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OPENING TONIGHT AT THE CLUB CASTLE PLUS—THE DEAN HOWE TRIO—FEATURING: LES THOR Wednesday, Sept. 9 4:30 "Hidden Enemy" 2:00 Farm Reborter 1:00 News, Film 10:00 A.M. News, Film Ding Dong Son 10:15 Glamour Girl Serial 8:15 Strike It Rich 10:45 "Burma Victory" 13:00 Public Service 11:00 A.M. Hawkins Falls Movie What's Cooking Mike Roy Rails Star Hotness Party The Bennett 11:30 Art Linkletter 3 Steps to Heaven Double or Nothing Norma Glickrist 4:15 Follow Your Heart TV and Appliances MARVIN'S Sales and Service COMPLETE SERVICE ON CAR RADIOS In FULLERTON In ANAHEIM 109 E Commonwealth LA 5-5760 412 N Los Angeles Ph 2525 Housewives May Wash Away Effect Of A-Bomb, Claim CHICAGO (UP) — If atomic bombs should ever strike American cities, housewives will be able to wash $8.8 of deadly radiation walls and furniture with a simple solution of soap or a detergent and other household chemicals. Dr. Foster D. Snell, president of the chemical consulting firm of Foster D. Snell, Inc., New York, reported on the cleaning technique at the 124th national meeting of the American Chemical Society here. Snell said that the best results could be obtained by using a trapping agent, or "sequestering" chemical, along with either soap or a detergent and water. Soap alone removed 81 per cent of a contamination from frosted glass in one experiment, and clear water took off 47 per cent of the radiation. The "sequestering" chemical used in the experiments was a modified form of sodium hexametaphosphate (sold commercially as calgon.) Snell said the compound seemed to trap radioactive molecules and carry them away with it when removed by water. The experiment also disclosed that it is smarter not to mix the soap or detergent too thoroughly with water. A so-called two-phase or "di-phasic" mixture—in which the water and detergent were kept as two distinct layers—cleaned better than ordinary emulsion. Hurricane Causes Democrats Cheer Blast by Truman By JOHN L. CUTTER WASHINGTON UP—Democrats who take their political cues from Lawyers of Rita, Aly To Meet Today PARIS (UP)American law for Rita Hayworth and Prine Khan said they would meet to attempt to make a divorce element permitting the act marry again. OPENING TONIGHT AT THE CLUB CASTLE PANTOMANIA Direct from long engagements in Las Vegas and Cairo The best act of it's type in the business PLUS—THE DEAN HOWE TRIO—Featuring: LES THOR BUQUERQUE 93 64 SANTA 85 59 KERSFIELD 91 65 Boston 87 61 .09 DOWNVILLE 78 51 CHICAGO 88 58 MVER 72 49 CENTRO 112 64 ARBANKS 61 41 OSNO 93 62 INNSIDY City 60 63 LAngeles 79 60 AMI 87 76 .20 INEAPOLLS 76 55 NEW ORLEANS 88 68 NEW YORK 80 64 OKLAND 70 55 BOONIX 105 77 PITSBURGH 74 36 .16 EN FRANCISCO 64 60 OPENING TONIGHT AT THE CLUB CASTLE AL GARRY AND JACK BELL Proudly present: THE ORIGINAL LAUGH Renaming Street Brings Confusion SANTA ANA - Supervisors who thought they had licked a problem of confusing street designations when they renamed a part of 17th St. as S. E. Skyline Dr. found out today that they merely added more confusion. Main problem now is that house numbers on S. E. Skyline Dr. are the same as those on S. W. Skyline Dr., now that there is considerable house-building activity on S. E. Skyline Dr. Complaint came in from R. E. Anderson of Pacific Telephone Co., carrying them away with it when removed by water. The experiment also disclosed that it is smarter not to mix the soap or detergent too thoroughly with water. A so-called two-phase or "di-phasic" mixture—in which the water and detergent were kept as two distinct layers—cleaned better than ordinary emulsion. Hurricane Causes Big Crop Damage BOSTON (UP) — Hurricane "Carol" blew out to sea today leaving in its wake grounded ships crop damage of $1,000,000 and seven stranded sailors. Another boat, a 42-foot cabin cruiser with three Boston youth aboard, was reported missing in Massachusetts Bay today and a Coast Guard plane was sent from Salem to hunt for it. A captain and six crewmen were on one of the grounded ships, the Panamanian freighter S.S. Evgenia that was slung on a sandbar near Cape Cod yesterday. They risked crashing seas and wind swollen tides to keep their ship for salvage after 17 others of the crew were rescued by breeches buoy and an amphibious duck. Six crewmen were plucked from the 80-foot dragger Jennie Julia when the vessel smashed into a rook reef off Deliver's Neck life-boat station near Gloucester. In its last sweep across land the outer winds of the hurricane whipped through the Maritime Provinces early today ripping Annapolis Valley. The Nova Scotia Agricultural Department said the big blow ruined 40 per cent of the crop and estimated damage at $1,000,000. Democrats Cheer Blast by Truman By JOHN L. CUTTER WASHINGTON UP—Democrat who take their political cues from former President Harry S. Truman were ready today to take off the gloves and go artery the Elsenhower administration with bare knuckles. Mr. Truman's Labor Day speech in Detroit, lambasting the Republicans in his old "give 'em hell" style, was interpreted by his followers as a signal for a sharp change in party tactics. Since