anaheim-bulletin 1955-07-30

Young Armed Bandit Drive-In Theater, Cafe Fall Victim to Robbers SANTA ANA (OCNS) — A trio of hard-hitting bandits continued its rampage in Orange County early today. The youthful threesome struck the Lincoln Drive-In Theater, 6612 Lincoln Ave., and the Gopher City Cafe, 5472 Orangethorpe Ave. Deadline Passes for First Gift-O-Rama Ticket Number Drawn It's too late now for holder of the first winning ticket in the Gift-O-Rama. Deadline passed yesterday at 7 p.m. and he failed to appear, therefore holder of the second number chosen is now in line for the fabulous Mexican holiday. That number is 74608C. The Gift-O-Rama winner will receive a 16-day, all-expense tour for two of Mexico, by steamer to Acapulco, plane (Arco Naves de Mexico) to Mexico City and from there by the same airline back to the States. Other numbers chosen 36654 C, 17609C, 74088B, 64628C, 57661D, 42955B, 26159A and 56002. The high-strung robbers, all in their early 20's, took $513 in the theater stickup and grabbed $177 in the cafe holdup. On Thursday night, the trio which sheriff's deputies believe is linked to at least 20 Southland robberies, made off with $147 in the robbery of Art and Vi's Cafe, 5952 Westminster Blvd., Barber City. Drive-in Theater projectionist David H. Poppa of 810 Main St., Huntington Beach, told Sheriff's deputies he was shifting film from one machine to another when he noticed a man in the rear of the projection booth. The theater had closed. It was about 12:50 a.m. Without turning, Poppa asked the intruder to leave. Then he felt a gun barrel in his back and heard the words; "You talk like you aren't scared of a gun." Faced Suspects The projectionist was commanded to open the door into the snack bar. Waitress Anna Marie Rufner, 1117 Locust St., Anaheim, unlocked the door. Talbott Plans "Sitting Tight" In Secretary Job WASHINGTON — Air Secretary Harold E. Talbott says he has "no more idea than a jack rabbit" of resigning now. He told a reporter Friday night he is "sitting tight" in his job and branded as "not true" reports circulated by at least two Republican senators that his resignation was imminent. One highly-placed Republican has quoted an "unimpeachable" informant as the source of his report that Talbott would quit. The Senate Investigating subcommittee has been looking into a $60,000-a-year private business partnership which Talbott maintained after taking his government job. Talbott gave up the business connection as a result of the investigation. President Studying Transcripts President Eisenhower is now studying a transcript of the hearings to determine whether Talbott's activities violated ethics. Some Democrats have demanded that he be fired. Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore) renewed his demand that Talbott resign or be dismissed in a Senate speech Friday night. Morse also added two new items to the Talbott controversy. He said a high official of the Air Force called and told him that retention of Talbott would drive Air Force morale "lower and lower." He also quoted from 1952 hearings of a House subcommittee investigating the Justice Department. He said the testimony included a statement by the vice The Gift-O-Rama winner will receive a 16-day all-expense tour for two of Mexico, by steamer to Acapulco, plane (Arec Naves de Mexico) to Mexico City and from there by the same airline back to the States. Other numbers chosen 36654 C, 17609C, 74088B, 64628C, 57 6 6 1 D, 42955B, 26159A and 56002. Talbott Plans "Sitting Tight" In Secretary Job Faced Suspects The projectionist was commanded to open the door into the snack bar. Waitress Anna Marie Rufner, 1117 Locust St., Anaheim, unlocked the door. Anaheimers Present The theater Manager John Willard Malone, 56, and Mrs. Helen Margaret King of-7722 Polk St., both of Anaheim, were at the counter tabulating receipts. Mrs. King, Anna Rufner and the other waitresses, Donna Jean Lobey, 9031 Ball Rd.; and Joyce Ann Boheman, 10132 S. Magnolia, both of Anaheim, were ordered into the kitchen. Malone and Poppa were told to hand over their wallets. They complied. The lead bandit took $50 from Malone's wallet and returned it empty. Poppa's billfold containing $15 was kept. Both men were forced to lie on the floor, face down. The cash, including $85 in coin, $125 in $1 bills and $238 in other currency was scooped up off the counter. The bandits fled out the snack bar door. One admonished: "No one is to move for five minutes." Telephoned Police Malone said he telephoned deputies as soon as he heard the door click. About 30 minutes later, the same trio staged the Gopher Cafe job. The cafe