The Times from San Mateo, California • Page 1

FIFTH AVE. APARTMENT-HOTEL PLANNED BEVERLY HILLS TYPE STRUCTURE PROPOSED OPPOSITE CITY PARK (See Picture, Page 2) A multi-million-dollar apartment-hotel is planned for construction on a well-wooded seven-acre tract on the old Hayne estate at Fifth avenue and El Camino Real opposite San Mateo's Central park, it was revealed today. T. M. P'eters, president of Economy Builders, real pstate developers in San Carlos and San Mateo.

announced long-considered plans for the project are approaching reality. "These have reached the active stage for a fine residential apartment-hotel of which San Mateo can be proud," Peters stated. I A DEVOTED TO THE INTEREST A HOME-OWNED NEWSPAPER A I I A OF SAN A THE WEATHER Fair tonight and Sunday. High early morning fog. Little change in temperature.

Low tonight, 44 degrees; highest Sunday, 68. UNITED AND ASSOCIATED PRESS DIRECT WIRES VOL. 53, No. 81 TWO SECTIONS--TWENTY PAGES SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1953 5c PER PER MONTH Beverly Hills, Model "We plan a development modeled along the lines of the famous Beverly Hills hotel." He said the development will be called the "Park hotel." Peters, pointing out that the site is wooded and will be set back from the street on all sides, said no rezoning will be- needed since the property is already zoned for apartments. "We plan to ask the planning commission for a permissive a i 1 ance when our final plans and specifications are completed." Peters said.

375-Foot Camino Frontage The site runs from El Camino Real west 1000 feet to Maple ave- nue and is one of the few centrally located tracts still cut up into city lots. Peters added. There will be a 375-foot frontage on El Camino Real. Architect's drawings show space for a large swimming pool, tennis courts and a dozen bungalow type garden apartments west of the main slruc- ture. A total of 200 rooms would be constructed in the project, including the garden-type apartments west of the main building.

Peters estimated. Not Controversial Peters said the Economy Builders' property is zoned third residential for 150 feet west of El Camino Real at present and first residential for the balance to Maple street some 1075 feet back from the highway, the area where the garden apartments will be. "This is in no way controver- sial," Peters emphasized. "There will be no rezoning changes required. This will not be on the ballot and will never go onto the ballot.

I am not interested in building anything that the people do not want." No Figure on Cost The builder, who's several corporations control large properties in San Carlos, San Mateo and in Richmond in the east bay, plus the extensive holdings of the late Cedric Cunningham, declined to state how much the hotel-apartment project would cost when finally completed. "We are not going off half cocked on this thing," he said. "We've been planning since 1948 and it is adequately financed. Any estimate might make would be offbase since we plan to spend as much money as is necessary to provide San Mateo i the i hotel possible." Specific Use He stressed fact his organi- sation will ask for a permissive variance "solely to build a resort- type apartment-hotel in i grow-: ing community." "If the project should at i late date fail, the variance would not permit its use for any purpose than a residential hotel," he asserted. A glassed-in ballroom, designed to attract the better class of Peninsula people, is planned for the hotel, according to Peters.

"We hope, at last, to provide the (Turn to Page Z. Column 2) ALL 98 MEN FEARED DEAD SUBMARINE COLLIS10N Russians Jail Death Plotters 2 Mothers End Lives Here, One Under Train Widow Suicide at Rail Crossing; Second Uses Gun A Burlingame widow, Mrs. Dorothy Estelle Clark, about i revolved around the rezoning of two parcels of property at 2 CITIES-SAN MATEO AND REDWOOD-GIRD FOR ELECTIONS TUESDAY More than 21,000 voters of the cities of San Mateo and Redwood City will go to the polls Tuesday to decide several important issues and to elect three councilmen in San Mateo. The hottest fight thus far has been in San Mateo and 55, manager of an apartment house at 121 Burlingame, Bellevue avenue. was the second 3 SUNRISE SERVICES IN COUNTY TOMORROW With the weatherman promising clear skies late in the morning and mild temperatures, thousands of San Mateo's devout are expected to fill churches in the annual observance of Easter Sunday tomorrow.

