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ASSOCIATES ESTABLISHED CHICAGO DAILY NEWS FOREIGN SERVICE WIDE MORE Oakland Tribune IN THAN TOPS ANY NORTHERN IN OTHER Tribune photo -Oakland police credited a safety belt with sav- foreign sports car went out of control on Lakeshore Ave. ing driver Gale Rocks, 20, from serious injury when his hit two trees and overturned against pole. Thousands Pour Into City For Admission Day Tribute The vanguard of thousands of visitors arrived in Oakland today for the three-day celebration of Admission Day which will feature a parade with nearly 5,000 in the line of march, athletic programs and civic observances. Admission Day is being celebrated in Oakland by the Native Daughters and Native Sons of the Golden West, which present the observance in a different city each year. -Native Daughters and Native Sons headquarters at the Hotel Leamington said that up to 10,000 members of the order and their families and friends are expected to arrive from throughout the state.

One of the high points of the celebration will be a Citizenship Day program Sunday afternoon at -the bandstand in Lakeside Park in which Sen. William F. Knowland and Atty. Gen. Edmund G.

Brown will be speakers. Top event of Admission Day -Monday--will be a two-hour parade in downtown Oakland which an estimated 100,000 or more persons will watch. HEAD ESCORT UNIT The grand presidents of the Native Sons and Native Daughters, Larry Lafleur of Hayward and Mrs. Irma M. Caton of Oakland, will head the escort section of the parade along with Sen.

William F. Knowland, Atty. Gen, Edmund Brown, Rep. John J. Allen and Rep.

George P. Miller, city mayors, Board of Supervisors members, and numerous other officials and dignitaries. Also in the escort section will be the 6th Army Color Guard and Unit, the 12th Naval District Band. and the Alameda Carrier float, the Marine Corps Department the Pacific Band, maching unit and float; the' Marine Corps' crack drum and 1 bugle team of the Fleet Marine Force, Pacific, which will be flown here from Honolulu; the Coast Guard drum and bugle corps, the 573rd New Studies Planned for South Span Traffic, Financial Data Sought to Clear Up Legislative Angles SACRAMENTO, Sept. First of a series of new traffic and financial studies, required changes in involvling the proposed Army St.

southern crossing of the Bay, was State announced today, by Public "the Department Works. Origin and destination studies will be made during the next two weeks on traffic using the Bay, San Mateo, and Dumbarton bridges. Postcards will be distributed to drivers of Bay Bridge vehicles from Sept. 18 through Sept. 22, asking for information on the start and finish of each trip.

Drivers are requested to fill out and mail the cards. Similar information will be obtained through interviews with users of the Hayward-San Mateo and Dumbarton bridges, from midnight Sept. 11 to midnight Sept. 15. PREVIOUS STUDIES Norman C.

Raab, chief of the Division of Bay Toll Crossings, noted that the last similar study was made in 1947 and revised two years ago. "The new study is necessary to provide information required for planning Bay crossings and their approaches under the revised program adopted by the Legislature," he said. Following completion of the traffic survey, financial and revenue studies will be brought up to date. Cost estimates for proposed projects will also be reviewed. Status of the Army Farm Island project is now complicated by 'a series of new laws.

FUNDS AUTHORIZED The Legislature has authorized a $35,000,000 reconstruction of the Bridge to increase its capacity by 35 per cent, thereby reducing congestion and lessening the probable usage of southern crossing. The new $20,000,000 Estuary tube, to link Oakland and Alameda, has been removed from the southern crossing project and will be financed by Alameda County gasoline taxes. Maintenance of the Bay Bridge, now paid from tolls, will be paid from gasoline taxes. Studies have been approved widening the Hayward-San Mateo Bridge. Traffic studies now available do not consider the potentially increased capacity of the Bay Bridge and expansion of the Hayward-San Mateo span.

Also not considered is the possible effect of a Bay Area rapid transit system, now authorized by the Legislature. These factors affect the revenue anticipations of the Army St. southern crossing which, coupled with rising construction costs, may change the prospects for the project. Investment experts have already advised that financing of the southern crossing is doubtfull 1 at this time, even if all approaches are deferred. The Legislature provided that if financing cannot be arranged by July 1, 1958, without an increase in the present 25-cent toll, the Army St.

Bay Farm Island route must be abandoned. Air Force band and marching, unit and the Women's Air Force drill team. Among Oakland area past grand presidents who are scheduled to ride in a special section are Edward T. Schnarr, Richard F. McCarthy and Peter P.

Conmy, all of Oakland; J. Walter Camb, Berkeley; and Joseph R. Knowland, Piedmont, Native Sons; and Mrs. Claire Lindsey, Oakland, and Mrs. Clarice E.

