Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 32

Combined Wire JNw Service. Associated Press, J. United Pre.s, and Consolidated Press PAGE 32 WEDNESDAY JANUARY 6, 1926 Oil Man Robbed as Muses SPEED ASKED Love of Out-of-Doors His OAKLANDERIN P. INDICTED LOG CABIN IN HILLS MADE ART STUDIO Recognizes Hold-up, Bat Opens Cash Drawer Station Raider Flees in Auto Interior of cabin on heights back of Oakland where Thomas Hal Boyd, former University of California man and forest ranger, satisfies his ambition to be an artist. Inset is of Boyd.

The artist built his log cabin home, which attracts the attention of tourists motcdngover' Mountain Boulevard, near' Joaquin Miller's old home. 01 OAKLAND HARBOR PLAN register under orders from his IjMUHiiiiiMiMia ii iim.ui iiwmiBuiminnunmii yjiuMMi mww.it. ,..) uum n-i 5s fT? Emerging from several Investigations in Oakland of his stock manipulations, George Graham Rice, involved In the Broken Hilla and Bingham Galena transactions in which Oakland Investors lost thousands dollars, has been by a federal grand jury in New York for conspiracy to defraud. He was released in $7600 ball and given two weeks in which to enter his plea. Rice was haled before the Oakland police court in.

1922 upon a complaint of J. H. Harrison of the California Cotton Mills in connection with the sale of mining stock to the mill employees, it was charged that Rice induced employees of the mill to Invest in stock of the Bingham Galena mine of Utah on prospect that they would recoup losses in the Broken Hills mining venture of Nevada. The case was dropped, however, when Harrison announced that he had acted merely to protect the mill employees and did not wish to prosecute a trial. Tho New York Indictment charges Rice with having misused the malls in connection with the sale of securities of the Fortuna Consolidated Gold Mine company.

Named with him in the indictment were John Hogan, Lewis W. Alexander, Moe Herman, David Lyons and Howard Winder. "Who has one for sale? See classified "For Sale" advts. BERKELEY. Jan.

6. An hour after he had been furnished with a description of a hold-up man who has been robbing gasoline stations In the Eastbay, R. Adams, 1814 Brush street, Oakland, attendant at an Associated Oil' company station at Telegraph avenue and Woolsey street, stopped watering lawri to see the same person standing In front of him. Torn between an impulse to run for aid and a desire to trap the man If possible, Adams hesitated, and then approached the hold-up man. The latter demanded "some oil from that can inside," pointing to a can on a Adams hesitated again, whereupon his visitor shouted: "You're not dumb, are ybu?" As the man's hand moved threateningly toward a bulge in his pocket, Adams opened the cash Oakland be here so that we will be ready to go ahead in case there is to be a bill." Hearings on the Stockton and Sacramento projects will be held by tho rivers and harbors' committee on January 14 and 1G.

ASKS FOIt I.ETTEnS. SALINAS, Jan. 6. Mrs. Marie Nuttall, if siding near here, has petitioned for letters of administration on the estate of her deceased sister, Mrs.

Mary E. Wilkenson. consisting of $1350 In cash and J3500 corporate stock. visitor and the latter scooped up between $25 and S30 in silver and currency. He left a dime on the top of the register, as he whipped out a revolver and warned Adams against calllnff for help until he had escaped in his automobile.

Patrolma nRalph Proctor of the Berkeley police department furnished Adams with a description of the hold-up man barely an hour before the robbery took place, warning him to be on the lookout for the man, who 1b wanted for a Series of Eastbay robberies. Adams told the police that the hold-up man wag left handed and extremely nervous. He was shabbily and between 25 and 30 years old. A detail of police searched the neighborhood for the man, but the latter is declared to have made a quick get-away. Auto, Motorcycle Crash; None Hurt HOLLTSTER.

Jan. 6. An automobile driven by an unidentified Japanese and a. motorcycle ridden by Milton Chick, of Hollister. collided on the San Juan-Hollister road yesterday, both machines be ing wrecked beyond running while both men escaped without injury.

The car and the motorcycle "locked horns" and rolled over together twice. The Japanese assumes blame for the accident. Chick says. m-jZJ tfSr ffiIIO jt i Audubon Society Vill Hold Banquet SARATOGA. Jan.

6. The first annual meeting of the Santa Clara County Audubon socfety will be held at 6:30 o'clock tomorrow eve I -Lj I I I III I 1 I VU would return and do further work on his studio; When the Berkeley fire destroyed the Boyd home in Berke- )ev Hal added to his log cabin, making it a residence to accommo date his mother, father and siier. Boyd's canvases, all landscapes, have attracted favorable attention already, and are expected to meet favorable reception when he holds his first exhibition this fall. He is a brother of Captain Leonard R. Boyd, U.

