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m. a special nnomm will deliver a Sentinel-News to tow tf tow live within the city limits. 99th Year-No. 187 SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1954 5c Sunday and Daily Excepting Saturday TWELVE PAGES 0 ri iO rr Cfai jmttttrt-wot 1mm Vote HDrae "To The Glory of St. Lawrence" Guide Dogs Poisoned City Council Will Library Proposal Discuss Tomorrow Balkan Pact Approved Bled, Yugoslavia (JPi.

Yugoslavia, Turkey and Greece signed a military pact today aimed at welding a Balkan wall against any aggression by Russia or her Comin-form satellites. The alliance was signed by the foreign ministers of the three powers Koca Popovic of Yugoslavia, a Stephanopoulous of Greece and Faud Koprulu of Turkey. The historic move implements the Balkan friendship treaty President Marshal Tito's government signed in 1953 with her two neighbors who are members of the North Atlantic Alliance and brings Trainer John L. Sinykin wipes tears from his ffyes as he holds the head of Sir Lancelot, one of eight German shepherd dogs killed in one day at Minneapolis by poisoned weiners tossed over their kennel fence. Fifteen other Knight-Knowland Win GOP Fight For Leadership; Democrats Endorse McLain Pension Plan Advancing two leagues on "St.

Lawrence Day" October 17, 1769 Fr. Juan Crespi and the Portola party found the San Lorenzo river and so named the stream in honor of the Catholic im IPai'Ity Qssne By Edwin B. Haakinson Washington (A.P.). A compromise was proposed today by one senate opponent of the administration's flexible farm price supports. The move was tagged by Sen.

Aiken, Vt, as a sign the administration would win. With a showdown vote to come later today, Sen. Douglas, 111., offered a proposal for flexible supports on basic crops at 85 to 90 per cent of parity. Previously Douglas had been among those urging a one-year extension of rigid 90 per cent supports on cotton, wheat, corn, rice and peanuts. "Apparently some of the 90 per cent supporters are convinced they can't win," Aiken, chairman of the senate agriculture committee and leader of the floor fight for flexible supports, said.

Aiken is pushing for a flexible support range of 80 to 90 per cent of parity. Douglas sought to raise the low er limit of the Aiken proposal from 80 to 85 per cent. The house voted for an 82-90 range when it passed the overall farm bill. The lawmakers are working under an agreement to cut off debate and force a decision on this and several other controversial issues in the complex federal farm program. When the senate convened at noon a five-hour time limit applied to the administration proposal for flexible federal price support of 80 to 90 per cent of parity for five basic crops: Cotton, wheat, corn, rice and peanuts.

Parity is a farm product price said by law to be fair in terms of costs the farmer must pay. Majority Leader Knowland of California and Chairman Aiken, of the senate agriculture com mittee said they are confident they can win the test by a narrow margin. But Sen. Young, N.D., spokesman for a bipartisan group that wants to extend the rigid 90 per cent supports that have operated since World War II, said he expects to defeat the 80-90 per cent proposal. An unofficial advanced check seemed to back Knowland's claim.

Forty-six senators were found to be favoring the administration plan, 44 were opposed and six undecided. With such a close margin, however, the number of absentees could turn out to be a deciding factor. Homer E. Hiatt, Who Came To State In 1888, Dies Homer Ellsworth Hiatt, 84, who came to California in 1888, died yesterday at his home at 156 Palm street, after an illness oi aDoui three months. A native of Indiana, he was raised there before coming to San Jose in 1888.

He was a carpenter and contractor and in later years took up farming in the Santa Clara valley. He met and married miss Mav Chandler, and the couple lived there until 1944 when they moved to Santa Cruz. A member of a large family, only one brother is now living. Survivors include his wife, Lula May Hiatt of Santa Cruz, and his brother Elwood Hiatt of San Jose and several nieces and nephews. He was a member of the Garfield Park Christian church.

