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a a a FEATURES INDEX Amusements Editorial ........8 Churches Radio-TV: ...9 Classified .......16 Shipping Guide ..13 Comics .........22 Sports Phone L. B. 70-5951-Classified Ike Calls for Metal Stockpile West Hails Order for Big New Program as Mining Stimulus By MERRIMAN SMITH WASHINGTON (UP). President Eisenhower Friday ordered a big new metals and minerals stockpiling program because it is "assumed" foreign supplies would be cut off and some domestic stocks destroyed in event of Russian attack. The White House also said the program would have the twin aim of helping out the "distressed" western mining industry.

Purchases will be made with an eye toward this goal. The program was hailed by members of Congress from western states. Defense Mobilizer Arthur S. Flemming, who will head the "long-term" program, said it would be of "considerable magnitude" and would call for more money than the 000,000 requested by Mr. Eisenhower for stockpiling in his new budget.

Only Thursday, the House Appropriations Committee turned down a request by the General Services Administration for 600,000 to liquidate contracts it has authorized for strategic materials. The committee said the agency had enough for this purpose. However, Rep. Phillips (R- Calif), chairman of a House Appropriations subcommittee handling funds for the agency, said officials had been told to come back if they needed more funds. Mr.

Eisenhower acted on. the basis of a preliminary study made by a special cabinet minerals policy committee, headed by Interior Secretary Douglas McKay. The announcement came as an informed source reported the Senate Armed Services Committee had been told that powerful new atomic and hydrogen bombs have made shelters a thing of the past. This source said an air-defense plan outlined by Robert C. Strague, a North Adams, electronics expert, emphasized the importance of evacuating residents from urban areas in event of attack because bomb shelters would afford little chance of escape.

GI Sentenced to Death in Girl Slaying TOKYO (Saturday) (U.P). Maurice L. Schick, former Sunday school teacher and "model was found today and death for guilty of premeditated, murder strangling nine- Susan Rothschild. An Army court of three generals and four colonels returned the verdict -overruling the defense contention that the 29- Canonsburg, soldier was insane when he killed the daughter of an Army colonel last Nov. 21.

The court imposed the death penalty by unanimous. decision, as required under Army law. The prosecution charged that Schick killed the child to prevent her from telling her father of sexual advances he had made toward her. An Army board of psychiatrists examined the World War II Purple Heart veteran and ruled that he was legally sane. Other testimony cited a World! War II experience in Germany in which Schick accidentally turned a flamethrower on a cave filled with women and children.

No. 6-9071 Clown's Glad Hand Shot 22 PAGES LONG BEACH 12, clown Charlie Cheer, 57, accidentally exploded a blank cartbetween acts in Indianapolis Wednesday night. A fractured to laugh Wirephoto) Poll on $4,000,000 Safety Center Urged By GEORGE WEEKS A resolution authorizing tideland oil money for a downtown civic center addition voters at the June 1 election. Meeting as a charter amendment committee, the City Council Friday voted 6-2 to recommend the proposal to the council. Opposition came from Councilman Bazil U.

Carleson and Glenn D. Hughes. The latter renewed his advocacy of an uptown Atlantic civic center site--a proposal which also may go on the same ballot by initiative petition. Councilman A. R.

Parmley passed his vote. The public safety building would house police and juvenile bureau activities, thereby relieving overcrowding at hall, City Mgr. Sam E. Vickers explained. Financing come from the Public Improvements Fund.

Suggested location is. between Magnolia and Chestnut of Broadway and north proposed county southe courthouse site. The preliminary cost estimate is 856. At Vickers' request, councilmen took no action on a proposed new city hall and underground parking garage, also in the civic center addition. The safety building proposal is also before the Citizens Committee for Public Improvements.

