anaheim-gazette 1951-07-18

Automotive You'll note in the Gazette's "automobile sections" today some of the cars produced by home-industry. It is the Soap Box Derby. A real event for kids. VOLUME LXXX Anaheim's FIRST Newspaper ANAHEIM. These Anaheim Youths Rolled Today In Official Soap Box Derby Races Russian 'Peace Offensive' May Be Next Move WASHINGTON (P) — American diplomats look for Russia to put forth a major diplomatic proposal in the next few weeks to promote its current "peace offensive" and raise new hopes for easing East-West tension. One possibility foreseen in speculation here is a proposal for a big power meeting, including red China, to settle Far Eastern questions. This would logically follow any firm agreement to end the fighting in Korea. In a statement on a new English language magazine which has just been published in Moscow, the State Department asserted last night that current Soviet "peace propaganda" efforts are designed to "lull free nations to sleep." This government's experts in Soviet maneuvering say that the Kremlin now apparently intends to KNIFE-EDGED NOSE is a feature of the Soap Box Derby design KNIFE-EDGED NOSE is a feature of the Soap Box Derby design chosen by Gilbert Koehler, 400 W. Vermont, for competition today. Arnold Lund, sponsor, looks on. (Gazette photo by Kreidt) "YOU DRIVE LIKE THIS"—Says Donald Rapp, 809 N. Palm, to Gazette circulation manager Don Young. "DON'T LET THE RADIATOR BOIL," advised Paul A. Stringer, sponsor, to his driver, Keith Hysom, 623 S. Los Angeles street. Today Is Derby Day! Anaheim Youths Roll Care at Arrow Soap Race Track Crashes Injure 10 Persons in Last 24 Hours Ten persons, including Mrs. Elizabeth Hillary, 40, of 415 S. Citron st., Anaheim, were injured in a series of automobile crashes in Orange county during the past 24 hours, the California Highway Patrol reported. Mrs. Hillary was one of four persons receiving minor injuries when her car collided with a car driven by Loren Moore, 40, San Mateo, at 9:45 p.m. yesterday. The collision took place at Lincoln blvd. and Western ave., Cypress. Two bicycle riders, France Rainbolt, 9, 8582 Acacia st., and Louie Espinoza, 10, 8641 Acacia st., both of Cypress, received minor injuries when their bicycles were struck by an auto-bile driven by Leon Sewell, 34, 8622 LaHoma st., Cypress. The accident took place at the same hour as the Hillary accident and also took place near Cypress, near Crescent ave near Coyote Creek bridge. The injured children were taken to Artesia hospital. Three other children, Barbara Balcom, 13, Sacramento, June Payne, 11, and her sister, Ann, 9 of Costa Mesa, received minor injuries at 4 p.m. Tuesday when a car in which they were riding with Alfred Payne, 55, of Costa Mesa, collided with a car driven by a Marine, Clemmens Lanz, 26. The accident took place at Newport blvd. and 18th st. in Costa Mesa. William Demke, 27, Marine residing in Santa Ana, suffered possible major injuries at 6 p.m. Tuesday when his car struck a pole on Red Hill rd. near Sycae. "DON'T LET THE RADIATOR BOIL," advised Paul A. Stringer, sponsor, to his driver, Keith Hysom, 623 S. Los Angeles street. Today Is Derby Day! Anaheim Youths Roll Cars at Arroyo Seco Race Track Today is Derby Day! With the Gazette City Champion trophy, medals, statuettes, merchandise orders, and a shot at National competition in Akron, as goals, eight class B (11 to 13 years) Anaheim Derby racers were expected to roll cars down the 1000 foot official Soap Box Derby course at the Arroyo Seco playground today. At noon no word of the outcome of morning races was available, but Hursel Snyder, local Derby director, was confident that several of the boys could be expected to go on to the finals on Saturday. Two veterans of last year's race were among the group, Jimmie Dunton, 306 W. Cypress (Yellis Dairy) and Billy Loessin, 803 S. Los Angeles st. (Ray and Oscar Cleaners). Other boys racing today were expected to include: Donald Rapp, 809 N. Palm (Anaheim Gazette); Mike Little, 9972 Ball Road (Hall's Bakery); Gilbert Koehler, 400 W. Vermont, (Lund and Sons); Keith Hysom, 623 S. Los Angeles st. (Paul's Radiator Shop); Charles Laskey, 7701 Artesia st., (Bob's Hobby Shop); and Don Warner, 1202 Pearl st., (Cliff Ellott's Service). Transportation today was furnished by trucks from Yellis Dairy, Lund and Sons, Ray and Oscar Cleaners and Paul's Radiator Service. Senior division cars, with eight more Anaheim boys entered, will race tomorrow. Parents, friends, and supporters of youth activities are urged to plan to attend races tomorrow and