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aMani Combined Telegraphic A'cjpj Service all papers. Full Associated Press, United Press, International Hems and Pacific Service, TUESDAY EVENING JUNE 17, 1919. PAGE 22 i THREE QEEBS IKS IS Oakland Sisters Lose Lives While Enroute to War Front IGI1T HI Teachers' Wage Fight Approved -o Emeryville- Officials Back Move IiiSi (WEEK Mill Pleading that teachers be paHl a much as bakers or milk wagon drivers, Clifford E. IOwell, head of the history department of Berkeley High School, addressed a meeting held last night lathe Albany auditorium. The meeting was arranged br Princi Misses Viola and Ruth Lundholm Buried in England Out of many tragedies and tales of -pathos grown out of the great war, the story of the sacrifice FOR WILSO I CO ID 1 ALIHIIA AS OEM t'cia's gave the campaign for Alameda county teachers for an increase of salary unanimous endorsement last evening.

Mayor W. H. Christie Issued the following statement: "It is one of the Indictments of civilization that the teacher whose office is one of the most responsible In the Republic should be the poorest paid. In the Interest of fair play and justice 1 unqualifiedly endorse the campaign which the teachers are making for a higher wage and 1 believe that the schedule of wages for which they are fighting should be adopted by the Board of Supervisors without an Instant of hesitation." Joining Mayor Christie in this statement were Town Marshal Edward Carey, school trustees R. S.

Hawley, B. W. Alden. K. F.

Seward. Fire Chief a W. Culver and William Siebe of Shell-mound Park. of Miss Ruth Victoria Lundholm With the resignation of Walter i WASHINGTON', June 17 Presi- I rlanf 1 I arm Ymnam laava Io i fnw and Miss Viola Lundholm, sister rrtLHstad. assistant euperintrndpn pal I).

Cagwin of the Cornell School. Albany, as a means of placing before tax payers of the city the need for increased salaries for the educators of their children. Lowell presented figures' showing where teachers were not paid as much as unskilled laborers despite their years of training for their profession. Albany teachers are Joining wjth other educators of the county in demanding that the county supervisors Increase the tax rate to provide for additional funds for the Schools during the coming year as a means of raising salaries. The city of Emeryville through its SAN FRANCISCO, June 17.

Throughout city and the bay region a renewed search waa commenced today for Baroness Mackay, wife of the mayor of Medan, Sumatra, who arrived here March 7 tit streets, before Commib'siorwr Red Cross nurses. come through i Washington June 24 or 25 if the Ger-fhe official records of the American mans sign the peace treaty. Imme-Red Cross. lately after his' arrival in Wanning- r. nf tK n.ircct' the lremient will address from the Dutch Eat Indies and al J.

Baceua takes oftue and fujf nor intimations that a "clean-up of ntl-Baccus men in the city hall inay follow, efforts were redoubled today by the Building Trader Coun training school of the Merritt hos- pital here, where they had lived mnce childhood. JUIss Ruthe en- Congress. After clearing up pressing official business, he will start on his "swing around the circle," early in July. It was at the White House today that the President expected to jolled us a Red Crons nurse and on most immediately disappeared. The aid of the police In the search has been enlisted by the Dutch consul.

Baroness, Mackay Is. known to have had a rich assortment of Jew- cil and the General Contractors' As mayor, school trustees and public of- to keep J. A. Lloyd, chief three weeks On his speaking March 23, 111. was assigned to the Letterm-tn general hospital.

Later she was transferred to the foreign service. Hr sister, Viola, was sent to Camp Cody, New Mexico, imme- with her aboard the Grotlus. CAMP KEARNY. San Diego. June Word was received, here today by local office of the Red Cross that three ships from Vladivostok sailing direct to San Diego, will bring to this camp several thousand wounded Czecho-Slovak soldiers.

At the Red' Cross office, this was taken to refer to a messoge received several days ago to the effect that convalescent Czecho-Slovak soldiers In large numbers would be sent here for recuperation. According to the word sent here, the first ship to leave is the Nanking, formerly the Congress, of the Pacilic Steamship Company, and sold by that company to the China Mail Steamship CompAny. The sailing date of the Nanking was given as June 8 and her capacity patients. The date of the Nanking's reported arrival was set as about July 1. Another ship Is the Archer, with a capacity of 2000 patients.

tour, explaining the jwace treaty and the league of nations covenant. The Itinerary has not been announced. Ullieri N0RTHC0TT1 S' e. Anliatini, in tha armv rni but he expects to visit the principal Later two sister, were de- cltle ov country, tailed oh overseas service aiwl MAY TAIJi I.N HF.IXjII'M, purely by chance sailed on tne same The President has made known a AGAIN IN vessel. While nearing the scene where thev were to serve our soldiers on the battlefield and in the hospitals both were stricken with pneu monia at the time when the inf)u-( SENATORS ASK REASONS FOR HOLDING WRITER WASHINGTON June 17.

