anaheim-gazette 1950-10-09

Horseshoes The Gazette is going to run Billy Rose's "Pitching Horseshoes" for awhile to see how you like it. It starts today on Page 4, goes three days a week. Read it and then let us know what you think of it. VOLUME LXXIX Anaheim's FIRST Newspaper ANAHEIM WIVES RESTRAIN IMPETUOUS LEGIONNAIRES—The wives of J. W. Kane (left), and Thomas Williams of Wallingford, Conn., had their husbands on leashes during the 40 and 8 parade which opened the national American Legion convention in Los Angeles. They explained it was to keep the men away from the drum majorettes.—(Associated Press Photo) WIVES RESTRAIN IMPETUOUS LEGIONNAIRES—The wives of J. W. Kane (left), and Thomas Williams of Wallingford, Conn., had their husbands on leashes during the 40 and 8 parade which opened the national American Legion convention in Los Angeles. They explained it was to keep the men away from the drum majorettes.—(Associated Press Photo) Legion Execs Ask Use of Atom Bomb Against Reds LOS ANGELES (AP)—The 32nd Annual National Convention of the American Legion was asked by its executive committee today to recommend use of the atom bomb against Russia in the event of further aggression anywhere. “This is the crucial moment in our lives,” the committee said in asking for aid “to any and all forces of freedom that will join with us and the United Nations in the destruction of evil forces.” Calling for an “ever active armed force,” the executive committee recommended the “sponsoring by the American delegate to the United Nations a resolution that further aggression in any part of the world by Soviet Russia will meet the full force of retaliation by the United Nations police authority, including, if necessary, the release of atomic weapons on Soviet Russia.” The committee also called for the occupation of all Korea by the UN under the command of General MacArthur; non-recognition by the United States of red China; continued defense of Formosa; aid to the Philippine government against communist aggressors; support of “Chinese who will vigorously and effectively fight outside aggressors in order to obtain again and preserve a free and independent China,” and a treaty of peace with Japan by appropriate world powers under guidance and direction of Geh. MacArthur. There are 3227 delegates accredited to the convention, which is staged by the American Legion Convention corp. It cost the corporation $267,000 for this one, the most expensive ever. The 100,000 Legionnaires and their families (Continued on Page 5) LA Orders Two Mail Helicopters LOS ANGELES (AP)—Two $125,000 eight-passenger helicopters have been ordered by the U.S. Air Force. Holdup Man Gets S476 in Santa Ana Furniture Store A lone bandit robbed the Orson Hunter Furniture store, 830 S. Main st., Santa Ana, Saturday evening by holding up a clerk and escaping with $476, of which $252 was in cash, the remainder in a check. Entering the store at 8:30 p.m., the bandit represented himself to be a customer who wished to make a payment upon his bill. Robert M. Palmer, a clerk in the store, started to look up the supposed account when the bandit suddenly remarked: “You understand English don’t you?” Palmer looked at him and saw the man had his hand in a coat pocket as though holding a gun. Ordered to get the cash box, Palmer obeyed and then tried to frighten the bandit away by dropping the cash box on the floor. However, the bandit paid no attention except to calmly order Palmer to “pick it up.” When Palmer placed the cash box on a counter the bandit quickly seized the contents and ran out a side door, about six feet distant. Palmer said he ran west on Highland st. Shark Chews Swimmer Near San Diego SAN DIEGO (AP)—Bitten by a man-eating shark, a 31-year-old man was in serious condition in naval hospital here today. Authorities said it was the second case of record of a shark attacking a man on the Southern California coast and the first for the San Diego vicinity. The shark tore a chunk of flesh—eight inches long, four inches wide and two inches deep—from the right thigh of Bob Campbell, of Bonita. He was also bitten on the right calf and right hand. Campbell was swimming with three other men—two of them county lifeguards—when he was attacked without warning yesterday. The shark disappeared as the other swimmers went to Campbell’s rescue. Dr. Carl Hubbs, Marine biologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, said the other reported attack was on a swimmer many years ago off Redondo Beach. He said an unusually large number of sharks had migrated north to the Southern California waters this year along with schools of marlin. The shark which attacked Campbell, he said, could have been a great white shark, tiger or mako. Now England Has Blue Rain ASHBY - DE-LA-ZOUCH, Eng., (AP)—Mysterious blue rain pelleted down from a blue sky yesterday at the nearby hamlet of Gracedieu. The eerie shower centered on Harold Walker’s gas station, his home and the surrounding 100 square yards. “It left navy blue blobs the size of an apple.” There are 3227 delegates accredited to the convention, which is staged by the American Legion Convention