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THE SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28. 1931 City Will Open Registration Office for Job Seekers on Monday Grid Heroine Money Talks Two Tough Hombres ROCK BL CITIZENS VISIT OH BURGLARS VISIT UNEMPLOYED 2 DESTROYERS FROM 1 mi nT it IN LISTS AI HUE HOUSES GET 351 LOOT 11 tl ON NAVY DAY Fleet Vessels Hold Open House for School Children; Lunch Stone Two in Diameter Lands on Bed Which Sick Child was About to Eenter School Also Visited by Vandals; Clothing and Jewelry Listed as Missing in Police Reports eon Tendered Officers at Club Governor Rolph Asked to Approve Order for Cots, Blankets of Army; Barracks in Warehouse 4 i fk Blown from a quarry a half-mile away, a large rock crashed through the roof of an East Oakland home late yesterday afternoon. Open house aboard three of Uncle Sam's Navy anchored off the East Bay shores served as the focal point for Oakland's observance of "Navy Day" and the anniversary of the birth of President Theodore Roosevelt yesterday. Hundreds of school children and interested citizens took occasion during the day to visit the flag- The rock tore a great hole in the roof and landed in a bed which a sick Ila May Bailey, was about to enter. It was nearly two bedecked destroyers Lamberton and feet in diameter.

The house is at 4017 Altamont street, in the Millsmont district. Wasmuth and the Coast Guard vessel Shoshone. Demonstrations were provided to show how the sailors live afloat and ashore. The Junior Chamber of Com Burglars yesterday raided five East Bay homes, a school building and a grocery store, obtaining loot amounting to $350, according to Oakland police reports. The hauls consisted of clothing, jewelry, merchandise and ,1 In currency.

Thieves who broke into the annex building of the Lazear school at Twenty-ninth and Elmwood avenues, proved themselves to. be not only but vandals as well. After ransacking the place of paints, tools, nails and canned fruit they destroyed furniture in the building, police reported. An ambitious thief spent several hours to effect entry into a grocery store at 3317 Telegraph avenue, then spent some more time with a hammer and chisel to pry the cash register open and got exactly $1 in pennies for his efforts, Harry Rhoades, proprietor, told police. A shabbily dressed prowler entered the home of Mrs.

E. Simon, 617 Grove street, while she was absent, selected for himself a suit of clothes, put it on, then discarded his old garments in the closet, she reported. merce of Oakland feted the officers xne stone, it is believed, came from the Heafey-Moore Company's rock quarry, on a high bluff a half mile away. The company had been blasting during the afternoon, and the girl's father, Fred Bailey, said he heard a blast and then the scream of the rock as it was hurled through the air. Other residents of the neighbor-including many children, heard the blast and the approach of the rock, which they likened to a shell.

They scrambled for safety. -i of the three vessels at a luncheon at the Athens Athletic Club. Addresses were made by Ralph Fisher of the Port of Oakland and Capt. David Potter of the Twelfth Naval District, San Francisco headquarters. C.

E. Capwell was chairman of the day. EDMUND LOWE and Warner Baxter open at the Oakland Fox Theater tomorrow in "The Cisco Kid." SALLY BLANK, who is featured in "The Spirit of Notre Dame," opening at the Orpheum Theater today. Inquest Delays CISCO BE S. F.

Symphony to Be Heard Today Offices to handle information regarding jobs and offers of employment are to be opened at the City Hall, Mayor Fred N. Morcom announced yesterday. Mrs. Gladys Eccles, who served as secretary of the mayor's unemployment committee last year, will be Installed in offices on the Fourteenth and Washington street corner and will start work Monday. Telephone service and stationery are to be donated by the city and several volunteer workers are to assist Mrs.

Eccles in compiling information. ASSEMBLE DATA. Contrary to the procedure followed last year, Mrs. Eccles will not interview applicants for jobs but is to assemble all the information and notify applicants when and where they will be able to find work. Applications for jobs on the proposed $50,000 sanitary sewer projects and for such miscellaneous jobs as may develop, are to register at fire houses throughout the city, according to present plans.

