Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 13

(-. 'WEDNESDAY EVENING jaPafelattti 1 J' MARCH 9, 1927 13 CITY-COUNTY TAX AHGUMEHT era FUSE Proposed Piers Alameda's defeat of a proposition, for transferring Government Island to Oakland to permit the inner harbor development outlined on the air photo below, will not halt the port commission's plans for improving that portion of the estuary, it was announced today. The four piers proposed are outlined on the photo over Government Island, shown in the center. Under an alternate plan for the development. Oaklaijd may confine its improvement to this city's shore line; shown; above and to the left of the island.

The development wilL call for substituting'-for. the four piers of a quay-wall along the entire shore line 'from near American Dredging company's docks to the Dennison-street bridge, shown in the lower left corner. The city also will ask the government to open the north channel by removing the bridge and by dredging away the northern portion of the island to permit the passage. of the largest ocean-going vesseL Had Alameda -voted favorably on the; proposition, the whole' island, would have been removed( at Oakland's, expense to permit the construction' of the four piert- as outlined, the Jredgings 'being pumped to reclaim Alameda's proposed naval base industrial site Photo bp Aerograph Co. in'Royle-Rote plane.

HARBOR Difference in Oakland and S. F. Rates Traced to Assessed Values. MI'S ACT CHANGES 1NNEE1 Which Will Be Replaced By New Plan I i mi III I I I ii I i mmmmm Commission to Proceeirl Viili Improvements in Oakland Limits Only. 1 (Continued From are going to develop Oakland's section of Brooklyn Basrtn.

4' i "We cannot build any pfera out Arguments that San Francisco's ward beyond of the north channel, but; possibly If th island is gone, Alameda might be willing to change the boundary; "We cannot answer-whether or- not we Intend to 'force ''this pler-project through. There are too many things i We have, however, several alternative plans. The whole project will be, studied in such a. way that we can stlil have substantial development to this waterfront. "We.

may make -application" to the war department for the widening of the south channel, or the north channel. We have not decided. At any rate, It seems clear that our next step wilt be logicallj- toward the war department, which controls navigable waters and their USeS. 'I believe our case was misunder stood in Alameda. We had no intention to Infringe on their rights.

due merely 10 ampury vne estuary harbor facilities." Oakland's alternate plan, as out lined i by Jpnes, would be to aslc the government to remove the 'dike 1 at the eastern end of the north channel, known as the Dennison street bridge, and to dredge, away the northern side of thei island to widen the channel and "make It suitable for Oakland would then Improve its --shore line tax rate Is lower than that of Oak land because of having a combined city and county government, as used by proponents of county di Vision In the Eastbay, are wrong ana misleading, Joseph K. Know- land, publisher of The TRIBUNE told members of the North Oakland Improvement club in an address delivered at the Longfel low school, Apgar and Market streets. "The only argument advanced In' favor of county division is that San Francisco has a city and county government and that the tax In that city is $3.66 as against a combined city and asunty rate In Oakland of $6.10," the speaker said. "The complete answer to this Is that the assessed valuation in San Francisco is $756,802,407, and the assessed valuation in the city of Oakland is only 1227,232,335. "In other words, the assessed valuation of San Francisco Is over three times that of Oakland.

Give Oakland an assessed valuation of $756,802,407 and the tax rate would be made lower than that of San Francisco. This is plain to any thinking citizen. So how misleading it is to quote the two tax rates and claim that the difference is due to the fact that San Francisco has a city and county government." Discussing the subject, "County Division a Menace," the speaker continued: "The proponents of county division endeavor to convey the impression that should Oakland separate from the balance of the county this could, at one fell swoop, eliminate all county expenses and therefore effect a decided saving. DUAL OFFICES CITED. "There are certain county functions that under, the constitution and laws of the state would have to be carried on by Oakland as a city and county.

We could not eliminate the superior courts. We must have a coroner We could not eliminate our school expenses. Sari Francisco has a city and county government and maintains both a sheriff and chief or police. two separate offices', also main tains a district attorney and city attorney. "No one has been able to show In actual figures any saving com mensurate with the additional ex pense which would have to be taken on by the city.