Services will be conducted at White's Tuesday, August 10, at 2 p.m. with Rev. Gordon J. Milldrum officiating. Inurnment will follow in th IOOF crematory.

Board Debates Auditing Problem Whether to nay the $1000 cost of operating the county's base radio installation in a lump sum or charge the costs against the individual agencies using it was the subject of a cursory board of super visors' meeting this morning. Supervisors C. B. Harts and FranK Clement, the only two who were able to meet, felt that it would be simpler to pay the entire amount in one transaction, since it all came out of the taxpayers pockets anyway. Besides, they argued, it would save a lot of book work instead of allocating 10 per cent of the cost here, 20 per cent there, and so on, down the line.

No conclusions were reached this morning since only two supervisors were present. IMPOUND MOTORCYCLE Police impounded a motorcycle driven by William Botelho 22, of Los Gatos, and charged him with unlawful use of dealer's plates and driving it without an operator's license last night. He was picked up at 8:45 p.m. on Beach street at the Raymond street intersection, when he was arguing with someone about a parking place. He told police he works for a Los Gatos dealer who lets him have use of the motorcycles in stock for weekend outings.

Underworld 'On The Run' In Strife-Torn 'Phenix City1 The city council is slated to act tomorrow night on a library board recommendation for sale of the East Side library building and grounds, to use the funds for construction of a new branch library with adequate parking facilities on the east side. Other issues up for council consideration at its regular 7:30 p.m. meeting include a request by An-this Ambulance service for the city to revert back to its former policy of giving calls to Santa Cruz's two ambulance services on alternate months. Councilmen at their last meeting held up a decision on that request, to give Perrigo Ambulance service an opportunity to express its views. City Manager Robert N.

Klein will report on notification from the army engineers that they are ready to go ahead with construction of an experimental groin at the point near Fourth avenue, once an agreement is reached on rights of way and liability. A pending report on city policy in regard to fringe area services, on the agenda for hearing and adoption, will not be ready for an airing at tomorrow night's meeting, Councilman Cliff L. Dysle, who heads the council committee formulating the policy statement, reported today. A city agreement with the engineering firm of Brown and Caldwell for study of three possible projects to increase Santa Cruz's Postal Pay Bill Passed By House Washington (JP). The house today overrode its Republican leadership and the Eisenhower administration and passed a bill to give a half million post office workers a 7 per cent pay boost.

The bill now goes to the senate, where an effort is expected to cut the pay increase to 5 per cent and to apply it also to about one million other, federal civil service workers. Administration leaders repeatedly warned the house the bill would never become law in its present form. They hinted President Eisenhower would veto it as a last resort. The roll call vote in the house was 351 for the bill and 29 against. Council To Hear Petitions On Assessments Petition requesting equalization of property assessment will be presented at tomorrow night's city council session.

Applicants for assessmment equalization, reportedly led by Tom Mc-Hugh, want to invoke a section in the city charter which states the city council will sit as a board of equalization every August. That practice, City Clerk Jack Miller reported today, was stopped 30 years ago when the city contracted with the county for property assessment service. Since that time Santa Cruzans who have had grounds for protest on assessment of their property have, by terms of the contract, presented their cases for equalization before the county board of supervisors when it sat as a board of equalization. Terry, Dickey In Hall Of Fame Ceremonies Cooperstown, N. Y.

(JP). Bill Terry wiped a tear from his eye as he, Bill Dickey and seven other new members today were formally inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame. Terry, long a controversial figure because of his numerous feuds with the baseball writers who elect the new members, said, "I don't know what kept me out of it (Hall of Fame), newspapermen or whe ther you just didn't want me up here but I finally made it. I thank God for it." The former manager-first base man of the New York Giants charmed the crowd with his wit and sincerity in a brief ceremony held in front of the national base ball hall of fame and museum. Vito Marcantonio Dies Suddenly New York (JP).

