The Press Democrat from Santa Rosa, California • 1

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24.36 inches: seasonal total this date last year. 15.70 inches. EDWOOPEMglTgS LEASING hflPSSPK-t 93RD YEAR NO. 1132 SECTIONS 1G PAGES SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA The City Designed for Living-SATURDAY. MARCH 11.

1950 $1.25 PER MONTH 10c PER COPY SUNDAY Dna The Crime Commission, discussing the potential graft money in punchboard operations, in its March 7, 1949 "progress report," states that the sales literature of the Harlich Manufacturing Co. for that year "advertises six different punchboards, with prices and margins of profit which are typical as follows I i Price Price Average Number of Holes Per Punch Per Board Profit 1,200 5c $8.15 $32.90 960 5c 6.90 26.50 1,440 5c 9.98 39.66 960 10c 6.90 49.52 200 25c 8.00 26.38 (6 tickets per hole) 200 $1.00 8.00 81.44 DISTRICT ATTORNEY Charles J. McGoldrick inspects the raignment in Santa Rosa next Friday. 4. Los Angeles police said they held telegraphic warrants from District Attorney McGoldrick of Sonoma County for the arrest of Roland R.

Rushton, 45, former Los Angeles police sergeant, and Manny Gutterman. identified as a salesman for a Chicago punch-board manufacturer. RUSHTON was fired from the Los Angeles force after a trial-board hearing that followed a Santa Cruz County gambling scandal in 1947. Mr. McGoldrick let it be known that prosecution of the indicted parties in Sonoma County will be intended as a staggering body-blow to the alleged "branded" punchboard racket.

"This is an effort to break up organized gambling in Califor-ia," he declared. He said the California Commission on Organized Crime had boards would be picked up by state agents. The alleged conspiracy was based upon the claim that attorney general's men would seize "unbranded boards so that branded ones could be sold as replacements, the district attorney ex- plained. Fact that a state agent acted as predicted convinced the "key op- erators" approached in the alleged deal, he indicated. MR.

McGOLDRICK'S disclosures came as these developments followed hard on the heels of Thursday's grand jury action and the district attorney's simultaneous raid of a Petaluma punchboard warehouse: 1. Los Angeles police raided offices of the C. A. Robinson Co. on Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, at 10:30 a.m.

yesterday, seizing files, pondence, punch-boards and two electric branding irons. The haul was being shipped to Santa Rosa as evidence. aided his office in the year-long investigation that covered both ends of the state and resulted in the indictments. Warren Olney III, chief counsel for the commission, supervised the police raid in Los Angeles yesterday. Petaluma police were instrumental in conducting Mr.

McGoldrick's Petaluma raid, the -district attorney said. (The district attorney's inventory of punchboards seized in Mervyn McCoy's Buckhorn bar listed 2,580 boards, plus three cartons in which the boards were not counted). Mr. McGoldrick said the indicted conspirators had peddled vast numbers of branded punch-boards through the state, warning customers that unbranded boards would-be confiscated by agents of Attorney General Frederick N. Howser.

He disc ribed operations of the alleged racket as follows: (Continued on Page 2, Col. 3) Jicuiu un one oi inousanas oi puncnooards taken in raid on Petaluma tavern. The "brand" can be seen opposite Mr. McGoldrick's right thumb. (Staff photo by L.

G. Hamilton) AN EDITORIAL Innocent' Punchboards Are BIG Business A single punchboard or a single slot machine is "an innocent thing." So think many good citizens who can't see why there's so much fuss about them. But the single slot machine in a neighborhood tavern or a nickel punchboard at a cigar or candy counter represents the biggest kind of big business. It operates in violation of the law. Because of this, it's a business made to order for racketeers.

Racketeering has murder and corruption as by-products, as Los Angeles and countless other communities, big and little, have found out. The State Crime Commission asserted, last year that the representatives of one punchboard company were "claiming to have an exclusive concession to distribute Recall of U.S. Officials Petaluma Youth Gives Self Up After Hit-Run 500,000 protected punchboards in California, for which they were to pay $1 per board in graft," The report showed that punchboards (whose punches cs 'ii0 25 tS efCl yield of $37.16 forreacli board. You can see that 500,000 boards would represent a GROSS Tn a i i Five tons of punchboards were taken in a single So-" a i noma County raid led by. Distort Attorney Charles J.

