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I I I TRIBUNE is delivered to YOUR HOME every day in the Year EDITION for Only a Month Oakland Cribune VOL. CVIII- OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, 1928 41 NO. 101 The Power Behind Eastbay It's a 50.000-horsepower steam turbine just installed by the Pacific Gas and Electric, company in its plant at First and Jefferson streets for emergency use in case the regular hydro-electric power fails. The "little" machine is only 47. feet long, 1.9 feet 4 inches high and 13 feet 6 inches wide and weighs a trifle of 618,000 pounds.

JEAN VAN DEMARK (left) and ISABEL FOSTER standing at one end of the turbine give some idea of its TRIBUNE photo. 19 FT. 400 IS 1 de LENGTH 41 FT. -Turbine Insures City Power In All Emergencies Oakland's "safety factor" is housed in a building at First and Jefferson streets. The building is not very imposing and is known merely as "Station Cu of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company.

But it houses one of the largest steam -electric turbines in the west- a giant power plant rated at 50,000 horsepower operating at 450. pounds steam pressure. And it's not even used, as a usual thing, although it's kept operating all the time. According to H. N.

Mosher, division superintendent of steam-electric plants, it is Oakland's "safety factor." That case the regular hydro electric Telephone Users Choose Treasurer Fred -N. Morcom, chamber of commerce leader, Rotarian and active in many other phases of civic life in Oakland, today joined forces with the Telephone Users' Protective association by accepting the position of director and treasurer of the organization, Announcement of the appointment, which completes the personnel of the board, was made by W. Herbert Graham, president. Morcom has named the Central National bank as depository of the cash to be raised in the subscription campaign now about to begin. Morcom is the ninth director of the association.

Others, besides are Claude' E. Clark, Richmond; Mrs. Cora B. Harding, Berkeley; W. J.

Gannon, San Leandro; F. R. Neville, Alameda; Ralph Hawley, Emeryville; Charles A. Nesbitt, Oakland; and Carleton A. Osgood, Oakland.

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Speakers were a unit in the declaration that Oakland and the Eastbay is being hampered in industrial growth by high prices on industrial water and by the limitations of its water supply. The meeting was presided over, by Leroy R. Goodrich, chairman of the new industries committee, Reppresentatives were in attendance from chambers of commerce or other development bodies from Alameda county, Newark, Berkeley, Contra Costans, Associated, Emeryville, Martinez, Livermore, Pittsburg, Rehmond, Walnut Creek, with 20 members of the Oakland new industries committee. UNANIMITY OF OPINION erfect unanimity on the necesalty for campaigning for cheaper water and a supply for future exhibited. There were various sugdevelopment of pine Eastbay was gestions as to industrial water development, in which the proposed salt water barrier was urged as of Immediate importance.

C. A. Ricks of Richmond urged the Oakland chamber of commerce get behind the salt water barrier, which he will be needed in Oakland, "even if you get Mokelumne." Chairman Goodrich told the meeting that the Eastbay must, to develop industrially, be in a position to offer water rates that mill be low enough to be attractive to industries. It was pointed out that Los Angeles has more than once been selected by industries for big plants because water rates there are lower than Oakland. James McElroy of the Bank of Italy raised the question that in Los Angeles the difTerential on the low water rates is probably carried by the taxpayer.

he first step after data is collected will be the appointment of a committee to open negotiations with the municipal utilities district on a lower industrial water rate schodule. Grief Over Wife Is Cause For Suicide PLACERVILLE, April To be without his wife after sixty. years was more than William H. Comick could stand, so yesterday morning he plunged his head into a barrel filled with water and drowned himself. His body was found several hours later.

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Cor. Over Owl Drug IN THIS SECTION SHIPPING NEWS CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS United Press THREE ROAD JOBS URGED BY CHAMBER State Highway Commission Asked to Include In Budget Work Important to Eastbay Section thorities. HINMAN'S LETTER. Hinman's letter to the commis- Inclusion of three important highway projects in the forthcomIng budget of the state highway commission was recommended to' that body last week by the good roads committee of the Oakland Chamber of Commerce, it was announced today by Chairman Henry L. Hinman of the good roads committee.

THE PROJECTS. The projects are: -Widening and reconstruction of the Hayward-NilesMission San Jose highway. Appropriation of the at sum the 2 assure earliest possible solution of the Pinole bottleneck. problem. over by the state 3.

highway commission of the Tunnel road, connecting meda and Contra 'Costa counties. In a letter to the commission Hinman declared that they were of importance to Alameda and nearby counties, besides the added benefit to the general highway system of the state as a whole. In a statement he elaborated on this phase of the matter, saying that Improvement of the HaywardNiles-Mission San Jose highway would operate to give a better outlet to the northern and central. part of the state into San Joaquin valley, that the Pinole bottleneck situation acted as a restraint on traffic into the San Francisco bay region and from this region into Sacramento and the north and asserted that the tunnel road had become such an important factor in inter county and Inter region transportation that it deserved the attention of the state highway au- sion continued: "Considerable thought has been given to the above projects, not only by the good roads committee of this organization, but by other organizations in the Eastbay area, and it is the unanimous hope of the committee. that the completion of the eighty-first fiscal budget will see included these projects 80 vital to the growth and development of the Eastbay territory." His letter: also recited the cooperation extended by the community and the chamber commerce to the highway commission and reiterated the willingness of the chamber to do everything in its power to aid the commission in developing proper roads.

The chambers of commerce in all other Alameda county cities have been asked to join the local body in Wife's Arrest Asked Again Doctor Jailed For 29th Time This Complaint Auto Theft SAN FRANCISCO, April Dr. W. P. Agnew, 80-year-old physician, wants his pretty "beef-iron-and-wine" wife rested for the twenty-ninth time. said Assistant District Attorney Martin Bruton when his stenographer, told him "Dr.

