anaheim-gazette 1952-06-10

Forecast AUHS sports enthusiasts are cheering the end of a banner season for the Colonists. On Page 2 today they will find some dope on what to expect for next year. VOLUME LXXXI Anaheim's FIRST Newspaper ANAHE Gen. MacArthur Chosen to Keynote GOP Convention; Ike Continues Conferences (By the Associated Press) In a political victory for forces of Sen. Robert A. Taft, the Republican National committee today named Gen. Douglas A. MacArthur to be keynoter of the GOP national convention. Supporters of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in the contest for the party’s presidential nomination had opposed the idea of making MacArthur the keynoter. However, was reported there were only several "no's" in the closed meeting vote of the committee at Chicago. The committee voted to send the keynoter post away from the temporary chairman of the convention. Walter S. Hallan signed that job. Rep. Joseph another Taft supporter, was Martin of Massachusetts was made permanent chairman. Eisenhower made an effort meanwhile to pick up some convention delegates from the south. IN NEW YORK, Eisenhower continued his timetable conference with GOP delegates. This afternoon, every hour on the hour, meets groups from Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina. The Associated Press tally pre-convention delegate strength shows all 17 delegates uncommitted in Georgia; nine for Taft. NORTHROP'S NEW RANGE FINDER . . . Officials of Northrop Aircraft, Inc., and the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps examine a T41 optical range finder which is being produced at Northrop's Anaheim division. Fire-power of the U.S. Army's new M47 tank is controlled by this stereoscopic device, which is operated by the gunner who fires the tank's weapon. Oliver P. Echols, Northrop board chairman and general manager, and Richard R. Nolan, Anaheim Division manager, look on as Col. W. S. Broberg, chief of the Los Angeles Ordnance District, peers into the instrument's eye piece. Northrop Takes Wraps Off Range Finder Being Manufactured Here. HAWTHORNE — U.S. Army Ordnance Corps officials disclosed today that the heretofore secret instruments being produced at the Anaheim Division of Northrop Aircraft, Inc., are the new T41 optical range finders for one of the U.S. Army's latest land destroyers, the M47 tank. Mounted permanently on the tank, the range finder quickly calculates the distance to a target. It greatly increases a tank gunner's chances for zeroing in on a target and making his first shot a hit. It is operated by the gunner who fires the weapon, and allows him to get off a round before the enemy can accurately calculate his position. The Ordnance development is Council to Act On Two Large Housing Tracts Tentative maps of two large tracts to the east of Anaheim are to be received tonight by Anaheim city council, meeting at 8 o'clock in city hall. Tract 1565, the second unit of the Bonded Homes $5,000,000 development, including 251 lots, will be presented for council consideration. They will be carved from territory on Placentia ave. now being processed for annexation to Bandit Suspect Denies Fullerton Robbery Charge In the face of positive identification as the bandit who held Harry Stein's liquor store on Spadra road, Fullerton, last Friday, Clifford Clyde Stewart fled in Superior Court today to he was in a cafe at Bell Gardens during the time of the robbery. George B. Martin, employee of the liquor store, said there was doubt that Stewart was the man who held him up at the point a gun at 6:30 p.m. on the February date. Martin further identified tinctive markings on the side of an automatic pistol of German make, which arresting officers Newport Beach took from Stewart's car when they took him after his brother, Julius, into custody Ocean boulevard, Corona Del Mar. Stewart had told them that the gun was found on the beach, later said he purchased it from man in Los Angeles, the office said. Michael Deveny, a Fullerton butcher, testified that Stewart resembled a man Deveny had so enter the liquor store shortly before the hold-up. Julius Stewart and Roscoe J. Moore, Bell Garden cafe owner, resembled two other men who were with the man who resembled Stewart, Deveny said. Moore corroborated Stewart testimony that he was in Moore cafe at Bell Gardens at the time. Mounted permanently on the tank, the range finder quickly calculates the distance to a target. It greatly increases a tank gunner's chances for zeroing in on a target and making his first shot a hit. It is operated by the gunner who fires the weapon, and allows him to get off a round before the enemy can accurately calculate his position. The Ordnance development is a complex range finder of precision optical, electronic and mechanical systems. Data on range and speed of a target as well as the type of ammunition the range is set for are automatically applied to the big tank gun. Northrop-Anaheim, the only manufacturer of the accurate aiming devices on the west coast, is one of seven producers of the instrument in the nation. CO-INCIDENT with the announcement that the range finders were being produced at Northrop's 250,000 square foot Anaheim plant, the Ordnance Corps released the first photographs of the fire control devices. Northrop-Anaheim is operating under Ordnance Corps contracts for quantity production