Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 20

1 PAGE 20 MONDAY EVENING MAKCH 11, 1921. Combined Wire Acts Service cf all papers. Associated Unilei Press, International iYeftJ. Universal News and Consolidated Prezt 'HIRED HANDS' SIT IN AT POKER GAMES Jj 1 FOLLOWED ZDEAD.Z5HUHT-h 10 ACCIDENTS LEONA HEIGHTS RIFLE RANGE 10 Spooning Couple Give Grocer Biu'glar Scare .1 I H- III l-H I I I II I I I- I I OPEN THURSDAY WOMEN MUST BUCK 'PROFESSIONALS There in a doorway tho Pgures cf two persons could be discerned. Co the alert, and prepared resistance, the inspectors sudden-Iv switched the rays of the pocket lirhts on the door way, at the same time caliir.g oat: "It's no fellers, e've the drop P.

Weirsrr.a was about to retire at 11 o'clock Inst night in hi home at 001 East "when attention and fears were aroused bv sounds apparently emanating from his grocery store on the main floor the premises. While he whs debating the matter in his mind another louder and more suspicious thump came to his ears. Weirsma banished all uncertainty and scurried to the telephone. 'This Is P- L. Weirma' at 2001 last Twenty-tirst street," he informed police headquarters, "and burglars are trying to break into my grocery store." Police Inspectors IT.ildoman and Sternltzsky were detailed.

When they arrived at Weirsma's store with drawn revolvers they advanced slowly. Suddenly the officers stiffened. WILD AUTO ON HILL SMASHES S.F. CABLE CAR SAN FRANCISCO, March 14. A broken hydrant, a smashed cable car npd two rartially wrecked automobiles tell the story of a driverless machine which started from Mason and California streets and sped to Grant avenue, a distance of three blocks, shortly before noon today.

U. Llchtenberg of Petaluma had left his machine on the California street aide of the Fairmont, believing that the brakes would hold it securely while he entered the hotel, where he Is registered. He had hardly turned his hack when (he automobile hrgan to move. It gained momentum, smashed the hydrant at the Powell street crossing, narrowly missed a street car, struck a delivery truck belonging to the Columbia dairy and driven by C. M.

Tagas-kls. The latter jumped fdr safety. A little further it struck another automobile, the owner of which had gone Into a building, knocking off a At Grant avenue the cable car, wjhich had been stopped, was stove in, and halted the speeding machine. The passengers had been warned and no one was hurt. If you would earn more you must learn more.

urn .4" mm They were overcome, however, when their lights in a corner of the iy Two "spooners" 'a maid and a startled and trmiitened. it is but firmly standing, or to be exact, sitting thc-ir ground; "It's come to a point here a and a fellow can't spoon any more." explained the lad detijntlv. "what with laws. restriction-, bnu-ht lights and policemen." sorry, lad." replied the. of- nccrs, tne best we can do you and the young lady is to recommend the beauties and solitude of Trestle Olen Park." PLAYS SAD TUNE ON ACCORDION.

SHOOTSHIMSELF LOS ANGELES. March 14. (By United When tho sad strains of "Home Sweet Home" had died a shot was heard early today in a Main street lodging-house. Peter Weiss 5.1. Ill and alone, hud laid aside his beloved accordion and fired bullet into his head.

Physicians said he cannot recover. Virtually a recluse. Weiss had found comfort in mournful tunes he played. He forsook his room and his accor-j' dion only at meal times. Woman Asks $35,515 After Being Felled Declaring that- Louis Jacques, driver for a dye works owned by J.

Keali, maliciously and deliberately brushed against her and knocked her down in a market in Piedmont because ho had failed to collect money on a bill from her, Mrs. Mary A. Mc-Motus is today suing the two men for $25,515 injury damages. Mrs. McManus charges that when Jacques knocked her down she suffered such bruises and lacerations from her fall that she was laid up for weeks, Tho defendant contends that she slipped and fell on the sawdust -covered floor of the shop.

1 J.V the been rono-ci in sucn a niamTTr. "It strange," commented women players when the event was being discussed. must have been someone on the 'inside' ho jHcd th job." Along the same line, it a'so developed. hen players lose an unusually. Uraf FUm of money, th cry of "ir.iei is also raised.

