San Mateo Times (Newspaper) - December 2, 1957, San Mateo, California Chief Pusher Of Marijuana The Mr Big of a county marijuana ring with state-wide ramifications was captured in San Mateo this a end series of arrests out the bay area The arrests had been preceded by six months of undercover touched off by a tip to San Mateo police Jailed was James well 21 whose home address was Riven as 1206 South street He has been a familiar bnd boy figure to local police since the ape of 16 he was first picked un on a narcotics according to Detective Sst George Condon is charged with two counts of sale and two counts of of marijuana Big Business Authorities described him as mastermind of the dope ped dling ring Some quarters muted he was doing a month business Bail has been set at cash Maxwell is to appear be- fore Judge J A Branson in San Mateo Central District Municipal court this H at at the apartment of a old girlfriend at 318 East Poplar avenue Neither she nor another girl in the ment at the were taken into custody Two youths present were jailed however and are being questioned by District Attorney Keith Sorenson They were Frank F Farrugia 22 Bayview street San Francisco and David L land r 50 East Thirty-ninth avenue San Mateo Joining in the probe with Condon was Chief tor A li Lamport of the district attorney's Office Together they made purchases of which San Francisco lice to Carr and others in last Friday er narcotics in Marin end said Condon and the others are small fry compared to Carr was only one of Maxwell's suppliers Maxwell got his choice marijuana leaves which he sold only in bulk at about a pound Carr from personal trips to Mexico and from an unknown Los An- geles supplier Significant Haul Maxwell's arrest is the most in recent county cotics history according to Con- WEATHER Fair tonight and Tuesday Low temperature about 38 degrees high day Gentle variable winds t THE PENI NSU LA'S DEVOTED TO THE INTEREST A NEWSPAPER LEADING NEWSPAPER OF SAN COUNTY ASSOCIATED AND UNITED PRESS DIRECT Street Final JAMES C MAXWELL don who added He's the gest operator we've ever netted The capture followed the rounding of the quiet hood apartment house by seven Page Z Column 2 HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN a cool tropical at TU Trr II alona with oi Orient and Hawaii American dolly iron pjn VUla San lo to lanal Vol 2 Sections 24 RAGES SAN MATEO CALIFORNIA 2 PER PER MONTH COPS RESCUE 2 KIDNAPED TOTS TEST VANGUARD ROCKET FOK DAY at Cape Canaveral Fla right carefully a six-inch test sphere atop the third stage of a Vanguard tset rocket preparatory to of the rocket tomorrow The engineers stand on a platform higher above the ground Is Deing prepared for a static test much as during the launching but the rocket is bound firmly to its stand to prevent takeoff A six-inch sphere will be carried in Wednesday's firing Russ Rocket Believed Down S Test Near WASHINGTON Si and British scientists say there is ery indication Russia's satellite put Sputnik I into orbit to its death Saturday night But where it fell and when remained a mystery in the face of widely scattered claims to ing it fall Sputnik I still is circling the earth as is the Soviet ing satellite Sputnik II which was launched Nov 3 U.S scientists con- their preparations for ing the first American satellite space Wednesday There were this week possibly several reports of flaming objects being sighted over the weekend One of these from Fairbanks Alaska coincided with Wiretap liik To Hoffa Told NEW YORK former state trooper now a Hollywood actor testified in federal court today that he installing wiretap equipment in the quarters of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Rudolph Doelicke said that he worked behind locked doors in installing the equipment in the office of James R Hoffa of the Hoffa Bernard Erennan of mouth Mich president sters and Bernard Spin- del of Holmes N Y a al are tried fore a jury of and five women on charges tapping Doelicke said he was em- ployed by Spindel July 1953 and that over a he assisted in making the tions He said told him that only Hoffa and Brennan knew the predicted passage of the et over that city and it was be- ing investigated further CAB Checking Lost Plane Mystery Call SAN FRANCISCO The Civil Aeronautics day it is checking tape recordings of aircraft radio calls made at the time a transpacific plane crashed inexplicably into the sea between San Francisco and waii with the loss of all sengers and eight There been rumors that a weak distress call came from the Pan American plane just before it crashed into the sea on Nov 8 The last radio message from the plane was a routine checking at p.m After 19 bodies were recovered from the ocean it was discovered watches warn by three persons stopped at o'clock Cuddeback CAB inspector at said he had listened to the recordings but that no dis- tress call ed that things were heard ever which were not ly explainable by ear He con- We don't what they were Consequently the tape been Bell Telephone tories for The will be announced in Washington One theory discussed by sources other than is that a peller loose then slashed through the severing the antenna system the ship into a crash dive This would account extremely garbled signal heard tape if But the sightings ently involved something other than the rocket Some experts also discounted the Fairbanks re- port saying the was -a giant fireball or meteor Russia has -had nothing official to say about the rocket's fall But a Moscow radio broadcast said the rocket had completed 894 orbits as of 10 p.m yesterday An earlier broadcast said the rocket would be visible today A spokesman planetarium told correspondents in the rocket would burn out very soon haps tomorrow or the day after He said the carrier was not sighted over the weekend and was ready to plunge into the and disintegrate Dr Fred L director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Please See Page 2 Column 1 Lovers Hide In Scotland Scotland runaway debutante her sweet heart hid