is about two miles from the theater. The three entered the place and ordered beers. Two of the suspects lingered in the back of the cafe. The leader told one of his partners to sit at an empty table and the other to stand at the door. All flashed revolvers. Four patrons were in the cafe at the time. Bar maid Joyce Burt, 33, of Artesia, was produced behind the bar with the words: "Look. baby, give me a paper sack and nobody will get hurt." She informed him she didn't have one. The suspect attempted to open the cash register. Failing he growled: "Open this —." The bar maid did. The bandit gathered up the cash, stuffing the bills in his pockets and putting the change in a paper cup. By JOSEPH L. MYLEL United Press Staff Corresp WASHINGTON (UP) — headed for the planets. Responsible scientists agree that today in the wake of a House announcement that country will launch a tiny air moon some time in 1957. The first man-made earth lite — for which the company already exist — will be a ward, fledgling flight. But it will demonstrate power to snap the gravity shackles which have kept his workers earthbound until In the words of Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson it will "breaking the space barrier also will mean that the passing signs are coming among the planets. The first lite will be followed by in versions as the science de Scientists have long been digging each other and the ment to get going on a pro-launch small unmanned ships" to explore the vast u which exists at the top of atmosphere. Their unanimous clusion was: It can be done. Friday President Elise said go ahead. So jubilant the proponents of rocket flight no one thought to ask who do it first. It could be the Russians announced six months ago "creating an artificial satellite the earth" was feasible. Later they said they were esting a laboratory for satelite search. Friday night, after S. announcement, they said too were preparing to send man-made moon. Friday's White House announcement said the United States launch a satellite approximately size of a basketball son during the International Geical Year (IGY) which start July, 1957, and concludes December, 1958. The IGY is an undertake some 40 nations to explore sible aspects of the earth, mosphere, and the solar a mic radiations which coombard it. The U.S. announcement sign or be dismissed in a Senate speech Friday night. Morse also added two new items to the Talbott controversy. He said a high official of the Air Force called and told him that retention of Talbott would drive Air Force morale "lower and lower." He also quoted from 1952 hearings of a House subcommittee investigating the Justice Department. He said the testimony included a statement by the vice president of a distilling company that the whisky executive handed an envelope to Talbott in 1952 in New York's Chrysler Building. Burt, 33, of Artesia, was produced behind the bar with the words: "Look, baby, give me a paper sack and nobody will get hurt." She informed him she didn't have one. The suspect attempted to 'open the cash register. Falling he growled: "Open this —." The bar maid did. The bandit gathered up the cash, stuffing the bills in his pockets and putting the change in a paper cup. The three backed out the front door. The leader exclaimed "Don't anyone move or we'll blow the — out of you." ARRESTED AT DOCK Three Turncoats Return to U.S. Resigned to “Accept Any Punishment” SAN FRANCISCO (UP)—Three former G.I.'s who spent more than two years in Communist Chinese prison camps and then refused repatriation sat in a U.S. military prison today resigned to "accept any punishment" for cooperating with their red captors. The three, Otho G. Bell, 24, Hillsboro, Miss. William A. Cowart, 22, Dalton, Ga., and Lewis Griggs, 22, Jacksonville, Tex., said they do not intend to seek lawyers to fight the charges against them. They also said they do not intend to try to get out of prison until they are brought to trial. The three turncoats returned to their homeland yesterday for the first time in five years and were immediately arrested by a squad of military police. The charges, read to the three as soon as they cleared customs, ranged from "depriving prisoners of food" to "advising and soliciting a general officer of the U.S. army to desert." If convicted, the Army said, the three turncoats could possibly be sentenced to death. Sixth Army Headquarters would not identify the general officer involved in the charges, but Washington sources reported earlier that he was Brig. Gen. Archelaus L. Hamblen, an army commander in Korea. The ominous presence of the military police dampened an otherwise