Oakland Tribune (Newspaper) - March 10, 1938, Oakland, California OAKLAND'S ONLY LOCALLY OWNED LOCALLY CONTROLLED DAILY NEWSPAPER EXCLUSIVE ASSOCIATED UNITED THE DELIVERY SERVICE IS GUARANTEED If your Tribune does not arrive 6000 before p.m a m Paper will be sent at oner VOL OAKLAND CALIFORNIA THURSDAY MARCH 10 1938 15 D NO 69 BUSINESS BETTER HERE Citizenship THAN JEFFERS Rush Caused By Pensions Union Pacific President Says Times Are Bad Throughout Rest of Country Business on the Pacific Coast is better than in any other section of the country William M Jeffers new president of I the Union Pacific Railroad said today in San Francisco Jeffers came to California to attend the 21st annual quet of the Pacific Railway Club to be held tonight in the Palace Hotel Business is bad throughout the United he de- Applications Swamp Bureau Since Social Security Law Passage WANTS DIVORCE HONORED Dr Mary E Woolley dent emeritus of Mount Holyoke College has been awarded an honorary de- gre of doctor of laws by Mills College photo World Menaced Says Dr Woolley Brute Force Perils Nations Says Speaker At Mills College Rite Use the sifts of power of thought j of beauty and spirit to foster relations with the rest of the world Thai appeal was to the dents of Mills College by Dr K Woolley president emeritus of Mount Colleen and a noted peace advocate who addressed the student assembly in Lissor Hall Before her speech Dr Woolley was presented with an honorary degree of doctor of The was made by Mrs Marian Stebbins acting president in the absence of Dr Henry president Brute force is the great danaer nf the day in which we Dr said Dr Woolley as examples Sialin Mussolini and Hitler She is an advocate of the League of tions The assembly was preceded by an academic procession of students and faculty Dr Woolley will address the San Francisco Commonwealth Club luncheon tomorrow and will leave for the South Sunday United States Naturalization reau offices in Oakland and Sanj Glared But on the West Francisco as well as throughout Coast we find it better 111 j Nation are being swamped with j any other section applications for citizenship since thei Commenting on the recent j enactment of the old HRC security Interstate Commerce j law officials reported today j sion decision granting a 10 per cent Men and women who have been increase in freight the iin tnr United Stairs for from 30 to Go years or more are filing their first haired railroad president who rose citizenship papers to take to his present position from a yard Of the new law but they will not call boy j able to benefit until two years The railroads in general had I elapsed law requires a been hopeful lhat the increase period of wo rom he jme would be larger bul we are first arc taken nut until the to the decision in good spirit applicant is admitted lo citizenship and do the best we can with it twu vears of the applicants must be taught to i MORE BUSINESS NEEDED road and write as that is part of It must be made perfectly clear for citizenship that an upward trend in business FOR necessary or the increase will An Mention of citizenship for the purpose of fiting under the old-age security law is a basis for denying the cation officials said Many of the aliens frankly give this as their reason The social security legislation in providing old-age security has ated nn unprecedented condition in the Naturalization Bureau said Paul C Armstrong assistant distinct director of immigration and for Northern California We are being literally swamped by men and women who have Jived in this country for several score years and have never become zens CONTINUOUS PARADE It is a continuous parade of the I halt the lame and the blind The majority of these persons are on relief and if they become they will receive practically twice as much a month under the Federal assistance as they do now iVom Stale relief funds This is what they want Many nf these people cannot even read or write their native guage Except for a few spoken words they know no English They even seem surprised when they arc told they must file first papers no matter how long they have been in this country Joseph Kingston deputy County clerk in charge the office in the Courthouse said applications for citizenship had mean nothing Despite the recent storm damage California which fers said cost his railroad from to in damages the agricultural outlook is good no reported And when crops arc good ness for the railroads is he said The railroads depend a lot on the agricultural output Jeffers said he had no idea of the cause of the business recession I can see no good reason lor the wish I knew what really caused he added The future situation is perplexing ON PRIVATE PAYROLLS The great for a return to normalcy lies in people back on private payrolls where they belong Jeffers who due lo his position as j head uf one uf the Nation's largest i railroad is of the est employers of labor expressed the utmost confidence in labor unions as represented in the roads The various unions of railroad workers represent the finest type of organized labor and an ex- all others to lie said Of labor unions in general fers commented: They must respect con- tracts with the employer They must remember that capital is entitled lo a fair return on its