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293 SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1949 Sunday and Dally Excepting Saturday FOURTEEN PAGES In Tragedy's Wake The King Is Uncrowned Pro Football Leagues Agree To Merger Philadelphia, Dec. 9 The national football league and the All-America conference merged today to end a four-year football war. Announcement of the merger was made at a press conference summoned by Bert Bell, commis Resigns His Seat In House, But His Wife Will Become Candidate Washington, Dec. 9 (UP) J. Parnell Thomas, his congressional rank gone, was sentenced today to six to 18 months and fined $10,000 for payroll and salary kickback frauds against the government.

As the 54-year-old New Jersey Republican was led away by a U. S. marshal, his attractive wife, Amelia S. Thomas, said she would seek his office. Thomas spared himself the extra indignity of being drummed out of congress just before he heard Federal Judge Alexander Holtzoff's sentence by announcing his resignation.

Thus Thomas gave up his $15,000 a year post to which he had been elected for seven successive terms by voters in his x.f. i i 'X--. vv fzs, 1 Ji "-v' I N. J. AirkW' if 1 T-t- i-riH -v- hacksaw to get the youngster out which he tried to wear as a crown but which slipped over his head (left) and wouldn't come off.

Firemen quickly got to the seat of the trouble. They used a Mining Journal Publisher Gives Review Of Mining Problems In Report Before Service Clubs of his predicament, at Hollywood receiving hospital. (AP wire-photo) The speaker was of the opinion that congress and Truman will tangle next month on the matter of meeting the present budget deficit of $5 billion with new taxes, with congress winning. The crisis will be met, he said, with the adminis tration agreeing to adjust the price of gold to a figure between $50 and $60 per ounce that will show the government a profit of $10 to $12 billion. The administration can then draw attention of the voters that they met the situation without a tax raise.

This' will put Western gold mining back on its feet and the industry will become the leading provider of new employment. Even with a raise in the price of gold stymied at this time" California gold mines are reopening. Sierra county now has 29 operating gold mines. Mariposa has more than a dozen. The Natomas company is operating seven bucketline dredges in Sacramento county, while Yuba Consolidated has gold degrees operating in Yuba, Butte, and Siskiyou counties and in Nevada state.

Central Eureka is now making a profit in Amador county and the Empire Star in Grass Valley, at a 30-degree incline depth of over 11,000 feet, is producing. The Idaho Maryland, also Grass Valley, is milling 600 tons of ore per day, employing 300 men. The Empire Star has been in constant operation for 98 years and in the past year has made discoveries of new rich ore bodies. El Dorado county is leading in rich strikes in the past few months. The Alhambra at Kel-sey, which produced two million dollars in the late '30's is back in the limelight with a strike that will run over $100,000.

This is in addition to the regular run of mill ore. The Grit mine, in the same is also mining a rich strike. Also in El Dorado the Volo Mining Co. has made a success of treating low-grade deposits, handling 400 tons of $2 ore per day. These and many other California gold operators are firm believers that eventually congress will either pass the free market bill or adjust the price of gold.

sioner ot the national tootDall league and J. Arthur Friedlund, representing the AAC. The new league is to be known as the National-American football league. It is to be operated in two divsions the National and the American. Thirteen teams will comprise the new league.

This includes all ten NFL teams and the Baltimore Colts, Cleveland Browns, and San Francisco Ferty-Niners of the AAC. Emil R. Fischer of the Green Bay Packers will be president of the national division and Daniel Sherby of the Cleveland Browns of the American division. Bell will remain as commissioner of the combined league. The only team to lose its identity completely in the merger is the Chicago Hornets of the old AAC.

The Buffalo Bills are merging with vicvcidiiUt Willi 1 1 1 lit: vv viuvj have its home in the Ohio city. The Los Angeles Rams of the national and the Los Angeles Dons of the AAC will consolidate their interests. The entire new setup will take effect next season, Bell said. Capitola Woman Pleads Innocence To Dog Poisoning Amy Stull, 73-year-old Capitola woman, whose address was given as 49th avenue and Third street, appeared before Judge Samuel Bright of Capitola police court this noon on charges of wilfully poisoning animals. She pleaded not guilty to the charge and time of trial was set for December 14 at 2 p.

m. She was released on $2000 property bond. She was arrested yesterday by Police Chief Robert Mondelle of Capitola, who said that the woman had been under surveillance, by his department for some time. Sheriff's deputies said that she was alleged to have been noted for long walks which took her into the Pleasure Point and Opal Cliffs areas. Ex-Watsonville Woman Said Murder Victim San Francisco, Dec.

