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2 -LMaintiwQmto rose TOURNEY BEAUTIES COMFORT SANTA VETERAN'S SURPLUS Conrad Lynn Merrick Wedding Told FT. LEE (N.J.) Doc. 23. (JT)- Conrad Nagel, 45-year-old screen and radio actor, and blond Lynn Merrick," 23, Hollywood starlet, were married here Friday hy Home of Bronx Boy Becomes Scene of Prayer NEW Dec. 23.

Wh-Three old ladies in black, two little' girls in red coats and ear-muffs, a boy in ft sailor suit and a neat young man In a camelhair jacket knelt tonight in the Bronx home of 9-year-old Joseph Vitolo while he prayed for the souls of families united at Christmas CAR CHANCE SMALL Federal, State and Municipal Governments All Have Purchase Priority Before Remember that staff car you were going, to buy when you got back home in these good old United States, Mac? Well, if you are a returned service man or woman, and you have filed an application for certificate of preference with the Smaller War Plants you had better go out somewhere els5 and see what you can do in the way of an automobile purchase. For it's going to be a long, long time. V. time. Above Joseph was a large picture labeled in white letters: "Vision of Blessed Virgin Joseph Vitolo." The picture showed the tense -V It.

is true that within the next several months the government i3 going to declare something like 19,000 automobiles yes, those staff cars surplus in the United States, but in Los Angeles alone there are something Bed Shortage Perils Veteran Hospital Care WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. (IP) like 6500 epplications on file for these same cars. About Fourth in Line Besides that, if you are. a veteran, you are something like fourth the government says third on the preference list.

First comes the government itself on the priority The shortage of hospital beds is so acute that the Veterans Ad ministration soon may have to Lynn Merrick Municipal Judge I. William Aronsohn, the judge disclosed tonight. The couple are honeymooning orf the estate of David Marx at Shrewsbury, their wedding at turn away some veterans whose disabilities, are not connected list. This means that the services, the Army: and the Navy, with war or military service. "That means, if we are to con faces of anxious thousands watching Joseph at an altar he and other children built last No- vember in a vacant lot.

At that! altar, Joseph said, he had seen 16 visions of the Virgin Mary. Faces Showed Hope The faces in the picture showed the strained hope of people who were seeking a miracle. Now in his home Joseph knelt to pray, and the same look was In the faces of those who knelt; around him. i Joseph's mother, kneeling In! a corner with her tired elbowsj on a chair, raised her eyes i toward a life-sized statue of the Virgin, placed on an altar at one end of the room. Next to the huge statue was another image, slightly smaller, surrounded by dozens of rosaries left by visitors who hoped that the Virgin might.

bless them. White wax Sowers banked the altar. One of the old ladies shifted on her stiff knees and sighed. She-was looking at a picture of a soldier who had been killed in action. Prayed for Brother The little girls were praying for a small brother who had died.

Staring somberly at the floor, the young man In the camelhair jacket kept his head down. He wore a discharge but tinue to take all cases the( overall policy will have to be get first chance. This, in turn, means that the officers of the various services are hot going to choose trucks in which to ride around to their various duties. They'll first chance at the sedans and station wagons. Next in order come the State and municipal governments.

Many of tne civic servants have been riding around in the 7 changed," JMaj. Gen. Paul R. Hawley, acting Surgeon General of the Veterans Administration, said today. Beds 'Borrowed The general announced he has same cars during the war years Time photo and her court.

Left to right: Mary Merrill, Jeanne Rice, Virginia Sandborg, Betty Law, Violet Milich, Patricia Auman and Alice Honor with" Santa Claus on life raft. LOVELY NURSES Poor Santa Clous (George March) got seasick on his Christmas Serenade trip yesterday and was comforted by Pasadena Rose Queen Patricia Auman and, what's left over from the Federal grab, they're going to take. County -agents, city officials, farm agencies and various State officials. Flood of Applicants And right now, of the 400 to OUT-OF-STATE WARRIORS TO BE FETED CHRISTMAS Cab Calloway Booked in Fight 500 applications made daily at the 1031 S. "Broadway office of the Smaller War Plants 50 per cent are for these same automobiles.

