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Oakland Tribune, Tbanity. Jin. 15, 1953 900 Periled as 17 Hew Cardinals Receive Red Hat From Pope Pius Alfred J. Lund berg Named '52 'Outstanding Citizen' Heater Burns Fatal to Little Girl at Play Y. Ferry Rams Freighter in Fog NEW YORK, Jan.

15. A Staten Island ferry with 1900 passengers crashed into a freighter near the Statue of Liberty today in one of two colli The title of Oakland's "Out-rtanding Citizen of the Year" for 1952 belongs today to Alfred J. Lundberg. president Continued from Page 1 began and the huge St. 'Peter's Square was surprisingly empty.

The four-day period of age old ritual ended this afternoon with a secret consistory the first attended by the new cardinals. The Pope quickly performed the ceremonies of closing and open Yet he smiled frequently as he was carried down thifc central aisle of the vast basilica to a special red velvet draped throne beneath the giant cupola designed by Michelangelo. Meanwhile tne new cardinals, unseen by the throng, had filed into the nearby chapel of St. Petronilla and there taken the 'of the Oakland Title A 4-year-old nrl wu faUUy I burned last nizht because, like i and former Key System head. all little gjrlt, hc played "jrown- ing the mouths of the new.

car- up in a pink organdy party dinals. This is to! impress upon uti" ol them the secretness of the meet- "blessed Peter, to the Holy dress. The child, Lana Machisko. suf vv i Roman church and to the most 25 JEWS FLEE RED ZONE TO WEST BERLIN BERLIN. Jan.

1 Twenty-fiv East Cmnn Jew, leaden of the Jewish cmTnuniti of Eas Berlin. Leipdx. Drdn and Erfurt, fled to Berlin today to etrape communist persecution. The 23 include 10 men and their famines. Amort the fugitives wu Julius Mayer, leader the Eajt German Jewish communities and a member cf the East German "VoIkiVtammer." the lower houe ef the communist parliament.

41 Injured as Train Hits Depot Cenibsaed frem Txge 1 yrr Kaven Hailroad plunged fered burns over her entire body. sions in fog-shrouded New York Harbor. At least 11 1 persons were injured and hundreds shaken up aboard the city-owned ferry, Gold Star Mother. Passengers rushed for life preservers, but the ferry disentangled her stove-in bow from ing and that henceforth they should take part in discussions and advise the pontiff. Immediately afterwards they were given their heavy gold and jeweled cardinal rings and as except for the top of her head and the soles of her feet, when the trailing drees caught fire from a floor heater.

Holy Father Pope Pius XII and to his legitimately elected successors in the future." Jj Upon completion they were escorted by six of the tardinals elevated in previous years including Cardinal Spellman down the central aisle of St. Peter's and to the altar Jj The new princes of the church were robed in scarlet wool cas signed titular churches. Car The accident happened at the home of her foster parents, Mr. sand Mrs. John Pearson on P.G tee United States Lines 8200-ton nal McIntyre received title to frei enter.

American Veteran, and' r-x -i uj v. ot. AnasiaMa, a cnurca uaung to Lundberg, who organized the first Eastbay United Fund drive and Is its first president, received the horror last night from the Oakland Inter-Service Club Council at a presentation banquet at the Hotel Leamington. The Inter Service Club Council, composed of officers of all Oakland men's and women's service clubs, make3 the award annually tto the citizen, who gives the most in time to community services without pay. John H.

Fitzpatrick, who won the award for 1951, was the principal "speaker at the banquet and made the pres iuicu Jit: jiuuiuaiwii uciui. the fourth century! socks. The trains of their scarlet In the other accident, in loWer New York Harbor, the 8277-ton United States Line freighter, American Leader, and the 6131-ton Waterman Steamship Lines freighter Chickasaw collided in V'. and E. Road, Irvington.

Mrs. Pearson told sheriffs deputies she had left the child for a few minutes to go upstairs. She smelled smoke, rushed downstairs and found Lxna enveloped in fUmes. Mrs. Pearson wrapped the child in a sheet and rolled her Only the absence of two of the new princes of the church who had not been able come here from their communist ruled countries, Yugoslavia and Poland, marred the ancient, picturesque ceremony.

