Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 1

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ISTA1LISHID FEBRUARY 21, 1174 ASSOCIATED WIDE UNITED PRESS. DAILY MEWS FOKEIfiK SERVICE VOL CLXII 10 DAILY OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1955 2(X SUNDAY NO. 179 Steel Union Peace? (aiser Buys Holy Names Site; DoRuss.Want 4 Geneva to Tell Dulles New 14th -Broad way Building Renews Talk; Strike Near do Chief Trying To Avoid Walkout Tomorrow Midnight PITTSBURGH, June 28 (iP Trigger Happy Russ Blamed in Smiths Leases Two Floors, Basement of Multi-Story Modern Business Edifice Civil War Threat Told By Adenauer BONN, June 28 tf Chancel lane Incident German Unity Is Key, Says Secretary 1 WASHINGTON, June. 28. Secretary of State Dulles said today Russian failure to discuss German unification at the Big Four Summit conference would Giant Structure Planned On Lake Merritt to House Offices of Financial Empire Purchase of the College of Holy Names property at 20th and Webster Streets, as site for a multi-million dollar office building and shopping center, was announced today by Henry J.

Kaiser. The project to be known as Kaiser Center will be the largest office building in the Oakland area. It will be the world headquarters for the Kaiser-managed com CIO United Steelworkers President! David J. McDonald, press June 28 UP) Secretary of State Dulles today blamed 'Trigger Happy" lor Konrad Adenauer warned ing to avert a nationwide steel strike Thursday midnight, resumed negotiations today with tlie" Nation's six1; big steel producers, i Russian pilots for the shooting down of an American Navy the West German Parliament to Plans for a multi-storied, air-conditioned office build4 ing at the southeast corner of 14th and Broadway in downj town Oakland were announced today by Harry McClelland, president of the Capital Company. He said the major part of the ground floor, basement, and an upper floor have been leased by Smith's, pionee clothing store for men and boys.

McClelland said thi patrol plane off Alaska last day that the Russians are preparing East German youth for week. "So far, we doubt that rep At the same time, U.S. Steel a civil war against the Bonn hrow doubtj on Soviet sincerity largest pro eight of the building will resents a considered policy on the part of the Soviet Union," panies. ICaispr armnnnr-Pfl Via Viarl world's Jones the and toward easing international tensions. I epend on the space require Laughlin 'In East Germany we face a diacer, ments of various other ten Dulles said.

"Certainly, we hope not." standing army of 150,000 Ger Dulles said the division of Steel the Nation's fourth exercised an option to purchase the seven-acre campus bouhded by Webster, 20th, mans trained by the Soviet ants with whom Capital He and President Eisen Germany is a world problem which contains the seeds of army," Adenauer said, adding: biggest steel maker, said preliminary steps are under way to Company is now negotiating. hower had talked over the af "In East Germany the youth and Harrison Streets, from greater evil. Any realistic effort 2lst the The structure will be of the most modern design and ap effect an orderly shutdown of is being prepared for civil war fair during a plane trip last night from Maine to Washing iSisters of the Holy Names against West Germany." to promote peace must include work on German unification, he said. ton. pointments, with high-speed its mills.

A spokesman for Jones The 79-year-old chancellor The secretary said the Gov Urban Renewal Plan Approved Federal Officials Accept Oakland's Plan; Government to Pay Two-Thirds Federal officials today approved' Oakland's "workable program" application, under which the city's urban renewal "face lifting" can be carried out with the Federal Government paying as much as two-thirds of the cost. plunged into a stormy debate in Referring; to remarks by So Laughlin also said the company evators. Noting that the space allocated i Smith's will total 45,000 the Bundestag (lower house) viet Foreign Minister Molotov last week i at San Francisco. over a bill to authorize the wjill submit an offer to the union later in the day. He said the ernment has not decided yet whether to stick to its demand that Russia pay the full cost of the plane and provide repa square feet, he said this will Dulles said Russia appears to offer substantially will be the government to call up the first 6,000 volunteer German soldiers continue the firm's distinction same as that offered by U.S.

rations for seven crewmen the largest men's and boys' this summer for training. BILL ASSAILED who were wounded or injured in the crash landing. have lost interest in getting Germany unified. Molotov had spoken of the East-West division of Germany as likely to continue for a long ime. Steel earlier.

