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Efr3 Men Trapped Jr. CC to Select '63 Convention City Loiiisvffle, Ky, chambers. This year's convention wQ be held in Atlanta, and the 1962 meeting is scheduled for Las Vegas, Nev. -Cr rectors meeting here today through Saturday is. selection of the 1963 convention city.

Bidders for the host role are the Buffalo, N.Y., and TULSA. March 161 Principal item on the agenda of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's board of di- 1 v- i 1 (4! Hi flf -i i 4 ffTfr' i'- -t rLv tfe3t i i ff i hipr I -1 -'O. y' A A 1 1' ic -v -'ii" 'fWf' Y.Vfy I I -i-j i A -k ii i i i mi tun in -Tii- yU) BENNY BUFANO'S 12-TON ST. FRANCIS WAITS AS CKEW PREPARES TO UFT IT ONTO A NEW PERCH Bufano't contiwtnUI statu will ttand abovt ntranc of Oakland's Bermuda Building, in background.

aii iz ions ot nim graceful to give that to Oak land." ot. rancis -Beniamino Benvenuto Bu-fftno's St. Francis, as huge and stonily serene as its creator is tiny and mercurial, has at last taken up residence in Oakland. And incidentally, in case you ever want to move a ing about it all wrong. It took me 2 years to carve it- they could wreck it zvt sec onds." But wey didn't, JHie cTew worked from 11 a.m.

to 4:30 p.m. before toe statue was wrenched free of its base ana lifted by cables and toPto the flat-bed moving truck. To AvoioTTushhour traffic, the half-hour ride over the bridge to the new site was delayed until 7 p.m. MIXED COMMENT In San Francisco, upward of 600 sidewalk superintendents watched the work. Feelings were mixed.

Disgraceful!" exclaimed a lady with a camera. "Dis- "The merchants are glad the monstrosity is commented a businessman. Heedless orboth praise and criticism, Benny made nis own silent -comment just be fore the padoed statue was taken down from the perch on which it had stood jinca 1955, Benny climbed up to face the carefully placed a flower beside the, cold cheek of St Francis, and sprmkled tears beneath the statue's un seeing eyes Not long afterward in the early twilight the huge statue began its journey across the Bay and. the tiny sculptor went home in silence. In Collapse Of Building CHICAGO.

March KWUPB four -story building: col lapsed without warning today and trapped members of a wrecking crew under tons of brick, stone and steel. At least 4 other men were injured. One of the trapped men, 'Al bert Mack," 60, of St Anne, DL, hung upside down in the wreckage, his legs pinned un der steel and wooden beams. Coroner Andrew Toman gave him a shot of pain-killing morphine and it was feared Mack's legs might have to be amputated to free him. The voice of a second trap ped man could be heard beneath the rubble pleading "get me get me out" A third man was missing and believed Irapped.

TWO IDENTIFIED The missing men were iden tified as Robert Walker, 31, and William MdCall, 36. Firemen could not tell immediately who the man beneath the rubble was. Fourteen other members of the 27-man wrecking crew working in the building were treated fpr injuries at two hospitals. Twenty fire department units and 60 firemen swarmed over the wreckage of the aban doned Furhmann Foster sau sage plant pulling bricks and stones away by hand. Gi ant earth moving equipment huge cranes, automatic saws and acetylene torches Were brought into the rescue opera tion.

UThe firemen feared to bring the-earth equipment into full use, however, be cause the great machines' vi brations might collapse old apartment buildings attached to the ruined structure. FOR SUPERMARKET The trapped men were era ployees of the King Wrecking' which has been employed to level the building to make way for a supermarket The old sausage plant had been abandoned for years. It was a neighborhood eyesore, a hang out for hoboes, and frequenl scenes of small fires. The wreckers said there was no advance warning of the collapse. Daniel Brown, 23, St Anne, said he was working at the tovrot the building.

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Truly a sensational value at- just $1.09 a pair! AVide range of classic argyles and neat patterns in blue, grey, brown and olive. Sizsr'10H to llOrdsev-erd rjairs, today! HART, SCHAFPNER 'granite jaint from San Fran- Cisco to Oakland by way of 'the Bay Bridge, you should know that the toll is 12.75. Just how long St. Francis will stay here is a matter of tome dispute but then al-most everything concerning sculptor Benny. Bufano is a matter of dispute.

Bayshore Construction which spent several months, much worry and an enormous amount of energy in uprooting and moving the monumental St Francis, be MADRID, Spain, March 16 MJW Seven Spanish intellec tS3 leaders were acquitted to-tfiy of charges of conspiring Jtanco. An eighth defendant was sentenced, to a year in Ilfison and fined 2S.00O pesetas (1400), which means he free under a general am '43ThelTu four-day trial ended J.nday.,The sentence was an- tsuncea Dy presiding There was no mention a verdict in the case of two tptya 1 defendants wh6 fled the and were tied in ah- Te urprising; verdicts were attributed tolA Worht campaign in behalf of foUticair prisoners spam tttlarge number of eiai jiewsmen attending ithe tal Furthermore the prosecuting attorney, nEleuteTiO (nzalez known be uienaiy to ue aexen-''dants and their cause. They were charged with il legal propaganda against tne regime, talks in; 1958 with Spain Acquits Intellectuals Of Conspiracy Arrives lieves it will remain here at east a year and hopes it win remain forever. BENNY'S PLAN But Buf ano, scurrying around like a mother hen as his masterpiece was lifted from its perch in front of San Francisco's St. FrancU of Aisj Cathnlir Ctmrrhyfrtr day, paused long enough to say that the statue probably win be here only a couple of months Then, he said, it's off to Dag Hammarskjold and the United Nations, or to Fidel Castro and Cuba.

Whatever the future holds, St Francis homo -for the present is at the corner, of Frtnklin and 22nd Streets, in front of the International Ar cade of the Bermuda Build ing. When lifted into place this afternoon, San Francisco pa tron saint wiS be visible from Oakland's Broadway, Grand 22nd St and Franklin St BIG JOB Getting th monumental (17-foot 124on) St Francis off its base on the steps of the North Beach church, onto truck and over the Bay Bridge to Oakland was a nerve-wracking job. In aiway, -itkbegan months ago when the Rev. John J. Curtin, pastor of the the statue had to go because it got in the way of wedding and funeral processions.

There fol lowed a protracted wrangle, a court battle to determine whether Benny or the priest had the right to move it an offer by the sculptor to give the statue to the City of Oak land (offer rejected) and fi nally yesterday move. SCULPTOR BUSY i Benny -was on hand to see to it that the movine crew fronr-Bigge Drayage Co. did not harm a stony hair on his granite St Francis' head. gnce ne criea, ineyre go- MKLANDl lOCAUV OWMtD LOCALLY COMTAOLLIB DAILY iufrmtt (HMmii ttat ar tttokMihM FMnwr II, WT aiNihn trndiliM Ckarair Miwaw i (araaa rnmpwiM OMima Nd OoMta Pftn lirtnutiul larMca MBMBtd SF TNI ASSOCIATED MISS TM Ataacialta rim minia m. dwhf.hr Ik Ja rtaotUcaMM al aa tat Meal arm arMta la Ma aa awa -m ao mm THi TRIIUNI autUSHINft CO, PUBLISHERS aoi.

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