anaheim-gazette 1950-11-03

Wind Fancier Here's a fellow who doesn't mind a gust of wind now and then. He's Henry Vieregge. You've probably seen the whirligigs at his home on N. Los Angeles. Read about him, Page 7. VOLUME LXXIX Anaheim’s FIRST Newspaper ANAHEIM Dust-Laden Winds Send Rubble Flying in City Anaheimers went to bed of a relatively calm hot evening last night, punctuated with a few balmy gusts of warm air, then awoke this morning to see what the Santana winds had wrought. As of presstime today they had found nothing serious in the way of damage. But a lot of local residents had their cleanup work cut out for them. Hardly a yard there was that didn't have its crazy-quilt blanket of tree leaves and branches, laid down by the wind in the night. Many merchants with movable signs in front of their business places found these knocked down, blown into some retaining nook or cranny. The Community Chest banner, stretched across Center st., at the Lemon intersection, weather-ed the balmy blasts all right but was a little peaked around the edges. Many merchanis with movable signs in front of their business places found these knocked down, blown into some retaining nook or cranny. The Community Chest banner, stretched across Center st., at the Lemon intersection, weathered the balmy blasts all right but was a little peaked around the edges. One canvas sign on Orange-thorpe had its center blown out. On the exposed northeast side of town the litter was greatest. There branches from trees stacked into streets and yards and tumble weeds bumped along aimlessly until they fetched up against a fence or wall. Some fences were plastered with papers, loosened foliage and other rubble. And if the winds wasn't too irksome, the dust was. It filled the air, covered everything. Office workers found desks and floors powdered with the fine, sneeze-provoking stuff. Air-thin, the dust penetrated every conceivable opening in stores, offices and homes. In neighboring communities, the wind was harsh. A Santa Anan reported trees downed across roads, gates blown off hinges and a housewife wash, left out for the night, blown galley-west. Wind gusts of more than 40 miles an hour came off the desert and through the canyons to strike at such areas as Burbank, Van Nuys, the Palmdale cutoff section of Angeles Crest highway, El Toro, San Bernardino and Beaumont. Picking up fine powdery dust from orchards and farmlands, the winds powdered coastal sections. The harbor area was covered with a mantle of the line dust. The winds were of force enough (Continued on Page 5) Winds Wreak Fruit Damage Extensive damage to fruit crops of the county was a principal result of the blow that started last evening as a desert wind whipped through the county and continued at considerable velocity today. Fire fighters battled more than a dozen small blazes in various areas but were able to control all of them with little damage. Five boats went adrift in Newport Harbor when a mooring line broke, but none of them was damaged. Harbor Master Russell WIND'S WAKE—A yard cluttered with fallen palm fronds greeted Mrs. Ruby Hammond at her 214 S. Claudina st, home this morning. Hot, dry Santana winds tore loose branches, blew down signs and set tumble weeds to rolling all over the city last night. (Gazette photo by Gregory) Anaheim Heiress Learns Whereabouts Of Lawyer Charged with $60,000 Theft Mrs. Antoinete Burns Barrington, 550 S. Los Angeles st., learned through news wire services last night that a north state lawyer who allegedly absconded with $60,000 of her late father's estate under the ruse of a San Francisco Bay bridge death leap has been found and identified in Buffalo, New York. The suspect is Floyd D. Darby, 55, prominent Healdsburg California, attorney. He is now at Millard Fillmore hospital, Buffalo, recovering from major surgery. He entered the hospital two weeks ago under the assumed name of Rex Baggott. According to report, he told Buffalo detectives, when confronted with grand theft warrant, "Yes, that's me. My name is Darby. I am in trouble in California." Darby was traced through a letter he wrote from the hospital to a friend of his in San Francisco. Darby was commissioned to administer for ten years the $250,000 estate of the Anaheim woman's father, the late L. Chris Johnson. Johnson died in 1939. At the end of the ten year period, the estate which included a San Francisco theater, was to have been turned over to Mrs. Barrington. The turn-over was slated for late September 1949. Darby, in a routine report to the prospective heiress-told her that $60,000 remained of the estate. The next day, Bay area papers headlined his suicide leap from the bridge. An immediate check with the bank showed the estate balance to be Youth Community Chest Day Slated November 8 Wednesday, November 8, will be known as Youth Community Chest Day, publicity chairman Bert Arnold said today. In a comprehensive program students of all city, parochial and rural schools will make personal donations to the drive. These contributions will be made at the various schools in each room which will have a container for the collection of funds. Wayne Butterbaugh, district superintendent of Savanna school district, will be responsible for all rural schools. Arthur H. Shipkey will head the Anaheim schools campaign. Ray