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LOCAL NEWS EDITORIALS OPINIONS PART 2 MB VOLUME LXVII Times Offices 202 Wert First Street, lot Angeles 53, Calif. MAdison2345 cc TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 12, 1948 BY THE WAY WITH BILL HENRY 60th of undreds Attendin Major Zone War Looms in Council Millions at Stake Over Petition for Wilshire District Achievements of Past Told; Future Plans Outlined With millions of dollars esti mated to be at stake, the Los Angeles was taken back over 60 shining years yesterday and at the same time given a glimpse of the things City Council loomed yester day as a major battleground for one of the biggest zoning battles in local history. The situation took form as the Council was notified that an ap lasy- fx- ijrj' peal to them had been taken from a ruling of the Planning Commission rejecting a petition that Wilshire Blvd. be rezoned from Bronson Ave. to Highland SY 'T a distance of practically a mile is tne primary ODjecuve oi au oi us.

"We must absorb a constantly growing population," he said; "that means much more than building houses for them. It means a list of civic improvements, including schools, streets, utilities, transportation, hospitals and many others. "It means providing economic opportunity for our citizens in the form of jobs. This requires -new industries, which logically can use our raw materials and compensate for the gaps now existing in our production facilities. This will require new wholesalers and distributors to spread the sale af our goods.

"These in turn," he went on. If the Council overrules the Planning Commission, commer 1 nff imiw wmrtf i ml cial structures (limited to two stories) and hotels and apart The occasion was the celebration of the 60th birthday of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, which was born in the old Board of Trade Building on Oct. 15, 1888, with a vision Chamber members rededicated themselves yesterday at Lhe Bilt-more. Joseph Scott, attorney who was president of the Chamber in 1910, told of the achievements of the past of the development of Los Angeles Harbor, of the building of the Aqueduct, of the pooling of beneficial agencies, of the selection of a nonpartisan school board, in all of which endeavors the Chamber played a leading part. "The Chamber of Commerce," he said, "was fighting for the broad outlook of the future." Re-enact First Meet Those creative days were brought before the hundreds who joined to aid the Chamber "in marking its birthday when the ments would be permitted in the WASHINGTON Not being equipped with a built-in seismograph, it is a bit difficult to 'know, at this distance, the extent to which VL'Affafre Vin-eon" has rocked Los Angeles, tut this town hasn't been as badly shaken since the Pearl Harbor disaster jshook it out of its DIPLOMACY When a thing like this happens you wonder, how come? Here you've got the whole jittery world teetering on a diplomatic tightrope in Paris," with the British and French Foreign Ministers risking their own political futures and perhaps the future existence of their nations by nervously lining up with the strong policy, established by this country and then suddenly word leaks out that the President of the United States is planning to circumvent the whole diplomatic setup by sending, on his own initiative, an obscure (from a European point of view) friend of his by the name of Fred Vinson to by-pass the -United Nations and dicker directly" with Joe Stalin! It came within inches of jerking the carpet right out from under the carefully constructed unity of the west.

STAGGERING All you had to do was to look at Secretary State George Marshall when he stepped off the plane from Paris, or as he hurried in and out of his lengthy White House conferences with the President, or at his late Saturday afternoon press conference, to see that he was both a tired and worried man. It was plain that he felt that an international faux pas of the greatest magnitude had been narrowly averted and that he was, and is, by no means certain that very grave damage has not been done. There can be no doubt whatever of his belief that the Vinson-to-Moscow proposal was a fearsome mistake in the first place and that the resulting publicity cqncerning it has compounded the error. There are no dissenting voices. PROPOSAL Granting all these points, people outside Washington probably can't understand how' it all happened.

The simple and obvious explanation affected area, which -is now con fined to residence construction. Property Enhancement ANOTHER JOLT Dance Director -Busby Berkeley in Culver City Jail on charge of driving while intoxicated. Officers asserted they chased him at 70 miles an hour. Times photo Busby Berkeley Jailed The rezoning, it was estimated, would add millions of dollars to call for new markets, both do the value of the property. However, ranks of both propo mestic and foreign, in which we can sell our products in competi nents and opponents of the re- on DrunITDriver Charge zoning are liberally sprinkled tion with other older industrial centers.

with some of the city's wealthiest All these things must be done and best known citizens. while we retain the values that Dance Director, Reportedly on Comeback Trail After 13 Years of Misfortune, Held The appeal from the ruling of the Planning Commission was make Los Angeles and its related areas something distinctive in filed with the Council by Gor American life. We must not de- first meeting of the Chamber of don Howard, owner of Wil Busby Berkeley, 52, dance di roy further the values of out- Commerce was re-enacted. Repre shire Blvd. frontage.

