Oakland Tribune (Newspaper) - August 6, 1936, Oakland, California Weather OAKLAND AND mild tonight and Friday with for nd moderate west winds TEMPERATURES Chabot 19 Mln 53 Oakland 74 Mln 54 54 hours 7 m 00 Seasonal to Last year oo EDITION I VOL TEN GENTS OAKLAND CALIF THURSDAY AUGUST 6 1936 36 PAGES E NO 37 i FEDERAL AID IN STRIKE Makes After Arrival Here to Take Part in Parley Union Officials Hold Meet To Effect Agreement of Workers and Operators SAN FRANCISCO Aug threatened strike of ferryboat work ers here Saturday moved a step closer today when 250 of the 750 workers involved voted unanimously to give C W Deal union president power to call a strike at any time after the deadline tomorrow An other meeting of the workers will be called later today for men who were unable to attend the morning session Presidential appointment of an emergency arbitration committee to avert a threatened strike tying up all San Francisco Bay auto fer ries will be asked by J W Walsh Federal labor mediator Walsh made that announcement today soon after his arrival to par in negotiations for peaceful settlement of the issues between union men and the ferry operators He said however that if the President appoints a committee un der the National Transportation Act it can deal with the matter only as it affects the Northwestern Pa Company COMPANY NOT IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE The Southern Pacific Golden Gate Ferries Inc which operates the larger fleet is not in interstate transportation and hence does not come under the transportation act While Walsh was seeking to ar range a meeting of both sides Union officials met for appointment of strike commit tees They said they had not heard from the companies since they gave their ultimatum they will strike if their demands are not met by 5 p m tomorrow Negotiations continued mean while between members of the Union and the Key System regarding dismissal wages for employees of the passenger ferry company with cessation of operation that will follow comple tion of the San Bay Bridge Although the time of the possible strike on auto ferries previously was reported set for Saturday Sam Kagel spokesman for the union today that no strike time has Bieen set The only deadline we have is that of tomorrow for receipt of word from the employers Kagel ex When we strike will be determined after we know if we will strike The auto ferry workers are seek ing assurance of dismissal wages after completion of the San Fran and Golden Gate bridges DEMANDS IMPOSSIBLE TO MEET SAYS OFFICIAL E H Maggard official of both companies said the companies could not accede to the demands for dismissal wages He asked that negotiations be continued toward an equitable settlement The Southern Pacific passenger ferries are not involved in the present discussion for em ployees on them already have been assured of dismissal wages in an agreement signed by the company and the union Key System officials conferred with Deal and other union men yes afternoon on the proposal to give ferry men employ ment in departments other than the marine department Another meeting was set for Friday after noon 2 Killed 13 Injured As Bus Overturns HUNTINGDON Pa Aug huge York bus overturned twice in a rainstorm on a mountainside near Huntingdon today killing two persons and in juring 13 Six of the 15 passengers were trapped beneath the wreckage and rescuers toiled for four hours before he last two women were taken out The driver one of the oc cupants to escape injury said his car skidded shortly after it passed crest of a hill Tribune Subject Page Amusements 14 Classified Advertising 32 Comics and Strips 24 Cross Word Puzzle 22 Editorials and Columns 3d Editorial Features 21 Financial and Stocks 29 Geraldine Columns 23 Knave Daily Column 21 Marine News Weather 31 Martha Comment 23 National Whirligig 21 PT A and Club 8 Radio Schedules 20 Society Womens Events 8 sports and Sportsmen 25 eaters Wood 4 Vital Statistics 35 Wirephoto Picture Page 1 6 S F Divorce Lawyer Sued In Own Turn EL ASKS R D Pierce Suggests County Gambling Graft Quiz by Contra Costa Grand Jury Counsel Passes Buck to District Attorney During Trial Healey Studies Plan Harry I Stafford brilliant divorce lawyer at San Francisco was involved today in another di vorce action It was his own and Mrs Clarice K Staf ford above is the plaintiff She charges extreme cruelty over a long period H I STAFFORD Prominent S F Attorney in New Divorce Time as the Defendant SAN FRANCISCO Aug fl The name of Harry I Stafford attorney famous in flamboyant divorce courl fights appeared again today on a divorce as the de fondant The orator and known as Mr San being sued by Mrs Clarice K Staf ford he married in Jan uary 1031 Mrs Staffords complaint in which she stated that she