anaheim-gazette 1950-10-20

Florida Florida newspapers often reprint all or portions of "Colony Quips," the Gazette's exclusive column. They regard it as the authentic news source on California citrus. Read "Quips," Page 4. VOLUME LXXIX Anaheim's FIRST Newspaper ANAHE 'Chutists Trap Red' Hunger-Racked Yanks Prisoners Tell Story of Ghastly March to Pyongyang Reds Shrug off 'A Few More Atrocities' PYONGYANG (AP)—Three nearly starved Americans can prisoners today told ghastly tale of a "Death March" from Seoul to Pyongyang by 283 U.S. soldiers. Many of their comrades the bearded trio said, were beaten and murdered by their communist captors. The reds shrugged their shoulders and said a few more atrocities against them did not matter. The few survivors, said the liberated prisoners, boosted th PARATROOPERS LAND NORTH OF PYONGYANG—Rectangle indicates area where American paratroopers landed today to seal off retreat of North Koreans from the capital city of Pyongyang. Their immediate objective was to cut roads and rail lines at Sukchon and Sunchon. Arrows indicate capture of Pyongyang by three United Nations columns and a three-day advance beyond Hamhung. One report said Red Premier Kim Il Sung was in Huichon (underlined) while other reports said he had fled to far North Korea, Manchuria or Soviet Siberia. (Associated Press Wirephoto Map) Sheriffs Seek Slug Fired At Fullerton Councilman Trying hard to penetrate the screen of mystery surrounding the shooting attempt upon Fullerton Councilman Kermit Wood near Brea Sunday evening, Sheriff James A. Musick today sent his men on a straw-grasping search for the spent bullet. The deputies will use mine detectors, but Musick admitted that there was less than a million-to-one chance of finding the bullet in the wide open spaces approximately a mile east of Brea. "We'll probably pick up a lot of stray metal, but we'll almost certainly fail to find the slug," said Musick. "But we've got to take even the thinnest chance of finding a starting point to work from." So far the investigation has determined that it was a copper-jacketed bullet presumably fired from the car which Wood said drove up beside his own while he was traveling home from the Sleepy Hollow, the night spot in Parade Deadline Set October 25 Harry Bradley, parade marshal for the 27th Annual Hallowe'en Pageant parade suggests that anyone interested in entering in this year's huge parade should do so at once as the entries will close Wednesday, October 25th. The entries so far prove that ghastly tale of a "Death March" from Seoul to Pyongyang by 283 U.S. soldiers. Many of their comrades the bearded trio said, were beaten and murdered by their commandist captors. The reds shrugged their shoulders and said a few more atrocities against them did not matter. The few survivors, said the liberated prisoners, boosted the American POWs held in Pyongyang to 373. Most of the 373 were moved to the north to an unknown fate as Pyongyang began to totter. The three said they saw no other Americans in Pyongyang except those they marched with from Seoul. They said they were told in Seoul that Maj. Gen. William F. Dean, commander of the U.S. S. 24th Infantry Division who disappeared when Taejon fell last July, was in Pyongyang. But when they arrived here they were told General Dean had died in Seoul. There was no confirmation of this report. United Nations losses in dead wounded and captured approach the 25,000 figure. Swirling down Stalin st.—the Russian named main street of Pyongyang—the bearded and long haired captives were found by a group of correspondents as the prisoners marched arm in arm with three North Korean students who had befriended them. Optimists Hear Local Crime Control Lauded Anaheim and Fullerton were congratulated for having the lowest percentage of juevnile crime in Orange county by Cecil Bernard, superintendent of Orange County Juvenile Hall in Santa Ana, last night at the Optimist meeting. As guest speaker Bernard cited some cases handled at the Hall and the issuing results. One case concerned a youngster convicted of robbery and committed to the home a few years ago. He is now a Lieutenant in the army with an outstanding record of service. Harwood Larson introduced Alvin Penhall, local contractor, who expressed a desire to become member of the Optimist club. mile east of Brea. "We'll probably pick up a lot of stray metal, but we'll almost certainly fail to find the slug," said Musick. "But we've got to take even the thinnest chance of finding a starting point to