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APRIL 20, 1944 Los Angeles Cimes HOUSE APPROVES MORE LEND-LEASE Policy Called 'Magnificent War Extension for Year Voted by 334 to 21 WASHINGTON, April 19. 334 to 21, to extend the another year but wrote into dent's power to take on any nation. Propenents, in the three-day debate, described the lend- lease as one of the most "magnificent weapons of warfare" devised by the United States in behalf of friendly countries. Opponents From Midwest A small segment attacked the handling of lend-lease, implying that Britain and other nations got all the benefits, and Rep. Elmer (R.) declared, that "there isn't a the world that won't cut our throats if it gets the chance." He said also that "not a nickel" of lendlease aid ever will come back to the United States.

The measure now goes to the Senate. All 21 against the extension this year are Republicans, all but one from the Midwest belt. Must Consult Congress The curb on the President was offered by Rep. Mundt (R.) S.D., and approved by the Foreign Affairs Committee. It states that in the final settlement of a lend.

lease contract, the President must consult Congress before any commitment he makes on military, economic or international relations becomes binding. Under lend-lease, the United States has put $22,000,000,000 of war goods and services at the disposal of nations around the world. Capones Silent in Slaying Case CHICAGO, April 19. (P)-Mrs. Matt Capone was reported to have refused to testify today before the Cook County grand jury which began investigating the killing of James D.

Larkin, latest in a year long series of at least half a dozen slayings attributed by police to gambling warfare. The police, meantime, hunted her husband because, Capt. Thomas Alcock said, Larkin was slain Monday night in a back room of the Hall of Fame, Cicero tavern run 1. by Matt Capone, youngest brother of Al (Scarface) Capone. Mrs.

Jean Brennan, 18, wife of a bartender at the Cicero hotel where Larkin lived, presumably repeated to the jury the story which Alcock said she told last night. It was that, during a drinking party at the Hall of Fame, Larkin and a bartender, Wally Sanders, quarreled, that Larkin was pushed into a back room, three shots were heard and Larkin didn't reappear. His body was found early yesterday in a West Side Chicago alley. Sanders, as well as Capone, is sought for questioning. British Strike Bill Attacked LONDON, April 19.

(P) -The British government's new antistrike defense regulation received a swift, double-barreled challenge today in the form of a move in Commons to invalidate the measure and a strike of 1300 bus drivers and conductors of London's municipally transport system. Nine Labor M.P.'s, headed by Aneurin Bevan, signed a request for a debate in Parliament, postomorrow, on a move to sibly, regulation which vir. tually bans all strikes which are not union-authorized. The bus drivers union--Labor Minister Ernest Bevin's own union. the Transport and General Workers Union--urged the men to return to work.

Aussie Premier Arrives in U.S. SAN FRANCISCO, April 19. -Prime Minister John Curtin of Australia arrived today en route to London where he will attend a conference of chiefs of state of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Curtin was accompanied by Gen. Sir Thomas Blamey, coordinator of Allied land forces in the Southwest Pacific; Sir Frederick Shedden, Secretary of the Australian Department of Defense Coordination; secretary, F.

L. McLaughlin, and his wife. Soldiers to Use Wool Sleeping Bag PHILADELPHIA, April 19. (P) A woolen sleeping bag soon will become regular issue to American troops in the field, replacing blankets, the Philadelphia Quartermaster Depot announced today. The sleeper's head fits inside a specially designed top, Walsh said, and the bag's slider is arranged so that quick release is possible.

Jailed Youth Offers Eye for Serviceman An eye for his country. This offer was made yesterday by a prisoner in the County Jail who is certain that he will be sentenced to a term in San Quentin. A merchant seaman, he saw wounded men in the South Pacific, the Mediterranean and in the North Atlantic. He has been turned down by the Army because of his previous record, but his eyes are both 20-20, according to Army physicians. Name Withheld "I am not doing this to gain sympathy my forthcoming trial," he explained.