"Oakland cannot form a sep arate city and county government without the consent of the city of Piedmont first and then the con sent of all the balance of the county -later, a consent which It is impossible to obtain, so a discus sion is useless. County division would -bring no end of complica tionS in regard to bond issues, pub lie institutions, county records and many other, items. TAX MERGER. MENTIONED. "Under the present county char ter.

there is a' provision making it mandatory for the county to take over various city activities when requested so. to do by any munici pality In the county. This has re cently been accomplished by com bining the offices of assessor andN tax collector without any county division. Possibly there are other consolidations that can be effected under- this county charter, provi sion if believed to be practical Let us devote our efforts toward solving practical things and not attempting the impractical and impossible." Knowland was introduced by B. Witten, president of the club, who also presetted Mrs.

sue L. Fratis as a speaker on "A Bal anced Welfare Progra speakers were tendered votes of thanks by members of Following the addressse N. Johnson, secretary a report of the club -during the last three n. 'he club. esented 'Ivities When Sourness, Pain and Bloating Follow Every Meal Make This Simple Test For Swift and Sure Relief To quickly prove SO per cent of Stomaob distress is absolutely unnecessary and that you, can eat and enjoy most any rooa you reauy want ret from your druKKist a few tablets of Blsurated Magnesia and take three or four of them after your next meal.

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This development would mean a reduction in the berthing'. space at that point In the Inner harbor. Jones said, pointing-, out that the proposed piers at that point woutl given accommodations for more than double the number of vessels the quay-wall' plan will provide. ALAMEDA ACTTOW WILIj CHANGE FLAWS. "It will mean a treat change in our plans," Jones said, "but it is the best we can do under' the cir cumstances.

are, hoping that the city of Alamda will co-opera with us In the development et parr or tne even thou i they apparently do-not -want tis ti help them on their side of t'ua estuary." The alternate development program also will mean asking the government to dredge away strip: of land on the, south side. 'of the island to allow' passage for- large vessels, Jones aald. This would leave less than half; of theuresent island, he said, and this wCl be-of no value to Alameda. The port commission nrobabW will consider the situation at its meeting next' Monday afternoon. when more definite plans forthe development may be made by-the commission as U.

of Instructor Gets Capital Dczr: BERKELEY." March :T.i.i- tenant-Colonel Reginald H. Skel-ley, graduate of the ITnlvaraitv, California in U03. and for the ps-t iuur years an instructor in tnt i-tary science and tactics at Berkeley, will leave in May to become- a student at the Army- War Col lege, vvasnmgton, J3. C. of his appointment to the new rxut was received from the war department yesterday by university officials.

A year ago Lieutenant-Colonel Kelley was detailed to the- General Service school at Fort Leavenworth to assume duties as an instructor, but appearis from President W. W. Campbell, Major-General David P. Barrows, and Con-gresswoman Florence Kahn resulted in the rescinding of the order. Wometfs Easier Hygiene Discards like tissue No'laundry By VLI.BT J.

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She has turned exercise into play, duty into Joy, for the nation's children. The public is invited. Her topic will be "The Health of Your Children." Mrs. Delger Trowbridge, chair man of the public section of the Oakland Forum. pre side.

Mrs. wife of Delger Trowbridge. San Francisco attorney, and treasurer of the State Bar association, was the first wo man to receive the degree of "Graduate of Public Health" from the University of California. For two years after her graduation she was lecturer in the department of public health at the university. Mrs.

Trowbridge will be assisted in receiving by the following committee: Dr. Edna Bailey. Mrs. Samuel J. Chase, Mrs.

Leon Gove, Mrs. C. jy. lirunstty Mrs. F.

M. Hunter, Mrs. J. M. Koford, Mrs.

Otis Mars- ton, Doctor Paroni Meads, Miss Mabel J. Moller, Miss Helen Powell, Mrs. H. R. Vail, Mrs.

Beverly Wilder and Mrs. T. T. Wittschen. The Oakland Forum wishes to announce that the date for" the lec ture to be given by the Hon.

Ches ter Rowell has been changed to March 18. Coast Electrical Association Meets LOS ANGELES. March W) Delegates to the Pacific Coast Elec trical association convention regis- trett nere today ror a two-day meeting. H. K.