work from." So far the investigation has determined that it was a copper-jacketed bullet presumably fired from the car which Wood said drove up beside his own while he was traveling home from the Sleepy Hollow, the night spot in Carbon Canyon where he had been called by an anonymous voice over the telephone Sunday. He had gone to the resort, he said, to get "some information" promised him over the phone. Finding no one waiting for him there, he started home at about 9 o'clock, and the attack was made (Continued on Page 5) Warren Airs Fact Report Tonight Flanked by two Democratic leaders, Governor Earl Warren will make a state-wide radio broadcast tonight over the NBC network as the fourth of his final campaign series of "Reports on the Facts." The guest speakers will be Kenneth D. Holland, of Los Angeles, and C. Harold Caulfield, of San Francisco, both active State Democratic figures. Governor Warren's program will be heard at 7:45 p.m. in this area, over stations KFI, Los Angeles, and KIST, Santa Barbara. Station KFSD, San Diego, has scheduled a delayed broadcast at 9 p.m. Parade Deadline Set October 25 Harry Bradley, parade marshal for the 27th Annual Hallowe'en Pageant parade suggests that anyone interested in entering in this year's huge parade should do so at once as the entries will close Wednesday, October 25th. The entries so far prove that the parade this year will be the most outstanding in the history of the Hallowe'en Festival, according to Bradley. Temperatures The temperature reading in downtown Anaheim was 70 degrees at 2 p.m. this afternoon. High temperature for the past 24 hours was 84 degrees at 3 p.m. yesterday. Low was 54 at 4 a.m. this morning. Spirited Defense Stretches Bounds of Friendship There's a limit to the bounds of friendship—especially when one of the friends fortifies himself with spirits to defend the other. Anaheim police yesterday picked up Fred S. Martinez, wanted by the Pasadena police department as an escapee. Shortly thereafter, Ernest Z. Ramirez appeared to protest the arrest of his friend, Martinez. Seeing that he was somewhat woozy, police advised him to leave. Again he protested and police explained the nature of the arrest. Ramirez disagreed. Again police invited him to disappear, but this time he managed to get his true sentiments about the police into oral form. Ramirez never did leave. He is currently in the city jail, booked as drunk. ANAHEIM GAZETTE EST. 1870 ANAHEIM, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1950 Reds--MacArthur Sees Paratroopers 'Ending the War' s Tell ngyang s Shrug off few More ocities' NGYANG (AP)— nearly starved Ameriisoners today told a tale of a "Death from Seoul to Pyongyang 283 U.S. soldiers. of their comrades, arded trio said, were and murdered by their comaptors. The reds shrugged shoulders and said a few ocities against them did er. w survivors, said the libprisoners, boosted the Senator Lehman Joins Fun in NY Political Post Office Game By The Associated Press Publication of a second personal letter by a candidate for the Senate kept national political attention focussed today on the heated New York campaign. Senator Herbert H. Lehman (D-Lib-NY) said he had no apology to make for a two-year-old letter in defense of Alger Hiss, former State Department aide since convicted of perjury. Lehman noted it was written before Hiss' indictment. Lehman's letter was made public while controversy still flew about a letter written by Lehman's Republican opponent, Lt. Gov. Joe R. Hanley, which Democrats contend showed Hanley was "paid off" to run for the Senate rather than the governorship. President Truman told his news conference yesterday he had read the Hanley letter and was sorry he had. It is too bad a thing like (Continued on Page 5) Festival Tours County Tomorrow This Saturday, October 21st, the combined efforts of the Hallowe'en Festival and Fair will make a good will tour of Orange county. Towns on the itinerary are Brea, 10 a.m., La Habra 10:30, Fullerton 11, Anaheim 11:45, Orange 2 p.m., Cohen Smears LA Cops Says Slick Story LOS ANGELES (AP)—A fantastically effective smear campaign by mobster Mickey Cohen has made the Los Angeles Police department "the most maligned" in the nation, Collier's said today. In an article titled "Don't Go Out Alone at Night in L.A." the weekly magazine said that by remarkable manipulation of the public mind, Cohen and his racketeers have made it appear that the real criminals are not crooks; cut-throats and corrupters—but the police. "To get the heat