anaheim-gazette 1951-11-20

Communism and cannibalism... It would be a little gruesome if the communists took over here, judging from what's happened elsewhere. Where they move in they have the immediate problems of trying to stay in. This seems to be a continuing problem for the Russian communists, after being in 34 years, still need a secret police. For the communists, as their history shows, staying in means getting rid of members of the opposition, active or potential, or crushing it in several well-known ways: confiscating their property; forcing them into labor camps; or executions. Traditionally the communists look for their opposition in these two groups: Published afternoons Monday through Friday, at 259 East Center, Anaheim, California. Phone Anabeim 2208. Entered as second-class matter at the Anaheim, California, Postoffice on June 5, 1869, under the Art of March $, 1879. The Gazette is a member of the Associated Press, the National Editorial Association, and California Newspaper Publishers Association. All rights herein are reserved. Subscriptions: 50c per month by carrier or $4 per year by carrier or mail. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS—The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all the local news printed in this newspaper as well as all A.P. news dispatches. TREODORE B. KUCHEL MAX BERLER LEONARD KREIDT STANLEY JONES NEIL STANLEY G. E. MELLEN RALPH ROULAND DON YOUNG Publisher Assistant Publisher City Editor Sports Editor Advertising Manager Advertising Manager Classified Advertising Manager Circulation Manager What makes this country unique is the number of teups or links between the members of the groups through their organizations: fraternal, social, labor, business, professional, religious and political. For instance, the Elks, Masons, Knights of Columbus, Kiwanis, Rotary, Lions, Chambers of Commerce on city and state and national levels, ditto the National Association of Manufacturers, labor unions with more than 50,000 locals, the professional societies, church groups beyond number, and the ward, precinct, district, city, state and national political organizations. Through correspondence, meetings, conventions and pool- WASHINGTON — The nation's top newspaper Louis Post-Dispatch andidence, R. I., Bulletin, published a story regarding Ripps-Mitchell income-the Mobile, Ala., charging Attorney General Lamwith failure to prosecute. Both these papers have notable jobs in exposing them but since I had so do with the conviction two income-tax evaders the inside story of what is worth telling—for two 1. To illustrate how sometimes get stymied; ness to Mr. Caudle, who kicked around a lot though indiscreet in his friends, in my opinion is. Much of the story was a column dated Dec. when the Washington N Round two years ago being attention to shocking little-noticed income-tax. Sam Ripps and Joe had made a fortune selling millions of dollars worth city to Army PX's dum war, following which the agents caught them two sets of books, claimed owed at least $700,000 and recommended crimi csecution. The column 16,'49, then proceeds: "Ripps and Mitchell im bly began to pull every wire south or north of the Dixon line. First they For the communists, as their history shows, staying in means getting rid of members of the opposition, active or potential, or crushing it in several well-known ways: confiscating their property; forcing them into labor camps; or executions. Traditionally the communists look for their opposition in these two groups: 1. Those with material possession who can't be expected to embrace the communists for taking it away from them—property owners, businessmen, and farmowners whose land will be collectivized. 2. Those who disagree with the communists on ideological grounds, a large group including religious leaders, teachers and intellectuals. Suppressions and liquidations in Russia are familiar. There have been some recent examples. Reports from China, reliable or not, tell of more than 1,000,000 people executed in massive purges. From Hungary come stories of more than 50,000 of the middle-class taken from their homes in just a couple of months and thrown into labor camps with farmers and landowners. Besides telling of thousands of American soldier-prisoners slain by the communists, the U.S. Army in Korea last week reported South Korean civilians slaughtered in batches by the communists. But in this country, because of special conditions, the communists would encounter a problem more complex than any they've found elsewhere. No doubt this would call forth their greatest efforts. In just sheer number of oppositionists we outdo any other country so far communised because we have more property owners, businessmen, religious leaders, teachers and