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Oakland Tribune, Wednesday, May 11, 1955 RADIOPHOTO OF A MASS GRAVE AT SEA Contractor Is, Warden Reveals Biysdn Loses 2 Rounds in Perjury Trial Accused Over 8-Man Revolt 3 Federal District Judge Mother Support liam C. Math.es today turned -ft down a motion of acquittal A wealthy Livermore con In Alcatraz i A small scale revolt against made by defense attorneys at BAY AREA High Brysqn's trial. BIG MONEY The largest Judge Mathes also refused a tractor was charged with perjury and grand theft because, officials said, he dis--claimed financial, ability to support his elderly mother. i budget San Francisco his tory $194,217,166 today hai the rigid discipline Alcatraz Prison was staged by eight convicts in their cells, Warden Paul motion to compel the Government to prosecute only on one or the other of two counts to been recommended by the su 1 Municipal Judge Homer W. 2 pervisors finance committee.

Madigan has disclosed. The revolt took the form of a lying in signing a Taft-Hartley affidavit and to eliminate testi will be voted on by the board next Monday. The recommended 1955-56 budget is $5,470,139 more r. 4f. j.

noisy demonstration where the Buckley issued a warrant in Oakland for i the arrests of Roy N. Jensen, 50, of 611 S. St, Livermore, Owner of the R. N. Jensen Construction at 894 East in that city.

mony, of witness who said that than last year's but $2,135,972 under that recommended by prisoners smashed their toilets and wash basins and tore xip Bryson was a member of the Mayor Elmer E. Robinson. communist party before he signed the! affidavit in 4951. their mattresses, Madigan saiA Bail was set at $6,000. Jensen, Dist.

Atty. J. Frank The incident happened two The motjion for acquittal was Coakley said, is accused of made on the grounds that the weeks ago but was just disclosed late-yesterday. 'I chiseling" to make the county responsible for support of his mother, Mrs. Dorothea Jensen, Government had failed to produce sufficient evidence to war The riot, in a disciplinary sec tion oi tne prison Known as rant continuation of the trial.

74, of 765 Almond Liver-more, who received $1,315 in old POLICE LINE-UP San Frarf cisco police are investigating" a Folsom parolee in connection with a series of Pacific Heights robberies after a third woman identified him as the jewel thief who took over jewels from Mrs. Frank Ger-bodeX-Mrs. Elsie Jeeves, gov-, erness for the Gerbode picked out Hugh Brady, 48j in. a police line-up as the gunman; who forced his way into the! Gerbode home Monday morning.l Judge Mathes ordered the trial Block was a protest directed toward gaining more privileges, age assistance payments in 1952 and 195' a (time at which her to continue and the defense to start presentation of its case on according to the warden, NO INJURIES son gross was over $1,000,000 a year. Monday.

Madigan said the outbreak 'BOOMING BUSINESS' Asst. U.S. Atty. Robert H. was quelled without injury .1 Jensen, a former carpenter, Schnacke jwound up the prose The rioters were marched entered the contracting business Previously Mrs.

Gerbode and cution case yesterday with two in 1948 and has since done a her cook, Mrs. Eloise Washing from their cells to another level of the cell block where they more former members, of Rry-son's union who heard Bryson ton, had identified him. "booming business" in ttract sub admit his party affiliation in division, the district attorney July of 1951 two months after PEOPLE said. were placed in unjighted, solitary Confinement. Some 25 other men in Block did hot take part Coakley's: aides estimated that signing the non-communist oath on April 21, 1951.

PASS THE CIGARS In Hoi. Jensen netted $123,000 on a rmiii) in iittMiiiiifiiiiiiiinwrimnWtMrWW in 1 in the demonstration ljwood, actress Madge Meredith Bryson I is charged in i two AP Wircptaat vi Radi lrm Tkjr 926.000 gross business in: 1951- disclose Madigan did not is the mother of a daughter, the but counts with falsely denying 52-53, the years involved in the names of those participating, born yesterday at good Samaritan Hospital. She is the wife of said no criminal "celebrities" investigation. communist membership pr affiliation in that oath and faces a land Sea. Divert are working from tome of these "craft attempting to recover bodies trapped in the sunken ship't hull.

