anaheim-gazette 1952-12-02

Northern California 82 YEARS OF DEVOTION TO ALL THAT ANAHEIM MORNING ORANGE COUNTY'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED IN 1870 VOLUME LXXXII ANAHEIM, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER Seal Beach Woman Charged with NEW FACTORY BEGUN — First shovelful of dirt on the site of Interstate Engineering Corp’s. Anaheim factory is turned at Vermont st. and Santa Fe tracks yesterday by L. D. Fedderman, left, and Mayor Charles Pearson of Anaheim. Offering advice at left is Clyde Cromer, chairman of Chamber’s Industrial division, while Stan Whieldon, Chamber president, watches at right. Ground Breaking Held at Site Of New Vacuum Cleaner Factory With representatives of the city of Anaheim, Anaheim Chamber of Commerce and the Interstate Engineering Corp., looking on, L. D. Fedderman, IEC president, and Anaheim Mayor Charles Pearson today broke ground for the new IEC factory at E. Vermont st. and the Santa Fe tracks. Included in the group of observers were the following IEC executives; Frank E. Booth, executive vice-president, treasurer and director; John E. Koster, vice president in charge of sales, secretary and director; James S. Gallagher, vice president in charge of production; Robert W. Limacher, national sales manager of the Vacuum Cleaner division and slated to be general manager of the Anaheim plant; William Q. Heintze, divisional sales manager; Ralph Fliegner, credit manager; William Currler, controller; William Theis, chief engineer; Milton Thomas, industrial’ engineer; Ed Russell, design engineer and Humphrey Daniels, production foreman. Other representatives of Anaheim included Councilman Bob Boney, City Administrator Keith Murdoch, Building Inspector Homer Wallace and George Oelkers, Light, Power and Water department director. Clyde Cromer, chairman of the Industrial division of the Chamber of Commerce. C. of C. officials included President Stan Whieldon, Secretary-Manager Winnie Moek Anaheimer Found Guilty of Theft Henry Lee Morgan, Jr., of Anaheim, charged with felony auto theft, was today awaiting hearing of his plea for probation Dec. 12, after being found guilty by a jury in one of the shortest trials Orange county courts have conducted. The jury was selected and all evidence completed by 11:30 a.m., an hour and a half after the case was called for trial yesterday in Judge Robert Gardner’s court. The jury then took the case and returned a verdict of guilty shortly after 2 p.m. Morgan was convicted of stealing an automobile Oct. 18 from Carl R. McGinnis, when the car was parked at Broadway and Philadelphia sts., Anaheim. The car was recovered a little later in an eastern Fullerton residential section. Dep. Dis. Attorney Robert P. Kneeland charged that Morgan had taken a number of other cars previously. Called to the stand in his own defense by Public Defender N. D. Meyer, Morgan testified that he did not remember having taken the car, having been intoxicated at the time. Italy's Orlando Dies at his Home ROME (AP)—Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, last surviving member of the Big Four architects of the Optimists Prepare for 2nd Annual Auction Sale Thousands of dollars worth of merchandise is again pouring into the Anaheim Optimist warehouse in preparation for their second annual Auction Sale scheduled to be held the nights of Dec. 4 and 5 at Tex Middleton's DeSoto-Plymouth showrooms at 420 W. Center st. Headed by co-chairman Bob Schooler and Al Garey, the entire club is busy rounding up merchandise from manufacturers, wholesalers and business concerns all over Orange county. A brand new gas range will be the delighted bargain of some fortunate housewife. Automatic washing machines, a dozen television sets and many other household appliances will go to a lucky bidder. Furniture dealers all over Orange county have contributed living room upholstered davenports and chairs, dinette tables, lamps, coffee tables, bedroom sets, mattresses and articles too numerous to mention. It should prove to be another field day for the home gardener. Listed for sale are innumerable choice azalias, camellias, pyracantha, bird of paradise plants, split philodendrons, dichondra seed and such necessary other items as fertilizers, garden hose, hand clippers and pruning shears. Again some good used cars will be sold at auction to the fellow who needs a work car with a lot of serviceable miles left under its hood. Service stations are contributing auto polish, seat covers, batteries and gallons of high quality motor oil. For the youngsters there will be bicycles, new and used, toys of every description and at least a dozen dolls. Jewelry from Anaheim's foremost jewelers is listed for sale. Clothing for both men and women will be on display. Through the courtesy of the David Weisz Co. in Los Angeles a professional auctioneer, Harry Engleson, will wield the hammer. All proceeds will go for Optimist Boys work in the community. California Whipped by Rain ALL THAT MORNING IS GOOD IN ANAHEIM ORANGE COUNTY'S WOLDEST NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED IN 1870 SDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 2, 1952 5 Cents per