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PART 3 Los Angeles Times 1957 CC Times Office: 202 Rails Says -Edward T. Telford, assistant highway held by A. D. Griffin, assistant district of accidents increases with the installation LOCAL EDITORIALS West First Street, Los Won't State engineer, points to engineer, as he exof guardrails, Times photo Funeral Held for Fourth Killed in Bus Tragedy Carolina De Barry's Classmates Attend Mass of Angels With Parents of Victim Dutifully reverent, little Carolina Camille De Barry's third-grade classmates filed into All Saints Church yesterday to pay their final respects the victim of last Monday's tragic school bus accident. Only, the day before the children of All Saints School across the street had lined the sidewalk while nearly 1000 mourners filled the church for the last rites for the three other youngsters who lost their lives in the crash.

Not So Crowded But the church wasn't as crowded yesterday. So the children, dressed in freshly shirts, stood at pressed yellow blouses, and one side while the Rev. James J. Nevin, pastor, celebrated the traditional Mass of the Angels. The parents of the little FINAL RITES- -The Rev.

James J. Nevin comforts 8-year-old victim of school bus crash, at Calvary Phillip De Barry and his wife Mary, the parents of Mausoleum. Fellow pupils attended the final rites. Times phote NEWS OPINIONS OCTOBER 5, Freeway Mishaps, DIVIDER TROUBLEsketch of a freeway plains that. number.

Horrall Sues Mickey Cohen for $2,000,000 Former Los Angeles Pollice Chief C. B. Horrall yesHor-terday sued ex-mobster Mickey Cohen for $2,000,000 on charges based on Cohen's telecast with Mike Wallace last May 17. Horrall names Wallace, American Broadcasting Paramount and others as codefendants in the 'Superior Court suit. Police Chief William Parker already has sued Cohen as a result of the same broadcast.

Horrall's complaint sets' forth that "by inference and innuendo" Cohen made allegations that Horrall, while head of the local department, had been willing to take bribes to permit illegal gambling. The suit also quotes Cohen's telecast as declaring that Cohen "had Horrall in his pocket." Angeles 53, Calif. MAdison 5-2345. Navy Yard's Peril Land Slip Pictured Legislators Hear Base Officers on Subsidence Effect Two high ranking Navy officers told a State Assembly Interim Committee session at Long Beach yesterday that land subsidence at the Terminal Island Navy Shipyard must be stopped if the vital defense facility is to continue operations, Rear Adm. Robert L.

Campbell, USN, Commander of the U.S. Naval Base, and Capt. Charles Neel, USN, Engineering Officer of the base, gave the Navy's side of the ground sinking situation to the legislators. Inundation Seen Adm. Campbell said that unless.

State subsidence funds are available early next year the ocean will come over the top of existing dike walls and inundate the (shipyards by 1960. Capt. Neel reiterated his senior officer's words that it is "absolutely essential to stop subsidence now if the shipyard is to continue in business." Adm. Campbell testified that of yard has sunk below the elevation reached by high tide. Danger of Flood "An uncontrolled break in the dike's wall on Terminal Island at high tide flood the shipyard 10 feet deep," Campbell said.

"Such a break during working hours would certainly be accompanied by hundreds of drownings," he added ominously. Two Long Beach-htred oil engineering experts testified earlier at the hearing that, according to their conclusions, a program of water and gas injection would halt the subsidence. This program would involve the drilling of about 200 injection wells at an estimated cost of $32,000,000. One Solution Seen The engineers, W. L.

ner and G. E. Woodward, representing two companies from Dallas, added that unitized repressuring, meaning water-gas injection of the entire Wilmington oil field, was the only solution. Committee Chairman H. W.

(Pat) Kelley of Kern County announced another hearing is scheduled for early December in Los Angeles. Hot Rod Club Set A Los Angeles branch of T-Timers, a national hot rod club, will be organized at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Elks Club, Exalted Ruler Joe J. Houser announced yesterday. Prospective members must be at least 16 and hold either a driver's license or permit.

