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IN TWO PARTS The Weather United State Wcrthr Bureau fofeeaaf for Im Any)l cad vicinity laraed last nlfhtt Generally clear today end tomerrcw accept early aiemla fog or low clouds boot coenrtr BUI clang la lanperotur. Hlghact tm-yoraturo yMtarday, iOi lowest, 58. PART II LOCAL NEWS TIMS OFFICE 202 West First Street Lot Angeles 53, Calif. VOL. LXIII CC FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4, 1944 1 1 1 CITY NEWS-EDITORIAL-SOCIETY It Really Has Working of German War Prisoners Considered to Avert Tructc lire Crisis UIMM Been Unusual Rubber Officials Seek Relief in V.

Labor Shortage Figures Show This Second Coldest Summer in History Unusual weather we've been having, isn't it? And we're going to have more of the same unless Floyd D. Young is off the 1 I pf rf SJ t' 1 'Vi tMWeW: Times photo TOGETHER AGAIN Mrs. Angelica Tellez holds daughter Mary Ellen, 7. Child, taken to Mexico by father pi- lowing divorce suit was returned through Mexican court. AT CONFERENCE Taking part in rubber industry conference on truck tire crisis were, left to right, W.

E. Head, Goodrich; J. M. Miller, U.S. Rubber; Col.

George VVorren, War Department; R. Lightfoot," Goodyear and Leona'rd Firestone. Cong ressiona I Medalist Gives red i to ra ining Retail Sales Hit New Peak in Southland "What did you do what did with BILL HENRY WASHINGTON, When a long-run play like "Abie's Irish Rose" or "Life With Father has established itself as a dramatic phenomenon, it is customary for reporters to show up every once in a while to tell about changes in the cast, how the actors are doing, and so on. So. suppose I should bring you down to date on our own prize production the sedition trial BEDIT10X It gives every Indication of becoming a long-run hit the trial does.

They tell me that only. 15 weeks have passed since 1 first went down to the Courthouse to battle the mob at the premiere of the It seems" like years! It has calmed down a good deal since that exciting day when Lois de Lafayette Washburn made the front pages by thumbing her nose at the whole affair for the benefit of the photographers, but it's still quite a show, CALM-i-There is an atmosphere comparative calm now, I In the earlier "days of the trial the defendants put on quite a show. They would scream imprecations at witnesses and at the judge; they would indulge in all sorts of exhibitionism; some of their attorneys were just- as bad. Now things are more quiet. The judge has slapped fines of well over $1000 on sundry individuals, has kicked out one attorney and has solved one of the major problems of the early days by letting the attorneys wave their arms and make all sorts of motions, and "taking them under advisement." EFFECT Wear and tear has told somewhat on the cast of characters Eighty-year-old Elmer Garner of Kan.

one of the defendants just got tired Qf the proceedings and laid down and died during one of our Washington hot spells. Physical handicaps old age and deafness eliminated James True of Arlington, and David J. Baxter of San Ber- rardino. They were dropped from' the case because they were more trouble than their conviction was worth. Our fel- i low citizen Robert Noble was dropped, according to the prose-i cution, "for obstreperous and obstructive conduct during the i which ought to have disqualified just about every-: body connected with it.

The bright legal minds say the real I reason was the barring of No-i ble's attorney and forcing him to take a lawyer not acceptable to him. They say this might i have thrown the whole case OUt. THE LAW This brings out the matter of legal peculiarities i in the trial. There have been all sorts of strange happenings. Defendants say the mass trial Is a New Deal attempt to show off in the nation's capital.

The prosecution says the mass trial is necessary in order to introduce evidence which might not be admissible against individuals but is damning as showing conspiracy between all of them. Defendants say the trial should never legally be held in Washington basis for holding it here was ob- tained by having a Washing- tonian write the defendants and get them to mail their allegedly seditious pampniets to him at a Washington address. DURATIOX Anyhow the trial is still going along. Many of the "conspirators" even know each other except by 'sight. Their attorneys wrangle among themselves It is not unusual for one defense attorney to object violently to a motion by another defense attorney.

