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0t DAILY. OAKLAND, CALIFORNFA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1955 NO. 97 Dt'lr HEWS FOREIGN imvirr VOL. CLXIII ii" I I I I DOUBT FADES Grandchildren's Prosecutor Hopes for Abbott Ruling 8 Shot, Guns Seized in Strike Battle MOROCCO Faure Hit By New Rebel Blow Gifts Cheer Ike Study Area For Urban Renewal Set Rehabilitation Work In Oakland Now Is Step Nearer President Continues Gains After' 'Excellent Night'; Tension Eases As Steady Improvement Is Shown By MARVIN I. ARROWSMITH DENVER.

Oct. 5 LP) President Eisenhower doctors reported today that the Chief Executive had an "excellent and is making satisfactory progress. And there was 4 note of hilarity for Eisenhower in some gifts of bubbles, gum from his three grandchildren. From the doctors, the word in a 10:30 a.m. (MST) medical bulletin was that the Chief Executive "slept soundly RABAT.

French Morocco. 5 ii Moroccan Nationalists stabbed at hard-pressed French forces today in relentless guerrilla attacks for the fifth successive day in the rugged Riff Mountains. The fighting echoed all the way to Paris, jeopardiz ing Premier Edgar Faure's coalition government. (The United Press reDorted that Berber tribesmen recaptured the key Nador Pass in the Riff Mountains today. French foreign legionnaires and colonial infantry immediately launched a counterattack, tne report said.

A top Nationalist leader, Mo hammed Lyazidi, warnedihe re surgence of terrorism "is bound to get worse" if the French' do not speed their plan fo. Moroccan There were indications Faure's program might b3 delayed even longer or possibly scrapped. Lyazidi said that u' the French had kept their promises. it (the fighting) might not have happened." He referred to agree ments hammered out by the French and Nationalists calling foA removal of pro-French sultan Mohammed Ber Moulav Arafa. creation of a thiee-man regency, formation of a new Moroccan government and granting jf much more self-rule to the protectorate.

The only point fulfilled thus. far was the remova of the sultan. The worst fighting appeared to be concentrated abouL 70 miles northeast of Fez and with in a few miles of the Soanish- Moroccan border, in the Riff Range. Three French military out posts were reported surrounded by rebels. They were Poured, six miles south of ihe Spanish pro tectorate line; Tizi Ouzli, 20 miles east of Boured and five miles from the border; and Ak- noui, a military post and village ot about 300 residents between Taza and the frontier.

Teen-Age Slayers Of Youth Sought PHOENIX, Oct. 5 IP Police today intensified a search for four teen-agers believed to have fatally beaten a high school freshman on a busy down town street yesterday afternoon. Jerry Beamer, 14, son Mr. and Mrs. John N.

Beamer, died en route to a hospital, about 2:30 p.m., after he and a companion were attacked by a group of four youths, police were told. The attack occurred on West Washington only a short distance from the city police station. An eye-witness, William J. Schwartz, operator of a shoe shine rjarlor nearbv. said that when Beamer fell to the side walk and did not get up, the four youths left the scene.

Liz Taylor Better HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 5 Screen star Elizabeth Taylor was reported improved and rest ing comfortably today at the UCLA Medical Center where she has been hospitalized since Sunday with an intestinal ail ment. YEARS AHEAD Bay Bridge Bill Marked Paid in Full The Oakland Bay Bridge has i i paid itself off eight years ahead of schedule a fulL-16 years before the payoff date planned when the span was built in J936. The California T0ll Brid Authority authorized I paying off the bridge's bonded debt yesterday in Sacramento. Funds for retiring tne bridge's debt have jcome from tolls.

