Wilmington Daily Press Journal from Wilmington, California • 1

mm fumnn VimiWQTON Firmness Toward Quassia To 's i Stall WASHINGTON U.R) The majority reaction to Dean Toll Taken In Harbor Traffic PRESS ESTABLISHED 127 JOURNAL ESTABLISHED IBM Acheson's appointment aa Secretary of State is favorable but the first reaction of most members of Congress was largely one of regret over General George Marshall's retirement. This big change marks the end of an era of great decisions in American Foreign Policy. The old policy of firmness toward Russia still stands. There seems to be no doubt that the senate will confirm the appointment. It has been well received in most senate quarters, and also has brought enthusiastic endorsement from former Secretary of State Cordell Hull and former President Herbert Hoover.

Rises To Three In New Year The toll taken in traffic in the harbor aria has risen to three, with the deaths of Pfc. Jubentino Perez, 18, injured New Year's Eve, and Robert Cattrell, 51, injured Christmas night. Cottrell died in Harbor General Hospital last night of injuries received in a crash at Eroad avenue and Opp otvoof fff foll'o 11 irk 1 1 i rl New Scries: Vol. 4 No. 178 Published at Wilmington, California, Friday Evening Jan.

7, 1949 United Press Leased Wire 5c copy 8 City School Employees Screened In 'Red' Probe Landed Truman WASHINGTON (U.R) President Truman has accepted the resignation of ailing George Marshall as secretary of state and appointed 55-year-old Dean Acheson as his successor. Marshall will Quit office January 20th the day Mr. Truman begins his new term. Seven City Health; Department LET'S TALK IT OYER The 68-year-old secretary, part-time physicians, yesterday were dismissed unanimously by the Health Commission for failure to comply with Los Angeles' new loyalty oath or for writing remarks on their affidavits. In addition a branch library worker was suspended for refusal to take the oath.

Twelve other municipal employees declined to sign the loyalty check and their cases later will be considered by department heads. Approximately 25,000 city employees subscribed to the became his country's first w'arrior and first statesm was operated on last month for a kidney ailment. ordeal left him unable to carry on the crushing burde" office. Marshall says he has no plans beyond recov from his operation. Acheson, a suave and polished diplomat, served four State Department regimes and was undersec during the first six months of Marshall's term.

-Pre Truman emphasized at a news conference this mo that there will be no shift in American Foreign a professional soldier under Acheson. lhat is one of firmness in dealt with Russia and suppoi; the United Nations. Undersecretary of State Ro Lovett is resigning with Marsl Mr. Truman has named Bucli Director James Webb to succe Lovett. Webb's job in the Budgi 1 Bureau will go to his assistant Frank Pace, and Frederick Law ton, a career man in the bureau will be moved up to succeed Pace.

The first congressional comment -on the shakeup came from Sen. Elbert Thomas of Utah, a Democratic member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Thomas said he's sorry Marshall had to resign, but he believes Acheson's appointment will be a "popular one." INSTALLATION CONFERENCE O. C. Boyce, left, retiring president of the Kiwanis Club, Eugene Tincher, i center, lieutenant governor of Division 1:1 of Kiwanis International, and President S.

M. Cope, right, confer on the installation rites conducted by Tincher this week. Installed by Tincher along with Cope, were Chet Martin, vice president, Cliff Ellis, secretary, and the ed with that of Vernon Smith, 20, of Long Beach. Sergeant Kenneth Gaffeney, chief of the harbor accident investigation detail, reported today that an inquest for Cottrell wil be held at Cartwright's Moriuary, where the body has been taken, next Tuesday, January 11. Perez, who was home on leave from the Army Air Base at Ros-well, N.

died in McCormack General Hospital in Pasadena. He was riding with his brother, Salvador Perez, 27, 2150 Cabinet drive, San Pedro, at the time of the accident. The older Perez' car ran off Normandie avenue near 252nd street in Harbor City and smashed into a pole. The driver said he "blacked out," traffic officers reported. An inquest will be held for Perez in the Hall of Justice in Los Angeles, Wednesday, January 12, har-oor traffic officers said.