"I do not want my name mentioned if you should happen to print this so hospitals may be advised that I am willing to part with an eye so that some soldier may be able to see." The youth has a previous prison record, having convicted twice in Texas for robbery, and is awaiting trial on charges of robbery and grand theft. 'One Eye Enough' "As I figure it," he said canmy life so far feel that didly, "I have made, a mess of the loss of one eye to help a serviceman who has lost his sight is little enough I can do as partial atonement to Uncle Sam." Evidently sincere in his offer, Mr. said as he left the interview room: "If I go to the pen, one eye will be enough, and if I should get off, which I doubt, one eye is good enough for any good seaman." Cabaret Tax Cut Sought in House WASHINGTON, April 19, (P) Contending that thousands of entertainers are losing jobs, Rep. Knutson (R.) today introduced legislation to reduce the cabaret tax from 30 to 10 per cent. The Revenue Act of 1943 raised the cabaret tax from 5 to 30 per cent.

"The high tax," Knutson said, "is causing unemployment, driving concerns out of business, and by the law of diminishing returns is causing a reduction in revenue." Reports from New York, he said, indicate that thousands of variety entertainers have lost their jobs since the new tax became effective April 1. When the tax was jumped from 5 to 30 per cent tax experts estimated revenue from this source would be increased from $19,400,000 to $110,700,000. LIQUOR CASE INVOLVES 29 Continued from First Page ney Tasker, Bruce Countryman, Frederick Stein, Max Weber, Mike O'Hara, H. Porter, Albert Moynier, Melba Wallace, Gloria Syracuse and Charles E. Meighan.

The true bill charging conspiracy against the Golden West Wineries names Joseph Heitler, president, and Philip Robbins, director. J. V. Nanny and E. Q.

Norman, president and auditor, respectively, of the Merchants Wholesale and four salesmen, Charles Puccio, George Sampter, Philip Blumenthal and Ted M. Dare, were named in a fourth indictment. Bonds were fixed in $1000 for the corporations and individuals. They face maximum penalties of two years in prison or $10,000 fine, or both, if convicted. Sewer Bids Rejected Bids received by the Board Public Works yesterday on the installation of sewers in the Riverton and Denny Aves.

sewer district are too high for granting the contract under the 1911 Assessment Act, according to the City Engineer. (AP)-The House voted today, $22,000,000,000 lend-lease program the law a curb on the Presipostwar obligations for the Kelly Petillo Faces Hearing in Bar Row Kelly Petillo, 42, former national auto racing champion, who was taken into custody on warrant charging assault with a deadly weapon, was ordered to appear for his preliminary hearing Monday at 10 a.m. before Judge Frank R. Carrell in Gardena Justice Court. Judge Carrell released him on $500 bail.

The winner of the 1935 IndiaKelly Petillo napolis Speedway classic is accused of striking Thomas Tyree, 35, of 1016 W. 108th with a bar stool during a fracas in a cafe at 10901 S. Vermont last. Monday night. Petillo admitted to arresting officers that he struck Tyree but contended that he acted in selfdefense when Tyree assertedly displayed a knife.

Rift Reported on Allied Base NEW YORK, April 19. (AP) Senator Mead (D.) N.Y., in his journal to be published next month, will say that the British tried to take from the American forces control of Port Lyautey, largest North African airbase, John O'Donnell, Washington columnist, reports in the Daily News. O'Donnell said Mead wrote in his journal during his visit at Port Lyautey last August: "The British are banging at the door to get in here. made formal proposal recently to take over his post from American command on the plea that it divides their operation between Agadir and Gibraltar. We took, over Agadir, which cleared up.

Getting nowhere fast, they simply announced one day that they were sending in a plane. It was shooed away. "Co-operation is one thing. But control is quite another." Officer Weds Janet Shaw Janet Shaw, Universal film actress, and 2nd Lt. Williard Ilefeldt of the Army Air Forces, were married last night at the Beverly Vista Community Church in Beverly Hills by the Rev.

J. K. Stewart, pastor. Miss Shaw, 22, was married under her real name, Ellen Clancy. the About ceremony.

200 Miss persons attended. merfield was the maid of honor and William R. Anderson best man. The couple met several months ago during the filming of a motion picture at the Long Beach Municipal Airport. Lt.

