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WOULD-BE S. S. F. SUICIDE FAILS FOUR TIMES News Behind The News Vrntyaprr NATIONAL By Kay Tucker Washington commerce amazes all ut the most shrewd and optimistic conomisls as a year-end check re- lhat two-way trade through 9 iron curtain in 1947 amounted i'approximately one and one-half illion dollars, or almost one-third pre-war. They feel it wi.ll be ucreased in the current year ecause of new commercial treaties Moscow has negotiated with England and other western Eu- opean units and by private trade the United States.

This volume has been set de- pile a post-war sharpening of frological differences, tariff walls ftl unlevelled, and currency block- des. The fact that the exchange goods rests on a barter basis in units of commodities rather ian cash limit the total volume, revents it from almost reaching ic high volume of the The phenomenon bears out the onlention of such experienced, linds and business men as former Fnder Secretary of State Will L. layton, and Stafford Cripps in island that man's need for goods rl survive and surmount all po- tieal barriers. It seems to suggest lat Communist and capitalist ates can live side by side if they ave a mind to settle or compro- lise political difficulties. Tiroes Want ADS I Dial 3-1831 THE WEATHER Intermittent rain tonight and Thursday, wanner tonight with low near -18 aad high Thursday 52.

A HOME OWNED NtWSPAPER UNITED AND ASSOCIATED PRESS DIRECT WIRES VOL. 48, No. 30 SIXTEEN PAGES SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1948 5e PER PER MONTH BLIZZARD RAGES ON SKYLINE RIDGE on New TB Hospital Business post-war traf- 1 fie has been per- litted by more than 70 trade which Russia and her itellite nations have entered into almost all the countries of Istern Surppe, including even the nglo-American and French zones i Europe. While the diplomats icker and holler at United ations meetings and conferences foreign ministers, the David arums do business. In general, Moscow and her nations in eastern Europe id the Balkans are shipping iod, animal feed, lumber, coal, jlp, minerals and certain manu- (the last mainly from Kchoslovakia) to the western In turn, the western areas sending manufacturing, mining, jricultural and electrical equip- ent of all kinds.

This is a grocery- r-factory goods swap. The Marshall plan, according to n-political economists, should 'celerate this commercial flow irough the iron curtain. It ob- ously is to. restore ottered industrial 'than it bring back forest land, forests mines into production. There- re any program which stimulates dustrial output in the west should tract more goods from the east.

Ik- Washington officialdom's a i to ivight D. Eisenhower's withdrawal om the presidential race was agical and amusing. Almost every government office equipped with a news ticker Flash' which, minute by minute rough the day, records domestic id world events as they happen, is the same news which even- ally appears in the evening and orning press. It enables high ivernment officials to ireast of current developments whatever value they may have official policy or political alements. Whenever news of particular iportance is carried on the ticker, rings and the particular is headlined with a warning 3rd of "FLASH." The Eisenhower tter was belled- and flashed.

The ticker machines, which are generally located in an fice near that of the chief de- rtmfental publicist, rang for their tention as soon as "Ike's" state- Bnt was handed out. The propa- ndists immediately raced to the strument as if they were firemen Jiimoned to put out a blaze at White House. They tore off the brief news announcement (Turn to Page 4, Column 2) $1,500,000 Bonds To Be Submitted At June Election Times Redwood City Bureau REDWOOD CITY, Feb. $1,500,000 bond issue to finance construction of a new county tuberculosis hospital of a minimum 100-bed capacity will be submitted for the voters' approval at a special election to be held Tuesday, June 1, in conjunction with the state primary election. The electors also will be asked to designate the location.

Question of the site will be submitted separately. This was the announcement of the board of supervisors last night near the close of its all-day session. Decision as to capacity of the contemplated TB facility and size of the bond issue was Child of Film Head Kidnaped HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 3-year-old daughter of a movie executive was kidnaped today, recovered and returned home while her parents slept, unaware of her disappearance. The child was Barrie Jill Horwitz, daughter of RKO Assistant Producer Howard Horwitz.

