Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 10

Oakland Tribune, Saturday, May 10, 1952 1 1 11 1 I Jl 11. A "Vecjetabls Zoo" created by members of Cub Pack 98 draws an interested crowd at the Scout-O-Rama. Merryao-round and animals were made from common garden Teaetables tm-jiMawgi- -Mitt I iV-SL OBITUARIES San Lorenzo put on a puppet show with home made char Hama in Oakland Auditorium. The show ends tonight. 1 Tait, Fabulous Bay Restaurateur, Dead PEARY POLAR IN 1909, FOUND BY AIR FORCE Eugene Leong of Cub Pack mosaic made with stamps.

also of Pack 49. 49 works on an Indian Head Watching is Richard Krug, ford. Mrs. Sadie Scares and brother, Frank -Tasney. A native of California, she was a member of American Legion Auxiliary Unit No.

5. She was the widow of John Aston. Love Diane Fillius Funeral services will be held in Los Angeles tomorrow for Mrs. Love Diane Fillius, who more than 30 years ago owned "La Capriccioso," former horns of Jack London at East 12th Street and First Avenue. The widow of John Fillius, well-known mining man, she died, in the Southern California city on Tuesday.

The remains will be at the Grant Miller Mor tuaries, 2372 East 14th Street on Monday until 10 p.m. Interment will be in Mt View Cemetery on Tuesday. Lincoln Johnson Private funeral services were held yesterday for Lincoln Johnson, 61, coppersmith, who died Tuesday at his home at 517 62nd Street. He was a resident of Oakland for 50 years, and a member of Coppersmiths Union Local No. 438, AFL.

He was a native of Oregon. Surviving are a son, Robert Johnson of Bogota, Colombia. and a brother, Frank Johnson. 'Wasp7 Signaled For Turn Before Crash, Court Told WASHINGTON, May 10. UFi A supply cache left by the polar expeditions of Rear Admiral Robert E.

Peary in the early 1900's has been found by an Air Force crew some 500 miles from the North Pole. The Alaska Air Command notified the Air Force here that the discovery was made from a low-flying plane commanded by Lt. CoL William V. P. Benedict1 of Paradox, Calif.

He and his crew were on a flight to ice islands in the Arctic Sea, where polar studies are being made. Flying at low altitude, Bene-' HOME, AT LAST Members of Cub Pack 8 of acters in their booth at Scout Scout-O-Rama Ends Tonight Youngsters of 125 troops of Cubs, Boy Scouts and Explorers put their scouting skills and achievements on display last night to open "Scout-O-Rama 1952" in the Oakland Municipal Auditorium. The Scout-O-Rama, sponsored by Oakland Area Council, Boy Scouts of America, ends with this afternoon's and tonight's exhibitions and. demonstrations. The Scout-O-Rama culminates months of preparation by the Scouts in ranging from handicraft and puppetry to angling and surveying.

The Scout-O-Rama stage show today is scheduled for 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. It includes a concert by the Weldonian Band, songs by a Scout choir, fire building, streamer drill, pole wrestling, tumbling, magic, musical features and other acts. Attendance at Oakland High School, established in 1869 grew from an original 40 to 352 20 years later. Mr.

McGrath came to San Francisco as a child. He was educated at Santa Clara University. He was once president of the International Police Chief Association. He is survived by his 92-year- old father, John J. McGrath, and a brother, Michael, with whom he lived, at 527 Eaton Avenue, Redwood City.

Also surviving is a sister, Mrs. John Gerdts of San Mateo. Mrs. Elizabeth Aston Last rites were held today for Mrs. Elizabeth Mary C.

Aston, 75, a native of Oakland who died Thursday in a Berkeley rest home. She was the mother of Harry T. Machell, past commander of American Legion Post No. 5, and Joseph E. and Elwood F.

Machell. Other survivors include two grandsons; four sisters, Mrs. Florence Mesa, Mrs. Ann Craw Mrs. Abbey Tasney, and a Yank, Back From Korea, Dies In Leap Off Ferry Cla Labor ims John Tait, fabulous San Francisco restaurateur, died yesterday in San Jose at the age of 90.

