The Times from San Mateo, California • Page 1

Battje Seen Over Location of S. M. Airport News Behind I he News Copyright Newspaper Syndicate AN MATED THE WEATHER tonijht highest Wedges- 75. THE IMTIREST MATEO COUNTY A BOMB OW1OED NEWSPAPER UNITED AND ASSOCIATED S2ND TEAR SAN KATEO, CALIFORNIA. TUBSDAYy COPY--tee PEE MONTH WASHINGTON Kaj Turktr President Truman is beginning to Buffer from tha which inevitably is the lot of the occupant -of the highest office in the land.

He ib learning what so many have dis- MVerad hofnra Jjjm thst it lonely at the top, His advisers, including the new secret service detail, have warned him that he cannot go to the places and do the things that he did as a mere senator or even as vice-president of the United States. He sought to break fro the aloofness which isolates tl nation's chief magistrate ami th spokesman for one of the world five surviving: great powers. I has wanted to mingle with close on the old familia basis. On two occasions he ha escaped from the White Hous since he entered it more than tw months ago. Once, he gathered with eongres sional pals at a country club for session of Another time attended to Leslie Biffli personal friend and senate secre tary, at a downtown hotel.

It was his hope to rttain thes valuable cflEtasts, aad-ts-perrait-n official restraint to creep into hi relationship with Capitol Hill. appreciates, the dangers to which president heir. He knows tha the aura of the office frequent! freezes the- lips of intimates, an prevents, item from giving th sometimes unpleasant but helpfi lowdown. This sort of exile jshuns. it The president's politi friends have tol him he cannot persist in thi unpretentiousness.

The American people, in the! opinion, appreciate his plain, sim pie qualities and Immunity. Never theless, his aides insist that folks expect him to behave with moi -dignity, has-been- 1 long- SKma tnarurewer island snouid time reaction to frequent exhibitions of his gregariousness. Unfortunately for Mr. Truman Jus three immediate predecessors seem to have forced the role oi hermit upon him. F.

D. R. enjoyec poker and the company olc chums, but Jor obvious reasons he held his parties behind the doors of Ms upstairs living room. They came to him, in, accordance with custom and precedent. Prison Mr.

Hoover and Mr. Coolidgg wereflotjtiix- Neither had any hankering the few fleshpots permitted an American president They enjoyed their exalted and Olympian status, yrm though it condemned them to conurumion with their own thoughts and former cronies. Mr. Truman's unhappy state recalls Warren G. Hardmg's remark 4-f, few months, family tried to restrain his social impulses.

James W. Wadsworth, then a New Yoik senator and erstwhile poker associate, congratulated Mr. Harding at the end of a visit to the White House The good natored chief executive threw his arms around the New Yorker's neck and groaned: 'Don't congratulate me, Jim. This place is a prison to a red- blooded fellow like me!" postwar United navy 1 cannot be scrapped or whittled down in any diplomatic or other kind international deal under a restrictive law now headed for enactment on Capitol Hill. The prohibition on presidential or "brass hat" disposition of fleet units has attracted only small attention.

But it aims to give congress complete control over this first aim of our defense. Carl Vinson of Georgia, sponsor of the bill as chairman of the house naval affairs committee, insists that ho has no suspicions that the navy may be traded away. But members recall the secrecy which (Turn to Page 15, Column 3) Iff tiff Fire Poured On Three Nip Centers Burlingame to Fight Airport at Bay Meadows Chamber Sticks to Choice Of Brewer Island for Two Cities The Burlingame chamber of iommerce today reiterated its be the choice for a three cities or comity airport for civilian use. Action was taken following innouncement in San Mateo ast week that plans were under way for location of the airport adjacent to Bay Meadows race track. The Bay Meadows's site has received the endorsement of Danie O'Gonnell, president of the San Mateo chamber of commerce.

Notices were sent to all members of the" Burlingame chamber Brewer Island be the choice and that fall consideration be given this site before public-funds be made available or expended. Main Objection Meanwhile members of the avia- committee plan to meet in the ear future at Mills field with the ay area aviation committee; of- of the San Francisco nra- icipal airport; civil aeronautics ommittee, and J'an-American Airways executives with the hope of aving eliminated one of the ob- ections to selection of Brewer sland. This objection is the radio earn conti oiling army, navy and ervice flights. Air experts belive that this ra- beam can be re-located to the uter rim of the proposed Brewer land airport so as not to conflict ith service flights and, at the (Turn to Page 2. Column 6) -failure Seen We all must Invest in more BONDS i to meet San Mateo and Burlingame quotas for the Seventh War Loan Drive.

