Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 1

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EDITION Westerly winds, to Wm.pJu iimuTii pint wiiii iiitii rim iiiiiii iiiiT iiwi mini tiiiiii VOL CLXIV OAKLAND, FRIDAY, MAY 181956 20rsUNDAY nom (, 3 BLAZES TwdWomen U.C ABOLISHES ALL-MALE i South Span Held Peril to FOOTBALL ROOTING UNIT The action was takenj with the understanding tha ad' evaluation of the combined male and female section will be taken at the end of the football season next falL Rapid Transit Military Cut Tell Jackson Former Police Chief Blames City Council For 'Wide-Open' Town By GEORGE ROSS Tribune Staff Writer JACKSON (Amador County), May 18 An honest cop, who loved Jackson, and two women I with good riiKf to hate 'the! place, ripnedi away the pleasant facade of this historic mother lode mining town last night. The latter two told the story! of corfnptionv--greed and sin that go with an open city. The testimony of the two! at an open session of the Ama Vice Pavoffs Ex-Teacher Killed in Home Fire Jto" "W-t44 umated $53,000 damage, to an es Oakland home, a restaurant and an exclusive Lake District dress shop last night In one, a retired school teacher burned to death. In another, a woman's hair caught fire as she dashed through a wall of flame to rescue her peti poodle. Pfnj Ralph F.

MadeleyJ 69, whose body was found in bed after firemen put out an $8,000 blaze which gutted the in tenor of his four-room frame house at 8307 Thermal Ave. DRESS SHOBLAXE-- In the night's firsffire, dam age that may amount to more than $40,000 was done to stock Maginnis Dress Shop, 270 Grand Ave. The interior of the two-story frame and stucco building, a former home, was gutted before 30 firemen could control the blaze, first reported at 10:24 p.m. Mrs. Claudia the shop's owner who.

lives in the! 1 dor County grand ot Grace Group of 8 IncJudtT Economic i And Arms Exports WASHINGTON, May UM President Eisenhower has ap pointed an eight-member task force to study the implications. of Russia's announced miutarjr manpower cutback, TBarold -7Stiasenrthe lresfr dent's Special asiiitant armament, told news confer. ence today that the- group, will assemble in Washington, May 29, Stasaeu said the group, includ ing military, nuclear nomic experts, would also view Stassen's seven weeks et disarmament negotiations Russia and other London recently, "including my talks with Bulgania nl Khrushchev. Presumably, the group would! also plan any move the United States night make In response to the Soviet announcement that, by next May 1, the Soviet military forces will be reduced If 1,200,000 men. MEMBERS OP GROUP The eight task force members, who "will have aides with them, and'tha special sub- Jects ef each, axe: Dr.

Ernest Lawrence, of the the University of California, nu clear: Gtn. James H. DooUUle, air; Gen. Walter SmitM, leas, steel; i Walker IV Cislar, ACID VICTIM Labor columnist Victor RieteL blinded by add thrown In bis ay-, acrya ha wiQ continue fh Scjht crgcdnat "undarcjround crowd that hit "ma." Labor Racketeer building, was waiting outsidefproposed bridge. www iu im tnun pmotu.

NEW YORK. May Victor RieseV crusading labor columnist blinded by an acid at 1 recentlir organized "Califor- opportunity to dg9Bon. ue However, advocates of abo- pointed but that male rooters have had to be warned ag-ainst unbecoming conduct tor the paat two jjgjgj thil' wsast have been to no avail. Bob Hamilton, ASUC pres ident and an advocate oi abolition, said. rWhen a tradition jts; it is time to eliminate it' U.C.

Seeks to Fix Blame in Student Raids BERKELEY, May IS Uni versity of Csiifornia faculty and student-body leaders put their headstogether today to seek a ust method of "paying the bill" for the sorority raids that sweptj the campus Wednesday, As the initial furor died down! and, authorities began, sorting the: fact from the there were these new develop-! caught with water bags and fire' nity i esldeflts Council outlined Pnni for Pantits BERKELEY, May 18 Police found a large placard hanging this morning at Sather Gate a tin can with a slot in the top attached to the cardboard. The sign read: "Pennies for Panties." There were a few pennies lnsidejir- 1 plans for all the campus fra ternities and men's living; groups! share equally the cost of the thefts and damage. Members of the raided so- rority houses and women's hying quarters began compiling for the police lists of males recognized at the height of the "raids." 4 There was new evidence that not all of the marauders were U.C. students. MOPPING UP Kepresentatlve of the general feeling that prevails among stu dents and admin utrs tors alike today was the editorial that appeared in the Daily Calif ornisn yesterday under the heading: "Mopping Up the Spilt The editorial said in part: "In I tack, urges a congressional probe of "the underworld of the labor movement" At a hospital news conference yestkrday.

