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The Weather TTnltM States Weather RiirMii tnrttraat- PART M-LOCAL NEWS JIMES OFFICE 202 West First Street Los Angeles 53, Calif. MAdison 2345 Generally clear today and tomorrow; continued warm today but slightly cooler near th coast tomorrow afternoon. Highest temperature yesterday, 90; lowest, 57. CITY NEWS-EDITORIAL -SOCIETY, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 12, 1946 CC VOL LXV Property Owner Opens Court Test of Extended O.P.A. Rule Over Rents Validity of Curb .,45.

Challenged in BILL HENRY 53T Suit Demurrer Challenging the constitutional validity of "strait- jacket" rent control under the new lease on life recently 1 1 pi SL lllllllplilifci 1 till iiffi9fT "i A ii L' given O.P.A., a property owner yesterday asked the Superior Court for dismissal of a suit involving enforcement of the measure. The action was brought by O.P.A. against Mrs. Allena W. Ulmer, owner of a duplex at 450914 Honduras in an effort to force her to file the required registration statement on her rental property.

mm i. liiiilf fiiif i ilia lilli If illlll lllllli I -'i Challenge in Demurrer A demurrer to this suit, pre pared by Mrs. Ulmer's attorney, William C. Ring contains the challenging move. It will be heard Wednesday by Superior Judge Alfred E.

Paonessa. The challenge is directed specifically Timet photos TEARS MARK FAREWELL Left, 5-year-old Janet Homes gives final kiss to Mrs. Lela Sowinski, who has cared for her during last nine Right, Janet, leaving court with who regained child's custody, says farewell to Mrs. Sowinski. ill pi iiliiiiii against the renewal enacted by Congress last July 25 after the original measure expired June 30.

Tunei photo The demurrer raises the con LONG LIVE THE QUEEN! Toni Doyle is crowned queen of the Los Angeles campus of the University of California by Dr. Clarence A. Dykstra, provost, as feature jjf Homecoming Week. Ladies-in-waiting include Jean Gordy, Janet Halstead, Alice Schultee an.d Pat Hewson. Student body witnessed the ceremony in quadrangle.

tention that the complaint does not contain "even the WASHINGTON. It's about time for another of those Life-iri-Washington columns, keeping you in touch with the odds and ends of existence in this part of the world. POLITICS They're talking about everything here in terms of politics. Nobody, for instance, gives the administration credit for being really Interested in whether or not the country's production and distribution of meat get3 back on a sensible basis. In this town everything is measured in terms of its effect on next month's election.

You would gather, from listening to Democrats or Republicans, that the only real reason for paying so much attention to the meat shortage is the Important matter of electing, or defeating the Democratic ma- Jority in Congress which, right-y or wrongly, is held responsible. Maybe that's rather cynical, but it is the way they talk back here. TOUCHY The Democrats, for the first time since 1932 being really scared that they are due to be tossed out in the street, are jittery beyond words. They are all yelling for help, but they want action, not oratory. The Democratic Nttional Committee keeps offering to send orators but the candidates say the only thing they want Is more meat.

The three people they are least anxious to have show up and talk for them are (1) President Truman, (2) Henry Wallace and (3) Claude Pepper, all of whom are considered to carry something of a curse with them at the moment. CHANGED The helpsituation has improved in this town recently." Prices have not gone down noticeably women to-come in and do housework still want from $5 to $7 a day but there are two noticeable differences: (1) you can always get somebody to come and do the work, and (2) they really get in and pitch. During the war you had trouble getting them to come at all and there were usually a number of chores to which they were notably allergic. One housewife of my acquaintance almost had a heart-attack the other day when she found a cleaning woman actually down on her knees scrubbing the floor. tion of suspicion" that Mrs.

