Ventura County Star from Ventura, California • 1

Ss ON THE INSIDE VENTURA (Official Name San Buenaventura) CALI RIDAY JUNE 28 1946 SEVENTY IRST YEAR No 197 i ATE OPA UNDECIDED Newton Admits Killing Italian Colonial Pie Slice Sought cities channels on WASHINGTON (UR) William Hart jr Refuses To Discuss ather's Will ftW Estate Left By amed Movie Cowboy dr 'a $1000000 1 as fol Si week and a time in 13 12 15 16 SOURCES estimated than 100000 hogs and Atomic Cancer Treatment Aired meat ranges for this year with 132 pounds last west built open Passing scene Women's news Sports Amusements Comics 1 Editorial 7 HOLLYWOOD (UR) Wil liam Hart jr 24 angrily bar ricaded himself behind locked doors today and refused to dis cuss his will which cut him off without a cent and left hlmost $1000000 to found Mem orial Parks in the late name Terms of the document filed yesterday in probate court ob viously came as a great surprise to the young government work er who only last week lost a court battle for custody of his fortune Witnesses at the hearing said young Hart never wrote his fath er except to ask for money The tremendous estate built up when thefamous western star Closing Dow Jones averages: Industrials 20562 up 059 Rails 6581 off 07 Utilities 4210 up 015 Volume 1010000 PARIS (UR? Secretary of State James Byrnes served notice on the other Big cur ministers today that he would demand a de cision tomorrow on the calling of a 21 nztion peace conference HAL MEAT MARTS CLOSED THE WEATHER was tracking down badmen and Indians on the movieland range for a fabulous S10000 a week went largely to Los Angeles county on the condition it be maintained in memory Hart name was conspicu ous by its absence on the list of bequests He was mentioned only once when the late actor ex plained why he was cutting him off provided for him amply? during my he said in the will He made no specific mention of money gifts present ed his son during his lifetime 1 But in the next paragraph old two gun Bill whose mind was almost as quick as his trigger finger forestalled any effort on page 4 page 6 page page page page who confessed the awaited sentence on raping his daughter stuck firmly to his he found Suzanne TOKYO (UPJ ormer Jap anese leet Admiral Osami Na gano a defendant in the war crimes trial has assumed for the surprise at tack on Pearl harbor the news paper Mainichi said today The Mainichi said Nagano made his admissions in a letter address ed to Defense Counsel Hachiro Okuyama Nagano was indicted largely be cause of resulting from the Pearl harbor attack and that he wished to state his attitude to wards the raid the paper said The letter was quoted lows: sanctioned the Pearl attack campaign Since purely a matter of naval HIl sas Wii pARIS GW Russia sprang a surprise demand today for a share in 1 the control of the Italian colonies during the next year while their ultimate fate is being decided The Soviet request for a finger in the tat an colony pie was made at a nieeting'of the' colonial committee of the council of foreign ministers The Russians refused to agree to (XEA Telephoto) UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHY AT Underwater pho tographer working on diving stage at Bikini practices for his coming role in photographing the results of the atom bomb Un derwater photography largely developed by the bureau of ord nance for its mine disposal service during the war will now go to work for science JIIOIS gHU awasta yENTURA rambunc tious Lena has its first post war assignment! Lena a battered but faithful old jiloppy painted a myriad of gaudy colors came out of re tirement last night to herald the July 4 festival being staged at Portuguese Crown Club hall Oxnard by AMVETS Its own er caretaker and former GI Ralph Shaffer was glad to get at the controls of Lena once more after a long absence in the ETO The bucking rough riding novelty car made its first ap pearance a number of years ago when Shaffer bolted and wired it together for entrance in an Oxnard Elks harvest festival parade Rivalling the antics of any circus contraption the car became an integral part of all Oxnard affairs Its popularity grew and it came to Ventura on several oc casions once on a political mis sion and even got as far as Santa Barbara and Santa Moni Ex GI's Kangaroo Car Makes Post War Debut iSfiEl Ren George Outland yesterday filed a discharge petition to force minimum wage legislation before the house as only hope of getting any minimum wage law before this session of Outland was delegated to file the petition by some 90 members of an unofficial house steering committee seeking passage of the reconversion measures Outland wants to force out of the labor committee a bill by Rep rank Hook Mich to in crease minimum wages to 65 cents an hour now and 75 cents in two years and to increase the cover age of the law to include maritime workers agricultural processing workers and certain groups of store employes Report Heard Doctors Say Siam King Murdered SHANGHAI The Cen