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sl. p-j 5T -Til-' TOME Exchitive Associated Press The Oakland and Vicinity Cloudy tonight and Friday morning, becoming fair during the day Friday liglitiWest- erly winds. WWW xx ervtcs I i i www r- a mm i i "-r "x' VOLUME CII THREE CENTS SUNDAY, TEN CENTS OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1925 JB 44 FACES N0169- II DE LAND ROALD AMUNDSEN RETURNS SAFEL AFTER FOUR WEEKS NAB WOMAN, MAN IN TAK Beaten by Death Senator ROBERT M. La-FOLLETTE. of Wisconsin, died at 1:21 p.

m. today at Washington, as result of siege of bronchial asthma. He was 70 years old last Sunday. DEAL LINKED FLIGHT OVER POLAR REGION 1 CASES TO S. P.

PUN U. S. SENATOR LA FOLLETTE DIES AFTER STRENUOUS BATTLE FORJIS LIFE Stormy Petrel of Politics Succumbs Quietly With Members of Family Gathered at Bedside i-. i m. i.i i Pole Flier Safe ROALD AMUNDSEN, intrepid explorer, who returned today from his flight to North Pole after absence of four weeks.

Local Couple Accused as U. ARCTIC EXPLORER REACHES SPITZBERGEIf AS RESCUE Railroad's Program of Gaining Control of Industrial Area Is Cited in Purchase of Miles of Waterfront S. Uses Income Returns in National Check on Liquor Law Breakers -4 liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil WiplftlllllllllliiilJ Charge Apartment Owner and Wife Failed to File TW Identity of Buyers Is Kept Secret by S. F. Bankers; Opening of Whole District to Development Foreseen CONSCIOUS NEARLY TO LAST Income Schedules for the Last Four Years By Associated Press Leased Wire to The TRIBUNE I.

WASHINGTON, June 18. Senator Robert M. LaFollette, fcr Using the Income tax law to many years a stormy petrel of American politics, died here today Death resulted at 1 p. m. from heart failure induced by a check operations of rum runners, federal officials involved two Oakland citizens in a Volstead Investigation net being thrown out general breakdown and an attack of bronchial aethma.

Companions of Flying Viking Land Safely, According to From Lincoln Ellsworth TRIP EXTREMELY HAZARDOUS The Wisconsin senator and, later, independent presidential throughout the nation. Both Elnar Secrecy today still, enveloped the sale of the Berkeley Waterfront Company's bayshore property to Eastern capitalists. John Spring, principal owner in Berkeley Waterfront Company, refused today to identify the purchasers of the valuable industrial property although Is generally known that the sale has been brought to a conclusion. He said the negotiations had been made with the Central Union bank in New York but would not say for whom the bank had acted. D.

J. Deering, first vice-president of the Wells Fargo bank, San Francisco, who admitted yesterday that his bank had acted for thp New York bank, said his lips were i IPS. Jf A uirrMf Oas, and his wife, Mrs. Farol Oas, residents and owners of the Farol apartments, Grand and Bellevue avenues, are specifically accused of dodging income tax payments totaling more than $100,000, with interest and penalties amounting to nearly $25,000 more. Government officials in revelations made in San Francisco yesterday assert, however, the actions against Mr.

and Mrs. Oas and nine others In the bay region, are the result of an Investigation by Alfred Oftedel, chief agent of the department of justice. The liens were filed by Internal Revenue Collector NEW YORK, June 18. The North American Newspaper Alliance announced today that Raold Amundtfcn, the explorer, has returned to Spitsbergen from his North Pole flight. Bergen S.

Prentice, brother-in-law of Lincoln Ellsworth, co-leader of the expedition, said he had received word that all aix members of the expedition had returned safely to Spitsbergen. The reports of Captain Amundsen's return were received in Copenhagen this afternoon. They were not, however, accompanied by any details. The Amundsen-Ellsworth airplane expedition of two ma still sefcled and he could btIvp no information concerning the GLADIOLUS 'TOO transaction. John P.

