Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 1

ft Ix-etmiw Associated Tie Oakland vicinity Fair and mild tonight "and" Tuesday moderate-westerly; winds. i r't. United Press VOL. CIX THREE CENTS-SUNDAY, -TEN CENTS OAKLAND, 4 CALIFORNIA, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1928 Copyright, 1918. by The TRIBUNE Publishing Co.

32 PAGES NO. 65 i i tnr a 1111 III II II fx i I TRADES JOIN PpuncTof Flesh MOLLY: O'DAY has paid for a film i career by undergoing an operation to remove 'fat from her hips' and legs, y- Safe in Greenland PARKER CRAMER (left)' and BERT HASSELL, crew of the plane Greater Rockford, who have been rescued in Greenland after having been reported missing for two weeks. i. Big Bonfire May Mean Amundsen Is Still Alive 2 ROCKFORD FLIERS SAFE IN GREENLAND floridian's SicIlS FRENCH AIR GIF DIES IN PLANE CELEBRATION OF LABOR DAY Throngs Attend Picnic and Athletic Evnts in Marin County; Special Addresses Made at of C. Campus Speaker Tells of Benefits of Unionism to Common Weal; Churches Hold Joint Service; Leaders Speak Organized labor of Northern California Joined today in a mon ger celebration of Day at Callfornlt park in Marin county, attended by more than 10,000 bay and San Francisco trade union lata and their; families.

Practically every line of Industry jointed in the big celebration, ana throughout the Kastbay aection business houses and manufacturing plants were closed as their employed Joined in the celebration. The University of California suspended classes from 11 o'clock until noon in order that tne siu dent body might hold a Labor Day nroeram. at which will J. rencn director of the California depart ment of Industrial relations, ana nast "resident of the San Fran Cisco Labor Council, -was the prin cipal speaker. JOINT SERVICE HELD BY CHURCH.

Oakland Protestant churches held a huge Joint service last night at the municipal auditorium to emphasize the relation of the church and labor, jonn i. mc t'TagLHsv i Nab, San Francisco attorney, was Labor Dav sneaker at all cele. bra Hon. emphasized the dignified and honored position which labor today holds In the life of the na tion, and urged a closer cooperation -and friendship between em- mlover and emDlovee. The meeting on the University of California campus at which French spoke waa under the aus-, pices of the American Federation r4 of Labor.

The exercises, held In Harmon gymnasium, were presided FIGHTS HOOVER SPENDS WOMAN Blaze on Edge Island Might Also Be Clue to Nohile's Crew. BY ASSOCIATED MESS LEASED WIRE TO TRIBUNE COPENHAGEN, Sept. S. The reported sighting by Norwegian sealers of a big bonfire In Edge Island, one of the Spltzbergen group, has raised the question here whether Roald Amundsen and his five companions not be alive. A float from the plane in which they flew to Join in the Italia rescue work was brought to Tromsoe, Norway, on Saturday, leading to belief that the men had perished.

The sealers who saw the bonfire a fortnight ago were quoted In a dispatch from Tromsoe as expressing a belief that the fire might be connected with the six men who drifted away in the balloon part of the Italia after the fatal crash on May 25. A message from Oslo today said that Norwegian meteorological authorities thought -that the finding of the was not inconsistent with the possibility that Amundsen and the others were safe. It was considered possible that their plane might have met with an accident In the vicinity of Edge Island. TROMSOE, Norway, Sept. 8.

C4) A rumor was current here today 'that a second float of the French Lathnm seoplnne, in which Roald Amundsen and five companions disappeared after hopping off in the Italian rescue work, had been found. The rumor seemed to be based on a report that the captain of a sealing ship had stated he noticed something like an airplane float in the sea where the first float was found by the Brood, a fishing vessel. OSLO, Norway, Sept 8. (P) Information from government circles today was that the Norwegian and French governments would abandon further efforts to find Roald Amundsen and five men Who disappeared on a flight to Spltzbergen In connection with the Italia polar disaster. f'JNIE Short Circuit Fills N.

