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i FEATURES INDEX Amusements Pearson C-4 Classified D-3 Radio-TV Comics 7. Shipping Guide D-1 Death Notices Sports C-1, 4 Editorial C-4 Women B-6, L.A.C. Says World Around Phone HE 5-1161 Classified No. HE 2-5959 32 PAGES LONG BEACH 12, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1958 VOL. 21 NO.

4 Military Plane Carrying 19 Plunges Into Sea Off Guam RICHARD LABORED ALL DAY IN VAIN Richard Riopelle, 14, of 1045 Lime spent all day Labor San Francisco, and Richard's feelings about the day are quite Day watching his beloved Dodgers. The best they could do, apparent. The Dodgers dropped a doubleheader to Willie Mays. however, was to dodge victory completely while in and the Giants -(Staff Photo by Skip Shuman.) Lightning Hits St. Louis Trolley, Injuring Eight ST.

LOUIS, Mo: (UPI) I that swept through the roof pitals with flash burns, mostly Lightning struck a streetcar in and injured at least eight per- about the face. midtown St. Louis Monday sons. The conductor said there was night, setting off a flash fire The injured were sent to panic aboard the trolley. Across the Nation Little Rock Board Bows to Court LITTLE ROCK, Ark.

(UPI) -The Little Rock school board Monday night bowed to the U.S. Supreme Court and set back to Sept. 15 the opening of Central High School, keystone of the South's battle against Negro integration. The board could have stuck to the 'Mr. Uranium' Safe previously scheduled opening on Sept.

8 with only white students admitted to SEATTLE -The "Mr. Uranium" Central, a move backed by Gov. Orval of the mining world, Vernon Pick, and Faubus and many white parents here. his brother flew in from Alaska Monday Instead, it took no chances on jeop- afternoon after a 24-hour "disappearance" ardizing its plea to the high court to which had raised condelay admission of Negroes to Central cern for their safety. until 1961.

It delayed Central's start Pick, Saratoga, until after court meets again on Sept. 11. uranium millionaire, and 4. his brother Lloyd, of At. a news conference night, Warroad, were School Superintendent Virgil Blossom was forced down south of asked "if the Supreme Court rules that Annette Island, Alaska, Central High must proceed with integra- Sunday forenoon on a tion, will the school open Sept.

15 inte- flight south from Petersburg, Alaska, and a grated or segregated?" widespread search was Blossom answered, "the board will begun by United States PICK cross that bridge when it comes to it." Coast Guard and Canadian authorities. "We just had a little engine trouble, Chief Dies at Game nothing serious," Pick said after landing his big float plane on Lake Union. Pick 'SAN FRANCISCO -Chief of Police and his brother had been at Fairbanks, Frank Ahern of San Francisco suffered a Alaska, looking over mining interests. heart attack in his box at Seals Stadium Monday and died almost immediately. 360 Fight Modoc Fire He suffered the attack during the 13th inning of the Los Angeles Dodgers- ALTURAS, Calif.

-More than San Francisco Giants National League base- 360 men worked in sizzling temperatures ball game. He was sit- Monday to bring under control a blaze ting- in his box back of which has gutted upwards of 700 acres home plate at the time in the Modoc National Forest. with She Mrs. The U.S. Forest Ahern.

immediately. Service said early called out and a doctor Monday evening that the fire broke out and a priest. hurried to anew at both ends in late afternoon. Dishis side. The priest gave patchers were not able yet, however, to the chief the last rites of Catholic determine the amount of new acreage the church and Ahern was carried AHERN threatened by flames.

to the first aid station under the stands. Fire fighters viewed with concern He was dead on arrival. col- weather forecasts calling for continued lapsed and was under medical treatment, high temperatures, low humidity and relafor shock. tively strong winds. WEATHER Low clouds and early morning fog but elear afternoons today and Wednesday.

Expected high temperature today: 82. Monday's high, 82; low, (Complete weather on Page A-24) The Southland's Formosa Warships Sink 12 Red Boats TAIPEI, FORMOSA warships sank 12 Red Chinese a battle off Quemoy Island, men announced. They called kind in the long-drawn Four warships took part the engagement in Liao-Lo Bay, the crescent-shaped southern side of Quemoy. One warship was damaged but was towed to safety, the ministry said. Military observers said the site of the action indicated the Reds possibly were trying to destroy landing ships used by the Nationalists to transport shells and other supplies to the Quemoy garrison.