intellectuals. Rotary, Lions, Chambers of Commerce on city and state and national levels, ditto the National Association of Munufacturers, labor unions with more than 50,000 locals, the professional societies, church groups beyond number, and the ward, precinct, district, city, state and national political organizations. Through correspondence, meetings, conventions and pooling of common interests and efforts people in those groups have come to know and trust one another personally from coast to coast. Unless well-crushed these organizations would provide, in many cases, the apparatus for an underground resistance which some day would break out in counter-revolution. It isn't pleasant to think of how the crushing would be done. It would be a vast job, involving many people. But for any American commissi who'd take part in American liquidations the stories abroad about communist treatment of one another must sometimes be depressing if he wishes to live long himself. For the communists, like the female praying mantis which devours the male after mating and perpetuating the species, have a strange habit of liquidating one another as well as strangers after they come to power, a kind of admission that they don't trust themselves, either. While this business of bumping one another off on grounds of treason to the party after a member has outlived his usefulness is a form of communistic cannibalism, it shouldn't necessarily encourage the hope that in time all the communists will have eliminated themselves! Like Thanksgiving turkey, no matter how many are caten, there's always a fresh supply, it seems. IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO From the Files of Anaheim Gazette By MRS. HENRY KUCHEL 75 Years Ago Col. W. H. Bailey of San Francisco IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO From the Files of Anaheim Gazette By MRS. HENRY KUCHEL 75 Years Ago November 1876 As Mr. H. S. Austin was riding down Centre street yesterday afternoon, his horses were frightened at a load of hides, and became entirely unmanageable. They ran the entire length of Los Angeles street and wore stopped only when they reached the heavy sand about a mile north of town. It was an almost miraculous escape as neither horses, buggy nor man were injured. The Rev. W. H. Hill of Los Angeles will officiate at St. Michael's church on Sunday. Services will begin at 11 o'clock in the morning and 7:30 in the evening. Mr. Hubbard goes to Los Angeles tomorrow and from thence to San Francisco, expecting to return by the 29th. 50 Years Ago November 1901 By the overturning of a coal oil lamp at the residence of Peter Nicholas at Fullerton on Thursday evening, $80 worth of household goods were destroyed and the residence narrowly escaped destruction. Miss Nichols was sowing at the time and the lamp was accidentally tipped over. The loss was adjusted yesterday. Col. W. H. Bailey of San Francisco visited his extensive possessions at Olinda during the week. Development of the ranch's oil resources is going on at a lively pace, and substantial improvements are being made. John Hanna, Esq., came up from Miraflores on Monday afternoon. He has completed gathering his walnut crop which turned out well. 25 Years Ago November 1926 This section was visited by a slight shower last Friday afternoon. A generous rain was predicted and expected, but the clouds drifted away after .04 of an inch had fallen. Prophets, however, are convinced that it was the forerunner of many storms, and that this is going to be an extremely wet winter. In the Armistice Day parade at Santa Ana last Thursday, St. Catherine's school of Anaheim won the prize for the best marching unit outside of the Legion Posts. The boys are very proud of the trophy awarded them. Phony Bookkeeping Mr. Anderson and I made a presentation of what we considered shocking facts. These included a bookkeeping system where Ripps and Mitchell let their checks and cash accumulate. When a big check came in, deposited the accumulated checks and cash to the amount as the big check, in order to make it appear that the check had been cashed. Actually, the big check was converted into a cashier's check, then sent a roundabout way through Jefferson Investment Co., of Louis, controlled by Mitchell the Paramount Check Cash WASHINGTON — Two of the nation's top newspapers, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Providence, R. I., Bulletin, last week published a story regarding the Ripps-Mitchell income-tax case in Mobile, Ala., charging Assistant Attorney General Lamar Caudle with failure to prosecute. Both these papers have done notable jobs in exposing corruption, but since I had something to do with the conviction of these two income-tax evaders, perhaps the inside story of what happened