The prosecutor has no Idea when he will finish presenting his case by Jan. 1, 1945, he hopes. TROBLEM Jurors and defendants and witnesses are going broke fast One defendant works nights as a waiter in a big hotel. Another is a night bartender. Another fills in as an accountant The court is trying to figure out a way to pay the attorneys it appointed.

It was finally decided last week to give everybody a vacation In fate August At which point one attorney plaintively asked, YOur Honor, will we get a vacation every summer?" Hear Bill Henry, Mender through Friday, KNX, Despite huge stockpiles of raw ubber available in Los Angeles County, the tire in dustry producing heavy duty truck and combat type cas ings, here faces a serious la bor shortage which in turn is uxctsucauy curtailing. snip. 4.2 11 -it ments to and slowing progress of invasion forces, in So desperate is the situation believed to be that the use of German prisoners -of war as workers in local rubber, plants was discussed yesterday by a. group of industry, labor, and war agency leaders meeting in. the Western Pacific Buildings Top rubber industrialists at the conference included Leonard Firestone, president of Firestone M.

Miller, factory manager for United States Rubber W. E. Head. nlant manaeer of Good rich Rubber and R. L.

Light-foot personnel manager of the lvinvosr 'lira -i t-wH rn uwwu UllV i LI VV. Depend on Tracks Kevnote statement at. the con ference was the declaration by Firestone that "ntir inv-aoion army in France has been forced to blow ud most of the rail- roads and bridges. Hence our troops depend almost entirely on truck transportation. "All tire makers realize these facts and are doing their utmost to keeD the militarv fnrefs tain.

plied. 'The fact' is, however, that plants in Los Angeles are now operating with 40 per cent of their machinery idle because of man power shortage. "The industry has no conver- Furfoughs Ordered to Speed Tire Output WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. Soldiers will be ur-loughed back to tire plants in an effort to step up output of heavy bus and truck tirer by 30 per cent in August and September, the War Production Board disclosed tonight.

The goal of a 30 per cent increase was out- lined to an emergency meeting of 21 tire manufacturers by Charles E. Wilson, ex ecutfve vice-chairman of W.P.B. sion problem. Postwar demand for tires will douht.lpsa nrrriH on an uninterrupted scale. Hence we believe jobs now.

open are. highly desirable to any worker." W. E. Head, Goodrich manag er, replying to questions of government agency men, Our starting scale is 75 cents an hour. 7 he worker is guaran teed 92 cents an hour within 24 days of going on the job.

Within about 30 days the average pay should be $1.25 an hour." Commenting on the same Smith, Firestone- plant manager, called attention to the fact that wage upgrading throughout the industry, from the starting day to. about 30 days later. brings the average pay check to $72.80 a week for a typical work-er in the curing room of a plant. Aiuong suggestions onerea for a solution to the riddle of labor shortage, was the recruitment of workers outside State by the rubber industry as uuie. This was answered bv various members of the, war agency group with statements pointing to the critical need of housing and transportation in, areas where rubber factories are located.

Significant figures discussed at the conference disclosed tha following facts: Heavy truck transport, in the civilian war effort, as well the military, be "bogged down unless man power is Turn to Page 3, Coin inn 1 stack is four feet high, sell it to a junkman give it to one of the many organizations conducting paper drives or ask one of the following charitable agencies to send a pickup truck to j'our home: American Lesion AN-gldl Asaiatinca L(1l HE-11 85 Goodwill Industrie C4-S131 SlTton Army MA-7T7S St. Vincent de Pu! Volunteer oi America, TR-555 Mexican Court Helps Mother to Regain Her Child Mary Ellen Tellez, 7, yester day was back with her mother, Mrs. Angelita Tellez, 24, through the co-operation of the Mexican District Court at Tijuana, Mex. Superior Judge William S. Baird awarded custody of the child to the mother last March 16 following a divorce suit filed by her against; Phillip Tellez, 24, now in the Army.

