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MILL MILL ir IRISH EYES ARE SMILING--Sure, and 'tis a double observance today for diminutive Colleen McGrath, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William McGrath, 1991 Palm avenue, Redwood City. Of Irish descent, but a third generation American, wide-eyed Colleen is combining the observance of St. Patrick's Day with the celebration of her second birthday.

Colleen is the McGrath's only daughter, but has three brothers, Brian, Terry and Billy. (Times Photo) Brown Appeals For Water Aid WASHINGTON 'API--Gov. Edmund G. Brown of California said treatment. It was then he noted, however, today that delay in development that delay "could have tragic re- of California's water resources suits" in view of the fact an esti- "could have tragic results" for mated 10 years be required the state's growing population.

to construct the project. Renewing his appeal for approv-1 Brown told the senate reclama- al of legislation for joint federal- tion subcommittee Monday that a state development of the San Luis sharing of the reservoir site Pieservoir site, he told the Hcuse reclamation subcommittee tha'. state's needs. Chairman Wayne Aspinal! 'D- of the House Interior Com- irittee cautioned Brown that, even with approval of the authorization bill, "it might be some time before our dreams are realized about getting things under way." He told the governor there are "several authorizations stacked up ahead of you" and recalled that Congress last year appropriated money for nine new projects. None, he said, has been started.

Brown said he was aware of the budgetary situation and agreed with Rep. B. F. Si.sk (D-Calif that California expects no special SAVE FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY NEW 1959 FORD Custom 300 2-Door Sedan ONLY 2075 Payments Asftow As 52.80 Per Month, Plus Sales Tax and License DOANE-MJKTO FORD SALES 101 California Burlingame Dl 2-2005 SALES DEPARTMENT Open Thursday and Friday Evei. and All Day Sunday FORD CARS FORD TRUCKS USED CAR DEPARTMENT 27th and El Camino, S.M.

equally important to the farmers on the west wide of the valley areas of South California. Referendum Petition for FEP Filed A six-inch high stack of referendum petitions bearing the signatures of 4,339 San Mateo residents, was filed with City Clerk William J. O'Farrell at 10 o'clock this morning. The petitions ask the council 'o give the people of the city only prompt action can meet the i and to the great metropolitan the right to vote on the bitterly smith a i i i a disputed municipal Fair ment Practices ordinance, passed by the council, by a 3-to-2 vote, February 16. The law, which would have gone into effect today, is suspended by the referendum petition filing.

To Be Checked O'Farrell said he will immediately appoint three persons, recommended by County Clerk John Bruning, as city employes, to check the signatures off the great register of voters. Upon certification of the signatures, probably within a week, O'Farrell will notify the city council. It will then be up to the council to decide whether to submit the FEP referendum to the voters at the next-regular elec- Peninsula Bus Fare Increase OK'd by PUC SAN FRANCISCO A The State Public Utilities Commission today authorized Western Greyhound Lines to install a new system of zone fares on its Peninsula commute runs. The PUC ordered establishment of 13 zones between San Francisco and San Jose. This will result in some increases and some decreases from present fares.

tion in two years, wffether to call The new system and revised fares, effective April 6, wil! eliminate the 48 fare points now used in the Greyhound Peninsula service. The PUC said the zone system will result in more efficient collection of fares. Greyhound estimated the new fares would result in a 3 per cent over-all increase in gross revenues from the Peninsula service, totaling about $72,500 a year. The -company said this would partially meet the increase in operating expenses since the establishment of bus fares by the commission in March, 1956. Present (20 ride) commute fares range from $4 to $10, as do the newly authorized fares.

Under the zone fares, the one-way minimum fare of 20. cents will permit travel within any zone or into the adjoining zone. For travel into succeeding zones there will be a 10 cent additional charge for each zone. RACE RESULTS TANFORAN FIRST--Aveneer Boy. 15.30 9.80.

4.90; Tribal chiel. 9.70. 5.10; Good Reading. SECOND Rumho. 13.00.

