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Two Rescued in Devil Slide Avalanche LEADING A OF SAN MATEO COUNTY DEVOTED TO THE INTERE51 ALL THE NEWS Six Days a Week for only per month delivered THE WEATHER tonight ud afcowcn Tuesday. Strong winds teaigtt. LiMe change In Low tonight, 48 kighmt TueiMhrM A HOME-OWNED NEWSPAPER UNITED AND ASSOCIATED PRESS DIBXCT WIRES VOL. 52, No. 238 TWO SECTIONS--TWENTY PAGES SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1952 5e PER PER MONTH COUNTY; SIXTY MILE BUFFETS S.

M. COASTLINE San Mateo Pays Tribute To Emil Zwierlein Pallbearers above carry the body of Emil Zwier- lein, San Mates civic leader and pioneer businessman, from the Sneider Sullivan chapel thss morning, following funeral services. Zwierlem died at his home, 531 Harvard road. An honor" guard of members of American Legion post No 82, San Kateo. stand at attention to salute (Times Photo) their former comrade, who sti'ved as commander of the post for two years.

Edward Sullivan, director of the funeral home, is leading the procession. More than 500 persons braved the wind and rain to attend the services. Interment was at St. John's cemetery. Merchant Laid To Rest in Rain Business, fraternal and civic bodies of San Mateo paid final re- this morning to Emil Zwier- long a leader in all three fields society.

Ceremonies were conducted at a.m. from Sneider and -Sullivan afaapel in San Mateo before some 300 persons who braved heavy rainfall to pay last respects to Mr. Zwierlein, who died Friday at his home, 531 Harvard road. Among the civic leaders present at the services were Police Chief Martin McDonnell, Mayor F. Hersehel Campbell, Francis Murphy, ex- municipal judge, Sheriff Earl Whitmore, Irving Hanson, commanding officer of American Legion Post 82 and representatives of the chamber of commerce.

Tai services were conducted under the auspices of the American Legion which provided a uniformed honor guard to the wsket. Interment was at St. John's cemetery, San Mateo. Pallbearers for.the services were Henry Haber, San Franeisco wool broker; James Kilburg, president of the Kilburg corporation in San Mateo; Robert Craigmile, employee (Turn to Page 2, Column 6) Bess Meets Mamie on White House Front Porch JL You've never been to The Lanai? You'll love every minute of it--whether you enjoy an exotic idrink ot our ever- changing Hawaiian mural in lanai Bar, or have a full course Oriental dinner at just 3.50. If you real Stateside food, order our fine chops, or chicken.

For Reservations Phone Fireside 5-1242 Open Daily 5:00 p.m. to Midnight 41st El Camlno Real, San Miteo. Next the famld Villa Chartler By RUTH COWAN WASHINGTON (fl 3 )--Mrs. Dwight Eisenhower dropped in at the big white house on Pennsylvania avenue today for a visit with Mrs. Harry Truman.

And you should have seen the excitement! Cameramen dashed this way and that, lining up the two women for pictures. Reporters scurried about, taking copious notes on what the two women were wearing. Calls on Bess It was in its own way, an historic occasion, for Mamie Eisenhower was calling on Bess Truman to make an on-the-spot examination of the 54rroom mansion into which she and her husband will move on January 20. The photographers and reporters were milling around when Mrs. Eisenhower's car pulled up to the White House door.

Mrs. Truman stepped outside to greet the lady who will succeed her next month as the first lady of the land. Feeling Fine The conversation started off like this: Mrs. Truman: "How are you fee'ling?" Mrs. Eisenhower: "Fine." Then the photographers took over.

Both of the ladies smiled cheerfully and they didn't seem to mind the subfreezing temperatures too much. Mrs. Truman was less prepared for the cold. She had thrown a short black coat over her shoulders when she went outside, but after a bit she asked the photographers', laughing as she spoke, "When can we go in?" Just One Mori As might be expected, a photographer called out, "Just one more." He got his picture and then another photographer told the twt foremost women of the land, "Al right, you can go in." Both of them laughed and they went inside the mansion, whicf has housed every president and first lady since the days of John Adams, the nation's second presi dent. 0 Adams moved into the building, which was erected on former swamp land, in 1800.

And now for the big question What was Mrs. Eisenhower wearing? Pert Hat Well, it saems there was some difference of opinion of the per little hat she wore over her famed bangs. Some reporters said it was (Turn to Page 2, Column S) Pair Caught on Bruno Rooftop (Times County Service) SAN BRUNO, Dec. 1. Police today charged two San Francisco men, Eugene Moore, 37, and Carl Sturgell, 40, with attempted burg- larly after they were surrounded and captured from on top of roof at 505 San Mateo avenue.