Names and addresses of all such applicants will be filed at the City Hall office and each man will be sent to employers as fast as jobs present themselves. Appeals to householders and individuals, who may be abla to furnish one or more days of work, are to be made this year, and scores of temporary positions are expected to materialize, as they did last year. ARMY COTS SOUGHT. Requests for army cots and blankets, to be used to shelter those unable to provide for themselves, were dispatched to Governor James Rolph yesterday by Harry J. Raab, executive secretary to City Manager Os-sietn E.

Carr. The equipment will be available, Raab was notified by Major General Malin Craig, commanding the Ninth Carps Area, but the request must come through the Governor's office and proper arrangements made to Shaw Comedy to Appear at Fulton Hit-Run Hearing LEILA YAMS, in new Walling-ford film opening at Fox Grand Lake Theater tomorrow. NOTRE DAM EF LM THRILL El Cerrito Council In Routine Meet MAKES DEBUT FOX SCREEN 1LLIF0I WILL BE OFFER! AT Hearing on drunken driving charges, filed against Eric Turner, 38, motion picture machine operator, was postponed yesterday by Police Judge Howard L. Bacon pending the result of an inquest to be held today. Mrs.

Mary Nicholas, 71, 5787 Shatter avenue, died at Highland Hospital last week from injuries alleged AT ORPHE EL CERRITO. Oct. 27. The total cost of a culvert recently installed on Carmel avenue at the El Cer-rito-Albany city line was $883.50, according to a renort mnrip tn fho The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Issay Do-browen, will present the second of a series of young people's concerts in the Oakland Municipal Auditorium Theater this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Superintendents of schools from Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda will permit pupils planning to attend special time off from classes.

Large delegations of children from outlying districts in both Alameda and Contra Costa counties also will be present. The program will include numbers by Anton Dvorak, Bach, Johann Strauss, Carl Maria von Weber. The singing of "Going Home" from the New World Symphony by the entire audience, accompanied by the orchestra, will conclude the concert. El Cerrito city council last night by Ann Berryman, whose pulchritude and charm captivate a king in the production of Bernard Shaw's amusing comedy, "The Apple Cart," which comes to the Fulton Theater on November 2, is an actress whose entire stage career of more than ten years has been spent as a star in many of the leading repertory theaters in the United States, England and Australia. Miss Berryman's youth, vivacity and thorough theatrical background have been incentives for producers to cast her in leading roles for important plays.

As a mistress of the Eritish King in "The Apple Cart," Miss Berryman has ample opportunity to disclose her talent. Playing opposite the eminent English actor, Boyd Irwin, in this play, Miss Berryman, cast in a uounctiman E. E. Brien, street commissioner. Albany's share of the cost amounts to S441.7B.

Coun ly received when a car driven by Turner struck her on East Fourteenth street, October 17. Turner, who lives at 1516 Market street, San Francisco, was intoxicated at the time of the accident, Inspector Robert Tracy reported, and a bottle containing liquor was found in his car. His preliminary examination was continued until November 3. GRAWDJLflKE "The New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford," a talking comedy for all who love to laugh, brings William Haines, Jimmy Durante and Eernest Torrence as a trio of bunco men to the Fox Grand Lake screen Thursday. The story was suggested by the George Randolph Chester series of Wallingford yarns and in addition to giving William Haines the type of roles in which he excels serves "The Spirit of Notre Dame," which opens today at the RKO Orpheum Theater, is dedicated to Knute Rockne, whose death interfered with his plan to play the role of the coach in the picture.

His place in the film, however, was taken by J. Farrell MacDonald, a favorite player who is almost an exact "double" for the great football mentor. "I was proud to dedicate this picture to Knute Rockne," said Carl Laemmle after the completion of the firm, "I know it is one of which he would have been very proud. Just as his former pupils gave their best efforts in the film in memory of 'Old so were we enspired to produce a fitting memorial to his greatness as a builder of men." post bonds insuring safekeeping of tne property. Tentative plans call for the use of the Ninth avenue warehouse and docks, now unoccupied.

