The Peninsula Times Tribune from Palo Alto, California • 1

JrJ aKi NT NEWSPAPER VO 5 Palo Alto News and Palo Alto Shopping Review PALO ALTO CALIORNIA RIDAY JANUARY 12 1951 59fh Year No 1 1 SET AT $140 BILLION President's estimate Red attack covers fiscal 1951 and next year laws prices and i the Stalin parley and senate CHURCH PREERS LAYMAN ASSOCIATION WITH CATHOLIC ORGANIZATIONS a High filed he policy must units just of cards on file that some students who voted were recorded as voted CHICAGO Jan 12 (IP) Na tional leaders' of civic clubs said today they are astonished in a papal decree forbidding Roman Catholic clergymen from belong ing to their organizations The decree of Pope Pius XII (Continued on Page 2 Col 3) (P) of RESOLUTION PASSES SACRAMENTO Jan 12 A Resolution suggesting that the British discontinue shipping such war materiel as rubber to Communist Russia and China was approved today by the as sembly Introduced by Assembly man Thomas A Meloriey (R San air out Marines calling up additional officers WASHINGTON Jan 12 (ZP) The marine corps announced to day it has begun to call up 2000 additional ground force officers hold discussions including re ligious subjects where the at tendance of a priest might be misconstrued by Catholic lay men as church approval of the discussion The source 4ointed out that clergymen are generally forbid den to attend manifesta tion of a worldly They may for example attend motion pictures but may not participate in "communal hunt as for example a fox hunt or a rabbit drive Lombardo Photo Lolli are thankful their four children weren't sleeping late when some particular area be consid ered to be influenced by Mason ry local bishops might decide to ask or order Catholics not to as sociate themselves with it This would apply to confession organizations other than Ro tary The Vatican source said that the decree men tioned Rotary only because it was drawn in answer to a query concerning that organization but that its general rule was equally applicable to all similar organizations The explicit queries to the congregation upon which its ac tion is based are held secret Two factors weighed in for bidding clergymen membership in Rotary or attendance at its meetings this source said irst Mt was the organiza character Sec ond its meetings sometimes at 715 Loma Verde Ave suf fered what firm officials esti mated at thousand damage The twister ripped off a section of roofing 40 by 75 feet A driving rain soaked 15 'employes so thor oughly that they were sent home to change their cloth ing Myowlecd execu tive said today that the rain pouring into the unroofed pack ing department drenched 350000 finished bearings valued at $40000 The bearings were not ruined owle said but would re quire about 168 man hours of labor to unpack clean oil and repack The loss is fully covered by insurance owle said Today in Sunnyvale members of the Palo Alto and San Jose chapters of Red Cross had set up aid stations and motorized units to aid an estimated 150 persons left homeless by the tornado The Palo Alto chap ter was checking to determine needs for housing clothing and feeding the victims of the storm When the twister struck the Goldhammer Apartments on El Camino Real north of Sunny vale were wrecked almost in stantly leaving about 50 adults and children homeless in the rain and wind The Red Cross evacuated them to near by motels and auto courts Mrs Ruth Sawyer of San rancisco Pacific area disaster expert for the Red Cross was expected in the Sunnyvale San Jose area this afternoon Sunnyvale city officials this Thousands of northern Santa Clara County residents today be gan a $2 million task of recon struction and repair to homes industrial plants and other structures damaged yesterday by the first tornado in the recorded history Tn Sunnyvale alone the com munity hardest hit by the 78 mph twister damage was esti mated by Building Inspector Stanley Goias at $15 million The tornado struck the city at 8:23 am leaving a trail of hun dreds of battered homes fac tories automobiles and other property Palo Alto suffered some dam age as did Los Altos and San Jose Mountain View and Santa Clara were unscathed ederal weather bureau me tebrologists and San Jose ob servers today described the big wind as a true tornado In Palo Alto the plant of Dura Bond Bearing Company an example to gan USSR named Zverinogo lovskoe using quite a bit of the alphabet And what you get is a name that not only de fies pronunciation by us Eng lish speaking folk but would be unspellable by us as well I suppose your first procedure when using such a name would be to count the letters to be sure you had gotten enough Next you would need to be certain you had gotten the right ones and placed them in the proper or der Life is too short