The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • Page 2

2 APRIL 20, 1949 Anti-Red Slate to Seek CIO Posts in New Council Here FUND TO AID WELL TRAGEDY'S RESCUERS NOW NEAR $20,000 The world's "thank-you" fund for the men who tried to rescue little Kathy Fiscus yesterday climbed toward the $20,000 mark. By noon, $19,440 had been tallied from 3892 letters received at the San Marino and Los Angeles postoffices with an estimated 2700 letters still to be opened. The fund is to be divided among the men who labored long hours to save the 3-year-old who died in an abandoned well casing in San Marino April 8. The Rescue Fund Committee reports gifts average Largest individual gift is a $500 check from a Beverly Hills resident and second largest a check for $200 from a resident of Arcadia. Smallest was several 10-cent coins sent in by" children.

The committee is busy checking lists of the men who took part in the fruitless rescue fight. Plans for presenting, the cash awards will be announced later. Connelly Will Be Honor Guest at Dinner Tonight Strong anti-Communist supporters of national CIO policies have put up a slate of candidates for offices in a new Los Angeles CIO Council. The old council was dissolved by the national CIO headquarters. An opposition slate also has put in an appearance and the two are to come to grips at a two-day convention where the national CIO will form the new council.

The convention will open in the Firestone Rubber Workers hall, Santa Fe Ave. and Orchard Place, at 10 a.m. Saturday. 500 to Attend Richard T. national KATHY HERO GIVEN FREE OPERATION H.

E. (Whiteyj Blickensderfer Doing Well After Surgery With All Expenses Paid COLLISION VICTIM Ambulance Attendants Jim Bernarding and Kenny McEntire and a spectator lift Mrs. Elsie Valentini from aufb after headon collision between auto and a pick-up truck on Lincoln Blvd. about mile south of Jefferson yesterday. IT TO QOURT Dorothy Recker, who wort $50 -judgment, ogainsr Alfred Pearson, vicrim of bearing laid j.

-to Mickey Cohen's men, in dispute over radio repair job. Saftered Radioman Times -vnolo CIO representative and chairman of the committee that the national CIO set up to take over and dissolve the bid council will open the meeting. More thari 500 delegates are expected to. attend the reorganization. H.

E. (Whltey) Blickensderfer, a hero in the tragic Kathy B'iscus rescue attempt, yesterday underwent a hernia operation at Huntington Memorial Hospital, Pasadena. Blickensderfer, 42, of 1301 Ivar Rosemead, was reported "fine" 'after the operation, per formed free by a surgeon who refused use of his The hospital is supplying Blickensderfer with free room and board during nis convalesence and an anonymous philanthropist reported to' have provided funds for his wife and two daughters until he is well enough to work. Dispute On the pro-national CIO. slate are Clarence Stirfson for president, Robert Clark for vice-president and Albert T.

-Lunceford' for executive secretary-treasurer. All three are leaders in the internal CIO campaign to rid the council of asserted Communist or left-wing influences. Al Caplan of Harry Bridges' In- convinced Judge Jtoberta Butzbach; in Small Claims Court yesterday that Alfred M. Pearson, radioman and victim of a beating laid to associates of Mickey Cohen, was in the wrong in a dispute over a radio repair job. Muscle Fibers ternational Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, Carl Brant of the United Electrical Workers and Lawrence Turner of the United Furniture Workers Revealed as Hollow Tubes Men, those muscle fibers you're so proud of are nothing hut hol Judge Butzbach, after hearing testimony from Misses Dorothy Recker, 649 Burnside and her sister, Polly, ordered Pearson to pay a S50 judgment, besides court- cots; of S3.T6.- -Pearson complained that he have a SEAGOING CAT GETS, KITTENS BACK FROM DOG All was well or so again yesterday with a mother cat, and Brownie, a mother dog, and their respective families in the offices of the Isthmian Steamship Co.

in Long Beach. You remember that Stinkie was separated from her four kittens a while back when she boarded the freighter Kenyon Victory just before sailing time. Brownie took over her duties, adding the kittens to her small litter of two puppies. also will enter the race for the respective offices of president, secretary-treasurer and vice-president. Bridges to Fly Here Tonight, friends of Philip M.

(Slim) Connelly, secretary-treas low. tubes containing water. Two professors at the SC School andithat he would appeal the The 'Retker girls: said Pearson worked'dn, their phonograph last thenjcalled later to ask how their 'radio was operating. He urer of the council when it was MS dissolved by the national CIO, will honor him with a testimonial SUf, of Medicine, Drs. Daniel C.

