^,. , O A V \ A M r> ' e V . . .. — «-» 11^ yl WAIN I AD ONLY LOCALLY OWNED. PHONE TEMPLEIAR LOCALLY CONTROLLED MAIM OFFICE, 13TH AT FRANKLIN DAILY NIWSPAPE* IN IERKELEY, 7 SHATTUCK SQUARE iXCLUSWl ASSOCIATED m$$ WtMPHOTOfftitmneUNITED PRESS VOL. CXXM- OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 18, 1939 11 D NO. 141 'Gentleman DANVILLE FOUGHT THE FIRE WITH 'CANNED' WATER Sawallisch MISSING STUDENTS Faces Grand in ^ Jury Action Stanford Rail $185 Taken From TiH District Attorney to Big Red'S'Pointed ' As 9 Customers Shop Seek Indictment on On Sather Gate; Unaware of Holdup Charge Involving Bribe Deutsch Is Shocked , SAN LEANDRO. Nov. 18— Oak- .. .- _.. BEKKELEV. Xov. 13. — luijQi ' ^cn.icilioli ballCUl ' Ii\ ed Up >rney Francis P. Healey will go be- students sneaked into town like tfcf" to his name again last night, pa- )re the Contra Costa Grand Jury, ovember 29 and 30, to ask indict- Arabs and as silently stole away;, tiently standing in line and await- ients against Assemblyman Harold but unlike the lines in the poeffl, ing his turn at a- chain grocery Sawallisch of Richmond, involving these raiders left a wake of-«d wrapping counter before confront- egislative bribery charges. daubs before their earliy morniaf - ing the clerk and taking $188 at the Healey made the disclosure today fcray was finished. 'hen he appeared at an organization point of a revolver. meeting of the Grand Jury to ask It was the first in this year** The most recent robbery, at a exceptionally early series of ,Bif uthority to issue subpenas for wit- Game raids that paint -was used, grocery at 590 Dutton Avenue, was esses. and University of California authori- t'"e fourth charged to the same ban- The Grand Jury will investigate ties considered a protest over viola- dit this week, and was accomplished vidence that Sawallisch received tion of the "gentleman's agreement" 1400 from the indemnity received between the two schools. so qiueth and efficiently that nine y an Antioch man for injurie? suf- ered during a gun battle between Dr. Monroe E. Deutsch, vice-presi- customers in the store were un- dent and provost of the University, aware of the robbery until after the State Highway patrolman and an escaped felon at Brenhvood, on June surveyed the damage done and ex- bandit had left with the store's re- 4, 1935- One bullet from the gun pressed himself as "shocked and ceipts. f Patrolman A. C- Hein Jr. ended outraged." He said he was "sure 'THIS IS A STICKUP i'.e life of Charles Leo Burke, 25, that President Ray Lyman Wilbur td another ricocheted and struck of Stanford is also." "--'-• Jack Kirby of 2363 Wilbur Street, Charles Applegarth, 315 I Street, "After all," Dr. Deutsch said, Oakland, manager of the butcher Antioch. shop, said that the bandit ap- "these acts of vandalism have abso- proached him. display- a revolver BELL FOR $6348 lutely no relation to the kincTef Sawallisch, according to evidence sportsmanship I believe the Cali- and said, "This is a stickup." Kirby fornia-Stanford games should "ios- gave him the receipts from the till unearthed by Healey's office and and then was ordered to remain that of Attorney General Earl War- ter. This is merely rowdyism 'and en, presented a bill for $6348.24 to involves injury to property and pos- quietly behind the counter. compensate '.pplegarth for his in- sible harm and injury to indlvid- The robber then joined the line uries. The bill was not pressed in uals. These acts must stop." ' -_ in front of the grocery wrapping he closing session of the 1937 Legis- Working swiftly and smearily, and cash counter, and when he con- ature but an omnibus bill carried two carloads of collegians from Palo fronted Herb Bahr, 11 Dutton Ave- ai. appropriation of $2973.24 to com- Alto slipped into town at 3:45 a.m., nue, the clerk, he menaced him )ensate the injured man, an amount and out again a half-hour later. •with his revolver and forced him to pproved by the State Board of They managed to keep one step empty three cash registers. Then Control. ahead of campus police, and consid- the bandit fled. This two-story frame dwelling, on the outskirts of Danville, ment used five-gallon milk cans of water to replenish the Among witnesses to be summoned erably ahead of the sleeping Call- jefore the jury will be E. Raymond TELEPHONE POLICE was damaged seriously by a fire that broke out during the formans. Only after the bandit's departure supply in thek truck when it was exhausted. The fire at- Cato, chief of the State Highway The raiders waited untflL the were K'rby and Bahr able to give occupants' absence. Members of the volunteer fire depart- tracted scores of residents of the region.