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OAKLAND'S LOCALLY OWNED AND LOCALLY CONTROLLED DAILY NEWSPAPER UIICUTII Mill. WIH 0 I I I ES I 11 1 1 MIIT ICWI 0 KM I SERVICE a yfS Msl 4, 4 NO. 98 VOL CLIX 21 OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1953 Big Air Guard Base Slated at Airport Squadron to Shift From Hayward to Oakland; Building Program Planned far Plans to move the 194th Fighter Bomber Squadron from Hayward Municipal Airport to Oakland Municipal Airport for the operation of jet planes were revealed today. They include the construction of a $1,200,000 Air Guard Base at the Oakland Airport. -v rj A Sv v'- -J flll The Richmond Fire Department was not called for a conflagration minor at the home of Sam Collins.

It really wasn't much of "a fire, although Collini got pretty excited when hofound his kitchen full of smoke. Mrs. Collins was away from home, and Sam was cooking his own dinner. He had a nice big steak, and he fixed it up in expert culinary style and put it on the stove. He forgot only one thing.

He forgot to take it off. When he remembered that he was doing the cooking, the steak was blazing furiously. Most men would have lost their heads and called the frre laddies. Collins took care of the emergency himself; He has professional reasons for not placing himself at the mercy of firemen's jibes. Collins is a police lieutenant, cp 0 Fcr William J.

Howie, lots of luck and lots of money, because of a million-to-one shot. (Well, anyway, 100 tq 1). Ordered two poached eggs at Fosters, received two eggs with double yolks. Yipes, what excitement, with people, crowding around, shaking Howie's hand, clapping him on the back. "Wha' makes it rnos eenterestin'," gloats Howie, "is tha' it hoppened to a Scotsman 0 They're here at awed toll-collectors on the bay bridge mumbled as they reached for their outer-space atom guns.

The car at the toll plaza was loaded down with a half-dozen characters wearing pajamas adorned with gold stars and plastic bubble-type space patrol hel-. rr.ets. from inside which they leered threateningly. Frightened everybody no end as they progressed to the home of Berkeley's Frances Siminoff, the famed weaver. Wove in, wove out, ended, up a the costume Safari at ML Diablo Country Club, where they didn't frighten anybody.

Got frightened themselves instead. .0 Biggest novelty in the history of fashion shows takes place at the Claremont Hotel October 18 when Guide Dogs for the Blind stages an extravaganza to raise funds with which to buy German Shepherds. "Hefty ladies." says Vera Van Wert unblinkingly, "will model clothes." Just like that hefty ladies. What are hefty ladies? Stout, plump, fat," says Vera. And adds, confidentially, You know, plump ladies grow tired of seeing size nines model clothing.

They want to see garments modeled that they can conceivably squeeze into themselves." Makes sense, and would seem to prove Today's Women no longer object to being termed plump. Would prove it, that is, if the charming plump models weren't modeling incognito. cp 0 Wonderful moment, too, upcoming for pranksters traveling by air to a government project. They've planted a copy of the Kinsey report in the luggage of a young Army lieutenant, have rigged. a welcoming committee of intelligence agents, high brass to "discover" the Tribaac phi San Lor nzo, will reign as the queen of the 23th annual Attendants are Isabel pose to (left) and Edythe Gabriele.

Brig. Gen. Rollin Moore commanding general of the Guard's 144th Fiehter Wing, of which the 194th is part, said the plans are tentative; only, but he went before the Oakland Board of Port Commissioners and won a vote of approval of the plans, subject to negotiations and final Board approval Moore said the move of the flying unit would not mean abandonment of "the $1,300,000 Hayward base, which was completed in 1950. Sixteen supporting units, not equipped with planes, would remain at Hayward, according to present plans, he said. EXPANSION STYMIED Proposed expansion of Hayward Airport to make it suitable for jet operations have been stymied.

Opposition from San Lorenzo Village home owners required relocation of nfhways to accommodate jets, but a proposed $1,500,000 Federal expenditure for the project has been withdrawn. Further, a Federal Airport Use Panel recently recommended that no jet operations be planned for Hayward Airport. Approval of the National Guard plans to move to Oakland for jet flying was recommended to the Port Commission by Dudley W. Frost, general manager of the Port of Oakland. General Moore emphasized that the traffic patterns to used by jets have been planned to keep them away from residential areas so that they will not constitute a nuisance.

