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a' OAKLAND'S LOCALLY OWNED AND LOCALLY CONTROLLED DAILY NEWSPAPER WANT ADS MAIN OFFICE, 13TH AT FRANKLIN PHONE TEMPLEBAR 2-6000 IN BERKELEY, 2040 ADDISON ST. ASSOCIATED VIREPHOTO VIDS VOL. CIV OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1951 33 NO. 110 I yKV. VK Ml il II II ID Bartell Defends Mart; Promotion Supervisor Says His Part in Santa Rita Project Does Not Compromise Him Harry Bartell contended today Cojakley's office whether it was v.

that his part in the promotional planning of a super shopping legal for a supervisor to have interest in a firm that would seek approval of plans before! the supervisors. Coakley denied receiving such an inquiry. Informed of that Bartell stated tola reporter "I told of my interest before the Board of Super visors in the presence; of Mr. Dunning (deputy district attorney)." 1 i rr i It Douglas Dunning, whp acts. as the board's legal counsel, told reporters: "Mr.

Bartell has indicated his interest in the development of the area and has spoken of going into real estate in that area upon his retirement (from the board). NOTHING DEFINITE GIVEN I "I never heard from him of any option 'or definite arrangement he had' with anyone. i Bartell insisted that the partnership would not have to apply to the county for any sanctions, so far as he knew The County Planning Commis sion handles zoning matters in the unincorporated area and makes recommendations to the supervisors on applications. The commission also passes on tract maps, and, in the case of recommended denials, developers can appeal to the supervisors. It is these phases that Coakley has under study in relation to any county official in a possible dual capacity.

I Sewage disposal of commercial development is one of the topics Bartell declined to discuss with the press. Sewage has been a problem in the Santa Rita area. The supervisors in mid-September author ised Bartell and Sheriff H. P. Germany's tallest man visits Oakland's littlest house I Jakob Nacken.

45, seven feet four inches tall resident of Dusseldorf. Germany, calls at Goosy Goosy Gander cottage in Oakland's Children's Fairyland. Patsy Gateley, 2lj, takes in a playland view from tree-top height while her sister. Maureen. 4, wares from the stairs.

Tribune photo. -J Pretty Bush? It's Marijuana! BERKELEY, Oct. 18. Mrs. Alma Johansson had a pretty bush growing in the backyard of her home at 1819 Ninth Street, and it had such pretty blossoms that she hated to cut it down.

But she remembered that about a year ago a bag of marijuana leaves were found in her yard in just about the same spot where the 9-foot bush was growing. Desnite the fact that Mrs. A transformer and part of a power pole dangle by wires after the pole was sheared off at its base by a huge gravel truck and trailers last night on Pergola HilL the assembly from one of the demolished truck's trailers came to rest by the fence. The big rig collided with a loaded milk truck and skidded off highway Tribune photo. Manager Foils Garage Holdup A San Francisco garage manager defied a gunman's bullets early today and foiled the robbery of his garage by wresting the weapon away from his adversary.

Albert W. Lacey, 33, of 2631 47th Avenue, manager of a garage at 1641 Jackson Street, lunged at a bandit who brandished a .45 caliber pistol and told him "this is a stickup." The i a. a a. a center near Santa Rita does not put him in compromising po- sition as chairman of the Board of Supervisors, Meanwhile Dist. Atty: Frank Coakley I continued a search of the law relating to any possible dual role of Bartell being an official of a board which passes on commercial! development plans.

I Bartell has entered a limited partnership with! Sam J. Whiting, secretary of racjing at the Alameda County Ffcir, and several others in the Santa Rita Improvement Company. The group plans to construct an off-the-highway shopping center at Santa Rita Road and the Liver-more-Dublin Highway. OUTLINE IS MADE An outline of the proposal sets a $336,000 goal for the commercial project, while a separate development which Bartell says is not involved with the partner ship, isaproposed construction of 2000 ho nes on 680 adjacent acres to housye workers at Camp Parks Air Force cente. i After disclosure of the partnership arrangement yesterday, Bartell, declined to discuss details any further, stating that they will be made, known "in due time." The board chairman said that there should be no question as to his privilege of making investments as a private citizen: "I have nothing to be ashamed of in my 44 years around here.

Why should I ask the advice of the District Attorney on a private business affair?" Earlier he assertedly asked' -i The wheel assembly of the rear gondola'on the gravel truck shot off and jelipped the power pole at its base. Traffic was! held up on the highway for about an hour before it could be cleared. Truck Plows Into Train; 1 Dead; Traffic Stalled STOCKTON, Oct 18. A heavy truck-and-trailer rig crashed into a freight train eight miles south Johansson had nurtured the missed thir ma.rk jfrom its beginning as a pretty little plant, she police. Vice-Inspector Al Frock confirmed Mrs.

Johansson's suspicions. It was a marijuana bush all right, the biggest one Inspec tor Frock had ever seen. He; brought it to the station. Reflecting on the cause of this temptation in her garden, Mrs. Johansson remembered that about a year ago she had a tenant in a house the rear of her home who used to throw "wild" parties.