joyous reunion between the three ex-soldiers and members of their families whom they hadn't seen in nearly five years. On hand were Cowart's mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel C. Green; Griggs' mother, Mrs. Elsie Griggs, his sister-in-law, and his brother Jimmy, 10. Women Hurt When Hits Tanker Truck SANTA ANA (OCNS) Orange County rural roads have resulted in a jury of eight persons, the way Patrol reported today. Barbara Ruth Reber, Van Nuys and a passenger her car Jane Small, 20, Goldenrod St., Corona de suffered minor injuries today when their man struck the rear of a truck. The injured girls were to Hoag Hospital. The accident occurred on Coast H about a mile south of del Mar. Lewis M. Bromm 10621 Songish, Anaheim the driver of the truck. According to the patrol, mer's truck was parked six feet off the traveled the road. It was northbo was the vehicle driven bara Reber, a clinical lab technician at UCLA. Watch for Anaheim’s Bigg andit Trio Strikes Twice in Anaheim Orange County Plain Dealer WELVE PAGES FIVE CENTS RUSS PLAN S ee Space Ships s Next Step in ravel to Planets By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (UP) — Man is ded for the planets. Responsible scientists agreed on t today in the wake of a White BY JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (UP) — Man is headed for the planets. Responsible scientists agreed on it today in the wake of a White House announcement that this country will launch a tiny artificial moon some time in 1957-58. The first man-made earth satellite — for which the components already exist — will be an awkward, fledgling flight. But it will demonstrate man's power to snap the gravitational lockles which have kept him and workers earthbound until now. In the words of Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson it will mean breaking the space barrier." It will mean that the no-trespassing signs are coming down along the planets. The first satellite will be followed by improved versions as the science develops. Scientists have long been producing each other and the government to get going on a project to launch small unmanned "space ships" to explore the vast unknown which exists at the top of earth's atmosphere. Their unanimous conclusion was: It can be done. Friday President Eisenhower had go ahead. So jubilant were proponents of rocket flight that one thought to ask who would it first. It could be the Russians. They announced six months ago that creating an artificial satellite of the earth" was feasible. A little later they said they were establish a laboratory for satellite research. Friday night, after the U.S. announcement, they said they were preparing to send up a non-made moon. Friday's White House announcement said the United States would launch a satellite approximately size of a basketball some time during the International Geophysical Year (IGY) which starts in July, 1957, and concludes in December, 1958. The IGY is an undertaking of nine 40 nations to explore all possible aspects of the earth, its atmosphere, and the solar and cosmic radiations which constantly embard it. The U.S. announcement carried BREAK GROUND FOR NEW MARKET BASKET—Duncan Shaw, vice president treasurer Basket, sights through a transit as he tells Anaheim mayor Charles Pearson break ground for the new Market Basket store to be located at Ball and Los Angles. Looking on with approval are Joseph Shane, food chain vice president, Al Cotter Retail Merchants division of the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce and Robert Daley, dent Anaheim Chamber of Commerce. (Bulletin photo) Congress Moves Slowly Toward Adjournment By FRANK ELEAZER WASHINGTON (UP)—A tired, touchy, Congress today hacked an uncertain trail toward adjournment. House leaders insisted this won't come before Monday, but many members still were hoping to wind things up late tonight. Adjournment fever reached epidemic proportions as members surveyed the legislative debris that still blocked the way. With House passage late Friday of a housing bill, the last big item was out of the way. Hundreds of lesser measures remained on the calendars of both House and Senate, every one imminent. Mystery Merchant Gives Cash Awards Again Monday Night Aluminum Wear May Merge CIO Steelwork PITTSBURGH (UP) dinated bargaining effort a wage increase for 21 num Company of America gave added strength mors that the AFT Workers union may merge with the CIO Union. The wage agreement Friday night, resulted age 15-cent hourly ww for the Alcoa product Alcoa employs 17,000 Mystery Merchant Gives Cash Awards Again Monday Night It's convenient to shop