,1 In order to even make an ap Conrad Nagel tendants, Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. plication, a veteran first must go to the second floor of the Western Pacific at the Broadway address, presenting a photostatic copy of his discharge andfiil out an application for his preference for the surplus Infante of Jersey City, said. The bride, whose real name is "borrowed" approximately 23,000 hospital beds, with medical care to go ith them, from the Army and Navy last week to meet the present He also asked for two more Army hospitals to "be placed under Veterans Administration.

Already 87,967 veterans of all American wars are receiving hospital or home care, an all-time record. Two-thirds of these are classed as nonservice-con-nected cases, and the percentage of service-connected cases among World War II veterans is rising. They have priority and will crowd nonservice cases from hospitals unless more space becomes available. 'We expect an increase of from 30,000 to 40.000 patients within two years," Gen. Haw-ley said.

Law Explained The law says the Veterans Administration must care for veterans with injuries or illness traceable to military service. Other veterans may be accepted, with non-service connected illness or injury, if facilities are available and if the veteran has no money to pay his own way. Marilyn Llewellyn, is a native of Dallas, Tex. For her wedding she war good3. wore' a beige tailored suit, a black Persian lamb coat and According to James Van Etta, deputy regional-director of the S.WP.C.

at Los Angeles, it will black accessories and a corsage Snow Follows Frigid Wave BT THK ASSOCIATED PRESS The cold wave which has held its grip over the greater part of the nation for the past two weeks is on its way out, the Chicago Weather Bureau said yesterday, but right behind it is snow. There are prospects part of the nation will have pleasant weather for Christmas, especially in the Great Plains and Upper Mississippi River Valley. A disturbance, developed Sunday over the Rocky Mountains, is working eastward bringing with it from two to four inches of snow. The Great Lakes cut off a mass of cold air moving down from the Arctic, which is moving eastward through Southern This, the Weather Bureau says, will be followed by seasonable temperatures and snow. The coldest place in the nation Sunday was St.

Cloud, with 18 below. of orchids. take from 10 days to two weeks for the veteran to receive cer Continued from First Page shan Bay 1218. Four more transports arrived yesterday with a total of 5340 more servicemen aboard the John Hay, Goodhue, Robert Fechner and Rockingham. Three others the Gilford, Rutland and Menifee are due today with 5S93 passengers for discharge.

One Due Tomorrow One vessel is scheduled to arrive tomorrow, the U.S.S. De-vosa, but the Army declared her load of 2S6 men will be disembarked early tomorrow morning so that all returnees will be ashore by the close of Christmas Day. All men disembarked from overseas transports up to tonight who live in Southern California or Arizona will be given furloughs permitting them sufficient time to spend the holiday with their families, by order of Brig; Gen. Evans R. Crowell, ton in his lapel.

Now and then he touched: his right leg and a flicker of pain went over his face. -I "Hail Mary, full of grace," Joseph chanted, fingering a silver rosary given him by one of the hundreds of visitors who had come to pray with him since he had spoken of his visions. The voices of the other people in the room echoed his thin, childish voice. Soon the Rosary was finished. Joseph got up, put the rosary into a Christmas box covered with gilt wrapping and went to his mother.

She put her arm around him. Visiohs Stopped "Joseph is a quiet boy," Mrs. Vitolo said. "He doesn't have visions any more. On Christmas Day he goes to Mass with all of us, with his brother Santo who is just out of the Army, and we will pray for everybody.

