anaheim-gazette 1952-01-30

Ha-Chooo Floods, un-California like weather, and other things have conspired to give Anaheimers a bad time with colds. See what Joan S. White says about it all. Page 3. VOLUME LXXXI Anaheim's FIRST Newspaper ANAHE WASHINGTON, Jan. 30—SENATORS CONGRATULATE HERO—Senators Richard Nixon (RCalif) and William Knowland (R-Calif) congratulate Sgt. 1/C Joseph C. Rodriguez of San Bernardino, after he received yesterday the Medal of Honor from President Truman. Left to right: Nixon, Knowland, Josephine Rodriguez of San Bernardino, sister; the sergeant, Cpl. Ramon Rodriguez of Marines, brother, and Rose Aranda of Colton, the hero's fiancee.—(Associated Press Wisephoto) New Trial Denied Oscar Schultz WASHINGTON, Jan. 30—SENATORS CONGRATULATE HERO—Senators Richard Nixon (R-Calif) and William Knowland (R-Calif) congratulate Sgt. 1/C Joseph C. Rodriguez of San Bernardino, after he received yesterday the Medal of Honor from President Truman. Left to right: Nixon, Knowland, Josephine Rodriguez of San Bernardino, sister; the sergeant, Cpl. Ramon Rodriguez of Marines, brother, and Rose Aranda of Colton, the hero's fiancee.—(Associated Press Wisephoto) New Trial Denied By Judge West in Child Burning Case Superior Judge Franklin G. West reported today that he denied new trials to Mrs. Julia Ward, 46, and Mrs. Carolyn Munger, 25, who were convicted of cruel and inhuman punishment of three boys at the former Bethel Christian school, west of Anaheim. The court agreed to consider their plea for probation and set Feb. 15 at 11 a.m. as date for pronouncing judgment. Mrs. Ward and Mrs. Munger stood trial before a jury of 11 women and one man and each was convicted of three felony counts of unjustifiably punishing the three boys last Oct. 18. The court held that there was no question, but that the two women had held lighted matches to the wrists of the three boys as punishment for playing with a trash fire. And the court concluded that "the evidence was adequate to support the verdict returned by the jury." Harry Fox Leaves On Contest Trip Harry R. Fox, Anaheim appliance dealer, will leave Sunday for a two week trip to New York City, Chicago, Bridgeford, Conn., Washington, D. C., Syracuse and Buffalo, N. Y. He will be one of 90 General Electric appliance dealers who won the expense-free trip as awards following GE's recent sales contest for California GE dealers. Fox, exclusive winner in Anaheim, will spend five days in New York. Oscar Schultz To Head AAIG Oscar Schultz, owner of Schultz Tool and Machine Manufacturing Co., was elected chairman of the Anaheim Area Industrial group, a division of Anaheim Chamber of Commerce. Schultz headed the Machine Task Force of the group last year. Other committee members are Rex Coons of Rex Construction Co., Fred Kell of Kwikset Locks, Inc., Carl Olmstead of the Fullerton firm of Race and Olmstead, Larry Snow of Fullerton Manufacturing Co., and Bob Bedford of Leonard Precision Tool Co. of Garden Grove. Clem Roark will continue as secretary and coordinator. Organization of a Proprietary Products Task Force was taken under consideration. Members would be those manufacturers who produce a product under their own brand name, as distinguished from those who fabricate items on order and to specifications of the customer. Officers Sniff Trail of Golf Course Burglar Sheriff's officers claimed today a "good lead" in their investigation of a burglary at Willowick golf course where $1100 cash and $500 in checks were stolen from a safe. Manager Mark Hendricks of the club house gave officers names and descriptions of persons at the course at the time the money was stolen. Hendricks had opened the safe, taken out some change then locked it. MAYOR CHARLES PEARSON (Faces Election) Local City Posts Scheduled for Election Apr. 8 This year not only is an important election year on the state and national scene, but Anaheim will have its own election on Tuesday, April 8, to elect two city councilmen a city clerk, and a city treasurer. The positions to be up for the vote on the city council are now held by Mayor Charles Pearson who has been on the council for 17 years and mayor for 14 years and Police Commissioner Ray Vall Waggoner, who has been on the council for 14 years. The office of city clerk has been held by Charles Griffith for the past 18 years, while A. G. Turner has been city treasurer. Harry R. Fox, Anaheim appliance dealer, will leave Sunday for a two week trip to New York