six weeks to the day aftei an unidentified assailant eyes, tba 41-year-old syndicated Mwspaper writer said: There has cot to I -federal ipower and industry; Dr. Harold- BERKELEY. May 18 In an effort to end rowdyism at football games, University of California students today abolished their all-male root ing section. ine execuHve committee i U.C. upon the urging of Dean of Students Hurford Stone, a mob in fact.

Stone told the commi ee. committee must seriously con- sider whether itinusuTied In continuing such a group." Th rmmittiKtd ts-ht to six to. do away with- the senarite male section. Two members of the committee abstained from Voting. It will result inVle female rooters sitting together at football games next fall for -the, first sity's 87-year history.

Large Early Vote Cast In Oregon MORKIt LANDSBEXO PORTLAND, Orc May IS Uf An early but slow-moving vote sUrtedi off Oregon's primary election marked by a Democratic Presidential write-in test between Stevenson and Sen. Estee Kefauver, Voters showed up some areas before-he polling- place onened at am. It took long as 13 minutes to mars we espe cially heavy ballot. Thweeujer was wara sun ctw, i The turnout to launnoretn Count pf Uand)wbM-as a Uurd the sute regiswaxion. was reported brnx among ma indieited the trotsf war nifni wen ahead of.

the statewide dm- cent In the 1994 primary. The Stevenson-Kef surer con- teat denended on. bow many of their respective supporters the trouble to write in their; reference. Neither candidate name was ba the ballot CLOSE CONTESTS The big question for Repub- licans was whether they wanted farmer Secretary of the interior Doublas McKay or hustling. Phill ffitchcockv their noaunee take Demoerauc way; Morse vthe tap.

Neither race snapea up as rnnawav. As many as five separate oa 0ts awaited an expected per ent of the atate's 780,000 voters. Jut with all that. Democrats had to pencil in their choice for President. ACTIVE CAMPAIGN Kefauver and Stevenson gQntoteJoigei on the Presidential ballot Both camoaigned actively for write-in support that might help them along in the last two major primaries Florida, May 29, and California, June 9.

Tht sleepless Tennessee sena tor, called from Oregon to Washington. to vote on the Niagara power bill, flew to Oregon again yesterday for a final swing through a half-dosen He predicted only, think our showing will be very good." Stevenson unished up Wednesday. His managers, likewise, refrained from any victory claims that might boom erang. President Eisenhower hu the Republican ticket to himself. assuring him of 18 delegates to the GOP national convention.

The state's 16 Democratic, delegates will be pledged to the' high man in the write-in. NO SWITCH-OVER No party switch-over of vot ers is allowed here. The complicated ballot, long on sute and local entries; in cludes a. write-in spot for Vice OmuImi Mr11 Hum 111! I alto investigation at labor racketeer- Dr. James Fuk, communica tions.

Stassen said he recommended that the VS. Government's re- -tag which infests unions. li should be by friends of i labor, like Sens. Paul Douglas (D, jQD Jnrlng Ives (R, N.Y.), Styles Bridges N.H.), or action- to the should be neither that of gullibility nor of cynicism; but should be balanced approach." for firemen to arrive when she discovered that her pet Coca, was an through the front doorJ There was a sheet of flame. I can't remember where I found Coca, but my hair was on fire when I got out, she recalled today.

Firemen saved her Siamese cat, Milou, as they fought the blaze. Mrs. Tucker, alone in the building, discovered the fire raging in thevtore'i stock rooms. KESTAURAJrC BLAZK An estimated $5,000 damage was done to first and second floor rooms in the rear of the Serenader Bar and Restaurant, 904 Lake Pork where firej broke out shortly after 4 I Investigators) have ruled out the possibility Of in all three fires. Three youths, found near the Serenader, were ques tioned and released.