That offer, was re jected by the urjion. WAGE TALK ONLY clothing store west of Chicago. IMPORTANT PROJECT Adenauer intervened after a leader of his own Christian This is the most important I Before entering the meeting Of the program approval came simultaneously Democratic Party (CDU) as retail business project downtown ATTITUDE DEPLORED with! U.S. McDonald was in a telegram from Sen. Wil House, Senate Oakland has had in years, he sailed the bill and warned that CDU deputies would not support Dulles said he deplored this said.

attitude. He added that if the asked by a newsman if he at any time suggested to industry a plan for a guaranteed unem liam F. Knowland to Mayor Clifford E. Rishell and in a long distance telephone call it in its present form. We are just as enthusiastic Soviets really desire to advance Parliament is determined to about having Smith's on the ployment benefi fund.

the cause of peace they will Vote to Extend clamp civilian controls on the of Jesus and Mary. Although he declined to reveal! the purchase price, it is Understood to be $2,560,000. Master planning is under way. Kaiser said, to coordinate the project with the City of Oakland's efforts to stimulate the private financing and construction of a luxury hotel diagonally across Harrison Street from the campus on the city-owned Snow Museum park beside! Lake Merrjtt MAYOR IS PLEASED Mayor Clifford E. Rishell hailed Kaiser's announcement as bringing tvo major, civic projects closer to realization.

He said the rapid growth of the Kaiser companies has made their local office facilities inadequate and created the possibility the firm's world headquarters might be forced to leave Oakland. The Kaiser Center project assures retention of the firm for Oakland, he declared. At the same time Rishell predicted the project will improve corner of 14th and Broadway as from Albert M. Cole, administrator of the Housing and Home talk about Germany at the July new German army. The opposi they are in coming there.

As 18 summit! meeting in Geneva. State Opens Argument in Simin Trial finance Agency (ntir A) in major advertisers and aggressive tion booa lists and some members of Adenauer's "four coali merchandisers, they will create On other subjects Dulles told news conference: 1 Dulles told Molotov at San Doctors Draft tion parties charge that the brief, Washington, D.C., to Justin Herman, HHFA regional director in San Francisco. heavy shopping traffic volume I Mcuonaia repea: "Our contract fcalls for wages wages only. will stand by the contract. I have talked to the steel companies only about a substantial wage increase." Before meeting with U.S.

Steel, McDonald! met privately With! his negotiating teams. The three-paragraph volunteers' law for the entire downtown area, Francisco that Russia should pay does not provide safeguards and their many thousands of 'The upproval," Herman said, makes Oakland the second city WASHINGTON, June 28 Uti against a resurgence of German me iuu cost oi me loss oi tnt customers will find the new Both the House and the Sen location the ultimate for their The government contends the ate passed the draft extension convenience. volunteers' bill is only a stopgap act today after a futile but sharp in the entire West to qualify under this urban renewal program, joining Los Angeles in that classification. Both sides rested today in the bribery and extortion trial of Joseph L. Simin, suspended Confirmation of the agree-j ieht in the House to kill the and that later, detailed legisla ment with Smith came from tion willi contain all the safe Oakland police sergeant, and "Oakland can indeed be proud controversial provision for con tinuing the -doctors draft.

Harold Smith, president of the firm, and the project was the prosecution began its in guards nejeessary ADENAUER'S VIEW of Mayor Rishell's work on this The House acted first, accept itial argument. meeting lasted only about a half hour and McDonald made no comment. j- -j The big is pushing for a wage settlement before Tjhursday midnijght and is empowered by its wage policy committee to call a nationwide strike then if its demands for a substantial wage increase are project and of the enthusiastic ing the measure Jea-D alter Adenauer told the house to Simin is accused of extorting enthusiastically hailed by its executives. HERE SINCE 1886 support given him by other city turning back 221-171 a proposa $1,000 from William McClure, day: plane and! reparations for injuries seven of the 11 crewmen in the shooting down of an American patrol bomber over the Bering Sea. But Dulles does not yet know what the total bill will be, nor how the claim will be pressed.

U.S.-SOVIET DEADLOCK 2 The United States and Russia appear to be deadlocked over Russia's idea of holding a Far East conference, to include red China as a participant, after the Geneva meeting. The United States feels Nationalist China should be present and Russia Oakland prospects for a new to send it back for further con officials and members of the Citizens' Committee for Urban 52, of 3238 Wentworth an The policy which we have hotel. Jesse Smith, vice president, followed has led to the Geneva ferences with the Senate. Rep resentative Mason 111.) of East Oakland hardware mer chant, as the aftermath of i Specifications for the Kaiser noted that the firm has been in Renewal." FIRST STEP IN SERIES Conference and to my invita fered that motion. tion to visit Moscow.