Wandered Barefooted She was found wandering barefooted and in her pajamas a block from her home by Mr. and Mrs. David Suden, who heard her crying, "Daddy! Daddy! Where are you?" at 3:30 this morning. They called Sheriff's Deputies S. I.

Holmes and W. V. Misner, who were told by the little girl, "My daddy took me and put me down. Then he ran away and hid near a garage." The deputies took the child home, awakened Horwitz without, telling him they had Barrie, and asked where she was. Part of Burglary "Why, in her bed, of course!" Horwitz said.

He ran to the bed- (Tucn to Page 3, Column 3) afe WHERE TO BUY AN "OK" USED CAR? A Popular Question With 3 Logical Answers 1. From urll established new car rtealrr with a written pirtrantee. Z. From new car dealrr who lias Iffs own reconditioning shop. 3.

From a now r.ir dealer who is Interested in retaining your soort Will for future new car purchase. SMALLCOMB SELLS OK" GUARANTEED USED CARS II Beautiful Models On Hand SMALLCOMB CHEVROLET: California llrlvr at Rjysuaur Phnnr i i a 3-3C7T KOI Canilnn San Hninn pose new military aid for Turkey arc on route here. Gen. Horace McBride, a member of the United States military aid mission in Turkey, is bringing the new figures to 'Washington. The original Greek aid program was of which was to be used for military purposes.

Because of Greek Communist warfare against the government, at least $10,000,000 of the economic funds already have been transferred to the military. The original Turkish aid program (Turn to Page 3, Column 5) New Program To Aid Greece WASHINGTON, Feb. Secretary of State George C. Marshall disclosed today the state department is considering the possibility of a new military aid program for both Greece and Turkey. Marshall told his weekly news that specific proposals for a new program for Greece have been received from the American mission in Athens.

They are being given full study. Comparable figures which pro- reached by the board after a conference Monday night with officials of the San Mateo County Health and Tuberculosis association and other health experts in the field, said Chairman Alvin S. Hatch. Prepare Ballot Setting the machinery in motion the board directed the district attorney to consult a San Francisco firm of attorneys recognized as" legal authorities on county municipal' and the Eight Escape Arm Prison Stockade MONTEREY. Feb.

-Eight army prisoners escaped from the stockade at Fort Ord today after cutting wire in the stockade fence some time after 6:30 a. m. Seven of the group were garrison prisoners, charged with minor offenses. The eighth was a general prisoner. Army authorities said they believed the break was ied by Pvt.

Uneuana D. Gibson, held on a charge of stealing an automobile from a Los Angeles parking lot February 2 and returned to Fort Ord. FOREMAN'S for' Cameras--Smok fr's Supplies Pipes Hallmark Cards--GUIs. Third Avenue, S.M, proposition for the ballot. Deadline for final board action to insure inclusion on the June 1 ballot was set by County Clerk W.

H. Augustus for March 27. The amount is 12 times larger than the bond issue approved by the voters in November, 1946, for TB hospital construction. Last year, when the board considered erecting the new facility adjacent to San Mateo Community hospital, District Attorney Ferrell ruled the $125,000 bond money could be used only on improvement and expansion of the existing facility at Canyon sanitarium, west of Redwood City. The project was shelved when the board deemed the working fund too small and decided to submit question of location to the voters in 1948.

Choice of Sites The electors' choice will rest between Canyon sanitarium and the Community hospital site unless a third or more locations are suggested in the next few weeks, board members said last night. A majority of the health experts heretofore consulted by the supervisors favored the San Mateo site over expansion of the Canyon sanitarium plant. The proposal to locate next to Community hospital, however, met with opposition from adjacent property owners. Board members agreed that financing of the TB hospital will be "almost entirely up to the county." They said there is no outside aid in sight except for the $125,000 state money to match the original bond issue. No strings are attached to this matching fund in connection with location, so that the amount of bonds necessary to be sold conceivably could be reduced to $1,375,000.