"I thought maybe they were using dope," she explained, "so, I ordered the tenant out." Shortly after that the pretty plant began blooming. Richmond Wife Sues for Divorce RICHMOND, Oct. 18. Award of all community property and $400 a month support for herself and two minor children was asked today in a divorce action filed in Superior Court by Mrs. Alice Judkins, wife of Perry W.

Judkins. owner of the Rich mond Engineering Company. Mrs. Judkins charged her husband with extreme cruelty. Married in Richmond in 1928, the Judkins have three children.

Gleason to consult in Washington with the Navy in regard to age disposal and water pollution; in connection with the lease the county holds on Santa Rita: Prison Farm. A if 3 1 day in a collision with a truck at Jackson and Sixth Streets. Thomas Larsen, 40, of 1304 Virginia Street, Berkeley, was taken to Permanente Hospital for treatment! and observation after his motorcycle crashed with a truck driven by Tony Gospodenitich, 46, of Hollister. According to Traffic Officers Waller Prentice and T. D.

Stacey, Gospodenitich was cited for drivingrat excessive speed and going through a boulevard stop sign. Nurse Strips Mask: Off Thug, Slugged A Highland Hospital nurse fought off a masked robber on the steps of her Oakland home last night and the man fled after she ripped off the mask he was wearing. i1 Miss Ida Noreen, 22, of 3614 Brighton Street said she noticed a short man following her as she walked home from the hospital last night. When she arrived at her home the man accosted her on the front porch and said "1 have a knifes don't Miss Noreen told officers that she replied: "If it's money you want here take my purse." She said the man punched her aS she puLed off his mask. Its drive shaft sheared off and a gondola twisted from Its wheel assembly, what remains of this huge gravel truck and trailer sits by side of highway on Pergola Hill after colliding with a milk truck and then crashing into a power pole last night.

Another gondola skidded several hundred feet away, losing Us wheels, which went rolling along. Ddna" lwo snou Bl --ey, Lacey succeeded in taking the pistol away from the holdup man after a short battle, then chased the youthful bandit into the street, missing with three shots he fired at the fleeing man. Police, arriving on the scene, checked the registry of the holdup gun and traced it to a San Francisco contractor. The 'Contractor denied the holdup, but said the pistol may have been stolen from his car by a long shoreman who called on him earlier last night. Officers "took the- longshoreman as well as the contractor into custody pending identification by the garageman.

Dr. Cutter Re-elected Association Treasurer Dr. Robert K. Cutter, president of Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, has been re-elected treasurer of California Manufacturers Association at a meeting today in Los Angeles. Dr.

Cutter has held this post for the past three years. William A. De Ridder of Los Angeles was elected president. succeeding William B. Tyler of San Francisco.

Other officers are Ralph M. Hoffman, San Francisco, vice-president and George S. Wheaton, Los secretary. Vallee could leave an engagement at the Hotel Statler in Detroit to attend the funeral services. Arrangements for the services are in charge of the Grant Miller Mortuary.

A native of Jackson; Mrs. Norris attended grammar school there, high school in Stockton and the University of California. She had in Oakland and Berkeley for the last 30 years. In addition to her husband and Mrs. Vallee, she is survived by another daughter, Mrs.

Gilbert Bruce of Walnut Creek, two is one who operated a "goosle" in the early days back in Yugo slavia. A "goosle," it appears, was a primitive stringed instrument, made from a holldwed-out block of maple, over which skin was stretched, with- horsehair for strings. One of them will be on display in the Yugoslav exhibit dunns the festival. It was played by itinerant' songsters who were the news men of their day. i They traveled from town to town, picking up bits of information which they dispensed to listeners in other places to the accompaniment of "music on the gooMe This, Giraldo jhotes, was the forerunner of the! modern news paper, and goosld players must have; been the iorerunners of modern newspapermen.

Up to this point his remarks might have been considered as complimentary ifl some degree but "The tone produced by the gobsle is very dull and he has to add. Before the old Wild West was tamed, it was sufficient to require dance hall patrons to park their six-guns at the door. Our descent toward effeteness is I demonstrated by regulations for the annual ball of the Dan ville Fire Department, planned for November 3 Dancers are forbidden to wear cowboy boots. 5 Mrs. Elena L.tCerrillo is not only a bit late, but also a bit distant for participation in the Home Recreation Contest sponsored by Oakland P-TA; groups and The Tribune.

1 Her registration coupon, properly filled outj arrived here just a few davs aeo. I Contest judges epret that it came in too late. They iwould have liked the assignment of in specting her home. It is at 2 LaJ i-us one, me Philippines. The best that could be done was to forward Mrs.

Cerrillo a copy of the contest booklet which may give her some new ideas for, her place, together with an explanation that she was too late. h' The 1950 contest ended several days ago. And for that matter, the J949 contest ended two years ago. The blank she sent5 In was clipped from a 1943 paper. How she came to mail it from the Philippines on August 8, 1951, will probably forever, be a mystery.

j- v- THE i German Author Dies BERLIN, Oct 18. JV Bern- hard Kellermsnn, 72, noted Cer- man novelist, successful i His novel was "The Tunnel." The BarbersV. Union might so I'm not going to tell you where you can get a haircut for free. First class job, and by a union barber, too. Sometimes It's free, that is.

