anaheim-gazette 1951-07-24

Citrus Iron Curtain Our farm editor tangles no-holds-barred with the Fruit Growers exchange tactics of suppressing news on the editorial page of today's Gazette. Don't miss it, Page 4. VOLUME LXXX Anaheim's FIRST Newspaper ANA Mississippi Flood Waters Battering Cape Girardeau CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP)—The Mississippi neared a crest today but the flood waters from Kansas and Missouri were expected to do little additional damage to this town of 20,000—the last andangered community of any size between here and the Gulf of Mexico. At mid-morning the river reading was 41.8 feet. A crest of 41.9 was expected this afternoon. This would be about one-half foot below the all-time mark of 1943 here. Several blocks are awash but no new flooding of any serious consequence is anticipated here. Cape Girardeau is in southeast Missouri, more than 100 miles south of St. Louis. Army and Air Force troops were sandbagging the levees in a struggle which may be determined today or tomorrow. Short but heavy rains upstream in the St. Louis area kept the river from receding as rapidly as was expected there. In the Alton, Ill., area—20 miles northeast of St. Louis—streets and basements in five communities were flooded yes- Local Red Cross Launches Drive For Flood Aid Red Cross headquarters, located on the 2nd floor of the city hall, has already become a point of tremendous activity due to the relief campaign asked by President Truman, for victims of the flood areas, in a letter to E. R. Harriman, president of American Red Cross. Yesterday Glenn McCloud, naval reserve officer from Anaheim, was appointed chairman of the Disaster Relief Drive for Flood Areas for Six Persons Hurt In County Crashes Six persons were injured in Orange county traffic accidents Monday afternoon and evening, according to reports of the California Highway Patrol. Donald MacKenzie, 26, and his wife, Marilyn, 27, of Santa Ana received major injuries at 8 p.m. when their car collided with a car operated by John Rusk, 17, of Santa Ana on Main st., near Tustin ave. at Tustin. Both are in Santa Ana Community hospital. Robert Aguillara, 19, of Placencia, received minor injuries at 4:15 p.m. when his car collided with the car of Edmond Henry, 22, of Orange, at the intersection of Stanford ave. and Nelson st., Garden Grove. Isobel Zuniga, 38, of Santa Ana, was injured when his car collided on Red Cross headquarters, located on the 2nd floor of the city hall, has already become a point of tremendous activity due to the relief campaign asked by President Truman, for victims of the flood areas, in a letter to E. R. Harriman, president of American Red Cross. Yesterday Glenn McCloud, naval reserve officer from Anaheim, was appointed chairman of the Disaster Relief Drive for Flood Areas for the Anaheim drive, within no time, $1000 was contributed by an anonymous giver. President Truman has requested E. Roland Harriman, president of American Red Cross, to call upon all Americans to contribute as generously as they can at least $5,000,000 through local Red Cross Chapters to aid flood sufferers in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Illinois. Number of families affected, 45,900; estimated total families registering for Red Cross assistance 17,100; number of counties affected, 64; number Red Cross chapters participating, 68; number of Red Cross shelters operated, 80; number persons in shelters, 17,600; number persons being fed, 42,700; number of paid Red Cross personnel assigned, 180; number of volunteer nurses, 150. Thousands of volunteers have been working day and night to help their neighbors. $1,000,000 of Red Cross funds already allocated for mass shelters, food, clothing, medical care and other emergency human needs. Cost of rehabilitation will exceed available resources for disaster relief because of extent Red Cross services to Armed Forces, national blood program and other activities which have required extremely heavy financial commitments. Funds appropriated by Congress will be used generally for governmental restoration of public facilities. Collapse of Lawn Swing Kills Girl Collapse of a lawn swing which fell upon Margery Ann Polenaski, 5, Santa Ana Gardens, caused the child's death last night a few minutes after the