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Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 9

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FIVC LEASED VIRE NLW AUNT ELIC Exclustvely- 1hc Tnbw? DAILY SUNDAY ASSOCIATED POESS AtAjkac- PAhmpdH Cburrly UNITED PREff INTCRNATIOMAL NEW UniyHJ At tKVK-t owrr iMtiMNtMtwl tVrws VOLUME OAKLAND. CALIFORNIA, -THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 17, 1924 NO. 108 aVerAes -nr Tmm mmm III III STMTS OUTLINES i I niHL in AllTfl CRASH HOSPITA NEED Speakers Rally for Hospital Bonds Men and women, believing the Highland Hospi tal should be completed! and equipped by a bond issue, have organized a speakers bureau for the purpose of presenting the need? for the county institution to the voters. A group of those who have undertaken this large task is shown. (Left to right, standing).

MRS. C. W. CULVER, Emeryville DR. PAULINE NUSBAUMER, Piedmont; MRS.

LAURA 'H. RYAN. Albany; MRS. GEORGE E. COLBY.

Berkeley; MRS. MORRIS PARONI MEADS. A.f W. BEAM. Hayward.

Seated, MISS ANNIEFLOR- Increase In the tax levy of CI each $100, As this building la being erected for the' benefit of posterity as well as those of this decade, the board believes that -the bonds should be voted to provide for the completion of the hospital. It has been commenced, it must be completed, and it should be completed, aa quickly as possible, not only because it is needed, but because it has reached the point where there is so much money invested that from an economical standpoint-the building should be put in use at the earliest possible moment." muters' club given In the Palac hotel In San Francisco this noon, said that "the situationis auch as to require -the Immediate completion of Highland Stants (Jeclared that "Highland hospUnL is already partially con-strudfid at a time when it is most needed and has been built mostly with money that would have been paid as interest upon bonds, and the only thing that remains is for the voters to decide whether they prefer to have the amount necessary to complete it levied as a direct tax, or by a bond Issue, which would spread the cost over a period of twenty, years with the pvpr lTvrfnpinfr nsgpyment rule tending to keen down the tax rate to near Its 'present figure. Staata reviewed the history of the question of a bond issue for the county hospital since it was first raised seven years ago. He pointed out that recent changes in the laws of California made it possible today to hold the bond issue election along with the presidential primary without anyaddi-tlonal expense to the. county.

"Under the added Staats, "it is absolutely necessary that this building be completed at least by the end of the year 1925, and to do so by the present methods would mean an DENIED IN ENCE BROWN, DR. R. G. BRODRICK. MRS.

E. F. HOFFMAN, who is acting as secretary. Pointing that the Alameda county hospital at San Lean dro Is so overcrowded at present that cases of disease caij only be treated on a "waiting list" schedule, Supervisor Redmond C. Staats, in an address to the Com i.

SHOE CO Superior Judge Church Ignores Plea of Driver Guilty of Breaking Boy's Legs and Speeding On; Wife Weep6 A motion for new trial for Gerard E. da Vrles, Berkeley business man, convicted of failing to erive aid to a victim whom he had struck with his automobile, was de- nied by Superior -Judge L. S. Church today. A strong plea for probation was entered by De Vries.

His wife wept throughout the proceedings. A determined opposition to probation was made by Assistant District Attorney Frank Shay. Judge Church will determine whsther De Vries 1s to be placed under probation or Imprisoned for one to five years for having failed to give assistance to Roscoe Williams, whom he struck and crippled with his automobile at Channing way and San Pablo avenue, Berkeley on January 19.. The motion tor a new trial was made on the Grounds that the courfhad erred In instructing the jury and in allowing Williams to be brought into court on a stretcher 16 testify that he had been offer- by De Vries In settlement of a 130,000 civil damage suit. De Vries' plea for probation was made on the grounds that he never had in difficulties before? that his Imprisonment would work an injustice upon his wife and children and upon "persons associated with him in business.