for that Pope Pius XII who is prefect of the congregation one of 11 such bodies that govern church af fairs The decree this source said is explicit insofar as it regards clergymen They cannot be members of Rotary or other organizations having a "world nor attend the meetings Any clergyman who is a member of Rotary this source said must resign from the club The implication of the decree the source added is that similar action must be taken by clergymen who are members of Kiwanis or like groups The decree was described as a general rule open insofar as Catholic laymen are concerned to local interpretation by bish ops Thus should a Rotary club in by DALLAS WOOD INTRUSION Mr and Mrs Durante Lolli are thankful their four children weren't sleeping late when yesterday's tornado slammed these two heavy beams through a bedroom wall of their home on Briggs Ave in Sunnyvale Three of the Lolli children had just left for school when the twister roared over their home TIE GLOBAL TELEGRAPHER comes forth with the infor mation that there are 15 San ranciscos in the world located as follows: California Cordoba Argentina San Luis Argentina Bala Brazil Barra Rio de Ja niero Brazil Ceara Brazil San ta Catarina Brazil Sul Brazil Cundinamaraca Colombia Pu tumayo Colombia Gotera El Salvador Miramar Guatemala Atlantida Honduras Gracias Honduras Panama Canal Zone He finds also 17 San Carloses scattered over Argentina Co lombia the Philippines Brazil Chile El Salvador Nicaragua Panama Peru Uruguay Vene zuela California Arizona and Texas There are 38 Belmonts dis tributed in such places as Africa Australia Canada rance Great Britain Ireland New Zealand and 28 states of this country New York Is found not only in New York state but also in Great Britain and the Ukraine in present tax The president also informed TRAVELING MAN SUICIDES UNDER COMMUTE TRAIN A 53 year old traveling sales man a Harvard graduate and member of a prominent New Jersey family threw himself under the wheels of a south bound Southern Pacific commu ter train near the Burlingame station yesterday afternoon and was killed instantly He apparently had been de spondent over marital troubles His wife had left Burlingame for New York City on Sunday He was identified from papers in his pocket as Andrew Con heeny representative of the Smith Dorsey Vitamin Company of Hollywood session by mucn more than the $8 billion combined to tal of the last two increases The president in his annual economic message notified the lawmakers that the security will demand lending and spending authority total ing $140 billion for this fiscal year and next The present fiscal year runs out next July 1 As he set it out this total would be for actual military and foreign aid spending plus con tracting lending and loan guar anteeing authority for national security purposes Other govern ment expenses would be in addi tion to this Mr Truman said workers must accept wage restraints and busi ness men must accept lower profits that no one should seek to hike his income to escape his share of the higher tax burden He told the legislators too that one million more men and women may be added to the armed forces within a few months The military manpower goal has been a force of 3200000 by June 30 but only today this figure was raised to 3462205 Mr Truman said it should be the first principle of policy to a balanced budg et and to finance the cost of national defense on a as you He added: "Corporations should pay much higher taxes Individuals should pay much higher taxes Excise taxes should be higher and more Mr Truman said new tax pro posals soon will be submitted to congress carrying these recom mendations as well as recom mendatlons for closing "many ighter plane missing from Moffett ield A missing navy 6 fighter plane still had not been found by noon today Moffett ield officials told the Times The plane took off Wednesday eve ning on a routine training flight over Northern Califor nia Navy planes took off from Moffett at dawn to search for the missing aircraft and are still on the job but as yet have had no success The pilot is Ensign Robert Metzger 22 of South Euclid Ohio THE PROWLER rapidly gather to apply "broad er over wages the case of said general be to hold the price line with utmost He asked that the department of agriculture be au thority to control speculative trading and to strengthen its regulation of commodity ex As he did in last state of the union message the president emphasized the great threat from Communist aggres sion invite disaster if we un derestimate the forces working against The $140 billion figure used by Mr Truman does not nec essarily mean the government will spend that much in the two years ending July 1 1952 The funds may be committed over several years ahead and