anaheim-gazette 1950-12-05

Dunkerque-Like Withdrawal Bad crashes... The Gazette doesn't like those automobile crash pictures. We shudder at them. We fervently hope you do, too. See "A sickening crash . . . death," Page 4. VOLUME LXXIX Anaheim's FIRST Newspaper ANAHE AWAITING TRIAL—Eighteen year old Joseph Brito, left known as Breet when he starred as an athlete at Newport Harbor high school, awaits trial December 12 for the murder of Ramon Mendoza, 65, employee on the farm of Brito's grandmother, Mrs. Anna De Olivera, Costa Mesa. With Brito at the county jail is Turnkey Carl Elias. Youth Murder Suspect Trial Set Next Week Trial of Joseph Brito, or Breet, is he was known in athletics at Newport Harbor high school, is set for Dec. 12 on a charge of murdering Ramon Mendoza, 65, farm employee of his grandmother, Mrs. Anna De Oliveira, of Costa Mesa. The 18-year-old youth is alleged to have clubbed Mendoza to death in a corral behind the barn at his granmother's farm, 294 E. 17th st., Costa Mesa, September 12. According to a statement he assertedly made to officers after his arrest, Brito thought Mendoza had several hundred dollars on his person, but actually had only two dollars. Brito was only 17 at the time of the killing, so he was certified to juvenile court. But that court sent him back to the adult criminal court for trial. ACTOR BUYS S. A. BUILDING SANTA ANA — Actor Montgomery Clift of the stage and Hollywood today was listed as purchaser of a 30 foot downtown Santa Ana business building for $121,000 cash. The property is on E. Fourth st., between Spurgeon and Bush st. There is a jewelry store and Thugs Kidnap, Beat, Rob Young Woman Motorist ORANGE—A young woman enroute to her home was kidnapped beaten and robbed by two young men who forced their way into her car as she made a boulevard stop here last night. Mrs. Shirley Epperson, 27, 548 E. Washington; Orange, escaped from the machine in the 12000 block of Cambridge after she suddenly stopped the car and broke away. Her captors caught her, struck her, then robbed her then left her alongside an orange grove owned by Herbert B. Sawyer, 12842 Cambridge, who heard Mrs. Epperson's cries for help and summoned Orange police. Officers were told that Mrs. Epperson was visiting a sister and that the two young men climbed into the rear seat of her car as she stopped at LaVeta and Glassell sts. They commanded her to "keep driving if you know what's good for you." They directed her to a lonely road but Mrs. Epperson thwarted them and fled from the car after driving about a mile. The woman is in a hospital under treatment today. She was not molested. Lemon St. Paving Begins Tomorrow Paving on repair-torn Lemon st. commences tomorrow morning acting City Engineer George Holyoke said this morning. Contractor R. J. Noble starts early in the morning to lay the first section of new top from Broadway to Cypress st. Hope is said Holyoke, that the task will be completed by nightfall. The street is expected to be passable by either tomorrow night or Thursday, as far north as Cypress. Next on the work list is the section from Cypress to North st. Work here will commence immediately following completion of the lower section, the city engineer indicated. Material used will be two-inch asphaltic concrete. The material will be applied with a mechanical spreader. At a later date, the remaining section of Lemon, between North and La Palma will get the treatment Holyoke stated. ACTOR BUYS S. A. BUILDING SANTA ANA — Actor Montgomery Clift of the stage and Hollywood today was listed as purchaser of a 30 foot downtown Santa Ana business building for $121,000 cash. The property is on E. Fourth st., between Spurgeon and Bush st. There is a jewelry store and women's sports wear store on the property. WARREN VISITS IMPERIAL EL CENTRO (UP)—Gov. Warren plans to visit Imperial Valley Thursday for an inspection of a new National Guard armory here, and sites for armories at Brawley and Calexico. Temperatures Temperature reading in downtown Anaheim at 2 p.m., today was 76 degrees. High temperature for the past 24 hours was 62 at 4 p.m., yesterday. Low was 49 at 7 a.m., today. Burl Gist Named 20-30 Club Prexy Burl Gist was elected president for the next term at the 20-30 Club meeting last night. Other officers elected were Lynn Brown as vice-president, Ralph Spencer, second vice-president; Bob Muckenthaler, sergeant-at-arms. Secretary-treasurer will be appointed at first of the next term. Gist attended the State Educational 20-30 Meet at San Bernardino, December 1, 2, and 3. He reported on activities last night to the members. 