Credit for the arrests went to Sgt. Dee Barker and officers Fred Wootan and Calvin Totnlinson, according to Capt. Russell Cunningham. Wootan and Tomilson were alerted by a neighbor who phoned police at 3:13 a. m.

this morning and said prowlers were on the roof of Ellingson's Sport shop. Wootan took the back of the shop while Tomlinson took the front. They could see two men crouching on the roof behind a wall abutment. Sergeant Barker, who lived nearby at 541 Easton avenue, was called out and the three officers heard one of two burglars drop to the ground and dash between shops toward San Mateo avenue. Moore was halted by Tomlinson, a rookie policeman of four months.

$500 Loot in Station Holdup San Mateo police today sought a cool gunman who held up the Associated gas station at the cornei of, El Camino Real and avenue yesterday at 6:50 am escaped with $500 in 'cash 'am checks. The station attendant, Eddi Delaplane, 19' of 435 Acacia street San Bruno, told police that he just opened the station for mornin business and was unlocking th safe when a tall Negro appearec at the door of the office. The man was brandishing pistol and said in quiet voice, "I'll take that." Dela plane handed over the cash an cheeks to the man who 'calml' pocketed the money. The attendan told police that the intruder wa very calm and did not speak until he left. He then ordered Delaplan to go into the restroom and not come out for 10 minutes.

Delaplane called police and th station manager, J. 451 Hobart avenue, San Mateo Seoul Again Alerted for Ike's Arrival However, Full Schedule of Appointments on N. Y. Calendar SEOUL, Korea OP)--Armored cars patrolled streets, nd United States marines with ixed bayonets guarded key in Seoul today preparation for the visit of President-elect Dwight D. Eis- nhower.

Jeeps intended to convoy the 'resident-elect's a were rmed with machine guns and arked outside Eighth army head- uarters. The marines in battle- ress were stationed outside the the Fifth air fotce eadquarters and the chosen hotel, vhere a secret service party al- eady was said to be staying. No Word Arrival time of the general was- op secret. There was no official ford on when he would arrive and announcement was expected, ome correspondents -were "camp- ng out" at various airports in the ope of being on the spot when he rrived. South Korean police, meanwhile, their rigorous scrutiny ivilians.

Any one whose lation papers were not in order was jailed. Police had orders to drive 10,000 prostitutes out of the city in their efforts to clear Seoul of unsavory persons. Paint Up Again Koreans carrying ladders and cans of bright paint moved from sign to sign, retouching weather)eaten banners hanging for as long as 10 days. Gaily decorated streetcars, taken off the tracks four days ago when Sisenhower failed to show as exacted on Thanksgiving day, were 3ack on the tracks today. The Koreans appeared less spirited than the days when welcoming rehearsal were carried out with parades and rallies.

There were no such today. It might be the cold weather," said a city official. "But I think the people are getting tired of waiting." Busy Today NEW YORK, (IP)--Key figures in President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower's administrative organization visited at his Columbia university residence today. There were no immediate announcements of the subject of discussions in the residence.

Among the callers were John Foster Dulles, secretary of state DEATH TAKES 6EO, KLEISER 9T Sr Sf HOME GEORGE W. KLEISER George W. Kleiser, co-founder of Foster and Kleiser company, the second largest outdoor advertising firm in the nation, died Sunday at 3 a. m. at His home, 105 Baywood avenue in San Mateo.

Kleiser was 78 and had been in ill health for several years. He resigned as chairman of the board of the advertising concern on October 17, of this year, when W. R. Grace and company, international trading concern in San Francisco, purchased more than 98 per cent of Foster and Kleiser company common stock. Kleiser was born in Cloverdale, and attended the University of California.

He graduated from Temple university in 1897 as a doctor of dental surgery. Kleiser entered the outdoor advertising business with Walter Foster, who died in 1944, in Seattle and Portland in 1901 using their own names to establish the firm, (Turn to Pa'ge 2, Column 5) Man Killed in Traffic; Trees Fall on Houses Woman Rescued as Millbrae Home Hit; Other Damage One man was killed on the Bayshore highway, two were dragged from an avalanche that covered their car at Devi's slide, one woman was rescued from death when her home at Millbrae was hit by a falling tree at noon, and school director Philip Pope's home on El Cerrito was damaged by a falling tree in a series of traige- dies and mishaps that came with today's vicious storm. One man was killed and another injured seriously in a four-vehicle crash on busy rain-swept Bayshore near Mountain View at the height of the commuter rush this morning. Palo Alto hospital attendants identified the dead man as Ralph Lozano, 28, of Sunnyvale, and, the injured man as John Krumpum, 32, also of Sunnyvale, who suffered a severe leg injury. The highway patrol said the involved four 'automobiles and a large truck.

