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frl. Sat. 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1112 13 14 15 16 17 18 02 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Weather Forecast Southern California Clear Saturday and Sunday except patches of fog offshore and locally on immediate coast; little change In temperature. Yesterday's San Bernardino range: 9145. Central and Northern California Fair Saturday except local fog In morning; cloudy and slightly cooler Sunday.

or Sm BevimmoCoun. 5c copy 11.50 a month SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 19, 1949 VOL LVI, NO. 69 EIGHTEEN PAGES (CB United Press UP Associated Presa AIB MB fMl i i Wreckage State to Seek It's Veep and Mrs. Barkley Now Chief of Staff Acts After Six Young 'Hof-Rodr Driver Admits Slaying Girl Tells of Brutally Killing 7-Year-Old Child in Idaho Fatal Accidents WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 The Air Force ordered soma of its famed B-29 planes out of the air today for overhaul.

The big ships have figured in six crashes that killed 35 men and left 20 others missing during the last two weeks. The grounding order was hurried to all Air Force commands by Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, Air Force chief of staff. It grounded all B-29s which have not undergone engine "modernization" and Superfortresses which have been strained by Five Killed in Vice-President Alben W. Barkley proudly waves his hat as he emerges from church holding hands with his bride, -the former Mrs.

Carleton S. Hadley in St. Louis yesterday. The ceremony was performed in St. John's Methodist church.

Dr. Albea Godbold, the pastor, is between the couple in the background. (AP Wirephoto) HAPPY COUPLE ON HONEYMOON Barkley Weds in Simple Church Ceremony Death Penalty For Girl Killer Stroble Silent When Taken Into Court; Sane, Says Physician LOS ANGELES, Nov. 18 () The state moved swiftly today to send Fred Stroble confessed sex slayer who says "I don't; deserve to live" to California's gas chamber. "We will ask for the death penalty," said deputy District Attorney Adolph Alexander as Stroble was arraigned on a charge of murdering six-year-old Linda Joyce Glucoft.

The 66-year-old grandfather of Linda's favorite playmate was handcuffed as he pushed through an orderly corridor crowd into; municipal court. Sleeplessness gave him dark bags under the eyes. Frequently his tongue licked his thick lips. He looked at the floor. He was silent, even when Judge Leroy Dawson asked if he intend' ed to obtain a lawyer.

He simply stared. A deputy public defender! talked to him briefly, then told the court he did not plan to em ploy private counsel, at least not immediately. SET FOR MONDAY The public defender suggested a delay in the preliminary hearing, but Judge Dawson set it for Mon day. Presumably then will be bound over for trial in superior court, Alexander said the trial can begin early in December. A showing of premediation is necessary for conviction of first degree murder, carrying the death penalty, but Alexander said "Stroble's admission that he gre-viously mqlested this little girl insufficient evidence." The strangled, stabbed body of little Linda was found early Tues day beside an incinerator in the backyard at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. Ruben Hausman, son-in-law and daughter of Stroble. They are parents of Rochelle Hausman, Linda's six-year-old playmate. The house is across the street from the home of Linda's parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Jules Glucoft. Linda's body was entombed today after private rites conducted bv a rabbi. The casket was sealed Linda was clad in her favorite blue and red plaid dress, a red ribbon in her hair. IS NOT INSANE Dr. Marcus Crahan, district at torney's psychiatrist who exam ined Stroble, said "There is nothing insane about him." He said however, that Stroble apparently "really loved Linda, but the nor mal human restraint of inhibition was lacking his grip on his impulses had weakened with his age." Dr.

Crahan said that the actual killing impulse appeared to be Linda's crying out, resistance, and the fear that she would tell her parents. For Bill Miller, who made possible Stroble's capture, rewards mounted during the day. His boss, Sy Carter, said he'd pay for a two- week Palm Springs vacation for Mr. and Mrs. Miller.

The Los Angeles Examiner started a public fund with a $100 contribution. The American Legion auxiliary began collecting money for an insurance policy to assure the education of Miller's two small children. Liner Lurline Sails LOS ANGELES, Nov. 18 UP) The Matson liner Lurline sailed for Honolulu at 5 p.m. today on its first voyage since the start of the longshoremen's strike in Ha waii last summer.

