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.3 SUNDAY DaklanD JULY 14, 1929 A-3 SOVIET DIS NEAR SETTLEMENT i TDiQimr nine Rolling College Here With Dixie Schoolmarms V. S. Halts Diplomatic Dope Plot Prosecution llluuiiL muu DRIVERS 10 classroom seat: (left to right) GLADYS BOWERS. MELISSA BLACKWELL and VIRGINIA ESKRIDGE. At lower left MISS BLACKWELL is shown eating her breakfast from a cup.

while at the right MISS ESKRIDGE is snatching a moment from the excitement of camp life to do a little resting. TRIBUNE photos. A "summer school on wheels," first of its kind in the country, completely equipped to make good its motto: "Study and see America first," rolled into Oakland yesterday with 1 1 0 school teachers from south of the Mason' and Dixon line as students. Hotels are eschewed and class work and studying ate done in camps and en route in busses. Urjper view.

shows three, of the "schooleirls" usincr a camp cot for a TIBIFFIB GET CRACKED! FORCE SHIFTi II POLICIES! 'btl tHiViS I 'A- V' I ryZSV "fit tSSii-jfTyK- Yv f. Newspaper Provides Larger Offices to Help Motorists Of Eastbay By Speeding License Examinations. Here Is 'some news some vastly Important news for about 60.000 Eastbay motorists. The Oakland drivers' license hnrean of the state motor vehicle department, formerly located at 1439 Alice street, has been moved, bag and bagaxe, to office provided by The TRIBUNE on Thirteenth street next to The: TRIBUNE tower. Beginning tomorrow morning the quarters will be open from 8: SO m.

to p. m. and all automobile drivers' permits will be issued from this address. This move was made to expedite issuance of permits, Miss Ada Ford, manager of the Oakland department, has announced. The new offices are also more, centrally located and Miss Ford believes that Eastbay auto drivers will find the arrangement conducive to the furnishing of licenses without delay.

OLD OFFICE SWAMPED There will be no waits. With an Increased office personnel, Intent on giving examinations and issuing licenses as rapidly as possible, Indications are that the work of providing permits for the great num ber of Oakland drivers will be completed in a much briefer time than originally predicted. Every motorist whose license was Issued prior to January 1, 1927, must obtain a new permit, In accordance with a state statute. The present department quarters at 1439 Alice Street were swamped by the firet rush and hundreds were compelled to stand in line to await their turn. This will not be the case at the new headquarters.

The examination rooms are larger, there Is more space for license clerks, and more room In the new offices- In which to study Uie questionnaire. Commissioner C. C. Toung, In charge of public health and safety. has detailed three Oakland police officers to aid in the work and Miss Ford has hired dozens of addi tional clerks, EYES TO BE TESTED.

The examination will consist of questions to test the lndlvldn il driver's knowledge of the starts mo tor vehicle laws. There 'Will also be a test of each applicant's sight. Business men, unnble to be absent from their work for a lengthy period, will find the new location of the department much to their advantage as they may "drop In" at the lunch hour and get their permits. No other department business will be handled by the new license bureau, which. will concentrate Us efforts cri furnishing Eastbay mo-tordom with the little white permits.

The permits bureau will be designated Monday morning by a sign reading, "Temporary Office, Division of Motor Vehicles, Operators' Licenses." TRIBUNE AIDING. The TRIBUNE is donating office space to the department and is aiding the police department In facilitating the work. If you need a driver's license, and visit the next to The TRIBUNE TowerTand you will be served speedily. Data on Alameda To Be Given Navy ALAMEDA, July 13. The directors of the Alameda Chamber of Commerce have instructed Manager A.