However, they deemed it advisable to "forget" 'the original proposition and a from scratch." (It was pointed put today that if the people designate Canyon sanitarium as the location the 1946 (Turn to Page 2, Column 3) UN For Palestine Soon LAKE SUCCESS, Feb. The United Nations Palestine partition commission, will send an advance party into the Holy Land, possibly within 10 days. A source close to the five-nation commission said the party would go to Jerusalem first io lay groundwork for the splitup of Palestine. Mystery Radio Signals From Lost Airliner Faint SOS Alerts Atlantic Stations; Hope Revives for 32 NEW YORK, Feb. Coast guard and air force officials were bewildered today by repeated SOS messages heard all along the Atlantic coast and signed off "The Star Tiger," the name of a British South American Airways plane which disappeared at sea last Thursday with 32 persons aboard.

An officer at the Atlantic division of the air transport command said the messages were sent from a type of transmitter that could only be aboard the plane itself--if they are genuine--and could not have been sent from portable radio equipment in a life raft. Amateur Code "The messages are not being sent in Morse-code. The sender is apparently an amateur who is making County Lashed by S.S. F.Man Fails 4 Times Gale, a TO Take Life Cut in Power RAIN AND SNOW'Near-Blizzard Slows Clocks; HIT ALL NORTH Hits Skyline; END OF STATE Warnings Up A Everyone Late First steps in an electric power conservation program inaugurated last night by the Pacific Gas and Electric company to save 40,000 kilowatts an hour slowed up electric clocks from Bakersfield to the Oregon line: put thermostat controls slightly at variance, and caused thousands of workers to be late to work and many commuters to arrive at depots minutes after their accustomed trains had departed. that it uniudib "-e announced can be translated is 'SOS Star Tiger'" He said the messages were but might have been sent by passengers missing plane.

There are aboard Motors Not Affected Officials of the utility company today that the power conservation plan would not affect motors used in refrigeration or for power purposes. The power saving would, however, affect time clocks By United Press A rain and snow storm blanketed fie northern part of California today and the weather bureau predicted the state-wide drought would Pelting hail stones falling for brief periods, intermingled with snow flurries at low levels be broken in all except the south-! and a blinding fall of snow on change be Jn effect prob ern portion of the state by the weekend. Winter finally came to the Sierras and the mountain ranges on the eastern edge of the state. Six inches of snow fell last night at Donner summit in the Sierra Nevada mountains and snow was reported falling today at Auburn, 34 miles east of Sacramento; at PLedding and Red Bluff, 250 miles north of. San Francisco and in 'the mountains from the Oregon border as far south as Lake Tahoe.

Hits Valleys Too Rain showers were reported throughout Northern California to San Francisco bay and the U. S. arn fpw islands that the ably for some time until a weather bureau said the rain would on in ,) -r -D i. ciepeiiua.me waier suppij giwrdii- -vicinity tion. of Bermuda, its destina- No Hope British authorities there considered the mysterious messages with doubt.

Major John Stocks, air inspector from the British ministry of civil aviation, said in Bermuda: "There is no hope of survivors." However, American air force planes at Kindley field, Hamilton, Bermuda, remained on the alert while officials studied the messages and tried to locate the sender. All ATC and coast guard listening posts were alerted to pin down the sending point with direction finders. The coast guard at Miami reported hearing one garbled message. Heard Inland Amateur radio operators reported hearing the messages as far inland as Cleveland, Warrc-r. ar.d water supply guaranteeing hydro power Meanwhile, all electric clocks will continue to run slow.

Clocks Slow The conservation plan starter? Monday and resulted in a kilowat saving in the area from Bakersfield to the Oregon line by changing the standard 60-cycle circuits to SDH cycles. First affected were electric clocks whih began losing time at the rate of one minute an hour. During the night many electric clocks were as much as eight minutes slow. The cycle change is planned for night hours during the heavy power loads. By mid-morning today clocks were running normally except for time Recluse Hangs Self in Home Marius Souret, whose place at 733 California drive in Burlingame had been condemned by the city health and fire departments several weeks ago.

was found dead shortly after 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. He had committed suicide by hanging himself. The cord had broken and Chester Dallas, of jubilation, as County Agricultural the upper reacbes of the Skyline boulevard, plus an almost steady rain, today marked the end of the almost month-long dry spell. Heralding blustery weather tonight, small-craft storm signals were hoisted along the California coast from Point Sur, Montere. county, to Point Mendocino.