The Senate passed unanimously today a resolution sponsored by Senator Borah of Idaho, calling upon the State Department to furnish the Senate with Information as to the reported detention of William T. Ellis, author and correspondent, by the British authorities at Cairo, Egypt. Kills who is a correspondent of the New Tork Herald, recently cabled his paper that he was being detained because he had interviewed Egyptian Nationalist leaders during the recent rioting In Cairo. He accused the United States consular agents Cairo of failing to give him proper yt. etiza epidemic was starting to ravage the country.

Miss Viola Lundholm (lied ten board the vessel on October 11 and her sister. Miss Huth, died six days later at baut hospital No. 33 in London, where she was taken when the transport arrived in port. The two sisters of Oakland who were stricken while on their way to aid in what is perhaps woman's greatest service -In war now find a resting place In the Magdalen Hill cemetery at Winchester, Knglund. desire that his audiences during his tour be composed largely of opponents of the league of nations plan rather than its supporters.

He also has informed lhite House officials that Ire might discuss the- league covenant in public addresses during his visit to Belgium this week. When the President arrives lrr Washington he will present the. revised draft of the peace treaty to the Senate and will discuss the treaty and league covenant in an address to joint session of the Senate and House. COMINO WF.ST NEXT MONTH. SACRAMENT).

June 17. President Wilson-probably will tour the west in July, according to a letter received from Joseph Tumulty, the President's secretary, by H. 8. Mad-dox. secretary of the Chamber of Commerce here.

The letter was made public today. If the President makes a speaking tour In the west, he may stop in Sacramento, Tumulty's letter said. $50,000 Gems Stolen During Bridge Party CHICAGO, June 17. Jewels valued at from to $50,000 were Btolen from the home of Mrs. Nellie Magnus Loeb, daughter of the late Adolphus Busch, while a bridge party was in progress on the veranda of the Loeb home.

The robbers worked so quietly they were not discovered. building inspector, in office next year. Resolutions from the Building Trades Council have been tiled with the city councft and a delegation from the Contractors' Association, headed by former president, William Makin. of that organisation, have Interviewed every' commissioner and tha mayor, urging that Lloyd be left 'in his present place, one of the few Xity offices not undtT civil service. Woyd was one' of the active men in the city hall during the recent campaign.

The day after election it was said about the hall by those who followed the political turn of affairs that Lloyd would be atnong the first to "lose out" This week the Building Trade Council and the contractors, who hold that Lloyd has "made good" as a building inspector, started their Campaign. When Krickst: resigned yesterday, Intimating he was -doing feo to avoid serving under he Nnext administration, or, in'othef words, "beating Bact us to it," the campaign was redoubled. Individual labor unions will tile resolutions urgituj Lloyd's retention this week. iiilrafs FLY iN COURT Dr. Ephrian Northcott, former East Oakland physician, arrested in connection with the death of Inez Reed, Oakland nurse whose body was found In a ravine near San Mateo, is to face another criminal operation charge, It developed today when a new indictment was brought against him by the San Francisco Grand Jury.

Northcott Is aecused4n this bill of the murder of Eleanor Anderson, who died at the Buena Vista hospital in February, following an operation Northcott is said to have performed. Northcott comes to trial In the Reed case Monday, and a number of new witnesses are to be brought forward in the case, according to District Attorney Franklin Swart of San Mateo county. Among the witnesses In the Anderson charge are Dr. John Clark. Miss Eleanor Casey, and Miss M.

Stoppel. nurses; Policewoman which vessel brought her here. Visited on board by the Dutch consul she declined offers of assistance and said she purposed leaving- at once for New York to sail for Holland. The consul left her before the vessel docked, and no word has been heard of her since. It waa learned, however, that she had passed the immigration authorities and been permitted to land.

The baroness Is D6 years feet 3 inches in height and weighs 130 pounds. fche has fair hair and a light complexion. Her brother-in-law at Buffalo, who had' long previously expected her arrival there, became -alarmed two weeks ago when she did not appear and wired the Dutch consul here. After two weeks' search the latter has turned the case over to the police. 13,400 Troops Sail forU S.

on 7 Ships WASHINGTON. June 17. Seven troop ships, bringing home 13,400 Yanks, sailed on June 14, the War Department announced today. They are: The Eelvldere, with 1633. from Plymouth, due at New York June 28.