Vickers said detailed information on the project will be submitted at once to the committee with a request for prompt action. Meeting earlier in the day, the committee gave preliminary approval to public works- a new downtown library and three Water Dept, projects estimated to cost $11,264,627. Whether any of these ready for council action in time for the June 1 ballot was problematical. Favorable reports from subprojects were accepted by committees that studied the full committee, which referred them' to a subcommittee on funds and priorities to determine whether financing from oil funds is appropriate. Suggested location of the library is the block between Fourth and Fifth Sts.

and between Cedar and Pacific Aves. Chairman Kenneth Wing of the subcommittee on education and culture recommended the improvement. The existing library in Lincoln Park, built in 1909 and enlarged in 1937, is obsolete, he said. The Water Dept. projects, recommended by Chairman Roy Van Alstine of the public utilities subcommittee, are: 1-Replacement of harbor-district water mains damaged by subsidence, $1,995,840.

2. Construction of reservoirs, mains and pump $2,943,512. 3 -Construction of Water Dept. buildings, $1,069,400. Independent SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1954 VOL.

16-NO. WEATHER Mostly clear today and Sunday. Warmer today with high about 77. Friday's high-low figures, 69-43. 210 HOME EDITION-7 Pilotless Jet Periling S.

Diego Nudged Off Radiation Hits More Jap Boats One Vessel 780 Mi. From Blast Gives Off Dangerous Particles TOKYO (Saturday) (AP). Two more "atom dusted" fishing boats showing radiation effects from the Mar. 1 Bikini test-blast were quarantined by Japanese authorities today. The boats apparently were much less "seriously affected than the "Lucky Dragon" which returned to Japan Mar.

14 with 23 crewmen burned by a shower of radioactive ash. The two boats docked at different ports Friday. Japanese newspapers reported both vessels registered Geiger counter readings above the danger point. However, only one crewman reported than slightly affected. vessel was the 119-ton Myojin Maru (Bright God) which carried a crew of 24.

It returned to Shiogama, about 230 northeast of Tokyo. The Welfare Ministry has been asked to send specialists to the small fishing port to deter- Observatories Note No Photo Effects No radioactive particles have shown up on the photographic plates used at Mt. Palomar and Mt. Wilson observatories, astronomers at California Institute of Technology reported Friday. They commented on reports from Cornell University's Laboratory of Nuclear Studies that radiation has increased slightly in some parts of the U.

S. since the tremendous Mar. 1 hydrogen explosion at Bikini. Cornell scientists predicted that -called "beta specks" of radiation would show up on photographic materials. mine the extent of radiation.

The ship, crew and fishing catch have been isolated. The second vessel was the Loei Maru (Radiant Glory). Size of the crew was not reported. It returned to Misaki, about 20 miles south of Tokyo. The Myojin Maru reported it was 780 miles from the explosion site Mar.

1. The Loei Maru's position Mar. 1 was unre- (Continued on Page 3, Col. 3) Aboard Missing Plane more than $4,000,000 from public safety building in the may be submitted to the One Wheel Off, Mantz Lands Craft SANTA ANA- Speed flier Paul Mantz, filming the story of a stunt pilot, got an unexpected thrill Friday at Orange County Airport when he brought down an ancient Stinson, unaware that one wheel had fallen off. The craft, about 20 years old, wobbled down the runway and then dug into the strip when the second wheel support collapsed, witnesses said.

Mantz -was unhurt. Mantz said' he did not know when the first wheel fell off. Mantz has been shooting stunt, films for 20th Century-Fox for about a week here, using a variety of old airplanes which date back to the First World War and before. A ONE OF THREE pretty girls believed aboard a single-engined plane missing since Wednesday is Bobby Gay, 20 (above), daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Hadley Gay, 1675 W. 254th Harbor City. Plane left Burbank for Mexico. Picture was taken in 1950 when Miss Gay was "Jean Queen" at Narbonne High School, Lomita. Story on Page 3.

Young, but Legal HAPPY HUGS for Tom Murchison, 18, and his 14- year-old bride, Patricia, in Memphis, reunited by court order. "They are legally married," said judge. Murchison charged girl's parents held Patricia "prisoner" after learning of Knight Commutes Wells' Death Decree SACRAMENTO-(AP). muted the death sentence of condemned to die April 9 guard, to life imprisonment, state Supreme Court. Chief Justice Phil Gibson said the justices of the Supreme Court will consider the case Monday.