Early morning risers will attend sunrise services in San Bruno. J. Dohn, minister. north Burlingame and Emerald lake. San Bruno Services The San Bruno union services will be held at 5:41 a.

rn. at a cross west of San Bruno, near the junction of Junipcro Serra boulevard and Crystal Springs avenue. The Christian youth council representing 23 Protestant churches, will conduct the annual sunrise services on the Mills estate at Skyline boulevard near Hillside drive in Burlingame Hills. The service will start at 5:30 a. m.

Emerald Lake bowl, west of Redwood City, will be the scene of the oldest continuous sunrise service at the site of the huge cross west of Redwood City. The service will start at 5:49. Invocation will be given by the Rev. Walter B. Smith, pastor of Redwood City First Baptist church, while the sermon is to be delivered by the Rev.

Kenneth Senft, pastor of Messiah Lutheran church. San Mateo Churches San Mateo churches have planned the usual elaborate services for Easter morning as thousands parade in spring finery to the church of their choice. Those unable to attend church will be able to witness Catholic and Protestant services being telecast over all three major network tele- San Mateo county woman to commit suicide within seven hours last night when she hurled herself in front of a fast northbound passenger a i at Oak Grove avenue crossing. Burlingame police reported. An earlier suicide victim yesterday af lei noon was Mrs.

Hope nice Scribner 34, Pescadero house-' wil'e and mother, who shot above the right temple with a Caliber target pistol. Police Watching Home Mrs. Clark's desperate act short- ly after 10 o'clock last night came after four month's of suicide threats and even as police were maintaining a watch on her apartment, to make sure she did not take her own life. Police Chief R. C.

Theuer said At Pilgrim Baptist morn- Mrs. Clark had been in his office ing worship will start at 11 o'clock, approximately six times during the Special music is planned. past four months to voice threats Two identical services at 8:30 of suicide because of despondency and 11 o'clock will be held at the over financial affairs and because the intersection of Third avenue and El Camino Real from third residential to first-class-commercial zoning. The land is now zoned-cfeisidential. The two propositions on the ballot ask, shall the ordinance amending the city zoning maps by reclassifying the lots from 4 third residential to a i and first commercial "yes" vote will approve the approval on a $220.000 municipal mercial rezoning.

A "no" vote will bond issue which would enable the a city of 19,000 persons. The see- be A onc )onc SSL ie requests the voters' vision stations. The first program will be at 6 o'clock when KPIX brings the i i a mass Washington. D. C.

Locally, the First i i a church will conduct its Easter service starting at 10:30 with the sermon being delivered by Charles a. m. to 7 p. m. on that and chancel choirs special music.

The i i render SCOOP An Additional Allotment oi April and May factory de- liraiei of '53 Pontiacc Is now available! Dl 4-7141 for particulars ivM4tq, i 200 California Drive BURLINGAME First Baptist church, San Mateo; with" Rev. Leth Davidson delivering the sermon. At 7:45 p. m. the church choir will present a special cantata.

"The Empty Tomb." "The Greatest Story Ever Told" will be the subject of the 11 a.m. sermon to be delivered at the First Southern Baptist church holding services in the 100F hall, 121 South street. San Mateo. Burlingame Methodist The Rev. Myron Ilerrell and the Rev.

Ernest Trerrjayne will conduct identical Easter services starting at 9:30 and 11 a. m. at the First Methodist Burlingame. The sermon subject will be "Prisoners of Hope." The Episcopal Church of St. Matthew has scheduled the following services: Holy eucharist.

6:30 a. festival eucharist and sermon at 8 a. festival eucharist and sermon, 11 a. and children's Easter festival at 4 p. m.