McLoughlin. Oftedal's SOUTHERN PACIFIC SEEN AS PRINCIPAL. Investigation has been a check on the Incomes of persons engaged In The transaction was reported to TO SPELL involve the important tidelands MM rum running who have failed to holdings of the Berkeley Water report profits to the government. front Company reaching from the While expressing surprise at the candidate, began failing in health even before the 1924 cam-paign. Several weeks ago he contracted a severe cold which developed into asthma.

His heart, which had been unable to stand the strain, gave way during the night, and he sank rapidly after daylight today. Members of Family Kept Up Their Hopes to Last Although they realized the seriousness of Senator LaFollette's condition, members of his family had hoped until today that he would Last night hie physicians said he was resting, but nevertheless He tools a quick and decided turn for the worse in the night hours and hope was abandoned. Senator LaFollette long was a victim of angina pectoris, a heart ailment, and this, with his asthmatic attack, caused him to suffer greatly from shortness of breath. Violent coughing spells accompanied his illness. Almost to the last, however, he insisted' On cheerful reports being given out as to Ivis illness and it was not Until yesterday that it was admitted that his condiion was serious.

Passes Away Quietly After Stormy Political Career After all the storms of his long Career, he passed away very quietly, surrounded by members of his family. He was conscious almost until, death, but for several hours had been able to speak only in whispers to those about him. Shortly before th eend he mustered all his waning strength in a vain effort to murmur a last word to those at the bedside. Then he lapsed into unconsciousness and, without any evidence of pain, passed almost immediately from life. Mrs.

LaFollette and their1 Wo sons and daughter were close ahout him in the sick room throughout the morning and until death. Senator La FolJette's last clear words voiced his feeling that CONSUL action of the government, Oas ad Key System pier to Richmond. It is regarded as one of the most important deals in the history of the East bay Blnce it is expected to mitted he had failed to file his income tax in 1921 and in 1922. He also admitted his fishing boat had once been involved In a rum Boy Wins U. S.

Spelling Con test When Girl Fails on Word. FLEES CHINESE throw oren the entire western waterfront for industrial and marine development by eastern capital. running tangle at Vancouver, B. C. He declared, however, when the chines hopped off from Kings Bay, Spitzbergen, for its attempted flight to the North Pole on May 21.

Plunge Over Arctic Circle 51 Fraught With Many Hazards The venture was one which caused the world to hold its breath, for the plunge out over the arctic was everywhere one of extreme hazard, but those who knew the North were well acquainted with Amundsen's ability to cope with all difficulties and werf almost to a man confident that he would return safely. With Amundsen observer in the second airplane was Lincoln Ellsworth, aviator, engineer, athlete and explorer of many of the out-of-the-way parts of the western hemisphere. Amundsen and he were the navigators of the expedition, charged with the responsibility of heading it aright on its journey and coordinating its activities. In addition the expedition carried four men, two in each of American consul interfered he sold WASHINGTON. June 18 (A) Local bankers who are prone to the boat, one of the largest fish see the Southern Pacific as the Frank Neuhauser, 11 -year-old school Voy of Louisville, is the principal in the deal cite the railway' moves along the western ing vessels on the Pacific coast, for a small fortune.

He said his failure to file an income tax dur national juvenile spelling champion Two Reds Shot in Chang Camps Shanghai Shops and Mill Wrecked. waterfront in the past three years because' he is able to spell "gladl ing 1921 was because ef a trip to in a campaign of enlarging ter mlnal facilities and intrenchina it crtuB" aftr "Edna "11, of self in strategic situations by the Trenton, N. had spelled it with purchase of real estate on a large Europe with his family, and the 1922 violation because he hadbtlt recently returned to the United States and had made very little money. a Instead of an SHANGHAI. June li.

