The Times from San Mateo, California • Page 1

100,000 Pedestrians Pack Gate Bridge on Opening Around the By TYPE HIGH TRANGELY cynical verse, considering that iO was written by a youth oH junior college age, ta "San Francisco Parade," one of the poems in the 1937 issue of 'The Lit," annual publication of the Quill club at the San Mateo J. C. We naturally expect boys to approve parades and to overlook the disagreeable features of big city life, and the point of view in this instance is unueual and interesting. The timeliness of the poem inspires me to present it in hfre in full, although I dislike the form and feel inclined to applaud the young author, Roger S. Arams, as a reporter rather thnn as a rort.

SAN FRANCISCO A A The sullen city grimly waits, A seeming soulless thing. Lousy moochers on Howard street, Loathsome, laughing vermin, Two-legged rats, Sinister, sordid smiles, Seductive street women, Painted laughter, Tough swagger of the watcrfrontj Strange, scarred, seamed faces, Relentless roar of a i On Market street. The moon palely peering Over a red, winking beer sign Is shivering strange, And grim. The city celebrates A steel strung bridge Spanning the bay-We built it! Stupendous! Colossal! A miracle! Biggest of the big! We built it! Aching necks arc craned To the gala tread of marching feet. Flowery floats framing women.

Sometimes beautiful, often not, Soldier's and sailor's militant march, County sheriffs on white horses, Grotesque, fiery dragons. The jostling multitude, Standing for hours along Market street, Fighting through to the silent trolley tracks, Perching on boxes and flimsy stoolP, Floating paper streamers from Scattering paper tatters from windows, Tired throbbing to beat of drums, Ts lost on the glory of the big parade. There is a sigh and surge As the last drum fades, A thronging, Market street, The denizens of the city homing Strojl Scuffling feet in rustling paper tatters Like country children wading Autumn leaves. Fruncisco loves a parade-Understanding is not so strained. The moon is not palely strange Above a red-lit beer sign.

S. ADAMS. Two of the co-edsj Joanette Jennings and Dorothy Luke, contribute to (he college club publication Golden Gate bridge poems that are of higher poetic content and woul appeal more to the San Francisco people. That by Miss Jennings is finely descriptive, concluding with the lines: "Specks of black against the frame Arc the bridgemen toiling there To aid the monster rear its head Beyond the waters rf the bay." Beautifully reflective is tl bridge poera by MISB Luke, and offer it, as a striking contrast tc the vigorous "Parade" of Roge Adams: JIan toils for such a little while And then is gone; The lovely vital things that he creates Live on, and are his monumen This bridge, our dream Safe-clothed in steel, Will span time's tragedy, and pu our seal Upon the years, Just as the torch of life Is handed on to millions yet unborn. I like to think our souls sometini may come To watch the crimson sunset fror its towers, Just at the close of day, And in those hours Will know the work was good.

We did not live in vain. Tn another issue of the Time the Quill club writings as they ap pear in "The Lit" may be yive: further consideration. The briclgt about which the San Francicsc celebration is centered, has crowd ed out all the other subjects todaj The name Type High no appear in the published list those who will attend the Wfndsoi Waliy wedding. They have evi i received my message of rt prot. Rut if 1 change my min go will surpciafc them, Weather SAN MATED COUNTY Fair and mild today and Friday; overcast in early morning; moderate to fresh west winds.

FULL LEASED UNITED PRESS WIRE LEADS IN CIRCULATION' AND ADVERTISING QUICK CASH FOR VACATION NEEDS Let a TIMES Classified Ad do the job for you Just Call 1900 VOL. 27. No. YEAR SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, MAT 27, 1937 FOURTEEN PAGES PER COPY 3c--65c PEE MONTH S. F.

Enters Fiesta Frenzy Over Bridge rlammoth Span Thrown Open to Pedestrians HUGE PARADE HELD a a Illumination, Fireworks Tonight "The greatest bridge built in lie history of civilization" was pened today fcr more than 00,000 pedestrians, first to walk across the Golden Gate, i a will have the nidge to themselves today, probably for the only time in he history of the structure. Ban Francisco officially op- ned her celebration in honor of he great bridge achievement to- lay, though the lid was really aken ofi last night when Vivian iorenson of San Francisco crowned of esta. 'Miss Janice Crown, San Mli- eo High schcool senior, and ifatco count; crowned ai unty queen, was also lady-in-waiting 1 The coronation of the many queens lighHght of last night's Fnndafigo. For'-y- Schools Closed San Mated and BurlJngame High schools and the San Mftteo Junior college were closed today to give itudents a chance to visit the bridge ind participate in the fiesta. Nearly deserted streets Mateo at the number of local residf-nts went to San Francisco tni'ly see the parade and walk across bridge.

