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GIRL SHOT AT BEATNIK PARTY Man Who Shot Her At Large REDWOOD CITY--A Redwood City divorcee was shot at a beatnik party early today and two men were arrested in the wild aftermath of the shooting. The alleged gun wielder fled his party pad, in one of the city's newer residential areas, police said, and was still at large late this morning. The victim, Mrs, Sherrie Porteous, 22, of 120 Redwood avenue, was treated at Sequoia hospital for a bullet wound in her left leg below the knee. Hospital attendants said the bullet passed through fleshy part of the leg and the wound was not serious. Beir.g sought as her assailant is Richard Enlow, 21, of 435 Oakwood boulevard.

Police responded to a complaint of a wild party in Enlow's apartment at 3 a.m. Patrolmen Edward Tennis, Robert Nedeau and Charles Calvert said that when they got to the scene the disturbance had subsided and the party was breaking up. They noticed a woman being helped down the street by two other women and assumed she was being taken home after having too much to drink. The officers did not enter the apartment. Twelve minutes later, however, the policemen were summoned to the home of James Melcher, a block away at 381 Oakwood.

It developed that Melcher's wife, Liena, had heard the commotion down the street and had walked down to investigate. She found Mrs. Porteous standing on the sidewalk, crying. She took the wounded woman to her home, and called an ambulance. I Sour Samaritan 1 Police said Melcher became enraged because his wife had brought Mrs.

Porteous into the house and that he assaulted an attendant. The attendant. Michael MacDonald, told officers he asked Melcher to step aside so he could treat Mrs. Porteous. Mel- cher'started to curse him, Mac- She Saved $500 I A DEVOTED TO THE INTEREST A.

HOME OWNED A I A OF SAN A NEWSPAPER Vol. 59-No. 147. 3 Sections 36 PAGES CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1959 WEATHER Fair tonight and tomorrow, except fog in early morning. Low tonight, about 54 degrees.

High tomorrow about 76. Normal westerly winds. lOc PER COPY. REDS ASK SUMMIT DIANE LEWERS Donald said, for ordering him around in his own attendant said he pushed Melcher out of the way and Melcher hit him with- his fists and knocked him to the floor. MacDonald suffered a cut on his left arm as wrestled on the floor.

Taken to Jail At that point Officer Tennis came up and tried to separate the (Please See Page 2, Column 2) GvQWarVet Critically HI HOUSTON, Tex. (UPI)--The nation's last Civil War veteran, 116-year-old Walter Washington Williams, fought for his life in an oxygen tent at the home of his daughter today. Williams contracted pneumonia two weeks ago. He appeared to be improving but suffered a relapse yesterday. He was in critical condition at the home of his daughter, Mrs.

Willie Mae Bowles today. The death of John Sailing, in a Kingsport, hospital on March 16 left Williams as the last living symbol of some four- million men who fought the bloody Civil War that split the nation nearly a century ago. Williams, a Confederate soldier, predicted six years ago he would be the last living survivor. He particularly wanted to outlive the last Union veteran and did. Albert Woolson of Duluth, the nation's last surviving Union soldier, died two years ago.

'59 FORD Girl, 18, 5 By 5 REDWOOD CITY-- Police were looking today for a fat, "Mr. 5 5," gunman who held lip an 18-year-old San Mateo girt at a gas station yesterday and escapee The' victim, Diane Beverly Lewers of 23 Poinsettia avenue, said she was on duty at the cashier's desk at the Star and Bar station at 2005 El Camino Rear when the bandit approached her at 4:16 p.m. The man held a revolver at his. side and demanded all the money from the- cash register. Miss Lewers said she gave him $160 from the top drawer, keeping a $500 bundle of $20 bills from his view.