Other presentation ceremonies were ar the murky weather. None of the vessels sank. TANKER AGROUND silk capes shortened from 18 to nine feet by a recent Papal "austerity" decree thia year were not unfolded and spread out as at the great consistory of 1946 when 32 cardinfls were' created. i One by one the new cardinals approached the Pontiff's-throne, bowed low three times and downstairs bed to smother ranged for the five other new UMuuft.t tthe fl.m thn tvik hr a floor into the baggage iwruer-. ffir.

Th in the entation. Fitzpatnck is a lieu- Passenger, estimated its speed flames uere extinguished by tenant the Alameda Count Meanwhile, the Coast Guard cardinals the apostolic nuncios said the tanker Spain, France I and Portugal Wilmington ran aground in the and two Spanish prelates, dense fog of the lower harbor. I The attacks 1 1 i the The ferryboat left St. George.1 church from communism were Staten Island with its custo-! underIined here today when a mafy load of commuters nmrn nicf we a Sheriffs office. variously as between 30 and 50 woman miles an hour.

A lie uuiu was uaKcii uy auiuu- lance from-the doctor's office to kissed the Pope's red-slippered foot and hand. The Pope embraced each. Then; the prelates filed past the score' of on the other side of the central aisle and greeted them.l Manhattan and ran into the American Veteran at 7:49 a.m. lashed at Francis Cardinal Spell-man of New Yorkwho flew WEST) between the famed statue Only the long. conunuous(HixhUnd hospiUl, but died five warning blast of the horn and hours later.

the plunge through the concourse' rfcputies said the youngster i apparently stood over the fur- floor saved a heavy human tolL rown.up dreMf Had Lhe floor not given way, when it United, ran terrified Organizations Included in the council are Exchange lub, Rotary Club, Junior Chamber of Commerce, Zonta International IClub, Lions Club, Kiwanis Club, Business and Professional Women's Club, Optimist Club, Oakland Round Lake Merritt Breakfast Club, Quota Club, and Soroptimist Club. and Manhattan, i The ferry and the American Veteran were interlocked for the train would have plowed on from one room to another, several minutes. Then the ferry succeeded in backing away and into the main passenger waiting The child's mother died in i 1951; her father. George Machi- juiro. i into i r-A.

i nko. ct 1028 Jirkmn Alfred Lundberg fright) receive' "Citizen of the Year': plaque from 1951 winner, John Fitzpcrtrick. moved in reverse to its Manhattan ferry slip to avoid shipping i the the The concourse separates mtimt HiirKirf water through its damaged bow. train sheds from the station jHospitaL Another daughter. RAMMED IN BOW Commissioner Edward F.

Cavanagh Jr. of the Depart U.S. Cracks Big Georgia, also makes her home with the Pearsons, but was at kindergarten. Probe of Race Charities At Every Track Ordered here from Korea as a "chaplain of aggression." The newspaper, II Paese, also charged that the consistory "emphasized above all the political aspects of the church' At the initial consistory Monday at which he named the new cardinals, the Pope declared that none of his selections were politically motivated. I 1 Stepinac, who was released conditionally last year after serving five years of a 16-year sentence for alleged wartime collaboration with the Nazis, was one of the two new cardinals from red-ruled countries absent from the consistory.

The other was Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, primate of Poland. Pope Pius, now 77 years old, today appeared more tired than usual. It seemed apparent that the strain of the consistory week At once the ancient ceremony, of imposition of the red hat or galero began. Each 'cardinal, escorted by an attendant, again went to the throne and the ermine-trimmed red cowl of his cape placed over his head. The Pope held the red hat-he used the same onejj for the whole ceremony briefly on the head of the prelate resting it there lightly and intoning the( ritual: "For the praise of Almighty God and the honor of the Holy Apostolic See, receive the red hat, the special badge pi a cardinal's rank.

By this, yfu are to understand that you miist show yourself fearless even shedding your blood in making our holy faith respected, in securing peace for Christian people and in promoting the welfare of the ment of Marine and Aviation, said the Gold Star Mother -was proceeding cautiously when she rammed the freighter in the star proper. It usually is crowded with early-morning commuters, but the crowd at 8:45 o'clock this morning did not begin to compare with the thousands who will be jamming the station beginning this week-end. The visitors will be coming here for Tuesday's inauguration Soviet Spy Plot board bow. S.F. Womm Burned to Death; Boy, 3, Injured Mrs.