Pease and Richard F. Baker, made this disclosure yesterday to spike a dinner. Harry Bridges is to fly here from San Francisco to be the principal speaker. A number of Hollywood celebrities are scheduled to appear with a "salute AFTER SMASHUP- ing to Officer L. G.

from Hollywood" for Connelly. -Albert Bredemeyer, 54, sits on running board of pick-up truck talk-Neal and a friend after headon crash in which Bredemeyer was hurt. Times -photo Among the film folk scheduled sent a wian' to pick up the chassis of the radio when told that it had developed "static, arid after an i x-aminatidri -reported that the cost of repaiririglheeguipment would be $12.50, ff-f Dorothy iRecker said that she thought the' charge excessive and that sWe-'waiited to take back the radio." J. number of conversations were bad, she said, stating that in none of them did she authorize the work to be done. Neverthe- to be present are Lester Cole, Karen Morley, Howard DaSilva, Lloyd Gough and Waldo Salt.

Yesterday, Stinkie was back on the job. Crew members paid her airplane fare from San Francisco to Long Beach. Brownie, after some permitted the reunion of the family. But Stinkie apparently is not wholly happy. She spent hours yesterday washing her offspring's faces, evidently wondering where they had been in her absence.

Youth Held AfferlONE DEAD, FIVE HURT HEAD-ON CRASH Principals in organizing the long-held bejief of anatomists that the muscle's tiny contractile fibers, called myofibrils, were solid. The scientists made the discovery by using the same thin-slicing technique which recently enabled them to become the first to photograph genes, the tiny carriers of heredity. Slices 1250,000 of an inch thin were cut and magnified 10,000 times by an electron microscope. The new concept of skeletal muscle structure may have far-reaching medical effects in the understanding of muscular diseases, the announcement said. i Connelly dinner are John Allard, William Elconin, Ernest Tutt Freda Rappaport and others.

Mil UUI! Jiiuuiiny Jay W. Garrison, 55, of 1819 12th St. Santa Afnnirq a tinuw More than 500 reservations are reported to have been made for the dinner which is to begin at 6:30 p.m. in the CIO building. less she reported, Pearson worked on the radio and told- her she could have it, pack, for S10.

Eventually, he offered to let her have it for. 7.50. Pearson, the girls testified, still' has the radio'. Annoyed, Sheriff's 1 1 hammer leadman at the Douglas said, three small boys yah. Aircraft Co.

plant was killed, Son Charged yahed at him, William Floyd Smutz, 16. of 1111 Tobago Court, let fly with an air rifle, seriously wounding one of them. four other Douglas employees and another man were injured in a head-on collision on Lincoln Blvd. about a mile' south of Jefferson Mrs. Veda Eklund; 109T Rialto back and rieck injuries and a fractured righti ankle.

Mrs. Elsie iValentini; 51of 2143 21st Santa fractured, right The; death with that of- RoberfSlaylDoji, 41, of 354 51st who wasNtilled yesterday, when his-'car crashed! in to-the rear of 'lumber truck at Compton' Ave. and Slst St, brought to 198 the number of traffic fatalities in LOSER Alfred Pearson, ordered to pay judgment and costs in court case. Market Operated jWith Hitting Ten Years in Post Connelly was the council's executive officer for more than 10 years, was once Stale CIO president, an international vice-president of the Newspaper Guild and president of the guild's Los Angeles local. by Family Reported iMother, 60 I i At Harbor General Hospital is Franklin H.

Piper, 9, of 1002 6th San Pedro, with a pellet wound in his stomach. Smutz, helper in a riding academy at 410 Arcadia Drive, Lennox, where the shooting Occurred, was booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. Blvd. Garrison died in Santa Monica Hospital a iew. hours, after' the accident.

Coming out of an a pickup truck going north on Lincoln crashed into a sedan in which were five Albert Bredemeyer, 54, of 6134 Brayton Picketed by ArL Wheels Stuck, Plane Skids to The current issue of the Call fornia edition of the official national CIO News contains a col An unemployed musician was hooked early today in University Station on suspicion of battery for assertedly striking his 60-year- this umn of quotations from local CIO Lecture on Supersonic pro-nationals denouncing Connelly's leadership here and directing verbal barbs at the testimonial dinner. Flower Show's Success Leads to Safe Landing A war surplus twin-engine Cessna T-50 plane last night skidded to a landing at Long Beach Municipal Airport when its landing wheels failed to lower. Cohen Aide's Troubles Grow Harold: Metzler, reputed associate of Mobster Mickey Cohen, continued to run into legal yesterday. Metzler, along with 12 other iefendants, was indicted last week by the county grand jury in connection with the alleged beating of A. M.

