Redwood City Tribune from Redwood City, California • 1

A 4 CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY SACRAUENTO, CALIF Monday's the Day The Tribune's 116-page Fiesta Edition will be delivered to its subscribers along Nrith the regular paper, next Monday, Aug. 8. The edition will provide dozens of interesting stories about San Mateo County, WEATHER LOCAL CONDITIONS (Today 2 pm.) High 82, low 52; wind, west; sky, part cloudy. Yesterday high 79, low 51; wind, northwest; sky, clear; relative humidity, 63.6 per cent. SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA: Morning high fog, otherwise fair tonight and Sunday; little temperature change; west wind 15-20 miles an hour afternoon.

i 'TC' ideak for outdoor and Indoor living, and i AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER 1 nearly 100 pictures. i i Witch -fnr thfj five-i SAN MATEO COUNTY SEAT Watch for this five-color special edition next Monday. S7TH YEAR NO. 84 REDWOOD CITY, CALIFORNIA; SATURDAY. EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1949 10 PAGES So Pr Copy 81.00 Por Month i Hawaii Legislature Votes to Seize Docks In 98-Day-Old Strike HOLOLtJLU (AP)- Hawaiis legislature today passed a bill empowering the territorial government to seize the islands strikebound docks.

Earlier, striking CIO stevedores voted unanimously to refuse to work for the government. Final passage of the leg-'-islation designed to end the 98-day waterfront tie- Six Injured After Dist. Attorney's $20,000 Fire Probe Dep. Dist Atty. Henry Davis today said that Thursdays $20,000 fire aboard the yacht Invader at the Port of Redwood City was the work of an arsonist A routine investigation by Redwood City firemen and policemen yesterday, he explained, showed that gasoline lines, er 400 Bodies Recovered After Quake QUITO, Ecuador (AP) Four hundred bodies were counted today anc many more are believed have been victims earthquakes that ripper mountain cities and villages yesterday in the Am-bato region.

Rescue workers pickec through the ruins of a dozen localities high In the Andes south of Quito on searches that added to the death toll. They treatec hundreds of Injured and many were being taken away for hospitalization. (The Ecuadorean embassy in Washington said it had been advised officially there were 500 dead in Ambato, a provlncia capital, and the city lost 70 per cent of its buildings in the quake.) One thousand were Injured in Ambato alone. Ambato, a textile city of population, was apparently hardest hit. Communications were knocked flat and information from the stricken area was scant.

The area affected covers 300 square miles. The population of the region is about 300,000. It was the biggest disaster suffered by Ecuador since colonial times. Ambato was destroyed in 1797 by an earthquake which also ruined the towns of Pelifeo, Quero, Pillaro and Patate. The dead totaled 5908.

Interior Minister Salazar Gomez asked in a broadcast from Ambato for army demolition squads to raze buildings damaged to the verge of toppling over oh survivors. '-Early news of the disaster trickled in over only one chan- neP-a small battery-powered radio station of the Shell Oil Co. which normally handles only company business. Army relief planes sent to Ambato from Quito had to turn back this morning because the airport was forbound. Two more set out from Guayaquil with hopes of landing later with blood plasma and vaccines sent by the Red Cross there.

Pres. Galo Plaza Lasso, a large scale farmer, ordered all milk produced on his lands sent to Ambato and started out himself tQ direct relief efforts in the town. Locomotives were testing the southern section of the Guay-aquil-Quito Railway and relief trains were ready to pull out as soon as the line is found to be secure. Miguel Albomoz, secretary-general of the Ambato Public Administration, said in a broadcast the survivors spent last night in the open or under tents out of reach of tottering buildings. Authorities ordered all inhabitants out of their homes to avoid injury from falling walls or debris.

Hunt Files Suit Against Paper WASHINGTON VP) James V. Hunt, a central figure in Washingtons current 5 percenter inquiry, announced today he is filing suit against the New York Herald Tribune. Hunt declared in a statement that irresponsible half-truths printed by the newspaper have gone a long way toward ruining my business. Now a Washington management counselor. Hunts activities came under congressional committee scruting after the Herald Tribune published a story June 21 saying he had accepted a $1000 fee from a business man seeking government contracts.

In P. A. Area Accidents The second auto collision within a week at San Antonio Rd. and Alma St. sent two youths to Palo Alto Hospital last night, and four, other persons were injured in Palo Alto area traffic accidents during the following few hours.

