Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 22

TU I TRSDAT EVENING aklanTj Crilinne DECEMBER 15, 1927 FIRST AIR MAIL PLANE FROM OAKLAND HOPS EAST Oakland Airport Becomes Ne Home of Air Mail Service I LOCAL Yule Dancer BERN ICE BLUNDON, one of a group of pretty dancing and singing girls who will entertain Livennore veterans on Christmas. ESTABLIS i med i BAY DISTMT II II TO HHPS Nearly 400 pounds of mail, including a consignment of Christmas packages, was handled arid one passenger landed at the Oakland airport today when the Hoeing Air Transport company etablihed the Western operating terminus of the transcontinenal air mail service. At upper left is JOHN LaFOLLETTE of the Boeing company WORTI ILF.Y. in charge of the branch post office at the airport, is "weighing" in the first mail, Inset at left is BURR WINS LOW, pilot of theh first arriving plane, and inset at left is C. K.

VANCE, pilot of the first outbound ship. Below, WILBUR STEIN, of Reno, the first passengejycarried to the ncYmail terminus, is being welcomed by GUY TURNER, superintendent of the airport. TRIB NE thnin. i IIWI III II HMUIMIIIIIIIIIIIIMillllllMIIIIIMI I AS TtlMINA handing down onr intendent of mails of the first sacks of mail to C. F.

WESTi supei-for the Oakland post office. At rieht. G. L. -i bainber of Commerce Sends Letters Government Aviation Of fit Lais.

Driver Held When Woman Run Down: 3 Hurt Car Hits Ifiis. (Continued 10 Vd Elko, With Christmas little more than a week away, the Llvermore Veterans' hospital Christmas committee has completed arrangements for entertaining the 300 men and woman in the government hospital for thfi tubercular at Llvermore and for the distribution of gifts to the patients and their families. Two entertainments will be given during the coming wek. The first, on Wednesday night, to be presented In Recreation hall at the government hospital, will be attended by all patients who are aible to leave their beds. On Sunday, Christmas Day, the entertainment-will he given in each of the, wards and the entertainers will go from bed to bed, bringing yuletlde cheer to the veterans, More than 100 Christmas trees have been provided, together with the great living Christmas tree in front of the hospital building.

Gross, chairman of the entertainment committee, announces among the talent Joe Bobba and Seven persons are injured, three seriously, as a result of bay dis-( triet traffic mishaps during the past 24 hOUfa, Mr-. W. W. Hooper. 4R, of 223 Twentiy-sixth street, has a possible fractured skull, and Lewis C.

i Swain, 68 Echo avenue, Piedmont, faces charges of reckless driving, Omahn (owa, and Iowa Passengers' ajt result of an accident last it' at Broadway and Twenty-h street, when Swain's car, acting to police, ran down Mrs. new planes are made at Reno, Halt Lake City, Cheyenne and Omaha. Supervisor Kent of S. F. Defends Mills Field Patrolman E.

P. Kelly 1W OTVrr afSSK stepped traf-l to permit Mrs. Hooper to cross dway. Swain is said by police SAN FRANCISCO, 1 a speech before mem Optimist lub at 'he hotel, Mllo Kent, sup chairman of the iriunic committee of the hoar Neopolitan uunrtet. the Erma SI ills Field as a continental inn: lcised attacks "The airport settled once an.

to have started his car again before Mrs. Hooper reached the Struck by a car- driven by Mrs. Elizabeth Washen, 885 Forty-seventh street. Mary Sullivan. 2S Juana street, San Leandro inclined cuts and bruises, Jay Beatty, 42.

of 773 Tenth i street, sustained fractures of his left arm and left leg last night I when his machine collided with a Key System freight car' on Clare-mont avenue near Fifty sixth street. ii nUHT IN CRASH. Three persons were hurt wheat their machine crashed into the Gage Rosebuds, including Hilda Charlton, eccentric dancer; Ruth Heath, Ionita Gal cia, Lovey De Pasquale, Bernieo Blundon, Doris Gage and other singing and dancing maidens. Then there will be Constance Estea and her Plantation Four, a group of Negro melodists who have made a big1 fitf wherever they have appeared. Tlio goal of $3000 is still a bit shy, according to E.

