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SATURDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 19, 1936. PART Il.f 3 NEWS OUT OF SKIES SANTA CLAUS VISITS WOMAN WHO FOUND LONG-LOST SON Gay Yuletide Parties Given Court Rejects Impulse Plea Officer Impersonator Sentenced to Spend Two Years in Prison that Hime Cohen, employer of Rancher Gets Times' by Air Arizonah First Parachute Subscriber for Daily Paper Frank P. Smothers, desert rancher, was tired of reading week-old newspapers. Because his home is fifteen her son, is telegraphing addi tional funds.

Santa Claus paid a visit to the home of Mrs. Camilla Warner just a week early yesterday. The 59-year-old Danish woman, who found her son last Wednesday after a forty-one-year search, sat in the one, room that constitutes her home at NEW DELAY WON BY DOPE GIRL Morton Kramer is a victim of irresistible impulses, he avers. Kramer, a tall, dark-haired man, 35 years of age, came before United States District Judge James on a charge of impersonal ing a Federal officer by wearing the uniform of a navy chaplain with the rank of lieutenants t- .1 vt i I I 1 I i "rli i'ni'" ff" ir "irwfl'i i th 'liMf" iiWirfi "biimi imm ir "iintn in I )f WliMiiii'iiiniii'iiiii wiwr 'iim ill I iii miles from Hassayampa, on a beeline from an emergency transport landing field, Smoth Bar to Have Revel Tonight Legal Procedure Will Be Satirized at Masque Party Forty attorneys and judges will hark back to fifteenth century English Inn courts to entertain their friends of the Los Angeles Bar Association at the association's first annual masque and revel tonight at the Ambassador. The entertainment will follow a banquet in the Fiesta Room of the hotel and will supplant the Bar Association's annual Christmas jinks of past years.

In a series of playlets and blackouts produced by Rex Hardy, Los Angeles Superior and Municipal judges, together with practicing attorneys, will don robes of bygone Euglish barristers to satirize present-day legal procedure. Principal skits are entitled "Birth of a Notion," "Judges Will Be Girls," "Trial of LeRoy Dawson" and "Everylawyer." No feelings will be spared among the profession to provide a laugh. ers had been contenting himself commander. with papers discarded by the tiny 610 South Stanford avenue, clapping her hands in joy. "If there's a Santa Claus," Mrs.

Warner said three days ago, "I wish he would put a round-trip ticket to in my stocking!" Scottsbluff is the town where Richard Douglas Foster her new-found son lives. By noon yesterday Mrs. War-ner's Santa Claus had arrived. Instead of a be whiskered old man, St. Nick was a wealthy Beverly Hills woman who declined 'to disclose her identity.

Through her chauffeur, Mrs. airport's attendants. Yesterday he became The Times' first parachute He pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity. "I'm a victim of impulses," ha testified after Asst. U.

S. Atty. Purdue had introduced evidence to show that he had masquerad ed as a naval chaplain in. marrying a girl in Long Beach. "I cannot resist the impulses.

I have married ten women because of them." Maria Wendt Sentence Put Off to January 4 Sentencing of Maria Wendt, 23-year-old nurse recently convicted of complicity in smuggling fifty-four pounds of heroin worth $100,000 into the vUnited States from China, was continued again yesterday when she appeared before United States District Judge Stephens. Judge Stephens deferred sentence, until January 4, saying he has been informed deportation officers are considering the case of the woman, who is critically ill from tuberculosis. The court declared that, despite the fact physicians had attested to the girl's serious illness, American Airlines pilots, whom Smothers knows intimate ly, will drop a late edition of the Los Angeles paper over his ranch each morning. Warner's benefactress dispatched And Smothers's police dog, who ha3 something of the re The whole Smothers family, Frank, his wife and their dog, shown reading a copy of The Times which American Airlines pilots deliver daily. Tim photo triever in him, will scurry out Plant Contract Let REDLANDS.

Dec. IS. The across tne sanct ana sagenrusn to bring the paper back to his John Hastle Company, Glendora, a ticket on the Union Pacific Railroad, a rich alpaca coat, a pair nf shoes and a modish little black hat decorated with a great, fuzzy pompon. Mrs. Warner will depart for Scottsblutr Monday night.