Most of all we pray for his brother Charley, who is in the Pacific." The freezing wind of a cold Christmas came through the Bronx and blew under the door of Joseph's house, making the flames of votive candles, near him flicker and change. The old ladies wiped their eyes and one of them looked up helplessly. Mrs, Vitolo hurried to assist her to her tification making him eligible, third or fourth on the list, for the goods including automobiles. And he must specify, and prove, that the material he might receive is for business use KANSAS CITY, Dec. 23.

tfP) Cab Calloway, Negro band leader, booked on a charge of intoxication and resisting arrest after a scuffle last night at the entrance to a ballroom where he told police he had gone to visit another Negro band leader, Lio nel Hampton. Calloway was treated at Gen eral Hospital for cuts on the Hampton learned of the Incident at the p.m. dance intermission and refused to let his orchestra continue playing. The management refunded admissions of the 1500 present. Denied Admission Police-Sgt.

William Garrett said Calloway told him that he and Felix II. Payne, Kansas City Negro, had gone to the ballroom at Hampton's invitation and had purchased 'tickets but were denied admission by the doorman. William Todd, a special office employed by the ballroom, told police he had refunded the money to Calloway -and Payne and asked them to leave. Todd as Southland Rain Table Following ta tl rainfall. In Inche.

reported from varlou Southam California point up to 6 p.m. ytrday only not personal. Over at Reconstruction Finance Corp. surplus property di vision, villiam D. Johnson, dis trict manager, explained that, even after a veteran ha3 been properly certificated by the S.W.F.CU surplus property is frozen for Federal government choice for a period of 18 days, the State; and municipal gov R.

G. Hall, said yesterday 5500 veterans left the area in 12 all-military trains, plus an estimated 10,000 to 12,000 individual men and women in uniform who are given priority on regular trains over civilian passengers. Food and Entertainment Robert W. Burns, U.S.O. regional executive, reported that all Southland units of the organization have been asked to "make a climactic effort' to brighten Christmas for stranded servicemen in this area, and estimated that 6000 volunteer workers will devote their Christmas Eve or Christmas to feeding and entertaining veterans.

Tjpical of parties being planned at tl.S.O. centers was the Hollywood center's Christmas Eve celebration at 1531 Ca-huenga Blvd. from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. tonight.

KIks to Entertain Elks Lodge No. 99 will sponsor a professional floor show, carols by the Elks Chanters and refreshments and gifts for 3000 servicemen. Similar events were scheduled by the U.S.O. centers at Union Station, Fifth and Main Sts. and Pershing Square, as well as in San Pedro, Long Beach, Riverside, Oxnard, Santa Monica.

Ventura, Oceanside and other Southland communities. Tomorrow the emphasis will be on home hospitality, Burns declared predicting that hundreds of veterans will eat turkey and trimmings in private homes through U.S.O.. arrangements. Others will be served the traditional fare at U.S.O. centers.

Junior hostesses and musical entertainers will vist sick and wounded veterans at Army and Navy hospitals. Battleship to Play Host Officers and men of the battleship Wisconsin in Los Angeles Harbor prepared to play host to 100 Navy children whose fathers are still overseas, at a Christmas party starting at 10:45 a.m. tomorrow. Would-be Suicide Foiled NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 23.

(IP) Maine Resident Succumbs at 107 VASSALBORO (Me.) Dec. 23. (IP) Mrs. Mae Z. Glidden, believed to be Maine's oldest resident, died last night 12 days after her I07th birthday.

Mrs. Glidden, who sewed and ernments for 12 days and then, and only then, is the property frozen for veterans for 30 days or more. Available for Dealers serted Payne struck at him and Calloway "pushed" him to the Mrs. Irene Connolly, accused of smothering her two baby sons to death in their Christmas-decorated home, attempted to slash her wrists fatalh' today, Coroner floor. And then it is advertised for "I got up and struck Callo sale to dealers, according to way and then drew my revolver," Todd said.

"I hit him over Johnson, who said that "spot knit for the soldiers of five wars, Charles F. Gelbke reported. She had been confined to bed for was pronounced out of danger several months. after treatment. the head several times." sales are then conducted.