—Tribune photo. Patrol; Frank Reed, secretary 10 guard over the Big C on Ijhe^liill the alarm and telephone police. Ray Ingels, former head of the De- above the stadium had been with- partment of Motor Vehicles; In- drawn and then slipped."-"up "and The robber \\ as described as about spector Fred Leber of Richmond, painted red stripes on the emblem. 5 ft. 10 in. tall, weighing 150 pounds, Applegarth and others. 27 years old, and was dressed in a Sophomore officers who^-Jad trown suit and gray hat Amnesia Victim DAMAGE IN BLAZE; Football Star VENUE IN CONTRA COSTA •watched through the night ".mat Much of the evidence to be taken home before 4 ajn., permitting^ths The same man, according to his Stanford foray. - §^ method and description, was be- before the probing body will come lieved responsible for robberies of from the files of the attorney •*en- BED PAINT SPLASHED ^ stores at 2387 College Avenue, eral's office, which recently turned They daubed a big red "S,",1hre» Recalls Past VOLUNTEER FIREMAN IS INJURED Seriously Hurt the investigation over to Healey to Berkeley; 2718 Telegraph Avenue, feet high, on Sather Gate and spelled take -whatever legal steps i.i out "Stanford" on the sidewalk'-by and 5701 Foothill Boulevard, Oak- DANVILLE, Nov. 18.—Water %om Mrs. Gerald Deardorff, and the deemed necessary. Warren decided Virginia Masker, 16, and' land, Monday and Tuesday eve- latter's husband. No one was at home the Gymnasium for Men. Then,,;get» S.F. Hospital Patient five-gallon milk cans, supplement'ng Washington High that venue rested in Contra Costa Jerry Johnston, 18, local ting real daring, they wentf-to rungs. when the fire broke out, apparently County rather than in Sacramento Traced Through Ad that in a fire truck, was used to help in the tank house. School Student Suffers high school students, were Bowles Hall, men's dormitory,'and extinguish a residential fire here County where the investigation painted another "S" on a retaining Chief A. M. Fichtenmueller and broke into public notice last Spring. On Match Box yesterday. 2C members of the volunteer fire de- Cerebral Hemorrhage missing today and parents wall. A few California students S.F. VICE PROBE Despite the use of the "canned" partment worked with neighbors to Records of the Slate show that on feared they had eloped. awakened there, but the Stanfords A match-box advertisement water, the two-story frame house fight the fire, and kept it from SAN JOSE, Nov. 18. —MervynApril 28,1937, Sawallisch introduced slipped off into the night without a, brought identification and return of was damaged seriously and a tank spreading to a barn. Furniture and a bill for 56263 24 to indemnify Ap- struggle. The raiders spilled the Boyce, 17, star of the Washingto plegarth but that it died in C-TO- remainder of their paint on the street memory to Frank Marquis, 50, New house and bunk house destroyed. clothing were moved to safety. REPORT MISSING The loss was estimated at about James Root Jr., one of the volun- High School, Alameda County, foo mittee. This was after the Board in front of Sather Gate. Whereabouts of the original re- York philatelist, who had been a $3500. tary firemen, was overcome by ball team, suffered a serious hea of Control had allowed the claim Ignoring the warning of Dr. patient at San Francisco Hospital, for $2973.24 and the assemblyrran's Couple Eloped, port of former U.S. Department of The home was occupied by Mrs. smoke and revived on the scene. injury in a game at Los Gatos Hig Deutsch, California students said Justice Ifivestigator Edwm N Ath- suffering from amnesia, for the last U. G. Goold, resident of this region The home is on San Ramon Road, request for reconsideration had been they would raid the Stanford School yesterday and was held a denied. erton on vice conditions in San week, police reported today. for the past 40 years; her daughter, just south of Danville. campus tonight, but would leave i San Jose Hospital for treatment The warrant finally drawn to strong guard to protect their~own Francisco was a mystery today. Marquis went to the hospital No- When Deputy Attorney General Hospital attendants refused to te Applegarth bears endorsements o; Parents Fear grounds. They said they had -aa William F. Cleary sought to un- vember 10, after telh'ng a police of- what the condition of the youth wa Applegarth, Sawallisch and the as- elaborate defense setup, including earth the report in response to a ficer he had lost his memory. On semblyman's secretary, Robert a siren on Bowles Hall to call all today, but Dr. Edwin Kilbourne Hansen. request from the attorney general's his person was found a