F. Garrison, treasurer of the Livermore Veterans' hospital Christmas committee. have not yet contributed are asked to send their checks to 1307 Harrison street, Oakland. "There is no ljjoving the air ejubs and busii should get topet the airport unles iiiiiiiiiiiiiii'iiiii i 1 1 1 i d.i nmiin1 iwwinni'inmiiNi 1 1 iiimannwiwii ihl ji Eif rear of a Key System motor bus which had run out of gas nn Mae-i donald avenue near Forty fifth street shortly after midnight today. those hurt were-: William Feldel, ShattuCk i Essex street, Berkeley; skull.

sever cuts ASYLUM STAFF STRIKES. BASINGSTOKE. Eng, Nurses and physicians on the staff of Park Prewitt Asylutri" walked out when H. C. McManus was dismissed, lice were called in as attendants.

Charles Parker. 20.13 Ohio Richmond; possible of brain, cuts and bruises. Mrs. Cathlecn Parker, his wife; uts, bruist Siiraira4S5-, son can be found for depriving us of it. There is no hazard to aviators in crossing the bay and no report of this nature has been made 4.0 Postmaster General New." Kent declared that 70 per cent of the mall brought to this place by planes was destined for San Fran-Cisco and the balance could be distributed from this point ylth little effort.

24 Planes On Route East Take Passengers Twenty-four planes, valued at $20,000 each, are operated by the Boeing Air Transport company, which today changed its bay dis-tri headquarters from San Francisco to Oakland and inaugurated air mail service between tills city and Chicago. The ships are biplanes and were built by the Boeing Airplane company of Seattle, which is affiliated with the Boeing Air Transport company. Each of the 1, and shock. gers were in the Key which was in charge SVil Spend a Wonderful of W. A.

Barclay. the Sierra Nevada and other high mountain ranges between here nid Chicago. VICTIM CATCHES DRIVER. Commandeering a passing ma-chine, George Colvy, 26, 833 street, San Francisco, to- i Here's Service Drys Huntings Woman Find day chased and captured an nl-lesed hit-and-run driver, who Offered Local Air Mail Users 1 destined to a marvelous future, bas begun to he fulfilled. Great as this future may be, however, we can never forget that it was the army's memorable flight to Hawaii that provided the initial impetus for the port's de elnpmi'iit Xor will we forget that it was you who selected Oakland airport for the start of this flight.

Sincerely yours, HAS. P. HOWARD, President Oakland Chamber of Commerce. knocked him down at Fourth and knocked him dswn at 1 ourth anc on Jury Market streets. I The victim rln the allowed hit-and-run driver Trito the curb sev NEW YEAR'S Week End at BOYES HOT SPRINGS HOTEL It will be a gala.

week-end at this smart now hotel. Two orchestras and speolal entertainment for New Year's Eve. Koom with bath for New Year's Sunday and Mon ll Plane Carries C. of C. Letters to Air Chiefs Appreciation of this city for the part they played in the development of Oakland airport, which today became the bay district headquarters for the air mail, was contained in letters sent to F.

Trubee assistant, secretary of war; Major General Mason Patrick, chief of army air service, and William P. McCracken, assistant secretary of commerce, by Charles P. Howard, president of the Oakland Chamber of Commerce. The letters, which were practically identical in text, were Included planes has upholstered seats lor two passengers In enclosed, venti the befc lated cabins. During the winter 1 1 i hese cabins are heated.

Concord Field Beacon Will Be Maintained Fassitt GomptOn, id avenue, and at the hospital JJOLLISTKR, Dec. 15. A raid by county officers led by Sheriff Jere Croxon on the F.d Ladd ranch near here yesterday resulted in the seizure of thirteen barrels of red and white wine. Ladd declared the wine belonged to his wife as well as himself, and when Sheriff Croxon sought to arret her toe lie discovered she as sitting on the jury in a damage case in Hollister, so luul to postpone her apprehension 'until the use ended. Research Official Gets Harbor Post SAN FRANCISCO, Dec.

