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MORNING EDITION PHONE 3600 92nd Year No. 60 SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1947 EIGHT PAGES le Cotrr 9a I M.00 Yni la Ad mntvml MR ussia Is Bibcked In Move Many Business Items Handled By Supervisors in Session SSSlHHlJE-SYSTEGa SEME ASSEGUBLY To Take Up China Situation One of the shortest meetings in many months was conducted Friday by the board of supervisors. Reports from the various county officers were read and accepted and the tax collector made known his intention to sell tax deeded property in the Aptos school RJavaH elhfl Site IBe IPficIkedl ffleffire DDel Mkwmite dDpitfiim Expires a ck ers Of $2,800,000,000 Measure Fight Off Efforts To Inject Favored New Routes Sacramento, March 11 AP) The multi-billion dollar highway bill proposing an integrated 3000-mile road system the length and breadth of California passed the senate today after weeks of debate, but there were growing indications of a chilly assembly reception. Led by Senator Randolph Collier (R.) of Yreka, proponents of the unprecedented measure erased an amendment requiring the state to pay for the relocation of pipes and other facilities of privately-owned public utilities and went on to pass the bill on a 32-5 roll call vote. It will reach the lower chamber tomorrow, and is expected to be referred to the assembly committee on revenue and taxation which has been conducting lengthy hearings on the finan-city aspects of the program.

The bill would affect the pocketbook of every highway user in the state. As it finally cleared the senate, much-amended and wrapping up a number of original highway bills into one piece of legislation, it provided for these tax boosts all of them designed to raise more than $2,800,000,000 within 10 years: 1. A boost in the gasoline tax British Minister Proposes That Allies Disclose Number Of German Prisoners Still Held Outside Reich By Wes Gallagher Moscow, March 11 (AP). Secretary of State George C. Marshall won his first diplomatic triumph in the foreign ministers' council tonight when the United States, Britain and France put up a solid front and blocked a Russian proposal to place the complex China question on the agenda.

A conference official said the three western representatives, opposing a suggestion by Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov, insisted that China must be present if Chinese affairs were discussed in the council, and Molotov finally withdrew his proposal. The four foreign ministers then split wide open when they tackled the first and least controversial problem of Germany, the question of demilitarization, informants disclosed. Molotov hurled a broadside of accusations that the western nations had failed to demilitarize their occupation zones, and were keeping German troops in military formations, contrary to from three to five cents a gallon, and an increase in diesel, or fuel, tax from three cents to l- cents, both effective July 1.

2. A nincrease in the motor vehicle registration fee from $3 to $6, the chauffeur's license from $1 to $5 with a renewal fee of $4.50. 3. A schedule of commercial vehicle weight registration fees, ranging from $6 to $52. 4.

A mileage tax based upon gross weight of the vehicle and the miles it is operated in the state, from 5.6 mills to 14.6 a mile. Frank Talk On Greece Asked From Truman Washington, March 11 (U.R). Senate President Arthur H. Vanden-berg called on President Truman today to tell the nation frankly whether the proposed Greek loan might touch off a chain reaction of aid for other friendly governments. The Republican foreign policy spokesman told reporters that plans to bolster tottering Greek monarchy may symbolize a new U.

S. policy "which may have to be pursued all around the world." "I hope," Vandenberg said, "that President Truman will give congress and the country the benefit of the total implications involved in this wider area." He spoke as Mr. Truman and his advisors were whipping into shape the foreign policy address he will deliver to a joint session of congress tomorrow. Congressional sources said the president would also seek a loan for Turkey as part of a program to save the Near East from Communist domination. Vandenberg insisted that the Near Eastern crisis was no isolated case.

He felt that if the United States moved, to block the growth of Communism there, it might be forced to act elsewhere as well. He mentioned China and Korea as two examples. May IBalaiice The Budget Washington, March 11 CU.R). The treasury and the budget bureau are about ready to admit that the government stands a good chance of winding up a fiscal year in the black this June for the first time since 1930. The current outlook is that the end of fiscal 1947 on June 30 may show a surplus of about For more than a month there has been a sizeable surplus in the treasury coffers.