Identical services ducted at 9 and 11 San Mateo First Presbyterian church. The pastor, the Rev. Everett F. Hezmall, will deliver the sermon, "His Empty Tomb--Your Risen Lord." Catholic churches will conduct regular Easter masses. St.

Catherine's church of Burlingame has scheduled the following times for masses: 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 a. m. and 12 noon. Solemn Easter mass will be held at 11 o'clock. Benediction after the 12 o'clock mass.

St. Gregory's Catholic church (Turn to Page 2, Column 5) she had not heard from her daughter. Mrs. Janet McTide, during the pas' 15 months. Wrote Notes Yesterday a i and neighbor, Mrs.

Myers of Apartment 4, 1224 Bellevue avenue, came to the police a i to report that Mrs. Clark had been writing notes during the day and had threatened to take her life by i in front of the 4:15 m. commute train. Theuer detailed Officer Cieve Price to Mrs. Clark's apartment.

Arriving at the apartment. Price reported he found Mrs. Clark In a state of upset, with Mrs. Myers. retain the present residential status of these lots, termed the "Gateway to Baywoocl." Some 7000 Redwood City vU- ers are expected to go to the polls also on Tuesday to decide the fate of the $1,000,000 port bond election in that city.

Polls in both communities will be open from dale. Also up before San Mateo voters will be two municipal bond issues which will require a two-thirds majority vote for passage. The first. a $1,200,000 municipal sewer bond issue, is designed to provide an adequate sewage program for San Mateo's rapidly growing city. The present sewer system was constructed in 1941 and was built for one new fire station to be built and would purchase additional fire equipment.

Both measures have received almost unanimous endorsements of various civic groups. Three Seek lie-election Three city councilmen, Edward Reilly, Victor Binsacca and Carrol Speers are seeking re-election to the city council tor the four-year terms. They are being opposed by Clarence Cullimore John L. Bnzant. Roy Wetmoie, Dr.

Ronald Di.xon and Clyde S. West Jr. Major opposition to the three incumbents as brought out in forum speeches by the five new candidates centers about the present city council's alleged i a i i to (Turn to Page 2, Column 6) BURLINGAME EMPLOYES ASK SALARY RAISES Representatives of the payers that the current tax a of game Municipal Employes' association met with cily councilmen late this morning to present requests for salary increases ranging from monthly raises of $44 for police patrolmen and $50 for fire department hosemen to- $151 for i the superintendent of recreation. S1.40 will not be increased during the coming year. Members of the police department are asking for a straight S44 be con- Price said Mrs.

Clark reported she had recently left the employ of a real estate company because she was unsuccessful there, and that she was feeling despondent because a deal to sell a home owned Well armed with statistics and surveys showing Burlingame nicipal salaries are lower than those in other California communities of similar size, an employes' delegation asked that salary in- by her had fallen through. She also creases be put into effect at the complained that she had not seen her daughter in 15 months and did a at the no know ner whereabouts. 1 Talked for Hour Price said he talked to Mrs. Clark the salary proposa undei advised-urn to Page 2. Column 3) ment councilman Dan R.

Love Jr. said a budget committee under him would study the proposals while drawing up a budget for the coming year. Love has previously made a commitment to tax- TIMES TICKET (Election Tuesday, April 7) FOR COUNCILMEN (Vote for Three) Victor G. Binsacca. Edward J.

Easter Sunday Fair, Bright SAN FRANCISCO Sunday will be fair and generally bright over most of California, the weather bureau said today. There was no hint of rain anywhere in the state. But there will be some coastal fog, clearing late in the morning. Temperatures, normal along the coast, are a few degrees higher than the seasonal average over the inland parts of Central and Northern California. Th' high was around 80 degrees yesterday in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys.

It should be a bit cooler in Sacramento valley tomorrow. Carroll M. CHARTER AMENDMENT Proposal A to raise Con- tractural Minimum I Yes REFERENDUM MEASURES Proposal Rezoning Regan Properties (Parking) Proposal Regan Properties (Business) No BOND PROPOSALS Proposal No. 1-Fire Department $220,000 Issue Yes Proposal No. 2-Sewer System $1,200,000 Improvement Yes a month increase for all ranks from patrolmen to captain.