Pearson, radio store proprietor. He was released an $50,000 bond and his; hearing was continued May 3, i Yesterday lie appeared i before I Vlunicipal Judge Decker to eek reinetatentent of $50 bond fiicht was April 4 i Kjakn failed to show up for charges- of giving a false -ddress -on his application for a ij river's- license. Additional Bond Promoters of the AFL Retail Clerks Union have begun picketing a San Gabriel market. "We are a family running Fai-man's Village Market, our father and two sons," said Bob Faiman yesterday. "Father was taken ill and I got a dependency discharge from the Marine Corps so I could come home and help out.

We do all the work ourselves. Only once in a while we have another help us. "Union organizers told us that they allow only two members of a family to operate without being unionized. They said I'd have to Long Beach, manager of a towing service, was driver of the truck. Wilford E.

Cline, 31, of 82S 14th Santa Monica, a lead-man in the sheet metal division at Douglas, was driver of the car. Others Injured At Santa Monica Hospital, Cline was reported in critical condition last night. He had a fractured right leg and possibly internal in- old mother. Leo Wonder, 32, of -1616 San Pedro' told officers he "just slapped" his mother, Louise, "to bring her out of it." Mrs. Wonder said her son struck her when she refused to give him money to go to a show.

She said Wonder would drink whenever she gave him money. The mother was in bed during the quarrel, police said. During the struggle, she suffered a cut left eye and a blow to the right. Phenomena Announced Dr. Isadore Rudnick, assistant professor of physicsat UCLA, will discuss some supersonic phenomena in a free public lecture at 8 p.m.

today in UCLA's Physics Building 29. Experiments, it is claimed, show that such sound waves will kill cockroaches, make steel balls dance in the air and will cause cotton to burn. Hollywood Sign to Be Restored Plans for Another The first annual California International Flower Show recently held at Hollywood Park's clubhouse was so successful that a Neither the pilot, William C. Cus ter, 37, of 315 Poplar Montebello, nor the passenger Jack Pyle, 26, of 1230 Desire Puente, was injured. similar spectacle is assured juries.

Bredemeyer's condition was considered serious. He also Because the plane was not cleared for landing, according to The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce yesterday obtained permission from the City Recreation and Park Commission to restore a real estate subdivision marker on hills overlooking the area to read "Hollywood" instead of "Holly-woodland" as at present. Letters on the sign are 75 feet high. next year and the years to follow, join. I don know why because father used to do the same thing," Wonder told police.

"They would send him to jail and send Legion Meeting Set "Child ba held by members. of Los.jingeles Post 8, American at Pa-I we don't need any union. "They started picketing us Mon her home. I don't get it." airport officials, an investigation was launched by the CAA. Officials said another private plane was in the air seeking to land at the time Custer came in.

had a fractured leg and possibly internal injuries. Others injured, all occupants of Cline's car, are: Mrs. Bertha Rolibel, 58, of 11724 Exposition fractured right leg, chest injuries and possibly internal day and said they will keep us from getting any supplies. it was last night. The report was made by Roy F.

Wilcox, general chairman for the flower show, at a. bgnquet attended by more than 150 of the exhibit's committeemen at the Ambassador. tnotic Hall tomorrow at 8 p.m UCLA Professor Department Vice-Chairman Betty "It looks to us like just a The Chamber will rebuild the which has fallen and delete the "land" from the marker which is on property within Griffith Park. scheme to get money out of us for the union." Radiological Expert Lukomski of the Legion Auxiliary! will be the guest speaker. Inglewood, Youth Wins Essay Prize David Robinson, 16-year-old r.i Homecoming Friday Homecoming Day at Roosevelt High School will be held Friday with registration beginning at Judge Decker not only refused give Metzler back his $50, but slapped an additional $2000 bond the defendant and ordered to stand by jury May tl7 Division 7.

Metzler also has an engagement -before1 Superior Judge Barnes on April 25. In 'that court, he is accused of violating Deadly Weapons Control 'Act: He is free on $2500. bond jjji that case, making a total bail Will Address Club Dr. E. Forrest Boyd, radiological expert at the Bikini atom bomb test, will be the speaker Sunday at the Los Angeles Open Forum Breakfast Club at 0:30 a.m., at 7312 Beverly Blvd.

He will discuss the implication of atomic energy in the realms of peace and war. Also on the program will be a color motion picture of Buenos Aires. to Head Cruise Navy Capt. Lawrence C. Gran-nis, professor of Naval Science at UCLA, will boss 1100 midshipmen from universities all over the country when the Navy conducts its second Pacific ROTC summer cruise.

The cruise force of two heavy cruisers and four destroyers will leave San Francisco Aug. 2, proceed to Balboa, Canal Zone, thence around the Galapagos Islands and across the equator. The cruise ends Sept. 12 at San Inglewood 'High senior, 2 p.m.' There will be a track meet between Roosevelt and Fremont high schools at 3 p.m. After that, William K.