match-box in Gifts to Aid U.C. who attended him at the field, sai Youth, 18, and Girl, California men to fight raiders., - Healey said he would submit to office in Washington, the report bearing an advertisement for a Workmen were sent to Sather, could not be found. he had suffered "a hemorrhag the Grand Jury all evidence in his 16, Sought Through Gate at 5 a.m. to remove traces tf Neither the county clerk's office Butte, Mont, auto park. A pboto- under the skull." possession and would ask for indict- the raid, as school officials feaned nor the district sttomWe nffir-p eranh of the man was sent to Butte Fynprimpntc F»TT*C California students might jget 'Atom N.41M-VTI lllk%Stl}»* Spectators said the accident oc- could locate the document, presum- Anthony Crafton, Ygnacio Valley aroused and retaliate in Palo AltibT- and through the auto park manager curred "on a very fast play," but farmer, is foreman of the Grand Police throughout Northern Cali- ably filed at the City Hall. the man was identified. BERKELEY, Nov. 18—Approxi-aluminum hydroxide in gastric se- tJ.C. RAID AVENGED ' A complete transcript of the re- did not know just what happened. Jury and Homer Vose, Martinez ac- fornia joined today in a search for Yesterday his niece, Miss Delia mately $10,000 was made available A series o" raids during the week port taken from a newspaper was cretions by Dr. Matilda M. Brooks; After the play went by, they said, countant, is secretary. Virginia Masker, 16, and Jerry Marks of Butte, walked into the today for continued attack on "the resulted in rough treatment and im- certified as correct by Superior Dr. M. L. Montgomery, San Fran- Boyce was lying semiconscious on Johnston, 18, Castlemont High School Judge Franklin A. Griffin, and was hospital and greeted him, and Mar- frontier of nature" by Dr. Ernest O. the field, unable to get up. promptu haircuts for the Stanford cisco, $500 for medical research; Mrs. students, who disappeared yesterday youths, who burned. "S's" on lawnt forwarded to Washington, and an quis' memory returned. He said that Lawrence, University of California Lorena V. Montgomery, Simi, Calif., Play was in the first quarter, and about the campus. Today's raid, official investigation was launched the game was halted while Dr. Kil- Albany Man fires under conditions which led their to discover the original report. he was of Polish extraction and that Nobel Prize winner in physics. $100 for "medical research under di- bourne put the boy in an ambu- parents to believe they were plan- however, was the first in which any, worry over the fate of three brothers Two gifts, included in more than rction of Dr. M. L. Montgomery; Eli property damage was done. - -* It was unofficially rumored that lance. A private physician from ning marriage. California students, however, the request for the report came from in Warsaw since the outbreak of $112,500 in benefactions accepted-by Lilly & Co., Philadelphia, $300 to Newark, Boyce's home, was called On Tavern Burglar A checkup after the pair failed to splashed paint on the Stanford cam- the Federal Bureau of Investiga- war had caused his lapse of memory. the board of regents at the monthly college of agriculture for research to treat him. attend classes showed that Johnston tion who wished to use facts in the ALBANY, Nov. 18.—Edward John- had withdrawn his savings from a pus Wednesday night in a raid that report in connection with prepara- Now, fully recovered he was plan- meeting yesterday in San Francisco, by Dr. Samuel Lepkovsky; Josiah ion, 40, owner of a tavern at 601 local bank. brought retribution to several cap- tion of evidence in the racing wire ning to leave today-for Butte with will be devoted to further research Macy Jr. Foundation, New York San Pablo Avenue, pursued a Injured in a recent athletic com- tured Californians. After daubing S.F. Fishing Boat prowler •with a rifle this morning yellow "C's" on Stanford bulding*, probe. his niece. with the world's largest cyclotron hi City, $500 as first payment of $1000 petition, the youth Is forced to walk some of the marauders were caught the University's Radiation Labora- grant for vitamin research by Agnes Damaged in Crash and fired one shot which appar- with the aid of crutches. He is the ently missed. son of Mrs. W. V. Johnston of 2639 and "S's" were clipped in their hair. tory. Fay Morgan; Standard Agricultural The purse seiners California Star The game, to be played at Stanford The gifts comprise $4166.50 from He was awakened about 6 am. 62nd Avenue. IDENTIFIED BY -MATCH BOX Chemicals, Inc., Hoboken, N. J., $2000 and Lena B collided off Point Mon- Virginia is the daughter of