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April 06, 1956 Page 1

San Mateo Times (Newspaper) - April 6, 1956, San Mateo, CaliforniaTo Gas Chamber _ 11 ALL THE NEWS Delivered Six Days a Week for only per Month Telephone Your Order to Dl 3-1831 or EM 8-0429 LEADING NEWSPAPER THE PENINSULA'S MATED COUNTY DEVbTED 16 THE IN A HOME-OWNED NEWSPAPER WEATHER Fiir through Sunday, but with 1 high lot Sunday morning. Cooler Saturday afternoon and Sunday afternoon. Low temperature to- .night 44 to 47 degrees; high dor- ing Saturday 75, but cooling iii afternoon. ITK1TED AND ASSOCIATED PRESS DIRECT VOL. 56-No. 82 3 SECTIONS-64 PAGES SAN MATEO. CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1956 5c PER 1.25 PER MONTH WASHINGTON. April BEGINNING TO LOOK LIKE Jefferson memoriaHs seen through clouds of pint cherry blossoms as the capital's famed treel ring the Tidal Basin burst into Wirephoto) First Spring Warm Spell On ..Shirt sleeve weather settled down .over.San Mateo.county and 'the bay area as the iirst warm' ,-ipeli. ot the year made spring 'official, The thermometer hovered near the 80 degree level in most parts of the county at noon today. The weatherman promised week ending Mateans that the sun will still be shining bright tomorrow, although not quite so hot as to- day. The forecast was for cooling temperatures tomorrow afternoon with high fog Sunday morning. Maximum temperature tomor- row is expected to 70 degrees. Russian river resorts will have top temperatures of about 75 de- grees with 67 to 74 degrees at Santa Cruz, Carmel and Monterey. SAN FRANCISCO weather will return to the central coast Saturday and spread over the interior valleys of Northern and Central California Sunday, the weather bureau said today. Fog will return to the coast during the week end. A storm moving into the Gulf of Alaska, will cause increasing cloudiness in'the extreme north' end of the state. three wise monkeys know... ...thtrrii no more pleas- ant to dine than Tht Lanai. Not that we monkeyi regularly wist ones who exotic- foodi and drinki you find at Tht lanai. Open IiOOp.m. midnight 1M n BLEEDING, SCREAMING QUENTIN CONVICT DIES 1 S4.N QUENTIN streaming from fiis throat and'screaming. "Don't let me go like this, 27-year-old Robert 0. Pierce was carried into San Quentin's ber today and executed for the murder of an Oakland cabbie. companion in crime, Smith beside him. Moments before he was led to the execution chamber. Pierce slashed his throat with a broken fragment of a mirror while a Catholic priest, tie Rev. Edward Dingberg, knelt before him in the death cell Blood-splattered-along the cor- ridor and on the glass walls of the death cell from the four inch, gash in, his throat. His white shirt was drenched with blood. Four guards had to carry the screaming and kicking condemned man to the chamber and strap him in, double the number he said it would take. Repeatedly he shouted, "I'm .in- nocent. I'm innocent. Don't let me go like this, It took the guards five minutes to strap him in. Then Pierce looked around and shouted. "I got nothing against the guards. You are tlie ones who sent me apparently referring to all the peo- ple, in the free world outside the prison walls. Jordan came, in'so quietly he was almost unnoticed. He looked contempteously at his bleeding and screaming companion. Pierce and Jordan, both from Los .Angeles, admitted commit- ting a series of robberies but pro- tested- their innocence m' the kill- ing of Charles cab- bie, in 1953. The men were pronounced dead at after, the deadly gas began to rise in the chamber. Pierce carried out his threat that he was "going out the hard way fighting, screaming and kicking." Guards had .to .carry him into the gas chamber. All the way he thrashed about, cursing those re- sponsible, particularly the all- woman jury that convicted him of the bludgeon death of the cab- bie. He cut himself on the way to the chamber and was bleeding as the four guards strapped his struggling form into the chair. Pierce was still shouting when the pellets were dropped, protest- ing his innocence. He and Jordan were arrested in Bakersfield the day after Rose was killed. Pierce maintained a consistent- ly'rebellious attitude from the mo- ment of his conviction. Before he was led from the court room he told the jury, "Guess I ought to thank you for taking my life." in State by 1975 SAN FRANCISCO W-California will boom from its present 12 