The driver was arrested by traffic officers on a drunk driving charge at the time of the crash, which inflicted the fatal injuries on his brother. All three fatal traffic accidents, adversely credited to the harbor traffic detail, occurred before January 1, but the deaths were not until after the first of the year. At this time last year, there had been no fatal accidents in the harbor area. The toll of three was not reached until March of last year. Fiance Returns With Body Of Slain Beauty SAN FRANCISCO (U.E) Funeral services will be held in San Francisco tomorrow tor'" Ruth Farns-worth, who killed in the Guam jungle last month.

The body of the pretty red-haired girl was brought to the bay city by the Navy transport Thomas Jefferson yesterday. Her fiance, Staff Sergeant Sterling Mc-Ginnis, of Belle Center, Ohio, accompanied her body home. They were to have been married next month. The murder has not been solved. Inspector 'Albert- Riedel, a Berkeley lie detector expert, left for Guam last Monday to aid the Navy in the investigation.

China Communists Drive On Tientsin NANKING (U.E) Communist forces are reported to have breached the outer defenses of Tientsin, a big port city. A reliable Nanking source says the communists have diiven within miles of the center of Tientsin and are carrying out fierce hand-to-hand battles with Nationalist defenders. SMALL LOANS ATTACK Governor Earl Warren has attacked Democratic Assemblyman Ralph Dills, of Compton, and Columnist James Jefferson, of Los Angeles, as typical opponents of effective regulation of small loans in California. Tali Mummies Another Expedition In Arizona Planned ECONOMIC REPORT President Truman sent a mam- moth economic report to Congress -today detailing some of the rec- "i ommendations he made to Con-gress Wednesday. He asked that I rent be at least two years.

Once again, he called for stand-by wage and price con- trols and he added something ntw along that line. He requested authority to order any industry hold up putting a price increa; into effect until a public invest a i determines whetbeiC would be justified. He also caile again for four billion dollars i new taxes, mostly on business. Mr. Truman said 1948 was a prosperous year.

But he said our economy still is menaced by in- flation and still faces the threat of a potential recession. And he said the government must have powers that can be applied as a brake or an accelerator according to the need of the economy. THOMAS E. BREZNAY is the Washington National airport control official who "talked down" President Truman's plane to a safe landing in fog after flight from Missouri. It was first time the DC-6 "Independence" ever landed by Ground-Controlled Approach.

(International) Truce Prompts Peace Hopes For Holy Land "HAIFA (U.E) United Nations Truce Headquarters in Haifa fighting in Palestine cWsed about 2 p. when a cease-fire aKrc'eiiient became effective. PALESTINE Today, for the first time in many weeks, there is hope of real peace in Palestine. Both the Jews and Arabs have agreed to. accept the terms of a United Nations order to stop shooting.

Jewish officials are meeting with UN representatives in Tel Aviv to talk over the time, place and diplomatic level of direct Jewish-Arab armistice talks. Acting Palestine Mediator Ralph Bunche told the Security Council's Palestine committee at Ijake Success this morning that he has asked Egypt and Israel to open negotiations next Tuesday or Wednesday. He said he proposed the Greek Isle of Rhodes in the Mediterranean as the scene of the talks. Dr. Bunche said the new ceasefire order and agreement to negotiate hold promise of permanent peace for the Holy Land.

Body Found Hanging LYNWOOD (U.E) Police fouwj the body of Mrs. Ann Lykins, of Long Beach, hanging from the bars of her cell in the Lynwood jail today, a few hours after she had been arrested on a charge of misdemeanor drunk driving. employees, including threef loyalty test. Eight employees of the Los Angeles school system at last five of them teachers are under investigation as possible Communists. This was disclosed last night by Dr.

