San Mateo Times (Newspaper) - June 26, 1957, San Mateo, California Son Captures 74 Spectacular Auto Plunge o Fatal to Pair HALF MOON A Southern California man and his wife were killed day in a terrifying quarter-mile in a drop auto 1 a sheer cliff south of here miles Lower Photo bf Norton COAST attendants in top picture seek to extricate the bodies of a Los Angeles aircraft worker and his wife from the wreckage of their sedan which left Coast highway careened a quarter mile and plunged into a ravine General view below shows path the car took It hopped the curb in foreground proceeded along the same line that the people are walking indicated by dashes to a point just to the right of trees on left and Into the ravine A retired San Francisco man who authorities said may have been responsible for the to be questioned in the district attorney's office today Dead are Ivan Mort Gasway 59 of Sun Valley near Los An- geles and his wife Maggie 63 Gasway was an employe of the Lockheed Aircraft company in I s Angeles The accident happened at 4 p.m on Coast highway at the Verde road intersection Reserve Deputy Sheriff las Saunders quoted a witness Postmaster Manuel G Sousa of Half Moon Bay as saying the driver of another car Walter T Clarke 71 of 670 Eddy street San Francisco jumped the stop sign on Verde road and caused the northbound Gasway sedan to of control Deputy Coroner Joseph said the Gasway car crashed through a barbed wire fence and plunged for a fourth of a mile up and down two vines before it teetered on the edge of the high pice and fell into the bed of tos creek landing on top Authorities could not mine what caused the car to travel so far after it left the roadway The bodies were pulled up the creek bed by a cable suspended from a tractor brought to the scene by the county fire department The victims were taken to Dutra funeral chapel in Half Moon Bay and arrangements have been made to transport them to Los Angeles McPheeters said he has learned of only one survivor a daughter who is married to a Los Angeles doctor THE PENINSULA'S OF SAN MATEO COUNTY A NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATED AND UNITED PRESS DIRECT WIRES WEATHER Fair tonight and Thursday Little change in temperature Low tonight 56 degrees high Thursday 78 Westerly winds miles per hour Vol 152 SAN MATEO JUNE 26 1957 lOc PER PER MONTH SCIENTISTS URGE IKE TO CONTINUE Judge Convicts Frank Brewster WASHINGTON Wi Frank W Brewsler vice president of the Teamsters Union was convicted today of contempt of Congress U.S Dist Judge John J Sirica found Brewster guilty on all 31 counts of an indictment growing out of his refusal to produce ords and answer questions before the Senate investigations in January Brewster had waived a jury trial and left it to the judge to decide the issues of fact as well as law The Teamsters of- was not present when the judge handed down his decision He had been given permission to return rr his West Coast home and not be on hand for the dict Will Appeal In San he said today that ho would appeal his contempt of Congress conviction Judge Sirica did not fix a time for imposing sentence mum penalty for contempt of Con- gress is a year in jail and fine Teamster President Dave Beck has been extended a back door invitation to attend the Western Conference of Teamsters 21st annual convention now in its third day here The invitation Tuesday by a was extended trade division known as the general hauling group and not the convention as a whole The Teamster DOSS lier in Seattle said he would miss the convention for the first time Take It Easy Avoid Ulcers You might as well take it easy if you commute to work in your car through interurban traffic Tests conducted by the fornia State Automobile tion show the driver who races YOU'LL FLIP over the of beef at the piece an extra- Live Maine too flown in freih daily te your order to his job cuts in and out of traffic and roars away from the green light hardly saves any time at all The ran tests Tuesday from Redwood City Belmont San Leandro Orinda Richmond and to San Francisco The routes ranged from 16 to 26 Heat Wave Said Broken Gentle sea breezes returned to the Peninsula yesterday pushing temperatures down and cutting smog that plagued the bay area Monday It was the first break in a stuffy heat wave that kept county in the high Temperatures on the Peninsula yesterday averaged 10 degrees lower than Monday The smog reading at Redwood City dropped from a record 40 Monday to an miles The object of the tests was unnoticeable 18 yesterday to show that it doesn't pay to develop ulcers and high blood pressure by racing to work In all tests a fast driver was paired with a driver who in a moderate manner keeping pace with neither lagging or hurrying The tests showed the fast driver gained two minutes over the 44 needed by the moderate driver from Belmont 10 seconds over 38 minutes from San dro not quite two minutes over the 33 minutes from Orinda a gain of three minutes over 29 minutes from Richmond and a gain of six minutes over 32 utes from Hurricane Audrey Nearing Louisiana NEW ORLEANS OP ana was warned today that ble tempered Audrey first cane of the year is expected to smack the state Thursday night with winds of 100 miles an hour The weather bureau said gales will begin lashing the Louisiana coastline tonight The hurricane