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OFF. SUrter 1-2424 VOL CLXXXXVIII. NO. 122 FINAL CCCO SAN FRANCISCO. SATURDAY, MAY 2.

1953 DAILY 10c, SUNDAY 20c emus PERATION PES Freed S. F. P0 In Hospital Here Brown, Stoner Guilty Of Hammer Death Plot; Get Life; Tenner Freed Stoner Subdued After Outburst bfter Secret Flight Repatriated Stoner Goes Berserk In Court After Verdict By FRANCIS B. O'GARA Attorney Carl E. Brown and Victor Lucky" Stoner were found guilty of plotting: the murder of Brown's wife late yesterday in a spectacular, super-charged climax to one of the longest criminal trials in San Francisco history.

The jury, which had the legal power lo impose a death sentence, spared them from San Quentin's gas chamber by fixing the punishment at life imprisonment for the murder conspiracy. brown and Stoner were charge of assault with a deadly weapon vvfth intent to commit murder, which carries an automatic sentence of iiiiiiiiiiis i ss ay x9 1) 4 7 Cpl.Schnur Back Home Cpl. Paul F. Schnur the liberated San Francisco soldier, was placed in Letter- man General Hospital at the Presidio yesterday after a ecret flight across the Pacific. He was one of twenty-two former Red captives in a plane which, the Air Forces revealed, contained men who had fallen for the Communist line.

Plane Goes On The plane crossed the Pacific under a censorship blackout, paused briefly at Travis Air Base yesterday morning to refuel and drop off three men including Schnur, then continued to Phoenixville, to deposit least some of the nineteen men at Valley Forge Hospital tor psychiatric and medical treatment. Young Schnur was described by Letterman doctors as "completely exhausted" when he was brought to the hospital from Travis at 3 p. m. His father, the retired left wing labor leader, and his mother apparently were not informed of his coming until he reached the hospital. They rushed to his bedside from the family apartment at 1250 Jones Street.

It was learned that two other POW passengers stayed over at the Travis Base hospital, al though their names could not be learned. It was presumed the added fatigue of the transocean trip had been too much for them. No Interviews The 24 year old Schnur in formed doctors he did not want to see anyone other than his parents for the present. Nor would he permit the taking of a picture, even by an Army pho tographer. A hospital spokesman said he was "being treated like any other patient." When young Schnur crossed to the United Nations side at Panmunjom thirteen days ago the Army marked "no inter view" on his identity card, and no newsman has ever talked to him.

His parents have been in formed that, when repatriated, he was suffering from recurrent (Continued on Page If, Col. If) ColoradoVacation For Ike Forecast WASHINGTON, May 1. (AP) Gov. Dan Thornton of Coloro said today he strongly susp3is President Eisenhower will a vacation in Cob' rado this summer. He made his forecast after a White House luncheon with the President.

1 know one thing that he has made no plans to go elsewhere," Tliornton told reporters. GOP Staff Cut By New Chairman WASHINGTON. May (AP) Chairman Leonard W. Hall shook up Republican na tional headquarters today, and said that when the smoke settles he expects a third of the" staff to be gone, at a saving of around $100,000 a year. British PWs Rap War Cite Red Talks LYNEHAM (England), May 1.

(AP) Twenty-two repatriated British prisoners of war returned home from Korea today. Some denounced the Korean war as "stupid" and "useless." Trooper Arthur Surridge of the Eighth Hussars said he believed Communist stories that the war was started by the United States "to make a profit." All told of Communist-con ducted lectures on "current affairs." 'Gave Us Talks "It wasn't propaganda," said Rifleman N. McNally of the Royal Ulster Rifles. "They just gave us talks on what was going on." The men were questioned by reporters at the British air base here. Although classified by the Reds as "sick and wounded," most of the men looked bronzed healthy and well fed.

Six of twenty-two were stretcher cases One stretcher case said he broke his leg playing soccer. Trooper Critical Trooper Surridge, who said his only ailment was dysentry, described Communist medical treatment as "very good." "We got lectures from the Chinese with a slight bit of propaganda but personally I believe the war is being fought for profit," he told a reporter. "There's no sense in the Korean war. It's a waste of time and has nothing to do with Britain at all." Asked how he and other Brit ish prisoners felt about the Americans, Surridge shrugged (Continued on Page If, Col. 1) Clear Today, But.

Cloudy Tomorrow Is Forecast for S.F. air and warmer is the wel come weather prediction for to day, but increasing cloudiness tomorrow afternoon is expected to bring slightly lower tempera tures nere. Today's temperatures should rise to highs of 63 here, 67 in the East Bay and "0 in Marin County, Forecaster McQueen predicted. Yesterday's high here was 58. In the valleys, top readings are expected to reach 80.