Crash occurred in fog. (Story, Page 1.) ThU radlophoto thows retcu boats cluttered over th area whr tk Japan frry Shiua Mam capsized and ank with great loss of lii after a collision In Japan's In- were involved. The prosecution stems from Dr. Charles L. Corley.

The prisoners taking part in statements Jensen signed i April 10-year prison term and $20,000 fine if cohvicted. the protest, according to the warden, were demanding better THAT'S HIS ST ORY It wasn't attempted suicide, Julio TO HEAR MOTIONS 5, 1951, and July 28, 1952, that his monthly income was $375 and that he was supporting -his 'Why' of News food, dessert with every meal, Judge Mathes dismissed the Villareal Jr. vtold police! on jury of seven women and five own family on this amount. recovering consciousness atv a the right to read newspapers and commissary privileges. Rabbi Coffee Taken by Death These, statements are required Manila hospital yesterday after Needs Stress Labor Chiefs Auto Bombed; Son Injured New Statehood Fight Begun I WASHINGTON, May 11.

in men until Friday to hear defense motions today and to allow Bryson's attorneys time to STATEMENT BY WARDEN of sons and daughters of per an overdose of sleeping pills. He sons applying for old age aid to i Madigan declared: "Those involved were not as just wanted to sleep, he explained, for four straight days, prepare their case. enable the; County Welfare De Says Editor Final witness vesterdav was partment to determine how JUST LOVES TO DANCE Dr. Rudolph I. Coffee, 76, John Tidrhan, a San Francisco much financial responsibility signed to any work detail because of their bad behavior' and continued resistance to author Turner Canedge, managing Alaska ahd Hawaii their they have for support of their Mrs.

Sally King of Winchester, Ky. recalled yesterday that she editor of. the New York Times, seaman and former MCS mem ber. On July 7, 1951, he said he ap widely-known religious leader who pioneered in bringing religious aid into prisons, died yesterday at Notre Dame Hos statehood dream blasted, ironi parents, ity. i danced on her 101st birthday.

BOSTON, May A bomb was blamed today for an explosion which wrecked the car of a labor leader and seriously injured his son. said last night journalism's op The welfare and institutions Alcatraz is unique in I that cally, by 48 votes grasped for "But I've had a little sick spell code provides for a sliding scale the inmates confihed are gen peared at the MCS hall for trial on union charges and Bryson the bottom rung of the ladder portunities to expand "exist as long as people have a longing recently," she said, "and won't pital in San Francisco. An outspoken humanitarian for support contributions by -her erally those who have failed to adjust and respond toj the again today. was the "prosecutor." be able to dance today" 102nd birthday. relatives.

A person with depend to know what's new." I In the wake of the 218-170 ents to support and a monthly many advantages available in "Until we point out what it "During the course of the trial Bryson said to me, 'All I hear from you when you're operating THE HONEST HEART vote tally by which the HoUse The other federal institutionsw here and champion of the underdog during his 50 years as a rabbi, he had retired from the pulpit of Oakland's -Temple Sinai in 1933. where he served for 12 Michael Di Nunno, 24, suffered a fractured left leg, a nearly severed left arm and other injuries. He was reported incorne of $375 is not expected to be able to provide any con i i r. (news) means- and why it hap Pawlaks dreamed of a less restricted program is fol new yesterday sent the joint Alaska on that! ship, the Lurhne. is tribution, the district attorney's pens we haven't done bur home in the Detroit suburbs.

lowed, i Hawaii Bill back to committee, commie, commie, comma office "Generally, theie minor inci years. in critcial condition; supporters were uncertain of you're the worst red baiter he told the dinner meeting of the Northern California Professional PAID $75 A MONTH He was the first rabbi in the dents create little attention They had saved a down payment of $710. But Mrs. Charles Pawlak lost the money Monday the Pacific Coast," Tiernan test among the general inmate body From January, 1952, to Sep their future course. Chairman Engle Calif.) Chapter of Sigma Delta, Chi, The car is owned by Vincent Di Nunno, former president of the Massachusetts State AFL ified.

