anaheim-gazette 1952-03-18

Will Rogers The world today could use some of the wit and humor of the old master, Will Rogers, says Hal Royle in his column today. It's on Page 6. VOLUME LXXXI Anaheim's FIRST Newspaper ANAHEL Sale of Fremont Plant Okayed by Board in Junior High Pow-Wow The Anaheim Elementary School board, meeting jointly with the Anaheim Union High school trustees this morning, informally agreed to the sale of Fremont school to the high school district in the event the proposed $2,000,-000-plus junior high school program is voted into effect. No date has been set for the vote. The elementary board considered the discussions this morning to be of an exploratory nature but stated it would follow the mid-date of the voters in its disposition of Fremont school. Recently the elementary board suggested that full information be given the public before the final vote is taken, both from an educational and a tax standpoint. No price was discussed for the Fremont plant, but both boards agreed that an appraisal would be in order before a deal could be effected. The insurable value of Fremont recently was established at approximately $940,000 for buildings AUHS district and by a Citizens Advisory committee, would provide a junior high in the western part of the AUHS district, probably in the vicinity of Cypress, and another within the city of Anaheim at a total cost in excess of $2,000,000. Opposition to the proposal has centered around two points: the disproportionate cost to Anaheim residents, who would bear $1,100,-000, approximately, of the total cost; and the contention that it would be cheaper to expand present high school facilities than to build a complete new plant. SEOUL, Korea (AP)—Allied guerrillas routed 1000 Chinese reds who tried to punch through U.N. lines on the western front before dawn the day. A U.S. Eighth Army staff office said the scattered attacks along four-mile sector northwest of Kwangpo failed to dent the Allied line. The area was the scene of bitter fighting last December and January. Allied warplanes prowled North Korean skies but heavy cloud sheltered many communist ground targets. Fighter-bombers blasted 57 new holes in the wobbly rail system before noon. Other attacks were mounted against the communist front lines. FBI Agents Uncover $36,731 of Redfield Burglary Haul in Reno RENO (AP)—Another $36,721 of the $1½ million Redfield burglary was recovered today, FBI agents said. They announced it was found in the divorcee guest house in which Mrs. Jeanne Michaud, held at Flagstaff, Ariz., as a pos- 000 the announced sum of money so far recovered. Mrs. Michaud had a large sum when she was taken in custody. FBI quoted Robinson as saying "you don't have to go any further. That's all of Redfield's money." FBI Agents Uncover $36,731 of Redfield Burglary Haul in Reno RENO (P)—Another $36,721 of the $1½ million Redfield burglary was recovered today, FBI agents said. They announced it was found in the divorcee guest house in which Mrs. Jeanne Michaud, held at Flagstaff, Ariz., as a possible "fingerwoman" in the case, lived occasionally since 1949. The agents said the money was found in the possession of Benton Henry Robinson, 65, handyman at the guest ranch just outside the western city limits. Robinson, the announcement said, had the money wrapped in a pillow case and hidden in an overstuffed chair in the living room. He was charged with violation of the act forbidding interstate transportation of stolen property. Mrs. Michaud, 36, was a very close friend of La Vere Redfield, Reno millionaire, from whom the fortune was stolen. When arrested, Robinson told FBI agents that Mrs. Michaud had given him the money "to hold for her." He said she told him that if anything happened to her, he could keep it." This brought to more than $100.- UN Negotiators Reject Commie Port Changes MUNSAN, Korea (P)—Communist negotiators proposed four changes today in truce-time ports of entry into Korea and said they could not answer seven Allied questions about exchanging prisoners. The United Nations command rejected the proposed port changes and said it would wait for the reds to figure out the prisoner answers. Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols, U.N. commander uncovered the announced sum of money so far recovered. Mrs. Michaud had a large sum when she was taken in custody. FBI quoted Robinson as saying "you don't have to go any further. That's all of Redfield's money. They didn't comment on what he meant." Agents said Mrs. Michaud and Robinson were friends. Federal officials in Flagstad put off the arraignment of Mr. Michaud today because she was still groggy from swallowing a large quantity of sleeping pills. Weekend Storm Becomes 'Duster' As Southwest Hit ALBUQUERQUE (P) — The storm that deluged California last week shrieked across the high plains of eastern New Mexico and West Texas last night in the worst duster in years. Winds up to 110 miles an hour churned the dust to sullen clouds 15,000 to 20,000 feet high. A small tornado ripped into Wichita Falls, Tex., with some property damage. Billowing dust halted auto travel near Hobbs Southern New Mexico oil center. Eight persons were hospitalized there after highway smashups. Across the northern edge of the cold front that the Weather Bureau said moved in from the Pacific Coast, Oklahoma City, Ardmore, Okla., and Wichita Falls received heavy showers. The storm brought rain today to Kansas City and Wichita, Kans. Murdy, who said he would file for both republican and democratic primary positions, is the first republican to appear as an opponent for Speaker Sam L. Collins of the assembly, who fled his nomination petitions in both party primaries on March 5. Fred "Farmer" McCabe of Garden Grove has taken out nomination papers for the democratic nomination. Long active in agriculture and water conservation affairs, Murdy is head of the water problems committee of the Orange County Farm Bureau; also president of the board of Hoag Memorial hospital, Presbyterian, at Newport Beach. He was co-chairman of the city-county committee that sponsored formation of the Orange County Municipal Water district in 1950, and which directed the campaigns for its organization and subsequent annexation to the Metropolitan Water district. Senator Clyde Watson of Orange, whose seat in the legislature is being sought by the three candidates who have so far appeared in the campaign, is retiring and will not be a candidate this year. Anaheimers Return From Combat Zone Three Anaheimers were among the 2316 Army combat veterans who arrived in San Francisco today from the Orient on the transport Gen. W. F. Hase. From Anaheim are M/Sgt. Leslie T. Crowell, 816 North st., M/Sgt. Visvaldia A. Pakalns, 9081 Houston, Rt. 2, and M/Sgt. Lloyd L. Rowe, 128 No. Euclid ave. ANAHEIM EST. 1870 GAZETTE ANAHEIM, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1952 urging Chinese attacked by Allies L. Korea U.S.—Allied guns 3000 Chinese reds who tried through U.N. lines on western front before dawn toEighth Army staff officer scattered attacks along a sector northwest of Kofailed to dent the Allied area was the scene of fighting last December and warplanes prowled North skies but heavy clouds many communist ground Fighter-bombers blasted holes in the wobbly red em before noon. Other athere mounted against the first front lines. 6,731 of in Reno announced sum of money recovered. Mrs. Michaud large sum when she was custody. Noted Robinson as saying 't have to go any further. all of Redfield's money' 'Mr. Pres Truman i Gravedigger In Slaying o Arnold Schus NEW YORK — A gravedigger was held todanonymous writer of a ling letter to slain Arnold whose tip led police to ber Willie Sutton. Sutton went on trial t a 1950 holdup. A heav guard stuck close to the three-time prison break detectives screened spect. The gravedigger's arr on federal charges was after Brooklyn District Miles F. McDonald, app the federal courthouse to him. McDonald indicated he fed the FBI assertedly LITTLE PALS—Nancy Haney, 3, feeds brother Kenny, 1½, a bit of carrot as they wait for their mother to claim them at the Van Nuys police station. They had wandered from home, played with some paint for a while, then continued the adventure as rain soaked their heads. A passerby bundled them up in his sweater and coat and took them to the station. The frantic mother had already phoned police.—(Associated Press photo) La Habra Citizens Turn Thumbs Down on $10 Million Steel Plant Proposal to establish a steel foundry on Imperial highway at the south edge of La Habra was dropped last night when LaHabra citizens stormed the city hall in protest, and the La Habra city planning commission denied application for a zoning variance to permit heavy industry. Sailor Bashes Woman Who Failed To Obey Command Santa Ana police today were searching for an unidentified sailor who leaped into an automobile driven by Mrs. Doris Anton, 30, of Santa Ana, early today and slugged her in the face when she refused his command to drive to the outskirts of the city. Mrs. Anton, who was unable to identify two different sailors the police brought to her later after searching the downtown bars and cafes, said she was turning a corner from Orange ave. to McFadden st. at 12:45 a.m. today when the sailor opened the door of the car and leaped into the seat beside her. Instead of obeying his command, she