THE DEFENSE ministry said "tens of torpedo boats" operating in four groups were encountered. They were described as high-speed vessels. The naval engagement began at 12:35 a.m. and lasted until 2:09. Word of the fighting came shortly after the Nationalists announced their Quemoy batteries had blasted a Communist flotilla near Red-held Amoy in a night barrage Monday.

Three Chinese gunboats and eight motorized junks were reported sunk in that shelling. THE ARTILLERY exchange in the island area opened up again today, marking the 11th consecutive day of shelling, Quemoy was a target for 857 rounds of Red artillery, defense spokesmen said, while 101 Inside Todays INDEPENDENT BRIDE-TO-BE was beaten by six girls who cut her hair to the scalp and ripped her wedding gown to shreds. Page D-3. SHERIFF'S DEPUTY Kermit Kynell retires from a TV quiz program with winnings of $25,500. Page B-1.

HOME EDITION Bathers Flee 40-Foot Killer at 3 Bodies, Debris Sighted GUAM (Tuesday) (AP) -A military cargo plane with 19 aboard crashed into the Pacific Ocean miles west of Guam early today. No survivors have been found. Debris and three bodies were spotted by an Amphibian from the. Naval Air Station. A yellow cylinder, presumably an oxygen tank, and pieces of wood were among the debris.

Maj. John Walker, Air Force information officer, said the Military Transport Service C124 was on a routine cargo flight to the Philippines. It left the naval flight line here at 5:55 a.m. IT CRASHED an estimated five minutes after takeoff without having radioed any warning of trouble. Walker said it is regular practice for' planes to message the base within an hour after their departure.

Of the aboard, seven were crewmen and 12 passengers. The Air Force and Navy launched an air and sea search. The Air Force had two FH19 helicopters searching the area. The Navy sent a UFI reconnaissance plane, a WV2 radar picket plane and several surface craft. The C124 was based at Travis Air Force Base near Fairfield, Calif.

It was bound for Clarke AFB in the Philippines. 3 Die, 45 Injured in L.B. Area (Tuesday) (AP)- Long Beach area. torpedo boats today in the toll was 392 dead in traffic, Defense Ministry spokes-83 from miscellaneous acciit the biggest action of its dents, 108 by drowning and 12 hostilities in Formosa Strait. (in plane crashes, a total of 583.

Thousands of citations were shells were fired at Tatan, a issued by law enforcement islet miles south of officers as they sought to hold down the number of accidents. The shelling of Tatan, con- Dead in traffic mishaps since sidered one of the more likely 6 p. m. Friday: targets for a Red invasion, Mrs. Jane M.

Ogden, 75, 33 came from Amoy. Esperanza fatally injured The Nationalists returned when struck by an auto Saturthe fire. day night on Ocean Blvd. near Esperanza Ave. THE NATIONALIST an- Robert R.

Martinez, 38, of nouncement of Monday's attack Los Angeles, fatally injured on the Red flotilla near Amoy when by a car Friday said five Communist gunboats night on Compton north also were, damaged. of 66th in the Compton The communique failed to area. make the usual Nationalist Clyde R. Hummel, 21, of charge that the Reds opened Rockhill, sailor from the the fight, indicating the Na- USS Ashtabula, fatally injured fired Amoy is in a two-car collision tionalists first. Saturday an important Communist island night at Katella Ave.

and 9th off the mainland near Anaheim. the Quemoys. Passage of ships OF THE 45 injured in 24 Amoy to the Formosa Strait is blocked by the Nationalist-held Tan islets and other, accidents, one victim recritical. Tungting, 17 miles south of been wide She is Mrs. Frances L.

MifQuemoy. There has speculation here the Reds fitt, 72, 534 Ultimo struck would seek to invade these by a car at 2nd St. and Royislands to open. up shipping croft Ave. Sunday.

into Amoy. She was admitted to Com- Three persons were killed and 45 others injured in weekend holiday traffic accidents in the munity Hospital with multiple fractures and internal injuries. Admitted to St. Mary's Hospital with injuries, including possibly fractured skull, was Stephen N. Bartlett, 102 E.