City, Chicago, Bridgeford, Conn., Washington, D. C., Syracuse and Buffalo, N. Y. He will be one of 90 General Electric appliance dealers who won the expense-free trip as awards following GE's recent sales contest for California GE dealers. Fox, exclusive winner in Anaheim, will spend five days in New York City and the balance of the two weeks in the other cities. WARSHIPS ORDERED TO MEDITERRANEAN AREA LONDON (UK) — Britian tonight ordered 30 warships of the home fleet to the Mediterranean in March for combined exercises with the Mediterranean fleet. An admiralty announcement said the warships would visit Malta, Britain's bastion in the Mediterranean, to take part in the exercises. The Egyptian emergency already has sent battle units of the Mediterranean fleet to stations along the Mediterranean from Libya to Suez. Citrus Market The California Fruit Growers Exchange reported today all auction markets California oranges were about steady. Representative Prices by Size: SUNKIST (First Grade)— 100s 6.48; 126s 6.47; 150s 6.81; 176s 5.21; 200s 4.86; 220s 4.10; 252s 5.49; 288s 5.41; 344s 4.71. CHOICE (Second Grade)— 100s 4.61; 126s 4.98; 150s 5.11; 176s 5.21; 220s4.86; 220s 4.10; 252s 4.55; 288s 4.00. SKY DUNLAP INJURED John W. (Sky) Dunlap, 39, well known Orange county and Los Angeles newspaperman, was seriously injured yesterday in an automobile collision. He was en route from his home in Santa Ana to his work at the Los Angeles Times. His car and a truck driven by Thomas J Bowman, 34, Santa Ana, collided. Police cited Bowman for making a turn from the wrong lane. Dunlap was taken to Santa Ana community hospital. He suffered a lung puncture, rib fracture and facial injuries. EASEMENTS ACCEPTED Anaheim city council last night met for the sole purpose of accepting street lighting easements for the Lindemann-Bain tract on the south side of North st., west of Palm ave. PLANT GROUP MEETS Earnest Moeller, manager of Anaheim Chamber of Commerce, attended a luncheon meeting of the Plant Location Group of the California State Chamber of Commerce in Los Angeles this noon. NAHEIM EST. 1870 GAZET ANAHEIM, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1952 Strong-Man Premier Out Making Contacts in Egypt CAIRO, Egypt (P) — Egypt's new strong-man Premier, Aly Maher Pasha, met today with ambassadors of the four powers which proposed last October that Egypt join the West in a new Middle East defense command to defend the Suez Canal. Though the western embassies said the envoys' calls were only the courtesy visits usually made on a new government head, they came only a few hours after Maher Pasha told the London News Chronicle in an interview that "I am ready to discuss a Middle East command with the four powers." Earlier today the independent newspaper, Al Ahram, said of the diplomats' visit: "It was these four ambassadors who last October submitted the four power proposals to the Wafdist cabinet which rejected them." The premier talked first with U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery. Half an hour later he called in the French envoy. Talks with the British and Turkish ambassadors were also on his schedule. These four powers offered last October to include Egypt in the proposed defense command. The offer was turned down immediately by the government of Premier Mustapha Nahas Pasha who wrote Judge Gardner Held Wrong in Chula Contempt The appellate court today forwarded its opinion that Attorney George Chula, council for the convicted sex slayer, Henry Ford McCracken, was not guilty of contempt of Superior Judge Robert Gardner. Young Chula had been sentenced to five days In jail for contempt at the climax of the McCracken sanity trial last October. RIOT AFTERMATH IN CALE seers walk past a row of h The appellate court today forwarded its opinion that Attorney George Chula, council for the convicted sex slayer, Henry Ford McCracken, was not guilty of contempt of Superior Judge Robert Gardner. Young Chula had been sentenced to five days in jail for contempt at the climax of the McCracken sanity trial last October. It was then the 34-year-old sex degenerate had been sentenced to death for the May 19 abduction and consequent sex slaying of 11-year old Patty Jean Hull of Buena Park. The high court's ruling freeing Chula covered 18 pages authored by Justice Lloyd Griffin. Gardner's finding that Chula asked leading questions "willfully and deliberately" and "with complete disagreement with the violation of the court orders" was