Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 17

1 i i I I 1 OAKLAND'S locAly owned and locally controlled DAI LYv NEWSPAPER itiiciATEi us wtic wiii.i...ihitei pres iaiit icwt fiieiii seiwui NO. 43 VOL. CLIV 17 OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1951 ISSrt. Cliff Reiner of the VS. i OAKLAND MAN DROWNS -TRYING TO SAVE WIFE CAUGHT IN SURF Driving Into Sea He (s Stunned by Striking on Rock George Edwin Johnson, 32.

of 3725 Columbian Drive, Oakland, drowned in the ocean off the Sonoma County Coast yesterday in an attempt to save his wife, 1 I infers; 1- Wf Ruth, 26, former Oakland school teacher, when she was swept intoj the sea by a giant breaker. 1 Mrs. Johnson was rescued by her brother, Edwin V. Warren i 35, of 1294 65th- Emeryville, who also recovered1 Johnson's body and attempted to revive him with artificial The tragedy occurred on a peninsula south of Stewart's Point, as the three prepared to fish from the rocks. SWEPT INTO SEA Warren said he was -walking ahead of the couple when a huge wave broke over the rocks.

Hei Marines was recently assigned to recruiting duty in the Hayward area, and subsequently had his picture in The Tribune. So a few days later he got a letter from Lt Ralph Jenkins, nbw stationed at Travis Air Base. lit developed that they ar. close "At least, they Were extremely some years ago when both were jammed into a foxhole on Guadalcanal. Reiner was easily reminded of the incident In fact, it's one he says he will never; never forget.

The Japs were pouring rifle anil machine. gun bullets at them and tossing shrapnel at a terrific rate. Crouched in the hole, wondering whether he would ever ge out alive, Reiner recalls" that Jenkins appeared completely oblivious to their plight He kept trying to start an argument over the relative fire power of the M-I and 0.06 rifles. At the moment Reiner recalls, he was extremely disinterested in such a discussion, having considerably more cdnern about the fire power of various and sundry Kip weapons. however, the subject may be pushed to some conclusion in the Jess disturbed atmosphere of the Hayward City where "Reiner has his office.

Lieutenant Jenkins, overjoyed at locating the foxhole partner he hasn't seen since 1943 through the medium of a Trib picture, may we note modestly is going to drop in for a visit withi Reiner at his first opportunity. 0 Wat do you call a woman Not after you've been y'understanid, but in the normally dignified; conversation of a court room. The problem arises at the Alameda County Court House through the recentj elevation- of Miss i Cecil Mosbgcher to the I Miis" is hardly appropriate for a judicial personage, and "Madam" definitely is out. "Judgie" might be a friendly approach, but perhaps too friendly. The I probability Is that attorney arjd court attaches will cautiously restrict themselves to the term "Your But there will undoubtedly be many slips like, that made by Arthur Harris, Berkeley lawyer, in one the first cases handled by Judge Mosbacher.

She asked him to hand her some papers. "Yes.l sir," he responded. He blushed spectators i tittered, but Judge Mosbacher took no official notice whatever. 1 It didn't take long to locate the Store wbrker who helped the G.I. Sixteen persons were hurt in this wreck, when the Southern Pacific's Sunset Limited streamliner crashed into the caboose of a freight train at Rosenberg, Texas.

Oil from the Diesel streamliner caught fire (black area in foreground). Wreckage of the freight caboose is at left of the fire area and derailed freight cars in background. AP. Wirephoto. George Edwin Johnson (right), 32.

of Oakland, died trying to save his wife Ruth (left), when she was swept into the surf off Sonoma County. Mrs. Johnson, former Oakland schoolteacher, was rescued by her brother. heard Johnson shout and saw MrSi Johnson in the water. Johnson dived in and' hit his head on a rock, Warron said.

