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News-Pilot from San Pedro, California • 1

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run Oct 16 HIGH 8:30 am 57 9:09 pm 47 LOW 2:22 am- 10 3:03 pm 02 Oct 17 HIGH 8:56 am 57 9:46 pm 44 LOW 2:48 a 13 3:36 pm 02 Oct 18 HIGH 9:22 am 5 6: 10:24 pm 41 LOW 3:13 am 16 4:11 pm 03 5 0 Sin Pedro Dally News Established 1901 San Pedro Daily Pilot Established 1909 New Series: Vol 32 No 19-1 10 Pages TErminal 2-0221 'Contactee' Turns Author Bremen REVELATIONS OPEN NEW WORLD FOR RH MOM Wife Girl Wrangle Foothill Cifies Fire Threat Said Checked LOS ANGELES (AP) Firefighters got a break in the weather today as they sought to halt a hungry brush fire destroying valuable watershed above Los Angeles foothill towns Winds died Things are looking more favorable than at any time since the fire started Tuesday BURIAL But blonde Beverly Aadland who was with the actor when he died in Vancouver apparently intends to contest Miss Wymores rights She said she and the 50-year-old Flynn planned to marry and live in Jamaica after he obtained his divorce Her mother Florence Aadland said Beverly would bring Flynn's body back to Hollywood Miss Wymore estranged from Flynn for two years declined to comment on the girls plans aside from saying: She seems to be very busy She said that in addition to her HIT-RUN BOATING SUSPECTS SILENT said Dick Johnson Forest Service information officer Threats to populated areas fringing northern Los Angeles were believed past barring unforeseen developments But the flames raged unchecked to the north west and east More than 7200 acres have been burned consisting mostly of scrub brush Another 100 Indians reinforced the firelines today bringing the fire force to 2100 The sprawling fire blamed on a careless smoker had a peri- meter of about 45 miles Fire Fiercest The fire was fiercest on its northwestern front where it pushed into Big Tujunga Canyon Two to three dozen residents of La Paloma Flats in the canyon were evacuated Thursday night and taken to Tujunga in the extreme northeast section of Los Angeles But the fire had reached none of the homes in this area Earlier it had menaced La Canada Altadena and other communities to the southeast toward Los Angeles proper But these areas appeared out of danger PORT PAIR GUILTY OF MURDER A Superior Court jury yesterday found two former San Pedro men guilty of first degree murder in the slaying of Mrs Mildren Ellison 43 in a bungled Long Beach market holdup Sept 15 1956 The men Rudy Enriquez 27 and Ignacio Solorzano 26 also were found guilty of kidnaping for the purpose of committing a robbery Both crimes carry maximum penalties of death in the state gas chamber The 10-woman two-man jury will return to Superior Court Judge Beach Vaseys court Monday to decide whether the pair should die or be sentenced to life imprisonment Prosecution witnesses called to testify during the week-long trial identified the two men as the ones who shot Mrs Ellison i when she walked into the store The major loss so far has not durin7 the holdup The men fled empty-handed after the shooting in a stolen car Enriquez was in San Quentin on a narcotics conviction and been in homes only a few o' which have been damaged but in prime watershed needed as a defense against floods Five more fire fighters were BATTLE plans for Hollywood funeral for Flynn she may arrange memorial rites in Jamaica which Flynn regarded as his home Vancouver crowds flocked to the mortuary to get a glimpse of Flynn's body Police had to lock the building An autopsy showed Flynn had died of coronary thrombosis The coroner said examination showed hardening of the arteries fatty degeneration of the liver and an infection of the lower intestine His was the body of a tired old man old before his time and sick the coroner said by the crafts propeller and taken to Seaside Hospital in critical condition The witnesses also testified that the Morrises were aboard the cruiser moments before the accident Arvey Yeine 13 Manhattan Beach said that the boat which struck the dinghy turned around and picket! up the boy and took him to a nearby landing Veine also testified the couple aboard the craft attempted to rescue the girl The 22-foot cabin cruiser was located Wednesday by Coast Guard officers who found strands of blond hair clinging to its hull Investigators said paint scrapings found on the battered dinghy apparently matched that of the cabin cruis-er At the conclusion of the hearing no charges were filed against the couple The chief investigation officer Cmdr Lionel De Sanfv said the findings would he forwarded to Washington for further study Port Radar Tower Pact Awarded WASHINGTON The Army Engineers have