Probation was opposed by trn r-- rr tt Tii i which they were riding plunged off the highway and turned over four times near the Joaquin Miller estate. Bernard suffered fractured Women Join in Campaign For Big Hospital Bond Issue right arm contusions and possible I Internal injuries, and Carve pos- sibly was injured internally. Wil-I llam Davidson, 1711 East -Four teenth street, the driver of the tr.uck, said- he -was blinded by fhe lights of an approaching machine and drove off the highway. Davidson and Annie 838 Potrero aenue, San Francisco, were not Injured. bhayon the plea that acts of the kind of "which de Vries was victed must be made punishable In the interests of public safety, and that the defendant wilfully abanboned a man injured by his own agency and left prostrated upon the street with the bones of both legs shattered.

woman siirxs ivu Mrs. Grace Alexander Simonds, Berkeley society matron, today appeared a second time at the county Walter Uhlner, 6, 642 Alva-, Ffom the lips of mothers thf-story of the Highland Hospital and the absolute necessity that the bond issue of to be voted at the election May 6 must carry will be carried to the uttermost corners of Alameda county. This was the result of a conference of the speakers' bureau organized under the direction of Annie Florence Brown, representing the women of the county, which met at the Public Health Center, Ethel Moore f. Memorial building in Oakland, yesterday. Dr.

Romllda Peronl Meads, wife of Albert M. Meads, la chairman of the speakers' bureau organized under Miss Brown's direction Dr. Peronl Meads was formerly physician In change of rado Btreet, suffered a fracture cellar bone when he was struck death iaself to be prepared to meet the demand for treatment of the acute sick. That there are only seven maternity beds available in the county Sfn: Leandro at pres ent to take care of prospective a tarnot avail themselves of private hospital care. WILL PROVIDE MORE BEDS.

That the Highland Hospital will provide for 25 maternity beds In its maternity ward. That Alameda county has no ward for the care of poor sick children. That the only children's ward is that maintained, by the Baby Hospital. That statistics show that 50 per cent, of Children born, died within a year, from lack care and nourishment. That under the present crowded conditions at the hospital at San Jail to serve, a two-day sentence an automobile driven by W.

A for speeding, but she was given Sprnule, 2608 Thirteenth avenue, her release. Mrs. Simonds served 8a he nlav'ln in th tr.n In 14 hours, of her sentence last of his homer Sproule took ft 1 1 1 r- rl 'j i n1 tVifirt nrao a I no cor? Yr the parole board. Judge Edgar of the boy to his home and then to Berkeley, who Imposed the sent- i raoioia nospnai The sulfest sentence imposed on the women's' department the University of California. Women from the four corners of Alameda countv trtrt at the Public LLeandro on the Foothill boulevard ence, said the Judgment or tne court had not ben legally ex- ecuted because the committment had not been signed nor delivered at the Jail when Mrs.

Simonds was accepted for Imprisonment by Sheriff Frank Bar-net He required Mrs. Simonds to presen--herseif again today. District Attorney Ezra Dpcoto, however, declared ihatt-tn -tim nerved anyone in the campaign was meted out to Patrick Broderlck by Police Judge-LI ie T. Jacks in San Francisco ytsterday. Broderlck was sentenced to ten days In the county jail for-speeding 61 miles an hour on Potrero venue.

Tony Luc.a was sent to jail for five days for speed Introducing a New Shoe to the Men jot OM ram- "Tr Opnrft Colbv: from Al-J It Is necessary to put Tuoercuiar patients with those who are non-tubercular. That these conditions have been bany, Mrs. Laura Ryan: 'from Emeryville. Mrs. C.

Vv Cijlver: from Piedmont, Dr. Paronl Meads, white brought atout by the-rapld growth ing 4-0 mites an Mrs. J. E. Thaiie and her dausttrer, 0f OaHTiimr and Alameda couwtyr by Mrs.

Siriionds last Saturday con- AUTOS Mrs. J. K. -vvnippie, ail leaaers" where the population has jumped in the civic and social welfare Jife to ng than 440,000 with a 4Q Five motprists iOf of their communities, came in speeding before Justice Harry Pul cifer were ordered their etituted a legal execution of the Prohat'on Is not recommended for- Alfred Ashton and Louis V. Souza in a report filed today with Superior Judge Fred V.

Wood by Probation Officer Earl Compton. Eouza and' Ashton were accused of automobiles until June 2, in fcddi per c( increase in me inausiriai population alone. That the county owes a service to the-sick poor beyond that of merely Caring for them during their acute illness, but because from Niles, Then there was Dr. Pauline Nusbaumer and Mrs. Morris Falk of pa'kland and Miss the women's chairman.