Sometimes it isn't From time immemorial barbers have been regarded as having a proclivity for gambling. Probably because the barber shop, long, long ago, anyway was man's domain. In addition to quartet harmony, you could always get an argument over ball games, fights. politics, and the like, with some one ready and willing to back his judgment with com. That atmosphere tended to make barbers devotees of chance, and the tonsorial artist in ques tion is the personification of same.

He never accepts payment from a regular customer without first or no 'dv. And In too many cases the customer Out comes the dice box and they shake the hair tcut to go for free or for $3. How does he make out? Well, you wont find many barbers owning an apartment house and a big Cad that he parks around the corner so the customers won't get wise. 0 Albany's big juvenile dope scandal has subsided. For several weeks parents have been worried over reports a narcotics gang was operating among students at Marin School.

They overheard their youngsters telling lurid tales of dope peddling Robert Bahl, juvenile officer for the Albany Police Department, finally traced gang headquarters, to a shack on Codor-nices Creek. But he made no arrests. It seems that the Marin School kids have modernized the old "cops and robbers" game. Now they're playing "cops and dope peddlers." In view ol the increasingly acute competition between two modes of transportation, re lease from the Western Pacific! Railroad achieves certain sig-f raficance. The railroad has completed a motion picture, portraying the "dramatic side of modern railroading," with emphasis on operations on the curves and grades cf Feather River Canyon.

Many of the most spectacular femes were filmed from a helicopter. 0. 6 0 A master of the Subtle insult Scnor Clyde Giraldo, who is currently setting pieces in the r-rer atout xne festival or rva- c- gilatrd be held at the nd Auditorium October ciUs me a "cnosslari." 3. That, recording to the Trucks Hit Head-on. Cut Power Pole; Second Crash locks Highway 4 Hours An 18-wheel gravel truck and smashed the I cab of the two-two trailers crashed head-on into tanker milk rig, sheared the gon- dolas of the gravel truck from a loaded milk tanker rig and then their wheel base and scattered broke into, sections, shearing off 'parts 350 feet along the highway.

Val lee's Mother-i n-Law Dies From Crash Injuries Mrs. Eleanor Norri's, 54, day she had yet to hear whether a power pole on Pergola Hill, four miles; east of Hayward "last night The gravel truck driver, Clyde W. Estep, 125, of 1075 Harmony Drive, Hayward, suffered a possible broken back and is in serious condition in Alameda HospitaL i Driver of tanker, Charles W. Brownfieldi, 33, of Fresno, walked away from the collision and iwas treated for minor injuries at Fairmont Hospital. As a result- of the broken power pole which carried a 000-volt transformer, a large area of the countryside "was plunged i with erapes and oranges, was bound from Los Angeles to Port land when it smashed into the slow-moving Tidewater South ern Railroad freight train.

Both the second and third cars were knocked from the tracks. Fogelqujst was trapped in the crushed cab and was not extn- cated for nearly four hours after the mishap. i Seaman Killed by Car On Bayshore Freeway Albert O. Bishop Jr, 28, seaman from the USS Essex, was killed early today when he was San Bruno overpass on the Bay- shore freeway. The car was driven by Carroll, 30, of 233 1 University Avenue, Palo who told highway patrolmen that Bishop was standing in the middle of the road.

Carroll was not cited. Berkeley Cyclist Hurt i r-stk Tmrlr v-rasn 1 ruc of here early; today, killing the'struck bv an uto north of the mother-in-law of Crooner Rudy Vallee, died today of injuries suffered October 4 when she drove her convertible into the concrete wall of a restaurant! Mrs. Norris succumbed at Peralta Hospital two weeks after the accident in which she and six other women were in jured. At the time investigating offi cers surmisea mat Mrs. worns stepped on the accelerator in stead of the brake while attempt-J ing to park her car in the rear of a restaurant at 2550 Bancroft Way, Berkeley.

"Mrs. Norris was the wife of Harlie Norris, 119 El Camino Real, Berkeley. Her daughter, Mrs. Vallee, the former Eleanor Kathleen Norris. flew from Ne-v York to be with her mother.

Mrs. Vallee said to- truck derailing two freight tars and blocking busy U.S. Highway! 99 for four hours. Witnesses said the truck driver. identified as Delbert Fogelquist nal in the heavy ground fog.

A relief driver, TL G. Scoggins. also of Portland, who was asleep at the rear of the cab, suff ered a fractured jawr and possible! into darkness before P.G. and E.39, of Portland, -apparently did emergency crews could repair not see the wig-wag warning sig- the damage. According to Highway Patrolmen, the gravel truck and milk tsnker were both passing ether vemclcs on Highway 53's three sisters.

Miss Katherine Driscoll of Berkeley and Mrs. Mary Fuller of Walnut Creek, and two grandsons, Gilbert Jr," and Michael Bruce. She was a member of the Lincoln Home for Children and the Opera League. i lane thoroughfare when they hit. head and internal injuries.

A Berkeley motorcylist suf-The force cf the impact, which! The refrigerated truck, loaded, fered a possible broken leg to-.