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O0 A IN THREE PARTS 35 PACES Part II LOCAL NEWS 12 Page TIMES OFFICE 202 Weit First Stret REMEMBER THIS You and your neighbor are in the same boat, let your oars keep time. CITY NEWS- WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 4, 1942. Pol List' nsoeaors urge esuie LXI by icemen VOL. iu?) THE MILITARY TAKES OVER TERMINAL ISLAND CELLS FOR RECRUITS Ample Notice of Raids Seen Briton Asserts Both Coasts to Get at Least 12 Hours' Warning Officers Only Got 'Nervous' Legislative Committee of City Council Told of Pension Requests There is no "purge list" of police officers scheduled to be retired from the Police Department. If any police officer thought he was about to be purged and put in an application to retire on pension, he did it because "he got nervous and excited." Such was the testimony of Inspectors of Detectives -Edgar C.

Biff le and Bruce Clark before the Legislative Committee of the City Council yesterday afternoon. TALKKD TO OFI-'ICKRS Biffle and Clark are the two men that many officers previously testified they "talked to" before they filed their applications for retirement. The Legislative Committee held its second public hearing 111 9 SPEAKER William Court-enay, London aviation editor, who addressed Los Angeles Ad Club. Tim phnt9 Full Postwar Security Seen But First United States Will Face Long Period of Chaos, Says Expert Both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts will have at least 12 hours' advance warning of any large-scale air bombing invasions, according to William Courtenay, aviation editor of the London Daily Sketch. A World War No.

1 pilot who has been serving recently with London's balloon barrage defenses, Courtenay will serve as a British war correspondent with the American armed forces. He was one of two speakers yester day at the meeting of the Adver- tisine Club of Los Angeles at the Biltmore. The other speaker, Paul S. Armstrong, general manager of the California Fruit Growers Exchange, disclosed that England has ordered more than 1,000,000 gallons of Southland citrus concentrates. AIR-RAID WARNINGS "Even if Hawaii should become a Japanese air base," Court- lut you are over 2 100 miles from i if.iii.nii nu i man and Comdr.

L. P. Wessel following ceremony in which the Navy took over the institution for use as a receiving OFFICIALS Left to right ore Lieut. Comdr. A.

R. Myers, Warden H. L. Merry, who was in charge of Federal Correctional Institution on Terminal Island; Capt. R.

B. Coff- Times photo Prison Taken for Navy Use Terminal Island Unit Becomes New Receiving Station in Ceremony T.nnWincr ir? in the nnst.lenav asserted, "you would still war future, Whitnev Hart Shop-P! ZX 5 ardson, authority on world af-l large-scale attack by a fairs, yesterday envisaged armada. In fact, the-least a decade of chaotic read- States ls of 12t justments for the United States, hours warning on either coast; Speaking at the California Club with the possible exception of at a luncheon presented by Clare- mont Colleges; the expert pre- In England, on the other t7-K til WJ: I ttii 'if i iJi IS I iL I III dieted that America after the -y war will win the opportunity tojnute? aance notice of large- With the traditional ceremony Charles A. Allen, used -whenever a new ship or! 'This committee is very much shore station is placed in com- disappointed in your testimony," mission, the Navv vesterdav tooki Councilman Hampton informed over the former 1 Mt at 70,1 Melrose Ave 1 Ul has been made possible. BRITAIN'S HOI'K "Vou can imagine how anxious we are to push the (lermans out; of France in order to extend our warning time to at least an hour.

But our invasion must await the time when we can raise an umbrella of thousands of fighter MdlH'S OVPr II1C L-liaHIUM. mill r-y i i i i establish permanent security. controlled hv ihe 1'nited States. v. or by some form ot collective co-operation among the nations 'SCIIKMKS' FA Il Shepardson, author of numerous books on foreign affairs, related that the current war marks the second time within a comparatively short period that government "schemes' have failed to keep us out of conflict.

