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VOL. LXI SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1942. CITY NEWS EDITORIAL SOCIETY BY THE Bonds Sold by Wounded Corona Hospital Sailors and Marines Invade Stores and Theaters lit diss JtiWAY a fined Py or OffSfeyad With BILL HENRY Illuitrated on Pag Honor Shared In all probability, if It were my job to provide a title for On the binnacle list (unfit for duty) because of wounds received at Pearl Harbor, the Coral Sea, Midway and else each of the columns I write, pretty fair sort of a caption for this one would be "The Confes where in defense of the Stars by 'Times' sions of an Ex-Speeder." Yep and Stripes, 25 sailors and marines from the Naval Hos that's me! CONFESSION Speaking as Launching Occasion for Celebration of Paper's Press Freedom Fight pital at Corona yesterday invaded, Los Angeles for action on another one of those euys who never got over the idea that what The sale of War Savings Bonds ever Barney Oldfield could do and Stamps to furnish the sinews the rest of us could duplicate, let me say that I'm a changed Proudly christened S.S. Pulitzer, California Ship of war for their shipmates man man. Last time I lost my tern- ning Uncle Sam's warships that per, when a fellow honked at hunt the Japs on, above and be neath the seas.

building 69th Liberty freighter slid into- the fringe of the battle-churned Pacific yesterday well ahead of dead AT STORE COUNTERS me I got a tender aentea ana was so relieved that my tires were still intact that I swore a great oath to be a tame tabby from then on. And I've already Brought to the Mayfair Hotel In midafternoon, the seadogs some of them able to navigate only with the aid of crutches and line. It carried to sea in its name the dogged traditions of an emi grant lad from Hungary who be canes manned downtown de partment store counters to whoop up the Treasury Department's came one of America's most re nowned editors and publishers. HONOR FOR TIMES Its christening was the occa ON WAR DUTY Lieut. Mary G.

Miller, left, end Lieut. Henriette Horak of W.A.A.C., who arrived here yester $1,000,000,000 sales effort for Sep-tember, which is "Salute to Our day to open offices for recruiting more volunteers. Time photo Heroes Month." sion for Journalistic celebration, honoring The Times, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for 1941, and After dinner the boys1 were taken to more than 50 theaters Waacs Arrive to Start- the metropolitan area for stage appearances, during which they a former Times reporter, Mag-ner White, who in 1924 won the individual Pulitzer award for an article on an eclipse of the sun, fir climaxed brief accounts of their Recruiting Women Here experiences in battle with stir ring demands upon Mr. and Mrs. America to increase their invest Army Girls Building Their Own Traditions and Customs at Ft.

Des Moines, They Report ments in the fate and future of their country. ANXIOUS TO HELP Two Waacs arrived in Los An ried. But officers do not date As Chief Electrician's Mate H. discovered that I get downtown as fast without beating 35 miles an hour as I ever did when I gunned her in second gear leaving one signal and skidded with the brakes locked and the tires burning to the next. COMPANIONS And I've found out that soldiers are good company.

Most of 'em are nice young chaps who are polite, interesting and rather proud of their Job in the Army. They have their lips zipped, all right, on military matters, but every time I pick one of 'em up I mentally kick myself for those I've passed up in the past. Too bad the lazy, good-for-nothing peacetime hitchhikers mooching their way along had to curdle the motorist's milk of human kindness as they did and make it tough for the soldiers. SCORCHERS President Roosevelt, of course, isn't the only motorist to do a little experimenting on the speed limit A fellow who steamed in from San Bernardino ie otherrday without ever getting over 40 miles an hour says he; passed onlv two cars and was passed thinks, by 50 or 60 of 'em. THE BIRD You may have heard the suggestion, which seems to have sprung up in several parts of the country simultaneously, for "giving the bird" to motorists who are exceeding the speed limit.

The idea is that if you are steaming along the suggested maximum of 35 miles an hour and somebody goes whizzing past you, give him the three-dots-and-a-dash with your horn and if enough people do it the chances privates. W. Pringle, head of the party ex geles yesterday stopped at the Mayflower Hotel while they hunted an apartment, found one "if we go on and mnid an army of 150.000 as planned a pressed it, the Los Angeles visit was dictated by this viewpoint written for the San Diego Sun. As the shipyard worker burned through the steel plates holding the EC-2 type freighter steady on sunlit ways, Mrs. Norman Chandler, wife of the president and general manager of The Times, grasped the ribbon wrapped bottle of champagne dangling from the bow.

SLIDES INTO CHANNEL The acetylene torches bit through the steel and the gray-black hull quivered and trembled. Down the greased ways into the channel it slid, amid the clatter of 200 tons of chains it dragged along to halt its drift and moved in. new trend will start among worn en for fast and thorough house Here on recruiting detail "I guess most of us are out of the fighting for good, or at least keeping, neatness and prompt Jlenriette Horak of San quite a- long while, but we wand ness," said. fa. Francisco and Lieut.

