anaheim-gazette 1953-02-17

Red Planes Shoot Ben-Gurion in Defiant Blast At Red Action JERUSALEM (UP) — Premier David Ben-Gurion declared Monday night that Israel was not going to take Russian "slanders" of Jewry lying down, and that the reasons given by the Soviet Union for its rupture of relations lacked any "basis in fact." First Reaction The premier's statement to parliament was the first reaction by a ranking Israeli official to Moscow's abrupt severance of relations last Thursday as the result of the bombing of the Soviet legation in Tel Aviv. Three Russians were injured in the explosion. Russia's note announcing the rupture charged Israeli police with convincement in the crime and accused Israeli officials of inciting anti-Soviet terrorism. The real reason behind the rupture, Israelis have surmised, was to build up the Communist anti-Zionist campaign behind the Iron Curtain. In this campaign Israel is being pictured in increasingly violent terms as a center of American "imperialist" influence, and Jews in Communist countries appear to be facing an increasingly difficult time. Rejects Charge Ben-Gurion rejected Russia's allegation that Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett had incited the bombing of the United States. The real reason behind the rupture, Israelis have surmised, was to build up the Communist anti-Zionist campaign behind the Iron Curtain. In this campaign Israel is being pictured in increasingly violent terms as a center of American "imperialist" influence, and Jews in Communist countries appear to be facing an increasingly difficult time. Rejects Charge Ben-Gurion rejected Russia's allegation that Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett had incited the bombing of the Soviet legation last Monday night by his speech of Jan. 19. “There is not a shadow of truth in this description of the foreign minister’s speech,” said Ben-Gurion. “There is not a single word of implication which constitutes directly or indirectly and incitement to acts of enmity against the Soviet Union.” In his speech Sharett had said Moscow's charges of a "doctors plot" to murder Soviet leaders was an attempt to "justify anti-Jewish incitement" and a hostile act against the Jewish State." Moscow charged that several of the doctors were connected with the American Joint Distribution committee, a Jewish welfare agency. No Slur on Jewry Ben-Gurion declared it was Israel's political and moral duty to reject slanders against Jewish doctors, and "The government of Israel could not be silent when anyone attempted to cast a slur on the name of Jewry." Search Pressed For Survivors Of Gulf Crash MOBILE, Ala. — The Coast Guard cutter Blackthorn headed toward Mobile Monday with the bodies of 17 victims of the National Airlines crash while the air-sea search for 29 other occupants of the ill-fated DC-6 went forward. Anxious relatives of the dead and missing gathered at a downtown morgue to assist airlines officials in the grim task of identifying the bodies. Search Widens An intensified search of still choppy Gulf of Mexico waters 44 miles southeast of Mobile failed to turn up any additional bodies. The search was widened after the Coast Guard reported a Navy PBY crew from St. Petersburg sighted a life jacket 25 miles southeast of the crash. The cutter Triton picked up debris and clothing 35 miles southeast of the crash scene. Parking, Landscaping Zone Considered by Planners The creation of a new restricted zone, to be used for parking and landscaping by business and manufacturer concerns, was considered yesterday by the Anaheim planning commission. The area would be reserved to frostage property of new commercial plants, on which no buildings would be constructed, although the amount of the area would depend upon the size of the lot and building. Relatively in the pioneering stages, this plan has been used successfully in Toronto, Canada, Commissioner Bob Mungall said. The plants in that area, he said, would not seem out of place even in a residential district. Permit Refused Terming a used-truck sales lot at 1222 N. Lemon st., a "junk yard," the commission refused to grant a permit for its continuation until the owner, Bascom Rush, 512 N. Parton st., Santa Ana, appears before the commission. Rush owns a similar lot, on which he sells surplus army vehicles, school buses, and trucks, at 1001 W. Fourth st., in Santa Ana. A previously bitterly contested zone change request was granted with no opposition when Arval Morris, who led the fight to reclassify the property bordered by Santa Ana st. and South st., between East