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THIS SECTION EDITORIAL, FEATURES, DAILY' MAGAZINE, COMICS, RADIO AND TELEVISION LOCALLY OWNED AND LOCALLY CONTROLLED 'DAILY NEWSPAPER i j' JIT1IIMI IIII.11 II III. AHOCUTID Vtt wm'HQT0 (INITIO MtU INTIINATIONAl CHICAGO AIU NIW1 rOUICM UIVICI VOL CLXXI OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1959 15 NO. 93 Al Capone Admirer Jailed BOY, 2, KILLS BROTHER, 4, Sheriff Young in WITH MOTHER'S PISTOL Suspect in Bank Holdup Identified In Acid Extortion Attempt Contempt Danger FREMONT, Oct. 6 A two year old boy fatally wounded his four year old brother today with a pistol his mother kept under her mattress for protection. "I was playing with mom- mie's gun and it went bang," was the only explanation young James Wallace could offer for the tragedy.

The victim was Richard Wal lace Jr. According to the mother, Mrs. Emma Wallace, 26. the Demoted Aide's Court Order Allegedly Defied; Mosk Set To Assist Woman Deputy MARTINEZ, Oct. 6 The State Attorney General's Office disclosed today Contra Costa Sheriff Council Acts on Two-Dept.

Merger 4 i. I Six -w i Note in Auto Threatens Wife Of Bank Chief An admitted admirer of gangster Al Capone was in Contra Costa County Jail today, charged with attempting to extort $5,000 from a Rodeo banker by threatening to throw acid in his wife's face. The charge was filed against Arnold A. Vallejo, 23, of 933 First Crockett, after he cracked under two days' questioning and admitted placing the threatening note in the auto of John J. DePaoli, 52, manager of the Rodeo branch of First Western Bank.

The plot had its beginning late last month when Vallejo, employed by a Rodeo trucking firm, borrowed a typewriter and wrote the note to DePaoli. PARKING LOT TRIP On Sept. 30, Vallejo went to the bank's parking lot to pick up his fiancee, Verna Maday, 19, who is also DePaoli's secretary. He took the opportunity to slip the note on the front seat of DePaoli's car. A few minutes later, sheriff's office investigators said, DePaoli came out to the parking lot and found the note.

He asked Vallejo, who was still parked nearby, if he had seen anybody put the note in his car. Vallejo replied that he hadn't. The note, typed on letter-sized paper, read: "Mr. J. DePaoli "For some time you have had a debt with us.

"Your lovely wife, Melba, will receive acid in the face and eyes if you do not pay $5,000. DROP THE MONEY "Thursday night, Oct you will leave your house at nine-thirfy and go towards Martinez on Willow Pass road. When you are approx. 75 yards Tribane snot HATCHED PLOT Ronald A. Vaflejo, 23, has admitted a $5,000 extortion attempt in which he threatened to throw acid in the face of the wife of a Rodeo banker.

Young may be in contempt former civil division chief, Asst. Atty. Gen. Charles will assist Mrs. Rathke in job, said Young apparently sued last Thursday by Su- penor Judge Wakelield Taylor.

The order, obtained byj Mrs. Rathke after Young demoted her to communications clerk, directed the sheriff either to restore her immediately to her job as chief of the civil division, or answer in court why he had not done so. Young confirmed today he was served with the writ on Thursday. SHERIFF'S CHARGE Young fired Mrs. Rathke on Monday because he said she set off a Grand Jury investigation of vice and gambling in Contra Costa last spring.

"The attorney general is most upset about this," O'Brien said. "We naturally will keep a very close eye on a sheiiff who fires an employee for objecting to lax methods of law enforcement." Atty. Gen. Stanley Mosk said today in Los Angeles he will fly to San Francisco tomorrow to confer with Mrs. Rathke concerning the firing.

He said he is seriously considering intervening in the case, and may assign an attorney to appear on Mrs. Rathke's behalf Tuesday at a hearing on the court order. Mosk accused Young of having committed a breach of faith in taking action against Mrs. Rathke. He revealed she was assured by the county Grand Jury that no punitive action would be taken against her, when she testified to the jury concerning vice and gambling.

MOSK VIEWPOINT "We don't feel someone should be penalized because she resents improper acts by a law enforcement official, and seeks help from the Attorney General's office," Mosk said. Young said Mrs. Rathke's action in going to the Attorn General with information tht led to the grand jury probe "culminated a long series of activities which were designed to break down the morale in the sheriff's office." "I have never seen or heard of a more flagrant case of disloyalty and insubordination," Young said. He said Mrs. Rathke also was guilty of conduct unbecoming a public employee, violation of civil service regulations, and neglect of duty and being absent without leave.