Insults Ne Plus Ultra Russia Claims U. S. Interfering In Hungary Now Washington, March 11 (U.R)Act-ing Secretary of State Dean Ache-son said today that Russia has informed the United States it is the Soviet belief that this country, not Russia, is interfering in Hungary's internal affairs. The Soviet position was communicated to the state department yesterday, Acheson said. It was in reply to a stiff U.

S. note which said that Russia was guilty of "unjustified interference" in Hungary's affairs by attempting to substitute a minority dictatorship for Hungary's present freely-elected government. Monterey Co. To Buy Sheriff $4000 Plane Salinas, March 11 (U.R). Purchase of a $4000 two-place plane for use in the sheriffs office and fish and game law enforcement and for state forest service fire patrol work was authorized by the Monterey county board of supervisors yesterday by a 3 to 2 vote.

The action, which places Monterey county among the pioneer counties of the state in plane ownership, came after a discussion with Owen Melio and Ellis Berry of the fish and game patrol and Willard C. Austin of the forest service and Sheriff Jack McCoy. McCoy told the board his office probably would use the plane only on rare occasions, perhaps a hunt for a lost hunter or fisherman, but said he believed it would be of in calculable benefit to the fish and game deputies and the forest service. During the fire season the plane will be based at King City and the rest of the time will operate from Monterey under direction of the fish and game division. For Outlawing Of Communist Party In U.

S. Washington, March 11 (U.R) Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellen-bach proposed to congress today that the Communist party be outlawed in the United States. The cabinet officer said that he could see no reason why Communists should be allowed to run for either political or trade union office when their purpose "is to destroy this government." Schwellenbach made his statement in answering questions before the house labor committee. After the hearing he told newsmen that his proposal to outlaw the Communist party "was direct, even though my statement may have been indirected." Schwellenbach told the house labor committee that getting rid of Communists in government agencies or trade unions was "very difficult." "Why should we recognize the Communist party in the United States?" Schwellenbach asked.

"Why should they be eligible to run for office when their purpose is to destroy this government? Why should they be theoretically able to get elected to congress? "I just can't see any reason why we should have that." The secretary also warned congress it would spoil excellent prospects for industrial peace in 1947 if it outlaws closed shop contracts. His statement on Communists was prompted by a question by Rep. Gerald W. Landis, who advocates amendment of the Wagner act to prevent Communists from holding official places in trade unions. Railroads Deny Steel Charges Washington, March 11 U.R) Counsel for four western railroads charged today that west coast industrialist Henry Kaiser had to indulge in "mental acrobatics" to find anything unfair in their pro posed freight rate reductions on and steel products.

Kaiser, who operates a big steel plant at Fontana, has objected to proposed lower rates for west coast traffic from the U. S. Steel corporation's mill at Geneva, Utah. The interstate commerce commission is investigating the proposals. John E.

Henneffy, railroad attorney, told the ICC that the carriers serving Fontana do not serve Geneva and are, not parties to the proceedings. Several assessments were cancelled, an application for rental of road equipment was approved and second readings on the proposed ordinance amending ordinance 345 and prohibiting parking in certain sections of Capitola were passed to the third reading. The supervisors also adopted a resolution permitting diagonal parking on the south side of the Esplanade in Capitola. The salary of the secretary to the board of supervisors was set at $75 per month for one half of each orking day, beginning March 8. The tentative map and bond for the new Santa Maria Cliffs subdivision were also accepted by the board, following a recommendation from the planning commission.

The application of Charles Eugene Lewis for a dance permit at the East Side farm center was denied after a communication from Sheriff Bob Devitt enclosing a letter from Constable Glen Spencer was read. Spencer said he was not in favor of granting the permit unless some deputy from his office or from that of the sheriff was present to police the hall. "Dances in the past have been rough and he will not tolerate any more "rat Spencer stated. Anthony Franich, Watsonville service officer, asked the board that some type of policy be adopted regarding the transportation of veterans from the county to veterans' hospitals when such an emergency arrives. The supervisors, after considerable discussion concerning the legal points of the issue, agreed to allow county cars for use in case of an emergency with authorization for such transportation first to be obtained from Chairman Frank Clement.