Some $5,800,000 has ome from accumulated tolls. The remain ing $10,000,000 comes from reducing the bridge's (emergency reserve fund- also (raised; by tolls trom $25,000,000 to SOUTHERN CROSSING The authority's action clears ine aecK ior iinancing tne proposed southern crossing of the Bay. Money realized byi reduction of the bridge reserve fund, along with tolls to be accumulated during the next 21 mbnths, iwill allow some $17,000,000 to be used directly for highway con struction. Also, the Authority's action relieves the State Highway Fund of having to pay $1,000,000 a year for bridge maintenance, with that money going toward highway construe tion. In the future the bridge maintenance will be financed throlugh tolls, which amount to about $10,000,000 a year.

Some of the tolls on the span willi now go forward repaying untoi highway funds of the 45 north state counties the money they have been paying in the pastj years for bridge; mainten ance, insurance and Operation. The State Department of Pubic Works estimates $6,000,000 extra can go into Northern California projects before 'next July 1 and $11,000,000 worth of proj ects can be financed during the 12 rhonths following, pat TOLLS RETAINED Tolls are required to stay on the seven-mile span to help pay for a southern crossing of the Bay -between San Francisco's Army Street and Alameda's Bay Farm Island authorised by the Legislature in 1953. The Public Works Department is now worKing on contract specifications for a southern crossinc. i Retirement of outstanding Bay Bridge bonds will reduce the sizejof the bond issue (ultimately needed to finance southern crossing. The interest saved also will boost the southern crossing's construction reserve fund.

Other Bridges OK'd, Page A Truck Kills Autoisr On Way to Work LODI, Oct. 5 i Waynard Slauehterback. 46, of Gait (Sac ramento County). was killed on his way to work last night when his car was hit by a truck five miles north of here on Highway 99. Driver of the truck, Marvin White, of Denyer.

told highway patrolman that Slailghterback crossed the highway kt Liberty Road, and drove directly in front on his rig. White was not held Slaughterback. a laborer. Was pronounced dead on jarrival at the Mason Hospital. mi or AGRICUUUte FMtM SURPUSW.

"If we started TV quiz shew the first prize could be 64,000 bushels of grain. TH NEWS METER WHOA, THLRL! If the H-Bomb is harnessed I for peace. If the phantoms of fear it erases, I It may force global conflicts to cease I If it doesn't Jump ever i the GOP Signs S.F. Meet Contract WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 National chairman Leonard W.

Hall today announced the formal signing of a contract to hold next year's Republican National convention in San Francisco Aug. 20, as originally planned. Hall called a news conference to make the announcement, and to reperat that there was no substance to reports that President Eisenhower's illness might cause a change in the date and place. "Only the national committee can make a change," he said. No meeting of the committee is contemplated in the near future and no recommendation of change is contemplated.

The centennial convention of the Republican party will open Monday, Aug. 20, 1956 in the Cow Palace, San Francisco." HITS SPECULATION Hall had sought earlier this week to squash speculation that the GOP might decide to hold the convention earlier if it be came certain Eisenhower would not run again. The thinking back of such speculation was that some other candidate would need more time for campaigning before the November election. Hall predicted to his news conference that the GOP con vention will nominate the next President of the United States. Eut he declined to speculate on whether Eisenhower will run.

saying this would be inap propriate at this time. However. Hall said his Der- sohal choice for the ticket is still President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon. NO ESCAPE CLAUSE Hall said that the "Republican convention, to meet in San Francisco Cow Palace, is now under contract with no escape clause, i He said the executive commit tee of the arranzementi com mittee approved Septa Ahe coin tract subject to minor changes, and added: These minor differences have now been cleared up and I have today signed and sent to California the contract" Hall, announced that head quarters for the convention will be located in the Fairmont and Mark Hopkins Hotels, 8,544 ROOMS He also said that contracts with hotels for 8,544 rooms have already been signed. Under questioning, Hall said that in his opinion there never will be another early convention.

He said television, radio and other media have made long campaigns unnecessary, A reporter asked whether holding I the convention in San Francisco might not present a tough problem since, he saia, there may be three notential Presidential candidates competing against each other in Cali fornia -r vice President Nixon, Senator Knowland and Gov. Goodwin Knight. Hall replied. "I don't antici pate anything like that at all." Piedmont Man's Body Recovered The body of a Piedmont man who leaped to his death last night friom Golden Gate bridge was recovered today at Fort Baker in Marin County. He was identified as William J.