and her husband separated last May 15 al leges a series of cases of cruelty beginning in April 1933 when they had been married only a little more thari two years The action wa filed in Superior Court today through Nat From that date until the present Mrs Stafford charges treated her disrespectfully anc contemptuously and bullied and domineered her CHARGES MADE IN WIFES COMPLAINT He told mercantile houses not to allow her credit opened and read her letters called her names and struck and beat her the wife charges She also alleges that he repeat edly became intoxicated took al her money and keys from her purse and verbally abused her in public and in private The complaint 21 pages in length details many specific instances of alleged cruelty Among them are A charge that the defendant tele phoned her from San Francisco last June 14 while she was staying Jn their Santa Cruz Summer at 5 a m and said Hello you big bum Are you sleeping in your own house Thereupon Stafford charges he hung up Mrs Stafford charges that she and her husband to live alternately at Cruz home she to occupy it with their two chil dren in June and August and he in July BOt on June 27 she charges he came to the house at night her out of bed ACCUSED OF MAKING ROUNDS OF NIGHT CLUBS He allegedly falsely charged her with making the rounds of Sacra mento night clubs with two men and another woman and told her several times in the last few months that he had learned through a fortune teller that she was cor responding by mail and telephone with a man at Redding Militia Court Jails Fines Dolphin Club Aquatic Star Guardsman AWOL From Summer Camp Cites Of Personal Dislike Continued on Page 2 Col 3 EL CERRITO Aug Pierce Club Jade attorney today suggested that District Attorney Francis P Healey call the Grand Jury to discover if there is any gambling graft in Contra Costa County Pierces suggestion came in fur ther questioning of prospective jurors in the trial of Max Belling and 14 of his Club Jade employees charged with conducting a lottery The suggestion was in reply to a statement made by Healey that if Pierce and Leo his associate in the Jade case hail any evidence of graft they should take it to the Grand Jury HEALEY SILENT AS HE STUDIES COURSE Healey in Martinez said he had no comment to make and was still studying the question of whether to call the Grand Jury Questioning Robert L Denton prospective juror Pierce said I see the district attorney in vites me to go to the Grand Jury Do you consider it my duty to be a crusader and say what condi tions exist No Denton replied Is there any reason why I should be a policeman in this county he asked Gus A Dah leen No Dahleen replied Pierce also asked Dahleen if he was aware there was something rotten behind the fact that two bingo establishments were permit ted to operate and the Club Jade closed A warning was issued to Pierce by Justice of the Peace A H Mac Kinnon not to bring the name of the district attorney into the ques The district attorney Is not on trial in this court MacKinnon told Pierce and Leo his associate after a protest on the graft questions by Deputy Dis Attorney Homer Patterson Attorneys louay still were at tempting to secure a jury to try Max Belling Club Jade proprietor and 14 of his employees charged with conducting and maintaining n lottery As court opened this morning special venire of 25 more pros jurors was present to fill he rapidly depleting ranks of those excused for cause and through challenge So far he defense had used five challenges out of 85 allowed and the prosecution six Have you heard the Cerrito and Hollywood Clubs other bingo es conspired to close the Club Jade Marcollo asked Mrs Molly Decker a prospective juror No she replied DISTRICT ATTORNEY AGAIN MENTIONED Do you know Ross Corey Hollywood Club has an interest in the club and is close to the district attorney No Mrs Decker said You were aware that hundreds of automobiles were outside the two clubs and that inside the peo ple were playing Bingo Yes You know that if the Club Jade had violated the law the other two Bingo clubs had been doing the same thing for two years Yes Merely because the district at torney became a crusader and sud denly decided Bingo was illegal you are not going to help him for that reason No You will not permit Orientals operating the other Bingo estab to come to you and at tempt to influence your verdict No You would not condemn our people for not getting in touch with the right people before opening the Club Jade being honest and not grafters No Mrs Decker replied At this point Patterson objected PIERCE ANSWERS COUNTY COUNSEL These malicious and false charges have gone far enough he told the court The questions have no bearing on the qualifications of this juror Well Pierce replied