Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 33

OAKLAND'S- ONLY LOCALLY LOCALLY DAILY NEWSPAPER isneimi Mm. win wiili. miit iiwi fiiciii iiivice '1 NO. 63 VOL CLII OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1950 33 Tuesday night's earthquake almost mads a mother out of Johnny Sheehan.truckdrlver, who lives at 1812 East 14th Street. Johnny's1 wife, Lucille, was In Highland Hospital, awaiting the snivel of a baby.

She had been U.S. Government Bridges Witness Declares Longshore Leader Takes Stand for Last Time as Long Trial Nears End Harry Bridges today returned my government," said Donohue, to the witness stand for more, coloring. Then he snapped: 3 i V) f--'C V-'" Disaster Drill Alerts Army Theoretical Tanker Blast Tests Military Facilities for Relief San Francisco was wiped out from North Beach to the Embar- cadero( and a tanker blew up in a fire which killed hundreds and left thousands homeless early to day but in theory only. The Dracuce disaster was staged on a complete surprise basis by Sixth Army and the SanJ Francisco Red Cross. It was" real istic enough for the several hundred persons to be routed from their beds before dawn.

Armv and Red Cross officials said this morning that the practice was designed to perfect meth- oas or comDatung sucn a caiamny he real thing ever happens. TANK BLOWS UP It got underway on paper at midnight when a huge oil tank Dlew up in North Beach, killing 50 persons and injuring hundreds. A serious fire broke out and by early this morning had reached the Embarcadero. City officials believed they had things pretty well under control when a high wind suddenly blew the fire out of control again. The blaze swept up adjoining streets and touched off a tanker moored at one of the piers.

It was at this point that San Francisco's -mayor theoretically asked the Army for assistance. But there was no theory about the calls that routed 50 key Sixth Army staff officers and several hundred enlisted men from sound sleep and sent them speeding to the Presidio. FORT ORD CALLED And there was no theory. either, about the call that was made a short time later to Fort Ord for additional help. One 250- Mr 1 IS T4.

VI (1 Note Confronts Accused Slayer FRANKFURT, Germany. March JfM's John W. Tague deft), their and students listen as Byron Savage, owner oi the engine company's accessory shop, explains some of the repair operations. Savage, who lives at 1721 26th Avenue, is father of one of the visiting students. Sii and tntricccy of airplane enaine parti fascinate students of Hawthorne School's sixth grade during a visit to the Oakland Municipal Airport yesterday.

Part of the group 40 sixth grade youngsters is shown during a slop at the Oakland Aircraft Engine Company, part oi the airport tour. waiting since Monday night and obstetricians, determining a Cae- rarean would be necessary, left instructions to be notified at the first feeling of action. Johnny was sitting by. He Is currently out of a job and is spending a good part of his time at his wife's bedside. Came 7:24 p.m.

and Lucille tarted. "I just felt a peculiar finking sensation," she said. Johnny ran for a doctor. "Think nothing of it," responded the doctor. "We just had an earthquake." This was a matter of great relief for Johnny.

"I thought it was odd when my wife told me about that sinking feeling," Johnny comments, "because I happened to have felt the same thing at the same time It made me wonder." too. 0 0 0 Everybody seemed to have different idea for the name of the new elementary school at De- coto. Nothing had crystallized, but already Lew Musick, principal at Decoto, sensed that some hec tic discussions were in the offing between various- groups who might want to honor various per sonages. So Musick is suggesting that! the new plant be called the Henry Barnard School. Nobody could have much objection to naming the school after the first U.S.

Commissioner of Education. Particularly since Barnard served at Washington, D.C., back in 1870. Any controversial matters connected with him should be dead by now. No one should say that the fa-" mous National Geographic is all wet, but it was that, according to the publishers' own admjssion. They ordered reprinting of copies of the March issue and dispatched them to subscribers in Northern California.

They explained that a steam pipe had burst in a while the magazines route from Washington to land. Many of the magazines i were soaked and color photos and just blobs. the maps became It wasn't possible to determine who got damaged magazines, so the entire consignment was reprinted and remailed. And all Northern California subscribers got nice dry copies, bone dry, although maybe we shouldn't say that either. 0000 Temporarily, the battle cry at Livermore High School is no longer "Ride 'Im Cowboy." "Hey, Rube," the old cry of the carnie lot, has taken precedence.

