anaheim-gazette 1953-02-22

Thunderjets Blast Fear 80 Dead In Mexican Trolley Crash MEXICO CITY (P)—Two suburban trolleys crashed headon in the outskirts of Mexico City Saturday night, and Red Cross officials said at least 32 persons were known to have been killed. Red Cross Commander Jose Armenta earlier reported the dead at 23. He said later that at least nine of the injured had died since his first check and other bodies were being found trapped in the derailed cars. He boosted his estimate to a possible 80 killed. 66 Dead Counted A reporter for the morning newspaper Excelsior said he counted 66 bodies at the chaotic scene of the accident, about 15 miles northwest of the capital. Officials described the accident as the worst in the history of the city's transit system. Roberto Krumel, an eyewitness, told reporters the brakes on one trolley apparently failed and it telescoped into another with a terrific crash. The accident, between the towns of La Venta and Tacubaya, was on a steep grade near a siding where cars usually wait while others pass on the one-way tracks. Chaotic Scene Krumel said he dashed to the scene to find both cars derailed and the dead and injured scattered for 100 yards along the tracks. 42 YEARS OF DEVOTION ANAHEIM VOLUME LOOXII ANAHEIM, ORANGE, COUNTY, CA Midwest gets Death Toll Reaches 13 as Snow Blankets Most of Middle West (By The Associated Press) A wave of intensive cold engulfed a wide stretch of land in the West and Midwest Saturday. The mercury plummeted as low as 31 below zero. The death toll rose to 13, worst snowshorm of the season petered out, leaving a belt in the midlands dotted with drifts that towered as trees in at least one state. Pair of Robbers Hold up Local Loan Company Brandishing a .38 caliber revolver, two well-dressed men held up the Commonwealth Loan Co., Roberto Krumel, an eyewitness, told reporters the brakes on one trolley apparently failed and it telescoped into another with a terrific crash. The accident, between the towns of La Venta and Tacubaya, was on a steep grade near a siding where cars usually wait while others pass on the one-way tracks. Chaotic Scene Krumel said he dashed to the scene to find both cars derailed and the dead and injured scattered for 100 yards along the tracks. Many persons were trapped in the tangled wreckage and screams of the injured could be heard. Over 75 doctors were called to the scene and to hospitals to treat the injured. It was reported that all the casualties were Mexicans. Most were said to have been picnickers either en route to or returning from the Deslerto de los Leones, a well known national park. Arnold Howard Local Garageman, Dies Unexpectedly Arnold Howard, well-known Anaheim businessman, died yesterday at his home. Howard, who has been in the automotive industry in Anaheim since 1924, was active in his business until he passed away, his death coming as a distinct shock to friends and relatives. A high-ranking member of the Oddfellows lodge, he has operated his own business since 1932, with the concern currently at 130 S. Lemon st. The business will be carried on by his two sons, Arnold Jr., and Warren Grant. Funeral services for Mr. Howard, who resided at 417 S. Citron st., will be announced tomorrow, a spokesman at Back, Campbell and Kaulbars mortuary said. January Lobbying Bills Run High SACRAMENTO (CNS) — Interests maintaining lobbyists in Sacramento got bills from their representatives running as high as $6000 for January services, according to expense accounts filed in the legislative auditor's office. Charles R. Stevens, representing several large oil companies, reported he received $4200 in retainer fees and spent $1836 for office help, living and other expenses during the month, ments — as required by law — showing totals of more than $1000 in fees and expenses for the month were: Elmer P. Bromley, private will Pair of Robbers Hold up Local Loan Company Brandishing a .38 caller revolver, two well dressed men held up the Commonwealth Loan Co., 277 E. Center st., and escaped with $362.25, shortly after noon Friday. After entering the dark complexioned pair forced Manager A.L. Preece, who was alone in the store at the time, to lie on the floor, and then ransacked the cash drawers. The two men locked the manager in a back room and fled through a rear door, carrying one of the cash boxes with them, police said. The robbers originally asked about obtaining a loan, saying they lived in Santa Ana, before pulling the pistol, Preece said. Thirty