stopped the car at Main st. and told him that he have to go any further. All of Redfield's money." can't comment on what he said Mrs. Michaud and were friends. All officials in Flagstaff are arriving at Mrs. today because she was joggy from swallowing a quantity of sleeping pills. Kend Storm Homes 'Duster' Southwest Hit QUERQUE (UP) — The heat deluged California last week eriked across the high eastern New Mexico and Texas last night in the winter in years. Up to 110 miles an hour the dust to sullen clouds 20,000 feet high. All tornado ripped into Falls, Tex., with some damage. Billowing dust auto travel near Hobbs, New Mexico oil center. Persons were hospitalized or highway smashups. The northern edge of the flat that the Weather Bureau moved in from Passt. Oklahoma City, Ardka., and Wichita Falls heavy showers. The drought rain today to Kan-land Wichita, Kans. Arrus Market Growers, Inc., reported auction markets Californiess were about unchanged. Carl Monahan and Herman Perry, Whittier Realty firm which had purchased the 41-acre site and proposed to resell it to the National Malleable Steel Casting Co. Monahan told the commission that the steel firm planned a $3,000,000 to $5,000,000 plant which would ultimately expand to a $10,000,000 investment, paying about half of the La Habra taxes and having a $3,000,000 annual payroll in two years. The La Habra Citizens League, formed by subdivision residents, nevertheless opposed a steel foundry, despite Monahan's assurances that a modern plant would be built, complying with smog ordinance regulations to reduce smoke, fumes, and dust. F. D. Lockman of the Lockman Foundation, who sold the site to the realty firm, added his protest. He said he had been told the property would be used only for light industry. La Habra Chamber of Commerce also went on record as opposing heavy industry and favoring a zone for light industry. The planning commission, headed by Chairman Hunter Munford, voted unanimously to deny the application on the ground of lack of complete information regarding the plant and "overwhelming opposition of the La Habra citizens. Senate Group Refuses Morr Subpoena Pow WASHINGTON (UP)—The Judiciary committee today against giving government up man Newbold Morris powers to seize records quire witnesses to come him for testimony. Rejecting a White House for Morris to have this au committee approved a bill which would grant powers to an investigator pointed by the president a firmed by the Senate. Southern Beach Cities Discussing Municipal Water District committee already organically on the investigation of the San Juan Capistrano Beach and San Diego district last night disproposal for annexation territory to the new Orange Municipal Water district means of gaining Colorado water rights. It was that the committee will with its work until a community decision is made with the citizens there trano high school audience President Glenn P. The Orange County Mulater district, Attorney William Lillington and Engineer C. Mining, of the district staff, has been conducting my exploration of the an- nexation proposal for the south county group, and roughly estimates the probable cost of a water line from MWD delivery points to supply El Toro and the south end of the county, to San Clemente, at approximately $2,500,000. The figure is subject to considerable variation, it was said, depending upon the territory to be supplied. El Toro already is part of the municipal water district. Plans have been discussed previously of that community joining with the Irvine company in a joint project of carrying the water line from the MWD delivery point, near Santiago dam, to El Toro. Also attending the meeting last night was Judge C. C. Cravath of Laguna Beach, who represents Coastal Municipal Water district on the MWD board of directors. Human Centrifuge To Simulate Flight Effects WASHINGTON (UP)—The Navy disclosed today that it has developed a whirling device which can simulate the hazards to which humans and planes are subjected to in high speed, high altitude flight. Navy scientists said it offered the best possible solution to still unanswered questions about the physiological effects of operating—and escaping from—high altitude, high-speed airplanes. It also is designed to test aircraft materials under stress. The machine consists essentially of a 50-foot steel arm stretching horizontally from a huge drum. At the outer end of the arm is an aluminum-plastic gondola in which a man can sit and be whirled, tumbled and subjected to various other forces, just as if he were in an airplane. Speeding Analyst Man Gets Tickle Robert Barclay Sallee, E. Starr st., Anaheim, wa; citations for three traffic tensions