The Oakland Post Enquirer from Oakland, California (2025)

June 24, 1944

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The Oakland Post Enquireri

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Oakland, California

Issue Date:

Saturday, June 24, 1944

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3

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DRIVER KILLED I I Loan Drive Generals 'Oakland lier Nazi PASTOR TO DISCUSS i ip tiin it vsuii riujv num doned by the Japanese on rain jn Bise Ria was an employe of HAPPY MARITAL LIE air forces also the LAST LIBERTY SHIP HONORS WARNER Course contracts the road Mo body room the 519th Lib the Richmond the an ters will welcome back Rev A Ronald Morrlx who has been out of the city since ebruary Rev Arnold Nash will direct the young fellowship at 7 tn SCIENCE SER VICKS Science and Health With the Key to the Scriptures" front the textbook by Mary Baker Eddy will be included in services at all Metroitolitan Oakland churches Rev Isain Hodges who re cently returned front the Nash ville Tenn executive committee meeting of the Southern Baptist convention will speak on Biggest Business in the World" at the Golden Gate Baptist church 54th and Gaskill streets tomor row morning His evening topic will be "You Are Not Your Own" "A House of Prayer for All People" will be discussed by Rev Clyde Paul White at Elmhurst Baptist church at 11 a and he will speak on "No Graven at 7:15 The dally Bible vaca tion school will close next riday night The last of the Liberty ships to be built at Henry Rich mond shipyard No 2 the Benjamin Warner will lie launched soon and the yard will swing into production of Victory ships larger and faster cargo vessels The launching of the Benjamin Warner which was named for the father of the Warner brotherg of motion picture fame will mark the completion or erty ship built by shipyard WILL BUILD 7t Under present Kaiser yards will construct 77 of the new Victory ships Work on the ships will provide enough work to keep the yards busy until the summer of 1915 officials said Ceremonies of the launching chases Left to right arc Davis of the Penney company Gladys Lar kin and Elizabeth Moxvbray oof 11 Cap well's Oakland's quota is $1(1500000 Harmonious married life forms the basis of the sermon to be preached tomorrow morning by Rev rank Morey Toothaker at the irst Methodist church There will lie floral awards for the cou ple wed the longest and for the most recefit newlyweds At the evening services Rev Donald Buhler will give an illus trated talk on Youth and Tomorrow's Church" The Reverend topic will be "Whom God Hath Joined" COUPLE HONORED Mr and Mrs Toothaker who re cently returned from an annual church conference were honored at an informal reception by con gregationalists last Wednesday World Out ofDoors" will be topic of Rev Clarence Reed at irst Unitarian church tomorrow morning Rev Alfred Koehler will dis cuss the riend" at 10:45 a tn at irst Trinity Lutheran church 17th avenue and East L5th street St Paul Episcopal church mem A man was killed and a woman was critically injured when their car collided with a lumber truck at Rodeo deputy sheriffs reported today 1 ne man tieneteil to be Marvin Biol 30 of Sacramento was thrown 200 feet from the automobile in the accident last night His companion Mrs Bertha Henson Houston Texas was re ported in a critical condition today at Permanente field hospital Arthur A Helm of Red Bluff driver of the truck apparently escajHsl injury Hunt Slayer of Waitress in A LOS ANGELES June 24 Police continued their search for Harry isher alias Alvin Arnsen 40 year old radio repair man charged with the mur der of waitress Georgia Elizabeth Castaneda 2'J The mutilated was found Monday in a rented by isher Heavy Rainfall or 'Dust Bowl' LAMAR Colo (W The amount of rainfall during the month of May was the greatest in 30 years In the Lamar region heart of the so called of a few years back Weather Observer Galloway reveals that a total of 738 inches of rain was measured during the month the most since 1914 when an all time record was set Rummage Sale By Cecelia Shrine A rummage sale will be held Monday at 470 9th street by the Cecelia Shrine Gertrude Corwin committee chairman an nounced today The sale be conducted from 9 a to 5 Al Smith Will Leave Hospital NEW YORK June 24 ormer Gov Al Smith was ex pected to leave St Vincent's hos pital today or tomorrow where he has been resting and undergo ing observation