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LOCAL NEWS EDITORIALS OPINIONS PART 2 VOL LXXII CC SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 31, 1953 Times Office: 202 West First Street, Los Angeles 53, Calif. MAdison 2243 1 A 7 -4 illlilsll i eta INSIDE INFORMATION Wwr.i few inn ri7 i iini lyiimima Los Angeles Automobile Show. Interior, in this in- Luxurious convertible draws Inspection of interior of this car at 30th International stance, includes Carol Brewster at the wheel. ttf more costly models in the ported cars is reflected in TURN TO BY THE WAY with BILL HENRY 1 -Majl REALITIES ADVISED Dark Picture Concerning Nation's Debt Burden Given in General's Talk to Rotary "Our debt is rising, our complications are increasing. our responsibilities multiplying.

We should drop the pre-: tense of lending billions to the world and admit that theyv are outright gifts and a serious drain on our wealth. ATTENTION-GETTER Anne Carroll interest at A 4 volunteers participated in after noon seminars on service, campaign techniques, public relations and informa tion center operations. The Los Angeles County Branch of the ACS held its regular quarterly meeting in conjunction with the workshop and elected new board mem bers. They are B. Mosher, E.

C. McGaUghey, Thomas C. Deane, Dr. George Hummer, Wilbur E. Tunison, Edward AJ Randel and Mrs.

Nathan Stone. Dr. Morris Horwitz and Dr. Hugo M. Kersten were named to the branch's medical and scientific board, auto show.

I his is one ot Week's Flu Case Reports Placed at 57 During the week 57 cases of influenza were reported to the City, Health Department against 20 in the corresponding week in 1952, Dr. George M. UhL, City Health Officer, said yesterday. Since the first of the year 81 cases have been reported, 49 more that at the same time last year. fBut there is no cause for Dr, Uhl saicL "The In crease Is small in a large city and the.

seasonal incidence of upper respiratory illness still shows no number of school or industry absences." SPEEDY Sportsmen will admire this auto show exhibit as much as does Linn Crabtree. Auto show at Pan-Pacific Auditorium began yesterday for 10-day period. SC Receives $10,000 for Cancer Research Gift Swells to $500,000 Funds Allotted Southern California Group to Battle Disease WASHINGTON The case of Fred Saigh, the upstart baseball magnate In St Louis who has drawn a nne and jail term for Income-tax evasion, has revived long-time gossip in this town about the mysterious deal whereby he and his partner, late Bob Hannegan, acquired ownership of the St. Louis baseball club. Hannegan was the chap who masterminded Harry Truman into the Vice-Presidency.

MASTERMIND Speaking of masterminding, the abolishing of the two-platoon system in college football tends somewhat to take the game out of the hands of the coaches and put it "back into the control of the players. It has always been my argument that the only excuse for allowing football as a college activity is that it i3 part of education. Therefore, following this line of the coach should no more be permitted to shuffle players and control the game from the bench on Saturdays than a professor of mathematics should be allowed to give his students hints and answers on examination papers. The real theory of college football is that the coach instructs hi3 players all week long and then turns them loose in games to see what they learned. He has the opportunity, between halves, to point out their mistakes but, generally speaking, Saturday is examination day for the players.

DIFFERENCE The return of the old system to college gridirons ought to be a good thing. It will help the small colleges and be of considerable assistance to the players individually. The fact that it will draw a sharp difference between the amateur game as played on the campus and the professional game is, I should think, a very good thing. The object of professional football is quite different from the object of college football it seeks perfection which can only be gained by giving the game time all out of proportion to the gen-. eral values of life.

The game has become so complicated that unless a college boy abandons his interest In everything else, he has real trouble keeping up with varsity football. If the boys want to make a career of football, they have plenty of time to do so after graduation. CONFESSION At the recent Touchdown Club dinner here in Washington, Quarterback Jack Scarbath and Tackle Mod-zelewski, the two University of -Maryland stars who were later drafted by the professional Washington Redskins, were both awarded trophies H- ft- TfttlT iM display. Influence of im- new American ortenngs. TiBMS phit FINANCIAL Alferd J.

Hill, Attorney, Dies on Golf Course Alferd J. HilL 71, senior part ner in the legal firm of HilL Fairer Burrill of Los An-, geles, died suddenly yesterday while playing golf on the San Clemente Golf Club course. Mr. HilL at native of Mem phis, Mo, made his home at .5 Alta Mira, Three Arch Bay, South Laguna. He was graduated from the SC Law School in 1909, the same year he was admitted to practice in California.

He also served as the first County Counsel of Los Angeles in the years 1913-1923. From 1910 to 1913 be served as Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles County and from 1914 until 1922 he was a member of the faculty at the SC Law School. Hill also formerly served as director of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, president of the Wilshire Country Club and was a 32nd Degree Mason. He was also a member of the Phi Delta Phi fraternity. Besides his widow, Mrs.