Former Rep. Vito Marcantonio, fiery, left-wing New Yorker, fell dead on a rain swept street today. The diminutive, 51-year-old former legislator was in the middle of a comeback effort. Defeated in 1950 by a Republican-Democrat-Liberal coalition, he was running again for Congress as candidate of the independent "Good Neighbor Party." Marcantonio represented an east Harlem district for 14 years. For many years until last November, he headed the American Labor party, which sponsored Henry Wal lace's presidential campaign in New York state.

water supply will also come up for approval by the city council. The detailed investigation will be made of projects settled on by the city water commission, after an exhaustive study of possibilities set forth in a state report on Santa Cruz county's water resources issued last December. The water commissioners, to hold their regular meeting this Thursday night, are slated to discuss the start of the engineering exploration of recommended sites, City Water Superintendent Weston Webber said. Special Polio Drive Will Start Monday An emergency, two-week summer March of Dimes will open next Monday, to raise the additional $20,000 needed for all over the country for this year's polio prevention, patient care and research programs. Santa Cruz County March of Dimes Chairman Walter Betten-court today announces there will be an intensive drive here to help raise the money.

Carrying a heavy load this year, the Santa Cruz County chapter of the National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis used up all its share of the funds raised in last winter's regular campaign last March, pptn-court said. Since then national headquarters has given the chapter here back more than $10,000 to fight polio in Santa Cruz county. This year is the sixth year that Santa Cruz county has had to call on national headquarters for additional funds, Bettencourt observed. In all. he said, the county has spent as much as it has taken in for the battle against the crippling disease through that period.

Santa Cruz county citizens, at the close of this year's drive, had raised an all-time high of $27,182.77 for the March of Dimes. A third of this remained in the county, to be used up within a month after the drive closed. Calling on Santa Cruzans to give their generous support to the forthcoming emergency drive, Bettencourt asserted that the staggering costs of patient care and a two-point polio prevention program can be met only by success of the special two-week drive all over the nation. 30 Killed In Azores Crash Terceira Island, Azores LW. A Colombian Constellation airliner crashed and burned here early today, killing all 21 passengers and its crew of 9.

The bodies burned to ashes. At Madrid, Barajas airport spokesmen listed an American among the crew members. He was identified as Herbert Hopkins, an engineer. No home address was given. The Colombian Avianca Air Line said two of the passengers.

Franklin Prager and Ge rtrude Prager, were believed to be Americans. Its list indicated Franklin Prager lived in New York. There were two infants among the passengers, mostly Latin Americans and Spaniards. The plane was enroute from Hamburg to Bogota, the Colombia capital. Unable to make its scheduled landing at the Azores' main international airport at Santa Maria because of thick fog, it made its way here and landed at Terceira's La-gens air field.

The plane took off again for Bermuda. A minute or two later it crashed in the hills about 2Vz miles north of the airfield and burst into flames. Apparently failing to gain sufficient altitude, it had struck Mt. Illha Terceira about 100 feet from the summit. Last Rites Held For Emilie Dionne Callander, Ont.

(P). Emilie Dionne was laid to rest today in a little burial ground not far from the frame home where she and her quintuplet sisters were born 20 years ago. She was buried in a party dress of light blue crepe, a white rosary in hr hands. Hundreds watched as the grey metal casket was lowered into the earth of the small Roman Catholic cemetery at Corbeil. The surviving quintuplets Yvonne, Annette, Cecile and Marie sobbed bitterly during the committal service.

Few eyes were dry when it ended. TO FILE MURDER CHARGE AGAINST MRS. GLOSS Menlo Park Eh. Dist. Atty.

Keith C. Sorenson said a murder complaint will be filed this afternoon against Mrs. Doris Gloss, accusing her of the pistol slaying of her "best friend," Mrs. Patricia Oberhaus, 36. Communist Yugoslavia a step clos er to the Western orbit.