Mary G. to do our damnedest to help the cilities are prepared, we hope to Miller of Harrisburg, will program in any way we can, DOWN WAYS Here Is the S.S. Joseph Pulitzer sliding down ways of California Ship- have 900 new volunteers a week be on duty Monday morning in "Right now we're not thinking Duiiaing worp. piant onead or deadline, the oVth Liberty ship launched. Room 400, Pacific Electric Build "And that way, right now, is trying to impress on our fellow Timet photo of careers or what we can get ing.

citizens the fact that-the coun out of it," she said earnestly, After Wednesday they wil try needs every dollar and every Federal Control "Our Idea is to be of immediate use to replace men here, so open an office at ltoo Federal dime it can get to finance this war. It's the biggest war in our Building. Lieut. Horak was weanntr the they can get out and fight" TRAINING VALUABLE history, and we've got to win it, winter uniform of olive-drab "If we don't, well, what the wool and her fellow officer was Seen for Labor uins who are trained in spe hell good is anybody's dough attired in the summer khaki, then?" cific jobs are needed, she said. Both wore government-issue ox Then only military training is INVESTMENT IN LIVES fords, rayon hose, shirts, ties.

necessary to place them. toward the mud banks across the roadstead. Mrs. Chandler swung the champagne bottle. It crashed against the prow as she said into the din: "I christen you S.S.

Joseph Pulitzer." By her side stood her daugh-ter, Camilla Chandler, maid of honor at the christening; Harry Chandler, chairman of the board of directors of The Times, and White. otner sailors and marines nats. Miss Horak is an American by Forecast Before City Council Prompts Move to List Essential Jobs stressed the importance, in terms naturalization. Born in Czecho BEFORE ENLISTING of lives and money saved, of Tall, blond Lieut. Miller, be.

slovakia, she is an orphan, both her parents having been victims early and decisive victory. fore her training period at Ft, J. X. Sanders, fireman first of World War I. class, expressed it this way: The opinion that Federal au Des Moines, was an attorney for the Pennsylvania Department of "Those Japs had it pretty are that the culprit will get next to himself and get his tootsie off that throttle.

thorities soon will take jurisdic Maw Dies Under Train much their own way for awhile, Highways. Her small, blue-eyed, brown-haired companion had CEREMONY BRIEF tion over all civilian labor as well but the tide has turned, and we want to have all the tools and Robert Farley, 35-year-old Ne Amone the 300 SDectators at as the armed forces, and that been in advertising, publicity and promotion work for the Califor the brief ceremony keDt short" equipment we need to teach city departments might just as well lay plans now to operate nia prune growers and before them the lesson they have com gro of 1650 19th Santa Monica, was killed yesterday when a Pacific Electric freight train that for the World's Fair at San ing to them the rats!" to keep 'em welding -were representatives of nearly all of the Southland's newspapers. To an obblicato of Dounriintr with skeleton crews, was ex Francisco. Lieut. Comdr.

A. J. Bolton was general command of the tour, passed over his body at 14th St. and Euclid Ave. in the beach pressed yesterday before the City CounciL by Roy Knox, director Of Ft.

Des Monies they said that it is no country club and following which the patients re mi i i.ii.iii.imi.nun.mjijjia.i ii0X If I III fp vrjpv IS city, police reported. turned to their hospital. that they had not intended it of the city's Bureau of Budget jackhammers arid the flare of welders' torches in the near-by ways where construction work continued, J. H. Wads worth, industrial relations manaeer of th should be so.

From 5:45 a.m. ris and Efficiency. ing through reveille at 6, mess at 6:15, through barracks cleaning, close-order drill and classes, the Knox stated his conviction as the Council was asked to act on a resolution which would acti corporation, reviewed the win- 9 aays were iong and busy. Tarn to Fage 16, Column vate an investigation to deter GAINED POUNDS FRAGILE The new-tyj)e tires which manufacturers hopefully think they'll be able to make, starting right away, are definitely slow-speed tires. The butyl or Thlokol tires presuming that it will be possible to make some for civilian use are all right for slow-speed driving at less than 40 miles an hour, but if the wheels begin to go round at a greater speed than that these new rubber doughnuts have a tendency to come unglued and disintegrate all over the place, leaving the driver in a position embarrassing, no end.

PROBLEM One of the greatest blessings of the appointment of Mr. Bill Jeffers as rubber czar is that Mr. Jeffers knows the United States which is more than can be said for most of the hothouse highbrows who are trying to solve nation-wide problems on the basis of provincial Atlantic Coast thinking. The mine what city jobs might be "We lost inches and earned deemed essential to the welfare pounds," declared Lieut. Miller.