UP)' A Wireless message from Chung- scale. Young Neuhauser won the title At the time the Key System Kiang says the situation there is last night In the finals of a national Transit Company was preparing to reorganize three years ago it was critical. The British consul was MATTER SETTLED, HE TELLS OFFICERS. contest sponsored by newspapers. The $500 he received, in addition decidede to dispose of its hold forced to leave his consulate and Oas declared today, that with the Ings of tide lands on both sides of to a gold medal, will be used for take up residence in the Ling tern the pier acquired over twenty-five a college education, he said.

About pie. British nationals have been assistance of an Oakland income tax expert, the matter had been settled with the government and years when Frank M. Smith and stoned and assaulted in the streets the late. F. C.

Havens were consol 2,000,000 school children were entered in the competition in sec the penality and taxes paid. He de idating (the streetcar lines on the east side- of the bay and tyintr the planes. They were Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, lieutenant in the Norwegian navy, and an expert airman; Lief Dietrichson, an airplane pilot and ex-naval man of Horten, Norway; Oskar Oindahl, mechanic, Kristianeand, Norway long associated with Amundsen's, exploring work and a former student of aviation Mineola, L. and Carl Feucht of Friedrichshafen, Germany, mechanic and expert on Dornier aircraft. Amundsen Beats Scott to South Pole By Thirty-Six Hours Amundsen has a long and brilliant record as explorer of both nied that he had failed to file a the message says.

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS tional contests. The nine finalists laughed at the them up with a new ferry Bystem return during 1923 and 1924, as LEASED WISE 10 TEIBUNE which developed into the Key charged In the government action easy words pronounced for them during the first half hour of the LONDON, June 18. Two com 'My one contact with the rum System. LAND IS SOLD TO HELP KEY LINE. munists out of a group arrested in running Industry, while in Seattle, spelling bee last night.

At the Hankow and Tien Tsln have been occurred when I chartered my boat he was dying and leaving things undone that he wanted to do. Calling his son Robert to his bedside during his last hours, he said: "I am at peace with all the world, hut there is a lot of work I could still do. I don't krtow how the people will feel toward me but I shall take to the grave my love for them which has sustained me through life." Funeral to Take Place Monday at Madison, Wis. Senator La Follette will be buried Monday in Madison, his home city, after funeral services in the state capitol. Arrangements completed call for departure from Wash end of that time all were taking executed by shooting, according to to rum runners," said Oas.

"The There were about 293 acres in a Central News despatch today boat was loaded in Vancouver and the Key holdings and it was an from its Tien Tsln correspondent. before it was able to sail the Amer nounced by the directors that they They were believed, to be trying the northern and southern polar regions. He was the first man to reach the South at which he planted the Norwegian flag on December 14, 1911, beating the late Captain R. F. Scott, the' had been disposed of to the South' to alienate troop of General ican consul interfered.

I was only interested in the charter and as soon as trouble started, had the em macule Company lor more Chang Tso Lin. British explorer, by 34 days in achieving the discovery. Amundsen remained at the South Pole three days, taking than $1,200,000, the cash going Into the pool to help the reorganization of the San Francisco- Oakland Terminal Railways as the Key SHANGHAI, June 18. UP) boat unloaded and later sold it. Of course, the case reached Washington.

It was printed in the newspapers. That's the only way I can The shipping strike became more the hurdles easily, and then Al-meda Pennington, Houston, fell out on the word "skittish." "Cosmos" proved the undoing of Mary Coddens of South Bend, and Loren Mackey, Oklahoma state champion, failed oa "propeller." Ten-year-old Patrick Kelly, orphan of New Haven, stumbled on "blackguard" and "statistician" baffled Dorothy Kar-rick of Detroit. Then Mary Daniel and Helen Fischer tripped on "valuing" and "moribund," respectively, and the contest had dwindled down to the first and second prize winners. System was then officially named serious today, when coolies and ington tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. The train bearing tne body will reach Chicago Saturday moj-ning.

