Reno Evening Gazette (Newspaper) - April 10, 1961, Reno, Nevada GIVE TO YOUR RED CROSS Fund Membership Campaign Is Under Way In Washoe County RENO EVENING GAZETTE WEATHER Fair Through Tuesday Some A Newspaper for the Home Information end enjoyment for every member of the family Warmer TEMPERATURES Minimum 22 EIGHTY-SIXTH YEAR NO 12 PHONE FA NEVADA MONDAY APRIL 10 1961 PHONE FA 22 PAGES 10 CENTS BRITISH SHIP SINKS 212 DIE HOLLISTER IS JOLTED BY QUAKE Saturday Shock Rocks Bay Area None Injured HOLLISTER Calif AP This little county seat town 90 miles south of San Francisco was still picking up today after the heaviest earthquake in its history I've lived in Hollister all my life said San Benito County Coroner Eugene Patterson 57 and this was the worst quake I've seen In addition to extensive but relatively minor damage ter had to contend Sunday with thousands of curious motorists who poured into this community of people which frequently gets shaken up by temblors along the San Andreas fault beneath it BEFORE MIDNIGHT Two rumbling shocks struck shortly before midnight Saturday night and were felt over a square mile area from San lael 15 miles north of San cisco to Paso Robles 250 miles south Only in Hollister was there much damage The University of California seismograph at Berkeley recorded two shocks one at p.m and another minutes later They broke water mains in San Francisco shook sleepers awake in San Jose and Santa Cruz but in Hollister they broke nearly every plate glass window on Main Street BLACKED OUT The north part of town was blacked out as power lines parted In cascades of sparks Cracks streaked across lour of the gest buildings in town State Highway 25 to Coalinga was blocked temporarily by an slide No injuries were reported Damage was estimated at dreds of thousands of dollars mostly in broken glass and in merchandise which flowed out of broken jam syrup and liquor bottles With several large cracks the three-story San Benito County court house built in 1887 has been abandoned until an engineer checks it Two old hotels and the two-story Elks Building are ly cracked Many old buildings shed bricks Nearly all lost dows BANK DOOR SINKS The Bank of America found its pillars loosened and its safe sunk several inches into the floor Bank officials say they have no idea how to get it open At nearby Cienaga several casks in a winery were sprung and red wine flowed down to the highway A flower shop owner said he was knee deep in strewn flowers broken vases and urines Love Admission Taped May Aid Cooley Defense BAKERSFIELD AP An in- quest into the death of leader Spade Cooley's wife will be held Thursday if Cooley is well enough to attend Cooley 50 former western is in Kern County General Hospital recovering from a heart attack he suffered Thursday Among those scheduled to pear as witnesses at the inquest are the Cooley s daughter Melody who witnessed the beating A PRIVATE EYE Authorities are studying hvo tape recordings obtained Friday of a telephone conversation be- tween Cooley his wife and vate investigator William S Lewis They were made less than 24 hours before the woman's death Published accounts say the tapes contain admissions by Mrs looley of indiscretions with a Los Angeles man plus a mumbling shocked reaction by Cooley Cooley's attorney Morris Chain said the tapes might be of con- aid to the defense be- cause they showed strong dence of Cooley's disturbed emo- condition when he heard VIrs Cooley's admission Player Holds Masters Lead AUGUSTA Ga AP South African Gary Player's crisp gave him a 34 first nine and kept him safely ahead in his bid for the Masters golf title today Player who held a four-stroke lead at 54 holes maintained that margin over defending champion Arnold Palmer playing two holes behind in the con eluding round at Augusta National Course Player scored birdies on the first and second holes and then matched par on seven straight holes Palmer birdied the second and sixth to keep the pressure on Player However Player bogied the par 4 to drop to 11 under par through 65 holes and Palmer birdied eight to go only two strokes behind U S Plane Takes Soviet Scientist On Mercy Flight AUCKLAND New Zealand U.S Navy plane today brought an ailing viet scientist to the American ant arctic base at McMurdo after a mercy flight of more than miles The scientist Leonid is suffering from chronic stomach ulcers that flared up while he was working with in Marie 691 miles from the South Pole Bullwhip Killer Guilty in First Degree Special fo QUINCY Calif Carroll Butler 24 was found guilty this ing of first degree murder in the bullwhip death of his three year old stepdaughter Superior Court Judge Bertram Janes who heard the case out a jury delivered the verdict from the bench this morning and set time for passing sentence as April 18 at 10 Judge Janes who had ruled that Butler might waive his right to a jury declared in announcing the verdict that the evidence here establishes beyond a able doubt that the murder was perpetrated by means of torture The child Amanda Gayle ler died Jan 8 following several admitted savage beatings by her