Copy 50 Cents per Month No. 283 Arged with Murder Hearing Set for December 10 in Santa Ana Court Filing of a murder charge yesterday against Mrs. Frances Conant Thorpe, 38-year-old Seal Beach nurse accused of shooting her husband to death on Thanksgiving Day, was followed by her arraignment and the setting of her preliminary hearing for Dec. 10 at 10 a.m. in Santa Ana Justice court. Herman Theodore Thorpe, 52, the husband, who had operated a pool hall at Garden Grove for 25 years, was shot to death in the living room of the Thorpe home at Seal Beach at 2:35 p.m. Thanksgiving Day, according to his wife. She declared that he shot himself. The district attorney's office and Seal Beach police claim that she fired the two bullets that struck him. One shattered his left forearm, the other entered his upper left chest, severed his jugular vein, and ranged downward and to the right, emerging low on the right side of his back. He could not have used his left hand, and the course of the bullet through Two Unions Give Reuther Support For Succession By NORMAN WALKER ATLANTIC CITY (UP)—The rubber and oil workers unions early today threw their strength to Walter P. Reuther, auto workers president—just about assuring the 45-year old Reuther of becoming the CIO's new president. Reuther, red-haired union chief who has had a meteoric career in the labor movement, was regarded as having sufficient votes to win the CIO's top job easily, to succeed the late Philip Murray. Reuther claimed an "overwhelming victory," but forces backing Allan S. Haywood, CIO vice president, claimed they were still in the running. President O. A. Knight of the oil workers told newsmen his union's convention votes would be cast in a block for Reuther. L. S. Buckmaster, head of the CIO Rubber Workers, issued a statement similarly pledging to Reuther. 62-MPH Wind Waves Sweep SAN FRANCISCO (UP)—and rain beat over Northern California yesterday as blizzards ed snow high in the mountains. The storm contributed to several accidental deaths. Many mans and highways were flooded, lines were snapped and buildings were unroofed. waves swept an unidentified from a fishing boat off San Francisco. He was not found. The main disturbance piled over Northern California and the Central section during the Winds, which hit up to 62 an hour in San Francisco, and at Sacramento, were expected diminish. But the Weather Bureau said series of storms will push eastward into California thus a low pressure trough and probably will be intermittent through tomorrow. Storm warnings were fled from Southern Oregon's Blanco to Point Conception Santa Barbara county. There was 17 inches of snow Donner Summit, on Highway at noon, and it was snow heavily. The California Auto Association said snow the trans-Sierra routes to New made tire chains mandatory Highway 40, and advisable Echo Summit, Highway 50, where there was 10 inches of snow the ground. Several lumber mills closed Humboldt county after gales peed out power lines. Two inches of rain fell in all three hours at Redwood City, a time virtually isolating the business district from residents. One shattered his left forearm, the other entered his upper left chest, severed his jugular vein, and ranged downward and to the right, emerging low on the right side of his back. He could not have used his left hand, and the course of the bullet through his body showed that he could not have held his right hand in position to inflict such a wound with the weapon, officers contend. They also said there were no powder burns on his body, or clothing. Mrs. Thorpe said that they had a minor quarrel and scuffled, while Thorpe was holding the gun. She fell and was knocked senseless, she said. When she recovered her senses at 6 p.m., she saw his dead body lying on the floor near her, she said. Two former district attorneys of Orange county, S. B. Kaufman of Anaheim and Z. B. West of Santa Ana, are defending Mrs. Thorpe. Atomic Age is Ten Years Old CHICAGO AM--The Atomic Age is 10 years old today. In late afternoon on Dec. 2, 1942, a group of scientists filed out of the University of Chicago. Several grinned, most had a look of work well accomplished. A guard stopped one of them. "What's going on, doctor, something happening in there?" Something had happened. The scientists had witnessed in a converted squash court beneath the west stands of Stagg Field the now-famous "Chicago Pile" experiment by which man first demonstrated that he could release the energy of the atom, and more important, could control it. Ike Completes Cabinet; Names Weeks and Durkin NEW YORK (P) — President-elect Dwight Eisenhower's cabinet was completed today with the announcement that he has designated GOP party official Sinclair Weeks of Boston for secretary of commerce and labor leader Martin R. Durkin of Chicago for secretary of labor. Durkin is an AFL union leader and a Democrat who voted for Gov. Adalai Stevenson. He is the only member of the Democratic party in the cabinet. He is general president, United Associated of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe-fitting Industry of the United States and Canada, International Union, American Federation of Labor. In