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Juvenile Escapees AFTER CAPTURE — Garden Grove Juvenile Officer Richard Truofreh is shown questioning the two Garden Grove boys who were captured by police yesterday afternoon following their rear), was captured as officers spotted him in stolen car. However, Ronald Edward Gibson also 15, of 8691 Blanche St. (seated foreground) led four Garden Grove officers on a chase. AFTER CAPTURE — Garden Grove Juvenile Officer Richard Truofreh is shown questioning the two Garden Grove boys who were captured by police yesterday afternoon following their escape from a reform school in Whittier. William L. Gardner, 15, of 11541 McNab St. (seated in the rear), was captured as officers spotted him in a stolen car. However, Ronald Edward Gibson also 15, of 8691 Blanche St. (seated foreground) led four Garden Grove officers on a chase through a school track meet before he was captured. (Bulletin Photo by Charles Quetschke) Police Capture Juveniles After Garden Grove Chase GARDEN GROVE (OCNS) — A futile attempt to hide in the middle of a school-yard track meet led to the capture here Thursday afternoon from a reformatory school. The youth, Ronnie E. Gibson, of Garden Grove, had been the object of a three-hour manhunt after he had jumped from a stolen car at 12:30 p.m. at Hopi Rd. and Mac St. A hundred polioemen formed the dragnet around northeast Garden Grove after an erroneous report was received that one of Gibson's puruers had been shot. Today, Gibson and his fellow escapee, William L. Gardener, 15, also of Garden Grove, are back at the Nelles School for Boys in Whittier. It is a division of the California Youth Authority. The episode got under way at 12:25 p.m. when Garden Grove policemen spotted three boys in a stolen car on Dale St., south of Chapman Ave. The officers gave chase in their police car, and caught up with the speeding youths at Hopi Rd. and Mac St., eight blocks away. As Gardener, the driver, slowed down, Gibson jumped from the moving vehicle while it was traveling about 15 miles an hour. Second Youth Fled Gardener stopped the car and also fled. Remaining in the auto was Ronnie Gibson's twin brother, who had been pleading with the escapees to give themselves up. The police fired four shots over the heads of the fleeing boys. Gardener was caught close to cars from other cities converged upon the area. Ronnie Gibson, eluded the manhunt until he was spotted at 3:13 p.m. in an orange grove near Chapman Ave. and Dale St. As the grove was surrounded, Ronnie came running out past three Garden Grove detectives. He climbed over a seven-foot fence surrounding Alamitos Intermediate School. Witnesses said he was "running like a deer." Garden Grove detectives Edward Crooker, Edwin Robertson, and M. S. Clay also climbed the fence and chased the boy. Clay said that Ronnie ran across the athletic field and attempted to mingle with some boys who were in an outdoor physical education class. Authorities reported the boys had been transferred month from the County Juvie Home to the Whittier institution. They had escaped from Whittier Thursday morning. Police 'Trackmen' Out of Training Four Garden Grove police officers today realize that they are somewhat "out of training," at least for entering track meets. The men were chasing Ronald Gibson, who had escaped from Nelles Boys Reform School in Whittier, when they became contestants in a track meet at Los Alamitos Intermediate School. Capt. Robert Cabot, who was in charge of the "chase" said that he and the other three officers had to chase the boy through a freshly-plowed orange grove and onto the field of the track meet after "hurdrear), was captured as officers spotted him in a stolen car. However, Ronald Edward Gibson also 15, of 8691 Blanche St. (seated foreground) led four Garden Grove officers on a chase through a school track meet before he was captured. (Bulletin Photo by Charles Quetschke) But the class instructors order their students to gather at the end of the field, leaving Ronnie standing alone in an open area. He surrendered when he saw three detectives closing in on Ronnie and Donald Gibson well as Gardener, have attended Ranches Alamitos school at den Grove. Police said that Ronnie and Donald had been committed to CYA School at Whittier because they had a record of auto theft and burglary. Authorities reported the boys had been transferred month from the County Juvie Home to the Whittier institution. They had escaped from Whittier Thursday morning. As Gardener, the driver, slowed down, Gibson jumped from the moving vehicle while it was traveling about 15 miles an hour. Second Youth Fled Gardener stopped the car and also fled. Remaining in the auto was Ronnie Gibson's twin brother, who had been pleading with the escapees to give themselves up. The police fired four shots over the heads of the fleeing boys. Gardener was caught close to where he had abandoned the car. Gibson disappeared between some houses. Meanwhile, residents of the area were calling the Garden Grove Police Department with reports of a gunfight between bandits and policemen. All Garden Grove police cars were dispatched to the vicinity of the gunfire. Later, upon the erroneous report of a lawman being shot, police men today realize that they are somewhat "out of training," at