President Eisenhower and his GOP "new team" took over the government last January, the ex-President and most other Democratic politicians have followed a policy described by one of them as "holding our fire to give them time to make some mistakes." Says Veterans "Sorry" Judging from the blast he loosed in Cadillac Square yesterday, Mr. Truman feels the Republicanians have had enough time and have made enough mistakes. He said the voters must be "sorry" they voted for a change in government because they are actually getting is "a change in the social and economic principles that made us strong and prosperous." He also accused the administration of caring more about big business than "the welfare of all of us." Mr. Truman's blast is sure to come in for a lot of discussion among the Democratic leaders from all parts of the country who will meet in Chicago next Monday and Tuesday. Adial to Speak One purpose of the rally is to provide a sounding board for a speech by Adial E. Stevenson, the 1852 Democratic presidential nominee who has just returned from a prolonged world tour. Another is to map strategy for the party's campaign to regain control of Congress in next year's elections. Mr. Truman ripped into the Republican party's record on both foreign and domestic issues during an evening talk and an afternoon address in Detroit. "They called my administration the Fair Deal," he said. "This one should be called the stacked deal. The 80th Congress looks mighty good when compared to the 83rd Congress." Death of Vinson Leaves Eight Justices Serving Lawyers of Rita, Aly To Meet Today PARIS (UP)American law for Rita Hayworth and Prima Khan said they would meet to attempt to make a divorce element permitting the actual marry again. Barley Crum, Miss Hayworth attorney, said he was Charles Torem, Aly's lawyer a "last attempt to solve the delayed situation." Miss Hayworth's latest flinger Dick Haymes, who deportation as a result of foil the movie star to Hawaii turned to the United States Crum said Miss Hayworth nothing for herself. "All she is asking for $1,000,000 trust fund for her girl, Yasmin, so she can her future of a princess," she said. 10 Still Missing in Blaze That Killed 18 CHICAGO (UP)—Ten rents of a slum tenement where sons died in a Labor Dale were still missing today, a ice said they feared they find more bodies. As rescue squads continue search the badly damaged story building on South St authorites promised to invade the pre-dawn fire. Earle Downes, assistant counsel for Chicago, was investigating some firing to see if it could THE ORIGINAL LAUGH PROVOKING ANIACS CLUB CASTLE Formerly the DIXIE CASTLE On Hwy. 101 between Anaheim and Santa Ana Phone Orange 743-W SANTA ANA - Supervisors who thought they had licked a problem of confusing street designations when they renamed a part of 17th St. as S. E. Skyline Dr. found out today that they merely added more confusion. Main problem now is that house numbers on S. E. Skyline Dr. are the same as those on S. W. Skyline Dr., now that there is considerable house-building activity on S. E. Skyline Dr. Complaint came in from R. E. Anderson of Pacific Telephone Co., who told the supervisors that installation crews don't know where they're going half the time, and try to put phones in the wrong houses. The two Skyline Drives, which wind over Lemon Heights, are a considerable distance apart; both intersect with Newport Rd. east of here. At one time, S. E. Skyline Dr. connected with a portion of 17th St., which in turn linked with Newport Rd., and so supervisors ended designation of 17th St. easterly of Newport Rd. and thought they had the problem licked. It was referred to County Superintendent of Roads Harold Sprenger to solve. The father of Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks was sponsor of legislation in 1911 that led to establishment of our natural forest reservations. John Weeks sponsored the bill as a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire. The death today of Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson leaves the following associate justices on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States. Hugo L. Black of Alabama, appointed Augue 12, 1937; Stanley Reed of Kentucky, appointed Jan. 15, 1938; Felix Frankfurter of Massachusetts, appointed Jan. 5, 1939; William O. Douglas of Washington, appointed March 20, 1938; appointed June 12, 1941; Harold Robert H. Jackson of New York H. Burton of Ohio, appointed Sept. 16, 1945; Thomas C. Clark of Texas, appointed July 28, 1949; and Sherman Minton of Indiana, appointed Sept. 15, 1949. All the justices with the exception of the last three, Burton, Clark and Minton, were appointed by the late Franklin D. Roosevelt. The others were appointed by former President Truman. All but Burton are democrats. Frankfurter at 71 is the eldest of the associate justices now on the Supreme Court bench. The ages of the others are: Black, 57; Reed, 69; Douglas 55; Jackson 61; Burton, 65; Clark, 54, and Minton, 63. There's No Substitute for Pale Circulation. EXPERT WATCH REPAIRING SEDLOCK HE'D WRANGLED A DESIGNER PACKRAT PURDY FROM PEOPLE, AND