Ackermah, Aircraft Engineer, Dies ASHEVILLE, N.C., April 19 (P) William Knox Ackerman, 28, aeronautical engineer; son of the Ambassador to the Dominican'Re-public, Ralph N. Ackerman, died in an Asheville hospital today following an illness of five months. In addition to the parents, he leaves his widow, the former Miss Antoinette Gilloni of Los Angeles, and a brother. Ralph Ackerman, also of Los Angeles. yesterday was all set for the semifinal essay contest sponsored by the Lions Club and scheduled for open house will be held from 5 to 7 p.m.

followed by a banquet May 21 at Santa Catalina Island iL jag- at 7 p.m. and a dance at 9 p.m Davia qualified by winning a regional contest at Pepperdine Francisco after training exercises College Monday night. Finals will at San Diego and Long Beach. I be held in Reno in June with an Of the 1100 middies, 60 arelSSOO educational scholarship the from UCLA. prize.

Bushel of Lonely Hearts Letters Woman Sifted in Slaying of Two Scandinavians ro Dance A colorful festival of costumes, dances and songs of Denmark, Norway and Sweden will be held by the Scandinavian groups of Los Angeles at the International Institute, 435 Boyle next order, and added his mother and i mother taking $134 from Wool- DANCER ACCUSED IN CLUB BLAZES GOES ON TRIAL dridge. and selling much of Schutz's farm supplies and equip DOVER, April 19 () -began sifting through a basket of "lonely hearts" -letters to Mrs. Inez Brennan, 43, 'jfcday shortly after- announcing half-brothers, Raymond, 23, and George, 19, buried the body in a pigpen. Barnes said Robert signed a second statement detailing the slaying of Schultz. He said he, George and Mrs.

Brennan went to Blond Terry Chalterton, 28 Saturday. Among the attractions will be a smorgasbord to be ment. Barnes said her farmhouse is "filled from top to with lonely hearts letters." 1ahe signed' a statement admitting strip-tease dancer, charged with served from 6 to 7:30 p.n,. Ishe plotted the killings of two elderly men arid, aided by her three sons, burned and buried the Coi. Herbert Barnes, State Po- Schultz's New England farm and that his mother shot Schultz after "We want to make sure none of those who wrote the letters is missing," Barnes said.

"It's possible that she just got started in this business. But we're not plac- he refused, to obey her orders to kill the man. lice head, said Mrs. Brennan con- The woman sold most of. I ing any bets oh that." ftssed shooting one victim and setting afire a night club from which she had just been ejected, went on trial yesterday in Superior Judge W.

Turney Fox's court. Dep. Dist. Atty. John W.

Loucks accused Miss Chatterton of having started four separate fires intended to destroy the Doll House, a night dub at 12213 Ventura Blvd. last Feb. 11. Daniel manager of the and it had been necessary for him to escort her to the door. "As she went out," Duff told the court, "she said 'I'll get even with you for Miss Chatterton, also known as Linda Kaye, later was arrested across the street from the club while firemen put out flames which destroyed a- canopy, the awnings, and the 'building's rear door: The dancer, defended hy AttyS.

Herb Wietier and Marvin Rothman, admits having an altercation with Duff but denies that she had anything to do with the fires. She is expected to testify today, Schultz's goods, helped load body on his truck and the family MARRIAGE EXPERT SUED. FOR DIVORCE COLUMBUS, April 19 (iP) Dr. John F. Cuber was sued for divorce today, four days after he resigned as director of Ohio State University's- marriage counseling clinic.

Mrs. Esther Cuber changed neglect in a petition filed in the Franklin County Court of Domestic Relations. The grisly story of the slaymgs the first was last October began unfolding Friday night when Robert told Barnes he shot Wool-dridge' after the Virginian went to the Delaware farm to marry Mrs. Brennan. drove back to Delaware.

Schultz's. body was buried beside Wooldridge uv the pigpen. Later both were dug up, burned, and the charred remains scat- her youngest- son, 15, to shot the other. "iTiie police official said she met 5Vade Woolridge, 70, of Bed-fbd, and Hugo Schultz, 66, 6m Epson, N.H., through lonely -hearts club correspondence and them to their deaths to rob them. He said Robert told of his i club, testified that Miss Chatter- ton had refused to leave the prem Barnes said Robert admitted fir- tered on an isolated section of the ing the fatal shot at his mother's city dump.

ACCUSEO Terry Chatterton, strip-tease dancer, on trial accused of trying to set a night club afire. Timet phot ises after the 2 a.m. closing hour.