Her cup of joy really overflowed, too, when she learned master. has been awarded contract fof building a $30,000 pre-cooling (tippled child who needs it must have a chance at Dr. Berry's care. And, confidentially, Santa promised that they shall! her offense was a serious one and plant for the Crafton Orange TARV of Th Timr' ramie flte On Iho nerfM)! Johnny WHumulIrr md Mau-rirn O'Sullinn In "Trrin Empm" now plavlnt Four Star Thratrr. Growers' Association.

no mercy should be expected. Cripple-Aid Drive Begun Continued from First Page imitations of Donald Duck, chickens and cats and dogs. Children Made Happy by Veterans' Group and Lions' Annual Event Illustration on Pag 8, Part I Merry Christmas lunc heon parties delighted hundreds of An-gelenos yesterday, date of numerous annual parties at which hosts and guests shared the fun. Unique among American organizations of ex-service men, Arnama held its annual luncheon and Christmas party for children of the Maude Booth Home at the Clark Hotel. CHILDREN' MADK HAITV Membership is composed of three branches of the service, Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and yesterday fifty-eight boys and girls were adopted for a day by former service men.

The home is sponsored by Volunteers of America. Young visitors ranged from 2 to 11 years of age, with blue-eyed Jimmy, pot of the party, the youngest present. Trescnts for each child, selected with due consideration of age and sex, a Christmas program and a jolly Fanta Claus were features of the party. LIOXS EXTKKTAIX At the Eiltmore, Lions Club members also entertained their adopted sons at their annual Christmas luncheon, a Lion tradition for fifteen years. Forty-eight boys from the Lark Ellon Home enjoyed the party.

Guest of honor was the soprano, Ellen Beach Yaw, interested in the boys' home bearing her name since its founding. Mme. Yaw, who lives in Co-Vina, makes her annual public appearance at the Lions luncheon, and sings for her boys. Scotty Hamilton acted as master of ceremonies yesterday and the boys themselves entertained with skits and musical numbers. A.

B. Chapman is Lions president of the Los Angeles Den; W. L. Stevens is president of the Lark Ellen Home board; Mrs. George Chambers president of the home's ladies' auxiliary and Mrs.

Alice M. Cassidy, home matron. All attended yesterday. ANNUAL CUSTOM Time-honored custom at Lark Ellen is the 'Christmas morning party, attended by Lions members, when Christmas presents are distributed. A traditional Christinas dinner, from turkey and fixin's to Ktcammz nlum nudding and 5.00 bags in wide varietyl await today's gift shoppers! an extensive collection planned for men who will cocr office and personal lists in this final Saturday for gift shopping! hags of luxuriously soft calf, others in patent, and a few in suede all new midseason creations, many actually copied from fine imported pieces frame' styles, handle styles, pouches, envelopes, zippers Mark, Jackie Coogan and Johnny Downs told stories.

Frank Forest sang. Tom and Betty Wonder danced. Berry himself tried to voice his thanks for tributes to him. but choked up. PATIKNT-SPJXTATOK A more-than-interested spectator was Mary Blackford, young blonde actress who has been paralyzed for two years as the result of an automobile accident.

She has shown remarkable gains under the treatment of Dr. Berry and was the center of attention at the party, as she sat laughing in her wheel chair. Then Santa Claus Tom McCarthy with a red suit and long white" whiskers and a mustache that just wouldn't stay put drove up in a wagon hitched to an old gray horse. GU TS AM) ICK CREAM. And from then on the pros ents had the floor.

To children in braces, on their mothers' laps, in wheel chairs and propped against the walls went Santa, delivering gifts with both hands-bubble blowers, tiny pink dolls, big red balls, story books and mouth organs. Ice cream and cake appeared. Dr. Berry was everywhere, laughing and being congratulated. May Robson said decisively, "We'il put this thing over!" Leo Carrillo came thundering up with a police escort at the last minute.

He had ducked out from the studio to attend. Fred Stone was sick in bed but he sent his best wishes. To the children it was a great party. Yet the board of directors of the Berry Foundation Rupert Hughes, Michael Shannon, Norman Chandler, Tracy Q. Hall and Fred Stone knew this was just the start.

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William A. Bryan of Los Angeles Museum, Supervisor McDonough and Mrs. Me-Do'nough, faculty members of the institute and prominent graduates. Carlton Williams, student body president, represented his generation at the party. Following the luncheon, guests visited the entrance hall where tood a glittering Christmas tree, its base stacked with presents for everyone.

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