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2 Port JAN. 14, 1957 l0g gllgelgg Clmgg Strikers Facing if I Death in Hungary Decree Threatens Quick Hanging for Any Disturbance in Factories BUDAPEST, Jan. 13 P) Hungary's Communist regime cracked down on its rebellious people today with a threat of summary death sentences for anybody ,4 urging a strike. Bill lo Curb ik 4N I) A I Freeway Trucks Set THEY LOVE HIM IN MILAN Italian baritone Enzo Sordello, who disparaged the tonal qualities of and got in a verbal squabble with Soprano Maria Callas of the New York Metropolitan, seems to be having no trouble as he and Eugenia Ratta rehearse in Milan, where he returned to La Scala amid acclaim of critics. VP) Wirsphsto STARTS NEW LIFE Exhausted and grief-stricken, Margit Kovacsits, 56, wept, left, as she was given coffee at Austrian relief center last November as she arrived in flight from Hungary.

Her picture, published throughout western world, gave graphic illustration of the plight of Hungary. At right, two months later and a continent away from Russ troops, she smiles on arrival at Cape Town, South Africa, to begin life anew. Mate Stabbed Her With Screwdriver, Wife Says Also Tried to Drown Her in Gutter, Police Told; Estranged Husband Jailed Wlrephot New York publicist more than a year ago. With Russian armored cars still patrolling the streets of Budapest, Premier Janos Ka dar's government issued a de cree going beyond the pre vious declaration of martial law. Its terms were so broad that anyone can be brought before a special court and hanged within 24 hours for "disturbing the activity of a factory by his presence or by any other means." These spe cial courts had been estab lished earlier but were to have dealt only with murder, looting, arson and the concealment of weapons.

Today decree, published in newspapers and broadcast by Radio Budapest, was the government's reply to new strikes and demonstrations last week. Designed Against Strikes The harsh new measures appear designed to break the strikes, to combat increasing sabotage and to forestall the outbreak of another armed rebellion. Death sentences can be imposed upon anyone charged with damaging or en- dangenng public utilities or any other vital enterprise, The government ruled any enterprise employing 100 or more workers is "vital." The new decree also pro vided for sentences of life imprisonment but only in lim ited cases would such "leni ent" sentences as 5-to-15 years at hard labor be granted. Evidence of continuing re bellion came from the Buda pest press and radio, which reported a Hungarian police major was found shot dead in a downtown street of the capi tal last night and that rebels had held up a train in western Hungary, wounding the engineer. New Activity Cited Radio Budapest said the new death courts were nec essary because "hostile ele ments have started up new instigating activity in recent days, after they failed to gain control through armed revo lution.

"As a result of strikes and coal and power shortages, production in most factories has been crippled. Now the activity of these enemy ele ments threatens to spread unemployment and make infla tion inevitable the government has tried to meet the workers' demands and helped farmers by ending compul sory crop delivers. Eighth Victim of Crash Found LIMESTONE, Jan. 13 () Searchers today found the body of the eighth and final victim of an explosion which sent a B-52 jet bomber to the ground in flaming wreckage near Andover, New Brunswick, last Thursday. The Air Force identified the dead man as 1st Lt.

Anders P. Larson 26, of Wichita, Kan. Wet Pavement Blamed in Fatal Auto Accident TRAFFIC TOLL Yesterday's deaths 1 1957 county total 33 Wet and slippery pavement cost the life of Jimmy A. Moore, 21, of 5943H Loveland Bell Gardens, on Atlantic Blvd. near the Long Beach Freeway overpass early yes terday.

Police said Moore car skidded on a curve and smashed into a tree. He was pronounced dead at the Compton Medical Center. Vietlm Identified An unidentified traffic vic tim struck down Saturday night at Olympic Blvd." and Blaine St. was identified yes terday as Mrs, Fannie Belle Young, .65, of 1311 Olym pic Blvd. The was made by the woman's land lady who read of the acci dent and knew that Mrs.

Young had been missing overnight. The accident occurred as Mrs. Young was crossing Olympic Blvd. The driver of the vehicle, Raymond Ow-ings, 39, of 301 Boyle was not held. Residents Flee Fire Into Cold DES MOINES, Jan.

