Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - June 16, 1953, Yuma, Arizona EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK There mint still be some spirit left in the captive nations behind the Iron Curtain At tout Is enough spirit to enable them to tell jokes o n themselves and their plight This story Poland Is re- printed in the moat recent issue of News from Behind the Iron tain a publication of the National Committee for a Free It seems that in Warsaw a tural trustee caught his colleagues ambling and remonstrated with them he said why don't you play a more refined game Why don't you play We don't know how to play chess answered the gambling Comrades Well if you insist on g then play for beans not for money For beans said the gamblers turning pale The stakes would be too In a pound of beans costs about Yuma Contractor Suicides Rifle Bullet in Brain V Death by suicide was the coron verdict yesterday in the ing- of Jesse Conrad Bean Yuma contractor City police and Coroner E r s e 1 Byrd shooting in Bean's home at 10th avenue Bean 49 was found dead in the bathroom of the home by his wife Arvilla Sgt Jim Birmingham said that Bean had last been seen alive when he left his home at to go to work His wife left the house a short time later to go to work She found her husband when she returned at 6 p.m Sgt Birmingham reconstructed scene He said that Bean hac taken a 300 Savage rifle and ed it with the gun either at the base of his chin or in his mouth and pulled the trigger Bean was a contractor here hav ing built a number of houses in the Yuma area He was born May 4 1904 in Douglas Ariz He is s u vived by his wife and a daughter by a former marriage Faye Wilkes of Tolleson Hospital News Patients admitted to the Yuma General hospital June Verda Gardner Route 1 Box 672 Mrs Shirley Hill Route 1 Box Somerton Martin Box 142 San Luis and John Roll er Route 1 Box 533 Admitted June Mrs Kitty Austin 1024 Broad way El Centra Calif Mrs Gen eva Craig 124 N 8th Ave Mrs Betty Ades Route 1 Box 567 Mrs Del Rio 1201 2nd Ave and Mrs Mary Senini 1405 12th Drive Dismissals June Mrs Phyllis Clay Yuma John ny Linn Warren Box 123 Somer ton Mrs Clarkin Ave Monies Route 3 Box 116 P O Box 23 Joe Lopez Calif Mrs Graciela Ramirez San Luis Leo Huston 240 10th Ave Mrs Elizabeth 5 Orange Ave and Elias Ortiz Yuma Births June Mr and Mrs Stanley Hill girl 7 pounds June Mr and Mrs Edward Senini boy 7 pounds ounces Short-Circuit Brings 19 Call for Firemen Things got a little hot and smok ey in the Sanguinetti Tire Depart ment and Service Station las night The Fire Department was callec at p.m when smoke wa discovered in the station building at 149 E 2nd street A motor shoi was discovered in the coke ma chine S- A If D I Kl CC KJ T Tuesday Afternoon YUMA Ml YUMA ARIZONA TUESDAY JUNE 16 1953 TWO PART ARIZONA 141 June 25 May Be Truce Date Douglas Asked To Delay Execution of Rosenbergs Set for Thursday Night WASHINGTON rival of attorneys today asked Court Justice Will in in O to postpone the execution if atom spies and Ethel They presented papers or as to study in his chambers They were prepared to argue ally before Douglas in lie ailed them Defense lawyers took their cuse o Douglas after failing yesterday three efforts to suade the full court to intervene on behalf of the condemned c o u- pie The Rosenbergs are Ued to die in the Sing Sing electric chair at 8 p.m PUT Thursday Fifth Appeal Two other lawyers ng the condemned couple asked Douglas for a stay of execution until a fifth appeal can be filed with the high bench This will leul with recent adverse rulings in lower courts denying the bergs a new trial and a hearing i a reduced sentence Two other lawyers representing Los Angeles resident named win to iue a writ of habeas corpus man who has interested himself n the Rosenberg case was resented by Fyke Fanner of ville Tenn and Daniel G rhall of Los Angeles The same petition t was thrown out day by Judge Irving II Kaufman in New York who called the yers intruders and interlopers The lawyers told reporters tain essential propositions of law never have been presented to the court the the death is Il- legal under any view of the case Presidential Clemency Emanuel H Bloch of New York chief defense lawyer was at Sing Sing prison visiting with the Ro- senbergs He was expected to re- turn late today with a petition from the Rosenbergs asking for presidential clemency If Douglas should grant a stay the government could request special term to act on it since the court now is in summer re cess At its special term the court could either vote to vacate the stay or