Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - December 8, 1955, Yuma, Arizona Here's good news for a lot of people: Contributions to Yuma United Fund Drive which supports 10 youth and welfare agencies to date have totaled portion of the Telethon after expenses was That leaves us only short of our goal Several business firms who have not contributed and quite a large number of individuals could put the drive over the top They may send their tions United Fund Box 403 Yuma High Court Hears Arguments in Suit WASHINGTON UP The Supreme Court heard arguments today on the latest round in the dispute over rights to billions of gallons of Colorado River water The issue is of major importance in both slates California with a mushrooming population and water supply and Arizona planning a huge desert tion project depend to a large extent on the winding Colorado River for water Disputes over division of rado water been before the Supreme Court for about 25 years The Question before the high court today was whether Colorado Wyoming and New Mexico should become to the dis- pute between California and zona d AT Tumi Ariz by th Co t th M YUM Art Cta Printed Thursday 111 kr YUMA 299 20 PAGES PHONE SU YUMA ARIZONA THURSDAY DECEMBER 8 1955 PER COPY ARIZONA W Sainburg Seeks Court Release Two More Yumans Arrested in YAB Rifle Theft 3 Leaders in Scramble for Attlee's Job LONDON I UP The big three of the Labor Party today began campaigns to succeed Clement R tion as party leader and elevation to the him with only his title Herbert Morrison deputy leader for the 20 years served as party head officially tossed his hat into the ring last night Hugh Gaitskell pro-American party treasurer and Aneurin Bevan leader of the faction have until tomorrow to do so Treasury Secretary Opposes Tax Cut ST LOUTS Mo Secretary George M Humphrey said last night he is against any tax cut at present because oi the nation's pressing defense On the brighter side Humphrey said he is still confident that we will have a balanced budget for the present fiscal year FBI Nabs Pair For Conspiracy In Night Raid Yuma FBI agents continuing their investigation into the Sunday morning theft of 95 M-l carbines from the Yuma Air Base arrested two Yumans yesterday and ed them with conspiracy Jailed wore Benamin Franklin Shepherd 28 and Melvin Lloyd Ferguson 21 Taken before U.S Commissioner John McGuire the pair waived preliminary hearing and bond was set at SI 000 each Ferguson has already made bond Details lacking No details were available as to how the Yumans were linked to the bizarre burglary that netted enough rifles to start a small-sized revolution and 1.000 rounds of munition to go with it The complaint says Shepherd ami Ferguson did and feloniously conspire with James j Roy Gilstrap an and Lee Alvin Wallace ian airman ond class to commit an offense against the States to steal and convert to their use 95 M-l calibre 30 carbines of the value of -u the Yuma Air Rasp and said James Roy Gilstrap and Lee Alvin Wallace to effort the object of the conspiracy did a certain overt act steal the carbines The complaint was signed by Roger J Jr Yuma FBI agent is in charge of the case here Announcement of the arrest of the two Yumans was marie by Francis E Crosby ial FBI agent in charge in nix on Market The case continued to arouse speculation bore as 10 thp of the theft was One re- port had the group making a ned delivery to a Mexican buyer for a high price The other was that the youths wore going to burs guns in the and go pine for a buyer The are thei basic infantry weapon and were used extensively in World War II and in Korea They retail at each but could bring a much pr price Gilstrap and Wallace were cap- tured by an elaborate net of FBI agents Air Police sheriff's ties and city police early morning after they cut their way into a storage building on the base They had the guns in the back seat of the car and thought they were on their way to freedom with hem when the officers closed in and took them without a shot being fired The two were armed with a personal rifle taken from the storage shed and a pellet gun Both are being held under bond Televised Murder Trial Stops Business in Waco WACO Tex UP A sensa- Some filling stations have in- tional murder trial that is being televised live for the first time anywhere has just about halted the normal flow of business in this central Texas city The camera set up station The Weather Highest yesterday 72 43 Temperature at 11 today Relative humidity at 11 Average