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Erttttv AwocUUa Vrttt (Tribune aklanti 5e In This Section FINANCIAL NEWS LATEST SPORT RESULTS dayinine year United Press "FOR ONLY 854AMONTH tssMUtaltts'Vnsf AimUHM VOL. CVI1 OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 14, 1927 21 NO. 167 OAKLAND BECOMES WESTERN TERMINUS FOR I II The Tribune 72j is delivered IQm, vmn Vinm ipvvv 0M0RR0W I Oakland Ducks Visited by Santa Claus GIRL SWEARS1 MIT UI1RRMIT. Prisoner' SALLY WHITCOMB, 20-year-old San Francisco art student, who says she was held prisoner of wealthy clubmen three days. A surprise party was arranged TRANSFER OF BASE MADE presented with nice, shiny aluminum by.

The affair is part of the U. S. EHMANN (at right), government duckmaster. The picture shows the birds at breakfast a few minutes before they were trapped and flights of migratory fowl. TRIBUNE photo.

RADDLE TO GET POST IN SACRAMENTO uui iiniiiinm FOR CM i i I OVER PROTEST '4' 1 ql urn ii I i ii in I i tinnm munr- m-flmmre' i i i ni II 1 I rk iOH Pilots Unanimous in Urging Eastbay Airport Because of More Favorable Conditions for Landing Despite all opposition, Oakland air mail service goes Into effect tomorrow, with planes operating from the Oakland municipal airport. This announcement was made today by Assistant Postmaster General Glover, according to Washington dispatches" to The TRIBUNE. All arrangements for the transfer of the western terminus of the air mail service from San Francisco to the Oakland airport have been completed, said Glover, even to notifying the Boeing Aircraft company, mail carriers for the government. FOLLOWS SURVEY Decision by the government to Stand pat on the Oakland terminus follows intensive investigation "of conditions here and at the San Francisco airports. The Boeing company originally used Crissy field at the Presidio for landing west-bound mail, and took off east-bound from Concord.

Following a twenty-day test at Mills feld the company returned to Crissy field, at the same time filing a request land at the Oakland municipal field. Mills field was branded as unsafe by the airmail pilots. In spite of every effort of San Francisco to hold the air mail terminus, mail pilots have been a unit against Mills field. They are said to be afraid of alp pockets, fog and unfavorable air conditions that are not present at the Oakland airport. The Oakland field has been pronounced by experts as one of the finest in the country.

It has the highest approval of Colonel Charles LindbjM-gh, the department of commerce and the post office department. ALL IN READINESS Everything is in readiness at tho airport for the transfer, according to Arthur Abel, assistant port The field Is in splendid condition, in spite of heavy rains, and the illuminating equipment is practically perfect for plane operations. The field Is supplied with an abundance ot soft water for use Jn planes. Although fast motor boats may be used later to transfer the malls to San Francisco, for the present the Southern Pacific system via Melrose will be used. Alamedan Fears Girl, 12, Stolen ALAMEDAN, Dec.

14. Alameda police are today still without information of the whereabouts of Sarah Henry, 12-year-old daughter of T. H. Henry, 202G Clinton avenue, who has been missing since last Friday. The girl left for school Friday morning and was not seen again.

At tho time of reporting the disappearance, Henry -intimated that he feared kidnapers. ould give no further explana-t Tuesday afternoon when stated he believed his estranged wife, whose residence he believes to bo in St. Louis, may have taken the child. Berkeley's Proposed Gas Law Opposed BERKELEY, Dec. 14.

Berkeley's proposed gas appliance ordinance provides more rigid punishment for violators than is meted out to bootleggers, says John A. Peterson, leader in a fight against passage of the measure. Peterson, who is a gas appliance dealer, joined with members of the Berkeley realty board and Long- for the web-footed tourists bv E. W. Ehmann's helpers then entered the trap and began to bag ducks in hand nets.

Ehmann stood at a table beside the trap and kept records. It was soon found that about one duck out of five had a leg band clamped on at bandings last year or in 1925. Lake Merritt ducks come back, spending only a few months in breeding season and attending to family duties somewhere in the northland. As fast as the birds were tagged they were released. They were more indignant than frightened.

None flew farther than 150 yards away. They lit in the lake and re-arranged their mussed plumage, a few flew back over the trap to see how temporarily detained friends and relatives were conducting themselves. Ehmann has banded more than 1000 wildfowl on Lake Merritt. The catches included mallards, lsprig or pintails, widgeons, mud- hens and a few geese. A pair of spoonbills gave a touch of variety today.