off himself, the little hoodlum had built a fire un- His Laugh Was Best Part Says Marine Wife "Just to hear him laugh was the best part of it." So said Mrs. Pat Bateson she heard her Marine hus voice, as recorded at Kimpo airport, broadcast night over station KVOE. "He talked about some things he was doing over the Mrs. Bateson said of her band Lt. Alan G. Bateson hearing him laugh was best "He's getting plenty to though," she added, the plained with a chuckle ought to. When he's not he's acting as mess off I can kid him aobut that officer business—when he back." Three and one-half year daughter Bonnie heard the gram last night too. An was excited. "That's my daddy," she when the familiar voice over the loudspeaker. The jumped up and down. "I my daddy," she cried. "I my daddy." With Mrs. Bateson, the f was mutual, though not ciferously expressed. Just like it is with a other American mothers days. Thieves Loot Truxaw Auto Festival Tours County Tomorrow This Saturday, October 21st, the combined efforts of the Hallowe'en Festival and Fair will make a goodwill tour of Orange county. Towns on the itinerary are Brea, 10 a.m., La Habra 10:30, Fullerton 11, Anaheim 11:45, Orange 2 p.m., Santa Ana 2:30, Newport Beach 3, Huntington Beach 3:45, Stanton and Buena Park and back to Anaheim. A jam band from the Anaheim Elks will be on a truck to supply music; Gordon Chamberlin will M.C. the show from a sound truck and the nine Queens and Six Slick Chicks will be placed in individual little British cars. The troupe will plug the Hallowe'en Pageant Parade, the giant Mardi-Gras balloons and the Fair in general. QUEEN CANDIDATE ON HOLLYWOOD SHOW Today Elleen June Garcia, Queen candidate for Anaheim's 27th Annual Hallowe'en Festival and Fair, will appear over Radio Station KECA and the Coast to Coast facilities of the American Broadcasting Company. Miss Garcia will present to Jack McElroy, on the program, "Welcome to Hollywood", a Booster Button and will plug the Hallowe'en Festival in general. Although the program is broadcast Friday, it will not be heard on the West Coast until Monday, October 23rd, 7:00 to 7:30 a.m. Edna St. Vincent Millay Dies AUSTERLITZ, N.Y. (AF)—Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay, who once wrote of death that she would not "give him a leg-up," is dead. She died alone, as she had lived since the death of her husband, Eugen Jan Boisevain, about a year ago. Miss Millay, 58, apparently suffered a heart attack early yesterday, her doctor said, after she had worked all night editing proofs of CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY Weather S. Calif.—Low clouds, but otherwise mostly clear tonight. Partly cloudy Saturday. Cooler. Orders Read: Wind Up UN War; Rescue Mistreated Americans TOKYO (AP) — Thousands of American parachute troops leaped deep into red Korea to clean up the war today. They had two missions: to finish the U.N. war and rescue mistreated captive Americans. General MacArthur himself directed the spectacular aerial assault, the first parachute offensive of the Korean war, from his plane overhead. French Nix Peace With Ho Chi Minh PARIS (AP)—France's national assembly voted solidly today to turn down any immediate peace negotiations with Indo-Chinese rebel leader Ho Chi Minh and endorsed the government's policy in Peace With Ho Chi Minh PARIS (AP)—France's national assembly voted solidly today to turn down any immediate peace negotiations with Indo-Chinese rebel leader Ho Chi Minh and endorsed the government's policy in that key southeast Asian spot. In supporting Premier Rene Pleven's Asia policy, the assembly beat back by 408 to 171 votes a communist motion urging immediate peace talks with the Moscow-trained guerrilla leader. Instead the assembly adopted, 353 to 215, a motion assuring the forces fighting the Indo-China rebels of French solidarity and expressed confidence in the government's ability to handle the situation, despite recent setbacks. A DeGaullist motion criticizing the Pleven regime for lack of decisiveness also was turned down 490 to 59. In an hour-long speech before the assembly, Pleven said it seemed established that Red China has trained and armed a good part of the communist-led nationalists (Continued on Page 7) Yorba Water Trial Windup Due Next Week Trial of the suit brought by Albert J. Yorba and 24 other heirs of Don Bernardo Yorba, pioneer ranchman, to establish their right to water from the ditches of the Anaheim Union Water co. and the Yorba Irrigation co. will be concluded next week. Superior