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PAGE DEDICATION OF ALTAMONT PASS VIADUCT SUNDAY Policy of Administration On Highway Development May Be Disclosed. Addresses on highway and Intercommunity development will be made Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the dedication of the new Altamont Pass viaduct on the main Oakland-Stockton highway. Chairman. Harvey M. Toy of the Call- will fornia Highway Commission be the principal speaker and the announcement of his address indicates that he will employ the occasion to make Important disclosures concerning the administration' a highway development policy.

Governor Friend W. Richardson will be present at the dedication and his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Paul Richardson, will break a bottle of old wine over the parapet wall and christen the structure. The occasion will ba under the auspices of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, members of which body will take part. Other bodies participating include the Oakland Chamber of Commerce, the Stockton Chamber of Commerce, the Alameda County Auto association, the San Frandisco Auto Dealers' association, and organizations from towns along the highway.

The Oakland chamber has extended an invitation to the other Bay Cities chambers to attend and announcement of the event has been sent to all the members of the organizations participating. The viaduct, which was built for the jolnt account of Alameda coun-1 ty and the Southern Pacific by the Standard Industrial Engineering corporation, was given final inspection by County Engineer George Posey and Supervisors J. F. Mul lina and T. E.

Knox this week. They pronounced it complete in every detall and ready for traftic. The viaduct is 537 feet in length and declared by engineers to be one of the most graceful highway units in the entire country. It is built ion a reverse six per cent curve, followed by a short tangent and plain curve, and the road floor supported by a series of beautiful arches. superimposed on high columns.

FRIDAY EVENING Oakland or Gribune Combined ire News Service of all papers. Associated Press, United FEBRUARY 23, 1923 Press, International News, Universal News and Consolidated Press. She's "Ferry" Godmother TI MISS MARGUERITE STOAKES, who will act as sponsor of the ferryboat San Leandro, to be launched Saturday, March 3. Money Back Smith SPECIAL VALUES IN MEN'S AND YOUNG MEN'S SUITS AND OVERCOATS 'AT 23 I ALL FRESH. NEW IN STYLE MENTS SELECTED FROM REGULAR LINES AND REDUCED SUITS IN YOUNG FELLOWS ONE AND TWO BUTTON SINGLE AND DOUBLE-BREASTED AND "SPORT" MODELS- -IN NEAT WORS TEDS, CASHMERES AND TWEEDSAND MEN'S STAPLE WORSTEDS OVERCOATS IN RAGLAN BELTED AND KIMONA STYLES SLEEVES OTHER.

SPECIALS AT $29 AND $33 -BOYS' SHOP NEWSJust Arrived! NEW SPRING LIGHT TWEED SPORT MODELS IN BOYS' KNICKER PANTS 12 1.50 AT Money Back STREETS S. H. Stamps th All Purchases SAN LEANDRANS CHOOSE SPONSOR FOR FERRYBOAT Party of Offiicals to Visit San Pedro for Launching of Craft. SAN LEANDRO, Feb. 23.

-Community interest here is centering on arrangements for a representative delegation, to be composed of city. officials and local business men, to accompany Miss Marguerite Stoakes to the launching of the ferryboat San Leandro, to be held at San Pedro on March 8. Miss Stoakes, will act as sponsor of the crashing a bottle of wine against the bow as it takes to the water. It is virtually assured that offcials of the Fageol Motor Company, located near here, will donate large bus to convey the delegation to the south. The bus capable of containing nearly thirty persons is expected to be filled to capacity.

Already several officials have signified intention of attending the affair, namely, Judge W. J. Gannon, justice of the peace and presIdent of the Chamber of Commerce: Mrs. Susie Dalziel, member of the board of trustees; J. F.

Peralta, city marshal; Mayor Allen E. Pelton: Farley B. Granger, board member and secretary to the chamber. Banners calling attention to the visitation will be placed prominently on the conveyance, it is decided. while arrangements are being made.

for a several piece stringed orchestra to accompany the party. According to arrangements made at the meeting of the chamber and members of the board of trustees, at which Miss Stoakes was selected, Jointly costs by of the the trip business men's orwill be borne ganization and the city. will have Miss Stoakes and her mother all expenses paid. Further arrangements will be made at meeting early next week. The San Leandro will be a sister ship of the ferry Hayward, recently launohed at San Pedro, and scheduled to go into service early next month.

Each ferry will have capacity of 3000 passengers. It is said they will be the speediest ferries on the bay. Oakland Shriners Will Go to Truckee Several Oakland Shriners, members of Aahmes Temple, accompanted by their wives, will leave here at 6:20 tonight over the Southern Pacific, for Truckee for a week-end of winter sports. There will be twenty members in the party, in charge of H. R.

Greenrose, city passenger agent of the Southern Pacific, in Oakland. The party will include Past Potentate T. W. Norris, wife and daughter; H. Kopperud and wife: Ben Kopf and wife; F.

