argued that Key System is already paying motor the great number of AboBtiomsts who- have flocked to the well since its discovery the finder has been unable to test its merits. "All that is now needed to make our town an-. inland city is the discovery of a soap mine, for which several parties are now out "prospecting." Bourke E.

Hickenlooper, U.S. Senator from Iowa, who was here to address the Republicans' Lincoln Day dinner, apparently figures corn is corn, even in Iowa. He steadfastly refused to repeat the yarn that is reputed to have won him thousands of votes in his election campaign. So the Knave will have to tell it for him. Iowa- farmers chuckled heartily when he described how.

as a small boy. he had asked a druggist toj charge 10 cents worth of asafetida. 1 "Take it for free," the druggist is reported to have declared hastily. "It's worth much more than 10 cents to write both asafetida and Hickenlooper into my books." One gift article, the Knave hopes never to receive is a pair of those new shorts turned out by a Phoenix. firm.

They are emblai-oned with huge red ants, printed on the white background, and they, call the horrible things -Antsy Pants." Sometimes crudity in grammar f- I 1 i I 7 gv I'f I t- and evolution in the absence of sunlight is believed to have caused them to lose eyes and skin pigment further studies of bothHts polar cap vehicle fees and gasoline taxes to Personally the Knave thinks that t.v i-ti k. noiaer in ms moutn. compensate for use of city streets. and itsjareas of green potent vealed that the Setas' hit-run car -v IP iff He pointed out that busses do not require alterations in pavement such as are necessary for streetcars. The city does not oppose con was registered to Miss Smith.

Oakland Traffic Officers O. C. Jenkins and Treace Lafon went to her where they were joined by Emeryville Patrolmen William Re- version of the streetcar lines in Religious Leader Addresses Parley BERKELEY, Feb. l7. Readiness to seek help is not a sigh that we are abnormal, or worse off than someone else, but is sa mark of su- gallie and John L.

Doyle. Just a passing thought for advocates of municipal ownership of transit lines and those who are plugging for a $224,000,000 Bay tube and subway system Edward A. Roberts, transit and engineering consultant, declares -in the February issue of Bus Trans-, portation that: "Figures for a '21-year periodisbow that each automobile added to the Nation's total fleet has reduced transit traffic byrap- Officers said they found the the present application, but proposes the change be approved for a trial period only. Bowden told the commission the restriction would enable a return to streetcars or installation of electric trolley coaches IT bu operations prove unsatis-, bumper of the carvbent in, a dis Miss June Smith 24, of 819 East 12th Street nears collapse as Emeryville Officer John L. i perior courage and insight," the 26th located headlight and caved-in grill.

The cigaret holder was lying on the running-board. DENIED ACCIDENT -Miss Smith at first denied any Doyle deft and Oakland Officer Howlcmd Forte show her the cigaret holder of John Seta. hit-run victim, on the running board of her car On photo at right) Setas, well known Emeryville cook, shown in lower photo in Highland Hospital. Tribune photos. Id'-n I Interdenominational Pastoral Con- Both Bowden and Richards agreed tmnci the padf SchooI of Re proximateiy 1000 rides a year" ngivix nas iuiu ucie iouv.

And auto production in 1948 is Seward The 5 speaker was Rev knowledge of an accident but said she had "had a few drinks" dur motor coaches on the College Avenue line would settle the argument over service, deficiencies and the Hiltnert executive secretary of the I Department of Pastosal Services of and spelling is more expressive than the polished phrases of a literary purist. Far away in Greece, Tom Balalas yearns for the day1 when he can return from that strife-torn country case history of that move was placed, the Feeral council jf Churches of into the record. EASTBAY HYPNOTIST GRILLED IN BLACK DAHLIA MURDER predicted toe set a new high record! 0 In that stronghold of the Wild West Las Vegas. men are men but women practically run the town. The county clerk is a woman.