6.40, 4.00; New Miracle. 6.80. 4.10; Llano, 6.70. Dally Double--Avencer Boy to RIIMI- bo paid SM.30. a special city election at an expense of 810,000, or to bank on the prospect of a special state election in the interim.

The petitions were delivered to O'Farrell's off.ee this morning by two volunteers who said, "We feel this is such an important question facing the city, that we are proud of our share in giving the people a chance to vote on this through a referendum petition sponsored by the Citizens' Committee for Fair Government of which we are most proud to be members." The volunteers identified themselves as Mark Dillon, 2111 Palm avenue, resident of San Mateo since 1924, retired plumbing contractor, and owner of extensive properties in the city, and L. Creel of 602 Twenty-sixth ave nuc. He operates a barber shop on Twenty-fifth avenue and has been in business here for 12 years. Dillon reported, "We're glad the jpb is done, and now it's up to the people. We want to thank them for the outstanding public co-operation we received.

This is such an important question, I don't think three people have a right to decide it on a split vote. (Please See Page 2, Column Z) Home Called Headquarters Of Bay Ring MILLBRAE A flourishing bay area abortion ring with headquarters in Millbrae was broken up today with the arrest of two men and a woman by authorities who raided a Highlands district home containing a makeshift operating room well equipped with medical instruments a drugs. According to Inspector A. L. Lamport of the district attorney's office, the ring had been operating from home, a nicely-furnished five- room house at 301 La Prenda avenue in the exclusive Highlands area for the past two and one-half months.

Three Held Being questioned by police and district attorney's investigators at the Hall of Justice this afternoon were three suspects: Luita Marcedes Canelo Simmons, 38, who lived in the rented house with a second suspect, Alva W. Burgess, 28, who is on probation from Santa Clara county for burglary: and Mortimer Crowell 55, 1588 Castiiieja avenue, Palo Alto, who is Mrs. Simmons' step-1'ather. The trio were apprehended at the home shortly before noon by Lamport, Millbrae Police Chief Lawrence F. Pickett, Police Sgt.

Frank Paglia and Officers James Hart and Frank Denega. Lamport said one ol the two bedrooms in the house had been converted into an operating room. When raiding officers entered the home they found a dining room table covered with surgical towels in the bedroom. Adjacent to the table was equipment such as is used in operations. One corner of the room contained a couch, evidently used as a recovery bed.

Find Gowns Authorities reported that the room was "immaculate." Several surgeons' gowns were found by police in an automatic washer in the garage. In a bedroom closet, police said, was a cabinet "filled with medical instruments." Also found was a quantity of anti-biotics, primarily penicillin, and several medical syringes. According to Pickett, Mrs. Simmons admitted in a statement at the district attorney's office that she has performed a dozen abortions at the home since operations were set up there. Clients were charged $500 for an operation, it is charged.

Act on Tip Lamport said the alleged abortion ring has.been under investigation since his office received a ip three weeks ago. Local police were called into the case only yesterday. Today's raid was well-executed. Officers were staked out on all sides of the house and throughout neighborhood in case any of suspects might have tried to exit through a rear door or windows. Howard Ehmke Dies, A's Great PHILADELPHIA Howard Ehmke, 65, a pitcher for the Id Philadelphia Athletics, died a hospital today.

Ehmke's career was highlight- in his fading baseball years when, at the age of 36, Manager 'onnie Mack called on him as a urprise starter in the 1929 iVorld Series against the Chicago Ehmke responded by pitch- ng a masterful game with 13 trikeouts. That stood as a World Series record untij Carl Erskine the Brooklyn Dodgers struck jut 14 New York Yankees in he 1953 World Series. I A DEVOTED TO THE INTEREST OF SAN A NEWSPAPER Vol. 59-No. 65 24 PAGES SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1959 lOc PER COPY Shady Duncan Past Exposed to Jurors Street Final OPERATING ROOM This bedroom in a home in the exclusive Highlands area of Millbrae had been converted into an operating room by a bay area abortion ring, authorities charge.