13 IB- Fire destroyed a three-story building in East Des Moines today, forcing occupants of six upstairs apartments to flee into zero temperatures. Firemen battled the blaze for five and one-half hours and were able to prevent it from reaching an adjoining structure. No one was Measure Keep Big Vehicles in Right-Hand Lanes BY ROBERT BLANCIIARD Times Staff Representative SACRAMENTO, Jan. 13 A bill which would require heavily laden trucks to stay in the right-hand lane except while passing will be intro duced in the State Legislature tomorrow by Assemblyman William F. Marsh of North Hollywood in an effort to speed up the flow of traffio on heavily congested freeways Legislation to accomplish this was passed at the 1955 session of the Legislature but was declared unenforceable because it applied only to trucks weighing more than 25,000 pounds.

Marsh's bill, which has the endorsement of most Los Angeles Assemblymen, would drop the weight restriction to 16,000 pounds. New Curb Proposed Another bill designed to keep trucks in line and speed up the flow of traffic has been introduced in the upper house by Sen. Robert I. Mc Carthy of San Francisco. It would prohibit trucks weighing more than four tons from passing other trucks of light weight on any grades in excess of 3.

A recent survey by the State Division of Highways disclosed trucks as a whole average approximately 7 m.pii. slower than busses or passenger cars. The truck bills are only two of a senes of bills affect ing motorists that will be in troduced at this session of the Legislature Drastic Measure Urged Gov. Knight in his annual message to the Senate and Assembly last Monday called for mandatory jailing of drunk drivers and the adop tion of an explicit maximum speed limit in an effort to cut down the number of highway traffic fatalities. He also asked for an urgen cy expansion of the Highway Patrol by 370 officers.

Assemblyman Lee M. Backstrand of Riverside is attacking the problem of highway safety from a differ ent angle. He proposes to force In competent and unfit drivers off the highways by tightening up the driver testing program of the State Department of Motor Vehicles and increasing the number of driving examiners. CIMIDE This month's selection of the Let's Have Better Mottoes Association, according tq E. V.

Roberts, regional secretary, is a sound one suitable for hanging in your office: "Everyone here brings happiness some by coming in, others by leaving." FIGURES At hand a communication from the American Guild of Animal Artists, an organization which, with its collective tongue in its cheek, purports to dedicate itself to the betterment of animal performers, particularly a couple of Russian wolfhounds that pose for vodka ads. The letter does propose an idea which undoubtedly will gain favor with those whose -hearts continually bleed for fauna. It is a campaign to end the derogatory use of animal names in describing human beings. Such as "He's a wolf," "She looks like a hippopotamus," "He's n-pecked," "He's a rat," "She's a cow," "He's foxy," "Dog-eat dog," "He's going to the dogs," etc. Not too bad an Idea, at that.

A good many human beings don't compare tod well with animals and 'it's, bad dragging animals -down to that level. KIDBITS Mother of a small boy of my acquaintance, exasperated, told him impatiently, "You've been a bad boy for three days." "Two days," he corrected Imagine how complicated life must be for a 3-year-old these days. Larry Mitchell, that age, watched hi3 mother, Mrs. Barbara Mitchell, when she sang on television. But he scolded her when she got home.

"You didn't wave back at me," he pouted While a sophisticated 8 -year -old, asked if she had seen herself on a filmed TV show, said she had, but couldn't recognize herself because it wasn't in color. La-dee-dah. VERSESIDE Rod Maclean, the versifying terror of Panorama Terrace who is leaving the advertising business to become a professional lecturer, fashioned these desperate italics: With rock roll Plumb out of control 1'U testify For rock rye. II I With GENE SHERMAN GIRL STUFF Frankly, I always had an idea all the current busty glamour dolls hated one another, publicly and privately, and purred around waiting for a chance to scratch one another's eyes out. But I guess I was wrong.