of the T41 and other optical range finders for use in Army tanks. Rigid control of atmospheric conditions is maintained in the 30,000 square foot final range finder assembly room at Northrop-Anaheim. Technicians assemble the precision instruments in the dust-free, air-conditioned area in which temperature and humidity are kept at the optimum range for optical assembly. Tentative maps of two large tracts to the east of Anaheim are to be received tonight by Anaheim city council, meeting at 8 o'clock in city hall. Tract 1565, the second unit of the Bonded Homes $5,000,000 development, including 251 lots, will be presented for council consideration. They will be carved from territory on Placentia ave. now being processed for annexation to the city. Tract 1420, containing 78 proposed building lots, will be located in the Burton st. annexation, also in the initial stages of annexation. Stan E. Whieldon, president of Anaheim Chamber of Commerce, is the developer. Public hearings are scheduled on six requests for reclassification of territory to different zoning categories. Hearing dates are to be set for four reclassification requests. IN ADDITION to action on the Placentia and Burton st. annexations, the council will act on a request for permission to circulate annexation petitions in the Acacia st. proposed annexation. A hearing is scheduled for the H. M. Brinker variance to allow a change from R-O (suburban residence) to R-1 (single family residence) zoning in an area bounded by N. West st., W. La Palma ave., the west city limits and W. North st. Final reading of an ordinance on the new Municipal Code is set for tonight. Renewal of the city's trash-hauling contract with Taormina and Stepanian is scheduled for consideration. ANAHEIM GAZET EST. 1870 ANAHEIM, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1952 Keynote GOP Conferences Republican National comfirm the GOP national confor the party’s presidenkeynoter. However, it ported there were only scatno's" in the closed meeting of the committee at Chicago. committee voted to split keynoter post away from that temporary chairman of the tion. Walter S. Hallanan, that job. Rep. Joseph W. R. Taft supporter, was asso of Massachusetts was made ment chairman. hower made an effort while to pick up some condelegates from the south. NEW YORK, Eisenhower confirm his timetable conferences GOP delegates. This afterevery hout on the hour, he groups from Alabama, Georlal North Carolina. Associated Press tally of vention delegate strength all 17 delegates uncommitGeorgia: nine for Taft, four AFTER BLOODY BATTLE — Gas masked paratroopers with bayoneted guns ready, hold tear gas containers as they stand in midst of debris inside Compound 76, after the wildest fighting yet on Koje island, yesterday. An unofficial count listed killed and 85 wounded. One American killed and 13 wounded. At left an tryman examines wound of POW his head. US Troops Raze Compound 76 in Back To Relocate Spear-Wielding Prisoner KOJE ISLAND, Korea (UP)—Tough U. S. paratroopers today cracked communist of war rebellion in a rip-snorting 2½ hour battle that made a shambles of notorious pound 76 and uncovered a prisoner plot to seize the island. Thirty-one prisoners killed and 139 wounded in the bloody fighting. Autopsies showed that 12 prisoners killed by their follow reds with crude spears. Army Secretary Answers Hudelson Korea Statement WASHINGTON (UP)—Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, Jr., thoroughly disagrees with Mal. Gen. Daniel H. Hudelson that United Nations forces in Korea would be defeated if the communists should attack." Pace declared, "is contrary to everything that our highest military leaders in the field—the men who know most about the situation—have to report. "For my part, I'll put my trust in the ability of the Armed Forces of our nation and those of our Allies to meet any challenge which the communists may make," Pace said in a statement. The secretary was commenting on an interview in Los Angeles One American was killed and 14 were wounded. The slain American had been speared to death and not killed by a concussion grenade as first reported. Only one American was seriously wounded. Seven returned to duty and the others will go back in a few days. The fight broke out when the POWs disobeyed orders to move peaceably into new, smaller enclosures of about 500 each. U.S. Army intelligence officers found a master plan in 76 to liberate all 80,000 communist prisoners held on Koje. It called for the reds to seize the island and its U.N. garrison and turn its weapons against any force from the mainland. Further details were withheld. Not A Shot was fired in the bat team quelled the said: "The discipline of was superb. I have an port that not one shot w Compound 76. We cap exact plan of resistance He referred to the papers found inside 76 Boatner personally has North Korean Col. Lee a Compound 76 leader semble the POWs for Lee refused. At 5:45 a.m. loudspealed to the compound: "In 15 minutes you moved into newly compounds ... If quietly you will not be you resist you do so at peril." The communists dug freshly dug trenches an PA WIREPHOTO FRANCISCO—EX INTERNAL REVENUE COLLECACQUITTED—James G. Smyth (left) former collectors internal revenue here, smiles happily as his wife a big kiss on the cheek of his attorney Harold Faulk-ere last night. The kiss came