14 ACRES NEEDED The Guard would require 14 acres of land on a 25-year lease, with a provision for a 25-year renewal. Proposed buildings would include a hangar with offices and shops, a vehicle building, a warehouse, one jet fuel storage tank farm and one 25,000 gallon gasoline tank farm. It is anticipated that the squadron will be equipped with 25 F-86 Sabre jets, six trainers and one transport. One hundred military and civilian employees! would be on full time duty. General Moore informed the Port Board that he would seek funds in his 1954-55 budget.

Hotel Owner Hit By U.S. Tax Lien A lien was filed by the Federal Government today against the property of Clark J. Pickens, 58, owner of a downtown Oakland hotel, and his wife, Hazel, for failure to in income taxes for the years 1945 and 1946. The couple, who live at 824 Vermont Street, specifically owe $18,751.64 in his case, and in the case of Mrs. Pick-ens' with 5 per cent interest penalties for both.

The lien was filed by Glen Jamison, San Francisco director of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, in the Alameda County Superior Court Pickens owns the Hotel Pix at 830 Broadway. In 1946 he owned the Denver Club in El Cerrito and in 1934 owned an Erneryville tavern at 1352 Park Street. He has purchased land at Paradise and in recent years had been engaged in subdivision sales. Perkins and Santo to Die For Murder Chester Suspects to Pay Penalty for Killing Of Burbank Widow LOS ANGELES, Oct. 6 Emmett Perkins and Jack Santo were sentenced to death in the San Quentin prison gas chamber today for their part in the March murder of wealthy Burbank widow Mable Judge Charles W.

Fricke pro nounced sentence. Third convicted killer in the 'murder for money" plot, blonde Barbara Graham, 32, escaped sen tencing when her two attorneys stepped out of the case, making it lecessary for the court to appoint new lawyer to study and pre sent her appeal for a new trial. The woman will appear before Superior Court October 13. Santo, 47, and Perkins, 44, were convicted along with Mrs. Graham of breaking in Mrs.

Mona-han's home and murdering her iafter searching for 1100,000 which they believed had been hidden there. The trio was found guilty of first degree murder after a six-week jury trial here which ended September 22. Perkins and Santo, considered prime suspects in the Chester slaying of grocer Guard Young and three small children last October, at first appeared unmoved by the sentence. Then Perkins clinched his knuckles and Santo appeared to be pale. Their sentence will go before the State Suprem Court for automatic review.

Mrs. Graham's attorneys. Jack Hardy and Benjamin Wolfe, withdrew from the case to delay the blonde murderess' sentence. Judge Fricke immediately ap pointed Al Mathews to take over and said he would hear her appeal a week from today. Judge Fricke also ordered Santo and Perkins transferred to San Quentin within 10 days.

Guards led the two grim-faced killers back to their cells through a courtroom filled with spectators who were on hand waiting for the doors to open at 9 o'clock. Both have been linked with at least seven other murders and crimes throughout California and Nevada but neither have committed themselves through days of questioning by police, sheriffs and detectives. Blackout From Drink Pleaded In Murder Case REDWOOD CITY, Oct. 6. fl Arthur Herbert, accused of slaying his step-daughter in her San Carlos home, has testified in his murder trial that he was in an alcoholic blackout on the day of the murder.

The 61-year-old Long Beach mill worker admitted yesterday he was "the man who pulled the trigger" of the murder weapon that took the life of Mrs. Mara-belle McGuire on June 2. But Herbert said he couldn't remember clearly going to the McGuire home, or anything that happened that day. The state charges Herbert shot his step-daughter as the climax of a long custody battle over his young "daughter, Jerrylann. Herbert told the Superior Court jury he drank several pints of whisky the night before the shooting.

He said he was upset after visiting Jerrylann where she was confined at Napa State Hospital, and "just kept drinking." Herbert wept frequently as he told his story. Under cross examination he was dry eyed and wary. At the start of the trial the defense admitted Herbert had killed Mrs. McGuire, but disclaimed any malice or premeditation. Herbert admitted the slaying again under cross examination.