Ulmer "wyll violate this sacred Junior Fire Fighters Erase 300,000 Hazards Thi is Fire Prevention and to better acquaint the citizens of Los Angeles with their Fire Department, The Times Is running a series of articles of which this Is the lastv Ed. BY GENE siTERMATf tentacle of regimentation." Mother Who Balked Death Regains Child Janet's mother didn't Document's Contention Queen Reigns "This defendant contends," Rep Voorhis Splits With Roosevelt Over Wallace the demurrer continues "that authority invested in O.P.A. un Over UCLA. der the; original strait jacket, as well as its postmortem drippings from the 1946 spiggot, Alive and well, although eight nia address under the sponsor The first Democratic nominee danger and cost of fire and would carry their knowledge into later life. Additionally, the corps of youngsters could train themselves in citizenship by helping to correct hazards in their homes to part company with State Hemember when It was standard thlniuig for kids to wish their school would burn down? In the last two years that thinking has diametrically reversed itself with the organization of the Junior Fire Department, a revolutionary and suc months ago nine doctors had told her she could not possibly recover from advanced leukemia, cannot be constitutionally en forced." Chairman James Roosevelt and others as a result of an official The document further raises Mrs.

Joe S. Homes, 24, yesterday ship of organizations "which frankly oppose our country's foreign policy." End O.P.A., Nixon Urges in Debate With Voorhis CLAREMONT, Oct -11. Ter the point that Federal extension Home-coming Crowning vof the queen was the highlight of yesterday's activities at the Los Angeles campus of the University of California in celebration of Home went to court to get her 5-year-old daughter. "They said I couldn't possibly of rent regulation in former defense areas after national de invitation to former Commerce Secretary Henry Wallace to come into California to electioneer for party candidates, Rep. Jerry; Voorhis of the 12th Disr trict yesterday disassociated himself from the Wallace visit.

fense production ceased "is a live," smiling Mrs, Homes said. cessful adaptation of education for fire prevention. The 34,000 youngsters of the fifth and sixth grades in. 276 public and parochial schools who Placed With Friends false pretense for curbing post war inflation which bears no re mination of theO.PJL.was advocated here tonight by Richard Confronted with this news, she lation to the war objective and is and neighborhood. Handbooks Distributed February, 1944, the program was launched in the schools.

Handbooks of questions and answers outlining the means of preventing fires were distributed to co-operating teachers. In classrooms the children were "given 20 hours Instruction, plus six hours of illustrated lectures by firemen, Passing test entitles each child to an official manual and Deploring Wallace's dismissal M. Nixon, Republican nominee carry1 badges and identification coming Week. said, she sent for her divorced husband, Robert S. Homes, and unjust, capricious, confiscatory from the Cabinet, which he de In the presence of the student cards after zo weeKs or classroom study in fire precaution scribed as "a distinct loss, Voor turned the pretty golden-haired and a denial of liberty ancKprop-erty without due process of law for Congress for the 12th District, in a debate with incumbent Jerry Voorhis, held before 1600 persons at Pomona College.

Nix his in a radio broadcast said he body in the quadrangle. Provost Clarence A. Dykstra placed a would sooner lose their bubble daughter over to him. He, seeking the best thing for the child. under the Fifth Amendment, gum than strike a careless match.

U.S. Constitution." stands firmly in favor of the foreign policy of the country as enunciated by Secretary of State placed her with friends, Edward and Lela Sowinski. on declared himself in favor of transferring rent controls to Hazards Eliminated crown on the head of Toni Doyle, who was surrounded by her attendants, Pa4 Hewson, of the freshman class; Janet Halstead, sophomore; Alice Schultee, jun State and local levels. He also The Sowinskis loved Janet And not only do they practice called for legislation to outlaw Byrnes. Cites Red Opposition Voorhis," accused on many oc- the'fundamentals of fire preven jurisdictional strikes.

so much that adoption papers were being prepared, and the little girl was going to be their own daughter. ior, and Jean Gordy, senior. Icasions of warm sympathy for Present Hours on Off-Sale Liquor Backed identification card of the Junior Fire Department. He then is enabled to inspect the homes and yards in his neighborhood at the acquiesence of householders for potential fire sources. 1 Badges Awarded Voorhis said he would not vote for an end to the O.PA.

if Congress were in session now and Military Motif The queen was escorted to the However, by almost a miracle, tion, they preach it where it will do the most good in the 345,000 homes of Los Angeles. Last year the Junior Fire Department was credited with eliminating 300,000 hazards, any one of which could the leukemia, a disease long defended his vote upholding Tru Russian aims, said his radio address that "so far Russia, and Russia alofie, has remained adamantly opposed" to the proposals of the United States for control of the atom bomb. known to be almost inevitably fatal, responded to treatment, man's veto of the Case bul strike legislation. For each hazard the boys and girls have a printed notification, Retention of present regula and Mrs. Homes, attractive and royal chair by Jack Huntley of the Reserve Officers Training Corps, the two passing through an arch of crossed sabers.