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Black, com mander-in-chief, at the monthly meeting of the Oakland Ministerial Union. Rev. Black explained In detail his methods of home visitation, de claring the churches which- have most conscientiously entered into the campaign by thorough organ ization for the purpose of secur. ing prospects, will be the churches to benefit by increased member ship. Rev.

Black cor- to oamana Sunday at the so': the evangelism coniini of the Oakland council of clr His object will be' to re hundreds of neV the churches cooperating. wlth him. For the past month the various evangelical churches have been busy preparing lists of prospects, which Rev. Black, the various min isters and their solicitors will visit during next week. The ministers decided to repeat the? program of last year with noon day meetings during Holy weeK and Easter sunrise service probably at Lake Merrltt.

The next meeting will be at Trinity Epis copal church. i Sir Henry Lanh to Address Students March 9: Sir Henry Lunn, British author and religious leader who is now tour ing the United States as a guest of the Institute of International Education, will speak before a-special meeting of the University of California student body on April 7. Sir Henry, yesterday accepted an invitation to make the. address extended to him by President W. Campbell.

While on the Pacific Coast, he will also speak in San Francisco, Dos Angeles, and at Stanford University. The Britisher was at one time a medical missionary to India, and later a business man, but is now engaged in work for church unity and international good will. Dublin niversity Rebukes. Ford DUBLIN, March, 9. (AV Henry Ford was rebuked at the meeting of.

the council of the National university last night because, it was stated, he did not reply to the invitation to accept the university's honorary degree of doctor of laws. Dennis OJCohnor, member of the council, safd Ford was a good business man who recognized the necessity of attending to correspondence, but. that he apparently did fiot think it worth while to inform the whether would accept the degree. i TRAIN STOP SOUGHT. The Southern Pacific has been petitioned 'by Harold D.

Webber, secretary of Oakland Business District association, to make a stop at Twelfth and Webster, streets. Hitherto ferry trains on 'Webster havai had no- stODa between 'Four-' 'nut ana Eighth. grand jury investigation Into conditions in the new psycopathic ward at the Highland hospital where Dr. O. D.

Hamlin, county autopsy surgeon has protested against glass doors, was begun this morning, following the death of a patient there Monday night after an hour's battle with attend ants. The man, Manuel Fereira, 30, a Livermore ranch hand held for ob. servation as to his sanity, broke out one of the reinforced glass panels in a door, and with a large jagged piece of the glass fought off attendants for an hour, falling to the floor from exhaustion and dying a few hours later. Dr. Hamlin, it was revealed, has four times requested the board of supervisors to alter the doors in the psycopathic ward and remove the glass panels.

He said he feared such an outbreak" as that of Per- eira if the glass was allowed to remain. Since the death of Fereira, District Attorney Earl Warreii sent County Detective George Helms to investigate, and this morning Helms presented his report to the grand. jury. He read statements taken from Dr. A.

A. Arenart, Orderly H. L. Webster, and Nurse Mildred, Healy, who fought with Fereira after he had brokeft the door. The jury's consideration of the situation was continued to next Wednesday, when Dr.

R. G. Brod-rick, superintendent of county hospitals, and other hospital authorities will be called and questioned. Fereira died while doctors were working over him Monday night. The autopsy of Dr.

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If effgLgW 30c Ended TJERKELEy, March" 9. The generally accepted belief that gentlemen prefer to be a modern discovery, was disclosed today Ly Prof. John L.1 Myers, Satber lecturer at the University of California, as having had its origin, in all probability, in ancient Grecian The. derivation of the' phrase was suggested by. Prof.

Myres in a discussion upon the ancient Gre cian religions, which depended upon the worship of gods and goddesses. "The Greek religion centered around a small group of gods who lived on Mt. Olympns," Prof. Myres said. -The northern Greeks who developed the language represented these gods as fair-haired personalities.

