Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 14

1 Oikfand Tribune, Vfidntiiiy, April 5, 1 950 ST. eiM $43,402 Collected in Richmond Polio Drive i i SONOMA GRAND JURY CALLS 3rd Bids OK'd For New School BERKELEY, April 5 Third RICHMOND, April 5. Con HOWSER IN PUNCHBOARD QUIZ tributions totaling $43,402.89 were collected during the 1950 March of Dimes campaign, Harold F. Sawallich, Contra Costa' County chairman, announced today. munities were Brentwood, $484.14 Knightsen, Byron, $88.57 I Antioch, San Pablo, Pittsburg.

$5815.525 Pinole, Crockett, Danville, Qrinda, Martinez, La. favette, $1295.48, and Rodeo, $800.12. the remaining one-half going to national headquarters for Nationwide Vork against the disease. The heaviest contributions came from Richmond with the committee, headed by B. W.

(Dick) Richardson turning over Contributions from other com BERKELEY SETS SCHOOL THEATER RENTAL MEETING BERKELEY, April an effort to decide a "rental policy" for the new $3,000,000 Berkeley High School Community Theater, currently a controversial subject the Board of Education has called a special conference for tomorrow afternoon. Held in abeyance is a rental schedule for the auditorium call for bids for a new Le Conte elementary school at Ellsworth and Russell Streets was author Of the total one-half will be retained by Contra Costa County Infantile Paralysis Society with Attorney General Soys He Will Be Glad To Co-operote in Santo Rosa Inquiry Two Killed by Navy 'Copter ized last night by the Board of Education. Plans and specifications were revised to allow building alternates to meet a bond allocation of $008,800. The new bids will be received at 8 p.m. Wednesday.

May 10. pending a proposal from the civic A7 NORFOLK, April First bids were rejected by the body to set up a committee to board because lowest construction survey the matter of conventions price was $667,000, a figure too i getting the auditorium rent free, high for allocations set up in the The suggested committee $7,900,000 bond building program would be comprised of members indicted as the result of a raid on a Petaluma tavern, where several tons of the so-called branded punchboards were uncovered. They are Charles A. Robinson, alleged Los Angeles punchboard distributor; R. R.

Rushton, ex-Los Angeles police sergeant, now employed by Robinson; Manny Gut-terman, representative of a Chicago punchboard manufacturing concern, and Mervyn McCoy, A Navy helicopter broke from its deck lashings aboard a carrier at sea and its whirling blades killed two officers, the Navy announced today. Several others were hurt, two critically. The mishap took place yester now under way. SANTA ROSA. April 5 Atty.

Gen. Fred N. Howser is under subpena to appear tomorrow before the Sonoma County Grand Jury investigating a statewide punchboard racket When aerved with the subpena In Los Angeles Howser is quoted as saying: "I desire to co-operate with the Sonoma County authorities in very way. try to be there." Dist Atty. Charles McGoldrick confirmed here that he had issued the court order demanding the appearance of the state's high-1 est law enforcement, officer.

The subpena alsa commands Howser to producer statements and reports relating to punchboard and slot machine investigations from January 1, 1948. LENTZ SFBPENAED day afternoon aboard iht carrier Wright which was a day out of Quonset, R.I., on training msneu operator of the Petaluma tavern. Gutterman and Rushton so far have not been apprehended. vers. The ship put into Norfolk and the injured were transferred of the City Council, Board of Education and the chamber.

At last night's meeting of the board, Mrs. V. A. Clemens, P-TA leader, argued that parent-teacher interests should also be represented. Whether such fees will be on an operational cost basis, or cost plus depreciation, it was stated, was a matter to be decided Actual costs of auditorium use, it was disclosed, based on a study made by experts, ranged from $470 to $1000.

Revoked later was a second bid call when school officials decided to revise plans and specifications to eliminate "non-essentials" in an effort to curtail costs. Under the new specifications a community unit and kindergarten will be eliminated under one alternate, while in others the board will substitute cheaper materials and eliminate stage equipment asphalt tile, exterior plaster finish and other construction Straw begs The subpena also asks for any Howser reports concerning Frank to the Portsmouth Naval Hospital. Dead were Lieut Herbert N. Walthers, former salesman for a big punchboard manufacturer al Walters' of Lindale, Tex, and Lieut Carl W. Baker of Amarillo, Tex.

Walter's wife is Lieut legedly involved in the inquiry, and William Corcoran, identified as being connected with a SanComdr. Bernice Walters, who In addition to Howser. a sub-1 Francisco amusement device com- recent orders made her the first Mayor Laurance L. Cross and None of the alternate plans, said (he one accessory ihet't futl os smart with your Easltr suit as your cotton dresses. Drow your sfrows from our bounty of bogs such os fhis Milan in natural, red, novy, gofd, and black of fpfus tax) woman doctor to be assigned to a.