Saturday to help bring in a grand winner from the Los Angeles area from Anaheim. Finals will be held all day Saturday. The track is located just off the Arroyo Seco freeway between Pasadena and Los Angeles. The Soap Box Derby locally is co-sponsored by Cone Brothers Chevrolet, the Optimist club, and the Anaheim Gazette. Apparent Suicide Identified as Gerald Philpot ...SACRAMENTO, July 18 (AP) The body of a man tentatively identified from papers in his pockets as Gerald Philpot, 45, of 9571 Juanita st., Cypress, today was found in an auto parked in an open field here. A hose led from the exhaust pipe through a side window vent. ANAHEIM EST. 1870 GAZETTE ANAHEIM, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1951 St. Louis Bracing Defenses New Onslaught of Raging Floods Kansas City Begins Huge Cleanup Task ST. LOUIS, Mo. (AP) — Emergency crews worked feverishly today to bulwark dikes and check rising water that already has caused a loss of nearly $1,000,000 to factories and rail yards in the immediate vicinity. The situation at St. Louis was becoming worse hourly as the mighty Missouri continued to pour its tremendous volume of flood waters into the Mississippi. A stage of 40 feet was forecast for St. Louis by Saturday. Four hundred residents of West Alton, Mo., and vicinity ignored warnings to evacuate their low-lying homes as Army engineers, Coast Guardsmen and other work- Shhes Injure Persons in 24 Hours Persons, including Mrs. Bath Hillary, 40, of 415 S. St., Anaheim, were injured series of automobile crash-orange county during the 24 hours, the California City Patrol reported. Hillary was one of four receiving minor injuries after car collided with a car by Loren Moore, 40, San Francisco, 9, 8582 Acacia st., and Espinoza, 10, 8641 Acacia st. of Cypress, received injuries when their bikers struck by an auto-bike by Leon Sewell, 34, Homa st., Cypress. The took place at the same Hillary accident and place near Cypress, near ave near Coyote Creek. The injured children were to Artesia hospital, other children, Barbara 13, Sacramento, June 11, and her sister, Ann, 9, Mesa, received minor injury 4 p.m. Tuesday when a which they were riding Alfred Payne, 55, of Costa collided with a car driven marine, Clemens Lanz, 26. Incident took place at New-wood, and 18th st. in Costa. Late Bulletin Two Anaheim Class B. Derby racers had won preliminary heats as of noon today and a third had smashed up his car. Gilbert Kochler, 400 W. Vermont, and Billy Loessin, 803 S. Los Angeles st., both won morning heats—were scheduled to race again later this afternoon. Don Warner, 1202, Pearl st., spun his car near the start of the race, but escaped injury. No word as to how other vicinity. The situation at St. Louis was becoming worse hourly as the mighty Missouri continued to pour its tremendous volume of flood waters into the Mississippi. A stage of 40 feet was forecast for St. Louis by Saturday. Four hundred residents of West Alton, Mo., and vicinity ignored warnings to evacuate their low-lying homes as Army engineers, Coast Guardsmen and other workers abandoned efforts to strengthen dikes to the point where they could hold back the torrents. As St. Louis was bracing for the flood, already the nation's costliest, President Truman made a first hand aerial survey of conditions, and the federal government rushed efforts to rehabilitate vast areas of Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. St. Louis city officials said there appeared to be no danger to the city of St. Louis, where there already has been an estimated loss of $750,000 in the local waterfront area. Nevertheless, they and Red Cross officials met to prepare emergency flood plans, just in case. Even as St. Louis prepared for the onslaught of the mighty torrents, thousands of persons still were homeless in the Missouri-Kansas flood area upstream. Water had subsided at Kansas City, but the major portions of the flooded industrial districts were still under water—eight to 10 feet of water at some places. The same was true at Topeka, where nearly 8000 persons still lived in refugee centers because of deep flood waters pouring over their homes. Most of the damage through Missouri is to farm land, although (Continued on Page 6) Anaheim to be Site of Municipal Court for Anaheim-Fullerton Area It's Official We're Having a Summer Heatwave Cautious weathermen finally got around today to confirming what most perspiration-drenched Anaheimers already knew—"California is in the midst of a summer heat wave." As Anaheim, like cities throughout Southern California