"All our schemes after this le nvor" ho llolH "shrmlfl be predicated on our right to earn; a livelihood and that very pre- clous thing known as the Amer- ican way of life." Close student of world affairs WAY Wit- BILL HENRY This column is about the young fellows who are righting this war the chaps who are probably referred to when the communique says "our bombers, en route to the attack, were Intercepted by a squadron of Japanese fighter planes, and destroyed nine of them, losing one of our own." FIGHTERS An awful lot of young fellows well known around here are among the anonymous heroes on those Flying Fortresses out there in the Far East. One of the greatest of Bruin gridders, Lee Coats, is flying one of those big fellows. Frank Kurtz, Trojan Olympic Games diving ace, is flying another. So, when you read of the feats of these giant four-engined bombers in holding up our end of the battle out there, you can realize that they aren't just machines some of our boys, chaps we've cheered before, are taking those planes out and bringing them back. MYSTKRV There must be a fascinating story that we'll hear some day the story of MacAr-thur's hidden fighters.

The other day, after all the Ameri-can fighter planes had apparently been destroyed, two of them bobbed up and shot down tljree Jap bombers over Batan Peninsula. Night before last they were out again on. night patrol, spotted Jap invasion barges, bombed and machine gunned them and made it possible for MacArthur's artillery and machine gunners to prevent a single Jap from reaching shore. COMMl'MQl'K Just where these planes are hiding, and how thev are hidden, no one knows. The Japs, with dozens of bombers and fighters, could destroy them on the ground if they could find their hiding place.

One of the planes is flown by Lieut. Earl Stone U.C.L.A. cadet colonel and fencing captain, whose younger brother is just graduating from a Texas flying school. The other dav his folks, out. in Beverly Hills, received this telegram from an unnamed spot in the Tacific: DEAR PAD: OKAY.

GOT THREE, LOVE, EARL. CARKFUIJ Of course, you have to be careful what you put in telegrams these days. Ars. Myra Barr in New York opened a wire with trembling hands the other day and started to read it. She got just this far: LOS AST.

ELKS TIMES CARRIES PRESS DISPATCH STATISG COMMAXDIXn OFFICER PEARL HARBOR CONFIRMS REPORT l.lEl'T. EDGAR BARR SHOT DOWX She read no further. Tears dimmed her eyes. Her 25-year, old son! Then her daughter Gwen grabbed up the wire and read on FIRST JAP TLAXE AT TEARL HARBOR! ODDS AND 8 1 larry Burk of Huntington Park gave Lieut. Barr a $100 Defense Bond by way of a remembrance for his feat Burk himself has a son in business in Honolulu and another in the Air Corps Hans Koebig has Just been called back into the Navy as a lieutenant commander he Served three years in the last war You can help finesse Uncle Sam to victory by participating In the Bridge Drive at the Elks Club Friday The Wilshire and Rossmore bridge clubs have raised $2100 for the Red Cross in three weeks Fred Dan forth thinks people would be willing to buy one Defense Stamp for the privilege of Just having a look or perhaps a feel of a brand new tire! Which reminds that Skipper Howell of San Juan Caplstrano has a motto which says "Conserve automobile tires and put the nation back on Its feet!" And K.

Lynch, inclosing this printer's error from a Ful-lerton paper, wishes everybody could attract as much attention as Mrs. Kostelanetz: STEALS POXS' COAT 'EV YORK, Jan. 2H. (U.P.) rolice urrf huittiny tnilnu for a thirf ivho stole a mink cont from the dressing room nf 'coloratura soprano Lily Pons. A patrol of 25 naval planes was established at onee from the Corpus Christi bast and Army planei vert ordered to the area.

Woman Patient Burned Fatally Bedridden Nurse Dies From Injuries in Cigarette-Caused Fire Afflicted with an illness which made her helpless, Mrs. Eva Mary Le Bo, T7, a nurse, was burned fatallv yesterday in her nlu hpn her heddine was lenited by a cigarette. The woman, who was a graduate nurse of Bellevue Hospital in New York and once was chief stewardess on the S.S. President Pierce, died in Hollywood Receiving Hospital. The victim's husband, Frank n.

I Bo, an electrician, was re- Youth Ends Life With Rifle Bullet Unwillingness to Return to C.C.C. Camp Blamed Louis S. Holmes, 18. of 201 S. Maxon Road, El Monte, yesterday shrt himself through the heart with a rifle, according to deputy sheriffs.

The youth's mother, Mrs. Marie Holmes, told deputies that during the early morning she had heard a sound "like the popping of a bottle" and had gone into her son's liedroom to find him dead on the flocr. Mrs. Holmes said her son had been released from a C.C.C. camp last Dec.