15. Mark H. Gates, for the past ten years an official of the San Fran- ciseo bureau of government research, has been named secretary of the slate board of harbor commissioners. Gates will succeed Joseph Phelps, whQ has served with the board since 1 His appointment was announced yesterday by Major Charles L. Tilden, I chairman of the commissioners.

Phelps was formerly a Stockton nevvspjaper publisher. after being tr frcuts and bi qie city prison for failing to render CONCORD, Diablo Air been abandon Dec. 16. Although lail field here has 3d as the j-esult of day with table d'iiote dinlnf Sining ant after an accident. Make Loaded to capacity, the planes Will carry 1800 pounds, including mail, two passengers and 2 5 pounds of luggage each.

With a cruising speed of 100 Ijalles an hour, the mail planes are capable of developing 130 miles an hour. They carry 100 gallons of gasoline, sufficient for 5 hours' flying and are equipped with batteries, electric starter, lights in cabin, and for navigation and land service tier person, reservations early. in the air mail carried by Vance, Boeing Air Trans when he took off from 1)11 akla Hftre'-i v. iffannrtrell, Telephone Sonoma 131 McKerzie Marital Row Sail Opens SAN FRANCISCO, -Dec. 1 fight of "ugh MeKenssie.

San establishment ot Oakland airport I as the bay district headquarters of I the air mail, the aviation beacon light will remain as a guide to I night fliers. The beacon will act as part of a system of lights Which the post- airport this morning on the flight eastward. One of the let 'T'O familiarize business men am! others using the air nuiil which was Inaugurated today from Oakland 'airport, the Boeing A ir Transport company, which holds the air mail contract between Oakland and Chicago, has issued the following information: 1 Air mail reaches every post-office in the United States. 2 Air mail goes at a flat rate of II) cents per half ounce. 3 Any stamps may lie used.

4 Any envelope may be used, as long as I hey are. markedy "air mail." 5 Air mail may be dropped in any mail box. 6 Air mail may be insured, Air mail may be sent special delivery. 9 Air mail may be forwarded. 10 Packages may be sent by air mail.

11 Packages may be sent by air express. 12 Mail may be sent to foreign countries bv air mail. ing. The wing span of the planes is 44 feet 2 -i inches. There are 33 feet, 3 inches in length.

Sial. to hlnelr hi SSXIff jZtl I The Great Gift Store follows; Trubee Davison. Assistant Secretary of War for Washington, I). Aeronautics, Dear Mr. Davison: 'flic air mail flies east from Oakland Municipal Airport today for the first time.

To you whose cooperation and friendly advice aided so much in the initial development of this magnificent harbor on the air lanes of the world, we wish to express onr thanks. We wish also to express onr congratulations in (hat the prophecy you made, (hat this great airport was Offers These Marvelous Specials to secure separate mai a suit to annul thei opened in the court Walter Johnson yes the husband and the Nell KtcKjenzJe, testlt'i Both I Four hundred and twenty-five Horsepower Pratt-Whitney "Wasp" ihotors, operating at 1900 revolutions per minute, enable the Boeing planes to climb 10,000 feet in 19 4 minutes, Insuring safe passage over office department is having installed between Oakland and Chicago so that night flying may be inaugurated in the spring', Several loads of equipment left the. base yesterday and remaining material was scheduled to be moved today. F. Rogor C.

K. Vance, pilots, have changed their residence to Oakland. a at the I tmmm. I iSfel vv M.o if 1- 'iti 1 in iii mm a ing. i orroimrat ing witnesses heard oh Monday.