Washington, he told reporters he was surprised by the appointment but believes Eisenhower will give full consideration to the problems of labor. Proposed Residential Restriction In M-1 Zone to get Public Hearing After extended debate and some argument yesterday afternoon Anaheim planning commission set public hearings for Jan. 5 and Feb. 2 on a proposal to exclude residential developments from sections of Anaheim zoned for industrial use. Before arriving at their decision as industrial," he explained. "Suppose the land sits idle because the owner can attract no industrial buyer. Should we have the right to tell him he cannot sell it to a subdivider for residential development?" "On the other hand," argued Chairman Ralph Summers, "the Proposed Residential Restriction In M-1 Zone to get Public Hearing After extended debate and some argument yesterday afternoon Anaheim planning commission set public hearings for Jan. 5 and Feb. 2 on a proposal to exclude residential developments from sections of Anaheim zoned for industrial use. Before arriving at their decisions, however, the planners argued nearly to basic concepts of the scope of a planning commission. Commissioner Joe Thompson objected to the proposed change in the municipal code because he felt it would be depriving a citizen of his right to do with his property as he saw fit. "We arbitrarily, on our own initiative, zone a piece of land as industrial," he explained. "Suppose the land sits idle because the owner can attract no industrial buyer. Should we have the right to tell him he cannot sell it to a subdivider for residential development?" "On the other hand," argued Chairman Ralph Summers, "the whole idea of planned zoning is to protect all property in the city and to assign to it uses appropriate to its location, nearby facilities, and so forth." City Attorney Preston Turner, called in to render an opinion, said he thought California courts would uphold such a restriction, provided that it can be shown that such a zoning restriction is part of a well ordered plan for the development of the city designed for its general welfare and that of its residents. Discussion of code changes in regard to parking requirements in the downtown area were postponed for lack of time, as were consideration of possible zoning for all areas in Anaheim's sphere of influence and in the proposed Acacia st. annexation. The planners sent a recommendation to the council for approval of the Acacia st. annexation, now starting through the legislative mill for about the fifth time. The variance requested by Stanley W. Heuser of Arcadia was granted. This will permit him to make two half-acre lots off a one-acre piece at 2218 to 2228 E. La Palma ave., subject to the following stipulations: Setbacks on the two lots must conform to setbacks on neighboring pieces of property and structures may not be set back from the property line more than 150 feet. The variance requested by Fred S. Jones of Montebello to allow him to erect multiple dwellings on a strip of land between Lemon and Los Angeles st., south of Vermont st., was held over for a study of possible reclassification of the parcel. Action will be taken at the next regular meeting, Jan. 5. MEXICO CITY—NIXON GE U. S. vice president elect left, gets preview of inauguries yesterday as Adolfo Ruiz came new president of Mexico Frisco Storm Hits Southland With Rain, Wind LOS ANGELES (P) — Heavy rain and wind swept over Southern California last night with heavy surf along the coast and snow in the mountains. The storm hit Bakersfield and Santa Barbara at 6:30 p.m. and reached Los Angeles two hours later. Gusts of wind as high as 32 miles an hour were recorded at Los Angeles international airport. A rough surf pounded the shore line at Redondo Beach, and a 6-foot 4-inch tide this morning was expected to add to the force of the sea. Earlier yesterday light rains had fallen over the Los Angeles area, but the fall was heavier in coastal and foothill regions. Occasional showers were forecast for today with heavier rain again tonight. SAN FRANCISCO (P) — The transport Marine Serpent is scheduled to dock here Wednesday with 983 Army combat veterans from the Far East. Rain, Wind Storm 2-MPH Wind Hits San Francisco; Waves Sweep Man from Fishing Boat AN FRANCISCO (P) — Wind rain beat over Northern California yesterday as blizzards drift snow high in the mountains. The storm contributed to several residential deaths. Many streets highways were flooded, power lines were snapped and some buildings were unroofed. High winds swept an unidentified man on a fishing boat off San Francisco. He was not found. Anaheim Welcomes Morning Gazette Congratulations poured into the Gazette office yesterday following delivery of the first issue of the morning Gazette to every home in Anaheim. One business man said that he became so engrossed in reading the paper with his morning coffee that he was very nearly late for work. Congratulations came in by telephone and in personal visits of people to the Gazette office. Business executives expressed themselves as highly pleased with the first morning issue. (See Page 8.) Along with the expressions of good wishes were many new