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The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 3

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an Cxamitirr 3 Tuny, Or.tor.er it CCCC Jan Savitt, Orchestra Leader, i in III PLANE CRASH Dies of Brain Hemorrhage 1 ill Extension of Haight-Masonic Line Studied by Commission Public Hearings Promised on New Trackless-Trolley Operation The Public. Utilities Commis-j concourse at San Francis A it sion yesterday took under ad-lport was denied by the commis- WW Prat DECISION HEAR Stricken En Route To Sacramento (Picture on page 1ft) MIAMI, Oct. 4. -ONSJ ---Twen ty-three passengers and crewmen EXAMINER BUREAU, SAC QUINCY, Oct. 4.

A joint State- county investigation which re sulted in exhumation of three visement a Municipal Railway Tl 1.1 RAMENTO, Oct. 4. A cerebral; hemorrhage suffered as he ap-'j proached Sacramento for a Sat- i urday night barnstorming ap- pea ra rice proved fatal today to i proposal to extend the No. 6 bodies from Quincy cemeteries may be completed within two sion. ERROR CITEO.

The contractor said he had made a mathematical error in weeks. computing his bid, failing to al of a charter airliner which tan out of gas over the Rahama Islands early today arrived in Miami tonight, shaky but uninjured from a hazardous belly landing on a tiny isle. All the passengers were Puerto Ricans, The plane made a perfect wheels-tip landing on the beach af Great Harbor Cay, a small island fifty miles north of Nassau and about thirty miles due east, of Miami. The occupants of the New Eng low for $8,3 74 in paving and roof ing- costs. The firm entered a hid (Haight-Masonic) line when that line is converted to trackless trolley operation.

The Commission announced it would hold public hearings on the matter, should there be any opposition from the residents served by the line. ROUTE CHANGES. The change involves continuing the No. 6 line from the present terminus at Ninth Avenue and of $36,214 for the job. In denying the firm's request and awarding it the contract, the commission overrode the recom orchestra leader Jan Savitt.

Savitt's wife, Barbara, flew to Sacramento yesterday from Los Angeles and was at the musician's bedside when death occurred at 5:50 a. m. Mr. Savitt was stricken as he rode with members of his orchestra in a station wagon. They assumed he had dozed off, but rushed him to a hospital when they were unable to arouse him.

He did not regain consciousness. The orchestra fulfilled its engage mendation of Utilities Manager land Air Express Company plane were flown to Miami by two Coast Guard amphibious craft. District Attorney Frank Mc-Auliffe said today he is still awaiting a report, from Dr. Jesse L. Carr, San Francisco pathologist, before determining specific procedure in the inquiry, in which county authorities were joined by State department, of justice agents and an investigator for the State board of medical examiner.

"I have seen newspaper sc-rounU of Doctor Carr's findings, but I have not yet re-reived his report," McAnliffe said. "When we receive the report, we plan to get together and go over what we have. "After we have summarised It, I believe It should he pre rented to the county grand jury. It's quite possible that the State Investigators may have recommendation to uh- James H. Turner.

Turner suggested awarding the contract to the next lowest bidder, Walnitz and Denard, for $15,995. (Transaction! of board of super' visors on page 12, column 2.) A Coast Guard patrol plane, part of a big air armada searching for the twin-engined DC-3. Pacheco Street to Fourteenth Avenue and Quintara Street. This change, and a more sweeping revision of the No. 7 (Haight-Ocean) bus line were forecast exclusively in the Examiner nearly spotted the missing charter plane three wfieks ago.

The commission has not yet received the railway staff's proposal regarding the No. 7 line. The plan calls for turning No. JAN SAVITT Orchestra Leader Die on a beach at midafternoon. A message scrawled on the sand beside the downed plane said: ''No Hater." Therp were nineteen passengers and four crewmen aboard when the transport went down while ment as scheduled.

Well known as a popular dance band leader, Mr. Savitt won first recognition as a 14 year old violinist with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski. He was the youngest musician to play with a major symphony orchestra. Mr. Savitt came to the United States with his family in 1914.

He was born in Leningrad, Russia, September 4, 1913, son of the leader of Czar Nicholas' Imperial Regiment Band. He won several Sebald Appointed M'Arthur Adviser WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 UNS William J. Sebald, a foreign service officer, today was appointed political adviser to Gen. Douglas MacArthur in Tokio with the rank of Minister.

Sebald has been acting as deputy political adviser to MacArthur since the death of George Atcheson last. fall. music scholarships in high school in Philadelphia, where the Savitts settled. In 1929 he went abroad I mit to the grand jury with re. 7 vehicles off Lincoln Way at Twentieth Avenue to Forty-eighth and Noriega.

The line now runs along Lincoln Way to the beach. en route from Teterboro, N. .1., to Miami and San Juan, Puerto Rico. A wide search for the plane A request by the contracting firm of Elvin C. Stendell for the spec to county hospital administration.

He said the summation conference with State officials probably would precede convening of the grand jury. was launched this morning by for study. In 1931, he organized the Savitt string quartette and won the Philharmonic Society's Gold Medal Award in 1931. withdrawal of its low bid on the Army, Navy and Coast Guard aircraft. construction of a new passenger 1 1 SAN FRANCISCO Union Square OAKLAND Brevity at 20th WMnmmmm STUIKi: VIOIJi.CK-J"' T.ylor, 18.

who w. injured when the mi to which took nonstriking workers to the Standard Oil refinery in Richmond wan forced into a crath by another car, (Story i on pafe 1.) ph iin hv Kan Frmvlwn Kxamlnrr. Two More Polio Deaths, 10 New S.F. Cases Reported so soft, so round where two members of a family contracted the disease, Doctor Geiger said. Meanwhile, the local chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis announced it had received from headquarters $212,441 in.

March of Dimes funds to aid in treating California cases. The sum represented a refund of $57,441 previously placed by California chapters with the foundation as "epidemic aid deposits," and $155,000 advanced by tbe foundation for State polio victims. 'Satira' to Quit 55 so feminine mm mim jf i Two more San Franciscans died pf polio last week and ten others were stricken by the dread disease, Dr. J. C.

Geiger, city health director, announced yesterday. While the number of new cases showed a drop from the previous week's fourteen. Doctor Geiger wa? disturbed by the fact, that the disease was continuing into the autumn. "The figure," he said, "is still significantly abnvp the normal expectation." With both of the city's polio treatment centers full of patients, the need for nurses grew steadily more acute, All nurses not, working, and especially those in retirement, were urged to report to Children's Hospital. The new deths brought to five the local total for the yeai.

This is close to 5 per cent of the total of 102 cases, a percentage described by Doctor Geiger as "significantly higher than normal." In addition, during the same week there was one death among non'ocal rases patient? brought into the city for treatment. In this group 'hp year's total is sixteen deaths out of lf case-. There have beep case? Prison Thursday HAVANA (Cuba), Oct. 4. 'API The Havana Criminal Court, in effect, ruled today that Patricia Satira Schmidt may leave prison Thursday morning.

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