The Texan, with 2178, from St. Nazalre, for New York. The Dakofan, with 1687, from Bordeaux, due at New York June 24. Santa Teresa, with 1915, from St. Nazalre, due at New York June 25.

The Santa Barbara, with 1578, from St. Nazalre, due atNcw York June 26. The Virginian, with 4136, from St, Nazalre, due at Newport News, June 28. The Lorraine, with 450 casuafci from Marseilles, due at New York June 22. The oil tanker Phoenix with one casual officer and three army field clerks, also sailed from Brest on the same date and Is due at New York June 29.

ALAMEDA FORMER TWEF TAKKS COP'S GUN. June 17. Thieves broke Into the apartment of Tatrolman Frank Andrews and made away with much jewelry. They also Katherlne O'Connor and Frances' Cronln, a nurse, who was also connected with the Reed case. The witnesses named testified before the Grand Jury in San Francisco, with the exception of Mrs.

Cronln. DFFieiAL DIES took the officer's loaded revolver. MISS KITH VICTORY (top and MISS VIOLA LI Canada Labor Unrest Attributed to V. W. TORONTO, June 17.

Documents which are said to prove that the 1. W. W. and the "On Big Union," which has caused much labor unrest In Canada, are the same organization, have been seized In a raid conducted by the Ontario provincial police, it waa learned last night, The city In which the raid was made has not been announced. Sixxttmarih ALAMKDA, June 17.

10. J. Be-van, former Alameda police and fire commissioner and old-time Ala-medan and Calif ornian, died last night after a long period, of 111 health dating from a stroke of apoplexy several months: ago. He recovered temporarily and waa down town a few days before his death. NEEDY FAMLILIES nevan waa norn in airo, uui jime to the Vnlted Utates many Sweaters WIl.l.

8HIF -FISH. PETALUMA, June 17. The Vkiah Fish Hatchery Is planning to ship to various parts of the state, Including the stocking of Mendocino county, some 10,000,000 fish. years ago. He was an oia-tinie Wells-Fargo agent and Ptage agent In the days when California stages were a feature of California life.

He amassed a considerable fortune through successful business -and real estate Investments and left a large eytate. He Is survived by his two Mrs. Charles M. Cad BKKKKLEY, June 17. One hundred seventy Berkeley families were given aid last month by the home service departnuMlt of the Berkeley Red Cross with an expenditure of I5S0.

Ill making her monthly report, Mrs. F. L. chairman of home service activities in Bi rkeley, showed financial aid extended to 125 of the 170 families seeking assistance of various kinds, the other being helped by other means. During the month Just passed Berkeley contributed the sum of 1316.38 man and Mrs.

A. Benton, The latter Is wife of the Alameda park Sport Skirts. Big selection of plaids and plain colors. Box pleated mostly, others tailored in serge and silk poplin, including White Serge Skirts box pleated and playground superintendent. All the wanted colors and white.

SLIP-ONS of Knitted Wool. $1.95 Fibre and Knitted Wool Tuxedo Coat and Belted Sweaters in Fibre Silk and Wool The deceased was a prominent Odd Fellow and the funeral tomorrow ill -tie under the auspices of Columbia' Lodge. I. O. O.

of this city. Bevan was appointed a police and fire commissioner by Mayor Frank Otis during the mayor's tirst as Its Share ot tne expenses or tne Red Cross canteen at the Oakland PORTLAND, June 17. Tllff Bang! A resounding swat echoed down the corridor outside of County Judge Tazwell's courtroom. Little Mrs. May Butzer raised her hand to her burning cheek while her husband.

Henry Butzer. stepped between his wife and Mrs. Helena Spranger, her erstwhile motner-ln- law. Bang! The go-between received it A uppercut slightly below his left County Judge Tazwell suddenly appeared from his courtroom. here, what Is the matter?" he exclaimed.

"She said I was a rotten" mother," walled Mrs. Butzer. "She said I didn't know how to raise my children," roared Mrs. Spranger. "She treated my son shamefully." The trouble had Its Inception about nix months ago when Mrs.

-Spranger started for Honolulu with 6-year-old Adrian. Butts, her granddaughter. She waa Intercepted at California line by Mrs. Butts, who has since been remarried, and was taken back to Oregon, where the child was placed In the rustody of Mrs. Cora Jensen.