Indica tive of the good weather's re turn was advice from the Call fornia State Automobile Asso ciation that for the first time in several days, there was not a single main road in the State where chains were required or advised. U. STPayroll Cut 20,000 in March WASHINGTON, May 1. (AP) A drop of more than 20,000 in the Government's civilian payroll in March, the first full month of the Eisen-hower Administration's new check-rein on federal employment, was reported today. IHvH SKHK Viclor "Lucky" Stoner ifruggle.

furiously in court after hearing himielf xonvicted in the Brown murder con piracy trial yesterday. Attempting to subdue infuriated Stoner are kit father (back to camera) nd Deputy Sheriffs Hugh; O'Hara, (obscured behind Stoner): and John Tacker, Stoner finally wa( subdued. Then he sobbed bitterly. Snri Francises Exnmlnr photo britsrl Pnhfrt Clish Demands Probers NameS.F.SchoolReds mm An MURAL DEBAT one to fourteen years. Joe Tenner, their ex-convict co-defendant and a disreputable night club promoter, was ac quitted on both charge.

An electrified audience that filled the courtroom saw a wild outburst by Stone after the verdict. Tense Struggle He charged at a cameraman who had snapped a picture of him and his mother. He was forcibly restrained by four men after a struggle that for several tense minutes overshadowed the reading of the verdict. Stoner's trial on a -plea of not guilty by reason of insanity was set for May 11. Brown's only chance of avoiding a life sentence is through a motion for a new trial or by overthrow ing the conviction on appeal.

He did not enter an insanity plea. If the jury should find that Stoner was legally insane at the time of the conspiracy and the assault, the conviction would be automatically set aside, at least as to him. He would go free, unless found presently insape medically and committed to a State hospital on that basis. Exactly one hour before the verdict, the jury buzzed for Deputy Sheriff Jack Kerrigan and reported tnat a woman member of the jury was ill. Juror Collapses While Kerrigan was confer ring with Superior Judge Herman A.

van der Zee, the jury buzzed frantically three times in rapid succession. It developed that the stricken juror, Mrs. Helen F. Van Huys- tee of 820 Holloway Avenue, had collapsed. Her physician was notified and an ambulance was summoned from Harbor Emergency Hospital.

Mrs. Van Huystee. moaning and sobbing hysterically as she dF carried from the Hall of Justice jury room, cried out that the jury was ready with a ver dict, when she was stricken. Hospital attendants said she was in a state of shock but ner condition was not serious. Substitute Juror Meanwhile, the three defend ants and the eleven remaining jurors were brought into the courtroom.

Mrs. Noelie Jensen of 30 Kronquist Court, one of the iwo alternates, was drawn by lot as replacement for Mrs. Van Huystee. Even the necessity of select ing a substitute seemed a bad omen for the defendants. Both Mrs.

Jensen and the second alternate. Mrs. Harold B. Kemp of 682 Twenty-eighth Avenue, Bv DICK NOLAN also convicted on a second were on the jury that condemned Boyd Van Winkle to death for a policeman's murder several months ago. The new jury z-esumed delib erations at 4:54 p.

m. Ten minutes later the buzzer sounded again, and this time Kerrigan was informed that a verdict had been reached. Back in Courtroom The three defendants were brought from the county jail once more. The jury followed them into the courtroom and Judge van der Zee ascended the bench at 5:20 p. m.

Juror No. 7, Mrs. Gladys Musto of 319 Church Street, was weeping visibly and audibly as the judge asked if they had arrived at a verdict. She was still weeping when Foreman Fred C. Wieneke of 1280 Twentieth Avenue, handed the jury's judgment to Court Clerk Joe liuocco.

The clerk passed the written verdict to the judge and was directed to read it aloud. Jury Looks Away The jurors turned their eyes away from Brown, Stoner and Tenner. Brown was first. He held his head stiffly erect and fixed his gaze on the jury box as Ruocco read out his name and fate. His face did not change expression, but his color deepened.

Mrs. Musto was still weeping. Tenner was next to hear the verdict on him acquittal. He sagged in his chair, embraced Defense Attorney John R. Golden and kissed him.

Mrs. Musto still wept. atoner, a volatile ii year old. seemed to have- steeled him self for the inevitable by that time. He appeared to take the decision stoically and calmly.

Mrs. Musto wept. The judge told the jurors they would be required to try Stoner on the insanity plea. Foreman Wieneke asked trat they be relieved. The request was denied and the judge left the bench.

And a moment later. Stoner went berserk completely, maniacally and furiously. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Victor Stoner, of El Cajon.

San Diego County, were sitting in the first row of the spectators' section when the finale came. Mrs. Stoner, an attractive middle aged woman who lost another son in combat during World War II, sobbed when her youngest child was pro nounced guilty. Cameramen crowded around the defense table. Stoner wa permitted to go to the railing Prudence Tenny Page n.Sec.