From there the party will go to Madison, arriving not later than 5:30 Saturday The development of the former lightermen struck at the Pootung account for the rum running angle observations and charting the territory. He returned to hia base shortly afterward and announced his achievement, for Norway acclaimed him a national hero and voted him a life annuity. Emeryville race track into a man wharf. the present action." Ninety former Chinese munici Mrs. Oas declared as far as she utactunng center ana the erection of terminal buildings on it is pal policemen led a huge procea Amundsen started his exploration work back in 1897, joining afternoon.

On request of Governor Blaine, the body will he -in state in the capitol Sunday. Burial will be at Forest Hills cemetery. was concerned her income tax was returned jointly with her husband. sion yesterday, breaking shop win aows mat contained British or Oa, in addition to being an apart Japanese goods. the Cerlach South Polar Expedition, and in 19011 started out on a voyage in the whaling ship Gjoa in an attempt to discover the loner-sou ah Northwest passage.

In this he mcceeded. as hv 1903 There were indications eariy xo due to the Southern Pacific, though ostensibly the work of the Mee Estate, owners of the property and the Shell Mound Park property recently as a pleasure ground and leveled in preparation for the erection of Late yesterday afternoon strik ers set fire to a Japanese-owned MORGAN ment house owner in Oakland was at one time engaged in the fishing industry at Seattle. OTHERS ARE LISTED IN CASE. IP. IS the Gjoa had sailed around the northern end of the North cotton mill, but police extinguished the flames before much damage was done.

American continent from east to west, reaching King Williams factories. Agents of the Mee Estate ex Land, where she remained frozen in for two years. Those involved in the govern- plained that funds for the erection ILL ment action are: ROUS By PERCIVAL FINCH. DUE LOUISVILLE, June 18 UP) Frank Neuhauser, winner at Washington yesterday of the national spelling contest will finish his graded school work next year and will enter high school while still 12 years old. All this despite the fact that he lost a full year of schooling because of a long Illness two years ago.

Young, S. 1145 Grant Speoial by Cablis to Th Oakland TRIBUNE Coast of Victoria Land in 1903 avenue. Taxes alleged to be delin ana tne Cbioago Daily Mewi. SHANGHAI, June 18. The ne quent for 1819 to 1924.

Total. of the terminal buildings were being supplied by Southern Pacific interests, which was another way of saying that the railway was a partner at least in the development of the big property. As matters During this period Amundsen organized a sledging expedi gotiations for a settlement of the- $192,296.64. Penalty, $96,148.32. tion to the magnetic north pole, which accomplished its pur Interest, $12,574.87.

Young Samuel. Taxes alleged to Wife of N.Y. Banker Stricken With Sleeping Sickness; Rests After Operation. pose and charted the coast of Victoria Land. 'fs It was in 1898 with the South Pole and the Magnetic North be delinquent for 1919 to 1924.

Shanghai incident broke down this afternoon owing to the Chinese delegates' desire to extend the discussions to what the foreign diplomatic representatives considered irrelevant subjects. Including the Total. $52,526.60. Penalty. stand the Southern Pacific sidetracks have been built through the old race track track in many directions and it is closed territory to Pole discoveries already to his credit that Amundsen began to 163.30.

interest. $3,363.16. Harvard Sports Star Is Honor Student CAMBRIDGE, June 18. Mayer, (said to be a part make plans for another expedition which would take him day that La Follette was showing Increasing effects of his long fight against the throat and lung attack which In fact dates back to 1923. In that year he contracted a cold while touring in Europe, and upon his return to this country was confined to bed for a long period with a touch of influenza.

During most of the ensuing winter he remained away from the senate and by the time he entered the three-cornered presidential campaign of 1924 apparently had regained much of the physical vigor of his younger days. He plunged into the campaign without stint, making a wide weep around the circle and occupying himself for long hour dally In organization work among hia supporters. AFTER KMCCTION WENT INTO RETIREMENT. After the election in which he saw only hil home state rally to his banner, he again went into semi-retirement. Most of last winter he spent in Florida, resting.