InBondBrive Unless sale of bonds is great'y accelerated San Mateo county wi not attain its quota by July 7, th end of the Seventh war loan drive local compiittees were advised to day by W. W. Crocker, state chair man. This county is 2 PRINCIPALS ABSENT AT R.C. DIVORCE KedwBod City REDWOOD CITY, June that Sailor Ernest P.

Stockton was an "artist" at breaking cp the bric-a-brac and expensive art objects in the Atherton home of his bride, Mrs. Frances juamiou OCOCKTOH, W1OOW OI the late millionaire attorney, James Mannon was offered today at trial of her suit for divorce from! the navy man before Superior Jutige McNutt. Unique Suit The trial was unique in local court annals in that neither principal was present. Mrs. Stockton, daughter of a Canadian railroad executive, is currently Toronto, and her estranged husband is on duty overseas.

Both submitted, depositions in their absence Star ton's case against her sailor-husband this morning were Starr Nevins, telephone company executive, and his wife, who are presently tenants of the plaintiff's Atherton home, and Mrs. Sophie Samoruko- va, Russian music teacher of San Francisco. On the occasion of a dinner invitation tv the Stocktons' home, Mrs. Nevins hafid to "find bric-a-brac and furnishings smashed. Displayed Prowess Sailor Stockton, said Mrs.

Nevins, "took pleasure in showing me the various objects he had broken." One included a lamp' valued at $175, smashed by a "flying missile." The witness that Stockton told her, "This is'not the first time, and it won't be the last." "He seemed pleased with birn- (Turn to Page 2, Column 6) Santa Clara Asked to Meet HereonSerra Joint Session Sought to Keep Boulevard Out Of Cities Ciiy Bnrcn) REDWOOD CITY, June 19. --me move lor joint action ly San Mateo and Santa Clara counties to solve the Junipero Serra freeway dilemma crystallized at this morning's meeting of the board of supervisors. Acting on'the sugysjtion of San Carlos: Planning Chairman Fred Drake, spokesman for the Junipero Serra study committee, the board voted to invite Santa Clara's supervisors and officials to. a meeting whose object N. Y.

City Millions Give Ike Thunderous Welcome Streets Lined For Miles to See War Hero short of the quota. Northern California is lagging an estimated thirty million dollars Crocker advised. He suggested the recruiting 100 additional salesman to sell ten thous'and dollars each of bondi between now and the fourth July. Hillsbprough edged nearer it quota with bond sales of $138 240 of a $149,920 qudta; Tota Hillsborough sales reached $2,031, 308, well over the $1,731,600 quota for bonds other than E. San Mateo bond- sales to 1 an $859,600 quota and -total sales quota for overall sales set at $1,805,800.

Burlmgame sales today brought Burlingame's total to $584,417.75 a step nearer the $854,880 quota and total sales of $1,526,352 towards a $1,786,800 quota. U.S. Subs Sink 11 More Jap Ships WASHINGTON, June 19. --United States submarines have sunk 11 more enemy ships, including two light combatant vessels, in far eastern the navy announced today. The combatant ships were medium patrol vessels.

Noncombstant vessels claimed'in the latest toll were a medium cargo vessel two medium a medium merchant vessel, two small cargo vet- seta, and three anwill merchant The 11 rained to 1,153 the total Japanese losses inflicted by United Sttaeg submarmen.VThe includes 138 comMSnt sUps and Flying Dentists Off Tomorrow Burlingame's famous "flying dentists," Dr. Cecil Smith and Dr. Joseph H. Lorenz, will leave tomorrow for another flight--this time to Guatemala City, to conduct a dental clinic on behalf of the San Francisco Medical-Dental association. The two men, who list a mile aerial tour over South America and a forced landing in Brazilian jungles among their many experiences, will take off tomorrow noon from San Mateo ahport in Dr.