Warren saved his sifter by wading out into the water and grabbing her as the breakers washed her toward the rocks. Then he- waded back to get Johnson, who apparently was semi-conscious and still trying to save himself. Warren said by the time he pulled Johnson ashore, hpwever, he had lost cqnscious- 16 Injured in S.P. Train Wreek IjDead, 2 Hurt Work Resumes In Auto Crashes At Todd Shipyard ROSENBERG, Tex. Feb.

12. ness. i Sixteen persons were injured 1 WIFE IS UNHURT when a Southern Pacific stream- Mr -Vm ueSmhnrt liner crashed into. the rear of a walked half a mile to th high- One man was killed and two' ALAMEDA, Feb. 12.

Full op-73-car freight train just west of to flag down a motorist for persons were injured in week-end orations were resumed today at here yesterday (help while Warren gave Johnson automobile accidents in the Todd shirward here following The freight train caboose was -artificial respiration. He worked arH. At smashed and an empty oil tank: 45 minutes without success. dead man was tentatively 01 an Atij carpenters car and a loaded gravel car were Johnson was a tool and die identified bv the Marin County which had caused a mass maker for the Friden Calculating coroner as Harold Curtis. 30, of stoppage.

Machine Company in San Lean- Kntfield. He was killed late ves- The entire working force went ffS" Johnson' tre; former tej-day when his car 'crashed intoj through Ahe gates at the morning Ruth Warren, was a teacher at flfMwer D0ip on nc Hiehwav Bella Vista School until her mar- foft' riage to Johnson June, 1949. the collision crossed Carpenters were to be given They had no children. ihfgh voitage wires which set tne tools by the company. According Johnson served as a master, afire Gfficers could not to Stan Lore, the union president.

in World War II. tq the wreckage for nearly two who announced the removal of hours because of danger from the pickets Saturday, the company wires h. dii agreed to "furnish the men with tossed astride the main line and a siding paralleling it. Both diesel engines of the Sunset Limited left the track but did not overturn. All 13 passenger cars remained on the track undamaged.

Most seriously injured was Rear Brakeman R. E. Huckman of San Antonio who suffered severe bruises and shock. Fifteen passengers received minor cuts and bruises. 'Whitewash' Charged in Probe of Fatal Wreck NEW YORK, Feb.

12. An Interstate Commerce Commission hearing into the disastrous Woodbridge, N.J., train wreck was concluded today, and a New Jersey official called the inquiry tools under the same his wife, Rose of 22259 Tangle- ment now prevaiImg arrange-at other Rampaging waters of the Skagit River pour through a 25-foot break In a dike at Fire Island, -n near Mount Vernon. during heavy rains. In this area 2100 acres were flooded. wuuu iuve, Lasuu vduey, sui- shipyards in the area." fered minor- injuries when their 1951 car went out of control and fTth.e had been rff tno trr of tha 1 rrn I rlnnt c-1 City Employee Held For Drunken Driving BERKELEY, Feb.

12i---Benjamin L. Anderson, 28, of 1307 Ashby Avenue, a special investigator for the Oakland Department of Public Health, is in the knocked down a signal pole, January 15, when they reported He's Al Sigwartj 6221 Manoa Street, ijvho works in the shipping department of Smith's at 12th and wunout tneir tools and were turned back, posted the pickets early yesterday Mrs. Blankenship is the daugh- tr of Hayward City Councilman and 'John Haar. City Jail today for hit-run a disgrace and an outrage. Washington Streets.

Last Friday's story about Pfc. Stanley P. Chiz who took time out froih fighting reds in Korea to express his appreciation for a kindness shown him in Oakland They tried to whitewash the drunk.en drivin- The mishap occurred at Estu-dillo and MacArthur Boulevards ii San Loandro. Blankrnship's I whole 'thing and Dut the blame! Anucrson was arrestea last on thP Pnpinopr HiarH i nint In a Oakland car car traveled 246 fect before com- Jersey Deputy Attorney General whichf.he allefedlv had smashed into five flogged Sigwart's memory. which resulted in the mass stoppage last Thursday.