Judge Robert Gardner has received countless early documents bearing upon the origin of property titles and centering about the principal document, an agreement between members of the Yorba family and the original water company, Canon de Santa Ana. This agreement is alleged to have provided the right to the Yorba heirs to take water from the ditches in return for granting easement for the ditches across their lands. The present water companies contend that a number of these heirs allowed their rights to lapse by failure to continue use of the escape of die-hard red troops still hanging around the north rim of the city. After flying over the scene, MacArthur said: "I didn't see any opposition. It looks like it was a complete surprise. It looks like we closed the trap. Closing that trap should be the end of all organized resistance. The war is very definitely coming to an end." The airborne troopers, floating down 80 miles south of the Manchuria border, slammed shut the red escape gates north of Pyongyang. They sought, too, to rescue American prisoners whisked out of liberated Seoul and to seize the fugitive red military headquarters. But, up until a late hour Friday, there was no word whether the American prisoners—some of them forced to a death march from Seoul—had been rescued. Some prisoners liberated in Pyongyang said many died. They said these included Maj. Gen. William F. Dean, commander of the U. S. 24th Division who disappeared in the battle for Taejon in July, early in the United Nations defense of the South Korean Republic. There was no confirmation of the report about General De. MacArthur did not amplify his appraisal that the war was at an end. The parachute landings were in two-battalion strength. The number of chutists was not officially reported but the best estimate was 3000 confirmed by both AP correspondent Hal Boyle and photographer Max Destor, both of whom witnessed the operation in addition to AP correspondent Russell Brines. This was the apparent climax of the historic United Nations campaign, born in blood with the June 25 red invasion of the Korean republic. The Soviet satellite North Korean regime had fled Pyongyang. Red Premier Kim II Sung and his government were believed to be either in far North Korea, Manchuria or Soviet Siberia. Some prisoners said he was in Huichon, 80 miles north of Pyongyang. Staff officers said conclusion of the organized fighting would be (Continued on Page 7) Assistance League To Aid Chest Drive The Assistance League will solicit a portion of the Community Chest Northwest district cam Thieves Loot Truxaw Auto Medical instruments and drugs, used at $150, were stolen from the car of Dr. John Truxaw, 870 S. Angeles street, yesterday while it was parked in downtown Anaheim. Dr. Truxaw's automobile was the 100 block of E. Center st. when the theft was made between 9:00 and 7:15 p.m. His bag, containing the instruments and all amount of narcotics, was seen from the seat along with flashlight and a quantity of penilin. Allay Dies The new poems. Her body was found in the afternoon at the foot of the stairway in her big white use on East Hill. Pulitzer prize winner, Miss Allay scribbled her poems in cap notebooks and sometimes difficulty reading her own writing later. She frequently sketched all night composing the motifs and other lines that gained fame. The won many awards, including Slick Chicks Vie On TV Sunday Gordon Chamberlin, chairman of the Slick Chick Contest, announces that Sunday night at approximately 10:30, on Television Station KTLA, Channel 5, the six Slick Chick finalists will make their television debut so that the TV viewers may vote for their choices. You may cast your vote by mailing a card to KTLA-TV, 721 No. Bronson, Hollywood, up until midnight, Wednesday, October 25th. The girl receiving the most votes will be crowned Miss Slick Chick of 1950 and made the "Cover Girl of the Week" on the same program Sunday, October 29th. The following are the girls who will compete: Mar Elina Burns, witch costume; Gwen Keithley, devil costume; Annette Ater, Peter Pan costume; Marilyn Jane Cordill, black widow spider costume; Shirley Snyder, cow girl costume; Madolyn Dunagan, devil costume. STOCK ISSUE BLOCK SOUGHT Denial of a California Hosiery Co. application for permit to issue stock was sought today by Herbert W. Bowen, an investor in the firm. Bowen appeared at a hearing before the State Division of Corporations in Los Angeles today with his accusation. Bowen is represented by attorney Lester L. Carden.