Florence Waite, about 42, was burned to death and her grandson. Robert Mosely 3, critically injured today in a gas ex- The Coast Guard reported the Continued from Page 1 funas for Portland Meadows, which- was flooded into bank Continued from Page 1 i i American Leader was "badly damaged" in the lower bay col in a position to deliver U.S. A A 4.1 a. A- ruptcy by "an act of God. Mi plosion at their San Francisco I cvic us io uac soviet, ana 10 re- rivsT iTtnirtf rtr Rehabilitation Foundation, show donations of $5000 to the San Bruno Recreation Hall, $2500 to the Alameda County Fair Association, $3000 to Santa Clara County; $1102 to the Athletic Fund of Northern California.

It also shows a profit of ef Dwight D. Eisenhower President. Kyne was one of the partners from Soviet offi ana messages in the Portland track's reorgani icials Flames engulfed Mrs. White lision at about 8 a.m. off Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

She anchored off Governor's Island and reported she was taking water. The Chickasaw anchored a short distance away with a gaping hote but above the water-1 line in her bow. zation. He said he would make the loss good if he had to pay it Roman Church in the name of had been a heavy burden upon 000, according to figures the spiritual ruler of more than the Father and of the Son and 425 million Catholics. of the Holy Ghost.

Amfn." when she went to light yie kitchen' stove. Apparently gas had been escaping. She ran down a flirht of outside stairs in her attempt to escape the fire and her body was found at the bottom of the stairs. A neighbor in an -adjoining apartment, Mrs. Anne Schmidt, 42, was credited with saving the little boy's life when she ran in and wratDed his burninr hair That they have been acting in Austria in accordance with this conspiracy with Jfovikov.

The first specific charge in the indictment goes back to 1949 when Verberi was already in Austria and accuses him of soliciting informants on U.S. secrets. In the same year, Verber is alleged to have taken information about a U.S. Air Force installation. It is also alleged that he "took, obtained and received? an Intelligence rejrt.

Among Vpecifie counts against TALL Or ROME" i Nathan Iickerman, Chicago business broker and a witness to today's crash, said the scene reminded him of the fall of Rome as I have seen it in the movies." The train howled into the station "like a hurricane," he added. J. A. Stenhouse, a Charlottesville. Va, architect, who was in the waiting room, said he heard a "tremendous roar." "My first thought was that the station was falling in," he said-Associated Press Photographer John Rous, who has made frequent trips with President.

Truman, said the track the train from 1944 to last November. Kyne's Bay Meadows track was the only one permitted to operate during the war on the condition that 92 per cent of the proceeds go to war relief. Since then charity days during each racing reason have produced additional thousands of dollars -of himself. His complex records are revealing to investigators one of the most amazing accounts of charity distribution in the state's history. They range from veterans' groups to churches of all denominations and from San Quentin Prison, which got $1562.75 for television setsj to individuals.

Thousands of cancelled checks in values of thousands to' hundreds of dollars are and clothing In' a -wash she tiilr. Ponrer is -one that he went to She also was treated for shock. Salzburg. Austria, in January, revenue. Harold G.

Robinson, criminal division director for the attorney general's office, said that ail phases of all charity days of all the tracks will be investigated Audits on all of them have been requested by Murphy, racing board chairman. Damage to Die three story 1051 to meet an employee of the included. LOANS REPAID Included also are loans of more frame building occupied by 23 U.S. on a mission to arrange for (Dr j) zc37jML mm persons, inciuaing rive employee to meet with Novi- than a million dollars which was esumaiea ai oeiween iuuu vn in w.Mnrtn were repaid with interest and S10.0O0. The indictment charges 14 spe "Only one of those ever went bad," Kyne said.

"I think it was $28,000 for some disabled veterans, and I never have found out who wound up with the money. I've been meaning to look Crowds are packing our Scll-I for the most sensational values. Come in today Billy Graham Calls On Eisenhower NEW YORK, Jan. 15. (ID Evangelist Billy Graham, just returned from a preaching tour of the Korean battlefroiit, called on into it." His varied gifts included 1948 contributions of $25,000 to the Bif Savings.

