anaheim-gazette 1952-02-28

Drama The Anaheim High school Junior class is presenting its class play on Friday. See details Page 8 of your Gazette today. VOLUME LXXXI Anaheim's FIRST Newspaper ANAHEL Non-Korean Civilian Deadlock Still On; Other Points Settled MUNSAN, Korea (F) — U. N. truce negotiators today asked the communists for another accounting of non-Korean civilians believed captured by the reds. Staff officers handed back to the armistice subcommittee the deadlock over voluntary repatriation of prisoners. The officers reached virtual agreement on all other points. The subcommittee will meet Friday. Sanification Districts Approve Outfall Line Approval of plans for the proposed $2,000,000 joint outfall sewer line by the county sanitation districts last evening indicated commencement of construction by next July and completion of the job within about 16 months, it was stated today by the consulting engineers, Harrison and Woolley, of Santa Ana. That firm, which presented the preliminary plans, was authorized Negotiations on truce supervision appeared deadlocked on communist insistence that Soviet Russia be named to a neutral supervisory commission. Allied staff officers handed communist delegates a list of 57 names—two more than were on the original U. N. list Dec. 30. The new names are those of the Rev. Father Jean Colin, a French Catholic missionary, and Alfred Gerald Matti, a Swiss national. The reds disclosed late last month that 48 foreign civilians are interned in North Korea, but 21 weren't on the Allied list. Thus the U.N. still seeks an accounting of 30 civilians who may be held by the communists." Allied staff officers said the reds should hand over information on "approximately 50,000 persons—formerly military personnel of our side—for whom no accounting has been given." They are Koreans. The staff officers working on prisoner exchange plans wound up 22 days of wrangling Thursday with virtual agreement on all but the key issue—voluntary repatriation. ELLENTON, S. C., Feb. 26—Situated representative of the spects the wreckage that once town. Fifteen months ago not year would be the deadline wness would have cleared to ma What is left probably will be houses have been moved to Press Wirephoto) Century-Old Sou Approval of plans for the proposed $2,000,000 joint outfall sewer line by the county sanitation districts last evening indicated commencement of construction by next July and completion of the job within about 16 months, it was stated today by the consulting engineers, Harrison and Woolley, of Santa Ana. That firm, which presented the preliminary plans, was authorized to proceed with detailed plans and specifications, so that bids could be asked on the construction contract. The Phoenix, Ariz., firm of Headman, Ferguson and Carollo also is associated with the engineering work. The exact engineering estimate for the outfall line is $1,878,958, which is $149,978 higher than the estimate the engineers made in their pricing report last July. The land section's cost was estimated at $260,722, a drop of $278. Increased labor costs was assigned by the engineers as the reason for the new higher estimate of the marine outfall. Five of the districts approved General Manager Raymond Ribal's proposed salary schedule for engineering aid on his staff, but District 11, Huntington Beach, and District 6, Costa Mesa, voted to hold up approval until next Wednesday evening. A city-county salary study is now under way and reports should be ready by next Wednesday, to show comparisons with engineering salaries paid elsewhere, it was pointed out by Chairman Willis Warner of the county supervisors, who is a member of all district boards. Insurance Co. Loses Double Indemnity Suit Double indemnity in the sum of $20,000 for the accidental death of Dr. Joseph E. Wharton of Santa Ana in a fall at Norwalk State hospital in 1950, was awarded to his widow, Dr. Emma Wharton, by a jury that yesterday decided her Allied staff officers said the reds should hand over information on "approximately 50,000 persons—formerly military personnel of our side—for whom no accounting has been given." They are Koreans. The staff officers working on prisoner exchange plans wound up 22 days of wrangling Thursday with virtual agreement on all but the key issue—voluntary repatriation. Contests Certain In All Municipal Court Townships Contests for all of the five new judicial offices created under the court reorganization plan effective next Jan. 1 were in prospect today, with at least two candidates filing notices of intention to run in each district. Justice Lloyd Verry of Fullerton township and Elmer Guy, Fullerton lawyer, filed yesterday for the Anaheim-Fullerton municipal court judgeship. City Judge Ronald Crookshank and Justice Howard Cameron, both of Santa Ana, filed today for the Santa Ana - Orange municipal judgeship. Justice D. J. Dodge of Costa Mesa will be opposed by Newport Beach