The increase for patrolmen would be approximately 13 per cent, or from S355 to S400. Fire Department, Too Members of the fire department are basing their requests for salary increases on rank, and making it on the basis of an actual salary increase plus $20 a month extra for standby i when men are not actually on but must standby so as to be' available for City Agrees to Study emergency calls. City councilmen agreed to a The i a i increase would bring the monthly income of hose- men up from $355 to $405, of captains from $385 to $445 and of the assistant i chiefs $410 to $530. In addition, the fire department (Turn to Page 2. Column 4) beginning of a new fiscal year on July 1.

Baywide Check Halts 18,000 Police reported today that more than 1 8 0 0 0 automobiles were stopped last night in the biggest traffic check ever staged in the bay area. San Mateo police halted 531 cars last night in a 10 p.m. roadblock near Thirty-first avenue and issued 72 citations for 89 violations reported Police Lieut. William Andreasen. A total of 972 automobiles were halted in a traffic check on El Camino Real south of Five Points in Redwood City also by nine officers of the California Highway patrol and eight Redwood City policemen and reserves.

Officers found a total of 120 violations and a one drunken driver, James A. Griffith, 43, purchasing agent, who lives at 439 Aviador street, Millbrae. Warnings were issued to five drivers for improper registration, 10 for in- (Tnrn to Page 2, Column 1) 15 Physicians Freed; Charge Termed Fake Dreaded Secret Police of Beria in Surprise Action 0 0 UP) Premier Georgi Malenkov's new government today freed 15 doctors charged last January with killing or plotting to kill high state leaders It declared they had been falsely accused. Official announcements also disclosed: 1. Testimony from the doctors allegedly confirming the accusations hat 1 been obtained by "strictly forbidden" means.

2. Persons accused of "incorrect conduct of the investigation'' have been arrested and brought to justice. 3. A woman doctor has lost the Order of Lenin she received January 20 for exposing nine of the arrested medical men. Beria Communique The release of the doctors was announced in a communique from the new internal affairs ministry, headed by L.

P. Beria, first deputy premier in the new Soviet government. Declaring "verification has shown that the accusations are false and the documentary sources on which the workers of investigation based themselves a i foundation," the communique said the men have been "completely rehabilitated 1 and freed from custody. Workers Blamed ft blamed workers of the former ministry of state security for using "impermissable means of investigation which are strictly forbidden under Soviet law." It also charged that this ministry arrested the doctors "incorrectly without any law- i cases whatsoever." Beria was long head of the ministry of state security before it was combined into the interior affairs department when Malenkov became premier. The announcement gave no indication of how many p'ersons had been arrested for "incorrect conduct" in connection with the in- vestiation.

They presumably in(Turn to Page 2. Column 8) Ike Cautions Western Allies WASHINGTON (IP) President Eisenhower warned western European allies today against letting up on their defenses because of recent Soviet peace overtures. In a special message on the fourth anniversary of the North Atlantic treaty, Mr. Eisenhower said the occasion should be a signal for the signatory nations to themselves with renewed vigor to the work that remains be done." "Each and ail must remind themselves that the faint of heart and slow of deed are the first and the surest to invite the torment of aggression," he said. Mr.

Eisenhower said "bitter andi conclusive experience" has shown that "peace cannot be defended by the weak." "It demands strength--strength of our armies, strength of our eco(Turn to Page 2, Column 2) Ex-King Carol Dies in Lisbon LISBON. Portugal (IP)--Exiled King Carol of Romania. 59, died of a heart attack today while chatting in his seaside villa with a doctor friend pnd the woman who cost him his throne. Death came suddenly as the former monarch was talking to Dr. Mattos Taquenha and Magda Lupescu--Carol's red-haired wife who was a junk dealer's daughter when he met and wooed her in the 1920s.

