Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 1

WEATHEl Map, Pago 20 fair tonight and tomorrow. Tog a near Little NVSs. A1 change in tpmnor. lature. High today Oakland 65.

Low tonight 150-55. Westerly windk 8-16 m.pii. USOCIATEO WIDE WORLD. PRESS CHICAGO DI'L Niws ramiBi ifitvier i lit i hi liiiiaL I VOL CLXIII lO DAILY OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1955 20 SUNDAY NO. 109 I I i 4 I HOME; EDITION MOVING ROW 27, Buildings! CoUrt Grants i upreme Wifeof S.F.

Ad Executive Round Slain a i Huge Eastbay Sale Jiessmaii new ADDeat 1 17 Oakland, 10 Berkeley Office And Apartment Properties Change Hands in Multimillion Deal Death Cel California Reds Twenty-seven Oakland and Berkeley bff ice and apart- A 1 a it. 1 il 5 meni. Dunaings, togexner wnn anotner in oan francisco, were sold today to a syndicate of Eastern and Northwest To Get High Tribunal Also Attacking Internal Son, 18, Dashes Into Truck in Apparent Suicide Attempt body of the wife of a San Francisco billboard firm execu her skull crushed was found today in the blood-spat tered bedroom of her Pasadena home. About four i hours before her bodv was found. San Bernardino rn investors in one! of the biggest; "package" real estate transactions in Pacific Coast history.

Seventeen Oakland and 10 Berkeley buildings changed hands in the deal Included in the multi-million dollar ideal, the largest Fourteen California communist leaders were granted a review of their conviction reported her 18-year-old overthrow of the government by violence in a decision announced by the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington today, At the same time the court permitted the filing of a 42 Perish as vf: Ijv.y Heavy! Rains Flood East By The Associated Press The elements rained death and property destruction of many millions on six northeast erh states over the Weekend. The toll of persons known or I i i presumed dead rose to 42. The sun broke through leaden iclouds in New; York City and other areas today and the New York Weather Eurea said at 1:15 a.m. that the worst te over, i From! his sickbed in Denver, President Eisenhower issued assurances of jaid to the storm-stricken sectors.

Vai Peterson, ir etbr of Civil Defense, boarded an Army plane to in spect the flooded areas and re port back to the President. Army, Navy; Coast Guard, Civil Defense units, police and firemen toiled; throughout the weekend in rescue and salvage ilson Tfells Ike Defense Cost to Rise $34,500,000,0100 Estimate Too low; 2,850,000 in Service DENVERf pet. 17-) Secre tary of Defense Wilson told president Eisenhower today that military expenses for the next fiscal nay rim slightly higher than jthe $34500,000,000 estimated for expenditure this fiscal year. I .1 1 Wilson toldi a newSlconf erence after a 25-mihute meeting with the President! and Adm. Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that he (Wilson) looks for ja defense budget for the year starting July 1 at abobt the $34,500,000, 000 figure and an Armed Force level of about 2,850,000 persons, which is substantial! the force total at this time Wilson said either could so lip a fraction but it will be some time before totals carl be worked out -7: 1 MARINE CORPS CHIEF Meanwhile, the President ap proved the appointnent ofLt.

Gen. Randolph Pate io succeed Gen. LemueL C. Sliepherd as commandant of th Marine Corps when tie latter retires at the end of the year i No aDDOintment waJ nroppssprf at this time, i The President also aereed. Wilson said, with hii choice of a successor to Donald Quarles a assistant sefcretaryjpf defense researcn ana aeveiopmenv Quarles is now secretary of the Air Wilson would not disclose Quarts' successor but said he hoped to announce, it before the week is over, Wilson said he was pleased to find the jfresidenl "making rapid sid4 hkeMf- ery and in such good Spirits In view increased, costs of steel, increased military payrolls ana otner iaotors, wpson saia the 1957 budeet could eo as much as one-half to lone billion dollars highet than vie current estimated expenditures, but the goal is to maintain both spend ing and personnel at this year's level.

He said that thr military iorce was arouna wnen he took overl the Defense De partment in 1953. SITS OUT OF DOORS JWilson talked with the' Presi i i. it dent a short time sifter the President sat in an easy chair for 40 minutes on the sundeck outside his eighth floor hospital room after i he was lifted from his bed to the! chair. Earlier today the esident received reports on government 'i. Continued Pare CoL LONDON, Oct.