He had been in failing health during the past five years. I Sought out by generations of gourmets, Tait opened his first restaurant in San Francisco in lf)04 Tait's Downtown. He was backed by friends at the Pacific-Union" Club, where he had served as stewart and assistant manager. His 'downtown restaurant and Tait-Zinkand, which followed shortly afterwards, catered to the great and near-great of the ivorld. Both burned in the 1906 fire-quake.

Between 1906 and 1910, Tait opened three restaurants, in eluding the Pavo Real, rendezvous of the city's "Cafe Society." Anna Held often was a guest there, as was Eva Tanguay, Diamond Jim Brady, Herman Oel-richs, Gentleman Jim Corbett and Copper Millionaire Charles Clark. if The Pavo Real offered Harry Richman as an entertainer, as well as Rudolph Valentino, Paul Shiteman and Fanchon and arco. All were to gain fame liter. Tait quit the restaurant business in the early 30s. Prohibition and the depression, forced him out of business, he said.

Five years ago he retired to San Jose. I He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Emma T. Bates, with whom he lived. Also surviving are two sons, John B.

Tait of San Francisco, and Douglas G. Tait of Sacramento; five grandchildren and a great-grandchild. I Funeral services are pending. James J. McGrath Requiem mass for James J.

McGrath, former sheriff of San Mateo County, will be said at 930 a.m. Monday in St. Matthews Church, Sah Mateo. iThe 60-year-old veteran peace officer died Thursday of a heart attack. He had been county sheriff from 1927 until 1951.

He had been ill for some time and was "on the way to Sequoia Hos pital when fatally stricken. Earlier this week Mr. McGrath had been questioned by representatives of the State Crime Commission in connection with his holdings in a race track equipment manufacturing com pany. i A native of New York City, Utah Seeking Flood Relief In Old Law SALT LAKE CITY, May UPkAn ODscure utan law was studied today as a possible means of dealing with the state's flood emergency without the calling of a special session of the state legislature. 1 The state flood co-ordinating committee decided against urg ing an emergency proclamation.

Gov. JT Bracken Lee said at' torneys are studying the statute, apparently never used, which giyes the State Land Board power to take immediate action to i control or prevent floods, which endanger life, health and property. The attorneys are seeking to determine whether that law may take precedent over another, which prohibits water masters at irrigation storage dams from re leasing water at a more rapid rate than the inflow into reser voirs. I Reclamation Bureau has adyised release of water, now, from storage reservoirs so that runoff from melting snow at the higher elevations can be held back later. CACHE, LEFT diet reported, his crew spotted a "sign post" on the northern tip of Ellesmere Island.

The airmen landed and found four metal and wooden boxes, their position marked by broken sled runners. The group said the cache contained names and dates between 1900 and 1909. It was from Ellesmere Island that Peary departed across the ice to the North Pole in 1909. The brief Air Force dispatch did not say when the cache was found. The report indicated it was left behind after being examined by the airmen.

of the Southern Pacific Railroad bridge near Martinez yesterday. was identified by the Army as Pfc. Doyle J. Grimes, 24, son of Mrs. Ella Grimes of Forest Cityl who returned from combat aboard the Gen.

William Gordon yesterday. He and other combat rotation troops were being taken to Camp Stoneman aboard the Yerba Buena. Donald McKenzie. 56. bridge tender for the Southern Pacific, said he was watching the ferry boat with field glasses and "saw a man suddenly dart across the deck and leap overboard." The destroyer Stemball, abreast of the ferry, sent over a rescue boat, but the man had disappeared when it arrived on the spot Grimes also spurned a life preserver which was thrown over from the ferry, the Army said.

The Coast Guard searched for his body without success. John N. Edy, Ex-Berkeley Manager, Dies John N. Edy, 69, first city manager of Berkeley, and one time assistant director of the federal budget under Franklin D. Roosevelt, died today in Houston, Tex.

Mr, Edy, brother of Joe O. Edy, Oakland candy manufac turer, was Berkeley city manager 'from 1923 to 1930. He left there; to set up successfully the manager form of government in Flint; Dallas, Tex and Toledo, Ohio. In addition to his brother, Mr. Edy.

lis survived by his widow, Polly, and a Jack. Tavern Operator mes in nisoieep Charles R. Cradduck. 39. Oak land tavern owner, was found dead today in his aDartment at 3321 Grand Avenue.