5 DAYS TO APPEAL Mrs. Rathke has five days to appeal the dismissal to the county civil service commission. Young accused Mrs. Rathke of having 'a selfish desire to keep the county in continuous turmoil by false accusations." The grand jury, in its summary report of the vice probe, called for a reform of the sheriff's office and criticized the office for not having taken steps to curb vice and gambling activities which were known by it to be operating. Crash Damages Oiler NORFOLK, Oct.

6 (LTD The stricken oiler, Pauca-tuck, part of the Atlantic Fleet stationed here, was under repair today following a collision Sunday with the carrier Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The two vessels collided during a refueling operation some 300 miles east of here. Damage to both vessels was slight. Man Questioned in San Jose Robbery Faces New Charge A suspect picked up for questioning in Sunday's $3,750 robbery of a San Jose card-room was identified today as the bandit who got $2,240 from a San Francisco bank on Sept. 18, Miss Judith Ludwig, 21, of 1331 23rd San Francisco, positively identified Harold Sharp, 61, as the man who robbed the First Western Bank at 405 Montgomery police said.

Miss Ludwig, a teller, said the bandit threatened to kill her, if she didn't give him all the money in the cage. TENTATIVE Mrs. Henry Dudley, of 1473 163rd San Leandro, who was a customer in the bank at the time, made a tentative identification, police said. Sharp was picked up last night in his hotel room at 50 Third San Francisco, and police said he resembled the description of the man who robbed the bank. SAN JOSE HOLDUP Sharp was arrested for ques tioning in the San Jose holdup after he was named by Rich ard W.

Piatt, 42, who was arrested at his home at 715 Second San Francisco. Piatt was picked up for ques tioning wnen nis car was identified as that used in the getaway. Two men robbed the Victory Cardroom at 34 Market San Jose early Sunday as the pro prietor. Garland O. Goodman, 57, was counting receipts.

i Women Mobilize to Sfamp Out Smog LOS ANGELES, Oct. 6 unofficial? of SOS the women's organization to Stamp Out Smog say they have contacted 11 mayors of cities in the Los Angeles area in the start of a statewide drive. They sought to enlist the mayors' aid in persuading Governor Brown to call a special legislative session on smog control. Representatives sought yesterday to visit Los Angeles Mayor Poulson, but he was out. Visited were mayors of Glen- dale, San Marino, Huntington Park, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, San Fernando, Culver City, Rolling Hills, Hermosa Beach, Hawthorne and Re-dondo Beach.

It -X two boys climbed into bed with her this morning and all dozed off. She was awakened, she said, by the; report of a pistol and then heard a moan from Richard. She ran to a neighbor's home to phone for aid, but Richard was dead on arrival at Washington Township Hospital with a .22 caliber bullet wound in the heart. The children's father is a sailor stationed at Moffett Field. The couple are separated.

SAN LEANDRO, Oct. 6 Action paving the way for a merger, of the San Leandro Planning Department and the Development and Renewal Department was taken last night by the city council. The council approved a res olution creating two positions required for the establishment of a combined department to be known as "Community De velopment Office." ine two oos are: commu nity development director, at a salary range of a month, and renewal repre sentative, at a salary range of E. Stanley Weissburg, mem ber of the City Planning Com mission, charged without mentioning names that the "man proposed to head the new department is unqualified for the position. King Cole, who presently is director of the city's renewal department, is the only man City Mgr.

Wesley McClure has proposed for the job. In this connection, Mrs. Ruth Potter, the city's associate planner, resigned effective Oct. 15. In a letter to the city's personnel officer, she said: "In view of the imminent appointment of a person without professional planning qualifications as director of community development, it is no longer professionaly desirable for me to continue to work in San Leandro." "My resignation is not intended as an objection to the establishment of the community development department she said.

Mayor Jack Maltester answered Weissburg last night by stating: "The city council cannot legally interfere with the hiring of city personnel." In other matters, the council: Scheduled a public hearing on five applications for home occupation permits at 7:15 p.m., Oct. 13. Granted the Washington Manor Junior Baseball League permission to continue the use of a ballpark at the rear of 1604 Manor but directed that the names of sponsoring firms on the surrounding fence be removed. Refused to grant Floresta, permission to add a cock-taiL, lounge to the Floresta Center Building at Washington Ave. and Monterey Four Generations At Anniversary Mr.

and Mrs. William Ma-honey, 1430 80th celebrated their 63rd wedding anniversary last night at a dinner attended by four generations of family members. The couple were married in 1896 in Faribault, Minn. They operated a farm there until 1933, when they moved to Oakland. Their family includes three sons, Harold, a former Oakland Fire Department batallion chief; Frances, an Oakland city employee and Val, a Hay-ward fireman; a daughter, Mrs.