"At, first I disliked the uniforms but my mother reminded me that of the public The resolution passed unanimously. The text of the resolution to for years my work suits had been practically uniforms anyway." The girls are building their determine essential city services, which was introduced by Coun Soldiers, Sailors, Marines Free! Thi information to rvicomon a weok-tnd ftaturo of th Lot Angeloi Times. Swimming Radio Tickets-Entertainment Events Home Hospitality Dances Canteen -rGames Books Magazines own customs and traditions for cilman McCloskey, was as they belong to a new group. On ruling they have decided upon 1 "Whereas, it has become neces no -drinking while in uniform They can wear civilian clothes sary to clarify, the status of city employees with respect to re while off duty. They can be mar quirements of the Manpower place where the tire problem is a problem is in the West, where Commission and the Selective Laraine Day Off Service Act in order to fully cooperate in the war effort, yet CHRISTENER Mrs.

Norman Chandler shown here just maintain essential city service during the emergency periods Detore sne ennstenea the i.i. Joseph Pulitzer. -Iff ife. 11 is i imw hi I in? I mm I lli A ivM 3 ftSrsL-J-'vi Timet photo Now. therefore be It resolved that the department heads be re distances are great and where the country has been built up on a motorized basis.

A CHOICE Another great thing about the appointment of Mr. Jeffers is that he is' a practical man who has been engaged in solving problems all his life. I rode out with him about a ago and enjoyed hearing Vilm nil rt Vila Atmnnlnnnn- I. Rrt for Bond Sale Tour Nashville, to Be First Stop on Trip quested to furnish to the Person nel Committee (of the Council) a list of those positions which they consider essential for the Laraine Day. M.G.M.

actress. Thousand Japanese to Leave Santa Anita Over Week-end Five Hundred Depart Today for Colorado Camp With 500 More Heading for Arkansas Tomorrow Doaraea tne Santa Fe Chief yes maintenance of required municipal services during the emergency, period." teraay en route to Nashville. where she will headline ar Bond rallies as Dart of etc. Apply to your nearest U.S.O. Center: Biltmore Hotel 514 S.

Grand Ave. Hollywood 1654 N. Cahuen-ga Blvd. Beverly Hills Hotel 1201 Sunset Blvd. Griffith Park 3227 Riverside Drive.

Union Station 800 N. Alameda St. Westwood 10845 Le Conte A.VG Wilshire Blvd. 1298 Wil-shire Blvd. Van Nuys 6269 Van Nuyi Blvd.

San Fernando Fourth and Brand Sts. Glendale-345 N. Brand Blvd. San' a Monica 2601 Main St. -Santa Monica Miramar Ho-.

tel. N.B.C. Radio City Sunset Blvd. and Vine St Motor Transit Fifth and Main Sts. Pacific Electric Sixth and Main Sts.

Greyhound Bus Terminal Fifth and Los Angeles Sts. Burbank 135 E. Palm Ave. "Stars Over America" month. Decoration Received From Nashville she will visit Five hundred Japanese will are largely from the Lawndale- Birmingham and Montgomery, leave the Santa Anita assembly Downey area.

uadsden and Annlston. Ala. After 24 Years center today "for a permanent The movement 7500 from then go to Hattiesburg and Me camp In Granada, and an Arcadia will reduce Santa Anita's ridian, Mobile. Pensa- After more than 24 years the population to 5000. other 500 will leave tomorrow for the Rowher Relocation Cen cola, Biloxi and Gulfport, War Department finally caught years of railroading for the U.P.

never worked for any other concern. His great pride was in operating efficiency, loyalty of his fellow employees, and the progressiveness of his road which pioneered special equipment for women travelers and put tourist-priced travel on a de luxe basis. And he thought it very funny that when he fixed up the first "women only" car on the Challenger he forgot to take the masculine, keg-siza brass spittoons out of what had become the "powder room." A very regular guy is Mr. Jeffers and, as a motorist, I'll take what he says is good for me and like it! up with Louis E. Sovinski, World jackson and Vicksburg, and then to Monroe, Alex ter in Desha County, Arkansas.

Th transfers will continue daily thereafter, a trainload leav Ensign Seeks Recruits Ensign George Gay, sole sur War veteran of 5002 Lemon Grove and awarded him andria, New Orleans and Baton Rouge, La. the Purple Heart decoration. vivor of Navy Torpedo Squadron Also leaving yesterday were Sovinski, who served with the irst Division, Battery Sev Ginger Rogers and1 Walter Abel. 8 in the victorious Battle of Mid Bette Davis of Warner Bros. ing one day for the Colorado camp and the next day for the Arkansas center until 7500 Japanese have left Santa Anita.

All those going to Colorado are from the city of Los Angeles way, yesterday vowed that arrived home after completing "Squadron 8 will live again" as OFF FOR RALLIES Laraine Day boards train for Nashville, where she will headline "Stars Over America" War Bond rallies, i enth Flth Artillery, was wounded on May 29, 191-8, and again on July 21 of that year. He spent three year in various hospitals, a 10-day tour which resulted in he began recruiting at the 306 large bond sales total. while those bound for Arkansas W. Third St. headquarters.

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