7 (TO ing mounting, higMy-placed with Peter jJTownserid again from a weei end ill Windsor. Defy 1 a a 25 i 3 House Fires Laid To Arson WALNUT CREEK Oct. 17 rct-1 burr): Arson is blamed for the! burning I i i I it. i oi inree nomes moveaj to new sites to make way fori freeway construction. I Central Fre Distri Chief Bill Nottingham said It $3 500 fire in a home near here last night "obviously was sit.

I Will ask for an irtvestigatio by the arson bureau of the atibnal Board of Fire Underwriters ru. 1 1 i last week, and the first one June 25. Mrs. Margaret CiA-tin of 45 Normandy Lane, Concprd, bought the house danfaged! in last night's fire from tHe Stjate, one moved it to Knoll on Ygnacio Valley Road lone-half mne east oi nere. ft i a DEED RESTRICTION 1 Mrs.

Curtin said a feed re sixicuan iorDias nouses, oi less A than 1,500 square eetl on the property. She met with resi dents of the neighborhood six weeks ago and told them the garage would be converted into room to enlarge the house to 1,530 square feet 1 one saia mere naa peen no protests from. neighbo-s since the house was moved the lot month ago. Another peed re striction sets a one-acle minimum on lots 1 in the area, put Mrs. Curtin has 2.6 acres.

The county: building! inspec tor's office in Martinez laid the home was built in 1950 tad cbn orms to the; county building code. Mrs. Curtin said he piannea to move into the struc ture alter selling her Concord The home was up on blocks and rollers, waiting td ibe lowered to a new foundation- Elec tric and gas connections! had not yet been made, EARLIER BLAZE Fire caused $10,000 damage to two-story home in the 3200 block of Ortega St. in Lafayette ast Tuesday night. I Residents of that area com plained against locating the house there because off a deed restriction prohibiting use of jthe ot for a moved hom.T They went to court! and obtained an order for; the house to be re moved.

I. i i Shortly i after the couf order was issued a sign statmg "lot lor sale, no racial discrimina tion was tacked on the house The first fire occurred June in a home that had been moved to a lot on Oak Park east oi Walnut! Creek. Firemen requested an arson in vestigation of the blazes by the sheriffs office, but no I arrests were made, i Princess Margaret, disregard criticism, went off to dine tonight after their Iretiirn I 1 Author Wins 8th Hearing The United States Supremo Court' today ordered a. new lower court hearing for sex ter rorist Caryl Chessman, who has staved off execution in San Quentin's gas chamber for more than seven years. I' The order, on a 5-3 vote, wa issued in Washington, D.C., on the convict-author's eighth ap peal to the Nation highest court.

Seven times before the court had rejected various legal moves by Chessman and' his at torneys, I The new hearing will be. held in San Francisco Federal Court on a habeas corpus proceeding on grounds that the transcript of his original, trial in Los Angeles is "fraudulent" WARREN ABSTAINS Throughout his long series of legal maneuvers, Chessman has contended that the court re porter at his original trial died before transcribing his short- hand notes and that the trans cript prepared by other persons is inaccurate. I The Supreme Court's action was announced in a brief un signed opinion. It noted- that Justices Reed, Burton and Clark dissented and that Chief Justice Warren took no part. The vote was thus 5-3 with Justices Black, Frankfurter, Douglas, Minton and Harlan voting for Chessxnar.

During bis long wait, in the California prison's death row, -Chessman has written two books. One called "Cell 2455, Death Row," was made into a movie. The "Trial by was published last July although prison authorities said they had impounded Chessman's i manu script under a ban against publication of writings of condemned men. i CONVICTED IN 1948 Chessman, now 34, was con-. victed May 14, 1948, of eight counts of robbery, four of kid- naping, two of sex perversion on victims, one count of attempted robbery one attempted criminal assault and one of auto theft The latest appeal repeated statements made in previous legal moves that the record of his 1948 trial was "spurious.

Today's opinion noted i that Chessman had asked for a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that the transcript of his trial was "fraudulently prepared. The opinion added: I "The official reporter had died before completing the transcription of his stenographic notes of the trial, and petitioner (Chessman)! alleges that the prosecuting attorney and the substitute reporter selected by him by corrupt arrangement' prepared the fraudulent transcript On the record before us, there is no. denial ox peti tioner's allegations. Chessman Jnbilant Page 7 Review Accepts Brief Security Act on charges of plotting the asKing that the lyou internal U.S. Plea for! New Provoo Trial Rejected The Supreme Court today up held a judge's decision which blocked a new trial of former Army Sgt John David Prdvoo, 38, one time San Francisco bank clerk I accused of treason! for assertedly collaborating with the Japanese while a prisoner during World War II.