"I don't think there is any question that I was the man who pulled the trigger." he said. Solon Raps Ike MILWAUKEE, Oct 6. (JrV-Senator-Estes Kefsuver of Tennessee, a Democratic presidential aspirant last year, called President Eisenhower "a disappointing President" in a speech here. tome, fix the young man with cold stares and shoulders. CP The story behind the story: Why Birjg Crosby, the well-known voice, took in stride that Vancouver hotel clerk's 1951 refusal to admit him because he "looked like bum." Ha.

Bing carried, in his pocket, the solid gold-plated key given him by the Citizens of Vancouver in Think, the key to the city. Proves just one thing: The hotel clerk knows a color-blind man when he meets ore. cp Proudest man and with reason in the Eastbay: Roy Palmer, 2023 East 21st Street. Reason: Receipt of the "Imperial Medal" from Queen Elizabeth of England, for 39 years' faithful service as a Vancouver letter carrier. Tne medal is the size of a dollar, carries King George's likeness, is ribboned to the lapel; and it's believed (by Palmer) to be the only one awarded in the U.S.

cp The Oakland vacationer was no less shocked than the trout He discovered a grpup of men by a mountain stream, engaged in what seemed to be a most illegal and even more reprehensible practice. They had a 110-volt generator running on the bank and were sending electric current into the water. Every fish within range of the jolt promptly stiffened and either rose to the surface or sunk to the bottom and floated downstream to strategically placed nets. Only the prompt presentation of credentials and de Mary Ghiglion (cnter), of Columbus Day celebration. San Lorenzo Is Columbus A pretty San Lorenzo secretary will reign as queen of the 29th annual Columbus Day celebration of the Italian American Federation of the Eastbay.

Mary Ghiglione, 24, daughter of Mrs. Mary Ghiglione, of 101 Lewelling Boulevard, San Lorenzo, was chosen over two rivals and she will be crowned in a public ceremony Saturday by Mayor Clifford Rishell at the Oakland Auditorium. Miss Ghiglione, who is a secretary at the San Lorenzo High School, was sponsored in the I queen contest by the Ligure Club of Oakland. She will be attended by Isabel: Sposeto, 17, of 915 Shevlin El Cerrito, and Edythe 16, of Albany. Autoist Hits Boys On Bike Tandem Two youngsters riding tandem were injured last night when their bicycle was hit by an auto at 85th Avenue and San Leandro Street.

The boys are Marion Smith 14, of 432 Worth Street, driver of the bike, who suffered a head injury, and Leonard Webster, 11, of 1108 58th Avenue, who escaped with facial abrasions although he was found 80 feet from the point of impact. The car was driven bv Felix J. Horta. 61, pf 1169 Wellington Street, who was not cited. The Smith boy is in fair condition at Highland Hospital.

Leonard was released after treatment. Query on Rifle Leads to Arrest BERKELEY, Oct. 6. Because one youth asked his parole officer it it was all right to have a rifle, he and a friend were held in jail today for investigation of burglary. The strange question of Harold J.

Ray, 20, not only brought his arrest and that of Lawrence A. Doiron, 23, but led to the recovery of $1000 worth of loot, stolen Saturday and Sunday nights, in twin burglaries at the Montgomery Ward warehouse, 1315 Second Street, police said. This is the way it happened. PAROLE OFFICER Ray yesterday told his parol officer, Rudolph Kuhn, he had purchased a rifle for $7 at the Berkeley Y.M.C.A. and was it all right? Kuhn notified local police, who went to the room, confiscated the rifle and fousid it was one of 10 stolen in the burglary, Doiron, who lives at 233 Yal Avenue, was picked up with Ray.

The trail led from there to a second gun hidden on top of a rest room at the Civic Center; to a drill press cached in a lot; to a record player loaned to a friend and to the remainder of the loot, hidden in a Strawberry Creek culvert on the U.C. campus. CAR STOLEN Because the loot taken Sunday night was so heavy, the youths stole a car belonging to David L. Wright, 28, of 1221-B Eighth Street, police added. 1 Wright found his car parked across from the Hall of Justice when he went there to report the theft yesterday morning.

That was Doiron's idea, polics said. He thought it would be a "good joke" on the owner. The youths are being held under $8000 bail each pending further police investigation into their activities. New Member For Piedmont School Board PIEDMONT, Oct: 6. Newest member of Piedmont's Board of Education, Robert W'ells, 36, Oakland insurance man, 'is a product of the city's school system from kindergarten to high school.