The union charged laborers had been on work normally done by carpenters. Lore snid that rt 1h" rmucst of the company 1h" will file for a rr-N election with the" NLR3 within 30 days. A company spokesman said "the same working conditions that exist at the Moore Dry Dock Company" would be in effect ist fall 30 He reca last fall parked cars during a ing to a stop in a parking lot. He illed wrapping a camera Benjamin Van Tine, following careening, dozen-block drive was cited for speeding. that a G.I.

wanted mailed to his ithe close of the hearings. He told reporters that testimony in the hearings was restricted, and added that "in this kind of investigation," anybody should be able to ask anything through Berkeley. He was arrested by Officer W. W. Knutila and taken to Herrick Hospital for treatment of a cut lip.

Anderson is held in lieu of $500 bail. U.C. OATH DISPUTE BANS 23 COURSES and not be governed by strict "during an interim period pend- rules of cross-examination." BERKELEY, Feb. ing. termination by the National Labor Relations Board of the car 1 1 Injured in Six-Car CABBIE ROBBED AT CAMP STONEMAN Traffic Pileup in Fog three courses and study sections originally scheduled for this semester dropped at University of California, because faculty members in charge failed to sign the regent's special loyalty home in Massachusetts, which was the incident that filled Chiz with gratefulness.

Chiz fcouldn't remember the tore and didn't know the name of the mpn who befriended him. He askecjj us to try to find both. And wie're very happy to oblige, oo Home from his annual jaunt to Broadway, Wood Soanes has one regret that his' Canadian Pacific train didn't stop long enough for him to vjsit a store in Oaklake, Manitoba. It stop at Showflake, in the same province, either, but 1 Soanes wasn't troubled by that. All he cpuld see of Snowflake was wha gives the town its i GREENCASTLE, Feb.

12. W) The drWer of a big semi "uw.li fpw 3f i mm milt PITTSBURG, Feb. 12. trailer ran into a patch of fog on U.S. 40 five miles south of here yesterday and jammed on Two soldiers held up a cab driver, 'oath.

Six more courses in Oriental robbed him of $20, then left him languages also may not be offered, bound and gagged last night all within the confines of Camp CnnKA. penters' petition for a separate bargaining unit for the Pacific Coast." S.F. Meet to Discuss Rapid Transit Bills Four bills, now in State Senate committees, which would set up a rapid transit system for the nine counties pf the Bay area, will be discussed at a meeting in San Francisco tomorrow. Sen. Gerald O'Hara, chairman Ait Army duck moves down the flooded main street of Conway: Wash seeking victims after a break in the Skagit River levee.

The town of 700 was evacuated. AP Wirephotos. Stoneman. wumcu 1 Mattress Catches Fire Dennis Corcoran, 53, suffered third degree burns on both arms 5000 HOMELESS IN FLOODS But heis certain I that Oaklake and his body this morning in a I France Restricts Balkan Diplomats PARIS, Feb, 12. Albanian, Romanian and Bulgarian diplomats in Paris were notified today that their movements will be restricted in repisal for similar the breaks.

An automobile crashed into the rear of the trailer. A bus carrying 21 passengers crashed in the wreckage. Four other cars then crashed into the pileup. Eleven persons were hurt. Six of them were children.

But only two persons were hurt seriously. A mother and her baby were thrown from the back seat of one car through the windshield to the pavement. The mother was hurt severely, but she -clung lightly to the baby and it suffered only minor cuts. Washington Region Is Hard Hit The driver, Jack Mullins, 38, of 245 Front Street, told police he picked up the men at 15th and Grant Streets inside the camp. As he got under way, one pulled a carbine, aimed it at' him and warned, "no funny stuff." He was forced to drive to the post bakery, he said, then ordered out of the car.