township by A. H. Phelps, Corona del Mar attorney and former professor of law at Pacific university. Two other residents in the district have qualified in examinations but have not yet filed notices of intention to run. They are Albert J. Delphino and Edward H. Lauer, Jr., both of Costa Mesa. In Laguna Beach-San Clemente Justice Court district, Justice C. C. Cravath, of Laguna Beach, City Judge Neal Vander Ziel of San Clemente, and Henry N. Williams, South Laguna surety bond broker, have filed notices of intention. Justice C. P. Pann of Huntington Beach township, City Judge Celia Young of Huntington Beach, Charges by a Santa Ana newspaper reporter that a boy inmate of the county juvenile home in Santa Ana had been mistreated by a man on the staff of the institution, were not substantiated by a grand jury investigation. It was stated today in a report released by Foreman Sam Meyer and Col. Elmer J. Wiles, chairman of the Grand Jury Law Enforcement committee. The grand jury, it was announced, had approved a report of the law enforcement committee recommending that the juvenile authorities be supported in their discipline at the home and finding that charges of mistreatment were unfounded. The newspaper reporter on the staff of a Santa Ana paper had reported interviewing a boy in juvenile hall who claimed that he had been beaten by an adult staff member. The Santa Ana news- Loses Double Indemnity Suit Double indemnity in the sum of $20,000 for the accidental death of Dr. Joseph E. Wharton of Santa Ana in a fall at Norwalk State hospital in 1950, was awarded to his widow, Dr. Emma Wharton, by a jury that yesterday decided her suit against the Prudential Insurance Co. of America. Dr. Emma Wharton, who is a deputy in the County Health department, contended that her husband's death on April 4, 1950, was due directly to a severe hip fracture received in a fall in the State hospital corridor three days earlier. The insurance company produced medical testimony claiming that the fall was incidental and that death actually was due to fatty degeneration of the liver. Attorneys for the insurance company said they will seek a new trial. The jury deliberated nearly three hours before returning its verdict in Superior Judge Raymond Thompson's court. LEAGUE OF CITIES TO MEET Assistant Director Howard Gardner of the California League of Municipalities will report to a membership meeting of the Orange County League of Cities this evening on activities of the state league, and its future agenda in the legislative field. Secretary W. C. Jerome said that advance sale of reservations for the 7 o'clock dinner meeting in the Santa Ana community center clubhouse, 1108 W. Eighth at, indicated that the event will be largely attended. In Laguna Beach-San Clemente Justice Court district, Justice C. C. Crávath, of Laguna Beach, City Judge Neal Vander Ziel of San Clemente, and Henry N. Williams, South Laguna surety bond broker, have filed notices of intention. Justice C. P. Pann of Huntington Beach township, City Judge Celia Young of Huntington Beach, only woman on the Orange county bench, and Elmer J. Hughes, justice of the peace and city judge at Seal Beach, all have filed notices of intention in Huntington Beach-Seal Beach township. Superior Judge Kenneth E. Morrison today filed notice of intention to seek re-election to his post, the only seat on the superior court bench to be open at this year's election. Columbia U. Scientist Named As Communist School Teacher LOS ANGELES (P)—A Columbia university atomic scientist was a teacher at the communist party's 1941 national training school of the party in New York City, former communist John Lautner testified today at the conspiracy trial of 15 California party leaders. Lautner identified the scientist only by the name of "John" and said he was an assistant professor at Columbia working on the atomic experiments then going on at the General Electric laboratory in Schneectady, N.Y. Lautner said that he himself was one of seven students selected to attend the school, which he described as "floating" because of the political climate that year. Lautner's testimony concerning the atomic scientist drew immediate defense objections on grounds it was "an attempt to throw out an inference that this case has something to do with the atomic bomb." The witness did not testify that atomic secrets were divulged at the various meetings of the school. LOS ANGELES (P)—The State Board of Barber Examiners has established a minimum price of $0 cents, below which no barber may charge for cutting an adult's hair in Los Angeles county. The prevailing charge is $1.25, however. NAHEIM EST. 1870 GAZETTE ANAHEIM, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1952 Truman Still Playing Coy Russell Tosses Hat in Rim 'Unanimous Request' Heeded WASHINGTON (AP) — Senator Richard B. Russell of Georgia announced today he will seek the Democratic nomination for president. Russell said in a statement he could "do no less than comply" with the unanimous requests of the Georgia General assembly and the State's Democratic Executive committee that he become a candidate. As the second Democrat to make a formal entrance in the race, Russell cast himself as a "Jeffersonian Democrat who believes in the greatest practicable degree of local self-government." Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee is the other announced candidate for the Democratic nomination. A number of Southern Democrats have been urging Russell to make the race. President Puts On Announcement WASHINGTON (AP) — President Truman turned aside new questions today on his political intentions, but put in a good word Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, a possible Democratic nominee for president. Truman told his news conference he wouldn't disclose whether he will run again for presidency until after his trip to Florida. That would be a month in future. Asked whether he would be happy to see Governor Steven nominated by the Democrats, responded that Stevenson made one of the best governors Illinois ever had. He said that one of the best recommendations for a man becoming president. The president is going to West March 7 for a three week stay. He said he would not m Century-Old South Carolina Town Named to Clear H-Bomb Plant Site USTA, Ga. (FP)—This week's town of Ellenton ceases to be a place of beautiful homes, than a century old, a historically American monument. It is to go to make part of the area the huge H-Bomb plant covers 315 square miles of Carolina across the Savannah river here. And Jury Clears Tenile Hall Mistreatment By a Santa Ana news reporter that a boy inmate county juvenile home in Anna had been mistreated on the staff of the in-law were not substantiated and jury investigation. It led today in a report by Foreman Sam Meyer Elmer J. Wiles, chair of the Grand Jury Law Ent committee. And jury, it was announced a report of the enforcement committee reciting that the juvenile auction supported in their district the home and finding charges of mistreatmentounded. Newspaper reporter on the Santa Ana paper had interviewing a boy in small claim that he beaten by an adult staff The Santa Ana news- notice was given, and March 1 is the deadline when every person, business, interest and every home has to be gone. What is left probably has to be destroyed. All Ellenton's 600 people are gone and 80 of their 150 houses. They are among 6000 persons similarly moved from the vast military area. Ellenton's story is typical of them all. Even though this is probably the most kindly conducted of all dictated evacuations, and though many Ellentonians and others have reaped rich financial rewards, the story is sad. There is bitterness in many hearts today, "They looked at 114 sites before they came here for H-bombs Why did this have to happen to me?" is a typical reaction. One group is attempting to start New Ellenton, near the reservation, but many miles from their old home, in a not-so-beautiful site. Many have scattered, finishing life-long neighborliness. Among some there is a sense of injustice at not getting what they believe is replacement value for what they had to give up. These values were not lost for any lack of effort to be generous by the U. S. Atomic Energy commission, and state, county and federal agricultural and engineer authorities. It is just a case of the difficulties of justice by fiat. They are getting schools provided by government. Removal of graves and cemeteries is free. Engineers appraised the land liberally, at better than current values. People who were land-poor lots make a formal entrance in the race, Russell cast himself as a "Jeffersonian Democrat who believes in the greatest practicable degree of local self-government." Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee is the other announced candidate for the Democratic nomination. A number of Southern Democrats have been urging Russell to make the race. They said that if the president ran again they wanted their own candidate so that they could support him wholeheartedly. Russell had conferred this morning with a Georgia delegation which handed him a resolution adopted Monday by the State Democratic Executive committee. It said: "We need a man who will in law and in fact be president of the United States of America." Warren Is Fourth Entry in April 1 Wisconsin Primary MADISON, Wis. (FP)—The Wisconsin Republican delegate race on April 1 became a four-way affair today. Gov. Earl Warren of California became officially the fourth man to enter the fight for the state's 30 delegates to the national GOP convention in Chicago. He filed his consent to run in the Wisconsin election with Secretary of State Fred R. Zimmerman. A slate 30 of delegates pledged to him also was filed. The Warren slate is composed of several former Progressives and Republicans who supported