on Mondays because the stores remain open until 9 p.m., but not only that! Monday evenings are when the Mystery Merchant representative is on the streets of downtown Anaheim, seeking out persons for the Mystery Merchants' Award, cash prizes ranging from $8 to $56.50. If the lucky persons have sales slips from a Mystery Merchant's store, for $5 or more, they have qualified for the prize. But even if their slips are for less than $5, the persons qualify for half the award. Should it turn out that they have no sales slip, there's still a consolation award of $1. So be sure to take advantage of Monday evening shopping for greater savings and a chance to win the Mystery Merchants' cash prize. Elderly Woman Injured In Anaheim Accident An elderly Anaheim woman was held at St. Joseph Hospital this morning with undetermined injuries following a traffic accident at 7:33 a.m. today. The accident occurred when Billy Bean Harper, 26, 1605 W. Ash, Fullerton, going south on Lemon (driving a Pacific Telephone and Telegraph truck and trailer) stopped for a stop sign at Lemon and North and, police report, a car driven by Theodore Omer Walter, 77, 203 Kroeger street, plowed into the rear of the trailer. Neither of the men were hurt, but Walter's wife, Iva Myrtle, 76, was taken to St. Joseph Hospital with possible skull fracture and facial lacerations. Women Hurt When Car Hits Tanker Truck SANTA ANA (OCNS)—Five range County rural road accidents have resulted in the injury of eight persons, the Highway Patrol reported today. Barbara Ruth Reber, 25, of On Nuys and a passenger in car Jane Small, 20, 421½ Oldenrod St., Corona del Mar, offered minor injuries early day when their machine truck the rear of a tanker truck. The injured girls were taken Hoag Hospital. The accident occurred on Coast Highway out a mile south of Corona Mar. Lewis M. Brommer, 36, 521 Songish, Anaheim, was the driver of the truck. According to the patrol, Bromer's truck was parked about feet off the traveled part of the road. It was northbound as was the vehicle driven by Barbara Reber, a clinical laboratory technician at UCLA. Weather Night and morning low clouds with hazy afternoon sunshine today and Sunday. Little change temperature with high today near 80 and 72 beaches. WIN DOG ATTACK LOS ANGELES—Young mother and old son were awarded $11,000 in Superior Day for damages which was attacked by a mother tried to rescue e in West County Area VOL XXXII NO 298 Bulletin Anaheim Daily-Herald ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1955 SATELLITE May Have Jump on U.S. In Space Planet Project (Passed by Soviet censor) MOSCOW (UP) — The Soviet Union has formed a "Commission for Interplanetary Communication" and is preparing to launch an earth satellite similar to that of the United States, authorized sources said today. The sources said the Soviet satellite would be called "the automatic cosmic laboratory" and that it would pierce the atmosphere and circle the earth like the In Space Planet Project (Passed by Soviet censor) MOSCOW (UP) — The Soviet Union has formed a "Commission for Interplanetary Communication" and is preparing to launch an earth satellite similar to that of the United States, authorized sources said today. The sources said the Soviet satellite would be called "the automatic cosmic laboratory" and that it would pierce the atmosphere and circle the earth like the moon, permitting scientists below to study phenomena previously out of reach. Western observers in Moscow believed Russia would accept the American offer to cooperate in space science as set forth in a White House announcement. However, the announcement was received here too late for comment in today's official press. German rocket pioneers Goettingen, Germany said Russia may have started on a satellite project first and predicted they may get the first earth satellite into space. A top government scientist in Washington expressed a similar view. (Official Soviet publications reviewed over Moscow Radio have carried frequent reports of space propulsion research and one recent commentary outlined in detail plans for a two-stage rocket with a television-equipped satellite. (London's Communist Daily Worker reported today that "a year ago work began in the Soviet Union on construction of the worlds first cosmic ship.") ("This man-made satellite will circle the earth and perform the function of a space laboratory from which observations and photographs of phenomena on and surroundi...g the earth can be made," it said. (The report by the Daily Worker's scientific correspondent accompanied an unusually friendly account of the American announcement