Saturday night the chamber of commerce and San Francisco labor mions will sponsor FI ball for the jeni'flt of ten Golden Gate bridge workers killed February 17 when a scaffolding on which they were al rk collapse el and plunged them ISO feet into waters of San Francisco hay. Today is "Pedestrian day" the idRe. Fiesta officials prrdictec a 100,000 pedestrians would take advantage of the opportunity. 50,000 at Niton By noon, 50,000 person: hac walked across the bridge. i of them waited all night to he imong the first.

The honor of being the first on the bridge was claimed by Phyllis Kreighbaum, 17 who shivered at the toll gate plazp. 11 night and broke through the 50,000 OUT, STRIKE HITS STEELAiEA CLEVELAND, May --With increasing bitterness, marked by union protests to the federal government, strike iponsored by the lommittee for ndustrial organization crippled the operations of three of 'the country's biggest independent steel producers today. The strike was called by the steel workers oi'ganizing committee in an attempt to force union contracts upon the Republic Steel corporation, the third largest producer in the United Slates, the Youngstown Sheet Tube Co. and Inland Steel corporation. Over 50,000 In a score of their major units in the Ohio and Chicago steel centers, furnaces were cooled and.

machinery stopped. More thnn 50,000 khfr-campamijV 90,000 em- ployes were on strike, manning the picket linesj or were kept away by pickets. Van A. Bittncr, regional director of the S. O.

C. in Chicago, chorged in fi telegram to President Roosevelt that the Republic corporation was in a "conspiracy to violate and render ineffective the National Labor Relations act" and "has enlisted the support of a captain and other high officers of the Chicago police department." Would Probe Plot Bittner a justice department be directed to investigate what he called this "nefarious scheme." In Buffalo. N. where a Rep i mill continued operation, Charley Payne, chairman of the local steel workers organizing- committee, declared that he would file a complaint with the National Labor Relations board, alleging that the company imported strikebreakers across the state line in violation of the federal Byrnes act. A company spokesman at Buf- Con tin lied on Page Thret) Last Tribute Paid to Hintz First Violence Recorded in Ford Strike Union Beaten in East MEN DEFIANT HERE Treat Only With Main Offices East DETROIT, May United Automobile Unlnn charged a two members ivere attacked today in the vicinity of the Ford Motor company plant while federal and county authorities were investigating battle- which result- Nurses Irked At Refusal to Give Increase May Ask Support of A.

F. L. Body DELEGATION ANGRY County Salary Budget Is Adopted by Supervisors TIni.s llrdivnod i a REDWOOD CITY, May 27. --Forty-one nurses of tlio Community hospital, denied salary increases last night by the board of supervisors, girded today for a finish battle over BEAUTIFUL STANFORD GIRL PICKS ESTATE AT WOODSIDETO TAKE LIFE Times Redwood Cily Bureau KEDVTOOD CITY, May the warm sunshine of a day, a a i 20-year-old Stanford co-ed who "just go on any longer," chose, the seclusion of a palatial Vv'ooclside estate to beep a rendezvous with death today. TJ.

Ford, head gardener of William M. Fitzhugh ol.ate A i mad, found the girl's slumped over Ihe wheel her expensive coupe ns he a the rounds of the estate shorlly a 11 o'clock this morning. glaum told him the woman was dead. A section of rubber hose bad beon extended from the exhaust pipe to the nside of the car and the barriers ahead of throng at 6 a. It was a gay the crowd, garbed in costumes of the old West --sombreros, bright bandanas, cowboy boots, Spanish serapes--that christened the huge span.

At a nickel apiece they walked, danced, ran, pushed hill boxes peanuts, and baby carriages. Meanwhile the advance units of the U. S. Pacific battle fleet steamed into San Francisco bay (Continued c.n rage Two) Scores Killed as Ranch Dam Breaks MEXICO CITY, May newspaper Universal today reported from Tlapujahua, Michoacan state, that scores of persons were believed dead or injured when a dam, weakened by the pressure of rain-swollen waters, burst and flooded La C'jadrilla ranch. Damage wag said Jo be heavy.