stepfather and mother A Plumas County Grand Jury on Jan 20 in- Butler and his wife othy for first degree murder When they were arrested Jan 8 the pair admitted to officers they beat Amanda with a bullwhip and also with the buckle end of a belt Butler entered a plea of cent but Mrs Butler entered a plea of a reduced charge of manslaughter Mrs Butler then five months pregnant was sentenced to five years to life by Judge Janes iate in February She was a witness for the state in Butler's trial which com- March 20 Said Judge Janes The brutal revolting manner in which the child was beaten and sordid shocking treatment to which the little girl was ed and as a result of which she died constituted in my opinion torture of an aggravated nature within the meaning of the statute and the cases In conjunction with other relative evidence the wise mistreated leads a reasonable doubt as to his guilt of murder in the first degree Butler received the verdict without emotion although before court started he had an almost Turn to Page 17 Col 5 Memoirs Call Gen Eisenhower Second Best LONDON AP Lord Attlee Labor leader in Britain's wartime government and later prime ster now says the Allied forces would have been better off under a British general rather than Dwight D Eisenhower In memoirs published this week the job of beating Germany He implied that Eisenhower got it be- cause an American had to be chosen and the best American general was the U S chief of staff George C Marshall Said Attlee in a book entitled A Prime Minister Remembers I don't say that Eisenhower did not do well but I think brooke was better I was surprised when the Americans put in Eisenhower He was fairly junior and he'd never commanded in the field But it had to be an American and I pose they thought Marshall was too important at home Ike was a very good fellow an extremely good diplomat the man to get em all working together a man of courage who took important decisions without hesitating But not a great soldier not in any sense a major He hadn't a very good strategical background or conception South Africa Won't Racial Policy JOHANNESBURG South Africa AP A leading member of Prime Minister Hendrik Cabinet said Sunday night the South African government wit not change its racial segregation policies nor submit to dictation by nations Finance Minister T E Eben Donges said in a speech at the government will not deviate from its policy in the face of changing tions He ridiculed the opposition United party for proposing a cial federation as a solution for South Africa's color problem Sparks Woman Dies of Burns In Sunday Fire An elderly bedridden Sparks woman died at Washoe Medical Center Monday following her Most of the missing were were trapped in the dwelling Smoke was pouring from dows and the roof Asians but an American employe Donning smoke masks the Oil Co L V Dorsch made their way through the of Brooklyn X Y and his wife Birch Society Founder Denies Secret Role LOS ANGELES AP The founder of the controversial John Birch Society says it isn't a secret society and it has only two secrets We don't tell how many bers we have and we'll not tell names of our ex- Robert Welch of Belmont Mass when on a cal television program Sunday night Welch appeared with Dr James Attlee said Field Marshal Lord w Fifield Jr minister of the Alanbrooke then British chief of First Congregational church of staff would have been better at LOS Angeles on the latter's ly program on a local TV channel Welch 61 said the John Birch Society named for a missionary and Air Force intelligence officer who was killed by Chinese Com- is trying to prevent the breakdown of morality EDUCATE NEIGHBORS He said it opposes the disease of collectivism We've got to stop the Communists first Our mary objective is to educate our neighbors and fellow citizens to what is happening Fifield said he had heard that a purpose of the society is to get Chief Justice Earl Warren de- posed That's just one of our specific said Welch Some congressmen have called for investigation of the tion Atty Gen Robert F said last week he thinks the society is ridiculous that its members make no contribution to the fight against Communism here in the United States and in fact I think if anything they are a hindrance Branch Rickey Jr Dies at Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH AP Branch Rickey Jr vice president in charge of minor league clubs for the Pittsburgh Pirates died today at Presbyterian Hospital He was 47 South Africa Loses in U N UNITED NATIONS AP special political com- today approved by a der margin an African resolution calling for a diplomatic and eco- nomic quarantine of South Africa because of its racial policies The proposal was doomed ever because it failed to get the two-thirds majority required for final approval in the General sembly The vote on the boycott demand was 47 in favor 29 against anc 18 abstaining This was the tougher of two before the com- The other simply urging separate and collective action against South Africa was to be approved by an ing margin The second was sored by five Asian countries RIGHT-HANDER