Mrs. this year, is still a week away.. the Rockefeller Foundation, and tara, 20 miles south of San Fran- and saw, from the rear room wher° $5000 from the Research Corpora- for work by Dr. Guy F. MacLeod in he sleeps, a man ransacking a pin- Mary Jane Diederick of 700 St. cisco, today, the Marine Exchange Mary's Avenue, San Leandro. tion, both of New York City. The investigation of sodium salt dinitre reported. The California Star, ball machine in the front. He Rockefeller Foundation also gave cresol; Shell Chemical Co., San owned by C. S. Bruno, San Fran- grabbed a rifle and started toward Paint Shop Fire ; the sum of $3750 for research in vita- cisco, returned to port here for re- the front just as the intruder saw mins and hormones under direction Francisco, $300 for research en a him. oi Dr. Herbert M. Evans, whose dis- process for adding ammonia to irri- pairs to a twisted bow while the The burglar ran out a rear door Piedmont Collegian coveries in this field have also at- gation water; Lena B, continued fishing. No one Draws S.F, Throng" was reported injured. and was headed toward a fence tracted international notice to the American Society of Civil Engi- when Johnson called, "Halt or I'll Sparks from a generator ignited Berkeley campus. Other Eocke- neers, $292 for research on inter- shoot." The man did not stop, and Hurt at Homecoming a pile of shavings in the paint shop feller Foundation gifts reported by secting streams by college of me- Johnson fired. But the man con- of the Bauer Cooperage Company, Vice-President Monroe E. Deutsch chanical engineering; American So- Oakland Recruit Is tinued over the fence, across a lot, An Oregon State College home- coming parade stunt on the eve of 2345 Keith Avenue, San Francisco, in the absence of President Robert ciety-of Heating and Ventilating En- and darted across San Pablo Avenue. today, causing two-alarm lire Gordon Sproul were: For Bureau gineers, New York City, $187.50 for Sent to Washington Johnson chased the man, but was the football game with California ...1~.«U of Public Administration, $2500; for continuation of work on cooling brought serious injury to Roland which attracted Urongs ol iip«e= Robert A. Saunders, new enlistee outdistanced at the foot of the Al- tators. Institute of Social Sciences, $1250- towers by Prof. B. M. Woods; Mrs. in the United States Army, has been bany hill. Police dogs from Berke- Harris, student irom Piedmont, the S. Dinkelspiel, Mrs. Abraham Haas, stationed with the 15th Infantry at ley were used in an attempt to fol- Associated Press reported today in Prompt action by firemen FUNDS FROM ESTATES a dispatch from Corvallis, Ore. fined the blaze to the paint shop, Proceeds of two estates, those of Mrs. M. C. Sloss, Mrs. E. S. Heller, Fort Lewis, Wash., the Oakland re- low .the trail, but the man was not .all of, San Francisco, $25 each in cruiting office said today. found. Harris was cranking an air com- with loss estimated at $5000. ' « Ralph E. Hare and May McLean, pressor mounted on a truck and The fire was only a block.Iron 'gave the university $37,92^.12 and memory of Rabbi Martin A. Meyer Saunders, a Castlemont High The burglar obtained some nick- for annual contribution to American School graduate this year, is the els from a pin-ball machine, but attached to several noise-making the Bayshore Highway and hun« $39,440, respectively. The Alumni devices when the crank recoiled dreds of motorists stopped to watch Association of the College of Den- School of Oriental Research in son of'Mr. and Mrs. John O. Saun- Johnson did not know how much Jerusalem for 1937-38. ders, 6328 Outlook Avenue. was taken. and the handle struck him in the the firemen quell the fire. !i»* tistry 'provided S1500 'for establish- eye. A physician -who attended the men were endangered when barwW ment of the Guy S. Millberry student youth said that sight of the eye was of inflammable paint and laoqaaf loan fund. Other gifts reported in- endangered. cluded: were ignited, but no injuries - The student is the son of Mr. and curred, - , General Education Board, $4512.46 Mrs. Russell S. Harris, 333 Eampna for Institute of Child Welfare; Liquor, Love, Laments Lead to Lockup Avenue, Piedmont Harris is vice- class of'1906,'$1000 for scholarship; president of the American Dredging anonymous, $1100; Mrs.-E. S. Heller, Company. $600 for the Mrs. E. S. Heller Fund for Economics Research; California As Albany Jails Reno-Bound L.A. Elopers Spring Garden Show, $1000 for fund for the,SoUth American Expedition MUSIC ALBANY, Nov. 18.—Cupid's neme-1 eieht and a fow other avmns^ic*
'Gentleman Sawallisch Faces Grand Jury Action in ^ Stanford Rail