mil- lion population to 23 million by 1975, Carl F. Wente predicted last night. The president of the State Cham- ber of Commerce forecast that by that time will consti- tute the largest single market in America." As he pictured it, Californians will have a 55 billion dollar yearly income by 1975 and will be riding around in more than 14 million motor vehicles, more than double the present number. To get there, Wente said, Cali- fornia will build 3V4 million new homes and each week of every year will "build a new city" of to There'll be a total of civilians jobs, Wente said, compared tcr today's 000. Wente, former president of the Bank of America, made his fore- cast before the 50th anniversary banquet of the San Francisco Life Underwriters Assn. Knight to Sign Budget Today SACRAMENTO substan-. tial amount of the 120 million' dol- lars of the Long Beach tideland oil money given the .state by a bul passed by the .Legislature should go for water projects, in- cluding the Feather River Proj- ect, Gov. Knight said today.- He said the money should'go for the benefit of all of California. Knight also said at a press cofr erence he might sign the record 1.8 billion dollar budget later in the day. Speaking of talk in Los Angeles about forming.- a separate state because of the'state's taking over the Long Beach Knight said: "Don't they know the civil war is over? "I'm unalterably .opposed, to this talk about .dividing Califor- nia. That was settled 30 years ago I hope it'll never be renewed. "It's -all- one .California." Mrs. Nettle in College'Race. Mrs. Eleanore D. Nettle of 436 -.past president'" of '-'the League of Women Voters and P- TA and civic leader, today .an- nounced her candidacy for the post of Trustee Jorgen Johan- sen, San Bruno, on. .the College of San Mateo board. First -to file, Mrs. Nettle will oppose Johansen at the district election Friday, May 18. The San Bruno, incumbent already has an- nounced he will seek re-election. Only one position on the.college board is to be filled this year. The .term is for four years. Mrs. Nettle was an unsuccessful candidate for the district board last year, .running third to U. S. Simonds Jr. of Burlingame and Robert Garvey of San Mateo, who were elected. She was' chairman of the coun- ty-wide "Town Meeting on JUVD- nile Delinquency and Its Preven- tion" held March 10, and is chair- man of the county committee on children and youth organized here at request of Governor Knight, She is a former officer of the Seventeenth district of P-TA, anc has served as district legislative and citizenship chairman. Resident of the college district 32 years, she attended Burlingame High school and San Mateo Junior college, now College oJ San and is a member oi the College of San Mateo Patrons_ association and College Alumn: association; Anson Burlingame chapter, Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution, and Western Ad dition Improvement association She is also a member of chapter CX; PEO. Mrs. Nettle's husband, Lester 'is-associated with Matson Na'vi gation company. Their daughter is a freshman at College o: San Mateo, and their twin sons Philip and -Jon, are third grade pupils at Peninsular Avenue school. 32 Pages on Fixing Homes "Operation Home Improve- the Year .to Fix" .is the title of special 32- page, .supplement' appearing with today's Times.. It is packed with ideas and suggestions-for improvement! to yonr home and garden this spring and summer which will bring additional .comfort and lor better living and laislnf the value of yonr 'home. The supplement contains nu- merous articles by, Times gar- den editor iva- tionally reeogniied: expert- on "how to it" SKYLINE ROBBER QUICKLY CAUGHT City's School Teachers Win Increase Merit Study Authorized, Will Add to An- nual Pay The board of education of San Mateo city, elementary schools in special session last night granted the request of teachers for a yearly across-the-board salary in- crease. The new schedule range- for beginning degree teachers is from to J6532 after 13 years of serv- ice. In addition to the salary in- crease, the board requested the committee of teachers and princi- pals which has been making a jtudy of teacher competencies and merit status, to report their find- ings at the next board meeting April 19. The .board expressed a willingness to pay merit incre- ments over and above salary schedule to teachers who might qualify. Joseph Muldown, princi- pal