John Kennedy President throws out first ball of major league baseball season The 1961 opener matched the new Washington Senators against the Chicago White Sox Left is vice-president Lyndon Johnson The White Sox won the game UPI A Step Below Educators Sa Boy 15 Is M LONDON AP A American boy was hailed by English educators today as a mathematical genius potentially one step below Einstein He doesn't care much for the idea John Bell son an American civil engineer working in American ath Genius nia let the learned praise fly over his head with the bland JUST A HOBBY Thanks But this isn't work to me It's just a hobby John excited English professors by skating through a physics scholarship examination for Oxford University Other boys go to he said the tall bespectacled American youngster But I'd rather work out a mathematical problem or read a book on physics That's By passing the examination John won entrance to Oxford's Exeter but he's too young to go there WON'T ANSWER John went into seclusion today at the home of a Cambridge scientist He declined to answer telephone requests for information about his U.S background John's host Dr Edward assistant director at Cambridge University You can say that John's father is a civil engineer in California That's all he wants to say Snubs Congo Truce STANLEYVILLE the Congo The army chief of the Stanleyville government Gen Victor today snubbed a bid from Maj Gen Joseph Mobutu of the Leopoldville government for a military truce said he would hold out until the Stanleyville government headed by Antoine and the Leopoldville government reach political agreement Mobutu flew from Leopoldville to neighboring Equator Province Sunday hoping to open negotiations with on the border of Oriental of which Stanleyville is the Kills Father of Five SAN LUIS OBISPO AP A father of five children was killed Sunday when his car sped off a embankment into a dry creek bed The California Highway Patrol said John Battson of Baywood Park was traveling at excessive speed Brown Expects Nixon to Run In California SAN DIEGO Brown indicated Sunday he expects former Vice President Richard M Nixon to run for governor year Brown I don't see how the people can vote for a Republican candidate Neither Mr Nixon nor any of the other candidates has offered any program for the betterment of the state Brown was at a party meeting honoring Miss Ingrid Leyrer 18 whom he had crowned Miss Young Democrat of San Diego at a ball Saturday Is Happy fo See Victi Has Three V MANILA AP Doctors told the family of Robert E McCann that the American businessman freed by the Chinese after 10 years in Communist prisons has three weeks to live at the most The McCann is able to recognize his wife and son Robert Jr of Los Altos Calif at the U.S Air Force Hospital at Clark Field where he was brought after his release from China His two married daughters Mrs Barbara Curtis 36 of Pasadena Calif and Mrs Dyer 32 of Sherman Oaks Calif are tn his bedside Ghost Story Writer Dies LONDON Onions 86 British novelist noted for his ghost stories died Sunday in a hospital in Wales He wrote more than 20 novels among them The Story of Ragged a tragic tale set in the 17th century and Poor Man's about the era of the Wars of the Roses which won him the James Tail Black prize in Adolf Gestapo Chief Eichmann to Trial Tuesday JERUSALEM API Eichmann today neared the ful hour that will bring him face to face in court with Jewish of the Nazi extermination camps including some who claim to have suffered ly at his hands Eichmann was chief of the Jewish Affairs Section ing World War II He goes to trial before a special panel of three Israeli judges in Jerusalem FIRE SWEPT OVER LINER TOLL RISING Many Jumped To Stormy Sea After Explosion MANAMA Bahrain and deserted wreck tt the British liner Dara sank today as salvage ships were trying to beach her The owners issued a inew casualty toll raising the num her that may have been lost in the Persian Gulf disaster to 212 Two were The figures were issued hew by Gray agents tor from a in that cue by Sparks firemen residence city The victim was Mrs Lucy F Allison of 24 C St She was SI Firemen received a call to the home at 10 Sunday Three engines responded Firemen were told two persons the line The company's 580 passengers 132 estimated 60 visitors total 772 Survivors 560 Missing 212 DIDN'T REGISTER An official of Gray said the number of visitors was approximate because they did not have to register when they came aboard at the Arabian port of Dibai 300 miles east of this rior and found Mrs Allison on a Vala were aboard They were re- bed She was carried from the ported on their way to California building by Volunteer Joe retire after 35 years with dolfo The woman sustained first tex and second degree burns about The Dara was en route her head and neck and Basra to Bombay early suffered smoke inhalation when she collided with Her son Ira was located in a other ship in a storm The Dara crowd of onlookers outside a short headed for open water to avoid time after firemen arrived Helping blown ashore in heavy had escaped from the burning winds but at a