The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California • Page 1

1946 SEPTEMBER 1945 Sua. Mm. Tun. Wed. Than.

Frl. 8t 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 IS 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 2S 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Weather Forecast Southern California: Partly cloudy over surrounding mountains and Interior sections Saturday and Sunday; low clouds or fog along coast Saturday night or Sunday morning. Slightly cooler along coast Saturday and generally cooler west portion Sunday. San Bernardino range yesterday: 107 60. Northern and Central California Variable high cloudiness Saturday, Increasing' Sunday with threat of show-era.

oMwjpaper for San BevmrmoCoun Entered at Fostotflca, San Bernardino, California, as Second Class. Matter FIFTY-THIRD YEAR SIXTEEN PAGES (AP) Associated Press (UP) United Press 60 a copy S1.2S a month SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1946 isinn IMIivls WERE SLAV roWEBS nfn IU1 A1q)Iq) (Pf hi O.P.A. ANNOUNCES TWO-CENT Survey Shows Crime Among U.S. Juveniles Strike Continues As A. Honors I.

Picket Line (By Associated Frees) Delegates Ouit United Nations Peace Meetings Australian Hits at 'Dictatorial' Use Of Veto Power Critics Assert Wallace Speech Blow at Byrnes State Department Flatly Disclaims Any Responsibility BOOST IN PRICE OF SUGAR Ford Automobiles Will Cost More Next Week; General Motors Seeking Increase WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (AP) A two-cent boost In retail sugar prices was announced today by O.P.A., which estimated that it might add $200,000,000 to the cost of living during the next year. Increases were granted at all levels of distribution from producers to retailers and on both beet and cane sugars, efreo The most complete maritime stoppage in American history, now In Its eighth day, was no closer to solution last night (Friday) as A.F.L. seamen who had called a halt to their strike earlier in the day made plain they would not cross picket lines tive next Wednesday, Sept. 18.

Baby Boy, Sole Crash Survivor, Arrives Home NEW YORK, Sept. 13 (P Two-year-old Peter Link, sole survivor of a plane crash Sept. 5, at Elko, came home today a home without his father, or mother or his infant sister, all of whom died in the crash. The boy was accompanied by his uncle, John Briscoe; his grandfather, Adam Ling of Oakland, California, and the Rev. Brendan Lynch, a friend of his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Paul Link. He will live with his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Ellen Briscoe, in Brooklyn. Must Have Been Unlucky Day in Judge's Court LOS ANGELES, Sept.

13 (P It was merely coincidence that Judge Ben J. Scheinman (13 letters in his name) looked at his calendar on Friday the 13th, and found 13 cases scheduled. His courtroom is department 13 on the 13th floor of city hall. His court reporter, Shirley O'Brien, has 13 letters in her name. So has his bailiff, Leonard Stites.

The judge granted a default divorce decree to Betty Hege-mier (13 letters) when she ap peared with her attorney, Christy Nelson (13 letters) to divorce Alvin Hcgemier (13 letters) after 13 weeks of marriage. Next, Lupe Guttierez (13 letters) divorced Ramon Guttierez who, she said, was born on Friday, Sept. 13, 1889. Her attorney was Walter E. Barry fooled you! (Only 12 letters.) Tomato Pack of State Periled Strike Halts Trucks Which Haul Produce OAKLAND, Sept.

13 UP) Spokesmen for the California farm bureau and canneries expressed fear today for the stale's multi- million dollar tomato pack as the result of a four-day-old strike by A.F.L. truck drivers against the agricultural department of the Truck owners' association of California. Tom Meyers, chairman of the truck owners' negotiating committee, estimated from 1,800 to 2,000 trucks hauling produce to the canneries were idle and he said the rich agricultural-cannery area affected included Alameda, Santa Clara, San Joaquin, Sacramento, Sutter and Yuba counties. Meyers said there had been no progress toward settling the is sues involved. The truck owners and teamster's union agreed on an 18', a cent an hour wage boost but remained apart on the union de mand the boost be retroactive to May 1.

The employers offered to make Sept. 1 the retroactive dale, In Sacramento, Governor Warren expressed hope for a quick end of the strike, saying failure to process the crops "would not only affect Californians but people all over the world. Civic Figure Dies SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13 () Peter Maloncy, 55, founder of the "South of Market Boys," and for a quarter-century one of the most colorful and best known fig-ares in San Francisco's civic and political life, died unexpectedly last night. Nation's Three Top Problems Meat Shortages, Housing Scarcity, Strikes Are Listed (By Associated Meat shortages, a housing scarcity and strikes.