20-30 board will meet Friday evening at the home of Paul Bruce, 1004 Vineyard, Anaheim, at 7:30 p.m. Bandit Holds Up Beach Station An armed bandit last night held up and robbed a Standard Oil co. station, Corona del Mar. Operator J. A. Chamberlain surrendered $25 to the bandit he described being about 25 years of age, five feet 10 inches tall, 180 pounds, with blond hair. A companion, seated behind the wheel of a get-away car did not enter the gas station. Sheriff's officers found the car, stolen from Santa Ana, in a field not far from the Orange county airport. Chest Drive at 68 Per Cent Mark As of last night, the Anaheim 1950 Community Chest effort had attained 68 per cent of its $22,500 goal, Bert Arnold publicity chairman said today. Chest Chairman Ray Reafsnyder urges volunteer workers to turn in reports as soon as possible. Persons who have not yet been solicited may send their contributions to Community Chest headquarters, 139 N. Los Angeles St., or P.O. Box 405. Headquarters office closes the end of this week. Hence volunteer workers and prospective contributors are urged to make haste. Chairman Reafsnyder cited increased activities of benefitting agencies, such as Boy and Girl Scouts, Salvation Army, Catholic Welfare, and Visiting Nurses, as demanding increased contributions to the drive this year. “This year more than ever, Anaheimers should make it possible through their generosity, to help others help themselves,” Reafsnyder said.” Handrawal Figures in Tense Truma ANAHEIM EST. 1870 GAZETE ANAHEIM, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1950 Chinese Troops Ent Allied Air Blows Le Plans for UN Removal Said Ready LATE NEWS LAKE SUCCESS (UP) — The U.N. steering committee voted late today to place before the General Assembly the question of Chinese communist inter- UN Removal Said Ready LATE NEWS LAKE SUCCESS (P) — The U.N. steering committee voted late today to place before the General Assembly the question of Chinese communist intervention in Korea. The vote was 10 to 2, with India abstaining. Russia and Czechoslovakia cast the negative votes. Nasrollah Entezam, Assembly president, did not vote. Immediately after the vote, it was proposed that the issue be referred to the 60-nation political committee. He called an emergency meeting of the Assembly at Lake Success tomorrow morning to ratify the Steering committee's decision and to open the way for Political committee debate. BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON (GP) — The possibility that United Nations forces may suffer total military defeat in Korea, necessitating a Dunkerque-like withdrawal by sea and air, was said today to be figuring in crisic conferences here. Although hope has not been abandoned that the ongoing Chinese communist hordes can be stopped, it was reported that Gen. Omar Bradley told President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee of Britain yesterday that evacuation plans are ready if they have to be used. Further, Bradley was understood to have told a closed meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations committee today that U.N. forces have now pulled back to where it will be possible to evacuate them if a defense line continued on Page 5. Police Department Gets Face Lifted That wasn't a home-made bomb tossed into the Anaheim police department and it wasn't even a renegade army starting to dismantle the station. That heap of rubble where once stood the office of the de- RETREAT FROM PYONGYANG—A new war from the Pyongyang area, as the former communist-donated to the advancing masses of red troops. (Assistance from Tokyo.) Police Department Gets Face Lifted That wasn't a home-made bomb tossed into the Anaheim police department and it wasn't even a renegade army starting to dismantle the station. That heap of rubble where once stood the office of the department is the handiwork of a handful of carpenters, busily hacking away at the walls and roof of the station. Pretty soon, the department hopes, the work will take a constructive turn. The plans are to enlarge the current office, lapping it over in to what is now a hallway. When completed, the office will have approximately 30 per cent more floor space. Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Nelson of Placentia are convinced that marriage is a good thing. So good in fact, that they are going through the wedding ceremony tonight for the 14th consecutive time, complete with best man, matron of honor, three-layer cake and wedding supper. More than 50 guests are expected tonight at the Spanish Kitchen, at the wedding which, the Nelsons explain, also doubles as their 14th anniversary. They were married Dec. 5, 1936, in Placentia. He is 56. She is 47. The idea of repeating the marriage ceremony every year occurred shortly before their first scheduled anniversary. Since that time they have utilized the services of five ministers and three judges, plus an unremembered number of