The board authorized that $300 be set aside for the services of a clerk to be employed for the research of retirement data relative to employes of the county. A communication asking for permission to place a sign near the San Lorenzo Woods tract was referred to the planning commission. The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company informed the board that it had filed an application to change the service rates and that a hearing on the matter would be heard Monday in San Francisco. A communications from the California state nurses' association oroposing an increase in salaries for public health nurses was referred to Supervisor Phillip H. Rowe, chairman of the hospital committee.

A letter from Joseph Jacoby, protesting the condition of Cooper and Farmer streets in Felton, was filed after the board decided that the roads in question were not a part of the county system. Chairman Frank Clement agreed to speak to the residents and suggest that they petition the planning commission to have the roads included in the county system and follow the routine required in such matters. The board adopted a resolution at the suggestion of the California Conservation council, observing Conservation Week, March 7 through March 14, urging county residents to participate. To Cut Surplus Navy Officers Washington, March 11 (U.R) The navy announced plans to reduce its surplus officer strength to a postwar ceiling of 46,000, a drop of 6000. The navy will release 2048 reserves who volunteered to stay on active duty, return to enlisted status an unstated number of temporary officers, reduce the rank of some permanent regular officers.

The navy said it originally planned a postwar officer strength of 52,000. Threatened budget cuts and revised estimates brought this figure down to 46,000. It now has 37,341 regulars and 14,556 reserves on active duty, a total of 51,897. While 5278 reserves volunteered to remain for another year, the navy plans to keep only 3230 of them. COUNCIL IN SPECIAL SESSION TOMORROW The city council will hold a special meeting Thursday morning to further discuss the hiring of a consulting engineering firm to master plan the airport.

The meeting is tentatively set lor 11:00 a.m. SUSPICION OF MURDER Bakersfield, March 11 U.R) Rudolph Snapp, 42, Bakersfield truck driver, is being held by police here today on suspicion of murdering his wife, Pauline. Washington, March 11 (U.R) Five congressmen meet with navy officials today to explore the possibility of using some armed forces surplus land for a proposed navy postgraduate school instead of spending $23,750,000 on a site at Monterey, Calif. The meeting was scheduled by a house armed service subcommittee following its re-approval of a bill to give such a school legal status independent of the naval academy at Annapolis. That bill must be approved by the full committee before it reaches the house floor.

Capt. H. A. Spanagel, head of the navy's postgraduate activities at Annapolis, said he and officers from the bureau of personnel will present a list of both army and navy surplus sites for discussion. He said he did not believe the search for a cheaper site would involve another, third, inspection tour.

Chairman George Bates, of the armed services posts and stations subcommittee, announced that the conference would be one of a series of closed meetings. "We probably will discuss the army and navy surplus sites separately," he toid the United Press. Asked if he anticipated the group could reach, some, conclusion .4. fore the expiration of the navy's next option on the Del Monte property, on April 1, he replied, "We'll have to." Terms of the navy's present agreement with the S. F.

B. Morse Del Monte property interests provide that another option may be granted, until July 1, only if no unfavorable action was taken on the Monterey bill, introduced by Rep. Jack Anderson, Calif. Navy spokesmen did not know precisely what would be construed as "unfavorable action." Yesterday's full subcommittee meeting was devoted to voiding a previous approval of the legal status bill, re-debating it for 35 minutes, then re-approving it. This unusual action was taken, a reliable source said, because an ex-officio subcommittee member had no opportunity to ask questions last week.

He was Rep. Harry L. Towe, N. chairman of an armed services education and training subcommittee, who was invited to sit with the Bates group but who was overlooked during the question pe-riod. One new aspect of the postgraduate school was developed.