Mr Truman did not hint at the size of the budget to be presented on Monday But by the end of 1951 Mr Truman declared defense and foreign aid spending should hit a rate between $45 billion and $55 billion a year This is roughly double today's out! ays "The real economic cost of this defense effort is that we must work harder reduce con sumption and foreign Improve ments in farm business and household Mr Tru man said' cost cannot be put off into the future It must be paid by the people now one way or another and it should be paid through Laying great stress on the inflationary hazard the presi dent then called for "broad ex tension of price and wage con to hold the anti inflation line for the duration of the emer gency He also asked congress to pro vide: Stronger rent control authority to replace the present ceilings International pacts governing the supply of vital materials and extension of export control Credit control over existing houses as well as new' dwelling tax program The heavier taxes he said make it harded for every for any group to seek to adjust its income upward to counteract the higher taxes which the defense program is making necessary would tend to relieve that group from its share in the cost of achieving national security "I am sure that every group will be willing to accept the nec essary sacrifices in this emer gency If the whole stabilization program is fair and equitable price and wage con trols much higher taxes on busi ness profits along with many other restrictions which will af fect the whole population are all aspects of a comprehensive sta bilization program in which every one will do his A SLIGHT CHANGE SUB ject is provided by a letter from Charles Anderson of Burlingame He writes: government at col lege struck as an amusing caricature of real government as I remember from my recent four years at school Perhaps your readers might like to hear of a couple of examples of de mocracy in action on the Col legiate level "The first college I attended listed gold and white as its offi cial colors but used the very common scheme of yellow and blue for football uniforms ban ners caps and dance decorations (The school California) Gold proved an ex pensive color to obtain and set off poorly against white student council placed an amendment to the student body constitution on an election ballot officially changing the colors to what everyone thought they were The matter was ig nored by the students until a letter appeared in the college daily denouncing the change as an attack on the sacrec traditions More letters flooded in and posters began to appear defending the noble purity of gold and white A compromise scheme of gold white and blue was placed on the ballot too and was also rejected doubt if even ten students had known what the col ors were until the amendment proposal was made "At another school the los ing candidates in an election charged fraud on the basis of discovering more ballots cast than there had been students registered for the election A sample showed having charged the discrep ancies to error and asked the election results to be held valid On the day of a general Investi gation headed by student and faculty leaders an election offi cer was discovered destroying his records student officer was brought before the committee and asked to testify He ex pressed complete surprise that (Continued on Page 2 Col 4) WEATHER Santa Clara Valley air to night Slightly colder with frost tonight Saturday increasing cloudiness with rain Saturday night High tomorrow 54 57 Low tonight 28 35 San rancisco Bay Region air tonight Slightly colder to night with local frost Saturday cloudy with rain Saturday night Northwest wind 23 30 mph dim inishing this evening High 54 56 low 40 43 downtown 32 38 elsewhere Highest here Thursday 55 Lowest this morning 38 Barometer 8 am 3007 in Rainfall 24 hrs to 8 am 22in Season to date 1427 in Last season to date 536 in 40 ye ar average 668 in morning called a meeting of the community disaster coun cil for Monday at 4 pm They group will map a long range disaster program for the city Red Cross members today set up a mass feeding center in Sunnyvale Methodist Church Persons needing assistance of the Red Cross were asked to call the Sunnyvale chapter at Sun 2450 or the San Jose chapter at CYpress 2 6242 In the Bay Area the tornado knocked down power lines broke thousands of windows and up rooted trees Across the bay howling winds followed a two mile path from El Cerrito to Richmond knock ing down chimneys and tossing huge signs about dike paper In Oakland scores of trees were toppled and several autos were crushed Piles of four by four timbers were hurled through 'the air at one Oakland lumber yard Some of the planks were found nearly a mile away An