high this 69 Average low this date 47 FORECAST to Friday Clear this afternoon thru Friday Little change in the temperature Northerly winds 10 to 0 miles ppr hour this afternoon settling tonight Expected high today 72 low night 42 lowering freezing in colder areas stalled television sets and taverns with TV sets are constantly ed The trial is also being shown to the civics classes at Lavega and Waco high schools and to Baylor University Dean Abner V McCall of the Baylor University law school said about half the faculty members and students of the law school were watching each day He said he had not been to the trial But as far as I can see it doesn't interfere with court and favor of it I am in complete in the balcony of Judge D W Bartlett's district court is transmitting to perhaps persons the trial of Harry L Washburn 39 of Houston who is charged with murdering his wealthy former mother-in-law Mrs Helen Harris Weaver 52 of San Mrs Weaver was mutilated by a tomb that exploded under the hood ot her car when she stepped on the starter last Jan 19 in San Angelo Washburn and the vers were having family troubles wife was getting a the prosecution is ing to prove the bomb was meant for Mrs Weaver's husband Harry N Weaver an architect but she got into the car instead LAKE GENEVA Wis UP Like the lone gunman appeared to have fauver crime hearings and the capped his bank robbery masterpiece by making a clean getaway today FBI agents and local authorities they had found no trace of the cool brainy bandit who ried off the first bank robbery in the history of this swank resort town yesterday Their only loads were a mocking note left to Lake Geneva police and knowledge that the man was possibly an ori bank employe as well as an ex- Bank Bandit Makes Clean Getaway The Nations General Assembly today to a recommendation I 13 and admitted was 52 to with 5 aba lona The tl of the Senior Class Play Opens Tonight Seventeenth a act will hp presented night and tomorrow night ning at in Auditorium by the Senior Class of Shaum is the love-stricken star of the performance who fails in love with Jack by Tom Hougham on the stage Others in the play Elizabeth stead Ray Tilford Billy Harward Linda Hutchins Ruth Tench Mary John Benson John Rodriquez Charlotte Tones Anita Face and Redondo feud televising of this trial has disrupted thp ules of and men alike and it has been the No 1 topic of conversation in Waco since the trial started Monday Lancaster Pa Fights Typhoid Epidemic LANCASTER Pa The Lancaster City and County Medical Society ordered an inoculation gram today for an estimated persons to combat an epidemic of paratyphoid in this area The society emphasized ever that thp program would not be effective in controlling thp epi- demic for at least 10 days thp incubation period of the disease which is a milder form of typhoid fever A total of 54 persons most of them infants and small have been stricken since the end Jean Sibelius Reaches Age 90 HELSINKI Finland UP Jean Sibelius one of the greatest composers of modern times is 90 years old today The world's music lovers celebrated his birthday but he did not Sibelius likes no fanfare am nothing myself he was reported to said It is my music They have my music so why should I appear A festival concert in his honor at Helsinki's University Hall will take place without him tonight AMERICAN BEAUTIES Culver dena City College freshman from La Canada Calif was selected to as Queen of the Tournament of Roses at- Pasadena New Year's Day Joan who will be officially crowned Dec 28 admires her bouquet of roses of her royal title stickup man The stocky holdup man had ready guarded himself against capture by taking only well-worn i small denomination bills and the bank's list of currency serial numbers through which thei loot might have been traced I West Fears Reds Will Hold Gl s as Hostages Navy Bomber Down at Sea 3 Rescued HONOLULU UP A Navy patrol bomber which ly carries a crew of 10 crashed at sea 26 miles east of Kauai Island last night and a submarine picked up three survivors They were identified as Lt K Guedel Dover Ohio the Lt E F O'Malley Chicago the and the navigator Lt Ug Robert S Smith whose last mainland home was ery Ala He has a1 sister Sarah M Smith of Ala Two of the survivors needed medical attention No further de- tails were known They were being returned to Harbor Police Strip Waitresses of Nude Appeal OSAKA Police day ordered waitresses to put on clothes and the management to turn up the lights in 28 nude tea houses In the order