was located m the Bay of peche in the southwest Gulf of Mexico The International airport weather bureau forecast mild temperatures in the low today with offshore fog and westerly winds per hour The San Mateo high yesterday was 85 Redwood City the temperature remained a sticky 95 Woodside usually the hottest spot on Peninsula had degree heat It was 78 Inter- national airport The weather bureau said the unseasonable hot spell was caused by a pressure area that halted the offshore breeze When that happens the bay area weather abruptly becomes like that of the Sacramento valley the weather bureau said It was 104 in Sacramento yesterday Coroner Rules Body Is Crabb's CHICHESTER England A coroner ruled today that a less handless body found floating in the harbor here was that ol Comdr Lionel Buster Crabb the frogman who vanished year while apparently checking x Soviet Soviet New American Disarm Plan LONDON OOP The Soviet Union gave immediate agreement in principle today to a new American proposal for ing ships planes tanks and guns in a first step move toward East-West disarmament The U S plan presented to the disarmament talks proposed reduction of tional armaments with the plus arms to be placed in fied depots The depots would be to international in- and control Soviet Deputy Foreign ter Valerian Zorin who had been filled in on the project in ad- vance expressed immediate of the idea in ple American officials considered since he founded the conference because he hadn't been invited Beck boycott was the re- the work of a reform ment within the vast union The hauling group extended the tion with the explanation that it could invite Beck because he had been in correspondence with the Please See Page 2 Column S Lone Officer Single Handed Two patrol cars and a troop of San Mateo policemen a corps of 14 grinning gamblers to the police station through city streets at this morning after a on Majors billiard room at 47 South Claremont street But 30 minutes earlier events were somewhat less comical both for police and the gamblers Officer William Patois saw three room at 6 a m cruised around the block and returned to find the door the open door he spotted two card tables in full operation Patois said he charged irto the room one table of blers quickly scooped up their cards and money and the other game was continued with slow deliberation He quickly in cash off the second table for evidence Meanwhile approximately 25 gamblers began milling around looking for exits There were so many of them it was hard to keep track of them Patois said While calling for assistance the officer said seven or eight broke out the back door and climbed x fence at least 12 feet high When two patrol cars full of policemen arrived the raid took on the aspects of an organized One car cruised behind the 13 gamblers and one woman all in single file and an- other cruised in front One offi- cer on foot was detailed to both the front and rear of the line Patois said the gamblers got quite a kick out of it their at- showed they weren't be- and the march down the alley behind B street ended on Main street in back of the police station Booked for gambling and all free on bail each to appear in municipal court here at 10 a m Friday Willie and Naomi Wilkerson of 220 S Idaho San Mateo ADMITS Joseph Falbo is shown at Kansas City police station where he admitted slaying Shirley Kyle of Gladstone a suburb Boy 15 Admits Slaying Girl 10 KANSAS CITY body of pretty Shirley Alice Kyle found a half mile from Kansas City early today and lice arrested bor boy with a record of molesting children Salvatore Joseph Falbo was this one of the biggest moves yet toward agreement on ment But they cautioned that many details still needed to be worked out Stassen proposed that tRussia the United States Britain and France agree on lists of tional weapons which would be mothballed under international until the first ment step had successfully been carried out weapons would then be scrapped or converted to peaceful uses Naomi police said was serving coffee to the card players From San Francisco were Asa Martin Smith Clarence Carter whose stake was taken for Horace Hilt Henry Darvis Thomas Mines Jackson Sledge Earl Mosey Audrey Powell and Horace Welis Others booked were Willie Washington Palo Alto and tis and John Dotson of Oakland Majors Billiard Room is owned and operated by Eugene Majors SOI First avenue San Mateo Defense Seeks Leniency for Col Nickerson HUNTSVILLE Ala The court-martial of Col John C erson Jr has been reduced to a sort of round robin chat on tary of Defense Charles E son's order limiting the Army to missiles For all practical purposes as a result of a deal with the ment the trial of the bespectacled missile expert is all over except for his sentencing Nickerson is the man who en- gaged in a one-man fight to have Wilson modify his order and let the army develop and use a mile Intermediate Range ic Missile Pleads Guilt As a result the deal son yesterday pleaded guilty to 15 charges that he permitted tive defense information to reach unauthorized persons and was lax in handling secret data He was promptly convicted Before the court-martial board gets around to fixing punishment which could amount to dismissal and 30 years in jail it plans to hear 14 including some of the top missile scientists This probably will take