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PHONE YOUR WANT AO MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY SUtter 1-2424 The Examiner Cerntr Market-Third East Bay TEmplsbar 2-2424 AMERICA FIRST. ms, THE WEATHER Sn Frsnrlwo. Kt BWi PmiIh. tula and Mirln LlKht ram probablj this afternoon and tonight with trong northwesterly wind tonight; tail tomorrow. TKMPKRATCRES HI.

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U.S.PAT, OPf VOL. CLXXXXIX. NO. 156 0 FINAL CCCC SAN FRANCISCO. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3.

1953 56 PAGES DAILY 10c SUNDAY 20c 1 WW IrrsT Mi ii ii ii ii mm a a. a. a. mm mm rn 37- fir If PIER VTDLENGEEISENHOW uop rouna uuuty THREATENED 1NBACKS 4 Tax a Jen ShlP a FflDM MORTMV Uilll I lUllL. I IIIUIU II III Ullll I II Faces New 'For Velde Silence Charge Urges 'Progressive, Dynamic1 AFL Sailors Attempt to Rout Bridges Union Policy for '54 Victory An attempt by a group of WASHINGTON, Dec.

2. Union Calls AFL sailors to break up a (AP) President Eisen 1 A 1 Mass, Admitted Ex-Red, Refuses to Testify picket line established by Bribe Probe Starts Emmett E. "Kelley, sus nower ioia Kepuoncans in Phone Firm Raises Rate Boost Request Harry Bridges' International Congress Senator, McCarthy of Wisconsin among Out Pickets Longshoremen's and Ware today tha their housemen's Union brought a new threat of violence to the party will stay in power only Tarantlno Trial pended policeman, was found guilty yesterday of evading $707 in income taxes by ot waterfront yesterday. if they adopt "a progressive, of By WILL STEVENS John W. Mass, admitted former Communist on the City College of San Francisco faculty, refused to talk before the House Un-American Activities Committee yesterday and was at once suspended by school authorities.

School Superintendent Herbert C. Clish, a witness to One AFL man was arrested More Income Held Needed reporting fees he received as when a loaded .45 automatic was Prosecution the welfare of the people of AgOUlSl CluC found in his car. uui turning The Incident occurred at Pier witnout ever mentioning Mc- Bv RAY CHRISTIANSEN a witness in accident cases. Shortly.before the trial ended, it was disclosed that Kelley was accused last year of soliciting and accepting a $150 bribe to U- T-i i. -r i I 56 in late afternoon.

A crowd The telephone company 7,: "nt enecu. Left wing waterfront lead. Closing yesterday boosted its rate in cuv me mat uie ftis- -i-w w.oro of more than 100 men, most of them apparently ILWU mem crease request to an average consin Senator has picked the availabe gunnoPtera in Mass' use of the Fifth Amendment as a refuge, ordered dismissal charges drawn on grounds of "unprofessional con-ductj evident ineptness for service" and violation' of the State law which requires public employes to answer questions of "fix" a drunk driving case. DiS' trict Attorney Thomas wrnntr issue fni- tha Tv-iliUpal i tne tsay area lor a mass of $1.20 a month for Califor nia phone users. Elkington Paints Lynch said the bribery matter Struggles that lie ahead.

mnncrrati 1, bers, gathered immediately af terward at the pier. Chartered Ship The picket line was posted at The amended application by Election Plan Velde Committee at Civic Sordid Picture By ERNEST LENN Prosecutor Norman Elk Whereas McCarthy 1 si sts Center this morning. the Pacific (Telephone and Telegraph Company pleaded need investigative bodies. the SS Aleutian, center of the Reds in Governmpnr will he a As the call for demonstrators Other high points of the com for additional annual Income jurisdictional strife, recently big issue in 1954. Eisenhower went out, police cnier.

Micnaei mittee's City Hall hearing which raises its total request to ington painted a picture of chartered by the Hawaiian Pa renewed conviction that it won't Gaffey announced that he wouid I if Tt Ml, I A. vr 1 Dickson P. Hill, 40, Oak a sordid blackmail racket in cific Line for service between r.ave eighty officers at the cvi $53,566,000. Increasing Costs here and Hawaii and scheduled be. Long before that, he said, the administration will have ter at 9:30 a.

