Daily Review (Newspaper) - December 9, 1955, Hayward, California IDS Into Lab Clues MISSED PAPERS Gall LU Daily Review Circulation Dept Home Delivery Circulation Guaranteed the COMBINED WIRE COVERAGE BY UNITED PRESS AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE Vol 64 NO 62 HAYWARD CALIFORNIA FRIDAY DECEMBER 9 1955 28 PAGES all the local news 5 latest world news Kirk Admits Abbott Car Bloodstains Inconclusive last Berlin Police Take Over Border By JOSEPH FLEMING United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN East German government announced today that Communist police have taken over from Soviet troops the guarding and control of the borders of the Soviet zone and the routes to Berlin The announcement issued by the East German press office un- the Soviet contention that East Germany is now and has complete control of isolated West Berlin's lines to the west THE ANNOUNCEMENT com- ing at the of an East-West Draft Ca Reduction Is Ordered WASHINGTON INS The De- fense department issued the est draft call since the Korean war today asking selective ice to induct 6000 men into the Army during February At the same time the Selective Service system was requested to reduce the January draft call from 8000 to 6000 men I controversy on four-power in Berlin appeared to serve notice on the Western lies that on free cess to this city now are at the mercy of the East German It came also as the S Army disclosed that it had made a third demand for the return of two American soldiers whose arrest in East Berlin led to Communist hints that they would try to bar the Eastern sector to Americans Earlier story on page 3 THE LATEST move gave the Communists power to harass or blockade the supply routes to this city However the trol appeared to pertain pnly to German traffic to Berlin to Western Allied traffic The press office announcement said the transfer of made Dec 1 An American spokesman said there has change since then in the status of Western Allied traffic i flve Red satellites to the UW wun live arjsiennor_ HE SAID SOVIET w ti lut china went to the General Assembly where it won swift approval See Chiang veto not East German guards still were exercising control over By DOROTHY CUTHBERTSON Daily Review Staff Wilier OAKLAND The Burton Abbott defense today continued to hammer and pick at damaging testimony of logist Dr Kirk Defense attorneys gained an admission from Kirk that the scientific sleuth could tell if a stain in Abbott's car floor mat which reacted positively a test for Wood was fish pheasant game or human SO DETAILED and walked out of the fifth floor courtroom where Abbott is be- ing tried for the of Stephanie Kirk appeared in ing the floor mat from Abbott's green sedan which he he had tested blood Complying with a request from Defense Atty Harold Hove Kirk scissored a large lemon sized oval from of paper Then he affixed it to the spot on the mat which he said showed positive reaction to luminol tests 1 out probing blood animation of Kirk now in its I The area in question is a second day that spectators portion of the which Death Penalty Law Change Views Split LOS ANGELES IIP Legal experts differed today on actual effects upon the crime rate by abolition of the death experts uu icnc wj er California's penal code should penalty still are unknown and be revised to require juries to that the field they want a death ment study LENDING AN EAR TO RUSSIA Ambassador Henry Lodge left of the United Slates and Sir Pierson Dixon cenier of the United Kingdom strike contemplative poses at the UN's special political meeting in New York as Russia's Malik right speaks The penalty imposed As an assembly judiciary sub- committee began its second and final day of hearings on posed changes in the state's capital punishment law and law their mony showed judges school deans split in opinions committee passed Canada's package proposal for the admission of 13 non-Communist Countries All however agreed SUPERIOR Judge Charles Fricke said he did not think juries were equipped to pass on the death penalty adding that he would repeal every section of law which gives juries in death penalty passe ana and Red satellites to the UN with five abstentions resolutions fought bitterly by veto Western Allied highway and rail traffic The Communist announcement said the transfer of control was made as a result of the East treaty giving the viet zone sovereignty The treaty was signed in Moscow The Defense department said the number of men requested for the Army for February and the reduction for the month of ary is based on the proved strength after allowances for enlistments reenlistments and other personnel gains had planned to draft about men February but said today that its recruiting has improved to a point where no use ot draftees will be necessary story on page Soviet Demand Rejected and ratified in October The statement was issued by East German Premier Otto and also published U.S Refuses Atom Bomb Pledge UNITED NATIONS N Y The United States today rejected demand for a pledge not c a a by the East German Communist to first to use atomic news agency as an invitation to The statement said that for the guard and control of state borders and on the outer ring of greater IT SAID THAT THE taking over of these functions hitherto exercised by troops of the Soviet U a made a strong Lodge told the before the Nations main inc that month larmy has been finished Prior to this month the draft Despite East German pressure on the Western Allies aimed to has been running at a rate of 000 a month for the Army arid for the Navy The February call brings the total draft since the start of the Korean war to men gain diplomatic Soviet em- bassy said yesterday that will continue to Allied circulation rights in Brucker Tells of Need For Korea Readiness Secretary Wilbur M Brucker warned day We had better keep our powder dry until the United States solves the question of what to do about growing Com- munist military power