Servants at the villa in suburban Estoril said Carol had shown no signs of illness last night. His last public appearance was on Tuesday when he attended memorial services for the late dowager Queen Mary of Britain. Quiet Retirement Carol and Magda, who shocked European royalty by living as husband and wife some 20 years before, they married, had. spent several years here in quiet but luxurious retirement. Much of Carol's income was said to come from Portuguese oil holdings.

They were not wed until 1947 when Magda was believed near death from anemia at a Rio de Janeiro hotel. Carol's survivors include his son, former King Mihael, 31, who lives in Switzerland with his wife, the (Tuni to 2, Column 7) STAGE SET FOR TRANSFER OF PRISONERS TOKYO (IP)--The stage was set today for the start Monday of crucial Panmunjom negotiations for the return of sick and wounded prisoners of the Korean Rear Admiral John C. Daniel, head of the Allied team for the talks on the repatriation of sick and wounded, named the four officers he will take with him to Pan- The new Allied team will try to make satisfactory arrangements for the return to their homelands of the ailing POWs and possibly the resumption of full armistice talks to end the Korean fighting. At Munsan preparations were rushed to receive the sick and wounded--possibly within the next two Named to Serve Named to serve with Daniel were: Col. Willard B.

Carlock, Galveston. senior UN liaison officer; South Korean Col. Lee So Yohng, Col. II. M.

Orden. Dunn Center. N. and U. S.

Navy Commander James E. Shew, Goldendale, Wash. American a i engineers rushed construction of "Freedom first home of the Allied prisoners returned from the Red POW camps in North Korea. The Communists also were believed constructing similar forward (Turn to Page 2, Column S) Bohlen's Plane Falters at Sea NEW YORK itPi--A Pan-American Airways plane en route to Paris with 56 passengers, including U. S.

Ambassador to the Soviet Union diaries E. (Chip) Bohlen, returned to Idlewild airport after it had developed mechanical trouble. The plane was three hours out of Bermuda, taking the southern route across the Atlantic for its next stop, the Azores, when Capt. Robert. T.

Postlewaite, the pilot, decided to turn back. The trouble was in the right, outboard engine. Pan-American said. The pilot feathered its propeller, cut the engine and returned on the remaining three. He said later he chose to return to New York rather than Bermuda because (Turn to Page 2, Column 6) Rescue Divers Face Fight in Racy Current Some of Crew Talk With Surface, Then Phone Goes Dead ISTANBUL (IP) Ninety- eight men were trapped and feared dead tonight in a Turkish submarine which sank to the bottom of the Dardanelles strait after colliding with a Swedish freighter.

Twenty-two men, huddled in the back part of the submarine in a watertight compartment, had been in telephone communication with the surface. Then the phone failed. Night had fallen and rescue operations, difficult by day in the treacherous current, became next to impossible. It was feared that when and if rescue divers reached the submarine all aboard would be found dead. Race With Death Divers started rescue operations late today.

It was a race with death to save those still alive, 228 feet down in the strait which links the Mediterranean and Black seas. The United States destroyer Hawkins arrived at the scene to attempt a rescue after Turkish efforts to lower a diving bell to the submarine failed because of the swift current. The submarine, Dumlupinar, sank after colliding with a Swed- iish freighter. The Hawkins, after speeding at 40 miles an hour to the scene, found the Turkish rescue ship Kur- faran in touch with the crew by a telephone line attached to a buoy which the submarine sent up. Aboard the sleek American destroyer were divers, submarine rescue experts and surgeons.

Oxygen for 24 Hours One of the men still alive at sunset said he and 21 others were in a water-tight compartment at the rear of the submarine. He said there was oxygen for 24 hours. The crewman said the suba- rine's engines had failed and that he and his comrades were in inky darkness. Then the telephone went dead and the rescuers feared all aboard the submarine might perish. Six men were thrown clear when (Turn to Page 2, Column 4) Late Race Results FIRST-Our John Win.

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