Y. Car With Smoke. Starts Stampede. BY ASSOCIATED MESS LEASED WIRJ? TO TRIBUNE NEW YORK. Sept.

8. Scores of passengers- were overcome by smoke and several others fainted and were trampled In a panlo when an Interborough subway train stalled and filled with smoke from a short circuited rail while passing under the East river yesterday. It was the third accident on the Interborough system in ten days. Forty-three of those affected were treated at hospitals. Others were given emergency treatment.

The train was nearlng the end of the East river tnnnel from Manhattan to Queens when dense smoke billowed from the floor of the first car. Pa wen g. ere, mindful of the recent wreck at Times 8qnare In which 16 per. sons were killed, stampeded for the door to the second car. Women screamed, seme of them fainted, and the door was Jammed before many had passed krough.

Those left In the front car were choked by smokt. Hindenburg Visits Children in Convent BY ASSOCIATED PXESS LEASED WIRE TO TRIBVBE DIETRAMSZELL, Germany, Sept, 8. President Von Hindenburg, whose vacation here ends tomorrow, spent yesterday among the children of the Sllealan convent, near here. They "entertained him with songs snd recitations and received for their pains cakes and chocolates from the president President Von Hindenburg will go to Munich tomorrow and lay the foundation stone of the library of ths new Germanic museum there. He will also receive the Bavarian-Olympic weight champions, J.

Strassberger and Hans Woelpert, returning- to Berlin Wednesday morning. TIN 1 ever bv President W. Campbell. "It ia a matter" of congratula AT ONE tion that an agreement between the University of California and the State Federation of Labor pro ldei fora phase of the labor problem each Lebpr said French. JOINS WITH LABOR '41 IK ACTUAL.

STUDY "This Is the only university that parltclpatea in a study of the edU' eational aspects with representa tlves of organised labor. Four membera of this faculty and four trade unionists constitute lllllflsis mmmmmmf Ah, i FilmJletrei Has Cut Off as 4Lat Resort' to Save Her Career. LOS ttepV Molly O'Day, screen actress, has given her pounds of flesh In pay ment for a film-career, The actress was resting at a hos pital today after an operation performed Thursday to remove aeveral pounds of flesh from her hips and legs. The operation was. kept secret until today.

while the actress recovered from the effects of two hours' stay under ether and the four Incisions began healing. Only Miss Day's mother knew nt' nlani fii thm The actress will remain In the hospital for at least two weeks, undergoing a rigid diet and special treatment for further weight reduction." 1 The actress has been: gaining weight steadily for the last year and although under contract to a film studio has been Idle, -er excessive weight -toe cause of her lack of w.ork, Miss O'Day said. and after other flesh reducing methods failed she decided on the surgeon's knife as the final resort. Plan Prepared to Prevent Walkout on Fifty-Five Vstern-Roads. CHICAGO.

Sept I. CW Offi cials of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Order of Railroad Conductors planned to submit to' the general committees of ths associations this afternoon a tentative scheme which may avert a possible strike of trainmen and conductors of 55 western roads. Ei P. Curtis, of Cedar Rapids, president of the conductors' organization, said tHe unions had been seeking wage Increases ranging from to 15 per cent, but be de clined to Judicata the nature of the proposal which was worked out at a conference'Ji) Washington last week between representatives of the unions, the roads and the federal board of mediation, Curtis added that the result of a strike ballot which the employees have been taking for the past three weeks Would not be made public at thla time." Authority to the untoa leaders to call a strike, should they deem It necessary, la reported, however, to have been voted, by a large ma. Jorlty.

Che Foo Joint I Nationalist Cause CHE FOO. I. Che "Foo transferred Its allegiance to 'the Nationalist cause today. The Soufbem' Chinese flag waa noutea.v Boiaiers-sna police changed badges accordingly. There was no Che Foo fell into the of Northern Chinese troops July 21 after the Nationalists had occupied the -Northern Chinese capital, Peking.