Smith's two-seater Luscumb plane for the first lug 1 of their jaunt. They expect to reach Negates, late tomorrow, to clear their passports for entry into Mexico. Dr. Smith, who is also a civilian aeronautics patrol member, will pilot the nlane over its 3200-mile course to Guatemala City, with seven refueling stops scheduled in Mexico. Another group of San Francisco dentists will fly to the Central American city via Pan American airways and assist in the clinic, which will last about three weeks, Dr.

Lorenz said. An 8500-mile plane trip to Panama and an extensive air tour Jiroughout Alaska are two of the onger trips undertaker by the two dentists in recent yean. future of Serra. Jiighway "satisfaettirf to all of us." Dinner Meeting The joint session will probably be a dinner meeting, the time and place remaining to be set. Members of the county board were enthusiastic in their reception of the proposal for mutual action on the problem.

Chairman Edward NEW TOBK, June --General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, flushed and breathless from the greatest Hickey, representative orf tie join! highway district No. 10 directo- (Turn to. Page 2, ColunuBJ Mercury Down To 'Cool' 91 Although temperatures continued high, reaihing 91 degrees in San Mateo by 1:30 p. clouds and high fog today brought relief (from the heat set yes- wood City recorded 102 degrees, and in San Mateo 100, by 3:30 p.

m. Redwood City reported a 19-degree drop today at 1:30, with a high of 82; however, temperatures were reported climbing. Humidity, which added to the leat yesterday, was recorded at 43 Continued relief was expected tomorrow with weather bureaus forecasting cooler weather, partly cloudy with fogs near the ocean. (Turn to Page 2, Column 2) Japs Evacuating Hainan, Report NANNING, South China, June troops have begun to evacuate the strategic island of Hainan off the coast' of Indo- China in what may a gen- Mi reliable lources said today. Enemy troop movements last week indicated that garrison forces rom Hainan have beec shifted to ICwaiigchowan, formerly Frcncli enwd territory on the Liuchow BMMMlU.

lUMrtlv uw -Editorial- welcome York ever had accorded a returning hero, told vast crowd that overflowed City Hall park today: "If going to live-the years of 'peace, we must be strong Bjust ate in thV spirit of true tolerance and forbearance." Two Million There Police estimated that 2,000,000 persons were jammed into the bunting draped park and surrounding streets. Four million others, by far the largest crowd in the city's history, were said officially to have cheered the general earlier on his Receiving a special city medal and accepting honorary citizenship in New York city, the tanned, balding supreme allied commander tol the throng before city hall: "It isn't enough that we devisi every kind of international ma chinery to keep the peace. We must also be strong ourselves. Weakness cannot cooperate with anything Only strength can cooperate." The millions that greeted Eisenhower lined windows and hung from fences to catch a glimpse of him. Crowds Cheer Chief Police John J.

C'Cuimell esomKieu persons greeted the supreme mllied commander in the two hours between his arrival and Ms appearance at city hall. They cheered, they whistled, they broke through police lines in some places as a 25-car motorcade, with the general the position of honor, wheeled through Central park, down Fifth avenue and through "Heroes' canyon," lower Broadway. And Eisenhower, seemingly un(Turn to Page 2, Column 2) 'Ike 1 Welcomed Home 2 CITIES FACE FAILURE IN SEVENTH WAR LOAN Today's paper is dedicated to the Seventh war loan drive. Our advertisers have set aside for the day the advertising of their own goods and have devoted their space to an appeal to the people of San Mat and Burlingame to buy war bonds. This is not a promotion stunt.

This is a desperate effort to let you know that you face failure in one of the great efforts of this war. If we do fail it will be the time we as a community have not met our obligations to our country. "We think that most San hearing war bond slogans, and reading war bond posters, have become inured to them and the war necessity. This attitude of mind of course has noj; been disabused by the course of victory. Pew have taken the trouble to look at our local war bond figures and analyze what they mean Perhaps they have been misled by reading the overall figures of corporation investment in war bonds.

Corporation purchases of war bonds do not help us on our quota of bonds. That is an obligation, we, the little people, must meet on our own and without any help irpm big business. Just now we arc more than half a million dollars short of our two-city quota, and if we do not buy bonds faster and in larger denominations than we have boon buying them in the past we will fail to make our qnola. San Mateo can't afford )o fail i this war-time obligation. We owe it to our own self respect.