The fi hum ran I couple married October 0, ltiL'6. and separated on January 4. Quarrels ''at Del Monte, during their honeymoon, both parties admitted', started the differences that led to their separation. USE GOOD BREAD WHEN ENTERTAINING fund for disabled ex-service men at Letterman General hospital, lifts been cooperating with the blind of the bay region by providing1 salesrooms in which to show their handicraft. In addition to the sale of blind handicraft the usual cooked food sase will be held, with Mrs.

M. Doming in charge. Kt UL Lamps vif yi 00 I Dentist Chosen Complete geTen; piece SetK Cm to i County Coroner I Both SAX MATEO, Dec. 15. County I tll(! Worth Cr supervisors here unanimously l)ae 11.50 OvjC named Dr.

J. C. McGovern coroner 1 and and public administrator of San I I imported Mateo county yesterday. He is Vt mi Slavonian a brother of the late Sheriff T. C.

i Art Glass -Tl9k. McGovern, and is a practicing den- Eg A ortn SssASv Flnwer AMltVwBk list in South San Francisco. $13.50. WMM J.J I fffllH. I Senator's Change of Opinion Explained The changed attitude of Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, former University of California political science instructor on the doctrine, was the center of discussion yesterday before the Oakland Forum at Hotel Oakland in connection with a.

'study of the development of the Monroe doctrine. Bingham has repudiated views he once held that the Monroe doctrine was "an obsolete shibboleth" and Mrs. Harry Kluegel, chairman, in an address outlined reasons for his change of mind and explained the development of the doctrine under which the United States resists Ku-ropean aggrandizement in Latin America. Bingham, an authority on Latin America, is one of the Senate leaders who will shape American policy I 69c Bridge I ISfTl OX 1 r-rOVENWARE CASSErT- LamPa I 'W'l1lArlW'l I hijPOLES. With silver-plat.

I Complete I La I I ed Holders. AH I Hi It PILAV rTuvwi in the Caribbean in the next few I Shades. S. t'! Ite '-B worth ale ot LOats Handsomely fufred -durable Mjl akty educed for pre-holiday I T'j BMEAD Maes the most delicious sandwiches years and as sucn ins views are ot outstanding interest at this time, Mrs. Khiegel said.

The Connecticut Senator now believes that Europe, Which he once believed was becoming democratic, has retained its monarchlal attitude and for that reason cannot safely be permitted to interfere in Latin Americans affairs, Mrs. Klue-gel said. Blind Crafts Plan 2-Day Yule Sale BERKELEY, Dec. 15. Demonstrations of blind craft will feature a two-day Christmas sale to be held by the Red Cross Shop at 200(1 Shattuck avenue tomorrow and Saturday.

This year the shop tin-shop committee of the Rde Cross, in addition to raising Christmas nTTT' I I Vk'Uli combination Brush ami fine Worth sTTtf' I I Wmm 1 $397 $4.83 IP' is made in twelve varieties, giving those entertaining the opportunity to serve a great variety of sandwiches White, Graham, Whole Wheat, Craced Wheat, Raisin, etc. etc. A variety of Breads served daily adds zest to each meal. City Hall Rests On His Lot, Says Burlingame Man "THEN entertaining, at a tea or other function you naturally want your bread to be the best possible, and Re-mar, with its delicious flavor, its quality of retaining freshness, and its absolute purity, is the favorite with thousands of hostesses. T3URLINGAME, Dec.

linjiame's city ball is "out of bounds," according to Architect Ernest L. Norherg, owner of adjoining property at Burlingame avenue and Park road. The city building overKips his property from five to twenty iqehes, the architect claims. City Engineer James S. James lias been instructed to make survey which Will be checked againsr the one recently made by Norberg, preparatory to erection of a Itvo-story business building.

The "overhang" of the city ball interfering with his plans, says he architect, GOLDEN SHEAF-REMAR COMPANY Ladies! Overnight Fully Worth CANDY JARS. fr J'CSS dn'el Fitte1 SUIT CASES' 'J 51'25' A tray $21.97 98c 69c Pia Mcdowell harding I I 538 15th St. 0tlrl.Mj I i YOUR GROCER CARRIES REMAR BREAD AND REMAR CAKE 1 I.