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IN NINE PARTS 118 PACES Part LOCAL NEWS 12 Pages TIMES OFFICE 202 West First Street UNITED STATES WEATHER BUFEATT FORECAST rOS 109 ANGELES AND SOUTHERN CALIFOHMIAj Saw la ioranooa today followed by cUarinoi fair tomorrow; maximum (ampcratur tomorrow near 6S. Maximum and minimum tmpratur yntorday: 74 Si. Tot comploto Uniud Slatoi Woalhar Bureau port turn to Fag Fart II. i VOL. LX SUNDAY MORNING: DECEMBER 22, 1940.

CITY NEWS EDITORIATJ THE WEATHER 0 Four-Point tvolv I Fcl TIC City BY THE for Mayor ioCut ST. NICK AND LITTLE FRIEND TALK THINGS OVER aLsi way Yule Spirit Floods City Thousands of Needy to Enjoy Free Feasts on Christmas Day i S- i 4' '-ft 1 i i Mr. Santa Claus, a very welcome gentleman who visited the institution yesterday with a well-filled sack. HELLO, SANTA Little Barbara, one of 400 patients at California Children's and Babies' Hospital, says hello to Times photo Santa Claus Pays Early Visit to 400 Children at Hospital Bedlam Reigns in Wards as Jolly Old St. Nick Opens Up His Sack of Presents' at Institution Seeks Toll Permanent Program Based on Survey by Board of Experts Plans for a traffic safety program to reduce the toll of dead and maimed on city streets were announced yesterday by Mayor Bowron.

To be put into effect soon after the first of the year, the plan provides for: 1. Creation of a new post of Deputy Chief of Police in charge of traffic. 2. Assignment of 488 polica officers exclusively to traffic duty. 3.

Immediate expansion of th police motorcycle division. 4. Starting of a comprehensive educational program. PERMANENT AFFAIR "This plan," Mayor Bowron emphasized, "is not going to be just another spasmodic drive that flares up and then dies down again. "It is going to be a permanent affair, and all the traffic safety organizations and allied group3 are working hand in hand to insure its efficacy." The safety plan, is was explained, is based on a survey and recommendations made by the safety division of the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

Traffic authorities of the Automobile Club of Southern California, the Greater Los Angeles Safety Council, the Los Angeles Traffic Association and the Citizens' Traffic Advisory Committee aided in developing the plan. CALDWELL SELECTED Capt. Bernard H. Caldwell, rec ognized as the outstanding traffic expert in the police department, has been selected by Chief of Police Arthur C. Hohmann for the new position of Deputy Chief in charge of trainc.

Inasmuch as the three positions of Deputy Chief are now filled, it is proposed to create a fourth position and the City Council will be asked to amend the existing ordinance to make this possible, it was explained. Anticipating the creation of the new position, Chief Hohmann has already assigned Capt. Caldwell to traffic duty and charged him with the task of setting up a new traffic division. EQUALS FORMER FORCE The 488 men to be detailed exclusively to traffic duty equals the same force attached to the Traffic Bureau before many of the men were transferred to other police work by the Chief of Police who preceded Hohmann. Under the new plan the motorcycle division, now numbering 50 officers, will be immediately doubled.

The present staff, according to the Mayor, is far too small, considering the many miles of streets and highways within the city limits. STRICT ENFORCEMENT After the organization work has been perfected, it is planned to obtain a general co-operation on the part of citizens in traffic Turn to Paste 12, Column 3 TODAY'S FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS BY PUR WARD HOWES SUNDAY, DEC. 22 BAIXBR1DGE COLBY, 18(i0. Mark Twain's attorney and good friend; he was active in Theodore Roosevelt's campaign for the Presi-dency in 1912; served as Secretary State in Woodrow Wilson's Cabinet. FRANK F.