9 U.R) Homicide inspectors today sought an unidentified man who posed as a priest to make an appointment with Margaret Mary Tarpy, 84, the day before she was murdered and robbed. A coroner's jury decided yesterday that the eccentric spinster died "at the hands of party or parties unknown" on December 1. One of the witnesses at the inquest gave the police their only lead the telephone call from an annarentlv bogus priest. Mrs. Robert S.

Ford, the last person known to have seen Miss Tarpy alive, told police that a man, representing himself as a priest, telephoned the spinster on November 30 Mrs. Ford had called on 3Iiss Tarpy to pay her $60 in connection with a land purchase. She said the caller arranged to visit the elderly spinster. Miss Tarnv was a memhpr of a well-to-do pioneer Watsonville fam ily. Her lather came to California in 1855 and was lynched after he accidentally shot and killed the wife of another rancher.

Homicide Inspector Tom Cahill told the jury that Miss Tarpy idolized her father and often exnrps- sed the desire to die violently as he did. Cahill also said that a suitcase, which the spinster kept under her bed, had been pried open. There was a good possibility it contained thousands of dollars in cash. In the last year, according to Cahill, she had given away $9000. Miss Tarpy was found slumned in an arm chair in her kitchpn.

Her wrists were loosely bound with aanesive tape. Her jaw bone had been fractured. Death was ascribed to concussion. Inquest Witnesses the dead woman's sister, Miss Francis Tarpy, 91, Watsonville, and her nepnew, uavid Tarpy. 4 CLUB TRAINING PROJECT IN SALINAS Salinas.

Dpp. 9 (U.P) nno civ ViH. OlA resional training crhrtnlc tn Via hoM in California this winter on 4-H liud u-actor maintenance projects will be staged in Salinas January ix i.u io, was announced today. SHERIFF KILLED doc County Sheriff Glyne Johnson was killed instantly here today in a quail hunting accident. DENY PAROLE Dor fit P1 TVio District of Columbia parole board todav den iff! fnrmpr Ait Vnrna Ma jor Gen.

Bennett E. Meyers appli cation tor paroie. rhome district around Allendale, Family Of Four From Monterey Saved From Sea Miami, Dec. 9 Four Californians, including two small children, and a New Jersey Man who were snatched from the sea in a dramatic rescue, flew into New York today, none the worse for their experience. They were Andrew K.

Henneken, 39, pilot: his wife, 25, and their two small children, Andrew 5, and Robert, 20 months, all of Monterey, and P. G. Junger-son 29, of Summit, N. J. Their small aircraft was on a flight from San Juan, P.

to Miami, when it developed engine trouble and radioed it was going down between Bimini and Orange Cay, 60 miles east of Miami. Henneken headed back toward Bimini and crash-landed about a mile from shore. A coast guard two-engined JRF flew over and a few minutes later a big PBY landed and picked them up. The five were cilinging to two empty barrel-shaped plastic gas tanks when the PBY rescued them, two hours after their plane sank. They were brought to Miami, wet but unhurt, and boarded an Eastern Air Line Constellation at 12:30 a.

m. (EST) today for the five-hour flight to New York. State Executes Dewey Adamson San Quentin, Dec. 9 (JP) Admiral Dewey Adamson died today in San Quentin prison's gas chamber. He was pronounced dead at 10:12 a.

m. Adamson, 49, had been in the prison's death row longer than any man. Since he was sent to the death row in 1944, his execution had been postponed four times. He was convicted in Los Angeles of the slaying of Stella Blauvelt, 64-year-old widow. Warden Clinton Duffy announced yesterday that a stay of execution had been denied by the United States supreme court.

Cave-In Fatal To Monterey Worker Carmel, Dec. 9 (JP) A cave-in at a sewer construction job yesterday took the life of John D. Cipriani, 30, of Monterey. A second man, Carl D. Simon, also of Monterey, was also in the cave-in, but rescuers reached him 12 minutes after the accident was reported.

He apparently suffered no ill effects. Police estimated Cipriani was buried more than 30 minutes before he was reached. The men were shoring up the sides of a 14-foot ditch, when the sandy earth gave way. given Frank R. Gilmore of Wal-pole, $6000 to Catherine Abele, to aid her in the education of her sons; $2000 to a cousin, Russell Tupper, of Norwood, $1000 each to Adelaida Taylor Hunt, second cousin, Quincy, Treicott Tupper, second cousin, no address given, and Charles Cook, a cousin, no address given.