Ilefeldt was an actor before he entered the A.A.F. Man Jailed on Traffic Charge; Anne Shirley One of 250 Fined One man was ordered jailed and 250 other persons, including Anne Shirley, actress, were fined or otherwise penalized yesterday by Municipal Judge if Louis W. Kaufman in traffic court. Richard C. Spencer, 21, of W.

41st Drive, accused of driving at 35 miles in a 25-mile zone, of having two speeding, citations citations and in a seven, was jailed for five days. His license was suspended 30 days the record referred to the O.P.A. William J. H. Stegemeyer, 42, of 1847 N.

Ave. 52, accused of traveling 60 miles an hour in a 25-mile zone, was sentenced to two days in jail. The court rescinded the jail sentence and fined him $35 instead and suspended his license for 30 Bricker Pledges Support in Fight on Water Pact Assistance of Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio in Southern California's fight to retain its Colorado River water rights at a hearing on a treaty with Mex- ico to be conducted in Washing.

ton promised D. W. Pontius, a director of the Metropolitan Water District, he disclosed yesterday. Pontius at the same time dis. patched a letter to Sen.

Robert A. Taft outlining Southern Cali- Hearings on Treaty Delayed Until May 1 WASHINGTON, April 19. (AP)-The Senate Foreign Relations Committee decided today to postpone until May 1 hearings on the United States-Mexican water treaty which awaits ratification. The delay was granted accommodate California to, who wish to testify in opposition to the treaty. Gov.

Warren has asked the committee for time as a witness about May Sen. Downey (D.) requested ands that: he be given an opportunity to testify- after May 16, election date in California. fornia's, agreement objections with the Mexico prothrough which water from the Colorado would be diverted from this area. Taft is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Why Treaty Opposed Pontius pointed out that the Metropolitan Water District utilized $200,000,000 to build the Colorado River Aqueduct for bringing water to Southern California- a project useless except for the original purpose.

"The revision of the treaty with Mexico gives that country 1,500,000 acre feet of water from the Colorado River," Pontius wrote, "which is twice the amount. ever used by Mexico, and will be disastrous to the southern part of California, is injurious to the citizens of the United States, and is definitely wrong. Must Have Water "Southern California is of little value without water, and the Colorado River is the last place where water can be ob-4 tained." Pontius added that the proposed treaty "deprives citizens of property rights without due process or recourse to court and it establishes a bureaucratic commission with power to build and manage vast water-control works, perpetual in nature, and entirely independent of the authority of the Congress." Flynn Awaits Suit Service Errol Flynn was still awaiting yesterday the service of papers in a paternity suit filed against him last November by Shirley Hassau, who accuses the debonair actor of fathering her daughter. An earlier suit was ruled out of court in late October, and Mrs. Hassau subsequently filed a new action asking "reasonable amounts" for the child's support and medical expenses.

However, Flynn's attorney, Robert E. Ford, asserted the film star had not been served with papers on this suit-yet, and that "as far as we are concerned there is no suit." Ford also flatly denied there had been any settlement, or that there would be one. Jap-American Hostel to Open NEW YORK, April 19. (P)- The first hostel in the New York City area for relocation of Japanese-American evacues seeking homes and jobs here will open in Brooklyn May 10. George Rundquist, executive secretary of the committee on resettlement of Japanese Americans organized by the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, said the lodging house will provide temporary residence to evacues now being moved out of West Coast military areas.

BOY VANDALS WORK ON ARMY VEHICLES RICHMOND, April 19. (U.P.) Fifteen boys, ranging in ages from 6 to 12 years, have been taken into custody damaging amphibious craft, jeeps, and other Army vehicles assigned to Pacific war areas at the Army motorized depot here, police announced today. Capt. George Bengley of the Richmond Police Department said more than 20 amphibious craft were "seriously damaged," and that considerable quantities of equipment and precision instruments on vehicles and craft were either broken or stripped from the machines. Sedition Trial Defendant Calls Prosecutor Red WASHINGTON, April 19.