by Santa Ana police later day after he had a speeded in Main st. traffic. A police patrol car saw him off at 17th and Main sts. and sued him through traffic at up to 70 miles per hour. said. When they overhaul on Santa Ana blvd. nearby, they gave him ticketing in and out of traffic for having no muffler and idistration on his par. CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY ZETTE 1952 6c per Copy — 50c per Month NUMBER 99 ‘Mr. President,’ Out Today, Embroils Truman in Fight with Ex-Friend Byrnes Gravedigger Held In Slaying of Arnold Schuster NEW YORK UP — An elderly gravedigger was held today as the anonymous writer of a threatening letter to slain Arnold Schuster, whose tip led police to bank robber Willie Sutton. Sutton went on trial today for 1950 holdup. A heavy police guard stuck close to the slippery, three-time prison breaker, and detectives screened spectators. The gravedigger’s arraignment in federal charges was delayed, after Brooklyn District Attorney Files F. McDonald, appeared at the federal courthouse to question him. McDonald indicated he was miffed the FBI assertedly had not Book Discloses Official Fears Of World War III WASHINGTON UP—Harry S. Truman pictures himself, in material he supplied for a new book out today, as a sentimental, lonely man who sometimes feels the White House has turned him into “a two-headed calf”—a freak in the eyes of the American public. He also says he believes “there is no indispensable man in a democracy.” Truman and his former secretary of state, James F. Byrnes, were in open contradiction today over whether Truman gave Byrnes a bawling out for his handling of Russian relations in January, 1945. Truman says he did. Byrnes, now governor of South Carolina, says “absolutely untrue.” Hoffman Explains Why Ike Should Return to U.S. PARIS UP—Paul G. Hoffman said today in effect that he has told General Eisenhower he ought to make plans to give up his command and go home to help campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. From now on Eisenhower’s political life is going to interfere with his command of SHAPE, Hoffman said, explaining: “He’s just going to be subjected to political pressures from morning to night. That means that he will not be in a position to meet his operational responsibilities in SHAPE.” Hoffman, former Marshall Plan chef, repeated to reporters the 1950 holdup. A heavy police guard stuck close to the slippery, three-time prison breaker, and detectives spectated screens. The gravedigger's arraignment on federal charges was delayed after Brooklyn District Attorney Ellis F. McDonald, appeared at the federal courthouse to question him. McDonald indicated he was miffed the FBI assertedly had not notified him earlier of the arrest. Schuster, 24-year-old Brooklyn nothing salesman, was killed near his home March 8. Just a month ago, on Feb. 18, Schuster had spotlighted the nation's ace bank robber and prison escape artist on a subway train. The FBI arrested the gravedigger, William Brinckerhoff Brown, 1, of New York, last night and said he admitted writing Schuster in Feb. 22 that "your days are numbered for being a squealer on Willie Sutton." Schuster received about a dozen threats before he was shot. FBI agents refused to answer newsmen's questions on certain aspects of the case—what Brown's motive in writing Schuster might have been, whether the gravedigger was questioned about the murder and how the FBI traced him. However, he was reported to have denied killing Schuster. Senate Group Refuses Morris Subpoena Power WASHINGTON (AP)—The Senate addiary committee today voted against giving government clean-up man Newbold Morris broadowers to seize records and require witnesses to come before him for testimony. Rejecting a White House request Morris to have this authority, the committee approved instead bill which would grant such powers to an investigator if appointed by the president and convened by the Senate. He also says he believes "there is no indispensable man in a democracy." Truman and his former secretary of state, James F. Byrnes, were in open contradiction today over whether Truman gave Byrnes a bawling out for his handling of Russian relations in January, 1945. Truman says he did. Byrnes, now governor of South Carolina, says "absolutely untrue." The dispute flared between the two ex-friends as a result of the publication of the book "Mr. President." The editor, William Hillman, prints the text of a Truman letter addressed to Byrnes on Jan. 5, 1946 with a presidential note saying Truman read it to Byrnes personally. Hillman, former newspaperman and now a commentator for the Mutual Broadcasting System, says in the book that the president