The decision, by U.S. District Judge Roszel C. Thomsen in Baltimore ordered dismissal of an indictment charging seven acts of treason! while Provoo was a prisoner of the Japanese after the fall of Corregidori inomsen said; Provoo constitutional rights had been vio lated when Iiei was held in prison more than five years be fore the charges against him were first brought to trial. The! tribunal's action today was announced in a brief order which said that a. motion! by counsel for Provoo to' affirm Judge! Thomsen's decision Was granted.

Justice Department had asked the high, court to overturp Thomsen's I decision and thus permit a second trial of Provoo. The appeal said the decision Was "novel and erroneous and had far-reaching implications injef fective administration of crim inal justice. Provoo has been at liberty under $5,000 bond pending final action on the government's ap peal His first trial was in U.S. Dis trict Court in New York, where he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment Canadian Train Wreck Injures 40 RIVIERE BEAUDETTE, Oct 17 Wl A Canadian Na tional Railways passenger train smashed into an abandoned car at a level crossing last night, derailing the engine and nine cars and injuring 40 persons, i Ji-kOch ever recorded in Uakiand (were the Financial1 Center and Latham Square office buildings; the Hill Castle and Bell evue Sta ten apart ment buildings in Oakland, and the Picardo Arms Apartment in Berkeley. i The nine-story Rialto Build ing at 116 New Montgomery Pictures on Pag 19 Can Francisco was sold in the transaction.

The buildings were owned by numerous persons. Ail were under management of Morgan and Peacock Properties Co, Berkeley property management firm, which arranged th sale. SYNDICATE IDENTIFIED Buyer was a syndicate composed, of New York" investors headed by Roger L. Stevens, and Seattle, group; headed by Floyd R. Clodfelter and John A.

Metzger, Tax stamps appearing on deads for the property involved in the transaction indicated a total value of $1 according to Thomas W. Fitzsimmons, county recorder. 1 Stevens, a nationally lenown teal estate operator and producer of Broadway shows, at one time was head of the 'syndicate which owned the mpire State Building in Nyr York, i Clodfelter is president 'of the rates" the Mayflower, Waldorf and new Washington ttoteis, ing, all in Seattle, along with several 1 California motels and the Mar Monte Hotel in Santa Barbara. Metzger is associated with the Doric Co. i TWO SEPARATE DEALS Two separate deals were, in volved, according to Jules Agostini and Mrs.

A4 Han-ford Morgan, partners in the Morgan and Peacock firm. They were: i 1 Sale oi the buildings. 3 Sale of the Morgan and Peacock Properties Agostini said some of the original Oakland area investors may join the new investment group. The sale was completed this morning with signing of final papers at the Alameda County East Bay Title Insurance Co. Oakland office buildings in solved are: The 18-story Financial Center Building at 405 14th The 15-story Latham Square Continued Page Col.

7 So They Say COL. ANWAR EL SADAT, Egyptian minister of state; "America has not supplied a single item (of arms) to Egypt This means all sales were made to Israel and to Israel alone." WALTER REUTHER, CIO chieftain, said automation can bring a four-day work week, longer vacations, early retirement and better living: "We welcome the potential benefits but we oppose those, who would introduce automation blindly and irresporisi? bly." DICK FOE, 9, after swimming the Golden Gate: 1 wasn't afraid, want to try it again." PETER TOWNSEND replied to a 'question about his marriage plans as he and Princess Margaret returned to London by separate routes: These questions are getting wmi dii oi do re. UNITED in soi, sought for questioning, dashed into the side of a truck oni a highway in an apparent suicide try. The boy, Jack Hawley, vas struck by a diesel truck at 5 a.m. on; U.S.

Highway 66 near San Bernardino and was reported in critical condition, NdTE FOUND The body of his mother, Mrs. Iris Hawley, was found at 9:30 a.ni. today in her luxurious Pasadena home. There were sighs of a struggle and a rambling note was found. Police did not divulge its contents.

Mrs. Hawley was the "Wife of Wifliam Hawley, who recently was transferred from bouthern California to become San Fran cislo manager of Foster Kiei- outdoor advertising firm The Hawleys had moved into the' Pasadena home, the value of which was estimated at $50, 000i last May. Hawley's said he left imihediately for the, south after receiving word of his wife's death. DEAD 24 HOURS Detective Richard ,1 Jamison said Mrs. Hawley had been dead about 24 The house was locked, i A maid, Mary Myers, 34, entered the place at 9:30 a.m.