reversed. Thirteen attorneys including Chula and his co-council, James Monroe, had appealed the jail sentence and arguments were made before the court in mid-December. McCracken is in San Quinten's death row. His death sentence is waiting a review by the state Superior court. Churchill Says Britain in No Tieup with U.S. LONDON (P)—Prime Minister Winston Churchill said today Britain had no "formal commitment" to join with the United States in any punitive action against China if a Korean truce is broken. Churchill told the House of Commons that the whole question was discussed among Britain, the United States and other governments with forces in Korea before he went to visit President Truman. "It was agreed that clearly a very serious situation would arise in such an event and various conU.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery, Half an hour later he called in the French envoy. Talks with the British and Turkish ambassadors were also on his schedule. These four powers offered last October to include Egypt in the proposed defense command. The offer was turned down immediately by the government of Premier Mustapha Nahas Pasha, who was ousted from office Sunday by King Farouk. The round of talks came just one day after British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the House of Commons he believed it possible to agree with Egypt on a settlement which "satisfies the legitimate national aspirations of the Egyptian people, and at the same time does not jeopardize the security of the free world." Official sources in London said Britain is ready to make concessions to Egyptian nationalist feeling if the Cairo government is willing to cooperate with western defense plans. Egypt cancelled two treaties with Britain in mid-October, seeking to take sole control of the jointly-ruled Sudan and to get British troops out of the Suez Canal zone. Bloody battles and riots followed those efforts. At the time of the treaty cancellation, Western observers in Cairo and London believed that control of the Sudan was Egypt's chief aim and that the question of Suez defense was being used as a bargaining lever. Truman’s Name Entered in N. H. Primary CONCORD, N. H. (P)—President Truman's name was entered in the New Hampshire presidential preference primary today. Petitions bearing 240 names were filed at the Secretary of State's office to put the presiBoyce Van Osdel will be be GROUP MEETS Just Moeller, manager of Chamber of Commerce, luncheon meeting of Location Group of the Anaheim State Chamber of Community Los Angeles this noon. Churchill told the House of Commons that the whole question was discussed among Britain, the United States and other governments with forces in Korea before he went to visit President Truman. "It was agreed that clearly a very serious situation would arise in such an event and various contingencies had been examined without any definite or formal commitment being entered into," said Churchill. Churchill said "no change was made in this situation while we were in the United States." "In fact," he added, "the matter did not figure to any large extent in our discussions." But Churchill also cautioned the House: "It is not wise when a war is going on to tell everything always to everybody, including the enemy. They might I think, sometimes be left something to guess about." Hwy. 39 Work Hindered by Rains Washouts from the rains of the past two weeks has made it necessary to re-do much of the construction already accomplished on the widening of Hwy. 39 from Lincoln ave. to Garden Grove blvd., it was revealed recently by Roland T. Reynolds Construction Co. of Anaheim, contractors on the job. James Needham, resident engineer for the State Division of Highways, said yesterday that the project will not be finished until early summer. May 1 was the estimated completion date at the time the job was begun. Entered in N. H. Primary CONCORD, N. H. (F)—President Truman's name was entered in the New Hampshire presidential preference primary today. Petitions bearing 240 names were filed at the Secretary of State's office to put the president's name into the Democratic presidential primary March 11—first in the nation. James D. McPhall, Manchester lumber dealer, who filed the petitions, said he has no idea whether Mr. Truman will allow his name to remain. He has 10 days to withdraw if he desires. McPhall also said he understood the name of Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois would be entered