MUCH DEPENDS ON plied: "We'll make it warm when we get there." Mrs. Hadley, who arrived a couple of minutes late to the church, spoke her lines in a low, firm voice but the "veep" got mixed up when he was on the "Till death do us part." He pulled himself together, however, and made it on the second try. The ceremony, scheduled for 11 a.m., got under way at 11:06, and was over in minutes. The bride wore a weddng suit designed especially for her by Hattie Carnegie. It was in Barkley -blue woolen, the jacket buttoning from a small round collar, nipped in at the waistline and curving at the hipline.

An ice-blue satin blouse, also by Carnegie, had a portrait neckline. Her hat was a chiffon felt cloche with a medium rippling brim in matching Barkley blue. Slung from her shoulder was a black velvet purse trimmed with rhinestones. She wore white doeskin gloves and black doeskin shell pumps. A fan-shaped $10,000 diamond pin, a gift'from "a close friend of the vice-president's," was also part of the ensemble.

Her flowers were a corsage of pink roses. May Have Been Spotted HAMILTON, Bermuda, Nov. 18 (pi A U. S. Air Force pilot today spotted what he said might be the wreckage of a B-29 supposed to have crash landed Wednesday with 20 men aboard.

No sign of life was seen. The wrecked plane was from March Air Force base, California. First Lt. Richard Mullin, of the 32nd bombardment squadron of the 301st bombardment group, said on his return tonight from a search mission he had sighted what might be debris 290 miles northeast of Bermuda this morning. Mullin, participating in an extensive search by air and sea for the missing plane, said he had picked up on his radio a group of call letters for the 22nd bombardment group, to which the B-29 belonged.

About two hours later, Mullin added, he saw floating debris and heard an SOS later, at intervals, he saw a red object, several yellow boxes, and what he believed was a piece of aluminum. The area where Mullin spotted the objects was about 40 miles southwest of the place where flares were reported last night. Uate today another search plane pilot reported he had spotted what he believed to be a yellow life raft in the area where the B-29 is supposed to have crash landed. Storm Stricken Guam Asks Aid Typhoon Shatters Over 350 Homes GUAM, Nov. 18 (IP) Governor Carlton Skinner today asked for federal aid to rebuild the more than 350 homes shattered by a raging typhoon.

Skinner estimated typhoon dam age at $1,600,000 not including military property and crop destruction. He said nearly 90 per cent of Guam's crops were destroyed by fierce winds of 90 to 110 knots. He said present disaster needs can be met by the local Red Cross and military organizations. Retail merchandise losses were estimated at $500,000. Of the homes which need rebuilding, 77 were completely destroyed and th remainder extensively damaged and rendered unfit for habitation.

A survey party was en route by boat to the southern towns of Umatac and Merizo, which have not been heard from since the storm. Communications and power were still out over most of the island Oldtimers said the typhoon was the worst on Guam since 1918, although there were no deaths and few injuries. The safety record was credited to accurate forecasting of the striking thne of the big winds. Continued Rise in Utility Rates Seen SANTA CRUZ, Nov. 18 (IP) Utility rates in California are likely to continue on the upward trend for some time, according to Harold P.

Huls, Palo Alto, a member of the state public utilities commission. Huls addressed the state convention of the California Municipal Utilities association here yes terday. The group also heard Edward Hyatt, engineer in the state divi sion of water resources, Sacramen to, who spoke on "the California water plan." SURGERY Mary Hope's left eye previously was made blind by the same retina ailment which blinded her mother. The operation on the right eye was made necessary when the satne trouble developed there. At least eight or nine days will be required to determine whether Mary Hqpe's sight will be saved.

Meanwhile, her head was sandbagged and bandaged to prevent dangerous movement on the hospital bed. Well-wishers throughout the na tion sent letters, clippings and bundles to Mary Hope, i it TWIN FALLS, Idaho, Nov. 18 (IP) Lanky Neil Butterfield, 16-year-old "hot-rod" driver tonight admitted he was the smooth faced youth who late Wednes day kidnaped, assaulted and killed 7-year-old Glenda Joyce Brisbois of Burley, Idaho. "I killed her because I wanted to see someone die," Butterfield told Cassia county Sheriff Saul Clark. 4 "I struck her with a bumper jack twice on the canal bank and she fell into the water and struggled, I waded in and struck her again," the poised youth told officers.