The Port A sequel to "In Old Arizona," one of the truly great talking pictures of all time, comes to the Fox Theater, Oakland, Thursday. It is "The Cisco Kid" again bringing to life O. Henry's lovable bad man of that name, in the person of the popular Warner Baxter. This gayest of romantic desperadoes, who feared no man, but loved all women, again finds the tough army sergeant, Edmund Lowe, as his chief competition, and their battle to the finish is both thrilling and funny. The girl In the case is the beautiful Conchita Montenegro, who will be remembered for her fine performance in "Never the Twain Shall Meet." Nora Lane plays a prominent supporting role, and there is added local interest to the production through the appearance of Oakland's famed juvenile star, Marilyn Knowlden, in a prominent part.

The story was filmed entirely outdoors, and is brought to a smashing fadeout with a typical O. Henry surprise climax. On the stage Fanchon and Marco will offer their novel "Tin Types Idea," with a cast of stage stars, headed by Presslar and Klaiss and the popular baritone, Oscar Taylor. The concert orchestra will be heard in a new overture, under the direction of Hermie King. Greta Garbo and Clark Gable, In "Susan Lenox," will be screened for the last times tonight.

cilman O'Brien said. A balance of $236.71 remains to be paid by El Cerrito. Charles D. Schacffer was granted permission to install a gasoline tank and pump on his property on Norvell street near Lincoln avenue. City Engineer H.

D. Chapman reported that It will cost approximately $20 to repair a break in the pavement on Arlington drive near the Berkeley Country Club. He was ordered to proceed with the repairs. The El Cerrito unemployment relief committee, headed by Blake McNeil, was granted permission to hold a benefit dance in jSchwake hall on October 31. City Engineer H.

D. Chapman was appointed to represent El Cerrito at a meeting of the Contra Costa planning commission to be held in Martinez on October 28. Long Beach Leaders I nspect A uditorium James D. Daynham, manager of the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, and Jack Horner, manager of the city's convention and publicity bureau, came to Oakland to inspect the Oakland MuniciDal role of the girl who aspires to reign as queen of a giant empire, is said to be one of the high lights of the play. Auditorium.

II 88, WINS Mr. Horner invited the local Chamber's convention manager to attend a meetine to be held Into in November in Long Beach, at which Lew Ayres, carrying, steller honors in this epic of football history is supported by Frank Ca-rideo, the Four Horsemen, Bucky O'Conner, and many other famous Notre Dame grid stars; as well as Sally Blane and William Bakewell. Everything has been put into "The Spirit of Notre Dame," which has been acclaimed as the most remarkable comedy-drama of the gridiron. Oaklanders will have an opportunity to view "The Spirit of Notre Dame" at the RKO Orpheum this week in conjunction with the regular RKO vaudeville show, di BRIDE. AGED 48 department has agreed to permit the unemployment committee the use of the pier, it was reported.

Viampa Club to Give Annual Spook Party Ghosts, goblins and other "spooky" subjects will rule next Saturday night at the second annual Halloween party of the Viampa Club to be held for Oakland Company of the California Grays at the latter's clubrooms. The Viampa Club sponsoring the party is the women's auxiliary of the Oakland Grays. A hard-times costume is the admission required for members. Mrs. Dorothy Crape heads the following commitee in charge: Mrs.

Lorraine Johnson, Mrs. Evelyn Gould and Mrs. Carmel Grady. an association of convention department managers will be organized. Its puroose will be to foster uniform action in attracting na Oakland Births School Pupils Will Show Dance Ability Creative dancing, as interpreted by elementary school pupils, will be demonstrated this afternoon at Oakland High School, R.

W. Robertson, superintendent of the recreation department, announced yesterday. Miss Florence E. Weeks and Miss Lois A. Lear, supervisors of physical education in the Oakland schools, are in charge of the program.

Groups of from ten to thirty children recruited from the kindergarten and the first six grades, are to follow the music and, without prompting or leadership, are to adapt their dances to the mood portrayed by the strains of the music. Teachers who are in charge of the groups and their schools are Miss Blanche Rundquist, Glenview; Mabel Paul, Hawthorne; Mrs. Marjory S. Carter, Jefferson; Mrs. Fay Hansen and Miss Hazel Pocock, Horace Mann; Mrs.