Alice Foster Hill, he leaves a daughter, Mrs. William W. Harvey of Los Angeles. Woman, 25, Faces Showup in Robberies Police of Los Angeles and Burbank yesterday entered into the Investigation of Margaret H. Jones, 25, who assertedly held up an all-night cafe in Santa Monica early Thursday morning.

Capt. Clyde Brown of the Santa Monica detective bureau said a showup probably would be arranged so that victims of armed robberies could be given an opportunity to look at and possibly identify the woman. Police said she has admitted a holdup and a burglary in Santa Monica and burglaries in Hollywood and Burbank. Fire in Home Burns Nurse Mrs. Eva Hackman, 54, was treated at the Santa Monica Hospital for minor burns on her face and hands following a fire yesterday which damaged her apartment at 1109 2nd St, Santa Monica.

Fire fighters sald they thought that smoking might have caused the blase, which destroyed a davenport and left a wake of smoke damage in the apartment. Mrs. Hackman. is a nurse at the Veterans Hospital in West Los Angeles. Comic Dictionary IXSAlflTY Gronnds for divorce la some bat rowkle for BMurUga la aDL Canrtcht IMS.

kr i Transparent sides permits and Scarbath told a funny experience which innocently told how the game has been played at Maryland. He told of the Navy game in which the two Maryland captains were. both injured and the Maryland coach hastily designated Little Mo as acting captain. Scarbath's story was that, on a penalty, the referee gave Mo the choice between taking the penalty or the yardage gained, on the play. Mo, unaccustomed to such mighty decisions, looked appeallngly to the Mary- land bench only to find the coach -talking on the telephone to a scout up in the press box, and finally the big gridder, forced to do something without the customary signal from the coach, turned to the referee and said brightly, "Well, you look like a pretty, good guy which would you advise me to take?" BASEBALL When the base-.

ball writers recently voted Slugger Al Simmons into the Hall of Fame, over such stars as Joe DiMaggio, it was a real tribute, for Simmons, a comical chap, was a famous needier of the baseball writers." One of baseball's oft-repeated stories tells of the time when Al, right at the peak of his career as a slugger, was hit in the head by a baseball, taken to the hospital and for some time not only his baseball career but his life was in doubt. The story goes that finally he regained consciousness 1 and the baseball writers were allowed in to see him. One of them is supposed to have asked solicitously, "Al, we all know that this injury may have ended your baseball career have you ever thought what you might do if you can't play ball?" Al is supposed to have replied, with a wink at the nurse, "Well, I always figger that if my head don't clear up, I can always write sports!" ODDS AND ENDS As a climax to the horribly messed-up inaugural ball celebrations, the local committee has recommended that these features be eliminated until somebody builds Washington af good place in which to hold them, including adequate parking facilities. The local promoters are hoping that sports-minded President Eisenhower can be needled into giving Washington both an adequate convention hall and a genuine modern stadium they'd like to have a place here to play the Army-Navy game and it would be nice, for that UCLA-Maryland series just arranged, wouldn't it? Har Bill Hnry Monday through Friday IHJ, 6:55 p.m. the stands before he had start ed another which is now almost completed.

The Shaws live near Hyde Park, N.Y., and if Doris' doctor permits they will come west for the wedding of her sister, Constance, to Producer Ivan Tors on March 1. Artie married Doris in a quiet ceremony in North Canaan, Ct, last June 19. He was formerly wed to Jane Cams, typist; Margaret Allen, nurse; Lana Turner, Miss Kern, Ava Gardner and Kathleen Winsor. For6ign Lines Dominate at 30th Auto Show The Invasion of imported motor car flavor Into the, American automobile industry was displayed as sharply as a knife-edge fender at the preview of the 30th International Los An geles Automobile Show yester day at the Pan-Pacific Auditorium. For the second postwar year, European Imports were prominently displayed.

And at some booths, it was hard to tell which continent was copying which. For' conversely, many of the, English-built cars displayed strong indications of Detroit influence in their design and mechanical features. Runs for 10 Days The show, which opened to the public at 7 p.m.. yesterday and runs for 10 days during the hours Of 10 a.m. to 11 p.m., fea tures 135 individual automo biles.

Of these, 19 American makes are shown in varying body styles and the products of 14 ng II shr and European builders. As for individual makes of automobiles, there are at least half a dozen cars on display which have been unseen before by the American motoring public. The world's first gas turbine (jet) automobile engine is on display and is a companion of the power plant which a driven an experimental road ster more than 150 m.p.h. As to trends which affect the family sedaji of the Sunday driver, the show indicates many things besides foreign styling. The wire wheel, at least in; the form of a snap-on dummy can.

is back with a vengeance. More Safety Feature The two-tone paint job of the sporty 20s is back again in a frenzied display of color. And mechanical precision in the manufacture of automobiles is evident in every display booth, witn tne advent of stm greater horsepower and still more automatic controls than ever before. For the family man, another mportant trend Is the increased number of safety features built into the 1953 cars. Some are minor, such as leather-covered dash panel tops to end sun and headlight reflection.