R. Linn to collect all pnnslble data on Alameda to submit to the navy department for' consideration in selecting the new Pacific coast dirigible base. With the army aviation base matter deemed settled, the chamber of commerce will now endeavor to secure the dirigible base for Alameda also, ROBS 22 IN TAXICABS PARIS. Mile. Helene Dravonne has been arrested as the taxlcab bandit who took 22 men "for a ride" and robbed them-aU, IT tjMtAr 111 ft rf If 4 4 i ft 'Vj pi.

i i iifif I iiiMi'iiMriiiiwr 1 Consular Officials, Woman May Be Returned to China for Trial. BAN FRANCISCO. July 13. The Gordlan knot of diplomatic red-tape which enwraps San Francisco's Chinese opium smuggling case is to be slashed by the department of state. This was the gist of Instructions received here late yesterday by United States District Attorney George J.

Hatfield from Attorney General Mitchell at Washington, following a conference with Secretary of State Stimson. Until then the fate of Ying Kao, erstwhile vice-consul in San Francisco, his wife, Mrs. Ying Kao, and Suen Feon, chancellor of the Chinese consulate of San Francisco, remains in status quo. The three Chinese are at liberty, on $10,000 ball each, following their arrest by customs agents after searchera'had found opium worth $500,000 in Mrs, Ying Kao's luggage. AH were charged with attempted smuggling, by taking ad vantage of the customs' frank to which Ying Kao was entitled by virtue of his official position.

PROSECUTION HALTS. In the attorney general's wire to Hatfield, it was Indicated that the state department is concerned prin cipally with the offer of the Chinese embassy, to return all three to China for prosecution. The state department will determine, it is un derstood, whether or not tnis snail be done, or whether or not the three accused Chinese shall be prosecuted in the federal courts. Hatfield has already laid the foundation for the latter action by the prosecution started In San Francisco. The Kuo Ming Tang, political or ganization of the Chinese National ist government, is understood to be the agency behind the move to "un officially deport" the three accused Chinese.

ENDORSED BY WU. Dispatches indicate that Minister Wu at Washington has endorsed this suggestion and so Informed the state department. The Kuo Min Tang is anxious to avoid the undesirable publicity of a trial In ihis country, it is said. Mrs. Ying, the actual smuggler in the affair, is the daughter of the wealthy Chinese minister to Cuba, who is himself a close friend of Dr.

Wu, and this may cut a figure in the Washington considerations of the matter. Hatfield has dropped his efforts to apprehend a number of other wealthy Chinese whose Identities have been revealed by letters seized in Mrs. Ying's luggage, pending the action of the stale department. Attempted Bribery in Case Of Mrs. Pantages Is Alleged.

LOS ANGELES, July 18. Paddy McGee, ball bondsman under arrest here in connection with the case In which Alexander Pantages. wife of the theater magnate, Is charged with second degree murder, also Is wanted In Santa Ann, the district attorney's office was informed today. McGee was held by local officers when he allegedly attempted to bribe one of the witnesses who claimed that Mrs. Pantages was Intoxicated when he drove her automobile Into another, the collision resulting In the death of a Japanese.

McGee is wanted in Santa Ana for perjury, it is said. Workmen's Legs Broken by Rock Charles Hastings, employee of the Collins Construction company, had both legs broken late yesterday when a rock fell on him as he was working on Redwood road. Contra Costa county. He was taken to the Highland emergency hospital. Hasting's home Is In Wilkin Springs.

"tenth birthday convention" of the PI Sigma Gamma sorority. Correct behavior for the sorority girl, methods of raising scholarship In the organization's chapters, and means of sorority expansion were considered by the glrle In their business sessions today and this evening. A banquet tonight closed the second day of the convention of the national Greek letter organization. National officers honored at the rtinnr are: Miss Mona Larse of Sttle. grand president; Miss Helen Berry of Seattle, grand secretary Mrs.

Esther Gilky Thompson ofi Berkeley, grand treasurer; and Airs. Aileen Hennessey Miner, membership chairman. Mrs. Kathleen Coghlan Sumory, one of the founders of Pi Sigma Gamma, was the principal' honor guest and one of the speakers at the banquet. Miss Claire Kava-naugh, president-elect of the mother chapter of the orority at the University of California, greeted the delegates on behalf of the Berkeley hosts.