investment STRIKES STRIFE MUST END They must stop these incipient strikes and the fight be- tween the A F of L and the C I O with business in the squeeze must cease It is hotter to have a lot of ployed men and women at Temple of the Shrine and wages than a few at high wages Gillis will be honored for- Speaking on Government mal reception and at the Hotel illation of the railroads as carried Oakland Saturday night nn through the Interstate Other events by Commission Jeffers praised the Shriners during thp coming weeks work of the I C C but said include a Saint Patrick's Day parly j should be expanded to lake in all Wednesday in the Shrine Jn increased months many fold in recent Shriners to Honor Chief Saturday Potentate Kenneth C Gillis of Mrs Velma Capone 28 blond wile of Ralph brother of the one- time Chicago gang czar now serving lime at traz filed suit for divorce in Chicago today charging P Capone's Brother Sued for Divorce CHICAGO Velma Capone filed suit for divorce today against Ralph brother of Al Capone charging cruelly It also charged him with having beaten struck pinched and choked her Capone was described in the Statistician Hits Parity For Stockton Lowering of Freight Rote Would Upset Whole Structure Claim Lowering of the terminal freight rate for the Port of Stockton would be a discrimination against San Francisco Bay terminals according to testimony given before a Federal Maritime Commission hearing in San Francisco today by M J Carthy statistician for i San cisco traffic concern McCarthy was called to the stand as the second witness against the valley port's move fur rates on a par with those charged in other coast I harbors a campaign being com- j batted by ship concerns and the Ports of Oakland and San Francisco Under direct examination by Chalmers G Graham counsel for various steamship lines involved and C Baer attorney for Port of Oakland McCarthy sub- mi tied technical ciala tending to show that the overall rale from any California point lo various Euro- pean ports is virtually the same WOULD UPSET RATES Removal of the differential which now between the Stockton and Bay rales he testified would upset entire rate structure and work a disadvantage on interests having heavy Investments in Bay Following the noon recess Carthy was submitted lo examination by J Richard send Stockton port attorney At the hearing under but not called during the morning session were Mark H Gales tary of the State Board of Harbor Commissioners al San Francisco and C D Cavallero president of the California Prune and Apricot Growers Association of San Jose DUE TO TAKE STAND Both men brought records of organization and were expected lo lake Hie stand laic in after- noun The nature of their testimony was not disclosed in advance Examiner Robert Kumiss mated at the close ot the morn in session thai the hearing would con- through week Stockton has already presented its case in receipt of come a substantial in- forms of transportation railroads highways waterways and air Jeffers will leave tomorrow for Los Angeles where he will spend a few days before returning to his headquarters in Omaha a Gillis by reception for Potentate of Lodge 22 at Rockridge Hall College Avenue and an April dance and Big Apple in Auditorium April 2 Capone Discharged From Hospital Al one-time Chicago been discharged 7 prison hospital ork in the prison yard il was reported today A month Capone was placed in the hospital following a mental breakdown Al thai time it was believed he was to be transferred lo a Federal prison hospital Wreckage Points Sea Death of Two SALINAS March wreckage of a small rowboat tered along the beach near Ilio Del Mar today mutely told of the fate of Ted of Monterey and Ernest Culler of Oakland as tims of a stormy sea it was believed relatives The fishermen were last seen 01 the evening of March 1 as they away from the Moss Landing wharf in high waves whipped up by nn gale They were headed for motor fishing craft anchored a off shore in Monterey Bay An intensive week-long search was ended when H 1 father Andrew a brother and the wife and ter of missing fisherman dis- covered bits of a skiff strewn on the sands MEN 0 WAR UNLIMBER BIG GUNS FOR BIG WAR GAMES Styles Gets Year In Jail Probation W Styles 35 son of the late deputy district attorney Harry today was placed on tion for six years with a one-year torm in the County Jail as a sion of the sentence Sentence was pronounced by Judge Edward J Tyrrell be- fore whom Styles had pleaded guilty to a charge of grand theft preferred by a finance company from which I he had embezzled large k Bums The specific charge was based fon embezzlement of Styles was arrested January 16 in Dodge City Kans and pleaded guilty when returned here by officers Sales Head Held On Income Charges Arraignment of Norton lander executive of a San risco motor sales company was con- today until March 17 when he appeared before U S District Judge A R St Sure on a charge of income tax evasion was indicted the Federal Grand Jury for allegedly having failed to pay some in during the period from 1028 Bail was reduced from to today at the request of attorney Charles F JUNGLE GOLD COLONY PROMOTER ARRESTED Accused of Securities Law Violation With Exploration Scheme Heavy Snows Veil Fate Of Air Liner Schemes