Estelle Forcum and Miss Lulu Shermantine, Highland; Mrs. Lolita de Rocke and Mrs. Dorothy A. Polley, Sequoia. St.

Mary Field to Be Named After Brother The football field at St. Mary's College High School in Peralta Park. Berkelev. is to he namprl tional conventions to California. Oakland Boy Victim Of Hit-Run Driver A hit-run driver vesterdav was ANDERSON In this city.

Ort. IS. tn th wife of Andrew W. Anderson, 7220 Arthur a Fon. FRANK In this city.

Oct 14. to the wite being sought by police after strik to introduce Jimmy (Schnozzle) Durante, New York's favorite comedian, as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer star. Sam Wood directed the picture in which Haines as the debonair Wallingford with his. two confederate, float a clay mine, bilk a Syracuse manufacturer by posing as Senators and bankers. All goes well until they match wits with a blonde bankers' daughter (Leila Hyams) and then the trouble starts.

Prominent character roles are played by Guy Kibbee, Robert McQuade and Hale Hamilton. A new Merrymakers' revue will provide mirth and melody on the stage. Stage fevorites, Peggy O'Neill's sweet sixteen sweethearts and Jack Souders and his band will be featured. The sensational mystery play "The Spider" with Edmund Lowe in the leading role, closes tonight. High School Pupils To Cut Time Waste Time is as important as money.

With this idea in mind, students of Roosevelt High School have determined to make use of every minute of the school day. The only time available for speeding up their efforts is the "Home Room" fifteen minute period. A statistician figured that in three years of high school training, this period would mean 120 extra hours of work. They have decided to conduct a business meeting, in an orderly manner, and cram into this brief period discussions of student government, social behavior and selection of proper courses. Skits have been written by students dealing with the faults of "loafing" and will be presented in the "Home Room" period.

ing Jjudley Manlove, 17, of 2444 Eighth avenue. Oakland, as he alighted from a Key System train rect from New York. The bill features Anatole Friedland's new flashy revue "Anatole's Affairs of 1932," a lavishly produced unit headed by Jerome Mann. Jungle Explorer Will Tell of Pygmy Tribe Martin Johnson, famous explorer, and his wife, Osa, will come to Oakland November 6 to display IT IN at lweittn and Harrison streets. The youth suffered a bruised leg.

Phil Hauer. 832 East Twentv- eighth street, witness of the acci With two of the bridegroom's great grandchildren in the role of flower girls, Oscar Griswold, 88-year-old Hanford banker, was married in Richmond last night. His bride was Mrs. Florence E. Dutton, 48, apartment house manager of 268 First street, Oakland.

Only members of the couple's family were present as Rev. Primus Bennett of Richmond's First Christian Church performed the simple ceremony. The wedding occurred at the home of Griswold's granddaughter, Mrs. E. W.

Wiles, 709 Thirty-eight street. Besides three other grandchildren and the flower girls, Wilda and Gertrude Griswold, two of Griswold's sons, E. O. and A. E.

Griswold of Hanford, were witnesses. The sons withdrew their opposition to their father's marriage last week, after having threatened court action to prevent the wedding. The couple went to Merced to start their honeymoon. MOTORIST HELD dent, told police the driver of the machine failed to make a boulevard stop before striking the boy. He furnished police with the license number of the machine.

meir latest rum story of their two- year jaunt through equatorial Noisy Trucks Arouse Citizens of Richmond RICHMOND, Oct. 27. The noise of oil trucks starting at early morning hours is disturbing the peace of the residents near Solano and Wilson avenues, according to a protest filed with the Richmond city council last night asking that the nuisance be abated. Several large oil trucks and trailers made a vacant lot in the vicinity their base of operations. The protest was referred to the city manager and city engineer for investigation and a report next week.

Jixrica. or Clarence M. Prank. 647 Ramsell SHn a son. GK1X In thi.s city.

