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52-CAR CRASHES JAM ST FWAY Mirror News YOUR INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER VIll -No. 2 In Three Parts WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1955 PART I L.A. WITCH DOCTOR JAILED AFTER WOMAN GOES MAD Raiders Swoop Down on Weird A strange tale of witch a woman driven insane, rest. of short, drapper "doctor" and "preacher." Troncoso, 32, was arrested late yesterday at his chapel and consultation headquarters at 820 Indiana St. He was booked at City Jail on suspicion of malpractice in medicine after a month-long investigation by police, the Sheriff's office and the State Board of Medical Examiners.

With Troncoso when he was arrested was his sobbing wife, Maria, 32, who was holding their youngest, and fourth boy, Oliver, one month old. Police Bunko Squad Lt. Frank Cunningham described Troncoso as an operator 1 who promised to cure any ailment. Cunningham said that one woman, a mother of several children, had finally gone insane, after a long series of treatments by Troncoso. The one phase of the treatment not followed by the woman, Cunningham said, was the work in a brothel recommended by Troncoso.

The "treatment" was to speed return of the woman's lover. Included in "Dr." Troncoso's bag of mystical according to police, were magic powders, magic talismans and fetish dolls into which pins are stuck, supposedly, to produce pain in one's enemies. Troncoso's chapel was varied mixture of the mystical and practical. The walls were painted with Egyptiantype motifs, with serpents and robed, bearded wisemen. To balance this effect, Troncoso had modern bookkeeping machines and material files, adding machines and a good stout safe.

Parked outside was his 1955 Cadillac. Another feature of the place were the one-way mirror-window combinations he had in doors. One of them was in the bathroom door. Said Troncoso: "I'm chartered under the Church of Divine Metaphysics. Outside of that, I'd rather keep my mouth shut." And he did, refusing to discuss prior arrests for petty theft, burglary and bookmaking.

Stocks Go Up $1 to $4 in Big Comeback (Details on Page 7, Part III) NEW YORK, Oct. 12 (P) One of the best stock market comebacks of 1955 was launched today after four straight daily declines. Advances ran from around ($1 to $4 a share as motors and steels stood out. In early afternoon General Motors was up $2.12 at $133.37, Bethlehem Steel $2.25 at $146.50, Du Pont $4.25 at $203.50, Westinghouse $1 at $56.75 and Standard Oil (N.J.) $2.50 at $125.50. The market was higher from the opening As trading slackened somewhat, prices clung close to their best.

Then a renewed rise sent them even higher. Trading was active despite New York's Columbus Day holiday but it didn't match yesterday 3,590,000 shares. FINAL CITY 2 P.M. STOCKS MA 5-2311 -145 S. Spring, Los Angeles 53- TEN CENTS -MIRROR-NEWS Photo FOG-SHROUDED SCENE OF 37-CAR CRASH Nine autos still block freeway as trucks clear way.

CITY OF HOPE AGAIN LIVES UP TO ITS NAME Frances, the 28-year-old widow of a Gl killed in Korea, heard from her doctor the dread news that she had cancer. But she didn't do anything about it. With her limited pay as a store sales clerk she was supporting herself and three small children. There wasn't any money left over for the costly treatment she needed. Then Frances learned about the City of Hope through stories she read in The MirrorNews.

They told her about Ike Suns, Awaits Visit by Brother -DENVER, Oct. 12 (P President Eisenhower, awaiting a visit by his youngest -brother Milton, got more sunshine today and was reported "refreshed and in a good mood" by his physicians, This medical bulletin came from Fitzsimons Army Hospital at 11:15 a.m. (MST): "The President's condition continues to progress: satisfactorily without complications. "After good night's sleep of 8 hours, the President awoke feeling refreshed and in a good" mood. "His morning examinations show that his temperature, pulse and blood pressure continue to be normal and stable.

His cardiogram -shows evolutionary changes." Late in the morning the President's bed again was rolled out onto an open terrace near his eighth floor hospital room so he could soak up more autumn sunshine. This is the third day in a row. that Eisenhower has basked in the sun for brief periods. MIRROR- -NEWS INDEX Pg. Pt.