A friend, Paul Lueck, of 3208 Elm Street who staved with Cradduck last nieht discovered his death. Coroner's deputies said Cradduck apparently died in his! sleep of natural causes. Cradduck had complained re cently of chest pains, Lueck said. An autopsy, will be performed this afternoon, Cradduck was co-owner with his brother, Herbert Cradduck, of the! Serenader Bar at 504 Lake Park Avenue," Radford Leaves Formosa' TAIPEH, Formosa, May 10. UR Admiral Arthur W.

Radford, Pacific Fleet commander, left here today for. Manila en route to Pearl Harbor where he planned to entertain Gen. Matthew, i B. Ridgway at lunch A soldier just back from Korea leaped from the Army ferry Yerba Buena and drowned east In Elections they are a sensitive barometer of political sentiment. Previous Conservative victories in local elections foreshadowed the party's gains in 1950 and 1951gen-eral elections.

The Labor party said the current Conservative defeat was notice to Churchill to quit. He has replied that he will stay on the job, backed by a slim 16-seat majority in the House of Commons. Making their biggest gains in industrial cities, the Laborites took over control of 21 borough and 12 'town councils. Conservative working majorities were reduced in other councils. The latest incomplete results showed: Laborites gained 883 seats and lost 46 net gain 837.

Conservatives gained .111, lost 641 net loss 530. Independents gained 39, lost 308 net loss 269. Liberals gained 15, lost 37 net loss 22. The communists failed to gain any seats. I if Victory vidually and each was asked to check the list i of missing shipmates for any he knew.

They all answered in the negative when asked if they wished to bring any charges against officers or crew members involved, The press is permitted to at tend the inquiry being conducted by Rear Adm. Osborne B. Hardi son, presiding officer, and Rear Admirals Harry R. Thurber and Ralph Earle Jr. SECRET TESTIMONY Hardison notified the press, however, "a great part of the testimony will involve highly confidential matters which can not be made public," and added that for that reason, it "will be necessary to close the court at frequent intervals.

The vessels were maneuvering in simulated wartime activity at the time of the collision. The Wasp is in the Navy yard drydock where an official said its damaged bow will be replaced with a bow section from the mothballed carrier Hornet Navy, Air Force. Probe Crashes EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, May 10. (IP) Navy and Air Force officials today investigated two plane crashes that cost the lives of one of the Nation's leading test pilots and a young Navy fighter pilot. (The Navy pilot was Lieut, (jg) Edgar A.

Cruise 25, ac cording to Associated Press. The Navy said he was the son of. Rear Admiral Edgar Cruise Sr. commander of the 17th Naval District, Kodiak, Alaska. Lieutenant Cruise, who lived in bachelor quarters at the North Island Naval Air Base here, died when his Panther jet plane crashed and set fire to timber and brush between San Juan Capistrano and Elsinore).

Test Pilot MaJ. Neil H. Lathrop, 30, was killed within the same hour when an experimental jet bomber which he was piloting on what was described as "a test flight" hurtled to the ground and exploded at the end of the runway at Edwards Air Force Base. No cause was given for the crash. Air Force officials said the high speed ground support plane was neither taking off nor landing when the mishap occurred.

They indicated, however, that the plane was flying low and that Lathrop apparently had no time to use his ejection seat to bail out The plane was the new swept-wing XB-51 built by the Glenn L. Martin Company. Lathrop was a graduate of John Marshall High School in Los Angeles and left the University of Southern California in 1942 to join the Air Force He was shot down over France during World War II and escaped imprisonment irhen he worked his way back to American lines via the underground. At Edwards Air Force base he was chief of the flight test branch. Lathrop Is survived by his wife, Barbara, and two children who live at the base.