A pioneer Coastside hotel owner, Victor Torres, 30, of Montara, was credited with saving the lives of two unidentified El Granada men whose 'car was caught in a slide of mud earth and rocks on Devil's slide at 10 o'clock this morning. The two were later identified as Mareno Vellutini, 53, and Attillio Gianniha, 48, both of box 95, route 1, El Granada. Vellutini was driving and they first became aware of the slide, according to Victor INCH FALLS IN HOUR AT WOODSIDE; MORE FOR TONIGHT. FORECAST An intense Pacific storm pushed its way into the bay area today, bringing gale winds up to 60 miles an hour, leaving heavy rainfall and sending beating surf against the San Mateo county coastside. Winds of gale proportion buffeted the coa'stside most of the night and during the early morning hours, and nearly every area of the county reported high winds which blew down trees, disrupted electric service in many areas, and caused some interruptions of phone service.

It continued this afternoon. The storm, still lying off the British Columbia coast, has aused a large low pressure trough which extends almost the entire ength of the Pacific coast states rom Washington to a point aorth if San Diego. Storm and small warnings are flying all along he coast. Forecasters at Mills field said hat the high winds and heavy would continue through to- designate; Authur H. Vandenberg an administrative assistnat to Eisenhower; Harold E.

Stassen, who will head the mutual security New York banker Winthrop W. Aldrich, named yesterday as ambassador to Great Britain; and Dr. Gabriel Hauge, who will become a member of the White House administrative staff. Aldrich There Dulles visited the Eisenhower home for 20 minutes and then went to the Commodore hotel, where the president-elect has his headquarters. Stassen stayed in the Eisenhower home an hour and left with Vandenfierg at 10:20 a.m.

Vandenberg had arrived about 9 a.m. Aldrich visited only briefly at the residence. Today's activity at the Eisenhower residence came after a busy week end during which Aldrich's appointment was announced and Henry Cabot Lodge was nominated chief of the United States mission to the United Nations to succeed Warren Austin. A committee also was named to study plans for streamlining the executive branch of the Aldrich's appointment" was announced yesterday by Arthur. H.

Vandenberg secretary to the president-elect. Vandenberg at the same time announced appointment of a special three-man committee, under the chairmanship of Nelson A. Rockefeller, which will repre- (Tarn to CoXna Bob Waterfield Plans to Retire LOS ANGELES Waterfield, veteran quarterback of the Los Angeles Rams, announced day that he will retire from professional football at the end of this year. The 32-year-old Waterfield--who has been supplanted by Norman van Brocklin as the team's main spark--said he will finish the season, but then hang up his pads for good. Waterfield, in his eight seasons as a Ram, led the team to two National Football league titles--in 1945 in Cleveland and last year here.

The former UCLA star, husband of actress Jane Russell, has appeared in movies and has indicated he might try an acting career. He also owns a Van Nuys electrical appliance shop. Torres, when rocks struck th; top of their car and the vehicle stopped in the The two men were traveling south on the Coast highway, Torres said, when their car was caught in a "water-fall" of rocks and mud pouring down from the top of the mountain. Behind Trapped Car. "I was driving to my hotel from my home in San Francisco and reached Devil's slide at about 19 a.

Torres said. "The car in front of me suddenly stopped when the mud and rocks poured off the mountain. "They happed out amid the slide and jumped into my car, just escaping being buried in the streaming tons of rock and debris." Torres said he took the men, both farmers, about 50 years of age, to then- home in El Granada. "I was just able to guide my car around the slide, which had covered all but about a few feet of the road," the hotel owner said. "I didn't get then: names at the time, but they called each other Mario and Gianini and both spoke in.broken accents." Torres, sad the two men had been returning home, from a visit to the dentist.

'I saw them coming out of their (Turn to Page 2, Column 2) Savage Storm Rages in North SAN FRANCISCO of the worst storms in years whipped the area around Weed in northern Cali- ornia today and extended with less 'iolence over most of the rest of he state. At Dunsmuir, the forest service reported 2.11 inches of precipita- in the past 24 hours. The rain which had pelted down all night, changed to snow at 7:30 a.m. and continued to fall steadily ihrough the cutting off the littele lumbering town of Mc- Jloud, east of here. Highway 99 Was completely jlocked by a multi-automobile between.