bride and groom attendants. And their wedding sites have ranged the Southland. The record shows five weddings in Anaheim, two in Yorba Linda, one in San Diego and five in Placentia. One they conducted by telephone when Mrs. Nelson was in Moscow, Idaho, and her husband was home in Placentia. At the present time they have filled two separate marriage certificates with signatures, theirs and those of witnesses. Mrs. Nelson says she is considering marrying the next time in another state, one where make bigger marriage certifications. For wedding attire tonight Nelson says her husband dress in his original marriage dress. Her dress, she admits a bit fully will be a later model; original wedding gown is small these days. Mrs. Nelson says they re-their wedding ceremony each as an annual reminder to selfes of the seriousness of institution. "Too many people take too lightly these days," she We don't intend to let our one that is taken for granted Then too, she adds, "we (Continued on page 5) Truman-Attlee Conferences ZETTE Weather S. Calif.—Generally clear tonight and Wednesday except some night and morning fog. Slightly warmer. Us Enter Pyongyang; vs Leave 2000 Dead Retreat from Pyongyang Last UN Troops Pull Wearily Out of Capital TOKYO (AP)—Chinese communist troops tonight were reported entering abandoned Pyongyang despite heavy air blows that left an estimated 2000 enemy dead on the approaches to the desolate city. Pull Wearily Out of Capital TOKYO (AP)—Chinese communist troops tonight were reported entering abandoned Pyongyang despite heavy air blows that left an estimated 2000 enemy dead on the approaches to the desolate city. The Fifth Air Force said masses of Chinese communists were caught in a death trap earlier in the day by swift jet fighters on the Taedong river north of the one-time North Korean capital. United Nations forces representing 53 non-communist countries had driven the broken and fleeing red Korean army from their Pyongyang capital Oct. 20. Tuesday, before overwhelming pressure from vanguards of the 1,000,000-man Chinese communist army assembled for red Korea, the last U.N. troops pulled wearily out of Pyongyang in retreat to the south. The Chinese "Liberators" found the red capital a flaming, smoking city, ravaged of installations and supplies that might be of military advantage. The red return was certain to be hailed throughout the communist world. The one-time city of 300,000 population was something of an empty prize. Thousands of Ko(Continued on Page 7) State Flood Danger Drops SACRAMENTO (AP) — California's flood danger diminished today with receding river crests, but authorities warned residents of one region to be on guard for possible levee breaks. The danger area was in the delta where the mighty Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers come together before dumping their water into San Francisco Bay. Some 700 homeless persons from the Hammonton-Linda area, flooded out by the Yuba river, still were housed at Marysville. But 4300 others driven from their homes Sunday had returned. Supervisors Pass Grove PO Site SANTA ANA—The Board of Supervisors today approved the site on Garden Grove blvd. at end of Walnut st. where Kenneth Supervisors Pass Grove PO Site SANTA ANA—The Board of Supervisors today approved the site on Garden Grove blvd. at end of Walnut st., where Kenneth Dungan plans to erect a new building for the Garden Grove postoffice. Last Friday the County Planning Commission had recommended that a variance be granted for construction of the building and supervisors approved with only little discussion. There had been considerable agitation over the postoffice site and petitions both for and against were submitted from Garden Grove. CRASH HURTS ONE A sideswiped crash between two automobiles on Los Alamitos blvd. near Katella rd. about 5:20 yesterday brought injury to one of the drivers, Mrs. Anita Kennedy of Artesia. She was taken to a physician for treatment. The other driver, Guiseppi Scalabrina, 57, of 4562 Green st., Los Alamitos escaped unhurt. SAN ANTONIO DAM APPROPRIATION APPROVED WASHINGTON (AP) — President Truman has approved a construction and planning appropriation of $500,000 for the San Antonio canyon dam in San Bernardino county, California. Missing Sport Cruiser Found NEWPORT BEACH—a 26-foot sport cruiser, missing all day yesterday with three men aboard after leaving Catalina Island, was taken in tow about 6 p.m. yesterday off San Clemente. The purse seiner "Western Traveller" overhauled the cruiser "Gem" only a few hundred yards from the shore at San Clemente. Aboard the craft were Yule Loving, Mike Casaday and William Shaw, all of Balboa. The Coast Guard had searched all day for the craft after receiving a radio message that the "Gem" was in trouble.