Spanagel told the subcommittee that he would favor permitting inactive reserve officers to attend the school if its capacity permitted. He said he believed it would. TRUMAN SIGNS BILL Washington, March 11 (U.R). President Truman today signed into law a bill which continues indefinitely the wartime tax rates on transportation and various luxury items, including liquor, cosmetics, jewelry and most furs. they would show mc their new insult de luxe.

Turned out they operate in a whooping big night club, lined with red plush, where they spend hours nightly shooting the food out of the customers' plates with pistols, leading livestock down the center aisle, smearing rouge on the bald-spots of the payees, and occasionally (twice an evening) chopping off Chick Johnson's arm because they can't find the key to his handcuffs. My friends learn the name of the most prominent citizen in the joint and if he happens to be Sen. Huf-fenpuffer, they send out their makeup artist to look him over carefully. Then they produce an actor on the stage a few minutes later, "who looks like the senator. They introduce him as the senator.

The audience believes it and applauds respectfully. While the real senator writhes silently in his chair, Olson and Johnson tell his double that he's a dope. They squirt him with Seltzer, subject him to other indignities, and eventually snip his suspenders so his pants collapse. "The perfect insult," Olson gloated. "Not a dura thing the poor guy down front can do about it." Except sneak out, a beaten man.

Capitola C. C. Will Seek To Retain Depot If, and when, official word is received that the Southern Pacific contemplates closing the Capitola depot, a committee from the Capitola chamber of commerce will fight the action. E. M.

Gramm, vice-president -of the chamber, told a meeting of the group Monday night that the board of directors had reached that decision. Gramm said that he had received information that the railroad was again going to try to close the Capitola stop. Fred Jarvis was introduced as new chief and president of the Capitola volunteer fire department. Other organization officials are Homer Berry, first assistant; Malcolm Hayford, second assistant; Lyle Hayford, captain and George Hurst, lieutenant and secretary-treasurer. The chamber has engaged a solicitor to canon eacii resident of the district in the coming membership drive it was announced.

It was also disclosed; that the Ch'arn-oer will sponsor a Fourth of Julv fireworks display, to be support ed oy donation. Henry L. Washburn, county farm advisor, showed a motion picture on the veteran returning vo the farm and discussed problems facing farmers in the postwar era. Another Nude Murder In LA. Los Angeles, March 11 (U.R).

The half-nude body of Evelyn Winters, 43, former Hollywood studio musician and music copywriter, was found today by a young section hand who admitted he kissed her rouged lips as she lay in death. The section hand, George Wick-liffee, 28, Joplin, was jailed for questioning, but he stoutly denied he had stabbed her in the left eye. Mrs. Winters, identified through fingerprints, was the third woman to be murdered here in two months. Still unsolved are the death of Elizabeth Short, 22, the "Black Dahlia," whose bisected body was found January 15, and Mrs.

Jeanne French, 45, the "flying nurse" whose nude, trampled body was found February 10. Clothed in a brown dress, checked jacket and slip which were pulled up around her neck, Mrs. Winters, known also as Victoria Wind- nam, was round dead in tne "gas house" district along the Los An- geles river, about six blocks from the towering city hall. She apparently had been attacked. their letters to the radio folks, asking for seats in the Maxine Elliott theater for a look at one of these We-The-People broadcasts.

Millions of others presumably were at the loudspeakers, waiting for words of wisdom. Olson and Johnson walked in, turned out the lights, and began throwing beans at the pew holders. "S-p-i-d-e-r-s," Olson hissed. Must have sounded like a multiple murder program to the listeners. Then my favorite miners of the art of radio threw bananas at the audience and pelted same with hard-boiled eggs.

They pushed a button which gave an unsuspecting lady a small shock and the screaming meemies. The people who heard this haw radio program could have had no idea what was going on. Neither did I. Time schedules went haywire, Olson and Johnson's stooges now were whacking the people on the heads with bladders, and the producer in the control booth passed out cold. He revived later, muttering.

