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and and and and THURSDAY EVENING Dakland Tribune. 'AUGUST 20, 1925 15 SCHWARTZ' BODY CREMATED WITH WIDOW PRESENT Cellulose Concern Decides Not to Dispose of Any More Stock. The body' of Charles Henry Walnut Creek insurance slayer: and suicide, was cremated today at the California Crematorium in Piedmont avenue, while the concern he promoted, the Pacific Cellulose company, was preparing to close its affairs. The directors of the company, meeting here last night, decided to withdraw the application made to the state corporation commissioner for permission to sell $49,996 worth of its stock. This application, filed some time ago, came up for hearing in San Francisco yesterday.

E. S. Bell, attorney for Schwartz and for the company, requested a continuance until the directors could decide whether it was desired to sell any more stock. They decided last night they did not, and the corporation was 80 notified today. The cremation of Schwartz took place at 10 o'clock.

Besides Bell there were present Mrs. Alice Edith Schwartz, the widow, accompanied by a woman friend, and H. R. Kleinjung, president of the cellulose concern. Schwartz killed Gilbert W.

Barbe, itinerant worker, set fire to the body at the Walnut Creek cellulose plant on July 30 and disappeared. He ended his own life early Sunday, August 9, as officers broke into place at the Nottingham apartments Fortyfirst street, Oakland. Barbe was buried with military honors several days gall thannational cemetery at the Presidio, 'Frame-up' Charged In Suit for $100,000 Charges that his conviction last February for embezzlement in connection with a real estate deal was "frame up" on the part of prominent Oakla'nders were made a $100,000 damage suit filed in the United States District Court by W. K. Ephriam.

Named as defendants in suit are Earl Warren, district attorney; Superior Judge Fred V. Wood, Police Judge Edward J. Tyrrell, former District Attorney Ezra Decoto, Judge Fred Donahue and Deputy District Attorneys Milton Sevier, E. A. and Harry E.

Styles. Ephriam, who is now in the county jail pending appeal of his case, was convicted on February 26 last of having embezzled $500 from Mrs. Nellie Keach of Oakland through the sale of an apartment. He was sentenced 'to three months tn prison. YEAR'S HUNT JAILS WOMAN.

A search for a woman, who is charged with having robbed Vincisco Azzailli of nearly a year ago, ended last night when Jessie Nell, colored, was arrested at Tenth and Jefferson streets. Azzailli says the woman threw her arms around him on September 1, 1924, and dragged him into an alley at Seventhe and Filbert streets, where she took the money out of his pocket. He had a warrant issued for her arrest and has kept a constant watch for her since, he says. SEE IT! SALE PAGE 9 TODAY MOTHER! Clean Child's Bowels with "California Fig Syrup" Even if cross, feverish, bilious. constipated or full of cold, children love the pleasant taste of "California Fig Syrup." A teaspoonful never fails to clean the liver and bowels.

Ask your druggist for genuine Fig Syrup' which has directions for babies and children of ages printed on Mother You must ret an Oakland Girl Dedicates Life to Indians of Desert Navajo Children Take Kindly to Three Eastbay Teacher Declares. Sheep Raising Is Becoming Profitable Industry Among Arizona Tribes. Social pleasures and the comforts of home have not been sufficient to tempt Miss Alma Demmick away from her life purpose of teaching and ministering to the Indians of Southwest. Turning back upon the luxable uries and conveniences of her owu race, Miss Demmick has cast her lot with the' less enlightened. In lonely spot in the desert of Arizona, sixty miles from a railroad station, Miss Demmick spent the past year, inculcating the Golden Rule and a respect for soap and water in the minds of the rising generation of Navajos.

'The little Redskins take kindly to 'three "R's" and are apt pupils, but they still persist in the rituals of their tribes," said Miss Demmick in reference to her school work. "Since the government allotted tour sheep to each family, sheep raising has become a profitable Industry among the desert dwellers. The scarcity of water is the greatest drawback in the work of modernizing the various tribes. the building of the school and dwellings for teachers and missionaries. the lumber planing and the work of construction was carried on with the aid of Indians as In the olden days of the California missions.