least for entering track meets. The men were chasing Ronald Gibson, who had escaped from Nelles Boys Reform School in Whittier, when they became contestants in a track meet at Los Alamitos Intermediate School. Capt. Robert Cabot, who was in charge of the "chase" said that he and the other three officers had to chase the boy through a freshly-plowed orange grove and onto the field of the track meet after "hurdling" a fence. The escapee vaulted the fence easily, Cabot said, but the officers had a little more trouble. He recalled the fact that one officer, from a neighboring police department, had to have a little help. It seems the officer, who had responded to a call for assistance from the Garden Grove department, had the driver of the squad NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF LEGISLATURE MEETS JOHN KENNEDY SACRAMENTO (UPI)—The Legislature takes time out from lawmaking today to meet one of the Democratic party's top presidential hopefuls—Sen. John J. Kennedy of Massachusetts. Kennedy launched a whirlwind week-end tour of the state by addressing the Assembly and speaking at a luncheon given by the Democratic State Central Committee. PROMISE TRUMAN HEARING ON UN-AMERICAN CHARGE WASHINGTON (UPI)—Former President Harry S. Truman was promised a full hearing "on 10 minutes notice" today if he wants to tell the House Committee on Un-American Activities why he thinks it is the "most un-American thing in the country." Chairman Francis E. Walter (D-Pa.), miffed at Truman's criticism, said he would be happy to "make time available whenever it is convenient" for the ex-president. SEEK TWO MEN WHO SHOT L.A. OFFICER LOS ANGELES (UPI)—Authorities today searched for two men who critically wounded a rookie policeman with a point-blank blast from a shotgun. Doctors at Central Receiving Hospital said Officer Robert D. Cody, 24, might have been killed if his belt buckle had not taken part of the blast. Barring complications, he might live, attendants said. INDEX Amusements ... Classified ... Comics ... County ... Dear Abby ... Editorial ... Obituaries ... Orange County News ... Radio-TV ... Shelnwold ... Society ... A-5 ... Sports ... B-2 ... Stocks and Bonds ... TV in Review ... Weather Roundup ... pees Captured After The Bul Orange County Plain Dealer EST. 1923 22 Pages in 2 Sections Vol. XXXVI No. 223 Anaheim, California MRS. LUCE Ministers Agree To Stand Firm Against Russia By JOSEPH W. GRIGG United Press International PARIS (UPI) — The western foreign ministers have agreed to hold a united line against Russian attempts to split the Berlin problem from an over-all German settlement, informed sources said today. 101-Pound GG Woman Battles Five Officers GARDEN GROVE — Two police officers, a matron and men from a private security patrol today are wondering where slight, 101-pound woman gets all her strength. At 1:30 a.m. today police were called to the parking lot donut shop on Garden Grove Blvd. to take a reportedly d woman into custody. The two security officers were holding her there after fin her wandering in the middle of the street. The officers called a matron and began a "routine" arrest the woman. More than an hour later they were still attempt to get the woman into a jail cell at Orange County Jail. Irene Meyer, 45, of 11052 Songish St., Garden Grove, appa ly didn't like the idea of being arrested and she began to b the four men and the matron. They finally managed to sui the screaming woman and place her in the patrol car whi Against Russia By JOSEPH W. GRIGG United Press International PARIS (UPI) — The western foreign ministers have agreed to hold a united line against Russian attempts to split the Berlin problem from an over-all German settlement, informed sources said today. The sources said Secretary of State Christian Herter and the British, French and West German foreign ministers reached this firm decision during their day and a half conference which ended Thursday. They agreed that the "package" plan involving Berlin, Germany and general European security which they will hand Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko at Geneva May 11 will be put forward as a single blueprint. Diplomatic sources predicted Russia would make just enough concessions at Geneva to force a summit meeting later this year. The United States, Britain, France and West Germany agree that a meeting of heads of state is almost inevitable but the sources said only Britain really wants the meeting and believes it will ease East-West tensions. The situation became more serious when the minister's conference despite an optimistic announcement the Western Big Four had reached "complete agreement" on a package plan to be handed the Soviets. Britain Wants Summit French Premier Michel Debre, in a major foreign policy statement to the National Assembly Thursday night, said the agreement included a decision to boycott a summit conference if Russia wanted the West to capitulate on Berlin and Germany. Diplomatic sources said Britain wants a summit meeting because it believes Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev is determined to have one and is prepared to enter into serious negotiations. The United States was ready to meet "at the summit" but without enthusiasm and was frankly skeptical that anything will come of it. The French