Alexander J. Stoddard, superintendent of schools, who said he will "move for dismissal of all admitted or proved Communists in the school system. Dr. Stoddard said charges had been preferred against all eight now under suspicion, but declined to name them. "I think being a Communist is inconsistent with beine in the public school system," he said.

"I'm going to ask dismissal by the Board of Education of any admitted or proved Communist." The superintendent also announced that his office is screen ing a list of 1000 employes who have not yet signed the reaffirmation of loyalty sent to 21,000 employes last ocioaer. Dr. Stoddard told a press conference that completion of 200 new classroom and other units will provide full time schooling for an additional 12,000 students by Feb. 1. He said tile current building program is ahead of schedule and that the need for maintaining part time classes should end by February 1, 1950.

FOOD PRICES DUE FOR LITTLE DROP Housewives who go shopping today are going to be able to pick up some pin money out of the family budget, for food prices are again due to take a little drop. Indicative of what is in the works are these reductions to become effective today in one 300-store chain which serves nine Southern California counties: Margarine will again go down, this time 2 cents, to bring the price to 27 cents. Butter will be off 2 to 4 cents, thus making the price for various brands 70 to 74 cents. Two brands 0L cottage cheese will be reduced 3 cents, leaving the prices at 26 and ,24 cents, respectively, for 16-ounce cartons. Graded light meat tuna will go down 2 cents to 32 cents per can, and large canned whole apricots will be off 2 cents, winding up a a quarter.

It now appears definite, one food man said, there is a trend of decreasing prices. Margarine, for example, has been dropping dailj since last Saturday, when it first fell 2 cents a pound. Mayonnaise, salad dressing and sandwich spreads climbed on tnt toboggan this week and slid down as much as 6 cents a quart. One chain reduced its pork cuts by from 2 to 8 cents Wednesday, an average of 5 cents a and beef was similarly cut 5 to 20 cents, for an average of 8 cents. Thought these price reductions were not true for all stores, industry spokesmen said it is "inevitable" that markets still holding out will quickly be forced to meet, the competition.

Behind the welcome reductions in retail prices, the grocers said, were similar reductions In wholesale costs. 'Maid Of Cotton1 Arrives In N.Y. NEW YORK (HE) California's "Maid of Cotton" is due in New York City today. She is 19-year-old Suzanne Howell of Bakersfield, recent winner of a cotton council contest. Miss Howell, sophomore at the University of- California, will receive four weeks training at the Conover School for Career Girls.

Then she will fly to Paris for a tour of Europe. Anthropologist F. Bruce Russell of Los Angeles say3 ho preparing for another expedition to re-locate caves in Arizona where he claims to have found mummies nine feet tau Russell says the trip will start next month under the sponsorship of the American Society of Anthropology, an organization which appears to be interested in nine-foot mummies. He said he found mummies in the caves more than 15 years ago and that he is certain he can find them again. An expedition last year failed to locate them.

Scientists from California, Arizona and Nevada have scoffed at Russell's report. But he maintains that the caves are the remains of a culture that is 80,000 years old. They are supposed to be located about 80 miles south of St. George, Utah, in rugged Arizona territory. Sewer Maintenance Granted Area Here Annexation of territory to the Banning Boulevard Pacific Street Sewer Maintenance District has been authorized by the Board of Supervisors.

Area to be joined is bounded approximately by Figueroa street, 223rd and 214 streets. Action followed a hearing with no protests recorded. -f JANUARY 7, 1949. kon't sell the candidacy of City Engineer Lloyd Aldrich. for mayor of Los Angeles a bit on the bear or short side, because uf against Aldrich, the way things are beginning to shape for the City Engineer, it would appear as though Mayor Bowron could be only a bull in a china shop but a china crockery bull.

Only this week powerful opposition came out in favor of Mr. Aldrich to announce that the Nonpartisan Finance Committee would be formed to raise funds for the city engineer's plunge into out-and-out politics. John C. Austin, distinguished architect arid formerly a president of the Los Angeles-Chamber of Commerce, is the general chairman of the Aldrich-for-mayor commit- tee. Incidentally Mr.