Others are major, like wider use of tinted glass, power brakes, power steering and improvement in seat and control designs. The show is sponsored by the Los Angeles Motor Car Dealers Association. In addition to the motor car display, visitors will be entertained by the music and songs or Aavier cugat and -Abbe Lane, as well as other features. Infant Boy Year's First Polio Fatality Nine-month-old Leroy Lip-pincott, son of Mr. and Mrs.

J. D. Lippincott, 4344 65th Maywood, died at General Hospital yesterday, victim of poliomyelitis. The child's death was the first of the year at the hospital, where 57 persons are being treated for the disease, with 49 In respirators. The infant entered the hospital last Jan.

14. At Rancho Los Amigos, 127 persons are being treated, with 93 of them in respirators. This conviction was ex pressed yesterday by Ma j. Gen. Harold H.

Townsend, USA, reW who recently re turned from Indo-China, where he was chief engineer of the ECA's military snd economic program. On the way; home he visited Japan and Korea. During World War II, Gen. Townsend was the Army's chief engineer in Southern Italy and was in charge of the postwar reconstruction and rehabilitation program in that country. Huge Debt Totals "The national debt is and is constantly increasing" Gen.

Townsend told a Rotary Club meeting at the Statler. Senators and Congressmen say that this debt cannot go be yond $300,000,000,000 or this nation will go broke. "In addition to the national debt, we have a private debt of $278,000,000,000, with an in terest bill of $15,250,000,000 an nually and a corporation debt of $155,000,000,000, with an interest of $7,000,000,000. This makes a total of debt and an interest per annum of $28,500,000,000, plus the loss through crime. Borden on Newborn "Every child born in Ameri ca has a debt of $1862 over its head, with a hidden debt of $6500.

Every American home has a fixed debt of $8500 on it, with a hidden debt of $18,000. "While our debt and taxes in crease, our values nave con stantly shrunk. The dollar has shrunk to 32 cents. Savings have snrunk 65ji. 1 "This is all due to a 1 spending and corrupt and dirty politics.

Government over spending and causing the dol lar values to fall are theft and should not be permitted by law any more than any other theft." president of ACS chapter. Tlmw phot mmmmuM, in A $10,000 grant to further cancer research was presented to the University of Southern California School of Medicine yesterday at the annual Ameri can Cancer Society workshop for volunteer training at Occidental College. Pat McGrady, national science editor of ACS, made the presentation on behalf of the national organization as a highlight of the daylong program, which drew delegates from 11 Southern California counties. Dr. Ian Macdonald, associate' professor of surgery at the SC School of -Medicine and chairman of the school's Cancer Research Committee, received the check, and a scroll for the Other SC researchers who took part in the ceremony were Dr.

red Moore, professor of experimental and Dr. Paul Kotin, Instructor in pathology. For Basic Research Dr. Macdonald said the money will be used for basic research work, clinical investiga tions and other phases of the school's cancer program. The check, McGrady said, raises the total funds provided Southern California research centers by the ACS to some $500,000.

B. J. Feigenbaum, president of the California Division, ACS, called the workshop to order and Dwight L. Clarke, president of the Los Angeles County branch, welcomed the dele gates. an address before the group McGrady looked, to 1953 as a year of "great, hope" in cancer research and spoke of the work which may be ac complished in the nation's lab oratories.

New Yorker Speaks The workshop also heard an address by Dr. Ernest O. Melby, dean of New York University's School of Education, who diS' cussed the problems involved in community organization un der the public education' and service programs conducted by the ACS. ACS field representatives and I 1 V-' i I it f- tf if i 5 vH vx tnT- -J "zf 1 1 I i i -'nj-' -y j'1 i-: 1 mWB! 6 I I 5 mtmmmmmmmmA 9'. hm(mHmmmnmmm 4 mtmwtsmmim 1 1 nn -uiw turn nmmmmmmmmKmmmmmmmmKtmmmhm Artie Shaw and Seventh Wife Expecting Baby BY HEDDA HOPPER Bandleader Artie Shaw and his wife, the former Actress Doris Dowling, expect' a baby in the latter part of June.

Although he has been wed seven times, this will be Artie's second child. When he was married to Betty Kern, daughter of Song Writer Jerome Kern, they had a son, Stephen. It seems Artie has given up the clarinet for a writing ca-1 reer. His first novel, "The Trouble With wasn't on CASH GRANT Dr. Fred Moore ond Dr.

Ion Macdonold, from left, representing SC School of receive $10,000 cancer research grant from Pat McGrady of American Cancer Society. Right, Dwight L. Clarke,.