WILL SPREAD APPEAL. Told of the immediate needs of tion to surrendering operator's licenses th.s morning. A $10 fine 1 was Imposed in each case. under proper and immediate care iwo oi the convicted motorists, tak ns the automobile of M. thev can be put back into tne Silva of San Leandro without His George Chambers, restaurateur and 'a county hospital such as Highland economic world at their full earn- Yamato Oshima, Japanese nursery Hosnital.

the women lert oe- termlned to spread the story and PnTt nnvn? the appeal of Highland Hospital AVILL OR FOR HOIVDS, and to urge the Voters in their The citizens of Alame Alameda countv are being mobilized to work respective communities to vote for the Highland Hospital bond issue. man, wni nave iu -uppvur ueiure Judge Pulcifer on April 28f" to take an examination on the Motor Veht cle Act the result of pleading ignorance of its provisions. The other speeders convicted were Ray E. Cook, welder, pt ,16 Llniv avenue, Piedmont; Ed Valli-quette, 1115 Filbert street, Oakland, and J. Camoo- permission and to have wrecked it by running into a huildlng while oh a Jov iride.

Nick Goosen today pleaded guilty to taking, an automobile without the consent of the owner and driving while Judge Wood is withholding sentence while investigation Is made of Goosen's statement that he Is the sole support of a wife and three children. FOUR HURT IX CRASHES. Four persons were injured, one perhaps fatally, in automobile accidents-in Oakland last night. Mrs. Louise Jensen, 422 East l-menosi, commission merchant, of A.

W. Beam, civil leaaer or -nay-ward, also attended the conference. He, too, was impressed by the need of the new hospital as set forth by-Dr. R. G.

Brodrick, director of county hospitals. Outstanding facts emphasized by Dr. Brodrick, showing why the completion of Highland -Hospital is an absolute necessity, were: That It is a matter of life and 2215 Addison street, Berkeley. They jwere ordered to lock their autos-up in garages. All were charged with exceeding 35 an hour.

It has always been oiir policy to give the latest styles and the best quality for the success of the hospital bond issue. At a meeting held In the Hay-ward Health Center representatives of Niles, Pleasanton, Liver-more, Irvington, Alvarado. Hay-ward, San Leandro and other districts, were told of the vital necessity of completing Highland Hospital at once under a bond Issue instead of delayln" Its completion over a perior of years by the direct tax method. Leroy Goodrich, chairman of the Tuberculosis Society of Alameda county, and Miss Annie Florence Brown, representing the women of the -county on the Highland bond campaign committee, made up of volunteer w-orkerSjjJxove home the highlights in thecamfcaign. They pointed out that at present Alameda county has no children's wards, only seven maternity wards, and that there Is no adequate pro- Fourteenth street, is at the Eastbay W.

J. RusseH-. Fourteenth for the money in Oakland. -I sanitarium today, suffering from street, Oakland, was fined $25 by possible fracture of the skull re-1 Judge Elmer E. Johnson tv.

hv meda on a charge of speeding. street; T. E. Norman, 2501 Lincoln avenue; Thomas Hough of Vallejo; wiiilmiRmi?" was accused of driving. A.

J. Mllzarek oi Ban jose. w. Lord, 1440 Twenty-third avenue, Oakland, and Stanley raucj, ii Hearst avenue, Berkeley. nf W.

W. MacGllivray, 55, a marine engineer living at 1727 r.T. over "ncoin avenue at 47 miles an Wilson. 2243 Twenty-fourth avenue, I hour as she was crossing the street at Judge Johnson Imposed fines East Twelfth street and Tenth ave- totaling $85 on twelve speeders, nue last night. Wilson took the The convicted persons are: M.

Gil- wothan to the Emergency hospital. si onrt rrv ''Khth street; M. A. Silva, 1529 yBernard J. Mahjne 21, and Carve Unj A Corneu3 g24 Grand Malone, 18.

728 Fifth avenue, were 6treet: F. Corea, 1620 San Antonio injured whep the delivery truck In avenue; E. Reed. 1537 Schiller Broadway, who yesterday e-niereu a nlea of not guilty to a cnarge ul v. a rtvaf ftlpri against handling or him bv Mrs.