minutes before the robbery, when another cashier was on duty, one of the men entered the office and asked directions to a hotel. When they returned, the cashier had gone to lunch. The desk clerk at the Angelina hold next door, which the pair evidently used as an avenue of escape, was also out to lunch at the time. Preece was released a few minutes after the duo left by a passer-by who was attracted by his shouts from the bank room. Bookmakers in Seal Beach Arrested Two men charged with bookmaking were arrested by a squad of Sheriff James Music's deputies who went into Seal Beach city Friday afternoon to make the raid and arrests. Led by Undersheriff Steve DuHart, Capt. Herman Stahl, Lt. Harvey Gulick and Deputies Kuhn and Klima swooped down upon a ramshackle building at 507-509 Electric ave., Seal Beach, and gathered in two Long Beach operators, Alvin Brenot, 44, and Thomas Howard Bosley, Jr., 35. Besides seizing the bookmaking paraphernalia, including a radio, adding machines, scratch sheets and five telephones, the officers confiscated $815 cash found on Bosley and $145 in possession of Brenot. Each prisoner posed $500 bail for his appearance March 2 before Judge Celia Young in Huntington Beach-Seal Beach justice court. Red Cross Fund Drive Workers' Ready Kick-off Barney W. Jordan, chairman of the fund drive for Anaheim chapter, American Red Cross, and vice-chairman, Robert S. Borda are completing their organization and schedule for the work to do. Names of chairmen of various divisions will be announced as appointments are made. The quota for the drive is $642, to be raised beginning March 2. A kick-off breakfast for workers in the Business-Industry and Special Groups divisions will be held on March 3 at Ebbell house, the meal to be served in the chapter's Canteen Servi GOP Hassle over Income Tax Cut May Draw in Top House Leadership WASHINGTON (P) — The clash over tax policy between President Eisenhower and some House Republicans shows signs of spreading to the top House leadership—men Eisenhower normally expects to carry the ball for him. Congressional sources who have been close to developments reported Saturday that prospects are growing for a new and more serious disagreement that could even overshadow the current scrap over income tax cuts. They interpret the picture thus: Eisenhower, in his first news conference as President this week, made it clear he favors either extension of the excess profits tax on business, now scheduled to expire June 30, or enactment of some tax increases to make up this loss in revenue. Top Leaders Shocked This stand came as something of a shock to top House leaders. They had agreed with the President that the drive by Rep. Reed (R-NY) for quick passage of in- Blast Rail Hub in Sun OF DEVOTION TO ALL THAT IS GOOD IN ANAHEM HEIM GAZETTE IM, ORANGE, COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 22, 1953 8 Cents per Copy 60 Cents per Month It gets 30-Below Weather 13 as Snow Middle West (ed Press) fled a wide stretch of land y. The mercury plunged ath toll rose to 13. The tered out, leaving a broad drifts that towered as high trees in at least one state. The storm center that had oped up blizzards from the Bay Mountains to Lake Superior ed into Ontario. As the cold moved eastward, the air med and temperatures dropinds of gale force buffeted York state. The blow ranged 35 to 55 miles per hour in western part of the state; with between 60 and 80. Buffalo's perature plummeted 26 des in less than three hours. GETTING THE MAIL IN MINNESOTA—Richard Nelson, farmer near Minneapolis, had to bend down today instead of reach up to get his mail. A big drift left by a blizzard Thursday and Friday nearly covered his rural mailbox. The storm was the water's worst in the southern part of the state. Highway travel was halted and hundreds were stranded. Teen-Age Lawmakers Adjourn Legislative Session Without Completing Agenda Mrs. Marie Torres Dies in Hospital Mrs. Marie P. Torres, 55, died Friday night in the Orange county hospital. She was a native of Mexico and had lived in Anaheim since 1933. Survivors are her husband, Juan Torres of the family home, 305 E. Cypress st., and one son, Manuel Mendorz of Anaheim. Recitation of the Holy Rosary will be held in the chapel of Backs, Campbell, and Kaulbars mortuary, Monday at 7:30 p.m., with mass on Tuesday at 9 a.m. Interment will be made in the Holy Sepulcher cemetery. Anaheim Youth, Two Others, Get Jail Sentences The law claimed satisfaction from three youthful