I' -m ft 1 1 1 i TRAINMEN SEEK TO AVOID STRIKE Hassell and Cramer Rescued by Professor Hobbs After Two-Week Trek Across Ice Unhurt in Landing Plane forced Down onBarren. Coast by Lack of Fuel, but Not Damaged; Radio Flashes News" of Safety ST ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE TO TRIBVWZ NEW YORK, Septfl 8. Missing two weeks in the Arctic, Bert Has-' sell and Parker Cramer, American fliers, were safe today at Mount Evans, Greenland, the second stop on their projected flight from Rock-f or, 111.,, to Sweden. While the world was becoming convinced -that' they had suffered the fate of other aviators Who per. Ished daring the Atlantic, they were making their way over a 66-inlle stretch ot Icy Greenland waste.

Word. of -the rescue or tne iners came to the Times-via; its radio station in a dispatch, from Professor W. Hobbs, leader Of the University of Michigan' Green- land expedition. Members of the expedition. "which has-a "at; Mount Evans, brought the airmen to safety yesterday after picking them up In the icy wastes, ten miles across a fjord "from ths base.

I The filers were uninjured. Although hungry, having lived on si ration of eight ounces of pemnolcan a day, they were stated to be in excellent condl- 1 tion. V. GASOLINE SHORTAGE FORCED THEM Shortage of gasoline forced the airmen down on the ice arm of Point Sukkertoppen on August 18. Point Sukkertoppen ia a headland on the southwest coast of Green land about 60 miles southwest Mt.

Evans, at the base of which the Hobbs expedition had prepared a landing field for the airmen. Tne plane was not damaged. -For two weeks the airmen trav- jelcd over the ley surface and nthrough wild and "unexplored 'country, hoping to reach safety. A smoke signal they sent up breuaeiimjviBBers- of the expedition in a niotorboat to their res cne as they wandered over the waates. They were taken across a fjord to Camp Lloyd, three miles from the' radio, station at Mount Evans.

Apparently Hasaell and Cramer had been forced off their bourse by adverse weather when' they attempted to fly from. Cochrane, Ontario, to Mount Evans, a distance of 1600 miles, on the second leg of tneir nignt. i AIRMEN WERE SIGHTED OVER GREENLAND. Hopping off from Cochrane In their monoplane Greater Rockford at 12:18 p. m.

Eastern standard time, on August 18, the airmen were sighted over Flakehaesset about 200 miles south of Point Skuppertoppen at 10:80 a. ml( the next '-7. v' News of their sighting over Flek-enaesset was not received, however, until August 38, when the Danish government made public a report from Greenland administration an- nounclng the receipt of a message from the sheriff of South Greenland saying the plane, had been sighted, Ths sheriff stated that two motor boats would be sent out immediately to search for the filers. Professor Hobbs organized land aearching parties forv the air-, men. The United State Coast Guard cutter Marion and the lsh coastal vessel Islandfalk also took up tha search.

Rockford Goes Wild S' With Joy at News ROCKFORD, 111., Sept. 8. A airrgle last night unlocked all ho pent emotion that Rockford had locked In Its breasts for two anxious weeks. It transformed dull hope to glorious realty Bert Hassell and Parker Cfamer, co-pilots of the monoplane. Greater Rockford, were safe.

Word of their safety in Greenland stirred the olty to a. bedlam, of noise In a spontaneous celebration that rivaled that of Armistice day ten years ago. s. Through tt alt, two children clutched the hands of a dry eyed mother wlro 1 fought for self-control aa she watciied the news of Jert Hassell as It came In- aver telegraph wires at the of fkvjj of the Rockford Morn- tag irtar. "WOULD HAVE KEPT VH.