He returned to Washington, however, during the special session of the senate in March, to cast a vote against the confirmation of Charles B. Warren to be attorney-general, apd his health seemed fairly good. lffhe recrudescence of his old III any other transportation system. question of granting the franchise to Chinese in the international ner of Young). Taxes alleged to be delinquent from 1919 to 1924.

Total to the true North Pole and thus give him the distinction of being UP) When Henry T. Dunker of GIVES CONTROL OF WESTERN WATERFRONT. 53,413. il. Penalty, $26,706.70.

Davenport, Iowa. Harvard track The Chinese students yesterday the only man who had stood up on the two ends of the earth. He equipped the steamer Maude with the intention of sail Interest, $3,193 36. The acqusltion of the 1900 acres BY UNITED PHESS LEASED WIRE TO TRIBtWI NEW TORK, June J. P.

Morgan, wife of the noted international banker, is suffering from "sleeping sickness in a very serious form." Official announcement of the Colburn, Robert Palace Hotel. of Spring tidelands from the north team captain, football star and first marshal of the senior class, received his degree "Summa Cum Laude" at the University's com inaugurated picketing of railway stations in Chinese terrirtory in order to prevent food supplies and line of the Key Route basin to Taxes alleged to be delinquent for ing as far north from Nome, Alaska, as the ice would permit, and then drift across the pole with the polar current, but after two the Contra Costa line would give "23. Total. $66,814.71. Penal v.

cargo going to foreigners. mencement exercises today he ended a college athletic career seasons of unfavorable experiences, including an accident to the (Copyright. 1925. TheChlcaa-o Dally Nwa.) Italian Princess Is malady was made at the offices of which has been marked by the highest scholastic distinction. J.

P. Morgan company today Maude, he returned to the Uqited States and began his plans for an airplane flight to thp Pole. Co-operation of Ellsworths His scholastic record, unique in Harvard athletic history, shows Reported Betrothed ROME, June 18. UP) It is re after five specialists called into consultation had issued their first bulletin. that he received but one In his college course.

All of the other Made Last Flight Possible. Mrs. Morgan was taken ill Sun- marks for the four years were A's. ported that the engagement of Princess Mafalda, second daughter of the Italian majesties to Prince Amundsen a efforts to this end did not bear fruit for some He was a letter man in ootball and the Southern Pacific control of the entire western waterfront. Already a great portion of the industrial enterprises of the East-bay are along the Southern Pacific tracks in this region and the development of Its tldeland holdings and further development of the Mee or old race track property would make 1U traffic grip almost unbreakable.

1 Otuside the property which Spring has Just sold are some thousand acres of land, lying' between low tide line and 'ie bulk head line established by the government as boundary for piers. This property In Berkeley alone consists of some 4600 acres, It I day. if was said, Morgan, called back from a $33,407.36. Interest, $5,011.10. Wills, K.

414 Thirty-eighth avenue. Taxes alleged to be delinquent for 1922 to 1924. Total, $18,797.16. Penalty, $8,888.57. Interest, $2,712.45.

Wills. G. 944 Monterey Boulevard. Taxes alleged to be delinquent for 1921 to 1924. Total, $17,219.62.

Penalty, $11,609.81. Ward, J. 743 Fourth avenue, alias J. W.v Ward, 6527 Lemon Grove avenue, Los Angeles. I Taxes alleged to be delinquent for 1922 and 1923.

Total, $275,290.94. Penalty, $137,645.47. Oas, Elmert and Oas, Mrs. Farol, Farol Taxes alleged to be delinquent for 1922 to the shot-put. Philip of Hesse, was announced Dunker will participate In the time, owing to difficulties with hia airplane equipment, but this year he brought his efforts to a focus, obtained the two machines with which he made his flight, had them transported to Spitzen- this afternoon at a garden party aea came upon him, however, weeks ago, and since then he fhaa ben confined to his home.

given by the Italian royal prin Harvard-Yale and Oxford-Cambridge international track meet next month, and return to Har cesses. bergen and, after several weeks of preliminary work, made his keeoihim in bed were for a time unarming, but several days ago he consented to remain as quiet as possible In a determined effort to vard next September as a graduate student in, the law or business school. Italy Prepared to Refund Debt, Report memorable jump off from Kings Bay on May 21. It was the cooperation of. Lincoln Ellsworth and the latter' father, James W.