after Smyth had been tested by a Federal court jury on three counts of back in his 1945 income tax. Stewart led a man Deveny had seen the liquor store shortly before the hold-up. Julius Stewart scoop J. Moore, Bell Gardens owner, resembled two other men were with the man who led Stewart, Deveny said. He corroborated Stewart's claim that he was in Moore's Bell Gardens at the time Fullerton robbery. He re-read the time because a fight taken place in the cafe, re-in arrest of two men, said. The secretary was commenting on an interview in Los Angeles by Hudleson, a reserve officer who is returning to civilian life after 21 months active duty, including service as commander of the 40th Division in Korea. NOT A SHOT was fired in the barbed wire encircled battlefield. The 750 Americans of the "Angels From Hell" combat team used concussions grenades, bayonets, tear gas and fists to subdue the rebellious 6400 North Koreans. The reds were armed with spears, knives, rocks and firebombs. Surrendering prisoners were hustled off to the new enclosures. Brig. Gen. Haydon L. Boatner, the Koje commander, had given the reds a chance to move to the new quarters peacefully. Die-hard communist leaders chose to fight. Boatner met the resistance with force in his campaign to gain uncontested control over the prison pens. The wild, swirling battle was witnessed by prisoners of two other unruly compounds—78 and 77. Shortly after the fight ended Boatner told prisoners in 78 to get ready to be moved—or else. The prisoners obeyed meekly. And leaders in Compound 77 sent word that they would be ready to move on Boatner's command. They will be moved tomorrow. Boatner was jubilant over the way the parathroopers from the 187th Airborne Regimental com- semble the POWs for Lee refused. At 5:45 a.m. loudspeakers ed to the compound: "In 15 minutes you moved into newly compounds . . . If you quietly you will not be you resist you do so at peril." The communists dug freshly dug trenches and fifteen minutes later troopers attacked. They through the barbed wired from several directions. Twenty minutes after ing started red Colonel captured. Rugged paratroopers him by the seat of the walked him "frogg lef hands and knees—out of pound. Tears streamed on his face. He was clamper tary confinement. Small Grass Fire Reported in C Three small grass fire five volunteer fire dept into action at various the county yesterday, to reports from State Division headquarters in Sun Garden Village press fire departments a call to a spot fire at 1 st., Stanton. Ocean View way City departments m to the E. L. Robinson Ocean View, where a burned over. Another sp the home of Mrs. Iva Iv Hamilton st., Costa Mesa the Costa Mesa department put it out. ZETTE 1952 5c per Copy — 50c per Month NO. 159 congress to Pass Seizure Law Says Taft-Hartley Law Is 'Far the Worst' of Two Alternatives WASHINGTON (AP)—President Truman's call for power to seize the struck steel industry got quick backing today from some lawmakers. But Senator Byrd (D., Va.), and others said they would insist that Truman seek a Taft-Hartley injunction instead. The issue, so far as the Senate is concerned, may be fought to a conclusion some time tonight. The Senate is considering a variety of proposals for dealing with the steel situation. Bulletin WASHINGTON (AP)—The Senate voted today to request that President Truman use the Taft-Hartley law and seek a court injunction against a continued steel strike. President Truman asked Congress today for power to seize and operate the struck steel industry. Before a hastily assembled joint session of the Senate and Former Bridgford Worker Arrested In Robbery Case A fourth suspect in the Bridgford Meat Packing Co. burglary last Dec. 8, has been arrested by police and is being held for arraignment. Police Chief Mark Stephenson, accompanied by an FBI agent, brought James W. Drake, formerly a refrigeration engineer in the Bridgford plant on N. Patt st., back to Anaheim from Paramount AP WIREPHOTO no official count listed 32 reds wounded. One American was wounded. At left an infantiles wound of POW holding 176 in Battle Prisoners Today cracked communist prison a shambles of notorious Coml. Thirty-one prisoners were owed that 12 prisoners were bat team quelled the reds. He said: "The discipline of the troops was superb. I have an official report that not one shot was fired in Compound 76. We captured the exact plan of resistance." He referred to the map and papers found inside 76. Boatner personally had ordered North Korean Col. Lee Hak Woo, a Compound 76 leader, to assemble the POWs for moving. Lee refused. At 5:45 a.m. loudspeakers blared to the compound: "In 15 minutes you will be moved into newly constructed compounds . . . If you move quietly you will not be hurt. If you resist you do so at your own peril." The communists ducked into freshly dug trenches and waited. WASHINGTON UP—The Senate voted today to request that President Truman use the Taft-Hartley law and seek a court injunction against a continued steel strike. President Truman asked Congress today for power to seize and operate the struck steel industry. Before a hastily assembled joint session of the Senate and House, Truman said the choice lay between federal seizure and use of the Taft-Hartley act. A Taft-Hartley injunction against the strike of 650,000 United Steel workers, he said, "is