Smith who l'w rivrinmlmr hac ll) vr tiis will IQ3L WWIIIIUVI aauva host considerable weight during the last month and his general health has suffered since the death of his wife Mrs Catherine Dunn Smith In May ADD TOTALS star I in the fifth war loan "Third of vol unteer salespeople add S5(MHI each to the Oakland bond quota by individual pur mortar and 20 machine guns Lt Gen Joseph Stilwell's Chinese troops driving down the Hukawng and Mogaung valleys seized the 150 mrn rifle believed to be the last of the Japanese big guns In northern Burma Two others were captured by the Chi nese last week The communique also disclosed that Chinese troops and air borne Chindits were tightening their circle around Mogaung and to geiner wnn American inrces made new advances in the pene tration of Myltkina Japanese strongpoint on the Irrawaddy river in northern Burma ESCAPE CUT Chindits occupied the village of bawngchlng an Important junction 12 miles west of gaung yesterday Occupatlo not Sawngching eliminated another possible cape route southwards for Japanese Mogaung garrison Air orce Sets Safety Record REDERICK Okla One squadron of the rederick Okla army air field training force has amassed 12567 hours in the air without an accident setting a safety record for the command Lt Kicnara inomas of training department has nounced Day Mixup As Home Burns ALVA Okla (UB The invasion news came at a particularly bad time for Mrs James Brakebill of Alva Her house was on fire right at the moment to be specific And when she asked the telephone operator to ring the fire depart ment quick the operator thought she was just another cit izen wanting to flash the word to have the fire sirens blown for the Invasion signal Tedious moments followed but Mrs Brakebill got a fire truck out In time to prevent much damage IN CAR TRUCK CRASH AT RODEO Vitamin Pill Sale Restricted in ALBANY June 24 Sale of vitamin pills by depart ment stores and other retail shops in New state was ordered suspended today by State Attor ney General Nathan Goldstein Goldstein ruled that if the vita min preparations are listed in the United States pharmacopoeia as most of them are their sale must be restricted to registered phar macists and druggists Population SACRAMENTO June 24 "Scattered Impressions" that Cal i fornia is losing opulation be cause thousands of war workers and their families are leaving I os Angeles and San rancisco areas were strongly contradicted in Sac ramento today Cold statistics show three quar ters of a million persons came to California in buses and private cars since last Jan 1 declared Swift supervising quarantine officer of the state department of agriculture and Victor Killick head of the California population commission Swift and Killick revealed that even if hundreds leaving coastal areas are going back to other states" nevertheless a total of 736021 newcomers entered Cal ifornia in foreign license passen ger automobiles and stages the first five months of 1944 The count was taken at state border checking stations The 736021 influx total they said is an Increase of 134129 passengers coming into the state over the 601892 during the first five months of 1943 Jap Guns Captured In India In Curbing Of Crime Howard Wells consultant in In dividual guidance for Oakland public schools will instruct a will be in keeping with the history of the Liberty ships and the record of the Warner family The Warner brothers are Harry Col Jack and Maj Albert Warner Lita Warner daughter of the late Sam Warner will sponsor the ship Mrs Anne Robbins eldest daughter of Benjamin Warner will lie matron of honor TO UNVEIL STATUE Coupled with the launching of the Benjamin Warner a large scale reproduction of the Statue of Liberty will be unveiled dur ing the ceremonies Names of workers In the shipyard will be carried on the hull of the Benja min Warner just above the water line The Invocation for the launch ing and unveiling ceremonies will be made by the Rev Dr Rudolph 1 Coffee soaked trails and roads included 12 75 mm pieces one four inch avenue prior to Joining the army New Gain the Piedmont hotel 3451 Piedmont rrp By rank Hewlett (ValleJ War CrreBdeal) SOUTHEAST ASIA HEAD QUARTERS KANDY Ceylon June 21 OJB Allied troops bat tering tne Japanese oacx tnrougn India and northern Burma cap L) VI ZN tured 13 pieces of enemy artil ICl lery including a 150 mm rifle tn recent fighting a communique! Capt Duane Beeson former announced todiv (Oakland liellhop and United