MKRRIAM. 18(i5. For- iner Governor of California; had been a school principal, an audi-tor, and a newspaperman before becoming prominent in the political field. JEAN RACINE, 1639.99. Great French poet and dramatist whose subject matter was usually as simple as a theme by Beethoven; he scorned to use local color in his writings on the theory that he could present a clearer picture of imperial Rome, for instance, by tracing the thoughts in Nero's mind than by describing ancient buildings.

DEEMS TAYLOR, 1805. A versatile With BILL HENRY HOMEWARD BOUND. If nothing else, the sea voyage to end from the Hawaiian. Islands gets you in the mood for Santa lAnita. The daily hobby horse races give a splendid opportunity to develop that frozen smile of the noble sportsman whose iiorse doesn't come in.

EDUCATION You learn a lot pf things on a sea voyage in addition to the fact that it is difficult to found a family fortune on horse racing, keno and slot machines. You pick up the noble philosophy of the seagoing man if you take the trouble to Btop for a few moments and listen to your room steward or the chap who brings you your victuals in the dining room. Men who go down to the sea in ships develop quite a philosophy. SERVICE For Instance, take Harry. He waits on one of the tables on the Lurline.

He's never happier than in bringing you everything on the bill of fare. After a while he gets chummy particularly if you tickle his vanity a trifle by accusing him of having a wife in every port. He does his best to register the appearance of a gay devil and then says: "No I got me one wife; She's an Irish girl. That's enough." EXPERIENCES Then he tells you his experiences. The time he was on a ship in the tropics when the temperature was 140; the occasion when Jack Benny played "Love in Bloom" for the passengers; how Dorothy La-mour didn't wear her sarong but did dance with the boys and how Lana Turner would have liked to but was too closely chaperoned; how he was torpedoed on the Lusitania and, a few days later, had a repeater on the Adriatic.

TALISMAN Harry tells now he gave his life preserver to a lady on the Lusitania and saved the lives of passengers by telling them to use the stairway instead of the elevator, which might get stuck. He himself went overboard through a porthole and was picked up. He fays he owes all these miraculous escapes to taking a big slug of whiskyhe measures- with his fingers a hypothetical tumblerfulwhich he thinks is an emergency antidote to anything, including torpedoes. MUSICAL We had a lady at our table who came from Denver. She is a musician and re members when Paul Whiteman was a lazy boy who played the viola in the musical Whiteman family.

They had a "White-man Quartet" and the lady sometimes played accompaniments for them. She says that $he just played the music the way it was written and that Paul, then in his early teens, would give her tips on putting a few hot licks in the staid accompanimentsall of which makes her feel quite giddy now ss she looks back. WEATHER It's a good thing that the change is gradual as you travel north. Down here near the islands the sea is a deep blue, the sky a contrasty lighter shade, and great, white thunderhead clouds, with the flat bottoms and the towering tops, always hang over toward the horizon in the distance. You run through tempestuous rain squalls that pass like a redhead's tantrum and the great ground swells rock you lazily to sleep.

ODDS AND ENDS Greatest excitement on the trip came when a twittery young bride hit the slot machine jackpot and well-nigh swooned as did a fellow passenger who had just "invested" 10 bucks with no return She hit it with her first quarter Then there was the guy in tourist class who jumped into the pool with all his clothes on when somebody bet him six bits he wouldn't do it This is a lazy trip Passengers do more sleeping and less walking than on Atlantic boats They're not as stiff socially, either Handsome young officers are the rule rather than the exception I'm going to suggest that the captain frame this motto, by Haflz, over the card tables: You sigh that you were not of fortune blest? from you she turned her face-but did you rest "fief ore her door a while, Enough to sec $ow in the end she poisons fvery BY JAMES WARNACK "The Light of the which, in the infant Jesus, first shed its beams upon the human race 1940 years ago, will flood Los Angeles with its effulgence next Wednesday when the anniversary of the Nazarene's birth will be celebrated by more than 1,500,000 persons who, whatever their religion, will join in doing honor to the spiritual Leader whose doctrines and whose life drew men's thoughts to God and inspired them with a dream of uni versal brotherhood. The fact that the lofty dream of the Master and His followers has been realized, in no small measure, will be demonstrated in the "City of the Angels" on Christmas Day, and throughout the week, when thousands of individuals and organizations will donate their time, energy and money to bring happiness to their less fortunate brothers and sisters. Thousands of needy men, women and children will be pro vided with sumptuous dinners, clothing, toys and other gifts. A partial list of parties for the poor, and of programs at the churches, will be found in the following columns. rUBLIC PLACES CLOSED All banks, the large markets, museums, public library and city.

