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THE SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER: TUESDAY. APRIL 17. 1928 BALDWIN TAKESCHANCE. NETS FORTUNE "Lucky" Keeps Buying Ophir Mine Stock Despite Setback; Ends Period With $2,500,000 Here is the second in a series of incidents, to be published in "The Eraminer." taken from the lives of men whose colorful careers added to California's noble heritage. They are incidents which illustrate the qualities that 1 marked their empiremaking possessors.

for what. they were-achieving pioneers. The men from whose lives these thrilling and interesting incidents will be taken include James G. Fair, John Mackay, Henry Miller, Collis P. Huntington, Bret Harte, Charles Crocker, Willam Ralston, Mark and Moses Hopkina, Leland Stanford, Mark Train, James L.

Flood, Adolph Sutro. Adolph Spreckels, and others. Here 48 another incident from the life of E. J. Baldwin, who came to California with nothing and left a fortune of nearly $30,000,000: Veins pinched out in the temperamental Comstock lode.

Quartz that had crystal-casketed nuggets gave way to slate. Slate fell under blasts to reveal still richer bonanzas. Stocks soared or crashed like waste into a chute. Fortunes were made and lost. Ophir's stock was quoted at $8 and E.

J. Baldwin was grabbing every share that came his way. The former Indian fighter called seemed to be taking chances. bought and bought Ophir stock, determined to control Ophr no matter what the cost. Tall, swarthy, silent in action 'he was never swerved from his course after his mind was made up.

He wanted Ophir stock and it poured in on him. So freely that "it looks," said he, "as though the certificates are being manufactured for my special benefit." Well, the cleared, the street thought smoke, made a poor bargain. A cloud touched the edge of. his golden nickname. When own surveyor from the Ophir with fifty samples and only one showing a trace of yellow the nickname was in eclipse.

His luck was in the Ophir's sump. Characteristically he pursued it there. He put his own superintendent in charge. He made a scientific, study of the Ophir's ledge, stayed with the job until a great new body of ore was uncovered. Then Ophir stock ballooned once more.

Bald-, win was again "Lucky." He took. a profit of more than $2,500,000 on that phase of the sensational Ophir deal alone and later made millions more on Ophir stock. Today the Ophir stands as a ghost In the Comstock region and the stock sells 011 the San Francisco Mining Exchange at three cents a share! Japanese Shipping King Feted Here San Francisco yesterday welcomed one of Japan's greatest steamship men-Noboru Ohtani, managing director of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha. The city's "freedom" was extended to him at a luncheon given by Morikazu Ida. consul -general of Japan, at the Palace Hotel and attended by representatives of the municipality and by heads of commercial business and bodies and steamship representative International peace and friendship was the keynote of the luncheon, both Consul General Ida and Director Ohtani accentuating this in their brief talks.

Addresses of welcome to Ohtani, who is on his way to Europe, were made by Supervisor Sylvester Andreano, representing Mayor James Rolph; Wallace M. Alexander and Philip J. Fay, president of the Chamber of Commerce. Secret's Out MRS. MARION DE BECK, who will wed Fidel La Barba.

FIDEL LA BARBA TO TAKE BRIDE And now it's--the smaller they are, the harder they fall! Everyone who knows Fidel La Barba, ex-fyweight champion of the world knows that he is a tiny, though sturdy lad. Likewise those acquainted with Mrs. Marion de Beck del Beck, divorced wife of Billy of Barney Google fame, realize that' she is just about as tall as the former prizefighter. The smallest ringmaster of allCupid-has landed a telling blow on both La Barba and Mrs: De Beck. They will be married at 7 p.

m. next Saturday the home of Samuel Weirman at Santa Rosa. The future Mrs. La Barba is now on her way here from Los Angeles. La Barba is a freshman student at Stanford University.

He gave up the prize ring with a fat purse at the height of his fistic powers. Upon graduation he expects to be a stock and bond salesman. Because Mrs. De Beck couldn't keep from telling her friends about it, everything came out yesterday. "We will not go on a honeymoon, you know." declared Mrs De Beck in Los Angeles last night, "for Fidel is still in college." She said she probably would attend domestic science classes.

San Jose to Aid Fund For Grace Cathedral Active work in raising funds for the building of the proposed 000 Grace Cathedral on Nob Hill was begun last night in San Jose. At a meeting called by Archdeacon A. W. Noel Porter of this city, J. S.

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Oakland Mail Orders Carefully and Promptly Filled BRIDGE NEARER, O'TOOLE SAYS Congress is evidently determined that San Francisco's bay bridge shall be governmentally built and operated. On his return from Washington yesterday City Attorney John J. O'Toole declared that Senator Jones of Washington, chairman of the Senate Commerce committee, was engaged in preparing amendments to the Bridge Bill that would limit the permit strictly to public ownership. "We nearer today to getting a bridge permit than ever said the city attorney. "There is no question that the Senate would vote the bill out at once if it provided for public ownership.