Richard Thomas Fitzgerald, 17, of 68. Wffllts Daly City, and his passenger, Richard Eagen, 17, of 120 Olldos Daly City, were injured at about 6 pm when the car in which they were traveling collided with one driven by Wendell P. Graves of 855 Barron Ave, Redwood City. Fitzgerald was in the hospital today for treatment of possible internal injuries. Eagen was treated at the hospital for cuts and bruises.

He was later transferred to Community Hospital, San Mateo. According to observers, the car driven by Fitzgerald was crossing Alma St. The Graves auto struck the Fitzgerald car broadside, hurled it against a power pole thex same pole struck last week with sufficient force to snap power wires and cut off. electricity to hundreds of home in the area. July 29 an infant was killed and four persons were injured in an almost identical collision at the same soot.

Benny AJofsileC25.6f;835 Runnymede East Palo Alto, was in Palo Alto Hospital today for treatment of multiple cuts and bruises suffered at 2:04 this morning when the car he was driving hit the University Ave. bridge over San. Franclsquito Creek. He was driving alone. Lupe Ortiz of Sunnyvale was in Santa Clara County Hospital today after suffering minor injuries in a head-on collision yesterday on Bayshore Hwy.

near Moffett Field Norma Sherman of San Jose suffered injuries to her collarbone yesterday in San Jose when the bicycle she was riding collided with a car driven by Miles Falrman Steel of 1030 Palo Alto Palo Alto. William Hartley of 704 Waver-ley Palo Alto, was treated at Palo Alto Hospital last night after the bicycle he was riding collided with a car driven on Palm Stanford campus, by Lloyd E. McKean a student who lives at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house. Cyclist Suffers Skull Fracture Earnest R. Oates, 23, of San Francisco, suffered a skull fracture, shoulder injury and abrasions and contusions at 11:30 last night when his motorcycle took a spill on Bayshore Hwy.

at Tilton San Mateo. How the accident happened is not clear, because there were no witnesses. However, police officers said the cycle skidded sideways intermittently for 25 feet. Oates was thrown off and was lying in the northbound lane of traffic when picked up. Earl Lindell, 116 North Rochester San Mateo, who told police he did not witness the accident but saw what happened mmedlately following, said no cars passed over Oates body.

The injured man was admitted to Mills Memorial Hospital, where his condition was listed this morning as fairly serious. eading from tanks aft to engines forward, had been cut in the main hold amidships. The lines, he continued, 6ere neatly cut with bolt cutters. They were "obviously cut, he added, theres no question about It. Gasoline, the investigators surmised, leaked through the cuts into the main hold and then, Davis said, somebody threw a match into the hold, I guess.

There were 600 gallons of fuel aboard. Redwood City police and the district attorneys office are looking for two men in connection with the fire. They are Charles Rogers and a mall named "Mars-chok. W. C.

Holst, 207 Alden who owned the yacht, hired the pair a month ago to work on refitting the ship. They are Skid Rogues, according to Davis, as were all men who were hired on the job. Perhaps, Davis surmised, the two had become disgruntled about something. There was no indication of any drinking aboard the 136-foot record breaking schooner the day of the fire. Davis ruled out any idea that Holst might have fired his own ship, pointing out that it was not Insured.

Search for the, two Skid Rogues may be a needle in the haystack job. Holst is not sure of their names nor is he sure of any of their backgrounds. Rogers told Holst he was a navy veteran. Marschok said he was dishonorably discharged from the army and had served prison time. Police Chief G.

L. Collins said today that police had an idea who one of the men is and were sending to another city, where he Is believed to have a record, for a mug shot and fingerprints. The yacht, Davis believes, can never be repaired because hull plates have buckled and heavy steel girders supporting the main deck were twisted by the' fire. The Invader, once owned by Automobileman Don Lee, had set a record in 1926 of 12 days, two hours and 48 minutes in the annual San Pedro to Honolulu race. That record held until this year when the Morning Star of Honolulu posted a 10 days, 10 hours and 13 minutes mark.

Two years ago the Invader was gutted by a fire in San Francisco on which $50,000 worth of insurance was collected. After that Holst bought the steel hull for $2500 and had it towed to the Port of Redwood City in January, 1948. It has been under repairs there since. There was considerable vagueness about the fire at the time of the blaze. When firemen arrived only one man, Norton Gorman, was still at the port.