McGoldrick Thursday. Three Los Angeles men and one Sonoma County resident were indicted for criminal con- spiracy to violate state lottery laws, (6 tickets per hole) 2. Mervyn McCoy, Petaluma, was first of the four persons indicted by the grand jury to be' arrested. He surrendered early yesterday afternoon and was released on $5,000 cash bail. He is charged with criminal conspiracy to violate state gambling laws.

3. C. A. Robinson, identified as By Hungary would be withdrawn, since Bud apest declared them personally unacceptable. In return the United States could oust one or more Hungarian diplomats, or break relations.

The ouster course seemed more likely). Hungary again protested to the United States against what it called the "over swollen number of the staff of this legation." The United States and Britain bluntly rejected Hungarian notes -Feb. 23 asking that the legation staffs be cut. Hungary said then the U. S.

legation employs 103 Hungarians and the British legation 43, "the overwhelming majority of which persons are partisans of the late fascist regime." Housing Bill Vole Is Set WASHINGTON, March 10 (AP) The Senate agreed to begin voting next Wednesday on a housing bill aimed to meet the needs of families with moderate incomes. The most controversial feature of the bill is a section intended to stimulate the construction of housing by co-operative groups. Senator Bricker Ohio) introduced an amendment to knock out that provision, which he said is inflationary and offers special privileges to special groups. Opening arguments for the measure, Chairman Maybank S.C.) of the Banking Committee told the Senate that the original bill has been so revised and cut down in the committee that it is "not the least bit infla tionary." 5 CEtiTS PROFIT of I county to be SUCh a neaaquar- Vi -mainritv of citizens of "Wrh SraSJ conditions whicn large-scale Dnng aDOUt. 'innocent" nickel mey wan lem to a lawyer and acting "in good faith." "It would not be proper administration of justice for the court to now hold that they are now in contempt of court and should be fined or put in jaiL he- ruled, for "they acted upon bona fide legal advice and at all times in good faith." After discarding the idea of personally testing the area for odors, the judge ruled that the injunction is in full force and effect, and effective immediately, the slightest offense as to odor will result in an order for the plant to shut down.

Church Nmm Classified Crossword Comics Editorial Bow to Play Chess Markets Obituaries Radio JL 19, 12 12, 13, 14, 15, 11 4 12 7 7 11 3 1 Sports Stocks Vital Statistics head of the punchboard wholesale firm of that name, was the second indicted defendant arrested. Los Angeles police picked him up at home a few hours after raiding his business. Superior Court Judge Stanley N. Barnes approved Robinson's release on $15,000 bail and ordered his ar- OLDSTER SURVIVES ORDEAL By ALBERT DODGE Staff Correspondent WILLITS, March 10 A 70-year-old grandmother is in Howard Memorial Hospital here tonight after lying critically injured in a wrecked automobile at the bottom of a 900-foot canyon for more than 15 hours. She is Mrs.

Martha ington of Graton. She was a passenger in an old model sedan driven by her son, Raymond Worthington, 36, also of Graton, which crashed through a guard rail and into the steep canyon near Tan Oak Park, 1" miles north of Laytonville about 9 p. m. yesterday. Mr.

Worthington was killed. The mother and son were en-route to Graton from Mendocino County when the accident occurred. The crumpled automobile was not noticed at the bottom of the canyon until today when an unidentified passer-by notified Deputy Sheriff Alvin Reynolds in Laytonville. He called California Highway Patrolman Floyd Mullen at Willits. It took 15 men an hour to haul Mrs.

Worthington out of the canyon. It was not until almost 2 p. m. today that she arrived in Howard Memorial Hospital. Dr.

Raymond Babcock said late today that Mrs. Worthington is in "critical condition and not expected to live." At a late hour workers were still trying to remove the body of Mr. Worthington. He will be taken to the L. P.

Anker Mortuary in Willits. Red Cross Drive Nets $3,693.84 Demanded BUDAPEST, Hungary, March 10 (AP) Hungary used the Robert A. Vogeler case to demand tonight that the United States recall three military officers attached to the U. S. legation in Budapest.

The recall of two British legation attaches was demanded previously. The American officers are Col. James Kraft, military attache; Lt. Col. John Hoyne, deputy mil- itary attache; and Maj.

