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2 Part JULY 9, 1 947 House Group Asks Re Oil Tankers Be Held Here Governor Signs Deuel Bill to Combat Crime SACRAMENTO, July 8. (JP) Gov. Warren today signed the Deuel Crime Commission bill OVERELL CASE GOES INTO VITAL PHASE Police Officer Witnesses Describe Behavior of Beulah Louise and GoIIum at Tragedy Scene BY GENE SHERMAN, Times Staff Representative SANTA ANA, July 8. Beulah Louise Overell, the debutante defendant, screamed and became hysterical soon after her parents' yacht, the Mary blew up in Newport Harbor last March 15. which he previously had de clared could be used to combat i 1 1 i ratlin WW ill iilXv.f,fS A'-- i-: the crowth of an underworld George (Bud).

Gollum, her which, he said, was exemplified by the assassination of Bugsie Sieffcl at Beverly Hills and in vasion of California by mobsters from other parts of the U.S. In attaching his signature to the measure Warren disclosed he will call a conference soon in Sacramento "to discuss ways not to stay any more than half an hour." "What did they Dietz interposed. "Well, Calihan went on, "Miss Overell was hysterical, so Gollum took her to the car, I believe." Queried by Beulah "Did you see them later?" Dietz asked. "I saw Gollum a number of times at the bay front," the witness continued. "Louise was with him on some occasions.

She asked me a number of times Lend-Lease Angle Also Involved in Investigations BY WARREN B. FRANCIS Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 8. Formal demands were made today by Chairman Weichel (R.) of the House Merchant Marina Committee that Federal "authorities refuse to permit departure of Russian tankers tied up during recent weeks in Los Angeles With various government agencies acting coy when questioned about United States policy, Weichel reminded Commerce Department and Customs Bureau officials that his committee is investigating transfer of lend-lease ships to the U.S.S.R. as well as exports of oil to various foreign countries. Seek Settlement Any sailing of a Russian-controlled ship from Los Angeles will nullify efforts of this country to get a settlement of lend-lease accounts or return of '90-odd wartime vessels transferred and means of conducting an inventory of the westward move -1 (Xj It S.jk.

-J 'ft Js I lliiiail Onu imwil mm mf tmmr-Trhllt-mmmrw1ir '-''r- r- 11'ii'wl ment- of organized criminals," Conference Planned "I am sure such a conference and study," he declared, "will be bf great benefit to law en forcement officers and to the fiance and co-defendant on trial for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Overell, was the essence of nonchalance and played to perfection the role of protective sweetheart. So testified two Newport Beach, policemen today in Superior Judge Kenneth E.

Morrison's- courtroom, where they took the stand a3 the prosecution continued its story of how the" young couple assertedly bludgeoned the girl's parents, then scuttled their cruiser with a tremendous dynamite blast. Officers Questioned The policemen, questioned by Dep. Dist. Atty. Gen.

Henry A. Dietz, are Lawrence Goddard and George W. Calihan. Special Prosecutor Eugene D. Williams Was absent all morning, taking treatments for a sty in his right eye.

The officers, partners in a radio car patrolling the beach city, told what they knew about the explosion on the Mary and of later talking to Beulah Louise and Bud. They said they heard a terrific noise and for an instant thought that it had resulted general public." It will be "in the near future, he said, and will bring: together "interested groups." i) WircDhoto WEATHER GADGET Maj. Jesse Marcel of Roswell, N.M., insp-ects latest "flying disk" evidence. It proved to be high altitude ray weather recording machine. The Deuel bill carries the Governor's authorization to ere ate special commissions to as sist the Board of Corrections in crime studies.