and West Germans made it clear they believed nothing would result from a summit meeting and that they will attend reluctantly and with deep misgivings and only in order to maintain Western solidarity. Western officials said they expected the Russians to show readiness to negotiate at Geneva, but only to a point. At that point they GARDEN GROVE — Two police officers, a matron and a men from a private security patrol today are wondering where slight, 101-pound woman gets all her strength. At 1:30 a.m. today police were called to the parking lot donut shop on Garden Grove Blvd. to take a reportedly d woman into custody. The two security officers were holding her there after fin her wandering in the middle of the street. The officers called a matron and began a "routine" arrest the woman. More than an hour later they were still attempting to get the woman into a jail cell at Orange County Jail. Irene Meyer, 45, of 11052 Songlish St., Garden Grove, apparently didn't like the idea of being arrested and she began to b the four men and the matron. They finally managed to su the screaming woman and place her in the patrol car wh handcuffs. However, the slightly-built woman managed to slip her out of the "cuffs and kicked open the door of the patrol w with such force that the door was sprung." The two police officers and the matron finally got the w to the jail where she refused to cooperate and she was f carried to a cell on the third floor of the building. Invaders of Panama Agree to Surrender PANAMA CITY (UPI) — The Organiza American States said the foreign invaders o ama have agreed to surrender unconditionally. The news that the Italian government sent to LaCarte, acting commissioner of the OAS, who is in Washington, by Ambassador Fernando Lobo of Brazil, head of an OAS commission flown here to investigate the situation. "It looks like it's all over," LaCarte told UPI in Washington. The five-nation investigation commission in Panama will supervise the surrender of the rebelheld village of Nombre de Dios. Under the terms of the surrender, the rebels were to turn over their weapons to military observers with the OAS group. It was reported Cubans among the invading force would be returned to their homeland and tried there for endangering Cuba's neutrality. The reported agreement to surrender came a week after the small band of rebels, which was organized in and sailed from Cuba landed on the Caribbean coast of Panama. Cesar Vega, commander of the invaders, said Thursday night his men would be willing to lay down their arms if they were promised immunity from trial. The Panamanian government today set the "unconditional surrender" terms, however. Godfrey Take News of Ca In 'Good Spir NEW YORK (UPI) — Godfrey was told today he had a part of his left moved because of cancer received the news in spirits." One of Godfrey's surgeries him the news, a Godfrey ported. "Did you get it all out? asked. "Yes, we think we did surgeon told him. The alide said he asked questions about the operation. The red-haired comic w ed briefly by his wife, M his business partner, att Leo de Orsey, Washington and his secretary, Miss M Van. Godfrey showed concern Herter to Make TV-Radio Report On Strategy to Nation Thursday WASHINGTON (UPI) — Secretary of State Christian A. Herter will make a radio-television report to be nation next Thursday night on Allied strategy for the Big Four conference May 11 at Geneva. Herter's scheduled speech, announced Thursday night by the White House was expected to serve two principal purposes: — It will introduce to the nationwide audience the 64-year-old diplomat who will be President Eisenhower's foreign policy quarterback for the remainder of his administration. — It will summarize for the American people and the world the basic issues at stake in the forthcoming talks on the Berlin crisis, reunification of Germany and European security. The White House said President Eisenhower requested time from the radio and TV networks for the half-hour appearance by Herter, who will be making his first public speech since he succeeded ailing John Foster Dulles as secretary of state on April 22. Herter's report will be carried live from 9 to 9:30 p.m., e.d.t., on the NBC and CBS TV networks and will be heard from 10 to 10:30 p.m. on ABC TV network. All radio networks will carry the speech live. Mr. Godfrey was tasked with the recovery room to help Harkness pavillon this month about 7 a.m. His doctor that his condition is entail factory and he has been fine in post-operative recession of the car. The morning bulletin frey today read: "Mr. Godfrey was tasked with the recovery room to help Harkness pavillon this month about 7 a.m. His doctor that his condition is entail factory and he has been fine in post-operative recession of the car." Godfrey will spend an convalescence in his $ bedroom-living room su h hospital. His physicI Thursday that he might resume some of his TV ties in two months. After Wild Chase Bulletin Anaheim Daily-Herald Anaheim, California, Friday, May 1, 1959 Phone PR 4-7870 TEN CENTS ICE RESIGNS Quits Despite Urging by Ike By WILLIAM THEIS United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) — Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce resigned today as ambassador to Brazil and declined to reconsider the decision