(J.P.) Edward J. Smythe, New York pamphleteer, today charged from the witness stand in the war's largest sedition trial that Federal Prosecutor O. John Rogge "is either a Communist or a pro-Communist" and that Presiding Judge Edward C. Eicher "is under Rogge's complete domination." Arrested by the F.B.I. in a small Northern New York fishing village after he failed to appear for the trial's opening Monday, Smythe told reporters at Union Station here that his only comment was: "To hell with Roosevelt, the Communists and the New Deal," and promised to make startling revelations on the witness stand.

Times photo WINS SON Mrs. Boris Ingster, given custody of son from former husband. Actress Wins Custody of Son Zita Lucachevitch Ingster, 27- year-old Hungarian, former actress, yesterday won complete custody of her son Alexander, from her former husband, Joseph Lucachevitch, 47, film producer. The red-haired beauty, now wife of Film Writer Boris Ingster, has shared custody of the child with her former husband since their divorce in February last year. She asked modification of the custody order, stating, that the divided custody ed unpleasant situations and confusion.

He countered, asking exclusive custody of the child on grounds that his former wife was not a fit person to the boy. Superior Judge, Kurtz Kauffman awarded exclusive custody to Mrs. Ingster, with the provision that Lucachevitch have the child every other week-end, be permitted to visit him on alterSundays and otherwise "reasonable right of visitation." He issued a restraining order to prohibit either parent from making derogatory remarks about the other in the presence of the child. Bishop of Washington Consecrated WASHINGTON, April 19. (AP) Dr.

Angus Dun, 51-year-old dean of the Episcopal Theological School at Harvard, became the fourth Bishop of Washington today and the first to be consecrated in the magnificent national cathedral of Mt. St. Alban. The ancient ritual of "laying on hands" was delegated to Most-Rev. Cyril Forster Garbett.

Archbishop of York, and eight bishops, many of whom were close friends of "A.D." since undergraduates days at Yale. Not since 1871 has an English diocesan Bishop participated the consecration of an American Bishop. Bishop Dun becomes, with the elaborate three-hour ritual, the spiritual leader of 30,000 Episcopal communicants in the District of Columbia and four Maryland counties. He succeeds the late Bishop James E. Freeman, who died last summer.

Tension Reported at Tule Lake Camp KLAMATH FALLS (Or.) April 19. (P) -Troublemakers at the Tule Lake for disloyal Japanese between are creating evacues rising ten: want to co-operate and those who do not, the Klamath Falls Herald and News said today. The newspaper said an evacue co-ordinating committee said it had carried out its work despite intimidations and name-calling from a group favoring active opposition of the camp administration. Infantile Paralysis Fund Given to Stanford NEW YORK, April 19. 1 (AP)-A two-year grant totaling $34,080 has been made by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to the Stanford Univer.

sity School of Health (women) in California, Basil O'Connor, foundation president, announced today. Smythe Jailed Times photo MUST ANSWER FOR KILLING Mrs. Philomene Santos sobs at slaying inquest. Det. Lt.

R. B. McCreadie at left. Woman Held in Fatal Shooting Sobs at Inquest Sobbing softly and repeatedly brushing tears from her pallid cheeks, Mrs. Philomene Santos, charged with the fatal shooting of Walter Harju, sat with bowed head yesterday as police officers gave a detailed account of the killing.

The Coroner's jury found that Harju came to his death from a bullet wound inflicted by Mrs. Santos, pronounced the killing a homicide and recommended that she be held to answer on a mur. der charge. Man Identified Police since have identified Harju as an ex-convict, have connected him with numerous burglaries in the last few months and named him as the possible slayer of William Wehrman and his wife Cleo in a cafe holdup at 8200 Long Beach Blvd. last April 4.

Harju was shot last Sunday in front of 2820 W. Seventh assertedly by Mrs. Santos. Among witnesses called to the O.P.A. Blames C' Book Holders BY LORANIA K.