And the House would follow suitperhaps not at this session, but certainly next year." Mayor Rolph, who attended, the Senate hearings, confirmed O'Toole in his view of congressional insistence upon public ownership. "Built under government ownership, as a recognized part of the State highway system, there is no question that the bridge could be successfully financed and operated," Rolph added. Meanwhile there was a flurry in the Board of Supervisors over reports that Supervisor James B. McSheehy, chairman of the delegation to Washington, was busy at the Capitol advocating a tube under the bay to Alameda instead of a bridge. After heated discussion the board addressed a telegram to McSheehy, quoting reports that he had called upon the Secretary of the Navy, army engineers, Admiral Hughes, General Deakye, Major Daily and others and had laid before them substitute plans for a tube project.

The wire demanded an immedianswer, but at adjournment shortly before 8 last night no reply had, been received. McSheehy is making no secret of his advocacy in behalf of a tube. A wire from Washington to "The Examiner" quoted him as saying: The tube project has been fully worked out. It can be built at one- third the cost of the proposed level bridge. It would serve all practical purpose of the bridge, and would meet the navy's objections, since it would offer no obstruction to navigation.

MeSheehy also verified the statements that he had presented the tube idea to the army and navy engineers. At its meeting yesterday the board deferred discussion of the 37 bridge franchise applications on file until May 14. An effort by Supervisor Milton Marks to have the continuance for only one week failed. Actress Sues Film Man for Auto Title LOS ANGELES, April Universal -Jean Jarvis, film actress, 'has filed sult in' Superior Court against Emil Kruschke, also known as William Nigh, film director, to quiet title to an automobile. MIME.

MELIUS GIVES RECITAL REDFERN MASON. By Coloraturas are rare birds and every so often the wiseacres say the genus is extinct. But, just when people are beginning to think the pessimists are right, a Luella Melius comes along to remind us that Nature does. not willingly let a type die out. Madame Melius gave a recital last night in Civic Auditorium.

She sang "Perle de Bresil" aria, rivaling the roulades of Walter Oesterreicher's flute: she sang "La Capinera and the "Shadow Song" from she gurgled ineffable trills, she made sparkling staccati, she ran division in fluent legato. It was not quite "Vox et praeteren nihil," "Voice and nothing Madame Melius has dainty ways of her own; but her art emphasizes the sheer bravura of music, against background that is comparatively, pallid. sang Schumann's "Fruhlingsnacht" this was especially manifest. The notes were there, skilfully produced; but one thought of the great Lieder singers and sighed. In songs of a gentler subjectivity, like Donaudy's del mio amato ben" and Cimara's "Fiocca la neve," the lack of emotional depth was not so manifest; but.

when the artist sang "Les filles de Cadiz," one missed the dangerous dalliance of the Latins: the sparkle was there, but not the seductiveness. When Toti dal Monte sings coloratura, one experiences an emotional thrill. Melius comes nearer to the Melba type, "Faultily faultless, telly, regular, performer of vocal tours de force, but lacking in the warmth personality that converts a into Thong ecstasy or despair. Edward Harris was the accompanist. When he is not playing the piano, Harris writes musical criticism: he does both well.

Kid McCoy Victim's Husband Loses Suit Echoes of the fatal shooting of Mrs. Teresa Mors, for which Kid McCoy is now serving a life sentence in San Quentin, were heard in the District Court of Appeal yesterday. The court sustained a judgment for $5,000 given L. S. Jones, Los Angeles attorney, against Mrs.

Mors' husband, Albert A. Mors. The money, according to. Jones, was due for legal services rendered Mrs. Mors before the shooting.

The judgment was appealed by Mors. Savant to Address Charter Revisionists E. A. Cottrell, professor cal science. at Stanford University, will address the judiciary committee studying charter revision tonight, it was announced by Supervisor Milton Marks yesterday.

The meeting, one of a series, will be held in the Board of Supervisors' chamher. It will be open to the public. Jennie M. Kemp, W.C.T. U.

Leader And Writer, Dies MRS, JENNIE M. KEMP Mrs. Jennie M. Kemp, nationally known for her work with the Women's Christian Temperance Union, and for 'her Food Administration campaigning during the war, died Sunday at her home, 65 San Fernando Way. She was personally thanked by Herbert Hoover for her support of work of the food administration.

It was Mrs. Kemp who campaign ed vigorous sly through California and Oregon in the interests of prohibitio n. She was at one time secret a of the national W. C. Was Temperance Leader.

T. and for ten vears was on the staff of the "Union Sentinel," publication of that organization. For 50 Tot the 69 years of her life Mrs. Kemp has been an active W. C.

T. U. worker. She was born in Michigan, and was graduated from Baker University, Baldwin, Kansas. Her husband was the late Robert N.

Kemp. For the last eight years, Kemp had lived in San Franeisco with her son. J. M. Kemp.

She has been ill for four years, and was confined to her bed for 8 month before her death. Four children survive, J. M. Kemp of San Francisco, Robert G. and Charles A.

Kemp of Los Angeles, and Mrs. Harriet K. Lewis of Burlingame. Funeral services will be held at 10 a. m.

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Board Will Hear Assessment Pleas Protests against assessments for the proposed Islais Creek ReclamaItion district will be heard by the Board of Supervisors today. The project would cost $1,600,000 and would reclaim approximately 275 acres in the southern part of San Francisco. Paper Thief Given, 30-Day Jail Term Caught stealing. newspaper: from apartment houses in the vicinity of Van Ness avenue and Greenwich street Sunday morning. Edward Elias, 19, was yesterday sentenced by Police Judge O'Brien to serve thirty days in jail.

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