Crosby, 50, from an auto registration slip and papers left in his wallet in his car parked on the span. A bachelor, he lived with a sister, Mrs. Evelyn Anderson, at 221 Palm Drive, Piedmont. Mrs. Anderson said her brother formerly was in the insurance fand real estate business but had not worked since suffer ing a breakdown some montns ago.

She said he had been depressed 'arid last night said he was going to a show. The leap was witnessed by Ivan Slavich, clerk of the San Francisqo Municipal court who said he was driving behind the southbound car sliortly before 11 p.m.: Slavich said the car stopped at the curb and he saw a man run in front of the car headlights rush up to the rail of the bridge and jump over the side. Two Army sergeants found the body floating off the beach in Marin County this morning. It was taken to Russell and Gooch Mortuary in Mill Valley. Anderson said scars and clothing indicated the body was that of her brother but was going to Marin County to de termint definitely.

D.A. Would Welcome Court Decision on Jurisdiction Issue Dist. Atty. J. Frank Coakley said today he hopes the State Supreme Court will agree to consider the petition filed yes terday in Burton W.

Abbott's second legal bid to gain his freedoms in the Stephanie Bryan kidnap-muraer case. Even thougn this action by the high court would mean a delay in the scheduled Nov. 7 trial date, Coakley said he hopes the Supreme Court "will take this opportunity to 'settle the matter of jurisdiction before the taxpayers are put to the tremendous expense of trying Abbott." Allegations that AJameda County lacks jurisdiction in the case and that there was insuffi cient evidence to warrant Abbott's indictment were the principal points cited in the petition asking for an alternative writ of prohibition to stop legal proceedings in the case. CONTENTION HIT On the matter of lack of evi dence. Coakley commented: "There is absolutely no merit to the contention that there was nsufficient evidence to indict Abbott." The district attorney added that Superior Judge Charles Wade Snook "upheld our view" when he rejected a defense motion to set aside the indictment last month.

i "In ordering Abbott to trial, Judge Snook also upheld our contention that Alameda County has jurisdiction in the case," Coakley continued. "But this is a matter that has never been at issue before either the State Supreme Court or the State District Court of Appeal. SETTLEMENT URGED "I frankly would like to see one of the courts settle the matter. I think it should be settled now rather than after we obtain conviction, in which case Trinity County might have to go through the entire trial procedure again." Involved in the issue are two sections of the State Penal Code, 81 and 790. Section 781 rules that when a public offense" is committed in more than one county, a competent court in any of the counties may assume jurisdiction.

Section 790 applies specifically to murder and states mat jurisdiction lies in the county where: the. fatal injury was inflicted, or where death occurred or where the body was found. DEFENSE STAND Defense attorneys contend that Alameda County has no jurisdiction in the case since no evidence was presented to show that either the kidnaping or murder occurred withm the county limits, since Stephanie's body was found near Abbott cabin in Trinity County. The district attorney's office, however, contends that Sections 781 and 790 complement each other, that Stephanie was kid naped in Berkeley and, there fore, Alameda County can. as sume jurisdiction for the entire crime.

"We did a great deal of re search on this matter and we feel certain we are right. Coakley said. "Judge Snook did a lot of independent researcn and came to the same conclusion before he upheld our views. NEVER SETTLED "But since neither the appel late nor the Supreme Court has ever settled this question of law, we would like to see them do. so: now.

Coakley said he and his aides already have started preparation of the prosecution answer to the defense petition. The answer must be filed by next Moraiay. The Supreme Court 1 then will consider the matter in informal conference and decide whether to suramar ily deny the petition without comment, refer it back to the State District Court of Appeals, or schedule a formal hearing In either of the latter two events, the Nov. 7 trial date could be postponed for as long as 90 days. Panama Still Bans Arias PANAMA, Oct.