These three conditions, a nationwide survey showed today, are major sore spots for persons seek ing escape from war-imposed hardships more than a year after V-J day. The survey also showed the family larder low on sugar, soaps, fats and oils in most cities. The meat shortage affected vir tually every community from coast to coast as receipts at the principal livestock centers conlin ued to supply only a fraction of demand. CONDITIONS DESCRIBED Housing conditions were de scribed variously as "critical," or "desperate" or "never worse" in representative cities samples. btriKe conditions were more spotty and greatly improved over last winter and spring although thousands still were off the job in scores of separate labor disputes.

Spokesmen for the motorcar industry blamed strikes in supplier plants for cutting automobile output far below advance schedules. Although total livestock receipts at Chicago rose from 23,300 last week to 31,800 this week, the shipments still were far below normal and supplied only a small percentage of demand. RECEIPTS DWINDLE Twenty of the biggest yards have received only a total of meat animals in the first 11 days of price controls compared with 1,193,000 animals received the first days in June when price ceilings still were in effect. The current meat shortage was attributed to heavy marketings of livestock during the O.P.A.-less days in July and August when nearly all suitable meat animals, many of which normally would have been held back for additional fattening, were shipped to market. Two Big Auto Firms Drop Their Plan to Build Light Cars DETROIT, Sept.

13 UP) Plans for the manufacture of a new light weight, lower priced passenger automobile have been cancelled by the Ford Motor Co. and halted indefinitely by General Motors Corp. The two members of the auto mobile inau.strys big three were understood to have planned an ex- penditure in excess of $50,000,000 each in development of new facilities for the manufacture and sale of the new cars designed to sell at substantially lower prices than current low priced units. General Motors attributed its decision to uncertainties regarding basic materials; Ford said merely that its light car division had been discontinued about 30 days ago and gave no explanation. Truce Proposed for Presidential Aspirants WASHINGTON, Sept.

13 Senator Robert Taft of Ohio proposed today a temporary truce among G.O.P. presidential aspirants so all can concentrate on electing a Republican congress in November. Taft told reporters who gathered in his office that he believes all potential presidential nominees ought to abandon their own campaigns until after the November election. His observation, obviously aimed at former Governor Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota, spurred fresh speculation that Taft himself may try for top billing on the 1948 Republican ticket.

Takes Decline WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (IP) Juvenile crime is decreasing, F.B.I. Director J. Edgar Hoover announced tonight. The decline "reflects a trend away from the period of wartime abandon to more normal living conditions," he said.

But the war years' teen-agers have not abandoned crime, and statistics for the first half of 1946 showed that more 21-year-olders were arrested than in any other group. Of this, Hoover said: "In the past six months more persons aged 21 were arrested than in any age group, as against the wartime experience of the 17-year-olds leading in arrests. "The juvenile delinquents of the war years have graduated from stealing bicycle tires to stealing automobiles, from petty larceny to bank robbery, and from vandalism to murder." Of the 309,302 arrests reported by the nation's law enforcement agencies and compiled by the F.B.t. in its semi-annual bulletin of uniform crime reports, 6.5 per cent were under 18, as against 9.1 per cent for the year of 1945. Las Vegas Hotel Figures in Suit $1,455,000 Demanded For Loss of Control LOS ANGELES, Sept.

13 CD Suit demanding $1,455,000 for malicious prosecution was filed today by Joseph R. and Walter Guzzar-di, alleging that Wilbur Clark ent ered into a conspiracy with George E. Marshall, former Las Vegas, district judge, to deprive them of control of the fashionable El Rancho Vegas hotel in the Nevada city. The complaint alleges that the Guzzardis bought 90 per cent of the hotel's stock from Clark, and that later he sued them, as a minority stockholder, asking that a receiver be appointed and the Guzzardis removed as directors. On the day the suit was filed, the receiver was appointed, the suft charges.

The complaint alleges the then. judge was a close friend of Clark, and was "forgiven all his losses" at the latter's gambling casino, although he was paid his winnings. The suit contains no inputation, however, that Marshall was influenced by financial considerations in appointing the receiver, and he is not named as a defendant. With appointment of a receiver, the complaint sets forth, a trust deed and mortgage totaling automatically became due. Unable to pay it, the Guzzardis were forced to sell their interest for $5,000 to Joseph Drown, a former owner of the hotel, the complaint says.

Clark was described as "an influential Clark county (Las Vegas) businessman." G. E. Kinsey, described as a Southern Californ-ian, was named co-defendant with Clark. Hurricane Winds Reported Lashing Bermuda Waters MfAMI, Sept. 13 UP)- Winds up to 100 miles an hour lashed the shipping lanes around the mainland and Bermuda tonight, but no part of the tropical hurricane was slated to reach any land areas, the weather bureau said- The hurricane was moving in a northerly direction at between 20 and 25 miles per hour, and was due to pass about 400 miles west of Bermuda tonight.