George Devlin of Canada; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Beatification of American Studied VATICAN CITY, Oct. 6 (fl The Vatican's Congregation of Rites met today to consider the qualities of heroism and virtue of the American nun Elizabeth Ann SetOn, known as Mother Seton. The congregation, meeting under the direction of Cle-mente Cardinal Micara, took a further step in the cause for Mother Seton's beatification, officially proposed to Pope John jqtlll on Dec. 18, 1959, in St.

Peter's Basilica. Mother Seton, if eventually beatified, would be the first native-born American- to attain this high honor of the Roman Catholic Church. of court for having fired his Mrs. Ruth Rathke. O'Brien, who said his office her battle to win back her disobeyed a court order is Personnel Directors Swap Ideas Personnel directors exchanged ideas today at the second session of the International Conference on Public Personnel Administration, in San Francisco.

The four-day meeting, sponsored by the Public Personnel Association of Chicago, is be- ment personnel administrators and civil service commissioners from many nations. Joseph W. Schecter, personnel director for New York City, proposed exchange programs between employees in government and industry as a means of furthering employment development and providing better understanding between the two. PLACE IN UNION E. A.

Paul, director of industrial relations for Crown Zel-lerbach in San Francisco, HMnJ 1 1 1 always be made to understand, their place in the union. Turning to unions, he stated that "companies often deserve the kind of union they Establishment of a special personnel bureau for the executive branch of the Federal Government has been proposed by Ropco C. Siciliano, Presidential assistant for personnel management. The proposal was made during a panel discussion at the Sheraton Palace Hotel in San Francisco, STRONGER SYSTEM Siciliano said an office such as he suggested would on the merit, than Irate a return to the "spoils It would make the Civil Service Commission an appeals boarii for the 2,300,000 persons on the payroll of the executive branch of the. Federal Government, he said.

A personnel office would give career personnel increased status and eliminate inequities among the. various personnel systems. Siciliano would make director of such an office re-sponsib'e solely to the President, who would meet with the Cabine' rn personnel matters. Roger W. Jones, chairman of the U.S.

Civil Service' Corn-mission, also p. seaher at the convention, "said. Siciliano's idea had been arouir! for a long time." He said it might be a gco-1 thing, but that "I'm not wildly enthusiastic about it." Two Burn ic Death In Truck Flipover BURBANK, Oct. 6 (UPP Two men burned to death here early today when their pickup burst into flames after it crashed into a parked truck. Rescue crews had to cut through the charred vehicle to remove the bodies.

The pickup flipped over and caught fire after" the collision. The victims were identified as Charles Rice, 33, of Pacoima, and Robert A. Bequette, 25, of North Hollywood. WAS GOOD Investigators said a clerk in a neighborhood store became suspicious when Mrs. Livingston presented a check with a phony name and couldnt produce identification.

She then wrote another on her own account using her own name. The clerk noticed the' two 3 signatures were me same ana phoned the sheriff's office. Deputies 'said Mrs. Livingston admitted writing nearly 100 checks for amounts of $15 to $20. Operation on To Separate Siamese Twins PORTLAND, Oct.

6 W) A team of surgeons from the University of Oregon medical school began, at 9:40 a.m., the attempt to separate the little Stubblefield Siamese twin girls. There was no hint how long the operation might take. The girls, joined at the abdomen, face to face, are thought possibly to have a common liver. The girls are 3 months old. They were born to Mr.

and Mrs. James Stubblefield, a Parma, Idaho, farm couple, last June 29 at Nyssa, Ore Next day they were rushed here and studies of whether and how to separate them began. Dr. Ian Aird of London, one of the world's foremost authorities on Siamese twins, studied them on a recent visit. Of the operation to separate them he said, "none of the successful cases has been quite so complicated as this one." But he, and university surgeons, believed the chance of.

success was enough to go ahead. Names of the surgeons operating were not disclosed. Red Cross Offers First Aid Course BERKELEY. Oct. 6 A standard first aid course will be conducted on six successive Monday mornings by the Berkeley Chapter of the American Red Cross in answer to requests from Girl Scout and Campfire leaders, as well as mothers of school age children.

Classes will begin Monday and will meet from 10 a.m. to noon at the chapter house, 2116 Allston Way. Kiinrii it ritiiirriiirf- 'if NEW JUDGE TOUGH ON SPEEDERS Municipal Judge Robert H. Kroninger marked his first full day on the bench today by sending two speeders to the county jail. Paul Galindo, 20, a glass company employee, of 30968 Levee A 1 a a and Charles Jones, 32, of 378 Park San Leandro, were arrested yesterday morning a ft California Highway Patrolmen clocked them racing their cars on the Nimitz Freeway at speeds in excess of 100 miles an hour.