Donald E. Griffin, deputy air attache. Hungary's Communist government declared all "persona non grata" (unwelcome) on the basis of testimony in the espionage and sabotage trial of Vogeler, the American roving representative of the International Telephone and Telegraph Com-' pany, and six co-defendants last month. VOGELER, who was convicted and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, testified Hoyne and Griffin had been in touch with him and that Kraft "also knew about my espionage activities as he had been a close friend ever since we met in Vienna several years ago." (In Washington, State Department officials said the Hungarian demand, was under study. (Speculation was the three Dairy Problems To Be Discussed George Sehlmeyer, master of the California Grange, will be the main speaker at a special program meeting of the Pomona Grange for the California United Dairymen tomorrow at 1:30 p.

m. at Bennett Valley Grange Hall. 'The regular monthly meeting of the Grange will precede the dairy meeting, according to Mrs. Edith Pfalzgraf, lecturer. The public is invited, Mrs.

Pfalzgraf said. By FRED FLETCHER A cleverly conceived statewide racket, based upon promised pro-tection of "branded" punch-boards, was named by District Attorney Charles J. McGoldrick yesterday as the target of crim-. inal indictments voted by the Sonoma County Grand Jury-He said an agent of Atty. Gen.

Frederick N. Howser had confiscated unbranded punchboards in Sonoma County "within one week" after alleged conspirators promised their customers such 4 MERVYN McCOY McCoy Is Bailed Out Mervyn McCoy, 45-year-old Petaluma bar and restaurant surrendered himself to IJtaoma.Clunty sheriff's officers yesterday a charge of criminal conspiracy to violate state lottery laws. was released on $5,000 cash bail put up "by friends' after his attorney, LeRoy Lounibos of Petaluma, succeeded in having bail reduced, from $15,000. McCoy is to be arraigned before Superior Court Judge Hil-liard Comstock at 10 a.m. next Friday.

He is one of four men indicted Thursday-by the Sonoma County Grand Jury. McCoy met his attorney at the courthouse shortly after noon yesterday for what Mr. Lounibos called "a friendly arrest." "I arranged to have Merv meet me instead of having him brought in by an officer," the attorney said. THE TWO walked to the jail, where they stopped in Sheriff Harry L. Patteson's office before McCoy was fingerprinted and formally booked.

They then returned to Superior Court, where reduction of bail was authorized by Judge Comstock after District Attorney Charles J. McGoldrick told the court he had no objection because of McCoy's long-time residence in the county and the fact that he owned property and was in business here. The $5,000 in cash arrived shortly later along with a $5,000 cashier's check, hich wasnt used. Mr. Lounibos said the money was contributed by "friends' of McCoy after a couple of telephone calls.

McCOT, owner of the Buck-. horn Bar and the Colony Club in Petaluma, is one of four men indicted by the Sonoma County Grand Jury in connection with an alleged punchboard conspiracy. It was at McCoy's Buckhorn Bar in Petaluma Thursday that five tons of punchboards were seized in a raid directed by District Attorney McGoldrick. WHEN I learned this morning that my client had been indicted by the grand jury," Mr. Lounibos said, "I called him at once.

He knew nothing about the pending arrest." He said McCoy had lived in Petaluma "most of his life." When McCoy, wearing a plaid suit and a sport shirt, met his at- torney this afternoon, Mrs. McCoy came with him. She left the courthouse a few minutes later and returned after her husband had been fingerprinted and booked. McCOY was charred with criminal conspiracy which Sec- Qm 182 of the California Penal de says occurs when "two or ore persons conspire to any crime." Section 320 of the code says anyone who "contrives, prepares, sets up, proposes or draws any lottery" is guilty of a crime in this case a misdemeanor. Courts have found punchboards to be lottery devices.

Maximum penalty for criminal conspiracy is three years in a state penitentiary and a $5,000 fine. Minimum penalty is six months in county jaiL fc Mm 'i'Yirfi mini i imii Sheriff JIarry L. Patteson, who did not participate in the raid nor investigation that preceded it, is asking the voters of Sonoma County to re-elect him their sheriff and chief law enforcement officer. The voters have a right to ask Sheriff Patteson how such a huge store of illegal punchboards could be in this county without his knowledge. They have a right to know if "innocent" single nickel punchboards and slot machines are going to continue to flourish in this county as they have in the past.