Knowland, Piedmont, Native Daughters. S.F, LEADERS Fourteen San Francisco men and women who are past grand presidents also will ride in the section along with other past grand presidents from other parts of the state. The Oakland Fire Department will have a number of pieces of fire equipment and civilian defense units in the escort section. In the main section of the parade will be numerous Native Sons and Daughters drum and bugle corps and drill teams, and floats from throughout California representing various parlors. The Alameda County float will consist of the American and Bear flags, depicted through a complete floral arrangement.

Other floats will show the theme of the Admission Day celebrations, "The Romance and History of California," and will cover various periods, including the Indian, Spanish, Mexican and mission periods and on up to present time. The parade starts at 10:30 a.m. Monday from 14th and Harrison Streets, with the route along 14th to Franklin, up Franklin to 20th over to. Broadway and down Broadway to 13th and Webster Streets. The Police Department noted that Monday not be a "meter holiday" for parking.

CLOSED TO TRAFFIC The entire parade section will be closed to traffic during the parade except for buses, taxis and emergency vehicles. The weekend program opens 150 YEARS TOO LATE Murder Fugitive's Flight To City of Refuge Fails HONOLULU, Sept. 6 (P) George Leroy Page, South lina fugitive, returns to Honolulu today after an unsuccessful flight to Hawaii's ancient City of Refuge, where he sought sanctuary. Page, 28, surrendered peacefully to an arrest last night but under protest on the advice of his attorney. The two policemen him carried a warrant signed by Farrant L.

Turner, who was acting governor of the territory until William F. Quinn's inaugration last Monday. Page, who escaped the South Carolina penitentiary in 1954 while serving a life term for murder, slipped out of Honolulu yesterday for an air and taxi trip to the City of Refuge on the Island of Hawaii. His attorney, Bernard K. Trask, insists that a right of sanctuary still exists in the and that it dates back to, NEWS PAPER CALIFORNIA.

FEATURES. NO. 68- Friday Followup This week, heard, emanating from the environs of Danville loud screams, whinnies, whimpers, eeeeeeks and oooooohs, these being caused by the arrival aboard chartered bus of the wellknown. songbird, Elvis Presley, en route to a mysterious destination with 10 other troupers. Presley, elegantly attired in shirt, white suede shoes and blue neckerchief (patriotic, this lad), dazzled his Danville constituents no, end, shook hands with every.

one, and then loped into Rex', la a Re of breakfast Ate ham and eggs, as his admirers ecstatically counted every gulp. Then he swung aboard the bus and departed, leaving the Chamber of Commerce with a new and exciting slogan: "Elvis Presley Ate Breakfast 0 09 4 Unwelcome Guest Could visualize the consternation which filled staffers at I. Magnin and its tony clientele when, during the subdued hush of a balmy afternoon, as sleek, soigne ladies studied the high-style garments, a squirrel was discovered lazing in a showcase of handbags. sir, a squirrel in I. Magnin's! "There was no panic," an eye-witness reports.

"No No fainting. The ladies quietly moved for the street door, a sensible move. Unfortunately the screaming. very squirrel, no doubt frightened by the ladies, also headed for the door. But it all worked out well.

The squirrel shot out into the street; the ladies stepped back into the store. All was again genteel quiet. But there's an still unanswered question: How that squirrel get into the I. Magnin showcase?" 0 A The No. 1 Man Agreed that if Santa Rita Rehabilitation Center.

must ever had a hero, former boxing promoter Jimmy Munro 0 4 For Luck Mismatched Socks be that No. 1 man. Munro, serving a six-month sentence for failing to file income tax returns, dreamed up a seven-bout Labor Day fight card for inmates which included such high-powered talent as Eddie Machen, No. 1 heavyweight contender; fireball lightweight Bobby Scanlon (undefeated in 25 bouts). Refereeing was skyrocketing heavyweight Bob Butcher (undefeated in 16 starts).

So on Sunday Jimmy Munro was told that he'd done his time and could go on home. "Aw, OK," said Munro, "but I'll be back tomorrow, to see the fight comes off OK." And he was. Not many citizens return to S. Rita- -voluntarily 0 One of the performers on the program was a paperwho weight definitely (yes, unsettled the spectators. "This kid," paperweight), named Hernandez Strane, rumbled a cynical, unshaven, call-it-a-spade sports scribe, "has more natural ability than all the rest of the fighters on the card put (That included Machen.) But the angle here is that--Hernandez Strane is 12 years old 0 9 A How to Tell Them Apart Thought about paperweights for a time, realized tele- that although the gentler sex increasingly is enjoying vision screenings of the art of maim and maul, very few of the beloveds know a flyweight from a welterweight.

