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AUCUST 19, 1952 19 VOL CLVII PLAYLAND FOR SENIOR gitizehs Father Held I Red Cross workers do more business with pawnshops than anyone. Especially those in the Home Service Division who perform personal jobs for service men and their relatives. I Hardly a day goes by but what one ol them has a deal with a -pawnbroker. It seems that service men have a bad habit of running out of money, and on such they are apt to put a watch or a I 1 c.V lr 4 .1 i i Is if VJ UJ tfUSMSaBISBMSsaMSaBaSiHBSBSSaMBSSBBSSariBMBSflBHHBWiHBiBMSrMMS' ring in Then, when pay day comes around, they find it impossible to get back here to re- deem the article. I So they send the money to the Red Cross' and the Home Service worker takes care of everything.

i This is only one of manjr jobs done by the Home Service Division from its headquarters at 006 Fallon Street. It-answers ques-'. tions about mail, allotments, leaves, medical care and gener- ally acts as the go-between for service men and their families in moments of stress. Most of the incidents are of a serious nature, but Peter Kris-tich, director of the service, reports an occasional laugh. One of them was when a soldier complained his family refused to send him his civilian clothes.

The Red Cross checked and found the family thought the youth was planning to desert. It took a formal letter from the Red Cross to convince them he is allowed to wear civilian clothes on certain Ji I 'V I The Forest Service has discovered a new asset. i If skunk cabbage, I which grows wild in Mendocino National forest and generally has been considered a plant pest. Scientists recently discovered that skunk cabbage root contains material valuable in the produc-: tion of a new drug used to combat high blood pressure. A Los Angeles laboratory asked the Forest Service for permission to harvest 10,000 pounds, and digging is now under way on a tract southwest of Plaskett Mrs.

Leocadia Louis of 1574 Pacific Street San Leandro. examines the bandaged hand of her son. Joseph, 11, who with other; members of the family was terrorised by her divorced husband. They are (from left) DanieL Luanne, and LanL Alec JrM is absent NOv 50 Values Set for Utility Taxes The State Board of Equalization yesterday fixed the value for tax purposes of public utility property in California cities which do their own assessing. The board assesses public utility property throughout the state.

It had previously fixed its value for county tax purposes at $160.000,000. Counties and some cities assess all other property themselves. Normally city assessments are a little higher. So the board finds the' difference between the city and county ratios for common property and applies the factor to. its utility roll for the utilities property in cities.

Most large cities depend on the county assessor. The taxable value of utility property in independently-assess ing cities includes: Alameda, Albany, Antioch, Benicia, Berkeley, Concord, F4 Cerrito, Livermore, Martinez, Napa. Piedmont, Pittsburg, Rich mond, Tracy. Vallejo, $2,229,780, and Walnut Creek, $813,270. San Leandro OK's Increase In Sales Tax SAN LEANDRO, Aug.

19. San Leandro's city sales tax of lone-half of -one per cent was boosted to one per cent effective October 1 by the city council. The increase, expected to raise $140,000 annually, will finance capital improvements and is primarily intended for additional recreation facilities and for street work, officials said. -At the same time, the council i I 1 TtV i (-r rrrJV- I wl Wy i -A' vl 711 I llfttfM 111! I i i L-i -nm i In Torture, Terror Reign 'Cruel, and Inhuman' punishment Charges Lodged Against Man SAN LEANDRO, Aug. 19 A 41-year-old father who tortured his five children, and beat his divorced wife into supporting him in her home is in jpus tody here todar on cruelty charges.

Alec Louis of 1574 Pacific Street, admitted to police that the five-njonth reign of terror he has imposed on his family since his 1 return from Hawaii, was the samej -one he practiced in Honolulu. Louis tyas arrested yesterday shortly after his 11-year-old son, Joseph, ran screaming to the home of lis aunt, Mrs. Vefonica Ferry of 512 Harlan Street, and sobbed a jale of inhuman cruelty at the hands of his father. San Leandro Police Capt. Steve Lagomarsino today signed a complaint charging Louis with in flicting cruel and inhuman corporal punishment, a felony.

If convicted, Louis, who appears foij arraignment Friday, faces a maximum sentence of two years in prison or one year in the county jail. He is being held in lien of, S30UU HAND TORTURED The box sa'd that on August 7, his father; forced the lad hand on a red hot gas plate, then held the boy's hand under water until blisters raised, whereupon he slit the- blisters with a knife and rubbed salt in the raw wounds. Then, police said, he forced the youth to hoe weeds in the back yard while he stood over him shouting: f'Faster, faster." Subsequently, reported, he rubbed 1 horse linament on the boy's back and forced him to stand aboye a wall heater until the heat caused the linament to burn and -the boy to scream in pain and' terror. 4 Officers) said that beatings with a hose upon all members of the family! were a frequent occurrence. Yesterday, the boy ran to the aunt's home for asylum when the father had lashed him with the hose because the boy wasn't doing the house work fast enough.

