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The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 28

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28 HQS fltlgClCg CfttlCg LA. PRISONER ON FAST TO AVOID CHAIN GANG Broader FBI Powers Voted by Senate Unit WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 OF) The Senate Judiciary Committee today voted to give FBI agents broader powers to make arrests. At present, the G-men can arrest persons for felonies committed in their presences but not for misdemeanors. The new legislation would give the agent3-he same arresting powers as U.S.

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1 Radio Station KPH0 Phoenix, Arizona Sacramento authorities said that Gordon's body was found in a boxcar, as stated, and that one Letch Foster reported finding it. The Sacramento District Attorney, however, does not wish to prosecute, the Sheriff's office here was advised. Consequently, Foster faced return to Georgia. Foster said that fn Georgia he was beaten and stomped for crimes be didn't commit. rr FDBE I A v.

with purchase: SEWING ATTACHMENT SET Resort of a County Jail rris-oner to a hunger strike in an effort to avoid returning to a Georgia chain gang was disclosed yesterday. The prisoner is Letch Foster, 25, who previously confessed to a four-year-old California murder, stating that he preferred the gas chamber to more servitude on the chain gang. Chief Jailer Charles Fitzgerald, observing that Foster had not eaten, yesterday ordered the man examined by the jail physician. Dr. Marcus Crahan.

Foster was then placed in a cell alone, with shoe laces, razor blades and other personal effects taken from him. He was told that the jail could feed him intravaneously, but he persisted in his refusal to eat. Jailer Fitzgerald said that food will be offered regularly at meal times, despite Foster's attitude. Yesterday, he began hi3 fourth foodless day. When he was arrested, Foster confessed to killing George Gordon, 56, March 19, 1946, by hanging him from a loose board in a boxcar near Sacramento.

He said he took $74 from the man's clothing. CHANGE NAMES Patricia will again use name of their in court and settled support ELECTRIC PORTABLES Russ Leader Dies MOSCOW, Aug. 29 The Russian army newspaper Red Star today announced the death of CoL Alexander Davydov, 7L chief of a section of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. OhakeAiOBlG Cold Drinks i A. J- 1 FiUy EibniJt: ran sin: Raw Mator! Raw Saw Lite! Raw Spul Control! Raw Lattata Carrying Catal Roul Eabbla OUT OF TOWN ORDERS TAKEN FOR FREE HOME MILITARY ACADEMY Ann Safron, left, ond her twin sister Nancy Katherine, 16, father, Jerome Safron, film executive, after he appeared Tft Nattoimffy famoot "tit Scftoof for Unit fort" Catftts may intir at any lima for aiw tarm opining Sept.

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VAUGH1I e'H "FV SEWING MACHINE CENTER 2923 WEST OLYMPIC BLVD. Famed Mural Painter Groesbeck Dies at 71 1235 S. Cecfcre. l.A. 35 WH.112I 43rd Year HT4 TVTA I a-- i TEX Effective September 30.

Nevf on the most popular airline Mrs. Nancy Williams. Groesbeck lived at 2312 Chere- moya Ave. At the hospital last night it was said that Pierce Hollywood, will have charge of funeral arrangements. 1 I 1 I 11 I I El 1 I E3 5 I 8 II" nun For the first over thousands Constellation Europe.

London and 9-PIECE $9 AST TERMS 63 Weekly YEAR DEMONSTRATION tlT StlNBir hi a 3 50 Film Executive Busy in Two Court Cases Jerom Safron, 50, motion picture executive, yesterday went to two courtroom to clear up hi3 troubles with two wives and two daughters. Superior Judg Charles E. Haas granted him an annulment from blond Actress Joy Lansing, 21; after his counsel, Seymour J. Chotiner, introduced proof that tha Juarex marriage took place last March 4, two months before he was finally divorced from his second wife, Betty Wells; Settles Support Suit Superior Judge Mildred L. Lil- lie dismissed a contempt of court eentence, when Safron handed a check for $1200 to hi3 first wife, Mrs.

Nancy Cornelius Williams. This covered his three-month de linquency support of their 16- year-old twin daughters, Patricia and Nancy. Then, Safron asked and was granted the right to tell the court why he wanted to reduce the $400 monthly support payments for the daughters. "In the first place," Safron explained to Judge Lillie, "my daughters don't even use the name Safron. They've taken the name of their stepfather, and both are registered at school 'tinder the name, Williams." Ex-Wife Explain Mrs.