Others who appeared on the program were Mary Ann Holser, homecoming chairman; "Ken Kiefer, in apparent good health, came on which the hazard is described STAGE No doubt it Is true. "The tragedy is that there are I have caused disaster. A joint operation -of the city Fire Department, Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce and Board of Education, the jun tions on the hours which off-sale liquor stores may be open was urged yesterday in a wire here from Portland, to get Janet. any Americans wiiu are iiuv literally on fire with enthusiastic sent to the State -Board If the person responsible for the carelessness corrects it, he signs the slip for the junior fireman, who gets a "credit point" for Hearing Unnecessary determination to back the pro ior department was conceived in 1943 as a long-range program to Equalization in Sacramento by S. Duke Molner, president of the She went to the Sowinskis but they "simply couldn't bear to student body president, ana H.

M. Wammack, yell leader. Dr. Dykstra in a brief address declared that ducation must develop the whole personality and each slip turned in to his teacher. Badges for fire inspector, lieu Los Angeles County Retail drive horn literally the necessity for stopping fires before they happen.

Liquor Association. tenant, captain, battalion chief, give her up So Mrs. Homes consulted Atty. Saul Ross, who prepared a writ of habeas corpus for hearing in Domestic Rela assistant chief and chief engi "At the next regular session of the Legislature we will insist that the present ruling on hours spoke in praise of student activities as contributing to that end. The float parade, feature of By training fifth and sixth graders a continuing number of fire-conscious youngsters could be given the realization of the neer of the junior department are awarded on the basis of the Turn to Page 3, Column posal," he said, adding: "For this reason neither America nor California needs the voice of anyone at this critical time who will not positively strengthen the unity of the people in support of our nation's foreign policy.

Refuses to Join "For this reason I have refused to joioin invitations to Mr. since I believe it be maintained as permanent tions Court. However, there was no hear law, Molner wired. Child Star Gets $2500 Weekly Pay Margaret O'Brien, 9-year-old film star, will receive $2500 a week for three years under a contract with Loew's, approved yesterday by Judge Clarence M. Hanson in Santa Monica Superior Court.

The contract provides payments for 40 weeks each year whether she works or not and also stipulates "that she will receive star or costar billing in her films. The contract is renewable for two two-year periods at the producer's option. the week, passed before more than 25,000 persons in the cam ing. In the corridor the Sowin Present regulations provide for off-sale liquor sales between 10 8 p.m., with the ex skis agreed to restore Janet to. her mother, and there were pus open-air theater and continued south on Westwood Blvd.

past a crowd estimated in excess of 90,000. tears, a farewell and a dismissal ception or Saturdays, when the was filed with Superior Judge closing hour is midnight. is wrong, especially for-any re Kurtz Kauffman. sponsible Democrat, to temporize Louis Swerdlow, secretary of the Retail Liquor Stores Association, indicated that his group also is in favor of the present restricted hours and also may sug with or lend aid to any divisions which have arisen in connection with this policy." Voorhis charged that Wallace Prize to Sorority The sweepstakes award for floats went to Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority. The float depicted an Indian waterfall with a realistic effect.

A dance tonight at the Bilt-more after the U.C.L.A.-Stan-f ord game will conclude the week's activities. gest Sunday closing of liquor -1 will deliver, his major Calif or- stores. Tavern owners, especially those with high overhead costs, probably will favor a return to 2 a.m. closing, said Ray S. Adams, executive secretary of the California Tavern Owners' Association.