At the fabulous Los Angeles Harbor welcome for Matson's new tropic-touring ship, the Monterey, Mamie Van Doren was slated to participate. She got tied up in Bakersfield, however, and couldn't make it. So she long-distanced Jayne Mansfield and asked her to substitute for her, which Jayne did. Incidentally, when Clancy Dayhoff, the Harbor Department's public relations director, suggested how she ought to pose for pictures, Miss Mansfield flashed her teeth, flapped her eyelashes and reminded him, "I know I was married to a press agent, remember?" CUFF STUFF What do you know. That most-beautiful sentence-in-the-English-language game refund is in the we were kicking around here has been adapted to radio by Reed Browning on his Beat the Record show over KABC all this week.

Give it a dial at 11:15 a.m. INSTANT TRIVIA When Jack Hansen, the chef at the Vagabond's House, heard Anita Ekberg was coming in for dinner, he carefully memorized, phonetically, "How are you today?" in Swedish. But when Joe Chastek Introduced her to him, all he could remember was "G-lad-to-meecha." After all, who could remember A Honolulu Citysider, Hal Bock, reports a kosher shop in Waikikl was purchased by an Irishman who changed its name to Kellycatessen Which reminds me of Barney Glazer's word for those high-pressure TV commercials: "hysteriaphonlc sound" And have you noticed the institutional slogan of advertisers in the telephone book Yellow Pages "Every Hello Is a Good Buy" The meeting is adjourned with the advice of Lisa Kirk, currently in the groove at the Grove: "The way to keep a man is in doubt." la-month apartment They were on relief. A note she placed in Joseph's pocket said: "I am going away with the man I love and get a divorce and get married. "I will return for my children in about one year.

Please try to keep them from getting separated. I love them very much and I want them back as soon as I can give them the kind of home they should have." A priest took the children into the rectory, gave them milk and called police. The children were taken to the police children's shelter, where an appeal was made for relatives to care for them. BRITISH PAPER ASSAILS FIRST LADY'S DRESS LONDON, Jan. 13 OB A British newspaper today listed Mrs.

Mamia Eisenhower, Greta Gar-bo and Anita Ekberg among the 10 worst-dressed women in the world. The Sunday Express said Mrs. Eisenhower qualified for "dressing like a little girl." It took particular umbrage at her "bangs and bonnet." It said Miss Garbo Is one of the most beautiful women in the world "and looks one of the ugliest." Its estimate of Miss Ekberg apparently stemmed from a skintight dress she wore to be presented to Queen Elizabeth. Two Hunted in Rbbtfery of Beauty Shops Two bandits apparently specializing in beauty shops were sought by police yester day after a pair of robberies of beauty establishments. In both robberies, the bandits did not disturb women who said they were awaiting the stork.

ine first robbery was or a shop at 1617 Jefferson where the men, with horn rim glasses and top coats as distinguishing attire, took from five women patrons. Both men carried pistols. They told their victims they were dope addicts The second robbery took place at 9328 Avalon where seven women gave up In both places, the men pulled out telephone wires. A former Los Angeles newspaperman and publicist was jailed in West Los Ange-I les early yesterday after his estranged wife, the daughter of Writer Frederick Hugh Herbert, accused him of stabbing her in the throat with a screw driver. From her bed in St.

John's Hospital, Santa Monica, Pam ela Joan Herbert, 26, also complained that her husband tried to drown her in the gut ter in front of 608 Veteran Ave. Left Unconscious He left her lying unconscious in the rain, the brunette related, but she stag gered to a telephone and called police. Officers arrested Russell J. Burton, 36, former drama writer, at 7292 Fountain a friend house. Burton, a onetime SC etu dent, was a press agent in Hollywood until he became a RAINFALL Following la (ho rainfall.

In Inch. rporid fiom Tarioua South California points up to 4 p.m. yMterdar (normal LA. rainfall to dato S.99 lnchi)i I.u Stem .2.05 3.30 Sew Los Angeles 2.84 Agoura 2.22 3.93 3.97 3.47 Alhambra 2.31 4.32 Alta Loma ....2.65 5.98 4.91 Anaheim 1.15 2.38 1.63 Anza 1.56 4.43 Arcadia 3.02 5.58 3.18 Arlington .98 2.57 1.18 Azusa 2.75 6.62 3.29 Baldwin Park ..2.18 4.81 3.56 Banning 1.30 4.86 3.59 Bear Valley ...1.53 4.75 3.47 Big Bear 7.34 16.97 10.13 Box Springs Mt 1.02 3.64 1.66 Brea 76 2.41 2.54 Buena Park .77 2.22 1.85 Camp Baldy ..2.82 7.84 7.44 Campbell's St. 1.42 3.33 1.89 Capistrano ....1.22 3.61 1.58 Cathedral City .51 1.35 2.49 Chatsworth 3.13 5.18 4.76 Cherry Valley .1.02 4.80 2.27 Chino 1.70 4.05 3.95 Colton 1.29 2.24 1.80 Corona 1.00 3.78 1.43 Corona del Mar .91 2.41 1.37 Costa Mesa 84 3.07 1.24 Covins 2.03 4.28 2.61 Cypress 1.42 2.43 1.99 Desert Hot spgs.