Ten bodfes have been recovered, The waters inundated 100 houses and halted operations at the fa nious Dos Estrellas gold and silver mine, owner of the dam, Survivors were reported fleeing to the mountains for protection from the rising waters. Baer Knocks Out So. African Champ May world heavyweight champion Max Bxfr tonisrht knocked out Ben FrMird of South Africa in thr ninth of i scheduled 32-round bout in Harrinsrwap arena. Aged John Jacob pioneer San MaLeo merchant who died at Craig, last Saturday, was laid at rest in Cypress Lawn cemetery today after an impressive serxr ice in the SneMer snd company Oratory the Chimes at 2 o'clock. The'ttev.

Undley H. Miller of the Episcopal Church of St. Matthew, who officiated at the funeral, delivered an address in which he recounted for the throng; of old- time friends the Hintz one of i that made most popular of San Mateo's citizens and the acts of generosity with which his naire had hecn associated for more than half a century. Pallbearers were Supervisor AMn Hatch, riani G. Goodhue, Charles H.

Morrison, William J. Dougherty, Henry Schroder and Ernie Cottrell- Hintz, 81 years of age, went to Detroit on May 3 to obtain a new automobile anil he died while returning with him on the homeward trip, and with hint when the sudden heart nttack resulted scLully, Douglas Kice ed in injuries to two union offi- their demand for a 10 per cent cmls pay boost. RICHMOND, May 27. Already a i the of the walk-out nurses may carry their fight to 'ill. American Federation of Labor, it was stated.

A delegation who appeared at laiit night's public hearing on the county salary budget, claimed that their organization, the San Mateo County Nurses' association, is ai affiliate of the A. F. of L. Strike Threats Heard Threats a nurses' strike af the county-owned hospital, voicec by members of the delegation and their supporters at the meeting appeared to have cooler! today. The delegation stalked out angrily after the board adopted the salary budget without the increase, "The nurses are only asking- for a living wage equal to that paid nursns in the public hospitals in other counties," declared Mrs.

Elizabeth a one of the delegates, herself a former Cum- i hospital staff member anc low a private nur.se. Dissension at Hospital Mrs. McKean and two Community hospital fctaff nurses who ap- at the local assembly plant of the Ford Motor company, who their strike as "the of a fight tlie United Automobile Workers of America and Henry Ford," and Ford officials disputed today even the possible scene of negotiations to enrt their differences. Frank Slaby, local U. A.

A. lead and an organizer for CIO, laid his union would not deal with ocal Ford executives "because they are only puppets" and claimed all matters in dispute would set- led in Dot roil; between Homer Marliiij international president of he U. A. W. and Ford representatives therr.

Local Executive Silent From Dearborn, however, Harry Bennett, chief of the service department of Ford Motors, said tlie management of the Rich- noitd plant had been authorised to landte the situation and to do "as saw fit out there." Before Bennett, made his a e- ment, Clarence Hulhvinkle, local Ford plant manager, said he hail not heard from Detroit or Dearborn. He claimed also he had received no communication from the strikers. Subsequently has was not avail- ble either at his office or his home. "We will not deel with local officials of the Ford company," Slaby said, Talked With a i "AM negotiations will be carried on in Detroit between U. A.

W. A. national heads, and the Ford management there." Slaby, -who called out 1500 men here after a strike vote Tuesday night, said that he tallied with Homer Martin, international president of the U. A. W.

A. by telephone in El Paso, TexaSj early this morning. "Martin told me," said, "that he intended to fly to Detroit today and that a conference with Ford officials woulj be arranged at once. We are leaving the entire matter in Martin's handa and we i on Pagrn Two) Montana Man Hangs Self In S. F.

House SAN FRANCISCO, May Edward Callewsort, 20, of Lewi a ton, hanged himself in his rooming house today with an electric light cord which he an chored to a clothes hook. He left a note addressed to hi mother, Mrs. Elsie Caltewsort, in which he said he did not liko San Francisco and "I'm coming Widow of Plane ho ap- pearfd in support of the de asserted that "there in an awful lot of dissension mid unrest the hospital Over this thing." They said then- had been talk of i "The general help is petting more," the trio declared. "Numer- pay increases have been grant- in the lower salary brackets cd for lesser. tal.