State, County and Federal offices will be closed on Christmas Day. Public schools will begin their vacation season tomorrow, to re open on Dec. 30. All theaters and' few restaurants will be open the main postoffice will be closed excepting a window for stamp sales. All regular em ployees will be off duty, but tern porary employees will deliver packages and special delivery let ters.

Several volunteers will re ceive and dispatch mail at the main office, the Metropolitan Station and the Terminal Annex. "ALL DRESSED UP" Miss Los Angeles and her sister cities of the Southland are appropriately dressed for the bigs day. Broadway, from First to 10th is a blaze of glory at night, with its neon lights, bril liantly illumined windows and its man-made moons, stars and green and floral wreatns sus pended from wires extending from building to building. One of the most beautiful sights to be seen in the South land (or in the world, for that matter) is Altadena's Christmas Tree Lane, Santa Rosa Ave. from Foothill Blvd.

to Woodbury Road. Thousands of Southland citizens and visitors annually drive along this magic mile of giant deodars which line the ave nue on each side, flashing their myriad colored lights like stars in a clear winter sky. The trees will be. lighted every evening, Dec. 24 through Dec.

31. Exposition Park's "Christmas Tree Lane also is well worth seeing. At the end of tms lane, near the brilliantly lighted peri style entrance to the Coliseum, a charming Nativity scene has been constructed, At this point the Los Angeles Civic Chorus of 200 singers, together with sing ers and instrumental musicians from the W.P.A. Music Project and the city's Recreation Department, will give free concerts at 7, 8 and 9 p.m. today, tomorrow and Tuesday.

FREE DINNERS Turkey dinners for 2500 home less men and boys will be served at the Midnight -Mission on Christmas Day, beginning at 11 a.m. A brief religious service Vill precede the ringing of the dinner bell. R. Gordon Boyd, president of the Union Rescue Mission, an nounces that more, than izuuo needy men and boys will be pro vided free banquets at that mission on Wednesday, The dinners will follow the services at 10 a.m., noon and 7 p.m. Members of the American Le gion Auxiliary, County Council, are packing 550 Christmas baskets with food to be distributed to the poor next Wednesday.

More than 1000 boxes of fruit, candy and nuts will be presented to patients at the Sawtelle and Turn to Page 3, Column I a BRIDE Jean Muir, actress, who became bride of Henry Jaffe in New York. Jean Muir, Film Actress, Marries Becomes Bride of Henry Jaffe, Lawyer, in Eastern Ceremony Actress Jean Muir, 23, and lenrv Jaffe, 33, New York at torney, were honeymooning yesterday following their marriage I Friday night in New York at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Law-, rence Tibbett. State Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora of New York officiated at the ceremony.

The blond actress appeared in a number of Hollywood motion picture successes from 1933 through 1937. She is a graduate of Dwight School, Englewood, N.J. Yuletide Greeting Left by Suicide Wife Finds Body of Despondent Husband "To my wife, a merry Christ' mas this is more than you've done for me." These words scribbled on a Christmas card were found be side the lifeless body of Gail Stambaugh, 42, by his wife who yesterday told police her husband apparently had committed suicide with carbon monoxide gas in the garage of their home at 266 17th San Pedro. The woman said Stambaugh despondent over finances and domestic difficulties, told her Fri day that he would have "a Christ mas present for you tomorrow." Fishing Ship Captain Advised by Surgeon Dr. Robert G.

