anaheim-gazette 1951-08-27

Dope Menace The weekend crackdown on county dope traffic reveals a little recognized local menace. For some frank talk on the topic by the nation's foremost authority, see "Washington Merry-Go-Round, today on Page 2. VOLUME LXXX Anaheim’s FIRST Newspaper ANAHEIM, Orange County Officers Swoop Down on Narcotics Peddlers in Weekend Raids Largest narcotics roundup in Orange county's history netted 13 arrests over the week-end and explained the theft of 23 doctor's medical bags during the last year, as state, county and city officers collaborated in a series of raids, it was disclosed today. Four Orange men are among the prisoners. They are: Harold Edward Carney, 41, painter, 115 S. Center st., who is declared by police to have purchased drugs taken from the medical bags by younger confederates; James Charles Brewer, 19, 284 Jewel place; Gerald Patrick Smith, 20, alias Jerry Smiley, 981 Batavia st., and Roy Raymond Villalobos, 18, 336 N. Lemon st. Like the other prisoners, they are booked at the county jail under the state narcotics act. Sec. 11,500 of the health and sanitation code. Arrest of Carney Thursday evening at his home set off the series of week-end raids that brought Brewer, Smith and Villelobos into 23 Persons Hurt In Orange County Highway Crashes Collision between cars driven by Frank Fregoso, 40, of 134 W. Broadway, Anaheim, and Earl W. Fortune, 32, of Norwalk, Sunday evening between Katella and Reagan ave., west of Anaheim, resulted in minor injuries to Alice Fregoso, 35, Anaheim, and Inez Beel, 35, of Stanton, also a passenger in the Fregoso car. Like the other prisoners, they are booked at the county jail under the state narcotics act. Sec. 11,500 of the health and sanitation code. Arrest of Carney Thursday evening at his home set off the series of week-end raids that brought Brewer, Smith and Villelobos into the police net early Friday morning, when they were apprehended in a car in the 1000 block of N. Broadway, Santa Ana, in company with Gerald J. Crawford, 19, 65 W. Fifth st., Santa Ana. Santa Ana police officer, Ernest Graeber, had learned of their presence at a drive-in in the 2500 block of S. Main st., Santa Ana, and saw them drive away as he arrived. They turned off their car lights and eluded him, but he picked them up again at Walnut and Main, and followed them in a series of turns until overhauling them. They tossed out a hypodermic kit near the city library and when halted, tossed a bag of marijuana out the window, Graever said. He recovered both. Having had Crawford under surveillance, police immediately started closing in on known companions. They arrested George F. Macias, 18, and Alvin E. Gardella, 19, both of Santa Ana, and Roger LeRoy McMillan, 24; of Fullerton, Saturday evening. Ernest De Valle Fernandez, 21, Santa Ana, was apprehended Sunday evening. At Huntington Beach four prisoners were arrested in the beach off Eleventh st. early today. They are: Edward Lawrence McCook, 26, and his wife, Lorraine, 26, of Huntington Beach; Luane Gluyas, 24, Pomona, and Earl R. Crandall, 23, Ontario. The investigation actually started July 29 with the arrest in a Santa Ana hotel of Tommy G. Martinez, 30, Los Angeles, who had been released three days earlier from the men's prison at Chino, where he was serving 10 years to life for first degree robbery. His case is still pending in Santa Ana. From information obtained with his arrest, police discovered a trail of marijuana and narcotics spread (Continued on Page 6) Highway Crashes Collision between cars driven by Frank Fregoso, 46, of 134 W. Broadway, Anaheim, and Earl W. Fortune, 32, of Norwalk, Sunday evening between Katella and Reagan ave., west of Anaheim, resulted in minor injuries to Alice Fregoso, 35, Anaheim, and Inez Beel, 35, of Stanton, also a passenger in the Fregoso car. After the collision the Fregoso car rammed parked cars registered to Benjamin Valenzuela of Long Beach and F. E. Ellis of Los Alamitos. Injury to six persons, one seriously occurred in a three car crash at Highway 39 and Lincoln avenue, west of Anaheim Sunday afternoon. Injured were Mrs. Sarah Parks, 50, Long Beach, who received major hurts; her daughter, Miss Sarah Parks, 29, driver of one of the cars; George B. Vogl, 29, Norwalk; another driver and his passengers, Mrs. Vogl, 21, Shirley Wagner, 22, and Nancy Wagner, 6, both of Longmont, Calif. All injured were taken to Anaheim Community hospital. Injured in other accidents were the following: Dorothy Bausman, 27, Lloyd Bausman, 32, both of Long Beach; Bruce W. Turner, 65, and Mrs. Getrtrude Turner, 65, both of Long Beach; Joseph E. Tinguely, 21, and Jack Scraapple, 21, both of Riverside; Nelda Mason, 16, Santa Ana; Madge Cecil Young, 50, of Delano; Grace Kring, 26, and Ethyl I. Bregmus, 58, both of Los Angeles; John E. Evans, 32, Corona Naval hospital; Miss Melzova Hice, 17, of Santa Paula; Cpl. Daniel Bace, El Toro Marine and Mrs. Ellen George, 53 