Editorial Finance Autos 20 Food Bridge 11L Horoscope Classified 8-12 Ill Humphrey Coates Johnson Confetti 13 11I 11 Labor Mailbag Crosby I Palmer Crossword 12 111 Pearson (Drama 47 11 Porter Fog-Caused Wrecks Snarl Rush Traffic A rash of minor accidents in the fog tied up three freeways during the rush hour Magic Den doctoring, of magic spells, of resulted here today in the arDavid Troncoso, self-proclaimed Domestic Row Leads Husband to Take Life she got Becoming alarmed at his silence, she looked in the bathroom window from a balcony and she saw him on the floor. John Howard Craig, 35, sonin-law of a wealthy cement manufacturer, died of an overdose of sleeping pills which he gulped after a quarrel with his wife, police reported today. The death was listed as a suicide. Craig's wife, Anne Marie, daughter of Coy, Burnett, president of Monolith Cement summoned, police to her palatial 107 Fremont Place in the Wilshire district last night after finding Craig sprawled on the bathroom floor. A nearly empty bottle of sleeping pills was at his side.

He was rushed to Hollywood Receiving Hospital, but was pronounced dead on arrival. Mrs. Craig said she and her husband had a quarrel Monday night. It' ended with him locking himself in his bedroom. Craig, she said, was recover-1 ling from an illness and had been occupying separate quarters in the house.

She said she heard him moying about in room yesterday, but later when she tried to over an Intercommunicationnystem system The couple were married secretly in Yuma, Oct. 13, 1940. Mrs. Craig said they had domestic troubles before Monday. Police said Craig left a ninepage handwritten note, including a will in which he left most of his property to his sons.

The couple have three children, John III, 11; Dana, 10, and Durrie, 8. Craig and his wife are graduates of SC where both were honor students. She also attended Marlborough School. Craig was working for Monolith Cement 643 Clive. Earlier he had a brief career in banking and teaching.

Services will 'be held Friday at the Wee Kirk, o' the Heather. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Memorial-Park. Catholic Educator Dies NEW YORK, Oct. 12 (P) The Rev. W.

Coleman Nevils, 77. Catholic educator, died today of a heart ailment. He was president of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., from 1928 to 1935. 27 I Radio 19 6-7 111 Roosevelt 1I Sports 1-5 IT Television 18 18 Travel 11 Vital Notices 00 16 Weather 00 27 Weinstock 10 PAR Il Wilson Women Williams 1-2 12 morning, Fifty-two automobiles were involved in two separate reaction" collisions the La Cienega, Freeway. In the first, 37 cars.

locked bumpers and fenders and smashed radiators about 7 a.m., blocking traffic on the freeway's southbound lanes Rodeo Road, where the freeway begins. Another 15 piled up behind them, also in the southbound lanes, in the second mishap. California Highway Patrolman J. A. Smith called it "a miracle that no one was seriously hurt." Only one motorist.

Setsuka Uyemura, 24, of 6th was injured land he had only a slight head bump. Surveying a crazy quilt pattern of skid marks on the La Cienega Freeway while a fleet of tow trucks pulled wrecked cars away, Patrol man Smith said: "We've been afraid this was going to happen. People are driving too fast through this area." About a dozen of the car in the 37-car pile-up had to be towed away. It took an hour clean up the glass and pull the wrecks away. Thousands of motorists headed for their jobs in the Westchester and El Segundo areas were tied up by the wrecks.

In a third crash at Lincoln and Jefferson John Schultze, 20, of 241 Marine Santa Monica, was bruised when his motorcycle hit two cars at the fog bound corner. To make the freeway tangle complete, police reported jams in the rush hour on the Pasadena Freeway because of accidents at Ave. 52 and Ave. 57, and on the Santa Ana Freeway near Vignes St. Both accidents were minor.

Early morning fog delayed Metropolitan Coach Lines streetcars 30 to 45 minutes today on the Long Beach, San Pedro, Bellflower and Watts lines. LAS CA -MIRROR-NEWS Photos TRONCOSO AND SOME OF HIS MYSTERIOUS MURAL PAINTINGS Ancient Egyptian motif was balanced by modern American bookkeeping machines. PARENTS REVISE PRAYER SO CHILDREN WON'T WORRY BY OMAR GARRISON Mirror-News Religion Editor Scores of Mirror-News readers today agreed with a child psychologist who criticized the familiar bedtime prayer, "Now I lay me down to sleep" as a source of anxiety in children. Commenting on this paper's exclusive interview with Dr. Joseph E.