21. where he had been unhappy, and that he would have been returned to the camp I miiihmi nj.iurning nome uie aiwunu-ui INSIDE STATION This interior shot shows cell blocks of former prison which will be used to house Navy men pending transfer to ships or stations. u' care for his wife during her i'miv niRnt off at the time of that he is. the speaker 1,1 100 ho im.nhio tn n.wlu-t hnw loner om June to October. 1010, Ger- Huntington Library Exhibits Evolution of Wartime Draft eral Correctional Institution on Terminal Island as a receiving station.

The prison formerly housed some 800 criminals, among them, at one time, Al Capone, once ruling racketeer of Chicago in prohibition days, who finally was convicted on Income-tax evasion charges. 'COMMISSION' STATION' Capt. Richard B. Coffman, commandant of the naval op erations oase in the San Pedro area, formally "commissioned" the new station in a ceremony on the spacious lawn in front of the administration building. While a company of sailors and another of marines stood at attention and the United States Xaval Training Station band from San Diego furnished a mar tial music background, Comdr L.

P. Wessel, executive officer of the naval operations base, read the official orders transferring the institution to Lieut. Comdr Albert R. Myers, U.S.N., retired, who is the new acting command er of the station. TRIBUTE TO WARDEN' Capt.

Coffman then gave the order for the colors to be run up and paid tribute to Warden L. Merry, who has been in charge of the prison since Oct. 5, 1010, and will remain indefinitely to acquaint Lieut. Comdr. Myers with Its facilities.

Hundreds of bunks of the type standard in the Navy are being erected in the buildings and while cell blocks- have been left intact and will be utilized for quarters, the steel doors will re main unlocked. Prisoners formerly confined there have been removed to oth er Federal prisons. Meat Bid Approved The Tolice Commission yes-erdav approved the bid of Young's Market to furnish noun ds of meat during March and April for city prison- ers at a cost of $10,00.1. station. order, for duty in France during the Hundred Years' War.

In medieval times-great lords were responsible for commissioning of men for service. America's turbulent history Is reflected in one part of the ex hibit for the original muler roll of Rogers Rangers of de picted in the motion picture "Northwest Tassage," giving by columns names, ranks and pay of his company of 12'.) men Rogers drew the then munificent sum of 15 every HI days while privates drew just 31 cents a dav An original enlistment paper of Ebenezer Smith in the Con tinental Army during the Revo lutlonary War may he seen as well as proclamations and draft blanks of Civil War, World War I and H. Volunteers filled needed quotas during the Spanlsh-Amer ican War. poster of World War I ot Years of Draft exhibit. Tlmri phol Pi 1 In" i Royal Air hone from a quali nntf lnt )Qlfl 1 -i rw n-ft' lining n'ni kino jim i ii a uu lost 710.

They lost 7000 pilots, including prisoners, and we actually lost only 327. So the Germans gave-up daylight raids as a bad Job. TCRX PRKDIt'TKD "At present, the Allies are fighting a delaying action on all fronts. If present production is maintained the tables will be turned for then we shall have the air shield we must have to make our preponderant sea power effective. The successful United Slates Navy attack on the mid-Pacific islands may have proved your ability to keep the lanes open.

Because Germany had saich overwhelming air power she was able to conquer the Continent and 2000 miles of coast line in just 83 days. "One reason the A F. savd Kngland itself was that we assured extreme mobility of what Turn to I'age 2, Column 6 yesterday socking information as to why so many police officers are retiring as soon as they are eligible, thus increasing the financial burden on the taxpayers of the police pension system. TART COMMKXTS The testimony of the two detective inspectors yesterday brought tart comments from Councilman Roy Hampton, chairman of the committee, and Coun- rilmnn 1'ilwnril I. Thrnshpr and "It.

hn-n't helped the commit- tee at all and leads me to believe that vou haven't been entirely frank." DENIES II.WIM; LISTS While he was testifying, Riffle declared that "no one furnished me with any list of officers who should be retired or the dates of their retirement; if they got excited and retired, that's their business." Previously he had admitted talking to more than a score of detectives "about retiring." "But I never told them that they had to retire," testified Biffle. "Then everybody you talked to got excited and retired?" interjected Councilman Thrasher sarcastically. "Did you talk to Jamie (Mayor Bowron's special investigator) about these men?" demanded Hampton. Biffle declared that he knew Jamie but did not know whether Turn to Pug 2, Column i Auto Thievings Hit 10 Per Hour Hollywood Area Leads in Filchings of Parts Ten thefts an hour. That Is the rate at which minor thefts of automobile parts and accessories are now occurring in Los Angeles, according to police records.