Reports have been returned on about a score of tagged birds being killed, some as far as northern Canada. The bandings are conducted with hopes of tracing the flights of migratory fowl. Woman Recovering From Poison Drink BERKELEY, Dec. 14. Mrs.

Bessie Cook, 45, 2004 Delaware street, is slowly recovering at the Berkeley general hospital today after having taken an ounce of formaldehyde yesterday in an attempt at suicide, police say. Prompt action on the part of a telephone operator who, hearing appeals for help over the telephone, called police, will probably result in the woman's recovery, hospital attendants say. Mrs. Cook, just before her rescue by Inspector Becker, had filled a notebook with incoherent notes, penned to her husband, Reynold Cook, and a daughter, Ruth, explaining that she was ill and asking forgiveness for her deed. Cook is an employee of the Western Pacific railroad, Mills building, San Francisco.

bracelets to remember Oakland biological survey's plan to trace Seven Autos Skid to Diib At One Point CAN JUAN, Dec. 14. A "ditch-ing bee" was held a half mile north of here yesterday after a rainstorm, when seven cars in almost as many minutes -Kidded off El Camino Real within a few yards of each other. Constable F. C.

Zanetta was aiding in pulling the first skidded car out of the ditch, when a third car arrived on the scene and knocked Zan-etta's car off the road. Within a few minutes five other suddenly-halted cars skidded off the highway at the scene of the first accident, and a traffic detail had to be stationed ahead before a barricade of cars was built up across he road. Plan Commission Meets Tomorrow The Oakland planning commission recently appointed by Mayor John L. Davie will organize tomor-ow afternoon in the mayor's office, it was announced today. Two members of the com.nission will be absent.

Mayor Davie because of illhesss, and Norman De Vaux, who is in New York, but the remaining members will meet to plan work, formulate policies and elect officers. Those expected to attend are Fred Reed, Bruce Maiden, Joseph Kennedy, City Engineer George Randle, City Attorney Preston Higgins and Chester Hunt. Club Will Discuss Game Conservation EL CERRITO, Dec. 14. The urgent need for comprehensive game, conservation will be detailed to the newly-organized El Cerrito Fish and Game Protective association this' evening by Walter Welch, member of the State Fish and Game Commission, at a meeting in the local athletic club.

Jay B'rtrOTTstate lion hunter, is also scheduled as a speaker. The club has been organized through the efforts of W. P. Kelly of this city. Lake Merritt Ducks Given Bracelets for Christmas 11 I 1 i Jack Mumford, Socially Prominent in S.

Asked by Hotel Room 'Prisoner' SAN FRANCISCO, Dee. 14. Sally Whitcomb, 20, art student of 730 Leavenworth street, today followed her complaint to police of having been kept a prisoner three days in a hotel room and abused by swearing to warrant for the arrest of Jack Swisher, 2 Third avenue, and Jack Munford. She also swore to a John Doe warrant for a third man for whom the police are searching. The warrants were Issued before Police Judge Sylvane J.

Lazarus, and will be served by Detective Sergeant Fred Bohr. Judge Lazarus set bail at $5000 each. Attornies for Swisher Informed police that he would surrender during the day. Swisher and Munford are socially prominent and wealthy young clubmen. The girl exonerated James Stewart Kerrigan, son of Federal Judge Frank H.

Kerrigan, of any blame. It was Kerrigan's apartment in which she claims she was a prisoner. TELLS OF DRINKS Sally, who is a vivacious flapper type member of the art colony, lives with her mother. She told the detectives that Jack Swisher called at her home Saturday night and Invited her to go on a dancing party with him. He brought Mumford, prominent member of a Peninsula family with him.

The third member of the party was said to be young Kerrigan. They drank at several North Beach resorts and finally went to an apartment which young Kerrigan is said to have had in the Wilson hotel. rne rest or tne night remains a blur, she says, except that she re calls being plied with liquor and attacked. Several other men and girls joined the party during Sun day, she says, and late at night she revived, telephoned to a friend, George S. Tyner, 279 Edgewood avenue, and asked him to come and "rescue" her.