Johnson added that his. or- commanding the Ft. MacArthur separation center. They will return for discharge after Christmas. Other Army personnel destined for further transportation east and north are faced with the prospect of Christmas at one of the staging areas, although the maximum number of holiday passes will be granted, it was announced.

This is because rail facilities are still inadequate to move all the men arriving at the port, despite the efforts of the railroads and a three-man committee set up to co-ordinate military travel. One member. of the committee, Calloway said he did not care to comment on the episode until ganlzation has not yet sold a f. Ancles Alhmbr Allaricnt AnhPim Arcadia Azu Bell Betiniwr Brlvdere Bin Bear Lk Bit Tujunta, Dam Bre Burbtnk Cam BnlrtT Canog Park CarpinUrta Chataworlh China Claremnnt Clearwatar-Hrnei Collon Camillas Downer Dilirlr East HUfalanda CHwood fl Se.unrto Ennlno farondida Etiwanda Fontana Fresno Fullerton Garden Glendale Glendora Goleta Hawtharnt Hemt Hermna Highland HimtinHon Beaeh Huntinrlnn Tark lnclerond Irvine ta Canada La Creaeenta Lamna Beach Lake Arrowhead .7. Lambert Limestone Canyon Lamita Lomane Lane Bench Manhattan Beaeh Maywood Monrovia Monteneila Newhall Newport Beaeh North Hollywood Norwalk Oe.eau Park Oiai he had "talked to a lawyer." jeep in thi3 area, "because none has been available to us." He Payne, denying that he had Blorm 4.

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7.14 5.5(i 4.40 6.77 .7 11.88 7.7 8.88 see Hampton. "Everything would have been all right if the doorman hadn't been so rough. Payne said. be first come, first served," the purchasers among veterans be ing those who applied and who were serial numbered first. JOB OFFICE SHIFT VETOED Continued from First Page Strike Paralyzes All Copenhagen Hospitals Chicago Tribune Press Service COPENHAGEN, Dec 23.

All hospitals in the Danisli capital were paralyzed today as main Speeder Gets Away as Mud Halts Police Swift and short was the chase of a speeding motorist by a police radio car early yesterday near the La Brea tar pits in Hancock Park. Even shorter was the anti-climactic end of the race when the police car got stuck in the mud within 100 yards of the famous pits while the quarry escaped into the antediluvian gloom surrounding the site where the bones of prehistoric monsters have been dredged UP- Radio Officers John R. Espi-noza and H. D. Peterson reported that the fugitive made a sudden turn north into Og-den Drive just west of the park as they pursued him east on Wilshire Blvd.

Then he turned off his lights. Under the impression that he would next cut turough Hancock Park where the pits are located, they followed, only to sink hub deep into the ancient mire hors du combat. Aiming to crash the gates of Hollywood, B. C. Andrews arrived yesterday accompanied by four goats, Tom and Jerry, Hans and Fritz.

Or, maybe he accompanied them on account they pulled him here in his wagon from the Black Hills of South Dakota. It was the second visit to the Southland for B. C. and Tom and Jerry, but Hans and Fritz are seeing the local sights for the first time. Their leathery, 69-year-old master picked them up in Seattle "as spares" on the way to Los B.

C. allows as how "me and the goats would go big in pictures," and today he's going to make the rounds of the studios. B. C. has been on the road with Tom and Jerry ever since the war started he sent seven sons to war, four with the Army and three with the Navy.

His eldest, Cecil, lies in a grave in Belgium. His goatmobile has logged 7300 miles in touring 10 western States and British Columbia, averaging about 15 miles per day. Cabinet Votes Cut in Franc needed changes in the employ tenance staffs went out on strike ment sj'stem and declared: in protest against the reappoint PARIS, Dec. 23. The "Enactment of such permanent ment of Dr.