about five days Presumably these will discuss the Wilson order and its effect on the nation's missile gram Nickerson as a person and a scientist and how the Army's IRBM the Jupiter stacks up with the Air Forces rival sije the Thor Their testimony is expected to Please See Page 2 Column 3 picked up in Kansas City after an intensive manhunt through the night of the homicide squad said young Falbo admitted the slaying Shirley's body was hidden in the tall grass and underbrush of a ravine Her green shorts and shirt were partly torn away There were marks on face scratches on her arms and legs An length of fence post was nearby Dr 0 S Pate ty coroner said it appeared she had been murdered Other offi- cers said there were indications she had been strangled and raped A throng searches had hunted almost six hours after her mother reported her missing a p.m Authorities said recon of sex offenses goes back to 1954 and he has been under the care of psychiatrists He was describe as 6 feet tall and about 200 pounds Leonard Will Not Appeal REDWOOD CITY Max J Leonard county agricultural com- missioner said today he will not appeal a suspension ed by the county board of super- visors yesterday but will accept the punishment The board voted yesterday to suspend the veteran official ing the month of July without pay for conduct unbecoming an em- ploye in the public service Supervisors sustained county grand jury allegations that ard had used employes of his de- to do odd jobs at his home at 3043 Mezei avenue in Belmont Ray T Higgins foreman of the grand jury which had demanded Leonard's dismissal declined commented today on the action The jury will meet again July Higgins said and I imagine the matter will be discussed at that time In a letter to drafted by the board supervisors made it clear that certain mitigating kept them from im- The letter states in This is being im- posed by the board for reason that tht board hit found you to have conducted self in manner unbecoming an employe in the public service in that you and were in- strumental in obtaining county employes to perform labor on your private residential property ing county working hours and mitted county employes ing such labor to travel to and from your residence in county You are also hereby manded for the manner in which time records of your staff are maintained in your department and you directed to devote Chou Admits Blood Bath TOKYO Commu nist Premier Chou salt today one out of every six per sons accused activates by the government had been executed Chou did not mention the number actually executed but he left no doubt it was one of the largest blood baths in history Western sources have placed the number of executions in the millions Chou also disclosed that Red China had been hit during the past year with the worst natural calamities in several decades His admission lent weight reports of trouble within Red China climaxed recently by Com- munist leader Mao de- to take a softer line toward critics of the regime Chou said the natural ties that struck China in the past year were not only the worst since the liberation but also the worst in the last few decades it was indeed a severe test Reports reaching the outside world told of mighty floods on the Yellow river and the Yangtze and of widespread famine but today was the first official ad- mission of the extent of the calamity See additional details Page Seek Ban Despite Clean Bomb W A S HI N G T 0 N AP Eisenhower said scientists tell him they believe they can produce an absolutely clean hydrogen jomb after four or five more years of tests Eisenhower told a news ence the same scientists say that must continue if we are ing to get the full of edge regarding possible peaceful uses of atomic power The President said the feel the tests must go on without any pulling back Eisenhower based his remarks on information he said he earlier this week from three c scientists who conferred with him at the White House But despite this report of the scientists views Eisenhower re- iterated that the United States still is hopeful an agreement can be reached providing for suspension of tests Seeks Pact As secretary of State Dulles did Eisenhower offer also contemplates an agreement to halt production of atomic weapons out of newly produced fissionable terials Further Eisenhower talked of at least limited aerial inspection and reduction of manpower as other facets of the disarmament package he has in- mind In the course of the news con- ference the President also dis- Inflation He called on both business and labor to statesmanlike effort to avoid price and wage increases Eisenhower said there is always talk in times of inflation of the possibility of imposing ment controls on such things as prices and wages Eisenhower said that would amount to doning the economic system which has made this country and he said he wanted no part of that Supreme Court Eisenhower said he still believes the people of the United States respect the Supreme Court as a stabilizing influence which keeps try from going from one extreme to another Without saying so specifically Eisenhower hinted for the second week in that he may not agree with some of the court's recent decisions Secret Secret Data data Anyone who knowingly reveals a secret document 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