We're not going out ef business We're clearing the decks, turning our famous was using today is the one normally used by the presidential special. The horn, blaring continu-rusly from far out in the rail-read yards, warned railroad employees the train was out of control. Word was flashed to employees in the newstand and station master's office. Workers and bystanders rushed to safety. Otherwise, a station official said, the loss of life would hav been "appalling." Casualty hospital, nearest the station, reported 40 ambulance patients.

Emergency hospital had nine. 'The Red Cross said emergency hospital had called for "all the blood you can spare us." Engineer Henry W. Brower of Philadelphia rode the train to the vainly trying to check it In New York, the Pennsylvania Railroad said in a statement that "quick thinking and action" by Brower and the crew "averted a major catastrophe." CATASTROPHE AVERTED "Brower discovered the failure tionaliy advertised brand stocks into cash prior to announcement of an entirely new policy. Prices SLASHED to CLOSE-OUT President-elect Eisenhower today. San Francisco Children's Hospital Building Fund, $10,000 to the San Mateo County Welfare Fund, $1000 to Ducks Unlimited and $500 to the San Quentin library fund.

In 1949 the Chil cific acts ofespidnage, alleged to have started in June, 1949 and to have been' carried, out in Washington and in Europe. CONSPIRACY DEFINED It charges that the two naturalized Americans conspired with Soviet Secretary Novikov to gather "documents, writings, sketches, maps, notes, relating to national defense for delivery to the Russians. The collected information, according to the i indictment, included data on the size and disposition of U.S. armed forces and its military establishments. One count alleged that Verber, in September, i delivered cash to a government employee in payment for if iformation relating to U.S.

defense. The Justice Department said The 34-year-old traveling min Trial of 13 Reds Goes to Jury NEW YORK, Jan. 15. jB The trial of 13 communist party leaders on charges of conspiring to advocate forcible overthrew of the government went to a jury today. The case was submitted to the jury after Federal Judge Edward J.

Dimock spent two hours charging them on point of law to be considered. The trial the second major case here against the top command of the communist party in this country has been going on for eight and a half months. The defendants are 10 men and ister had a half -hour conference a I with Eisenhower at the President elect's Commodore Hotel head I mews llj dren's Hospital received another $10,000. The National Conference of Christians and Jews got $1000' in 1950, the Elks Youth quarters. The meeting was said to.be purely a "social' call.

Graham, who has drawn huge crowds at revival meetings 1 Guidance Fund, $5000, the American Red Cross, $5000. He gave $30,000 for a chape at the Livermore Veterans Hos throughout the country, has sought official support for a national day of prayer for peace in Korea. He conducted a revival pital and $100 to the Oakland 100 WOOL, gray, sklpJ per, oatmeal Donegal tweeds. New 3 patch i pocket models- Slashed to sell out fast at I I the incident occurred in Vienna, Police Department Widows and Orphans Fund. The accounts of his Veterans' last spring on the steps of the Capitol in Washington.

but declined to Identify the government employee. 80 of his brakes as the train entered the Washington terminal ap three women. They held positions ranging from national committee 29no Reg. 50.00 proach," the railroad said. Ai Army spokesman at the Pentagon' said the government employee reported the incident Hi i posts to local chairmanships in the party.

i TheV took over party control after 11 red leaders previously promptly to authorities and that "With a series of short blasts he warned the train crew signal tower and station forces of the comDletely unexplained failure a ouiet watch -was established im ian vgjzbii were sentenced to prison. 100 WOOL gabardines; imported flannels, Newest styles. Gray, meal, skipper blue. What a buy at of the brakes. "The train crew warned pas i i- 3 a 5-1-13 i r.

Teen-Agers Attack And Rob Minister sengers to clear the aisles and be seated and station personnel were able to get many people 1ft 398P Reg. 65.00 BOSTON Jan. 15. on The 7 3(ipS5 Rev. Alonxa Gaskin, 45, Negro pastor, was attacked and robbed of 161 late yesterday, not far i.t lift i mxi i-xTrttoi t-13 1 on Verber and Ponger.