The federal storm warning service said that the swiftly developing hurricane was "very se vere" and cautioned all interests in its path, but said that if it con tinues in its present path, it would touch no land. Four Killed in Jaffa Shooting Armed Gang Attempts Robbery of Bank JAFFA, Palestine. Sept. 13. UP) -Four persons, including three Arabs, were killed today when an armed gang, allegedly Jews, vain ly attempted to rob a Jaffa A similar gang stole 56,000 in a simultaneous raid on a bank in Tel Aviv.

At least three persons were wounded and 12 arrested in Jaffa. Police said they believed the raiders belonged to the Stern gang, a Jewish underground group. Arabs appeared aroused over the killings, and one Arab government official warned that "there's every possibility that tonight will be a night of bloodshed." As he spoke nearly 3,000 members of the Arab army "Najdada" assembled in a field south of Jaffa to participate in a parade commemorating the Moslem-Arab Jaffa and all-Jewish Tel Aviv, were put under partial curfew and strict measures were planned. Two Arab civilians and an Arab policeman were shot down by the fleeing gangsters in Jaffa. One attacker was killed and another was wounded seriously by an Arab who stabbed him in the back while I ho man was firing a machinegun toward a police station.

The raids were staged on the Ottoman branch bank at Jaffa and the Ottoman bank at Tel Aviv. Three Killed in LA. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13 UP) Three persons, including Eleanor Colima, 22, daughter of Bert Co-lima, prominent pugilist of two decades ago, were killed early to day in an automobile crash. PARIS, Sept.

13 (AP) Bitter clashes between the western and Slav powers flared at the European peace conference to day with Slav delegates walking out of one commission meeting, and a Briton leaving another after expressing "despair." In both tempestuous sessions, the Slav nations battled for special privileges for hearings for two nations Bulgaria and Albania which had been at war with Greece. In still a third meeting, Australian Delegate Col. W. R. Hodgs-son declared the united nations se curity council had fallen "into disrepute" through arbitrary, irresponsible and dictatorial" use of the veto power.

PRIME DEVELOPMENTS These were the prima developments: 1. In the Bulgarian political and territorial commission, Chairman Kohousma Kisselev of White Russia ruled that defeated Bulgaria's territorial claims on Greece had the state status as a conference member nation's motion. Over strenuous objection, he also ruled that counter-demands by Greece were out of order because they were made too late. Jefferson Caffery, U. S.

ambassador to Paris, demanded a vote on a British motion to consider the Greek claims. Kisselev ordered the meeting adjourned. Then the delegates of the five Slav nations walked out, but the meeting was resumed briefly under a New Zealand chairman. A declaration was read that Kisselev had acted arbitrarily. 2.

British Delegate A. V. Alexander walked out of a meeting of the military commission shortly before it voted 15 to 4 to invite Albania to voice her comments on Greece, without restriction. He was supported only by the United States, France and Greece. Unlimited presentation of views heretofore has been allowed only to conference member nations.

ALEXANDER ARGUES Alexander argued that Albania should have only half an hour to speak, and said the commission already had spurned several Yugoslav amendments that matched Albanian proposals on military clauses for the Italian treaty. I despair of leading this com mission in the path of common sense," Alexander declared just before leaving. Ha went to see (Continued on Page 2, Column 5) Effort to End Lumber Strike Unsuccessful SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13 UP A four-hour meeting today in an effort to settle the eight-month-old redwood lumber strike of Humboldt and Mendocino county workers ended in a deadlock. Representatives of the nine mills, which supply 95 per cent of the nation's redwood lumber, met with representatives of the A.F.L.

lumber and sawmill workers union in the office of the U.S. conciliation service here. Three Persons Die in Texas Plane Mishaps LUBBOCK, Texas, Sept. 13 Three persons were killed in the Lubbock vicinity today in two plane crashes apparently caused by a heavy fog. Two other planes, part of a ferrying group of five civilian planes, are missing.

Killed were C. D. Doggett, about 45, Lubbock department store owner, and his wife, and W. N. Bowden, of Bell, California.