TELLS DIFFERENT STORY. Attorney Harry I. Stafford, representing young Swisher, tells an entirely different story of the girl's "imprisonment" as do the hotel authorities. According to Stafford, the girl could have left the party at any time she wished and remained of her own volition. According to the night clerk, the girl was alone in the apartment for more than 40 minutes and could have walked out.

Forty-two telephone calls were put in from the apartment during the party and the girl could have telephoned for help if she had needed it, according to the clerk. Henry Smith, a bellhop, also told the police that the girl called him on the telephone early Sunday morning and asked him to get her purse out of a machine which was parked in front of the hotel. When he handed the purse in. he saw Miss Whitcomb fully dressed and apparently all right. NO COMPLAINT MADE When Tyner took the girl home Sunday night, she left the hotel apparently In good spirits and in no disarray and made no complaint to the hotel authorities about being held prisoner in the room, the night clerk said-.

Investigation (at Mumford's home revealed that young Mumford, according to his parents, was at home Saturday and Sunday night and could not have been at the hotel at the time charged by Sally Whitcomb. The girl is under medical attention, which is said to have verified the sto'ry that she had been attacked. MIDWEEK SERVICES The Rev. Paul H. Ralstin and Mrs.

Ralstin of Sacramento will have charge of the midweek meet-" ing at Oakland Temple church tonight. The Rev. Elmer G. Copley, evangelist, is pastor of the church. JlTH GRIM SET Hi Joseph Silva, 20, Berkeley ship builder, was held to answer today by Police Judge Howard L.

Bacon on a charge of bigamy on com plaint of Winifred Moran, 17, 77 6 Seventh street, who married him on October 2 9. last, she said. Two ministers testified at the hearing. One was Rev. E.

R. Hol- laday, who stated that he married the couple in his home at 970 Tenth street. Rev. J. Whitcomb Brougher.

pastor of the First Bap tist church, then took the stand and told of marrying Silva and Dolores Travers on March 5. Silva's defense was that Miss Travers told him she had been married before and had not obtained a. 'divorce. Rail Commissioner Heard in Richmond RICHMOND, Dec. 14.

"The State Railroad Commission must base Its findins upon situations as they arise. Its decision can be of only temporary applications, as the facts that underlie rates and other points of regulation change with the times. In this the commission differs from law courts having definite basic principles of jurisprudence upon which to found" their decisions." The foregoing is the assertion of Clyde L. Seavey, state railroad commissioner, who was speaker yesterday at the Lions club weekly session. He pointed out that the state utilities body endeavors in its informal as well as formal meth ods of procedure to arrive at fair and equitable conditions for the public and the utility involved.

Charles F. Donnelly, Key System Transit company division superintendent, presided. Alameda O. E. S.

to Install Officers ALAMEDA, Dec. 14. Members of farita chapter, No. 115, Order of Eastern Star, will meet in Masonic temple tonight for the an nual installation of officers. Mrs.

Corinne Lambert Wfll be seated as worthy matron and others to he installed are John Lambert, worthy patron; Ethel Barnett, associate matron; Edith Stowe, conductress; Kathryn Far-well, associate conductress; Flo Butterfield, chaplain; Irene Baugh, marshal: Isellie Hieronymous, sec retary; Theresa Catroy, treasurer; Nellie Reynolds, organist: Anita Smead, Adah; Laura Graves, Ruth; Wanda Brown, Esther; Nell Taylor, Martha; Clara Thorp. Electra: E. Howen, warder, and Minnie Giesiker, sentinel. -By Ernest Henderson FACES. vaitu i fill i City Engineer's Appointment as City Manager at State Capital Regarded Now as Assured, Say Dispatchet The appointment of George IT, Randle.

city engineer of Oakland, as city manager of Sacramento, according to press despatches. Is practicalTyassured today with five councilmen of that city ready to vote a reduction in salary from J15.000 to $10,000, which RandW has expressed a willingness to accept. Efforts have been made for soma time to oust H. C. Bottorff, present city manager.

To do so required the votes of six councilmen. But only five votes are requrled to reduce the salary. Randle has tho support of Harry S. Maddox, Martin I. Welsh and R.

E. Conley, all councilmen-elect. Thomas H. Hate-ly and Thomas B. Monk, other candidates elected on the peoples' ticket, are expecte3 to be Randlo men as well.

It is believed that Bottorff, I faced with a reduction in salary by council action, win resign, pav Ing the way for Randle's appointment. Randle was named to his present post by Commissioner Will am H. Parker In July He formerly was city engineer of Sacramento, and also an engineer for the stato department under Gcv. Georgo C. Pardee.