A business session Sunday morning, with election of grand officers tor the coming year, will close the convention, though a program of entertainment for the visitors Is planned for the afternoon and for Monday. Meetinm are r-! 1 a nine HELD 6l POLICE Politicians Take Rap at the' Proposed Schedules North Wants Velveteens Favored If South Protects Gubers. By WILLIAM HARD. BY CONSOIIDATED PSISS LEASED WIBE JO TKIBUNE July 13. This' new tariff bill certainly seems, at-, this week end to be getting crack od' on the head from every angle.

1 Turning into tariff reformers, the" republican, regulars propose to de- nounce, for instance, the towering" altitude of the tariff on peanutaj This tariff, as enacted by the house' of representatives and as transmitted to the senate, Is one of the half1' dozen' most skyscraping structures in the whole bill. It works out on shelled peanuts to the equlva-i lent of approximately 129 per cent. It riles the regular r'epublcans to' hear complaints about high tariff' duties from democrats, from yir- ginla. North Carolina or Georgia-' when the peanut, which has Its ta vorite habitat in their states, is" soaring to unrebuked tariff heights The position of the regular republicans Is emphatically on Its way now toward being as follows: DEMAND RECIPROCITY. "If the southern democratic sen-' ators will 'not vote for a duty of 82 per cent on New England's velveteens, we will not vote for it duty of 129 per cent on the south's' peanuts," They add that neither, In such circumstances, will they vote for raising the duty on graphite, which is one of the proudest products of Alabama and whloh the spokesman, for Alabama In the house of repre--sentatives succeeded In advancing from 20 to 25 per cent ad Its crystalline lump variety.

i These spokesmen are not satis- fled with that slender triumph and demand a much more drastic ad-' vance, particularly- or also on the, additional variety known as erys-- taiune nake. They have a strong case for their contentions, if the ordinary republican methods ot tariff augmentation are to bev adopted, but the republican regu-i lars are now beginning to be determined that those methods shall not be adopted southern, products) if the southern democratic senator HEFLIN GETS IDEA. the republican1 regulars note with satisfaction that a glimmer of their views and purposes was able to se-" cure an entrance into the thought of Senator Heflin of Alabama when on the recent famous rrll call ln the senate he voted against confining tariff readjustment to agricultural commodities. The south now has Industrial as well as agrlcul- tural commodities to protest an the republican regulars are. start? tng out now to insist that the price for that protection shall -be paid.

The price will be that at least certain amount of considerate and. companionable silence shall be conn tributed by southern democratic senators to the passage of duties, on such northern specialties as' watches and clocks. The republican regulars propose to make all the exhuberantly agrtr cultural senators feel miserable bv drawing an extremely strict line for them between agricultural and manufactured articles. Senator Connelly of Texas, for Instance who was one of the ablest members, of the house of representatives and! who will soon be one of the men of outstanding recognized Influence ih the senate, has distributed on capital hill a neat, cute little Jar of, preserved figs composed by his, Texas constituents. REPUBLICANS SCARED.

Meanwhile, the regular republic cans are themselves scared by the excesses of their own con-. stituents In industrial districts to be disposed toward moderation on their own account. Automobiles are by no means the only Industrial, product on which duties seem likely to be lowered- Instead of raised. Many Items in the metals schedule and many items in the earths and earthenware schedule are going to go down Instead of up. Senatot Reed of Pennsylvania and Senator Edge of New Jersey, regular repubJ llcans in charge respectively of the" two schedules mentioned, which an historically among the most piratical of all the schedules, are today In a mood to repel rather than to-encourage the tariff mountain? climbers whose only watch word "excelsior." The approaching situation is all th.t three elemenu In the senate the regular republicans, the insurgent republicans and the democrats will soon be telling on one another and pointing out one another's favorite tariff banditries and the-ultimate outcome seems likely to a tariff bill which by Joint exposm or universal greed will be not ti greedy after all.

(Copjrritht. 18. for Tbe TS.IBIINI.) C. to Send Seven To State Conferenc ALAMEDA. July 18.