northern Orange county criminals, including an 18-year-old Anaheim youth, as jail sentences were meted out by Superior Judge Robert Gardner at Santa Ana. Seal Beach May Ask's Government To Repair Beach Mayor Frank Shufelt of Beach has added his plea to demand of the Orange co-board of supervisors that the eral government assume full of repairing beach erosion at Beach and Surfside and provide future protection by extending San Pedro-Long Beach bay water, which caused the dam. Under a new federal law, federal government requires matching of federal funds to real funds, to cover the cost of reactive measures. Both the army engineers Engineer Jack Woolley of S. Ana, who has just completed study of the problem for county and city, agree that federal breakwater caused damage, and that its extent would give future protec though perhaps shifting the ger point southward as far Huntington Beach. County supervisors Tuesday called upon the fe Anaheim Youth, Two Others, Get Jail Sentences The law claimed satisfaction from three youthful northern Orange county criminals, including an 18-year-old Anaheim youth, jail sentences were meted out by Superior Judge Robert Gardner at Santa Ana. Robert Fancis Pottberg, 18, of Anaheim, who had confessed theft of an automobile here, was sent to county jail for 30 days as a condition of three years probation. His attorney, Warren Schutz of Anaheim, pleaded that he receive straight probation without a jail sentence, but the court refused. Judge Gardner recalled that, while handling juvenile court several years ago, he had been lenient with Pottberg in connection with an earlier offense. "I dropped the ball once; I'm not going to do it again," said the judge. "We must give something unpleasant, so he won't repeat." Pottberg had been arrested with a 16-year-old youth while trying to steal a second car. Elton E. Howe, 20, of Cypress, who pleaded guilty to statutory rape in connection with an attack by three youths when a 16-year-old girl, was sentenced to seven months in the county jail. Because he had a previously clean record, is now in the navy and may be allowed to remain in service, the court gave him a jail sentence without probation. His two companions who were convicted of the offense, are now awaiting hearing of their plea for probation. Ruben Justine Torres, 19, who pleaded guilty to burglary of a La Habra hardware store last New Year's eve, was placed on probation for three years in condition that he serve 90 days in jail. Two boys, aged 15 and 13, participated with him in the burglary. A bill by Abraham Green of Los Angeles urging life terms for narcotics violators was watered down before it was signed by the governor. "People can be cured of one mistake, but after they do it a second time, I don't think there's much chance of curing them," argued Assemblyman Jan Larson of Anaheim. The youngsters compromised on five to nine years for first violators with life after that. Gen. Clark Asks Sick, Wounded Prisoner Exchange TOKYO (UP)—UN supreme commander, Gen. Mark Clark, today—Sunday—again asked Red bosses in Korea to exchange sick and wounded prisoners of war with the United Nations command, in line with provisions of the Geneva convention. No Change in Polley His request did not mean a change in prisoner of war policy on the part of the UN command. The UN still refuses to hand over to the Communists any POWS who do not want to return to Communist territory. Clark's latest move was in response to a resolution adopted by the League of Red Cross Societies at a meeting in Geneva in December. The resolution asked both sides to exchange sick and wounded prisoners. RedsIgnoreRequests The UN command has been trying to get the Reds to agree to such an exchange since the now-suspended Korea armistice talks were broken off last fall because of Red demands that all POWs be exchanged, whether they wished it or not. The Reds have ignored all previous requests for an exchange of sick and wounded prisoners. Both the army engineers Engineer Jack Woolley of San Anna, who has just completed study of the problem for county and city, agree that federal breakwater caused damage, and that its extent would give future protection though perhaps shifting theiger point southward as far Huntington Beach. The county supervisors Tuesday called upon the federal government to take full responsibility and assume full cost. Mayor Shufelt since had dressed letters to U.S. Senate William Knowland and Theukel, Vice-President Rick Nixon, and