Five hundred dollars each was bequeathed to Hilda M. Fridley of Santa Cruz, a friend, and to Fred E. Gilmore, Wrentham, brother of George's deceased wife. The will's codicil also leaves all of George's household articles and personal possessions to Hilda Fridley with instructions that she is to divide it among the beneficiaries as she deems fit. All remaining property is to be divided, in ratio to the stated bequests, among the named beneficiaries.

Total value of the estate was not listed in the papers filed to date. Leland F. Hinds and the American Trust company are listed as petitioners. Thomas, red-faced as ever hut completely calm and composed, was led away for removal to the federal prison at Danbury, where he will serve out his time. As he left, he waved to his wife, standing pale and motionless in the courtroom.

Accompanied by two U. S. marshals Thomas took a noon train for Danbury. When Thomas left the federal court building for the station, he waved goodbye to several reporters. When he entered an automobile with the marshals, a woman rushed up and thumbed her noso at him.

He has no appeal from the sentence. He deprived himself of that right last week when he interrupted his trial in its third day to enter a surprise plea of no defense, in effect throwing himself on the mercy of the court. But in sentencing Thmas, Holtzoff brushed off a request for leniency. Holtzoff warned the convicted man that he must stay in prison until his fine is paid. But Thomas' lawyer, WTilliam H.

Collins, told reporters that meant the defendant will not be eligible for parole for seven months if he fails to pay Otherwise, he could be set free at the end of his minimum six-month term. Thomas could avoid payment of the fine by filing a poverty certificate after he serves his minimnm sentence. Thomas could have been sentenced to a maximum of 32 years imprisonment plus fines totaling $40,000. His downfall ended one of the most controversial political careers in recent congressional history. As chairman of the house un-American activities committee during 1947 and 1948, he presided over a series- of turbulent investigations centering principally on Communist spy activities in this country.

His committee broke the sensa tional Elizabeth Bentley spy ring story and the even more explosive Alger Hiss-Whitaker Chambers bat tie that ended with a pre jury indictment against Hiss, a former high state department officer. Ray Faulds Of Live Oak Dies Suddenly Ray Willis Faulds of Capitola road died suddenly of a heart atp tack yesterday. He was born in Adel, Iowa, December 11, 1888. He married Lc-titia Thompson in Union, Oregon, September 3, 1914. He was a resident of California since 1919, having previously lived in Tulare and Watsonville before coming to Santa Cruz 12 years ago.

Until his health failed, he was a building contractor and has since confined his work to cabinet making and assisting in the Live Oak grocery. He was a member of the Grace Methodist church, acting on the official board. He spent 40 years promoting boys' clubs and as assistant physical director of the Y.M.C.A. The past 10 years was devoted to Boy Scouts, he being institutional representative of Live Oak troop 75. He was very active in the Live Oak grange, being a member of the executive committee.

He was on the building committee of the Live Oak Community Methodist church, and his last work was the beautiful, pulpit and lecturn for that church. Besides his scores of friends, he leaves his wife, Letitia V. Faulds; two daughters, Mrs. Marian Smith of South Gate and Mrs. Frances Cahill of Arcadia; a son, Richard Faulds of Alameda; two granddaughters and two grandsons; also two sisters, Mrs.

Edna Haberer of Woodward, Iowa, and Mrs. Ida Du-gan of Minneapolis, Minn. Funeral services will be held at White's chapel Monday, Dec. 12, at 2 o'clock with private inurnment in the I.O.O.F. crematory.

ATTENTION SUBSCRIBERS! SAVE TIME Please bring your printed statement with you when you pay for your Sentinel-News. Payments accepted at the Circle Drug 5tore, Capitola, if you brln your printed statement Thank You. Circulation Dept. IF --4 Guarded by a sad-faced bull- dog, three bikes stand idle be- nsath the shot-pierced window of the John Conner home at Al- exandria, Va, Police said Con- ner methodically shot down his Recommendat ion that the -fnntr nurfitnr's tiflp alfprpH to that -of county controller, was the chief suggestion made in the anneal report of; the county grand jury left yesterday with the board of supervisors. The grand jury believes that such an appointment -would prove beneficial and it is hoped that your board will give favorable consideration to this recommendation," the report signed by Eugene Prolo, foreman of the grand jury, said.

This would give the auditor control over all county auditing and bookkeeping, the jurors pointed out in part of the 53-page statement of the condition of the county. The report was dated December 5, and included the annual grand jury audit as performed for the county by the San Francisco firm of Barlow, Davis and Wood. In other recommendations, the jury cited the report of the year beore, and its former suggestions. 'At -a previous meeting of the 'grand jury, a recommendation made to your board that consideration be given to a job eval- uation survey for all county offices. The grand jury recom-o mends that such a survey be made as soon as possible," the report said.