airplane at Benicia Airport was picked up and deposited on top of a hanger Several other planes were damaged at other airports The wind carried away one entire wall of a house at Moss Beach Airport near Half Moon Bay In the north Bay Area $50000 damage was reported from the California Maritime Academy at Vallejo where part of a mess hall roof was smashed by a fall ing tree Two of the four persons re ported injured were hurt at Two Rock Sonoma County when tornado like winds de molished their two story house The others injured were at Sunnyvale and San Jose ive persons were trapped in a home at orrest Knolls Main County when a tree collapsed on the roof and folded the walls They were rescued unhurt In San rancisco worst hit was the Presidio where more than 100 trees were blown down cutting lines and blocking traffic A platform was torn from the roof of the Let terman General Hospital and roofs were blown off several other structures Lumber and sheet metal from atop an apartment house was blown into the front of Joe home' in the residential i ri Neither the baseball star nor members of his family were hurt The weather bureau predicted that northern California coastal winds today would be much more between 15 and 25 miles per hour The weather outloork was for fair today gathering clouds to night and probably rain tomor row the bureau said Dimes drive opens Monday in this city aced by greater needs than during any past year the March of Dimes campaign for 1951 starts officially in Palo Alto Monday The drive will continue through Jan 31 Co chairmen for this year Mrs Melville Wank 380 Dana Ave and Mrs Robert ranck 1390 Cowper St have selected the following to head the various committees: Service clubs and organiza tions James Mack publicity Doulgas Guy finances Charles Means business district Miss Harriet Mundy El Camino business district Mrs Dan Ru dat chairman Mrs A Wood Mrs Gordon Clifford Mrs Bevilockway Bayshore business district Mrs William Brophy private schools Mrs Charles Brink and Henry Lane health officer Louis Olsen accounting chairman James Cotter Los Altos rank Mack chairman Mrs George Pennebaker Mrs Seymour Galina John Huston and Dawson The chamber of commerce will serve as campaign headquar ters VATICAN CITY Jan 12 A Vatican decree forbidding Catholic clergy to join Rotary International it was explained today applies equally to such similar organizations as Kiwanis the Lions and other civic groups A member of the congrega tion of the sacred office which drew up the decree said the document reiterated the preference that Cath olic laymen and women asso ciate the'mselves with Catho lic church sponsored or rec ommended organizations such as the Knights of Columbus The member said the decree published yesterday in the Vat is a general directive and nei ther a condemnation of Rotary nor an impediment to member ship of Catholic laymen in the organization The decree was approved by Ouster suit filed against schoolman The San Mateo Union School District yesterday suit to oust Thomas Hard wick from his Burlingame High School teaching post in the first San Mateo County test of the state loyalty oath John Bruning assistant dis trict attorney who filed the complaint for the school district said that Hardwick and his at torneys will have 10 days to file an answer or demurrer to the camplaint Although the court loyalty oath test is the first in the county it follows 11 similar complaints filed in San ran cisco a month ago Hardwick 42 year old journal ism and English teacher at Bur lingame High School was served with a notice of dismissal after he refused to take the state loy alty oath required of all public employes and officials Hardwick announced that he refused to take the oath as matter of principle Counties may seek to levy sales tax SACRAMENTO Jan 12 58 counties may seek the right to levy a one cent sales tax to pay their share of civil defense costs Members of the state legisla ture were told today there is a definite move under way by the cities and counties to present a financing program tied to the sales levy Among the reasons why the non Communist part of the world should resist Rus sian aggression is that if the Soviets took us over they woulc insist upon thrusting their own monstrous language down our throats And if you ever havelooked over Vs Russian names you have seen what a job i it would be try Ing to master such a tongue Walter Bate man of Redwood I City an inter I national teleg rapher refers as a town in Kur Dr isher returning as news analyst Dr Harold isher chairman of Hoover Institute and Li brary on War Revolution and Peace will return to the air as a news analyst Monday evening His commentary will be heard regularly Monday nights from 7 to 7:15 on KNBC Un tn a fpw wppItc on