He appeared very calm during the questioning by six but puffed nervously on a cigarette. ENTICED INTO CAR Butterfields confession, announced by Clark, came just 50 hours after the blonde curly-haired little girl was enticed into a black sedan near the home of her truck driver father. Glenda Joyce's bruised body, her head brutally cut, was found at noon yesterday in a canal just south of Burley. A coroner said she was still alive when tossed across the canal in one foot of water, but drowned about six hours before a searchjngr party found her. Butterfield was first detained briefly vesterdav when it was found he had borrowed a black sedan from a Burley used car lot and had been driving it around Burley.

He was released and told to "stay around available," but carljteUkday fie loaded a' into his 15-year-old hot-rod type car and sped west, only to be ar rested when the souped up car had a flat tire at Hammett, about 100 miles to the west. lie was quickly transferred to Jerome and then to Twin Falls for questioning by more than a score of authorities, led by Clark. The former industrial school inmate insisted that he did not criminally assault the child. Shah of Iran Speak af State Banquet WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (IP) President Truman expressed hope tonight that the United States and Iran "can be of mutual help to each other." The president, in a toast to the shun of Iran at a state dinner, hoped the United States would be able "to do something that will make the right flank about which we talked today as strong as we hope the left flank and center will be." The president and Mrs.

Truman were honored guests at a lavish dinner given by the youthful shah. In an exchange of toasts, the shall praised Mr. Truman's quali- ues ui cunuor-anu courage wnicn iic said have made a deep im- i-iioiuu ainuii liic ijwijic uj. ilia homeland." In offering his toast, the shah said the people of his country hold the individual in high esteem. Plane Reaches Europe With 103 Passengers MARHAM, Nov.

18 P) A giant U. S. Air Force transport plane set down here tonight after a trans-Atlantic flight with 103 persons aboard, more than ever before have crossed the Atlantic in a single aircraft. The 81-ton, four-engined Globe-master, nicknamed "The Champ," flew here from Mobile, Ala. It averaged about 200 miles an hour for the ocean hop from Stephen-villc, Nfld.

The plane refueled ut; Stephen-1 villo, then-made the sea crossing without incident. Blast Rips Catholic Party Office in Rome r6mE, Nov. 18 (TP) Terrorists have blown up the regional headquarters of the Catholic Christian Democratic party police said today. The explosion last night ripped off the doors of the office and smashed windows in a building the street which houses the Society of Jesus. The blast followed by a few hours a demonstration in downtown Rome by neo-Fascist, who were dispersed by police.

rough going. The order did not specify the number of planes involved, nor did mention the recent accidents. The latest occurred today at Tampa, where a B-29 plunged into the mud of Tampa bay. killing five of a nine-man crew. The ship had taken off to search for another B-29 missing in the Atlantic with 20 aboard.

FATAL CRASH Only this past Thursday at mid night, 18 men lost their lives when two B-29s on a training flight collided near Stockton, California. (At Spokane, the base for the two planes involved in the collision, received the order by telephone late today to ground all B-29s there not meeting stern mechanical requirements. Col. Clifford Rees, commander, com mented: "We do not consider our B-29s in bad shape. The fact that two airplanes ran together has no reflection on the Senator Vandenberg ordered all speed possible in modernizing the grounded planes and in overhauling those which have undergone "maximum stress." The Air Force declined for security reasons to indicate the number of planes to be repaired.

Nor would it say how many have been lost in accidents since the war's end. There are ten B-29 groups of 30 planes each operated by the Air Force. The grounding order did not af fect planes helping in the search for the Superfortress missing in the Atlantic near Bermuda. HOW IT WORKS An Air Force spokesman said the order will work this way: All B-29s of the strategic air command and the 19th bomb group in the far east (the two constitute virtually all combat B-29s in use) are grounded at their home bases if they are not equipped with modernized engines. The second part of the order, grounding them if they have been subjected to heavy stress during flight, does not apply because all planes of the combat forces take off with heavy loads, fly at high altitudes at high speed or long distances and otherwise undergo hard use.

The grounding of planes which have undergone "maximum operating stress" thus appeared to apply only to the comparative few B-29s used for rescue search or weather patrol. SECRECY EXPLAINED The secrecy thrown about the number of planes actually ground ed by the order is based on the fact that any announcement would indicate immediately the extent of the temporary weakness in the striking edge of the nation's air weapon. The strategic air command con sisls of two presently operating groups of B-36 long range bomb' ers, 10 groups of B-29 medium bombers, three groups of B-50s, improved versions of the B-29. While the normal strength of each group is 30 planes, there are "spares" for each unit. MODERNIZE YOUR CAR Get Low-Pressure Tires Tubes Wheel? Longer Mileage, Easier Riding $599i Exchange and up No Down Payment Budget Terms Drive In and Leave Car While Shopping FIRESTONE STORE 211 Street Phone 5137 Passenger and Truck Wheel Headquarters BRIDGO BINGO Play ft A New Exciting, Entertaining Game Nltely From 7:30 P.M.