"It is recommended that closer coordination of the four county departments interested in welfare and health would result in improved administration of these agencies," the. grand jurors found. Further improvements in courthouse facilities were also indicated. 'because there is an increasing number of older people required to visit the court house and offices on the second floor in the court house, it is recommended that consideration be given to the installa- Yule Savings Are $117,000 In This Area Thrifty northern Santa Cruz county persons who saved for the Yule tide season under one of the various' "Christmas club' banking plans sponsored by all the local banking institutions, are now profiting by their foresight. A check with the three Santa Cruz and one Soquel banks today revealed Christmas club members have a total of approximately SI 17,000 for their holi-tiay spending.

George A. Morgan of the Soquel Citizen's Commercial and Savings bank reported $10,000 in his institution's Christmas "lay-away" plan. Richard P. Snyder of the County First National $25,000, William T. Rice of the Bank of America and Tom Polk Williams of the Farmers Merchants National bank $32,000.

The above figures include participants at the Eank of America East Santa Cruz branch and the Felton County First Savings branch of the County First National. For those, wishing now that they had begun saving for this Christmas one year ago, the various banking officials are quick to point out the 1950 plan is already under way. three children, one after the other. Part of the shotgun charge which killed one child pierced the window. The dog was the Conner children's pet and the tikes, their toys.

(AP Wire- photo) tion of an elevator," according to the report. The annual suggestions included in a letter of transmittal to the supervisors, said that the grand jury was pleased to note that several recommendations made in the previous audit ended June 30, 1948, had been adopted. The assessor's office was mentioned again this year for delayed settling for the collections on the unsecured rolls, until the entire roll had been collected, even though this postponed settlement with the auditor until February "As a result, the apportionment ot personal property taxes was cor respondingly aeiayea, the jury found. "The current practice, does not, in our opinion, meet the requirements of the revenue and taxation code." Smaller issues in the various county departments were also mentioned, including the system for controlling receipts at the county hospital. Neglect of this matter made it impossible for the grand jury to establish properly the hospital's accountability for cash, the report said.

Veteran Of Sherman's March To the Sea Dies Oakland, Dec. 9 tU.R) John Dumser, veteran of Sherman's march to the sea and a former commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, did today at the age of 102 years and 14 days. The white haired soldier, who trekked through a blizzard to enlist at 16, was the bay area's oldest Civil War veteran. Death came in the Oakland Veteran's hospital, where he celebrated his 102nd birthday with his family on November 25. He was a favorite with patients and staff at the hospital because of his sharp memory and ability to tell a good story.

Dumser spent four years with the Union army in Company of the 52nd Illinois infantry. His only injuries, by his own admission, were a spent bullet that hit him during Sherman's entry into Atlanta and a case of sunstroke. Seahawks Will Take Frying Pans To Egg Bowl Game The mayor of Petaluma is so sure of the victory of the Leghorns foootball team over the Santa Cruz Seahawks next Sunday, he has sent 12 saltwater fish lines to Mayor Sam C. MeNeely of Santa Cruz to facilitate delivery of a Crate ot seafood wagered by the Santa Cruz mayor on the outcome of the game. One of the lines is for the mayor himself, and the others are for each of the Seahawk players.

MeNeely, however, is more confidant than ever that the Santa Cruz team will emerge victorious, and has ordered all players to take their frying pans along to Petaluma. A case of Petaluma eggs is ready for their victory breakfast after they win the Egg Bowl game. Copious quantities of vaseline failed to free Philip Burrows, 20-months-old Hollywood, lad, from a junior toilet seat Policeman And Ex-Convict Die In Gun Battle Portland, Dec. 9 (JP)A po liceman and a handcuffed prowler tangled in a battle to death in a locked store here yesterday. The body of Louis C.

Fugent, 46, ex-convict, was found at' the scene. Nearby was Special Patrolman Aaron Robert Ball, 39, mortally wounded. The policeman heard the prowler, went inside and arrested him. He handcuffed Fugent's hands behind him. Then he went to phone.

Fugent whirled, grabbed a gun out of Ball's holster and fired. Despite his wound, Ball leaped, and the pair fought through the store, strewing wreckage behind. As Fugent broke free, the gun fell to the floor. Ball was able to fire one shot. The racing prowler fell dead.