from their parents where in Scotland today They were Tessa Kennedy ess to a shipping fortune and inic Elwes Simon Elwes one of Queen Elizabeth's official portrait painters law allows anyone over to marry provided they have for three weeks Kennedy's parents not only refused to allow to marry hut obtained a court order in don forbidding the marriage Two weeks Tessa and ini announced their intentions Late Tuesday the couple ished from London Two er a high an their Over end couple was found in hiding near here -at- a hotel Hawaii Safe As Hurricane Sweeps North HONOLULU Nina swept northward from Hawaii day after pummeling Island of Kauai and destroying or damaging about a dozen homes It left heavy seas in its The Weather Bureau reported the hurricane center passed 70 miles due west of Kauai about today An estimated 500 Kauai residents were forced to take refuge at evacuation ters at the height of the storm There was some concern for the safety of the on the small island of about 30 miles north of Kauai There are no between the two lands but officials on Kauai said they believed the smaller island was taking quite a battering Rescue vessels have been un- able to locate the fishing sampan Setsu Maru carrying 3 men which it was miles east Point and Niihau Island The Coast Guard sent out two tional planes to search the area where the boat was last heard from The Weather Bureau said the storm was expected to ly northward the possibility it would curve to the northwest and then to the of the islands only buffeting winds and a good ing At Honolulu rain during the last 48 hours totaled only 2.94 inches Honolulu harbor was reopened at 5 p.m yesterday after being closed all day Airlines resumed regular flights to the continental United States at yesterday west were scheduled today aircraft that had been grounded resumed flights with added take care of stranded passengers They had curtailed operations Saturday A electrical de- Herman Jr 33 electro- while testing a power line fatality Ike Presides at Cabinet Meeting WASHINGTON U President Eisenhower today at a session of his Cabinet one week o the day after he suffered his cerebral attack James C Hagerty presidential press secretary said Eisenhower entered Cabinet and called his official family into sion at p.m after spending 20 minutes at work in his office Hagerty said Eisenhower did not expect to remain throughout the meeting The President had returned only about hours earlier by motor from the Eisenhower farm home at where he and Mrs Eisenhower spent end Immediately after reaching the President went to his office and dictated a to secretary Ann Whitman After dictating the Hagerty the President went to the White House living quarters for lunch a short nap Hagerty did not disclose the Cabinet meeting but Vice President had had been prepared to substitute for his chief as told re- porters -on Friday the agriculture and welfare budgets and legislative programs were to-be canvassed It was expected that the Cabinet be brief on the ad- major policy to be sent to Congress next month defense and inter- national fields It was presumed also lower would conduct tomorrow's scheduled session with Republican and Con- gress on the defense and foreign policy issues Eisenhower arrived at the White Souse at after a one- lour ride from Durg Hagerty rode with him Gen H House in another car Giants Sign Franks As Base Coach Colo San Francisco Giants Herman Franks 43 third base coach G G Results BEST REGARDS GOINO SHI NEXT EL BEY 0.20 3.30 3.60 3.60 XM 4.30 3.70 33.50 13.50 3.20 Of Rigging in WASHINGTON rado truck driver testified o that members local union were never given a chance to elect delegates to the 1957 Inter Convention Denner rora Colo wa's the first witness for teamsters to bar Hoffa from tak ing office as teamster president Denner a member of Denver local 961 know they were nut when asket how two convention dele gates were chosen TJnder cross-examination how ever he admitted that at tended only the or Feb ruary and May meetings of the local the international con at Miami Fla He said he had only information abou a September meeting of the local Goafrey P Schmidt attorney far the rebel teamsters said the May meeting one that important He said i would have been too tc choose delegates legally before May no meetings July August DALY San Disco brother and sister were saved last night from a sex offender who was to them after he boldly kidnaped the from the family's parked car Dorothy Hill brother Joseph Jr 4 children of Mr and Mrs Joseph Hill 250 Coleridge San Francisco were dramatically rescued by two men making a routine check of car parked inv a secluded area The policemen spotted Jerry Rogers 31 San Francisco a louseman and investigated Left In Automobile The brief drama about p.m when ents left the and went into a restaurant to discuss a When hey ater children were The children that Rogers had parked im- mediately next to theirs He reached in and boy the girl into his car He then drove to the secluded r Wellington street and Peoria nue area where he was spotted y Sgt David Hansen and Officer Trank Police took the children and Rogers to found he parents Joseph and his wife Marie 25 250 Coleridge report about their missing children Rogers who was co-operative at irst admitting he had served a- term at the State Mental hospital at Atascadero for molesting dren He Police photographer attempted to ake a picture to he had not been injured during the arrest Bogers was booked on charges oi kidnaping and attempted Getaway Blocked The suspect told police he had coaxed the children into his car statement that their mother and father wanted him to lake them home When Hansen and Murray rived on the scene a few minutes had Rogers turned his lights on Murray quickly moved the patrol car irr front of the Rogers auto preventing his escape As police out of the car child de- clared said he was going to take us Please See Page 2 Column NOW OPEN PLAZA 1841 El Camino Red current 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