A hearing has been set before the' Planning oor life, of cultural and recrea tional opportunities which, after sented were Maj. E. W. Jones, CoL (later Gen.) Harrison Gray Otis, early publisher of The Times; rector, reportedly on the comeback trail after a 13-year history of misfortunes, landed in jail was returning from a drive along the beach "to relax" and realized "too late" he had gone through the signal. "My studio has given me another chance and I'm proud of my Committee of the City Council for Oct.

27 at 2 p.m. and scores all, are the things that draw people to California." of residents of the exclusive Wilshire District are scheduled to John Humphreys, Judge William F. Fitzgerald, H. Z. Osborne, Other Objectives Ambition and objectives toward Berkeley was arrested in Cul record since I started my come W- L.

Wicks, Judge Miner, Secre ver City for driving while intoxi Parkway Proposal which the Chamber is working tary J. V. Wachtel, Mayor Wil back," he said, with tears in his eyes. cated. Officers said they chased The Wilshire Blvd.

frontage him 70 miles an hour after he ig liam Workman, William E. Hughes, Judge Redick and S. B. In September, 1936, Berkeley won acquittal on his third trial nored a flasher-type boulevard Lewis. affected has been the center of considerable dissension for several years.

About four years ago stop signal at Washington and Centinela Blvds. at 12:25 a.m. for second-degree murder in connection with the death of three persons in a three-car crash on were stated to include water, development of markets for agricultural products, protection of good agricultural lands from misuse and -freeways and solution of traffic problems generally. The Chamber, Miller said, i3 committed absolutely to assisting in removing the Communistic domination that is now crippling a controversy of first magnitude Officers Elmer J. Balsters and Gen." Otis was presented as proposing the organization of the Chamber in a talk based upon an article from The Times of the pre the Roosevelt Highway the pre Clyde V.

Giroux, who signed a complaint, said Berkeley was developed when a proposal was made to create a parkway on each side of 'the boulevard for more than a mile and forever close it ceding day. Times Quoted vious September. Two previous juries had disagreed and were discharged. In January 1936 Berkeley set "The time has come and there driving 60 miles an hour when he crashed the light and even faster before they forced him to a curb half a mile farther. The officers said Berkeley failed to to commercial development.

Months of argument got no tled seven lawsuits filed against him for the three deaths for where and the parkway plan was finally dropped. Then it was the West Coast water commerce. William O. Narry, traffic manager of the Richfield Oil Corp-, and Pacific Railroad were-presented awards for outstanding service in the transportation field. 000, which was paid by his insurance company.

WING RIPS APART First jet Flying Wing bomber crash followed failure of both wing tips, probably under abnormal stress. Times Staff Artist Fredric Eddy depicts simultaneous mid-air break in the above drawing. Wing Tips' Failure Held proposed that the area be incorporated into a special zoning On July 17, 1946, a month after pass a sobriety test at the scene of the arrest and a second one at the police station in four other officers presence. Busby, who appeared contrite and downcast, told reporters he district which would have a dis the death of his mother, Berkeley was found at his home with throat tinctive zoning treatment all of its own. This, too, was frowned and wrists slashed, police said, upon by the Planning Commis is no mistaking it, when our people must meet together and discuss ways and means of looking to the establishment of manufacturers and for inducing producers to come among us," the general was quoted as saying.

The suggestion met with instant approval, William Keighley, director and producer of the sketch, related in the narrative with which various episodes of the meeting were connected. The task before the Chamber in the future was outlined by B. O. Miller, Chamber president, who declared that "by working together in the future as we have in the past we can build Los Angeles into the 'great' city that Giant 'Bat' Crash Cause Abnormal Stress Blamed for Wreck of Flying Wing Jet Near Muroc Last June sion. Next came the application for outright commercial zoning, its supporters asserting that, except for this part of the frontage, Wilshire Blvd.

from downtown Los Angeles to Beverly Hills was devoted to business. DAUGHTER BORN TO FILM ACTRESS Elizabeth Fraser, film featured player, yesterday gave birth to an 8-pound 12-ounce daughter at St. John's Hospital, Santa Monica Both mother and baby are reported to be fine. The father is Ray McDonald, also a motion-picture actor. Air Endurance Test Delayed TRIO TRYING TO STEAL PLANE CRASH ON FIELD Judy CanovaV Mate Moves Out of House Screen and Radio Comedienne Judy Canova announced yesterday that she and her husband, Chester England, cosmetic importer, have separated.