m. to maintain his closing arguments at the James Tarantino-Rudy land radio repair shop owner, told the committee that he and his former wife Sylvia joined the Alameda to sail Saturday. order Increasing costs, primarily Eichenbaum extortion trial The vessel was chartered from the Alaskan Steamship Com made such progress in rooting subversives out that they no caused by increased wages, At the Scene i 11:7 1BM 1:11 fi County Communist Party in were blamed in tne document pany, and AFL cooks and stew yesterday. With broad strokes he por At the scene, as the commit longer will be a "serious men 1945 at the direct request of filed with the State Public Utili ards were hired to replace mem tee resumes its hearing into un- ace." ties Commission. bers of the left-wing National the FBI, serving at various times in minor party offices activities in the City Hall, will be thirty police in- It was a second amendment trayea Tarantino, tne gossip magazine editor, and Eichen Then the President laid down Union of Marine Cooks and before they got out in 1949, to the application originally v.

v- Stewards, now being absorbed his own prescription for victory: spectors under the direction ot baum, the former bar operator Hill, a tall, slow-speaking filed last December' and still into the ILWU. Republicans should fight for the Captain of Inspectors Cornelius man, furnished the committee JOHN W. MASS as preying on persons "who pending. This time, the extra The AFL men boarded the uniformed "progressive, dynamic program" Murphy, and fifty boost requested was $5,982,000 couldn't squawk." ship without incident early yes with the names of seventy-one men and women he Identified command of he will lav before Concress Jan- men under tne The original request was for Early Days Here as East Bay Communists. $44,000,000.

In March it was Capt Dan McKlem. Another fifty officers will be held in terday morning. Rival unionists stood around the.rpier gate throughout the uary. Unity of Peeling Here is how Elkington stated raised to $47,584,000. Roy Hudson, a cold-eyed and developed the prosecution old revolutionary who was Supervising Capt John En- Average Pet.

case: Eisenhower added, in a news day. The picket line appeared shortly after 4 p. m. a phantom figure of power in conference statement plainly in To add that sum, the com the background of American ler. in charge of the over all force -said the department would not permit any mass tended to squelch intraparty dis Suiptnded From Job San Francisco Examiner Photo.

Francisco Chinese, who refused to answer the committee's questions. Communist activities general-ly throughout the Bay area will be covered today, Jackson announced, "by one of our prlnci pal witnesses a friendly wit ness who is a former newspaper man." Mass, 42, Chicago-born, a pany pleaded for additional waterfront strikes for two sension, that he knew his senti- basic levies ranging from 4. ha ...4 entry to the City Hall, ind Five AFL sailors arrived a moment later in a car driven by Jerry Dimltratos, 30, of 3645 Sixteenth Street. Police Arrive cents a month for a farmers I tm tr u.ni,1i Vic nrovri ades, made a reluctant ap pearance before the commit tee. Though long since top' associates residential line to 50 cents for.

EMMETT E. KELLEY Cop Guilty in Tax Can San Francisco Ejfajnlne will be referred to-the police commission and the county grand jury. Kelley's conviction on four counts of evasion, covering the years from 1947 through 1950. both in the Senate and in the individual business service. The demonstration is tech pled by party in-fighting from House of Representatives." As now constituted, the Without leaving the car, they nically a stop-work meeting of the power he once had as "Because of this unity of rate schedule would mean accosted the pickets and asked San Francisco Longshore Local member of the American Pol feeling such a program will larger phone bills for all classes to read their placards close up.

He sketched in what were Tarantino'8 early days in San Francisco, with Tarantino and Eichenbaum bitter enemies." But Tarantino developed a respect for Eichenbaum who had been very proficient in shaking down bars" and Tarantino joined forces with Eichenbaum. Their weapons were Taran-tino's gossip magazine and a radio program he formerly had on KYA. (KYA dropped the program when a school teacher sued the station and Tarantino for slander. She was given a $50,000 judgment itburohis most recent job graduate of the University of 10 of the International Long shoremen's and Warehouse. be enacted," he declared.

(See of telephone service. The aver Pickets and other ILWU men was as a housepainter Hud came after two nours and ten Page 16 for text.) California, a member of the armed services during the war. swarmed around the car. Sev age rise would be 14 per cent. men's Union.

son steadily refused to an minutes of jury deliberation. Eisenhower was calm and The company already has Tha mpprinir nnwpvpr. was eral placards were snatched and swer committee questions. It has taught English and developmental reading at City College boosted rates approximately one torn up. completely assured as, wearing appr0ved at 'a membership a slate blue suit with vest and meeting attended by less than Federal officials said the case Involved one of the smallest amounts of tax evasion ever A police radio car arrived as since 1947.

He has a wife and child. a striped tie, ne stronea tnree 6oo of the local's 5,500 members the situation was becoming was the first time any committee had ever caught up with the elusive Hudson. Four belligerent witnesses more tense. minutes late into a conference an(j nai5 (he approval of only the prosecuted here. Weeps at Verdict third since the end of the war.