Austin is the president of the newly formed Los Angeles Citizens' Committee which first endprsad Aldrich for The finance' committee will work independently of the United American Federation of Labor Voters League, which also has endorsed Aldrich. The AFL group, it being understood, will raise and administer its own campaign funds, according to reports. What position the CIO will take is not known but where once the Mayor and the CIO held hands and blew kisses one to the other, now in the words of Mayor Bowron, used somewhat to great length and often, following the Shaw recall election some 10 years ago: "The Honeymoon is Over." CIO and Mayor Bowron aren't so much as talking these days let alone holding hands, if this column's sign reading ability is even ten (10) per cent correct. This, however, doesn't mean that the CIO will accept Aldrich over Bowron. only that it probably won't accept Bowron.

And time will tel! whether it will be Aldrich or sorre other ambitious mayor in the-making. COMMUNITY CHEST AID Lo Angeles failed once, it can't fail again in its efforts to meet the Community Chest quotaand the great need of this great agency. Every effort is being exoended toward the re-opening of the drive a quickie starting Jan. 10, which will be Monday, and ending a week from today, or rather Jan. 14.

According to' leaders of the community chest, unless $1,500,000 in additional subscriptions is received, grave consequences will be in store for the helpless and the needy. Leaders report that unless the chest is filled by Jan. 13, already inadequate services will be cut, or 159 agencies will be compelled to go out on independent fund-raising appeals. Edward R. Valentine, campaign chairman for the Community Chest, declares the situation to be a crisis of unprecedented gravity.

The report of the welfare council of the Community Chest indicates that while the number of contributions has been good, the amounts in many cases have been smaller. For two years the per capita gift in Los Angeles has averaged $2.41 next to the lowest in 12 largest "There's a challenge for you! Police Work On Inside Theory EAN FRANCISCO EP Polico in San Francisco are working on the theory that the two men who robbed the State Department of Employment offices of about in cash yesterday were familiar with the office routine through receiving unemployment compensation. The men appeared at the office just before it was opened for payment of checks. Only a few minutes before an armored car had deliver ed the day's cash. Glutton Bloc Develops In P'an To Aid Shipyards A bloc has developed in the West Coast's 'path to allocation legislation for shipbuilding.

Both the Maritime Commission, which previously had indicated it would enter the fight on the side of allocation, and the U.S. Navy have reported they are unable to press the matter under present conditions. "However," the Maritime Commission reports, "within legal limitations the commission will do its utmost to award as many vessels as possible to West Coast shipyards." J. L. McGuigan, chief of the engineering bureau of the commission, said that the West Coast has -been given a-consideration, in as muefi'as it is allowed to bid 6 percent higher than eastefti shipyards and still be on an equal basis.

Rear Admiral C. D. Wheelock, USN, reported that the Navy is ope'rating under about the same circumstances. It cannot actively work for the West Coast, but it will give shipyards here as much consideration as possible when it comes to awarding contracts. Pull Him Over Chase Is Motorcyclist Clarence Drake, 24, is cursing his talent for jumping to conclusions.

Drake, who lives at 1131 Frigate avenue, is in hot water with traffic officers L. R. Brewer and J. A. Henzc today because he ran two red lights, a pair of boulevard stops, violated another driver's right-of-way, and was going 60 miles an hour while he was doing all this.

The jumping-to-conclusions part comes in when Henze and Brewer observed Drake speeding down Anaheim street at 60 miles an hour, but the officers did not get a chance to clock the speeder. So they pulled him over to the curb to; warn him about traveling at a high rate of speed, but Dtake thought he was in for a pinch and raced away on his motorcycle. The chase began and the laws were broken. It is ending up today as the officers file for a reckless driving petition against Drake. New Record Rocket-Driven Plane Tops Climbing Mark WASHINGTON The Air Force's Bell X-One rocket-driven plane which has been flown faster than the speed of sound has set a new record.