States The bulk of the artillery to fiRhter pilot with 23 enemy gether with large quantities of planes to his credit is a German ammunition as taken bv Brit prisoner of at ish imperials under Lt Gen Wil do near Mun during i Ju uiu a strafing raid last April a news ham Slims in the Manipur hills rented todav when they reopened land cornu an wa leltlrtment an nu'ation yesteiday between Im 1 nouncement from Washington i He previously been reported LQtli MEXT (APTIKEP missing in The captured equipment aban i cantain Reason whose home is IT Vfiiri I Oakland Post Enquirer 2 Xatilfda) IIP JI California (tom Iknmaik In 1907 Ing physical examination and a in on Tuesday and Saturday oi service representative post nlza Shrines Hold Deer on Loose the San Berkeley for 25 years is a former assistant edl the Seattle Post Inlelll He also has held post alumni luncheon aculty glade and par an Memls rs of the lodge anil 1 da tives and friends honored the cou ple at an informal party ulkerson and Virginia Hot Policeman Battles Harlem Negroes NEW YORK June 21 A gun battle between a white plain clothes policeman and several Ne groes in Harlem early today re sulted in the critical wouding of the patrolman the death of one Negro and the shooting of another and possibly a third Women Under New WLB Job Order CHICAGO June 24 (INS) Women as well as men will have Io obtain Jolis through the United States employment service In some midwest areas when thp new inanisiwer program becomes dfis tlvo July 1 Dean William IL Spencer regional WMC director levealed today 8eiicer called upon all public and private employment agencies In Illinois Indiana and Wisconsin to cooperate to make the program effective' campus landmarks Speakers at the various stops during the pH gi linage hich will start at 10:30 a in will be Phyllis Lindley Stu dent IxhIv president Jean Elliott senior lass president Mary Porter class vice president Sher man Rifkin student body repre sentative talwartl Heather Moon torff The annual will be held In will lw followed by the formal services in the Hearst Greek the ater SPROUL TO PRESIDE President Sproul will preside and address the graduates The student speaker will be Paul Sana zaro Berkeley pre medlcal stu dent and nirmlter of the Unlver ally's 12 naval unit lonorary doctor of laws depees will lie awarded to Monsignor Charles A Ramm of San ran cisco William Wright astron omer and director emeritus of Lick observatory Judge William Denham of San rancisco and Al fred Noyes British poet Jack Benny III In Chicago Hotel CHICAGO June 21 Jack Benny the comedian was re ported recovering today from a heavy cold which resulted in con finement to his hotel room in Chicago for several days Benny said he plans to go over seas in a few weeks with a com pany that will include Larry Ad ler the harmonica player to en tertain servicemen USO Director Resigns Post Resignation of Henry Gutter son west coast USO regional di rer tor was accepted liy Ray Johns national director of field opera tions in New York the USO said today Gutterson who will lie replaced temporarily by Harold Allen USO regional executive on the cast coast will leave to take urgent commission In his professional field architecture He will leave the USO in July Gutterson is a member of the national tmard of the American institute of Architect and hus livrwl in Allen tor of gencer tions with other newspaper and public relations organizations All Saints Plans iesta All Saints parish Hayward will Sponsor Its annual fiesta on the church grounds on Second street between and streets July 21 zz zj proceeds to nenent tne Ish building fund It was nounced today Andy Hynes manager of Linda Vista nark at Mission Jose will supervise the carnival Scenes depleting the pioneer and mission day of California will be the motif of decorations There will be free entertainment each evening and a dinner will served on the final day iesta plans are under direction of Revs red Cook and rancis Reilly Students friends anl alumni nt 230 Ninth the I'nnersltv of t'alifotnis will elder Mr gather tomorrow afternoon at 3 Hearst Greek the a rmer city em 'ater on the Berkeley campus for commencement exercises IMploinas will le awarded to 800 students by President Roliert member of the enlisted reserve Additional information may lie obtained on Mondays Tuesdaynd Wednesdays lielween 7:30 and It in room 1705 odin id the Society Dania In 409 13th street Th? office Oakland hiving livid many high also from 