They have been married six years and have one child, Juliet, 4. The feminine comic, who specializes in hillbilly jingles and antics, said her husband has moved out of their North Hollywood home and set up residence elsewhere. Prime cause or the separation, according to Miss Canova, is the conflict in their careers. She said she was hopeful their differences would be patched and that he would return home. Bill Harris and Dick Riedel, Fullerton, pilots, have postponed their scheduled lOOOttiour endur Significant in this regard, too, is the fact there was no radio report of an emergency from the crew.

The Wing's crash, however, did not dim the Air Force's high regard for the superfast bomber. In fact, some time after the accident, 30 more jet Flying Wings were ordered from Northrop. Rigorous Tests Although the Air Force has remained silent on the cause of the accident and refused comment again yesterday it is known such experimental craft are subject to ance flight until the end of the gasoline shortage, it was announced yesterday. BY MARVIN MILES Crash of the monster Flying Wing eight-jet bomber near Muroc Air Force Base last June 5 was caused by failure of both wing tips broke upward evenly and simultaneously under abnormal" stress, The Times learned yesterday. Five crew members were killed when the huge craft plunged to earth during "Phase Two" tests.

Although investigators are sure the tips were torn from the ship outboard of the jet banks', exact cause of the failure has not been determined, informed sources said. Probability is that the bomber I An attempt to steal an airplane from the Santa Monica Municipal Airport was frustrated yesterday by Arthur C. Horowitz, a guard. Horowitz told police he had been patrolling the field when he heard an airplane engine roar into life. He crossed the strip on his motorcycle and saw an airplane which was being taxied strike the tail of another on the ground.

The airplane continued about 75 feet and then turned up on its nose. One man jumped out and ran to the fence, climbed over and escaped. Horowitz saw two other men jump out of the airplane and one shouted, "Help me I've been hurt." Both escaped in the darkness. The airplane being taxied belongs to Paul J. Franklin, 1016 Orlando Los Angeles.

The one struck while parked belongs to the Douglas Flying Club. Damage to each plane was estimated at $500. CONFLICT Judy Canova hopes differences with her husband can be patched up. extremely rigorous test programs to prove their ultimate limit3 for those who will fly them in squad ron operations. was heavily loaded (gross weight is 210,000 pounds) and subjected Sheriff's Aide in Reserve Post VISIBILITY RECORD; TODAY'S FORECAST Following are the forecast of visibility for Los Angeles Civic Center today and yesterday's range of visibility, as compiled by the U.S.

Weather Bureau: Forecast Sunrise to 8 a.m. good 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Good 11 a.m. to 2 p.m....

Very good 2 p.m. to sundown Very good Yesterday's Range 8 a.m 5 miles 9 a.m 4 miles (Haze and smoke) 10 a.m. ...6 miles 11 a.m. thru noon .20 miles 1 p.m. thru 3 p.m.

12 miles 4 p.m. 10 miles 5 p.m. 12 miles Sheriff Biscailuz, by virtue of accepted oy many oi mem is that the President, needing to pass a miracle to save him from political defeat, was ready to torpedo the United Nations conference for the sake of pulling a spectacular stunt. That's an unfair surmise and is, on the face of it, incorrect, for the evidence is that when the President found that Secretary Marshall opposed the idea and heard his arguments against it, he promptly dropped the plan proving that, on the contrary, he was not willing to jeopardize the situation at the United Nations for any reason at all. THE EVIDENCE The much more appalling evidence is that the President and his political advisers hadn't the slightest conception of the thing they proposed to do and, had it not been for the intervention first of Undersecretary Lovett and later of Secretary Marshall, would have blithely gone ahead.

The evidence is not clear whether Undersecretary Lovett was brought into the matter by the White House or whether he just happened to hear about it and, realizing the disastrous possibilities, barged in to head it off. One way or another, it is clear that he stopped it after the whole thing had been put in motion Chief Justice Vinson had already been approached to undertake the mission and had accepted, and the White House had made a request for radio time at which to make the announcement. Lovett persuaded the President to consult Secretary Marshall just in time to stop the while thing. EXPLANATION There isn't much doubt that President Truman's motives were of the best. His worst enemies will agree that he is an intensely patriotic man, that he feels his position (so well emphasized by Secretary Marshall at his explanatory press conference) as sole proprietor of the atom bomb, and that he is sincerely anxious for peace.