I Mrs. oa her way to a bank. who are anxious to conduc national honorary journalistic "I said that he'd better quit Of the House insular affairs fraternity, in San Francisco. themselves properly and take part in the work program avail worrying about the Korean war building and construction trade Evelyn Montie found the money in small cloth purse on a sidewalk. She read in the (news The "revolution" includes because the commies were go committee said the margin of defeat made problematical consideration of separate legisla council and New England re able." I ing to lose it anyway.

Jacobson gional director of the hod car fresh emphasis on the "why" in the classic journalistic parade of papers about the Pawlaks' loss and yesterday she phoned (Nathan Jacobson, NUMCS port tion for either or both terri riers, building and common laborers union. w's, Catledge. said. The others agent at the time) says. 'Well are who, what, when and where Limited Gas i Controls Voted United States to be chosen as chaplain of a State Legislature.

He served the California Assem-, bly in that capacity after he was named to the post in 1925. He and his wife, Minnie, had been hospitalized Saturday with the same Jiilment, a respiratory Mrs. Coffee is recovering and is'expected to leave the hospital soon. Their home is at 2400 Buchanan San Francisco. Native of Oakland Dr.

Coffee, a native of Oakland and graduate of Oakland Malik wants peace doesn't he? tember of that year, a nine-month period, Mrs. Jensen was paid $75 a month, a total of $675, the district attorney said. From October of that year until May, 1953, an eight-month period, she received $80 a month, a total of $640, the D.A. continued. Jensen was called to the welfare offices when aid was discontinued on May 31, 1953, and he assumed full responsibility for supporting his mother then, the district attorney said.

tories- "I'm not going to fignt a wind mill," he said. The elder Di Nunno was in Newsmen today call a fuller ex I said that the only time Jthe commies wanted peace was pression of the "why in stories Montreal attending an American Federation of Labor conven Both' Engle and Representa interpretive reporting. when they were getting licked Pawlak, "You can sleep tonight. I have your money." Mrsj PaW-lak was so happy she cried. A.

TRAGIC STORY-J-Linda died today in Chicago after eating sleeping pills she mistook for candy. When her mother, Carrhella, tion when the blast occurred WASHINGTON, May 1.U0 The House Commerce Com The New Yorker stressed that Then Bryson said 'Well, they tive Saylor another leading statehood backer, attributed defeat to opposition by last night in the garage adjoin readers understand news issues drove them south of the 38th mittee voted today for limited ing his residence. only in relation to their relation the leadership in both parties Parallell didn't they?" Federal control, at least, over The family told police it and impact on human beings Saylor said he would recom NEW ARGUMENT knows of no labor trouble which Chief Asst. Dist. Atty.

Robert the wellhead price of natural 'They all are meaningless until mend the committee come back 43, discovered the pills missing Later that day, Tiernan said. they affect people." Hunter said that Jensen's was a net of $35,000 on a gas. 1 might have led someone to try to take Di Nunno's life. High School, where he was a companion and friend of Jack London, was chaplain of the San ne anal isryson waiKea to tne she asked each of her six children whether they had taken The committeei by a vote of with separate bills for each territory, but he conceded there might be difficulty determining gross of $800,000 in 1951; a net door of the union hall and got Investigators said the bomb DAY Women Reelect them. Linda said she had.

The 17-4, approved a policy state into an arenimpnt apain: of $36,833 on a gross of $1,083, went off as soon as Di Nunno Francisco Fire Department and of Alcatraz Federal Prison at his priority. child was rushed to Cook County 845 in 1952. and a net of more ment saying that the Federal He was letting me out the turned on the ignition switch. On this score, delegate Bart Hospital where she died. door when I said, "The Amer death.

Power Commission should reg than $52,000 on a gross of $1,006, 000 in 1953. ulate certain types of price es Previously he had been of Folsom State and San ican people are getting sick and tired of the commies and their lett Alaska) said Hawaii should be considered first to "put the Administration to the STATE Man Buried Coakley; said that the county will press for repayment of the calation clauses in contracts between gas producers and inter carryings on in Then TRAFFIC INCIDENT A rat- test." entire $1,315. Esther England ALAMEDA, May 11. Mrs. Esther England, 2525 Foothill has been reelected commander of the Alameda Disabled Veterans Auxiliary.