5. a 1 Acting Battalion Chief C. W. Rosa said that the Madeley fire, which was put out 15 minutes, could have; either from an electric beater or a television both in the living room. NO CAUSE FOUND Battalion CfyeT George John-! son, wno directed activities at the dress shop fire, which tied up traffic on Grand Ave- could give no cause for the blaz Mrs.

Tucker estimated that damage to the shop's interior, which was gutted, and to stocks of exclusive merchandise would tbe at least" $40,000. -The fire at the Serenader ap parently started from a-water Johnson said. A $5,000 fire hit the tavern-res taurant in 1948. adeley is survived by a Dr. H.

R. Madeley of Vallejo. Stasseii told reporters East- West disarmament talks must Authority's Concern war rinirWrUig Of Project told ly BILL STOKES The proposed southern cross ing poses a very real tnreat to the construction of a nine county rapid transit system! serving the entire Bay That flat statement was made late yesterday by AlairvK, Browne, of San Francisco, a vice president of the Bank of America and a member of the Bay JArea Rapid Transit Commission Browne disclosed that the California Toll Bridge Author ity is so concernedjover finane ing of the proposed southern bridge that it is in the process of hiring consultants to deter mine the economic feasibility of the project He said that Frank B. Durkee, State Director of Public Works and a member of the toll bridge authority, told him the authority now is receiving bids from firms for the financial study of the SERIOUS DOUBTS Browne said that "serious questions" about the feasibility of financing the the basis of a 25 -cent Bay Bridge toll are raised by the following points: 1 The proposed crossing is somewhat dismembered by in adequate approaches." 2 The actual amount of traf fic which will be diverted from the Bay Bridge is "somewhat out. of proportion to the coat of construction." The Bew bridge fwont re lieve congestion I don'V think Picture Poea IS the southern crossing will used by 4 Interest rates are "much higher" than a year ago when advocates of the southern cross ing devised amendments to the original bridge plans eliminat ing most of the approach system in ah effort to provide financing through a 25-cent Bay Bridge toii.

Browne made these remarks as the last speaker at a day-long seminar of officials from throughout the nine counties ways to make theX proposed rapid transit system, a reality. CALLED BT MAYOR Some 125 representatives of I county boards of supervisors and the city councils of 69 cities were on hand for the meeting, which was called by San Francisco Mayor George Christopher. Browne previously has advo cated a "first things first" approach to the problem of which Continaed Page CoL Oakland's Mayor usoun, may tp un win- ford Rishell, mayor of Oakland, land his wife arrived today at the invitation of Crodr. Sar- mento Rodrigue, 'ormer Portu- suese overseas minister, for a fortnight's stay in Portugal. ine American visitors wiu visit members of the Portuguese cabinet and other high officials.

Then they will leav- for a three- week tour of Angola and Mozambique, in Portuguese Africa. The mayor brought as a gift to Lisbon's botanical gardens California redwood tree. On arrival. Rishell praised highly the 50,000 Portuguese Ameri cans who live in California. "All Americans hold the Port uguese in esteem and they have done great work," he said.

Bridge officer rushed the new father by Born still aim at "reliable and effec tive method which would pro- tect against surprise attack." 1 DIVIDEND POR DIE jj charged that city police made regular rounds for hefty col lections off the top of the vice racket which they said operated here until a State-county raiding party moved in last March 23. The policeman. an ex-chief, testified it-has been the Jack son City Council which turned tne vice on and off. 'LOADED QUESTION' Grand Jury Foreman ildo Wednesday's hearing that he didn't believe there was enough indication of evidence to warrant indictments, was asked after last night's hearing if he felt the same' way. "That a loaded he said.

"I don't think I should comment on that at this time." Pinntti uiri thai ho 4n nM! believe that the hearings can be night and said the grand jury may have some witnesses of its own to call in addition to those under SUDpena, Chief Asst. Atty. Gen. Thomas r. Martin-said that he behaved that be would be finished by the end of today's session.