st. and Dorchester ave., presented a petition from Otto Ahlers, who formerly opposed the change, giving his consent to it. County Cinema Club to Award Top Film Trophies To climax a successful year, Orange county Cinema club awarded trophies to its members' motion pictures of the year at Greenbrier inn tomorrow at 6 p.m. Nearly 150 motion picture thrusiasts and clubs from within hundred miles radius are expected to attend this 14th annual bquet to view these outstanding films. "It is expected to be the most terrific program ever put on by the county's only motion picture society's Leand Hansen, president, stated. L. A. Club to Judge The Los Angeles 8mm club known as the "world's first aforemost," were chosen to judge this year's contest. The interceded public is invited and may obtain tickets from local camerestores prior to the banquet. Hanson, who is also vice president of the Southern California association of Amateur Mo... Diplomatic Drinking Subject of Tour WASHINGTON (AP) — W. A. Scharrfenberg leaves Tuesday on a world tour to check personally on how much drinking is being done by U. S. diplomats. Even before he leaves, Scharrfenberg is pretty sure what his private research will prove: That they're drinking too much. Scharrfenberg's plans were announced in a news release, and he later amplified his views in an interview. An executive secretary of the American Temperance society, Scharrfenberg has been carrying on a campaign against diplomatic drinking. It was he who announced recently that 122 million cocktails had been consumed by state department people over a nine-year span. Scharrfenberg said Monday that he reached this figure after an official in the department had made a study of expense accounts. "You'd be surprised at what the expense accounts show," Scharrfenberg said. "Why, the gin bill alone came to six million dollars." He's sure U. S. drinking produces a poor impression in Moslem countries, where religion condemns the use of alcoholic beverages. "Our drinking is just like waving a red flag in their faces," he said. "When one of those countries gets its independence, as soon as it kicks out the white man, it kicks his bourbon and rye out right behind him." Scharrfenberg said he hopes to get reaction to U. S. drinking by interviewing the common man in taxi drivers and such — as well as native leaders. And along the way he hopes to set up national temperance societies. Twenty six nations now have them, he said. The American Temperance society founded in 1826, has had ups and downs. But it's been on the ups since a revival in 1940. Scharrfenberg says, and now has between 160,000 and 175,000 active members. Shoot First in Jet Battle OF DEVOTION TO ALL THAT IS GOOD IN ANAHEM HEIM ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17, 1953 5 Cents per Copy 50 Cents per Month urgs to be Executed March Propaganda Against Death Sentence Due to Increase NEW YORK (AP)—The atom spy team of Julius Ethel Rosenberg were condemned anew Monday to three weeks—a judgment that is expected to heighten drumbeat of world-wide propaganda against the execuWithout comment, Federal Judge Irving R. Kaufman set the week of March 9 as the execution period for the first American civilians ever condemned to die for wartime espionage. Rosenberg, 34, and his tiny 36-year-old wife were spared death on the original execution date of Jan. 14 so they could appeal to the White House for clemency, President Eisenhower turned them down last week. Commies Protest Communists throughout the world have protested the verdict that doomed the couple for their wartime spying for Soviet Russia. Picket lines have tramped before the White House off and on for Psychologic War Expert To Assist I WASHINGTON (AP)—Pro-Eisenhower Monday named Jackson, New York mapublisher and war-time p logical war expert, to a new of special assistant in cha- America's cold war plan Reaping Zone Planners ated zone, to be used for ness and manufacturing by the Anaheim city should be reserved to frontounty Cinema b to Award to Film Trophies climax a successful year, the state county Cinema club will trophies to its members' top pictures of the year at the abrier inn tomorrow at 6:30 early 150 motion picture enlists and clubs from within a ed miles radius are expectattend this 14th annual banto view these outstanding is expected to be the most program ever put on by county's only motion picture y's Leland Hansen, presistated. L. A. Club to Judge Los Angeles 8mm club, as the "world's first and most" were chosen to judge year's contest. The interestful public is invited and may obickets