The policeman died several hours later. Salinas Trio Captured At Las Vegas Salinas, Dec. 9 Three boys who held up and robbed the mother of one of them were captured yesterday in Las Vegas, Nevada. Police Chief George C. Weight said he had been informed by telephone that officers at Las Vegas had picked up James Allison Price, 16: Ben Franklin Fink, 16.

and Gerald Johnson, 15, all of Salinas. The trio, although heavily armed when they fled from Salinas, offered no resistance, Chief Weight said he was told. He had no other details. Weight said the three boys entered the A. J.

Price home here Tuesday and James, pointing a gun at his mother, ordered her to give him her purse and the keys to the family car. The boy took $8 from the purse, Weight said, ripped. out the telephone and told his mother: "If you notify police before 24 hours we'll come back and kill you." Then they took two shotguns from the house and drove away in the car, the chief said. The incident came to police attention when Price returned home that evening and found his wife hysterical. Fair, But Colder Weather, Forecast San Francisco, Dec.

9 JP) Fan-but colder was predicted for today and Saturday in northern and central California. The unexpected rise in temperature yesterday brought the high in San Francisco to 66, nine degrees above normal. It was 66 in San Jose, 64 in San Rafael, and 62 in Oakland and Monterey. The weather bureau said today colder air was moving down from the north behind a low pressure system crossing the northwestern states. A little snow probably will fall in mountain areas in the next 36 hours, the forecast said.

There were a few showers this morning in the desert sections of southern California, but the low pressure system was dissipating to the south of San 'Diego. Small craft warnings were hoisted at 7 a. m. today from Point Arena, on the Mendocino county coast, north to Cape Blanco, Oregon. Northwest winds of 25 to 35 miles an hour were predicted.

Named as Western Mining council's representative to Governor Warren's unemployment conference, J. P. Hall, mining publisher of Santa Cruz, proposed that the state aid the mining industry in its problems with the federal government in order to be made a supplier of new jobs. He reviewed the situation as speaker at the weekly meeting of the Central Santa Cruz Kiwanis club at Capitola Wednesday night and with the Masonic club at its weekly luncheon at the Palomar hotel yesterday. Hall was the guest of E.

A. Byer of Coast Counties Gas Electric, with L. A. Breckon as program chairman at Capitola. L.

T. Sims, principal of Santa Cruz high school, was in charge ot tne Masonic program. The speaker reported Gov. "Warren as stating that mining in California was in a deplorable state. State division of mines records show that 62 different minerals occur in the state, most of them in commercial supply.

Hall stated that every move made by western members of congress to put domestic mines to work had been met with administration opposition, led by state and interior departments. The continuation of trade agreements with tariff reductions and spending of large sums of government money in the development of foreign ore supplies has been approved by congress much to the detriment of domestic mining. The shutdown of the New Idria quicksilver mine in the neighboring county of San Benito is a nearby example of what the state department's trade agreements do to domestic industry. San Benito lost an annual payroll of $1,300,000 and 150 men lost their jobs. We are sorry to relate, stated the speaker, that while this was going on nothing was heard from our Jack Anderson.

In fact of the 23 California members in the house only one, Clair Engle, has been putting up a fight for domestic mines; and now he has been "declared out of bounds" by his administration. Hall advocated work with California congressmen by state officials. The panel at the unemployment conference, with which mining was combined, advocated an early review of tariff policy by congress to protect domestic products, and employment, from a market flooded by cheap foreign goods. Hall was enthusiastic concerning the future possibilities of gold mining in California, even though President Truman has declared the price of gold will not be raised while he is in the White House. He declared that the president's statement is now known as a "Cripps." (Sir Stafford Cripps it will be remembered made the same kind of a statement 13 times in 11 months, about devaluing the pound sterling.) On The Inside Social and Club News Page 3-4 Church Notices Page 6 Amusements Page 8 Radio Page 8 Sports Fage 9 Editorials Page 10 Comics Page 11 Classified Section Pages 12-13 Story Of The Savior.

Page 13 Vital Statistics Page 14 Frank Grge lEstsule Provides Establishment of a $10,000 fund to provide scholarships for worthy and needy students and graduates of Santa Cruz higK school is among the bequests from the estate of Frank E. George, Santa Cruz resident who died November 23, according to papers field today in the county clerk's office. To be known as the "Frank E. George Scholarship," administration of the fund is entrusted to four trustees, George H. Cardiff, Ed Daubenbiss, Leland Hinds, and Paul M.

Levy. George directed in his will, dated April 4, 1944, that the fund be used to aid students in continuing their education in the University of California at Berkeley or at Stanford university. In his will and a codicil dated April 15, 1944, George also bequeathed $10,000 to the Town of Wrentham, in memory of his father, William E. George, and $500 to the Wrentham cemetery, where his father and mother are buried. Bequest of $5000 was ordered.