With her own key and found the body. Mrs. Hawley was in her- bed clothes. Her skull had been crushed with a blunt instru- ment A search was launched for jthe Hawley son, who was missing from the house. BLOODY HAMMER I Highway Patrolmen R.

H. Mc- Clejlan and James R. Smith reported 'young Hawley had run next to Highway 66. near De-vore, six miles north of San Berhardino. A mechanic re ported that a bloody hammer wasi found under the front seat Eyewitnesses said the boy rushed onto the highway brandishing a foot-long butcher, knife.

He hurled 'himself against the side: of an oncoming pickup The occupants stopped and tried to restrain him. But he pulled away and threw himself I against another car. Again he Was restrained, but he (dashed into th path of a hugje truck. He was taken to San Bernardino General Hospital with internal injuries. Stenmother Slaying Pare 5 $140 CLAIM Police Get New On Searches A'general order regarding the searching of prisoners has been issued to Oakland policemen as a direct result of a charge by a drunk driving suspect that he lost $140 after his arrest, Chief of Police Wyman W.

Vernon reported today. The order, signed by Capt. David Minney, commander of the Service Division, reads as follows: Vi In 'the future keener at tention must be paid by watch commanders and booking of fleers' to the searching of prisoners arrested for "1 They are to be searched before being put into the deten tion cells Whenever possible. And if they are too drunk to search, in no case are they to be put into the same cell with other prisoners. "3 When search, commence at the front and empty i each pocket separately upon the book ing counter, moving to the rear pockets after the front are empty.

1 4 Be firm but courteous to the prisoners, and in no case use Continued Page CoL 4 Dnei signed Dy jou persons, becunty Act be declared un constitutional The hearing was granted to communist leaders who were convicted in Los An geles in. 1952 after a six-month trial. All are now under the maximum sentence of five years imprisonment and $10,000 fines. WRITERS ON LIST The group was headed by William Schneiderman of San Francisco, former state chair man- of the communist party, who according to the FBI was acting as its national chief when he was arrested in 1951 It includes one Oakland man. Albert Jason Lima.

former Eastbay partr chairman. Two of the 14; Philip M. Con nelly, editor of the Los Angeles edition of the Daily Peoples World, and Al Richmond, edi tor of the San Francisco edition of the communist paper, are being represented by Augustin Donovan, Oakland attorney Donovan, who took their case without fee, in his ap peal for a hearing that their conviction was a violation of freedom bf the press. SEPARATE APPEAL A separate appeal by Schnei derman emphasized his statement that "The communists do not desire the use of force and violence. We desire and strive for peaceful and democratic means of removing exploitation and oppression.

The others appealing are: Mrs Dorothy Healey Connelly, wife of Connelly and former chairman of the Los Angeles County party; Henry Steinberg, Los Angeles County party legislative director; Mrs. Rose Chernin Kus-nitz, executive secretary of the Los Angeles Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born; Mrs. Oleta O'Connor Yates, San Francisco, Northern California party secretary. OTHERS NAMED Mrs. Loretta Starvus Stack, San Francisco, Northern Califor nia organizational secretary; Er nest Otto Fox, San Francisco waterfront Carl Rude Lambert San Francisco, state security review chairman; Frank Carlson, Los Angeles County party defense committee chairman; Frank E.

Spector, Los Angeles County industrial organizer, and Ben Dobbs, Los An geles County organizational sec retary. In granting the hearing the court turned down requests by the American I Civil Liberties Union and the International Longshoremen's and Warehouse men's Union for permission to file briefs in the case as friends of the court ACT CHALLENGED The brief against the Internal Security Act was filed by "friends of the court" in connec tion with a pending' communist party appeal challenging validity of the act; The court will hear arguments on the party's appeal later this falL Calling the act "the most ter rible threat so far devised to freedom in America," the "friends of the court brief said its purpose was to "present the evils of the act from the point of. view of non-communists. Hames listed on the brief in eluded Senator McNamara Prof. Harold Urey, Uni versity of Chicago; Yehudi Menuhin, violinist; Deems Taylor.

New York composer and music critic; Henry Seidel Canby, member of the editorial board of the Saturday Review; the Rev. Henry Hitt Crane, Central Methodist Church, Detroit; Dr. John P. Peters, Yale Univer sity professor of medicine, and Dr. Frank Aydelotte, director emeritus.