of Corona. Citrus Market The California Fruit Growers Exchange reported today all auction markets California oranges were lower. SUNKIST (First Grade)—126s 6.24; 150s 6.42; 176s 6.61; 200s 6.44; 220s 6.02; 252s 5.62; 288s 5.52. CHOICE (Second Grade)—126s 5.49; 150s 5.56; 176s 5.73; 200s 5.62; 220s 5.36; 252s 5.20; 288s 5.31. Death Wins Wager With Driver on 85 mph Curve It was death who picked up the stakes Saturday night when a man who reportedly wagered that he could drive his car around a curve near Seal Beach at 85 miles per hour lost the wager and his life with it. Twenty-four others were injured in the county's week-end traffic. Theodore George Fuerbringer, 30, of Compton was instantly killed when his car went off the road at the curve on Bay blvd., an extension of Westminster blvd., near Seal Beach at 11:45 p.m.; Saturday. His passenger, Victor Ramirez, 28, of Westminster, who reportedly made the wager with Fuerbringer and then went along to see who won it, received major injuries and was taken to a Long Beach hospital. Temperatures Newport Beach Resident Held in Fatal Beating of Wife as Suspect of Murder Held by police after he had reported finding his wife beaten to death in her bed at their home in Newport Beach Saturday forenoon, Troy Raymond Proctor, 37, employee of a boat building firm, was booked at the county jail on suspicion of murder. Newport Beach police who were conferring with the district attorney's office today on the filing of charges, said that Proctor admitted quarrelling with his wife after they retired Friday night and said that he slapped her with his open hand. But when Dr. Raymond I. Brandt, county autopsy surgeon, conducted an autopsy Saturday afternoon, he announced that death had been caused by multiple hemorrhages of the brain, apparently caused by a beating. Proctor said he had kicked or knocked his wife out of bed during their quarrel and then had lifted her back into bed. He left home at 8:30 a.m., next morning to pick up his pay check and also to get his wife some asthma medicine, he said. She was alive then and told him, "Goodbye, dear," and the quarrel was apparently forgotten, he told police. He returned home at 10:30 p.m., and found that she was unconscious. He called Dr. E. E. Tohill of Newport Beach, who found Mrs. Proctor dead when he arrived, it was stated. Her body was nude when found. An inquest is pending at the Baltz mortuary in Corona del Mar, deputy coroner Roger Burnham announced. According to information given to coroner's office, Proctor and his wife quarrellled over another man. They were at a drinking party in the apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Neil Gould, in their apartment house Friday evening, and the other man, Henry Goff, also a tenant in the apartment house, came in. Mrs. Proctor's asserted behavior at that time caused Proctor to leave the party and go to his own apartment where he retired. His wife came in about an hour later, near midnight, it was stated. After she had got into bed, the quarrell was renewed. ANAHEIM GAZETTE EST. 1870 ANAHEIM, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1951 Reds Issue But Leave Cease-Fire Copper Production Of Nation Cut to Trickle by Strike (By The Associated Press) America's production of strategic copper dropped to a mere trickle today. And, President Truman was asked to step into a strike called by the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (Ind). Also halted was production of a considerable quantity of lead and zinc, important along with copper in the defense program. BENARE MacFADDEN HITS THE SILK—Benarr MacFadden, 83-year-old culturalist, parachutes over the Hudson river here today (top) and lands 20 feet from the shore. "I feel like a million," MacFadden told rescuers (bottom), "Next year I'm going to be in the Niagara Falls." (Associated Press Wirephoto) Wins Wager Driver on Th Curve Death who picked up Saturday night when no reportedly wagered could drive his car curve near Seal Beach per hour, lost the life his life with it. Our others were in the county's week-end. George Fuerbinger, Hampton was instantly on his car went off the curve on Bay blvd., session of Westminster Seal Beach at 11:45 a.m. enger, Victor Ramirez, Westminster, who remade the wager with her and then went see who won it, re-major injuries and was in Long Beach hospital. Temperatures 'I Recommend This for Everybody,' Says MacFadden After Hudson Jump NEW YORK (AP)—Physical cultureist Bernarr MacFadden, who celebrated his 83rd birthday with a 2000-foot parachute jump into the Hudson River, yesterday, says he is "good for things like this for 10 more years." "I recommend this for everybody," he adds. "It's a damn good thing to do. I could do it every day in the week." When MacFadden was fished out of the Hudson after his jump yesterday, he said: "I feel like a million. I feel 25. Next year, I'm going to jump over Niagara Falls." MacFadden's parachute leap