in the Democratic primary before the 5 p.m. (EST) deadline for filing. The name of Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee was also expected to be entered before the deadline. His supporters had previously said Kefauver would be entered if Mr. Truman was. Shea and Kelley Get Pay Boosts Pay increases for township justices and constables were voted by the Board of Supervisors late yesterday to be effective on the March 1 payroll. Judge John Shea, of the Anaheim Justice Court drew the largest pay increase of $100 a month; his salary scale will be $375 a month. The same pay scale is effective in Santa Ana, and in Class A townships. Other justices and all constables, including Haskell Kelley of the Anaheim court, got $25 a month increases. REV. BOYCE VAN OSDELL (YMCA Speaker) San Bernardino Pastor to Speak At YMCA Dinner Boyce Van Osdel will be the speaker at the YMCA's Twentieth Annual Dinner to be held at the Ebell Club tomorrow evening. Rev. Van Osdel is minister of the Calvary Baptist church in San Bernardino. He was recently voted by the Exchange Club of San Bernardino as the outstanding citizen; he is president of the Board of Education of the San Bernardino schools; he is serving as member of the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce; a member of the Board of Directors of the YMCA and a member of the Kiwanis club. Rev. Van Osdel is a popularater dinner speaker throughout Southern California, and Anaheim YMCA is fortunate in being able to obtain him as guest speaker this occasion. Paul Demaree, president, of the local board of directors, will be the master of ceremonies. The business session will consist of the election and installation of board members and a brief report on the status of the association. The YMCA Youth Program will be interpreted through a skit entitled "Y Life in Anaheim." The response to the invitation to this dinner event in Anaheim has been such that every available seat has been taken. We regretted therefore that it is impossible to accept any further reservation Tommy Thomason, secretary, said today. CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY ZETTE The Weather S. Calif.—Variable high cloudiness tonight and Thursday with late night and early morning fog along the coast. Not much change in temperature. AFTERMATH IN CAIRO—Sunday sighters walk past a row of houses burned during the previous day's rioting in Cairo, Egypt. Marriots, in which at least 67 persons died. The city was quiet today after its third night of military curfew. (Associated Press Wirephoto) AFTERMATH IN CAIRO—Sunday sighters walk past a row of houses burned during the previous day's rioting in Cairo, Egypt. Marial law was declared following the Saturday riots, in which at least 67 persons died. The city was quiet today after its third night of military curfew. (Associated Press Wirephoto by radio from Rome) Commies Reverse Themselves Twice; Push Slows Battle; Air War Hot Consan Supply Center Blasted By The Associated Press Bombers and fighterers blasted a supply center the besieged east coast port consan into an exploding in Wednesday. Returning pilots towering smoke clouds the supply complex and exploited. Reds Denounce Two Security Proposals MUNSAN, Korea (F)—Communist negotiators in a double reversal today agreed to the Allies rotating 25,000 troops a month during an armistice and said Chinese would join in administering the demilitarized zone. The reds balked, however, at restraints on moving their troops secretly into threatening concentrations during an armistice. Previously the communists had agreed to rotating only 5000 U.N. troops. The Allies are asking for 75,000 a month. Yesterday the reds indicated the Chinese would take no part in civil administration of the northern half of a buffer zone during an armistice. Today they reversed it. All these actions were taken by staff officers working their way slowly through an 18-page Allied draft of a plan for supervising an armistice. The reds objected to two security proposals: 1. That both sides refrain from concentrating troops and guns in a manner to threaten the other side. 2. Both sides to report weekly the exact location of all major Fullerton Puts In Plea for Flood Control A county wide flood control plan may be developed by the Board of Supervisors. It was indicated today following a meeting yesterday of the Supervisors. Before the board came rancher Al Beazley of Placentia and City Engineer Herman Hiltscher of Fullerton; and