Agnew is here again." "What for this time?" Bruton wanted to know, and Dr. Agnew, husband of the pretty young woman who specializes in police court charges, explained. "Stealing my car she took it to go to Santa Cruz last week, Lovelorn Lodi Japanese Kills Rival and Self Woman Flees and Escapes Volley of Bullets as Tragedy Enacted. SPECIAL BY WIRE TO THE TRIBULE LODI, April -Natsuichi Nagai, Japanese, ran. amuck at the Everett Mills ranch, 7 miles west of here today, shot and killed -I, Sakamoto, a ranchhand, also Japanese, fired several shots at Mrs.

J. Shaimatu, a cook, and her three children, and committed sulcide in an orchard. An unrequited love for the woman is said to be behind the shooting. The of Sakamoto took place in the presence of a number of persons. Nagai, a recent arrival from Fresno, walked into the dining room, made some remarks to Sakamoto in Japanese, and whipping out a revolver fired a shot into his body, killing him instantly, He then backed from the room.

Nagal encountered Mrs. Shaimatu and opened fire on the woman and her three children who were with her. The woman fled and escaped the hail of bullets. Nagai then ran into an orchard near the house, placed the muzzle of the gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. He was dead when the coroner arrived.

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Agnew earned the iron and wine" title in Sacramento when she offered as a defense for driving her automobile: down the Southern Pacific main line track that she had merely sipped too much tonic of that description. An jury decided that the pretty young woman was entitled to sip tonic if she wished, and released her. Grand theft, disturbing the peace, drunkenness are just a few of the charges that Dr. Ag. new has filed.

against his wife at one time and another. On one occasion, after having her rested, he asked the court for a continuance because she was too: ill to appear in She was under his care as a physician, he said. BERKELEY, April Carrying on a work initiated by his father, D. O. Mills, In 1881, Ogden Mills, San Francisco millionaire, today donated $60,000 to the University of California.

The money is to be added to the fund for the Mills Professorship of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, started by D. O. Mills nearly half a century ago with an initial gift of $75,000. The fund now totals $187,216.67, and is expected to yield about $10,000 a year. The Mills gift was the largest of a list of donations totaling 000, reported by President W.

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PACIFIC COAST SHREDDED WHEAT COMPANY FOUR FAMILY BURN IN HOME power supply of the Eastbay cities fails, the steam -electric plant "Is swung into action and power users go on using power- -without knowing anything has happened. in California, "Station apAlthough not, the largest turbine paratus is to be powered with the two largest high-pressure boilers in the world. These are rated at8540 boiler horsepower each and are capable of evaporating 350,000 pounds of steam per hour at 725 degrees. land's "safety are: length, The physical dimensions of Oak47 feet; width, 19 feet 4 inches; height, 13 feet 6 inches and weight 618,000 pounds. Police Hunt 43 in Traffic Violators Police today sought 43 Individuals of traffic law violations, who failed to appear yesterday when the record number of 600 cases poured through the police course of Judges Howard L.

Bacon and E. J. Tyrell. Nine men are in jail and $1817 was the city's coffers as a result of the renewed drive against speeders, overtime parkers and reckless drivers. The best alibi of the day, that of Judge King son of an Oakland Negro minister, who said he was speeding to be on time for Sunday school, was unavailing.

King was fined $20 and his license was suspended for 60 days. Mote Made Auditor Of S. P. Equipment SAN FRANCISCO, April Succeeding William H. Dewey, retired on pension after 36.

years. service, J. F. Mote has been appointed auditor equipment service accounts of the Southern Pacific company with headquarters in this city. Mote, who was former chief clerk to Dewey, has been with the company for 25 years, and is credited with introducing a number of efficient and economical methods of handling railroad ac counts.

H. R. Groth succeeds Mote as chief clerk of the bureau. Veteran S. F.

School Teacher Succumbs SAN FRANCISCO, April Arrangements are to be made today for the funeral of Miss Nettie L. Campbell, 61, a veteran San Francisco school teacher, who died at her home, 204 Hugh street yesterday. Miss Campbell taught for 21 years in the Polytechnic high school here: She was a graduate of the Stockton high school and Columbia university. She is survived by a nephew and a sister, both residents of San Francisco. if you own a that you 5 think let of.

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Mission San Francisco Chappel Rockford, Ill. CHICAGO, April -A mother and her three small children burn. ed to death when fire destroyed their frame cottage here early today. The husband and three other occupants of the home were rescued, suffering burns which hospital physicians, said. probably would prove fatal.

Giannini Leaves On Europe Vacation Trip SAN FRANCISCO, April 1 -A P. Giannini, head of the Bank of Italy, accompanied by Mrs. Giannini and their daughter, Miss Claire Giannini, today are en route tor Augusta, on the first leg of vacation trip which will take them to Europe. Giannini will participate in the meeting of the executive council of the American Bankers' Association at Augusta, of which he is a member, and then the party will go to New York to sail for. Europe.

The trip, he said upon his departure last night, will consume about six months. Rolph Hints Delay For Bridge Permit SAN FRANCISCO, April Lack, of a completed plan for financing the proposed bay bridge probably will act to hold up a congressional permit for the span until after the present session of congress, according to Mayor James Rolph who has just returned from bridge hearings at Washing: ton. Mayor Rolph expressed confidence that the permit will be granted eventually and urged public construction, ownership and operation of the proposed bridge. Wardrobe Trunks Such Surprises As we are offering Wednesday and all this week are worth coming miles to see. Quality Trunk Co.

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