HOPE FOREVER." -With eyes for nothing but printed words and ears for only the noise of automatic typewriters, the wife of Bert Hassell "I would have kept my hope if he had been gone a Mlchl, Sept. Wl When Bert Haseetl and Cramer reached the Mount Evans observatory camp of Pro: aor W. H. Hobbs of the of prbbablv ered to Professor Hobbs tho i -t letter from his wife the e.1ur. has received since last The letter was given to the by Mrs.

Hobbs beforo th-y Rockford, tt was disclosed at Hobiis hme here today. Hobbs has followed the the Hassell flight with iiti, i est end before she loft -r In Jat et fear that the -rs 1 Forty tMen, Reach Seattle on Board Admiral Fiske Following Crash in Fog Off NortJtternx Coast Ship's Cat and Parrot Only Casualties Search Is Continued Although Vessel Believed Sunk BY ASSOCIATED PBESI LEASED WIXS TO XSISUJfC SEATTLE, Sept. S. Feeling that they were lucky to be alive, the forty men of the crew of the rammed freighter Florldlan were brought Into Seattle today aboard the steamer Admiral Fiske, which was also damaged in the collision between the two vessels off the Washington coast Saturday night. The Florldlan, which was left to her fate with ahole eight by four In her hull, and her engine room and holds flooded, was believed to have sunk a few hours after the collision, but salvage and coast guard vessels were combing the water today to make sure that the ship was note still inu.

In thick weather fog, mist and smoke, ev ident from forest nres, i oJclock Saturday night, when the nnmtA tin lust aheau, said Captain A. B. Tlbbets, master of the Admiral isae. duo nut how In the fog. IIVKUCU wH.

The next Instant there was a crash. It was evident tkftt tne lonamn was badly damaged, ao we stood hail tnirAn off all the officers and crew. A survey of our ship showed a big hole in me now, with the plates flared out, and as t.vtiv lnrin. we decided to turn about then and steam for Seattle. Hpwever, tne water oniy reached the forepeak.

the forward bulkhead holding." Captain, ueorge wiiuanw, m-tar ellhe Floridlant aald ths-water from the gaprng hole in the slds of his vessel extinguished the. fires almost -at once, nd the ship settled in the The engine tteath" from the rushing waters, but the ship's cat -and parrot were cas ualties." vr. nt Bumcn of the Flor ldlan lost all their belongings, and even the ahlD's papers were aban doned The crash occurred about iuiy miles south of Umatilla reef. Manifesto Applauds Calles Retirement MEXICO CITY, Sept. I.

President Calles' address to Con gress on Saturday, especially his emphasM of his decision not to accept additional time In the chief office of the republic, was warm ly aDDlauded in a manifesto is sued by the antl-Re-electlonist rwrty-- The -document said that the message was a note ot glory for him aa presfdenf and. of great prestige fort him as a man. "II at tnis time ine popular will as expressed in the message is not given attention, It Is almost certain that the nation will rise en masse," said the manifesto. "It will demand in a categoric and im perative manner that lts-vwiii do respected. It behooves congress, the army, state governors ana tne dominant political party to see that this hew conflagration is avoided.

Ths task will be easy if we will proceed patriotically." The newspaper Excelsior, in an editorial, asks whether the president's words will prove merely a golden dream or become a fact. It points out that he had had to lean upon congresses which have not been adequate instruments for carrying out such purposes. It does nSt doubt, however, that the army will live up to the president's faith in Its loyally, but it adds that the sense of duty oftlmes changes with conditions. Envoy's Daughter i Prince Will Wed TOKYO, fjfpt. t.W) It Is officially announced that the- marriage of Prince Chichibu and Set-suko Matsudalra, daughter of the Japanese ambassador to tha United States, will be solemnized on 21.

The prince Is heir apparent to ths Japaneae throne. Roosevelt Guard Diet in 'St, Louis 'ST. LOUIS, Sept l4JP Stephen A. Connell, agent In charge of. the St Louis bureaus of the United States Secret Service and one time bodyguard for President Theodore Roosevelt died here early today of a eomplloatioj) el heart kidney and liver trouble.