EL RANCHO BRIDGO Sierra Blvd. Foothill On Highway 66 Fontana NOW IS THE TIME! Have Your Car Tuned for Fall and Winter Driving See SHORTY BURROWS 1000 E. Bass Line at Tippecano B-29 Mishap Rescue Plane Falls In Tampa BayMud TAMPA, Nov. 18 UP A B-29 off to hunt for another B-29 missing in the Atlantic crashed into the mud of Tampa bay today and killed fiv of the nine-man crew. It was the sixth B-29 involved in five disasters in the past 15 days crashes which have taken 35 lives and left 20 missing.

The one which crashed today was just taking off from MacDill field to hunt the missing 20 who were aboard a plane which crash- landed Wednesday somewhere off Bermuda. The big plane was five minutes off the ground and barely 1,000 feet up when one motor developed trouble. Smoke poured out, then flames. The pilot turned to make it back to the long runway but failed by 500 feet. The ship was in its turn when-it fell.

It plunged into the muck of the bay 200 feet from shore, hitting on its nose and flipping over on one side. Four of the crew were thrown clear of the Fortress and suffered only minor hurts. Four were killed outright. The fifth died on the way to a hospital. Flames flared up from what little wreckage was left but the ebbed tide had left a sea of mud (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) Long Beach Oil Wells Damaged By Earthquake LONG BEACH, Nov.

18 (LP) A 12-second earthquake here did $2,000,000 worth of damage to oil wells, authorities said today. The shart quake late yesterday, felt by few residents, put between 35 and 50 producing wells on Terminal island out of operation, Robert R. Shoemaker, chief engineer for the port' of Long Beach, said. His $2,000,000 estimate Includes a production loss of 6,000 barrels a day and the cost of repairing wrecked casings and sheared-off pumping equipment. Repairs will take three to six months, he said.

No other damage from the quake has been reported. MAPLE MODERN FURNITURE at a Real Savings at RALPH'S FURNITURE DISPLAY 1153 Street Phone 5-7166 POTTERY Save Up to 50 on DINNER WARE ARTWARE Use Our Xmas Lay-Away Plan Too THE POTTERY WHEEL Highway 99 and South Open Evenings and Sundays 1 Pv ORNAMENTS and BUCKLES For Wi'stern Riders A Different Gift For Your Riding Friend Guy Gooding Saddlery 410 So. Street Why Not PHOTOGRAPHS for CHRISTMAS? SEE LARRY KELLEY 1152 Street Phone 3-1389 CADILLAC CARE FOR CADILLAC CARS GENUINE PARTS JOE LAZAR CADILLAC SALES 8KRVICF! 731 Street Phon 7813 O'Dwyer Denies Being Married Nor Is He Engaged, Says N. Y. Mayor SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.

Nov. 18 (IP) Mayor William O'Dwyer, still peeved at the "intrusion" of newsmen, said that he and pretty Miss Sloan Simpson are neither engaged nor married. O'Dwyer had planned to abandon his week-end holiday with the? ex-model, but bad weather delayed his return to New York Ctty. The 59-year-old mayor "fax Sloan Simpson, 33, took a walk for "some fresh air" after news reached the fashionable Gideon Putnam hotel here that the plane that was to return them to the city would be late. Wfyen the impulsive mayor found out that the plane 'would be delayed indefinitely, he, and Miss Simpson decided to stay overnight at the hotel.

Reporters, who had orders to tag O'Dwyer and Miss Simpson in the belief that they were planning matrimony, continued to keep a watchful eye on the couple. O'Dwyer had told newsmen earlier that he and the pert fashion stylist had no immediate plans of marriage. Furthermore, he said, the press was intruding. "Either you go or I will," he said. O'Dwyer called his New York office and ordered the police department plane which brought them to this famous spa, to return.

But the scheduled flight was postponed because of bad weather. Drop in Fines May Slow L. A. Traffic Safety Plan LOS ANGELES, Nov. 18 (IP) Traffic-fine collections in Los Angeles during the past four and a half months are $320,000 less than for the same period last year, and City Councilman John C.