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ. Qppos I from done. 1 THOUSANDS SUFFER The American Red Cross said about 6,900 families have been affected in the storm areas 3,200 in Connecticut, 1,500 each New York and New Jersey, and 700 in Pennsylvania. Dozens of bridge and roads are, washed out, rail transporta tion is snarled or suspended, power lines are down, and Strug gling citizens many, commu nities face the; danger of con taminated drinking Water. "The three days of rainfall ranged from 3.75 inches in New York City to more than 11 inches in Danbury, Conn.

This com pares. with a high of 17 inches in some areas during Hurricane Diane last Aigi 18-19. NOT SO SEVERE Officials said deaths and prop erty damage would be far below that caused by Diane. That hur- ricane produced flash floods which caught prepared. Irk communities tin the latest storm, residents had time to make preparations which saved lives and property.

I Disaster teams, tested by Diane, swung into im mediate action this time. 1 Pictures on Page "North Africa was ntyar lika this when Rudolf ValenHno 'i was a sheik!" WHERE TO FIND IT Bridge Classified Crossword Puixle Financial Gardens 22 29 32, 37 15 That So IT Musie Reyiew 20 21 Riesel .5 12 21 29 Society and Clubs Theaters Vitals Weather 29 erior.Dui sneic rie Strikers Pho The Princess mH Townsend for dinner at the Victoria former escorts, Mark Bpnham i i I March Here Meet ii -1 i students, management officials and "a few strike-breakers." R. W. Hackler, international CWA representative, said he felt the strike thus far "has been 99 per cent effective." -Here-viewed the union demands. Following the meeting, plae- ard -carrying union members 1 marched from the auditorium down 10th St to Franklin St i More: than.

1,500 members of striking Oakland Local 9415, CIO Communications Workers of America, held a mass meeting and downtowr demonstration today. S' I There; was no indication of a settlement of the Northern California telephone dispute. Violet Bogan, president of the local, presided at the mass meeting in the Oakland Auditorium She told the union members that the strike, now in its second week, has been "effec tive in that almost; 100 per cent of the union members are ob serving; the picket lines." The only ones going through the picket lines, she said, were Road home Jof one uarter. LOVDON, Oct Prin cess Margarei returned to Lon-doji today fTOm a Weekend in the country with peter Town- send amid reports of Increasing opposition totneir marriage royal circles nd sorl sections of the, Church? of Engnd. Hundreds of Londoners got only a fleeting glimpse of the Princess as she droye through the Clarence IHouse Gates in a Rolls-Royce, accompanied by hef- lady in Raiting, iJLady Iris Peake.

and her bodyguard, de tective Fred Crocker. Only a few i earlier, the queen mother had Sreturtted from Windsor Castle. 11 1 Townsend I returned to the home of the Marquis! sf Aber gavenny in fLowndei Square, where he is a guest during his leave from his post irt Belgium. NO OFFICIAL WORD There still, was ho! official word oh whither th queen's sister and i the handsome 'Air Force group captain will marry although millions of Britons are convinced they will. The Duke of Edinburgh, hus band of Queen Elizabeth was pi her The paraders dispersed in front i of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company Building at said to' be advising strongly against a union between the 25-year-old royal beauty knd ihe divorced Royal Air Forde hero, who will be 41 jnext month.

One newspaper quofied 83- year-old Princess Marie iLouiseJ a granauaugnter oi yueen vie tona, as saying such a marriage would be unthinkable, There were unconfirmed ru mors that the; Archbishop of Canterbury, th top prilate of the established Church of Eng land, would voice his disap proval publicly; if the supposed engagement is made official. CHURCH VIEWS DIFFER I Members of the Anglican clergy began choosing) sides. Some were willing to perf orni a Margaret-Townsend ceremony Others said "no? in view of the church hierarchy's stand! against the remarriage of divorced per sons whose former mates are still alive. i A retired Anglican clergyman said Princess Margaret; deliberately affront the Church oi rjigiaca sne marries lown send. Picture on iCage HOMES 1587 Franklin St 1 Meanwhile, Federal Mediator Arthur Viat was to make en-other attempt today to end the strike of 22,000 telephone em- Continued Page CoL 1 TODAY IS DAY TerrT)I Thompson joins tht TRIBUNE COMICS i TV 'l- CRUSADE FINDS FOR CHILDREN.