Congressman B.J. Utt, John Phillips, Harry Spard, Craig Hosmer and Doyle, calling attention to the fact that before the breakwater the Navy's Ammunition and Depot jettles were built, there were wide expanses of beach, which has since been stroved by wave action. He mandated that the federal government be required to correct damage. Pedestrian Hit By Local Man A 22-year-old girl, struck waving crossing Center st., at Claudin and two motorists, injured in accident at Lemon st., and Nst., were sent to the Anale Community hospital yesterday. The pedestrian, Laura H. 724 N. Olive st., was treated minor injuries after being hit a car driven by Elmer H. Cfee. 558 S. Resh st. Gregaire Gonague Quebec, Cand Dorothy Harding, 714 N. Lon st., were hurt though seriously, after they collided the intersection, Gonague drive west on North st., while Harding was going north on Lon st. In Surprise Attack Fighter-Bombers ‘Borrow’ Superforts’ Usual Target SEOUL (UP)—Bold F-84 Thunderjete caught the communists by surprise Saturday by ranging up to the Manchurian border in North Central Korea, sowing gasoline fires and ammunition blasts through a sprawling rail communications center. The F-84 attack on Manpojin, a border city in an area so remote that its targets normally are assigned to long range B-29s, brought out 50 Russian-built MIGs seeking to rout the slower Thunderjets. But 42 screening Sabres took on the MIGs in the eighth straight day of sky fights. The Fifth Air Force said Sabre pilots destroyed two MIGs probably destroyed three, and damaged two others in 13 dogfights Saturday. 19 MIGs DOWN The claims brought the eight-day total to 19 MIGs destroyed, seven probably destroyed and 20 damaged. B-29 Superforts roared through Red anti-aircraft fire and searchlight beams before dawn Sunday in their second straight night attack on the Communist West Coast supply line from Manchuria to the front. They pitched 170 tons of explosives into a 135-acre target of single-story buildings and supply stockpiles 10 miles west of Chonju on the main rail line from Sinanju through Sinanju to Pyongyang and the front lines. The storm was the winsouthern part of the state. was halted and hundreds (AP Wirephoto) In Legislative Agenda Real Beach Mayor asks Government to Repair Beach Mayor Frank Shufelt of Seal ch has added his plea to the mand of the Orange county and Surfside and providing are protection by extending the Pedro-Long Beach breaker, which caused the damage. under a new federal law, the rural government requires equal chancing of federal funds by lofunds, to cover the cost of corive measures. Both the army engineers and mineer Jack Woolley of Santa who has just completed a city of the problem for the city and city, agree that the oral breakwater caused the age, and that its extension old give future protection, high perhaps shifting the danpoint southward as far as Stington Beach. The county supervisors last today called upon the federal dressing a CIO district convention here Saturday evening. He died at the hospital without regaining consciousness. Revival Attempt Falls w Members of the Wilkes - Barre fire department attempted to revive the union official and then rushed him to the hospital. He died shortly after his arrival there. With John L. Lewis, one of the founders of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, Haywood recently was in the running for the presidency of that union following the death of Phil Murray. Walter Reuther, head of the United Auto Workers union, won the post. Haywood had made a hot fight for the presidency of the CIO but Reuther got more than three million out of a possible 5,600,000 votes representing the CIO's claimed membership. Pledged Cooperation Haywood had pledged in advance to abide by the decision and to forget convention differences. Haywood was born in England Oct. 9, 1888, the son of a coal miner. He entered labor activities when he was just 13, becoming a member of the British Miners' federation. After moving to the United States, Haywood joined the United Mine Workers of America in 1906. His career thereafter paralleled the history of the nation's labor movement. Charter Member Haywood joined the United Steelworkers at its inception in the mid 1930s. He was an adviser to the United Rubber Workers of America in 1936 and 1937. He later was active in negotiations for the United Automobile Workers with Dodge, Chrysler, General Motors and Ford. Motorists Escape Death in Wild Highway Wrecks Two motorists escaped with