Other officers elected yesterday are Mrs. Marilyn Smith, senior vice commander; Mrs. Bryson I said, 'If you are refer state pipelines. I Quentin Prisons. The rabbi studied for his aca demic degree at Columbia Uni versitv in 1900 and entered ec Bartlett was referring -to tlesnake with six rattles went out" swinging in Bakersfield's ring tojne, I am still a comma The action, taken at a closed downtown traffic.

It hasn't bean President Eisenhower's repeated recommendations that nist and proud of it." Alive Saved The lengthy investigation of the case was conducted by members of the Welfare Department staff, the sheriff's office and the clesiastical studies at the Jewish The dther two witnesses plac meeting, was reported by a committee member who asked that his name not" be used. determined how the snake got statehood be- conferred on Ha School ot Theology New ito the traffic lanes, but he was ing Bryson in the party after waii. Eisenhower has made district attorney's office. Such clauses call for auto he signed the affidavit were coiled and striking from time SAN LEANDRO, May 11. York, later earning a doctor of philosophy degree at the University of Pittsburgh.

He be no such, recommendation for Robert Stewart and Harry matic price increases to pro Anita Spadoni, junior vice com Thomas Goodwin. 30, 857 to time at passing cars yesterday. Finally, a motoristl drove Whitelaw. also former MCS Delegate Farringtoh Ha ducers under certain conditions. One type provides for a pipeline Group Opposes came a rabbi in 1904.

his car over the snake's head. members. Stalker Way, Alameda, was recovering at Eden Hospital today mander; Mrs. Lillian Smith, adjutant; and Mrs. May Edwards, chaplain.

to increase the producers price They went to see BrysOn, also His devotion to the causes of humanitarianism was mani waii) said she was "encouraged" by the outcome, adding that Hawaii's best chance for Proposition 7 alter a nightmarish hour-long NATIONAL to the level of any higher price The auxiliary officers will be fested in one of his first ap ordeal of being buried alive. in July, 1951, in his office after having lost their jobs on the Lurline. Bryson refused to give Opposition to Proposition 7, statehood rests in eventual HIT AND RUN TWIST4-Colo- which the pipeline or, in some cases, another pipeline, may pay Dointments when he became Goodwin was one of two men rado University student Don Eh- passage of a separate superintendent of the Hebrew working in a 12-foot deep sewer to another producer in the same them assignment slips back to the off-stfeet parking measure, has been announced by the Alameda County Industries, installed in a joint ceremony with the Alameda Disabled Veterans Chapter at 8 p.m., June 1, in Veterans Memorial Building, Central Ave. and Walnut St. excavation at the east end of area.

Orphanage in New York, then the largest institution of its kind the ship, they said, and Bryson was asked if it would help them The FPC would have the Graff St. when the timber shor according to Earl Jackson, presi renkrook of Sugar Loaf, Colo, tells this rtory oi a deer. Ehrenkrook said he was driving up Boulder Canyon at night when a deer attempted to power to annul such clauses if ing gave way and he. and Loy if they were communist party in this country. IN MAJOR POSTS dent.

Sardine Assn. Hits Ocean A-Test Plan The San Francisco Sardine Assn. today protested the im the committee action should be Drew, 39, 715 Peralta Oak members. Bryson answered that The association charged in a written into a bill the group land, were crushed under tons COSTLY WADE it would, that he was a party resolution that the proposition flej by jumping over the car. of dirt.

He went on to become rabbi of a Pittsburgh synagogue and then was called as spiritual member and "proud of it, is considering to exempt producers selling from FPC' regu is "drawn-in generalities without He said the deer smashed into Drew was killed, but his body pending explosion of an atomic Stewart and Whitelaw insisted the windshield of his car, shat specifying the amount of bonds lation. device in the Pacific Ocean as leader of Temple Judah, one of Ten I other witnesses IVarlier tering it, jumped off the hood and obligation' to be assumed or the largest in Chicago. placed Bryson as active in com had curved over Goodwin's creating an air pocket that kept the latter alive for the one hour and four mintttes it took to dig of the auto and disappeared into He came to Temple Sinai here a 'danger to the sardine industry. "This explosion may completely destroy not only the fish munist affairs from 1937 unti Joan, Steele Home; the hills. It argued that the city council the 1951 affidavit.