you cant call it a rumor when the Cerrito and Hollywood Clubs were open two years and suddenly close when the Club Jade opens Two Hurt at Airport By Wild Army Plane Two laborers were injured and a dozen others endangered at Oakland Airport today when a plane control on a takeoff veered into a group of workmen Joe of 1011 104th Avenue was injured seriously when he was struck by the wing of the plane The other injured man was not identified He was cui and bruised when he was knocked down The plane that went out of con trol was an army bomber piloted by Master Sergeant Peter Biesiot of Hamilton Field SANTA ROSA Aug martialed for his failure to attend the recently concluded National Guard encampment at San Luis Obispo William A Perry Petaluma and member of a pioneer Sonoma County family last night started serving five days in the So noma County jail Protesting the drastic action Perry said that he had previously notified Captain John Hopkins of Company M Petaluma National Guard unit that he would not be able to attend the camp because of his work and that he would re main away on advice of his at torney The unit returned Mon day from the two weeks encamp ment and a short time later Perry was summoned by National Guard officers from the drug store where he is employed and taken to the Petaluma Armory where a sum mary court martial was held PERRY GETS SENTENCE TO JAIL AND FINE Pleading guilty to a charge that he had remained away from the encampment Perry serving his second enlistment in Company M was given the sentence and fined by Second ant Harold D Smith From the armory there he wa brought to this city and turned over to Sheriff Harry Patteson for im prisonment in the County Jail Lieutenant John C Harvey o Bloomfield officer of Company M preferred the charges against the young It read Absence without leave in thai Private William A Perry of Com pany M Infantry did with U S TOTAL IN OLYMPICS America Piles Up 153 as Towns Takes High Hurdle Competition Spanish Loyalists Take Cadiz 2000 Rebels Surrender German Wins Javelin Title Hop Step Jump Crown Captured by Japanese BERLIN Aug 6 The United States Japan New Zealand and Germany split four more gold medals in Olympic mens track and field competition today but the American forces increased an al ready topheavy lead in the race for the unofficial team champion ship Forrest Towns Georgias ace earned the only first place for the invaders from the United States capturing the high hurdle champion ship in world record time but America picked up enough other scoring places o boost its team total by 25 points to a grand total of 153 Germany furnishing the championship in Stoeck the first time In Olympic history this particular crown eluded the Scandinavian countries held second place with 54 points Japan scoring 16 points In the hop step and jump where Naoto Tajima lifted the world record to 16 meters 52 feet 51516 inches moved closer to Third Place Finland the point totals being and 341322 re LOVELOCKS VICTORY IS FEATURE OF DAY Jack Lovelocks out proper leave absent himself victory in the classic from his command at San Luis Obispo from July 21 to August 1 PERSONAL DISLIKE CHARGED BY PERRY The court martial was approved by Captain Hopkins Perry and his attorney Leroy contended hear ing was not a proper court martial because of the a third officer Perry a member of Club of San Francisco and a widely known swimmer who has several times swam the Golden Gale blamed his trouble on a personal dislike Lieutenant Smith has for my brother John Captain Hopkins in commenting on the Perry is a fine boy and that this happened but in justice to other members of the company it was necessary We couldnt force the other members to go to camp and then let stay at home That wouldnt be right In Petaluma fears were expressed that the action might cause a rift in Company ranks S F B Morse of Del Monte Is Elected Chairman for Northern California Drive By WESLEY E ROBBINS California Republicans will be fully prepared to launch a fighting campaign for election of Landon and Knox when National Chairman John D M Hamilton arrives here next week for a series of confer ences and keynote speeches during his tour of Northern and Southern California This was assured yesterday when the Republican campaign committee appointed by National Committee man Earl Warren held its initial meeting at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco and unanimously elected S F B Morse of Del Monte permanent chairman and appointed Richard W Barrett campaign man ager for the northern part of State Arthur B Dunne of San Francisco was named secretary treasurer While the campaign committee was organizing across the bay Re publican leaders here were com plans for the huge rally and luncheon at the Scottish