gave him express permission to make the document public at this time. It is possibly the most sensational single item in the book, which is constructed largely of excerpts from Truman's diaries and private papers. The book discloses that on two occasions during the last four years Truman feared World War III was about to begin. The first was during Berlin blockade crisis in 1948. The second was in December, 1950, after the Chinese communists intervened in the Korean war and pushed the United Nations forces back. The papers also disclose that Truman once sent a message to the Kremlin that Stalin was not a man of his word. The letter to Byrnes, which the president said was so urgent that he read it to Byrnes instead of mailing it, was released at this time. Hillman says, to make two points: (1) To show Truman's early attitude toward the Soviets; and (2) to show the president's attitude toward delegating authority to subordinates. On the first point, the president said in the letter "I'm tired of babying the Russians" and implied criticism of agreements which From now on Eisenhower's political life is going to interfere with his command of SHAPE, Hoffman said, explaining: "He's just going to be subjected to political pressures from morning to night. That means that he will not be in a position to meet his operational responsibilities in SHAPE." Hoffman, former Marshall Plan chef, repeated to reporters the views he had presented to Eisenhower in conferences that began at dinner Saturday night and went into long hours on Monday. "The general, as usual, looked pleasant but made no comment," Hoffman added. There was no indication Hoffman had asked Eisenhower to leave his European command at once. 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(AP)—The possibility that President Truman's long-deferred decision on whether to run again may be in the mak- against giving government cleanroom man Newbold Morris broad powers to seize records and require witnesses to come before them for testimony. Rejecting a White House request for Morris to have this authority, the committee approved instead a bill which would grant such powers to an investigator if appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. Morris' name was never submitted to the Senate for confirmation. President Truman chose him for the job of ferreting out corruption in the government and named him as a special assistant to the attorney General, a post not requiring Senate confirmation. Morris has launched his job by sailing to 25,000 higher-paid government officials a questionfire requiring them to list their resources of income. Speeding Anaheim Man Gets Tickets Robert Barclay Sallee, 20, 8171 Starr st., Anaheim, was given nations for three traffic violalons by Santa Ana police late yesday after he had allegedly seeded in Main st. traffic. A police patrol car saw him take at 17th and Main sts. and purned him through traffic at speeds to 70 miles per hour, officers d. When they overhauled him in Santa Ana blvd. near Broadway, they gave him tickets for letting in and out of traffic and having no muffler and no regraration on his car. Helen Salaets Hurt in Crash Helen C. Salaets, 20, 202 E. Broadway, Anaheim, received head and knee injuries at 9:50 p.m. yesterday when a car in which she was riding with Eddie J. Corrales, 20, of Buena Park was involved in a three-car crash at Eighth and Main sts, in Santa Ana, The Corrales car struck two other cars that had stopped for a red signal at the intersection. Key West Talks Raise Hopes of Truman Decision KEY WEST Fl. (P)—The possibility that President Truman's long-deferred decision on whether to run again may be in the making heightened interest today in talks under way at this naval submarine retreat. The future course of the Democratic party may well hinge on conferences between the president and national party chairman Frank E. McKinney. (A national committee official said in Washington strong pressure was building among Democrats for an early answer—at least to McKinney in private—on whether Truman plans to run again. The official, who asked not to be named, said party workers believe McKinney should know enough to give them private guidance.) McKinney arrived here yesterday in his own 50-foot cabin cruiser a few hours before publication of reviews of a book by William Hillman, former newspaperman and now a Mutual Broadcasting commentator, revealing intimate details of the president's own diary. Passages dealing with Truman's controversies with Bernard M. Baruch, a one-time adviser, and Gov. James F. Byrnes of South Carolina, his one-time secretary of state, are sure to stir political debate throughout this election year.