The city clerk is a woman. Likewise for the city librarian, and the two court reporters, the heads of the Community Chest Red Cross, and Girl Scout organizations, the manager Bigamy Charge jails Engineer Feb. 17. John E. Rowland, 54.

construction engineer, was held in the Berkeley jail today ing the evening at an Oakland tavern. When confronted by the cigaret holder on the car, she became hysterical and almost collapsed. She was placed in the Albany Jail since Emeryville has no accommodations for women, for investigation of felony hit and run driving. Two witnesses to the Davis acci to his ormer home in Pleasanton. You can feel the intensity of his emotioi as he laboriously struggles Under normal procedure it may be several weeks before the commission announces its decision.

Meanwhile the city of Richmond moved last night to impose a franchise tax on Key System operations. The Richmond city council in Christ qx America, who delivered his addresf before more jthan 400 ministers and students from western states the University Christian Church; Scenic and Le Conte Avenues. One if four lecturers of wide reputation! appearing under the Earl Foundation, Reverenii Hiltner said: to express them in an unfamiliar language, through the medium of a letter tp the Pleasanton Times: MARTINEZ. Feb. interests of Donald Edward Hickok.

38, confessed hypnotist who as-sertedly committed an immoral act "I was not able to write sooner sent to the Bay area today to question Hickok and investigate other points in the case, it was announced in Los Angeles. structed City Attorney Thomas of the Youth Recreation Center, and the deputy superintendent of dent Mrs. George Furtado, 33, of 9700 Walnut Street and Richard on a bigamy charge after a ruling Carlson and City Manager Wayne For being able to flee up to those because I was sick account those dam rebels make me wory and sick. I thought this time would be OK the district attorney's office thatiE. Thompson to confer with com-; pulls tfbon us which we call con- schools.

In addition, Las Vegas has AUenv 14. of 824 51st Street as well on 16-year-old Kicnmona gin. 9 nrv Marthaii th have placed him on the list of sus- Hickok was arrested at his Oro- a Mexican divorce obtained by Row- jpany officials in an effort to negoti-j flicts njeans that we are part way kiit a4-i -r rc a slow aKa! 1 L'Ul cung vtuioi viiuot uoin after a iana iasi septemoer was mvaua. an acceptaDie tax rate. Sanson toward; their solution; woman reportedly driving the car 111 in bjuik.

vine nome last weex two female practicing attorneys and 15 licensed realtors of the deadlier sex. i And now the Business and Profes Lbs Angeles homicide inspectors that struck Davis as about 28 years make troubles to all country's and also they get biger every day and do plenty things terrible. lengmy investigation oy ine ine engineer was arrested at Costa County district attorney's i Haste Street, where he had been liv- amendment would not be necessary, WOtWOT YCjrCrOn today admitted the unsolved muti could be ram tn the attention ofifae with his bride of fivi month I assertinz the matter lation murder of Elirabeth Short old, five feet four inches tall, weighing 140 pounds and wearing a light sports coat "You may have seen to the news-1 Retires fromj Navy CaptJ George C- Miller. USN, of Berkeley, a veteran' of 33 years of the former Mrs. Marie Elizabeth covered by ordinance.

jTield. The action followed a complaint I r.LM.l Mrs. Dorothy Daley Rowland of! jGrl LCanQrO DCnOOl 22. about January 15, 1947. is the i local authorities after he passed a one to which they referred in a state examination for a chiroprac-hold order filed with Sheriff James tor's license.

N. Long of 'Contra Costa County, BANNED BY CHURCH $1,210,080 Roadwork Cont-roef Awarded sional" Women's Club is trying to get one of its' members on the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce, currently an all-male group. Considering that men still outnumber women three to one in the city's population, it looks like the girls are doing all right THE KNAVE. papers what they do and nobody can stop them except the God, if he will. "They never had come to my state but they did last ten days.

First they when in town and put fire. in the bank and some other house and killed 4 man and run away up to The subject's background and; A State Medicai Board investiga Board Lets Contract fan Gabriel, who said she had married the engineer January 12, 1932, sn Los Angeles and that "they were SAfflAMTOTO. Feb 17 Prcvfous i tion revealed that Hickok had been raw T.F.AJsmRO. Feb. 17.