Spring has really busted loose all over and practically everyone concerned, even remotely, is beginning ft feel a sense of relief that the annual Junior Carnival will be' on and over tomorrow night It has been a rough campaign. The Junior class sponsors the affair to raise funds to finance its activities when the members become Seniors and face a multitude of graduation year activities. Come tomorrow night the big new gymnasium at the school will be transformed into a carnival lot, I with some 20 booths, I mail en testimony after one of his witnesses branded the United States Government "corrupt." His recall to the stand in defense of his own perjury trial marked what might be the end of the long and stormy trial, defense attorneys Vincent Hallinan and James M. Maclnnis indicated. Earlier they had said that Bridges, CIO longshore leader, would be their last surrebuttal witness.

Government testimony is fin ished. It was completed yesterday on the 66n court day, which so far has cost the government an estimated $500,000 and the de fense from $100,000 to $110,000. ON STAND ALL DAY At the noon recess Hallinan told newsmen he expects to keep Bridges on the stand all today. Chief Prosecutor F. Joseph Donohue said he would put the longshore chieftain through brief cross-examination tomorrow morning.

Donohue forecast a conclusion of evidence by tomorrow afternoon, barring any hitches, which means the attorneys will begin their summations to the jury next week. Preceding Bridges to the stand today was Mrs. Jean Murray, 33-year-old admitted ex-Communist, who charged this government of being "corrupt," and "a dictator ship of the monopolies." Her Temarks were brought out under cross-examination by Donohue as the attorney pressed her to fix the date of her first meeting with Mervyn Rathborne, a kev government witness, Mrs. Murray testified yesterday during defense examination that she first met Rathborne, an ad- mitted former Communist, in was ta I942- Sh I1X Uie caie more specuicuj. saxruuow "ol vW attended open booth of an Oakland res taurant, with Rathborne and other members of the party.

Mrs. Murray appeared irked by the prosecutor's attitude, "Mr. Donohue," she exclaimed; "you have some strange impres sions about communism, xou have been reading cloak 411(1 dagger dooks, are like the ones you and the Government have been able to buy, you and your corrput Government." Donohue asked if the meant the "Government of the United States." "The Government of the United States is a dictatorship of the monopolies," Mrs. Murray retorted. "You are referring to the Government of the United States "No more questions." Still another hectic moment veloped when Associate Defense Attorney Maclnnis suddenly nounced: 'j "We are going to ask that the witness Rathborne be summarily cited before the grand jury for perjury." PERJURY LNNDICTMENT Maclnnis said the perjury indictment was being sought because of Rathborne's testimony which placed co-defendant J.

Robertson at a San Francisco meeting at a time when the de- fense contends he was in Chicago. Robertson, on trial with Bridges on a conspiracy charge, followed Mrs. Murray to the stand. He denied he ever had attended any Communist meetings with Rathborne, as Rathborne, former confidant of Bridges, had testified. Rathborne had said that Robertson attended a Communist meeting in San Francisco in October, 1943.

The defense produced letters, telegrams, canceled checks to show that Robertson was in Chicago at the time. ACCUSED OF PERJURY Bridges, Australian-born president of the CIO International Longshoremen's and Warehouse men's Union, is accused of perjury at his 1945 citizenship bearing by saying he never had been a Communist On trial with him are two other union officials, Henry Schmidt and Robertson. They re charged with conspiring to commit perjury, after concurring at the naturalisation hearing that Bridges was no Communist Several government witnesses. all ex-Commonists have said Bridges was a party member, attended party meetings, and on occasion ran his longshore ttfuon according to party lines. Yesterday Mrs.

Patty Tetaolra, 30, and Mrs. Mtaray, 33, fha defense's aurrebnttal witnesses, quoted Rathbom to the coutm. Both were indicted last De ecmber and currently face fed eral Court charges ol tampering with a witness. They allegedly threatened Rathborne with a sex plot unless he refused to testify against Bridges. Cooler Temperatures Will Follow Roin Cooler temperatures tonight and tomorrew with some patches of fog tomorrow morning will follow the light showers which began falling in the Oakland Area at 10:45 am.