Gorman, who had been hired the day before as a piano player and entertainer, said there had been an explosion after which everybody aboard escaped. Both Gorman and John Reiser, port watchman who reported the fire, claimed there had been four men and a woman aboard. Redwood City police picked up Mrs. Arleen Wlehke, Holsts mother, as she walked along larbor Blvd. towards Bayshore Iwy.

She was taken from there to Holsts home and had been1 aboard. No trace of the other men was found by patrolmen who spent considerable time hunting them. Holst said there were only three men and his mother aboard. Gorman also said there were ghosts aboard the ship and that he had heard strange noises. Three Killed Battling Forest Fire HELENA, Mont.

(P) At least three men were burned to death, seven were hurt and six are missing in a mammoth forest fire near here, the Federal Forest Service said today. Bodies of two forest service parachutists and a third fire fighter were found in a 3000-acre fire which roared uncontrolled through timber in a primitive area northeast of Helena. Their names were withheld pending notification of relatives. Seven of the 15 smoke jumpers who parachuted to the fire yesterday were burned, three seriously, the forest service said. Two of the chutists Bill Heilman and Joseph Silvia are hospitalized here.

Regional Forester P. D. Hanson of, Missoula said poor communications held up complete information on casualties. Forest. Supervisor A.

Q. MOlr said one of the smoke jumpers who escaped told him all 15 made successful parachute leaps yesterday. Then, said the jumper, we were all enveloped in flames. He doesnt know what happened to his companions. Dr.

AmosR. little. Jr, Helena, former' army: 'doctor, said the two hospitalized men are in fair condition. Silvia is a University of Minnesota studen and Heilman is from Kalispell Mont. All boats in the Helena area were being used to rush reinforcements down the Missouri River to help 120 men battle desperately in the picturesque gates of the mountain area.

Fire whipped along the Missouri River, which cuts deep gorges tJelow the belt mountain peaks, and leaped up and down sheer cliffs, seeking out and destroying trees. The blaze was advancing along a one-mile front, building up tremendous heat and pressure and threatening to burst out of the primitive area and onto private timber. Bulldozers were taken to the fire but could not be used, because of the mountain terrain. The blaze went hog wild late yesterday, driven by strong wind, a forest service spokesman said. The wind was down this morning.

Wife of Builder Dies in San Mateo Mrs. Ethel M. McCarthy, wife of John E. McCarthy, building contractor and former Redwood City port commissioner, died yesterday at Mills Memorial Hospital in San Mateo after a six week illness. She lived here at 927 Blandford St.

and had been a resident of Redwood City for the 20 years. Her husband, one of the original members of the city port commission, resigned from the post in 1947 after 10 years serv-ce. Mrs. McCarthy was a member of Court Mt. Carmel 1213, Catholic Daughters of America.

Besides her husband, she leaves two daughters, Mrs. William E. OBrien and Mrs. Lester Houle, both of San Carlos, and two sons, John of San; Carlos and Drury McCarthy of Redwood City. She was the grandmother of Kathy and Ellen OBrien and John E.

Houle, all of San.Carlo& Services will be held Monday at 9:30 am. from the Layng Tinney Funeral Home followed by a Requiem Mass at 10 oclock at Mt. Carmel Church. Interment will be at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma. The Rosary.

will be. recited tomorrow at 8 pm. up came in the 10th day of a special session called by Gov. Ingram M. Stainback.

Late last night Senate and House conferees agreed on the measure which directs the governor to take over the islands seven stxuck stevedoring firms. It also calls for hiring, as far as possible, the 2000 striking members of the International Longshoremens and Warehousemens Union at the pre-strike $1.40 hourlsT'wage. The House approved the conference by a 24 to 6 vote. The Senates approval was unanimous 14 to 0. The final version of the legislatures bill retains the House provision requiring a loyalty for citizens and a non-Communist oath for aliens, employed in the governments dock operation.

The strikers voted not to work for the territorial government after a special meeting was addressed by ILWU Pres. Harry Bridges. He arrived from San Francisco yesterday and confidently announced the strike is in no danger of being lost as long as Matson Navigation Co. ships dont sail. Matson is the major malnland-Hawaii carrier.

Bridges told a news conference that no law passed by the Hawaiian legislature could force loading or unloading of island cargoes on the Pacific Coast. But even as, he spoke, canned pineapple was being loaded for the first time since the ILWU struck May 1 for a wage boost of 32 cents an hour. A new non-union firm, Hawaii Stevedores, was putting the shipment aboard the Isthmian freighter Steel Maker. Woman Rescued From High SEQUOIA-KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS (JP) A 30-year-old Taft woman was brought back to civilization today after lying injured for two nights on the shore of a lake 9700 feet up in the Sierra. Jean Le Count, who was badly bruised and suffered a possible broken ankle in a fall Thursday night, left for her home in Taft after a rescue crew worked for nearly six hours to get her to Lodgepole ranger station.