This blond strain is actually reflect-ed in the population of classical Greece." Prof. Myres will deliver the fourth lecture of the annual Sather series, entitled "Common Religion," at 8 o'clock tonight in room 11. Wheeler i Alameda Schools to Run Relay Race ALAMEDA, March' tions for the annual cross-town re lay race for boys in the elementary schools of the city have been completed runners are 'tapering off in 'their training for the event which is scheduled for Friday aft ernoon. Teams will be entered by the four schools, Haight, Lincoln, Porter and Washington. Starting at Webster street and Santa Clara avenue, the.

runners; will run 4he length of the island and finish in Lincoln park. Thei standing record for the course -is 12 minutea and -11 seconds, established in-1925 by Washington school, i You'll laugh, reallvl It' is -so asy and doesn't hurt one bltt DrOD "Freesone'1- en- that old. bothersome corn. -Instantly it stops achipg; then shortly you lift that sore, touchy corn rleht off with your fingers. It works like-a charm.

i PARISr-March squalls ot exceptional severity done extensive damage in France, while, a month of almost incessant rain has swelled the rivers Seine' and Marne. are slowly ris mg, and as the weather prophets predict a contmuea wet spelt throughout the month, there are unpleasant prospects ot serious spring floods. In the south, the rivers Lozere Lot and Alller have already gone out of their-banks. Gales' alongi the coast have fol lowed one another- with such rapidity- that not a fishing' boat has dared to venture At Camaret, Brittany, a tidal wave did heavy damage to craft-moored lp the i Sears: Roebuck Co. Incorporate in State SACRAMENTO, March 8-The firm Of- Sears, Roebuck one of the largest mail order concerns In the world, today has a license to transact business in California on-a local basis with the granting ot an application 'for articles of Incorporation by of State Frank C.

Jordan. The capital stock is announced as ferred and common stock. The mail order firm intends to locate its principal, office in -Los Angeles, with branches in Francisco and Oakland, and will enter the retail trading -circles of the The concern is headed by Richard W. Sears. RLACKHEADS Is cannot be bidden.

Get rid of them now by regular treatments with every time. A tiny bottle of "Freerone" eosta only few -cents at any drug store-, sufficient to remove every hard corn, soft corn, corn between the toes and calluses. Try SAN FRANCISCO, March 9. After three days of effort to learn his name or address, the dead bomber of Sts. Peter Paul church in North Beach, still lies in the morgue unidentified.

Since the body was brought there, early Sunday morning after the man had been shot by police in he fifth attempt, to destroy the church with dynamite, thousands of persons have viewed it. A detail of police and detectives found scores who were positive that they had seen the man many times, heard him preach on the street corners and even tossed him small coins. But none could be found who knew his name, or anything else that might lead to his identification. Many corroborated the statement of Robert St. Hilaire, cook at the Calvary Mission, 726, Howard street, that the dead man 'was known as "The Police today are working on the theory that the dead man and his alleged companion, Celsten Eklund who lies with a bullet shattered hip in the San Francisco hospital.

were hired to perform the bomb outrage. According, to Captain Arthur Layne of the Central station, fact that all marks of identification had been removed from the men's clothing and that both were penni less Indicates that "higher ups" had engaged them for the bombing. This alsb is the theory advanced bv Father Oreste Trin- pastor of the church. Both pointed out that both the oeaa man and Eklund were religious fanatics and therefore would prove ready tools for a gang, of terrorists. 'Investigation of Eklund's activi ties on the morning of bombing have revealed his actions to be at variance with those he describes.

Captain Layne declared that contradicting Eklund's story that he was out for a. ride is the fact that he rode almost direct to the scene of the-bombing on a Powell street car, a transfer punched at -i 1:30 m. being found in pocket. ronce are sun engaged jn checking' the long list of firms participating in the purchase of a large shipment of dynamite last November, the. shipment to which 26 sticks found in 'the church bomb have been traced.

New Alameda Parish Will Hold Dance March 9. A whist party and carnival dance for the benefit, of St. -Barnabas church will be held In the Adelphian club house. Central avenue at Wal nut street On Wednesday evening, March 16.. Committee members working in 'preparation for the event include E.

J. Probst, Thomas Minnehan, John Dea, F. M. Samuels, Harold Minnehan, Mrs. Thomas Egan and Mrs.

John Elwood. Two Chambers Will Discuss Tax Affairs ALAMEDA. March 9. Commit tees from the- Alameda and Oakland Chambers of Commerce will meet in the Hotel Oakland at 8 P. March 15, to discuss the reappraisal and re-valuation of county lands for the county tax assessment.

Members of the Alameda committee are John C. Stan-nard, Clarence L. Traver, E. K. Taylor and Venore B.

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