tral News agency reported from Bangkok today unconfirmed re ports that a committee of doctors had decided the death of King Anananda Mahidol of Siam was not an accident but murder The committee of 19 doctors including an American and a Bri tisher completed their postmortem and submitted their finding to the royal commission of inquiry The postmortem considered among other things the rays on the head and a ballistics tests of the pistol found near the his part to contest it hearby bequeath the sum of $1 to whoever might attempt to break this he ordered His son was not hapnvlast night j' shut he 'growled into the telephone have ab solutely nothing to And he slammed down the receiver imagine he will contest the one of his attorneys Bu ron itts said think some outside influence may have been brought to bear on his father The a pretty good The biggest chunk of his es tate to be turned into a memorial 'park was his 200 acre "Hill of The Ranch in Newhall 20 miles north of Hollywood Other heirs to the fortune included: Mrs rances' Viereck his sister S50000 grandnieces Maryellcn Hogen and' Beatrice Hunt S5000 each the Commercial club of Billings Mont $5000 for chari table use and the American Society for the Prevention of cruelty to animals $50000 ive thousand dollar bequests went to the Players club the Masquers' club and the fund of New York: $2000 to St Episcopal church of Los Angeles: $3000 to ather Neal Dodd of Hollywood and $2000 to the Braille Institute for the Blind 19311 ca where Elks of those took advantage of its kangaroo like cavorting 4 Lena was put out to pasture when Shaffer became an air? Uorce ground crew member and went to England and 'Europe Now after using his mechanic al ability to keep the big bombers in the air Shaffer has returned to his Port Hueneme garage and to Lena As chairman of the member ship committee and third president of AMVETS Shaffer is anxious to make the July 4 festival of the organization a success And Lena happy as a young colt to be back in harness is helping him to spread the word Placards on the side of the ja loppy will inform passersby and bystanders that the festi val with barbecue games and a dance will be held all day July 4 at the Crown Club hall on Woolley road and that tick ets are on sale byv AMVETS members REDWOOD CITY Vohres Newton former coast guards man today confessed that he killed his two infant daughters and at tempted to kill his wife with a blunt instrument last Tuesday in a lonely canyon near the rugged San Mateo county coast line Deputy District Attorney red Wycoff announced THE 24 YEAR old Oakland Gla zier broke down and admitted the brutal murders as he viewed the bodies of his two infants Barbara Ann 23 months and Caroline Lee 7 months at a mortuary at Bur lingame 10 miles north of here Earlier Newton after hours of questioning admitted to authori ties: might have done it I remember killing them but no one else could have done it I must have done Authorities grilled him inces santly since he was arrested in a dazed blood soaked condition near Lake Tahoe in Nevada Wednesday night' He had a laceration over his right eye and a brused back after he apparently had attempted suicide by jumping off a rock With his wife Lorraine 23 still in critical condition in Community hospital at San Mateo with a de pressed skull fracture authorities took him to view the bodies of the infants Their skulls were fractur ed as if struck with a claw ham mer THE BODIES were found Tues day afternoon in a clump of weeds and wild lilies Whether or not the accused fath er makes any additional today he will be taken to Half Moon bay for arraignment on two charges of murder and one of attempted murder His wife remained in a critical condition and doctors have given her a 50 50 chance' for recovery Authorities have refrained from further questioning of the mother who was found wandering in a dazed condition near the place where her bodies were discovered Wyckoff said that 24 hours of almost constant questioning had yielded several new angles to the case in addition to pur ported confession SPEAKING in quiet tones the stocky youth told police yesterday that he had taken his family down the peninsula Monday to look at a home in San Bruno he was con sidering He said he had engaged in a violent argument with his wife over a proposed abortion had a heated Newton said the time we left the office in San rancisco untit we were well down the coast was very heated I remember parking the car while we argued all 1 1 until I woke up on a park bench in 0 Man Killed Instantly In Auto Train Crash GLENDALE Harry rancy 52 was killed instantly last night when his automobile was struck at a crossing by the Southern Daylight Lim ited The wrecked car was dragged about 1000 feet before the train was brought to a halt by Engineer Alford of Bakersfield police said 10 Child Health Conferences Set (See Picture Page 8) LAS VEGAS After failing for the second day to spot their driftwood raft from the air searching