If we had Center have not been completed and! it is not decided if the minor traffic accident in which business in Oakland continuously since 1886. not pet. OTHER FIRMS The "workable program" is followed the Socialist program McClure was involved. SENATE APPROVES 'After much consideration, thef irst in a series of steps set there would be no unification of Union sources said negoti structure will follow a spraw ling or an erect design. Deputy Dist.

Atty. Thomas Then just 15 minutes later the we have concluded that this up in the Housing Act of 1954 Buckley told the jury today: Senate approved the measure the West and therefore no Gen eva Conference. It will have between 400,000 ations also are Scheduled to re-g'umje with Republic, Youngstown Sheet Tube, under which theteaerai uov It is up to you to determine by voice vote with no debate, and' 500,000 square feet of space Socialist policy would lead ernment helpscitiesto help who is telling the truth -Simin disagrees. The doctors draft extension is and will feature extensive use new location is the most ideal we could select for the convenience of our customers," he said. "It will be the most modern store of its type in America, and Jones Laughlin and Inland the 50,000,000 West Germans and themselves get rid ot slums and 3 Dulles does not rule out for two years and the regular or McClure." HOUR AT SCENE the 18,000,000 Germans in Soviet Steel.

I rehabilitate blighted neighbor the possibility of direct talks East Germany like lambs to the of aluminum, Kaiser said. FIVE TIMES AS LARGE The principal building is ex draft for four. Both laws Tere due to expire Thursday night. hoods. The union already has re Buckley noted that although will be only a half block away slaughter." between United States and red China on some matters.

To qualny under this first The Senate had written the jected offers from U.S. Steel and Inland Steel to" increase wages Simin was in charge of all pa The Socialists have consist from the 600-car parking garage 4 The United States would pected to provide up to five times as much office space as of the Downtown Merchants ently opposed Adenauer's policy an estimated 10 and 10 cents step, a city must show the HHFA that it recognizes that it has slums and blighted areas, is try trolmen in East Oakland on the night of the accident, Nov. 16, doctors draft provision into the bill which the House passed without it. Conferees accepted give very sympathetic consider Association." oi rearming West Lrermany in the! present Kaiser Building at he spent more than an hour at hour. Big Steel has shown ino in the Atlantic alliance.

Irving Alkus, merchandising ation to a visit to the United States bv Marshal Tito. Presi-' 1924 Broadway. The project the scene with McClure. the medical section. ing to do something about them in a planned, coordinated way, but needs financial help to help have- eight times as much dent of communist Yugoslavia, "This was an inordinately long manager, a partner.

in the lirm. said the new store will have ap NO' VOTES LISTED dication that it will up the ante in a counter proposal but some observers thought this was en ground area, making possible time for Simin as well as two currently Doing wooed by Mos The "No" votes on final pay the staggering costs. cow after I proximately 240 feet of window display space on the major patrolmen under him, Officers with the breaking Approyal of ats workable tension of the downtown shop- Joe H. Shelton and Robert Kremlin in House passage were by Representatives Crumpacker of Indi tirely possible. In an advertisement today U.S.

Steel saidi! its "substantial' downtown corner. "We carry 1948. thinks- it possible Ike Signs VA Pay Raise Bill 5 Dulles program qualifies Oakland to receive, immediately, financial Warren, to remain on the scene." more famous brands for men ping area. Retail shops and other facili ties! will occupy this area. Buckley said.

1 advances to help pay the costs of offer would give workers aver ana, Hoffman of Michigan, Mason of Illinois and Smith of Kansas (Republicans), and Bar- and boys than any other store Buckley emphasized the fact planning, and, if necessary, ac age! straight-time hourly earn in the West, and our oppor that disarmament discussions at the summit icoriference may lead ultimately to reducing and balancing armarrfents between the A new California corporation that Shelton was completely off quisition of properties ings more than 10 cents higher den" of North Carolina (Demo tunities to display them will be his beat and that although the 'Later, when specific projects than those provided by recent WASHINGTON, June 28 Kaiser Center, has been forhied to own and develop the superb," he said. crats, increases in the automobile in have been designated, the Fed President Eisenhower today Yoting to send the bill back accident occurred in Warren's territory it was not Warren's NEGOTIATED DEAL properties, joining in incor Atlantic allies and the Soviet bloc. NON-AGGRESSION PACTS signed the bill raising the pay to conference were 88 Democrats eral Government will pay up to two-thirds of the total cost with The lease transaction was ne dustry. 5H-YEAR INCREASES porating, financing and owning duty to investigate minor traffic and 83 Republicans. of 1,073,262 federal employees per cent or an average of gotiated by Ben Unger, Oakland accidents.