Tellez assertedly If the child to the borne of his mother in Tijuana following Judge Balrd's decision. Refusing to turn the child over to the mother, Tellez was sentenced to jail for contempt of court by Judge Baird and served 29 days before being released to' the Army for induction April 15. Albert Pearlson, attorney for Mrs. Tellez, went to the Mexican District Court and presented Judge Baird's decision, which resulted in the release of the girl to her mother. Mrs.

Tetlez's suit for divorce is still Comdr. F. L. Eley Killed in Cra'sh Comdr. Francis L.

Eley; who reportedly lost his life in the South Pacific naval plane crash which killed Rear-Adm. Charles P. Cecil and caused death or injury to 16 others, was a member of the Southern California Edison Co. engineering department and assisted in the establishment of the Los Angeles aircraft warning system, it was disclosed yesterday. Entering the naval service In February, 1941, after serving as a reserve officer for the last 12 years, Comdr.

Eley was assigned to foreign duty last June after 14 months' duty in San Diego as chief of communications for the 11th Naval District. He leaves his widow. Mrs. Edith H. Eley, 1004 Pacific Santa Monica, and a son, Pfc.

Robert Eley, with the Army in Europe. beam, which is highly im probable. Young has 'been in the weather business for 34 years and as regional director of the United States Weather Bureau is the final, authority on the subject Negative Gradient The drear." "tossy" mornings that have been a popular topic of conversation and cause of much consternation, for the past several months seem to have- keep your fingers crossed discontinued, but Young says it's only temporary, a negative barometric pressure gradient from Los Angeles to the San Joaquin Valley," he says, knowingly. "When that pressure is higher up north we have much less fog or none at all, depending on how strong the gradient is. It works very consistently that way." Technically, the "fog" that obscured the sun and mountains virtually every morning during June and July is a stratus cloud varying in depth from 500 to 1000 feet.

Juiie Chilly, Too i Last month was the second coldest July since accurate weather records were first kept in 1877. The average tempera ture for July, 1S80, was to De grees. Last month average was 66.6 while the normal tem perature for that straw -hat month 13 70.Z. June was relatively chilly, too, having been 3 degrees below the normal of 66.4. In fact, Young had to back to June, 1908, to find a lower average.

Then it was 63.2, B-r-r-r-r. Youne takes issue with an article by Louis Seymour Jones which appeared on the editorial of The Times last Monday. Jones suggested the possibility that the vast amount of water lately stored behind Hoover Dam and the greatly increased irri gation of the soutniana aria areas might have a marked deleterious effect on Southern California's celebrated climate. "Lake Mead and Increased irrigation definitely affect the weather." Younz explained, "but only in the immediate areas, and not to. a very large degree, as great as Lake Mead is, it's only a very small part of the South-wegt.

And even if it did have a greater effect on the weather than it has, that effect would be felt to the east of the lake as the prevailing winds are from the west The same goes for irrigated areas." Relief Association Elects Officers Ben Solnit, for many years active in tuberculosis prevention work, j'esterday. was named president of the Jewish Consumptive Relief Association. He succeeds Pinches Karl, who was named treasurer. Other officers elected by the organization, which operates the Los Angeles Sanatorium at Duarte, are Louis Tabak, first vice-president; Jack Mahler, second vice-president; William Isen-berg, third vice-president, and Harry Sherr, secretary. Samuel Goiter will continue as executive director.

Plans for the immediate construction of a new hospital building and a two-story addition to the Warner Medical Building were announced by the board of directors. Actress' Name Change Approved Jacqueline Dalya, dark and glamorous film actress, j'esterday, being "single again, and over celebrated her birthday by making her professional name her legal one. "Even during my marriage I went under the name of Jacqueline Dalya," the actress told Superior Judge Emmet H. Wilson, who approved the change. Her attorney, Paul P.