After taking $20 and his watch, the men tied Mullins and gagged him. Unable Jto start the cab, they ungagged Kim long enough for directions. I store would have been an interesting plabe to shop. Its sign announced: Boots and Shoes, Men's Wear, and: Fresh Frait." loop We can't quite match that Life i fcy The Associated Press (skies cleared and temperatures fire in his second floor hotel room of the Senate' interim Committee at 493 10th Street. jon Bay Area Rapid Transit, said Battalion Eire Chief Bernard hopes the discussion will lead Dooley said the mattress of his to immediate action, bed burned while Corcoran, an! Representatives from Boards of unemployed laborer, was asleep.

Supervisors, City Councils, was no other damage. neers, planning authorities, and Corcoran was taken to High-j transit companies will attend the land Hospital. meeting. Flooding rivers have left Tne Skagit River against French envoys story about tne newspaper wmcn, Qf ons extreme hard. northwestern Washington reached jn their countries.

Hungarian its nighest level in many years is lindingPCiocKS gave away my in western Washington diplomats here havs already been limited to the Paris area. premiums yirs and Columbia Pa and forced 1000 persons from their homes in the Skagjt delta. In Columbia, water was 1 In the northwest, rampaging ou- vnii. ch. w.lrivegs forced an estimated 5000 livens iorceu an caumaicu -uuu beine rationed as a result of an persons from their homes after iui ice jam in the Susquehanna River.

thre days of record while M1ieoH tJ flow its banks last Friday night Two 'Drown in Idaho and flood the city waterworks. With the waterworks out of commission and the river frozen solidly from bank to bank, each person was placed on a drinking-water ration of one quart a day. The supply was being hauled in Si: iSii fpATALDO, Feb. 42. men were reported drbwned and at least 25 persons evacuated their homes heje as the Coeur d'Alene River, fed by melting snows from the continental divide, swelled to flood stage in the Idaho Panhandle.

ceived wish a Tribune subscription back Jn 1917. It is still in usej after 34 yfsrs of service. I A gentleman and a scholar, a citizen otl supreme intelligence and rare discernment with a vital interest in-fine literature is H. Strelo, Oakland man who has been stationed since! last September in Sasjpbo, Japan. Such effusive praise is clearly earned by a man who would send a packet Japanese stamps to Frederick fW.

Sr, 1876 Arch Street, Berkeley, who collects foreign stamps for veterans' hospital patients. Mhe boys can still use al you can send them, by the way. Our praise of Mr. Strelo Is only V. 4vst Afi! jt 12,000 residents of Columbia.

Pa- 12 miles east. All business establishments in the city- which use, drinking water have been closed, and bathing arid shaving are discouraged. City officials said "we'd be wiped out by a fire." The water shortage, they added, is likely to continue indefinitely. The temperature was at thawing scrounged for a meager supply of driAjung water. 'Kyi- A 'state of emergency was de clared in both areas.

Governor Langlle of Washing levels yesterday but it failed to slightly influenced, we hope you ton Ordered five National fCl T' believe, by the fact that he writes oi(m. "UVW wmj auwt oviuc -1, 460(X persons were flooded out of Cl their homes in the state. In ad-iKed Leader dlQin comer inai me uany rwnave is his favorite columni He has his wife send the column to him, which is hof he, 6000 miles away, happened to read about Confer's KUALA LUMPUR, Malaya, Feb Ng Kim Hing, 30, communist secretary in Muar district of Johore state, was killed today by security forces. A ladder was poshed within the jMya reach and he wtxs Vom fhi 3 Four rescuer form a human chedn to rescue Michael W. KeDey, t.

after he fell CuougH th lc'Whll skating at Cranston, Rhode Island y'strda7. request for stamps. 1 THE KNAVE. joining British Columbia, another 650 persons were homeless and at least five persons had The situation in the northwest was easing, however, as r- icy patrrccniplaung taa rescue la 20 nuBtitei-APiVActpJMt I "1 jAaA-sfc jlhuf-a r-s.