The place where she fell was off the main trail near Pear Lake, and rescuers working in the early morning hours used ropes to get over sheer rocks which rim the lake and onto the main trail. She rode most of the six miles to Lodgepole on horseback. She and a companion, Don Ma-kosky, were hiking late Thursday night when the accident occurred. Makosky made her comfortable for the night and went to Lodgepole for help. Policeman Kisses Woman, Is Killed SOUTHAMPTON, N.

Y. (A1) A town policeman was shot to death last night as he kissed a divorcee. The womans ex-hus-band was found dead today with a bullet in his head. A single shot fired through an open kitchen window killed Town Policeman Harold Winters, 44. A nine-hour search for the suspected killer ended today with the discovery of the body of Frank Zleman, 44, at Bridge-, hampton, 10 miles from the scene scene of the policemans death.

long We dont want any crack-pots. You must be passed by a committee. Of course we realize that some of the phone calls weve gotten in this past few days are' from jokers. But others -are sincere, I suppose theyre beginning to realize that sunshine really does bring health. The Sunbathers camp Is set up about1 25 miles southwest of here on a site cluttered with knife-edged drifts of rock.

Most of the group wear shoes and some use sun-visors. The only thing re NEW ERA FOR FRAZIER Sentenced yesterday afternoon to three consecutive prison terms for the shooting of Mrs. Mary Thompson and her twin daughters, Doris and Sharle, Kermit Owen Frazier (left) heads down the stairs leading from the San Mateo County Jail on his way to San Quentin. With Frazier are Dep. Sheriffs Pete Bolich (center) and Gene Allbee.

Frazier was convicted of second degree murder in connection with the slaying of Mrs. Thompson, as 1 well as lesser felony charges in the Atherton shooting of her daughters. (Editorial comment page 10.) San Quentin Opens Doors For Frazier BY JOHN IIUBBARD Kermit O. Frazier was behind San Quentin bars today, beginning his prison term for the murder of Mrs. Mary Thompson of Atherton.

He was found guilty yesterday morning by a San Mateo County superior court jury of second degree murder in the death of Mrs. Thompson. And yesterday afternoon, visiting Superior Judge Andrew R. Schottky of Mariposa County sentenced him to three consecutive terms in San Quentin one term for the killing, and terms for the attempted murder of Doris Thompson and assault with a deadly weapon upon Sharle Thompson, daughters of the murdered widow. Less than two hours after sentence was passed here, Frazier was on his way to prison, guarded by Sheriffs Deputies Peter Bolich and Gene Allbee.

Frazier, said Bolich, didnt seem at all unhappy over either the verdict or the sentence. Theoretically, he would be eligible for parole. consideration after serving slightly more than four years. If parole is not granted, however, the 34-year-old wartime army air forces officer would have to serve five years to life for the murder, then one to 14 years for the attempted killing and finally up to 10 years for the assault. The drama of the trial over, San Mateo Countys courthouse today returned to its usual atmosphere of relative tranquility.

The courtroom, which held standing room only audiences almost every day of the trial, was empty this morning. Asst. Dist. Atty. Fred Wyck-off, who handled most of the case's prosecution, took the day off to get some rest.

Judge Schottky returned home. The family of the murdered woman resumed. its life at home in Atherton. Sequoia Architects Offer to Do Job for 6 Janssen and Daseking, for the projected Menlo High School, last night officially offered the Sequoia School Board of Trustees architectural services for the Carlos-Belmont high school a six per cent fee. In a letter to the board the stated, A six per cent fee permissible according to the schedule of fees percentage of the American Institute Architects and the California Council of Architects.

A week ago, Arthur Janssen, senior member of the firm, the trustees that because other had been ealled in for consideration he probably would have to raise fee to seven per cent in accordance with the ethics of profession. He told the board, however, he would check with the of architects to find out the six per cent offer was permissible. Janssen had told the board the reduction would be possible because of duplication work on the two schools. A reduction of one per cent could in a saving of up to for the district. Early in July the board voted call in other architects for consideration upon the request Trustees Keith Cole and Kenneth Bowen.