accident which took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. A. Reed in Santa Ana Gardens. Margery Ann was playing with the three grandchildren of the Northrop Aircraft. Morning secured a building through the Marda its new ordinance factor. E. Orangethorpe ave., The 500 by 500 foot structure will cost, accept the application, $1,364,000. Optical range finders Army tanks will be provided the new plant under control. U.S. Ordnance Corps of the 33-acre site in Newheim was announced recently Northrop. William P. Neil Co., Angeles contractors will be the 250,000 square foot and Northrop will occupy lease from the Marda C. R. R. Nolan, formerly of service at Northrop, will general manager of the branch plant. He is one of original employees of and served as assistant manager during World War II. Present plans provide concrete, air-conditioned to be ready for occupancy. Full-scale operation is for 1952, but employment tions are being accepted certain skilled categories for the plant. Those operated by John Rusk, 17, of Santa Ana on Main st., near Tustin ave. at Tustin. Both are in Santa Ana Community hospital. Robert Aguillara, 19, of Placentia, received minor injuries at 4:15 p.m. when his car collided with the car of Edmond Henry, 22, of Orange, at the intersection of Stanford ave. and Nelson st., Garden Grove. Isobel Zuniga, 38, of Santa Ana, was injured when his car collided with one driven by Elmer Naugle, 33, of Chula Vista on Manchester ave., near Haster st., south of Anaheim at 9:55 p.m. Mrs. Marjorie Liddle, 67, Laguna Beach received minor injuries when the car driven by her husband, Ralph, 67, collided with a car operated by James Walker, 37, of Tulare. The accident happened Monday afternoon on highway 101 near Roberts st., Tustin. Collapse of Lawn Swing Kills Girl Collapse of a lawn swing which fell upon Margery Ann Polenaski, 5, Santa Ana Gardens, caused the child's death last night a few minutes after the accident which took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. A. Reed in Santa Ana Gardens. Margery Ann was playing with the three grandchildren of the Reeds, Cathie and Kitty Marvin, 9-year-old twins and Susan Marvin, 7, when the lawn swing collapsed. The heavy metal crossbar fell on Margery Ann's neck causing a fracture. She was dead on arrival at Santa Ana Community Hospital. Coroner Earl A. Abbey ordered an autopsy today at the Brown Mortuary in Santa Ana, to determine the exact cause of death. McCracken Trial Takes Intermission; Defense Denied Sex Psychopath Trial The murder trial of Henry Ford McCracken was "dark" today as Judge Robert Gardner granted the defense one day's intermission to prepare its case, sole concession gained by McCracken's attorneys in a series of defense motions after the prosecution rested its case late yesterday. Chief Defense Counsel George Chula moved yesterday afternoon for continuance of the trial to next Monday, to give him more time for preparation. Judge Gardner at that time refused, but permitted Chula to renew his motion this morning. Chula said he had not had time to arrange for expert testimony he wished to introduce, including a psychologist, psychiatrists and a medical expert. When his motion was denied, he asked delay until Thursday and that also was refused. Then he pleaded for one day's delay, and the court granted it. Chula's associate, Attorney James Monroe, delivered a long argument to the court yesterday afternoon on his motion to have the jury receive evidence that McCracken is a sexual psycho-path. But Judge Gardner denied the motion. The jury had been (Continued on Page 5) ANAHEIM EST. 1870 GAZETE newspaper ANAHEIM, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1951 ANAHEIM DERBY CHAMP—Joel Habener, Los Angeles Area Champion in the Senior division of the Soap Box Derby, 1951 (in 1951 is shown above receiving the Gazette Annual City Championship trophy from Gazette publisher Ted Kuchel. Looking on, from Hursel Snyder, local chairman of the Derby and salesman at Cone Bros, Chevrolet agency; Everett Cone of Cone Bros; Thomas, representing the Optimist club, and A. F. (Bud) Habener, Joel's father. The Gazette, Cone Bros, and the Anaheim mists sponsored the Derby locally. Northrop Aircraft Secures $1,364,000 Building Permit Northrop Aircraft, Inc., this