which police said included the mining of lously wealthy gold claims purchase of a luxurious schooner colonization of the virgin Honduras jungles and ment of a strange religious cult caused the arrest today of Dr R A 40 of 1332 High Street j lie was charged with one count of attempted grand theft FRESNO March and two counts of violating the State corporate securities act mountain snows which blanket the Hope for Finding Lost Plane Wanes Until Spring Thaws Arrive With guns ready this nest of U S destroyers stood ready today to churn through Pacific waters for six weeks of naval beginning Monday The theater of operations extends from Alaska to Hawaii and west to the Asiatic coast The two gun turrets marked E proclaim perfect ship of the crews These are new P photo He pleaded not guilty before Police Judge Chris B Fox The preliminary hearing was set for March 14 Skepticism of Howard Grafton -17 veteran miner when the Doctor t spoke freely of panning gold from the rich sands of duran streams in two hours led to the arrest of the self-styled empire builder Oration lives at 2557 San Pablo Avenue Oakland COLONIZATION PLAN The colonization plan according lo police including the recruiting of University of California students with requisite financial young blood for the South American get rich quick colony Lassiler was arrested al his rooms by Oakland Police Inspectors J C R MacDonald and C C Covill after he chatted engagingly about the plans the officers said Part of the scheme MacDonald said was to found The Mythical Order of Ancient Crucis with as chief imperial im- in jungle paradise In spile of the fact however that doctor spoke glibly of lions lo be made in South America MacDonald said the man had pawned his suit for here on March 2 According to Grafton to see Dr Lassiter in answer to a newspaper ad which Scientific wants men some money join organization open new country plenty of gold oil timber and water New schooner equipment new ORGANIZED IN he said declared he had a i le concession in Honduras with an option lo buy 1100 square miles additional land He was asked lo invest from 5500 to in membership in the American Scientific Congress a California corporation Officers said was organized as a non-profit tion on September II They added that in Lassiter on a similar pretext obtained a boot through public subscription but turned back after they were 50 miles on their way to riches be- cause the boat was unseaworthy said when liu de- manded security for nny investment Dr R A Lassiter pleaded not guilty to grand theft charges today after his ar- rest in connection with a Honduras gold mining motion plan he might make Lassiler told him a insurance policy on the schooner he was purchasing would him Lassiler admitted MacDonald said lo having asked Theodore A Cown Scenic Avenue ley instructor In anthropology at the University of California to supply him with a list of students who might wish to make the trip He said McCown refused According to MacDonald 13 neer investors would work during the first year of colonization re- themselves and excess profits would be used lo bring new colonists to the scene Later as the profits rolled in royalties high mountains hide the T airliner in an area which has been virtually combed from the air in the week-old search Two planes took off again today from Chandler Field to resume I what is generally conceded by the searchers as an almost hopeless I Experience has told the air ers the sky liner if it the Sierra will be a shape in no way resembling a plane and will not be found until the snow melts V NO CLUES FOUND T W A officials said the hunt from the air today will cover van south of the east leg of the air line's radio beam mountain country 50 miles south and 100 miles east of the Big district where the plane last was seen the night of its disappearance A ground crew headed by Lewis Goss of the air line is en route tp Fresno after questioning residents of mountain areas in the vicinity of three rivers Bakersfield without obtaining a tangible clue loss reported by telephone he had learned of several conflicting re- ports of planes heard the night the airliner disappeared but the air line's officials still regard the Bass Lake and Big Creek sections as the most likely territory in which to center the hunt KEEP UP SEARCH Air line's officials said they in- tended keeping at least one plane engaged in the aerial search in- definitely They said they will de- pend upon volunteers and forest rangers for the ground search until such time as some tangible obtained or the plane is sighted from air Weather conditions in the area searched today were reported fair with the anticipated new storm proaching off the Pacific Coast holding oft San Franciscan Dies On Hawaii Visit Winfield Scott Vanderburg 89 resident of San Francisco for the last 30 years and a former senator in Oregon Legislature died Tuesday at Honolulu would be paid to the orginal group word received here WHERE THE BIG GUNS ARE MANUFACTURED This is one of few existing photographs outside of Navy Department files showing interior of the naval gun factory on the Anacostia River near Washington D C Here 8000 men are constantly employed building or repairing naval guns The guns are after firing a limited number P Wirephoto