is worth telling—for two reasons: 1. To illustrate how tax cases sometimes get stymied; 2. In fairness to Mr. Caudle, who has been kicked around a lot and who, though indiscreet in his choice of friends, in my opinion is honest. Much of the story was told in a column dated Dec. 16, 1949, when the Washington Merry-Go-Round two years ago began calling attention to shocking and then little-noticed income-tax scandals. Sam Ripps and Joe Mitchell had made a fortune selling millions of dollars worth of jewelry to Army PX's during the war, following which treasury agents caught them keeping two sets of books, claimed they owed at least $700,000 in taxes and recommended criminal prosecution. The column of Dec. 16, '49, then proceeds: "Ripps and Mitchell immediately began to pull every political wire south or north of the Mason-Dixon line. First they tried to - Colony Quips By the Gazette Farm Editor IT WAS NOT too many months ago that California growers were met with the impact of a large slice of propaganda in promotion form and called a "Blessed Event" to signalize the belated entry into the canned citrus field of the California Fruit Growers Exchange whose "master minds" had recently bought, with $1,250,000 of their grower's money, the right to use the "Sunkist" label on cans. At just about the same time another announcement, destined to be of great import to growers, was made by the Exchange. It was to the effect that a new organization, Marketer's Inc., had been formed to spread Sunkist canned juice before every American family at breakfast time. A man named Moone (pronounced Moon) was the head of the deal, the other stockholders, if any, were anonymous. It was another Exchange stipendous accomplishment—or so we were led to believe. The OAC, which we are afraid is controlled by Mr. McLain and the Exchange, who decided to "eliminate" five per cent of last season's navel crop, decided to "eliminate" 42 per cent of this season's valencias. The Exchange was going to pack about a million cases of Sunkist frozen concentrate, sell a lot of hot concentrate to Uncle Sam and do better than they did last year—or so we were led to believe. SO THE SEASON progressed. The fresh market went to zero in the early stages but by August the Exchange "starved" the auctions and the market responded. Fresh fruit did fine. And the concentrate program was turning out an endless ribbon of beautiful cans of Sunkist concentrate which we were told was the absolute "best" and no foolin. Then the roof fell in. The Exchange cut the price of Sunkist frozen concentrate down to $1.58 a dozen 6 ounce cans from the normal $2.11. We use the word normal because that is, or was, the price Snow Crop and the other big ones were selling their top quality concentrate. These same big operators have now reduced their product to $1.79 a dozen and this was done strictly as a counter measure to Sunkist which was the FIRST offender against one of the first principles of economics. This action by Sunkist helped nobody, least of all the Sunkist grower who stands to get hurt, and merely tended to bring down the whole price structure of citrus juice in the face of everything else going up in price. IT IS THE SAME old story of the grower taking the rap. The "hired help" surely don't rate a raise on this deal? Mr. Moone is not The Congressional poliuation in the new 28th appears to be having a working itself into reaform. Just now, it is loto tell what the thing is look like when it finishape. Balloons are going and there. Dark horses ing carried. And although of the actors in this drama are right now, coy signs of stage bait tugging and hauling bamay knock some of the down before the curtain on next year's campaign. Only a couple of cans have come right out in and said, sure, we want. One in Orange county and San Diego county, James of Santa Ana, one-time Assemblyman, has decided try to get back into lehalls, at a higher level. Knapp, San Diego; buswho lives at Escondido, announced his candidacy. ly. Otherwise the situation very much in a malleable and the ultimate line-up odates is unpredictable. There are some who arthe air and digging in thernot too deep, to resist the efrom unidentified source they make the sacrifice of ing office. In another m... so if the signs are right. At this point it appeared that the Ripps-Mitchell case was stopped cold. It looked to me as if it had about as much chance of reaching prosecution as a freight train of crossing the great divide without an engine. The column of Dec. 16, 1949, continued with other details. But there are some background facts did not publish. Jack Anderson, Merry-Go-Round reporter from I sent to Mobile and Birmingham to button up the story, brought back what looked to me new evidence, and I arranged