Beatrice Hanford, his 1 vision made for the landlady, was set for April 29 by the acute-sick. It is a great pleasure now to announce that we are Oaand headquarters for the famous SELZ $SIX SHOE: the greatest shoe value in America. The fame of Selz Shoes is known from Atlantic to Pacific. Millions of satisfied everywhere are walking advertisements for Selz Shoes. We are proud to be the first people to offer Selz Shoes to Oakland.

It will be a pleasure to have you come in and try on one of the latest models. Judge Johnsono today. MacOilit- I vray, who demanded a jury trial, is fmmmm mm being neia in inn i 'Money Afaftef Money" The lollowingespeeuera before Police Judge bawara j. Have You Tyrrell William H. Little, 2574 Sixty-third fined $5.

Joseph Muller. 3217 Nicol ave-five davs in. jail. He Twas traveling 62 miles an hour iIn Easter hfessage? in a twenty mile Helen Locke, 1444 Euclid ave A Fob Fnend. Mother, Sister.

Wif or Sweetheart? Why not II with Flowers" the. language which goes straight to the heart with love, fond cheer and hope. nue, Berkeley, $1Q- ball rorreuea Ivan Ware. 1417 Forty-sixth avenue, fined to. Frank Vargas, 125 East Sixteenth street, fined $5.

Fred C. Johnson, 16, 2303 Harrington avenue, certified to juvenile court. Carl M. Chambou, 727 Sixth avenue, fined $15. William Gindick, 1S23 Ninety-fourth avenue, fined $5.

Kenneth M. Morse. 5742 Flem-ming bail forfeited. The following speeders appeared before Judge W. H.

Hennessey Hugh C. Davidson. 711-Thirty-sixth avenue, fined-, $5. Ward R. McAllister, 8 Man-dana Boulevard, fined $5.

-The SELZ $SIX Shoe? Repr esent a Definite Merchandise Policy ITiey are manufactured and priced at a narrow margin of profit. This 'is possible by efficiency in production and volume of sales. Every merchant' who handles SELZ SHOES accepts a smaller profit than usual. The maker also accepts a smaller profit, thus1 a most unusual value The Best Values in Mers Shoes for the Price Not a shoe to gamble on, a shoe to bank on. A dependable shoe all solid leather through and through.

Twelve distinct spring styles in both High and Low Shoes. Every pair a favorite among men who want style and real value for the price. It will be a pleasure to show you these splendid Shoes. While It is true that many people invest $5000 jor $10,000 at rr it 'time, with us. at Six Per Cent, li Is also true that we.

have I many oher-lpatrgns who are In $5 or- $10 each month In thl Institution, both classes I are receiving SIX PER CENT is oriered. I Gift Suggestions Growirtg plants; Easter lilies. Rambler roses, cyclamens. bp of rare cut flowers i A corsage for Easter costume. A I horsted basket fined with the lovliest of Spring blossoms.

1smP' atrr homi pimm. ftfh tut nna very tunet Srtii. Fower te'eg-Tipherl nv 'vg, cit in thf world." There' tstert Union brancb 'igni id om store. Donald Davenport, 2203 Derby street. Berkeley, fined $5.

Mrs. Lucile Holt. 5S58 Lawton street, fined $51 Salvador P. Domingo, 1031 Fifth street. $5 bail forfeited.

Keith MacFarlane, 5208 Manila -per annum, compounded twice I a year. We invite you to look up our 4 jl i street, lined iu. 1 Jack Cox. 250 Eighteenth street. ru oi orty-nlne years.

reifor SELZ SSIX SHOES in high cuts and oxMs, ALSO SELZ "ROYAL BLUE" SHOES, $9 fined $10. A Irylng Zaslave, 824 Forty-fifth Folder, "6 and Safety," will be sent you on request. I jL 1 all Prri, f- I ALAMEDA COUNTY I LQN ASSOCIATION I SCC I8TS -SKCC I8T5- See page 117 Saturday Evening Post April 19th See page 117 Saturday Evening Post April 19 th Bfeli (ft 1531 BROADWAY Ttorsted FloralCompaiiy Oakland ltlegraph Jortsts 563 SIXTEENTH ST OAKLAND Evergreen Makes It Grow Pure, Pulverized Sheep Manure for gardens, lawns and flowers. Lime, Hardwood Sawdust snd all kinds of Lawn Seed. National Feed and Fuel 55th, Corner Grove St.

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