(Lovely ladies on fight night: "Now, that's Sugar Ray in the black pants, isn't it? It isn't? Oh. Then it's Fullman? You say he has the white pants? Oh. Well, who's in the black pants? Sugar Ray Robertson? And Fullman's in the black pants? Well, who's in the white Hence, as a public service, offer: weights in the various divisions: Flyweight, 112 pounds and under; bantamweight, 118 pounds and under; featherweight, 126 pounds and under; lightweight, 135 pounds and under; welterweight, 147 pounds and under; middleweight, 160 pounds and under; light heavyweights, 175 pounds and under; heavyweights, over 175. Lovers of fisticuffing, paste this to your TV set 0 A Repel the Invaders! Was alarmed when studying a map in the London Daily Mail which purported to show distances between Russian rocket sites and major American cities. The map shows that the Bay Area is 2,300 miles from such a site.

And claims that Los Angeles is only 200. miles distant. We are in grave danger. If Smogtown is expanding at that rate, it'll be sitting in our laps any day now it unlikely that producer John Falls should be wearing mismatched socks. Removed Thought glasses for better vision and stared.

Sure enough, mismatched socks. Asked: "Absent-minded this morning?" replied Falls, "You will recall that when The Desert Song opened on Broadway its composer, Frank Mandel, was accidentally wearing mismatched socks. He attributed the musical's great success to this fact, and therefore wore mismatched socks for the remainder of his life." Said, "Oh. And you?" "I wear mismatched socks," Falls replied, "because The New Moon opens next Friday at Woodminster, and vou have no idea how glad I am that you asked. If you had not asked, I should have volunteered." Thought this very crafty of Mr.

Falls; but noticed that the bewitching young girls of the chorus wore lookalike stockings. Asked why. "Luck or no luck," one of them snapped, "WE'RE keeping our legs 0 9 Wee Jest Spotted one of those really small midget European cars making deliveries for a drug store. On its sides: "Wee Deliver." -THE KNAVE. Contra Costa In Spotlight At State Fair Recognized as Show Nears Close SACRAMENTO, Sept.

6 Contra Costa County takes the spotlight today as the 1957 California State Fair heads into its final weekend. The fair closes its 12-day run Sunday. The weather bureau has predicted fair weather with temperatures lower than normal for the remainder of the fair. Santa Clara County, San Jose and Sunnyvale share honors today with Contra Costa County. Fairgoers are expected to pay special attention to the Contra Costa exhibit.

The display has theme of "Hand in Hand, Industry and Agriculture." It points out Contra Costa's role as both an industrial and agricultural center. TAKES RIBBONS tonight at 9 p.m. with Native Sons and Native Daughters bowling tournament at Pacific Bowl, 7425 East 14th St. The tournament will run through Sunday night. A public dedication of the new Joaquin Miller Park Ranger Station and Information Center will be held at 2 p.m.

tomorrow. Mrs. Caton, Native Daughters grand president, will present a Bear flag and Laffeur, Native Sons grand president, will speak. A plaque will be presented by the Native Sons. A roadway through the Woodminster Amphitheater area will be named Sanborn Drive in honor of Edgar M.

Sanborn, president of the Park Board in 1922 and retired manager of Woodminster Amphitheater, The ranger station is just inside the entrance to Woodminster at Joaquin Miller Road and Robinson Drive. Native Sons 'and Daughters parlors will hold luncheons and dinner meetings at various Oakland area and San Francisco restaurants during the three days. DINNER SPEAKER U.S. Atty. Lloyd J.

Burke will speak at a civic Admission Day dinner and dance at the Hotel Leamington at 8 p.m. tomorrow. Attendance will be by reservation. Other events are Native Sons golf tournament, 7 a.m. Sunday, Chabot Golf Course; Native Sons softball tournament, 11 a.m.

Sunday, Auditorium Field, across from Oakland Auditorium; a visit to Children's Fairyland, noon Sunday; Native SonsNative Daughters annual state drum and bugle corps, drum corps and drill team competitions, 1:30 p.m.« Sunday, Auditorium Field; folk dancing program, 8 p.m. Sunday, Jack London Square, and presentation of parade awards and a dance, 2:30 p.m. Monday, Moose Club, 14th and Alice Streets. An Admission Day information center is in operation at the Hotel Leamington. Cross Burned Near 'Pioneer' Negro's Home LEVITTOWN, Sept.

6- (-A cross was burned today on the lawn of a home next to that recently occupied by the first Negro family in this planned community of 60,000. The five-foot cross made of tree branches was discovered burning in the yard of Lewis Wechsler on Deepgreen Lane in the Dogwood Hollow section of Levittown. Wechsler lives next door to Mr. and William Myers, who moved to Levittown in mid-August, touching off eight straight nights of noisy demonstration by other residents. Wechsler said' 'he was not opposed to Myers as a neighbor and helped the Negro family get settled in their new home.