pilots today expressed fears that Mrs Georgie White 35 and Harry Aleson 42 may have lost their lives in trying to shoot the Colorado river rapids They began their five day jour ney last weekend The raft should have been vis ible from the air the pilots said but their all day patrol of the 81 mile river course from the Dia mond Creek Utah junction to Boulder City Nev did not reveal a trace of the couple Mrs White a Los Angeles res ident said before beginning the trip with Aleson a veteran river man from' Richmond Utah that they both would wear life preserv ers in case their raft was splin tered by the jagged bould ers Last year they made a slightly shorter passage through the rapids with nothing but life preservers keeping them afloat 0 Navy Recruiting Office To Stay Open Sunday LOS ANGELES (UR) recruiting offices will remain open Sunday to give navy enlistees their last chance to sign up in time to receive wartime family allowances during their enlistments After the Sunday midnight deadline men enlisting in the naw will get pre war pay rates which do not allow S50 for one dependent S30for the second and $20 for each additional as do the wartime rates Men enlisting before the dealine however will receive the wartime allowances throughout their en listments which may be as long as six years SAN RANCISCO The first practical application of atomic research by products to the treat ment of cancer was reported today with' the announcement of suc cessful use of radioactive phosp horous on skin cancers at the uni versity of California medical school Dr Bertram Low beer associate professor of radiology informed the North American Radium Society that the radioactive phos phorus treatment was as good as any now known but he declined to say that it was better than rays radium or surgery He emphasized that the treat ment was applicable only to sup erficial skin cancers and warts He warned against any hope that it can be applied in the near fu ture to deep seated tumors Low beer revealed that 301 cases of superficial skin cancer and warts have been treated with out publicity in medical research here since 1941 Another 100 patients have been treated recently but have not been under observation long enough to show conclusive results (NEA Telephoto) ATHER HELD OR CHILD SLAYINGS Vorhes Newton 24 (right) who confessed the murders of his infant daughters is turned over to Sheriff Kenison of Placer coun ty (left) by Constable Harry Johansen of Tahoe City (center) Newton will be taken to San Mateo county jail in Redwood City Calif His 21 year old wife Lorraine is in a semi coma in a San Mateo hospital She had been severely beaten possibly with a clawhammer NEW A predic tion that automobile output will rise substantially in the final half of 1946 and a gain of 24 to 28 per 1 cent in retail trade throughout the nation helped the stock mar 1 ket to advance again today The main list of prices rose fractions to more than a point with a long list of specialties scoring gains ranging to 19 points in Hazel Atlas Glass which re sponded to announcement of plans for a 5 for stock split up Chrysler ran up more than a point in its group as au tomotive reports predicted that car production in the next six months will double the figures for the half year just closed and reported a rise of 10320 units in production for the past week 0 $2000000 Hotel Opens in San Diego SAN DIEGO The first large postwar hotel Imig Manor officially Costing $2000000 the hotel has 180 units under its block square colonial style roof In the center is a large patio with a swimming pool and two outdoor dining and dancing halls 1 wenty two shops line the block and one half of corridor on the main floor Ten child health conferences have been scheduled by the Ven tura county health department for July The conferences will be held for the main part from 1 to 1:30 pm Clinics will be held as follows: July 1 Moorpark high school July 3 Oxnard Ramona school July 12 Nordhoff grammar school Ojai July 15 Santa Paula Meth odist Episcopal church July 16 federal housing community build ing Port Hueneme July 24 Somis school and July 25 Roosevelt school Oxnard A clinic will be held in room two Washington school on July 2 and at May Henning school on July 9 interested persons being asked to telephone 6131 station 51 for appointments Parents who wish to have their children attend the oster school clinic on July 23 are asked to telephone 5084 for appointments The regular immunization clinic will be held at the health depart ment office from 9 am until noon on July 5 HUSBANDLESS HOLLYWOOD (UR) Diana Barrymore who left Hollywood for Las Vegas Nev a month ago with a husband came back today without one Stargazer Saw POLICE CHIE SAM PRIM MER of Santa Paula helping to haul in 13 halibut on his day off yesterday COUNTY MEAT SHOPS BARE Meat in Ventura county today was nearly all on the' hoof and a check of meat wholesalers reveal ed that it most likely will stay that way until the present OPA wrinkles