Gov. Dewey and Gen. Douglas MacArthur in the Wisconsin race four years ago. It is a coalition slate, entered its leaders say, to work for Warren as the first choice at the convention, but agreeing to shift to Gen. Eisenhower if it appears that Asked whether he would be happy to see Governor Stevens nominated by the Democrats, responded that Stevens made one of the best governors Illinois ever had. He said that one of the best recommendations for a man becoming president. The president is going to West March 7 for a three-week stay. He said he would not make the announcement on whether he will be a candidate until he goes back. That led to questions about whether he would make it a day after his return when, on March 29, he will make a political speech at the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner. He brushed those questions aside, too. On other matters, Truman sent House Speaker Sam Raybilt telephoned Senator Moody (Mich) from his White House office Monday the decision barrier the telecasting and radio broadcasting of House committee hearings. Moody was in Detroit at the time and had urged that a hearing there by the House un-Americans activities committee be televised. The president said he had not ing to do with the decision. He said Rayburn told Moody that televising the hearings would against House rules. Truman emphasized he was taking no sides in the matter and that it is up to Congress to ask how committee hearings should be conducted. He said it just had opened Rayburn was at the White House when Moody called the Speaker. Truman described the Lisbon North Atlantic Treaty Organization meeting in Lisbon as very successful full and said Secretary Acheson would make a speech about it tomorrow night. The question of Truman's plan was brought up by a reporter who said he assumed the president was not ready to make an announcement. Truman said that was correct. Parachute Neophytes Jump Safely From Crippled USAF Transport SYDNEY, Nova Scotia (P)—Eighteen men—17 of them making their first leap from an airplane—safely bailed out of a U.S. Air Force transport early today, moments before it crashed in a blinding blizzard. Only two men were injured, neither seriously. The plane, a C-47 enroute from Westover, Mass., to its base at Torbay, Newfoundland, crashed in uninhabited territory along the Sydney River, on the outskirts of this industrial center. It had carried 14 passengers and a crew of four. The pilot had made 20 attempts to land through the storm at Sydney airport, eight miles from the crash site, before he ordered everyone into parachutes. Staff Sgt. R. Redinger, a Pennsylvania, the only man aboard with previous jumping experience, fitted the 'chutes and gave each man quick instructions for the leap. The escape door jammed for a moment, but broke loose when the men heaved against it the second time. The jump was made at 300 feet. When the last man leaped into the darkness, swirling snow and a 50-mile-an-hour wind, the plane had only three minutes gas supply left. All 18 men were found within a half-mile radius by search teams of police and reserve army troops. SAN FRANCISCO (P)—California's oldest boxing promoter, both in years and continuous operation, has just celebrated his 73rd birthday. Fred A. Pearl of Sacramento takes the bows. CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY The Weather Calif.—Increasing cloudiness tonight and Friday, with some rain likely west. and south portions. Slightly cooler Friday. LAYING COY; HAT IN RING President Puts Off Announcement WASHINGTON (AP) — President ran turned aside new questtoday on his political intenbut put in a good word for Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, possible Democratic nominee president. Human told his news conferhe wouldn't disclose whether will run again for president after his trip to Florida. would be a month in the sited whether he would be to see Governor Stevenson nated by the Democrats, he induced that Stevenson had one of the best governors is ever had. He said that is of the best recommendations man becoming president. president is going to Key March 7 for a three weeks He said he would not make BOSTON, Feb. 28—ANOTHER NEW ENGLAND BLIZZARD—Ofice workers hurtle a snow drift in Boston Common on way to work today as city started digging out from the latest in a series of snowstorms that have lashed New England. Although the Boston area escaped with less than a foot of snow, Cape Cod was hit by possibly the worst storm in 50 years with drifts to 10 feet marooning motorists and stopping all transportation. (Associated Press Wirephoto) Record Storm Cuts Communications BOSTON, Feb. 28—ANOTHER NEW ENGLAND BLIZZARD—Office workers hurtle a snow drift in Boston Common on way to work today as city started digging out from the latest in a series of snowstorms that have lashed New England. Although the Boston area escaped with less than a foot of snow, Cape