Both of the defendants were born in Vienna and were naturalized in this country early in 1943. Verber, 31, served as a second lieutenant in the: U.S. Army during World War II, and was a member of a military intelligence team in WAR CRIMES PROBER After the war, he was employed as an interrogator for the War Crimes Commission in Nuremberg, Germany. Ponger, 39, first entered the United States as a seaman in '1 from the spot where Rabbi Jacob Zuber, 54, was killed in- a $7 poa robbery New Year's Eve. group I vais.

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Buy the limit of three, at our low, low price of only The attack on the Rev. Gaskin away from the danger area. Six of the train's 18 coaches left the rails as the engine plowed through the concourse floor and rested only a few yards from the crowded waiting room, FLOOR CRUMPLES One coach slithered off to one side across the concourse. The floor crumpled beneath it, too, and steel post from the basement peeled off its chrome sides as if they had been ripped by a can opener. One rail was broken 200 yards ,14.00 AMD $15.00 IlUlM finest Bake this ln, rJl tr 11 want to buy T7 came as a grand jury was hearing evidence on hoodlum ism, vio lence and corruption.

FOR filfM (BOD a its; For quick action dlose-? out. 100, wool, (good; looking rugged tweeds. Sizes broken but good selection. They're a give-? The grand jury investigation February, 1940, obtained natural ization, and enlisted in the UJ5. Army in June, 1943.

SVEEPIliG REDUCTIONS! He also worked at one time was ordered by Dist. AJty. Garrett Byrne as a result of Rabbi Zuber! slaying and ether evidence that teen-age gangs are making the streets unsafe. Residents have protested they are afraid to go out after dark. after the war for the War Crimes Commission, and like Verber, I I I ah away at Vols, to 30.00 70 17 has been attending the University of Vienna under GI rights.

I The State Department sent the "oe to mmf. i i truly Air in Dr. following note to -the Soviet embassy: 3 from the end of the track, other rails were twisted and ties were splintered. A concrete embankment which runs along the track was smashed. Railroad officials said the train was equipped with-the latest automatic devices for stopping it in an emergency.

The train was said to have received the usual inspection when it stopped briefly at Baltimore. A spiral of smoke arose from The Secretary of State. pre i 'r u.r' truly cu- n. cho Dr. cao, of WOOL.

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Sensation- al at I $50 Reward Paid For Tip in Theft 5 The help of A. Wise of 2222 Acton Street, Berkeley, in apprehending two juveniles who had stolen a newspaper rack was rewarded yesterday with' a sents his compliments- to his ex footwear 1 I cellency the ambassador of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and states the following: i 4 i i "The Government of the United i I me acorn in ioc concourse ana to 35.00 jjrem gaping hoi nearly E0feetl joined ia presenting the award. States has ascertained that Yuri V. Novikov, second secretary of FEET HURt? ea. 'kmc in the concourse floor.

Wise, suspicious when the the embassy, has engaged in ssnef mem other big bargain activities incompatible with his status as an accredited diplomatic official, i RoJioying Common Foot Troubles It Our Business lat our skilled attendants sfvpw you tf way to quick, inaxpcnslw foot relief ttvouflh tt um of Dr. SchotTi Shoes, Remedies, Arch Supports and Appliances! D-Scholl's FOOT COMFORT SHOP i "Therefore, this government is. The locomotive and one coach formed a grotesque with the rear cf the kcmotive and the front of the coach meeting in the. bottom of the pit. Well over an hour after the cruh, cffkiali wld they had been warned there was still danger ef an explosion, from the electric 3 boys, 13 and 14.

asked to borrow a tile last October 22, watched them climb a fence into the Berkeley City Nursery. He called police, who seized the pair as they were trying to file the lock off the rack. The boys, who were made wards ef the Juvenile Court, also, admitted two other burglaries. impelled to declare Mr. Novikov persona non grata.

The embassy Next to CAUiYS 7 Facing CITY HALL PLAZA mm Saa fable TW 3-7405 Stere Heitrs: i30 5:30 2111 BROADWAY Sherman, Ctay Iw3iMf 'St is requested to -make arrangements for, hi immediate departure from the United States." (( pants factory dsss 1 520 Son Pablo Ave.l -engines cTer-chaxginx.

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