at the hospi- Those employes got the! mands and nov at us." hospr they nre laughing Mrs. Ella Chase, Lomita Park civic leader and herself a former nurse, supporting the demands, told the hoard that in San Francisco Ihe nurses had struck and won their fight. "We don'i want that to happen here," she de clarcd, asserting that the nurses pay at Community hospital was a "disgrace to the county." Seek Restoration The general duty are seeking restoration of the pay eu from $100 to $90 a month made in 1932. Only five of the origins hospital staff which took the pa; cut five yearn ago still remain (Continued on Papre Two) 36 Flying Boats Pass Over Bridge SAN FRANCISCO, May Thirty-six big VP flying boats arrived here shortly befor noon today from San Diego to par ticipate in the Golden Gate brirtg opening ceremonies. The navy pa trol bombers made the i in formation hour hop.

in a leisurely six a Detroit ynuth of 19 years, who was engaged to drive the car to California. Rice continued westward thi ear, on instructions telegraphed to him by Mrs, Frank M. Cvan- daughter of the 'ate pioneer. He arrived in San Mateo this ir.orn- ing and reported that the car had been in a collision at Sickiyou and that hi had left it there for repairs. According' to the statement, a goat appeared on the highway and in attempting to avoid it he San Francisco bay at MUIs field struck another car.

Mast February, today had on file i The route Francisco a suit for $250,000, i into (Viifornia was a i the air tine and (h? city San Mateo's 1937 floral fiesta a i tocrurse i hid ami county as a will be held during the four rfays plfinnr-d to rome home that a The i a filed in helialf of comnu-ncmp Thursday, September the in the car were a)! Gilrnore and her two minor 23, I'h -stcr P. Lipman, the a ft; children. daiinitelu SQlHimuifid todftV'i Victim Mrs. Dorothy Gilmnre, widow of J. Franklin Gilmore, vdth 10 orher persons, lost his i when a United Airlines plane crashed into Reports Say Japanese Set to Invade Chine SHANGHAI, May 27--(IP)--Un confirmed reports front Hong Kon; today said Japanese naval authori ties rushed four warships to Swa tow and were ready to land blue jackets because 01 an alleged at tick on and detention of a Japa nose consular policeman, Kyoah Aoyama, on May 22.

fiesta Opening Set 44-Cent Raise Over Last Year Now Forecast Salary Buget of Adopted FAIR FUND PERILED The engine was still run- ung. Ford called Sheriff Mc- rath's office- Note to Mother From a driver's license in her landbag, the girl was identified as Miss Ann Pringee of Los Altos. A penciled note, unsigned, was on the seat by her side. It was addressed to her mother, and sairl: Bother: "Please forgive me, I just can't go on any longer." The car was registered to L. Frinpee, Box 427, Los Altos, believed to be the girl's father.

The Santn Clara county sheriff's office i-as asked to notify the parents. Deputy Sheriff Richard Arnold said Miss Fring-ee was a Stanford student living- at Maclrona hall. The Sta nfo rd regi st rnr's ff ice said they had no record of a young woman by that name registered at the university. Adviser to Freshmen Friends at Madrone hall, however, said Miss Pringee was registered as a junior student there last quarter, and was majoring in social science. She was active in university life, was a sponsor at Roblar hall in the capacity of adviser to freshmen students, acquaintances said.

They said she dropped out at the beginning ol the present term, and was living in Los Altos. They said she had a wide circle of friends, and could 1 advance on reason for her act. The girl purchased the piece of hose at a Palo Alto hardware store earlier this morning-, and apparently drove put the Alpine road to the Fitzhugh estate where she com- mited suicide, said Arnold. He described the girl us a "very i i Pace TWO CITIES WILL UNITE TO BATTLE FOR TREES Mayor i i a IV. Hives of today offerer! full support to San Matco in saving tlireatenert trees'along El Cam i Rcrnl ns Col.

John IF. state highM-ay department engineer, vigorous defense, of their removal and criticized clubwomen for their part in the controversy. Must Stand Together Offering his aid to San Mateo in blocking plans of the state to lop the picturesque trees from a section of the highway bordering the St. Cyr estate, Mayor Hives aaid: "I am rt'atly to with San Mateo in waving these trees. I gladly offer my co-operation and any assistance I may he able to give.

These trees, those in Burlingame, are a valuable asset to both communities. They should be preserved." The plan to iake out the trees from Baywood to Monte ment contemplated eventual removal of the trees, but no immediate action wag proposed. The plan, he explained, was simply to establish set-back lines to protect right-of-way necessary for future widening of El Camino real. The trees may not be taken out for eight or ten years and then the improvement may be made only a block at a time, he said. Colonel Skeggs declared a no detailed plans or specifications had been prepared for the widening.