Ellsworth, one of America's leading coal oper throw off his affliotlon. WASHINGTON. June 18 UP) Ex-Klan Pastor 1K4. Total. 1127.188.89.

Penaltv. Notification of Italy's willingness A touch of asthma increased the (Continued on Page 6, Col. 1 $8365.38. Interest, $13,631.10. ators, that made Amundsen's trip this year a possibility.

The Ellsworths came forward with financial aid which made it possible for the Norwegian explorer to perfect his plans. Talk Starts Riot N. June 18. cruise on his yacht In Long Island Sound, is with. his.

wife at their country home. Mrs. Morgan, who is 60' years of age, maintained an improved condition throughout the day and her physicians consider the situation encouraging, it was announced at the Morgan offices at 8:80 p. A blood transfusion' operation was performed upon Mrs. Morgan during the night, after which surgeons reported her resting more easily.

Weeks to Rest in New England Town BOSTON. June 1 8. -UP) Secretary of War' John W. Weeks, who lias been at the Massachusetts general hospital since an operation for gall stones late in May, today went to West Gloucester where he plans to -stay for several weeks. He was National League, The contribution of the elder Ellsworth was understood to have been $85,000 or about two-thirds of the cost of the 1 .1 1 .1 UP) Guarded by state troops and Keansburg police, the Rev.

George M. Lawson, of Keyport, formerly spiritual adviser of the local Ku R. H. E. tion.

Norwegians maae up tne otner tnira, me government Klux Klan. was escorted from a beach-front auditorium last night Brooklyn 6 10 0 Pittsburgh 2 7 1 and Deberry; Kremer, Morrison, Culldton, and Smith, Gooch, is all thus far under water and the state has cede control of it to the city on condition that it be improved and developed within a reasonable time. Development of this by the municipality is a part of the plans of the present 'Berkeley officials. Rufus P. Jennings obtained a lease of this whole acreage during 1916 for 60 years under condition that called for development with the city a sharer in the profits but because of war conditions' was.

unable to finance the deal and thus forfeited hia lease. Jennlng's plans at the time cont.mplated including the Spring holdings in his terminal After a speech attacking the Scottish University Honors Mayo EDINBURGH, Scotland, June 18 UP) The University of Edinburgh today conferred an honorary degree of dootor of laws upon the American surgeon Dr. Charles H. Mayo, of Rochester, Minn. He and other American and Canadian surgeons' and physicians are visiting here after a tour of Ireland.

Previously they had attended the Interstate post-graduate assembly at to enter upon formal negotiations for the refunding of its war debt to the United States Is understood to have been given to 'Secretary Kellogg today by Ambassador de Martlno, Sacramento Goes on New Air Mail Route WASHINGTON. June 18. OP) tes Moines, Iowa, and Sacramento. California, have been placed on the transcontinental air mail route, eN fectlve July 1. Both eastbound and westbound planes will atop at those, points ta take, on and leave mall.

Norway giving $10,000. The younger Ellsworth comes l.uk from the expedition to hear the sad news that hi father passed away since the son's departure. Tha elder EIWoh'j died in Florence, Italy, June 3. i Nearly a fortnight had passed ulnee the expedition fl away from Spitzenbergen. As the days and weeks a- Klan.

crowd of 1000 was dispersed by the police. DuVlng Lawson's speech members of the audience, who police American League were Klan sympathiters. 6 10 0 hissed him and then left the auditorium. The state police were equipped -with tear bombs and riot said to have, "made splendid pro Benton 1-10-2 yVLyons and -Schallt; Wingfleld, JTuhr Cd. t) toward complete London, (Continued ca i J..