let a contract for construction of a radar tower at the Norad Control Center at San Pedro hill This was disclosed here today i by the Department of Commerce's synopsis of government contract awards The contract for S199779 was awarded to Cantrall Corp of 9510 Rush El Monte The project is part of the Air Force military construction I Iwspitalized bringing the total in- i Solorzano was in county jail on CALLING -II PITER COMM IN JUPITER Actually Gloria lice of Rolling Hills is already in touch through mental telepathy with her correspondent on the planet Jupiter as siie prepares to r-cord and type a message from outer space Gloria as a contactee is serxing here as an instrument" for her out-of-this-w orld friend In such a manner she says she was able to produce the look Why We Are Here which WV wrote for the elucidation of us earth people LONG BEACH (UPI) A Lynwood accountant and his wife identified as owners of the cabin cruiser which critically injured a 13-year-old girl Sunday in Cerritos Channel involved the Fifth Amendment Thursday at a Coast Guard hearing into the crash Harry Morris 44 and his wife 4() gave only their names when called to the stand They declined to testify on grounds that they might incriminate themselves A number of witnesses at the hearing identified the boat registered to the couple as the one that crashed into the dinghy throwing Susan Hamilton and her brother Michael 11 into the water Susan was lacerated Elsie A Muller Services Slated Funeral services will be conducted at 11 am Monday at the Halverson-Leavell Mortuary for Mrs Elsie A Muller 88 of 575 Nineteenth St San Pedro who died yesterday at the Magnolia Hospital Long Beach The Rev Harold Essert will officiate Burial will be in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Glendale Mrs Muller vvas the widow of William Muller who owned the William Muller Shipyard in Wilmington Mr and Mrs Muller were among the early residents of San Pedro having settled here in 1902 She is survived hv two sons Ilenry Muller of Bonsall and William Muller of Whittier: three daughters Miss Margar-ethe Muller and Mrs Roy En-voldsen both of San Pedro and Mrs Walter Ilumes of Belmont Shores five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren The space people are a mil-1 lion years ahead of us" Gloria! says 1 The ex-airline stewardess he-J came space-oriented when Fly-1 ing Saucers or UFOs (UnidenlM fied Flying Objects i wete first popular around 1917 It was some time however before she saw her first flying saucer she says although fellow sieward-i esses and pilots reported seeing them on flights Interested in I Incidentally the space people have heen interested in us earthlings for years Gloria asserts She says that wasnt a wheel Ezekiel saw That was a flying saucer They ju-t didn't know how to describe it in Biblical days Her first contact with was spotty Gloria admits Hut as time went by Glorias vibration became attenuated with Ws" and they really got to hitting it off The rest is history I low do you become a contactee'? Well youve got to have a high "vibration Gloria insists Thats basic If youve got a low vibration you might as well go back to tuning in TV Cause youll never make it with the space people By MLKV KNOBIOCH If you think the space people don't knovvr about us youre in total disagreement with an at-t radix auburn-haired Rolling Hills mother who avers they do And whats more Gloria Lee contends she's been tellng one of the spare folk all about us earth people since 1953 and vice versa For Mrs Lee you see is In the lingo of her space cult a contactee" This means shes In touch with people very very far out of this world The affable 33-year-old mother of two explained the other day how her inter-planetary "contact" has meant a new and crowded life For example it's already meant publication this year by Gloria of a book "Why We Are Here Its also meant the start of the Cosmon Research Foundation of which Gloria is d'rector And it's meant lectiues like the one she'll give tomorrow in K1 Monte Her topic: Revelations from the Spare People on Love Sex and Marriage Iacketl Schedule filer packed schedule has also changed the life of her husband Rill whos borne an increasingly heavy burden of babysitting for the couples two youngsters Jay 3 and Sissi 2 While tol-cran of her enthusiasm for outer space Glora explains that Rill an engineer maintains a scientists aloofness on the subject of space folk) Just whom does Gloria Lee contact in outer space? Shes in touch she explains with a This gentleman makes his home when hes not hovering over our stratoshpere in his space vehicle on the Jupiter How do and communicate? Through or spatial telepathy How often? Da'Iy Gloria