'Sadie' of the bandotined hair, is one ho was declared by her sister players to follow this 'custom-rot that they mentioned this in Sadie's" hearing, of course. Thev were far too polite to do a thing that besides has a temper and a fiery tongue of which they are well aware. CONDITION'S SME AS III KIM. 7. It was announced that these women's card games had been cleared out when the Police closed I.oring and California Halls in the vicinity of Eleventh and flay streets back in the fall of 1617.

These halls which caused husbands 10 dexinnd upon police station with complaints that their wives were neglecting their babies to play play cards. Are these conditions aliev'a'ed. Thev are not! Women still bring their babies to gambling games In akland and the women are the same ones who played nt the halls whose doors were closed by the law. Moreover practfcally the same group of women is running games. Naturally there Is a iittle more caution exercised than when tho games were "wide open," but the fact remains that there are still games conducted for profit a condition which it wa the intention of the authorities to stop.

EXPOSE CAISES PLAYERS TO. CLASH. Since the Investigations were made public the poker games which have been operated so bravely during the two or three years have become a trifle "subdued." -One poker player Is stormily accusing the other of "selling out" to the Investigator, who, In the guise of a stranger, sought to play and learn. News of a particularly stormy scene on a ferry boat bound for San Francisco for a regular Saturday night card game has reached her. It seems that the woman in the checkered unit who sponsored the "stranger" was made the target for most pf the abuse, although this woman was an Innocent party to tiny "scheme" to show up her card-playing sisters.

Tomorrow in the concluding Installment will be told the legal aspects of card playing In general, the atate and local laws, the loopholes afforded by both, the opinion of law officers of investigations and other details concerned with poker and the law. Sacramento Editor to Talk to Ad. Men oaKiand Advertising club will have Ren Allen, editor and publisher of the Sacramento I'nlon, as principal speaker at tomorrow's meeting In (he South room, Hotel Oakland. Allen's subject will bp "Propaganda." The-kpeaker Rained International noie for his "Haltle of Jutland'' and other Mories writicn for the Associated Press during I tie ar. He as a dose associate of Herbert Hoover.

A invitation to I ha new spapermen: John 'P. Dnvle will sins nlinAber of Irish snugs and each guest will be given an individual potted shamrock. lint this was the foirth Udv of he house had street the Invest'gater sat for. five and one-half hours at a poker Conservatively speaking there must haveben at least twenty "ac poU" during the afternoon. Tn cents was taken from each tot to pay for the cards.

(Hs of the kind used at the fia cost no more than fiftv cents per deck. But two decks were used at that 'ible and a similar number at other tables. Twenty ace pots at ten cen'J! a pot $2.00. Two decks of card nt fifty rents each $1.00. Not much profit surely but when it Is considered that there, were three tables lrij operation and that the game continued for six hours after the investigator "left and the chips rontlnued to be dedU' ted from the "ace pots," a nice sum was netted before the game was ended a sum which supplemente the "admission fee" charged as disguised In the luncheons and dinners served the card players.

The same condition holds good at the other houses as well. Moreover, with the large quantity of oarJ used tt is safe to assume that the women who conduct the game pav even less than the rriail price. They are shrewd enough, these professional pokr players, not to miss a bet on any score, pott as it may be. Then there comes 'he question of "hired'' players. The author Is certain she was pitted against at least two of these card "sharks" She may be wrong, but she's willing to do some betting herself that she Isn't, And the.

additional profit from this score adds undoubtedly to the "proceeds'' of the day for the w'nmen whoe livelihood depends on a deck of cards. GAMEKEEPERS NOT WORKING FOR IOVE. And lot It be stated right here that it Is not a mean wage which Is exacted by these women gaming managers. Proceeds from $10 to $25 a day are known to be taken In and this minus the money corning from sources not openly acknowledged. When these stitriH are multiplied by two, then by three and In one Instance four the number of games played per week you'll find that the women who turn their homes over tft poker players nre not doing it for the love of the: game or lor any affection for their friends.