The Hollywood district ls turning In more theft reports than any other section of the city. A gasoline station at 1550 N. Ca-huenga Ave. was entered hy burglars last night and six new inner tubes were taken. Police said that tired, wheels and even automobile tax stamps were being laken in wholesale quantities in many parts of the city.

to Robert Noble, pension-plan leader; Kills O. Jones, founder of Nat nnal Copperheads, and Vohle's secretary. adiacent to his at .1011 Farmdale Ave. He owned both residences, Noble, Jones and Miss Menler were arrested last December for sedition and later released. Noble said he had known Maletz for alxnit a year and that last July he received a Mood trnnsi'iK-lon, from him In General.

Hospital Maletz, Noble sld, was meiely landlord and a casual friend. Military lists and communiques were no longer 200 to 500 years ago than they are today. One John Scram is listed simply as "deserted" in a muster roll of John B. Scott's Company of Koyal American Reformers 1778 (part of England's Sir Hen- Irv Clinton's forces) on disolav In an exhibit of "The Drafting of Man Tower in Wartime" which opens at the Huntington Library in San Marino today. Plans for drafting men for armed forces during the past 500 years, the exhibit shows, reveals few changes in physical requirements, but marked differences in methods.

Earliest item shown Is a manuscript muster list of lancers on horseback and archers recruited 5 An 'T -Jr 2 unless he found a Job or returned in M3!) by John. Earl of Somer-to school. Isct, in observance of the King's the war will last. "Hitler seeks to enslave Ku-rope," he said, "and to use its full resources to dominate the world. Probable terms for the United States, should a totalitarian victory result, are too stupendous to contemplate, and one of Hitler's first demands would be a totalitarian regime here.

"Naturally, our chief interest in the present conflict is annihilation of Hitler and all he stands for." NOTHING TO LOSE After the last war, he pointed out, everyone rushed in and took Germany's colonies away from her and exacted reparations. "This time Germany has nothing to lose. She has no more colonies. And she is broke so that there will be no more reparations. "Our only spoils would be to make the Germans work for us in some way and that seems most unlikely." Shepardson, now vice-president in charge of New York of fices of International Railways of Central America, Is in the South land on a lecture tour.

Falsity to Defer Draft Charged Filing of a false affidavit of dependency to rhtaln a draft (le ferment for his son yesterday was charged to Frederick A. Kor- mann. 57, a salesman of 5.10 Kenneth Road, Glendale, in a Fed eral complaint charging violation of the Selective Service Act. Drawn by Asst. U.S.

Atty. Rus sell K. Lambeau, the complaint set forth that Kormann claimed that his son, Frederick H. Kor mann, a film nctor under the name of rhillp Terry, was his only support. uimbeau said the elder Kor mann assertedlv had sales con tracts which netted him varying sums of money at the time the affidavit was signed.

Conviction on the charge carries a possible prison sentence of five years or a $10,000 fine or both. S0 4 Mh Hat Every Man! ay it 10 A F.B.I. Closes Investigation of Alien's Death by Fumes rot tut Selective Sekc draft '-Pcnntty ir fuflw to RvgU tor Investigation of the asserted suicide of Walter F. Maletz, 43, German alien, found dead rom monoxide fumes In the garage ofu his home, 300!) Farmdale yesterday was closed by the Fed-, eral Bureau of Investigation here.l Richard B. Hood, local office chief, said he "Is not interested In the case.

The death Monday of Maletz, employed as a chef un der the name of John Cley, was reported to the F.B.I, because he was nn alien. Maletz for six months rented la PklrlotsHI Rcgster-Olhrs Mul PKOMPTLV! recruited in with draft Huntington Library in 500 COMPARISON John W. Bumhom ond Dorothy Biggs compare original muster roll of Earl of Somerset's orchers v..