In Interests of Safety Commenting- on the more immediate proposal to remove 27 trees along El Camino real on the Burlingame Hillsboroygh boundary, Colonel Skeggs said this was being done in the interest of safety. Colonel Skeggs severely criti- for without sufficient informa- Move to Raise $70,000 for Exposition REDWOOD CITY, May 27. --San Mateo county's basic tax rate stood tentatively at $1.25 today, following adoption by the board of supervisors of a $525,677 salary budget last night. This was the estimate of Chief Deputy George Filbert, wlio said the maintenance-operation and capital outlay budget would face a drastic paring in ordar to brine the whole budget tha state's new 5 per cent limitation. Periled, The con trotter's a i revealed that the limitation imposed by the state places in jeopardy plans of the board raise a fund for financing this county's participation in the 1939 Golden Gate International exposition.

Word that the Legislature had enacted the mi- law limiting budget increases of political subdivisions to 5 per cent of the last expenditures, was received by Filbert a the hoard had placed a slninp of approval on the salary buitget. Budget Higher Allowing for pay boosts mostly in lower salary brackets and additional personnel in several departments, the 1937-38 salary budget represents an increase 7.2 per cent over last year, according to Budget Director Erncat A. Rolison. "The tax rote was as high. as $1.30 some $25,000 was slashed from the salary requests hy the board and the budget director." said Filbert.

"The tax rate of $1.25 is still foo high to fit the state limitation, means we must go to work to reduce the maintenance-operation and capital outlay budget ta offset thn salary increases." Forty Per Cent Increase lie said he couldn't estimate al this i just how much can ba pared from the $1.25 rate. Last year's basic rate was 81 cents. Filbert disclosed for the first time a the board intends to rafse approximately 3DT- (Continued on Pape Two) Diablo avenue, was revealed clusively by the Times yesterday. uoionei fcfceggs severely ci The proposal met. immediate op-1 i women's organizations r-ositjon from the city advisory a tj without sufficient infon committee on parks and r'ay- tion grounds.

Skeggs Tells Plans In San Francisco, Colonel Stceggs admitted that the highway depart- His outburst came on the heels of announcement that the presidents' council of the San Mateo (Continued on PSEO Two S.M. PIONEER PASSES Mrs. Elizabeth Doane, yl, Dies at Home Here Mrs. Elizabeth C. Doaue, who came to California more a i i of a century ago ami whose a was i in the early clays of San I'ranoiseo, diet! today at tlie- home of son, Frank Doane, 6 4 0 i Jental avenue.

Mrs. Doiine, BASEBALL -ho celebrpted her Olst birthday with a party December 2i) last, passed nway peacefully at 5 o'clock this morning a a short Active and her mind alert ppite of her advanced age, she had been in $jood health until a week broken hip five years ago and when she broken her shoulder several years before. Although Hearing the mark Mrs. Doane had a keen zest for life, read the newspapers and closely followed current events. Three weeks ago she accompanied members of the Doane family on a ago when $he was taken ill with in Newark, N'.

shr came Previous tr that the onjy to California by way of the Pa- orcasinsi? hc had bcc-n a a isthmus when a of 16 hex bad whan sha tuffwed A an By i NATIONAL LEAGUE Brooklyn OQQ Pittsburgh 020--(called end rain). Ilamliti and Phelps: Bowman and Todd. Boston 010 3 St. Louis 200 0 Turner and Lopez; II, Johnson and Owen. New York ....001 000 011--3 fi 0 Cincinnati ....000 002 000--2 7 0 Schumacher, a Hubbcll and Mancuso; Grissom and V.

Davis, Philadelphia-002 3JO 020--11 1 CEiicago 100 000 001-- 2 9 ft Walters and Wilson; Bryant, and Harriett, O'Dea. AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago 000 000 001--1 6 1 a i 101 000 OOx--2 9 1 a Dietrich and Weaver and rGay, a 020 00 1'hiladelphia 220 100 20 Hualin, Wyatt Sullivan; Caster, Turbeville m4 Bruckcr. Detroit 101 000 002 000--5 1 000 000 000--1 It I If ridges, Rowe, Rasscll and worth, TrhbotlA; Broam, Murphj and Dickey. St. Louis fct.