Olson and Johnson were not asked to appear again on the air. They got out of the theater, be-: fore they were thrown out, and they said if I would come along, Guy N. Smith, Bicycle Shop Owner, Suicide Guy N. Smith, 60, shot himself in the head at his Pacific avenue bicycle shop Tuesday about 10:20 ajn. and died an hour and a half later in the County hospital, Coroner Walter Bet-tencourt announced.

Smith was facing a charge of molesting school children-and was at liberty" on $2500 cash bail. His arraingment had been set for Tuesday morning but was postponed oending amendment of the complaint. The one shot Smith fired from an old model .32 revolver was heard by C. W. Shumway, of 79 Pacific avenue, who was walking by the bicycle shop at 421 Pacific avenue.

When the police arrived, Smith was still holding the gun. They found him sitting in a bloodstained wicker chair in the shop's rest room. The man had left a note asking that his nephew, Richard Smith, of San Jose, be notified. Letters found in the shop indicate Smith is survived by a mother in Oregon or Washington and a sister, also in the northwest Smith is believed to have operated the shop for four or five years. He lived in a trailer at the rear of the building where a new box of .32 shells was found by police.

The body was taken to Wessen-dorfs mortuary where funeral arrangements are pending. Warren Scoffs At Reports Of Commitments Sacramento, March 11 tu.R) Governor Warren today scoffed at reports he has made commitments to any possible Republican candidate for the 1948 presidential election including himself. He labeled as "pure fiction" statements which have been made linking his name with Governor Dewey of New York, Harold Stas-sen of Michigan and Senator Robert Taft of Ohio. "I never have had any conversations with anybody personally or through intermediaries which even remotely bore on the situation," Warren said. Red Cross Drive Is Slowing Down At the beginning of the second week of the local Red Cross drive, only $645 was contributed since the last report Saturday, received from Ernie Dillon, campaign chairman, the Santa Cruz headquarters at the St.

George hotel revealed. A total of $4813 has been collected by workers or donated since the drive opened here March 1. The goal for the area is $18,000, officers reminded Santa Cruzans. As yet no firm has reported a 100 per cent contribution to the 1947 Red Cross campaign fund, although 60 per cent of the proceeds of the drive will remain in Santa Cruz for home town purposes. Contributions will be accepted at most of the local banks and the Coast Counties Gas and Electric company for the convenience of those who wish to do their part, A GREAT FUTURE Fresno, March 11 (U.R) San Joaquin valley farmers face a great agricultural future, Donald F.

Jones, noted plant breeding expert from the Connecticut agricultural experiment station, said here today. Repeating many, accusations which have appeared in the Russian press during the last few months, Molotov asserted that "except in obvious cases the elimination of the war potential in the west has hardly started." Ernest Bevin, British foreign secretary, answered Molotov bluntly that the charges were "unjustified," and said they reminded him of "an old lady watching a parade in which one man was out of step and then observed they are all out of step except Johnnie." Bevin then let loose a diplo matic bombshell of his own, say ing that -white' the ministers were on the subject of demilitarization "it might be useful" to Know tne number of -prisoners of war held outside Germany," the informant said. "Then we will be able to see the oc a ahnlp inside and out- M. side of Germany," Bevin was quoted as adding. Russia never has revealed how many prisoners of war she is holding in her homeland.

All previous questions on this subject have been rebuffed. Molotov said he only intended to suggest an informal meeting yesterday, when at the opening of the Big Four conference on Germany and Austria he proposed that the Chinese question be added to the program. He added, however, that he still thought that since the public was interested in the matter, a communique should be issued on the consultations. The" discussion of China ended after Bevin said the question should not be discussed at a council meeting without China. MolotovV proposal yesterday was that the three powers which signed the agreement on China here in November, 1945, report to the council now on the progress in fulfilling the agreement.

France was not represented at that meeting, and this was the ground for the suggestion that the French be left out of the informal discussion of the matter now. While no final decision was reached, it appeared that informal three-power discussions on China would be held during the stay of the ministers here. Rail President Slain in Night By Assassin Peoria, 111., March 11 U.R A single shotgun blast fired by an assassin whom he tried to beat off with a cane has ended the turbulent career of George P. McNear, fiery president of the strikebound Toledo, Peoria Western railroad. McNear was slain last night while taking a late evening walk along a neighborhood street darkened by a citv power failure.