would be authorized to pledge after a period as rabbi of a con gregatibn at Toledo, O. Dr. Coffee had served as i him out. but the spawn which will have Get Wedding Rings LIGHT AND FAST Demon the proceeds from on-street Rescue workers, hampered by a terrible impact on the eco HOLLYWOOD, May Hi the small area in which they stration runs of a unit of a new, low-slung, lightweight train being built by ACF Industries, Actress Joan Crawford is back member of the State Board of Charities and Corrections from nomic life of the people engaged in the; various fisheries," said Court Rejects Charge of Assault could operate, uncovered Good home today with her bride 1924 to 1931. George J.

Christo, secretary of meters, which amount to a total of $450,000 annually, to secure revenue bonds and said: "The possible resultant loss of revenue from meters could add a tremendous burden to the already groom, soft drink executive Al win's hand. It moved, then clutched at the pants leg, of one WASHINGTON, May 11. UR i For 30 years, ne served as the packers. fred N. Steele; I will be staged today for newsmen and photographers in New Jersey.

The equipment will bea sample of lightweight trains of his fellow-workers. chairman and then honorary A Negro postman's charge that lne sardine industry as a They returned last night from As soon as his face was un whole has gone through seven he was beaten by Bryant Bowles, chairman of the Jewish Commit tee! for Personal Service, Las Vegas, where they, were overloaded tax rolls." very terrible years. Now ithat covered, a fire department crew administered oxygen. Later, a married early president of the National Asso The resolution also said that welfare agency for prisoners in the sardines are on their way ordered by the Rock Island Rail? road and the New York, Haven and Hartford Railroad. I The 47 year old star and ciation for the Advancement of land used for parking lots which he was active1 until his doctor gave him a shot of adren Steele, 54, president of Pepsi- death would be removed from the as back to i our waters we do not want anything to happen that will further delay the recovery White People, was rejected yes alin.

At the hospital, attendants said he was suffering only from He was a leading spirit in the Cola used a ring supplied by a friend at the ceremony yes terdav by a municipal court sessment roll "thereby causing ah adverse effect on the tax shock; Eastbajy Religious Fellowship oi the fishery. jury, terday. rate." First UAW Votes Favor Strike and was instrumental in found ing the annual inter-denomina When they returned last night, The! jury of 10 whites and two Jackson said: "I am most 300 Students to Take Part in tional Thanksgiving service here Negroes deliberated for an hour haDDV to note that the AFL they were met at the airport by a jeweler with the wedding before declaring Bowles inno VARIED INTERESTS Voters League has taken the DETROIT, May 11. ttfl Tirst bands they previously had or cent same stand on this matter." returns from a strike vote being His service extended from U.Cs Third Annual Model N. dered.

Bowles testified he hit mai work with the Travelers Aid So 'Treasure: Hunters Get Ride to Jail BERKELEY, May 1 1. A grOup.of 13 treasure hunting University of Calif ornai fraternity boys waded 25 yards out to a duck preserve in the middle of the Aquatic Park early today. When they waded back at the insistence of police all were escorted to jail in the paddy wagon. A municipal law forbids wading or swimming in Aquatic Park under penalty of a maximum $500 fine or. six months in jail, i The youths were warming themselves around a fire they had built on the tiny island when Patrolman R.

D. Bpiava gave them the word to return. They planned to dig for "treasure," they said. 13 members of the Sigma "Alpha Mu Fraternity at 1731 LeRoy were released on their, own recognizance after being held in jail for several hours. They are scheduled to appear for plea next Wednesday.

They are: Donald F. White, 20; San-ford L. Kopelow, 19; Robert T. Solton, 19; Marshall H. Wengrow, 18; Alsam Small, 22; Arnold J.

Barar, 19; David Fractenberg, 19; Claude M. Stevens, Richard N. Diamond, 18; Herbert Lawritz, 18; Howard S. Scott, 20; Alfred J. Lakritz, 20, and Paul I.

Mat-loff, 18. ii man Roscoe V. Cooper after the conducted among 140,000 Ford Motor Co. Production porkers today sfiowed overwhelming BERKELEY, May 11. Three and the Secretary Negro walked menacingly Each presented the other with a platinum and silver band.

