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OAKLAND'S; LOCALLY OVKZD AND LOCALLY COriTEOLltD THIS SECTION; EDITORIAL AND FEATURE PAGES, COMICS, RADIO AND TELEVISION DAILY KSIVSPAFR rmwAir it, mm ASSOCIATED IHS WIIIfMOTO VNITIS MISS INTUMATIOMAt CHICAGO OAIIT NIWS fOIHCN SIRVICI CLXXIV OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1961 EM NO. 82 Riddle of Missing Eagli CarWrecked $50,000 in Woman Fire Causes Who Took awe wwi Damages 3 By Attacker Second Similar Assault Attempt At Spot In Week- Blaze Destroys Loading Gear at Encinal Terminals ALAMEDA, March 23 A 1 i Vi. 'W' I n. 1 Kit 4 i i lb mmmm mm mmm. f.

.0 'it Titw pMl tj Barf Rlfft XAI BALANCES ON 0OOI AFTFJt ATTACK OF MOTORIST ON FRZEWAY ACCESS ROAD Driver wu second woman victim this week of Union City bumper THE EAGLE DIDN'T FLY AWAY BUT IS M1SSINO FROM ATOP THIS MONUMENT Wno took bird and snake from Oakland's rtlk of 1915 San Francisco Fair? I UNION CITY. March 23-A woman's car was forced off the road and wrecked on Whipple Road near the Nimitz Freeway early today in the second similar, attack at the same spot in less than a week. Salinas, 29, of 33133 Seventh St. is in fair condi tion at Highland Hospital, Oakland, with serious head in juries as a result of the auto attack. She underwent surgery this morning.

She told sheriffs officers her auto was repeatedly rammed from the rear by another car. Her auto went out of control, flipped end over end and came to rest bal anced on its open doors. Mrs. Salinas was knocked unconscious. A passing motorist Murray Smith, 40, of 163 Teddy Drive, told officers he saw her lying wedged under-a front seat cushion at the side of the precariously balanced car.

He said several other motorists passed the wreck just before him but that all bad gone by without stopping Smith set out: flares and drove to a telephone to can for assistance. Mrs. Salinas, an attractive a was homeward bound from work at a restau rant and bar about three miles of the isolated area where her car was bumped from the road. Sheriffs officers said the auto attack was similar to that which preceded a rape at tempt on a Hayward mother of five children early last Sun day. Sunday's a 34-year-old Oakland told officers she too was knocked off Whipple road at nearly the same, spot by a car which rammed her auto from behind.

When her car rolled over into a field, her assailant left his car, threatened her a knife, beat her and attempted to rape her. ae attacker was fright-off and drove away at a high speed, when other motorists approached the area. Church TalkThemo SAN LEANDRO, March 23 The Rev. Joshua Konunami of Kobe, Japan; will speak on "The Christian Church and It's Problems in Japan' at 7:30 p.m. today at All Saints Episcopal Church, 911 Dow-ling Blvd.

Victim of Suicide Called Boy's Killer I mented, on the monument that dominates the lot's slope! Broad concrete blocks from the base. Above them is a cube shaped pedestal On each face is an; iron panel with the likeness of a U.S. President in bas relief George Washington, Abra ham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roose- wait This Is topped by a many paneled glass tube, held with iron bands, surmounted by another glass globe 'edged with filigree iron work. The glass could be lighted from the inside showing red, white and blue. It must have been the delight of the fair.

The eagle was challenging a snake coiled around the The snake is missing too. A ladder was left leaning against the base. And neither the eagle nor the snake used it to make their getaway. Miss Bates is sure of that $100 worth, stubborn smoky fire broke out early today in a loading gear storage shed on the Encinal Terminals property damage estimated at $50,000. The first alarm shortly after 5 a.m.

brought out five ent gine companies and two truck companies led by Fire Chief; William Hilbish. The warehouses and docks; were not endangered. Chief Hilbish said the fire apparently smouldered for hours before it was dis-J covered. The cause was not" immediately determined. The shed, operated by thr Associated-Banning Stevedore was filled with expensive gear used for loading and un- 'oading ships.

