Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 19

i rr ommotit mm 3 DAILY FEATURE MAGAZINE i d' -I 34 4 NO. 22 18 OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 22, 1926 VOL. CV Powell Scorns Oakland Bandit SUPERVISORS Dressmaker Wants Judge to 1.MRS. ETTA.GIBBENS. defied a robber 'to "hoot" today when he thrust a revolver in heT face in robbing her grocery at Reopen Suit 1301 East Twenty-eighth street.

PARLEY -HELD DH EIFT1F KEY SYSTEM OAKLAND ER IS NAMED IN CRASH PROBE Berkeley Dispute Whether GIVE AG AIL-TD MEMORIAL -A CONTROVERSY- has been started in Britain as to how long the British really have had bathtubs, and whether they actually bathe more than other people If the dispute is worth considering, as anything but a eilly season freak, the real palm should go to Japan. When Peary opened Japan to "civilization," the first bathtub had been installed1 in the American White House only two years before. Every Japanese had taken a Bath every day for a thousand years. Still earlier, the Romans were the great bathers. The great public baths of Rome were its most luxurious establishments.

But after the fall of Rome it was a thousand years before anybody in Europe took a bath. Meantime" the Mohammedan conquerors of India had raised bathing to a fine art The baths Dress Is Dress or Bath Suit Rages Again. BERKELEY. July 22. The last word has not been said In the case of the dress which turned out, in Officials Agree to Arrange the opinion of Judge Robert Ed gar, to be a bathing suit.

Insurance Agent Wanted In Mrs. Allls Linn Markey, fashion Further Conferences on Proposed Release of 157 able dressmaker of 8101 College Board Today Votes to Rais' County's Share in Edified, on Adams Park Site tS City Gives Lanf i An additional $65,000 toward Berkeley After Driver Flees Auto Accident in Which Four Are Hurt avenue, appeared in the office of Acres of Submerged Land Judge Robert Edgar this morning and announced that she was ready of Shah Jehan, Akbar and Auran.g-Zeb far surpass in sumptuous-ness anything now known in England or America. Yet they were built about the time the Pilgrim Fathers were building the first log cabins in Massachusetts. to prove to the world that when she made a dress it remained a Following a meeting this morn Harold Brue, Oakland Insurance dress and did not become a bath I 'A ing between Commissioner LeRoy agent, will be questioned todav bv ing costume. construction of the Veterana' Memorial Building in Adams ParK Goodrich, Harbor Manager G.

Berkeley police In an investigation of a hit and run crash last night Hegardt and General Manager Mrs. Markey signed an affidavit before Oliver Toungs clerk In the Berkeley Justice court, charging IT was in India that the British George. H. Harris of the Key System, it was agreed that further 1 learned to bathe. The ell at Grand avenue and Harrison street, was voted today by th.

board of supervisors increasing it that she had never been served with on Ban ra.Dio avenue near Harrl son street, Berkeley, which result ed in the injury of four Demons. conferences will be held soon con 1 -Nil I 1 a summons to appear in court in a A suit brought by Mrs. Charlotte appropriation for the edifice from mate made the bath a luxury, and the natives taught the British how to do it. Then Johnstone, 6923 College avenue, earning the proposal of the Key System to release 157 acres of submerged waterfront property south of its mole, for Oakland harbor de to $250,000. Brue is said to have abandoned an auto, later claimed by Joseph E.

Fox, garage owner at 480 Ho-bard' street, Oakland, and to have following it tabulation, revised daily, of the number of per- ions killed or injured in Oakland, Ala-meda end Berkeley au Oakland, and was not notified of the date of trial. She alleges that It was declared by Henry H. they took the custom home to velopment in order that all the Mej-ers, county architect, the latter' a summons returned to the Berkeley Justice court by Joseph nea rrom the scene of the acci dent. angles of the matter may be stud k. sum will be required to construct led by officials of the Key System.

Mrs. Lillian Rearden, 1105 Tenth the building at the site now decid- Thompson, declaring that she had been served, was false. Mrs. Markey asks that judgment Goodrich today denied the rumor street, Berkeley, was driving the ed upon. The building is to be of two auio wrecKea Dy the other ma chine Mrs.

Rearden that the city is contemplating trading some land for this 157 acres of under-water land. of J15 awarded to Mrs. Johnstone be set aside and that the case be reopened. She also asks that the dress be brought to court to prove stories with auditorium, lodge rooms, recreation rooms and fices. The land has been provided by the city of Oakland.

"There's no swap about it," said Jury when her machine was turned over. She told the police the other auto was traveling at a high rate Goodrich. "If the Key System gives us this fairway to develop, that it was up to 'specifications. When Mrs. Markey failed to ap vl gpeea ana struck her car just It was pointed out that the that is all right.