despite President Eisenhower's urging. She won Senate confirmation to the post last Tuesday. Mrs. Luce spent about an hour with the President and Of Panama Surrender — The Organization of foreign invaders of Pan-der unconditionally today, we agreed to acknowledge an ambassador Julie A. Godfrey Takes News of Cancer In ‘Good Spirits’ NEW YORK (UPI) — Arthur Godfrey was told today that he and a part of his left lung removed because of cancer and he received the news in “good spirits.” One of Godfrey’s surgeons told him the news, a Godfrey aide reported. “Did you get it all out?” Godfrey asked. “Yes, we think we did,” the surgeon told him. The aide said he asked no other questions about the operation. The red-haired comic was visited briefly by his wife, Mary, and his business partner, attorney C. Leo de Orsey, Washington D.C., and his secretary, Miss Mary Ann Van. Godfrey showed concern for De By WILLIAM THEIS United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) — Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce resigned today as ambassador to Brazil and declined to reconsider the decision despite President Eisenhower's urging. She won Senate confirmation to the post last Tuesday. Mrs. Luce spent about an hour with the President and emerged to meet a crowd of newsmen in the office of White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty. Her husband, magazine editor Henry R. Luce, had urged her to resign as a result of her feud with Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.). In New York, Luce said he had no statement to make on his wife's resignation. “The President with regret accepted the resignation of Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce as ambassador to Brazil,” Hagerty announced. Letter Made Public At the same time he told her of his continuing confidence in her and expressed his hope that she would continue on her assignment. Her letter gives the reasons why she felt she could not re-consider." Honestly than made public Mr. Hagerty at a meeting of the Senate where she was interviewed that it is no longer possible for me to accomplish the mission which you have entrusted to me." Referring to the Senate uproar over her nomination she described the Senate's 79 to 11 vote as an example of bipartisan support on foreign policy. “But unhappily, in spite of the best efforts of 79 senators the climate of good will was poisoned by thousands of words of extraordinarily ugly charges against my person and of distrust of the mission I was to undertake,” she wrote. "These charges were inescapably printed around the world." She told the President she realized that both Brazilian and U.S. public opinion "have overwhelmingly discounted the furious, and I think foolish, attacks made against me." “Seeds Of Suspicion" “Yet it would be impudent of me—and no true service to you—to ignore the fact that the biproadcasting of these mean charges has planted the seeds of hostile suspicion,” she said. For all through the course of my mission, these seeds could be watered carefully—either by their author, for unknowable motive, or by any political element with the Anaheim Youth Held in Kidnap Of Girl in LA. An 18-year-old Anaheim boy, im-ersonating a law officer, kidnapped a Los Angeles girl from her car today and slugged her, police in Gardena reported. The girl, Polly Stevens, 19, broke away from her abductor when his car broke down in Gardena. She telephone police who arrested James Henry Patton Jr., of 1200 Colonial Ave. Miss Stevens said she and a girl-friend, Amanda Hatcher, 18, were adding along Sue Linda Blach when Patton Patton Jr. may be turned over to El Segundo police as the kidnapping occurred in their city. Orange Woman Killed On El Modena Grade EL MODENA (OCNS) — The plunge of an automobile down a 50-foot embankment here on "El Modena Grade" brought dead Thursday night to Mrs. Marilyn Elizabeth Sexton, 24, 370 Devon Rd., Orange. Mrs. Sexton was driving alone, westbound, down a long grade when the accident occurred at 11 p.m. She was dead on arrival at County Hospital. According to the report of the California Highway Patrol, her FROM WEST COAST BASE Black Mice Ready For Ride in Space By BILL WILKS United Press International VANDENBERG AFB, Calif. (UPI)—A colony of black mice, specially bred to withstand the rigors of space travel, will arrive here within two weeks for the first U.S. effort to place animals into orbit in an earth satellite and recover them alive. United Press International learned that four of the sturdy mice will be inside the Discoverer III satellite when it is blasted into orbit sometime after the middle of the month from this West Coast missile base about 170 miles north of Los Angeles. The Air Force will attempt to recover the animals alive when they are ejected from the satellite in a space capsule similar to the one ejected last month by Discovery II. That capsule was never found. Attempts will be made to snag the mice-containing capsule in midair over the Pacific Ocean somewhere near Hawaii by airplanes equipped with large net-like fixtures trailing behind them. The mice will ride back to earth in a 35-pound capsule about two-three feet in dimension dangling from a parachute, and are expected to provide important information on hazards man will face when he invades space.