Reafsnyder, general chairman, stated that since youth profits most from the chest, they should participate by contributing to the fund. Dick Gay, chairman of the ad- Extensive damage to fruit crops of the county was a principal result of the blow that started last evening as a desert wind whipped through the county and continued at considerable velocity today. Fire fighters battled more than a dozen small blazes in various areas but were able to control all of them with little damage. Five boats went adrift in Newport Harbor when a mooring line broke, but none of them was damaged. Harbor Master Russell Craig posted storm warnings for all craft, following an earlier warning to smaller craft only. He said the warnings would hold until Saturday at 6 p.m., based on present forecasts. Damage to crops in the burning wind took the form of scarred fruit that clung to the trees and a heavy windfall on the ground, particularly avocados. Agricultural Commissioner D. W. Tubbs warned against the marketing of the windfall saying the fruit was too green to be edible. Get Out Vote Plan Told by Jr. C of C. Members of the Anaheim Junior Chamber of Commerce stand ready to get out the vote by getting out the voters, election day chairman Ralph Osborne declared today. Osborn then stated the chambermen will provide transportation to and from the polls for all those who are unable to walk the distance or who have no other means of transportation. Voters who wish this service, call 7235. Call hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. next Tuesday. Both Republican and Democratic members of the organization are cooperating on the election day program. Plugged Fountain Causes Flash Flood on Broadway School Grounds A miniature flash flood on the en almost immediately to remedy it. No real danger exists, they said, of a sewage overflow because of a series of check valves, but they said that plans call for the installation of a sewer ejection pump at Broadway. The pump, delivered some time ago, is ready to be installed, but has not already been done because of a lack of time plea by the plumber. Spurred on possibly by almost-full sewage lines in that area, Stabbert said this morning that he had ordered the plumber to start installation this afternoon. He said the job would probably take two or three days. AHEIM EST. 1870 GAZETTE ANAHEIM, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1950 Allies Battle Revitali In Attempt to Rescu UN Ratifies Acheson Plan For Security NEW YORK (P)—The U.N. General Assembly ratified today Secretary of State Acheson's plan for a veto-free system of collective security on a world basis. Backers of the plan said it was designed to discourage any new Korean-type aggression. It will prevent a freezing of U.N. peace preserving acvtivities by a veto in the Security Council. For Security NEW YORK (UP)—The U.N. General Assembly ratified today Secretary of State Acheson's plan for a veto-free system of collective security on a world basis. Backers of the plan said it was designed to discourage any new Korean-type aggression. It will prevent a freezing of U.N. peace preserving acvtivities by a veto in the Security Council. The resolution calls for a peace patrol to check on the world's trouble spots, the calling of emergency assembly sessions on 24 hours notice and the earmarking and training of military units by member nations for U.N. use. By overwhelming majorities the Assembly voted down a series of Soviet amendments which would have emasculated the resolution. The voting was a long process, with the count being taken first by sections and then on the entire plan. The vote on the whole resolution was 52 to five with two abstaining. The Soviet bloc cast the five opposing votes. India and Argentina abstained. Lebanon was absent. After the result was announced, Assembly President Nasroilah Entezam of Iran said the resolution was the most important of the 1950 session and perhaps constituted the most far-reaching action ever taken by an assembly. He told the delegates: "It is now for us to show the world we are uniting for peace." Gun Principals Get Lie Detector Lie detector tests are being applied today in Los Angeles to two Fullerton councilman, a Fullerton police officer, and a merchant patrol operator, as the sheriff's office seeks to identify the mystery gunman who, reportedly, fired a shot through the car of Councilman Kermit Wood on the evening of Oct. 15. Detective Lt. Pete Klyne and Jack Cadman, criminologist of the sheriff's staff, accompanied Councilman Wood and Jack Adams, Fullerton police Lt. Bill Hovell, and William McNames, merchant patrol operator to the Los Angeles police headquarters where the tests were to be given. The tests seek to determine first whether Hovell, a chief target of the two councilmen, in their demand for a police shakeup might... LA Landowners Ask Pres. Impeachment LOS ANGELES (AP)—Impeachment of President Truman for telling Housing Expediter Tighe Woods not to decontrol rents here is demanded by the president of the small property owners league. As 1700 league members cheered last night, G. G. Baumen declared: "It is incumbent on us to request the impeachment of the president of the United States. It is time that the people demand that the government of the United States be returned to the people." Cheers also greeted City Councilman Ed. J. Davenport's warning that "this isn't a rent control issue alone. The big issue is whether you and your loved ones are going to live in a free country or give in to the Leninist program of destroying property rights." CALIFORNIA STATE Weather Library S. Calif.