morning secured a building permit through the Marda Corp., for its new ordinance factory at 500 E. Orangethorpe ave., Anaheim. The 500 by 500 foot, one-story structure will cost, according to the application, $1,364,000 to build. Optical range finders for U. S. Army tanks will be produced by the new plant under contract with the U. S. Ordnance Corps. Purchase of the 33-acre site in North Anaheim was announced recently by Northrop. William P. Neil Co., Ltd., Los Angeles contractors, will construct the 250,000 square foot building and Northrop will occupy it under lease from the Marda Corp. R. R. Nolan, formerly director of service at Northrop, will become general manager of the Anaheim branch plant. He is one of the 50 original employees of Northrup and served as assistant factory manager during World War II. Present plans provide for the concrete, air-conditioned building to be ready for occupancy by Nov. 1. Full-scale operation is scheduled for 1952, but employment applications are being accepted now in certain skilled categories for workers for the plant. Those hired will Habener Presented Gazette City Soap Box Derby Championship Trophy Today Joel Habener, 14, 217 E. Water, Senior division Los Angeles area winner of the Soap Box Derby, won fresh honors today as he was presented with the Anaheim Gazette trophy. Presented annually to the leading local Derbyist, the trophy marks Habener for the second time in as many years as Soap Box Derby champion of the City of Anaheim. He had already came within a hair's breadth of being the Los Angeles representative in National Soap Box Derby finals at Akron by losing the final race Saturday at the Arroyo Seco track to Ed Compte of Montebello. More than 750 cars competed. Thursday the Optimist club, sponsors of the Derby locally with Cone Brothers Chevrolet and the Anaheim Gazette, will additionally fete Habener and the 15 other Anaheim boys who carried the city's colors to the meet at a dinner and program at Mother's Kitchen. Yesterday, Joel, as runnerup, and his father, A. F. Habener, toured KECA Television studios, lunched at the French room of the Ambassador hotel, and made an appearance on the Chevrolet TV program, Art Baker's Triple Feature Theater. Compte received his trophy on the show and Habener congratulations. Joel reports memorable parts of the trip included an introduction to the cast of "Space Patrol" and freedom to inspect the interplanetary TV program sets. Planners Talk Reclassification Anaheim Planning commission at its regular meeting yesterday considered matters of reclassification. Most of the meeting was taken over by a discussion of the reclassification of the area bounded by North st., West st., La Palma st. and the western-limits of Anaheim. The property, owned by Gerald Endicott, has been proposed for subdivision by Realtor Jess Medaris and approval of the tentative map of the subdivision was given last September before the new zoning ordinance was put into effect. Recently, Anaheim city council okayed the subdivision again and Medaris maintained yesterday before the commission that the R-O zoning of the area placed no barrier in the way of his erecting an R-1 tract there. Spectators at the meeting, most of them property owners in the area were divided in their de- general manager of the Anaheim branch plant. He is one of the 50 original employees of Northrup and served as assistant factory manager during World War II. Present plans provide for the concrete, air-conditioned building to be ready for occupancy by Nov. 1. Full-scale operation is scheduled for 1952, but employment applications are being accepted now in certain skilled categories for workers for the plant. Those hired will work in the Hawthorne branch until completion of the Anaheim factory. Temporary headquarters of the Anaheim branch are located at 14905 Hawthorne blvd. in Lawndale. Spectators at the meeting, most of them property owners in the area, were divided in their desires. Some objected to having the area reclassified to R-1, others preferred it. No action was taken. Previous action denying reclassification (Continued on Page 5) THE BIG ANSWER WILL BE GIVEN HERE—UN correspondents stand on the side of the table in the conference room at Kaesong where the communists must give their answer tomorrow on a Korean war armistice agenda. Name plates on the table indicate position of UN delegates. Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy sits third from left with Maj. Gen. L. C. Craigie and Maj. Gen. Henry Hodes at his right. (Associated Press Wirephoto) ZETTE 1951 5c a Copy — 50c Per Month NUMBER 189 Red Negotiators Expected To Reject Allied Terms As Meetings Resume Today U.N. ADVANCE HEADQUARTERS, Korea (P)—United Nations truce negotiators return to Kaesong this afternoon at 4 p.m. (PDT) for a yes or no answer from the communists on a Korean war armistice agenda. The red North Korean Pyongyang radio indicated today the answer will be "no." Allies Struggle To Seize Ground; Repulse Attacks U.S. 8th ARMY HEADQUARTERS (P)—Allied troops beat back eight red probing attacks along the Korean front today and fought for the third successive day to drive communist troops off high ground near the east coast. All but one of the red attacks were described on light fire. U. N. delegates insist ceasefire talks omit any discussion of withdrawing foreign troops from Korea. In an unofficial answer Pyongyang radio quoted the communist "Korean Central Press" news agency: "All our people demand withdrawal of all foreign national troops from our territory." The Moscow radio, monitored by the U. S. Army in Tokyo, carried a slightly different version of the communist news agency's comment. It said: (Our representatives in Kaesong To Seize Ground; Repulse Attacks U.S. 8th ARMY HEADQUARTERS (AP)—Allied troops beat back eight red probing attacks along the Korean front today and fought for the third successive day to drive communist troops off high ground near the east coast. All but one of the red attacks were described as light. But south of Kumsong, east of their fallen iron triangle, Chinese forces made "a large probing attack," the 8th Army reported. It was halted, as were three in the Yanggu sector of the east central front and four northwest of Kansong on the east coast. The three-day battle raged southwest of Kansong. It was still underway at 3 p.m. Tuesday (Monday midnight EST.) United Nations spokesmen described it as the fiercest fight in weeks. U.N. warplanes roared through gathering clouds Tuesday and kept up their heavy pounding of red communication lines. The Fifth Air Force has been hit big truck and rail lines steadily with an average of 150 combat strikes a day, despite adverse weather, to keep communists from building up their front line forces during cease-fire talks. In the month since peace talks were first proposed, the Fifth Air Force said, it mounted 13,375 combat sorties and destroyed or damaged 24 red planes—mostly jets. U.N. pilots have bombed 2260 red vehicles, 20 locomotives, 900 railroad cars and inflicted 4000 casualties in that time, the Air Force said. Tuesday's early strikes centered around Pyongyang, red Korean capital. F-80 Shooting Star jets swept (Continued on Page 5) Citrus Experiment Men Tour Anaheim Real Gold Products Thirteen members of the University of California Citrus Experiment station at Riverside yesterday toured the Real Gold Citrus Products plant at 1460 N. Olive st., Anaheim. Staff members who toured the plant included W. B. Sinclair, E. P. Parker, R. K. Soost, L. J. In an unofficial answer Pyongyang radio quoted the communist "Korean Central Press" news agency: "All our people demand withdrawal of all foreign national troops from our territory." The Moscow radio, monitored by the U.S. Army in Tokyo, carried a slightly different version of the communist news agency's comment. It said: (Our representatives in Kaesong resolutely insist on the final solution" of the troop withdrawal question. The Allies have left the door wide open for a "final" solution of the issue, but have refused to take it up in negotiations for a cease-fire.) The five red negotiators undoubtedly have received new instructions from Peiping and Pyongyang since Saturday. On that day they called for recess of talks which had bogged down over this communist demand. Red China's Peiping broadcasts Tuesday gave no hint of what attitude red delegates would take Wednesday. Listeners recalled that the two Chinese delegates had called for the recess, taking the lead away from the North Koreans for the first time in the peace talks. Observers