The weatherman said tempera tures would drop to- the freezing level in outlying areas tonight and predicted readings in the mid- 30 for Oakland and San Francisco. Skies are expected to clear tonight and remain that way through at least Saturday. 'buddy' says HIT I0NE HOUSEKEEPER Two Youths Held l-TUW III I MCI I IUUI Two Richmond youths were held by Oakland police today in, investigation of an alleged "theft tour" in which soft drink I inmate les for burglary, were described as inseparable friends, an associa- tion of which Mrs. Corbin report edly disapproved. Mprrrr was hnnkpH for invpsti- cation at the Amador Countv iail company ot soldiers, repre-were senting two full battalions of 2000 note ound in Mrs.il 944..

Later she said she thought lYvette Madsen's home, allegedly a iiitiuue iu iiei rvn ruice uus- 4u uic i4 statement from the "buddv" of after he told officers he creature," was introduced by mc piustcuuon tuaay in me Communist meeting, neia in an JACKSON, March 9. Officers today believe they have soived the slaying of Mrs. Anna Corbin, head housekeeper at the Preston School of Industry at lone, with Eugene Monroe, 19, that he saw: Monroe, an inmate of the school for delinquent boys, is in the Amador lail nere await cnarge oi muraer. Sheriff George Lucot and Dist! AUV- that WHUam Jack: Mercer, 1 1, nas; uiauc a luxi owutiutiu ua. saw Monroe strike Mrs.

Corbin, ..11 Vot V.a insuiuuon ET talk after having Questioned! him reneatedlv since the slaving 22-year-old mother for murder. lne court trying Drunei Mrs. Madsen on a charge of shooting Lieut. Andrew E. Marian hearrf "Maybe everyone will think I am guilty, but I plead self defense.

"I left a loud, rowdv nartv be 1 main stations in five cities. ianen inio cuswuy oner officers saw them driving away from a service station at Eighth and Fallon Streets were Fred Allen Coy, 19, of 928 Chanslor Avenue, Richmond, and a 16-year- Patrolmen E. J. O'Connell and Guerino Russo said they found a crowbar, flashlight, hammer and pliers in the car and that the vouths had in their possession a -At oo nc ii IUU11 VI Oil UUI UIIC "iin iof which was in nickels. naa suspected ne iratwr becse t- found the prosecutor charge she wrote him in bed in the hosnital withi" note- saia Part: anothpP uii i a irt.ft1 cause I was insulted.

But I know xou seem to thma: aU the my husband will come home andlPP16 in 018 Communist party ii was oeiween iu ana iu.ou r-u- Mrs. Corbin." according to Eighth and Fallon Streets sta-the statement released by the of-ound a Eupply closet near her is to shoot him-tion had been pried open and the office, died of blows on the head1 (eel- rat- the low crea" money box looted, the officers! "Monroe and Mrs. Corbin got. and strangulation. I nlw wBrt)l mr- found.

into an argument. Monroe dou- In Los Angeles Police Capt. Chlef Wo Mc: ca iiif, it a jiiui iij ai n. i slayinc His trousers were under one bed and his shoes un as it hastily dis- mrAaji coroner's report said that hnAv ud R. Coppage said that in 1947 Monroe, tnen 17, was questioned at length about the stul unsolved strangulation slaying of Vesta Belle Sapenter, 17, a neighbor- hood friend of Monroe in a hous- Monroe, then also known as Eugene Jefferson, was never My only defense is to protect "ucu Washington, D.C., police hand writing examiner, on the witness stand in an attempt to prove the Brooklyn-born beauty wrote the note.

am wnen we were in uie ouicer bled up his fist and punched her: the face a couple of times. I saw blood. "I got scared and ran out the door and to the hospital. I Lwas sick." i Questioning of the younger boy, ttusso aeciarea, i i brought the ad-jin Officers indicated they project. the motive for the slaying but were not inclined to discuss it.