There was every indication the governor's clemency action would be si sustained. Chief Justice Gibson, who voted with the majority in a decision upholding Wells' death sentence by a 4-3 vote, pointed out that the individual justices executive clemency consider, individuals, rather than sitting as a court. Knight said that with approval of court he would commute Wells' sentence to life imprisonment without possibility of parole, and would do the same for James Francis Silva, scheduled to go to the San Quentin gas chamber same day. Both Wells, a five-time loser, and Silva who stabbed a fellow prisoner, were sentenced under a law providing the death penalty for lifers who commit assault. Knight noted Wells' "bad criminal and prison record" but said "there were many rulings" during the seven-year case "where there were paperthin differences and distinctions." "I cannot stress too emphatically that my decision matter has been reached in spite of rather than because of the abnormal pressures exerted by certain extremist factions whose -f- forts neither aided the prisoner nor the reaching of a proper Knight added.

Wells was sentenced to. an undeterminate five year to life sentence for throwing a crockery cuspidor at the guard. The guard was not killed. Silva's victim also survived. L.A.

Major Spent 100 Gs Before Arrest TOKYO (Saturday) (U.P.). Maj. Thomas Pate, a former finance officer at airfield near in Air Force funds before Tokyo, spent more $100,000 rest in March 3, the Far East Air Force said today. A spokesman said Pate purchased a $51,000 apartment house in Los Angeles, a $31,000 California poultry business, in U. S.

Savings Bonds, a $2800 Japanese house and a $4600 Cadillac. In addition, investigating officers found $66,000 in U. S. currency in Pate's possession at the time of his arrest. The Air Force announced Wednesday that the Los Angeles man confessed to the illegal appropriation of $200,000 in military payment certificates which had been marked for destruction.

Aviator's 'Herding' Praised Spinning Ship Rights Self, Soars Alone After Flier Jumps SHRINE CIRCUS ridge into his hand forefinger's nothing Air Crash Kills 18 in Mexico MONTERREY, Mex. (U.P). An airliner that was turned away from landing at a busy airport crashed into Mexico's "airplane graveyard" shortly before day midnight, killing all 18 persons, aboard, including five Americans. The twin-engined Mexican passenger plane, apparently trying to relocate airport, 15 miles to the east, smashed into a treacherous mountain range that has claimed several other aircraft. The 15 passengers and three crew members died instantly in the flaming wreckage.

Rescue brigades reached the scene late Friday and began bringing the bodies down the steep slopes of Cerro Del Fraile. The Naves de Mexico plane asked permission to land at the airport Thursday night and was ordered to wait a few minlutes while another airliner took off. The pilot circled away in the darkness and was seen to crash few minutes later. The airline identified the Americans as James McCormick and his two sons, George and Donald, of Amarillo, Burton Former, a nephew of McCormick who lived at Guthrie, and James A. Johnston of New York, a member of a consulting engineering firm (Stevenson, Jordan and Harrison).

Among the Mexican passengers 'believed to be aboard was Hector Saucedo, one of Mexico's best known young bullfighters. Steal to Join Club OAKLAND (P). Police said Friday they broke up a juvenile gang whose members had to steal at least one car to become feligible to join. SAYS: Catalina Annexation Under existing state laws, Long Beach cannot annex Avalon, Catalina, as has been suggested. But it is apparent an effort will be made to get a measure through the Legislature to accomplish that desire.

It brings up an interesting and serious issue. The issue is whether or not areas should be accepted by a city regardless of their economic ability to pay their way. The issue has been met by some cities by charging so much a lot for any area accepted for annexation. It must be remembered that very few newly annexed areas pay their own way in taxes. The big question then becomes whether or not an area is valuable to the city to which it is to be annexed.