yesterday was for the dual purpose, he said, of demonstrating that "old age is just a habit" and that U.S. paratroopers need have no fear of landing in water. But the publisher of health pamphlets and romance magazines America's production of strategic copper dropped to a mere trickle today. And, President Truman was asked to step into a strike called by the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (Ind). Also halted was production of a considerable quantity of lead and zinc, important along with copper in the defense program. Mines, mills and other plants in at least 14 states were affected. The union estimated at least 58,000 workers were involved. More than 50 operating plants, 95 per cent of the nation's capacity from mine to final production line, were involved. Not all the men who left their jobs are members of the IUM-MSW. Members of AFL craft unions respected picket lines. But maintenance workers kept the mines ready for a quick reopening. Most office workers stayed on the job. Southeast Europe Red Block May Be Organized BLED, Yugoslavia (AP)—Formation of a strong defensive bloc against Russian imperialism in southeastern Europe is believed here to have been the aim of W. Averell Harriman's week-end visit to Marshal Tito. Harriman, President Truman's top-ranking diplomatic trouble shooter, paused in Yugoslavia Saturday and Sunday en route from Tehran, Iran, to London. It is an open secret that the U.S., Britain and various other Atlantic Pact countries would like countries in this area—Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey and perhaps Italy—to draw together in a military alliance. Collectively they could mount enough strength in fighting men and material to challenge, with American help. Soviet hopes of obtaining a controlling position in the Mediterranean. Yugoslavia has an army second in size only to Russia on the European continent; the Greek Temperatures are reading in downheim at 2 p.m. today now was 61 at 6 a.m. to- Senators Kem (R.-Mo.), Wherry (R.-Neb.), Byrd (D-Va.), and Malone (R.-Nev.) have amendments that would clap mandatory restrictions on all such trade and permit no exceptions. If plans are approved at a quarterly church meeting on Sept. 6, this new and expansive modified Gothic church is erected by Anaheim Evangelical United Brethren congregation on the southeast corner of South and Lemon sts. Structure at main chapel. Social hall and classrooms built around a patio are at left. ETTE Weather St. Caitl's Library through-out Tuesday. Few high showers likely west portion tonight or Tuesday. Warner coastal position tonight. 5c a Copy — 60s per Month NUMBER 213 Reds Issue New Blast at UN; Not Leave Door Open for New Case-Fire Talks at Kaesong TOKYO (P)—The communist high command today bitterly rejected the Allied reply on an alleged Kaesong neutrality violation but at the same time left the door open to a possible resumption of the Korean armistice talks. The reds broke off the stalemated talks Aug. 23, alleging that an Allied plane had attempted to "murder" the communist delegation at the Kaesong conference site. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, supreme United Nations commander, told them Saturday their charges were "malicious lies" but that he was willing to resume the armistice effort. In a reply broadcast early today by the Peiping radio, North Korean Premier Kim Il Sung and Chinese red Gen. Peng Teh-Hual said Ridgway's statement was "entirely unsatisfactory." They accused him of manufacMcCracken Trial Moves Slowly as McGaff Examined Progressing slowly today, the second murder trial of Henry Ford McCracken, accused of slaying Patty Hull, 10, in his motel cabin at Buena Park last May 19, was still occupied today with the testimony of Captain Thomas Mc- The east Europe Block May Organized Yugoslavia (AP)—Forma strong defensive bloc Russian imperialism inern Europe is believed have been the aim of Hall Harriman's week-end Marshal Tito. President Truman's long diplomatic trouble paused in Yugoslavia and Sunday en route Iran, Iran, to London. An open secret that the strain and various other Pact countries would tries in this area—Yugo-greece, Turkey and perry—to draw together in any alliance. Lively they could mount strength in fighting men material to challenge, with help, Soviet hopes of a controlling position Mediterranean. Vavia has an army second only to Russia on the continent; the Greek Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, supreme United Nations commander, told them Saturday their charges were "malicious lies" but that he was willing to resume the armistice effort. In a reply broadcast early today by the Peiping radio, North Korean Premier Kim Il Sung and Chinese red Gen. Peng Teh-Hual said Ridgway's statement was "entirely unsatisfactory." They accused him of manufacturing incidents to break up the truce talks and of "slandering" the communists. Following a wordy complaint that reiterated