Juvenile Study Disgusted Ab Dopes Disks Besides the commission to to the Soviets, Weichel noted in a conversation with The Times. take the pulse of organized crime, Warren said he is con In telegrams to Secretary of Commerce Harriman and Cus sidering naming four other Timet photo FREE RIDE, TOO Supervisor Roger Jessup interviews Mrs. Jessie Brink, holding Linda, one of her 12 children. For two and a half years the Brinks have drawn about $278 a month from the county. Now county will finance their trip back to their 60-acre ranch in Oklahoma.

toms Commissioner Johnson as Airy D.Ts commissions to study juvenile if her parents were oJi." Calihan said he last saw Gollum at about 1:15 a.m., March 16, and Beulah Louise about 1:30 a.m. when he left the scene. While Calihan remained close to the scene of the explosion and assisted when the Mary was brought into a pier, Goddard stayed in the radio car. At St. and Central, in Balboa, he first saw the defendants.

Standing beside the police car, he glanced back up Main St. and saw them running hand in hand. He corroborated previous testimony concerning Bud's garb. While Beulah Louise remained in the Overells' gray Ford sedan 20 feet away with the windows rolled up, Bud approached Goddard. "What did he say?" the prosecutor asked.

"The first thing he said," answered Goddard, a new, young officer, "was I overheard what happened at the boat. I would Like to know what I should Conversation Details "I asked why he wanted to know. Gollum said, 'After all, the girl and I are engaged to be delinquency and crime preven tion, institutional care, probation and parole, criminal law DISK PROVES AIR DEVICE Continued from First Page gadget (as the disk) known to the Army at least this far down the line." Army weather experts In Washington, however, discounted any idea that such weather targets might be the basis for the scores of reports of flying disks. The weather device had been found three weeks previously by a New Mexico rancher, W. W.

Brazell, on his property about and procedure and social condi tions contributing to crime. The Governor said the Deuel RELIEFERS TO GO HOME bill "will afford the first oppor tunity in many years to conduct an accurate survey of crime con Industrial Wage and Profit Curb System Outlined ditions in our State." Cities and Counties to Get 'in Lieu' Taxes 85 miles northwest of Roswell. 1 r-j 1 I I SACRAMENTO, July 8. U.PJ California cities and counties to WASHINGTON, July 8. (JP) day given an additional 20 Weichel "requested" that tankers writh Russian names not be allowed to sail until his committee has finished its inquiry.

Weichel's actions came after spokesmen for a half dozen Federal bureaus denied knowledge of any plans to seize the tied-up tankers. In the meantime, Deputy Director Mclntire of the Office of International Trade told The Times that so far no licenses have been granted for shipment of the oil loaded on the Russian ships before President Truman and Congress revived controls over petroleum exports. War Risk Hinted Some responsible government sources doubt the United States could seize the Soviet-operated vessels without running the risk of war or at least touching off a dangerous international controversy. A State Department source, noting that lend-lease transactions involving several billion dollars worth of wartime supplies are being discussed at present, remarked: "We aren't likely to jeopardize our chances of making a good settlement or of getting back the entire lot married. upset.

I'd likei Albert Goss, master of the Na tional Grange, proposed to Con per "cent of the motors vehicle in lieu" tax fund under provi Continued from First Page owns a fairly good car and that if we will finance her return trip by motor she is desirous of going back home. The county will so finance her, which is the kindest thing to do under the new charity laws." During the session concerning Mrs. Brink's problems in the Supervisor's office, a telegram was received from the Orlando ranch at San Jose in which it was stated that temporary housing is available there if the Brinks, including the father, wish to return to help with the prune harvest. Mrs. Brink still thought Oklahoma looks best.

sions of a mil signed into law gress today voluntary ceilings on industrial wages and profits In a drive for lower prices, but Sen. by Gov. Warren. ErazelL whose ranch Is 30 miles from the telephone and has no. knew; nothing en he foundthe Broken.

iemains of the weathefdeviceJscattered over a squaremile of; his land. On a trip-" to Corona, N.M., Saturday night, Brazell heard the first reference to the silver flying disks. Brazell hurried home, dug up the remnants of the kite and balloon and Monday headed for Roswell report his find. Signing of the measure will to take that is possible" Goddard established, at Dietz's that 'his conversation with Gollum occurred at 12:15 a.m. about half an hour after the explosion.