an attempt stop the griming number if ten houses featuring nudity with lemon or sugar said esses must morn than ex- tremely thin nnd almost trans- parent clothing They told HID teahouses o lights burning brightly enough so a man could read his newspaper JOSEPH FLEMING United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN officials expressed fear today the Sonets would hold two captured can soldiers as hostages in a ly gamp of blackmail aimed at forcing of a Soviet cer who fled to the West The East German Communist press hammered away again at the corrupt West Berlin ment and an official Communist newspaper said the whole regime must disappear to make Berlin free from scandals and tion The newest threat was by renewed hints at passage of Berlin's supply ps from West Germany unless the Bonn government knuckles un- der to the Red demands it as an equal with the eign East German government PREDICTS IKE WILL RUN House Republican leader Joseph W Martin Jr shown with President Eisenhower in his Gettysburg office predicted conference that the President for the sake of the world will consent to run for re-election He emphasized that the President did not reveal his intentions His prediction was only his own personal Turned Over To Russians Thp two Americans were seized Wednesday by East Berlin Com- munist police ns drunken can gangsters and turned over to the Soviets in apparent respect of a four-power agreement ing such cases Western officials their early return would show Soviet good faith in abiding by the four-power agreements Identify of the Americans was still unknown The Communist Party newspaper identified them today as but indications were they i were enlisted men Pictures of I them in the Communist press were !too smudged for easy recognition One day before thp Americans Funds Withdrawn from Game COLLINS Miss The County Board of Super- visors today withdrew a tion to help finance a California trip for the Jones Junior College band because the school is playing against Negroes in the Junior Rose Howl Jones unbeaten football team faces Cumpton Calif Junior Col- football with Negro players in up next Saturday Pasadena were seized and charged with knocking out tile singing star of an anti-American political cabaret in the Russian sector a Soviet officer fled to West Berlin Entered American Sector The officer 1st Lt Ivan V Ovchinnikov entered the can sector Monday and asked for asylum on political grounds It was granted and he was flown to West Germany for safekeeping Western officials expressed fears the Soviets would demand the re- turn of the Soviet officer and at- tempt to use the two Americans to bargain for his return In the past the Soviets have held cap- tured Americans for weeks if their arrest happened to coincide with the desertion of a Soviet soldier They always released the cans in the end The Communist press said aret actor Werner Lierck was the victim of the Americans who called him a dirty Communist land was beaten when he objected j to insults Krube Tells Of Killing 2 Mexicans EL CENTO Calif said today they will set a hearing to decide whether year-old reformatory escapee Paul Krube is to be tried as a juvenile or an adult for the slaying of two Mexican farm workers The Brook Park Minn youth was arraigned on a murder charge before Justice Court Judge James E yesterday after Uing he shot and killed Angel 45 and Romero 35 less than a dollar's worth of food last Thursday Krube Captured Tuesday Krube who escaped from Green Bay Wis reformatory er going from Parks Air j Force Base near Oakland Calif was captured in a manhunt in the desert Tuesday night HP dered without a struggle Officers said the youth who so admitted stealing two cars and staging and burglaries since his escape was cooperative during questioning and ally told I went there bunkhouse of tims to get food and I looked in a window and saw those two guys One of them was in bed and he looked up and saw me and ed yelling in Mexican 1 shot him Then I shot the other guy Coup De Grace Given He also officers how he gave the first victim the coup de ce after entering the The first guy was still yelling so I shot him Krube said He then took two cans of meat off a shelf and fled he said Officers said the two cans were worth less than SI When captured Krube was a 308 deer rifle which cers believe was used to kill the two men Phoenix Chamber Group Visits Here Friday Saturday The Yuma County Chamber of Commerce plays host Friday and Saturday to thp Phoenix ber's intercity relations