Kaiser Center, are the 6 Dulles sees nothing to be Against this action were 127 no strings attached, NOT TAKE CASH The advertisement added that real estate broker representing Henry J. Kaiser Company, It seems strange," Buckley about $325 a year. Democrats and 94 Republicans. Smith's, and John Sassell, as gained by piling up non-aggression guarantees on top of each Kaiser Aluminum and Chemi said, "that Simin's testimony Enactment of the measure The medical draft, vigorously sistant vice president of the cal Corporation, Kaiser Stee the; "spectacular wage increases given company workers during the! past 5 fears had ot been "even closely approached" by Even the city's one-third share may not involve actual cash outlay. Money the city spends for completes a round of U.S.

pay other. He thus discounted re opposed by medical and dental Capital Company. concurs with that of McClure's with the exception of those points which tend to be incrimi Permanente Ce Corporation, increases voted at this session Known for years as the Hen- totaling about $1,250,000,000. associations, would make doctors, dentists and other trained men liable to the special draft Continued Page C61 workers in any other major in Continued Page 8, Col. 3 shaw Building, the property has The bill signed today covers ports of United States interest in working out some European security system aimed solely at producing new promises not to attack.

nating. NEARS JURY dustry, The average hourly scale 00. feet on Broadway and 200 983,057 classified civil service below the age of 46. under the offer would provide earnines 74 Cents higher than employees throughout the Na feet on 14th St. The four-story structure was built in 1891 and The defense is expected to Reserves Bill OK'd, Paa A tion and 90,205 others in various 7 If genuinely free elections give its argument tomorrow.

The in (January, 1950, the ad said, housed the Macdonough Thea government agencies with sepa could be arranged in Viet Nam, case should go to the jury late ter, the city'si first legitimate "more than three times as great as the rise in the cost of living No Change, in rate pay systems. tomorrow. showhouse. In later years it be uunes oeueves me inaocmna country can be unified under The increase, which will cost The second defense witness during this period Weather Here came a motion picture theater. about $328,000,000 a year, Is-ret Inside Today called yesterday was Walter a non-communist government.

The building was purchased "Entirely inadequate, is the answer of the union headed hy roactive to March 1. This means Continued fair weather, ex Mello, a bartender of 3424 Dela in the late 20's by the Bank of Today's wild frontier is no the employees will get lump ware who testified he heard America, with the intention of cept for morning high fog, is in prospect for the Oakland Area. David J. McDonald, i Among other things, McDon sum payments totaling about place for Davy Crockett it's only portion of a conversation But he indicated neither the United States nor South Viet Nam would iaccept elections not considered to be free. 8 The State and Justice De-Continued Pare A Cot 1 making it.

the main Oakland branch. Flans were changed Temperatures are expected to So They Say CHANCELLOR ADENAUER of West Germany warned the Russians are preparing for a civil war against Bonn: "In East we face a Standing army of 150,000 Ger-Jnans trained by the Soviet army." between Simin and McClure on $110,000,000 as soon as they -can be arranged. aid, says, the steel industry is boOminc and can well afford a a nightmare zone 600 miles straight up. Ralph Craib, on remain about the same. oaK- Nov.

18 while tending bar at the when the Oakland Bank at 12th land's hieh yesterday was 65 The annual payroll for the "substantial" hike for his men Fairfax Tavern, 5312 Foothil and Broadway was acquired and the Bank of America established degrees. Blvd. who now average $2.33 an hour, Page 2, writes on what Mof-fett Field engineers and physicists are trying to find workers covered by the bill now is about $4,350,000,000 a year. The last general pay raise for Mello said McClure was hav In Washington some govern there. Capital Company later ment officials1 expressed concern mg a dnnfc at the bar when Simin came in and started oyer the situation Continued Page 8, Col.