all the old red charges, they then demanded: "We hereby once more propose to you that this grave act of provocation should be dealt with by your side with an attitude of serious responsibility. Then the TOKYO, Tuesday (AP) — The communist high command today demanded that Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway acknowledge responsibility for the alleged Kaesong bombing incident of Aug. 22, as their harsh price for resuming Korean armistice talks. "I don't think Ridgway will do it, unless he receives definite instructions from higher up," said a high officer at headquarters on hearing the communist demand. continuation of the negotiations for a just and reasonable armistice agreement can be guaranteed. "At the same time we demand that your liaison officers proceed to Kaesong to carry out a re-investigation jointly with our liaison officers of the incident that occurred on Aug. 22, when your military aircraft bombed and strafed the vicinity of the residence of our delegation in order once again to prove the full validity of our protest." The reds, after a long week-end of vitriolic propaganda against the United States and the United Nations, thus passed the buck back to General Ridgway. On the basis of the previous exchanges, it appeared unlikely that he would consider their response satisfactory. McCracken Thai Moves Slowly as McGaff Examined Progressing slowly today, the second murder trial of Henry Ford McCracken, accused of slaying Patty Hull, 10, in his motel cabin at Buena Park last May 19, was still occupied today with the testimony of Captain Thomas McGaff, in charge of the sheriff's identification bureau. McGaff, who was called to the stand last Thursday by the prosecution, was still under direct examination until nearly noon today, when the defense attorneys started what is expected to be an exhaustive examination. McGaff probably will be on the witness stand all day. His testimony dealt in detail with the appearance of McCracken's cabin, No. 9, on Aug. 21, two days following the alleged murder of the child, who, according to McCracken, died in an accidental fall from his kitchen table. McCraft described what he said appeared to bloodstains on the table, walls, floor and other furnishings of the kitchen, the floor of the combination living and bedroom, and on bedding. His testimony apparently was leading up to testimony expected, possibly tomorrow, from Roger Greene, state criminologist from Sacramento. Greene testified at the first trial that the stains actually were blood, as shown by tests he conducted. During McGaff's testimony this morning, he identified a green worksuit and black shoes worn by McCracken on May 19, showing alleged bloodstains. Sgt. Boyd Sturgis of the sheriff's office, investigator in the McCracken case, was slated to follow McGaff on the witness stand. Also waiting to testify was Jack Cadman, chemist in the identification bureau, who is expected to testify to typing bloodstains found in the cabin. These tests showed they were of a different type than McCracken's blood, the prosecution claims. UNDERGOES SURGERY Plans Announced for New Evangelical United Brethren Church on Lemon St. Plans for a proposed new and extensive Evangelical United Brethren church, to be located on the southeast corner of the South-Lemon street intersection, were made public today. The sketch and working plans, prepared by Orr, Strange and Islee, architects, Los Angeles, will be presented at the church's quarterly conference on Sept. 6 by the building committee. The committee, whose chairman is Alfred Holve, will recommend construction of one or more of the above units. Units of the new church, a modified Gothic style architecture, include the main chapel, a social hall, and a group of classrooms built around a patio. The structures would face on Lemon. Following approval of the master plan, an immediate fund-raiser strafed the vicinity of the residence of our delegation in order once again to prove the full validity of our protest." The reds, after a long week-end of vitriolic propaganda against the United States and the United Nations, thus passed the buck back to General Ridgway. On the basis of the previous exchanges, it appeared unlikely that he would consider their response satisfactory. However, the red invitation to renew the investigation at Kaesong and to seek a settlement indicated clearly they were not yet prepared to cancel the deadlocked truce talks once and for all. Man 'Feels Fine' After 109 Temp MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (P)—Bernard Selden, 54, was "feeling just fine" today after battling a 109-degree temperature that probably made him the hottest man in the world last week. Physicians at Mt. Sinal hospital were mystified over what caused the high temperature and how Seiden survived it with no apparent harmful effects. A temperature of 107 to 108 usually is fatal, except in some cases of sun or heat stroke.