states In fact messages between them have teen filing so thick and fast that old his Rolling Hills correspondent to start taking some of it down lor a book Gloria obeyed Hence Why Are We Here" What the hook is about actually Is the gospel of the Universal Law and the New Age which JW" and the space people are supposed to omt-iod' in their etheric" or cosmic beings Complex Doctrine For exoter'c earth people that Is those of us who aren't contact eos the doctrine gets quite complicated and baffling (Gloria obliges readers of Why We Are Here" with charts and diagrams to help exnlaln i But the gist of it all seems to he that we earth people haven't seen anything vet and It will be a long time before we reach their level of development Union Port Shipyards to Renew Talks Officials of Shipyard Union Local 9 and representatives of Todd Shipyard have set a tentative meeting date of Oct 22 for continuation of contract talks John Christian union executive secretary said today The meeting date hinges on the availability of federal conciliator Earl Ruddy who is presently attempting to settle an agricultural dispute in Indio A tentative meeting between the union and Bethlehem Shipyards also has been scheduled for Oct 2f or 27 Christian said The meetngs if held on the tentative dates will he the first bargaining talks between the union and companies in more than a month Further talks have heen delayed pending the outcome of contract discussions in the San Francisco area where union members will vote tomorrow on company proposals Employees at Todd and Bethlehem have heen working on a day-to-day basis since their contracts expired Aug 5 Truman Sneaks on Texas Tour LUBBOCK Tex AP) Former President Harry Truman has a speech-making Texas tour starting today with additional appearances before newsmen and TV' cameras Trumans Texas trip will he climaxed in Dallas Saturday night at a statewide Democratic rally Truman was due in Lubbock after a stop in Dallas during which he wa to meet the press and have lunch 'ith friends and members of the Truman Rally Committee Then he returns to Dallas juries so far to 10 Heavy Vote Seen in Union Election More than 2000 memhers of the Cannery Workers Union of the Pacific cast ballots yesterday in the heaviest day of voting recorded since elections began Wednesday The voting for all top union offices is being conducted at the Union Hall 450 Seaside Ave Terminal Island Ballots will be counted tonight after the polls close at 7 pm Tom Ivey president of the union said he expected at least 90 per cent turnout of members at the polls The union has about 4700 members Included in the offices open to candidates are president vice president business agent financial recording secretary treasurer board of trustees and executive board narcotics addiction when they were charged with the holdup murder Bing Crosby Goes for Pound Cake HOUSTON Tex UP) Bing Crosby is fond of pound cake his mother-in-law confides I So Mrs Grandstaff had her sister Frances Sullivan baka one and they carried it aboard Ian airliner which took them to Los Angeles Thursda3 Crosby's infant daughter Marv Frances was to be christened there today Mrs Grandstaff is the mother of Bings wife actress Kathv Grant ROYAL TOWAWAY LONDON (AP) Hugh Gait-skell leader of Her Majestys loyal opposition had to take a taxi to the House of Commons today His own car had been towed away by police The offense: Parking in no parking area FLYNN HOLLYWOOD (AP) Errol Flynn's estranged third wife and his 17-year-old protege are both determined to take charge of his funeral services in Hollywood Patrice Wymore flew here Thursday from Washington to arrange the final rites for the swash-buckingling actor who died of a heart attack in Vancouver BC Wednesday night Asked where Flynn would be buried the pale trembling Miss Wymote said she is making arrangements to have the body brought to Hollywood i EC Spires Named to Ports Post Dr Elton Spires yesterday was elected a vice president of the Pacific Coast Assn of Port Authorities which is meeting this week at Vancouver Dr Spires is vice president of the Los Angeles Harbor Commission He is past president of the San Pedro Chamber of Commerce past president of the San Pedro Optimist Club and past district governor and vice president of Optimists International He is also a past chairman of the San Pedro YMCA board ol governors Dr Spires his wife Helen and three sons reside at 1149 Fiber-on Ave San Pedro Two other port representatives are also attending the annual convention They are Arthur Nordstrom harbor department attorney and John Parkinson assistant general manager of the harbor department Elected president of the association was II Sanderson chairman