August 13 when National Chairman Hamilton will officially launch the Republican drive Supervisor William J Hamilton general chairman in charge of the affair announced that Republican groups in Alameda County and also in Contra Costa County and the sur rounding territory are combining to assure a representative Republican gathering when the National leader of the party delivers his first Cali fornia message Robert S Barkell chairman of the ticket committee announces that tickets are being made avail able to all individuals and organiza tions through a number of outlets New members of the ticket commit tee are E B Gray and the Rev J W Bircher officers of the Ala meda County Negro Republican League at San Pablo Avenue Tickets may be obtained in down town Oakland at the Republican Continued on Page 5 Col 4 Insurgents Crack Forces Defeated In Fierce Fight Strength of Rightists Traced to Former War Minister By RAMON BLARDONY Cooyrieht 1930 by he Associated Press MADRID Aug 6 The City of Cadiz extreme Southern Spain un officially was reported today to have fallen before a bitter attack by government forces against some of Gen Francisco Francos shock in troops The battle was a no quarter con test by both sides with the rebels offering stubborn resistance As loyalists prepared for what they hoped would be a final crush ing blow to the Fascist cause in Spain Aug air tourists arrived at Burgos just to watch he shooting in the Spanish re volt They are Gordon Self ridge Jr son of the American owner of a London department store Miss Peggy Shannon of Rochester N 1 and and Viscountess Jacques de Sibour sister and law of young played small part in the team but it remained as the out standing performance of day of competition The Nev Zealander was clocked in now time of as he ed Glenn Cunningham Luigi Bcc ali and Archie San Roman to the lape in that order Americas all qualified for the semifinals Jimmie Luvalle of Los Angeles turned in the fastest heat 476 as Archie Williams and Harold Smallwood also qualified In the only womens track and field final of the day Valla of Italy won the hurdle title as Germany picking up six points took an apparently commanding lead for the unofficial team championship The Georgians victory gave he United States a sweep in the Previously Glenn of Greenwood Miss cap ured the low hurdle title Don Finlay of Great Britain was second and Fritz Pollard Jr Chi cago Negro third EQUALS LISTED WORLD RECORD Clocked in 142 seconds Towns equalled the listed world record shared by American Southerners Percy Beard and AJ Moreau Towns won his semifinal Tieat earlier this afternoon in recordbreaking time of 141 seconds It was the second time today Towns lowered he Olympic rec ord of 144 seconds set by the late George Saling during the 1932 Olympic trials at Los Angeles Towns completed his winning streak as decisively as ho began it beating Finlay and Pollard in a clos ing rush to make up for a slightly uncertain start Pollard led for nearly 80 meters and then his leg caught the next to the last barrier costing him second place by a margin of inches as both he and Finlay were clocked in 144 seconds equalling the former pic mark FINISH LEAVES RIVALS STAGGERING Towns finishing burst had his rivals staggering especially Erik Lidman of Sweden who was a dis appointing fourth The Georgian second from the Inside was sand in between Finlay and Lid man while Pollard was on the out side The Negro flashed sensational early speed and forced the pare Towns hurdling perfectly and coming stronger every time he took off overhauled Pollard and then the Briton who improved a notch over his 1932 performance Lovelock continued British Em pire dominance of the Olympic championship today run ning the metric mile in world record time of as Kansas the Mountains north ol Madrid disclosures of an astound ing nature as to the plan for the revolution were made in the Capital Government officials puzzled by the strength of rebel positions in the said they had learned of indications that Jose Git Robles as minister of war had laid plans last Fall for the military strategy of he revo lution The officials said he had maneuvers in the Guadarrama area to acquaint troops loyal to him with every inch of the ground They added that bombproof gun emplacements had been started dur ng the maneuvers Gil Robles at the start ol th revolution from a sanctuary ii France insisted he was on vaca tion and had no part in the to overthrow the government Loyalist troops thrust lines o steel into defensive mountain oday for a final crushing blow o Fascist enemies Feverishly the govern men poured reinforcements into thi Guadarrama Mountain gateways ii Continued on Page 2 Col Mrs Werner Crashes Grant Jury Room in L A Ask Showdown in Near Rio Continued on Page 