There isn't much doubt that his political advisers, who are without any real understanding of international matters, thought of the Vinson-to-Moscow project as not only a Rooseveltian maneuver from the standpoint of its possible beneficial effect on the world situation but as a smashing imaginative move which might pull the dove of peace out of hiding and thus be the necessary political miracle for which they have been seeking. It was undoubtedly well intentioned all around. There is no doubt that, regardless of Vinson's position as a political unknown in Europe, he is an excellent negotiator and is one of the two individuals of whom the President speaks the highest, almost awesome, praise. Htxxr Bill Hnry Monday tnrough Friday. KHI.

7:55 pan. nis rank as commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve, yesterday swore in Sgt. Horace Card of the VISIT OF BANDIT COSTS HIM $2000 One bandit, plus one pistol minus $2000. That's how Harold.

Flan-nagan, manager, of a market at 6557 Western figured things early yesterday. A robber grasping a .22 automatic forced him to open the market's safe. Then he stuffed $2000 in cash into a paper bag and fled. Temple station, as a colonel of a. i i- ine iviarme thorps reserve.

After reading the oath of office, to terrific, strain at high speed, such as a sharp pull-out from a dive or a too-tight turn some violent test maneuver -to which the ship would never be subjected in tactical operation. Previously Proved Stable Most powerful bomber in the world, the craft that crashed was the second B-49 jet bomber built by Northrop and previously had been put through all test phases by company test pilots Max Stanley and Fred Bretcher. The huge bomber had been the bheriti presentea the new colonel with his appointment and pinned the silver eagles on his shoulders. I i (r 5, proved inherently stable in a long series of trials, both in conven Mirror Is Sellout on Streets; Council Votes 'Welcome' Tribute tionally powered and jet models. When it disintegrated somewhere between 10,000 and 14,000 feet, the Wing was again going through the Phase Two test rou tine with an Air Force crew from Tnrn ahnarrt.

One theorist said the sleek, tailless bomber an extremely clean airplane may The new paper's first duty is truth, he said. He pledged accuracy, fairness and speed; impartiality in political, economic and labor news; a fair hearing for minority groups "regardless of "religion or race or creed, and restriction of opinion to editorial pages and signed comment." "The Mirror," Pinkley concluded, "will judge each issue on merit for its effect on our community. We will support no candidate on the basis of party label alone. We have no editorial ta have been pushed inadvertently to excessive speed, perhaps in a slight dive, and then flung into a high-stress maneuver before the Bundles of The Mirror, Los Angeles new afternoon melted like blocks of ice on the street 'corners yesterday. Press run of the new paper sold out while eager hands grabbed for more.

"The reception of The Mirror by Los Angeles is very gratifying," commented Norman Chandler, president of the Times-Mirror Co. The newspaper totally independent in all departments from The Times is published by the Mirror Enterprises, a division of the Times-Mirror Co. Its editor and publisher is Virgil Pinkley. In a resolution adopted unanimously, the City Council offered Pinkley and The Mirror staff its "sincerest wishes for complete success." Introduced by Councilman Harold A. Henry, the resolution marked Oct.

11 as the day the first Mirror edition rolled off the presses. Extending a "hearty welcome" to the new venture, on its first day of publication, the tribute described it as a "new kind of newspaper." It took note of its pledged editorial objectives of hard-hitting public service, seeking to inform and entertain. The Mirror, said the resolution, "represents a significant addition to not only the newspaper field in California but also of the entire nation." "Today The Mirror goes to work for you, the people of Los Angeles and Southern California," Pinkley said in his first edition editorial. test crew realized its velocity. Sonic Compressibility Another said the big, batlike craft may have been in a dive and boos or sacred cows which must streaked into sonic compressibil ity.

not be offended, we propose to call our shots as we see them! II, Escape in such an emergency would be virtually impossible, for control surfaces on the B-49 are "We want, most of all, to serve this community. We're your ham on the wing tips and the broken craft probably would tumble as it mer for building, if the cause is good. We're your fist in a fight NEVER LEFT GROUND Fingerprint Off icer Arthur Cavaness, left, and Traffic Off icer Bob Hodgin of Santa Monica Police Department inspect plane of ter attempt to steal the craft ended in smashup on field. Three men leaped from pjane and escaped; Pmelfle Press phots fell, pinning crewmen inside. if it's needed.".