5 The National Assembly for a. second time has refused to restore the rights of Dr. Ar nulfo Arias, twice booted out of the Panamanian presidency and baned by the Assembly in Police Close Foundry, Disperse 5,000 After Bitter Clash NEW CASTLE, Oct. 5 State police closed the struck Perfect Circle Corp. foundry here this afternoon after a march of 5,000 shouting, shooting sym pathy demonstrators left eight persons wounded.

After an exchange of shots between the mob arid non-strik ers inside the state police moved into the plant and began bringing out non-strikers, haul ing therh away three to a car, with three troopers as escorts. The governor's office alerted the Indiana National Guard for a callup, awaiting a report from Lt. Gov. Harold W.j Handley at the scene. i The Lieutenant Governor was threatened as he addressed the mob from the top of a police car.

"We ought to take him off of there right now," a demonstrator yelled. Capt. Robert Dillon of stale police said his men; confiscated enough guns from workers inside the plant to fill four table-tops. CROWD DWINDLES By that time the shooting. stone-throwing crowd of demon strators outside had dwindled to 250 or 300.

There were some minor scuffles as the troopers brought out the nori-strikcrs. Dillon didn't say how long the little foundry, which employs only 260 would be closed. The demonstration was blamed on the firing yesterday of 35 foundry workers, largely for the disorders which led; to arrest of pickets on rout charges eight days ago. Rout is defined as the gathering of three or more per sons with- intent to commit illega acts for a common cause. Union leaders shouted they were going into the; little plant to bring out.

the noii-strikers as they swarmed onto the plant parking lot in a steady rain. But officials of the striking CIO United Auto Workers said they knew nothing of sufch a plan. A force of 150 state police was assembled in Memorial Park, four miles from the foun dry, after appeals from both union and police failed to dis perse the mob. LEAVES FOR SCENE Lieutenant Governor Hand- ley said he would Call out National Guard units! only as a last resort. The wounded in the shooting.

stoning attack on the plant included three non-strikers inside the plant and five demonstrators outside. Don Ballard, UAW regional publicity director, said he. saw non-strikers firing on the crowd from an upstairs doorway. Bal lard said he saw ho shooting by the city police, who were inside the plant with their chief, Clarence Justice. i Captain Dillon, who climbed onto a car top to urge the demonstrators to disperse, was hit on the head with a rock.

He was not seriously hurt. CROWD WARNED Dillon warned the crowd that state police would be called in immediately unless the demon stration broke up. At his side to plerid for a dis persal was E. J. Kucela of In dianapolis, assistant regional UAW director.

i In spite of their picas, hun dreds of the demonstrators milled around the foundry. throwing bricks, stories and bot tles. I The order mustering the state police force came from the office of Gov. George N. Craig, who is.

in Miami for the coming national convention of the American Legion, MEMBER OF BOARD Lothair Teetor, an assistant U.S. secretary of commerce, is a member of the board of direc tors of Perfect Circle, which makes piston, rings. He resignd as board chairman when he took his job in Washington. Hii cousin, Ralph Teetor, is presi dent and acting board chairman. Three other eastern Indiana plants, at Hagerstowji and Rich mond, also involved, in the violent two-month-old itrike, were auiet today.

New Catle is 50 miles east of Indianap ilis. Union officials said the dem onstrators gathered; from all over Indiana but they insisted no official call had gone out By BILL STOKES Tribune Staff Writer Oakland's slow- but sure urban renewal program was one step closer to actuality to day with the designation of a 125-block area east of Lake Merritt as an urban renewal 'study area." In voting this designation the Oakland City Council in effect announced that this section, cen tering around Franklin School. has been selected from among several areas under considera tion for the city's first full-scale re-development -activities. AFFECTED AREA The affected blocks are bounded by E. 21st 14th 12th St.

and Lake Mer ritt. Last night's action foresees official federal qualification of some specific portion of the overall study area as the site of Oakland's first urban-renewal pilot project. To receive this federal qualification, the city must show that housing deter ioration has begun and that an urban renewal program can do much to transform the area into firstclass neighborhood. With this official qualification, under provisions of the Housing Act of 1954, the city would be eligible to receive from the Federal government up to two-Ihirds of all money spent on planning and public improvements for the pilot project I HA INSURANCE In addition, home owners would be eligible for FHA insurance on long-term, low-interest loans for improvements of i their homes and property. The resolution noted that the i elty council already has indi cated its intention to develop a community center and recrea tional facilities adjacent to the new Franklin" School.