—Mostly clear tonight and Saturday. Continued unseasonably warm. Locally strong, warm winds. vitalized Reds, Rain Rescue Trapped Gls U.N. Forces Are Hurled Back By Commies on Almost All Fronts SEOUL (AP)—Allied forces struggled in a drenching rainstorm tonight to rescue remnants of two trapped American regiments on the sagging United Nations line in north-west Korea. The downpour hurt the Allies more than it did the resurgent North Korean reds and their Chinese communist comrades. It meant potent U.N. airpower would be curtailed, if not stopped until the weather clears. Feds Move To Nip More LATE NEWS FIRST MARINE DIVISION, KOREA (AP)—Chinese communists threatened to encircle a Marine regiment Friday while the North Feds Move To Nip More Murder Plots WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents moved on far-flung fronts today to nip any offshoots of the plot to kill President Truman which ended in blood-spattered failure for two Puerto Rican revolutionaries Wednesday. The president continued to show no emotion at his escape from the guns of two fanatics who were felled, one of them shot dead, at the very steps of his official residence. But the guard around him was increased and FBI and Secret Service men moved swiftly in an attempt to track down any of the pair's accomplices who might be dangerous. Mr. Truman did not take his usual early morning walk, but there was no indication he passed it up because of concern for his safety. He had worked late last night on the political speech he will make in St. Louis tomorrow night. Yesterday morning Mr. Truman did take a walk. About 6:40 a.m. (PST), after working in his office for a while, the president walked from the White House to nearby emergency hospital to visit two guards who were wounded in defending him. Just what he said to them was not disclosed. Reporters were not permitted to accompany him to the hospital rooms. In New York, the FBI took into custody the 21-year old widow of Griselio Torresola, the would-be assassin who was killed in front of Blair House. It was learned the young woman was picked up when she visited her home. LATE NEWS FIRST MARINE DIVISION, KOREA (AP)—Chinese communists threatened to encircle a Marine regiment Friday while the North Korean red cut off another Marine Battalion 80 miles to the southwest. There was a desperate renaissance of red resistance both at and behind this northeast Korean front. Marine fighter-bombers hammered a 200-truck enemy convoy south of the Changjin reservoir. Twenty-four vehicles were destroyed. A combined Chinese and Korean red counterattack had sent the U.N. forces reeling back in virtually every sector of the flaming northwest front. The reds, at one point, were only 47 miles north of their fallen capital of Pyongyang. One U.S. withdrawal—on the west coast road—pulled a tanked spearhead 59 miles back from its forward advance point 15 miles south of red China’s Manchurian border. After the downpour Friday evening, Allied Forces neither advanced nor retreated. There was movement on the northwest front but AP correspondent Jack MacBeth said U.S. First Corps spokesmen described it merely as “jockeying for position.” One unit of the South Korean First Division was reported in contact with the enemy in the Unsan area. Army spokesmen did not elaborate. The reds had dealt the Allies serious blows throughout the area. Much equipment was captured by the reds, including 13 American tanks. Only U.S. Marines in the northeast were on the offensive, and their thrust was blunted by a fierce red encircling move. Puerto Rican Police Roundup Nationalists, Commies SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP)—A sweeping police roundup of nationalists and leaders of the communist party continued in full swing today. Puerto Rican Police Roundup Nationalists, Commies SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, (AP)—A sweeping police roundup of nationalists and leaders of the communist party continued in full swing today. Already 400 had been taken in custody in the wake of nationalist attempts to assassinate Governor Luis Munoz Marin in San Juan and President Truman in Washington. The number of arrests was expected to reach 650 or 750. It was probable that abandoned war-time army barracks would be reopened to serve as temporary prisons. Puerto Ricans began making jokes about the nationalist attempt to storm with five men the governor's palace, which Sir Francis Drake could not capture with hundreds. Pedro Albizu Campos, the nationalist leader who stumbled out of his home early yesterday under a police tear gas barrage and surrendered, was being held at a secret place in the city. Authorities obviously feared a nationalist attempt to rescue him. Munoz Marin said charges had been filed against Albizu Campos, but he declined to say what they were. He has said he believed the assassination attempts showed a link between the nationalists and the aims of world communism. Four top communists, including the party president, are in custody.