m an building n me room rocked Fire Chief F W Farr said liner and fire broke out The woman was transported to spread rapidly and pas Washoe Medical Center by Sparks sengers and crew abandoned ship day morning Israel in a massive indictment accuses him of crimes against the Jewish ple and crimes against ty Death is the maximum alty The second paragraph of indictment Ambulance Service for treatment The blaze Farr said was touched off by an electrical short circuit in a lamp in the woman's bedroom It ignited a pillow and mattress and spread to a wall At am Monday flames destroyed an ancient box car which was part of a train owned by William Harrah Reno casino operator Harrah had purchased the train which once operated between California and Nevada for a historic display It was on spur track off Dermody Way Farr said he believed the fire was started by a hobo who I sought shelter in the railway car An old stove ly became Also damaged was one end of a passenger car An investigation of the fire continued early Monday by Sparks and Reno officials Rail City firemen answered a the of 13 calls over the lend In addition to the two Scores of panicked passengers jumped into the stormy shark infested wafers One American survivor Mis H G of a ary from Holland Mich said the gangways and corridors were filled with people lushing about in a frenzy shouting fire fire when the order was given to abandon ship Many had only their night clothes on Red Astronaut Try Very Near Think Experts MOSCOW Moscow today that the Russians have sent a man into space But after a day of feverish activity there was no official Soviet an- of such an historie flight The accused together with blazes firemen arrived too A Soviet television camera crew others during the period 1939 save he nest of hvo birds showed up at the Central 1945 caused the killing of on a power pole behind the Office and planted nese Pagoda of television lights in places where correspondents would be expected to rush in They brought just cameras not television lions of Jews in his capacity as the person responsible for the ex- of the Nazi plan for the physical extermination of the Jews known as the final tion of the Jewish problem Part of he support for this charge comes from 242 papers letters and reports captured in the Foreign Office of Nazi many during the war The state has scheduled 39 to testify Of these 13 met Eichmann personally during the dark years prosecution was carrying out the final solution hree of the witnesses Yoel Brand his wife Hansi and Philip Freudiger met Eichmann in gary in 1944 This was when the Nazis devised the scheme to re- lease a million Jews in exchange for Allied army trucks Brand will testify that o Page 17 Col 3 Postal Payroll Due for Growth WASHINGTON Post Office Department has announced plans to add regular em- ployes to its payroll t by limiting the hours substitute employes can work Substitute workers will be to 40 to 44 hours a week for live broadcasts You here to shoot a picture about the spaceman asked a correspondent who hap to call in One technician pursed his lips Wait until 3 he said Three o'clock ing One Communist correspondent already had telephoned his in Rome that rumors were effective July 1 according to an j rent in Moscow the Russians had launched a spaceman Official order issued by Postmaster eral J Edward Day Regular career employes are limited to an biweekly paycheck Day said some substitutes have been sources refused to confirm it Then a technician went to c telephone talked excitedly with somebody and wait until 4 o'clock working so many extra hours their paychecks have been Came 4 o'clock Still no iman announcement nothing The new policy is expected toj Communist correspondents add employes in California dently had been advised by scien and 44 in Nevada sources to sit by their radios Reno postmaster Pete Peterson and telephones waiting for a estimated the plan would add Mrs McCann said mat her band suffering from cancer that has ravaged most of his body has j competitive civil service great difficulty speaking but he tween eight and 10 men to the staff We won't know for i sure for about three said Peterson The Reno office presently 27 substitute clerks and 29 sub- carriers New employes would be determined through A little after 4 p.m the camera Turn to Page 17 Col t after her and their son I never thought I would see my family j again Widow He is happy to see us she Robbed of Jewels I said He knows that he is now free and that he is in a military NEW YORK H hospital He told us j esterday widow of composer is a dream Hammerstein II was robbed I Mrs McCann flew 9.000 miles Sunday of jewelry worth about daughters j to China to plead with the Mrs Hammerstein was rom her east Street home spionage still had five years when broke in and took run the jewelry from a clothes closet INDEX Amusements t Aim Landers g Classified Ads Comics 18 Crossword Puzzle 4 Earl Wilson 7 Indoor Gardening I on Bridge 7 Legal Notices 17 Local Regional 11 Markets 17 14 IS Sylvia Porter 8 Television Log 17 The Doctor Says 9 Vital Statistics 17 Weather Table 17 Women's News 17