It added that these improve ments could serve as tne nu cleus and stimulus" for an all-out program of rehabilitation that could spread throughout the neighborhood, and mentioned that "several citizen groups meetings within the Franklin School area already have indicated an earnest and continuing desire on the part if many property owners to lm prove their properties and to take advantage of Federal assistance. Studies and the compilation of data necessary to qualify the area as an official urban re newal project area already are well under way, the resolution disclosed as it directed the city manager to conclude this work as early as possible "and to schedule such public hearings rs may be deemed advisable. 30 BLOCK AREA Fred Squires, Oakland's urban renewal coordinator, made it dear that the area finally des ignated as an official urban re newal project area probably Continued Page 11, Col. 1 So They Say NAOMI BAKER, 19 -year -old girl friend of pitcher Johnny Podres, World Series hero, when asked if they had marriage plans: "He sort of talked about it. And I sure would like to." COOKIE LAVACETTO, onetime star infielder with the Brooklyn Dodgers: "It took a long time but the boys finally made it." THOMAS E.

DEWEY said he out of politics for good: "I retired from politics years ago, and I have no intention of returning." WHERE TO FIND IT Bridge Scores 48 Classified Crossword Fuftle 45 Financial 56, 57 Gardens 23 Is That So 36 Music Review 27 Society and Clubs 32, 33 Theaters 48, 49 Vitals and almost continuously for 9'o hours" awaking refreshed and cheerful. He was awake only for a couple of minutes around 2 a.m. From Press Secretary James C. Hagerty the word was that the Chief Executive got a "great kick" going through a box of from his grandchildren, Susan. 3, Anne, 6'j.

and David, 7' 2. Each of the kids. Hagerty said, picked out the gifts personally and each included bubble gum. There also were some greeting cards and some drawings the children had made them selves. (Picture on Rl.

TO SEE ADAMS Eisenhower alo listened to music for a while this morning. Arrangements were made for him to see his top assistant, Sherman Adams, about lunch time, so the latter could catch a 2:35 m. (MST) plane for Washington. Hagerty said that Eisenhower might sign more official papers during Adams' visit. The Presidential assistant is returning to the Capital to sit in on meetings of the National Security Council tomorrow and the Cabinet Friday.

He will come back to Denver Saturday along with Dr. Paul Dudley White, the Boston heart specialist, who is in daily consultation on the President's heart condition. Hagerty said that for the first time in his illness, (be President went to sleep last night without any sedative, although he was given a small dose of Seconal when he awakened briefly and aroppea ott to sleep again al most immediately. There were these latest signs of how the folks closest to th Chief Executive are perking up and relaxing slightly: 1 Mrs. Eisenhower took in a motion picture last night at the Fitzsimons Army Hospital auditorium.

5URPRISE VISITOR 2 The First Lady's eister, Mrs. Gordon Moore of Washington, arrived here late yesterday to spend her 53rd birthday tomorrow with Mrs. Eisenhower uj ine sisters morner, r-irs. John S. Doud of Denver.

3 The President, a doting grandfather, got a powerful morale booster a framed, 14 by 10-inch color photograph of his 7-year-old grandson, David Eis- enhower. 4 Eisenhower, in perhaps the best reflection of his continuing progress, signed yesterday afternoon another half dozen Government documents. That was the largest number in any one day since he was hospitalized. Like the other papers to which ihe President has put name in the last few days, these latest ones required no physical exertion, his doctors said. In each case the spadework on the documents has been done in advance by aides, and Eisenhower can sign knowing they have been examined first by his top deputy, Sherman Adams.