corp. It cost the corporation $267,000 for this one, the most expensive ever. The 100,000 Legionnaires and their families (Continued on Page 5) LA Orders Two Mail Helicopters LOS ANGELES (AP)—Two $125,000 eight-passenger helicopters have been ordered and should be in operation next year, says Clarence Belinn, president of Los Angeles Airways, helicopter mail service. The first of the Sikorsky machines is expected to be delivered early in 1951, the second six months later. The S-55's will carry a pilot, courier and 600 pounds of mail in addition to passengers. They will fly between Los Angeles municipal airport and Pasadena, Anaheim, Santa Ana, Pomona. San Bernardino and Riverside. Belinn said yesterday he anticipated quick approval by the civil aeronautics board. Anaheimer Listed On MacArthur Ship Rudolph Ramirez, seaman, USN, of 213 W. Elm st., Anaheim, was with General Douglas MacArthur aboard the flagship of the Attack Force Commander, which took part in the amphibious attack on the Inchon-Seoul area of Korea by United Nations Forces. While the island and the city of Inchon were under bombardment by Navy warships and rocket-firing planes, assault boats from the flagship were in the water carrying out the landing of U.S. troops on the fog and smoke covered beaches. AUHS Players Select Cast Gradually gaining momentum, preparations for the Anaheim High school's senior play "Meet Me in St. Louis" have advanced to the stage where a full cast and stage crew have been selected for the two-night stand. To be presented in the high school auditorium, the play is scheduled to run on Nov. 15 and 16 at 8 p.m. Seven judges chose 17 seniors from among 40 candidates to fill the roles of the three-act comedy. Sally Benson's play concerns the home life of the Smith family in St. Louis in 1904, the year St. Louis played host to the World's Fair. Seniors named were Jim Ball, Pat Brooks, Jack Conklin, Marjorie Cranston, Margaret Eicholt, Joyce Enloe, Jan Fort, Kenny Gross, Bob Hoskins, Charles Huff, Ernie Huenemeyer, Don Jackson, Jerry Locke, Janet Schacht, Joyce Shunk, Shelly Smith, and Helen Weir. The stage crew includes: Make up—Marilyn Miller, Carol Schafer, Jim Kahlen, Janet Vincent, Theresa Smith, and Anha Lou Daly; costumes—Miss Locke, Phoebe Merriman, Carole Andrade, Miss Vincent, Malley Brum-(Continued on Page 5) Now England Has Blue Rain ASHBY - DE-LA-ZOUCH, Eng. (UP)—Mysterious blue rain pelted down from a blue sky yesterday at the nearby hamlet of Gracedieu. The eerie shower centered on Harold Walker's gas station, his home and the surrounding 100 square yards. "It left navy blue blobs the size of a penny all over the place," Walker told a reporter. He said there was a dubious possible explanation: a whirlwind might have sucked up ripe elderberries from a grove of trees several miles away. Unknown De WASHINGTON (AP) — The Korean war like past wars is creating its company of unkown soldier dead. How many? That isn't estimated yet. The Defense Department said today there are unidentified American war dead in Korea. But how many won't be known until American graves registration teams can thoroughly explore the area over which United States forces were pushed back by the red army advance in the first two months of fighting. The work of these highly trained teams probably will help clear up at least some of the 3,877 cases reported as "missing in action" in the latest official casualty announcement. Many of the missing may be alive, taken prisoners by the advancing communists. But others may have been killed in the fighting. AHEIM EST. 1870 GAZETTE ANAHEIM, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1950 Russ Favor 'Some Points' Of US Plan LAKE SUCCESS (AP) — Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky said today Russia favors some points of the sweeping United States program to give the U.N. General Assembly emergency powers to combat aggression. Vishinsky's surprising statement in the Assembly's political committee came after John Foster Dulles, Republican advisor to Secretary of State Acheson, outlined the American program, which calls for standby military forces to back up United Nations decisions. The Soviet foreign minister did not specify which points of the American proposal he favored. His statement puzzled other delegates. British Minister of State Kenneth Younger said: "If it is a fact that the Soviet Union accepts the general outlines, we are glad to hear it. It may US Troops Plunge After 'Last Time' Steelers See Very Healthy Wage Boost PITTSBURGH (AP)—Preliminary negotiations opened today which the CIO United Steelworkers union hopes will end in a "very healthy and substantial wage increase" for 1,000,000 men now averaging $1.70 an hour. The negotiations are being held in several cities throughout the nation where the headquarters of various steel companies are located. South Koreans Hit Heavy Fire On Wonsan Storm KOREA AT A GLANCE By The Associated Press BATTLEPOINTS: U.S., tru roll ahead north of 38th Parallel after MacArthur's "last time" timatum to reds. South Koreans drive to win a mile of Wonsan, stop in face heavy red artillery opposition