It also links Yugoslavia indirectly with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, although she is not a NATO member. Cautiously worded, the pact pledges the three countries allegiance to the United Nations and protects Greek and Turkish obligations to NATO without committing Yugoslavia to a direct part in that security program. At the same time, however, the new treaty clearly aimed at arranging military collective insurance against the threat of Comin-form aggression, and was another step by Yugoslavia to closer collaboration with the West since its feud started with Moscow in 1948. In pooling armed forces of the three nations that may total more than one million men, the alliance bolsters one of the soft spots in Europe's defenses. Delay Action On Signing Checks For Legislative Wives Sacramento W.

Controller Rob ert C. Kirkwood said today no ac tion on pay checks for wives of 37 assemblymen and senators would be taken until an opinion is handed down by the state attorney general's office. Kirkwood, Atty. Gen. Edmund G.

Brown, and legislative leaders discussed the question over the weekend. The controller said Brown requested more time to review the problem before delivering an opinion as to the legality of legislative wives drawing state pay working for their husbands as part-time secretaries. The salary freeze resulted from a San Diego trial in which Assemblyman Edwin S. Bulen was acquitted of charges of receiving salary kickbacks. Six Injured In Freeway Collision Six persons suffered minor injuries in a two-car collision on the freeway at the Bay avenue intersection at 5:45 p.m.

yesterday, highway patrolmen reported. Officers said the accident occurred when a car driven by Caryl R. Lindsay, 48, of Stockton, made a left turn in front of a car driven by Elza M. Foust, 43. of Modesto.

Foust, who was southbound in the freeway's outside lane, was unable to stop in time to avoid hitting Lindsay's vehicle, officers Both drivers and these passengers were taken by Perrigo ambulance to the Santa Cruz hospital for treatment of minor injuries after the wreck: Otea Couter, 54; Bessie Lindsay, 44, and Mary Bos-worth, 74, all of Stockton; and Le-land P. Foust, 49, and Robert Foust, 15, both of Modesto. Lindsay will be charged with making an improper turn, investigators said. Gene K. Vaughn, 19, of 615 Lighthouse avenue, escaped injury when his car went off Highway 9 and down a bank, a mile north of Boulder Creek, at 3 a.m.

yesterday, patrolmen said. Another car went down a bank at 6 p.m. yesterday on Hecker pass. The driver, Frederick Schalow, 22, of Watsonville, was unhurt, investigators reported. Valley Water Board Meets Tonight On Purchase Project Directors of the San Lorenzo Valley county water district are slated to meet tonight at 8 o'clock in the Ben Lomond hall to hold further discussion on the water report prepared by Consulting Engineer John C.

Luthin. Recommendations regarding the purchase of the Citizens Utility company in the valley by the water district will probably come up tonight, according to W. P. Wilkinson, secretary of the water district. index Page Amusements 6 Classified Section 8-9-10 Comics 7 Editorial Features 11 Markets 10 Radio and TV Programs 10 Society, Club News 3 Sports 6 Vital Statistics 10 dogs were being treated by veterinarians.

The dogs were trained to guide blind persons. Sinykin, who has trained 800 such dogs, is training director for the Master Eye Foundation of America. (AP Wirephoto) Knowland and Sen. Thomas H. Kuch.

as well as most Republican leaders in California, endorsed Knight's candidates early. Nixon remained silent on his preferences, if any. Hillings complained the governor and Knowland had failed to consult California's 19 Republican congressmen before publicly throwing their support to Caldecott and Ahmanson. He said 15 members of the delegating favored Arbuthnot. Knowland replied that "no person has been denied a voice or a vote in any matter" before the meeting.

He said it was unusual for a governor to recommend party officers. The senate majority leader took the floor and quickly turned back a move by Hillings for a secret ballot on the party election. He did it simply by asking for a roll call on the motion. Hillings then withdrew it. The congressman who was elected to Nixon's old seat in the house, accused the Knight-Knowland forces of "dictation" and heavy pressure.