Holland said today this may cause the city's traffic-safety program to slow down. Holland, commenting on re marks that the traffic-signal in stallation program was inadequate, commented that $4,000,000 estimated revenue from fines already has been budgeted for signals and traffic engineering, but that there will be a deficit if the lap in income continues. IHE SUN'S Features Index Stirred by the recent wave of sex crimes against children, includ ing the brutal sex slayings in Los Angeles and Idaho, San Bernar dino city and county law enforcement agencies yesterday invoked a little known state penal code provision requiring known sex of fenders to register with the police chief or sheriff in a determined effort to stamp out such crimes. See Page 9. On Other Pages AMUSEMENTS.

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LOUIS, Nov. 18 (LP) Vice-President Alben W. Barkley and Mrs. Carleton S. Hadley were married today and set out almost at once for the "Shangri La" that Barkley named as their honeymoon destination.

The nation's favorite lovebirds proved themselves only human whenlraLnorniis- takes marked their carefully planned nuptials. The bride was late to the church and the "Veep" stumbled over his lines. Barkley, 71, trim in a blue, pin-stripe suit, and the pretty, 38-year-old widow were wed in a brief single-ring ceremony at Singleton chapel in St. John's Methodist church. Their marriage climaxed a whirlwind romance that began at a Washington party last spring.

Only members of the immediate families, the vice-president's civilian aide, newspaper and radio men and secret service operatives attended the single-ring service. Dr. Ivan Lee Holt, Methodist bishop of Missouri, officiated. Before leaving Barkley was asked if it would be cold in his Shangri La. The "veep" gave his broadest grin of the day and re Football Pool Fraud Charged Postal Employe, Two Others Accused a postal employe ana two otners were accused today of attempting to win prizes in a football pool by running unsealed envelopes through a letter-canceling machine.

Charged with fraudulent use of the mails are Leonard Weisman, 28, postoffice clerk; Clifford W. Stewart, 28, former mail carrier, and Armand Frascatore, 31, law student at the University of California at Los Angeles. Asst. U. S.

Atty, Ray Kinnison said Weisman and Stewart inserted results of football games in the previously canceled envelopes after the games had been played, and then sent the envelopes to the newspaper which conducted the contest. Frascatore, he said, sent the results in an envelope he previously had mailed to himself. The amount of money allegedly obtained by the three men was not disclosed. 'Spank and Kiss Aged Husband Advises Veep ST. LOUIS, Nov.

18 (JPI A 75-year-old bridegroom has offered the 71 year old Vice President Barkley advice on "how to make a go" of his marriage. Andrew McAffrey of Miami, who six months ago married a woman 35 years younger than himself, advised: "Be kind to her, but if she needs it, give her a whipping every morning and a kiss every night," Mental Hygiene Clinic Planned State Project at Riverside Proposed SACRAMENTO, Nov. 18 (IP) The state department of mental hygiene proposed to set up a new mental hygiene clinic in Riverside some time after next July 1. The proposal was made in a $38,000,000 budget request the department submitted to the state finance department. "There is need for an additional mental hygiene clinic in the region east of Los Angeles," the formal budget request stated.

"This is in order to take care of patients in that area who are clamoring for help. It is proposed to establish this clinic in Riverside. It will have two psychiatrists, one senior clinical psychologist, three senior psychiatric social workers, a senior stenographer clerk and an intermediate stenographer clerk." The department already is operating similar clinics in Los Angeles, Sacramento and Fresno. It asked for money add the Riverside clinic, one at Marysville and a second one at Los Angeles to deal with mental defectives. Writer John Erskine In Critical Condition NEW YORK, Nov.

18 UP) John Erskihe, 70-year-old novelist and lecturer, was reported critically ill at Beekman Downtown hospital. His wife, Mrs. Helen Erskine quoted physicians as saying her husband was suffering from a severe attack of high blood pressure. Operation May Save Sight Of Family's One Good Eye PORTLAND, Nov. 18 (IP) Surgeons were cautiously con fident tonight that a delicate operation will save the sight of the one good eye remaining in the family of Lee Hodgdon.

The operation was performed on 12-year-old Mary Hope Hodgdon. Her mother was blinded at the age of five and her father lost his sight in a logging camp accident. "The operation went well and the thing we were concerned about was bleeding," said a surgeon, who remained anonymous for ethical reasons. "There was no bleeding and we are reasonably sure it was a success.".