FRANCIS Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April Motorists who overestimate their gasoline needs when applying for coupons are the "real problem" in motor fuel rationing, an Office of Price Administration official said today. Testifying before a House Interstate Commerce subcommittee investigating gasoline black market operations, Charles F. Phillips, director of the automotive supply rationing division of O.P.A., laid a large part of the blame on book holders. "Many who. obtained 'C' rations used them for other purposes," he said.

The O.P.A. announced some progress has been made in checking the black market in counterfeit and stolen coupons. It said there had been no increase in daily drain of 2,500,000 gallons to the black market in the last month. Since the first of the year 926 gasoline rationing arrests have been made, "over half of them involving professional criminals," the report stated. Of this number 464 convictions were obtained and 186 jail sentences imposed.

FOOD SERVED MEN IN PACIFIC AREA SCORED IN LETTER SEATTLE, April 19. (AP) A Seattle mother made public last night a letter from her son in the Southwest Pacific where, she charged, food served American soldiers was so unpalatable that censors were "now actually encouraging enlisted men to write home complaining about conditions." The letter was written to Mrs. Wallace Johnson by her son, Corp. Beryle W. Johnson, 36, an airplane mechanic stationed overseas for the last 20 months.

The letter was received this week. Wife Waits Five Days at Bus Depot SAN FRANCISCO, April 19. (P) -2nd Lt. and Mrs. William F.

McCaughey, both 22, who had been searching for each other here for five days, were reunited today. The officer had asked police aid yesterday in seeking his wife Margie, formerly of Logansport, who had left Hollywood by bus Thursday. Through a misunderstanding, she had spent long hours daily waiting for him at a depot. She finally found him through a relative. stand by Deputy Coroner Frank Monfort was Mrs.

Mary 2858 Leeward who reluctantly admitted that Mrs. Santos visited her apartment and had told her that "I have a gun at home and I am going to get it and use it." Mrs. Santos stood on her constitutional rights and refused to testify but she toppled as she left the stand and was caught before she fell by Det. Robert F. McGarry.

Had Few Drinks McGarry testified that Mrs. Santos declared the last words uttered by Harju were "throw the gun away." The officer told how the couple had a few drinks in a Seventh St. cafe and quarreled over Harju's drinking and spending money. Mrs. Santos said she went to her home at 1514 Ingraham obtained, a quarrel gun, and returned, then shot reHarju when he taunted her, the police officer continued.

NEWBORN BABY'S BODY FOUND IN OR BACK YARD GRAVE Wrapped in cellophane and a red sweater, placed in a shopping bag and put in shallow grave, the body of a newborn baby girl was found late yesterday by Mrs. Charles Pfeffer while she was raking a garden in the back yard of her home at 750 E. 75th St. Police, who could find no clues on the bag or wrappings around the infant. pressed the belief that whoever buried the body did so Tuesday night and used a rear gate opening on to an alley to gain entrance to Mrs.

Pfeffer's garden. It was not immediately determined whether the baby had a premature or normal birth. Bong Won't Get Whisky ATLANTA, April 19. (P)- More than 100 persons, Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker disclosed here tonight, have offered cases of Scotch whisky for.

Maj. Dick Bong, the Pacific air ace who bested the World War I flyer's record of shooting down 26 enemy planes in combat. But MacArthur because frowned Gen. on Douglas of rewarding such a performance with intoxicants, Bong--a nondrinker- won't get any of the spirits, Rickenbacker said in an interview with the Atlanta Constitution. Hospital Graduates Women Volunteers First of its kind in the city, a "graduation" was held at the Good Samaritan Hospital last night for 17 volunteers who have hours or women, more of their time to assisting the hospital in various duties.

Pins were awarded to the "graduates." Miss Margaret J. Wherry, hospital superintendent, expressed her appreciation to the volunteers and a short address was given by Rev. Bertrand M. Hause, hospital chaplain. United Names Pacific Air Traffic Head Air Transport Command operations conducted by United Air Lines across the Pacific and to Alaska henceforth will be under the full-time management of S.

V. Hall, it was announced yesterday by J. A. Harlihy, vice-president in charge of operations. A regional vicepresident of United, Hall heretofore has been supervising both the company's commercial operations west of Denver and its military flights in the Pacific.