sustain it and consider a new appeal If all legal steps fail and the personal appeal to Douglas G Yuma Melons Sent To 4 Congressmen GLENDALE IIB The Glendale Chamber of Commerce reported today it had sent four flats of cantaloupes grown in Yuma to Arizona's four men in Washington D C The cantaloupes were donated by L T Malone Glendale anc Yuma melon grower Yuma met ons have been shipped for about a month while those in the Phoenix Glendale area were expected to be ready for shipping this week The local chamber group spoil sored the Arizona Melon Festival set this year for July 17 and 11 Man Found Dead At Yuma Home S E Reed 53 was found deac this morning in his home appar ently of natural causes City police and Coroner Erse Byrd were called to the scene Byrd said that Reed had previous suffered o broken leg and was in bed at the time Reed was employed at the Yu ma Test Station and the Indus trial Commission was planning to send a doctor to Yuma to con duct a post-mortem Reed lived it the 100 block on Madison avenue World News Briefs NEW YORK The tional Maritime Union CIO postponed a threatened strike for 24 hours today pending ther negotiations with Atlantic and Gulf Coast ship owners SAN Fifteen state and federal crews today battled n brush fire In the rugged mountains north of Warners Springs in San Diego county PARIS Andre Marie agreed night to try form a and eml cal Marie a Socialist told Vincent he plans to go before the Assembly tomorrow nnd seek confirmation as premier LONDON European Communists planned widespread demonstrations today er at saving U.S atomic spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg from execution or giving world Communism two more martyrs The American Embassies in is and Vienna were assigned ex- Ira as Thursday's tion date approached BANGKOK King dom Sihanouk of will be asylum here but will not he permitted to curry on any political activity Hint might relations be- tween and l''ranee Thailand officials salil today d to be one of the last avenues pen in the courts the attorneys will make -an leventh hour bid to President for executive clemency le refused once before on Feb 1 to intervene Rise After Sharp Drop CHICAGO Grain prices pose today after one of the est declines In many months At Kansas City and Minneapolis for future delivery rose as as 3 and 4 cents a bushel oats and other grains were about at yesterday's level The sudden plunge in grain yesterday evidently led other commodities down too Heavy Selling Frantic selling in the wheat pits at Chicago Kansas City and neapolis yesterday sent the price of the golden grain tumbling to the owest levels in three years At Chicago July wheat plunged cents selling at 0 a bushel At Minneapolis wheat for delivery in limit or a day's trade closing below 1 bushel The wild selling in the wheat pits off more selling on the New York Stock Exchange slash ng prices and a share for a otal loss yesterday of nearly a billion dollars in total market Other Commodities Fall In other commodity trading ee sugar and cocoa all declined yesterday In Kansas where the combines U ready are busy harvesting a er wheat crop estimated at bushels the price break neant a paper loss of from to One operator on the Chicago Hoard of complained that there's too damn much wheat He said the bumper wheat crop of more than a billion bushels was the big factor in the price decline The Weather Highest Lowest yesterday 10 7 Meeting of Full Truce Delegations Is Called PANMUNJOM Korea The rail truce tions meet tomorrow for the first time in a week but officers gave no hint as to whether the renewal meant progress or fresh difficulties There were reports the Allied and Communist delegates Reds Gain on East-Central Korean Front CAVE-IN An Arizona Service worker crawls out of a ditch near MAln and Jones streets after the left wall of this vation fell in Two men who were working at the base of the ditch saved themselves by ning around the corner in he right background Two men Olca and Lorenzo Espinosa were taken to Uie hospital after a previous cave-in Both were examined and released The cave-in shown here occurred when the men were trying to shore up the sides of the ditch Two men who were standing left bank were dropped Into the ditch but a sprained finger was the only injury Sun Staff Temperature at 11 today 80 Relative humidity at 11 high this date Average low this 70 to Wednesday Clear today through Wednesday Southerly winds 10 to 15 miles per hour today Continued hot Grapes Start Moving From Yuma Area Grapes the baby agriculture in dustry of the Yuma area will j out of here today