He said he wanted a sec ret ballot because many delegates were "atraid to show their opposition to the governor. The Democrats agreed on Roger Kent of Kentfield, Marin county, for vice chairman. Kent, Graves' Northern California campaign chairman, succeeds Clinton Mc-Kinnon, Los Angeles publisher. Mrs. Snyder takes over as chairman from State Sen.

Georse Miller Jr. of Martinez. The two parties adopted their state platforms Saturday nieht. Re publicans spoke of themselves as the "party of accomplishment." Democrats, with more nominees going into the November runoff than ever before, predicted Cali fornia voters will no longer accent the bankrupt promises" of the GOP. The Democrats, by resolution, endorsed promoter George H.

McLain's proposal for a $100 floor for old age aid now $80. Republicans urged reform of state liquor control. The Democrats refused to withdraw support from Bonelli's candidacy for re-election to the state liquor authority. Police Fear Missing Girl Kidnaped North Bergen, N. J.

VP). Police searched through boggy mead-owlands in the rain today and ques tioned children at an orphanage in an effort to locate 3-year-old Sharon Yacko, feared kidnaped from the home Friday night. Sharon, a tiny blue-eyed blonde, was last seen at 10:30 p.m. Friday by a nun who made a bed check of the second-floor dormitory where the child slept in the Barbara Giv-ernaud Orphanage. Police officials called it a "def inite case of kidnaping." The search has turned up only a strange footprint on an orphan age rug.

Police believe it is the abductor's track. In questioning some of the home's approximately 90 children, they heard a story from one child that she saw a man come into the dormitory and get Sharon during the night. By Morrie Landsberg Sacramento UP). Gov. Knight and Sen.

William F. Knowland, teaming to defeat a challenge by friends of Vice President Nixon, commanded full control of California's Republican party today. Delegates who failed to halt the election of the Knight-Knowland slate of GOP officers yesterday denied Nixon was behind the maneuver with an eye on the 1956 presidential race. But the action was generally interpreted as the first move toward control of the second-largest delegation to the national convention. Knight, who promised a "fight to the finish" with the "Nixon team," rebuffed demands to say Nixon himself was not involved in the party fight.

Democrats squelched the attempt by their gubernatorial nominee, Richard P. Graves, to handpick the party's chairman. Instead of taking Assemblyman William A. Munnell of Montebello, they elected the first woman ever to head a major party in California. The top Democratic post went to Mrs.

Elizabeth Snyder of Los Angeles, an energetic 40-year-old blonde. She won out over Graves, objections that she was dominated by William G. Bonelli, whose southern California board of equalization district is being probed for liquor license irregularities. Untrue, she said of Graves' charge. The Republicans named Thomas W.

Caldecott, a tall, 39-year-old assemblyman and a warm supporter of former Gov. Earl Warren, to lead them for the next two years. He was the unopposed choice to succeed film actor George Murphy of Beverly Hills. The Republican state central committee meeting brought the first open scramble for power between the Knight-Knowland and Nixon elements since Chief Justice Warren relinquished state party leadership last fall. The battle actually centered on the vice chairmanship.

The reason: Both parties alternate their officers between northern and southern California, and Nixon support is concentrated in the south. To replace northerner Caldecott as vice chairman, Knight and Knowland insisted on Howard Ahmanson, a quiet-spoken Los Angeles insurance broker who headed the governor's recent primary campaign in southern California. Ahmanson swept in by acclamation after his opposition crumbled and Ray Arbuthnot, Loff Angeles county rancher and 1952 Nixon campaign official, withdrew. Beaten in their demand for a secret ballot, the Arbuthnot adherents thereby avoided a roll call show of strength or weakness. Rep.

Patrick J. Hillings of Arcadia, a close friend of Nixon, and Rep. Carl Hinshaw of Pasadena, leading the fight for Arbuthnot, asserted that Knight had threatened political reprisals against those who opposed his slate. The governor denied it. He refused a request by the Hillings group to disavow his statement that Murray Chotiner, Nixon's 1950 senatorial and 1952 vice presidential campaign manager, broke an agreement to support Caldecott and Ahmanson.