W. Laufer and wife: E. W. Martin and wife; Lew Crellin and wife: W. Beck and wife; Romaine Myers and wife.

They will leave Truckee Sunday night at 9155 and arrive in Oakland at 7:10 o'clock Monday morning. WASHINGTON NOTES WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. The naval scrapping program under the Washington treaty will entail a direct. cost to the government of about $55,000,000, according to a report by the house appropriations committee, explaining an item $20,950,000.

in the deficiency propriation bill to reimburse contractors and ordnance manufacturers who suffered when shipbuilding was stopped by the arms conference treaty. An ultimate saving of from $240.000,000 to $250.000,000 was seen by the committee in the abandonment of eleven vessels under construction. The proposal recently placed before congress for an investigation of the rubber producing possibilities of American overseas terri: tories was discissed at length at today's cabinet meeting, but it was sal dafterward that no 'decisions had been reached. Secretary Wallace is understood to have suggested that experiments be made to test whether rubber can be produced in the southern states also be authorized. Senator Robert M.

Lafollette 1s opposed to the abolition of the Wisconsin national guard, he said today. In a statement today, he declares that he "agreed with Governor Blain that such a policy would be unwise." Hundreds of thousands of farmers have failed because of their Inability obtain intermediate credits, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace today declared in a letter to Representative Anderson of Minnesota. By intermediate credita, the secretary said he meant loans between short terms and long terms and long term mortgage variety. Wallace strongly Indorsed the Lenroot-Anderson farm credits bill as this deficiency, stating favored it in prefproviding, erence to. the measure of Senator Capper, To speed up the government's investigation and prosecution of war frauds, Attorney-General Daugherty and Secretary of War Weeks have given authority for a thorough checkup of all pending cases, it was announced today.

ARBUCKLE WOMAN BURIED. ARBUCKLE, Feb. services were held this week from the College City Christian church for Mrs. Julia Lee Byers, wife of J. H.

Byers of Arbuckle, who died Monday night her home at the age of 44 years. She is survived by her husband and Beryl Byers, and two and one brothers' sister. Interment was made in the College City cemetery. JOYNER ANTISEPTIC HEALING CATARRH REMEDY A spray. $1 for 3 months treatment Recommended and sold be Rene Aak fee list of JOYNER REMEDIES.

Three Streets Are Renamed to Honor Heroes Two Oakland Men and One Woman Remembered by Council. Streets, lately renamed by city ordinances, will bear the names of heroes and heroines from Oakland in the great war, according to announcement by Commissioner W. J. Baccus. One ordinance changing names was passed to print today.

Others were passed recently. Concerning some of names, street department circular says: Hill Lane, one block north of Grand avenue from Euclid avenue easterly, is changed ot Burk street, in memory of Miss Ethel Burk, a Red Cross nurse, who was stationed at Camp Fremont, She died October 18, 1918, being one of the victims of the "fu." Miss Burk was the daughter of E. M. Burk of Foley Burk Amusement Co. Her parents reside at 1564 Vista street, Oakland.

Kanning street, east of High street, is in changed memory to of Masterson Sergeant Barton W. Masterson, son of William Masterson, City Wharfinger. Sergeant Masterson was formerly cashier in the County Tax Collector's office. He resigned his position and enlisted for service October 1, 1917. He was killed in action August 4, 1918, at St.

Ghibaut, France. was sergeant of Company 39th Infantry, Fourth Division. Under Ordinance No. 2480 N. passed October 25, 1922, naming and re-naming streets, street in the Fruit ale Acres Tract was named Rettig avenue in memory of Corporal Arthur W.

Rettig, a former city fireman. He was corporal of Company M. 26th Infantry, First Division. He was killed in action July 18, 1918, in the Battle of Soissons. WOMAN FOUND FROZEN CINCINNATI, Feb.

bors, on entering a 'cottage at Dayton, Kentucky, found Mrs. Mary L. Mansfield, 67, half famished and helpless, lying in bed beside the frozen body dead sitter, Mrs. Margaret Lanham, 75. King William XVI (1830-1837) entered the English navy as a midshipman, and eventually became a captain.

Valentino Quits Job in Pay Row Despite Crowds CHICAGO, Feb. Rudolph Valentino, "shelk of the movies," lost his job here today despite the adoration of flocks of Shebas. Valentino has been packing 'em in at the Trianon with a dancing act for the past week. Hundreds of flappers were ed away and Valentino before Andrew Karzas, appeared. and demanded that his salary be doubled.

"They're crazy about me," Valentino told Karzas. "The girls are coming from all over the city to see me. Somebody has got to pay for Karzas thought differently. "He filled the place with flappers," he said. "I gave him all the proceeds.