He was commissioned a major of engineers during the war. Richmond Pullman Worker Found Dead RICHMOND, Dec. 14. Heart failure is believed to have caused the sudden death of John H. Goodwin, 68, Pullman employee, whoso body was found late yesterday In his room at 3013 Cutting boulevard.

He had evidently been In tho midst of his evening meal on Monday, coroner's deputies bellevo, when he suddenly succumbed. The body was found by Mrs. Carlan, Tlood win's landlady, and Alfred E. Wiseman, roomer at the Carlan home. Mrs.

Carlan had missed Goodwin sines the day before, and found his room door locked from within when sho tried to open it. Wiseman removed the door lock and the two entered to find the body. He was a native of Massachusetts and is believed to be survived by six children, including Alfred Good win, said to ie an official In tho Pullman company establishment at Chicago. An autopsy was to bo made today. Two in S.

F. Fail In Suicide Efforts SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 14. Death failed two persons today after one inhaled gas with suicidal intent and the other swallowed an qverdose of sleeping powders. Ed ward G.

Montague, "the man who arranged his own funeral," was de clared by police a fake suicide, and search for his body along the water front ended. Mrs. Thelma Bell, 28. 650 Ar. guello boulevard, was found uncon.

scious beside a gas stove yesterday. She was resuscitated. W. H. Kelly, formerly a soldier at Camp Lewis, was taken from Hotel Roma to the Letterman General hospital unconscious after taking an overdose of sleeping; powders.

Montague, the "suicide man," has not been seen by his friends since Sunday night, when he stood on pier 7 ready to leap into the bay. tf Failure to Provide For Children Charged RICHMOND. Dec. 14. Charged with failure to provide for his minor children.

Joseph Musso had a preliminary hearing in the court of Justice Arthur Alstrom this morning. The complaint was sworn to by Deputy District Attor ney Hiram E. Jacobs. Musso has been held in custody in lieu of $500 bull. Statutory Charge Heard Against Man RICHMOND.

Deo. 14 Prelim. inary hearing of Joseph Arruda. 21. of San Pablo, on a statutory charge involving a fifteen-year-old girl.

was held in the court of Justice Arthur Alstrom of this city this morning. Arruda has been free on $2000 bond, and the girl has been held at the county detention home in Martinez. St. Andrew's Society To Meet Tonight RICHMOND, Dec. 14.

David Carmichael, president of the East-bay British Benevolent society, is scheduled as the principal speaker for the monthly social meeting of the Richmond St. Andrew's sociaty this evening at Richmond clubhouse. The program will be In charge of Mrs. James Stuart. Battery Charge Preferred by Wife RICHMOND.

Dec. 14. A charge of battery placed against him by his wife, Mrs. Essie Corda, was faced by Charles Corda at preliminary hearing today In tho court of Justice Arthur A. Alstrom.

Corda has been confined Id Jaav in Uu Of S100Q ball, BOY BERKELEY, Dec. 14. Police Inspector W. J. Wilson today announced he would not prosecute James Phelps, 20, St.

Mary's college student, for the death of his son, Roy Wilson. 24, who died of a basal fracture of the skull suffered in a. fist fight. "From what I know," Wilson said, "it was a square fight. Prosecution will not bring my boy back." Knocked to- the ground, Wilson, conscious, was removed to the home of his aunt, Mrs.

William T. Lln-gard. The funeral will be held tomorrow morning from St. Joseph's church, Addison street and McGee avenue. Church Children To Give Pageant ALAMEDA, Dec.

1 4. Fifty-five children and young people of the Sunday school of the First Christian church will present a Christmas pageant in the church parlors next Sunday evening. Among those who will take part are Ger-aldine Snyders, Harriet Brandt, Florence Metzger, Fred Kimball, Juanita King, Dorothy Miller, Billy Brant, Mayetta Tibhetts, Ruth Brant. Richard Miller, Bruck Buck, Jeanne Messinger and Muriel Smith. Alameda Masonic Lodge to Install ALAMEDA, Dec.

14. Clark K. Gill will be installed as' worshipful master of Woodstock Lodge, No. 491. F.

open ceremonies to be conducted in Masonic temple at 8. o'clock next Monday night. The ceremonies will be conducted by Charles B. Greeley, inspector for the thirty-fourth district, and Past Master Richard W. DEATH FIGHT CLEARED A Christmas party was held for the Lake Merritt ducks today.