Oct. 20. to the wife of Arthur V. Grlx, 2075 El Monte, a ciMUKhter. LARKET-In this city.

Oct. 21 the. wife of John P. Larkey, 1438 Hopkins a son. LK VINSON In this city.

Oct. 38. to the. wife of Morris Levinson, 4231 Montgom. ery a son, RATHJEN In this city, Oct.

21. to the wife of Kdwin C. Rathjen. 1757 Twenty. sixth av.

a dHughter. SEVERE In this city. Oct. 20, to th wife of Troyee M. Severe, 4001 Lincoln av.

a son. SHUTTLE WORTH In thia city, Oct. 22. to the wife of Dell Kenneth Shuttle-worth. 4008 Quigrley a daughter.

AMES Tn this city. Oct. 25, to the wife of William B. Ames. 4067 Whittle a daughter.

FONG In this city, Oct. 21, to the wife of Tow Doo Kons. 623 Alice a daughter. GARNETT In this city. Oct.

21. to the wife of James C. Garnett. 1035 East Twenty-fourth a daug-hter. KNOWLDEN In thia city.

Oct. 20, to the wife of Carl D. Knowlden, 1001 Eighteenth a daughter. MIL1NA In this city. Ort.

22, to the wife of Gajo. Mllina. 1326 Twelfth a son. WEGESPER In this city. Oct.

in. to the w-lfe of Nick J. Wegesser, 11100 Market a daughter. ZJTTLEMAN In this city. Oct 22.

to the wife of Edwin S. Zittleman. 2851 Par- ker a daughter. after Brother Felan. F.

S. mod erator of the school, it was an Oakland Gains Mentally, Census Bulletin Reveals nounced yesterday. Following the custom of their "big brothers' at St. Mary's Colleee. who named their gridiron after Brother Agnon, E.

E. Franzen, 50, motorman on the East Bay Street Railway's Hayward line, was critically injured by a motor truck in Hayward last night. As a result of the accident, James Willison, Hayward rancher and former Chamber of Commerce president, was arrested and ordered to appear in court today. Franzen, whose home is at 1801 Vicksburg avenue, Oakland, was getting back into the street car after changing trolleys at the end of the line in East Fourteenth street, Hayward. He was operating a one-man car.

F. S. the St. Mary's High students will name the field with a student fracas and ceremonv next -f race, citizenship, school attenrinno Oakland is becoming brighter, mentally. month.

Brother Felan has been illiteracy, marital condition, occupation and nativity of foreigners. Wholesale and retail business oc CHECK iTIS moderator of athletics at SL Marv's IS High for the past ten years. cupies more people of Oakland than Only one-half of one per cent of the city's population is illiterate, according to a census bulletin just received at the Oakland Public Library. Sixty per cent of the residents of the city, over 15 years of age, are married. Ninetv-seven npr any other classification, with WORK SOUGHT FOR TAXPAYERS FLEECE STORES FX WfcNTCOAKT THKAi INKS R.

0. T. C. Units Combed for A rm istice Day Band A rtists cent of the children between the Willison, driving the truck, struck him, according to police. P.

E. Anderson, operating an Oakland-San Jose stage, saw the accident, fol B4. Professions number 9,695. Others are: Building trades, railroads, domestic service, iron and steel, hotels, lodgings, real estate, insurance, transportation, public service, automobile trade, miscellaneous manufacturing, 5,630. ages of 7 and 15 are in school.

One-third of the forcizn-born residents came from the United Kingdom. The bulletin gives statistics for all of California relative to sex, Bands from R. O. T. C.

units--street for school children to wit- The Alameda County Board ol Supervisors was asked yesterday by the Consolidated and Federatedjm-provement Clubs of Alameda county to provide work for needy home throughout the Oakland school system will contribute selected mem lowed Willison for two blocks, and there stopped him, later surrendering him to Officer Tony Enos of the State Highway Patrol. Willison explained that he did not know he had hit anyone. Police Judge Jacob Harder of Hayward released him, with orders to reappear this morning. Franzen was taken to the Hayward Hospital, his skull fractured, according to physicians. Hnrry Ends Today GRETA GARBO CLARK GABLE In "SrSAX LESOX Her Fall and Rise" Fanchon Marco I tie HERMIE KING owners to enable them to pay the i st Til nY coming county taxes.