There nre certain set rules' for conducting poker games. It was also discovered. The women in charge of the games are as a unit w'fieh it comes to protecting themselves. And they are courteous enough pot to have their games overlap1 each other too much they divide the days; except 111 one Instance, so that every house will Met a chance at the poker fans. And thus it Is that every day and night in Oakland there Is being conducted at one of these three places a game of poker where the players contribute their bit toward the woman of the house.

It is also a known fact that the women managerrs of these plac es Are not the only ones who make their living from cards. There is a. married couple, for Instance, known to have boasted openly cf prowess with the pasteboards, In fact eo suocesf'ful'lias the husband bepn at. the game that he has relinquished his Job with street car. company! MIjY winnings OF SO vi PLAYERS I.UtGE' Suppose, pulled down 1 0 one day and $'J7 the not, would mi worrv about wlm' di'l ill rent of the week" No much, it is safe to ha7jtrd.

The inveitipHtor heard of these winning" at games wliii she attended. 'mentioned as a mutter of course, nothing to excited, about. Of course, they are not "sensational" winnings hul when poker is made an every -clay habit this sum Is not to lie 'laughed, at as going a Ion? i wiiy towards buying one's daily broad and other accessories. Then, too, many strange things happen In these gaming bouses The apartment out on Hast Sixteenth street Feenis to furnish th majority of these "unusual" events. During the Investigator's card-playing operations there was much excitement about the "theft" of a purse containing all of the proceeds from one day's poker game from bedroncp If seems BY FAIR SKIES IN S.

F. BAY REGION outheru i'art of the Mate! I Receives "Most Rainfall; Had Great Need of It. Fair skies and modera'e wester winds today were forecast for the I bay region and northern California as a bright and balmy termination of a storm which within forty-eight hours brought rain to the entire state but rr.ore particularly in the south where it was needed greatly. Mount Wilson reported a precipitation of 6.04 inches, bringing the total for the storm up to 4. an exceptional rainfall even for the higher altitudes.

Figures received today by 1'nited States District Weather observer in San Francisco from other points in southern California indicate that the precipitation was pronounced. Further north the registrations were lighter, Stockton. Merced. San Luis Obispo and Sacramento reporting respectively .14. .09, .34 and .24 inches.

OAKLAND PAST NORMAL Twenty-eight hundredths of an inch- fell In Oakland for the forty-i eight hours ending at 7 o'clock this morning, bringing the seasonal precipitation to dale to 21:02 inches. The normal to date Is 19. Inches while the rainfall Op to this time last year was only 9:19 Inches The forecast for the bay region is fair with moderate winds, mostly westerly Clearing weather Is predicted for the southern part of the state with the probability of fair weatheri'with westerly winds. i L. A.

GETS WETTING LOS ANUELES. March 14. Ninety-three hundredths of an inch of rain fell here yesterday, bringing the total for the storm which started Friday night, to 1.75. and the seasonal total to 9.01. The total to the corresponding date last year was 8.59.

Pasadena reported a total of 2.77 inches for the storm; Ventura, 1.54; Long Beach, 1.89, and Santa Ana. 1.20. Sierra Madre, in the foothill district, 15 miles northeast of Los Angeles, reported 4.30 inches. Other stprni totals were: Santa Barbara. US; Monrovia.

1.6; Santa Monica, 1.56; Redlands, 1.10; Ontario. 3.01; Covlna. .07. SAN JOSR, March 14 With .15 of an Inch of rain the last 24 hours, the SantA Clara Valley has a total of IS. 57 Inches for the season, which Is about one Inch above normal.

i RAN BERNAuFtN'O, March 14. Rain fell here throughout yesterday. The precipitation was 1.16 Inches, or 1.86 for the storm. Heavy rain fell last night in the San Bernardino mountains and In the region north of the mountains a wind storm was hiking followed by light rain; STOCKTON, March 14. Rainfall of intermittent showers recorded between a a.

m. Sunday and 12:30 Sunday night' recorded threo one-hundredths, making the total for the month .52 and 12.71 for the season. $150,000 Is Sought for Relief in Ireland A ten-day campaign will start Thursday throughout the country to aid. the women and children of Ire-J land. An attempt will be made to raise jluO.OOO in this state.