Jens Nielsen, chief staff physician of Finsens Hospital, who had been acquitted of French Cabinet voted today to devaluate the franc, several ministers reported at the conclusion Troops "sweating it out" Ontario Paeoima Palo Verde Pasadena Pomona Redlandi P.edonds Beaeh Reseda Rialto Riverside. of a meeting that lasted four collaboration charges by a doc tors' honor court. and a half hours. San Antonio Oanvon The Cabinet members said s. legislation is essential before a transfer back to State operations can be achieved in an efficient and orderly manner." Chairman Cannon (D.) of.

the House Appropriations Committee said the bill undoubtedly will be reintroduced and very likaly will be reported out of his committee with the rider again in view of the House's strong approval of it before. they were sworn to secrecy as to the exact new rate -of ex-change. San Bernardino San Dieito San Fernanda San Gabriel San Marrna Santa Ana Santa Barbara Santa Monica Shadfbrook Sierra Madra Snath Gata Torranee Bland Van Nnyt enire Earlier today the finance com 3.17 R.4(V s.ftn 4.K4 JS.1 '4. SO 7 4.27 4.1 4.50 mittee of the Constituent As sembly voted to recommend rati fication of the Bretton Woods monetary agreement. This ac tion was regarded as clearing the way for the move to devaluate the franc Centenarian Dies Day After Birthday MUNCIE (Ind.) Dec.

23. (IP) Dr. Charles Anselm Kersey, who observed his 100th birthday yesterday, died this afternoon in a nursing home here. He leaves a brother, Robert Kersey, of Pasa. Cal.

aboard ships in the harbor were treated to a preview of the Tournament of Roses yesterday by the United Seaman's Service. Rose Queen Patricia Auman and her court of six princesses, Actor Jimmy Cagney and the Immaculate Heart choir entertained the anxious servicemen from the deck of the Army's greeter boat, Snafu Maru, which toured the anchorage. West Coast Stranded' May Total 130,000 SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 23. (U.R) Pacific Coast Army and Navy authorities gloomily, estimated today that probably servicemen still' will be in staging areas or aboard "flo'at-ing hotels" tied up here at piers Christmas Day.

Authorities in San Diego estimated their backlog of veterans would climb to 11,000 by the night Santa Claus arrives. Seattle reported nearly 56,000 men aboard ships and in staging areas in the Seattle-Tacoma area. San Francisco authorities listed approximately 40,000 men stranded and said that only 5000 to 7000 men were able to get transportation with the use of all facilities. Rains Raise Dams' Level Southern California's latest rainfall" noticeably raised the level in the dams of the County Flood Control District, officials of the district reported yester day. The figures for the rainfall for the storm, for the capacity of the reservoirs in acre-feet and for fc- ft I 1 is -m i 'I SLOT MACHINE COOKS HOT DOGS BY RADIO WAVES SYRACUSE (N.Y.) Dec.

(IP) Science has found a way to cook hot dogs by radio waves. The General Electric Co. today said it is manufacturing a machine which, for a dime in the slot, delivers a "red hot" sandwich with mustard, wrapped in paper. The device looks like the usual soft drink or cigarette machine. Sandwiches are placed in the machines after being prepared.

When the customer inserts a dime, the machine heats the roll and meat; uniformly in a high frequency oscillator coil and drops the sandwich into a glass-door compartment. CIVILIANS ASKED TO FREE PHONES Civilians In the Southland are asked to give an indirect Christmas present today and tomorrow to service men and women stranded here use of the long-distance telephone lines. Although employees 'and equipment of the Southern California Telephone Co. have been organized to handle an unprecedented rush of long-distance calls by thousands of military returnees here. J.

M. Bidiake, division manager, is pessimistic were given. the present storage as follows; Dr. Harrison, Former U.S. Pension Head, Dies KANSAS CITY, Dec 23.

(IP) nr. Edmond Lee Harrison, 82, who was president and secretary of the U.S. Board of Pensions in Washington for 22 years died at his home here today. He leaves two grandsons, Edward Lee Harrison, Hollywood. and Joseph H.

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