of Park-side school and' presi- dent, of asso- told'the-' board that his committee studying merit would be ready to report at the next board meeting. Principals also were granted a salary schedule increase of. nearly: 'In addition they, were placed on an 11 calendar month- work basis with summer pay, for- merly earned as an extra, includ- ed in the regular, schedule. The. coming school year will ini- tiate the new statewide teacher retirement plan under which those who teach for 30 years-and reach the age of 60 may retire at one- half then- greatest annual salary average for any three .consecutive years of service. Contract to construct four port- able classrooms at George W. Hall school, Curtiss and -San Miguel way, and six portables at the Al- bion H. Horrall school. Ocean View and Cottage Grove, was awarded to the Barnhart Con- struction company of Santa Clara for the'low bid of Other bidders included Fitzpatrick Bufld- ing company, Midstate Construc- tion company, and C. R. Lund. The contract to install chain link fencing, as at Buena Vista school was awarded to the Wulfert company of San Leandro for the low bid of The board authorized the par- ticipation of children of all schools in the drive for funds to restore the old Columbia school as re- quested by the San Mateo Elemen- tary Teachers association. Miss .Winifred Burke, .consultant, pre- sented the plea- for the teachers. Board members present were: W. G. Hays, vice president, and trustees E. A. Elliott, E. Pen-in Fay, and E. B. Krough. Absent: President Donald A. McLachlan. Grace Likes Rough Seas ABOARD CONSTITUTION (UP) One of Grace Kelly's first wifely projects after she becomes Prin- cess of Monaco will be redecor- ate her palace, home, she said today. She seen the bachelor apartments-where Prince. Rainier lives in the -palace, Miss KeDy revealed' at she gave for the press before .lunch. But: she said the Prince told her it -was "strictly bachelor's apartment" and would have' to be .'Tm delighted, of she 'said, "but I don't know yet "how .I-wffl decorate it; I-like French furniture i Miss -Kelly ignored rough.iseas that kept some passengers in their staterooms caviar "and sipped tomato; juicil as she talked to reporters.'-''.. New Fighting In Israel as Envoy Departs Battles on Two Fronts; Crisis Seen Worst Yet JERUSALEM broke out again today along Israel's borders with her Arab neighbors. Egyptian and Israeli forces exchanged artillery fire lor the second straight day along the Gaza Strip where an official Egyp- tian communique reported 63 persons were killed and 102 wounded yesterday.. An Israeli spokesman reported that a few hours after today's ar- tillery exchange on the Egyptian- Israel border, Jordanian troops fired on Israeli workers on a plan- tation in Beisan Avalley.. One Is- raeli was wounded, he said. Informed sources said Israel took a .'.'particularly serious view" of tlie incident in view of the al- ready tense situation along.the bor- der: Accuse Each Other Egyptian and 'Israeli batteries blasted each other .for more than an hour the other of" breaking "-the U.K. cease fire. Israel told'U.N. officials it: would shoot back whenever, Egyptian forces opened fire. An oficial communique issued in Cairo revised yesterday's casualty figures upwards. Egypt said 59 civilians and four soldiers tfere killed and. 93 civilians and nine soldiers wounded in the bombard- Earler the death toll had been placed at 42. Getting Worse Israeli casualties .were placed at three killed and six wounded.. The Egyptian communique re- ported that soldier, was "killed in today's exchange. There no report of Israeli casualties. U.S. Ambassador to Israel Ed- ward Luwson conferred this after- noon with Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett on the steadily deteriora- ting situation along the frontiers. Grave Situation The deteriorating. situation was turning U.N. Secretary general Dag Hammarskjold's Middle East mission into a race against time, and a possible war. He leaves New York by plane today. The emergency was so grave that Maj. Gen. E. L. M.. Burns cancelled a trip to Rome where he had planned to meet U.N. Sec- retary General Dag Hammarsk- jold, who leaves New York today on an urgent peace-seeking mis- sion. Burns cabled Hammarskjold he would await him 'at the "Hill of Good Counsel" overlooking the Is- reali-Jordan no man's land out- side Jerusalem. Breach of Armistice A spokesman for the Israeli For- eign Office condemned the new Gaza Strip fighting as a flagrant breach of the armistice dnd ac- cuSed Egypt of .trying to keep ten- sion in the war-threatened sector at the boiling point. Israel reported the new fighting only a few hours after the "United Nations had brought-an end to day- long fighting in the Gaza Strip that Egypt said killed 42 persons and wounded 110 others Thursday. Shells Hit Village The Israeli spokesman saW Egyptian artillery, opened up on the Gaza village rot Kissufini at 8 (Turn to Page 2, Column 4) Index Page Classified....