Appointed last night, Wells replaces Roy Milligan, who re-. signed last June after 20 years on the board. The new board member lives with his family at 80 Fairview Avenue. They expect soon to move to another house at 131 Nova Drive. The family also is expecting another child soon in addition to Jim, 9, a fourth grade student; Bill, IVt, who is in the third grade, both of them at tha Wildwood School, and Dianna, 4.

During World War II, Wells was an Army Air Corps flier who saw combat duty in Corsica and the Mediterranean area. He graduated from the University of California in 1939 and studied for a year at Hastings College of the Law. other birds of that family into this country to meet a slcy-. rocketing pet store demand. The birds are banned from commercial importing because of danger to humans of psiti-cossis of parrot fever.

Mrs. Reyes Cid said the threat of death was made by Nicholas Spicuzza and John Hadzima, two of those on trial, against Samuel Segovia, named by the government as a Mexican member of the alleged ring. Segovia is still being sought- The woman $aid she worked as an undercover agent in Mexico City, where she knew several of the defendants. tailed explanations kept the vacationer from hunting up the nearest sheriff. I The wholesale fishermen were state game wardens, Similiar activity by the public would be completely illegal, but this was no commercial venture to produce trout by the sack.

They are inaugurating a new to California method of counting and segregating fish. The electric shock system has been employed success- fully in Germany and other countries, and is getting a i favorable trial here. The electricity knocks out the fish for about five minutes, after which they regain health and vigor without impairment. During the interim they can be seined out of the water Secretary. Day Queen Following the crowning of the queen at 8 p.m., the Pacific Opera Company, under the direction of Arturo Casiglia, will present the opera "La Boheme," with a full orchestra and chorus.

The public is invited to attend the coronation and the opera free of charge, according to Raymond E. Mellana, president of the Italian American Federation. The Eastbay's Columbus Day celebration will continue on Sunday when 50 top long distance runners from Northern California will compete in a marathon race at the Lake Merritt Boat-house, starting at noon. A banquet and grand ball, over which Miss Ghiglione will reign, is scheduled to be held at 6 p.m. Sunday in the Hotel Leamington.

Berkeley Acts on Transit Board BERKELEY, Oct. 6 The City Council today named City Manager John D. Phillips to be this community's representative on a special committee to consider formation of a permanent, 21-city, two-county East Bay Metropolitan "Transit Committee. Creation of the permanent body, to work on long-range solutions to the area's transit problems in conjunction with the Bay Area Rapid Transit Commission was suggested by Mayor Clair W. Macleod of Piedmont at a meeting of the East Bay Divi sion of League of California Cities in Albany September 21.

was not ready; so they went to the bar lor a drink. When they were riotified the table was ready in the main dining room, Daniels had not finished his drift. He attempted to carry it from the bar but was told he could not take an unfinished drink into the main restaurant. De-vine went on ahead, while Daniels insisted his drink was paid for and that he was en-tled to take it with him. He attempted to do so and was assaulted.

ABSENCE 'NOTED' Devine noted Daniels' absence and returned to He found Daniels being assaulted by the club's employees. Trying to intervene, Devine also was assaulted. "I was held," Devine said, "by an 'employee who had his hand in his side pocket as though he was holding a gun and stated to me: 'Stand there so I won't have to use this'." Daniels asked $200,000 damages; he says he suffered seven rib fractures. Devine is seeking $100,000, asserting he suffered a fractured rib and other injuries. State Acquires Martinez Ferry MARTINEZ.

Oct. 6. Thej State of California today acquired, a ferry system. Title to the Martinez municipal! ferry, plying Suisun Bay between the cities of Martinez and Beni-cia, passed to the state at 12:01 a.m. The official ceremony will take place here when the ferryboat City of San Rafael reaches Martinez after leaving Benicia at 5:40 p.m.

The transfer was made under terms of legislation signed by former Gov. Earl Warren following adoption of a bill sponsored by Assemblyman Donald D. Doyle of Walnut Creek. State officials have been invited to ceremonies marking the transfer, according to Claude! Greerty, secretary of the Martinez Chamber of Commerce. Among those invited are Governor Knight, Lieutenant Governor Powers, Chief Justice Gibson of the State Supreme Court and State Director of Public Works Frank B.

Durkee, whose department will operatehe ferry. Martinez took over the ferry system on December 31, 1941. It acquired the facilities at the time the State bought the Car-quinez Bridge. The State re-moved'folls from the bridge and gave the ferry line to the city for $1. The city won't get the dollar back.