fore key city commanding w ward route to communist capa Allied planes rake red lines with heavy fire. B-29s hit communications. Chews mer Near Diego GO (UP)—Bitten by a shark, a 31-year-old serious condition in real here today. It was the second record of a shark attack on the Southern coast and the first for go vicinity. A chunk of inches long, four and two inches deep—but thigh of Bob Campaeta. He was also bitten calf and right hand. Was swimming with men—two of them guards—when he was without warning yesterday. Disappeared as the men went to Campbbs, Marine biolo-Scripps Institution of Wyoming said the other re-kaog on a swimmer ago off Redondo. Unusually large numbers had migrated north eastern California waters along with schools of fish which attacked said, could have been shark, tiger or mako. England Blue Rain DE-LA-ZOUCH, Eng., blue rain pelleted blue sky yesterday at hamlet of Gracedieu. Shower centered on ker's gas station, his the surrounding 100 navy blue blobs the Dulles, Republican advisor to Secretary of State Acheson, outlined the American program, which calls for standby military forces to back up United Nations decisions. The Soviet foreign minister did not specify which points of the American proposal he favored. His statement puzzled other delegates. British Minister of State Kenneth Younger said: “If it is a fact that the Soviet Union accepts the general outlines, we are glad to hear it. It may shorten debate.” The American proposal also is sponsored by Britain, France, Canada, the Philippines, Turkey and Uruguay. It calls for quick emergency sessions of the veto-free General Assembly when the Security Council cannot act, peace patrols of observers to report to the Assembly on acts of aggression and the designation by U.N. members of the specific units in their armed forces to be placed at the disposal of the U.N. in time of crisis. By a vote of 48 to five with two absentions, the committee decided on a general debate on the American proposal instead of discussions of individual points as Vishinsky had asked. The Soviet Foreign Minister said it would be more business-like to have such a point-by-point discussion Instead of getting bogged down in a general argument. Dulles said the United States does not take the view that general war is the next inevitable stage of the steadily mounting tension marking assembly meetings in the last five years. He said the Security Council had failed to establish any adequate system of peace observers or to provide the U.N. with an armed force in readiness. These defects (Continued on page 5) PITTSBURGH (UP)—Preliminary negotiations opened today which the CIO United Steelworkers union hopes will end in a “very healthy and substantial wage increase” for 1,000,000 men now averaging $1.70 an hour. The negotiations are being held in several cities throughout the nation where the headquarters of various steel companies are located. Topping the list of the big companies which have agreed to talk wages today well in advance of November 1 date called for in contracts are Republic Steel of Cleveland, the third largest producer, and Jones and Laughlin Steel corporation of Pittsburg which ranks fourth. Big United States Steel corporation, the giant of them all, hasn’t replied to Phillip Murray, president of both the CIO and the Steelworkers, who asked that the talks begin today. However, John A. Stephens, vice president in charge of industrial relations for the big firm, has only recently returned from a California trip. He is reported studying Murray’s request and a source close to him said “Big Steel” probably will have a statement soon. Bethlehem Steel company which rounds out the “big four” of the American steel industry sent a letter to Murray during the weekend saying it is ready to begin wage talks. There’s no indication Murray will get what he wants just for (Continued on page 5) Boy 14, Starts Life Sentence SALEM, Ore., (UP)—An Oregon penitentiary cell door door closed shut on 14 year old Harvey O’Day yesterday as the boy began life imprisonment for slaying state policeman. Deputy Warden Eugene Hall said “It is tough to handle a bolt of O’Day’s age in an institute not equipped for adequate segregation” from adult convicts. O’Day was sentenced Saturday in the Washington County circuit courts at Hillsboro. He pleaded guilty to a charge of second degree murder in the shotgun killing officer Dale Courtney Oct. 1. The officer had seized John Wilson, and then tried to arrest O’Day an abandoned farmhouse. Guard Sets Goal Unknown Dead Rise from Korea War The registration teams will find them, probably identify most. But inevitably there will be some nameless ones. Will an unknown American from among the Korean dead eventually join the unknown solider of World War I, and the one from World War II who will be buried in the Arlington tomb next spring? That is a decision for Congress, which authorized enshrinement for the dead of the two world wars. Whatever the number of dead without names in the Korean war, it won't approach the total of World War II. From the battlegroups of Europe and the Pacific, the Armed Forces recovered the