Three firms asked for consideration, at an eight per cent fee, the third. Stone and architects for the Sequoia Hospital, at seven per Trustee Clifton Woodhams he saw no reason for action on the architect at the meeting. The six per cent offer just cinches it because it is matter of dollars and declared, adding, however, one trustee, Bowen, was from the meeting and was no need for action. Harold Lindsay, speaking the audience, declared the board had an to Janssen because he been called in to do preliminary planning on the end school. In view of the two per cent reduction, I cant see any justification for going any further, he concluded.

Burgess said that after the board had inspected the facilities of the other three architectural firms, it would then consider all angles and make its decision. Board Hikes Teacher Pay Minor salary adjustments for four high school administrators and 25-cent-an-hour increases for night school teachers were voted last night by the Sequoia High School Board of Trustees. The administrators asked for consideration of salary increases Monday night and Night School Principal Scovel Sr Mayo asked that the trustees raise the salaries of the night school teachers. Night school teaching rates were increased from $3.25 an hour to $3.50 an hour'. Mayo had pointed out that the state average was $3.41 an hour and the Bay Area average, $3.65 an hour for night school teachers.

Board Pres. Charles Burgess said that the trustees would study the administrator salaries during the coming year and that the changes voted were merely a matter of rounding off figures. The salary of the dean of boys was raised from $6060 a year to $6100; that of the dean of girls from $5460 to $5500; night-school principal, from $6060 to $6100; and head counsellor, from $5000 to $5200. Trustees last night postponed opening of bids on night lighting for the high school football field until Aug. 12 because the state division of architecture had asked for several changes in the specifications.

Supt. Clyde Ogden asked that the board consider Installing dirt mound type bleachers similar to those at the Belmont Stadium at the football field, declaring that such an installation, using dirt from the Burdette property in Belmont would be cheaper than building new wooden bleachers. Trustees Keith Cole and Merritt Hosmer were named to a committee to inspect the Burdette property and study the recommendation. Last night the board also: Granted the school lamp contract to the Klose Electric Co. of San Carlos for the 1949-50 fiscal year.

Adopted a $36,597.54 budget for the school cafeteria for the fiscal year. Postponed action on calling for bids on lighting for three classrooms until later in the year. Adjourned until next Friday night, when the board will open the football lighting bids and consider salary requests by the schools non-certified employes. architects Park High San at firm is basis of told his the that board if that of result to of have two and Mul-loy, Dist. cent.

said taking selection about a he that absent there immediate from that obligation had north 'There has been a great deal of 'talk about architects ethics. Shouldn't the board of trustees have ethics too? he asked. Board Pres. Charles Burgess said that board members had received inquiries from citizens fiHnp that other architects be called in for consideration. He said that since other architects had been called in the board should look at their facilities before making a decision.

Cole declared that he was interested in seeing the north end school built within a year. When other architects were called in and eight per cent was the going figure, I felt It was time to stop the procedure, declared Trustee Merritt Hosmer. Nudist Chief Bares Flood of Membership Applications with a Rocky Mountain News reporter as saying: I dont mind stripping to take a sun bath. But the folks here arent consistent. They insist theyre running, around without their clothes in order to.

get healthy or to stay healthy. Okay, why dont they quit smoking? And why dont: they eat right? Most of them are eating out of cans and the food in' the kitchens isnt so hot, either. Meantime, she has not, indicated she cut short her stay at the camp. DENVER () The boss nudist at a camp near here said today hes received a flood of phone calls from folks who want to take nature in the raw. John Garrison, president of the National Sunbathers Association, says most of the people dont realize that you dont become a nudist overnight.

Apparently it involves much more than twiddling a few buttons. Before can join any nudist group your past is pretty thoroughly checked, the portly Garrison says. Its a motely resembling a breech clout is owned by an elderly Canadian who travelled 1,600 miles to attend the camp. He brought his cello with him and wears a pad on his stomach to keep the cello from rubbing. When the nudists attend camp movies at night they wear clothing in deference to the chill mountain breezes.

And of course theres no sun at night, they explain. vr Only rebel in the camp Is a pert California mlss.i She was quoted in an interview Today's Baseball AMERICAN New York 9, St. Louis 8. Boston 3, Detroit 0., Philadelphia 2, Cleveland 0. Chicago 6, Washington 5, 12 innings.

NATIONAL Philadelphia 4, Pittsburgh 3. Chicago 10, Boston 4. J.04.