10 MINUTES WORK Yesterday's light work session took about 10 minutes. The papers were handed to the President, who signed them on a stand which was rolled across his hospital bed. One of the documents authorized release of $500,000 in disaster relief funds. The money will be used by the Agriculture Department for conservation measures in the hurricane and flood damaged states of Connecticut, Massachusetts and North Carolina. Another Presidential action was acceptance of the resignation of Jack K.

McFall as ambassador to Finland, and ap-nointment of career diplomat John D. Hickeison of Washing ton, D.C., to replace McFall. i Ironically, McFall resigned be cause of a heart ailment. 14,000 Workers Back NANTES, France, Oct. 5 Fourteen thousand Nantes metal workers returned to work today after being on strike or locked out for 49 days.

They settled for a 15 per cent wage boost, per cent less than they asked. GODFREY PAYS $500 FINE FOR 'STUNT' FLYING WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 tfi Television stai Arthur M. Godfrey today paid a $300 fine in settling a complaint of careless flying. At the same time Godfrey denied, through his attorney, that the payment was an admission of guilt, The Civil Aeronautics Administration offered to accept $500 "in full settlement of fcivil penalties arising by reason of these violations." It said the violations referred to resulted from the Approach of Godfrey's twin-engined DC3 too c1op to an Ozark Air Lines near Aurora.

111.. Sept. 7. i The pilots of the Ozark plane filed a written complaint with the CAA charging that Godfrey's DC3 over-s took them shortly after takeoff from Chicago's Midway Airport and forced them to turn aside. The CAA said that payment of the $500 fine concludes the incident so far as it is concerned.

Flood Airlift Saves Hundreds TAMPICO, Mexico, Oct 5 OP Fourteen U.S. Navy helicop ters plucked hundreds of victims from a tiny island of land ih the heart of watery Tampico tiday a desperate attempt to evacuate the homeless before they drowned in steadily rising flood waters. Some 60,000. persons were concentrated in a 36-block area of dry land waiting to be air lifted to safety some SO miles away over acres of muddy waters. Only some 35,000 persons on the tiny strip of land had hous ing.

Charles Patterson. U.S. Red Cross technician, said food and drinking water in Tampico were nearly exhausted. "I have never in mv. life seen sUch disaster," he said.

The helicopters were expected to lift 500 to 1,000 persons from the danger area in one dawn to dysk period of operation. i But many died of exposure and drowning as the rescue mission operated. conversation for another 45 minutes. The declaration he was making, he said, would be his "first and only one because "it isi not my purpose to blow my own horn. iHe said that "despite the wealth attributed to me by my occasional detractors," he did not have the money to go to Europe and "play the tourist." i Army Intervenes In Labor Split-up BUENOS AIRES, Oct.

5 Army troops today surrounded three packing houses here as laborers staged sudden strikes amid reports the once all powerful Argentine General Con federation of Labor is splitting. Labor leaders complained to the government that dissidents are seizing control of key units of the giant labor organization which helped boost Juan D. Peron to the presidency. In Mar del Plata, a crowd of workers demonstrated, shouting "liberty and demanding repudiation of the CGT. i 'DOUBLE-CROSSED' Still President, Peron Declares By GERMAN CHAVES ASUNCION.

Paraguay, Oct. 5 Ousted former President Juan D. Peron today described himself as a man without wealth, double-crossed and forced into exile by his own generals. He said he still is the "constitutional president" Argentina. He never resigned his office, he said.

He said he could have con tinued to resist the revolution and that "the chances of success were absolute." But he said it would have meant "prolonging the struggle, killing many people and destroying that which it cost us so much to build." He did not: rule out the possibility that "some day it would occur to me" to return to Argentine politics but. said that for now he intenaea to remain quietly in Paraguay. The former dictator spoke in answer to a written series of questions put to him in his Paraguayan exile by the United Press and then continued his traces. I JACil BURROUGHS 1 1951 from ever holding office. 36 Weather.