from local camera prior to the banquet. Jason, who is also vice president of the Southern California ation of Amateur Movie Weather 'Southern California—Generally clear Tuesday and Wednesday; dry northeasterly winds, locally strong and gusty over mountain ridges, through and locally near canyons; little change in temperature. Kids Elect to Remain with Foster Mother; Judge Honors their Choice LOS ANGELES UP—A judge Monday refused to restore Mrs. Lillian Wilson Stewart's five children to her after they testified, one by one, that they wanted to remain with their foster parents. Mrs. Stewart, 36, wept as her 14-year-old daughter, Hazel Wilson, ran sobbing from the witness stand and threw herself in the arms of Mrs. Mary A. Collins, 51. "I love her very much. She is the only mother I have ever known." Hazel said of Mrs. Collins, whom she calls "mom." "I don't want to leave her." Mrs. Stewart heard her five children express a preference to remain with their foster mother and her husband, Orville C. Collins, 42. There were Charles, 17. Local Postmaster Discourses on Lincoln, Davis "My brother and I are doing villans ever condemned to die for wartime espionage. Rosenberg, 34, and his tiny 36-year-old wife were spared death on the original execution date of Jan. 14 so they could appeal to the White House for clemency, President Eisenhower turned them down last week. Commies Protest Communists throughout the world have protested the verdict that doomed the couple for their wartime spying for Soviet Russia. Picket lines have tramped before the White House off and on for weeks. However, non-communist concern with the case also was highlighted last week when it was revealed that Pope Plus XII had relayed to the Justice Department protests he received against the execution. The pope did not comment on the merits of the case. The Rosenbergs have no more than a ghost of a chance of beating the electric chair, unless, in a last minute change of heart, they decide to tell the whole story of their spy activities. Thus far they have maintained innocence and insisted they have nothing to tell. Their attorney, Emanuel H. Bloch, still is pressing the case with the U.S. Supreme Court as his destination. However, the high court already has twice refused to intervene in the case and it would be almost unprecedented for the justices to change their minds. and Richard, 16. Robert, 9, and Kathy, 8, said they liked their mother "a little bit" but Mrs. Collins "a whole lot." Mrs. Stewart sought to set aside the guardianship of Mrs. Collins, in whose care she placed them eight years ago. She had separated then from her husband, who died soon afterward. Now she has remained and feels, she said, she can give them a good home. Her second husband, Tunis O. Stewart, is a hospital employee. Fourteen-year-old Hazel testified she had not been visited by her mother since "about three Christmases ago." She told Superior Judge Otto J. Emme that she prayed in church last Sunday for Mrs. Collins but not for her mother. Judge Emme said Mrs. Stewart had failed to show grounds for removing Mrs. Collins as guardian. He advised the mother to take time to get acquainted with the children and the foster parents. Mrs. Collins also was in tears as the case closed. WASHINGTON (UP)—Protester Eisenhower Monday named Jackson, New York man publisher and war-time palogical war expert, to a new of special assistant in chaAmerica's cold war planning. Jackson, an aldea to Eisenhower in the north African and pean campaigns of World War II will serve as the White House with the scattered departand agencies now seeking to ter the global propaganda aner pressure of the Soviet bloc. Announcing the appointSherman Adams, chief assistithe president, said Jackson have "special responsibilitithe 'cold war' planning of the ministration." His salary w $15,000 a year. This was the second mothe administration's annudetination to step up ther tion's cold war effort. Eisener said during his campaign fall that greater pressure in field offered a "chance to gain tory without casualties." He that "a man of exceptional fications" must be put in o of the national psychological fort with direct access to ther executive. PRESIDENT WELCOMENet Eisenhower has a son. New York publish White House staff as a Local Postmaster Discourses on Lincoln, Davis "My brother and I are doing all we can to heal the breach between the north and south. We both married Southern girls." Thus began Louis Hoskins, Anaheim postmaster, in praise of Abraham Lincoln, yesterday at the Rotary club luncheon. Hoskins, a registered