"He asked me about the car," the young policeman went on. "I Taft (R.) was skeptical. mean an increase of about Taft, chairman of the joint congressionaf committee on the a year to cities and the same amount to counties economic report before whom the Department of Motor Vehi Goss appeared, asked: cles said. said I would impound the car at a police parking lot. He said he wanted to take his car and leave Other Bills Signed Dear Boss: As a flying disk jockey of the old school (Folsom '26) all I gotta say is, Boss, anybody who seen them saucers must of been in his cups.

I got a stiff neck from look-' ing up for them things and my brains is matted trying to dope out a explanation of same. All I seen so far this week is clouds, a skywriter for a peanut butter foundry, a smog bank and some pressed ducks coming back to Capistrano. Them things couldn't of been a discus up there as the track season collapsed around here when Mel Patton's leg did, too. Professor Hiatus Snodgrass of the Pacoima Interplanetary Cosmic Gravitational U-239 Institute (he sharpens lawn-mowers by appointment,) whom I wras diskussing the disks with yesterday, advanced a most uninteresting theory. He sajrs what has happened is either; 1 A gooseberry pie factory blew up in PocRtello, 2 A squadron of flat pelicans-buzzed Pismo or 3 What people has been seeing is light reflected from a mass flight of hysteria.

Later in the day I was pursuing the investigation out in San Fernando Valley when a guy galloped up on a horse. "They went thataway," he says. "Whichaway?" I says. "Thataway," he says'. "You mean flying saucers?" I says.

"No, I mean Two-gun Shapiro and Jus Royal Canadian horse thieves," he says. "If you hurry we can head 'em off at the pass." I'm aheadin for the pass, Boss. You take over them disks. ABERCROMBIE. "How on earth cen you put people in a straight-jacket as to what their profits should be? How could you devise a formula which would apply equally to all Other measures signed by the her folks' car, as he had a lot of when court recessed yesterdaj, concluded his cross-examination Officer G.

W. Calihan companies?" Hoover Backs by S. B. Kaufman, also an attor schoolbooks and things in his "He went and got the keys out of the car and handed them to me. Then they went down the s.

William B. Beirne, one of Gol- Proposes Ceilings Goss said he was not proposing ney for Gollum. 7 The mechanic spent minutes carefully, diagramming his im Tax Cut Bill pression of the Mary E's engine room and drawing in various mechanical equipment and protub from an automobile accident. Then they vent to the bay front at Balboa aad. hailed boats offshore.

For a few minutes nothing seemed amiss. Meeting Described As they wheeled their car back to the business section, "they saw a group of people running. They drove to the A St. Before SALT LAKE CITY, July S. (JP) Former President Herbert Hoo erances.

Kaufman questioned him in detail concerning the lo cation of pipes, batteries and that it apply equally. He said ceilings would have to vary among individual firms. "I don't see how you could promote the idea, but I am certainly willing to promote it," Taft observed. The grange suggestion was this: The ceiling plan to be tried by agreement between labor and industry in a number of the largest concerns, most of the ver tonight said his recent world economic survey was probably his last major public service. He also ureed passage of the other mechanical apparatus.

Tells of Explosion "encore" income tax bill. A prosecution witness 'testi ships by grabbing four or five." Whether the United States can seize the ships is an involved question. Russia wa3 made technical owner during the war so that the Japanese would not have, any grounds for capturing the vessels. Jf the Soviets refuse to return them this country is stymied, in the view of many officials. Hard to Them The only reason for refusing clearance if the ships start to leave Los Angeles Harbor, according to government sources, would be violation of some law such as the oil export embargo, safety regulations or customs rules.