appointment at the Justice Department with Lamar Caudle,erner Smith, in charge of the criminal section of the Tax division, and John Mitchell, the Justice Department attorney who had come to Birmingham to confer on Hill and who had concurred in the case should not be prosecuted. My Bookkeeping. Mr. Anderson and I made a full presentation of what we consider shocking facts. These included bookkeeping system whereby us and Mitchell let their small banks and cash accumulate. Then, in a big check came in, they stashed the accumulated small bills and cash to the same amount as the big check, in order make it appear that the big check had been cashed. Actually big check was converted into Cashier's check, then sent by roundabout way through the Prison Investment Co., of St. Louis, controlled by Mitchell, to Paramount Check Cashing service in New York. During our conference, Caudle several times remarked that there certainly ought to be enough evidence to prosecute, and immediately thereafter, he sent John Mitchell (no relation to Joe Mitchell) to Mobile to reopen the entire case. The two tax defrauders were then indicted, pleaded guilty and are now in jail. Honest T-Men There were some other interesting angles to the Ripps-Mitchell case. One was that at Christmas 1946 Sam Ripps sent presents to the Treasury agents who had been working on the case. The packages were returned unopened. Also a defense lawyer sent to Mobile from New York hinted to T-Men that they weren't paid enough by the government and could make more money on the outside. The T-Men did not take the hint. At a time when Internal Revenue is under heavy fire, I should like to repeat that my own investigation of this and many other cases convinces me that the great majority of T-Men are honest. WASHINGTON (T)—A legal battle begins in a U.S. court today for control of possibly $7,000,-000 the Chinese nationalist government sent to the United States to buy air force planes and equipment. LAKE CHARLES, LA. (T)—Five newspapermen, whose eight-month campaign against gambling led to their indictment on charges of defaming three gamblers and 16 public officials, go on trial Dec. 5. The two retired admirals San Diego whose names figured in pre-campaign are neither in nor out In letters written to local leaders, Admiral Fitz has stated that he is a cannery But he has made no form of nouncement. It is lately mentioned that Admiral Gehres mentoned as a probable witness, now probably will not. The more who make the San Diego county, the better will be for Jimmy Utt, the Ama entry, providing he can the Orange county field his self. Orange county holds a heavy majority of the Civilian district vote, an advantage Utt which would be lost by San Diego county cannelling what vote they here. The district does not have northern fringe precincts, nor heavily populated San Diego country, except for a strikey circles San Diego city and in National City. Whether Utt will be able Orange county is by no means understood that Assembly Earl Stanley of Newport County who had considerable do OBLONG VIEWS FROM AN EGG-SHAPED HEAD By WALDO HUNTER THE BOYS IN THE back shop down here at the Gazette were discussing sports editors the other day, and our consensus is that football is given top-heavy publicity. It is true that a sort of mass hysteria grips our nation in the Fall, with interest in football overshadowing even events of world-shaking importance, but I maintain that there are plenty of sports fans who care not a whit (whatever that is) for football. Some of the most fanatic sports fans I know wouldn't drive from Anaheim to Westminster with a free ducat to see Stanford in a rematch with Oregon State. But during the period of pigskin frenzy (now, happily at its close) the sports editors forget the golf, baseball, boxing, tennis, polo, ping pong, billiard, fishing and hunting addicts and print nothing but football, football, football, football... (someone said me a revolver). (I would include Southern California wrestling in the above list, but we are not discussing the ballet). We tried to bring our own sports editor around to this line of reasoning recently, but to no avail. He flatly stated that football is king at this time of year and the follower of lesser sports is out of luck. We have a hockey fan on the mechanical staff who has threatened to push the sports editor into the press some afternoon unless a de-emphasis on are caught in the snare. They must go along with the annual nonsense of subordinating everything to football. Isn't there ANYTHING going on during the football season in other sports? Couldn't the sports scribes, for instance, lend variety to the heavy menu of football by doing a series of articles on the great prize fighters of the century: such big