Wechsler said he had no idea who put the cross on his lawn but added he believed it was the work of children or pranksters. He discovered the blazing crossed branches when he went outside to get his morning newspaper. The branches had been bound together with gasoline rags. Seat Belt Saves Life Of Driver A safety belt, according to police, saved the life of an Oakland mechanic whose sports car jumped a curb, struck two trees and overturned last night. Gale Rocks, 20, of 1909.

16th walked away from his demolished car uninjured, He told police that the throttle stuck, as he was driving south on Lakeshore just west of Wayne lAve. He missed a turn, drove over the curb, struck two trees and finally came to rest against light pole. Patrolman John MacPherson, told Rocks that he would have been killed had it not, been for the safety belt. Josephine Baker Adopts 8, Children SARLAT, France, Sept. 6 UP American-born Negro singer Josephine Baker today adopted eight children of different races.

An adoption decree was published in the cal weekly L'essor Sarladais: Miss Baker, a naturalized French citizen is married to former band leader Jo Bouillon, a white Frenchman. Chemical, oil, steel and lumber sections of the display give a picture of what Contra Costa does in the continuing progress of the state. The exhibit has won more than 50 ribbons and was also awarded a first place trophy in horticultural products. Arthur L. Seeley, agricultural commissioner.

for Contra Costa, and Jack Schneider of Lafayette are in charge of the display. The Sunnyvale, San Jose and Antioch High School Bands will parade and offer concerts throughout the day. The 4-H. livestock judging ends today and some $20,000 in cash premiums will be awarded to the prize winners. Fresno State College took top honors yesterday in 4-H shorthorn competition.

The school won awards for the grand champion bull and grand champion female. Fair officials announced today that a 70-year-old Sister of Mercy doll owned by Mrs. Willetta Rosa of Oakland, has won first prize in the antique doll competition. HORSES AND AUTOS The fair's Horse Race program winds up tomorrow, with the $5,000 Sacramento Stakes, and the big race of the meet, the $20,000 Governor's Handicap. For the first time in its history the exposition offers another type of racing.

Top drivers from throughout the nation will compete Sunday in the 100- mile Grand National stock car race. The shows start at 8:15 p.m. daily in front of the grandstand. -Junior Editors Quiz on REPTILES of the monarchy when Queen Kaahumanu escaped the wrath of King Kamehameha there in 1789. Page's sanctuary" lasted just four hours in the City of Refuge at Honanau, which was made a part of the U.S.

National Park system by Congress in 1955. Trask, an authority on "Hawaiian history, said he would fight "every inch of the way" in court- to resist extradition. He also said he would challenge the Government's right to arrest Page and remove him from "the sanctity and immunity which the City of Refuge offers all." Even the great Kamehameha did not dare violate the sanctuary, Trask declared, calling Page's arrest "a desecration" of the City of Refuge. Governor Quinn said he did not believe Page had any case at all in his bid for sanctuary, and police legal specialists agreed. Dr.

Kenneth Emory of the Bishop Museum here said Page's flight to the "City" came almost 150 years too late, that its proI tection ended when the Hawaiian "tabu" system was abolished in 1810. Trask maintains that while the right. of sanctuary hasn't been invoked in 168 years, it has never been revoked. Page was sentenced to the penitentiary in 1946 for the murder of a Cameron, S.C. cab driver.

The prisoner was 17 then and contends his conviction was based on a confession he signed without reading. After his escape, he changed his name and began a' new life at Port Huron, Mich. He married there but left his bride in San Mateo, Calif, on their honeymoon and came to the islands. Here he admitted everything to a priest. No date has yet been set for court hearing in the extradition DO SNAKES HAVE HIPS? A shifty halfback on a football team, is, often called, a "snake hipped" runner.

However, most snakes have no hips, because they have no legs. And a few species that have rudimentary legs do not use them. Most male members of the boa constrictor and python families have two small spur-like hind legs which are only partially developed. Zoologists say this indicates that the ancestors of these snakes--and probably, of all others- had legs at one time. They explain the present body form probably developed because snakes lived among dense vegetation where legs were not of much use.

Snakes crawl or swim swiftly because their backbones contain as many as 300 small bones, or vertebrae, and bends easily. It progresses by moving its body and pushing against the ground or water with each curve. 00 0 0 FOR YOU TO DO: There are about 2,400 kinds of snakes in the world, but only a few of them are poisonous. By studying pictures, learn to identify any, poisonous one found in this country. 000 Buddy Dennis of West Milton, Ohio, won $10 for this question.

If you have one, send it to Junior Editors, The Tribune, P.0. Box 509, Oakland 4..