6 these workers was in 1951. The increases will ruft from conversation with McClure out about it. THE NEWS METER BETTER THAN NOTHING MRS. NtAL MCiNfclLL, owner Lattimore Perjury Case Dropped by Government about $190 a year to $1,005 for Mello recalled McClure declared if the Hillsborough mansion WHAT USE IS the civil service employees. in his presence: "I'll have Wally rented to the Russian U.N.

delegation, ays, they left the house The troubled cry with doleful (Mello) witness the fact that Fire Sweeps Eight said I'm a damn liar. just as they found it: These accusations were de Moofov Arrives in N.Y., din: what a state this globe is in!" Meiio said unaer cross ex WASHINGTON, June 28 The Government decided to Acres in Tilden Park Except for a few cigaret amination that he didn't recall scribed by Federal District Judge Luther W. Youngdahl as burns and stains." day to drop its 2Vi -year-old at A fire, possibly started by Yet any state on this old ball any other conversation and par formless and obscure." and too tempt to try Owen Lattimore fallen power line, burned eight ticularly he didn't remember Pays Visit to Baruch Is better than no state at al JACK BURROUGHS. SENATOR AIKEN, Republican on charges of perjury. acres' of grass on a steep hil any mention of a $1,000.

vague for th 54-year-old Lattimore to defend. Attorney General Brownell McClure earlier testified side in Tilden Regional Park to Vermont, commented on com-munists-in-government as an is Youngdahl threw them out. made the announcement. Simin accosted him in the bar day, WHERE TO FIND IT sue in 1956: Brownell noted that the U.S. Three pieces of equipment and told him to "keep his mout and his judgment, on- this was twice upheld by the Court of Bridge Scores 16 Classified ,22 from the Orinda Fire Depart shut" about the alleged $1,000 District and Appeals Courts here had twice thrown out key Appeals tax, the District of ment and two from the Eastbay payoff or he "would find him Columbia.

self in the Estuary. Regional Park department had counts of indictments charging Lattimore with false testimony "You can't beat peace and prosperity as an issue. Peace is the big thing. The people will even take a little cut in prosperity so long as we can avoid war." The Appeals Court's second the fire under control in about DENIES THREAT ruling was made Ji'ne 14 on a before the Senate Internal Se Comics 14, 15 Crossword Puzzle 29 Editorial 38 Financial 20, 21 Gardens .15 Geraldlne 13 hour. One rig from the an Simin, in his testimony yes curity Subcommittee in early Fire Department Berkeley stood by.

1952. Brownell said it thus ap terday, emphatically denied threatening McClure. He said he big smile for everyone as he arrived by train from the West Coast. j1' I Molotov's visit to the: natural history museum caught officials there by surprise. An impromptu escort party was arranged for him and his aides.

Molotov lingered amid the collection of North American mammals, stopped for a second look at an electric eel, and wound up an inspection o' an Arizona desert scene by injuiring: f'Of what use is cactus in everyday life?" NEW YORK, June 28 (v-Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov went off today -to visit Bernard M. Baruch, financier and elder statesna. Molotov, who returned here today from the UN- session at San Francisco, spent the morning visiting theSoviet Union's offices on Park Avenue and the American Museum of Natural History.

Then his motorcade sped off at noon to Baruch 's estate at Manhasset, h'jsland. foreign minister had a peared impossible to proceed on visited McClure solely to inves Two Die in Plane Crash Mary Margaret McBride. 13 Radio and TV 16 THE DAILY EXPRESS. Lord Beaverbrook's London paper, blasted at Dr. Hewlett Johnson, five remaining perjury counts.

tigatecharges made in a "crank KUTTAWA, Ky June 28 4-4 vote. The tie let the Youngdahl finding stand. This confronted the Government with the choice of appealing to the Supreme Court or going ahead with an attempted prosecution of Lattimore -on five other counts which Lattimore' attorneys had described as "trivia." I Lattimore, a Johns Hopkins lecturer and Far Eastern af letter to Simin which, accord A -C-45 transport plane crashed ing to the officer, said McClure Society and Clubs 12 Sports 33 Theaters 8, 9 Uncle Wiggily 15 fairs specialist, was accused of in flames in a cornfield near was telling bar acquaintances here today, killing Col. Joseph the Dean of Canterbury: "Why is the red Dean permitted to use Canterbury Cathedral as a centei for communist propaganda?" lying in denying that he had been a follower or promoter of about a $1,000 payoff to "police Thomas and Mai. Roy Lock Vitals 29 biirn.

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