When he asked for more we called it quits." The next public appearance of Valentino is now scheduled as his second marriage to Winifred Hudnut, his dancing partner, here on March 5. BILL WOULD GUT ARROYO HOSPITAL FUND, WARNING Director of State Bureau of Tuberculosis Writes the County Supervisors, Warning that a bill Is to be introduced in the legislature which would deprive the Arroyo Sanitarium at Livermore of its usual appropriation from the State, Mrs. Edythe Tate Thompson, director of the state bureau of tuberculosis, has directed a letter to the Alameda County Board of Supervisore, which was received today. asks that the Board of Supervisors lend Its help and co-operation in blocking the proposed bill. The letter follows: "It is rumored at Sacramento; since our first letter notifying you of the subsidy allowance in the Board of Control plans to Introbudget, a was written, that the duce a bill which will cause all contingent and surplus funds to revert to the general fund of the state with close of the fiscal.

year on June 30, 1923. "If this done and the bill passes it would then mean that instead of the bureau being allowed to pay the subsidy to the counties out of its special fund which it has had on hand, that the $140,000 which has been allowed for the next two years would not, pay the subsidy for even six months. "This office has not been notified officially that the bill is to be introduced, but we understand from authority that such is the case. "Should the money that the Pureau, general now has fund on hand, re revert county to would not receive any money for the next two years, excepting as we would have to pro rate the $140,000 over the 2000 beds that we have. "In view of the fact that you have been drawing from the state about $16,949.53 every six months, your county stands to lose considerable money, and may we suggest that you immediately see your senator and assemblyman and urge them to vote against any such measure, would mean a loss of thousands of dollars to practically hospital in California.

"Such a bill as this would cripple the work of many of partments in the state who operate under separate appropriations. Your immediate help and COoperation in this will be greatly appreciated." New Congregation To Hold Services SAN LEANDRO, Feb. service at the newly organized -Congregational church in Broadmoor, this city, will take place tonight in the improvised church tent, located at the intersection of Dutton avenue and Dowling boulevard. Dr. Herman F.

Schwartz, president Pacific School of Religion, at Berkeley, will conduct the service. Pastors and delegations from Congregational churches throughout the bay region will be present. The service the formal recognition of the institution here, after which it will receive official recognition. Value of Canada's field crops for 1922 is estimated at 563, Sherman, clay Co. May Peterson appears at Oakland Auditorium Monday evening, February 26th.

May Peterson, Soprano uses the Steinway This gifted artist chooses the STEINWAY for its grandeur on theconcert as you will some day choose it for its glory in the home. Concert tickets on sale here Sherman, Clay Co. Fourteenth and Clay Oakland. Kearny and Sutter San Francisco, Sugar Soars Again; 10-Cent Price Sighted New Advance Marks Rise of 35 Cents a Hundred Wholesale. The Sweet Tooth and the Flat Pocketbook cemented their friendship more closely today with the announcement that sugar is now $9.40 a hundred pounds, wholesale.

This figure was quoted in the Western Sugar Refinery, Thee California and Hawaiian Sugar Refining cor poration scaled a rate of $9.30.4 Both announce that they are "out of the market" at the present time. The present price marks a raise of 35 cents a hundred since Wednesday and a raise of $2.40 since January 22. New York despatches state that sugar 1s now the highest it has been since 1920. Cuban raw sold in New York at cents a pound and refined granulated at 9 cents. It was stated here today that price of 10 cents a pound probably would be reached.

S. F. Seeking Lease For New Golf Links SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. -The City of San Francisco and the Spring Valley Water Company today applied to the Railroad Commission for authority for the latter. to lease to the municipality a tract of land, comprising 170 acres near Merced.

The city proposes to develop the property for use as a municipal golf course and payground. In North Dakota there are 1334 farms with pure-bred dairy sires on them, WITNESS ACCUSED OF BATTERY ALIMONY TANGLE L. J. Hufford Is Taken Into Custody on Complaint of C. A.

Broughton. As Louis J. Hufford, a witness In proceedings involving alimony and custody of children between Crescent A. Broughton and his wife, Mrs. Luella Broughton, left the witness stand in Judge Koford's courtroom this morning, he was arrested on a charge of battery preferred by Broughton.

Hufford was named by Broughton as a man whom he found in his home and with whom he battle in an empty lot. Hufford, on taking the stand, declared that his relations with Mrs. Broughton had been merely those of a friend and wellwisher. He admitted having struck Broughton over the head with a monkey-wrench, but declared Mrs. that he Broughton had done from being annoyed by her husband.

Broughton's pleas for the custody. this two children and for denied a reduction of alimony were by Judge Koford, who held that Broughton had failed prove that his wife was not a fit. and proper person to look after children. MARINES VS. STADARD OLD.

VALLEGO, Feb. -The the a day dard Oil Marines afternoon. at basketball the The navy team marines yard will Sun- hold play a victory over the oil aggregation. In Oakland it's the Royal for Shoes: Real Shoes for Men! SHOES and OXFORDS Double for Men and Big Boys in all Leathers Green Now reduced to Stamps $4.85 Saturday and with Every $5.85 Purchase Values up to $10 leather pair $2.65 Men's Work Shoes--Tan calf, Royal Shoe Co. soles, Oakland, 13th and Washington San Francisco, Fresno and Portland, Are You the Woman You Were Meant to Be? Every woman was meant to be healthy, happy, and fill her sphere life to the best of her ability; but, alas, how few have the health or physical endurance to live up to their ideals! Over-ambitious, many of them develop nervousness, irritability, headaches, backaches, irregularities, and often more serious ailments which retard their progress in life.

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