in Korea Brucker at a news conference said the question of Communist armistice violations and troop buildup in North Korea was tually a problem for the State department and the United tions I do know in the meantime until that question is he said we had better keep our powder dry FLEW to Okinawa this afternoon after a three-day inspection trip to Korea which took him to the frontline The Army secretary said he U S Cabot political committee for ment of a four-power ment resolution giving top to President Eisenhower's open sky arms inspection plan REFERRING TO the Soviet proposal to avoid use of nuclear Noted Scientist Man's Destruction If an international agreement makes it impossible for -a abiding power to use them first even in dire extremity of self- defense against a massive sion then that which is strongest in conventional means of would be the strongest power on earth And it would still have a re- serve of its own nuclear weapons strike devastating blows the their very of life to Candidates To Succeed Attlee Named By ALLEN R DODD JR LONDON Hugh kell Herbert Morrison and rin Beyan were officially today to succeed Clement Attlee as leader of the British Labor narty The names of all three were placed in nomination yesterday and their Became of- WITHDRAWALS could have been made up to the last minute Another judge Evelle that er of Los municipal court agreed with Fricke that juries not being trained in law would tend bring in verdicts based on emotional reasoning rather than objective Law school professors Robert Kingsley of USC and Rollen -N Perkins of UCLA said before any change is made in state law pertaining to jury tions broader studies of the capital problem but no move was made after last i J ive the leadership should be made Kinsley said he believed trial juries should be re- to specify if they want a leath penalty The subcommittee headed by Lester A McMillen heard Judge Fricke com- ment that Caryl 1 chessman will continue to delay his execution until he runs out of judges who will issue writs without Fricke the judge who Morrison the long-time deputy By LEONARD J SNYDER INS Dr warned today that mankind is headed for phe Sunless more careful ning for the future Bush president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and one giants in the our and death had been asked long he thought the convict would nave ffn with that hearing was accept the blows in war prompted bv a introduced hey generally concede a a hough wing p by M Declaring the world's is increasing at a rate which renders noted that the manufacture of foods contrasted with growing just He asserted also that while m mankind can probably keep up field declared m its demands for energy by final for the f atomic and perhaps solar REVIEW TELLS STORY OF JEWISH HOLIDAY Hanukah historical Jewish holiday begins tonight with a candle lighting ceremony and giving of gifts in many area homes It will continue for seven more nights The Daily Review will pre- sent the of this holiday with a feature story in tomorrow's church pages was convinced the present el of American military strength in the Far East is and should not be In summing up his tions of his three-day Korean tour Brucker First it is an inspiration to ind American morale lere very TO THOSE WHO think can soldiers spend their concerned with homesickness are very wrong and while they think of home their talk is about I with the ican portion of the troops We have every right to be proud of them The Army secretary reiterated his displeasures over the American troops in are still living in tents in many cases He said something has to budge on that and I am see to 3 New Charges Filed Against Jail Escapee that wars aside man is still ed for trouble HE WILL retire on Jan 1 scientist said the immediate question of er man will use the split atom or a virus to turn tion back and force it to begin its slow upward climb is be resolved by other of thought than those of fundamental science exponent of or research who directed the government's office of scientific research and from 1941 to 1947 when the atomic bomb was developed needs power it is a different matter with our mineral resources He said end can be seen to the process of digging metals out oi the ground whenever we find a indicating that they may be FOR A long time to come he said we shall be dependent on finding and exploiting less natural TURNING TO other scientific questions Bush We need to know whether the poles have shifted arid if so where they moved whether the skin of the earth slipped over its core and whether it is stir slipping have accept Should they also vagree not to use weapons h their defense after taking that first be committing suicide to agreement eign Minister Vasily V sov that the convention of 19.25 resulted in poison gas and weapons being used in World War II If chemical warfare could have been employed with the the atomic weapons on any battlefield in a manner so de- as to prevent the aggressor does anyone believe that the Nazi war not it -in World War leader and his supporters re- that o- ally sentenced Chessman to an have done so is heavily win a majority the 274 to be cast by members of the legislature by which would add a section t the penal code providing tha no person would be sentence to death unless the trial jur recommended such a penalty Council Acts to Get Justice Hall on Its Own OAKLAND The city and Seventh streets and United States is China to stand aside and let Communist Outer Mongolia the United Nations officials admitted day they are way y fj SCIENCE HE said still We need how understand the process by which is of the greatest mysteries of life He said scientists are just now learning how the simple isms of life operate problem's of- man's mind itself he said must be more fully has influenced the course of events on this planet not only by warming it in numerous other ways We need to understand at- circulation with it weather and climate of CHIANG merit on threatened