The weather bureau advised that south winds would increase tonight and be of near-gale proportions. Snow began falling in earnest this morning on the Skyline. Whipped by the wind it assumed the proportions of a blizzard and piled high in drifts among the trees and by the side of the road. Early this afternoon the Grand View tavern reported that the storm had increased in intensity and snow was falling heavily all over the mountain. Hills and trees were blanketed with snow.

Brief snow flurries fell today at San Bruno, and hail fell all over the county. A blinding was reported late today at Bella Vista Inn on the Skyline, and a heavy fall at Saratoga summit. Help Pasturage Farmers greeted the rains with the same address, found the body on the floor. He hailed Police Officer James S. Kennedy who was lost during the night.

More time cruising by in a prowl car. will be lost tonight. Steam Plants Used Investigation showed Souret had been dead approximately 24 hours. James R. Black, president of the lie had used an old sash cord slung P.

G. announced lhat state-1 over a ceiling beam seven feet from il r. U. IX 3 I ft i youngstown, 0 and as far north id ht conditions had caused lne i oor tvpwfniinn flnn as Argentia, Newfoundland. The civil aeronautics administration said the amateurs picked up the messages on 3105 kilocycles.

Emergency equipment on the Tiger Star would ordinarily transmit on 500 kilocycles. Planes and commercial ships (Turn to Page 2, Column 1) Seven Nabbed in Rickey Holdup SAN JOSE, Feb. (Turn to Page 2. Column 5) Jadwiga Loses Robbery Plea Jadwiga Curtin, 21, Polish war bride, already convicted of manslaughter, must go to trial on robbery charges. The state district court of appeal in San Francisco today refused to halt her trial, set for February 24.

She had contended there was LU nn ovirioncc in her nroliminarv I A1 cn The cord, police said, was of poor material and broke about 10 inches from the noose. Last person to see the aged recluse alive was Dallas' wife, who reported the old man, who was between 76 ar.d 80 years of age, (Turn to Page 2, Column 7) Brokers Drop Sale Of Kaiser Stock NEW YORK, Feb. First California and Commissioner Max Leonard reported that grain crops and winter pasturage will be helped. He warned, however, that so far there has been no material effect on the Coastside's water supply for next summer. The county will need much more to bring up the water table, he pointed out.

Meanwhile, however, the county's youngsters and adults went on a rare snow spree, with hundreds swarming along the Skyline and to (Turn (o Page 2, Column 4) no evidence in her preliminary Howard Hornbucklc announced to- hearing to justify holding her and day that seven young men have been arrested in connection with the torture robbery of John H. Rickey, Palo Alto and San Francisco restaurateur. Nabbed in Pool Hall The suspects were traced by the laundry mark on a handkerchief dropped by the robbers in Rickey's home in Los Altos. Two of the suspects were arrested in a pol hall at Sunnyvale. Three were found sitting in an automobile in which was found a camera taken from the Rickey (Turn to Page 3.

Column 2) her boy friend, Howard Durham, for trial. Both arc charged with the robbery of George Caulficld, Stanford university student, on the night of last October 21. The court said: ''While evidence in our case would not bo strong enough to support a verdict of fiuiKy, it is strops enough to constitute 'some evidence' to support the charge." The prevailing opinion was by Judges A. F. Bray and Louis Ward.

Judge Raymond dissented, (Turn to Page 2, Column 2) subscription books on their offering of 1,500,000 shares of Kaiser- Frazcr corporation common stock at S13 a share have been closed and the selling group terminated. Spokesmen for the underwriters did i'. elaborate. Kaiser-Frazer opened in the New York Curb Exchange this morning at 13 and shortly before 1 o'clock this afternoon started to break. The price dropped to 12 at one point, but recovered to at 1:15 p.

m. An announcement by the underwriters that they had ceased stabilization of the issue was made about that time. AIR MERGER MAY HIT MOFFET FIELD HARD Peninsula residents employed at Moffct Field, south of Paio Alto, watched with some misgiving today, for further details on the consolidation of the air transport command and naval air transport service which was announced this morning in Washington by defense secretary, James K. Fovrcstal. The announcement also revealed a Gen.