j Earl Stewart manager of the and Shirley Farms said he would start picking an his ten-acre plot in the South G i 1 a Valley this morning All of rest of the acreage is concentrated on the Yuma Mesa Charles Abbey Mesa grower today that there are about 50 acres of grapes now in lion No market has been but buyer Honry Stewart of i Phoenix estimated yesterday that the Yuma grapes would bring about per crate Most of the grape acreage is in Thompson seedless with about 80 acres concentrated on other ties This is just the fifth year for any grapes in the Yuma area A small crop is picked in the third year of growth and a full crop can be picked in the fifth year of growth It is estimated that between 40 and 50 carloads of grapes will go out of here this year This is in contrast to the 20 cars that went out last year Stewart the Phoenix buyer said yesterday that the S Gila Valley grapes hit around 18 per cent gar content and that they were of prime quality The Yuma deal is believed to be ahead of the h i g deal The grapes arc field packed and no shed work i is needed Mobile Oil Testing Laboratory Displayed At Yuma Test Station Individuals and vicinity in petroleum testing are to inspect the Mobile Petroleum Laboratory on display at Yuma Test Station through June 18th It had been planned to display he laboratory for one day on a downtown Yuma street but this was found impracticable due to the excessive amount of space which would be required for the display The laboratory is making a cross country tour 10 augment the ing of Quartermaster Corps leum laboratory Army Reserve Units sponsored by the nation's major oil companies The tour is also being used to test the air conditioning unit under various climatic conditions At Colo it was tested for efficiency at an altitude of feet Here it will be tested for under the dust and heat of desert terrain 139 Cars Melons Shipped Monday One hundred and thirty nine cars of cantaloupes were shipped from Yuma yesterday according to Market News Service This brought the seasonal total to 754 cars -as compared with 1425 a year ago Demand was very good day for best fair others Market weaker Jumbo to jumbo 55.50 to 56 occasional straight manifest 35 Old Streets Closed In Hansberger Plot County supervisors have approv ed the closing of a portion of mond avenue and several alleys in Hansberger Subdivision No 3 in response to a petition asking their abandonment There were no objections to the proposed closing The subdivision is located north of 8th street and east of Avenue B Closing of old streets and alleys is in tion for laying cut new streets Old Yuma Irrigation District Yuma county supervisors took the final tive action which marks the end of the Yuma Mesa Irrigation Dis- in preparation for tion of a new district The action was the canvassing of returns from an election to dissolve the district There were seven votes in favor of dissolution none opposed Named by the ors to assume control of all the district's assets until general electors of the district shall ize and take control of them are Exton H Jones Drewie A Hall and T W White secretary In actual fact the district has no tangible assets SEOUL Korea Chinese infantrymen scored new gains on the blazing east-central front day and at least 15 Red planes bombed the big port of In- chon setting fire to a petroleum dump It the strongest bombing attack of the war It was the first damaging blow against Inchon 20 miles west of Seoul since the fall of 1950 Four MIGs Downed Inchon is the port for Seoul and was the the Allied landing in September 1950 Earlier American Sabre jet pi- lots shot down four Communist damaged three in a new flurry of air fighting near the Yalu river in northwest Korea On the ground Red troops cap- tured Finger ridge from South reans and expanded their bulge into the critical east-central front Communist infantrymen who used some 7.500 men in the surged the ies of their own dead to capture Finger ridge Many Reds Die U N observers said the Reds paid a heavy cost in lives ting they may be willing to sac rifice many men in the last stage of the war to gain advantageous positions before the cease fire is called Flames from the burning eum dump could he seen from the truce camp 35 miles away There was no immediate report of casualties We can't get near the a military policeman at Inchon said MIG kills today were credited to Maj Stephen L Bellinger West Caldwell N J Robert P Baldwin Sherman Oaks Calif Lt James L Thompson Wilming ton Del and Maj George M Howell Modesto Calif might be ready to sign by tine 25 anniversary of the Corean war There