names as Willard, Tunney, Firpo, Dempsey and Franchot Tone? Or whip up an occasional story on the all-time golf stars such as Bobby Jones, Sam Snell or John Shea? Football hysteria can wreck a community. As a case in point I give you Fullerton. The letdown in that wretched community after Anaheim Hi had cut their vaunted high school pigskinners down to second rate size was sad to behold, and the despair of Fullertonians on the day after the balloon had burst must surely have made the City Fathers wonder if some drastic action should not be taken to boost civic morale, something along the lines of a County Comment By GEORGE HART The Congressional political situation in the new 28th district appears to be having a hard time working itself into recognizable form. Just now, it is impossible to tell what the thing is going to look like when it finally takes shape. Balloons are going up, here and there. Dark horses are being carried. And although some of the actors in this election drama are right now showing coy signs of stage fright, the tugging and hauling back-stage may knock some of the scenery down before the curtain goes up on next year's campaign. Only a couple of candidates have come right out in the open and said, sure, we want the job. One in Orange county and one in San Diego county, James B. Utt of Santa Ana, one-time State Assemblyman, has decided he will try to get back into legislative halls, at a higher level. Oscar Knapp, San Diego businessman who lives at Escondido, also has announced his candidacy formally. Otherwise the situation is still very much in a malleable state, and the ultimate line-up of candidates is unpredictable. There are some who are pawing the air and digging in their heels, not too deep, to resist the demands from unidentified sources that they make the sacrifice of accepting office. In another month or so, if the signs are right you will We tried to bring our own sports editor around to this line of reasoning recently, but to no avail. He flatly stated that football is king at this time of year and the follower of lesser sports is out of luck. We have a hockey fan on the mechanical staff who has threatened to push the sports editor into the press some busy afternoon unless a de-emphasis on football is forthcoming. So, just in case your Gazette is later than usual some evening, you will know that he carried out this dark threat and that it was necessary to shut down operations while first aid was given to the press. But all sports editors and writers, on big and little newspapers, TV-RADIOLOGIC 'Don't Like Rehearsals,' Says Comic Lou Costello By TOM E. DANSON HOLLYWOOD —Next to Martin and Lewis, fur flies just as fast during rehearsals of the Bud Abbott — Lou Costello television shows. They indulge in just about as much "horseplay" as is allowed in any normal (what a word to use in connection with a comedy rehearsal) session of show preparation. In talking with Lou Costello the other day he made it definitely known that he thoroughly dislikes rehearsals. "I don't like to rehearse, and if I had to do it for a living (joke) I'd quit!" he said. "Here I have been going through this for past three days—and I still don't know what I'm doing!" "Why rehearse?" he said. "It won't come out on showtime this way at all." Because this was his first television origination from Hollywood, Lou was naked whether he preferred the West Coast to New York to do his shows, with his reply being: "I'd much rather be back in New York!" When asked why, he replied, "TV is much easier to do in New York than here. I live here and these producers and directors know where to find me... It's get down to rehearsal." As a case in point I give you Fullerton. The letdown in that wretched community after Anaheim Hi had cut their vaunted high school pigskinners down to second rate size was sad to behold, and the despair of Fullertonians on the day after the balloon had burst must surely have made the City Fathers wonder if some drastic action should not be taken to boost civic morale, something along the lines of a proclamation reducing the municipal tax rate. Fullertonians on the day after the Big Upset looked like residents of some European hamlet just cut off from the Marshall Plan. Enough of football, and away with it! What are the standings in the hop-scotch league down at Thomas Jefferson school? DOWN TV-RADIO ROW ... Walter O'Keefe asked a marine appearing on a "Double or Nothing" show recently why he had joined that particular branch of the service. The sergeant replied, "I saw a movie. Titles of Montezuma' and couldn't resist it." Rejoined Walter, "and what would you have done if you had seen a movie, dramatizing the life of a WAC?" Quipped the marine. "I'd never have been able to pass the physical." TELE-TIPS ... Jimmy Boyd, a 12-year-old youngster, graduates from the amateur ranks to network TV when he guest stars with Frank Smatra on its show from C.B.S.