Man Faces Federal Charge of Liquor Sale V1P1 9 1 I fore U. 8. Commissioner James M. Painter, Qua Loftus of Vallejo. arrested recently by prohibition offi cers- arter- they claimed to have purchased liquor from him, has been held to answer to the federal court at Sacramento.

He Is sched. uled for hearing jthere tomorrow. National League Chicago 1, Plttsbsrgh 1 (first Minister of Commerce and Aviation Takes Fatal Ride to' Dispel Reports He Is Not Flying Enthusiast Body pf Youngest Cabinet Member and Four Others Cremated in Fiery Craft; Just Left Briand's Home BY ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE TO TRIBUNE PARIS, Sept. 3. A sudden nose dive ef an airplane and lta crash in flames have robbed France of her youngest cabinet member, Maurice Bokanowskl, minister of commerce and aviation.

Four others, Gabriel Hanln, ptllot; Jean Vldal, mechanic; Henri Wlllins, radio operator, and Ed-ouard Lefranc, general secretary of the nlrplnne company, also perished in the crash near Tout. Just previous to boarding the plane, Bokanowskl while '-'letting with General Du rray and Captain Houbcrt said, "Newspaiernien Inslnunle that I never fly, that I take all possible precautions even when I approach plane standing still. You R(v' lie continued as he jumped Into the en bin of the plane, "an nlrplnne trip lias no terrors for me." Five mlnuates later he was dead. RETURNING FROM HOME OF POINCA1RE. Bokanowskl spent Saturday at the country house of Premier Poln-calre at Camplgny where he attended an Informal meeting of the cabinet, celebrating the premier's 68th birthday and also the second anniversary of the formation of the national union cabinet.

Sun-, day morning he went to an aviation field 26 miles away and took his place in a plane ordered from Le Bourget. The machine, a Spad biplane, took off laboriously with lta motor coughlngr It rapidly gained altitude and headed for Cler-imont-Ferrsnd -where Bokanow ski was to attend an aviation festival. Captain Houbcrt, who waa escorting; the minister's plane la a military machine, noted tho Sped suddenly veer to the right when about lfoo feet aloft and go Into a nose dive. MOTHER SAYS HE DIED LIKE SOLDIER. It took two hours to extricate tne bodies from the wreckaira and Bokanowskl's was identified only by a platinum watch which he was Known to carry.

aoKanowskl 79 year old mother, who was taking the cure at Vichy, Bald, when informed of mi craan: "Ho died like a soldier at his post. The war failed to take his life although be did not fail to risk It." Bokanowskl's war record In eluded four citations. Ha was dee orated with the Leclon of Honor ana de Querre. Bokanowskl was 41 vein oM tie waa appointed minister of commerce and aviation In 1828 He visited tne United -States last vear. attending the sessions of the Am erican ar Association in Buffalo.

Escaped Killed by Police ZANESVILLE. Rent 1 Del Wilkes, 85, one of two con victs who escaped from the Rose- vine state brick plant at Junction City laat week, waa shot and killed by local police officers here todav aa ha waa H.mnHn. in escape from the vicinity of his former home. Ths officers wera called hv tha Dresent oeeunant of fh honu when Wilkes attempted to break into iu Burglars Rob Safe at Los Altos Station, SAN JOSE, Aug. 8.

Burglars last night looted the safs of ths Southern Paclfla station at Los Altos, about 18 miles west of San Jose. Because of the holiday, the sheriffs office hers was unable to learn the amount of caah con tained In the safe, but It was prob ably very small. The robbery was discovered by a pasalng pedestrian, who looked In the window. Ed F. McGuIre, 1(5 Ealns avenue, Albany, arid took 825 from the till.