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ALLEN Paul "Bouquet" Conn, principal defendant in the "snatch and squeeze" kidnap trial, took on amateur and expert alike yesterday in a double-barrelled effort to prove that he is both sane and innocent. Leaping dramatically to his feet in the courtroom of Superior Judge Eustace Cullinan, he demanded an won by proxy the right to question the psychiatrist who had called him addled and incompetent. And later, from the witness stand, he continued lucidly and with apparent intelligence to tell his side of what he claims was no crime. Conspiracy Charge The prosecution, through Assistant District Attorney Warier Giubbini. holds that Cohn conspired with four co-defendants to kidnap garagenjan Walter Barkett and to extort from him $7,500.

long owed to Cohn as a gambling debt. Charged with Cohn are Bernard "Madman" Marcus, the onetime TV salesman who angers easily: pugilist Grant Butcher: Terrell Butcher, and James Ebcrhardt. According to the State, Cohn hired the "Madman" as a debt collector, and Marcus in turn sub-contracted the dirty work out to the Butcher boys and Ebcrhardt. Doctor 'ilncss Attorney James Martin Mac-Innis. working for, if not always with, Cohn, has been trying to show that his client is too men tally muddled to conspire to commit such elaborate crimes as kidnaping and extortion.

To prove his point he had called to the stand Dr. John F. Card, a Stanford psychia trist who has been treating Cohn for more than five years, and who helped have the former big- (Co)iiDiucd on Page 2, Col. 7) JUDGE ASSISTS IN TRIAL the committee at its next regular meeting in June. Clish, however, insisted that action ought to be taken with out delay.

Clish's wire stated: "I have read with great interest and considerable surprise, the article in this morning's Examiner to the effect that the State Senate Un-American Activities Committee has obtained evidence a dangerous infiltration of Communist teachers into the San Francisco public school system. "Only a week aso I learned of the check the Los Angeles school district is having made by you of its list of employes. Upon learning of this matter I reported it to the San Francisco board of education. "Because I believe that Communists have absolutely no right to teach in a public school system or hold any other governmental position, I am respectfully asking that you send immediately to the board of education the names of any of the staff whom you know to be actual Communists, and evidence to that effect which will stand up in court Clish's request for court evi-(Continued on Page 6, Col. 1) Royal City of Laos Awaitinq Attack HANOI (Indo-China), May 1.

(AP) The French-command sent patrols into the mountains surrounding the Laotian royal capital of Luangprabang today in search of advance units of invading Vietminh rebels. Spearheads of the Communist led foe were slowly closing in on the royal residence town, where French and Laotian troops are digging in for an all-out defense. From four to five divisions have invaded Laos. WASHINGTON, May 1. (AP) Art experts today opposed a bill by a California Congressman to force removal of the murals from the Rincon Annex Post Office in San Francisco.

Representative Scudder, Republican of California, author of the bill, called the paintings by Russian born artist Anton Refregicr "subversive," "grotesque," "cadaverous," and "offensive." Representatives of he artistic fraternity called the twenty-seven panels "important art work," "admirable examples of wall, decoration," and "fine in qualify and suitable in style." The controversy, brewing since the paintings were completed in 1948 at a cost of was aired at a hearing on Scudder's bill before the Public Buildings Subcommittee of the House Public-Works Committee. Chairman Auchincloss, Republican of New Jersey, said the subcommittee probably will not make a decision for another two or three weeks. Representative Mailliard, Republican of California, and Representative Shelley, Democrat of California, both from San Francisco, urged the committee to base its decision on the murals themselves, rather than on the background of the artist. Both favored retaining the murals with changes to remove some objectionable features. Representative Jackson, Republican of California, read the (Continued on Page Col.

If) Cal. Cable Line Resumes Today The California Street cable cars, halted since Wednesday by a stranded cable, will resume operations at 6 a. m. today, a Municipal Railway spokesman said yesterday. School Superintendent.

Herbert C. Clish yesterday challenged the State senate Un- American Activities Committee to name names and produce evidence that Communists have infiltrated the San Francisco school system. Clish demanded immediate action in a telegram sent to Richard E. Combs, chief counsel for the committee. Conf irmation Clish's telegram followed disclosure by The Examiner that the committee has gathered evidence of Red activity in the local schools.

In Sacramento, meanwhile. Combs issued a statement in which he denied that the committee had released the facts on which The Examiner's story was based, but confirmed that these facts were "substantially correct as stated." Combs said he knew Clish's wire was on the way, but that he had not yet received it. Full Screening He said he would recommend to the committee that it offer its services to the San Francisco school board to carry out a thorough investigation of all school personnel. "In this matter the committee's feeling is that it is not sufficient in this type of case merely to suspend or discharge persons against whom there is evidence, but that the whole school personnel administrative employes, persons having access to files, janitors and others should be screened," said Combs. This would give the school board "the full picture," Combs added, so that the board could take appropriate action.

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