S. Infantry, cited for bravery in the World war, who was for several years attached to the staff of the department of military science and tactics at the L'ni- verity of California Sunnyvale Masons To Install Officers SUNNYVALE. Jan. 6. Officers of Sunnyvale lodge Free and Accepted Masons, will be installed tonight at a meeting in Pythian Castle hall.

Inspectors C. A. English and T. M. Wright of the fifty-first and fifty-second Masonic districts, will officiate.

Lloyd T. White is the new worshipful master of the Udge: Wilbur Epps is senior warden and Frank Mc-Adams is junior warden. ning in the dining room of the Saratoga inn with a banquet. Follqw-ing the dinner, members will give an informal program, recounting outstanding individual experiences and observations of bird life during the year. The County Audubon society was organized a year ago at a meeting held at the Saratoga inn.

Nature lovers from all pans of the county gathered to further the study and protection of bird life of this section. Mrs. Bertha M. Rice and Roland Rice of Saratoga are leaders in the work of the organization. Pittsburg Business License Fee Raised PITTSBURG, Jan.

6. Business licenses have been raised from to $5. according to the classification, it is announced. Under the new scale, the minimum license fee is $20. Inspiratioh FOUR WOMEN IN SANTA CLARA CO.

ARE MINISTERS SANTA ROSA, Jan. An unusual condition In church affairs was revealed at a meeting of Methodist pastors of the county at Penngrove yesterday when it was disclosed that there ate four women ministers of the gospel in this district. They are Miss Charlotte Hickman, Penngrove: Miss Charlotte Meyers. Windsor: Miss B. B.

Balderee. Occidental, and Miss M. Jones of Forestville. Plans were completed at the conference for a com munity evangelistic meeting to be held in Freestone the last ten days of January at which the Reverends F. A.

Keast of Santa Rosa and, Philips of Sebastopol will conduct the services. Dr. F. C. Tierney Dentist nnnounof (he rrmovnl of office from MI2 Lnkmhnrr Ate.

to Suite and Sin Frdfral phone Oakland 1010. (Formerly In Thayer Bids.) 6700 Congressman Carter Urges War Department Heads Rush Consideration of Appropriation Measure Consressman Albert E. Carter to day made formal request that the war department exercise haste on Ifa review of the ureliminarv re port of Oakland's proposed western waterfront develoDiiient. according to Washington dispatches to The TRIBUNE. TIim inrnl reYirpKpn (at Iva urD-pd General Taylor to finish his diges- lon or tne ursi pian in oraer timi cnnld he referred hack to flip district engineer for additional details.

Congressman Carters request hut union be exnedited Is to nre- vent omisslo of the renort from I hp general survey of congress through delay in having it ready for inclusion in the rivers and harbors bill. "There Is some doubt whether there will be a rivers and harbors bill this year." Congressman Carter said in Washington, after his conference with General Taylor, "but I am anxious that the report on When women their the Sign Independent there ence in Yoll how ence is up to say Then what "different" Berkeleya'n, Whose Love for Outdoors Led Him to Paint -Builds Home Above City Near Joaquin Miller's Hal Boyd loves the outdoors. H. has loved it since, as a youngster, he worked with his lder brother on a homestead in na mountains of Siskiyou. iouna mat ne loved It so greatly he must find some means or expressing his feeling: for it.

So he determined to learn to paint. i That, in brief, is the story of Thomas Hay Boyd, former University of California man, and youthful artist. High above the city, on the Joaqui i Miller road, Boyd lives In log houte of his own makinp. Kmployed by the city as -a forest ranger to watch over the wooded hilla of Sequoia Park, he tramps the trails by day, in correct uniform and with pistol at his side. Always, however, his eyes are drinking In the beauty of nature's etungs.

Meadows, woods and canyons register themselves on his mind, to be interpreted in oils on canvas when Boyd is off dutv. SO.V OF BERKELEY A S. Hal Boyd is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thoma- Parker Boyd of Berkeley.

The father is nationally known as author and lecturer on psychology. Hal's career as an out-of-door man began in 1915 When he Joined his brother Leonard on a northern California home, stead. A year later he served with cua military lorces on ine aiiu in i i i iiir trijieie'l me University of California to become a lieutenant in the States air forces. Again in 1919 he resumed homesteading in Siskiyou. Returning to his home in Berkeley he entered art school in San Francisco, and later studied, at the Arts and Crafts school in Berkeley, working under Martinez and Piaz-lo ni.

"Of course my first attempts were crude, butg radually I began to feel the encouragement that is i xooa to the spirit of the aspiring artist. When I hear that some timber was being cleared in the Joaquin Miller vicinity. visited the place and acquired a qunatity of logs and stumps. Then I found this spot, an ideal place for a studio, and built myseif a cabin." MAKES OWN' PLANS. Boyd was totally inexperienced as a builder, and din ot even work from plans.

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