The Sl.210.080 contract' for four-Win I banned from a Richmond, church Separated July 0f last year. Ac- School Board at a special meeting tt: i An ir.n; r- alter ne asserteaiv nvDnonzea ine 5.6 miles of Highway 40 pear Vallejo ACTIVITIES CHECKED 16-year-old girl and another girl I 'been Te7 aana, she had with divorce Unn the rurtion of new Garfield naval fservice, including foreign service in both Worlid War I and n. has retired from the; Navy, the 12th Naval district an(unced today. Captain Miller enlisted in the Navy iia 1915 and wass appointed to the Nfval Academy in 1917. He served pwith both tile Atlantic and Pacific "fleets during World War and graduated fronj the Academy in 192fc Duriig Wrld War II he served las commandmg officer of an attack transport in? the South Pacific.

Activities of Hickok between in April, 1946. The immoral act papers. uary 1 and 15 of last year are being against tne older gin asserteaiy Police went to Rowland's resi- ent Roosevelt School. Railroad Man Dies ST. 17.

ft Norman B. Pitcairn, 66, chairman of the checked but the-Southern Calif or- occurred at a physio-therapy office a week ago to serve a big Wins Checker Crown SAN Feb. 17. 4 Leroy Carithers," 38, Oxnard orchardist won the annual tournament of the The Garfield School, an will consist of a kindergarten. was awarded today by the State Department of Pulic Works.

The section to be converted to a multiple lane road extends from the Vallejo to a point one-half mile north of Sears Point cut-off. Included in the project is a grade separation structure at the contract was awarded to Parish Brothers, Benicia. nia officers said they had been iormeny operatea at warrant, but at that time thel formed by local deputies that Hie-; en th Street and Macdonald Avenue, consulting engineer showed a rep- board of the Wabash Railroad who other and a teachers will be California Checker Association. He started his railroad career 44 years kok would give them little inf or- Richmond. (ord of a Mexican divorce, which rZm I mation.

Hickok. who is married and the 'had been obtained September Two Lnspectors who have worked father of two children, formerly 947. 10 days before he married Mrs. I erectt? -81 ZA. four classrooms, S109.207 at Au deeated K.

D. Hansen of San Lean-'ago as a rodinan far' the Pennsyl- rora Drive between West 129th and! Captain nd Mrs. Miller and their -dro for the championship last night vania, died last night daughter, Nette, 14, live at 17 King on the Los Angeles slaying may be taught a Sunday school class at Field. i the Richmond church which later He secured the divorct for $500 ston Read. Dannea mm.

-nrougn a San Francisco attorney. He has been arraigned on the Harold Cohn. who told him it was sex charge and will appear bef ore "faster and better" than a Nevada Superior Judge Harold Jacoby next decree and would be by West 132nd Streets. The addition to the Roosevelt School will include a frame addition with three classrooms and two one-classroom, cottage -type buildings. The, contract was let for $101,550.

Low bidden receiving the contracts for the' "work both schools was the San Francisco firm of Gaspard Henderson. Oaldander Held On Murder Charge Jamel Edgar McDonald, 32. former Oakland railroad fireman, was held to answer to Superior Court on a any judge in the country. Rowland Tuesday. Hickok is being held under $5000 bait it I i ft said.

The district attorney's office was gsked for a ruling and on instruction from J. Frank the warrant was served this morning. i Rowland said although he had 4 Tailor Follows Wife In Death of Stroke JnsVnh -Jo." MrCall. Kl. ladies' i of bis belongings inhis 7 charge of murdering; his wife.