Schreib-man, explained that his client formerly was married to William Conselman, screen writer, and now that the divorce is final, she wishes to drop his name. The She refused to state how many but said the number was over 21. 4 S.C. Paper's Former Editor Dies in Action News of the death In action on Saipan of 1st Lt Myron Min-nick, U.S.M.C., former editor of The Trojan, University of Southern California student newspa- 1st Lt. Myron Minnick per, was received j'esterday by his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. H. E. Minnick, 245 Atchison Pasadena. Lt.

Minnick graduated In 1942 and' immediately entered the Marine Corps. He had three times received the university's Apolliad award for outstanding creative writing. Details of his death did not accompany the notification. Driver Education Pfan Approved A'n'nroval Of a lone-term pro gram of driver education was made yesterday ry lernng jersey, superintendent of schools, in an address before the Drivers' Education Institute which adjourns today at the University of Southern California. Joining in the indorsement was C.

C. Trilllngham, county schools superintendent, said that the only obstacles to an immediate course-in- second-arv schools are trained teachers 'and a crowded teaching program. monies "at the harbor Co as Guard base, formerly occupied by the California Yacht Club. In a rowing race over a mile course in the harbor, crews of 10 youth-ful stalwarts from the Wilmington, Santa Catalina Island and San Pedro bases and Ports Los Angeles and- San Diego will compete for the coveted "Aug. 4 Cup." No birthday celebration would be complete without cake, however, so Ship's Cook Floyd Mc-Nvitt is reported to have whipped up a cake for the crew of a combat cutter cruising Southland Victory House in Pershing Square will be the scene of another program at 2 p.m., which will feature music by the 11th Naval District Coast Guard Band under the baton of Jimmie Grier.

Retail sales In Southern Cali fornia reached a new high in 1943 when purchases in 10 Southland counties" aggregated $2,906,008,000, of which amount $2,243,628,000 was spent by shop pers in Los Angeles. These statistics were the re sult of a survey conducted by the research department of the California State Chamber of Commerce, "-which also disclosed jesterday that retail sales in the State hit an all-time record with $5,325,320,000, as compared to $3,187,809,000 for 1939, an increase of approximately 73 per cent. San Diego County followed Los Angeles with sales totaling $275,781,000, representing an increase of 128.5 per cent over 1939, and San Bernardino County ranked. third with an increase of 73.3 percent All the remaining counties in the State showed business "increases ranging from 4 per cent to 197 per cent John Steven McGroarty Reported Gravely. I II Steven MeGroartjv 81, poet laureate of California and long a writer for The Times, was reported in critical condition yesterday at St Vincent's Hospital, where he.

was taken uly 16 suffering from a com plication of illnesses. BUILDING IN JULY HERE GREATEST SINCE APRIL, 1942 Highest since April, 1942, before the war effect was felt, and almost $5,000,000 above the June total, Los Angeles building permits issued for July totaled 3011, with a valuation of according to the Building and Safety Department yesterday. June permits totaled 2616, with a valuation of $3,360,529. The totals In July, 1943, were 1484, with valuation of $1,600,619. Permits for the.

calendar year to date were 18,437. with a valuation of $35,898,283. Bulk of the July permits is represented in 1012 new residences and garages, 32 new hotels and apartments or additions and alterations. Pfc. Richard Keith Sorenson, 19-j'ear-old Minnesota part-time postal clerk who is one of the only two surviving Marine Corps enlisted men to win the Congressional Medal of Honor, Is living proof that heroes are made, not corn.

What made him a hero on Na-mur Island in the Jxwajalein atoll last Feb. 2 was, training, he indicated here yesterday. After recovering from his wounds' in a Seattle hospital, Sorenson came here to visit his aunt, Mrs. Leonard Ziegler of 411 Redfield Ave. He left later by, air for his home at Anoka, where 7000 townspeople bursting with pride await his arrival.