1.30 .42 Downey 1.55 3.11 1.72 El Monte 2.57 5.04 3.05 El Segundo ...1.70 2.56 2.56 Elsinore 124 3.67 1.29 Escondido 1.26 4.81 2.35 Fillmore 3.51 5.31 4 Foster Park ...3.74 4.34 6.25 Fullerton 1.16 2.42 2.61 Gardena 1.22 2.08 2.07 Garden Grovt .95 2.01 1.65 Glen Avon .....1.51 4.01 2.10 Glendale 2.03 3.27 3.16 Harkel Road .85 3.35 1.24 Hemet 1-04 3.17 1.02 Hermosa 1.14 1.48 2.26 Highgrove 1.01 3.54 1.82 Huntetn. Beach. .86 1.97 1.22 HuntinKton fie lbs z.z z.zv IdyUwUd 1.21 6.19 8.55 Indio 05 .81 .45 Irvine 1.13 3.35 1.45 Johnson 88 2.99 1.22 La Canada ....2.93 5.50 3.40 Laguna Beach ..1.05 3.04 1.47 La Habra 77 2.72 2.22 Lachuza Cyn. ..2.05 4.31 6.19 Lakeland ViL ..1.12 4.73 2.06 Lake Mathews .76 2.44 .67 Lake Sherwood 2.22 4.36 3.91 Lake Wohlford 1.37 5.40 3.32 Lambert 1.44 4.08 1.66 La Puent ....2.20 4.88 2.85 La Quinta T. .49 1.02 Las Flores Bch.

2.21 4.01 4.07 La Sierra 1.02 4.73 1.20 La Verne ......2.41 4.86 2.66 Lemon Heights .1.43 4.33 1.97 Limestone Cyn. 1.56 4.30 2.24 Lomita 1.32 2.25 1.78 Long Beach ...1.10 1.97 1.50 Los Alamitos ..1.24 2.63 1.68 Lynwood 1.43 2.37 2.36 Manhattan Bch. 1.50 2.31 2.36 Matilija Dam ..6.11 8.78 10.27 Mecca .04 .45 .38 Modjeska 2.05 6.45 3.12 Monrovia 2.20 5.89 3.96 Montalve ......1.84 4.00 5.80, The wife said she moved to California when jealousy split their marriage. She told investigators that Burton flew into town from New York Saturday and followed her to the Veteran Ave. ad dress where the alleged assault took place.

Miss Herbert, of 510 Ma rine Manhattan Beach, was said by doctors at St. John's to be in fair condition. Calls It Accident Burton was released on $2500 bail yesterday afternoon when Atty. Grant Cooper appeared with a writ of habeas corpus. He reportedly told officeri that the stabbing was accidental when he attempted to hit her with the screwdriver.