He said. mr there were sixrTseven more witnesses who would likely be called, $50t A MONTH TAKE One witness said a former police chiefs cut from one house was $500 per month 'and that he newly succeeded in extract three falsely saying the money was to go to buy: protection from the State Attor General's office, ohc of the women testified. Two city, couricilmen made thajr own collections, a weekly take of $25 each that climbed to, $50 from each of the three establishments, it was asserted by the women witnesses, Anna Caplette and Lena Renaul. rne.two women toiaoi so- licitors tor sbig donations to worthy causes 'oisome city merchants who split the business between them and over charged the houses for supplies and of a landlord who extracted Continued Page CoL Bobo Olson's Wife Sues to Tie Up Purse REDWOOD CITY, May .18 Carl (Bobo) Olson may be fight ing for nothing tonight when he tries to" regain the world middleweight crown. Olson's purse has been tied up by a restraining order issued at "the request of his estranged wife, Helen, who has withdrawn) a divorce suit in San Mateo County Supreme Court 'and asked instead for separate main tenance and support for herself and their four children.

The ex-champion was-one of several defendants named in the series of suits filed by A.tomey AHen Dougherty today in behalf of Mrs. Olson. Others namedjnclude the Hol lywood American Legion Stadium, where Olson fiehts Funeral services will be heldWlie 111 P0ITUQal morrow at 4 pjn. in Truman's u. tomorrow at pjn.

190 other newspapers through out the nation. Twill write. my column as long as people will read it," Riesel continued. "The same underworld crowd that hit me will be the same underworld crowd I will -continue to fight. COLUMN CO rney nave not scared me.

They blinded me but it will not keep me from writing the same type ox column as before." Riesel said he was not indict ing unions, and' he praised George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO. Riesel's column has been continued by his staff while he was in the hospital. "The waterfront is not the only place you have a tough mob, Riesel said. He specifically mentioned the union of operating engineers. the construction trades, and the garment and teamster unions.

Early April 9, Riesel had Just emerged from a Broadway res taurant accompanied by Miss Betty Nevins, an assistant, when an unidentified assailant threw acta in nis iace. Only an hour earlier, Riesel, in a guest appearance on a radio broadcast, conducted interviews with rebellious members of Long Island operating engineers union local The union assart edly has a long record of extor tion and dictatorial rule. umnist said he. felt certain the attack on him was instigated by labor racketeers, "a-warning to witnesses and Continued Page CoL 1 Tlease, Ellal Think of ovr American prostigef" WHERE TO FIND IT ftridse Stores 21 Churches 31 CUssified 35 Comics 22 Crossword Puzxle 21 Editoriaf 54 FmamOal 32,33 Gardon Geraldine Martha lee 21 31 34 24 '4 RadM and TV Riesel Society and Oubs, 4-A to t-A SfMds 4 ThoaHrs 31 UrKleWgHy 23 VHals 45 Weether 34 two and one-half hours, 15 wA.in7nZliZ.t AiZ cent of the student body fctTKL'ZTZ were facing Of th Soviet disarmament announcement, Staasea said: "1 consider that the announce- ment, if carried out, would eco stitute a desirable dividend for President Eisenhower's persist ent policy of charting course for world peace fat the H-bomb Et." i But he said the Soviets should 'agree to open up" so the West ern nations could verify whether they actually were carrying out their announced plan to cut back on military manpower. listing a minimum of factors he said were behind the Soviet move, Lassen commented that it was impossible to say what weight should be put on any ei The Soviets fav bigatst, military ground forces in the world by far.

MANPOWER NEED 3 The low birth rate tn Rus-a during the late 1930s and" early 1940a had cut into their current labor manpower pooL 3 The Industrial expansion program for Siberia demanded more and younger worken 4 Soviet advances in modern weapons, particularly missiles. and modern aviation called for younger and more skilled work-. ers. 5 A solitary cutback would have a favorable psychological effect on the workL The inside-Russia demand' for consumer goods is increasing and. to be met, requires more workers 7 Russia Is convinced the United States has no warlike in tention, end that neither aide can contemplate- modern war because It would ba devastating to both sides.

their counterparts in Congress. "If ft is carried on by men good will It will command the respect of both sides, and the mobs cant say they're being persecuted by the government." CAN HEA AM) FEEL Wearing white surgical -pads ver his eyes, Riesel gestured vigorously as he talked with aome 50 newsmen. Tin not sensitive about the fact that I'm blind." he said cant see but I can hear and I can feet Riesel, saying he expected to leave the hospital early next week, added: "The day after 1 leave I will return typewriter and will bang out my olumn as I always have. For the past 10 years Riesel has been the Oakland Tribune and about1 So They Say DR. LOUIS ALVAREZ, U.C.