Plans Dropped For Car Track At Livermore Plans for a $250,000 auto racetrack at Livermore were dropped today in the face of governmental requirements on traffic, sanitation and flood control. Contractor Thomas J. Green, of 535 Sixth Street, Hayward, withdrew his application for a use permit from the County Planning Commission yesterday after the commission tabled discussion of sanitation and drainage until November 9. The commission said the delay was ordered to give the State Division of Highways time to produce traffic pattern requirements to assure safety at the track site, Collier Canyon Road and Highway 50. An estimated figure of $380,000 has been made for traffic channelization structures.

Green said "too many" complications are piling up. The proposed track has been under consideration by the commission since early in the summer. He said he might as well farm the 70-acre site, or develop a residential subdivision. The speedway project was a venture to attract racers upon the closedown of Oakland Stadium at 150th Avenue and East 14th, where a $10,000,000 Macy'i shopping center is to be -developed. The asphalt stadium is being modified into a half-mile dirt track on a temporary basis and may operate until mid-1954.

Doctors Sue for $300,000 In RowOverMoying Drink Vallejoan Tells of Bird Smugglers Murder Plot and put into a tank where the game wardens can check number and species. The procedure has another most interesting purpose. It eems that Eastern Brook trout and Western Rainbows do not get along well together. This is not entirely a geographical matter. But East is East and West is West and the twain don't spawn at the tame time.

So hungry Rainbows gobble up the Brook spawn in the fall, and equally hungry Easterners gobble up Western spawn in the spring Wherever possible, the game wardens separate the two varieties and put them in different ponds. The fish then don't get fat on each other's caviar, but they do raise more babies. Much of the development of the electric shock treatment for fish in California is credited to an associate fisheries biologist appropriately named Joseph Wales Without the please. cp 6 0 Berkeley's Billy Martin, World Series hero, can tell you how to put on 10 pounds in six months. Followed Bowling Editor Art Knighton's advice, drank a glass of milk two hours after each meal.

Added just enough extra muscle to hoist a ball the extra feet over second base enabling him to rack up the single which won the series, cp 0 Sign in a restaurant at High and East 12th Streets: "3-D Sandwiches" Wonderful moment at the Aeolian Yacht Club a while back, when the winner of a dance door prize claimed his award. Mistook the lovely blonde who drew the number for the prize, picked her up, started off. Hey, DanT, come back, come back cp 0. Meet John Olival, the man with the green thumb. Grows plums, cherries, apricots and peaches on one tree in the yard of his 3412 Louise Street home.

Planted a sunflower at the home of a tenant, Johanna Harbin of 1442 34th Street Zip, it's 13 feet tall, with a flower. 12 inches in diameter. "Who can top that?" asks Mrs. Harbin. Nobody? Nobody.

Meet Little Jack Horner, salesman with the Oakland Plumbing Supply, Company. i THE KNAVE. NEW YORK, Oct. 6. Two surgeons are suing the Copacabana Club for $300,000, claiming employees of the fashionable night spot beat them up because one doctor tried to carry a drin'- from the bar to a table.

The suit came to light yesterday when State Supreme Court Justice B. M. McNally granted the physicians Drs. Charles J. Daniels of New York and John W.

Devine Jr. of Lynchburg, Va. a preferred place on the trial calendar, setting the case fqr a week from today. A general denial of the complaint was entered by the Copacabana, which asked for dismissal of the suit CONSCIENCE SHOCKED McNally, however, declared: If the assaults occurred as alleged, it is a circumstance that shocks the conscience of the court and impels an. immediate triaL" Devine, in the bill of particulars, said the incident occurred the night of December 14, 1951.

He said this is what happened: The table they had reserved SAN DIEGO, Oct 6. An attractive woman undercover agent for the U.S. Customs Service testified today men she knew as American bird smugglers plotted to kill a Mexican associate because he knew too much. Mrs. Lucy Reyes Cid, now of Vallejo, also named Fred Steiner, 50, Los Angeles pet dealer and manufacturer of children's play pens and toys, as boss smuggler.

Steiner and seven other men and a woman are on trial before a Federal Court jury on charges of conspiracy to smuggle parrots, parakeets and ADE WAY! UNITED CRUS GIVE ONCE.