Superintendent Thomas L. Nel- other members of the board pena also was issued for Walter I pany. Lentz, former chief investigator If Howser fails to appear to Navy ship at sea. s0n, will interfere with the basic stressed importance of wide civic of the 15-classroom struc- use of the structure. It was de CRITICALLY HURT utility Reported critically hurt by the ture- clared "funds for the education for the attorney general.

George morrow legal opinion would be Griffin, who supplanted Lentz, (required to resolve the question of was subpenaed last week. whether a County Grand Jury "Mr. Howser asked to appear; has the authority to summon the of children cannot be diverted to any other uses," and that operational costs must be met by rental state's top law enforcement officer before a grand jury and he is be irig given this opportunity to ap as a witness. fees 5.00 $650,000 in Gold Found in Ship Bumper Jock Killing Suspect Acquitted Naval Hospital are Lieut. (JG) Robert O.

Davis, Gallipolis, Ohio, the helicopter pilot and Lieut. Thurman Newell, hangar deck officer. Davis has a possible spine fracture and Newell suffered "major injuries." A naval spokesman gave this version of the mishap: Off Cape Hatteras, NC, Tuesday afternoon new pilots were qualifying in carrier landings. The last plane had landed when Hayward Burglar Gets 5 to 15 Years Edward C. Crater, 29, Los Angeles truck line operator, today was sentenced to San Quentin Prison for from five to 15 years by Superior Judge Edward J.

Tyrrell, after he pleaded guilty to a second-degree burglary. Crater and his brother, Ronald, 17, were arrested February 23 pear at a legal session in a legal orderly manner," McGoldrick said. One witness previously told the grand jury that two of four men under indictment in the punch-board case boasted they had been assured a state-wide punchboard BOMBAY, India, April OP PITTSBORO, Aprjl (. Indian port officials probed today through the hold of a 25-ton Arab OH One of three white men charged with murder in the bumper jack slaying of a Negro sailboat which they said already has yielded 3,250,000 rupees monopoly in return for a $50,000 contribution to Howser's campaign. Howser previously termed the (about in smuggled gold while attempting to cart a small! tenant farmer is free.

The other twoface trial in September. A jury of 12 white men yesterday Davis set the helicopter on the Pra nkltt ml Wttfrt, MHtai safe out of a market at 19599 East! ve.ssei, ostensibly carrying carrier deck opposite the island, heli-14th Street Hayward. A report loaa ot arrived Saturday acquitted James Moore, 21-year grand jury investigation a smear UUC I LUJUU UvUVil. lit il Officer Russell lne Persian uull area. conter must keen its blades in, by Probation attack" conducted by his "political 'old white man, of murder in the bludgeon slaying of Malcolm 25 knots Ryan showed that the youth took rotation until less than the crime because he enemies.

ASKED FOR RECORDS McGoldrick said he has part in i feared a brother. beating from his older asked Wright, a Negro. Indicted with Moore but granted separate trials were Eunice Gore and James Kellum. The three white men testified of wind is passing over the blades. BLADES ROTATING The pilot kept the blades rotating while waiting for the carrier to turn out of the wind.

The yesterday that they had the fatal Displaced Persons Bill Wins Test WASHINGTON. April 5. (iPi argument with Wright last wheel and ysht wheel when he failed to null his mule i had been lashed down, but not thp left whpp! Tnn much nitrh naftun aoiuc aiiuw uicm uua1 on a lonely county road. Howser to produce copies of transcripts of all stenographic statements andor reports turned in by his investigators between January 1948, and April 1 of this year dealing with 12 persons bow being investigated by the Sonoma County Grand Jury. Also, McGoldrick added, he is asking for all the attorney general's findings concerning the sale, distribution or branding of punch-boards and slot machines and the collection of money to protect the operation of the devices.

was maintained on the whirling blades and suddenly the aircraft tore loose from its deck lashings. Senators who favored a liberalized displaced persons bill won the first test in the Senate today by a 48 to 37 roll call vote. The action rejected the first In a split second it roared across Northern Ireland Premier Turns Back the deck striking two officers and crashed against the island.mendments made by the Senate LONDON, April 5. Several men were injured I passed bill asked by President Basil Brooke, Prime Minister of flying particles and the flight Northern Ireland, made another u. i Iruman i iaji it ul aiiu utc suuaii attempt to depart for New York was demolished Seven of the persons under in estigation are residents of Kern 'tonight but misfortune continued County, where an almost identical to dog his plane MULTI-ENGINE All COACH IVIRY COUtTltY Cell racket organization was disclosed I In the second progress report by Stratocruiser failed shortly after FRANKFURT, Germany, April the plane left London.

Today the 5. tfl Heinrich Baab, former difficulty was diagnosed as "hy-! Gestapo leader, was sentenced to the Organized Crime Commission. A.I.D.S. McGoldrick said the persons on yfeL AMD lOUG sj life imprisonment today for the whom he wants any information jdraulic trouble" which forced the ruk.li j-mr OltMwrt 1-2711 1 murder of 55 Frankfurt Jews. Howser may have include four 'big plane to turn back.

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