The Office of Export Controls for the second successive day would not say what" policy 'is fied under cross-examination The white-haired 72-year-old former Chief Executive passed through here tonight bound for later in the day that Beulah Louise, in tears as she gazed Pioche, Nev. Later he will go i margins aoove sucn ceilings to upon the wrecked Mary told to Pasadena. He has mining De usea 10 reauce prices, me rest him her parents were in the for ward hatch. them, some yards offshore, they saw a boat tilted and half-sunk. Calihan, who said he has been a police officer for 19 years, was asked by Dietz to relate the meeting with Bud and Bettlah Louise.

"I first saw them at A St. and Bay Front," Calihan recalled. "Miss Overell asked me xvhat had happened, and I explained there had been an explosion. I told her I thought it was another boat. Governor: State Board of Education acquires authority to issue revenue bonds to provide "housing facilities for students and employees of State colleges.

Automobile liability and property damage liability insurance to be made available to persons who in good faith are entitled to but can't get coverage. Authorization to provide mass transportation facilities for loading and unloading of passejigers on freeways. Defining a veteran's association for the guidance of cities and counties providing buildings for their use. Traffic Safety Fund Fines and forfeitures collected by local courts will go into "traffic safety fund." Permission for boards of supervisors to set up county water systems. of State Department of Employment.

Allocation of for flood control work on San Gabriel River and Ballona Creek in Los Angeles County. Aid for Needy Tripling of State aid payments for needy children. Persons receiving workmen's compensation may also draw disability benefits up to an amount equal to the difference between compensation payments and weekly disability benefit. The witness was Robert L. Moore, husky, deeply tanned life to be divided between worker and owner.

Goss said it would put "our inflationary spiral" in reverse. Goss called the plan a profit-sharing program for workers "with the public cut in" on savings in the, form of lower prices. guard and volunteer fireman. Questioned by Dietz, he told of hearing the explosion in his i 1. ft home and provided enough com being followed in handling ap edy in the telling to keep the defendants and a courtroom full of spectators chuckling.

Eviction Fight Trial Faced "What did you do asked "She said, "We have a boat out there and I believe it was 1 1 She started crying. Gollum then 1 1 spoke up and said, 'We have all rowboat ll "He turned to Miss Overell i Dietz. properties in Nevada. Federal revenue will increase if the revised tax bill now before Congress is passed, he said, adding: "We need a margin of safety for the. small man as provided by savings.

The current heavy tax demands and high cost of living make it impossible for him to accumulate a reserve. This makes him more cautious about buying consumer goods." Passage of the bill would be a "great incentive" to small.bus-iness to expand, he said. The government, in its tax laws, should differentiate between "earned and unearned" income, said Hoover, explaining that he thinks the rates for wage earners should be less than for persons deriving a livelihood from annuities. "I ran downstairs to see if Because he struck his landlord anything in the house-had blown on the head with a hammer, ac up." "How were you dressed?" cording to the landlord complaint, Horace S. Gregory, 42, of HOUSE VOTES CUT IN TAXES Continued from First Page of our readjustment to peace.

I am also convinced the Congress must retain and protect its rightful prerogative of determining when and how much taxes shall be levied on the people." Doughton Sopporter Veteran Rep. Robert L. Dough- Dietz insisted. Query Withdrawn 805 W. 17th faces trial in Superior Court for assault with plications to export in short supply here.

The possibility of granting export licenses for oil is "under review," Mclntire explained. The Federal attitude on the gen-, eral matter of oil sales abroad, as outlined today to a House Interstate Commerce subcommittee by Undersecretary Foster, is that foreign purchases are not the primary reason for threatened domestic petroleum shortages. The government's view, according to Foster, is that a close check should be kept on oil shipments to other countries, but no complete ban should be imposed. The political ramifications of the policy question are up to the State Department and the White House, he implied. a deadly weapon.