Richard M. robin of San Francisco Is chair man of the California branch of in relief organization. priced In writing of her If was not the intention cf The TRIBCNK representative to "sensationalize" what she found in any way. She has merely stated in plain languige what she saw and heard during the ten day? she was assigned to make in estimations. She now tomes to a time when, she ran stats the conclusion which, she has drawn from her association with the women and men who gamble: with the propretors of houses; with the methods of card playing; and the gains A-rived therefrom: with the cantion of the women who both play and ronduct games and In general with the entire situation as she has seen it In a limited way.

POKim C.MF IV HOTEL REPORTED. That there Are at least three places in Oakland where women play cards professionally was determined without a doubt. Without there are others hut that those visited are the best, known of the houses is certain. A certain downtown hotel is known to house a fast and furious poker game participated in almost entirely by women a place where strange things are said to happen, as, for Instance, thedisappearanre of valuable jewels and their sudden re-appearance when arrest was threatened. High stakes are Played for at this game, whlrh is conducted in the room of one of.

the women guest at the hotel. The thing stands out from all others. The fear which possesses all in any way associated with games as professionally conducted. It Is generally insisted that the games and gamesters are "within the law." In fact both managers and players boast openly that they are. If this Is the case, why, then, all this fear? Why do women who conduct the houses, carefully sourtinize every player and whv do players object to "sitting In" with strangers? IS) people who are unafraid of the law sneak into dark corners whenever they see anyone approaching whom they do not know? EVIDENCE POINTS TO PERCENTAGE GAMES.

fit course tiiey don't! Perhaps the reason for this alarm Is the way in which chips are "Juggled" In ace pots. Maybe It Is because professional players are hired for a certain percentage of their winnings to mulct the "easy Or perhaps they who conduct games nre ordered to be "careful." It Is generally known that a percentage game la against the law and that there are ways of evading such trifles as laws is also not a matter of news to anv-one. That the games which are conducted in the three houses in Oakland are not percentage games the investigator Is not sure! In fact, she is almost certain that they are. And here Is her evidence for what It is worth: With five players at a table every fifth hand Is made an "ace pot." Four of a kind, a full house or other good winning hands call for extra "ace potse' according to the rules of the game. It cost a dollnr at one house and fifty cents another to "look In'' a "pot" of this kind.

From these pots of higher Makes than the ordinary hands are chips taken to "pay for the cards" used during the game TWENTY "CF. POTS" BERING AFTERNOON. the place in East Eleventh sal" seriously injured at Ljvermnre vestcrday. when he was r.un dow by another His collar bone was broken and he received other Injuries. Ira F.

Pontlou of Oakland ran down Pniil Smlthan of Dublin on 11 street. He was dragged 25 feet but suffered only minor bruises. Konrad. who was run down by an antomoblle at Thirteenth and streets, late yesterday, died nt the Emergency hospital today as the result of his Injuries. Konrad suffered concussion of the brain, internal In- juries and body bruises.

The autO' mobile which struck him wss driven by William Sylvester, a lodger at the Harvey house. Eighteenth and San Pnblu avenue. Following an Investigation, pollen reported that the accident wn.q unavoidable. nerve San Francisco Physician Is "Killed TThen He Runs to Warn Others. Two men are deadand IT, others; are in hospitals today suffering from injuries as a result of motor acci- denta In the bay region over Sunday.

Five of the injured may die. The dead: DR. HA YUEN IlOCnKSTFJl, 42 years old. noted lecturer on pychol- ogj, lontclalr apartments, 9H3 line strcrt. San Franclsco- HKRMAJf RON HAD, 7 years old 47 Fourteenth t.trwi.

The Injured: KARL UF.RMAX. 7 years old. 141 Fourteenth street. He may die. J.

SHANNON. 4.1 years old Soathern Pacific employe, living at 350 Magnolia street; Internal Injuries, powiblo rat-lured spine. May die. 'GEORGE COFFNUN. leno, badly crushed: may die.

MISS CLARA LA VERXE. 30 years old, school teacher, residing at 1711 Washington stroel. Kan Fran-ctseo, fractured skull and Internal Injuries; may die. CHARLES CON BOY. 40 years old, automobile salesman.