Chotiner contended there was never any such agree ment It was at this same meeting that Knight rejected Hillings' demand to say that the vice president had nothing to do with the party hassle. saint. Portraying Father Crespi at the forthcoming "Parade of Pioneers" at the dedication ceremonies at Henry Cowell Redwoods state park next Sunday is Santa Cruz' well known photographer, Ed Webber, shown above. up public confidence in the judiciary system by removing key county officers from any connection with the investigation. Circuit Solicitor Arch Ferrell, who later identified himself as the prime suspect in the Patterson murder, has been replaced by Johnson, the Athens, solicitor with a reputation for strict honesty.

The former Russell county grand jury, which had reported it could find no evidence of gambling, was also thrown out along with the three-man jury commission. A new jury commission appointed by the governor filled the jury box with names recommended by the Russell County Betterment association. Judge Jones was sent in by the state supreme court to replace Russell Circuit Judge J. B. Hicks.

When martial law was proclaimed 18 days ago, county and city law officers were relieved of duty and their weapons. National guardsmen have since arrested several public officials as well as gambling figures on charges of election law violations and gambling. East Santa Cruz Businessmen Plan Sales Campaigns Plans for the fall sales campaign and the annual Christmas shopping project will be discussed tonight at the meeting of the East Santa Cruz Businessmen's association. President Ralph Castro said the association will introduce several new members tonight. The meeting will be held at the East Side fire station, starting at 8 o'clock.

Three Killed In Yosemite Crash Madera UP). Two youths and a girl were killed early yesterday when their convertible plunged off the Yosemite highway near Oak-hurst A fourth passenger was seriously injured. The dead are the driver, James Girodo, 22; Elaine Bernard, 19; and Ernest Gagle, 21, all were of Fresno. Carol Stump, 21, of Fresno, was injured. Highway patrolmen said the car plunged into a deep ravine.

The Stump girl was thrown from the car, they said, and her cries attracted a resident of the area. The others had been dead four or five hours. Phenix City, Ala. Eh. The brutal underworld here "is on the run," an emergency grand jury was tnld this mnrninff.

and now is the time to strike it down forever "with every arm and power of the law." The stern remarks of Special Judge Walter R. Jones came just before the hand-picked Russell county grand jury went into secret session to discover, if possible, who killed A. L. Patterson and root out the fantastic factors that led to his death. The 18 jurors then retired with Special Solicitor George C.

Johnson who called the investigative body back into session after a recess since July 21. Judge Jones called the Phenix City situation a "harvest of Hell and tragedy" that has helped put many "lifeless bodies under the ground." Some 125 witnesses have been served with almost 3000 subpoenas to give evidence which might help rid Russell county of a criminal colony that has proven time and again it will stop at nothing. Patterson's murder last June 18 touched off an explosion of outrage that the gamblers and vice lords didn't anticipate. Thus Patterson, who was gunned down in an alley a few days after receiving the Democratic nomination for attorney general, may yet accomplish in death what he had sworn to do had he lived to take office. The Phenix City attorney pledged in his campaign to clean up the notorious community.

There is no telling how long the jury may be in session. State in vestigators have dug up masses of evidence suggesting neglect of duty by public officials as well as plentiful indications of wrongdoings by known vice kings. However, it is the opinion of some court sources that the grand jury will make a partial report within the next 10 days and return indictments against many caught red-handed in the crackdown. Early indictments may also" be brought soon in the murder case. That theory was given a boost last week when acting Atty.

Gen. Bernard Sykes announced that "I won't say we're looking for any more suspects." And Sykes had previously emphasized it was "suspects, plural, and always has been." Today's grand jury meeting came after a sweeping purge completely revised the county's legal setup, long tainted with suspicion of taking orders from racketeers. Even before qualified martial law was declared by Gov. Gordon Persons, the state hastened to build.