Frank Sullifan, president of the FULTON THEATRE Phone HOlliday 4300 Nov. 2, 3, "4, 5 consolidated organizations, urged Tomorrow 'THE CISCO KID" with SYLVIA Collier Jr. and Uslelle Taylor Matinees Wed. Thurs. Oakland police are warning grocers to scan any checks presented by a man "who just moved into an apartment across the street," as the result of numerous bad check complaints, Captain of Inspectors B.

A. Wallman announced yesterday. The first complaints were received from Mrs. Ella Roberts, apartment house manager, 1233 East Eighteenth street, who reported that the man selected an apartment, carried on a telephone conversation with his supposed wife, directing her to pack up as he had found just the place they were looking for. He gave her a check for $23.50, which later proved spurious.

Two other checks, cashed by Mrs. S. L. Wolgast, proprietor of a store at 2645 Fourteenth avenue, and by a chain store at 3438 Fruitvale avenue, were turned over the police. Police Inspectors Jules Sternitzky and John Gannaw, who investigated the case, declared that the same pair had operated in Oakland last March.

The man is described as 35 years old, five feet, nine inches tall, and slender build. Greater ness the parade. No adults will be permitted to this space -except as companions of children. In addition to the R. O.

T. C. regiment the schools will be represented in the parade by 1,500 boy members of the Junior Traffic Reserve, Colonel Mader announced. 6,000 WILL MARCH. These, with soldiers, sailors and national guardsmen, will make a total of 6,000 troops in the parade.

AH will be guests of the city at a barbecue lunch following the parade and will go to the California Memorial Stadium to participate in the military pageant held in connection with the annual Army-Navy football game. Veterans of the American and Allied armies and various fraternal orders to the number of 7,000 also will take part in the parade and ceremonies. They will be represented in the massing of the colors between halve cf th football gam. Sweeping Football Romance -defeated to Knute Rockne THAN EVER bers to a sixtyipiece band which will head the R. O.

T. C. regiment during the Armistice Day parade, it was announced today by Colonel C. P. Mader, chairman of the committee on arrangements.

The regiment, recruited from the high schools of Oakland and San Leandro, will number 1,400 men. Other participation of the schools in the Armistice Day celebration includes features of American Education Week, the week of November 11. OPEN HOUSE WEEK. All schools will hold open house all week and special features have been arranged under the direction of the National Education Association. Colonel A.

C. Dunaway of the American Legion is liaison officer between the schools and the Armistice Day committee. At his request space will be reserved on both sides of Grand avenue from Broadway to Harrison STARTS 4 the Supervisors to pass the following resolution: "Be It Resolved, that the Board of Supervisors, Alameda County, State of California, at this meeting appoint a committee to arrange and collect data that will help the Board at their next meeting to decide on some definite action whereby Raid Board can appropriate or provide work for the home owners of Alameda County that are present unemployed; and "Be It Further Resolved, that by receiving such work they would be able to pay the coming county tax as well as provide fond for themselves and family the coming winter." Last Times Today "The Spider" with EDMOND I OWE LOIS MORAN HADJI ALI Tne Human Volrane la Merrymakers Kerne Tomorrow The New Advrnntrr. of ort RICH OI-ICK BERNARD SHAW'S Amazing Comedy "The APPLE CART" By arrangement with New York Theater Guild A National Road Show Attraction Prices: Nights $2.30, $2.00, $1.50, $1.00, 50c. Matinees $1.50, $1.

75c, 50c BOX oifki; son or EX RKO VAUDEVILLE Anatol FraxiUnd'i "AFFAIRS OF 1932" Olhr Acu I THE ROAD TO. SINGAPORE ki i tl Ty rnanmn rnarsniorts rs.enyo WALLINGFORD" i.

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