sweltered, temperatures today soared into the high 90's, substantially topping the "official 81" posted here yesterday. And no immediate relief was in sight as the weatherman forecasted more warm weather for tomorrow, with little or no fog along the coast. In the great central valley yesterday temperatures everywhere topped the 100-degree mark. They Anaheim will be the home of the new Anaheim-Fullerton municipal court, it was determined late yesterday when the county court pervisors officially accepted from Anaheim the offer of a free site for the court building, a wedge shaped portion of LaPalma Park on the north side of Anaheim facing Los Angeles st. The supervisors at the same time instructed architect William Faulkner of Santa Ana to prepare plans and specifications for a court building expected to cost perhaps $50,000. It was indicated that action would be pushed off the project without delay. The new court district, which will consolidate the three justice courts of Anaheim, Fullerton and Brea townships, as well as the city courts of Anaheim, Fullerton, Brea and La Habra, will be come operative Jan. 1, 1953, under provisions of the court reorganization amendment adopted last November. UNIST NEGOTIATORS AT KAESONG—Communist negotiators at the Kaesong peace talks, at the conference for the first time. Left to right: Gen. Hsieh Fang, Chinese; Gen. Teng Hua,ese; Maj. Gen. Nam Il, North Korean and chief of the communist delegation; Maj. Gen. Lee Cho, North Korean, and Maj. Gen. Chang Pyung San, North Korean. Picture made by Edon, Associated Press photographer, in Kaesong. Two Anaheim Class B. Derby racers had won preliminary heats as of noon today and a third had smashed up his car. Gilbert Kochler, 400 W. Vermont, and Billy Loessin, 503 S. Los Angeles st., both won morning heats—were scheduled to race again later this afternoon. Don Warner, 1202, Pearl st., spun his car near the start of the race, but escaped injury. No word as to how other contestants have fared had yet been received as the Gazette went to press today. The nation's highest reading was (Continued on Page 6) 24 Hour Period Passes Without Korea Casualty WASHINGTON (AP)—No U.S. soldier was killed in Korea in the 24 hours ending at 5 p.m. Korean time yesterday—the first day without a combat death since the first American war killed July 7, 1950. Announcing this yesterday, the Army said a small number of soldiers were wounded. Combat deaths by direct enemy action have averaged more than 30 daily during the first year of fighting in Korea. Couple Recovering From Food Poison Mr. and Mrs. James Paulser Sr., and their son, James Jr., of Magona, Utah, were reported recovering today in Anaheim Community hospital following a serious attack of food poisoning which they suffered last Friday while visiting in Anaheim. defenses to Meet ging Flood Water Only One Point Said Blocking War Armistice SEOUL, Korea, (P)—Allied and red envoys agreed today on two points of the cease-fire agenda but a dispute over "at least one major point" is blocking the start of actual Korean war armistice negotiations. The United Nations announced this tonight after negotiators returned from their longest session this week. It was the first report of agreement on any part of the agenda. Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, head of the U.N. cease-fire team, accepted communist wording for two agenda items at the close of Tuesday's conference, the announcement said. When he did so, "the entire communist delegation seemed to show gratification, perhaps mixed with a certain element of relief." of Municipal Fullerton Area heim will be the home of new Anaheim-Fullerton mu-court, it was determined yesterday when the county su-irs officially accepted from the offer of a free site court building, a wedge-section of LaPalma Park north side of Anaheim, Los Angeles st. supervisors at the same instructed architect William mer of Santa Ana to prepare and specifications for a building expected to cost $50,000. It was indicated action would be pushed on project without delay. new court district, which consolidate the three justice of Anaheim, Fullerton and townships, as well as the courts of Anaheim, Fuller-rea and La Habra, will be imperative Jan. 1, 1953, under tons of the court reorganiza-tment adopted last No- Little Action Noted On Korean Fronts U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Korea (P)—Fighting almost vanished from the Korean war fronts today. But beyond the lines Allied bombers hammered steadily at highways and railways to prevent communists from moving in new troops. Only one Allied patrol found and communists. It bumped into a red patrol in the no-man's-land northwest of Inje on the eastern front. Two reds were wounded. No action was reported in the western sector where seven patrols probed yesterday at a reported red buildup near Kaesong, site of armistice talks. Temperatures Temperature reading in downtown Anaheim at 2 p.m. today was 89. High for the previous 24 hours was 92 at 3 p.m. yesterday. Low was 69 at 6 a.m. today. Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, head of the U.N. cease-fire team, accepted communist wording for two agenda items at the close of Tuesday's conference, the announcement said. When he did so, "the entire communist delegation seemed to show gratification, perhaps mixed with a certain element of relief," said Brig. Gen. William Nuckols of the U.S. Air Force. Nuckols attended the session in Kaesong. And when Admirial Joy presented the Allied view on the major unresolved question, Nuckols said, the two "Chinese members of the communist delegation nodded and appeared to appreciate the United Nations viewpoint. Neither Nuckols nor the formal headquarters announcement disclosed the points agreed upon in the sixth day of conferences. Nor did they say what was the major stumbling block to reaching a "mutually acceptable agenda." The U.N. communique said: "At least one major issue remained unsolved when the conference recessed for the day. "Agreement on the key point is essential to the successful completion of the first phase of the negotiation." Observers speculated that the key question was whether to discuss withdrawal of foreign troops from Korea. The communists want this on the agenda. The United Nations negotiators do not. They are still trying to agree on the scope.of actual cease-fire talks. "In order to hasten the conferences to their ultimate goal," the U.N. announcement said, "The United Nations senior delegate (Admiral Joy) accepted two points presented by the communists on the phraseology of agenda items, after placing on the record the United Nations understanding of their basic intent." "Some additional progress" was made at Wednesday's session which lasted two hours and 50 minutes, the Army said. The seventh day's meeting was (Continued on Page 6) Temperatures Temperature reading in downtown Anaheim at 2 p.m. today was 89. High for the previous 24 hours was 92 at 3 p.m. yesterday. Low was 69 at 6 a.m. today. Surgeon Gives Details of Fatal Injuries Received by Patty Hull Dr. Raymond Brandt, county autopsy surgeon, testified today at the trial of Henry Ford McCracken, charged with the kidnap-murder of little Patty Hull, 10, at Buena Park, that the girl's death was caused by loss of blood from head lacerations, and from shock caused by the beating she received at the hands of her slayer. The doctor also also described in detail the condition of the little girl's body, which evidenced she had been unspeakably mistreated after death. Jurors were seen to wince as they inspected an enlarged photograph of the girl's lower body which depicted visual proof of the attack made upon her. Dr. Brandt testified that examination indicated to him the mis-treatment inflicted on Patty and also proved that the attack took place after death. He said that there were 15 major cuts on her head, ranging in length from slightly more than half an inch to slightly more than three inches. There were three major fractures of her skull, he testified. He concluded that she had been beaten with a "sharp, weighted instrument." The death weapon has never been discovered. Preceding the medical testimony of the autopsy surgeon was the scientific testimony presented to the jury yesterday afternoon by Captain Thomas McGaff, head of the Sheriff's Criminal Identification bureau. McGaff exhibited blood-stained furniture and linoleum brought from McCracken's cabin in the Buena Park motel where the State claims he killed the girl after luring her from a nearby theater. A kitchen chair and table and a section of kitchen wallboard, a window screen, shower curtain, part of a metal bedstead, a mattress and a box of breakfast cereal showed what McGaff claimed were blood smears. The witness said that blood also was found on the stove, refrigerator and a splashboard behind the stove. Water in the shower drain showed a deep pink tint and contained what appeared to be small particles of flesh and blonde hair, McGaff stated. McGaff also testified that yellow threads were found in the car of Lee Stradley, Buena Park cafe owner who loaned his car (Continued on Page 6)