nr isher broadcast from that sta rancisco) it' now goes to the iwu ounaay aiiernoons BILL OR DEENSE 18 PAGES Mrs Hotchkiss wife of ex dean passes in south DrJrma Helen Hotchkisswife of Dr Willard Eugene Hotchkiss first dean of the Stanford Uni versity Graduate School of Business and prominent educa tor government worker and writer in her own right died yes terday at her home at 2207 Ho rnet Rd 'San Marino Mrs Hotchkiss lived here in 1915 16 while her husband was acting professor of political sci ence and again from 1925 to 1931 while Dean Hotchkiss head ed the business school She took her BS from Co lumbia University in 1901 her MA from Northwestern Uni versity in 1913 and her PhD from Stanford in 1916 During her long and varied career she was a teacher a local state and federal government work er in the fields of economic and social welfare and the au thor of magazine and other articles on home economics In Chicago and Pittsburgh she was a leader in public housing work Mrs Hotchkiss who was bom in New York City issurvived by her husband a son Willard Hotchkiss and a daughter Mrs Stanton (Helen) oster uneral' services will be to and 250 aviation officers from morrow at 1:30 pm in Pasadenalthe reserve for active duty CURRAN ACTS TO REPLACE 'RED COOKS SAN RANCISCO Jan 12 Joseph Curran president the CIO National Maritime Un ion today announced the long expected opening of a full scale organizing campaign to the Communist ma rine cooks and stewards on West Coast ships Curran said the campaign would back democracy to the thousands of steward de partment members on the West Coast who so long have seen their economic gains endangered by the political plots and con spiracies of the The Marine Cooks and Stew ards Union is one of the organi zations expelled by the CIO in recent months for allegedly fol lowing the Communist party line WASHINGTON Jan 12 President Truman today called on congress to boost taxes this COgress that staffs are being Vatican decree forbids priests from joining other 'worldly' civic groups besides Rotary Valley residents hit by tornado begin big job of reconstruction in center menaces UN By OLEN CLEMENTS TOKYO Jan 12 Blister ing Allied air strikes and artil lery barrages crumpled a Red Korean attack near Wonju to day But another Communist force striking 30 miles behind this Allied position threatened the entire United Nations stand in central Korea The deep striking Red col umn skirted the American rench Dutch line in the Won ju area It fought several sharp clashes with Allied pa trols on the approaches to Tanyang 37 miles southeast of Wonju The flanking Reds set up a roadblock mined a vital supply highway and poured a hail of small arms fire into an Allied force sent out to clear the route Two North Korean the sixth and were ram ming a deep wedge into the UN positions in central Korea Pos sibly 20000 Communist troops were in this force which was threatening the supply and withdrawal routes of the US Second Division and its rench and Dutch supporting making a fighting stand south of Wonju The immediate peril in Wonju area eased as daylong Allied air strikes and artillery barrages routed two Red Ko rean regiments which had seized a commanding height Thursday night This force striking from the northeast had "cut across the Wonju Chechon Rd occupied the dominant hill and slammed a withering fire into the lorseshoe shaped defense per imeter just south of WohjuL The fighting raged in foot deep snow and bitter cold Allied planes Including the big B29 Superforts rarely used on tactical missions sowed heavy explosives and fragmentation bombs machine gun fire and jellied gasoline into the Red po sitions Navy pilots from the carrier Philippine Sea seared the half mile ridge with napalm fire bombs They killed an esti mated 450 Reds were trying to make an advance and we caught said Lt (jg) Don Loranger Hanford Calif Second division artillery slammed a rain of steel at the Reds ield dispatches said the artillery pounding wiped part of Wonju The Communists broke fled into the northern hills at dusk Allied troops then reoc cupied the dominant height southeast of Wonju would please British group LONDON Jan 12 Prime ministers of the British Com monwealth announced tonight they welcome any feas ible for an ex change of views with Prime Min ister Stalin or Chinese Commu nist Leader Mao Tze tung In a joint declaration issued at the end of a nine day conference here the prime minister said: do not seek to intervene in the affairs of the Soviet Un ion or China or any other coun try we are simply determined to retain the mastery of our own affairs without fear of aggres V' nr AS I x''x iS? x4 lilSl Is i iwwte BIBO iirl is 4 vx 'xCO Mi i I BBSS 1 We) I i i' I 'xx'lJ s' x'1 sx S'V sS sh a it 11' iii rl i.