Williams, wife of Wilbur Williams, MJX, explained this. Her daughters, she said, had been embarrassed by newspaper accounts of lus divorces and marriages, especially when his most recent wife was only "five or six years" their senior. She introduced a handful of newspaper clippings, which the twins had brought home from school, she said. After talking with the two girls in chambers, Judge Lillie suggested to Safron that he see his daughters more frequently. Also, she said, he should conduct himself in public so that his children would be proud of him.

She ordered Mrs. Williams to re-register the twins at school' under the name of Safron, and to persuade them to use their family name at all times. The judge took under submission the picture executive's plea for reduction of support payments. West Berlin Constitution Gets Approved BERLIN, Aug. 29 (JP) The United States.

Britain and France announced today approval of a new constitution for West Berlin, but suspended a provision making the city a 12th State of the West German Republic. The three Allies also decreed that no West German legislation will be applicable in Berlin unless passed by the City Chamber of Deputies. The western powers reservations were imposed to retain indefinitely Berlin's status as a four-power city in which the Russians might some day agree to participate again in unified rule. It wa3 unofficially reported that American officials had been in favor of full incorporation of Berlin in the Bonn republic, but acceded to French and British objections. The city has been split between east and west since June, 134S.

Philippines Will Fight Aide to Quirino Says DALLAS, Aug. 29 CP) Maj. Alfredo S. Filart, junior aide to Philippines President Elpidio Quirino, said today his country will fight Russia if the U.S.SJI. declares "open aggression" on the United States.

The 31-year-old Filipino army officer stopped here en route to an officers training course at Ft. Eenning, Ga. He is in the same class there as Tomas Quirino, 27, son the Philippines President. Your Old Sofa CAar BOTH $Qj 79 99 INCLUDES: labor, wppRs. pick-up delivery.

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He did war sketches for the London Graphic as well as American papers and magazines during the Boxer Rebellion, the Russo-Japanese War, the Mexican War, World War I and the Baltic uprisings. Sketches for Films With Cecil B. De Mille, Groes beck worked out the technique of making large "visualization sketches" of important scenes before the camera work was started and made such sketches for a number of De Mille's extravaganza pictures. Before he was hospitalized. Two Die in Row Over Hotel Bill CHICAGO, Aug.

29 (JFh-The credit manager of the Congress Hotel was shot and killed last night when he called on a guest to discuss a $104 hotel bilL The guest then killed himself. Dead were William Seng. 44, the credit manager, and John A. Raymond, 25, the guest, from suburban Evanston. Hunts Person Who Caused Wreck CONNELSVILLE, 29 (U.R) The Baltimore Ohio Railroad today tried to learn who gave the order sending a passenger train and mail train down the same track into a headon crash which injured 70 persons.

Fortunately, the trains -were rolling only at "moderate speed when they collided just west of here yesterday afternoon. Only 13 of the injured were detained at hospitals. Santa -00 Barbara 1 Biltmorc L2 sk-i mthm mm 1 1 11 1 fcr er Oa in KiMWIiliwt m44 im iwh We kw tit mwb 7cr prompt reservatiox soviet i mm; imwm, tabafona direct service to Europe! any other! Dan Sayre Groesbeck, 71, internationally known muralist, illustrator and soldier of fortune, died yesterday in Cedars of Lebanon Hospital after a protracted illness. Although Groesbeck was a world traveler, he started his career in Los Angeles as a reporter and pen and ink artist. He later worked on newspapers in Denver and Chicago.

Paintingn He painted the 6400-square-foot mural3 in the Santa Barbara County Courthouse, those in the Del Monte Hotel, Del Monte: in the courthouse in Portland, Or in the library in Ottawa, and the King Edward Hotel in Toronto. He also did murals in Cardiff, Wales, and Nice, France, where he once had a studio. Groesbeck did illustrations for some of O. Henry's newspaper Ruling Hits Newspaper in Trust Suit CLEVELAND, Aug. 29 (JF) Federal Judge Emerich B.

Freed today upheld the.government in it3 charges that the Lorain Journal and four of the newspaper's officers violated the antitrust laws by conspiring to injure a competing radio station. Judge Freed issued a memorandum opinion favoring the Attorney General's office which brought the civil action against the nearby daily newspaper last Sept. 22. In a civil action of this type no penalties are involved. The government's charge claimed the paper refused to publish advertisment3 of merchants and business houses which ad vertised on a nearby radio station or in the Lorain (O.) Sunday News, a weekly newspaper.

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