"The Indians in that section live In adobe houses containing only one room as rule. They hang their laundry on a line In the house. Owing to the scarcity of water, bathing is seldom indulged in." "We try to prevent the Indian from going to the ceremonial dances, for that sort of thing is 80 deeply imbedded in them racially that it weakens the white influence." Miss Demmick appeared today before the missionary society of the Fruitvale Presbyterian church. She will return to her missionary work in the Fall. TUBBS CAR TOKEN ND IN SEATTLE A pocket piece, aparently the property of an Eastbay resident, recently found its way into the fare box.

of a Seattle municipal railway street car, and hag aroused much interest among the officials of the company in the northern city, according to word whtch reached Oakland today. The souvenir 1s in the form of a copper token, bearing the date 1871, and issued the Oakland, Brooklyn and Fruitvale Railroad company of this city. It is badly worn, the report says, but still shows the stamp of the old horse car, which in the early days of Oakland, furnished the principal means of transportation. The company which issued the check was known 88 the Tubbs Line. Officials of the Key System today were much interested in the token picked up in Seattle because of a verification in the date of the establishment of the old street car service to East Oakland.

"Records giving much of the early history of the Tubbs line were destroyed by fire years Ben Allen for the company said today. "'And this token fixes the date definitely as 1871. The line ran from Seventh and Broadway north to Twelfth street, thence east to Thirteenth avenue. It was built by General Tubbs to aid guests to get to and from the Tubbs Hotel at Fifth avenue and East Twelfth street and the steam line at Seventh and Broadway. The fare was 10 cents, but three checks were sold for 25 cents.

Harbor Engineer to Talk on Oevelopment Frank G. White, chief engineer of the State Harbor Commission, will address the Oakland Engineers' Luncheon club tomorrow, it wa's announced today by A. Vander Naillen president. White's topic will -be "Harbor Development." Man Badly Hurt in Crash of S. F.

Autos SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. Louis W. Hedge, 3353 Turk street, 7. seriously injured today when the automobile in which he was driving collided with the automobile driven by Leon Fried, 229 Twenty-first avenue. RIFLE RANGE LAID OUT.

Under the direction of Volney D. Cousins, first president of the San Francisco Rifle League, a pistol and rifle range 18 being laid out on the grounds of the East Bay Country club. in Crow Canyon, twenty miles from Oakland. Dr. Joseph Loren Pease is secretary of the committee.

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bought The only harmless way to bleach the skin white is to mix the juice of two lemons with three ounces of Orchard White. which any druggist will supply for few cents. Shake well 1p bottle, and you have a whole quarter pint of the most wonderful skin whitener, softener and beautifier, Massage this sweetly fragrant lemon. bleach into the face, neck, I SPRING VALLEY COMPANY'S TAX CLAIM REJECTED Appeal to Courts in Clash Over $7529 Demand Anticipated. The board of supervisors decided today to reject a claim filed panther for as Spring taxes $7,529.14, Valley on paid water Water to rights com- the during the past three fiscal years.

The claim brings up the same legal question taken before the board of equalization recently by the water company regarding the assessment for the present fiscal year. TECHNICAL QUESTION. The claim was denied by the board of equalization. The assessments were paid by the company for a county tax on water rights in the district near Niles. The company claimed that it should not be taxed in the Niles district but at Sunol, where the division of water takes The placenty maintains that the diversion has nothing to do with the tax.

This contention was recently upheld by the board equalization. It is presumed the water company intends to submit the question to the courts for final decision. SOCIAL AGENT PICKED. Miss Jean Sturges will be appointed Alameda county social agent to succeed the late Mrs. Emma Shertzer, it was decided by the board today on recommendations of the Institutions commission.

Mrs. Minnie Haynes will remain as assistant social agent with a raise in salary from $75 to $125 a month. Miss Sturges will be paid $150 a month. She is a graduate of the University of California and has charity work experience with Oakland; Berkeley and San Francisco organizations. With the intention of creating about 125 additional precincts in the county the board today directed George Posey, county surveyor, to make surveys and precinct maps for.

that purpose. The rapid growth of population in the county is making this necessary. FIVE STATES ARE STORM SWEPT CHICAGO, Aug. cloudbursts, hail and wind, damaging crops, telephone lines and property in Arizona, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and New York's dairy country were the seeming answers to the prayers for rain of the Hopi Indians in their snake dance ceremonial yesterday. Today the hot blasts were moving eastward and moderating.