The X-One has topped previous climbing speed records. The record flight was made at the Muroc, California, Air Force Base Wednesday. Captain Charles E. Yeager, who first piloted the X-One on a faster-than-sound flight, again was the pilot. The Air Force announced In Washington today that the X-One zoomed to 23,000 feet in one minute and 40 seconds after engine start This rate of climb is more than 13,000 feet a minute.

It was the first take-off for the X-One. On previous flights, it had been carried to altitudes above 20,000 feet by a B-29 and then For Warning board of directors. River Of Fiery Lava Hearing Hawaii's Coast By VniteS Press HONOLULU. (EE) Mau na Loa vol- cano split open today and hurled a river or fiery lava toward the west coast of the island of Hawaii. Air Force observers say the volcano was split completely across in an east-west direction by a giant five-mile crack.

A number of villages are threatened by the flow of lava. The island of Hawaii is about 180 miles southeast of Honolulu. Lava flow on the western side of Mauna Lea has moved 15 miles bind is within5 ten miles of Ha- waii's west coast. On the eastern side, another small river of lava is movtng in the direction of a city of 30,000 persons, Hilo. But this flow has traveled only three miles and Is not considered dangerous.

MURDERER DIES By United Press SAN QUENTIN (U.E) Young Oakland murdered Robert Shorts has died in the San Quentin gas chamber after losing a court battle that delayed his execution for nearly an hour. HE'LL ISSUE LICENSE Bit United LOS ANGELES (U.E) Acting Los Angeles County Clerk W. G. Sharp says he will issue a marriage license to 90-year-old Mrs. Adriana Nicholson, and her 28-year-old Negro chauffeur, Allan Woods.

BIG TALENT HUNT ay United Press HOLLYWOOD (U.E) Columbia Broadcasting System President William Paley is heading for Hollywood on what is said to be his network's biggest talent hunt. He's due in Hollywood Monday. FIRE IN THEATER By Unitei rcj HOLLYWOOD Fire broke out backstage in the Pantages movi theater in Hollywood today, but it was put out before it did serious damage. ACUTE WATER SHORTAGE MARICOPA (U.E) The big freeze in California has caused an acute water shortage in Maricopa. Citizens of the town have been forced to save water in buckets and bathtubs when the 13-mile pipeline which supplies the city failed.

PAINTER SURRENDERS LOS ANGELES (U.E) A Denver housepainter has surrend-ed to Los Angeles police and confessed a $154 robbebry because his conscience bothered him. The painter, Walter Maher, said that his conscience finally drove hi minto a church, and once there he decided to confess his crime. KEYSTONE-AVALON OF OFFICERS CHOSEN STEEL EXPANSION At his news conference today, President Truman said he does not believe the steel industry is expanding as much as it should. But he declined to say whether he thinks the failure to expand is deliberate. Earlier this week, Mr.

Truman recommended a study of vital industries where expansion is needed, with the view to finding methods of increasing production. And he said it might become necessary for the government to build steel plants if the offer of government loans did not produce adequate expansion. NOT ALL THERE BUT -GOOD PORTLAND. Me. (U.E) Success- fulIy opel.ating a watch repairing business here are: Robert Venner, who has only one good hand; his brother Harry, who has only one good eye; Gerald Breault, who has oily one leg.

WEATHER Clefir with slowly rising temperatures today, tonight and Saturday. High today 68 degrees. BANK DEBITS Bank debits for Wilmington for January 6, as reported by Wilmlng-mington Clearing House Association: $1,138,288.07. Life's Like That By Fred Neher "You dont know what a plea turn it is to aee a man eat a meal wttkeut complaining about it;" Shown above are the newly elected officers and directors of the Keystone-Avalon Chamber ot Commerce. (Front row lfc to rt) Henry Blythe, secretary-treasurer; Keith Beck, lit vice-president Morris Manpearl, president; Jack F.

Henry, 2nd vice-president. (Back row It to rt.) Directors James Irwin, Rolph Smith, Alex Wrsocki, Georre O'Hara, and Ben Cluif 1.