Moore's face reddened. Dietz hurriedly added: "I'll withdraw Lawrence Goddard lum's attorneys, brought out by cross-examining Goddard that Bud had approached the policeman voluntarily. Beirne also established that the damaged Mary had been pulled in to a pier before Goddard's conversation with the defendant. Goddard told Gregorv was held to answer that." at his Municipal Court prelim The prosecutor asked what inary hearing yesterday after the Establishment of schools for landlord, Preston S. Gran, 4S Moore did when he got downstairs.

"I put on my pants," the witness said drjiy. cerebral palsy children in North ern and Southern California. Beirne he asked Gollum if he ton (D.) N.C., who voted against the original bill and usually sup had ovei-heard Calihan calling for the Coroner on the radio in testified that an hour after he served Gregory with the eviction notice July 1 he was struck from behind by Gregory at the latter's residence. Gregorv was released on $1000 bail. Kaufman required the witness to tell what he saw when he Daughter of M.I.T".

the Dolice car. later rowed out to the half-sub ana saia, go out ana see what Then he turned to me and said 'Do you want to come along, "I told them I couldn't go along and I cautioned them about going too close to the stricken vessel. Then they went on out to the boat in a rowboat that had been tied up to the pier. "When they neared the Mary Miss Overell commenced to scream. They didn't stay very long.

When they came back I learned from Gollum that the boat was the Mary E. Talks With Gollum "I asked who was aboard. Gollum told me that Mr. and Mrs. Overell, Miss Overell and himself had been aboard and that they had w-orked on the boat during the day and hrought it to Balboa at 9 p.m.

and tied it to a mooring. "Gollum said Mr. and Mrs. Overell had sent them ashore for hamburgers and said for them "Gollum said he had heard it," Physicist Missing ports administration fiscal policies, swung strong Democratic sentiment in favor of the measure with his closing argument Goddard said. merged yacht.

Moore said he arrived at the splintered cruiser about the same time as Bud and WILMOT CENTER (N.H.) Testimony from the two offi July 8. (JP) The 13-year-old Beulah Louise. cers moved the trial quickly into the vital chapters of the State's daughter of Robley D. Evans "Beulah Louise was crying and Farewell Party Fatal to Officer S.tricken while bidding goodnight to guests at a farewell dinner in his honor, Sheriff's Lt. Edwin Graeb, 64, of 1634 Huntington Drive, South Pasadena, fell dead at an East Pasadena restaurant late last night.

Craeb, who had worked for the Sheriff's office 20 years, had just heard Undersheriff Arthur Jewell pay glowing tribute to his service when the party broke up and he was seized by story. The officers were preced yelling," Moore testified. "Sh ed on the witness stand by Jess widely known Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist, Gabriel, Balboa small boat con Dr. John Hill, 39, Noted Mammologist, Dies NEW YORK, July 8. (JP) Dr.

John Eric Hill, 33, associate curator ef the Department of Mam-mals at the American Museum of Natural internationally known mammologist, died today. wanted to know what had happened. She told us her folks were on the boat. Somebody asked her where they were. She that "if we are going to have tax relief in 194S, now is the time to begin." He explained his shift by saying the economic outlook has become much brighter since Congress sent the first plan to Mr.

Truman a month ago. was reported missing tonight cessionaire, and Ted Junker- meier, one of two mechanics who after -her riderless norse was found roaming in near-by woods. worked on the Mary E. told us they were the for Movie Academy Honors Producer A life membership, in the Academy of Motion-Picture Arts and Sciences was presented to J. Arthur Rank yesterday by Jean Hersholt, president of the Academy, at a farewell luncheon in the Friars' Club.

The British producer leaves Hollywood today with signed contracts committing Joan Fontaine and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. to appear in Rank productions. Gabriel testified briefly to Over ward hatch. Prof. Evans, who arrived ell renting one of his skiffs the home from Europe only this dav of the explosion.