E. W. Ehmann, in charge of federal duck bandings, played Santa Claus. Every duck present there were about 500 received a nice new aluminum bracelet, stamped by the United States Biological survey with identifying number. When the birds waddled up to the feeding fountain at 10 a.

in response to the whistle of Albert Thomas they didn't know it was going to be a bracelet party. Ten o'clock is their usual breakfast hour and Thomas, colored park department employee, is the man who has fed them for several seasons. The ducks know him and trust him so much that they walk on his feet and sometimes tug at his shoelaces as he walks among them with a grain sack over his shoulder. The ducks were too greedv to no tice that Thomas led them into great wire enclosure near the drinking' fountain as he scattered the grain. Not until the gates fell with a bang did they flutter up in great alarm and realize that a little surprise affair had been arranged.

fellow Community association at yesterday's council meeting in attacking the law, which would provide a $1 inspection fee for all gas "Instruments" installed in homes. Memtrers of the city council favor the measure a safety-first precaution planned to cut down the number of accidental deaths. boring youngsters, and sound though will end it just as easily, Mrs. Norris declared. Mrs.

Frank Boren presided at the luncheon at which Mrs. Norris spoke. At the speaker's table were more than a score of prominent men and women of the Eastbay. Peace Rests on Women's Shoulders, Says Author OVER HERE OVER THERE American Engineers in Fight World peace rests largely upon' the shoulders of women, who must continue to crusade for continued peace and- for the code of honor that 'constitutes civilization. This Is the message to Oakland women of Kathleen Norris, novelist and lecturer, who spoVe at the Women's City club as one of a number of public appearances she is making in the hay district.

Mrs. Norris inclr.dtd companionate marriage, birth control and women's new place in politics in the subjects touched upon during an address yesterday before the club at the Hotel Oakland. Human beings permitted to fol-lov their appetites unrestrained wq lid shortly return themselves to th status of beasts, said the speaker She denounced companionate which permits two perse to assume the marriage vow lout marriage obligations, she as merely an attempt to excuse si appetite. Norris believes that the youth of today, in spite of flapper appearances, is not necessarily than the youth of yesterday. Modern parents, she said, often fail to provide their children -with a moral code, although such a moral code Is just as important to the is iHroifd loral welfare ot the young as important to the physical pe i.f a child.

important does she consider "HopeessLy Li-I OUTNUMBERED, MIS ARMW BLEED ING-, BwreeeD AND EEUMGr-- UNDEI2 TtSEMEN- OF THE GEfSMAM ASSAULT, GENEJ3M. GOUGH BEGAN TO COLLECT A MOTLey FOQ1E OF" MM TO THISOW INTO THE BIHEACH AGAINST THE ADVANCING LABOR And victorious prussian infantry MEMT OF MEN. COtmOj LIKAGGCEeS, l-tlcSONNtU, ENGINEERS USA. WeEE DETAILS RETURNING TO UNITS. OW FIGHTING ON VieCrlM SOIL, WHICH I JEMEMBERING THE UNUSUAL, KLOR BATTALIONS, SCHOOL NO ENENW HAD TROD SINCE THE EVERy CONCEIVABLE KIND OF WEAPON, CANADIAN AND A DETACH WESTERN GENERAL SIXTH ENGINEERS recruited FRONT WAS PlRST ESTABLISHED SANDEMAN CARET'S NEWUd troops op the fifth armj DISPLACED THEIR BUDDIES the ELEVENTH AMERICAN ENGINEERS AT CAMBISM THE PREVIOUS THE SIXTH AMERICAN ENGINEERS STOOD SHOULDER TO SHOULDER, WITH THE BRITISH TOMMIES info small UNTT3AINED FORCE FOUGHT A BATTLE TO THE DEATH WITH THE ENEMy MACHINE GUNS.

HAND GRENADES. RAMtnpt? O0SANIZED UNDPl? WEEE THROWN INTO THE PfeONT FROM MEZIERES TO THE SOMME. GEN. 9tWW CA2EJ, the omen's crusade against war, aid ne speaker, she has pledged her' if to speak on no other subject" during 1M8. War is no more complicated than 'pi back-fence fight between neigh- I imjo GERMANS fS -WEi is.

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