Released on $105 bail, they pleaded guilty today and each was sentenced to serve 10 days in the county jail by Judge Kroninger. They were the first offenders sentenced by the judge, who was sworn in last Friday, a- Ground Broken For Lincoln School Here An Oakland school which racked up many educational firsts in its long "career even though some of the buildings still lack electricity will be replaced by a two-story con crete structure. Ground was broken for the new Lincoln School yesterday to replace the old building which was erected in 1906. Another building on the site, which was erected in 1924, has already been demolished to make way for the construction project. Although the present build ing dates back to 1906, Lincoln School's history goes back another 70 years to 1865 In fact, when the Board of Education established Primary School No.

2, the Alice Street School at Alice and 6th Streets. ORIGINAL COST" The lot for the original school cost $875, with the boaid shelling out another $1,324 for the two-room school to handle 60 pupils. The school was moved to Harrison St. and renamed Harrison Street Primary a few years later when the property was sold to Central Pacific Railroad. In 1872, the Lincoln Gram mar School was constructed at its present site at 10th and Alice Streets.

Site for the eight-room structure cost $7,791 and the building, complete with modern speaking tubes for communications, another $20,000. QUAKE DAMAGED In 1906, construction was in terrupted on the present 27-room building by the earthquake and tlie additional work needed to repair, the new building uppec costs from $150,000 to more than $220,000. No wiring was put in the building and to this date only 11 classrooms Lave eiectricity. Th first classes in Oakland for nanual training and home-making were established at the school in 1884 and the first teaching of mentally retarded youngsters started there in 1910. FLU EMERGENCY The cooking classes were put to practical use in the flu epidemic of 1918 when meals were served to more than 200 persons daily.

Janitors remained on duty at night to handle emergency calls and send aid to those stricken. The new building, which will cost $617,000 will provide facilities for- 600 pupils and will include 16 classrooms, a offices, multipurpose, room and library. The 1906 structure will be torn down after the construction is completed. past ht. Thomas church, you will slow down and drop the money on the road.

You will have the $5,000 in used $10 bills and $20 bills, in a brown bag. "Do not be foolish by going to the police or telling anyone, for if you do, both you and your pretty wife will suffer, mostly your wife. "Do as you are told and you will never be bothered again as. you know we are too big and powerful." MAFIA SIGNATURE The "we" referred to the Mafia the ominous name which Vallejo signed to the note. DePaoli immediately contacted the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office, which arranged a trap to catch the extortionist.

On the appointed night, last Thursday, a stake-out was placed at the church (on Willow Road not Willow Pass Road, as the note had mistakenly saiti), and. deputies were stationed at strategic points in the vicinity of the money drop. As an added precaution, a detective was stationed at DePaoli's home in case of any attempt on the part of the extortionist to carry out his threat against DePaoli's wife, Melba, 49. LEAVES HOME DePaoli, following the instructions in the note, left his home at 9:30 p.m. and drove to the assigned spot with a package containing "a $1 bill wrapped around scraps of paper.

He dropped the bag on the. road but nobody collected it. Two days passed with no word from the extortionist. Then, at 1:15 a.m., Sunday, Vallejo appeared at DePaoli's home with a strange story. He had been drinking at a Rodeo tavern, he told the banker, when a man threatened him with a gun and ordered him to go to DePaoli.

Valleio was to tell DePaoli to forget about the extortion note. SHERIFF CALLED DePaoli, called the sheriff? office and detectives began questioning Vallejo, who finally admitted that the plot was entirely his own. Detective Edwin O. Stockman said that Vallejo could give no reason for the attempt, "except that he had been reading a book about Al Capone and got the idea" He quoted Vallejo as saying "I thought I'd try Capone's tactics." -vl" 'i x- WIFE HELD FOR FORGERY I -THIS CHECK SAN JOSE, Oct. 6 A San Jose housewife who sheriffs investigators said wrote nearly 100 bogus checks the past year was tripped up here yesterday when she tried to; cash one of her own.

Ironically, deputies said, this one on her own account was good. Charged with two counts of forgery and released on $2,100 bail was Mrs. Marie Living-ton, 34, of 3991 Samson mother of four small children. CiuMla "t--W -Tf Tribane fkato ON THE WAY Groundbreaking ceremony for new Lincoln School which will replace structure built in 1906 attracts (from left) Loul Smith, an 1890 alumnus of the school Colin Fern, principal; Carl Munck, vice president of the Oakland Board of Education; Mrs. Dal Jayaa, P-TA president Anna Low, student body president; Sebner Berg, superintendent of schools, and William Stuart president of the Lincoln School Alumni Association.

Bulldozer operator Robert Diss is in the background. --tp 'L 7 4 jai kt tit 1 111 hrtMri i 1111 (hriiifc I Ad-fci V. a. -v.