of the port of Stock-ton and secretary-treasurer Pope also of Stockton HEATHER lav Angeles and vicinity: Hazy sunshine today and Saturday but late night and early morning fog near the coast Slightly cooler today with high near 85 Ixm tonight 62 Coastal valleys: Sunny with a little early morning fog lower wrtions today and Saturday slightly cooler today of government whether it be for new taxes or atomic problems if they know the facts "We must do away with the document of executive to without reports he added "and return to the individual' privilege of being allowed to the facts whether good or bad It was obvious that many newspapermen in the room felt there is some justification in government to keep some documents secret for security or other reasons An alert press is a safeguard against news blackouts solely for political considerations Carroll Parcher president of the California Newspaper Publishers Association and a Copley publisher was toastmaster National Newspaper week focuses attention on the nations newspapers and their role in keeping the public informed Shostakovich to Make Tour WASHINGTON (AP) Dmitri Shostakovich and four other leading Soviet composers arrive a week from today for a cultural exchange tour They'll visit New York Washington San Francisco Los Angeles Louisville Philadelphia and Boston Several concerts have been arranged to feature their compositions CROWN PRINCE CALLS WASHINGTON (AP) The crown prince of Ethiopia Asfa Wossen Haile Selassie paid a cou sy call on President Eisenhower today Crowd Roars at Skelton Quips in Newspaper Week Fete cratic government which withholds facts from the people We must fight secrecy" at every level he said especially in Washington Informed people he continued will respond to challenges By BEN NT' PEREZ Even a $125) a plate tab did not keep California's publishers from ushering in National Newspaper Week wdth an awards banquet last night at the Beveiiy Ililton Hotel Most of the publishers brought key members of their staffs and rented tuxedos flowed like bees at blossom time from second hand cars onto the rit7v parking lot More than 600 persons jammed into the plush International Ballroom to hear speeches witness a drum dance by an 11 year old South Korean girl and roar to the quips of Red Skelton Quite a few of the press crowd accidentally walked into the Grand Ballroom instead of the International Ballroom and enjoyed free drinks and canapes until they discovered they were attending a Puerto Rico convention party The Puerto Ricans were not wearing tuxedos and thought the "fancy freeloaders were guests of honor There was a serious note in a hich controversial talk by Virgil Miller Newton Jr managing editor of the Tampa Tribune and vice president of the National Journalism Fraternity Sigma Delta Chi Newton blasted "Bureau Rare Ocean Fish MALIBU (AP) A rarely-caught deepsea fish was reeled in by a fisherman using cut perch for bait The 55-pound Louvar Imperialis which resembles a dolphin was hooked Thursday by Gary Antoine Malibu It was only the 17th of the species caught on the west coast a state marine biologist said MAE'S REMARKS ON MEN BRING TV SHOW BAN NEW YORK (UPI) The "Person to Person television program has cancelled tonights scheduled appearance of Mae West The Columbia Broadcasting System in announcing the cancellation Thursday said it was felt that certain portions of the interview with Miss West 6G might be misconstrued In a private showing of the interview to the press host Charles Coilingwood introduced the stage screen and nightclub personality as the woman who made a career of kidding sex Miss West said she read "biographies metaphysics and psychology "Straight fiction? Colling-wood asked Never I can dream up my own she replied "Foreign affairs? Ive always had a weakness for foreign affairs Man in space? "Man in space is a waste of man I mean Before the interview ended Miss 'Vest also informed Collin ewood that: There are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin "A man in the house is better than two on the street "Td rather have life in my men than a man in my life facilities for 1200 boys and 1200 girls The school buildings being constructed on three different levels will he built of frame stucco and some concrete The school is scheduled for occupancy in February 1961 (News-Pilot Thoto) JUNIOR HIGH PROGRESS Workmen prepare foundations for the centrally located administration building of the new $3000000 Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson Junior High School at Montereina Dr in northwest San Pedro In the background is the physical education building which will have locker 4.

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