1 A V.J mm lllisaiuil kilt lie auu yyty uau wi- mitted this theft and some 14 others at stations here and in Richmond, El Cerrito, Berkeley and Emeryville during the night. All of the soft drink machines were situated outside the sta- tions, Russo said the boy told him. This youth was taken, to the Alameda County Detention Home, while Coy was held for investigation of theft in the City JaiL baseball, basketball and football i throws, balloon Dusung, nsn i They quoted Mercer as having booked or charged in the Los told them Monroe had said "some Angeles case, however. Captain day I'm going to kill that, Coppage said he admitted he was woman." in the Sapenter home at the time Monroe and Mercer, both sent or shortly after the girl was gar-to the institution from Los Ange-'roted but denied he killed her. was immediately dispatched by truck to San Francisco.

It was expected to arrive about noon. Meanwhile, at the Presidio, detachments of soldiers, fully- armed and equipped, were being dispatchedon paper to key points in San Francisco to aid in fighting the fire, to set up water distribution points, to patrol for looters and to aid in rescue work. None of the truck loads of soldiers actually rumbled into San Francisco but instead went to designated spots in the Presidio. The situation was pronounced "rapidly coming under control." ALL SORTS OF GRIEF BLAMED ON ONE CARROT cfiTTiT U7v, ira nth a "nl All because of a piece of carrot seven persons were injured, a doe was hurl, three cars were damaged and an ambulance was wrecked. The niece of carrot became Edwards' throat yesterday.

xje was niaced in an ambulance in Kaymono, ana rusneo toward Seattle, 135 miles away. With him were his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Edwards, and a nurse, Mrs. Barbara Shilling of Raymond.

A police escort met the ambulance as it entered Olympia, Wash. Sgt. Willard Couch slowed to miss a dog and the ambulance crashed against the rear of Couch's police car. Couch was uninjured but the dog was hit. After the hood of the ambulance was tied down with wire, the hectic journey continued.

Thirty miles farther, in Tacoma, the ambulance collided with an automobile driven by Edwin McKelvey and careened off McKelvey's car against an other vehicle driven by Paul Lucien. An automobile driven by Fred Seaman was struck by McKelvey's car. Malcolm, his parents, his nurse, Lucien, and Seaman were cut. McKelvey was hospitalized with serious head injuries. The party was transferred to another ambulance and continued the 'trip here safely with inter mittent police escorts.

Doctors removed the piece of carrot from the choking boy's throat without further incident Child Hongs Sdf TULSA, Mirth 9. TO Five-year-old Jackie Rumtty hanged himself accidentally while playing "cowboy with a rope, authorities said today. He fell from a stairway while playing with the I pona, ionune teiung, 'and refreshments. All for prizes and the kids have scoured the novelty shops to obtain prizes that will keep Liver-more's practical jokers operating for months. Crowning event of the affair will be the crowning of a queen and king (importance in that order, with the queen first).

The candidates, representing each of the school's four classes, have been rounding up votes with hay rides, dances, cake walks, and other week-end affairs for the past month. The Seniors are bringing their drive to a finish with a fashion show at which other classes are permitted to comment, disparagingly or enviously, upon the models and their attire. But the Sophs are really winding up their campaign in appropriate style. They're presenting a movie show, featuring "The Revival of Frankenstein." An indication of the situation now existing is what happened Tuesday afternoon. The kids, were busy trying to build booths in the gym while an elementary school basketball game, scheduled by they'd like to know who, was under way, and all was great confusion.

Conditions were not improved bit when a big bus pulled into the school grounds and baseball players from Acalanes High School descended, for competition. It was a most inauspicious momentparticularly as the game was "actually scheduled for Wednesday. Acalanes came in a day ahead of, time. "But that's all right. the Liver-more kids observed, "Everything'j fouled up here, too." THE KNAVE.

it Tokino; Important roles in the Piedmont High School't dramaac croup's presentation ol "Heidf ar.afl to right) Die Irwaon at SvfipU Mctrlent Mills, Qataf and Lytm HetdL The, play. wm fc given Porto School Alameda Saturday' at 2 p.nw at Garfield Junior High School BarMe March 18, and at WmOak School In Oakland on April 1. JlnaUo tii mcdcL played by loan Hartong 0ftj. axprtue horror at tho iaCIJ, Ij tarcy Collingwood, while Mrs, Seseniaa, Barbara Gratiot looks oru third of tha East Bay C3iildrn' Theater Association plays to itztx RED CROSS: GWeS COMFOlrrO HOSPITALIZED GTGR 6.