Moes, Georgia Street Receiving Hospital police surgeon, yesterday radioed medi cal advice to the captain of the fishing boat Queen Mary some' where off the coast of Lower California. The captain contacted Dr. Moes by Maekay Radio and asked how to treat a seaman's in fected hand and arm. CHRISTMAS SHOW Continuing throughout the holiday season, the big Christmas Show for British War Relief will open its doors each day at 12 o'clock noon in order to accommodate 'thp crowds who wish to, witness the spectacle. The two-hour performance with its 20 shows in one, will be given continuously, afternoon and evening.

More than 100 performers, many of them stars of the first magnitude, comprise the cast that has been delighting crowds at the show pavilion, noons and 35 for the evening performances has been established. Prices for are 50 cents and CO cents, respectively, for afternoons and evenings. The funds are to be used to provide aid for war sufferers in Britain, gram of the hospital and clinic were Mrs. George B. Land and Mrs.

Edward Frazier, working with Mrs. Farnum, president of the California Babies' and Children's Hospital Auxiliary. The auxiliary numbers 150 members: and has three junior organiza tions, with a total membership of almost 400. The Bibs and the Sil ver Spoons junior groups are particularly active. STOCKINGS DISTRIBUTED After the distribution of the toys, each child was given a stocking tightly packed with candy and nuts, and there was an ice cream feast.

Throughout the afternoon there were movies Walt Disney and Leon Schles singer productions especially for children. And then there were crackerjacks. More than 1000 children will be guests of Santa and the auxiliary during the three-day pe riod in which the parties take place. Tomorrow will be the last. AUXILIARY PRACTICAL But the auxiliary workers have been practical.

They are not just dispensers of toys and chil dren's funfor there are 100 baskets, each containing five days' food supply for 100 of the neediest families that have con tacted the clinic for treatment. Committee members aiding in the three-dav parties include Mrs. E. T. Carey, Mrs.

John Stauffer, Mrs. Mary Gilboe, Mrs. H. M. Van Orden, Mrs.

Lydle Smith, Mrs. H. S. Hopkins, Mrs. James Fisher.

Mrs. Oscar Ras- hach, Miss Margaret Rountree, Mrs. Gilbert Ainge and Mrs. H. M.

Watkins. WORLD AT WAR "How vou feeling, Santa?" In quired a peaked-faced little girl as she sat up in bed. "You all right?" Santa Bill Farnum brushed something out of his eye. He was in the children's ward of the California Children's and Babies' Hospital, where he was more real than the sickness that keeps little ones in such institutions at Christmas time. SANTA LITTLE TIRED "Oh.

I'm pretty good. A little tired," he smiled as he shook hands. Downstairs in the chapel, 400 little boys and girls clinic pa tients of the very poor were waiting for him. And there were long tables of toys for him to hand to the children as they made their selections. But first he must visit every bedfast child in the hospital.

Special entertainment of songs and dances, a magician and community singing kept the 400 and their threadbare mothers interested until the coming of the jolly saint wearing red velvet and' very jtngly bells. BEDLAM REIGNS And then he was in the chapel and bedlam reigned. Little tots in bandages, in casts, in patched sweaters crowded toward he table of toys. Mothers carried ailing toddlers for a glimpse of the famous man with the snowy curls and the beautiful beard. Babies were frightened.

They cried. And Santa, looking at the pinched-faced eagerness about him, almost cried, too. In charge of the Christmas pro-1 CHRISTMAS IN A Need of Traffic Reforms Told Problems Discussed at Meeting of Central Business Association Necessity for reorganizing the public transit system to meet modern-day conditions was pointed out yesterday by the Central Business District Association. Growth of the city has placed many residential districts from 50 to 60 minutes riding time away from the central business district, according to the association. Since the majority of commuters prefer to have to ride no longer than 40 minutes in traveling to town a definite trend to ward decentralization is in progress, the organization contends.