Dunsmuir and The Highway patrol refused permit travelers to proceed north of Dunsmuir. The pile-up occurred at 8:20 a.m. and had not een cleared three hours later. 3nly barest details were available )ut the highway patrol said no ambulance service had been required at the scene. At Weed, where the storm seemed to center, schools were closed and householders were advised to remain in their homes be cause of tne violence of the.

winds. One party which attempted to visit Orlando, Last of Big Four, Dead ROME (IP)--Vittorio Emanuele grand old man of Italian statesmanship and last survivor of the Allied "Big Fdur" at the Versailles peace conference, died today. Orlando died at his -home here after long illness. At the Versailles conference after World War Orlando with three other men--Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George of Great Britain, and Georges 'Clemenceau of France--drafted the -blueprint for what was to be a hew world. During the Fascist era he was in political eclipse.

But when Benitp Mussolini fell in 1943, the veteran Orlando was given the honorary presidency of chamber of deputies. Ike Picks Labor, Commerce Aides NEW YORK fCB--President-elect Eisenhower today completed filling his cabinet, announcing he bar) picked Durkin of Chicago as secretary of labor and Sinclair Weeks of Boston as. secretary of commerce. i Late Race Results TANFORAN FIRST -Beyond Reach 5.SO Jut Patch Rtadilr BOWIE Aflam Blue Z-rtora znchcobat FOLTiTIt-- Book Match 34.00 Nancy Shasta TROPICAL Control Moola SECOND-- Pattern Pooal 4.8O 3.70 4.40 4.M T.40 3.60 4.20 3.00 3.40 4.W 3.SO 3.10 2.00 2.30 3.M 3.M relatives, at turned back the Weed hospital, to their homes, reporting it was imposisble to drive in the gale-whipped snow'. Mills Shut Down At Eureka, the storm knocked out power lines and forced several lumber mills to shut down today.

The strong wind caused damage to long-line communications, and to ower lines oE the Pacific Gas Electric company, in the vicinity of Willow Creek, in the northern part of the county, nnd near Garberville in the southern end. All shipping was held in the harbor because of rough waves at the bar. The rain storm hit at 2 p.m. yesterday, and 1.09 inches of precipitation had fallen by 9 a.m. today There were strong to gale force winds as far south as Monterey and in the interior from Stockton northward.

Bridge Death Driver Suicide SAN FRANCISCO, for mer sailor whose car accident lee to the deaths of nine persons in the plunge of a big bus from the Bay bridge in 1951 hanged him self in a Kansas City jail yesterday He was Orville C. Russell 27 formerly of Richmond. His-, body was found hanging by blanket strips from a beam in his cell in the Independence, Kan. jail. He had been arrested on charges of drunkeness and using profanity in a public place.

Russell, then a navy boatswain was en route from his home Treasure Island on the morning of October 28, 1951, when his car struck an abutment near the San Pablo underpass and knocked a concrete chunk onto the: highway A Greyhound bus, en route from Reno, hit the concrete and 40 feet to railroad tracks below the bridge. Nine persons wen killed and 20 injured. An Alameda county superior court jury later acquitted Riusell of responsibility for the bus wash light and into Tuesday morning. Tomorrow showers are expected continue throughout most of the day. A total of .90 of an inch of rain 'ell in San Mateo during the period starting at 8 a.

ia. this morning and ending at noon, bringing the to 3.57 for the season compared, to 5.5-1 last year. At Mills field .63 of an inch was reported up to noon bringing the season to 2.78 compared to 3.40 inches year. The Woodside fire department recorded rains of cloudburst pro-portions when 1.11 inches of rain was reported falling between 12 noon and 1 o'clock. Between 8 a.m.

morning and noon a total of 1.09 inches of rain fell bringing the for the storm to 2.20 inches. This according to Mills field is believed to be the heaviest rainfall recorded in a single hour in San Mateo -county since 1928 when 1.21 nches fell at La'Honda in a one- louf period. Hobart Avenue Flood The water WBI reported to be swirling at a depth of four feet in the gutters along Hobart avenue in San Mateo at 1 marooning at least 20 families temporarily. The weatherman said it was the most intense of the current season and may -bring several inches of rain to the area before it moves on into Nevada. High Wind at Princeton The Coastside areas took the brunt of the storm with winds up to 60 miles an hour at Princeton during the morning.

A 6.3-foot tide sent the churning surf around buildings in the Princeton-Half Moon Bay area and several places reported being surrounded by nearly a foot of water. Hazel's Seafood Palace, operated by O. B. Dooley, reported an inch (Turn to Page 2, Column 2) New CHEVROLETS at. WHILE THEY LIST! 6-Paw.

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