are ironed out Butcher shops throughout the county were either closed or were selling only cold cuts Very few if any had more than 10 percent of their usual supply of meat this week Cold storage lockers and slaughter houses were inactive MEANWHILE tons beef graz ed in the county while cattle ranchers kept an eye on the news papers and radios for word of the OPA bill progress There were numerous reports that if OPA price control remained at former levels meat supply would be improved very little One meat supply house operator said he was flooded with calls for meat and several people had be come irate and had attempted to enter his locker room to see if he was hiding meat from them just are he explain ed are no cattle avail MEAT MARKETS were open ing two or three days a then only a half day at many instances Restaurant supply were operating on a meager basis with some meat available but gradually declining The OPA bill still was before congress and there was no indica tion whether President Truman will approve or veto the re hash ed and badly battered measure No improvement in the meat sit uation locally is expected until satisfactory price levels are reach ed Aircraft Show Date Postponed Till Spring LOS ANGELES (UR) ponement of the Los Angeles na tional aircraft show from next November to spring 1947 to in sure a more elaborate program was announced today by aircraft shows director Clyde Vande burg A series of preliminary events during the fall and winter will lead up to the spring show cham ber of commerce president Leroy Edwards said 1 1 Suspect Vague pHOENIX Ariz Ed Healy assistant attorney trom Chicago expressed belief to day that Richard sto ry of kidnaping and butchering ouzanne uegnan is too contraaic ary ro warrant extraaition but added through with im Healy made the statement after a disclosure from Chicago that the two other Chicago officials here to question Thomas Detectives John A Olson and Allman had notified attorney Wil liam Tuohy by telephone that they would return home tonight without Thomas HEALY SAID it was felt that would be the result but added an other intensive questioning is planned today He indicated the trio of officers probably would re linquish claim to the 42 year old suspect but would obtain more samples of his handwriting for study by the ederal Bureau of Investigation The two detectives said they told Tuohy that Thomas did not disclose any details during ques tioning last night that he could not have read in the newspapers THE ONE TIME radio singei is scheduled to be sentenced in Ma ricopa county court here Monday for committing unnatural sex acts against his own 13 year old daughter Patricia Pointing to this fact Olson said will be available if we want him presumably after the BI handwriting check the questions asked it would appear 'fthat IThomas is off the said Shefiif Ernest Roach who joined the question ing with Healy Olson and All man: representative of the Chi cago police commissioner CHICAGO investigators who flew here to check confessioh against facts uncovered in the Jan 6 mutilation slaying "got when they began checking the story yesterday After a few minutes of ques tioning Thomas begged for few He said he was exhausted after a sleepless night He was given a sedative and questioning was resumed at night tau Thomas crime as he Monday for Patricia 13 story that asleep as he prowled through the Degnan home He said he carried her off and cut up her body after she suffocated in a sack 0 harbor it was opera tions nobody else is concerned I am entirely responsible for the Storm Warnings Given In Northern Districts SAN RANCISCO The weather bureau today ordered sou theast storm warnings from Cape Mendocino off the central Califor nia coast to Newport Ore Small craft warnings were ordered from Point Arena to Cape Mendocino and from Tatoosh to Newport A disturbance of moderate in tensity centered about 300 miles west of Newport and the weather bureau said it would move east ward resh to strong southerly winds shifting to the southwest on the Oregon extreme northern California cost were forecast for this afternoon and tonight Cummings Treated for Broken Glass Mishap HOLLYWOOD Actor Robert Cummings who accident ally gulped broken glass for a movie scene was under a care today He was expected to recover without serious effects The accident happened when Cummings slammed down a ther mos bottle in a scene for then took a drink without realizing he had broken it measure the ground that it is this or Barkley called the senate into session an hour earlier than usual to speed final action on the bill but debate still was going strong at mid afternobn Barkley how ever clung to his hopes that the measure would be passed by nightfall President Truman called the to the White House one hour before the senate re newed debate on it QUICK SENATE passage of the OPA extension bill was ex pected following the collapse earlier this morning of the one man filibuster of Sen Lee Tex against it The