2 to 4 infficcH of tle organization one uf the Masonic lodge for more 53 wars During Wotld War 1 SI1 'nhH he was emplovsl at Mare Island Tomorrow 's observance will be He is a menilH of the Danish'gin with the annual pilgrimage to ete Tonight Approximately 500 candidates will cross the hot Arabian sands at the Oakland auditorium arena tonight when the bay region's two Shrine temples Aahmes of Oak land and Islam of San rancisco hold their rank Land cere monial Present will be rank Land past potentate of Ararat temple and founder of the De Molay In whose honor the affair is Iming held on the 25th anniversary of the De Molay Other notable at tending will include William Worxlflcld Jr San rancisco im perial chief rabban of the Shrine In North America and the Shrine leaders from California Nevada Arizona and southern Oregon who attended the meeting of the West ern Shrine association last night at the Claremont Country club In Oakland Service Men ToGetAid ree instruction and counsel for men alsnil to enter the armed forces for their families and for families of men already In the armed services will hr given at 7:30 in Monday In Woodrow Wilson junior high mIioo) 451 48th street Information regarding life In the service and answers to ques tions involving family reapoiud billties and problems legal aid Red Cross services re ligious matters credit real estate and others will Is available red Kistermann acting coordinator of the Oakland Defense council said red Ostrander will lie presid ing officer of the information panel composed of the following men and women: Theiss banking Alliert Whitton legal aid Paul Pause real estate Miss Eleanor Clark Red Cross Harry Bunker mercan tile credit Lou Newfield insur ance Lt Russell ami Capt James Lyle army Lt Walter Smith navy Mrs Max field child care and selective Gradual mg senior will cle brale their one lug graduation so cial ent tonight at tlie Whitcomb hotel San rancisco where the rritir to tile export business bctoie coming the war the senior set aside an New Berkeley Air Corps CouPle 50 800 Will I Rec ru its rs rad ate Credit Men Name Piedmont Jeweler Ixul Mllenbach of 545 Blair street Piedmont Oakland Jewelry store owner was elected secre tary of the Retail Credit Institute of America William Cheyney executive director announced to day He replaced A Jenkin nfiaervlce representative jacKsonviue ria in tnat tlon New president of the organlza ton is Richard Oblender of Iain caster Pa Be replaced Nathan Sachs of New York talnoiiiii fiom Denmark In 190 Assistance for 17 year old Metres twlas an rung heir golden I I I A pohtan Oakland youths In enlist wcimng annn txaii 11 I inf in ihi xrtttv nr rtrtK I ihvs jrv Mi and Mm Carl re ne was ftcred today Chlli(iall reside Hh ivornar 11 tiownun or uu oak land squnhon civil nr patrol Bowman annoumsl ill uni Clss nd blind for the cls inth win continue mental i jm i '0 eat mg msts ami in Bekelee Mrs Cl for young men in making apphcatlon )nv StUs uj thvl) lMlftluxl for enlistment in the reserve ia w(up (lalr Members of the enlisted reserve tll Ve children were torn will not lie calk'd for active duty Denmark Tbe ue Cloo with the army air forces until they Miss Anna Clss imected with reach their eighteenth birthday 'a san rancis al i Using com Bowman said Meanwhile they junv and Mrs Kaien Abrew who may continue school or work resides near Mills liege Applicants must pass a qualify Cai I Christian Clsw who was In senior ball ill tn' held iuk rxaiiHiiaunJii mui i mental test before becoming to Amerka has ls en a ineinlx of ienttre week for celebrating niaicikxe xf oitliLicul roLurvft i i 4 NAME COMMITTEES Storm OR JULY 4 ETE (Continued from page 1) plant Charges ly in Divorce Suit Here the or it will lead to bloodshed if there is not ome way by which the people have a fair vote" deer high San the yoa and Re organ youth Delin at the prt 40th A second navy storekeeper 3c identified as Charles Ruiz also wrote romantic letter to Mrs Abbors Abhor testified Her chief heart interest he tes tified was Elison Hebert navy storekeeper 2c now believed overseas alleged ro mance with estranged wife was discovered through let ters found hidden in his bureau drawer in their home at 2716 Parker avenue he stated A letter read to Judge Quinn by attorney Leo Murcell was dated Nov 1 1943 three and one half months atfer the trial separation It said in part: get off to bed soon to dream sweet dreams of yon I still see how I ever got you i am ue