16 Huks Slcin in New Philippine Drive MANILA, May 10. Government troops killed 16 communist Huks in a new drive in thick jungles 55 miles southeast of Manila, an Army spokesman BAYONNE, N.J.. May 10. UP The aircraft carrier Wasp, running ahead and to the left of the destroyer minesweeper Hobson, signaled it was making a turn shortly before the vessels col lided April 26, a naval court of inquiry has been told. The testimony came from Lieut.

William A. Hoefer of Thomaston, senior surviv ing officer of the Hobson, at yes terday opening session of the inquiry into the disaster which cost the lives of 176 Hobson crewmen. INQUIRY RESUMES The inquiry resumed this morning at the naval shipyard annex taking testimony from 15 of the 58 Hobson survivors so they may be given leave as soon as possible. The other 43 were heard yesterday afternoon. After Hoefer's statement was read to the 57 other Hobson survivors a recess was ordered.

The surviving crewmen were brought before the court indi Trieste Pact Held Blackmail BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, May 10. UP) The official Yugoslav press charged today Britain and the United States had yielded to Italian blackmail in granting Italy greater powers in the administration of Zone A of Trieste. In a lengthy front page edi torial, the newspaper Borba bluntly denounced the new agree ment reached London as a blunder and as "one which never could be accepted by Yugoslavia. 'This yielding to blackmail of Italian diplomacy shows a lack of political realism and in fact means the support of imperial istic aspirations wnicn nave not disappeared in Italy," the editorial said. "That is not the way to solve the Trieste question be-rnnsp it eannot be solved without Yugoslavia and against her will and interests.

Borba was angry particularly about one clause in the agreement giving the Italian Government Dower to name Italians to posts administering civilian af fairs in Zone A. Tokyo Draws Up 'Restrained1 Fishing Policy TOKYO, May 10. (OT The Japanese Government today an nounced a. "restrained lishing policy which would limit temporarily its deep-sea fishing fleets to an area bounded by Hawaii to the east the Aleutians to the north and the i obsolete "Mac- Arthur Line to the south. An Agriculture and Forestry Ministry spokesman said special precautions would be taken to avoid incidents in communist territorial waters: where Japanese fishing boats have been seized in the past i Japanese, fisheries board offi cials were briefed on administration of the new policy yesterday while representatives of the UJ5n Canada and Japan met in the Foreign Office to sign the North Pacific fisheries convention.

In an attempt to prevent fishing conflicts to the south, Japan is seeking similar conventions with China, Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia and Australia. Eva Lalor, president of Argonaut Parlor No. 166, Native Daughters of the Golden West, presents camperships to Roberta Bieks (right), and Esther Morris Geft). while Irene Manic ci. troop leader of Oakland's Girl Scout Troop 205 watches approvingly.

British Local LONDON, May 10. With the final day's votes still to be cast today in week-long municipal elections, the Labor party already was claiming it has won its biggest local elections victory over Prime Minister Churchill's Conservatives since the war. The Laborites led the Conservatives two to one in picking up new members in Jhe Nation's 1419 local councils. Balloting more than two-thirds complete showed a Labor gain of 837 seats and a Conservative net loss "of 530. Independents, most of whom take a Conservative line, also lost heavily.

Churchill's party maintained its hold over a majority of the councils because only one-third of the seats were up for vote this year." Labor had made inroads in the councils in the immediate postwar years, but from 1949 to 1951 the Conservatives gained back many seats. Although the. municipal elections, have no direct bearing on the government's term of office 1 1 I if i East TW )) WE UNDERSELL 'EM ALL; (( GET THE FACTS AND FIGURES NOW! I NOTHING I ISl DOWN I JjjSl Ik I n7 5 IBs1 I 1 BP'! I jf (( I i yfi j) 3207 Essl Klb Sired KE 30Z4)f 0PEI EVEMINGS TIL P.M. SUNDAYS 12 TO I P.tt. Gowns that were high in fashion and neckline in 1852 are modeled by Mrs, Edward Pelers'flefl) and Mrs.

Fred Huston in jpreparation for the "old and new" fashion show tomorrow at the 18th annual Rose Sunday program at the Municipal Rose Garden. Marsh Hyde, Oakland Junior Ghaznoer of Commerce member, fills in for contrast. KbL Monday. reported today. 4Ml.