under the headline: "All a board for the moon—this morning we're one step nearer the conquest of space.") Edges of Nation Cool As Midwest Sizzles Cool air swept in an arc around the east, west and north rims of the nation today, but the Midwest continued to sizzle. Powered and Manned "Satelloid" Planned SAN DIEGO (UP) — A guided missile expert soon will propose a powered and manned "satelloid" space craft, superior to the "basketball" satellite, it was disclosed today. Convair Aircraft Company's division of General Dynamics Corp., here disclosed such a craft soon would be proposed by one of its missile scientists, Kraft A. Ehricke, former German rocket specialist. Ehrike's satelloid would circle the earth with just enough power thrust to sustain flight. It was not disclosed what type of power would be used or if such a craft would carry more than one man or how a man would fare in space. Fan of Disneyland Leaves After 12 Days Frank M. Schmidt returns to Berkeley today. Frank is the 78-year-old gentleman who spent his vacation of 12 days here touring Disneyland. Every day, excepting one when he went to Knott's Berry Farm, Frank wandered about the grounds of the Disney playground or just relaxed there and watched the people. It finally paid off yesterday when Disneyland recognized his faithful attendance and gave him free entrance to the grounds and rides, a key to Disneyland and took a small volume of information and several pictures of Schmidt to be sent to Schmidt's home-town paper. PITTSBURGH (UP)—A coordinated bargaining effort that won a wage increase for 27,000 Aluminum Company of America workers gave added strength today to rumors that the AFL Aluminum Workers union may be about to merge with the CIO Steelworkers Union. The wage agreement, announced Friday night, resulted in an average 15-cent hourly wage increase for the Alcoa production workers. Alcoa employs 17,000 members of the Steelworkers Union and 10,000 AWU workers but this was the first time the two unions coordinated their wage negotiations. The settlement Friday night came barely 48 hours before a Sunday midnight strike deadline. The two pacts were based upon an 11½ cents across-the-board wage hike, plus an additional 3½ cents for adjustments in job classification rates. The increase was equivalent to that granted 600,000 workers by the basic steel industry July 1, but the job classification adjustments were expected to push hikes up to as much as 20-cents an hour for some of the higher rated Alcoa production jobs. USW President David J. McDonald, who announced the joint settlements, said the only clause not included in the pact with the AFL affiliate was a provision for a lump sum payment for the Steelworkers under a wage rate study agreement negotiated last year. He said the AWU was not included because it did not have the job study provision in its contract. WIN DOG ATTACK SUIT LOS ANGELES (UP)—A young mother and her five-year-old son were awarded almost $11,000 in Superior Court Friday for damages when the boy was attacked by a dog and the mother tried to rescue her son. Edges of Nation Cool As Midwest Sizzles Cool air swept in an arc around the east, west and north rims of the nation today, but the Midwest continued to sizzle. Residents of midcontinent prepared for a weekend siege of near-100-degree temperatures, with the remote possibility of relief by tomorrow night or Monday. But there was no relief from the rising number of drownings and other deaths due to the heat. NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF NAB GANGLAND FIGURE FOR SLAYING WIFE CLIFTON, N. J. —James Cerce, one-time lieutenant of gambler Willie Moretti, will be arraigned today on charges of killing his wanton blonde wife with a .32 caliber revolver. Cerce, 52, shot and killed his comely wife, Roverts, 40, Friday, and chased her unclothed lover into the streets after he found them in bed together at their fashionable home here, police said. CALIFORNIA TUNA FLEET THREATENED, SAYS KUCHEL WASHINGTON —Sen. Thomas H. Kuchel R-Cal said in a Senate speech yesterday that Japanese deliveries of duty-free foreign tuna are threatening the existence of the tuna fishing fleet of California. AMBASSADOR LEAVES TO SEEK FLIER'S RELEAVE WASHINGTON —Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson files to Europe today to demand that Red China free 40 American civilians and 11 U.S. airmen. CHOU SEES SETTLEMENT OF PRISONER PROBLEM TOYKO —Chinese Communist Premier Chou En-lai predicted today the repatriation of American prisoners in Red China should be "easily settled" in the U.S.-Red China negotiations opening Monday in Geneva.