HE'D HAVE BILLS FARGO MONEY THAT MAN DOWN THERE WAS PAYED Tuesday, September 8, 1953 ANAHEIM (Cal) BULLETIN Los Alamitos Man Awarded First Garbage Franchise SANTA ANA - Approving proposal of Captiel Pattyn of Los Alamitos to continue his garbage- and trash collection service in Los Alamitos, Cypress and Stanton, the board of supervisors today had awarded him the first such franchise. Other franchise for similar service in other communities will be considered by the supervisors, it was disclosed, as a means of keeping some supervision over the services. Pattyn's contract is for 10 years, for one-weekly trash and twice-weekly garbage pickups at cost of $1 per month for each service for each stop. He will pay the county $200 per year for the franchise which gives him exclusive rights to the services in his territories. Supervisors recently approved an ordinance calling for franchises for such collection services in rural districts. It was enacted after Pattyn asked for a franchise - which the county found it couldn't give then because it had no empowering ordinance. Navy Tells Plans For Super Sub WASHINGTON (UP)—The Navy is considering building a super atomic submarine which would be as big as a light cruiser and as fast as a destroyer, naval officials said today. The proposal, however, was said... Lawyers of Rita, Aly to Meet Today PARIS (UP) American lawyers Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly said they would meet today to attempt to make a divorce settlement permitting the actress to marry again. Barley Crum, Miss Hayworth's attorney, said he was joining Charles Torem, Aly's lawyer, in "last attempt to solve this long delayed situation." Miss Hayworth's latest flame is Roger Dick Haymes, who faces deportation as a result of following the movie star to Hawaii and returning to the United States. Crum said Miss Hayworth wants nothing for herself. "All she is asking for is a 100,000,000 trust fund for their baby girl. Yasmin, so she can have the future of a princess," the lawyer said. O Still Missing in Blaze That Killed 18 CHICAGO (UP) Ten residents of a slum tenement where 18 persons died in a Labor Day fire were still missing today, and police said they feared they would find more bodies. As rescue squads continued to search the badly damaged four story building on South State St., authorities promised to investigate the pre-dawn fire. Earle Downes, assistant corporation counsel for Chicago, said he was investigating some first floor wiring to see if it could have caused the tragedy. The victims were all Negroes, and at least six of them were children. Five members of one family perished, and eight bodies were found in one room. Many residents saved their own lives only by risking leaps from upper windows. GHOSTLY HOOFBEATS by Norman A. Fox CHAPTER FIFTEEN GRANTING that the girl had been right in her surmise that Purdy had fallen into Slash?s hands, what would Torgin have done with the oldster? Toted him back to jail? That would have been Torgin's natural move if his interest in Purdy were impersonal. And why had the Brownnie girl sensed that it was Torgin who'd found Purdy? Why not any of a dozen other ranchers in the Bootjack? Ruxton's long, saturnine face puckered with puzzlement there on At once Ruxton sourried to a clump of trees not far from the rim. He was in those trees and holding tight to his migrant no-notrs when the tail, lean rode so close by that Ruxton could almost have touched him. A hawk's face with a pair of pointed eyebrows. Blue eyes that were like ice. A hard one bent upon grim business. Ruxton would remember that fellow if he saw him again. The rider turned south and was soon lost from sight. Ruxton wondered what this man's mission on He sighted Griffin's town shaded and came across the bridge and into the main street, and as he passed the jail building, he saw the portly figure of Griffin in a chair on the sagging porch. He only lifted his hand to Griffin in passing, and he received a lazy salute in return. He rode on to the livery and put his horse away and mindful of both his appearance and his hunger, chose to take care of his appearance first. A small of tale always impressed these small-towners. Moreover, the barber had a proof of a knowl- CHAPTER FIFTEEN GRANTING that the girl had been right in her surmise that Purdy had fallen into Slash 7 hands, what would Torgin have done with the oldster? Toted him back to jail! That would have been Torgin's natural move if his interest in Purdy were impersonal. And why had the Brownlee girl sensed that it was Torgin who found Purdy? Why not any of a dozen other ranchers in the Bootjack? Ruxton's long, saturnine face puckered with puzzlement there on the canyon trail. Seemed Laura Brownlee had reason to believe that Mack Torgin had some special interest in Packrat Purdy. Therefore she'd automatically thought of Torgin when Purdy had turned up missing. What, then, was that special interest? Something dating back to that twenty-four-year-old affair? Now Torgin was an old-timer in the basin. Ruxton had also learned one of those town yokels a smile and a wide-eyed look like