The next victim was Matt Clarke, 1565. Oak street, operator of a service elation at 4tt Broadwsy. Here the bsndlt obtained 880. Oner Lovan. Key boulevard and Humboldt avenue, Richmond, accepted an automobile ride with two strange men.

and waa robbed of 818 and forced to get out and walk, he told Richmond police. Walter E. Butch reported to police that he was held up and robbed ef 821 by two armed bandits early yesterday morning- at Jefferson and Grove streets. A "conscientious thief left a bone-handled knife at the home of H. L.

Chatham. 517 Forty-fifth street, and took In exchange money and Jewelry to the sum of 8115. Chatham told i a standing committee for thla pur-" 1, pose. There is nothing that can take the place of Intensive research Into the greatest of questions be fore the peoples of all lands." French recalled that he appeared on the same platform 12 Years ago with two other apeak- rs who are now dead, former President Benjamin Ide Wheeler and CoL Harrla Weinstock. "Since 1882 the first Monday In each September la set aside for special deliberation on ecenomlc Issues." said French, "but all days are labor and every day thoughtful citizens are striving In different ways to advance the tandarda of life, and to bring larger returna to 'the great mass women' and children who make up auch, an element In the social 'and economic order." DEMOCRACY OF LABOR PAID TRIBUTE.

French paid a tribute to the "democracy of labor" in tuestu dent life at the university. "It Is considered a badge of OFF BURET Screams Scare Him Away His Attempt to Throttle Her. Miss Elizabeth Rose, 768 Ninth street, beat off a burglar who entered her bedroom early this mom- Inc nnri tn Bnlts nf hlfl attempts to throttle her. scared him away. Her assailant Is believed to be the same man who earlier In the night broke In a basement window In the home of Miss Helen riuni, fi 9A Tenth iitreet.

and was frltrht- ened away by Miss Hunt's screams. In both instances, the intruder made his escape witn aatonisning ease by vaulting over backyard fences, the women told police. SEES FLASHLIGHT IN HER BEDROOM. Miss Rose told police that she mfmm time after mid night to see a man calmly playing 1.11u. ha.

h.i!rnnnt. a IlRSlliiKiifc Biuynu She acreamed, whereupon he leapt upon her and aougni 10 cnoa nc. with the strenath of desperation she fought him off. Then, aa ana lay gasping anu -hausted on the bed, the man went Into another room. "I could hear him prowling rA in them she said.

"As soon as I could catch my breath I screamed again." Apparently unwilling to enier into another hand-to-hand atruggle with ths woman, the burglar ran Into the hallway and through a vacant apartment next to that of Miss Rose. ah. w.i.ha htm drnn'from a window into art alleyway and make hla escape by vaulting over a fence. APARTMENT SHOWS SIGNS OF BATTLE T.irnimn W. E.

Colvin re sponded to her call for police and searchet the entUeMghborhood uithnni Her Ulnwtment showed evidences of terrific struggle, he reported. yin Hunt told nollcs shs had just gone Into her kitchen after re turning home when she Heard ins basement window crash. Next she h.a rrl man moving about below her. She acreamed. tha man ran out of the Dasemem ana jumped over the rear fence.

Rancher Gets Jail Sentence For Liquor MODESTO. Sept. 8. George Del Porta. Merced rancher, has been sentenced to six months In the county jail bv -Justice of the Peace J.

M. Gondrfng of Ceres. He pleaded guilty to charges or pos session and transportation -of liquor. Der-puita wae-Wt-tinea. that bv the court, 840 on each charge, but when he Informed the court he had no money.

Judge Go nd ring substituted the jail sentence. Enraged Champanzee Attacks Boy of 3 LOS ANGELES, Sept 8. Three-year-old Eddie Schakert was bitten severely by a chlmpaniee bers yesterday when the animal, a part of an. act on a picnic program at a park, became enrsred at Its trainer and leaped Into the grand- land, attacking ths ehlid. Nominee Observes Holiday by Labors of Campaign.