The Fn Presbyterian Church Christian I deavor society will send a tlon of seven members to the nual PresbyteHan young in summer conference at San Ac Marin county. The conference -Monday and lasts a week. Tne a meda delegation will include 1 Davis, Carrie Long, Marine i lips, Jean Smith, Jiartha I Meredith Stows and War-i swede. MOOSE TO PICMO Plans are belrg the annual picric a' i Inar of the (lnKni i Jer cf i i A I Seizure of Railway, Expul-. sion of Russian Officials Make Revision Imperative, Belief of Close Observers.

By RANDALL GOULD. United Buff Corteecondtnt. SHANGHAI. July 13. China's present ultra-complicated situation with reference to Soviet Russia eeems due at leasfr to be simplified, "one way or another, before 4ong.

While a number of nations have evolved elaborate mechanisms for dealing with the U. S. S. China Is now In a snarl surpassing them all and the policy of drift and wrangle which has thus far sufficed seems destined to' undergo China's seizure of the Chinese Eastern and expulsion of Russian "officials from the system" wouh1 seem to make such a revision Imperative. Up to the time of the recent Chi-tiese raid upon the soviet consulate at Harbin, which resulted In a lengthy note from L.

M. Karakhan withdrawing rights, of extraterritoriality Chinese consulates on soviet soil, north and south China had gbne their respective ways with reference to Russia in spite of their mutual allegiance to the national government at Nanking. RUSSIANS ANGERED. Soviet consulates had been' banned in south and central China; in Pelping and other northern cltiea nhey were allowed to proceed as usual. This was not -the result of the result of lack of premeditation, and acceptance of a status quo in existence when the nationalists concluded extension of' their rule to cover the entire country.

Russia, angered by the Harbin raic: which as the Karakhan note pointed out, was preceded by a series of events including the Chang Tso-Iln' raid on the soviet embassy at then Peking, the Shanghai consulate said, the acts of violence against the soviet i consulate and staff at Canton, and trouble on the Jointly eino. soviet controlled Chinese Eastern railwaytook the Initiative. The question which Nanking faces is this: Can the Chinese national government afford to let the V. S. Si R.

become a To some countries such a question might seem a petty matter, as long as the Chinese Eastern railway was placed by the Koo-Karakhan treaty under Joint ownership and control of Russia and China, BIG WAR Some of the Chinese are now talking of demanding complete cession of this important line to Tet if the U. S. S. were to take a similar bold line and seize the railway solely fof only International aid which might lead to the greatest explosion since the World war could Interpose any real barrier to the move. It is, however, perfectly possible that If Dr.

Wang wishes to take the course simply of withdrawing Chinese diplomatic 'and consular representatives from the U. S. 8. R. in accordance with the Karakhan note, the matter' can be allowed to run on.

The problem is whether any such makeshift would not eventually prove far worse than 4 firm stand now, one way or the other. 700 MORE JAILED. July 13. Seven hundred more arrests have been made In Harbin, Manchuria, by Chinese officials in addition to the earlier roundup of 200 soviet officials and emnlovees nt the Eastern railway In the Chinese effort to haltf "eovletizatlon of north Manchuria," It was made known here today. The railway has been operating smoothly since its seizure by Chinese authorities, dispatches stated.

Officials of Harbin, declared the at rests were necessary to halt Russian influence over the CAN'T AFFORD BREAK, v. -WASHINGTON, July the admitted possibility of serious disturbances following ejection of all Russians from the management of the Chinese Eastern raiiiuau in xuancnuna wbqa, Informed observers here are hopeful the disagreement between the Russians and Chinese will be settled without violence. Neither Russia nor China, it was pointed out, can afford to lose the advantage gained from the 1000-mile line across Manohurla. The Soviets could send their shipments of grain and other commodities to the Orient by the more circuitous Amur route, but the expense would be greater. This would cut heavily into Chinese commerce and the road's revenues would be decreased greatly.