suggested this might indicate Peiping's silence was more important than Pyongyang's talking. Pyongyang radio said: "At the cease-fire talks in Kaesong Americans are refusing this issue emphatically. The United States delegates propagandized that this problem has no relation with cease-fire talks." The U.N. position is that the question of withdrawing troops is a political issue to be debated at a higher level after the shooting war has actually been halted. "This stubborn attitude," the red radio said, "means that the U.S. is aiming to retain military bases in South Korea..." "In the face of their defeat, (U.N. Commander Gen. Matthew B.) Ridgway and his soldiers are aiming to stay in Korea forever. This comes solely from the militaristic purpose to obtain the monopolistic profit from inflated war industries." He said the matter would presumably be submitted by state's attorney Michael Shore to the grand jury of Peoria county. According to Hogan the games fixed were: Bradley against Washington State in ePoria, 1949-50 season, and Bradley against Oreington State in Peoria, 1949-50. He said there was an effort to fix the Bowling Green-Bradley game at Madison Square Garden in the 1948-49 season, but that the Bradley players involved failed to lose by the number of points agreed on with the fixers. Hogan named Nick Englese, known as "Nick the Greek" as the "Sollazzo" of the scheme. He referred to Salvatore T. Sollazzo, who recently pleaded guilty to charges involving the fixing of major Madison Square Garden games. Some eleven players and former players in local universities were arrested this spring in connection with the charges against Sollazzo. They were from Long Island university, City College of New York and New York University. Santa Ana Panther Jet Pilots Blast Korea Supply Dump TOKYO (JP)—Four Californians, U. S. Marine Panther jet pilots, started two fires yesterday in an enemy supply dump southwest of Kosong on the Korean east coast. They were. Maj. Floyd G. Phillips and Capt Herbert C. Manning, both of Santa Ana; Lt. Jack W. Harris, Glendale, and Second Lt. William K. Parcell, Napa. Citrus Experiment Men Tour Anaheim Real Gold Products Thirteen members of the University of California Citrus Experiment station at Riverside yesterday toured the Real Gold Citrus Products plant at 1460 N. Olive st., Anaheim. Staff members who toured the plant included W. B. Sinclair, E. R. Parker, R. K. Soost, R. L. Metcalf, G. S. Watkins, W. P. Bitters, H. B. Frost, M. M. Winslow, J. W. Cameron, J. C. Jonston, C. P. Clausen, W. D. Batchelor and C. B. Cree. Included in the party were two guests of Mr. Cameron, H. M. Bryant of Falls City, Nebraska, Warren Ludi, Oakland, Calif. In charge of the party was Mr. Winslow. Hans Zullig, chief chemist at Real Gold, conducted the tour. Charges Short Change A woman from the Produce Market, Lincoln and Manchester, claimed she had been short changed of $10 by a Negro man last Sunday. Yesterday when she reported the theft, she described the man as about 45 years old, 5' 8", 180 pounds, black hair, maroon eyes, and wearing a white shirt, black pants, straw hat, cuff links, large ring and driving a '50 Bulck Sedan with white sidewall tires. Anaheim Woman Beaten, Attacked; But Can't Remember Where or When Sheriff's officers today were investigating the story of Wilma Christian Hitt, 325 Parry st., Anaheim, who claimed she was criminally attacked early yesterday by two men after accepting a ride from them in an auto at a location not clearly identified. Officers said that the woman was not certain where she met the men or where the attack took place except that it was in an orange grove. She first said that seven men assaulted her but later changed her story and said that only two men were involved. She was badly battered and almost nude when she staggered into a residence near Anaheim and told her story. The sheriff's office was notified and deputies took her to the county hospital. Some verification of the attack came when Milton Harry Wallace found torn feminine clothing in his orange grove at Lincoln and Gilbert st. near Cypress. The woman later identified the clothing as belonging to her. Also found near the clothing was a beer bottle which officers said might have been used in the beating she received.