End Official Wide Space on Dividing Strips Urged BY JERRY HULSE So you drive next to the divider on the freeways? Sort of a game of freeway roulette, isn't it? Considering the vast number of cars that whiz past you in the opposite direction, your chances of being hit head on actually are But as in Russian roulette, it is usually disastrous when it does happen. When' you are the guy in the right place at the wrong time, This is a nightmare that lingers in the minds of thousands upon thousands of hurrying motorists who drive Los Angeles' freeways daily. Death 10 Feet Away How far is death from you, say, on Hollywood Freeway? Only 10 feet away. That is the width of the divider. Your chances on Harbor Freeway are somewhat better.

There the divider averages about 16 feet in width. And on the Golden State Freeway, once it is completed, the odds against you in this game of freeway roulette will be cut considerably. There, the divider will be 22 feet in width. EFFORTS FAIL -Herman Hover, 51, center, the owner of Ciro's, and his wife 29, talk with Superior Judge Wallace L. Ware, who spent half an hour with couple trying to bring about a reconciliation.

The effort ended in failure. Times. photo Ex-Mayor Tannenbaum of Beverly Hills Dies Prominent Southland Attorney Long Active in Education, Philanthropy and Government David Tannenbaum, Beverly Hills attorney and twice Mayor of the picture community, died terday at his home after a cerebral hemorrhage. Mr. Tannenbaum, who had been a leading Southland citizen in the fields of philanthropy, education and government, leaves his widow Ruth and three children, Mrs.

Carol Weil, Mrs. Susch Graf and Thomas Tannenbaum, all of Los Angeles. He was elected to the Beverly Hills City Council the first time in 1952, was appointed Mayor and held the position until his resignation a year later. He retained his Council seat, was re-elected in 1956 and was again named Mayor. He retained the post until his resignation this past summer.

Stanford and SC A native of Denver, Mr. Tannenbaum attended schools there until his family moved to Los Angeles. He was graduated from Stanford University and received his law degree at SC in 1925. He was married in 1924, entered law practice in 1928. From 1929 through 1936, he served as chief State inheritance tax attorney for Southern California.

He re-entered private practice at that time, and in recent years has been a member of the law firm of Tannenbaum, Steinberg He was a past president of the Los Angeles B'nai B'rith Lodge, a past president of the Federation of Jewish Welfare Organizations of. Los Angeles, and a director of the University Religious Conference at UCLA. Mr. Tannenbaum was also a member of the directorate of the National Conference SUCCUMBS- -David Tannenbaum, former Beverly Hills Mayor, dies at 58. of Christians and Jews and served a four-year term as a trustee of the Los Angeles Bar Association.

Man of Year He held memberships in Westgate Masonic Lodge, the Lincoln Club and many other civic, service and philanthropic groups. He was chosen Man of the Year in Beverly Hills in 1953 by Emanuel Temple and again in 1954 by the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce. He was also a member of the Hollywood Post, American Legion. Funeral services will be conducted Monday rat the Wilshire Boulevard Temple, of which Mr. Tannenbaum was a member.

Funeral arrangements are in charge -of Malinow Simons Mortuary. Mr. Tannenbaum's death occurred at his home, 971 Alpine Drive, Beverly Hills. YOUNG TRIO IN TOILS Hunger for Barbecued Chicken Leads to Jail The lip-smacking but two had been ness of barbecued chicken is consumed. a delight few can resist.