There is value to Long Beach in- having the near-by Lakewood areas a part of our city. It would give a uniformity in building (Continued on Page 8) Gov. Knight Friday comWesley Robert Wells, convict for throwing a cuspidor at a subject to concurrence of the Bus Fare Hike to' Be Contested The State Public Utility Commission's order boosting Long Beach bus fares and reducing service, effective Apr. 2, will be contested in the courts. City councilmen voted 7-2 to that effect Friday, even though they conceded that their prospects for success are "not good." They instructed City Atty.

Irving M. Smith's office to file petition for a court review to determine whether PUC "regularly exercised its authority" in the twofold order, which authorized a 2-cent fare boost to 13 cents and per cent service cut. The council decided, however, not to take the drastic procedure in such cases--an application for an injunction to stay the fare increase. That would involve possible reimbursement of Long Beach Motor Bus Co. in the event of an unfavorable decision, Asst.

City Atty. Joseph B. Lamb pointed out. Only Councilmen A. L.

Parmley and Max Livoni opposed the court action, which was recommended by the Bureau of Franchises. At an earlier meeting of the bureau City Mgr. Sam E. Vickers, its chairman, emphatically recommended the legal test. "I would go into court with the strongest case possible win or lose," he said.

Viewed from a state-wide basis, It would be a good thing to have a major city challenge a decision of this commission. It was an unfair and unjustified order." (U.P.). Husband Obtains Arrest of Bride Who Lost $3000 Keith, 47, tearfully swore out a SAN FRANCISCO UP). Floyd warrant against his bride of two months, accusing her of taking gambling away in Reno $3000 which his son had entrusted to him. The money was in a trust account, to which Keith made his bride to co-trustee.

Police Inspector George Page quoted her as saying she took the money because her stepson was "over-age" and she thought she was more entitled to the money than he was. SAN DIEGO (AP). A runaway jet plane headed for San Diego and a possible disaster crash was "herded" back to sea by the pilot of another Navy jet Friday. Naval aviators said they believed the daring maneuver was the first of its kind. The F9F6 Cougar jet became a runaway when it surprisingly pulled out of a spin after the pilot, Lt.

(j.g.) J. R. Maccoun, 23, had bailed out. Lt. (j.g.) C.

W. Vandeberg, 25, flying at 300 miles an hour, then brought his Cougar jet close enough so that its wingtip was under the wing. of the runaway. He experimented for 12 minutes, flying under one wing and then the other, and found that he could force the pilotless plane to turn away from his. Then he swung it around 180 degrees until it was headed for open sea and followed down to 800 feet before it crashed.

Officers said a disaster could have occurred if the pilotless plane had reached a populated area- matter of only a short time at its terrific speed. Another jet pilot, Ens. B. G. Huntley, 22, on the practice' flight from Miramar gunnery Naval Air Station, saw Maccoun's parachute carry him down to the sea.

an Huntley contacted a Navy helicopter, operating in the area, and guided it to Maccoun. The helicopter, for such sea rescues, simply unequipped lowered a rope. Maccoun tied it around himself and was hoisted, after 35 minutes in the water. He said his jet went into the spin from 22,000 feet about 80 miles from San Diego. At 9000 feet, he was ejected by the bailing-out device.

He pulled the parachute ripcord at 5000 feet. His jet, meanwhile, for some reason that aviators said was unexplainable, righted itself at 4000 feet, climbed to 8000 feet, and flew straight for land. Vandeberg saw the danger and took over the herder task, using the forces set up by proximity of the wings. All the pilots are from Fighter Squadron 112 at Miramar, just northeast of here. The rescuing helicopter was from Ream Field, a few miles south.

Vandeberg is from Ripon, Calif. Maccoun is from Dutch Flat, U. S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. a and is the son of retired W.

E. Maccoun, now vacationing with his wife at Dana Point. Huntley's home is in La Jolla. BLUE BOTTLE, ORANGE LABEL ELIXIR TODAY Has YOUR weather been bad lately? Do YOU curse with frustration as, golf clubs in hand, you gaze out the window at dripping skies? Are YOUR a feet becoming a webbed? THEN, friends, try some of Dr. WM's magic weather today.

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