350 Magnulla street; possible Internal Injuries and ahoclc EVERETT years old, same address, fractured right lea; and severe lacerations of the head. MRS. J. 8. BAKF.Ii, 121 Jordan street, Kan Francisco.

broken khoulder, cntu and bruises. J. 8. same address, rats and bruise. MRS.

L. LEVY, 417 I-ee street, scalp laceration and bruise. CHARLES SALTER, years old. 65 Twentieth street, fractured jaw and lacerations of the lieud and body. 7 CHARLES SALTER, same ad-drews, cuts and braises.

WILLIAM GAMBLE. 1232 Market street, severe lacerations of the head and body. MICHAEL 1001 Twenty-second avenue, an(l bruises. WILLIAM II. TATIiOR, 428 For-tieth avenue, San JYancisco, sprained back and braise.

GEORGE FIERCE, 200 Thlr- teenth avenue, San Francisco, minor injuries. Escaping Injury when the ear In which he was riding overturned on he La Honda-Haifmoon Bay road Inst night. Dr. 'Rochester was crushed to daath an hour later when he was pinned beneath an embankment alongside the road by an automobile whose occupants he had attempted to warn of danker ahead. Rochester -with Dr.

Caldwell, throat specialist of San Francisco, and two young women, were returning to San Francisco from IjU, Honda when their machine skidded on the wet road, struck' an embankment and overturned. All escaped Injury. PAIR WENT TO GIV WAKMXG. Rochester and Caldwell went along the road on foot to warn any approaching motorists of the wreck. Rochester towards la Honda and Caldwell toward Half Moon bay.

liocbester saw car 'approachcing and attempted to stop it. The driver pf the car was Edward A. Smith, employee of a sales service company at Tenth and Brannan streets, San Francisco, who Mid lie did not see the figure until almost nn top of him, and then jammed nn ill" brakes'. The car skidded, striking Pochester and crushing him against the embankment, Shannon was injured In on auto-mobile accident on the state highway, between Haywnrd and Kilos yesterday afternoon, when a machine was ditched in avoiding a speeding automobile which failed to Mop. Sin persons were In the wrecked automobile and all were thrown from the machine, including a woman and a five-months-old baby, who were unhurt.

Shannon and the two Conhnys wre the only ones Injured. Little hope was expressed today fur Shannon's recovery. Struck by an automobile driven by A. W. Allen, 14X6 Webster George Coffman wa sfatallv in lured while riding on a bicycle on the state highway.

a mile south of Fresno List night. Coffman was taken to the emergency hospital and later to the county hospital where physicians eaid he could not recover. GIRL IS KTRFCK AND 1 1 CRT BY WTiile walking across V.tn Xcss avenue, between Pacific avenue and Broadway, San Franrlsco, Miss La-Verne was ptrnck by an automobile driven by Oliver Hargrove. 1591 Greenwich street. At the injured woman's request the police did not arrest the driver of the machine.

Miss Lav erne is In a serious 'lAmble was struck by a jitnev bus at the Embarcadero and Market. He waa taken to the emergency hospital by Alfred Mason, 3.12 Taylor At Mils and Mason streets le Kcy-ser was hit by an atuomobile which sped away after knocking him down. Taylor was struck down by a taxi at Ellis and Market streets, San Francisco. Eight pernons were bruised and Slightly cut by flying glass hen two automobiles crashed together at West' Panta Clara and Orchard rreets, San Jose, lost ninht. One chine was driven bv (iccjrgo Pierce of S00 Thirteenth avenue, Han Fran-.

cIkoo, who was accompanied bv his wife and Mr. and Mr. J. "Maker of 124 Jordan street, the mime city The other car was piloted bv A. Haul of Monterey, who was mciim-panied by his wife and two sisters.

-Mrs. Baker seemed the most. crioiis- iy injured. All were treated at the Columbia hospital. William B.

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The range is located in East Oakland, rear Mii! Collese. Various departments of the army, marine corps and ivilian rule clubs will assemble in camp for a series of military exercise-. re feature of the opening will be preliminary practice for Sunday's shot to determine th champion military and civilian rifie shots of California. Teams of five picked 1 marksmen have been entered by the following organizations: Thirty-second S. under Captain Hurley K.

Fuller. Coast Artillery Corps, coast defenses, of San Francisco, under Lieutenant W. ti. Brey; C. S.

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