The transportation problem has become so acute that it must be given immediate attention by the proper authorities, according to Fred L. Mowder, association secretary. "Anyone who believes he has the answer to the problem will be more than welcome at the as sociation's office to talk it over," said Mowder. The organization's headquar ters are in Room 324 of the H. W.

Hellman Bldg. Military Police Commander Named Capt. James B. Pettit Designated for Post uapt. james a.

mat, com mander of headquarters com pany, for the 40th Division, Cali fornia National Guard, yesterday was authorized by Gen. Walter P. Story to organize and com mand the division's military po lice. Organization plans will begin tomorrow night at the Armory, 00 Exposition it was an nounced. Military police service will be open to all men between 18 and 45.

Police officers and men with police experience will be eligible, Capt Pettit said. The company will consist, of 45 enlisted men and two officers. They will be -assigned to active duty on Jan. zi tor a one-vear period and will be stationed at San Luis Obispo. Haight to Speak Raymond L'.

Haight will speak on "The Necessity and Function of Party Opposition Under Our System of Government" at a luncheon-meeting of the Town Hall tomorrow noon in the Bilt-more Music Room. Postal Workers Shoulder Load Ten Million Letters and 39,000 Sacks of Parcels Handled in Day Pause in your Christmas tasks for a moment to consider the men and women to whom the holiday season is something of a headache. The mailmen. Wade through the thousands of sacks of parcel post and tons of letters, up to the office of C. L.

Reck, superintendent of mails in the Terminal Annex. LOAD DISCLOSED He'll tell the cold facts. Yesterday the 7000-odd regular and extra carriers, sorters, check ers et al handled more than letters and 30,000 sacks of parcel post. But even in the heat of turmoil, the floors of the Terminal Annex resemble only a smoothly operating industry. With every man doing his job a piece of misplaced or lost mail is rare, FULL SHIFTS There are shifts working all the way around the clock with only a brief lull between trains or planes.

The 1400 city distributors in the Annex assort and pigeonhole some 350,000 pieces every hour, according to James W. Randall, assistant superintendent of mails Christmas Festival Music Announced Program Free to Public at Coliseum Tonight Musical features of Los An geles civic Christmas festivals at the Coliseum will be provided by an orchestra, a band and three choruses in today's program, scheduled from 7 to 10 p.m., according to the city Playground and Recreation Commission and! the Coliseum board. The festival series, which be gan Friday evening, will con tinue nightly through Christmas Eve, in the setting provided by huge Nativity tableau and Exposition Park's lighted tree lane. Location of the programs is at the main entrance to the Coliseum and admission is free. Groups to be heard tonight include the Playground Radio Club, conducted by Isabel Pern-: Van Nuys Orchestra, led by Dr.

Edmund A. Cykler; Silver Lake Band, led by Donald W. Rowe; W.P.A. Negro Chorus, led by Car-fyle Scott, and W.P.A. a capella chorus, led by Raymond Hill.

BY J. W1IITCOMB BROUGHER How grateful we ought to be to live in a land where Christmas joy and peace will be found this season. In no other country ccruld I give to you my happy greeting, "Merry Christmas, Happy New Year!" The Pope's plea for an armistice in the war-torn nations will-go unheeded. How hopeless seems 'the promise of "Peace on earth, good will toward men." A poem, "The Star of Bethlehem," by S. W.

Graff lin, is so expressive of my own thought that I offer it in place of anything I can write; Agninst.a background black with hate The tamp fires of the nations While blasted cities mourn their fate And wondering angels stand and gaze. IVf o'er these scenes of woe and war, Of broken men and wasted power, Streams the clear light of Bethlehem's Star, The world's one hope in such an Hour. 0 Star of Bethlehem, look down, And may thy holy light increase Till cruel strife is overthrown, A nd all the world shall be at peace. gentleman who writes, composes, does translating, paints, builds things and acts as one of the most entertaining commentators on the air; currently appearing on the screen in the role of commentator for the newest Walt Disney production. CopjtUW, 1940.