Happiest girl in world Sweetheart I love with all my heart and soul it ill always that way Oakland auditorium at 9 with nationally known entertain ers participating in the program Edwin Meese was named chair man of the afternoon concert and patriotic display for civilian com mittee Other named to the com mittee were: Col Walter Knox Peck Merrick Wade Snook Spen cer Beckwith Art Daniels and McClure A third committee to arrange for championship baseball games to hold the spotlight of the sporting events will be named War efforts In Emeryville In dustrial plants were delayed briefly today of all a deer Workr hurrying to their jobs resist the thrill of a chase when they discovered Patrolmen James Donovan and Edward Wil son the of a three pointed buck In Emeryville back yards and across buy San Pablo avenue Communiques to the Emery ville city hall and Patrolman John Doyle at the switchboard list had the hunters calling frantically for a lasso as mey reported tne back of Emery school at 47th street and Pablo avenue DEER SPOTTED Donovan and Wilson first ted the frightened deer at and Adeline street while cruising course In and starting Monday University of California He has been active in ization of community and councils in Metropolitan Oakland Subjects to be discussed at the university summer session will in clude Are the Roots of What Does Race Have to Do With Police Methods Used to Com bat Juvenile Role of the School in Delinquency of Youth Centers and Recreation and of Child Guid ance Clinics" ield trips will be conducted to police departments detention homes juvenile courts and boys club our other departments have! properly feeding the child and exceeded their total 1 leaving her alone and without Written Into the record of the second degree murder trial of Mrs Louise lack In San ran cisco today was a 19 page state ment in the defendant's own words which told the story of the starvation death of her 8 year oId crippled daughter Delores last Christmas The 28 year old defendant's tears flowed throughout the read ing of the statement before a jury of six men and six women who have the power to send her to prison for life In her statement Mrs lack freely admitted neglecting her paralyzed daughter admitted im in a patrol car Barking dog at tracted their attention Donovan rubbed hi eye twice then askwl Wilson If he saw th same thing he did "Il' a three pointer too" Wil son stammered The deer and dogs moved fast So did Donovan and Down alley and across yard went the strange visitor dog and police In and out of their car leaped Wilson and his partner 5IOTORIHTH HTARTLED Mo tor fits on San Pablo avenue were startled when the and moved across their path By the time the deer police and dogs reached the vicinity of Emery high school a large posse of war workers were with them inal report to the Emeryville city hall said capture of the In vader was near City Workers Buy War Bonds The fifth war Ioan campaign 1 going strong among municipal em ployes To date the half way mark of the 1200000 goal has been set by the 2200 city payroll workers ive departments according to Emil Kaleschke general chair man of the city hall group have exceeded 200 percent of their In dividual quotas They are: City Manager Charles office staff the city planning commission civil service department engineer ing division and the office of Harry Hintze city purchasing agent Skeleton Keys ound on Youth ST LOUIS Police found the key to the whole thing when they stopped 17 year old Donald Mann and found 17 different keys five of which were skeleton After Question ins Mann confessed he had robbed 15 St Louis homes duced at the meeting food for periods of 24 36 and 48 hours On Christmas eve Mrs Hack went to the home of friends in nearby Sausalito with Pvt Leslie Ruud leaving the child alone When she returned on Dec 28 she went at once to the room went op to the bed and took her hand and it was cold uat then I discovered she was the statement said After the death Mrs lack kept the body in the room with a couch blocking the door from the outside She told in quiring friends that she had placed her daughter in an insti tution Appointment of working com mittees for ourth of July celebration which will be jointly sponsored by the city council and the Alameda county board of supervisors was an nounced today by General Chair man James Taylor Named to assist Elmer Zollner in working out the details of the smoker and floor show for mem bers of the armed forces