-TV (KNXT-2) at 5... 39013 takes further steps to annihilate Gehe. Tiny and Bert during the Daredevils show over KTTV (11) at 7... Anna May, the teen-age singing sensation, makes her TV debut Otherwise the situation is still very much in a malleable state, and the ultimate line-up of candidates is unpredictable. There are some who are pawing the air and digging in their heels, not too deep, to resist the demands from unidentified sources that they make the sacrifice of accepting office. In another month or so, if the signs are right, you will see their toes digging in, not their heels. The two retired admirals from San Diego whose names have figured in pre-campaign reports are neither in nor out as yet. In letters written to local political leaders, Admiral Fleming has stated that he is a candidate. But he has made no formal announcement. It is lately reported that Admiral Gehres, once mentioned as a probable starter, now probably will not start. The more who make the race in San Diego county, the better it will be for Jimmy Utt, the Santa Ana entry, providing he can keep the Orange county field to him. Orange county holds a rather heavy majority of the Congressional district vote, an advantage Utt which would be increased by San Diego county candidates limiting what vote they do here. The district does not include San Diego city, except for 10 northern fringe precincts, nor the heavily populated San Diego back country, except for a strip that circles San Diego city and takes National City. Whether Utt will be alone in orange county is by no means settled question. It had been understood that Assemblyman Karl Stanley of Newport Beach had considerable to do with Because this was his first television origination from Hollywood, Loh was naked whether he preferred the West Coast to New York to do his shows, with his reply being: "I'd much rather be back in New York!" When asked why, he replied, "TV is much easier to do in New York than out here. I live here and these producers and directors know where to find me... It's get down to rehearsal at 9 in the morning, or something like that—but in New York... H... I fix it so they never find me in my hotel room!" He went on, "See what I mean? It's much easier there." Besides doing a monthly show for "Comedy Hour," Lou and Bud are busy with a series of filmed comedy shows, produced at the Hal Roach studios in Culver City. It was at this studio that the boys discovered the "almost human" chimpanzee, Bingo, whom they immediately signed on contract to do a bit in their next 13 TV pictures. Now monkey-business will go on between three of them instead of just two! Bud and Lou have been working for some time on a group of new routines which they hope to have ready for some of their near future TV shows. If they installoring the boundaries of the new district, wanted to be its first Congressman. Now, he doesn't say yes and he doesn't say no, but late reports from dependable sources say that he has decided not to go. One report explained that those more interested in state law-making insist that he stay in Sacramento. But some reports have it that he may not run for any (Continued on Page Q) TELE-TIPS ... Jimmy Boyd, a 12-year-old youngster, graduates from the amateur ranks to network TV when he guest stars with Frank Sinatra on its show from C.B.S.-TV (KNXT-2) at 5 ... 39018 takes further steps to annihilate Gene, Tiny and Bert during the Daredevils show over KTTV (11) at 7 ... Anna May; the teenage singing sensation; makes her TV debut tonight in a show of her own over KNBH (4) at 7 ... Ardella Schnub, president of the California State Music Teachers Association, will be a guest on Young Musical America over KLAC (13) at 8:30 ... Beautiful Sandra Berkova plays "Bach to Boogie" during the Ina Ray Hutton show tonight at 9 over KTLA (5) ... Dutch Cavoll is scheduled to guide the candidates through their "Hollywood Screen Tests" over KECA (7) at 9:30. DIAL-LITES ... The four singing Mellow Men will appear as guests with Lucille Norman during her Music Hall show from KNX at 7:30 ... "Song of Liberty" pays a dramatic tribute to the men and women who first colonized our country from KHJ at 8 ... Gen Carlos P. Romulo, will be featured guest on the "United Or Not" program over KECA at 8:30 ... George Raft and Toni Arden guester with "ski-nose" Bob Hope during his show which will originate in Hollywood for a change, over KFI at 9. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY ... It'a long trip chasing rainbows, and success is seldom reached this way. Copyright, 1951, By Universal Radio and TV Features Syndicate