congressional leaders said President Truman did not indi cate whether he would sign or ve to the measure president asked us down here in good faith for us to give him our best judgment on the Barkley said we gave it to ACCOMPANYING Barkley were Senate President Kenneth McKellar Tenn House Speaker Sam Rayburn Texl and House Democratic Leader John McCormack Mass a Barkley said that if the bill were vetoed and there should be no OPA situation will be in finitely worse than it would be under this 7 He forecast a senate vote on the OPA legislation within two or three hours statement that it would be this bill was taken to indicate that he did not believe the administration could push through a resolution extending OPA as it is should President Truman veto the bill The tired hoarse hungry Tex as efforts to talk OPA to death went down to defeat at 12:10 am just eight hours and 20 minutes after he started his talkathon He had hoped to talk and encourage other anti OPA senators to assist him until Sun day midnight when the present price act expires BUT NO aid to cam paign was forthcoming So he un expectedly quit and agreed to a debate limitation when the sen ate reconvenes today Under the debate limitation agreement obtained by Barkley without objection from the talking Texan senators today will be held to one hour speeches Barkley planned to keen the senate in session until it votes THE MEASURE would extend OPA for one year but require the agency to allow higher prices to compensate producers for increas ed costs Administration stabili zation officials have denounced the bill as widely inflationary but Barkley supports it as the that can be obtained from a badly split congress Acceptance of the trimmed price control bill by the president undoubtedly will cause stabiliza tion chief Chester Bowles to re sign He declared earlier this week that man could expected to administer the by bill 1 0 Automobile Output Expected To Rise BY UNITED PRESS Trade sources reported today that more than half the butcher shops were closed They had no meat to sell al though livestock was reported plentiful on the ranges George Dressier executive sec retary of the National Retail Meat Dealers association said little re leaf could be expected before Seotember Dressier said a nationwide survey of the 58000 members showed that more than half of them closed their butcher shops MEAT SUPPLIES across the nation hit a new low An acute poultry shortage developed in the east Many American families fac ed a meatless weekend The Chicago stockyards pack ing center of the nation received only 2500 head of cattle yester day In normal times 8000 to 15000 arrive Dressier said there was a mini mum per capita supply of 140 pounds of meat available on farms and compared year TRADE that more 50000 to 75000 cattle were being held on midwestern farms while farmers waited to see what was to happen to price control Dressier said his association ex pected a limited of cattle at stockyards after next week when the price control issue will have been decided Osami Nagano Takes Pearl Harbor Blame 1 iii 1 President Urged To Give Approval WASHINGTON (UR) Administration leaders in congress today urged President Truman to sign the OPA extension bill when it reaches him Senate Democratic Leader Alben Barkley Ky said he and the other three of the congres sional had urged President Truman to sign the 'Scattered clouds but ceneralv sunnv £this afternoon and Saturday afternoon but with owclouds or fog tonight and Local early morning drizzles near coast Saturday Little change in temnerature PRICE ROM NEWSBOYS OUR CENTS the maintenance of the present British control of the colonies for the next 12 months The ministers decided last week to put off for a year a decision on the disposa of the colonies and established the committee to plan their ad ministration during the year The committee drew up a re port admitting its failure to reach the agreement which it had been expected to present to the minis ters at their regular meeting later in the day THE MEMBERS of the commit tee are Benjamin Cohen of the United States Gladwyn Jebb of Great Britain Andrei Vishin sky of Russia and Maurice de Couve de Murville of rance At committee meetings of the last three days the British have held out for maintenance of the existing British administration They contended that a year was too short a period in which to make any worthwhile changes HOWEVER Vishinsky on orders insisted on Rus sia participating in the admini stration which he wanted to be by all the Big our Both Cohen and De Murville presented vari ous compromise formulas which Vishinsky refused to accept The council met with the pros pects of trying to clean up the few outstanding clauses of the Roma nian treaty and making another attempt to reach agreement major Italian issues 0 Outland To orce Wage Legislation ear Expressed or Safety Of Couple a Yentu aao unty Star reePress (COUNTY EDITION) ISlIlWB IpBl VS A MBrlBBB 1 mH BBBBBHBB ah hah Ik a di 4 A.