Democrat, called Lincoln, a Republican, "The greatest man in American history." In noting that Lincoln and Jefferson Davis were born only a few miles apart, in Kentucky, and in their youth taken in different directions, the postmaster wondered what place the two would have occupied in history if they had gone in the opposite directions. "I'm sure," he said, "that if Lincoln had been raised in Mississippi, he would have had a much more difficult time becoming president of the United States, and if Davis had been taken to Indiana, I'm positive he would never have been the president of the Confederacy." Lapsing into seriousness, for a moment, Hoskins said that history reveals that the Gettysburg address, when first delivered, was a complete failure. In days when the populace was accustomed to two hour sermons and incomprehensible phrases, the audience was shocked by the president's two-minute speech, the student of Lincoln lore said. It wasn't until after his death that the address, now a classic in American history, was recognized for its merits, he said. Judge Emme said Mrs. Stewart had failed to show grounds for removing Mrs. Collins as guardian. He advised the mother to take time to get acquainted with the children and the fotser parents. Mrs. Collins also was in tears as the case closed. KODIAK, Alaska (P)—A fiery volcano at the base of the Alaska Peninsula erupted again Monday for the second time in less than 24 hours, shooting a mushroom smoke cloud like an atom blast eight miles in the sky. A dense pall of ash and smoke billowed outward for more than 100 miles in some directions from the angry cone, swirling on wind currents created by the intense heat of the still unidentified volcano. 'Fairhope' Skipper Found Negligent LONG BEACH—The Coast Guard Monday charged Capt. Harold T. Hallman, 38, of the terror ship Fairhope with negligence. The Ocean City, Md., skipper, whose ship grounded in Mexican waters Jan. 30, a day after its chief steward apparently was slain, was accused of these derelections: Failure to have proper inshore charts of the area where he went aground; maintaining an excessive speed during a period of impaired fogged vision; failure to alter course properly. Capt. Hallman will have a hearing on these charges Thursday. The action came at conclusion of a Coast Guard marine board hearing on the grounding. President Eisenhower has nounced he would ask Congress to wipe out certain secret, time agreements permitting "enslavement" of peoples. A motion of the 1945 Yalta agreement by Britain, Russia and the United States promised that Russia could take from Japan the Kurile lands and South Sakhalin Island. That part of the agreement kept secret at the time because Russia had not yet entered war against Japan. Battle Over Japan Russian Fighter Possibly Shot Down, Others Chased Home TOKYO (JP)—A U.S.-Air Force spokesman Tuesday said Russian planes fired the first shots in Monday's air battle between American and Soviet planes over Northern Japan. The Soviet LA-11 fighter planes made head-on passes at two U.S. Thunderjets when ordered to land and touched off a 10-minute battle before they were chased out of Japan's northernmost island, Hokkaido, the Far East Air Force disclosed earlier. One of the intruding aircraft was damaged and set afire, FEAF said. Neither of the Thunderjets was hit. The FEAF spokesman made his statement later to clarify the point as to which side fired first. He said flatly the first bullets were Russian. Fired Before Warning American jet pilots of the Japan air defense force have instructions to fire across the bow of an intruding plane as a signal to land. The spokesman's statement indicated the Russian planes opened fire before any such signal bullets were fired by the U.S. planes. Lt. Benedict A. LaCombe said he pumped 300 machine gun bullets into the wings and fuselage of one of the Soviet fighters. "I could see the bullets tip into him," LaCombe said. "He began to smoke and the last time I saw him he was losing altitude." "I can't say for sure if the plane went down or limped home." Both hostile planes streaked for the safety of the Russian-held Kurile Islands. McCarthy in Tangle with State Dept. WASHINGTON (JP)—Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis.) Monday called on Secretary of State Dulles to punish state department officials he accused of taking reprisals against a witness in a senate investigation of mysteriously missing files. Samuel J. Boykin, one of the officials singled out as a target of McCarthy's fire, promptly retorted that the Wisconsin senator was ruining morale