by far the worst of the two approaches." Standing on the speaker's dais in the House chamber, Truman told the Senators and Representatives that the Supreme Court had ruled against presidential seizure of the steel mills, but had said Congress could vote to take private property. Senate Democratic Leader McFarland (Ariz.), said he had no guess what Congress will do, but it ought to pass a seizure bill and get the steel mills back to work. Senator Byrd said he would insist upon a Senate vote on use of the Taft-Hartley act. He is author of an amendment to that act which would request the president to invoke terms of the Taft-Hartley act. Senator Taft (R-Ohio), asked for comment on the president's speech, said he would make a statement either in his own name or for the Senate Republican Policy committee after it meets later today. He is chairman of the group. MELHORN SERVICES Funeral services, for Paul H. Melhorn have been set at 2:30 p.m. Thursday in Zion Lutheran church, Chartres and Emily sts. Interment will follow in the family plot at Anaheim cemetery. Citrus Market All auction markets California oranges slightly higher in spots. A fourth suspect in the Bridgford Meat Packing Co., burglary last Dec. 8, has been arrested by police and is being held for arraignment. Police Chief Mark Stephenson, accompanied by an FBI agent, brought James W. Drake, formerly a refrigeration engineer in the Bridgford plant on N. Patt st., back to Anaheim from Paramount where he was apprehended. Drake disappeared recently following the disclosure that two other men, John William White, Glendale, and Irving Shulman, North Hollywood, had been picked up in connection with the case. He was releved of his job at the meat packing plant something more than a month ago. Certain aspects of the case have led police to believe that Drake was the man who engineered the burglary and made the inside arrangements, calling in a group of San Francisco toughs to aid him. His knowledge of the plant may explain the ease with which the burglaries found point, paint guns and air jets with watch to paint the truck in which the stolen $50,000 worth of meat was transported. Drake first became suspect sometime after the robbery when a Bridgford truck driver disclosed that, in a conversation, Drake had mentioned the ease with which he calculated a truckload of meat could be stolen. Police booked Drake on suspicion of grand theft, grand theft of the truck, robbery and kidnaping. $25,000 Traffic Suit Being Heard Trial of a $25,000 damage suit based upon a traffic accident near La Habra, April 8, 1951, was under way today before a jury in Superior Judge Robert Gardner's court at Santa Ana. Ray V. Amescua and his wife, Trinidad, are plaintiffs in the action which was filed against Charles R. Zincke, 18, Fullerton junior college student, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence A. Small Grass Fires Reported in County Three small grass fires brought five volunteer fire departments into action at various points in the county yesterday, according to reports from State Forestry Division headquarters in Orange. Sun Garden Village and Cypress fire departments answered a call to a spot fire at 10901 Date st., Stanton. Ocean View and Midway City departments made a run to the E. L. Robinson place in Ocean View, where a half acre burned over. Another spot fire at the home of Mrs. Iva Iverson, 523 Hamilton st., Costa Mesa, brought the Costa Mesa department to put it out. Funeral services for Paul H. Melhorn have been set at 2:30 p.m. Thursday in Zion Lutheran church, Chartres and Emily sts. Interment will follow in the family plot at Anaheim cemetery. Citrus Market All auction markets California oranges slightly higher in spots. SUNKIST, First Grade— 126s 9.05; 150s 9.38; 176s 8.16; 200s 6.98; 220s 5.90; 252s 5.01; 288s 4.23. CHOICE, Second Grade— 150s 8.09; 176s 7.12; 200s 5.76; 220s 4.77; 252s 3.89; 288s 3.54. Frustrated Escapist from County Jail Ends Weekend Hunger Strike Erwin L. Ball, 31, also known as Cyril Hugh Pipkin, one of two men charged with burglary of the Buena Park Lumber Co., safe June 1, ended his hunger strike at the Orange county jail this morning after a week-end fast which followed a bungled attempt to break jail. Ball, who had steadily refused to eat after he was caught in an attempted escape, decided to sit up to the table this morning. Tomorrow, he and his alleged confederate, Marvin Wesley Autry, 32, are scheduled to be arraigned on the burglary charge in Santa Ana justice court. The two Long Beach men were apprehended just after taking $2916.93 in cash and checks from the lumber company safe. Deputy sheriffs in a patrol car became suspicious of their parked car and waited beside it until Ball and Autry arrived with the loot from the safe. Ball tried to escape from the county jail last Sunday night by sliding down a chute from the second story cell block. He landed in a sheriff's secretary's office on the main floor and found the opening blocked by a filing case. While he was attempting to shove the case aside, it overturned with a loud crash. The night desk sergeant in an adjacent room grabbed Ball and he was hustled back to his cell. Officers said that both Ball and Autry admitted burglary of a safe in a Ventura market last month. Efforts are being made to link them up with several Orange county safe robberies.