The father admitted the beatings, and said the gas plate incident was "punishment" for stealing cookies. SAME PUNISHMENT He said hat he had subjected the boy to the. same "punishment" when he was 4 years old in Honolulu. Mrs. Ferry, who called San Leandro police, took the boy to Fairmont Hospital for treatment Physicians there said plastic surgery may be required to restore the boy's maimed right hand.

San Leandro police were called to the Louis home last Saturday night to quell a fight between the husband and wife, the boy's mother, Mrs. Leocadia Louis, 37. At that time, they said, they warned Louis against punishing the children on the basis of pre vious complaints they had received front' neighbors. Mrs. Louis told police yesterday that she had divorced Louis five months ago in Honolulu and came to the! Bay area to, live.

She works as a typist at the Alameda Naval Air Station. Five months ago, she said, Louis gave' jup his job in Honolulu and came here for an ulcer operation. Since then, she said, she has had to support him in her home under threats of violence. She said she was "deathly afraid" of whom she described as "cruel man.f ADMISSION MADE She told police that while she was at work, Louis would bring the children! in the house, draw the blinds, Jock the doors and then beat them. Louis admitted the beatings to police but said that the "mother worked and I had to keep, order." He said the children misbehaved.

The children, in addition i to Joseph, are Alec 15; Lani, 13; Danny, 9, and Luanne, 7. They are with their, mother today, but Joseph must return to Fairmont Hospital for burn treatments and a possible operation. San Leandro Police Captain Steve Lagomarsino said he would discuss the case with the district attorney today to, see whether felony or misdemeanor charges would be filed against Louis. i 'i General Handy in London LONDON, Aug. 19w JB Gen.

Thomas T. Handy, deputy commander of the United States' European command, arrived here by sir today for a round of conferences with American jjf i i i 11 xil II Meadows. .7 0 Whenever anyone complains about communists using public buildings for meeting places, the comrades rise up in righteous indignation to scream about the right of free speech and assembly. But when Mrs. Helen Lima, wife of Mickey Lima, one of the 14 communists convicted in.

Los Angeles for advocating the overthrow of the- VS. Government by force and violence, rented the Lake Merritt Boat House, she did not disclose the full purpose. Her application said it was for "a birthday party, which was, of course, true, although she didn't specify the party was for Anita Whitney, long-time leftist. What's more important is that she ignored a section of the ap-. plication which requires a statement as to whether admission is to be charged or a collection taken, and, it so, what organization is to benefit If you want! to rent the Boat House for a P-TA benefit or something similar, you fill out that statement.

Mrs. Lima didn't. For a week before the affair, the People's World ran notices of it as a birthday; party. Not until the day before was the notice expanded to call it a "Giant People's World Rally." That was a plain tip-off that a collection for the communist mouthpiece was planned. The proof came a few days later when the People's World proudly boasted that contributions to it from the meeting 'amounted to $975.

A minor matter, perhaps, but you see how some people, live up to the rules that the rest of us obey. 6 -f Richmond police, reporting that they had accomplished the i extre'menly. unusual feat of get-" ting all 10 fingerprints of a burglar, admitted it had been done once before, some 20 years ago. 1 They credited it to a Lieutenant Holmes of the Alameda Police Department but they were not quite correct. Right department, but wrong man.

Police seldom find more than one or two prints. If you'll ex-, penmen picking up or touch- ing- things, you'll see it's extremely unnatural to get all of your fingerprints in contact with an object. It's hardly possible to get all 10 prints except from a series of jobs. The man who first turned in a full set is B. Bridges, for 20 years superintendent of the Alameda police identification bureau.

He matched prints of a juvenile offender involved in a lengthy burglary career. Bridges, now retired and living at 1123 Versailles- Street, Alameda, has taught criminology at the University of California and is now an instructor on the staff of the City College of San Francisco. He is the author of several books and many articles on criminal identification which are used as texts by the FBI and countless police His original feat of getting all 10 prints of a suspect has an interesting contrast. Once he ob-. tained a conviction on a single print from the little finger 'of a culprit's left hand.

THE KNAVE Here the youngster's father. Alec Louis, 41 (foreground), is. questioned by Sgt Jack Ashman of the San Leandro Police Department Louis was booked on charges of cruelty. Captured Jail Escapee Fails in Suicide Attempt This Is tha way growing old should fishing, craft maldng ani game play lng In tha sun by a lake. Add to it boating, nature hiking, lawn games and you bars part of the program of th Senior Citizens at their summer "camp" at Lake TemescaL They aU must be brer 50 and moil are oyer 60 while at least one, William Fields, Is a senior citizen Indeed.