-.....28., 29, 30, 31 Comics.'.............................2J Editorial 26 'Garden 15 Peninsula News........-..IT, 18 Radio, Television 2S u Sports 21, 22, 23 24 JOSEPH J. MAHAR' Flight From Holdup Fails Serra Bill Now Before Knight Governor Knight's signature was all that was necessary today to end the' activities of Joint High- way district 'No. 10, comprising San Mateo and .San Francisco counties, and place 7.2 miles of Junipero Serra boulevard between San Francisco and Crystal Springs avenue, San Bruno, in'the state highway system.. Before, 'adjourning late yester- day, the. assembly in Sacramento approved and sent to the governor a senate-passed bffl by Sen. Harry L Parkman of Woodside abolish- ing the 'highway -district .which built.and now maintains the Scr- ra, and transferring the district's assets to the state. The senate approved the meas- ure earlier this week after Park- man won over tlie senate trans- portation committee to a "do recommendation. Assemblyman Richard J. Dolwig of Atherton, in urging assembly, approval of the bill yesterday, es- timated the district's assets which would be turned over to the. state at including worth of rights of way and 000 in the- district treasury. Joint Highway district No: 10 has been in existence for 24 years. San Francisco, it was estimated, has con- struction and upkeep. District board of directors chair- man is San Francisco Supervisor Matthew .C. Carberry, and this county's representative is supervi- sor Chairman Thomas J. Callan Sr., of Colma. "Father" of the Serra project was the late Super- visor Thomas L. Hickey of .South San Francisco. Career Ends 16Minutes After Holdup Lone Bandit Gets In Mountain House Attack (Times Redwood City Bureau) REDWOOD CITY, April 6. police work resulted in the capture of an armed robber lateTlast night within 16 minutes after he had escaped with from Harry O'Neal's Mountain House bar at the intersection of Skyline boulevard- and Half Moon Bay road. Held in county jail a' robbery charge is Joseph James Mahar, 20-year-old Treasure Island sailor from Albany, N. Y. Quick- Capture Mahar was.arrested by Belmont Police Officer James-Winters 16 after he had fled the Mountain House .and' only three minutes, after the officer had heard a police radio broadcast of the description of the bandit and his auto. Victim of the holdup was Wayne Schuster of Miramar, the bartender on duty last, night The robbery was witnessed by a sin- gle; patron, Fidelc Bassett'of. Half Moon -Bay. Schuster and. Miss Bassett told Deputy Sheriff Macdonald CraUc that ;Mahar came into the bar at about p. m. and ordered a' been .The' sailor drank four beers and a cup of coffee while telling his many troubles to the bar- tender.. during the course of the evening. "This.Is It" At p. m., when all of the customers except .Miss Bassett had left the -bar, Schuster said he heard -Mabar say: it. Open that till and give me everything you got." Schuster said he turned around and saw Mahar pointing a revol- ver-at The bartender told Craik .he walked to the cash reg- ister and began scooping the. money out of the till. The sailor cocked the gun and told Schuster: "All of it and speed it up." "At this point, Miss Bassett said graik.reported, 'and the suspect told her to shut up." Notes Automboile After he had .obtained the money, Mahar ordered Schuster and..the.woman up. the stairs to Morocco, Franco In Formal Talks MADRID, Spain (IP) Sultan Mohammed Ben Youssef of Mo- rocco and Generalissimo Fran- cisco Franco of Spain opened for> mal negotiations last night aimed at .giving Spanish Morocco its freedom. Franco and Ben Youssef ex- changed solemn .pledges of mu- tual .trust and co-operation in the future. Officials who attended the ceremony said there was no sug- gestion of any friction between the two. 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