By JAMES L. WEST Sept.1- 8. Like almost everyone else, Herbert Hoover today observed Labor Day by abstaining from work with the Intention of spending holiday very quietly with, his family and a few friends at home. Ths week-end letup ln his drive for the presidency gave the Republican candidate opportunity to review the work thus rar a.ons ana to study some' Of the suggestions which cams to him in his recent conferences with, party leadera from various aectlons of. tha country Before leaving Wednesday or Thursday for aeveral daya of fishing on Chesapeake Bay Hoover will meet with a number, of those entrusted with carrying a major share of ths burden of National campaign speaking nd will give his personal to an accumulation of mall.

Among those Who are to "call at the nominee's headquarters la Senator Borah 'ofldaho 'who'is to begin his speaking tour at Detroit later in the month after' Hoover himself haa Invaded the east for the delivery of his first address In that section. Borah was among the first of the outstanding figures In -the party not previously committed to declare for the nomination of Hoover at Kansas City and it was he who with his celebrated questionnaire drew a publle expression from the party standard bearer on ths prohibition question Id the pre-convention days. Ths Idaho ranked among the leading Independents In the senate, has made no engagement beyond that at Detroit on September It, but he said today he would speak in both the east and the west. Anti-Crime Advocate to Support Hoover NEW Sept. tWl Th Rev.

Charles Henry Parkhurst, for many years pastor of the old Madison Square -Presbyterian church, and president of the Society for the Prevention of crime, notified Republican headquarters here that he and Mrs. Park. hurst would support Herbert Hooy. er for president. "Governor Smith," he "has tremendous energy, clear thought and the ability to make himself clear to- ths minds- of the people.

but Tantmany cannot change; It Is organised corruption and Smith. aa decLsiymfluence In Tammany nan naa not experienced any change of Nobile Returns to' Rome; in Poor Health ROME, Sept. 8 General Cmberto Nobile returned here from Milan today with, hla health In such condition that strictest rest is necessary. It is understood that an operation on the arm which was breken In the Italia cra'h and which after startlne to henl i troubling im anew, may be Assemblyman's House, Two Oil Stations Robbed honor to work one's way through he "No task Is Considered too menial when the objective of graduation la ahead. If there could be the same attitude toAsriall honest labor, In andeOut ef the university, some of the di-Tiding Issues would disappear." Doing into the history of trade unions and their effect on society, the speaker told his audience: "The trade union has done, and Is.

doing a monumental piece of work for society. It haa Its faults, all things human. Sometimes Its members fall In their opportunities. The sams criticism can be leveled against all organizations, never mind what their purpose. Occasionally church members are Inconsistent, the and the cross still rear their heads and stand for the eternal truths." UNION BENEFIT OF LABORING CLASSES.

"No factor has been more Important than the trade union In reducing the long hours of labor and Increasing wages. Today 'the advantage- tu bushiest of high wagea is admitted, and the added spending power Is an aid to 'prosperity. Beyond these fundamentals In the economic sphere are powerful of the trade union, as an Institution, in behalf of unorganized men, women and children, "Many a man who boasts of hU Uvleged freedom, and who refuses yW te participate in the processes of collective bargaining. Is' glad. Indeed, to work eight hours a day instead of ten or twelve, or to.

receive a aura In his pay envelope for which he has to thrfhk the trader onion. Never has such a man been known to objeot to sucry partlclpa- Police were searching today for bandits and sneak thieves responsible tor a series of hold-ups and burglaries In thEastbay over ths week-end. 1 The home of Roy Bishop, lttl High street, Alameda, state assemblyman from the thirty-fifth district, was entered late last night during the absence of the family and jewelry valued at 150- waa atolen. Discovery of ths theft was made by tWT assemblyman's daughter. Miss Ann Bishop, who returned home about 11 o'clock.

Entrance had been gained by smashing a small pane of glassln ths frontJ door. A lone bandit held up -two gasoline service, stations, the first at Moss and "Telegraph avenues. There the bandit pointed a gun at A (ContaMied Page 2. CoL 7.) th.ir lives..