various petitions were filed from other parts of the county. Beazley and Hiltscher asked the county to build the Loftus diversion channel originally designed as part of the Fullerton dam. Beazley claimed that his ranch has been flooded four times and that he has lost considerable soil. The Fullerton engineer said that the Loftus diversion channel could handle drainage from two square miles east of the Fullerton dam. Petitions asking for flood control work were filed by residents of Costa Mesa and Laguna Beach canyon. Last week officials of Anaheim petitioned for construction of Carbon canyon dam and pledged city cooperation in solving the surface run-off problems made acute in times of heavy rain. Hydrogen Plant Van Bernardino Instructor to Speak the YMCA Dinner Van Osdel will be the merger at the YMCA's Twentyth Annual Dinner to be held at Ebell Club tomorrow evening. Van Osdel is minister of Salvary Baptist church in San Bernardino. He was recently voted to the Exchange Club of San Bernardo as the outstanding citine is president of the Board education of the San Bernarnado schools; he is serving as a member of the board of directors in Chamber of Commerce; is member of the Board of Direction of the YMCA and a member of Kiwanis club. Van Osdel is a popular affinder speaker throughout Western California, and Anaheim, he is fortunate in being able to train him as guest speaker on occasion. Demaree, president of the board of directors, will be master of ceremonies. The less session will consist of the man and installation of board ers and a brief report on the work of the association. The Youth Program will be inited through a skit entitled life in Anaheim." The response to the invitation for dinner event in Anaheim even such that every available has been taken. We regret more that it is impossible to get any further reservations, by Thomason, secretary, said staff officers working their way slowly through an 18-page Allied draft of a plan for supervising an armistice. The reds objected to two security proposals: 1. That both sides refrain from concentrating troops and guns in a manner to threaten the other side. 2. Both sides to report weekly the exact location of all major ground, naval and air units. In a neighboring tent at Panmunjom, a U.N. spokesman said, a North Korean general showed a critical and sarcastic interest in the Allied plan for exchanging prisoners. Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols said the communist negotiator was "reasonably objective, but it would be incorrect to say any measurable progress was being made." A U.N. command communique said the staff officers "continued to make progress" on truce supervision. The red agreement to rotating 25,000 Allied troops, while far short of Allied requests, represented a major change in the communist position. Originally they opposed any rotation at all. The communist proposal today would include troops sent to Japan for "rest and recreation" in addition to those sent home to be replaced. Allied staff officers said, under these circumstances, 75,000 would be a minimum figure, but if it were limited to replacements 40,-000 would be enough. Current Allied rotation figures are believed to run about 25,000 a month, and rest and relaxation leaves about the same. Last week officials of Anaheim petitioned for construction of Carbon canyon dam and pledged city cooperation in solving the surface run-off problems made acute in times of heavy rain. Hydrogen Plant To Cost More Than Expected WASHINGTON (UP) — The nation's vast plant for the projected hydrogen bomb will cost more than twice as much as originally estimated, the Atomic Energy commission reported today. Chairman Gordon Dean of the AEC declared at a news conference the probable cost has been "unped considerably" from a 600 million dollar "guesstimate" of a year and a half ago to 1¼ billion dollars at present. Dean said the estimates were revised because it is apparent now that "reactors" will cost more than had been expected. Reactors are devices for making atomic explosives. The AEC had announced that the reactors at the South Carolina H-bomb plant were to be of "advanced" design. Dean said today "the design is still not completed on some of them." The new estimate was contained in the AEC's semi-annual report to Congress today. The commission described "intense activity" in the past six months throughout the entire atomic enterprise — including an "expanding atomic weapons program."