The one the actress gave Steele was inscribed: "AL I'll always love cietyjto the early awareness that attempts must be made to save California's great trees. 1 Man Priming Car Critically Burned toward Mrs. Bowles during hundred students from 35 high schools throughout California support for a possible walkout General ofthe make-believe project will be John MacGregor, discussion of the way Bowies to support contract demands. Surviving, in addition to his you. Joan." a political science graduate stu handled association mai The CIO United Auto Workers wife, are a son, Roger H.

Cof ALBANY, May 1 1. Donald dent at Cal delivered to a downtown office, will meet at the' University of California Friday and Saturday for the third annual High School Model United Nations. I fee; a daughter, Mrs. Marian L. Union, which resumed bargain Symington, 23, of 717 Kains According to Miss Woodward.

Judge Mary C. Barlow in Ike Nominates S.F. i Sommers, both of San Fran the high school students will ing with Ford today said the first returns were from local structed the jury to acquit cisco; a brother, Jess, of Los An is in Oakland Highland Hospital today in critical condition with burns received when gaso Man for SEC Post Opening sessions for the state consider a variety of topics in geles; a sister, Mrs. Ada Spiro, 862 at Louisville, Ky. The Vote! MAM -t Bowles if it decided he used only enough forte to protect his wife.

the J. sub-groups. oi San Francisco; and one grand wide event, which is being sponsored by the United States line hei was using to prime his WASHINGTON, May jll. 11 President Eisenhower today The Security Council will daughter. was.

1,00.5 xo in iavor oi a strike if the union's demands' are not met Some 93 workers car motor caught fire. Commission for UNESCO ahd take up the Formosa question; formally submitted to the Sen Doctors said more than half Pope Suffers From Funeral rites will be conducted at 11:30 a.m. Friday at the Sinai by such national and local citi the Political and Security Com ate the nomination of Andrew did not vote. I the man's body was burned. xmttee will discuss Palestine: Memorial Chapel.

Divisadero Slight Cold D. Orrick of San Francisco to According to firemen, Syming UAW officials said thf strike! authorization vote would ba zens as President Eisenhower, Adlai Stevenson, Robert Gordon Sproul and Elmer Robinson, and Geary Streets, San Fran be a member of the Securities ton was pouring the fuel from VATICAN CITY, May the Economic ahd Social Commission ponder the ramifications of an international free cisco. The Rev. Alvin P. Fine of and Exchange Commission.

a two-gallon can into his car Pope Plus XII was reported will be at 11 a.m. room 11 of Uiken in the ,220 bargaining' units representing Ford'and Temple Emanu-El will officiate Orrick would serve the rest buretor. He touched the starter Wheeler Hall. today to have a slight cold and press; the Trusteeship Commit Entombment will be at Emanu General Motors workep and mechanism and a spark ignited General chairman for the sore throat tee will determine if the U.S of a term expiring June 5, 1957. He -would succeed Ralph H.

1 Mausoleum. wouia oe compieiea iaie A source close to the 79-year- the gas line. high school meeting is Miss Bev has the right to test nuclear Demmler, resigned. weapons in island trust terri erly Woodward, 20, a U.C senior month. A "yes vote wou Symington, whose father, Kenneth, is a captain in the fire de old head of the Roman Catholic Church said the indisposition Eisenhower announced his in tories the Pacific.

in political science and daugh Sons of Italy Party PITTSBURG, May 1 tention to nominate Orrick last partment, was parked at the cor had not prevented the Pope Headquarters for the sessions, union leaders to call walkouts after the Ford contract With the ter of O. J. Woodward of Fresno. President of the mock U.N. month.

He now is regional ad rer of Buchanan and Adams from bis-usual daily work. The which 'will conclude at 6 twm The Sons of Italy will sponsor public card party at I p.m. id the UAW runs out June 1 ministrator of the SEC with Streets; at the time of the Pope was said not to have any General Assembly will Stan Saturday, will be Eahelman Hall GM contract runs out June ford Lyman, a U.C. senior in headquarters in San Francisco accident. fever.

today at 988 Beacon St. on the U.C. campus..

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