The sheriff is invited to make free use of the space taken by this editorial to state, uncensored, his policies on current and future enforcement of punchboard and slot machine laws. The voters will decide for themselves whether his past performance and his policies for the future, if he cares to state them, warrant their individual votes at the coming1 elections. Arthur Sherry of the State Crime Commission staff asserted that the place raided by District Attorney McGoldrick and Petaluma police "was the supply center for punchboard operations throughout Northern California." Wp cannot believe that the majority of citizens of By Staff Correspondent PETALUMA, March 10 An 18-year-old Petaluma youth was cited on a felony hit-and-run charge here last night after admitting striking down a 72-year-old man in a pedestrian crosswalk and failing to stop. Andrew H. Capella, 18, Rt.

2, Box 410, Petaluma, appear Viofwft DnlirtA TnffA tVtAf Tliii lac at 10 a. m. tomorrow to answer to the hit-run charge. He is also charged with driving C.F.Fiori Succumbs. OCCIDENTAL, March 10 Charles F.

Fiori, 65-year-old pioneer Occidental vineyardist, died today at a Santa Rosa hospital. Mr. Fiori came to Sonoma County from Italy when a young man. -He started farming and became one of the leading vine-yardists in this area. Other members of his family notably his brother Antonio and a son, Peter helped make Occidental restaurants famous for their Italian dinners.

He is survived by his widow, Mary E. Fiori, and the following children Mrs. Stella Cimoli, San Francisco, Mrs. Sadie Tesconi, Santa Rosa, Mrs. Irene M.

Bruno, Santa Rosa, and Peter V. and Ned Fiori, of Occidental. In addition to Antonio Fiori, ne was the Brother of Rinaldo and Paolo Fiori and Mrs. Irene Pinelli, all of Italy. He is also survived by several grandchild- ren and great-grandchildren.

Services will be held at 9:15 a.m. Tuesday at the Memorial Chapel of Lafferty Smith, Santa Rosa, thence to St. Rose's Church where Mass will be said. Entombment will be at Calvary Cemetery, Santa Rosa. The Rosary willbe recited in the Lafferty Srftth Chapel at 8:15 p.m.

Monday. Gubitchev Offer Is Attacked WASHINGTON, March 10 (UP) Senate Republican leader Kenneth S. Wherry charged today that Secretary of State Dean Acheson "conspired" to save Valentine A. Gubitchev from jail in order to "appease" Russia, The Nebraska Republican said Acneson's partner in the alleged conspiracy was Attornev Gen eral J. Howard McGrath.

The two cabinet officers interceded personally with a New York federal judge to have Gu-bitchev's 15-year espionage conspiracy prison sentence suspended on condition that he be deported to Russia within the next two weeks. Wherry said the offer was plain diplomatic 4 "bribery" and demonstrated Acheson's "unfitness to continue as Secretary of State." Wherry delivered his blast at Acheson a public statement as the secretary was Dreoarim? to confer with Soviet Ambassa- dor Alexander S. Panyushkin. No official explanation was given for the conference. without an operator's license and violating a pedestrian right-of-way.

1 Harry Kayser, 72, of 218 Kel ler Street, was treated at the Petaluma General Hospital for shock, abrasions and an injured knee. He was released after first 31 Petaluma police said the Ca- peiia youth admitted his car struck Mr. Kayser at the Main a4" WffMmflftrt Qraote inforcop- and Washington streets intersec- The accident touched off a county-wide search for the hit- run car. The search ended when the youth surrendered himself at the police station. His father, when told of the accident, or dered the youth to give himself up.

The boy's father was cited for permitting an unlicensed driver to operate his car. GEYSERVILLE, March 10' Ralph Rose, 16, of Geyserville was the only person injured in a spectacular two-car accident five miles south of here early last night. The youth was treated for facial cuts at the Healdsburg General Hospital and released. OneVar went over a steep embankment while the other hung on the edge of the road. Warreii Asks Pension Law Change SACRAMENTO, March 10 (AP) Governor Warren said to- day he favored continuation of state support of child cen- ters and liberalization of the rel- atives' responsibility clause, but: The Legislature would have to find new revenues to take care of the added expense.

He implied that spending measures which go beyond his balanced, no. new tax $971,000,000 budget would run into a veto unless financing is provided. The child care center program in which an estimated 14,000 youngsters participate is due to shut down June 30. Both the Senate and the Assembly have bills calling for $6,000,000 to continue the program. Warren declared that unless the legislators did something many children "would show up some place else in the budget" as state charges.