Pilots of the missing airplanes are Robert Herron, 22, and Miss Jean McCart, 22, both of Los Angeles, California. FOR SALE Furnished 3 Bedroom Stucco $8300 See Your Broker or the Owner 312 East Sixteenth WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (AP) The state department flatly disclaimed any responsi bility today for Secretary Wal lace's foreign policy speech, and implied that President Truman's approval of the speech had thrown the government's poll cies toward Kussia into some confusion. While Republicans and some Democrats assailed Wallace's pro posals as a blow to Secretary of State Byrnes at Paris, Undersec retary of State Clayton told a news conference here that it was not quite clear to him just what President Truman intended by his approval. He said he would have to leave any clarification up to Mr.

Truman himself. Clayton spoke as the directing head of the state department. He implied in response to questions that Wallace's call for recognition of Russian and American spheres of influence is in direct contradiction to Byrnes' announced opposition to such spheres. DAY OF CONTROVERSY These developments highlighted a day of mounting controversy over the Wallace address delivered at a political meeting in New York last night. Two points appear to be becom ing increasingly clear: president iruman nas on nis "anas a lul1 Slze spl 11 over f0Ieign policy between his secretary of commerce and his secretary of state and is in the position of having given both strong support.

2. Top officials do not actual ly expect any changes in American policy Russia along the lines advocated by Wallace, but only some further pronouncement by Mr. Truman can completely clarify the situation Clayton himself told reporters that the Wallace speech had not been cleared with him nor so far as he knew anyone in the state department. Beyond that, he said that opposition to spheres of influence is in his opinion still American policy and that he has received no new instructions indicat ing any foreign policy alterations. CLAYTON NOT CLEAR But when a questioner suggested that President Truman makes for eign policy and his endorsement of Wallace's speech may rule out earlier statements even by Secretary Byrnes when and if they are in conflict with Wallace, Clayton said he was not clear on what the President intended and would have to leave the clarification up to Mr.

Truman. Senator Taft, Ohio Republican aeciarea in a statement that in supporting Wallace the president "has betrayed his secretary of State" and Rrepresentative Cox, Georgia Democrat, in a telegram to Mr. Truman declared that his approval "cuts the ground from beneath Secretary Byrnes and frightens America." claims and begun to work their "diggings," in the easily-accessible but hard-to-work brush and hill country at the headwaters of Myrtle creek. Ernest Hay, Del Norte county assayer, said test runs of the prospector's claim showed there were some 20,000 acres of gold-bearing copper pyrites in the area. The strike was made, according to Hay, by Tom Cronin, a pros pector who for several years has wandered the tributaries of the Smith river panning the creek beds.

My rile creek is such a tributary. Cronin and other prospectors have made living expenses for years from small takes of dust and nuggets from the area. In San Francisco, Alfred L. Ransome, supervising engineer of the economics division of the U. S.

bureau of mines, cautioned against "ovcrexcitemcnt" about Cronin's gold claim. of C.I.O. seamen. The nationwide port tieup threatened to continue when Paul Hall, New York port agent for the A.F.L. Seafarers International union and the Seafarers Union of the Pacific, told 3,000 S.I.U.-S.U.

P. members meeting in New York that the A.F.L. groups would respect the picket lines of the National Maritime union, which struck yesterday. A.F.L. maritime leaders in Baltimore said late last night that members of their unions expected today to cross picket lines set up along the waterfront by striking C.I.O.

seamen. Meantime, Joseph Curran, N.M. U. president, after conferring with Frank J. Taylor, head of the American Merchant Marine institute, said the 90,000 C.I.O.

seamen intended to "tie up every ship in all ports" by placing pickets at both N.M.U. and AF.L. manned vessels. DECLARES WARFARE As a strike of 90,000 C.I.O. National Martime union workers became effective on both coasts, A.

F.L. President William Green declared verbal warfare on the government's wage-price stabilization setup which the White House had by-passed to grant increases to A. F. L. maritime workers.

C. I. O. leaders led their men out on strike less than 24 hours! after a ruling by economic stabilizer John R. Steelman gave A.

F. L. seamen in the able-bodied class $5 to $10 a month more than the wage stabilization board would approve. C. I.

O. seamen, demanding wage parity with A.F.L. workers, watched the outcome of a maritime commission meeting in Washington and learned later the meeting was "purely informative" and no action had been taken. REACH AGREEMENT East ship operators and AF.L. seamen meanwhile reached an agreement under which the A.

F. L. seamen are to end their strike, an operators' spokesman announced in New York. To return to work, however, A. F.

L. members still would have to cross C. I. O. picket lines.

The spokesman, Leslie A. Parks, director of the Atlantic and Gulf Ship operators, announced that the signers were the Alcoa Sleam- (Continued on Page 2, Column 5) Heart Attack Takes Tobacco Magnate, Advertising Genius MATAPKDIA, Sept. 13 (IP) George Washington Hill, president of the American Tobacco Co. which popularized Lucky Strike cigarettes and advertised contro versial slogans across the land, died of a heart attack today at his private fishing camp four miles from here. He was 61.