"About then a Coast Guard boat pulled alongside. We looked inside the Mary and saw the Junkermeier. on the stand a heart attacK. me duuv taken to the Utter-McKmley morning." said he was notified his daughter Nadia was missing from the Tabor Summer Camp where she was spending the summer. Overells there." Wires Discovered CHILD AND THREE OTHERS DIE OF TRAFFIC INJURIES Eagle Rock Mortuary.

PETRI LLO THAWS A BIT ON CHILDREN'S MUSIC Fire Chief Frank W. Crocker of Newport told the jury how he accidentally stumbled across wired detonators and later sticks Death of a child, two pedes was struck by a car at Victory Oklahomans Urge Dewey Tell Stand SAPULPA (Okla.) July 8. (U.P.) Blvd. and Morella St. Nathan Herman, 29, of 5300 Romaine trians and a motorist yesterday raised the county traffic toll to of dynamite while probing Communist Dennis Receives Year in Jail and $1000 Fine the driver, was not held.

through the debris of the Mary as it was being taken from The Oklahoma Kepuoncan or the harbor to a boatyard. ganization, split over potential Presidential candidates, tonight called on Gov. Thomas E. Dewey While examining the engine room, cluttered with tossed the District of Columbia. Dennis told Judge Pine he will carry the case to the Supreme Court, if necessary.

wreckage of the explosion, Crock 418 fatalities so far this year. Norman Goldstein, 3, of 733 N. Crescent Heights died in Childrens Hospital from injuries received last Thursday when he was struck by an automobile in front of his home. The driver, Donald M. Uglow.

2S, of 4313 Van Nuys Sherman Oaks, was not held. er said his foot caught in some of New York and his rivals to speak out on domestic and foreign affairs. State Republican Chairman Carl Morean said this State will carpet to explain his alleged "dictatorial made two concessions to the lawmakers on behalf of children. He promised: To "work out a deal" with educators to allow music broadcasts over the radio by school children. But he specified that it must be "a deal that's fair to the children and to the professional musicians." To confer with the chiefs of military service bands on a plan for recording band music to use in training school children, but not for commercial broadcasts.

He was convicted by a jury wire. WASHINGTON, July 8. (JP) James C. Petrillo, acknowledging that "I'm not an angel, I lost my wings a long time ago," displayed a soft heart toward school children- today but not for their appearance on conv mercial broadcasts. Testifying before a House Labor subcommittee, the czar of the -American Federation of Musicians declared: "Children don't have the right to take bread and butter from the mouths of musicians." Called onto the Congressional Joseph E.

Hanley, 70, of 1547 Micheltorena St. died at Wilshire Hospital of injuries received June 23 when the car he was driving crashed head-on at Cahuenga Ave. and Whitley Terrace into an automobile driven by Morris Danny, 33, of 2104 N. Valley Burbank. Danny was not held.

Struck Sunday by a hit-and-run driver at Central Ave. and 40th Place, Seymour Kalom, 32, of 11038 Hortense died at of Lebanon Hospital. "It kind of irked me," he said WASHINGTON, July 8. (JP) Eugene Dennis, general secretary of the U.S. Communist par-tv, today was sentenced to one year in jail and fined $1000 the maximum penalty for being in contempt of Congress.

Federal District Judge David Pine in passing sentence said he will allow Dennis to remain on S10.000 bond pending a ruling by the Court of Appeals for of failing to appear before the House Committee on Un-American Activities last April 9 in response to a subpena. Judge Pine gave Dennis an opportunity to appear before the not indorse any candidate until "the people have been informed as to how they stand on such Herman Rookhuizen, 76. of laconically. "So I pulled it away. Among some of the wire we pulled loose we found an exploded dynamite detonator.

As soon as i pulled It out I showed it to Lt. Cmdr. James C. Hun-ley of the Coast Guard." 6343 Carpenter North Hoi lywood, died in St. Joseph's Hos problems as labor, foreign -affairs and other questions of vital committee and purge himself of pital, surname, ot injuries received last Thursday when he contempt.

Dennis declined. interest.".