25 Col 8 BIG LEAGUE SCORES AMERICAN LEAGUE St 000382 Batteries Cain and Knott and Hemsley Cleveland 0 0 0 0 Detroit 0 0 2 0 Batteries and Becker Wade and Hayworth NATIONAL LEAGUE SI LouisA 0 0 0 0 Chicane 1 t J Dean and V and Hartnett Other postponed ralm Merciless Aerial Warfare Opened On Fascists Madrid to Increase Its Aviation Strength To 300 Planes By ROBERT B PARKER JR Copyright by the Associated Press AT REBEL HEADQUARTERS BURGOS Spain Aug f 2000 rebels on the Aragon front oday opened the road for a loyal on the rebel stronghold of Barcelona advices said Simultaneously the Liberal Gov announced the launching of a war by air without mercy against the revolutionaries Government troops were reported 11 miles of Zaragosa in their drive to smash the machine in Northern Spain anc crush the threat of a rebel advance on Madrid from this area These announcements by rebe gave details of the plans and claims as lo he success of its drives but did no the source of the informa ion whether it came from captured enemy officers or the Madrid radio Government air forces loaded with bombs will carry on a relent ess warfare against Pamplona Vi toria Burgos and other rebe strongholds throughout Spain th newspaper Frente Popular cial organ of San Sebastian libera authorities announced THIRTY PLANES ADDED TO NORTHERN FORCES Thirty airplanes to reinforce gov eminent air squadrons on the north ern seaboard have arrived Iron Madrid The government plans to put int the air no less than 300 machine ffl TER St Air Liner Falls 1000 Feet Shortly After Takeoff at Night J S Probes Accident Flying Conditions Good Witness Sees Big Ship in Trouble to crush the revolt The Fascists too are preparing for a war in the air which their commanders believe probably wil prove decisive in quelling the rev or Madrids leftist government At Pamplona the insurgent mi governor announced three men sympathetic with the Madrid regime had been condemned to aout death by a war council and ex Pait ot the wrecked cabin edited by a firing squad for as a guard Mowed down against a wall by Fascist rifles were Lieutenant Garcia Men Magistrate Juan Garcia Arias and Pita Perez It was announced that a fourth man Jose Carote Tebar who at on Page 3 By HENRY B JAMESON Associated Press Staff Writer ST LOUIS Aug eight persons aboard a Chicago and Southern Airliner were killed in an unexplained crash near Lam Louis airport last night The wreckage strewn through a plowed field for 200 yards was not found until early today almost four hours after the plane plunged to the ground Investigators seeking the cause had only the ships intact instru ments and the story of an eye witness to aid them Carried to their deaths in the crash were W S Barllett Chicago C B 18 Hinsdale 111 D R McDavitt Chicago George Chicago A R Holt Boston Vernon C Memphis Carl Zier the pilot Russell Mossman New Orleans the copilot PLANE BANKED STEEPLY TURNED SAYS WITNESS Ralph L Shar Fairfield Ohio visitor at a farm near the scene of the crash said he saw the plane bank steeply and turn back toward the airport from which it had taken off a few minutes before en route from New Orleans lo Chicago He heard the plane crash moment later after it went over a knoll and was obscured from his view George on whose farm the ship fell said he heard the plane and noted the unusually loud roar of its motors Searchers found the bodies of the pilot and copilot their arms locked about each other about 50 feet LOS ANGELES Aug manding justice a showdown in the Los Angeles County Gran Jury investigation into and graft in county liquor contro Queen Helen Werner reputed po boss of the city today crashe the jury room after staging a near riot in the corridors outside Uie meeting place Im sick and tired of all this stuff she shouted Ive stood it for three years and the time has come for a showdown Mrs Werner had been promi mentioned in the Assembly committee liquor investigation here into the fixing of liquor licenses At one time Mrs Werner became so insistent to testify before the jury that deputy sheriffs were called and placed on guard at the jury room door TWO SECRET INDICTMENTS RETURNED BY JURY After a brief meeting the criminal complaints committee voted to allow Mrs Werner to testify Two secret indictments each naming three persons on charges of conspiracy soliciting a bribe and grand theft were returned today One of the indictments charged one count of conspiracy to solicit a bribe and one count of soliciting a bribe The second charged one count of conspiracy to commit grand theft and one count of grand theft Superior Judge Thomas L Ambrose set bail at for each of the defendants The indictments were returned shortly after Mrs Werner political boss had testified If they hadnt let me in Id have broken the damned door