their lives, though injured in varying degrees, from wildly riding automobiles that ended up side down on Orange county highways, according to weekend reports of the California highway patrol. Audrey Campbell, 34, of Costa Mesa, received only minor injuries when her car went out of control at 2 a.m. Saturday at Golden West ave. and Garden Grove blvd., west of Garden Grove. The car skidded 160 feet, then turned over. She was taken to Santa Ana Community hospital. Also riding along, M. Sgt. James R. Smith, 31, of the marine corps, suffered major injuries when his car skidded 155 feet, went off the pavement, through a ravine, back on the pavement where it skidded another 90 feet and then upset. The crash took place Friday night on Santa Ana canyon freeway, three miles west of the Riverside county line. Smith was taken to Corona naval hospital. Brea and La Habra Begin Block Of Fullerton Land-Grabbing Both Brea and La Habra city councils have commenced annexation proceedings of their own in fast moves to block what they call Fullerton's bind grab of 1700 acres in the Brea-La Habra area. Closely following passage of a resolution by Brea city council, proposing to annex a 200-foot strip of uninhabited territory extending along the north side of Imperial highway, to highway 101, where it meets La Habra's east boundary, the La Habra city council Friday passed a resolution proposing to annex 85 acres on the south side of Imperial highway. Just west of the former campus of Los Angeles university of applied arts, which is already in the city. If completed these annexations La Habra. Fullerton had announced its purpose of starting to circulate petitions in the area for annexation to Fullerton. This would be an annexation of inhabited territory, requiring an election. The annexations by Brea and La Habra involving uninhabited territory, can be affected by proceedings of the city councils, unless Fullerton places a legal bar in the way. Action by the Brea and La Habra councils developed from a wave of indignation toward Fullerton that was aroused in those cities by the Fullerton annexation proposal. The Fullerton move followed petitions to the county planning commission for rezoning of 400 acres north of Imperial high- church of federal funds by lofunds, to cover the cost of corlative measures. Both the army engineers and neighbor Jack Woolley of Santa who has just completed a city and city, agree that the breakwater caused the age, and that its extension give future protection, high perhaps shifting the danpoint southward as far as Stington Beach. The county supervisors last day called upon the federal government to take full responsity and assume full cost. Mayor Shufelt since had adDED letters to U.S. Senators Alam Knowland and Thomas Hanel, Vice-President Richard Brown, and Congressman James Attt. John Phillips, Harry Shopell, Craig Hosmer and Clyde Lee, calling attention to the fact before the breakwater and Navy's Ammunition and Net jetttles were built, there are wide expanses of sandy sho, which has since been devied by wave action. He deded that the federal government be required to correct the age. 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. Examples Stick By Rev. Wm. McKINLEY WALKER Wesley Methodist Church The other day a woman driving her car east on Broadway, double-parked while she sent or allowed two small boys approximately four and five years of age to go across the street during a rush hour to get the mail from the post office. True, the children had the protection of the pedestrian zone and cars could pass her car by crossing the middle white line. Now, I am not trying to be a 'calamity howler', nor om I chastising women drivers as such (for men do equally as poor driving) but I am thinking ahead of the effect that example will be to these small boys. True, the autos stopped as the boys played along as they crossed the street with the mother's permission and they were unharmed; but later on if they take chances on their own of risking life or doubleparking a 'hot rod' and are picked up for breaking a law, should they be altogether blame? Weren't they taught by ex-ample that it is alright? By pattern, we adults so often pass on to the younger set ideas that sooner or later will get them into trouble, and then we remember what Jeremiah said about 650 B.C., "Their fathers have eaten sour grapes and their children's teeth are set on edge." (Jeremiah 30:29) Children easily forget our precepts but hardly ever forget our examples.