to veto the entrance of Outer Mongolia even if stood if we are ever to and of the remote ies adjacent to the left side of the seat IN RESPONSE to a from Hove Kirk said also produce filter papers which tests run after the filters ere wetted and placed against the You couldn't Hove asked what type it was fish pheasant gamt or No I could Kirk Uni- versity of California crime pert and the witness answered The defense also requested other physical evidence f erred to in Kirk's Assist Dist Atty son left the court room briefly call Berkeley who have stored the seats from Abbott's car Kirk said he would comply with a defense request to produce the car's seat covers EARLIER DEFENSE Atty J again clashed sharply with tones of personal slurs in their comments Defense and ion arguments have acrimonious sonal as the long trial Coakley objected to ailed cross examination about the mat saying It's fogging He advised if did what it means to look the dictionary Chief Defense Counsel Stanley Whitney interjected ly You mean you like pettifogging after you've handled this That's the pot calling the Whitney added V it by Webster as to do a petty business also to do law business in a petty or tricky Superior Judge Snook shushed the as he has been forced to do edly throughout CT As the morning on to the noon ute cross-examination of became more and more Hove repeatedly posed tions about the laboratory of the of Abbott's and of soil samples ex- hibits bv the HE ASKED Kirk about details of the procedure and re- plied he had the his tests at his campus laboratory Hove told Shook it would expedite the if Kirk were directed to bring his notes to court Judge Snook replied he had no authority to order Kirk to bring in his notes There interjected in obvious derision at the detailed I think this ing would take a week if he brought in all his notes Before beginning its cross ex- Continued on page 2 last night dropped its attempt to get Alameda county help in the construction of a new Hall and the structure -on authorized City Manager Wayne E to start property in the block bounded Sixth WEATHER Cloudy with fog this ing followed by Clearing this and fair tonight increasing cloudiness ing the Canadian to admit 18 new members One U S so the Nationalists haw given no definite reply that they let Outer Mongolia into Nearly 80 inch of ram fell Yesterday's Rainfall to date 1 5.66 This time last year 3.37 Normal OAKLAND Three new charges were filed yesterday against Roger old alleged narcotics peddler who escaped Wednesday from the Alameda county courthouse Mclntosh gave himself up Wednesday night to San cisco police and was returned yesterday to Oakland Kefauver On the Mark WASHINGTON liam F Knowland and Estes Kefauver ed a step closer today to ing avowed candidates for Action Realty Co INCORPORATED Consult your Realtor as you would your Doctor or Lawyer 1204 A Street LUcerne Action Plus Satisfaction Each Appears Closer to Telling Candidacy dent Friends of Knowland disclosed his a week or 10 days Friends of Knowland said the Californian feels he would be justified iri state primaries if Eisenhower has not 01 u uu Republican leader will revealed candidacy by late January or early said he would do so even if President Eisenhower has failed to reveal his that time IN THE Kefauver formed sources said the Democrat has F Joseph Donohue Washington at- of Col- manage his campaign for the Democratic nomination They said Donohue's appointment will be confirmed when Kefauver formally home state today for a speech and Benson's attempt to blame the for conferences with his current depression on mary deadlines But these Mr Eisenhower to he will second terhi land believes pressure will ment from the Eisenhower Ms willing ling until like Knowland a in for conferences with his Cali fornia supporters In another political ment Sen Barry Goldwater Ariz replied to yesterday's charge by Adlai Stevenson that tbp Republicans including water are attempting foster the ugly politics of group hatred Other to in Stevenson's attack included Secretary Ezra T Interior Secretary Dougr las McKay Fred Crawford Cleveland industrialist and tional Salute to dinners STEVENSON told theL CIO politics IS a HA pi me He m hatred started with the city worker's wage increase And now the the Republican Senatorial committee Goldwater has charged labor leaders i with organizing a of national proportions take over he said In reply Goldwater questioned former Illinois ernor believes in political Goldwater noted -t h a t Mr Eisenhower in his message to the convention said that labor has a legitimate inter- est in politics but that its leaders the rights of mi- Broadway which be the new Hall The city has been trying for more than a year to get the county in on a for con- struction of the building on the adjoining to the west former site of the county house now vacant The new Hall of Justice will house the Oakland Police de- city jail and pal courts A bond issue to build s new WLS passed in 1945 Cost of the new building is not yet known but if the bond money is not enough serve funds will be used said He told the council tion of the new will bring immediate rejuvenation of the lower Broadway area now considered blighted Since passage of the bond aue the function of providing courtrooms has been trans- ferred from the city to the county The county which has been renting in city hall OPENS FOR YULE SHOPPERS Mothers who do their mas shopping in Hayward have to worry Junior they can take their slers to the Hayward Recreation district E street park will Christmas The center in sored by Hayward Commerce in cooperation with HARD Hours are 9 p.m days Wednesday and and 9 tad Thursdays and private rent courtrooms in the new HaH of Justice with different political would TODAY'S INDEX Comics 23 Editorials Latest Stocks 6 Medical Memo 2 Radio-TV LOR Women's Vital Statistics 7 For Your Lincoln Mercury SEi CALL Joseph J Jr Ul PERKINS LINCOLN MERCURY 101 Castro St Hay ward Stores 0