On the other hand, if the- line of transportation is cut at" the border, considerable profits of the road would be drastically reduced. Manchuria is rich province, and trade with the Soviets would suffer" much from interruption of traffic. an agreement to permit continuation of commerce la expected. The Chinese seizure of the road represents an Important step forward in two policies, of. the nationalist government, one to stop communist propaganda within China, and the other to gain control of this important road which war built orginially by the czarist Russian government and for three decades operated and Chinese.

The United States is watching the situation No necessity for action by this government Is seen at this time, althougn there are 75 American citizens in the region affected. 65 at Harbin Manchurian capital, and 10 at ether joints along the r-Wroadt Teachers Add 'Rollin' to Three R's; See U. S. First mm PARLEY HELD Sorority Banquet Closes Second Day of Convention h. i mm.

WILL PROBATED Trust Fund Is Established By Oakland Merchant For Son, Daughter. The will of H. C. Capwell, Oakland merchant, who died last Tifea-day, was filed for probate in the superior court yesterday byCebert CapwelU 'eon, through Harriso S. Robinson and Harry Price, at-i torneys.

In the petition for 'probate the value of the estate is given as "in excess of Under the will bequests of $10,000 are provided for "education, charity and community betterment" in Oakland, and a similar sum' for a nephew, Cebert Holmes. The bulk of the estate Is con-, verted into a trust fund of which the son, Cebert Capwell, daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Cocroft, and, Mrs. Phyllis Capwell Seydel are beneficiaries. 'Bequests are also made to two sisters, Mrs.

Carrie Holmes and Miss Estella Capwell. According to the will, the widow, Mrs. Josephine E. Capwell, was provided for in the gift of a large block of securities and the Cap-well homes. Visiting1 Pastors WHLFill Pulpits ALAMEDA; Julv 18.

Three vis iting ministers, will preach in Ala meda pulpits tomorrow. The Rev. Isaac Dawson will preach at Christ Episcopal church; the Rev. A. W.

Seebart of Niles will deliver the ser mon at the First Congregational church, and the Rev. E. Thompson will occupy the pulpit at the First Presbyterian church. $2672 Asked for Injuries in Crash Damagrs of $2672 are soujrht by Jesse Feldheym for Injuries he declares were sustained in an. automobile 'accident -July 12.

1928, at Cutting boulevard and Ban Pablo avenue. The suit la directed at A. R. Logan. Injuries are declared to include tw fractured ribs, torn ligaments nd bruises.

Hudson For4 4 eounsel for "Wdheym America's first and only "summer school on wheel" with 11 Dixie schoolteachers 25 of whom are men a full-fledged faculty, and a cook. Is In Oakland today. Or rather, it's encamped on a vacant lot in Emeryville after having hunted without success for Sequoia Park in-tfae dark Friday night. "See America first and get college credits while you do It," is the motto of the school, which has set itself un as a rival to European trips and university summer school pourses for teachers. tAnd so blase Emeryvilli woke up yesterday morning to find the traveling school right In Its midst, parked on the lot next door to the San Pablo avenue firehoure where ordinarily the defenders of Emeryville's safety pitch horseshoes.

Girls in knickers, speaking the soft Southern accents of Tennersee, North and South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia, poured forth from tents to stand in the "bread line" for breakfast In front of the cook's automobile. EMERYVILLE GATHERS. Learning what the caravan was all about, Emeryville folk gathered, hoping to see one of the professors dust off an automobile running board, use it for a desk, and hold a class. But no such luck. The rchoolma'ams declared a day off from studies and went on a sight seeing tour of the bay region instead.

The trip, sponsored by the extension denartment of Catawha College. Salisbury, N. started from Charlotte a month ago and has al ready traversed 3500 miles on the westward leg of the Journey, which will last two months and which will cover the Middle West and the Pacific The schooT teachers are traveling in a caravan of six specially constructed trucks and seven closel automobiles. Hotels are eschewed, the entire group camping out In tents. Classes are held in the mornings and evenings, leaving the middle of the day free for traveling and sightseeing.

Those taking the traveling "course" will be given credit just the same as though they had spent two months In a college summer school, according to H. W. cianKi. manager. MISSED OAKLAND ZOO.