The bandit, described as five feet, five inches tall and weighing 200 pounds, then ran east on Spruce street to Hancock ONLY 2075 Custom 300-6-Pass. Sedan PLUS Sales Tax 62.25 License 31.00 DOAHE-MIHTO FORD SALES 101 California Burlingame Dl 1-2005 SALES DEPARTMENT Open Thursday and Friday Evei. and All Day Sunday FORD CARS FORD TRUCKS USED CAR DEPARTMENT 27th and El Camino, S.M. Bonk of America Card Accepted Airport Check Duo Guilty Two New York men, one of whom faces forgery and grand theft charges in San Mateo county for cashing in stolen checks at the International Airport here, yesterday pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco to charges growing out of an $84,000 robbery last April 19 of the American Express company office at Idlewild airport in New York. Michael Zoffarano, who is alleged to have.

cashed $1000 in checks at a local airport branch bank, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport and conceal the checks. He faces a maximum of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. His accused companion in the New York city robbery, Vincent Potenza, 32, pleaded guilty to transporting stolen checks in interstate commerce. He faces a maximum of 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Judge Goodman set July 21 for sentencing.

The men are at liberty on $10,000 bail each. Pay Hike Okehed For Supervisors SACRAMENTO (fP) Legislation to give the San Mateo county supervisors a $200-a-month pay raise landed on Gov. Brown's desk today. The Assembly voted 65-4 in favor of the measure by Sen. Richard J.

Dolwig (R-Redwood City) a few hours before adjournment Friday. The bill, already passed by the Senate, would raise the supervisors' pay from $7200 to $9600 a year. $300,000 Damage in Fire at Marysville MARYSVILLE (AP) i roared through five stores on the west side of town Friday night causing damage estimated at $300,000. Outwits Bandit street, where he jumped into a car in which a driver waited. The car was' last seen speeding east on Spruce toward the Bayshore freeway.

'Roadblocks were set in the area, but the car was not seen. Two station'employejjf-Bichard McLasserty, 28, 3325 Page street, and Joseph Leahy, 27, 2812 Marlborough street, managed to obtain the license of the getaway car as they chased the gunman from the station. Police learned the car was stolen in San Francisco. Glib Rustler Gets 12 Steers At Woodside CASTRO VALLEY (AP)--A San Mateo County rancher lost 12 registered Black Angus steers today to a friendly cattleman character who volunteered to help truck the steers to a sale yard. The rancher estimated the animals' value at $6,000.

Jack Abernathy, Alameda County sheriff's, sergeant, said rancher Earl W. James, 68, of Woodside gave this account: The cattleman character, whom James knew casually as a man named Morley, drove up to James' ranch Friday night in a large truck. He said he had noticed James' trade journal advertisement that he was selling 12 steers at a Castro Valley auction yard. James agreed he needed help to truck the steers across San Francisco Bay to the sale yard. Six a i a were loaded on James' small truck and the six others on the- volunteer helper's truck.

On arrival at the sale yard about midnight, the helper and a companion threatened they would ill James if he didn't give them the steers and their registry pa- ers. All' the steers were loaded on big truck and the two steer Bandits sped away. Sheriff's deputies and state highway patrolmen set up road blocks within half an hour but no trace of the truck or cattle was found during the night. Session Ends; Brown Loses On Labor Bill SACRAMENTO UP)--The California Legislature has ended what Gov. Brown saluted as the "finest and most productive session" in state history.

What was also the longest session came to a close at midnight Friday to the boom of firecrackers--with defeat for Brown's labor reform bill. But the new Democratic gov ernor, noting success for 90 per cent of his program, didn't kick about the overall accomplishments in his freshman year. Backed by the first Democratic majority in both houses.since 1889 the Brown administration compiled an impressive record in the 166 days of lawmaking. Brown got through a billion dollar water million in new jobless pensions for blind and of state's Fair Employment Practices Act. "Together, I believe, we have Written a record will be re- "nterrrtJered long a'fTer'we are gone," the chief executive told a cheering Assembly.

Loses Battle But Brown couldn't quite make it, despite "the most strenuous efforts, on his bill designed to curb corrupt union practices. The Assembly battled over the Senate-passed proposal for three tense, perspiring hours. It was a steaming hot day. Tempers of the weary legislators were raw. The vote shifted no less than 24 times as Brown's aides and C.

J. Haggerty, veteran executive secretary of the California Labor Federation, applied pressure for and against the bill. A coalition of pro-labor Democrats and minority Republicans finally killed the measure, 50-29, by sending it back to committee. Nineteen of the house's 47 Democrats voted against the bill--eight switching to the CLF's side after the outcome was apparent: Two of the 33 Republicans- Ernest R. Geddes of Claremont and George Crawford of San Diego--stuck with the Democratic governor all the way, One member, George E.