Negotiations pervisors now have given $140,009 pear In court when Judge Edgar tomobile accident dun ing 1926. Total for the three cities, including today are: Oik-land. 31 Injured. .878 as bub turned at the intersection. Sam Fisher and Mrs.

Fisher, toward the fund from a 2 -cent levy upon the tax of last year, and that- called Mrs. Johnstone's suit against her, the latter donned the frock in mrs. itearaen's sister, and their have been under way for a long time, and we are waiting for them to outline what they can do. The matter is still in vague form. The dispute.

another $145,000 would be provld- ed by a similar levy this -i England. But it was not bathing as Americans now know it. British daily, In bathtubs, long before they had any bathrooms. In India, where the bathing started, there are no sewers. Your servants brought in your bath and carried it out again.

Servants were plenty In England, too, and they brought In the bath to your bedroom, with cans of cold and hot water to fill it. If It Is true that there were no bathrooms in Windsor Castle until Queen Victoria's death.it does not follow that there were no baths. In fact, the Queen herself was reported as demanding distilled water for her bath, at a time when distillation was scarce and expensive. 0 0 0 IT was servantless America that developed the labor-saving bathroom, with its modern Heavens, that's not a dress; it's Alt- B.rk- stor. 2 6 32 202 The committee which appeared before the board was headed by Dr a bathing suit," ejaculated the judge and immediately thereupon he awarded damages to the wearer Qf the disputed dress.

Key System is planning its own terminal and is quite busy at that. However, the 157-acre transfer is not a dead issue and will be threshed out at future confer John F. Slavich, chairman of th two aaugnters were injured A 10-year-old Oakland boy suffered injuries in an auto-bicycle crash and four other persons were hurt in Eastbay auto accidents in the last 24 hours. Henry Evans, 2235 Fortieth avenue, 10, was struck by a car driven by Frank Kregar, 2859 Hopkins street, as the bov turned hlsm-hoei county council of veterans' organ-. izations, and included Donald Mo Mrs.

Johnstone alleged that the ences. NESS FAULTS BUS dress was too low at the top and too high at the bottom. "It was four Inches above her IX PRELIMINARY STAGES. Harris said he had "nothing to Clure and Will Foss, representing1 the American Legion; Eugene KV Sturgis, Veterans of Foreign Ware: M. C.

Lutz, Disabled "Veterane. and. knees," commented the judge. into a driveway. His collar bone was broken and he suffered severe say about it, as it is in the preliminary stages." S.

Dumser, G. A. R. Miss Bond field Wins Mayor Davie entered the 'discus lacerations and bruises. Martin A.

Nelson. 2625 Rhoda told ioniums sion this morning with a two-page $131 WALLET LOST. A pocketbook containing1 $181 Ifl i avenue, suffered three broken ribs letter addressed to Hegardt, as New Parliament Seat LONDON, July 22 (P) Mar currency was lost at a local. ana other injuries when his auto serting that the Key System never owned the 157 acres. amusement park last night by Fred O.

Briscoe, 1703 Brush street. ac-v crashed into the rear of a parked machine at Forty-fifth avenue and garet Bondfield, former chairman He said, in part: of the Trades Union congress, re East Fourteenth street. order that these negotiations elected to parliament for the Wall- Theodore Geldsen. 1257 East Fif Weaknesses in the complex which in" wholesale and retail cording to his report to northern: 1 police today. Briscoe said his au tomobile driver's licnse was in the pocketbook with his name and ad send division of the laborite-ticket may not be carried on by you in ignorance of the facts, you are ad teenth street, suffered a broken in the bye-election to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Sir Patrick Hastings.

Miss Bond- vised that the city of Oakland owns this 167 acres of land. dress. leg when he stepped in front of an auto driven by C. E. Martin, 1)00 Channlngwway, Berkeley, at East field's return to parliament increases the number of women to FRANCHISE GRANTED.

"Ordinance 3099 grants this Twelfth street and Twelfth avenue. transactions are carried out annually the United States were pointed out by Alvln E. Dodd, Moyd Blgham, 1416 Falrview six. company a franchise to construct and maintain for 60 years a ferry avenue, is peing treated today at iheecervtngospItaT for injuries suffered when he was run down at piuniDing. Ana even that is a matter of almost yesterday.

Every man of 60 years old can remember when bathtubs In private houses were a rarity In the smaller cities of America and unknown in the villages and on the farms. But when It once started, we went in for it as even the Roman and the Moguls had never done. We are the most be-plmbed nation on earth, and we ever judge all other nations hv their plumhing. Be cause we acquired it only yesterday ourselves, we deem all other peoples uncivilized who live as our own fathers did. We cherish newness as they value age, and are prouder of "the latest thing out" then they are of ancestral culture, art and beauty.

