Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-05-27 | Page 1 | Golden Gate Span Opens; 3000 Rush to Toll Gates

S. F. Mayor Apologizes for Insult to Reich CHUNK CLIPPED FBOM NAZI FLAG HANCINQ OS SAN FRANCISCO ST EFT New "international Incident" grews out ef Geldea Gate bridge fiesta BAN FRANCISCO. May X7 (AP Oe jiny lodged aa official pretest becsnoa a IwaMiki flag waa to i street dseoiatloa here, tt waa learned today, aad Mayer Angela J. Roes! ax-Irnd-d fata apolog Ire for the incident Maartce Rapheld, confidential aeerelary to Mayer Reaal. aald Acting Consul Ceaeral August Ponsrhee ef Germaay eall-d aa the Buyer and pretested the acUea ef all see wbe tore the German flag. " ' The fug was eatwiaed la atreet deearaUe fee the fleaU la eelebratlea ef eesaplettoa at the Geldea Gate bridge. Anaed with long pole, the ealdenUfled aaea eel dowa part ef the flag befere they were frightened fright-ened away. The (lag waa tora after aa aatlnail greep demanded that Mayer Reaal order Geraaaa baa-aers baa-aers removed. Golden Gate Span Opens; 3000 Rushto Toll Gates High School Girl Spurns Interviewer as She Sprints Across Huge Bridge SAN rRANCISCO. May 27 (AP) Pedestrians walked across San Francisco's famed Golden Gate today for the first time as the world's largest suspension bridge was opened to the public. one or the world's grestsst engineering engi-neering accomplishments, ths fJa.-000.000 fJa.-000.000 span of concrets and steel joins Baa Francisco with Marin county, southernmost section of northern California's redwood em- H YEARS SEPARATE TWO BRIDGE WALKS AM FRANCINOO, May IT IT) Flfty-fsar years age Heavy fleece fle-ece walked acre the Broaeilya bridge an dedication day. May 14. ISSa. Bads, ate 14. waa esse ef theassnde who walked acre the new tioMra Uate bridge today. plre. It was nearly five years In the building. Toll station officials estimsted S000 te 4000 persons jammed ths Ssn Francisco approach of the bridge when the coarse blast of a huge fog horn In the middle of the Ml .1 a n, I.H ! I. .,1. tnans at f a. m. Many In the huge crowd had waited for ths opening since p. m. yesterday. Phyllis Kirschbaum, IT. Mission high school girl of Ban Francisco, was ths first to drop a coin In the toll box and dash across ths bridge. She was far ahead of Mildred Farquhar, It, San Francisco Fran-cisco junior college coed, who slept under the bridge approach all night, but failed to awaken In time. Stopped and asked how she felt to be the first pedestrisn to cross ths bridge, Mum Kirschbaum fairly scresmed: "Let me go, I want to get across." The earliest arrival at ths bridge was Frank Briasette, 2. of San Francisco, who reached ths bridge st I p. m. yesterday and slept In the firs station. Ths brldgs will be opened to motor traffic tomorrow.