in the U.S. foreign service. McCarthy hinted that if Boykin persisted in his attitude, he might find himself shifted to a less desirable job. Boykin is now acting chief of the state department's bureau of security and consular affairs. Denouncing the reprisals as "inexcusable," McCarthy threatened WASHINGTON (AP)—President Eisenhower has a hearty handshape for C. D. Jackson. New York publisher, today, as Jackson joins the white House staff as a special assistant in charge of cold letters were fired by the U.S. planes. Lt. Benedict A. LaCombe said he pumped 300 machine gun bullets into the wings and fuselage of one of the Soviet fighters. "I could see the bullets tip into him," LaCombe said. "He began to smoke and the last time I saw him he was losing altitude." "I can't say for sure if the plane went down or limped home." Both hostile planes streaked for the safety of the Russian-held Kurile Islands. Chase Broken Off The U.S. planes broke off the chase under standing orders. Soviet territory begins only 2¼ miles from the tip of Nemuro Peninsula on Eastern Hokkaido, scene of the air battle. LaCombe, of Pineville, La., was flight leader. The other Thunderjet pilot was Lt. James T. Holmes, Bye, N.Y. Both pilots said the fight broke out at 16,000 feet-three miles inside the international boundary separating Japan from the Kuriles. "We intercepted them as they bore south toward Nemuro," LaCombe said. Nemuro is situated on a cape which juts out from Northeastern Hokkaido. The nearest Russian island from the cape is only 4½ miles. Qualified Pilots LaCombe described the invading aircraft as greenish-black. He said they turned immediately for a head-on firing pass. Major Oil Co.'s Boost Gas Prices LOS ANGELES (AP)—Two major oil companies boosted the price of gasoline Monday and there were indications that other companies will follow the lead. In San Francisco it was announced that Standard Oil and Chevron gas stations in five Western states, Hawaii and Alaska increased the retail price a maximum of 2.1 cents a gallon. Union Oil company of California in Los Angeles announced a boost of 1.6 cents a gallon in tank wagon gasoline prices effective Tuesday. Retail distributors said the new tank wagon price of Union Oil will boost the retail price to 27.9 cents a gallon for regular gasoline and 30.9 cents for premium. Library to Close In Honor of Rosemary Poyet Anaheim public library will be closed from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. today to allow employees to attend funeral services for Miss Rosemary Poyet, who died Friday evening after a short illness. Miss Poyet had been employed as a part-time librarian. Funeral services are to be held in the chapel of Backs, Campbell and Kaulbars mortuary at 11 a.m., with interment to follow in Fair- PRESIDENT WELCOMES NEW ASSISTANT — President Eisenhower has a hearty handshape for C. D. Jackman. New York publisher, today, as Jackson joins the White House staff as a special assistant in charge of cold war planning. The president holds Jackson's commission. Daily Living for Peace of Mind Editor's 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. A Formula for Conducting One's Life By Rev. Wm. McKINLEY WALKER Wesley Methodist Church Charles H. Nabers in the Expositor tells of an interview his friend and biographer had in the final months of his life of a famous movie personality. Said this friend to the man, "If you had your life to live over is there anything about it that you would change?" He thought a moment, then ventured this statement: "I would like to see how I could have gotten along without liquor." "Evidently, though, this man would have stoutly denied it," says Mr. Nabers, "there were periods in the past which were giving him unpleasant memories." In this little sentence one can see the real secret of successful living. It is this: "Live so that your life will be pleasant to look back upon." A recent essayist puts it bluntly: "Why don't you live so that you won't embarrass, too much, the preacher who some day will be asked to conduct your funeral?" Another says the same thing this way: "If you're giving no attention to your obituary, you're not giving the preacher a chance!" After all, the preacher shouldn't be the one about whom we are most concerned. The funeral service is usually not more than half an hour in length; while the survivors will have many, many memories over a long period of time. Why not keep them in mind as we go along and so live that when we go on that long journey, they will have only pleasant memories of us and great sorrow at our departure!