down was Mrs Werners parting shot as she stormed into the jury room MRS WERNER SAYS SHELL TALK PLENTY During her tirade in the corridors of the Hall of Justice Mrs Werner declared herself as sore at every to fix District Attor ney Huron Pitts she shouted I made speeches for him and helped him when he ran for governor but Im through with him now Thats all signed straighten out that big nose of his The political leader named num erous others who had incurred her displeasure and promised to talk plenty before the jury tempted to oppose the revolt at Valladolid also had been executed insurgents notified airplane salesmen today they were in the market for good fighting planes MOLA PROMISES GOOD PRICES FOR PLANES Staff officers under Gen Emilio Mola rebel commander on the northern front promised good prices for any planes suitable for ing The transactions will be f o b Burgos Already a horde of traveling sales men have descended on the in surgent headquarters Three for eigners arrived by plane to try to sell their goods to the rebel forces Some were described as peddlers of armaments Others were reported offering ready cosh to finance the rebellious move ment In return for contracts and trade concessions In the event the rebels win One of the biggest prizes for the they are the Spanish oil business Fascist officers declared many of the traveling salesmen were try ing to exact rebel promises for gen erous slices in the oil trade if the insurgents assume power after a victorious campaign against the present leftist government The columns of General Mola pushed forward in a desperate ad vance to bring to view the build ings of Madrid Bodies of the passengers many of them badly mangled scattered about the twisted main fuselage SHIP BARELY OFF GROUND SAYS SHARP When I first saw the plane it was barely off the ground and San Leandro Group Forms Own Union After Break From Oakland Local SAN LEANDRO Aug San Leandro machinists who returned to work when the International Ma Union suspended the char ter of the Oakland local have with drawn from the Oakland union and applied for a charter of own This announcement was made to day by Mayor Ray Billings who said he was informed the San Leandro group most of whom are employed in the Caterpillar Trac tor Company expect their charter from headquarters in Washington D C within a short time Billings said he had been present at a meeting in a hotel in Oakland when the San group ad vised Oakland local officials they had sufficient members to obtain a charter of their own and informed the Oakland local they would form their own organization The Mayor all men anxious to return to work and de clared few in sympathy with the making a steep bank Sharp eaid It appeared to be turning back for the airport It went over a hill and I a terrible crash motors kept right on running I looked for a fire wasnt any Sharp and Ben Haver camp whom he is visiting searched un successfully in the dark for the plane before Sharp went to the air port and reported the crash Isolation of the spot a small clearing surrounded by rolling ground prevented ground crews from immediately locating the plane Two company employees oh foot finally found the wreckage after four hours DEPT OF COMMERCE MEN VIEW WRECK SILENT A L Koch and Guy Faulkner Department of Commerce investi gators examined the wreckage and airport records but would make no statements The bodies were removed by St Louis County Coroner L B Tier flon who scheduled an inquest lor tomorrow morning The ships clock still running was found shortly after dawn 100 yards from the main wreck age Other instruments intact and were taken over for study by the investigators Carleton Putnam president of the line said the ship was checked at St Louis and was in perfect con dition It was one of those things that cant happen but still did he de clared in announcing the crash RADIO CALL TO SHIP WENT UNANSWERED H R Moore flight superintendent for the Air Lines St Louis office reported the plane did not answer a radio call at p m 1 minutes after taking off from the airport Attempts to call the plane through Chicago failed and a check at Springfield 111 revealed it had not passed over Moore said 9 p m weather in formation on which Pilot Zier WM cleared showed a overcast skies moderate foe visibility of IM miles and a an hour wind Airport records showed ceiling dropped to 500 feet by p m and the visibility to three quarters of a mile Moore said the wrecks location indicated Zier was on course pilot normally would be flying at about 1000 feet at that point said Eastbound planes of air line were rounded here tart night after arriving Iron West but Moore declared for the northbound flight were satisfactory Planet fly UuU kind weather every day all country 7 Seven of the it