The equipment included five fork lift trucks, a dock truck and gangplank, and quantities of wood dollies, tarpaulins, rope slings and dunnage. Most of the equipment was destroyed or severely dam-, aged. Teamsters Air Freight RbV, Settled Air freight lhovements atj the San Interna tional Airport returned to nor mal today, following the settle ment of a three-day Team sters Union strike. v) Under, the agreement' reached late yesterday all truck drivers win report fori work at 8:15 a.m.; each day, Those who handle cut flowers exclusively had started work-at 1 p.m. under a 1957 concession in the union contract The settlement was announced in a stipulation en-; tered before Superior Court Judge J.

A. Branson in Red- wood City by attorneys for; San Francisco Teamsters Local 85 and the California! Trucking Association. A court', hearing had been- scheduled i on a petition for an injunction against the local by Airport -Drayage Co. and the CTA. After a lengthy huddle thei.

attorneys agreed that the em i ployers' request for injunc-J tive relief may; be granted without a hearing if the union violates any provision of thev current contract which ex-; piresJune30. dations for the new buildings fit around it? mtS i mm, monument tand set it up in front of the old family home. It is in front of a studio cottage, known as the Music House; Mrs. Bates and her a purchased the property last The now its windows brpken and weeds growing over its old cement walks, is to be torn down to make way for a six-story apartment bouse. The Bates' had hoped to give the concrete, iron and glass monument to the city of Oakland Park Department but failing in that intended to move to the back of the lot that fronts Lake Merritt Then last Thursday, a neighbor noticed the Eagle was missing.

Arthur Op-pedal, of 2316 Lakeshore said be did not report, it previously because he thought the owners might have taken it off or reported its loss themselves. Miss Bates said the iron work was one of the last examples of the elaborate craft of that type. Passersby have long com Dermot mansion was built CAA tiPwsnaTMor rlinnincs sav r-r it was constructed originally for a French Property records show the land was owned in 1867 by Henry and Louise Barroi- Ihet He was the consul for Peru and Chile in the Bay Area from 1868-72. Title was i held in 1878 by Antoine Bo-rel, Swiss consul general of the time. i The senior MacDermot's name appears on title company record as early as 1870.

He purchased the home before he was married, Mrs. Proctor said. The home itself was showpiece' with landscaped grounds covering the entire -bloct-ItoJ9xooms(LmayLi. be even Proctor recalled) contained rare and expensive hardwoods brought around the Horn by sailing In the 1920s the city pro-; posed buying the site for a park, but the plan fell through. The old mansion stood decaying behind wooden fence and shrubs until 1941, when it was razed to make way for the wartime housing.

The tunnel went undetected then, Now that Aanonsen knows what the tunnel was built for, he has only one ques- 1 Revives Dimming Memories Dalton Takes Issue With Slander Suit Clyde Dalton, Oakland Ijusl-nessman' and political figure, declared today that a 150,000 slander suit filed against him yesterday, is "nothing but a cheap, shoddy political trick." Dalton said the action was intended to embarrass Benjamin F. Marlowe, candidate for mayor, for whom Dalton was acting as campaign manager, Dalton said that he has resigned that post and will not act in Marlowe's behalf in any official The Barrett Construction Co. filed the suit, alleging that Dal- ton, speaking before the Oak land City Council on Dec. charged the firm with collusion in a bid on a Hall of Jus tice contract Dalton said this was long before he met Marlowe. "I shall not only fight this false claim against me but I shall expose this so-called slander suit as malicious and a form of dirty Dalton said.

rum runners use it during Perhaps it had 'some connection with the tales of smuggled Chinese laborers in the mid-hine' teenth century? -The guesses were wrong, but investigation unraveled an interesting history hardly less romantic, The tunnel was the work of a turn-of-the-century hob- bvist a scion of a prominent early Oakland family It has revived dimming memories of the fabulous 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition and is a link to the era of fashionable West Oakland mansions and foreign diplomats of the 1870s. Authorities were baffled when workmen accidentally exposed tte "funnel while clearing 20 -year -old war housing units from the block bounded by Seventh, Eighth, Center and Cypress Streets. Nils director of planning and construction for the Oakland Housing Au- -thority which is going to build new low rent apartments on the site, was curious. He called on Howard and Joe Strawn of San Leandro for help. The brothers, Oak land firemen, are skindivers in the Alameda County Sheriff Underwater Recovery Unit.

Tunnel One thing is certain this missing American Eagle didn't fly away. Because the huge a wing span of about four, feet was of ornamental wrought iron, a heavy if graceful relic of the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. It was mounted atop a monument about 30 feet high in an overgrown lot at 2252 Lakeshore Blvd. where it has been since the late Dr. LeRoy F.