The State granted three successive raises in 1948, 1949 and 1951 that totalled an estimated But in yesterday's announce When he came nervously be Sgt. M. J. Marino and Patrol room a buzz witn speculation union's small left wing faction fore the committee, Attorney -1 chattel appeared before the com man Harry Franlacher directed Dimitratos to pull off to the When he heard the verdict, at the administration and Secre-bXtra Holiday against them.) Lawrence Speiser of the American Civil Liberties Union at his Kelley broke down and wept side. tary of State Dulles' still more As a result, non-working ment, the company asserted: Tarantino's magazine dropped His wife, Mary, tried to console Instead, Dimitratos sped from recent rejection of them.

longshoremen will speni the to a circulation of only 150 to him by putting her arms around side, he knew that he faced loss of his livelihood If he refused to answer questions. Seldom if ever since he Started day as an extra holiday, and 200 copies a week here, mostly the pier, him. Pickets told the police officers meeting with newsmen has the majority of the demonstrat being bought by people "to see The maximum penalty on Quiet-voiced and respectful, President. Eisenhower shown ors will be the unemployed from If they were attacked," said (Continued on Page 11, Col. 2) "In terms of equivalent dollars (same purchasing power as 1935-1939), the rates now proposed are still generally less than the prices of telephone service in prewar days." Proposed in San (Continued on Page 11, Col.

1) I each of the four counts is five years in prison and a $10,000 Elkington. more selt-possession, more ae- sucn lettwmg organizations is he replied to all early questions about his background and Strange Program Duke and Duchess (Continued on Page 16, Col. S) -KtLrtoe Cooks and stewards fine. Federal Judge Oliver J. Car mittee, and promptly sought refuge in the Fifth and other Amendments.

They included George Van Frederick and James Fenton Wood, both draftsmen who claim they were fired by the Bechtel Corporation after being served with committee subpoenas; Dr. Eugene Eagle, a San Francisco' optometrist, and Kenneth G. Austin, a longshoreman. AH four attempted harangues, which Acting Chairman Donald Jackson, a Marine combat veteran, effectively silenced. Two outbursts from spectators brought from jxeierring to tne radio pro Then Committee Counsel gram, Elkington said: Mr.C flrh Denies Local 6 Frank S.

Tavenner asked Visit London Spots LONDON, Dec. 2 (I S) ter permitted Kelley to remain (Continued on Page Of, Col. S) "Tarantino was one of the r-itv Administrator Thomas A. him if he had done any teach, ing since the autumn of 1947 'strangest radio commentators Winnie Ruth Judd pnnft ft I kA Brooks vesterdav rejected an on record. He paid for the privilege of commenting on NEW YORK.

Dec. 2. (AP) except his teaching at City College. Laborites Demand Vote on Africa Visited State Fair PHOENLX Dec. 2.

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor took a sentimental journey into the pre-abdication past in London last night and early today. Newsweek magazine quotes Sen. (Continued on Page 3, Lot, tne news. Has anyone ever "I refuse to answer tha R. McCarthy.

ReDUblican heard of that." question," replied Mass. "on (AP) Trunk murderess Winnie of Wisconsin, as saying he has A Prtrro Chief He pointed out that other We used to come here a lot. Ruth Judd, inmate at the Ari vr i ntAntmM nf rl 5C 1 1'Q Trt rH a commentators are either paid Jackson a warning that he the basis of the Fifth Amendment which provides no person sha'I be compelled to tes the Duke said when the couple candidate for President and the Talks on Defense oy sponsors or the radio station would clear the hearing he is not challensrine President zona State Hospital for the Insane, was permitted to attend the Arizona State Fair here last month, it was disclosed today. room of "those responsible" if tify against himself." (Continued on Page 6, Col. 1) Eisenhower's leadership.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. Z. visited the Winter Garden Theater. "It's Just like old times," he said, referring to the days seventeen years ago before he it'happened again. The die was cast.

Mass gav The magazine said it inter- (API Air Force Secretary Har- India and Soviet Dr. M. W. Conway, hospital Among the day's remaining witnesses were Eu viewed him in Wisconsin "after old E. Talbott said today Amer-his nationwide TV speech (No- ica is trying to win a war with-remher 241 had stirred both his out fighting by becoming so abdicated as King Edward VIII superintendent, said Mrs.

Judd LONDON, Dec. -British Laborites tonight challenged the government to a showdown vote in Parliament on its colonial policies in Africa. Expressing "grave disquiet at the handling by Hep Majesty's government of affairs In Africa," the Laborites centered their attack on the government's e-cent decision deposing and Mutesa II, king of the mineral-rich Buganda Province In the African colony of Uganda. Siqn Trade Pact the same answer when the same question was rephrased to cover the years 1948-49-50. But when asked if he had done any such outside teaching sine gene Toopeekoff, a Russian- to "marry the woman I love." was kept under close guard and born draftsman with the C.