It is all a matter' of the point of view. 0 0 0 TEANTIME, if we like, we I Turlock Boy Shot terminal and lacuities upon Tantr therein described. A section grants imanagr of the de- Sixty-sixth street and San Pablo In Pistol Accident the company, for the same period, avenue. Earl Pimentel, driver or Woman Store Clerk Defies mestlc distribution of thft United the machine, told the police Big- a franchise to use two fairways 1000 feet -wide on either side of the mole, but does not permit the com Lham walked directly in front of his 8 States Chamber pany to erect any structures on the Robber to Shoot in Holdup auto and that he was unable to avoid the accident. He "was not arrested.

TURLOCK, July 22. Bartol Davis, 14, was accidentally shot by a boy companion in the Lou Foote garage when the latter, in search for work, picked up a pistol and dropped it suddenly when admonished to keep his hands off the weapon. The bullet entered Davis' shoulder. He is at the Emanuel Km' fairways. The 157 acres form part of the southern fairway.

The city may at any time revoke the franchise as to the fairway." Meanwhile, with Mayor DaVie absent writing this letter, the city of Commerce, in a talk before the Rotary club at the Hotel Oakland today. to Dodd, is a comparatively new word in Scornful of bandits, Mrs. Etta COURTSDUELGHES Gibbens, manager of a grocery, 1301 East Twenty-eighth street, hospital. his pocket and commanded: "Throw up your hands, kid!" Equally emphatic, Mrs. Gibbens responded: "I will not!" "Open the cash register or I'll shoot" this from the perturbed A.

DODD. council approved the Hegardt plans for the West Fourteenth street wharf this morning, and called for first item of the comprehensive MADE BY THE MAKERS of PANCRUST our business language and is the third of a trio of which the first western development scheme is expected to cost about $700,000. bids for building it. This big wharf. FIGHTING HEIRS two are production and transporta tiqn.

Production and transporta robber, as he moved the gun closer. early today looked calmly into the barrel of a revolver held close to her head and defied a robber to shoot. Although he failed to frighten Mrs. Gibbens, the robber forced his way to the cash register and took $40. The man entered the store under pretense of purchasing a can of tlon have been studied a long time jy I may judge other nations also by radio, phone and automobiles.

With less than one-tenth of the population of the world, we have nine-tenths of the radio sets, three-fourths of the telephones and four-fifths of the automobiles in the world. We have ten times more farm houses equipped with electricity than all the rest of the world combined, and most of these in California. Our newspapers print more news, and circulate it to more people, many times over, than all the newspapers of the rest ana are highly developed processes, "Well, shoot away, but I am not going to open the money drawer; and that's final." The robber forced his way by but distribution lags behind. There are a series of problems Heirs fighting over the estate of Mrs. Johanna C.

Dwyer, who died December 25, 1924, leaving real relating to distribution to be solved he said. These relate to storage Mrs. Gibbens. and opened the register. He walked a short distance transportation, cancellation of or pro and ders, returned goods, credits, adver down the street and joined a confederate in a waiting automobile.

tising, accounting, taxation, insur short today In the probate court ance, financing. All of these add to the distribution cost. of the world. We have more and better railroads; many times more nearly all the steel-constrction skyscrapers, and the majority of the comfortable middle-class homes. In every physical equipment of life, we so far the rest of the world that of Superior Judge John J.

Allen. He ordered sale of the property within 24 hours under penalty of removing the present administratrix, Mary E. Dwyer, daughter, 1750 Thirteenth avenue. With bills and taxes against the there is no standard even of com parison. The Curtain Stores OES this mean, as we are in property long since due, sale was clined to think, that we are made in court to D.

M. Settle, 448 also Incomparably the most All Typef All SW Big Midsummer Special Castro street, Hayward, for J3850. Miss Dwyer told the court she civilized people on earth? The other people at least do not would refuse to sign a deed to the property at that price. think so. Or supremacy In things, The ale was duly advertised and they concede.

But things, they say, are not civilization. That ILE.Elfen.Opt.D. OPTOMETRIST ptical pecialist (29 years practice in Oakland) help in open court, and you will either complete the sale or be re consists of people, their institutions and their culture. moved as administratrix," Judge In these, rightly or wrongly, they Allen declared. An Actual $60 Value for aeny us the palm.

We may be right; but It is not necessary to maintain that position. If some Clash Delays Agnew Divorce Suit in S. F. one else says that books and pic tures are a surer mark of civiliza SAN FRANCISCO. Julv 22.

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