Police said he told them, "We struggled and she fell Into the gutter. I didn't try to drown her." FIGURES ttnm Be mas .1.50 3.01 Iw 3.05 6.08 2.79 3.79 2.05 1.27 2.53 7.13 6.14 1.95 3.72 1.65 5.13 2.40 .48 .91 2.41 1.79 1.56 1.16 2.29 4.78 2.80 1.76 4.78 2.04 2.41 2.39 2.84 6.32 2.23 1.37 2.19 3.19 2.20 6.39 5.22 1.35 .99 3.74 2.33 .80 Montebello Monte Nido ....2.85 5.52 Monterey Pk. ..1.82 3.39 Moorpark 1.47 3.05 Newhall ......3.71 6.00 Newport 83 2.22 Norwalk ......1.40 2.89 Oakvlew 3.00 4.56 Oasis 01 1.01 Ojai .2.87 5.74 Olive 96 2.59 Ontario 2.04 5.03 Orange 1.35 2.98 Oxnard 2.53 3.87 Pacoima .3.01 4.22 Palm Desert .08 .87 Palm Springs ..1.02 2.00 Palos Verdes ..1.45 2.04 Paramount 1.46 2.51 Pedley 1.38 3.51 Perris ...1.01 3.53 Pico ,1.68 3.48 Piru 3.33 5.48 Pomona 1.83 4.38 Placentia 1.03 2.51 Port Huenem .1.27 2.48 Portuguese Bd. 1.25 1.91 Prado Dam 1.29 5.10 Redlanda 1.05 3.94 Redondo Bch. ..1.61 2.17 Rincon 2.00 2.80 Rivera 1.72 3.65 Riverside .95 4.19 Rolling Hills ..1.66 2.37 Rosemead 2.46 4.47 Ryan Field ....1.03 3.17 Saddleback 3.74 8.80 San Ant'o Cyn.

2.79 6.47 San Clemente .82 3.57 San Diego .65 4.01 San Dimas ....2.31 5.22 San Fernando .2.91 4.17 San Jacinto ....1.15 2.72 San Luis Ob'po .1.76 4.16 12.96 San Gabriel ....2.41 4.50 3.27 San Marino ....2.30 4.29 3.35 Santa Ana 1.21 2.83 1.43 Santa Ana VaL .4.23 5.84 8.03 Santa Paula ...2.90 4.67 4.52 Santa Susans ..1.59 3.05 3.13 Santiago Dam .1.54 4.52 1.93 Satlcoy 2.00 4.00 6.33 Saugus 3.49 5.08 2.20 Seal Beach 99 2.30 1.34 Sepulveda 2.95 4.25 2.07 Shadybrook ...1.26 3.47 1.72 Sierra Madre ..2.91 6.58 3.03 Silverado Cyn. .2.54 7.14 3.98 Simi 1.64 3.57 3.04 South Gate 1.50 2.58 1.99 So. San Gabriel 1.95 3.71 3.05 South Whittier 1.45 3.60 1.82 Stanton 77 1.91 1.76 Sunnymead ....1.01 3.53 .80 Tarzana .......1.61 3.14 2.39 Temecula 1.09 3.81 1.99 Temple City ,4.06 3.18 Thermal 02 .64 .74 Thousand Oaks .2.07 4.38 3.91 Topanga Can. ..3.25 5.54 6.18 Torrance 1.20 2.27 2.61 Trabuco 1.88 4.96 3.14 Tulunga 2.08 4.09 3.09 Tustin 1.20 3.41 1.37 Upland 2.76 5.50 4.38 Valley Center ..1.20 5.74 2.92 Ventura 1.83 3.61 4.90 West Covina ..2.11 4.19 2.80 Westminster .83 1.99 1.83 Whittier (East) 1.54 3.73 1.84 Wintersburg .80 2.24 1.39 Yorba Linda .77 2.52 2.2U Yucalpa 1.66 4.96 3.32 Zuma Beach ...1.60 S.33 4.44 Mother Abandons Her Four Children in Church NEW YORK, Jan. 13 (ffl Police today appealed for relatives to take care of four young children abandoned in a church by their mother who left a note saying she was going away with the man she loved and will return for the youngsters in a year.

children were identified as Joseph Hyans, James, Carol, 3, and Mark, 2. They were found on a pew irf the Roman Catholic Church of Christ the King near I ilewild Airport. Police identified the moth er as Mrs. Eleanor Hyans, 32, who had been living with her children in a four-room, $80-; ABANDONED IN CHURCH Patrolman Fred Long questions three boys and a girl after they were found alone in rear pew of a church near New York's Idle-wild Airport. Children, from left, were identified os James Hyans, his sister Carol, and brothers Joseph, 6, and Mark, 2.

In a note found in Joseph's pocket their mother wrote that she plans to get a divorce, remarry, return for children in about a year." (lit WlrwhoU.

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