Outfit Dispersed Sorenson carried ammunition ashore in the second wave of the 24th Marines attacking Namur on Feb. 1. During the push across the Island his outfit became dispersed and he found himself defending a concrete basement along with five marines from another 'unit. "The Japs from Roi Island, under attack by the 25th Marines, were threateningto cut us off," the tall, almost beardless youth related under pressure from "They started counterattacking at 4 a.m. Feb.

2 and by 9:30 we were fighting off a strong push. Yes, I got some Japs 18 or 19, I guess," he admitted. "I was using a Garand in support of a machine gun, and most of the Japs I knocked off were sniping at the machine gun crew. Grenade Appears we were in' this basement that had been' under a house except the house wasn't there any more. All of a sudden a marine yelled, and I turned around to look.

"There it was, rolling around on' the floor, its fuse getting shorter and shorter every instant" VAN NUYS ARMY AIRFIELD TO HAVE G.I. 'GRIPE SESSIONS' Breathes there a soldier with soul so dead who never to himself hath said: "Dammit, I wish I could get to the I'd tell him" a thing or two about what's wrong with this man's army." Well, that widespread desire will be realized by the military personnel at the Van Nuys Army Airfield with the inception of "gripe sessions" at the post sponsored by Col. John S. Chen-i. nault, commanding officer.

He promised that imme-; diate action will be taken whenever possible on any logical "gripes" which may be presented. 1 To reassure his G.I.'s CoL Chennault announced that "all items brought forth will receive serious attention; with no reflection on the in-; dividual." j'ou think about?" a reporter de manded eagerly. "I didn't have much time to think those fuses are pretty short J'ou know," Sorenson re plied "I had a feeling I Pfc. R. Sorenson was going to get it, anyway, sometime or other.

"I tried to smother it. I sat on it. I just got over it and landed on it with my well, I sat on it." Followed Training Reporters "What was the nature of your injuries?" "Well, I was sitting on a fragmentation grenade, and it went off." Sorenson replied, patiently. "Why did I do it? That's kinda hard to answer except that I had been trained that the man closest to a grenade should take it. "That's just 'good as the marines say." By a miracle Sorenson escaped annihilation, although badly hurt His comrades were unscathed, He was carried to the beach by corpsmen, transferred aboard ship and sent to a base hospital.

"That plasma you folks are turning out is good stuff," he said in practically the only statement he volunteered throughout the interview. "Aboard ship they gave me four pints of it, for I had lost, a lot of blood. I guess the plasma saved my life, like it saves Sorenson is to be stationed at Chamberlain Field, at the naval air station in Minneapolis. A Writer Held as Suspect in Hit-Run Car Fatality I Sought for questioning since one Army nurse was killed and another injured by a hit-run driver at Vanowen Blvd. and Lindley Philip Barnes, 52.

writer, of 7735 Wilbur Reseda, was arrested yesterday on suspicion of felonious hit-run driving. Police said Barnes, traced through his abandoned automobile, said he had been drinking and did not remember the accident. V. fix mmc -j Coast Guard Will Observe 1 54th Ann ive rsa ry Today Saye This Paper Illustrated en Pag 3, Pari America's oldest seagoing force, the United States Coast Guard that organization of courageous young men and women who wear a silver shield on their sleeves and the spirit oi ready sacrifice in their hearts today will observe its 154th anniversary. Home front and battle front ceremonies will be simple and brief, according to Capt.

F. Towle, veteran commander of the 11th Naval District Coast Guard unit whose domain of vigilance extends from Point Conception, north of Santa Barbara, to San Capt Towle and Capt, George B. Gelly. captain of Port Los Angeles, will preside at brief cere The need for wastepaper particularly old newspapers and magazines has -never been more criticaL 1 Nearly all supplies for our fighting forces in every. theater of war must be shipped in cardboard containers, manufactured from wastepaper, Sa your copy of THE TIMES every day.

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