you considered him more important than President Taft and you could get an answer to anything, provided you put the question so you didn't sound like you were plain nosey. And when you added one piece of information to another, you finally came out with an answer. The Wells Fargo reward? Was that what interested Torgin? But Cole Manning hadn't seemed to know about the reward, and most people would likely have forgotten after twenty-four years. It was only the Slade Ruxtons who went after opportunity instead of waiting for it to knock, digging into dusty archives and old newspaper files for the hidden gold that was sometimes to be found. And so he pondered as he looked down upon Slash 7. He watched as Torgin came from the house—no mistaking that big, blocky figure—and with him came a tall man whom Ruxton was certain he'd never seen before. Neither had he ever laid eyes on the stoop-shouldered figure between the two, but that was the one who really interested him. He wrangled a description of Packrat Purdy from the townpeople, and he'd have bet half the Wells Fargo money that the third man down there was Purdy. At once Ruxton scurried to a clump of trees not far from the rim. He was in those trees and holding tight to his migrant's nosirls when the tail, lean one rope so close by that Ruxton could almost have touched him. A hawk's face with a pair of pointed eyebrows. Blue eyes that were like ice. A hard one bent upon grim business. Ruxton would remember that fellow if he saw him again. The rider turned south and was soon lost from sight. Ruxton wondered what this man's mission might be and made his own shrewd guess. Now that Slash 7 had Purdy, did they also want Laura Brownlee in the bag? The girl was down there to the south, in that dugout with Cole Manning, unless the two had decamped last night. Ruxton wondered what a clash between Manning and Icy-Eyes would be llike. They both had the look of being hard and quick, with a taste for violence in them. But he decided he'd put his betting money on Icy-Eyes, given the choice. The trouble with the Cole Mannings was that they ran around loaded down with ideals, and sometimes the load slowed them. He thought of this as he rode toward Mannington, and he got the uncomfortable feeling that maybe his judgment was wrong. Studying on it, he knew with disconcerting certainty that Cole Mannings was the real menace to any scheming he, Slade Ruxton, might do. You could find at least a little avarice in most men, and thus you could best them at the game, for you were the artisan of opportunity. Ruxton had Sheriff Burke Griffin pointed out to him in Mannington, but he swapped no words with the officer. A slow-witted one, that Griffin, for sure, a man fat in the body and fat in the head. Often you could sell these reuben star-toters a fancy song and get them eating out of your hand. It had been Slade Ruxton's experience that most men could be tools if properly approached. But you had to be careful. He followed a number of careers in Montana this past decade, all of them of a kind to keep his hands soft, his mind sharp, and his pockets lined. But the misses were as frequent as the hips, no matter how cagy a person was. He sighted Grifin's town shadoe and came across the bridge and into the main street, and as he passed the jail building, he saw the porly figure of Griffin in a chair on the magging porch. He only lifted his hand to Griffin in passing, and he received a large salute in return. He rode on to the livery and put his horse away and, mindful of both his appearance and his hunger, chose to take care of his appearance first. A small of tale always impressed these small-towners. Moreover, the barber had proved a font of knowledge when Ruxton had stopped in yesterday afternoon for a hair trim he hadn't needed. Ruxton dropped into the chair a second time and ordered a shave. "Mack Torgin in town today?" he asked. "Aln't seen him," the barber said gruffly. Wariness at once touched Ruxton. Had it got around that he'd been asking too many questions without giving any information about himself? "I buy a few cattle once in a whille," he said. "Heard Torgin might have some for sale." "He might," the barber agreed, his voice a little friendlier. Ruxton waited till the shaving was done and the cloth whisked away. Stepping to the mirror and adjusting his string tie, he willed his face to an expression of friendly conspiracy. "Look," he said then. "I'm a stranger and ripe for a fleecing. Here's a twenty-dollar bill to stave off my being swindled. All I want is the answer to a fair question: Is Torgin the kind to play a mite crooked?" The barber looked at the green-back. "Go ask Doc Brownlee," he said. "The man who runs the hospital? Why him?" The barber took the bill. "Try whispered around that Torgin been butchering some disease beef. I can't say it's so, mind you. But talk has it that Brownlee may have to lower the size of him. Doc's county health official He folded the bill and tucked it away. "I don't hold with a mail selling poisoned meat. The shave on the house." "Thanks," Ruxton said am moved out to the street. (To Be Continued)