Paula, when be appeared today before Police Judge Chris Bi Fox. McDonald, a figitive for 17 monthsj, was arrested by the FBI last December in Detroit and returned here to faces charges in the tavern jhooting of his wife July 31,: 1948. taUor. died last nieht of a hea house until last' July, attack suffered at his home at 432 hf not lived her as a hus-37th Street for a number-of years. a i ii a i 4 11 aI 1:1.

i i it mccw couapsea last evening ana jc was taken to Permanente BOhd VotC tion Hospital by Patrolman Fred- DAskquith. where he was pro-; Returns' Stlidv Set Snowslide Kills 2, nounced dead on arrival. Ex-Sergeant Held Oh Murder Charge Joseph 'W. Buthrr. 23.

a technical sergeant stationed at Hamilton Field, today was held toanswer to, the Alameda. County Superior Court on a murder charge filed a result of the death of Howard Wrightsman. 33. of 2647 Merritt: Avenue, San Pablo. The order followed a preliminary hearing before Police Judge Joseph A.

Authorities said Wrightsman died at a local hospital December 29 as a result of injuries suffered in a beating December 20 during a party at the home of Lester- Wampler, 33 -)l 774 Alcatraz McCall's wife, Mrs. Ettie 5D- wemoers died in an automobfle crash on the; li1 "IC xVnTran5 m5iary tana Bay Bridge un December 22. when i she suffered a heart attack and lost 5:30 clock thu aftemcm control of her car. to canvass the returns of a special McCall is survived by his son, week ich approved rlarfens Homes SEATTLE. Feb, 'l.

4JPh-A huge snow slide killed tre persons, injured three others and demolished eight hmes of construction workers last niht at City Likht's Ross Dam on the Skagit River.jf A snlwslide near.Bucktail, Mont, derailed 10 cars of a 'preat Northern freight 'train railroad officials ireported. I 4 Greg, and two sisters, Mrs. Katherine' a 5-. -1 I Martin and Mrs, Jane Soule. 1 IVA tu -V1 Funeral arrangements are being P1 I i made by the Albert G.

Brown 4V 7 present structures. 4 Mortuary. 4 pry Ad hesive Ta pe. Th wa rts Ca Fume Death A rubber hose had been connected The dryness of a piece of adhesive headqufu-ters after learning that the Machinists Open Wage Negotiations -Negotiations for wage increases and other demands opened today between representatives' of the Cali fipe and the curiosity of home-iwner apparently saved the life-to-dny; of a man identified as with the exhaust and brought in through a window which was closed with adhesive tape, police said. Because the tape was old and dry, the hose had apparently slipped from its place, after the man lost con- Jfmsen.

23. of Palo Alto, a Ueuten fornia Metal Trades Association and car was parked inn Northern Station's district and anambulance was available at that station. iTherf were ho nes.in the car, police laid, but1 pagers listed Jensen's audress as 700jKingsley Ave. nue, Palo Alto. Albutton on his coat identified him an employee of the! Paraffin- Cdin'pany of San theBay Area International Asso- commander in the US.

Naval nation oi MacrunLsts. wiuuiw uihuhsvuao deadly The union is askins raises ranzinz fixm carbon monoxide poisoning ciousness, carrying the from 25 cents to 50 cents an hour in i a prred automobile on Skyline away from the 'car. 1 Boulevard. Taken to Hernck Memorial Hos- automobile was noticed 1 by pital in Berkeley, Jensen was par- Franco-' A rpcktjanan for that firm -tViw Kr, i firm slid, they hadi worker hv tially revived by doctors, who. said a W.

E. Thomas of 6998 Skyline Boule j-i? Mi i j-, A i his condition was fair. various job classmcations. r- Along with wages, the union seeks changes of holiday and vacation clauses in its existing contract, which expires in April, 1943. Only wages and fringe issues axe negotiable at this time, I Judge Oliver Youngs Berkeley (extreme right) swears In the Judges of the Berkeley Bicycle Court These students represeni three Junior high schools end St Joseph's end: Berkejey high schools and were selected by tixe students and faculties.

They will look out for the cyclers' safety during- the--cSjnSng emeer-Triiun photo. me naioe oi wuuamgu Jensen, who lived af .3880 Magnolia Drive, Palo Alto, sJd who was employed in the vard orra secluded fknoll near his hjrle. He investigated and found the man slumped in the seat kbut stU breathing. The call' from Thomas was first answered by ambulance from Eastern Station, which returned to T. i.