Bixby after he was struck by a car Monday on Pine south of Bixby Rd. Missouri Pilot Dies in El Toro Crash An Air National Guard jet fighter from the 170th FighterInterceptor Squadron, Springfield, crashed and exploded shortly after takeoff from El Toro Marine Corps Air Station Monday afternoon. The pilot was killed. The flier was identified as 1st Lt. Howard D.

Jones, 26, of St. Louis, Mo. 3 Nearly million persons--and out the Labor Day week end spending day at Southland beaches. An estimated 175,000 persons were reported on local beach sands. attendance was an estimated 200,000 at the Redondo-Manhattan-Hermosa Beach strip.

THE SURF WAS CALM and only a dozen rescues were reported from all the beaches. There were no reports of drownings. A giant killer whale was believed to have made an afternoon visit in the Zuma Beach area. Lifeguards there said several hundred people in the water rushed to the beach when a 6-foot tall fin was spotted 100 yards off shore near Point Dume. Lifeguard Capt.

Kirby Temple said the 40-foot whale surfaced only a few feet from where small boys were floating on surf mats. It did not attack. THOUSANDS OF OTHER persons watched as the whale made its two-mile swim along the beach. Eleven lifeguard stations were alerted by radio and the warning was passed to all bathers. Killer whales are 'extremely vicious when angered and likely to attack anything.

"This one didn't seem very excited, though," one lifeguard said. "He must have been in a good mood." The guard said he had never seen a killer whale so close to shore before and neither had he ever seen one traveling alone. Killer whales usually travel in packs. The whale proceeded from Zuma Beach to Trancas Beach before turning out to sea and disappearing. FRANK ZAMARIPPA COMFORTS WIFE BARBARA She's Victim of Mysterious Sniper 6 Phantom Sniper Suspects Arrested Six young men have with the "phantom sniper" Zamarripa, 25, at San Pedro.

San Pedro detectives night said a seventh man is being sought. Mrs. Zamarripa, in critical condition at Harbor General Hospital, was hit in the chest at close range Sunday night as she emptied trash in her back yard, 110 S. Palos Verdes St. Doctors say.

they are waiting for her condition to improve before they remove a bullet lodged in her right chest. AUTHORITIES believed at first she probably was shot from ambush. Monday, however, questioning of the six men in custody led officers to believe it possible she was hit by a bullet intended for someone else in a gang warfare activity. Gale Winds Expected in Florida MIAMI, Fla. -Gale warnalings were hoisted for south Florida Monday night as hurricane Ella blustered through mountainous Cruz, in southeastern Cuba.

An advisory said winds of 30 to 60 miles an hour would be felt from the Florida straits northward to Palm Beach on the east coast and Fort Myers on the Gulf coast. THE HURRICANE itself, forecaster Arnold Sugg said, weakened from 115 miles an hour peak force to an estimated 85 m.p.h. when it went inland near Santiago de Cuba. Sugg said, however, there were indications the storm may become disorganized and relocate itself along Cuba's north central coast by early today. been arrested in connection shooting of Mrs.

Barbara The shooting occurred in the Rancho Pedro Housing Project. Detectives traced a car which left the area after the shooting and arrested Fred Montoya, 9, 934 W. 6th San Pedro, and his five companions. THEY ARE George McDowell, 23, 664 W. 21st Jorme C.

Chavez, 25, 510 N. Palos Verdes Alex Mendoza, 19, 2617 S. Cabrillo Cleso Ariza, 26, 732 W. Santa Cruz all San Pedro, and Jesse Lomelli, 21, 428 McDonald Wilmington. Police said McDowell recently was arrested and charged with assault in the shooting of a man at Cabrillo Beach.

He later was released on bail, officers said. Detectives identified the seventh man wanted for questionling as a Louis Montoya, 18, who had been with Lomel about the time of the shooting of Mrs. Zamarripa. All seven men are "close friends," police said. None was armed when taken into custody, WEATHERMAN CONFUSED BY WITCH DOCTOR "Has your mother-in-law been following doctors' orders, Boss?" asked Asst.

WM. "Well," retorted WM, "not exactly. He prescribed a pill before each meal and a small toddy afterward. "And, at last count, it appeared to me that my un- Hot Toddy welcome house guest was quite a few pills behind but about a year ahead on the toddy order." By LUCIFER. LIGHTFOOT We're back from vacation And all's not well.

Once again our Dodgers Play like.