remains of 8325 men who could not be identified at the time. But the painstaking investigation by the armed forces' registration teams by last Aug. 31 had reduced the number to the 2163 who are still carried on the records as unidentified. These were among the total 280,574 American military dead in the war, the great majority of them never listed as missing or unidentified. Most of them were killed in action on the ground in the air or at sea. Some of them died in enemy prison camps and their bodies were recovered when advancing forces moved into former enemy areas or after the war had ended. But the 280,574 dead didn't continue on Page 5 Temperatures The temperature reading in downtown Anaheim at 2 this afternoon was 76 degrees. High temperature for the past 24 hours was 76 degrees at 2:30 p.m., yesterday. Low was 58 at 5:30 a.m., today. Guard Sets Goal At 200,000 Men WASHINGTON (A) — The National Guard has embarked on a campaign to recruit 200,000 men between 18 and 35 years old before June 30. The Army said the recruiting campaign is intended to build strength of the guard up to the ceilings authorized for this fiscal year—350,000 ground troops and 50,000 airmen. Recruits will be required drill and to undergo 15 days' summer training, for which they will be paid. The Army announced the campaign over the weekend, and spokesman said men of draft age who join the Guard would not be liable to induction. County Polio Cases Slacken Orange county's polio situation is still on the mend, it was shown today by a report from Dr. Edward Lee Russell, county health officer. No new cases were reported, and one patient has been taken out of the iron lung at the county hospital, the report stated. At one time recently there were five patients in respirators, but only one is left now, said Dr. Russell. CALIFORNIA STATE ZETTE Weather S. Calif.—Few high clouds today and Tuesday with night and morning fog and low clouds with sunny afternoons. Los Plunge Past 38th Last Time' Ultimatum South Koreans at Heavy Fire in Wonsan Step OREA AT A GLANCE By The Associated Press ATTLEFRONTS: U.S. troops head north of 38th Parallel MacArthur's "last time" ulm to reds. South Koreans drive to within of Wonsan, stop in face of red artillery opposition be- key city commanding west- route to communist capitat. red planes rake red lines with fire. B-29s hit communis- munications. KIM JOINS THE MARINES—Kim Sun Ho, 5-year-old Korean youngster orphaned by the war, is the center of attention by Marines Sgt. Richard Moore (left), Everett Wash., and Epl. Gerald Nolan, Yonkers, N. Y., at their base in Seoul area. The boy, whose parents and relatives were killed, was "adopted" by Leatherneck headquarters company after Marine medics had treated him for advanced malnutrition.—(AP Wire photo) REPORTS FROM KOREA today indicate the Allies may be forgiving a giant pincer (upper big broken arrows) by pushes from the 175,000 man U.N. force in the Seoul area and from South Korean divisions which have penetrated to Wonsan. Solid bleak arrows REPORTS FROM KOREA today indicate the Allies may be forgiving a giant pincer (upper big broken arrows) by pushes from the 175,000 man U.N. force in the Seoul area and from South Korean divisions which have penetrated to Wonsan. Solid bleak arrows mark current South Korean drives into Wonsan area and First Cavalry's drive north of Seoul. The lower big shaded arrows mark the giant pincer formed by the amphibious drive from Inchon landing and the push from Pusan beachhead that crushed Red Koreans south of the 38th Parallel. County Fees Don't Interest Doctor There's a job open for a doctor at the county jail. Providing, that is, that he'll work for the fees set by the county. Dr. A. N. Crain of Santa Ana, who had been conducting sobriety tests of automobile drivers on a fee basis of $5 for a day call and $7.50 at night some weeks ago demanded $10 per test, and when that was refused he declined further service. Then, during office, officers called him again and he supposed his demand had been met so he resumed making the examinations. But when he sent in his bill, at $10 per test, it was turned down by the auditor's office. So Dr. Crain has taken the matter up with the board of supervisors. Meanwhile the board, while asking the county counsel to rule on the point whether the county must pay Dr. Crain's bill, also indicated an intention to hunt a doctor who would work for the fees set by the board. Top Four Queen Candidates Hold Race Positions Business and Professional Women candidate Joan Hanson maintained her lead in the Anaheim Fair queen race following ticket turn-in last Saturday, the Chamber of Commerce reported today. And the two, three and four campaigners did the same. In order with their sponsors, they are: Ellen June Garcia, LULAC; Velma Pohlman Neuman, Knights of Columbus, and Elaine Newton, Anaheim Elks. Helen Weir, Junior Chamber of Commerce candidate, and Janet Vincent, Job's Daughters, are tied for fifth, as of Saturday. Jo An Burdick, Lion's club choice, is running south. Seventh and eighth places are occupied by Jo Anne Wood, Kiwanis and Hi-Y, and Janice Pullman, 20-30 club.