Herrick, founder of the Berkeley hospital that bears his name, erected it after be bought it for $15,000 when the fair ended. Who went to the danger- ous and difficult trouble of taking the Eagle only from the top of his precarious perch? And why! -Miss Dolores Bates, who with her mother Mrs. Marie Bates, of 2747 Hille-gas Berkeley, own the property, today offered a $100 reward for its return. Dr. Herrick brought the brother was a hobbyist who always liked to tinker, to build things." He had the tunnel built sometime between 1905 and'.

1910 she guessed. It ran across the stable yards on the three-acre estate from a brick boiler room near the family mansion. The hooks in the tunnel side apparently held steam f-lines which heated the ma-, chine shop, "my brother's workshop." Mrs. Proctor can not recall ever having been in- side the tunnel, but she believes that at one time her brother had installed rails for his large, scale-model trains. If the rails are still there they are so covered by silt the skindiver overlooked them.

MacDermot's name is prominent in the history of miniature railroads. He and' his mechanics designed miniature locomotives, coaches and freight cars in great detail: He ran them at the Panama Pacific Exposition -as the OverFair Railroad, but his dream of carrying visitors through the central grounds was balked by fair officials. Not even Mrs. Proctor knows just when the Mac. tion left Is he going to have i remove tt Or WU1 IOUn- mm.

mf, I tELLESVIIXE, Ont, March tf 4t(A AQ evidence indi-caters Scoutxoaster who later killed himself was the only person Involved in the kidnaping and death of 10-year-old Tommy McNevin, a police of. tidal, said today. -The statement by Inspector Louis Needbam of the Provincial Police criminal investigation, branch cast no light, however; on why the boy was tied 1 .1 l.M vo cue in me snow, a coroner i report said the boy had not been sexually molested. Jhe biggest question mark burg: over' Tommy's Scoutmaster, Warren Williamson, 41-year-old church elder of a son and daughter, I who committed suicide Tuesday night after claiming the kidnaper had designated him to deliver the ransom demanded fofice refused to divulge the' contents of Williamson's suicide note. But Crown At a At a I ROY GRIMM link with Oak- land's storied past has been lljieirthed.

a "concrete-lined tun-, Ue3; long forgotten and iiLi ii inn vUnVecerdad puasway torney (prosecutor) John Pringle said he had not believed Williamson's story of the ransom cotes when he told it to him Tuesday' and doesnt believe it now. Tommy, son of a former alderman and creamery owner, left home Monday afternoon to play hockey and was not seen again alive. Bis body was found yesterday. Coroner Dr. J.

Russell Scott said the boy died from exposure sometime Monday night Bark on the tree was worn where Tommy had struggled to free himself. Two sets of footprints a man's and a boy's led to the tree and the body, and police said they indicated the child walked 1 trustingly to his There was a cut on Tommy's head and a deep cut on his thumb, which Coroner Scott, took as an indi cation he had tried to ward off a blow, perhaps from his own hockey stick. never recorded on: city records The find in West Oakland brought some, fascinated Was it a World War bomb shelter? Did, Mi i 'w; r-ry-F A -f aroused fanciful speculation Trfeini Joe Strawn climbed down 7 into the dark bore with a powerful light. He waded through silt and water for, about 60 feet only to find each end blocked by rubble. Strawn came out "I've never seen anything like it before.

Someone went to an awful lot. of trouble to build this. He reported the tunnel is concrete-lined. It: is aboui -three feet wide and four, and onebalf feet high; L-shaped hooks with oval roll-, era protrude from channel iron imbedded in the tunnel sides. Conductors for.

electrical wires had been installed in the ceiling. Veteran City Councilman Howard E. Rilea, a long- time Tesident of West lana, suppuea tne ciue to the answer. "Sure, I remember That's the old MacDermot place. The tunnel led from somewhere near the old mansion to a machine near Eighth St- built by young MacDermot the man who ranihe trains at the exposition.

He is not alive now." Rilea was right Additional details were supplied by Mrs. Frank Hunt Proctor of Piedmont Louis M. Mac-Dermot's sister, and by old newspaper dippings. Mrs. Proctor said her KOVIATO (L3T), JOS SHAWN KSADY FOJ tXr.ZZXT.Zll Sklndiver enters stranse link with city's past GOOD THINGS HAPPEN WHEN YOU HELP THPxOUGH RED CROSS.