subscriptions to the Gazette from people in all parts of the community. The consensus of opinion was that Anaheim needs and is ready for a first class local morning newspaper. November Permits Total $380,880 Building permits issued by the UN Committee Approves Indian Peace Proposal By FRANCIS W. CARPENTER UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (P)—Climaxing the most bitter battle in years, the U.N. Political committee last night approved overwhelming India's battered Korean peace plan endorsing the Western stand against forced repatriation of prisoners. The committee furthermore appealed to the communists to change their blunt rejection and accept the proposal as a just basis for an agreement ending the Korean war. The vote was 53 to 5 Soviet bloc with one abstention, Nationalist China. The resolution now goes to the full UN assembly, which is slated to meet tomorrow in a move to speed final approval and rush the UN action to Asia. Just before the vole, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky doomed any lingering Asian hopes of an agreement on this basis by tongue-lashing India and her delegate, V. K. Krishna Menon, who masterminded the proposal in the committee. Menon appealed to Vishinsky to accept the plan in the name of peace, but Vishinsky shot back that the appeal was "pathetic" and "ludicrous." The Soviet foreign minister said: "We won't be carried away by any false and spurious appeals for November Permits Total $380,880 Building permits issued by the city of Amelia during November totaled $380,880, according to the report of Building Inspector Homer Wallace. The total was split up into 40 single family dwellings for a total of $309,500, two duplexes for $39,000, and the balance in miscellaneous permits. November, 1952, ran slightly behind the same month last year, building-wise, $380,680 to $411,150. The 11-month period during last year, however, permits totaled only $5,030,686 as against $6,621,501 for the same period this year. Permits issued today included one for Al Davis, 715 S. Olive st., for a dwelling at 1447 Damon ave., to cost $11,000; and one for Donald R. Watt, 548 Sherwood dr., for a $16,000 triplex at 543 Hampshire-st. Asian hopes of an agreement on this basis by tongue-lashing India and her delegate, V. K. Krjshna Menon, who master-minded the proposal in the committee. Menon appealed to Vishinsky to accept the plan in the name of peace, but Vishinsky shot back that the appeal was "pathetic" and "ludicrous." The Soviet foreign minister said: "We won't be carried away by any false and spurious appeals for unity, thus trying to turn eyes on us. No, the eyes are on you, Mr. Menon. You, by your resolution, are trying to push people into the holocaust of war... As best air, you are dreamers... At the worst, you, Mr. Menon, don't understand your own position as regards the Americans." In brief, the committee resolution provides for: 1. A repatriation commission made up of Czechoslovakia, Poland, Sweden and Switzerland to effect the release and repatriation of all prisoners of war. In view of the Communist stand, Czechoslovakia and Poland are expected to refuse to serve on the commission. 2. Appointment of an emplore to serve with the commission and vote in the event of tie decisions. If the commission cannot agree on NIXON GETS PREVIEW U.S. vice president elect Richard Nixon, gets preview of inauguration ceremony westerday as Adolfo Ruiz Cortines benew president of Mexico. Nixon will go through something similar Jan. 20 in Washington. At right of Nixon in box at Bellas Artes Theater is Gov. Earl Warren of California. Mrs. Nixon is to right of Warren. Daily Living for Peace of Mind Editors note: This is one of a series of daily articles by Anaheim ministers and is published by the Gazette in the interest of the kind of daily living that leads to contentment and happiness in troubled times. Stop Your Praying! Rev. BOB KEVORKIAN First Baptist Church "I cannot see the sense of praying to God. I have prayed but He never has answered any of them!" This is a good question. We hear so much about prayer. How does it affect God and us? Prayer does not change the "will" of God. God's will can never be changed, otherwise He would be subject to error and thus relinquish His position as God. Prayer is important because it releases the will and mind of God. God wills to perform many things but He is restricted by our lack of faith and unbelief. Jesus said, "Ye have not because ye ask not." Of course we would understand that this permits us to ask only for those things which would fall within His will. God is not a senile Santa Claus who hands out objects to people who do not know how to use them. Good parents know how to discriminate in the requests of their children. So does God. Thank goodness He does not give us everything we want. What if He gave us a knife and we did not know how to handle it? What about money? Oh, be happy that He did not answer your request for an oil well. Maybe the riches would ruin you. Many people have jumped out of windows with five million dollars in their pockets. Maybe God's will is more important than your own. Maybe your will ought be to do God's will.