Okinawa Japs NowMillin Mob of Doomed Soldiers, Civilians Backed To Cliff; Only Choice GUAM, Wednesday, Ju, JO. General Dwight D. BaenhMwr (ktft), huge crowd gathered to meet port TRUMAN URGES CHANGE IN U. S. SUCCESSION President Hops Off on Historic iigtii id Pacific WASHINGTON, June Truman, embarking on the first of a long series of plane flights, todaj asked congress to make the speaker of the house his successor if anything untoward should happen to him.

As the house is now organized, this would throw the succession to 63-year-old Sam burn of Texas. Under present procedures, Mr. Truman would be "replaced in the White House fay the secretary of state, the post now held by Edward E. Stettinms should he be unable to complete his ternj. More Representative burn of Texas." hour non-stop flight to Olympia, where he will pa" a.

"social visit" to Gov. Mon Wallgren before going to San Francisco to address the closing session of the security conference. Ike There The president was given a cheery The speaker of the house of rep- sendoff by General Dwight TM a wo told con- Eisenhower, America's returned is more truly representative of all the people. President Truman left by plane at 8:20 a. eastern war tune, for a West Coast visit he will climax by ittending the San Francisco United security conference.

The nresidpnt nlnnnpH 11- hero, whose plane, the "Sunflower" rested just behind the president's special C-54 waiting to take the general to a big New York welcoming. Others in the small group at the ssr.y air transport coniiimrid run- UMOBanon Franco Urged SAN FRANCISCO, June Five of the United Nations conference accepted today the idea 'of barring their enemies in this war from the forum of a new world league and from access to its peace enforcing mechanism. SAN FRANCISCO, June --Mexico came forward today with a proposal that the United Nations permanently bar the Franco government of Spain from membership in their world league, Luis Quintanilla, former Mexican ambassador to Moscow, planned to put the proposition formally before a public session of one of the United Nations conference which are driving toward completion of a world charter this WMk. proposal invited argument as to whether the conference should writo any specific New Nazi Gold Hoard Found PARIS, June 19 --UP)--American troops of the 12th corps have found securities, gold and jewelry valued at more than hidden by the Germans at Regensburg, communications zone headquarters announced today. Included in the capture in hidden vaults of the Regensburg Reichs- bank was the national wealth of Bavaria and Austria.

The cache -vas more valuable than that found April 7 in the Merken salt mine, which included 200 tons of gold. The treasure was in gold bullion, stolen jewelry and securities. Some was known to have been taken from victims of Nazi death carnps. Lt. John J.

of Skin Francisco, fiscal officer of the 12th corps, led the party which seined the treasure. The same corpi made the original (liHCOvery.befoM.thf. unconditional Max lorca or-more than 460 giant Snpwfor- treiues nined 3000 tons of bombs on three new target cities on the Japanese homelud islands of Honshu aad lyndw. today, raising to 20,500 tons weight of bombs heaped -on- Nippon in eight assaults this month. The fleetg each numberine, more than ISO planes carrying most ten tons of bombs--struck pi- mulfeneously ft A a.

m. against the Honshu industrial center of" Toyohashi and Shizuoka sduthwwt of Tokyo, and Pukuoka on northwest coast of Kyushu. 13 Cities Battered The assault raised to 13 the number of Japanese cities battered and burned by the Superforts in 25 great fire-bomb rards since March 9--raids which Army Gen. H. Arnold saifl -Tagiv destroy tories.

Today's raiders, flying from gigantic airfields here in the Marianas, struck at low level and presumably set raging fires in the densely -populated centers, and the three-pronged assaalt Maj. Gen Curtis E. Lemay's bomber command within striking distance of setting a new bomb tonnage this month. The previous record was 24,000 tons in May. Six Scratched The raid, marking the 80th mission by the B-19's against invasion jittery brought to more than sent against Nippon month.

Previous raids since early March already had burned out 103.24 square miles in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Yokohama, Kobe, Ka(Tarn to Page Column i) Truman Given Power To Cut Tariff Rates WASHINGTON, June senate gave President Truman a major foieign policy victory day by voting him authority to cut tariff rates 50 pei cent below January 1 levies. SAN MATEO'S BOND SALES Are LAGGING Your Bonk Savings Account Will Earn More If You INVEST Them in BONDS Do It Today and Help San Mateo Make Itg Quota LETH'S BEAUTY STUDIO 171 Third San Dial J-1141.