Arrangements had been made to have the "school" camp alongside the soo at Sequoia Park last nlpht when it arrived from Baeramento but the bus drivers couldn't find the park and wandered down Into Emeryville. There an appeal was made on behalf of the sleepy school teachers to Chief of Police E. J. Carey and Fire Chief B. J.

Rose, who promptly donated the firemen's athletlo field. One of the first visitors at the camp yesterday was Dr. A. F. Blanks, associate professor'of public speaking at the University of California and a relative of the manager of the school.

Today, the school members are to visit the Berkeley campus. They will leave tonight for San Jose and Santa Cruz. Among the first of the "ti-avellng co-eds" to greet the city this morning were Miss Mellsse Blackwell. Greensboro, N. Miss Gladys Bowers, Ellzabethton.

and Miss Virginia Eskridge of Charlotte, N. C. Gun Wielder Gives Self Up By Phone "If you want William Pryce." someone telephoned 'today to police headquarters, "come down to Eighth and Wood streets." Detectives went to the designat ed place and there found William' Pryce, a Negro, charged with as sault to commit murder, awaiting them on the sidewalk. I Just decided to surrender," he explained. Pryce had been sought since last Thursday for the shooting of bis wife, who Is at the Highland hospi tal with a bullet wound In the shoulder and another In the i.eck.

ihe argument, she said, began over money. They resided at 1777 Eighth street. Physicians expect her to recover. Flames Threaten 2 Alameda Homes ALAMEDA, July Sparks from a rubbish fire in the yard of the A. M.

Pritchard home, 2253 Santa Clara avenue, endangered outbuildings and two houses until controlled by firemen. The sparks fired the roof of the Pritchard garage and from this roof the fire spread to the roof of a poultry house in the rear yard of the M. C. Allec home, 2257 Santa Clara avenue. Loss' was al'ght.

A chimney fire at the F. Ray home. Buen Vista avenue, did no dam- age New Orleans Citizens Meet Street Car Heads in Last Effort at Peace. NEW ORLEANS, July 18. Members of a citizens' committee met for a "final conference" with officials At the Publlo Service company, here today.

In an effort to settle the strike of 2000 street car employees. "On the outcome of this conference will depend whether the Publlo Service company will re sums with strikebreakers under federal protection or teach a peaceful settlement with the strik ers," Federal Marshal Victor Lolsel said. After '10 days of futile confer ences, officials of both aides and the representatives of the city, believed that if today's conference failed, arbitration would be for the present out of the question. Vigilance of 350 deputy United States marshals was redoubled today after a publlo service car barn was set afire last night. Lolsel declared lie would "deputize any numbecnecessary'Vto enforce ob servance of the federal court Injunction protecting, the company'! Firm Denied Payment For Dept.

Audit RIVERSIDE, July 18. Ruling that the board of public utilities exceeded its authority by ordering an audit of the books of the light and power department, Superior Judge Freeman today denied Me- Leod, MacFarlane and Company a writ of mandate to force payment of a. balance of $8,701.81 for the audit. Judge Freeman decided that the board had no power under city charter to call for such an audit and that only the mayor, city council or the city auditor had such autnorlty. The action went to court when the city council declined to appro priate the money asked by the au diting company.

BERKELEY. July 18 Problems of the college sorority girl are the chief consideration of a score of co-eds from universities of the United Slates who are meeting at the University of California In the Homed Toad Race Won By Youngster, 74 PASO, Tex, July Paso's greatest sportinn event the celebrated horned tod dirby, was won todsv by Sunshine, frisky 74-year-old toad. Sunshine, owned and groomed by Charles Loomis, horned toad racins expert of Las Crures. N. defeated Bozo, entry of Irs Cain, San Angelo, Tex, toad fancier, by 10 feet.

Three thousand horned toad race enthusiasts watched the eon-teat which was run nnder biasing tnn at Pioneer Plazs. A return match between the two. ehsmpion tosds was agreed anon tentatively for An gust 1 at San.