There is no friction with the off -sale merchants, he said, and his group's official stand will not.be presented to the Legislature until next spring. Xkv if I i- that the existence of so many crummy theatrical performances these days makes something that is merely good appear to be great. Whatever the reason, the performance of Clifton Webb in "Present Laughter" is being hailed as something pretty, terrific. The show is ending a two-week run here, en route to Broadway, and while the st6ry is veddy veddy Noel Cowardish and is definitely not for the kiddies, it is at least sprightly and the people on the stage converse rather than shout. It is pretty generally agreed that the days of the stump speech from the stage, due to sudden civic consciousness developed by the author, is all over.

TRIUMPH Nobody In this country has the slightest idea if Ingrid Bergman can act on the stage, although the suspicion is definitely widespread that she can. At any rate the people 'of this town certainly are going, to make her stage debut here a smashing success from the standpoint of her audience. Although she is not appearing at a regular downtown, theater in "Joan of Lorraine" and no tickets have been placed on sale, the advance by-mail ticket demand has ex-hausted the complete capacity of the auditorium for the entire stay and about half the money sent in by mail will have to be returned. PIONEERING' In case you don't know what you are getting you receive your copy of the Los Angeles Times, it might be. worth noting that newsmen back here grab for copies of the paper to see where our enterprising Pacific correspondent, Waldo Drake, is going to pop up next.

Hi3 stories on the Dutch East Indies and, more recently, on hitherto unreached parts of the Asiatic mainland, seem to be startling the eastern editors whose foreign correspondents don't seem to get around. Haar Bill Henry Monday through Friday. KMX, 5:55 pan. O.P.A. Arrests Plaster Seller Stanley Kallman, wealthy 50-year-old retired New York dress manufacturer, yesterday was charged with the sale of plaster to a war veteran at above O.P.A.

ceiling prices in a complaint isued by Asst. U.S. Atty. William Ritzi. Arrested by an O.P.A.

investigator, at his hdme, 165, S. Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, was arraigned before U.S. Commissioner David B. Head and was released under $1000 bond. According to Ritzi, R.

H. Flynn, 29, a war veteran, asked the O.P.A. investigator to accojiipany him to 118 -S. Beverly Drive where Kallman assertedly sold the plaster at $3 sack when the ceiling price is 85 cents. Kallman denied the charge stating that two other men were responsible for the transaction.

III 7r; 1 Film Hero Role Proves Real Film Actor Brian Aherne played western hero in an unscheduled role yesterday when he rescued his wife and two others from a runaway- stage coach at Las Vegas, Nev. According to the actor's pres3 agent. Aherne was riding beside the coach containing his wife, Eleanor De Liagre La Brot, nonprofessional, and Joe Me-Ginnis and his wife, Belita, ice skaters, when the four-horse team bolted during a scene. Seeing "the driver's inability to control the horses, Aherne raced his horse after the coach, boarded the lead horse in true cowboy style and hauled the team to a halt in a quartermile the press agent said. fH A.F.L.

Indorses Chest Campaign Indorsement by 'the A.F.L. Central Labor Council has been given to the coming Community Chest campaign, it was announced yesterday. The- recommendation calling for indorsement of the Red Feather appeal was submitted by Aubrey Blair, chairman of the A.F.L. church, civic and charities committee. Condition of Poisoned Boy Still Critical Richard Frazee, 2, who was given a war-developed antidote for gas in attempts to counteract mercurial poisoning, remained in a critical condition yesterday at White Memorial Hospital.

The boy swallowed three tables of a disinfectant compound at the home of his Plan Board Approves Subdivision Maps Subdivision maps to provide for parceling 141 acres of land into 481 single family lots yesterday were approved by the County Regional Planning Commission. The largest plot, 60 acres to be divided into 179 lots, Is in the Azusa area. Commander Chosen John Hageblom of 'Glendale was chosen Commander of the Los Angeles County Council cf the Military Order of the Purple Heart at a meeting at the Vet. erans Memorial.Building, it was announced yesterday. parents, and" Mrs.

Sam. Fra Timet photo BIG HELP Junior Fireman Don Klipper helps Fireman Henry A. Save hold fire hose. Thirty-four thousand Los Angeles school children study; fire-prevention methods. Pacific Pres photo CONTRACT APPROVED Margaret O'Brien and her mother, Mrs.

Gladys P'Brien, look over Margaret's film contract; just approved, calling for $2500 weekly. zee, .10680 Ilex St, Pacoima, Wednesday..