G. Democratic opponents and those strong no one will-dare attack- After the theater the couple she went unrecognized. NEW DELHI Trivial TW i within his own party who saw us. Mrs. Judd said she had made -(AP)-India and the Soviet went 10 n'Snt C1UD Moore Engineering Company, who testified he "has not been it as an attack on President Talbott, in an address before wnere the Duke once was a some dolls and needlework for union today signed a five year October.

19. 1950, -he answered that he could recall none. a member of the Communist the Pennsylvania Society of Sons Eisenhower." display at the fair. She said she thrice-weekly visitor. trade agreement the first In of the Revolution, said he didn Party for the past five years," saw eighteen of the articles on dia has negotiated as an inde Yet Mass.

in disclosing he as a Communist from 1947 know, however, "how long we but refused to answer a point- display. pendent state with the Soviet will have to maintain that sit blank question whether he was to 1949, had written on the Union. 'Greatest Faith9 Sunday Pictorial Ilcview uation." ever a Communist; and Dan An Indian Government source back of his school loyalty oath statement that he had done Talbott said the United States Kew Mah, a heavy-voiced San said the pact "clears away any has built up a strong home de obstacles which have been block Overcast Skies Predicted For Bay Area This Afternoon fense with "fifty bases where de Ing economic relations between fense aircraft can be In the air TODAY'S INDEX' our two countries in the past." Tart three of Fulton Ours-ler's dramatic retelling of the New Testament story, "The Greatest Faith Ever Known," will appear In the Pictorial in three minutes." Thai Court Rules Bridge rage 29, Sec. I The pleasant pre-Holiday Red China Sends of your Sun- Ifprb Caen Pace S3 If streak of fair weather in the K. 11 iteview senior mq WaS Olain day Examiner, Review section Trade Missions comics rag 23, sec, 1 Bay area may be briefly interrupted this afternoon by light "The Greatest Faith Ever ville by this afternoon and possibly a little farther souh tonight.

There will also be snow In the higher mountains north of Yo-semite and the northern interior will be cooler. BANGKOK (Thailand), Dec. Crossword Page 31, Sec. I "The Greatest Faith Ever Known" Is the story of the founding of Christianity. It retells the story of the Book of Acts and gives the setting in which the Epistles of Paul, Peter and James were written.

And it tells the story of these three men and the magnificent work they did in spreading the teachings of Jesus. Read part three of this inspiring story, taken from the $3.95 Oursler book, brought to you in convenient magazine size In the Fictorial Review section of your Sunday HONG KONG, Dec. 2. (AP) 2 (AP) A Thai appeals court rain, the Weather Bureau said. Known" completes the retelling of the Bible story that The New China News Agency ruled today that King Ananda However, clear skies will re Mirror of Mind Pg.

34. Sec. II Newton rage 29, Sec. I Frudence Tcnny Pages 36-37, Sec. II Radio Page 29.

Sec. I Ships Page 49, Sec. II Sports 44-48, Sec. II Television 29, Sec. I Vital Statistics Page 31, Sec.

I Want Ads. Pages 49-53, Sec. Weather rage 49, See. Wilson Page 29, Sec. I Oursler began In "The Great reported from Peiping today MahidoL who died mysteriously turn again tomorrow morning Pages 40-41, Sec.

II Durling Page 33, Sec. II Editorial Page 31, Sec. II Events Page S3, Sec. that Communist China has sent in 1946, was Yesterday's rain extended est Story Ever Told" which dealt with the life of Jesus as seven trade missions to tre Soviet Union and its satellites to Financial. 42-43, Sec.

II court did not name the assassin. The four to one decision condemned to death two royal after a night of strong northwesterly winds before the rain comes to an end, the forecast added. Forecaster E. IL Quinn said that the rain will cover the only as far south as Fort Bragg. Eureka recorded .22 of an inch.

Temperatures today in the Bay area will approximate yes negotiate 1954 trade pacts. Good Neighbor Page 26, Sec. I found in the four Gospels; and carried forward in "The Greatest Book Ever Written" In addition to Moscow, the pages. Nai Chit Singhaseni and Health Today Page 34. Sec.

II Horoscope Page 34, Sec. II missions went to Poland, Czecho omen Department which retold the Old Testa Nai Busya Pattamastrind, who terday's high of 62 degrees at slovakia. East Germany. Ru Louella Parsons Pg. 41, Sec.

II Pages 24-27, Sec. I ment. were near the royal bedcham Civic Center here and in oaK- northern end of the State as far mania. Hungary ana Bulgaria. ber when the King was shot land.

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