were: Art Daniels Spencer Beckwith McClure Comdr Lloyd Hughes and Taylor The show will be held In the later Taylor said One of these also read in court by Murcell apologized profusely for Ruiz on last me give you some advice (bough Honey" the letter dated Sept 24 1943 continued start handing out those idMe to a sailor if you expect to get more than a kiss back for get it take two to make a SERIES QUARRELS Abbors said his four year mari tal life with his red headed spouse had been series of little quar rels which led to violent unbear able They separated July 15 1943 he said after his wife had clawed his face drawing blood and pitched his clothes into the street They temporarily reconciled later he said but separated per manently Nov 26 last when he filed his divorce action Quarry ight Ruling Due Legality of quarry operations adjacent to Sheffield Village long controversial issue will be decided next Wednesday by Superior Judge Victor Wagler Louis Angelus East Oakland quarry operator Is the petitioner in the superior court action a writ of habeas corpus to release Angelus from charges of violating excavating and zoning ordinances Angelus alleges through Attor ney James Agee that his arrest on June 13 last while excavating a private roadway north of Shef field Village was a violation of his constitutional rights and deprives him of the use of his property Through ernhoff Village resi dents contend that Angelus is not being unlawfully deprived of priv ate property as defined by the con stitution because he it purchasing the land on a speculative basis Edward Abbors' petite titian haired wife posed as a divorcee during alleged romantic trysts with a handsome navy store keeper Abbors 23 year old welding su pervisor so testified today as he opened a bitter divorce child cus tody battle with preUy Mrs Viv ian Abbors 22 cross complainant in the contested action before Su perior Judge James Quinn Pawn in the suit is 15 month old Sharon Lee Marie Abbors daughter of the estranged couple Mrs complaint charges her husband with cru Mrs lack's Story of Tot Death Told to Jury Plan to Ban Electoral College aces ight line at the large smelting at Selby Contra Costa county or more than 30 minutes the fashionable Orinda residential I section was without electric serv ice when lightning hit a power line Lines were also struck In Berkeley at ulton and Oregon streets Derby street and Tele graph avenue and several other points PHONE SERVICE CLEAR Interruption to telephone and telegraph service was reported as only slight I In the wake of the storms 01 inch rain fell during 24 hours up to last midnight Seasonal rain fall to date was 1460 inches com pared with 1876 during the same 1943 period Normal rainfall to date 1 1698 inches The maximum tempera ture yesterday was tk ana minimum 53 system and possible CHARGES MADE have seea the things which) Abbors who lives at 8328 Out I thought struck at the tjrart of: look avenue charged that his democracy and I think this new wife ran up an S83 telephone bill threat he said protest i which included numerous calls to in the nawe of the nation and the: San Pedro and Pleasantep to sotrth because I know that it wfll least of his asserted lead to alterations in the aysten Air Port Plan ST LOUIS A $5000000 expansion plan to meet the post war needs of St Louis was adopted by the airport commis sion of St Louis An alternative plan for the construction of a landing strip of the Jefferson Na tional Expansion memorial at the foot of the river was also Intro Cops Start Roundup JVASHINGTON June 24 Senator Guffey (D) Pennsylvania today pledged an all out fight for his proposed constitutional amend fko rilzv ov il ncl meriik auvuaii me ctcviutat after its convention recess S83 for Talks With Sailors am going to pres for con annmval nf mv nrrw posal after the summer recess" Guffey aid favor a change in the present electoral college sys tem and nothing can change my mind" In the closing hours before ad 1 journment measure touched off a vigorous and some times bitter debate between southern senators over the impli cations of the Texas supreme 1 court ruling barring the pro Roosevelt presidential electors from appearing on the state bal lot in November On the eve of the political con ventions Senator Pepper (D) Hot 1 Ida warned a southern anti new deal democratic electors In the fall elections might lead to 1 serious alterations in the election.

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