also was peculation that the continuing ground offensive was it difficult to draw a line if demarcation Work on Rattle LINE The Chief delegates had turned iver to staff officers citing line that will separate lie two armies during an ice Speculation as to the if meeting The U N command is not with progress of the staff work and hopes to speed L up 2 Staff work has d to the point where the full can meet to approve what has been done In Washington Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had warned yesterday that the present Communist offensive on the battle rout could seriously delay an armistice Staff officers who have been daily during the recess o discuss a cease fire line the exchange of prisoners and other details will meet after the ary session American officers in charge of operation big the ex- change of after an ice has been signed held a high evel meeting today dt the U base at Tomorrow's truce meeting will bring Lt Gen William K son senior U N delegate and II gether along with their staffs at H 7 p.m tolny New Parker Firemen New officers for the Parker Fire District have been elected it was reported to the Yuma county board of supervisors yesterday Chief of the district is G Van and two assistant chiefs are Robert Lewis and Robert J Gnau Mexican Dies of Crash Injuries Elias Ortiz a Mexican laborer from Blythe died in the Yuma General Hospital this morning at 5 as a result o head injuries suffered in a last Friday morning The accident occurred at 5 Friday when the car in which Or tiz was a passenger skidded out o j control over 300 feet and turned over several times The car wa headed towards Yuma and the ac occurred 35 miles north o here on Highway 95 Building Permits Building permits issued June 1 I by W McAlpin building tor included one to Goldie M ton to construct a residence a j 1613 8th avenue costing an to Delfino Galvez to construct dwelling at 1st avenue betwee 12th and 13th streets to cost 51.800 Improvement of Dairy Industry Vowed at Meeting Improvement of the dairy dustry in Yuma was vowed this morning as members of the try met with the Yuma County J Chamber of Commerce Development Committee Yuma County has dairy facilities and an- ing record on sanitation Dr V Hill veterinarian with the Bureau of Animal Industry and Rice Yuma County Health Department inspector of dairy barns One of the main problems ing dairymen in Yuma was as a lack of public edge of the fine quality of local milk An educational program was declared necessary to solve this problem As a result of the discussion a motion was carried calling for close cooperation between the Dairy Herd Improvement tion and the Economic Development Committee for motion of the industry George Bradley president of will lead his group in the work with the committee BULLETIN BERLIN Red East many bowed to protests of 000 demonstrating workers In east Berlin today anil scrapped a speed-up plan which de- manded a 10 per cent production Increase from workers on Com- munist projects Storytelling Hour To Begin Wednesday at Library Building ARE buyer Henry over some of Ihc first to leave look ho from and Shirley vineyard In the South illn Valley n first big of the variety today Sun SMI The storytelling hour for dren from 5 to 7 will start day morning in the basement of the library building at Sponsored as part of the summer playground program by the Parks and Recreation Department the storytelling hours will run for six weeks They will be held every Monday Wednesday and Friday Mrs L C Dingess will tell the first stories and then will take over for the regular Monday programs Mrs Kny Sperrazzo will have the regular Wednesday programs and Mrs Winifred Leonard will have the Friday programs Mrs Anne is the alternate storyteller Charles director of the and ment today thut volunteers are needed in the crafts ing- and activities e c- tions of the summer playground program These are heM at Ike and 2nd avenue weeK Alfred Freestone will teach the following dancing mixers of square dancing ginia reels polkas and simple folk dancing She will also teach rhythm band and singing In the art department Gene Savage will teach charcoal ink water colors tempera and crayolas Mra Savage will also conduct singing and other sical games The crafts section Is currently Ing conducted by Mrs Mary Molina and Mrs Delia K Includes leather worX kef CAM flower corsages paper craft and shell craft Other types of entertainment for the children will be added M appear Rein that persons having eny skills m various departments may him at the city hall and donate oiw hour a to playground program