He Is 88. They sing songs trarehng to. and front camp in their bus. They bare a campfire. They are dirided into four Indian 'bribes" competing against each other in.

games and stunts. j- For fire days they win trarel to the WiHow-brook Picnic area at the south end of the lake for the day-long program of pleasure. Its exponents are pictured abore. Like "small Idas" with a pole 'and pin, these senior citizens, dangle poles in the lake learing behind a note "gone flshftiV They are Qeft to' right) Edwin J. Sulliran.

William Fields, the 1 88-year-old; Mrs. Ann Greenland, Al Sire. In center photo some of the Indians'" take up basket making as a bobby. They are Qeft to right) Freda Wood, Hulda Sire, Ethel Sternberg and John BiasottL A ring toss game dower 'photo) presents Qeft to right) Etta Barron, Joe Grlsler. Minnie Bangs and Sam FrareL Some 50 men and women are growing young together pro-ring "the best of life yet to be." I scheduled a public hearing forv September 2 on an ordinance which would put a one per cent TlikmM pkt to the whereabouts of the fourth fugitive, Thomas J.

Smith, 28, of Norwich, who was held for passing bad checks. Smith's; wife, who had visited him a short time before the es cape, was located in Pasadena, and police there said she was cleared of implication in the break. Folsom Kidnaper Missing From 'Farm' FOLSOM PRISON, Aug. 19. William H.

Thompson, 49, San Francisco kidnaper of 10 years ago, was missing today from the prison farm outside Folsom Prison, --j Thompson disappeared last niht from a prison filtration plant where he worked as a minimum security prisoner. Thompson was sentenced in 1942 for kidnaping a 4-year-old San Francisco girl later found unhanned in Grants Pass, Ore. Paroled iri 1947, he was returned in 1943 as a parole violator with a new term for forgery from Los Glenn to Abandon Woods Search i- Lost Alameda Hunter BERKELEY, Aug. 19. Robert E.

Herring, 27, one of three prisoners recaptured after a brief jail break, attempted suicide, police reported today. Herring was taken to Herrick Memorial Hospital, where three stitches were taken in a gash in his left forearm. Police quoted him as saying he would try to end his life again if and when he had the chance. Although he told police; he cut himself Sunday morning, the day of the escape attempt, officers and doctors believe he. did it yesterday.

Apparently he used a razor blade. With the other two, Farrell H. Fen ton, 18, of San Leandro, a suspected burglar and end Lloyd Martin. 35, bad check artist. Herring will appear in court tomorrow on the escape charge.

In addition. Fen ton is charged with robbery for taking the wallet of Harry Potter, 32, of 1 Sobrante, the jailer they overpowered in the jail break. Herring was held as a bad check tax on sales of bottled liquor, now tax free. The tax on off -sale liquor expected to yield an additional $3000 annually, half of which will be added to the capital im- provements fund. City administrators were or- dered to begin condemnation proceedings against a.17-acre -tract east of the Freeway be-; tween Davis and -Williams Streets.

The plot, now uninhabited and owned by a subdivider, is to be developed for recreation. i i For Li vi I le. WILLOWS, Aug. Glenn County Sheriff Lyle Sale said today, he, is discontinuing the search for David O. Linville, 50, missing Alameda 'deer hunter, because he is of the opinion 'that Linville is not in this area." Sale said he was positive that Linville would have been found in the and ground search made all last week if he still was in the-area, "whether dead or alive." Linville, an Alameda Naval Air, Station truck driver disap- h.

i him out on the Covelo-Alder Springs road. He said the man admitted he was lost but re fused to be taken to a ranger's station. The man the Pittsburg hunter picked up could have been Linville," Sale said. -But since it was the first day of deer season, it could have been one of dozen other men, too. We had, lots of lost hunters that day." Linville lives at 877-B Stalker Way in Alameda.

He, is married and the father of two children. peared August 9 while on a deer hunt in the rugged Plaskett Meadows areaj 40 miles west of with Glenn D. Long, 523 Rutgers Street San Lorenzo. Long, who i 'returned home after participating in the week-long search, said today. that he, too, believes Linville left the Plaskett Meadows! area.

Sale said that he had received a report from a Pittsburg hunter that he picked up another hunter in the Plaskett Meadows area on the night, of August 9 and let Seeks Eye Treatment DUBLIN, Aug. 19-W Prima Minister Eamon deVal era, whose sightf has failed badly in recent, years, left, by place today for eye treatment by a Dutch r-' Air Force and. Navy chiefs. Police said they have no clues Angeles County. icialistfin Utrecht..