Cod was hit by posibly the worst storm in 50 years with drifts to 10 feet marooning motorists and stopping all transportation. (Associated Press Wirephoto) Record Storm Cuts Communications, Buries Cape Cod in 12-Foot Drifts BOSTON (UF)—The worst storm in possibly 50 years today left Cape Cod buried beneath snowdrifts as high as 12 feet, isolated entire communities without power or communication and stranded an uncounted number of motorists. Snowfall as high as 20 inches was piled into virtually impenetrable drifts by a northeast wind that reached a velocity of 60 miles an hour at times. In many cases town-owned snow-removing equipment proved to be so inadequate against the heavy odds that town officials had to appeal to the state and the army for heavier-duty apparatus. At least five deaths were recorded up to early today as a result of the northeaster. Two others, 'teen-age boys,' were missing at East Sandwich hours after they went hunting in some marshland. Resort hotels which function only for summer vacationists were hastily thrown open at the request of officials to put some of the hundreds locked in the heavy snow. Others spent the night in town halls and fire stations that were lighted only by candles and kerosene lamps and heated only by fireplace wood fires and pot-bellied stoves because of the lack of power. Some 250 civilian personnel were given shelter at Camp Edwards when the storm trapped them in the big canyonment at the end of the workday yesterday. Nantucket Island, with a winter population of approximately 3500, had no contact with the world outside except through a radio on a nearby Coast Guard patrol boat. The storm cut off all telephone and electric service on the island and felled the 120-foot Loran tower, an electronic long-range navigational device used by the Coast Guard to guide ships in the Atlantic. The snowfall was of less depth elsewhere in southern New England but was sufficient to cripple air and highway traffic. Atlantic Treaty Organization meeting in Lisbon as very full and said Secretary of Acheson would make a about it tomorrow night. Question of Truman's plans ought up by a reporter who assumed the president ot ready to make an anment. An said that was correct. Reporter asked how the accounted for so many coming out of his office predictions as to what he was to do. The president said he not be responsible for what say. He said he never tells what to say. Earl Stanley to Run For Re-Election Assemblyman Earl W. Stanley, who for three terms has represented the south county's 74th Assembly District in Sacramento, said today that he will not seek election to Congress from the new 28th District, but will seek re-election to the Assembly. "While it would be an honor to be Representative from the new 28th Congressional District, I feel that I can do more for Orange county by staying in the Assembly," Stanley explained. Thus he withdrew his earlier announcement of some months ago that he intended to campaign for Congress. Currently the chairman of the Assembly Interim committee on City-County Relations, Stanley said that the work is not finished and will not be done by election time, thus if elected to Congress his job would be incomplete. He heads the Assembly committee on Municipal and County Government, and thus drew the interim assignment. He also is a member of the Elections and Reapportionment, Fish and Game and Military Affairs committees. A Republican, Stanley has always filed on the Democratic ticket also and has always won nominations of both parties in the primary elections. He will seek again both nominations, tantamount to election, at the June 3 primary. The storm cut off all telephone and electric service on the island and felled the 120-foot Loran tower, an electronic long-range navigational device used by the Coast Guard to guide ships in the Atlantic. The snowfall was of less depth elsewhere in southern New England but was sufficient to cripple air and highway traffic. One Injured in Three-Car Crash William Lee Turner, 17, of Baldwin Park, suffered mouth injuries in a three-car crash at Sixth and Broadway, Santa Ana, late yesterday afternoon. A car in which he was riding with Arden R. Mathews, Jr., 18, of Covina was traveling north on Broadway, and collided with cars crossing Broadway from both directions, one driven by Mary Elizabeth Stanfield, 19, 315 S. Garnsey, Santa Ana, and Nora F. G. Reid, 50, 1141 S. Ross st., Santa Ana. The Stanfield and Reid cars collided following the first collision as the accident assumed a "round robin" character. Citrus Market Sunkist Growers, Inc., reported today all auction markets California oranges were slightly lower. Representative Prices by Size SUNKIST, First Grade— 100s 8.90; 126s 9.14; 150s 8.42; 176s 8.03; 200s 7.24; 220s 6.18; 252s 4.97; 288s 4.32; 344s 3.92. CHOICE, Second Grade— 100s 8.05; 126s 7.71; 150s 7.84; 176s 7.12; 200s 6.21; 220s 5.24; 252s 3.88; 288s 3.45.