The Feb. 24, 1926, Berkeley Daily Gazette reported that Mrs. Ruth Paulucci, who had been shot by an Oakland police officer earlier that month, was expected to live.
Readers may remember from an earlier column about this incident, in which Paulucci, a downtown Berkeley resident, had been in a car dropping off friends after a dance. The police officer thought the car may have belonged to a burglar and shot at it when it drove away, hitting her in the spine. Oakland police quickly declared that the shooting justifiable.
Doctors at Berkeley General Hospital originally believed Paulucci would die but reported Feb. 24, 1926, that she had “a remarkable constitution combined with wonderful courage” and would likely recover but never walk again. She did not yet know that and had told hospital staff that she was looking forward to dancing again and going back to work at a Berkeley restaurant.
Meanwhile, on Feb. 27, 1926, a Berkeley police officer in a patrol car chased a speeding driver nearly 3 miles through city streets. After the officer fired two shots, the driver stopped on Benvenue Avenue. He proved to be James Klinefeller, 19, a UC student who lived on Cragmont Avenue.
Klinefeller told the police he fled because an Oakland judge had recently suspended his driver’s license. He was arrested “on charges of speeding and driving without a license.”
Proposed building: Dolan Brothers Wrecking Co. (“wrecking” meant tearing down buildings) was relocating from Oakland to Berkeley, and on Feb. 27, 1926, the Gazette ran a drawing of their proposed new building at the southwest corner of Ashby and San Pablo avenues. It would serve as office headquarters and also store and sell materials salvaged from demolished buildings.
This handsome new structure to house a large company that specialized in demolishing buildings was planned in early 1926 for construction at Berkeley’s southwest corner of Ashby and San Pablo avenues. (photo courtesy of the Berkeley Historical Society and Museum)City Hall renovations: The city of Berkeley was undertaking alterations to City Hall (now the Maudelle Shirek Building) in 1926, and several offices were disrupted by the work. The mayor was without an office for the time being and “the city clerk’s office is temporarily located with the City Planning Commission in the rear of the council chamber.”
Off-street parking: The Berkeley Builders’ Exchange said it would focus on bringing about “a change in the laws which limit two garages to a lot so that in the case of an apartment house there could be a garage for each tenant.”
The leader of the exchange noted that “zoning laws prevent public garages being erected in the residential sections (of Berkeley) and another ordinance forbids motorists to park cars all night in front of their homes; consequently many motorists who live in apartments are deprived of the privilege of driving home in their own machines.”
Buses advance: The Gazette editorialized on Feb. 26, 1926, that buses were beginning to out-compete streetcars in London, and as a result “it is likely that buses will be barred during the rush hours from the routes where they seriously compete with the streetcars.”
That was one possible solution, the paper noted, but “when buses win over streetcars, it must be because they serve the purpose better. Their victory shows the course of traffic evolution. If one or the other competitor must be abandoned, it seems more rational to abandon the trolley lines.”
Another option, the editorial said, was being explored in the United States, where some cities were letting trolley lines take over competing bus lines and “dropping track lines that do not pay and using their own buses instead.”
High winds: Overnight on Feb. 25-26, 1926, “a north wind which blew almost with gale velocity” all night worried Berkeley firefighters, but just one small chimney fire was reported.
Bay Area native and Berkeley community historian Steven Finacom holds this column’s copyright.
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