The famed genius of modern ad vertising had arrived at his camp only two days ago after spending most of the summer in a hospital at Camphellton, N.B. Present at his bedside when he was stricken were his wife and daughter, who accompanied the body today by special ambulance for St. Leonard, N.R., from whence it will be sent to New York for burial. State Leads Nation in Growing 14 Vital Crops LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13 IIP) California in 1944 led the nation in growing 14 of its 23 most important crops, the Los Angeles chamber of commerce reported today.

The slate produced 46 per cent of the nation's commercial fruit crops and 16 per cent of the But O.P.A. warned, grocers, wholesalers and distributors that they cannot hold present sugar supplies until the price goes up and take "windfall profits." The price agency said stocks will be checked the night before its price boost and all this sugar must be sold before the higher prices become effective. On another front, O.P.A. said that prices of Ford automobiles will be increased next week, with out revealing the amounts or models affected. The Ford com pany has been seeking "hardship relief" on its price list for several months.

G.M.C. FILES REQUEST At the same time O.P.A. disclosed that General Motors Corp. has filed a formal request for increases on its entire list of models. The sugar increases through wholesaler and retailer channels will cause the boost in refined sugar prices of about two cents a pound.

I Retail prices on sugar, the only major food item still rationed, have averaged from seven to eight cents at retail recently, an O.P.A. spokesman said. -There have been numerous complaints of shortages in retail supplies but O.P.A. said it could not attribute these to the expected price boOst. There was a difference of opinion as to the impact upon household budgets.

O.P.A. said one cent a pound increase would cost consumers $100,000,000 a year while an agriculture department spokesman said the boost would be nearer $80,000,000 for each cent increase. All of the increases today were attributed to an agreement between the United States and Cuba for purchase of the Cuban sugar crops of 1916 and 1947. Cuba nor mally supplies about one third of this nation's needs. PRICE INCREASES unner tne Cuban raw sugar agreement, the price paid by the United States increases if the cost of living or food index rises in any three-month period.

O.P.A. said the retail food price index climbed more than two per cent in the second quarter of this year and a "much greater increase" will appear in the July-September quarter. The sugar price increases allowed today are expected to cover both quarters and possibly the final quarter of 1946. Trucking Labor Parley Set in L.A. Sept.

16 LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13 rtP) Dave Beck of Seattle, western chieftain of the A.F.L. Teamsters' union, will meet with officials of large trucking interests here Sept. 16-17, it was announced today. Beck, head of the teamsters in 11 western states, was expected to discuss wage scales with operators of trucking concerns.

His Portland and Seattle unions are said to have higher wage scales than his union's agreement with Southern California's large concerns. flats would easily accommodate the most desperate cases." Their letter will have to be sent to Balmoral castle in Scotland, for the king is vacationing there with the royal family. Communist Leader Harry Pollitt denounced the king in a speech last night for not letting "people use Buckingham palace, Windsor Castle or Balmoral castle" to ease the housing shortage. A heavy rain this morning reduced squatter-sympathizer crowds around invaded buildings to mere handfuls. The police guard was reduced to six to a block of flats, and the bobbies stood under the eaves with the water dripping from their capes.

GOLD RUSH STARTED BY FIND OF PROSPECTOR SQUATTER NEIGHBORS SEND LETTER TO KING CRESCENT CITY, Sept. 13 HP) A veleran prospector's discovery of gold assaying $50 to $75 per ton has started a gold rush in the Myrtle creek area not far from this town at the northwestern tip of California, assayers reported today. Some 500 tenderfoot prospectors and old time miners in this country where a daily existence can be eked out of nearly any stream with a pan and some patience have taken claim applications from the local printing office and county recorders office. And approximately 300 persons already have gone to the scene of the discovery on federal government land between Rattlesnake ridge and Low divide, an area draining the rugged Cascade moulnins near the Oregon border 5 miles northeast of here. First reports said between 55 and 70 already have filed formal LONDON, Sept.

13 (IP) King George's nearest squatter neigh-bora today sent him an offer to vacate the plush fountain court apartments if Westminster city council would seize less pretentious quarters for them. A registered letter, signed by a 10-man squatter committee was sent to Buckingham palace, less than half a mile away. It said: "We, the squatters, will vacate the flats if the council will put us into other accommodation which is available. There are 410 empty flats and houses in Westminster and other empty blocks of buildings. There are 2,000 people on the housing waiting list.

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