W. C. Kaiser, national negotiator for the 13 Railroad Brotherhoods which have been engaged in a bitter fight with McNear for five years, said: i am sorry to hear of Mr. Mc-Near's death. I am sure the Brotherhoods will not offer a reward for the apprehension of his assassin." Police said McNear's murderer apparently stepped from behind a bush directly into the 56-year-old railroad executive's path and leveled the shotgun at his chest.

A cane carried by McNear during his regular nocturnal walks was found a short distance from the spot the shooting occurred, and Police Lieutenant Frank Flood said McNear must have thrown it at his assailant. Santa Cruz Man Aids In Restoring Mission Chapel Carmel, March 11 (U.R) The chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, most recent unit completed in the restoration of historic Carmel mission, was opened to public worship this week. The chapel will be dedicated later, possibly by Bishop Aloysius J. Willinger, new coadjutor bishop and administrator apostolic of the Monterey-Fresno diocese. The chapel is the gift of the three sons and one daughter of the late Ann Sutter in memory of their mother.

They are Mrs. W. II. McCormick, Santa Clara; Fred A. Bensborg, Santa Cruz; Carl B.

Bensborg, Carmel and Gerald J. Bensborg of Arkansas. $1200 In Tools Taken from Garage Burglars forced their way into the Seabright garage at 403 Sea-bright avenue Monday night and escaped with $1200 worth of mechanic's tools. Police said that the building was entered by prying the latch off the front door. The burglars left by the rear door and sped away in a car waiting in the alley.

One burglar, seen by a nearby resident, was described as about 25 years old, five feet 10 inches tall, and wearing light colored clothes. The garage is used both for automobile repair and storage, police said. Neighbors who heard the noise thought it to be a car owner entering. They fixed the time of the theft at 10:00 p.m. Sailor Injured In Motorcycle Fall A Moffett field sailor received multiple bruises, scratches and a possible broken collar bone when his motorcycle skidded into the delta dividing highway 17 and Ocean street, Monday afternoon.

Officers said the sailor, Leonard R. Stillson 22, turned sharply to avoid a collision with a car driven by Pedro R. Rejinable of San Jose, and upset the motorcycle. A passenger on the motorcycle, Louis P. Mache, also of Moffett field, escaped injury.

Both youths were taken to the air base Monday night from the county hospital. Fist Fights In French Assembly Paris, March 11 U.R) A session of the French national assembly broke up in disorder tonight after Communist and Rightist deputies exchanged blows in the corridors. The Right and Lelt wing deputies fought in the corridors, hurled insults at each other across the chamber, and slammed desk tops. The chamber was thrown into a roaring, screaming tumult which forced adjournment for the day. Pleas for order by Socialist Premier Paul Ramadier and Edouard Herriot, radical assembly president, were drowned in the din.

D)llim Aiffiafl JBnimim (B TTwim Eimsinilhtnimg CMSitommeirs Him HBng Way By Frederick C. Othman United Press Staff Correspondent Washington, March 11 (U.R). After 34 years of constant study and technical improvement, the Messrs. Ole Olson and Chick Johnson are pleased to announce the insult ne plus ultra. There is none better.

Senators, beware. The Messrs. Olson and Johnson, as you know, have devoted their lives to throwing stuffed ducks at the customers (now they throw stuffed cows), delivering jibes and live poultry to the scat holders, and attempting in general to see how uncomfortable they can make their audiences. This has been a profitable undertaking. They're both millionaires.

I had to spend the last couple of days in New York on an enterprise of my own; I had no intention of becoming entangled with Olson and Johnson, the Hellsapopin partners I used to know in Hollywood, but I happened to be on the scene when they wrecked a radio program, caused the producer thereof to collapse, and sent the studio audience out into the night talking to itself. The innocent citizens had sent.