A dining room table, center, covered with surgical towels, was used for abortion operations, it is alleged. A couch, at right, was the recovery bed. A quantity of surgical in? struments was found in a cabinet In'the bedroom closet. Police Officer James Hart, left, was one of several members of the team of police and a district attorney's investigator who raided the home. (Times Photo) Congress, Allies Rally Behind Ike on Berlin WASHINGTON (UPI)--President Eisenhower won strong support from congress and the Western allies today for his willingness to attend a summer summit meeting that would seek to end the threat of war over Berlin.

The first word from Moscow --irom diplomatic ovservers-- was that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev probably would welcome Eisenhower's "less negative" to a high-level conference. The President, in a grave- voiced TV-radio report to the nation Monday night, said Russia has forced the United States to face the possibility of war and that he INSIDE TODAY'S TIMES Births, Deaths 20 Business, Finance 20 Classified 21, 22, 23 Comics 19 Editorials Foster, TV-Radio 10 Inside Sacramento 18 Junior Editors 18 Peninsula News 13, 14 The Babe and I 16 Sports 15, 16, 17 Theaters 10 Women's'Pages 6-9 would make "every sincere effort to reach a peaceful settlement by negotiation. But he added: "We will not retreat one inch from our duty. We shall continue to exercise our right of peaceful passage to and from Wes' Berlin." Democratic and Republican congressional leaders praised Eisenhower for his firm Berlin stand Ask Tanf oran Arbitration SAN BRUNO The Tanforan Ltd. today proposed that the current labor dispute which has kept its bars and restaurants closed since the opening of its 1959 season of thoroughbred racing March 6 be submitted to arbitration and that striking workers return to their jobs pending settlement.

The suggestion made by Vice(Please See Page 2. Column 2) and his offer to negotiation on honorable and reasonable terms. But Assistant Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield (Mont.) and other Democrats challenged the President's statement that S. defense forces are adequate and contrary claims "are simply not true." West Europe Agrees The President's speech a hailed by allied diplomats in London as "realistic combination of firmness and 'flexibility" that would lead to a "just and honorable cold war settlement." An official spokesman" in Paris said France "fully approves the President's stand." Heinrich von Brentano, German foreign minister, said Eisenhower's speech was greeted "with great satisfaction" since it stated the West's approach to the Berlin crisis w.ith "clarity in all its respects." Mayor Willy Brandt said it proves West Berlin can count or the allies for protection against all Communist threats. Official Moscow did not react immediately to the President's speech, but diplomatic sources in the Soviet capital' said Eisenhower (Please See Page 2, Column 5) Employer of Nurse Killers Awaiting Fate VENTURA (AP) The shady a of convicted murderess Elizabeth Duncan was exposed today at the opening of a hearing to determine whether she will be sentenced to death or life imprisonment.

Mrs. a 54, was found guilty Monday afternoon ef buying the "murder of her daughter-in-law. The same jury is Hearing evidence on which it will decide the penalty. The first witnesses, two San Francisco vice officers, testified that they arrested Mrs. Duncan May 11, 1953, for a i a house of prostitution.

Dist. Atty. Roy Gustafson introduced records showing she served six months in jail. Officers Edward Joseph Murray and William Roger' Wilson testified the arrest was made in a raid on a massage parlor at 1008 Center St. They said Mrs.

Duncan used the name of Mrs Betty Cogbill. Then Gustafson called Leonard Joseph Sollenne. a Carpinteria truck driver and hod carrier who was Mrs. Duncan's last husband. At the trial, the prosecution introduced testimony that Mrs.

Duncan had at least 11 husbands. Solfenne said that after a few meetings with Mrs. Duncan at the home of his relatives, sbe proposed to him in a Santa Barbara bar Aug. 11, 1957. that they be married.

Sollenne said he was 28 years old then. Sollenne said Mrs. Duncan told him her late husband had left her $196,000 but the will provided she would have to remarry to get the money. "She said this provision was to keep her from running around," Sollenne said. "She offered to (Please See Page 2.

Colnnw 1) FASHION SHOW THURSDAY 12 NOON VILLA CHARTIER fc: live, pink or black with while dots an petit point cotton. 5 to 1i, $25.95. 54 East 4th Avenue SAN MATEO.