Appel, the readers confirmed the psychiatrist's assertion with experiences from their own childhood and that of their children. Many of them included more cheerful versions of the prayer. Typical are these: "I was brought up on the little prayer," wrote Mrs. Erma Peirson of China Lake, "and I recalled my own feelings when, though of tender age, I could reason the full certainty of the words, 'if I die before I I was not going to have my precious ones go through childhood worrying about a time when they might die in their sleep. I gave them this much happier and healthier version: "Now I lay me down to sleep; I pray the Lord my soul to keep.

Take me safely through the night And bring me to the morning light." Mrs. Lenora Taggert, Los Angeles, a nurse, wrote that her mother taught the prayer to her thus: "Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep I shall wake to see the light For God is with me all the night." Another Los Angeles reader, Mrs. Maud Roodenburg, of 644 Cloverdale said: "I changed the last two lines of the prayer for my two small grandchildrenas follows: "And when I wake another day I pray the Lord to guide my way." Another version of the concluding couplet came from Mrs. Irene Evans, of 5050 College View "And in the morning when I wake Help me the path of love to take And keep it so, for Thy dear sake." A South Laguna reader signing the initials G. C.

H. suggested that "improvision helps on lots of the old nursery rhymes, too, and offered the following version of the bedtime prayer: "Help me to start the new day A better boy in every way." POLIO SHOT RULES RELAXED Pregnant women and all children through the age of 14 are now on the priority eligibility list for receiving Salk antipolio vaccine. The previous priority plan included only children in the 5-to-9 age group. Notification of the new State-wide plan was regeived here from Dr. Malcolm H.

the Duarte medical center's fight against cancer, a pointed out that no City of Hope patient ever is given a bill for services. Frances' doctor, readily complied with her request for a letter of referral to the center. Doctors at the City of Hope confirmed the diagnosis of cancer and planned treatment involving an advanced type of chemotherapy which Frances could take as an outpatient. There still remained the problem of daytime care of the three youngsters while their mother was making daily visits to the City of Hope. But that was solved when a social worker at the center made arrangements with a community social service agency to see that someone would take the children to school, make their lunches and care for them when they got home.

Problems like those of Frances are no novelty to the City of Hope. It is part of the medical center's credo that everything possible be done to lift worries and troubles from the shoulders of a patient, The Mirror-News currently is engaged in fund-raising drive to aid the City of Hope's fight against cancer and leukemia. The goal is the establishment of a $62,100 blood fractions laboratory, to be used Turn to Page 14 Macfadden Kin Called to Bedside JERSEY CITY, N.J.. Oct. 12 (P Relatives of 87-yearold Physical Culturist Bernarr Macfadden were called to his bedside in Jersey City Medical Center today.

A hospital spokesman said the thrice-married Macfadden, taken ill with jaundice Friday after a three-day fast, was taken to the surgical room this morning, WEATHER BY POGO SMOGGY No smog alert after all. What you saw was more fog than smog. Smog Red conditions tomorrow. High Pogo is on Page 19, Part I. today: 70.

EXCLUSIVE TODAY FIRSTHAND REPORT -Editor and Publisher Virgil Pinkley presents an authoritative picture of life under the Reds in Berlin. Read it on Page 5, Part I. HIT THAT DUCK--A full page of pictures, diagrams and stories guaranteed to sharpen up your eye for the opening of the season Saturday. Page 3, Part I. Only this newspaper brings you such information and enjoyment.

No dialing, program always available. People who compare read The Mirror-News. Merrill, State Director of lic Health. The change was made on recommendation of the Advisory Committee on Polio, meeting in San Francisco, Dr. Merrill said that among the 414,000 California children: who have received one or more injections there has been only half as much polio as among unvaccinated youngsters.

Among inoculated children who contracted polio the paralysis rate was about compared to among the unvaccinated. The advisory group recommended use of the vaccine as safe and offering significant I protection..