tee The businessmen will arrive here shortly before noon row First on thp schedule is a luncheon at the Stardust Hotel followed by a tour of the area in- the Di- vision of the Gila Project Also on tap are visits to the Yuma Test Station and the old Prison The Phoenicians will spend in Somerton returning to Phoenix that night Children Involved In Kidnap Charge Flown to Texas Two small children involved in an alleged kidnaping which Dr Frank Sainburg is being held were flown to Texas last night and delivered into the arms of the present Mrs Sainburg at Dallas Even as the pair took off here last night in company of Mrs Bob Mabery lawyers were preparing to enter the Superior Court here at 2 p.m today on the writ of habeas corpus proceedings filed late yesterday afternoon The writ seeks to free the Big Springs Texas surgeon on charges of kidnaping burglary and second degree assault Hearing at 2 Defense Attorney John Westover filed in court just before 5 p.m yesterday and Superior Court Judge Henry C Kelly set the date for 2 p.m for hearing of ments In his suit leges three 11 that the bail of set by police Judge Linwood Perkins is excessive 2 that Judge Perkins refused to hear testimony or listen to any evidence and that Dr Sainburg was entitled to a hearing and did not get one: 31 that Dr burg Had already been arrested on the same charge on a fugitive complaint in Texas that he had posted bond there for and that he has not de- faulted on that bond Prior to the departure of the children last night the two were taken to the by Attorney Keith Benton to see Dr ton represents the present Mrs i Sainburg and her father Attorney i Neil Smith of Longview Texas The children are Philip Sainburg II son of Dr Sainburg and a former wife living in Utica and Mary Jean Nance daughter by a former marriage of the ent Mrs Sainburg Charged With Threat The kidnaping and related es grow out of Dr re- moving Philip from his mother in New York and transporting him to Texas In Texas he is ed charged with contempt of court for failure to return the child to its mother and also a charge of threatening a human life which was filed by his in-law Chief Deputy County Attorney Helm reported today that he still had not received the warrant of arrest that is supposedly on its way to Yuma from Texas GM Warns Get Out Hit the Ball WASHINGTON eral Motors Corp has this word for its dealers who are not doing so well in the present highly com- auto Get out and hit the ball GM officials also started ing today a detailed defense to dealers of un- fair treatment The charges were made in previous testimony be- fore a Senate Monopoly investigating the giant auto concern F GM vice president and sales manager gave the first reply to M 11 Yager an Albany Pontiac dealer who last Friday accused GM President Harlow If Curtice of being an dictator Yager also asserted hot GM dealers are subjected to constant factory pressure to sell more nnd morn new curs even if it in- volves exaggerated ex- tremely Unas ud other unsound business practices His testimony was similar to that of other GM dealer witnesses most of whom had lost their franchises Hufstader told the subcommittee i that Yager devotes only half his time to his auto business although i his new car sales have been clining for the past two years I Nevertheless Yager's profits been averaging a month this I year Hufstader said Hufstader had testified ly that complaining dealers blame themselves for not ing for the into when customers ceased walking into their moring to have their on an order blank I Curtice denied that his recent offer to extend the period of the dealer franchise from one to five years illusory He said that the offer even applied to who had been warned that their one-year agreements would not bo renewed next year unless they Stepped up Suspect Nabbed In Kidnaping Of Bank Cashier Mo FBI ents arrested James P Taylor 30 Detroit in a private residence herp today on charges of inter- state transportation of travelers checks stolen from the Thief er Falls Bank at the same time bank cashier Kenneth was kidnaped and murdered Percy Wyly II special agent in charge the Kansas City FBI of fice said Taylor was in sion of a 30 calibre rifle and a 22 pistol but did not resist ar- rest The arrest was made at at 207 North Jackson here at the home of an acquaintance who apparently had no connection with the case Wyly said A complaint filed in Detroit Dee 6 charged Taylor with violation of the transportation of stolen property law SHOPPING DAYS LEFT Fight TB