Back at the restaurant, A week ago, for instance, with the youths in tow, he a dozen of the tasty birds- found evidence that 16 othplus $150- -were stolen from er chickens had been nibbled a restaurant at 2009 Broad- on. Again, $150 was missing. day, Santa Monica. Booked at the Santa MoniAnd then, early yesterday, ca jail on suspicion of bura passerby saw three youths glary, were Willie Thigpen, carrying a chicken-filled box 603 Brooks Lee out of the same establish- Walker, 18, of 648 Vernon ment. and James Clark, 18, of Rookie Officer James 534 Westminster all in Keene responded to the the Venice area.

alarm and caught up with Said Willie appreciatively: the trio three blocks away. "I love that chicken. It The box, he observed, had tastes better when the cops contained 20 barbecued dare looking for me." Hover Fails in Try at Winning Back His Wife Herman Hover, 51, owner of Ciro's, yesterday enlisted the aid of Superior Judge Wallace Li. Ware in a futile attempt to win back his estranged wife Yvonne, 29, who has sued for divorce. The Hovers spent half an hour in chambers with the judge, discussing their differences, and when the conference was ended, went into the courtroom where she asked $750 a month for support of herself and two small children.

Wife Takes Children mony and $80 apiece for support of the children divorce: until Worth $500,000 Mrs. Hover, with Arthur V. averred Kaufman as her counsel, that the night club man was worth at least Turn to Page 8, Column Hover, represented by Atty. Sydney M. Irmas, said he had been living alone in their Beverly Hills home since his wife had moved out a month, ago, taking with her little Ellen, 4, and Lorling, 2.

Judge Ware ordered him to move out and permit Mrs. Hover and the children to return to the house to live until it can be sold. He also ordered $225-a-month ali- Better Chance And the wider the divider, the better chance a motorist will have of regaining control of his car, thus averting a head-on collision by bolting into oncoming traffic. Just the other day, four more persons died almost instantly in another horrible head-on on Hollywood Freeway, Now the City Council asks for guardrails. So do a great number of the motorists who drive this busiest highway in the world.

year old accident victim, Phillip and Mary De Barry, and her close relatives filled the front pews. Almost within arm's reach stood the child's white flower-draped casket. Her father wept when he saw it. Her mother looked unflinchingly ahead. Friends in Tears The suffering they shared, reverberated in the gentle weeping of friends and behind acquaintances seated them.

Father Nevin's words came tenderly, hopefully. "Despite their sorrow, do hope the family and close relatives will realize the hand of God is upon us," he said. Then, recalling the words. "Suffer the little children to come unto me," he explained that the Mass was celebrated "in an atmosphere of quiet joy--there is no mourning. Blessing of Crypt Later, Carolina's casket was wheeled into the hushed quiet of Calvary Mausoleum.

Her parents, relatives Turn to Page 8, Column But are they the answer? Doesn't Think So Edward T. Telford, assistant highway engineer for the Division of Highways, Department of Public Works, doesn't think so. Strangely, the number of accidents generally increases with the installation of guardrails, he says. Why, he isn't certain, but he has his ideas. "For one thing, when you hit a guardrail," he says Turn to Page 8, Column 1 Marine Pilot Escapes From Crippled Jet A Marine pilot was picked up in the hills 10 miles east of El Toro Marine Air yesterday after ejecting himself from his crippled jet fighter.

His plane was believed to' have crashed in the sea. The pilot was identified as 1st Lt. Richard P. Spreier, 1,23, of Laguna Beach. Speed-of-Light Flying Seen by Space Physician Man right now could fly the speed of miles a second- a space physician said here yesterday.

The only problem is getting the man accelerated to that speed, explained Dr. C. M. Whitlock physician in charge of aviation, space and radiation medicine, Convair, San Diego. Dr.

Whitlock, who spoke lat the first annual Western Occupational Health Conference at the Biltmore, declared the only limitation on the speed at which man can fly is acceleration, or the time-rate of change. Would Take Year "If a man flew to Mars at the speed of light, would have to spend one year acIcelerating up to that Whitlock said. "Then he would have to spend a year decelerating before he could land." When it becomes necessary for manned aircraft to fly at these speeds, Dr. Whitlock said, a way for suspending the pilots either in water or light oil in order to withstand the added pressures will, have to be devised. ExTurn to Page 5, Column 7 Comic Dictionary AUTOMATION A system that began with the self-made man, followed by the man machine, and will end with the machine-made man.

Convrisht, 1957, by Evan.