Brown, Jr. CD- Monterey Park) didn't vote. Brown, in a statement, avoided mentioning the Democrats who deserted him. Instead, he said the (Plaase See Page 2, Column 2) Eight Canadian Anglers Drown MONCTON, New i (UPI)--A violent wind and rain storm lashed the Northumberland Strait area today, swamping a score of fishing boats and wrecking shoreline cottages. At least eight fishermen were according to A.

A. Robichaud, local department of fisheries officer. The storm struck the ships operating in open waters between Prince Edward island and Brunswick in one of the world's richest lobster fishing grounds. BIG FOUR FOREIGN MINISTERS RECESS CONFERENCE--Big Four foreign ministers are shown leaving Palais des Nations in today after recessing their conference until July 13. The East-West deadlock on Berlin was not broken.

From left are Russia's Andrei Gromyko, France's Maurice Couve de Britain's Selwyn Lloyd, and Christian Herter of the U. S. (AP Wire- photo via radio from Geneva) Move Made to Get Long Out of Mental Hospital 2 Killed in $1,750,000 Lodge Fire BRAINERD, Minn. (API--Rapidly spreading fire swept the huge mam log building of swank Breezy Point Lodge early today, killing a man and his wife and injuring more than 20 other guests. Trapped by smoke and flame that raced through the wooden summer resort building, most of injured suffered arm and leg fractures as they jumped from second floor windows.

The dead couple was Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Hildinger of Cleveand, Ohio. Hildinger, about 75, died instantly when he jumped from a second floor window, landing on lis head.

His wife, about 65, lost her grip as she attempted to slide lown a rope and fell about 20 feet the ground. Mrs. Hildinger died in a Brainerd hospital. Brainerd insurance man who wrote most of the insurance on he building estimated total value of the lodge at $1,750,000. Most uests in the main building lost all of their belongings.

Many slid down bedsheets and )lankets to escape in nightclothes. Some were able to make their way through the smoke from first and second floor rooms and es- through doorways and win- lows. Twenty-two persons were reported brought to St. Joseph's Hospital in Brainerd. The resort on 'elican Lake, 20 miles north of ere.

Those hospitalized here, all with arm and leg fractures, included Ross Morford, California. BATON ROUGE, La. (UPI)--Gov. Earl Long's personal attorney went to the state mental hospital where the governor is confined to plan strategy to get Long released. Theo Cangelosi, Long's appointee as chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State university and a close-personal friend, drove from the capitol to the Mandeville hospital where the governor was committed by a district court as a schizophrenic- paranoid.

The 63-year-old Long was expected to instruct Cangelosi to demand a pubb'c hearing on his mental state. Power Squabble Long moved to get out of the institution as his friends and enemies squabbled in what could become a struggle for power to take over the Long dynasty. Leading the battle against the Long machine was Secretary of State Wade Martin an old foe who became infuriated when Long took away from him two state posts adding an additional $8000 a year to his salary. Jesse Bankston, director of state hospitals, said permission had been granted. Cangelosi to visit the hospital.

Bankston said he also would go to Mandeville today. Eankston said Cangelosi would So This Is Service? MENLO PARK Kenneth Alley got more service from the sheriff's office "than he asked for last night. Deputy Sheriff Wilbur Grainger went to Alley's home at 821 Berkeley avenue to 'get a report from Alley concerning theft of a revolver. While investigating the burglary it occurred to Grainger he had a warrant for Alley's arrest on a traffic charge. Grainger booked Alley at county jail on a Palo Alto charge of driving with a revoked license.

Redwood Man Killed in Crash GILROY (AP)-Rex M. Fiedler, 46, of Redwood City, was killed Friday night in the crash of his car into a truck and trailer. Deputy Coroner Donald Bouchette said Fiedler crashed into the rear of the truck rig as it made a left-turn off Highway 101 south of Gilroy. Bouchette said Fiedler was a designing architect for F. W.