Mrs. butzer Is now trytng to regain possession of her child. The court ordered a continuance of the case until the nrrival of the 'father, Adolph Butts, who is now in i the service. mole. Mrs.

Jo S. Mills, the manager Why Buy Your Washer Here? The L. H. Bullock specializes in electric washers with 32 models for your selection. This company knows every electric washer made knows just what one is better suited to your needs than another.

You are invited to ask questions at any time. term. He retired from active business about twenty years ago. He was "0 years of age. Grass Valley Mine Strike Not Settled GRASS VALLEY, June 17.

A reply made by officials of the Empire Mines Company to a demand submitted byworkers now on strike for an lncreajfp in wages gave no promise of an Immediate settlement of the controversy, "representatives of the 5 of the Red Cross shop, turned in a check of $1000 for the month of May as a result of sales. Miss Helen Macdonnld, supervisor of chapter production, announced the shipment of the balance of production work and the closing of the workrooms, for the summer months at least. Mrs. Charles It. Stone, ehalrm) of nursing activities, reported that 'the fcnd Cross public health nurse working with the Berkeley lMspenaary had marie calls during May.

The awarding of 11M first aid and 145 home hypene certificates to student comibating their courses Was announced by Mrs. Stone. workers announced here last night The men are demanding an increase bf fifty cents a day. SCHOOLS CLOSE-FRIDAY KRYPTOKS 1440 San PabloAvenue, Oakland One of the thirty.two models 7. THE BOY WILL NEED Vacation Apparel You can buy ah electric washer on laundry bill terms Are for people who require distance and reading in one pair.

We grind them without cement, seams or bumps. See us about your eyes. "Jn Oakland iCs the ROYAL for SHOES" 'ummmMmMvmMWfo after having a free trial in your own home. L. H.

Bullock Co. Ch as. H.Wood 0fTOtriSr Women's WHITE SHOES Reduced Here's Some Special Values in Togs THAT WILL PROVE ECONOMICAL AND SERVICEABLE. PHONE OAKLAND 6183 1538 BROADWAY Tut Winking Eyxi and Summer scarcely begun I You'll, notice doesn't wait until the season is over to reduce its prices. Right now, while white shoes BLOUSES, $1 "PANTS, $1 KHAR! SPORT KHAKI KJVICKER are seasonable, there are specials of benefit to the customer.

Vacation savings! FOR SALE PERMANENT POSITIONS FOR YOUNG WOMEN PANTS, $2.95 KHAKI HIKING Women's White Reignskin Boots Cenuine white reienkin lace boots the .85 3 Pair kind women like for vacation White military heels; white welted soles; all sizes. Formerly priced $6.50 pair. Now BrfTfllNG ALL SUITS COLORS TO $4.00 SI MMER HEIGHT UNION SUITS $1.00 Women's White Nubiick Lace Boots SLEEVELESS army CO A CORDUROY Knicker Pants $1.50 All Ages Industrial site of four and one-fourth acres with 800. feet of trackage and water frontage. For particulars apply BOX 7152, TRIPUNE.

in a style popular with women and growing Q'C girls. Goodyttr welted white ivory soles; jfg military heels. Sizes 2 to 5 only. Reduced jji" Pair 1 1 a CORDUROY LONG PANTS $4.95 from $7.50. pciung now EXTRA GREEN STAMPS TOMORROW V1TII ALL PURCHASES IF ACCOMPANIED BY T1II3 Attractive positions are now available lift onr Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda 'Operating departments for young women who desire permanent employment Previous experience is not required, as each employee is given a short course of instruction in our training school.

A good salary paid while learning and regular increases tat frequent intervals. Pleasant and healthful surroundings and special provisions for tne coirtfort of employees. Our employment supervisor will gladly furnish any further reformation at her office. Room 120, 333 Grant avenue, San Francisco, The employment office is open from 8:00 a. m.

to 5 :00 p. m. COUPON OOI OXLY FOK WK1N ESDAY, UXE in ci nn or ipfesses a.VU OTer OP 1 50 Pairs Women White Duck Lace Boots reduced from $4 to Q.00 A summer ouling special worth investigating. Fair Beginning Wednesday these shoes for women and girls will be sold at half price. The flat heels and the soles are of welted while rubber: n- Children's White "Mary Janes'', little girls will enthuse over these white canvas "Mary Jane" pumps.

Flexible sewn leather soles. Sizes 5 to pair Sues 8'. to $3.00 pair Sizes llVo to 2 $2.25 pair xr ioM in Th n. e. L.

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