Heavy downpours, reaching cloudburst proportions In northern Arizona, came almost on the heels of the Hopi snake dance, which ended a nine day religious ceremonial. In the ancient pueblo Walpi, the braves and squaws gathered for the rite, which is one of few which whites are permitted to view. Rattlesnakes, sprinkled with sacred meal, were held in the mouths and wreathed the necks bodies of the Indian dancers during the ceremony. Prayers were bestowed upon them and they were turned loose, to carry the "benedictions" to the "snake mother" and the "spider woman" of the under. world, who is the "weaver of the clouds." Tan Off Quickly Whitens Skin IN 20 MINUTES lar complexion beautifier has created Beauty Tone the sensationally popufurore of enthusiastic approval among fascinating film stars and society women in Hollywood, and througbout America." BECAUSE--It is so simple to useit 18 80 harmless, refreshing and good for the skin--and it 18 50 amazingly swift in producing miraculous plexion BEAUTY TONE the MARVELOUS IN CREME AND COMPLEXION BEAUTIFIER- quickly duces whitens fresh the skin skin and loveliness, beautifies removes tan, the complexion with amazing swiftness.

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Flora Ostreicher, 2008 Eighty-fourth avenue, last night attempted to commit suicide by placing her head across' the rail of the Southern Pacific electric line to San Leandro at the Ninetyeighth avenue crossing. The motorman, of a train saw her in time to stop the train a few feet from her body. She was taken to the Emergency hospital by A. Craig, gateman on the train. The woman was uninjured and was removed to her home by her daughter, Margaret Tunale, who said her mother was suffering from a nervous breakdown.

Barber, Told Heart Is Weak, Ends Life Mark Pickins, 62, a barber, last night ended his life with a bullet through the head in the bathroom of his home at 1908 Castro street. Mrs. Elizabeth Pickins, his wife, told the police he had been depressed for more than week, having recently been told by doctor that he had a weak heart when he applied unsuccessfully for life insurance. Mrs. Picking heard the shot that ended her husband's life and found the bathroom door locked.

With N. L. Sargent's aid she forced her way into the room, but Pickins was dead. Acid Stomach "Phillips Milk of Magnesia" Better than Soda Hereafter, instead of soda take 8 little "Phillips Milk of Magnesia" in water any time for indigestion or sour acid, gassy stomach, and relief will come instantly. For fifty years genuine "Phillips Milk of Magnesia" has been prescribed by physicians because it overcomes three times as much acid in the stomach as a saturated solution of bicarbonate of soda, leaving the stomach sweet and free from all gases, It neutralizes acid fermentations in the bowels and gently purges the souring waste from the system without purging.

Besides, it is more pleasant to take than soda. Insist upon "Phillips." Twenty-five cent bottles, any drug PLEASANT SOAP WASHES AWAY FRECKLES Costs Only 60c, Results Guar anteed in a Few Days Almost any girl would spend many dollars and endure any sort of treatment to be rid of freckles. Bat the best and simplest way is to wash one's face with STIEFEL'S FRECKLE SOAP letting the freckles fade out while you sleep. Guaranteed absolutely to remove the freckles within a week--or your money back. Stiefel's Freckle Soap is not a bleach.

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Ask at such stores as Owl. Drug Sure Relief FOR INDIGESTION INDIGESTION 25 CENTS 6 BELL-ANS Hot water Sure Relief DELL-ANS Howard's Buttermilk Cream Best for Freckles, Sunburn and Tan Old -Time Recipe of Buttermilk Cream in a New Way--A Gentle Massage With Fingers Before Retiring Is All That Is Necessary. The old-time application of termilk and Cream to whiten and preserve the skin and remove harsh little wrinkles and ugly sallowness is grandmother's recipe and women throughout the country are again using it to ensure a beautiful complexion and snow -white hands and arms. Buttermilk, however, is not always obtainable, but specialist has at last perfected a method of concentrating buttermilk and combinine. It with perfect cream, which you can buy in small quantition ready to use 'at any firstdrug store by simply asking "Howard's Buttermilk secret about Foothill Club Asks Cut in Key Fare The Foothill Improvement club has petitioned the state railroad commission, the city council of duce the passenger fare to San Francisco to patrons of the line between Forty-first' avenue Oakland and the Key System to re- the Key System charges an extra resolution says.