Woolworth Co. He had lived since November at the Trailer Rancho in Redwood City with his wife, Bette, and son, Rex, 3, who survive. Oil Firms Pledge No Price Fixing WASHINGTON (AP) Six big oil companies on the West Coast lave agreed to stop any price "ixing and other antitrust practices, the Justice Department has announced. The agreement came in the 'orm of a consent judgment, approved Friday by U.S. District Judge James M.

Carter in Los Angeles. As a result, the federal will drop an antitrust complaint which was filed nine years ago. The Justice Department said the companies had agreed to changes in many of their practices. But the department dropped a major proposal--that the companies be forced to yield ownership or lease of retail filling stations in California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada and Arizona. The companies were Standard Oil Co.

of California, Shell Oil Richfield Oil General Petroleum Tidewater Oil Co. and Union Oil Co. of California. Under the judgment, the companies agreed: 1. To give dealers a minimum three-year supply contract during the next 10 years.

2. To lease filling stations to INSIDE TODAY'S TIMES Births, Deaths 14 Boys Club Feature, 4A, 5A Church News 8, 9 Comics County Budgets 11 Classified Editorials 12 Pearson ..12 Picture Page 5 Sports 7 TV, Foster 7A Theaters 8A, 9A Women's News 4 dealers on minimum three-year terms during the next 10 years. 3. Not to force a reseller of their products to follow their fixed price. 4.

To -allow dealers to handle petroleum products of other companies. 5. Not to join in controlling crude oil production for the purpose of fixing crude oil prices. 6. Not to fix prices of crude oil or its products.

7. Not. to discriminate against anyone in exchanging crude oil products or using pipelines. 8. contract for crude oil purchases for no longer than one year at a time.

The decree will remain.in:effect for 15 years. call in other lawyers for Long if the governor requests it The 10 a.m. hospital bulletin said Long "spent a fairly restful night and was getting along well." It said diagn'ostic procedures had not yet been completed. Long was expected to petition for a hearing before District Judge Fred S. Leblanc.

Leblanc signed the papers permitting deputies to drag Long screaming, cursing kicking from a state patrol car Thursday and take him to the hospital. The commitment was' at the request of Mrs. Long. Hit College Site Choice Assemblymen Carl A. Britschgi of Redwood City and Ralph Brown of Modesto last night pushed through an assembly resolution asking the state public works board to choose state college sites more carefully.

The board recently selected Pleasanton as the site for an Alameda county state college, and Britschgi complained that San Mateo area students would have to commute -an hour and a half to get to it. They had been, led to believe the Alameda college would be close to the side of the San Mateo bridge, lie said. Brown, asking that the board consider population, availability of transportation in the area, and centers of population growth, said- there was "considerable dissatisfaction" over-the Pleasanton site. Top Talk Said Essential to Europe Peace MOSCOW (UPI)--A joint Soviet-East German commu- nique today renewed demands for a summit conference and said that without a German peace treaty and an end to the "intolerable situation" in West Berlin there can be no peace in Europe. It also repeated warnings that if the West "frustrates" the conclusion of a peace treaty with all of Germany, the Soviet Union will sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany.

This, it maintained, would end the occupation rights of the Western Powers. "The acts and provisions stemming from the capitulation and the military defeat of Germany in the past war will therefore lose their it said. The communique was signed Friday by Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khurshchev and East German Communist leader Walter Ulbricht and followed more than a week of and East German Premier "Otto Grotewohl- returned-to East Germany today. It said, the Soviet Union and East Germany would consent to an interim agreement on West Berlin under certain conditions.

They said they were prepared to consent to this, as well as "the continuation for a specified period of certain occupation rights of the Wester Powers" if an all- German committee arrived at "agreed decisions on questions of the peace treaty and the reunification of Germany" Follows Talks The -communique paralleled Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev's- previous- demands that East and West Germany negotiate on equal footing and in effect, would entail western recognition of East Germany. The communique said the best solution for the Berlin problem "in the present conditions" before Germany is reunited is to make West Berlin a "free demilitarized city." It said such action "would not derogate from the rights of the West Berlin population or affect its present way of life." The communique also: --Noted the special importance of a summit conference. --Condemned the North Atlantic treaty powers for the construction of rocket bases in Italy and Greece. --Accused NATO of trying to make the Baltic a springboard for war.

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