Laureiuv S. had been named chief, with Rear Adm. John P. Whitney named dep- commander. Kuter is the air foico general nomination to head the civil aeronautics hoard was blocked by a senate committee several weeks ago.

Officials at Moffett Field upon beinc informed of the consolidation stated a although there had been many rumors of the impend ing no one had expected it before next year. 1 More than 3,500 Peninsula civilians are employed at the large field and many are worried ovim- possible layoffs as a result of the now official merger. For past three since day, both the ATC anrl the XATS have been operating over same in the Pacific reran. ATC headquartfr.s are at K.rrfield, i the imy operates out of Moffett Field. Moffett officers would not speculate what was in store for the field in the near future.

The combined services will be railed "The Military Air Transport Service" and will be an integral part of the air forces. The navy is to retain responsi- i i for operation of air transport essential for naval internal administration pmposps and air transport Precinct 2 over routes of sole intrroil to Ih? i navy. I TOTAL 294 Belmont Beats Play Bonds I i i BELMONT, Feb. 4. Current trend of Peninsula voters to approve civic improvement bonds was abruptly reversed hero yesterday as approximately 53 per cent of Bclmont's registered voters flocked to the polls to defeat a $99,000 recreation bond issue by nearly two to one.

Semi-official tabulation of the votes announced today by City Clerk Mrs. Kathcrinc Hcartsner was "yes" 294, and "no" 453. Since the bond issue would have required a two-thirds majority to win, the defeat of the measure by the voters was the most decisive recorded in any county community since the war. A total of 747 valid ballots were cast and 753 voters out of 1258 registered went to the polls in a heavy turnout. The proposed bond issue would have provided $60,000 for purchase of the 10-acre former Pullman estate on the Alameda de las Pulgas for use as a city recreation center, and $39,000 for building and grounds improvement.

It was recommended by the city recreation commission nnd had been bricked by numerous local organizations. The vote by precincts: Yes No Precinct 1 123 238 171 215 Buys Poison on Way From Having: Neck Stitched Up Despondent over financial reverses, a 44-year-old butcher, Joe Atchley of 213 Juniper street, South San Francisco, was reported in a serious condition at Community hospital today after he allegedly tried to take his life four times in the past three days by attempts at hanging, slashing his throat, inhaling gas, and poisoning, according to police. Only prompt action by his wife, Mrs. Era Atchley, last night saved him from the effects of a virulently corrosive poison. Doctors estimated he had taken about nine pills of 7.3 grams each, a deadly amount.

Took Poison San Mateo police were called at 8:15 o'clock last night uhen Atchley was transferred to Community hospital from South San Francisco where he had received emergency treatment. Questioning of Mrs. Atchley disclosed she had noticed her husband acting strangely about 5:30 o'clock, after she had brought him home from a physician's office where he was treated for a slashed throat. Under her insistent questioning she said he told her he had just swallowed some poison, according to the police report. Mrs.

Atchley said she immediately administered a dose of raw eggs and rushed him South San Francisco hospital. On Jie way he told his wife that he lad purchased the tablets the previous day, just prior to his asserted attempt to cut his throat. Claimed Robbery The latter incident had been reported to San Mateo police Monday night when Atchley told authorities he sustained the injury as the victim of two robbers in San Mateo. At that time he told a story of having been picked up by two men waiting for a bus at Poplar avenue and Bayshore, and he said he was attacked'as he climbed into the rear seat. When he regained consciousness Atchley said he found himself alongside Crystal Springs road, and managed to board (Turn tc Page 2, Column G) Iraq Cabinet Rejects Treaty With Britain BAGHDAD, Feb.

Iraq cabinet tonight rejected the Anglo-Iraq treaty signed last month in England which touched off rioting in this country. If You're Pressed for Time-- --you'll appreciate the many valuable moments you save when you use a CHECKING ACCOUNT pay bills by mail, use check stubs to help figure amount of income 453 At i PMC lj.it.