Three of the big steam-driven plants operated by the P. G. and E. in Oakland, Sacramento and San Francisco. Continuous Power Delivery steam-driven electric plants with generatFOUR capacity 190,349 horsepower, reinforcing 28 hydro-electric plants of 534,239 horsepower -all, operated by this company--and interconnected by power lines, combine to form a highly effective system for the production and distribution of electric energy throughout the territory served.

The interconnection is so reliable that should a power line or plant-in any part of the system -fail, the others would continue to supply the demand. Whatever your power problems may be our industrial engineers can help you--and their services are yours, without charge or obligation. PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY and PACIFIC SERVICE 115-836 and Leona Heights from 24 cents to 18 cents. In a resolution adopted by the organization it is pointed out that cents to patrons on the line when these passengers are going to San Francisco. This is contrary to the practice on other lines in Oakland and on lines in Albany and Berkeley, the MISS 'ALMA DEMMICK, who has given up the comforts of civilization to teach the Indian desert dwellers of Arizona.

NAVY POLE FLIERS ORDERED TO MAP SUB- ARCTIC AREA WASHINGTON, Aug. retary of the Navy Wilbur today radioed Lieutenant Commander Byrd with the MacMillan expedition in Northern Greenland to withdraw southward and proceed with secondary explorations in Baffinland. Wilbur, sent this order after a despatch had been received from Byrd stating that the planned polar seas flights could not be carried out if the weather remained good and urging that the northern airmen he permitted to "fight hard as long as it is possible to accomplish our mission." Funeral Tomorrow For Long Resident Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow for Mrs. C. H.

Nelson, who died yesterday at her home, 1038 Fifty-ninth street. Mrs. Nelson was the mother of Myron F. Nelson, a member of The TRIBUNE art staff. She was a native of Danville, and was 66 years old.

Her father came across the plains and settled in Contra Costa county. Mrs. Nelson made her home in Oakland 30 years. is survived by husband, Charles H. toer Nelson, two sons, Floyd O.

Nelson and Myron F. Nelson, and one daughter, Mrs. Elsie Dolensky, all of Oakland. Mrs. Nelson's birthday came on the day before her death.

Funeral services will be private. Interment will be in Mountain View cemetery. Furrier Indicted As Dope Distributor SAN FRANCISCO, Aug, Max Cohn, a manufacturing furrier of 12. Geary street and also known to the prize ring as Eddie Webber, was arrested today by U. S.

Marshal Fred L. Esola, on two secret indictments, charging violation of the Harrison narcotic act and the sending of drugs through the mails. The arrest of Cohn came after months of work on the part of U. S. postal Inspectors.

The accused masked his trail, operating, It is said, with the aid of coded, telegrams, and receiving the alleged orders for narcotics at clubs' of which he was a member. None of incriminating mail went to his office or his home on San Bruno avenue. According to the officer, Cohn operated on a large scale as a wholesale distributor of dope. Darrow Postpones Decision on Debate GREELEY, Aug. that he has eccepted challenge to debate the question of evolution with Rev.

John Roach Stratton In in Chicago was made here today by Clarence S. Darrow, defense counsel at the Scopes trial in Tennessee. "I will not make a definite decision in the matter until after I return to Chicago," Darrow said, but declared that "since Thave received an actual challenge the matter I will take the matter under advisement." Dawes Unable to Make Oakland Visit Vice-President Charles G. Dawes will not be able to visit Oakland in the near future. This information received today by Davie was, telegram to from Dawes, replyto the mayor's invitation to visit this city in case the vicepresident takes a trip to the Pacific coast in September or October.

The Dawes reply said: "The invitation extended me by the city of Oakland is greatly appreciated, but prior commitments will, not permit me to accept, much as I would like to do so." Improvement of Four Streets Is Ordered Street matters occupied the city council today, and various minor protests were overruled. The counoil ordered the improvement of Penniman: avenue, portion of Courtland: avenue, Plymouth street And Midrala avenue. The matter at the Improvement of was laid over two PUILDING For Permanence Every home or building constructed should be built on a quality basis. It should be put up to endure -from the foundation to the peak of the roof. To build this way requires experts--and here is a tip on where to find these experts- see BUILDING TRADES in the Classified Section of your Tribune tonight.

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