Judge Eicher overruled a government plea that bail on Smythe be set at $100,000 and fixed the figure at $10,000. Unable to post bond, Smythe was sent to District Jail. Smythe and 29 others accused of seditious activities will hear selection of a jury tomorrow. Smythe was on the stand most of the day. He pulled no punches in his testimony, but was silent when ordered to enter a plea.

A court directed plea of not guilty entered in his behalf. Asked why he decided that the trial would not begin last Monday morning, he said he reached that conclusion because "the smear columnists in New York and Washington kept saying it wouldn't be going to trial at that date. Inasmuch as the American Newspaper Guild, a Communist given orders to all organiza- its members to give no publicity to this case, we have to rely on these columnists." Says Judge Dominated Later he referred to "the rumor in New York" that Judge Eicher is under Rogge's "domination," adding that "I know for a definite fact--and it can be proved by the archives or papers or morgues of the Communist Daily Worker--that 0. John Rogge is either a Communist or a pro-Communist." He complained that Federal agents "were always with me" and that the F.B.I. "tampered with my mail." I left New York one was just 25 feet behind me." he said, pointing to Agent Clarence L.

Johnson of New York. In New York, Milton Murray, president of the American Newspaper Guild, said: "The claim of Communism against the Guild is a favorite one of Fascists and apparently cannot be dispelled by the cold fact that I and other international officers of the guild were elected office on an anti-Communist platform." Saboteur's Father Declared Sane CHICAGO, April 19. (P) -Hans Max Haupt, father of Herbert was declared legally sane today, Haupt, executed Nazi, saboteur, and immediately pleaded innocent to an indictment charging him with treason. Federal Judge John P. Barnes set May 15 for Haupt's hearing.

He will be the first to be retried of six defendants convicted of treason. The convictions were reversed by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Second D.A.R. Ballot Needed NEW YORK, April 19. (P)- None of the three candidates for Presidency General of the Daughters of the American Revolution received a required majority in balloting today and a second day of voting by delegates to the society's congress will be conducted tomorrow.

Official results of today's balloting, announced tonight, were: Mrs. Julius Y. Talmadge of Athens, 891; Mrs. Samuel James Campbell of Mt. Carroll, 916, and Mrs.

George Schermerhorn of Reading, 120. Unless one of the candidates withdraws, all three will be voted on again tomorrow. A total of 1942 votes was cast, making the required majority. for election 972. the plea of Stegemeyer's employer.

The latter told Judge Kaufman Stegemeyer was a "keyman" in his war plant and that if he went to jail more than 300 men would be thrown out of work. Miss Shirley paid a $10 fine through an agent for driving over the legal limit, and May Rose McClure, 1621 Vista was. fined $10 for. driving 38 miles an hour in a 25-mile zone. Unidentified Man Killed on Street An unidentified man about 60 was struck and killed yesterday at Long Beach Blvd.

and Santa Barbara Ave. by an automobile driven by Francis Williams, 31, of E. 33rd police reported. Australian Wives of American Soldiers Reach United States Illustrated on Page 3, Part I SAN FRANCISCO, April 19. (A) -Ninety young Australian women, war brides and fiancees of United States, servicemen, were in their new homeland today.

Traveling by ship which ried Australia's Prime Minister, John Curtin, they arrived in San Francisco curious about but waiting to be convinced of the glowing stories told them about this country. With them were 14 babies, some of them only four or five months old. These children automatically became United States citizens with their entry into this country, the Immigration Service explained, provided they spend five years under this Flag. Their mothers may apply for citizenship after two years. Mrs.

Doris Jean Lebash put it frankly: "We've been very curious about America. The American boys back home (in Melbourne) bluntly told some of us we in Australia were 10 years behind the times. They told us we couldn't wear these kinds of clothes. And they told us we'd never see such beautiful girls as we'd see in this country. "I'm waiting to be shown," she commented firmly, but pleasantly.

She had her mild complaint, offered banteringly: "We don't like your American food very much. The bread is too. we sweet, should the butter, too salty. along get just so we can get some good Irish stew now and then.".