scientist on a visit to Russian nuclear plantar "They are doing absolutely first class work." ZXWpr-D. CANHAM. Christian Science Monitor editor, praising American capitalism: "We can hardly succeed for ourselves unless path of all mankind is also upward, at whatever pace," COLUMNIST VICTOR RIESEL victim of an acid-throwing at tack: "The labor racketeers have-- not scared me. They blinded me but it will not keep me from writing 4be-sameiype. of column as before." CHOW SHU-KAL Formosa.

for eign affairs official, on Egypt's recognition of red China: "A great mistake which the Egyptian government will one day BERKELCt POUCE, reinfort ing the UC Campus guard after Wednesday nights student nods, wamedrt. Tun -is fun, but this is the end." MRS. rxAxns GILLORAN.1 former lifeguard and mother of two, saved two boys from drowning buT met with resist-once from one of them, who cried: "I dont wanna go unless you fetsnyjlof," out a reputation for student leadership that has been boilt up since the days ef President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, Sorority girls robbed of their underthings-tdday stood in line to view the array of lingerie collected by the campu police. Those who could identify spe cific garments were allowed to take them back to their living quarters. FINANCIAL AID Dean of Women Miss Kath- erine Towle said girls need ing financial aid to replenish their wardrobes could apply to her office; Police said there were indka tions that many of the early re-j ports particularly those at the! height of the melee were ex- Police Capt L.

H. Uird said there were incidents of night- clothes being pulled from be-l Uaiged co-eds in some of the Ceatlaoed Page 11. CoL 4 Mortuary, Telegraph Ave, and 30th St. under Masonic auspices Pictures on Pago 2 Get Permanent Four-Star Rink WASHINGTON, May 18-tf The Senate today voted to give permanent four-star rank to Genii Anthony McAuliffe and Adro. William M.

Fechteler, who: are retiring from service. McAuliffe has been chief of U.S. Army Forces in Europe. He gained fame during the final phase of World War II by replying "Nuts" 1o a German demand for surrender of his forces in the battle of the Bulge. Admiral Fechteler is a former Chief of Naval Operations.

BRIDGET? First Ba On Bay A'bsby'girLwis born early to been some Repubffcan Sugar Ray Robinson day on the Oakland-San Fran-land mother, Mrs. Ruth SmithJwi4ne4 Hitchcock, a for- in behalf of Vice PresidenU Nixon, but no real drive. The polls will be open until 8 pjn. Democrats for the fust tune now hold a registration edge over Republicans in Oregon 39X128 to 878,778. McKay, who entered the Sen ate race with Eisenhower's "bestl mer state senator from Klamath Falls, closed one of the mosu intensive Republican battles la recent years on a hopeful note Morse, running as a Democrat for the first time, had no serious opposition "for his -nomina tion.

Both McKay. and Hitcfi-l cock stumped mostly against the onetime Republican Morse, in turn, peppered away at "give away" charges against McKay. CASH FOR CROSSWORDS WINNER ON PAGE A Triplo dividend rules md Puzxlo in Toraorrow't TRIBUNE Hollywood American Legion Post 43 -Sid Flaherty, Olson' the Sid E. Flaherty Promotional Enterprises, IncJ and the Bank of America. In November of Olson -4Sed suit forj divorce.

charging extreme cruelty. She aaked for a "fir of the community property, estimated at $200,000. After the divorce suit was filed it was revealed that Olson was the father of another four children by "another woman liv ing in the same neighborhood. 29. to Oakland's Kaiser Foun dation Hospital.

The mother and daughter rwere then transferred to- the1 Stanford Hospital at San Fran-cisco. their original destination, and were reported doing well. Smith, already the father of four, is a mechanic He wasn't perturbed and thought it was cisco Bay Bridge and highway patrolmen think this is the first such occurrence- on record. Patrolman Jack Symohsaid he spotted a westbound car parked on the incline above the toll plaza and asked: "What's going on here "We're having a baby," was the calm reply of the Just then father. Albert T.

Smith, 48, ofpust one of those things," Sym-525 Fifth St, Richmond. Thelons said. i A.