THE RELATIVES' responsibility clause requires financially able sons and daughters to con- tribute to the aid of their aged parents. The governor said the present formula causes some hardship because of salary dif- ferences and shrinkage in the aouars purcnasing power, Outright repeal of the clause, already called for in bills introduced, in the Legislature, would make it necessary for the Legislature to raise more money, Warren said. It was estimated by the Weybret Senate Interim Committee such action would cost counties and the state $35,000,000 annually. Warren said his budget has funds to provide added state support of public schools at the same level as this year, including an extra. $11,000,000 to take care of increased enrollment.

The Legislature must decide whether to continue the same formula of payment or increase it. He said if they-failed to act the "schools couldn't keep their 'doors open." Countv want their if it is Vi-it We cannot eliev that this county want to invite the gambling rackets inevitably we cannot Deueve mat OFFERS POUR IN punchboards and slot machines undisturbed by the public officials who are elected to enforce the Mendocino Judge Rules In the 'Stinkpot' Case Central Sonoma County chapter headquarters, American Red Cross, said last night at the end of the first 10 days of the chapters 1950 fund drive campaign workers had turned in $3,693.84. The chapter's quota for the month-long drive to end March 31 is $27,500. Of the total to date, workers in the Santa Rosa' area have turned in $2,865.89. Breakdown given for this total is: special gifts and business area, office and reside ntial area, rural areas, $31.50, and organizations, $60.

The Sebastopol branch of the chapter has raised $669.95 and the Guerneville branch $158. Total for Sonoma branch workers still stands at zero on the chapter records as chapter officials have as yet been unable to a report from this branch of chapter. Woman Shoots Love Rival SACRAMENTO, March 10 (UP) Margaret Cozort, a 28-year-old divorcee, was shot and killed here late today in what police described as the aftermath to an argument over her atten- tions to the husband of 65-year-old Mrs. Lula Bruce. The shooting occurred at 1311 West El Camino where all three were living.

c- TO DONATE SKIN Sonoma County Hospital was "swamped" yesterday with calls from volunteers for skin grafting to aid Sandra Emmert, 9-year-old burn victim, of Forestville. Dr. Elliott Stearns, resident physician, said people had called from as far as Santa Cruz and San Jpse in response to an appeal made through the columns of The Press Democrat-Evening Press, through the state wire services and over radio stations. He said the response was "very gratifying" and that he was sure that there would be enough persons on the lists with the correct blood type, Rh positive, for the graiting which may start Monday. Several persons have had their blood typed already and others are returning for a blood check, he said.

Those volunteering for the skin grafting include Timothy J. Waters, 2535 Chanate, Road, L. EaFont, 640 Carr Avenue, Mr. and Mrs. Robert W.

Price, 1314 Poplar Avenue, Al Baxley, 242 Brush Creek Road; Mrs. Gladys Rowe, Kenwood, Elwin Millerick, 2116 Dennis Lane, Carl Gaches, 47A Clement Avenue, Mrs. Margaret Huffman, Santa Rosa, Mrs. Mary Shepherd, Stony Point Road, James Harvey Santa Rosa and Jacklyne Feltz, Healdsburg. The Sonoma County Community Blood Bank had more than a dozen telephone calls from persons regarding the appeal yesterday, Mrs.

Agnes Barlow, bank manager said. She said 13 appointments had been made to replace blood Sandra has used during her four months' hospitalization. Three other appointments are to be made later. Volunteers include six men from Sears Roebuck. She said people had been "swarming" in all day and that she had sent several to the hospital for tests for skin grafting.

UKIAH, March 10 Mendocino county's "stinkpot case" progressed to a 6howdown today. Superior Judge Lilburn Gibson told the owners of a Noyo harbor fish reduction plant he will issue an order for them to cease operation if their plant emits the slightest degree of offensive odorY according to Associated Press. Judge Gibson said a permanent injunction is in effect, or-from discharging "noxious, offensive and sickening odors" from their plant. The injunction was granted in: January in response to the request of James Cummings, Noyo Flat restaurant owner. Mr." Cummings today sought to have the Viggo Ppulsen; Henry and William Grader and Carl Larson held in contempt of court, because he said, the objectionable odors hadn't been stopped.

EIGHT WITNESSES testified to this, but their testimony was offset by 24 others who declared they had not been able to detect any odors. In declaring the owners not in contempt, Judge Gibson gave them credit for taking the prob-.